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Evening journal., 1903-06-02
oratoriaI Contest.

The Wilmington School of Elocu-
tion and Music gave an Oratorial con-
test at the New Century Club last
might. There were twenty-five contest
ants, and Professor Goldey, Howell S.
England and Mrs. Calhoun were
judges. The first prize was awarded
10 Lulu Plumley. and second prize to
Miss Bacharach.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

Professor Hugo Munsterberg. OF the
Department OF Philosophy at Harvard,
has sailed for Germany to arrange with
that government and educational in
stitutions to secure their cooperation
I'm the international congress Of sci
ence, TO be held I'm ST. Louis next year.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02
I'M. c. A. pIrsotors 70 Meet.

There will be a meeting Of the Board
of Directors OF the Young Mems Chris
tian Association at the Association
Building this evening. 1t is likely that
the matter of the proposed new build
ing will be discussed at this meeting.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

'I had a running, itching sore on my
leg. Suffered torhres. Doan's Oint-
meut took away the burning and itch
ing instantly. and quickly effected per-
manent cure" c. w. Lenhart, Bowling
Green. q
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

No man can cure consumption. You
can prevent it, though. Or. Woods
Norway Pine Syrup cures coughs,
colds, bronchitis, asthma. Never fails.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02
MAX EPHRAIM.
A Hundred Reasons


might be given why the New
York Clothing House is the
busiest of Clothing Stores.
The best of them all is-It
has got the attention of
buyers-not only the best
for the money. the most for
the money, too. Our prices
are very low-that is why
we are so very busy. Good
Suits dressy andwill give good
service for S., SO, SO 50, ST
and $3.50, serges. cheviots,
cassimeres and homespuns.
So. so and $40 for really
fine Suits, diagonals, thibets,
serges, worsteds and others.
made, trimmed and will wear
as good as you'll buy else
where for SI2.
Hard Finished Suits, the
finest workmanship together
with good cloth and good
Innings go into our suits at
SI2, SI3. so and SIS, at least
from So to S. lower in price
than anywhere else.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

Cure une cough and save the life.
DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup cur
coughs and colds; down to the vel
rye of consumption.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

A diamond weighing 81 carats and woe
about $4,000 was found on the Premi
johannesburg property the other day.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

1t is said that where one boy smok'
occasionally ten years ago 500 smoke reg
larly today.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

When doctors fail, try Burdock Bloc
Bitters. Cures dyspepsia, constipf
ton; invigorates the whole system.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT Furnished country house,
with orchard, garden and lawn, ON
river road, FIVE miles below New Castle,
on trolley line. Immediate possession.
For terms, ETC., apply to T. b. Rogers,
us Broadway, New York. apr6-tf
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Takes the burn out; heals II
wound; cures the pain. DIR. Thoma
Eclectric Oil, the household remedy.
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LOST AND FOUND

7 .OST- Breastpin, dull gold, tuscan
finish set with pearl. Reward if re-
turned to II. LIP, This Office jr-2t
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

In London each day 400 children
born, and 250 enter school FOR the III
time.
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MONEY WANTED.

50, wanted on good first
mortgage security at S per cent.
The property is a good business
stand within 9 miles OF Whining
ton and is valued at double the
amount desired to borrow.
Investors desiring further in
formation, address
Investment" "
Evening Journal Office.
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WANTED!
HELP WANTED-FEMALE.

1K7ANTED-Gir for general housework
W two in family Mrs Joseph Wales,
ISIS Delaware Avenue. JI-J
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one London furrier has asked for SoO,(
from Lincolnshire
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NVANTED-Cook, girl for general
homework chambermaid n d
housekeeper. Apply 800 East Fourteenth
Street. m27-6t
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Any working man who finds it inconven-
lent to have to wait till pay day for his
wages can borrow from $40 to $500 from
this Company on his household furniture.
Only the very Lowest Rates will be charged,
and there will be absolutely no publicity
about it. The loan may be for one month
or longer, and it can be paid back in month
ly instalments to suit the borrower, who will
keep all the goods himself. Address,
WILMINGTON LOAN CO.,
I'd Floor 925 Market st.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02
WANTS WANTED

Everyone has wants
and we want to know
yours, for we can cure a
few "while you wait".
Underwear, all kinds,
Balbriggan, Light Wool,
Cotton and Linen Mesh
Neckwear. The New
Foulard and Grenadines.
Shirtings, the snew 'Greys
and Figured Whites.
II o S i e ry, Mercerizsd
Cotton, 25c, grey and white
grey and black and mot
tied greys. The Turn. .
over Collars will hold us
by the neck for another
season.
open Tuesday and Sat-
urday Nights.
J. 7. Mullin & Sons,
9th and Market.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
MONEY TO LOAN.

$4,000 to loan on good first
mortgage Security-city prop
erty preferred.
Also
Two sums of 81, 900 and 81, 500 on
good real estate security only.
Give statement as to value of prop
erty, location, etc.
Address "Real Estate"
Box "a,
Evening Journal Office,
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

HK7ANTED-Fir Moulding ma
" chine Man. Apply, John Hamilton,
Chester. J2-4t
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HELP WANTED--MALE.

NVANTED-Six Carpenters. Apply TO
" las. NJ. Sinyth, Sixteenth street
and Riverview avenue, Highlands. jI-2t
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE--A tract of thirty-six acres
OF cultivated land at Centreville, Del.
on Kennett Turnpike, having a present
and increasing value, there being several
admirable building sites. The Equitable
Guarantee and Trust Co., Trustee.
TOR SALE-Found dation Stone David
bangle, 5th aud Van Buren Sts.
m2S-6t
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XNANTED-Boy to learn barbering. S.
+. Corner Fourteenth and King
Streets. l2-3t
\NANTED--A good strong boy, 5000
per week. Apply Evening Journal
Ofce. If.
Evening journal., 1903-06-02

Store open evenings now.
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
4 BOOK FOR NATURE LOVERS.
Tile Study of Common Iues W1Ds Lens and 1h5yoa9o%

Moses With a Hand-Lens." and his
present more elaborate book is intend
ed partly for those who can command
compound microscope for their study.
II is obvious that the compound micro
scope will make the students work OH
MOSES far more interesting and infinite
ly easier than it would be without this
aid: stiIl. much may be learned about
moses without other help than that of
the ordinary little hand microscope
which almost any one may possess.
Hundreds of Species.
The author. in his preface. states that
any intelligent person can learn. with
hani-Iens. to recognize about a hundred
species of mosses. His endeavor mas
been TO enable the student of moderate
opportunities TO become interested IN
this subject, and to reach the point at
which it becomes a pleasure and a fas-
cination.
Some idea of the misapprehensio1s
which exist in regard to mosses may
be gained from the introduction to this
book The author explains that while
seaweeds, or marine algae, are some
times called mOsses, no true moss ever
grows in salt water; that the weirdIy
beautiful moss which drapes the
trees in Southern swamps is not moss
at all, but a Towering plant; that the
grayish or brownish green lichens. AMI
the, gray moss found on many North
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
CURRENT LITERARY NOTES.
Trouble in Halifax.

There used to be an old-fashioned ad-
Duration. used by pious folk who did not
like 10 swear. but who felt like swear
ing. at some obnoxious person or thing
they said, GO TO Halifax" It is not
known that Halifax is a particularly
forsaken corner of the world. however:
at any rate the people who live there do
not think so. and they resent the view
of them found in Mrs. Milecote's novel.
"A Detached Pirate" The Halifax
Evening Mail" says:
1T Is sufficiently hard 10 have Cana
da pictured 10 the alien eye as a land
of eternal SHOWS, but to have one OF its
chief cities represented as a place
where all that is necessary for lady to
enter the best set is an indefinite sup
ply of smart gowns. and a French maid
is really quite too bad. Is IL usual
in local society for a gentleman, on q
very slight acquaintance, to express a
desire to kiss lady, as he has often
thought he would like to?' Ours may be
the point OF view OF the merely respec-
table, and not smart but we believe
the picture Of local society given in
this volume is a calumny on II which
should not be allowed TO go unchal-
lenged."
In reply TO this somewhat ponderous
remonstrance several things might be
said, the most opposite OF which prob
ably would be that Mrs. MiIecote's clever
and improbable little tale was not in
tended as perfect picture Of Halifax
society. incidentally it might be re-
marked that the critic himself is out OF
drawing when he refers 10 the heroine's
French maid" for French maids are
not usually called "Pringle." The So
ciety depicted is that OF garrison life.
which is IN any city far from being
typical of the city itself. And, finally,
the manners and morals of the charac-
ters resemble those of London society as
described by numerous English novelists.
and both Washington and New York havs
been pictured by the rash fiction writer
as places in which good gowns and
maid are all that is required for entrance
into smart society" II is not true OF
either, Of these American cities, and L
may not be true of Halifax, but in any
case the City Of the Mist need not feel
insulted by so frivolous a creation as
Gay Vandeleur
The Washington times., 1903-09-06

herited her shrewd Judgment of people.
and much of her gentle and broad mind
ed tolerance of spirit Her training was.
owing 10 delicate health. received largely
at home. and out of doors. She has
Travelled widely and lived much in Bos-
ton: and she has been writing fiction
since the age of nineteen. Most Of her
work has been in the line OF the short
story. and for this she has an aptitude
which recalls the best French writers.
"A Marsh Island is perhaps the best of
her few novels.
Her Command of Dialect
Her work is remarkable for one thing
in particular-its absence of exaggera-
tion. She. more than any other one
writer. has with unfailing and delicate
accuracy reproduced the New England
dialect. The dialect question is, in
these days. a problem whose impor-
tance some writer's OF fiction seem not
to understand. Nobody can put in print
the peculiar accent OF the people of
certain region. II must be heard 10 be
Peeuliarities of pronuncia-
tion and phrase exist everywhere. among
the people of the city as well as those
of the country. Miss Jewett does not
consider IL necessary to spell enough"
with an 81" or write Din in dialect
speech and been" In one which Is not
TO be dialect. She indicates
lightly the more striking pecultarities
of pronunciation and leaves those which
The Washington times., 1903-09-06

what the result would be for future
generations. Gradually the rainfall be-
gan TO Increase, aud 10 fall in torrents
instead Of gentle showers. The soil Nas
washed from the hillsides, and culttva-
tion became possible only in the valleys
which were subject yearly TO terrible
foundations. There were no forests left
TO absorb the moisture and allow il 10
descend more gradually toward the sea.
So. century by century, matters went
from bad TO worse. until now we see
half continent which might have rem
dered Europe independent of America
for timber and corn turned into a desert
of sand on which the daily range CT
temperature reaches the appalling figure
OF 12O degrees.
Nature. left to herself. is endeavoring
10 remedy matters. From the south tbs
timber line is slowly creeping back
northward across the desert waste; but
II must be thousands of years before the
desert, in which Europe might be lost.
Is restored.
A well-known explorer who Travelled
through Namaqualand a century aso
wrote of the rivers which ran through
the country. and the beautiful greenery
which formed wide belts along their
banks.
During the recent war Colonel Whites
column. which was fighting rebels I2
and down the country. lost many men
and beasts from thirst. There is next
TO no water anywhere in the country
except in the Kaimes Berg. the range OF
mountains which crosses IL.
more modern instance OF the dan
gers OF carelessly unbalancing nature is
supplied by the recent petition from the
farmers OF Arizona TO the United States
Government, praying that sheep may no
longer be permitted 10 Craze upon the
forest reserves of that State. They de-
clare that the water supply available for
Irrigation has been steadily falling of for
seven years past. although the rainfall
has been about the same as usual. Sheep
when grazing on land where the grass
grows In tufts. as ii does on naturally
dry soils. tear ii up by the roots.
The Washington times., 1903-09-06

ern trees, are not to be confounded
with true moses, being alike of the
lichen family; and finally, that the
Hepaticae. or liverworts. are not moses,
though very like them. Thus it will be
seen that the study of true MOSES oc-
cup:es a field more restricted than the
ordinary observer might suppose
Guide for Botanist.
A few of these are known 10 nature
lovers who are not botanists. The
sphagnum moss. which grows in wet
meadows and open woods, has long been
familiar to gatherers of wild flowers as
the best possible substance in which TO
pack flowers or roots which must be
kept fresh. This moss is related 10 the
peat mosses of Ireland and Scotland.
The "Hair-cap Moss" known to farm
ers Is a nuisance, because IL supplants
the grass, is known to children as
ring moss" because it's stalks, with
their fairy-like yellow caps, can easily
the most part the mosses are undistin-
guished from one another by ordinary
eyes.
This book is purely technical, and de-
signed for the student. 1t is furnished
with abundant and clear illustrations.
and will prove Invaluable to those who
are in earnest in this study. CNsw
York city: Published by the Author:
$50 Lenox Road, Flatbush. Brooklyn)
The Washington times., 1903-09-06

IT HOSE who are really desirous of
getting a true impression of New
England rural life have some
times been puzzled by the variety OF
types presented by various writer's on
the subject. The stories OF Mary e.
Wilkins have generally been accepted as
the most truthful, but, as a matter of
fact. they are not Some OF them are
realistic, but they are for the most part
portraits of isolated characters. not of
typical scenes in New England life.
Englanders than Johnny Appleseed was
like the average pioneer of the Mississ-
ippi Valley. They are true 10 life, taken
sirgly, but in a mass they give the i'm
preston of a country peOpled by freaks
The true New England author is Sarah
Orne Jewett, who. while neglecting no
quaint or queer characteristic of the peo-
pie of whom she writes, contents her
self with the simple chronicles of typical
folk
Miss Jewett was born in South Ber-
wick. Me-, in 1S49, and still lives there,
in a colonial house $50 years old. Her
father. Dr. Theodore II. Jewett, was a
professor in the medical department of
Bowdoln College. but he was also a coun-
try doctor Of the sort portrayed by Dr.
Holmes in Elsie Venner'-a doctor
who read human nature as we'll as books.
From him Miss Jewett doubtless in
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
BOOK RETZEWS <AIVD NOTES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS
YALE, SUMMER.

The summer seasons on the wane,
The punkie quits his dickens,
Matilda packs her trunk again,
The pullets now are chickens.
The parasitic trav-a-leer,
With store galore "befttin',"
He makes his little yearly steer
To sell the glove and mitten.
Soon will the cricket swift relax
Unto a warmer quarter;
The farmer sharpens up his ak
For fuel for his daughter.
The dusty miller, he Will hump,
His water wheel will topper;
Soon will the farmer come to dump
His buckwheat in the hopper.
The russet's spreading DER the bog,
The wearher's growing cooler;
Soon will the rural pedagogue
Go cunning with his ruler.
The country boarder hies him hence;
The baggage smasher, lippy,
Avows the season was immense
The wcrld it thinks him dippy.
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
HOW MANS GREED RuINS NATIONS

-0oTTON last June reached a price
l double that at which It stood a
couple of years ago. and the
consequence has been that all the great
cotton manufacturers in the north Of
England have suffered terribly
The cotton famine has been put down
to the INSCRIPTIONS Vaccinations OF
ring OF American capitalists, but its
real cause is very different and much
and carelessness of cotton growers. For
years past they have been selling all
their best seed to the oil manufacturers
and cOntenting themselves with sowing
poor. second-class seed.
II is this short-sighted policy which
has brought disaster in its train. The
yield per acre has decreased from 80 10
40 per cent, and not only are the grow
large as the British Isles. suffering. but
1000, 900 operatives here and In other
parts of the world have been on the
verge of famine. while all the world over
people are paying larger prices than
for forty years past for cotton materials.
The world at large is paying heavily
today for the criminal carelessness OF
races dead and gone; and the worst of IL
is that the nations of today have learned
so little from experience that the same
sort of thing continues. and matters con-
stantly go from bad to worse.
Take that giant blot upon the map.
the enormous desert OF Sahara, as an ex-
ample. Once all North Africa was forest.
at least for hundreds of miles back
from the coast.
But the Carthaginian empire needed
timber for her vast navies, and wood FOR
building houses and for fuel. The for
ests were cut down, and in their stead
was planted corn.
Later came the Romans. and they. as
they extended their empire over North
Africa. cut and cut. never considering
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
A Book on Labor Problems.

Joseph r. Buchanan is the author OF i
book of more than usual interest, THE
Story of a Labor Agitator." In it most
OF the serious labor problems of the day
are discussed. The author was for TWEEN
ty years in the thick of the labor con-
flict of the West, and IL was said OF him
that he lied" more strikes than any
other man in the country, yet never
struck himself.
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
Mr.. Roberts Latest Poems.

THE Book of the Rose is the title of
the latest book OF Charles G. D. Roberts.
volume OF poems. One of the best is
The Stranded Ship" which contains
this striking word-picture:
Around the keel that raced the dolphin and the
shark
Only the sand-wren twitters from barren dawn
till dark;
And all the long. blank noon the blank sand
chafes and mars
The prov once swift 20 follow the lure OF the
dancing stars
Mr.. Roberts original turn of fancy
is shown in the fact that he has not used
the trite phrase from early morn TIL
dark. in this description. as nine poets
out OF ten would have done.
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
4 TRUE NEW ENGLAND AUTHOR


are common to nine-tenths of our popu-
lation to be inferred.
The especial peculiarity of the rural
New Englander is one which has escaped
the notice OF some outsiders who have
studied his speech. This is a group Of
States In which the people OF a past
generation were educated by reading. by
schools. by "'lyceums" in which all the
intelligent people read or spoke. The
use Of language was studied as fine
art, some sixty or seventy years ago,
not only by educated people, but by
those who in most country neighbor-
hoods would not have been educated at
all. They used long words and Latin
derived words with a correct sense Of
their meaning. and these became mixed
with the common talk in q peculiarly
quaint way
Old Country Phrases.
We find country women In Miss
JeYett's stories referring TO some par
ticularly important festival as "a splen-
did occasion;" there Is a quaint for
mality in the speech OF the men when
they discuss public business; but in
common gossip the old country phrases
crop out continually. There is no one
who has caught the flavor OF this speech,
and reproduced II. as has Miss Jewett;
and in this, as in everything else. her
stories are sympathetic-true to the life
of the people. and to nature in all its
aspects.
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
Mr.. Ford's Introduction.

When Simeon Ford's book, "a Few
Remarks" was about to appear the
publishers thought 1t would be good
idea to give II an introduction, and sug-
gested that he write "fore-word" of
about four hundred words. Mr.. Ford
said, Very we'll" The next that his
publishers heard was that he had sailed
for Europe. Neither by wireless tele-
graphy OF other process did the intro
duction materialize, and the book
eventually came out without one
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
Gln ossEs WITH HAND-LENs

INE AND MICROSCOPE, by A.
J. Grout, is. according to
the title page. "a non-technicaI hand
book OF the more common mosses Of the
Northeastern United States" This is a
good description OF it. The work is
issued in four parts, of which the first
has just been published. The second
number Will be ready in January OF next
year.
The study of MOSES is a branch of
botanical study which the average nat
ure-lover scarcely dares attempt Aside
from the fact that most manuals OF bot
any ignore the moss family altogether in
their analytical keys. the number Of spe-
eies is so great. and their variations so
minute. that no one who is not already
a botanist of some experience can hope
20 do much with them.
A Fascinating Subject.
They are. however. among the most
fascinating objects of study for those
who are really interested in plant-Iorc,
and the publishing of a popular work or
the subject will make the study of them
far easier.
Mr.. Grout Is the author OF a more
simple work on this subject. entitled
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
REUELA TON.

BY land and sea l travelled wide;
My thought the earth could span
And wearily l turned and cried,
20 little world of mani"
l wandered by a greenwood side
The distance OF a rod;
My eyes were opened and 1 cried,
80 mighty world of God!"
F. W. Bourdillon.
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
Our Navy.

The New American Navy" by ex-
Secretary Long. Will appear in the au =
tumn. Considering the part which Mr.
Long had in building up this navy. the
book should be OF peculiar interest to
the initiated
The Washington times., 1903-09-06
Howells and Shakespeare.

On investigation 1t has been found that
no less than thirteen OF the titles of
Mr.. Howelrs books are from passages
OF Shakespeare.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-22
NEWS IN OUTLINE.

Secretary Shaw has left Washington
for New York. where he will remain
for a day or TWO and then go to Iowa.
The Thirty-third Minnesota legisla-
ture has adjourned sine die after pass
ing 900 new laws.
All grades of refined sugar have
been advanced > cents per 100 pounds
at New York.
Charles Il. Courtney has signed a
contract to coach the Cornell univer-
sity rowing crews for five years from
this spring.
Burglars entered the box office of
the Academy of Music at Chicago and
secured nearly $1,000 in currency and
valuable papers.
One hundred cases of typhoid fever
are reported at Leland Stanford uni
versity.
Mystery surrounds the sudden disap-
pearance of Harry Huck, of Chicago,
brother of Mrs Marshall Field, Jr.,
from hotel at Albuquerque, n. NJ.
The annual national bankers conven-
ton will be held at San Francisco next
fall.
General Gillespie, chief of the en-
gineering corps, resigned from the
Metropolitan club at Washington be-
cause he considered the rejection of
General Corbin an insult to the army.
Duke Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklen-
burg ran his automobile into a tree at
full speed near DueberitZ, Germany,
and may live.
William Mortimer Clark. X. c.. OF
Toronto, has been appointed lieuten-
ant governor of Ontario to succeed Sir
Oliver Mowatt.
Rome celebrated the 2.656th anniver-
sary of her foundation, according to
tradition.
Miss Roosevelt has arrived home at
Washington from her visit to Fillmore
House.
The interstate commerce commission
has begun an investigation to see
whether the coal roads are violating
the law.