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Evening journal., 1902-08-14
LINGER A MOr1ENT
TO READ
In After Years

She sat-a fair young girl-in the
corner Of ner fathers box in the crowd
ed opera house. Her bowed head and
trembling lips betrayed the grief that
she had been struggling against all
day-since the hour when she had bid
den her lover goodbye for four long
years. She had been half trying to
interest herself in the music and gay
ETY. about her. but now had sunk back
into forgetfulness of everything, save
the one haunting fact that he was gone.
With a sudden movement she raised
her head to prevent a burst OF tears.
AS she faced the crowd her eyes met
Those of a mans intent upon her with
admiration and longing. He was a
strong. careless and handsome-looking
blonde-a man with whom she had
been wont TO laugh and chat, and oc-
casionally lirt, "just to torment her
Jealous Paul" But tonight she shrinks
back a little. with vague feeling ol
aversion to anything that has ever
caused any heartache for the dear one
far away. And then another wave ol
sadness and loneliness comes over her
and her lips begin to culver agair
and
Softly floats up to her the sweet voice
of the tenor singing that sing, "Whai
Answer" "You promise to be mine
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
SILAS OLDFIELD IS VERY BUSY
GETTING THE FAITHFUL REGIST TERED

goin' to run for a offs. He certinly
ort to have hit, although he haint al
lus treated us exactly squair. They
say that if he gets this offs he is goin'
TO hold the uther and attend to both
jobs at onct. / want to do somethin'
for him. cause | no how hit feels to
hunger and thirst for three or foar
offises at the saim time, only / hoap
he wont demand too menny.
I'd get out of this hear business to
onct if it wern't for the registrashum.
| am maxim a purity good thing out of
hit. and eleckshum is a-comin' on when
they will be mOar comm my way.
Senator Abbott wants me down THUR
a spell, but ! amt certin' of eoin. He
says he is goin' to be nommynated if
he don't get a dern delegait, and / guess
he will. He is countin on some votes
from the friends of the fox-hunters,
cause he promised to yoose his infioo-
ers to keep the stripes often them if
they would all do rite on eleclxshun
da. | don't no whether Gale has
heard the noos or not. but hits up to
him. They do say Gale changes the
subject when hits menshuned, so /
guess them Democrats hain't a doin'
their dooty in the promisin line. l
say they ort to be KEEP in jale forever
if they don't promis to vote the Union
ticket. A man who won't sell out
when you have got the ded wood on
him. don't no enuff to ecl1ersize the
rite OF an American freeman.
Frank Alice wants me too; he is a.
stretchin out his hands and cryin,
"Oh, 81, come over into Massydonia
and save me-" guess he calls Dover
that after George V. Massey. who used
to have his watch mended in Franks
shop.
Then THUR is Docktor Moore; he
wants me bad. He says that the only
way to win is for me and him to COM
bin. and what one wont think of the
luther VIII. He says that when I'm
backed by Mister Addicks Pm o boss
persuader.
Well. l don't no. but I'm a-tellin'
you, Lauray. that l propoas to own a
farm after this campane is over.
Yours lovingly,
Silas Oldfeld.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
The Girls Got Their Cream

There are two West Side girls who
do not know whether to be angry or
to feel grateful to Albert Bothman.
proprietor of the cafe at Seventh and
Shipley streets. If the Wayfarer has
been properly informed the two girls,
having but five cents each in their
purses, entered the cafe and ordered a
small plate of ice cream each. The
waiter brought full sized plates and the
girls were in trouble. They had but
five cents each and the ten cent plates
were before them. To make
matters worse. one of the young women
had eaten part of hers before the mis-
take was discovered. The waiter was
called and the young woman whose
plate OF cream was intact addressed
him while the other girl hid the dam
aged side of her cream.
I'VE ordered five cent plates Of cream
and you have brought us ten cent
ones"
well. miss. certainly thought YOU
told me two plates" he said.
I'VE didn't, and we don't propose to
pay for them. You can just take them
back"
The girl who had eaten part Of hers
shivered.
Just wait minute, miss, until 1 see
the boss"
In a few minutes he returned and
said:
Mr.. Bothman says for you ladies to
just so right on eating, and when you
get through you can pay for what you
eat"
This was fair enough, but when they
were eating, it dawned upon them that
If they ate more than half of the cream
they would have to pay for the whole
business, so they used their spoons
cleverly and cut each frozen pyramid
in halves. They finished eating, looked
longingly at the remainder and then
stepped bravely to the cashiers desk
and paid the nickels.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
.obably been one Of the main sources

probably been one Of the main sources
OF religion.
It is not too much to say that the
Imagination plays one Of the most i'm
portant parts in human affairs, and
that in business and professional life
It is invaluable. In cold science il
precedes realization, running ahead
while logic attempts to overtake it,
Morse saw in his mind the wires
stretching between Baltimore and
Washington bearing his messages on
the wings of light, before Congress
made it's appropriation. Every great
advance OF surgery has been due to
some daring man who has weighed his
dream in the balance of his intellect.
The business man sees the possibility
Of great enterprises while his neigh
Dor is droning along, and follows with
his matured plans
Law would be what It was in the be-
ginning were there not innovators
We go right along quoting black letter
decisions and giving to them the weight
of full authority, until some fine day a
learned judge puts a new construction
upon them. and beholdl a precedent is
made 1t was this quality which made
John Marshall what he was, and virtu-
ally created a constitution for the
young nation. Marshall saw through
the letter. the intent, and accurately
Judged the future necessities. He fore
saw that the supreme power must rest
somewhere. and that in our form of
government with a division Of power,
there must be conflicts unless a pre-
cedent We're established. Consequently
he decided that the Supreme Court could
declare an act of Congress unoonstitu-
tional. II raised a furor then, but now
we see that It was a necessity. The
law is always undergoing transforma-
ton, because great minds are bring
ing to bear the weight of their wisdom
on precedents, and are adding the force
OF their wisdom in the solution Of their
problems
The imagination is marvellous.
God-given power, and should be cul-
tivated. Liars rarely have imagina-
ton. and there are many kinds OF
truth. Someone has said that it might
be divided into two classes: THAT
which is true, and that which may be
true" and the latter is a product of
the imagination Need we question
that the characters drawn by Bunyan,
Shakespeare and Dickens are as real
as is John Smith and Tom Jones, who
live around the corner?
Evening journal., 1902-08-14

comfort the bald-most of them falla-
cious. 1t has been said by those who
care not what they say, that there are
no bald men in lunatic asylums; the
fact being, of course, that a man may
be as crazy as a loon" and as bald as
the egg she lays. Badness is ascribed
To improper breathing, to lack of VEN
tilation of the scalp. to early insedate-
ness Of conduct. The modern tendency
is to attribute it, like most other ills.
to digestive troubles. Figuratively
speaking, men pull out their hair with
their own teeth. corkscrews sometimes
aiding the process.
IL would be interesting to know how
many millions of dollars are paid out
every year by men for hair restorers.
Not much hair results, but money is
Kept In circulation. But if there were
sure cure for badness the magic bot
Tie would contain. as DIR. Johnson said
OF Mrs. Thrale's beer vats. the no
tenuality of growing rich beyond the
dreams of avarice." Its inventor could
buy out the Steel Trust.
And yet men insist that the sex
Onel
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
JUDICIAL IMAGINATION

A New York paper in enumerating
the judicial qualities Of Judge Holmes
mentions that he possesses the keen
imagination Of his distinguished father.
Ordinarily this is not regarded as a
judicial trait, and men are disposed to
consider the hard-headed judge as the
highest type of judicial temperament.
There is also a prevalent idea that i'm
agination is at war with the verities
and that there can be no harmony be-
tween fact and fiction. Consequently
parents endeavor to check in theil
children a tendency to exercise thi.
great creative faculty. AS a matter
Of fact our nearest approach to divinity
is through the Imagination, and it hai
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
BOYS Operate Blow Pines

While the Wayfarer was passing
Eighth street and Railroad avenue one
day recently he was suddenly awak-
ened by a shower of gree nelderberries
singing his face.
He had not noticed crowd of small
boys nearby, whom he recognized as
the enemy. The youngsters, about
twenty in number, had made visit to
the marshes along the banks of the
Brandywine creek and procured long
reeds which are hollow and which
make excellent blow pipes. They had
then obtained a good supply of green
elderberries. They would take a large
mouthful of berries and blow them
through a tube with stinging force.
When warned to stop the boys only
jumped around like wild men and in
creased their fusillade. 1t is fun fol
the boys and fully appreciated by the
victims.
When the supply of ammunition is ex-
.hausted another is promptly secured
and the battle goes on.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
NEWSPAPER
OPINION
Not the Right Way

From the Albany Journal.
cable dispatch from Rome says
that one of the things the promoters
of the European disarmament scheme
have in mind is to use the unemployed
resources for fighting American oOmpe-
tiuon. The argument might prove at
tractive. Europe Just now is in a sus-
ceptible state, so far as trade and com
merce are concerned. The notion that
American trade can be confined and
directed into arbitrary channels with,
out endangering the prosperity of the
country that undertakes to accom-
plish these things is fatIous. To shut
out American products to the advant.
age of higher-priced goods from th'
colonies or too show any preferences
not based on economic conditions
would be fatal to the continued wei
fare OF the mother country.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
NOT JUST YET


In another column we print a story
from a Washington correspondent oil
the Philadelphia Record. We give il
in full that our readers may understand
that the political fakir is abroad in
the land, and the space-writer is maxi
ing the most Of his opportunity
This is not the first time that a
President has been accused of a desire
to coerce a sovereign State, and to
lend his powers to accomplish its dis
grace. The story has not even the
ear-marks of plausibility, and it ema-
mated from one Of two sources-it mat
ters little which; either it was inspired
by Addicks partisans who wish to
break down the support OF DR.. Bali for
denomination. or it was inspired by
Democrats, who wish to widen the
breach between the factions.
WE WISH TO PUT OUR
SELVES ON RECORD AS SAY
ING 1T is A STUPID LIE,
HATCHED BY PERSONS FA-
VORA.H.E TO DELAWARE'S
GREAT CoRRUPTIoNIsT AND
DIsRUPTIONIST. WE Make
THIS STATEMENT ON THE
DECLARATION OF SEVERAL.
PERSONS WHO ARE CLOSE TO
THE SITUATION AND KNOW
THE PRESIDENTS POSITION.
WE ASK OUR READERS TO
WATCH EVENTS AS THEY
TRANsPIRE. AND SEE WHETH-
Err THIS MALICIOUS LIBEL ON
THE PRESIDENT Is NOT
PROVED BASEIIESS AND OUR
ASSERTION CORRECT
But we warn those who are back OF
such articles that the result may not
he all that is anticipated. The Ad-
dicks men cannot afford to misropre-
sent he President by making it appear
that he proposes to Use the whip OF
Federal patronage to accomplish Della
wares disgrace. and by declaring that
Le has appointed as his agent 10 carry
oois his. raoi.k,a man OF the character
os Scott, of West Virginia. Should tho
canald be traced to Democratic sources
it lusy cause such general indignation
that instead of widening the breach, il
may cause an amalgamation.
There is only one man who can speal
with authority in this matter; thai
man is Theodore Roosevelt. Possibl!
he may ignore it. as he cannot be ex
pected to notice every lying paragraph
er. But of one thing we are certain
Delaware can speak for herself Eacl
man retains his citizenship. and can
not be deprived of It, There are man.
thousands OF free agents in this State
and as they have arisen TO the occa
sion many times they will do it again
But we must not forget that Presiden
Roosevelt has behind him an honorabl
record. His attitude on the question O
public decency is we'll known, and
is an insult-a stupid insult-to max
him appear in a role which would low
er him in the minds of all right-think
ing people. No; Delaware is all righ'
and Theodore Roosevelt is all righ
The SCOTS. the Addickses and tn
Byrnes are not running this State ju.
yet.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14

he sings tenderly, and then slowly and
fervently, "And you promise to be
true-true to me forever?" She raises
her face and smiles. 1t is a message
straight from her loverl And her heart,
swelling with love and loyalty, sends
cut a glad answer to him.
Three years later, and again the girl
occupies a box-not her fathers TINS
time-in the same crowded opera
house. Close by her side sits man,
blonde. strong. careless and hand
some.
The brilliancy of the scene tonight,
with the music and laughter, seems to
this bride and bridegroom only a Dit
of brightness in as bright a present
and future.
There is a sudden silence; then floats
I'D to them the voice Of the TENOR:
promise to be miner he sings, and
the audience sits hushed and thrilled
bv the sweetness and pleading OF his
The brides lips still smile; but in
her ewes there is a wondering, per-
plexed look; what memories does unat
song recall? What glad or sad things is
it she is trying to rememberE
The bridegroom bends down and
whispers. Darling, how strange! Some
years ago | heard that song, and l
consecrated every word of it to YOU
NV answer seemed, oh, so doubtful
then. but now tonight
The rest is drowned by a passionate
burst of music, "And you promise TO
he true-true to me forever?"
The smile fades from the brides
Inns She remembers now.-By F. Fax
! SON in New York Evening News
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
Gas Works. August is. 1902.

LAS WOihSs August To- lJV4.
My Dear Lauray:
/ enclothes you a money order for II
dollars: the registrashun is goin' on
now and l am attendin to bit. I'm
proud Of the CRATE homer konferred on
me. and ! am a-managin' to see that
they is somethin' a little moar sub
stanshel.
They says to me; Isl. how menny
voters has you in a certain iistric that
needs help and then l tells them. Then
we clothes the doors and the winders
and they is somethin' a-doin', and
come out feelin like Astorbilt CT Rocky
fellor.
OF coarse l am keerful TO make the
number that needs assistense big
enough, and that is the way you come
10 get them seventeen dollars. Every
one was intended to emansipait some
freeman, to put the ballot in his hand
SOS he could hold up his he'd, but
have used them where they would do
moar good. Be keerful how sou spend
EN-, Bauray, cause I'm certin they are
marked.
I'm goin down to Dover next Tues
udy 10 see the uuin ileSlefS nOmuy yudlL
their ticket. Hit is all cut and bride
and Docktor Ball is goin to be the man.
and no questions asst But we amt
never a-goin to take him, neverl We
have desided that. that is providin
we can't skeer him. If he sticks rite
tite, of coarse we'll have to swaller
him II hit does maik us sick. A friend
Of mine said the uther da that he
hoaped that the Docktor was too pay
triotic to Giprive President Roosevelt
of a congressman, and told Bob Hous-
ton that. and he said that was rite.
Said he the only way to send a Re
publican congressman from Delaware
is for the Docktor to stick, and hits
pretty sertin he'll do hit Drn a
Regler anyway.
Well. Gale Latan says that the COM
mon primary idee for Moo CasseI origi-
mated in his brane. and that he has al
lus been in favor of hit. George Rob
urts says he's gettin' envius of Gale,
and fears he amt in the saim class.
Fred Bach is back agin, and is a.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
A Marvel of Progress

From the Baltimore American.
Few people realize the tremendous
advances which the country has made
in the past thirty years. Everybody
boasts OF the nations progress without
really knowing about the momentum
of that progress. The country has ac-
complished more since 1870 than
marked the whole period OF its exist
ence prior to that date. Furthermore.
the last ten years of the thirty since
1870 have been more fruitful Of i'm
portant results than the other twenty.
That tends to show that our movement
is accelerating. AS we advance we are
gathering in the potentialities for still
faster advancement Each new cycle
provides us with the forces to make the
next cycle more productive. AS a con-
sequence. we are becoming a perfect
marvel to the outside world. Whe1
Europe pauses TO calculate what We
have accomplished she is amazed. In
fact. our own people are astonished al
their own achievements. Il is natura
that they should be- There Is no othe
instance in the history Of the worll
where such a lofty monument OF practi
cal. results has been built in the shor
period Of thirty years. Il has takei
other people centuries to expand a
much as the American people have ex
D pahded in one generation.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14

Should women remove their hats in
church? We decline to discuss the
question, but if we may be allowed
to substitute the theatre for the place
of worship, we say it depends. From
the wearer's standpoint the dress of
the hair and the elegance OF the bon
net have something to do with it.
There is another element. too. no
woman will remove her bonnet when
asked to. She feels that she has been
insulted at the request, and decides to
resent the indignity, if she dies in her
tracks-or rather. in her seat. From
the standpoint of the other person. we
say the hat should come down. 1t isn't
pleasant to pay $500 for a scat and be
compelled to look at a duplicate of the
display in a shop window all the even
ing. The bonnet, like the flag, when
It has gone up TO the injury of others,
must come down. But in church
well we will leave that to Ruth Hash
more. of the Woman's Home Com.
panion, or to Ella Wheeler Babcock,
the poetess of passion.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
ADvANCE In MErHonIsM

In a tract entitled "A Crisis in
Methodism." the Rev. DR.. Munhan. a
clergyman OF prominence, takes a
gloomy view Of the present situation
and sees little hope for the church's
future unless there shall be a general
awakening. DR.. Munhall thinks he
sees an increase in worldliness, a sub
stitution Of formality for the simpler
faith of the fathers, and a breaking
down OF accepted religious truths by
the higher criticism. Doubtless in every
age there have been jealous men who
have been SO intent on their work Of
regeneration and reform. that they
have little sense of perspective. If W,
are 10 judge the members of tn,
church by their thoughts and impulses
by the true essence Of religion, doubt
less We shall reach the conclusion tina
there has been no retrOgrade move
ment. but rather an advance. This j
like the old question debated in ever
country lyreum: rs the world grow
ing betterg 1t has never been decided
and never win be- If we judge b
PERIODS covering centuries We shall dc
eide in the affirmative. but if our con
parison is limited to the scope Of de-
AIDES we may reach a different concll
sion. II man is a creature of evolution
then his mental and moral develol
ment is matter of centuries. and "
must not judge of his tendencies b
the apparent symptoms Of the momen
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
A Devoted Dogs intelligence

Pug" is not a naturally bright and
unusual dog. but his ear for music is
not surpassed, if equalled, by many of
his kindred. This dog may well boast
of his musical turn of mind and it will
counteract his rudeness to those who
delight in pulling his ears. His mas
ter is a young man in a Kent county
town, and performs on the piano with
marked accomplishment, thereby Civ
ing the Wayfarer a theme.
Pug is devoted to his young mas
ter. and is content only when curled up
under the piano or at his guardians
feet. Some time ago during Mr.. LIS
absence to another town, Pug lay Oh
the front porch asleep in the sun, but
at the first bar Of a selection often
rippled off by his master, jumped
to his feet. whined and threatened to
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
If LoeA We're Not

If love were not, the wilding rose
Would in its leafy heart enclose
No chalice Of perfume.
BY mOssy bank in glen or grot.
No bird would build If love were not;
No flower complacent bloom.
The sunset clouds would lose their
dyes.
The light would fade from beauty's
eyes,
The stars their fires consume.
And something missed from hall ant
cot
Would leave the world, if love wer'
not,
A wilderness Of gloom.
Florence Earle Coats.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
Startling Statistics of Liquor rr.m,

Startling Statistics of LIQUOR Traffic
From Leslie's Weekly.
Some idea may be gained of the now
er and vastness of the vested interest
which our friends the total abstinence
and prohibition propagandists are run
ming up against, from the recent census
bulletin giving the statistics on the
manufacture of alcoholic liouor in this
country during the census year ended
May 30, 1900. This report shows a
capital of s457, 7,647 .OS7 invested in the
manufacture Of alcoholic LIQUORS in the
z'ooO establishments reporting. This
sum does not include the capital stocl,
OF any of the manufacturing corpora-
tions. which would add many millions
more The value of the products re-
turned Is reported as s340615, ,46G. which
serves to indicate the enormous mar
gin OF profit there is in the business.
Dealt out in glasses Of the average size.
this three hundred and forty million
dollars worth Of alcoholic liquors would
fill at least six billion up to the brim.
a number Of glasses sufficient. IL placed
one upon another, to reach all the way
from the earth to the moon; or II
passed around on a per-capita basis. tc
give every human being on the globe
something over two glasses apiece
enough. in fact, to set the whole worlC
into drunken sleep. If the friends
of temperance can extract any c0mfor
and encouragement out of these Stats.
tical calculations they are abundantly
welcome to it. We wish, indeed. tha
IL might he so, for the showing doe.
not make for the peace or happiness
of the world.
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
Why Men Are Bald

From the New York World.
The news that the bare pate of Mr.
John ID. Rockefeller is newly enhaloed
with a shining nimbus OF delicate
young hair will be welcome to many
men who succeed indifferently in dis
sembling concern over their vanished
locks. II the hair that failed be in this
case not lost forever. why may not
others hope?
Many are the theories conceived tC
Evening journal., 1902-08-14
Registered on Queen Money

Whether it is Illegal to register oh
money found in the garden under Il
brick has never been decided bv thd
courts OF this State, but if it is not iIl
regal 10 use money procured in such A
manner, then the door is omen td
many fraudulent registrations.
Dr. James p. Loftland, the candidate
lor representative from the Tenth dis
trlet in Kent county, and whose homo
is in Milford, is said to have qualified
on such dollar. but it is explained il
was not intended for him.
DIR. Loftland went into his backyard
on Saturday. and, seeing a brick in his
path, gave it a kick. He was surprised
TO see nice. crisp one-dollar bill lying
exposed to the light. 1t dawned upon
him suddenly that it was registration
day, and that he had unearthed a plot
OF fraud. Calling two colored men who
worked around the place to him, he
asked:
Jim,' did you lose a dollar?"
mo. sab; | done had no dollar to
lose"
How about you, William?"
Hit haint mine. Mister Jimmie
DR.. Loftland put the dollar in his
pocket and walking to the registration
office, he paid the dollar to the officials
and qualified.
That evening one of the colored men
approached him and said:
Mister Jimmie. dat dollar wus tend
ed fer me-"
"It's too late now, Bill. for that dol
lar has registered a good Democrat