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Evening journal., 1912-01-26
QUIT COLLEGE
TO HUNT FORTUNE

NEWARK, Del, Jan. 26.-Withoui
the knowledge of the faculty or their
parents, four students at Delaware
College have disappeared, and are said
to now be on their way to Portland
Ore. from where they expect TO go 10
a point where they can take up some
timber lands. The four young men,
all sophomores, we're; George B. Me
Cuen, of Elkton, Md; Victor H. Handy,
of Milford. Del; Stanley Loomis, of
Meshoppen, Pa. and +. H. Dean, of
Friendship, n. Y.
Only a few of their closest as
sociates at the college knew anything
about their intentions. Dean, it is
said, knows something of the lumber
business, and it was the opportunities
in Oregon in that line that was the
incentive for them to leave their
studies.
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
OLD SWEDES THIRD
COP THESE I'VE GAMES

Old Swedes took two fast games on
their floor last night from Whining
ton Juniors and Highland Second by
the scores Of 2s to TO- and A TO 6.
wilkins played a star game. netting
10 fsld goals against Highland. The
lineup:
Old Swedes. VII Jrs
Moore ...... forward. Abrams
schafer ...... forward. ...s Mink
cooper centre. .... +. Dunn
Baldwin
Jewell ....... defence. ... Jack
Statneko -. defence w. Dunn
Field goals. Moore. 3: Cooper. 3;
Schafeg 2; Baldwin, 2; Jewell. 2:
Statneko. T. Mink, 1: Abrams. 4:
foul goals. Moore, 2; referee. Sawin.
Second Game:
Old SWedes. Highland
wilkins ..... forward. ... Wilfond
Moore .....forward. ..... johnson
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
ST. GEORGES

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
ST. GEORGES. Del, Jan. 26.-At a
special meeting Of the Y. p S G. Il.
Of the Presbyterian Church. a COM
mittee of three was appointed TO
draft resolutions on the death of Miss
Mary Cannon. a member of the So
ciety. who died last week of tuber-
culosis after an illness Of several
months.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
at the home Of Mrs. James Gam on
Thursday. February 1.
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
MILITARY COST
STATE $4,000

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, Jan. 26--The Legis-
lative Auditing committee today set
tied the military accounts of the
State Adjutant-General /. Pusey Wick
ersham, and his clerk, Lieutenant Q.
NJ. Carey. were present when the audit
was made. The vouchers showed that
there has been the following revenues
and expenditures:
Appropriation from the State,
S15, 100. Balance in treasury from the
year before, S619 80. Total. $15.719.3O,
Expenses of annual field practice and
military encampment and Of contin-
gent funds during the year. SIG "a.
Clothing allowance returned TO the
State. S169.52. Balance in treasury at
this time. going over to this year,
$373.24. Total, S15,719.30.
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
MATCH ESSENCE
In HIS COFFEE

GLENDALE. Del, Jan. 26-The
quick administration of an emetic
was the only thing that saved Milo
Barber from a terrible death from
poisoning when he found that he had
swallowed the boiled essence of a
large box of matches. Barber is en-
ployed as a wood-chopper and lives
alone in a shack in the timbered land
where he works. On arising in the
morning he cooked his coffee. After
drinking it he was seized with severe
pains and, fearing poisoning, he in
vestigated and found that a box of
matches had slipped into the coffee
pot and had been boiled with the cof-
fee. He hurriedly prepared an emetic
and physicians who later attended him
said that his own remedy saved his
life
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
SCHOLARS WANT
CARNEGIE LIBRARY

GEORGETOWN. Del, Jan. &C.
Handicapped by the lack of an authori-
tative reference library in the George
town High School. pupils of the school
began a concerted action yesterday to
raise $1,000 to meet the gift of another
$1,000 that is expected from Andrew
Carnegie. The town has been laid out
in blocks and a committee Of students
assigned to each block to make a sys-
tematic canvass for subscriptions.
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
SOME DtNrERs THESE.

William Maloney, Dennis McFsd-
den, Con. Lynch and Edward Cork
ran defeated four the Of the best
dancers in the state at prize waltz
in Polish Turner'S Hall last, evening,
before a large audience. Mr.. Ma
loney and Mr.. Corkran Won the first
waltz. These dancers have issued a
challenge to dance any set Of dancers
In the state.
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
TO TALK BASEBALL.

The DUPONT baseball team viii meet
Saturday evening, at the DUPONT Ath-
letic Club rooms. No. 407 Shipley
street The following players are re-
Quested to attend: Woo. Farley,
O'Connor, Brown, Buckley, Ross, Nc
Gowan, Smith, Haney. GawinsH. Man-
ager Gawinski has signed Charles Nc
Donough as pitcher
Evening journal., 1912-01-26
IA BOYS AT MARCUS HOOK.

The lrish-AmericGn soccer team
will go to Marcus Hook tomorrow
afternoon to play the team Of that
town.
The line-up will be: Goal Scait;
right fullback, Hewitt; left fullback.
Scott; right halfback, Murray; cen
tire halfback, Martin; left halfback
Bagley; outside right, Thompson; in
side right, Mclntire; centre forward,
Marley; inside left, Connor; outside
left, HILBERT; substitutes. j. Black and
A. Falcus.
Manager Kearney VIII be accom-
panied by a crowd OF rooters and he
expects 10 put up gilt edge game.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04
Is It Political Economy

1t is suspected that the insistent de-
mands for economy in the administra-
tion of Federal affairs, which is reach
ing such an acute stage and extending
so far beyond what appears reasonable
or just, is rather of a political than an
economical intent Both parties in
Congress are slashing away with the
pruning knife on almost every sugges-
ton of expenditure, and many who have
always been conspicuous for their sense
of justice and fairmindedness in all
matters pertaining to District affairs
and to the Federal employees have ap-
peared in a strange light in the eyes of
those most affected by their change of
sentiment
There are some who see in this at
titude taken by Representatives on both
sides Of the House something of polit-
ical material for the approaching cam
paign which promises to be "a difficult
maze to thread 1t looks very much as
though some started out bravely at the
beginning Of the session with the idea
that a systematic course of economy in
Federal expenditures would be a rather
good thing to take back to their con-
stituents and to the country at large as
a political asset The hearty support
with which this determination has been
met by some of their political oppo-
nents would appear TO justify the
thought that IT is a case of IF you
want economy in appropriations, you
will get plenty of it,"
There is danger that the wave of
economy. instead of being a political
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To Lift the Ban.

The recommendation made in the re-
port to the General Conference of the
NJ. F. Church BY the board of bishops
10 abolish the rule prohibiting such
forms of amusements as dancing and
going to the theaters is to be CON-
mended. 1t is a move in the right di-
rection, one that will attract rather than
repel the younger element.
There are dances and theaters no
clean-minded person will attend, not be-
cause they have been put under the
ban of any church, but rather for the
reason that it is instructive for the pure
to avoid the unclean. Fortunately, the
dances that are pernicious and the thea
tiers that should be avoided are few.
On the other hand, there are many
dances that are the poetry of grace and
beauty. AS for the theater, its manage
ment knows better than any one else
that its patronage depends on its
wholesomeness.
The theater of to-day is school, and
as such the lessons it teaches are, with
hardly an exception, such as tend to
elevate.
In the recommendation made by the
bishops, the distinction is drawn be-
tween questionable amusements, such
as gambling with cards, and those men
toned above. This is right In max
ing the recommendations they did the
church dignitaries showed themselves
to be not only Christian gentlemen, but
men who understand the ways of the
world
If the conference decides to abolish
the rule as recommended, it will have
accomplished something much to be de-
sired, and will do away with the pres
ent tendency of the younger set to in
dulge in forbidden amusements, know
ing that later on they may have 70
evade even to the extent of fibbing any
questions that may come up with re-
spect to such amusements.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04
CONFIDENTIAL Letters.

The cabled report from London,
printed in The Herald on Friday morn
ing, intimating that Ambassador Bryce
may be recalled, is to be regretted, es-
pecially so when it is said that the
reason for the report is that he took
an interest in the reciprocity question
OF last year.
The ways OF diplomacy passeth un-
derstanding, at least TO the -layman, but
it can hardly be conceived by the or
binary man that a government should
object to its representative taking an
interest in what he believes would re-
suit in good to two great countries.
The cable says the rumor is the re-
suit Of the publication of President
Taft's confidential letter TO Col. Roose-
welt, saying reciprocity would make
Canada only an adjunct of the United
States"
With due respect for the views of the
President and a little wonder at the
T.aasou the former President allowed
a confidential letter to be made. public,
The Herald recalls other letters that
have caused international discussions,
especially the burn this" letters of a
Presidential candidate of a couple Of
decades ago. There have been later
examples that proved quite annoying
to the writers and which were gen.
orally believed would have a tendency
to prevent such a contretemps in the
future, but 50 long as confidential"
communications are not regarded as
confidential it would perhaps be better
TO forget to write anything requiring
that it be marked confidential or
burn this"
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04

asset, may develop into a weapon of
meanness" which every politician knows
is quality not to be regarded with
favor in an appeal to the voters. The
threatened cutting off of supplies, the
whiting down of appropriations, the
suggested dismissal of employees, and
the refusal to entertain any measure
leading to the giving of pensions or
raising salaries may all be but a part
of a political maneuver to be used in
November. After this purpose shall
have been aecomplished, II may be ex-
pected that there will be return to
the dictates Of justice and fairness
which have generally marked the ad-
ministration of public affairs in these
directions At all events, the suggest
ed explanation is the most charitable.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04

interesting event on the programme.
Pagan Kin. a chestnut gelding from the
Brandywine Stables. met with one OF
the most disastrous accidents at the
show. The animal had covered fve OF
the hurdles. The last two jumps were
boxed. Pagin Kin took the first at an
angle.
Crash Into Side Fence.
The diagonal course Of the mount and
the rider brought the two crashing
through the northern side fence. The
legs OF, the animal broke through the
lattice work. and both horse and rider
fell in q mass. The rider was pinned
beneath the animal. Several attendants
rushed to the scene and extricated Pagan
Kin and the rider. Neither horse nor
rider were injured, fortunately. The
horse was mounted between the two
hurdles, and without any start, the ami
NAL cleared the second hurdle perfectly,
bringing forth cheers OF the entire grand
stand
Much amusement was afforded the
spectators when Semper Felix. a brown
gelding from the Glenara Stock Farm,
took the boxed hurdles The animal took
the FIRST jump with a wild leap, which
sent the rider bouncing about a foot
from his saddle. No sooner had the fore
feet Of the horse struck the ground than
the animal was again IN the air, taking
the second hurdle. The jump was so
wild. so high, and SO sudden that the
rider was severely Jared and almost
bounced out Of the saddle.
Algoma, entered by w. r. Abel. win
ner OF the first prize. took every hurdle
with ease. Not a hurdle was fouled.
Strongheart, a black geldlng. driven by
a stable boy. furnished many laughs.
The Colored rider urged his horse around
the course at q fearful rate. taking hur-
die after hurdle on the long leap. The
animal charged over the fifth hurdle and
headed at breakneck speed for the last
two. AS it reached the obstacle IL
stopped short and baked.
The rider took Strongheart quickly to
the other end Of the field. and then
digging his heels into the fanks Of the
horse and walloping 1t over the hind
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04
The Red Cross Convention.

1t is Washington's pride that it is the
center of the Red Cross, perhaps the
best-known philanthropy in the world
1t will be Washington's privilege to
entertain delegates from all points OF
civilization when this organization holds
its ninth international conference next
week.
This conference will emphasize the
fact which has been but dimly under
stood in the United States-that the
Red Cross is now equipped, through its
many branches. to extend aid and sue
cor wherever it is needed, from the
Antipodes to Iceland, and from the
Sandwich Islands to Zanzibar. 1t dis
played its effectiveness in the Messina
disaster and in the Chinese famine
When the world opens its heart to the
bereft and the distressed, the Red Cross
is by far the best agency of interna-
honal benevolence.
For this reason the conference which
opens in the Capital next Tuesday will
be watched with interest in all parts OF
the globe. Its work will be done mod
ssty and unobtrusively. but Washing
ton should take some means of indicat-
ing its appreciation of the Red Cross
during the conference President Taft
will do his share, and the civic forces
of the city should not be slow in prof
fering hospitality and good will.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04
Invest in Y. W. c. A.

Washington, like other cities, is be-
ing constantly requested to aid popular
movements, and right CALAMITY does it
respond In doing So it shows the right
spirit, the spirit that has made the
Capital known everywhere as 4 pro-
gressive. up-to-date city.
Just now it is asked to help the Y.
w. c. A. build home for-its members,
one capable of taking care of all, at
least temporarily, who apply The
work that is being done by this asso-
ciation in everycity where it has a head
quarters is too well known to need any
extended description. 1t is only neces7
sary that the fathers and mothers, in
fact. any one who is interested in the
welfare Of women, to remember that
the Y. w. c. A building in any city
in any country means home TO the
stranger as we'll as to the native.
1t is not a money-making or a chari-
table institution, but simply a self-sup-
porting association which women, and
especially young women, can look upon
as a safe harbor The proposed new
building will provide all the comforts
and many of the luxuries of home. 1t
is intended to make conditions so pleas
ant that young folks will flock there,
will make engagements to meet their
friends, to write their letters, to spend
their evenings, to study to exercise
and, in general, make it their head
quarters.
Right grandly are the people of
Washington responding. The amount
to be raised, $4,000. is a large sum,
but Washington is a large and pros
porous city. 1t would be a shame if
the burden be allowed to fall on the
shoulders of the few. Every one
should help. The dollar of the worker
is as good and little better than the
dollar of the rich As a rule, it is the
daughters or sisters of those who are
not wealthy who receive the benefits
of the association
There remains but a few days more
to raise the amount needed Every one
should send in their contributions vol
unfairly, and at once. II is a good in
vestment, one that will bring good re-
turns in unexpected places.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04

las Thropp, their son, and several OF
his friends. Mai Gen. and Mrs Leon
ard Wood and Mai. and Mrs. Henry T.
Allen occupied another box The German
Ambassador and Countess Won Bernstorff
were with some OF the members Of the
embassy stan.
Representative and Mrs. Martin w
Littleton had with them in their box
the Treasurer Of the United States. Lee
McClung Mr. and Mrs. Peter Goelet
had with them Nine. Havenith, wife Of
the Belgian Minister, and the Spanish
Minister and Mime. Riano. Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Brooks, jr., Mrs. Walter Brooks,
ST.. Mrs. Bonsal, OF Baltimore, and Mrs
Preston Gibson were in Mr.. and Mrs.
Stotesbury's box. Mr.. and Mrs. Mont
gomery Blair had their three schoolgirl
daughters with them. DR.. and Mrs.
Breckinridge Bayne and Miss Caral
Crawford were in Mr.. and Mrs. Eldridge
Jordan's box.
Among others were Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis B. Crowinshield, Senator and
Mrs. Clarence Watson, Mrs Robert
Hinckley. Representative and Mrs
George W. Fairchild. Senator Wetmore,
Miss Wetmore. Senator and Mrs Win
throp Murray Crane. Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Letter. Mrs. John R. Williams.
Miss Francise Williams. Miss Gladys
Mrs. William Barret Ridgely. Mr.. and
Mrs Perry Belmont, the Misses Came
ron. Miss Mary Temple.
Representative and Mrs Anberry, Miss
Katherine EIkins Mr.. Hit. Mr.. and
Mrs Richard wallach, Miss Jane Sands.
Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Oliver,
Miss Oliver, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tuck
erman and Mr.. and Mrs. De Peyster. Of
New York; Miss Eleanor Ridgely. DR..
and Mrs W. Sinclair Bowen. Lieut.. Col.
and Mrs. Charles W. McCawley. Repre-
sentative Butler Ames, Mrs. Jack Bid
die. Mr.. Jerome Bonaparte. Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Letter.
Mrs. Julian James, Representative and
Mrs Patten, Mrs. Charles B. Howry.
Miss Howry. Miss Elizabeth Mumford,
Mrs. Hunt Slater. Mrs w. W. Wother-
spoon, Miss Esther Smith, Miss Alice
Shepherd. Lieut.. and Mrs. Barnett. Mrs.
McCaully. Miss MCCaully. Mai. Horton.
Mr.. ". 7. Bingham. Miss Portner, Miss
Izetta Jewel Miss Hazel Jewel, Lieut.
Gen. Nelson A Miles, Mr.. William Mar
row, Miss Fremont, Mrs. Morris Evans,
and Miss Evans.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04

parted on. a European trip Thurs
day.
The Players Club is allesed tr
be planning another cabaret sho~
for their friends. but Il will not b
held In the Raleigh banquet hall.
Our esteemed fellow-toWnsman,
Granville Furtescne. has broker
into the delightful game o. play.
writing with one-act Eketch
which EE Butterheld will try out,
william John Eynon has Atlantic
Gifted for the past two weekk
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04
Smart Audience
Again Turns Out
for Horse Shop

Society turned out en- masse yesterday
for the Horse Show. The boxes were
filled with prominsnt diplomats, officials,
and fashionable men and women Of
Washington. with many from New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Virginia.
The Austro-H Hungarian Ambassador and
Baroness Hengelmuller and their small
daughter. Baroness Mia Hengelmuller;
the Russian Ambassador and Nine.
Bakhmetef. Mrs. Marshall Field, Miss
MacVeagh. and Mr.. John Barrett were
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B. Nc
Lean I'm their boxes.
Col and Mrs. Robert NJ. Thompson had
in their box Rear Admiral and Mrs. W.
H. Brownson. L. S. N: Miss Wood and
Miss Sykes. Mrs. John Hay was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. ". ]. Boardman.
Mrs. James R. Garfield. Mrs. Hunt Slat-
er, and Miss Enc were among the guests
of Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, Of New
York, in her box Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
E. Thropp entertained in their box Doug
The Washington herald., 1912-05-04
vnsd by L c. Leth of Mddebrg Va Taking Stone Wall jump
ENaWod Isklg S.o wan
GIRL, THROWNFROM HER HORSE,
SHOWS PLUCK; WINS APPLAUSE
Miss Ae Riding The Dag Escapes Serious Injury Tang
urdIe-Pleuty Feature Third Day of Horse Show

, quarters with a whip started on a wild
dash for the hurdles. strongheart did
not balk this time. With the heels still
digging into him and the switch still
striking his quarters. strongheart took
both hurdles with a clean record.
Several horses. during the events OF
the afternoon, became obstinate and had
TO be removed from the field. Class
g.. handicap jumping. was the first event
Of the afternoon. The handicaps were
feet for green hunters, 4 feet and
inches for qualified hunters, feet for
hunters that had competed in high
jumping events, and 5 feet and 1 inches
for horses that had won high jumps.
The event was won by Glenwood, enter
ed by L. c. Leith.
When Mavoureen, a brown mare, en-
tered by Charles Wheeler. came upon
the field, IL suddenly hurdled the fence,
throwing its rider OF. Class IS. that of
ladies' phaeton horses, driven by ladies.
was an interesting number. Mrs. c. W.
Watson drove the winning animal. Norma,
from the FairmOnt Farms. Supreme. the
winner Of the second prize. was driven
by Miss Pierce.
In the tenth class. an exhibition OF
pair Of horses, Miss Loula Long, of
Kansas City, Mo. driving Revelation and
Hesitation. won applause. Beside Miss
Long on the seat OF the vehicle sat a lit
tie bulldog. which nestled its head IN
the folds OF her dress, and frequently
closed its eyes in an effort to sleep.
Yesterdays Judges.
The Judges of the events yesterday
were:
Stations. roadsters, &c.-R. A. Fair
balrn. Of New York. and H. Rozier Du-
lany. of Upperville, Va.
Saddle Horses-R. Lawrence Smith, OF
New York; L. Z. waring. of Plainheld,
N J., and J. r. Townsend, OF Goshen,
n. Y.
Chargers-Col. z. st. J. Greble. Of
Washington. and Col Stanley, Of Wash
ington.
Hunters-James w Graves, of Rich
mond, Va; AnteIlo Devereaux, Of Phila-
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EVERY SATURDAY.
Our Motto: Hyou see it in The Big
stiek. il isn't necessarily So
FIRST PAGE
WAR REPORT
EXTRA!
EXTRAI

From Our War CoTespondentJ
After rumors Of strife have hoat-
cd about IN he eircumnambicnt 80
lCng that the limelight was thor-
Oughly FURNISHED up for the first
outbreak Of the melee. Capt. James
F. Oyster and the Board Of Com
niissiOners exchanged the irst shots
uf their 1872 version Of the ancient
warfare this week. The seTried
"commiSh'ners" popped OF first
with faint muskstrJ, blunderbuss
fashion. and tired to send a run
ner through the ensrny's line BY
advising ConuesS - Sbolish Capt
Oyster and his cohorts from Harry
o. Hins up TO Ellen Spencer Mus
sey. In the meantime all the
school-teacheTs, old-lire Journal
ists." including blsse. more Or less.
city editors. ard press gallery Suvs-
niles. ran to the side lines to await
Developments.
% After Oyster and the Board of
Educations caught the District
Building spy and returned the early
fire with s1me good old Franklin
School Artillery, both sides paused
for breath to count their casual
ties. Waldo Hibbs walked IN. 30
to speak. from "a long Virginia
aunt 70 help the Rudolph facticn.
arriving Just in the nick Of time.
A hurry call was sent out for
snowdcn Ashford. who has done
such tall and lofty shooting IN the
past. The Building Inspector.
however. waI the most peaceAbly
inclined man in the vicinity Of the
District Building when be was last
seen scITJing up FOurteenth
Street.
Later reports state that Mr..
Ashford has been appointed as q
local branch Of the Hague tribunal
20 arbitrate the impending striR-
gle. The appointment IS alleged
to he entirely satisfactory 10 Capt
Oyster. We used that handy old
verb. alleged, upon advice oi
coursei.
II Is expected that the battle
will be reopened with renewed en-
SrU the coming week. and that the
rruffer of arbitration from the
White House viii not be accepted