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New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

looked up at the stars which quivered In
the sky, relieved of its winter msts. And
the mystery of those sparkling unknowns
troubled me once more and as grievousIy
as ever, for | had just been reading what
was not consoling. And 1 thought, per-
haps life such as we see it and such as
we conceive it down here, organic life, that
of the beasts and of men, is only an acci-
dent quite peculiar to this little, insignfi-
cant world that we call the earth. Perhaps
this most trifing planet has been spoiled,
has gone bad, and all that we see and are
is only the result Of the malady which has
corrupted this poor fruit. The sense of
the universe wholly escapes US; maybe we
are bacilli, vibrons in dread of the uni
versal order. Perhaps. -. But, as
Martin, who was a wise man, said: let
US cultivate our garden.'"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Home Ties Bind the 7optoad

A, 14th U. S. Engineers Ga railway operat-
ing unit that trained at Salem New Hamp-
shire), captured hoptoad just before leav-
ing the camp, and placed it in box. He
managed to smuggle It aboard ship and
carried 1t to France
"The toad is still there Denny writes
me that he is obliged to tie the toad
with long string, for every time the toad
gets an opportunity he invariably heads
for the seacoast, hundred miles away. The
toad wants to get back home.
"'Some one cut the string and allowed
the toad to hop quite distance away be
fore they notified Denny. He just caught
up with the toad hopping in the direction
of the United States, as a poilu, thinking
he was frog, was about to spit the toad
on his bayonet in order to enjoy supper
of frogs legs Denny's mascot toad has
been the source of a great deal of amuse-
ment among the poilus.
cdr Paul Pitman, dentist in the United
States Reserves, tell me OF toad that has
lived under the back steps of his home in
Intervale, n H, for the past twenty-five
years. This toad answers to the name of
Pete. He often followed DR.. Pitman to
the railroad station when Dr. Pitman was
night operator there. The toad would sit
on the station platform and catch flies for
a while, then hop back home alone.
"Another telegrapher who was stationed
at North Beverly, Mass, as night operator
for several years tells me of a hoptoad
that would hop up onto the station plat
form there every night and eat flies from
his hand until dark, when It would hop of
into the grass.
"Some timo ago received a letter from
of the editors Of The Country Gentle
man. who some way found out I wac
studying hoptoads. He told me about Q
toad that lived in the yard of Philadels
phia resident for several years. This toad
would parade up and down the pavement,
much to the amusement OF the children.
He would run after them when thev
dragged button or spool tied to a string
and would seize It in his mouth, thinking
1T was a bug Of some kind. Toads live 60
be forty years old and will eat hundreds Of
bugs, worms and other injurious pests IN
a day."
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

magnet to take the place of the
f. sling chain or sling rope for lift
ing and carrying certain kinds of
articles had to be developed in the face
of a great deal of skepticism. Of the
nresent stage of progress in the use
Of the lifting magnet the Engineer
ing Supplement of "The London Times"
says:
aWhen the lifting magnet was intro
duced no means OF securing work in cranes
WAS available beyond the sling chain or
the sling rope, the blight Of which en-
braced the articles to be lifted, after care
full adjustment by skilled laborer, and
which was itself attached to the crane
hook. After the load had been hoisted
and lowered the services of the singer
we're again required for its release. Sings
are liable to fracture, their grip may not
always be secure, the articles not we'll
balanced, accidents occasionally happen
owing to the slipping and falling of loads,
and men are mutilated. The method is
therefore slow. costly and somewhat dam
gerous. In some industries very large
quantities Of similar pieces are being con-
stantly lifted In bundles or masses at
one time in one hoist. In these much
time Is occupied and risks are ever pres
ent In the shipyards, in the iron and
steel works, in the rolling mills, in boiler
and plating shops, in foundres, therefore,
the electromagnetic achieved their first
successes, and not in the machine and
erecting shops, where pieces are mostly
lifted singly. In those industries they
have very largely displaced the methods
and the services Of the singer, with resulting
vast economies.
Magnets are OF especial utility in the
work of handling plates, rolled sections,
sheets, billets, bars. rods, pig scrap, rolls,
coils OF wire, castings, forgings and loose
material of all kinds. The one essential
is that the articles to be lifted shall pos
ness magnetic properties, and this cond-
ton is met by all the groups just named
with the exception Of those steels that
contain & considerable percentage of man
ganese. The magnet shows to greatest
advantage in work that would otherwise
need much care in singing and balancing
in order to insure good hold and to pre-
vent slip. It handles these as readily as
the palmer masses. Magnets are designed
specially to deal with materials Of un-
usual lengths. Another field of utility is
that where very many small parts have
to be gathered up-loose fragments or mis-
celaneous scrap that would have to be
picked up with steel forks or by hand or
raked up. The magnet takes charge Of
all indiferently, leaving only non-mag-
netic material and dirt behind. The mag
netic force extends through several lay
ers, holding pieces below which are not in
actual contact with its pole shoes.
Since singing is dispensed with, the
magnet is merely lowered upon the ma
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

= u NHAT home is sweet even to q
hoptoad is perhaps not gener-
ally known. Nevertheless sew
eral remarkable instances of
the homing instinct in these little
creatures are delineated in "The Over
land Monthly" by F. H. Sidney. This
writer, it appears, has made an extern
sive study of animal and bird life, so
that their cloves, hates and tragedies"
are as an open book to himI His de-
scription of the return Of Teddy the
Toad runs as follows:
"lhere is big toad in my garden whom
I call Teddy. l thought I would try and
see whether Teddy would make his way
back home if carried any distance away.
Consequently l placed Teddy in box one
night and carried him on a train to Bos-
ton, ten miles from my home, Wakefield,
Mass. At Boston I transferred to the
Boston elevated and rode to Sullivan
Square, mile outside the city
at was just 1880 p M when l opened
the box at the junction Of the Perkins
Street footbridge and Haverhill Street
CNdlleStOWl MdSS.r near the signal tower
where am employed Teddy blinked at
the arc lights as though sensing direction,
then he turned deliberately around and
headed directly for home.
"He hoped along by the curbing
followed him until he turned the corner
at Mystic Avenue and crossed the bridge,
headed in straight air line direction tow
ard Wakefield, different route from which
he had come. 1t was then II o'clock at
night; while Teddy hoped homeward went
duty in the tower.
"At exactly 6:15 the next afternoon, as
l playing the hose my garden,
dusty looking toad, with small tag hitched
to his hind leg trailing along behind him,
came hopping down the driveway. He
hoped under the faucet and cooled him
self with the drippings. l examined the
tag; yes, enough, it was my Teddy.
The tag was the same one I had tied to
his hind leg, with my name and address
written on it. Teddy had hoped the dis
tance Of ten miles to get back to me-"
Further along we read another in
stance:
Private Denny Mclaughlin, of Company
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

~ date methods in surgery and
medicine is presented in the
following excerpts from an
article by Major w. W. Keen in ."The
Yale Review" Retrospectively the writer
surveys the various advances made dur
ing the last seven decades in medicine, the
most important in his estimation being,
first, anasthesia; second, bacteriology
and its utgrowths-antisepti and asep-
tic surgery and obstetrics, and the sci
ence OF immunology; third, the estab-
iishment Of laboratories for research;
fourth, the X-rays.
Commenting on the first Of these
epoch-making discoveries, which rcvolu-
tionized surgery within his own life
time, the writer relates how the first
operation under ether took place on Oc-
nber 16, 1846, in the Massachusetts
General Hospital by Dr.. John Collins
Warren, professor Of surgery in the
Harvard Medical School. The patient,
young man, underwent the operation
without pain.
Then in 1347, he continues, came the
discovery by Sir James Y. Simpson, of
Edinburgh, OF the anesthctic property
of chloroforrn. IA he remarks:
Although several other anasthctica
ha7e s'nce been introduced for prolonged
operations, the only serious rival Of ether
ana cnloroforrn is the cornblntd use OF
nitrous oxide and oxygen. We Of tho pres
e"' generation are 20 familiar with anms~
shesia during operations that VIC can hard
y appreciate the horror Of tho nrc-anma-
'Nss'c eays. Strong men held Tn. patient
D." the'f grasp and strong straps bound each
~faS, corresponding ankls. Tho
s''iae~s oi thc poor guncrers whisoed uD
Sns surgeons 70 brcathless haste. Oper-
A.'fs were timed by watches In the hands
"f 'ns students, and he was the bem sur-
seon VINO could amputate an extremity in
NE seconds lees than his rival. for each
"'s"h'o s@emed an age 70 tbs wrhhlnv
patient ''"''s
Sach haste now and then resulted d,.-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
WRITER in "Chambers's Journal"
observes

"There is hardly a word in the English
language, a plain word which is oftener
msappied than the word 'unverse.' Really
it means the all of which the world is but
q tiny and perhaps insignifcant> atom. 1t
means the ARMAMENT the things we see
and do not see, the whole system of created
things. Yet in an egoistc ignorance we
make it a synonym for the earth alone, and
in the midst Of the war q bishop, who
should have known better, spoke publicly
of London being the worst place in the
universe. Some might with reason pro-
test that 1t Is perhaps not the worst place
even earth, but not even bishop Is
qualified to state that there is moro evil
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

To the left is reproduction Of the
first page of Turkish primer and be-
low is translation. AS will be OBJ
served, the pupil places particular en-
phasis on the dependent condition of
the child on its parents and teachers
and the respect and obedience due them.
Turkish is written from right to left,
and the language itself is composite
OF Persian, Arabic and original Turk
ish (Mongolian).
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
What the Tiny Turk Learns
Duty in School

7 AN little child; at present do
4 not kno1o anything. What do chill
dren knoa0 amyhoa0? II they aOorA;
hard they avW learn everything. I
am going to acork. am going to learn
the things l do not h1noao. II q child
has read and learned hoaU to behave,
everybody acill love him; Everybody
will praise him.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

I like this book I am reading very
much. Why should l not like it? 1t is
teaching me the things I do not know
and it is teaching me manners. I should
carefully read this book, and what l read
I should try to correctly understand.
The parts that do not understand |
will ask my teacher to explain, and he
will gladly explain to me.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

A good scholar does not fight uplth
has companions-does not play IN the
streets. 1t is this kind of a good
scholar that 7 qUant to be.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

I am joyfully going to school and am
working at my writing and reading.
What [ read and write improves the
mind. How fine this feels.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

A good scholar keeps has head ,ueu
balanced. He listens to his masters
1Oords, 10orlts hard at his qcriting and
reading, conducts himself aceU and
goes to school on time.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

I am a schoolboy. have teachers. 1t
is they who teach me how to read, write
and conduct myself. I should respect
my teachers and should work hard at
my writing and reading.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Old-Fashioned Surgery

STRIKING contrast to up-to-
A date methods in surgery and
medicine is presented in the
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

u = HAT home is sweet even to q
4 hoptoad is perhaps not gener-
ally known. Nevertheless sew
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
A Room in Red for
the President? No.
It Must Be Blue

A N INCENTIVE to pursue the
IA psychology Of colors in its rela-
- Ina tion to room decorations is Of
fered under the title Of "Some
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

Thy failed to pay the 5000 by tomor-
row. when they have been notified Il
must be paid. They were advised 20
pay the license, and in the event the
law is amended 10 reduce the fee in
their ease from $500 10 $50, the differ
ence will be refunded to them.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

street, south side. 1926 feet east OF Lom-
bard street. $1,000.
Aleksandor ksnopka and wife from
John Rul and wife. Porter street, west
side lots, 13 feet inches south Of
Linden street $500
Daniel =. Grant and wife from John
O'C0nner, and wife. Front street, north
side, 20 feet west Of Gray avenue, $4,000.
William shelton from Harry Emmons
and wife. No. 1928 West Eighth street,
81. $50.
Victoria Zwolak from Equitable Trust
Company, Market street, northeast cor
ner Twenty-fourth street. $500.
George Braunstoln and wife from
David l.. Topkis and wife No ii2 Me-
Cabe avenue. 5000
Raymond y Cranneid from Caroline
Wyatt and husband. Nandever avenue.
south side, 20 feet east Of Pine street,
$3.50.
Howard r. Crosby and wife from
Lillian y. Swint. Eighteenth street.
northeast side. 100 feet southeast OF
Monroe street, $1,000.
Amelia A. Deputy from Paul ]. Hick-
man and wife Washington street. west
side. u - feet south Of Tenth street.
$500.
The Want Ads are the great informa-
tion bureau Of the worker.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31
JUNK DEALERS UP
AGAINST LATEST TAX

8 An emphatic protest against NVhat
hey term an unjust ordinance recent
= passed by City Council taxing the
unk dealers 5000 per year. was voiced
-ryr1 delegation Of dealers who appear
d before the meeting OF the committee
the whole or Council last night. and
.ounci promptly passed the buck by
e'erring the matter 90 City Solicitor
Huxley.
Not only docs the ordinance require
unk dealers 10 pay a license fee OF
roo O. wear, but an persons who buy
ma sell personal property OF any
description, with The exception oi
BOOKS. are also required to pay thai
mount. This. It Is claimed, works
4 hardship upon tiie small dealers.
While the members Of Council free
admitted the law in lis present
shape is hard on ihe small dealers.
lhcy were unable 90 take any action
last night. ihe matter being referred
80 City Solicitor Huxley for his opin-
ion Tho dealers desired TO know if
they would be arrested in lhe event
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

ways Tor our people 70 cook. and they
ate more meat than anything rise In
decd. FOR many. many days. a. tines
there was nothing else 10 eat For fu-
hiro nso The meat was 80. INTO thin
strips and dried on ec9ffods .of poles
In The sun or over a slow nre.
While II Is true that she worked
hard the Indian girl was never driven
10 2 task. she WIS never a drudge nor
a slave; she worked gladly with 10y
In her heart and song on her lips.
Until the Indian learned the white
mans ways, such a thing as a girl who
aid not work, was unknown But
while she was always busy Al some
Thing. there was variety In plenty. In
me long winter evenings there were
gatherings ~ The people in some one
on tho large tepecs 90 listen 10 the
legends of tho tribe. These togethcr
with stories of the heroic doings oi
mighty men of the past made up IN
part The unwrlticn Bible of Scr peo-
Die And they influenced her lifo a.
truly as do the written Scriptures Oi
tho most devout Christian.
There were dances. too when th'
Young men and women met together ir
lhe nreshlne. when there would %
singing and nmch merrlmont. For th'
Indian was not the sto.cal, solemr
creature whch has been pictured
Evening journal., 1919-07-31
news HAPPENINGS
ABOUT new CASTLE
Robert Patterson, Popular
Man. Dies Of Dropsy Alter
Lingering Illness
AGAIN TEST NEW
FIRE FIGHTER
DeelaI Do The EyenIng Journal.

Special to The Evening Journal
NEW CASTLE, July 3i-word has
been received here OF the sudden death
OF Robert Patton, only son Of Mrs.
Ann Patton, OF Third street. lie had
been IN for some time from drops~
end- was taken to the Chester hospital
several weeks ago for treatment. He
was a years old and leaves a wife and
swo children. The funeral arrange
ments will be announced later.
The New Castle First baseball team
will play the West End A. c. this eve
ming al Battery Park The game Will
be called at G3O o'clock
Lee Kirk; son Of William Kirk. Of
Wilmington. who Is visiting hs grand-
nother. here, has been suffering with
poisoned feet
The new flre engine Of the Good
VIII Company was given a satisfactory
test last evening.
George Mailman is suffering with a
very sore arrm
The months old child of William
and Emma Stevenson of North Fourth
street, who has been very IN. is some
what improved
Mrs. Edward Hemphill, who has been
employed at the fibre plant, has re-
signed her position
Wanted-A dog catcher. Apply at
mayors oflce.-Adv.
John Levy. Of Wilmington is visiting
his sister, MIS- Eugene Lewis. on Third
street.
w w Leach, tax collector an
nounces the following rates for this
city: County and poor. 20 cents on
500; school, so cents on 800. capita
ton, si25.
The rebates are as follows: Five
per cent. county and poor; per cent.
school No rebate Is allowed on capi-
iation tax The rural rates are as fol
lows County and poor. 20 cents on
si00 road. b cents on 500. school. &c
cents on SOD, capiiaiion, si2j The
rebate Is the same as in the city Due
10 the new school code. which has re-
Gently been accepted by this city, the
tax rates are considerably higher than
'asl year Collector Leach has most
lf his statements mailed
Many people from This city are rent
.ng cottages al Lorewood Grove, where
hoN viii spend their vacation. Some
1f them are: Mr.. and Mrs. John Bridge
Naiar and family, Mrss Frank Sheridan
I'd family. Miss Myrtle McGuirc,. Mr..
ns Mrs William Kee ana family. Mr..
lna Mrs Harold Hobbs and family Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Deemcr and family. MIR.
tni Mrs Waller Setiey and family, John
icDcyiii and John Muliin.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

Sometimes. TOO. they would act Out
The story OF mythic hero, for they
had their thcsiricals.
Grandmother was what you would
call savage squsw" am civilized
But there is no doubt that she got as
much fun out OF swinging an AZ as
do out OF swinging tennis racquet
Working With the knowledge that she
was doing something worth while
made the indian girl OF her day strong
and healthy.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31
TAHAN'S DAUGHTER
TELLS or
Indian Girls Religion, Work and
Play
ny PRINCESS NACOOMEE
Of me Klowa Indian Tribe.

'A NtAN hNNfhN AAANNNA 80"
Every Indian girl worked Until our
people began 10 live like while people,
work was part OF her very lie. As
soon as she was big enough she
helped her mother carry wood and
water; She picked berries. dug roots.
tanned The skins OF animals which she
made into clothing
Among the mgny other things she
did was 10 cook. In the old days
when tho hunter brought in tho huf-
ialo. deer, or other game. the frst
thing she helped her mother do was 10
cut a piece o' The meat as an offering
10 her god. This was put upon a pole
behind the tepec u was The Indians
way OF thanking her god for the food
After that she might fix tender pieces
OF ihe steak on the ends of short
sticks. thrust the other ends ~ tho
sticks into the ground near the nre.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

slanilng toward a. But Just near
enough 80 that nc meat would not
burn. when The juice began 90 drip
from the hrolling meat, 10 fell into %
cup-oftcn made Of buffalo horn-on
We ground beneath H. The marrow
bones were put into the nrc aud
roasted.
Those two ways were the easiest
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

the same quantity OF actual iron in the tab
lets a. less than one-fourth the coat 10 ,,a
and by using metallic iron we couid have
accomplished the same thing nc less than
must have most certainly impaired their
therapeutic efficacy. GIvceronhosnhafee
usel In Nuxated Iron is one OF tho most
expensive tonic ingredients known N is
especially recommended TO build IN the
nerve force and thereby increase 'brain
power, as Giycerophosphates are said 10
contain phosphorus I'm that particular stafe
80 similar TO that IN which ~ is found in
the nerve and brain cells OF men.
As will be seen from the above. two i'm
portant ingredients OF Nuxated Iron Iron
Peptonate and Glycerophosphates) are very
expensive products as compared with most
other tonics
Under such circumstances the temptatIon
20 adultoration and substitution by nm
ecrupulous persons, rs very great and the
public Is hereby warned 10 be careful and
sec every bottle is plainly labeled ''Nux.
atcd Iron by the Dac Health Laborator-
les, Paris. London and Detroit U. S. A., as
this is the only genuine article II YOU
have taken other forms Of iron without
success. this does not prove Nuxated Iron
MANUFACTURERS NOTE - Nuxated
Iron is not a secret remedy. hut one which
Is well known 10 druggists everywhere.
Unlike the older inorganic iron products n
is easily assimilated. does not iniure the
teeth. make them black, nor upset the
stomach Nuxated Iron is not recommend ded
for use In cases OF acute illness, but only
as a tonic. strength and blood builder. Dn
ease OF illness always consult your family
if In doubt as 20 whether or not you mead
a tonic ask your doctor as VIC do not wish
10 sell you Nuxated Iron II you do not
require Il. II you should use u and i
does not help ycu, notify Us and we viii
return your money. II is sold by all drug
gists.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

The Want Ads are the great informa
tion bureau Of the yorker.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31

The firm is reorganiznrtwo Of the members retiring
Tuo Piece English and Conservative Styles for
Evening journal., 1919-07-31
10 READERss

Prhccss Nacoomee Is tho dauah-
ter OF Chief rahan whose Indian
stories have been such a nit with
The Evening JournHl hoy readers.
Her stories are authentic accounts
cf woman and child life among the
Indians written especially FOR WI
mlngion girls and published in The
Evening Journal only.
EDITOR.
Evening journal., 1919-07-31
GUESTS or Ans. \. n. BuI.

Special 10 The Evening Journal.
WASHINGTON. n. G., July 3i<-Afrs.
T.. Ho.sler Ball. wife OF the junior SEN
ator from Delaware has Miss Alice
Johnson. Of Newport, Del. snd Miss
Mary stelle. OF Cordova, Md. with her
here as guests this week.