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Evening journal., 1915-11-27
sT. CEORGES HAPPENINCS.

Special to THE EVENING lOl RNAL.
ST. GEORGES, Del, Nov. 27.-Ed-
ward H. Beck has sold the IS acre
farm belonging to William L. Eliason,
on the road from Wrangle Hill TO Jes-
ter's Corner, to Herman L. Swain, for
$4,000
A number OF relatives and friends
of Mrs. Caleb Cannon gave her a de-
lightful surprise on her birthday an
niversary. The guests were: Lawr-
ence Cannon. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Collins and sons. OF Smyrna; Mrs. NJ.
r. Kielkoff, of Philadelphia; Mr.. and
Mrs. Matthew Walz, Mrs. George
Kern. Miss Margaret Walz. Miss
Helen Cannon, of New Castle; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Cannon. of Fields
boro: Mrs. Mary Spetzler, of Odessa;
George Kielkoff. Mr. and Mrs. Barton
Hopkins and daughter, of Mt. Pleas
ant.
A Thanksgiving party was given
by the members OF the New Century
Club last evening under the direction
Of Mrs. II. c. Clark.
A silver medal contest, under the
auspices of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union was held last
evening i'm the NJ. +. Church.
Personal: and Mrs. Walter
Ellis entertained a number of little
folk on Wednesday evening in honor
of the sixth birthday anniversary OF
their daughter, Margaret--A pleas
ant evening was passed at John w.
Carrow. Sr.'s. home when the money
boxes for the trustees fund were
opened. Mrs. Carrow served supper.
Richard Grassland and daughter
Miss Nellie Grassland. entertained on
Thanksgiving Howard Grassland and
family. of Delaware City, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Moore. Of near 81
Georges Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Gam
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Moore are
Thanksgiving visitors with friends al
Fredorica.-M Misses Edna Swan ant
/ Ada Cannon have returned from
/ visit in Philadelphia.-Miss Anna III
lison has been visiting Mrs. J. c. Nc
, Gov. near here--Mrs. A. J. McGoVeri
has with her, her son, Francis Browl
of villa Nova College.-Mrs. William
Cox is visiting relatives in Harris
burg. Pa.-The Rev. G.. L. Wood ha
returned from a few days visit Wit
friends at Easton, Md.-Malcoln
Swain. OF Camden, \. J., was a recen
visitor with Mr.. and Mrs. Georg
swain.
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CRUSHED UNDER TONS
Of Sliding COAL
John O'DoAnell Meets Hor-
rible Death in Farm
hurst Storage Yard
WIDOW CLAIMS
HUSBANDS BODY

John O'Donnell, aged SO years, Of
West Chester, Pa. foreman em-
ployed by T. f. Riley, general con-
struction contractor, was killed at
Farnhurst yesterday afternoon, when
he slid down with several hundred
tons OF coal to the tracks OF the Penn
sylyania Railroad and was crushed
to pulp ODonnell is survived by
his wife and one child.
The body was claimed at the
morgue last evening by brother and
was shipped to West Chester today.
ODonneil was standing on top Of a
coal car loaded with coal that was
being shunted when the bottom of the
car suddenly opened
He slid down with the coal and out
through the opening. There was a
cross tie on the track 10 keep the
rails swept clear of the coal, and an
engine was slowly pulling the car
along to distribute the pile OF coal
as it came out ODonnell was caught
between the cross tie and coal and
the car. and before il could be stopped
OF before any Of the other men about
the place was aware OF his presence
under the car he had been crushed
to death.
When taken out IL was realized that
there was small chance for his being
alive. but Doctor Davies was called
from the State Hospital at Farnhurst.
He saw at glance that the man was
dead. as his whole body had been lit
terally crushed TO a pulp. The body
was removed to the morgue here.
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Y. W. G. A. yEsPERs.

An old subject in new guisc with
be discussed al the vesper services
of the Young Womcn's Christian As
sociation Sunday afternoon. "How.
What to Whom to Give for Christ.
mas will be answered by Miss Lola
Murphin and Miss Isabel Halket. Miss
Margaret Cox will sing. Miss Folsom
viii be the pianist. Hostess for the
social hour is Mrs. w. Il. Smith. who
will be assisted by the Misses Flora
Folsom and Elsie Spring. The service
begins at 4 o'clock and is followed By
IA social half hour.
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A story Of American pluck. perse-
verance, and ambition. Is that of Rev.
n. w. Matthews, formerly of Ply
mouth. Pa, now pastor OF the First
Primitive Methodist Church of Low
ell, Mass, who began life as the son
OF a miner, and winning his way up
in the world until he Is today a mem
her OF the Faculty Of the Primitive
Methodist Theological School, and
pastor of n prosperous church.
Nathan W. Matthews. when a mere
lad, worked in the coal mines near
Hazelton. Pa.
Rev. Mr.. Matthews says that among
other evils suffered by miners. none
is more dangerous and harder to over
come. Notwithstanding the improved
conditions under the inspector sys-
TEN. than the injury TO health. The
miners spending so much of their
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Just q Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John G. QuiniuS.
(ThS Sunshine MANI

Yet many years did'st Thou for
bear them. and testified against them
by Thy Spirit. .'-Neh. tx 80
Spirit of Christ. teach me the
prophecy of glory that lies in my own
unrest When l am appalled, by the
impurities of my past life, tell me
that the eye which reads the i'm
purity has received its light from
Thee. When l stand afar off and
beat upon my breast and say. "Un-
clean. uncleani" tell me that this is
the time in which / go down to my
house justified. Thou never lowest
me more than when Thou chidest.
Thou never holdest me dearer than
when Thou chastisest. When Thou
testified against me, know that Thou
art bearing with me.-"Day Unto
Day
A faithful man shall abound with
blessings.-Prov. 2S:20.
When I don't sleep, I just count my
blessings. That's a splendid thing to
do. because you fall asleep before you
get to the end of em.
MARGARET DELAND.
Feed me with the food that is need
full for me.-Prov. 30:S.
"Give u.s." dear Lord. "our daily
bread"
And give it to us, crumb by crumb;
The little child that's hourly fed
Doth never wander far from home
ANNA T. BURNHAM.
Dayton, Ohio.
Evening journal., 1915-11-27
DICTATOR OF MOOSE
Gets ROYAL WELCOME

The visit OF Supreme Dictator n. J.
Henning of San Diego. California, to
this city was appropriately celebrated
by the local members OF the Loyal
Order OF Moose last night. A street
parade. with brass band. banners and
red fire preceded a reception held In
Odd Fellows Hall. at Tenth and King
streets.
The meeting was called to order by
Albert Frankish. dictator OF Whining
ton Lodge. who introduced S. ID.
Townsend as the permanent chair
man. Mr. Townsend in turn intro
duced the Hon. Edward j. Henning, the
supreme dictator who delivered the
address Of the evening.
Mr.. Henning spoke OF the inception
of the Loyal order of Moose and OF
the rapid growth OF the order in the
past few years He spoke OF the spread
OF the order. which is international in
scope. from the original lodge, until
the present time when the order has
500 lodges in all parts Of the world
whore the English language Is spoken
and has a membership OF more than
100000 men.
Addresses were alto maze ny n.
Waldo Kennedy. national organizer of
the order who is now in Wilmington.
conducting a membership campaign,
and by President OF City Council
Henry c. Downward.
Following the addresses a vaudeville
entertainment was given. Several
songs were sung by John Brainard
and by Hugh Brainard. George w.
Zimmerman. a Wilmington boy. who
is appearing at the Garrick this week
In Painting That Mother OF Mine, -
told a number Of Jokes. Tax Dart, who
is also appearing at the Garrlck. gave
an exhibition of water color work. con-
cluding with a drawing OF the Moose
badge.
A letter from Senator Willard Sauls-
bury, who was invited TO be present.
was read, expressing his regret A
telegram was also received from Con-
gresham Thomas w. Miller. express
ing his regret az being unable TO ac-
cept the invitation to attend the meet
ing
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PRODuCE SHIPMENTS

According TO the reports given out
by William r. Carter. supervising
agent of the Delaware division of the
pennsylvania Railroad. the following
fruit and produce shipments we're
made over that division during the
past week:
Apples. baskets 1877: total TO
date, i69,74S, last year. G65, 1888.
Pears. baskets, l6. total to date.
1S6.093 last year. 1929.
Sweet potatoes. barrels. 1906. to-
tai TO date. 1896; last year. 1O7. .272.
White potatoes, barrels. 1,414, total
10 date. l90.SS4 last year. lg7.435.
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cArsEWAY IN BAD CONDITION.

Farmers who use the Market street
causeway are complaining about the
condition Of the road. Several horses
have fallen on the causeway during
the last ten days, and some of the
animals were injured. Since the re-
cent high tides, which caused the
banks to overflow. the water at high
tide covers the causeway. When farm
ers came along yesterday there was
nearly two feet of water on the cause
way. The horses could not keep on
their feet and chances were taken.
and the trolley track was used.
Evening journal., 1915-11-27
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ance of proper opportunity for obiec-
ton.
In cases where property holders shall
desire to pay the whole amount immc-
diately. SO as TO fully reimburse the city
for its expenditure. without interest.
allow and encourage them to do so.
William =. Bancroft.
November %. 1918.
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her husbands home followed Jan uary 5.
 Joe thinks I wore the necklace to the theatre. I didn't. You know perfectly we'll that after tried it on it stayed in that cabinet drawer until John left, and then he had to be re- minded of it or he would have forgot ten it," sobbed Lillian Cough. q never thought of wearing the old thing"
 You did say you wouldn't wear the clumsy thing," affirmed a friend.
 But Joseph Cough was immovable as one of the rivets in the machine he operates. He produced letter written by the clerk, missiye which he designated as "slushy, but con- vincing."
 This letter, which was signed "Jere," ran as follows:
 Dear Sweetheart Girlie-I am just aching to hold you in my arms again. It seems like an age since 1 saw you last. Am trying to picture you over there pining and worrying away, and I cant bear to think about it, so I am coming over to Newark every evening, if it is possible, even if I can only see you for five minutes. For, you sweet grille, five minutes with you is like year in heaven, if we believe what is preached.
 But, for me, heaven is just you and l. and for ne to see you happy
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value; they must be destroyed, like redeemed paper money. For this purpose they are packed in boxes and sent in wagon to the Washington Navy Yard, where they are burned, under the official eye of Govern ment committee, in big furnace.
 Formerly the spoiled stamps were boiled to a pulp, like the old paper money, in a tank with water and acids. But, whereas the paper money pulp was sold, as is still the custom, for paper stock, being derived originally from fine linen rags, the stamps, of woodpulp paper. went into the sewer being not worth Javing.
 As for the hole in postage stamp, 1t seems to be very trifing thing; yet, as a matter of fact, 1t represents an extremely important invention. When stamps were first used they had to be cut apart with scissors, which was highly inconvenient. It is said that $10000 was paid to the man who originated the. idea of perforating the sheets, for the privjr lege of using 1t.
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and have that sweet little smile on your face always.
 As l write this yours ring on my finger keeps staring me in the face, and it seems as if the lion were say ing, Your girlie wants you And that is just the way it is. Whatever am doing, wherever l am, my first thoughts are Whatever is my poor little grille doing now?'
 But be of brave heart and cheer up. Things are bound to change, and the sooner they do the better. will be over in Newark to see you tomorrow night. Will call you up some time after D. m. If you are not in, will leave the telphone num- Der where you can reach me. had telephone conversation with MT. c. and it will be all right for you to see him in his office tomorrow, Tues day, afternoon at o'clock.
 So, grille, go down and see him; explain everything to him and ask his advice to the limit. Was talking with your mother this afternon. The baby is fine and dandy. Heard her running around and playing while I was talk ing. Everything and everybody else is all 0. K, so don't worry on that.
 Well, my sweetheart girl, and I know you are mine and mine only, and I am not afraid am in dream and will be walked up. When those sweet lips of yours tod me that you thox I l.. I.,k dream, but reality, and I was filled to overflowing.
 Sweetheart, words cannot express
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What Becomes of the Holes in Our Postage Stamps

paper, some red, some yellow, some blue, some green. Others were of yet other colors.
 It appears that the material in question is by-product of the ma chimes through which the sheets of postage stamps go to be perforated. As the little holes are punched out of them the tiny paper disks fall into baskets beneath, while later on are emptied into barrels. Every week day in the year the Bureau of En- graving turns out in this way a barrel and half of "holes." This means nine barrels week, or 468 barrels in twelvemonth.
 How. many holes go to make a barrel full? Nobody ever took the trouble to count, but it may be reckoned approximately without much difficulty. The bureau prints in a year 12,O00,O00,0OO postage stamps. Allowing for the fact that a row of perforations serves for the stamps on both sides of it, there are twenty one of them for each stamp. This would mean a total of 252,OOO, ,OOO, 900 holes
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rola Dy an office boy that MT. Van derbilt wished to see him.
 "The Big Boss?" breathed Collins in surprise that was half dismay. He walked briskly into MT. vanderbilt's private office.
 MT. Collins" said the millionaire, T hear that you found a necklace belonging to Mrs. Vanderbilt and re- turned it. I ask you if you would rather have $500 cash or five one thousand dollar bonds of the railroad.
 I'd prefer to leave that to your judgment, sir" said Collins.
 Well, here, then," said MT. Van derbilt, handing the young clerk five one-thousand-dollar bonds of the New York Central.
 Here is the s5OO.1 said Collins.
 "Oh, you may as well keep that"
 By which token 1t would appear that so far, at least, the talisman of the Vanderbilt touch of gold held good.
 It did for Collins. But what of poor little Mrs. Lillian Cough? Hearken now to what 1t brought to her.
 For ten years Collins had known her, and all that time had loved her. His patient, awkward, boyish love apparently made little impression upon the belle of his neighborhood in which they lived in Brooklyn.
 He had many rivals. From among them she chose Joseph Cough, mas- ter machinist, of Newark. Five years ago she welded him. Two years ago little daughter was added to their home.
 In business Joseph Cough pros pered. But in business, cards often bear the inverse ratio to success in love. There were rumors that the Coughs were not wholly happy. He was faithful. She was true. He at- tended to his business in the shop, she to hers in the home. Yet there was not perfect accord. Neighbors whispered the long word, covering much unhappiness, ''incompatibility."
 Meanwhile the clerk plodded stead fly on in his office. He saved his money. He hoped for happier times. And now and then when Mrs. Cough paid a visit to her family or friends in Tlatbush he called upon her and occasionally had the happiness of es- corting her to the theatre.
 Then enter the pearl necklace. Followed the catastrophe to the Mrs. Joseph Cough.
 "She told me fellow in Brooklyn was going to get tickets for Twin Beds,' and on the way he found the necklace. It belonged to Mrs. Van- derbilt, and he got a reward for it," testified her friend, Mrs. Nellie V. Wordley, in the suit that followed. For her husband, a master machinist, having found a letter written by the clerk. waxed indignant and ordered
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going to stumble upon Mrs. Wander bilt's pearl necklace? How should he know that Fate, which has SC strange a penchant for choosing jewels as emissaries of undoing lurked in the sparkle of the diamond pendant that his eyes caught at the door of the Ritz?
 Least of all, how should poor little Mrs. Cough, in her Flatbush home, seek evil portents in her young ad- mirer's discovery.
 Fortunate Mr. Collins saw her that evening.
 "Oh, I found this thing" he said. He drew the necklace from his pocket.
 Beads said young Mrs. Cough. "Be careful how you handle them, John. It's so hard to string them" "Try them on," he suggested.
 She clasped them about her neck and looked down disapprovingly upon them. T don't like it," she said. q wouldn't wear the big, clumsy thing"
 When she removed it they discov- cred the .'clumsy thing" had a pen dant encircled by shining stones.
 "The rest of it is trash" she said, "but that may be worth something" The pendant was large oval, be- heath which, on one side, was min tature of a very young man, scarcely more than lad. On the other was a lock of hair, probably from the thick, waving mass On the head of the original of the miniature. As a matter of fact, the portrait was that of Mrs. Vanderbilt's son, Rutherford, who was killed in France some years ago.
 Better watch the Lost advertise ments," advised friend who was present. "The thing may be worth something.''
 Tt is worth something to some. body because of this." said the finder, looking at the pictured face. Who ever he is, he is a manly chap"
 The next day there appeared in the Lost and Found columns an ad- vertisement by a leading firm of jew elers, describing the necklace, nam ing the hour and place at which it was lost, and offering $500 reward. The 1eweller looked up in surprise as Collins presented the necklace.
 T am commissioned to pay the $500 reward in cash" he said.
 And he handed across the counter five $100 bills.
 By the way, how much is that necklace worth?" asked the young man, departing.
 About $10OO00 was the reply.
 Collins gasped his astonishment. But he was yet to learn at how much more than that Mrs. Vanderbilt rated the value.
 He was at work at his clerks desk in the big freight offices of the New Work Central next day when he was
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made by the machines. With total output of 46S barrels of holes for the twelvemonth, it is obvious that the contents of each barrel would amount to about 53S, ,461, ,53S holes.
 Astronomers say that there are in the universe not fewer than 500 billion starts and not more than 1000 billion. the exact number being somewhere between the two. It ap- pears then that the Bureau of En- graving in period between two and four years turns out enough holes in postage stamps to equal the number of the starts.
 Now, what becomes of all these holes? Have they any value? The answer to the latter question is, not the slightest. They are carried off, in the barrels, to the city dump.
 Many sheets of postage stamps are spoiled in the making. Thousands of other sheets, gummed together by hot weather in the Summer time, nibbled by mice, or in other ways rendered unstable, are returned to the bureau to be replaced with new ones Such sheets, of course, have cash
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'He Casped 1t Around Mrs. Coughs Neck Trs Clumsy,
 She Said.
She Said.

the feeling. Neither can l describe it. Will do everything I can to show you in time to come. Much as I hate to say it, will have to say good by until tomorrow night, sweetheart grille of mine"
 On the strength of the affidavit of Mrs. Wordley and on this letter he responded to her suit for separate maintenance with a counter suit.
 Of course, it is hardly fair to blame young Collins alleged infatuation for Mrs. Cough on the Vanderbilt neck lace, but if it had not been for the necklace incident, and the repetition Of 1t by Mrs. Wordley to MT. Cough, the breaking up of the Cough home might perhaps have been averted. \
 This time the proverbial Wander bilt luck has been reversed.
 Undoubtedly the proverb of tho Vanderbilt good luck held for Mrs. Vanderbilt. Problematically for the clerk. But 1t failed for the young woman of the dfIlded homes in New. ark and Flatbush
 For her the necklace was hef nH- doing. That a young man found necklace and, placing 1t about her neck, took her to the theatre, was enough evidence for the breaking up of her home. Though the wife has explained and the clerk has said he will talk matters over with him at any time, the master machinist is obdurate.
 For Mrs. Joseph Cough the van- derbilt necklace was her undoing.