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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

regular army, exclusive of those in
the Philippines, received rifle instruc-
ton, of whom II, 473 failed to make a
qualifying score. During the same
year the navy instructed 35,0 900 men
and the marine corps 1000 men. In
the organized militia 81, 749 were given
rifle instruction, of whom 20,630 failed
to qualify as marksmen. There were
over 10000 who were not even taken
to the range. This makes total of
120379 men d. in the regular military
service of the United States who re-
ceived some sort of rifle instruction
during the year. To this might be
added 5000 members of civilian rifle
clubs and ITO students of colleges
having military departments"
That is, about six in a thousand OF
the male population able to bear arms
have been taught something about
shooting, and the figures show that
only about one-half of these are even
ordinarily good shots. 1t is evident
that marksmen are, in the mass
made instead of born.
In order, therefore, to insure some
degree Of national safety, if we will
not take manifestly necessary mill
tary precautions, we should, at least
cultivate the ability to shoot straight
or we shall reap the harvest or our
negligence in a terrible toll of death
and disaster the first time we are
called upon to face a foe.
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for the erection of q home to which
his son was to bring a bride. The tree
grew into the huge giant which will
bring happiness to thousands of chill
dren, but the home which 1t was ex-
pected to shade was never built The
son responded to President Lincoln
call to arms and was killed in battle.
Mr. Ridgway never again set foot on
the proposed site OF his sons home.
A mile away from the tree is the
village of Rancocas. Benjamin Frank
lin lived there for several years. 1t
was in Burlington that he printed the
paper currency of the colony of New
Jersey. 5ames Fenimore Cooper spent
his hoyhood in Cooperstown. near by.
Joseph Bonaparte. the brother of
Napoleon. lived in Bordentown, some
distance from the Ridgway home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
WAR UPON THE FOREsTALLER.

1T only the fragrant abuse of cold storage by the fore
ssalers peoples created uncomfortable conditions that
Congress grappe with the great evil and provide remedy
system for the supplies that ought to be
greatest of the seized by graspng
greed and gigantic public plumber and
deprivation of muude of people of many OF the necssares
of life.
During the administration Fort the Hudson
investigation, procured indictments against the
Chicago criminal of the cold storage
Jersey City, these proved to be above the
law The longer federal government reach
warehouses and federal law will be passed to
provide regulations than the emascuated State law of
enforced obeyed The warehouses
this fish will be included in the government
for this fish goes If Con-
gress higher immediate duty than that of stopping
organized plumber would be hard it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
MR.. WILSON'S MESSAGE TOMORROW

THE PRESIDENTS annual message be read TO Con-
gess will differ from his inaugural which
of an academic brief 1t will into detail
specific outline the policy of the admins
traon domestic and foreign affairs is expected
that the President will give exposition of the ua
ton the policy pursued for the adjustment
of the existing troubles
That part of the is looked for with great interest by
foreign governments will odwde What the
President say domestic affairs be anticipated
forehadowed by the character of the
important in preparation for the regular
sion which begins today.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01

AS a result of the construction of
railroad extensions. Smyrna is now
Joined direct to Constantinople by
rail, via Kara Hissar, and connection
is also made with the Bagdad line,
which has already crossed the eau
casus mountains ana reached the
edge of the Adana plain. Work on
the Bagdad line goes on steadily but
slowly. and it Is predicted that at no
distant date travellers will be able
to reach that city by rail from
Smyrna.
In November the British Adm
Company threw open to traffic fifty
nine miles of new road, thus giving
their line an entire length of 293
miles. and rendering 1t possible to
reach Lake Egherdein by rail, The
up-traffic will consist Of colonial
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NEW ROAD IN SMYRNA

produce Coffee. sugar, etc.), petro-
leum, cotton goods, agricultural inn
Elements, etc, and the down traffic
of grain, carpets. minerals, etc.
On December Is the French COM
pany opened up prolongation of the
Smyrna-Soma line through the PAN
derma. on the sea of Marmora. The
entire distance from Smyrna to Pan
derma is 112 miles. 1t is expected
that trains will be put on leaving
Smyrna at 6 a. m. and reaching the
sea Of Marmora at 2:S0 p. M, where
connection can be made with the
French steamers making CONSTANT
rople in another four hours Thus IL
is hoped that the entire journey to
the capital will be made in thirteen
hours. 1t is now a sea voyage of
eighteen to twenty-four hours-Con-
sular Report
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01

I once asked a veteran broker of
Wall street IL he codld tell me why
all the corporations that issued stock
decided, good many years ago. to
have all stock issues registered. The
broker narrated to me the following
incident of Wall street of fifty years
ago:
addison Jerome was, in his day,
one of the great operators as we'll as
one of the most successful of the
brokers of the Wall street district"
said the broker. "In the early sixties
Mr.. Jerome received certain conf
Dental or inside information which
led him to believe that he could with
out attracting any attention buy
practically all of the stock of the
Lake Shore g. Michigan Southern
Railroad. This was at time prior
to the control of that railroad by the
Vanderbilts
"Mr. Jerome was a very rich man
and he had abundant funds at his dis
nosal He began buying very eau
tiously the stock of the Lake Shore
railroad and as he was generous
man he almost every day would In
struct his bookkeeper to enter some
of the shares which he purchased in
the names of friends of subordipates
in his office He promised to carry
this stock for these friends in case
they did not have money enough to
pay for it, but he said he would keer
| it in his control till the time came
! for him to distribute it. Much the
greater part of the stock which he
bought was entered upon the books
as being in the ownership of Mrs
Jerome.
IT remember very well the day
when Mr.. Jerome said to his partners
and to his chief clerks: Now, l have
got all the Lake Shore stock there
is and I have bought a good deal
more than there is. Now, let those
who sold me the stock come and de-
liver The fact was that Mr.. Jerome
thought he had manipulated corner
in Lake Shore stock. 1 was told that
he expected to make five or six mil
lion dollars out of this transaction
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
LESSEN THE FIREMAN's PERIL.

AS MAYOR HAUSSLING we'll said the hremens memorial
yesterday community duty its fire.
WE'LL aso it may be added itself That is in the
prevention Cooperation essential Owners and
pants of buildings must lend helping hand The building code
should strengthened closer inspection should be made large
buildings that there be perls in their
srucion arrangements fire. lnhammabe
materials should be tabooed wherever possible criminal folly
permit of inhammable building with death traps
in its construction and send emen into when burns take
chances of death AS Mayor Haussng truly fire pre-
venon is "the doctrine Of today"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01

If you would be popular and attract
people to you you must cultivate q
broad generosity, a feeling of good
cheer and good will towards every
body, and you must feel a real and
not feigned interest in others well
fare.
How many good things the spirit
of good will brings to us, and how
many unpleasant things it keeps away
from US!
II you form the habit Of saying
kindly things about others and look
ing for the best in them, your mind
will become related, through the law
of attraction, to all kindly people and
to all good everywhere.
If we persist in this habit it will
drive out all petty little jealousies, all
moroseness and gloom, envy and sell
fishness, everything that would Sc
riously mar our lives.
No efforts we may ever make can
bring such splendid returns as the
endeavor to scatter flowers as we go
along, to plant roses instead of
thorns; no investment will pay such
fat dividends as the firm effort put
into kind words and kindly acts. the
effort to radiate a kindly spirit toward
every living creature.
If we cultivate a sunny, cheerful
exterior and kindly smile, a cordial
manner towards everybody, we make
acquaintance and friendships easily,
know a woman in New York who
is a dwarf and a cripple, but who
has such a sweet, open. beautiful
nature that everybody loves her. She
is welcome everywhere, because she
loves everybody and feels interested
in every one. She is poor, but she
enters into other lives with hearth
ness and unselfish abandonment and
an enthusiasm that ought to shame
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
THE BEGGAR IN NEWARK.

MENDICANCY WOULD be large and hourishng industry
police check upon and private charity not
organized defend itself from mposure. ndscrmnate
charity professional mendcanc Free giving the
encouragement yagabondage 1t shown the charity
conference House recently that II per cent of
beggars able-boded only of
investigated did the circumstances justify charity
the systematic organization of the various private
in Newark and the activity of the police for the
sion begging mpostor mendcan hourly visitor
households night citizens accosted in every block
comparatively little of this nuisance real of
poverty looked after and the tendency
been stopped
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Why All Stock Issues Are Registered

| ION delivery day | noticed that
there sat in the rear office a very
quiet, perfectly Indifferent hammered
man whom I recognized as Henry
Keep. He was then the president of
the Lake Shore Railroad Company.
l remember saying to myself that
notwithstanding his perfectly COM
posed manner he must be inwardly
very much disturbed, since he could
not fail to know that Mr.. Jerome
had bought all the Lake Shore stock
that was outstanding and a good
deal more.
II heard Mr.. Jerome say to his
cashier How about the delivery of
the stock? The cashier replied that
all that he had bought was being de-
| livered. Mr.. Jerome got frightfully
excited He made a brief investiga-
tion and he soon discovered that
Henry Keep, the president of the
Lake Shore, had been printing and
issuing stock just as fast as Mr.. Jer-
ONE had been buying it and it was
this stock that was then being offered
to him, SO that he was compelled to
take 1t up. He made a rapid compu-
tation and realized that instead of
cornering the stock he himself had
been cornered and that his losses
would amount to millions, He went
to Henry Keep and denounced him in
| frightful language. Mr.. Keep made
absolutely no response to him. Then
he went home broken-hearted. His
losses were, understood, about seven
million dollars. But he had a greater
loss than that, for the blow inflicted
physical as we'll as financial injury
He moped away and died.
However. the transaction got noiseo
abroad and then it was decided fol
the protection of every one all issues
of stock should be registered. / pre-
sumo that would have been done ir
any event in the course of a few
years, but it was the collapse of the
corner upon Lake Shore which LED
to the establishment of registration
of stock"
Copyright, 1918, by E. J. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tell Of
Captain Wagner's Recollections o,
l.. A. Poe"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
Giant South Jersey Tree
Has a Romantic History

PHILADELPHIA, Dec IA giant
Norway spruce tree which has lived
its life of more than fifty years with
in q few miles of this city will be
set UP in Independence Square by the
Child Federation as the central figure
in the annual Christmas celebration
arranged by the organization. His
toric associations connected with its
planting influenced the committee or
the association in selecting 1t as the
Christmas tree of Philadelphia.
The tree was planted and fostered
by Benjamin Ridgway, of Burlington
county, N. j., shortly before the Civil
War in a magnificent grove near
Rancocas creek. The Ridgway home
stead is still landmark in Burning
ton county, testifying to the fame OF
it's builder. Prior to 1850 BENJAMIN
Ridgway was one of the richest and
most prominent men in that section
of New Jersey.
The tree was planted with Others
on a site selected by Mr.. Ridgway
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
. NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE

tity of coal taken by the other
states of the commonwealth and espe-
clally by Victoria, a big consumer
of coal from Newcastle and the Matt
land district. In the foreign markets
a slump may occur at any time, to
the loss of the shippers; even when
contracts have peen entered into, the
increase in freights may destroy the
profits. That was the case in re-
spect to the coal sent to some for
eign markets during the last SIX or
eight months. Freight rose to such
n figure that even coal of a good
quality realized only IS cents or
ST a ton after all charges were met.
AT these figures the companies lost
on every ton handled.-Consular Re-
port
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01

Trotol is the new name given to a
new explosive for which it is
claimed that it is the safest high ex
plosive known. Its formula was
worked out by Lieutenant Harold G.
Woodward, an officer in the New
York National Guard. He proposes,
as reported, to present his discovery
without reward to the United States
government. The following account
of Lieutenant Woodwards invention
is from the columns of the New York
Sun
Three years ago a brother (of
Lieutenant WOODWARD came across
an old volume that had been present
ed to German officials at the time OF
the Franco Prussian War In the
book were 1000 formulas for high ex-
plosives. mainly anonymous. The
Germans had simply shelved the
book, perhaps discouraged by the
number of receipts and the impossl-
bility of testing them all.
Woodward tried five formulas at
random, and found them all either
worthless or inferior to explosives
now in use. He tried a sixth at ran
dom and found it extraordinarily
safe and good, but rather weak. as
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01

IN the congregation yesterday were
asked to vote on the merits of the
sermon. 1t was the occasion OF The
nrst sermon in Dutch from the null
pit of that church since the close OF
the eighteenth century, the sermon
pelng preached by the Rev. Seth
Wander Vert, of Pella, Ia, field sec
rotary of the board of domestic mis-
sions of the Reformed Church. As
in the old Dutch days the elders sat
on the right side of the pulpit and
the deacons on the left, as judges of
the sermon. When 1t was finished
they were to indicate their vote by
remaining in their seats in silence
II the sermon did not please, and by
Ming up to the pulpit and shaking
hands with the minister IL the SER
mon was approved. Dr. Wander
Vert received unanimous approval in
this ancient way at yesterdays serv-
ices.
Mule. Hunting Honey, shinnies Up
Tree and Gets "stuns."
SHEEPSIDE, N. Y, Dec. Henry
Coleman of this village went out to
look for his pet donkey, Exile, yester-
day afternoon. He found Exile
perched in the top of cedar tree
Now how" said Farmer Coleman,
did that pesky mule Skinny way
up there?" He was scratching his
head when something bit him on the
cheek. 1t was a bee. When other
bees got busy Coleman turned and
ran for help. A glance told him
that most of the bees were stinging
Exile. With the aid of farm hands,
Coleman pushed a top-wagon under
the tree. Exile put his feet on it
and was rescued.
s'Nothing could have made that
critter climb a tree" said one of the
hands. He must've been hunting
honey. When the bees got after him
he jumped off the top of that bluff
close by and landed in the tree top.
But it sure was a staggerer for
minute, wasn't it?''
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL
DECEMBER I
Anna Comnena, Queen Alexandra
Copyrighted, 1913

BY MARY
December l stands out as the birth
day of two famous princesses, one
Queen Alexandra, wife of the late
Edward VII, of England. who was
born in 1874, and the other. born ex-
actly seven hundred and sixty-one
years earlier, Anna Connena.
Anna Commend was the daughter %
Alexius l., Byzantine emperor and
she is famous as one Of the first
women historians, as well as BECAUSE
of the important part she played in
Byzantine history. She was given the
best education possible in CONSTANT
nople and afterward was married to
one Nicephorus Briennius. Her father
soon fell mortally i'll and Anna and
her mother worked out n scheme to
have the dying emperor disinherit his
only and lawful heir, John. and APP
point Annals husband, Neighbours,
emperor ELECT in his stead-thereby
strengthening Annals political powers
Apparently, the scheme fell through.
and when John came to the throne at
his fathers death he didn't forget how
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
ONE. OF WARS HORRORS

of evil tempers even on the part OF
those who are far away
The news will doubtless come ike
a thunderclap to thousands who, not
unnaturally, pride themselves on hav-
ing done nothing to bring about these
deplorable hostilities, and they Will
feel disposed to rebel against the in
Justice which calls upon them to
nay for the misdeeds of others.
To the average cigarette smoker
in these islands 1t will appear I'M
pardonable that just because a few
peevish potentates have chosen to fall
out among themselves. his daily ex-
penses shall be increased to an ap-
probable extent and he will expert
ence an inclination to rail against the
way in which the universe Is regn-
lated.-London Sketch.
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MARSHALL
! nearly his sister had succeeded in TAX
ing his throne from him. So he had
Anna and her mother shut up IN
convent, where Anna remained till
she was fifty-nine.
Anna managed to turn her long
years of Imprisonment to good ae-
count, for 1t was during the solitude
of the convent life that she wrote her
famous history which Is known as
Che "Alexiad." 1t consists chiefly of
q life of her father and his contem-
poraries and is contained in fifteen
volumes.
Queen Alexandra, mother or the
present king of England, is sixty-nine
years old today. Her name In full Ii
Alexandra Marie Charlotte Louisa
Julia, and she was the eldest child
of the old king of Denmark. She was
married at eighteen to the Prince OF
Wales, who was three years her
senior For nine years she was queen
of England, and since her husbands
death she has been queen dowager Of
England.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
THE ECONOMY OF A CONVICT FARM

WITH farm of 900 well established
give employment about 800 conv besides employing
occupations the question of the of prison
may solution Last year the State prison 1884,
COS than its income while the net cost of the Railway eforma
tory $94404 total for the prisons of $397012 we'll
furnish of the food of the convc
supplying other State institutions and indoor labor can
provide and wise policy by the State
only morally and physically benefit the convicts but effect
large economy in the expense of their maintenance.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
nrItaIn,s one-Mnn Job..

From Pearsons Weekly.
Many curious old court appoint
ments have peen abolished, but there
are still several very quaint posts
about the throne.
There is, for instance, a marshal OF
the Gentle Archers. He is the COM
mander of q company of Scottish
archers who have the right of acting
as the Kings bodyguard when he is
in Scotland. Their uniform is the
ancient archers color-Lincoln green.
They practise in an Edinburgh public
park
There is a kings verderer for the
forest of Dean. This is probably the
most ancient of all court appoint
ments. A "verderer" is a sort of
gamekeeper in charge of deer, and the
office dates from early Norman times,
when the hunting of deer was the
favorite royal sport. The holder of
this office is elected at special court
presided over by the lord high sheriff
of Gloucester
It is only a few years since King
Edward VII. abolished the offices of
kings ale faster and royal rat catcher.
The royal rat catcher had handsome
salary of S1,250 year, with allow
ances for the upkeep of his dogs and
ferrets. This latter office dated from
the time of Charles II.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
Few Rifle shots.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Those peaceat-any- price advocates
who proclaim that Americans are a
nation of heaven-born marksmen who
would swarm to the front and ami
hilate the daring invader by rifle fire
will find food for thought in an article
by Albert S. Jones, of the National
Rifle Association of America, in the
Infantry Journal. Mr.. Jones pretty
Thoroughly punctures the notion THAT
we excel all other nations in practical
patriotism and in Workmanship and
produces some figures which are as
disturbing as they are accurate.
Thus he says:
"Results of an investigation to as
certain how many Americans in dlf-
ferent branches of the service, as we'll
as civilians, received instruction IN
rifle practice during the year 1910 fur
nish food for thought. The records
of the war department show that dur
ing the year 1920 members of the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01

A notable feature of Newcastle
trade last year was the large increase
in the quantity of coal exported 10
places beyond the State, the total
being 5,0SO,3os tons, valued at $lz'-
739. 0O6 in 1912 as compared with A.
O61 $50 tons, valued at $1O,SO1' sSl In
1911
The year opened without the prom
Use of good business, but not one
quarter of the year had passed When
trade improved both in respect to
fine interstate and some foreign mar
kets. 1t continued for months until
almost the close of the year, and
even during the last month trace
was much better than usual.
A good feature was the large guam
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
TRACKLESS COAL MINE

cars, filed with coal, are hauled by
dinky engine to derrick, which picks
the skips up and dumps them in rail-
way cars. 1t Is claimed that nowhere
else in the country is such method
used in coal mining
The lifting crane travels by its own
power and keeps on the bank of the
cut abreast of the coal diggers in the
bottom of the pit. which usually is
from twenty -four to thirty. feet deep.
Ladders are used by the workmen in
entering and leaving the workings
Coal Age