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Evening journal., 1905-02-21
FRUIT PROSPECTS.

q TORIES Of disasters to the peach
- crop begin to appear in the news
papers. but these are generally dis
counted by those of large experience
who have lived through a great many
panics when the destruction of the
crop has been predicted and laden trees
has been the result.
While this has been a very cold and
disagreeable winter yet it has been very
favorable to fruit Of all kinds. There is
no danger to the fruit buds at this sea-
son of the year from the cold, unless
the mercury gets a number Of degrees
below zero and remains there for a
considerable time.
The continued cold has retarded the
development OF the buds so that they
are not likely to develop until late in
the season when they viii probably be
exempt from frosts and freezes. The
snow which has covered the earth and
has been piled around the trees has
acted as a protection; and so there is
nothing in experience to warrant the
fear that peaches are killed yet. The
same observation applies 20 apples
pears and plums.
For some fruits the season has beer
most beneficial. The covering Of snow
under which the plants have lain al
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

Fortunate is the woman who has
many complaints and few diseases.
The compliments women dsh for are
not worth catching.
A man is seldom afflicted with the
big head unless he has a little heart.
A homely figure in pettlcoats may
have a handsome figure in the bank.
II some men didn't have money wo-
men would have no excuse for marry
ing them.
The average married man can't un-
derstand how Carnegie managed to
save so much money.
Posterity may see that justice is done
a man, but he would rather attend the
trial In person.
When a young man is convinced that
there is nothing too good for a certain
girl he offers himself to her.
Harold, aged 5, had met with an ac-
cident.
I'm afraid" said the doctor, "that
a permanent scar viii remain ON your
chin"
"Oh, my whislxers will soon cover 1t
up" answered the small optimist.
Harry-Say, papa, is a mans wife
his better half?
Papa-phat is the popular belief.
Harry-Then what part of Solomon
was all his wives?
The mother had Just givsn the twins
a bath and put them to bed.
BY and by one of them began to
laugh.
whats so funny?" asked the
mother.
You made a mistake" exclaimed lit.
tie Joe. IAN give Fred two baths an
didn't give me any,"
Papa docking over school report)-
How is this. Johnny? According to tbs
report you are at the foot of a class o.
seven pupils.
Johnny-well. dt might have beer
worse.
Papa-I fail to see how it could hav,
been any worse.
Johnny-Why. there might have beer
more pupils in the class.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
rAE pREsIpeNrs sALARY.

III HERE are now two bills In Con-
i gress relating 70 the salary OF
the President OF the United States, one
provides salary of 100000 per an
mum for the Chief Magistrate, $4,000
for the Vice President and $4,000 each
for Senator's and Representatives. The
other bill provides that the salary of
the President shall be $4,000, the Vice
President $4,000 and that all ex-Presi-
dents living shall receive $4,000 per
annum FOR life.
II would be nothing more than justice
to increase the salary OF the President,
but the question OF giving an ex-Presi-
dent a salary for life is open to many
objections. The salaries OF the Sena-
tors and Representatives need revision
and will probably be increased. w. II.
Newman. president OF the Vanderbilt
railroads. who started in as a brake
man at 50 a day receives salary Of
100000 a year, a fine residence in
New York and a handsome private car
Surely the honor. the great response
bility and the hard work OF a Chief
Magistrate should entitle him to SAL
ary on a par with railroad presidents.
Philadelphia holds an election" today.
Now why should everybody smile al
that form Of designation?
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
THE WORLDS NEWS

panies. were assured by President
Roosevelt that the matter would be
thoroughly investigated before the ex-
ecution OF the contracts.
FOREIGN.
Germany's experiment with dogs as
an adjunct to the army in Southwest
Africa has proved a failure.
King Leopold Of Belgium is victor in
suit brought by daughters demanding
division of his estate as the result of
the death Of the Queen.
President Amador completed the first
year of his Presidency of Panama, and
was generally congratulated
The engagement of the Crown Prince
Frederick William, of Germany, lis de
clared not broken, but serious family
| friction exists as a result of the Flor
ence incident.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A boiler explosion killed two injured
ten miners at st. Clairsville, Ohio.
Mrs. Mary Kyle, of Baltimore, dden-
] titles the picture of Johann HOch as
that OF the man who married and de-
serted her.
The United states Court of Appeals
] AtNAANa NliH eufvVVfVvN SUIT u All Lil6iloi
company against the estate OF w. S
Stratton in favor OF the defendant.
The viii OF j. Samuel McCue. whc
was hanged at Charlottesville, Va, fol
wife murder, was probated. His es.
tate is left 20 his children.
William II. Taft. Secretary OF War
and Elihu Root, his predecessor. wers
selected by the Yale corporation to b'
Dodge lecturers of the responsibilities
OF citizenship, Secretary TAFT for 1905.
06 and MIR. Root for 1906-O7.
one young woman was killed and
forty-four other passengers injured ir
the ditching OF a fast train on the Eri,
lradlroad, -four miles from Paterson, n
-. The train was making sixty mile,
am hour when Il left the rails.
II was said on authority in New Yorl
that Southern steel and iron companies
are about to be formed into n corpora
tion with a capital of S1OOO0O,OOO o
more.
one hundred and five men were re
ported 10 be entombed in the Virgins
mine. eighteen miles from Blrning
lham, Ala.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
LswIs and cIsrk EsposItion.

From the Baltimore American.
The United States has acquired the
habit OF holding international exposi-
tions with an easy nonchalance that
comes from familiarity. This country
has developed so vastly in wealth and
population that a worlds fair may be
held in one corner and the other corn
ers do not bother about the details
until the gates are actually thrown
open. Apparently little thought is be-
ing given in the East to the Lewis
and Clark Exposition which is being
prepared at Portland, Ore, and which
is TO be opened in a little over three
lmonths-on the 1st OF next June And
yet In some ways Il will be the most
attractive exposition that has recently
been held.
The Oriental display II is expected
will surpass IN extent and richness Of
Illustration any previous collection in
dicating the arts and industries Of the
East On our Pacific Coast the Fart
and the Far West approach each other.
Japan made a magnificent display at
st. Louis and will make a like
lsumptuous exhibit at Portland But
the Chinese Empire will at Portland,
for the first time In history. enter into
the project of making an exhibit on
a comprehensive and adequately illus
tratlve scale. II is apparent that there
will be a distinguishing Asiatic flavor
to the Exposition, and this is likely
to prove its most attractive feature
to the people OF the interior and the
East Coast. who have grown some
what ennuied Of world shows.
But beside the extensive Aslatlc at
fractions that will be on display at
Portland there will be other unusual
spendors for sightseers No other
great exposition ever held has had the
magnificent natural setting which this
Lewis and Clark celebration will pre-
sent Eve snow-capped mountain
peaks are I'm plain view Of the grunds
and the water situation, bordering lake
and river is no less attractive. II is
claimed for the 4O2-acre tract that
comprises the grounds that it is the
finest exposition site in the world.
Upon these grounds ten palaces for
Exposition purposes are approaching
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
PooR NlcHoLAs.

TT IS easy to blame the Gear for the
l. woes that hover over his empire,
but IL should oe as easy to pity him.
Education and environment play a
larger part in shaping the thoughts and
tendencies of men than most Of us inn
agine.
Nicholas from the moment his eyes
first opened has been surrounded with
pomp and luxury and sehooled every
moment 10 regard himself as chosen by
Divine intent to hold the reins OF an
autocracy. II is even a part Of his
religious training. For him to surren-
der any part OF his prerogatives would
be TO betray his church. OF which he is
the head, and hence to offend his God.
We Of western civilization cannot
view such ideas with liberation, but
we can yet see how It is possible for
a man Of the mental calibre Of Mich
olas to hold them.
OF course man Of great native force
might break away from the thraldom
of his ministers. forget all his training
and lay aside the religious fictions
which his church has so insistently
preached, but Nicholas is like most
OF us. only an ordinary mortal who
lives, moves. thinks and acts I'm ac-
cordance with the philosophy of his
teaching and his environment
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
NEW JERSEY.

NEW 1LAN0A
Sturgeon fishermen will appeal to the
Fish and Game Commission to increase
the size OF meshes in sturgeon nets
from 10 10 IA inches.
Mr. Hamill, leader of the House
Democrats, introduced a bill in the AS
sembly. changing the method of taxing
the franchises OF corporations other
than railroads.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate Committee considering
the Smoot case will not report at this
session OF Congress.
More states are joining I'm the anti
Standard Oil Company movement in the
West. Texas asks that Standard
methods i'm the Beaumont field be i'm
vestigated. Congressman Campbell, OF
Kansas, author Of the inquiry resolu-
tion, has told the President the Stand
ard Oil Company is preparing TO make
bitter fight. The agitation may ad-
vance the price OF crude oil.
Secretary Taft will issue S25,OO0, ,O0C
Philippine bonds, under the provisions
of the Cooper bill
Pacific coast shipbullders want a
pee cent. differential on government
work.
The Senate Indian Committee has
adopted as an amendment to the In
dian appropriation bill the Bard resolu.
ton against the use OF Indian trusi
! funds in sectarlan schools.
The President heard "a committee oi
cotton growers, who asked for the ap-
pointment OF a commission to investi.
gate Oriental trade conditions. TO aid
In developing other American cottor
goods trade.
The Supreme Court decided an inher.
itance tax case Involving S541,000 81
favor of w. *. Vanderbilt
There viii be no rate legislation bl
the present Congress. The Presiden'
viii probably call an extra session o
the Fifty-ninth Congress in October.
Reduction in salaries OF members o
the Missouri Legislature after Marcl
"a may change the senatorial situa
tiou.
officials OF the Midvale steel Works
who went 10 Washington 20 protes
against the award of armor contract
to the Bethlehem and Carnegie Com
Evening journal., 1905-02-21


This comes at a time when the Legis-
iature has before it a memorial from
the colored people demanding heavier
penalties for carrying such weapons,
and demanding that the present laws be
enforced.
The argument Of those fsvoring the
Rose bill is that ia instances like the
case OF the murder Of Albert Constable
Of Maryland the carrying OF a pistol to
be used in self-defense might avert a
tragedy. But even granting that this
is true, isn't the remedy worse than the
disease? For logically since no person
knows who is to be attacked or when
an attack is likely to occur, every man
should go armed and ready to shoot on
provocation.
The instances when men need deadly
weapons in self defense are rare in
deed, and there is certain to be more
crime from the general carrying -
weapons than from the practice Of be-
ing without them. Senator Roses bill
is a fine one to kill.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 81 1905
lMpRouE rAElR HOMES.

nj EW YORK papers have urged that
IN in building better and model
homes for the white people who are
now huddied together in unwholesome
tenements in that city that the condi-
tion Of the colored people should not be
overlooked.
We do not know what their condition
is in New York city. but we do know
that the houses in the sections OF VIII
mington which are inhabited by col
ored people are as a general rule most
horribly neglected.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
colored man is charged the very highest
rent that can be had, more than the
same class OF houses would bring from
white tenants they arc Absolutely re-
fused good sanitary conditions, or such
improvements as the white man de-
mands and gets When the owner of a
property finds that il is running down,
that good white tenants willsnot stay
unless he expends Something TO keep
the house in shape. he rents to a col
ored man. gets just as much or more
rent and let's things go,
Who is TO blame for the appearance
and conditions which exist IN some
portions Of our city?
Surely it is not the tenants. They
have no chance 10 choose their own
surroundings but must rent only such
houses and in the localities offered al
whatever price is asked. Respectable
industrious, prompt rent paying colored
families are obliged 10 live in most un-
sanitary surroundings without daring
to ask for improvements I'm the way
Of baths and sewer connections. The
surroundings OF many Of the houses
which they pay high rents for demand
the attention Of the Board OF Health,
and the buildings themselves the at
tention Of the Building Inspector. The
coiored people OF Wilmington want to
live in their own sections OF the town
but that is no reason why the owners
OF the properties would neglect them,
or why their neighborhood should not
be kept clean and sanitary.
Many own their own homes and
they want the neighborhood to be
clean and respectable but they are un-
able to control the ramshacile. disease
breeding buildings which surround
them
Why not help them out, improve the
appearance OF our city, make IL more
sanitary and give them a chance foI
cleaner healthy homes2 The Building
Inspector and the Board OF Health
should move hand and hand in thi,
matter.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
READABLE RHYMES

Which is Which?
When / asked her she gave me the
flower she wore.
To preserve It forever, I think that I
swore-
I am sure I made some sort Of vow;
And / meant to observe it quite strictly,
1 know.
But that little romance was long
time ago
And l hardly remember it now.
have kept it, however, I'm sorry to
say.
with some other fond tokens put
It away
With a glove and lock OF brown
hair.
It faded. Of course, but it's easy to
tell
That it once was rose, from it's color
and smell.
Which is why I'm reduced to despair.
For the withered remains Of pansy
I find
And / can't be as sure as I wished in
my mind
That the lady was wearing a rose.
And another fair damsel vouchsafed
me a bloom
Which I mean to preserve till / 30 to
my tomb.
Twas a pansy-or 50 I suppose.
| II Is careless OF me, but I'm greatly
afraid
That I don't know just which apper-
tains TO the maid
on whom all my affections arc fixed,
Il may be it's the rose and II may not,
you see;
And some day explanations maybe ur
to me
And I've got the thing horribly
mixed.
Chicago Daily News.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
DEBATE At DELAWARE COLLEGE
Athenaean and Delta Phi Societies to
Discuss For Eastern War.

The annual public debate between
the Athenaean and Delta Phi Literary
Societies Of Delaware College, will
take place in the college oratory at
Newark on Friday evening, beginning
at 7.30 p. m. The thesis-'ResoIved,
That the interests of civilization will
be best advanced by the success of the
Japanese in the present war between
Russia and Japan, will be defended
by Messrs. +. w. Warrington, George
NJ. Fisher and f. +. Warrington of the
Delta Phi Society, and will be by
Messrs. c. w. Clash. r. w. Harkness
and Clarence Killen Of the Athenaean
Society.
The following gentlemen will judge
the debate: George A. Blake, Esq, and
W. S. Evans, ESQ., of Elkton, Nd and
Professor c. A. Ewing, Of Port Deposit
Nd.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
TO PRESERVE NIAGARA FALLS
In Danger Of Ruin BY Eneroaehmsnt
Of Power Companies.


Of Power Companies.
Albany, N. Y, Feb. 21.-The preser-
vation of Niagara Falls from the en-
croachment OF power companies was
the subject of debate in the general
assembly. It arose over Assembly
man Palmers resolution requesting
the president and congress to seek
negotiations with the British govern
ment looking to an international
agreement for the protection Of the
Falls.
After a long and heated debate the
resolution was referred by party vote
10 the committee on federal relations.
Although there we're those, said Mr..
Palmer, who could see in the grandeur
and beauty of the Falls nothing but
the dollars and cents into which they
can be resolved, every effort should be
made to preserve them from the en-
croachments of water and power COM
panies. "The legislature should not
sell this glorious inheritance for a
mess of pottage in the shape Of tax
money"
since the Sill OF Ine american
Falls. he continued, stands 10 feet
higher than that of the Canadian
Falls, the abstraction of water would
affect the American Falls first He
pointed out that if all the power com
panies now incorporated took the
minimum amount estimated, the state
reservation at Niagara would be left
'high and dry on the bank Of a dead
and dreary canon"
And If four additional companies
proposed for the Canadian side were
put into operation there would be no
| No tnr Inft on the American Falls
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
Leslie's Week.

Leslie's Weekly claims that the COM
parative cost Of battleships built
under government construction and
by private yards is greatly IN favor
of the government or navy yard.
The Connecticut and the Louisiana,
both now building, are given as con-
firmation Of this statement. but al
though the figures are i'm favor Of the
navy yard so FAR there is no way OF
telling with any certainty until the
battleships are finished. The guess
that two or three millions can be
saved on each vessel built at a gov
ernment yard is sheer nonsense
There are no facts to base II on and
well-managed, up-to-date private
shipbuilding companies can build
warships just as cheaply If not
cheaper than the navy yards, il a
fair percentage is added 10 the cost
Of labor and materials on account OF
the millions which have TO be ex-
pended to get the government yard
into condition for building battle
ships.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
A GOOD BILL 10 kIiI

Tn THE attempt to legislate to suit
- all possible conditions bills are
often introduced and become law which
are capable Of producing more harm
than all the good intended.
A bill Of this nature is that intro
dueed by Senator Rose providing that
the resident Judges under certain con-
dirions shall be authorized to issue
permits for people to carry concealed
deadly weapons.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
NEW RAILROAD CO. TO
BUILD TELEGRAPH LINE
Will Run From Love Point to
Easton-Directors Name
Officials

The directors OF the Maryland, Della
ware and Virgins Railroad Company
recently organized at the Offices Of
Scott & Co., and in which a number Of
Wilmingtonians are interested in, have
decided to build a telegraph line from
Love Point to Easton, connecting the
Queen Anne's Railroad. which is now
part Of the line, with the Baltimore,
Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway.
Both OF the railroad companies are
controlled by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road and the officers elected 10 man.
age the new company are practically
the same as those who manage the
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic
Railway.
The directors Of the new company
have chosen the following officials to
have charge under Captain Willard
Thomson OF this city, vice. president
and general manager, who also occu-
pies a similar position with the Balti-
more. Chesapeake and Atlantic Rail-
way Company;
superintendent OF Steamer Lines,
Tully A. Joynes; Auditor. w. L. Roth
stein; General Freight and Passenger
Agent T. Murdoch; superintendent of
Railway Division and Division Freight
and Passenger Agent, A. ]. Benjamin.
Too late to cure a cold after con-
sumption has fastened its deadly grip
on the lungs Take DR.. Woods Nor
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
THE WEATHER

The New York Herald predicts that in
the Middle States and New England today
overcast 10 partly cloudy weather will
prevail, with slight temperature changes
easterly winds, increasing and probably
followed by rain or snow in the coast dis
tricts of this section. on Wednesday
partly cloudy to fair weather will prevail
with moderate temperature and fresh
northerly to westerly winds, and OF
Thursday fair weather and slightly lower
temperature.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
CURES WITHOUT
STOMACH DOSING
Hyomei Cures catarrh by Simple
Breathine-Z. James Belt Refunds
Money IF Il Fails to Cure.

A long stride toward solving the mys-
terry of curing cataITh was taken with
the discovery of Hyomei. In fact, the
percentage of cures by this treatment
proves Il equal TO the final tests.
The folly of taking medicine into the
stomach to cure catarrh of the nose,
throat and lungs, has been realized by
physicians but not until Hyomei was
known. had they a practical method
that would obviate stomach drugging.
A complete Hyomei outfit costs
but 81, and consist of a neat
pocket inhaler that can be used
anywhere without attracting attention.
a medicine dropper and a bottle of Hy-
omei. Extra bottles of Hyomei cost
but soc.
Breathing Hyomei through the IN
haler every particle OF air that enter4
the nose, throat and lungs. ds charged
with a healing balsam that soothes
and aliays all irritation, kills the ca
tarrhal germs and enriches the blood
with additional ozone.
4. James Belt has so much faith In
the power OF HyOmei TO cure catarrh,
that he is selling II under his personal
guarantee TO refund the money II It
does not give positive relief,
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
enpurr.r

orders for The Evening Journal may pe
semi direct to the paper OF TO the neerea'
news agent. In the city il Is served py
n,h,rlzed agents, and all orders received
,hsrerrou, viii be turned over to them'
II delivery is irregular, hotiiy car -.,s,.
agent; il irregularities continue "o''
The Evening Journal. -,,.,
Persons leaving the city tehlpo' 49, 80
should have The Evening journal 40,
p.srded 70 them and thus keep ~ ss., seu~.'
with local happenings. Send orders o'''''
70 the Office.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
Grand Duke Vladimir Seriously III.

Grand Duke Vladimir Seriously III.
Tsarskoe-Selo. Feb. 21.--Grand Duke
Vladimir is still seriously i'll, not hav-
ing recovered from the apoplectic ft
caused by the news of his brothers
fate and the warning that his turn
would be next. The intelligence Of the
assassination reached him while on his
way to see the car. Vladimir was
taken home in an ordinary cab, as he
feared to expose himself in the con-
splcuous grand ducal coach.
The terror-stricken grand dukes as
sembled around Vladimir's sick bed. A
few words were exchanged, and 1t was
decided to take no repressiye meas
ures, and to insist on the cars recall
of Grand Duke Paul.
Martial law has been declared at
Tsarkoe-Selo. owing to numerous
threatening letters being received at
the palace.
The chief Of the secret police has
Evening journal., 1905-02-21

The Responsibility Of building the Pan
anna Canal indeed the selection OF
the location, was placed on the Presi-
dent. His Is the responsibility. and,
therefore, he should be given just the
kind Of commission he desires.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21
Nicotine of MI,.lonary soeleti...

A union meeting viii be held in Har-
rison Street Church ON Thursday af-
ternoon at o'clock in oby1rrance OF
day and prayer by the aux1liandes Of
the Women's Home Missionary Soci-
ETY.. An interesting program has been
prepared and all members are request
ed to observe the day in this service.
Evening journal., 1905-02-21

The Plan Suggested for heating the
Historical Society rooms BY steam
pipes from the adjoining building,
thus doing away with the dangerous
stove which Is now in use. should be
carried out by all means. The pos
sessions Of the society are invalu-
able and could not be replaced
Heating as proposed is next to hav-
ing a fire proof building.