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and fail. fret and funk, die and be bu- ried?
 Is that all?
 Is life shut up to decent living, pay ing debts and keeping out of the peniten- tiary? Is there no meaning in life, no pur- pose in it at all?
 'FIf we are so soon done for, what were we begun for?" Let's see.
 We are quick to say that certain men were evidently born for a certain purpose "a Columbus 10 find new world a. Washington to fight for a republic, a Lin coin to save 1t. Well!
 Let us come down the ladder little. If Columbus and a Washington were born for purpose, why not an Edison or a Pinchot?
 And if an Edison and Pinchot why not John James and Bill Smith? And so on down
 Where will you draw the line in being born for a purpose?
 Is there not a purpose in your life and in mine and in everybody's life? Is there not some niche for you to fill else that niche goes empty? Is there not some cause that but for you must suffer?
 Surely!
 Every life has it's mission.
 And. if so, suppose you and I are not Hilihg our uestiny. suppose we are diso- bedient to the heavenly vision. Why, 1t would be better that some other soul had been born in our place. Responsibility for the gift of life and strength is not alone for a Washington. Responsibility must be distributed and that means that John James and Bill Smith have each their share-and you and me. The purpose of your life and mine may be but modest one. Perhaps we are not big enough for big job, but
 To every man his service. And in the doing of that service worth fly and well we shall find the meaning of life, and only so. To him that doeth shall the doctrine be revealed
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A MONG those who use modern Eng
 A fish has there arisen a greater 4 \ than Charles Dickens? Among readers of books Is there one who has not warm regard for that simple hearted genius who created MT. Pick wick, Samuel Weller and Little Nell, with a great host of almost equally splendid personalities? Yes, there are some. Now and then one hears someone say that he cannot read Dickens" I also have learned that the English language of Gad's Hill is no longer understood; that 0ven . Londoner comes upon expressions that are archaisms, and upon reference to the London of 50 years ago which he is at a loss to comprehend. But on the other hand, the demand for Dickens at the free library in any American or English city Is good enough to honestly wear out the bindings, and even children find no sufficient difficulty to hinder their hearty enjoyment of the contents.
 have no desire to offer a rehashing Of reoent magazine articles in which the facts have been set forth, but may be permitted to draw the attention of the numerous book-lovers, who read this page of the Age-Herald. to the belated act of justice which Is being offered just now to the shades of the artist, novelist
 actor, who for these three generations has been bringing delight to thousands, and wealth to other thousands, who have never paid to him or his heirs one red cent. Mir Gradgrind is still among us, and may never cease out of the land.
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had got the campaign fund he expected to get by his indorsement of the infamous Payne-Aldrich bill he would have car ried New York last November.
 For. years and years Canadian reel procity slept Canadian laborers-that Pig Iron Kelly called ''paupers''-came here by the tens of thousands and either took the jobs of American la borers or reduced their wages. You see, there is absolute free trade in la bor, that the tariff barons buy, but there Is protection on the product of labor, that the tariff barons sell. Thus they catch the coon "a-comin' an a-gwine." No wonder New England and Pennsylvania are full of moilionaires. The rest of the country has been taxed for them for years and years.
 But Canada is now strong and rich and absolutely Independent as to the reciprocity treaty with the United States, and it is become manifest that if the thing is consummated Canada will, write a great deal of 1t herself,
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daughter should be denied her chance
 to be useful?
 Good Queen Victoria stamped many of
 her virtues on here posterity, and her
 descendants are showing proficiency even to the fourth generation. Princess Mary, 1t Is said, enjoys her work
 Which is all the better. He or she who can find satisfaction in task has dis
 covered the near secret to happiness. Pleasure comes by doing, not dallylng or dabling. That the princess means business is shown by the fact that she has opened a bank account in the postoffice savings bank and expects to get real wages for her work and deposit the earnings Of course she will not open a public stenographer's office or go into business employment, though she Is prepared to do that should the kings business get slack.
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1 this Is so small an anachronism that 1t | is not to be mentioned in comparison
 with those of many of the great pictures | in the famous art galleries of the old
 world.
 | The London Truth, some time ago, | called attnetion to a remarkable mistake.
 The inscription upon the coffin of his late
 majesty, King Edward, states that he
 died in the ninth year of his reign. The | fact is, it was the tenth year of his reign in which he died. Queen Victoria wrote letter to the late King Edward
 when he was young prince The letter, | in part, reads, being dated November, | 1858, You are now IS and of age, etc.
 The prince showed the letter to Dean Wellesley, who detected the serious error | into which the queen had fallen The prince was only IT.
 | What remarkable mistakes are made
 by some authors! That man, speaking
 on the spur of the moment, should com
 init errors we rather expect; but when
 man, sitting in the quietude of his
 study, commits to paper anachronisms and other forms of error, our curiosity 1 and wonder are excited. It is not fair always to attribute the error to ignor- ance, for in many cases we know that | this cannot be the cause. I doubt not that the onrush of thought frequently causes the mental confusion: then, too
 memory is sometimes caprieious, and cannot be trusted: also the author may
 have in mind some pre-eminent thought which he purposes to emphasize or to
 make .climateric, and hastily passing | over subordinate thoughts. leaves mis- takes behind him. Why they are not all corrected in the proof-reading I cannot imagine. unless this important work be
 carelessly performed But finally. I am
 sure that many mistakes of writers grow
 out of simple looseness of thought. pr. Samuel Johnson, in his dictionary, defines "garret" as room on the high
 est floor of house, and "cockloft'' he defines as .the room over the garret. The first French translator of Sir Wal ter Scotts novels. not being acquainted with the dish called Welsh rabbit
 (rare-bit), rendered it literally. ''Un lapin du pays de Gales; that is "a rabbit of Wales,' which 'has a superior flavor,
 and, being very tender, is much in de-
 mand in Scotland and Enelend' Which reminds me of a German professor of lit
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Father George will have plenty of work for her at Buckingham palace.
 She might be his majesty's private typewriter or social secretary for her mother, the queen.
 Anyway
 This Mary hath chosen the better part. She has chosen an occupation in which she finds the delight of doing. She will be able, if necessary, to make her own living.
 And beyond all that
 She puts the stamp of her influence on useful service and lends gracious dig nifty to all labor.
 And your daughter?
 Is she learning how to run type writer or nurse a patient or teach a school or conduct a home? Can she earn her living? Does she believe In service to the world? Is the dignity of work part of her creed?
 Or is she pampered and petted and
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they are talking about reofganizing but how are you going to yoke Bristow the trust-buster. with Root. the trust builder? How caa you herd Aldrich and Cummins. Dalzell and Murdock, Lodge and LaFollette. Cannon and Poindexter, Hale and Clapp?
 The insurgents are democrats with out knowing il. True, they talk about moderate protection, but soon they will be bravely over that. Delivers last speech was the best campaign docu- ment the democrats distributed last fall and contributed immensely to the glorious victory of November B.
 There is much talk about the won derful recuperative powers of the re- publican party, but it was never boz fore divided on a matter of principle and that the vital idea of taxation There can be no recuperation of the G. o. P. unless one faction surrenderS and neither faction is, or will be, ia humor for that.
 How can the democrats lose?
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pleased with it, and there is not the slightest doubt in the world that there would now be absolute free trade be- tween Canada and the United States if tliere had been no war between the states.
 When the war was concluded, the G. O. P. set about Its great stunt of mak- ing treason odous. The truly loyar look ed on Canada as "copperhead" during the war, though she had sent thous- ands to swell the ranks of the northern armies, and probably not corporals S guard to the south. But Canada did what every Anglo-Saxon people has done for centuries-she gave asylum to Con- federate fugitives who reached her shores and treated them with hospitality and thus she became copperhead and the republican leaders refused to even con- slider reciprocity, flat case of cutting off the nose to spite the face.
 It was not because of the tariff, for at that time the republican party was yet somewhat sane on that question:
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made to believe that she Is above the necessity for daily toll?
 Is your daughter better than a kings?
 The boy was cripple.
 His father, evidently a coal miner, held him in his arms. The boy was some IA or 15 years of age.
 The conductor of the street car was calling to the passengers to "step live ly'' and was about to give the signal to his motorman despite the laggards, when he saw the man carrying the crippled child
 Then he pushed the people on the plat form aside and helped the man with his burden to get on.
 Tn the conductors face, as in the faces of the passengers. was plainly writ the one word:
 Pity!
 Yes" said the father when he put the child on the seat beside him, The has
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<<K NY Father worketh hitherto.
 MI and work" said the Naza-

H
 M rene.
 of some of His works in an old book call cd Genesis. From the beginning the Almighty was busy.
 And If you want to find some of the workings of God today go out of doors and look about you. The great thing in nature is
 Activity
 And from the time man began 10 earn his bread by the sweat of his brow down to this minute there has been for him one gospel of life-the gospel of work.
 We are so made that we can only find pleasure in doing things
 And in this respect we are in the image and likeness of God who, we must z conclude finds His pleasure in doing great tA:ngs.
 likeness?
 Tdleness is treason to the universe in which you live.
 The planets do not loaf. The sun never gets lazy. The moon arrives on schedule.
 There is a wide difference between idle- ness and rest God rested on the seventh, day. but He is never idle. Rest is only . period of preparation for doing. The Idle man Is the miserable man. It must be SO. Because
 The sanity of divinity is in the work of mans hands and mind.
 The idle rich who fancy they can live in sweet inactivity find the hardest thing to do is to''kill time"
 The man who "retires'' from all busi- ness because he has made competency will some time come to the feeling that he might as well be Oslerized.
 The saturated sponge filled with the deadly perfume of the lotus flower has been pressed to his nostrils until he Is no longer alive.
 He is dead! And only walks about to postpone funeral expenses.
 If somebody would just wake him up and give him the blessings of hard job.
 Activity is life.
 Indolence Is death.
 The primal curse is also the primal blessing-work and enjoy; Idle and rot Princess Mary of England is learning shorthand and typewriting and is becom- ing quite proficient at both.
 Well. why not? Is there any reason why kings
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at least half and probably more. h. deed. Canada Is coy and the United States eager. One thing is certain, we can make no such good trade as we could have made 40 years ago.
 If the treaty is ratified we may de- pend that woods. lumber and wood pulp will be on ,he free list. So will wheat and barley. So will fresh fish and cured fish. So will coal. For these our manufactured products will go into Canada free, or many of them.
 I expect to see the most strenuous opposition to Canadian reciprocity come from the democratic south. There are some raw materials down there, and, unmindful of the old democratic argu- ment that the ultimate consumer pays the tax. our friends there insist that the manufacturer pays it. It Is true that the manufacturer pays the duty on lumber. but the man who hitches mule to the blow, the beam and handles of which are fashioned from that lumber, will repay that manufac-
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Ed1Un A. Nye

been that way since he was born. But he is always bright and cheerful" The boys smiling face sustained the fathers statement.
 As the cripple looked out of the car window at the darting newsboys and the life of the street he laughed softly and his eyes sparkled with pleasure.
 The car neared the city library. Said the father: He will spend the rest of the day there in the reading room with the books and magazines and papers. I take him there once or twice a week"
 A lot of people get off at the library and it would have done your heart good to note how careful they were not to get in the way of the man and the boy. And the conductor took plenty of time to see them off.
 A sad picture? Yes-on one side.
 It was pathetic to witness the child with the misshapen legs that never could be strengthened, and mixed with the pitiful
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feeling was one of injustice.
 But there's another side of the picture
 Witness the devotion of that father and his self-sacrifice for the boy. He himself was poorly dressed. The boy had good garments.
 Fancy if you can the devotion and affec- tion of the boys mother. if he has one and of his brothers and sisters. Think of the hearts full of goodness and sympathy and love aroused by the boy in his home-and among strangers! He has friends wherever he goes And wherever he goes-is it not partia compensation for the seeming injustice oi his lot?-he makes the world gentler and kinder.
 What are we here for? To wear clothes and eat and sleep and work. pay taxes and vote. buy and sell pay our debts, vote the party ticket. find
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WYE read in the Acts of the Apos- w s,, tie. how Saul os T.,.s. was
 W suddenly converted to the Chris tian religion, and we have strange political conversion of the c. o. P. to the sound policy of trade reciprocity with the Dominion of Canada. It recalls a passage from Shapespeare:
 Who seeks and will not take when
 once 'tis offerd
 Shall never find 1t more."
 Nor will the United States ever re- reicev from Canada the liberal trade con vention she besought us to accept more than 40 years ago.
 In the good old free trade times of democracy about the middle of the nine teenth century, or earlier, perhaps, we had a trade agreement with Canada that was of great benefit to both countries, though of slightly more advantage to us than to them. Both were greatly
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Logical

From the New York Journal.
 Visitor-Well, sonny, what will you po when you STOW up? Tommy (aged nine.)--A soldier Visitor-But you will be in danger of being killed. Tommy-Who will kill me? Visitor-The enemy.
 Tommy--Then I'll be the enemy.
Evening journal., 1911-08-09
Il Ohm w NIAUW q
a.are - a-Aaa
By The United Press.

BY The United Press.
PARIS, Aug. 9-Kept alive for
weeks by the ardent desire that he
see America once again. "Bet-a-mil-
lion" John w Gates, the American
iinancier died early today In the arms
Of his wife and son after one of the
gamest fights against death that his
physicians say they ever witnessed.
Not long before he died, he breathed
the wish that he might have been "at
home" He was conscious almost to
the last moment and knew that the
end was at hand but faced Il with the
courage that had characterized his
life.
Despite an iron constitution and the
determination and will of his power
full mind to live. aided by all that
medical science could do, it became
apparent last night when Gates had
a serious relapse that his struggle for
six weeks had been in vain and that
death was but a matter of hours
Besides Mrs. Gates and their son,
Charles G. Gates, the only persons
present at the financier's bedside were
EuWdlu AlOnf al 3AntAANbh ny -
clan living in Paris, and ID. r. Revee,
an intimate friend of the Gates fam
lily from New York.
For four weeks, Gates literally hov-
cred between life and death. Again and
again IL was believed that he could
last but a few hours but each time he
rallied in a way that amazed his ply
sicians and family and gave rise to
hopes that he would win out.
Gates physicians expressed their
amazement today at what they declar.
ed TO be the "gamest fight" ever made
by any patient in their long practice
One OF Gates friends explained that
the secret of his tenacious struggle tC
live was due largely to heartfelt wish
and hope expressed repeatedly Ito SET
home once more"
Gates came to Paris in June to be
treated for an operation of the throat
An operation was performed and hf
was reported out of danger, In fact
was sufficiently well to be taken oul
one day for an airing.
The following day he took to his
Evening journal., 1911-08-09
REFERENDUM
LEAGUE CAMPAIGN

The Referendum League, of Della
ware, in session last night, heard W.
w. Knowles review Senator Cham
berlain's address on Direct Legisla-
ton" before Camden Camp last Thurs
day. The review was interesting to
those members of the League who had
not heard Senator Chamberlain. 1t
was announced that Senator Clapp of
Minnesota, would speak in Delaware
under the auspices of the league, his
engagements being Bethel Camp, near
Laurel at 7.30 o'clock on August Is;
Tenth and King streets, Wilmington,
same hour, August 16 and Brandywine
Summit Camp, $3.50 o'clock August IL.
On each occasion Senator Clapp's SUBJ
ject will be "The Initiative, Referen-
dunn and Recall"
Eleven members joined the league
last night. r. S. Monck, presided.
Evening journal., 1911-08-09
UP EARLY FOR
BOULEVARD WORK
General DUPONT and Engineers
May Determine Road Course
Within Few Days

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, Aug. 9.-General T..
Coleman DUPONT and his father Bider-
man DUPONT; DR.. r. Raymond Tybout.
f. NJ. Williams, chief engineer; J.
Gilbert Mearnes, engineer in charge
of Kent county, and Captain Chaun-
cey p. Holcomb, right-of-way man
for this county, were reused from
their beds at o'clock this morning
at the Hotel Richardson, on General
duPont's orders, and started out on a
three days campaign which will
probably determine the entire course
Of the State-long boulevard for Della
ware.
Governor Pennewill and the State
commission is all ready to meet to
select the route for the road.
General dupont, however, must de-
eide which of two courses he will
take through Sussex-the east, CEN
trail or the westerly. It is said the
easterly course will be selected for
beginning operations and the west
road may be built later. If he takes
the easterly course, his right of way
is practically ready through two
thirds Of the State.
General DUPONT visited Smyrna
yesterday afternoon and proposed two
courses through that town, Smyrna to
decide which.
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CLIMATE FAILED
MEDICINE CURED

Fresh air, rest and good food help many
who suffer from tuberculosis We argue
that in addition, Eckman Alternative should
be used in every case.
Weldon, Ill.
Gentlemen; During 1905, my physician
sent me 10 Texas, from there 90 Colorado.
/ became and sent home TO die.
Hearing Of Eokmans Alternative I began
treatment, and was cured.
(Sgned Afidavit) ARTHUR WEBB.
Fuller details OF above case on request
Eckman's Alternative is for Bronchitis,
Asthma, Hay Fever; Throat aud Lung At
fections. or sale by n B. Danforth, Miller
Drug Co.. and other leading druggists. Ask
for booklet Of cured cases. and write to
Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa, for
additional evidence
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SUSSEX OWES A
BIG BOARD BILL
Has Debt Of $l464 to Work
house Trustees for Main
tensnCe of Prisoners

Sussex county's Levy Court does
not seem to be in any hurry to pay
for the maintenance Of prisoners sent
from that county TO the New Castle
County Workhouse. she judges in the
Sussex and Kent courts commit pris-
oners whose sentences are for more
than a month to the County Work
house. and the law requires that the
Workhouse trustees shall be paid 40
cents a day for the maintenance of
such prisoners by the Levy Court Of
the county from which they are com
mitted. The same charge for the
maintenance of prisoners is paid by
the New Castle County Levy Court
Sussex county has not paid one
cent for the board of prisoners since
the first of January, and the bill of
Sussex now amounts TO S1464. The
Workhouse trustees have tried to get
some payments on It but have been
unsuccessful.
Kent county pays its bill for the
board of prisoners at regular inter-
walls. and does not owe anything to the
WorkhOuse trustees.
Evening journal., 1911-08-09
HEART ATTACK
KILLS MERCHANT
W. J. ShOCkIey Dover Bust
ness Man, Falls Down Stair
After Being Stricken
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, Aug 9--William ].
Shockley, a prominent merchant of
Dover, whose new store on LOCKER
man street has been an attraction to
townspeople and visitors of late, fell
dead at $50 this morning while about
to open his place Of business.
IL was his wont to take an early
morning walk and when, after he
arose this morning, his two sisters,
who occupied apartments above the
store, cid not hear him for a half
hour, they we're under the impression
that he had gone for his customary
walk.
Mr.. Shockley had, however, gone
down to the basement with a scrap
basket and was returning, half run
ming up the basement stairway, when
his heart, agitated by the sudden ex-
ertion, gave way and he died instant
ly, falling back down the stairs. DR..
e. S. Anderson pronounced it a case
of instant death from heart disease.
There was a wound nhis lip and
face, but DR.. Anderson in his cursory
examination, felt sure that this came
from the fall down the stairs. Mr..
Shockley had fallen once or twice be-
fore from an attack of vertigo, acute
Indigestion, or the same heart fiuctu-
alton. and it was the opinion of all his
neighbors that this attack caused
death.
The deceased was only 43 years old
and unmarried, a man of attractive
personality and enjoying a wide so
cial acquaintance. A Delaware man
from birth, which occurrd in Milford
he came here twenty-five years age
practically grew up with Dover. He
was a member Of several fraternal
orders.
Another death Of a prominent Dover
resident, during the night. was that ol
Mrs. Harriet E., wife of Edward Bur
ton, and mother of NAPLES Burton
the young Dover business man, who
died only a month ago. Mrs. Burton
was 75 years old, and had been III
for several weeks. The shock of hel
sons death fastening her own end
Mrs. Burton was a land owner OF this
county, the fine grain and dairy farm
known as the Burton farm, just soutl
of Dover, and which the proposed
state boulevard will skirt, being one
of the properties in her name.