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Evening journal., 1911-07-25
TUESDAY. JULY 25. 1911
EXPERIENCE WITH THE ROAD.

a FTER the new state road is completed, Mr..
AT. Coleman dupont will have gained enough
experience in many ways TO make very interest
ing reading He should be able at that time to
write a book His whole undertaking is novel and
new No man in this country so far as we know
has ever before attempted 10 build hne highway
and practically present il to the people And yet
there could really be no better gift, nothing tnat
would be of more use.
At first Mr. dupont encountered some odd OBJ
stacles A few narrow-mnded people suspected
that he was doing it for selfish purposes They
talked deal about franchises. Yet the counties
we're anxious and willing that some man should
happen along that would build a trolley line, and
he would get assistance. No one did so, but when
franchises we're mentioned, with possibility that
the people would get what they wanted in the
way of trolley lines there was hue and cry. But
that seems TO be passing Among many people, the
owners of the Delaware City trolley line for in
stance we do not think that trolley franchises
are considered so valuable"
Then Mr. dupont must have had some amusing
and at times annoying experiences in getting the
right of way for the boulevard At some places
there has been disposition TO hold him up. This
is queer experience, that Of trying to gouge
the man who is going to make an improvement
that will benefit your property
There we're some who didn't believe the road
would be built 1t was all talk and advertisement,
they said. But Mr.. DUPONT has always tried to
push forward as rapidly as possible.
II is now said that the actual work will soon
begin. big force, according to the latest re-
port, will build part of the road in Sussex county
in sections. The building concern that does the
best work will get further contracts This is a
good idea and will put every road building firm
employed on its mette. The consequence will be
that the best kind Of road will be constructed under
this competitive building plan.
Mr.. dupont may have encountered many vexa-
tions, but he will be amply rewarded when the
road is built for the people VIII then realize what
great improvement it will be. 1t will pusl
Delaware into the front rank of progressive states
We cannot conceive of better monument" to
man than such road
Evening journal., 1911-07-25
ALL IN THE SAME BOAT.

COME of the butchers in opposing the screen
- ordinance use the argument that most of us
use when our personal interests are affected
when our own toes are stepped on.
These butchers say they know their own basi-
ness. They know how to protect food and what is
best for themselves and their customers Why
this meddling in their affairs by the authorities
who are not butchers but who get an idea that they
know how TO conduct the selling of meat better
than the butchers themselves do
We say the butchers are not unlike the rest Of
US in this respect Railroad men don't like legis-
lators meddling in their business. They know it
better, they say, than legislators do
Other instances could be cited without number
But the community does require all of us to con-
duct our business along lines that have the ap-
proval of the community. That is law.
If the butchers kick at change they are at least
more fortunate than the newspapers. The butch
ers will know or they can find out what the law
is, but the newspapers forced to conduct their
own business with law hanging over them that
no lawyer so far as we have been able to dis
cover is able to interpret in intelligent manner
Evening journal., 1911-07-25
PENNSY HAS A
SAFETY DEVICE

A safety device for railroads, Just in
vented is to be given a trial in the
Pittsburg freight yards, and If salts
factory, will be used on the entire
Pennsylvania system. The machine is
known as the Busy Body" and is TO
be used in the block offices and signal
towers to assist the operators and sig
nalmen in handling train with greater
safety The device consists of an ar
rangement Of mirrors that is placed on
the top Of the tower and a tube and
magnifying rejecting glass on the
switch board in front Of the operator,
or switchman.
Evening journal., 1911-07-25
AGnnn MEM

THE enactment Of the Public Utilities Com
4 mission law by the Legislature was not a
party measure. The appointment Of commission
ers therefore should not be part of the play Of
politics in this city. 1t is simply business affair
and the experiment of a Public Utilities Commits
sion in this city is merely an effort to bring Della
ware in line with the methods of other states in
handling the business.
The Mayor is required to appoint as commits
sioners three Republicans and two Democrats
They should not be appointed with the idea of the
good they can do the Republican party. The sole
object that should be kept in mind is the service
of the people regardless of politics. This is ques-
tion that directly concerns the people If it should
be twisted into the play of politics. the response
bility will be upon the shoulders of the
Mayor and upon no others. The Mayor is the one
concerned and not any selfish advisers who would
nullify the commission if they could.
OF course the words good men" are very elias
tic According to some in Delaware everybody
who gets an Office is good man." 1t is possible
for the Mayor TO appoint men of standing and in
Huence who would be good men in the general ac-
ceptance of the term, but they would not be the
best kind of men for such work. There are men
who believe sincerely in what be called the
Evening journal., 1911-07-25

Some days ago The Journal, in discussing the
appointment of Public Utilities Commissioners
mentioned Mr.. Cronin, of Pyle and Cronin as a
man who would make desirable commissioner,
speaking of him as a typical business man. We
said however, that he was ineligible, and this has
led some to ask why he is ineligible The answer
is that Mr. Cronin is not resident of the city
as he lives in Claymont. Our attention was at
tracted TO Mr.. Cronin because of an exhaustive
report he made as chairman of the Board of Trade
on the question of Public Utilities Mr. Cronn
and his committee certainly showed disposition
TO 60 to the bottom of the matter. 1t is not the
custom of The Journal to urge this or that man
for public position. Mr. Cronin was mentioned
as type What we need in our public affairs is an
Injection of more of the business spirit which the
merchants stand for
Evening journal., 1911-07-25

1t has been assumed all along that there would
be no trouble about the Canadian Parliament rat
flying the reciprocity agreement but reports from
Ottawa indicate that there may be the same sort
Of fight as was witnessed in our own Senate. The
Liberal leaders who favor the treaty are believed
TO have the situation we'll in hand and if the out
come of the vote is large for the treaty as that
of the Senate in Washington, it will be satisfac-
tory one. Those who fought the treaty here are
said to be meddling in Canada, but we have no
doubt that the Canadians will resent, and properly
so, interference in their political matters
Evening journal., 1911-07-25

In securing the state rifle range for so reason
able price was paid for it, the state made
a fine bargain. The range is a splendid place for
encampments and similar gatherings, and the
soldiers will no doubt spend pleasant and profit
able week. Delaware has a body of Organized
Militia of which it may we'll feel proud. The great
interest manifested in the soldiers is shown by the
large attendance at the camp. Governor Pennewill
has been there and will spend most of the week at
the camp. Altogether the occasion is pleasant
break in the midsummer life of the state
Evening journal., 1911-07-25
:: With the ParagrapherS ::


In Worcester they have an ordinance prohibiting
oarkeepers from treating If Worcester is like other
towns there is about the for this rule that
there is for law prohibiting hoboes from working
more than eight hours day-Syracuse Post-standard
Furthermore the fatal effects Of sleeping on the lob
are emphasized in New York where a burglar took
nap and was pnched by his prospective vctm-Balti-
more Evening Sun
Senaor LaFoette he doesn't propose to be read
out Of the Republican party Why fNould he be? He
hasn't been in the Republican party for many day
And he knows he hasn't.-Kansas City Journal
Publicity of campaign expenditures with statutory
limitation placed upon expenditures may vet make IL
possible for poor to go to Congress-Baltimore
American.
Probably the linoisan who says he'd give 81 900 to
locate from whom he stole something thirty
ago wants TO find out if the man is still easy
Richmond News Leader.
butchers sign out West reads as follows John
Jacobs kills pigs like his father-American Thresher-
Evening journal., 1911-07-25
GUNPOwDER AND KID
To Kitty at the keyboard.

Write on, thou blonde and gray-eyed
goddess,-writel
Ten thousand errors stare at thee.
In vain
l call thee to my Office every night
And say, "Oh, Kitty, please don't
spell it so again."
Strange words are all thy deeds, nor
doth remain
A shadow Of the sense / thought my
I'm filled with grief and intermittent
pain;
spoke of grown things" and you've
spelled 1t "groan."
spoke Of payments, and you've
spelled "a loan, "alone."
What matters it? In my revolving
chair
I turn and watch thy dimpled fingers
Across the keys. without the slightest
care
II one falls presently upon an "e"
or "a"
say Dear Mister Brown: We will
today
Eliminate" and so forth. When l see
illuminate" in place Of it, I say
Some cuss words, till again look at
thee
And wish that you and all your
faults belonged to me.
Your shirtwaist is a vision of delight;
So sweet, appealing, in its silky sheen,
I sit and think, and wish, and pray
might
Just sort Of pet it-where your hands
have been.
Your hairs tempestuous-the love-
liest I've seen;
Your lips belong to just My Only Her; I;
Your eyes are like a kitten's-grayish
green,
And I just want to sit around and
purr.
But when l say CONFER" don't go
and write "confur."
With the constantly recurring
deaths in automobile accidents, the
fierce and untamed trolley car injur-
ing unsuspecting travellers, gentle
men and ladies falling casually from
aeroplanes much to their disfgure-
ment and eminent naval officers In
submarines being chased by whales,
there seems to be no place for quiet
loving citizens except in padded cells
If, as is suggested may be possible
the Nebraska Democrats should zig
more. Mr.. Bryan" that perseverine
gentleman may spring on them one Of
his shorter and uglier catechisms.
I -
The Sun, from Louisville asks i'm
pertinently, "Why should women vote
if they can't writer" The man is ap-
parently referring to the writing Of
novels by women for he says "Wo-
men only initiate and dilute what is
original in literature" Dilute, huhl
Are Three Weeks" and "Sir Richard
Calmaday" then diluted? If they are
we should sure admire to observe one
of Mrs. Glyn's or Lucas Malet's novels
at full strength.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier will now have z
chance to observe the tactics of the
anti-reciprocity crowd at Ottawa
while Mr.. Taft, making a fair ap
proach TO the eighteenth hole. ma.
wipe his classic brow, serene in tn
knowledge that the other man ma.
worry for a time.
; or course. my co-worker on tn
/ first page didn't mean anything lilz
! what he said, but was he quite within
, the bounds of justice when he said Of
Friday that society of the old do
I minion waited with baited breath? i?
And again was he exactly accurat
I when he said that Director Edward
, Of Henry and Young's Band, who ha
5 been playing cornet solos at Shellp)
. Park, has been requested to pla.
Where the River Shannon Flows?
? have always rather enjoyed Mr.. Ed
! wardss playing, and I should hate I
t have him go so far away.
e -R. S. Won Innes.
Evening journal., 1911-07-25
BY
=" II @ L L A N D +"

could have enjoyed handsome income
had he cared to do so. l know that he
declined several handsome retainers to
argue cases before the United States
Supreme Court bcause he felt that
Senator could not be too scrupulous
about accepting retainers which in
volved appearance in any court. And
thus he lived until he left Washing
ton, practically penniless except for
the money loaned him"
Copyright, 1911. by E. j. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell Of
~The Real Father of Modern Railway
Consolidation"
Evening journal., 1911-07-25

For so many years it has been customary to as
sociate Mayor Stoy with Atlantic City that his
death will cause void hard TO hll Much Of the
life of the Mayor was linked with the great
growth of the seaside resort, and he had a host
of personal friends.
Evening journal., 1911-07-25
FOUNDED lsss.

eA,..s. once. lsa South Michigan Boulevard
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
~ mail postage prepaid $500 as cents month
psyabis in advance. BY carrier. six cents week
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Advertising rates application
No attention paid 90 unsigned communioatons'
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier will now have a
chance to observe the tactics of the
anti-reciprocity crowd at Ottawa
while Mr.. Taft, making a fair ap-
proach to the eighteenth hole. may
wipe his classic brow, serene in the
knowledge that the other man may
worry for a time.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-07

how that is, Mr.. Sayler. They've got
to pound EN- TO please the PARTY. But
nobody believes much he sees in the
newspapers Whenever I read an
item about things | happen to know,
it's all wrong. And guess they don't
get it any nearer right about the
things ] don't happen to know Now,
all this here talk of there being so
many millionatres-I don't take no
kind of stock in it,"
mo- said l.
OF course some's poor, and some's
rich-that's got to be. But think it's
all newspaper lies about these big for
tunes and about all the leading men
in politics being corrupt. ! know it
amt so about the leading men in
my party, and [ reckon there amt no
more truth in it about the leading
men of your'n. | was saying to my
wife last night: It's all newspaper
| lies says |, Just like the story they
printed about Mrs, Timmins clipping
with Maria Wimerding's husband,
when she had only went over to Rab-
bit Ford folks to visit her married
daughter No, they can't fool me
them papers"
That's one way of looking at it,"
said l.
It's horse sense" says he
! And I've no doubt that to the aver
age citizen, leading a small, quiet life
and dealing with affairs in corner
grocery retail, the stupendous facts
OF Accommodations of wealth and whole,
sale, far-andwide purchases of the
| politicians, the vast system Of
bribery with brides adapted to every
| taste and conscience, seem impossi-
bilities, romancings of partizanship
and envy and sensationalism. Nor
can he understand the way superior
men play the great games, the heart
lessness Of ambition, the cynicism Of
/ political and commercial prostitution,
and the sense of superiority to the
| legal and moral codes which comes %
men with success.
Your average citizen is a hero-wor-
shiper, too. He knows his own and his
neighbours weaknesses, but he gap
up at the great with glamoured eyes
and listens to their smooth plausib1
tiles as to the reading of the Gosl eI
from the pulpit. He belongs 10 the
large mass of those who believe, not
to the small class of those who qde
tiol. But for the riyalries a1I
jeaiousies of superior men which Ia
kent them always divided into tv
parties, the ms and the outs. ! ima@
/ inc the masses would have remained
forever sunk in the Taost HELPLESS. "
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-07

ftedonla place. There was tne estate
to settle my two daughters had Tow
no one to look after them; Junior
must be started right at learning the
business of which he would soon be
the head, as his uncle had shown
hlmSelt far too easygoing for large
executive responsibility. So. / STAYED
on doing just enough to keep a face
Iof piausibility upon my pretexts for
not returning to Washington. The
fact was that Carlotta's death had
deepened my mood of distaste into
disguise 1t had set me to brooding over
the futility and pettiness of NV activ.
tiles in politics. of all activities of
whatever kind. ! watched Ed and my
children resuming the routine of their
! lives, swiftly adjusting themselves to
the loss OF one who had been so dear
to them and apparently so necessary
to their happiness. The cry of man
overheard a few ripples, few
tears; the sailing on, with the surface
of the water smooth again and the
faces keen and bright.
Woodruff wrote, urging; then he
sent telegram after telegram. still
| procrastinated; for all the effect his
letters and kilograms had upon me, |
might as we'll have left Unopened. My
final answer was: Act as you would
if We're dead"
Probably what had given my pes
| simism its somberest tone was the at
titude of the public toward Burbank S
high appointments. had confidently
predicted that filing all the high Of
fees with men who had no interest
but the interests, men who were no
toriously the agents and servants of
the great campaign contributors, "
would cause public outcry that could
not be ignored. The opposition press
did make perfu9ctory criticisms; but
nowhere was there a sign that the
PEG, ,e were really angered.
| got the clew to this mystery from
my gardener, who prided himself on
being strenuously of the opposition
party. what do you think of the new
administration" said | when | came
upon him one morning at the rhodo-
| dendron beds
Much better than | allowed" said
he. "Bulbanks's got good men around
him"
you arrrJTe of his cabinet?"
'Of course, they're all strong party
men. l like a good party man. 1
4
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-07

the most dengnuuI, slavery-tnar lr
which the slave accepts his lowliues
as a divine ordinance and looks up tC
his oppressors and plunderers as here
leaders And no doubt, so long
the eNuberant riches of our country
enable the triumphant class to take
care Of all the hungry who have in
telligence enough to make themselyes
dangerous we shall have no change
except occasional spasms whenever p
large number of unplaced intelligent
hungry are forcing the full and fat t.
make room for them. How long viii
this be?
| If our education did not merel,
feed preiudices instead OF removinc
them, | should say not long. AS 1t Is
! expect 70 leave the world as wick.
ed and as foolish as | found it," At
any rate, until the millennium, l shall
continue to play the game under the
rules of human nature-instead of I'm
der the rules of human ideals, as doe.
my esteemed friend Scarborough
And ! claim that we practical men
ere as true and usef"l servants of on,
country and of our fellow men as he
If men like him are the light mer
like las are the lantern that shield.
it from the alternating winds of IA
pacity and resentment.
But, in running on about myself,
have got away from my point, VIII ,
was how 81 hit and even flimsy :
pretense g. fairness will sael.lo ,
man in hi-l rlace-and thereto
Burbank. ".-a viii fool the pee
easily as he fools himself" sd !
And more than ever it seemed To n
that | must eep out of the gae
of his aiWi .iatea ion. My necea A
of party regularity made it i'm. S
sible for me to oppose him; s1
equal necessity of not outraeing us
sense of the wise, not to sneak @
the decent, made it impossible for
me to abat him.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-07
CHAPTER xxx.
A Letter Fron. the Dead.

was living alons at the Willard,
ION after the death of Burbank S
49, MS sister and )rother-in-law, tie
-, LES mad come With their three
80. l1Fen 10 live with him and to look
III boy and gel. Trouble be
~ 8 family AMI mine, original
II. u same impertin snces of the old
1facie girl, spre I'd from the chill
~ 70 ne grown p -ople, until, when
eht INTO the White House, he and
'"s'e Tue only two on spaaEtng
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-07
CHAPTER Xxx.

A Philosopher Rudely Interrupted.
After the funeral l fingered at oV'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-07

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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-24
ELECTION EXCITES CHICAGO.
Registration Far In Excess of That for
Any Previous MayoraIty Contest.

Chicago, March 22.-Chicagos total
registration for the mayoralty election
on April is far in excess of that for
any previous mayoralty or even presi-
Dental election, and comes within
1000 of the record breaking total piled
up a year ago when the city was agi-
tated over local option.
The revised total, made public by
the board of election commissioners,
is 423,529. This is 1000 more than
the registration at the 1907 mayoralty
election, $4,000 more than the total at
the 1908 presidential election and So
GEO more than that of the county cleo
ton last fall.
A year ago, when the local option
petition was filed, the registration ran
up to 100000, the largest in the his
tory of the city.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-24
u. S.-ERlTISH TREATY SOUGHT
international Move in Favor of Pro
posed Arbitration Pact.

New York, March 22.-Preliminary
plans have been made by financial, Ia
Dor and other interests, working in
conjunction with the New York Press
club, for the launching of an interna-
tional demonstration in support of the
proposed arbitration treaty between
the United States and Great Britain,
it was announced here.
The movement probably will be for
malIy launched at a peace dinner on
April 8, to which Andrew Carnegie,
Sir Edward Grey and other workers
for peace will be hidden. At a meet
ing yesterday program was outlined
calling for the organization Of ma
tional council, composed of delegates
of social, commercial, religious and
financial interests, which is expected
to arrange meetings in all the great
cities of the country, which will be adj
dressed by representative men of
every profession.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-24
HENS DAINTY BILL OF FARE
Eastern Farmer Feeds Prize Biddy
Steak and Onions, CLAIMS, Baked
Apples and Tea.

Winsted, Conn-"What do you feed
the hen that lays four eggs a day."
n. J. Welton of Oxford was asked He
replied without moments hesita-
ton:
Boston brown bread with round
steak and onions for breakfast; corn
bread and long clans on toast for din
ner; bread and butter, baked apple,
cold roast beef for supper; crackers
and weak tea with matted milk for
midnight lunch.
II found the hen on the nest very
early one morning" said Welton. Il
began feeding her differently and soon
found her on the nest at dark, and to
treat her nicely | placed good light
that shone on her nest and also on her
perch.
About II p. III. | went to see how
she was getting along, when she
hoped from her nest and left an egg.
After walking around little she took
her perch for the rest of the night.
At ten o'clock next morning she laid
another egg.
Nov, both of these were laid with
in IL hours and were both double yolk.
equivalent to four eggs within the IL
hours"