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Evening journal., 1912-01-02
nAnY,s nEArH AccIpENlAL

Coroner James r. Chandler .o15y-
issued certificate of accidental death
in the case Of Frank Damiano th
four-year-old Italian boy, living az no
915 Coleman street, who drank az
quantity of whislSey yesterday
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
POLICE HAD QUIET DAY.

Yesterday. New Years Day, was a
quiet one in police circles. but one
arrest being made during the twenty
four hours. The case was PLAN
drink. According to the police few
cases Of drunkenness are encountered
for several weeks after the holidays.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
srRcFANT TUcKER Is 56.

Police House Sergeant James 3.
Tucker celebrated his iifty-siN'h
birthday anniversary today he re-
ceived the congratulations Of his
many friends
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
IA TOILETTE Man
AFTER OFFICE

Thomas S Foreacre of Middletown.
has announced his candidacy Tor Levy
Court Commissioner in the sixth Dis
trict. Mr. Foreacre is the editor OF
the Middletown Transcript, the Repub-
lican paper which on Saturday came
out editorially for LaFollette.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.

Happv New Yearl A New
Year of advancement and at
tainment-a year Of success.
The things that make for
happeniness are really very
simple-a kind word, a pleas
ant smile, a little appreciation
of the efforts of others-all are
easily obtained; especially II
material prosperity be gained.
Add TO these. congenial work.
a good wage. a cozy home and
pleasant environment ~ such
are the essentials for a Happy
New Year.
The conditions that mater
ial advancement demand are
often enumerated in the Want
chances for congen-
ial employment. investment
opportunities. fortunate times
for buying. selling. renting,
exchanging.
Call upon the Wants to make
the New Year better. happier
more resultfut year than you've
ever evneTieneed before.
The Wants accomplish many
objects at a minimum expense.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL PLANS

The quarterly meeting of the exec
utive committee of the New Castle
County Sunday School Association
will meet in the ushers' loom of Della
ware Avenue Baptist vkurch this
evening At that time llans for the
work during the coming yeal Will be
discussed.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
Mr.. RURTON ON AGAIN.

Deputy Collector az Internal Rev
enue Daniel Burton who has been Ill
for some time. was at his office to-
day for the first time in several weeks
He is much improved in health and
the employees at the Federal Building
were pleased TO see him.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
MARsH CoMPANY ELECTION.

The Middleburgh Company, COM
posed of owners of marsh land be
tween New Castle and Delaware City
will have its annual meeting at the
Pennsylvania Railroad Building on
the afternoon of January 10.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
500 FOR ASSAULT.

Bayard Connell was fined $40 and
costs in City Court this morning on
a charge of committing an assault
and battery on George Gillon.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
REYIYAL IN PROGREss.

Revival services began IN Harrison
Street NJ. r. Church last evening, the
Rev. r. High Adams preaching the
sermon The Rev. E. l.. Hoheckor
will be the preacher tonight
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
MR.. PURKS IN FIRST.

To Leonard l.. Purks belongs the
honor of being the FIRST plumber 20
take out a plumbers license for the
year 1912. He obtained his license
from Secretary Christy Of the street
and Sewer Department. this morning-
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sIf MORE IN CHECkS.

The Delaware Anh-Tuberculosis
Society this morning received Christ
mas checks as follows. Miss K r..
Lober. 81: John Lang, Delaware
City, 81; Magadiline Eisenminger, $40,
and w. II. Berger, $2
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
rRorrrr AwrmcANs N rcrAD0a

By Tho United rress-
WASHINGTON, Jan a-rhe Nasy peparHont today or
ae-ed the yorktown ssn from Panama cii e Eeua-
doy 70 protect American inress ehhh may hreaeued by
ne revoluoueis na Cables 70 he depa0nsn TO-
day state Situation Ecuador critical Rairoad
brldss are bcns burned BY mo yevoluonsu 1he sovom
ment concentrating troops Bo Bamba and serious nsht
ns h expected
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
HILLRS w. G. 4. U. MEETING.

The monthly melting OF the Hiiles
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
is being held at the Home OF Mrs. h.
". Brown, No. 2001 Rockford Road,
this afternoon.
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
TWIN RABIES Ill.

The twin daughters of Mr. ami
Mrs. Herman Gossen are suffering
with pneumonia. One of them may
rnI rncnNor.
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TO BE BURIED AT ODESSA.

Mrs. Emma Stevenson Hukll. aged
"a. wife IF William A. Hukill. of Phil
adelphia. who died on Saturday. Will
be buried at Odessa tomorrow morn
ing.
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rowrns THRrATEN TrRKEY.

ny Tho United Press
coNsrANrlNopL1. JAN a-pisoders in Mesdonia and
Abans haro become ssous hai British Ambassador Low
hsr today yelod threat ib crand vae bai The
povsr would Interfere Turkeys Informal naairs unless OUT
break supprossed
Evening journal., 1912-01-02
WEATHER

WEATHER.
BY The United Press
WASHINGTON, ID. e.. Jan. 2-Snow
or rain in the Middle Atlantic and
New England States within the next
thirty-six hours.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.-Forecast:
For Delaware Fair tonight follow
ed by increasing cloadiness and prob
ably snow or rain in early morning or
ON Wednesday; not much change IN
temperature.
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Total for 1910.

Speaking Of business conditions, MI
CONTINUED on Second Page)
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IDe EVENINU IUUHNHL
has more Subscribers Than
any oiher paper in Delaware.
lhai means q home paper
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Dead Letter Office Auctions Off Mail

Al EARLY 10000 packages containing
~ years accumulation OF articles
OF all sorts from the division OF dead
letters of the postotfice department
were put on sale the other day by
c. G. Sloan E. Co., auct1oneers, and
when the auctioneer began a hard
weeks task by singing out the con-
tents of package No. 1 a crowd OF
several hundred people had gathered
to rega'e themselves with the excite
ment OF the sale and perhaps to profit
by its terms. Package No. l con-
tanned 1.-TWO mans handkerchiefs, with
initials E. K, necktie, two pairs OF
hose. size II, and clothes brush"
and went to a girl in a picture hat,
who evidently was looking for Christ
mas presents FOR him."
The sale continued daily until the
whole lot YVES disposed OF. The auc-
tioneer had no easy task before him,
as he had to work hard and sing-song
vehemently every second. The terms
are cash on. delivery, and two active
r,orters were kept busy engaged run.
ming to and fro with packages and
money.
The bulk Of the goods was in the
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Farm Wait Wins Fortune in the Civ

tered the medical college of the Uni
versity Of Kansas, where on graduation
she finished third in a class made up
almost wholly Of men students. It
was the winter of the first smallpox
epidemic in Kansas City. She was
employed by the city and cared for
1000 smallpox patients. When she
left her position with the city in 1902
she had $4,000.
With two partners she invested it
in an 11-acre tract near Forty
third. street and the State line
This tract was plated in city lots and
marketed. and in a year she had her
$4,000 back and $4,000 more. Then
she put the $1,000 in an adjoining
tract of % acres. with the same part
ners, and they cleared $4,000.
In the succeeding five years she
built and sold 200 houses and cleared
more than 100000. She draws her
own plans, buys her own material and
personally bosses" each job she un-
dertakes, overseeing every detail of
the work.
In 1908 this young woman of 80
who few years before had been an
ignorant country girl, without money
friends or relatives. paid the penalty
Of her success by breaking down in
health. She was In a nervous col.
lapse and had to cease working. She
lost more than half her fortune be-
ore her health was restored.
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vessel alone. Similar conditions pre-
vail on the Atlantic coast and also in
the purchases of anthracite coal for
use In army posts.
Considerable progress is being
made in the movement to eliminate
the army mule and substitute the
auto truck, according to General
Aleshire. It has already been found.
after careful Investigation and expert
ment, that the auto truck is more eco
nomical and more efficient when used
in cities and over good roads. Three
such trucks are now being used at
San Francisco, one at Fort Sam Hous-
ton. Tex; one at West Point, N. Y.
and seven in Manila. Efforts are now
being made to obtain truck which
will replace the animal-drawn wagon
with troops in the field.
The ordinary commercial truck is
not suitable as means OF transp0rta-
ton in the field, says General Ale
shire. but truck Of special type
has ALREADY been planned for testing
purposes. The commercial truck Ia
usually too heavy when loaded to be
safely used over country bridges and
culverts. The idea carried out in the
experimental truck is that with load
of 5000 pounds it will not weigh over
5000 pounds. =
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Census Shows Big Shortage of Women

District of Columbia 158,O50 1903
North Carolina. .1,098,471 1,107,816
South Carolina. go. 751,842 $685.
Ten years ago the females outnum-
be'e ed the males In five other states
New York, New Hampshire, New Jer-
sey. Virginia and Georgia. Now tho
tables are turned. The bulletin says
in part:
s. AT birth the number of males al
ways exceeds the number OF females.
but male mortality is always greater
than female. Consequently through
the excess of male deaths. the num-
Der OF females gradually approaches
that of males and in the later years OF
life exceeds it. The negroes, with
their greater death rate, show tho
same result as Is observed in Euro
pean countries. namely. an appreciable
excess Of females in the population
both in 1910 and 1900"
The bulletin shows that New Eng
land has 64,452 more females than
males. Since the proportion OF fe-
males Of middle age and beyond is
greater than that of earlier life, 1t 10
fair to assume that there are moro
old maids In New England than In
any other section, but proportionateiy
the excess of females, and presumably
Of old maids in the District OF Colum.
bia, is even greater.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The progenitor
~ Of all the Holsters and the orig.
inal oyster that existed cons before
the first man who was brave enough
to swallow one, have been added to
the geological collection of the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology, and
they are only two Of 1000 specimens
OF petrif1ed remains of prehistoric
creatures gathered by Prof. Hervey
Sinner and Mrs. Sinner during six
months tour Of Bohemia, France, Eng
land, Ireland. Wales and other coun-
tries.
The lobster, fine specimen, existed
about 100000 years ago, the geolog-
lists calculate. It was found In the
mountains near Bohemia and many
miles from the sea.
This is not to say that Holsters grew
on trees in those remote days: the
water. receding in the course of ages,
left the lobster stranded and he got
petr1t1ed. Similar but much more
modern phenomena are not I'm.
known here. Harvard and "Tech"
students are sometimes left stranded
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original house was built, was nothing
but winding woodland path, and an
Indian trail diverging from it passed
where now stands the conservatory
on the Walnut lane side of the house.
So much did the early settlers respect
this Indian right of way that it was
temporarily arched over in the en-
largement Of the building, and SO re-
NAMED until long after Germantown
avenue was opened
Apart from it's historic significance,
this fine old haphazard bit of progress
sive building. between the dates of
whose earlier and later portions runs
the span Of more than two centuries.
is favorite object for the artists
brush to capture for portrayal on
canvas. Surrounded by high picket
fence, and facing on primly roman
tic old garden, this veteran of auld
lang syne stands lost in an atmos-
phere of bygone reyeries, waiting the
sound of strange voices which shall
say whether or not it is to remain
or 60 the way of so many of the long
forgotten mansions of old German
town.
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u ANSAS CITY, Kan.-There is in
II this city a woman, still young,
whose ambition was born when she
was an unsophisticated country girl
of 10, who did not know what failure
meant, and who came to the city and
made fortune in open competition
with shrewd financiers and daring
spectators.
Annie J. Scott, a penniless orphan.
was sent to farm in Lafayette coun.
ty. Mo-, when she was 8 years old, as
nursemaid and help" The success
Of neighbours child melted her to
study and save money, so that she
might attend the Warrensburg Nor
NAL school. She milked cows, sold
butter and saved $50 Then she went
to Warrensburg and worked her way
in three years through the normal
school, graduating in 1894
Her first ambition was to become a
missionary, but she became i'll and
was cared for at the German Hospital
in Kansas City. There she deter
mined to be a doctor, and in 1897 en-
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Find Petrified Daddy Of All Lobsters

4 : > IL
after buying many Holsters Of night
but they do not get petrifled. Of
course.
Millions Of years after this particu,.
lar lobster. passed, away the sporty
young men Of the stone age cracked
its descendants with their flint hatch-'
cts and treated the stony show girls,
of that period. Indeed, some geolog.l
lists claim that the term. lobster" as:
applied to sporty young men who do
that sort Of thing has descended from:
the stone age; they have been doing
so ever since.
The petrified oyster is much more;
ancient than any ever found in al
church stew. It also lived and breath;
ed and had it's troubles and joys So,
000, 900 years ago. Prof. Simmer found
it atop the Jura mountains in north
Switzerland. How it got there only
biologists can tell you; perhaps oys-
tiers carried alpenstocks in those days
In the collection are relatives of
the nautilus family estimated to be
100000 years old. They were found,
too, in north Switzerland. Nowadays
the nautilus exists only at the bottom
Of southern seas, so the family seems
to have come down bit in the course
of time.
But so have other families. The
learned Sinners picked up the inter
nal skeleton of an extinct squid; it is
Of about the same age as the nautilus
ancestors, 100000 years.
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Our Diplomats and Their Small Paw

American dealing with foreign: courts
unless, and such cases are rare, he be
9 man OF very remarkable personality.
The day when an American diplomat
OF the first class could live In q board.
Ing house and make a lever OF his
democracy has gone by.
One may have a hearty contempt
for the demands of fashion and pos
sess an innate love for a hickory shirt
and corduroy trousers, but he will hnd
himself uncomfortable at exclusive 80.
ciety functions In such garb, ii, in
deed, he be admitted at all. Similar
~, the American diplomat unable to
compete in entertainment, at least to
modest degree, with the representa-
tives OF other countries will find him.
self seriously handicapped.
We pay our ambassadors $17,5O0
per year whether they are sent to
Mexico or Turkey or to Germany or
Great Britain. It probably costs
Whitelaw Reid ten times that amount
to live In London, his house rent
alone exceeding his salary. Our min
listers are paid from $4,000 to $4,000
per year, whether they have to i've
In Haiti or Spain.
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Racers Eye a Historic Old Mansion

p PHILADELPHIA the re-
4 cent death Of Miss Jane r. Haines,
after lifetime spent within its ram
bling, tradition-haunted halls, Wyck,
the ancestral Haines mansion, at Ger
mantown avenue and Walnut lane, is
threatened with possible destruction.
should the historic ground on which
it stands be sold.
Under Its weather-beaten caves re-
pose perhaps, more sturdy mementos
Of Philadelphia history than in any
other private rnanse Of the many for
which the city is famous Flooring
upon which the blood of British and
American soldiers mingled during the
battle Of Germantown, is stored for
keepsake in its cobwebbed old attic.
The chair in which Lafayette sat
when he visited Germantown in 1924.
and when he was given a reception at
Wyck, is still to be found in the midst
of the silent quaintness Of the now
untenanted old homestead
The nucleus for the old structure
was first built in 1893. by one Dirck
Jansen. whose daughter married one
Caspar Wistar; through the marriage
of Wistar's daughter to Reuben
Haines in 1850, and by subsequent in
heritance through direct kinship,
Miss Haines came into possession Of
the long, white, notwithstanding
old structure, which took it's name
from an old English residence belong
ing to the family.
The Germantown road. when the
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Aged Newsie Leaves Hoard to Church

CT. LOU1S.-Lawrence Ring, for
- years familiar character in the
vicinity of Third and Chestnut Streets
where he sold papers, died at the City
Hospital of apoplexy. Recently his
will was filed for probate, and after
that tales of fortunes deposited in va
rious banks were heard.
Larry" lived the life Of a recluse
His home was a single room in the
Anticipated structure at North Third
street. There he came of an evening
cooked his modest supper, smoked his
pipe and pored for hours over the
news of the world He was believed
to be about IS years old.
He was veteran of the civil war
and pensioner. He was on the YES
sci which was blown up at Fort Fish
err. OF this it was his greatest pride
to tell. Often he declared that Ad-
miral George Dewey, the hero of Ma
Mia, had been his captain But he
never told anyone he had a bank &C.
count
In MS will he leaves to the pastor
of the old cathedral on Walnut street
$50 for masses for the repose of his
soul and the rest to the church fund.
He named the Mississippi Valley
Trust Company executor. Just what
the rest" will amount to no one
knows. However. his deposit at the
trust company was but $780,, He also
had safety deposit box in his name
at that institution, which has not
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miscellaneous schedule, and were mis-.
cellaneous in the truest sense OF the
word. Everything from an infants
zephyr sack to gold-tilled. false tooth
was scheduled. For example, lot 7X5
contained twenty-five damaged cigars,
three handkerchiefs, two pairs of
socks and twelve adjustable tobacco
pipe covers.
Musical instruments were scattered
throughout the list In profusion, and
neckties by the bale were offered to
the highest bidder. Scores of cheap
jewelry articles were for sale, and at
the end of the miscellaneous list ap.
peared hardware and electrotypes
A list Of books, most of it interest
ing fiction, appeared in schedule b,
and these with 400 packages of vaiu-
able jewelry were auctioned OF near
the close of the sale.
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attended Fred
eck to Politics."
which
when the America
Bertha
America land liberty
which admitting
the land
You history n
but
you'll
ude that
mat the "reconsdered
the real anthem aloud and then with
there was pretty mo" motion
Whatever
Fredericks
he
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r ttE female OF the species is less
i numerous than the male, accord
ing to q census bulletin. giving the
distribution Of the population OF the
United States according to SEX The
enumeration taken as Of April IS,
1910, showed that in the United States
as whole there were 1882, 1872 males
and 44,640,144 females, or a proper
ton Of LOG males for every 100 fe-
males. Moreover the man are increas-
ing their lead. The figures for 1910
mean that If every one in the country
was ordered to marry there would be
2691,879 wifeless men LETT over after
the rush.
In only five states and the Distric.
of Columbia do the women and girls
outnumber the men and boys. Here
Is their relative strength:
State. Males. Females
Massachusetts %. .1,655,226 l,711,19O
Rhode Island. 270,359 277,25l
Maryland ......... 644.225 651,121
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Uncle Sam is Held Up in Buying Fuel

r HAT the United States government
1 is held up and made to pay ex-
orbitant prices for coal and oil for
fuel Is the charge made by Brigadier
General ]. B. Aleshire, quartermaster
general Of the army, in his annual re-
port.
BY law, fuel supplies for the army
must be purchased under the bidding
system, the lowest bidder getting the
contract. General Aleshire says that
under the present system bidders
communicate the amount of tisn::r bids
TO one anothe~. and trade agreements
Keeping up nigh prices are thereby
maintained.
The general asks that congress give
him authority to use his discretion
IN purchasing fuel, so that the gov
eminent may escape the present sys-
tenn of excessive prices. Such author
1ty has already been granted to off,
GERS OF the navy department..
AS an example OF the excessive
prices demanded and obtained under
the bidding system, General Aleshire
cites the case of the transport Burn.
side, operating between the Pacific
coast and the Philippines.
On one occasion 1t was necessary
to coal the Burnside under an emery
ency without asking bids. In open
market coal was purchased at $3.50 a
con, for 400 tons. Previously the
army had paid $525 a ton for the
same grade of coal, under the bidding
system. Four hundred. dollars was
saved on the one purchase, and it is
estimated that by buying regularly In
the open market $4,000 a year could
be saved in coal purchases for this
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TELLS OF CHINESE HORRORS

Gradually the horror Of the pres
ent outbreak in unhappy China is be-
ing brought home to us as the news
Sits through the press censor's fln-
gers by way of private letters from
officials and missionaries who are in
the midst Of the turmoil and blood
shed. To the friends here who re-
ceive such letters details of the
tragedy of war are brought home
with stunning force
Or. Joseph Beech, whose portrait
is here shown, is one of those who,
through 40 act Of their own, are on
the firing line, 50 to say. in the rebel
lious provinces of China.
In letter to a friend here in
America DR.. Beech describes his ex-
periences after the outbreak against
the ManctA dynasty and declares
that the suffering there is beyond de-
scrfption He states that over 5000
s>ersons we're ruthlessly slaughtered,
while u:any women and girls commit
ted suicide at Chentu, West China,
where ae Is connected with the Chentu
He was still penned up there with
ter WAS written, but this letter was 81
come manner and found ito way to the
contents. i -:
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been opened as the key could not be
found

been opened as the key could not be
found
Father Eugene Coyle, pastor OF the
Old cathedral. said Ring had oeeu a
regular attendant at early aaas Sun.
days as long as he. cou:i remember.
An Italian grocer at 1itxd and Chest.
nut streets said Ping was we'll to do
and said tie old man had told of A
saving Of $4,000.
His room was modestly furnished
and orderly. but there was nothing OF
value to be seen. Ring had been sick
week, and was taken to the City
Hospital few nights ago. friends hav.
ing telephoned the dispensary that he
was unconscious.
1t is said by some Ring had no rela.
tives; others declare he visited some
of his kin at Rochester. N. Y, three
months ago, and had stated the trip
cost him $3.50