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Evening journal., 1912-12-14
NiEWSY DOINCS
OF NEW CASTLE
Militiamen Find Many Advant-
ages in Improved Town
ArmOry
MERRY CONTEST ON FOR
SHAD PATROLMAN'S JOB

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEW CASTLE. Del, Dec. l4.-Cap-
tain Jesse Mckay is being congratu-
lated upon his improvements made TO
the Armory Some months ago the
electric light wires caused a fire in
the second story Of the building ana
repairs have been made including al
terations and the painting of the
rooms. New curtains have been hung
and new rug and linoleum placed on
the floor. In the centre OF the drill
room, which, was the old court room
years ago, stand two big posts. Be
tween these was the prisoners pen
and here wore many Of the couvicts
in bygone days cropped and branded.
Engineers have given their opinion
that the posts can be safely removed
by having a steel girder run across
the auditorium and supported by steel
uprights. Then the men will have a
chance to drill without Instructions
in the drill room.
lt is expected that there will be a
crowd present this afternoon and
evening at the bazaar in Music Hall
The monogram quilt is attracting
much attention The young women of
the Methodist Church have the a.
zaar in charge
Mr.. and Mrs. Selden S. Deemer are
now making arrangements to hold
their annual Christmas day recep-
ton. Poor children whom Old Krss
sights or passes lightly are TO be
their guests from 10 to ] oclocx
Children who have plenty of Christ
mas cheer at home are not expected Ia
attend the reception. Toys and candy
VIII bc given TO the youngsters anC
tht happleat pair on such an occasion
arc Mr.. and Mrs. Deemer because thes
make others happy on Christina.
day
Adelphla Lodge win poln Caiantna
Lodge knights of pythias on the trig
TO Clayton on next Thursday evening
Kent Lodge Of Clayton has r large
class Of candidates TO receive thC
sc ,ond and third rank degrees.
alauy wild ducks aro being SHOT DC.
tween hero ard Red Lion
The fccloy lot al Second and Ghost.
nut streets has been sold by tho Trus.
tcos OF the Commons and it is eN.
pccicd q $4,000 residence win bc
bai't there next spring by the prr.
aser
Revival services in the Methods
Church VIII commerce on New Years
eve.
lich 1rsais Of tAc Christmas mus,
AZ he'ng. held b* tie church choirs
Harry Rowan who has been an en-.
ployc cf the nrylgon steel plaut fol
nearly three years has removed {,
Cncstfr aud late, may 90 West
There viii he a lively contest thi.
spring for Office OF shad patrolman
'rp3intment is for four years. Tber'
arc several candidates i'm ttc field a
present Tho position pays s2SO0
year aud the patro'man has to waic'
The n1hermcn TO prevent Sunday fish
ing Under.thc law the shad fisher
wcn cannot cast their nets befor
w'dnight on Sunday night William
Ge5nardt George McNnitt william
Pedrick and others win be in the con
tosi for the position.
J. Harvey King Is an applicant fo
Fish Commissioner and It is hope,
the appointment will como here. Del
aware City has had the plum twic,
and Kent county has had the appoint
ment eeyeral times. The Commission
er has to see that the streams ar
stocked and that there arc no viola
tiofs of the law.
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TAKES HIS FIFTH BRIDE;
HER APPLE PIES WON HIM

BIsLLEVILLE, H.. Dec. 14.-For
the fifth time George Overbauer of
Mascoutah. H., has taken unto himself
wife and this time he has married
the best cook in the neighborhood. He
says her apple pies are the wonder OF
the vicinity, and it is no marvel that
his heart was won through his stom-
ach.
Overbauer was welded by the Rev
c. ID. Schlinkmann He is So years
old and his wife GA. Mrs. Overbauer
No. 5 formerly was Mrs. Mary Miller
Married life is the only life for
me" said OverbaueT after the cere-
mony. II first married when | was
21 years old. / have been most I'M
fortunate for my first four mates
died Bach time I found myself SIM
<lc / could not bear the lonely life.
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RAILROAD TESTING
BREATH FOR JOBS

CHICAGO. Dec 14.-Several years
ago an uuwritten law on. the Great
Northern railroad provided that a
man with red nose was not TO be
employed under any circumstances.
Tho ST. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern has gone the Great Northern
one better. II smolls his breath
Surprise breath smelling tests were
recently inaugurated on the latter
railway when the superintendent
trainmaster, and general yardmaster
appeared Unexpectedly in the yards
at Dupo, Ill.,. and ordered each en-
ployee to pass the breath test. Those
found to have been drinking liquor
were ordered off duty.
Local railroad officials yesterday
expressed themselves as favoring
such test
NJ. L. Bell an attorney for the Rock
Island Railroad. yesterday told the
Illinois Railroad and Warehohusc
Commission the railroad employc
who stated a passenger train was on
time when he should have known II
was late should be sent TO iail.
Joseph n. Mott representing the
residents of Washington Heights. ha6
protested against the service. saying
IL was joke On one occasion. he
said. a bulletin had been posted to the
effect that a train was on time. II
came in nearly an hour late
Mr.. Bell said the Rock Island wants
10 improve service If there Is good
cause for complaint and is willing tc
have the Commission or the Inter,
state Commerce Commission Offer
suggestions An engineer of the
Board will investigate the complaints
Evening journal., 1912-12-14

PILES CURED IN TO II DAYS,
fou' druggist viii refund money if
PAzo OINTMENT fails to cure any
case Of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or
Protruding piles in 6 TO IA days. soc.
Evening journal., 1912-12-14

Copley Prints at Yerger's, 419
Shipley Streets
Evening journal., 1912-12-14
CROUPY COUGHS AND WHEEZY
HnInS

The quickest simplest way to rid
the children of dangerous croupy
to give them Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound Il gives almost instant
relief and stops a cough promptly. It
soothos and heals. Contains no
opiates.-N. p. Danforth. Market and
Second SITS, Wilmington, Del.|
Evening journal., 1912-12-14
STrnENTS IN MOCK TRIAL

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER. Del, Dec 14.-A mock
trial is being arranged for by the
pupils of the Dover High School to be
given in the Assembly Hall of the
school next Thursday evening. The
subject under consideration by the
court will be tine Jennie Brice Case.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-30
THANKSGIVING.

we can be thankful this year for
the bumper crops The fertile fields
of iowa never produced greater boun-
ty. Everyone shares in the benefits
derived from the big yields OF the
Iowa farms We can be thankful for
the ideal weather of the fall and early
winter. We can give heartfelt thanks
that there have been no epidemics OF
disease during the year, and that
greatest blessing, good health, has
been the general lot.
OF course, there are few that can
not. by searching about, find some
cause for complaint. There are oc-
cagional reverses that can be magni-
fed and brooded over until they as
sumo unwonted proportions. But in
every case they are Offset by far
greater blessings. II we will open our
eyes and our hearts and give due re-
coRnition to the manifold benefits we
receive, we will more easily bear the
crosses that come our way.
We need this day Of rest and re-
Election, We need to take stock of
the year that is closing and to measure
the good things that have come our
way. And if we enter into the spirit
Of this Thanksgiving day and allow
the Thanksgiving cheer to enter our
hearts we will feel better for it and
make the world a brighter place for
others
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DO IT EARLY.

Springfield News: Do your Christ
mas shopping early enough to enable
you to send presents by mail at least a
week in advance Of Christmas day.
Such a course will vastly relieve the
holiday congestion of the mail service,
and will assure greater safety in
transmission.
The postoffice reports that last year,
over fifty thousand packages contain
ing presents. sent through the mails
were not delivered because of care
lessness in wrapping and addressing.
In the confusion incident to a big
postoffice business during the holidays.
the hazard of sending q properly
wrapped and carefully directed pack
age is considerably increased, but
WREN such an article is loosely wrap
ped and only partially addressed, there
is likelihood that 1t will never reach
it's destination at ALL
Insure safety 81 mailing your pres
ent week or ten days in advance of
Chriktnaa day
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Andrew Carnegie has explained that
in making provision to offer pensions
congress co to take proper action" along
The same lines. I'VE were very care.
full he said, ito provide tnat ons
in case congress failed to provloe
nc sions to expresidents the corpora
lion would stand ready to do so. 1t
is ISL properly the province of the ma,
.tion to act" Mr.. Carnegie referred
- lincoln and Grant as two presidents
Who v, needed financial aid. Whether
no nension for ex-presidents is taken
or left, however, Mr.. Carnegie WIN
continue his plans to give away ms
fortune. He says ne Will give away
be disnosed OF under his will. The
remainder will go to the Carnegie
CORPORATION to carry on his education
Al and charitable work after his death.
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1t is just as important to the future
of the newspaper carrier, that he
deliver his papers promptly and cor
rectly as it is for the business man
to do his work in the best manner
If the boy does his work the pest ne
can. it will be noticed, If ne is care
less and late it will be noticed TOO:
The way the boy does his work, Will
sive a good idea of how his work VIII
be done when he grows older. The
how should do his work while he 1s
going to school in way that Will get
him a good place in business life when
he gets through school. 81.
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almost an offense against the de-
cencias. But the history OF every
town in this country is written large
with the stories of men who have tug
ged success from failure, and scarce
the sorriest dog of all is so submerged
that there is not cleaning somewhere
for him the distant flame that lights
the trail to better things. Therefore
to all poor and distressed good men
we send in earnest friendliness the
old. great cry of stout fighter. "Cour-
age, brother, the devil is dead An
other hole in the belt; another stinen'
ing of the resolution; another DUCK
at the line-and the game that was
lost is game that is won. So cour'
age, brother.
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The Sioux City Journal asked what
had become of the old fashioned BOY
who used to sit idly by in his nome
made wooden stocking feet while the
cobbler begged pair of half soles on
10 old IA shioned boys copper toed
boots. The Waterloo Reporter say
he was partially identified last oatur'
day at the football game, wearing q
brown suit, with turned-up trousers
silk hose, patent leather oxfords' a
fuzzy crushed hat, red ana green
necktie and carrying a cane with a
yellow pennant streaming from the
ond If H. .s... .-- 49,
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Press Comment
PENSIONlNG Ex-PRESlDENTS.

Muscatine Journal: If it was the in
tention Of the Carnegie corporation,
which has just announced the estab-
lishment Of fund to pension ex
presidents of the United States at the
rate Of $4,000 annually, to force the
government to make provisions for its
ex-presidents, it is very possible that
this purpose will be promptly achieved.
Less than twenty-four hours after
the announcements OF the new Carne
gle grant word comes from Washing
ton that strong movement is expect
ed in the coming session to induce
congress to provide a pension fund.
There is some reason to believe that
the canny Scot whose gift threatens to
cause much debate and comment for
some time to come. expected that the
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chimed in, cursing the Rhein and all
she carried In tongue that ought to
have appealed to her. And to him were
added all the boats complement with
one exception as chorus. But Mr.. Ket-
tie, the mate sat by the tiller with
out ward. and without change Of
countenance.
AS she drew out of earshot, white
aft along the steamers decks. and
stood on her taffrail holding on by the
ensign staff. He howled out sentences
which they could not catch, and waved
a grimy hand. Then a woman came
and joined him, her skirts blowing
out shrewdly in the wind Of the steam
er's passage. She also waved her hand
and shouted, and though the tones of
her voice reached them, they could
not make out the words. And every
instant the steamer grew smaller and
more distant.
The crew Of the life-boat still shout
ed and sobbed and danced, but pres
emily the grim little mate pulled them
up sharply enough with curt COM
mand for SILENCE in the boat!'
If you've all quite finished giving
a free variety show for that painted
Dutchman, perhaps you'll restep that
mast. and let's be getting under way
again. We've no more time to waste!"
Baldhead Topped to heap on the
floor boards. Whats the good?" he
muttered. We're as good as dead
now"
You may be- snapped the mate.
"Im not. I've got to live for lot Of
things; among others to pay my COM
pliments to that glass-eyed skipper
with the tow beard, and to skin that
pirate with the incandescent nose who
Knocked at me from the poop staff. BY
James, IL you swivel-kneed blighters
are going to weaken now and let those
skunks live unpublished, I'm not. I'm
going to teach them their sea man
ners II 60 to Berlin and set fire to
their blessed emperor's palace to do
it.-Step that mast, you jellf-backed
sons Of SIM"
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new Carnegie fund would Immediately
arouse such a movement. 1t Is scarcely
a pleasant thing for republic to see
it's retiring presidents supported by a
fund provided from private and COR
poration sources and the invitation
held out in the stipulation that the
fund only stands as long as the gov
eminent fails to make proper provision
lO0ke6 .... .-. tE.F .r-'.
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ncouRAcE" BROTHER.

"Sometimes," says the Washington,
D. c., Times, there happens to fall
upon these columns the eye of a man
who is up against it and we know
that to THE man who is up against it
the approach Of Thanksgiving infiicts a
sense of desolation that is poignant.
To tell such man to take heart Of
grace and to gather himself together
for another and harder fight may
seem at first S-slt an empty thing and
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An Unsteady Pickle.

Kansas City Journal: The Kansan
SAYS that a. physician had been treating
a Potter man for dyspepsia for long
time, and finally, wishing to know how
his patient was coming on, he told him
to bed and see If he could hold 1t on
his stomach over night. The next day
the man called and the physician asked
him the result.
'Oh. it was all right, DOCTOR" he
said, "as long as l was awake, but
when l went to sleep it rolled off,"
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diaphragm.
ing week. when they suddenly spring up In serried
ranks in the meat market. dressed in chaste set OF
pn feathers and wearing look of deep melancholy.
They are then taken home, lined with bread crumbs
and oysters and dismembered by nervous and perspr
ing husbands who try to appear happy and debona1r
while hunting around for the second joint.
The turkey Is of the most deceptive side
dishes now serv ed in the American home. You never
can tell by the complexion of turkey whether II
was fattened on chestnuts ten.penny nails. Some
turkeys have no tenderloin district whatever and be-
come about as mealy rubber door mat, while
others can be shaken over gas range for fifteen
minutes and will fall apart faster than fat man going
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Speaking of turkey-many people
are speaking of it instead of eating
it this year-reports from Bermuda
say that President.elect Wilson will
have to eat something else for his
Thanksgiving dinner as there isn't a
turk on the island. But at that Mr.
Wilson has it on some others who
were in the recent contest. He won't
have to eat crow.
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CHAPTER III.
The Charity Of the Seas.

Cobalt sky above, and the deep blue
of the SdrgassO sea patched with islots
of orange yellow weed. On 1t a black
steamer, high-bowed and stump mast
ed, surging along with bone in ner
teeth toward the south anu west. Also
a white ships life-boat, rugged with
mildewed lug-sail and jib, and manned
by a crew of gaunt scarecrows. The
life-boat is lying-to across the steam
er's track. and the steamer wears her
standard compass on the top of a ten.
foot mast painted banana-green. That
is the picture to carry in mind.
Mr.. Kettle, the mate, after regard
ing the truc,flent look Of his red tor.
pLdo beard at many angles in the back
of his watchcase. finally approved,
dived in his rocket, and produced
three green-sta;ned pennies which he
presented to his barber.
Hope to have the continuance O
yo' custom, sal" said that artist, dust
ing he debris of the operation from
his patron with professional sibilation
I'll recommend you to the ward.
ers," said the mate dryly, when /
call on vislti e days. Hands, take in
sail. Lower away smartly now. Unship
that mast. Our cars; we mustn't keep
that fellow waiting. He seems in a
h.ry. A Dutchmsn, too, to judge by
that sawn-off smoke-stack. Give
away"
Up till now the steamer had been
bearing directly down upon them. But
as she drew netre" she seemed to ne
sheering out of her course a trifle to
the northward There was a long
heavy ocean swc'! running, and she
waved a good deal in her steering. and
it was hard to make out exactly where
she was aiming for: but MIR. Kettle.
with an EnglishDlan's contempt for
the German mariner, get this down to
the inefficiency CT Ter wheel quarter
master and to the watch offirer who
Oversaw him. ..
The vessel was close aboard Of them
by this time and they could read her
name, Rhein in dull brass letters on
the flaring curve of her bows. She
had a high upper bridge. with three
suuare-shouldered officers on 1t who
swayed rieidly to the rool. One, big
fellow. with fair spade-shaped
beard and much uniform. was obvious
ly the captain He wore spectacles. He
stared at the boat pointedly, but
neither waved nor made other signs:
and Mr.. Kettle to whom 1t was point
of honor not to make first advances.
sat rigid'v by his ti!ler and sent out
no sign either.
The RheiD surged up. drew level
and passed. On the sterns of the boats
that hung in her davits they read that
her port was Hamburg, and PROBABLY
every soul in the boat had hot
thoughts about that city. but for long
enough not a word was uttered.
The black man was the first to give
tongue.
sSar, sar,' he hammered after the
dwirdling stern, while the life-boat
rocked in the cream Of tho wake. mis-
tab Captain, for de love O. Gawd don't
leave us. / tell you for true ives starv-
in. Oh, sar, stop yo' steamah! Hi,
you son-of-a-dog-of .a-Dutchman, we's
gwine for to die if you don stop'n pick
US up"
Theu KS boat mate, the Berman,
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TIE MARRIAGE OF
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By CUTCLIFFE HYNE
Copyright 1919. The Bobbs-Merrin Company

some fruit-boat's deckload. They were
big, coarse, West Indian bananas, out
to the starved palates they were am
brosia. The men ate six apiece for the
first meal, and felt that any hardships
were worth going through to know a
bliss like that.
It was at the next midday, while
Jenkins sailed the boat and the mate
was standing up with his sextant In
the stern-sheets, that they saw q
steamers smoke over the saucer-rim
OF the horizon.
Presently they were able to make
out the trucks of her masts. and there
after they rose her rapidly: They were
right in her track. Here was rescue at
last. -.. ia....
The ragged crew in their Joy stood
up and danced, but Mr. Kettle, the
mate, had fine sense OF discipline.
When he wanted baboon tricks he
would let them know. In the mean.
while he wished them to carry on duty
as before. "And send aft the Senegam-
bian," said he. .aI ~
"Sar?" g.-..
weren't you In barber shop once.
before shore got too hot and you had
to come to scar"
Eyes, sar. Use sure 'nuf tonsoriaI
artist" ......
Good. Got the usual nigger's razor
concealed about your person."
"No. sar. Never carry such a
thing" ....,.
First United States Niger I ever
met who didn't. Well, take that pig
knife you're so fond of, and borrow
Baldy's, and sharpen yours against
his, Savvy?"
Eyes, sar." .-.... #.a
That's right. Now use one blade
against the other, scissor fashion, and
trim my beard. I'll have it clipped tor
pedo shape"
The big evil-faced negro gasped.
Trim yo' beard?"
That's what I said. II you do 1t
we'll, I'll give you three-pence. II you
make a hash Of it, I'll lam you with
the tiller."
For an instant murder peeped out
from the black mans onyx eyes. Mr..
Kettle expected It,, looked for it, and
nodded acknowledgment. you won't
try and cut my throat. because you
know I'd have those two eyes Of your
gouged out before you got even start.
ed. Come now, my lad, get move on,
or we'll have that steamboat along
SIDE" a.-
The mate put out his chin, and the
ex-tonsorial artist piled his trade. The
other men watched with the eyes OF
fascination.
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Champ Clarke wore an old hat dur.
ing the campaign and posed as one OF
the plain people, yet here he Is at
Thanksgiving Boosting that the turkey
for his Thanksgiving day was SO big
he couldn't get it in the oven OF the
Clark kitchen range. II that doesn't
put Champ in the plutocratic class
nothing can 3 :. <