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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06
IA TIMES, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 6, 1907

certain, the temperance sentiment
will have its impress upon both the
Democrat and the Republican
parties and men selected forlthe
Legislature in the future must pay
respect to the wishes Of the good
people of the state. 1t will be SO
in Smyrna and it must be in other
representative districts. The fight
has just begun and the wave of
public sentiment will be a no
uncertain factor in future cam
paigns.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06

The troubles for Bryan as a per
petual Presidency seeker are in
creasing. Just as he reached New
York boom was formally started
there for Chanler, the Democratic
Lieutenant Governor of the State,
who won the election in 1906, al
though Hughes, the Republican,
carried the GOvernorship. This
fact makes New York once more
the enemy's country for the Ne
braskan.
A few days ago mass meeting
in Shelbyville, Tenn, declared for
a Southern nominee for the Presi-
dency this time, although it did not
single out anybody in particular for
the nomination. Probably the fact
that half a dozen Southern men
have been mentioned in connection
with the candidacy by different
politicians and newspapers had
something to do with that gather
ing's reticence on that point. This
determination of the South to talk
out against Bryan is fact of some
consequence. The Nashville Amer
lean says the Shelbyville gathering
has started a movement which
may develop into something very
important" Nashville is to have
a meeting on Nov. II which, ac-
cording to that journal, is to "give
Democrats all over the state an op-
portunity to express their senti-
ments on this question, and to call
on other Southern States to hold
= conventions for like purpose. ,"
1t is possible that the protest
throughout the South against Bryan
may be strong enough to impel him
to withdraw and to give the CON
servatives a chance. 1t will be re-
membered that the conservatives
controlled the St. Louis Conven-
ton of 1904 and put up one of their
most distinguished representatives
His maltreatment by the voters on
election day put his element in the
shadow for the next year or two,
but some of its members are again
demanding the privilege of select
ing the nominee. This time the
old "safe and sane" section of the
Democracy has the South on its
side, and may accomplish some
thing in the Convention. At the
polls, though, the result can hardly
differ much from that of 1904
Radicalism is dominant in ths
Democracy of the North and West
An anti-Bryan Democrat next yea
would probably fare as badly as tn,
same sort Of a candidate did thre,
years ago.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06

RoBT. D. HOFFECKER, JR.,
Editor and Business Manager.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06
Yesterdays Election v

Yesterdays Election was the
most orderly seen in Smyrna for
many a day. The weather was
ideal and practically no DRINKS
were seen on the streets. There
may have been method for this but
at any event it showed a marked
and pleasing contrast to former
Election Days.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06

We are selling our Shoes at IS cents on the
dollar. They can't be beat. We ask you
to come to our store and look at our goods
and you will surely buy.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06

A OYERyISEMENTS-THE SMYRNA TIMES is the
business medium not only tor the town 1t rep
reseRts, but for the outlying district of which
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton
GentOn, Cheswold, Leipsie, &c. rate OF 81
cents an inch for first insertion and 25 cent
Tor each subsequent insertion will be charged
or transient advertising. Locals and Reading
Notices, 10 cents per lineiper issue. A speca
discount on all semi-snnusl and yearly adver
tisemenk.
7 5R1S-SUBsCRIPTIoN- so per annum. II
psid strictly in advance s1.OO. No paper is
discontinued until all arrears are paid up
except at the option of the publishers.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06
PACKING HOUSES MAKE OFFER rOpARMRR
Withhold Certain Portion Of Their Pack Which
They Offer at 81 IL Cents Per Dozen Cans

FOitiOu VI luclF fdCk WHICH
They Offer at 81 IL Cents Per Dozen Cans
HARRINGTON, Nov. 4:-Several of the
packing companies and establishments
which have had remarkable year with
the tomato packing industry, have
made splendid offer to farmers and
townspeople who aided them in making
the record breaking packs. They offer
to withhold from their shipments to
the cities a certain proportion out to
these friends of the business at S7b
cents per dozen cans. The farmers
and townspeople are accepting the
generous offer. It is believed that
these goods will command $1.44 per
dozen during the winter.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06

All credit to the womanhood of
Smyrna! She did herself proud
and her goodly influence undoubt-
eddy made an impression that won
votes.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06
COURT SEPARATES mISMATED COUPLES.
-Four Couples Granted Divorce By the Superior
Court Of Kent cOuuty-LIcenses Issued.


At the recent session of the Kent
County, Superior Court, four couples
were granted divorce as follows: Will
liam Martindale; from Mary E.
Martindale; Aaron B. Barlow from
Gertrude E. Barlow; Jefferson L. Ford
from Clara S. Ford; George W. Moore
from BERTHE M. Moore. The following
liquor licenses were granted: Hotels
Richard L. Lloyd, Kenton; John G.
Sharpe, Dover; Amy Ford Walker,
Dover; Philemon r. Dill, Frederick;
Joshua @. Armstrong, Harrington;
John J. Ryan, Leipsic; William H.
Poor, Hartly. Druggists-LeYiScott
Dover; J. Frank Startling, Dover;
Clifton & Raymond, Smyrna; Benton
N. Weldon, Smyrna. The total cost
of the October term of courts, includ-
ing pay for the grand, petit and special
jurors, as we'll as court officers,
amounted to S741.O4. Fines amount
ing to between $500 and $500. imposed
at the present session, have been col
lected by the sheriff.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06

UFFICE:-Next Door to the Fruit Grower
EstiOnal Bank.
Telephone. No. 10.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06
1T PAYS

To Buy good Clothing, pro-
vided you do not have to pay
too much for it; Why? Be-
cause it costs less in the end
and as it wears longer and
looks better. SIS is a popular
price with us ON Suits or Over
coats. Any style at this price.
Black Thibets, Black dag
onals, Mixed Worsteds, Fancy
Cheviots. > and Cassimers.
Suits as low as SIS to S..
Finer ones SIS to SIS. Over
coats at SIS. Fall Coats,
Rain Coats and Winter Over
coats, ali in and ready. Blacks,
Oxford and Fancy Cheviots.
Other Coats SIS to S.. Finer
ones $50 to $40. Full line
Prince Albert, Tuxedo and
Full Dress Suits for special
occasions. Don't forget our
Boys and Children's Cloth
ing Dept.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06
The SMYRNA TlAL>
SMY2'M0, Del

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 9, 1907
Fouu d'by Robert D. Hofeeker July 5, 1854
Editor and Proprietor until Fe bruLry 10, 1907
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06

THE SMYRNA TIMES is published at Smyrna
Del, every Wednesday afternoon.
rHE TIMES is an independent paper devoted to
the welfare of the town it represents and the
state OF which it is a part 1t also gives the
items of importance of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-06
NEXT SUNDAY At AsBURY NJ. E. CHURCH
Dr.. Watt Will Make a Short Statement on the
Result Of The Local Option Campaign.

Rev. Robert Watt d. d. pastor of
Asbury M. E. Church will preach next
Sunday morning on "Why Moses was
not permitted to enter the Land of
Promise" In the evening he will
resume his series and preach on
Enemies of Marriage" At both the
morning and evening services he will
have some statement to make concern
ing the result of the Local Optionl
Campaign.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28

were pre-eminent in their contr1but1Ons-Che 'i
ation Of the Bible into the vernacular and the IL
vention of the art of printing 1t was the ln'oD
ton Of printing by Gutenberg, in 1850, and us IN
PRODUCTION into England by William CaXVon' III
1916 that paved the way for the publication OF tne
first printed English Bible by William Iyndale' III
1886 In the dissemination of the gospel the ART
Preservative of All Arts has always been the
handmaiden of the church"
Mr. Keener evidently did not know that the
darkness of medieval superstition which weighed
on his mind 'the moral degradation and churchy
Indifference" which disturbed him so much are
worn-out phrases of the ignoramuses who take for
granted the truth of assertions that pass current
only with the unlearned Certainly he did not
know that the invention of printing, which ne auds
so highly was the outgrowth of that "churchly IN
difference" which stimulated Gutenberg, a Cath
olic to devise some means Of preserving and dis
tributing knowledge. He could not have known that
Caxton the Englishman whom he praises so high
". and who introduced printing into England
was another Catholic. Surely he does not know
that most of the literature that has been preserved
through all the ages has been saved to mankind by
the same "churchly indifference" which he cites so
gliby-and so ignorantly
Some of the Catholic journals have taken hee-
ner seriously enough to blame the publishers OF the
Typographical Journal for admitting his lueubra-
tions to their columns We think that IS an error;
men of Keener's type afford excellent opportun-
ity to dispel Illusions like the porous plaster OF
commerce they may not be particularly pleasant in
the application but they manage to achieve uneN-
pectedly good results. Keener may be and prob
ably is an ignorant ass but discussion of his thesis
is bound to elucidate questions and produce infor-
nation in a way to profit the Catholic layman,
clergyman and organization.
Instead of assailing him. the editorial fraternity
of the church ought to be thankful for the Keeners
and all their kind
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28

grow up to regard the moralties a small part of
their duty to the Divine Father. No wonder still,
that the one significant outcome of state-aided ed
ucauon minus spiritual instruction and guidance
is deplOrabe disregard of such obligations as
come with perception of the spiritual law applied
to everyday affairs
The finest mind in the world, trained to the last
degree IN the arts and sciences, given every oppor-
tunlty to develop along intellectual lines and
equipped for the struggle with the world would yet
be lmperfectly educated if it had been given no
spiritual upIft by instruction and preparation for
the higher life of the soul There are no fads in
morality; either right or wrong governs. and the
perception as to what is right and what is wrong,
the power to choose the right, the fine inspiration
which furnished this power-these are infinitely
more valuable in education than any other instruc-
ton and training that may be given. Mans mind
is a wonderful factor in his growth and in the
worlds great achievements; but mans soul is so
much greater, its power is so much more wonder
full, its destiny is so much more important than
the ultimate attachments of the mind that it is
nothing less than criminal to neglect it as the pub
lie school system does.
The ministers and laymen of undiscerning mind
know that something is wrong with the states sys-
tenn of education, but they do not get to the root
of the matter. Fads are wrong as any dissipation
of energy is wrong; top-heavy supervision is
wrong multiplicity of studies is wrong. But if
all these faults were corrected the great wrong the
fatal defect of the system would still remain so
long as the public schools of the country omit the
education of the soul while they teach the mind
Therein lies the radical difference bet,renn +be
Catholic conception of education and the national
system; and therein lies the reason for choosing
the Catholic schools for Catholic children no mat
ter what the comparison between them may be in
other unessentiaI details.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
NEW MARRIAGE LAWS.

In this issue will be found the text of the new
decree issued by the Sacred Congregation OF the
Council by the order and with the authority of
the Holy Father. Our readers should read it care
fully and if they fail to understand its full i'm
port and far reaching consequences they should
consult those whose duty it is to interpret its mean
ing. The Catholic church always safeguards the
sacredness and sanctity of the marriage tie.
valid marriage binds till death, excluding future
marriages till death sewers the matrimonial bond.
Hitherto the difficulty experienced by all priests,
when application was made by married parties for
a remarriage, was to ascertain whether the first
marriage was valid or not, or whether the i'm
pediment known as that of "NIixed Religion" or
that of Difference of Worship" existed not.
These difficulties will be partially removed when
the present decree comes in force. Hence the ne
cessity of a careful perusal of the whole decree.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
INLAND WATERWAYS.

A convention will be held on October 4 at
Memphis, Tenn, of the Deep Waterway associa-
ton, the chief subject of consideration to be the
work of improving the channel of the Father of
Waters to the needs of trade. There will be about
5000 delegates from all sections of the Mississippi
valley in attendance; President Roosevelt is ex-
pected to be there, and the inland waterway COM
mission and the governors of a number of states
will lend their assistance to the success of the
meeting.
1t used to be that when conventions of almost
any character were held, there was a great deal
of oratory and much fulsome praise of those who
posed as the leaders, and a never-ending flow of
benefits to follow the accomplishment of the OBJ
jects of the convention The Deep Waterway as
ISOLATION has outlived that period of its existence
for the men composing it seem to be practical;
they know all about the benefits to be derived from
channel improvements, and they do not require any
long-winded oratory to show where these benefits
are coming from. They have these things all
figured out. The improvement will cost so much,
and the saving will be so much. The figures show
where the people will profit
Besides the main channel of the Mississippi,
there are various tributaries which will receive the
attention of the association, and the proposition
of a ship canal from Chicago to the river to con-
meet the Great Lakes with the great central valley
will be discussed. 1t is vast enterprise the fig
ures showing the cost to approximate $30O,OOO,0OO
But it is estimated the saving on freight ship
ments originating in the lake region and destined
for inland points, or vice versa, will allow fair
margin of profit on the investment. Besides, the
advocates of the scheme see in the opening of this
canal chance to use something like $9O,O0OOOO
worth of steamboats, the whole year round instead
of having them tied up on account of weather con-
ditons from early fall to late spring in some lake
port
The plans to develop our waterway facilities are
said to be not only feasible but necessary to the
economic welfare of the people. The Deep Wa
terway association is sure of its ground but will
confer and attempt to work out the details of its
mammoth enterprises. The cooperation of the
national government seems to be an essential fea-
ture of the improvement plans, but whether this
can be secured, whether congressman and senators
can be interested in so vast scheme for internal
Improvement remains to be been.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
OSWALD CRAWFORD.

Since the discontinuance of Oswald Crawford's
descriptive letters of Arizona and Mexico last
July, several communications have been received
asking if the distinguished and literary correspond
ent would renew his instructive and interesting
tcles on the natural wonders aboriginal tribes and
terrestrial formations of other yet uexplored ter
rtories. We are pleased to inform all readers
that we have secured the services of Oswald Craw-
ford for another series of articles These with his
other descriptive articles are all copyrighted, and
will be published in book form when completed.
His correspondence in this issue opens with de-
scription of the peninsula of Lower California,
Mexico. Being the production of scholarly mind
and close observer familiar with the lands and
races he describes we bespeak for these letters a
careful perusal
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
A HUMAN POROUS PLASTER.

At meeting of the Episcopaian Clerical as
ISOLATION of the diocese of Maryland recently one
W. Morse Keener appeared by invitation as a rep
resentative of the Baltimore Typographical union
to address the clerics on "The Church and Organ
lied Labor" Mr.. Keener appeared to have a curl
Gus conception of his duty as invited speaker
and his obligations as guest judging by his
marks as reproduced in the Typographical Jour
nal.
Eulogizing his own art of printing he went
back into history for commentary that amaz-
ing to his hearers quite as much for its ignorance
as for its lack of courtesy. When he got into full
swing, Mr. Keener became rhetorical not to say
eloquent He said:
"From the darkness of medieval superstition,
moral degradation and churchly indifference, west
ern Europe passed into that wonderful period of
the revival of learning which call the renais-
sance. and that revival of religion which call
the reformation. Toward this new birth two forces
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
THE ERMoUNTAM AND COLORADO cATHoc SEPTEMBER g. 1907

spiritual religion is established in such communi
ties-if it be strict and uncompromising-ther
will be a revulsion, which revulsion will leave
large number of people without any hold upon re-
ligion. Such persons are very liable to run a com
petitive race with each other for the palm of the
greatest intelligence, perception and insight out
of which come proportion which are rattle-head
ed" Further on the writer would wish it to be I'M
derstood that the more highly the intellect is de-
veloped the more prone it is to novelties "The
Athenians," he continues were the most highly
intelligent people of their. age. New England was
described 1900 years before it came into existence
And they took him (St PAUL. and brought him
into Areopagus, saying, May we know what this
new doctrine, whereof those speakest is? For thou
brngest strange things to our ears; we would
know therefore what these things mean For all
the Athenians and strangers which were there spent
their time in nothing but either to tell or to hear
some thing"
Exactly The Athenians had lost the knowledge
of the true and only God and were cropping in the
dark, IN search for truth and the unknown God"
of whom they had not heard ST. Paul came to
make known to them the existence of God the at
tributes of God, the divinity of Jesus Christ. "and
when they had heard of the resurrection of the
dead, some indeed Knocked; but Others said, we
will hear thee again concerning this matter"
New England was described 1900 years before
it came into existence"
Again we say exactly so. Father Beare came
to Bangor Me-, in 1856, to make knc4n the knowl-
edge OF the true God to the New Englanders and
the religion founded by our Divine Lord and they
covered him with hot tar and feathers and rode
him naked on fence-rail. He was not quite as
lucky as st. Paul. He lost his mind and died in
an insane asylum Bishop Fitzpatrick preached to
the people of Boston the doctrines of Jesus Christ
and the teachings of his church, and they met his
arguments with stones, breaking the windows of
his cathedral, attacking the Irish immigrants of
South Boston, burning the convent at Charestown
and hunting the sisters into a neighboring swamp
where one of them persisted from exposure.
Their sons and grandsons are now taking their
religion in liberal doses from the cunning hands of
Mrs Katherine Tingley Mrs. Baker Eddy and Mrs
Annie Besant, heavily reinforced by the soul of
Madame Blavatsky. The fathers have eaten sour
grapes and the childrens teeth are on edge. These
socalled highly intellectual people are now in re-
ligion and in the supreme questions of the SOUL
led by sensational women, the pythonesess of New
England paganism Truly, whom the gods wish
to destroy, they first make mad
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
MORALS AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Every once in while some acute observer dis
that the public schools are defective either
in omission of educational necessities or commits
sion of educational faults; and whenever any crit
ical study of public school systems is made by
qualified critic he is sure to place emphasis upon
the neglect of the spiritual side of the pupils or
upon the dissipation of energy through fads and
fances which are unessential to true intellectual
development
The most recent wall, one truly pathetic because
OF its hopelessness comes from the Rev. Gilbert 2.
Jennings of Cleveland a minister who cannot be
accused of friendliness toward the parocha school
or of hostility to the public school idea. Mr.. Jen-
nngs deduces from his observations that the pupils
of the state are being taught so many branches of
knowledge that they learn none of them well.
81 do not mean to say" declares the preacher,
chat it is because of the incompetency of public
school teachers that this is So but it is because
of the system under which they are working.
'They given many minutes for this sub
ject, and so many for that, with the result that
when students complete the course they have
smattering of many subjects and not enough of
any one.
"This condition of affairs is growing
every year. The public school supervisors in
Producing subjects into their schools which do not
benefit the students mentally, and that take time
from the more important branches Athletics and
the study of higher branches are given atten-
ton every year. At present in the public schools
there are actually more supervisors engaged in
these unnecessary branches than there in those
studies which supposed to benefit student
most when he has taken up his work in life"
Mr. Jennings might have gone much further
and applied his comment truthfully to any public
school system in America. He might have said that
the moral and spiritual side of the childs nature is
totally neglected in the public schools; neglected,
not by accident or by lack of facilities, but by de
slGn as though it crime to teach morals to
children. He might have said also, that the boys
and girls who survive the national education sys-
tenn emerge from their schools without any clear
conception of their duty toward their fellow men
or toward their Creator although they are duly
impressed with their duty toward themselves and
the necessity for getting their full share OF the
worlds comforts-if they can-out of the struggle
for life.
Imagine the result of system which supervises
the child's drawing, his spelling and reading, his
mathematics his very physical exercises, and pays
no attention to the growth of his SOUL his attitude
toward the Divine law and his obligations to his
fellow creatures. No wonder the thoughtful men
of the nation deplore the growth of materialism
and seshness and desire for physical qualification
of desire. No wonder that the children of today