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Evening journal., 1905-06-05
REMOVING WRECKS At LEWES
Concern Which Pair for the Privilege
is Having Hard Work.
Special to The Evening Journal.

Lewes June 5.-At a regular COM
muncation Of Jefferson Lodge, No Is,
A. f. and A. NJ. on Friday evening,
Robert r. NAPLES was elected as the
grand master; Frank W. Poynter, sem
or warden Charles W. Hall, junior
warden: Charles H. Maull, secretary;
Harry C. Maull, treasurer; =. j. Nor
iris, Clarence Beebe and William j.
Thompson. trustees.
Charles Il. johnson, of Lewes, has
two government contracts for the re-
moval of small wrecks on the Net
Jersey coast. His father, Charles w.
Johnston, who has the ice-boat con-
tract in this harbor is progressing
nicely with the work and saving a vast
amount of valuable salvage.
The National Wrecking Company, of
Fall River, Mass which has the con-
tract for removing the sunken barge
Santiago which was run down early
last December by the pilot boat Phila-
ldelphia. and sunk just inside the har-
Dor Of refuge, has not got a snap ac-
cording to the statement of the man
ager. Captain Potter. The company is
removing the cargo of sofe coal and
VIII raise the DulEts II IL ANNo AloA SUI
ceed it will mean the loss of a goodly
sum as the contractors paid the gov
Iernment something like $1,000 for the
privilege of removing the wreck.
The Town Commissioners will have
the east side Of Washington avenue
paved.
Walter Burton. brother of Congress
man Burton, and manager of the Ho-
tel oxford. Washington. is at the Bur-
ton homestead here. very III. He man
aged the Henlopen at Rehoboth several
seasons and is we'll known.
All hope Of saving the schooner J..
R. Halliday, which stranded on the
point of Cape Helopen last September
or October has been abandoned, and
n. b. Register, the contractor, is strip
ping her.
The life station patrolmen are all of
duty for the next two months. Cap
tain Tunnel. of the Lewes station, ex-
poets 10 take a vacation and attend
the International Sunday School Asso-
citation Convention. at Toronto. Mrs.
Tunnel viii accompany him. Both
are prominent Sunday school workers.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
TO END TIE wAR.

IT HE conference between the Pres
4 ident and Count Cassini the
other day has attracted considerable
attention. although its purpose has not
been divulged. But undoubtedly 1t had
for its object the tender Of our good
Offices for the conclusion OF peace.
1t Is significant that during the same
week each OF the European govern
ments has intimated to Representatives
Of the Russian government the use
lessness Of continuing the struggle
There seems to be basis for the be-
lief that the governments are acting
in concert 10 bring about cessation OF
hostlities, some from a desire 10 spare
Russia further humiliation and others
from motives partly humane and part
ly selfish.
How Russia is to continue the struE
gle nobody can figure out. It costs
vast sums to carry on war. and the
minister OF finance is not less import
ant than the general in the field or the
admiral at sea Under the circum-
stances Russia has reached her bor-
rowing capacity, save. perhaps. al
usurious rates. She has virtually nc
navy, and to keep her armies in III,
field on an effective basis win REQUIRE
other vast sums.
Where is she to get the money
France refuses further loans. her az.
fection for her ally having cooled a.
Russia's ability to pay becomes NOR,
remote.
England Is content as matters stand
Russia is beaten, and for a century vii
act with circumspection in the Fai
East. Germany desires closer rela,
tons with Russia and would like to III
the place that France has so long oc
cupied. But an alliance would Of lit,
he worth with a nation further harass
ed. hnmiliatcd and financially EN-
bairassed.
Consequently, all Europe has unite,
10 use IT'S efforts TO end the war now
It remains TO be seen whether the en-
peror is az stubDorn as he is weak
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

put them in execution. Manual train
ing is all right for the masses down
South, but when il comes to educating
the sons and daughters of government
employees to labor with their hands it
is carrying theories a l.ttle too far.
Latin and Greek. medicine and law ap-
peal 10 them much more strongly.
Howard University is a negro institu-
tion for higher" education more or
less under the government control and
president IoTrCn is a white man.
In addition 10 entertaining the idea
that many a good cook and carpenter
rs spoiled to make a poor lawyer cr
doctor, President Gordon has assumed
the attitude that his duties were aG-
ministrative and pedagogical in char
ac:er rather tLan social and has fail
ed to entertain the distinguished ne
grocs who Fave visited the university
as the students thought they should be
entertained. One Of the most grievous
charges aga 'nst Mr.. Gordon is that he
has given but one reception ~ the
colored professors and their wives,
ana. as far as known, has not enter
tanned any Of them at dinner.
The matter came to a climax when
Camille Boltz, dusky dams Fl, from
Mobile, Alabama, declined to accept a
paper diploma when she wanted a
sheepskin. Her cheek flushing with
Indignation. she stated she would be
ashamed to take such a paper home.
According to the story, Mr.. Gordon IN
formed her she could throw it in the
fire if she did not want it.
Being reported to the students, their
smouldering indignation burst into a
flame and revolt impended. A petition
signed by fifty leading colored persons
has been presented to the board of
trustees asking for DR.. Gordon's re-
moval on the ground of incompetency
and the threat is made to carry the
matter before Congress unless the
board acts favorably. Representa-
tive White, of North Carolina, is one
of those actively seeking the removal
of MI Gordon.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by lnsal applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way TO cure deafness and that Is
bv constitutional remedies. Deafness Is
caused by an inhamed condition OF the
mucous lining Of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is innamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. and
when It is entirely closed, Deafness is
the result and unless the Inflammation
can be taken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition. hearing win be
destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catarrh. which Is nothing
but an infamed condition OF the mucous
surfaces.
We viii give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars. free.
F. ]. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
tion.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

Zion Sunday School Cambridge, held
memorial services in memory Of the
deceased officers and members of the
school last sunday. Mr.. W. n. An
drews made an appropriate address.
over one thousand dollars was raised
last sunday by the congregation Of
Berlin Church toward paying for the
new parsonage now nearing completion.
The church al Hillsboro is UNDERGOING
repairs, and the congregation is wor-
shipping i'm Queen Anne Chapel.
Ebenezer Sunday School. Easton. will
give an excursion 70 Washington. by
way OF Chesapeake Beach on Wodnes-
day, July 18th. biving five hours in
Washington.
Union services were held in Chesa-
pealye City Church last week. on sun
day Rev. w. A. Harris preached in the
morning and afternoon; i'm the evening.
Dr. r. r. Martindale; Monday evening.
Rev. w r.. McFarlane; Tuesday even
ing Rev. VIM. +. Taylor. Wednesday
and Thursday evenings. Rev. f. H..
Dashiell and Friday evening. Rev ]. NJ.
Mitchell.
The following officers Of the Chester
town Epworth League We're installed
last Sunday by Rev. W. l.. White. pres.
Mr.. +. NJ. Hummer; lst vice pres. Miss
Anna c. Lambert; "a wise pres. Miss
Halle Toulson; 3rd vice pres. Mrs A.
/ =. Matthews; 4th vice pres. Miss Mabel
Toulson; treas, Miss Lizzie Davis, sec
retary. Mr. Raymond Moody.
! Rev. L. r. Poole. OF pocomoke City.
/ preached "a special sern1on 10 the mem
bens OF the Fire Department of that
town last Sunday morning, taking for
his text. Jude %: Pulling them out
of the fire."
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
EDITORIAL OPINION

TO be "contented" and for the moment
their government has ceased to be
corrupt but the work of reformation
has only begun. VIII 1t be continued
Citizens ordinarily immersed IN their
own affairs and selhshly lacking In
public spirit are reused from their
lethargy by some fragrant act like the
passing Of the gas ordnance but after
the excitement of the hour has passed
are too apt to lapse into their old in
difference. The compactly organized
powers that prey. however, are held to-
gether by the cohesive power Of pub
lics plunder." and quietly and almost
.unnouced regain their sway.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
SOON TO HAVE slLLIoNAlREs.


c OAlBBODY has been estimating
- John ID. Rockefeliers wealth and
has placed it at s55o.ooooOO. II that
were passed around It would give every
man. woman and child in the United
States 81. His Income is over $4,000 600
per month, or nearly $4,000 day.
And yet less than fifty years ago he
was o clerk with no remarkable pros
poets ahead Of him. In less than a half
century ne has accumulated a fortune
Of over half billion, ana should he
live ten years more is likely to leave
his son a Millionaire.
In some way these vast accommodations
have been taken from the pockets of
the American people. OF course that
matters not providing they have been
given an equivalent. But have they?
AS factor in our social and commercial
life can anybody earn a half billion in
the short span OF a mature lifetime?
All business Is presumed TO he con-
Quoted on a competitive basis. Would
the people have been poorer had there
been a dozen oil companies all these
years, each striving to win the patron
age Of the people by low prices and
mer torious good2
OF course that Is an abstract question
that does not involve Mr.. Rockefeller's
personal rights. The theory is that each
man may make an ne can ligitimately,
but do we not know enough Of standard
oil methods to approach the moral
certainty that great part OF this
wealth has come through slxilful
evasions OF the law and even shaping
the laws themselves to the necessities
of standard oil?
And what is 10 become of this great
fortune. II IS estimated that Mr..
Rockefeller's hoard doubles every ten
years. Suppose that the same methods
which have been employed in amassing
this fortune are continued by the son:
in ten years it win amount to a billion;
I'm twenty years to two billions. in
thirty years to four billions and IN
fifty years TO sixteen billions.
A dozen men An the United States
control a great portion Of all of the
wealth Of the country and the old idea
chat what one generation makes
another spends, no longer holds good.
What then is TO be the disposition OF
these vast accumulations? The rich are
getting richer at a tremendous rate
are the poor getting poorer2 If so. how
long can Il continue?
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
NEWS OF WILMINGTON CONFERENCE
From the Penipsula Methodist.

Mrs. Greed, widow Of the late Rev. E.
X. Greed, by the advice of her
physician, left her home at CentreviIe
last week for Baltimore to consult Prof
Gushing, of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
for stomach trouble. she was accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Mildred
Rev George w. Bounds win lecture
in NeavlA Church. Thursday evening
June 18th.
Rising sun Epworth League has
elected officers for the ensuing term as
follows; Pres, Mrs Z. p. Haines; 1si
v. r.. Miss A Mabel Reynolds: 2nd "
r., Eli T. Reynolds; 3rd " p, Mrs
Jennie Gillespie: 4th V. p, Mrs. NJ. L.
Brown; organist Miss Lucy b. Giles
pie; treasurer. n. Brown: Supt. Junior
League Rev. J. p. Otis
The Epworth League of Klei Grange
was re-orsanized last Friday evening
when the following officers We're elected:
President Miss Rosa Porter: 1st vice.
pres. Mrs. A. C. Strickland: Cd vice
pres, Mrs. w. C. Strickland: Sd vice
pres, Mrs. Thomas Pruitt. 4th vice
pres. Miss Arra Jones; Secretary. Miss
Lucy Pruitt; Treas, Mr. Ernest Strick-
land; Organist. Miss ARA Jones; assist.
ami. Miss Beulah Porter
Quite a number Of people from North
East, including Rev. +. IL. Dashieu and
Mrs. Dashien, attended the regular
monthly meeting of the Women's Chris.
tian Temperance Union at Mrs. w. II
Warrington's Mechanics Valley. on lasi
Thursday. They rode over in c. w
Shippers large hack placed at their dis.
posal. An interesting meeting was held
latthe close Of which cake and ice cream
We're served IN abundance.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

A story with a moral comes from
Uganda. A lion, thinking Il about time
to lunch, seized a white man and bit
him. His teeth went through a bottle
LOT whiskey which the man was carrying
'in his pocket, and this gave him such
la shock that he turned tail.
The worlds silk crop in 1904 was 90
26S.000 kilograms. against 1S.l35.000 in
1903. Jgpan's export was 5,5S5.00 lxilo-
grams, am increase of $4,000 The total
exports from Far East points We're
12, 1856 900 Kilograms. The rest of the 1904
crop was from Western Europe and the
Levant.
There are several wooden railways
in Canada and the United States. One
of them Is in the province Of Quebec
and is thirty miles long The rails
are OF maple and trains are run ovor
them with remarkable smoothness al
the rate of twenty-five miles an hour.
Taking a leaf out Of the book OF Mary
Queen of Scots the Empress Dowager
of China, il is said, is going to have her
handmaids I'm the palace taught to sew
and spin. In lieu of the tambour fame
they win be supplied with looms and
learn the useful art OF weaving
towels and other domestic linen.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

Luther Burbank who has performed so
many marvels with plants improv-
ing them and creating new species.
has succeeded in crossing walnut
trees until he claims to have pro-
duced variety that grows faster
than any other trees known. And
Burbank has done so many startling
things that his claims must be given
fun credit.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
THE WEATHER

The New York Herald predicts that In
the aiiddle States ana New England to-
day cloudy 20 partly overcast weather
viii prevail until noon. with light ana
fresh southWesterly winds and slowly ris-
ing temperature, followed generally by
clearing. On Tuesday. fair 10 partly
cloudy slightly warmer weather and light
70 fresh southerly winds viii prevail. the
winds shifting 70 southeastcrly IN this
section; and on Wednesday partly OVER
cast weather, with slowly rising temp, ,ra-
tuTe.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
aERvrcK.

,rs.r~ for Tho Evening Journal may be
sent direct to the paper or 20 rie Nesrss' ~
news agent In the city II y herFe- ~
authorized agents, and an oroels receive
tho-cgrom viii be turned over 10 tnen''
II delivery is irregular, notify carrier OF
agent. If irregularities continue noeiy
TIE Evcning Journal
Perscns leaving the city temporary
should have Tue Evening Journal TOT
,eard-o 70 them and thus keep In touoh
with local Happenings. Send orders direct
70 tas ONCE.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
ArlrrRrIsINa RArEs.

DISPLAYED: a cents per inch. Dis
counts on continued advertising Will De
forwarded On application.
CLASSIFIED; Situations Wanted Free.
Boarding Or Rooms to Rent, u cent
word
Help wanted. y cent a word.
Real Estate (solid), q cent word.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

It is said that Hyde and Alexander Of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
have agreed to bury the hatchet and
TO work together I'm the interests of
the society. When gentlemen Of
certain fraternity fan out. Just men
get their dues. when they make up
the public should look out
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

Postage free i- the United states cut
side the limits o. the city. Subscriptions
pavable In advance as followa; BY the
weels. &C; month. sc; year, $780,
In ordering change Of address give oia
"a well as new. The Evening Journal iS
for sale at all tho News stands 10 WIZ
minetcn and at Broad Street Station
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

The CRIPPLED 5attleships that have crept
into Manila harbor offer no perplex-
ing problem. They may make abso-
lutely necessary repairs and then
leave the harhor; or they must dis
mantle and remain tin the war is
over. We shall have no trouble in
deciding our duties as a neutral
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
BUGS ANNUALLY
COST MILLIONS
Loss to Crops Every Year
From This Cause Is $685.,
100, 900
PRESIDENCY BOOM FOR FORAKER
By William Wolf Smith.

Washington. June 5.-If we are to
believe the Agricultural Department.
the United States is very buggy
country. According to the department
bugs eat up annually more than it
costs to maintain the government, in
cluding what we pay for warships, for
the navy and the army, the Philip
pines and the Panama Canal Here
is what we annually lose by bugs:
Cereals, 100000 900; hay and for
'age, $53,000,0 600; cotton, $50. 900, 900; to-
bacco, S5,S00,OOO; truck crops, $50. 600. -
900; sugars. $4,000 900; fruits. s27. 900. -
900; forests and forest products Sill
,000,000 miscellaneous crops, $500
1000; animal products, sl75,OOO 900;
products in storage. 500, 600 600; to-
tai, $7S5.1OO,OOO.
And here is what is charged up
against the various kinds OF bugs:
Grasshopper, S5OO000OO; chinch bug.
S6O,O00,00O; Hessan fly. $40. .OOO, 900;
corn-root worm. S2O,OOO 900; corn-ear
worm, S20,0UU,000 cotton-bol weevil.
100000 900; cotton-boll worm. S12-
100000; cotton-leaf worm. $4,000 600;
codling moth of apple, 500. OOO. 600: po-
tato bug, $S,OOO.OOO; grain weevil, $iO-
100000; army worm S15.OOO,0O cab
bage worm, S5,0OO000 San Jose scale.
Sl0,OO0,OO0; total. S29S. 900, OOO.
This only includes fourteen varieties
.of bugs, so about $500. 600. 900 is to be
laid up against the others. Yet we
live, yet we are prosperous, and man
age to export several hundred millions
ot food stuffs and cotton each year.
1t might be added that the Agricul-
tural Department takes no account Of
the destruction worked by the hum
bug
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Bricf communications on all subjects Of
iniercst. temperate IN their nature and
sie ned by the writer (name not 20 be pub
lishsd unless desired are always welcome
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
USE THE REST

BUILDERS TAKE NOTICE.
Blue Ribbon Sheeting, guaranteed 800
square feet in a roll at 20 cents. Held
and Company. June 5-5t.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
Quaint Bits.

on am evening somewhere about the
end Of the sixteenth century a traveller
from Sweden might have been observed
at the door of the Rose theatre in Lon
don. He was going to see a new piece
called Titus Andronicus," and i'm order
to follow il in the native language
bought a copy of the play, price six.
pense, at the theatre door. When he
went home TO Sweden he took the book
lwith him to show wife and friends what
strange stuff the foreigners ranted. For
800 years il was preserved and in 1904
being discovered in the home Of a
countrywOman, was transferred for
safety to the Lund University. The
book is the only one of its kind known
to exist.
Here is an explanation of the Ola
horseshoe superstition: "St. Dunstan
was a skilled farrier. One day whila
at work in his forge the devil entered
dn disguise and requested Dunstan To
shoe his single hoOf.' The saint. a.
though he recognized his malign clisto-
mer, acoeded but caused him so much
pain during the operation that satan
begged him to desist. This St. Dunstan
did. but only after he had made tne
evil one promise that neither ne nor
any of the lesser evil spirits. mis- SER
wants. would ever molest the inmates
of a house where the horseshoe was dis
played"
That there are 5000 converts a wear
to Catholicism in the Diocese of New
York was stated in a public address
by Archbisop Farley.
Evening journal., 1905-06-05


Decoration Day and the National
Cemetery at Arlington were the time
and place chosen by some of the
friends of Senator Foraker Of Ohio TO
give his Presidential boom a boost.
The Ohio Senator was the orator OF
the day and made one of his customary
brilliant speeches. Commander A p.
Tasker of the Department of the Po-
tomac, launched the boo min present.
ing the memorial orator to the vast
crowd there assembled. In doing so
he said
1T has been the proud boast Of the
Grand Army of the Republic that at
the close Of the great Civil War the
soldiers of the Union resumed the
avocations Of peace. They went into
business and professional pursuits,
and many of them have worn the Sem
atorial toga. among them the distin-
guished Ohio Senator, Joseph Benson
Foraker
1T has been the privilege of the De-
partment of the Potomac to escort
two Presidents from the White House
Ito the Capitol on the occasion of their
Inauguration. And if the American
people in their wisdom should see fit
to elevate the orator Of this occasion.
Senator Foraker, to the position of
President we bespeak the privilege of
.escorting him on the occasion of his
inauguration as we have been allowed
to do with his distinguished predeces-
sors. This may seem a little previous.
but the eager spirit seizes the prompt
opportunity and we bespeak that hon
or in advance"
Evening journal., 1905-06-05
st-RscRrBERs.

Entered At the Wilmington Postomce as
second Class Natter,
Evening journal., 1905-06-05

Booker Washington's theories ara at
a discount among the colored aris-
tocracy in Washington and a pretty
row in Howard University is the result
Of President John Gordon's effort 20
Evening journal., 1905-06-05


The expense account of the Senate
Committee on Interstate Commerce "
a marevl. For six weeks this COM
mittee was in session and approxi-
mately one hundred and fifty witnesses
were examined. and yet the fees for
attendance amounted to only 1892. 90.
The committee offered to pay the act
ual travelling expenses of the witnesses,
including their railroad fare, Pullman
fare and meals en- route, and SO a day
while here. At last accounts only
seven witnesses put in their bills, be-
ing J. II. Call OF Los Angeles Califor-
mia, 1921; W. Z. Ripley, of Boston, S54 +;
f. p. Vining. of Nebraska. $3.50; JOS
eph Bartels, $50; e. p. Bacon. of Mil
waukee, Sill; H. r. Fuller. $500. and
W. A. Hover, of Colorado, S155.
For several years the government
has been preparing by order of Con-
gress, to turn out gold. silver and cop
per coins at Denver, in the very heart
Of the mining region of the great West.
A new government mint will begin
coinage operations there July LIST. A
costly building has been erected: a
large force of employees is being taken
on and great quantities of gold and
silver have been stored there for some
time in anticipation of the commence
ment of actual coinage. This mint in
some respects viii excel all others in
the country. While not so large as
that at Philadelphia, the Denver plant
will have a much more modern equip
ment and every known facility for
handling precious metals.
BY virtue of it's location the Denver
mint will be better able 10 do speedy
work than any of its competitors. II
is in the heart of the richest gold and
silver country in the United States
1t is accessible to business centers
East and West and is sure of a con-
tinuous supply Of material at low cost
Of transportation.
Denver and incidentally the whole
State of Colorado win profit at the ex-
pense of the localities in which mints
are situated. 1t is the opinion of Of
icials of the Mint Bureau in the
Treasury Department that there are
now too many Of these coin mills in the
country. Because Of the decline in
business several hundred employees at
Philadelphia have been either dis
charged or furloughed; many more
have been dismissed at New Orleans
and the force at San Francisco has
been decreased. After the Denver mint
begins active operations there win be
a still further decline in work and
decrease in force at the three older
mints
The business at the New Orleans
"coin factory" has been devoted almost
entirely to silver coinage, and it has
fallen to such low figure that the
mint is being operated at a heavy loss
to the government. If Treasury ofii-
cials could control Congress. the New
Orleans mint would be abolished. As
Director of the Mint Roberts puts il,
"The country is overstocked with coin
age mints.'