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Evening journal., 1910-09-01
Schonner Geis On.

The schooner May f. Nevill, which
had been aground at Grubbs Landing,
was foated yesterday and proceeded
to Philadelphia.
Evening journal., 1910-09-01
Entertains MI WatermeIon Tea.

Mrs. Charles II. Wilson of No. 1890
Tatnall street, entertained few
friends at a watermelon tea last night
Evening journal., 1910-09-01
POSTPONE COUNTY FAIR RACES.

The County Fair scheduled today will be held
and those scheduled for Friday will be held SAT-
urday, weather and track being favorable
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CONTINUED on Page Fivs.)
Property al Trustees Sale.

Philip Q. Churchman. trustee, sold
a property in Logan Court to-day for
S725 to William r. Kurtz.
Evening journal., 1910-09-01
Fngagcment Announced.

The engagement of Miss c. Marie
Byers. Of Chesapeake City. Nd. and
Adolph Thomas, Of Newark, has been
announced.
Evening journal., 1910-09-01
Press Leased speeial wire.

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
Rome Sept THE train bearing Premier Luzatu from
Rome Venice hred today by unknown parties A
usllade Of bullets struck the au but no one was injured
Evening journal., 1910-09-01
sTRIKER mOT THREATENs DlLBAO.

BILBAO. Spain, Sept Declaration Of martial law in
Bilbao momentay expected the result of the ncreas
ing seriousness of the strike situation.
Riotiue continued all through last night and
ed today. ,.l
Evening journal., 1910-09-01

NANHINHTUN, SOD. I.--FOrechst
till D. M, tomorrow:
For DelaWare-Th Threatening with
showers tonight or Friday. cool to-
night; moderate variable winds
shifting TO north.
Evening journal., 1910-09-01

Pastor Returning From Europe.
The Rev. and Mrs. n. c. Lassiter
are expected home from Fsarooe the
end of the week Mr. Lassi1et expects
TO resume his duties as pastor of Dcia-
ware Avenue Baptist Church this SUM
day.
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RAILROAD MEN NEEDED.

One of the nations present troubles
is that too few railroad men are hold
ing jobs in our city, state, and national
governments, says an editorial in
Hampton's Magazine for August.
The railroads, being not only our
largest, but in many ways our most
romantic and interesting business, nat
urally attract a large portion Of our
best young talent. Thousands of faith
ers are trying to secure positions for
their sons in railroad offices. Ener-
getic, able, young men can begin at
the beginning in railroading-which
means in car shops, in offices. or on
trains-and work their ways to the top.
For every thousand fathers who want
to place their sons in railroading as a
life work, probably not one is starting
his boys in politics The government
cannot compete with the railroads for
talent, and there are many good rea-
sons for this. First of ALL politics is
regarded-we say it with regret-as a
dirty business. Second, it does not pay
well, unless a man is a CRATER. Third
hard, honest work does not bring ad-
vancement.
Plainly this is bad business for the
government, and soon we are sure to
realize that whatever is bad for the
government is bad for the people indi-
viduaIly as well as collectively.
Try to imagine the results to yourself
and your community if such a superb
business man as B. F. Yoakum could
be induced to make the job of post
master general his life work. How
long would it be before he would have
parcels posts, postal savings banks, and
telegraphs and telephones at one-fourth
the present cost? And the postoff1ce
department would show a profit of mil
lions per annum instead Of a regular
deficit
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her rrouncing that would make the
one johnson gave Jeffries look like
thirty cents. AS she finished the job
her brother came into the room. saw
her excited condition and took her in
his arms. A second later her husband
appeared on the scene and he proceeded
to punch his unknown brother-in-law
for getting a little too familiar with
his wife. The husband Of the woman
who was beaten UP arrived next and
when he saw his wife's condition he
wanted to lick everybody in the room.
Finally Mr.. Darling came in and few
explanations set matters Alright with
everybody but the woman VINO got such
a terrible mauling ard her husband.
They went away vowing vengeance and
possibly looked up a lawyer for the
purpose of bringing suit for dam
ages.
It's an old time worn adage to the
effect that you should be sure you're
right before you go ahead. But it is
worth remembering and needing by
every man. woman and child every day
OF their lives.
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The Cadet Who Lies

The dismissal of a cadet from the
United States Military Academy for
lying is rare, the sending away of two
cadets in the same term for this Of
tense, as the authorities have Just been
forced to do, has not occurred before
In the history of the school. Lying is
condemned not only by the officials
but by the cadets themselves. From
the ''plebe's'' first appearance he is
taught more by implication than by
direct advice that soldier must not
lie. The regulations may not be ex-
pl1clt on this point but it is under
stood by both officers and cadets that
TINS is tranSgression outside of or
binary discipline, and one of which no
cadet can be guilty. A cadet may do
great many things and commit a
great many breaches of discipline but
If he is to maintain his standing with
his comrades he must not tell an I'M
truth to get out of them. There have
recently been many cases in which ca
diets have been called upon to answer
charge of hazing, for which the pun
they have chosen rather to refuse to
make any statement than to make
a denial.
A colored cadet who came into
prominence several years ago on ac-
count of his claim of having been
treated with severity by the white
members of the corps owed his unpop-
ularity less to his race than to the
fact that he had shielded himself from
punishment for breach of discipline
by what the cadets knew was a false
hood. In the two cases that have just
occurred one cadet was charged with
chewing gum, the other with having
citizens clothes in his room. The
punishment for either offense is COM
paratively light, but both cadets in
trying to save themselves the annoy
ance of confinement to quarters de-
MED the facts that were known. Their
immediate dismissal followed.
An interesting case in the history of
the academy was that of cadet who
in the classroom copied an answer
from another cadet and then denied
that he had done so. The instructor
had seen him erase his own answer to
the problem and substitute that of
the man next him. He was marched
from the section room under arrest
and in less than day was sent away
from West Point. So quiet was the
matter kept that not even all his class
mates knew the real reason for the
quick termination of his military ca
reer. His family knew that he had
been dismissed, but never knew for
what reason. He was forgotten at the
academy until recently his class, in
searching for its members, succeeded
in tracing the movements of this man.
He had appeared as a tramp at sever
al Western forts and seemed to have
been irresistib1y drawn to those places
where ne would IlnQ any one OF MS
West Point comrades. He was at last
found working as a laborer on the
Panama canal, where two of his own
classmates were in charge of the work.
The feeling against lying is so strong
among the cadets and the hatred of
having liar upon the class roll so
intense that the punishment melted out
by the authorities is considerably less
severe and is felt less by the offender
than that inflicted by the cadets
themselves.-New York Sun.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
CFrom the Atchison Globe,.


Our idea of a handsome woman is
one who can look 1t in a last years
hat.
There is busthead in everything; we
can feel very miserable on too much
water.
In this hypocriticaI age, one of the
few pleasant things is to see people
act natural.
The hardest job in the world. prob
ably, is to make circus pay during
a long rainy spell.
owing to what they do; but we're not
crazy about them
While we are loyal to the home team
we don't always believe 1t can beat
the Chicago Cubs.
When six men are asked to act as
pail bearers at your funeral. how
many of them will try to beg off?
Titles of comic songs often amuse
US. A late one is Put On Your Slip
pers; You're In for the Night
AS a rule, no other policeman is
quite so important as the special po-
liceman who only works on the Big
Days.
The most plausible talker finally
reaches piece where he is compelled
to make his talk good, or be exposed.
True, every reader of an advertise
menC DOESN'T Duy. ana II Is also lIu6
that you don't catch fish every time
you throw in your hook.
Every little while an agent comes
along and induces a lot of respectable
girls to engage in canvassing they
should be ashamed of.
When you know a man fifteen or
twenty years, and see him every day,
if he is not a pretty good fellow, you
are very apt to catch him at it.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who went home to dinner
(not lunch) every day at noon, and
told what he had on his return?
at was compelled to leave school
when I was II years old" a man said
land I don't care for words that are
not pronounced as they look"
When a saloon-keeper speaks to a
man, and says he is drinking too much
it is safe to say that the man has gone
Too Far in being a Good Fellow.
The politicians never hate each
other so much as they let on, and
there is also a suspicion that they
don't love the people as sincerely as
they say they do
Some manufacturers. as soon as
they succeed in making cigar popu-
lar, seem to take pride in seeing how
soon they can wreck it. What has be-
come of 'sCremo?"
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LAYHAWKER JOTS

No man. thinks the Wichita Eagle.
is as mean as his wife sometimes
thinks he is.
Mack Gretchen wonders why the
man who boasts that he "says what he
thinks always thinks disagreeable
thoughts?
After a girl has been married
awhile, remarks the Jewell Republi-
can, she sometimes looks as if her air
castles had been hit by a cyclone.
There are some people, of course,
who don't know any better, says the
Minneapolis Messenger, but most folks
are simply too lazy to exercise their
judgment.
A two-sentence sermon from the
Winfield Courier: God is indispens-
able. Man perceives this. and the high
er his development, the more distinct
is his perception
Mrs. Carrie Nation has dropped the
Ratchet and resorted to argument,
notes the Parsons Sun, and 1t adds:
After so many years of armed con-
flict it is late to declare that the
tongue is mightier than the toma-
hawk"
Toe fishing is the latest sport on
Slough Creek, reports the Oska1oosa
Independent. The toe fisherman
wades around in the creek until a
cat is located, when he reaches
down and catches the fish by the gills.
A dozen fish. weighing c.ose to a
pound each were brought to town Sun
day. They were caught by Claude
Burton. John Henry Brown is said
to have caught rs pounds in this man
ner one day last week.
when was boy, a renter on our
farm named Lee, had water melon
patch" writes Drake Watson in the
Atchison Globe. HE had particular
ly fine melon, which he covered up,
but knew where it was, and one
evening 1 went to steal it. While 1
was in the patch, Dan Lantis, another
boy who lived in the neighborhood.
came sneaking up. Dan confessed he
had come to steal the melon, and we
agreed to divide it. Just as we were
leaving the patch with the melon, an
other boy, Tom Hart. appeared. He
had come to steal the melon, too, but
he knew we wouldn't make another di-
vide. so he turned Reformer,. and had
us both whipped"
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SOIL CONSERVATION.

| Restoring and maintaining the pro-
ductivity of the soil in the great farm
ing regions of this country is consider
ed the most important phase of the
whole conservation problem by w. ],
Spillman. a former Kansan. and who
is now an expert on farm management
in the federal department of agricuI-
ture. And Mr.. Spillman is quite right.
If the United States is to maintain its
supremacy as the leading agricultural
nation of the world, if it's fields are to
be made to yield all the foodstuffs that
the future populations of this country
will need. and those of the near fu-
ture. at that, great deal more atten-
ton must be paid to conserving the
fertility of the farm lands.
Mr.. Spillman points out that the loss
of thousands of finished American
farmers, who are pouring into Canada
every year, is a serious after effect of
wasteful exploitation of farm and
other lands, and the failure to con-
serve this country's natural resources,
especially the soil. AS he says the
fertility of our soil has been reduced
below the point of profitable produce
ton in many of our communities. This
is particularly true of the eastern Sec
lions of the country. Similar condi-
tions are beginning to develop in the
west and the middle west. where the
yields per acre in many sections are
on the decrease.
There is a solution to this problem,
as Mr.. Spillman says. 1t rests in stop
ping the abuse of the soil. The per
acre yield of land must and can be
increased by improved farming sys-
TENS which will include the rotation
of crops and the wise use of natural
and commercial fertilizers. Many of
the big farmers in Kansas have begun
to realize this. All of them and their
brethren in this great agricultural sec
ton will be biting off their own noses
if they don't realize it before long.
There is no good and sufficient reason
why the average wheat yield in Kansas
could not be doubled on the same acre
age if proper methods of farming
were employed. The same is true of
corn and other crops. Think of the
increased wealth that such crops would
bring to the people of this state. Think
of the benefits that such crops would
mean to the people Of the entire coun-
try in cheapening the cost to the con-
sumner of many of the essential food
products.
Kansans have been leaders in agri-
culture for many years. They have
chance to continue this leadership by
showing the way in restoring the pro-
ductivity of their fields. They have
the best soil in the world to work
with. Let them be up and doing.
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FROM OTHER PENS
KEEP OFF THE TRACK.

| considerable sympathy Will be IelL
with the plea of the Pennsylvania
Railroad that more stringent regula-
/ tions should be passed against tres
passing on the right of way of the
railroads. especially in or near big
| cities, where the traffic is heavy. Every
sen the number of accidents has been
done-not because the railroads are
philanthropists, but simply because
they have found out how, expensive
it is to kill and MAIN people, even
after they have taken due precautions.
Deaths through collisions and through
| accidents to trains are much more
| infrequent than they used to be, but
the number of people killed through
walking on the track is appalling.
The man who, daring, walks the
| tracks of a busy railroad unnecessarily
and it is difficult to see when it is
| ever necessary except for railroad en-
ployes-is on an intellectual par with
| the gentleman who rocks the boat or
| the Grass idiot who didn't know 1T was
| loaded" The roads really do all
| they can to stop the practice. The
right of way is posted with innumer-
able signs warming people of their
danger, but it is plain that the officials,
other than railroad officials, do not
give this matter the serious attention
| if deserves, and even when arrests
for trespassing are made convlcIlons
are Observation-Disclosures Herald.
IMMIGRANTS AND THE FARM
A little over two and half years
ago the Department Of Commerce and
| Labor started a division of information
| in connection with the Immigration
Bureau for the purpose of assisting
in the better distribution of immi-
grants. The hope was that by this
means something might be done to
overcome the tendency for the immi-
grants to concentrate in the cities and
to direct them to where they were
needed.
Mr.. Powderly, as chief of the infor-
nation Bureau, now reports that
5000 immigrants have been directed
to employment on the farms, and only
| 20 of that number have refused to
stay there. Further. he finds that the
| Immigrants who have gone to the
farms have followed the custom OF
their predecessors who stayed in the
cities or found work in the con-
structing camps, and have written
home to their friends to induce them
also to come out to the farms the
result has been a steadily growing
trend of immigration to the agricul-
tural Notwithstanding Dispatch.
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LOVE m THE CITY

How many bards have sung of Love in
glad valleys
(And chiefly one who lately passed from
earthD
Divinsly, congruous, Love with Nature
And, under soilless skies. has happy
Where the green burns to gold. or in
deep woods,
Throbs Love 'twixt man and maid in
thousand moods.
Yet. gainst whatever would thwart it.
Love achieves;
II thrives by opposition and delay:
II makes It's habitation where there lives
hath way
In barren islands. cold winters. stormy
weather,
In happy freedom or in steely tether
The violent town. the harsh worlds
shr1eking mart
Casual. cruel crowded, ever shifting
Even there hath Love its undestructed
AS il: in calm, down llied waters
And many heart in hidden joy re-
members,
In roaring streets, It's Junes and dear
Defenders.
Richard Watson Glider, in the Century
Magazine.
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QUAKER sIEDITATIONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The best way to size UP crook is
by the Bertillon system.
1.-THE hottest day of the summer
seems to arrive with alarming regu-
larity.
Perhaps the breezes at the seashore
are caused by the people VINO are
blowing in their money.
No man is so virtuous as he who
has been cured of his own vices and
sees them in someone else.
Tourist-What Is the population of
your town? Native-About two thou
sand. odd. Tourist-Yes, they do
seem rather odd
Wigg-Bjones is actually more con-
siderate of his cook than he is of his
wife. Wagg-Well, it's easy enough
to get another wife.
Blobbs-Newrich says he is now
coming in contact with the high fly
ers Slobbs-Yes, heard he was
mixed up in an aeroplane collision the
other day.
1T haven't any more time for him, -
said the summer girl. Hes engaged
"Engaeed? To whom ?" asked the un-
sophisticated one. ITO me-" replied
the summer girl.
Nothing is impossible" said the
Wise Guy. Take that little country
boy we just passed He doesn't realize
the possibilities that repose beneath
his ragged jacket" No, not until he
eats a lot of green apples" agreed the
Simple Mug.
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odd ouestions for official.

Many odd questions have to lie
passed by treasury officials. They must
be experts in home economics and au-
thorities on art values in order prop
erly to interpret and apply the tariff
laws. Assistant Secretary Curtis has
just disposed of case involving the
ingredients that enter into the maxine
of plum pudding. Some Of it is baked
for export and the exporters have asked
a return Of duty on such commodities
as are used in it. and Curtis has SAID
that the citrons and currants and gran
ulated sugar that have been imported
for the purpose of enriching the ex-
ported plum pudding are to be favored
with a drawback, which is the term
used when duties are returned on i'm
ported articles remanufactured ano ex-
norted. Mr.. Curtis also has authorized
a drawback on fly paper. 1t seems its
sickness is contributed by castor oil
which imported.-Brooklyn Eagle
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poINIEp i.AlsAGkArHs.
[From the Chicago News.l

rFrom the Chicago News.1
Men in acting small make big mis-
takes.
Generous people never give their
friends away.
People who are stuck up deserve to
be called down.
It's human nature to want TO crawl
under the circus tent.
Ice cream in bricks is more popu-
lar than sermons in stones
Life is full of trials. but there are
not half enough convictions.
No successful hairdresser is ever
found asleep at the switch
Many an heiress has managed to &C
quire a good husband in spite OF it.
Successful air navigation means fly
time twelve months in the year
Anyway, the man in Jail is safe
from automobiles and grade crossings.
Though the proper study of man
kind is man, the popular study is
woman.
Some women can let out lot of
high-fiown talk and make 1T sound
like real language.
Automobile owners may have money
to burn, but judging from the odor 1t
must be more or less tainted.
If young man would ascertain just
how he stands with a maid he should
make love to a widow In her pres
ence.
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BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. ETC.

A moving picture was exhibited in one
of the local houses recently that was
not only intensely amusing. 1t also
pointed out the lesson that few people
ever attempt to learn-that it is gem
orally wrong to jump at conclusions
and act accordingly. Nothing but trou-
BILE of the most regrettable sort
comes CT such actions. Especially are
they potent in promoting discord in
families and among people who ought
to be friends.
This picture showed a young husband
sitting at his desk at home one morn
ir,g writing note to a business as
sociate to meet him at a restaurant
for luncheon. The business associate
happened to be named Darling and the
note was indicted to Dear Darling"
An equally young wife looked over her
IDOLS shoulder, saw this salutation and
the invitation to luncheon. That was
enough for her. She did not ask a
question of any kind, merely contenting
herself with tearing her hair and turn
ing her back on her husband when he
attempted to bid her goodby. After he
had gone she fumed and frerted around
until she got note from her brother,
whom her husband had never seen, to
meet him at the same restaurant at
the same time. Things could not have
come her way any better If she had
arranged them herself. She reached
the restaurant with plenty time to
spare and took seat in the reception
room. A few minutes later stunning
looking woman walked into the room
room and took another seat. The jeaI-
Gus wife sized her up at once as the
Dear Darling whom her husband was
to meet. Without word Of explanation
size nitched into this woman and gave
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of gossip. 'fThey say she had some
great disappointment up the
stage and devotes her beautifully
trained voice to singing simple songs
and lullabies to the children in all the
hospitals. She's taken a particular
fancy to your boy" she added. "To-
days the first time she's seen him
and she's been back to him twice
Indeed" Stratton remarked, dis
appointed that she should happen
to be there at the very time he had
chosen to visit the child.
In the hope that she had by this
time left, he walked quickly down the
corridor. but as he neared the room
he heard a soft grooming. Suddenly
something stirred within himi Then
softly he turned the knob until the
door stood slightly ajar- The picture
before him quickened his pulse throb
almost to suffocation, for there, over
his sleeping child, bent Lenora War
dele, more lovely than ever in her
maturity-fulflling the mission he
had destined for her-crooning a lul-
aby.-(Copyrighted 1910 by Associ-
ated Literary Press.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Money can also talk a lot with great
effect without making much noise.
= y
Shoes are often among the little
things that bother many folk, women
especially.
y
frequently a wise man will admit
that he's in the wrong just to avoid
an argument with woman.
y =
Poor people also appear to have
the advantage of not needing as many
surgical operations as their better-to-
do brethren.
4 \ X
According to the number of claims
now made by people that their ances-
tors came over in the Mayfiower, it
must have been a larger ship than any
of the biggest ones of these days.