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Evening journal., 1910-01-28
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TOWNSEND, Del, Jan. 2s-Robert
f. Waters has sold his farm con-
tanning 115 acres to James J. Marker
for $500.
Several farmers here have come for
ward with a plan for the improve
ment Of New Castle county roads
which they will present to the Levy
Court. These farmers would have a
law enacted compelling land owners to
keep the roads in order adjacent to
their land and exempt them from road
tax.
Many Of the local ice houses were
filled during the cold spell. The ice
is the heaviest that has been harvested
in this section for many years, meas
uring from 10 to II inches in this.-T
ness.
Evening journal., 1910-01-28
RAT HIDES LEFT
TO DRY, ARE STOLEN

SMYRNA, Del, Jan. 2S-Some time
during Wednesday night or carly.
Thursday morning some miscreant en-
tered the stable on the farm tenantedI
by James +. Conner. at Log Landing,
near Blackbird, and carried off n
muslSrat hides that had been put up
to dry in the building by Douglass0
Conner. a son of Mr.. Connor. There
were 40 skins in all in the building.
the thief leaving 10 of them hanging
undisturbed in their places. As musk
rat hides are worth "A cents each Mr..
Conner naturally feels his loss quite
keenly. Mr.. Conner tenants the farm.
owned by Mr.. George Heinold at Log
Landing.
Evening journal., 1910-01-28

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Evening journal., 1910-01-28
WOMEN WRITE
CHURCH HISTORY

MILTON. Jan. 2s.-Desirous of put
ting in permanent form a complete his
tory of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Milton, several women members of
the congregation began an historical
investigation and published a book
giving an account of the early strug-
giles OF the church. II contains etch-
ings of the old church. erected in 1902,
and the new one built in 1889. The
names Of the pastors and the years
they served from the year 1912 until
the present time is also given, while
several pictures Of the old-time di-
vines are shown.
Evening journal., 1910-01-28
Parents to Confer With Teachers

MILTON. Jan. 2s.-Teachers Of the
Milton high school and parents OF the
pupils have been invited to attend a
conference Saturday to have better
understanding between teacher and
parent in the control and training OF
children
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
AN IMAGINATIVE MAN
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 Pritchard, for ten years cashier in the same bank, was a model official. Late one winter afternoon he failed to return with the banks notes prior to the weekly clearing.
 Not for a moment did the idea of felony on his part enter the minds Of those who knew him. The only hypo- thesis was that a crime of violence had been committed. The sum in his possession fell little short of f1O.00O.
 The bank directors, like the police themselves, were convinced that he had been followed, robbed and his body probably thrown into the Thames. From certain clues it even appeared that the plot had been long matured by certain gang of professionals.
 Only one man in London shrugged his shoulders on reading of these pro- ceedings namely, Pritchard himself
 At the point where the acutest of the Scotland Yard staff had lost all trace of him he had simply boarded a bus in
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

the crowd, and within an hour stood before an empty house in one of the less frequented parts of Chelsea.
 The preceding evening he had called on the house agent for the key, so he let himself in unobserved. In one of the back rooms he found the artisan $ overall trousers. the jacket. 'kerchief and cap, placed there by him in readi- ness the day before. In rne darkness of the room he put these on. Then he calmly left the house. He passed the night peacefully in a workingman' s club.
 In the morning he made the notes into package, which he carefully seal ed. and with this he called on a so- licitor
 Tn this package" said he. ''I have certain valuable papers which I must leave in safekeeping. I am on the eve of distant voyage, and am ignorant of when 1 may return. I wish to de- posit them with you. There is no ob- stacle, I believe, to leaving tnem ia your hands?"
 Not the least. I will give you a r,- ceipt?"
 ''The fact is I am alone in the world, without friends or relations. The jour ney of which speak is certainly-haz- ardous. My receipt would run a hun dred risks of being lost CT destroyed Could you not keep the receip, in your safe. 50 that on my return it would be enough to give my name either to you or to your successor"
 "It is unusual"
 Write the conditions on the receipt. After all. the risk is mine"
 "As you will. Kindly give me your name"
 Without hesitation he replied:
 "Harvey-Andrew Harvey"
 He had thought the thing out coolly. My imprisonment over. reclaim my parcel. Four or five years in goal and I shall be rich. That. at least. is bet ter than to cast accounts all ones life. I'll take a house in the country. Thenceforward my name will be har- vey. Andrew Harvey. I will live as country gentleman, and. am confident, without any pangs of conscience
 He waited another twenty-four hours to make sure that the numbers of rhe notes were unknown, reassured on which point, he deliberately gave him. self up.
 On his examination, neither the po- lice superintendent nor the Judge in court could draw from him word of
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
Fathers Will Be Fathers.

! A Kansas man complains that since his daughter has taken music lessons. which he paid for, she insists upon playing only classical stuff. When he comes home tired and asks for little tune. he gets nothing but musical gym nastics. The whole feminine part of the community, he thinks, is in a con- spiracy to uplift him, and he doesn't want to be uplifted.
 It is just like father to make a com plaint like that. Father never did take kindly to culture. He sits disconsolate in the draughty kitchen, while daugh- .er's Browning Circle meets in the front room. It is mothers idea entirely that he put on an uncomfortable collar in the evening and heard missionary lec- ture on Borneo. Fathers taste for mu- sic stops short at Suwanee River, and he knows almost nothing about the minor poets and the pre-Raphaelites. His art ideas are derived from the illustrated Sunday supplement; he will not sit in a Louis XVI chair and he cares not whit for the pottery of the ancient Chaldeans. Shirt sleeves and carpet slippers are his conception of correct evening dress for gentlemen.
 There is little hope that anything permanent can ever be done for father When the millennium comes he will still be found reading the newspapers, smoking up the window curtains, i'm peding progress-a paying the rent Success Magazine
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
A WooD-SHED TRAGEDY.
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Marvellous things are to be seen in the most commonplace surroundings if one but keeps his eyes open.
 The window of the wood-shed was thickly coated with dirt. Upon this had been matched nest of spiders, and numbers of them were scurrying back and forth. They were not larger than the head of pin, and reminded one of a colony of Lilliputians.
 A full-grown' mosquito alighted on the pane, when a tiny spider ran up, and catching it by the leg, held on for dear life, while the mosquito, reallz- ing its danger, attempted to fly It was, however, firmly held by the tiny enemy, and only succeeded in swing ing round in circles.
 Another spider, passing near and discerning the struggle, rushed to the aid of his brother.
 When the new arrival discovered that holding on to the mosquitoes leg did not bring any nearer the conquer ing of the mosquito, he released his hold, and running up the mosquitoes leg, quickly climbed on to his back.
 This seemed to spur the mosquito to extra effort. It succeeded, after sharp struggle, in wrenching its leg free. Then, with the tiny aeronaut upon it's back, it sailed away into the dark recesses of the cellar, where the animated aeroplane and its passenger were lost to view.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
THE ENCHANTED sHEEP-FoLD.

The hills far-off were blue. blue. The hills at hand were brown; And all the herd bells called to ms As I came by the down. The briars turned to roses-roses; Ever we stayed to pull white little rose. and a red little
 rose,
 And lock of silver wool Nobody heeded-none, none: And then True Love came by. They thought him naught but the
 shepherd boy,
 Nobody knew but T. The trees were feathered like birds.
 birdsi
 Birds were in every tree. Yet nobody needed. nobody heard, Nobody knew save me. And he is fairer than all-all. How could a heart go wrong? For his eyes I knew. and his knew
 mine,
 Like old, old song. Josephine Preston Peabody.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
An American Without Fore.ieh,

A representative of an American machinery house came to China, says a writer in Success Magazine. The Chinese industrial development is pro- gressing so rapidly that China has become already a good market for ma chinery and structural steel, and this demand is increasing by leaps and bounds. The American agent was cor dially received by the consuls in the port cities and by the American min ister at Peking.
 The vast opportunities for the sale of American machinery in China were explained to him, and the fact pointed out that America was almost entirely unrepresented in the import of ma cf.ines into China. The minister of Peking told this representative that it would be absolutely essential to leave his goods in the hands of an American firm, or, better, to establish an agency of his own. In spite of that advice the agent left his samples with a European firm. That concern immediately looked over his machin- cry, made some trif1ing changes to avoid the patent laws, and all ma chinery of that character now used ip China is made in Europe.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
A Rows Target.

It has been said that if there were no birds, man could not live on the earth, and yet cases much like the following, reported by the Daily Sen, tinel of Fairmount, Minnesota. are con stantly noticed by observing people The boy with rifle or gun is often thoughtless and careless.
 A mother dove had been the target of some small boy. The bullet had passed through her breast, and had left her only strength enough to fiut- ter homeward and reach the nest, where a half-grown fiedgling awaited her coming.
 Dying, she had snuggled up against her little one, her life blood pulsing out over her own white breast and against that of her young. And there, with eyes staring wide, she breathed her last, and the Hedging starved, and then froze The two were found with their heads pressed together as in a last embrace.
 The owner of the dove house brought them downtown just as they rested in the nest, and the sight and the suffering of which it spoke were enough to melt the hardest heart.
 The boy with the rife may cause a like tragedy again, and many times.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
WHY PLAIN MEN ARE PoPUnAH.
UgHness Usually Accompanied by Some Quality Which Attracts.

Plain men exist and multiply, but in our modern world a mans want of looks seems to be no handicap either to his success in life or his personal popularity. In this, as it happens, the two sexes show marked discrep- ancy. For, a woman's charm is often her best asset, and, to parody fa- nous phrase, Beauty is of mans life thing apart, 'tis woman's whole ex- istence."
 Then a mans plainness may be atoned for by his mind, manner and general appearance, says the Strand. Clever men win hands down and a good manner often counts for more than looks, brains or even character. And most men, even if plain, own some feature that will interest, attract and save the situation. Even downright ugliness can sometimes be redeemed by clever face and an air of dis tinction. We will picture to ourselves a few of these possibilities. A short, puny man may have small, straight features, good hair and a clear com plexion. Weak lips may smile, or show soft curves of kindliness; a stern chin or heavy jaw can prove strength of will and firmness of character; in small, dull eyes may turk hidden fires that tell of genius, or, at least, of en- thusiasm; and a wrinkled brow often gives evidence of deep thought, high intellect and marked powers of con- centration. Then, plain man is apt to win who was a broad, well-formed forehead. For an open brow attracts and also gives sign of mental capacity. And good eyes can do much to redeem rugged or irregular features. Black eyes look beady in either man or wom- an and pale-blue eyes are said to be untrustworthy. But a pair of dark brown or dark-gray orbs have a mag netic charm, especially when shaded and shadowed by thick eyelashes and well-marked eyebrows. And good hair. kept in perfect order, will do much to redeem a plain face or mesquin figure. This last word reminds me that for man to be tall and wel-set- up will cover a multitude of sins in the ways of appearance. At any rate, from a woman's point of view, six feet of height, broad shoulders and a fine presence are safe to redeem such minor defects as a snub nose, a wide mouth, small eyes or bad complex ion. And a short man can have a good figure if he happens to own flat back and wide shoulders and to hold himself with a smart uprightness. Out line counts for much and has done, from the days of the Roman gladia tors downward.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
CHARM OF KISSING.
RtdicuiOus Custom Thrives Despite
 the Warning of Scientists.

Rtdicuious Custom Thrives Despite
 the Warning of Scientists.
 Once more the warning goes out that kissing is dangerous. This time it is voiced by Miss Ellen M. La Motte, the ranking officer in Dr. Bos- ley's corps of fair and accomplished nurses. The contact of lip and lip. says Miss La Motte, affords an ideal opportunity, for the voyaging of patho- genie organisms. Most of these germs, when they enter the body at all. do so by way of the mouth. Of such sort are the germs of diphtheria, tubercu- losis, meningitis, influenza. the simple cold and all the familiar juvenile | plaques. Therefore, it is thoughtless and often cruel to kiss, and sometimes suicidal to be kissed.
 Thus speaks science, and it's man. date should be observed as to babies and by invalids, the Baltimore Sun says. But the great majority of folks. no doubt, will keep on kissing We have often wondered at the enormous popularity of the exercise Why do people kiss? The act itself is ridicu- lous as a spectacle and unsatisfying as an amusement. Its sole physical accompaniment is feeling of suffoca- tion, and on the psychic side it is fire quently embarrassing, particularly if an unsuspected audience reveals itself, say, by satiric whoops and catcalls. It has none of the charm of other pleasures, such as solfeggio. eating and automobiling, for example. Kiss ing will neither build up the anaemic nor soothe the neurasthenic.
 But still it thrives, and no jeremiads on it's perils will ever work it's aboli- tion. The man who makes a practice of kissing the fair sex is man at tracted rather than repelled by dan ger. He knows that every kiss he steals is full of fearful hazards. The girl herself may black his eye, stab him with hatpin.or call for the po- lice. and then again she may choose to regard his idle favor as an offer of marriage, and accept him before he can escape. Yet again, her father or brothers, detecting him with his arm around her neck and his eyes gazing into her forehead. may rush in and hail him as a relative, touching him for small loans, calling him by his first name and seizing extensively upon all the other familiarities which rela- tives-in-law affect. Finally, the mother of the girl may knit him pulse-warm- CTS and send him amateur remedies 1 for his rheumatism and red nose, and her little sisters may giggle every time they see him.
 No; it is impossible to scare the seasoned. kissing man with sinister talk of microscopic reptiles. He is used to larger game. and he loves dan J ger. It is his pleasure to dart out i into space upon a gossamer strand, | blown by strong winds, and with the ! fathomless abyss of matrimony yawn- ing beneath him. In such grisly perils he joys.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
Military Tncticn.

So far as history gives us any in formation on the subject, the father of tactics" in the military sense, was the great Theban General Epaminon. das, who at the famous battle of Leuctra, B. c. 371, fought between the Thebans and Spartans, for the first time introduced the scientific mode of fighting. Prior to that time the uni. versal rule was for the opposing armies to face each other and fight i. out by sheer brute force and bulldog tenacity without any particular re- gard for scientific principles.-New York American.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
IA Per,onaI Demon.tratton.

The examining counsel looked search ingly at Michael Connors, standing six feet three inches. in the witness box of a western court room. What sort of a blow was it which you saw the defendant give the plaintiff?" asked the lawyer.
 '.'Twould be hard to describe, sorr," said MT. Connors. in his most confidential tone, but if amy of you gentlemen is willing to step forward I could show you, easy"
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
A Barking Dog Sometimes Bite.

A Western Pennsylvania tax collec- tor, though afflicted with suffering. is an old gentleman of uniformly good temper. which apparently no combina- tion of circumstance can ruf1e. One morning he was asked into the set tin-room" by the lady answering his knock, and was immediately beset by a barking dog.
 Don't mind. Tip" said the lady, he's only fooling-he won't bite you.'
 He w-w-wo-won't, w-w-wo-won't be-" said the old gentleman trium- phantly. "h-h-he's b-b-bi-biting me n-now."-Success Magazine.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

When a woman is proud of her hus- bands ancestors it's safe bet thar she isn't proud of hiT
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

Many a man would feel like a fish out of water if by any chance he should manage to get out of deH'
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

We don't accomplish much but try to keep ahead of the special sessions in that respect.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

It is pretty safe to distrust the man a peacemaker.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

A woman is never so happy or un happy as she thinks she is
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
DUNK'S MANY DISASTERS

Representative Duncan McKinlay is said to be
candidate for surveyor of the port of San Fran
cisco. move that the nomination besnlade unan-
nous, for if Dunk is permitted to be at large much
longer there will not be grease spot left of the
republican party.
Dunk was sent down by the congressional cam
paign committee last spring to make keynote
speeches in De Almonds old district of Missouri
He delivered seventeen oratons and when the votes
were counted the democratic majority in the district
had been doubled.
When congress adjourned he came home to make
his own fight for denomination and deliver more
keynote speeches, with what results the people of
California know
HE HAS HEARD THE NEWS FROM MAINE
AS if that were not sufficient warning, the stand
pat campaign committee sent him down into Maine
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

Tor her should see to it that she gets her due in
another way.
NEGLECTED CELEBRITIES
There should be room. In the lottery Of fame
conducted by the publishers not be said that
many are called but few are chosen. There are
1900 of then1-count em-and indeed there might
be 1900 more making fair moral average of
the procession, but these neglected and unnvited
celebrities celebrities suffered to langush
unwept, unhonored and unsung for these tears.
1t appears from survey of this interesting book
that celebrity handled in commercial quantity runs
mostly to college professors, if one Judges by
results College professors, politicians and maga
zine writers makeup the bulk of the book. These
are the leaders, but it might seem from some of
the examples have given that leadership is some
times an uncertain quantity. The drum major leads
the band, and in painful circumstances pickpocket
may lead crowd of eager citizens shouting
Stop thief"
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

to strike more keynotes. Immediately Maine went
democratic for the first time in thirty years. and
by humping majority The republicans lose the
governor, the legislature and the United States
senator.
Mckinlay and the standpat congressional COM
mittee belong to the kind that learn anything
and never forget anything Dunk sings nothing
but the old song of extinct cult and the people
are weary OF him and his ancient lay.
1t reminds me of the picture in comic paper of
the little girl nursing painful memories of long
hours spent in practicing the piano Mister"
she said to the organ grinder "how many hours do
you have to practice?
Dunk, like the organ grinder does not have to
practice but people tired of his noise and are
willing to pay him to go away and try it on the dog
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

In the first place we find that the most widely
known men in California are not in the book at
all. Who, for example, is the most celebrated per
sonage in this state? Undoubtedly Abe Ruef; but
Ruefs biography does not appear anywhere in the
book Who next to Ruef is the best known citizen
OF California? Beyond dispute that man is James
]. Jefries; but Jeff, like Ruef, is kept outside the
breastworks Of fame so far that be done by
the official census of celebrity. For the most part
the list is collection of mediocrities and respect
abilities. OF course, there really eminent per-
sonages OF considerable number in the catalogue,
but, relatively speaking, they the few swim
ming in the vast inane of mediocrity. Take out
perhaps two dozen names from the one hundred
and fifty four set down for San Francisco and any
man who knows the town could duplicate the
remainder Of the list with others quite as we'll
entitled to place in the temple of fame.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

SO far as Dunk is concerned the matter is of
small consequence, but one wonders how long this
mossbacked campaign committee will be permitted
to play hob with the fortunes of the republican
party. This committee is simply saturated with the
atmosphere OF Washington, which is rotten.
[ observe with amusement that Dunk saws the
direct primary is damn fool law" Need we be
surprised that Maine went hell bent? Wrap him
up In cotton wool and put him on the shelf where
he can't fall off. He is too full of superfuous
wisdom, and just before the Maine election he
assured Mr.. Taft that the state was all right It
IS now announced that he will spend the fall stump
ing the state of North Carolina for the republicans
To this there should be objection He can not
possibly do any mischief to the republican party
OF North Carolina There is no such party.
WATER ON THE BRAIN
/ offer extract from an editorial in the Chron-
lcle on the recent rain:
1t rs probable that in this state soaking rains
before October do damage to vneyardists
bean growers and sugar beet growers than they
do good to the grain farmers After October 1
rain at intervals doubtless does more good than
harm.
But somehow unable regulate it.
Seems like of water on the brain
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
WOMEN'S RIGHTS

It does not seem that the women are quite fairly
treated by the editors So far the California list
is concerned they appear to recognize no quality
of leadership in women except the ability to write
trashy stories for the magazines. OF course, there
is Katherine Tingey, the Purple Mother but other
wise the ladies mostly 1iterary-God bless them
One might suppose that Mrs. Lowell White, Mrs
E. L. Baldwin, Mrs. John F. Swift and others who
have presided over and administered great organika
tions of women had shown sufficient leadership to
fit them for place alongside the writer of stories in
10 cent magazine. AS can not out of politeness
sgnalize lady's fame by naming brand of cigars