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Evening journal., 1916-04-24
CHRISTIAN COMFORT
Written for EVENING JOURNAL
By JAMES t. cRoZER.

Prayer is the key that shall open tho
way.
Letting blessings come into the soul.
And faith is the trusting in God every
day.
When a sinful one has been made
whole.
Hope is the anchor that surely holds
fast,
This is the truth 1 assure you, my
friend;
And sweet peace and joy as the days
shall go past
VIII be yours till you get to the end.
II trials should meet you while walk
ing the road.
Some things that are quite hard to
bear.
Then Jesus win help you to carry that
load.
Trust His promise, He'll surely be
there.
Though you walk through the valley
and shadow Of death.
You can pass through that place
without care.
For His rod and His staff. reads the
23rd Psalm.
Will comfort you even II there
The life of the persons who own
Christ as king.
Is just beautiful that many know,
And their greatest delight In this
world is TO sing
I'll Tell 10 Wherever / Co"
The friends that We make and the
hands that we shake,
While soldiers for Jesus we stand,
Brings JOY TO our hearts, for some day
well take
Same hands up in Sweet Beulah
Land.
If we prove faithful. some day wcIl
get home,
What delight that thought brings to
our heart,
In that sweet home above, where no
night shall come.
And from loved ones well never
more part
May these word write, teach some
woman or man
Who is staying away from their
God.
Who will seek Him and find Him and
do the best they can
Before they go under the sod.
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
Three DAY FETE IS
FATAL TO WOMAN

CHESTER, Pa, April. 24.-Invosti.
eating a reported murder. the pollce
yesterday found the body OF Mrs.
Mary f. Lindsay. known as Riggs. A
years old. in the cabin Of Roy Fisher.
with whom she lived. in the rear OF
No. 126 West Second street. The wo-
mans death followed a three day cele-
bration In the cabin.
Joseph ID. Barr. son OF the woman.
reported her death and Fisher ives
arrested to await the actloa OF the
coroner. ID. II. r. Taylor, ooroners
physician. attribuIs the death OF the
woman to mitral regurgitation OF tho
heart.
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
Slain AT easter
feast IN chester

CHESTER. Pa. April 24.--During
an Easter celebration last night. at the
boarding house Of Mrs. Ellen Kisus.
No. go Morton avenue. Joseph Katos-
husis was shot below the heart and
died in the Chester Hospital an hour
later Joseph Salabolesh was shot in
the arm, hut not seriously injured.
Mathew Wensle Is under arrest.
charged with having sho@ the two men.
According to the police. Wensle ad-
mits the shooting, but claims he acted
I'm self-defenso. Katoshusis died before
the police were able to secure from
him an ante-mortem statement Jo-
seph Salabeleski also claims that
Wensle did the shooting
Evening journal., 1916-04-24

Before an Insurance Company will
.ake a risk on your life the examining
physician will test the urine and report
whether you are a good risk. When
your kidneys get sluggish and clog,
you suffer from backache, sick-head-
ache, dizzy spells, or the twinges and
pains OF lumbago, rheumatism and
gout. The urine is often cloudy, full
OF sediment; channels often get sore
and sleep is disturbed two or three
times a night. This is the time you
should consult some physician Of wide
experience-such as DR.. Pierce, of the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, n. Y. Send him 10c. for large
trial package of his new discovery -
uAnuric." Write him your symptoms
and send a sample of urine for test.
Experience has taught DR.. Pierce that
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
LIBEL RIVER STEAMER.

A libel has been filed and an attach
ment served in the United States
Courts against the steamship Sun.
for having dumped ashes and other
refuse into the Delaware river. near
Marcus Hook. The suit has been
brought by the Federal officials under
the Rivers and Harbors act OF 1893.
Photographs have been taken of those
engaged in the work OF dumping the
refuse overheard.
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
WHY "ANURIC"
is AN INSURANCE AGAINST SUDDEN DEATH
Sufferers from Bactsrhs HhsumaiIsm and EldnSy Trouble

rAnuric7 = is the most powerful agent
In dissolving uric acid, as hot water
melts sugar, besides being absolutely
harmless and is endowed with other
properties, for II preserve the kidneys
in a healthy condition by thoroughly
cleansing them. Being so many times
more active than lithia, it clears the
heart valves of any sandy substances
which may clog them and checks the
degeneration OF the blood vessels, as
well as regulating blood pressure.
vAnuric" is a regular insurance and
life-saver for all big meat eaters and those
who deposit lime-salts in their Joints.
Ask the druggist for vAnuric" put up
by DR.. Pierce, in 60-cent packages.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for tho
liver and bowels have been favorably
known for nearly 30 yesrs. ~.
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
TWO VICTIMS OF EXPLOsION.

PATERSON. n. j., April 24.-One
man is dying in the General Hospital
here and two are injured at an emer-
gency hospital as the result Of two
explosions in the DUPONT Cap
Works. at Pompton. at midnight Sat
urday The dying man is David Chap
man. Of 40. l44 Mill street, this city.
Chapman is horribly torn and burned.
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
WHY IT SUCCEEDS
Because It's For One Thing Only and
Wilmington People Appreciate This.

Because It's For One Thing Only and
Wilmington People Appreciate This.
Nothing can be good for everything.
Doing one thing well brings sue
cess.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for one
thing only.
For weak or disordered kidneys.
Here is Wilmington evidence to
prove their worth.
Mrs. William Stanton, 1921 Reed ST.,
Wilmington. says: Il have used Doan's
Kidney Pills and have found them an
excellent kidney medicine. / know
Doan's Kidney Pills give prompt re-
lief from backache and other signs of
kidney trouble. Others of my fam
lily have also used them with good re-
suits"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Stanton had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props. Buffalo. n. Y.
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
TO LECTuRE ON RrSSIA.

Russia OF Today" will be tho SUBJ
iect OF lecture In the New Century
Club at o'clock Friday afternoon.
Miss Lucy r. Toxtor will be the
speaker. Following the lecture tea
will be served.
Evening journal., 1916-04-24
THIEVES ROB BOULEVARD HOME.

Robbers on Saturday night entered
the home OF George w. Butz. No. 1901
Boulevard. securing SIS in money and
jewelry valued at $500. Entrance was
affected through a front window.
Members Of the Butz family. who had
gone away at O'Clock in the even
ing. returned about Q o'clock and dis
covered their loss.
The case was reported TO the police.
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LONG Time in Transit.

I'M October 3, 1888, clerk in the en-
W ploy of New York steamship bro
ker mailed q letter to the master of
the Swedish bark Superior at Mar
seille.
The letter was never delivered. But
in the autumn of 1913 it was returned
to the steamship brokers' office, stamp
ed all over its face. The best explana-
ton offered for its thirty years in
transit was that it had lain in the
Swedish consulate at Marseille all
those years. and that during house
cleaning was found and remailed.
In the Post Office Department Off
Gals tell OF letter that was mailed
from there in 1852, addressed to Robert
8. Mckay at New Orleans. The letter
followed Mr.. Mckay to Russia, where
he was consulate attache. But he had
died there and had left in his will a
provision that all his papers should be
locked up until his five-year-old son
and namesake attained his majority.
When 1858 arrived the son was trav-
cling and exploring in Africa A law
clerk, not knowing the provisions OF
the 1852 will. supposed the letter was
for the present Mr.. Mckay and started
it forth again. 1t rested in Cape Town
through error until the year 1871.
When it WAS started back to New
Orleans Mr.. Mckay had left for ex-
ploration in Chile. Letter and ad-
dressee finally got together in Louis
lana in 1874. And strange to say. mat
tiers of business importance to the
father were still Of business interest
to the son.
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Coin Weighs 81 Pounds.

THERE is. 1t appears. in the posses
sion of the American Numismatic
Society one of the largest coins ever
struck, being 23h by Is inches and
weighing 81 pounds. This coin is of
copper and it's coinage value in 1859
was eight Swedish dalers-equivalent
to about $500 in American money. AS
curio and rarity its value has now
multiplied at least one hundredfold.
In general appearance the coin Is a
rectangular ingot, with five large.
round stamps punched in 1t. one in each
corner and one in the center. Stamps
We're placed in the corner to prevent
clipping: Each corner stamp carries
the Swedish crown in the center and
the date-l659. Around the edge is the
inscription of Carolus Gustavus X, the
reigning king. The center stamp states
the value at IS in silver.
The coin was struck at Avesta, Swe-
den. While fresh from the mint IT fell
overheard in the harbor of Riga. Rus
STA. from which dredge f1shed it in
1904. II game finally into the posses
scented ii to the Numismatic Society.
plate money" Sweden turned them
out continuously for ITO years. begin
daughter OF Gustavus Adolphus, in de-
nominations of eight. four. two, one
and half daler pieces. with pieces of
hye and three dalers in one year. The
coinage had been in progress ten years
when the specimen herein referred to
was struck. In 1915 the Swedish gov
eminent melted down 11S bronze can
non and made them into 86,76O plate
money dalers.
Such large pieces of pure copper were
Issued as money in order to find an
outlet for the products of the Swedish
copper mines without depreciating the
value of the metal. All plate money is
becoming rare. Daler and half daler
pieces are most often found: twos and
tours are scarce. and the eight daler
pieces are no longer to be seen except
In museums.
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caught enough drift wood and refuse
that have come down the stream to i'm
pede the course of the run. From this
dam one can clearly trace the mill
race which conveyed the water to the
wheel of the mill on the Leesburg pike.
Your road ends where it joins the
pike. but a path leads through the
woods following the course of the run.
Half mile along this path brings you
to a grove or clump of hemlock trees.
Some of them are magnificent speci-
mems, being about eighty feet tall,
with trunks a foot and half thick.
and foliage bright and refreshingly
green. The Rambler knows that many
persons interested in such matters be-
lieve that the native hemlocks growing
nearest to Washington are a few poor
specimens at Prospect Rock, mile
west Of the mouth of SCOTS run. Be
yond these hemlocks one catches sight
of masses of gneiss. a foundation rock
of this part of the world. and this be-
gins to tell the story of how deeply
SCOTS run has worn it's way beneath
what centuries ago was the surface OF
the earth. Soon. the run makes
sharp turn, enters the rocky gorge
which the Rambler mentioned in the
beginning, and. looking through this
gorge, one glimpses, about 400 yards
away, the yellow, turbid Potomac.
The field of view. permitted by the
mouth of the gorge is a small one, and
only a trifling patch Of the Potomac is
visible, but pass through the gorge or
climb the rock hills on either side and an
extensive view of the river east and west
is obtained. Far to the north and be-
You'd the river. small. fast-moving We
hicles mark the line Of the Conduit road
between Cabin John and Great Falls.
Along the bed of the stream within the
gorge are immense boulders tossed there
by force which makes ones head swim
to contemplate. Where, in this dim place.
there ia a root hold for a tree. that
tree is hemlock, and on the steep slopes
above the gorge hundreds of hemlocks
grow. Here is a spot Of grandeur and
wild beauty. place Of scenic majesty.
close to Washington, but which relatively
few Washington people have ever seen.
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ALONG THE COURSE OF SCOTS RUN.

lens estate, T. S. Carpe-, J. A. Call. J.
r. Houtz, Mrs. L. &. Sontag and John T.
Ratcliff.
The easiest way to get into this in
teresting country is to leave the line of
the electric railway that runs to Great
Falls on the Virginia side of the river
at stop called Hytaffer. Technically
that stop is called a station, because a
waiting shed and platform are there.
Near the deep cut through which the
railway passes is an abandoned house.
1t was ruinous, but tenanted by an old
man when the Rambler passed that
way last summer. but 1T is now desert
ed, and the house is more nearly an
utter ruin than it was. A clay road
leads north. and this road was much
travelled when Swink's mill at the juno
ton Of the Georgetown and Leesburg
pike and SCOTS run was in operation.
but the wheel OF that watermill ceased
to turn about a quarter of a century
ago. The road has many ruts and is
bordered by rail fences and cedar trees.
On either hand are fields yellow with
tall wisps of sedge. and behind these
fields is a background Of pine. Along
j. Larman, and in a great tulip poplar
on which the spring buds were just
showing, growing near the gate to this
house. two brilliant male cardinals sat
and whistled cheerily to the Rambler
as he trudged by. Further down the
hill with steep sides and curious be-
cause of the symmetry of its form. On
top is perched the house of ]. r. Mason
In the garden of that house stands an
old bluebird house and the fittings and
the warbling of the large colony of
bluebirds was one of the incidents of
this ramb1e.
Opposite the Mason house SCOTS run
approaches the road from the east
being forced to this course by a high,
steep ridge covered by budless trees
when the Rambler passed, but closely
dotted with bright green clumps of
laurel
Scott's run along this part of it's
course is not more interesting than
scores Of other branches. Its waters
purl lazily as though in no hurry to
reach the river, and the sides of the
stream are lined with alders, as are
the sides of most streams in this re-
gion. A few hundred yards farther one
comes upon a ruined nilldam, but the
confusion of rocks and timberS has
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NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE RUN.

to "the disreputable rant which the
counsel has exhibited"
Mr.. Ould was an intense southern
rights democrat and an intimate friend
of the southern leaders in Washington,
whom he accompanied into the Con-
Gle of Confederate leaders and held
many offices, the principal one being
that of commissioner of exchange of
prisoners, with the rank of colonel.
The Rambler has been told that this
position was filled by Judge Ou1d with
great ability and that his correspond
ence with the Federal commissioner
showed great intellectual force.
r X
At the time of the surrender Judge
Ould was paroled with other Confed-
crate officers, but in a few days was
arrested by order of Secretary Stanton,
kept in solitary confinement, ignorant
of the charges against him, and not
permitted to see either family or
friends. At that time it was believed
by his friends that this treatment was
inflicted on him by Secretary Stanton
as result of the stand he had taken
in the Sickles trial. Upon representa-
tions of influential friends in Washing
ton and Georgetown. he was released
by order of Gen. Grant, who held that
his parole protected him. In the then
excited condition of the public mind
Judge Guild was accused of RESPONSE
bility for the condition of Union pris-
oners in southern prisons. A letter
from him to the National Intelligencer.
in 1859. fully refuted this charge. and
full and very interesting account of
the condition and treatment of Union
prisoners is given in volume / of the
Southern Historical Papers. After the
war Judge Guild made his residence in
Richmond. became the leader of the
Virginia bar. senator in the legislature
and one of the most influential citizens
of the state.
His wife was a great beauty and a
woman of most charming personality.
An uncle. Gen. Walter Gwynn, gradu-
ate of West Point and an engineer I'M
DER whom many great public works
were constructed. was during the war
IN charge of southern defenses. An
aunt, SISTER Lucy, was for many years
mother superior in charge of st. Vim
cents Orphan Asylum in this city, and
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astronomy will also be conferred at this
time. Various other endowments have
been made to the academy for the en-
couragement of effort in various fields
of science. There are at least six sepa-
rate bequests of considerable sums
which are now being devoted to the
promotion of difficult researches.
The academy meets twice a year; the
spring meeting is always held in Wash
ington. the autumn meeting in another
city The academy publishes two series
of memoirs. The first known simply as
memoirs" consists OF elaborate re-
searches chiefly by members: the sec
ond consists of biographies Of deceased
members. The major part of the re-
searches Of members is published in
the current scientific journals Of the
world. Recently the academy has
established a monthly journal of its
own, which is called the Proceedings
Of the National Academy Of Sciences"
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Old Description of Rock Creek.

IT HE friends of the Rambler will re-
d call that he recently told the story
of PIERCE Mill and the Peirce- klingle
house. which now stands on a hill
within Rock Creek Park. He went at
considerable length into the life OF
Joshua Peirce, who built the big stone
house. familiar to many thousands of
Washington people and now occupied
by the superintendent of the park.
There Joshua PIERCE. from about 1921
until his death in 1869, conducted one
of the large nurseries for economic
plants and rare shrubs in the United
States He was son of Isaac PIERCE
and Betsy Cloud, a daughter of Abner
Cloud, oNe of the very early millers in
the nefghborhood of Washington.
Joshua was the eighth child. In 1920
he married Susan Coates of Philadel-
phia and in 1921, his father giving him
a tract out of the two-thouSand-acre
PIERCE tract on Rock creek, he built the
fine house that still stands. and estab-
lished a nursery. calling the place Lin
mean Hill.
Joshua PIERCE there was found manu-
script written by him when he was
forty years old. dealing with the beau
ties of Rock creek, the falls of Rock
creek and a hermit who dwelt within
what is now Rock Creek Park. That
paper. which was written about the
year 1885, follows:
1.-The falls of Rock Creek-whoever
heard of the falls of Rock creek? At
the distance of about four miles from
the city and within the limits of the
District lie these beautiful, wild and
romantic falls. unknown and unfre-
quented. in a deep glen, surrounded by
lofty hills on either side. covered with
thick and almost impenetrable forest,
as yet undefiled by the woodman's ak
Here this beautiful stream. shut out. as
it seems, from the rest of the world, and
apparently as yet undiscovered. in the
short space of half a mile is dashed
over continuous rapids of about one
hundred feet. Though inferior in
grandeur to the falls of our larger
streams. it is well worthy of the at
tentions of the admirers of the rude
and wild. 1t is believed that of the
many of our citizens who ride for
health or recreation not one has yet
visited this beautiful. wild and ro
mantle spot: in fact, the writer of this,
himself an ardent admirer of the beau
ties of nautre. who has spent nearly
forty years of his life within two miles
of it and within the sound of the roar
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THE STORY OF GUNPOWDER

~ UNPOWDER is one Of the inven-
II q lions additionally attributed to
W the Chinese. but probably the
early Chinese use of it was nothing
more than that in vogue among the
Greeks, Turks, Arabs and Hindus. All
those peoples, as well as western ma
tions. used incehdiary compositions
Greek fire" was we'll known brand
for throwing at an enemy and setting
fire to his defenses.
Berthold Schwartz, a German monk,
rival claimants for the invention OF
gunpowder as an explosive. Schwartz
certainly invented the first firearms
but before that Bacon had written
(1242) Of the use of gunpowder as an
explosive, and gave in an anagram The
ingredients for doing what he called
the trick" In any case the Invention"
was probably an accident resulting
from using an incendiary composition
in a confined space, for there is no es-
sential difference between violent com
bustion and explosion. Explosion is ex-
tremely quick chemical action, giving
rise to gases that expand at their Tor
nation, due to the heat evolved, so that
almost simultaneously they try to oc-
cupy an enormously larger volume than
the original substance.
X
HYDROGEN gas will burn in air. pro-
ducing considerable expansion and con-
seauent explosion If the original mix
ture was confined in, say, bottle. Gun
powder in equal amount produces a
much greater expansion and more vio-
lent explosion because 1t is solid and sc
occupies a much smaller space to begin
with. The action of gunpowder is sim
ply the rapid burning of charcoal, the
oxygen necessary for this purpose be-
ing supplied by an admixture of salt
which could not supply it quickly
enough. English black gunpowder for
military use was composed Of: Salt
peter, rs parts; charcoal, Is parts, and
sulphur, 10 parts.
Before the saltpeter will yield up its
oxygen for combustion with the char
coal 1t must be heated to temperature
Of 1856 degrees centigrade Sulphur in
flames at much lower temperature
$50 degrees centigrade-and its func-
ton In the mixture is to make 1t pos
sible to start an explosion with GER
tainty at q comparatively low tempera-
ture. just as one uses paper and then
phur corresponds to the sticks, and the
match, fuse or percussion cap to the
paper. Also. Of course. sulphur has the
effect of making the explosion of the
whole mass much quicker than 1t other
wise would be.
The causes that led to the abandon
ment of ordinary gunpowder lay in the