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Evening journal., 1915-01-01
Republican Slate
FOR LEGISLATURE
William Ball, Chief Clerk of
Senate; H. c. Simmons,
House Bill Clerk
WILLARD GREGG TO
BE SERGEANT ALARMS

Republican members of the Senate
and House from New Castle county
yesterday afternoon held a caucus
at the Young Mems Republican Club,
and selected officers of the Legislature
allotted to New Castle county. The
selections were about as outlined in
these columns yesterday, excepting
for sergeant-at-arms of the Senate
William Ball, of Delaware City, for
mer proprietor Of the Delaware City
Hotel, was chosen for chief clerk of
the Senate and Homer c. Simmons,
of this city. was selected for bill
clerk of the House. He lives at No.
602 Broome street and is a paving
contractor. This distribution was
satisfactory to Mr.. Simmons and Mr..
Ball
William G. Jones, Jr., of this city,
was decided on for attorney for the
House. He was attorney for the Sem
ate two years ago.
Willard Gregg, of Brandywine
hundred, was named for sergeant-at-
arms of the Senate.
As decided upon thus far the off
GERS Of Senate and House viii be;
Senate.
President pro tem-Senator John
NJ. Walker, of Hockessin.
William Ball, of Delaware
City.
Bill Clerk-William Prettyman. of
Indian River hundred.
Sergeant-Rt-arms-Willard Gregg,
OF Brandywine hundred.
Attorney Daniel j. Layton, but ap-
pointment still undecided
House of Representatives.
Speaker Charles II. Grantland Of
Wilmington.
Clerk Edward Peirce of Milford.
Bill Crck-Homer c. Simmons of Will
mington
Attomey-William G. Jones, Jr., OF
Wilmington
Sergcant-at-arms William Z. Dimes
of Bridgevllc.
The reading clerks of the Senate and
House, the telephone messengers, chap
lains and pages are vet to be decided
on by the Kent county members.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
SING old HYMNS AT
METHODIST REVIVAL

The Union Revival Hymns has been
especially compiled for use in the un-
ion meetings of the Methodist Church.
The book was edited by Professor
George i. King and the special hymns
are arranged in a neat book of GA
pages. Among the hymns are He's
The One" In The Upper Garden"
"Mizpah." Heavenly Sunlight Il
Shall See Him BY And By Count
less Mercies." "Sull Sweeter Every
DAY." 81 Know He's Mine.7 Speak
To Me, Jesus" Il Belong To The
King "Iie Threw Out The Life Line
To Me-" "Jesus, Savior Pilot Me, All
Hail The Power" Happy Day" How
Sweet Thy Name"
Professor King will be the leader Of
the united choir during the revival
services next month.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
KAISER Sees TRIUMPH
AS new YEAR OPENS
Bv Tho United Press.

BERLIN. Jan. l.. Via Wireless 10
London. New deeds and new victor
les for the beloved Fatherland in 1915
are called for IN the New Years Day
address issued by the Emperor of the
German people. The complete text,
as made public today, is as follows:
After FIVE long months of heavy
and hot lighting we enter the New
Year. Brilliant victories have been
gained and great successes achieved.
The German army almost everywhere
is on the enemys territory. The re-
peated attempts of the enemy 70
swarm German territory with their
legions have everywhere failed. My
ships have covered themselves
with glory on every sea. Their crows
have proven not only that they knew
how 10 fight, but how TO die like
heroes when overwhelmed by superior
forces
Behind the army and navy stands
the entire German people in un-
Evening journal., 1915-01-01

The Formidable was sister ship
of the Bulwark. sunk off Sheerness on
Thanksgiving. by what has been OFF,
cially declared as an internal eX-
plosion The Formidable was launch-
ed in December, 1898, and is there
fore of the older style of fighting
ships. She had a water line length
of All feet was of $1,000 tons dis
placement and carried a crew of
about 7S0 men under normal condi-
tion. Her armament included four
l2-inch guns. - six-inch guns. 16 12-
Founders and two 12-pounders of a
shorter muzzle length; six three
Founders and two Maxims. In addi-
ton. she was fitted with four sub
merged torpedo tubes. Her armof
ranged from II to . inches Of Krupp
steel
The Formidable cost a little more
than $4,000 900 10 construct. She was
considered one OF the better class 0l
the eighteen-knot battleships and has
been used for coast guard duty and tC
assist in the fighting along the Bel.
gian coast since the German raid on
the British coast.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l.-CarTanzista
troops today began their march on Mex
leo City from the east and SOUTH ac-
cording to dispatches to the Constitu-
tionalist agency here today from Vera
Cruz The advance is in charge of Gen
erals Obregon, Coss and Alvarado. Car
ranza's followers declare, the dispatch
declared that the first chief will be
established in the capital within six
weeks.
Investment of the city Of Puebla
by Carranza troops is complete, one
cablegram said, and its fall is Tex
pected hourly" The battle giving the
Constitutionalists control of the situ-
alton in this territory over Villa and
Zapata troops was one of the bloodiest
of the campaign. Dispatches TO the
agency today said that after the battle
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
PRINTERS TO ELECT OFFICERS
AT MEETING ON SUNDAY.

The monthly meeting Of Whining
ton Typographical Union. No. 123.
viii be held Sunday afternoon. at the
headquarters of the Machinists' Union.
Seventh and Market streets. Officers
for 1915 will be elected and as there
are several contests. a big meeting is
expected. Arrangements have been
completed for the celebration of the
thiriy-fourth anniversary and banquet
which is TO be held at Winkler's cafe,
Tenth and Shipley streets. Wednesday
evening. January 6.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
JUDGE COMMENDS Mr.. BELL
IN REAPPOINTING HIM

Park Commissioner jerome B. Bell,
who has been a member of the Park
Board for seven years, has been re-
appointed to the body for term Of
five years by Resident Judge Herbert
l.. Rice
Judge Rice reaprointei Mr.. Bell
yesterday for a five-year 1erri. be-
ginning today The formal notice Of
his reappoinhnent was conveyed to
Mr. Bell in letter by Judge Rice,
which commanded Mr.. Bell for his
deep interest and activity in parS af-
fairs and voiced the Judges pleasure
in reappointing him.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
GOOD BYE OLD
YEAR, YOU COT
GOOD Send OFF
1915 Welcomed With Sol
emnity and Joy in
Churches and Homes
JOLLY NIGHT IN
The CITY Hotels

Laughter and song OF feasters in
hotels, prayers and thanksgiving in
churches and homes and babel in tine
streets where the spirit of carnival
reigned. set throbbing the pulse Of
Wilmington as midnight brought to
the world the new born year and
dropped into the infnity of things
gone by the ashes of 1914
IL was the same story of New
Years Eve. yet carrying a thrill that
can never grow old. There were the
same crowds on the streets-only last
night they waited until after theatre
time before turning out in force in
stead of massing down town early
The weather was pleasant and the
round moon smiled through a slight
haze
AS the night wore on the crowds
increased and the clamor of horns
and whistles and bells began. There
were comparatively few fancy cos
tunes, for the police regulations
barred masks, and without these adj
juncts Wilmington does not like 10
dress up"
With all the similarity Of the scenes
TO those of past New Years Ewes there
was a difference; joy was the key
note Of the celebration, but it was
, touched with a trace of dignity. As
the lighted clocks showed the ap-
proach Of midnight, when the noise
and the mirth had reached its height
there was a lull. Voices were hushed
bells ana whistles and rattles Wen,
silent. as the city watched the minute
hand approach tho time when the year
would pass. Crowding thoughts were
reflected on hundreds of faces. fleet
ing resolutions of the epoch-makins
year that was dying. of the war il
Europe and the soldiers in the trench
es. of the privation and suffering
which has gripped countless thou
sands-and wonder was there as q
what the new year would bring. Thei
! it was midnight, and 1915 was born
/ The spell was broken with the tollin.
/ of the hour: men and women and chill
dren shouted and the air was filles
with noises of whistles and bells.
/ Floating sweetly out over the nigh
and the thunder Of the streets wal
| the Ginning of church bells.
There was "A contrast a-plenty IL
/ the city's celebration. Solemnity
more marked than usual, was in tn
churches, where watch-night services
we're in progress, and in prayer ant
sermons ministers pointed the sign.
ficance of the anniversary and fore
cast the importance the Forthcoming
year must have in the worlds his
tory.
In the hotels. on the other hand
there was a totally different spirit
There the celebration was less e
mark the death Of 1914 than to vel
come with joyousness the infant 1915
Hundreds made up dinner parties a
Continued on Page Two.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
Caranza Moves On Mexico City
Expecting 10 Take Capital Soon

the field was piled high" in many
places with many dead, amid me
wrecks of automobiles and heid
pieces. Wounded were scattered
everywhere, it said
Vera Cruz is almost depleted Of
soldiers because of the advance to-
ward the capital, the kilograms said.
Carranza troops marching west from
Vera Cruz have reached Apizaco.
General Gonzales reported to Car
rama yesterday that his forces were
victorious at Rodriguez. one hour
from San Luis Potosi. In the battle
there 200 soldiers were either killed
OF wounded.
One despatch from Vera Cruz today
said Carranza would be in Mexico
City within six weeks and that he
would control the whole country with
In three months.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
edward MELCHIOR.
BUSINESS MAN. DEAD

Following an illness of several years
Edward Melchoir, aged 20 years, the
well known gunsmith, OF No. PA King
street, died last evening at the home
Of his daughter. Mrs Joseph Stuart,
No. 1903 Washington street Mr..
Molchoir was a native of Maryland,
and learned the locksmith and gun
smith business in Baltimore in his
youth. lie removed to this city in
1884 and opened the store at No. PA
King street Mr. Melchoir retired
from active business about ten years
ago. the business since being con-
Quoted by his son Edward Melchoir,
,Jr
Mr.. Molchoir was a member of the
knights Of Pythias and is survived
by four children. they being Mrs.
Thomas S. Taylor Edward Melchoir,
Jr. end Mrs. Joseph Stuart, all of this
city, and Howard Melchoir, OF Read
ing Pa.
The funeral will take place from
his late homo on Saturday afternoon
at 2.30 o'clock Intcrment viii be
private
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
RED CROSS DONATIONS.

Contributions to the Red Cross War
Relief Committee yesterday follow;
Received by the knitting committee.
the following
Mrs. William NJ Barnard, one scarf
Mrs j. Allen Colby. three pairs
wristlets
Miss Colby. one helmet
Miss M. Ridgloy. two scarfs.
Mrs. Walter l.. Carpenter, one scarf.
A friend. one pair wrislets.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
TODAY S MOVES
IN THE WARTONE::
What THEY MEAN
BY ]. W. t. MASON
Former European Manager Of The United

Press.
NEN YORK, Jan. I'LL a. m.l
The report from Cairo that Diamal
Pasha was murdered at Jerusalem on
Christmas Day by insubordinate troops
suggests Turkeys campaign against
Egypt Is IN am unsatisfactory state.
Other Indications bear out this infer
cncc. and il now seems possible that no
serious offensive against Egypt ,sill be
attempted by the Turks.
Diamal was on his way TO the kgyp-
tian frontier, apparently. with rein
forcemcnts 5000 strong. when his men
mutinicd because OF their miserable
condition. That troops SO wretchcdly
Continued on Page Two.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
LEWIS cONrIsUEs OHNFrsinF uonT-

VAsHINGToN. Jan i--Representafiye Lewis Of Mary
land ts,her o, tae plan to have seresnmeai evpe 3
telephones talegrsphs radios. served notice oaa a
b. intends 20 carry asht for The proposal win his
public ownsrship before Congress he VII have support
OF rosrnsster-oenerai Buriason In getting passage
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
So FINE on scOTrf.

Samuel scotii who Is not a relative
OF the famous singer OF the sans
name. was fined S25 and costs in CITY
Court this morning afigr being
convicted Of disordcrly conduct
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
TAKE yvArrs rpOa NrnNISe lInsnorsF.

s. The United Prsss
sA4moBE nd Jan i-rhe naitinore county AIMS
destroyed By that started 1880 oeioek his morning
rhat 100 nnatss escaped despite panic 2 due tho
prompnsss o. Mrs. mia the telephone as
cocfeyrvnie. three miles awsy.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
H. M. S. THE FORMIDABLE TORPEDOED
OR SUNK BY MINE In ENGLISH CHANNEL
WITH LOSS OF 700 OFFICERS AND MEN

British Admiralty Reports II Survivors OF
Latest Sea Disaster But AbandOns Hop
for All Others of Ships Complement.
Officers Silent About Oiher Ships Which
Must Have Been Near When Ill Fafed
BaifIeship Goes to The Bottom.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
IN AnAEn n IoNpos RAl noaa0n

TN AuAfp IN LONDON Rail uonnoR
Dy rhss gp,cd Press.
LONDON Jon. lien persons ~.ss sr'd sHs svsar
sriousiy niursr several fatally IN saarene collision b.
tween London Soses and local Grain 'H ne eFssa
Eastern Raivsy at Iniosd soSSY The ucms crpshed
n me rear car Of he iooa bain s9ieh standing ag
ns when Tho cypress crsehed into a--'- those Aliec
we're eonmuylrs en- route a business Londou.
Evening journal., 1915-01-01
WFAtHEK

Fair tonight; temperature
slightly below freezing. Sat
urday, increasing cloudiness
and warmer.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23
ODD BELIEFS AS TO SHOES
German Mother Sees Misfortune IN
the Loss Of HeeIs-Signs to GUIDE
Steps Of Lover.

The German mother says that
should she lose the heel Of her shoe
one of her children will die before
the year is out.
The Scotch lassie believes that
should she by accident drop her new
shoes before they have been worm
thew will surely lead her into trouble.
It is said that old maids believe that
when their shoes come united ana
keep coming united, it is true their
sweethearts are talking and thinking
about them.
The sweetheart, when on his way to
see his lady love, should he stub
his right toe, will surely be welcome,
but if he stubs his left he may
know that he is not wanted.
It is said that if old shoes are burned,
snakes will squirm away from the
place, while to keep old shoes that
are past wearing about the place Will
surely bring good luck.
Should you meet person whose
shoes are worn on the toes you
may put it down as a certainty that
"he spends as he goes;" and on the
same authority it is said that the girl
that has her shoes worn on the side
is surely fated to be rich man 3
bride"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23

satin ribbon that adjusts the gown TO
the figure. It is finished with an edg-
ing of val The sleeves are made sep
arately and decorated with beading
edged with val. Ribbon Is run In the
beading and tied in little bows, with
hanging loops and ends. by way OF
dainty decoration.
The three little figures sketched in
the picture suggest gowns more SIM
ply trimmed but equally pretty. Each
borrows the refinement Of lace and the
glow of color in ribbons, and each Is
gracefully cut. Thus they embody at
fractions that merit the interest and
the admiration that women always &C
cord tasteful lingerie.
Crepe de chine and wash silks are
having a considerable vogue in under
garments, but they are merely extra
luxurious and not more satisfying than
the garments of cotton that emerge
from the laundry time after time az
good as new.
! JULIA soTToMLEY.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23
How the Solder Works.

A patient Englishman who last sum-
mer watched garden spider spin its
nest from start to finish has told what
he saw, in a recent issue Of Knowl-
edge. At $50 o'clock in the evening
the spider, a half.grown female, began
work by dropping from one branch Of
q pine tree to another below, and
there making fast line, which event
ually formed two Of the perpendicular
radiating lines of the web. From that
time it continued to work without in
terruption until 1:25 o'clock the next
morning. The network and radial
lines were done by 1880 o'clock, and
the spiral part Of the web was con
sequently made in less than an hour
The observer drew many interesting
diagrams of the web at different stagei
in its construction. He says the fin
ished web was one Of the most per
feet he has ever seer.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23
SLAUGHTER of the lnnocents.

Do YOU hear the morning and eve
ming choruses of the birds? If not,
YOU are missing a riot of song that
fairly startles you with its volume.
How the birds do sing and how they
answer each other as they swing back
and forth on topmost branches!
And where there is one bird today
there should be dozens. With ruth
less and thoughtless hand we have
driven them out, killing off by tens OF
thousands and forcing the expenditure
of thousands of dollars for tree care
which the birds would have done
gratuitously. One good law of the
present legislature refers to the care
of the bird life and absolutely forblds
any unnaturalized person from getting
a permit to go shooting or to have a
gun in his possession.
This law should be followed by
many others looking to the very sever
est penalties for the ruthless pursuit
or the killing of any kind of bird life.
And that further laws will be enacted
is true because first of all the real
gunners of the state realize that
something must be done to prevent
the extinction of many forms of bird
life.-Glouceste7 Times.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23

the Marble Stairway, "Ah, here comes
the Countess Zika now" And then
She would enter trippingly, wearing
$500 worth of spangled Raiment,
whereupon the Vast Audience would
stand up and Cheer.
Whilst enjoying this Trance she
wore q Yellow Kimono and had her
Meals sent to the Room.
Father saw that he was Hooked, 30
ne loaded her into Parlor Car and
aook her up to q School Of Dramatic
Art 10 have her searched for Talent.
The Head Crimp Of this refined
Shake Down watched her do the Scene
IN which Ophelia goes Dotty and picks
the imaginary Hollyhocks, and when
It was all over and Shakespeare had
been reduced to Pulp, he slapped
old Ready Money on the Back and
told him his Daughter was Phenom.
With a couple of hundred Lessons
IN Correct Breathing, and the Vocal
Chords loosened up with Glove
gtretcher, and row Of Scallops put on
the Technique, Mary Anderson would
he right back in our midst.
So Lila got ready to fill the Vacancy
caused by the Retirement of Ellen
Terry, while Papa went back to the
little Office in one corner of the Ware
House and began to sign Checks.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23
Making a Rug "Antique."

How genuine antique rugs" are
manufactured and prepared for Euro
pean and American markets is told
by writer in the National Geographic
Magazine, who visited Bagdad.
The shopping streets seem like tun-
nels, he writes. They are arched over
head with brick to keep out the heat;
thus they run, like subways, up and
down the bazaar quarter. Through
those long, sitting, faintly-lighted tun-
nels throngs the eternal crowd Of men,
mules and camels.
Often you will see fine rug lying
fiat in the filth of a narrow street,
ground beneath the tramp of men and
beasts; but there is method in this.
Foreigners make Oriental rugs, bright
and new, in Persia, and sell them
through Bagdad. Since an "old rug
is worth more, willy brokers have hit
on this shameful way to make a new
rug look old.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23

In the matter Of lingerie one may
choose between much-trimmed or it,
tle.trimmed garments, providing they
are made of sheer, well-woven cotton
or linen fabrics. The great majority
are made of cotton because 1t Is cheap
or than linen, is just as good.looking,
and does not muss SO easily. Linen Is
thought to be more durable and is
therefore sometimes selected for lin
gerie which Is to be hand-embroidered
By comparison with cotton fabrics,
such as fine voiles. woven of hard.
twisted thread, durability lies rather
in favor of cotton.
The best known tub fabrics include
nainsook. batiste, long cloth, wolfe,
null, lawn and the fine cotton crepes.
One of the first three named is chosen
for the great bulk Of all lingerie.
An empire gown of nainsook, with
body and sleeves of narrow val inser.
ton, is pictured here. A narrow bead
ing is set at the top and bottom of the
body and serves to carry the narrow
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23
ILLUSTRATES WITH LIVE MICE
Up-to-Date Seller Of Traps Uses Novel
Means to Get His Hearers Inter
ested in His Goods.

An ingenious method for exploiting
an invention is being used with sue
cess by a Washington man. His IN,
vention is a mousetrap, a model OF
which he takes along with him. He
Immediately interests his intended
customers by producing two live
white mice, which he sets down IN
front of the trap.
They promptly head for a passage
way at one end Of the trap, appar
emily tempted by cheese contained be-
hind a grating inside. AS they enter
however, their weight springs traE
door, closing the passage by which
they entered; the cheese proves to be
inaccessible, and in seeking to escape
they follow a passage leading up al
incline and ending with another traI
door. Presently they push open thl
door and tumble down into pail o.
sawdust-their nest. The opening Of
this second trap door by the mice re
sets the trap by opening the first traE
door which had first shut off theil
escape. The inventor then turns t.
his interested audience and remarks
"Now, gentlemen, If this pail hat
been filled with water instead of saw
dust and set overnight, in the morning
you would find the mice trapped in l
and drowned. / also have large
trap that works the same way, TO
rats. How many traps can you use?
He generally makes a sale.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23

Now that the filmiest Of laces are
made by wonderful machinery and are
so plentiful and so cheap, every wom-
an should indulge herself in a dainty
negligee. If ever there lived a wom-
an without a longing for this strictly
feminine and most luxurious of be-
longings she must have been feeble
minded, for every well-balanced daugh.
ter of Eve acknowledges their fascina.
ton.
The most enticing Of negligees are
made of crepe de chine or thin, sup.
pie silk, with laces and ribbons.
Color plays so important part in
the makeup Of these garments that
the fabric is the second consideration
All the beautiful and rich colors may
be set down as available, and the more
fowerlike the better. Also the more
frilly and frivolous and altogether ir
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23
SInulna Stones.

Singing stones are found In various
parts Of the world. Fraas, journeying
from the Red sea to the Nile, saw a
round, thin fragment an inch IN
diameter. resembling a shell. split Oh,
with peculiar sound, from flint
which lay baking in the hot sun at
his feet. This observation ls very
remarkable, and perhaps unique, for
iints split gradually as a rule, but
the violent and noisy rupture Of the
last bond under the influence of the
suns rays and in the presence Of an
observer does not seem impossible.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-23
United States Army Rations.

The average daily field ration Of
the United States army is made up
as follows: Bacon, II ounces, or fresh
meat, 20 ounces; bread, IS ounces;
beans, "a ounces; potatoes, 20 ounces;
prunes or preserves, 1.2S ounces; cof-
fee, 1.12 ounces; sugar, 80 ounces;
evaporated milk. ounces; vinegar, .le
gill; salt, ga ounce; pepper (black),
,O4 ounce; lard, ga ounces; butter, 5
ounce.
OF this ration, just portion Is car
ried individually by the soldier. the
rest, such as butter, lard, pepper and
strip, are given in bulk to the COM
panies and then distributed to the men
at meal time. This ration is greater
than necessary. and the men trade IN
the surplus for delicacies.