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Evening journal., 1915-06-02
Stories From the European Firing Line
As Related by Some Eye Witnesses

Everyone of them will carry maga-
zine full of small, high explosive
bombs equipped with sharp hooks. It
will be the aim OF the British avia-
tors to rush at the zeppelins at the
rate of 100 miles an hour, then to
slow down over the gigantic gas bags
and launch the hooked bombs.
These bombs are equipped with
time fuses. After they hook them
selves into the tough silk fibre cover
ing of the Zeppelin they will not ex-
plode until ample time has been
given the aeroplane to wing itself to
safety. Every explosion, according to
the accepted theory here. will mean
one less Zeppelin in the Kaiser's air
fleet.
The new hooked bomb defense" is
believed to have been used during the
recent air raid on Kent. Ten naval
machines at Dunkirk took up the
Ieppelin's trail, One machine, pilot
ed by Flight Commander BigswOrth,
rose until it was directly over the air
ship. Then, said the colorless Ad-
miralty report:
"Bigsworth dropped four bombs
when 200 feet above the airship. A
large column of smoke was seen to
come from one of her compartments.
The Zeppelin rose to a great height,
11,OOO feet, with her tail down. and is
believed to have been seriously dam
aged"
The Admiralty made no announce
ment as to whether the new hooked
bombs" we're used in this attack But
the general public believes they were.
The theory is that common round
bombs would be shed from the top
OF Zeppelin like water unless they
carried hooks.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
GET YOUR Gun. THE
Torpedo BUGS HERE
Has Come by Millions and
Invasion Seems to Be
Growing
INSECT USEFUL
TO THE FARMERS

Large numbers of Aeschna Heros
are advancing.
Contrary to the general belief that
the above is a report from the Polish
hattlefields, or is condition of war
IN some foreign country, il is the state
OF affairs that exists right here in
Wilmington. Thousands of them are
coming, and other insects are fleeing
before their might. To come down
to plain English. another invasion Of
the dragon fly has begun. Droves Of
them have infested the cast side.
While many have reached the central
part of the city. flying in the windows
of the Office buildings.
The insect which entomologists say
is very useful 10 farmers. because IL
kills other harmful bugs, is also
known as the "darning needle" snake
feeder" and mosquito hawk" Super
stltious people and country folk be-
lieve the creature to be dangerous
because of its poisonous sting, but
as matter of fact il has no sting
and is perfectly harmless. Little bows
like to catch them and destroy them.
for II is a superstition among them
! that the slayer of one is not afraid of
the devil himself.
The female Of the species has four
wings with a long and slender body
like tOothpick. Some persons have
called her the "toothpick bug" Her
eyes are one-half as large as her
head.
As for weapons of defense, she is
4 WnII nFnWfnrH
stinger," like the bee wasp and
other pugnacious insects, the lady
with the scientific name has two pro
/ truding from the end of her Ions
slender body. But although this in
sect has the two facilities for making
you feel uncomfortable, it has never
been known TO sting a human, con
lining its attacks to bugs only.
Every year this bug appears in the
country and especially hovers around
the swimming pools and creeks. where
1t scares the swimmers. It has beer
seen quite frequently this sprinl
around the suburbs, but Il has only
been lately that the bug has increased
TO such alarming numbers. Residents
in the suburbs say that the insect
is appearing by the thousands. and
millions are swarming around the
lights at night and filling fields and
roads during the day. It's home is in
/ the fields and lOwlands, and, there.
fore. the wet weather is probably tn,
cause of II being driven into the city
Because of the war and its resem
blance to a torpedo the insect that hai
taken this city and suburbs by storm
has been presented with a new mon
ger. "The Torpedo Bug" Is the lat
est Dictionaries and encyclopedia
fail to give il this extra name. bu
then encyclopedias and dictionarie
aren't printed every time thero is
war or new bug invasion.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
In Milady's BOudOir''
at No Expense. DJ ""hN ShAnS
Copyright, 19s BY n. Y. Taft.
Peaceful Beauty Of Middle Age

As the mddleaged young,
and she will feel only long she live the and M
of
former days compete for the adopment which the
the
Friendship intellectual and social umphs useful absorb
hobbies
should
independence
children
the
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opportunities useful work ior
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Evening journal., 1915-06-02
NOVEL massage CREAM
Perfect Skin Food That Removes
Wrinkles and Clears Complexion.

The most delicate skin will quickly
respond to the soothing and tonic Of
fects of Hokara and when this pure
skin cream is used, pimples are soon
thing of the past.
AS a massage cream or after shaw
ing it is unequaled. removing all irri-
tations, and making the skin soft
and velvety.
Apply little to the hands or face
after washing and surprise Yourself
with the dead skin that comes off.
Hokara is the only antiseptic mas
sage cream. and pimples, eczema and
all skin blemishes soon disappear
when it is used
Although far superior to the ordi
nary massage creams and sold on a
guarantee of best you ever used or
money back" yet the price is a trihe.
only 25c for a liberal jar; larger size
soc.
Sold on guarantee by n B. DAN
forth, Market and Second SITS.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
FESTIVAL FOR
GOODMAN CHURCH.

Under the auspices of the women
of Goodman NJ h. Church, straw
berry festival will be hold on Thurs
day and Friday evenings on the
church lawn. corner Fourteenth and
DUPONT streets. Strawberries, ice
cream, candies and cakes will he for
sale. On Friday evening bake, in
cluding homemade pics, bread and
cakes, viii be held in connection with
the festival. Tho proceeds will go
toward paying of the parsonage
mortgage.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
TODAY's OLDEST STORY.

By the United Press.
CHICAGO. June 2.-Sherlock
Holmes was wont to hunt down
criminals who smoked, through
examination of cigar butts and
ashes. Edward Bomar, by scru-'
tiny of a "snipe," can gauge the
prosperity of the city in whose
cutters he Shoots" them. BO-
mar is a wandering philOso-
pher. He has "shot snipes" in
scores of cities, he explained to
Judge DOlan, when arraigned
as a vagrant. "Now in New
York." said Bomar. snip shoot
ing is great. They throw 'em
away long there. It's the same
in Frisco and Pittsburgh. But
here they smoke 'em so close to
the fire they're only good to
chew. They can't be very pros
porous here"
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
NOW ON HONOR Roll.

William Watson, of Altoona, Pa. has
been placed ON the roll of honor of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. He was born In
Wilmington on October ., 1870. At the
age of II years he became drummer
boy in company of Delaware Nolun-
tcors
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
$3.50 TO BALTIMORE AND RETURN;
S. TO WASHINGTON AND RETURN
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Sunday,
Iune O.

Special train Will leave Delaware Ave
nue station, Wilmington al SAP "a. MI
Returning. leave Washington tUnionI
Station, p. m.; Baltimore Camden
station, S p. m.i Mt Royal. 500 p. m.
-AdV
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
Just "A Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John g. QuiniuA
(The Sunshine Mani

If ye know these things. happy are
ye if ye do them.-John xiii. II.
Therefore to him that knoweth to
do good, and doeth it not, to him it is
sin.-James ". II.
We cannot kindle when we will
The fire that in the heart resides,
The spirit bloweth and is still,
In mystery our soul abides;
But tasks in hours of insight willed
Can be through hours Of gloom full
filled.
Matthew Arnold
He often acts unustly who does not
do a certain thing; not only he who
does a certain thing.-Marcus Anton
mus.
Every duty we omit obscures some
truth we should have known.-John
Ruskin.
Hurt not your conscience with any
known sins. Rutherford.
Deep-rooted customs. though wrong,
are not easily altered; but it is the
duty of all to be firm in that which
they certainly know is right for them.
John WOolman.
That l with you may be comforted
in you, each of us by the others
faith. both yours and mine.-Rom.
1:1z.-
The man without faith in others is
quite likely to have little faith in him.
self.
Dayton. Ohio.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
SOCIALISTS TO RALLY.

The Socialist Party of Wilmington.
which has ticket in the field for the
city election on Saturday, will hold a
rally tonight at its headquarters, Ninth
and Walnut streets. and Friday night at
and South Head streets. Candidates
and other speakers will address both
meetings.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
ANOTHER HALO ABOUT SUN.

Large halos similar to those seen on
May 20 appeared around the sun yestcr-
day afternoon. Again many necks were
stretched in a heavenly direction and
predictions of war made
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
CHARITIES MANAGERS TO MEET.

The board of managers of the Associ-
ated Charities will hold a special meet
ing at 4.30 O'Clock this afternoon To hear
the report Of the building committee.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02
STORE OPENS AIT $50: CLOSES AT $780,

attempted to defeat the treaty. It was
high-grade politics and it was the
kind o. politics Of which Mckinley
was a greater master than the Amori-
can people realized. Senator lloar's
declination Of the offo- made 1t possi-
BILE for the Prcsidene to appoint Jo-
scph II. Choate, who accepted
Evening journal., 1915-06-02

Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell
when Joseph Chamberlain Visited
Mount VorrOn."
Evening journal., 1915-06-02

Copyright 1915, by e. ]. Edwards
Ali rights reserveI)
Evening journal., 1915-06-02

Hurt not your conscience with any
known sins. Rutherford.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02

That l with you may be comforted
in you, each of us by the others
faith. both yours and mine.-Rom.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02

Every duty we omit obscures some
truth we should have known.-John
Ruskin.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02

The man without faith in others is
quite likely to have little faith in him
self
Dayton. Ohio.
Evening journal., 1915-06-02

He often acts unustly who does not
do certain thing; not only he who
does certain thing.-Marcus Anton
mus.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
TOOK DOWN AMERICAN FLAG

Washington, Jan. 21.-Am bassador
Gerard cabled the State Department
today the substance of a statement
made to him by Captain Farley of the
American steamer Greenbrier. The
vessel arrived in Bremen a few days
ago with a cotton cargo from New Or
leans, after having been subjected to
a series of detentions and Interrupt
tions, notwithstanding assurances
which had been given by Great Brit
ain that shipments of cotton in Ameri-
can vessels would not be detained.
Officials did not disclose the details
of Captain Farley's statement, but it
is said he charged that after examining
the Greenbrier's papers British prize
crew ordered the American flag hauled
down and conveyed the ship into
Kirkwal, a British port.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
GUTIERREZ STILL REIGNING
Provisional President of Mexico Calls
Villa and Zapata Murderers-
Carranza is Independent.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Gen. EuIaIio
Gutierrez, elected provisional presi-
dent of Mexico by the convention in
Aguas Calientes, has not abandoned
his claim TO that office with his de-
parture from the City of Mexico.
In a proclamation issued from Pa
chuca, reported to the State Depart
mept today, Gutierrez says he is the
legally chosen executive, charges the
convention which reassem bled in the
City of Mexico was under military
coercion and formally declares Villa,
Zapata and other generals depOsed
from their commands.
This proclamation, which virtually
is the same as a manifesto, Gutierrez
offered to issue two weeks ago, while
he still was in the capital, if General
Obregon and others would join him
in a movement to eliminate Villa and
Zapata, accuses both OF the latter off
GERS Of murder, brigandage and high
handed characterization; declares in
dependence of Carranza as well, and
calls upon the Mexican nation for
support.
With several thousand well armed
troops, according to consular dis
patches, Gutierrez has moved north
from Pachuca, and it is believed he
is heading for San Luis POtOsi-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
HAS ENTERED WORLD MARKETS
European War Brings First Real
Balance in Favor of the
United States.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-For the first time
in history the United States is exper-
fencing the sensation of a real trade
balance in its favor, DR.. Edward z.
Pratt, chief of the federal bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce, told
the Illinois Bankers Association at its
annual dinner here tonight.
AS a result of the developments
abroad in the last six MONTHS Doctor
Pratt said, I'VE have turned the corner
and are facing a new era of business
expansion in this country-an era
which has made the term home mar
ket' obsolete and archaic and put in its
place the unfamiliar term of world
market"
He explained that while the export
excess in favor of the United States
had ranged annually fourteen years
from $50 million dollars to $50 mil
lions, invisible factors" had made
that only an apparent favorable bal
ance.
Foreign investment in the United
States, the speaker said, totaIed $500
million dollars with an annual interest
of $50 million dollars, constituting a
fixed charge on American industries
while American investments abroad
produced revenue yearly OF only IS
million dollars, reducing the balance
against the United States on this count
to 275 million dollars.
Moreover, he pointed out, American
tourist traffic poured millions into Eu-
ropean Golfers each year, the 1914 fig
ures being approximately 2S6 million
dollars foreign born Americans sent
home annually at least $50 million dol
lars, and foreign shipping companies
collected freight from American for
eign commerce amounting to % mil
lion dollars a year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30

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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Austria will be represented at the
Panama-Pacific International EXPOSE
ton with exhibits covering between
eight thousand and ten thousand
square feet Of floor space. Construc-
ton has been begun in the center of
the Palace of Varied Industries of
an enormous covered booth
An automatic motion picture ma
chine for photographing the growth
Of plants has been invented by Prof
William C. Stevens and L. NJ. Peace
Of the department of botany at the
University Of Kansas.
'Bridegrooms are holding tighter
to the purse strings these days than
they did when mothers and fathers Of
the present generation entered into
wedlock," said Bishop Corrigan while
discussing church finances with his
congregation in ST. Gregory's Catholic
church at Baltimore.
Weather conditions have become
SO severe IN France and in Flanders,
where there have been heavy falls of
snow, that the fighting has been con-
fined almost entirely to artillery en-
gagements.
The government Of Rumania has
placed. orders in Spanish armament
factories for a large number of Mauser
rifles. 1t said Rumania viii enter the
war as soon as she is provided with
arms and equipment for an army Of
no fewer than 100000 men and that
France viii meet all the expenses.
Louis Lindley Dyche. explorer,
naturalist, educator aHd author, is
dead Of heart disease at Topeka. Few
persons knew he was III, and until
shortly before his death mis- condition
J vas not REGARDED IS dangerous.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
SOME BAD CONDITIONS STILL
Bat Scientific Management an Safety
First Have Aided Workmen
Throughout Country.

New York, Jan. 2O.-Scientific man
agement is a silent revolution aiding
all workmen, in the opinion of Ida NJ
Tarben, original muck raker. She
testified today before the federal COM
mission on industrial relations.
Several of the commissioners took
exception Commissioner Garretson
heckIed Miss Tarbel1, but she held her
own well in the face OF a series Of
questions designed to show that the
plan, instead of making for industrial
democracy and better relations be-
tween employer and employed, really
created individual despotism that
threatened the humiliation of the en-
tire labor movement
Miss Tarbeu admitted she realized
that In the past bonus systems had
been used to increase production and
reduce wages. But she insisted under
the present system the American en-
ployer is rapidly taking the position
that the more wages a man earns for
himself the more dividends he pro
duces for his employer
Miss TarbeH enthusiastically defend
ed the steel industry, which she said
was one of the industries of the Ma
ton that has been the light She
cheerfully admitted that even at the
present time women, stripped nearly
to the waist, stoke ovens in Pennsyl-
vania and other states, but she said
that was one OF the abuses that are
rapidly being eliminated by the new
day in the steel industry. It was the
steel men, she said, that originated the
motto safety first"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
RUSSIANS NEAR
GERMAN BORDER
Big SIaV Army Has Encount-
cred but Little Resistance
in New Offensive.
STUBBORN BATTLE IN ALSACE
Siege in Frances Lost Province Con-
tinues Without Any Marked
Changes in Positions
Austrians Hold Line.

London, Jan. 23.-In Alsace a stub
born battle has been in progress sew
eral days but it receives only the
briefest mention in the official re-
ports. The fighting has been compar-
atively light elsewhere on both east
ern and western fronts.
The siege continues and, according
to the opinion of the military experts,
it will go on until the ground hardens
sufficiently to enable one of the COM
manders to move a large body of men
with a speed that will permit him to
surprise his opponent and enable him
to find a weak spot in the line.
Russian Success in North.
In the east, along the old front from
the Lower Vistula to Galieia and in
the Carpathians the two armies re-
main in about the same positions as
they were two months ago, ali efforts
by the Germans to break down the
Russian resistance seemingly having
failed and the Russian attempt to
drive the Austro-German forces back
to Gre COW having met a similar fate.
In the north, however, the new Rus
sian offensive apparently has carried
them we'll toward the German frontier
without meeting serious resistance
Checked in TransyIVania.
The Russian advance into Transyl-
vania is reported to have been check
ed by the appearance of a large Aus
trian force in the mountains, while
the snow prevents the Muscovites go
ing any farther through the Carpa-
thians, although they hold all the
passes in readiness for the day when
the weather will permit a resumption
of the forward movement
The Russian fleet, according to re-
ports, still is busy in the Black Sea
sinking Turkish sailing ships. This
is taken as evidence that the reports
that the Turkish cruiser Goeben had
been put out of action were not exag-
gerated
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
The kInq Works TireIessIv.

When King Victor Emmanuel visit
ed Sora he personally promised the
children who had been made orphans
by the earthquake that they would be
cared for. The sovereign was sur
rounded constantly by throngs of citi-
Zens but when a detachment of carl
bineers attempted TO dispense the
crowd his majesty ordered the officer
in command to employ his men else
where, saying the king needed no pro-
lection. Although rain was falling,
King Victor Emmanuel insisted upon
continuing upon his inspection of the
afflicted towns and villages, motoring
from one place to another.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
Many Alive Under Debris.

Avezzano, Italy, Jan. 19-TweIve
thousand bodies, it is estimated semi
officially, are buried under the fallen
walls of this earthquake ruined town.
Seachers believe there are still many
living beneath the tons of debris and
desperate efforts are being made to
rescue them.
Most of the irregular masses Of
stone have not been touched with pick
or shovel. This is the fault of no one,
because it would take a thousand
workmen several days to turn over
and excavate what has been slowly
built up in centuries. Capt Pisani
Vettori, who has charge of the relief
work here, estimates there are fifteen
thousand dead in Avezzano, Chappelle,
Magiiano and the villages in this i'm
mediate district.
Up to midnight Saturday only five
hundred bodies had been taken from
the ruins. These were laid out in open
spaces all over the city
Supplies now are pouring into Avez-
zano.
An S-day clock hanging on the only
fragment of a wall which remains
standing is still striking the hours.
A dozen bodies ready for burial are
lying in the square of Tortonia.
In the midst of this desolation,
which reminded correspondents who
had been at the battle front of Sois-
sons after one hundred days lombard
ment by German and French artillery,
are campfres around which parties of
survivors are cooking army rations
which have been distributed to them
They sit shivering in the sharp winter
air on this high tableland Of the
Apennines.
in this square," Captain 5Eettori
said, 81 saw a father place the bodies
Of his wife, three sons and three
daughters. I think that was the sad
dest incident 1 ever have seen. One
little boy stood beside the father as
he arranged the bodies The child
seemed not to realize what had hap
| pened. This man, so terribly afflicted,
! stares vacantly at those who speak to
him. He has not eaten for two days.
Scores of survivors were half starv-
ing yesterday before food arrived from
| outside, although under the walls OF
Prince Tortoni's granary there were
one hundred thousand bushels OF
wheat.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press, going about last night with two
soldiers bearing torches, came across
the bodies of family of seven, father
mother and five children. There was
a CHASTITY row of more than one hun
| dred lying near the splendid villa OF
Prince TortOni, in which were found
the bodies of thirty-two domestics anC
employees on his estate. Neither the
prince nor any member of his family
was in the great country house which
was destroyed
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
FOUR DEAD ON U. S. CRUISER
Nine Others Were Injured When
Boiler Tube on the San Diego
Blew Out.

San Diego, Cal, Jan. 23.-Four men
were killed and nine seriously injured
yesterday afternoon on board the ar
mored cruiser San Diego when a boil
er tube blew out after a steaming
trial of four hours had been com
pleted.
The dead are Ambus ]. Hardee, Jop-
lin, Mo-; Oscar J. Wyatt, FL Centre,
Cal; William F. Elliott, Brooklyn, n
Y; Clifford A Western, Davenport,
Cal All were firemen
Among the injured are William H
Miller, Downs, Kas.; Benjamin H
Tucker, Lead Mine, Mo-; Patrick o.
Merriman, WoIbach, Neb., and George
Ohm, Yutan, Neb.
Immediately after the accident the
cruiser left for Guaymas.