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Evening journal., 1914-06-25
TRAPSHOOTING
GENERAL SPORTS
NOTES OF THE ROCKFORD TEAM
By Ducky.
some team. eh7 won !. Iost ..

Some team. eh? Won 2, lost 0.
Before the game ons Saturday, q
Wildel player remarked. Il guess
there's nothing to it but Rockford
They are all good enough for the All.
Wilmington
That Mcmahon boy on third base
Is certainly playing like a big Lacquer
and his hitting IS both timely and
terrific.
We now have Cap White Of Wood
lawn fame on our pitching staff, and
also Mckinney, who has been pitch-
ing wonderful ball Carney or Sales
ianum has also joined This stan
looks good to Gap"
In the catching department, Fergu-
son Is putting new life into the team
and is hitting the pill at an awful
clip. He is bound to 60 higher In
the baseball world
We also have Porter Wallace to re-
lieve Herb. this boy is a brother Of
the well-known Bob Of Bancroft,
Highland and Delaware College fame.
The outield is composed OF Flick
ingor the hardest hitting outfelder
IN the city; Harlan and our Brother"
Willie.
The club invites its friends out
every Thursday night A bake is to
be held on Friday.
Evening journal., 1914-06-25

price bid was $3.50. for sweepy-Wor-
thy, a trotter. which was withdrawn
after Frank Masland bid $3.50. Glitter
Worthy a 2-year-old bay filly, the
only PAGER sold went to Mr.. Blythe.
Of Philadelphia, for s120. Corny
Payne, Of Wilmington, secured Lake
Worthy, for $400.
Evening journal., 1914-06-25
FACTS ABOUT BOUT
AT PARIS SATURDAY.

Principals Jchu Arthur johnson.
colored, champion Of the world. is.
Frank Moran. Pittsburgh.
Scene Of Battle Aelodromes d'Hli.
yer, Paris. France, June p.
Duration Of Bout Scheduled to
20 20 rounds.
Referee Georges Carpenter, The
champion Of France.
Johnson's share Of Purse s35.000
win. lose or draw.
Age Of Contestants Johnson, 36,
Moran. y.
Prices Of Admission From sl.74
TO 800.
Estinated Receipts sl20oo0.
Betting odds-Champion is fayor-
lie ai ; TO 10 vim
Evening journal., 1914-06-25
DOVER TRIMS CLAYTON

Special 70 THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del. June 25.-ln twelve
inning game yesterday afternoon be.
tween the Clayton team composed OF
players from Clayton, Smyrna. Hartley
and Marydcl the home team defeated
the visitors . TO .. Score:
Evening journal., 1914-06-25
Tener Has Plan To Make
National League Games Shorter

from organized ball to the so-eallec
outlaws. Ii you don't believe it, just
take Il tip, and from this time hence
forth note how it goes. Before a play
er jumped he was called a wonder or a
conner. The minute he jumped notice
was Immediately given regarding said
players bunions, or his weak eyes. or
the way he wore his hat on one side.
or his nasty disposition. It's a safe bet
that ii Iv Cobb. Walter johnson, Frank
Baker, Eddie Collins and Connie Mack
himself all jumped to the Feds, thered
bc any number OF folks who would get
out the trusty hammer. This isn't a
brief for the Federal League 1t is
simply reminder that ii any more
"last legs that the Feds are said to be
on every day IN the week, materialize,
that organization will shape up as
centipedc.
Besides being famed for its climate
and its nigh jumpers, California gener-
ally can be depended on TO furnish at
least one tennis marvel year The
latest california wizard Of the court
who has risen up 10 make Americans
feel that the Davis cup is safe on this
side Of the Atlantic is r. Lindley Muir
ray. whose work at the west side
courts here in the play for the Metro
politan championship amazed the spec
tators
Murray. il l7-year old youth, smash,
ed through victory over G. A. L.
Du1ne. captain Of the West Side team
and ,ctcrau Of high eaIibre, BODIES i'll
for the Britishers.
Evening journal., 1914-06-25

'Batted for Hooper in eleventh in
nlnEs
Wilmington / 1lO010 00O2O 1-6
York ...~..0 Q 2 30 o / . 0 0-5
Evening journal., 1914-06-25

Winnie Swallow, the youngest Chick
twirler has the most formidable pitch
ing delivery in the league.
feafce Is going better as the season
progresses. His hitting has improved
20 per cent. in the last six or seven
games.
jackson is sticking well up in the
aoo class. The Chick pilot is hitting
the ball even better and more oppor-
tunely than last year.
Evening journal., 1914-06-25
HIGH SCH00L Rrcnpns

seven games won and six lost is
the record of the Wilmington Hieb
School ball tossers for the season of
1914. As the majority Of Matthew
Donohue's boys We're inexperienced
az the beginning of diamond festivi-
ties the result may be considered a
credit to the institution.
The record of games follow.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
HUMPBACKED SALMON
ARE MOVED TO MAINE
Bureau Places 1000, 600 Eggs
In hatCherleS There.

Washington.-Seven million eggs OF
the humpbacked salmon spawned In
Alaskan waters have been rushed
across the continent by the federal bu-
reau or fisheries to replace the all but
extinct Atlantic salmon OF Maine wa
tiers. Their destinations are the bu-
reau hatchery stations at Green Lake
and Craig Brook. Me. Dr. I'll. NJ.
Smith. director OF the bureau, Is per-
sonally interested In the attempt to
give Maine new salmon industry.
With the single exception or the
Penobscot river, where Atlantic sal
mon come to spawn. there are but
few salmon left in the waters or
Maine. In the fall Of 1913 the bureau
sent 100000 humpbacked salmon to
that state, but because OF the tenden-
cy OF that species to spawn prolificai-
ly only every second year the bureau
Is planning to liberate a new stock OF
the young fish next spring, which will
spawn, 1t is expected, In the "oG"
year.
The humpbacked salmon will spawn
near the mouth OF small river or
stream, while the other Pacific coast
varieties as we'll as the Atlantic SAL
mon insist on the headwaters or large
streams as spawning places. The
Chinook salmon OF the Columbia river
Will very often run" 2,100 miles up
stream to spawn, while the humpback-
ed variety has no objection to spawn
ing as near as 2,1O0 feet to the mouth
OF the stream.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
COULD SCARCELY
WALK ABOUT

believe ] would have died If hadn't
taken IL.
After ] began taking Cardm, was
greatly helped, and all three bottles re-
lieved me entirely.
! fattened up, and grew so much
stronger In three months, felt like an
other person altogether"
Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle
acting. Its ingredients have mild, tonic
effect, on the womanly constitution.
Cardui makes for increased strength,
improves the appetite, tones up the ner-
yous system, and helps to make pale.
sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy.
Cardui has helped more than a million
weak women, during the past so years.
II will surely do for you, what IT has
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/ Write ~; Chattanooga medlclns Co.. Isdies' Al
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
GIRL WIDOW WITNESS
AT FATHERS TRIAL
He Killed Her Boy Husband,
and She Is In Pitiful Dilemma.

Haverstraw. N. Y.-Unique I'm dra
matte situations that murder trials
have brought about is that which will
arise when william V. Clenry. the
Democratic boss AID town clerk OF
Haverstraw, comes to trial in New City
shortly for the killing OF his eighteen
year-old son-in-law. Eugene NJ New
man.
1t lies In the narrowing position In
which the dead lads girl wife, Cleary's
daughter, will find herself. To appear
upon the witness stand I'm defense OF
her father involves the necessity of
aspersing the memory OF her youthful
husband; to ignore her fathers des
perate plight and remain away from
the courtroom or TO take the stand
and be forced to give evidence against
him obviously carries with IL poignant
distress. the torture OF flial affection.
Newman was shot dead In Cleary's
Office last July.
Eugene Newman and Anna Marie
Cleary were first attracted to each 9th.
er when he was In knickerbockers-a
lad or fourteen-and she ut sixteen had
just assumed the dignity OF shoe top
skirts. The only shadow on 1t all was
Cleary's attitude. He didn't like the
boy. There wasn't the objection or
their being so youthful. for they did
not ask to be allowed to marry i'm.
mediately. They said they knew they
were too young and were willing to
walt But when Newman was eight
cen they were married. When young
Newman entered Cleary's office with
the marriage certificate In his hand he
was shot
The state declares that Cleary was
prompted by vicious spite against the
boy because he had overridden Cleary's
opposition. outwitted him by mar
rying the boss daughter
On this crucial point, of course, the
testimony Of young Mrs. Newman
might prove all important In her
tragic quandary she has said OF her
problem:
Il dare say my father was so furi.
Gus to think Gene and had run away
and been married that he absolutely
lost his head. For any one to attribute
any other reason for my father killing
my husband Is TO cast slanderous re
Fiction on my husband that l Will not
permit Now that my husband is dead
his memory is too sacred to me for me
to stand by and allow persons to throw
mud on his character.
please do not ask me II have
forgiven my father. You must realize
that 1 am in a terrible position My
husband is dead, and no atonement my
father could possibly make can bring
him back TO me. The least can do
Is to protect his memory. On the 9th
er hand, my father stands I'm danger
OF dying In the electric chair, and even
to protect my husbands memory ] can
not allow my father TO suffer that fate.
Ny one hope Is that VIII not be called
az the trial"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
Sermon Mlscarrlce

Bishop Blomfield, famous English
divine. received one OF tho most chas-
tening comments upon~a sermon that
has ever reached a preacher. Once
In his pre-episcopal days, he found as
he was going into a Buckinghamshire
pulpit that he had left his sermon be-
hind him. Compelled to preach ex-
tempore. he selected as an easy sub
1ect the existence OF God, and pleased
himself so well that he thouIlt he
would repeat the experiment. But on
the way home he overlook a farmer
and asked him how he had liked the
sermon. We'll, It were n very good
sermon. Mr.. Bloomfield. but / don't
agree with you'll" mot agree with me!
What can you mean2" said Bloomfield.
well. Mr.. Bloomfield, think there be
q God"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03

@ 1914. by American Press Association
A BELGIAN FIRING ON GERMANS FROM
BEHIND TREE
taken prisoners. The French trenches
ceased firing after the Germans had
forced the zouaves to cry out Cease
6ring"
When the zouaves were very near
the bridge, however, one OF them yell.
ed out in commanding voice. open
fire, nom de Dieuv'
Involuntarily the French trenches
opened volley at the command The
result was that every zouave was kill.
ed, and all the Germans we're finished
or with mItrsilleuse. The French then
took the bridge.
The name of the French hero who
gave the command to fire remains un
known. There was nothing from which
he could be identified I'm the heap of
bodies on the bridge.
Many other touching stories are told
by correspondents.
In a diary found on q dead German
officer ut Dixmude appears this de-
scription OF the horrors OF war:
Man is becoming a beast There is
no respite from the roar of the guns
We continue to shoot, starve and die.
One OF our pontoons across the User
has been destroyed, and that means a
more horrible inferno than ever
ION every side are the dead and dy
Ing. Our colonel and major-indeed
three-fourths OF our battalion-we
have left on the bloody field. More.
over, the confusion OF the units is IN
bellevable.
"A regiment, battalion or company
no longer exists. All is now debris
We just wander about and have moth.
Ing to do but make targets for the
enemy. The whole thing Is impossi-
bic. but the only order we hear from
our base is, Go onF"
Russia's soldiers take a sporting de.
light In battle. They carry this dual
ity so far that they sometimes embar
rass their officers
Cossacks chafe for action When
they can't have action they search for
limitations and sport During n recent
lull songs were sung. races run and i'm.
sginary Turks heads pierced by wild
" charging borsemen. The Austrians
bred and killed the pony OF a Cossack
Jockey who was three yards from the
winning post The jockey rose and
by a terrific exertion OF will dragged
bis pony past the winning post lie
was declared the winner
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03

representation. not something emanat.
ing from myself. They have given
definite proofs. Some of them are be-
ing published. Many are being with
held for time, but will be published
later.
Il tell you that It Is SO with all the
strength OF conviction / can muster
that 1t Is so; that we do persist; that
people still take an interest In things
going on; that they still help us and
know more about the things that we
do and that they are able from time
TO time to communicate with us.
Il know that man is surrounded by
other tntelligences. IL you once step
beyond man there Is no limit until you
come to the infinite intelligence him.
self Once having gone beyond man
you go on and must go on until you
come to God
But It is no strange land to which
1 am leading you. The cosmos is one.
We here on this planet are limited In
certain ways and blind to much that is
going on, but tell you that we are
surrounded by beings, working with
US, cooperating and helping. such as
people In visions have had some per-
ception OF. and that which religion
tells Us saints and angels are. That
the Master himself is helping us is.
believe. literally true"
Sir Oliver Is one OF the best known
leaders OF the Society For Psychical
Research and one of the most coura-
geous defenders OF the theory that the
occult may itself be a science with
laws OF It's own. for all that its phe-
homena are intangible.
In the summer OF 1908 there were
widespread reports that he and some
Of his friends had had unquestionable
communication with Edmund Quincy,
DIR. Richard Hodgson. Frederic w.
II. Myers and other persons no longer
living. These stories were quite cir.
eumstantial and declared that the com.
munication had been established
through several mediums. among them
Mrs. Margaret VerraH. wife Of the
Cambridge professor; Mrs. Piper and
Mrs. Holland. 80 that time Gurney's
spirit was said % have described the
process Of communication with living
beings as Ike the telling OF n vastly
important message 10 n sleeping Der.
son. Most o. the messages. however.
purported 90 come from Mr.. Myers.
IL was said % the time that Sir Oliver
Lodge was sure OF the genulnenegs OF
the communications
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
TALKS TO SPIRITS
OF DEAD FRIENDS
Sir Oliver Lodge Is Certain
That Soul Lives.
RECEIVES SCIENTIFIC PROOF
Communication 10 Not Easy, but u 10
Possible, says Investigator, Avovins
Entire Faith In q Future Life-con-
verses With Departed Scientific Mon.
HE Past Experiments.

Entire Faith In q Future Life-Con-
verses With Departed Scientific Mon.
HE Past Experiments.
London--Slr Oliver Lodge, president
or the Society For Psychical Research.
recently made a striking declaration or
bis spiritual faith. He expressed his
absolute conviction or a future exist.
ence and stated that he had conversed
with friends who had passed away.
Sir Oliver said that once one realized
that consciousness was something out
side or the mechanism IL made use OF
one realized that survival OF existence
was naturally the simplest thing.
1t was unreasonable, he added, that
soul should jump out OF existence
when the body was destroyed
I'VE ourselves are not limited TO the
few years that we live on this earth
We should go on without Il: we should
certainly continue to exist; we should
certainly survive.
why do I say that? | say 1t on
definite scientific grounds. say II be-
cause / know that certain friends of
mine still exist, because have talked
to them.
Communication is possible One
must obey the laws and find out the
conditions. do not say It is easy,
but say 1t is possible, and have con
versed with them as / could converse
with any one in this audience.
Now, being scientific men. they
have given proof that II is real. not an
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03

Considerable excitement was caused
I'm Hatton Garden. London, England.
one evening recently. by the loud ring
Ing OF burglar alarm and the exhibit
ton OF n danger sign outside the
premises OF Messrs. Albert Ramsey
& Co.. diamond merchants. The po-
lice drew a Gordon round the building
and then forced an entry. The result
was that three men were taken into
custody. The apparatus which effected
their arrest is described as the very
latest thing in practical burglar
alarms. II consists OF steel cabinet,
which is fitted all round safe or 9TH
er depository for valuables. AS soon
as this cabinet is disturbed In any way
a gong nearly two feet in diameter be
gins to ring outside the building and
a danger sign In red letters is brightly
Illuminated by electricity.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03

Muntz and Gaudechon. French lnves.
tigators have conducted experiments
with reference 20 the heat impaired 10
the soil By rain, which, Il IS thought,
may play a part hitherto unrecognlzed
IN the phenomena Of vegetation. IL
appears that when the soil has reached
q certain degree N dryness the appll.
cation Of moisture produces a rise OF
temperature which is greater IN pro.
portion 10 the fneness OF the mate.
rails. Coarse sandy soil IS not heated
BY contact with moisture, while soil
composed mostly OF humus is special.
" subject 90 such innuence.-Popular
Electricity.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
And For Three Summers Mrs. Vim
cent Was Unable to Attend to
Any of Her HOusewOrk.

Pleasant Hill, N. CT suffered for
three summers" writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, of this town, land the third and
last time, was my worst.
| had dreadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely able TO
walk about. Could not do any of my
homework.
also had dreadful pains in my back
and sides and when one Of those weak.
sinking spells would come on me, !
would have to Civ TIP and lie down,
until IT wore off.
was certainly in a dreadful state oil
health, when finally decided 10 try
Cardd. the woman's tonic, and | firmly
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
RAISES CHICKEN THIEVES.
othsrwIss Known ~ SkunI<s. (which
Are Profitable.

othsrwIss Known ~ skunI<s. (which
Are Profitable.
Greenvilie. CaL-Greenville has now
established ono OF the most unique In
dustries In tho state-namely, n skunk
ranch Early In the spring VIII Ste
vens, a butcher. formerly OF Goldeeld.
rented the +. w. Peck ranch and en-
tered the business on a small scale
Young skunks were captured In vari-
Gus parts OF Indian valley and placed
In pens. They grew and multiplied
rapidly.
The business proved so lucrative that
larger pens OF corrugated irop were
made. and the number OF skunks in
creased The skins sell for from 50 to
50 each The oil - also valuable and
II sold 20 druggists. Stevens now has
arge skunks that win be- ready for
market In q couple OF months.
Tho skunks will eat all sorts OF
scraps and waste food. but are espe-
cially fond OF milk and vegetables.
They seem to like human companion
ship and when called come to be pet.
ted. To see forty chicken thieves with
their long. white striped bodies and
bushy tails feeding at n trough like 81
many pigs Is an interesting sight.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
PRACTICES LAW AT IS.
Minnesota Man Attends TO All Details
of His Local Business.

Minnesota Man Attends TO All Details
of His Legal Business.
Rochester, Minn.-Charles q. Wilson.
dean of the Olmsted county bar. cele-
brated his eighty-6fth birthday re
Gently.
Mr.. Wilson daily gives personal at.
tention 10 a lucrative law practice
attending to all OF the details himself.
His legal talent was recognized by the
state In 1892, when he was appointed
Official reporter OF the decisions OF the
supreme court He resigned In 1896.
when the legislature reduced the sal.
airy from $500 to $1,000 n year
Mr. Wilson has never been an office
seeker, but has devoted his time to the
practice OF his profession
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
FLOWER STALK SAVES BOY.
His Guardian Uses Il to Pull Him Gu
of Cistarn

His Guardian Uses Il to Pull Him Out
OF Cistern.
St Joseph, Mo.-A sunhower stalk
In the hands OF Mrs. Adeline Grimm
saved the life OF six-year-old Francis
La Bouf, who had fallen into cistern
In Mrs. Grimm's back yard.
The boy was playing near the cistern.
and when he stepped on the covering
the rotten boards gave way, and he
plunged through into the water Mrs.
Grimm, who is the boys guardian.
heard his screams. pulled a tall sun
flower out by the roots and thrust one
end through the hole. The youngster
chung TO the end OF the stalk while
she pulled him from the water. The
water in the cistern is more than six
feet deep.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
DREAM REVEALS HOMICIDE.
Mothers Vision Of Slain Son Lesds 1.
an Arrest.


an Arrest.
Butte. Mont-The arrest OF A. ].
Crisler. for whom officers had been
searching since the finding OF the body
OF Jonas Brown. homcsteader. In
shallow grave near homestead claim
which had been occupied by Crisler. Is
reported from Regina. Canada
Brown was murdered near Glasgow.
Mont. In the northern part OF the state.
his head having been split open with
an ok. presumably as he slept as Girls
ler's guest The body. attired only I'm
night clothes. was dragged 10 a hole
nearby and n few shovelfuls OF earth
thrown I'm.
Suspicion attached TO Crisler when
he was seen driving team that had
belonged to the missing man. II was
dream OF Browns mother that her
son had been murdered and buried that
caused her 10 arouse the officers, and a
search revealed his decomposed body.
The crime wns committed last April
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03

Weavervillc, Cal-Three bears were
killed within five miles Of here I'm one
day by Van Il Young. bank clerk.
who was out hunting alone with two
dogs. lie came upon a mother and
her cubs. The mother was dispatched
quickly, but the cubs put up q strcuu.
Gus fight before they were finally kill.
ed. This IS more single handed bear
killing than my other local unter has
heard OF
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
Hog sIsys Valuable Horas.

Dillsburg. Pa.-David Bishop, q farm.
er OF Monaghan township. near Gran.
than. lost a valuable horse by death
in an unusual manner several days
ago. Mr. Bishop was riding the horse
TO the barn when a large hog nj the
side Of the road made a sudden Jump
70 the horses hind feet. sinking IT,
long tusks into the horses side and
tearing a long. deep cut which caused
death before a veterinarian could be
called
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-12-03
Tontlne.

Tontine Sc a kind Of life annuity and
Us 80 called after Lorenzo Tontl, an
Italian banker, who devised Il az a
mode Of obtaining government loans.
Inc TNrd is more commonly used az
an adjective, as a tontine policy OF in.
surance, that is. a life insurance agree.
ment under which It is stipulated that
no dividend or return Of any kind
shall be made from the premiums paid
In for a certain number OF years.
called the tontine period, after which
the fund with all IS Accommodations.
is TO be divided among such as have
kept their insurance policies in force.