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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
FRIDAY. AUGUST 80. 1901.
MR.. PARKER AND REFORM

There are two kinds OF reformers
those who do things with the mouth
and those who exercise their brains
Affairs in this city aud county de-
mand the latter sort, and there are
many earnest. level-headed men who
have been aroused to action by suspi-
cions OF a startling character. From the
beginning they must make it apparent
that they are not associated with the
irresponsibles, and that hey will dis
avow any blathering by those calcu-
lated to injure any cause. In all sucl
movements crowd OF neutrality-suspicious.
come into evidence, making charge:
rigl,s and left, without discrimination
or a thought as to whether they car
be subtanttHted.
OF this character was the charge OF
Mr.. Parker, OF the Trustees OF tho
Poor. Evidently expecting to make q
hit as a reformer and TO be hailed as
a watch dog OF the treasury, he rushed
into print with a statement that any
newspaper should have investigated
before printing. When confronted
with the facts by his associates, he sui
lenly refuses to admit his mistake, even
declaring his determination not to bl
convinced. He simply displayed ig
norance OF the workings Of the body O
which no is a member. The cause o
reform is not fostered by going OF
half-cocked, as the friends Of Mr.. Par
ker have learned
Regarding expenditures for OUTSIDE
relief. it would work an injury TO man,
needy persons if the practice were stop
ped, and the expenditures under thil
head are inconsiderable. Doubtless il
certain instances this charity has beer
abused, but the trustees are not de
tectives, and cannot know in every in
stance whether their confidence is mis-
placed We think they should exercis
care in the matter. and doubtless tina
is what has been done in most instan
ces. Mr.. Parker seems to have bee
the worst offender, It should be re
membered that indiscriminate fault
finding is going to work an injustic
to certain persons, and TO hamper ther
in the exercise Of legitimate authorit,
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
NEW SPAPER OPINION
Cigarette Reform

From the Pittsburg Press.
Crusaders against cigarettes at last
begin to see some result OF their la
bors. Figures from the Internal Reve-
nue. Department indicate that 100000
smokers have been emancipated from
the coffin nall habit. or that a larger
number have become more moderate in
the use of the little paper roll smokes,
To what this gratifying result is to
be attributed is not yet quite clear.
Eminent physicians have for years
lifted up their voice against the cigar
ette evil as destructive of nerves and
heart, but their pupils would begin to
burn the paper pests as soon as they
were out of their lecture room. Re
formers organized cigarette
leagues. but the ,eaguers quickly fell
into temptation. Legislators passed
State laws against the sale of cigarettes
to minors. but the statutes were gen,
orally dead letters
When the United States went to wal
with Spain, however, the revenue tai
was increased 81 n thousand, and sine
then the production OF cigarettes hal
fallen off nearly one and q half bill
lion. Your Uncle Sam is. perhaps, tn
true reformer He is better at sup
pressing cigarettes than Mrs. Nation.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
Breadth and Narrowness
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The recent address OF a Columbia
College professor. deplorlng the fact
that teachers are generally narrow
minded" based the assertion on the
fact of their constant ming,ing
with children or with adults of slight
mental reach. Yet the logic has its re-
actions. College professors must come
into mental contact principally with
students whose education has just be-
gun. Does that make them narrow
minded?
In one sense It does. II is neces-
lsary Jaw Of human nature that a man
who devotes his energy and mental
force to the full mastery of one pur-
suit must pay the penalty of a CORE.
spending contraction of mental scoRe
beyond that field. 1t is safe 10 say tina
. that there Is as large a proportion o.
college professors whose views are lin
lifted by the collegiate boundaries an,
3 whose judgments are formed on th'
collegiate preconceptions as Of teacher
e in the lower grades whose mental grasl
4 lis contracted to their field.
IL may be deplOred that the concen
tratiOn Of mind to a single pursuit can
not be compatible with the breadt
! that takes the scope OF the whole hu
D man race. But il is nevertheless
human limitation that he who knows
r little OF everything is very apt TO hav
II a thorough knowledge of nothing.
4 may be said that the great physician
apt to have a slight grasp of histories
2 philosophy; that the great lawyer mu'
IT test everything by judicial precedent'
n Tor that the successful merchant mu
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

Our esteemed contemporary, the New
York sun, has been revising geographi-
cal lines in a way that does Delaware
an injustice We are displaced by
Maryland, wiped of the map, swallow
ed up by the octopus of the Eastern
Shore According to the Sun The
Eastern Shore is the colloQuial descrip-
ton of the nine Maryland counties on
the Peninsula bounded by Delaware hay
and the Atlantic ocean on the east,
and the SusQuehanna river and Chesa-
peake bay on the westg We knew We
were little. but to be subjected TO
friendly assimilation by our Maryland
friends is resented. What is TO become
of John Edward AddiclSs and Bay state
Gas? Where are we at and what is
our status? Are we to be governed as
a colony and feel the heel Of our op-
pressor? Is the fate to be ours of hav,
ing for our senator a Wellington OF ;
German No; in the language of oul
fathers. who thought no man was GOO
enough TO govern another, We cry
God Forbid" What shall our it'll
truck-garden be cal,ed2 Shall it b.
Delaware county, Md" There is
cry from the land of peaches, "Oh
George Frederick Williams, come owe
and help u.s."
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

The Canadian census reports are
likely TO invite comparison with those
Of our own country; and citizens OF the
Dominion win ask whence the differ
ence. Her increase in population dur
ing the last decade is only little more
than nine per cent, while the United
States has grown at the rate of twenty
one per cent. during the same period
AL other figures showing material adj
vance bear about the same compari.
son. In other words. this country is
still undergoing rapid development
while Canada is not Canadians arr
likely to ask the reason for her failur'
to show a material increase in popula
ton. and the fact that she has a vas
territory. rich, yet undeveloped. is SUI
ficient to cause the belief that Their
must be something in her system Q
government which holds her back. Sh
made a mistake which can never
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

hands OF the freeholders. The life OF
the Empress, as Princess Royal. was
put into a great number of leases. dur
ing the 40s. as was then a common
practice, and in most of these she was
the last survivor Of the original three
lives.
Frederick NJ. Padelford, professor o
English at the University of Idaho
has been added to the faculty of the
State University of Washington lie
is a graduate of Colby and of the Yale
Graduate School,
The annual prize of 5000 francs for
the best work in the province of medi-
cad research offered by the Belgian
Government has been assigned this
year to Professor A. van Gehuchfen
for his works on the human brain and
spinal cord.
Tess-She has some hopes of taking
up a profession.
Jess-The ideal What profession?
'Tess-A profession of love by Mr..
Itoxley. He hasn't made It YET. bus
she's doing her best
You're a country boy. I sec" said
the milkman, who had advertised for
an assistant.
YES sir"
What experience have you hado"
Well. I've pumped the organ down
to our church several years.
Telling lies isn't any worse taan
not telling the truth indirectly.
Lots Of marriages that are made in
heaven are unmade in the divorce
court.
You can most always tell a girl tina
expects a proposal by the way sh
keeps leading the man off into quie
corners and dark places.
Governor Ia Toilette. of Wisconsin.
who was thought to be dying of a liver
complaint, is rapidly recovering. His
trouble is the penalty of too intense ap-
plication to work.
Il don't take much stock in those
stories about a drowning mans whole
past life rushing before his minds
eye like a panorama remarked Uncle
Allen Sparks. Il got tangled up with
a horse in deep water once, and had a
pretty close call. but all 1 thought
was, I'd hate to have folks think
hadn't more gumption than to get
drowned trying to ford a. creek wher
it's ten feet deep. We must get on
of this!' And l managed to cut the
horses harness. and we both got ON
alive l don't know what the hors
was thinking but I'm willing to be
it was about the same"
thought to cure some Of our Anglo
Americans of their snobbishness Il,
learn that all Americans look alike to
the London hotel keepers. With then
a negro preachers money is as goo
as that Of an American millionaire.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
spfnt Day in Park

Among those who were enjoyinl
good things of life beneath the
of Brandywine Springs Park yests
were Miss Martha Lyons, Mr.. ane
ii. H. Zimmerman. Master He
Lyons and Sergeant and Mrs. 1
They formed a merry party, andi
appeIites were equal to the occas,
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
No Relative ofomcer

For the benefit of those interested it
is stated that the Philip Riley that is
now in New Castle Jail in default Of
payment of fine and costs imposed in
Municipal Court, is no relative Of Of
ficer James Riley.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
RECEIVED a Legacy

BY the death of a relative, r. S.
of No. 72l East Seventh street
city, fell neir to $4,000 recently.
Lane formerly was Union News
at Norristown. Pa, and Edgar WI
his successor. has just received
that by the death of an aunt he
receive $4,000.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

The Evening Journal goes by mail into
almost every postOffice IN the State. IL
n delivered by carriers In Newark, New
mort. stanton, Elsmere, Edge Moor Mar
shallton, Falkland, Aorklyn, tockessin'
power. Middletown Smyrna, Clayton, Cam
den. Laurel, Seaford, New Castle, Della
ware city Milford, Georgetown, Harring-
ton, Delmar, Bridgeville, Lewes, and
many other towns. IL As on sale at all
Union News stands. at Stand No. ]. Broad
Street Station. Philadelphia, and at Ches-
Ger. 1t Is on file at several OF the reading
rooms on Noung's Pier, Atlantic City.
and on sale at the news stands near the
exposition grounds, in Buffalo.
Persons going away for a week OF longer
can have the Evening Journal mailed to
them daily for cents a week.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

gulf coast. There
were also thunder
storms over the
northern and the
western upper
lake region, Col
orado, New Mex
leo. Arizona and
over a limited
portion CT the up
per Mississippi
and lower Mis-
souri, valleys.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
RaiIs Delay Work

The Newport and Stanton exit
Of the Wilmington City Railway
pany system will not be ready to
ate by the first Of September a
expected. The company has bel
layed in receiving the rails.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

From Texas northeastward- through
New England and in the northwest
the weather has remained generally
fair. Forecast: Fair and warmer to-
day; fair tomorrow; light southerly
winds. -,
Sun rises. 5.25 a. m; sun sets, $50
D. m; length OF day, 13h. lin.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

Judge issues by their effect on the gro
Gerry trade. But It is by such eoncen-
tratlon as this that success in life il
made.
II is true that breadth of mind in
education is desirable. but il may be
doubled whether it is exhibited in the
disposition to declaim over the narrow
ness Of people outside OF the collegiate
world.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

A fluent speaker in the course Of al
hours speech will utter from 1000 {
5000 words, an amount which will
nearly fill a page of a fair-sized news
paper. The ordinary human being
at all inclined to converse is apt
talk sixty minutes a day from whic
the calculation is easy how big tn
volume or volumes spoken in tn
course of a year. The scientific peo-
pie do not use this tendency in tn
male talker as a basis for surmis
either complimentary or otherwise
but they do tell us that the larger
quantity of speech INDUCED in by tn
gentler sex has an economic object
Her range and alleged constancy o
talk is natures provision to develop
and practice the speech instinct in tn
infant Its use consequently in othe
relations of life is merely an incident
Of the gift and not its primary pur
pose.
The professional liar brGcod himself
when he felt the thrill of bite along
ais fishing pole. When the cork wen
1 minnow about i've inches long.
"Shucksl" he muttered with cha
grin, as he took it off the hook; ."
wish that 'un had got awaJ; ii woul
have been so much bigger"
A Berlin dispatch to the Londol
Post quotes Professor Schenk as say
ing in his lecture of that day that il
his student days he kept silkworms
and, having little means to feed eithe
himself or his pets, they often hun
yered He was struck with the fac
that the progeny of the worms wer
nearly all male. Carrying his investi
cations further, he came to the conclu
sion that diet exercised an enormou
influence on the formation OF SCI
which, he maintains, is predetermine
In the egg. To influence sex, a dietar
system must therefore be pursued 70
some months.
Mr.. Gooph-I tell you, Blithersby
wife is a jewel
Nh. Whoop-Is that so?
| MIR. Gooph-I should say so. VIII.
he went fishing yesterday, and can
home with an empty jug. a can
salmon and two salt mackerei, and 81
,omplimented him on his luck.-Balt
more American.
HAZE you sent your regrets, Do
I Ythy?" asked mamma Of her lit
laughter. who had decided not to
| @ a party to which she had be-
D asked.
81 haven't any to send, mamma
answered Dorothy. 81 don't want
T. 60"
James Whitford Bashford, preside
a Of Ohio Wesleyan University, has be
a chosen president of Norhweste
e University. Chicago, to succeed Hen
II Wade Rogers. who resigned over
Is year ago.
81 The death Of the Empress Frederi
); has caused a very large amount
st household property to fall into
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
RECEIVING ORDERS

James F. Wood & Co. are rec
many orders to have heaters an,
.naces put in good order for the
ing season. Also roofs and spou
paired.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

rectiaed. when she refused 20 join with
the thirteen colonies in their struggle
for freedom.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
Wealth in the Land
rom the Pittsburg Dispatch.


From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The sale of lots in the three new
Oklahoma towns. IAwton, Anadarko
and Hobart. has brought a total OF
$685. 27 and the United States Commits
isiOner in charge estimates the lots re-
naming will bring the sum up to $780,
l0O0 This is but one of the marvellous
illustrations of the development of
wealth in this country. Those Okla
homa towns were not on the map a
month ago. Their sites were property
of the Indians. Now they are busy
marts of trade. But even yet they are
mere villages compared with the great
cities that have risen within less than
a century in the Middle West and in
the Pacific Coast region.
The fortunes that have been realized
even within fifty years from the trans
formation of cheap arabic lands into
lefty blocks surpass the widest fanoies
of Arabian Nights" The movement
has been by no means confined to the
West. but has been participated in by
the older East. The Oklahoma towns
have sprung up like mushrooms. but no
in the Monongahela valley and with no
greater increase in land values. The
Western cities are more noticed be-
cause they have taken possession of the
trackless prairie. while the Pittsburg
region towns are overshadowed by the
great city nearby.
Not all OF the fortunes have yet been
made from the Land, either. Real es-
tate is as good an investment now as
ever. The cities are growing. and the
country Is becoming more densely
populated.
The death rate among the women
and children in the Concentration
camps in South Africa is 15G per 1000.
and in one camp, according to a Brit
ish official report, 25 per cent of the
prisoners died in three months. At
that rate the BOer population will be
eXterminated in a year, and England
will have an unobstructed field for her
missionary labors in extending the
blessings of civilization to South
Africa.-Philadelphia North American.
Many men prominent in pubic life
have announced themselves as favor
able to a change of date of our presi-
dental inauguration. 1t is possible
that such change may be made by the
next Congress. Inaugurating presi-
dent is the most sublime spectacle that
calls to vigorous warmth the patriotic
blood in the heart of every American
citizen. and there is a growing convic-
ton that il should be performed ut a
season when multitudes may enjoy it
without imperiling their health.-New
York Commercial.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

To find cool spot, take New
trolley cars and go on the pavil'
the Jefferson House. New Castle
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

cal, although the standard cole
contain many which are aiml
proving some narrow dogma. A
should suggest a spontaneous Quit
Just as a song does. To make {
vehicle OF argument is as illogicalt
set a mathematical problem to M,
With a theological end in 4
many splendid poems with true [,
ious feeling have been mutilated.
the splendid hymn, for instance
ten by one of the Carey sisters. IN,
Home No hymna5 the writer ha,
but contains a badly mutilated
the purpose evidently being to ba
certain theological tenets, and vi
name appears to it.
Hymns and songs must not dea.
petty things; they should &C
splendid imagery, and declar:
broad and elevating. Compare
hymns which the writer has heard
before large audiences; a verse of,
is given:
When I'm dying hear me saw
When I'm dying hear me say
When I'm dying hear me say
Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
When I'm dying hear me saw
Give me Jesus.
The two other verses conta,
equal amount Of sense and .orgir,
Then turn to Cowper's grand
hymn:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the s.,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unbelievable mines
OF pever-fai.ing skill
He treasures up his bright desigr
And works his sovereign will!l
1t may be that the clergy have (
careless in the selection of hymn,
worship; it may be that the G.,
societies are responsible. but it I,
time to return to hymns at least
have not the appearance of
,irreverent. BILL PARSE,
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

Genuine Violet Water, 10c., for tai
week only. A. Ferschke. 500 King st
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

The Weather and the Almanac.
Showers have continued in the
south Atlantic states and along the
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
THERE ARE OTHERS.

THERE ARE OTHERS
Agntwhat made him die soon after getting "
or
Second Insurance AgentHe death trying to pa
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

hands of the freeholders. The life OF
the Empress, as Princess Royal, was
put into great number of leases dur
ing the '4Os, as was then a common
practice, and in most of these she was
The last survivor Of the original three
lives.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

The death Of the Empress Frederick
has caused a very large amount OF
household property to fall into tne
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

Frederick NJ. Padelford, professor o
English at the University Of Idaho
has been added to the faculty of the
State University of Washington. lie
is a graduate of Colby and of the Yale
Graduate School.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

James whitford Bashford, presidenf
of Ohio Wesleyan University has seeI
chosen president of Northwestern
University, Chicago, to succeed Henri
Wade Rogers. who resigned over
year ago.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

Wei, that is enough to show that
genius had been let loose on the world,
and his fame grew. People came for
miles. saying that they wanted "a few
lines for to go onto Johns tombstone,
now that he had been took away The
business 3 rev TO such an evtent thathe
began 10 advertise. because he believed
in protection, and home consumption.
Then the trade fell of. for Sussex PEG
pie, while they are very fond OF cpl
ltaphs. do not consider they are worth
good money.
We have in our possession a letter
head which he used az that time, Il
runs: ''Theo. w. NIX. Orator anG
/ Epitaph Writer Terms given on ap
) lplichtion. Epitaphs in Honor OF You
= Deceased Friends You Want, You Cal
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

The annual prize of 5000 francs for
the best work in the province of medi-
cad research offered by the Belgian
Government has been assigned this
year to Professor A. van Gehuchten
for his works on the human brain and
spinal cord.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

HAZE you sent your regrets, Dor
ythy?" asked mamma Of her little
laughter, who had decided not to go
@ a party to which she had been
asked
81 haven't any to send, mamma,
answered Dorothy. 81 don't want to
60"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30

thought to cure some Of our Anglo
Americans Of their snobbishness L,
learn that all Americans look alike to
the London hotel keepers. With then
a negro preachers money is as goo
as that Of an American millionaire.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
SURELY COMING IS THE
Greenville, Nashville and
Chattanooga R'y.

We learn from various and reli.
able sources that work is being
rapidly pushed this way from Cor
NTH Cd this road aud the con.
tractors expect to finish the work
by the first of November.
And even old Hardin will have
a few miles Of railroad and that
too without any effort on our part,
Suppose we put forth some effort
what do you think we would
haveg Everybody answer at
once.
In speaking of the construction
of this road the Corinth Herald
says: "Should the company see
fit to cross the Tennessee river
and go on to Nashville the road
would develop one of the finest
travel and transportation lines in
the South"