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Evening journal., 1913-06-12
PRIzES FOR SHIRE HORSES.

The Bureau of Animal Industry OF
the United States Department of Ag
riculture is informed by J. Slough
grove. secretary Of the Shire Horse
Society of England. that the council
Of his society. desiring TO encourage
the owners and breeders of Shire
horses in America. have resolved to
offer ten gold challenge cups, valued
at $3.50 each. from the year 1918 to
1917, inclusive.
Two of these gold cups will be an
nually awarded to representative
American shows in rotation during the
five years that the scheme Is In opera
ton.
The council have selected the Inter-
national Live Stock Exhibition, at Chi
caso, for their offer in 1913, and the
gold cups will be awarded (a) for the
best registered Shire stallion, (b) for
the best registered Shire mare. duly
certified by the official veterinary off,
Ger as sound and free from hereditary
disease.
Horses entered for these cups must
be registered or eligible for registra-
ton in the American Shire stud book.
Breeders of English Shire horses in
the United States will no doubt be in
terested and encouraged by this recog-
milton of Shire breeding in the United
States by the parent society.
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

aged Emperor more sorrow by hear
ing OF her futile attempt at white
washing herself at the cost of his
misguided sons reputation.
Were the cost of a mans funeral
the criterion Of his greatness. the late
IJ Pierpont Morgan would rank higher
than any celebrity save. perhaps Ii
Hung Chang. The cost of his passage
from his Fifth avenue house to the
grave, II appears. was something over
S50O,0O0. though the hearse made no
great show and was drawn by two
horses only.
One must 20 to the British admiral
ity and war office to ascertain the
cost of Queen Yictoria's funeral, and
that of King Edward, not including,
of course, the expense incurred by
loyal subjects. or persons moved By
curiosity. to have good views of the
public proceedings in each case. Glad
stones funeral, 1t appears. cost ,ess
than 5000 pounds, and his remains
we're carried by special train from
Hawarden to London. Prussia footed
a hill of $4,000 marks for the funeral
OF Emperor William the First. A state
funeral in Paris used TO cost 10000
francs. when there was halt at
Notre Dame. The costliest item was
the grand requiem mass, the flowers
beng the offerings of private persons
or corporate bodies. The troops, OF
course, cost nothing in the apothesis
Cthe term befits a grand French fu-
nCraD. Il was especially applicable
to the funeral of Thiers, Louis Blanca,
Gambetta, Victor Hugo and Carnot
When the iocose keeper of the seals
NJ. GuyOt Dessaigue, died of an apo
plectic stroke on the floor of the
French Senate, his colleagues agreed
to vote 10000 francs for his funeral.
This caused some talk at the time. But
as. when a deputy, he had made many
friends by his good stories in the lob
bies, the chamber made no objection
to the bill. He was one Of those who
smoked a well-seasoned pipe in the
smoking room, and he smoked
through so many sessions as to earn
the name of "Pere des pipards." He
would have gladly waived any relie-
ious ceremony. His widow, however
went to the expense Of one. II was
solemnized, not in Paris, but in Au-
Vergne. NJ Guyot Lessaigue's jokes
mots, and queer stories were really
good always improvised, and mis-
laughing at them himself did not spoil
their effect. He sometimes laughed
until the tears ran down his cheeks.
It was he who forced Waldeck Rous-
seau, the Premier, to relax the cold
and staring impassiveness of his coun-
tenance by the description he gave Of
al official reception he had attended
at the Ministry of Justice. He might
have been a twin brother of Alphon-
sina, the irresistibly comical Palais
Royal actress. so like to hers was his
full bodied humor and drollery.
Copyright, 1913. by A. ID. Jacobson)
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GOSSIP OFIHECOURT


Countess Marie Larisch's book, MY
Past Is quite the most entertaining
OF the works of this class, its interest
lies not so much in the light-nO very
new light-that It throws on the death
OF the Crown Prince Rudolf of Aus
tria as in the gossip about her own
relatives in Bavaria and Austria, and
especially that eccentric beautiful
and Inflated lady, the Empress Eliza
both II is evident that the countess
was deeply attached to her Aunt
Cissi;" in fact, fascinated and domi-
mated by her. at least down to the day
of Meyerling, and her scrappy remin-
iscences Of Elizabeth-s conversation
and manners. her toiettes, diet habits
superstitions, and firtations, make a
very vivid picture of the late En-
press.
The avowed object of the countess
memoirs is to justify her share in "the
tragedy at Meyerling," which might
well be called "a melodrama-and a
very unpleasant one at that. For this
purpose the story might just as well
have not been written. According to
her own account, the countess was
prevailed upon by her cousin, Rudolf
for whom she displays no affection
and rather something like aversion
to get Baroness Marie Netsera. OF
whom she Processes to have been very
fond, away from her parents palace
in Vienna. and take her TO Rudolf's
rcCm in the Hofburg. She describes
Marie as no better than cocotte, who
after adventures in Egypt, had thrown
herself at Rudolf, although still IN
her teens.
Marie's mother is represented as
knowing of the liaison and half favor
ing it, apparently from the sense OF
"distinction" il conferred on the fam
lily. but after insulting Grown Princess
Stefanie at court ball the forward
Marie. was more or less placed under
lock and key. Hence, Rudolf's appeal
to the kind offices of his cousin, the
Countess Layisch, as "A mutual friend
So. to oblige her cousin--Or. as she
suggested, bullied and frightened by
him into compliance gets posses
sion of the girl, and the two Maries
go off together to Rudolf's apartments
Rudolf takes Marie the younger out OF
the room and presently returns with
out her He declines TO say where she
is, except that she is not in the Hof-
burg. and that he wants to Keep her a
couple of days in order to come to an
understanding with the Baroness Vet
scra, the girls mother.
He then propoufds to Marie, the
elder. the details of an ingenious hoax
by which it is TO be made to appear
with the connivance of the coachman
that Marie has rum away from her
chaperon while they were in a shop
After more bullying and coaXing the
countess consents once more to carry
out his instructions and proceeds to
do So Having told her tale on these
lines, she departs with a heavy heart
t1 her home in Bavaria. to hear few
days later that Rudolf and Marie have
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
MARYLAND NEWS NOTES

The Chesapeake City Fire Company
realized S6237 from strawberry tes-
tval.
Men with clubs killed l22 rats in
one day at Bruce Kneppcr's barn, near
Clearspring.
At Hagorstown Justice Doub
sentenced John Phillips, colored. TO be
lashcd for wifc-beating.
Ralph h. Pfahlcn. Meyersdale
m, reliant. was fined 81 in Hagerstown
foi violating market ordnance.
The 230-acre Silvcrdalc farm, near
Darlington. has been bought by J. G.
Crockett, of Virginia. for Sl9,OOO
Curtis Stiler, of Bridgeton, has been
appointed station agent at Delta, on
the Maryland & Pennsylvania RAN
road
James NJ. Zeller broke a leg i'm the
Western Maryland Railway shops at
Hagorstown when car wheel fell
upon him.
Edward j. Byron, son OF Edward w
Byron. a member of the firm of w. ID
Byron & Sons, tanners, at Williams
port, was seriously burned by an ex-
plosion of benzinc vapor
Chesapeake City's new Town Board
has elected William T. Harriott presi-
dent. Noble p. Benson treasurer and
Charles Carly secretary.
AS a result of taking o large swal-
low OF acid in mistake for beverage
Nclrose Burlin, of near Woodlawn, is
in a serious condition.
A Hagerstown coroner's jury was
unable TO explain the cause of the
death of John Jacob Thompson, who
was found dead in bed Sunday
The commencement exercises Of the
Tome School at Port Deposit will be
held Friday afternoon, with the
alumni banquet and dance in the
evening.
A delegation of Ninth district tax
payers asked the Cecil County Com
missioncrs for an appropriation for a
new high school building at Calvert.
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
CONVICT wORkERs AND GUARDS.

T~ROM the inauguration Of the movement for the
poyment OF convcts in road building in this state
we have contended that the convicts when thus en-
poyed should be guarded at all times There those
here who advocate the of the so-caed honor sys-
tenn" that is i'm use in several of the large Western
States Under that the convics give their word
of honor that they will not escape and upon the
strength Of that promise they are out unguarded
to work the roads We have felt still feel that
the people Of Delaware, and particularly the farmers
aud their wives and daughters would for such
system to obtain here
We notice that in our neghboring State of New Jer-
sey State Road Commissioners Edwin A. stevens has
made arrangements to employ about l50 conycts upon
the public roads Three convict camps will be ostab-
lishcd probably IN Sussex, Middlcsex and Burlington
counties Each central camp will be allowed fifty
men. They will be distributed into ten-mon squads
Each camp and It's convict laborers 'w be guarded
amply day and night" The meiu object of the camp
plan, in which tents viii be used is the cost
of convict labor by eliminating the ransporta-
tion from working places back TO prison each day
Public sentiment in Delaware, no doubt would APP
prove such safe, sensible and economical system as
that whereas it unquesonably would oppose the use
Of the socalled honor system"
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
Peoples Column
MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD "a YEARS

Editor Of THE EVENING JOURNAL.
Sir. Since have been looking over
the list of the different candidates of
the different wards of the city for
members Of the school board who are
to be elected on Saturday, / wish to
say a few words for one Of the men
Who is to be voted for. The one to
whom | refer is Thomas f. ODonnelL
He has served his ward for twenty.
four years. and from what ! can learn
he Is the senior member of the Board
of Education. What an honor this
should be to all the citizens of the
Tonth ward TO have representative
in office who has been so honorable
in all things pertaining to our public
schools. He is now chairman of the
most important committee of the
Board of Education, where thousands
OF dollars Of the taxpayers money
could be spent without good judgment,
but ] have heard from many that Mr..
O'Donnell is one Of the old school
and fight against wrongdoing in his
department, has worked upon these
principles. and from what can learn
he has said that his department of the
Board of Education would be run in
the interest of the taxpayers. | want
to say this that | do know that Mr.
O'Donnell is one of ho old school
pupils of our city. ] want to say to
my fellow citizens of the Tenth ward
TO come to the polls on next Saturday
and come out in force. because they
will be voting for a man who has
served the Tenth ward for twenty-four
years. and that the Tenth ward has
the honor TO have the senior member
OF one of the most important bodies
Of the city and State. I, ',now that Mr..
ODonnell will cerainly appreciate a
handsome vote on his continuous re-
election for over a quarter Of a cen
/ ltCry. Tenth Warder.
Wilmington. Del. June II, 1913.
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DUPONT COMPANY HAS
CENTURY OF SUCCESS

Business America has recently is
sued a very interesting book entitled
"A Century of Success" The book
treats of the history Of the E. l..
dupont Company and in graphic style
covers the progress of the company
and illustrates scenes along the Bran-
dywine where powder was first manu-
featured
In the Bankers and Investors Mag
azine, several articles appeared and
the editor conceived the idea that such
triumph of business should be
chronicled IN book form. Hence the
publication of "A Century of Success,
which shows by the pen picture and
illustrations that the great success ~
reality. and not fictitious achieve
ment. The r. I. DUPONT Company has
received several copies of the book
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

In the city election on Saturday 15,4S4 votes were
cast for all tickets in the field. OF that number 1890
voted the waterfront question Or the 1920. 1039S
voted ia favor Of the waterfront 522 voted against
f. And yet believe, certain Wilmngtonians and
prominent ones at that, have said within the last two
months that the waterfront movement headed by the
Wilmington Waterfront Association. Of which former
Mayor j. Harvey Spruance is president represented
no pubic sentiment. The peopie OF city have
shown thai they almost unanimous in favor Of the
conservation and the municipal ownership and control
Of the waterfront the Delaware, aud they have is
sued their mandate that practical and effective steps
be taken to carry out the public WILL
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
PICNIC WILL CLOSE
HAPPY WORKERS MEETING

The final meeting of the season Of
the Happy Workers Home and For
eign Missionary Society of West Pres
bytcrian Church will be held on Sat
urday afternoon. much to the regret
of the little missionaries who have
had such happy meeting times during
the fall and winter seasons. The clos
inE program will be an unusually in-
tcrosting one. having for a special fea-
t.rc the reading of fairy story which
was composed especially for the so
cioty by T. W. Triggs, and the chill
dren are eagerly anticipating Il, re-
Numbering with pleasure the story of
Little Happy which was so delight
fully told TO them by Mr.. Triggs in
the fall
Mildred Denny will be the chairman
OF the meeting and conduct the devo-
ticnal service. following which she
will preside at the enjoyable exercises
which have been arranged as follows.
Opening hymn. by the society; read
ing of minutes. by Ruth Christy; pi-
ano duet, Florence and Annette Full
Ter: talk on topic of the day. by Mil
dred Denny; chorus. June is Here,
by choir of sixteen girls; trio, pianist.
Marguerite Clymer; first violin, Ger
trude pyle; second vioiin, lie Roy
Corkran; fairy story. written by T. W.
Triggs; solo, Harold Taylor; offertory
exercise, led by Mildred Denny; clos
ing hymn, accompanied by verse
prayer. led by Edward Stauffer.
At the close of the exercises there
will he real picnic, even though i
is an indoor one, and a jolly time Il
in store for the little ones who have
so cheerfully and unselhshly given
their time and pennies to the mission
airy cause during the winter.
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
; With the ParagfaDhers:

Alfred Austin is dead, but the Bentztown Bard stl
liNes And he is good for column a day--more than
the poet laureate could write i'm week-Toledo Blade
hngands new law is an inconclusive sort of thing
It allows sufragst to hunger strike till she is about
rearrests her and repeats the processWest Chester
Star.
II the california law does not IN fact violate anv
treaty with Japan--a matter which NAV have IN he
decided by the supreme Court-then hard TO sec
how the administration Is going to explain the sitna
Japsn.-Kansas City Journal
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ment Of the stom- Mrs. Sophie Bauer,
ach. n ousands Of 52l First Ave-, ",
people are invalids Fairbault, Minn.
because of weak
stomachs
We are continually hearing Of
the benefit that Peruna is in derange-
ments OF the stomach Gradually the
stomach gets worse and worse until
the victim finds himself or herself in
capable of taking ordinary food. Mrs.
Bauer's was such a case We extract
from one Of her letters a brief state
ment of what she says about it,
81 cannot praise your wonderful
medicine, Peruna enough. Il has done
much for me during the past ten years.
and / keep il in the house continually.
| was in such a condition that ! could
cat nothing but bread and milk, and
even that was too heavy for me at
times. Now I can eat anything.
Il will recommend Peruna TO all
my friends
People who object to liquid medi-
cines caif now obtain Peruna Tablets.
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
rnr MINNEsorA RArr DECISION.

TIEw decisions OF the United States Supreme Court
IN recent years have excited more acute aud wide
spread interest than that delivered by Justice Hugnos
in the Minnesota railroad rate case II also may be
said that few decisions have produced at first nush
greater conflict of opinion in the public mind to ts
exact meaning ultimate effect upon the public and
the railroads
Immediately after IL had been handed down it was
hailed in many quarters as a victory for the State
rights theory In other quarters it was greeted
great victory for the railroads In Wall street how
ever, the way in which the values of railroad
ties umbed showed that the decision was looked upon
as being anything except friendly to the railroads
Since then, however, the opinion has gained ground
that the decision does not upset in favor of the
States, the status quo between them and the nation
regulators of railroad rates" In a dispassionate
editorial discussion Of the decision the New York
Tribune says.
It gives back no powers which the states have lost
through the steady expansion Of federal control Of in
terstate As railroad transportation has be-
and more federal concern. State iurisdic
tion It has been rapidly restricted That process
must continue and the decision in the Minnesota
does operate 10 stay IT, With the power now left
in the States through the acquescence Of Congress the
Supreme Court does not interfere. But 1t gives
ce that 1t will sustain further exercise OF author
y which Congress may tit TO sanction for the pur
pose Of freeing national control Of interstate
merce from harassng regulations made by the State
So many States have been pursuing policies of preju
dice against railroads that It is comforting to know
that the Supreme Court ecognzes that Congress has
the power to call the States to a halt when
public and private interest in transportation is leopard
lied by the work Of political demagogues Railroads
whether interstate ntrasate must be permitted
earn reasonable returns upon their Investments and
any policy that prevents that nimical to inter-
osts not only Of the States but also OF the nation.
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Don't tell what you would do il you were some one
else-lust show what You can do yourscf.-Speed
do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind.
which is the proper Judge of the msn.-seneca.
.-.-.-.
Shoot with the rifle of concentration, and leave the
shotgun of scatteration for the other fcllow-shei,
don.
.-.-.-.
When you can not answer your opponents logic do
not be discouraged--you still call him vile names
Oliver
-
As the mind of each man is conscious of good OF
evil does he conceive within his hope or fear
according to his actions-Ovid
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

abiding citizens in Sussex county ought n
unite to put down the spirit OF lawessness that ex
lists IN several sections OF that part Of our state The
people Of Sussex as rule God-fearing and law
abiding, but they have among them an element that
Is doing things whc tend to bring the county into
disrepute. The formation of few Citizens Commit
tees led by selfrespecting and determined man. would
DO much to put end to conditions that are as re-
grettable they nexcusable
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
| CAN EAT ANYTHING.
I Can Not Praise Peruna Enough.
II Has Done so Much tor Me.

Functional dis
G s G s Of the
sto m a c n are
more common
than any other
ailment. II n Q
majority OF peo-
pie do not have
perfect diges-
tion. Perhaps
half of the peo-
pie have some
noticeable dis
tress or derange-
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

Senator Saulsbury's Georgetown Journal said on
saturday: ~The Wilmington city election takes place
this afternoon The signs point to the election Of
Democratic Mayor this year. Surely the city needs
one. Another instance in which political hindsight
is much better than political foresight
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

Our congratulations extended to the Middetown
Transcript upon the fact that has prospered SO well
under its new management that it has been enlarged
from four to eight pages The Transcript is published
in of the most intelligent beautiful and prosper
ous sections of state. There is no valid reason
why such bright and newsy paper should not make
substantial headway in such favorable environment
Evening journal., 1913-06-12
BY TLANEUR.

been found shot in the princes room
in the hunting lodge at Meyerling.
The Empress refuses ever again to see
or communicate with her niece, the
countess Small wonder The only
matter for surprise IS that that niece,
having kept silent all these years and
having now the field entirely to her
self, did not serve up the story i'm a
way that would have displayed her
conduct in a more favorable light, es-
pecially as her object is TO yindicate
herself from unfOunded aspersions.
Considered as an attempt to put the
hest face on bad business, the narra-
tive is far from convincing. The long
dialogue between the Crown Prince
and his two Maries, which are design
ed to show how the countess better
Judgment was overcome. must, after
an these years, be drawn as much
from imagination as memory, re-
mark which applies to all the other
conversations, unless the Countess
Larisch always carried a shorthand
notebook about with her. side plot
ID introduced, based on the alleged
danger to the Crown Princes life. Ow-
ing 70 reasonable intrigues for the
Grown of Hungary, in which he had
engaged.
There is a mysterious box of docu-
ments intPusted to the narrator and
delivered by her, some time after the
tragedy, to an equally mysterious
stranged, who knows the password
and whO reveals himself by moonlight
as the Archduke John of Tuscany
Johann Orth"-whO. is conveniently
ont of the way for the past two de-
oades, though the countess, like 81
many other people, cherishes the be-
lief that the archduke is alive.
His temperance so often chroni-
cled and denied, may now be awaited
with more interest than ever especi-
ally If he brings the mysterious boz
with him. I'm his absence all this
business savors rather of melodrama
than history.
The one thing that the Countess La.
rlsch's story makes fairly evident is
that at the time of this affair the
Crown Prince under the influence OF
riotous living, was touched with the
irfirmity that haunts the family OF
Hapsburg. That may possibly eX-
plain the alleged conspiracy to seize
the Grown Prince of Hungary as vel
as the tragedy at Meyerling."
And to conclude: The noble author.
ess, while acknowledging that the
stories about her conduct in the Grown
Prince Rudolf tragedy has so scandal
lied her own son that he committed
suicide, fails to state why she keut
her silence so long. when but a single
word from her lips might have saved
her son from his desperate step. Taken
all in all, il would have been grea'
deal wiser on Countess Larisch's par'
had she let we'll enough alone and the
dead bury their dead. instead of re-
calling one OF. the darkest spots in the
Hapsburg escutcheon and causing the
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

Boxer Connolly has discovered that in the Twelfth
ward nomination is not equivalent to an election.
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

IT Colonel Enoch Moore has not done it already he
should shake hands with and congratulate himself
that McGovern and not he, obtained the Democratic
nomination for President Of City Council
Evening journal., 1913-06-12

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Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tell
How a Slump i'm Jewelry Promoted
the Locomotive"
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