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The Midland Journal
BEING SUN. : :: MARYLAND
OVERALL* FOR SCHOOLGIRL*.
Dr. Henry 8. Curtis of Clark unlver
•lty, who la one of the moat active
workers In the Playgrounds Associa
tion of America, has offered a sugges
tion that should appeal to mothers of
young girls and one which. If adopted,
will probably cause the girls to rise up
la future years and call him blessed.
Dr. Curtis, appreciating the handicap
that girls have In play and outdoor
athletics, suggests that girls up to the
age of thirteen or fourteen years be
allowed to wear trousers or overalls
and thus meet their boy playmates on
an equality. The suggestion appears
wholly commendable so long as
thought Is had only of the larger op
portunities that would be offered to
the girls thus relieved of the Impedi
ment In athletic work and outdoor ex
ercise. From a purely economy stand
point, too, It would make possible a
big saving in the clothing and laundry
accounts of the girls, but there Is an
other phase of the question, says the
8t Paul Pioneer Press. Man’s monop
only of trousers has been a source of
* envy among women for many years,
but the been trained to
skirts and petticoats from the cradle
and It Is apparently Impossible for
them to make an open breakaway and
demand the right and privilege of don
ning pantaloons. If the girls start
with overalls and have a dozen years
or so In such freedom habit Is likely
to be formed which will make them
light before surrendering their style of
dress.
New Tork has bad several cases of
fatal toadstool poisoning of late, and
an effort has been made by the news
papers of that city to Instruct the
public In the Important and easily
recognized differences between the
edible and the non-edible fungus. Cer
tain broad rules are so simple that
they can be written down to be re*
ferred to whenever the temptation Is
felt to pick and eat One of these Is
that the edible mushroom Is white
above and pink beneath, the pink
changing to a browning hue, growing
darker with age. The surest way Is to
bring home the Srst hatful of sup
posed mushrooms and submit them to
some neighborhood authority, such as
may always be found close at hand.
But there Is one general rule of safe
ty: When In any doubt whatever,
throw the tempting morsel away.
When fish change their places of
residence they usually travel by wa
ter. The finny Inhabitants of Kenslco
lake, near Westchester, a suburb of
New Tork, form an exception to the
rule. The lake Is being drained, and
all the game fish It contains, especial
ly pike and bass, are to be carried
overland to neighboring bodies of wa
ter the fishing clubs of the vicinity
bearing the\npense. Only game fish
will be thus preserved. A moving pic
ture company has arranged to photo
graph the work, which In this way
become familiar to the entertainment
loving public throughout the country.
The women’s colleges are contem
plating the Introduction of courses in
matrimonial availability in order to
Increase the percentage of graduates
who find a domestic career. Just
what qualification will be asked of the
sterner sex professors does not ap
pear.
In Minneapolis somebody recently
stole a SI,OOO painting, and the town
la greatly excited. Poof! Here we
should not get excited over the theft
of a painting that was worth a cent
less than $50,000.
A woman In Pittsburgh Insisted on
having her crippled feet cut off so she
could walk. It was the Inconsistency
of the feminine mind which suggested
ttte idea, but “it worked.
The stranger who was arrested for
throwing away money on the Bowery
should have thrown It away In Walt
street, where It would not have at
tracted attention.
Bumming up the chicken con
troversy which correepondends have
been carrying on for some time, the
fact seems to be that there Is money
In chickens If you can get it out.
Are there more comets In the sides
than there used to be, or does the
eye at the telescope see farther Into
space?
Night harvesting of wheat In Minne
sota presumably la made possible be
cause the yield is so light.
Before long many energetic persons
will begin their regular winter pastime
of Rounding on the steam pipes.
The trouble with being a prise bog
Is that the owner gets all the glory.
i Turkeys are plentiful, thus portend
k tng a short cranberry crop.
L
MANY MILES OF
- SHIPS
Navy Assembles 102 Warships
In New York.
TAFT REVIEWS THE FLEET
Warships Of All Classes Anchored In
the Hudson River From the Bat
tery To Harlem—A Grand
Naval Spectacle.
New York. —In other respects than
mere number of ships and power of
armament, the great naval review here
eclipsed any naval pageant ever seen
In this country. President Taft sailed
through the four lines of ships at
anchor in the Hudson river, watched
the vast armada pick up its anchors
and get under way. Then lead the
long column down the bay and off
Staten Island stood aside on the May
flower and again reviewed the fleet j
as It passed out to sea.
The Presidential survey took place
on Thursday. Wednesday the Secre
tary of the Navy Inspected the fleet
from the Dolphin.
As the mobilization of the Atlantic
fleet in Long Island Sound five years
ago was the most powerful assemblage
of modern war vessels in the history
of this country up to that time, so will
be the fleet which gathered in this
harbor this week for review. Forty
one vessels in 1906 passed in review
before President Roosevelt. These
vesselß Included 12 first-class battle
ships and 29 armored and protected
cruisers and torpedo boats. In this
week’s review there was 102 vessels,
24 of them battleships comprising the
Atlantic fleet. All these vessels have
an aggregate tonnage of 577,285.
The mobilization of the Atlantic
fleet surpassed Emperor William’s re
view of Kiel, Germany, on Septem
ber 5, when 99 fighting ships were as
sembled, exclusive of torpedo boats,
destroyers, mine planters and sub
marines. The total displacement of
the fleet reviewed by. the German Em
peror amounted in round numbers to
500,000 tons.
This collection of ships outweighed
the French display at Toulon last
month, and will rank second only to
the array of fighting ships which as
sembled at Splthead on June 24 last
in honor of the coronation of King
George.
The purpose of this week’s mobili
zation iz to show the preparedness of
the fleet, and the defects, if any, in
personnel and material. The mobili
zation was ordered on comparatively
short notice, less than 30 days.
TRAPPING SPARROWS
Govern merit's Experiments Develop
Unexpected Results.
Washington.—Experiments conduct
ed by Dr. A. K. Fisher, of the govern
ment biological survey, in the trap
ping and poisoning of English spar
rows have developed some unexpected
results. The government scientists
have established the fact, by a year’s
observation, that sparrows cling to
prescribed localities and that an en
tire space can be trapped clear of
them.
The extensive grounds of the Agri
cultural Department, in tije heart of
Washington, have been practically
made sparrow free. At the same time
flocks of the birds range up and down
the streets that bound the Agricul
tural Department’s park.
AMERICAN CARDINALS
Tha Papal Delegate Without In
formation.
Rome. —The Pope will create a
large number of cardinals at the con
sistory to be held November 27. The
Most Rev. John M. Farley, archbishop
of New York, and the Most Rev. Wil
liam H. O’Connell, archbishop of Bos
ton, are among those who will receive
the red hat. Monsignor Diomede
Falconlo, apostolic delegate at Wash
ington, also will be elevated, accord
ing to the announcement made Sat
urday.
DYNAMITE PULVERIZED
Passenger Train Pat aas Safely Over
36 Sticks Of Explosive.
San Francisco. —Southern Pacific
Railroad officials here were notified of
the finding of 36 sticks of dynamite in
a frog on the track at Ellwood, Cal.,
a few momenta after train No. 18, a
southbound passenger, had passed tbe
switch. Part of the dynamite was
pulverized, evidently having been
ground by the car wheels. The ex
plosive was found within a few miles
of the bridge where a similar cache
was planted when President Taft’s
train passed October 17.
Shakespeare la Rsjectad.
Chicago.—Shakespeare has been re
jected as “licentious,” unclean and ob
jectionable” by the Youthful Literary
Lights of the Hammond High School,
and they are receiving the support of
their teachers to have the author of
: The Taming of the Shrew, Venus and
Adonis and Pericles banished from the
curriculum. Beebon Amos, represent
ing the chief literary societies of the
school, in presenting the demand to
the faculty, characterised the Bard of
Avon as “a cheap grandstand player.”
DYNAMITE PUT CHARGED
UP ID THE M’NAMARAS
Federal Inveetlgation Claims To Have
Unearthed Coneplraey Aake
County Court To Supply
Evidence.
Indianapolis.—That according to in
formation in the possession of the
United States District Attorney, a
conspiracy unlawfully to transport
dynamite from State to State has
existed with headquarters in the of-'
flees of John J. McNamara here is the
statement of a petition filed in the
County Criminal Court here. The
petition prays for possession of evi
dence in the case to be used in a Fed
eral Grand Jury investigation.
John J. McNamara, James B. Mc-
Namara, Ortie E. McManlgal “and
others working in concert with them,"
are the persons alleged by United
States Attorney Charles W. Miller to
have engaged in the conspiracy.
Dynamite and nitroglycerine were un
lawfully transported on passenger
trains in interstate commerce through
Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Mis
souri and California, according to the
petitioner.
Admissions, incriminating letters
and other evidence, tlie petitioner re
cites, are contained In books, papers
and boxes of explosives and weapons
seized by the police in a raid on the
offices In this city of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, of which John J. Mc-
Namara is secretary.
(Evidence, it is charged, was also
found in a box at the home of D.
Jones, an ironworker, and was found
at the lodgings of John J. McNamara.
All of this evidence is now in charge
of Judge Joseph Markey of the Crim
inal Court, and it is desired for a
Federal Grand Jury inquiry to be
opened on November 7.
TRIED TO KILL FAMILY
Tragedy the Direct Result Of Family
Discord.
Parkersburg, W. Va.—Driven to
desperation by the fact that his pretty
wife, who was suing him for a divorce,
had given information to the state au
thorities which bid fair to lodge him
behind prison walls for many years,
Carroll James, a Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad conductor, armed with two
revolvers, at Pennsboro, Ritchie
county, wreaked summary vengeance
upon his wife’s family.
Invading the home of his father-in
law, William Pritchard, about 2 o’clock
A. M., by breaking in the front door,
James began firing at the figures in
the beds in the different rooms before
the occupants were fairly awakened.
He shot and instantly killed Mr.
Pritchard, his father-in-law, as he rose
from the bed; shot Mrs. Jennie
Pritchard, his mother-in-law, three
times, Inflicting upon her probably
fatal injuries, and shot his wife, Mrs.
Minnie A. James, in the hip, inflicting
a flesh wound. By an act of Provi
dence the four-year-old daughter of
James, who was sleeping Mrs. James
and Mrs. Pritchard, was not struck by
any of the half dozen bullets which
were fired in her direction. Imme
diately following the shooting in the
house James, after attempting again
to kill his wife and failing to do so,
fired a bullet into his own brain, dying
instantly.
SENDS BOOKS TO AMERICA
Kaiser Glvas Works Of Schiller To
Cincinnati Club.
Cincinnati. —Emperor William of
Germany has honored the German Lit
erary Club of Cincinnati by present
ing it with the jubilee edition of the
complete works of the poet Schiller.
The volumes have just arrived and
will be formally presented to the club
November 29. The Emperor’s gift
was in recognition of the services of
the club in furthering German cul
ture.
YEGGS BREAK BANK
Cut Telephone • (d To eg-aph Wires
Before Tackling Sate.
Shawnee, Okla. —Robbers attacked
the town of McComb, seevral miles
from here, cut telephone and tele
graph wires, then blew open the safe
in the town bank. They got a large
amount of money and escaped before
a Sheriff’s posse could head them off
Big posses are on the robbers’ trail.
WOMAN LASHES JUDGE
Suffragist Wle da Big Horaewh p In
Courthouse Corridor.
Seattle, Wash. Mrj. Christine
Olsen, a prominent suffrage worker
and voter, horsewhipped Judge John
F. Main, of the Superior Court, in the
corridor of the County courthouse.
She rushed upon the judge unexpect
edly and with strong arms wielded
the big horsewhip across his face,
head and shoulders, raising large
welts on his face.
THIS GIRL CAN DRIVE NAILS
Twelve Buried In Board In 46 2-5
Seconds.
St. Paul, Minn. —One more stride
. was taken in the field of feminine ac
complishment when Miss Florence
Wilcox, of St. Paul, a junior co-ed in
. the Minnesota Agricultural School in
, the annual field meet, drove 12 ten
penny nails in the girls’ nail-driving
' contest in the record breaking time of
' 46 5-6 seconds.
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SAFE
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NOVEMBER 30 DAY
OF TIUNIISMG
President Sends Out Annual
Proclamation.
COUNTRY SIGNALLY FAVORED
Country Signally Favored, He Says—
Calls Attention To “Right Har
vests” and Industries Thriving
Beyond “Domestic Needs.’’
Chicago. President Taft Monday
issued his annual Thanksgiving
proclamation, calling upon citizens of
the United States to celebrate Thurs
day, November 30, as a day of thanks
giving and prayer. The proclamation
reads as follows :
“The prople of this land, having
long sanctioned and by practice set
apart toward the close of each pass
ing year a day on which to cease
from their labors and assemble for
the purpose of giving praise to Him
who Is the author of the blessings
they have enjoyed, it is my duty as
chief executive to designate at this
time the day for the fulfillment of
this devout purpose.
“Our country has been signally
favored in many ways. The round of
the seasons has brought right har
vests. Our industries have thriven far
beyond our domestic needs; the pro
ductions of our labor are daily find
ing enlarged markets abroad. We
have been free from the curses of
pestilence, of famine and of war.
Peace Cause Furthered.
“Our national consuls have furth
ered the cause of peace in other
lands, and the spirit of benevolence
has brought us into closer touch with
other peoples to the strengthening of
the bonds of fellowship and good will
that link us to our comrades in the
universal brotherhood of nations.
“Strong in the sense of our own
right and inspired by as strong a
sense of the rights of others, we live
in peace and harmony with the world.
Rich in the priceless possession and
abundant resources wherewith the
unstinted bounty of God has endowed
us, we are unselfishly glad when
other peoples pass onward to pros
perity and peace.
“That the great privileges we en
joy may continue, and that each com
ing year may see our country more
firmly established in the regard and
esteem of our fellow nations, is the
prayer that should arise in every
thankful heart.
November 30 Named.
"Wherefore, I, William Howard
Taft, President of the United States
of America, designate Thursday, the
30th day of November next, as a day
of Thanksgiving and prayer, and I
earnestly call upon my countrymen
and upon all that dwell under the flag
of our beloved country then to meet
In their accustomed places of wor
ship to join in offering prayers to Al
mighty God and devout thanks for the
loving mercies He has given to us.
“In witness thereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United Btates to be affixed. ’’
Done at the city of Chicago thiß
30th day of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eleven, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the
one hundred and thirty-sixth. By the
President,
P. C. KNOX,
Secretary of State.
Killed Turning Off Light.
Pittsburgh. William Reinkemyer,
a butcher of Turtle Creek, a suburb,
was electrocuted while turning off the
light In his shop. Reinkemyer, who
was somewhat undersized, stood in a
damp spot on the floor on hiß tiptoes,
and, reaching for the light, supported
himself with one hand resting on an
Iron pipe. His other hand came in
contact with the metal socket of the
electric lamp, which had become
charged through defective insulation.
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CHINA 6RANTED
A CONSTITUTION
Missionary Is Shot—Rev. A. H. Kep
ler, Hit In Neck By Bullet, In
More Serious Condition Than
Supposed.
Peking.—The Government has is
sued its expected edict granting prac
tical- constitutional rule for China.
Reports of Hankow’s capture by the
Imperial troops last Friday are con
firmed, though it is said the Imperial
ists’ position is not strong, and the
rebels are expected to regain posses
sion of the town soon unless it is de
cided to accept the throne’s offer of
concessions to the revolutionists.
The Imperial edict apologizes for
its neglect in not having bowed to
the people’s wishes sooner. It
promises to exclude the nobility from
the new Cabinet and extends free par
don to all rebels.
The edict, as already forecast, pro
vides for a Parliament, revision of the
present ineffective Constitution, the
substitution of civil for military
methods of maintaining order, re
sponsibility of the Cabinet to Parlia
ment instead of the Emperor, and
curtailment of the latter’s power to a t
point considerably less, for example,'
than that of the President of the
United States.
It is not known positively with what
foreign governments the Manchu
rulers are negotiating for help, but
discovery that it has arranged with
Baron Cottu for an $18,000,000 loan
from an Anglo-Franco-Belgian syndi
cate strongly suggests that it is from
England and France that it hopes the
most. Naturally, this is a black eye
for the rival Anglo-Franco-German
syndicate headed, it is said, by J.
Pierpont Morgan and the Japanese
group, both of which had previously
rejected the Chinese Government’s
overtures.
In the case of England and France,
the changed situation means merely
changes In the flnanoial groups inter
ested.
The United States and Germany
are completely thrown over, and the
plan seems to be to crowd them out
of the Chinese game entirely, if pos
sible.
KISSES WIN STATION.
Twenty Girls Of Oklahoma Town
Trade Their Osculations.
Herrick, Okla. Twenty of the
| city’s prettiest girls offered kisses to
General Manager Kouns, of the Santa
Fee, if he would give the town a new
railroad station. It will be forth
coming.
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FIRST WOMAN JURY.
It Has Been Called In California To
Try An Editor.
Watts, Cal. —The first woman jury
in California has been summoned to
try Editor A. A. King, of the Watts
News, charged with circulating
obscene language through his paper.
CORSET SAVES WOMAN.
Husband’s Attack With Knife Frus
trated By Steel Rib.
New York. —A steel corset rib
alone saved Mrs. Esther Levy when
her husabnd attacked her with a
knife. The point turned as it struck
the corset. /
SEVEN BOYS SPANKED.
Mothers Object To Their Becoming
"Cave Dwellers” Pro Tsm.
Pittsburgh. —Seven waiting mothers
spanked seven sons who aspired to be
cave dwellers after Magistrate Kirby
had reprimanded the boys for read
ing “Thrillers” by a smoky lamp in a
dugout.
DROWNED WITH 630,000.
Search For Miner’s Body Fruitless—
Sixty Feet Of Water Pumped.
Morristown, N. J. —Sixty feet of
water pumped from the Hibernia
mine, where 12 men were killed, has
not revealed their bodies. Frank
Liska, one of those drowned, is said
to have bad $30,000 on his person.
A rotary grater, to be clamped to a
kitchen table. Is a finger saver that
an Ohio woman has patented.
MORE WARSHIPS
SENT TO CHINA 4
American Naval,Forces There
Are Increased.
NO JOINT ACTION AT PRESENT
Chinese Government Instituting Ne
gotiations With Rebels In Hope Of
Terminating the Revolution By Con
cessions^
Washington.—Unable to do much
more than has been done toward
maintaining a naval force in the upper
reaches of the Chinese rivers because
of the lack of light-draft gunboats,
Admiral Murdock, commander-in
chief of the Asiatic station, has de
cided to strengthen the American
naval representation at the deep
water treaty ports. Therefore, he has
ordered the coast defense ship Mont
erey and the double-turreted monitor
Monadnock to proceed at once from
Manila to the Chinese coast. The
Quiros, the last of the small gun
boats left at Manila, also has been or
dered to China and will probably gov
up the Yangtse River. These addi
tional ships are to look solely after
the interests of Americans and
foreigners.
Ambassador Bacon cabled from
Paris that the French government had
decided that it did not see the present
necessity for joint action of the for
eign naval forces in China. This was
doubtless in reply to the sthte depart
ment’s suggestion to various Ameri
can Ambassadors and Ministers that
they learn the purposes of the govern
ments to which they were accredited
in dealing with the situation in China,
and the French response is exactly in
line with the desires of the State De
partment at this stage.
The State Department was informed
through the Chinese legation here of
the appointment of Yuan Shi Kal to
the supreme command of the military
movements in China, confirming the
press reports.
Yuan Shi Kai, at whose instigation
negotiations between the government
and insurrectionists are about to be
gin, is believed here to have been
awaiting such a concession on the
part of the government before con
senting tp take active part in the
campaign. His delay in taking the
field when directed by the throne to
assume charge of the government
troops is thought to have been a
move to force acceptance of his plans
for bringing about peace.
The progress of events in China, It
is pointed out, seems to be favoring
Yuan. Yin Tcheng, the deposed com
mander-in-chief of the imperial army,
was his bitter personal enemy, while
Tan Shao Yi, the newly appointed
minister of communications, is one of
his proteges. Indications here are
that Yuan will be chosen premier.
GROVER CLEVELAND SCHOOL
Memory Of Last Democratic Presi
dent Is Honored.
Washington. The Grover Cleve
land School is the name selected by
the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia for the latest public educa
tional institution of Washington. This
honor to the memory of the last Demo
cratic President was bestowed on the
recommendation of the Board of Edu
cation, which stated that the name of
every deceased President of the Unit
ed States except President Cleveland,
had been used in naming the schools of
the capital.
NEW CHINESE MINISTER
8. Alfred Sze Appointed To Succeed
Chang Yin Tang.
Washington.—S. Alfred Sze has
been selected to be Chinese minister
to Washington, to succeed the in- '
cumbent, Chang Yin Tang, who is
now in Mexico. Mr. Sze Is a gradu
ate of Cornell University and connect
ed with the Chinese Foreign Office.
Mr. Sze is not a stranger In Wash
ington, as he came here first in 1892,
when he was enrolled as a student in
the Central High School, from which
he was graduated four years later.
WHEN IS A BOOK NOT A BOOK.
Custom Authorities Wreptling With a
Perplexing Problem.
Washington.—Having decided that
a hen is not a bird and that an egg Is
always an egg, the csstoms authorities
are now wrestling with a new ques
tion. When is a book not a book?
Should books pay duty as bindings,
paper, printed matter or Just books?
The Customs Court will be called upon
to decide if the principal value of a
set of Dickens is in its covers, or if the
leather binding on the works of
Shakespeare is worth more than the
plays inside.
Must Not Disgrace Family Name.
Evansville, Ind. —“So long as they
do nothing to disgrace the family
name,” the six children of the late
Adam Helfrich are to receive the in
come from his SIOO,OOO estate, accord
ing to his will. • u ,
Falls Hunting Chiltj.
York, Pa. —Lee Boughter, who keeps
Wild Cat Inn, near Marietta, while
hunting for little Arthur Ely. dropped
25 feet from a cliff. Boughter would
have been killed had it not been for
his striking a bed of soft leaves.