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Evening journal., 1914-03-13
pRoTFcr NE BIRDS.
ON Tie CLAYTON Call.

From the Clayton Call.
The birds are the best friends the
farmers nave, and every one should give
attention TO them now and see they do
not suffer for want of food They are
the cheapest and most useful help on the
farm. They charge the farmer nothing
for their service. and work from daylight
until dark. While everything is frozen
tight and the ground Is covered with
snow IL is very hard for the birds TO find
sufficient food. As the birds are one of
mans best friends because OF the SER
vice they render him by destroying great
'Guantities OF injurious insects and weed
seeds IL is the duty of every one of rs
to do our share ia their protection. The
Board OF Game and Fish Commissioners
and the waidens of this State are active
Nv at work feeding the birds at this
time, but without the cooperation OF
the citizens of the State they can reach
comparatively few of our birds. The
farmers and sportsmcn are especially
urged now, while the ground is covered
with snow. TO distribute food to the
birds. A handful or two of wheat screen
ings will carry many a bird over this
severe srell OF weather. II you know
where there is a coycy Of quail. feed them
by throwing a little grain in some pre-
tectcd fence corner or the place where
birds rest. and When spring and summer
come they will amply repay you many
times oycr. And do not forget the spar
rows and song birds. They are hard
workers and destroy moro noNious weeds
and insects in proportion TO their siz'
than the larger birds
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
MERCHANTS ANn 4 NIGHT BANK.

- NE Of the serious disadvantages suffered by many
~ Wilmington merchants is that no banking institu-
ton is open here Saturday nights so they may de-
posit safe-keeping against fire and burglars the
receipts derived from the heavy trading OF Saturday
afternoon and night They must place the money and
checks in a safe other receptacle in their
stores carry them home with them, an even more
precarious operation late at night
Some Of the merchants say that It some local bank
trust company would keep open on Saturday nights
they would gladly transfer their accounts such
cnterprising Institution aud keep them there
lt IS that of the banks and trust COM
panes have considered the matter Thus far, however,
Of them has its clear to put such plan
into practical effect
TWO things would be necessary perhaps, to enable
would an amendment OF Che State law which
fixes twelve o'clock the time at which all banks
and companies in this county shall close satur
day. Apart from that law, which only be changed
by the Legislature the rules of the Wilmington Clear
House Association also prescribe the opening and
closing hours OF the banking institutions embraced
wahin its membership. Even If the law We're amended
the Clearing House Association would have potent
voice in the matter scarcely likely that without
us consent, any bank trust company would engage
IN such nocturnal banking operations.
II will be seem therefore that there is little likelihood
early relief for the merchants unless perchance the
Chamber of Commerce its way clear to estab-
llsh a night depository IN which It's members may
place their funds for safc-keepng until banking time
ON Monday morning
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
NEGRO FARMERS AND
THEIR PROSPERITY

From the Southern Workman.
One speaker AT the recent Tuskegee
Farmers Conference. told how he began
on less than dollar and celebrated his
wedding by hauling wood all day for
fifty cents. He then made up his mind
that Dee would save fifty cents o day for
''me and Frances as long rs they lived
together. and he has done it for thirty
years. lie not only owns farm of three
hundred and ninety acres and holds
mortgages on other farms, but has eN-
changed his patched-up log cabin for a
seven-room house with bathroom and
hot and cold running water. Another is
50 prosperous That he owns a painted
six-room house in which he lives, and
four brick stores on the main street in
town. which be rents TO people Of both
races. and is so forehanded that he has
his coffin "all bought and paid for as
well as "monument thirteen feet
hight" This man reported a good eight
mouths school in his town, with foul
teachers.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
sIEeEL sNINDLE BRINGS TNDICrMENTs.

Fl ENRY sIEGEL and Frank e, vogel the heads
- Of large department stores in New York. Chi
and Boston, have been indicted for grand lar
ceny and also for accepting deposits in their private
bank when they knew the bank lnsolvent They
have been arrested and released $4,000 each The
criminal proceedings against the two will sup
ply scant comfort TO the hundreds Of depositors
who entrusted their money TO the keeping Of Henry
Siegel & Company only 70 have their confidence
shamefully abused Tho indictments seemingly are
richly deserved.
II is small wonder that public feeling in New York
high against slege and vogel Their handling
Of the money Of men and women who had confidence
in their integrity scandaous. There will lit
tie regret anywhere outside their circles Of immedi-
ate friends II the action Of the Grand Jury result
placing them behind the bars.
Meantime the public should learn from the dsas-
rous experience Of the New York depositors in the
siege private bank that it is infinitely safer to make
their deposits in regular banks and trust COM
panos.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
BAsnnALI--A eoOp errN ApNnRrIsEMENr.

XJ 1LMiNGTON led the Tri-state League last
~ our baseball club assisted materially in
the iaudable work Of putting our city the map.
In return, our peope should assist in the work
of building up another winning baseball orsanization
this year and also take pride m patonizing the games
literally soon the season opens.
good baseball club is q splendid advertising as
set for any community. There be good club
without liberal and public support It costs
money to maintain good team and that money must
from the public in the shape of subscriptions
steady attendance at the games.
The public must not look upon baseball club as
philanthropc institution. The who devote
their time and energy to the promotion OF creditabe
team deserving of reasonable financial recompense
for what they do That fact should be recognized
now, before the 1914 season begins.
We bespeak for the local and those who are
back of it the hearest cooperation support Of
all Wimingtonians who have a remote interest
In outdoor sport
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

noriy, gained by their defeciions As
suredly they helped the Democrats TO
win. II was their ballots that gave - e
electoral vote OF Delaware to the Demo
cratic candidate. Does anyone of the
enthusiastic crowd Who proudly Wore
Bull Moose badges know of any favor
shown them, individually. or collectively,
by the Democratic powers that be-
that be, and are, because of Bull Moose
votes!
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
aTFKFL.n

From the Dover State Sentinel.
One wear of the Democratic National
administration ended during the last
week.
What has &c achieved?
So far as Delaware IS concerned. IL
has achieved nothing OF value. except
that some Democrats LEGALLY famous for
devotion to their party. have been APP
pointed 10 Federal Offices.
{ We understand That The appointment
az Those Democrats Go Office IS a source
o. joyful qualification to their party
associates an over thc State That is All
lrlcht from strictly party viewpoint
~ this State minority viewpoint.
The point Of apparent interest ut this
time IS. What have those former iepuh.
li,un voters whose detection gave tho
State into the hands Of Democratic mi-
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
CHrRrM ELECTs nEEICERS.

sneclal to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN, Del, March 13.-
At a meeting Of the members Of First
Methodist Protestant Church Frank l..
Hudson, of T., was elected a delegate
to the annual session OF the Maryland
Conference, which meets in Milford
and william Roach selected as dele
gate. The following officials were
elected;
Board of Trustees William T
Hobbs. William H. Wilson. James A.
Carey, John X. wilkins, John r. Cal
houn parsonage trustees-George
Blizzard, William Roach, Fred West
William f. Hayman, Charles S. Cal
houp; board of stewards-Noah King
Robert Vandaman. Horace NJ. Swain
Mrs. Charles r. Jester was elected
organist and Miss Myrtle wilkins as
sistant organist II. NJ. Swain was
selected chorister.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
Editorial Opinion
FARMERS AND BIRDS.

rom the Laurel REGISTER.
lhe appeal Of Chief Warden l.c Fevre
10 our farmers to feed and care for the
birds while the ground is covered with
snow will, we have no doubt. be gcner-
ally responded to. Many of the birds
are valuable friends OF The farmers as
they destroy myriads OF insects, and
when they are helpless and need aid it
should be extended o.them.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
nam CRONS OFFICERS.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
SMYRNA. Del, March 13.--The fol-
lowing officers of the Smyrna Red
Cross Chapter were elected at the
sixth annual meeting: President,
Miss Eunice B. Anthony; vice-presi-
dent Mrs. Eugene Davis; secretary,
Mrs. H. c. Tschudy; treasurer, Mrs.
II. p. Hall; dispensary committee.
Mrs. John H. Hoffecker, Mrs Edward
Farrell, Mrs John W. Roberts, Mrs.
James p. Hoffecker and Mrs. Edward
S. Dwight.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
IsA MN BRIDcE NECEssARYg

i. has been suggested by ono engineer, Washing
ton street bridge by repair work costing only few
thousand dollars can bo made TO last and perform its
public function properly for twenty-five years It GER
tainy would be waste Of public funds for the Levy
scrap the structure at this time and spend
from 100000 to 100000 20 build one.
Such expenditure doubt would be welcomed by
bridge engineers, material and contractors, regard
less OF whether it is necessary unnecessary. It
would be, however heavy additional burden not only
upon taxpayers in this city but also upon those In
the rural hundreds That burden should not be i'm
posed upon thom by the Levy Court unless the condi
ton Of Washington street bridge supplies ample justi-
hcaiion for H.
The milk in the cocoanut Is that il has not been
abshed by competent and disnterested opinion
that the bridge is susceptible OF repairs
which viii make 81 strong enough to stand all traffic
stress that viii be put upon IL for many TO come
That is the foremost question TO be considered and IL
Is that be decided hy lay opinion, either in
Levy Court conferences meetings Of civic associa-
tons.
Certainly the taxpayers Of the county do not wish TO
spend 100000 100000 for bridge if it be
avoided, with assurance OF safety by repairing the one
now spanning the Brandywine.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
MORE MILITANT ExCEssEs.

NJ ILlTANT sufragists in England are committing
IL such excesses now in revenge for the most re-
ment arrest Of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst that King
George has ordered that Windsor Castle be closed to
the public for indefinite period There is good
reason for his alarm The slashng of the Rokeby
Venus and the burning Of the public buildings
Bulcote give further evidence that the militants will
stop at nothing
II is pity that civilized country like England
should be afflicted by such pests Il may be that all
Else failing the British Government finally will round
all the militants and them to one of It's penal
colonies and keep them there, regardless OF their pro-
tests ana hunger strikes The patience The British
people and that OF the world large is exhausted
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
nIRrcT PRIMARIES IN kENr ND SrSsEX.

II EMOcRATs in Kent and Sussex counties have
~ done we'll in deciding 20 apply to their nonAna-
tions in those counties in the direct primary princi
pie that has applied the nominations OF both parties
in this county for many years
We feel that the voters in the two lower
counties never viii regret the change II will give
them better control over the composition of their
tickets and also make the political leaders little and
pig more subserient TO their wishes.
natural result of the Of direct primaries will
be that better candidates will be nominated for all
offices and that If the hundred county bosses be-
too oYerbearng. the always will have the
remedy in their hands and the power to apply
IT,
We have hesitancy in predicting that with di-
rect primaries In force there will be- and that too
shortly, material changes in Democratic leader
ship in both Kent and Sussex. Men who now hold
party affairs in the hollow Of their hands and who
year after have put their states through regard
less Of party opinion viii discover that by the
system they have been deposed or shorn OF much OF
their That has been the result in other places
wherein direct primaries have suppanted oldtime
vention methods and there is reason for suppos-
ing that the result will not be effected in Kent
and Sussex. In short direct primaries should brins
about better political conditions in both counties
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

Great Britain has much at stake in The CONNER
cia line that it would take much than Bentons
death TO impel her TO do anything to embarass the
United States in its Mexican policy.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

Are you buying a new car? See the
Paige or Regal. Diamond State Auto
Co., Shipley Street Branch.T
Evening journal., 1914-03-13
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Evening journal., 1914-03-13

Secretary Of State Bryan has declared himself in
favor Of the New Zealand system Of permitting men
who cannot 60 10 the polls to send in their baots by
mail. That IS one for him, even If it be not
original
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

There thirteen candidates for governor of Texas
The number will be lucky one Of them and exceed
ngly unlucky for the others
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

Tho Emperor OF Germany has twcnty-six automo-
bues. Is it any wonder that the German people are
so industrious and frugal?
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

Clothes may not make a woman. exchange
suggests. but it would be exceedingly difficult
'incc nne-tenths OF the women that they do not
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

George W. Perkins seems TO find Il exceedingly DIFF
heut to adjust himself to the altered political cond-
tions Of today
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

The comic supplement with hearty laugh in it
has become that the reading public almost has
ceased to look Tor it,
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

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Look for signature OF e. w GROVE
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Evening journal., 1914-03-13

Seventeen aviators havo been killed in England
since December, 1879. That IS a startling conpentary
upon thc INSTABILITY and uurclabi,y Of heawer-than-
air machines.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

siastirs SHOW that Virginia has only is0o luuatics
The numter is SO small that recount may be de-
mandc,l
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

u any Of those Carnegie peace promotion a,illioos
cached Central and South America they being ter
ihlr nisuscd 10 certain places
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

The tango and other social diversions in Washing
ton hndrance TO legislation senator Kenyon.
Of Iowa. says. WIN he please make up list of the
names Of the offenders 'the folks back home may
get a lire on them?
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

IN The Assoeiation a Aneg-
fAIAisH ican Advertisers has sE-
WSW amined and certified ts
the circulation sf tiais pub
iieatian. The figures Of circulatien
osntained In the Aessciation's %.
pert only are guaranseed. -
Association Of American Advertisers
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Evening journal., 1914-03-13

Ease that throbbing pain, that split
ting headache i'm twinkling with a
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

The Association Of
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such papers hs sub
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and positive proof
must be snhmitted
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has been issued ~
this paper.
Evening journal., 1914-03-13

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-12-17
THE JEFFERSoNEAN

He did not then know the terrible import
ance of his positive statement.
Frank wasn't there: yet he had positively
said that he 20as there He had repeatedly de-
clared that he was in his office, at that time.
What follows? Franh Is unaccounted for
at the ve1y time Of the crime!
No wonder Franks lawyers and detectives
and Rabbi made such extraordinary. UMPIRE
cedented, and most improper efforts to induce
Monteen Slower to change her fatal testi-
mony.
The great strain in Franks statement to
the jury was, TO account for himself at the
time aohon Montcen said he qca8 not IN has
office.
He knew the jury would not believe him, if
he contradicted his own detective, Harry
Scott.
He knew the jury would not believe him, il
he contradicted Monteen.
Neither Scott nor Monteen had any motive
to swear away his life, while he was power
fully moved to save it.
So he had to trim: he said that he might,
a39c0nSc5ousJY, have gone to the toilet, during
that fatal half-hour.
Thus he would not necessarily contradict
either Monteen, or Scott He would be abb
sent, as Monteen sWore but present as Scott
sWore; for, if absent he qcas unc0nsci0us Of IT.
4 call of nature n25qbt have carried him 10
water-closet.
All he hne2c the vast importance of 0c-
counting for himself, Ut that tine, when he
was IN his office, to Scott, and o2t OF his Office,
to Monteen.
And, as a criminal generally docs, IL
CAUGHT HIMSELF.
In his dire need of an explanation Frank
sends himself to the water-coset.
That IS qOhere the note sends Mov Phagan!
In one Of the notes found near the corpse
Mary is made to say that she went to the toilet
to make water; and-that the ''tall, SLIM black
negro, by his self did it," and that she wrote
the notes while ''the negro play with me-"
This toilet, the one that Mary would have
used, was on Franks office floor, on the way
leading to the metal room where Mary
worked
If Mary came to Franks office that day to
get her money, as Frank says she did; and if
she then went toward either the toilet or the
metal room, Frank was the only person who
could have known it, because Jim Conlev was
down stairs, on the floor 6oz0ac, and Mrs
White and the men were upstairs, on the top
floor.
Therefore, it was Frank azone who knew
which way Mary went after leaving his office
Frank and the girl acor6 alone on that floor,
and here was his opportunity to again try
her. ~
Here was the opportunity which he had
evidently planned for, the evening before,
when he refused to send her pay-envelope,
although he had previously allowed Helen
Ferguson to take it to her.
Here was the opportunity! Away up on
the top floor were Mrs. White and several
white men, who were probably eating their
lunches. Below was old jim Conley who
had been the confdante of his amours and
his Sodomite practices.
Here 2C0S the OppOrt1knitui
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-12-17
Did FRANKS mind go 6aob to Jim Conzey9


guesses, theories, examinations, eager hunting
Tor clues to the mystery. Did Frank suggest
that the gullty man might be Jim COnzey ''the
drunken negro 6rute?" NO!
Not once did Frank suggest single thing
against his confidential man, jim!
Not suspicious look or word of Franks
fell upon this drunken brute of negro"
Yet Conley was the only other man who
was there at the scene and at the time of the
crime
Conzey acos the only other man qoAo could
hare c0n1n2atted the crime.
Why did the brain Of this Cornell graduate,
Frank-and he IS a mighty keen, smart man
why did his busy brain hint suspicious of
Newt Lee, and have Nevis house searched?
Why did Franks working seethng, ha-
raised brain hint suspicious Of CAN'T, the man
who went into the building after his old
shoes?
Why was this cunning, SETTLING, distracted
brain catching at such straws as Lee and
CAN'T?
Wig djd,et that actjve, agrtatod, resource
fu7 brain SUGGEST CONLEY?
Why did Frank do everything else, except
that?
Wig did he 8tudiouszy overlook the only
other man than himself acho qca8 there at the
time Of the crime?
There is only one answer
Frank couzdn't name Conzey, aoitAout ina-
p2icoting himself!
All the Big Money on earth can't hire
lawyer who can meet that point
Let them try 1t!
Even the noisy charlatan, William J. Burns,
saw the fatal weakness Of the attempt to lay
the crime entirely on the negro, when the
victim was a white girl and the qChite mon,
=, T. z
of NhcTo she acGS raUi8hed and n2urdeTcd. =
Therefore, the roaring ass, Burns, pro
claimed the theory that the guilty man had
never been suspected, never been arrested, and
was still 'at large"
Burns said that he had this mscreant in his
eye, and that he. Burns, would lay his hands
On that man, when he, Burns, got ready
Burns never got ready. The guilty man
finally vanished from earth to take up his
abode with the man in the moon.
Then this boisterous jackass, Burns, had to
Grassland his way back down to Georgia,
and enter upon has Infamous campaign to per-
jue Montcor Storer, and to big d Baptist
preacher and deacon.
For qrAat?
TO PUT THE CRIJIE UPON THE Ne
GRO.
Ragsdale and Barber were hired to swear
that they heard Conley proclaim his guilt in
the alley; and the great Luther Rosser actu>
ally lost his great mind, SO far as to draw up
that absurd affidavit.
Why was the desperate effort made to buy
off, or scare off the white girl, Monteen Slower?
Why acaS Rabbi Mare sent to plead 2cith her?
Wig did Burns entrdp her into Samuel B0Or-
n
FORCIBLY HOLD HER THERE?
Because Monteen fatty contradicted Frank,
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