a1yTT. WELWIrg GTONIAN, ,


AND
DELAWARE REGISTER,

Thursday, April z, 1925.
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Wc have discovered hiatt lines insert
a in our paper Of last week over the s'5"a-


aIIn as original, and 50 Intended TO


or nv the pc. son who communicated
mem. were taken from a song, not long since
.anch in vogue. Some we have no DOUBT
III, .h,t We are censurable for not detect
.r III, literary theft, but we are III justice


h1.m.hle.-F.very person in our sltua-
M, ;s liable to the same imposition. we


,ot much acquainted with Song-sing'ng,
,.here is many an old ballad which we
,.. meyer read or heard 1t an individual,
..ndcr these circumstances be base enough W
nalm seieeticn upon MS as origmaf' whei
lressed in garb which is calculated
! deceive. and particularly when 1t comes
,,om a source which we thought ehtitiea 10
resnectabity, does blame lie at our door,
We know the writer Of the piece alluded 10,
md We really did not think that pen worthy
,uch deception. We would inform anohym-
,rs pscticQi correspondents that III our OPT
nion zoe are, in our Editorial capacity, ehti-



.l,d "a, little econ.idencc.--Wek know our duty
as Editors, and secrecy with US, as regards
INC names of correspondents is as invioiapie
;, the secrets Of Masonry. No correspon-
dent. who wishes to remAin unknown to th'
xuh,;c neea fear 4 osu,e of his name
And since some hsf,e proved that they ar'
not entitled to our confidence and that ~
have been bascly imposed upon; we shal
close orr columns against them unless w
are pat in possession Of their names.


EDiscopai Clrgy.-rhe following statemen
will show the increase of the Episcopal CierS
IN the several states named, since the year lale
chen the list was first published in "sword'


