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Evening star., 1914-08-02
CHILDREN DISCOVER MURDER.
Find Body Of Strangled Woman in
Unoccupied Flat.

NEW YORK, August 1.-The body of a
well dressed young woman was found
by children today beneath heap Of
clothing and mattress in an unoccupied
fat on East 18th street. A towel by
which the woman had apparently been
strangled was still wrapped tight about
her neck. The police began a search for
two men who rented the fat two weeks
ago and were heard by neighbors NOV
ing about the premises late Thursday
night.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
ASSASSIN rs ABNORMAL.
SLAYER of N. Jaures in France Deem
ed irresponsible.

PARIS. August 1.-Alienists who to-
day examined Raoul william. the assas-
sin Of NJ. Jaures, the socialist leader,
declared him abnormal mentally and
partially, at least, irresponsible. The
miners Of Abb, g. town In NJ. Jaures'
constituency, ceased work today as a
mark Of respect to his memory.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
ELEcTRocUTED AT WORK.
John Lumley Meets Death at Win.
chester, Va.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va, August John
Lumley, construction foreman for the
Northern Virginia Power Company. was
electrocuted in Main street late this after
noon by coming in contact with q high
tension electric light wire. Mr. Lumley
was on repairing job when his head
touched a bare wire. He fell to the side
walk through a mass OF other wires, and
was killed instantly. He was ffty-three
years of age, and was from Durham,
n. C. His wife and one daughter sur
vfve him.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
Departures.

Schooner J. A. Holland, for Virginia
point to load back to this city; schooner
Ella. light, from Alexandria for a down
river point to load wood for this city or
Alexandria: power boat Ruth K. from
18th street wharf for Fort Foote, Nd. to
return with market stuff; steamer South
land, for Old Point and Norfolk: steam
er Northumberland, for lower river land
ings and Baltimore: power Doat Mercury
on a down river cruise with pleasure
party aboard: schooner Elizabeth Carter.
light, from Alexandria for q Potomac
point to load railroad ties to return.
Tugs and Tows.
Tug James o. Carter arrived from
Point Lookout after delivering coal-la-
den barge en- route to Boston; tug Rosa
lie and Eugenia arrived at Alexandra
towing sand and gravel laden lighters:
tug Capt. Toby returned from Broad
loaded lighter there: tug Minerva left
with lighters for sand and gravel dig
ging machines at Motley Hall; tug Louise
left with tow of lighters for District
workhouse OccoQuan creek, Va. and re-
turned with the workhouse lighter: tug
John Miller arrived in the Eastern
branch from Little Hunting creek With
lighters in tow; tug Winship arrived at
Georgetown with coal-carrying boats:
tug Minerva arrived with stone-carrying
lighters to load at Potomac quarries: tug
Dauntless arrived with a loaded large
and left with light one for bay point.
Memoranda.
Barge No. % left Portsmouth. n. H,
July 80. light. for this city to load coal
for New England point; schooner Five
Sisters is reported in the river with lum-
ber for dealers here; schooner N. D.
Nutter is on her way to this city from
the Rappahannock river with railroad
ties; schooner Clara Howeth has arrived
at a Potomac point from this city to load
cord wood to return; schooner J. P. Rob-
inson is reported on her way to this city
with cord wood from Upper Machodoc
creek for Washington dealers.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
Gives Expanding Currency.

The act provides a true expanding
currency. and it is most fortunate under
all existing conditions that it is availa bic
for the national banking institutions of
the country.
The Treasury is cooperating in every
way possible. 1t has been fcrehanded in
printing these notes In advance, so that
they are Immediately available. and the
door is open for the creation Of any rea-
sonaDl. amount of perfectly sound cur
rency 70 meet whatever legitimate de-
,r'f.nds there may be for circulating
medium.
Always. at this crop-moving season.
there is demand for large amount OF
additional circulation. and II is not prob
able that under the serious strain that
the European situation has put upon us
that there may be more than an ordinary
demand for money for circulation. and
while the financial condition of the coun-
try is sound and pre-emjnently strong in
the world today. nevertheless it has beer
deemed wise to get effective machinery
ready to meet any eventualities that
NAV arise"
Evening star., 1914-08-02
DIDN'T WORK.

Country Jusr,cs-I'u have to nns y,
q dollar, JEFF.
Jeff-I.u have to berry It q -
Judge.
Country Justice-Great snakes! Il
was only to git dollar I was Aning
"a. Git outI Ys amt guilty, any.
way.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Schooner s. L. Bowen, cord wood from
a lower river point at 18th street wharf
for ]. H. Carter & Co.: schooner May q
Anna Beswick, lumber from the Kappa
hammock river at 9th street wharf for
johnson & Wimsatt: power boats Ruth
and Annie May, at 11th street wharf with
watermelons from the Rappahannock nv
er for the market; schooner Oakland.
cord wood from Maryland point at 18th
street wharf for J. H. Carter & Co.;
steamer Northland from Norfolk and Old
Point; steamer Volunteer from Malta
woman creek and river landings; power
boat Frank Phillips. at Alexandria, light,
from a river point; schooner Mary Fran
els, cord wood from Maryland point for
Carter & Co.; schooner Grape Shot and
sloop Crockett, at 10th street wharf with
wood for L. A. Clarke & Son; schooner
Lily D. Smith. potatoes from the east
ern shore, at 11th street wharf.
Evening star., 1914-08-02

While lao men per 1000 die of con-
sumption, only 1876 per 1000 women die
from that disease.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
Chicagoans Are Coming.

CHICAGO. August 1.-Three members
of the Chicago clearing house commit
tee will leave tomorrow for Washington
to confer with the Secretary Of the Treas
ury and other bankers regarding the ef-
feet of the war on American finances.
They are James 3. Forgan, president of
Reynolds, president of the Continental
and Commercial Bank, and Ernest A.
Hammill of the Corn Exchange National
Bank John j. Mitchell. president of the
Illinois Trust Company. will follow Mon
day.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
HENLEY GIVES TALK
AT CAMP GOOD WILL
Greeks, italians, Russians, Servians,
Mexicans and Germans
Among Children.

Representative Hensley Of Missouri was
principal speaker for Navy Yard day
at Camp Good WILL yesterday afternoon.
Other features were contests for the
youngsters, including races and athletic
matches. Prizes were given to the win
ners.
Refreshments. consisting Of ice cream,
lemonade and cake. were served. The
committee in charge consisted OF Samuel
Shreve, chairman, and Messrs. Shepard,
Sheehan and Eckart.,
At camp this summer is a family OF
well educated, intelligent Mexicans who
left that country year ago on account
of the troubles which were then brewing.
They lived independently and had enelr
servants. =,
Since being in this country. however: all
their property has been confiscated. Ihey
are now struggling for an existence mere.
The children are at Camp 6ood WIN en-
loving the fresh air and the sunshine. TO
which they were more accustomed IN
their home in the far SOUTH
Warning Nations Represented
The present trouble in Europe is caus-
,ne many anxious moments at camp
The new party contains great number
of Greeks, Italians. Russians. Servians
and Germans: There is some str as
70 the probability Of fathers and broth
ers returning to fight for their native
lands.
The camps have been organised on the
Boy Scout plan to some extent. Scout
master H L. Taylor has been conducting
daily inspections Of tents and camp mp
grounds. The standard Of neatness has
reached such a height that it becomes
impossible to designate any one tent as
the winner Of the flag for highest tent
neatness. :.
The two swimming groups. under d.
Grange, volunteer boys worker. ana
Fred Livermore, Boy Scout. are receiv-
ing lessons in swimming and in h1e-
saving daily.
The camp garden and Its gardener. j.
W. Board, have kept all three camps OF
the Associated Charities supplied with
practically all their vegetables this year.
This is a tremendous saving and allows
that money to be spent for taking more
kiddies to the camp.
Baby Hospital Camp.
The baby hospital camp Is carrying on
its work as usual this year. saving lives
Of sick babies and teaching mothers how
to take care Of them after they are
saved.
Camp Pleasant is this year endowed
with a group of volunteer workers who
are helping the little colored youngsters
to health and happiness. The camp is
much better located than last year, and
the effect is noticeable generally.
Evening star., 1914-08-02
Would Decline Payment.

THE roadway in this street, with the
exception Of a few holes and slight de-
preston due to improper filing after ex-
cavation for the purpose of laying con-
duits in this street, is In infinitely bet
ter condition than many streets of the
city where the traffic is many times
greater than on this particular street,
which you propose to resurface. and
minor repairs is all that Is needed.
Further. the act of Congress seeking
to fx the charge for paving or resurfac-
ing streets upon the individual owners
Of property abatting such street is IL
legal, for the reason that the title to said
streets rests wholly in the United States
and the Individual property owner has
no more right to the street or roadway
on which his property is located than
any other citizen Of the United States.
and 1t is the taking Of property Of the
citizen without due process of law.
Finally, should you conclude to carry
the order Of your 'so-called' board into
effect and resurface this street. aid levy
an assessment pursuant to said act of
Congress and order Of your 'so-called'
board, would decline to pay same and
contest the matter in the court. for the
reason that your board is illegally con-
stituted and I must decline to respect
any order emanating from said Com
missioners as board. since the Judgment
Of custer has been entered against one
Of your members"
Evening star., 1914-08-02
Test Was Anticipated.

That the legality of the Borland amend
ment would be tested In court has been
anticipated by the Commissioners. The
street resurfacinS program calls for an
expenditure Of about $36O. 900. In the case
Of every thoroughfare slated for improve
ment protests have been received on the
ground that repairs are not needed at
this time.
Mr.. Heiskelrs protest followed receipt
by him Of notice from the Commission
ers to the effect that they had ordered
resurfacing Of the roadway of 21st street
between New Hampshire and Massachu-
sets avenues, for which the assessment
would be at the rate Of approximately
81. 10 per lineal foot.
In his letter to the Commissioners he
states that he has examined the entire
section Of the street proposed to be re-
surfaced, and protests against the order
for the following reasons:
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

n weeks be arranged to suit the spare time and convenience
OF each
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bookkeeping and
cooking OF
will lectures and lantern
slides which agreed cooperate
the will laboratory cooking apparatus valued
will
leader o he
which
organize
and methods of procedure The classes commonly
held In the
held
in
period
farmhouse During the
the domestic science courses
practical
established organizer wthdaws to start
of the
the college the department in
carrying o
regularly be carried on all
the rapidly the college organizer visit the groups ana
supplied available
reading the lectures
certificate college
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21
Chinese Peasants Cannot Grasp Idea
of a Great Nation Governing
Itself.

Peking peace loving nature OF
the Chinese and the Indifference Of the
general Chinese population living
away from the larger commercial
cities is well illustrated by a story
which Mr.. X. H. Cheng, secretary OF
the board of communication here, re-
lates
Last year the then minister Of war,
Wang Sze Cheng, travelled into the in
terror to meet a certain general; he
alighted at Shia CHA Chang, on the
Hankow-Peking railway, and took a
cart to reach the appointed place.
AS they journeyed quietly along the
country road the driver broke the
silence and inquired where his pas
senger came from. On learning he
was from Peking, he followed this up
by asking: where is the emperor?
The minister of war replied: "Oh,
we now have a republic"
But what is the meaning of a re-
public?"
"A republic means that the country
is now governed by the people"
But" inquired the driver, how can
the people govern? They all have
their own work to do"
The minister tried to explain, but
the driver continued: "A country
without an emperor is like shop
without a boss and without business.
If every one governs, then every one
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21


a
the school anarchists; children Hundred Seventh street.
things
scarcely believed So myself to find
As Stephenson teacher
which do
At this areed boy slightly larger than Giuseppe left the
the seized M her her and
whirled a
Immediately and
having excellent delight of
Boys, what foolish thing fight Maria willing to
dance with both said without excitement
There
terda that the sidewalk much appropriate place decide
rels room?'
+
tive fighting Children
urally S o them"
But child he jump the window
Well Of them ddbut would simply show them
They could
schools body
n the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21
CENSURE FOR A BUSYBODY
Took a Drunk" to a Police Station
and Is Severely Rebuked for
His Pains.

London-A stinging rebuke was ad-
ministered to a busybody at Barn
staple police court.
A charge of drunkenness was made
against a man who had been taken to
the police station by a private indi-
vidual. When the man was brought be-
fore the bench the mayor asked II it
was customary for a private citizen TO
take man in charge in such circum-
stances. 1t seemed to him to be most
unmanly If he had met man in THAI
state Of incapability he would have
taken him to his home
The chief constable said it was the
fret time within his experience that a
civilian had brought any one to be
locked up.
The mayor said it was a mean and
contemplate trick" and the magis-
trates dismissed the case on the pay
ment Of costs.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

Is known. hrst sighted che cape IN 1000
In 1870 the Pilgrims settled here and
three years later we learn that a trad.
ing business had been established be-
tween this English colony and the
Dutch OF New Amsterdam.
Capt Miles standish, among others,
avoided the dangerous foga OF the
cape, navigating his little boat up the
Scusset river 10 it's head and then
transporting the tiny craft across the
intervening land TO the Monument
river The people OF the Massachusetts
colony In 1876 had experts to 90 over
the ground and consider the cutting OF
canal across the cape. but decided
the work was too great, In 1897 an.
other committee reported on the prof
ect and In 1886 a disgusted historian
speaks Of the "place through which a
canal has been talked OF this 30 years, I"
The FIRST actual digging took place
in 1880, but was almost Immediately
abandoned. In 1888 excavators took
out a million cubic yards Of earth.
Then the work stopped Nothing more
OF importance was done until 1903
when work started on June 22. This
was a little over five years ago.
Eight powerful dredges. one of them
the largest in the world. and eight
tugs we're employed In the work. The
plant used was worth a million dol
lars. The builders are proud of their
record OF no life lost in the course of
the work
There are two highway bridges over
the canal, one at Boone and the other
at Sycamore. They are longer than
necessary for provision is left TO widen
the canal to 200 feet. II may be en-.
larged so as to accommodate the big
gest vessels anoat
The distance from Boston tn New
York by way Of Long Island Vineyard
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21
CAPE GOD CANAL
COMPLETED AFTER
THREE CENTURIES
Dimensions Greater Than the
Original Suez Canal.
TOTAL COSr is sl2,ooO,ooO
Is ts Miles Long and Has Minimum
Depth at Low Water Of 25 Feet
and In no Place 10 Less Than
100 Feet Wide at Bottom.

New York-Recently there was
opened across the long arm of Cape
Cod, Mass, a waterway which will
probably accommodate more tonnage
than the Panama canal for a good
maNy years. This will surprise many,
for the Cape Cod canal work has been
dohe without much blare of trumpets
or congressional oratory. But It is a
most notable achievement and puts
much nearer the realization the dream
Of an all inland waterway from Maine
TO Florida.
The freight now rounding dangerous
Cape Cod and its ehoals every year
amounts TO 25,OOOtoOO tons and prac-
tically all this is expected to take the
new shorter and safer route. The
canal cost about 100000. The Pan
ANA canal costing $4O0,O09,000 will
have but 1O,6OO,OOO tons annually, It is
estimated. The great new barge canal
in New York state which serves to
bring the grain Of the West from Lake
Erie to'New York city is costing $780,
100000 and its prospective tonnage is
but 100000 tons.
So 1t is difficult to see why the Cape
Cod canal was not constructed before.
1t has been discussed since shortly
after the Pilgrims landed in the vi
oinity. II hung fire for almost three
hundred years, but now It will probably
be self supporting from the start.
Vessels from ports all along the
coast as far south as Charleston, S. c.,
will use the canal going to and from
Boston. Twenty-Five thousand craft a
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

year now go around Cape Cod, but at
a fearful loss in foundered and
wrecked ships and with extra charges
for insurance. The average delay per
round trip for barges and schooners
going outside is calculated to be near
ly four days.
This means ten cents a ton loss in
money on the 100000 tons of coal
and lumber carried by sailing craft
and tows. Steamers carry an addition
al 100000 tons on which nearly the
same proportional amount will be
saved by the new route.
The length of the waterway is eight
miles in land cut while its length from
90-foot water in Barnstable bay on the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21
BOUGHT A CHURCH FOR $40
Parsonage Of One-Member "Flock"
Brought $34o-orsan Brings Big
Sum Of $1.50.

Winsted, Conn. - The Methodist
church building in West Goshen was
sold under the hammer to w. H. Wad-
hams for $40. The pews and other fix
lures were included in the purchase.
Mr.. Wadhams also purchased the land
on which the building stands, paying
$40 for it.
The parsonage was sold to E. o.
Wright for S34O. The organ was
bought by F. Ray Wadhams for $150,
melodion by the Goshen school COM
mittee for $3.50; church bells by Mrs.
Harrison Ives, $13, and the barn by
w. H. Wadhams, SO. The money will
be turned over to the New York East
conference. The church has only one
member, besides three trustees. Hence
the sale
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21


a wall in which
a discovery
carefully
of there sufficient through The
only would be andPaon please
dostay
drawn room
to
headb
plumber explained.
to the head butler
sayn nothing"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

that he had been suffering from hal
lucinations Of ever increasing force
for some months. During the night
vision of his wife and children In the
hands of Arabs, being subjected to
torture, required SO vividly that he
seized a pistol to kill them and thus
save them from horrors worse than
death. AS on previous occasions the
hallucination passed quickly and he
was confronted with his dreadful deed.
Overcome with grief, he resolved to
join his family in death and sent n
bullet through bis brain.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

Canal Looking Toward Buzzard's Bay
motor boats and other little craft Ia
500 for trading ships Of $50 to 999
gross tons and ten cents per gross
ton for merchant vessels Of more than
1000 gross tons.
The successful completion OF Cape
Cod canal is due principally to the
energy Of three men-August Bel
mont, financial backer; William Bar
clay Parsons, the celebrated engineer
who supervised the work for the Cape
Cod Construction company Of which
Mr.. Belmont is president, and Frank
A. Furst, a Baltimore engineering man
whose concern did the actual exca-
waiting.
Those who think of the construction
Of a canal as digging away a lot Of
sand are much mistaken. The build
ers encountered hard pan and boul-
ders, left by glaciers, according to
geologists, which proved almost as
tough as solid rock.
There were five previous abortive
attempts to cut across Cape Cod.
At Cape Cod the Arctic current meets
the Atlantic current and a dense fog
is the result of Pollock's Rip there
are 1,0S2 hours Of fog annually and
2,141 vessels have been wrecked here.
The dangers of this fog were fully
realized by the discoverers and set
tiers of the cape.
Bartholomew Gonold, of whom little
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21
Republic Proves a Mystery

is like the emperor and we have no
one to look up to"
After considerable talk of this ma
ture the minister gave up in despair
the task of explanation and said:
THE emperor is too young to rule;
he is only a baby, and we have sent
him away to be educated"
The cart driver persisted, and said:
But why send him away? Before we
had no trouble; now we have nothing
but trouble"
This illustrates the attitude of the
bulk Of the Chinese people toward poll
tics, and also their one desire to be let
alone in peace.
The Chinese have no telegraph for
the word republic" and in their
written word it takes several ideo-
graphs to explain it.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

decoration was a playing fountalh'
But just before the dinner was to be
served the fountain refused TO play.
A plumber was hastily called. He
crawled under the table and soon had
the fountain sending a delicate spray
into the air. He was busy tightening
the couplings of the temporary pipes
under the table when the head butler,
his mind relieved of a load of care
when he saw the fountain playing,
announced in the drawing room:
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21


in
worms flies. caterpllars grasshoppers
there pretty a
"She called and
that there bird and / told
there's and
with a MrsF
thereon piece paper
opened the apd Jet hmut He lew right back
with father end mother - 81 IL -. -
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

Unprotected things. Hes got a sym
pathetic heart His voice was tremu-
Ious with the emotion that possessed
his soul, as he told of the peril that
beset this particular birdie.
1t appears the ledgling tumbled
out of a tree in Mrs. Flannery's back
yard at SO Pacific avenue and she res
cued it from a flock of avaricious cats
that infest the neighborhood.
"She took that there robin and
put it in cage" said Charlie, and
she kept it IN her barn, where the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

Chicago been sitting nights
publication but had unable do within the five days. He asked
the book days longer
Indiana postmaster
Hubbard
travelling salesman asked whether
check his firm New
Il back be demanded
would goin
could keept only day."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21

main interest in life the ponies and such pedmena
hroDces TO enjoy the present his
%
Washington
at
Rha blurted out
om heard George Washington, cepn
INV
such fameand shadow
TDaher OF Country
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-21
Llnsman Aaleep on Pole.

Pendleton, Ore.-M. Morgan, local
telephone lineman, caused a commo-
ton at the intersection Of Main and
Bluff streets when he fell asleep at the
top of telephone pole.
Passersby, seeing the motionless fig
ure of man lying across the cross
arm with arms and legs dangling in
the air, thought he had been electro
cuted. When assistance arrived 1t
was found the man had merely been
lulled to sleep by the warm sun. His
belt prevented his falling.