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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27

when it first came into general use
Was its stiffness. There was not that
give" and spring in the metal pen
which characterized the old-fashioned
goose quill pen.
This was remedied, however, by the
side splits which we see in pens to-
day, and for many years the method
of Sitting the pens by means of a
press was kept secret by those ia
nous pen makers, elliott and Mason.
Briefly, the methoa of manufacture
of a steel pen today may be described
as follows: The blanks are pierced
and the Sits cut, after which the pen
requires to be softened by annealing.
Then they are raised and hardened,
secured with acid, colored, vanished
and dried, girls afterward looking
over the pens, throwing aside the
faulty ones and packing the good
ones into boxes ready for sale.
How the trade has grown may be
gathered from the fact that in 1885
steel pens were not generally known,
but in 1849 the trade was a leading
industry in Birmingham. There were
twelve factories, employing about
1000 men, women and girls, the week.
ly output of pens being stated at 65,-
900 gross.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
NEWARK AND LATIN-AMERICAN TRADE.

THE OPENING of the Panama canal will bring Newark
in touch with Lan-Amerca both sides
the continent What Newark manufacturers doing in anic
patton of having these markets? Some idea of
their Importance be had in the statement that last year the
foreign trade of LanAmeca and half billions which
increase of nearly billion in years What will the
trade be after the Panama canal is opened?
What amount of Newark manufactures go to South
America would be difficult ascertain We know what
but do where all the products taken for
consumption they find various channels But ought to
have good trade with Central and South America for large
part manufactures such the people those
need and buy
There much greater necessity than before for
manufacturers seek foreign markets. Without much
effort American trade with the countries south of has
creased remarkably showing what could be done real efforts
made these markets. In providing for meadow
manufacture and harbor for
Newark should forth organized efforts for LatnAmercan
The should be we'll advertised throughout the southern
should combine send
ve who speak the Spanish and Portuguese languages and
otherwise we'll qualified deal with Latin-Amercans.
The without intelligent and welldirected
part There difficulties and nfu-
increasing markets there
be made enrich city if manufacturers
their interests and the citys welfare
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

as equally strong In armament? The
question is suggested by Winston
ChurchilPs naval holiday" proposal,
which has been made the subject of
an approving resolution by Repre-
sentative in Congress Hensley of Mis-
souri,. Mr.. Churchill's plan contem-
plates simply mo battleship build
ing program for all nations for one
year. If the Suggestion be adopted
the great governments will save some
money for the time being. but there
is no assurance that they will not
spend in a second year twice the saw
ing OF one year. The only reason for
the building of battleships by any
country is that it may keep pace in
naval construction with the other
powers. No one country wants an
other country to get ahead of 1t. lest
If war should come humiliation for
the weaker sea power should oome
with it. Why not go back to the
wooden ships and smoothbore guns
which cost SO little? If no country
had anything but ships of oak and
cannon of ordinary iron. all fleets,
save, of course, for preponderance of
numbers in some cases, would be
equal when meeting broadside to
broadside Would not equal weak
ness serve the same purpose as equal
strength? The battle would go as
nearly always il must go, If luck be
eliminated. to the more skillful bellig-
erent.
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Starts as Bootblack, Expects to Land in
United States Senate.

The itinerant merchant was Ole
Hansen.
When he drove into Seattle, eleven
years ago after that fiye-months' trip
across the plains, he was ragged. un-
kempt and broke; but he no longer
dangled from the hoop in the wagon.
He had regained his health. -
Now he's a candidate for the seat
of Senator Wesley L. Jones, who voted
for Lorimer, and now seeks re-elec-
ton. The wise ones see Jones's finish,
for Ole always wins.
Born forty years ago in Racine, he
started in business as a bootblack.
He married at the age of tWenty-one.
Both before and after his marriage
he peddled from door to door all over
the country, selling books, trinkets
and little household Inventions. Then
came the train wreck in Texas, and
his trip to Seattle.
The first night in town, broke, he
bought grocery store. Later he en-
tered the real estate business. He
played the square game and never
had lawsuit.
About six years ago Ole broke into
politics. He walked into the office OF
big evening paper, laid his picture
on the editorial desk and asked for.
the top half of the front page of the
next issue, in which to say that he
was candidate for the Legislature.
And If am elected am going to
close every race track in the State
where gambling is conducted he
added.
He got 1t, was elected, and closed
them
That's Ole.
Ole has some front. He cares moth
ing for old forms and customs, knows
no rules Of warfare but his own, al
ways does the unexpected thing and
always wins. He says he's going to
grab Wesley "Lorimer" Jones's seat
in the Senate.
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to furnish practically all the nicotine
that may be needed here
Tn the future it will be enough to
apply to the nearest tobacco depos-
itory for extracts of nicotine, which
will be dispensed containing 100 grams
(3.527 ounces avoirdupois) of nicotine
to the liter Q.057 liquid quarts) in cans
of " liter, l liter or liters, at the
prices of $0.386. $o.656 and $3.0sS, re-
spectively. The tobacco dealers must
furnish the cans on demand.
Tobacco Juice, which is preferred
for certain uses to nicotine extract OH
account of the tars and gums it con-
tains, is supplied in the form of to-
bacco juice fortified with 40 grams
l1.411 ounces) of nicotine to the liter
The price for this preparation is reck-
oned at Their ate of $40 per lsilo
(2.2046 pounds) of nicotine therein con-
tanned.
Furthermore, tho tobacco factories
will supply tobacco juice containing
20 grams (0.705b ounce or even 10
CRANE (O.3527 ounce> of nicotine per
liter on the basis of charge Of SASS
per lSilo of nicotine. On account of
their diluted condition these juices are
not susceptible of shipment to great
distances"
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facture of American varnishes could
be supplied. One hundred and TWEEN
ty thousand acres would be large
plantation IL owned by one man, but
In reality 1t Is only about $50 square
miles, and far larger amounts of
abandoned farmlands than this may
be found in several States.
The wood oil tree can be grown on
land which is comparatively poor and
unsuited for other crops. A net profit
of at least $40 an acre is estimated
kind of land. The trees begin to
yield at five or six years OF age, and
probably reach their normal yield
when about ten years old. continuing
productive for about forty years,
which is the limit of their life. Trees
which have already been planted in
this country and have fruited in their
seventh year yield an average of
about fifty pounds of nuts a year.
Twenty-three per cent. of this weight
can be reduced to oil.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
DECEMBER 27
Lady Sydney Morgan
Copyrighted. 1918.


tho critic says, misguided genius. II
was immensely popular and went
through seven editions in two years.
After these successes she was in
vited to become a permanent mem
Der of the house of the Marquis OF
Abercorn. Here she was received by
the best society, and 8 surgeon at
tached to the marquis devoted him.
self to her. Rather against her will
she consented to marry him, and then
began to use her influence to get him
knighted. This she managed to do
through the kindness of the Marquis
of Abercorn. Thus the ambitious
| Sydney had the privilege of being
called Lady Sydney Morgan. Her
writing continued. When it portrayed
the humble Irish life, such as she
had experienced as girl, it was ex-
cellent, and some of it possessed
humor and wit of the highest order.
She always managed to get herself
talked about, and through the strong
partisan nature of many of her books
became q political factor Of impor
lance in Irish society. She received
governmental pension III later life
In token of her contributions to liter
ature--the first example of a pension
being granted TO a woman for liter
airy achievements.
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III This Mans Name Was Shorter He
Would Be Richer Today.
An Automatic Cab Call

An automatic system of calling
public carriages. which seems to be
giving general satisfaction, has been
installed in Hamburg, according to
United States Consul-General Robert
p. Skinner Mr.. skinner says that
thus far Hamburg is the only city IN
the world in which the system Is IN
use.
MIR. Skinner says the automatic
machines. which resemble externally
letter boxes, have been placed at
every vehicle stand in the city, and
are connected with a central office
by an individual wire Anyone who
desires to call a carriage, finding
none at the stand, places one mark
piece (about "a cents) in the ma
chine, whereupon his presence is in
dicated Immediately at the central
office, and the central office, being
already advised of the number and
location of the free vehicles at all
other stands, imm ediately causes
motor to proceed to the waMing GUS
toner, who is credited with the one
mark already paid into the machine
when he settles his fare.
Persons in their own houses or
places of business who desire motor
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"a little, humpbacked, old woman,
rouged, wigged, yivacious and some-
what silly, vain, gossiping and os-
tentatious, larding her talk with
scraps of French such was Lady
Sydney Morgan as an old woman
toward the close of her remarkable
career
She was born in Dublin, December
9th, probably in 1888, though some
of her gossipping rivals would have
proved that 1t was eight years ear
lier. She was tradesman's daugh-
ter, and fortune did not seem inclined
to smile on her, but wherever she
went she left a wake of wit and high
spirits. She sang and played the
harp and danced and kept up such a
flow of vivacity that she was bound
to make her mark. She may have
appeared on the stage in her early
womanhood, though this was after
ward strenuously denied. She did,
however, act as governess in several
good Irish families, and it was while
she was so employed that she began
to write sentimental words to accom-
pany the old Irish tunes. These songs
were trashy, but they were popular
and in 1906 in the hope of making
large profits she wrote 1.-THE Wild
Irish Girl" a work of genius but, as
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27

The State of Washington is getting
ready to send another Bull Moose to
keep Miles Poindexter company in
the Senate. Miles now holds the dis
tinction of being the only one on the
job, but he will probably have to
share the honor with Ole Hansen in
1916.
Ole is one of the leading real estate
operators in Seattle. He hit the town
eleven years ago fiat broke.
Thereby hangs a little yarn about
Ole.
Too much speed or loose rail
sent the local for Macon, Tex, into
the ditch and in a twinkling, several
cars and a nondescript engine were
''scrapped." A. column of smoke re-
placed the cloud of dust as it cleared
away. Frantic survivors dragged in
jured companions from the wreckage.
Among the rescued was an itinerant
merchant and his family.
A beam had fallen across his back
and nc was paraiyzed from his hips
down. All their belongings were de-
stroyed and the flames formed a
funeral pyre for his youngest daugh-
ter. The doctors said there was no
Hhope for the injured man and he was
taken to his home at Racine, Wis,
to die.
A few months later a camp wagon
crept slowly westward over dusty
Dakota roads. The driver divided his
attention between the team and the
strange figure Of a man, who, sup
ported by chain attached to a hoop
under his shoulders, dangled from the
end of pole, half walking, half
dragging. in the rear.
1t was the itinerant merchant, CIV
ing the doctors the lie-learning to
walk again. His face was tense
with pain ut times, but he joked with
his wife and children about his queer
missteps.
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

the desk of the Stock Yards station
soon before o'clock tonight. when
the telephone rang loudly. Having
been a policeman for several years.
he lit cigar, manicured his nails
and sprang to the wire. When he
asked who it was, on general prln-
ciples, he thought siren whistle an
sWered. All the time it was Nicholas
and so forth trying to interest him
in his fire. When he finally got ac-
customed to Nicholas method of oral
fascination he asked him to spell his
name. The remark made by Nicholas
before he started that great work
sounded like the blasting of the Gam
boa dixie.
And in the meantime in the little
fruit store apples were baked corn
popped and the whole place cracked.
Nicholas was still spelling when tbs
apparatus returned to their quarters
after putting out the embers.
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WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

place of the present agreement,
which expires in March, 1915.
Minors between fourteen and six
teen years of age may work bS hours
a week in the Netherlands.
This country has more than tive
million women employed in indus
trial pursuits.
Bricklayers in Boston, Mass, are
now receiving $3.50 week, as
against $20.16 In 1898.
Union cigarmakers issued more
than thirty millions of labels last
year.
A Operative store Is being start
ed in Richmond Va, the unions be-
ing largely interested.
st. John, N. b.. City Council is dis
cussing a fair-wage clause and prob
ably win adopt it in the near future.
Free schools, free text books and
compulsory education are advocated
by the A. Il. of l..
An amendment of the BellinSham,
Wash, city charter is to be submit
ted. the purpose OF which is to es-
tablish free Employment bureau.
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THE WAR THAT CASTS ITS SHADOW BEFORE.

PROBABLY ONLY the populations OF the principal Japanese
cities pay attention the nations foreign affairs and have know
edge of apan relations with the United States but the popular
sentiment in the cities the nation and influences
And this sentiment is rabdy hostile to the United States
and avo Japan rapidly building she has army
many larger and is thoroughly organized What
she apparently lacks money, but she has rich ally Her
chest could be filled by England.
If there nothing between this country and Japan but
the California question might treat it with indifference
But that question only mask The United States Pacific
and unless arrested will ultimately dominate the AS
enterprise chiefly been in internal development and the
Atlantic have looked seriously to the western
The opening the Panama canal will begin of national
enterprise the Pacific and necessarily will be at the expense
Of Japan Japanese oresee that and the Japanese
lace by instinct The belief is universal Japan that
supremacy in the Pacific be fought between
and it shared by all Americans who have know
edge Japan And what has Congress done what does
ose put nation in position repel attack carry
q war?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Public Service of British Journalist

Shortly before the late Robert r.
Hit began the important work com
mitted to him by President Mckinney,
which involved the establishment of
a government under the United States
flag in the Hawaiian Islands, l mad
n long chat with him. We were old
friends. / used occasionally to chat
with him while he was serving as
assistant secretary of State in Gar
fields administration about the new
historic debates between Abraham
lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.
these debates Mr. Hit reported Ste
GEOGRAPHICALLY and il is from his ste
nographic notes that the permanent
report of the speeches was secured
and published, ,,.4
Il sometimes think said Mr.. HIT,
that the men whose business Is
journalism, are the least recognizes
and, in this country, too infrequently
called from their newspaper desks to
public service"
"When | was serving as charge
d'affaires in Paris, l learned that
there is no surer road to political
preferment in France than the path
way over which the successful Jour-
nalist passes.
'sStill some of the most important
OF all public services have been those
given by newspaper men, for when
they have received no recognition
either in the form of public acknowl-
edgment or reasonable pecunlary
compensation.
at heard when in Paris the story
of the very great service which was
given by Frederick Greenwood 10 the
british nation. Mr.. Greenwood was
q highly accomplished newspaper
man. He was for some years very
successful editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette. an editorial chair also &C.
cupied by John Morley, one of the
ablest of British statesmen.
",rhe story. as I heard 1t, was to
this effect. Mr.. Greenwood heard in
cidentally through friend who was
in somewhat intimate relations with
the public men of France that the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27

khedive of Egypt was anxious to sell
his stock in the Suez canal He was
negotiating with France, whose pub
lie men were very anxious to pur-
chase that stock, but who were hold
ing off SO that they might drive a
good bargain.
"Mr. Greenwood's friend said to him
that he was convinced that Great
Britain could get that stock If it made
an immediate offer of spot cash for it.
The story, as it was told TO me, spoke
of twenty million dollars of our money
as the price which the khedive wanted
for his stock.
Greenwood did not hesitate a mo-
ment He sought an immediate inter-
view with Lord Beaconsfield. who was
then prime minister. He told Bea-
consfield what he had heard. The
prime minister became intensely in
| terested But what was he to do?
| Parliament was not in session, and II
| it had been Beaconsfield would not
care to lay the proposition before that
| body Yet it was imperative that he
! put his hand Immediately upon TWEEN
| ty million dollars. He went to one OF
| the Rothschilds, who agreed to ad-
vance him the money, relying as Sc
curity upon Beaconsfield's promise to
get the grant of the money as soon as
parliament met. The telegraph COM
pleted the transaction, and within q
/ few hours after Greenwood brought
| the highly important information to
the prime minister that the title to the
! khedive's shares was in the British
cabinet. That meant everything for
Great Britain's influepce In Egypt
Afterward Lord Beaconsfield was
highly praised for having the courage
to buy the shares and the Rothschilds
we're also praised for advancing the
| money. But nobody ever heard OF
| Greenwood's share of the transaction
nor did he ever receive a penny for
taking this information to Lord Bea-
consfield.
| Copyright 1918, by r. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
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Women journalists in the United
states number 2,193.
London (Can.) LABOR unions will
build a labor temple.
The anti Asiatic law OF British Co
lumbia has been declared Illegal.
Since 1867 there have been fifteen.
mining disasters in Yorkshire, Engo
costing 1898 lives.
Chinese boatmen in Darien, Man
churia. arc paid thirty-five cents
day
Reporters on Baltimore MD news
papers are considering the formation
of union.
Bartenders In Juneau. Alaska, are
paid So for an eight-hour day.
There are eight trade unioeIsts per
200 Inhabitants In Turkey.
Blacksmiths pay the president of
their International organization $500
a year.
British coal miners are using their
section of the coal Cancellation board
10 put forward a proposal for a re-
vised scale of wages 10 take the
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EATING AWAY THE JERSEY COAST.

THE INROADS the New Jersey by the fierce
did much damage Seabrgh suggest the necessity
of protection from of the
The seashore very valuable of the State and calls
adequate safeguards the violence great Long
had fine beach that made the place the popular
the Atlantic but the beach and much Of
fhe upland became swallowed up in the
Along northern great changes have been made
he last quarter century by the pounding of the surf
storms Several years the State geologs Holland
study system of holding back the ascertain it
the New Jersey His conclusions
acted upon.
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Che Ubiquitous Girl

There's pretty girls in every port ~.
That fronts upon the foam,
For I've made love in Labrador,
In Cairo, and in Rome;
I've kissed the girls of London Town
And sweet to kiss were they,
But Burmah girls are just as sweet
And Frisco girls as gay!
There's always eyes to sparkle bright
And hearts a-beatng warm,
There's lips the man who's bold may kiss
And waists to fill an arm
The maids are fair in Argentine
And dainty in Japan,
There's girls to love in all the world
If you're proper man.
And who's the fairest of the fair?
Well hang me if know!
Sometimes ! think she lives in France,
Sometimes in Callao;
But take EN- north and take EN- south,
And take EN- east and west,
Of all the girls in all the world
The last one is the best.
-Berton Braley in Harper's Week
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FOREST NOTES

There are 703 bighorns, or mountain
sheep, in the national forests of Ne
vada.
In twenty-six States there are State
foresters who cooperate with private
timber land owners in solving forest
problems. .aLi41
The forest service maintains nine
experiment stations for studies in re-
forestration and similar subjects.
The bureau of entomology and the
forest service, working together for
the control of forest insects, last year
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The xVIth Century Bedroom.
Troro The Tapdou ChrnntnIa

The XVIII Century Bedroom.
From the London Chronicle.
The sixteenth century bedroom
would have been horror to a gener-
alton such as this. Harrison, in his
Description OF England" referring
to the growth of comfort in Eliza
bethan times, says:
IF it were SO that our fathers or the
good man of the house had within
seven years of his marriage pur-
chased mattress or fiockebed, and
thereto sacl1et of chaffe to rest his
head upon, he thoughte himself to be
as well lodged as the lord Of the town,
that peradventure laie seldom in a
bed of downs or whole feathers, so
well were they contented, and with
such base kind of furniture, which
also is not verie much amended as
yet in some parts of Bedfordshire,
and elsewhere further off from our
southern parts.
''As for servants, il they had anie
sheet above them, it was well, for
seldome had they anie under their
bodies, to heepe them from the prick
ing straws that ran oft through the
canvas of the pallet and rased their
hardened hides"
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to be sent to then." continues Mr..
Skinner, have only to make known
their wishes TO the central telephone
office with which the cab-calling sys-,
tenn is provided and the call is at
once transmitted to the nearest cab
stand where there are idle vehicles"