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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18

grand equerry, who was generally un-
derstood to have been her favorite.
Being former queen, she suffered
no punishment save that of her own
remorse for this crime and lived to
the age of sixty-three.
Anna Leopoldovna, Anna Carlovna,
as she Is sometimes called, was born
in 171S. and at the age of twenty-one
became ruler of Russia as regent for
her son. Ivan, the lawful heir to the
throne. Here again lay great future,
but, like Christina, Anna failed to
grasp it, Although she was ambitious
and able in many ways she weakened
her position in the government by CIV
ing herself up to indolent pleasures.
She allowed herself to be influenced
by her favorites and after one short
year of power her son, through whom
she made her claims, was sent away
to be murdered at the instigation of
Annals rivals for the throne. Anna
and her husband were sentenced to
Imprisonment on the shores of the
White Sea. Death ended Annals SEN
tence after three years, but her ILL
fated husband endured 1t alone for
thirty-six years.
Among American women born on
December Is probably the best known
is Sarah Title Bolton, who wrote the
rousing Union war song, 1.-THE Union
Forever" and Ralph Farnham's
Dream"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
A Short Term.

George Cohan, just the day before
his automobile accident, was talking
to me about a beautiful chorus girl
who had married millionaire Of sew
enty-eight years." said Philadelphia
impressario.
al was shocked, was indignant, for
the girl is one of the loveliest orea-
lures I've ever seen.
%. ITO think of herr growled. TO
think that that beautiful. beautiful
girl should sell herself to such an old
ruini' 49,,
"Cofan smiled his queer little
twisted smile. :.
"sMy dear boy he said, this isn't
a sale-it's q lease.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18

The New Witchcraft Mania.
From the New York World :.
The country is obsessed by white
slavery to the point where 1t is al
most ready to attribute every mystery
affecting a woman to abduction for
immoral purposes. Sometimes the alb
ductor is said to be woman; hyster-
ical advisers have even warned girls
to fight shy of respectable looking old
ladies in the street. Sometimes the
male SLAYER works with gag, cord and
taxi: sometimes by the Hypnotic
eye" Just now the poisoned needle"
is getting most attention. AS an In
stance of the rubbish uttered about
it, take this "set of rules" received
yesterday by The World:
TO THE GIRL--Carry a card in your
corsage or garter pocket SO that il can
not be taken from you, which will iden-
tify you when the matron at the hospital
is rendering you aid. Immediately you
Call policeman 1 have been stuck
with a pinv
TO THE PUBLIC-Immedlatel call an
officer and send out u hospital call, and
do not permit any claimant to remove
the girl till an officer arrives.
TO THE OFFICER-Detain any man
or woman that claims the girl as a rela-
tive or friend. Endeavor to Identify the
girl Dy u caro- ana nOLlIy
her people. Let her be brought to, and
If possible let her be brought to the hos
pital till she regains her senses. Bring
along the claimant, man or woman. II
they are what they claim, they cannot
object; and when the girl Is restored to
herself, IL she does not recognize them,
place them under arrest
This tremendous exaggeration of
one of the rarest Of crimes has re-
grettable consequences. In cases of
the unexplained and often temporary
disappearance of young woman it
Is unfair to her and cruel to her par
ents to jump at once at the most
shocking and unlikely of explana-
lions. The police of every city know
how many causeless accusations are
made out of hysteria or the mere un-
thinking instinct for notoriety. The
prisons have yielded UP after long
delay some innocent victims of such
falsehoods or delusions.
In Salem witchcraft days, when
harmless old women lost their lives
for commerce with the Evil One, a
mysterious pricking with pins was
one of the charges frequently brought
against them by hysterical girls,
some of whom later recanted. How
nearly history repeats itself in a
country which has grown, of course,
much too intelligent to believe in
witchcrafti
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
THE RESULT OF A JOKE

Some half dozen years ago writer
in Washington wrote an article stat
ing that the secretary of agriculture
was investigating the possibility of
raising skunks for their fur, and be-
lieved in skunk farming lay great
possibilities for money making. The
article was a pure fake 1t was in
tended to be subtle joke. It resulted
In nearly swapping the agricultural
department with inquiries about
skunks, how to raise them and all
that sort of thing. 1t excited the risi-
bilities, and after time some of the
wrath of the secretary. But in sew
eral parts of the country persons be-
gan the breeding of skunks for their
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
Economy in the Household.

New inventions of positive merit
tend to raise the task of housekeeping
from drudgery to delightfully."- in
teresting occupation. Take, for In
stance, pan invented for cleaning
silver. II saves most of the labor
and removes the tarnish without the
usual rubbing away of silver. In this
way the plating is preserved almost
indefinitely The work II accom-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
A Good LAYER.

Anthony Comstock, at a luncheon
in New York, said Of certain tabooed
books and plays:
'sThe motive of these works was
perhaps all right But the expression,
the form, was bad And that spoiled
the motive completely.
Expression, form, you know, Ia
everything Consider how the lack Of
1t spoiled the mason's speech.
"A mason at a memorial service
said of a bricklayer who had been
accidentally killed:
Eyes, gents, I looked out once on
the beauties of nature, and all was
cam. Our friend, deceased here, was
layin' a brick. I looked out once
again, and still all was cam, but our
friend, deceased, was no more. He
was layin' a corpse"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
HUERTA's MEN IN BUCKRAM.

WITH ALL the great resources of would be
unable raise and equip 100000 and make
sbe soldiers of them in three months Huerta decree issued
of approximately that number therefore
bluff Men, money and equipment woeuy lacking And
eye would feeble showing against
fighters rebel ranks There the least doubt that
for the Constituencies.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
Canned Food Here to stay.

From Harper's Weekly.
The demand for canned food is a
natural one Canning has left the
homo and gone into public life quite
for the same reasons that bootmak-
Ing and weaving. and the other fine
old home activities have become pub
lie utilities. Canning as a non-do-
nestle industry is another manifes-
tation of the new economy that is
making of women breadwinners in
stead of breadmakers.
1t is still not uncommon to hear
housewife say with pride: Il put up
all our vegetables and fruits. l never
buy a can of anythingl"
Hers Is fine yet mistaken enthusi-
asm Even though she counts her
time and labor worth nothing, a
woman cannot can and preserve her
vegetables and fruit, using the best
materials, and compete In price with
the best of the great canneries. More
over. you will observe that she adj
mits the necessity of canned foods,
yet she falls to see that it was divi-
sion of labor that begot them and
that she Is failing to accept her divi-
sion. She is only setting her back
against the current of the times,
which tends to lift from her the bur-
den of domestic hand labor and give
her an opportunity for specialization,
regardless of sex, that the new CEN
fury demands.
Canned goods are here to stay. But
in enforcing the economic side of the
food and drug act we are by no means
realizing the full relation of the can
ming and preserving industries to our
new life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
Non-slippery Asphalt.

From the Engineering News.
The superintendent of street re-
pairs of San Francisco, Cal, has hit
upon a method of removing the chief
objection to asphalt pavement, de-
scribed as follows:
The method of rendering the pave
ment less slippery is by heating the
surface of the asphalt and then ap-
plying a layer of coarse sand which
is rolled into the pavement, which
affords a sufficiently rough surface
to enable horses to keep their footing
and automobiles to pursue a straight
course in wet weather. Experiments
with this pavement on Fell street, be-
tween Baker and Scott and on Scott
street between Fell and Waller, have
proved so satisfactory that the city
officials have decided to extend its
use to other parts of the city.
Zanzibar.
From the London Chronicle.
Zanzibar, now figuring as a pos
sihle pawn In an Anglo German deal,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
City Establishes Street Dances as
Substitute for Public Halls.


SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 1s.-Spon-
sored by the city, the first of a Sc
ries of public street dances will be
held tonight In one of the outlying
residence districts. The city will
furnish music, lights and police, the
latter having been instructed to see
that proper decorum is observed. The
dance program, which will BERN at 3
o'clock and end at II, includes the
tango and the Boston dip"
The series will be tried as an ex-
pertinent, the idea being to estab-
lish street dancing as substitute for
the public dance halls, which were
closed by the Police Commission three
months ago.
The Board of Supervisors originated
the plan.
University of Chicago Students on
Honor Code for Exams.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1S.-Under terms Of
an honor code adopted yesterday by
students at the University of Chicago,
board OF ten student commissioners,
aided by scores of assistants, will at
tempt to put stop to cheating in
examinations. Students charged with
using Illegal methods such as
smuggled textbooks and notations
on cuff bands, will be tried, sentenced
and punished by the commission with
faculty approval.
The proposal of the honor code was
placed before the students at yester-
days classes. OF the 1,227 votes cast
on the question, 90S students voted
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18

plished In a small fraction of the time
usually devoted to the cleaning OF
silver, and the result is much more
satisfactory. both in point of appear
ance of the silver and for the reason
that the silver Is strictly sanitary
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
Press and Stage.

Probably there Is no appeal. ex-
cept possibly that OF the daily press,
so powerful as that Of the stage
Father Benson.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-AithoI
pickpockets have been forbidden
operate on the Forty-second stres
cross-town cars, they could not resi-
the temptation offered yesterday b.
the massive gold chain that spanne'
the waistcoat of Chief of Polio
George Chevalier, the best chic
White Plains ever had" They go
not only the chain but a heavy golt
watch and a diamond-studded Elks
emblem as q charm.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
Standing of the "Knocker."

Even the knocker" claims a certain
amount of respect II he doesn't hit
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

affirmatively, 27s negatively and 46
were doubtful.
Church Fights Tango and Trots with
Dancing Lessons.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-The vestry
and the Church Aid Society of Christ
Church, In Brooklyn, of which Canon
William S. Chase Is rector. have en-
gagged a dancing teacher to instruct
the young men and women of the,
church in the newest dances approved
by the vestry and Canon Chase, and
thereby WOO them away from tho
tango and the turkey trot. Cano1
Chase is explicit in using the expires
sion newest dances" as distinguished
from new Dances" and explains thai
the tango and the trot VIII not be ii
the curriculum.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
Mexico, the Land of Unrest

Mexico, the Land OF Unrest.
From the New York Sun.
If conditions In Mexico are chaotic.
so is the state of mind of observers
on the spot who grope after reme-
dies. A very honest correspondent
of an English newspaper, who has
visited the camps of both federals
and insurgents and seen something
of the fighting, besides studying So
cial and economic Mexico, declares
that the people have no notion of
democratic government, and that
there are no principles at stake in
the civil war. Yet he admits that
there Is much to be reformed-the
lands are held by a comparatively
small class and peonage is a sore
grievance; church fees are intolerabiy
heavy; poor men, often arbitrarily
arrested, are kept in prison for
months and even years without trial;
corruption in office is fragrant; and
illegalities and expressions of all
kinds have to be endured not only
by the poems but by their betters.
All this being SO, it would seem
that the demand for reform was mol
to be denied. But we are told that
the Mexican people are unfit for any
thing but absolutism. Madero Is dis
missed as O dreamer and a Weakling,
and the constitutionalists as fanac-
tics. Now If anything Is evident 1t
Is that the wrongs admitted cannot
go on forever. How are they to
be redressed? How shall reforms be
instituted and the Mexicans gradually
fitted for self government?
Our analyst insists that there must
be a strong man to rule, a dictator,
in fact. 1t does not seem to occur
to him that a dictator would be only
a second and a worse edition of Por-
hrio Diaz, under whom the abuses
of f1ourished for twenty
FIVE years; that a dictator could be
expected to rule only in the interests
that are opposed to reform. Is 1t
not saner conclusion than IL Mex
leo is ever to find herself 1t must be
the efforts of the fanatics"
the way is long and rough
and overcast by clouds SO black that
the prospect appalls2
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18

Copyright, 1918. by r. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow, Mr.. Edwards will tell
"An Anecdote OF the Great Objec-
tor
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14
LOOK YOURSELF OVER.

Bob Burdette: Get away from the
crowd for a while and think. Stand
on one side and let the world run
by, while you get acquainted with
yourself and see what kind of fell
low you are. Ask yourself hard
questions about yourself. Ascertain,
from original sources, if you are re-
ally the manner of man you say you
are; and If you are always honest;
If you always tell the square, per-
feet truth in business details; IT
your life is as good and upright at
II o'clock at night as it is at noon;
if you are as good temperance man
on fishing excursion as you are on
Sunday School picnic; il you are
as good when you go to the city as
you are at home. If, in short, you
are really the sort of man your faith
err hopes you are and your sweet
heart believes you are. Get on init
mate terms with yourself, my boy,
and believe me, every time you
come out of one of those private in
terviews you will be stronger, bet
ter, purer man. Don't forget this,
and it will do you good.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

The loss by the big fire at Ma
son City a few days ago will fall
heavily upon some. individually, but
the city as whole will reap bene-
fit. New and better buildings will
be erected upon the site of the old
and Mason City will within twelve
months present a far better appear
ance than it did before the big
blaze.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14
PRESCRIPTION.

Has this country entered on the
road to prescription? Is the free
press to be trammeled?
Something that looks very much
like it is the imprisoning of the edi-
tors of the Boise Capital News for
printing the opinion Of Theodore
Roosevelt on the Idaho court decis-
ion preventing the placing of the
progressive presidential electors
names on the ballot. It was not con-
tended that there was malice sedi-
ton or instruction in the action OF
the editors. 1t was that subtle
thing called contempt" but it is
not contended that even this, what
ever it may be, was Intentional. The
editors were simply engaged in CIV
ing the people the news, and by
printing wired stuff displeased the
court, and they We're thrown into
jail. 1t is hopeful sign that the
people have risen in mass in their
sympathy and they are subscribing
to get money to pay their fines. We
can agree with the sentiments OF
Col. Roosevelt in extending his SYM
pathy to the imprisoned editors, but
we can not help remembering that
the Colonel himself, not so many
years ago, was engaged in the strug-
gle to drag the editor of the New
York World to Washington on a
criminal charge Of using the news
papers to print the news.
The province Of the courts is to
interpret the laws and not to i'm
prison peaceful citizens, nor shall
the freedom of the press be abridged
as long as 1t does not violate the IL
bel laws. The people will look sus-
piciously on the order of court which
imprisons men for printing the ac-
cepted news Of the day.-Boone
News Republican.
The structures of the News-Repub-
lican upon the action of the Idaho
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

There is a great chance for some
Iowa legislator to make fine rec
ord of service to the people OF his
state. There is the roads question
that needs strong leader in the
general assembly. This is a business
proposition and needs wise solu-
ton. Then the question Of over
throwing the present convict con-
tract system is of grave importance.
This is both a moral and business
proposition. A convict should not
be hired out to contractor for sixty
cents day while his time is worth
50 or So and while his family is suf-
fering for the necessities Of life. The
state ought to get a fair price for
the convict's labor and out Of the
proceeds the family should be cared
for. Where Is the legislator who is
big enough and strong enough to
take leadership in these matters? He
is needed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

court are timely and deserved. But
there is no parallel in that action
and the action taken by President
Roosevelt against the editors of the
New York World and indianapolis
News. The right to sue for libel or
SANDER should not be denied. The
supreme court of Idaho has that
right and no just censure could be
lodged against it for exercising It..
But contempt proceedings are an en-
tirely different proposition. The
court itself is the judge in the
premises and imposes the penalty it
self. In the Roosevelt case under
consideration the World and News
charged editorially that the govern
ment officials had been guilty OF
fraud in the purchase of Panama ca
nal rights from the French company.
The charges were false and the
World and News should have been
made to suffer the penalty. But
President Roosevelt and others in
cluded in the fraud charges should
not be permitted to sit as Judge and
jury and pronounce the guilt of the
accused and prescribe the penalty.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

We have not yet heard an explain
alton which really explained why an
ordinary postage stamp isn't just as
good for carrying parcel as the
special parcel post stamp. Doubt
less there is a reason, but in view
of the fact that the government gets
the same amount of money the ay-
erage man fails to appreciate the
need of the special stamp. -Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
The government wants to know
Just how much money it gets from
patrons of the parcels post and 1t
could not know if the ordinary
stamps were used. This is suficient
reason for the special stamps.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

They have started penny contri-
button to pay the $500 fine imposed
upon the two Idaho editors who had
the courage to grill the supreme
court when it needed grilling. 1t is
likely enough penny contributions
will be received to pay the fines,
which will be a rebuke to the judges
for resorting to the methods of the
dark ages.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

The mayor of Villisca proposes to
enforce the law against swearing up
on the streets. Profanity is always
disgusting and it is nuisance that
ought to be abated in public places.
Few mayors have the courage to un-
dertake the enforcement OF the law
In this matter and the result of the
efforts In villisca will be watched
with interest.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

He who refuses to be taught loses
from life its charm and sacredness.
Cease to learn and you will in time
starve your powers Of admiration, OF
reverence, Of obedience, and all the
rest of those delicate faculties which
In their union are worship and the
very strength of spiritual faith
George Adam Smith.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-14

Someone bull mooser, very
likely-has introduced in congress a
bill providing for the selection OF
postmasters by popular vote. The
objection made to the present meth
Cd is that it enables men in congress
and the president to build up per-
sonal machines for personal ends.
There is something to be said in
support of this objection, but the
remedy is in the extension of the
civil service, not in the means sug-
gested. "The most popular man in
town" might prove to be the very
worst postmaster. In that case,
what would happen? The recall,
perhaps, and another election. 1t
isn't worth it. When public opinion
Is alert the power of a federal ma
chine is not sufficient to defeat the
will OF the people.--Dubuque Tele-
graph Herald.
The Telegraph-Herald's objections
are the ones the spokesman trumpe
up. Cannot the people elect post
master as we'll as mayor, county
treasurer or a governor of the state?
The Dubuque paper is in favor OF
leaving it to the people" except
when the democratic party Is In
power and is in position to serve
pie. OF course the most popular
man in town might prove to be the
very worst postmaster" and then
again he might prove to be the very
best. Moreover, the most popular
man in the state might make an aw-
fully poor governor, but that is nc
reason why the people should surren.
der the right of electing whom they
please. The present method of Sc
lecting postmasters is contrary to
our form of government. Good men
are selected, as rule, but Gov. Car
roll and Ex-senator Young have
more to say about whom shall be
postmaster of Webster City for the
next two months than all the peo-
pie of the town put together. They
also named the appointee at Mar
shalltown and Davenport. When
the time comes for the democrats to
make appointments at thefe Offices