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Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
MAKING COLLEGE PRACTICAL
New Experiences Will Be Added to
the Ordinary Cur
ricuIum.

The college student of other days
lived in a little world of his own
apart from the real world about him.
Nor was the course of study designed
to fit one for practical life. The Good
Government club of Williams college
is an excellent example of the new
spirit that has entered our colleges
and universities, Charlton Bates
Strayer writes in Leslie's. One func-
ton of the club is to secure promi-
nent speakers on various social and
political problems. The second aim,
and much more important of the two,
is a system Of practical community
service through committees. At Will
Jamestown this has meant the assist
ance of neighboring farmers in apple
raising and in forestry, the investiga-
tion of water and milk supply, the
instruction of foreigners in the Gus
toms and ideals of the country, work
ing for prohibition, law enforcement
and town improvement, and helping
boys through the big Brother" move
ment. The young man who gets four
years of this sort of experience in
connection with academic training will
be a bigger man than his predeces-
sors, and will justify his superior
training by better service in the COM
munity and the state.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
BOYS RIGHT TO WHISTLE
InaIienabIe PrerogatiVe of Youth, and,
Anyway, 1t Is Useless to Try to
Stop Him.

AS to the Office boys, messenger
boys, grocery boys and boys of many
other merchandises that are delivered
at our houses every day-well Of
course, they all whistle. The man
who never whistles is not unknown,
but no possible reward could bring to
light a specimen of the genus boy who
doesn't. It's an inalienable right of
bOyhoOd to whistle; it is handed down
to him with his disposition, his
freckles, his pugnacity and all those
things that so remind unkind people,
on occasions, of his father. When fa-
ther was a boy he whistled; and, now
that the boy has taken the old mans
place, why, the boy whistles. It's per-
fectly logical that the boy should
whistle-and, of course, a boy never
is anything but logical.
So let us all figure the same way
the poet did when he requested the
boy who whistled at his work. For
otherwise no boy would be there to do
the work. And let's spread that man.
tie of charity along the years so as
to take in the men who whistle, too.
Don't sneer at them; don't strangle the
soul of music as it strives to attain ex-
preston from their puckered lips.
DOn't-but what's the use of saying
don't try to stop them?" 1t can't be
done, anyway.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
LEATHER SHOULD BE "FED"
Librarian of Congress Tells How the
Bindings of Books May Be
Preserved.

An official of the Library of Con-
gress was talking with a friend who
had recently purchased a handsome
set of leather-bound volumes.
"YOu had" said the expert, "better
examine those books carefully to see
whether the leather needs feeding. If
it is new stock they will be all right
if left alone for several years, but if
they have been on the shelves for
some time, the leather will have lost
most of it's natural oil and become
brittle. This applies especially to
books kept in private houses, which
are, as a rule, much better than the
bOok-stacks in large libraries. There
is nothing more attractive than a
fresh, well-preserved leather binding
on a volume, and scarcely anything
less so than a dilapidated, cracked
one.
you can add years to the life of a
leather binding and 100 per cent to
its appearance by rubbing a little
vaSeline with piece of raw cotton
not too much-just as much as the
leather will thoroughly absorb. Where
the binding bends is where it is most
likely to crack. The leather will not
be greasy, as the vaseline will be ab-
sOrbed. One treatment every year or
two is sufficient, unless the books are
unduly exposed to heat"
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out.of.poor sIeepino.

Again the iconoclast is out with his
ak and another and very popular medi-
cal idol has been smashed-namely,
sleeping out of doors, the HOmeOpath-
ic Envoy states. 1t was great while
it lasted, but apparently it is now on
the way to the scrap pile of medical
science, where sooner or later all that
brand of science is cast. Sleeping out
of doors is all right for those who live
out of doors, like travellers in remote
regions, soldiers in active service and
the like, but it has been at last real
lied that for those who live in houses
the going out of warm house to the
often bleak, or damp, air of the out
side is not always beneficial; in fact,
is very often hurtful. The same is
true of sleeping with wide-Open win
dows, which is all right in certain
states of the atmosphere, but as an
invariable rule it is an error. In moth
ing is common sense more needed
than in medicine and "health culture;
nowhere else is it Oftener lacking.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
Elephant LabYrinth.

Near Ayuthia, formerly the capital
of Siam, is a curious labyrinth in
WHICH 6i6PI1dHIS dTe captured awe.
The labyrinth is formed by a double
row of immense tree trunks set firmly
in the ground, the space between them
gradually narrowing. Where it begins
at the edge of the forest the opening
of the labyrinth is more than a mile
broad, but as it approaches Ayuthia it
becomes so narrow that the elephants
cannot turn around. Tame elephants
are employed to lure wild ones into
the trap. Having reached the inner
end of the labyrinth, the tame ele-
plants are allowed to pass through
gate, while men lying in wait slip
shackles over the feet of the captives
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
writ of Lev Fac to me directed,
will be exposed to Public Sale at the
Court House on Market street be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets, in
the city of Wilmington, New Castle
county, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY,
THE 18th DAY OF JULY, 1916,
At 10 O'clock, A. NJ,
the following described Real Estate, viz:
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of
land, with the buildings thereon erected.
situate, lying and being in the city of
Wilmington, county of New Castle and
State of Delaware, and bounded and
described as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at point on the south
erly side of Thirteenth street one hun
dred and seventeen feet and nine inches
westerly from the westerly side of du-
POnt street; thence southerly and par
allel with dupont street, through the
centre of an alley two feet four inches
wide, one hundred feet to a corner;
thence westerly and parallel with Thir-
teenth street fifteen feet and nine
inches to a corner; thence nOrtherly
and parallel with dupont street to the
centre of nine inch brick wall separat-
ing the house on this lot from the house
adjoining on the west one hundred feet
to the said southerly side Of Thirteenth
street; thence easterly fifteen feet and
nine inches to the place of beginning,
be the contents thereof what they may.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Leon A. Craig and Florence
A. Craig, his wife, mortgagors, and to
be sold by
HARRY ]. STIDHAM, Sheriff.
Sheritf's s Office, Wilmington, DEL, July
II, 1916.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
About Adenoids.

We hear much about adenoids. This
is the name Of a lymph, glandular
mass back of the nose in the upper
part of the throat. 1t is a small but
normal body structure. When en-
larged or the seat of disease in chill
dren or adults adenoids must be re-
moved. The signs of enlargement are :
Notwithstanding, night restlessness,
snoring during sleep, and in marked
cases a narrowed or sunken lower
part of the chest, owing to Obstruct-
ed breathing. and interference with
general health and normal growth.
Also, there may be narrowing of the
dental arch in the upper jaw, leading
to a deformity Of the mOuth.-Dr.
Maude Kent.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
Wonders of Coal Tar.

In the American Magazine Albert
w. Atwood says:
although modern high explosives
require vast quantities of nitric acid,
sulphuric acid and alcohol, the basic
ingredient of most is a derivative of
coal tar, which in turn is a by-prOduct
of cOke-burning. Here is the indus
try, with all it's branches and ramifi-
cations, which perhaps more than any
other in this country has been ex-
panded by the war. In coal tar we
have the imprisoned sunshine of mil
lions of years, and when that prehis-
tOric brilliance is released by one set
or stage of processes we have mod
ern dyestuffs. Still other processes
and W have naphthalene (camphOr
balls) and many modern drugs, such
as asparin; while the Photographic,
Photographic and many other indus
tries depend more or less completely
upon it. Finally benzOl, which is the
first stage in the process and from
which all these other products come,
is the most Immediately available sub
Stitute for gasoline"
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
ADVISED THE HOME FIRST
Pleasing Story That Is Related by In
innate Acquaintance of Late
James j. Hill.

The Chicago banker who had inti-
mate personal association with James
]. Hill related little incident which
throws light on the character of that
great railroad man and builder of civ
ilizatiOn, says the Knickerbocker
Press. Mr.. Hill had commissioned
the banker to perform a task which
required a journey out of town. Here
is the story:
"'HOw soon do you want this, Mr..
HIP said I.
Right away said he.
Il suppose he noticed a fleeting ex-
preston in my face, for he asked:
Whats the matterY
"Well,' said I, my family is across
the lake, but that doesn't make any
difference. I'll start in the morning,
and
''Mr. Hill held up his right hand and
said: Hold On. Let me give you IL
fact born of my long experience. All
the real fun a fellow has in life is
within the four walls that inclOSe his
family. Go across the lake and see
your family, and start on my job when
you get through with the homefolks.
Here is something for the ambitious
young man who has not yet got his
bearings to paste in his hat. Few
men have achieved so much as James
J. Hill. Few have struggled against
heavier odds or won success in so
great measure. But home remained
the chief thing in his life. That is a
realization that comes to most men at
some time or other. They are lucky
who grasp it early.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
Potatoes Cause IdiOeY

Vodka, forbidden forever in Russia
by the czar, is distilled from potatoes,
and the edict may be regarded as yet
another shade of ignOminy cast upon
the Iong-suffering tuber, for it is in
teresting to note that the very evils
ascribed to vodka drinking today were
formerly attributed to eating potatoes.
Not such a great while ago a
learned Frenchman wrote a treatise to
show idiOcy had increased since the
introduction of the potato into Eu-
rope, and English medical men in
past times condemned it as a cause
of palsy and other hideous diseases.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
Useful Tree.

"Trees!" scoffed the visitor in the
village inn.
"Why, you fellows have never seen
a really big tree. Now, in the states
we have them of a fair size. Oh, yes.
Why, 1 remember, out in Texas, they
felled one across a ravine over which
it would have cost too much to build
a bridge! Well, they just followed
out that tree, and had a dandy
bridge"
Exclamations Of surprise and in
credulity from his wide-eyed audi
ence.
"Sure, know it was a fact, because
I've often driven across it," he as
serted. "And one day 1 was driving
a load of hay over when met man
coming from the other side, also with
a load of hay. Neither Of US could
go back or forward"
"What did you dO?" asked par
ticularly trusting soul.
"Oh, I just backed my wagon in a
hollow branch and let him pass. y
London Answers.
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stauinn.pn,.,ar cn,,n4s

l have been watching the careers Of
young men in the city for thirty years
and find that the chief difference be-
tween the successful men and the fail.
ures lies in the single element of stay.
ing power.-Theodore Cuyler.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
Had Heard Him.

What does hunt spell,
Elmer? Small Elmer Dunno. "
Teacher-"Don't you know what your
father does when he loses his collar
sutton" Small Elmer-"Yes, ma'am.
He says things"
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
she Was Handlcanped.

Harry-'I bet can make worse
face than you can" Dorothy-"You
ought to be able to. Look at the face
you've got to start with. Judge.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
The 9Th DAY. OF JULY, IyIt
At 10 O'clock. A M

the following described Real Estate, viz:
All that certain lot, or piece of land
with two story brick dwelling thereon
erected situate in the city of Whining
ton, county and State aforesaid, bound
ed and described as follows to wit:
BEGINNING at a point on the east
erly side of Lincoln Street at the dis
tance of fifty-eight feet, northerly from
the northerly side of Gilpin avenue,
thence easterly, parallel with Gilpin
avenue and passing through the middle
of the division wall between the house
on this lot and the house adjoining on
the south, sixty-nine feet to a point in
the westerly side of an alley three feet
wide running parallel with Lincoln
street into Gilpin avenue; thence north
erly along said side of said alley four
teen feet to corner; thence westerly
parallel with Gilpin avenue, and passing
through the middle of the division wall
between the house on this lot and the
house adjoining on the north sixty-nine
feet to point in the said easterly side
of Lincoln street, and thence thereby
southerly fourteen feet to the place of
beginning, be the contents thereof
what they may, with the free and in
terrupted right, use and privilege of
said alley in common with others en-
titled thereto forever
UNDER and subject nevertheless to
an equitable share of the costs, charges
and expenses of keeping said alley in
repair.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Francis D. Buck, Admins
traitor of Oswald Untz, deceased, who
was mortgagor MARY Untz. wife of
said Oswald Untz co-mOrtgagor), being
deceased, and to be sold by
HARRY J. STIDHAM, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del, July
II, 1916.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
And the Jaekass

Imitation is the sincerest form Of
nattery, and the jackass is a much
flattered animal-Judge.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
Farms for Sale |

l viii sell you an Insurance policy,
the only company around that will
make you stock holder. This company,
the Continental Life Insurance Com
pany, Wilmington, Del, has the seal of
Delaware back of it.
JOHN HELDMYER, JR.
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15

Optimistic Thought.
Lawyers houses are built Of fools
Neads,
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15

rnlVdl OdIuFudyJ JuIy "a "
July 20, inclusive. The Elk
n have been invited to par
the parade on the opening
arry Hayw I'd of the agricul-
-tment of Delaware College,
Saturday that the annual
Day would be held at the col
this year on Thursday, Au-
ntiI last year Farmers Day
held during commencement
the change proved such a
ess that it was decided to
regular event for the middle
ner,
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
sHERIFF's SALES

SHERIFF'S .SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
a writ of Lev Fac to me directed, viii
be exposed to Public Sale at the
Court House on Market street be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets, in
the city of Wilmington, New Castle
county, Delaware,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-13

here on special train over the North
western railroad at las Monday morn
Ing. Not one OF the party carried re-
volver or rife. according to advices by
General Trevino today. All believed the
Cusi country safe.
Their special train reached Santa
Isabel, the fourth station from Chihua-
hua. about / 30 p. m. a few miles FUR
ther along the road the train entered
deep cut At the western end of the
cut the engineer noticed train de-
rallied. He brought his engine to a
halt and started forward to investigate.
Suddenly Villista soldiers began
swarming down the sides OF the cut
Several entered the train and thorough
ly searched the baggage car. The
Americans believed Il was an ordinary
hold-up, but when the baggage car he'd
been searched, the Villistas ordered all
Americans aboard to enter one coach.
"A Villlsta officer suddenly threw
open one OF the doors and ordered the
Americans to leave the train. As they
dropped to the side Of the track the
bandits on the gides of the cut began
pouring shot into them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-13
Details of Massacre
Given By Revenue Man
First Complete Official Details of Murders in Mexico
Made Public By State Department Nineteen
America ms Dead.

Secretary Of state Lansing today gave
out a telegram received from Collector
OF Customs Cobb at El Paso. giving
the first complete official details thus
far received by the department of the
Chihuahua massacre. The telegram
follows:
Train with bodies reached FL Paso
without mishap at 2;l5 this morning
Bodies were recovered at kilometer S.
January II, y. M, and reached
Chihuahua on the 18th, at about
a. m, where they were placed
In collins that had been prepared
In Chihuahua by their friends. Train
bearing bodies left Chihuahua for FL
Paso at about p. m. Train from
Chihuahua to Ell Paso guardd by from
twenty to twenty-five Mexican soldiers
and by one American, armed by permits
sion Of Mexican authorities.
Bandits Still There.
RESCUE party from chihuahua
reached vicinity of massacre about 4
p. M, but returned to Santa Isabel
because bandits were still present
near kilometer 6S. Equipped with
soldiers, having a machine gun picked
up at Santa Isabel, train proceeded to
scene of massacre and reached there
just before p. nj.
Bodies were found stripped, robbed,
and mutilated by shots apparently
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-13
CARRANZA TROOPS
PURSUEMURDERERS
Force Of 500 Men Sent Out With
Orders to Show No Mercy
to Bandits.

CHIHUAHUA. Mexico, Jan. i3.-Gen.
Jacinto b. Trevino, commander-in-chief
OF the Carranza troops here, has sent
QUO mon In pursuit of the bandits who
massacred sixteen Americans thirty-five
miles from Chihuahua. They were or
dered to show no mercy TO the MUIR
derers.
The troop train left here at o'clock
yesterday morning for the scene Of the
massacre, well-prOvisioned. A second
train - carrying horses. Trevino has
ordered the pursuit continued until
every member OF the bandit gang is
captured or shot.
Reports to the military authorities
here say that the Villa general, Lopez.
commanded the murderers.
=, Word has reached here that Bert
Kramer, youngest son Of David Kramer,
q rancher of the Guerrero district, has
been killed by bandits on his father q
ranch. Grave fears are entertained for
the safety OF the father: Roy Kramer,
another son, and Mrs. Kramer and her
eleven-year-old laughter, who were
known to be on the ranch. The BAN
dts who wuled young Kramer are said
to have been led by Gen. Jose Rod
riguez, another Villa commander.
The Americans shot down In cold
blood by Villista troops were en- route
to the Cusihuiriachic region to rebuild
the mining camp there, one of the
richest in the world.
The camp had been closed since Presi-
dent Wilson instructed all Americans to
withdraw from territory occupied by
Villa. 1t was sacked and entirely de-
stroyed by Villa and his men during
Christmas week when Villa was with
drawing to the mountains after evacua-
ting Chihuahua.
When the Carranzistas occupied Chi
huahua, the Cusihuiriachic company, as
we'll as several others. decided to begin
operations again.
Watson and the other Americans left
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-13

fired after dusk. Thirteen bodies
were piled one on another against
bank OF railroad cut at point where
their coach had stopped. The other
Eve were found along the river In
the following order: Wadleigh, Ro-
nero, Mediation. Watson. and Woon.
Later two were lying on river bank
with feet in river.
After taking thirty minutes to re-
cover the bodies the train returned to
Chihuahua,
Names Of Victims.
Americans murdered at klometer
6S were &. r. Watson. Maurice Ander-
son, L. l.. Robinson, George, w. New
man, Thomas NJ. Evans. NJ. b. Romero,
r. p. Mediation, Thomas Jansen, all of
FL Paso; ]. w. Woon, father employed
by Southern Pacific at Houston, Texas
II. G, Hase, of Rolla, and Kansas City,
Mo-: r. II. Simmons, whose mother
lives at Danville, Iowa; Charles II.
Pringle, San Francisco; W. d. Pearce,
Buckingham Road. Los Angeles; w. M.
:. Wallace. Tombstone, Ariz.. and FL
Paso; Charles Wedleigh. Bisbee, Ariz. {:
A. II. Couch, Ozona, Texas j. r. Coy,
Los Angeles and Alex Fall, Douglas.
AHiH,
Cobb's telegram officially places the
number of Americans dead at nineteen.
Previous dispatches indicated that somo
of the murdered men were foreigners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-13
MEXICANS JAILED TO
Be SAFE FROM MOB
Thirteen Former Villa Officers
Arrested Following DiscoV-
cry of Lynch Plot.

Ell PASO. Jan. l3.-TO guard against
Violence on leading Mexicans. Con.
Manuel Banda and twelve other prom
inert former Nillista officers were
thrown into Jail hero today on NS-
srancy charges.
Gen. Manuel MedInavita. formerly
chief of staff to Villa. was Jailed on q
murder charge in connection with the
execution of Peter Keene, an American
rancher, at RubiO, chihuahua, re-
Gently.
The arrests followed the discovery OF
a plot by angry Americans to lynch
Gen. Jose Ynez Salazar, susl.ected OF or
dering Tom Fountain, an American
mining man, before a Mexican firing
squad at Parral In 1912.
The twenty Americans who called at
SalaZar's hotel were also believed TO be
bent on ether lynch'ngs TO aYence the
massacre of Santa ISABEL
The police learned oil their plans and
snirited SalaZar away in an autom0-
bile.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-13
Americans Patience
Exhausted By Mexican
OutrageS, Says SIayden

Indignation over the American mas
sacres in Mexico resulted in an out
burst in the House today.
The temper of the House regarding
the massacre was shown in liberal APP
plause given Congressman Slayden Of
Texas, particularly when he declared
only punishment of the murderers
would satisfy the American people.
Slayden, in a fiery speech. declared
patience on the border was exhausted,
and that popular uprisings were threat
ened.
II have been silent even when
thought serious mistakes were being
made. leaving the whole matter in the
hands of the President and the Secre-
tary Of State, said Slayden.
ly and in squads. They have been shot
on their own territory. They have
mysteriously disappeared. Mexicans
have even invaded our territory under
military command, killing Americans
and stealing their property.
THE people of the border have been
patient under an unparalleled series OF
outrages. They do not want war with
Mexico. but they do want security for
their lives and property. Their patience
is near exhaustion. Their anger is
great and growing. 1 deplore any rash
action on their part, but he must be
blind who cannot see the danger.
Horror piled on horror, crime tread.
ing on the heels OF crime, have exhaust
border States and they will be salts
fed with nothing short of the CAPTURE
and execution of tho murderers of the
sixteen who we're the latest victims Of
anarchy which has gone on for Ave
"The rising anger of Americans on
the border IS dangerous and cannot be
trified with"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-13
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