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Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20
PASSING OF PARTY ORGAN

Al Saratoga recently the president o.
the New York State Press Association
made prediction in foretelling the ex.
tinction of the "party organ" newspaper.
The NJ Y. american in it's scomment says /:
The proposition belongs rather to
history than to prophecy-for already
it is true that there is hardly to be found
in the whole country newspaper of
commanding influence that is strictly
bound by party allegiance. This fact
is of momentous interest in its bearing
upon the general political problem. 1t
shows in the first place that partisan
journalism doesn't pay. It has ceased
to pay, because there is a limited and
daily diminishing public demand for it.
There was q time when this demand
was strong-when most of the great city
dailies we're distinctiyely Republican or
Democratic.
The public insists now that its news
papers shall take disengaged view OF
the social situation-uncolored by party
prejudice. The rise of journalistic in.
dependency, corresponding as it does
with the rise of the independent voter,
suggests that the popular organization
of the future will have something of
journalistic character. The coming
party of the independents-like the re-
spectacle newspapers of our day-will
refuse to tie itself down to dogmas. 1t
will not delude itself with hazy sbstrac-
tions Of political philosophy but will face |
the news conditions and the issues of the |
hour with simple equipment of human
ity and common sense.
The proper business of politics is to
improve the general conditions Of exist
snce. And this is precisely the policy
Of reputable modern newspapers.
Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20
Talk State Trolley Road

DOVER, DEL, Aug. 11--SeVeral MEM
bers of the present Legislature are receiy-
ing letters concerning or containing offers
to provide Statewide trolley line, or a
teIepost system or wireless telegraphy and
wireless telephone system. Representa-
tive Charles Hopkins had bill in the
last session providing for q State wide
competitive trolley railway, opening up
country not now enjoying railroad facili.
ties. Since then, Mr.. Hopkins has re-
csived many propositions from capitalists
and railway promoters who have PROPOSE
tions to offer TO give the people of Della.
ware trolley advantages.
Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20
ALIENS BAKERY

We sell Candies at wholesale
prices. Examine our stock Of
candies IN !, and 5 Id 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 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
Oak lard tierces, iron band, at
reasonable prices.
Very truly,
w. w. Allen & Son
MiddIetOwn, Del.
Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20
Prizes Offered For Products

E. W. Jenkins, Secretary Of the State
Board Of Agriculture, has returned from
a trip to sodus, N. Y, where he attended
the annual field meeting Of the State
Fruit Growers Association, and heard
addresses by such distinguished horti-
culturists as Prof. L. h. Bailey, Professor
Beach, DR.. WebbsF and others. He alsO
visited che orchards in that famous fruit
growing region and will soen make re-
port of things that he saw and heard, that
will be Of special benefit to Delaware
fruit growers.
Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20
Democratic PRAYER

A Democratic prayer, original with The
Houston POst, is being scattered about she
country. Il is as follows: 80 Lord, now
that eyerythiDgis coming our way, purge
every Democratic soul of hot air and
vain glory and insert large instsllments of
common sense in every Democratic era
MUM; and oh, remember, Lord, our prone
ness to make fools Of ourselves just when
We have the world by the tail and down
bill pull, and zee that we don't get in bad
this time"
Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20

Tnn TRAsscRIrr, 81 ped ysar.
Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

When buttering bread for sandwiches.
always butter the end Of the loaf before
emitting off the slice.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14
WOMEN To AID WOMAN
CHARGED WITH KILLING
New Orleans Women Call q
Meeting to Exert Influence
for Mrs. Campbell

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. IA meeting
CT the women of New Orleans to exert
their influence in behalf of Mrs Susie
Campbell. charged with murder" is the
manner in which a call for a mass meet
ing here this afternoon was begun. The
call was Jointly issued by the heads of
practically every womans club of New
Orleans and many of the most prominent
women of the city responded to it,
Mrs. Campbell is held in the parish
prison here without bail. She recently
killed Lizzie Mclaughlin, 17-year-old
factory girl. The latter. Mrs. Campbell
claimed, and a male companion, forced
their way into her home and were guilty
of improper conduct there.
In her Indignation, she declares, she
fired a random shot at the fleeing couple.
1t struck the girl. Had it been a man
who fired the shot," the club women say,
he would have been released on bail
long before this
Mrs Campbell is the mother of three
children. one of whom is an infant.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14

cred his celebrated pronunciamento. The
territory extends as far back into Qua
temala as the lumbermen could reach
in their quest for mahogany. Today the
section Of country lying close to the
coast has been stripped of it's trees, but
there are still plenty of them inland. Bel
ize, tho capital of the colony, continues
to be the foremost mahogany market OF
| the world. Other precious woods are
shipped In large quantities.
Many people have supposed that ma
hogany is a wood of very slow growth,
and some of the best writer's on tropical
matters have accepted this theory. The
error is due to the difference of time in
which the rings on these trees are FORM
ed. In America and Europe one ring a
year is formed, and 1t was naturally pre-
sumed that the same applied to the ma
hogany tree. AS a matter of fact it adds
three rings a year, and the tree whose
rings indicated that it was a hundred
years old, was, as a matter of fact only
80 years old. The high price of mahog-
any is due to the infrequent occur
renee of the tree. and the dangerous
swamps in which it grows. A single tree
is often worth thousands of dollars. Most
OF the work of cutting, hewing and get
ting the logs to market is done by night.
the heat of the day being too intense
for such operations.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14

The first ice cream factory ever pullI
in Central America was erected at san
Pedro Sula by a Mr.. Troy. native oil
Georgia. Shortly after it started there
was a downpour of rain in the very
height of the dry season, thing al
, the ice cream factory had changed the
climate of the country, so they immeol-
1tely sent petitions to the president OK
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14

After shipping mutton from Australia,
eggs and bitter from Holland and other
foodstuffs from distant countries. our
dealers sell them to~the British public for
40 per cent less than American consum-
ers pay. Our people never would submit
TO your tariff robbery. Your tariff put
a tax of $12 a carcass on beef, 81 cents a
ton on bituminous coal. % cents a bushel
on wheat and prohibitive prices on the
entry of other commodities.
1.-THE British people would abolish leg
islative assembly that would tolerate
such an iniquity.
English workmen send their represent
atives to parliament. Americanwork-
ingmen are deceived by political trim
mers.
Americans say: IkEuropean methods
are superior to those in this country, why
does not Europe prosper more" They
forget that few countries across the At
lantic have one-fifth a part the area and
resources of the United States. If we had
your rich land our people would enjoy
great comfort. They would even live lux
uriously. II you had our limitations
in land and productiveness your people
would starve or become cannibalistic.
Germany and England have established
Saturday half holidays, model tenements
and old age pensions, besides producing
the cost of foodstuffs for the working
men"
Commissioner Street furnished several
American senators with the data he has
collected, and 1t will be used in the con-
gressional inquiry.
Food prices were higher last month
than ever before for December The
trend is still upward.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14
TAFT AND TARIFF BOTH
DENOUNCED BY STOCK MEN
Characterize Bill AS Game of
Polite Theft Score Rail-
road Court

DENVER, Colo. Jan. 1.-THE pres
ent system of making a tariff bill is a
game of polite theft" declared II. A.
Jastro. retiring president of the National
Live Stock association, in his annual adj
dress before that body today.
The representatives OF one interest as
sure the representatives of other inter-
ests that if you will let us have what we
want i'm the way of duties. we will treat
involved is TO get all they want.
The widespread dissatisfaction with
revision of the tariff last summer, con-
tinued Mr. Jastro, land the background
ed and growing belief on the part of the
consuming public that the favors of the
protective system were unequally dis
tributed and were in many instances
fostered gigantic monopolies has, l be-
Iieve instilled new life into the PROPOSE
ton to have our tariff laws and duties
investigated py a non-partisan commits
sion.
CAUSES BIG LIVING.
The American people are looking to
the tariff as one OF the potent causes OF
the increased cost Of living. They DO
not believe that a great many OF the ne
cessities of life need protection. or
from 50 to 900 per cent. and before long
they will insist upon a thorough read
tustment upon a comprehensive and in
teIligent plan with a view TO bettering
the interests of the consumer as/well as
the manufacturer"
Turning TO the hide and leather sched-
uIe of the present law, Mr.. Jastro as
serted that the clamor for free hides
was not because of a scarcity to supply
the home demand, ,but was predicated
upon the desire of the leather trusts to
buy native hides on the same basis that
they could buy the Mexican, Argentine
and Canadian hides"
OPPOSE SPECIAL BOARD.
Opposition 20 President Taft's pro-
posed interstate commerce court was
voiced by many delegates. Members see
the hand of the railroads behind the
proposition. they assert.
The convention will consider means to
secure restoration of the duty of 10
cents on hides, removed at the extra
session of congress.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14

CHICAGO, Dec. 27.--Do you know If you
earned 800 month 10 years ago and now
| earn 500 that your wages have practical
ly been reduced $50?
Do you know that if you go into the
market to buy 100 articles which two
years ago would have cost $S.12 that you
| will have to pay $11.2 for them?
II you are a workingman and have gain
ed increases In wages amounting to 30
per cent within this period the cost of
living for you and your family has in
, creased so per cent. and you have lost
twice as much as you gained.
Are you aware that the workmen of
England. Germany and France get bet
ter wages than yours. although they are
paid in figures actually less? The equiv
alent of 81 In Europe buys more than
the American workmen can get for SLIGO.
These are few of the assertions made
by ]. r. CahiIl and j. P. Street British
labor experts, who have been in this
country for months to investigate our in
creased cost of living.
They constitute the problems that can
gress, now in session, must inquire into
If the members really want to learn what
II costs to live in a tariff-burdened coun-
try.
II can't understand why we buy bread
In England for one-third the price you
pay in Chicago, when you send us the
wheat" said Commissioner Street You
have to pay cents for IA punches of
bread. while we get a loaf weighing GA
punches for 10 cents.
I'VE find in this country the idea that
British workmen are not so well paid
or housed The contrary is the fact. Brit
ish toilers get better wages. better food
and superior housing accommodations.
THE novels in which many workers of
this country live would not be tolerated
by the authorities in England
Meat in this country costs the consum-
er from Is to "a cents pound. In Lon
don the same meat, sold by the English
branches of your packing houses. can he
had for from IL to 16 cents. Range cat
tie from Argentina furnish good meat
for workmen I'm our markets at and 10
cents a pound and sometimes as low as
cents.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14
ROME STORES ARE SWEPT
BY FOUR SERIOUS FIRES
Three Stores, Four Automo-
biIes and Office Building
Damaged

ROME. Ga. Jan. 12-There were four
fires in Rome between 10 o'clock last
night and o'clock this morning. All OF
these were small except the last, which,
at an early hour today Quilted the saraFf
OF the Rome Garage company. destroyed
four fine autos, swept three stores. dam
aged the top story of Medical building,
at the corner OF Broad street and Third
avenue and threatened the guests of the
ThFdH<enCs hotel. who made their es-
ca IN scanty attire.
me garage building was owned by ].
L, Bass. and the burned autos by Fred
Hanson The total damage is about
t2ees. well covered by insurance.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-20
7. R.JR. AND WIFE
WILL CO HUNTING
viii Use Big Wagon and Tents
on Outing in Mountains
After Deer
rspeclal to The Herald1

SANTA BARBARA, July 19.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt jr. and his bride are
going hunting. They have completed
all arrangements for an outing in the
mountains and will use a big wagon
and tents. Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Ed
ward White will accompany them.
They will hunt deer and doves.
When called to the telephone by a
newspaper man the first son of the
former president started off in a man
ner that forced the reporter to believe
that he was about to get great story,
but the distinguished young man alb
ruptly put on the soft, soft pedal when
he learned that a newspaper man was
at the other end
Eyes, this is Mr.. Roosevelt" he said.
placing the accent on the first syllable.
for you know he lays stress on the 20
one of them being silent.
"Did you kill any mountain lions
while driving through the Santa Ynez
regions?" he was asked.
mo, l didn't see any Anyway, /
was not looking for them"
"How do you enjoy Santa Barbara?'
was the next query.
my wife and 1 enjoy it immensely.
We are having a fine mot bully time
and expect to stay here several weeks. "
Mr.. Roosevelt said he was delighted
with the climate-everyb9ly says that,
though-and he hoped to be able to
come here often. He would not give
any assurance that he will mix with
the society folk here He has received
many invitations, but declares that he
came to Santa Barbara to enjoy the
outdoor life and to eliminate all social
functions.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-20
CHARGE DENTIST
SWINDLED BRIDE
Wife Causes Arrest of Detroit
Doctor and Woman Who
Posed as Sister
Associated Press1

DETROIT, July 19.--Charged with
swindling a Brooklyn, N. Y, woman
out of $13,500 cash and several valuable
bonds after marrying her, DR.. Henry
B. Keeler, said to have once been a
prominent dentist, was arrested in De-
troit today. In company with him a
woman is held at police headquarters,
who, it is alleged, posed as his sister
and assisted him in getting the money.
According to the police, the authorities
of America and Europe have been
searching for the pair.
1t was two years ago at Ocean
Grove that the doctor is alleged to
have met Mrs. Wilhelmipa Lynch,
whose money he is said to have taken.
He made love to the woman and told
Of his fabulous fortune in Mexican
land properties Soon he married her.
One day he mentioned to his bride
that he was in trouble with the fed
eral authorities over his Mexican
lands. 1t would take considerable
money to straighten the matter up.
So the doctor, his bride and his Sis
ter" went to a Manhattan bank to get
$13,500 of the brides money.
The doctor, followed by his "sister,"
went into the bank The bride waited
outside, and for nearly two years she
has continued to wait, because the
doctor and sister went out ANOTHER
door.
The police state that Mrs. Lynch
charged that during her courtship with
Keeler, he now and then told of for
tune he possessed in Mexican lands.
on the day after their marriage, so
Mrs. Lynch is said to have told the
police, Keeler mentioned to his bride
that he was in trouble with the fed
eral authorities over his Mexican lands.
He is alleged to have told her that it
would take considerable money to
straighten the matter up and Mrs.
Lynch went to Manhattan bank with
the doctor and his "sister" that he
might get $780, 500 of her savings.
She told the officers the doctor and
the SISTER" went to the bank after
the money while she waited outside
and finally becoming anxious investi-
gated to find, according to her story,
that the doctor and SISTER" had gone
out another door.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-20
UNIONS To PUSH
PICKETING FIGHT
TO REFERENDUM
Labor Organizations Will Flood
City with Petitions Leav-
ing Matter to Voters
PLAN TO KILL THE ORDINANCE
Attorney Will Take Battle to the
Courts to Prove Its Un-
ConstitutionaIity

After extensive investigation along
legal lines and following careful con-
sideration of the subject, covering
several days, final preparations have
been made by union labor organiza-
tions of Los Angeles to circulate petit
tions calling for a referendum on the
anti-picketing ordinance passed last
week by the city council, and by y
o'clock this morning, it is declared by
attorneys for the unions, petitions Will
be in circulation in every section of
Los Angeles.
1t is conceded by the union men that
the call for a referendum election
probably will be ignored by the coun-
ell, but such action has been fully
considered in the plans of the attor-
neys. AS soon as the petitions are
signed with a sufficient number of
names a battle will be begun in the
courts to have the ordinance declared
unconstitutional. 1t will be shown,
said Fred Spring, attorney for the
unions, last night, that the emergency
clause of the ordinance is unnecessary
and that it therefore cannot stand.
REFERENDUM TALKED
When the ordinance passed the coun-
ell and rumors of a referendum were
rife the opinion Was given ny Slty
Attorney Hewitt that the emergency
clause of the measure would grant 1t
immunity from referendum proceed
ings. 1t is by tearing down the emer-
gency clause of the ordinance that the
union attorneys hope to make possible
the reconsideration by the public at
large of the ordinance.
Fifteen per cent of the total number
of votes cast at the last regular city
election is the number of names which
Is required TO call for referendum
election in Los Angeles. Mr.. Spring
stated last evening that more than
this number of names Will be AFFIXED
to the petition in order that there will
be no possibility of the number being
cut below the limit. Little trouble, II
is said, will be met with in getting
these signatures. 1t is surmised that
other interests antagonistic to the
Good Government administration will
help the petition circulators in a spirit
of revenge.
1t was decided at a secret union
meeting held llast Sunday to resort to
the referendum, but since the way of
carrying it to a successful issue was
not plain at the time, no intimation
was made of the action which had
been taken. Conferences have been
held and the "by way Of the court"
method having been decided upon the
intention of the strikers and their con-
stituents in the matter was made pub
lie last night.
In addressing a mass meeting at
(Contlnued Page TwOls
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-20
BITTERLY FOUGHT
LABOR CASE ENDS
Stove Company Agrees to With
draw from Prosecution of
Gompers and Mitchell
Associated Pressl

CINCINNATI, July ia peace
agreement of great Importance to or
ganized labor was made here tonight
between officers Of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and members OF the
Stove Founders National Defense as
sociation. The effect of the agreement
is to end the bitter warfare between
the Federation of Labor and the Buck
stove and Range company of st. Louis.
The association and the stove COM
pany, through it's representatives here,
announced their withdrawal from the
prosecutions against President Com
pers, Vice President Mitchell and Sec
retary Morrison of the Federation of
Labor in the contempt case now pend
ing against them.
While the prosecutions hanging over
Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Nor
rison have passed out of the hands of
the stove company, which Instituted
them, and are now pending in the
United States supreme court at Wash
ington, representatives of the stove
company and of the National Defense
association, by the articles signed to-
flight. agree to withdraw their attor-
neys from the case.
Whether the appeal of the three men
from Jail sentences imposed upon them
for alleged violation of an injunction
will be fought to a finish in the su-
Dlel1e court Is oblu " lOob IlOW Will
Attorney General Wickersham. The
II ye articles of agreement as as fol-
lows:
First-A conference to be held by
officers of the labor organizations in
volved and Mr.. Van Cleave of the
stove company within thirty days at
st. Louis.
Second-The agreement in regard to
the wages, hours and conditions of
employment shall take effect ninety
days from date, based on wages and
conditions of shops of competitors in
the city of st. Louis operating union
shops.
Third-The labor unions will make
known that the difficulties between the
two organizations have been satisfac-
torily adjusted.
Fourth-The Buck Stove and Range
company will withdraw all suits now
pending against the labor organiza-
tions.
Fifth-A copy of agreement will be
published in the journals of the labor
organizations and displayed in the la
bor departments of the stove COM
pany.