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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
SUCCESSOR OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Craig Kennedy Unravels Mys-
teries by Using the Latest
Scientific Discoveries

The popularity Of Conan Doyle's stories
about Sherlock Holmes was due In large
measure to the fact that the detective sue
ceeded in unravellng mysteries by study
Of unconsid-red trlfes, the significance oil
which he could interpret. Every reader
imagined that he might also unravel mys-
teries by the same method. Arthur Reeve
has created, in Craig Kennedy, a detective
Of an entirely different kind. Kennedy is
scientific expert, familiar with the tech
nicalities Of chemistry and physics and
learned in poisons and their antidotes. Mr.
Reeves method Is 10 start with the erect
Of radium on the pituitary gland, for eX-
ample, and then build story around II.
He has done this in The Beauty Mask,
a tale Of love and greed and marital com
plicatons that is as good as any In his
new volume OF stories about Kennedys sue
cesses. A physician, in order to delay the
marriage Of his son to an heiress until
dying claimant TO her fortune has passed
away, surreptltously places bit Of radium
in a beauty mask so that when the mask Is
worn t will rest just above the nose be-
tween the eyebrows and paralyze the pitu-
itary gland. The effect of this paralysis
Is to produce coma or n state similar to
that which accompanies and perhaps in
uuCeS nlbernatlOn IN animalS kennedy Is
called in to discover the cause of the mys-
teriOus sleep into which the young woman
has fallen. OF course, he succeeds and dis
covers why the radum was used. THE
Love Meter" is n story Of murder and the
detection Of the criminal by the combined
use Of knowledge Of chemistry and a de-
vice invented by psychological experiment
ers to record the emotions. There is hardly
recent discovery in chemistry or physics
or metaphysics that Mr.. Reeve has not
turned to account in the volume. and when
the difficulties in the way of popular ex-
PLANTATION Of the technicalities Of the subjects
are considered he has succeeded remark
ably. Some of the stories lack pausibility,
but they are interesting nevertheless, and
no small part Of the interest is due to the
authors ability to keep the reader guessing
to the end about the identity of the real
criminal Craig Kennedy has not yet at
tained the popularity of Sherlock Holmes,
but If Mr.. Reeve continues to write about
him and succeeds in making his stories a
little more plausible there is no reason why
Kennedy should not become one of the char
acters of fiction that will live.
THE TREASURE TRAIN: Adventures Of Craig
KENNEDY scientific detective, which ultimately
take him abroad BY Arthur B. Reeve. New
York: Harper a Bros. S1.35.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23

A TRIM. brown bird with a topknot
| ~ alighted on an evergreen tree a few
| feet from whero we were sitting on the
| piazza. lie fitted about among the
branches and then flew away
what bird is that?" asked The Lady
HE has been around here for several
weeks, always looking as If he had just
stepped from a bandbox"
81 saw him on the grapevine yester'
day" said nineyear-old Gertrude, who
had n board nailed to the top of a stump
to make a dining table for her feathered
friends.
THAT is a cedar waxwing," said I.
81 wish knew more about birds"
Dorothy owen remarked but a girl can.
not very well go into the woods to study
them"
'T know Of one girl-she Is a woman
now-who did not think So said.
who Is she?"
Mrs. Gene Stratton.P Porter. Before she
was nine years old she had discovered
sixty bird nests about her house, and she
got on such terms Of intimacy with the
birds that as she stood beside their nests
they would alight on her head before hop
ping down TO feed their young. A wren
built a nest over the kitchen door and
Uttered the steps in her work. The little
girl swept up the litter every day for fear
her mother would order the nest de-
stroyed. This fondness for birds led her
when she grew up to spend days and
weeks in the woods and swamps getting
iVY tea nd
photographing them. She made the first
and probably the only photographs OF the
adult cuckoo, and has done other things
with birds almost II not quite as un-
usual"
rs she the same woman who wrote
Ladde and 'Freckles'? Dorothy wanted
to know
THE same woman She lives in a
small Indiana town, yet she has won
wide reputation as a naturalist, because
she has studied the things at her door
and in the country about her home. She
has done in a small way-that is, with
a few subjects-what have often wished
had time to do with the variety of plant
and animal life that I could find in my
lawn and garden. The study of the nat
ural history of a quarter of an acre
would occupy man lifetime and would
fill many volumes. A wild rabbit fire..
quently suns himself beside my hedge. l
do not know how many different kinds of
birds nest in the trees or alight on them
In passing, And insects without number
live in the grass and on the plants, and
the plant life is so varied even in the
grass that It is beyond my slight knowl
edge Of botany to name a hundredth part
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23

with sound heart and an ability to do
some pretty straight thinking. AS no dis
ports himself in this latest volume, he let's
fall from his lips pearls of wit sarcasm
and wisdom that will delight those grown
weary with taking their literature in the
manner of those who think that one must
approach an idea with barred head and
speak Of 1t in awed whispers. There is
many chuckle for the reader as he turns
the pages Of the thin volume. If we are to
keep our reason in these serious days we
should seek relaxation now and then in
such books as this
HALF-HOURS WITH THE IDIOT. by John
Kendrick Bangs. Boston, Little. Brown &
Co. sl.25.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
Profitable Gardening

For those who are beginning TO cultivate
a garden this year for the first time there
Is no better handbook than How to Make
Garden Pay" prepared by two New Eng
land gardeners Of practical experience. II
contains Just the information that the in
experienced amateur needs II begins with
suggestions Tor planning the garden. This
chapter Is followed by discussion OF meth
DDS profitable to employ on plots OF different
sizes varying from small backyard gar
den 10 large suburban garden covering
an acre or more. Then there is an alpha
betical list OF vegetables with dlreotions tor
planting and cultivating, made SO sinnIe
ana clear that the most inexperienced can
understand them. The concluding chapter
deals with insect pests and how 20 get ria
OF them, and the volume closes with tahlas
giving the nutritive value Of foods ANA
compact plantins directions for veEetablas
HOW 70 MAKE yIrp GARDEN PAY, A n.sn,,.,
Tor the Intensive Guilty alton 81 fe1..t .', .' ..'
table g4toens ~ EdNasd tior2lss,n or2fls, f,.s, ...,.
"nnffH fnnrInN HfhA1 aH.|1lani II., ..' '''0 i
''' ~ | ||NIN"E ~ II4rN0. .I' IIr 4. |.II|'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
HEALTH GOOD AT NAVY YARD
League Island Conditions Not Abnor-
NAL, Daniels Is Told

WASHINGTON. June 49, Secretary
Daniels today instructed Admiral Braisted.
surgeon general Of the navy. TO investigate
Immediately the report that there is an
alarming increase in sickness at the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard. The latter communi-
Gated with the commandant and the physi-
clans at the yard, and issued this state
ment.
The condition az League Island is not
nonormal Everything is in good shape,
there is no sickness OF any great moment
and nothing to cause any uneasiness or
ALARM
Accused of RObbing Shoe Store
1he sudden departure Of James F. Don.
nelly. III Preston street, at the sight of
Policeman Otstatt Of the ThiTty-ninth street
and Lancaster avenue station who was ap-
preaching him, warned Otstatt that some-
thing woa wrong. He chased Donnelly
several blocks and finally caught him. Ac-
foFdlnE to Testimony at a. hearing before
MaKl4lFato Stevenson today Donnelly had
/our pairs of shoes ana ifteen rubber heels
| 141EaFt ha carried under his arm.
'| ||| Hold 1H1@I I1Iqp hail fof 4 further
|8|I|| The shoes ana heels N1Io saId
s. 4IN. <6.f 4|o|In from "a ||1It 6t
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
PRIDE IN JOB AND EFFICIENCY
CHARACTERIZE MEN OF NAVY
Leadership of the Fittest Conspicuously
II Displayed in Service by Officers and
Enlisted Men Alike
BY WINSTON CHURCHILL

WINSTON CHURCHILL
pa ne s @ @ o. ] OF Sso '' :, On % a[ s s',9 @ oS,s S %T, @
e1'' the oe.O" Of the america" dealing especially With the enlisted
NJ tsemsclUs. tor useu uandsu successuI careers ~ "
SOMETIMES as sat talking with OnteSAp his
yeAn would come in YoCm be known the clerks and senOopo
% o. tS sa t marked % % TsS o than % Of that & MS' @ Of $ T n1yS @ nS @ ] 3
the the that strikes most % This yoen was
petty Oncers coat with brass buttons with his his
s r % ,S. % Svs % ' T % s nc % mt nave nave sa go dSt
W. wssn @ ~. oommSnanr % % m = t % between $ @ @ two $ % , o S % % % tS
Sn tn. tn. @ aosR " '''nN ' ' would ' basket o the Gays problems
queries department
the dvtHn and
dsmandlns considerable
BY would try stump that played under the mask
He had made himself master tho finger prints of deser
purpose
wOefuIy lacking the nation The primarily fighting
APPOINTMENT DEMOCRATIC
In the nSspac% the of selecting it's officers democratic system
tuAy all made the competitive examinations state and
Annapolis The Presidents appointments generally reserved for the sons
of
through " Naval sooon SS ToF H ToUTGsrERs T xBoARD SHIP
nGh the the number Of mahTnen at ANNAPOLIS has been greatly increased
& uo S % T every S boy IN the limited states ~n0 % desires res rd % nH men an O
t.s so STvo omoro % tudv m tnrS n ana % artnonv tar m
lively provision number who have worked their from
by of
Of Navigation take at random recruiting period from October to December
friends the service" wod ILL., ito
condition; while only Ala out of work"
consists the habits life sore without
% ~sd rt"a c cru % ax ] ,%od. % y e may may s & % S h1 @ as @ @
SSn wor % Ho Sn % @ % to- h% % pnod son h learned @ % how %
orders.
WHAT NEEDS
n
who We lack whole the of good workmanship
azng national
washington capital country remarks
the Senator bue
barneyed his way " power and fuhe down the CLOTH in humble
convictions
he watched Judged by his officers
$ and accordingly
the best the he does remain the
father family When he speaks them he the familiar thou
voluntary
education the
a
he ider and
CAPTAINS EYE,oN ALL
the bridge looking
Ssy sees to that he does not get his promotion what might be called
in conditions
sailed evening
sharply you
Among to
kind of initiative in discipline intelligence
& we have reason 10 be proud our new personnel we shall have more
and their intelligence
the enemy.
HEALTH GOOD AT NAVY YARD RELIGIOUS BREvITEs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
LOckjaw Victim Has Recovered

David Lambert, eleven years old, OF $40
South Fourth street, Camden. the first
loekjaw case handled by the Cooper Hos
pital this summer. has been discharged as
cured. The boy was taken TO the hospital
on May ~. He was unconscious for two
days after entering the hospital ana was
fed artlncially and treated ~ Injections of
antiteianus pqrum. Al no END of the snc-
Qnd day he rtFalned oonaelerans1s ana has
rapidly recpfeftd
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
The July Magazines

The Worlds Work for July is notable
for two articles, one the record of what
happened during the seven critical days
In Petrograd when the people took charge
of their Government and deposed the Car,
and the other an account of an interview
between Mr. Hoover and Mr.. Lloyd George
on the Belgium food situation, together
with a German generals reasons for order.
ing the execution of Edith Cavell. The
magazine has the usual number of excellent
portraits of men prominent in the public
eve.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
RELIGIOUS BREvITIEs

ming at the Arch Street Presbyterian Church
Or. Clarence Edward Mccartney will preach
at o'clock on -Four Anchors an Incident
from the shipwreok OF st. Paul. The choir
under the direction OF Leonard Auty, will give
program OF patriotic music At 1880 or
ganist Alton X. Dougherty Will give a recital
on the Turner memorial organ. Soldiers
invited TO be present.
The Rev. A. ], Coleman will preach topor.
row morning At II O'Clock IN the OermAntown
Unitarian Church. Greene street and Cheiten
avenue, q which he is pastor, on "Ths whole
Tomorrow will be Review Sunday at Gaatop
Presbyterian Sunday School. Eleventh street
and Lohgh avenue. For the fourth eonsecu.
tive year the Rev. Howard X Williams viii
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23

Scribner's Magazine for July has a pa
triotc drawing in cOlors for frontispiece
and other war pictures and articles Ernest
PeiXotto writes on Special Service for
Artists in War Time" and there is re-
cruiting article by Nelson Lloyd, with
sketches from life. Raymond RecOuly tells
Of Russia in revolution and Major NJ r.
Stewart, L. S. A, discusses "The First
Half-Million Army" The fiction is un-
usually good Readers who want to get
away from fighting for while will be in.
terested in the third Of Kenyon Cox's
articles on the golden age of painting.
rms one Is devoted to Dutch and Flemish
painters of the seventeenth Centurv
Another article on art that comes nearer
home deals with Violet Oakley,s decora,
tions Of the State Capitol in Harrisburg
with illustrations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
1ORNITHOLOGY A STUDY FOR WOMEN-AN AIR HERO

courage in attacking the enemy. When
the sons Of our millionaires can live such
worthy lives and die such heroic deaths
the state Of America is not quite so de-
plorablo as some pessimists would have us
believe.
VICTOR CHAAPMAN's LETTERS FROM
FRANCE: with memoir by John jay Chap
man. New York: The Macmillan Company
S1.25
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23

Germany and Russia in the war are dis
cussed in the July Century, the first NV
David Jayne Hill, who contrasts the ideals
Of democratic nations with the Prussian
imperialistic theories and practices, and bv
Peter Michaelson, who writes on German
prison camp; the second by Stephen
Graham, who explains internal conditions
In Russia. Rollin Lynde Hart has a criti
cal article about Washington, the capital
city, illustrated by Joseph Pennell and
Jules Guerin. The magazine opens with
a story Of mysticism by L. f Benson,
In which a charlatan discovers hidden
forces Of which he had no knowledge
New Englanders will be particularly In
terested In a series of etchings of familiar
Boston by Sears Gallagher, including the
somerset Club, the old State House and
Kings Chapel The Customs House tower
which now dominates the waterfront. can
naruiy DC called part Of familiar Boston,
for It is new and looks strangely unfamitiar
as Mr.. Gallagher represents it looming
above the low buildings about it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23

FRIENDS IN FEATHERS: Character studies ~
native American birds which, throuEh friend
ly advances, induced 10 pose for me or suc.
the story Of my experiences in obtaining their
pictures BY Gene Stratton- Porter. Garden
City: Doubleday, Page G. Co. $3.50
The midland journal., 1917-11-09

The vote in Cecil county on Tues
day was light and incomplete returns
at hand at this writing, Wednesday
morning, indicate that the Democrats
carried the county for everyone of
their candidates, with the exception
of H. E. McCardell, assistant treas
urer, who was reported beaten by
Philip M. Groves, the present incum-
bent.
Annexation, which was the biggest
issue in Baltimore, is assured, as
enough members pledged to city ex,
tension were elected to the Legisla-
ture to put the measure through.
The Republicans claim. the election
of VIM. o. Atwood as Comptroller
of the State, over Hugh A. McMullen,
the present Democratic incumbent.
The midland journal., 1917-11-09
An Old Mans stomach.

AS we grow older and less active
less and less food is required to
meet the demands of our bodies. II
too much is habitually taken, the
stomach will rebel. When a man
reaches the advanced age of S5 or
80, you will find that he is a light
cater. Be as careful as you will,
however, you will occasionally eat
more than you should and you will
feel the need of Chamberlain's Tab
lets to correct the disorder. These
tablets do not contain pepsin, but
strengthen the stomach and enable
it to perform its functions naturally.
They also cause a gentle movement
Of the bowels,
The midland journal., 1917-11-09
NEW INCOME TAX LAW.
Everybody Making $1,000 or Over
Must Report to Uncle Sam
Blanks To BE
Filled,

With the new war tax in effect the
ultimate consumer is getting it from
two sides--an increased cost of GER
tain necessities and tax upon his
income
The income tax, which hits thous-
ands, covers the period from January
1, 1917 to December 81, 1917, and
must be paid on or before March /,
1918. All persons making $1,000
and over year must report.
All those who are affected by the
law must make returns to the Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue between
January 1, 1918, and March 1, 1918.
Returns will not be received before
the end of this year nor after the
latter date.
It is incumbent upon each person
subject to the tax to apply for blanks
at the office of the Collector of In
ternal Revenue, which is on the
second floor of the rCustom-house.
The person taxed must apply there,
but not before January l., for the
blanks will not be ready until that
time.
Single men whose net income is
$1,000 annually and married men
whose net income is $4,000 annually
can claim exemption for this amount
but from these figures and up the
FAX will apply.
Five-cent cigarettes now cost six
cents in many stores. Cigars that
used to sell for ten are costing
eleven and twelve, according to the
class of trade. And so it goes.
1t is the desire of the federal au-
thorities to have those subject to the
income tax aware of the fact that the
old law has not been repealed by the
new. The income tax law, which
was passed October 8, 1918, which
covered the period from March 1,
1918, to December 1, 1914, returns
from which were filed March 1, 1914,
still is in force. The new law only
goes lower and reaches the smaller
man.
There will be no excuse for failing
to make returns if the person taxed
does not get blanks by mail. 1t is
incumbent upon the individual to
apply for them, fill them out, file
them and pay his tax.
The midland journal., 1917-11-09
The Coal MOnopoliet.

The Federal Trade Commission
takes note of the fact that land
monopoly is at the bottom of the
shortage in coal supply and recon-
mends removal of the landlord, who
happens in this case to be the coal
carrying railroads. The Commission
deserves credit for it's boldness in
making clear, what other official in
vestigators have blinked.
The ownership of coal lands by
railroad corporations or interest OF
coal land owners in railroads, has
made Independent operation of coal
mines difficult. Congress and State
legislatures have tried to remedy the
matter by forbidding ownership of
coal lands by railroads. The futility
of such measure could be foreseen
easily. Now the Trade Commission
recommends that the government
take over the railroads and mines,
and thus become itself both landlord
and carrier. The private monopo-
list will thus be abolished, and with
him out of the way less difficulty is
to be expected in production and dis
tribution of the coal supply.
This is not the way that all pro-
gressives would have handled the
question. The Single Takers, for
example, would say that government
ownership of the mines might be
avoided, if it were made improbable
to withhold valuable coal lands from
use. A tax on land values sufficient
to absorb the entire rental value,
would compel the owners to permit
use of enough coal lands to ensure
production of sufficient supply,
while substitution of government
control of public highways for
private control would be the remedy
for discrimination.
However, it is a splendid thing
that one kind of land monopolist has
been officially recognized as an
enemy of the public good. And
whatever difference of opinion there
may be concerning methods to get
rid of him, there is much to be
thankful for in the fact that some
kind of determined efToEt to abolish
him is to be made.
The midland journal., 1917-11-09

The twelve Farm Loan Banks OF
he United States have received ap-
'ications for almost $4,000, 900, of
which nearly $2O,OOO,O0O has been
approved. So far, only $3,73O,123
has been paid out, but $7,716,1SS in
loans has been closed ana from this
on the work of paying out will go
much faster.
About 1000 associations have been
formed, or are in process of for
nation, of which more than LOO
have been chartered. These asso-
Citations have applied for more than
$5O,OO0,O0O, and if those not yet in
working order apply in like proper
tion it will require more than $780,
100000 to meet the demands.
The midland journal., 1917-11-09
War Tax On Telephone Messages.

The preparation for the collection
of the five-cent tax on all telephone
messages of Is cents or over, has
been a big job. IN the case of pub
lie telephones with coin box attach
ments, the tax rate of 5 cents is to
be inserted as directed by the
operator, in the coin box by the per-
son who sends the message. Special
preparations for billing regular sub
scribers correctly for the tax i7nro"od
on their messages of Is cents anG
over, also had to be made N7t'ccs
giving full directions have Boon
placed on all public telephoae1 ard
all subscribers have been advised lly
means of circular enclosed With
their monthly bills, which eyplains
the method of making the charge for
the tax and gives digest Of the law
relating to it.
The law not only applies t. ~
messages on which tho rate is Is
cents or more per message, but also
to all messages on which the total
charge, including overtime, amounts
to Is cents or more.
The law directs that this tax shall
be collected from the person paying
for such message or conversation,
and places the responsibility for col
lection upon the Telephone Company.
OF the 100000 teachers in the
United States SGT, 900 are women.
The midland journal., 1917-11-09
Drinking Responsible For The Short
age OF Coal.

age OF Coal.
Drunkenness causes more delay in
the shipment and handling of coal
along the New England water front
than any other single factor accord
ing to speakers at the conference
between officials of the United States
Shipping Board, the Massacausett
Public Safety Committee and owners
of coal barges and tugs in the State
House, Boston, when the owners op-
posed the pooling of coal carriers as
recommended by James ]. Storrow
chairman Boston Coal Committee
Practically every address emphasized
this point, some adding that the
labor problem delayed shipments, in
practically every case, and that most
of this trouble was due to intoxi-
cation.
Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States Shipping
Board, presided at the meeting, and
after recognizing the trend of the
speeches, interrupted with the query,
Why not try national Prohibition
Robert Grant, of the New England
Coal and Coke. Company, said
"The greatest cause of delay to
prompt delivery of coal in New Eng
land is due to labor, as intoxication
is common. christian Science
Monitor.