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Evening journal., 1913-02-19
rHF rsRErL CANARY.

Cold and cherries our apartment,
Cold and desolate and cheerless
Since our darling pet canary
Flew away one night in spirit
TO remain where cats are never
Known to crouch upon the hearth
rug.
TO the bright canary heaven
Where are neither cats nor cages,
Where the hills are heaped with bird
seed
And the valleys full Of lettuce.
And the brooklets full Of water.
Full Of sparkling drinking water,
And bird is never thirsty
Always cold was our apartment,
Always frigid in the morning,
Always frosty in the evening,
And il did no good TO signal
To the ianitOr for succor.
To the stoker in the basement
Who presided DER the furnace.
Always cold our radiators
When we needed them the hottest,
Such was life in our apartment
Till We bought our darling Dicky
Dicky had soft. low whistle
That was like radiators.
Very soft and sweet and lullng
To the chilly human spirit,
And il used TO make us warmer
Just to listen TO his music,
To his gentle, soothing whistle
That was like the radiators.
Now we shook no more nor shivered
AS we sat at early breakfast,
Though the tyrant in the basement
Still was lying on his pillow.
And we sat around at evening
In imaginary camfort,
Harking to the sweet, warm whistle
OF our Dicky-bird caloric.
Though the janitor below us
Had allowed his fires to languish.
But the human heart is selfish.
Cannot long deserve its blessings,
Can't appreciate its blessings
In 1t selfishness and smugness.
In the warmth of Dicky's music
We forgot to think OF Dicky,
And we found him dead one morning
On his cage floor stiff and frozen.
He could warm us with his music,
He could gladden. our apartment
With his low and steamy whistle
That was like the radiators:
He could do this thing for others,
But he could not keep himself warm
And we found him stiff and frozen
In the manner I've related
Cold and cheerless our apartment.
Cold and desolate and cheerless,
And the ianitor below us
Still is deafer than a street car
To our pleadings and petitions
And there seems but one course open
We must get a new canary.
Newark News.
Evening journal., 1913-02-19

fees by the four of five magistrates Of
Wilmington before the city's welfare
and fair reputation, especially when
we remember that the privilege of
selling licenses is one which is not
enjoyed b. magistrates in any other
city of the Union. | believe? What
right have they to ask such consider
alton when so much is at stalker
To anyone who considers the mat
ter carefully. it will at once be evi-
dent that it will be utterly impossible
to secure adequate publicity and reli-
able records, so long as the issuing
Of licenses and the registration of
marriage returns is not confined TO a
single bureau. or Office. And what
Office could possibley be more appro-
pirate in every way for this Important
function than the Bureau OF Vital sta
tistics. created for, and charged with,
the duty Of recording these very mat
ters
Again. under the present law. the
extra -slollar goes into the pockets OF
Evening journal., 1913-02-19

I they're so stinkin' prowd an so bent
on sellin' a lot of Stait bonds that
they set back on their hunkers await
in fer him to give them the awtomo-
beels. and the hosses an kerridges to
run on hit. Fer peepil hoo haint got
no good roads an hoo wants good
roads, an hoo hain't got no mummy, an
hoo needs mummy, they certenly want
more fur nuthin than ennyboddy I
know of.
/ CESS the wurled hain't ever had a
man hoo wuz 50 eeger to give away ?
millyun dollers an had sech hard
time a-dooin' It, as Generel doc Pom
is havin | allow its becaws he's bin
too anxious to do it, Ef he had hung
back little hits likely a lot of these
yere peepil hoo IS now agenst his
| boulevard wud have bin hangin'
around him tryin' to pick his pockit.
| The mistaik General doc Pont made
wuz in not askin' the Legislature to
give him 3 millyuns of Stait mummy
fer 2 millyuns of his own mummy. Ef
he had dun that hits likely most of
the fellers here wud have said he
wuz feller so smart that they
koodnt afford to ignore his demand,
an il may be that he'd be / millyun
dollers better off now than he wuz
Wen he started.
Yu see, Mary Ann, these yeer SEN
tiers an Representatives is so used
to seein' peepil hangin' around the
Stait Hows tryin' to git mummy outten
the treshery, that wen a feller kums
around tryin to put millyuns into
it, he immediately bekums an OBJ
ieck of deep suspishun. Every man
keeps his hand on his pocketbook an
watches his hat an kote. One-half
of the Legislature allows the feller
is crazy an the uther half allows he
Is a krook. They seem to regard as
prima fashee evidens the fact that he
has made millyun dollers an wants
to give it away. They wudn't do it,
an they think he mus be crazy or
crooked eff he wants to do It, In fact
sum of the fellers frum Sussix kounty
told me this afternoon that they didn't
believe there wuz sech a thing as
millyun dollers in the werld, an that
with them seem wuz beleevin'.
Hits a pity General doc Pont didn't
know how to go about doin' this thing
Ef he had konsulted me before he
made his offer I kud a-told him that
full an proper treetment wuz fer hin
to kun to Dover an ask the Senitirs
an Representatives to bid 2 mill.
yum doller Boulevard with the pee.
pills mummy an then give it to him
IF he'd a-dun that, he'd a-had his
Boulevard long ago an there wuC
have bin a law kompellin' eyerybodd,
that used the road to pay him toll
But jest as soon as he offered to giv'
millyun doller Boulevard to th'
Stait an to let the peepil of the Stai
use it fer nuthin', that wuz too muci
OF a good thing fer the peepil fel
emmy Legislature to sankshun. Hit wuC
spoil the peepil TO git the hosses an
waguns outten the mud an the sand
General doc Pont shud have beer
warned that wen men have drove IN
mud an sand all their lives, hits dan
gerus to offer them millyun dolleri
werth of good road fer nuthin'. The'
hain't used to hit
An there's anuther thing ! can
understand, Mary Ann. Fer yeers tn
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
WAN NEM COURT HOUSE

From the Lewes Pilot.
The new Levy Court has been
organized and is now in position to
conduct the business affairs of the
county. II is composed Of five Re-
publicans and FIVE Democrats, with a
Republican clerk of the peace, who
under the law has the casting of the
deciding vote in case of tie vote Of
the members. so to all intents and
purposes the control of the levy court
remains with the Republicans.
There has been entirely too much
partizanship in the conduct of the
country's business affairs in the past
by both parties: it is time that our
levy court should conduct the business
Of the county along business lines,
ignoring party politics The members
of the levy court, irrespective Of
whether they are Republicans or
Democrats, should carefully examine
into the needs OF the county and after
ascertaining what those needs are do
that which will meet them
One Of the things that Sussex
county is most sadly in need OF is a
court house that is fireproof, so that
the valuable records-in some cases
the most valuable records in the
country be protected from
destruction by fire. We feel that the
great mass of our citizens do not
realize what a fire in our court house
would mean to the people of this
county. And we believe II they knew
the perilous condition OF the public
records OF this county as now kept
they would rise up and demand tha
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
BLOWING HOT AND COLD.

TOR admitting the facts and begging the issue the
following editorial taken from the Dover In
dex. a Democratic newspaper. probably has equal
in the history of Delaware journalism;
We do not wish to be misunderstood as to our views
TO woman suffrage. We have often expressed
selves fayoring votes for Generally speak
ing. good why woman should not be
put an equality with We acknowledge her
equality and in many ways her superiority. However,
when IL comes TO State. with its large negro
population, with the ignorance and habtual prejudice
OF the race, hesitate. We confess that should
prefer qualified suffrage I'm Partisanshp
aside. said last week. should dislike to
about 10000 negro women added to our voters AT the
tm2, should ike 10 see the Intelligent women
of the State accorded privilege and right that
the mon enjoy. because good reason to deny
10 them such privileges and rights The bill now before
the Legislature an amendment TO the cOnsti
tuition and such amendment would have to be approved
by the next legislature There is doubt Of the
growing sentiment i'm favor OF woman suffrage and
there is little doubt that Delaware with the other
States viii eventually join the procession Whatever
our misgivngs, not of those who oppose.
In other words $4,000 white women in Delaware are
denied the elective franchise in order that 10000
negro may be prevented from obtaining il; or,
as alternative, grandfather clause" its
equivalent TO be enacted to prevent practically all
negroes and women, from voting What shame
ful attitude that is take toward the question of
sufragel The who invented the system OF
blowing hot and blowing cold mere novice COM
pared with the editor Of the Dover Index
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
:: Personal and Pertinent ::

Imagination rules the word-Napoleon
Pain lays not its touch upon a -Aeschylus
..-.-.
Assume virtue if you have it not-shakespeare
--.-.-.
The sweeter sound of womsns praise Macausy
They also serve who only stand and wait.-NIilton
.-.-:--:
would help others. out of fellow-feeling.-Bur-
The power of thought-the magic of the mind.-
Byron.
1t matters not how dies. but how, he lives
johnson.
:-:--:-:
That life is long which answers lifes great end
Young.
:-:-:-:
conceit in weakest bodies strongest works-shake-
speare.
:-.-:--.
Fame sometimes hath created something out of noth-
ing,-Fuller
Home home then, my dear. full Of kindly faces.
stevenson.
One lifea little CLEAN Of time between two Eter-
nities-Carlyle.
The law is the last result Of human wisdom acting
human experience for the benefit of the public.
johnson.
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PEOPLES COLUMN

private individuals. four or fye IN
number, l believe. Under the new
law IL would be devoted directly 10
the work Of the Board of Health. and
thus be expended for the good Of the
entire city.
We may, and do, sympathize with
the magistrates in the loss OF even
a part of their accustomed revenue.
but it would be pure selfishness on
their part to want to stand in the
way Of a reform which would mean
so much TO the well-being Of the city.
Whatever the other details Of the
bill may be, it is clear that it will be
an utter mockery, unless the power
TO issue licenses is centralized-con-
fined TO one Office Only in this Wa
viii the Bureau of Vital Statistics be
able to know whether the proper re-
turns are being made, or not
Respectfully yours,
VIM. H. Laird.
! Wilmington. Feb. II. 1919
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
REcLAIMINe TIE WASTE LANn.

CYsTENArlC efforts are being made in MARYLAND
~ for the reclamation OF swamp lands Wouldn't.
It be VOL for something OF that sort to be done in
Delaware, whore have thousands of acres Of land
that useless now. might be reclaimed and made fer
tile? Statistics show that in Maryland there are s2S
'6S acres OF swamp land capable reclamation. or
that total l24S25 acres fresh-water swamps and
2O4426 acres are saltwater marshes II is shown that
the eastern and southern counties OF that State bor-
dering tho Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean
have 323326 acres. OF which 11S12 acres are fresh
winter swamps and 2O52O6 are salt water marshes
Ihe central and western counties have 5440 acres of
larger swamp tracts all of which are fresh 1t will
be noticed that much Of the Maryland swami land is
ON the Eastern Shore in the welfare and productivity
OF which Wilmington has acute interest Esti-
mates SNOW tnat II the waste lands were reclaimed in
Maryland the beneficial work would add from S1OO0O-
600 TO Sl50O000O TO the taxable value OF the prop
ery In the State to say nothing the great increase
that would result in it's productive value
There Is not county in Delaware that has not waste
lands that might not be reclaimed we're a comprehen
sive system OF reclamation mapped out and prose-
cuted along scientific lines That is particularly true
OF Sussex county The assessable value of real estate
In our State and the value OF the states products
would be increased amazingly were such reclamation
work carried out
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
QUESTION OF SEWERS.

From the Newark Ledger.
A meeting was held in the Council
Chamber Of Town House, one evening
last week. The object OF the meeting
was to hear the law read and ex-
planned on putting a sewerage system
in this town. A number Of represen-
tative citizens we're present, yet there
were a number absent The proposed
law was explicitly explained by Engi-
neer T.. Chalkley Hatton OF Whining
ton.
At this time it is difficult to get the
sense of the people on the question. 1t
is supposed, naturally, that many OF
those present at the meeting we're ia
vorable to installing a sewer system,
while the absent ones we're not taking
any interest in the matter, and,
therefore, delay the putting in OF
sewer this year. IL is very true. the
property holders are not unanimous in
having a sewer. There is opposition
to the project, and unless considerable
missionary work is done. they will
vote it down.
1t has not been stated the amount
required to place a sewer system in
this town, nor the amount for the dis
posal plant
Some Of our people think that the
town is already heavily bonded, and
are willing to let It stand for while
as il is
Every town should have a sewer
system. In case like Newark. where
cess pools are a menace to good health,
it becomes imperative to place the
town in a sanitary condition. The
only way to do this is by sewerage
system. Are the people ready for
this system? The question will be
voted on at the annual town election
for Councilmen in April.
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
Ron THE DELAwARE BOYS AND CIRLs.

IN ELAWARE boys and girls should read carefully.
~ and, preferably, memorlze the following utter
ances by Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, when asked
whether he deems it necessary for who would ac-
compsh great thins this world have college edu-
cation:
Only about 10 per cent of our boys go to college,
perhaps even less than that College education should
be had by every one who get il, not matter how
great the effort but it doesn't require college educa-
tion to bring out genius, and what is more doesn't
require genius to do great things in this world II
only needs who will work hard and stick to his
job and never letup till he has done what he out to
do Hard work is the thing, and geniuses have TO
work hard Why, Tennyson smoked whole box Of
cigars over four lines Of poetry and Dante thirty
years to write his Divine Comedy II is all in the
power Of application
There should be inspiration in those words for every
Delaware boy and girl and particularly for the
ninety per cent Of them who viii be unable to go to
college.
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Stait Hows.
Dover, Dellywer,
Febrooary Is, 1913,

Stait Hows.
Dover, Dellywer.
Febrooary Is, 1913.
Mrs Mary Ann Jones,
Sandtown, Kent kounty,
~Dellywer.
My deer Mary Ann:
General 4. Koleman dooPont is
still bizzy tryin to give that millyun
doller Boulevard TO the peepil Of Del
lywer. an the members of the Legis-
lature are still tryin' to beside wheth-
er to accept hit or have him indicted
fer a fclleny or a missdemeener fer
havin' offered to give It. Yu see,
Mary Ann, a majority of these yere
Seniters an Representatives is so
used TO driyin' hub-deep in mud an
sand that they don't want to make a
change fer feer the hosses will find
the pullin' so easy that they'll run
away an brake a trace or brich-
strap or sumthin'.
Emmy ordinary man who had bin
treated by the members of the Legfs-
laturc as General doc Pont has bin
wud have put his money back in his
poclkit an told 'em TO go tell; but
General doc Pont' hain't no ordinary
man, an, besides, he don't kuss. He
holds to the theery that kussin' don't
bid no Boolevards. That may be, but
I've often found. frum persunel ex-
peeryence. that hit eezes the feelin 3
morn soothin' sirup or white linny-
ment, an that sumtimes il duz the
uther feller heep OF good
III Generel doc Pont had kussed as
mutch as he wuz entitled to kuss,
General Rosalie Jones an her army
of suffragets wud have had to use
axes to cut their way through the
surroundin' atmsfeer
The trubble with General doc Pont
is that he offered his Boulevard to
the rong place. Ef he had offered il
to Sandtown, me and Cy Hopkins, an
Hen Simson an Ebeneezer Harring-
tun wud have met him out by Frog
Holler, give him the freedum of the
stty an sed General, there's Sand
town. Boulevard it, an eff millyun
dollers won't be enuf. call on yersell
fer what's needed, an Boulevard il
sum more. Don't spare no xpense.
Sandtown's bin waitin' 120 yeers fer
a feller like 700 to kun along" That
shows the difference between Sand
town an the Stait of Dellywer. Our
Stait haint dun nuthin' Werth wills
fer our roads. Hits troo things is a
little better than they wuz back In
1910 when the Dellywer an Manly.
koke Injuns laid out there huntin'
trails an Tamanand wuz guvner. bu!
they haint wot they ought to be.
have red in Jedge Konrads Histry
Of Dellywer that the Injuns massa-
kreed the De Vrees kolony back in
them days, an I've often wandered
wether hit wuz becaws Mister De
Vrees offered Mister Tamanand a
millyun doller boulevard to, take the
place of the Iniun trales they wuz
usin' at that time I think that's a
point Jedge Konrad ought to cleer up
fer the enlightenment of the Seniters
an Representatives.
What ! can't understand, Mary Ann,
is why these legislators keeps yellin
fer good roads. an interdoocin' bills
fer spendin' millyuns the Stait hain't
got. an yit wen General doc Pom;
kums along an offers to give 'em a
millyun doller Boulevard fer nuthin'
Evening journal., 1913-02-19

DR. Stuart patten of Princeton University says that
everyone is afflicted With incipient insanity, and
anyone become insane because all
or less crazy He holds to the theory that insanity is
merely disease and should he treated as such. The
doctor there i'm this country insane per-
sons than there are students in the colleges and uni
Nersities. 1.-TWO men, let suppose converse about
politics. merely for the sake of conversation DIR Pat
ten adds One OF the two makes an assertion which
the other resents. He is not interested in politics.
mind you but he the remark because IT seems
to imply that he is wrong There is a quarrel and
both away feeling angry Both are more or less
insane because they thrown out of their normal
adjustmentl They collect their ideas when alone
then apply fommon-sense and find how ridiculous IL
to beqbme angry little They regain
their adjustment and once more are sane and nor
NAL" The& about twenty thousand crazy men
in Delawar$ in October and November il Dr. Patten
knows wJsdt he is talking about
Evening journal., 1913-02-19

Sylvia pankhurst and Zelie Anderson. suffragists
who sent jail in England for refusing to pay
fines for militant work in behalf of the voes-for-women
movement were released in the face OF their
violent protests. some liberal-hearted mere man. whom
they do not know, having paid their fines One Of
these girls hurled stone through window when
they were out together. and both resisted Fol-
lowing their Incarceration they went hunger strike.
Since then they have been arrested again for dsor-
dery conduct Il perhaps would be we'll for the suf-
frage movement were the Pankhurst and Anderson
girls and all others like them prison and kept
there until the sensible and orderly can win
their fight for electoral recognition
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
MARRIAGE AND MAGISTRATES,

To the Editor Of THE EVENING
JOURNAL.
notcie that one Of the chief objec-
tions to the passage OF the pending
bill before the Legislature, providing
for the issuing of marriage licenses
only by the Bureau Of Vital Statistics,
seems to be that the magistrates will
thereby be deprived Of certain fees
whichthey have hitherto enjoyed from
this sourc. respectfully submit Sir,
that the main objects OF this feature
of the bill in question-healthful pub
licity and reliable registration-are
matters too far-reaching and vital to
be jeopardized. or obscured, by con-
siderations OF such minor importance.
Are We TO place the loss Of such
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
EDITORIAL OPINION

ious to boost him to the skies" last
Spring when he wanted to be dele
gate to the National Democratic Con-
vention. He then spoke in the high
est terms Of the Senator, but as soon
as he failed TO get the coveted honor
Ito be chosen a delegate to the Ma
tional Convention-then his tune
changed
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
GIVE WOMEN wORkRRs A CHANCE

From the Newark Ledger.
Why should there be delay in having
a ten hour law in this state2 Della
ware ehnnld not lag hehind other
states. Make the ten hour act law,
and give the working women and
girls a chance to live properly.
Evening journal., 1913-02-19

the levy court either remodel the old
court house and fireproof It or build
a modern fireproof building.
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
BILLS AND LEGISLA-
TIVE ATTORNEYS

From the Milford Chronicle.
II is all very nice to suggest to the
public that certain reforms must be
brought about by the legislature, but
it is also necessary that active steps
be taken to have the bills drawn to
be considered by the members, and get
results from these suggestions. II is
no part for the people at large to have
this part of the work done, as they
are paying the members Of the legisla-
ture to consider the questions which
are submitted to them in the shape Of
bills drawn by their attorneys to be
enacted into laws; and the legisla-
ture has employed attorneys galore to
draft such bills; but, unless the con-
+ crete proposition is placed before the
attorneys as to what is desired It is
a certainty that nothing Will be done,
Evening journal., 1913-02-19
sTRAUS AND HIS CAMPAIGN.

From the Elkton Democrat.
Former Attorney General Isaac
Lobe Straus. who several weeks ago
announced that he would be a candi-
date for long term United States
Senator TO succeed Hon. John Walter
Smith. opened his campaign at Cen
treville, on Tuesday, by holding a
public meeting In his address he
accused Senator Smith OF being al
most everything but a Democrat. This
mode of campaign may get him some
votes. but we are inclined to think
that the great majority Of the Demo
cratic voters in Maryland are not
easily fooled. Straus, as Senator
Smith has truly said, was very anx-
The Winslow mail., 1913-11-15

81 X MINGHAM ALA. +. L
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got no relief until took Foley's
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produce an easy and com !ort-
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lungs" Remember the name,
Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound, and accept no substitute
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The Winslow mail., 1913-11-15
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