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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-09-23

"Uncle Terry" comes to the Opera
House ON Wednesday night. Eighty
Thousand copies of Charles Clark Mnnns
charming story, "uncle Terry" have
been sold; this means that 100000 people
uAsyc reay the book, 1t will We glad news
TO thJsc "raai1y' milf Il million admirers
|Of the work to learn that ,hey will soon
have the opportunity OF seeing the char.
hcters in the book portrayed upon The
mimic stage The move! has been drama.
tized by William Gill, author of that
@ell-known Maine comedy, "Old jed
PrOuty," MY Sweetheart and other
Successful plays. James X. Waite, the
well-known delineator, will portray the
role Of 'lncle Terry and the company
which will he under the direction of ii.
ID. Grahamc, will be competent in every
Way. .
"A Stranger In a Strange Land" the
New York Manhattan Theatre success,
which come to the Grand Opera House
Ipn Friday night. is not wild west story.
1T Is II romedy-a farce of the hr0adest
kind, and it's one well worth seeing, from
all accounts.
John Il, Drew, the worlds greatest
dancer, who appears here with Happy
Hooligan." at the Opera House on Satur-
day night, is one of the famous Drew
family of show people His father is
Frank Drew, who has played the comedy
part In "'rhe White Slave" ever since
BARLEY Campbell wrote 1t.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-09-23
STUPID BALL PLAYING,

After having the game well In hnnti
with the Cuban N-Giants on Saturday
up until the eighth inning Wilmington
lost by unexcusable errors. 1t was prob.
ably the worst played game of the sea.
son. The entire Wilmington team with
the exception Of two or three played like
a lot Of amateurs. In the eighth inning
one hit and bunch of errors netted five
runs for the Giants.
Mcmahon pitched good enough ball 1,
win any game had he been given fairly
good support. The score follows:
Score by InningE
R.H.E.
Wilmington ...1 00202 000-5l1u II
Giants ........0 O0022 I'll
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-09-23
WON PIRST GAME.
Dslayare College Eleven Defeats
Williamson School,

~eN
delaware College played its i'rst game
OF tile season Oh saturday, havlng rs her
opponent the team or the Williamson
School Of Media, Ia. Delaware was
hardly III condition and Williamson was
not in the best OF shape as time was
frequently called OH account OF s'lshl III
jnrics by members of both teams. VIII
hanson averaged about 10 pounds
heavier than delaware.
! Williamson kicked OIL to l'clawares
| ~ yard line, harrington running II Dack
| lO yards before he was uowneu. w h;f-
ton gained yards through lhft tackle
but Delaware was unable 10 gain further
and lost the ball On downs Williamson
fumblcd ON first play and Wharton fall
| ing on the ball gained 10 yards. Law
ton gained 10 yards through left tackle
| then kicked to Rogers who was downed
ON Williamson's 10 yard line. William
/ son gained 10 yards through line but lost
the ball on next play on tumble. llar-
ington was thrown for loss of yards.
Lawton kicked to Evans on William
sous 40 yard line. Williamson's tackle
gained 20 yards by shcrt line plunges.
Delaware then gained ball on tumble.
I.awton punted to Williamson " yart
line. William gained 80 yards on tr'tt
around left end. After two unsuccesst'g
attempts to hn'k th" line Rogers nl.HtTi
OF, Of bounds ut bcawarc's ~ yard linn'
Delaware gained 30 yards by enl runs
and the half closed with the ball n
Dclaware's possession on Wilamson's
30 yard line.
SECOND HALF.
Huxley kicked off to Stirling on VII.
lihmson's 10 yard line. Stcr,!ng ran lick
back 10 yards before downed by Evans.
Williamson gained 10 ydS. by line punges
nut Delaware regalned the ball on downs.
Lawton kicked and Jamison fumble,l bus
fell on ball. Williamson fumbled and
Ferguson fell on ball. Williamson re-
gained the ball but Immediately lost 1t ON
downs. Delaware puntcd and Rogers
funbled and it was DelawaIes ball on
Wllliamson's Is yard line. )InXlry's try
at goal from field was blocked and Will
hanson secured the ball on their 35
yard line. Williamson then lost ball on
downs and Harrington gained 20 yards
through left tackle. Lawton puntcd to
Willamson's yard line. Rogers puntcd
and Harrington heeled the catch. Huxley
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Hall Gaines son is to edit House
hold Words, and the novelist is writing
for that periodical an article on Rome and
the Pope as he saw them.
Mr.. w. d. Nesbit, known to his friends
as the author of the humorous department
of the Baltimore American, now signs his
initials to that column, the preposterous
name, Josh Wink" which he inherited
with the department, having wisely been
dropped. Mr.. Nesbits witty Quips and con-
ceits are widely copied.
Gilbert Parker, the novelist dramatist
and member of Parliament, who has come
over from England, accompanied by his
wife, looks to be in vigorous health He
fell from his horse last summer and broke
an arm and dislocated an elbow He re-
turned TO his work in Parliament too SOON
and was advised by hts physician that he
needed rest and change of air. While he
is here he says 81 expect to arrange for
the production of my play, The Right of
Way for which I have received eight ap-
plications. 1 have not decided where the
play Is TO be produced, but incline to the
opinion that Robert Mansfield is best fitted
to take the chief part in the play"
Here is bit of gossip from Miss elders
pen: "Mr. Howells is in New York, as
usual. this winter, but not in the house
that he bought some months ago. You may
remember having seen it announced that
Mr.. Howells had bought house up some
where near Riverside drive and was at last
going to have a home. Heretofore he had
lived in hotels and apartments in New
York, Boston, anywhere and everywhere
But finally he bought a house. with the
intention of settling down for the rest OF
his days. A friend Of mine, looking for a
house to rent for the winter. shown
over one which the agent said belonged TO
Mr.. Howells. You don't mean Mr.. w. ID.
Howells?' said my friend. Yes said the
agent, do L thought that he had
bought his house to live in He thought
so, too, answered the agent. but house
keeping on so large a scale was too much
for Mrs. Howells who is invalid, and
so he has put it on the market TO rent ."
This lends rather a pathetic personal in
terest to Mr.. Howells's remarks about
stored furniture. in a recent number Of
Harper's Magazine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

A woman happily in love is at her best
"A Serious Wooing.
All that goes wrong is somebody's fault.
The Portion of Labor.
All that is real in our life is our sense of
its unreality.-Sister Teresa.
The world is full of globular men who
have cubical jobs.-Captain Bluitt.
People sneer at love in a cottage, but
love that could wish to live anywhere else
is not love.-King Midas.
Enthusiastic philanthropists casting about
for objects of charity seldom see what is
at their feet.-The Benefactress.
A gardens like the world. 1t
grows all sorts, and the finest looking aren' /
always the best-no, not by no means.-The
Fall of the Curtain.
You will lose your soul by seeking God in
prayerbooks rather than in the stars, and
by seeking Him in scrolls rather than in
the sunset and in the morning winds.-Sis-
ter Teresa.
When a man says he knows women he
generally means that his relations have
been chiefly with woman, and he has
found out that he did not know her-Jar-
Wis of Harvard.
When you've done your utmost and
learned something of which you hope to
be the one master, you are bumped against
by dozen or so fellows who know it ten
times better than you do-Rosalynde' s
Lovers.
The f1owery bed Of ease is never lifted
heavenward; everything worth having
costs, and the price paid for the highest
things usually has in it some flavor of an
guish. There is a strange kind of sweet
ness even in sorrow.-Captain Bluitt.
Love! The very word was beatifc to her.
1t meant something which had it's rise in
the secret source of being. 1t was the great
lot God had apportioned men-the chance
for building up spiritual body between
two natural ones.-Margaret Warmer.
His eyes had always been potent factor
in his life, though he had not discovered
it. They were often expressing an acute
ness of emotion which the man himself
had seldom felt and women read in them
the sign of an ineffable synpathy.-Mar-
garet Warmer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

The annual report of the Board of Edu-
cation Of Washington, of which Gen. II. V.
Boynton is president, shows the public
schools Of the national capital to be in line
with the most progressive in the country.
In noticing the good results Of a military
organization among the pupils of the high
school the board suggests that every boy
should learn how to cook rations proper
ly. IF this invaluable knowledge for a
soldier" says the report should be
coupled with training in the cadet corps,
such young men could enter the field able
to render most efficient service to the coun-
try, and assured of certain and rapid pro-
motion" The board makes other sugges-
lions on the same line which it thinks ''are
in no sense visionary, but, on the contrary,
reaching down to the foundations upon
which the strength and safety and peace
of the Republic rest" Such suggestions
would certainly have been regarded as
visionary a generation or two ago, but they
are not out of keeping with modern ideas
of education.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
NEWSPAPERS AS POPULAR EDU-
GATORS.

The annual report of the commissioner Of
education discusses at considerable length
educational extension in the United States
and classes newspapers among the potent
agencies. Other agencies recognized are
public schools. the lecture platform. free
libraries and museums the influence of
travel and pilgrimage, university extension
work, etc, but newspapers are ranked
among the best OF all. This classification.
OF course. embraces only clean and good
newspapers. though probably IL will have
TO be admitted that bad ones also have an
educational influence in wrong directions
The report characterizes the rise OF great
newspapers as zone OF the most striking
educational phenomena of the nineteenth
century" and comedies that the press has
probably had more to do than any other
agency in shaping public opinion and in de-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

veloping the democratic spirit in politics
and culture. Newspapers" it says. "ac-
complish for adults what public schools
do for the young. They liberate and in
form the mind. They inspire the will and
train the human spirit for useful action.
In one sense the public prints are the
schoolbooks of the Nation, educating citi-
zens and voters to a knowledge of their
duty" This is undoubtedly true. What
ever the general imperfections of the Amer
lean press may be. or however much it may
be discredited by individual instances, the
net influence of the press as whole has
been and is of incalculable value to the
country and the people and to the cause OF
civilization and progress. Admitting all
that its critics may say, and more, it must
still be recognized as among the foremost
Of popular educators. The commissioner
of education does this in the most ungrudg-
ing manner. "Of far-reaching educational
influence upon the American people" he
says, us the daily newspaper. 1t comes
morning and evening into almost every
household in large towns, and is read by
every duIlI CITIZEN or ordinary intelligence
The affairs Of the town, city, State, Nation
and the world subjects of familiar con-
versation at breakfast and dinner in every
household" The commissioner admits that
many persons give too much attention to
mere news" and to editorial opinions of the
daily press and too little to good books and
the best periodical literature, but he sees in
the American passion for newspaper read
ing evidence that the people are vitality in
terested in contemporary progress and liv-
ing truth. Beyond all question" the re-
port concludes, ''the daily newspaper is the
most potent educational power in the
United States. Some critics affect to de-
spise newspaper reading, but it is the bread
Of intellectual life for the common people,
and some of the best and most cultivated
writers in America are regular contributors
to the press" The truth of this can be
best appreciated by those who have the
best means of observing the activities of
the press in every field of progress and in
every branch of education and who are
capable of discriminating between newspa-
pers like the Journal and those of a diff
ferent class and type.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
NEW ENGLAND,s ANNIVERSARY.

During this week. in the larger cities OF
the country, New England societies will
celebrate the landing of the Pilgrims in
such celebrations are held annually in many
cities bears evidence to the enterprising
spirit of the defendants Of the early set
tiers Of New England in seeking homes
elsewhere, while their annual celebration
OF the anniversary indicates that wherever
they roam the New Highlander who traces
his ancestry back TO Pilgrim or Puritan Is
proud of his origin and of the achievements
of his ancestors. Time and circumstance
often make strange combinations. Dec. 20,
or some day near 1t, is celebrated as the
Puritan anniversary, when, as a matter
of fact, they did not call themselves Puri-
tans, but were known as Pilgrims.
The subsequent immigrants who were
known as the colony of Massachusetts, Bay
and were much more numerous than those
who constituted the Plymouth colony. were
called Puritans. So it has come about that
in common speech the Puritan stands as
the typical early New Highlander. while the
date of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers
is the anniversary on which the Puritan
is chiefly talked about.
n class of speakers who are invited 20
New England dinners because they have
the reputation of being orators seem to
take delight I'm ridiculing and misrepre-
sentlng the early New Englander. They
are charged with burning witches and per-
scouting Friends and Baptists at a time
when persecution was the method of the
Christian world in dealing with unbelievers.
They are charged with austerity in religion
and morals at time when in all the world
the right OF freedom of thought was gen.
orally denied. Such critics have always
assumed that the Puritan should have been
much more liberal and much better than
were other men of his times. That he was
morally a better man and intellectually
stronger man than those who prosecuted
him. there is little ground TO doubt He
had so good an opinion OF himself that he
was Of sufficient consequence in the sight
OF God TO be the object of His special care.
That conviction had much TO do with the
part he took in the worlds affairs. Some
Of his laws for the regulation of his neigh
bors' conduct may seem ridiculous, but
many laws attributed 10 him were not his
but the work of his slanderers.
But when his detractors have done their
utmost. impartial history accords to him
development OF popular government-the
establishment OF a Puritan republic OF the
New England colonies. founded upon
basis OF suffrage. before the contest for
independence began. 1t cannot be denied
that in the struggle for independence the
New England colonies furnished the largest
number OF men TO bear arms and had the
smallest number OF Tories at home to
watch. They gave the country in the town
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
HOWL FROM OTHER SIDE.
British Wire for American Cable and
American Bridge for Africa.

Portland Oregonian.
We trust our American wire men will
utter a tremendous howl about the loss OF
the contract for the transpacifiC cable. The
American firm that is to lay the cable has
let ahe contract for the rope itself 70 an
English concern. Whenever such a con-
tract in Europe is let to American bidders,
the iwelkin rings with European protests.
We take it that our American spirit OF
fair play will assert itself at this trying
jun6ture as at others. We tax German
sugar 2 cents pound at our ports, but any
tax. Germany lays on our meats is unjusti-
fable We sock il to French wines and
glofes, but tariffs on our -four going into
France can only be execrated. Russia may
levy indirect sugar bounties 8t her peril.
but as for her selling anything here; there
is the Dingley bill We have Manila and
fleets TO preserve our export trade into
ASIA but II Japan would sell us any tea or
silk or mating, there are nigh duties. A
Chiaaman may not enter here on peril or
Imprisonment or massacre but the Pei-Ho
shall run blood before the hair of an Amer
lean interloper in China shall lee harmed.
The same wire that tells that the Eng
lish are to build an American cable also
gives news OF a milliOn-dollar bridge con-
tract in British Africa going To an Aneri-
can firm. 1t is well. Each transaction IS
for our good as well as for Britain's good.
We shall get the cable sooner than the
American builders could have made IT, and
the American bridges Will be ready earlier.
and perhaps be better into the bargain,
than the British could have delivered them.
There are those, alas. who stils fancy that
we are out and injured by the cable award,
and. that the Africans who buy our bridges
are the hapless victims of cur superior
progess, to be pitied. perhaps, but certain
ly condemned So also there are minds OF
equal acumen that still see in the earth a
fiat surface and in the moon a hunk OF
green cheese.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

The disposition toward a reform in the
methods of dealing with children who Of
fend against the law is manifesting itself
simultaneously in many places. That re-
form was needed has long been recognized
by persons familiar with the ordinary
course of procedure in such cases, and
to none has the need been more clear than
to judges and court attaches, and even
policemen upon whom devolves the duty
Of taking the unruly youngsters into GUS
tody. Often. indeed, it is to these policemen
that the evils of the old plan of bringing
boys into contact with older criminals and
of haling them before a magistrate along
with the hardened wretches, thus classify
ing them together, have presented them
selves most strongly. Various plans have
been devised for preventing this contact
and avoiding unnecessary humiliation and
disgrace TO boys who have committed mis-
demeanors, not crimes. In this city the
matter has been taken in hand by the po-
lice judges themselves. Judge Stubbs's pre-
decessor tried the plan of calling in the
parents OF the young offenders and having
spective sons in the shape of a sound
trouncing. The system seems to have
worked fairly well. Judge Stubs has ar
ranged for a special session of his court
on Friday of each week, in which he will
hear the cases of boys and girls who have
been placed under arrest. Meanwhile the
children are to BE given into the custody
of their parents, who are held responsible
for their isolation and for their appearance
in court. This does away with imprison-
ment in the police station and a conse-
quent stigma upon the youngsters which
in itself is encouragement to recklessness
and future lawlessness. The new charter
of Greater New York, soon to go into effect,
provides for a special court for the hearing
of charges against children. Chicago has
such court in operation, and an account
of its workings, given in another column,
shows the Importance of having a man
in charge who has a wise and fatherly
sympathy for boys, insight into their
natures, and infinite patience. Judge Tut
hill, of Chicago, seems to have all these
qualities, and it is safe to say that the
boys with whom he deals do not leave his
presence with resentment in their hearts
and an i'll opinion of the law, but with
gratitude and a resolve to behave better in
future. The entire movement looks to the
guidance and reform rather than the pun
ishment of children, and will undoubtedly
result in great good. The youngsters, most
of them have in them the potentialities of
good citizens, and wise treatment at the
critical time is likely to turn them per-
manently in the right direction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
A Man without n Country.
Washington Post

Washington Post.
1t is no longer Philip Nolan, but George
L. Wellington. who is the man without
country. Wellington is a senator from
Maryland who left the Republican party
because he was opposed 10 the Philippine
policy and because ne believed that Presi-
dent Mckinley had not acted toward him
with proper fidelity. lie occupies. however.
the. peculiar position OF being out OF the
Republican party and yet not en- any other
party. Men like Senator Teller and Scna-
Republican policy concerning silver. have
on she Democratic side OF the Senate. they
attend the Democratic caucus, they vote
with the Democratic side. Wellington. on
the other hand, sits among the Republicans
but: is not OF them. They would not have
him In their caucus and they do not enjoy
his company. The Democrats are not. ap-
parhntly, making any love 20 him. SO that
il looks as il he would have 20 wander all
aloMe-to flock by himself, so 10 speak-as
LONG as he Is in the Senate.
In this connection II is interesting to
know that Senator Wellington might be
afforded some new experiences were IL not
for the fact that he is TO 20 out OF the
Senate. III there were any possibility by
which his reelection could be accomplished
he certainly would be called 20 task for hts
utterances upon the death OF President Nc
Kirtley. Already quite a number OF prcml-
merit Republican senator's have received
copies OF resolutions passed by various
organization demanding that some action
end is in sight, no attention will be paid 10
fheSa requests
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

Now that it IS known that the gift of
Mr.. Carnegie proposing to establish a
national university is in the form of
ton. IL is reported that the President hest
tstes to accept the donation in that form.
One newspaper declares that acceptance
would be an Endorsement OF trusts. An
other. the Pittsburg Dispatch. says that
If the stock OF the company were offered
there might be cause for hesitation but
when the gift is in bonds, which have
value independent of the commercial for
tunes Of the company. there can be moth
ing OF the kind. Nevertheless, it would
raise a howl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

sitiOn TO open the saloons of New York
part of Sunday. He says the demand for
an open saloon on Sunday does not come
from workingmen, as has been stated. since
any one who will visit the Sunday saloons
finds that those who visit them are men
more or less committed TO life Of dissipa-
ton. He believes there is less temptation
to go into a saloon under the present sys-
TEN, under which the law is violated, than
there would be if Sunday opening were le-
galized. The district attorney is a close
friend of Archbishop Corrigan, and it is
intimated that Mr.. Philbin has spoken the
opinions of the archbishop and the Catho-
lie clergy