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Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Middletown Boasts of
the Oldest Odd Fellow

He lived in the town when the
Delaware Railroad was built, lS55-lS56.
Mr.. Hurn remembers and can tell the
names Of the occupants Of every house
when there were only thirtysix in the
town, with a population OF about $50 per-
sons
Mr.. Hurn is a Republican and has held
some minor county offices He is now
living retired life, but is still quite
active for his years.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Proeesslon Id Sd. Patriekls.

The children Of st. Patrick's parish
will make a professional in honor OF
the Blessed Virgin tomorrow afternoon.
The procession. viii traverse the streets
Of the neighborhod. and the Rev. James
p. Quigley pastor expects Il to be the
largest ever seen here.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
specIal .to THE EvEN1Na IouRNAL

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
MIDDLETOwN. Del. May l5.-Mr.
Thomas r. Hurn, claims 10 be the
Father Of Middletown." He was born IN
1877 and has lived here more than sixty
seven years. He also claims TO be the
oldest odd Fellow in the state, having
joined the local lodge in 1915, more than
sixty-one years ago. beating Mr. Corn
brooks Of Wilmington. by eight years lie
Is also a member OF Union Lodge. No. 8,
A. r. A. NJ.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Mr. and M. short Here.

The Rev f. Burgette Short, pastor
OF the First Methodist Episcopal
Mrs. Short arrived in this city last
evening and are the guests Of Mrs.
Shorts mother. Mrs. ]. A. Hart Of
1908 dupont street.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
simnson,s churoh Tea.

The parsonage committee Of Simp-
sous NJ. L. Church Newport, win hold
a pink tea in the church on the even
ing Of Wednesday. May 10. In case OF
rain. the tea viii be held on Friday
evening The proceeds will be FOR the
benefit Of the church.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Inoals In Bio Meet

Wilmington High and Wilmington
Friends will be represented in the
Middle States Interscholastic cham
pionship meet to be held under the
direction OF the University of Penn
sylvania this afternoon.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
NJ Join the sodaIitu.

A large number of young people viii
be received into the Blessed Virgin So
dality of st. Patriclxs Church in the
church tomorrow evening. The address
will be delivered by the Rev. James p.
Quigley.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
was stabbed in the Hand,

May Robinson, colored, was stabbed
in the hand last night by man sup
posed TO be a Philadelphian. He es-
capped The girl had the wound dress
ed at the Delaware Hospital.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Mr.. pennison RECEIVERS.

B. Frank Dennison, Of Mill Creek
hundred who has been seriously III dur
ing the winter months has recovered
and is visiting his brother, Levy Court
Commissioner Samuel j. Dennison.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Funeral Of MIS-. CLARK.

The funeral OF Mrs. Martha ]. Clark
late of Bohemia Manor took place yes
terday. Interment was made in Mid
dletown She was the mother Of Uric
Clark Of this city.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Interest in RalI Game.

Much interest centres in the base
ball game this afternoon at Elsmers
between the y. NJ. c. A. and Bethany
Baptist Church Clubs.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
DanviIIe Man in Strangers cravI

IaIIWITIV WIaIT W VEI WIIsNI > Ut "NN'
The remains of the colored man, be-
lieved TO be Dawson Hunt or Hunter,
Of Danville. Va. who was injured on
the Pennsylvania railroad at Edge Moor
and died in the Delaware Hospital,
have been inferred in the county bury
ing grounds at Farnhurst. The coroner
received no word from the mans people.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
American Pilorims See Pope.

ROME. May 15.-The Pope today
granted an audience TO forty American
pilgrims. They made a large Offering
Of Peters pence and received a bless
ing from His Holiness.
Evening journal., 1909-05-15
Iurv Finds Mar Insane.

A jury Of inquisition this morning
declared Rienzi Wardell TO be insane
Evening journal., 1909-05-15

MIR. MERCHANT - In these
I'VE days don't you expect people
to go hunting for your store.
You must be the hunter There
are too many after the game TO
sit idly by. Advertising is Hunting.
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The younger Margaret surveyed the
bulky letter from her godmother with
doubtful eyes, and half resolved not to
read it She knew Cousin Margaret so
well that she could imagine what the
correct, aquiline. white-pompadoured
clubwoman would have to say on the
subject of Timothy. What could an
elderly, professional phiianthropist
know about girls and their troubles?
She had resented the questioning which
Cousin Margaret had inflicted upon her
about this UNHAPPY business of Timothy
and his queerness, and she felt inst.nc-
lively that she would resent the con-
tents of the letter she held. But the
older woman had asked her, with great
seriousness. to read il carefully some
time when she was quite alone, and
with a resigned sigh she broke the seal.
My Dear Godchild: You would prob
ably be much surprised at the thought
I have given you since our last con-
versation about Timothy Hale and his
relations to you. I had known in a
general way that you were interested
in each other, but modern girls are
such puzzles To me, with their matter
sof-fact ways. that ] was not sure you
really cared for him. And knowing
that he had not spoken to you definite
" before your Uncle Harris death ana
bequest. I was not sure that he loved
you. until you told me of the incident
on the balcony. It is now evident to
me that one or the other of you. or
both. are losing the opportunity of your
lives for free and generous action: you.
hindered by your foolish pride, he. by
the fancied barrier of your new wealth.
To Mr.. Hale I have nothing to say.
since ! know him so slightly, but to you
I am impelled to utter the most Wig
orous protest and warning. Your We
! hement statement that you will never
make a step toward your lover, lest he
think you are bold. is too vain to re-
ceive a moments serious attention.
This is A much graver matter than
in your youth and inexperience you can
perceive. You are making the great
refusal I don't suppose you know what
that means. Girls nowadays are so
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THE GREAT REFUSAL
BY DOROTHY cANFIELD.

busy studying anglewcrms and dissect-
ing frogs that they don't know their
Dante. 1t means the great REFUSAL
and Dante applied il to a certain pope
who. at a crucial moment, lost his cour-
age, refused his high office and returned
to the safe and ignoble life of cab
bage. Ever since the time that Dante
characterized his action he has been
scorned by all Europe Any one who
lacks a generous sp rit and courage at
a turning point in life-he makes the
great refusal I know all about It'll
speak from experience. You are sur
prised, possibly, to think that ! ever did
anything but attend committees. but
there is a memory in my life which l
never have shared with any one 1t
has come up with singular vividness in
my anxiety about you, and 1 have re-
solved to break my long reserve and
make you. if possible, live through my
own experience I've set it ali down
here rather than to try and tell you, for
I've wished to make it clear and to
leave out no detail. so that you may for
a moment feel with me. Try, Margaret,
dear. to forget me as white-haired odd
woman and think of me as a girl of
about your own age, for it happened
more than forty-five years a go, when I
was young lady Of nineteen OF twenty.
Ike yourself. that 1 made the great
refusal
Il was going from Paris TO London
with my maid and a sister from the
English convent where I'd been edu-
Gated. and it was at DiePpe that it oc-
CURED. IN those days Dieppe was a
miserable little fishing village far from
the wharf and big warehouses where
the English channel boats came in, so
that we had to hire a cab to drive US
the two or three miles over the de-
serted countryside. When we arrived
at the wharf we found only the long.
stone platform with a few blackened
timbers lying at one side. The eabman
explained that a recent fire had de-
stroyed all the warehouses, and pointed
to a tiny. ksnnel-like shed as the tenn
pOrary Office No one was in it-indeed,
there was no one in sight at all but a
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solitary young Frenchman. who walked
up and down looking impatiently out to
sea as if he expected the boat to ar
rive at any moment. The cabman, our
only source of information, told US the
boat was due at about 6 o'clock, and
would leave at midnight for England.
As it was then $50, there seemed no
great hardship in waiting even in so
exposed a place, for it was deliciously
warm and still summer afternoon, with
the sun. still quite high above the bOT;
zon, pouring long beams upon the tran
quill countryside. So the obliging driver
settled US and our bags and our wraps,
touched his hat and, whistling a gay
little tune, ratified off down the dusty,
white road.
"As the sound of his wheels died
away in the distance, profound silence
settled about US. With him seemed to
go all the trivial and usual noises Of the
world For the moment we seemed cut
off and isolated in. this glowing and
tranquil place, with the festureIess calm
of the plain on one side of US and the
quiet Of the sea on the other.
1.-The young Frenchman had stopped
his sentinel-like pacings and stood
quite still looking down at the water
whose soft tapping was the only sound
to be heard. Plump Sister Ruth and
Polite were propped in the midst of the
baggage, Sister RUth's tired eyes al
ready dropping with the fatigue of the
tiresome journey. I stood looking idly
about at the long stretch of green, roll
ing downs back of US; at the Opalescent
heaving of the channel, scarcely spark
ling in all that flood Of sunshine. so
still il lay;~at the quiet, deep-blue sky,
and finally at the meditative profile Of
the young man outlined against the re-
Elected glory of the water. I suppose
he was not what would be called hand
some. but even as I looked at him in
the Iistless indifference of a fellow trav
eler, felt oddly drawn to him. 1t was
not that 1 noticed his slender, strong
figure. OF the rich, dark eoloring that
seemed to show a southern origin I
was attracted by an Undesirable air Of
purity and nobility which shOne from
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his eyes. and 1 observed that the hand
with which he stroked the flowing black
beard was at once fine and very strong.
/ had Travelled a great deal for a girl in
those days, and l recognized at once the
best type of cultivated Frenchman.
wondered idly If this was his first trip
to England, and how the English man
ners would affect him-this was in mid
Victorian times, remember.
And then, as realizing that he was
the subject of thought, he turned and
looked at me. I was startled beyond
words, for instead Of Che opaque and
CLASSY regard of a stranger, I found
myself facing the most real and per-
sonal revelation of an individuality.
His eyes had the joyfuily expectant
look of one who turns I'm answer to a
call from a well-kno/n voice. He
looked at me as If he had been waiting
all his life to see me and had instantly
recognized and welcomed me. For a
moment l thought he must have mis-
taken me for a friend, but 1 realized
that we were standing staring at each
other ike two children and turned back
to Sister Ruth She was complaining
Of drOwsiness and was wishing for a
chair in which she could lean back for
a nap I looked about helplessly. when
the young Frenchman stepped rapidIv
toward his satchel and extracted from
it folding chair and travelling rug.
which he offered to US, saving. in
French, II you viii allow me- sister
Ruth thanked him, and as she seated
her bulky body she added, in English.
Very inconvenient here, isn't it?'
The young man looked bewjIdered
and ] said, in French: Perhaps Won
don't sneak Euo1feb
No, mademoiseiIe, but I noticed
that the good sister looked tired
Il thanked him again, and there was
moments silence. Then he said. 4
suppose the boat will be here any mo-
ment- Isn't that it now?'
We both walked to the end of the
pier and stood looking of to sea. where
there was indeed a tiny speck visible
The sea is like a great, fireIess onaI
ali milky and radiant 1 said. and was
again conscious OF the curious. init
mate gaze he turned on me. He took
of his hat and touched the tips of his
brown fingers to one side of his curly
hair, cut en- brosse- Il was a gesture
L came to know and one cannot see
today without little start.
Continued on Page g.
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BY S EVE LII FO r D
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Kind of two-legged animals that's
almost human, eh?" says /.
Precisely" says he, some surprised
that I've followed him so close.
Do YOU get a view of him? For a
pasty faced featherweight, he's the
most self satisfied party 1 ever run
across. Accordin' to his dope, it was
only highbrows like him that really had
any feelin's worth bOtherin about
Common folks didn't count. They only
knew whether they was hot or cold, and
if they was hungry or full.
You must have had d lot of expert
ence," says l, ito frame things up so
fine"
IT'S the scientific view" says he.
Could you beat that? He'd read about
people in books, and he knew all about
st. Honest. he had me stunned 1 starts
TO take him back to Mr.. Gordon, think
in it o~er as 1 goes along, but not find
in any words that would give Lambert
glimmer of just what was maxim me
ache to get him by the back of the neck
and shake his liver loose.
We was crossin' Seventh avenue,
when Lambert collides with a female
party that was carryin' home large
sized bun. There want anything spe-
cially curious about her. She was just
a lady souse, with a frowzy feather lid
| tilted over one ear, her hair half down
/ over her shoulders. and a breath like q
/ Whit of sewer gas.
'Scuse me, deary," says she. tryin
/ to pat Lambert OH the arm.
"UghP' says Lambert, hrushin' OF
| his coat sleeve.
We'd got clear of her and made the
| sidewalk when we hears a couple OF
/ quick hOnk-honks, and turns about
] just in time to see a big green tourin
/ car swing around the corner and hit
/ her with one of them dull, punky biffs
| that gets an echo from the pit of your
/ stomach. The lady souse goes down
under the chain tires like bag of meal
dropped from a truck. There's a scream
/ from some one back under the hood, and
! the man at the steering wheel jams or
/ his brakes.
Next minute I'm helping a gent wear
I ing a mink lined brOadclOth coat to pull
/ the wreck out from under the machine
while an excited peacherino in an err
mine trimmed opera cloak is leanin
out of the car door and Begin hel
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"Oh. WE'LL" says 1 "sone of these
thin ones have good stuff in them.
Maybe he's overturned. Haven't seen
him wrangle yet. have you?''
No, nor don't want to- says Mr..
Gordon I had enough of his society
in the haif-hour on the pier while he
was getting his blasted traps through.
That's what made me kick that infer
nal steward. And now here I am laid
up like a confounded cripple and can't
get away from him. Shorty, for
heavens sake take him out to dinner"
And what them says I.
II don't care" says he. Lose him.
drop him off the doch-anything. IL
you don't bring him back III give you
two hundred
Nov, now!" says /. For FOND
and indulgent uncle, you are givin' the
rankest exhibition l ever saw. Aw
fudge Mr.. Gordon. This amt any way
to treat a relative, even if he dor't
loom up well on the start. Give him a
show. Maybe he amt half so bad as
you've sized him up"
Think so?" says Pyramid We'll
you take him out for a few hours Or
so, and if you enjoy mis- company. I'm
make you n present of him. Bring him
in here, viii you?"
With that 1 steps in where Lambert
Wis IVilOWlI tDe lines VIII Ills nose.
taps him on the shoulder and says,
Break away Your dear Uncle Pyra-
mid wants you to come to the front"
Eli En- What's that2" says he, as
il he was comm out Of a trance.
ION the Bokhara for yOul" says 1.
"Uncky wants to make you acquainted
with ne"
And when I've led him out Mr.. Cor
don gets through the ceremony without
L
he I'm handin' you over for the even
| ing to Professor McCabe"
"Ah," says Lambert, his face lightin'
up at the last. words like rum Omelet
when the waiter touches her off on the
+ tray. Delighted to meet you, pro-
/ fessor.'
To look at him you'd expect a
squeaky voice pitched about four notes
above the staff; but it's nothin' of the
! kind. He's got the regular basso-
/ auctioneero set of pipes. and when he
/ speaks he booms it out like the last
| call for dinner in the dining car But
IL was clear MI. Gordon want stuck
on hearin' any more of it than he could
| help.
THE professors all right says he.
| He'll take care of you. kotu, Mr..
| Raynes' thingst" and before Lambert
can indulge in any more conversation
/ the Jap valet has bundled him up and
/ bowed US out towards the elevator.
1T is quite a relief. l assure you,
! saws Lambert IN his deep chest notes
as we steps into the cage, to find my
| self once more in intelligent company
/ "Bing," says I. That's one for
] Pyramid
! Lambert beams on me through the
half-inch glasses and goes on with
/ And what is your chair. professor
| Me- says I. "Oh, mine is stand
ing up job most of the time. I'm a
professor Of physical culture"
| "Ahl" says he. You deliver lectures
! on-on-
"On the side" says l. Passiu' the
medicine ball and glove exercise IS my
| snecialties. ] run a health studio Got
me framed UP now?
He had, and it was good deal OF q
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some of his ideas about life was the
weirdest thoughts l ever listened to,
He'd picked 'em all up in college. for he
hadn't lived anywhere else since he was
a kid; but he was as cocksure of every
thing as if he'd been the oldest inhab-
liant.
Once Lambert sees I'm just yearnin'
to accumulate the kind of wisdom he's
got such a surplus of, ne begins unload
in as free as if he was DasSin out
handbills. A lot of it I forget, but the
thing that struck me the hardest was
what he had to say about the people
we sees on the street.
Very interesting to watch them" he
says. i've done it in London, and they
seem to be much the same here. The
animal instincts prevail. They eat,
they sleep. they enjoy crude pleasures;
but they have only rudimentary souls. IS
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ton?" The answer is, You can't tell
him anything" Well, that was Lam
bert. But it want his complete de-
scription. He's all that and more. IL
there was anything he didn't know be-
fore, he was dead sure it want worth
KNOWN; and as for pointin out new
sights, what was the use? Hadn't he
been in London? The bright spots along
our main street don't get even a Bah
Jovei" out of Lambert.
For dinner / takes him to one of the
SWEETEST joints on the avenue, and what
do you think he cOnsumes2 Cold NUT
ton. marmalade-and tea Even the
most advanced vaudeville show on
Broadway-and in some acts they go as
far as they dare-dOn't wake him up.
He just yawns when it's through, and
says he wouldn't mind taking a tramp
before he turns in
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shock. I makes a stab at tryin to
sooth him down.
You do a little in the gym line
yourself, / hear" says 1. Just what Is
this wFanglin' stunt of yours2"
Say, the look he gives me would
have trapped a hot potato. IF you
mean my rating in higher mathe-
mates" says he, Il will tell you, as 1
tried to explain to my uncle, that the
term wrangIer has no reference to any
kind of athletic sport"
There we had it. and I could feel my
self shriveIin' up as Lambert throws
me the scOrnful glance.
Never mind says I. you didn't
pick me out. and don't know that I'm
tickled to death with you; but while
we're knockin' around together we'll
try and forget how much better we are
than each other. Is ii a go?"
Lambert hardly knew whether it was
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George to do the getaway act before
the police show up.
shut up, will your says George
"Heiloi" says I, gettin' the light on
his face. IT'S Flick Borden, is it2
Thought that voice was familiar"
Did your" saysshe, keepin' right on
the job. well, you're mistaken. Got
hold on your side there? Come on,
take her into that doorway
AS we gets to the sidewalk I notices
Lambert, standin' just where I'd left
him.
Hi, your says I. Push that door
open. Go on Mover and I gives him
a dig with my elbow that stirs him up
The door leads into a six-foot hallway
with a gas jet burnin' in a dirty globe;
but 1 could see well enough to tell I
hadn't made any mistake about Flick.
Ten years ago he was one Of the hottest
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So that's how we come to be strollin'
around through the red light district
at that time of night; for I leads him
down one cross street and back anoth-
ct, not gettin' far from headquarters at
any time, but eoverin' a good deal of
ground. And all the time I was prod
din him with this question and that,
tryin' to make out just what he thought
of things in general.
1t was worth the trouble, too. Say,
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Showing Things to Lambert

or not, and didn't know until after
wards how much l was askin' of him.
But he'd got me interested, Lambert
had. ] wanted TO md out just what
there was about this insignificant look
in fOur-eyed cuss that could get Pyra-
mid so hard set against him all of a
sudden. And 1 want long diggin' up
the evidence.
Say, you've heard that gag about
How can you tell a man from Bos-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-01
ROMANCE AND AsININITY

M HAT fine, romantic story is thai
w of Mary Fullerton and Pau
Blackwell, jr.. of ST. Louis, who
are to be welded as the sequel of a
chivalrous episode. Miss Fullerton is the
heiress of a vast fortune. Recently she
was in court as defendant in a suit for
automobile overspeeding. Miss Fuller
ton, we are told, is an enthusiastic mo-
| torist, and on more than one occasion
has been detained for exceeding the
speed limit
Why then should she expect to be i'm
mune from publicity? If a poor but
honest mother of a family were run
in" for racing her baby carriage along
the sidewalk at furious speed she would
be photographed from morn till dewy
eve, and then by flashlight. But to
overspeed an automobile is a much
more serious offense than to drive q
baby buggy after the manner of Jehu
furiously.
There is no reason why an enthusiast
tendency to run her machines at a
speed that imperils her fellow humans,
should be treated with any more regard
than the ordinary domestic person who
in a moment of dementia Americana
should run amok with a baby buggy.
Therefore, we can see neither merit nor
chivalry in the action of P. Blackwell,
who Smashed the camera of a news
paper man who was attempting to take
a picture of Miss Fullerton as she left
the courtroom"
There have been too many instances
of this camera smashing idiocy re-
Gently. Just as the liberty of the press
allows us to write the word fdiocy"
because it is the only term which can
aptly describe a camera breaking per-
Torrance, so the liberty of the press
allows public pictures of people to be
taken under public circumstances in
public places and published. Besides,
why should any man who is not a dod-
dering 1ackass attack a newspaper
photographer? Surely intelligent peo-
pie all understand that when a news
paper photographer takes a picture he
is obeying orders; and when the orders
given him do not violate any law he
has a right to obey them to the letter.
That is what he is paid for. Why as
sault a man because he is doing his
duty?