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Evening journal., 1902-12-31
Duty for Ministers
n the Morning News.

From the Morning News.
II all the ministers of Delaware
would take the high moral ground
taken by the Rev. Joseph Brown Turner
Il would probably be possible to make
conditions better In respect to bribery
and corruption in connection with cleo
tions.
There are, unfortunately, too many
ministers who are willing to close their
eyes and tighten their lips when politi-
cal corruption is brought to their at
tention. The province of the ministers
is to teach morality and correct living
and respect for the law. Thus it is
Just as much the duty of a minister
to impress upon his congregation the
enormity OF political corruption as It is
for him to point out in general terms
that an honest life is necessary. There
is too much of a disposition to hold
that ministers should not touch upon
matters political. When political cor
ruption is sapping the morals of the
people everywhere, Il should be a part
OF the work Of ministers to demon
strate to their congregations that It is
just as important TO bribe and sell
votes and cheat at elections as IL is
to steal chickens or to commit arson.
Abuse of minister who calls attention
to the political immortality Of to-day
is an evidence that he has hit hard
and that his words have cut deep.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
Emmett f. st,dham

Popular among Republicans and
Democrats alike is Emmett f. Slid
ham, who will fill the sheriff's office
for two years. starting tomorrow. He
IS about so years old, and lives at No.
4l5 Lombard street. No better Re-
publican ever filed seat in an office
IN the Court House than he. He work
ed long and faithfully for the party.
and never asked for an Office hntil his
friends brought him out forf coroner
several years ago. At that tine he was
custodian OF the Second street market
house, a position he filled for a num-
Der OF years. He resigned when he was
elected coroner, and gaveithis entireat-
tention- Many evils and abuses of the
system he remedied. All the newspaper
men who had occasion to visit his Of
1ce were sorry when his term expired
Confident that with such a good record
in the coroner's office he wonld make
good sheriff, his friends induced him
TO become a candidate four years ago.
He did not get the nomination at that
time. He then secured a position with
the Pennsylvania railroad as switch
man at the Third street crossing. and
hlled that important position to the
satisfaction of everyone concerned. His
nomination last fall was expected by
his friends and political enemies. he
has no others. alike He was elected
to the office of sheriff by a handsome
majority.
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to think that they knew beans in Man
haitian and Virginia.
The fact Is that the Pilgrim Fathers
were a plain. blunt, unvarnished set of
fellows. The Rev. DR.. living. prcsi-
dent Of the Western Reserve University
lately stated that the Pilgrim Fathers
were even a very uneducated set Of
men. Not one Of them he said, except
Brewster had ever seen the inside of a
college.
Yet few men have ever been more
hcmored at seats of learning. specially
by Harvard University, and by other
colleges. IL was not that they were
learned, but mat they were men of
character and conviction.
- All homer to the Pilgrim Fathers. We
will even forgive them, though they
allowed history 10 cheat Cape Cod out
OF the read honor Of being their first
place OF lending.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
WEDNESDAY. DEcEMBER 81, 1902
nood-hre. old rearl II we have

Goodbye, old yearl If we have
no tears, It is because you
have not showered an the bless
ings on our devoted heads that
we wished. Doubtless you have done
the best you could, but considering our
deserts, 1t was a poor effort. So we
welcome the sun-kissed countenance OF
your successor, and here's hoping that
he may keep oar porridge pot filled,
dress Us in purple and fine linen, and
occasionally warm the cookies of our
hearts with good cheer Goodbye, old
chap; go and join that gaunt army OF
shades assembled beyond Styx, for the
grim ferryman is anxiously waiting to
paddle you over. It may be that we
shall regret your going, but We shall
see.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
EDITORIAL OPINION
The PlIgrIm Fathers

From the Boston Globe
The glory OF the New England fore
fathers is not likely to soon fade from
tha earth. In New York. in Philadel-
phia, in the West and. in fact. where
ever We cast the eye we find ready
representatives OF the Pilgrim Fathers
assembled to sound their virtues and
glorlfy their names at this season.
In New York and elsewhere some at
tempts have been made to initiate the
Pilgrim Fathers in the bills OF fare
served. How puorile it looks to try TO
initiate the Pilgrim bill OF fare in the
Waldorf-Astoria and similar fashion
able gatherings Even IL they had the
food they haven't the men and the par
lors OF fashionable hotels are not the
places to display them.
: But IL may surprise a good many
New Workers to know that the Ply
mouth colony raised potatoes as early
as 1902. and that about the same time
Gosnold's colony raised oats and barley
In fact, right here in Boston we raised
beans as early as 1902. and forty-twg
years afterward they had the concei
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
JOKES BY COLLEGE MEN.
Some of Them Arc Handed Down
From Gcnerntion 10 Generation.

Some of Them Arc Handed Down
From Generntion 10 Generation.
There are some college jeux d'esprit
which time and the absence of their
own sustaining atmosphere have not
wholly desiccated. says William Math-
ews in the Saturday Evening Post-as,
for example the reply Of senior,
whose class was studying mental phi
losophy. when asked. Does an effect
ever so before causcT' Yes. sir;
sometimes" Give an example" "a
man wheeling barrow" That student
would certainly have distinguished him
self at special pleading if he had be-
come q lawyer who when asked by his
professor one Monday morning If he
had attended church the day before
replied, Yves. sir; attended the First
church" and TO the question, Are you
not aware, sir, that there was no serv-
ice at the First church yesterdayT re-
piled, Il meant. professor, the first
church came to-
We doubt if Tom Hood or Horace
Smith, quick witicd as they were, could
have made a happier reply than that
made by a wit in Waterviiie college
now Colby Of the class Of '45 to Pro
fessor Martin b. Anderson, afterward
the famed president of Rochester uni
vcrsity. One morning lie read in the
classroom a sparkling essay, and the
professor, knowing or suspecting it TO
have been cribbed from some public
print, asked as the reader sat down,
rs that essay original, Mr. Jones?"
"Why, yes, siIss' said Jones with imper-
turbable coolness and that pasteboard
look which he always wore, Il suppose
it is. 1t had original over it in the
newspaper ! took it FROM"
1t was Brown university student
who had the front to ask Professor
Caswen whether his name would not be
as well without the c.
1t was a Brown graduate who at the
age of sixty led to the hymeneal altar a
bride Of twenty-five and who, being
asked by a college classmate how he
contrived at his frosty time Of life to
win the affections of so young woman.
replied: "Oh, II was easy enough.
just addressed to her two lines of poe
try. l wrote:
"If love is fame that is kindied by FIRE.
Then an old stick Is best because tbs
drier
II was q Harvard student who many
years ago had the courage at the sud
den apparition of Professor p. at a
bonfire which the youth with other stu
dents had kindlcd in the college yard
10 stand end confront him when, as in
the case Of Casabianca on the burning
deck, "all but him had He'd" Il am
surprised. Thomson, to find you in such
company exclaimed the professor. 81
see nobody here but you and me, pro-
fessor," was the reply.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31

The Philadelphia hospital is about to
erect a number OF pavilions of steel and
glass for tuberculosis patients. Under
improved methods of treatment It has
been demonstrated that the dread dis
ease is curable. Life here in Delaware
should be held as sacred as elsewhere;
therefore why should we fail to pro-
vide for the treatment of these unfor-
Inmates?
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to work, incompetent or disabled. Thus
in the chief industrial state OF the
Union we see that practically the
whole laboring element is employee
at wages higher than ever before.
The average increase OF wages holds
throughout the country notwithstand-
ing the eight hour system which has
been adopted in many places. AT no
time in the history Of the country have
there been such sums on deposit in
the savings banks, and with the set
tlement Of the strike in the anthracite
regions, we shall enter the new year
with peace between labor and capital.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

Mrs. Marilla B. Ingalls,, who went TO
Burma as a missionary in 1851 has just
died at Thonzze.
Bishop Po.ter's daughters have pre-
scnted a stone bishops chair to Grace
Church, New York city.
Miss Marie Wieck, the court pianist
and sister-in-law of Robert Schumann.
the composer, has just celebrated her
seventeen birthday in Dresden.
The statue of Bishop Phillips Brooks
which is to stand in the angle formed
by the chapel and 10th transept Of
Trinity Church, Boston, is nearly COM
pleted.
lDoane Robinson, secretary of the
South Dakota Historical Society, is to
write a two-v0lume history OF that
State. the work to he completed in
July, 1904.
The cost of the twelfth census is now
figured out to have been Sl2,S5 S54,S1S,and
It is further added that this is an aver
age OF 151s cents per capita in the
United States.
For two years the slaughter of COWS,
heifers and calves for sale IS meat is
prohibited in the Transvaal under
penalty Of a $50 fine or six months
Imprisonment
The library given to Derby, Conn,
| by Colonel and Mrs. II. Ho,ton Wood,
of Boston. in memory of their son who
died in Derby in 1897, has just been
dedicated.
The Rev. Henry Handel has re
ceived the honorary appointment OF
fire chaplain, a newly created Office in
brooklyn His duty is to minister tC
sick and injured firemen.
Samuel Smiles. the author, has just
lcelebrated his ninedeth birthday He is
still in fair health and manifests con
siderable interest in current politics
land literature.
DIR. Mary F. Tucker. of St Louis. has
been named a woman sanitary inspec
tor. She will see to the sanitary con.
} dition Of places in which are womeI
land children and win wear a star.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31

State Road Commissioner Henry l..
Budd. Of New Jersey, has sent his an
nual report to Governor Murphy, show
ing that during the past year there
have been built in New Jersey 2O1
miles of hard roads, Automobiles
and drivers can now traverse the State,
from the New York line on the north
to Atlantic City, without once leaving
macadam or gravel.
The report shows that since the State
aid law went into effect a few years ago
there have been built in New Jersey
796 miles of hard roads, toward the
cost of which the State has spent ST.
265,16S. Last year the annual appro-
priation for stone roads, or, rather, for
the States share of building such
roads, was S250,OO0. Commissioner
Budd urgently recommends that the
amount this year be increased to $780,
600, the extra $4,000 to be used in wip-
ing out the toll roads in Atlantic, Bur-
liryton and Camden counties.
New Jersey takes pride in her good
roads, and justly. Some of the boule-
ward. constructed in the northern part
of the State and along the upper coast
resorts are among the finest highways
In the country. In many of the coun.
ties the building of the stone roads hai
been carried on at the expense OF the
local governments. so that the tota
mileage of good hard roads in the
State is not less than 1000.
In commenting upon the improved
condition In the State since the adop
Evening journal., 1902-12-31

tion of the State aid law Mr. Budd
says: According to the report OF the
State Board of Taxation, real and per-
sonal property in New Jersey increased
over $4,000, 900 in 1901, and over $685.
OOO,O0 in 1902. These figures show
that the State is not suffering in the
least by its liberal contributions.
In addition to the POI miles COM
struoted during the year, there are 67
miles nearing completion. the total
cost of which is s262.62 and specihca-
tions have been drawn fer SO addition
al miles, to ccst S476. .664. Under the
State aid law. the State contributes
one-third of the cost of the building OF
the roads. The Counties OF Atlantic,
Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape
Nav. Essex, Gloucester Mercer, Mid
dlesex. Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Pas
sale. Salem. Somerset, Union and War
ren, were benefciaries this year under
the act. Work in many of the counties
was greatly delayed because OF the
heavy storms in the early spring Ad-
ded to the storms. came the coal strike,
making it impossible to operate the
crushers, so that the macadam or
/ crushed stone was not available IN
many quarters.
Visitors TO Atlantic City will be glad
to note the great improvement Of roads
in that vicinity. The report states
that tn construction of the Atlantic
City and Pleasantville Boulevard, COM
Meeting the city which is on AIbsecon
Island, with the mainland, the contrac;
lrrlce Of which is $4,000, is under way
as is also the Absecon and Chestnut
Neck Road, eleven miles long connect
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
Admirals Of the Teeth

There are dentists in the navy now
and they are rated as geomen. They
feel the need Of more rank and pay and
the National Dental Association has
interested itself in helping them TO get
it. The House COMMITTEES on Naval
Affairs heard a number of leading dem
lists discourse on the subject on De-
cember 13, and they were doubtless
able to make out a good case for their
cause. The navy dentists will prob
ably not demand to be put in the line Of
promotion to be admirals, for their
training does not qualify them for
such a place. If they reach some such
footing as that of the surgeons and
chaplains that will doubtless satisfy
them, and their pretensions to that
much of advancement are not unreason-
able. Their profession is coming up.
In the matter of ability to collect pecu-
MARY rewards for the exercise of their
skill the leading dentists in large cities
arc not much behind the surgeons. No
single thing tends more to help man S
social standing than the ability TO draw
high pay for respectable work. This
the modern dentist can do. Moreover,
his education Is more careful and his
professional training more protracted
and complete than it used to be. Only
last week DR.. Lorens was quoted as re-
minding some newspaper men that
surgery. like dentistry. is almost al
together technique" The dentist is
coming up in the world as the doctor
L. -
fast that he viii probably resent as inn
pertinent any suggestion that he has
not yet altogether arrived. In time the
navy dentist is likely to get what he
wants. and to be in position to cOndole
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
HOW 1T STANDS

The special election in the Ninth dis
trlct OF Kent passed on smoothly yes
terday, the Union Republican candl-
date for the Legislature winning by q
plurality OF nearly 200. Only the ax-
tent Of the victory caused surprise. The
vote In November was a tie, and nearly
100 persons must have changed their
minds. The people OF that community
are evidently amenable to reason, and
open &c persuasion.
The election OF Mr.. Powell from that
district determines the complexion Of
the Legislature aside from the contests.
In our opinion these will amount to
nothing, and we think it is safe to say
that the Senate will be composed OF;
Democrats. z; Republicans, 81 Union
Republicans, 7. The House win stand
as follows: Democrats. H. Republi-
cans. 6; Union. Republicans. IS. On joint
ballot there will be 21 Democrats, .
Republicans and % Union Republicans.
It win be- seen by this that Kenney
and Salisbury are six votes short Of an
election, while Addcks lacks FIVE.
This precludes the election Of amy
one of the candidates named. though
there should not be that overconfidence
which will allow members to be absont.
There should be a full attendance every
day, thus making 1t necessary for any
party to muster twenty-seyen votes to
elect.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
DURING YEAR NEW JERSEY HAS
BUILT 200 MILES OF HARD ROAD

ing Atlantic City with the famous
Burlington County system. The Ham
monitor and Pleasant Mills Road, has
been completed as we'll as the Pleasant
Vile and Mays Landing road, twenty
miles long. Many other roads, accord
ing to the report, are contemplated in
Atlantic county. ''Those improved
and under contract" says Commission
er Budd, "will give Atlantic City, with
the completion of the boulevard across
the meadows, a continuous line OF
seventy-fve miles of Incompatible
roads for automobiling and carriage
driving, where before travellers were
forced to wade through heavy beds Of
sand"
Burlington county maintains the re-
cord, not only in South Jersey, but
over the entire State, for building all
the roads that the State law win allow.
During the year she added nineteen
miles to her system, making total Of
l41 miles improved in the county un-
der the provisions of the State aid law.
Camden county built nine and half
miles OF road during the year. Cape
May county during the year completed
fifteen miles and has contracted TO
build a road across the meadows 10
wildwood. Gloucester continues to
add to her mileage this year building
upwards of thirteen miles Of improved
roads. Ocean county is building dts
first road, under the State aid law. a
boulevard, seven miles long, from
Lakewood to Point Pleasant Salem
county constructed seven miles during
the year. while Mercer county built
eighteen and Passaic county fifteen
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
Moral and Physical Benefits
lm the New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial.
We quite agree with our New York
contemporary, the Press. in the high
value that it places on the example set
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
in the attitude that it assumed at the
outset and maintained throughout the
long hCld-up OF its tunnel franchise. Its
slogan, says the Press. was millions
for interest and anything you please.
but not a cent for blackmaili"
On top OF the direct loss of 81 900 q
day that the company has suffered are
incidental losses. the extent cf which
can never be computed; but the great
gain lies In the reputation for firmness
and incorruptibility that the company
has won, and IN the far-reaching influ-
ence that successful fight OF that sort
must inevitably have
"1he truth must be recognized" says
the Press. "that railroads and other APP
plicants for public privileges have not
always chosen to press their requests
along lines OF greatest resistance. as in
this striking case, but have found the
other way, frequently easier and (fOr
the original cost less expansive"
So our contemporary concludes that
not the least OF the many public bene-
fits conferred in the winning Of the tun-
net fight is the partial paralysis of or
ganized and individual official black
mail which has been accomplished by
ine Pennsylvania through its success
full appeal to the honor, the conscience,
and the civic patriotism of the COM
We are inclined TO go bit farther
The moral value of the Pennsylvania's
example. will, in the end, prove TO be
greater than any of the physical ones
that the construction and operation Of
It's tunnel can possibly confer.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
The Woman ana the window.


Why is It. asks an exchange, that
woman can struggle until she is red in
the face and worn out both in temper
and body by a window in a railroad
train in her vain endeavors to close or
open It when all that man has TO do
is to walk up and go over exactly the
same line Of action that she has already
exhausted. ard down comes the refrac-
tory window in a jiffy? 1t is a most
humiliating fact. but a very true one,
nevertheless. that not five women out
of a dozen ever succeed in arranging u
window TO their satisfaction. They
pull and tug until they are embarrassed
and finally in pleading manner look
around at some slip of man, who
without any nonsense brings about the
desired effect. while the woman looks
on in silent wonder at his marvellous
skill and dexterity.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
LAnoR is PRosPERous

Frequently we cad statements from
those who delight in fomenting dis
cord among the laboring classes TO the
effect that while prices for labor have
remained stationary, the cost of living
has materially increased. The last
part Of the proposition cannot be ques-
toned. although the increase in the
cost OF necessities has not been to the
extent that we are wont to imagine.
But never was labor more generally
employed or at more remunerativ'
gsrases - Take New York for example
s9Sass strest and nd tv Commissioner says
now or formerlof wages is higher
feet TO n point
OF Fourteenfh It the history OF th'
therebv westeriuo NOR oent ce ~.
teen feet n thro pei cent u 'h'
the contents therlafiOn is unem.
Seized and TAX
property ~ Maforly this Is com
ro~hrnn. his wife. A.. ot+hor .,,a~s
and 10 be sosd by e'u'oi "'~'s'
SAMUEL A. M
Shcrn's Ofice WI
December H. 1902.
Evening journal., 1902-12-31
COUNTY OFFICERS WILL TAKE
PLACES IN COURT HOUSE ROW.

The county officers elected o. No
yember 4 will assume their duties to-
morrow morning. They are all we'll
known to the people OF Wilmington
Brief sketches Of the new officials fol-
low:
James P. Moore
James p. Moore. the new recorder OF
deeds, was born in White Clay Creel,
hundred, near Newark. in 1859. on a
farm, where his father, grandfather and
great grandfather had lived before
him. The farm has been in the fam
lily since 1882. He attended the public
school in Newark, but at the age of 12
years removed to this city and finished
his education in the public schools here
When ne was Is years Of age Mr..
Moore went into the auction business
In Fourth street. in which business he
remained for four years. On March 1.
1881, he went with J. r. Mullin & Sons,
the clothiers. where he remained as a
salesman until last Saturday. In this
business he met a large number OF per-
sons and made many friends. He is
one Of the most popular of the new
county officers.
Mr.. Moore took an active part in
politics for a number of years, and
was a hard worken He is a member
OF the Masons, Red Men. Odd Fellows
and A. o. U. w lodges. He lives at
No. $40 Van Buren street
Evening journal., 1902-12-31

with the navy chaplain upon the in
adequacy of his pay and uniform
Harper's Weekly.
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Roses AS Nerve Cure
It has been discovered, says the Lon
don Express. that the rose will cure a
headache. It's perfume acts as medi-
cine upon the nerves. It's color, par
ticularly if deep red ,soothes the senses
through the eyes, and its cleanliness
and medicinal properties generally act
upou tho system not only as. curative,
but as a tonic.
The sweeter the rose is the better, for
the sweetness of this flower rs Of such
peculiar delicacy tnat 1t neither clogs
upon the nostrils nor pals upon the
senses. Other flowers with heavy scent
make one languid. But the rose is in
vlgorating and It rs known now that
the concentrated rose-that is, the nat
ural smell as obtained from roses in
great quantities-will certainly act
upon the person as though he or she
had been famed by a breeze.
The rose curist asserts that If the
scent is inhaled directly from the very
heart Of the flower it is more beneficial
to the patient than though it were in
hailed at long distance through an es-
scnce or an extract. There are differ
ent ways of administering the rose
medicine. The patient can make pill
low of roses; ca this she should lay
her head. taking care that half dozen
Of the blooms are so arranged that they
point toward the face In this attitude
her nose and mouth are buried in theil
sweetness. The idea is TO go to sleeT
on bed of roses; when you wake NJ
your headache will be cured.
The best rose is the garden rose, as
&c retains its red-rose scent without