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Evening journal., 1905-12-29

|and thereafter, though she was happy
in her love for every gentle thing that
he read. she was happy in silence. II
was a wonderful half-hour to her-it
took hardly so long to read the slim
book When he had finished, and
raised his head in the mild exhilaration
of his performance before the little
.quivering, pink-lawn auditor. Jane
turned away partly to hide her tears
land partly, on sudden impulse, to
push aside a cluster of roses, so res
vealing a little shelf of books
Il can't help showing you" she
said; 81 have two other shelves in the
garden, hidden in dry places. See"
She took down a book, tiny as Saint
Guido, and held it to him. It was Car
owes Sto.y Without an End the tale
Of the wonderful little dream-child
who wandered in the woods end talked
with the will-o,the-wisps and slept in
the deep cave.
IF only they could have known each
other" she said. "That child and st.
Guidol Some way, the dearest people
in the world never seem to have met,
but to have gone on, each very lonely,
to the end
"Have you been very lone.y?" asked
Rudolph, laying Gown her book with
out comment
Don't you see2" said Jane turning
to him with sudden passionate eager
ness 1--WE no one in the world TO
whom | would talk of-these things
any more than / would let them see
me cry. Think Of all the people whom
YOU know-whom you must know
and mag ne having nobody"
Rudolph thought for a minute. and
/ from his medley Of friends and ac-
lquaintances-arti debutantes. mod
els, clu0emn actresses and a few stray
literary fashlghts- he gradually, by
the help Of James mute Imagination,
lconjured up a goodly company of brill
liant suggestive. responsive minds. 10
be for the moment cut off from whom
he heaved a sudden sigh.
"Yes," he said. and believed in the
company, Minervahon, for that in
stant.
1--WE got father" said Jane. Father
loves his books. but he loves the logic
/ and science and-and all the mere
machinery Of beautiful things rather
than beauty itself"
Rudolph laughed delghtedly Here
was the artistic nature, indeed. and il
was. as It so rarely is. unconscious.
/ Presently. when he remembered 70
ask Il. she took Inn to the other gar
den book-shelvss There was one be-
hind the holiyhocks Bricks had been
struck out of the wall. and the aper
ture lined with thin boards and filled
with well-worn volumes. and the hol-
lyhocks kept watch before them.
On the other side of the garden, be-
meath bench set between two oaks,
Twas The second shelf; and in the cor
rer. where n broken sm-d'al stood. and
where. in the basin of a fountain long
drv grew now led Of white phlox,
the third shelf was set amoug the
vines under an arm of the dial Itself
Jane hmshed as she remembered that.
in this haunted corner of the garden.
where faces Of Pan and the dryads
peered family from the worn stone.
she had gathered all the sweetest
ilove-stories that she knew-Aucassin
and Nlcolete, Sylvie. the Love-Letters
of He oise .Atala. and the Vita Nuova--
but Rudop ph neither noticed tho blush
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
FRIENDSHIP FIRE COMPANY.

THE demoishing of the Friendship Fire
n Companys old engine house to make room
for the march of Improvement. causes many a
pang of regret among the members of this ven
cradle organization which SO long has held a
high place IN the city department The assoca-
tons OF the iremen with the old house have been
intimate and fond memories cluster about it,
The Friendship is popular in It's neighborhood
If the judgment of ones neighbors counts for
anything, the Friendship may rest assured that
it is held in high esteem All the vicinity likes
the Friendship Company. The neighbors will
wish it every success in the building Of its new
and handsome home while at the same time they
will share with the boys the regrets at the de-
structon OF the old home
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
EYES ON THE $4,000.

lie promoters Of the proposed trolley line
4 in Kent county are still confident that
their wires will be strung and that the line will
be put into operation before the world is much
cider
There are many doubling Thomases in Kent,
however, who will not believe until they hear the
whz and the clang OF the trolley gongs.
The promoters doubtless have their eyes glued
upon that thirty-6ve thousand dollars in the
State Treasury put up as a forfeit for the build
ing OF a proposed road some years ago. This
money is still in the treasury and it will require
legal opinion TO decide whether it could be
used by the Click Company.
The people OF Kent are anxious for the trolley
line TO be built They would like to see the cars
going from Smyrna on through to Milford, down
in Sussex and over to Cambridge Nd That
would make a road that ought to do considerable
business and the lower State people, no doubt,
will do all they to hurry it aong-skeptical
though some of them still may be.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
santa,s pauahters Visit Tots.

Yesterday afternoon the infant de-
partment Of Grace NJ. L. Sunday school
held its Christmas entertainment in
the Sunday school room. A Christ
mas tree and four daughters Of Santa
Claus were the features. The old gem
tleman himself was unable to call upon
the little folks and so his daughters
were forced to entertain the young
sters with songs and recitations. The
tots in their turn sang many beautiful
songs for their hosts and then the
kind daughters distributed candy
among the children.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
FIRE

And. as his delight in Jane deepened,
Rudolph did not speak to his mother
of departure So their weeks intended
stay was heightened.
And Jane did delight him. For Ru-
dolph, though he was one Of the little
people. light in nature. pale in convic-
tion, idle and intensely egotistic, was
none the less a true lover of beauty
in the world where he played so fiimsy
part And, as another man would
have delighted in distilling perfumes,
or inventing musical instruments, or
weaving strange clothes, Rudolph de-
lighted in waken- -ng those who we're
hungry for the companionship that he
had to give and who would admire him
for giving it. Besides. Jane was exqui-
sitely pretty, and it is always easy to
be a missionary or a fairy god-parent
to beautiful people. And the combina-
tion of her beauty and that divine
spark of understanding which he al
ways sought, magnificently whiled
away the hours.
No wonder that the long days went
by like shadows. No wonder that Mad
anne Victor, in her white morning
gown, often walked alone in the gar
den of her great house. No wonder that
Judge Hassel. looking through the
blowing curtains of his shaded library
and seeing the two figures on the path
to the sun-dial, sighed, and turned
back to his book. and refused to re-
member what had made him sigh.
AT last, however, the heat increas-
ing, Madame Victor remembered the
Apennines. and the day for their de-
parture was set Jane heard it fsOm
Rudolph with no Disguise Of her dread.
What shall I do then?' she said.
What shall | do then?'
They were sitting on the sun-dial
bench in the early evening. and Jane.
lin her little white gown. already look
ed like the ghost of the wonderful
weeks that had passed
"You will live on here said Ru-
dolph, and the reality of James suffer
ing called nwonted earnestness to his
words, Gin the world of beautiful
things that we have believed in. And
you will believe in them still, and
will work. and some day"
Rudolph saw the little arc of the new
moon over the naples. His voice
broke. Life was so infinitely sad. he
thought. watching the little moon.
The night Of Rudolph's arrival IN
Paris, Paris claimed him. as of old. for
her own. For poor Rudolph. though he
loved beauty. loved symbols more; and
after six months fiery enough labor in
an atelier whe.e he fattened upon
praise and called sharp criticism envy
aud fattened anyway. he went the way
OF many a rich young devotee of the
outside of things. and slipped into the
idle life Of a petted dilettante In his
previous wears in Paris he had been
comparatively unknown outside his set
of rich young Americans and pretty
FIR nchwomen who affected art for the
sake of artfulness But now he chanc-
ed TO execute chaimingly q certain
series of fortunate orders. and he orig
j mated a fad He did dainty shepherds
esses and dancing shepherds as II he
had been in love with each. and he
painted dryads and naiads as if his
brush were made of moss and water
reeds. And at last ne fashioned for a
comtesse a pomade box with an ouphe
and a sylph on the cover that delight
ed the cOmtesse. and his pretty fame
began (To be Continued)
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
BLACK WIFE ASKS $4,000
Legal Troubles Grow Out of Nearo's
Marriage in Wilmington to White
Woman.

interviewer with suit entered yester-
day in Common Pleas Court, Philadelphia,
by Martha Sydnor, negress, to obta n
the annullment of divorce granted her
husband, was an action entered by the
woman to recover $4,000 damages from
olivia Magg. white, for the alienation of
Sydncr's affections. Sydnor is negro
caterer, and conducts two restaurants
After obtaining the divorce he married
the white woman, who had been his book
keeper. His first wife contends that she
consented TO the separation upon sydnors
promise that he would not marry again;
but she now contends that it was the
white woman who alienated his affections.
sydnor married the Magg woman in this
city early this year. but as a marriage
between white and negro is a crime in this
state, second ceremony was performed
In New York.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
BY Zona Gale

nor the significance Of the selections.
He leaned on an arm of the dial and
smiled languidly about him.
Exquisite. he said; 81 fancy ]
could work in some delicious corner
such as this. am very sensitive to
81 always come here at evening" y
said little Jane. naively "Then I do
what ST. Guido did-'wait for the
magic to begin but never have
known what it was"
"Tell me what the magic is some
times" Rudolph asked, sitting beside
her on the old stone bench.
"Well. sometimes said Jane, Il pre-
tend that / am one of the little dryads
there come to life. And then I talk to
the other dryads left here, lonely in
the stone, and / tell them how much
more wonderful it is to be alive than
just an immortal dryad. And some
times / pretend that one of the naiads
that used to live in the fountain comes
up in the white phlox and talks to me.
Rudolph rested in his arm along the
bench and dropped his head in his
hand The stone bench the white
phlox. the old sun-dial. Jane in her
pink gown. he himself-what a charm
ing picture they must make in the
warm June afternoon; and how we'll
their talk fitted the picture, he thought
in vast contentl
And what is the magic of the morn
.ings?" he asked, softly.
nTn tho morn in oe - oafT Topa ho,rf
.ly, "I sometimes have my breakfast in
the arbor. II is very early. but the
roses have been a long time awake.
This morning a big rose nodded right
over my glass of cream, and if a fairy
was asleep in it she fell out and was
drowned and I drank her up. That
was magic enough. surely
III | bring my share Of magic" he
said impulsively. may / come to
breakfast in tho arbor in the morn
ing?7
ITS at seven o'clock said Jane
doubtfuily
"The very incest time" declared
Rudolph without tremo-.
"Ah," he applauded himself, as he
idled back TO the Great House half an
hour later, what a happy subject am
II, to be sure. TO the great god Whim."
The next morning. and many bright
mornings and yellow afternoons and
still tw'lights found Jane and Rudolph
in the garden. and found Jane wonder
fully content And Rudolph found the
days possessed of special swes stness
which he had almost forgotten that he
could enjoy Though in reality Middle
ton was of no more interest to him
than the tin soldiers and hobby y-horses
of his life there. yet sentimentally, he
invested it with associations which
sentimentaliy again. he enjoyed re-
newlng. Moreover. his mother. an ex-
quisite biz of old porcelain. found great
content in staying on in the great
house TO which she had come as a
bride. After the pensions and apart.
ments of Paris. where she had spent
five years to De nea- Rudolph. whom
she seldom saw. however. her old home
filled her with delight. II was a beauti-
ful old home. but so conventionaiiy the
great house" of every village that one
suspect il of being a tradition and
not made of mere boards and mortar.
Madame Victor herself, walking in its
garden in her white cashmere morn
ing gowns. was like a Tradition. too.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29

Editor Evening Journal:
The other day I saw by the papers
that the Street and Sewer Department
was going to see that all tree roots that
We're damaging sidewalks were to be
removed. on Clayton street just south
of Lancaster avenue there are several
trees that are useless as far as shade
Is concerned. The roots keep the side
walk filled with hills and hollows. These
trees are half rotten and the first good
wind storm Is Liable to send them crash
ing down on the house tops. Why cam
not these trees be removed.
Yours Truly.
South Clayton.
Wilmington, Del, Der. 20, 1905.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
EDITORIAL OPINION
The Morocco ouestIon.

The people of this country have been
informed that their Ambassador at
Rome. Mr. Henry White. for many
years Sec. etary Of the Legation and
Embassy at London and an uncommon
ly capable, accomplished gentleman, is
to be one of their representatives in
the approaching international confer
ence at Algeciras about Moroccan af
fairs They know that a difference Of
opinion as to the future of Morocco
arose some months ago between
France and Great Britain on the one
side, and Germany on the other, and
that this conference is the result But
! It hasn't been clearly explained to the
people as yet by anybody why Mr.
Henry White and his colleague are go
ing to Algeciras, or what they are to
do there.
Certainly this country has no poiti-
cal interests in that part Of the world.
II has trade interests there, as il has
everywhere else. IL had trade interests
in Turkey twenty-scven years ago, but
it did not send delegates to the Con-
gress Of Berlin. It has much larger
trade interests in Turkey now than it
had then. Suppose-this naval demon
stration failing to accomplish all that
is hoped from 1.-THE great European
Powers presently conclude that an
other Congress of Berlin Cor Paris, or
Vienna) TO discuss the future of Mace
donia and the adjacent regions is al
vsable. Would President Roosevelt,
lin behalf of the United States, accept
an invitation to take part in that Euro
pean deliberation?
Six years ago, at The Hague, the
American delegates to the Cars
peace conference thought it necessary
to make two distinct reservations be-
fore signing an agreement with regard
to the peaceable settlement of interna-
tional disputes, and the first was this
Nothing contained in this convention
shall be so construed as to require the
United States of America to depart
from its traditional policy Of not enter
ing upon, interfering with. or entang-
ling itself IN the political questions or
internal administration of any foreign
state"
Why are Ambassador White and his
colleague going to the international
conference at Algeciras? What are
they to do there? What has become
Of the traditional policy" and how
does it happen that this country is
about to confer with sundry European
countries as to the affairs Of a North
African ountry?-Hautford Courant.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 90. 1905.
DELAWARE RAILROAD TRAVEL.

TRANEL over the Delaware Railroad Com
4 panys lines, during the Saturday preced-
ing Christmas, was enormous. 1t is doubtful if
the company ever carried so many passengers
on a similar day. Christmas is the real "Home
day for thousands of Delawareans who have
gone elsewhere to engage in their various occu-
patons. Once year they manage to gather at
the old family hearthstone. OF course if they
were not deprived of the privileges OF, Sunday
trains on the road which privilege the Pennsy-
vania system extends in all its other divisions,
Delawareans who live beyond the borders of the
State would be more frequent visitors TO their
old homes and their friends
All the down State" trains ranin sections and
each section was crowded with the happy people
In proportion to Delaware's size it is doubtful
if any State in The Union has sent more young
people from their birthplaces to carve out for
tunes in new fields
This departure OF the young is due largely to
changed economic conditions in the lower coun-
ties and the desire OF so many young people en-
couraged by their parents to seek life in the
city
It is astonishing too that Delawareans
leave, strangers come into the State. The pres
ent season has been unusually active in the sale
OF farms and real estate generally throughout the
lower counties. Farmers and fruit growers and
poutrymen are learning OF the advantages offer
ed in Delaware, which advantages are not really
appreciated by many Of those who live here
Evening journal., 1905-12-29

Editor Evening Journal:
The Berlin Tageblatt viii not
the fallacy Of its criticism
quoted On the Evening Journals news
column yesterday, first page, with re-
have need TO so far to find
duties Of ruling over people The
story OF Louis XIV of France and of
his immediate successors, Louis XIV
and Louis XVI. and that of the rulers
OF Russia within the last two centuries,
and other instances Of a similar char
acter teach am instructive lesson In
this line. 1 do not now have time to
develop the lesson" but / call to
recollection that Louis XIV debasod his
people and died miserable, and Louis
XVI 'lost his head" both metaphor
ically and physically. The American
way is better
Yours,
William w. Campbell
Drnantbnf oQ fQ0-
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
New seeretary % Re EIeeted.

1t is expected that Horace G
Knowles will be elected secretary Of tho
Delaware and Chesapeake Ship Cana
Committee of the Board of Trade, IN
the place of Thomas f. Bayard, who
recently resigned The committee is
now holding regular meetings, and con-
the best plan of bringing the
canal matter to the attention Of Con-
gress and securing favorable action.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
COL. ANDERSON DEAD
Former Wilminstonian Expired in Bal
timore Hotel.

Col Albanus L. Anderson, 65 years old,
was stricken with heart disease while cat
ing yesterday in the Preston Apartment
House. Baltimore. He died before physi-
clan arrived.
Colonel Anderson was born In this city
and went to Baltimore about 20 years ago.
During the Civil War he was colonel Of
the Third Delaware Infantry. He was a
member Of the Masonic Order and the
Knights Templars. For years he was pres
ident Of the Walton and Whann Com
pany
Surviving him are his widow. formerly
Miss Sarah Ayers, of Wilmington, and
three daughters Mrs. stewart Offender
fer and Misses Leona and Edwina Ander-
son.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
SYNOPSIS


thought and care and artistic surround
ings. She has rarely been understood from
her little girlhoOd and is less now she ls
grown TO beautiful womanhood. Her olu
playmate. Rudolph Victor returns 10 iht
Village after ten years Of art study ~
New York and though vain and patronis-
ing IN disposition finds something interest
ing aud delightful IN this beautiful young
woman thep laymate Of his boyhood
Her interest in him is SERIOUS one. His
IN her merely patronizing "a fact which she
does not see.
Rudolph drew little book from his
pocket
"This for instance" he said. 81 was
reading It on the street when the pres
ence Of your beautiful old house in
terrupted me. I've read Il many times
and never once. I think, in the house.
"Bevis and the Wind Jane read the
title "How beautiful Bevis and the
Wind I have never sesn it.
81 will leave II for you, If you like, y
said Rudolph. "It is not book to
be read aoud; only by oneself, out of
doors. But have another one OF JEFF
leriss' here-Saint Guido-do you know
that? No? Then let me read you a
hit of IL"
Read" said Jane softly.
Rudolph's voice was deep and pack
ed with intonatiOns; all OF which he
used luxuriously when he read. He
was OF these who make even the poor
dead author whom they chance to be
exploiting stand up and dance to their
vehement iddling.
"st. Guido ran out at the garden
gate into a shady lane, and down the
4 lane TN he came to a grassy bank He
reached the end OF the path and came
out in a wheat-feld. ST. Guido thought
he was safe away now. so he stopped
10 look. He kept quite still because he
expected that In a minute the magic
would bagin. and something would
speak to him.
Because he expected that the
magic would begin, Jane echoed in
voluntarily. "And II always does be-
gin-it always does begin when you're
/ i'm the fieldsl You've noticed IL, haven't
your
Rudolph glanced up at her obvious
ily impatient to resume. It irritated him
to be interrupted when he read aloud.
When he read aloud he became enam-
ored OF the sonorous, resonant sound
of his periods. and an interruption in
order 70 appreciate the mere meaning
of the words bored him.
"The wheat-ears were pale god,
having only just left off their green.
and they surrounded him on all sides.
as If he were bathing. A butterfly,
painted a velvety red-came floating
along the surface Of the corn-Guido
nut up his hand TO catch the butterfly,
forgetting his secret in his desire to
touch it,"
"'His secret cried Jane "Oh. his
secret. That means his love for al
beautiful things and his wish to help
them 10 live. doesn't ~"
yes said Rudolph. and suddenly
snapped the book shut Yet she was
very pretty when she was eager; he
mused P moment and mulled an epi-
gram about the obtrusion OF apprec'a-
ton. and gave up. and missed tho
sound Of his own voice. and rsopened
thf little book. Jane caught the flying
face of his mood and ticmblea a lite
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
MIasionarx soeIety 70 Meet.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of Brandywine Church Will
hold special meeting i'm the church
tonight at which Mrs. Joseph Van
Blunk. wife of the pastor Of Kingswood
NJ. E. Church. will make the address.
All the members Of the society are in
vited to be present.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29

The Marylanders, of course, are objecting
most strenuously, to the probability that Sena-
tor Alice will land the position of Collector of
Internal Revenue OF this district for a Delaware
man, DR.. Layton looming up prominently for
the place If another Office can be brought into
Delaware so much the better Maryland has
had it long enough, that is certain.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29

Our local merchants declare they have no
cause to complain. We are glad of it, While
their goods filled other peoples stockings it took
pretty large piece of hose to hold the cash that
has been given our business men as a Christmas
present United and determined work on the
part of our merchants and the commercial inter
esis will continue to bring trade here The peo-
pie OF the surrounding regions are fast learning
that Wilmington is good place in which to
trade
Evening journal., 1905-12-29
MEN AND THEIR DOINGS.

Several nights ago while Ottrey Dumpson ianor at
the Federal Building al work in the corridor OF
the building, he picked pocSethook. Without
amintng the contents of the Mr. Dumpson placed
il n Postmaster Healds office TO await its Pr,,-
nelly little girl with in her eyes. ran into the
building and Inquired of Halleck Ray. the nghi
watchman, II he had found purse containing S212 He
took the child into Mr. Heads office where she re-
cognized the purse Air. Dumpson had picked up and il,
given her. The following day Mr.. Dumnson re-
ceiNed one dozen cigars with the childs compliments
lie had been rewarded for his honesty.
Evening journal., 1905-12-29

you do not have TO outside the state TO feel a
restriction Of personal liberty" another some
time ago read in the paper of a was arrested
and taken from Delaware railroad train and fined
Tor taking a drink on "a If that not taking
mans liberties away from him do know what is
The argument waxing when the steward
came in and said IL time the club house was closed
for the night and that the bar was already closed
Grumbling something about a having no liberties
these days the gathering adjourned men went
home TO their families.