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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-13
CHAPTER XVI.

n 'S Nuctn'S Gail.
ein,1 aSuiu De difficult to estimate the
t,sr ~ rage and horror that swept
sna os mat night when the news
no =! The admiral's treaty.
d M. SGlnlrSl felt that he had rid
b,. U.'u OF dangerous menace for
'e1e' But the feeling In the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-13
Can Recite All of Bible by Heart.

Can Recte All of Bible by Heart.
The most wonderful feat on record
has recently been accomplished by
William Frederick, New York sales
man.
He has learned the entire Bible off
by heart, and can repeat any passage
In 1t from Genesis to Revelations and
state where it may be found. 1t has
taken him Is years.
A similar task was once undertaken
by an eighteenth-century strolling
player, about whom Sir William Rob
ertson Nicoll has written. But he
gave in after IL years, by which time
he had succeeded in memoriZing about
two-thirds of the Old Testament.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-13

Show the pessimist a silver lining
and he will tell you it is the cloud
darkening the silver.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-13

It's the love of the other fellow for
your money that is the root of all evil.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-13
Injured by Prosperity

injured pJ T'0SF
The mind is more injured Dy pros
nerity than by adversely.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
500, 900 FLU CASES in N. y.
II SIG Deaths During Epidemic Fatalities
Ipcrcasinp

New York. Dec 23-Deaths attributed
10 Influenza took sudden increase Sun
day, when forty-four were reported to the
Health Department The number of
new influenza cases decreased by thirty
two. Pneumonia cases reported showed
mn Increase Of nineteen over Friday s
figures and fifty-five persons died from this
cause, an increase Of six
DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Health Com
missioner, believes the jump in pneu-
monla cases and deaths reported yesterday
were the result Of the slight furry in new
cases shown early last week, which led
many to believe that the epidemic state of
Spanish influenza" had returned.
from the time Of the cpdcmic's out
break until yesterday total Of 13d ,652
Influenza cases and 1I,5I6 deaths were
reported 10 the Health Department
Pneumonia III the same period claimed
II .239 victims, Caser totalled 2O,861.
While the number of deaths reported is
approximately correct DIR. Copeland esti-
mates there have been nenrly 50000
cases Of Influenza in Greater New York
since last summer
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
NEWS OF SEAFORD.

Special Cores pondcnce OF Every Evening
Seaford Dec 23-W Herbert Hall has
purchased the LOT AT the corner az Pine
and King streets. and Will erect thereon d
modern dwelling
While terrapin dragging Friday near
Middleford, Hiram Williams found large
melt Shad in the grass near the shore II
Is an unusual thing 10 find a shad in these
waters AT this season Of the year
l!rS Glcra Walker, q colored woman.
was accidentally shot here last night with
pistol The bullet entered her thigh put
the physician who was summoned vs.
unable 10 locate il
Chief Of Police John Reed is seriously
1 Ill al his home on High street
AirS. Elizabeth Guthrie wife If Paul
: Guthrie of this town, while al Pennington
FRIDAY night attempted 10 board the
southbound train after II had started and
was dragged several feet. receiving IN
jurles about the side and legs
kaufman d Garsev who have the cor
tract 10 build the State road between here
and Bridgevile. have laid off their men
until January 6, when work will be re-
sumed.
Miss Mary Porter Of Baltimore. Md. IS
visiting her mother. Mrs Lena Porter. on
hing street
Miss Ruth Stevens Of Washington. p
G., and Miss katherine Stevens, who is i
student at Delaware College. are spending
the Christmas holidays here with their
, parents, Mir and Mrs " ID. Stevens.
Miss Mary Martin Is visiting In VII
mington and Phladelphia
Miss Agnes Huston Of Wilmington i
here visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs
George II Huston.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
WEDDINGS AT ASBURY.

Rev George White Dawson, pastor Of
Asbury NJ J.. Church. TODAY reported
the following recent marriages at Asbury
parsonage. 222 French street
Joseph f. Gilkey Of New Castle and
Emily l.. Roop Of Merchantvlllc, \. J.,
on December ,.
Frank Warner Of Farnhurst and Hllda
Olson Of 1880 East Thirteenth street, on
December $.
John Kelley Of loo East Third street
and Anna McMulln Of PcrryvilIe, Md,
on December u
Albert John Price Sinclair Of Balti-
more. Md, and Daisy Estelle May Jones
Of Baltimore, on December Ii
Harry ". Chase Of No. 3 kcntmcre
road and Mary J.. Huuis Of the same
address. on December l8
William Guy Wickersham Of 415 East
Fifth street and Anna Dorothy Parker
OF 503 East Sixth street on December Is.
Samuel L. Joseph of Gil East Fourth
street and Helen J. Lloyd Of 700 French
street. on December 2l
William Leslie Warrick of 3I5 East
Twenty-second street and Ruth Elizabeth
Johnson Blades. on December p.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
LABOR iMPoRTATIoNs ENDED.
West Indians and Mexicans are Barred
From Country

Washington, Dec. 23.--No more per-
miis for the Importation Of Mexican
and West Indian labor will be granted,
the department Of labor has announced
and permits already granted will be
void after January l5 Aliens permitted
10 enter temporarily for war work will
be repatriated gradually, without in
terfernR with agricultural or other
work now in progress.
The admission of serni-skilled laborers
from Canada will be discontinued, but
present arrangements, whereby skilled
laborers are admitted only when they
cannot be employed in their own coun-
try, and when those countries have given
consent 10 their departure, will be con-
tinued for the present. Conferences on
this subject are under way between the
United States and Canadian govern
ments.
Many alien fishermen from Canada
and Newfoundland have been employed
by the New England fishing fleet The de
partments statement said it was not
intended to discontinue this practice i'm
mrdiateIv
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
AT NEW CASTLE.
I Alfred MCGUIRE. Home From
France, Tells of Some of the
Thrills in the Trenches.
4 Special Correspondence of Every Evening

\ Special Correspondence of Every Evening
New Castle, Dee - Alfred Me
Guirc. one of the boys New Castle sent
Ia France, visited rclarIvcs IN this city
YESTERDAY lie described tho battlefield
as he saw II after fighting several times
an ihc trenches lie arrived IN New
York several weeks ago. lie said lac liked
the way the French treated the soldiers,
hut he's glad 10 Get back William Me
Grory who, is stationed ~ Paris Island,
=. e, hcIug m the marines, Is visiting
his father. T. McGrory o; this city.
James Booth, who is stationed at
Cape MAY, visited relatives in this
city yesterday.
tn Saturday evening about $50
o'clock the trolley power went of for
reasons unknown and STAYED OF until
II 10 1t Fourth aud Market streets,
IN Wilmington several hundred persons
were waiting tn return 10 this city. Some
oi the pcop" came home in automobiles
and Others waited for tho midnight
tram but alas III twenty minutes oi
l. a trolley put in m appearance and the
crowd rushed tor seats. After that the
cars ran frequently To bring the Christ
nia~ shoppers home
( This evening dance and entertain
y mcnt viii hr gwen Tor the employees
oi the Bethlehem Loading Co IN the
Opera House y large crowd Is expected
u hc present
\ large steel vault is beng placed N
the new bank, the work being done by
the York Safe Co, of York, Pa
Harry CrippS. formerly assistant cash
icr of New Castle Trust Go. and now
a resident oi Philadelphia, spent the
weekend at the home OF Edward Plat
Joseph REYNOLDS who Is in the navy
+, and stationed at the Great Lakes Tram
I ing station, Is home visiting his father.
who resides in this city
Melvin Turner Of Chester, Pa, spent
the weekend in thls CITY
Thomas Brown who resides IN Phil |
adclphia, Spcn' Yesterday IN this city
The Boy Sout- Will hold their regular ,
meeting this evening Scout Master
Nayl, in charge
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
DOOMED DIG OWN GRAVES.
Bolshcviki Spreading Death Through
All OF Russia

Copenhagen, Dec 23 German reports
say Bolshcviki troops arc advancing in
the direction of tho German frontier in
order to join German sympathizcrs The
German armies in Russia still are retiring
leaving in the hands of Minister Of War
Trotzky all their war material
The Nisht Djcn Of Riga says that
400 persons recently were arrested by the
Bolshcvik authorities in Pskov, 100 miles
southwest of Petrogad on the charge of
being countor-rcvolutionari and that
some of them received death sentences
The men condemned to death. accord
ing 10 the newspapers. wcrc compelled to
dig their own graves, in which after tho
execution they were buried bv other
prisoners under sentence Of many years
imprisonment
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
Won ECKHARDT OUSTED.
German Envoy to Mexico, Plotter
Against u. S., Twice Re-
called to Berlin.

Mexico City, Dec. 23-Heinrich Won
Eckhardt, the German Minister TO
Mexico since 1915, and the diplomat
who figured in the zimmerman dis
closures early in 1917, when the German
government made futile attempt 10
line Mexico up against the United State
as IN ally of Japan, has been recalled by
the present German government
The diplomat expects to leave for
Germany by way of the United States,
The notice of his recall was sent to
Won Eckhardt through lgnacio Bonllas,
the Mexican Ambassador at Washington,
more than five weeks ago, but apparently
the German Minister here paid no at
tcntion IL the instructions of the new
German government About 10 days
ago additional orders were sent.
Minister Won Fckhardt has been credit
ed with being the director of the violent
anti-America propaganda which hns been
carried out In Mexico by pro-tierman
aud German owned papers II was to
him that DIR zimmerman. then German
Foreign Secretary, sent a message dated
January 10, 1917, through Count Won
Bcrnstorf, proposing IN alliance with
Mexico and Japan to make war on the
United States If the latter country did
not remain neutral Japan through
Mexican mediation, according to the
Berlin instructions, was 10 be urged to
abandon her allies and join in the attack
on the United States
The Mexican government will not
recognize pr. von Magnus rs the diplo-
matic representative Of Germany, he
cause the present German government
which named him has not rs vet been
recognized by the Mexican government.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
CHARTERS.

Oceanic Salvage Corporation. capital
s.. 600 800, to acquire patents relating
to raising Of submerged vessels and diving
appa ratus. Paul :. Smith, Clarence :
Rice, Phillip q. Neiser Of New York in
coTporatos.
Penn Kansas syndicate capital 81
SOC, 900, to purchase, acquire and de-
velop ell, leases heretofore purchased by
Oicott Payne, Of Philadelphia, Horace
aoto. ' wilmington s i''i inoorpopators 1ls1n !" T.
DOklacuba Oil Corporation, capital 81 :
DOT, 900, to acquire oil, coal gas and other
lands and to develop same A. w Britton
Samuel b. Howard, George Y. Reilly
Of New York. incor porators.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
DEATH OF FRANK ALLEN.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Seaford. Dee. - Ex-RcpreScutatiye
Prank Allen died n his home here. Fri
day night after a lingering illness, aged
20 years, from a complication Of diseases.
Fer the past 10 months he had been in
failing health and on two occasions had
been treated IL Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Baltimore
AIr Allen was a son Of The late Major
and Eliza Ann Allcn. and until four wears
ago. when hc moved - Seaford, was a
progressive farmer He WAS member Of
the House Of Representatives of the Della
ware Legislature in 1908 and Was elected
again in 1914 He was prominent Demo-
crat and always took an active interest
in the party affairs
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
WHEN A FAMILY
NEEDS A FRIEND
In the Absence Of Doctors NObly Conc
70 War. After Influenza. the Grin

Those wonderfully useful medicine
Hoods sarsaparilla, Peptiron and
Hood Pills comprising thc Hew oono-
hlnaiion family treatment arc warrnlr
recommended
Il taken regularly, Hoods Sarsaparilla
before meals Pepfiron after meals, ami
Hood Z Pllls n night DE- needed, they arc
reasonably sure u keep a family p health
and prove to be reliable and alwsvs read
friends, They purify The blood, build ~
strength and regulate he zysfem
Get al, or any ono as you think voI
neod from your dr80g. today
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
BOSTON LET IN THE FLU.
New York Health Officials Blame Epi
denic on Hub.

New York, Dec 23-Spanish influenza,
which has claimed hundreds of thousands
Of victims throughout the country, invaded
the United States through the port Of
Boston, Dr w g. Woodward, Health
Commissioner If that city, admitted in
an address here today before Inc confer
encc board of physicians engaged IN IN
dustrial practice.
The board 3 session attended BY repre-
scntativcs from All the Eastern States,
was devoted almost exclusively 10 dis
cuseion Of measures for prevention of fur
ther spread Of the disease in industrial
establishments.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
DUCKS CONFUSE WEATHER WISE
Gloucester Prophet Puzzled BY Flights
Of Water Fowl

Gloucester City, NJ j., Dee. 23. Al
though today is officially the first day Of
winter, Captain" Bill Porch, the noted
veteran trapper and weather prophet,
has not yet made his annual prediction aa
To the coming winter months, as so
many signs have failed
As it has been raining internationally
and many wild ducks have been flying
apparently North, he is now getting out
new charts, and some day this week his
friends in this ncighborhood, who arc
nnxiously Whiting to hear from one
on whom they depend, win soon know
what to expect, and whether TO prepare
to seek warmer clines in the South or
remain at home, in the assurance that
the winter blasts will not be heavy or Of
long duration.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
Probe Alleged Overpayments.

Federal railroad officials are investigat-
ing alleged ovcrpayment5 Of S2,500,000 TO
Pennsylvania railroad shopmen since the
government assumed control of the rail
roads hc huge overpayments were made
il is said bccausc Of a misin'erprcfation
or q misappication of the rulings of the
railroad wage commission. consisting of
Secretary Of the Interior Lane and Will
hmm L Milcnv
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
Injured Knee at Work

Stanley Fcwster, aged 20 If Edge
Moor employed III timckccpcr bY the
- l. TAYLOR 90 received q severe ,sprain
in the knee ioinf while at work yesterday
He vas taken to the Delaware hospital
following the accident where thc limb
nas set IN snlinte
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
kuPPS SKIP A DIVIDEND.
Report Bad Finish For The Year So
Stockholders Suffer.

Berlin, Dec % The kurpp Company
at a general meeting day or two ago
decided not To pay a dividend this year
the great arms concern paid divl-
dcnd of II per cent in each of the first
two war years and 10 per cent last year.
II was announced at the meeting
that when balance was struck at the
end Of Juno the directors decided to
PAY 4 per cent dividend this year
part Of which must he taken from
the surplus of 1916.
Recent developments, however, 50
uufavoraoly affected the economic sit
uatiCn that the directors were unable
to recommend the payment cf any div
idend
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
Christmas Gift for Employees.

Wilson & Co, packers, who have a
branch office in this city. according to an
order from Thomas f. Wilson, president
of the Wilson Company. aud received
here yesterday, will pay to al the employees
of the company, who have been IN the en-
ploy over SIX months, a bonus IN ca4h,
equivalent 10 10 per cent of their salary
for six months as a Christmas gift.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
Died i'm the Service.

Mrs Harriet Becson, of No. A2l West
Twcnty-sixth street has received a telc-
gram, stating that her SON. Woodman r..
Bccson. died from wounds Private
Bceson was member Of the 312th In
fantry, Company y. Of the lightning
Division Ills sister received n letter from
DR. Keith, Of field hospital, saving her
hrnt her VIZ mnIlnIeI Octnhnr o
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
CHRISTMAS CANDIES.

Fenway pink package The candy that
is different IN quality, assortment and
color scheme Special Christmas price
7jc the pound
We nave lot OF assorted chocolate
candies IN ne-pound boxes
Danforths 5 Dependable Drugs, Market
and Second streets.-Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
Musical Program nj Y. VI. n. A..

special musical program was pro
vii Il by Arthur J Rubin. a Rradus e of
the Roval College of Music, London, IT
IN entertainment given by the Adj
Acques Club Of the Young Mems Hebrew
Association, Third and King streets.
last night Other entertainment con
sisfed IN aingino dancing md 81 hnr rn1Ieic
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
Vital Statistics

The Board of Health records for last
week showed 81 deaths, II marriages
and 81 births Is against 33 deaths,
81 marriages and - births for the cor
responding week la>t wear
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23
EXPLOSIVES BrING MOVED

Notice has been received by Mayor
Lawson that 30 car loads Of the eE-
plo8iyes that were assembled M thc
Delaware riycr front above and below
this city have been removed otltsdd
the danger zonc, and the menace t.
safety which they have threatened hae
been by 10 much lessencd
The remaining quantities will sIsg
shortly be taken care of IL is understood
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Hard for the consumer 70 distinguish
between high prices fon account ~ tho
war" and high prices lust becaBzc
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-23

Every Evening $ classified advertise
ments bring results Proved TO the salts
faction Of many and will be TO YOU Adv
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Stamping Out That "Lis-
ten1ng In" Habit

4 N END to listening in" on ones
"A telephone by some busybody-
or perhaps a German spy!--is prom
ised by an invention described in "The
Electrical Experimenter" Indeed, the
device will permit one to carry on a
conversation in low tone or in whis-
per, and yet need not be a permanent
attachment to the regular telephone in
strument.
The device is snapped over the mouth
piece Of the telephone by means Of
wire with springs at
tached. To use the silencer most eff
fectively one must press the upper lip
gently against the mouthpece, speak
slowly and articulate distinctly with the
lips only-almost in whisper, and not
from the throat. One will then he plain
ly heard at the other end Of the line,
but no one listening i'm can catch what
you sW
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

common animals throughout Yun-nan and
is much larger than the Indian or the other
Chinese species. These animals are often
called barking deer because of their loud,
harsh bark, which may be heard for long
distance if the night is STILL At one of
our camps they used to bark very fire.
quently during the day, but it is not easy
to kill one without the aid of dogs or
beaters, for they live in such dense jungle
that it is almost impossible to force ones
way through the thickets without good
deal of noise. In the early morning or
Just at evening we sometimes found them
feeding in clearngs on the edge of the
heavy cover, but they always kept sharp
watch and disappeared at the slightest sign
OF danger The muntjac is especially in
teresting because its antlers grow from
greatly elongated pedicle which is covered
with skin and hair instead of rising
abruptly from the skull as in other mem
bers of the deer family.
"On the Snow Mountain porcupines were
not uncommon, and when hunting big game
we often were greatly annoyed to find that
our dogs had followed the trail of one Of
these animals. We would arrive to see
the hounds dancing about the burrow with
excited yelps. instead of having coral or
serow with its back to a cliff, as we had
expected. These porcupines are quite diff
ferent in appearance from those with
which we are familiar in America, for the
qullls are sometimes eighteen inches in
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

at seems incredible It is not expected.
Looking at its tree-bowered shore and it's
uplands Of velvet green from the steamer
in the roadstead, one has vision of earth
ly paradise.
"The water, for one thing, is so very
blue and so very green. They tell of a
Middle Western traveller who, coming into
this roadstead for the first time, was so
struck by the peculiar loveiness of the
water under the ships counter that he
desired to take flask of it home to Iowa,
so that they would believe. And then
there was trouble. Stewards suffered. 1t
was not indeed, till one of them, inspired
with more than stewardly light, took
thought to add few drops of laundry
bluing to the flask, that the tourist could
mop his brow with a sense of triumph
over the incompetence of underlings and
stow away that veritable liquid sky of
Santa Cruz roadstead
The inhabitants Of the Virgin Islands
have, it seems, become so accustomed to
having ships steam in loaded with provi-
sions that it is now impossible to make
them self-supporting.
"They will not feed themselves, these
little islands. In more than one of them
we saw posted proclamations, the govern
ment down on its knees, as it were, plead
ing a wartime need, begging the people to
plant their own ground provisions-yams,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Less Soap, Better Health

g DAP saving is not only economy of
~ fats, according to DR.. Samuel Dixon.
Health Commissioner Of Pennsylvania,
but may be made a factor in cutting
down respiratory diseases. Many per-
sons abuse soap by making a stiff,
creamy lather in bathing, under the be-
lief that this is necessary to dissolve
dirt that fills the pores of the skin. On
the contrary, very little soap is required
to break up dirt and permit water to
remove foreign substances from the pores
SO that glands may perform their nor
NAL function. Excessive use of soap
usually fills the pores with fatty sub
stances and results in imperfect action of
the sweat glands, cause of disease,
especially of a respiratory nature
From The Scientific American.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

and plate. Three lugs, in correct alignment
with the plate on the back of the gum keep
the whole from twisting.
"The jacket, in which the barrel slides,
also carries the toothed segment on the
left which engages with pinon and worm
gear, for raising or lowering the gun by
means of the hand wheel The only other
fittings the jacket carries are the sights
and telescope, which are self-explanatory.
"The hand wheel on the righthand side
is made with worm gear, and by means OF
a mtre gear the gun can be turned
through complete semicirce. This gear
ing is inclosed in the hollow steel conical
mounting which runs in the fanged ring
bolted to the steel plate on the base Ball
bearings are fitted to make it run quite
freely. The two footplates are one-six-
teenth inch steel plate Hanged and bolted