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Evening journal., 1908-04-29
The churehvsrd Ysw's Secret.

'Why are yew trees found In ceme-
teries onlyr said a forester. ''Why,
all over the world-saving here, where
they don't exist-do you find In ceme-
teries great yews OF immemorial age7
Antiquaries have tried to attach some
druidic significance to the matter. Yews
grow in churchyards and nowhere else;
hence they were sacred to the dead in
the time Of the Drulds, and 1t was as
erroneous to plant them In your gar
den as to plant tombstones there. /
have exploded that superstition. On q
walking tour Of England one summer l
asked every farmer met why he had
no yews on his place. The answer
was always the same: DO you think ]
want to lose my cattleT or Had one
but cut 1t down. The beasties got at It
and yew leaves is poison to the beast.
les Yes, that Is the secret Of the
churchyard yew. 1t grows only in
cemeteries because the farmers have
destroyed It everywhere else, its leaves
being injurious to live stock. New
Orleans sTimes-Democrat.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
A Judqe's PoetioaI Reoueet.

In Memoirs Of Famous Trials" by
Rev. e. V. Burnaby. is an amusing
story about the late Lord Bowen, "a
brilliant, intellectual and clever Judge"
His lordship wanted a lift to the lord
chancellor's breakfast In 1888 and ad-
dressed the following request to his
old friend, Mr. Justice Mathew:
My Dear ]. c.-wil you be free to car
~ me, beside OF thee. In your buggee to
Selborne's tea. II breakfast he intends for
We, on 2 November next d. ", eighteen
hundred and eighty-three A. D.. for Lady
b., from Cornwall G., will absent be and
says that she would rather see her hus-
band be d dash ID than send to London
her buggee for such melancholy spree
as selborne's toast and Selborne's tear
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
sharp.hootsr. Of ,hs RsvoIutIon.

Sharpshooters Of the Revolution.
As soon as a pioneer boy was big
enough to level a rife he was given
powder and ball to shoot squirrels.
After a little practice he was required
to bring In as many squirrels as he
had received charges under penalty OF
a severe lecture OF even of having his
jacket tanned" At the age Of twelve
the boy became a fort soldier, with
loophole assigned him from which to
fight when the settlers rallied against
an Indian foray. Growing older, he
became a hunter OF deer, elk. buffalo
and bear, skilled In trailing and in
utilizing cover, capable Of enduring
long marches through trackless noun
tain forests. At night he was content
TO curl up in a single blanket beside a
small fire and sleep under the roof Of
heaven. If It rained, In a few minutes
he built him lodge Of bark OF boughs
with no implement but his one pound
tomahawk. Incessant war with the
Indians taught him to be his own gen.
eral, to be ever on the alert, to keep
his head and shoot straight under fire.
Pitted against an enemy who gave no
quarter, but tortured the living and
scalped the dead, he became himself a
stanch fighter who never surrendered.
The wilderness bred men Of iron.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
Why Experiment z

The best is good enough. DAILY
NEWSPAPERS will tell your ad
Vertisins story to all classes, men
and women, rich and poor, young
and old, every day or less often,
at a cost lower than you oouI I
reach any one class through other
means. Tell it where and when
IL would be of most value to you.
NO WASTE, NO LOST MOTION
For details apply to any Daily
Newspaper, any responsible ad
vertisins agency or Secretary,
The Six Point League, Tribuns
Bldg, New York.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
VIII HOLD Annual Dinner.

The Knights OF st. Lawrence will
hold their thirty-fourth annual dinner
this evening in the Irish American Hal.
at Sixth and French street. Several
prominent clergymen of the city, will
be present and speeches will be made by
we'll known members of the order.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29

Does the soap you use
rinse easilyP
Yes7 Then it has at
least one of the qualities
Of a good soap.
Apply this test to
Ivory Soap. Note the
lightness and brightness
of the lather. Note also
how easily it is removed
dip your hands in the
wash-bowl and off comes
the lather.
Ivory Soap
SO 800 Per Cent. Pure.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
Delegates to Church Club Conference.

The Church Club of Delaware has
appointed Congressman Hiram r. Bur-
ton, George A. Elliott, T. Chalyley Hat
ton and Charles r. Miller. delegates to
the sixteenth annual conference OF the
church clubs. Of the United States.
which viii meet at st. Louis on May
& and Z.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29

Mr. and Mrs Wilson Farrow wish
TO extend their thanks to the Edgemoor
Iron Company, the Miller Drug Co., and
boy friends OF Ninth and Poplar streets,
and other friends for the beautiful
flowers so kindly sent in remem brance
the sympathy extended them IN the /,
bereavement
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
BOARD OF TRADE COMMITTEES
TO SEE coUNclLMEN

The members Of the real estate and
the education committee Of the Board
of Trade win visit Councils COMMITTEES
this evening TO present the claims of
the schools Of the city for Increased
appropriations.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, So,
THE STATE OF DELAWARE,
TO THE SHERIFF OF NEW CASTLE
rOITNTY GREETINCl.

THE STATE OF DELAWA AtE, =
TO THE SHERIFF. OF NEW CASTLE
COUNTY. GREETING;
WHEREAS, Emanuel Roth, by
his petition to the Judges OF our
SUPERIOR Court filed in the office
Of the Prothonotary OF said Court
(SEAIO in and for New Castle county. FOR
the cause of complaint therein al
legged. has made application to our
said Judges that a decree may be
pronounced dissolving the mar
riage existing between the petit
TONER and Mollie Roth.
WE, THEREFORE, COMMAND YOU
as YOU were heretofore commanded, that
YOU summon Mollie Roth, that she be and
appear before the Judges Of our said
Court at the next term thereof to be held
at Wilmington. on Monday the First cay
Of June next to answer the allegations OF
the said petitioner. Emanuel Roth accord
ing TO the Act of Assembly in such case
made and provided, and also to do and
receive what the Court shall then and
there consider concerning her in this be-
half as TO the Court shall seem meet and
consistent with the provisions Of the said
Act of Assembly.
And have you then there this writ
WITNESS the Honorable Chas. B. Lore,
at Wilmington, the Seventeenth day OF
April, A. D., nineteent hundred and eight.
FRANK L. SPEAKMAN,
Prothonotary.
ISSUED April %. 1908. a29-m6-1s-2O-27
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
REGISTERS ORDER.

office Of the Register OF wills.
New Castle Co. Del. April 29th. 1908
Upon the application Of Catharine l.
Jackson. Executrix Of William B. Jack
son, late OF Mil Greek hundred IN said
county, deceased. It is ordered and direct
ed by the Register OF wills that the
Executrix aforesaid give notice of grant
ing OF Letters Testamentary upon the
estate Of the deceased. with the date OF
granting thereof by causing ADVERTISE
ments to be posted within forty days from
the date Of such Letters IN six OF the
most public places Of the county Of New
Castle. requiring all persons having de-
mands against the estate to present the
same, or abide by an Act Of Assembly in
such case made and provided; and slso
cause the same TO be inserted within the
same period in The Evening Journal.
newspaper published in Wilmington Del.
and 70 be continued therein three weeks.
te. o. ID
Given under the hand and seal Of
office Of the Register Of Wills.
aforesaid, at Wilmington in New
(SEAL) Castle county aforesaid, the day
and wear above written
FRANCIS NJ WALKER,
Register of Wills.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29

INVEST your time-It Ia
better than to merely SPEND
It. A little Of il INVESTED
every few days in answering
want ads. will often lead -
dividends for life.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
CHANDT FR Undertaken
SnH1NDLLA 6 Embalmer

No. ia W. Ninth street.
Careful attention day OF night
Bodies In Boarding Houses, Hotels
and Hospitals removed and cared for
until claimed. Carriages furnished
Appointments nrst-class. Both Phonen
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
Stock Markets

o'clock quotations from F. D.
Laekey G. Co., Bankers and Brokers,
- Market street, Wilmington, Del.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
NOTICE

Notice fs hereby given that Letters Tes-
tamentarv were in due form Of law grant
ed unto the undersigned. on the Goth day
OF April, A. D., 1908, and that all persons
having claims against the estate OF the
deceased must present the same duly at
tested 10 the said Executrix, on or before
the 9th dav Of April, A. D. 1902 or abide
the Act Of Assembly I'm such case made
and provided.
CATHARINE 7. JACKSON.
Executrix
Address. Mrs Catharine I. Jackson, P. o.
Box No. p. Hockessin, Delaware.
a29-9t-eod
Evening journal., 1908-04-29

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Amer. Sugar. Y Central IoIH
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Can. Southern Pennsylvania I7I
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Evening journal., 1908-04-29
WANT FIREMEN
AT MONTROSE

The fire committee Of the Montrose
Protective ana Improvement Associa-
ton VIII meet tonight at Montrose to
consider the organiation Of a fire COM
pany for the protection Of Montrose
and surrSunding places. 1t is proposed
to buy a two-wheel chemical wagon
or hand chemicals if It is decided 10
form the company. Chief Ward, OF
the Wilmington Fire Department, will
be present to offer suggestions.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29

INVEST your tlme-lt Is
better than to merely SPEND
IL. A little Of il INVESTED
every few days in answering
want ads. will often lead to
8 cents per week or 26o per month.
Evening journal., 1908-04-29

Read THE EVENING JOURNAL
Evening journal., 1908-04-29
Yours truly
60 nf rhanks.

Wilmington. April 2s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
Jud9e NeYman'S Legal Sansa

l In 1907 the Christian Moerlein Brew ing company of Cincinnati applied to pudge Newman of the United States cir. cult court in Georgia for an injunction against the Georgia prohibition law oa the ground of it's unconstitutionality. The application was warmly supported by the brewing interests in general. but after a year of contest it has been thrown out of court altogether.
 Judge Newman, who was appointed by President Cleveland, refused to con- sider the question of constitutionality because the true avenue to the federal courts lies in an appeal from the state supreme court. Attacks upon state laws should first be carried to the state supreme court. This is in effect and purport the decision of the United States supreme court in it's recent Vir- ginia decision.
 "The subject matter of this case" said Judge Newman in the course of his decision, 'is peculiarly for the courts of the state. It concerns the internal policy of the state. The legis- lstion was in pursuance of what was believed to be the proper exercise of tho police power of the state. The grounds of.fhe attack upon the prohibi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
Lookinu to Jeffries.

q wonder what Jeffries will do?" queried a prize fight enthusiast last night after hearing that Jack Johnson had beaten Tommy Burns.
 "Jeffries is the only real champion since the defeats of Sullivan, Corbett and Fitzsimmons. Burns Is not a sports man. He is after the money and doesn't really care what happens just so he gets his hand on the coin.
 Now when Jeffries retired as the un- beaten champion of the world he issued a statement that he would never fight again unless some foreigner wins the belt from America. While the negro Johnson is native of Texas, under the circumstances Jeffries should aban- don his determination and re-enter the ring. In his old form Jefferies could trim Johnston, but he is the only living man who could do the stunt today.
 "The negro is a great fighter. In the first place he has a wonderful physique He has phenomenal strength. He understands the game. As illus trated in yesterdays fight, Burns was no match for him in any respect. But of the purse of ss5,0oo Burns got $So. 900. There is no doubt but that he is htor- oughly satisfied"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
He robs himself that spends a bootIess grief. -Othello.
As the Days Begin to LengtheB

On Tuesday the days began to 1engthen at the rate of about one min ute a day. The sun shines. in other words, one minute longer each day. The interval between sunrise and sun set is now about nine hours and fifteen minutes
 But no hastening of daylight comes as yet to the early riser for the gain in the sunshine time is in the after noon, and this will continue to he the situation until January 12. The truth is. the afternoons have been lengthening at the expense of the mornings ever since December IA.
 It is a popular legend that as the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen. That, however. depends upon Medicine Hat and the weather clerk, and neither is inclined to say what kind of weather January has in store for us. As a general proposition 1t Is Januarys duty to furnish this latitude with just about all the real winter weather that is coming to it. and January is near at hand. There nave been exceptionally cold Febru- aries, notably the one that killed the orange trees in Florida and furnished ice skaters with two days of endowment at East Lake, but that was ten years ago, and nothing approaching it has since put in an appearance. January is our real wintry month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
Costs Of COurtshin

Courtships that go on to happv mar. rlages are never brought into court but a California court has recently tried and determined the expenses of eourtship that resulted in a breach of promise on the part of the youne man In the case. It appears that he was impecunious, and all expenses of court. ship had been borne by the girl in the case and she kept memorandum of all her expenditures. The impecunious fellow tilted the girl, and after the RggrieVed woman had married man better provided with funds she tabu- lated the expenses of the first court. ship. They amounted to a little less than s1oo. She brought suit to recover the amount in question. and judgment was very properly rendered in her favor, and if the young man ever gets the sum of the judgment he will have to pay for the theatre tickets and the like which he had during his days of courtship.
 This, however, opens up the con- verse of the rule. Suppose a girl be hckle-that she breaks off a match after considerable money had been ex- pended in courting her-is she, too. to Joe sued? It would be mean man that would sue under such circumstances but w'at is good-in California-for the goose must be good for the gander The California decision opens up vein of academic possibilities at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Miss Gears Unconventional Part.

Miss Gears Unconventional Part. Miss Florence Gear, who appeared at the Jefferson theatre yesterday afternoon and night, as Mary Montgomery, in the smart musical play, Marrying Mary" talked while in the city about her "bar- barically unconventional" part as news 1 paper recently called it.
 ''Yes," said Miss Gear, fin a way Mary is 'barbarically unconventional, and I am heartily glad of it. You remember what George Eliot makes one of her characters say, It is the unconventional things of life that count after all,' And so l feel about Mary Montgomery It was certainly the unconventional things in her life that counted. And, after all, it's both a lesson and bit of amusement this treatise on divorce that Edwin Milton Royle has given us in his play. One of the purest-minded of men, he saw many years ago the disasters that followed irreconcilable marriages-their subsequent annulments and the general distrust of the public, both young and old, of the system as practiced by our all too rapid American society. And in this brilliant little satire of his he has been so di- rect with his cleverness, so biting with his carcasm, and so delightfully."- human with his fun-makng you are bound to catch his message with his humor and laugh at his pleasantres while you acknowl- edge the truth of his logic. Mary Mont gomery, thrice married and thrice di- vorced, and with three would-be future husbands dangling at her heels would seem to have no ordinary situations to make much of, no commonplaces of senti- ment to confound her striking personal ity and unique ideas of life and it's re- responsibilities. No, 1 am delighted that the critic referred to was keen enough to see the unconventionality in the part and bril- liant enough to call it 'barbaric' "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
Pig Iron Output This Year

The total production in this country this year is put at 16,8S7 900 tons, or 116,S46 tons more than the production of 1904. The production of 1907 was 26,202,985 tons, the largest in the coun- try's history. Large as it was, it did not meet home demands, and 564, ,S46 tons of pig iron and 190,503 tons of other forms were imported, some com ing from far-away China. All things considered, this years production is a satisfactory outcome, and it points to handsomer figures in the coming year.
 The output of furnaces in this dis trict will probably be about 100000 tons as against 1,6S6,674 tons in 1907. The decrease will not be 10 per cent, and this is certainly doing pretty well in a year of depression following a severe panic. In 1907 Alabama was fifth in rank among the iron-producing states, and this year she is outranked by Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois only. We have outproduced New York, which held last year fourth place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
ANTIQUITY OF THE DOLL.
Outing Magazine.

From the OuLinB MaBdZlne-
 Who played with the first doll? How was 1t fashioned? When and where was it born? are questions easily asked but not so easily answered.
 We must search the archives of the past, we must go to buried Egypt, to pagan Rome, to India, the wonderland of the world. As far back as documentary evidence or legend or myth will carry us we find dolls; no recorded history goes back to the time when there were no dolls
 They are found in the sanctuary of the pagan, in the tombs of the dead; pictured in quaint and sometimes awk- ward lines in plaster and stone that have withstood the clements for thousands of years.
 Since time was they have been, ap- parently the presiding deity of the hearthstone and the cradle. Most people would subscribe to the popular theory that the mother impulse is so strong In every child that she must have some object upon which to lavish, her child ish affection and that the most natural object is a doll built on somewhat tho same lines as the baby brother or sis ter or some of the grown ups'' of tine family.
 I have gathered the opinions of var ious early and classic writers. all of which seem to me to point to the fact that the doll, as the image of a human or superhuman creature was first used, as so many other articles and customs were, in religious ceremonies, probably in India, perhaps in Egypt, possibly in China.
 That dolls were common in the time of Moses is certain for we read that in those sarcophagi, which are frequently exhumed in Egypt, there have been found beside the poor little mummies pathetically comical little limitations of themselves, placed there by loving mothers, within reach of the cold little baby fingers.
 In Ave Roma Immortalis," Marion Crawford speaks of childrens dolls of centuries ago, "made of rags and stuffed with the waste from their mothers spin dles and looms' He also tells of effigies of bullrushes, which the pontiffs and yestals came to throw into the Tiber from the Sublician bridge on the Ides of May.
 When Herculaneum was being exca- vated there was found the figure of little girl with a doll clasped in her arms so tightly that not event death could divide them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
AN ECCENTRIC RUSSIAN DOCTOR.

From the London Standard.
 The famous Russian, Dr. Zaharin, who has died in Moscow and left over f2O0,- 900, was noted for his eccentric methods When summoned to attend Czar Alexan- der III in his last illness, pr. Zaharin required the same preparation for his visit to the palace as to any of his patients houses. That is to say, all dogs had to be kept out of the way, all clocks stopped, and every door thrown wide open. He left his furs in the hall, his oyercoat in the next room, his goloshes in the third, and continuing, arrived at the bedside in ordinary in- door costume. He sat down after walk ing every few yards. and every eight steps in going upstairs. From the patients relatives and every one else in the house he required absolute silence until he spoke to them, when his questions had to be answered by "Yes" or "No," and nothing more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26
Soda Jerker's Troubles.

watch this old fellow try to get out of paying for his drink said a young soda jerker in local soda fountain yes terday afternoon. He comes in here reg ularly and about two-thirds of the time makes some kind of attempt to keep from paying. If he was poor there might be reputed to be worth several hundred thou sands of dollars, I don't understand his action. He stood me up several times when first came to work here but am wise to him now. His greatest trick is engaging the jerker in conversation, crack a joke and walk off while the jerker is alighting. You may bet he won't do me that way any more."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-26

ton act mainly stressed in argument are that it was yiolatiYe of the consti- tuition of the state of Georgia, and the grounds specially and strongly urged are that the title of the bill stated two subjects matter, and that the journal of the senate fails to show that it was passed by the requisite constitutional vote of that body. The most important of these two questions is the failure of the journal to show the passage of the bill by a constitutional majority when it came back from the house to the senate, and, as determining this, what is the final passage of a bill in the Georgia legislature. This is essen tially matter for the courts of the state and ultimately for the supreme court of the state.9
 Judge Newman went on to say that any contention as to the constitutions ality of the Georgia law can be heard through a writ of error from the su- preme court of the state to the United States supreme court. This would re- store order as between the states and the federal government, but, alas, every state is not equipped with Judge New mans. The United States suprems court may, however. bring order out of disorder by reversing all unwar- ranted assumptions of judicial power