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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
PROVISIONS

Trade slow and prices unchauged CITY beef
In sets, smoked ana alr-iried b G32r,. West.
sIn beef in sets, smoked, 3lf32c city beef
SnuSkles and tenders. smoked ana air-dried
smoked, 32g3+c. beef hams. 40g4sc pSrs
FAMILY, s2dG2T. Hams. s. =. cured loose l5l,
glt5yc,; do, skinned loose l5lzalSc 40
do, smoked. lSg loc. other hams SMOKED cltv
cured as 20 brand and average isqlac e:
mans; smoked Western cured. lSRI9r a.
boiled, homeless, 2Sa2lr; picnic shouIisrs :
r. cured loose, l2al2Lgc do, smoked. "a
1--we hellles. IN pickle according to average
loose, l8ig9 lie; breakfast bacon as 70 brand
and average, city cured. 2ln23c.. break fast
bacon, Western cured. 2la23c.; lard Western
TTSSnned; tierees. i'4allkc: DO. 10, DO tubs
llisPllsc; lard. pure city. kettle rendered
in Heroes llNEqllAc lard, pure city, kettle
rendered. 10 tubs. 1ltanllAc. -. wv
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OUIMET ON WINNING SIDE
Amateur Champion, With Low, De-
feats Travers and Marston, 8 and 4.

NEW YORK, Sept 25.-A gallery Of
nearly 1000 golfers saw Francis Ouimet.
the amateur champion, figure on the
winning side of a four-ball match ri
Baltusrol yesterday. Ouimet, paired
with George Low. the home profes-
sional, took on Jerome d. Trayers, Of
Upper Montclair, the former title holder
and Max r. Marston. OF the home elub
and at the finish OF the round Ouimet
and Low had Won by 5 up and 1 to
play
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Detroit Drops Catcher Peters

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 25.-John Peters
catcher for the ST. Paul American
Association Club, announced yesterday
that he had signed a 1915 contract with
the Detroit American League team nv,
whom he was secured Ia the secret
draft.
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SOUTH AMERICA ORDERS STEEL

PITTSBURGH, Sept 9o.-The largest
export order received in this country
since the European war started has been
Isken ny the l-aekawanna Steel Company
steel bars for Government work AZ
Buenos AIRES. Argentina.
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New Coach for columbia

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Ths Columbia
soccer team is slated 10 begin practice
next Monday afternoon under a new
coach. Graduate Manager FISHER has
secured the services of Adamson. of ths
Brooklyn F'ootbRllt tcluhH,..
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PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
Sun and Tides

Sun and Tides
Sun rises. $50 a. M Sun sets. :54 p. m
PHILADELPHIA.
High water AS a. m. High water. Sis .. m.
Low water. 2 Al a. m. Low water. . IL :53 .. m.
REEDY ISLAND.
High water 2:34 a. m; High water. 3:o7 p, m.
Low water. e:11 a. m. Low water. 9:54 p. m.
RREAKwATER.
High water 49,. a.. m.iHigh water. 12 :22 D. M
Low water. 5:45 a. m. Low water. 6: :36 .. m.
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NEW YORK BUTTER AND EGGS

NEW YORK. Sept 25-Bttsr-67as ,,.,
s ssses received; market steady; creamery extras
d3Oac '4' sNHs$' EoHs
Esss-RoceIpts. l0.o4o crates: tone OF mar
ast steadier; fresh gathered. extra hrsls 2sssD
~, hrst, 24g2oe.i refrIgerator hEsts, 24p2Sc,
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BANK cLEARINGs

Bank elearings today compare with eorrss-
spending day last two years
Philada. S21. ISL, sas S24 90 ass s2s - as
Boston s,s., lI,49l.T3i 2l,s5T.3o So So. soS
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ANOTHER CUT IN OIL PRICES

The Imperial oil Company has an
nounced another reduction OF ave cents
. barrel 10 sLs5 in the price OF Oh.
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Steamships to Leave
PASSENGER
PORT OF NEW YORK
Vessels Arriving Today

Str. Mauretania (Br). Charles Liy.rpoo,
Sept. 10, to the Cunard Steamship Co Ia
Docked at a. m.
Steamships To Arriua
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SILGAR

Quiet, but steadily held. Standard Eranu-
lated, 6 Soc. me granuiated g T5c poWdeTed.
s s,s So Confeet'oneFS' A S-e5c soft grades,
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POULTRY

LINE-In ample supply and ouist ~
former rates Fowls. lJq I7c.. old 'Toosters
-H it% =. asprinE chickens, acgordtug to quail
3'h.a' N. and sgi3tss t1s- gs gSST young wfighng
%%9issce '"e. ola 500 pigeons per pair Is
DRESSED Desirable stock steady with
demand equal 10 the offerings Fresh-killei
aNts per 10, wc'sh.ng F2aS ibs. apiece
Hrlsning So .hs. apiece l7alsc.. 10. weigh.
lns $ lbs and under, l6n.E old ROSTERS. DIV
pl-hel' l5L9r,. hr'lling chickens nearby
Weighing llgH2 lbs. apiece 2w1cac.. brSilink
CueNgns nearby, fair 10 good. lNTlsc.: chick-
ems western. "'sH+ lbs. apiece. lpr.. do 40
-" ms tp.eee. l5u l6r-. br0iHuz chickens
esteTn. lt.q2 lbs apiece, ITqlSa.. broiling
eN.cHens, western. tdIF 70 good ISfflBc
sqnahs, per dog White. weighing II Ia ~
Ios,' per d'zg Hl5a4 80 white. weigh
%stshHE BIS, per duz.. 22SI2 81: DO, DO
! Us. per lgZ. sl.Idn2. do, do GaSia lbs
T., 'o%. - SI.-'gl.'N. dark ana No. ?, 6Ol o
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Tonopah Mining Company. regular % pc
cent payable October p TO stock OF recor

National Fireproofins Company. regular
quarterly ] per cent preferred, paya bic
October IL to stock of record October g.
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DIVIDENDS DECLARED

I.ehiEh Valley Coal Sales Company. regular
quarterly 2iz per cent, payable October II to
stock Of record October 8.
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Penmans. Limited, regular quarterly III per
sent sent on preferred and 1 per cent on common:
record October 81. and common payable Mo-
venber 16 to stock of record November 5.
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PHILADELPHIA MARKETS

steady, hut trade quiet New York. full
cream choice. 1ei2Hi i6Nr.; t5 DO fair to
No9H' l"'=dlbc.- do. part skins gHl4c.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

The new shops of the Chicago and Alton
at Bloomington. ILL.,, to cost 81, ,O0O, 900. are
nearing completion. They will replace old
buildings of small size that We're erected
80 years ago.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
MIL TON AS AN ENGLISH CENSOR

equivalent OF about $4,000 in our money
today. In that Office NI'lton's chief
duties were to carry on the dlpiomatc
correspondence with foreign countries,
but he became in addition to the chief
literary man for parliament and the fore
most and most effective eXpounder of the
principles of the Cromwell period, and
the chief literary defender of the acts
of the commonwealth.
Under the government of the common
wealth John Milton was also 'licenser of
the press" and he reported to parliament
on letters or books considered danger
Gus to the public veal; he wrote for the
papers of the period, and suppressed and
combated those papers and pamphlets
which were considered seditious, and
which, as the end Of the commonwealth
approached, increased in boldness.
Thus did the great Milton act as
press censor in one of the tense and great
epochs of the English race and the world.
IN connection with Milton's services
toward the press and publishers 1t is
worth recalling that soon after him came
Sir Roger LEstrange. who was appoint
ed licenser of the press in 1868. He was
no strong believer in the liberty of the
press, and considered large number of
printers and publishers as objects of Sus-
picion. c. B. Roylance Kent, to whom
the reading world is indebted for much
of it's information of this man, says Sir
Roger suggested that the number of
master printers in London be reduced to
twenty that printing offices be subject
to inspection and have no back doors, and
that in addition to the ordinary penalties
for reasonable and seditious publica-
tions, culprits convicted of small infrac-
tons of the law be condemned to wear
some visible badge or mark of ignominy,
as halter instead of hatband one
stocking blue and another red, or blue
bonnet with a red letter T or S upon it ="
Evening star., 1914-12-27

rs there any money for the govern.
ment in handling those little penny
post cards?" was asked of Postmaster
Otto Praeger He said that there was.
and explained:
They require little space. Their bulk
is nothing like that of fair sized
letter, and they are usually purchased
in large quantities. Thus "a postman
might be required to deliver ten or
twelve cards at a single home. and the
combined weight of the cards. each of
which had a penny stamp on it, would
not be much greater than n letter of
respectable length"
For the post office officials the
Invariably months Of extreme laoor.
especially in a year IKE this. when
Congress hopes to adjourn by March
4. AS soon as the holiday stress has
passed away Congress will have re-
convened and the mails will again De
filled with government literature Of
various ninds.
In speaking of the post cards. Supt.
Matthews called attention to the fact
that comparatively few were foreign
this year.
You're reminded of the war even al
q time like this he said, when you
compare this mail with me mail OF
other years and remember the guam
tity of trinkets that came to this city
bearing the stamps of almost every
country on the face of the globe.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

the individual who. having received an
unexpected present, ruShes out to buy
something in return. is not fiction, ac-
cording to what the officials say. In
fact, the great rush. running through
the entire Christmas week. is largely
due to the arrival of belated and un-
expected gifts.
The stores" declares Matthews.
should do a, big volume of pos,-
Christmas business if the packages
that come and go through Washington
are any criterion. Why. ] used to
think that about third of all the
holiday gifts sent through --.c mail
was intended to arrive between Christ
mas and New Year"
The government, whose business cor
respondence comprises about 75 per
cent of the total mall handled in
Washington, shows consideration for
holiday givers by withholding all that
it can of its correspondence until New
Year has passed. The gay calendar
and the frivilous card supplant the
calm and learned discussion of the
habits of the army worm or the best
way to murder the boil weevil, which
is in transit to some eager farmer
in northern Minnesota
Thus, during the holiday season, the
comparative percentage of mail sent
out under stamps climbs from 25 to
about so per cent. while the govern
ments percentage declines by that
amount.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Utah's Strange Monument.

THE freakishness of mankind has
l erected many monuments to many
strange subjects-to horses and dogs
and all manner of things-but it has
remained for the people of Utah to
erect the strangest of all cOmmemora-
tive piles--a monument to seagull!
When, in the late 4Os, the Mormon
pioneers settled in the Salt Lake val
ley, they found a desert. They had,
with wise foresight, however. brought
sufficient food to last them until the
harvest of the following year. and 80,
in the spring Of 1s4S, they built their
,rrigating bitches and sowed their
crops, in confidence of rich harvest.
What was their CONSERVATION, then.
when, just as their wheat, their main
stay for food. was approaching ripe
ness, Il plague OF crickets or grass
hoppers descended upon their fields.
like the plaques of old Egypt, and de-
stroyed every vestige of their crop. 1t
was a serious situation, for they were
a full thousand miles from any source
of food supply. and the road led
through grisly desert, infested by
hostile Indians. With rare fortitude.
situation. They forthwith reploughed
their fields and sowed another crop.
1t was with despair that, just as their
second crop was beginning to ripen.
the host of insects descended second
time upon the fields and threatened de-
struction to their only hope against
starvation.
What was their delight. therefore,
when suddenly there descended upon
the valley countless fiocks of seagulls.
Over the western mountains they came
by thousands and at once busily set
upon the predatory insects. So thick
were they and SO greedily did they de-
vour their prey, that in short time
not a cricket or grasshopper was to be
seen, and the crop, freed from the
dreaded pest, ripened bountifully. The
gulls, having cleaned up the insects
took wing and returned to their native
shores-a thousand miles away-nor
have they visited the Salt Lake valley
since.
Through all the years since the lucky
Intervention of the seagulls the people
of the valley have kept alive the
memory of their saviors. and lately
they have commemorated the event by
the erection of statue to the gulls.
A granite shaft on pedestal rises
from a fountain. Upon the top is a
large globe, and upon it two bronze
gulls are gracefully aliGhting. On the
four sides of the pedestal are bronze
tablets, embellished with groups show.
ing the coming of the settlers in theii
prairie schooners." the flight of the
gulls upon the threatened fields, the
happy harvesting of the crop and !
record of the event.
This strange monument occupies
commanding position over the valley
It's recent dedication was witnessed by
several survivors among the early set
tiers who had been eyewitnesses of tn.
invasion of the insects and the latel
coming of the gulls.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

MADAM FORTUNE, who. true to her
A'A sex, delights in emotional con-
trasts and melodramatic situations, has
just rung down the curtain on another
scene of tragic national anti-climaX
such as that with which She bowed her
favorite, Napoleon, off the stage CEN
tury ago.
Ii was just one hundred years past that,
OF the plains of Leipsic, the Germans
gained the first great victory against
the invincible Napoleon that sounded
the knell of his astonishing empire.
The two leaders who won the battle.
whose fiery energy instilled into every
private in the ranks, overswept the
hitherto all-victorious armies of the
French, were the Prussian generals,
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Undaunted
by previous defeat, these two pressed
their hot and rapid strokes so fiercely
upon the proud and confident French
legions that for the first time the great
emperor felt the chill of doubt
"A few months after this battle the
world-conqueror, Napoleon. surrender
ed his empire and the grateful German
people crowned with laurel the brows
OF Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. True,
the aged Blucher, who was a most ex-
SciieHL press agent 1Or nlmSelf, trum-
peted his deeds throughout Europe.
But the people smiled. patted the old
man on the back and awarded the
crown of honor to Scharnhorst and
Gne1senau, who from that day to the
present have been honored throughout
Germany as the saviors of their coun-
try.
And now, just one hundred years, al
most to a day, after the stupendous
triumph of these two Teutonic heroes,
in the greatest naval battle since the
wreck of the Spanish armada, fought
far away on the uttermost confines of
the world, the Germans meet a crushing
defeat Four of her modern fighting
ships are sent to the bottom of the
South Atlantic seas.
One of these was named Leipsic; two
of the others, ranking among the most
powerful battle cruisers of the proud
German navy, were named Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau!
Dame Fortune, tickle and melodra-
matte, could not resist the temptation.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

face. Deep assures opened in the ice
and ran with lightning speed far and
wide. The huge fragments of the up
torn ice were sent with fury over that
ice which still resisted, in some places
piling into actual bulwarks and in
others heaved into the streets. A child
left in bed by it's parents and reused
by the noise had run into the midst of
things while yet half asleep. At this
moment he was seen being borne away
on pile of wood which he had escaped
to, only to have it suddenly slip from
its place against a wharf and into the
rushing ice fields.
There was another explosion as the
hill of wood was forced into a waver-
ing square of ice, and the strange but
horrible spectacle of child going for
ward In the mae1strom, atop Of crazy
seat Of bobbing timbers. The whole
was close against the piers, and the
people on the bridge seemed stunned.
when the regiment of students who
had been to the last professors home
and We're turning toward their chief
gathering place reached the bridge.
One student had pipe in his hand,
his coat was off and his throat barred.
At one glance the noisy band, whose
musicians still were playing /; lively
march, took In the wild, white river,
the child and the riding timbers and
the helpless mass of people looking oil,
as if too terrified to act. Another
glance, with one accord, flashed upon
the coatless one of their crowd. while a
shout went up. "Ackermann! Acker-
mann! he alone can do it!'
The players stopped short. The torch
bearers ran to the ratings to throw
light upon the whirling dervishes of
ice. The athlete aimed carefully with
his light at the block of ice he hoped
to reach before it broke against the
piers. and, leaping to the nearest
boHlder of ice, went on from one to
another until he reached the mass
holding the child. At that moment it
went to pieces and both student and
boy disappeared. But, just as quickly,
they came up. and fisherman who
was standing by. cursing himself for
cowardice, sensibiy threw down a rope
weighted on one end, and the students
struggled with one another to get Il
hand on the knotted hemp that now
drew Ackermann and the unconscious
child into the joyous crowd.
Then the musicians blew the loudest
blast that Heidelberg had ever heard,
and the ever-to-be-famouS student was
lifted up on stalwart shoulders and
carried off for revel lasting until
dawn.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Each Delegate a Scientist.

Many washingtonians are unaware
AVA of the fact that during the month
of November, from the 9th until the
18th, was held one Of the most extraor-
dinary conventions of agricultural
scientists in this city. Ten nationally
famous associations sent their leading
men to the number of 1000 for con-
ference.
The one predominating question was
the matter of increasing agricultural
production to meet the needs of the
present war.
The ten associations represented
Were: Association of American Agri-
cultural Colleges and Experiment Sta
tions, National Association of State
Universities, Society," for the Promotion
of Agricultural Science, American As
sociation for the Advancement of Agri-
cultural Teaching. American Associa-
tion of Farmers Institute Workers,
American Society of Agronomy. Ameri-
can Society of Animal Production,
American Farm Management Associa-
tion. Land Grant Engineering Asso-
citation. and Association OF Official Seed
Analysts.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

AR STARTS ON IT'S WAY.
ago. The day was also Christmas
day Beneath, in Grabbed hand, was
written:
This is the anniversary"
A reminder. no doubt, to a relative
who had lost track of his family.
The old Christmas wheeze concerning
Evening star., 1914-12-27

his deputies left their glasses to come
outside. The marshals clashed their
swords wildly, everybody sang "Stoss-
tam! Heidelberg, Live Thou" and the
torch train marched away.
So permeated is the city of Heidel-
berg with the student spirit that while
the people have often protested against
the license practiced by the students.
the worst pranks, since there is con-
tinuous evidence of youthful good
will and eager readiness to assist any
townsman in distress. About once q
year, often at holiday times, a band
of students equaling a regiment in
number gather and go from town to
town. creating mild riots and making
clowns of themselves for the amusement
Once, pigs and chickens, flowers and
gardens were not safe when the roy
stering regiment set out on the high
ways of Baden. but the days of real
cradle-place for scholars-to-be has
largely banished even dueling. not
long ago considered a glory to the uni
versity. New Year eve, therefore. re-
mains one of the occasions when
everybody in Heidelberg expects tradi-
tion to rise and sert of Halloween to
hold court all night.
One such evening. when the new
year had been started on it's swift
journey for a couple of hours and the
ing rather an uncertain turn, a man on
horseback gailoped through the streets
shouting excitedly that the ice in the
Kline was breaking up. This was a
warning to part of the town. as great
damage was often done at this time of
the year, when n treacherous south
wind came up and started thawing the
thick ice.
Torches We're stationed all along the
river and boatmen had been expecting
trouble, but not that night. The next
moment after the messenger rode
through the city the big bridge was
covered with people and vantage
points were fairly fought for. 1t was
perhaps 1 o'clock. the town was still
lighted up and only the mountains and
a solitary castle stood black and brood
ing and unaware that in another mo-
nent the cracking ice fields of the
Rhine would burst and rush wildly
toward the sea.
X !:
The explosion, as of distant thunder,
was now heard and floods of water
that rushed up through the disrupted
ice were seen pouring over the sur
Evening star., 1914-12-27

.>owns and those wonderful Dutch
mines. long and curved as swan
neck, all were in fashion. Each young
man came just as he was. ana "hethet
he smoked or sang, or merely hurraheo
beneath the popular lecturers "lnoo"
did not matter in the least, for every
thing went" ,,.
however, helped this yearly lnformality
take on the semblance of serenade.
They grouped themselves in the center
of the street, the men with toIcnes
formed a fence around them ana tne =
other ldents lined up like solld
wall. Then one OF the ne & GroWa so +be S.eppeu pron
lessor. All Joined in three times. wnile
the horns blew flourish and the
pistols thundered off the round. AS tne
third "hoch" died away WINDOW
opened above, a dark figure shoWen IL
self and Immediately below S'len-
tiumr was commanded.
A surprisingly lengthy speech oF the
cordial scholar of possibly lnterna-
tional fame was then made TO closels
listening throng. Pleasure at thls an
nual mark of the students esteem. ao-
vice of an order that showed compre-
hension of youth and youths desires.
a review of the past year togetheT' al
came in for share of mention, and the
greeting ended with: "Once more. my
hearty thanks for this proof OF your
love. May the fatheriand receive You
with pride from our arms, WheFs yet ~
reluctantly leaves you for your good'
May you live long and be happy.
AS the various groups of students
trooped back now to their assembling
places the firearms rang out again, and
several companies joined to do the
more honor to some few professors
who were universal favorites. In this
special procession there We're appoint
ed marsha1s and officers who main
tanned strict order. Two gayly attired
deputies while the crowds waited, pro-
ceeded in carriage to the house OF
the first great faVorite, rang the door
bell, aroused the household and made
a brief speech. The scholar thus set
apart for such ceremonies was, OF
course, prepared for the annual occa
sion, and after thanking his young ad-
lnirers called them inside for the bot
tie of champagne which had been sit
ting in tub of ice all evening, and
all drank together.
The train of students. nearly all OF
them carrying torches, now approached
the place. the "hochs'' resounded in a
mighty chorus, and the professor and
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Plants From Belgium.

THERE is pathos in the fact, recently
announced by government officials.
that during the last three months there
have come to this country from the most
afflicted nation in the world. larger num-
bers of beautiful plants and flowers than
from all the rest Of Europe combined.
Little Belgium, a smoking, desolate
waste, is seeking to save her flowers. and
she has taken the place which. in times
of peace, is held by France. The plants
are being sent to the United States
through Holland After their inspection
for plant diseases, they are turned over
to brokers, who sell them to individuals