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Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07
Girls Leaped Into scaldino Water.

Girls Leaped Into Sealding Water.
Two diving nymphs. exhibiting their
charms ana skill in a theater in Mil.
waukee. Wis, are encasing their bod
les in hospital sheets instead Of An
nette kellerman costumes. as a result
OF stage hands blunder.
When the cold wave hit Milwaukee
the water was too cold for the girls.
and they complained. The stage hands
turned steam into the tank and forgot
to turn it on after the performance.
When the girls appeared for rehearsal
no one noticed that the water was not
as usual, and Edith Byington and Eva
Luwin, on opposite sides Of the tank,
dived together
Their screams prevented the other
girls from leaping in also. and the two
girls were badly scalded before they
were able TO get out of the boiling wa
ter They are at the Emergency hos.
pital
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07

SRI. Il. Found In White Slave Den.
Josephine McLougllin. fourteen
sears Of age of New York. missing
from her home week. and for whom 4
general police alarm had been sound
Cd was rescued nude from a band of
Alleged traHosers in women who had
-aken LHr clothes from her and kept
her pris1uer since the night Of her
dis ppc1ra1ce
3 note implor.nz aid was written
IL the girl and pushed through the
shutters OF a window. 1t futterea
oCwn before the feet of a citizen. He
=OOdhed the police. vino made a sDec
-izlenlar raid On the place and took two
prisoners.
The girl told the police that she left
lher mothers home on the night of
41Ft- % to attend a dance with a young
man she bad met a few DAYS previous.
1E He took her. instead to the fat
iron which she was rescued. There
abe met a man and a woman who con
-hsrated her clothes.
John Hamilton, driven. one of the
lE1Tfs alleged abductors. was locked ur
- a charge Of abduction A girl com.
T'anion was arrested and at first was
charged with disorderly conduct She
-Baid her name was Slizabeth Clark. I
and the police, searching their rec
S'Tds, found that her disappearance
from home had been reported a month |
ago by her father and that a general |
alarm for her. too. had been issued. |
later the charge against her was also
changed . to abduction.
Detectives arrested John Conklin, a
driver, on a charge of having taken
the Mclaughlin girl away from her
acme and kept her a prisoner.
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07
GLENDALE

Halloween passed quietly here. the
only mummers being of the Younger set.
and their costumes we're grotesque but
/ the tendancy vas towards malicious mis-
chiet. In one case a wagon was overturned
and broken, but this was theOnly serious
prank played that we heard Of. The
majority of the folks went TO Milford to
see the sights A few went to Wilmington
III their cars 10 see the parade held there
Luke Postlesis breeder rofthroughbred
chicSenS, and he is now hulding new
poultry house for their comfort
After twelve yearsof welded happiness.
the home ofMr and Mrs Robert Waples
was giadeued by the coming OF their
hrst-porn, ten-pound son. who arrived
on Wednesday of last week
Revival services in progress al the
New Market Church here. are meeting
with success under the direction of Rev.
Ihombs Paradee.
Agents from orphan homes in the great
cities have been in Ellendale this week
looking M the applicants who desire 20
take children from these places into their I
own homes here
Miss Jennie Warren is visiting her
former school friend, Florence Derrick son I
at Denton, Nd.
Mrs. Matte Watson and Mrs Emma |
Morris, have been visiting Mrs John B
Prettyman.
Nr and Mrs " s. Dickerson announce
the approaching marriage of their eldest
daughter, Miss Mary X Dickersou TO
Mr.. J. G. Pierceof Philadelphia.
Rally Day at New Market Church will
be on SUNDAY Nov 9th at ten a III.
Robert G. Houston, Esq, and others
will speak, and the public is cordially
invited to be present
Mrs; J. P. johnson and son are visiting
At Haddon Heights, n J.
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07
BOWERS

! BY the time this letter is read bv the
suDsorloers OF TINS paper, the farmers in
ms community will have about compile
tea their corn husking and some of them
"ilI nave the money for it, as thev sold
for sixty cents the past week to be deliv-
cred this week.
Ihe extra meetings that have been in
progress at our church closed last sun
asy evening and our pastor, Brother
8latheEs, started his extra meetings at
BaTratt's 5 Chapel last Tuesday evening.
and he wishes that all the members and
irlends Will come out and make this r,t-et-
ing one grand success.
captain Edward Davenport. ofthe stea-
mer r. y. Vessels, spent last SUNDAY in
town with his family.
Quite number of our town citizens
attended court at Dover the past Mon
day, as witnesses on the Ben Faulkner
case.
Not to be out-doue in the matrimonial
Inc Lester Short, one Of our young men.
disposed OF his personal belongings at
pIiFate sale and took the steamer Fred .
erica Tor Philadelphia where be expects .
20 take the train for New York. where
ms intended BRIDE awaits him.
lawrence Roe and wife. of Magnolia.
spent SUNDAY with their father. l.. Wes-
ley Coverdale.
piss Jennie Coyerdale, of near town.
5 visiting relatives and friends in Phils-
ielphia
w. >. Camper has disposed Of his corn
IoP IIom MS four farms, which was about
3Shi thousand bushels He proposes to
X up ana Straighten the road that adj
!, olHs MS land with stone and concrete.
ne writer certainly wishes Mr. Camper
uTCeSs with his undertaking. aud it is
oe hoPed that there viii be others
.l11 tne public spirit at heart, who will .
el Dusy along these same lines.
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07
MISSING COUPLE
DEAD IN WOODS
9Oung Man and Bride Die by
Suicide Pact Near Atlantic.
PARENTS OPPOSED WEODIHG
Their Bodies Had Been Exposed to the
Elements For Several Weeks When
DISCOVERIES by a Gunner

Nhlle IN quest OF game in the woods
1seaT NOrthheld, n. J., Harry Pierce
stumbled across the bodies of James
BLY,, a youthful medical student.
'HbO went to Atlantic City from Pitts.
borgh, Pa, year ago. and his equally
gonthful bride, vino was Miss Rose
Herring, OF Atlantic City.
The condition Of the bodies indicated
Ebei they had been dead for some
'iUe, ana letters found on their cloth
1bg disclosed a suicide pact.
On the temple OF each eappeared a
E7wng bullet wound. and beside Bly,
w2s found a revolver. in which two
cartridges had been exploded and in
0bich three remained.
bly, was eighteen years OF age and
had resided since December Of last
year at a hotel in St. James place. His
oT1de lived a few doors away with her
mother. Mrs. Marie Herring. Both /
Hrs. Herring and Mrs. BY are in I
seTlous condition at their homes as a
Tteult Of the discovery of the bodies.
Parental opposition to their we'd
dtDg, which is said to have occurred
az Aug. 20 at Camden. is believed TO
have been responsible for the dual
tragedy A letter bearing the sigma
iuJe Of each reads:
Death is the easiest wav ont. Rose
VII l.in herself first and I will fol-
fCw7
another letter. written by BLY,. indi-
r-ated that he feared he was TO be
placed IN a sanitarium by relatives.
and this fear is believed 10 have been
tbe cause Of the suicide pact.
Statements issued By the Young i
mans relatives show that they had op- {
posed his infamation for Miss Herring. il
'1to was his senior by one year. both
because of his extreme yorll and the s
faet that he suffered from valvular dis g
ease OF the heart a
He came 10 Atlantic City with his h
mother aunt and grandmother from
Pittsburgh year ago in the hope that s.
his health would be benefited. In Pitts. p
hrrgh he was a student at the Park G.
institute and was afterwards asso-
rated with a physician in Atlantic
C5ty
The young couple disappeared from
City on Sept. .. declaring that
hey were TO pay a visit to a Mrs az
Bnghes. on South Tenth street. Phila. IN
lsiphia- On Sept the girl returned ch
q Atlantic City. but lett two DAYS an
sder- without disclosing the where pr
,bouts OF her Youthful husband Since m'
hat time a search has been conducted se'
r relatives oi each, but without avail J."
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07

Hans Sehmidt's Friend Gets 7 Years
Or Ernest Muret. the friend OF
Father Hans Schmidt. was sentenced
in New York to seven and a half years
imprisonment in the federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta, Ga, for counterfeit
ing
Muret appealed TO Judge Hunt to
suspend sentence. saying that be want.
ed 10 90 back 10 his home in Gedmany
anw spend the balance Of his life with
his mother.
Judge Hunt could have imposed a
sentence OF thirty years. but as the
prisoner is victim of incipient tuber-
culOsis he was lenient.
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07
FOR SALE
DEPARTMENT STORE
BUSINESS
Located at Denton, Md

Consisting of Shoes, Dry Goods, Cloth
ing, Ladies and Alen $ furnishings. hats
caps, rugs ladies coats and suits. furs
glassware, agatsWare, tinWare, grocerie:
etc.
Store fixtures, Simpsons computing
scales, lS5 gallon Bowser oil tanks with
two compartments and automatic self
measuring pumps cash register. show
cases, clothing racks, self-measuriug mo-
lasses pumps, vinegar pumps, radiuu gas
lighting system, McCaskey account reg
lister cash drawers, shoe settees. window
display fixtures, etc.
This business was established about II
years ago by WINFIELD R WRIGHT.
now OF Milford, Del, and is now owned
and offered for sale BY him.
This store is one of the best stands in
Denton, which is the seat Of Caroline
county, State of Maryland. aud is doing
a business Of about SIS, 900 to SOS. GOO per
annum.
The stock will invoice at present time
to about s. 500, but can be reduced to suit
the buyer Building is 2Sx1OO IT,. two
floors, with office, and best oak fixtures
has skylight with opening in second
floor, and large show windows. Can be
leased for $3.50 per year
Anyone thinking Of going in tile ner- 3
camille business will do we'll TO iuyesti- /
gate, as present owner has more business
than be can look after properly Write /
1r cali up WINFIELD K. WRIGHT. +
Milford Del, or take a trip over to Den /
on and see the business. Transportation
vii be paid If vou viii call first to see me.
WINFIELD K WRIGHT.
Milford, Del
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07

The wealth held by Mr.. Morris is es
tmated at between s3)0O0.0 600 and
s5e0oo,000. He was credited with being
the largest individual owner OF bank
stock in ChicagO.
Milford chronicle., 1913-11-07
Edward MorrIs ples IN chinann

Edward Morris. president Of Morris
= Co, and one Of the wealthiest pack
sFB in the world, died at his home in
Chicago
Mr. Morris had nervous break
adoWn about a year ago and was obliged
70 give up active business. He spent
iast winter travelling in California in
search Of health, but when he return
I'd last spring be had not been bene-
fdted.
The seriousness Of bis condition be
zane known last week upon the ar
FiFal Of his brother. Ira Nelson Morris,
who hurried from italy.
AIr. Morris was born at Chicago in
AS66, Oldest son of Nelson Morris, the
8ioneer in the packing business, and
M Sarah Morris He was married in
1850 to Helen L. Swift. -Four children
slgelson Swift Morris, Edward Norris,
gr., Ruth Mae Morris and Helen Muriel
lEorris. and his widow survive him.
Evening star., 1913-02-03

The students gathered in thousands for
the bachelors degree. but only two in a
Evening star., 1913-02-03
EXPLOSION FIRES GARAGE.
Blaze Is Extinguished After $500
Damage to Automobile.

F'iremen responded TO an alarm yester-
day afternoon about l o'clock and found
blazing automobile in the garage in
rear of 1920 l street northwest. The
blaze followed an explosion of gasoline
and was eXtinguished after causing about
$500 damage. The car belonged to A c.
Pryor.
An overheated stove started a fire in
the dyeing establishment of W. A. Stew
art. 2130 F street northwest. last night
about 9:1j o'clock. About $50 damage
resulted.
Children playing with matches We're
blamed for nre that occurred yester-
day afternoon in the house of Ada Duff
fy IL Fenton street northeast, causing
about $40 damage.
Fire of unknown origin last night caus-
ed about $40 damage in the house of Rev.
F. Nj. Dickey, 1917 Sd street.
slight fire occurred yesterday after
noon in the stable of Edward Gibbons.
rear Of 81 9Th street southeast No dam
age resulted.
Evening star., 1913-02-03
. CHAPTER XIV.
The Law-And the Profits.

Salie saw how Jasper Slyne's face
blanched al sight of that very untimely
intruder, whose keen eyes seemed TO take
in the situation there at a glance.
Mr.. Jobling had fallen backward into
convenient armchair, and, with both
hands clasped to his nose, was moaning
piteousIy. Capt Dove was standing over
him, with features tnhamed, IN "a very
bellicose posture and glaring at the new
conner, toward whom Slyne had turned
inQuiringly.
''You're-looking for some one, NJ. Du.
ro.s?" Slyne asked, in tone OF polite
surprise, which. Sarie knew. was as
sumed.
y thousand pardons." returned that
individual II am indeed looking for
some one-whom 1 thought to find here.
J had no intention. however. of intruding
upon lady" He bowed profusely to
SalHe 1t may be- he suggested, that
J nave mistaken the number. Is not this
the suite 1Gl?'
"One hundred and sixty" SIyne told
him and evidently did not think it worth
while To add that the next suite was his
own.
a thousand pardons." repeated NJ. Du-
bois. very penitently II am TOO stupid
But madcmoselle will perhaps. be so
gracious TO forgive me this time
He bowed TO Sallie again and TO Slyne.
and disappeared. sharply scanning the
latter : face to the last.
Who's that son of a sea cook?' snap
I'D E&pt. Dove. and Mr.. Jobling looked
Wanly I'D out OF one eye.
y French detective" Slyne answered
refectively. But Sallie felt sure that he
was afraid of NJ. Dubois and wondered
why.
Well. he has nothing against me that
I'm aware of. the old man declared
and nOw-what about this wire? Does
II mean that some other fellow mas scoop
cd the pool-and that I've had all my
trouble for nothing, eh?" He clinched
Evening star., 1913-02-03
PAYS OUT $50, 1865, 1896.
Report of Mutual Life Insurance
Company for 1912 Is Issued.

During the year 1912. $50. $50, 1886 was
paid to policyholders and their bene-
ficiaries, in death claims. matured en-
dowments, dividends. etc, by the Mutual
Life Insurance Company. according to
the annual report just issued
This was more than a million dollars
for every week in the year, and amount
ed to $201. .S72.4S for every working day.
1t exceeded the sum paid in 1911 by more
than three and a half million dollars.
The amount paid to polfcyholders eX-
ceeded the amount received from policy
holders in premiums. for supplementary
contracts, etc, by nearly four million
dollars.
In the matter of dividends to policy
holders the company has again broken
all records. having paid in 1912 in cash
dividends the sum of $1J,Ot6.2S While
for dividends payable in 1913 it has ap-
propriated the extraordinary amount of
SIT S6S. .04693 an increase of $2,3G1 I6G. 6S
over the sum paid in 1872.
Evening star., 1913-02-03

choose between remaining on board the
Olive Branch or paying Jasper Slyne his
price for the chance of escape he had Of
fered her in pursuance of his own aims.
She disliked and distrusted Slyne scarce
ly less than before. But she did not see
how she could have chosen otherwise.
And. in any case-it was too late now TO
revoke the promise she had made him.
She was still afraid to place any faith
in the promises he had made her. She
had no idea how he had come at his al
legged discovery of her real identity. But
Mr.. Joblings obvious belief in that re-
Cured to her mind, and she fell to Won
dering timidly what life would be like as
Lady Josceine Justice.
Her impressions on that point were
very haZy, however. and she had still to
puzzle out the problem added by Justin
Carthew. But she finally gave up the at
tempt to solve that at the moment con-
tenting herself with the tremulous hope
that she might soon be on her way to
that dear, unknown dream home, for
which her hungry heart had so often
ached
OF the exorbitant price soon to be
paid for the brief glimpse of happiness
Slyne had agreed to allow her she took
further thought at all She had al
ready made up her mind to meet that
without complaint.
An hour more later. when Slyne
looked in to tell her that it was time to
start, she still seated at the win
dow. gazing out over the steel-gray sea
with wistful. far-away eyes.
At his instigation she veied herself
very closely. And he had brought with
him hooded cloak for AmbriZette. No
one took any particular notice of the in
conspicuous party which presently left the
Hotel de Paris in a hired car, If for an
excursion along the coast.
At a station fifty miles away they left
the car and caught the night mail for
Paris. SlyneS baggage was on board 1t.
80
there We're also berths reserved for them
all.
Did you see any more of Dubois?
Sallie heard Slyne ask the man. who
shook his head indifferently in reply.
The long night journey passed without
other incident than ID dispute between
Capt. Dove and his sleeping car attend
ant, which ragged until Slyne threatened
to have the train stopped at the next
station and send for the police. And the
sun was shining brightly when they
reached Paris.
Cro be continued tomorrow
Evening star., 1913-02-03
HUDSON DOUGLAS.
Copyright. 1912. by Little, Brown Col

his fist again and shook it In the lawyers s
face.
NO. no.. gasped Mr.. Jobling Don't
be So hasty 1t makes no difference at
all. now that We have Lady Josceline
with us. l told YOU that the American
Carthew, is OF no account against her
and how he has ever cropped up again /
can't conceive. In any case"
In any case you'd better be off to your
room and ring for a bit of beefsteak to
doctor that eye with" Slyne interposed.
In a tone of intense annoyance
And l wish to goodness Dove" he
added. savagely. that YOU would behave
a little more like reasonable human be-
ing and less
Less OF your lip, now" snarled the
old man. And don't keep on saving that.
just take IL from me again, both OF YOU
that you'd better not be SO slow again in
telling me-
You didn't give me time" Mr.. Jobiins
protested.
Slyne opened the door Come on he
urged. you've got 10 get your kit
packed, Jobling Well be leaving before
very long now
Have YOU made up your mind to come
with us, Dove?'
Capt. Dove nodded, most emphaaically.
I'll send word To Brasse and Da Costa
at once, he remarked. and then I'll be
ready to start whenever you are.
He left the room after Mr.. Jobling. and
Slyne, in sthe doorway, looked back al
Sallie. the reassuring smile on his lips
belied by his cold, calculating eyes
And how about you, Sallie?" he asked
Have you made up your mind? Are
You satisfied - far? Or would YOU
rather go back to the Olive Branch?
IF you would-I,ll let YOU off Your
| promise even now, And don't forget that
! this Will be your last chance TO recall ii. ;.
| You know ] can't go back 10 the Olive
| Branch. Jasper she answered, slowly
But
| lie did not give her time 10 say more
J That's settled for good, then" he as
| serted. y our promise stands, and
1 know you'll keep il when the time comes
| after I've done my part
I'm only sorry | haven't been able Ia
Evening star., 1913-02-03

Confucus became the father and men,
tor of his people. and appreciative inter
Evening star., 1913-02-03

Study of Confucianism begins with the
boy mo attention was paid to the girls
Evening star., 1913-02-03
Two in Hundred
Permitted to Pass.

We're examined at one time. The tests
lasted eighteen hours-that is. three peri
ods of six hours each-with a little time
for sleep Only light confectionery was
allowed in the hall. but tea was passed
frequently. The candidates sat on long
benches and were required not TO drop
their hands below the desk as they wrote
This was to prevent cheating. but it was
not always successful. and bribing of the
chancellor or his assistants was not alto
gether rare AT various times. in fact.
the government was wont to sell degrees.
As many as 10000 students in patches of
".tsI0 each We're thus examined all over
the empire every year. and the former
capital city of Nanking had acCommo-
dations for 10000. The literary chancel-
lor who conducted these examinations.
held his post for three. years and always
retired rich. Some were knWn to make
500 600 a year. although by ancient man
date they were supposed to live very
frusally.
The goal of all this striving. absorbing
of ma xins. verses. essays. commentaries,
etc. was. of course, high rank and Of
fetal position. The royal road to fame
and fortune in China for centuries-and
even today, perhapS-has been along the
pa tins of scholastic endeavor The mer-
maker never could hope to rise if he did
not have the dearly bought degrees. With
rare exceptions, perhaps one in a century,
such as President Yuan Shih kai. those
without the pale never did rise. The re-
suit was an intellectual aristocracy. All
power was in the hands of the few. who
by pluck and luck were able to climb the
classic ladder and finally stand in the
presence of the emperor.
Evening star., 1913-02-03
Mr.. Lloyd Addresses Mission.

Representative James l.. Lloyd was one
of the speakers at the Gospel Mission
214 John Marshall place northwest, last
night. George w. Wheeler, chairman of
the executive committee of the mission
conducted the services which preceded
Representative Lloyd's address, the
prayers being led by s. NJ. Croft and
DR.. c. w Kettler of the Foundry NJ. F.
Church.
Evening star., 1913-02-03
THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

Lun Yu. which is collection of the say
ings of Confucius as compiled by his de-
voted pupils. Then there is the / Chang
or Book of Changes. a tome devised in
115o b. c.. presumably by the great
scholar Wen Wang. AS it is absolutely
unintelligible. and could not be materially
clarified by ConfuciuS himself. Ii is held
in great awe as a very profound effort.
The government examined candidates
for degrees. but did not educate them.
This was the duty of parents or was left
to the ambition and resourcefulness of
the young man himself. AS children the
few who could afford il sat at the feet
of some local scholar. Later they went
to collegiate center and carried on
their studies individually. consulting their
own time and convenience until ready
to take the annual examination. The
\. Il. examinations were given in city
of the ''fu class in various districts.
The a. NJ. degree was earned in the pro-
vinCia1 capitals Those seeking higher
honors had to go to Peking to attend
Hanlin Academy. and by so doing might
have the good luck TO be examined be-
fore the emperor himself.
The students gathered in thousands for
h.. h1. I,rt ,l,- in,
Evening star., 1913-02-03
Better Chances
For the Scholar

the doctor of letters went to be taOtai,
provincial governor and finally viceroy.
with power of life and death over mil
lions of subjects. Is it any wonder Con-
fucius drew all the promising young men
of the country, that, having reached
the goal after severe tests, they We're
able TO impose their rule on the great
mass of the people who stood so far be-
meath them? Nor is il hard to under
stand how they were able to cling to
their power, gained through knowledge
of a system, which embraced religion,
education, governmental rule and wealth.
Long after the majority of the people
realized that this course was leading
them nowhere the scholars who ruled
them were able to defy reform and hold
their places.
With all their study what did the Chi
nese literati know, as judged by the
standards of all the rest Of the world,
with the exception of the Buddhist races?
Almost nothing. To one of them the only
country in the world was China OF all
the countless millions of people. includ
ing all barbarians who lived outside of
China, as we'll as his own people. he be-
ing the great scholar, was naturally the
center of humanity. Geography, the
worlds literature. science. the tremen-
dous unseen forces that rule the world
We're closed books to him. AS to military
arts, engineering, sanitation. respect for
women, charity, he would have none of
them. A frank heart and an open mind
he had not. He breathed the ancient
axiom: What Confucius teaches is true;
what is contrary to his teaching is false;
what he does not teach is unnecessary"
The ethics he learned We're very fine,
but as DR.. Faber remarks in his book,
The Mind of Mencius," Ethics were to
him (Confucius) SO closely bound up with
external forms or rites that his disciples
for the most part lost themselves in the
rites and neglected the morals