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Evening journal., 1902-08-21

for political control under circum-
stances that seemed most inauspicious.
The Democrats numbered every MEM
Der of the Legislature and Addicks
who had a residence just inside the
State. was hardly known to any one.
In few years he gained control OF the
party machinery, but has so far been
unable to reach that goal OF his ambi-
ton. the United States Senate.
II is pertinent to remark that Della
ware has had no more political rows
than Pennsylvania The difference is
that in our neighboring Common
wealth, disputes are frequently COM
promised hy giving the machine what
it asks. and making it a present OF
something more. Here in Delaware
we have a way OF fighting to the last
ditch when a principle is at stake. and,
fortunately. we have men who do not
consider it their duty to yield to an
organization that has bought its power,
Just as stocks, groceries or cattle are
bought
But we wish to call the attention Of
our great contemporary to the fact
that Delaware has had no family rows
she could not settle If left TO herself;
and the prime cause of the present
difficulty is the injection OF a foreign
element-an element that we owe to
Pennsylvania. That State made our
factional differences possible when she
contributed Addicks. lie is yet more
OF a Pennsylvania than a Delawarean,
and the only thing that allows him to
remain a factor in our politics is a
house just over the border which he
occupies just enough to give him a
legal residence.
We wish to do Pennsylvania Justice
however, and with that object in view
We must add that while she gave Ad-
dicks birth, yet he has been a citizen
|of the world. as much identified with
Boston and New York as with Penn
sylvania or Delaware. But truth de-
mands the statement that Pennsyl-
vania gave birth to Addicks; she nur-
tured him to manhood and in her do
main he formed the character he pos
.sesses. When all was ready, she con-
tributed him to Delaware, and we
haven't even thanked herl
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reciprocity treaties leave the general
policy Of protection without injury
but waive II in the instances when II
is to our interests to do so. In other
words. 1t is held that there is no oc-
casion for letting down the tarin bars
that protect MS against those countries
which offer us no inducements for re-
laxing our policy.
The platform calls for an adjustment
of tariff schedules from time to time
as changes in our industrial and COM
mercial world may warrant This
means that the Republican party never
insisted that any revenue law was in
spired, and so nearly perfect that its
schedules could not be adjusted to the
conditions of the time No tariff law
ever proved equitable and satisfactory
in every detail, and there is a recogni-
tion in the platform of a general SEN
timent that certain tariff schedules
should be adjusted. The Republican
party is not pledged to any policy
which It is not willing to modify in ac-
cordance with existing needs, but it
proposes to adjust tariff schedules in
such a manner that our industries shall
not be paralized and ourn commerce
destroyed.
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AN AWFUL TRAGEDY

All Wilmington was shocked yester-
day at the terrible tragedy which oc-
CURED with moments warning, and
which snufred out many lives and left
others manned or dying. The employees
of this paper, which was the first TO
give the particulars of the awful ca
lamity TO our citizens, were kept busy
answering the calls from anxious
friends. and the reception OF that news
in many cases revealed the identity of
the bereaved. In a moment many
widows and orphans We're made, and
years of suffering entailed on those
who by the accident are left helpless.
The elements sometimes play
pranks with human beings, occasion
ally wiping out cities with fire or flood
And likewise the engines which have
been constructed by men for the pur-
pose of harnessing the elements, show
human fallability. Occasionally a great
steamer goes down, a fire-proof build
ing is destroyed. and a boiler explodes,
Notwithstanding every precaution in
their construction and management
Vigilance must not be relaxed for a
moment in the effort to reduce acci-
dents to the minimum. yet as long as
the factor of human intelligence, which
is fallible. enters into the problem,
mistakes will occur and some catastro-
phe result
II anyone is at fault. If there has
been carelessness. it will doubtless be
known. but at this moment our atten-
tion is directed to searching for the
dead. binding up the wounds of the
suffering, comforting. as far as men
may comfort, the widows and orphans,
and later on the burden of caring for
them must not be forgotten. No words
can picture what such tragedy means
TO those who have had fathers, hus-
bands or brothers taken from them il
an instant There were scenes TO,
heart-rending for description, but the
worst, possibly, is to follow. These ac
cidents frequently mean destituuon, al
the average worSingman with a fam
lily finds that when the actual needs are
provided for. little remains. There il
no provision for a rainy day, and want
makes its presence known Immediately
Under such circumstance the depth o
human sympathy is stirred.
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Queer Orders

A Washington boy. son of a we'll
known official of the district govern
ment, is home for a brief visit from his
station at Columbus barracks Ohio
he being a second lieutenant in the
United States Army. A large number
of recruits are being clicked into
shape" at Columbus barracks, and the
young officer has a store Of amusing
anecdotes relating to the rockies" "
One of the recruits was walking posi-
as a sentinel when he was approached
by the officer OF the day and asked t.
repeat his instructions. The reply was.
walk this post. keeping always or
the alert, and don't let any dis-re-pute
able people in, except officers wives
and families.
Another sentinel, in reciting his in
structions. said:
Il must not let any children go out
side the post alone. unless accom-
panied by their mothers or nurses"
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proper that they should be recognized
by a denomination, as worthy of further
honors.
The Union Republican State Con-
vention will make a serious mistake if
it should fail to endorse the ticket
named yesterday. There is nothing
against the personal integrity OF either
Of the candidates They are the same
men they were two years ago, and IL
they were entitled to the support of all
Republicans, then they are certainly
entitled to their support this year.
The platform adopted Tuesday was
in line with the Republican principles
enunciated everywhere, and it will be
taken as expressing the views of all
thoughtful Republicans. There is a
recognition of the admirable stand
taken by President Roosevelt in respect
to Cuba; protection is declared as yet
lthe policy of the Republican party, but
the Mckinley idea of reciprocity is ac-
cepted as a party principle; the Presi-
dents administration is endorsed, and
the Government in commended for its
Intelligent and successful work in the
Philippines. In addition. State and Fed
eral legislation in respect to certain
trusts is called for. State issues are
touched upon in a general way, but the
most important demand is for a regis
tration of voters without the payment
of fee, and good roads are asked for.
Altogether, the convention did its work
well, and it ought to be an assurance
Of a substantial Republican victory in
November
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OLDFIELD GRIEVES WITH ABBOTT;
HE THINKS THE ADDICKS JIG is UP

has a purity good voice, and the conven-
ton had him try hit, to see If he would
do. but hit was like muskeeter to a
fog-horn when compared to the voice
of Senator Abbott.
"Oh let me seek some lonely cave
And there to weap and pine,
/ never moar shall hear that voice
Excuse these drops of brinel"
But, Lauray., the Senator weren't the
only man to feel the heel of .he op-
presser a-grindin' his neck. Bob"
Downs was relieved from the cares of
offs at the saim time. HES reel sad.
POb brought along a Mise hrass band,
and they played the most Iouchin airs,
but when the convention got down to
business, Bob adjurned siny die. He
forgot to say enything to them band
fellers so they KEEP playin' rite on.
found Bob up in his room in the coun-
ty buildin', and / told him his band
was still playin'. "Oh, dad fetch tho
bandl" says he. Just then they struck
up Hail to the Chief and Bob went
in the closet and got out his shotgun,
but l restrained him.
Well. them blamed Reglers nommy-
mated Docktor Ball, and they aint no
words in the langpidge to express our
feelins. Frank Alice has took to GUS
sin in Russian, cause he says hit ex-
presses mOar. haint said much
cause / don't make much noise when
in pane.
Frank says he had rather see Handy
in Congress a-votin' for free silver and
chasin rainbOws, than to see Docktor
Ball there a-helpin' President ROOse-
welt 1 don't wonder Frank is mad,
cause Docktor Ball said that he guessed
he could attend to the patronage as he
had been requested to do so by the
President l guess I'm shut out of the
post offs for good now. and they amt
much show for me, for everything is
under sivil servis and that's too much
for me. But I'm tryin' to keep a stout
hart, Lauray.
! want to send little 81. up to his
aunt's in Pennsylvanny He's a
learnin' too much, and do want him to
.respec' his old daddy. He caint do hit
if he stays hear and keeps a watchin'
me. Send him away, Lauray, and see
that he don't get any of the hoam
papers.
Your despondent husband,
Silas Oldfeld.
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Hale of the locusis

Scientists in general. and bugolo-
gists in particular, are as much in a
as to what the seventeen-year
loousts do with the earth they neces-
sarily displace in making their exits
as the ordinary run of the people" ex-
planned an Agricultural Department
official to a Washington Star reporter.
"All that is positively known is that
the locust emerges from tho ground
and leaves a hole to mark the particu-
lar place. These holes are all the way
from six to ten feet deep. and are
nearly a third of an inch in diameter
There are from two TO three pints oi
earth. which, of course. has TO so some
where. OF course, as the locust had
number Of years to do the work, ant
nothing to do but work, the job is al
ways pretty well done. Certain it l.
that the hole is a clean-cut affair ans
very nicely done. There Is 10 sign O
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PIE NsYLvANIA's GIFT

The Philadelphia Inquirer. in COM
menting on the Republican quarrel in
Delaware. is inclined to give it up in
disgust, concluding that there is some
thing in our nature which inclines us
to a row whenever such is possible 1t
says:
Among the forty-ive Common
wealths which make up this Union
Delaware is nearly the smallest in size
and one Of the smallest in population
but IL has furnished all sorts of ma
terial for political excitement out OF
proportion TO its size. The memory ol
man goeth not contrary to the tim,
when Delawareans were not iightinl
for the lOaves and fishes. IL was tn,
last of the old Federal States TO bow
to the inevitable change in politica
conditions. 1t long adhered TO tn
whig party when its voice in part,
loOuncils was potent
In the reaction which came after tn
compromises of 1850 it ranged along
side the Democracy. though 1t had tn
= least to lose in the abolition of slavery
= The Bayards and Saulsburys ruled tn
State for generations and so intens
was the internal strife that at one tim
three brothers contended for the Unite
States sepatorship.
Il is fifteen years since John Edwal
e Addicks projected himself into conte
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Mountains Always MOvIng

Mountains Always MOVING
'The mountains are constantly NOV
ing" was the remark of an officer of
the Denver and Rio Grande road re-
Gently, in speaking of the great land
slides in the canyon above Glenwood
Springs. Col. 1--WE find from actual
experience in maintaining tunnels,
bridges and tracks in the mountains
that the mountains are moving. 1t costs
railway passing through the noun
tains a great deal of money in the
course of ten years to keep the tracks
in line, and maintenance Of tunnels is
even more expensive. Drive a stake
on the side of a mountain, take the
location with the greatest care and re-
turn after a few months. The stake IS
not in the same location. The whole
side Of the mountain has moved. The
experiment has often been tried, and
experiment has often been tried, and in
all cases the result proves that the
mountains are moving. The mountains
are gradually seeking the level of the
sea-"
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SHOULD BE ELECfED

The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
has the follwing to say regarding the
ticket nominated by the Regular Re
Dublicans of Delaware, and The neces-
sity of it's election:
AT present DIR. Ball is the sole repre-
sentative of the State in Congress, the
two seats in the Senate to which Della
ware is entitled being kept vacant by
the insane belief of Addicks, the Gas
man. that he is qualified to fiji one of
them. and his determination to keep
both of them vacant so long as this
mad ambition ON his part is not graft
fed. Dr. Ball. single-handed and alone,
has been maintaining the dignity of
the State at Washington, disCharging
his duties with fidelity and efficiency.
Two years ago, he was elected to the
House by a majority of 5000, and he
will be reelected in November, unless
the Gasman should carry Outh threat
to defeat him bcause he will not help
Addicks to secure a seat in the Senate
If the Democrats should elect their
candidate to the lower branch OF the
next Congress, it will be directly
chargeable to Addicks' determination
to subordinate all the interests of the
State and Of the Republican party 10
his own selfish, factional ends The
loss of the seat in the House in the
next Congress might be doubly disas-
trous; for. in case of a failure to elect
President of the United States by the
popular vote, the election would be
thrown into the House, and the vote of
l 4 III. 81
cratic candidate. without regard to the
wishes of the majority Of the people OF
the State
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THE TARIFF PLANK

Upon the question OF the tariff, and
the kindred subject, reciprocity, the ut
terances of the Republican convention
are SOUND and conservative, and in
keeping with the historical policy Of
the party at large. The policy Of pro
lection has developed the industries Of
this country to an extent that would be
regarded as marvellous in any other
country We have grown accustomed
to it, and regard it as a matter OF
course. The idea was attractive in the
beginning for the reason that there
was a natural sentiment against i'm
porting articles that could be produced
here. but we have outgrown the de
mands Of the home market, and arr
invading the markets Of the world. 1
this has not been due to protectiv
tariff. then at least it may be said tha
the tariff has not interfered with on
industrial development. since our com
mercial prosperity and the protectv
doctrine have been co-incident
For the last decade the reciprocit
idea has been growing, and is now r.
garded. in the language OF the pla
form. as the complement Of prote
ton" The Democrats profess to b.
lieve that this is a skllful way Of lie
sening the disastrous effects of hig
tariff. and that it means free trade
spots. This is false idea, since Il
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HYphen and Parenthesis

A certain man in certain town,
Who bore the good old name of Brown,
Had often, so his cronies said,
In his foolish days, while still un-
wed),
That she to whom he might be mated
Should never use the hyphenated
Style of name, thus written down.
Mrs. Mary Soandso-Brown."
But fate is tickle and contrary;
He wed a woman literary,
And now, to his disgust and shame,
In print each day he sees his name
Reduced 20 something less than
naught,
And lugged in like an afterthought,
In a style his very soul to sadden,
By Eva Edith (Brown) McFadden. d
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Miniature Holland

The striking thing about Holland is
that everything except the old parish
churches, the town halls, the dikes and
the trees is in miniature The cities
are not wide. and one can go from the
most northern point in the country to
the most southern, or from the ex-
treme west to the extreme east, in a
single day. and. if it be a summer day,
in daylight, while from the top Of the
tower of the cathedral at Utrechs one
can look over a large part of the coun-
try. The Hague and Rotterdam are only
sixteen miles apart, and The Hague
and Amsterdam only forty miles. Arm
hem and The Hague are the two most
cospospclitan cities in the kingdom
and one meets in the streets all sorts
and conditions of Netherlanders.-- .--Bcs-
ton Transcript.
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Stories From Here and There

lrefuse outside of the hole. The gen.
eral theory is that the earth has been
compressed. on the principle involved
in driving a stake or rod into the
ground, which leaves the hole when it
is drawn out of the ground. But there
is somewhat Of a difference between
driving a stake down into the ground
and driving one up. II the latter case
there is an enormous weight for the
insect. which can work only by hump
ing up its back, though it seems to sue
ceed in doing it. There was quite an
animated discussion on this same ques-
ton on the occasion of the last vista
ton of the locust. but there was no set
Element of it,"
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Marshall Field. of Chicago, is head
ing a movement to colonize the num-
berless abandoned farms of New Eng
land with farmers and mechanics from
the Old World. Several railroads are
also interested in the project
"a farmer who lived near Topeka
Was an ardent political speaker;
But he once paused to dig
And the crops were so big
That his ire became weaker and
weaker.
Lilly Langtry will visit Nevada some
time this year. to look after the de-
velopment of valuable mining property
she Owns there. She is said to own
one of the richest gold lodges ever
found in the West.
''This new luminous paint is a splen-
did inventionl" declared the fond young
papa.
"How so?' asked Mr.. Newleywcd.
why, you just paint the baby S face
with it and you can see to give him his
bottle without lighting the gasl"
Baron YanOsuka Iwasah, the richest
merchant of Japan, has started on a
trip around the world. He is now on
his way TO Europe and will spend a
few months there before coming to
America.
IF there are two things | hate they
are cats and alarm clocks"
Sure; but it's a nice combination
If You can manage to hit the one with
the other"
Thomas Garland, OF New York, is
the sole survivor of the sidewheel
steamship Arctic, which went down
with 500 persons in 1850, off Cape Race
He is SS years old.
Sir Ernest Cassell, whom Lord Sails
bury is said to have declined to mak'
a peer, though urgently requested b.
King Edward to do so, has given large
ly to charity, especially to aid in medi
cal investigations He is a self-mad
man. having advanced from clerk L
a high position in finance. He had ;
good deal to do with the late Baron d
Hirsch and found the connection quit
profitable.
It is not generally known that on as
cending the throne King Edward be
came guardian of his grandchildren
the parents rights being superseded
This arrangement was established b
law 200 years ago, and the right wa
i frequently exercised by the Georges
who had a way of quarreling with thei
sons. NO member of the Royal famil
may marry without the Kings con
! sent; otherwise the marriage is voiC
I The act governing this matter wa
passed at the instigatiOn of George II
in consequence of his brothers marry
. ing subjects.
3 "Are you the best man at Brown
e wedding?"
a mo; / attend as guilty bystander"
What do you mean?"
T Il introduced Brown to the bride la
r lsummer."
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Aguinaloo's S Opportunity
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Rumor of visit by Aguinaldo to the
United States inspire the hope that the
Congressional campaign will take on
an element of interest sufficient to
keep it from falling into a state of
utter stupidity Unless the scandalous
report be unfortunately true that the
Democratic leaders have decided to
let the opposition remain unchallenged
in possession of the House, the OppOr-
tunity of putting Aguinaldo on the
stump should be attractive to the anti
imperialists. The Filipino George
Washington" since his capture has fire.
quently expressed his regret that he
ever bore arms against the United
States. but it would not be a painful
operation for the distinguished op-
portunist TO recant He could alter his
views quite as readily as he sold out
a revolution to Spain, and as soon as
he masters the English he could pro-
duce as fine a line of anti-imperialistic
argument as ever Wellington or Car
mack or Patterson or Charles Francis
Adams dared to invent.
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Gas Works. AUG. 20. 19O2.

GaS WORKS, aug. ~, l9Oz.
My dear Lauray:
ain t a-feelin' rite peart and hit
seams to me that the bottom has sort
o. dropped out of things. l sometimes
set and wonder what would happen if
they wasn't no Mister Addicks. Spose
we should haf to say with the poet:
Our cup was filled
Chuck to the brim,
Because the angels
Come for him.
What would / do then? and what
would a lot of uther grafters do who
air in the saim boat? But, Lauray there
is some men that is dead to the world
befoar they air called hence to enjoy
the reward of the richous,and hit really
looks as though our deer friend, and
benny factor is goin' into a decline.
Me and Senator Abbott had long
talk about hit the uther mite, and hit
was reely pitiful to see the way the
CRATE man sobbed and took on. Hit
shuck the glasses off of the bar, and
they presented the bill to us, but we
indorsed hit over to Mister Addicks,
cause he were the subtle of our great.
Hit is certinly hard on the Senator,
but hits a darned site wors for the
Stait. Who will fight for the farmers
agin the Pennsylvanny ralerode? Who
will champion local option now? Echo
ansers 'who?" I'm glad, though that
the Senator maid the fite; menny a
hoam in Milford is richer for hit. Them
hotels has done a rushin' bisness ever
sence. though l do hear the grocers
and bakers hain't felt no effects.
why" said the fallen noble, Mis-
ter AdGicks promised hit to me. I told
him tne people was agin me, and he
LATED and said: "Dern the people!"
and hear | am left on the beach at low
tied" Hit was certinly pitiful to hear
him take on l told hfp that the old
man had done his best, and had got
licked. and the senator said through
his teers: That's what makes hit so
dreadful. The old man is on the rum"
don't think l shall go down to heer
'em vote for Mister Addicks next win
ter. Hit will be sad not to hear the
great voice of Senator Abott ringin'
through the lobby as he shouts the
naim of John Edward Addicks," on
role-call. They do say that Al. Conner
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Thlng. wnshlneton Never Saw.

1t is hard to make It seem true that
Washington, Jefferson. Franklin and
the fathers Of the republic never saw
railroad or a telegraph line or a sewing
machine or photograph or typewit-
er or a rubber band or shoe or piano
or a stem winding watch or cyclope-
dia or a dictionary or a chrome or a
steel engraving or a friction match or
heating stove or n furnace CT gas or
or an electric light or fire engine or a
thousand and one other things COM
mon to every one today.-Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph