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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-10-10
REV. A. S. MowBRAy RECEIVES CALL.
Asked to Beeomd the President of the Uuiver.
sity Of the Pacific, San Jose, California.

NSfH~e ~ c~Sohso VIZ VI tuS OutFNts
silly of the Pacific, San Jose, California.
Rev. DIR. A. S. Mowbray, presiding
elder of the Wilmington district of the
Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference, has received an offer to become
president of the University of the
Pacific, Methodist institution at San
Jose, CAL, at salary of 81, 800 year,
He has written to the authorities of
the university for more definite infor-
nation, and will not reach a decision
until he again hears from them. He
is one of the best known clergymen in
the conference. His territory EN-,
braces the upper part of Delaware, in.
Guiding Wilmington and Cecil County,
Md.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-10-10
DR.. Watt Invited to Return to Smyrna.

AT the meeting of the official board
of Asbury M. E. Church last Wednes-
day. Rev. DIR. Robert Watt pastor of
the church was invited to return for
the fourth year, DIR. Watt accepted
with few happy remarks
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-10-10
KENT SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
viii Meet at Barrett's Chapel Next Friday
Fine Program Arranged.

The Kent County Sunday School
Convention will be held at Barrett's
Chapel, on Friday October 10. Friends
are invited to bring their lunch, as
services will be held morning, after
noon and evening. Those who where
present last year, were so much pleased
with the convention that it is the in
tention to make it an annual affair.
Among the speakers will be George
Hearn, of FELTON,; M. l.. Hydorn and
Miss Florence Burke, of Magnolia,
and many others.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
Politaness-

Children are the real humorists.
They never rack their brains to say
something funny. Here is a small
boys ingenious composition" on DO
likeness: Never eat quickly, or you
might get bones in your throat. Ny
father knows of a boy who got killed
over his Sunday dinner. The greedy
boy was picking rabbits head in a
hurry, and swallowed one jaw of it,
and my father says he was choked to
death there and then. Be very polite
over your meals, then. especially
when it's rabbits. Since my father
told me that, have always felt rather
queer over rabbit dinner. l don't
talk much, and don't ask for any
more" A definition that won a little
girl praise, despite it's strangeness,
was Turf, sir, is grass and clean dirt
stuck together by God"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

cOstlieSt wines, the daintiest dollhouse
fruits and the rarest flowers were lib
orally provided. The walters wore
colonial costumes with powdered wigs,
| and the souvenirs were silver card
cases. Previous to this, however, Mr..
| Corey had emulated other Pittsburg
rich men by figuring in a swimming
party of which Miss Maybelle Gilman,
an actress, was a member. The party
| took place at the Pittsburg natatorium.
There were hot birds and cold bottles
| and some very pretty exhibitions of
plain and fancy swimming.
| At this party an infatuation for Miss
Gilman is said to have sprung up on
| the part of the millionaire. An es-
arrangement took place between Mr..
and Mrs. Corey supposedly on account
of Miss Gilman, and at present Mrs
Corey is in the west, where she is re-
siding with view to securing a. di-
vorce.
During the course of business in
Pittsburg Andrew Carnegie trans
| formed Gibson D. Packer from a poor
man into millionaire. Mr.. Packer
did not miss his chance to get before
the public. Mrs. Mary 1. Vetter, armed,
| it is said, with 40 love letters, pre-
pared to sue Mr.. Packer for $100, 900 for
breach of promise. There were many
pledges of affection in the shape of
jewelry.
/ Contemporaneously with the Thaw
| murder Mrs. Scott Hartje, the wife of
Augustus Hartje, Pittsburg millionaire
paper manufacturer, has begun suit
against her husband for divorce. Mrs.
Hartje says that her husband wore
paper collars for years; that he would
buy a $500 horse over the telephone
| and the next minute refuse Mrs.
Hartje's request for three dollars for a
pair of shoes. Some of the charges of
both Mr.. and Mrs. Hartje cannot be
printed here. =
Frank Galley, nephew of John H.
Galley, partner of Col. James McGuffey,
the millionaire oil producer, of Pitts
burg, distinguished himself by com
hitting burglary.
The suicide of young T. orc. Jones.
the only SON of the millionaire steel
man of Pittsburg, few weeks ago, fit
tingly rounds out the record OF the
young Smoky City high rollers. He
had lost his mind because of his love
for his first cousin, charming Pitts
burg girl. He killed himself when she
married another.
This almost exhausts the crop Of
Pittsburg's gilded youths, but there Is
a new crowd growing up. They are al
yet In knickerbockers.
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British Mineral Statistics.

The total production of coal in
Great Britain in 1905 amounted to
236,12S,9c6 gross tons, as compared
with 232,42S,272 tons in 1904, an in
crease of 3,700,664 tons. Of the pro
duction in 1905 236,111, $50 tons were
obtained under the coal mines act and
1876 tons from quarries. The pro-
duction in 1905 was the largest in the
history of the United Kingdom. In
1905 Great Britain also produced a.
590,731 tons of iron ore, against 49,
774,2S2 tons in 1904, an increase of
S16,449 tons. OF the total production
in 1905 7,SGO,969 tons were mined I'M
der the coal mines act, 1,76S, 307 tons
under the metalliferous mines act,
and 4,961,455 tons from quarries. The
production in 1905 was greater than
in any year since 1885, when 15,417,-
9S2 tons were mined. The maximum
production of iron ore was reached
in 1882, when the output amounted to
1S,031,957 tons. All the statistics
given above are official and are taken
from the British Blue Book.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

divorce, which began a month later
upon their arrival in this city he left
his bride in his room with Mr.. Kellogg
while he went downstairs to look after
some baggage. He was detained fo1
some time. On his return he found the
door locked, and when it was finally
opened Mr.. Kellogg's shirt front was
stained with the violets which Mrs.
Clarke wore as a corsage bouquet
That settled it. Mr.. Clarke waxed
wroth and left his bride.
Mrs. Clarke afterward sued for and
obtained divorce, after which she be-
came the wife of L. T. Whitehead, of
Erie, Pa. Mr. Clark then married a
Miss Katherine Willoughby, of St
Augustine, Fla, thus closing another
chapter of Pittsburg millionaire sensa-
tionalisp.
Career of A. r. Peacock.
Mr.. Alexander Rowland Peacock is
another Smoky City candidate for
fame. Mr.. Peacock is worth many mil
lions of dollars. When he came to
New York he evidently made up his
mind to live up to the traditions and
habits of the lively Pittsburgers who
had preceded him. To perpetuate his
name he had $4,000 peacock made
of genuine diamonds, sapphires and
emeralds and gave it to his wife. He
also had peacock put on the livery OF
his servants.
When some Englishmen sent over
$50, 900 to back Shamrock II. Mr.. Pea
cock headed a syndicate who covered
it with s250,000. He played in a poker
game on the steamship Deutschland in
which 100000 changed hands. Pea
cock won, although there were nine
other Pittsburg millionaires at times
i'll the game. There was a $50 900 jack
pot.
They tell how when Mrs. Carnegie
was buying her wedding trousseau in
this city years ago she was waited
upon by handsome young saleswom-
an to whom she told her secret.
I'm to be married, too," confessed
the young woman. "That is my in.
tended over Therein. Peacock"
That's a Scotch name" said the
future Mrs. Carnegie. Where does he
come from?"
From Du,lfermline, ma'am,'' replied
the salesgirl. Andrew Carnegie
learned about the incident, and in due
time the ironmaster brought Peacock
to Pittsbsrg and made the fioorwalkel
millionaire.
At the Waldorf one morning Mr.
Peacock was discovered scribbling on {
sheet of paper in the writing-room. A
friend asked him what he was doing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

New York.-Now that the crime of
murdee has been added to the eccen-
trio doings of the dozen or more Pitts
burg millionaires, it rs probable that
the limit of their capacity for sensa-
tionalism has been reached.
Remarkable divorces, remarriages,,
breaches of promise, alimony and
chorus girls have hitherto been Or
binary features of their lives. They
seem to have become rich so suddenly
that they have lost their heads. Never
before, however, has any one of them
been accused of murder.
Years before Harry Thaw ever heard
of Evelyn Nesbit or Stanford White he
was eccentric to the verge of crazi-
ness. He was known as a cigarette
fiend, heavy absinthe drinker, an ad-
mirer of chorus girls and a reckless
spendthrift. He gave dinners costing
tens of thousands of dollars, and like
the general run of Pittsburg million
aires he always had one or more "af-
fairs" on hand with women of the foot
lights.
1t is strange fact that chorus girls
and actresses seem to appeal to the
Pittsburg millionaire past all power of
resistance. Four of them who have
made New York their home during the
past few years, and whose wealth
amounts to $5O,OO0,OOO in the aggre-
gate, have become infatuated with stage
beauties more or less widely known
throughout the country, according to
the World of that city.
Three of them have married ac-
tresses, and the infatuation of the
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Harry K. Thav the Only One of Gay
Crowd That Has Essayed the NoUel
Sensation of Murder, But All Haze
Sought in Startling Manner to Dis
sipate the Millions Too Easily
Earned Marriage, DiUorce and
Ren1arriage Too Common to Be
Worthy of More Than Slight Com
n1ent.

ly limitless funds, with which the
young man proceeded to cut wide
Swath. He was handsome, dapper and
fastidious, with the red and white COM
plexion of a healthy girl. Soon after
leaving college he married Miss SUIT
ton, from whom he separated a year
or two afterward, giving her $780, 900
outright in lieu of alimony.
In Mrs. McKee's allegations against
her husband she testified that he was
not with her much during the two
years of their married life, and that he
became more neglectful as time pro-
ceeded. Finally Mrs. Mckee left him,
lowing to his entire neglect She
made affidavit that he cut off her per-
sonal allowance and household allow
ance and put at the head of the house
hold a butler, who was Objectionable
and very insolent, and over whom she
had no control. He was given the
money to pay the servants, and was
empowered to hire and discharge them
Mrs. Mckee protested, but was told
that she had no power to discharge
him.
Mckee became acquainted with Mrs.
Genevieve Phipps, the wife of Law
renee Phipps, another Pittsburg mil
lionaire, then living in Denver. Nc
Kee and Mrs. Phipps were frequently
seen together, and an estrangement
sprang up between Mr. Phipps and his
wife. The breach gradually widened.
and Mr.. Phipps brought suit for di-
vorce, naming Hart Mckee as CO.
respondent. Pittsburg society was
disrupted by the news, and the Nc
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
The Barber County Index
MEDICINE LODGE, KAN.
PAINTER & HERR. Publishers
The Positive Life.

DR.. L. H. Gulick, writing about the
best way to keep in health in the
Worlds Work, says: THE real heart
Of the problem is psychological. We
are just beginning to understand the
part that good thinking holds in good
health. Our thoughts are just as real
a part of us are our bodies. A man
who persists in thinking unhealthy
thoughts can no more keep sound and
healthy in body than a man who vio-
lates all the physical laws of his ma
ture. A mans mental attitude is
fundamental. 1t is a well-known fact
that the number of deaths in an army
defeated and on the retreat is enor-
\aously greater than in an army upon
Q victorious march. The mental atti-
tude Of defeat, of encouragement, low
ers the resisting power of the indi
Vfdual. 1t predisposes him to disease.
The whole tone of his system is let
down. The aggressive, the positive,
the confident state of mind is the one
that wins out over obstacles. The
man who keeps on the defensive all
the time, dreading danger, fighting
against bad influences, avoiding dis
ease, not only wastes an enormous
amount of energy, but also lessons his
own chances. 1t is not the defensive
but the aggressive attitude that pro-
tects man. The normal way, the
efficient way, is to turn ones thoughts
to something worth while, to fill the
mind with healthy thoughts. This is
sound psychology. You can't drag
thing out Of the mind; but it will go
Of itself if you put something else in
its place. A determined pursuit of
good thoughts, of healthy thoughts, is
the only means of getting rid of the
other kind"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
Inherited Memories"

In an English magazine is a story
of what the writer calls inherited
memories" told by the owner of the
ruins of an old Roman fortress in
England. A clergyman came to see
the ruins and claimed to have dis
tinct recollection of living there, in
some priestly Office (evidently it ran
in his family'), in Roman times. He
asked to see an old tower that had
tumbled down, saying there was in
Roman days a socket in the top of it
wherein the defenders planted a mast
and hauled to the top basket pro-
tected with leather, in which were
archers who from the top could pick
on leaders of besieging foes. Then,
said the owner, I'VE made diligent
search and found the stone socket he
described, thing none Of us had ever
seem" This is not romance, but is
told as fact which the writer wants
people to believe. If the new govern
ment in England has not yet filled the
office of fool-killer it must be that the
incumbent is open to graft.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

"Oh, my wife at breakfast ust now
insisted that 1 was worth SO ,000, 900.
think it is only $1,000. 900. She is
usually right, but can't find the other
$4,000, 900 this morning"
Married Mothers Maid.
John. Aston Moorhead is one of the
latest. He was a heavy man on the
Yale football team and also pulled in
the crew. He never did anything else
to deserve particular distinction. Only
few weeks ago he eloped with his
mothers French maid. They have
not been entirely forgiven yet, but it
is understood that John Aston is be-
ing treated in New York sanitarium,
his father paying the bills, and it is
said the little French maid is crying
her way back to sunny France, well
paid, if cash can make it good, but
with her foolish little heart broken.
More recently the limelight of noto-
riety has been turned upon W. E.
Corey, one of the best known of the
Carnegie group of Pittsburg million
aires He dawned upon New York sew
eral years ago on a special train con-
sisting of one dining car, four sleeping
cars and two baggage cars, which car
ried the entire Office forces of the Ma
tional Steel company ana the, National
Hoop company. In the baggage cars
were so trunks filed with ledgers and
account books and II typewriter girls
who took down dictation as the train
rolled along.
Corey's Lurid Exploits.
Some time afterward Mr. Corey gave
Mr.. Schwab a Lucullian feast. The
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eccentric young man had become en-
thralled with Mrs. Hugh Tevis, who
few years previous had been wed
and widowed within six weeks.
Mrs. Tevis and Mr.. Mckee sailed
away to Europe on the same steamer,
and shortly afterward were married.
Things were rather dull in the Pitts
burg colony for awhile until Mrs.
Phipps went out to Denver, where the
divorce case was brewing.
Mrs. Phipps began contest for the
possession of the children, but event
ually terms were reached under which
a divorce was granted on the ground
of desertion. Then almost before their
friends had ceased talking about their
case Mr.. and Mrs. Phipps made up,
and it is said that they will be re-
married. This seems to have finished
the calendar of sensations as far as the
Phipps and Mckee millionaires are
concerned.
Another Pittsburg millionaire who
had varied and noteworthy career
was James King Clarke, known to his
friends as Jamie
Young Clarke inherited a part of
the millions of his father, Charles J.
Clarke, Of Pittsburg. He was in the
habit Of spending a part Of his time
in Washington, and it was there that
he met Miss Esther Bartlett. They
were married on April &c, 1892. in
Washington, and with the best man,
Macintosh Kellogg, journeyed to New
York, where they took rooms at one
of the big hotels.
AS related by Clarke in the suit for
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

On enc OF his expeditions into GEN.
trai Africa Prof. Drummond found
himself among cannibals, who cast
longing eyes on his person. It be-
came necessary to make an impression.
SO Drnmmond produced a powerful
magnifying glass. and after an elo-
quent exordium called down fire from
heaven by setting fire to some grass
by concentrating the rays of the sun
through the glass. After this the ma
tives had no appetite for a white ma
sician and Drummond went on his
way rejoicing. laden with native of.
ferings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

Tive prize fighters have received ia.
tai injuries in the ring within the past
six months. The old claim that prize
fighting isn't as dangerous as foot
ball may have to be modified if the
fighters do not exercise greater care.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
Here Is an optimist.

Morris Young said he was glad they
got Linn to play at the dance He got
to see all the pretty girls, if he didn't
get to dance with them.-Sequache
(Tenn.J News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
One Apology Not Made.

When a woman has company, says
Maj. Conway. she will apologize for
everything about the table except the
man she picked out to sit at its head.
Kansas City Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

Count Boni does not seem to be an,
more of a success as politician thai
be is husband.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

Now that the commencements are
over the graduates will begin real
Life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

fourth for beauty of the footlight is
being used against him in divorce pro-
ceedings. Although Harry Thaw was
probably the widest among the Pitts
burg high rollers who have sowed in
the wild winds of the Tenderloin,
young Hart Mckee was almost as well
known. but in different way.
Forgot Marital Obligations.
His father. E. Sellers Mckee, a null
ti-millionaire glass manufacturer of
Pittsburg. supplied him with practical
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08

Kidnapped His Children.
Following the return of Mrs. Phipps
to slis country, her two little children
were forcibly taken from the Waldorf
Astoria by Mr.. Phipps and hurried
away to Denver, where he had resided
for some time. 1t was openly stated
that when the divorce proceedings
were over Mrs Phipps would marry
Hart Mckee. but in the meantime that
Evening journal., 1906-10-23
WANTED
SOME SUNSHINE
Everybody Tired Of Rain But
No Relief is in
Sight
No relief in slght


such. briefly is the declaration OF the
gentleman who has charge Of the
Weather Bureau. He would make no
encouraging prediction to-day. and the
most optimistic expression from his
lips was: "The weather is like people
when it once starts on a course It Is
liable to keep it up, but still it might
change tomorrow, not to-day
The forecast for tonight is cloudy
weather, and probably more rain to-
morrow The weather man would not
commit himself in regard to what may
happen on Wednesday. The downpour
and the clouds that have been hover
ing over this section almost continuous
" since last Thursday have their ORR
gin in the storms that swept the Flor
ida coast last week and moved slowly
off. 1t was on the Carolina coast on
Friday and Saturday, he says and
Delaware got, and is still getting, the
tail-end Of it. There was, however, he
asserted. no particular storm condition
this morning. The humidity is very
great, and is due to the rain. Rain in
such quantities. he declared always
produced humidity.
Everybody is talking about the
weather and everybody is looking for
ward to a change for the better. II has
had a depressing effect on the spirits OF
people and has been a drawback tC
business.
Many persons whose duties do not
compel them to come out are keeping
within doors, and colds are prevalent
and plentiful. Some cases are reported
OF that old-time enemy to health and
spirits, the grip. and that tired feel
ing" is very general Overcoats thai
were brought out with the cold snaI
early last week have been returned tc
the hall hat rack, and the winter fian.
nels that were rescued from the mott
balls are oppressive.
The weather is gloomy and a chang'
to sunshine and crisp air will be wei.
come.
Evening journal., 1906-10-23
JASON LEADS IN
NEGRO REFORM
Special to The Evening Journal.

DOVER, oct. 23.-The convention Of
Afro-American citizens Of Delaware to
bring about reform in-the citizenship
of that race, was a big success. The
Opera House was full of prominent ne
groes from all over the State. Motion
succeeded motion in rapid-fire order.
Permanent reorganization was ef-
fected by the elections Of these officers:
President, w. c. Jason, Dover; vice
president, DR.. s. G. Elbert, Wilmington;
secretary. w. H. Ennis, Delaware City;
assistant secretary, G. L. Waters, Sus-
sex county; treasurer, John w. Thomp-
son, Kent county. Other vice-presi-
dents are: ]. H. Nutter, rural New
Castle; w. c. Potts Kent county; d.
II. Ridout, Sussex county.
Temporary Chairman B. 7. Moore,
presenting President Jason, said: May
God bless you evere for the work you
are engaged in and use you and this
splendid organization as the means OF
uplifting the citizenship Of this little
State. which we have grown up in and
love-"
Evening journal., 1906-10-23
Wife BEATS
GIRL RIVAL

NEW HAVEN, Conn. oct. 2s.-In a sec.
ond floor bed room. in No. III Meadow
street, Mrs. Frances Case. OF No. g&
Ffty-hrst street. Brooklyn. administered
such punishment to a young woman
whom she accuses Of being too friendly
with her husband William L. Case. that
he young woman sought to escape by
jumping from an open window. Although
Mrs. Case had knocked out two OF her
rivals teeth. she sought to refrain the
laiter from leaping and IN so doing tore
her clothing TO shreds. The young woman
fell into an areaway. where detectives
found her and sent her to a hospital.
where her injuries are said to be serious
Case was arrested later on a warran;
charging him technically win ncn-sup
port.
In the hospital the injured woman said
she Is unmarried. and that her name is
'Wurden." She told the hospital attend
ants she regretted that the leap from the
window did not kill her.