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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-30

Chairman of the Faculty. Livingston, Ala. 7-16-6t-f -fri-tu
Middletown transcript., 1909-05-29
A.M.E. coErERErCE


The following are the appointments for
the Wilmington district made by the A.
N. E. Conference, which has been in
session at Milford:
Presiding Elder, J. B. Stansberry.
Allen, Philadelphia, NJ. G. Brooks.
Bethel, WiImington-R. W. Fickland.
Smyrna-W. H. Edwards.
Seaford-I. J. Oliver.
Laurel-W. II. King.
Middletown-H. Young.
Frankford-J. NJ. Holland.
Dover-W. H. Morrishaw.
Milford. II. Gordon.
Star Station. s. Hemsley.
Shorter Chapel, Wilmington-C. A.
Monk.
Greenwood William Stuart.
Lewea-R. W. Wright.
Moore's Chapel, Wilmington-R. H.
Miles.
Frederica-s. D. W. Smith.
East Frederica-Robert Murray.
Harrington-Paul Singleton.
Wyoming-B. F. Lloyd.
West Dover. B. Hill.
Mount Friendship-J. II. Holden.
Milton-D. B. Blackstone.
Georgetown-M. P. Jackson.
Clayton. Il. Lee.
Concord-J. G. Moore.
Grant Chapel, WILMINGTON W. Fl.
jenkins.
Mount Zion-B. B. Hoxter.
Frederick Mission. L. Hubert.
New Castle Mission-Co be supplied.
E. G. Hubert was transferred to ths
New Jersey Conference and appointed to
Asbury Park. @. E. Wilson was trans
ferred to New England Conference.
Rev. W. W. Thornton, formerly of
Wilmington. goes to Bethel, Philadelphia.
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pErHsY xAxEs WARD OF ROBIN

A robin that built its nest on car truck
and has, in consequence, become trav.
cling ward Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, has given incidental setback to
the theory that corporations are entirely
soullesa. From President McCrea down
all the heads OF ther big transportation
system are solicitously keeping tab on
that bird, and peremptory orders have
gone out that it shall not be disturbed OF
molested. All the thousands of EN-.
ployees of the system have been consti-
tuted protectors of the bird.
2 Car 1853 was on siding at Bridgeton
N. j., ten days early in April, and it vas
at this time the bird bnilt heEnest on ene
Of the trucks. Il was such an unusual oc-
currence that road officials gave orders that
the bird should not be disturbed, and
from the day the car started, April l4th,
the mother was reported as follows:
Camden, April 18th; Gray's Ferry,
18th; Edgemore, DEL, April 18th; Clay
ton, Del, April 10th; Wyoming, Del,
April 23d; Edgemore, April 9th; Bslti-
more, April 18th; Jersey City, April Both;
Altoona, May I'd; Pittsburg, May I'd.
At the latter point the car was turned
over to the Pennsylvania lines west, and
by the last report it and the robin we're at
Richmond, Ind. Up to that point the
distance travelled had been 1854 miles.
Railroad officials are awaiting the next
report.
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.Oommunicatsd1
TIE RzsTIYE cucUMBER


Mn. !:EDrToR:- Will yau give me sufi-
Cient space il your columns for the FOL.
lowing.
Yon know this is the time Of year when
the death.dealing cucumber is abroad III
the land seeking whom il may double up
and make sad. When man goes home
after hard days work he finds that he
is the proud pOssessor Of an appetite like
3 self-binder, and when be sits down to
the table and sees before him the first
cucumbers of the season he can hardly
wait until be gets quantity stored sway
under his belt Under this belt said ca.
cumbers quietly lay in wait until the
eater has gone to sleep for the night.
Then they get up on their feet, unbutton
their vests. roll back their sleeves and
proceed TO business. At the first attack
the sleeper only dreams that Charles
Byron has hit him in the vitals with q
baseball bat, but the cucumbers rapidly
get warmed up and the victims agonies
increase. His dreams become more pic.
turesque and he begins to snort and feels
things dancing like the Highland fling
on his abdomen. The dancers gradually
enter into the sport with more zest and
reinforcements keep un-arriving. Things
get desperate and Drs. Richie. Vaughan,
Lewis, Smith and Clark are tslephoned
for and instructed to bring their full
grown stomach pumps. At last. along
about daybreak, the state militia and the
Volunteer fire department appear on the
scene and join in the terpischorean exer-
Cises. When the sleeper awskena in the
morning the first things he does is to feel
of his stomach to see if it is still there.
He finds the stomach there, also the Gu.
cumbers which the night before sat up
and smiled so innocentIy at him. There
are lots of people who are harvested be-
fore they are ripe; simply because they
absorb more cucumbers into their anat.
omy than their digestive apparatus can
cope with. SUBSCRIBER
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HIS own PREFERENCE

A young man with q practical
knowledge in his head, skill in
bis hands and health in his body
is his own letter Of references.
Mix him up with sixty millions
Of others, and you win find him
again. as he will have a habit OF
being on top. Throw him naked
into q desert island and he viii
be at the head of something. He
does not go whining over the
land, blaming fortune and saying
be has no chance but goes out
and does something, and goes
out and does it again and better.
Men that can do things either
with head or hands, are the men
that are wanted and the demand
is as great now as it has been at
any time since the beginning.
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GETS FORTUNE


GEORGETOWN, DEL, May 2lst. Starting
out 20 work on bis farm, which is located
about six miles from this town, nothing
mora than an ordinary farmer, John A..
Tyndall was highly elated man upon re-
ceiving word from Idaho that be had
fallen heir to about $4,000. The sudden
rise to wealth came through telegram
announcing the death Of his brother,
Emory TyndaIl, q Wealthy ranchman in
the state Of Idaho, about two weeks ago;
but Tyndall did not divulge the secret
until this week. The estate is said to be
worth about quarter Of . million dollars
and consists Of more than SIS, 600 in cash,
besides large ranch and about 1900
cattle ANA sheep and other stock.
The windfall will be divided between
the four children, two of whom reside in
this county-Mrs. Jacob Jones Of Seaford,
and John A. Tyndall, residing near here.
The other two are Robert and William
Tyndall, Who are wealthy rancbmen and
live in Idaho. Mr.. Tyndan has gone west
to look after his interests.
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2O8 Acres

OF LAND, more or less, and is part of
the tract of land, which was conveyed by
two deeds, one of which toWilliam Knight
by John H. Price and wife by deed bear
ing date of the 18th day of April, 1856,
and duly executed, acknowledged and re-
corded in Liber H. H. M, No. 6, Folio
552, etc., one of the Land Record Books
for Cecil County, Maryland, and the other
to Julia Harrison by Robert T. Barton
and others by deed bearing date the 18th
day OF November, 1884, and duly executed,
acknowledged and recorded in Liber j.
A. D., No. s, Folio rs, another of the
aforesaid Land Record Books and being
the same tract of land for which there is
on file among the papers in this cause
plot of a survey.
The buildings consist of good FRAME
DWELLING and Stable, Barn and other
outbuidings necessary for the farm. The
fencing is in good order.
This farm is situated in fine agricultural
section and is within three miles of Earle
willie Postoffice, and short distance from
Churches and school, and within one and
one-half miles of the wharf at Bohemia
Bridge. at which point grain can be ship.
ped to market.
TERMS OF SALE
One-third Cash, balance in one and two
year instalments, credit payments to draw
interest from date of sale, and to be Sc
cured to the satisfaction of the Trustee, or
all cash at the purchasers option.
A deposit of $3.50 will be required of the
purchaser on each farm on the day of
sale.
The wheat crop will be reserved by the
owners, and the taxes will be adjusted to
the time when sale is confirmed.
Cost of Deed, etc., to be paid by the
purchaser.
WILLIAM M. KNIGHT, Trustee.
GEORGE W. PADLEY, Auctioneer.
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The nPTIMIST

The optimist, while he sees
much of the evil, sees also much
of the good. He sees more of
the beauty, hears more of the
music; his mental vision is keener
his spiritual insight deeper. His
whole view of life is one of prom
ise. When the problems, vexa-
tions, and temptations come, he
stands squarely in his path, and
by attitude and expression de-
clares his firm belief in that ulti-
mate good. He has many ex-
periences, and sometimes he
fails; but he rises stronger in
resolution for having discovered
a weakness. There is in him
something that never yields. He
looks upon evil as something to
be overcome. He makes effort,
in proportion to this does he
elevate himself to a higher plane
Of life. He has a mission in the
world, and proceeds to do his
work. This is usually done with
out demonstration. His force is
like the sublime forces of the
universe-silent, but always act.
ing. Like the pessimist; his
life and thoughts are contagious;
unlike the pessimist, he is always
welcome. If the two come face
to face, he will never yield to the
latter's influence. He knows that
eternal truth and goodness are
working through him, and he
believes in their ultimate
triumph.
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no our GRADUATES


Graduated? Yes, nearly every
hamlet, village, town and city at
this commencement season of
the institutions Of learning, well
come home those who have spent
years in hard study and with
honorshave graduated; and many
are the hopes and expectations
centered in you-hopes tn at
society will be elevated, many
immorals corrected, wrongs
righted and places of Importance
better filed. Do you ask, where
is your placer The world is be-
fore you, and though it may
seem crowded, there are still
many wants that it does not ad-
vertise, to avoid a rush Of appli-
cants, but these wants exist, and
are, indeed, very pressing and
very real, and your compensa-
ton will be as ample as you have
brains, pluck and energy to earn
1t. The world. wants graduates
who are men enough to search
out these places and make room
for themselves; it wants young
women of sufficient self-reliance
to bear the disappointment of not
securing the first position for
which they apply; most Of all, it
wants character, and it very
wisely declines TO accept college
or school diploma as conclusive
evidence of that. Therefore we
silently whisper, enter into your
life work with right motives,
earnestness, zeal and honesty of
purpose, and thoroughness that
will satisfy yourself; then others,
will be satisfied. Realize the re-
sponsibilities which have come
to you, and assume themin great
humbleness, and yet, in true
manliness, and bear in mind, by
your fruits ye shall be. known.
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pMEss FEED THEIR LAND


DelaWars's agricultural pros
poets are being widely talked Of
through the United States and
Canada, and the talk has doubt.
less originated with the deter
mined effort made BY farmers to
improve, rather than to denude
the land.
The two first pages of the
american Agriculturtst are de-
voted to the remarkable Della
ware conditions and prospects
growing out of the fact that the
farmers have become more pros
porous and, with the good prices
that prevail, are putting some OF
their profits back on the land,
resulting in the fulflment Of the
declaration "Feed the land and
it will feed you.
Realizing that. the great fer
tilizing crops-cowpeas, scarlet
clover and soy beans-the gath.
erers OF the nitrogen and other
chemical tonics from the air, have
contributed more extensively
than other causes, Congressman
William H. Heald has begun CO.
operating with the State Board
Of Agriculture and further inter
esting the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture in aiding to
develop Delaware's great agri.
cultural possibilities.
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PRACTICAL EDUCATION

The demand has long and
noisily confronted US that the
education in our schools shall be
practical" Here lies the diff
Guilty. Some say, "Teach a child
what he shall do in after life. "
On the face of it this seems a
reasonable proposition. Close
examination proves it to be nom
sense-not worthy Of respectful
consideration. Who has the pre-
science to tell what a child is to
do in after life-especially an
American child?
It will not be seriously ques-
toned that the man launched on
the world of affairs, should, so
far as he can, devote his talents
to that which he can do better
than the average of his fellow
men. It is undoubtedly the duty
Of the farmer, as it certainly is
his aim, to bring to market the
largest amount Of grain and
stock iii the best condition his
farm can be made to produce.
But be will be more Of q man,
and hence a better citizen. if
while producing these material
products, he knows something Of
botany, chemistry and geology.
Taking more interest in his work
by reason of his knowledge Of
helping science, he will be just
20 much more Of a man.
The province Of education il to
make the man. The exigeneies
Of his lot will determine what the
man shall do. The idea of
educators is to So train the child
Is tO.make him independent for
bis support in life.
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CLOSING ExERC1sEs
Director.

The closing exercises Of the State Col.
lege for colored students, near Dover,
we're held on Friday, and the following
interesting program was successfully
given:
Music. Independent Cornet Band, Smyrna
Prayer. Rev. E. H. Webb, Of Whatcoat
Church, Dover.
Song, Onward March" College Students,
Prof. S. L. Conwell, leader.
Oration, Injustice the Cause of National
Ruin, ;" ".................J. Walter Douglas
Essay, Finished but Just Begun"
Blanche Lsnkford
Music......"..".............. .....By the Band
Grafton, Forces that VIM. M. Tribbitt
Essay, "Lessons Learned in School,"
Sarah G. Barnes
Song, ''Swanee River, -. College Students
Address, Rt. Rev. Benz. T. Tanner, LII D..
Philadelphia, Bishop, A.M.E Church
Music............................. BY the Band
Awarding Of Diplomas, Hon., Charles B.
Lore, President Of Board of Trustees
Song, "Song Of the Hop Pickers,"
College Students
Address to Graduates, Rev. Alexander
Allison, West Presbyterian Church,
Wilmington.
Mnsic............................ .....By the Band
Awarding Of Prizes, Hon. h. G. Conrad,
Secretary Board Of Trustees.
Announcements.
Benediction, Rev. Solomon Hammond,
M. e. Church, Cheswold.
In the Defamation Contest Miss Edna
Aiken won frst prize, $40, and Mr.. @. =.
Anderson. second prize, $5. The judges
we're: Prof. ]. E. Carroll, supi. Of Public
Schools for Kent County; Rev. J. W.
Henderson, Of Brideeville. Rev. J. q.
King, MiddIetoWn.
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ooYnMoR cALLs sENATH SESSION
State Body VIM Meet on June I4th, to
Fnreider J,,Nir;erv Aonaimtrnea4a

State Body VIM Meet on June I4th, to
Consider Judiciary Appointments
DovER, Del, May 25th.-An extraordi-
nary session Oi the ssnate Of the State OF
Delaware was called BY Governor Penne-
will, % assemble in the Senate chamber,
here, on Monday, June l4th, as. IL so in tbs
afternoon, for the confirmation ofappoint-
msnts made during this year, particularly
that Of the judiciary.
The governors call. which is brief, is as
folloWs:
Proclamation
State of DeIawsre, Executive Depart
ment.
Dover, Del, May 25th, 1909.
/. Simeon S. Pennewill, Governor OF
the State Of Delaware, under and by yir-
tue Of authority vested in me by Section
l6 Of Article III Of the Constitution Of the
State Of Delaware, do issue this, my pro-
clamation, converting the Senate Of the
State Of Delaware in special session
at Dover, the capital of the State of
Delaware, on Monday, the fourteenth
day OF June. A. D. 1909. at twelve thirty
O'Clock in the afternoon, to consider and
act upon the following executive business,
to wit:
ITO confirm appointments which will
be made by me on or before the four
teenth day of June, A. D. 1909, to the
Office Of Chancellor, Chief Justice and
Associate Judges. all Of which will be-
come vacant on or about that date; and
also to confirm other appointments made
by me since the General Assembly ad-
iourned on March 31st, last.
In Witness whereof / have here unto
set my hand aud caused the great seal of
the state to be hereto affixed this twenty
fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and nine, and
of the Independence of the United States
of America the one hundred and thirty
third.
Simeon S. Pennewill, Governor.
"By the governor:
Daniel 0. Hastings,
Secretary of State"
All Of the judges Of the Supreme Court
will be out of Office by June 14th, except
Judge Boyce, whose term willnot expire
until June 18th. 1t is said here that Judge
Bryce will resign on the morning of June
14th, and that all the offices will, there.
fore, be vacant.
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THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE

This is the season of the year
when the "Sweet Girl Graduate"
fiourishes. Now the lily-white
arm of the graduate fair flourish
DER her golden hair, carving the
flower-fragrant air in ribbons OF
love and light, as she begins !:
Down the untrodden pathway Of
life we can see the invisible foot
prints of an unseen land. We
build the ladder on the sea of
life whose rungless rounds we
mount From the loWly earth to
the vaulted Skies, as Cowper
says in his Thanstopsis. Be-
yond the Alps lies Italy; over the
fence is out. tRo pom, no pever,
is the watch cry of the voiceless
spirit whose wings gleam in the
shoreless waters Of life's tenn
pestuous sea. -
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SHIFTING VIEWS

"With Democratic Senators
voting against free iron ore and
against free lumber, and with
Republican Senators voting for
free iron ore and free lumber, it
is difficult to tell where the two
great political parties are to land
ultimately in respect to tariff
duties.
"There was a time when our
Democratic friends were solid for
free everything, and without any
regard for the baneful effect free
trade would have upon the indus
tries of this country. Twenty
nine years ago, when Winfield
Scott Hancock Was the Demo
cratic candidate for President, he
shocked his party by declaring
that "the tariff is a local issue.
He had been one of the finest SOL
diers the country has ever pro-
duced; and he made no profes.
sion of being an expert on mat
ters political or matters econom-
ical so far as the direction Of gov
ernmental affairs went. He had,
however, a hard head for facts,
and when he undertook to ex-
press himself upon the tariff he
merely set forth what his inter-
probation of the plan was. He
came to be abused and condemn
ed by the Democratic leaders,
who deplored what they consid-
cred his heretical views on free
trade.
"Now we are finding out that
General Hancock was correct
twenty nine years ago, and his
words are true to-day. Since
1880 the material development of
the South, in particular, has been
rapid, and new views have kept
pace with new conditions. The
iron and steel and lumber inter.
ests in the South have been
extended with marvellous speed,
and free trade is no longer the
slogan there. Our Democratic
friends, however, believe in free
trade so long as it does not have
to do with the interests Of their
own states. They are perfectly
willing to have free trade in any
thing that does not come into
competition with their business
investments. "The tariff is a
local ISSUE" and the fences are
all down between the political
parties on the one great issue of
the tariff.
ION the other hand the Repub-
licans who have stood for protec-
ton, and who yet believe in pro-
lection, have come to believe-or
at least a great many Of them
have-that revision Of the tariff
lis required in view of changing
Iconditions. When the House at
Washington passed its tariff
measure after a short period of
debate it was found that revision
had followed, but the Senate has
not demonstrated that it appre.
ciates the necessity of doing what
the House did. That is where
the Senate has made its mistake.
The fight is still on, and in spite
Of the expectation that early in
June the final vote on the pend.
! ing bill will be taken, the chances
are that Congress will still be at
work upon It when summer is
we'll under way. - Morning Net1s,
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Railroad
SUMNER TRIPS AFAR AND NEAR.
RULLETIN.

Summer days are coming fast. Already vacation days
are being discussed in the home and in the Office and
the annual exodus country seashore and
tain will have been begun.
America abounds with delightful summering places, in
valley and beside the seahousands of resorts
whittier wend the pilgrims search of pleasure and
ton.
Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agents have sale
excursion tickets to the greater number of these resorts
by the week in June there will be about eight hundred
points covered by Pennsylvania Railroad excursion
tickets
From the rock-bound bays of Newfoundland to the
sunny slopes of the Virginia shores from the White Noun
tans of New Hampshire to the Cumberland Mountains of
Tennessee along the forty beaches of New Jersey to
the far of the Pacific Ocean, these resorts
stand ready entertain the transient asummer guest
Any Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Agent will cheerfuy
give information concerning and fares these resorts
enabling pilgrims plan their outing alta minimum
of time and cost
Phladepha Sudd D.
York Wm Pedrk p A. l433 Chestnut
Philadelphia D. 40 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh
307 Main Street, Buffalo H. Hasson Jr D. P A.
Baltimore; M Newbod D. A. Fifteenth
Washington; Weile D. P A. IL South Fifth Street.
Reang Anderson T. Union Station Pittsburgh Ynng
man, D.. T. A.. WilGamsport, Pa.
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2O6 Acres

OF LAND, more or less, and is the same
farm which was conveyed to William
knight by Alex. Laws end wife by deed
bearing the date of the 23d day of March,
1865, and duly executed, acknowledged
and recorded in Liber w. H. r., No. z,
Folio SOP, one of the Land Record Books
or Cecil County, Maryland
The buildings consist of good FRAME
DWELLING and Stable, Barn and all
other outbuildings necessary for farming
purposes.
This farm is within two miles OF Post
office, Churches and School and is under
good fencing and high state of cultivation.
Grain and other produce delivered to
Fredericktown, from which point there is
daily connection with Baltimore by Steam
boat
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FOR SALEl

Two nice farms Of 200 acres each, good
buildings; one on Bohemia River, other on
Sassafras. will be sold cheap. Also 130
acres at Warwick and rs acres and AZ
acres 81 Mount Pleasant, and many other.
can cell them on good terms.
@. w. MORAN,
Middletown. De
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FARM NO. known as ''The Price Farm"
situate on the West side of the public
road leading from Bohemia Bridge to
Esrleville, and adjoining the farms of
Thomas Roe and Geo. W. Padley. This
farm contains
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M. BANNING,
DEALER IN FINE
GROCERIES !!

The home of good garden and -four seed.
We have selected these from the best
seedsmen in the country, so il you want
q good harvest you must plant good seed.
MATTINGS
Our new mattings, both Chins and
Japanese are in. Very handsome. Long
straw reversible, in beautiful carpet effect
striped or fowered designs. Japanese
mattings at 25, 28, 80, 35 to 6Oc per yard,
cut. Less for whole roll. China mattings
at 15, 20 to 25c per yard, cut. Less for
whole roll.
Potter's new oil cloth for floor, table,
stair and shelves. Some pretty patterns
to select from.
New muslins, India Linen, long cloth
cambFic, Te sian lawn, etc.
Table linen, towel crash and towels. A
lot of Bates seersuckerin pretty patterns.
We have some splendid values in
brooms, scrub, white-wash and dust
brushes.
Don't forget our line of COlgate's Toilet
goods.
When in need Of fine and fancy grocer
les, foreign and domestic fruits, also fresh
vegetable cali on us. We shah endeayor
to give you goods that win satisfy and
please you or money refunded.
Goods delivered from 73O A. NJ, to
IL noon, also from 4 to6P.M.
Long distance phone, CO.
Store open from s A. m. to8P. NJ.
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IrrTER 10 3. 3. COCHRAN, u.
MiddIetown, Del.

Middletown, Del.
Dear Sir: Here's the paint situation at
d glance:
Devoe takes lees gallons for job than
any other paint.
II not, no pay.
Yours trnly
FW DEvOE & co.
p. S.-J. F. McWhcrter & Son ssll our
paint,