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Evening journal., 1902-06-30

and already a figure in the community.
It is a question whether in certain
lines we are not carrying the process
of education too far. There is little
doubt that young men are encouraged
to struggle and to endure all sorts Of
privations in order to enter a profess
sion. for which their talents may not
fit them: which means that after all
their years of self-sacrihce, they can
attain no measure OF success. Many
man of thirty. possessing average abil-
ity, is yet struggling for a mere foot
hold.
It is said that nowhere on this con-
tinent is the average OF education high
er than in the province Of Ontario
Canada. There almost every farmers
son takes a college education. The
professions are so crowded that starv-
ing doctors and lawyers are quite COM
mon. while we are told that Il is diff
cult 10 get men to work the farms and
W hoiAoA ih RNhNl A'NNnohi1 idpols
There is something wrong in a system
Of education which produces this re-
suit Perhaps the remedy has already
been found in the multiplication OF
the departments in our institutions Of
earning. There are now many
Jrancnes OF science and engineering
which may be pursued. But to remedy
the existing condition, a healthy pub
tic sentiment is necessary. There has
Deen an idea that the professions call
ing only for brains are the most gen
tlemanly, and TO be a lawyer or a
doctor is supposed to carry a distinc-
tion. Slowly we are 7eaching the con-
clusion that man tho conducts a
farm. builds a bridge. pr manages a
store and does 1t well, ~ as much en-
titled to respect as anyone else Il
needs an application of the true doc
trine of democracy, and we need to
know that there is no aristomacy Of
learning
Evening journal., 1902-06-30

Wilmingtons celebration of this
Fourth of July, the 126th, anniversary
OF the birth of the independence of
the United States, will be as wide
Spread and perhaps noisier than ever.
Since the day this year comes on Fri
day, the next day, Saturday, will be
made a whole holiday by those estab-
lishments which have made the SUM
mer Saturday a half holiday.
Commencing today, dealers in pyro-
technics began selling many dollars
worth of the explosives. They should
bear in mind that there is an ordi-
nance prohibiting the sale OF high-class
dynamite fireworks, and as it is a very
proper ordinance it should be OBJ
served. The proper celebration OF the
day is not objected to by any reason
able person, but the injudicious sale OF
high-class explosives to the danger Of
unthinking children is wrong, and
very properly is in violation of law.
ihe police have been given orders to
arrest all persons exploding such fire
works. or firearms.
But notwithstanding the edict OF the
city authorities, the firecrackers and
fireworks this year are bigger and
more elaborate than ever. The biggest
cracker stands three feet high and is
eighteen inches in circumference. The
popular cracker is two inches long and
half an inch thick. Novelties like the
Mt Pelee and the loop-the-loop and
the Japanese day fireworks will have
a good sale, but the pure noise making
fireworks are most widely bought.
DuPonts Celebration
The most elaborate fireworks dis
play will be given in the grounds of
the Wilmington Country Club, where
the e. l. DUPONT de Nemours & Co.,
will so through a program of fifty
separate features, beginning with the
firing of 100 fifteen-inch bombs in
honor OF the one hundredth anniver-
sary Of the establishment OF the busi-
ness.
Another elaborate display will be by
the Wilmington Heights Association
and still another at Brandywine
Springs. The private celebrations also
are expected to be larger than ever
Making the "Celebraters
The makers Of the fireworks and the
dealers in them are so busy Just now
that they hardly have time TO eat and
sleep. Before daybreak they are up
and at work. and long after dark they
are still working. And this tension
will continue with them until the after
noon of the Fourth. Then they will
begin to live again like civilized
human beings.
There are not any actual novelties in
fireworks this year, though he would
think so who should chance to visit a
big wnoiesale house. For there are a
hundred rare and costly types of these
explosives that are rarely seen except
in the gardens of millionaires and in
the Independence Day displays that
city governments give-bombs that
cost S25 apiece, frecrackers as big as
Gatling guns, and balloon pieces i'm
ported from Japan, that are intended
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
NOT soUELCHED

The story Of the attempt 10 corrupt
q three young farmers in Dover Jail,
has been either squelched, or the
knowing ones have brought pressure
to bear upon the question. If the
story is true It should be made known
to the whole people. Such degradation
should not be- allowed to exist in our
little State. There has been much to
contend with. and there Is plenty yet
but when one is caught red-handed
Justice should be meted out.-Delaware
Ledger
The story referred to was published
by the Evening Journal more than a
week ago, and has subsequently been
republished by nearly every other
paper in Delaware There has been no
denial. but We stand ready to produce
proofs that the story is true in detail.
No fuller publicity could have been
given. and as for being 'squelched," /"
lne --dger evidently doesn't know
what It is talking about.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
ENTERING THE PROFESSIONS

AS usual with graduating classes,
vast numbers Of the young men who
have Just received diplomas from our
institutions Of learning. are to enter
the learned professions. A great pro-
portion Of them are to be lawyers, al
though it is well-lnown that that pro-
fession is crowded Then the physi-
clans viii have an increase in their
numbers. and the ranks OF the other
professions will be augmented. This
means that most of these young men
have simply left college to enter the
professional schools where they win be
students for three or four years tc
come A young man to properly pre-
pare for the bar, or to practice medi
cine. can hardly expect TO receive his
professional certificate under the ag'
Of twenty-six. and the sacrifice OF tim
and money must necessarily be yer,
great
1t often occurs that two young me-
OF average attainments leave the hig
school together; one goes on with hi
education preparatory to a profession
and the other goes into business. Whe
the first has been admitted to hi
chosen profession his means are prol
ably exhausted and he is mature
years. He now finds that to make h
way is a hard fight. and that years
selI-denial and close application a
before him ere he can get a foothol
He looks around and finds his less an
bilious friend firmly established
business with family around hil
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
A Church Lottcrv TicItet.

George Washington, says the Phil
adelphia Record, conducted the Noun
tain Road lottery, building a public
highway with the profits, and in an
anteroom of st. Peters church, at
Third and Pine streets, there hangs
in a frame OH the wall ticket from a
lottery that the church itself conduct
cd. The ticket is dated 1765 and reads:
"St. Peters Lottery. No. 11,759.
This ticket entities bearer to such
prizes as may be drawn against its
number, if demanded in nine months
after the drawing is finished, subject
to such deduction as is mentioned in
the scheme"
Ehe slip of paper is two inches
square and printed, but the signature,
which is that Of Henry Harrison, is
written. The amount of the lottery
prize, cost of the tickets ana the good
use TO which the profits were to be
put are subjects of which the verger
of st. Peters is in ignorance.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30

Regulars are firmly convinced that
whatever Union Republicans may be
chosen will stand by Addicks because
before hand it has been made their per-
sonal interest to stand by the Clay
mont man, and this makes 1t quite ap-
parent that all the Regulars have been
fighting for would be given UP IL the
Unions had the free primaries they
talk about. Ordinarily any good man
ought to be elected, but when a man
comes out boldly and declares that all
he wants is to be elected to the United
States Senate for the selfish glory OF
the Office, putting his party in a sub
ordinate place, free primaries In the
Union Republican sense become "a
delusion and a snare" The hght in
Delaware politics is not against Mr..
Addicks personally, but against the
wholesale use of money in elections,
Money will doubtless be spent always
but If rich men can come into a State
and with impunity buy their way tC
preierment openly. the whole system
of popular government falls. Mr.. Ad-
dicks should have entered politics on
his merits as a man and not by virtue
OF his money-New Castle News
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
Another Solomon. .

A horse dealer in a Scotch town
having hired horse to n solicitor, the
latter, either through bad usage or
some other cause, killed the horse,
when the dealer insisted upon pay
ment by bill if it were not convenient
to pay cash.
The lawyer had no objection TO grant
a bill, but said it must be at a long
date. The dealer told him to fix his
own time, when the man of law drew
a promissory note making it payable
on the day Of judgment.
An action was raised, when the So
licitor asked the presiding judge to
look at the bill.
Having done so, the judge replied:
''The bill is perfectly good, and as
this is the day of judgment I decree
that you pay tomorrow"
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
Preclous plcture Frnmes.

Perhaps the most valuable frame
ever made for a picture is that which
incloses "The Virgin and Child" in the
cathedral of Milan. Its size is s by
G feet and is of massive hammered
gold, with an inner molding of lapis
lazuli. The corners have hearts de-
signed in large pearls, and precious
stones are inlaid around it. 1t is said
to have been the gift Of a rich nun
merry, and its estimated value is f25,000.
One Of the pictures in the Vatican at
Rome is inclosed in frame studded
with jewels, so that the value Of the
frame nearly equals that of the pic
ture. Many continental churches have
pictures with similar frames of great
value. tr.b
Evening journal., 1902-06-30

their course is a conviction Of error.
AS we look towards the east, expecting
the sun in the morning, so we have all
faith where such a person is to be
found. These characters have insti-
tuted all the reforms in this world. or
if they have not instituted them, they
have carried them out, which is better.
They never recant, and never waver,
and as the race is to the strong, such
men always win. There is a moral
here which may be applied to social or
business life; it may even be applied
to politics.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
FLOWER FRAeRANcE.<
A Mysterious sympathy Between the
Essence and the Bloom.


Essence and the Bloom.
One Of the leading manufacturers OF
perfumery declares that he is quite GER
tain that flowers possess souls. The
fragrance of a flower is actually its
soul, and it exists when the flower it.
self has perished. This is not poet.
ical fancy, he maintains, but is fact.
Certainly the fragrance Of a flower
is not a dead thing. This seems to be
a curious statement to make. but 1t is
a fact that when certain conditions arc
fulfilled a part of the life of a flower
never seems to die.
Although the fragrance of flowers
dead years ago may have undergone all
sorts of manufacturing processes to
extract it and to fix it, yet it never
dies. When the flowers Of the kind it
was extracted from bloom, it exhibits
a marvellous sympathy.
Take, as an example, the case of jon
quils. At the end of the year the smell
of the perfume is constant but in
spring a change appears. In May.
when the jonquils are in full flower,
the colorless liquid has its scent exalt-
ed to a surprisingly high degree.
When the flowers are in bloom, the
bottled essence is very perceptibly
stronger in odor. AS the flowers droop,
so does the perfume lose its potency IN
strict agreement. This mysterious SYM
pathy between flower and essence new
er dies, but ever responds 10 the prop
er seasons.-Pearson's Weekly.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
GIVE HIM A CHANCE

The Sunday Star prints an editorial
OF some length in defense Of the
American Lighting Company, and
among other things has this to say:
II is regrettable that Judge Bradford
should have deemed it necessary to
postpone the hearing even so long as
to next Thursday. for aside from the
loss entailed on the American Lighting
Company, the damage and inconven-
fence to the city by reason of the en-
forced partial darkness far overbal-
ances any loss that might devolve ON
the complaining company oven il its
contentious are true.
We do not pretend to a sufficient
knowledge OF this case to settle it on
it's merits in advance of the full argu-
ment in court We rather incline TO
the view that newspapers should wait
and give Judge Bradford chance TO
hear the case. before proceeding to
summarily dispose of it. Judges and
courts have certain rights, you know,
and while in wisdom and in legal
learning they are inferior to Sunday
newspapers, yet the proper proceeding
is TO give them a chance to render a
decision. and then, if need be, they
may be reversed. So let Judge Brad
ford alone; he may err, but the Star
can set him straight afterwards.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
noNEsrY As A PoLICY

Here is a scintillation from the Sum
day Star:
Honesty is the best policy, according
to the notion Of the Every Evening
and the Evening Journal, except where
1t concerns municipal street lighting
and few other things.
And here is another:
Had the directors held up
the $1,000 bill of the Welsbach Com
pany until they were assured that all
suits relating to street lighting in VIII
mingtOn would be abandoned, it can
be taken for granted that the present
suit lor alleged infringement OF patent
would never have materialized. 1t was
q shrewd business move that the direc-
tors overlooked. Is it likely they would
have been so obtuse in their private
business?
We pause to inquire what sort OF
policy is shown in the latter? II the
city owed the Welsbach Company ,SS,-
900. or any other sum, it should have
been paid; If it did not, then this pay
ment should be attacked on its merits
But had the directors refused TO pay a
lust bill in order to coerce the Wells
bach Company into giving up its
rights, they would have been worthy of
our contempt And this is what the
Star would have them do.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
THE RACE TO THE STRONG


The race snotalways TO the swift, but
to the strong. and strength is not so
much the force of an instant as OF en-
durance. The truest test of character
is not what men may do in a moment,
even though the crisis be great, but
how they meet emergencies through
days, months and years without swerv-
ing from the straight path of duty
Many men battle with adverse condi-
tions for a time. and then throw up
their hands in discouragement, and
drift with the tide
All this is true in private life. in
business and in politics. In the mat
Ter of conscience there are three kinds
of men; the first always accept that
which is easiest and pleasantest, and
which offers the greater reward. Theil
appetites and their pocl1etbool1s ar,
the first things consulted. That which
administers to these becomes proper
and entitled to their support Tn,
lsecond class is composed of those who
have ideas of right and wrong. anG
are quick to deny the former and es
lpouse the latter. For a time their yea
brooks no rivalry. They are loud il
proclaiming their loyalty to principl
and give the impression that they woull
j 90 to the stake for it But they hav
5 not endurance. Constant antagonism i
, time wearies them. Then they dc
q eide TO become neutral. and the fins
s step is to go over to the enemy.
= Then there is a class OF men who's
q faith and courage grow in proportio
S TO the obstacles to be overcome. The
# 90 not choose the part OF antagonis1
e but their character aad training lea'
L them no choice. They follow the
l. convictions just as they eat the
n meals or take their rest And the on
0, thing in the world that can chanl
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
Instinct of the Mudash.

The remarkable instinct which causes
the mudfsh to roll himself in ball Of
mud when the dry season approaches
is a wonderful provision of nature, in
tended solely, it would seem. to pre-
vent the extinction of the species. The
most interesting fact about this fish
is that it breathes by means Of its
gills when in its native element and by
means of lungs during its voluntary
Imprisonment in the mud cocoon.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
would Not Suit Mt All.

Marie (after the proposaD-While 1
do not object to your calling, l should
hardly like to marry a minister. He
might bore me by talking shop, you
know.
The Rev. Mr.. Gumms-But l assure
you that 1 would not do so.
Marie-Then l should conclude that
you were a hypocrite and not sufficient
ly interested in my spiritual welfare
Town and Country.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
SATURDAY NIGHT ISaPOLICE
PATROL CREWS BUSY TIME

The scene may partake of the lowest
side of submerged city life. A burly
negro is pushed and hauled into the
wagon, his face cut and swollen, and
two rather decent looking white men,
one with a cash on his forehead, are
taken along to enter complaint. The
crowd scatters, and the driver whips
up while the negro sputters his side Of
the story:
Il cum home from work and found
0ese men drinkin' wild my wife. When
l demonstrated wild 'em dis man hit
me wild brass knuckles. l amt dun
nuthin' to be pinched for"
You lie you rascal" shouts the
man. you stole my overcoat and hit
me with a brick"
That's enough" says the sergeant;
you can settle it all before the judge in
the morning"
AS the wagon unloads at the station
house there floats a sound of singing
from me female cells within. There
are good voices in the bedraggled COM
pany, and they are raised in plaintiVe
melodies the night through.
The air of the cell corridor is heavy
and sickening with the prison smell
The electric lights throw uncertain
shadows upon the faces in the iron
cages, where white and black are
stretched on the floor, or yelling
drunken curses. or laughing at the dis
gust shown by other unfortunates, not
yet lost to sense OF shame and remorse
Sick Cared For
The public is likely to think OF the
patrol wagon only as a machine for the
swift conveyance Of lawbreakers. But
lit oftentimes answers the purpose O
an ambulance. The sturdy men with
muscles OF STEEL who may one hour be
holding down a raving, yelling, night
4 ing drunk in a struggle that lasts
from call box to station house, may in
a little while be lifting on a stretchel
a fevered woman who has sucoumbet
to heat exhaustion. and doing every
thing in their power TO alleviate tn,
distress.
Like the fremen. the crew Of tn,
wagon knows not what work is befOr,
it when the call comes for a run. A
lall hours Of night softly-bedded sleep
ers may hear in half-waking dream
the clang of the gong, the sound o
hurrying hoofs and the din Of wheels
and turn over comfortably with |
sense of security and vague satisiac
ton, that they have not to be thrus
iout in such wild and hazardous bust
ness.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
CITY'S INDEPENDENCE DAY
CELEBRATION WILL BE ENTHUSIASTIC

for daytime use. To behold them is to
think them new. though, as a matter
of fact. the youngest Of them is sew
Ieral years OF age.
No fireworh is so ancient, none is so
interesting as the cracker. 1t is made
in China. in the province OF Canton,
and in the best grade it sells at the
rate Of $3.50 the ten thousand.
Only the tremendous cannon crack
ers. some OF them were two feet high,
are made in this country. The fire.
crackers proper are not made here,
for the reason, first, that there are no
skilled wOrkmen to make them, and,
second that American labor is so well
paid that the box OF Chinese crackers
that cost SIS would cost, il made in
America. over 800. The patient, un-
degpaid, Cantonese, the colony OF many
thousands of men and women and
children, who do nothing but make
iirecraclSers from one years end to the
other. can make a cent go as far as an
American can make a dollar go; hence
they need have no fear of ever being
driven by foreign competition out Of
the business that they and their an
cestors have conducted for many years.
Nearly all the~other sorts of fire
works are made in this country. 1t is
interesting to examine them, for they
are gorgeous in color and strange in
shape
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
pangerous OperaIIon

The manufacture of fireworks is a
very dangerous occupation. The work
men. singly, on in pairs, are isolated in
cells separated from each other by
hign, thick walls of earth or wattles to
lessen the concussion of adjoining
compartments in case OF explosion
The tubes of rockets and Roman can
dies are made by wrapping and gluing
paper around wooden cylinders. Such
tubes are often stronger than gun
bands. as has been proved by expert
ment. The contents OF bombs and
rockets vary with the effect desired
The base is a mixture OF sulphur, char
coal and saltpetre pulverized sepaB-
ately, and then ground together for ten
hours or longer. The colOring ma
terials are added in charging the
rocket antimony for a brilliant white
light. nitrate of strOntium for red, nj
trate of lead for golden rain"
Copper filings give a greenish tint
chlOrate Of barium a deeper green
chloride of copper blue. Two recent
inventions are Kissing and perfumed
rockets. The former contains picrate
Of potash, a virulent poison which
ruins the health OF the workmen.
Benzoin and cascarilla wood are USED
in the perfumed bombs. The small
loudly decorating bombs are made by
filling cylindrical boxes with giant
powder, wrapping them with paper and
winding them tightly with strong cord
in all directions The bomb is theI
lcoalred in olro driad and a bols
punched for the fuse. which must b.
very carefully adjusted as an errol
would result either in the bursting o
the mortar or in the explosion of the
! bomD after falling to the ground.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
let the journal Follow You

II you are going away FOR
your vacation you want 20
keep an touch with the affairs Of
your city and State. The Even
ing Journal will follow you 10
any point reached by the Gov
ernment mails Send us n pos
tai or phone your new address,
and the paper viii reach you.
II costs but six cents a week.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
Why He pidn,t Get Her.

Prospective Father-in-law - Do you
ever gamble or smoke, sir?
Prospective Son-in-law-No, sir.
Prospective Father-in-law - Do you
ever drink, sir?
Prospective Son-in-law (absentmind-
edly)-Well, don't care if do, sir
Smart Set.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
Give Him Rope
Sussex Republican

From the Sussex Republican.
The Addicksites who are busy de-
nouncing Congressman Ball. because
Addicks orders 1t. (they can give no
other reason) seem 30 consider them
selves the whole show and fouget that
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
Repairing Sand digger

The big sand digger Phoenix, OF the
Charles Warner Company, is at the
Yards OF the Pusey and Jones Com
pany for repairs. The Phoenix was
repaired a few days ago, but another
break was discovered in her machin-
cry.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
vlcarious

Good Deacon Jones was crossing
A muddy street car track.
Good Deacon Jones, he slipped and fell
Upon his back.
Blank! Blank Blank" screamed g
parrot
In a cage across the way.
THANK you, my friend" good Deacor
Jones
Was heard to say.
Chicago Tribune.
Evening journal., 1902-06-30
A niasentnr.

"Don't you like that deaf and dumb
barberT
"No. A fellow might as well shave
himself. lf."-Indianapolis News.