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Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15
MIDDLEToWN. DEL. MAY IS, 1897
DELAWARE had but few such edi

DELAWARE had but few such edi-
tors as Henry L. Hynson OF the Nesos
and Advertiser, Milford. and the news
of his death of spoplexy at an, early
hour yesterday morning was shock to
those who knew only of his ability and
his work through his paper. and be-
reayement to those who knew and hon.
ored him personally. He stood fearlessly
for the right as he saw it and condemn
ed wickedness in high places with
more severity than where the offenders
were the weak and ignorant. He loved
and honored his State like true Della
warean and hoped soon to see her
freed from the selfish chains which
have for years held her in bondage,
and his editorial work In this direction
was equally as severe on the men in
his own party who proved false to his
ideas OF political honesty. Had every
Delaware editor the ability, the hon
esty and the fearlessness of the 'powers
that be'' possessed by Henry L. Hyn-
son and evidenced in his paper, the
sickening political stencil now hover
ing over our State House and shown
in the corruption of our elections and
electors had never been. Editors like
Mr.. Hynson cannot be spared and his
death is loss to his State as well as to
his relatives and friends.
Mr.. Hynson never hela any political
office except that be was Chief Clerk OF
the Bureau Of Navigation, Navy De-
partment, Washington, during the
Harrison administration, and served
most efficiently. He was interested
more in the process Of agriculture, his
fruit and berries and truck, than in
politics, and if his paper was ever neg
lected it was to look after his farming
interests.
Mr.. Hynson leaves a widow, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Lord, of Camden, a sister Of Judge
Lord who is the Governor of Oregon.
His father is Hon. Garret L. Hynson,
ex-Representative Of the General As
sembly, and Prof. George B. Hynson
of the National School Of Oratory,
Philadelphia, who has appeared SO Of
tan before the teachers Of this county,
. brother. He leaves two bright
Us, Lee and Ned, old enough to sp-
ciate their fathers love but not to
lize the magnitude Of their loss.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15


We sometimes hear the weak argument
advanced, by those trying tosshift the bur
den ofresponsibiIity. that the birds would
be killed, anyway, TO supply the markets,
and that they might as we'll make use of o
few. But this reasoning is fallacious. If
men were to stop using whisky and tobac-
co, there would be no more manufactured.
And il women would refuse to wear the
dead bodies of little birds on their bonnets
or clothing, this needless and cruel slaugh-
ter of our rarest and most beautiful birds
would cease.
Surely the mode of procuring the little
tufts of feathersi SO commonly worn, called
osprey and egret, should cause some qualms
of conscience to the most heartless devo-
tees of fashion. These plumes are taken
from egreis and small herons. These lovely
birds breed generally in rookeries, and
Florida is one of their principal nesting
places, and, within the last few years,
plume hunters have destroyed nearly all of
hese rookeries, while wagon-loads of the
scapular plumes of ATdeG Wardi are
taken from these places It makes the heart
tache to hear the walls of the starving
young birds whose parents have been killed
and who are left. to the number of several
hundred, utterly unable to care for them
selves, to be eaten by raccoons and buzz
yards. A few more years of the present
work, and the Ardea Wdrdi will almost
entirely have disappeared from the Ever
glades of Florida.
But the humming bird, perhaps, more
than any other, falls victim to this de-
PRAYED taste of wearing birds as ornaments.
Of these beautiful little creatures, the ruby
throated species is the most. common. OF
brilliant emerald green, with the feathers
on the throat of shining ruby red, these
tiny creatures dart like beams of sunshine
round the luxuriant flowers, slipping the
honeyed nectar from their waxen petals,
and shaking over their shining beaks the
drops of pearly dew, spreading their wings
in an ecstasy of joy, and darling through
the air like flashes of green and gold. Does
it seem possible that any one with clear
conscience would take the life of one of
these most delicate and exquisite creations
of the Divine Mind, or be, through the in
diligence of vanity, the means of their
slaughter? y =
40, lovely, unthinking maiden,
The wing that adorns your hat
Has the radiance rare thatGod placed there
But see in the place ofthat,
mockery pitiful, deep and sad,
OF all things happy and gay and glad.
'aThat little dead bird on your bonnet,
Is it worth the cruel wrong?
The beauty you wear SO proudly there
Is the price of a silenced song;
That thumming-bird band on your velvet dress
Mocks your womanly tenderness.
"I hear cry from the woodland,
A cry from the forests dim;
A sound of woe from the sweet hedge row,
From the willows and reeds that rim
The sedgy pools; from the meadow grass
1 hear the pitiful sound, alas!
Can you not hear it, my sister,
Above the heartless behest
OF fashion, that stands with cruel hands
Despoiling the songful nest?.
Above that voice. have you never heard
The voice Of the helpless, hunted bird?"
T ELIZABETH RAYMOND SEWER.
i'm Woman's World and Jenness Miller
Monthly.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15

THE prospects for fruit, grain and
ASS crops were never better in this
Section, and the country was never
more beautiful. One of the recent ag-
ricultural reports Of the peninsula says:
We need more small farms, greater
versity in crops. less tillage in corn
ID wheat, more in truck and small
nits, use of less commercial fertilizers
d more manure, lower freights on
ilroads; and last, but not least, the
ablishment of factories that will en-
py labor and consume more pro-
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15

THE House of Representative had de-
cided that Delaware shall no longer be
the dumping ground for those Of other
states who desire divorce and without
a dissenting vote the bill to divorce
Laura G. andWilliam Acklan. of Ohio,
which was SO readily passed by the
Senate on Tuesday, was promptly and
properly killed in the House on Thurs
day. The new Constitution proposes
to relieve the General Assembly of di-
vorce duties hereafter, and has pro-
yided that the courts shall decide the
merits of marital woes.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15

he had misunderstood their reply and crit
icized his exaggeration of the work he had
done. Mr.. Mann now wrote an "answer
to the 'rejoinder" which was in his own
calm tone, in which he accepted the Mas
tsrs apology and this ended the great ed
ucational controversy.
His educational friends rallied around
him. Mann had started the educational
crisis and had survived it: He threw the
brand which started the educational fire
which burns so brightly in Massachusetts,
to-day.
At fifty-six Horace Mann became presi-
dent of Antioch College. This position
was distateful to Mr.. Mann and he always
regretted having accepted it.
August second, 1856, Horace Mann passed
to that land where controversies and differ
ences cease and left the light Of mighty ef-
forts still burning to light US, who try to
follow his work oflove, in us his clients
MABEL BEEcHER.
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a sEMARKABLE FAMILY.

The following clipping from the West
Chester NeWs, sent to the TRAEscRIPT by q
friend, may be Of interest to our readers.
The gentlemen in question are the grand
sons of Rev. George Foot, who for many
years preached at Old Drawers at Odessa
and also wrote very interesting history OF
that church, copies of which are now very
rare and greatly priced by those in this
community who possess them:
Rev. William e. Moore, D. D., LII. d., a
graduate of the Yale College of50 years ago,
who was pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church ofthis borough West Chester from
1850 to 1873, and afterward pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Columbus,
Ohio, from 1878 to 1896, has family OF
six sons. These sons are all sturdy men.
averaging six feet in height, and the fol-
lowing record Of their doings will tell OF
their intellectual strength:
The oldest son, Rev. George Foot Moore,
D. D., who preached Sunday evening in
the First Presbyterian Church of this bor-
ough such a fine scholarly sermon and
who was listened to with such pride by the
older members of his fathers congregation,
graduated from Yale College 25 years ago.
He has been Professor of Hebrew Ian
guage and literary at Andover Theological
Seminary, Andover, Mass, since 1883.
During that time he has published COM
mentary on the book of Judges and is now
about to publish a translation of Judges
with not es in the so-called Rainbow BIZ
ble," with corresponding edition of the
Hebrew text.
The second son, Rev. Edward G. Moore,
D. D., graduate of Marietta College. Ohio
is now pastor OF sthe Central Congrega-
tional Church of Providence R. I. During
his pastorate the congregation has built
one of the largest and handsomest churches
in the New England States.
The third son, Henry M. W. Moore, M.
D., graduate of Marietta College. Ohio.
is Professor in Startling Medical College,
Columbus, Ohio. and archaeological ex-
pert of the Ohio Live Stock Commission.
He is also surgeon with the rank of Major
in the Ohio National Guard.
The fourth son, Rev. Charles Albert
Moore, is a graduate of Yale College and
has his first charge as pastor Of the Con-
gressional Church, Rockland, Maine.
The fifth son, Prof Frank Gardner
Moore, PhD., is also graduate Of Yale
College. He is assistant Professor of Latin
at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire.
The sixth son. Frederick A. Moore, is a
graduate of Marietta College. Ohio. He is
now in the auditors Office of the Column
bus, Shawnee and Hooking Railroad at
Columbus, Ohio
Mrs. Harriet Foot Moore, who is remem-
bered here with SO much affection, is now
enjoying good health and rejoicing with a
mothers natural pride in seeing her six
sons take such high positions among men.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15

THE special committee to investi-
gate the charges of bribery made
against members of the divorce COM
mittee made its report on Thursday,
stating that after thorough inyestiga-
tion the charges were not sustained be-
cause of conflicting evidence. The re-
port was unanimously adopted and the
committee discharged, and the MEM
bers in question are rejoicing in hay
ing clean records to take home with
them. But the verdict outside the
committee ia ''Guilty If not proven,n
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15
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Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15

1t was my intention to give short ex-
tract of the following article, Spare the
Birds" but second reading has convinced
me that every teacher ought to read the en-
tire article. What do the members of the
Round Table think Of the "bird question:"
Let every teacher express herself. You
either favor or disapprove Of the custom of
women wearing birds on their hats for or
nament. If you can say anything in favor
of the custom or fashion, let us hear from
you. If you are against it, by all means
speak out. Write down your convictions at
once, and send them to me.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15

FoR YOUR PRorEcT1oE. Catarrh cures
In liquid form TO be taken internally, rs
ually contain Mercury or Iodide of Potat-
sa, or both, which are injurious If too long
taken. Catarrh Is local. not q blood di-
sease, caused BY cold and damp weather.
1t starts in the nasal passages. Cold in the
head, il repeatedly neglected, : results in
catarrh. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknow-
gsd cure for these troubles and contains no
msrc6ry nor any injurious drug.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15
THE House passed an election bill

THE House passed an election bill
op Thursday which does away with the
voters assistant and provides that
blind, manned and otherwise disabled
voters may take one or two friends
with them to prepare their ballot. The
chaIIengersar made peace officers and
in Wilmington the challengers, ap-
pointed by the Republican and Demo
cratic County Committees, shall act
as clerks. The bill is great improve
ment over the present voting system.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15
AnOdd WIN.

Register of Wills Harrington of Kent
County, has received for probate the will of
the late Matthew Hazel, farmer and local
preacher, who died near Hazlettville about
six weeks ago. After the usual formality,
the instrument reads as follows;
First; and above all things, I give my
spirit, soul and body to Almighty God, and
that my wife and children keep up the con-
secrated cross and get ready to meet me at
the judgement seat of Christ, with all my
friends and where all trials are settled for
ever for the glory of God. And that my
body be buried in Hartley graveyard in q
common pit grave. no bricks around my
body, plain cheap white shroud and COM
mon cheap coffin to cost about 10 or IL dol
lars; no flowers or useless ornaments about
my body. Fred. Mask, if living, make my
coffin and get big carriage and carry my
body to the grave; no slabs or etones put to
my head or feet. leave my natural estate
to be settled according to law, all my debts
be paid and my wife Annie E. Hazel, have
one-third of all my estate; Ola B.Scott and
David F. Hazel be my administrators and
that they shall pay Joseph M. Hazel, their
brother 81 no more. There shall be a popular
preacher for to read over my body eulogy
but lay it in the grave until the morning of
the first resurrection. My neighbors and
friends can help Fred Mask; four persons
to be my buriers to help or assist in putting
me in the grave. This will shall be pub
lished in two or more papers in the State.
"Yours in Christ,
MATTHEW HAZEL.
"Witnesses-Susie A. and Sarah r.
Foard.n
The will is written on the back of a sheet
of paper which had been used before by
one making calculations. and beneath the
maker of the will wrote the following:
''That William Arthurs' wife make my
shroud.
M. HAZEL.
If Fred Mask is not living; get some car.
penter or wheelright to make my coffin"
The bulk of the estate consists of two
farms which will probably be sold by order
of the Court.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15
Great saving for Horse O,

A Great Saving for Horse Owners.
Carriages, buggies and harness can be
bought Of the Elkhart Carriage and Harness
Mfg. Co., Of Elkhart. Ind. at one-third less
than dealers prices Their products ar
described in large catalogue That il mailed
free.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15

HE U. s. Senate on Tuesday con-
he'd the appointment Of Judge Brad
IA as the United States District
Rdge for this state.
Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15
Teachers
Round Table
Conducted by Prof A. R. spA1D, Highlands,
/. Delaware.
All teachers and friends of Education
In New Castle County and the
teachers.of Kent and Sus-
sex are inyIted to take

IAN persons who take an interest in this
column should send their names and address
for enrollment.l
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10

told me that he could halc fought
against the khediye just Is ~honorably
IS for him II the position and the pay
had been satisfactory.
But / didn't mean 70 Tumin1te on this
line. I have great respect for zen.
Grants memory. but when ! read ali
tho gush and parade over those cere-
monies and almost hear the shouts Of
the grand army. ] was obliged to thinks
of our side and the truth of history. /
wanted to make that monument COM
plete by chiseIing on its capstone some
figures - only q few figures that
strangers who visit It might read and
wonder. and inquire where do those
people live who fought that fight. Ver-
lily. Saul has slain his thousands, but,
David his ten thousands"
And now / viii cool of on some ics
cream and go back and play with the
children-Bm Arp, In Atlanta consti-
tuition.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
midas FEARFUL FAMINE.

Cheapest Grain S1.23 a BusheI ana
Wages Five to Seven Cents a Day.
The American board of foreign mis-
sions has received from Rev. James
Smith, one of its missionaries in All
mednagar, India, a carefully prepared
statement relative to the prevalence Of
the famine in that country. Mr.. Smith
says:
'"There are three things that absorb
all public interest just now in India
These are the famine, the plague and
the %stupendous task which the govern
nlent has undertaken, to stop the
plague and feed the millions that are
starving. More than 100000 people
are already on relief worls-works that
eve their inception to the famine, and
the number is increasing by a quarter
Of a million a week. The increase is
likely to go on and be more rapid in
the future, for the people have we'll
nigh exhausted their own slim re
sources and prices are still steadily ris'
ing. The price of wheat here to-day is
s2.25 a bushel. The cheapest grain that
can be bought sells for nor than S1.2i
a bushel. Wages OF day laborers were
never so low, ranging from five to seven
cents day.
There are $4,000 persons in this dis
trict on relief works, more than II
per cent. of the total population. These
people receive on an average rs cents
a week for their labor. At present
prices a man requires at least q cents
a week to buy the grain out of which
his bread is made, leaving two cents fol
everything else be may need. A spirit
of resignation has crept We the whole
land. They quietly whisper: 1t is
Gods WILL and walk away in silence
Escape seems impossible.
"Sir w. w. Hunter saysthat the NUM-
Der needing relief may REACH 4O,ooo,oot
before harvest, and if the rainfall
should be short next year also, the mum
Der may reach 600 900. When the
history of this famine comes to be writ
ten, it will stand on record as the mos
stupendous work of philanthropy tina
ever was conceived by the mind ofman
equaled only by the success with which
it was executed Is years after it's con
ception."-Springield (Mass.) Repub
I1iCan.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
Little Newt Virgins.

There was weepin and wailin and q
general smashin of teeth at the Wig
gins place over in the hill country last
Tuesday mornin. And what do you
reckon was the matter? Nothin much
exceptin that little Newt, the onlyest
boy on the place, come up missin, and
they couldn't tell where to find him.
Little Newt, as everybody was won't
to call him, was the first and last born
son of Lon and Jenny Virgins. All the
rest of their boys, in the mysterious
ways and wisdom of Lind Providence,
turned out to be girls, and there amt
but 10 in the family. Little Newt is
now clost up to II years old, but not
much bigger than a minnit till yet.
If you never was a boy, and the
onlyest boy On the place, you eve will
know what little Newt has passed
through since he shed his colts teeth.
There is so internal much to do that
nobody is fifteen to do but a yearlin boy
80 everlastin many rough places
which he fits to a mats bristle. Along in
durin the last two years they have had
that boy linked in and strung out at
all sorts of work, from drivin the OK
wagon to pickin up chips and kindlin
the fires. There was no rest for the
weary or the wicked or little Newt Wig
gins,
Bright and early last Tuesday mornin
little Newt come by our house, and
somehow I could tell from his general
appearments that he was runnin away
from home and movin his washin to
beat six bits He had a little wallet on
his back and was hittin the big road
in the high places only. Twas fumblin
and foolin around out there about the
lot gate when he come along, and / let
on like 1 didn't see him. But he slowed
up a little and went on to.tell me what
was already as plain as a whitewashed
fence around a graveyard-he was rum
min away from home. / didn't say a
blame thing, only told him not TO take
any bad money on his rounds and ask
him what was the matter at home.
"They fetched another baby there last
week." says he, whilst the tears as big
as. glass marbles backed up in his eyes
and rolled down his cheeks-"and dad
blame the luck, 1t is only n more
girl"
With that the poor boy struck off up
the road. bitin off about four feet at
every step. My doctrine is that the best
place in the whole discovered world for
a boy is right there at home with his
OVID home folks. But for the life of me
1 couldn't find it in my heart to blame
little Newt. If l was the onlyest boy
in a family of 10, and gal babies still a
comm, L mought maybe do as he has
done and move my washin TO parts IN.
known.
RUFUS SANDERS
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
Tic nInahonnlnnd Don.

No doubt the earliest manufactured
toy of all was the doll. Little girls play
with dolls everywhere, and have al
ways done 50. Indeed, among the
Bechuanas and Basutos at the present
moment, married women carry dolls
until they are supplanted by real chill
dren. There is for its possessor a Curl
Gus individuality about a doll. altogeth-
er unaccountable to other people. How
often may it be observed that a child
will neglect the splendid new fve-shil-
ling a beauty, with its gorgeous
fnery, and cling faithfully to the dis
reputable, noseless wreck of rags that
has been its favorite hithertol Some
thing causes other children, besides
Helen's babies to dislike ''buyed doll
lies even to the preference for an arti-
Gle made of an old towel. This some
thing, whatever It is, Is doubtless q
great comfort to the small girls of
Mashonaland. It Is an innocent, arm
less sort of affair, without amy such
Disagreement as waist or shoulders
might cause, no knee joints to get un-
fastened, and nothing at the end Of its
legs to cause expense at the shoe
makers AS regards dress, it is mex
p~ensive, the whole suit Of apparel con-
sisting Of a piece Of string threaded
through a hole humanely redthrough
the headSStrand.