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Evening journal., 1909-08-12
GIRL DECOYS ON
"RUBBERNECKS

WASHINGTON. d. c., Aug. l2.-when
you come to Washington and pretty girl
smiles at you from one Of the sightseeing
cars. don't get pulled up with pride That
is what she is there for, but most young
men don't find It out until they have
given up their dollar, mounted the Rub
berneck Coach" and tired to carry on the
Irritation.
II is a result Of the increasing number
of'sightseeing cars and the growing COM
petition. Ope enterprising ''spieler' found
that his descriptions Of historical and
contomporaneous Washington failed 10
draw the patronage.
one day he gave a free ride to a couple
Of friends-attractive young women they
were-and was panied to observe that
before the car got under way half
dozen young fellows. evidently visitors,
had come aboard and were endeavoring
to pick up an acquaintance. The "spielcr'
was about to declare battle. when tho
situation struck him i'm another light.
Every day since the young women
mount the car as it waits for passengers.
and cast alluring glances at passorsby.
After the susceptible ones get aboard they
find the smiles stil working, but not for
them.
Considering that It Is the dull season,
business is remarkably good.
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who chews up his vocabulary and emits
il in a string Of profane words is a nuis-
ance to decent society. Yet he is found
there. The man who feels called upon to
retail obscene speech in the ears OF others
is as ubiquitous. Such men cannot make
a self-appraisement. even If they were
constituted to realize the depravity of
their curses. so they need two things
they need ostracism and law.
The aloofness OF persons who discoun-
tenance this style of language would Jar
all these persons out OF their complacen-
cy. The application of law with rgidness
to the public offenders would clean the
streets Of the habitual and ioud-mouthed
blasphemer. The increase of swearing
among the youth presents one Of the
gravest moral and educational problems
of the age. which. unless met and solved,
will prove destructive to American society.
This is a reform that everyone can pro-
mote. 1t calls for moral sanitation OF high
public value.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
CONCORD QUARTERLY
MEETING AT MEDIA

The regular meeting Of Concord Quar-
ter OF Friends, held at Media, on Tues
day, was quite largely attended for the
midsummer session, members being pres
ent from Wilmington. West Chester and
other sections OF Chester county. The
meeting for worship was particularly in
teresting. as there were a number of min
listers present who preached impressive
and excellent sermons. A feature of this
meeting were remarks also made by
young Friends not yet appointed min
listers who made brief but acceptable re-
marks which were listened to with atten-
tion. Among those who spoke or appeared
IN supphcation were Joseph Rhoads. Of
Media Abram Fisher and Thomas Fisher
OF Malvern; Caroline Biddle. Of Media
Jonathan Rhoads, Of Wilmington, and
several others.
At the business session, besides other
matters attended to- clerks for the Quar-
ter were selected for the ensuing year
William Trimble. Of Concordvll e. was
made clerk and Jonathan Eldridge. Of
West Chester, appointed assistant clerk.
Several matters OF interest 10 members
only were discussed. The meeting then
adjourned.
All visiting Friends were given a lunch
con prepared in the basement OF the
Meeting House, which has been arranged
for that purpose, young Friends waiting
upon those present. In former years the
visiting Friends were the guests Of Media
Friends, btu this was thought TO be too
burdensome upon the hosts as all Quar-
terly meetings are held at Media, il being
central and the meeting now provides its
own lunch for these occasions.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
Editorial
Opinion
The Prophecy Of Tearino Ton

The Prophecy Of Tearing Tom.
New York Sun.
Without anger even in these burning
days. yes, with friendliness and sort
of gratitude. we see once more, shining
like the red planet Mars, the bright bronze
poll OF the Hon. Tom Watson, the ever
memorable Cracker Populist and historian.
We haven't heard from him since the
great day in 1907 when, returning from the
White House, where the Tom Watson Of
Oys Bay had been draining financial
wisdom from him, he assaulted plutocracy
and all but assaulted Pullman conduct
or because he had TO pay ten cents for
four slices Of bread. He survived that rob-
berry. il seems. lie rises on angry pin.ons
and cries in passionate pain.
with Just such laws as Aldr.ch and
Lodge and Callinger and Hale-all of New
England. are forcing through Congress
the Union will be split into four grand di-
visions. and this hemisphere will be all the
happier for IT,"
Remembering a noble oration Of Tearing
Toms in the Fifty-second Congress. which
he adorned and perturbed-a piece still
spoken by the school children OF McDuftie
county: I'VE are on the eve Of a social
outbreak We are at the crisis of our Re
publican government that high
prophecy and its fulhlment, we hear with
emotion this oracle from the bright bronze
poll, as veridical no doubt. as Friar Ba-
cons brazen head, and yet the spirit OF
dissent stirs within us This fourthing Of
the United States seems unlikely. Tho
Middle states and New England woulo
one quarter, we suppose Now, Tearing
Tom is not the man TO give any quarter
to the plutocracv. And he is sull willing &c
be President of the whole country.
For the present, then. we cannot looA
for a United States Of quarter sections
or even for the secession, peaceable oi
violent, Of Tearing Tom.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
SEAFORD

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
sEAFORD, Del. Aug 12.-Miss Maybel
and Elizabeth Kelly. of Wilmington. are
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. William F.
Allen.
Misses Gwendolyn and Marjorie McWil-
liams. of Rhodesdale. Maryland, are visit
ors at the residence Of their grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs. James b. Thompson.
The Rev. and Mrs. George S. Allen and
William Jones, OF Eniott's Island, Mary
land, spent last week with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wesley Allen.
Mrs. Clara Crawford and Miss Selma
Wolf OF Bloomsbury, Penna., are visiting
relatives near town.
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Thompson and
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Thompson, spent sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Mcwilliams
at Rhodesdale.
After a stay Of three months at Bridge
vile, where she was employed as operator
at The Postal Telegraph office Miss Eva
c. Trice has returned home.
Mrs c. Walter Lawrence, Mrs. Fred
ericlS wilhelm and Col. Lawrence Cohee
are spending several weeks in various sec
tons Of Virginia
Dr. Ira A. b. Allen, Of Marion, spent
Tuesday with his parents here.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
Chatty Stories OF the Day

A theatrical manager delighted IN taking a rise out
OF conceited vain members OF his company
Il see YOU getting fairly well" he remarked.
Fairly? / getting very WELL. replied the hero
OF the play proudly. Il played Hamlet for the
time last night You by the papers glowing
criticisms how well ! got on"
Il have not read them" replied the other quietly,
"but there"
"Oh, you were Well you noticed how swmmingy
everything went of? OF course made bungle Of
part by falling into Ophelias grave but think
The audience appreciated that"
II know they did" said the manager with a slight
smile but they frightfuly sorry when you climb
ed out Of It agani"-Pttsburg Press.
young Englishman after he had been IN Devils VAL
ley for couple Of months began grow thin. Wyoming
cooking did not appeal TO him Besides his soueamsh
appetite there another thing that the natives held
against his-his outandish Of taking bath
cry morning. one day his andlady discussing him
with a friend.
Il tell what SAL said visitor jest a-washn
away agrievin FOR gal back thar"
"Nothin q the kind" said the andlady, contemptous-
~ You mark my words now-that young feller he
lest a-washin hisself avay."-Everybodys Magazine.
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With the Photographers

stenographers Of the United States said TO
be completely exhausted and the verge Of nervous
physical collapse owing the protracted debates
the tarn.-Phladelphia Press.
when considers DR. Eots hve-foot shelf Of books
and his religion, woneers what would have
happened IL he had Ambassador the Court OF
st. Jamos-Rochester Herald.
There this view OF H. however Suppose SIS suit
clothes s2s under the tariff II you
not raise the SIS anyway what difference does it make?
Washington Herald
Barcelona is reported be quite gay again but il
Is not yet recommended TO King Alfonso
resort.-Cleveland Leader
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
A BIT OF SUMMER GOSSIP.

TATE notice that bit of camp meeting pot-
w zeal gossip from Sussex county SAYS that
the Democrats have been talking of State Sena-
tor Thomas NJ. Monaghan of this city as pos
sible candidate for Governor The Democrats
might go a great deal farther and fare worse,
for many the people who have good word
to say for TON" Monaghan But we fear that
when the time rolls around for the gubernatoral
nominations that the Democrats of Kent will
have something to say and New Castle will have
to wait
BY that time we have no doubt that the eyes of
many Democrats in Kent will turn in the direc-
ton of Mr.. Benjamin A. Hazel, who by then,
if the Lord spares him, will be retired gentle
man of afAuence not unknown to Delaware poll
tics
The boom for Mr. Hazel, should it take
definite FORM would cause the owls in the Della
warean Office to hoot and mild screech would
be heard in Wilmington but that would not pre-
vent the Hazel boom from finding loving friends
in the Index office and elsewhere.
We are sure that Mr. Whiteman would write
a letter that would make his note 10 Dr.Spruance
seem like withered rose.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
Personal and Pertinent

Two Kansas farmers Of them a Republican and the
other Democrat quarreng their political be-
liefs The they argued the further apart they
Finally they called neighbor settle
dispute This neighbor who seldom said any
thing who about his business; good citizen
and substantial in every way.
We'll" he replied. after both had stated their sides
my and / have been hauling wheat nearly forty
years There two roads leading 10 the mill
the valley road and the other leads the hill
never yet has the miller asked which road we came
He always asks; Is the wheat good? kansas City
Journal
do you think luck cuts much OF a figure in the
failure OF a nowadays?'
Yes believe IL does There's Bagshaw! for instance
What show would he have had 20 live and
belong clubs IL he hadn't had the luck md
with daughter who homely that large pre-
mium had TO be offered with her?'-Chicago Record
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
Thursday, August u. 1909
SHOULD WORK FOR NEW CHARTER.


VATE agree with our morning neighbor when
Wv it SAYS that there should be a readjust
fnent of the engineering department of the city.
The News points out as has been done before,
that there are three departments having engn
GERS with the result that conflict and confusion
often follow. There should undoubtedly be
one chief engineer for the city who should have
competent assistants
This matter however is but one more pro
duct of our clumsy and antiquated city govern
ment. The confusion OF the engineering de-,
partment shows plainly the need of a thorough
overhaulng OF our city government and OF
new city charter. Men who have kept their
eyes on the municipal affairs have long be
levcd that the city should have new char
ter Some of them have devoted many hours
of labor to preparing "A new charter only to Ind
that their efforts Nave been thrown aside and
and unappreciafcd by the men in control And
vet we see almost every day wherein the city
would be much benefited by new piece 81
municipal machinery
We have not yet lost hope that the Board
OF Trade and other civic organizations will take
up this matter seriously and press it before
the next Legislature Surely the next session
will not be allowed to pass without Whining
ton securing a new charter. There was much
of good in the revision plan that was prepared
by Mr. Townsend, then city solicitor, but 1t ar
rived at Dover so late that there was not sufh-
cient time for its careful consideration
1t seems to us that out Of all these different
tentative charters something that would be
adapted to the demands of a growing and pro-
gressve city like Wilmington should be formu-
lated And we have no doubt that Mayor Spru-
ance among others will take up this matter and
give it his thoughtful consideration
The trouble seems to be that there is sufh-
cient political influence eNertcd at the Legisla-
ture or in the city to prevent serious con-
sideration of a charter The Republicans got
along all right il seemed to them with the old
city charter and many of the Republican poll
cians were not much concerned about It, The
Democrats got into power and they probably
say. Let us enjoy things as the Republicans en-
loved them, increase salaries little and don t
bother much about new charter.
It is evident therefore, that if we arc TO have
a new charter the movement for it must come
from sources outside of what may be called
strictly political One objection that some of
the politicians have to any proposed new char
ter is a fear that they their friends would
be legislated out of Office. But this would not
necessarily happen. The trainers of new
charter could guard againsk such legislation and
il a chartcv were prepared which would avoid
such opposSOn as would come from the Office
holders there would be very little objection TO
RI. In fact, there would be no more objection
than there was to the referendum question as
should be improved. At that election several
hundred people voted against such Improvement
'and if they could have had their way doubtless
would have favored OK teams as the proper
method of rapid transit in the city.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

pany even though the caller is another
womans husband, and that it is not In the
same category with silk peignoirs was
thoroughly established in the Supreme
Court when Judge Brady refused to grant
a decree Of divorce to Mrs Julia A.
Tones
Mrs. Tones had sued william Austin
Tones for a divorce, and the evidence had
TO do with the breaking in OF a door where
Mr.. Tones was seated in a room with the
woman in the Ions sllken kimono. While
the evidence was more or less suggestivel
said the court, 1t was not legally eonvinc-
ing.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
CONTINUE THE LIST.

OUR jovial friends in the Dover News Office
~ have dropped from panegyrics to poetry
and pipes. This is the gladstone way in which
they call halt, only temporary we hope, on
their Geographic sketches of prominent and
able Democrats in Delaware who are compe-
tent to sit in the United States Senate
"Harll The breeze,
The breeze begins to blow;
So fill your pipes
And join in our heave-ho."
The trouble with US, at this time is that we
haven't any tobacco and the only Wilmington
newspaper writers who have pipe dreams are
those who in the grip Of the potato bug.
The News has cut short its heave to. 1t has
abandoned its biography and there is nothing
to heave to on. Just let the News resume its
list and we have no doubt that the Dover Re
publican and other papers will help it along.
The more the mcrrer
We observed that for political reasons the
News omitted some names from its initial list
We feel that il neglected New Castle County,
for the names OF such Democrats as Mr.. Peter
]. Ford, the Hon. Thomas +. Bayard, Ex-Judge
j. Frank Ball, Mr. Samuel Bancroft and others
that occur just at the moment were omitted
from the list of desirables. There may be po-
litcal and other reasons for the omission of
of these names but not for all
However it is not for us TO advise our Dover
friends. They are perfectly capable of taking
care of themselves.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
One Drop of Raw Milk Magnified
Would Win You to Van Camps
Could the myriad germs drop of milk would quit
would then why demanding

In Van Camps you get the whole milk
all the butter fat, all the solids. Yet it costs
you less than a half-milk. See what a diff
ference this makes in your milk dishes.
When Van Camps is drunk cold it has a
slight almond flavor, due to the heat applied
in sterilization. In cooking or coffee-where
you heat the milk anyway-the slight scalded
flavor is entirely lost
This favor is a sign of purity. 1t is es-
sential to safety. For no careful mother
will let children drink raw milk.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

Special 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN, Del, Aug. 12-The
committee in charge Of the Hudson-De-
Vries Celebration which takes place at
Lewes on September % and %. have asked
Mayor Charles l.. Moore Of this town TO
act for the committee in procuring a float
Of George the First as a representation
Of Georgetown at the celebration.
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sunnress thn smearrr.

Baltimore American
While there Is agitation. more or less
sporadic. FOR the reform of the mother
tongue. there has not arisen a society
whose end IS the actual elimination OF
words OF obscenity ana profanity from
the English speech. Possibly such a radi-
cal reform would be attended with super
human difficulties. The habitual swearer.
however. should be suppressed. The man
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Serves Every Purpose

For coffee or cereals, add one part water,
for Van Camps is as thick as thick cream.
For cooking or drinking, add little more
water Reduce to the richness desired.
Van Camps gives to milk dishes a rich
ness and flavor which you never get from
raw milk.
Milkman's milk separates-before and af-
ter you get it. So your cooking milk, usu-
ally, is scarcely more than a half-milk.
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sEAFORD. Del. Aug. 12.-Elias Roach,
alias Boss Walker. the negro who was
shot twice in the left shoulder by Henry
Carter. a negro roadster. during a quar-
rel in an, alleged "speakeasy," was taken
to the Sussex county jail yesterday. har-
ing sufficiently recovered from the bull
let wounds. where he will be held as a
witness against Carter.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN, Del, Aug. 12.-within
few days work will be started on the
law Offices Of Andrew b Marvel and
Daniel ]. Layton. Jr., who recently pur-
chased a site on the Public Square next
10 the National Bank.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
Not Like Condensed

Don't think of Van Camps as condensed
milk, for condensed milk is nearly half sugar.
Sugar was the old way of preserving milk
before the days of sterilization.
Condensed milk is so largely sugar that IL
is very expensive. And you can't use it for
cooking because it's too sweet. Such un-
natural milk is long out of date. Van Camps
is natural milk, preserved by modern meth
DDS.
Nor is Van Camps like other brands of
evaporated. For this is Holstein milk, reduced
to the minimum bulk.
Common milk, only partly evaporated, is
often said to be as good as Van Camps.
But nearly every housewife knows that it
isn't. So don't be misled.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

Mr. Charles W. Lord, of Camden, who has
been firm believer in peaches as Delaware
crop, must have had his faith shaken this year
He has almost $4,000 trees on his various farms
and Dover paper says that there is not full
grown peach in any of the orchards. And every
tree has been carefully cultivated and SPRAYED.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
chestnuts Down i'm svssex.

opVVIdI 20 ITIT7 " I1lFIlN1 IVIININlIA
GEORGETOWN, Del, Aug. 12.-The
chestnut crop in Sussex county this fall
promises to be the largest for years, the
trees at the present time being full OF
white blossoms.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

Although the Lincoln cents will be very pop
uar the old Indian cent will continue to pass
current when the small boy wants his cigarette,
unless such sales are suppressed by the author
tiles
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

A citizen whose communication we printed
yesterday seems to be greatly disturbed by the
Law and Order Society and evidently considers
it reflection on the police. We do not take il
in that way. Law and Order Societies exist in
almost every city and are valuable adjuncts to
the police. They are recognized by the courts
and by prosecuting attorneys. The writer Of
the letter seems to think that this society is
something new, although as a matter of fact
Wilmington has had Law and Order Society
since 1888 and it has been accepted as a matter
Of course. The officers OF the society, we may
add for the benefit of the letter writer, who does
not seem to have kept track of it, are Bishop
Kinsman. president; the Rev. Hiram w Kel-
logg and the Rev William Temple vice-presi-
dents; Mr. William f. Hawkins secretary,
and Mr. William p. White, treasurer The So
cety proposes among other things to use its ef-
forts to stop the alleged illegal sale Of cigarettes
to boys. If the law in this respect is being vo-
lated and the society could secure its enforce
ment that fact alone would be sufficient reason
for its existence The society collects its own
funds and pays for its own work.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
SILK KIMONO. NO
CAUSE FOR DIVORCE

NEW YORK, Aug. l2-That long snk
Iimono is a perfectly proper gown for
Evening journal., 1909-08-12
HeId as a Witness.

Big Picture Bargains, Yergers August
SALE 40 Shipley ST.
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Van Camps is Safe

Van Camps Milk is utterly sterile.
The cows and the millzmen are healthy.
They are subject to constant inspection
Our dairies are sanitary. Our evaporating
plants are all built without wood.
Every can of milk is sterilized after the
can is sealed. So the protection is absolute.
No germ can exist in Van Camps.
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Perhaps if Mr.. Taft should get severe
case OF nervous Indigestion that hundred or so
pounds of superhuous flesh would disappear in
a iiffy.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

Good crops indicate that the supply of new
breakfast foods this winter ought to be larger
than ever
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

Any disease germ that gets into milk
quickly breeds millions like it.
They may be the germs of consumption,
coming from tubercular cows. Or the germs
of typhoid, from water used in washing the
cans
They may come from milkmen who are
diseased, or they may come from uncleaniy
dairies.
These germs cannot all be avoided, no
matter what care may be taken. The only
protection that really protects is perfect
sterilization.
To that we all must come.
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Six Cents Per Quart

The 1o-cent can of Van Camps contains
full pint. If you buy by the case, as every
one should, the cans will cost less than 10
cents.
When you replace the water which we take
out, you have rich Holstein milk at about
six cents per quart.
1t is cheaper than raw milk. for half the
price of raw milk is the cost of the daily de-
livery.
And Van Camps means COW in your kitchen.
Rich milk or cream at any time, little or
much as you want.
No shortage; no planning in advance for
your needs. And no waste whatever. An
opened can keeps till you use it up.
You buy a case at time, and all your
milk needs are supplied for month or more.
Evening journal., 1909-08-12

The 16-oz. can Of Van
Camps sells for 10 cents;
the Coz. can for S cents.
So you get one-third
more for your money in
buying the larger cans.
The milk is produced at
our dairies, in six states,
and sold by groeers
everywhere.
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Nothing whatever is added, and nothing
but water subtracted The result is the rich
est, purest, cleanest milk that ever came into
your home.
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oeorqetown to Have Float.

Don't miss Yerger's August Sale OF Pic
lures ana Shipley ST..
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Pure HoIstein Milk

Van Camps comes from Holstein COWS
the worlds best breed. Holstein cows are
robust and contented. They are famous for
their vitality. The milk they give is vastly
better for children than milk from mongrel
cows
This milk, fresh from the COW, is put into
vacuum. And moderate heat, because of
the vacuum, throws off the water in steam.
Thus we take out two-thirds of the water,
and the milk that results is 2s per cent solids
&c PCT ce-s butter fat