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Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Republican overeonfldenee.

New York Press
We were not counting on Mr. Taft
himself when we predicted that every
body would be satisfied with the result
Of the eVrmont election. With a ine
scorn for the customs Cf politics the
nominee now asserts tha; the Vermont
Republican majority is deplorable he
cause IL is too large. and viii lead to
a deadly indifference on the part of
Republican voters. To this comment
Mr.. Brvan retorts that he knows sew.
eral sections of the country where Re-
putlicrns are not afflicted with over
confidence.
II is the fact that the Vermont re.
turns are misleading to those who do
not study them below tine surface. II
the total Republican vote is considered.
not the Republican plurality, there will
be little reason for over confidence. Only
In TIE Cleveland years has the total
Republican vote in the September elec-
tion fallen far below the figures Of last
Tuesday. There is more cause herein
for fearing apathy in November than
there is in the large Republican plllr-
alitv which Mr.. Taft bewails.
When Mr. Taft gets into the West
ern States he viii see the force Of his
opponents auip about the danger Of
Republicans being too sanguine Of sue
cess. Vermont is apart from the dc
batable territory where such events as
the defeat of Senator Long in Kansas
are signs that Bryan is a foe not to
be held in contempt. More Western
States are doubtful this year than
SNUG Fasteners imagine. When the
campaign lines are drawn in New
York It is also quite probable that the
Republican party here win quickly be
awake 10 the fact that there is not the
slightest reason for assuming that It is
all over but the shouting.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
TELLS OF HIS TRIP
TO MOUNTAINS

The Rev. DR. Hiram w Kellogg, Of
Grace NJ. r. Church. returned recently
from a vacation of five weeks spent
in the Pennsylvania mountains DR..
Kellogg is very enthusiastic I'm his
description Of the mountain scenery,
and Of the people he met
"Is it surprising to find" he said.
within almost one hundred miles OF
our great metropolis a wildness so ut
terly untamed. The State owns up-
ward of 10000 acres of reserve in
Pike county, and this is allowed 10
grow up to underbrush and abounds
with swamps and lakes. II is filed
with wild animals. In the township
where we were camping, under severe
restriction by tho game law, 105 deer
were taken out last season. Bear are
not numerous, and yet many are shot
there during the year. Rattlesnakes
are the pest. aud yet no seems to have
been hurt by them through all the past
years. A number We're killed within
few miles Of our camping place this
year, but none seemed to come into
that immediate vicinity. The old
hunters tell us that this snake. like the
deer. has his trails and does not &c
far from them. This Is not a pleasan;
feature Of the country to strangers and
no doubt mitigates against it as a
popular resort. The children OF the
farmers, however, in tiis country. 80
barefoot and are supremely thoughtless
about snakes or anything else They
seem little troubled with care Of any
kind and are happy in their simple
life"
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Friday. september II, I0Os.
MR.. RICHARDS AND MR. DAVIS.

TAT ITHOUT doubt the letter of Attorney
w General Robert II. Richards expresses
+he sentiments of a considerable number OF ke-
nublicans who have been dispeased with the
nomination of Mr. Frank II. Davis for the Office
OF attorney-general
THE JOURNAL preferred the nomination OF
another candidate, as THE JOURNAL believes,
as did many of the delegates at the conventon'
that some candidate other than MT. Davis
would have added strength to the ticket.
II would have been better, however had Mr..
Richards and the other attorneys who were op-
posed to the nomination OF Mr.. Davis, made
their influence felt before the convention met at
Dover. Prior to the convention HE JO,OiN
MAI, called upon the Republican lawyers OF the
State to express their opinions regarding the pro-
posed nomination for encouragement such
were not forthcoming. Those attorneys and
others who are dispeased with the nomination
now declare that they had no idea that the con-
vention would name Mr.. Davis.
However, the party is face TO lace with the
situation that an influential element intends to
oppose the election of Mr.. Davis. We hear these
reports on every side. The air is surcharged with
them, but it is only fair to say that on the other
hand we hear of reports friendly to Mr.. DAVIS
that is, that as he is placed on the ticket he
should be supported. In the latter. talk the ele-
ment Of fitness for the office does not seem to be
considered
The open attack upon Mr.. Davis, which we
have reason to believe will be followed by
other attacks and which movement is supported
by the most influential paper of the party in Sus-
sex county, puts Mr.. Davis in a delicate position.
THE JOURNAL cannot recall a similar as
saut being made upon one member OF the bar by
another in this State, and Mr.. Richards, there
FORE must have felt himself impelled by the
strongest sense of duty to act he has acted. No
nominee for attorney-general on the ticket Of
either party was ever before assailed because Of
alleged un6tness for the position. The issue has
been made and will be continued upon the per-
sonal fitness of the nominee, and it is for Mr..
Davis to state whether he intends to face such a
contest, which involves not only himself, but his
party as we'll To say the least assuming that
he possesses that senstiveness which has always
been distinguishing mark of the legal profess
sion in Delaware. Mr. Davis is forced into most
embarrassing position.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Water Storage Of Germs.
New York Globe.

New York Globe.
Among the various methods of
demicrobizing (see decurbonizing, de.
moralizing. etc) a public water supply.
one Of the most efficient is to put It
awav somewhere and let it alone for a
couDle of weeks-a process technically
known as storage. The usefulness Of
this system of purifcation has long
been known. but some recent expert
monts by an expert Of the London
(England) Water Board DIR. A. c.
Houston. seem to indicate that it's eff
cheney in eliminating bacteria has becn
underestimated.
DR.. Houston inoculated a number Of
samples Of water from the sources of
the London supply with typhoid germs,
and then set them away for varying
periods. All Of the germs were dead
in ten OF the samples after three weeks,
and the entire lot proved sterile at the
end of five weeks. Dc Houston ar
CUES from these experiments that stOr.
age is at least as important as fltra-
tion and that used IN conjunction
with the latter Il forms an ideal method
of safeguarding city water supplies.
The filtration Of raw" that is un>
stored water. is. he says an unsatis,
factory process which must be con-
Quoted very slowly TO secure even mod
crate efficiency. Following adequate
storage the water NAV be safely hur-
ried through the filter beds at a rate
quite out of the question with raw
water.
The interest II these conclusions to
New York city is obvious. They do
not OF course. constitute an argument
against the proposed altration plant,
which a an added safeguard Father
Knickerbocker has too long neglected
but they do show, that three or foui
weeks of storage preliminary to the
filtration process is fully as important
| as the latter
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Personal and Pertinent

AS he entered the restaurant the clothes
trayed him member Of the sporting fraternity
Choosing seat, he ordered oyster stew When
the dish brought to him he looked it with crt-
cal frown and then he hegan excitedy to peel off his
coat and vest
What's the matter? What's the matterr said the
landlord. hurrying 70 the table
The man looked at the stew, then at the landlord
Bet you shilings can swim from one oyster to
another"-Chlcago Journal
The gentleman who maintained that he was the on
GERS crew and passengers OF the brig Nancy was able
TO give fairly reasonable although probable proof
20 his title His is IN respects unique Yet
Mrs Anderson OF Greenvie tells tale of similar char
acer which he supported by documentary evidence
Yesm," she win tell YOU my daughter Elsie took all
teh honors 20 the high school graduation last June All
say and youn find there's others thatn say the same
because they her do IT,
The way OF the thing is this The class started in
with twenty-five boys and girls which good num-
ber considering one by one they dropped out M nm
TO last February there only Elsie and Baldwin
the grocers son. He got chance get a hrst-rate
job and took It. So Elsie finished out.
Well, when Il came 10 graduation Mr. Sawyer the
principal he and Elsie talked II all over and decided
that would be good idea TO have the regular oxercses
Just the same Myi But she had 10 worki
She had TO be salutatorian and vaedctoran in Latin
history and do the oraton Then there was the poem
and, which she told was the worst the prophecy
1t was big undertaking to accomplish all that but she
THE committee has her position there for next
and you be that sheil sec there's moren
one TO graduate every June after his"-Youths Com
panion.
The late George winthrop Sands passed last winter ~
St Mortz This robust and handsome youth with his
modest and pleasant air, favore with the
distinguished band Of curriers' bobsleghers and skers
who frequent the sunny village of the
Engadne.
There was ball Christmas night at the Kuhn Hotel
and Mr. Sands who entertained George CORVALLIS West
az his table during the ball supper told as a bottle OF
champagne was being opened parrot story
Il once had parrot" he said IT was a gray African
bird, an excellent tolker away for month with
my family and Of course. the parrot remained behind
with the
Well on my return found that the parrot had learn
60 new speech Every evening intervals OF fifteen
minutes II would repeat:
ha ma, ma Let's have another bottle. There's
no one here TO know ploDi Gurge- gurge- -gurgie!
"~~AAAe e"n stAf.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
LABOR VOTE DIVIDED.

q LEVELAND, O., is the home of the Social
- ist leaders among the workingmen who
have for years waged war upon Mr. Gompers as
the head of the American Federation of Labor
The Socialists made their influence felt on Labor
Day, and W. D. Haywood, leader of the West
ern miners, who was acquitted of completely in
the murder of the governor of Idaho, was the
chief orator. 1t was as much of a Socialist occa-
sion in Cleveland as Labor Day was a Bryan
event in Chicago.
The Cleveland papers report that ten thousand
woringmen were in the parade and that thou
sands gathered to hear the address of Hayward
which, of course, was a red warm appeal for the
Socialist party. The marchers cheered for Debs
the Socialist nominee, just those in Chicago
cheered for Bryan. At the same time the pa
raiders Kissed Mayor Tom Johnson, the leader Of
the Cleveland Democracy
Hayward, in his address, told of the growth of
the Socialist party. and predicted a two million
vote for Debs. That is the figure upon which
the Socialists bave rested their eyes. He said
the Socialist propaganda is making headway
among the small farmers of the Southwest a re-
markable advance If true, but we do not believe
that it is Gronlund, the coectivist writer always
asserted that the farmers would be the last per-
sons to come under the influence of Socialism,
and in his last work he recanted his statements
in a previous book In his earlier writings Gron-
lund declared that the same concentration of in
dustry going on with the farmers as was
witnessed in manufacturing. Subsequently he
admitted that further DEVELOPMENTS did not us-
tfy his earlier observations.
The chief point of the Cleveland meeting is
that it shows that the workingmen not lined
up for Bryan by any means, and that all those
who were in the Chicago parade. for example,
will not support Bryan at the polls. Even the
boldest would not assume that the ten thousand
men in the Cleveland procession that cheered
Debs and Kissed Mayor Johnson will support
Debs at the polls on election day.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Husbsnds to Mateh EurnIturs.

New York American.
Annoyed beyond endurance because
her husbands golden hair jars so
cruelty against the green hangings of
her drawing room, an artistic French
woman seeks a divorce from the Phil
istine The crude husband refuses to
dye his hair to a less clashlng shade
evidence enough that he no longer
loves, thinks the lady; although It
may be observed that he might have
to bleach and re-dye his locks should
his wife decide to change the color
scheme of her rooms.
A simpler method, II the artistic
temperament would permit Of a wait
would be for the lady TO keep on
worrying the husband little longer
when he viii grow bald and go with
most any furniture
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Notes and Comments

However speaking seriously. for this really SER
ious matter there lot of people in the United
States who not excluded from contributing to the
campaign funds, hard they may try make it ap-
pear that they are.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Census Department announces that there TO-
100000 hogs in broad land. The number Of end
seats has been given outChicago Record Herald
Nevertheless burned-up automobile is better than
that skds over high embankment and turns som =
ersault-Boston Herald
II is announced that have to cut
his vacation short account Of suffering from over
rest.-lndianapos News
New York rounder complains that chorus girls put
airs. Wen. they have to put somethng-Detroit
Free Press
Mr.. Bryan has been accustomed losing. that he
has lost again This time he lost his purse Kansas
city. Next time he will lose the election.-Chester
Times
Ohio adds a poll parrot at political powwow the
phonograph means Of enlivenng the campaign. And
stil it drags.-New York World.
City Man stole set Of false teeth and the
Judge him ten year gnaw on.-Atlanta
Georgian
That wonderful wheat that produces 200 bushels to
the 10 have dwindled simply point where
The Saturday Evening Post stung space rates.
Atlanta Georgian.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
DEMOCRATIC PEACE.

nNE Of our local Democratic leaders remarks
that the present Democratic campaign is
being marked by absence Of "knives and
hatchets. Is it possible that peace has been pro-
claimed between the friends of the Hon. Charles
d. Bird and Mr. Millard F Davis and that at the
meetings of the County Committee the knives
have not been kept with a keen edge just to be
ready to do little whiting? We think that one
of our heavyweight Democratic warriors has his
war paint on and is going TO the Dover conven-
ton with an unconcealed tomahawk
And If they are not using knives and hatchets
in the contests for delegates what are the friends
Of Mr.. Dennis Buckley and Mr. John s. Dorsey
doing in the Forty Acres where the battle is
waging furiously and where each side is prepar-
ing for contest tomorrow which will shake the
Brandywine hills far away Figuratvely speak
ing, If the knives do not fash, won't there be a
few brckbats flying around through the air? II
IS enough TO make the friends OF Mr. Buckley. for
example, angry when they hear the chief areu-
ment used against him is that he is an up
Creeker We understand that the streets OF the
romantic Forty Acres have been swept clear Of
bricks, and there will be an od-time Democratic
struggle at the polls tomorrow.
This is merely an instance. The battle will
Evening journal., 1908-09-11

circles, according to Mr.. Marvel it might be in
teresting to know the brand of soothing syrup
that has been administered to the Hon. Landreth
L. Layton, OF Georgetown, who, we are informed,
is also a candidate for the Democratic nomination
for governor. He has prepared a political
prescription for the Hon. William Salisbury
which may cause the latter to cry for the oxygen
tank Mr. Layton, who is a chip off the Layton
blocl-and those who know the doctor know the
nature OF the bloc1-made himself heard at Den
ver in manner that caused even Battling Handy
TO subside. As Mr. Layton is man of substance
he will be heard from sooner or later. Think of
a Democratic Layton with Dr. Gale offering
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
MANI cIub Of Trinltv PnrIsh

The first regular monthly meeting Of
the Mems Club of Trinity Parish will
be held Monday evening. September
IA, at o'clock in the Parish House,
Delaware avenue and Adams street. A
good musical program viii be given.
All men OF the parish are invited TO
attend and bring a male friend.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Editorial Opinion
Basketball at swsrthmore.

Chester Times.
Swarthmore College. which has
placed football on the list Of tabooed
sports intends devoting its energies to
basketball which is one of the live
liest games invented. There Is ample
chance TO get hurt in this pastime, but
the players do not fall in a heap upon
PROSTATE player and try to crush the
life out of him. Furthermore. in bas-
ketball there is something doing"
every moment Of the contest. Speed.
alertness, skill, quick judgment and a
clear eye are some Of the requisites Of
the sport i'm the cage
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
SCREAMS SAVE GIRL
Attempted Assault in Chester But Men
Were Scared Of.

CHESTER, Sept 1i-whne going
through an alley to her home last
night Agnes Murray. a iT-year-old girl,
was attacked by two men who throw
her to the ground. The girl fought
like a tigress and screamed loudly for
help. Her assailants became frighten
ed and dropping their intended victim,
fed. They were pursued for several
squares by residents of the vicinity.
but made their escape. Miss Murray
is in a serious condition. due to her
frightful experience and the shock to
her nervous system.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
80. I1nited pnhlishers' Association

The Publishers Bulletin, oncal organ Of the UNITED
THE WIIAfI NGrON EVENING Jont IN A-,,h mas na "a
than 02O daily, Whlch nus
been verified by examination 80
The examination was by MT Arthur KoppeL sem
association, who offers 10 wager
Of his own money, undertake TO prove that me n
JOURNAL has the largest palu cHeuaNVh "a "' -
per printed in wilmington
Evening journal., 1908-09-11

The Distribution of Estates
Of deceased persons where no
VIII is made as provided by the
Statutes Of the State Of Della
ware Is Of interest 10 many
persons and is set forth in
pamphlet which we have pre-
pared for distribution. This
pamphlet may be obtained at
the Office Of this Company or
will be mailed upon request.
DIRECTORS.
DR.. J. A. Draper, Jr. J. Wilkins Cooch
y. Bftnghurst, Jr. Willard saulsburv
.. SnlIh Brennan Robert B. Wheeler
Sos. l.. Carpenter John H. Danny,
Otho Nowland Thos ~ Pailsb
John Bancroft Victor n VVooiiav
Franklin Taylor, Henry r Thon,neon
Saml X. Smith
Evening journal., 1908-09-11

wage throughout the city and perhaps in the
country At all events it looks to us as if the
Democrats are going to have lively old time at
their convention on Tuesday
Evening journal., 1908-09-11

The Sussex delegates, with DR.. Paynter as
their candidate, propose to paint out the New
Castle county slate. Wary RAILROAD
DEMOCRATS" are winking out Of the corners
of their eagle eyes
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
eroke Ann FaIIIna Down stairs.

William Quinn, aged AS years. fell
down the stairs Of his home. No SOC
Spruce street. and fractured his left
arm. He was taken TO the Homeo-
pathic Hospital.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
Teacher RESIGNS.

Miss Miriam Rowland has rendered
her resignation as assistant principal
of School No. 8, Seventh district, Of
Cecil county.
Evening journal., 1908-09-11

AS the Paynter train from Sussex rolls into
Dover on Tuesday morning will not the locomo-
tive give extra toot of satisfaction owing to
the fact that the Railroad Democrats" again
have their hands on the old Democracy?
Evening journal., 1908-09-11
FINANCIAL


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Evening journal., 1908-09-11
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENTS.

AssOclaton
Of American Ad-
vertisers is COM
The Association Of American ppreaf advertisers
Advertisers New York City, has of this county,
examined certified to the circulation dores only such
this publication Only the figures OF papers submit
circulation contained in its report are TO its
guaranteed BY the Association. d nos,tive proof
p4e4" s.s. $$,G@ $$s + i: .;;$5 -;
L.. >A4A-Ad issued 10 this pa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25

the It publishes charts sailing directions and
the dangers of the and putting its results into
venent form. 1t is truly the track walker of the
great deep. issue of its monthly chart shows
five derelicts washing about the North Atlantic.
And with the perversty Of nanimate things they seem
where they least wanted and where their
presence potential of harm. Partially submerged,
scarcely detachable by day. and almost if not wholly in
visible by night their existence is unsuspected and
the question of Pumping into them at night in thick
chance. The sod5en and sullen
things make signal, give warming
The danger that lies in them has been frequently
empied. Many disasters known to have been due
to collision with these half-hdden dangers, and it is
believed that many in that melancholy roll of miss
ing" have staggered away from such impact to plunge
crushed in and roaring into holds
and fire
Most derelicts the wrecks of lumberaden sailing
vessels floating their cargoes the Lloyds phrase
it, long ago steamship added to the list,
and drifted about the North Atlantic to
shipping nearly four months This the Dun
more wrecked on the of Europe. No action
taken for its destruction until the British government
moved by complaints sent out squadron Of
warshps to search for and destroy the wreck The
search proved unavaling, the vessel probably having
foundered before the quest begun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
a mr. ee1szsRekb JTczS m 79zE

Over year ago the Treasury Department invited bids
for the construction Of craft specially equipped for the
destruction of the many derects which continued
menace to vessels the high
This derelict destroyer, which has been named the
Seneca has wireless equipment, which enables her to
receive and give information to the location of dere
cts. In addition the vessel is provided with an am
muniton stored with high explosives for sinking
and blowing to pieces floating hulls and wreckage AS
in warshps provision is made for flooding the magazines
any emergency. The destroyer is furnished
with equipment designed assist her in salvage and
fe-sayng work for which size and the 17O0horse-
power engines will render her highly efficient
1t would seem to require some vessel, specially
equipped as is to clear the Of the wrecks
which now incumber In recent years it has been
the custom for rescung ship after taking of the crew
OF a storn-beaten vessel fire to the wreck. But
derelict rarely, if destroyed by this means,
and for the good reason that when wooden sailing
vessel which the type of craft that the majority of
derecs are made of reaches condition when its crew
finds it imperative abandon, it, the hull, rule,
has become waterogged. and therefore efforts to de-
stroy it by fire are almost always unsuccessful Such
fires as are knded do little else except to burn away
the upper works. thereby leaving the wreck still more
invisible.
Through its photographic office, the Navy Department
contributes the safety of all who travel