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Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
PpEsIpENr TAErs WApNINd

President Taft at Yale ex.
pressed the sober opinion Of the
Republican party when he de-
clared that "if the Republican
party does not live up to its
promises and what the people
expect of it, it will be relegated
to a position like that of His
Majesty's opposition.
This is true. Defeat will come
to any party which does not keep
in administration and legislation
the promises of platform and
campaign. The Republican party
faces responsibility more direct
and immediate than usually
fronts party on taking power.
President Taft himself did much
t0create this direct responsibility
He was explicit in his promises
and outspoken in his praises.
The people and the Republi-
can party look to him to see that
they are kept. They want to see
the Sherman act against trusts
enforced. They demand an
efficient Federal regulation and
supervision over corporations.
The 2 per cent. lax on the net in
come of corporations will bring
this and the consequences will
be serious if this measure after
superseding an income tax on in
dividuals should itself fall by the
way.
IN the tariff what President
Taft has himself called an
"honesF revision" is demanded
and must be enacted. Protection
must be maintained, but new
conditions must be recognized.
additions must be made to free
saw materials. Hides, coal and
ton ore should be without even
the reduced duties imposed in
she Senate. Every schedule
should be at the level, laid down
~ President Taft where the
difference Of wages between
american and foreign labor is
protected and a fair return
secured for American principles.
y These are the broad lines on
Rhich the next tariff should be
enacted because they represent
the pledges of the Republican
party and President Taft has
public support throughout the
country in insisting that these
promises made by him as well as
by the party shall be maintained
both in the tariff and in the regu-
lation of corporations. 49, Phsla.
Press.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
sEp y YEkP y HUMAN SACRIFICE

H. ~ Sy-tsz -
Ace ling 10 3 Greeian myth,
Mines TIE tgrant of Crete, ex.
acted yearly from Athens 8
bloSJdy tribute Of young maidens
and boys % be Ied to bis mon
ster, tie Minetaur confined ia
the Labyrinth
The Bible tells Is how the an
cient Ammonites offered human
sacrifices BY tossing living babes
into the red-hot arms of the huge
calf-headed MoIech idol. Pro
fame history tells also Of similar
practices by the Phoenicians and
Carthfgenians. These awful
murd 9rs of children were done
many centuries ago in the dark
ages, 10y heather nations under
the mi guided notion of a votive
religiS Jus offering. Itremains for
Christian America, in the high
noon illumination Of the Goth
centut IL, to surpass. if possible,
these brutal orgies Of barbarous
nations BY offering up yearly
upon the altar Of greed over5OOOof
her youth to death or manning.
This stupid 4th of July fire.
works folly costs IS, 900, 10000
in money and 200 killed and 5000
injured. Has Middletown any
money to burn /? Or worse, is
there a family in the town or vi
cinity that is willing to furnish a
boy victim to the horrors of lock-
jaw from those dangerous caps
exploded by the toy pistol? Think
it over, father, mother, and as
you value the eyes, limbs and
lives of your children see to it /
that some more rational way be
found to celebrate the nations
birthday, than by this truly
heathenish one of burning money
to make a noise.
Once more, here's the 4th of
July death roll of the past 5 years;
killed, boys and girls, 1853; in
jured, %, ,67S.
Are you willing, you parents,
to sniff at these facts and let
yourchildren take their chances
for fun ?
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Thar MAPYtA AND TRA0EDY

The brutal tragedy at Sc.
Michaels, Nd points especially
one moral which society to-day
should heed the increasing laxity
of the marriage bond. Indeed,
marriage is fast falling into utter
contempt as d solemn contract,
sanctioned alike by the laws Of
God and man. The divorce rate
in several states has reached the
appalling percentage of one in
four; while wife and husband
swapping, in the nasty affinity
business has become almost a
social fad, particularly among
the idle rich.
In this gruesome affair of the
bungalow-we have an unmitti-
gated sconndrel deliberately
violating the fealty due the good
woman he had sworn, before God
and man, to 'tlove, honor and
cherish;" while on the other hand
we see a weak wife as deliberate.
" betraying the honor of her
husband, writing the cheapest
sort Of moonshine glorifcation Of
her paramonr and seeking under
a thin veneer of maudlin senti-
mentality to hide the avowed
purpose of her Inst. He 'fear-
ing neither God nor man." she,
a devotee of Buddha forsooth |!
A little plain, old fashioned re.
ligion, sternly enforcing the de.
mands of the Ten Command
ments of Almighty God, would
have made impossible this shock.
ing double murder on the shores
of Back Creek.
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CAMPMEErrNG DATEs


There is much speculation over the
prospect of campneetings this year. Sew,
eral years ago the great interest in camp.
meetings which had been manifested fol
years suddenly died out on the peninsula
This season heroic efforts have been com.
menced to revive the interest. Twenty
new frame cottages are being built ii
Camden Camp, which win open early in
August.
Msrydel Campmeetina Association has
already organized and gone to work for
its midsummer camp. Other camps
which are being arranged are as follows;
Sand Hills, near Georgetown.
Concord Camp, in Caroline county.
Wheately's Camp in Dorchester county.
Lanrel-B Bethel Camp near Laurel, Sus.
sex county.
Rehoboth Camp, which will be q non.
sectarian Chatauqna.
Holiness Camp Association at Denton.
There will also be other Holiness camps
not yet designated.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
RpIITAL MIsSI0NARY MURDER

The whole country has beer
Mortified beyond measure by the
revelations following the brutual
murder of young white girl, q
mission worker, in sNew York
city by a converted" Chinaman.
Perhaps We are lacking il ii The thEee
true Christian spirit, but We
never have been in sympathy
with that sort of missionary zeal
which sends young women into
the slums Of our large cities to
teach and convert the Chinese
or others Of alien races. In this
connection, Miss Helen F. Clark,
of New York, who has herself
spent 27 years in Chinese mission
work, says: "There are more
women missionaries degraded by
Chinese men than there are
Chinese converted. For IL years
I have urged the folly of white
women endeavering to Christian.
ize Chinese men. All about me
have seen the ruined and wreck.
ed homes. Case after case that
parallels that of Elsie Sigel with
the exception of the tragic end.
ing" Itwould seem, in the light
Of what has happened, that it is
not worth while trying to Chris,
tianize the willy Cinnamon. Al
any rate it is imperatively de,
manded that future missionary
effort among the Chinese, if made
at all, should bein the hands Of
men.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
DON'T BE A OIgTTER

4
Many men fail because they
are cutters. It may be thai
more fail for this reason thar
any other. Whatever the pro.
portion, the number is too large.
Men can accomplish more than
they ever dreamed of, in most
cases. 1t is mainly a question
pf holding on ,When a man is
Engaged in a pursuit into which
bis physical and mental qualities
Ift.
If plants succumbed to every
Whit Of bitter air in the raw
days Of spring, and shriveled up
at every drought of summer,
there would be no fruit. Nature
points the way to holding with
grim tenacity, and, left alone,
the face Of the earth is smothered
n shrub and flower seed.
Wellington did not win the
battle of Waterloo by superior
Military tactics, but by holding
IN, despite the horrible and dey.
d
kstation carnage of Napoleon's
forces, holding on with British
bulldog tenacity.
Not all may succeed in the
anne degree, since men are diff.
erently constituted and labor
lnder varying conditions, but q
loubting, shifting, yielding course
eads nowhere.
No sensible man should pursue
In object unpreparedly and with,
'ut purpose. But It is necessary
lot only to be sure that you are
light and then go ahead, but 10
Eeep going.
Stick to a thing, then, for this
$ the method by which. under
conditions, most sue
,essful men, in all walks Of life,
lave made good. Toronto World.
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charler Hill asuioide

Seated in the parlOr Of the residence d
his brother, Harry W. Hill, at 6l9 Poplar
street, Wilmington, Charles W. Hill, agsd
z9 years. Of Folsom, Pa, Wednesday
afternoon placed 32-calibre revolver in
his mouth and sent bullet through tbs
top Of his head. He died instantly. The
suicide vas telegraph operator Ia The
employ of the Baltimore aud Ohio Rail.
road Company in The Office at Twenty.
fourth and, Chestnut streets, Philadelphia,
and bis wife Is the ticket agsnt at she Fol.
som station They have no children.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
CONDUCT OF RUPAL SCHOOLS

"Judging by the comments in
some Of our State exchanges
there is considerable dissatisfac-
ton over the way in which the
rural schools are managed.
There is complaint, which is
probably well founded. that the
voters take but little interest in
the election Of school commits
sioners and that, as a conse.
quence, mennot fitted for those
responsible positions are often
chosen to direct the schools.
cit is said that the persons who
have no interest in the schools
are usually present at elections
prepared to vote against any and
all improvements either in the
methods Of teaching in the schools
or in the school buildings them
selves.
improvements are tn us
thwarted because citizens who
really should faver progress in
educational methods hold aloof
and fail to perform their duties.
When it is remembered that the
public school course is al the IN
struction that the vast majority
Of young men and young women
receive, the Importance OF a wise
administration Of the school be-
comes obvious. Uea5ag Jodr.
nal
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
WHEN Will n STOPf 7

&
The impudence Of those Sena.
tors, who, in reforming the
tariff" upwards are putting the
common staples of life out OF
reach Of the masses, seems to be
without bounds
The House bill, by no means
an ideal tariff reform measure,
has been, as we predicted months
ago, SO grossly mangled by the
repacious Trust Senators, thai it
retains little of its original feat
ures save a further upward
boostof Trust monopoly products.
The free lumber, coal, iron and
wool of the house are all now
protected" out Of sight! Lumber
already so high, it eostsas much
now to build a dog house as it
used to build a barn, is hoisted
yet higher to "protect" the mil
lionaire lumber barons who must
be able to livein their chambers
ceiled with cedar and painted
with vermillion."
Structural steel is given an up
ward hoist, and SO your common
man will soon be able to build
him a house neither of wood nor
iron-he can, though, go burrow
out a hole in the earth and since
40 per cent. "protection" of the
wool trust is the new Senate rate,
the poor devil can wear shoddy
or cotton-good enough, how
ever, for bis dog.hopse hole in
the ground. Then the price Of
wheat is going to put plain
bread among the Beef Trust lux
uries, and that contemplate mil
1ionnaire, the Sugar Trust, having
just paid s., 14O, 900 as a govern
ment fine and furthermore having
disgorged $4,000, 900 at the suit
of Mr.. Earle-in the Philadelphia.
Segal case feels poor, and the
sympathetic Senate gives the
Sugar Trust more "sugar" in the
way of "protection!' y And SO
your dirt og-house man, clad in
cheap cotton shoddy, barefooted
duty on shoes increased 20 per
cent..can go without the luxur-
les of white bread, sugar and
meat, and thus in diet bein keep
ing with his house, garb and
other appropriate surroundings.
Overdrawn the picture, yes, for
this immediate present-but OF
the future not far off-if the
present Trust monopolies of the
very essentials Of life to the mil
lions Of men be not arrested, and
sharply, too, no exaggeration
whatever, since the remorseless
plundering of the masses by
these over rich trusts, under the
guise of a Tariff law can have
only such an end, if the hand of
the greedy spoliators be not dis
abled by the tariff reduction to
which the Republican party a1d
President stands pledged.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03

The reappointment Of E. G.
Hardesty as official court stenog.
rapher, is d recognition of faith
f11 service and worth for which
the new judges are to be com
mended. Mr.. Hardesty was the
first court stenographer having
been appointed when the Office
was created in 1891. He has
held the Office continuously ever
since, and both bench and bar
depend upon him implicitly for
accurate transcripts Of court pro.
ceedings. Courteous atall times
and to every one, he holds the
esteem of all and hence the &C.
ton Of the judges Is universally
endorsed throughout The State.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
conrtI Yasn stanorrnnhar

The new judiciary has decided TO resp
point Edmond G. Hardesty as oHieia
stenoarapher for she Superior Court and
Court Of Oyer and TeTmiDer. HaFdesty
was appointed official stsnoeTapher fol
the frst time by Chief Justice Comegys in
October. 1891, and was shs first to al the
position under the present law. He Was
recommissioned BY the Judges whose
terms recently expired. When thev %.
sumed Office under the new Constitution
in June, 1897. aud is now serving the
fourth consecutive Chief Justice ChieI
Justices Comsgys. Robinson, Lore and
PennswilI.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
ODESSA


Mrs. Caroline Hahn is visiting friends
in St. Georges.
Mrs. ]. F. Douglas is visiting relatives
in Wilmington.
Miss Pearl Harris is spending this week
with ber grandmother in Smyrna.
Miss Helen Watkins is spending some.
time with friends in Trenton, N. ].
Mr.. George CHM, Jr., of the Levels,
spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. I. G.
Webb.
Mr.. William Suan. of Wilmington, spent
few days last wetk with Mr.. and Mrs.
Heller.
Mrs. William johnson is spending q
few days this week With friends in Mid
dletown.
Mr.. Frank Douling, of .PhiladeIphia,
spent few days last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. I. G. Webb.
Miss Addie Alfree, of the Levels, is
spending this week with her sister, Mrs.
Herman Kumpel.
Mrs. j. W. Watkins and daughter
Jeanette are spending sometime with
friends in Silver Bay, N. Y.
Mr.. James Wallace, of Sudlersville,
Md, spent few days last week with his
brother, Mr.. Thomas Wallace.
Miss Georgia Enos, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday and Monday with her parl
snts, MF. and Mrs. Joseph Enos.
Mr.. Frank B. Ward, Of Philadelphia,
spent few days last week with his par.
cuts, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ward.
Mrs. William Money and children, Of
are spending this week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Rhein.
Mrs. E. B. Lodge has returned to her
home in Cleveland, o., after spending
,Wo weeks with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. L. Townsend.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
ALIENS BAKERY

We sell Candies at wholesale
prices. EXAMINE our stock of
candies IN / and 5 lb. boxes
before buying elsewhere.
Wholesale and Retail
We are now making and serv-
ing to our customers Graham
Wheat Bread.
Having now completed our first.
year in the baking business, we
feel that we are in q position to
give our patrons better service in
the future than in the past.
Thanking you for past favors and
soliciting your future patronage,
we remain
Very truly
w. w Allen & Son
MiddIetOwn, Del.
Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
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Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
THE COUNTY TAX RATE

List Of Amonuls Allotted to the Var
ioas ApprOpriati0as Made Tuesday
Az theseBaioBso otsheIsvyC thursday
afternoon. che finance committee present.
ed resolution fixing the tax rate for the
coming year at fifty.fse cents per 500 Of
assessment for county purposes, and
ten centsfor poor purposes 10 Wilmington.
and iorty cents for road purposes in the
ruraI hundreds; The following budget for
the coming year Was approved BY the
court:
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Why Buy McCIure's :?

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.THE TaAEsGaIFT 81 PEI Eear.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-29
Metal Work for Amateurs

Ty- MATEUR metal workers will be in
terested In two new methods of dec
aorating brass desk pieces. jardi-
nieres, photograph frames. blotter cor
ners. book ends. telephone registers.
match safes, lanterns and pipe racks
with classic designs or with bold pat
terms showing vines, grape leaves,
laburnum. convolvulus, poinsettias and
wild lilies or landscape and domestic
scenes.
BY one method stamped sheet OF
brass. so thin that a sharp awl will
readily penetrate 1t. is laid on blotting
paper. and with the point of the awl
the artist indents or punctures the out
line of the stamped pattern.
In using the other method the de-
sign must first be outlined on the brass
sheet and then chased with specialize
designed tools. After the chasing is
accomplished the brass sheet is placed
face downward on a planed block and
The pattern hammered into high or low
relief or developed after the repousse
manner. Because misstrokes can be
readily hammered out there is small
danger that novice will spoil pat
tern, and as any articles which must be
squared or bent have clearly indented
lines they can readily be shaped by an
amateur worker.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-29

wishes to look her best and does not
like to be made aware of the deficien-
cies of the moment.
On the same principle. when you go
to see an Ill person never tell her she
looks bad, for that is most depressing
speech and often seriously affects the
spirits of an invalid. Part OF the object
of your call is to cheer. and so either
say bright, enlivening things or nothing
at all. III persons do not see visitors
while their condition Is critical. and
when you are permitted to enter the
sickroom the patient. as rule. is quite
eager to have you bring her Whit OF
the bright outside world
So do not feel you must talk about
her disease or present condition, but
make a point of telling her entertain
ing things about your doings and en-
courage her to feel she will soon be
doing active, agreeable things, too.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-29
Latest Paris Hatpins

= nAMMoTH dragon flies, beetles and
four winged bugs duplicated in
iridescent glass and metals of va
rious hues or carved from horn and
ivory form the tops of hatpins recently
sent over from Paris. The head, legs
and claws of these insects are usually
of metal, while the eyes are of pearls.
garnets or emeralds.
Cut crystal hatpins are another now
city. Some of them are mounted on
white composition and are colorless.
while others are set upon peculiar
metal which throws green, amber, blue
or rose shades upon the glass accord
ing to the position in which the pin Is
held.
Among the pure white pins are some
shaped like long, slender spikes, fiat
squares or spears incrusted with rhine
stones or seed pearls, and one oddity
with a small ball top has a larger
sphere suspended from 1t by means OF
a tiny chain. Flat square topped pins
are also to be had in amethyst, rose
quartz and green kunzite; roses and
clover blossoms are reproduced in hand
carved coral pin tops and the om-
nipresent raff1a braid is employed In the
development OF large. round pins. In
these the braiding is wound over a
metal circle, to which are attached
jade. amber or turquoise beads. while
a matching central stone Is imbedded
In an antique metal setting.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-29

linen than on a material so fine that
after a few washings it has become
threadbare. Eyelet hole work should
always be done on an embroidery
frame or ring if the holes are to be
even and good in shape.
For table decoration, centerpiece,
doilies. ETC., eyelet work is far more
effective than the filled in embroidery
although for this use both seem about
equally popular.
The Italian cut work is also a fasci-
mating employment If a girl is fond of
such embroidery, and perhaps of all
sewing the average girl would rather
embroider than do plain needlework 1t
Is strange, too, but a fact that there are
any number of girls who can make
really beautiful things in different
kinds of embroidery who are helpless
when it comes to a matter of simple
mending. Certainly. though, 1t is inf
nitely pieasanter to spend ones time
on piece OF work that when finished
will elicit the admiration of all than
on the simple sewing and making Of
garments which. If useful, never show
the amount of time and labor expended
upon them.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-29
Embroidery and Cut Uork Popular

EPARATE waists Of batiste and
embroidered batiste and sheer
- handkerchief linen are not yet out
OF vogue. but unquestionably the
smartest embroidered waists are those
OF q medium weight linen profusely
embroidered in the eyelet hole work, or
else Italian cut work. IN fact, the
open English embroidery IS fashionable
wherever the filed IN work was former
ly to be found. and as this work can
not be successfully done on the sheerer
fabric its vogue has brought about a
return 10 fashion Of the heavier linen
IN place Of the exquisitely sheer batiste
that has been IN favor for so many
summers.
once learned the eyelet work is
easier and goes with considerably
greater rapidity than the filed in en-
broidery. At first IL takes time and
practice 70 get each hole perfect and of
correct shape for leaf or flower, but
skill Is soon acquired and the embroid-
cry becomes q pleasant task There is
Infinitely greater satisfaction, too, IN
embroiderlng for ones self a skirt. for
example. on q fairly heavy quality Of
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-29
White Linen Parasols

- Nc of this years most dainty
fashions is the embroidered white
inen parasol. and there are prob
ably few girls who do not long to pos
sess one. And the fact is that any girl
who can embroider can have one. for II
is not difficuit to make.
II girl Is clever about putting
things together accurately she can use
the frame of any worn out parasol she
may have. The silk can be ripped or
and one piece used as a pattern to cut
the linen pieces. These must be
stitched together on the machins and
then have the pattern stamped for the
embroidery. which may be either quite
simple or most elaborate, with lace
medallions and insertions. They may
also be made OF either thin sheer linen.
with colored silk lining. or heavy
linen. unlined.
After the embroidery Is done the
cover must be sewed on the frame. and
that Is the most dificult part of the
work. However. any girl who thinks
II VIII be too hard to make the whole
parasol can buy plain white linen
one and do the embroidery herself. In
doing the work on the finished parasol
1t Is best to do 1t with the parasoI
open, as that holds the linen tight.
like an embroidery frame. Altar 1t Is
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-29
RYOClAl AMENITIES goR
20 Dza THE SCHOOL GIRk

M OTHING gives young girl more
IN charm than frank, outspoken
manner. such being indications of
sincerity and big heartedness-qualities
which win friends on every side. But
while highly commencing frankness
Nine. Grundy requires that 1t should be
somewhat tempered by tact. else one
may painfully offend where no offense
was intended.
If a friend is not looking particularly
well never comment on the fact. It Is
exceedingly bad form to make personal
remarks OF any sort, and particularly
those pertaining to appearances. There
are outspoken persons who make us
most uncomfortable by saying, If en-
countering US on a day when we do not
feel quite UP to the mark, Why. you
do not look at all well today" or, You
are dreadfully pale today, aren't your"
Even when true we do not like to hear
such remarks. for every person of spirit