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Middletown transcript., 1903-07-04
CHESAPEAKE CITY

S1EoNF IHtNI Stt
Harry Bouchelle visited Baltimore FRI
day.
Mrs. Missouri Paterson is in Philadtl-
phia.
The Spa Spring dance will be held on
Monday, July 9th.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Fl. Brady spent Thurs
day in Philadelphia.
Miss Florence Boulden is visiting rela-
tives in Wilmington.
John Banks spent several days Of this
week in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Waithman Smithers was Perry
willie visitor Saturday.
Miss Alice Boulden spent last week
with friends in Elkton.
Miss Edith Willis has been visiting
friends in Town Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Bouchelle, Jr., are
visiting Cecilton relatives.
Clark Barwick is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
E. II. Biddle, at Earleville.
DR.. T. J. Conrey is the guest Of his
mother, Mrs. Annie Conrey.
Rev. and Mrs. Dashiel and Miss Barton
visited Wilmington Friday.
Miss Alice Hanson, of Baltimore, is
NJ, WoolI,u
Charles P. West visited his brother in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on Sunday.
The Masons attended the NJ. E. Church
in body on Sunday morning.
Mrs. William Borem and son, George,
visited Wilmington last week.
Miss Leila Holland, of Philadelphia,
is the guest Of Miss Mamie Wright.
Victor Woolley, of Wilmington, visited
his uncle, G, S. Wooley on Sunday.
Mr.. Robert Jones, Of Baltimore, has
been visiting Capt. and Mrs. Tolbert Her.
Miss Fannie Foard, Of Elkton, spent
Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Mary
Foard.
Miss Mary Pennington, of Philadelphia,
is spending few days with Mrs Flet-
cher Price.
Mrs. L. E. Martindale and her mother,
OF Elkton, visited Mrs. Thomas Wright
on Friday.
DR.. Stanley Steel, of Elkton, visited
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Steele,
on Monday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Metz spent tie past
week in Wilmington with her son, Mr..
Harry Metz.
Edwin Stubbs, of st. Augustine, is
visiting his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Stubbs.
Mrs. d. P. Boulden and daughter, Miss
Lucy, spent several days during the past
week in Elkton.
Miss Harriet Pierce is the guest Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Pierce, OF
Germantown, Pa.
Mrs. w. A. Stubs, of st. Augustine,
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James A. Boulden.
Miss Althea Price is spending some
time with her grandparents, Capt. and
Mrs. Gilbert Loveless.
Mrs. Harry Griffith, of fMorrisville, Pa.
has been visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Barwick.
Clifford Smallzell and Harry Taylor
and daughter, Hazel, are visiting at the
home of James johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cough aud child,
and Miss Ella Cough, of Baltimore, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hudson.
Harry B. Manlove, OF Sassafras Neck,
is spending few days with his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Daley.
Mrs. John Alexander and granddaugh-
ter, Miss Miriam Alexander, spent Fri
day with Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Alexander.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett Steele and Miss
Madaline spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ju,ius Clayton, Of near St. Angus
tine
A number of families lave moved dur
ing the past week. A few Of our yacalt
houses have been taken for the summer
by Philadelphia parties.
Our young undertaken, Mr. W. +.
Guthrie, returned on Monday with his
bride, who was Miss Burns, Of Della
ware. The wedding, quiet one, was
solemnized Wednesday evening.
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speciaI Correspondence Of The Sunday Republic.
Fort Leavenworth. kas.. March 28-Al-
though West Point has existed for more
than a century and furnished leaders for
the greatest armies of modern times. II Is,
nevertheless, noteworthy fact that but
six of her sons have been at the head OF
our army-McClellan, Halleck and Grant.
in time of war and Sherman. Sheridan and
Schofeld in the order named, during
period of peace.
The announced intention of the President
to advance General s. 3. NJ. Young. nom
graduate. to succeed General Nelson A.
Miles, and the probability that the COM
mand will be held by this class for another
quarter of a century. brings this peculiar
situation, not only forcibly to mind, but
calls for more than passing notice.
Strange as this may appear to those not
familiar with the history of the army. 1t
may surprise them, on the other hand, to
learn that the men who had led the great
battalions In every one of the important
battles on both sides of the Civil War were
graduates, with the exception of Banks and
Terry on the Union side, and McCullocii
and Floyd on the side of the Confederacy.
A glance further back will reveal the
causes why West Point has not more large
ly shared I'm the command of the army
within the century
Under our system of seniority. promotion
advancement in time of peace is very slow.
To reach the grade of a general officer. at
least forty years of service must pass, and
then only it is attained by few, for
seniority does not count in such promotion.
II is usually made by selection from among
the Colonies of the line.
Taking, then, this period as basis for
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WORLD'S-1so4-FAlR.
SUBSTANCE: Nor COLOR.

81 bSl ANGE.. MI COl-OR.
Republicans and Democrats alike must resent the
suggestion that there has been such thing re-
form In this city. That suggestion comes from only
ihose who value the petty projects of a partisan
clique above broad ambitions for the city's welfare
and reputation-it from those who rather than
stir inch from the position Of sodden partsanship
would suffer in silence the charge of shameessness
which has been brought against us.
\" The thousands of sincere Republicans who voted
to Gust the gangs In the fall of 1900-what will they
and continuing motive and progress toward good gov
eminent: In $780, long before the campaign began,
municipal evils reached such crisis that good citi-
xens forgot narrow political creeds and Joined in a
determination to rout misrule by any means what
soeyer.
That was more than thirty months ago, and the
good citizens of both parties have never once dropped
their cudgels for reform. The movement has been
concerted consistent and continuous Practically not
one opportunity has been missed to knock down cor
rupt forces and install the good The cudgels have
been nothing more than wellcast votes.
ScO0ers and maligners feign not to the record
of thirty months. But the results glaringly and
1spatifyingy evident to every citizen who value
good work for good works sak> and is not biased by
small considerations. What genuinely made broad
minded person really for the political color of
city government long it be clean and capable
government: Lei look less to the color than to
the substance.
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WHY West Point Graduates Have Not Been at the
w Head of Our Army.

that side. while 800 graduates held similar
rank in the Union Army. including those
since the close Of the war.
The first graduate to command the army
was George B. Mcclellan. and the Sradu-
ates continued to exercise this function un-
til General Schofelds retirement In 1885.
when the honor fell to the nongraduate.
General Nelson A. Miles being the nrst OF
the men. who entered the army upon the
outbreak of hostilities in 1851
1t is also worthy of note that all OF the
general officers of the regular army VINO
found their way into its ranks were. with
the exception of Brigadier General A. II.
Terry, West Point graduates
Upon the conclusion Of the Spanish
American War Wood and Funston, two
rank outsiders. entered the regular army
with the grade of Brigadier General. IN
der the proposed plan of retiring the Civil
War veteran with an increased grade. the
President will have an opportunity OF
honoring such men as Young. Chance,
Bates Wade and Macarthur.
The latter does not retire until 1903. ana
by that time the last of the Civtl-War vet
Grams will have left active service. Wood
comes next in line, and once he reaches
the first station will hold 1T until 1924. when
he too, must give away to younger men:
Funston will stand next to Wood. ana
will not reach the retirement age until
1929 When that time Games. and no war
has interviewed. West Point will again come
into its own and command the army for
many wears II. S.
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But things are being changed. and sp!sn-
did sign of the times it is too. Young
Frenchmen now seek wives among the fam
lilies of their own stations in life. court
them ard make up their minds to marry
them. and. what is hest of ALL parents be-
gin to realize that. after all. 1t is their sons
and not themselves who marry. and that
1t Is they who should make their choices
/ believe that this new state OF things
which / hope. for my country. VIII last ana
even yet improve. is greatly due TO the m
fiuence of the Anglo-SaXon. English and
Americans, whose freedom in matrimonial
matters is getting more and more familiar
10 the French through reading and travel
ing.
Like the Anglo-Saxons. they begin to see
tine practical side of matrimony. The young
Frenchman says to himself: Il do not send
my father to my tailor to choose the clothes
] am to wear. AMI do nor see why should
allow him to go and choose for NE the g-rl
| am to marry"
There are other reasons which may also
be due to the ever-increasing influence OF
Anglo-Saxon manners and customs on
France. The French girl is every day gel
ting freer. She is no longer clustered. as IT
were, at home and at school. She now fre-
quents the society Of young men. gets bet
ter acquainted with them and en- more in
innate terms than before.
If. in France the demimondaines had
not been the only young women whom men
could approach. respectable young girls
would not have been so long neglected.
The young French girl of the present day
Is more independent. feels more confidence
in herself, knows more OF life than before.
and the consequence is that she IS better
able TO provoke the love which she desires
to inspire in man of her choice.
There may also be an economical reason
which incites young Frenchmen to seek
love in natrimony instead of outside of it.
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CAMPAIGN CONTRASTS.

The motive of this campaign is graphically pre-
sented in the appeal of machine organs for the cleo
ton OF all the party nominees for the House of Dele
gates. Voters called upon to send to the House
such men as Henry L.. Weeke Jr.. Edward Koeln
Charles Ii. Witthoeft and others of their stripe
Says W. II. Blake chairman of the Republican
City Central Committee: Il scorched those fellows
about not putting out candidates in all of the wards
hut in these wards where nominations We're made
| was told that it would he utterly useless to nom
nate anybody. because they could not be elected
know l cndeavored to have nominees put on the
ticket from every ward but those efforts awaited
nothing
Mr.. Blake shows that the party leaders are
poweriess control the gangs of their party. Ward
bosses have for gang purposes controlled nominations
in both parties in many wards. Therefore the in
dependent citizen pick the best men he can find
out of all the tickets.
The Republic has drawn bold line of distinction
and has advised against the election of unfit nomi-
both the Democratic and Republican House
tickets. The machine organs pray the voters 10 elect
Weekc. Wtthoeft and company 80 that if possible
the Republicans may have majority in the lower
branch of the Assembly. The unenviable records of
certain candidates the Republican House ticket are
of concern to them Ability is nor consideration
at ALL
If the voters will follow rsniy commands and
both tickets there will be retroGression The next
House. i'm that ease will be- better than the present
In fact it will he worse. owing to its disposi-
ton fight progressive policies. Reform will have
received serious setback
Those citizens who desire an Improvement in the
House should sever relations with the professional
ward bosses and unite to cause the election of that
candidate whose qualifications best fit him to repre-
sent respective ward. If nominee on the Re-
publican ticket is better than the nominee on the
Democratic Independent ticket the Republican
nominee should get the votes of respectable citizens
of both partes if the Democratic nominee is better.
he should get the votes; if the Independent nominee
is better. he should be elected
No good will come of servile allegiance to party.
That would result in the election OF unsatisfactory
House. The crisis calls for action in accordance with
the dictates of conscience by all citizens who propose
refute the charge that St Louis is shameless The
issue is based entirely moral and governmental
principles. The wards should have representation
and Misrepresentation. Taxpayers urged to
put party claims aside and vote for House nominees.
irrespective of party affiliations. in whom the more
reliance be placed The voters should have but
ain-the election of more representative House.
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reaching the rank of a General. and the
fact that West Point did not furnish ncr
first graduate until about 1905. II is mani
fest that he could not have attained such
rank much before 1916. In the meantime
the war of 1872 brought to the permanent
establishment a large number of officers
from the volunteer army
These held. as rule. higher rank. than
had been attained by the graduate. SO that
whatever opportunity the latter might have
had in reaching the grade of General with
in the allotted time the entrance of the
volunteer prevented 1t. 1t so happened. TOO.
that during period of forty years-1S2.-
1s6l-the army changed its commanders but
three times. Winfield Scott. the hero OF
Buena Vista, alone holding it from 1871 to
1861.
1t may prove a surprise to the reader to
learn that to Jefferson Davis fell the honor
OF being the first graduate upon whom was
bestowed the rank of Brigadier General
This occurred, according to the records. in
1876, but he declined the appointment and
soon after resigned from the army. The
next graduate upon whom was conferred a
like rank was Joseph E Johnston. who in
1860. was promoted Quartermaster Cen
eral, with the rank of Brigadier.
1t was not until civil war came upon the
land that West Point became a factor in
military affairs. She furnished. as already
stated. not only the North with her COM
mander. but also the South. Was 1t any
wonder then that the struggle between the
sections was so prolonged? 1t was surely
a case of Greek against Greek.
OF the $50 graduates of West Point who
Joined the Southern Army upon the declara-
ton of war, Isl became general officers on
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
TO-DAY IN ST. LOUIS.

q From The Republic. March 30. 1873,
q Judge John F. Long received per-
Q sonal letter from General L. 5.
. Grant. dated Smyrna, Asia Minor.
q February g. 1878. General Grant
Q spoke of his trip through the Medi-
q terranean and up the Nile.
. Horse sharks. operating on North
q Third street, robbed Henry Hentz OF
. Illinois. Several horse traders were
. arrested. some Of them being men
q already under Indictment.
q Major Justin McKinstry devised
Q scheme whereby the Water Commits
Q sioners could discover leaks and keep
Q record of every house having con-
q nection with the water mains. Near
q ly 1,5O0 leaks had been found in a
q few weeks.
. william ]. Bryan sued Ferdinand
q Kennett and others for 5000 acres Of
q land in Washington County. Mis-
. souri,. the title to which dated back
. to March. 1877. when the Baron OF
. Carondelet was Governor General or
. the Territory of Louisiana.
q Mrs Bircher. wife of Doctor Ru-
. dolph Bircher. proprietor Of the La
. clede- Bircher Hotel. died at the fam
q lily residence. Fourteenth and Nor
. gan streets.
. The Montgomery Guards. Carr
. Place Guards, Missouri Guards and
& Merchants Guards formed Nation
. al Guard battalion, under the diree-
= tion Of Colonel Leigh o. Knapp The
o officers were Captains B. F. Taaffe.
. H. Duncker and George W. West and
. Lieutenants p. A. Garriott. VI. Mey-
. er. George Priest, William H. Ed
{. wards and Theodore Salzman
= City Register Richard Walsh
. awarded the contract for blank books
= to Woodward. Herman & Hale.
Q H. w. Leonhardt Of No. 25l7 Sec
. ond Carondelet avenue was thrown
. from buggy in collision with a
D horse car. He was seriously injured.
D Judge Edwards reported that straw
= berry blooms in his garden were
. killed by the FROST
= Citizens formed the Lafayette Tree
Z Association. The officers we're Carl
. Daenzer. Charles Speck. George Balm
& and X. c. Ludlow.
y /Av/tI4& go ANvAAv
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Tbe,, have been observing their elders. and
come to the right conclusion that real
love and respectable women are much more
within their means than sham love and
disreputable women
A charming companion. who IL at the
same time sweet mistress and counselor.
a careful housekeeper and devoted VIE,
appears to them in her true Hsht-the best
article in the ma ket
Besides they realize that the man who Is
married has a social advantage over the
one who Is not The man who marries a
girl of his own society can now explain
that he married her simply because he
loved her. without thinking that he has To
apologize for his action by mentioning what
a good stroke of business he has made
Most men of the preceding generation
avoided matrimony as they would nave
avoided ridicue. The part of husband AMI
father struck them az uhpieesdh1 anu to'
petit bourgeois.
Literature and the drama helped to fill
them with this notion: but now literature
and the drama getting optimistic: we
are getting over the period or problem
novels and plays. in which all the morbid
diseases. Of the heart were dissected- TIE
heroes of novels and plays begin TO get
married without ceasing to be interesting.
and the result is that the present genera
tion of France is getting more healthy and
more cheerful.
This is most hopeful for France. for the
regeneration seems TO take place IN every
class of society. The friends of France will
rejoice in this evolution.
7 have always maintained. and still main
tain that # is the educational system that
explains the prosperity of the Anslo-saxon
race and that absolute freedom for men
to marry the women they love explains ils
strength and is marvellous vitality.
Copyright 1890. by W. r. Hearst Great III 'ta'n
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He Took the Medicine: OP[E READ.

drown the groans that have arisen our OF
the bowl Whisky may in some instances
serve as a potent remedy. but II If more
often a flatterer Of the blood. IL makes5a
fool believe that he Is wise and compel
the wise man to Acknowledge On" W iee'
that he Is fool
The Mayor of the Ohio town did not COM
nit so much of crime when he got drunk
himself as when he advised others 10
drink. The fact is his example may have
rather good effect. better, perhaps than
had he stopped short of drunkenness.
Some one back in the echoing past said
that a man is either a fool or a physician
at 40. II this man be 49, he Is both fooi
and physician-foolish enough to prescribe
and foolish enough to take MS own medi-
cine. Whisky no more respects an onio
Mayor than II does Alderman OF chi
cago. Yes. perhaps a little more, for being
familiar with the Alderman 1t may hold
him in a mild degree of contempt
Another Mayor-this one in Michigan
got drunk because. in that condition. he
said he could make a better speech; and
there had come an occasion when 1t was
his desire to put forth the effort of his hfe
He fell off the stand, and the effort OF his
life would have been a successful attempt
To get back Whisky makes a man bold
to say something. but does not often fur
nish him with tine proper thing to say.
Il can always make a better speech when
drunk said a politician
You mean" some one replied, when
your hearers are drunk.
1t is on record that the Mayor OF Hot
Springs now a respected citizen of Chica-
go. fined himself for drunkenness. When
court opened one morning he said to him
self: -
You are charged with having been drunk
and disorderly Guilty or not guilty?
Guilty your Honor" he replied.
Well then. will fine you S1o.' and the
money was paid.
Copyright. 1905. by W. r. Hearst. Great Britain
rfvt,fo
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. :
There is quite boom in the French mat
rimonial market lust at present and not
marriages of convenience. either. but real
good love matches
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'"'o - :, 80 So 'o1'''-
'i.' hoid'hs sooi posi'ioi's'fii oruer 10 coii-
pei their parents to give their consent.
Sons now inform their fathers and moth
ers that they have. without their help or
even their meddling. chosen wives for them
selves. IL is an oCen state of rebellion
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Deshler. town in Ohio. had smallpox
scare, and the Mayor. belonging TO the
great and respectable family of Smith
through his newspaper. advised the people
to drink whisky.
This advice had not more than been print
ed before the citizens began to follow IT,
The respectable man treated the village
drunkard to keep off the disease and the
staid old stagers about the Courthouse took
jug into the County Clerks Office and tilt
ed 1t in1ustriously
Within short time nearly the entire
male population began to show the effects
of the remedy-old men thoroughly fortified
went Keeling home. and in quiet retreats
where sober and earnest discourse was wont
to be held there arose loud talk and poiiti-
cal disputation. together with an OCCASION
al song, calculated to raise goose pimples
upon the smooth surface of any well-or-
dained society.
The Mayor then issued order of wide
and sweeping design.
Any one found drunk was to be arrested
and committed to jail. there to remain until
sober. Not long afterwards the Mayor was
seized with dread of the smallpox.
Being a man well up in classical attain
ments. he remembered that Marcus Aure-
Illus said: what IS good for the bee is good
for the hive and he himself added: We'll,
then, what is good for the hlVe surely must
result in good for the bee. There fs no
doubt that liquor has kept off the disease. L
will try little of it,"
Now ii is an unfortunate fact that when
a man takes to rye as a medicine Judgment
begins to weaken and discretion to waver
II one drink Is effective in keeping OF one
attack of a disease. two drinks ought to
keep osf two attacks. This Is reason: not
only that. but mathematically correct. and
Ex,tr irO hot lQfpat
polls will tell you that figures cannot lie.
Well, along about fifteen minutes later
some one came in. so the report goes. and
said that old Sam Ridley had smallpox.