The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-11-14

You would hardly believe that this
city had so many defenders of the public
peace till you saw them in parade. Last
Saturday they turned out one thousand
strong, and presented healthy and ro-
bust appearance, enough to strike terror
into the souls of evil-doers who might be
lookers-on. Yet crime is not stayed by
the sight of the law, as is proven through
every generation. Men sin under the
very shadow of the gallows, and religion,
preaching as it does, the punishment in
an eternity of woe, fails to break the
moral deformity which guides the lives
of our fellow.c citizens. Perhaps this is
not the way to look at it, for on the other
hand what would be the condition of the
world without the benefits of religion
and law.
Great strides have been made in the
police department in many forms. Forty
years ago the men were ununformed,
without distinguishing badge and fol-
lowed the old rule in some sections of
the city of calling out the hours Of the
night from their sentry boxes. Now
how changed, for the sentry boxes they
have at present are nothing more than
telephone stations from whence comes
the voices of the police, either to call up
an ambulance or to tell the extent of Il
conflagration or riot. Now squads of
police can be centered in any locality in
veay short space Of time, and drunken
woman can be transported to the Central
station, if she is unable to walk, almost
before she can take another Smile" If
stranger should be stricken down with
heart-disease, unconscious and alone, he
would find on returning to consciousness
to have been whirled through the streets
at u gallop rate to some hospital by the
police patrol. We Philadelphians may
expect to have good force for sometime
to come, as the Smith administration is
looking for vindication in renomina-
ton for Mayor under the Bullet Bill law.
He discharged two of his police captains
on Saturday for reasons which the cap
tains deny, and that they can prove that
they had no collision with the gambling
dens. To walk along the thOroughfares
here, any observer would fail to recog-
nize the vile dens which many streets
are infested. Yet a man can be ileeced
as easily in this city of Brotherly Love,
within stones throw of police station
| 10, nut i,,I
or some other bad city of the West.
The Chinese are filling up here to a
marked extent. Ten years ago there was
not five hundred within our city, but it is
thought their numbers will reach l,50C
at tie present time. On the northwes.
tern frontier and in California there is
much excitement over the question Of
running these foreigners out, and it was
only day or two ago that the President
issued proclamation ordering all parties
to dispense who were maitreating these
Mongolians in Washington Territory
As long as they confine their business tC
washing shirts in this city, it is probable
that they can rest secure, but if one
should be hired in factory, there is M
telling what the end might be. Theii
laundries can be seen at most query turn
and it is not an uncommon thing to hea
of some rowdy breaking their Windows
and beating them just because they don
act like Americans and don't dress thu
, dress of the dude There is one o
more Sunday schools now i'll operation
where these celestials are taught both tn
English language and religion together
8 which course of study they gladly TAX
to, as it gives them chance to grasp on
modes of business. They put a bette
polish on shirt front, and make you
, linen whittier, than some of our first-clas
laundries, at less sacrifice to buttons an,
perhaps with less vile language in thei
q manipulation.
Speaking of soiled linen reminds m
, that your correspondent at Cowantowl
). thinks have been throwing mud at him
Yet | can't say that | feel guilty.
= wouldn't known him Chnaman and in
uNlSe llO llltllCt' murray diSh a. 'iiiii'
, between different writes in paper make
: up, how varied their styles, and said nc
a thing of the rhetoric of the Cowantowl
q man except as to the highly embelishe'
pictures which he sometimes draws il
. his mind, which | enjoy to peruse, 70
they always set me thinking. There wa
= his equib about the young man who wa
, afraid to come home to supper after goin
a to Sunday school, or fishing, or to fl
neral, because the old man was laying fo
:, him with strap. That young man ha
:, girl or he never would have sacrifice
= his supper on the altar of an empt
- stomach. He knew that if he went HON
= he would no doubt have to answer tn
: longer catechism of how far young ma
will go in headlong course of love, will
I out knowing that he hasn't got enoug
e hair on his upper lip to lose freckle il
v No the young man had good reason no
d to go home. If there was TO be any spiC
l. breezes waited from Glove pit, then b
d would wait them where there was MOI
tender hearts. SPHINX.
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!" MARRIED.
l. GOULD-KENNEDY.-At the De-
~ Park Hotel, Newark Del, on Wedne
= day, November 10th, 1885, by the Re
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