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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
One Way to Save Time.

While on business in the office of a
printing house a tired-looking man
entered and approaching the proprie-
tor said. II want to have a list
printed. Suppose you write it down
as 1 tell you" ..-.
The proprietor made ready, and the
man said: Yes, I'm sure 1 locked
the door. Have you got that?"
Eyes, but I don't understand"
Never mind; don't interrupt me
till I have finished Are you ready?"
Yes"
IT turned out the light in the bath
room"
"All right; I've got it."
1.-The kitchen windows are fastened"
YES"
1.-The dog is in the cellar"
Yes"
The servants are all in"
Yes"
The stable door is locked"
Yes"
THE kittens are outdoors"
YES"
II fixed the range
Yes"
well, think that's about all. You
see. my wife asks me those questions
every night just as l am getting into
bed, and If l had a printed list could
show to her it would save lots of
trouble, and, besides that, it Injuries
my lungs to answer them. Have the
list printed as soon as possible,
please, Paterson Press.
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RhythnicaI Criticism.

Professor Brander Matthews was
talking of certain past participles
that have fallen into disuse, reports
the Washington Star.
The past participle gotten" has
gone out in England, although it
still fingers on with us. In England
gotten is almost as obsolete as put
ten" In some parts of Cumberland
the villagers still use gotten and
putten; and a teacher once told me
of a lesson on the past participle
wherein she gave her pupils an ex-
ercise to write on the blackboard.
In the midst of the exercise an
urchin began to laugh. She asked
him why he was laughing, and he
answered:
"Joes put putten where he should
have putten put"
By looking carefully you will find
more things to commend than to
criticise.
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) CHAPTER XII.
The Awakening.

THE sun had passed the meridian
next day when Valiant awoke,
from a sleep as deep as Abou ben Ad-
hens, yet one crowded with flying
tiptoe dreams. Inchoate and of such
f1imsy material that the first Whit Of
reality dissipated them like smoke,
these nevertheless left behind them
a fragrance, sensation of golden
sweetness and delight. The one great
fact of Shirley's love had lain at the
core of all these honied images, and
his mind was full of it as his eyes
opened, wide all at once, to the new
day.
He looked at his watch and rolled
from the bed with laugh. Past
twelvep' he exclaimed. Good heav-
ems! What about all the work l had
laid out for today?"
He went down the stair in his bath
robe. The walls were still wreath
hung, but the rooms had been des-
poiled of their roses: only dozen
vases of blooms still unwithered re-
manned of the greater glory; and In
the yellow parlor-a great heap of
shriveled petals, broken ivy and dewy-
blue cedar berries, sprinkled with
wisps of feathers and sequinned
beads-lay the shattered remainders
of last nights gaiety.
Presently he was splashing in the
lake, shooting under his curved hand.
unerring jets of water at Chum, who
danced about the rim barking, now
venturing to wet valorous paw, now
scrambling up the bank to escape the
watery javelins. Z
1t was another perfect day, though
far on the. mountainous horizon a
blue-black density promised other
wise for the morrow. The sun lay
golden-soft over the huddled hills.
Birds darted hither and thither, self
important bumble-bees doomed from
vine to vine and the shady lake cor
ners flashed with dragon flies. The
stately white swans turned their
arching necks interrogatively toward
the splashing, and the brown ducks.
Peezletree and Pilgarlic, quacked and
gobbled softly to each other among
the lily pads.
Valiant came up the terraces with
his blood bounding to new rapture.
Crossing the garden, he ran quickly
to the little close which held the sun
dial and pulled a single great passion
flower. He stood a moment holding
it to his face, his nostrils catching its
faint elusive perfume. Only last night,
under the moon, he had stood there
with Shirley in his arms. A gush of
the unbelievable sweetness of that
moment poured over him. His face
softened.
Standing with his sandaled feet
deep in the white blossoms, the sun
on his damp hair and the loose robe
clinging to his moist limbs. he gave
himself to a sudden day-dream. A
wonderful waking dream of joy over
flooding years of ambitionless ease;
of the Damory Court that should be
in days to come.
ITO Be Continued TomorrnW.l
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L ROSTRUM
Joshua Brierley Takes Exception.

Joshua Br1ertey lhkeb EACeptiOH.
To the Editor of the Evening STAR
Dear Sir-I was greatly interested
in the cartoon which appeared in the
Evening Star on August 20 pictures to
it's readers the maiden voyage of the
Olympia, which was calm and bright;
another maiden trip of the Titanic,
sinking and losing nearly all the lives
on board, and another, the burning of
the Imperator at the Hoboken docks.
Both must have been terrible, in
particular the Titanic. The headline
of the picture was Man Proposes and
God Disposes." -ii-ss..
In this, the twentieth century,, do
we believe that? Don't you think 1t
better to change it and say "God pro-
poses and man disposes?" We have
been taught that in the beginning
God created all things good; gave to
man the world and its fulness thereof
to use, but not abuse. A good father
proposes everything that will be for
the best interests of his children. If
the children fail in a fathers pur-
poses then the father is not to blame,
and surely if the children disregard
good fathers wishes he will not put
them to utter destruction.
| The Titanic was a dreadful calam-
| ity, but 1 cannot in any way see
/ Gods hand. That boat was beautiful
in all details, but mismanaged and
driven to destruction. In that case,
Man proposes and also disposes."
| If a man stands in draught and
! gets a cold, pneumonia sets in and
death follows. Is God to blame?
Mr.. Editor, remember, if God is
anything, He is love. He never digs
a grave for anyone.
| We lost our first-born. She died
from membraneous Group. I did not
and could not think that God dis
| posed of my child. Perhaps the
physical law was broken and sanitary
conditions were bad. Could / respect
! God if he choked my child to death
We have got beyond that belief. Don't
you think so?
l remember a story told by Robert
G. Ingersoll many years ago. If you
remember, the steamship City of
| Brussels was burned at sea. All on
board were lost. A gentleman met
Mr. Ingersoll one day and said do
you believe in special providence"
He replied, mo. II there is anything
in God. he would not give special
favors." The man said he could prove
it. II was to go on the City of Brus-
sells, but something pleaded with me
not to go. That was special provi-
dence to me-" Ingersoll said: Let
me stand back a few steps that may
see the object before me. Is it pos
sible that God took the lives of SOC
men, women and innocent children
and saves a dirty, miserable man like
you?"
| Mr.. Editor, did God dispose of the
City of Brussels? OF course not! II
is all rot. Just mans oversight
shipping regulations neglected. There
are lots of troubles and disappoint-
ments come to us through life. II
used to be blamed on the devil
There is none, only in human form, OF
which we form part. Nothing car
be perfect, because we are not, but
| the One Who proposes the right will
not dispose of us cruelty when we fail
Very truly, JOSHUA BRIERIEY
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MAYOR AND WATER-sNAKE KNOCKED OUT.

MAYOR CRONIN, of Bayonne, who met such an over
whmng the election in Bayonne yesterday
on the enrchng water subsidiary OF the
East Jersey for the purchase of couple
of water pipes reflections today Cronin is candidate
for reelection Yesterday proposition that he tahered ana
and urged and with which he
neey identified was thrown by the people by large
ioritv Cronns the election water company
Standard Oil and banking interests and they brought all their
influence to bear signal i'll Upon these influences
Cronn has relied reelection Else why the singular
zeal he displayed committing Bayonne to such outrageous
imposition? influences failed him. Now that their
object is defeated zeal for Cronns reelection must neces
ray while the body of voters in Bayonne will nurse
their wrath against him until they get crack him at the
polls.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
GREAT AMERICAN INVENTORS
Learn One Thing Every Day"
NO. 3-EllAS HOWE


IT is a remarkable fact that some of
L the greatest and most useful in
ventors have been bitterly opposed
by the very persons whom they were
designed to help. The bowmen of
olden time resented the introduction
of guns; the stage coach lines tried
in every way to block the building of
railways; and Elias Howe, the inven-
tor of one of the greatest labor
saving devices in the world, the sew
ing machine, was ridieuled, discour-
aged, and denounced as an enemy of
poor sewing women, the ones whose
toll he was seeking to tighten. They
imagined that with the introduction
of the sewing machine their occupa-
ton would be taken away.
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THE VALIANTS OF VIRGINIA
RIVES
BY HALLIE ERMINIE RIVEo

stricken from cheek and brow; but
the line seemed to glow up through
the very flesh: Died, May IA, Edward
Sassoon, in his 18th year"
The book slipped to the floor with
crash that echoed through the
room. 1t was true, then 1t was
Sassoon's death that her mother
mourned. The man in whose arr>s;
she had stood such a little white
ago by the old dial OF Damory Court
was the son of the man who had
killed him! She lifted her hands to
her breast with a gesture of anguish,
then dropped to her knees, buried her
face on the dusty seat of one of the
rickety horsehair chairs and broke
into wild burst of sobs, noiseless
but terrible, that seemed to rise in
her heart and tear themselves up
through her breast.
when I was so happy! Oh. mother.
mother You loved him. and your
heart broke when he died. 1t was
Valiant who broke it-Valiant-va-
liant. His father!'
She slipped down upon the bare
floor and crouched there shud-
dering and agonized. her dis
heveled hair wet with her tears.
Was her love to be but the
lAiliS VI Oil hOuls SlhSic CldDp
and then, forever, nothing? His
fathers deed was not his fault. Yet
how could she love a man whose every
feature brought a pang to that
mother she loved more than herself?
So over and over, the wheel of her
thought turned in the same desolate
groove, and over and over the par
oxysms of grief and longing sub
merged her.
Dawn was paling the fluttering can
die and streaking the sky outside be-
fore she composed herself. She rose
heavily, as white as a narcissus flower,
winding back her hair from her quiz
vering face, and struggling to repress
the fearless sobs that still caught
stranglingly at her breath. The gray
infiltrating light seemed gaunt and
cruel and the thin cheeping of walk
ing sparrows on the lawn came to her
with haunting intolerable note of
pain
Noiselessly as she had descended,
she crept again up the stair. AS she
passed her mothers door, she paused
O moment, and, laying her arms out
across it, pressed her lips to the dark
grain of the wood.
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sewing at night. AS Howe watched
her slowly and laboriously stitching a
seam. his inventive mind sought and
sought for some way to decrease her
toll. He had a natural bent for me-
chanics. and it was not long before
he had constructed the first crude
sewing machine.
This was in October, 1874. But al
though he now had his idea, he lacked
money to prove its value. However,
man named Fisher in Cambridge
liked his invention, and agreed to
board Howe and his family and to adj
vance $500 iii return for a half in
terest in the patent. BY the middle
of the next May Howe had construct
ed a machine that did sewing which
promised to outlast the cloth.
But the invention was opposed
everywhere in America. Finally in
1916, Howe's brother, Amasa, went to
England, and managed to sell the
English rights in the machine for
81 ,250 to a william Thomas. This man
also gave Elias Howe a place in his
factory at SIS week. But he treated
the inventor shamefully and Howe
threw up the situation. He sent his
family back to America ahead of him,
and then returned himself He land
ed in New York with less than dol
lar in his pocket, and was met with
the news that his wife was dying of
consumption in Cambridge. He man
aged to borrow some money and
reached her side just before she died.
These were Howe's darkest days.
limitations of his machine were in
fringing on his patent, and he had to
begin several suits to establish his
rights. He and another man now
commenced to manufacture sewing
machines in a small way. 1t was
during this time that the Sewing
machine riots" took place, but soon
the real value of the invention was
seen and all opposition ceased.
Brighter times began for the in
ventor. He won his patent suits, and
by 1863 his royalties were estimated
at $4,000 a day At the Paris EXPOSE
ton of 1867 he was awarded a gold
medal and the ribbon of the Legion
of Honor His last years were happy
ones. He died on Octobers3, 1857.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03

Elias Howe was born in Spencer,
Mass. on July 9, 1919. one of a family
of eight children. His father was a
farmer and miller, and Elias's early
years were spent in the mill. AT the
same time he managed to pick up a
smattering of education.
He went to Lowell, Mass, in 1888.
to work in a cotton mill. Two years
later he obtained place in Cam
bridge machine shop in which his
cousin, Nathaniel P. Banks after
ward governor of Massachusetts, was
also employed.
Howe married at the age of p and
moved to Boston. 1t was there that
the first germs of his great idea be-
came implanted in his brain. To in
crease the family income his wife did
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Continued from Yesterday

Shirley stirred uneasily, and in the
glimpsing light her face looked
troubled. Katherine's voice had
touched pathos, and in spite of her
distaste of the subject, Shirley had
been entering into the feeling OF
that suppositious woman. There
had come to her, like a touch OF
eery clairvoyance, the suggestion the
other had meant to convey OF her
actual existence; and this was sharp
ened by the sudden recollection that
Valiant had himself told her of the
resembla nee that Katherine recalled.
The Judge, on the front seat. was
telling a low-toned story over his
shoulder for the delectation of Nancy
and Betty, but Shirley was not listen
ing. Her whole mind was full of
what Katherine had been saying. she
was picturing to herself this woman,
her secret hidden all these years,
hearing of John Valiant's coming to
Damory Court, learning of this like
ness, shrinking from sight of 1T,
dreading the painful memory it must
thrust upon her.
Observation-Disclosures voice was
dreamy-''that she and John met sud
denly. without warning. What would
she do? Would she say anything
Perhaps she would faint. y"
Shirley started violently. Her
hands, as they drew her cloak uncer-
tainly about her, began to tremble,
as If with cold. Something fell from
them to the bottom of the surrey.
Through her chiffon veil Katherine
noted this with slow smile. 1t had
been easier than she had thought.
She said no more, and the carriage
rolled on, to the accompaniment OF
edggles over the judges peroration.
AS it neared the Rosewood lane she
leaned toward Shirley.
you have dropped your FAM" said
she, land your gloves, too.
might have reached them for you.
why. we are there already How
short the drive has seemed"
Don't drive UP the lane, Lige,'
said Shirley, and he voice seemed
sharp and strange even to herself
1.-THE wheels would wake mother. u
Katharine bade her good-by with
careful sweetness as the judge
bundled her down in his strong
friendly arms.
NO" she told him, don't come
with me. It's not bit necessary
Emmaline will be waiting for me-"
He climbed into her vacant place as
the girls called their good nights.
We'll all sleep late enough in the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
ONLY A SALUTARY LESSON.

WOMEN WHO make shameless public exhibitions of them
selves in public Jersey at Atlantic City
Labor Day. complain they get the rough this
woman from and bathers 1t sense of
wrong should appear such garb that prompted
the crowd to misuse interpreted Alright their
really tribute womanhood In all the crowds the At
lanc CITY other instance of the kind be-
brazenly attred And she
lad been would been unnoed and
moested the lesson will sautary for others
inclined 90 of mmodesy attract notice.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
THE CUR IN THE MOTORCAR.

CASES OF killing serious injury by reckless chaufeurs
Immediately take flight and leave their victims lying the
roadway multiplying. In Milwaukee motorist killed A.
girl fatally injured her mother and then put speed
get away The scoundrel captured In New York old
man motorcar and the chauffeur speeded
But two motorists who witnessed the act followed
machines and procured his arrest The nquty of
the act calls discourage Legislatures that
the automobile than thing to tax and get
should legsate to protect motorists and the
public the nhuman who permitted to drive
cars on the highways.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3. 1913.
THE HORROR AT NORTH HAVEN.

MOST needless cruel catastrophe were the WORDS
Of worthy priest who passenger on the "hie
rain when occurred at North Haven yesterday
morning the descriptions of the scenes at the
wreck eoquenty And there be denial that was
needless? Repeated tragedies the New Haven raoao the
last one at only three months had no lessons 1
railroad thoughts have been IN wall
street than operation of the road in building up
TRANSPORTATION monopoly hold New England at their mercy
Than in safeguarding the of passengers The killing at
North manslaughter and the New Haven "naSe
rent is responsible for the awful crime.
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PaternaI Correction.

Johnny had been very bad boy
during the day tsays the Liverpool
Post"), and when his father came
home it was decided that he should
talk to him instead of the usual whip
ping. So the father took Johnny on
his knee and spoke to him thus:
Johnny, do you know what happens
to good boys?' Eyes, sir; they go to
Heaven" do you know what hap
pens to bad boys?" Yes, sir; they
go to the other place" well. John
n.y. wouldn't you rather be a good
boy and go to heaven?" Johnny
thought a minute and then said:
NO. father, I'd rather go with you"
That broke up the conversation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03

AMERICANS CALLED out of Mexico by President Wilson
dsgused by the character of providence
OF the administration in the way of transportation AT Vera
Cruz hundreds of refugees and children
offered seerag accommodations only 1t is enough
the protection of the of the government which
ought to be American citizen whoever he
be- in any part world 1t is enough make him
property his avocation in Mexico In leaving Mexico
lie travels in the Storage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
Where Truth Pays.

A little town in south Texas does
it's lazy best to support three hotels.
Each sends a negro porter to meet
the diurnal train, where they vie with
one another, as only darkies can, in
their attempts to get the few travel
ing men who stop.
At the present time one of the big,
good natured negroes, who seems to
know human nature, is calling out,
Right dis way fo' de State House,
de bes' secon'- GLASS hotel in town"
Then, with a broad grin, he adds.
"Dey amt no furst-class. Judge.
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CANADIAN JUSTICE TO vINDICATE ITSELF.

IF AS the proceedings in the Quebec court to-
morrow Thaw turned the Canadian immigration
set back American territory Canada
will have given United States objectesson for the
American judiciary that has been done for Thaw by his
renue of LAWYERS described the single word rckey
and other tricks in in ThaW
taken from jail While the Thaw millions
hold out there are legal resources for Thaw.
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Opinions and Views
from the Exchanges
A Word to Thoughtful Lynchers.
L. -. n.1..u.hIn IS 81 Stnfa


From the Columbia Is. CO State.
The headline of this article will
perhaps surprise some of our readers.
Thoughtful Lynchers? Do they
exist?
Indeed, there are thoughtful
lynchers." When the crime against
woman is committed substantial citi-
zens are always to be found who
think that the instant execution of
the culprit, without recourse to law,
is not only desirable but necessary.
It Is a hard and sorrowful fact, but
1t may not be denied. Not all lynch
ers are at heart bad men, however
they may be mistaken men.
When the lone crime" has been
done and the victim has been hanged
the lynchers sometimes place
placard on his body bearing the
words, "Our women shall be pro-
tected." The lynchers mean what
1t is not worth while for the
thoughtful lyncher to ask himself,
Am l, as leading lyncher, pro-
tecting the women of my neighbor-
hood?"
Lynching is not a new practise in
the South. 1t has been common for
the last forty years. We have In
mind a county in this State where a
crime against a white woman was
committed few years ago. The
culprit was captured, tried and law
fully executed. The same thing hap
pened in another county. In neither
of these counties has lynching or the
necessity for it occurred at any time
within our recollection.
If any one can present evidence that
lynching has materially leSsened the
number of crimes against women in
the South it's defenders will at least
be entitled to considerable hearing. If
the extirpation of the crime could be
effected it would be difficult to find
one to condemn the method used.
harsh and cruel though it were. The
facts are that lynching as a pre-
ventive has failed. Is the thought
full, sincere lyncher of good intentions
going to give up? Is the Cutting Of
his momentary blood just all that he
wants? Is he at his wits end? And
if lawlessness has proved a failu,e
may there not be some virtue in law?
One other word to this thoughtful,
high minded lyncher He is respon-
sible for the lynchings of other than
the assailants of women. One lynch
ing in four so the figures indicate, is
caused by the uncomfortable crime.
Three lynchfngS in four all thought
full lynchers piously condemn. Do
they not know that when they set
the example of defying and over
turning the law it is they who fire
the hearts of the murderous lynchers
who kill a man suspected of stealing
a bale of cotton? Are they not aware
that they, the representative men of
community who shape public
opinion, are responsible for the
lynchings that they are first and
most emphatic to condemn?
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND POLITICS
The 100000 women voters had their
representatives at the Senate hearing
on the amendment this year. When
congressman after congressman rose
to tell of the good effects of equal
suffrage in his own state, the evils
conjured up by anti-suffragists
seemed to vanish into thin air. The
testimony given proved that the ques-
ton was one of fact-not foreboding;
of proof rather than prophecy
Elinor Byrns in National Monthly.