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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-26
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The. Story of an Almost Forgotten Poet

In a recent conversation Francis
William Rolf Wheeler asserted with
out any qualification that in his
opinion James G. Percival was the
greatest poet of his time. Mr.. Wheeler
himself is an author Of considerable
repute, and liz at the present time
one OF the chaplains of st. Luke's
Hospital, New York.
But II so good an authority as DR..
Rolf Wheeler at this late day discovers
the great merit In the poetry of Per-
cival his early friends and associates
in the town of Berlin, Conn.,, were ac-
customed to regard DR.. Percival as
the greatest geologist of his time.
l have often heard my father speak
of Percival, for in his boyhood days
he remembered him we'll and the Gu
r.ous cape which he wore and tho
queer PARKWAY look that was In his
eyes as he went about almost hermit
like on the highways and the byways
of the little town OF Berlin.
Percival, my father said, was
understood by the people of Berlin to
have gone to Charleston, S. c.. when
he was about twenty five years of
age upon the suggestion OF John Q.
Calhoun.
my recollection Is" my father told
me, chat Calhoun, who was grad
uatG oil 1aIe COllSSSs HlSl I SrClNdi
shortly after the latter's graduation
and persuaded the young man, who
was Just to take his degree as doc
tor to settle in Charleston.
while he was in Charleston, Per-
cival wrote some of his poems. But
he had the feeling that the kind of
poetry which he wrote did not appeal
TO the people OF the South. Therefore
he abandoned Charleston and decided
that he would practise medicine in
his native town of Berlin. He didn't
get much practise; in fact, there
wasn't enough sickness In that town
to support a doctor. He used to
spend all his spare moments, at least
when he wasn't writing poetry, in
studying geology
well, he became a master OF
geology. I remember very well what
excitement and interest were occa-
stoned In that town when we heard
that Percival had been appointed
state geologist and that he crossed
the State back and forth a dozen
times or more on foot making his
geological studies of the characters
| tic rocks of the State.
But one day there came a report
which seemed to us young people of
Berlin far more astonishing than the
| reputation he had gained as a poet.
| They said that Percival had discov-
cred the meaning of that curious con-
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junction of rock near Hartford. which
had for years puzzled the authorities
OF Yale College as 1t had many men
OF science who had visited IL.
some twelve miles below Hartford
there stands out conspicuously a con-
Junction of traprock and of red sand
stone, the very kind of red sandstone
which was afterward so extensively
used in building the homes in which
people of wealth in New York lived.
We'll, Percival solved the problem
He spent many weeks in studying
this peculiar meeting of traprock and
of red sandstone. He at last demon
strated to the State authorities that
IL was occasloped by some prehistoric
CONFUSION of nature. That. of course
was interesting to scientific men. hui
what especially interested us was
PercivaPs statement that this con.
Vulsion OF nature had thrown I'D the
red sandstone and Joined 1t to the
traprock, and in that way a perfect
dam was built by nature against the
Connecticut river. Percival demon
strated that the Connecticut in pre-
historic times turned Just at that
time and flowed souther'y along the
: lowlands and through the passes al
Meriden, and at last emptied into
Long Island sound exactly where the
city of New Haven now stands. All
that is left of this prehistoric Con-
recticut are two small streams-Mil
river and Quinnipiac river. AS the
Connecticut river was damned by
this juncture of red sandstone and
traprock, 1t sought another course
and found it's way to Long Island
sound, practically along the meadows
and valleys which 1t now traverses.
This demonstration of Percival
was afterward confirmed by Professor
James G. Dana. OF Yale college.
ut seemed to us wonderful that a
man could be both poet and a doc.
tor of medicine and at the same time
be able TO solve the riddle of the
traprock and red sandstone forma.
ton, and to teach us that in the
years long gone by the Connecticut
| flowed to Long Island sound over the
| site OF the present city of New
Haven.
"Percival taught us also that wha,
| is now New Haven bay was, in agei
gone by, the mouth of the Connects
cut river"
| Copyright, 1918. by e. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
| Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell o
''The Public Service OF a British
| Journalist"
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CAMERA TO COPY RECORDS

The bureau OF records of the Health
Department at Washington has been
experimenting with a system of maxi
ing photographs of records In place of
written or typewriter transcripts. 1t
has been found that such Photographic
copies can be produced at minimum
of time, labor and expense. 1t is be-
lleved by the officers of the depart
ment while there may be a few minor
difficulties to be overcome, on the
whole the plan is practical. It is ex-
pected that in the near future two
machines will be put in the bureau
that will be capable of doing all the
departmental TRANSFERRING.
The certificate or other record to be
reproduced is placed in a holding
frame and Is exposed from FIVE to
twelve seconds. The photograph Is
made directly upon the paper. The
box Of the camera contains a large
roll Of this specially prepared paper.
In taking the picture the desired
amount Is unrolled. exposed. passed
to the developing tank. automatically
cut and thrown into the fixing be tn.
from which Il u Withdrawn conpletA
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TOXIC WILL ENTERTAIN
WORLD S. S. CONVENTION

Toxic, the meeting place of the
great International Sunday School
Convention in 1916, is preparing In
a far-sighted way for the great gain
ering. Already preliminary arrange
ments are being made so that every
detail may be worked out to insure
the success of the congress, Japan
csc business men and financiers have
come forward with the promise or
funds and active workers like Count
Okuma, Baron Shibusawa, Mayor
Sakatani and DR.. Soyeda are ener-
getically helping in getting the con-
vention machinery under way
A meeting of Japanese and Ameri-
cans was held recently at the home
Of Count Okuma, who Is president
of the Japan Sunday School Associa-
ton, and 1t was proposed, among
other things, to erect a great nan
for the meeting of the convention.
The question of accommodating sew
eral thousand foreign delegates is the
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TRENToN's GOVERNMENT.

COMMISSION GOVERNMENT in Trenton has been in oper
nearly and half years The trenton lines winch au
vocated this form local government of the commits
SION AT of the first fiscal the excuse given for not
making an official report that desirable that the report
should include full When August 1912 rolled around the
nromse was the report would be Forthcoming at
the cose of February Now there only to be statement
prepared by mayor and published at his private expense
What the Times wants Statement of accomplishment
not "hot air. in Trenton that the obectesson in COM
mission government be given 1t the first important
nerment commission In Jersey City, which only
lately adopted system there already talk of recall election
fo one OF the commissioners In Trenton official report has
been made only statement is TO be prepared by the mayor
There is no official publicity in two and half years is clear
that the experiment isn't yet tried out in Trenton
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saving the washing process.
The advantages of the Photographic
copies over the written, the officials
say, are many, perhaps the most inn
portant being the absolute accuracy
of the copy and the amount of time
the process saves, The method is
found to be a great time-saver in
making copies of foreign permits for
burial, which must accompany the
bodies of those who die abroad. These
permits usually consist of I'VE or six
official documents, written In a for
eign language, and ornamented with
many seals and signatures. The task
Of copying such document is a long
and tedious one. II requires thor
ough knowledge of the language and
patience to decipher what Is written.
BY the Photographic process the
sheets may be copied at the rate of
two minute and an exact reproduce
ton of the original papers obtained
Aside from making copies of births.
marriages and deaths, the machines
lllave many other uses. which will be
developed &C lime Koes On
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In what Is known as the insect
house at tho geological gardens,
guarded from the 30 curious in q
wooden box pierced with thirty air
holes, still further guarded by the
plate glass sides and iron-mesh roof
ing of what was once the tank of the
electric ell, there live side by side and
seemingly in close affection a pair OF
the most curious animals in the
world. says the illustrated London
News.
They live in strange company, ror
the insect house at our London zoe
is at this season oddly peopled. Here
are dasyures, gerbilles, galagos, pha-
hangers, marmosets-small mammals
all with music in their names
housed together.
But between these and the proech-
.dnae bruyni, sive nigroaculeatae, or
If you will. the black-splned porcu-
nine ant-eaters of New Guinea, there
is little else in common.
What are these proechildnas, these
fleece hedgehogs," as the German
name them?
They look like mammals; they have
a musty smelling felt coat, creased
with multitudinous folds and wrin-
kles and set with stubby, perhaps
POISONOUS, spines. They are, In fact'
fur clad, for their spines, like hedge
hogs spines, are no more than nan
CONCEALED.
Picture q war elephant Of old, cased
in stout padded-leather trappings,
armed head to tail with vicious
sr,ikes conceive 1t as no bigger than
a dog. conceive it as too lazy to stand
up, and you have the proechidnae OF
New Guinea as the London zoo has it
For II must be remembered that the
London proechldnas differ from the
prochidna, which made name AND
fame for Amsterdam. The last mas
longer SHINES and shorter claws. He
ga,,ds four square on four stout
pedals. So did his London cousins at
tie first-when they were simmer
Now they sprawl and grovel, theiI
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WORLDS OLDEST ANIMALS

feet splayed out, their bellies close to
the ground, as If they had not energy
t.. live.
Are they mammals?
They have something in common
with mammals, something in COM
mon with reptiles, something In COM
mon with birds
they lay eggs-leather shelled. like
tortoise eggs. So do their Australian
cousins. the echidnas, and their other
curious relatives, tho duck-biIled
piatypus, never yet-more's the pity
safely brought to London.
They hatch their eggs in pouches.
They have, when born, a single.
short-lived tooth, which serves to
break the eggshell. But this is quick
ly cast. and their food-ants, worms
and insects--it would seem, Is caught
and ground and masticated by their
tongue. This Is flexible and sticky
and set with tiny horn poi:.ts like a
rasp. At times they fast for weeks
and take no harm.
They are neither cold blooded like
reptiles nor FLOODED like our
selves. Their body heat some ten de-
grees lower than our own, varies TO
some extent With their surroundings.
These Qualities and others anat-
omical tend now toward the reptile.
now toward the bird.
Their habits are the habits more OF
mammals. They are nocturnal mys-
teries. They burrow In soft soil, sink
ing straight downward from the hat.
rather than tunneling forward, yet
somehow boring subterranean runs,
in which perhaps they feel food w tn
their beaks for they are weak In
sight and scent alike.
OF their origin we know little, but
that they are old. most beyond hui
man conception, admits of small
doubt.
If they are mammals at all they are
primeval mammals
It may be that the rocks of New
Guinea and Australia hold the secret
of the proechidnae bruyni.
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LnH AdnSa9 lily SUIT
Is the jackrabbit disappearing from
the prairies of western Kansas, its
natural habitat ever since the foot
of the white man turned West and
crossed the great plains in search of
g. new home and wealth? The re-
markable. scarcity of the long cared
little fellows this fall is causing much
comment In the short grass country.
Only q few years ago they were so
thick that they became q great null
sance. 1t was no unusual sight to see
as many as fifty of them feeding on
a small patch OF alfalfa. The patch
didn't last long and the little fellows
would move on to greener pastures.
Small trees and shrubbery were
ruined by them. Two years ago dur
ing the terrific winter many western
counties offered bounties for jack
rabbit scalps and they were hunted
by hundreds OF men and boys. The
rabbits were easily caught in the
snow and killed with clubs. In one or
two western counties as many as 100,-
900 scalps were brought In to the
county clerks and the hunters re-
severe winter also killed. them by the
million. Feed was scarce and they
could do nothing in the way of forag-
ing on account of the great fall of
snow that kept up for three months
With the hand of man raised
against them and no food or shelter
at hand they gave up the ghost and
began to follow their friends and
companions of forty years ago-the
buffalo AS many as o carload of
rabbits have been killed In single
drive in Sheridan county. One now
will drive for hours across the prair-
les of western Kansas and not see
single rabbit. They have become
so scarce that they no longer do any
damage to alfalfa, shrubbery or any
living thing.
The jack-rabbit is the most inno-
cent and harmless creature that runs
the prairies. Never in it's long resi-
dence there has 1t been known to at
tack q living thing. 1t feeds solely
on vegetation. The jack-rabbit never
even fought in selfdefense. II its long
legs and great speed could not carry
1t out of danger 1t gave up the bat
tie without a struggle. Even when
crazed by thirst and hunger the jack
rabbit loses none of It's innocence and
timidity.
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. ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

children of William sat on one side
of the table. On the other side sat
descendants Of Samuel. There war
a double head to the table. at which
the twins sat.
Patient Lives with Six Stitches in Heart
and Patched Lung.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Vincenzo
Lauro, thirty-hve years old, of ~.
| Degraw street, Brooklyn, WAS hurried
to the Holy Family Hospital last eve
ming semi-conscious from a stab
wound In the left breast which had
penetrated one lung. An immediate
| operation was decided on. The sur
geons cut through the ribs everything
| the heart and sewed up the wound In
| the heart, using six stitches. They
| then turned to the left lung and
patched up the cash in 1t. The pa
| tient was removed from the operating
| table to q cot In the surgical ward,
Two hours afterward he was reported
| to be improving so rapidly that Dr.
Dillemuth last night said no felt no
fear for the mans life.
Deer Chews Tobacco. nut Can't Learn to
Expectorate.
| SPOKANE, Dec. 26.--At least TIVE
persons whose veracity goes unquesS
toned among their fellows have
brought to Spokane a story OF q pet
blaclktail deer which Is fiend for
chewing tobacco. The deer Is q nine
month-old buck animal which domi-
Giles near Coolin, Idaho, and his BIZ
ographers and sponsors are Leonard
Paul, owner of q general merchandise
store at that town, and Charles Boon.
well-known Spokane hotel clerk. Mr..
Paul says the deer appears at his
store every day In the year. except
| Sundays, and makes himself a gen.
eral nuisance until given a chew o.
| tobacco 1.-THE intelligent animal has
come to realize that the store.is closed.
on Sunday" said Mr.. Paul in Spokane,
land he falls to show up In town on
that day. Though the deer chews like
a veteran sailor we have been unable
thus far to teach him to expectorate."
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
AZ MARY MARSHALL.
DECEM Der 26
Mary SomerviIIe
S.,v-,~I,.a SOTO

By MARY
Mary Somerville stands probably at
the head of her sex in the realm of
mathematical achievement. She was
born in Scotland in 1850 and lived to
the ripe old age of ninety-two. She
married first when she was twenty
four her cousin, Captain Grieg, of the
Russian navy, and after his death
married another cousin, DR.. william
'Somerville, who shared with her her
fondness for mathematical specula-
ton With his assistance she studied
the physical sciences. One oil her first
writings of note was a paper, The
Magnetic Properties of the Solar Spec
trum."
Emma Southworth owes her literary
distinction to her popularity. rather
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Bis n1etbod

He didn't have much of q creed
And his doctrine was not very deep
His faith wasn't one he could read
In volumes expensive or cheap.
He helped all who asked when he could,
He comforted all when they grieved,
He believed in the right and the good,
And he lived up to what he believed
He didn't have much OF creed,
His doctrine was simple and plain
But he seemed to have all that We need
To balance lifes pleasure and pain.
He wasn't fellow to shirk
With burdens that could be relieved
He believed twas his duty to work,
And he lived up TO what he believed
He put out his hand here and there
To the weak and distressed.
And when he had burdens to bear
He bore them by doing his best.
He refused to take profit or gain
That was won by another deceived
He believed in life without strain
And he lived up to what he believed
| reckon when toiling is Ger
And all our struggles are through,
When no needs help any more,
And there are good deeds to do
When the last of life's dangers is braved
And the judgment of all is begun,
Nor by what we believed we'll be saved
But by what, through believing, we've done.
Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press
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MA EtSf1AIIA
than to the real excellence of her
work. She was born in Washington
d. c., In 1910, and married unfor-
tunately. When she was still a very
young woman, she found herself the
mother of an infant boy and girl and
no means other than that of her own
labor with which to support them
She, therefore. went to teach ng In
the public schools, but finding her sal
airy Inadequate for her growing needs,
she took up writing. She wrote in
rapid succession sixty eight novels
all more or less popular with wide
public. The titles of the books give q
fair idea of their nature. THE De-
serted Wife," 'The Mother in-law,'
THE Discarded Daughter" THE Lost
Heiress," only a Girls Heart"
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most difficult to solve. From 1900 to
1000 delegates are expected from the
United States. and owing to the
scarcity of hotels in Toxic the prob
lem of lodging the visitors is per-
picking. 1t is estimated that the ex-
listing foreign hotels would take care
of about a thousand. but as the con-
vention meets In June many of these
accommodations viii have been taken
by tourists. The suggestion, there
fore, has been made that residents
rnittee by placing one oil two rooms
at it's disposal for the use of dele
gates.
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Not Denying It.

Long Suffering Wife, don't know
how I ever came to marry you, any
howl You've always had hard face
on you'll
Equally Long Suffering Husband
That's true enough. You've kept my
nose to the grindstone for fifteen
years. and it's still fairly good nose.
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Office Chat.

'.Wombat is always willing TO etasi
late" remarked the Junior partner.
Has his heart in the Office woriAs
chr said the senior partner.
Not so much that. He has his fans
lily In the country for the summer and
he's thankful for any excuse to star
In town.
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THE PRESIDENTS VACATION.

NOBODY WILL begrudge the President the vacation he is
taking in Mississippi home for everybody knows he earned IT
the and wearing duties long continued The pres-
na oAace is not loaf which grow adipose
Mr. Taft fat but he took frequent and long
Dsand IT evident enough in his administration that he was
Ned OF much mental labor BY others about him
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LARKIN TO VISIT AMERICA.

MRS EMMELINE PANKHURST only recently departed
from the United States big fund of American dollars for
militant campaign in England is announced that
lanes Lrkn Dublin strike leader coming also quest OF
the everready dollar Considering the dsdan
With which American dollar often referred to in Europe
wonderful many singers artists lecturers humane
arans and agtaors travel the in chase of it.
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RECORD FOR NEWARK'S POSTOFFICE

POSTMASTER BOOK and his assistants deserve high credit
sr the way the holiday mail handled was
record of the Newark postomce In six days no less
than pieces handled including all classes OF mail
The parcel post carried 1904 pieces contained in 1894
sacks While poohice almost overwhelmed with this
business express companies fecousy said by local
official hardly knew it Christmas.
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Judge Resorts to Trial by Phone; Fines
Man and Woman 50 Each.
YoNKERS, Dec. 26.-Trial by tele-
phone was resorted to today by CITY
Judge Beall. who was Ill in his home
In Armourvilla Park. Sitting by the
Christmas Preside. he accepted over
the wire pleas of guilty to disorderly
conduct from Joseph Bush ana MISS
Anna Wood, OF Albany Post road
and 233d street, New York, and nneo
them SO apiece. The couple were ar
rested by Policeman Fitzgerald IN
Warburton avenue, Wednesday. while
kissing each other affectionately ano
spent the night in jail.
yenhers Commuters Get Out Their Lawn
mowers and Cut Lawn.
NEW YORK. Dec. 26.--Commuters
In Yonkers took advantage of the
Christmas holiday to NOW theii
lawns. The grass has been getting
longer and longer owing to the spring
weather until It just had to be cut.
Up In Bronx Park the grass has not
been moved recently. but 1t Is unus-
ually long for this time Of year, and
SO II Is In the other city parks. The
same condition prevails in the neal by
cemeteries. Out in New Jersey nne
crop of grass is In evidence.
Farmers IN the vicinity of New
York are saving on their usual bills
for winter fodder, for with the spring
weather and the long grass the anil
mails can pick up living out OF
doors
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Twins, Ninety-nve, Celebrate Christmas
at Big Dinner

WEST BABYLON. Long Island,
Dec. 26.-Samuel and William Muncy,
twins, ninety-five years old, of this
village, had their annual Christmas
party at the home of William on
Muncy farm. Samuel also has his
home on the farm. which they inher-
tied from their father. Thirty mem
bers OF the family attended. The chill
dren, grandchildren and great grand