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Evening journal., 1911-09-12
GUNPOWDER AND KID

Popularity" means more salary for
talking, and vanity is the more in
evidence.
We are quite aware that the avowed
doers Of good are sworn to carry the
scriptural gospel to all the world, but
we are not so certain that they are
called upon to call the attention of
those who might remain innocent to
the sins which might better be disre-
garded. The poison Of showing in
broad daylight how sin is accom-
plished is far more subtle than the
sin itself. The theory is not new.
It is known and has been known for
thousands of years to the scientists
who have given their lives in the
practice Of medicine and chemistry. A
little wider knowledge of the action
of poisons might not cor amiss to
the reformers who would cure our ills
of morality by the iteration Of i'm
morality.
And, too, there are people who be-
lieve that immortality is the by-pro-
duct Of an attitude and not an es-
sential wickedness. Else, then, why
do we pardon the sinner who re-
pents?
Perkins tells us that he has friend
who has a small daughter who is a
great lover of poetry. It appears that
she came to her father the other day
with the question, Papa, what is a
racerine?"
"A racerine?" replied papa, why
do you ask?"
"Oh, Miss Williams up at school was
reading us about something that is
set in rings and necklaces and things.
1t must be something like a ruby. 1
guess"
What was the quotation?" asked
papa.
Full many a gem Of purest racer
ine," replied the small daughter.
r. S. Won Innes.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
Editorial Opinion
Can You Pass This Testl

Can You Pass This Testl
Kansas City Star.
A professor in the University of
Chicago told his pupils that he
should consider them educated in the
best sense of the word when they
could say yes to every one Of four
teen questions that he should put to
them.
Here they are: Has education given
you sympathy with all good causes
and made you esp yuse them? Has il
made you public-spirited? Has 1t
made you a brother to the weak?
Have you learned how to make friends
and keep them? Do you know what
ii Is to be a friend yourself? Can
you look an honest man OF a pure
woman straight in the eye? Do you
seen anything to love in a little
child? Will a lonely dog follow you
in the street? Can you be high
minded and happy in the meaner
drudgeries Of life? Do you think
washing dishes and hoeing corn just
as compatible with high thinking as
piano-playing and golf? Are you
good for anything to yourself? Can
you be happy alone? Can you look
out on the world and see anything
except dollars and cents? Can you
look into a mud puddle by the way
side and see a clear sky? Can you
see anything in the puddle but mud7
Can you look into the sky at night
and see beyond the stars? Can your
soul claim relationship with the
Creator?
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
AS A TROUBLE BREEDER.

COME of the optimistic Republicans in touch
- with national politics are not disturbed by the
candidacy of Senator LaFollette for the Republican
presidential nomination.
They say it is a good thing to have numerous
candidates, as there we're during the days of some
years ago when no one knew who would be nomi
mated until the ballots had been counted at ma
tional convention Rivalry will stir up interest
The trouble is, that the ideas for which Mr. La
Toilette and the group of progressves stand are
far different from those of the remainder of the
Republicans, and it will not be an easy task to
make them mix in a national convention.
There is little chance of the nomination of La
Toilette, but there is plenty OF opportunity for him
to figure in the role of a trouble breeder.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

It is difficult for one possessed Of a
normally sane sense of logic to dis
cover just why recent marriage be-
tween a certain rich man and very
attractive young American woman
should cause such cataclysmic throw
ing Of fits among the truly good.
Eliminating the vast wealth and the
super-beauty, would the affair have
received first page notoriety? Hardly.
We are forced to the conclusion
therefore, conclusion made abso-
lutely necessary by the premises set
forth by the aforesaid truly good, that
wealth, in and of itself, is the corner
stone Of goodness or badness. It is
not written scripturally that money
is the root of all evil, though the
sacred writing is often misquoted
thus. It Is written. however, that
the love Of money is the root of all
evil. To the calm philosopher who
chooses logic rather than snap judg-
ment as a basis or argument, II is the
more apparent that the love of
money is the root of evil which the
blatant sensationalists have caused to
be printed in the newspapers, thereby
calling the attention OF the innocent
to a sin far more subtle T.. its poison
than the mere marriage of a divorced
person with a young girl who is, pre-
sumably, such a mental and moral
force in his life as may work ultimate
good.
Perhaps it may not be quite clear
why the love of money makes this
sensational argument on the part OF
the self-advertisers a matter of logical
It is all simple enough.
Let the advertiser call attention 70
the fact that his hearers at any
given time may hope to listen
to peculiarly vindictive argu-
ment, and forthwith the benches
are crowded. even to the bleachers,
and popularity" is the shibboleth
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
:: Personal and Pertinent =:


Mrs John Marshall wife of a professor in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, is not enthusiastic fisher
man. but In the family camp a lake in the recesses
of the Maine woods she has the reputation of catching
more FISH than any of the enthusiastic anglers that
whip the lakes and streams day after day. Her GUS
tom is TO canoeing the lake in the afternoon with
a book as companion and incidentally a fishing line
and rod She bats her hook and throws 1t overheard
and then instead Of waiting patiently and inently
bite she plunges into her book and orgets all about
the fish Suddenly or maybe after half hours read
ing she gets bite Quickly she turns from her book
Hurting him Hopping to the bottom of her canoe she
bats her hook and then goes reading
.-.-.-.
Sam Harris who held the for years Of being
the largest marshal in the United States has re-
tired from that office He wegts 410 pounds His weight
no handicap in performing the duties of police Of
hcer but he got tired of the job and is ready to
take other employment
He is 3S years Of age and is still increasing in weight.
Mr.. Harris is the product of farm Farmersve.
He Is proud Of the fact that his flesh gives him in
convenience in his every day duties. He can walk 10
miles without getting tred.-Houston Post
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
: With the ParagrapherS :.


health journal that, for sanitary reasons "the
clothes of different persons should be washed apart"
Sanitary be hanged! What want to strike is laun-
dry that won't wash our shirts apart.-Baltimore
Evening Sun.
Those who seek personal freedom in unconvention-
ality surprised to find that the conventional way
of living follows the line of least resstance.-Balt-
American.
There is greater magic worked than the way
a shoe two sizes smalled than her
feet and have it three sizes too big for them.-New
York Press.
Missouri women stood ten years of i'll treatment from
her husband but when he burned her false hair she
promptly sued for divorce The has to
draw the line somewhere.-West Chester Local News.
No sooner is one session of Congress over than the
talk begins about the creates the feeling
that Congress is coming large part Of the time and
going very little Of the time-Philadelphia Press.
girl needs 70 know heap more about dancing than
cooking 70 get husband and still more about cooking
than dancing to keep hm.--New York Press.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
FIND OYsTERMAN's BODY.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, Sept 12.-The body
of Larry Kenney, a Philadelphia oys-
terman who was drowned Saturday
night in the Delaware bay. was recov-
cred at noon yesterday. Kenney could
mot sleep well and went on deck, pre-
sumably for fresh air, and in some
manner got overheard. Kenney was S5
years old and has a family in Phila-
delphia, in the neighborhood of Brown
and Green streets. Kenney was en-
ployed on the oysterboat Peter r.
Paynter. belonging to the fleet Of NJ. j.
Ryan and Company OF Philadelphia.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
GOT PISTOL
IN MANS POCKET

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN, Del, Sept 12.--
Walking up to Asbury Harmon, color
ed, yesterday, State Detective Walls
ran his hand in Harmon's pocket and
pulled out a pistol. He was immedi-
ately arrested and taken before JUS
tice of the Peace William A. War
rington, who held him in $500 bail and
committed him to the Sussex county
Jail for the October term of court
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
SMALL INCREASE IN FARMS.

c TRlKlNGLY Illustrative of the argument that
- back to the farm" movement should be
inaugurated, are statistics made public by the
Census Bureau indicating that during the last ten
years the percentage of increase in number of
farms has fallen far behind that of the increase in
population.
Not since 1850 has the percentage of increase
been so small. According to the Census Bureau
during the ten year period beginning in 1900 the
population of the nation increased Fl per cent
During the same decade the number of farms
increased from 5,757,572 to 6,340,357 only lo.5
per cent.
Most remarkable, however, was the showing of
the increase in the value of farms Farm land, ex-
elusive of buildings was valued at SI5O5s Oos 900
IN 1900 In 1910 it was worth SIS, 1886, ,77O, ,OOO-an
advance of III per cent
The size of farms has increased, according TO
returns. big advance was noted in the value of
farm buildings and implements. Hired labor in
1910 absorbed S6456l2O00-an increase of 80 per
cent over 1900.
White farmers operated 5,422,S92 of the farms
IS per eent.-while the number operated by ne
groes and others not of the white race was 9i6645
Both we're slight increases over 1900. Sxtysix per
cent. all farms were reported free of debt"
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
pIcKEp Up HERE ANp THERE.

Its a shame the way they crowd
these cars. The passengers should
rise up and insist on getting chance
to sit down"
You may send me up the complete
works of Shakespeare, Goethe and
Emerson-also something to read"
"Id like to dance and I should
dance, only the music puts me out and
the girl gets in my way"
Yes, her husband robbed her ot
every cent she had-and Just think
she only married him because she
was afraid of burglarsl"
"Hellol Is this the butcher? Well
you may send me up a roast of beef
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
NO HUBRY ATT ALL.

A lazy and loquacious man whose
farm was just outside of Worcester
England, called at a neighbor's house
recently.
"Sit down, sit down." exclaimed the
neighbor.
Il don't know as I ought" replied
the farmer but nevertheless he sal
down. After some talk about crops
the farmer said slowly: Il don'i
know as l ought to be sitting here;
I came over to see if l could get a
ladder; our house is afre."-
Harper's.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

may have grown so that there will be fears of the
Socalistic menace.
Altogether, if business is to halt continually be-
cause of such fears We shall be in chronic fear
full state.
The sensible remedy for these fears seems to be
a permanent tariff adjusting board which shall
take the tariff practically of politics and thus
destroy the work of the fear mongers Certain it
is that fears keep company with talk of Demo-
cratic victory.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

Mr.. Bryan thinks that, in large measure high
prices due to the unprecedented discoveries Of
gold, which have greatly increased the volume of
money in circulation. And yet some years ago Mr..
Bryan wanted to initiate prices with silver. The
increase in the discovery of gold has baed the pro-
phets who in the days of 90 confidently predicted
that the supply of gold in sight had practically
been exhausted and a new basis for money would
have 10 be found.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
Anty Drudge Discovers Why GeOrSe
Has No Appetite.

Anty Dr7'dge-"Whatl eating dinner in this steamv.
smelly kitchens 1 should think it would take vo1r
appetite away"
Mrs Sl0'0-'I have noticed that George doesn't eat much
washdays"
A"ty Drudge-"How can hei Why don't YOU use
Fels-NaPthal Boiling water isn't necessary; and
you'll be through your wash plenty of time to have
dinner IN the dining-room. Or if you prefer the
kitchen, there will be no steam or bad smells"
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
Talk about energyl

A half cake of Fels-Naptha soap can
display more energy in getting rid of dirt
In half an hour than an able-bodied
woman can in half day.
But there's this difference: Much of
the woman'S energy is wasted.
When she rubS clothes hard on a
washboard she wears out the clothes in
trying to rub out the dirt.
Fels-Naptha concentrates its enerov
on the dirt-diSSolves it into tiny particles
that are easily rinsed away-without
harming the most delicate fabric.
And it does this in cool or lukewarm
water, without hot water or boiling, sum-
mer or winter.
Do you prefer to supply the dirt
removing energy yourself or to use that
stored up in cake of Fels-Naptha2
If you choose the easier and better
way, follow directions on the red and
green wrapper.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

The Trade Union News printed very creditable
labor day extra, full of advertising and good read
ing matter of interest, not only to union labor men,
but also to the general public. 1t contained arti-
cles by some of the foremost labor leaders of the
country as we'll as caustic comments by the editor.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
AGED GEORGETOWN
MAN DEAD

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN, Del, Sept. 12.-
Joseph Welch. the oldest resident Of
this town, died at his home on West
Pine street, Sunday. due to old age.
He was 81 years old
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
BALTIMORE s ONO R. R.
Special si.0O Excursion to Baltimore,
Sundays, Sept II and Oct. /.

Special train will leave Wilmington.
Delaware avenue station, at 9.10 a. m. /;
Newark at $50 a. m. Returning leave
Baltimore. Camden station, at $50 p.
M: Mt. Royal at 6.S5 p. M
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
SHORT STORIES OF THE DAY

and remember, please butcher, to have
it rare That's the only way my hus-
band can eat it."-Boston Transcript.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

Mr. Taft has planned a trip that sure enough"
does not avoid the nsurgent strongholds. He is
TO make seven speeches in Wisconsin, eight in
Minnesota, ten in South Dakota nine in Iowa, nine
in Kansas, twenty in the state of Washington.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
SUNDAh SoHESu TEACHERS MEETING.

A meeting Of the Teachers Asso-
citation of the First Presbyterian Sun
day school will be held this evening,
at o'clock, in the basement A din
ner will be served
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

chicago once: ias South Michigan Boulevard
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
BY mail. prepaid. $500 month
payable in advance. By carrier six cents week.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12

Advertising rates on application.
No attention paid 20 unsigned communications.
Evening journal., 1911-09-12
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New York ONCE: ss4 Fifth Avenue.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
SWEPT BY CYCL0NIC STORM
A Trail Of Death In Southern Wis
consin District.

CHICAGO, Nov. u.-Reports re-
ceived tonight tell of death and injury
and extensive property loss resulting
from cyclonic storms that ragged late
today in Southern Wisconsin, Illinois
and on the grea at lakes. The tornadoes
came between an abnormally warm
period, in which heat prostr alton
was reported in Chicago and q cold
wave, bearing sleet, snow and rain.
Nine persons are believed to be
dead, several dying and scores are In
jured and suffering from the bite,
cold, snow and sleet, which descended
upon the shelterless homes.
Southern Wisconsin was the hardest
hit. Near Orfordville, in Rock coun.
ty, most of the deaths reported oc.
CURED, and few miles away, at Mil
ton, another was found dead in the
ruins of storm wrecked home. Ir
the village of Virginia, near Spring
field, ILL.,, nearly every public build
ing was damaged, including stores,
churches and city property. Many
were injured in the swirl of flying
timbers aud some of these probably
will die. In Iowa q 50-degree drop ii
the temperature turned the pouring
rain into driving sleet.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
Seeking Stolen Plunder.

NEW YORK. Nov. 11.-Acting on
inform alton received from St. Louis,
the district attorneys Office here today
began question 1922, 900 stolen by the
late David Roschild, the wrecker of
the Federal bank in 1904. This sum
IL said to have been deposited by him
under the assumed name of Levy In
two safety deposit vaults, where the
money has rem aimed since.
From the date of his conviction until
his death in Sing Sing on Nov. Is,
1908, Rothschild steadily refused to
give any Information reg garding the
location of his hidden treasure, which
at that time was supposed to total
only S27O.00O. The fact that the ac-
tual sum stolen by Rothschild was
S422. 900 is said to have been revealed
in a confession made by Rothschild' q
wife in St. Louis. where she is living,
having married again.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
Railroads Fight Reduced Rates.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The ex.
pected reduction of transcontinental
railroad freight rates was held up
when the court of commerce granted q
temporary injunction against the or
der of the interstate commerce COM
mission in which are popularly known
as the Spokane and other Pacific coast
points rate cases. The order was made
June %, and was to have become ef.
fective next Wednesday. The cases
involve not only the "back haul"
freight rates from Spokane and other
intermountain points to Pacific coast
terminals, but also the application OF
the long and short haul clause OF the
law.
The court intimated that it pro.
posed to make an investig CATION of the
facts on which the order of the CON-
mission was based in order to de-
termine for itself a basis for final
order.
Under the circumstances it Is re-
garded as likely that the case will not
be determined by the court for several
months, and that whatever the judg-
ment of the court may be, the contro-
versy will be carried to the supreme
court
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
Chinese Atrocities.

NANK1NG, Nov. 10.-Nanking to.
night Is desolate. Fully q thousand
OF its inhabitants lie massacred and
business houses and dwellings have
been looted and burned. Seventy
thousand persons have fed from the
city and others are joining in the ex.
odus. Down the railroad leading
from the city long, snake.like line
of humanity is trudging in search OF
safety.
1t was the hand of the Manchu that
brought the devastation. While the
republicans were in camp three miles
away, awaiting ammunition reinforce.
ments, the Manchus began the work
OF carnage. Men, women and children
were slaughtered. Neither youth nor
age was taken into account. White,
the emblem of the revolution, marked
it's wearers for instant death. China.
men with white shoes, q sign of mourn
ing among them, or even handker'
chief, were ruthlessly slain. Cueless
heads severed from the bodies were
everywhere to be seen.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
Montana Men On Long Cruise.

CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Of the many
Montana ans in Chicago, Seymour Dane
and Charles Mead, ranchmen OF
Malta, have succeeded in having the
spotlight thrown upon them by the
Chicago press. With Chicago as q
starting point they will begin q seven
year cruise in a 60-foot, 80.horse
power launch, Mr.. Dane and Mr..
Mead, accompanied by Leon Kettle of
Roxbury, N. Y, will cruise down the
drainage canal, then down the Missis.
sippi to St. Louis and thence to New
Orleans, where the party will be
Joined by George Dane, a brother of
the ranchman, whose home is In Chi.
cago.
After sailing along the coast of
Florida the party plans to cross the
gulf to seaports in South America and
thence through the Panama canal to
Gulf of California, Time will be
spent by the party in hunting and
fishing in Florid& and Southern Cali
fornia. San Francisco will be reached
in 1915 for the exposition and cruise
to Alaska will be taken. The party
expects to return by the same route
to Florida, where Mr.. Dane will live,
forsaking Northern Montana.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
Taft Is At Home.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-The White
house Is occupied again. The presi.
dent swung down from his private car
here this morning at the end of his
long trip and the glass doors of the
executive mansion opened for him. It
was the presidents first call since
August %. excepting only for q stop
between trains two weeks ago.
In addition to writing his message,
the president intends to give much
consider alton to the appointment of q
successor to the late Supreme Court
Justice Harlan and to the naming OF
men to fill other important judicial
vacancies. For the supreme court
vacancy alone there has been more
than forty recommend stions but the
president has not decided whom he
shall name.
As forecasted in his speech to the
chamber of commerce st Pittsbure
several weeks ago, Mr.. Taft expects
to recommend In his message ICON
structive legislation" to strengthen
and to make more certain the reguls-
tion OF trusts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
Confessed To Forty BurgIaries.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 11.-William
P. Thompson, % years of age is under
arrest after having confessed to the
police that he had committed nearly
40 burglaries here in the last two
weeks. He also admitted that he had
committed burglaries in other cities in
the west and that he was an escaped
convict from the state penitentiary at
Walla ALA, Wash. BE told his his.
tory of crime with rem markable calm.
ness, and in the words of a skilled
storyteller.
He said that two years ago he was
medical student in the college in
California. He was leading . riotous
life, and after ''little student aft air''
he left school and went to Salt Lake
City, where he committed his first
crime. Among other cities in which
he said he ''worked" were Butte,
Mont, and Denver.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
No Political Significance.

WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The election
results of yesterday afforded little real
indication to political observers in
Washington as to the sentiment on
national issues throughout the con-
tested states. The selection of five
house members to fll;:vacancies fur
nished no great surprise. While no
statement was made byiW. L. Houser
or other leaders In the progressive
republican campaign headquarters.
men active in that organization pro-
fessed to see q material gain In pro-
gressive sentiment in the selection OF
q republican legislature In New York
and in the reelection of Governor
Foss, democrat, after tariff fight In
Mass achusetts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
Woman Sues Bishop.

TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 8-The contro-
versy between Mrs. CarrielE. Cope of
Topeka and BishopsDavidl II. Moore
of the Methodist Episcopal church
reached crisis this afternoon when
suit vas filed in the Shawnee county
district court by Mrs. Cope against
the bishop for $50, 900 damages. Mrs.
Cope alleges that letter by Bishop
Moore was calculatedi to injure her
"as citizen, as q wife, as q mother
and as Christian.' She declares she
has been humiliated. panied and hurt,
and that che is entitled to damages.