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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-10-10
RAILROAD COMPANY TO
BUILD PLATFORM SCALES

Buildying Inspector Preston has is
ued the following building permits
20 Walter Bacon for an addition at
NJ l410 Van Buren, street, to cost
$3.50; to Emil Leitchers for additions
at the southwest corner Tenth and
Bel nett streets. to cost $4,000; to the
p l.. & W. Railroad Company. a plat
FORM scale at Third street and Rail
road avenue. to cost $500. and for
an addition to the A. U. NJ. p. Church
No. Sls French street, to cost S1.1OO
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-10-10
MGNP'SwHUtRFM REMFnN
Mr STOMACHt1oSsSl!
cly7s Dos " . col VINCE

Gall Stones. Cancer and Ulcers Of the
Stomach and Intestines. Auto-Intoxica-
ton, Yellow Jaundice, Appendicitis and
ach Trouble. Thousands OF Stomach
10 Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. Unlike
any other for Stomach Ailments. For
sale by E. NJ. Eckerd, The Miller Drug
Store. ~ B. Danforth and druggists
everywhere.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-10-10
MISSION SOCTFTY MEETING.

The district meeting of the Wo-
mems Home Missionary Society will
he held in McCabe NJ. e. Church
on Thursday morning. The election
of officers will take place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31

and it will scoot over
the water in the APP
proved style of the
hydro-a6roplane. But
those maneuvers only
begin to tap its pos
sibilities. If there is ice
or snow on the ground,
runners can be at
tached, and it will
break all the worlds
records for speed-150
miles an hour.
The aero-motor de-
rives the power for any
of its ventures from
four fy-wheels, to each
of which is attached a
giant fan, or propeller,
of four blades. The four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31

wheels operate separately, and have
lifting force Of 800 pounds apiece.
Whether or not the asro-motor has
ever been successful enough to carry out
the imagined schemes of its genius, our
informant politely neglects to state. For
ourselves, we would much prefer running
the British blockade in the Deutschland,
as far as safety is concerned, to tackling
the air, sea, ice, snow, and land in
reckless asro-motor.
The inventor pursued the hapless bum
ble-bee through dozens of clover fields
before the asro-motor crystallized in
his brain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31
He Blames the Bumble-Bee

TIME imagination of Jules Verne was
the dryest of common sense COM
pared with the fertile soul of busy
inventor in Detroit. William A. Sharpe
looked at bumble-bee, and presto!-the
asro-motor.
The asro-motor can--at least, its en-
thusiastic inventor believes it can--outdo
the performance of any vehicle in the world,
with the exception of the submarine.
1t can speed along a road after the
manner of the automobile. By the mere
pressure of a button, or the twisting of
lever, or something, it will soar into the
air, asroplane fashion. Give it the chance,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31

fifty cents a ton at the mouth Of the mine.
The use of the cutter and the water in
conjunction with each other results in the
vein being stripped clean from top to
bottom, even though the knives do not
extend nearly so close to the edges of the
coal. The water breaks it off from the
layer of undesirable material against
which it rests. By using the machine to
make narrow rooms in the mine, leaving
narrow pillars, timbering can be almost
eliminated in some mines, doing away
with one of the largest items of expense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31
A Clue Within an Hour

He declined to hear what had already
been done in the case, and insisted
upon starting at the beginning, as if the
case were entirely new. In less than an
hour he had found clue.
That clue was trousers button.
The local police laughed at him at
first; but French trousers buttons have
their distinctive mark, and when Jaime
had connected the trousers button with
pair of trousers, and had put the trou-
sers on well known criminal, and
demonstrated his connection with the
murder, the skeptics subsidized.
Consider the case of Leon Gilbert,
French antique dealer, whose shop on
the Rue Madame was known to so
many American tourists. He was muir
dered by two desperate characters. They
strangled the inoffensive man, and then
robbed him of a number of valuable
securities. In order to cover up their
tracks, they sat him in big arm
chair in front of his fireplace. There
were no marks of violence on M. Gilbert.
He appeared to have fallen asleep.
Then, to make the thing perfectly nat
ural, they put newspaper between his
rigid myers.
That last touch seemed like an inspira-
ton.
But-alas for the vanity of human
nature, it proved to be the one thing that
spoiled the complete concealment of the
crime.
In the beginning all was as well as we'll
could be. The doctor who was called in
said the old dealer had died from heart
disease. That decision was unquestion-
ably accepted by all concerned. Later it
was found that some rare antiques were
missing; but, somehow, the theft was
not associated with the death of the
dealer.
1t was at this stage of the affair that
M. Robert, the celebrated French de-
tective, was asked to investigate. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31

by pipes such as
are used by sand
dredges, and de-
livered to any
place desired for
drying.
Not only is the
miner-exceptf for
the man who
attends the ma
chine
ly eliminated, but
no explosives are
needed, there is
no danger from
mine dust, and
speed of produc-
ton is greatly in
creased. Should
the machine be
adopted, coal
OughttO cost about,
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Murder Will Out

mingled with the friends of the dead man
and listened to the usual chatter con-
corning his faults and his virtues. One
shoulders:
4Think of the fortune that was made
by Leon Olbert-a man that could
neither read nor write.
The detective almost shot out of his
chair. Gilbert not able to read, and yet
found with newspaper clutched between
his cold fingers!
All, my bright murderers, that is
where your painstaking attention to de-
tails cost you your precious necks.
Some bonds had been stolen. These
were traced through the numbers, and
in the course of time M. Robert caught
the villains, who were subsequently
beheaded.
One foggy December morning, Lon
don bobby named John Cole was
murdered on his beat. People in the
vicinity heard pistol shots, but the i'm
penetrable mist furnished a curtain be-
hind which the culprit escaped. A small
chisel was found near the scene of the
crime; but that, in itself, meant little.
There were thousands of such chisels in
London at that very moment. But an
inquistive Scotland Yard man noticed
some scratches on the implement. He
got magnifying glass, and found that
the scrawl spelled the word "rock."
His Weapon Gave Him Away
THE detective obtained list of all
the tool manufacturers and tool deal
ers in London. He visited each one of
them with the little chisel. None were
able to give him any information regard
ing the identity of the owner of the
article.
Was he discouraged?
He was not. He was only beginning
to fight.
He was determined to avenge the
death of his fellow officer, if it took all
summer. The murderer had covered his
tracks with amazing cleverness, but the
Scotland Yard man felt sure that the
tiny scrawl on the chisel would even
tually prove to be the entering wedge
that would pry open the mystery.
And he was right.
He next made tour of the tool-sharp-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31
INA KING a
tip from the

him, and he has looked safe enough for
all time-as long as the earth did not
tumble down and crush him.
The new machine is cutter, driven
by large electric motor, that crawls up
vein of coal, tearing its heart out Two
huge knives revolve and slice into the
coal as buzz-saw eats through pine
board. A heavy stream of water is di-
rected against the face of coal to keep
the cutters cool and to help wash away
the coal. The mixture of coal dust
water, and Jumps is sucked up, in turn,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31

ening houses. One of the shops was kept
by woman named Preston, who had
succeeded her husband in the business.
She looked at the chisel intently.
"This resembles tool that was sharp
ened here some time ago." she said
finally.
aWhat makes you think sop
Because my husband was in the habit
of scratching the names of the owners
on the tools that were left here to be
repaired"
An examination of the books proved
that the chisel belonged to young car
penter named Orrick. A further search
located him in prison, where he was
serving term for robbery. A pistol
had been taken from him when he
was admitted to the institution, and
the bullet found in the head of the muir
dered policeman fitted precisely into the
weapon.
Nicotine Betrayed Him
/ ESS than two years ago bandit held
up train near FL Monte, California,
and robbed a carload of passengers of
their valuables. Only one man had the
courage to fight him, and that man
Horace E. Montague, passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific Railroad--was
shot and killed by the thief. The MUIR
derer wore black mask, and the excited
passengers were unable to give descrip-
ton of him.
Now, it happened that Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hogan, two of the passengers, were
on their wedding trip, and one of the
articles taken was the wedding ring Of
the young woman. With the quickness
Of her sex, she noticed that the forefnger
of the bandit was stained yellow from
nicotine.
Three days later, while in San Fran
cisco, she saw man hail passing car
by raising his hand.
The forefnger of the mans right hand
was stained yellow from cigarette-smok-
ing!
She gave the alarm. The fellow was
arrested, and an investigation proved
that he was the train robber. The evil
dence was so conclusive that Los An
geles jury convicted him without leaving
the box, and in three short months he
paid the penalty of the law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31
MAGAZINE SECTION for December 81, 1916

station could recall the departure of any
one at the hour the crime was committed.
The authorities were on the point of
abandoning the case for lack of clue,
when Pierre Fortune Jaime, the famous
Partisan detective, was called into con-
sultation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31
Now We Take the Miners Job

TINA KING a
tip from the
fact that both
oil and sulphur
are taken from
the ground with
out the help of
miners, in liquid
form, two New
York inventors
have built a ma
chine which they
claim will pump
solid veins of coal
to the surface as a
thick mixture of
fuel and water.
There goes the
miners job. No
other machine has
ever been invent
ed that replaced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31

TOW many persons recall the muir
der of Baroness de Laid in Paris
some years ago? The lady was
- - found dead in the garden of her
estate, and there was no evidence of any
character to point to the identity of the
murderer. He had covered his tracks
with seeming completeness. There were
no footprints in the ground; there were
no finger-marks; no one at the railroad
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10

rations. Besides grain natural foods
for fowls are grubs, insects, worms and
other things found in the fields. Under
domestic conditions these things cannot
be supplied. Some form Of animal pro-
tein must take the place of natural in
sect food. Consequently. growing pull
lets need fresh ground bone, meat
scrap, fish scrap, or skim milk for
egg production.
If such materials are kept before pull
let's, they will usually eat only sufficient
for normal needs. Experiments by the
Indiana experiment station have shown
that laying pullets must have animal pro-
tein In some form to produce eggs prof
tahly. Thus four pens of pulets were
fed precisely the same grain ration, but
one pen received meat scrap in addition.
one fish scrap and one skim milk. The
other pen received the grain ration only.
In one year each pullet of the pen led
meat scrap laid 1876 eggs; the pullets fed
fish scrap laid 12S eggs each; those fed
skim milk laid 135 eggs each; while the
pullets which were fed only grain laid an
average of 80 eggs.
The profit from the pen fed meat scrap
was sl.55 per pullet; that from the pen
fed fish scrap $156 per pullet; and from
the pen fed skim milk s1.62 per pullet.
The pen that was not fed any animal
protein was kept at loss
USE OF SURPLUS. ENERGY
Probably no hard and fast rule can be
laid down for balancing a ration for lay
ing pullets. But such a ration is neces-
sary for the production of surplus energy
for egg formation In late fall and early
winter, a great deal of heat is radiated
from the bodies of pullets. No eggs will
be formed until provision Is made for the
production of all energy required in body
activities. Hence pullets intended for
egg production should be provided with
all feeds needed for balancing their RAJ
tons and developing surplus energy.
When pullets have been raised to the
laying age. the surplus energy derived
from the digestion and assimilation of
food is used for forming and developing
eggs. The energy thus required can be
provided in no other way. The poultry
keeper cannot expect to get eggs unless
sufficient food is digested and assimilated
to provide surplus energy. A variety
of feeds In abundance is essential for egg
production. This is especially important
in winter when SO much energy is radiat-
g ION, the body.
The care Of pullets in fall is essential
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taneous, so chaotic, or democratic as
the United States and the pledged allies
must necessarily take the place of the
organized authoritative kultur of the
Teutonic type of state? AS an undis-
guised patriotic Englishman l would
like to see the lead in this intellectual
synthesis of the nations. that must be
achieved IL wars are to cease, under
taken by Great Britain. But l am
bound to confess that in Great Britain
l see neither the ina inative courage
of France nor the brisk enterprise of
the Americana"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10
What Managers Fib About

Rennold Wolf. in the September Amer
lean Magazine, kills a few decisions the
public has about actors salaries. In
reference to the receipts at a theatre
he says:
ITO my knowledge there never was a
theatrical manager who reported his real
receipts. The business representatives of
all touring organizations invariably swell
the money admissions in the nightly tele-
graphic reports to the home office by a
certain stipulated sum, varying from 5000
to $500. This system is calculated to de-
ceive the telegraph operators at either
end, and any competitor to whom the
message may be shown.
Once, in entirely good faith, we'll
known theatrical manager was complain
ing to friend of the bad business one
of his attractions was experiencing. He
was endeavoring to impress his colleague
with the futility of sending productions
on tour.
You can't imagine how low our re-
ceipts fell yesterday in a one-night stand,
he declared
How low were they?' asked the friend.
Nine dollars replied the manager.
HE had exaggerated by g. The re-
ceipts were actually 81. Force OF habit
he just couldn't help it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10
Sure Road to Wealth

In the September American Magazine
writer in the Family None depart
ment says:
There is one sure road to wealth.
1T is not get-rich-quick scheme, no
wildcat mining venture, no war baby
speculation; it is simply a commons
sense way of attaining a small fortune
in a strictly legitimate way.
"One dollar deposited in a savings
bank each week for 30 years would
amount to $1612.
Five dollars deposited each week for
the same length of time would become
$4,000. The interest on this $4,000 would
be Sc a week. Anyone following out
this plan of weekly deposits of S. for
20 years could at the end of that Pc
riod draw out of the bank Sc each
week as long as he lived and still
leave to his wife and family at his
death not only all he deposited but half
as much more.
THE young man of 20 who will save
27h cents day in savings bank
paying A per cent compound interest
and keep up these payments or de-
posits till he Is 20 years of age would
have fortune of $4,000, which would
pay interest of $22 each week. This
interest would be about 10 times the
amount saved each week"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10
Success sful Management
Means Comfortable Liv-
ing Quarters and Proper
Feeding Discussion of
Grain Rations and Ami
NAL Foods
by PROF. JAMES b. NORMAN
Former expert of the United States

department of agriculture
II Is we'll recognized that pullets
maize better layers than hens. But pull
let's do not always begin to lay in the
fall when eggs are scarce and high in
price. Probably it is because they
were not Matched sufficiently early. or
they were not properly managed. The
purpose of this article Is to tell how
ter laying.
Egg laying in late fall and early win
ter is not in accordance with natural
law. Fowls are domesticated wild
birds. The natural period for laying
is during spring and early summer
Therefore, to get eggs from pullets in
winter, 1T is necessary to give growing
chickens special care and attention.
The first essential to success Is to
keep the young birds growing steadily.
The pullets should be separated from
the cockerels when about months old.
When 4 months of age, the pullets
should be growing into promising lay
ers. At this age they should be given
every opportunity to mature naturally.
But it is a mistake to force pullets
too rapidly. Such a practice may pro-
duce few more eggs at the start, but
it will usually result in disappointment.
The pullets may moult. In that case
egg production in winter will cease. Or
the pullets will not reach normal size
when they begin to lay; in that case the
eggs will probably be small in size.
By no means force pullets by over
feeding with such high animal protein
feeds as ground bone, meat scraps, fish
scraps or skim milk They need small
amounts of animal protein for proper
growth and normal egg production, but
overlooking is fatal to success.
To be properly fitted for laying
pullet should be in full flesh with
small amount of surplus fat. The lat
ter Is required to maintain the normal
body heat as cold weather comes on.
Body heat is constantly being radiated,
and the supply must be kept up by
means of fat. To produce a proper
amount of fat, growing pullets must
be fed balanced ration. How to do
this successfully is one of the problems
of poultry raising.
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PENNING BULLETS

1t is good practice to pen pullets
by themselves when being fitted Tor
winter egg laying. The pens should be
prepared as early in the fall as possi-
BILE They should be properly cleaned
and thoroughly disinfected. If possible,
each pen should have a good size yard
and have roosting quarters, scratching
pen, dust bath and nesting places
These should all be under cover well
lighted and dry and well ventilated.
Cleanliness and roominess tend to keep
growing pullets healthy and vigorous,
and both are essential to successful
egg production.
Another advantage of penning pullets
by themselves is to provide for normal
development. 1t is not always easy to
do this successfully. All poultry feeds
certain different combinations of water
protein, starches, fats and mineral salts
These elements are required by chickens
for their growth. Tt is very important
however, to provide feeds in sufficient
quantity and variety to allow for organic
wastes and normal development. TO
this end, it is a good plan to provide
certain feeds in hoppers that growing
pullets may help in balancing their own
rot iops
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10
SICILIAN BUTTERCUPS

For number of years Sicilian Butter
cups have appeared in the poultry ex-
hibits of the United States, and except for
their oddly of comb and color markings.
they have little favor Recently breeders
have found them to be excellent layers.
They are an Italian production, native
to the islands of Sicily, and numerous
importations have been made from that
country. Apparently this breed has been
bred so long in that island that it's origin
has been forgotten, for all attempts TO
trace it have been futile. In Sicily they
are known as the "Patera Opulentae,
meaning sacred cup of riches, and were
formerly used in religious sacrifices.
The first Sicilians were brought to
America by the captain of ship trading
between Sicily and Boston, who took on
a crate of these fowls for food. The
captain noticed that the hens laid we'll,
and for this reason they were not eaten
as intended. They made such good
record on the voyage that he had no
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whom she has long known and liked is
implicated. The conviction to which this
young woman finally comes is that it is
women themselves who are chiefly re-
sponsihle for a large measure of the vice
and sin of the world This central CHAR
acter is handled very we'll and, reucent
and battling though she is about herself,
she yet leaves upon the readers mind
the distinct impression of an interesting
individual litv
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10
DAVID BLAZE"

~ e. F. Benson. George Fl. Doran Co.,
publishers, New York.
''Dode," which made it's appearance
nearly quarter of a century ago, was
the making of Mr.. E. F. Benson; in fact
he was and is known now by many as
sDode' Benson.
Mr.. Benson is always looked to by his
scores of readers, both in England and
America, to handle a subject in a unique
and original manner and it isn't often
that he disappoints them.
Certainly in David Blaize'' he hasn't.
His hero is pictured in remarkably
truthful and convincing portrait of an
English schoolboy. his life in school, his
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10

What is said to be the largest drill ever
made has been recently made for some
special work being done by a Pennsylva-
MIA contracting supply house which had
occasion to drill holes u inches in damcA
ter through large timbers. 1t Is more
than six feet in length and in opera
ton it cuts Pinch hole through pile
of timber six feet high.
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trouble disposng of the fowls to a fancier
in Boston. This gentleman named them
Scilian Buttercups on account of the
peculiar comb formation, and strove TO
introduce them to American breeders.
They enjoyed a slight popularity, but the
interest waned and was not renewed until
within the last few years.
Experienced poultrymen have found
in this breed rival to the famous Leg
horns as an egg producer. In color the
female is a yellowish buff, spotted with
dark brown over the back wings and part
of the fluff. The male is a reddish color
with black tail and some dark spots in
the fluff. Some show more spots than
this, but are not so desirable. Both sexes
have yellowish green leg, dark beaks
and peculiar cup-shaped comb.
The chicks grow and feather rapidly
and reach early maturity, beginning to
lay as quickly as the Leghorns. When full
grown they are about the size of Leg
horns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-10

The condurango plant in Peru pro-
duces a seed pod from five to eight
inches long, filled with seeds which
are small aeroplanes in construction.
The seed proper is small oval one the
size of small split pea. The planes
extend from the seed like the wings
of butterfly or aeroplane. When the
poe burst hundreds Of these seeds will
sail off on a gentle breeze anywhere
from 100 yards to half mile.