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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
SEEDS Villa a Bable.

General Villa has received biDIe
in Torreon, Mex. from the American
Bible society. It bears this lnscrlp'
ton: nit, boob
hoe made the United States and Eng
land great. And this book will save
Mexico" I'D
when the captor of Torreon anu
zacatecas saw the caption ne Is re
norted to have said:
aHas Huerta one? Send him one
r5o needs a book to save Mexico.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
Risks lie Id Save Wife.

Hanging by one hand to the sill OF
third-story window in his burning
nome in Brooklyn, John Sarsken sup
ported his wife with the other arm IN
I'll the ames reached him. Then ne and
The woman fell. Mrs. Sarsken was
caught in the street below by men
whohad been watching Sarsken's en-
beavers to save his wife, but Sarsken
suffered fractured skull an dis be
leved to be dying.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17

made. The baby's mother finally found
her in the pool at a spot only few
feet deep.
The child had been in the water
only aye minutes, and physicians and
pulmotor We're sent for. Efforts to re-
suscitate her were unavailing.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
Boys Fall TO Death In Creek.

George w. Henning and Harry j.
Wertz, each twelve years old, were
drowned near Jamestown, Pa. They
were crossing a plank walk across
s"atara creek, when the timber slip
pea and both were thrown into nine
tset Of water. The bodies were recov'
cred.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17

Nancy Carpenter, the two-ye sll,
NJ, Nan ~ United states Senator Henry
1ieI DnUont. of delaware, was drowned
in a pool on the estate OF anOT Tennett
Gle. Pierre F. Dupont at NeH
s sauare, Pa, near wilmingto 2l.r 81 P
l M Carpenter, of Mont channon,
III n, W. and with her mother was stay I'm :
Del, "a. anu n wI, country place. The
n TT left the child near the s susT be y.
The pond to get bathing SUITS t j. t ak
s 'ag and the child, intending TO IT, TAM ~
sen i s,tI girl into the water. Wnen
s ~ returned the child was mlssln rs.
sns Moves on the place at once nee, were ,s 7
called and search LOT 'ns
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
-. stoek Prices.

cHICAGO-HOGS higher; bulk Iliivs q
coles sS.75T9; light, $3.50 q " nl tS ~
e. S5a9: heavy, $3.50 AZ; rough F'''0
1850: pigs, s7S5q S Sseyee $4,000;
-.S "a se4OG S.35; stockers ana I foTs
steer SGg1O. cows and helIelS'
egPsS o3s.i5: calves, $500 y ooas15;
vesTli1gs. $5.906IS5; lambs @0'7O~
9.25.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
N..rIu Lvnoh suffraaet.s.

A militant "iury" narrowly escaped
being lynched after she had made a
personal attack upon King George II
Perth. Scotland.
While the king was riding through
the city the woman, with suffrage
banner in her hand, dashed from the
police lines and leaped upon the run
ming board, shouting: You must stop
forcib!e feeding: we will tolerate it nc
longer"
The woman then tried to open the
door of ten automobile to get at the
king, but was unable to do so, and be
fore she could be seized she hac
smashed the glass and was trying tt
unlock the door from the inside.
Policemen dragged her from the
automobile, but the crowd surgeC
forth. Mounted policemen with rio
sticks beat off the Infatuated Scot.
and probably saved the woman's life.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
Greece Paws For Warships.

me battleships Idaho and Missis-
ssppi were formally sold to Greece.
secretary Daniels got a check for S12,-
.oo'Zi5.96 for them. This was their
original cost
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17

Rv unanimous consent the United
s.ates senate voted to appropriate
s90o 600 for the relief Of the fire sur
f, rers Of Salem, Mass.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
Six Killed while singing old Hymn,

Six persons returning from a sun
DAY school picnic were killed when
The blackboard VI the vas IN on when
they were riding was hit by a IleiSai
train on the Boston & Maine rail
road near Rochester, N. H. The
party of sixteen was singing Nearer,
My God, to Thee" as their wagon rum
Oed down the road toword the tracks
and the voices drowned out the noise
Of the train The dead were all be
tween fourteen and eighteen years
Of age.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-17
Children See Man HANG Himself.

Because Of his business troubles,
Charles Snyder, a contractor, OF
Egypt, near Allentown, Pa, aged
forty years, hanged himself in &C.
ment mill at that place.
Snyder fastened a rope to the shaft
ing, climbed on top Of the machinery.
fastened the rope about his neck and
jumped.
Several children saw him make the
Preparations and called for help, bul
before it arrived Snyder was dead
His brother, Lewis F. Snyder, Of Sieg
fried, was murdered by an employ'
last winter.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

But Byrnes tells with great delight Of
a recen. happening in which a fellow
countryman Of his went the porter one
better-in a word, he f1eeced that worthy
to a finish.
The man-call him Jones-took a sleeper
for New York and when he got of the
tran in Gotham his tlmepiece was miss
ing He inquired at the office, but moth
Ing had been turned in there. A few
days later he was taking train south
when the same porter who had come
north with him entered the car.
Across E:s expansive vest shone a
cleaning chain OF gold that had q yerv
familiar look to Jones' And Jones was
e:ough of a Sherlock Holmes to smell
a rat at once.
please let me know the time" said
Jones to the porter. That imposing
worthy took out the watch proudly. Jones
quickly grabbed it.
This is my watch" he said, sharply,
"the one you hooked from me on my way
north: and by way of Identifying I can
tell you the number inside without OPEN
ing it. II report you for this steal, you
will lose your job: and the post of rob-
bing men. which You have been holding
for years. will lose an ornament l will
make deal-pay me fifty dollars and the
watch and l VIII let the matter drop"
And the porter for the first time in the
annals of the Pullman company, coughed
up the long green to the tune Of ffty
simoleons.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

and would be astonishing now to a gen
GRAFTON that goes in for base ball golf
and tennis.
The game of quoits had a long period
when 1t enjoyed the general interest
SO much so that il was inveished
against by persons whose province il
was to look out for the morals of the
community in which they lived Some
of the early kings of England thought
their subjects were neglecting the
manly art of archery in their obsession
for quoits, and King Edward Ill ana
King Richard IL prohibited the playing
of quoits, that the men and youth
might return to the practice OF archery.
"A generally popular sport always draws
the lnNectlfe OF some sour-tonSued
critic, anu writer, one Ascnam, VINO
wrote d book called '-Ioxopmius," ln
1919, said among other harsh things
IN the musty pages OI ms work That
Quollus be TOO N.ie Tor scholars, per-
haps meaning that IL Was d game TO
be played by common people.
Both IN England anu America Quoits
have been played unuer the auspices of
the curilns ciups. ana in 1908 a set OF
regulations governing the correct play
ing Oh The game was uiaAu un. | nuer
tAese rules the iron pins nopS should
pe elSnteeH ydl Us apdii, with one inch
proJecung ABOVE the ground; The cfrcie
about each hob Should pe three feet
in diameter; the players should stand
within four feet SIX inches OF the GEN.
ter OF the circle; that the quot must
not exceed eight and half inches in
diameter. nor three ana one half inches
in bore, and there were many and
various other regulations.
The regulation quoit is not now often
seen ABOUT Washington. but on some
OF the back lots of the city. and especi-
ally near blacksmith shops in the coun-
Try. II is not unusual to see parties
OF men and boys playing this old and
respectable game with horseshoes.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

for many weary years, after the per
nicfous" fever first attacked him. Barnes
knew the bonc-racking pain of the re-
current malady
Yet, undaunted they fought on until.
disease weakened and gaunt. they were
forced time after time to go OUTSIDE
and rid themselves of the weakening
maladies.
When they would venture from
their camps, it often happened that IN
returning they would find the padded
track of jaguar that had dogged them
silently and evilly from cover.
Hardly a day during their whole ex-
perience were they free from the dam
gers of earthquake. minor shocks be
ing frequently experienced, ana IN
1910 they barely escaped from COSTA
Rica in time to avoid the cataclysm
which devasted the country and cost
thousands of lives.
Ordinarily they Travelled with no com
missary, save small packages OF salt.
coffee and sugar. depending entirely
upon Barnes ability as hunter to
supply their food. which generally
consisted of wild pig. baked toucan.
roast young parrot or swallow stew
with such edible roots berries and
fruits as they could obtain.
Sometimes the pursuit of rare moths
would take them into the Jungies al
blackest midnight to snare certain
snecies that fly only after that hour.
and at an altitude of from thirty to
forty feet.
Semiramis, a single specimen of which
recently brought ESQ at a London auc-
ton, DR.. Schaus succeeded in obtaining
Again, that burnished-winged species,
Evening star., 1914-07-26

one day on the train was accosted by a
man who asked If he was not a former
candidate against Wheeler. AS the re-
ply was in the affirmative. the stranger
laughed and said. We'll. I ought to
know you. for I voted against you seven
times in one day."
"How's that?" asked Austin.
Well" drawled the stranger. when
you was a-bucking ag'inst Wheeler: l
was on a steamboat running for miles
down the river. l begun voting Just
after sunrise at the first town at
which the boat stopped and I kept at
it all day in every village we reached
so l know / voted aginst you seven
times, at least"
In one of Austins Tennessee cam
paigns big Methodist revival was be-
ing conducted at the same time that
tho political pot Legan to seethe. Presi-
dent Taft came. swinging around his
circle to make things more lively.
Attending the revival was little
girl. the daughter of one of Austin's
stanchest friends The preacher Grated
in fine style and pictured the misery
of the worldly soul Rising in his en-
thusiasm to the heights Of excitement.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
A Disastrous Search.

u0UR American pedigrees are all. or
~ practically all. fakes" said DR..
1vor Spencer Talbot. the herald of Den
YER Here's q family descended from
the Princes of Powys. here's another
snrune from Charlemagne. We've got
thousands using the arms of William
the Conqueror. and you can't throw a
stone in New York or Chicago without
hitting a Plantagenet- But It's all
fake.
II know a millionaire who visited a
herald and asked to have his family
IA straight search? said the herald.
Or and he winked signihcantly.
Straight of course salo the mil
lfonaire.
well, all right said the herald; but
it will cost you more. ~
.it did cost him more. He's paying
that herald blackmail now.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

name SO that pretty much everything
that went wrong was laid on this same
SaE! Brown. One day a wealthy man
wearing a handsome diamond pin went
into a saloon for refreshments; and as he
leaned over the counter he noticed that
Sam was standing very close. On leav-
ing the plae he at onca missed the pin
an had Sam arrested.
Sam retained Hughes as his attorney
Protesting his innocence. Sam so wrought
on Hughes feeling that the latter went
to the complainant and assured the man
that Sam was entirely innocent Of the
theft. But the man was obdurate.
When Hughes returned to Sam with the
mans statements. explaining how con-
vincing v-ere the facts against him, Sam
with tears In his eyes again swore that
he had never seen the pin and wept at
Hughes having ever doubted his inno-
cence
The trial came OF at the set time.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

memories still =linger their days IN
chronological classrooms. will perceive
that science has made great strides in
the cataloguing of extant species Of
moths and butterflies.
But 1t is safe to predict that prac-
tically none of them will read in the
carefully labeled cases the real human
story that the insects tell. and realize
that the two scientists who prepared
them were men OF as much mettle as
any Of the adventurers who with force
Of arms have penetrated the South
American jungles stree the days of
Pizarro and Cortez.
In small way. the price paid in
human effort for these butterflies may
be tabulated. Forty-hve years from
the lives of these two men must lead
the list. and the significance OF this
cannot be dimmed by the fact that each
of them is heart and soul scientist
and that he gladly gave W his time
and energy to make this collection his
greatest work.
Most of this time the two men spent
Evening star., 1914-07-26

tinction: but what entities the two ento-
mologists to membership in the Clan Of
the Red Gods Is that one of them, DR..
Schaus. labored for thirty. years to per-
feet the collection and that Mr.. Barnes
expended half that time as his assistant
while they wandered over tens of thou
sands of virgin tropical miles pursuing
the multi-eolored bits of winged rain
bows which now fill the museum cases.
Adventurous spirits in the medieval
ages. before the rise of science. were
forced to content themselves with dom
ming a suit of armor. mounting a mettle-
some steed and riding forth to battle.
crusade or to a tilt with windmills, If
nothing better offered. when the red
blood surged to boiling point within
them. And in those hoary times the
scientist was a recluse who sat alone in
his rock-hewn cell. watching through
horn-rimmed spectacles while what we,
In our enlightenment, now call first
Evening star., 1914-07-26
PoAs VOLCANO, CosTAR1cA. ARouNDWAosE
CRATER. The PrERoNYrIM ARE ToJNp.'

on trails unknown to the careless foot
of the white man. For months on end
they camped each night at different
spot in wild, subtropic wastes where
each camp site was a painful replica
of the one just left Tropic days on
end they poled or padded sluggish
rivers in British Guiana, ever pursuing
the elusive winged prey, until they had
penetrated into the country of canni-
balls SO far that their native guides
would go no farther.
Tropical disease in all its myriad
forms, swept down upon them to tn
them from their appointed tasks. They
were the victims of a scourge OF sores'
bred in pest holes of the swamps'
again their hands split to the bone pc
forms of pernicious larvae. Fever IN
all Its weird tropical forms claimed
them for its own. and every three weeks
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Party Men.

HTHE late Adiai E. Stevenson" said
a republican leader OF Blooming
ton. hadn't after all. much use for poll.
tics. He once explained to me why this
was.
He said party politicians believed their
side to be always right and the other
side always wrong. Whatever the other
side advocated, 1t was horrible and in
fernal; whatever their own side advo-
Gated was holy.
He said the partisan couldn't under
stand that you might arrive at the right
thing by more ways than one: and thus
the partisan was like the urchin whose
teacher said:
Willie. what does six plus four maker
Eleven
No. Try again.
Twelve
No"
Thirteen
"No, no. no. You're guessing. But why
couldn't YOU have guessed that six plus
four makes ten?'
Because 1t don't make ten,' said Will
lie. Five and i've make tsn-I remember
that"
Evening star., 1914-07-26

principles of chemistry bubbled to frui-
ton in the great-granddaddy of all re-
torts.
But the pendulum of progress has
swung changes into the lives Of most
folks. Nowadays. save at lnfrequent in
tervais of war, the lives Of soldier and
sailor are, to some extent. much more
safe than the daily routine of the prosaic
ironworker who swings to his hazardous
vocation five hundred. feet above the
crowded streets of great cities; while the
life of the modern prototype Of the an
cient alchemist is filled with risk. dan
ger and privation.
Witness the orchid hunter. thou
sand miles through steaming Borneo
iungles. surrounded by rank fetid growths
of swamp and river bed. in hourly risk
from festive head-hunters. Is not too
great price to pay for rare blossom
Nor does the prospect Of a thousand
mile jaunt over the chill Himalayan
Evening star., 1914-07-26

young amateur authors in the prepaFa-
Gon Of their efforts.
One day Kahn and an author were SIT
ting together while they beheid the per-
formers stumbling through the autno'
latest effort. There is no question aoooS
ft-that company was bad.
Never mind" said Kahn. consolingiy
they haven't changed the show, the
way professionals do"
"Oh. yes. they ha- e. replied the author
moodily. II wrote 1t for comedy and
they've turned 1t fnto a tragedy"
Evening star., 1914-07-26

tiary. When he had been in prison few
months, his wife, with five kids dragging
at her heels, went to the Judge about
petition for the mans pardon.
But. my dear madam" exclaimed the
a clear case of theft--there is TO doubt in
the world but that your husband stole
the meat. Why should he be pardoned?
The woman hushed the fretting baby
wiped a young hopeful s nose. smacked
Johnny on the hand for playing with the
judges in --tand. then whined: Why,
jedge. that is the very reason i want
him pardoned-you see. we are out or
meat again."
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Paying His Bill.

Senator Hughes
Of New Jersey
started his profess
sional life in the
town of Paterson.
And one of the
funniest incidents
Of his career hap
pened soon after
he had hung out
his shingle.
1t seems that
there was in the
place a man whose
lazy habits had
given him a bad
Evening star., 1914-07-26
A Real Repeater.

r e pr e sentative
r. W. Austin of
Tennessee is not a
native Of the state
he represents. He
is, in fact. an Ala
bamian, and once
ran for Congress
against Joe Wheel
er, but running
against Joe Wheeler
In Alabama is like
trying to keep cool
in central Africa.
Austin moved up
into Tennesaee and
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Men NAV Live WitFout Salt

near The Irish also used Salt DIS
charm against bad spirits. The use OF
salt for catching birds is story ina.
all little children learn. and the terroFs
OF Salt river are understood by poll
ticianS
Those authorities who deal with sucn
matters lay it down that salt Is OF
immense benefit in the animal and as
antiseptic and as a preventive to the
development of intestinal worms. 1t
has been long established that domestic
cattle are the better for 1t, and it has
come to be considered a necessity for
horses. No stock raiser would neglect
to salt" his animals.
Many of the wild animals seem to
have taken naturally to salt. The
"salt-licks" of this country were the
places where the herds of buffalo.
which roamed the land east of the
- the Mississippi. travelled in order
to lick the ground which was coated
with this mineral. The salt-licks are
sometimes mentioned as salinas"
Some of the earliest written records
of man make mention. more or less ex-
tended of the salt trade Of Asia and
Africa, and the ancient world had in
deposits then known. and the know
ledge of obtaining salt by the evapora-
ton of sea water was gained by our
remote ancestors. The aborigines of
the land which has become the United
states knew the uses of salt and 1t was
a common practice with them to use
the ashes of hickory wood as condi-
ment with their food, those ashes con-
taintng a tasty percentage of saline
matter.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Met His Waterloo.

R e Pr e sentative
j. F. Byrnes Of
South C arolin a
halls from the
state whose chief
Industry is the fur
nishing of Pullman
car porters. He be-
lieves that they
are a class Of men
set apart by nature
for their peculiar
duties in life-one
of these said duties
being to separate
a man from his
cnin
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Changed.
When Represent

When Represent
ative Kahn of Cal
ifornia was a
young man he de-
veloped the rash
habit Of delving IN
to theatricals oce A.
sionally. according
to the story that Is
going the rounds
these days.
His powers OF
criti cism were
great. and he was
frequently urged to
Join with rising
Evening star., 1914-07-26
True Once More.

ORvILLE WRIGHT. on his flying
~ field at Dayton, had just finished
before a little band of capitalists a
successful demonstration OF his new
automatic stabilizer.
I'VE can now fly" Mr.. Wright ended.
with our hands of the controls"
He added with a laugh:
Thus proving the truth OF the old
proverb. discredited for time By
aviation. that there's safety in flight"
Evening star., 1914-07-26

there was a country neighborhood which
had been troubled a great deal by thefts
from the farmers meat houses. Hams.
bacon and fat sides disappeared regu-
larry every few days. So they engaged a
detective. who soon rounded up q man
whose acts bore all the earmarks Of
guilt.
After a long trial he was convicted ana
sentenced to several years In the peniten-
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Needed More Meat.

Senator ] a m e 9
Hamilton Lewis Of
Illinois is a good
story teller and al
ways enlivens his
campaign speeches
by q witty tale.
One Of the best he
ever got of was
during a celebra-
ton In which he
was the principal
speaker. And the
narrative ran as
follows:
II seems that
Evening star., 1914-07-26

he swung his arms wildly and ex-
claimed: 1 am for God! am for
God"
other campaign speech. and resented
the fact that her fathers friend had
no defenders. Standing upon the bench.
she shouted out at the top Of her small
am for Dick Austin and Taftw
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Hughes plead the cause of Sam with such
sincerity that the client was released as
not guilty" And Hughes patted himself
on the back for his knightly deed.
The next morning Sam stalked Into
Hughes office.
Mr.. Hughes" he said, as he threw a bit
of pasteboard on the table, but take
your pay out of that-it's the pawnticket
for the pin"
Evening star., 1914-07-26

sand specimens Of Lepidoptera-the sci
entihc designation of the butterfly fam
iiy.
This in itself is an achievement of dis