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The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

No candidate for President ever wag-
ed a political warfare on a higher moral
plane than William ]. Bryan. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is a good second in his
views but he was elected by the use of
the political contributions from the vely
men he berates. That is the reason his
action is so calling to those who believe
him a political migrate. That is the
reason they cannot trust him. But so
long as George B. Cortelyou, who hand
led the'campaign fund is at the head of
the U. S. Treasury the contributors to
the fund can be repaid many fold.
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THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
Most Highly Priced of the Surviyfns
Orders of ChtvaIry,

Most Highly Priced of the Surviving
Orders of Chivalry.
OF all the orders of medieval chiyal.
ry which have survived the shock of
successive revolutions on the continent
of Europe since the great cataclyspa Of
1850 that Of the Golden Fleece is per-
haps the most distinguished and the
most highly coveted by personages Of
royal birth or of illustrious patricfan
lineage.
The badge of the order is a figure of
a sheep in embossed gold suspended
from a heavy chain Of gold. The full
robes consist of a long mantle of Grim
son velvet cut in the fashion of a sac
erdotal cope, richly embroidered at
the borders with emblematic devices of
stars, half moons and feeces Of gold
and lined with white satin, over a
doublet and hose of crimson damask,
The full robes also comprise a "chap-
eron," or hood, with a long, flowing
streamer of black satin, but this head
gear has In modern times been general
ly dispensed with.
Originally the robes of the order,
which was founded in 1920 by Philip
the Good, duke Of Burgundy, were of
crimson cloth lined with white lambs
wool, and this circumstance has some
what strengthened the theory that the
Golden Fleece was Instituted by Philip
the Good In grateful recognition of the
immense treasures which the Duke of
Burgundy had acquired from the wool
of the iocks reared on his vast estates
In Flanders. Be it as 1t may, the wool
en- costume was changed in 1473 at a
chapter held In Valenciennes for the
more costly materials of velvet, ~taffeta,
damask and golden embroidery.-Lon-
don Telegraph.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

Mahlon Pitney, who has just been
made Chancellor by Governor Fort,
has had a rapid rise in public life. He
served two terms in Congress, was
then elected to the State Senate where
he served with distinction for three
years. Governor voorhees, appointed
him a justice of the Supreme Court in
1901, a position which he held until
his appointment as Chancellor. Mr..
Pitney is only 40 years of age and is
probably the youngest man that has
ever been appointed to the Chance
lor's office.
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Labor's Lost Fight.

Labor lost a long drawn out fight in
a decision or the Supreme Court last
week. 1t was a case that dates clear
back to the Chicago railroad troubles
of 1893. The case was that of William
Adair, master mechanic of the Louis
vile and Nashville road, who had
threatened to discharge an engineer of
the Erdmann Act that prohibited rail-
roads engaged in interstate commerce
from d~ischarging employ ees because
they belonged to labor unions. The
Supreme Court holds that the law is
unconstitutional. Justice Harlan de-
livered the opinion aud said that so
long as there was no contract and no
time limit set to the employment of
the man, Congress had no more right to
pass a law preventing his discharge
than it had to pass a law preventing
him from quitting his employment. 1t
was a rule the court said that would
have to work ways. If there is a con-
tract between the employer and the en-
ployee, it must be respected by both of
them. But when there is no contract.
there is nothing to prevent the empolye
from quitting if he wishes and similarly
there is nothing to prevent the railroad
from discharging him without giving
any reason for the act. Justice Harlan
said if the right of Congress to pass snch
a law were allowed, there would be
nothing to prevent Congress passing a
law making a crime for the railroads to
employ any but Union men and this
would be absurd on the face of it:
Justice McKenna and j ustice Holmes
dissented from this opinion, Justice say
ing that the decision of the court was
along very narrow lines. Justice Hol-
mes said the right to make contracts
had been stretched to the limit by the
decision and intimated that Congress
had the right to legislate so as to en-
courage the formation of labor unions.
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Standard Arms Co.

At the annual meeting of the Standard
Arms Co., in Wilmington, the following
directors were elected; Pierre s. du
Pont, Edwin s. Cramp, w. s. Hilles,
Irenee DUPONT, William Bush and w. D.
Condit, and at a meeting of the board
the following officers were chosen: E. s.
Cramp, president; Irenee du Pont, vice.
president; w. ID. Condit, secretary; Will
liam Bush, treasurer; Morris F. Smith
was elected superintendent Of the works.
Reports showed that progress is being
made in the installation of machinery and
other preparations for starting the plant.
Resolutions were passed on the death
of the late superintendent, VIM. X. du
Pont.
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ACROSS HI RIVER.

There is plenty of money in Whining.
ton. On Tuesday the $4,000 issue Of
New Castle county bonds for the improve.
ment of the highways of the county were
sold to James F. Nields tor 1892. 565.
Other Wilmington, Philadelphia and New
York concerns also bid for the issue.
The board of Trade, of Wilmington
have decided to abandon their annual
SIS a plate dinner and donate
S. a piece to the Associated Charities for
the relief Of the people who have been
reduced to want thru the closing Of plants
and other asons It has been estimated
that 5000 in Wilmington are out of
work.
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DO|ACS At TRENTON,
Work of Legislature Begins to
Show Results.
JESS STIRS HOUSE MEMBERS.
Local Option Bill DETERMINATIONS
Confirmed-West to Be State Comp
troIler-Several Bills Passed-Ad-
ministration Measures Introduced.
Important Legislation Pending.
Especial Correspondence


Trenton, Feb. 5.-There were legisla-
tive sessions only Monday night and
Tuesday during this the fourth week
Of the legislature, but at the late aft
ernoon meeting yesterday, after Speak
er Jess had called the attention of the
house to the slow progress of the work
In that branch, matters were put in
shape for the rapid handling of bills
next week.
The important feature of the present
week was the choice of former Sheriff
Henry J. West of Camden county as
the Republican caucus nominee for
state comptroller to succeed ]. Willard
Morgan, the present incumbent. The
Joint caucus was held behind closed
doors in the assembly chamber yester-
day, and there was a lively discussion
before a choice was decided upon. Sew
eral of the big party leaders favored
the nomination of Mr.. West, and from
the beginning it looked as if he would
be the caucus nominee. Then Senator
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07
COUNTY CONVERSATIONS

At a public sale at Elmer Monday %
horses were quickly sold at prices ranging
from $40 to $240, but the owner refused
to sell his pair of mules because they
we're bid up to only $500.
farmers along the Gloucester an
Salem turnpike think they have jumped
from the frying pan into the fire. They
made such strenuous objectionsto paying
toll that the Gloucester County Board of
Freeholders brought the road and
abolished the toll. Now the Freeholders
state that if the farmers want the road
repaired property owners along the route
must guarantee to pay 10 per cent. of
be expense.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

Sweden is about to send a crack team
Of all around athletes to this country.
A Canadian lacrosse team has just
started for Australia. Leland Stanford
university is sending her head coach
out to New Zealand to study the game
of football as played there. Sporting
blood, anyway, Is thicker than wa
ter"
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07
Keeping Open House.

Everybody is welcome when we feel
good; and We feel that way only when
our digestive organs are working prop
erly. Or. Kings New Life Pills regu.
late the action of stomach, liver and
bowels SO perfectly one can't help feeling
good when he uses these pills. 25c at
B. A. Johnson's drug store.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

The Saturday Evening Post tells its
readers what to do with a thousand
dollars, and it's a cinch that the great
est impression will be made on those
of its readers who haven't the thou
sand,
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

The old shot tower Of New York's
Swamp" is being torn down. 1t had
lost all Its self respect anyhow, with
so many rival skyscrapers in II: neigh
borhood. Nevertheless there Is the in
evitable regret Of old timers over the
passing Of a landmark.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

It Is doubtless annoying to Mr.. Har-
riman to note that the president has
been using some of his railways to get
around the country and make unfriend-
ly speeches.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

The natural enemy and destroyer Of
the green bug is said to be named the
Coccinella septempunctatus. If 1t looks
as terrible as its name it ought to
be able to annihilate all the bug pests
In creation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

No one will say that our schoolteach-
ers are paid too much because the
teachers in Canada receive so little, an
average Of 1887 a year for the school
master and $1S2 for the schoolma'am.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

If there Is any doubt about water
enough on the isthmus to fill the canal
we might send some Of the weather
not wanted in our own rain belt down
there.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

1t is declared by %Stuyvesant Fish
that there is no such thing as overcap-
~italization of railways. 1t is a wonder
that the railways do not arise in their
indignation and sue somebody for SLAM
Ear
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

If The Hague peace conference trans
acts its business and adjourns without
coming to blows 1t will be doing more
than some people dare hope for.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

The Cubans are earnestly protesting
against the high prices Of food. That
seems to be the last Of the American
customs left for them to adopt.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

All told, the farmers Of Kansas have
in bids for 1858 harvest hanls. Prob
ably the odd number is thrown in just
for luck.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

Nearly all the recent political
speeches are noteworthy chiefly as evil
dence that nobody has changed his
mind.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

England Is sending Egyptians over
here to study u methods of raising
cotton and tobacco.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

Garibaldi was a fighting patriot who
wooed liberty sword In hand.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Z, 1908.

The only way for most people to learn
is thru the school Of experience. 1t is
valuable knowledge but sometimes dear
ly bought.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07

Rudyard Kipllng is also in the list
Of those who are to receive honorary
degrees from Oxford with Mark Twait,
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-07
The Cold Snap

vi" N
Unloaded a lot OF our
stock, but we yet have too
much. More styles, small
lots and broken sizes in
the J Price Sale, at S.,
IS and $3.50 for Mems
Suits that were SO. $12
and SIS. Not many of
the finest 800 to $40 Dress
Overcoats left, but all
sizes among them, at !
off the prices. Plenty of the
finest Mixed and Neat
Worsted Sack Suits, at
$40, sos and $50, now
SIS, $1S rs and $22.50.
Special sale on Shirts,
white and colored stiff
bosoms, at IS cents; white
and colored Negligees, at
IS cents; white and color
ed Pleted bosoms, at Is
cents. Our Semi Yearly
Linen Collar and Cuff
sale; Collars, Is cents,
Cuffs, S1.1O a Dozen.
s'sss.s MULLINS. H.s.''''
Sest 6th,G Market st. Shoes
Wilmington Delaware
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24

culiar brand. None but New Yorker
can know the sensation and none but
he can sympathize with the hero of
Arthur Stringer's new adventure story.
The Under Groove" when the call of
the city sounded strong within him.
He voices the longing thus:
Il wanted to go east. ! began to
get homesick and peevish for New York.
] wanted to sniff the familiar old ferry
smell, TO hear the rush and gutter OF
water in the narrowing slips when the
piling yields and shudders against the
humping paddle boxes, to catch the
metallic and familiar tink-a-link of
pawl and ratchets as the landing floats
lower to crowded deck lips. / ached
for sight of that old crust thrower of
town. where its skyscraper teeth bit
up into the morning smoke, and 1t
seemed TO whisper. with one eye
winked: Feed me or I'll feed on your
| wanted TO see ii laugh and shake be-
hind its sly old rags. ! wanted to hear
its eternal whine for more gold. its
growls and oaths against the arm of
the law. l wanted to get a sniff of the
Rialto dust again, of the crowds by
day and the lamps by night; Of the
hustle and stir of Broadway, with its
crazy and solemn and tangled and
happy go lucky bubbling of life My
ears seemed to ache for its street
of hoofs, its clangor and pulse of bells,
its whine OF engines, its drone of power.
its show of wealth, it's rumble and roar
of hunger.
81 want it all. Dinney.' 7 said to
that puzzled son of the Sucker state.
who knew nothing of life or living
beyond the range of the Hoosiers. L
want 1T all, from the Greek peanut
man with his barrel oven and his little
steam whistle TO the fash of the aft
ernoon sun on some wine colored ton
neau as IL dips and melts away up the
avenuei ! want ii all, from the old
Irish newswomen and the passing
street faces, and the night hawks of
the tenderioin TO the groups of well
built and bright eyed girls in velvet
and feathers and furs, with muffs as
big as cash boxes, Dinney, and punches
OF vfolets the size of cabbage-the
girls who come laughing and talking
down Fifth avenue every afternoon
and make one wish I'd kept out of the
under groove and stuck to honest
waysr"
That's a good expressive bit of writ
ing-too good for the book which fol-
lows. The book contains eight chap
ters, each of which is complete tale
of an adventure, but all related in the
first person and most of them bringing
in certain girl, so that in the final
summing up complete story is made
of all the eight adventures.
This book is not SO good as String
er's Phantom Wires" nor THE Wire
Tappers." One feels that a certain
amount of skill and inventive genius
was required to make these tales but
not for minute is one deceived into
thinking them actual experiences.
The titles are best part of many of
the etoriess The Lady of the Third
Arm" would induce anybody to read 1t;
also The Lady of the Unknown Door"
is alluring. but the tales are not up
TO the hallmarks. The climax of the
book, however, is clever and ingenious
to a degree and cannot be spoiled by
even a suggestion. The good begin
ming and the good ending are some-
thing, anyway, and for that let the au-
thor take his need Of praise.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24


Motor Pirate" etc. Published By the Cup
nles Leon company, New York. Price
75 cents.
Mr.. G. Sidney Paternoster comes her.
aided as "the noted English novelist"
American readers may ask why
"notedT'
Lynton Hora is the master criminal
He is a strong character. but a pervert-
ed monster, making his living by steal
ing, and he considers himself an enemy
of society He was educated and start
ed in life as a gentleman, but his friend
became his successful rival in love, and
thereafter he hates the whole world
and his former friend in particular.
The friend is Colonel Marven, and
when his son is 3 years old Hora kid
maps the child and brings him UP as
his own son. Hora has trained this
boy--a young man when the story
opens-to follow in his own footsteps,
an the young man performs two almost
impossible feats of stealing in the
story. Hora's plan is that some day
the young man will be caught and that
he will prove in court that he is the
son of Colonel Marven, who has every
thipg that wealth and honor can give
him, but carries the sorrow of his, lost
son every minute of his life.
Finally the young man, known as
Guy Hora, meets Colonel Marven and
his wife and niece socially. He falls
in love with the niece, Merial. and her
beauty OF character and high ideals 90
impress him that he realizes for the
first time that his whole life has been
wrong, and he decides to reform.
The working out of the plot to a
successful and satisfactory close is not
unusually clever The bringing In OF a
girl from the gutter and educating her
as . lady Of society seems OF little
real value in working out the plot. It
gives the author chance. however. to
show how much he learned of the
seamy side OF life during Ills much ad-
vertised sojourn with the people of the
underworld.
There have been a number of books
since "RafHes' first interested the pub
lie In the same strain. and 1t appears
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
"The Supreme Gift"
By Grace DEMO LtchfeId. author Of ..In the
Crucible.' etc. Published by Little. Brown
& Co., Boston Price 81 so

By Grace DEMO Litchfed author Of I'm the
crucible.' etc. Published By Little. Brown
Co.. Boston Price $1.50.
The almost forgotten case of Wagga-
man, the Washington financier whose
failure caused such widespread distress
a few years ago, furnishes the basis of
fact for this novel, and nothing more.
The heroine, Joan Kilden, is the
daughter of a rich man. She has al
ways been deeply interested in the
poor and has busted herself in count
less charities When her father fails
she begins to sacrifice herself for the
people who had invested with him, and
also to save her fathers name. One
rude awakening follows another. She
bears UP under them with supernuman
fortitude. moving steadily to the unbe-
lievable and inartistic climax, which
exacts from her the ultimate and SUI
preme self-sacrifice. 1T is an interest
ing story but out of fashion, for the
time has gone by when in order to sue
ceed a novel needed at least one good
cry in 1t. Nowadays readers ask and
the ictionists give them more that is
cheerful and hopeful.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
Books Received


Outlines for Review in American History
by Charles B. Newton and Edwin B. Trent:
American book company. New York
''Susana. a Drama In Five Acts by Walter
Jasper; Mayhem publishing company. Boston
''Source Book of Medieval History" BY
Fred A ogz; American book company. New
Sunshine. or the Secret Of Happiness" BY
Dr. f. MsaSa wts cf pss al ss,
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The Making OF Personality" by Bliss Car
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Matthew Porter" by G. Bradford Jr.; l.
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1.-The Lost Goddess, by Edward Barron;
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Fenno Co.. New York:
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prince Charlie by B. DeIannoy; R. F.
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..The Foot Print" by Gouverneur Morris;
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Money Hungcr, by IL a W. Wood;
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TO interest a morbid part OF the public
enough SO that the books sell, 1t is a
great pity, for no more unhealthy read
ing can well be imagined for young
person One recalls reading in a daily
paper recently about young boy who
tried to make bomb by following the
directions given very explicitly by
Harry Orchard in his confessions--and
blowing himself to bits by reason of
his inexperience.
In the book careful description is
given of opening a sealed dispatch box:
Soft modelling clay, oiled impression,
hundreds of-one must confess-inter-
esting details But, If reader happen
to have slight crook in his brain,
which only needs a suggestion to start
1t experimenting, such suggestions are
dangerous. This book is not as well
written as his motor Pirate" and the
criminal motive is more insistent. One
cannot avoid commenting that the au-
thor is degenerating.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
"leve's logic

By Anthony Hope. Publiehed by the Mcclure
company. New York. Price &l.50.
This latest book by Anthony Hope
is > collection OF ID short stories and
ing. or rather for recftation-they have
little action. These tales are readable
and clever, but the conviction forces
itself that this authors forte IL hardly
the sEort story Most Of these tales are
OF love. some few having . gay note
but most of them too full OF cynicism to
really please.
One Of the two dialogues Is remark
able and deserves special mention. It
is entitled La Mort a la Mode" end it
Is az gruesomc picture as one can inn
agine. 1t tells the tale OF q due and q
marquise riding along In a tumbril to
be beheaded. The time IL the reign OF
terror. Their conversation under the
circumstances IL wonderful, but not
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
HIove Ne Little, Love Ne Long"

BY Charles Reade. Published by Doubleday
Page Co., New York Price s1.50.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long" first
appeared in 1859 and was supposed to
be y picture of life "a quarter of CEN
tury ago" then. The publishers are
compiling a large print library and
this book is most attractive volume
of the series. Readable Scotch faced
type. high grade paper and dignihed
buckraTn library binding are the distin-
gushing features of this edition. A
condensed account OF Reade's life and
most incomplete photography are pre-
fixed