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CH1iffoniers.
w. b. MOSES & SONS, F ST., Cor. 1 1 TIN. 5
larger yield of honey from his five bundre

larger yield of honey from his five hundred
hives, as his hens keep the number of lazy
idle drones, who are not armed with stings,
put who have good appetites, reduced to a
minimum, and more cells are filled and
sealed daily by the busy workers.
Mr. Penning told the Oregonian the story
or the wonderful development of his hens,
which are allowed to run at large among
his beehfves, and who, like many other
grasshoppers and other insects. but which,
generally speaking, have learned to leave
bees entirely alone, having in their early
attempts at swallowing them found that
pain and danger lurked in the stings with
which most of them are armed Within
the past year or two he has noticed his
hens peeking into the entrances of hives
placing on the ground and examining crit
ically, they would sometimes swallow and
sometimes allow to fly away.
This resulted in a careful investigation
by him of the strange action of the hens,
and he soon found that the fowls had
learned to distinguish the stingless and
useless drones from the armed working
of the eaters, but non-producerS of honey,
was being kept within reasonable limits.
He has also discovered that this season the
old hens have taught their chickens how
to distinguish between the two classes of
bees He believes that no other fowls
have ever acquired this valuable knowledge
and has not found any one who has ever
heard of such knowledge being displayed
by any fowl bird. He is greatly de-
lighted at his discovery, for it means many
dollars in his pocket, and his discovery Is
now published for the information of all
apfaristS students of entomology and the
public in general.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-23

II, you want work read the want columns
Of The Star.
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DEMOCRACY IN OUR SCHOOLS.
Prairie Academies Where the Latest
Immigrant Learns It.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
The latest Scandinavian immigrant
breathes the same air that animated the
earliest Pilgrim father. Did the Pilgrim
father as soon he had planted a crop es-
tablish school? So does the Scandinavian
immigrant.
Traverse the prairies of Minnesota. The
farm houses are small and frail. They are
also at great distances from one another.
You pity region so devoid of all the facill-
ties of civilization. Then you climb knoll
and just before you stands an immense
brick high school. Sometimes that brick
high school is so large that it could seat all
the Inhabitants of the county. Yet the tax
payers can hardly talk English
The percentage of illiteracy, SO says the
federal census department, Is smaller among
the children of immigrants than among the
children of native Americans. The cause is
the lack of schools among the poor
pure-'whites'' in the south The immi-
grant usually settles in the north and his
children learn at once to read and write.
Already those children are giving Chicago
some of it's ablest public men, The native
capacity was there. 1t needed only the
school. 1t was sound human stuff.
But it is not only that the school gives us
knowledge. 1t is not only that the school
prevents talent from remaining ignorant and
therefore wasted. That is good 1t gives
the country which has it great advantage
over the country III WHICH Tic Oilly tdlcil
that reaches efficiency is the talent that is
born with wealth. A democratic system
of education is great winnowing fan lying
bare every grain of talent from one side of
the country to the other.
Could anything be more important than
this? Yes, one thing. Democracy.
That our democratic system of education
produces talent for the use of the country
is blessing for which we have given
thanks on many a battlefield. where our
privates were generals, and in many an in
dustrial struggle, where our office boys
grew into financiers. Yet, after ALL the
greatest blessing about our democratic sys-
tenn of education is that it is democratic.
In a large, modern city, however, the rich
and the poor begin to settle in separate dis
trcts Shall the rich boy then go to one
school and the poor to another and both
fail to get complete view of life?
Fortunately the American school system
continually demonstrates its power of meet
ing new conditions. 1t expands with need
In our large cities the school houses are
being used as peoples club houses, for lee
lures, classes, concerts. plays and parties
in neighborhoods in which the facilities for
such things are few and meager. No de-
velopment could be more in harmony with
the vital principle of American democratic
education, which is that everybody shall
have, as far as possible, every advantage.
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MoNTEZUMA's HIDDEN WEALTH.
Traditions Preserved in Family Say It's
Value is $so,oOo,ooo.
From the Mexican Her,

Whether the report of the discovery of
the Incas' treasure at Chayaltaya, Bolivia,
is true or not it is certain that the conquis-
tadoers did not get all the gold of the last
Inca of Peru, all the gold and precious
jewels of the Mexican monarch. The story
is that the Incas treasure, withheld from
Pizarro and now discovered In Bolivia, is
worth $16,G00,000, and that the Indians be-
lieve there is still much more hidden away.
Pizarro received a great sum from the Inca
whom he cruelty treated and then killed,
but in so doing he missed greater amount,
which the Inca, hoping to save his life,
promised his tormentor
In this country one sometimes hears talk
of a great golden sun and other treasure
hidden secretly from the early Spaniards.
One gentleman who has the blood of Mon
tezuma in his veins, and in whose family
the traditions of the times of the conquest
have been preserved, has said that prob
ably fully $S0G00.0OO worth of treasure
escaped the hands of Cortes and his fol-
lowers. Where is this treasure hidden?
Some have said that 1T was thrown into
Lake Texcoco, and not many years back
a company well provided with funds made
extensive excavations in the Pedregal, near
Coyoacan, on a spot indica ted by tradition.
A series of subterranean chambers was
found, but no golden sun.
Both in Mexico and Peru gold was hidden
away from the greedy conquistadores by
the Indians, who cherished the hope of
making a successful rising against their
conquerors. That hope has long died away,
though much of the hatred for the race of
the conquistadores remains in the breast of
the aborigines.
1t is quite probable that some fine day
much of Montezumas hidden treasure may
be found here by a lucky hit. Perhaps it
is concealed in an idol cave In the south
western part of the sierra surrounding this
valley, a cave of which stories have been
told among the Indians Whence has come
the gold that the Indians living in these
mountains so close to the city have brought
here and sold to their legal representative?
There is a mystery in all this, and a greater
mystery in the whereabouts of Montezumas
treasure, which remains untouched
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Could Appreciate Horace.
THE DESERT OF IDAHO.
It Will Soon Be Made to Blossom as
the Rose.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
One Of the most forbidding portions Of
the North American continent has been the
desert of Idaho in the Snake River region.
Little beside sage grass would grow there,
and the lands, suitable neither for agricul-
tural nor grazing purposes, have been aban-
doned to coyotes and noisome reptiles.
But of late an almost miraculous change
has taken place in this region. The gov
eminent engineers thought they saw a
promise of fertility there, and the tract
was chosen as one of the earliest to be
irrigated artificially under the new scheme
for which Congress has appropriated sew
eral million dollars. At an expenditure OF
81 GOO, 600, which has been set aside for the
construction of great impounding dam and
diversion canals above the Minidoka rap
ids fully $4,000, 600 of taxable property
will be created in this basin. Taking a
basis the last census agricultural figures
for Idaho, the 10000 acres to be reclaimed
under this project WILL when settled under
irrigation, represent the latter value, while
the annual earnings of the land will
amount to about $4,000, 600. With this area
cut up into 400 new farms, as Is proposed
by the government, rural population will
be created of 1000, which will bring with
ii an urban population OF probably another
1000, or 1900 people.
The Snake desert basin when irrigated
will afford an ideal example of western
stock raising under the humane and profit
able method of winter feeding. On any Of
the great western ranges the cattle are left
to Shift for themselves the year round, en-
failing during the cold season, great loss Of
stock and always untold brute suffering.
Around the Minidoka basin extend vast
stretches of unreclaimed land which must
always remain useful solely for grazing
purposes. The irrigation of this tract Of
over 10000 acres will provide, through lux
uriant crops of alfalfa, winter feeding for
tens of thousands of head of stock. Where
now one steer requires thirty or even forty
acres for his support, under irrigation the
forage from one acre will more than sup
port and finish HIN off for the market
Idaho has already attained distinction as q
fruit producer, although the altitude OF
Minidoka is a little too great for the best
growth of trees.
In other irrigated sections of the state,
notably the Payette valley, apples, plums,
apricots, grapes and melons reach a high
state of perfection and command fancy
orices. Men have become wealthy from the
careful cultivation of twenty and forty
acre tracts and enough can be raised from
FIVE acres of this irrigated land, exhaustless
in Its deep fertility, to support a family in
comfort The irrigated communities of
Idaho have become among the most pros
perous In the world. The desert lands Of
Mnidoka producing only sage brush, are
now only awaiting water to supply the
farmer with great variety Of produce.
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Might Repeal All He Knew.
ON the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Some time before the late George Vest
became senator of the United States he
was one of commission which was exam
lining applicants for admission to the Mis-
souri, bar A youthful aspirant had failed
in several branches of the examination
81 regret to say" remarked Mr.. Vest, that
YOU have failed to come up to the mark in
the branches of law upon which we have
examined you. But" he added in a most
kindly spirit, I'VE will question you further
If you DESIRE ''Well, SIR" responded the
aspirant, IT would suggest, If you please
that be questioned the statutes" At
this Mr.. Vest smiled sadly. MY dear
young man. added he, Il do not doubt
that you're up on the statutes; but / do
doubt that you will succeed in the law.
Suppose you should have the utmost IA
mliarity with the statutes, what's to pre-
vent the legislature from repeating all you
known"
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fore night the boat was filed. AS the fog
cleared they made for home, having first
taken their bearings. When the men landed
they told their fellow fishermen of their
luck, and today 100 boats, carrying nearly
800 men, are daily employed on these
grounds. which seem to have an inexhaus-
tible supply. The bed runs parallel with
the shore line of Orleans Eastman and
Wellfieet and Is a mile and a half from
shore. 1t is two miles long by mile wide
On an average the men take three or four
barrels day. This could be exceeded, but
restrictions have been imposed by the
towns officials.
The bottom is covered with a substance
not unlike red coral and under this the
quahogs lie To take them the coral sub
stance must be broken, which is the hard
work about the business All of the catch
of the summer is not marketed at once
but a good portion is bedded on flats near
the shore and kept until winter, when bet
ter prices can be obtained
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Dog and Foxes Play Together.

People at the Pines say that almost any
morning, just after the sun gets up, you
can look across the creek behind the Pines
and upon the opposite shore see Henry
Gove's dog frolicking with an old fox and
her three young ones. This fox, SO it is
said, lived with her mate and four young
foxes in the same locality last fall Dur
ing the winter the young foxes and their
father were killed by gunners. but the
mother of the family was spared. Early
this spring Gove's dog made the acqualnt-
ance of the fox and is now on terms of In
timacy with her and her brood. 1t Is said
that It is pretty sight to see the dog and
the foxes froliclsing together, but one thing
is to be noticed, and that Is that the old
fox in the course of the frolics manages so
to maneuver that she and the brood are
always between the dog and their hole
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A Successful Bluff.
From the Albany Journal.

rIoHi the AlDany journal
The wife of certain Albany man, who
takes frequent trips in the interest of
business, is noted among her acquaintance
for her unbounded belief in her husbands
fidelity Recently her faith sustained
shock which has still left her thinking One
evening she went to a cigar box to get
cigar for a friend of her husband who was
waiting for him. Finding the box empty,
she said:
wait till 1 look in his overcoat pocket.
There may be some there
THAT is a dangerous proceeding" said
the friend.
mot in this case. Charley is a good
boy" responded the wife, with an accent
on the good" The first thing she pulled
out of the pocket was a dainty pair of
white gloves, size No 3. She wore 6h.
The explanation offered by the husband,
who came in at that moment, was that he
had found the gloves hung up on a hook
In his stateroom and thought he'd bring
them home. The unembarrassed way he
told it decided the wife to give him the
benefit of the doubt. although the friend IL
still laughing at her.
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LUCK OF CAPE COD FISHERMEN.
They Discovered an Inexhaustible Sup
ply of Quahogs.

From the Boston Globe.
Because two fishermen seeking quahogs
lost their bearings in a fog the towns Of
Orleans. Wellfeet and Eastman are made
richer each year to the extent of more than
10000 For years the fishermen sought
auahogs only when there was nothing else
TO do. Two brothers pushed off the Or
leans shore bent on getting as many quahogs
as possible, seeing in this the only way TO
avoid disappointment to the loved ones at
home The men became lost in the fog.
and in despair threw over the anchor. They
knew by the depth that they were far from
where they usually fished
In desperation one threw over his rake,
and when II came up 1t contained more than
the men had ever taken in by one raking.
Time and again this was repeated until be-
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"And the rug Aunt Mary gave u.s." said
the bride. who was preparing for house,
keeping, well have to put in the IL
brary."
In the what?" demanded her husband
Stupid! In the room where we'll keep
that set of Dickens your Cousin Bob gave
us."-Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Wabash is celebrating her wooden
wedding tonight"
Whats that? Ten?"
NO five
years or Observation-Disclosures Press.
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"Townley wearies me-" said Young
man; hes forever boasting about his
grandfather"
WELL" replied the old codger, that's
no more than just. remember his grand
father used to brag about him great
deal when he was a baby "-Philadelphia
Press.
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WISE HENS OF OREGON.
Their Owners Says They Can Tell
Drones From Working Bees.
From the Portland Oregonian.

FrOfn tNt OItSUHIdH'
Worth their weight in coined silver" is
the value attached to his flock of hens and
chickens by w. H. Penning, the most ex-
tensve producer of honey in the alfalfa re-
gion about Ontario, Ore. This high price
for poultry is not on account of the beau
ty or size or pedigree of his flock, but on ac-
count of their having developed a faculty
or intelligence which enables them to dis
tinguish between a working lee and a
Evening journal., 1904-09-17

A live merchant has other uses for
lis time than to trihe with this catch
penny device to secure trade. He
doesn't want to waste his time on a
scheme so childish and cheap. He
wants every bit of energy and every
cent of money he has to be active in
buying the best and getting II the
cheapest, in making his shop attractive
and IN keeping the people advised Of
their opportunities
one Of these stamp concerns boasts
that it has put many a mercantile as
ISOLATION out Of business and thai 'it
Is an easy proposition" This should
put the local association on its mettle;
and II we were going TO bet on the
winner of this contest we should pick
the Mercantile Association. Whining
ton is not a cheap little town, and cheap
little methods will not boost trade here
nor keep purchasers Interested in home
shops.
Evening journal., 1904-09-17

committee last Thursday, because In
their opinion. q will lead to the making
Of a State ticket that will not be ac-
ceptable to the Republicans Of the
State, and which cannot be elected.
Judging from the talk OF the Union
Republicans in this town, the plan Of
Alice Is TO intrigue with Bob Houston,
Higgins and Hilles to put a certain
man on the list Of five names to be
submitted to him (Allee). In this
way they viii get from the Regular
Republicans the man Alice wants for
governor. having had ample time to
make any secret or clandestine agree
ment with him he desires Then, after
getting in this surrephUous way. the
governor, the Union republicans Will
select the next best and most import
ant place on the ticket. the nomination
for Congress. and which will give to
Addicks and the Union Republicans,
after the fourth Of next March. the one,
II not both the United States Sena-
tors. and also the representative in.
Congress: the Reeular Republicans
having absolutely no representative at
Washington.
IN addition to the Governor and Con-
81 frnAAhAif ilft AAlA'lA. iN'lAhAAAAAlAH ~
pect to get George ~. Marshall for
Insurance Commissioner and Thos II.
Curry for State Treasurer, thus leav-
ing for the Regular Republicans only
the Lieutenant Governor and Auditor
OF Accounts it being understood that
the Union Republicans are just as
much. II indeed not more anxious,since
the nomination they made to have
Robert II. Richards on the ticket for
Attorney General such a ticket as this
viii be offered to the Republicans Of
Delaware. by these alleged leaders Of
the party believing that It will be
accepted and elected.
Very little support such a ticket win
receive from the loyal Regular Repub-
licans in this county, and very sur
prlslng win it be If it can command
the respect, much less the support Of
the thousands of Regular Republicans
In thef city OF Wilmington
SUSSEX.
Evening journal., 1904-09-17
TELEpHONES.
sIrRscRIRRRs

Elm Subscriptions
Wilmington Street Station
Evening journal., 1904-09-17
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPLE
4 Pr0test ION sussex.
LaureI. bal. sept. Is. le0l.

Laurel, Del, Sept. 16. 1904.
The Editor Of The Evening Journal.
With feelings Of mingled astonish-
ment and disgust ! read In your paper
Of yesterday the action OF the Repub-
lican State Committee. az Dover on
Thursday and most heartily do /
commend your editorial criticism on.
that astounding performance Of the
organization supposed to represent the
Regular Republican vote OF this city,
county and state.
The cringing letter addressed to the
Union Republican State Committee IS
one that will not inspire enthusiasm in
the Regular party nor command. the
respect Of the Union Republican voters.
II is in effect a similar back down to
that made by certain trusted Regular
Republican leaders and members Of the
last Legislature. which resulted in a
compromise that has brought upon our
State and party a chapter Of disgrace
and which is largely responsible for the
intolerable situation now existing in
the Republican party.
Last Thursdays action Of the Re
publican state Committee is only q
step In the direction of surrender
of the Regular Republicans to Frank
Alice and his unwise leadership and
selfish purposes. Long ago most peo-
pie came to the conclusion that better
indeed would it have been for the Re-
.publicans TO have elected Addicks to
the Senate. instead Of the little in
capable and overbearing political mid
get that was accepted as Addicks'
proxy.
The Regular Republicans In this
county regret deeply the action Of the
Evening journal., 1904-09-17
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTTNG2

.ar EVENING JOURNAL has endeavored
before the minds Of Its dlssraeefd and
IFrS5Il abnormal obtained the in this
t state could the hope Of better
things disturbing should We have
held of the party depends upon its integrity
characters that IL cannot expect success IN 'ne u %
that the Republican party Of Delaware to
manhood party But whittier are we drifting
expect the mass Of its votersg
The AddcRs long been known and admit
ted When party Individual candidate to Sc
- r ,y f ~, upporters may be pretty accurately estimated
But when opponents have made sacrifices
retain the consuming desire to win
ana stand naked mere opporunis
ana oaee-hun indignation and alarm
honest voters took an oath that
make such fools Of themselves to eounanee such
and put r. Layton in the saddle fe
when two years giving the
incompetent Addeks tool there was suen' demand "
push it through
mated as aT ] 70 .tSs oa and t6e mia resentment
sn that convention representatives Reubcansm Delaware
and people when they dared comment remarks
Then the Regular Repubean aoud
ticket to stand
the newspapers to de-
conditions would the candidate for governor be re-
Certain friends of Dr. Joseph chandler convention
allow him for governor He CON
would they consent accented stating en-
might reeonsdered If the con-
conditions ticket made up every nominee be
resolution after
ut a nnoeentn resolution which the delegates in their simple trust
the entire work the
convention senator Alice was shrewd enough place
their homes He called ii the
this said for the
Of
mpeay
and wi e the convention
expected to be used
Certain members Of the state committee seemed TO imagine ''l ey ne m
Addicks Alice Layton hold
their hands
an they had / do them as they saw at
letter Chambers sonnlaw seized by Mee'
Alice
imaginary a which
o.
spreading his ander undermining the
pledged by the act Of I support
When the meeting called
other a chance-heads you
Republican who the viii
silence where
S Of subserviency /
Is gcom
(Which refused
ticket Union Republicans all OF
question OF entering game Of
Where
And request Addk comes at
Republicans hold
after they had held primary
Republican
the yield
could walt when
a
spirit be
meeting candidate
Alice of
ebuke "botes"
seats n national convention
ali they grace
Possibly but IT not good citizenship; not even deeency
Evening journal., 1904-09-17

The Republicans Of Sussex have agreed
to harmony. common primaries and
annihilation. Their rewards are to
consist in delegate from each cleo
ton district, as against four Union
Republicans. They viii also secure
the clerk Of the Orphans Court an
once worth two or three hundred
dollars year.
Evening journal., 1904-09-17
CAUGHT -4TRANDOM

r ORD DUNDONALD. formerly the
IL general in command OF the Cana
dian militia. viii return to Canada
tins fan for deer hunting.
Prof. Samuel J.. Boothroyd, Of the
Colorado State Agricultural College, has
been appointed instructor Of descriptive
geometry at Cornell University
Or. Ernest Lyon. the colored United
States Minister to Liberia, was given
reception by prominent co'ored people
N Baltimore on Thursday evening.
John Barrett. the American Minister to
Panama, gave a reception on Wednesday
last. at Panama IN honor OF President
knador and Mrs. Amador.
Evening journal., 1904-09-17
III TRAplNe srAMPs.

VATE CONGRATULA' f the Mer-
w camille Association on its deci-
sion to put an end TO the trading stamp
nuisance. These stamp concerns take
large profits from this city annually
without any adequate return. They are
a nuisance to merchants and weight
around the necks OF the people.