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Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
MAGNOLIA.

Mr.. and Mrs. Francis NJ. Soper left on
Monday morning to attend the Worlds
Land and Irrigation Exposition at Madi-
son Square Garden, n. Y. J. Leonard
Soper returned home on Sunday
Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Bridgeton, n. J.,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. George W Collins
recently.
Mrs. Eliza Moore entertained the fol-
lowing guests on Sunday VIM. Killen
Mr.. and Mrs Herman Hammond and
children and Mr.. and Mrs Howard r.
Moore.
Miss Emma NJ. Faulkner has gone to
Salisbury, Md, where she will open a
studio.
Frank Turner, who is employed OH
barge at Wilmington, was at his home
here on Sunday.
Revival services are IN progress at
Barratts Chapel and the pastor is happy
in the interest manifested.
Walter Wallace, of Wilmington, Wis
tied friends and relatives here last week.
The Epworth League service on next
Sunday evening will be led bv Miss
Katie c. Grace Topic, The Injunction
With the Invitation Mrs. Sallie F.
Stout gave an excellent report last Sun
day evening of part Of the program Of
the Dover District Epworth League Con
vention held at Milford last week.
Mrs. Clark NJ. MensCh, Mrs. George
W. Collins, Jr. Miss Elizabeth H. Mensch
and Master Linford Collins were guests
Of Mr.. Mrs. James F. Faulkner on Wed
nesday.
Mr and Mrs Byron Slaughter, Of
Phila., are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c. 5.
Mrs. Margaret Richards and family
lave the sympathy of their friends be-
.ause Of the three typhoid victims, ed
ward and Katie Richards and little boy
rom the home. They are improving
The Dover District Epworth League
held in the NJ. +. Church
t Milford last week, planned and carried
onward by the enthusiastic District Z
Rev. r. K Stephenson,
}. D., and the prompt energetic Presi- 5
ent, Rev. John L. Johnson. was a great {
lccess. Long may the influence live c
nd extend to every chapter on the dis
-ict while it fingers a benedictiou to
le home league and church whose pas i
IT, Rev. Howard 7 Quigg, d. D., so e
iithfully and efficiently performed the L
-duous task imposed upon him as pas
n host, and aided by his committee ON r
itertainnent, made everyone happy
ID it seemed contagious, for hospitality Y
general prevailed in the homes, in u
lurch and in other courtesies extended. "
he work throughout was vigorous and E
spring, and, over and above all Divine
rwer was manifested.
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
Or LOCAL INTEREST.
Some People We Know, and We VIII
Profit by Hearing About Them.

I THE is a purely local event
II took place in Milford.
Not in Buffalo or New York.
You are asked to investigate it.
Asked to believe citizens word
To confirm a citizeu's statement
Any article that is endorsed at home
Il more worthy Of confidence
Than one you know nothing about,
Endorsed by unknown people.
T U. Marvel, constable, Second
Street, Milford, Del. says: II am
glad to verify the public statement l
formerly gave recommending Doan's
Kidney Pills. This remedy has never
failed to bring me relief when have
had Oceasion TO use it. had a bad
attack Of kidney complaint ten years
ago and at that time, l used Doan's
Kidney Pills. They brought me relief
from pains across my back and also
regulated the passages Of the kidney
secretions. know Of other instances
where this remedy has effected cures
and consider 1t well worthy Of trial
by every kidney sufferer"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the -DoaR's-and
take no other.
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10

The old-fashioned
boiling is uncertain
in its action on dis
ease germs. Epi-
denies of typh old
fever have been
traced to the min
CLING of clothes in a
washing, done in the
old, boiling manner.
Fels-Naptha soap,
while it is fatal to
germs, contains no
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
RESULT MIXED
IN new YORK
Republicans Control the Lower
House Of Legislature.
TAMMANY WINS IN THE CITY
ia4IA4-
Elected judiciary and County Ticket
But Were Defeated In Brooklyn and
Kings County.
/ fHETgwA

New York. Nov. S.-The Repubu
cans in the state Of New York have
captured the only redoubt that was
Possibel to capture in this election
The only state ticket in the field was
the assembly ticket for election to
the lower house of the state legisla-
ture.
A year ago-the Democratic land.
slide year-the New York assembly
stood 81 Democrats to 6S Republicans.
This year the assembly will stand.
Republicans, 1O2; Democrats, AZ;
Socialists, l.
This means a stinging rebuke, ap-
parently, to the administration of Gov.
ernor Dix. In spite of Democratic pro-
testations to the contrary, the peo.
pie of the state seem to agree that,
with all departments of the state gov.
ernment in the hands of the Demo-
Gratis, little or nothing has been ac.
complished 1t is probably for this
reason, more than any other, that
there has been such a marked rever.
sal over the result Of last year mi
passing, it may be observed that many
Republicans viii regard the winning
Of the assembly as of doubtful value, |
in view of the presidential and more
important state election in 1912. To
be sure the Republican assembly can
checkmate a Democratic senate and |
make 1t impossible for the Democratic 1
governor to either veto or approve
But the Republican party must as
sumo the responsibility of the acts OF
a Republican assembly and, therefore,
many old and tried Republican leaders
in the state did not hesitate to say
before that they thought it would be
better politics if the Democrats won
again this year and the entire respon
sibility. therefore, placed with the
Democratic party.
In New York city there has been a
final fight between the allied forces
of the Republican party and those fol
lowing the lead of William Randolph
Hearst against a straight-Out Tam
many judiciary and county ticket
Although Hearst and his Republi
can allies lost in New York county,
they made victory all along the line
in Brooklyn and Kings county The
fusion county ticket there has a ptu {
rality of between 10000 and $1,000
with the exception of Cropsey. fusion !
for district attorney and a former pO Y
lice commissioner under Mayor Gay
nor. who IS running against District
Attorney Clarke. Cropsey's mai rity is
5000
For the supreme court the Demo.
sratic ticket which was embarrassed r
)y the publication of a story to the !
Effect that NNillett, one Of the Demo. =
ratio candidates for the supremeI !,
'ourt, had paid to the Democratic or
,anization in Queens comfy $4,000 y
N the day he received his nomination, q,
s beaten by 10000. r
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
No Election In Arizona.

NO -IWeLTUTI ~ NTTLVWas
Phoenix Ariz., Nov. S-There was
no election in Arizona. Arizona's cleo
aion takes place Dec. e.
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10

substance which will
harm clothes in the
slightest mann er.
This is a scientific
ally-proven fact. Be
sure and get the GEN
uine Fels-Naptha. It
has a red and green
wrapper, with direc-
tions w hich you
should follow care
fully.
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
voted and pronpsd 30.

Albany, n Y, Nov. -Watervhet's
election was marked by the sudden
death Of John OBrien. sixty years Of
age He had voted in the First ward
and turned to leave the polling place,
when he sank to the ground and ex-
pired before a doctor could be sum
m5ned
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
Kills seH In Louisville votino PLACE.

Kills Self In Louisville Voting Place.
Louisville, KY, Nov. S.-Wheu the
voters Of the Seventeenth precinct Of
the Ninth ward went to their voting
place, at 722 Eighth street. they found
that Henry Kneisel had just commit
ted suicide in the room that was to be
used as the polls The voting place
was moved to another house. Kneisa
shot himself through the heart.
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
pies Handeuffed to Prisoner.

New Castle, Pa, Nov. 8. ~ Hand.
euffed to a prisoner he was taking 70
Jail, John Stott. a constable. dropped
dead in the street George Primm. he
prisoner, was pulled on top OF the con
stables body as the latter fell TO the
ground.
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
Anty Drudge Visits the School.

SchOOlteacher- why are you late, TheOdora?"
THeOdOra-'Pease Miss Brown, my mother was so busy
stirring the boiling clothes in the washboer that
she couldn't get breakfast and dress us in
time"
AHty Drudge Theodora you tell your mother to
FeIs-Naptha next Monday, and I'll guarantee you'll
never be late for school account of the washing"
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10
TO SUPERVISE EDUCATION
New Board Holds It's First Sessions
In Harrisbura Today.

W FtdtIt90utB teuays
Harrisburg, Pa, Nov. Ss-The state
BOARD Of education met here today to
arrange for its taking over of various
Nnes of supervision Of state educa-
tlonal affairs.
The state college and university
rouncil met prior to the meeting to
prepare a list of the accredited col
5eges and universities Of the state.
The state board viii take posses
sion of permanent quarters in Har-
alsburg this month and all business
KIN be directed from there
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-10

Six Men Killed In Missouri Mine.
Webb City. Mo-. Nov. S.--Six miners
we're killed and many more buried or
Imprisoned in a caye-in at the Need.
nore mine at Orogo, Jasper county,
DO.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04

Trust him little who praises an him
less who Censures all and him least
who is Indifferent about all.--Lavater.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04

| wish that every boy and girl in
America would, during the Christmas
holidays, commit to memory the par
able OF the Good Samaritan, and that
inc ennobling idea contained in that
parable might become their rule OF
conduct; for, after all, love Is the
chief thing in life-love OF parents,
love OF husbands and wives, love OF
children, love OF neighbors, love OF
country, love of humanity Love ex-
pands the human soul Hatred, malice,
jealousy contracts and hardens the
human heart. While the children
(and grown folks, tool. are commit
ting the parable OF the Good Samari-
tan to memory they could do them
selves another good turn by COM
hitting to memory and absorbing the
spirit OF ST. Paul's splendid rhapsody
on charity in the 18th chapter of First
Corinthians: Though | speak with
the tongues OF men and of angels, and
have not charity, | am become as
sounding brass or tinkling cymbai'
the finest passage in the entire
literature of the world. The truth is
that Paul never wrote or uttered a
sentence which would not be bene-
fetal TO the person committing IL to
memory His defense before King
Agrippa is a marvellous forensic per-
Torrance, and his sermon on The
Unknown Cod on Mars Hill in the
ancient theater OF Grecian eloquence
has never been equaled in the quality
of skill by any orator in the world.
Christmas is and should be sea-
son of JOY. of home-comings of those
who have wandered from the old roof
tree in search of fame or fortune, OF
reunions of parents and children and
kindred and friends, whom the exigen.
cies OF life have separated. Glad
home-comings! Happy reunions! De-
lghtful "reminiscences! Restful holh
days.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04
The Season of Joy and Peace


Individually. | advocate Santa Claus
and play Santa Claus. though am
smooth-shaven and do not drive his
famous team or ride in his gorgeous
sled | like to sally forth on Christ
mas Eve. mingle with the happy. JOY
Gus throngs and do my last shopping
for my wife, children. friends and
some strangers Ii gives me more
pleasure than to preside over the
House of Representative or Ma
tional Convention Il is a pleasure 10
purchase even a small gift for some
ragged urchin who is unable to buy
one for himself, and whose parents
however much they desire TO do so,
are prevented by dire poverty. A no
ether period OF the year is there such
complete proof OF the truth of the
words, 1T is more blessed to give
than 10 receive" The pleasure of see
ing a poor childs face light up with
Joy and gratitude on receiving unex-
pectedly even an orange. a box Of
candy, a tin whistle. a pair OF gloves.
picture book, handkerchief or a
pair of stockings has a tendency to
make a busy man sleep better and
uIedlu pledsdHl uiedHAo- uledllS VI
his own childhood at Christmastide.
Haroun Al Raschid must have found
his greatest happiness when he went
about disguised mingling with the
multitude and doing little acts of
kindness. custom also practiced by
Napoleon. have kindly feeling for
Big Tim Sullivan, who is the Haroun
al Raschid of the Bowery without any
disguise, and whose specially is Civ
ing shoes unto the poor. Some
gr0uchy folks condemn utterly both
Santa Claus and indiscriminate
Christmas giving, but the bulk of
lmarkind clings 10 them. The grouchy
cnes do not count for much They
are kllsjoys so far as they go, but
they do not go very far.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04
The Gentlemanhood of the Guild
BY HENRY wATrERsoN.

Il have always drawn the line at
straight lying and the station house.
The city editor should never consider
himself q brevet chief OF police. the
reporter semi.professional sleuth
The newspaper with the law
should assume the accused innocent
until proven guilty: should be the
friend not The enemy, of the genera!
public; the defender. not the invader.
OF private life II should never be
the assallant OF private character.
"The newspaper is not commodity
TO be sold over the counter like dry
goods and groceries Il should be. as
IL were, Keeper of the public CON
science; its rating professional, like
the ministry and the law. not com.
mercial like the department store
and the bucket shop.
Its workers should De gentlemen,
not cavesdroppers and scavengers, de-
veloping a spy system peculiarly their
own, nor caring for the respect and
esteem of the vicinage.
There will be shyster Journalists
as there are shystcr lawyers: I'M
worthy newspapermen as there are
unworthy clergymen. but in each call.
ing the rule is bound TO be otherwise
and they who seek the imprint OF the
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04
Let the People Name the President

friends of the presidential primary
should be able TO procure the passage
OF laws such as now obtain in the five
states already named.
In states where no legislative ses-
sion is impending and in states where
legislatures cannot be moved TO act
in this matter, recourse should be had
to party action. The Democratic party
should be specially forward in the
movement for popular presidential
nominations-in pursuance of its we'll
earned tradition as the party OF the
free initiative of the Embossed people.
From the 10Th of next March, when
North Dakota speaks, the country will
begin to feel the surge of a new tide
in presidential politics. That tide
should rise to a great flood before the
meeting OF the national party conven-
tions-a flood of public Judgment SO
high and strong that no Vaccinations
OF rings and bosses will venture TO
stand against it.-New York Ameri.
can
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04

higher instead OF the lower brand
will be sure TO find II.
In short, | stand for the gentle
manhood of our guild and believe that
IN the long run the owners OF news
paper properties will discover that in
tegrity and cleanliness pay the best
dividends and that good faith and
good humor are positive assets.
Never TO seek Office Never to.
take gift stock. Never TO touch cam
paign money. These are the precepts
the young journalist should hang upon
his bed post.
III hope there is no one of you here
tonight who VIII not be one day a
managing editor, at least a city edi-
tor. and whenever any one OF You
finds himself in position of author
ity let him carry these few precepts
in his mind and I'm his heart: To
print nothing of man which he
would NOT say TO his face: TO print
nothing OF man i'm malice; TO look
we'll and think twice before consign-
ing-a suspect TO the ruin of printers
ink; TO respect the old and defend
the weak. and, lastly. at work and az
play, daytime and nighttime. to be
good TO the girls and square with the
boys, for hath il not been written. or
such is the kingdom of heaven"
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04
Editorials by the People.
The EIaws in the TnompsOn Plan.

To the Editor of The Times: II a
means was sought to involve the city
OF Detroit in almost endless litiga-
ticn with the Detroit United Railway,
the Thompson ordinance is we'll de-
signed 10 furnish that means and we
say this without any disparagment 10
Mr. Hally who drew the ponderous
measure, for he has done as well as
any man could do when commanded
10 draw such an instrument contain
ing guarantees impossible, or at least
improbable. OF accomplishment
The ordinance is cumbersome. The
sections granting the city the right
ITO purchase and requiring the com
pany to sell and fixing the price. are
unc ertain and unsatisfactory. Under
IL the time necessary TO accomplish
municipal ownership would be well
nigh five years even If everybody
obligated 10 accomplish that result
acted i'm the best of faith. Then
should the price set by arbitrators be
too high. as it is more than likely TO
be under the methods OF fixing the
price set out in the ordinance, and
the voters rejected II, we would not
accomplish municipal ownership dur
ing the Is years which the proposed
franchise would have to run.
Then the increase in city fares. on
inteTurban cars would result III i'm.
mense dissatisfaction. Now these
cars are made 10 do duty for a local
ear. That is, when an interurban car
Is due TO pass a given line, a trip for
local car is omitted Then persons
using the interurban cars during work
ing hours now, especially those living
outside the city, will find the addition
al four cents day, more or less OPP
pressive.
The relinquishing of ali claims for
street rentals, taxes and other charges
Is n zig item in favor of iha company
as is the city's assumption OF al
foundation work and paving between
the tracks.
Il must be remembered that the
foundations for the heavy irlerurban
cars must be OF a far more expensive
character than those for the city cars
and the cost of these is July double
thos, OF the Detroit Electric Railway
We doubt if Mr.. Thompson realized
this, but by including the interurban
cars in this agreement means that the
city will undertake this expensive
work. while the company, will get a
straight fiyc-cent fare.
The ordinance becomes the law and
a full-fedged franchise contract 10
DAYS after approval, upon the COM
pany depcsting q 500 bond with the
city. The million-dollar bond as a
municipal ownership guarantee Is not
10 be DEPOSITED for six months. III
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04
A POEM A DAY.
4 LITTLE WHILE.

a little while. little love.
The hour vet bears for thee and me
Who have not drawn the Veil 10 sec
IL still our heaven be lit above,
Thou merely, at the days last sigh.
Hast felt they soul prolong the tone,
And have heard the night wind cry
And deemed it's speech mine own.
A little while. n little love,
The scattering autumn boards for as
Whose bower is not yet ruinous,
Nor quite unleaYed our songless grove
only across the shaken bnughs
We hear the hoodtides seek the sea
And deep in both our hearts they rouse
one wall for thee and me.
A little while, n little love.
May yet be ours who have not said
The world 10 makes Our eyes afraid
To know THAT each Is thinking 81.
NOT yet the END. be our lips dumb
In smiles a little season yet
I'll tell thee, when the end is come.
How we may hest forget
Dante Gabriel RossCtti.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04
From Another Point of View
Again. there is the slogan.

there the slogan
President be brief.
would observe this demand that hans
dynamiters
Christmas.
that Hughey Jennings
failed Q pinch.
IN
when by holy.
A
to gain
me
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04

This is as critical in the history of unionism.
The organized labor responsible for
the acts of individuals any union.
The Detroit belongs putting eight
at peacefully engaged in making living have cont
bd from pay envelope provide
with the best of them fair
know SINCERE BELIEF THAT THE MEN WERE INNOCENT
He the that from Angeles
matter surprise be to him how much been
deceived by guilty that every
man every union in this country.
which looks dynamite any other
Of violence which dependent upon
destruction Of life property, cannot endure
trendo the whole world today is toward peace
of disputes between nations being urged
hemispheres
idea and sending them battle has
epule the that civilization has advanced beyond
barbarism
THIS is NEITHER THE AGE NOR THE DAY WHEREIN A MAN
SEEKING A LIVELIHOOD GOING ASKED RISK EITHER
LIFE, PROPERTY NOR THE AGE NOR THE DAY WHEREIN
THAT PROTECTION AFFORDED BY THE
STRONG ARM OF THE LAW.
Organized now by
prove CHOSEN peace waging
gn against and conditions against whom and which
aimed
put organization
personal
and selfish and who would suit their ends first bring dred
organized labor the MNamaas end MMnga have done the
perpetrators Of for which there possible explanation other
that they would individuals through their
errorzed structural iron industry.
As that has always conceded the right Of labor
ganize cautioned against violence
all the rights of those who differ organized
labor turn
winning
box keeping highest ideals of Amer
citizenship than the sound of exploding dynamite.
The Bridge is notorious as
militant organization
1t constantly in trouble.
Its financial
given PUR
CHASE OF DYNAMITE
This should be made set its house order by the population
individuals who investigation and trial. shall
parties the methods employed have
campaign which
organization either the side of labor capital
Either the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers should find guilty
kick them be expelled
be taken bacand thus denied the support
andne
ofpnioniv
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04

default were made on the part of the
company TO make n bona fide tender
of property to the city, a liberal coun.
Gil would likely follow the usual Gus
tom in such case and accommodate
lngly cancel the bond just as Mr..
Thompson is now attempting to can
Gel and relinquish the $500 day
rentals that have been due the city
since July or longer, and the heavy
taxes the company owes the city for
1910 and 1911.
Perhaps the worst feature Of the
whole ordinance is the provision re-
curing Commute service only
Under this clause we may expect to
not only see the cattle cars" con-
tinued with the people struggling TO
get strap, much less a seat, but We
will soon see them piled upon one an
other We cannot understand why
Mr.. Thompson could ever consent to
such a clause. 1t simply gives the
company carte-blanche TO run cars as
ii pleases, and the public can go to
blazes. The indescribable suffering
of modest women, the inhumanity the
intolerable nuisance OF jammed and
crowded cars, is to be continued and
intensified if this ordinance goes into
effect II 1t ever gets 10 the voters
they should give it, and all its kind, a
death blow by voting it down by a
decisive adverse majority.
If anything remained TO prove that
there are no good franchises but
dead ones this Thompson attempt
furnishes the proof And the slogan
mo more franchises on any terms"
still holds good.
FRANCIS II. WARREN.
Detroit, Dec. !. 1911.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-04

Five states will hold presidential
primary elections next spring. Here
is a new and important fact In Ameri-
can history. II will change for the
better the whole character OF the
presidential contest.
In North Dakota on March 10. in
Wisconsin on April 2, in Nebraska on
April II, in Oregon on April 10, and
in New Jersey on May %, there will
be- held primary elections TO choose
delegates to the Republican and DEM
ocratic national conventions, and to
declare the preference OF the voters
OF both parties for candidates for the
presidency.
The day of the packed presidential
convention is passing-or has passed.
HeHeeforth the people are bound TO
have an ever more and more prevail
ing voice in the settlement OF the
quadrennial issues of national poll
tics
The American urges that a deter
mined effort be made by the progress
sives of all parties to increase the
number OF states in which the people
shall have direct vote in making
next years presidential nominations.
This can be done either by legislative
enactment or by action OF the party
ORGANIZATIONS.
There Is to be regular session OF
the legislature within a few months
in Arizona. Georgia, Kentucky. LOuisi'
ana. Maryland, Mississippi. New Mex
leo. New York, Rhode Island. South
Carolina, Utah and Vermont-besides
a special legislative session in Cali.
fornia. In some Of these states the