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Evening star., 1915-04-05
TELLS WHAT He KNOWS
ABOUT SPINNING TOPS
Star Reader Takes Issue With Re-
cital of Silk Hated 1ndi-
vidual's Exploit.
Insists That Several Details, as
Given in Published Story, Were
Radically Wrong.

Did you read that story about top
spinning in The Star the other night?
asked the older OF two men. neither
very old. who stood on the corner
Watching a group OF boys engaged in
rho tIme-honored sport which is an
nually in vogue about this time Of the
year with that type Of youngster
known as the small boy
"'spinnin' tops yor mean"' correct
c,i the other You know. no real boy
ever spoke OF top spinntng--enly
teachers talk like that. Spinnin' tops!
That's the way to say 1t. Sure. read
that story about tho eflk-hatted indi-
vidual with the boys heart, spinning
his tops ono after the other. and buy
ing out the whole store for the benefit
OF the small boys
But I want to take issue with the
writer OF that story on one or two
small points pertaining to the great
art Of spinnin' tops-not top-spfn ming.
il you please. In my youthful days /
was one of Washington's champion
top-epinners. and now that am grown
old I cannot stand idly by while an
enthusiastic youngster, an amateur
spinner. as 1t were. spins warns as
well as tops tending to mislead the
minds of the Inhabitants Of this fair
city concerning the art of spinnin'
tops.
Evening star., 1915-04-05

Lot l-l13ko to zoo O
values, . yard. CC
Some a good SO inches
wide; In email Dresden
rose or larger floral de-
signs, also conventional.
stripe and oriental pat
terms, in blue, pink,
green or yellow.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
One Gross Error.

The true expert will not forgive him
his: That every one Of his tops spun,
spinned or span, however II is. Now.
Evening star., 1915-04-05

Lot $500 to $50 OK
values at. a yard ZCc
Su IN fast Mercerized
Reps. in rose, green. blue
and brown solid colors:
art tickings. figured mer-
cerized reps. heavy Gcor-
gian cloths, Dainticloths,
etc.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
CHILEAN EMBASSY CHANGES.
New Counselor Among the Officials
Recently Assigned to Washington.

senor Enrique Cuevas. formerly first
secretary of the Chilean legation IN
London, has arrived hero to be
counselor Of the Chilean embassy in
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Views Of a Chaplain.

striking proof Of tho feeling
against the English 10 tho story one
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Hampers the String.

Secondly. no man could make a
brand-new top string-not cord-be-
ave on a brand-ne top-with the
plug in the top. Nope-r1l believe lots
Of things. I'll believe the allies have
gained two inches and that the Ger
mans have gained as many; TIL believe
he jitney buses are destined to play
havoc with the street cars; I'll believe
most any old thing you ask me, but
J won't believe that any silk hated
man spun brand-new tops with a brand
new string-and got away with 1t. He
may have got them to spinning, but as
for putting them asleep-bah, Why,
The way he had those sleeping tops
written up. you would have thought
Morpheus himself had come to earth
and elected himself tutelary god Of Silk
Hats tops 1t was a sleeping world of
tops. tops sleeping on their ears, on
their sides, on their backs. tops snoring
and saving wood in way to charm
the savage breast and ravel up the
knotted sleeve of day.
But listen, ] can forgive him that
picture. IL was pretty picture. drawn
u the writer's best manner, which is
always good manner, and we owe
him his thanks. But there is one thing
J cannot forgive him, nor will any true
Top expert who still remembers the old
days when he was one of the Cham
peen' top spinners Of the District
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Is Right on One Point.

The writer of that article had the
right dope when it came to his search
for the good old pleheian top OF the
old days. the top made to spin, not
10 spiel about But 1 must insist that
several details of his experience were
.vrongful1y told 7 will not say that
The writer willfully misled the read
Ing populace No lover of childhood
and tops-would do that. But l do
say that he evidently wrote his story
riceties which make every move-from
the winding of the top until the last
turn of it's spectacular spin-a thing
of beauty and Joy forever.
For instance. he described the silk
hatted man ambiing out of the little
corner shop-I know it was on cor
ner-with his pockets bulging with
whether he called his top strings
cords or not, but he probably did,
which is absolutely wrong.
We'll, any way, he led the unsus-
pecting reader TO believe that the silk
hatted person then and there began to
wind up tops with all the seeming ra-
the reel when the whales are biting
freely, and then and there to cast
those tops upon the sidewalks after
the manner of a mitrailleuse firing bull
lets at oncoming troops. According to
the way he had it written, that mans
tops hit the pavement at the rate of
one a second, until great swarms of
penny tops were gallivanting up and
down the avenue. running amuck In
the cutters, bowling innocent old la
dies off their feet and clogging the
wheels of progress in general.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Not tho Way to Spin Tops.

why, from the way he told about
II I thought a hurry-up call for the
police would be the next thing to ap-
pear. right in the next paragraph, but
It didn't. Now the truth of the matter
is no sane man would spin tops like
that. I'll leave it to any member OF
the great order of real top spinners
No man could spin tops like that-sane
or otherwise.
I'm the first place, no A l top spinner
would spin new top without cutting
the plug off the top Of 1t. and at the
rate that slk-hatted Harry in that
story was slamming tops to the ground
nothing but an automatic chicken feed
chopper would have been speedy
enough to cut those tops off In time.
No man ever knew what those nice lit
tie nuisances on the heads of tops were
Tor. anyway. and no real boy ever left
them stay in place for minute. 1t
was nice operation to remove the
useless little knobs and leave the top
Of the top smooth. No real top spinner
ever spun top without performing g
that operation. Why. to a top expert
The sight of top spinning with that
load on it's head would have been a
horrible sight 1t would make his blood
run cold. 1t would be as inartistic as
= mud pie, and would give the soul of
the artistic top spinner the jimjams.
To watch a top spinning with that ri
real expert all the feeling Of top
heaviness one has when he looks at
one of those double decker street cars
You know the thing isn't going to fall
over, but ii sure does look as If il
would.
Evening star., 1915-04-05

tionaI value. at. l(C
Contains dark rich ef-
fects: conventional. floral
and chintx designs: shad-
ow rose designs and 9TH
ers; dainty or gorgeous
in effect.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Lot -values to -
81 90 at. a yard. CCC

Wide Cretcnnes. as
inches IN width. In shad-
ow rose effects: dainty
shades of green and vel-
low or pink and green:
all good. heavy quality.
Drapery Store - Third
Floor.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
-Coors-Vaues Prces-Wll Make Tomorrow
Banner Day in Our
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OF
FOUR SALE LOTS FEATURED TUESDAY
TO stimulate Your Refunishng
Arrange o
sa ot,su lfua li sic dsi iI or

Materials in these lots suitable for making
for supplying the whole summer "costuming' {
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-13
oG. ARMOUR SHRINKS FROM.
p FRYING EYES-BUILDS FENCE

p FRYING EYES-BUILDS FENCE
Our best-knOwn butcher, J. Ogden
Armour, is building a fence one mile
long at a cost of $65, 900 on his l, 400
acre estate near Lake Forest.
When Og gets through with the
days work at the stockyards he
wants to forget the bawling of the
steers, the grunting Of the hogs and
the bleating of the sheep.
His butchers heart yeaTns for
quiet Weary of the tubs of blood
washed from the slaughter-hoUse
floors, he wants peace, beauty and
the sane, level seventies of life.
So he's going to have a fence to
shut off the view along the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul road, which
runs across his big farm. Of course,
.Og is one of the biggest stockholders
of the ST. Paul and if he wanted to
he could get the directors to run the
st. Paul through a subway under the
farm. A fence, however, is cheaper
and does just as well.
It isn't so much the Chugging of
the engines that bothers Og. It's the
passengers on the trains. They drop
the magazines and newspapers filled
with ads about Armour ham, Armour
bacon, Armour grape juice and stick
their faces to the windows of the car
and say to each other: 'Hoo-hoo,
here's where Mr.. Armour Gves-ain't
it dandy place."
If Mrs. Armour and the bunch
that's broken into the Armour set are
slipping punch on the lawn, prodding
the grass with their parasols while
they talk about Mrs. Potter Palmer
losing her hold as a leader of Chi
cagO society, they don't like to have
st. Paul passengers looking at 'em.
Incidentally, of course, if any spies
for Germany or the Allies want to get
a line on how the Armour grounds
look, the fence shuts them off. The
worlds crnofncf moot 1oo1oy. &c not
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field glasses to locate the house
thTee-quarters of a mile off in a
clump of trees.
It's not long ago that Emmett
Flood, organizer for the American
Federation of Labor, talked about the
secIusion of some of the people who
work for Armour. There are dozens
of houses in the stockyaTds district,
Flood says, where a married couple
live on the first floor of the house.
In the cellar are bachelor men and in
the garnet bachelor girls. And they
don't marry because wages are too
low.
When Aid John c. Kennedy testi-
fled before the U. S. industrial rela-
lions commission he showed statis-
tics that seven times as many babies
die under two years of age among J.
Ogden ArmOUr's working people as
in the lake shore district a little ways
east Kennedy referred to it as a
harvest for hearse drivers and under
takers.
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PROBE INTO SELLING OF BOOZE
BY AUSTIN DRUGGISTS

q r HOO i'm DhONOlOI =
An old German had a wife whose
lone failing was whisky. She did love
her toddy.
To get her away from the evil the
old gentleman moved from his home
in the city to Austin, where there are
no saloons.
The wife bought all the whiskey
she wanted at a drug store and one
day drank so much that she died from
alcoholism.
The old lady's death resulted in.
Aid. Bucks investigation of the drug
stores in his ward.
Yesterday a boy of Is testified he
had bought half pint of whiskey in
Jas. RusziCka's drug store, 5000 w.
Chicago av. ''This is the very drug
store at which the old Germans wife
bought the whiskey," said Jos. Tho
ney, directing the investigation.
The following druggists also have
complaints against them: Otto Kasch,i
H. T. Meyer, A. V. PIummer, B. w
Wilder, all on W. Chicago av., in
Austin, ,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-02-25
Roberts


is the very last thing in
the way Of quality that
you every tasted. Made
from the very best pork,
right here in Lambert
vile.
c. S. Roberts & Son
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The w. c. T. U. Meeting.

The W. C. T. U. held a Willard
Memorial Meeting and Social in
the Kalmia room, last Wednesday,
The meeting was opened by Sing
ing How Firm a Foundation, )"
followed by Scripture reading.
Mrs. Leon Salmon offered an
earnest prayer for National Pro-
hibition.
Mrs. Fred Meginnes sang solo
which was thoroughly enjoyed.
Miss Ida Lillian Page, of Hoboken,
the speaker of the evening, enter
tanned the audience in various ways.
The sixteen dry states were shown
by platform demonstration, Wash
ington, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona,
receiving special mention as they
voted dry last November. Eugene
Chatting one of Arizona's Senators,
is the only Prohibitionist selected to
Congress.
Since November 8, Alabama and
Arizona have voted dry. South
Carolina and Iowa are the next to
be dry.
Miss Page made a glowing speech
in favor of woman suffrage.
A few years ago it was difficult
for many of our suffrage friends to
recognize who was the real opponent
of woman suffrage in the country,
but today no leader in the move
ment fails to realize that the most
powerful opponent the cause has to
meet is the legalized liquor traffic,
and combined with it is the traffic
in women and the despoiling of
children.
The liquor traffic has come out
into the open and declared itself
to woman suffrage for the reason
that the first thing women direct
their ballot against is the liquor.
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Mrs. George E. Black.

Mrs. Winnie j. Black, wife of
George E. Black, of rs North Main
street, died yesterday at Mercer
hospital, Trenton, where she had
been taken for an operation the day
before. Her body was brought to
this city last evening, and taken to
the home of her father. William
Sine, 1877 North Union street.
Funeral services will be held Sat-
urday afternoon at 2.30 O'Clock at
Centenary M. E. Church, with the
pastor, Rev. Pennington Corson, in
charge. Interment will be in River
view cemetery under the direction
of George B. Horner.
Mrs. Black was 40 years of age
and, besides her husband, is sur
vived by a married daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Hicks, in Phillipsburg, and a
son, Andrew ]. Black, who resided
with his parents.
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Ready to Build Theatre.

Charles C. Hildinger and Philip
PAPER, the Trenton moving picture
men who are going to build a large
theatre in this city for moving
pictures and other shows, were here
Tuesday making arrangements for
the building.
The VanHorn properties have
been taken over, and work will
start upon Coryell street as soon
as Edgar Kroesen, who occupies
the westerly house, can vacate.
The plans and specifications for
the new building are now in the
hands of Contractor George W.
Arnett, and it is expected that the
construction will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
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Meeting for Men.

Former Mayor Yard, of Trenton,
was greeted last Sunday afternoon
by large Zone hundred and seven
ty) and appreciative audience.
In presenting his subject Scrap
Heap" he made a strong and old
time earnest plea that each man
who heard him would endeavor to
help some poor fellow who had gone
to the scrap heap.
Next Sunday afternoon w. l.
Robbins whose home is at Hamilton
Square, Mercer County, will be the
speaker, and his subject will be
"Consecrated Effort VS. Lax En-
deavor." Mr.. Robbins is an earnest
and convincing talker, and it il
hoped large audience will greet
him.
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,,rovided. Admission to the lecture
ri, he free. but an offering for Der
s mn, relief will be taken at the close
The New Hope Orchestra will fur-
nish the music.
Citizens of Lambertvllle' yOI W,
help is needed to carry on the , Mo,t
If nresprving an ancient and valiant
no+ion from extinction by Starvation
From no fault of its own, this little
country has been desolated by ''ie
oreat World War. Its land has oeeh
laid waste. its cities are in runs
ond millions of its population are
practically homeless, and lacinh
starvation. Almost their only salVa-
t;on is the relife sent from America
Anneals in their behalf have gone
ali over this country; but much r! re-
mains to be done. Lambertvllie
cannot afford to neglect its part IN
this great work.
Come prepared to help. The en-
tire offering will be turned over 10
the relief committee. The meeting
will commence at eight o'clock sharp
All are urged to be present.
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LanbertVille.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Hartman,
Miss Marjorie Davis. Stephen Brady
and Stanley Holcombe spent Sunday
with Justice of the Peace and Mrs.
Thomas R. Hunt, on the Brunswick
road in West Amwell township.
The Morris Canning Company is
getting ready for busy season for
1915, and is making contracts with
the farmers for their crops of
tomatoes. During the two years
that this cannery has been in operat-
ion it has not only given employ
ment to many people through a
lengthy season, but has paid many
thousands of dollars to the nearby
farmers, not only for tomatoes, but
for other fruits that have been
canned.
The members of Washington Camp
No. l, Patriotic Sons of America,
celebrated the anniversary of Wash
ington's birthday Saturday evening
by an entertainment and musicale
in St. Andrews hall. A short pa
triotic address was delivered by Rev.
George Boddis, several musical selec-
tions were rendered.
Mayor Samuel E. Morse performed
his second marriage since his Undue
ton into office on Friday evening,
when he united in wedlock Vergenizo
Damico and Bendedetta Carrente,
both of this city. They will make
their home at 40 Coryell street.
Members and guests of Lambert
vile Council No. $50, National Union
were entertained last Thursday even
ing by a stereopticon sketch The
New South in Heritage and Story, y
besides other features. Refreshments
were served.
Mrs. Sara Dickinson, of 141 George
street, the oldest member of the
Lambertville w. C. T. u, attended
the meeting of that organization on
Tuesday. Mrs. Dickinson is 95 years
of age, but takes an active interest
in the w. C.. T. u. work.
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Meeting for Belgian Relief.

On Thursday evening, March 4,
1915, meeting for the relief of the
Belgians will be held in the First
Baptist Church, at which time a lee
ture on 1.-THE American Flag" will
be delivered by the Rev. George
Boddis, Phi. D., S. T. D., pastor of
the church. Special music will be
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-02-25
ElyFarn Stock

Horses, Horse Goods and Equipment
in stock and to order; Boarders taken,
Colts broken.
Berkshire Hogs, Airedale Terriers,
Hay and Grain.
Sale List for February
includes Z horses from l to Z years,
trotting bred, all sound and with pres
ent foreign demand increasing daily in
value. BUY NOW. II pure bred
Berkshires. Gifts to mos. Young
Bears, mos. Penna. only on account
of quarantine. Clean, high-grade
Guernsey Milk and Cream on sale at
Minors Restaurant, New Hope. Fresh
brown eggs to order.
GEORGE H. ELY.
SOLEBURY, PA.
Shipping Stations, New Hope, Pa,
and Lambertville, N. J.
Bell phone 221-13.
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John K. VanSant moved from
Philadelphia to his farm in the
Solebury Valley about a mile West
of the Solebury Friends Meeting
House Tuesday. Mr.. VanSant has
owned the farm the last half dozen
years, but the farmer recently
moved off, and, accompanied by his
mother, he will reside on the place
himself.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-02-25
'Rexa1g 9tdegQieaI

Sick headache, biliousness, piles and
bad breath are usually caused by mac.
tive bowels. Get a box of Rexall
Orderlies. They act gently and effec-
lively. Sod only hv 10 at 20 cents.
c. r. Middleton.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-16
PATRIOT.

PATRIOT.-Another loyal citizen,
who far reasons best known to him
self, signs his article Patriot, makes
the startling statement that if we
look on page LOG of Sears, Roebuck
& Co. catalogue, under the caption
of Hair Goods" we shall find the
words "First-Cut Convent Hair"
l do not know if l am taking his
meaning out of this or not, but pre-
sumo he meant that the convent au-
thorities were selling the hair of the
novices. Of course, if Mr.. Julius Ro-
senwald prints that in his catalogue
we must certainly believe it. Nit!
Any man who like Mr.. Patriot
would attempt to start an argument
or would even make such state
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-16
THE PUBLIC FORUM
ABOUT JoBLESS MEN. i have

noticed in your valuable newspaper
hundreds of ideas for the betterment
and protection of the female sex. 1t
is well and good to come out with
a slogan of this kind, but why not
consider and bear in mind that there
are thousands of homeless young
men today without employment for
a half year and more, who are true
and faithful believers in the golden
rule"
1t is a hardship for a man to go
around idle day in and day out, with
out any resources for the next day to
come. A mans will power may be
stronger than a woman's, but, when
the times change from bad to worse,
what is the result? The devil .flirts
with his good nature, which gradu-
ally becomes weaker and weaker
and finally leads to crime and suicide
galore.
Why don't the big business men of
today get together and prevent all
this misery in both sexes, and instead
of paying enormous salaries to few
persons, give all the children of God
an equal chance to show their true
worth before it gets too late and civ
ilization becomes a co-partner with
non-believers of Christianity.-Louis
B. Schwartz.
PATRInT Another 1ouo1 oiti1op
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WORK AND MONUMENTS.


There are about 100000 men and
women out of work in Chicago. That
is how Henderson met the unemploy-
ment problem in 1915.
1t makes me tired to read about his
great work and the great monument
that will be erected to his memory
and great works.
A second-class workman cannot
even buy a job at the present time.
If you advertise for help about 100
first-class men will apply for the po-
sition. All second-class workmen
have given up all hope of getting
job until jobs get more plentiful.
Overproduction of food and cloth
ing, etc., etc., is the cause of all hard
times. Factories are running on part
time because their warehouses are
full. If the U. S. government would
only destroy about $500,000,000
worth of clothing, food and ma
chinery then we would have good
times because all of the factories
would open up and give employment
to working men and women.
A business efficiency engineer is
one who speeds the working man up
until he does two days work in one.
When the warehouse is filled up the
workingmen are so tired and worn
out that they are glad for shut
down. The big boss of corporation
will not allow an old faithful work.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-16
FISH AND EGGS-I

FISH AND EGGS-I can't get the
hang of a lot of this advertising in
the papers. The Booth Fisheries Co.
pays money to tell us fish are good
eating and we ought to eat lots of
fish. The butter and egg board has
been advertising we ought to eat lots
of eggs. Don't we know that already?
Why should they egg US on to eat
more eggs?-Eggspert.
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ment with such little proof to back
it up ought to be ashamed to sign his
name to his article.
After reading Patriots article one
is forced to conclude that there is an
awful lot on the subject that he does
not Known. w. n.