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Evening journal., 1914-09-26
WANTED


VEY ANTED-DAIRY OF 40 OR 80
w quarts Of milk per day. Address W-21,
Evening journal ONCE. sept26st.
XAI ANIkD-I.OOU CARPETS 10 CLEAN.
w storage rooms for rent. Sl.5O ana
a. 90 per month. Both phones. GEO. P.
LANG co. 1905 Orange st. feb24-u.
Az ANTED-oLD TIME FURNITURE.
w even in broken condition; old jew.
est cash prices paid. n. ID. Levin, No. 2O3
West Seventh st. Phone, 51ss. feb5-tf
VNy ANTED, - WATCH AND JEWELRY
w repairing Also eye fitting. Store
open evenings until o'clock. Saturday
evenings until 10 O'Clock. Original Thomas
Jewelry Store, No. 4O9 Market street.
~,
Va ANTED-ON THE BOULEVARD.
w applicants for one or two second story
rooms suitable for bachelor quarters; an
convenience Phone 3551D or address
R-7s, Evening Journal Office. augii-f.
ID BERGER PAYS MORE THAN OTHER
H. dealers for your Office furniture and
household goods. You're losing money II
you don't sell TO him. A postal will bring
our buyer there with the ready cash.
BERGER Third and Shipley streets ID.
A. Phone 5ii3A m15-tf.
VAy ANTED-sECOND HAND FURNI.
w ture. Whole households bought.
Safes. Office fixtures, etc, bought Head
quarters for all kinds of Rugs and Linoleums
furniture stored and money advanced at
legal interest per cent for a year
CHARLES S. HURLOCK.
Seventh and Poplar Streets.
!uiys-tf. Telephone. d. A.. 1172A.
Evening journal., 1914-09-26
REAL estate MEN
HOPE FOR chance
Not Much New Work in
Sight, But Expect I'M
prOvement Soon
BIG PROJECTS KEEP
MANY WORKMEN BUSY

While new contracts are lacking,
an abundance of work started some
time ago kept contractors and archi-
tects busy during the week and as
a result there has been an optimistic
view taken of the realty and building
situation during the past few days.
In realty circles there has not been
much activity, as far as the consum-
nation Of sales is concerned but num-
erous requests for information con-
corning city and country property
lead many brokers to believe inn
provement soon will De in order
While it can not be truthfully denied
that the business depression is hav-
ing a marked influence on the mar
ket many operators are of the
opinion that a change must come and
that the same must be ior the better
Closeness of money is complained Of
by all real estate men.
There are a number of large build
ings in the course OF construction
among which may be mentioned the
Huber Baking Company's plant, the
Farmers Bank, State Armory at
Newark, Delaware Hospital addition,
Girls Industrial School, Emmanuel
Protestant Episcopal Church, and a
number of residences. This condi-
tion is materially assisting labor, as
a large number of workipgmen are
being employed
Commenting on the situation as il
is today, G. Morris Whiteside, of
Brown and Whiteside, architects,
said This is a most Opportune time
TO build, but during the past two or
three weeks there has been a remark
able falling off of contracts. A gem
eral lull Is apparent as the result. AS
far as our firm is concerned, we have
several large contracts under con-
sideration but details of these can not
be given out at this time. l look
for improved conditions in a short
time"
Wallace Eugene Hance, architect,
says he has several important pro-
iects under way but that no new
operations have been reported during
the past few days. Mr.. Hance does
not believe present conditions will
last long and is Of the opinion that
there will be much building I'm the
near future
Leon Wilde Crawford said he has
nothing new to announce. Mr.. Craw-
ford is working on plans for large
building the character Of which is
being kept secret for business rea-
sons. Mr.. Crawford also said the
contract for the Hanover Presby-
terian Church would be awarded in
few days.
A. S. Reed Of A. s. Reed and Bro.
Company, contractors, says all work
which his firm has in charge is pro-
crossing I'm a satisfactory manner.
Mr. Reed is confident there will be
an improvement in the building stu
alton in a short time. being of the
opinion that much new work will
come in within short time.
Repair Jobs are being received
daily by nearly all contractors and
this is Of much assistance in keeping
mechanics employed.
John E. Healy and Son report they
are estimating for improvements to
the residence of Dr. Albert Robin at
Seventh and Rodney streets. Bids
for the work will be awarded next
Wednesday. Brown and Whiteside
are the architects.
The same firm is preparing pro-
posals for a barn to be erected on an
estate of T. Coleman DUPONT. The
contract will be awarded sometime
today.
Evening journal., 1914-09-26
FALLS DEAD IN CUAm

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
GEORGETOWN, Del, Sept. 26.-
While seated I'm his front yard in
Campbelltown, Mr. Ward was strick-
en- with heart trouble and died in a
short time. Mrs. Ward, who was vis-
iting one Of the neighbors, returned
and found her husband dead For
several days he had been unwell
Evening journal., 1914-09-26
TO ENTER BUSINESS HERE.

Mr. and Mrs. j. Paul Alulln and
daughter moved Thursday from tha
apartments in the first floor of %.
Howard g. Darlington building. West
Miner street o. Holly Oak Mr.. Mullfn
viii be associated in business with h'.
father John S. Mull'n lr.. OF thi- eli
Mr.. Mullm has been in West Chestc
Eve years.
Evening journal., 1914-09-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
LEWES, Del. Sept 2G.-The Mis-
pillion hundred Sunday School Asso-
citation will hold its annual conven-
ton In Todd's Church az Pennington
on Tuesday, An interesting program
has been arranged for the meeting.
Evening journal., 1914-09-26
RELIEVES DOGS WE'RE STOLEN.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, Sept. 26-The loss of
several valuable hunting dogs and a
valuable black Cockerel Spaniel from
Dover and vicinity within the past
two weeks, has led the owners of such
animals to belive that wholesale
theft Of the dogs is being made.
Evening journal., 1914-09-26
"ANN" WINS TRor AT ROANOKE.

Aaron Tyson, owner of the string OF
race horses OF this city, won the PA
trot at Roanoke, Va, on Thursday. Mr..
Tyson drove the gray mare "Ann," and
in winning this place after going five
heats, captured the purse of SiOO
Mr. Tyson also won second place
with Onward Bell in the 222 pace.
Evening journal., 1914-09-26
Cost Kent Down-OuaIity Kent Up.

No better medicine could be made for
coughs. colds, Group. hoarseness, tick
ling throat, bronchitis. etc. than
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound.
That's why they can't improve the
quality, and war or no war, the price
remains the same. No opiates. Don't
take substitutes. for Foley's Honey
and Tar is the best. For sale by ~ B.
Danforth. Market and Second Streets.
ADV.
Evening journal., 1914-09-26

Lots of housewives are on the look
out for your Want so get il in at once.
ADV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
ATTRACTVENESS OF GEORGE BORROW-By George Eaves

acqdisitiveness of new impressions, the same Fundamental assurance that all the best possibilities of time and space lay somewhere between John O Groat's and Lands End A few somewhat su- perficial omissions being supplied, a lew faults corrected, a few surviving wrongs rebuked, and England would be altogether and exactly perfect. the tulfilment of the travail of the ages It was 8 comfortable creed, just as spread-e gleism in this land is com fort'ng. But unhappily there are facts that are not included in such a pur- view, and they have a tendency to come back at us with a terrifying roar.
 The theory was a good stock in trade for the English traveller in the middle area of the nineteenth century. It gave him confidence that British citizen would be respected and safe under any passport, while he observed how much the rest of the world needed those things which had made England great. He could follow his own bent and try to aid the benighted at the same time, and there was enough reality behind all this to make the theory respectable to the last degree. When combined to a clean, quick, well informed and stu dious mind, the theory in a Dickens or Borrow made for fine and hearty
 'robustiousness," a bluff and bolster ous hurrah, a happy attractiveness for the wondering natives, as who would say, Behold, an English gentleman! He knows what he wants, and will get it; but he will not trample on others unless they get in his way, and even then will be courteous about it. He Is a good companion, complacent with himself and with all the world that brings adulation to the English. Hear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
CONSCIENCE-By Dr. w. E. Evans

science and has accepted falsehood for a standard of living. Conscience cannot mislead. It is like the engine in the midst of ship. Its office Is to drive the ship forward, the rudder directs the course Should the wheel turn the rudder so that the ship is pointed to the rocks the engine drives her forward to destruction, bur not through any fault of the engine. So with conscience. Therefore, the crisis in the history of many soul comes when a man sets his false standard, and argues that evil Is good and good evil. and beats down his conscience, which at first protests, but is at last hardened and thrashed into submission. submit an- other illustration: What the eye is to the body. the intellect is to the con- science. The greatest Teacher said: "The light of the body Is the eye; If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness With this darkness within him, one may declare in the very face of conscience that evil is his standard of right, and, finally. undisturbed by conscience he may drop Into eternity. Override conscience. beat 1, down, deceive it, and what life of wrong is not easy? There is a way that seera- eth right unto a man; but the end there of is the way of death.
 A number of years ago several alder men were tried in a New York court for robbing the city. One of the culprits acknowledged that he had received S10, 900 as his share of the theft It was the rIpa of wi oto robbery. In giving his testimony this precious rogue, Michael McDuffy, swore upon the blessed Book, 'I did not think it wrong. I do not think so now; my moral standard and my conscience in no way revolt at what I have done"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

bore 1t with himself to the most ob- scure retreat of the wilderness Nor did Mrs. Houston account for the strange episode. mystery so great gave rise to numerous rumors. but the truth was not known till years later when the secret was disclosed by discovered cor respondence.
 Now comes the principal turning point in the career of Sam Houston. After some years of profound seclusion, Sam Houston was deputed by the wild tribe of which he had become a member, to go to Washington to see President Jackson respecting a treaty. Jackson greeted Houston with old-time affection, adjusted the matter of the occasion of Houston's mission, but detained him at the White House for secret conference of days, the sequel of which was that not long af- terward Houston appeared in Texas, a revolution was soon brewing. a war fol- lowed, then came Texan independence. and ultimately the Lone Star republic became one of the sisterhood of states
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child. His knowledge of Indian char acter gained under conditions like these. made him in his future life one of the most formidable of Indian fighters.
 Reared without the knowledge gained in the sehoolroom, he acquired a power of expression by self-effort, and in the rough and tumble of life picked Up the science of statesmanship. ana won dis tinction as a diplomat of rare ability. What education he had was due to his diligence in centering his forces on the information needed at different junctures and in the numerous curvatures of life with the unusual experiences which they brought he reached manhood the poses sor of unusual ability which was guided by an unquestionable genius.
 Houston won the attention and admlra- tion of General Jackson during the Creek war, and the commander found plea sure in promoting him IS opportunity offered In one of the battles, an arrow pierced the thigh of Houston, and extending out ward, it occasioned excruciating torture.
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Of right and wrong is higher than man. It is established by the Almighty. With out the established standard we would not know what >is right nor what is wrong. To use commonplace illustra- ton: You say that you know a straight line from a crooked one. But you do not. You may know this up to a certain degree of crookedness. It is only when the line is very crooked that you know it is not straight. There are Reflections from perpendicularity that your eye can not detect if it be unaided There is not a bricklayer, nor a carpenter nor 0 builder of any sort, however keen his vision. who would trust his eyes fin do- ing important work. He requires the rule, the square. and the plumb-line to snow what is straight ana what is crooked. These tools are his standards of straightness and crookedness. So 1t is with moral straightness or crookedness. The standards are without, and conscience comments the work of the straight build CT, and condemns that which is crooked
 It is sometimes said that conscience IS the standard of right ana wrong, and people are puzzled to know how con- sclentious people can do things that are diametrically hostile to what they them selves believe. The perplexity is inso.u- ble so long as men confound conscience and the understanding. ConscIence acts as the understanding has accepted a stndard of right. If the standard be the correct one, conscience will approve the life lived according thereto. If the stand
 ard be a false one, conscience will still approve him who lives in harmony with 1t. Thus, with a wrong standard of right. a man may be a conscientious goddess sinner. Not that his conscience has mis-
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journey with their horsemen, run risks of arrest through association with them during days when the hue and cry was raised after them, all with a frank enjoyment. A labor of love 1t was for him to prepare for these gipsy friends a translation of LulSe's gos- pei, work that created wonder among the Spaniards. My favorite, I might say my only study, is man." he says, and that goes far to explain him. It fills his pages with marvellous array of vivid portraits, the portraits of con- mon but yet most interesting people. Who can forget his Greek servant, An tonic, who walked out of position after position, like a most despotio lord of creation, but clung to Borrow as to blood brother and necessary liege? Or the Manchegan guide who went with the traveller to Cape Finisterra, "a. fel- low who rides upon the clouds and Is whisked away by a gust of wind?' Or Benedict Mol, who was bent upon re- covering buried treasure from the church at St. James, and who touched all fortunes? Or the prophecies who had learned Latin and so become fa- nous among her own people, sustain ing herself, though blind? "He that will have friends must show himself friend ly" and Borrow fills this law to the highest perfection. Hardly anywhere shall you find a finer instance of pure human accessibility than in that chance encounter with certain gipses who had been forced into the army, and who pretended to haggle with him for the price of a pack horse which was not theirs to sell and which ran away with him and came near tc killing him. You laugh at the story, consumedly, but you feel serious as over the risks of Prie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

afterwards became martyr for the cause of the same great Teacher, said that he thought he fought to do many thing contrary to the Name or the gentl Teacher; and one of the things at which he connived and to which he was party, was murder in the streets of a city, And yet, after all this this sam. person whose life was stained with the blood of the murdered man, could say that he had lived in all good conscience" How could he do it? An untaught con science and a wrong standard of life explained it all. He was doing wrong conscientiously.
 Does 1t matter what man believes so that he is conscientious. Did 1t matter that the young drug clerk gave nor phine instead of quinine9 He thought h was giving the physic that had been pre- scribed. Did it make any difference? Ask the heart-broken parents whose child diee of the poison ask the clerk who fled in despair from his home
 Does it matter what one believes or does if he be conscientious? Ask a lonely woman living in a certain city that I could name, whose life has been blighted forever. She believed she was doing right to marry the man whose. name even yet she bears. Did it matter that he broke her heart and that at last she saw him with the irons upon his wrists?
 To do wrong when one has an en- frightened conscience is to suffer the se- verest pain for I suppose there is nc pain equal to conscious wrong doing Said Hamlet of his mother:
 Leave her to heaven. and to those
 Thorns that in her bosom lodge
 To prick and sting her.
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him talkr' Who can excel that fond oratory? Like whale," says Ham let and your courteous foreigner agrees, "very like a whale; he blows and blows and blowsr'
 George Borrow is much like a big schoolboy, the one who has taken the prize for everything in his class. He Is lovable and happy because he has made things come his way. And yet he thinks he is modest, and the reader agrees with him, knowing that he actually has solid substance, distinguished ability an accurate, retentive, observing mind ; and that, though an Englishman, he is of the new imperial order. He makes allowances for all other na- tions. he observes rather than crit icizes. He carries vast tolerance for the other peoples. His admiration for Spain and the Spanish Is partly built on the full, sonorous. rotund pro- nunciation of the Spanish language. It would have been worth a years travel to meet Borrow spouting eloquent Span ish to the awesome delight of village official or chance acquaintance. He loved the grand manner.
 Most of his disciples find the at traction not so much in his grandiose air, so admirably borne, as in a cer- tain human naturalness. lack of snobbery that is astonishing in so pro- nounced a Victorian. He loved to fore gather with the riffraff, particularly with the gipsies. Their defiance of conventional morality did not discon- cert him. He enjoyed their very cum hing: had a schoolboy's appreciation of the typical waywardness of the sipsy mind. In them he condoned what in others he would condemn; and he could sit down among them, live happily in their houses, camp and
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Most of us will feel that it is the row that carries us with him more than aught beside. He is no merely bigoted Protestant, spreading sectarian litera- ture where it Is not wanted. but the vendor of a truly Catholic version ot the New Testament, welcomed by the progressive Spanish clergy, though re- scented by the more ignorant. No won der that the Bible society had certain qualms about an agent who could write to them of undertaking the task, as one "useful to the Deity, to man, and to yourself!" But he is no buff foon.
 In one wild region he has no guide but an idiot, and says; "Thus situated. turned my heart to God. and began to commune with Him. the result Of which was that my mind soon became quieted and comforted." At another time he has a tilt with man from Charleston, s. C., living awhile at Gib- raltar. The American was professed free thinker. Borrow observes: 'I thought it best to avoid disputation, which I felt sure would lead to no profitable result Faith is the free gift of God and I do not believe that ever yet was an infidel converted by means of after-dinner polemics."
 And so we follow him, loath to let him go, having companied with him through Portugal and Spain, during three years of wanderings, to Gibraltar and then to Tangier, where he leaves us SIS abruptly as he appeared.
 If I were organizing a reading circle. one of the instruments would certainly be this Everyman edition of Borrow's best known book. Certainly none can be a lover of books and turn a cold shoulder on George Borrow
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This was his declaration as the court stenographer reported 1t. This self-con- victed scoundrel could outrage public morals, could rob the citys taxpayers, and could pocket the price of his perjury, and then on oath could assert that his conscience did not revolt. Does the reader say that he falsihed? That is not necessary explanation. Let man set up his own standard of right and wrong, and let him put that standard low enough, and there is no crime too base for him to commit.
 When he who shot President Mckinley was felled to the ground, having yet in his hand the smoking revolver that did good man to his death. after his first surprise at being knocked down he nut tered, 'I have done my duty.' Duty recognizes a standard of self-imposition, and the standard with this wretch was so low that it was his duty to murder man. Let a mans standard be suf ficiently low, and he may rob his fellow man. he may burn and pllage, and he may bury the glttering stilletto in a mans heart with murderous blow, and yet, have no compunctions of conscience
 Is man, then, to be condemned for what he does eonscientiously? If a mans conscience does not accuse him should society? Back of this question, let us ask another: This conscience that does not condemn you, how came you by it? believe you can shock every sensibility in the social order of conscientiously, but by what process of life or logic did you come tO have such cOnScienCep How did you deceive your conscience? How did you drug it into this state of fatal quiescence? How came you to muffle the warning bell in the tower of your
 moral nature? Is a man responsible for what he does and for what he believes?
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thousand times, yes, if light may be had. He has debauched his moral be- ing, he has chosen darkness for light, and is doubly accountable. for the tragedy in his own soul and for the evils of his life.
 l said at the beginning of this paper that sometimes conscience comments even wrongdoing, when ones life is con scientiousy lived up to a false standard. had such cases as this in mind when I wrote that sentence: A woman of India stands on the bank of the sacred river Ganges and hurls her little babe into the river. She has been taught that cer- tain religious advantages in time and in eternity are gained to her by this cere- monial infanticide. The whole civilized world says it is wrong and the conscience of the Christian world revolts at the deed. But the woman of India has been in- structed in another standard of right and wrong. Her conscience approves the deed. Suppose woman in Alabama exposes her child to death, the deed, I must suppose, would violate every senti- ment of her moral nature and land her behind the bars of prison walls or fin the mines. Wherein lies the essential diff ferencer In the standards that control conduct and life.
 Is conscience safe guide for ones life? No; unless it be properly enlight. ened and instructed. Akin xo this ques- ton there is another often asked. name ly. Does 1t matter what a man believes if he is conscientious in that belief? We'll let us look at this inquiry little closely The great Teacher to whom I referred above. said to certain friends of His. ''The time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that hs doeth God service" And there came a time when one whS