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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-12-19

fathers could justly, and possibly
did, say the same things in their
days. 1t is not by measuring our
status in life by the standard of a
former generation by which we de-
termine our conditions and neces-
sites, but a comparison between
ourselves and our fellow men. By
comparing ourselves with our fore
fathers and them with theirs we
would soon be relegated to our
Anglo-Saxon ancestors, singing
hideous war songs and pasturing
on the fruits of barbarism. There
are teachers who have permitted
themselves to be classed in the
category of ''has beens" because
they could not or did not keep
pace with the spirit Of progress.
I have not time or space to 60
further in these retrospectives of
the darker days of former genera
tons, as compared to the present.
I would like to show the rapid
strides that have been made in
science. We are now told that the
rosebud lips of beauty are swarm
ing with bacteria, lurking with
disease and flourishing the skull
and crossbones in the fond lovers
face. I should like to draw in
parallel lines the difference be-
tween the earlier days when crimes
were punishable by death, the
whipping post or the stocks and
the pillory that are now treated as
diseases with pills and powders
and prayers.
Who knows but what the man
who would steal sawmill and go
back after the site is troubled with
microbes that have got into his
moral character and let his hon.
esty leak out by boring holes in it?
Who knows but that craziness is
caused by bacteria getting into a
mans mind and making trouble
there by trying to turn around? [
would like to picture the difference
between the former age Of misery
and pain and the present age of
the amelioration of human misery,
when the doctor who is not a
"back number" can almost tell
but not quietly looking at
mans tongue whether he is
afflicted with the Office itch or
troubled with an epidemic of poor
relations
But let me say in conclusion:
The saddest period Of life is when
we have become inactive, unsus-
ceptable to further progress Then
melancholy days have indeed come.
We stand and see the world leav-'
ing us. The old regime is out of
harmony with the new, yet we
cling to it as tenaciously as a dog
to bone. A. R. S. :.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-12-19

W. whenever a nation
has been called upon
to face some great emergency, fate
has always provided some man
whose ability and genius particu-
larly fitted him for the RESPONSE
bility Of leader, and who was
willing to sacrifice his own inter
ests for the welfare Of his country
and the rights of his fellow men
by leading them in their struggle
against adverse conditions.
In the history Of modern Italy
we find four names which stand
pre-eminent. They are MazziDi,
Cavour, Victor Emmanuel and Gar
ibaldi. These men rightly deserve
to be called the makers of modern
Italy. But it is of Garibaldi
alone that l wish to speak here.
He was born at Nice in 1907. and
was destined by his parents for
the priesthood, but preferring a
life upon the sea, he left home and
for many years led a rowing and
adventurous career. This somehow
brought him in contact with MAJ
zini. and his teachings induced
him to join the organization called
"'Young Italy," whose principle
aim was to arouse patriotic
spirit throughout the country, by
which they hoped to throw off the
yoke of their oppressors and make
Italy a united and free nation.
From that time Garibaldi conse-
Grated his life wholly to the SER
vice of his country.
In 1884 he was engaged in the
Inflated expedition to Savoy. He
was captured and condemned to
death; but he escaped to South
America. Altho an exile for four
teen years, he never for a moment
forgot his country, which was still
smarting under the blows of it's
foreign oppressors; and when the
time came for him to act he was
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-12-19

the panora m a
painted on the canvas of civiliza-
ton we discover many things that
have forever been laid away, and
are utterly useless to us now, ex-
ecept as dead relics of the past.
In war, education, religion, in
science, in the professional world,
an the industrial world, in the
science of government-in fact,
in every line of human activ-
ity, there have been manifested
such great changes and rapid
strides of advancement that we
occasionally feel prompted to
mount gloriously to the skies and
proclaim that of all the ages of times
mighty cycle there was never one
like this! Possibly not, I some
times hope there wasn't. Some
times | think the age in which the
Almighty sent the flood to soak
some of the cussedness out of man
kind was the nearest like this of
any other.
We are now in the dawn of a
new century, and whatever it accu-
mulates as a heritage in it's march
ito its successors, prophets may at
tempt to prognosticate, but let us
content ourselves a few moments
to see what the century just closed
has bequeathed to this.
The method of travel at the be-
ginning of the past century was
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-12-19

ing the club in savage barbarism
and living in superstitious relation
to beings which their imagination
construed to conform with the
laws Of nature they could not un-
derstand.
The Civil War was fought with
muzzle-loading muskets. The
Franco-German war was fought
with breech- loading rifles, but the
weapons of that day are now obso-
lete, and the armies of today are
provided with magazine guns and
smokeless powder. New explo-
sives of higher power are used in
the shells Of artillery, and ma
chine guns pour bullets in show
ers upon the enemy's camp. The
darkest hours of former genera
tons were the rounds of civiliza-
TONS ladder by which the present
age has attained it's height, from
which summit it sometimes vainly
boasts of it's wonderful achieve
ments, forgetting that there is a
world yet to conquer by waging
war against ignorance, crime and
blind prejudice, the savory food
upon which the imrs of hades
must ever feed.
In the religious world there was
time when days we're darkened
with mysterious heresies and
breaches from the established forms
of worship; when cult varied with
cult and sect with sect, and the soil
was drenched with human blood
over conflict of religious ideas;
when people were 80 Puritanic in
belief that it was sin against God
and crime against civil law to
wear pleasant smile in church. A
long face and a melancholic whine
was Sabbath attire and Christian
music.
But the Puritanic ideas, unable
to forward march, with the evo-
luton Of new customs around the
fanes of a religl~n born of love,
are rapidly crawling to the shelf
as relics of past. Yet there still
are people whose ears are set to
music, with the melody of church
bells calling them to worship who
will not tolerate any other idea but
that it is the devil who brings
musical instrument or trained
choir into a church.
In the scholastic world the idea
of an efficient education in the
three Rs, enforced with a code of
rules on cardboard in conspicu-
Gus place, in company with a water
beech sprout or rawhide is now
lying on the shelf in favor of
more wholesome education which
gives child the three Rs, and in
addition those other things favor
able to growth Of a full, round
orbed manhood or womanhood that
will enable them to meet the I'M
stable circumstances Of life bravely.
Yet there are those who crawl
from the shelf long enough to tell
us that the schools are not like
they used to be; that our children
are no better than we are. They
have no use for the new tangled
IDEAS" The old way is good
enough. They forget that their
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-12-19
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-12-19
A RETROSPECT.
A FEW CHANGES HISTORY TELLS
US OF.

ISTORY has be en-
co m pared to a
grand unfol d IN g
view. When we
take a survey OF
+ he DanOra ma
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-12-19

N reading history it is
almost Impossible for
the student not to
become impressed
with the fact that
whenever a nation
Il.1
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31
JOHN MARSHALL DAY.


Next Monday VIII be q Notable Day Among
the Attorneys.
A minute will be presented to the
Superior Court next Monday in com
memoration of the anniversary'of John
Marshall's installation as Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. The minute will be presented
by Attorney General Herbert u. Ward,
and the reply on behalf OF the court
will be made by Chief Justice Charles
B. Lore, after which the court will
adjourn.
At the dinner to be given by the Bar
Association of New Castle county next
Monday evening, it is expected that
about so persons will be present. 1t
has been decided to have the dinner at
the Clayton House. The toast list will
be as follows:
"John Marshall" John Bassett
Moore.
1.-THE Federal Judiciary" Judge
George Gray.
1.-THE State Judiciary, Judge James
Pennewill.
1.-THE Bar of New Castle County, ="
Levi O. Bird.
''The Bar of Kent County" Henry
Ridgely. l
"The Bar of Sussex County," Charles
F. Richards.
Former Senator Anthony Higgins
will be the toastmaster.
A meeting to consider the formation
OF State bar association will be held
in the Court House on Monday after
noon,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31
FATAL FOUNDRY ACCIDENT.
Cope Falls on Two Men at Belts Machine
Co.'s Plant.
JAS. GILLESPIE DIES AT HOSPITAL
Frank O'Donnell Has Right Leg
and Nose Broken.
DECEASED WAS AN OLD EMpLoyE

James Gillespie, aged 65 years, OF
No. 1908 Mary land avenue, who has
been employed in the foundry of the
Belts Machine Company, at Mary
land avenue and South street, died
at tho Homeopathic Hospital at
about 1913 O'Clock Tuesday from in
iuries received in an accident at the
foundry about an hour before. Frank
O'Donnell, aged 20 years, of No. a0S
Maryland avenue, who was injured in
the same accident, is at the hospital
with his right leg ard nose broken, but
1t is believed he will recover.
After heat had been poured Monday
evening covering known as a cope
was removed from mold and stood
against wall, the base being about
two feet from the wall to guard against
its falling. The cope weighed propaply
a ton and q half. put no danger was at
tached to It's leaning against the wall,
as it ia customary to place them in
that position every day. Tuesday,
however, somebody evidently, in clean
ing the floor, which is of earth, at the
base of the cope, undermined it, and
on Gillespie and O'Dunnell. They
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bars aud wooden strips in the cope,
and as soon as possible it was raised.
Then it was discovered that Gillespie's
body had been crushed, some rils and
other bones being broken and the in
ternal organs dlslocated. Although
unconscious when picked up, he re-
gained consciousness shortly afterward.
O'Donnell Jared better than his COM
pRnion. His nose was orushed by a
bar in the cope and another one fell
across his leg near the hip, breaking
the bone.
The Phoenix ambulance was sum-
moned and both men were taken to the
Homeopathic Hospital, where they
were given immediate attention. Mr..
Gillespie died 70 minutes after being
admitted. He is survived by wife
ana several children. O'Donnell was
an apprentice.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31
OPENING OF NEW HIGH SCHOOL.

Dedication Exercises TO be Held Friday
Night-Public Inspection Thursday and
Friday.
The new High School building will
be open ITO inspection on Thursday and
Friday next, and its dedication exer-
cises will take place on Friday evening.
AT Tuesday night's meeting of thaBoard
of Education the following resolutions
on the subject presented by Robert O.
Fraim, were adopted:
Resolved, That the dedication exer- :
cises Of the new Wilmington High
School, under the control Of the Board
OF Public Education in Wilmington,
be held in said High School building,
on FRIDAY evening, February 1st, 1901,
at o. clock, and that the secretary of
said board is hereby directed to forward
special Invitations to the governor,
lieutenant governor, secretary of State.
treasurer insurance commissioner,
auditor of accounts, members of the
Senate and House of Representatives in
the General Assembly, mayor, city
solicitor, members of City Council,
and city officers ir the several city
departments, ex-members of the Board
of Public Education, all Of the teachers
now in the employ of said board, officers
and educational committee of this New
Century Club and to one reporter of
each of the newspapers published in
Wilmington, president and faculty OF
Delaware College and the State Board
of Education in New Castle county.
And be it further
Resolved, That the secretary be
directed to give notice through the
newspapers of the city that said High
School building will be open for public
inspection TO all adult persons, who
desire to do so, on Thursday and Friday
next, between the hours of 9 a. m. and
A p. M. on Thursday and from a. IN.
TO p. m. on Friday; entrance to all
such persons Will be 90 Delaware
avenue
The question of how to handle the
people at the dedication was discussed.
Some members wanted $50 tickets
issued, each member TO have 40 to dis
tribute. This suggestion was lost by a
vote of 3 to 10. For the special guests
stage tickets will be issued. After the
invited guests have been admitted the
general public is to be allowed in the
assembly hall until it is filled.
Ths following programme has been
arranged for Friday evening:
Overture. ."Grand American Fantasia" :"
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Prayer. ...,..........., Bishop Coleman
Selection. ....... 1.-THE First Heart Throbs"
Orchestra.
Delivery. of the Keys, A. s. Reed of A. S.
Reed & Bros. Co.
Waltz, "Idalia.. a.............s......Or Orchestra
Presentation of Building by William Tur-
ner, chairman of the new building COM
mittee.
Intermezzo. Forget Me Not. ... Orchestra
Acceptance of building by Evan 9. Short.
lidge, Nj. D., president of the Board of
Education.
short address by Prof. George W. Twit-
myer, superintendent OF public schools.
Address, A. H. Berlin.
Address, Chief Justice Charles B. Lore.
March, HOur National Guard". Orchestra
Benediction, Rev. A. N. Keigwin.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31
MARYLAND NEWS NOTES.

Harry Il. Giles, son OF William T,
Giles, of Elkton, has been appointed to
position in the government printing
office at Washington, d. @.
Levi Il. Boulden, at one time Elk
toms leading furniture dealer and
funeral director, died Sunday. He
was a veteran Of the Civil War and
was we'll known.
Charles L. Carter has purchased
from the estate OF his father, tho late
Isaac ID. Garter, the Cecil Paper Mills,
nenr Elkton, which were recently
partially destroyed by fire, for S66, 655. %.
A number Of the Taxpayers of the
Fifth district of Cecil county have
given notice that they will petition the
County Com issioners for Cecil county
for new road from Charlestown to
Northeast.
Mrs. Mary Cleaves, mother Of Henry
Cleaves, OF Elkton, was buried SUI
day from her late home, two miles
north of Elkton. Interment was made
in Cherry Hill Methodist Episcopal
Cemetery. She was about 70 years of
age and is survived by several children.
National Lodge, /. o. o. F., of Elk
ton, will celebrate its eighth ami
versary Friday night. The grand
officers OF Maryland will be present and
the lodges at Ohesapeake City. North
east, Rising Sun, Port Deposit, Aber-
deen, Belair, Havrs de Grace and
Galeaa, Md, and Newark and ST.
Georges, Del, have been invited.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31
ACTED ON HAsIlLN


The Saloon Anti-screen Law Passed by the
House.
Special Correspondents of Gazette and Journal.
Dover, Jan. 30. The House, yester-
day, by vote of % to s, passed the
House bill repeating section 4, chapter
555, Vol. XVIII Laws of Delaw2Are,
requiring saloon keepers to keep tkNir
principal places of business 80 as to AAe
fully and easily seen by passersby. TIM
vote WAS as follows:
Ayes--Messrs Ewing, Hardesty, Hearn,
Healy, Kitchen, Holcomb, Hope.
Hutchinson, Layton, Long. Monaghan,
Moore, Pepper, Prettyman, Robertson,
Shallcross, Short, Scotten, Warren,
West, White and Wright and Speaker
McCommous.
Noes--Meesrs. Aron, Baynsrd, Chan
dler, Clark, Dayett, Finn, Hodgson
and Pilling.
Declined to vote-Messrs. CIardaniel,
Ralph and Vinyard.
Absent-Mr. Gooden. III
Mr. Kitchen, who fathered the bill,
said in advocacy of it that the removal
Of screens from saloon windows gave
women and children an opportunity to
see scenes upon which they should not
gaze.
Mr.. Finn asked whether the saloon
keepers we're asking for the passage of
the bill.
Mr.. Kitchen replied that they were
interested, but not more than he, and
he advooatedsthe bill because the Anti
screen law d i'd not accomplish the puf-
pose intended.
4. Mr.. Baynard suggested that screens
four feet in height he put Ia "a 10 D
widows. He was. opposed, however
to passing the bill before the Law and
Order Society, which obtained The
Anti-screen Law, had been giyon n hear
ing, and moved that action be deferred
until Thursday. The motion was de
feated by vote of 23 to II, as follows:
Noes - Messrs. Clendaniel, Ewing,
Hardesty, Hearn, Healy, Kitchen, Hul
comb, Hutchinson, Moore, Monaghan,
Pepper, Filling, Prettyman, Raj Ii,
Robertson, Shallcross, Short, Scotten,
Vinyard, Warren, West, White and
Wright.
Ayes -Messrs. Aron, Baynard, Chan
der, Clark, Dayett. Finn, Hodgson,
Hope, Layton and Long and Speaker
McCommons.
Mr.. Robertson said put mp 10 screens
il necessary.
Mr.. Finn said the object of the bill
was to permit man to take drink
without passersby seeing him, and not
to remove sad scenes from the view of
women and children. The saloons, he
added, would be object lessons to them.
Mr.. Baynard said he would vote
against the bill if those who had the
Anti-screen law passed were not given
hearing by the House.
Messrs. Moore and Hardesty said they
would vote for the bill because they
believed it was right.
Immediately after its passage, the
bill was ordered to the Senate,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31

and County School Commission, 81, 575 {;
teachers Institutes, $3.50; maintenance
and tuition of beneticiaries in jnstitu-
tions outside of the State, So, 600; visit
ing institutions in which State bene-
fciaries are maintained, 500; Dover
water works, 500; Historical Society
Of Delaware, $500; Grand Army of the
Republic, $3.50; State Board Of Health
and pathological and bacteriologjcal
laboratory, 81, 300; insurance on State
property, sl,GO0; repairs to State
property, $3.50; governors contingent
expenses, $50; attorney generals con-
tineent fund, $500; Secretary Of State's
contingent fund, s400; State librarians
contingent fund, $3.50; judicial reports,
s5OOi Insurance. commissioners con
tingent fund, $3.50; State auditors CON
ungent fund, 500; court slenograpber's
contingent fund, $500; members of the
Legislature, Sl5, 500; allowances by the
Legislature, 81, zoo; claims allowed by
the Legislature, So, 600; experimenting
the printing OF the journals of the
House and Senate for the session of
1901, 81, 900; publishing the laws of
1901, $500, appropriation to charitable
institutions, $1,000; additional work
OF secretary Of States stenographer, ON
account of the General Corporation act,
$500; total expenditures, s34l, ,O05.
Mr.. Fooks served as State auditor for
one year, he having been appointed to
succe1d John A, Lingo, who died after
almost half of his term. Rep-
resentative Warren will introduce an
act to pay Mr.. Fooks 5000 for preparing
Mr.. Lingo's report for 1899 and super
intending its publication.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31
MAIL CLERK LONG ARRESTED.

Suspected of Tampering with Packages
and Letters Under His Care.
Henry Clay Long of Lewes, a rail-
way mail clerk, who has had run be-
tween Lewes and Philadelphia. was
arrested at noon Tuesday in this city by
United States Marshal Short ON sus
picion of having abstraoted numerous
registered letters and packages from
the mails. When he entered the mail
car at Lewss tuesday on north.
bound train, he was placed under sur
veillance by Postoifoe inspectors Max
we'll and Owings, who also boarded the
train and caused mis- arrest by the mar
shal after reaching Wilmington.
The inspectors have recovered 81
registered packages which have been
opened and found that the contents had
been removed from all except four.
They also found about bushel of
official and other letters.
Long is 43 years OF age and has been
IN he railway mail service since April,
1889. The suspected populations are
alleged to have occurred during the
past year.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-31
THE RAILROAD WAR.
1t VIII Inject Animation in the General
Assenbiy's Session.

IL VIII Inject Animation in the General
Assembly's Session.
Special Correspondence of Gazette and Journal.
Dover, Jan. 29.-The railroad war
began yesterday, and with the advent
of the lobby that will participate
therein the session of the General AS
sembly will become more animated.
Mr.. Holcomb has given notice In the
House that he will introduce the fol-
lowing:
An act to readj Just the amount to be
paid by the Philadelphia, Wilmington
Il Baltimore Railroad Co. in comm uta-
tion of its State taxes.
An act to readiusE the amount to be
raid by the Delaware Railroad Go. in
Communication Of Its State taxes.
An act to readjust the amount to be
paid by the Wilmington & Northern
Railroad Co. in communication of its
State taxes under act of April Sth,
1869.
An act to readiust the amount to he
paid by the Delaware, Maryland g. Vjr-
ginia Railroad Go. in communication Of
its State taxes.
The Philadelphis, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad Oc. now pays an
annual tax Of $40, 900; the Delaware,
s3, 600; the Wilmington & Northern,
$3.50, and the Delaware, Mary land Il
irginia, $3.50. Urder the readiust-
ment. the taxes will be as follows
Philadelphia, Wilmington a. Baltimore
Railroad Co., 10000; Delaware,
S40,0 If certain freight rates are
satisfactorily adjusted, and $50, 900 il
they are not; Wilmington & Northern,
So, 200, AID Delaware, Maryland & Vir-
ginia. SO, 200.
In 1864, the Leg islature put on the
railroads 3 tax of 10 per cent per pas
senger; and in the year which began
December, 1864, and ended November,
1868, the Philadelphia, Wilmington 4
Baltimore Railroad Co. paid TO the
State s101, T24. 40. The com mpaDy fought
the act until the last court OF resort
had decided against the railroad and in
1873, the State conn Promised by accept
ing $40, 900, the eompany's present tax.
In 1869, the Delaware Railroad Co.
paid tax of 10 per cent on its net
earnings and one-half of one par cent
on the market value of its capital
stock, but in 1887 the tax was reduced
to 80, 600.
The annual tax of the Baltimore &
Philadelphia Baltimore & Ohio) Rail
road Co., which will probably not be
affected by the war, is s36, 900, but for
some years the State has bean com
promising on S25, 900.