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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-05-23
Her Children Carefully Reared.

While indisputably an advanced wo-
man, Mrs. Howe has not neglected
family responsibilities Her son and
daughters were carefully reared, and
three Of the daughters have won dis
tinction as writer's. They are Mrs
Florence Howe Hall, Mrs. Laura e.
Richards and Mrs. Maud Howe Eli
oft. The son, Professor Henry NJ.
Howe, is a distinguished metallurgist.
Mrs. Howe has a well developed hui
morous vein. Once when driving past
the Charitable Eye and Ear infirmary
in Boston her eye caught the name of
the institution as painted on the build
ing. She remarked very dryly:
Il don't see the good of that place."
"Why?" inquired her companion in
astonishment, knowing Mrs. Howes
generous nature
"Well, didn't. know there was
charitable eye or ear in Boston, re-
piled the venerable lady.
At another time Mrs. Howe was Wis
Ting a Newport woman. The hostess
took her out on the beautiful veranda
In the moonlight in the hope of getting
fine sentiment out of her. Finally
the woman demanded:
'N1rs. Howe, do say something lovely
about my piazza
In her highly cultivated voice Mrs.
Howe replied:
Il think it is bully piaz.''
Somebody accused Mrs. Howe of be-
ing 'obstinately optimistic all her
life. Looking back across the gulf of
seventy years to her girlhood in New
York, she said:
my hearts young desire was to as
sist the efforts of those who sought for
n helpful philosophy of life.''
Her own helpful philosophy no doubt
has upheld her obstinate optimism, SO
that today she is by no means person
Of an age that is past, but is decidedly
a figure Of the present, for she is as
deeply interested in the admission Of
Oklahoma as she was in like event
fifty years ago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-05-23
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC &c,

Mine have the glory coming Lord:
he amp'ns out the vintage where the
he hath oosed the fau lightning of his terrible swift
His truth is marching
have him in the wachfres camps;
buided him in dampa:
read the righteous lamps
His is
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-05-23
Wrote Verses In the Dark.

Living in this atmosphere for twenty
years, it was not surprising that when
Mrs. Howe visited Washington in 1861
and saw the soldiers Sin hundred cir
cling camps her thoughts flowed
along the lines of the Battle Hymn Of
the Republic.'' With her husband and
others she had ridden out few miles
to witness review of the troops. The
review was interrupted by a sudden
attack Of the enemy, and Mrs. Howe
saw the rapid marching of REINFORCE
ments and heard the firing. Riding
back to the capital, she began singing
the John Brown song, in which thou
sands of the soldiers joined. That
night Mrs. Howe conceived the idea of
dlgnified poem to fit the famous tune.
She arose from her bed, found pen and
paper and wrote the lines in the dark.
She had written verses frequently in
this manner while occupying a room
with one of her children, refraininy
from making light in her care not to
| disturb the child.
But 1 always found,'' said Mrs.
Howe, "that if did not transcribe nv
verses within twenty four hours /
couldn't read what 1 had written
Naturally there was adverse criti-
cism of this poem in the south during
the war, but now the opposition has
died away. When Mrs. Howe was in
charge Of the women's work at the
New Orleans exposition she visited
Baton Rouge, La, and was astonished
but pleased to hear her, poem sung at
| an entertainment
Mrs. Howe's first volume of poems
was called Passion Flowers though
| of course it contained nothing what
ever even family suggesting ellawheel-
erism. That was in 1854. Two or
three years later Mrs. Howe published
book Of poems entitled 'Words For
the Hour" chiefly of sociological in
terest, revealing her serious trend. She
became leader in Boston club life.
founding the New England Woman's
club, of which she was president for
a quarter of a century. Mrs. Howe
| also took an active part in organizing
the Association For the Advancement
| Of Women, of which she served as
president for many years. Her work
for the cause Of woman suffrage, which
she espoused about forty years ago,
| is we'll known. She is also a strong
peace advocate.
Mrs. Howe used to spend her sum-
mers at Newport. That was when
| there was IAN intellectual set'' at the
Rhode Island resort. Mrs Howes
home was the headquarters of this set.
When the millionaire class overran the
town the Howes retreated to a beach
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-05-23

Clemens was embarrassing by diplo-
macy that famous fence in Hannibal,
Mo-, here she is, really younger than
any of these old boys, and celebrating
her eighteenth birthday after passing
the limit-a young lady just come of
age for the second time.
Why, her BATTLE Hymn Of the Re-
public" a national treasure of inter-
national renown, is nearly forty=six
years old, for it was written in 1861.
Mrs. Howe was a mature woman of
forty-two when she gave to the nation
and the world that splendid lyric, one
of the flowers of poesy which cannot
fade. Those twenty lines of inspira-
ton furnish Julia Ward Howe's chief
claim to immortality on earth, but the
grand old woman has done many other
things which have contributed to her
renown. Her gospel of optimism and
her creed of activity have kept her
young. Two years ago she said on her
birthday:
zone should never be too old to love
the pure and the true things of life. I
stlll IND great pleasure in writing and
in speaking. I am interested in the
affairs of today. You know one never
grows old in spirit if the true love of
life remains within one.''
Why She Will Be Remembered.
And perhaps the true love of life is
the secret of her longevity. A few
years ago when asked to define her
ideal of life she said, 'To learn. to
teach, to serve and to enjoy.'' There
are many women who pass their lives
in trying to enjoy-in society. Mrs.
Howe, as Miss Julia Ward. had much
opportunity of that sort, but she de-
veloped a higher ideal of endowment
That Is why she will be remembered
81.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-05-23
TIE PRINCETON UNION: THURSDAY Y, NAY g. 1907.

q noble steed.' It was her future hns-
band. DR.. Howe and Julia Ward were
married in 1913. He was about TWEEN
ty years her senior. As young man
he had gone to GREECE and aided in
the war for independence, as Lord
Byron also did. He was the first ner-
son in America to devote himself 70
improving the condition of the blind
Throughout his long life he was NH
lanthropist, a friend of the poor. the
unfortunate, the outcast. sIn the
Torld as he would have had it." said
Mrs. Howe after her husbands death
in 1876, there should have been nei-
Their paupers nor outcasts.''
That both DR.. Howe and Julia Ward
were fortunate in their marriage is not
to be disputed. DR.. Howe found a wife
of unusual culture, capable of sympa-
thizing with his splendid work in be-
half of unfortunate humanity. Miss
Ward found q husband capable of
turning her young mind into the chan
nels of noble ideals. DR.. Howe was q
halter of slavery in every form Mrs.
Howe came to share his views. In
those days abolitionism was the reIi-
gfon Of intellectual Boston, and the
Howes espoused the creed. They knew
intimately William Lloyd Garrison.
Wendell Phillips, Whittier, Lowell and
the other anti-slavery leaders. Even
John Brown Of Ossawatomie called to
see Mrs. Howe. She opened the door
with her own hand, she says, and
found him in appearance "a Puritan OF
the PTritans'
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
ANNUAL CONCLAVE
Excellent Addresses and In
tereStine Reports at Wash
iDgtOn Heights Church

In Washington Heights NJ. e. Church
this afternoon the annual convention
Of the Wilmington City Sunday School
Association was called to order with
very large attendance Of delegates and
interested friends.
The opening devotional exercises
were in charge Of the Rev. w. L. S.
Murray, followed by brief address on
"lntemperance and Cigarettes" by
Prof. II. S. Goldey. Following a short
business session a conference was led
by Miss Maggie S. Wilson, state secre-
tary Of Sunday school work. the sub
ject being: "The Organized Glass:
why-How?" what to do
With the Harder Lessons" was the
subject Of an address by Superintend-
ent Of Public Schools George W. Twit-
myer who conducted a Round Table
before adjournment
A session will be held this evening,
at which the program will be as fol-
liowsI
Praise service, led by Prof. Marks;
devotional exercises. conducted by
Rev J. II. Main. pastor Of Holy Trim
/ ity Lutheran Church; address by Rev.
DR.. Hiram w. Kellogg. pastor Of Grace
M. p Church. Topic: "The Adolescent
Youth and the Sunday SCHOOL," gem
eral discussion of the subject.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
UNFAIR ACTION IN SENATE.

M ANY arc the adverse comments heard on
1 = the action Of the Senate Committee on
Revised Statutes, Of which Senator Conner is
chairman. and four other railroad senators are
members in trying to strangle in the committee
the bill limiting the hours Of employment Of rail-
road telegraph operators. The measure is SINH
lar to the one enacted by many other States, and
is intended to protect the lives of travellers on
railroads. Senator Conner is quoted as saying
"that BILL If passed will cost our road (Pennsyl-
vanN fifty thousand dollars a year. and we can't
stand it." Wen, well-is it that Senator Conner
considers he is, as a State senator the agent and
servant Of the Pennsylvania railroad, and has
nothing to do with protecting the lives of the
people: Did the oath he took say anything about
serving the Pennsylvania railroad? Senator
Conner and his committee should have at least
the manliness to report that BILL and all other
bills, to the Senate, and let them be voted on
1t is an outrage andsa violation Of their public
duty for them to allow their personal interests to
stile any measure inthc committee. We hope IL
that committee, which appears to have been Gre
ated by Speaker pro TEN Sparks for the purpose
Of sand-bagging any and all measures not favored
by the corporations, persists in its unfair treat
ment of the Senate's business that there are
enough free and independent men in the Senate
to successfully prevent the infiction Of such a
disgrace upon the upper body OF the Legislature.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
ANOTHER new
CHARTER BILL
Provides For Four Wards,
-Four Departments With
Mayor Over All
speoIal %. rhe nvenlng Journal.

RkNNftNN ~ 49, -~f NNaAA-+a
DOVER, Feb. Wilmington IS to
have new city charter which is really
a non-partisan organic law.
At the senate's early evening. .ses-
Sion, the Wilmington city charter bill
was reported favorably with substi-
tute." This substitute differs materi-
ally with what was known as the
Sparks substitute. and provides
That the government of Wilmington
shall be vested in mayor and coun-
ellis, as now. but that there shall be
four departments, with department
heads. These heads OF departments
are 10 be appointed by the mayor,
whose authority is thus greatly ex-
panded. They are then TO form his
cabinet to meet with him weekly in ad
visory and consultation meetings.
The city is divided into four wards,
the dividing lines being Market street,
running north and south. and Eighth
street extending east and west. The
initiative and referendum is to be ap-
piled TO all the governmental fabric
and transactions.
The four departments are Public
Works. Public Safety, Claims and Dis
bursements and Public Highways. AL
though a part OF the Department OF
Claims and Disbursements. the treas
urer and receiver Of taxes are not to
be appointed by that department, but
elected by the people
There is no change in the Municipal
Court or its judiciary or control the
Democrats therefore who now have
control. see their only objection re-
moved.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT FOR OUR CITY

HE House Committee at Dover made re-
= port setting forth new systems of taxation by
which it is proposed to increase the revenue OF the
State. The public service corporations and the
brewers under the recommendations, are to be
taxed for the benefit of the State. Practically,
even if the recommendations of the committee are
put in force the benefit would not accrue to Will
mington. Money would be drawn from the city
for the support OF the State government just as
the city is relieved of the revenue derived from
The sale Of liquor here all Of which revenue goes
into the Golfers Of the State.
The State should not call upon Wilmington to
contribute any additional excessive share OF the
expenses Of the government We hope the City
Councmen will push their measure asking for
authority to levy new taxes for the benefit of the
city regardless Of any proposed action by the
Legislature to increase the revenues of the State
The city is in need of money and it should be
privileged TO secure it.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
THE WIFE GOT EVEN

STANFORD, CT. Feb. 19-Residents
of this town have been chuckling over
the way in which Mrs. F. ]. Knapp got
even with her husband. who is a ticket
agent for the New Haven railroad at a
local station.
For reasons best known to them
selves. Mrs. Knapp recently left her
husband. Following her departure
there appeared in a local paper the
following notice:
MY WIFE Grace. having left my bed
and board without any just cause or
.provocation, I warn the public in gem
eral that I viii not be responsible for
any bills she may contract.
IF. J. Knapp"
Many persons wondered, but the
next day they smiled when they read
the following notice from Mrs. Knapp:
Il would like TO inform the people
in general that / have done washing,
gone out by the day, kept roomers and
boarders to help support the house of
f. j. Knapp. and I never contracted
any bills for him and never intend to.
"Grace +. Knapp"
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
"WHISKY" COLD CURES
Danger Of Using Alcoholic Mixtures or
Coal Tar Tablets.

The most dangerous thing that one
can do when affected with a cough or
cold is to use medicine that contains
whisky or a tablet that is made Of
some coal tar product. Putting aside
all moral objections to filling up with
whisky or drugs because one has a
cold. the injurious physical effect
should be sufficient to keep one from
using these strong medicines.
The most sensible as well as the
only scientific way to treat a cough or
cold is by Dbhaling medication that
viii kill the germs and give relief to
tho irritated mucous membrane in the
nose, throat and lungs.
Among the fow remedies that are
used in this way. Hyomei stands pre-
eminent. 1t is breathed through a neat
pocket inhaler that comes with every
outfit. and the first breath Of its heal
ing air relieves the irritation, and its
continued use soon effects a thorough
cure.
The best people in wilmington al
ways keep Hyomei at hand in the vim
ter months and at the lrst symptoms
OF cold or bronchial trouble. use The
remedy ana prevent serious and lasting
illness. 10 you hsve any doubts as
t9 ths effects Of Hyomei in curiui
coughs. colds and all bronchial troubles
the guarantee 2. James Belt gives with
every outfit should convince you OF its
curative powers. A Hyomei outnt
costs 81, and II does not give salts
faction be- win return your money
Extra bottles Of Hyomei II needed.
can be obtained for soc, but the COM
plete outfit is usually enough to cure
several colds.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
Is This True?


Editor The Evening Journal.
Can It be possible that Delaware. the
smallest State I'm the Union, is trying
to impress her insignificance as to size
to the whole nation at the jamestown
Exposition by using for its exhibit a
building about the same size and cost
as a cowshed2 Visitors from this
State will also be reminded that our
generous Legislature have wisely de-
termined to try and sell the building
to some one for a summer house after
the fair. Perhaps some charitably in
clined Pennsylvania or New Yorker
viii purchase the building for a play
house for his children or to use It as a
potato house on his farm.
Another illustration of the micro
soopical penny squeezing policy now in
vogue is the action Of a branch of the
city government in turning down an
offer to clean Market street of snow
for $50, a sum about $3.50 less than
Philadelphia would cheerfully pay for
the same service.
It would seem as il Get all you can
and keep all you get" would be an ap-
propriate motto to nail on the whip
ping post, Delaware's recognized
heraldric emblem.
Yours respectfully,
Pennsylvania.
Wilmington February 19.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
Tuesday, February 70 1907.
LET DELAwAREs VOTES BE RIGHT.

FEAR there is q woelul lack of under
standing Of the merits OF the Senator
Smoot case on the part Of certain jealous advo-
Gates in this city OF the Senate exclusion resolu-
tom We do not see how any reasonable person
fully informed OF all the facts in that famous case
coHld be in favor of ihe passage of that resolu-
iion lhe Senate is not passing upon the merits
oi poly yganiys but merely ly-whether according to
the provision of the Constitution Of the United
States, Reed Smoot is disqualified TO sit III the
United States Senate There is an erroneous -int-
preston that Senator Sfnoot is a polygauist and
has plural wives and it is because of that inn
preston solely the opposition 70 Senator Smoot
Is based. But as a matter of fact, Senator Smoot
is not believer in plural nor is he so charged in
the Senate II is admitted by his opponents in
the Senate that he has never had more than one
wife, and that his private life is absolutely blame
less. Individually he has never done any wrong
over which the United States Senate has any
Jurisdiction. 1t would be a serious mistake for
the Senate to vote against seating a senator be-
cause OF the moral wrongs committed by other
members Of his religion. We hope Senators
Alice and dupont voting on the question to-mor-
row, will be guided solely by their understand
ing Of the provision of the Constitution as to the
qualification Of a senator, and not by the appeals
Of well meaning persons who unfortunately have
misunderstanding Of the merits of the case and
the question it involves
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
clean the streets.

Editor The Evening Journal.
After the last snow storm the street
and Sewer Department did excellent
work in having the street crossings
cleared Of the obstructing piles but
since that work have not noticed that
the department did anything e'se to
help clear up the city. At almost every
sewer inlet the water and melting
snow has frozen and blocked the
sewers, causing the water running
down the cutters to spread over the
streets and sidewalks. and making
them very dangerous 20 either teams
or pedestrians with very little
worl, these inlets could he dug ont and
once the water was started down it
would not freeze again This could
easily bedone by the department. en-
ployes, as they are unable at this time
to do any other work.
Respectfully yours,
Citizen.
Wilmington, February 49,
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
REPRESENTATIVES ARE DOING WELL.

IT HE House at Dover is to be congratulated
4 upon the speedy passage of the initiative
and referendum bill, as applied to Wilmington.
There was not a dissenting voice AS one OF the
Wilmington members justly put it, the vote in
this city at the last election showed unmistakaby
how the people regarded the proposed reform.
1t must cause our evening contemporary to be
highly elated when it glances at the solid vote Of
the House in favor OF the bill despite the strenu
ous opposition Of that newspaper. But this meas
ure was not the only victory achieved for the
initiative and referendum. In a substitute city
charter which was presented in both houses there
IS a provision for the referendum on the granting
oi franchises and bond issues. This desirable
Icaure would not have been placed in the bill had
il not been for the strength OF public opinion,
which demanded that the voters Of the city
should have a voice in deciding such important
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
PLUMBERS MUST
LIMIT CONTRACTS
will Be Compelled to Com
pIete All Work in Progress
Within Thirty Days

Members or the Board Of Health
Yesterday at their meeting adopted a
resolution refusing to grant to any
master plumber a permit to accept
more work when he already has on
hand one or more contracts, secured
through an order from the Board OF
Health that are not completed. This
measure was adopted because It had
been found certain plumbers Of the city
had devised schemes to secure
all the work ordered by the Board Of
Health and keep other plumbers out
OF the contracts
The resolution sets forth that each
plumber will have thirty days in
which to complete the contracts he has
accepted. If at the end Of that time
he has not finished the work the Street
and Sewer Department will refuse to
grant him any more permits and will
withhold all permits until such time as
he has completed the work in question.
The resolution will be presented to the
Street and Sewer Department at its
next meeting and they will probably
adopt the measure.
Some plumbers have been securing
all the work ordered done by the
Board Of Health, and only partly COM
pleting it. Then the work was al
lowed to go until they had time to at
tend to II. In the meantime other con-
tracts were received and partially COM
pleted, and work accumulated on them
so rapidly that they found It impossi-
BILE to do half Of Il while other plumb
ers were doing nothing. The new law
is intended to put a stop to this prac-
tice.
James Wilson. the new city engineer
recently appointed by City Council,
yesterday attended the meeting of the
board for the first time since his ap-
pointment. He is, as chief engineer, a
member of the Health Board.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
NOT YET WHAT 1T SHOULD BE.

HE substitute charter in providing for the
a initiative and referendum, and in other
ways, is an improvement over the instrument IA
vored by Senator Sparks. There is however, in
the new charter the Board of Control feature
which is Objectionable to many persons because
of its Capitalization of power. The mayor would
become the of the city so far as its political
welfare is concerned. 1t is a species of bureauoc-
racy that is passing away in enlightened govern
ment. There should be no one man power of
such extraordinary extent as is contemplated even
IN the substitute charter. The people should
have louder voice in the city government than
is provided in any Of the charter plums so far ad-
vanced.
Evening journal., 1907-02-19
UP AGAINST BROOKS
Special to The Evening journal

NINNtaA - AAN AaNNMAAN aNAAAAis
DOVER. Feb. 19.-The grangers OF
Bridgeville have entered protest
against superintendent OF Public
Schools John d. Brooks and have
commended Representative Newton for
opposing the increase in his salary.
now before the House. They charge
that the superintendent used improper
language in addressing the Bridgeville
Institute on Saturday.
Their resolution, sent here yester-
day In charge Of Recorder John T..
Green, of Sussex county, Is as follows:
Resolved, That we the members OF
Sunny Side Grange. OF Bridgeville, do
commend generally the work Of our
representatives in the General Assem-
bly, Hon. O. A. Newton. and espe-
cially do we commend him for his ef-
fort to advance the cause OF intemper-
ance and morality. and we also ap-
prove OF his opposition to the bill to
increase the salary of the superintend-
ent OF the public schools OF Sussex
county.
Friends Of superintendent Brooks de-
clared to-day that the educator was
fully justified under the circumstances
OF the opposition which had developed
against him. in using the language he
did. which was:
"A man who would thus work with a
/ legislator and thus stab me in the
back is so small that II would spit
upon him I would drown him." The
contention is that he further compared
the opponents who were aRitating the
people against him to feas which
while they bothered a fine dog almost
to death gave him Che consciousness
of knowing that they wore Infinitely
small
Professor Brooks has been excep-
tlonaliy active in undertaking the
f Sussex schools. and opposition has
arisen to him on this account.