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Evening journal., 1909-06-30
THE TOOTHSOME MUSKRAT

According to Fur News the trappers Of
the eastern shore of Maryland will receive
nearly $4,000 this season for muskrat
skins. I'm Dorchester county a'one," It
says, "trappers have been paid 100000 for
this seasons pelts. to say nothing Of what
they received from the sale of the meat.
this alone more than paying the rental
Of the marshes the cost Of the traps and
the expenses Of looking after them.
zone fur buyer Of Hooper's Island. in
lower Dorchester. has paid out $4,000 for
muskrat hides this season. while others
have bought almost as heavily. The prices
offered by buyers this season ranged
from 30 to rs cents a hide, the hide from
the kitten or young rat, which had here
tofore been considered almost worthless,
bringing the former price.
''rhe big black rat commanded the top
OF the market always. the black fur be-
ing considered the finest as well as the
most durable. The fur of the brown rat
is less valuable because of the color and
coarseness OF the hair. 1t generally brings
from Is cents to % cents less than the
fur of the black rat.
There are few sections of the United
States where the meat OF the muslSrat
is used as a food as it Is here on the East
ern Shore Of Maryland. In many sections
OF the country the little rodent is looked
upon with dsdain by those who claim to
know good thing when they see It, but
when they talk of il as being an uncleau
animal and unfit for the stomach of man
Il only goes to show how little they know
of this. the cleanest of all animals that
live.
''The great majority Of people are
prejudiced against the muskrat because
IT bears the name Of rat BY any other
name it would eagerly be sought after by
epicures The roots and herbs of the
marshes. on, which alone It subslsts, are
thoroughly scrubbed by the little animal
before It will allow them to come on its
table
''The house in which It lives. made OF
the marsh grasses and towering above
the high water mark. is always as dry as
a powder magazine and spotlessly clean
so there is nothing about the much de.
spised rat of the great marshes to make
II other than what il really Is, the clean
est and most toothsome little,animal that
can be cooked up and served.
"At all the leading restaurants on The
Eastern Shore the muskrat in season
takes the leading role at midnight sup
pers. The muslrat industry Of the Mary.
land peninsula bids fair to overstep tn,
oyster industry. and It is certain that
there was more clear money made by ths
trappers in lower Dorchester this season
than by the oystermen"
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
DOLLAR A MONTH
ENOUGH FOR FOOD

BOSTON. June sO.-One dollar a
month is all that is necessary for food.
according to experiments conducted
by the Gluten Club Of Amherst Col
iege students which have just been
completed. Even DIR. Horace Fletcher
could not reduce the cost Of living be-
low 80 cents day.
Lawrence Roberts of Utica, N. Y. is
responsible for the experiments. which
have been conducted by 12 students.
The diet consisted of gluten, mixed
with water and cooked in many dif-
ferent styles. Sometimes they enrich
ed the gluten preparations with milk.
There were gluten cakes soup Of
gluten, water. onions and beef bone
marrow, gluten potato mash and sweet
gluten cakes. scrambled eggs, coffee.
Ice cream. gluten bread, gluten tortoni
and steak cooked in gluten crumbs.
with many other fancy dishes added.
the expenses averaging about 1-2
cents a day a man.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
MOST OF Us SlSSIES,
SAYS A SHAW -HATER

NEW YORK, June 30.-Alexander
Harvey. associate editor of Current
Literature and on occasion a brilliant
lecture before the George Bernard
Shaw fellowship last night
He attacked the object Of the fellow
ships alteration. saying that Bernard
Shaw is a sissy; in other words.
mollycoddle, who prefers vegetables to
meat. Mr. Harvey included Arthur
Twining Hadley. president of Yale, in
that class, as well as most OF the
men who make up the faculties Of our
colleges and 60 per cent. of the men
they graduate.
The women who make up an Ibsen
cult, Shaw cult or any other cult felt
the keen edge of Mr.. Harvey's dis
pleasure.
Said Mr.. Harvey in part:
George Bernard Shaw is the great
est sissy of our day and generation.
Our college faculties. the Socialist
party, etc. are made up of sissies. There
seems to be nowadays a horror of any
thing virile.
Therefore, it is impossible to be a
sissy and escape success. Shaw has
attacked marriage. on the principle
that nothing which is good. and the
small coin Of his intellect rings true
10 the half-baked, educated mind.
Down from Vassar and the Continent
come hundreds Of young women who
dote on his grotesquely immoral
screams. So If you want to lead a
woman astray, have her read Shaw"
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
A HErTY BABE.

A lot Of fuss was made over the
birth Of a princess to the royal house
OF Holland.
News dispatches ten how the heralds,
accompanied by trumpeters clad in the
ancient Dutch dress, made the rounds
Of the ancient city, halting in the prin-
cipal squares, and then, after a fiourish
of the trumpets, made this proclama-
ton:
Fellow Citizens-With great joy we
announce the news that her majesty
by the grace Of God has been delivered
of a princess. Long live the queenl
Long live the Princess Of Orangew
SO anxious were the people over the
announced advent OF an heir to the
throne Of the Netherlands it is said
few Hollanders slept that night
Why so much anxiety over one childl
But
When one realizes that the birth OF
no child to the queen, who married
Prince Henry in 1901, would have
passed the throne at her death to a
German prince that is different.
The Germans understood the signi.
Gcance Of the birth Of this baby. And
when the representatives of the Ger.
man emperor conveyed to Queen VIII.
helmina the assurances of Germany's
well wishes over the birth OF the child
It was purely formal and without any
heart in the words.
Germany is Just as anxious for the
control Of the mouth Of the river Rhine
as were we Americans in an early day
for the control OF the mouth OF the
Mississippi
The Germans note with envy how
the prosperous Dutch cities OF Amster.
dam and Rotterdam fatten commercial.
ly on the enormous traffic originating
on the Rhine river
And they keenly realize that If Queen
Wilhelmina should die childless her
nearest kin on the fathers side would
be a German prince. And he would be
king of the Netherlands.
And
On their side the Dutch fear absorp-
tion by Germany. They are afraid OF
the heavy taxes and the military sery-
ice
A literal prophecy faced by the Dutch
on the night Of April 80. 1909, and its
fulnllment was that "a little child
shall lead them"
This royal baby was doubtless Just
as red and Just as ugly as any other
newborn kid and cried as Justify.
Physically that mite OF humanity does
not yet weigh more than ten pounds.
but
Politically and commercially it weighs
A ton
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
FEMININE VICTORY

IT HE peach basket hat has triumphed in
Il Chicago but not until after contest The
young women students OF the Chicago Normal
School have found that the lockers in the build
ing are much too small. They will not hold
the new style hat unless the hat is jamned in
sidewise and that would never DO SO the arch
tect announced to the Board Of Education that
an enlargement must be made and $I4oo will
be spent to convert every three lockers into two
so that the hats may be properly cared for.
There was some objection one member say
ing that the style of hats, he had been informed,
would change during the next three months and
the present lockers would then be able to hold
the women's headgear. But his protest had no
effect and the hats
Large hats are popular in Chicago. At the
recent session of the Legislature an attempt was
made TO regulate the size of hats and the length
OF hat pins but without success. Thus doth
fashion triumph over everything and fair woman
gets what she wants. The school authorities
should have known better than to attempt to fix
the size of the hats worn by the girl students.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
WEARY OF life
KILLS HIMSELF
While Visiting Brother
Charles ". Hill Fires Re-
solve Ball into his Brain

1T might sound funny TO you but have
nothing to live for. the way / now feel, p
said Charles w. Hill. aged AZ years. OF
Folsom. Delaware county, Pa, about /
o'clock this afternoon to his brother
Harry W. Hill. at the latter's home No.
elg Poplar street,
Although Harry did not think seriously
of what his brother had said, he spoke to
his brother in an effort to make him looV
the better side Of life.
Leaving the room few minutes, thu
brother heard the report of a revolver ane
running back TO where he had left hi
brother sitting on an organ stool. he fouri.
the man writhng on the floor with bloc
flowing from his mouth.
A 32-calibre revolver was clutched in II
mans hands and 1t was with difficult
that Patrolman Michael Maloney, VIII
appeared on the scene shortly afterwar
secured the weapon.
Drs. Thomas Cook and II. G. Buckma
ter were-summoned and on examining Il
man pronounced him dead.
Hill had placed the muz.e Of the sevolv'
in his mouth and pulled the trigger Tt
buUet passed through his brain.
The man was an operator in the emplol
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. III
widow is ticket agent on the same railroad
at Folsom.
Hi weighed more than 200 pounds anS
was a fine looking man. His brother saiC
to-day that Charles had been sufferer
from stomach trouble for five years anc
had acted strangely Of late. He had beer
in a highly nervous state for severa
weeks
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
TRANSFORMATION M.

VATHEN Congress assembled in special ses-
w sion it was expected that new tariff
bill would be speedily enacted, and the law
makers would not be held in Washington for
any considerable time. The House acted
promptly and bill was soon prepared. But it
was found that the House really had little say
in the matter When the bill left the House it
was turned over to the tender mercies of the
Senate and every one knows what has fol-
lowed.
Many persons would have preferred that the
Dingley tariff should be left standing until the
next session of Congress if they had thought that
such a snarl as has developed would follow in
the Senate About the time that it was supposed
the bill was being finished in the Senate a conf
plication arose by the sending of a special Pres
idential message advocating the tax on corpora
tons
This it has well been said is the most drastic
measure ever suggested in Congress- Naturally
much opposition has sprung up to it. 1t is said
BY Senator I.aFolette and others that President
Taft came to the rescue OF Mr.. Aldrch because
he feared that unless some such measure as the
corporation bill was proposed the Senate would
adopt an income tax amendment and such
amendment the supporters of the President be-
lieved was unconstitutional. But il is probable
that IL the corporation law should be enacted it
would be contested in the highest courts. Some
keen lawyers think that although the amend
ment was prepared by Senator Root it would not
stand the test of the higher courts.
The corporation measure has not received the
support Of any considerable part Of the Repub-
can or any other press OF the country. Com
mercial bodies are protesting against it, and
should it be enacted it will not add to the pop
ularity of Mr. Taft among the business men Of
the country
Most of the objections urged against the in
come tax are applicable to the corporation tax,
for it is nquisitorial in its nature and would set
government agents prying into the affairs of all
corporate business concerns. The TAX would be
more discriminating than an income tax because
The income tax would hit all wealth alike while
the proposed corporation tax strikes only one
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
Wednesday, June 80, 1909
THE TRIUMPH OF MIR. KANE.


II HE Hon. lanes Kane should be satisfied
and his friends should be proud Of him.
Lucky Democratic leader is he. The Repub-
licans put up no candidate against him at the
election, Nand he was chosen to Council with
out opposition. And he is to be the big gun Of
Council He defeated Mr.. McGovern for chair
man of the Finance Committee of Council in
the Democratic caucus by a vote of six to two.
This is really a remarkable majority for Mr.
Kane. 1t shows concusively which faction of
the Democratic party is on top.
Mr.. Kane will be a member OF the Board Of
Assessment, Revision and Appeals, the most
important body of the city government so far
taxation is concerned 1t may be taken fo-
granted that there will be no increase in the
assessment of certain properties of the city.
Ii is surprising TO us that Mr.. McGovern did
not put up a sitter fight for the chairmanship.
That part of the city which Mr.. McGovern rep
resents did heroic work for the Democratic
party al the election. and in fact, the Democrats
owe their victory TO the large majority that was
returned from the Fifth Representative district
Had McGovern and his followers in that district
fallen down evsn the apathy and dissatistac-
ton among the Republicans would not have
saved the Democratic tcket.from defeat.
One Of the papers in reporting the caucus OF
the Democrats which resulted in the victory for
Mr. Kane said that Certain influences made his
victory easy. but Just what those influences were
is not stated" We imagine that the public
service corporation influence was thrown for Mr..
Kane, and this If true accounts for his easy vic
tory.
Mr. Kane's success in Council should make
his wav clear TO a Senatorial nomination for the
lower district but it may be the beginning of a
fierce fight among the Democrats for the control
of that district AT any rate Mr.. Kane has been
enabled to hold his grip in City Council in way
that cannot be disputed
Evening journal., 1909-06-30

Nebraska is one state in which the LEGISLATORS
are not troubled by very serious State debt
The people of that commonwealth are rejoicing
that the last part of the State debt SIoo,ooo VIII
be wiped out when the next pay day rolls around
The debt was paid because the people raised
enough money in taxes to pay the required
amount AT the time the increase in the rate
of taxation was bitterly opposed. and it cost Gov
ernor Sheldon who advocated the higher rate to
pay debts, a reelection But now the sentiment
seems TO be that the Governor was right. Com
munites and states, as we'll as individuals, find
it advantageous to get out of debt, or at least,
Nebraska things
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
Personal and Pertinent

TN a thunder storm you can't he IN a safer place
than a motorcar." said electrician
Its the tires They insuate you With lightning
playing about the tires protect the occupants
car perfectly The occupants safe though they
weren't there
rubber Of the tire and the dry air filling IL form
this insulation. It's mpregnable, and they who fear
the lightning can't do better in thunder storm
order out the car"-Philadephia Bulletin.
Some OF the sufragettes at Washington have flung
to the breezes initiation United States hag the
usual complement stripes but with only
the field upper left hand corner-apparently
on the assumption the States OF Wyoming.
Colorado. Idaho Utah. which have given the fun
suffrage women alone entitled to representation
the national emblem-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
TRIED TO SAW OUT
OF SUSSEX JAIL

srecial to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN. Del. June so.-A plot
TO break Jail was nipped in the bud by
Sheriff Joseph B. West and Deputy Sheriff
John r. Hud on yesterday when they
discovered tn te pieces of corset steel be-
ing made into saws. Within the last two
days sounds of filing have been heard
and yesterday afternoon a systematic
search Of the prisoners and jail was made
when the pieces Of "corset rib" were
found on one of the prisoners. An axami-
nation OF the bars OF the steel cell showed
that they had been trying to saw their
way out with one Of the pieces that had
been made into a rude looking saw.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
SUSSEX WHEAT
UNHURT BY STORM

Special to TIN EVENING JOURNAL
GEORGETOWN. Del. June S0.-Wthin
the last three days as many electrical
storms have passed over this section. In
the storm Monday a pair OF mules we're
killed on the farm Of George Scott, near
by the lightning on the farm of Elmer
Tyndal. near here.
Farmers in this section report that the
wind slightly damaged their apple or
chards. and that the wheat which remains
unthreshed has been but slightly dam
aged. Nearly all the wheat around here
has been cut and threshed.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
TO CONTINUE THE
SUGAR TRUST" PROBE
By IInlted Press I.eased speclal VIC.

NEW YORK, June 30-It was an
nounced to-day at the Office of the
United States District Attorney that
the investigation of the sugar trust"
now on before the Federal grand jury,
will be continued without interruption,
and that witnesses in the case were
under subpoena to appear tomorrow
morning. Despite this fact it is gen.
orally understood that there is little
prospect for a successful prosecution
of the sugar trust" The evidence
so far presented embraces practically
every phase Of the transactions where
by the trust closed down the plant of
the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Com
pany but the Federal authorities seem
satisfied that this will not support in
dictments.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30

Editor THE EVENING JOURNAL:
was much interested in your editorial
on Conduct of Rural Schools in last
evenings paper. Why not give all
women a vote at school elections on
the same terms as men? In canvass
ing this district to get the tax-paying
women TO vote, it was found that the
voters were mostly grandmothers and
unmarried women, not. one woman
who had children in the school was
entitled to vote. A woman with prop
erty can educate her children where
she wishes It is the women without
property who are dependent on the
public schools.
Martha S. Cranston.
Newport, Del, June ~.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
B OtaniC
Worm Syrup

I as the name denotes. is COM
| posed exclusively OF vegetable in
/ gradients. and as it has been
used for many .'ears with the
/ greatest success, we can Justly
claim there Is nothing superior
to II as a safe. agreeable and
most effective remedy for re-
moving worms from the alimen-
tary canal, both for children and
for adults.
Seat or pin worms are much
more difficult to remove by an
| internal remedy than the larger
round worms. bu, for the COM
bined purpose of expellinS either
or both. this syrup has no equal.
1t is sold on a guarantee to do
as claimed and Miller Drug Co.
win refund the purchase price II
II is not satisfactory. Price SOC
Also put up in lozenge form. may
,e eaten like candy price rs cents.
Sold by
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
ANOTHER SPELLING REFORM

Dog spells dog"
Cat spells "cat,"
But hair,
That spells rat"
Boston Herald.
Pig spells pig"
Bat spells bat"
-H-a-y-c-o-c-k-
That spells ''hat."
Houston Post.
Ape spells "ape,"
Mat spells mat"
And sharpe, why
That spells "slat."
Cleveland Plain eDaler.
Fit spells mt"
Vat spells wat"
But plump,
That spells fat"
Chicago Tribune.
Hug spells hug"
s-p-a-t spells "spat,"
But s-t-r-o-k-e.
That spells pat"
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
Kansas Cry For Help.

New York Press.
Kansas sends out cry after cry for 1s.-
900 extra men to help her harvest her
grain crop. Good wages. good food and
healthful work await them. But the de-
crease in the ranks Of the professional
unemployed" lounging about this city.
men whose breakfast is a feat of magic
and whose dinner a miracle, will not be
appreciably thinned. Idleness hath its
pleasures no less than the satisfaction OF
a days work well done. and Il is soothing
to sit on the park benches beneath the
rustline trees this weather and talk about
hard times"
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
TRUSTEES OF POOR
AWARD CONTRACTS

The trustees of the county hospi-
tai at their quarterly meeting at Farm
hurst this afternoon awarded the fol-
lowing contracts: Charles Warner
Company. coal; oscar Draper. drugs;
Ray Bacon, beef. other contracts viii
be awarded later this afternoon.
The superintendent reported for the
quarter as follows: Admitted, 95; dis
charged, 1874; died. 10; born 3 in hos
pital at the present time, 100 white
and is colored men, and 54 white
women and 16 colored women; children,
s; total, 200.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
Paris Green in a FieId.

While Reece Zebley. of near Booth
wyn, was looking over the grass in the
meadow on his farm, which is used for
pasturing his horses and cows. he
found to his amazement that a good
supply OF Paris green had been gener-
|ously sprinkled and dropped in punches
all over the meadow. Reece doesn'.
know that he has an enemy and is at a
loss TO know why anyone would SO i'll
treat him
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
eRooME HEADS THE
STATE cONSTABULARY

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. June 3d.
Captain John c. Groome, commander
of the First city Troop. has been re-
appointed head of the State Constabu-
larry by Governor Stuart
Most Of the work Of the police has
been in the coal regions. where they
took the places Of the coal and iron
police formerly paid by the coal COM
panies. Since taking charge of the
police four years ago, Captain Groome
has developed the force into an eff
cient body,
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
UNION MEN WIN
FIGHT FOR SCALE.

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
PITTSBURG, June SO--After being in
session from Q O'Clock this morning
the conference between the officials of
the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers and the independent manu-
facturers at the Hotel Henly reached
an understanding at II o'clock. and
the announcement was made that the
present union scale win be continued
for the next twelve months.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30

1t is seldom that Harvard professors get into
print as opponents OF doctrines regarding social
matters. The Chicago University professors
had pre1empted all the newspaper space devoted
to the ideas Of professors that might be of inter
est to the public But an aged Harvard nstruc-
tor has announced that it is good thing for the
students in the neghborhood OF Boston, the boys
and girls, to seek recreation after their hard
mental labors by flirting. The Harvard pro-
fesor has been married twice and is said to be
seeking a third wife. The young men and
women around Boston will bless that professor
and fully agree with him. He is evidently seek
ing Carnegie medal for popularity among the
Young
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
FATHER NUREMBERG
TO SAY MASS ON SUNDAY

The Rev. Celestine Leo Nuernburg.
recently ordained to the Catholic
priesthood, will celebrate his first mass
in Sacred Heart Church on Sunday
morning at 1890 o'clock. Father Nuern-
burg is a Wilmingtonian, a member Of
Sacred Heart parish, and a graduate
OF the parish school He will remain
here during the summer as assistant
pastor Of Sacred Heart Church. after
which he will probably be given a pro-
fessorship at ST Anselm's College,
Manchester, n. H.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
John G. Bennett in HospitaI.

John G. Bennett, for many years an
esteemed employe of the Wilson Line, who
has been seriously IN with kidney trouble.
was removed from his home in Broome
street near Third. 10 the Homeopathic
Hospital to-day. A thorough examination
will be made and decision reached as
TO whether the case is one for operation.
Mr. Benefits many friends will hear with
regret Of his illness.
Evening journal., 1909-06-30
$4,000 a Year AIimony.

Miss Katherine Clemmons Gould has
been legally separated from her husband
and given $4,000 year allmony She sued
FOR a great deal more and testified that
before she was abandoned, IL cost her
about $4,000 year for her clothing. Most
women would be able TO get along on an
Evening journal., 1909-06-30

That the trolley companies should use red
lights for protection is a statement not open
to serious dispute and the wonder is why
the Wilmington City Company, in view of the
accident at Eillcrest has not used such lights
without the necessity Of calling attention to the
matter
Evening journal., 1909-06-30

allowance Of 5000 per month, and II Mrs
Gould is unable to do so she viii no doubt
regret that she scorned her husbands Of
fer OF $4,000 year on condition that she
would live apart from him.