Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-15
When the worlds A.keyv.

FROM the December Atlantic.
Take work. Do you complain of
it? Try doing more, of a productive
sort. An engine builder received
complaint that his engine burned too
much coal. "HIow many cars on the
train?" was the telegraphed query,
with the reply, -Four" TRY twelve"
went the prescription, and the train
drew twelve with economy Of fuel
Your brain tired?" William James
echoed a student. Never mind,
work straight on and your brain will
get its second wind" I myself do not
know of any anodyne surer and quick
er than that found in the garden.
When all the world is askew, dib-
bling in seedlings in straight rows is
a wonderful solace. Why do so many
women treat domesticity as druid
gerry? Its infinite variety, so unlike
the monotonous tasks of men, often
wearies the mind, but like Chesterdon
do not see how 1t can narrow it.
And Socialism, with its cry of arm
chairs for workingmeni Armchairs,
as Creighton nobly says, will bring
no lasting happiness: but to quicken
human being, even ones self, into
a sense of the meaning of his life and
destiny, that is real happiness.
Repairing Old Venice.
From the New York Times.
Ever since the fall OF the Cam
panile in 1902, not only the city of
Venice, but also the national gov
eminent, has been paying more at
tention to preserving from ruin the
principal historic buildings of Venice.
The basilica of st. Mark has now an
endowment of over $4,000 a year, and
other appropriations are being made
for the purpose of repairing other
monuments, such as SIS. Giovanni e
Paeola and Torcello Santa Fosca.
The foundations of st. Mark are
being completely renovated, and in
the necessary excavation many relics
of old Venice have come to light,
while in the interior the mosaics have
been taken down and new walls built
to back them. Behind several of the
cupolas also new mortar from Casale
Monferato, similar to that used for
the new Campanile, has been sub
stituted for the old and crumbling
stuff, which scarcely kept the bricks
together. At present thirty-four
masons and ten mosaic workers are
engaged on repairing the interior,
which probably will take two years to
complete.
The exterior of the building prob
ably will be repaired in half that time.
Here, nearly opposite the entrance
to the Merceria, was found the most
unstable foundation. This has been
reinforced in the same manner that
the old foundation of the Campanile
was reinforced, by piles and layers
of stone. The excavations revealed
an ancient cemetery full of human
bones dating from the ninth or tenth
century. also portions of two earlier
churches antedating the present ST. !
Marks, which was not begun till
1904
At the Angle of SAINT Alpio capt.
tai of the second church, probably
dating from the time of the Doge
Domenico Contarini In 1868, is now /
visible. 1t must, however, soon be
covered by the new foundations, as
also must two splendid Byzantine
peacocks found carved at the back of
another richly worked stone. AL
though these and other relics may
not long be preserved to view except
through photographs they add great
interest to the origin of the predeces-
sors of the present basilica--the
primitive church built by the Doge
Giovanni Participate in 1929. and de-
stroyed by fire in 976, and the second
and more elaborate basilica, COM
pleted In 1911.
Germany's Warning 10 the Kaiser.
From the New York World.
No such lesson has been admins |
tered in long time to the kaisers
ministers as the warning delivered
by the Reichstag because of the high |
conduct Of ho r,,iIifa,~.y