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Evening journal., 1911-05-25
NO DEMAND FOR
STATE OYSTERS
Planters Report Few Sales
Since Regular Season
Closed
snecIal 10 rHE EvENING JoURNAL.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
DOVER, Del. May 25-Oystermen
in the Delaware Bay are at loss to
know why the market for Delaware
Bay oysters has fallen off. This is the
season for the sale Of plants, or plant
ing oysters, not for supplying the
market, hotels and restaurants except
to a small extent, this latter trade be-
ing confined to the oysters being
caught on the State beds.
But the demand for the Delaware
plants or planting oysters started off
well during the early season. Saville,
l.. l., oyster planters were buying
heavily for a time at thirty cents the
bushel and, like the Virginia and
other purchasers Of Delaware oysters
for planting purposes, were greatly
pleased with their plants.
Now. however, the demand mas
fallen, the Long Islanders seem TO be
well stocked for the present and the
Virginians do not half live up to their
reputation as wanting to stay i'm the
class of high livers. The price has
fallen to twenty-four and now to
twenty-five cents the bushel and
Jerseymen grab up Delaware oysters
quickly at this price. although the
hope Of getting only twenty-five cents
does not go far toward nerving the
toiler's arm this hot weather.
Even in oysters, little Delaware
supplies much Of the outside world,
as in many other necessities and lux
luries of life
Authorities I'm the State on the
oyster business are urging this class
Of oystermen (plant dealers) to plant
and allow their oysters to become of
marketable size in Delaware waters
Then they would derive double
profits.
Evening journal., 1911-05-25
DELAWARE CITY

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
DELAWARE CITY, Del. May 25.-
w. c. Smith and son Robert Of VIII
mington, spent Tuesday here.-Miss
Mary Woods Of Philadelphia, arrived
here Wednesday.-Mr BrannOn and
Miss Ewortz, who have been spend
ing a week in Philadelphia, returned
home Wednesday.-H. Morrow Of this
town, spent Monday in Wilmington
w. A. Hagan OF the Central Hotel,
has installed a Dutch room at his
cafe.
Evening journal., 1911-05-25
Harmony Grange Members
Spend Night With HOCkeS-
sin Brethren
MENINGITIS KILLS
TWO VALUABLE HORSES

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
MARSHALLTON. Del. May 25.-on
Monday evening Harmony Grange
visited Hockessin Grange. The grange
opened with the Worthy Master
Frank Ewart in the chair. Worthy
Lecturer Mrs. Leslie Walker of Har-
mony Grange, had charge Of the pro-
gram which was as follows:
Singing by the grange with Mrs.
William Peach presiding at the piano;
recitation, Joseph Mitchell; solo,
Clarence Walker; recitation, Harry G..
Little; singing Harmony Quartette.
duet, Miss Mary Walker and Mrs
Leonard Eastburn; recitation, George
Pierson; solo and quartette, my
Bonnie Lies over the Ocean," soloist,
Clarence Walker, chorus quartette;
select reading, Mrs. Lawrence PEN
nington; question box, by Henry
Mitchell, he asked the first question
of the Worthy Master Frank Ewart; I;
recitation, Harry G. Little; singing,
Good Night Ladies'"
This was the last of the program
by Harmony Grange. The remainder
of the entertainment was contributed
by members of the Hockessin Grange.
Mrs. William Little gave a few well
chosen remarks which were followed
by a recitation. Othe features we're:
Reading by Miss Vineyard; piano
duet by Miss Bessie Mitchell and
Miss Edith Mitchell; solo, Miss Vine
yard.
Tho ,,oet ,.,ortb,y ctafo r,oeforc
were then called on and gave adj
dresses. The speakers were: Henry
Walker, Arnold Naudine, Sr., and
Henry Thompson.
Worthy master of Harmony Grange,
William Naudine, made a few remarks,
ending by calling on the different
business committee of Harmny
Grange.
w. Frank Clair reported having
ordered three thousand pounds of
binder twine. Henry Mitchell report
ed having sent specimen of Paris
Green to the State College to be
tested.
Following these reports all were in
vited to the lower hall, where ice
cream and cake were served in abun-
dance.
Joseph astburn of Mill Creek hun
dred, lost two valuable horses last
week from spinal meningitis.
Arnold Naudine, Sr., of near Mar
shallton, has returned home after
spending some time in New York
where he attended the Jerseymen'
cattle show. Mr. Naudine reports
having had a very interesting trip
there being about two hundred cattle
men present.
Edgar L. Stewart. superintendent Oi
the Ferris Industrial School, enter.
tained Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis NJ. Green.
walt and son Franklin, Of near New
ark, on Tuesday.
The annual strawberry festival o
White Clay Creek Presbyterian
Church will be held on the churcl
lawn on Monday evening, June 5.
There will be several representa-
tives from Fairview Lodge, No. s,
o. G. T., at Wilmington Lodge, No
ia. l. o. G.. T., this evening. whel
Grand Chief Templar George Rankil
of Williamsburg, Pa, will be present
This will be a central meeting 70
Wilmington, Newport and Fairviev
Lodges c. Wilmer King of Newport
district chief templar, will also b.
present.
White Clay Creek Sabbath Schoo
Evening journal., 1911-05-25
PuNERAL OF b. '. WELDON.

SMYRNA. Del, May 25-The
funeral of Benton V. Weldon. aged 73,
who died at the home of his children
in Brooklyn, n. Y, on May 18th, took
place from his late residence on Del
aware street yesterday afternoon. The
funeral OF Mr.. Weldon was delayed
on account of the condition of Mrs.
Weldon. who, at the time Of her hus-
bands death, was In a critical condi-
tion. She is better now and was
able 10 return with her children
Tuesday night The funeral was I'm
charge OF the Rev Vaughan S. Col
Inns, of MiddletOwn, assisted by the
Rev. w. ID. Parry, and District Super
intendents Watt and Stephenson. The
Masons had charge of the services at
the grave and Masonic pall-bearers
bore the remains TO their last resting
place in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Evening journal., 1911-05-25
SEAFORD STUDENTS
READY TO GRADUATE

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
SEAFORD, Del, May 25.-The pro-
gram of the commencement exercises
of the Seaford High School gradual
ing class has been completed. The
final examinations have been finished
and school will close on Friday. The
baccalaureate sermon will be deliv-
cred in Mt. Olivet Methodist Protes-
tant Church on Sunday evening, May
%, by the Rev. J. Ernest Ltsinger.
The commencement exercises are to
be held in the assemblyroom of the
school, on June 2. Professor Alex
ander Harrington, principal of the
school has been selected to address
the graduates, and the diplomas will
be presented by DR.. w. F. Haines,
president of the local Board of Edu-
cation.
Evening journal., 1911-05-25

grown I'm this section and sold from
SO to Sc per thirty-two quart crate.
Evening journal., 1911-05-25
PATTY Ar ASHLAND.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
Ashland, Del. May 25-An enjoy
able party was given at the home Of
Patrick Murphey, of Ashland, on Sat
urday evening. IL was given by
Joseph Grady and Abner Hollings-
worth. The evening was spent i'm
playing games and dancing. Messrs.
Kelleher and Ryan furnished music.
Refreshments were served at a late
hour.
Evening journal., 1911-05-25
New China
Department

We will consider II a favor,
to have you visit our New
China Department, on the Sec
one floor of our store, where
we carry an up-tO-date line Of
Imported and Domestic Chinas.
Seeing our stock will perhaps
assist you in selecting that
Wedding Gift you intend to
purchase, or at least offer q
suggestion.
Evening journal., 1911-05-25
W. c. I. U. MEETING
AT DELAWARE CITY

DELAWARE CITY, Del, May 25.-
II. Clark was in Philadelphia on Sat
urday.-Mr Peacock spent Tuesday In
hiladelphia.-John Swan spent last
Monday and Tuesday in New Castle.
The w. c. T. u. held meeting Tues
day in their club room.
The Delaware City Baseball Club
played their first game last Saturday
and lost to Fort Mott by the score of
to 1.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-07


He had not long to wait. Long be-
fore the moon twilight had gone out
of the sky he saw in it silhouetted
against it, the sight from which
he had once fled with such mad
terror-the broad expanse of the sky
mans wings.
Instead of firing, he scrambled up to
the top of the nearest ice hummock
and from there watched Cayley' flight
I to his landing place
He laughed aloud when he saw that
! it was not in the side of the cliff, as he
had feared, but quite at the crest of it
where 1t was as accessible to a man
who could climb a bit as to one with
wings
He did not move from his attitude
of strained attention, on the summit
of little ice hill, until he saw faint
glow of golden light diffusing itself
from the mouth of the tunnel that led
to the pilot house. Then, with that
queer shutting gait of his, which was
neither walk nor run, he began max
ing his way inshore, over the ice. to-
ward the foot of the cliff
Cayley's tunnel was not at right
angles to the crest, but bore off dag
onally westward. Roscoe had noted
this fact, and he figured 1t out from
the top of the promontory, which
formed the western boundary of their
strip of beach, he should be able to
command a view straight into the tun-
nell Also, there was at this point a
precipitous trail up the cliff. No one
but Roscoe would have called it a
trail, but that was the way it existed
in his mind
His calculation of the angle of the
tunnel proved to be correct, for from
his newly-gained coign of vantage, he
could see straight into the pilot house
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-07

working without fatigue and without
termission-working so long as the
moonlight lasted.
He was just setting out with his last
load when, glancing skyward to see
how long the light would hold, he
caught a glimpse Of Cayley on the
wing. The sight occasioned him no
return-not even momentary-of the
old terror. He cursed little because
he had not his rifle with him; the sky
man soaring slowly and not very high,
presented a mark he could almost GER
tainly have hit.
1t was surprising, of course, to see
him alive, but Roscoe, in his present
state, never thought of looking to SUI
pernatural means to account for the
fact. Indeed, he was hardly more than
a moment in approXimating the true ex-
PLANTATION. There might well be, he
supposed, up somewhere in the face
of the cliff cave, or shelter, of which
he knew nothing, and easily acces-
sibie to anyone who happened to pos
sess a flying machine.
Skirting the cliff and keeping we'll
in it's shadow, he made his way with
his last load, back to his cave Here
he spent a few minutes cleaning his
rifle, making sure that the mechanism
Of the breech was working perfectly,
and filling its magazine full of car
tridges.
The moon was just setting. but the
sky was still bright enough to give
him good hope of making out Cay
ley's winged figure against It,
Roscoe squatted down in the lee of
the great hummock of ice, surveyed
the heavens with keen, practised eyes,
munching on a strip of dried walrus.
meat which he had, brought with him
and waited very contentedly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-07
SYNOPSIS.

Phihp Cayley. accused of a crime of
which he is not guilty. resigns from the
army in disgrace and his affection for
hatred. Cayley seeks solitude, where he
perfects flying machine. While soaring
over the Arctic regions, he picks UP a
assassin's hand. Mounting again, he dis
covers yacht anchored in the bay. De-
sGendlng near the steamer he meets a
gir I. on an ice foe. He learns that the
glrFs name Is Jeanne Fielding and that
me yacht has come north to seek signs
OF her father, Captain Fielding. an arctic
KIng search ashore After Cayley departs
Jeanne finds that he had dropped a Gu
TIiously-shaped stick. Captain Planck and
the SURVIVING crew Of his wrecked whaler
ere In hlding on the coast. A giant ruff
IAN named Roscoe, had murdered Field
Ing and his two companions, after the ex-
piorer had revealed the location of an
enormous ledge of pure gold. Roscoe then
TOOK command OF the party. 1t develops
ihat the ruffan had committed the muir
to capture the yacht and escape with
Dig load Of gold. Jeanne tells Fanshaw,
owner o OF the yacht. about the visit of the
Sky,man and shows him the stick left by
[ayiey. Fanshaw declares that it is an
Eskimo throwing-;stick. used to shoot
Sc 50, ironing party with sprained ankle.
Perry Hunter Is found murdered and
a"leY is accused OF the crime but Jeanne
oeIeves him innocent. A relief party goes
love for Jeanne She rows ashore and
enters an abandoned hut, and there finds
her fathers diary, which discloses the e&
piorer's suspicion Of Roscoe The ruff
nan returns to the hut and sees Jeanne.
he is intent on murder. when the sky
1nan sWoops down and the ruffian fees.
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
10 read; The yacht disappears and Ros
Coe plans to capture 1t are revealed.
Jeanne's only hope is in Cayley The
seriousness of their situation becomes APP
parent to Jeanne and the sky-man Cay
ley kills a polar bear. Next he finds a
clue TO the hiding place of the stores.
toscoe is about to attack the girl when
T.. g sent fleeing in terror by the sight
or the sky-man swooping down. Measures
are taken to fortify the hut. Cayley kills
i wounded polar bear and receives the
first iatimation that Roscoe possesses
firearms. fissure in the ice yields up
Hunters body and Roscoe, finding it, re-
moves the dead mans rifle. He discovers
that Cayley is a human being and not
spirit The ruffan is bafhed in his plan
n7"rfe~ CavIev when the latter and
Jeanne take refuge in the cave where a
durlous storm keeps them imprisoned.
They confess their love for each other.
t3YieY, resolving to seek the ruffian and
Kill him, finds Roscoe's cave.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-07

she was safe, he told himself She
was armed with heavy revolver, was
a good shot and had plenty of nerve.
She was in a place, the only avenue
OF access to which would give her a
tremendous advantage over any in
vader. So that even suppOsing the
worst-supposing that Roscoe's abb
sence were taken to mean that he had
gone to make an attack on the pilot
house, there could hardly be a doubt
that Jeanne would kill him.
His reasoning was all based on the
assumption that the pilot house was
inaccessible to any wingless creature
Even now, when his fear for the girl
was amounting to superstition of al
most irresistible intensity, it did not
occur to him to question that
He steadied himself as best he could
and crouched down in the shelter of
the big rock to await Roscoes return.
He had hardly settled himself here
when he saw something that made
him shake his head impatiently, and
swear a little. 1t was the winking
glow of an aurora borealis, off to the
north
Cayley gaZed at the spectacle unwill-
ingly, but still he gaZed And, some
how, though he fought the feeling des-
perately, it began to assume a per-
sonal significance to him-a signifi-
canoe of mockery. The whole sky was
quivering with vast, silent laughter.
Was it because he, with his fancied
cleverness and daring in finding Ros-
Goes lair and waiting for his return to
it, was really doing precisely the thing
that Roscoe would have had him do?
Were those sky-witches laughing over
what was happening up at the pilot
house while he sat here and waited?
No intelligence, no sane power of
consecutive reasoning can resist this
sort of thing definitely, and at last
Cayley's power Of resistance came to
an end.
He sprang to his feet, at, last. drip
ping with sweat, in spite of the cold,
caught up his bundled wings, unfurlec
CASIll anu IOOA the dir Win d uSu
Once he had jerked himself aloft to a
height a little above the crest of the
cliff, it was hardly more than a mat
ter of seconds before he came oppo-
site the dome-like mound of snow
which covered the pilot house.
There was no light shining out Of
the tunnel entrance. But that was
as he had expected it to be. He made
1t out easily enough; and in another
moment had alighted there.
"Jeanne!" he called.
IL was not the eXertion Of flight, but
a sudden intolerable apprehension that
made him GREATNESS. The word had
halted a little in his throat. Exact
ly as he uttered 1t he saw down the
tunnel and in the pilot house itself,
a tiny spark of fire, and heard the
click of steel against flint
What the spark Illuminated were
the fingers of a gigantic, hairy hand.
"Jeanne!" he called again, and now
his voice came clear enough. Wait a
minute and I'll make light for you"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-07
CHAPTER XXI.
In the Pilot House.

Cayley had been right in assuming
as he did in his conversation with
Jeanne, upon the subject, that Roscoe
and the other people of the Walrus
had never noticed the ice chimney, nor
suspected the existence of the pilot
house upon the cliff-head. Also, he
had followed correctly the track of
Roscoe's mind in the deduction that
the two latest castaways upon this
land-that is, Philip and jeanne
must have persisted in the great storm
which began on the night when he
fired the hut, and continued for so
many weeks that he, like them. lost
all trace of reckoning,
During the storm he had lived in
the cave. much as Philip and Jeanne
had lived in the pilot house on the
cliff: he had that is to say, in some
purely automatic fashion, kept on ex-
listing. The mere momentum Of a ma
ture mans vitality makes it hard for
him to die But when the storm
abated and milder weather came, he
bestirred himself, as Cayley did, and
set about digging tunnel of his own
through the great drift which had
blocked the entrance to his cave.
The next time the moon came up,
after he had completed the tunnel
from the cave, he set out down the
beach toward the ruins of the hut.
It was not mere curiosity which
att acted him, nor any lurking fear,
but simply the hope of making some
salvage from the wreckage of the hut,
or possibly, from the bodies of his two
victims, in case he was lucky enough
RI find them. He had no doubt at all
that they were dead,
His pleasure over the quantity and
condition of the stores he found in
the ice cave compensated for his
disappointment over not finding the
bodies of his two latest victims.
Evidently they had not even at
tempted to use such shelter as the ice
chamber afforded, for it showed no
mark of human habitation at all. They
had probably wandered outside and
died in one of the nearby drifts. Per
haps he would find them some day.
For the present, however. the stores
occupied his whole attention.
Very methodically he set to work.
carrying them OF to his own cave.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-07
CHAPTER XXI.-Continued.

Probably no apparition of the mon
ster he expected to find there-nO
sight of him towering expectant,
armed, anticipating all that Cayley
Ioped to do, and ready to Illustrate it,
could have been SO terrifying to Philip
as the thing he actually saw, which
was-nothing. At least, so far as a
first glance into the cave would re-
veal, his enemy was not there.
Cayley shuddered, not with fear,
and yet with a sensation stronger
than disgust. 1t was as if a leopard
had been standing over the deserted
lar of a hyena. A wild beasts lair
it was and not human habitation
The floor was Uttered with feathers
and halfgnawed bones. The rocky
walls dripped with oil SCOT of his hor-
rible cooking. The foul air Of the
place was actually iridescent. But
the real horror of it lay in the fact
that Roscoe was not there
Cayley's reasoning faculties attack
ed that blind, irrational horror with
all their force. From the condition of
the fire it was evident that Roscoe
had been gone several hours. 1t was
almost certain that he would return
soon. Cayley's arrival in his absence
really gave him an immense advant-
age. A man always comes unwariiy
into the place he calls home. If Ros-
coe came back now he would have no
chance at all against Cayleys quick
spring and the flash of the long knife
blade.
Certainly it was reasonable to ex-
pect that Roscoe would wait for an
other moonrise before setting out on
that assumption were correct, he
might be returning to the cave at any
moment
He strobe abruptly back to the cave
mouth AS he did SO, however, his
eye alighted on something that made
him pause-sOmething so strangely
out of keeping with its surroundings
that it caused him-or he thought that
was the reason-a sense of recogni-
ton, almost of familiarity.
The thing which so evidently did
not belong to Roscoe that it seemed
almost to belong to Philip himself
was a gold locket. 1t lay on a fiat bit
of rock, which seemed to serve Ros-
GOES purpose as a table. The objects
which surrounded tan irregular
piece of raw walrus hide, an over
turned bottle of whale oil. with a
smudgy wick in it, a sailmaker's
needle and some rawlings of canvas,
together with some scraps of food-all
spoke so loud of Roscoe and made such
a contrast with this bit of jewelry that
Cayley's action in STOPPING to pick it
up was automatic.
He held it in his hand a moment as
If he did not know quite what to do
with it, then put :: in his pocket and
went ont of the cave. Only during
the moment when it had first caught
his eye had it really commanded his
attention at all. BY the time he got
outside of the cave he had forgotten
It
Two or three breaths of the clear
air outside of the cave were all he
needed to revive him, physically. But
TO his surprise they did not suffice to
rid him of the feeling which he re-
garded as superstitious, namely, the
impulse to fly back to Jeanne as fast
es wing could carry him.
He had every reason to believe that
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-08-22
MEANEST MAN IN TOWN.

The meanest man in town is the
fellow who can but won't. If you
have ever carried around subscrip-
ton list, or tried to help along in an
active way any cause that would re-
suit in good for the community as a
whole, you have met him, no doubt.
Most probably he is making money ev-
cry day out Of the community, and if
there is man in the whole place who
ought to be possessed of this thing We
call public spirit, he is the man; but
he not only won't help, he actually
pulls back. He criticises in the mean
est sort of way the efforts of those
who are trying to do something for
their town, and usually he cusses out
the town generally. If he ever heard
anything good about any of his fel-
low citizens or his town, he wouldn t
tell it for anything in the world. Yet
u0 Is living LII luG udhll1S
money out Of those around him, and
his prosperity depends on the prosper
tty Of the community as a whole. We
are glad his number is not large, and
We hope it will grow smaller and
smaller as the days go by.-Chester
= Lantern.
This is a pretty good description.
We are afraid there are few such in
Newberry. II there should be any and
they will read this description We hope
they will Immediately go off all to
themselves, and in sack cloth and
ashes they will repent deeply and then
show their repentance by their ac-
tons.
This town needs to be rid OF all
such citizens. We need public spirit
ed citizens who will do something fol
the general welfare Of the community