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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
DIAMONDS MINED IN u. S.

ploratory work, which has continued
into 1913.
The tourmaline output of Southern
California was small, but some mag
nificent specimen crystals were OBJ
tanned. Especially fine gem crystals
of kunzite were found and brought
good prices. The production of tur-
quoise was very small compared with
some previous years. Beautiful anne
thyst was found in Warren county,
North Carolina, and some fine gems
have been cut from sample crystals. A
few specimens of golden beryl were
obtained from prospects in Alex
ander county, North Carolina. Beau
tiful gems were cut from some of
these. The production of agate and
associated varieties of chalcedony
was again large in several Western
States.
No great advances are reported in
diamond mining in Arkansas during
1912. Several dozen diamonds were
found and several diamond washing
plants were constructed for operation
in 1913.
1t has been practically impossible
to determine the quantity and value
of the diamonds found in the Arkan-
sas field since the first discovery in
August, 1906 Most of the stones are
still held by the mining companies
and few have been sold. 1t is esti-
mated that about 1,400 diamonds
weighing nearly $50 carats have been
found from August, 1906, through De-
cember, 1912. The total estimated
value placed on this output in these
reports amounts to s12, 108.-Washing-
ton correspondence in New York Sun.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12

Gems and precious stones were pro-
duced in the United States in 1912 to
the value of $319,72 The kinds of
States are many, ranging from dia-
monds of fine quality to low grade
stones. such as agates, but, as is seen
from the total value of the output,
there are no really large operations.
The principal gem mineral mined in
the United States during 1912 was
Montana sapphire. of which there was
a large output for use both as gems
and in mechanical applications. The
greater part of the gem sapphires
came from the mines in Fergus coun-
ty, where they occur in a rock matrix
The majority of these stones have the
true sapphire blue color. The bulk Of
the sapphire for mechanical use came
from the placer deposits in Granite
and Deer Lodge counties and consists
of vari-colored stones.
The development of the opal depos-
its OF Humboldt county, Nevada. was
attended with much success, and a
quantity of magnificent gem material
was<obtained. The opal Is of an I'M
usual type, consisting of dark, trans
lucent mineral with a variety of rlch
colors. The deposits promise to sup
ply gem equal If not superior IN
beauty to the opal from Australia.
Prospecting and mining at the
emerald mine in North Carolina were
attended with only partial success.
Two pockets or deposits of emerald
were removed during the year; other
Developments consisted mainly of eX-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
DECEMBER IL
Maria Louisa, Mary Lincoln, Maria Christina
Copyrh
DECEMBER ~
BY MARY MARSHALL.

L
By some coincidence of the destiny
that presides over birthdays three
Marys-Maria Louisa, the wife Of
Napoleon Bonaparte; Mary Todd,
wife of Abraham Lincoln, and Prin-
cess Maria Christina. youngest child
of the king and queen of Spain, all
came into the world on December H.
Maria Louisa, who was born in 1871,
was the daughter OF an emperor of
Austria and at the age of nineteen
she was chosen by the Emperor
Napoleon as successor for his di-
vorced wife, Josephine. Maria Louisa
is usually thought OF only as empress
and yet, as matter of fact, she
enjoyed that dignity for only four
years of her life. On Napoleor's alb
dication in 1914 she was not allowed
to go with him and was probably
glad enough not to have to share his
exile. She was only twenty-three at
this time and when Napoleon's death
when she was thirty left her widow
she contracted a. morganatic marriage
with her chamberlain, the Count Won
Neipperg. He died in eight years
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
WHAT IsAGOODDAY'S WORK.

work. or shoveling fuel into the fur
mace, the other is engaged in formu-
lating plans to reduce the necessity
of shoveling so much fuel. 1t requires
but little thought to determine which
man is doing the better days work.
1t is not always so much what is
done as how it is done that counts in
the long run. A man may occupy
half an hour in making a necessary
adjustment and not do another thing
all day, and yet have done good
days work. Neglecting to make the
adjustment might result in an ex-
pensive accident.
Another man may work hard all
day, but naglect the one thing requir-
ing attention, and by this neglect
permit an accident to occur that
would amount to more in damage
than he receives for a years work
A romping bird dog does not com
pare with hunting dog, trained to
point out the position of the game.
nor does a hurly-burly engineer COM
pare with a thinking engineer in
doing a good days work.-Power.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
UPLIFT TALKS
"EANcY GAN SAVE or Kill"
BY oRIsON SWEET MARDEN.
Author of Pushing to the Front, Etc.
Copyright, 1918.

that we have been exposed to a ter
rible malady, to some incurable con-
tagious disease, completely upsets the
entire system and reverses the proc
esses of the various functions; the
mind does not act with its customary
vitality and power and there Is a
general dropping of physical and
mental standards all along the line,
until We become the victims of the
thing We fear.
When | was in the Harvard Medical
School, one of the best professors
there, a celebrated physician, who
had been lecturing upon the power of
the imagination, warned the students
against the dangers of imagining that
they themselves had the disease about
which they studied. The professor
told me that once he got it into his
head that he was developing Brights
disease in his system This convic-
ton became so strong that he did not
even dare to have an examination
made He was so certain that he was
in the grasp of this so-called fatal
disease that he preferred to die
rather than be told of his condition
by another physician. He lost his
appetite, lost flesh rapidly, and be-
came almost incapable of lecturing,
until one day a medical friend, as
tonished at the change in his appear
ance, asked what was the matter
with him.
"I have Bright's disease" was the
reply. ST am sure of it, for I have
every symptom"
Nonsense" said his friend; "you
have nothing of the kind"
After a great deal of persuasion,
the professor was induced to submit
to an examination, and it was discov-
cred that there was not the slightest
evidence of Bright's disease in his
system. He rallied so quickly that
even in a day those who knew him
noticed the change. His appetite re-
turned, his flesh came back, and he
was a new man.
Medical history shows that thou
sands of people have died the VIC
tins of their imagination. They were
convinced they had diseases which in
reality they never had. The trouble
was not in the body, but in the mind
DR.. Marden's Uplift Talks will APP
pear in the magazine pages of this
paper every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12

What constitutes good days work
for an engineer? How may the SUI
perintendent know when good days
work has been done?
In the small plant the engineer
would doubtless feel that he had
earned his pay if he did nothing but
keep all apparatus in good shape with
minimum of expense. If he does
his own firing he will also attend to
the washing out of the boiler and do
many small repair jobs which the SUI
perintendent knows nothing about
Because the engineer can be seen
sitting in a chair, apparently doing
nothing, it does not follow that he is
not doing a good days work. His
brain may be busy solving a problem
that will produce better plant opera
ton.
The superintendent usually takes it
for granted that the engineer who is
always engaged in manual labor is a
more valuable man than the one who
appears to be doing nothing.
One man is engaged in routine
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12

81 suppose it was known to only o.
very few persons that in 1854 part
of the political strategy which had
for its purpose the defeat of the re-
nomination of Abraham Lincoln for
the Presidency involved the appoint
ment of Chauncey M. Depew as col
lector of internal revenue of the dis
trict of which Westchester County,
New York State, was the most impor-
tant part"
This statement was made to me by
the late Judge Noah Davis, for many
years a very prominent Republican in
New York State. He had served in
Congress and had been United States
district attorney for the New York
city district In 1864 Judge Davis
was so prominent that his friends ex-
pected to nominate him for the
United States Senatorship. They
failed in that purpose. but by only
narrow margin. Roscoe Conkling de-
feated Judge Davis in the Republican
caucus by three votes.
Judge Davis, therefore. was very
we'll informed about national and
State politics in 1884, and, in fact, for
many years after that date.
81 happened to know" went on
Judge Davis that the man upon
whom Salmon P. Chase-who was
Lincoln's secretary of the treasury
relied for creating a successful anti
Lincoln movement in New York
State was no less a person than John
Jaw. | was not surprised that Mr..
Jay should be ready to act with
those who were planning for the
nomination of Secretary Chase for
President in place of Abraham Lin
coin. MIR. Jay was one of that con-
| siderable number who are never able
| fully to appreciate or understand
Abraham Lincoln. They never en-
| tirely rid themselves of the idea that
| he was a good lawyer. a pretty good
stump speaker, very cunning poll
tician and yet a man who did not
! fully realize the stupendous RESPONSE
bility which he bore as President OF
the United States.
There were several men OF intel
lectual power and great cultivation
/ in Boston who took this view OF MIR.
| Lincoln.
"The friends of Governor Chase
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES
why One should Stand Straight.

why One should Stand Straight.
From American Medical Association
Bulletin.
The first essential in the avoidance
of tuberculosis of the lungs, or con-
sumption, is to keep the lungs strong.
One of the most important things in
keeping the lungs strong is to keep
the chest wide open so that the lungs
can be properly used. If the body is
dropped or stoops, or if the shoulders
are allowed to drag forward Ground
shoulder, or If the head is carried
forward instead of well back over the
shoulders. the chest must be fiattened,
the breathing must be shallow, and
the lungs, not being freely used be-
come weak. 1t is in this type of chest
that tuberculosis usually begins. The
consumptiVe is usually narrow chest
ed, with dropped shoulders and with
the head craned forward. While the
development of q strong, well-formed
chest is one of the most important
factors in preventing tuberculosis, the
same thing Is to be desired if the dis
ease has once started. Not only should
we live in the open, but we should
stand up straight and learn to throw
big chest" so that the lungs can
grow strong and the fresh air be
taken in. The runner, the singer or
any one who Is obliged to make sus-
tanned effort Is taught to stand and
sit with the chest high so that the
lungs can be used to the best advan-
tage, and If every one would do the
same thing there would be less tuber
culosis because there would be fewer
weak lungs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12

Some time ago | read a story about
a young officer in India who con-
suited great physician because he
felt tagged from the excessive heat
and long hours of Service. The ply
stefan examined him and said he
would write to him on the morrow
The letter the patient received in
formed him that his left lung was
entirely gone, his heart seriously af-
fected, and advised him to adjust his
business affairs at once. "Of course,
you may live for weeks, it said, ''but
you had best not leave important
matters undecided"
Naturally the young officer was
dismayed by this death warrant He
grew rapidly worse, and in twenty
four hours respiration was difficult
and he had an acute pain in the re-
gion of the heart. He took to his
bed with the conviction that he
should never rise from it. During the
night he grew rapidly worse and his
servant sent for the doctor.
What on earth have you been do
ing to yourself?" demanded the ply
sician. There was no indication of
this sort when l saw you yesterday"
1T Is my heart, | suppose" weakly
answered the patient in whisper.
Your heart!" repeated the doctor
Your heart was all right yesterday"
My lungs, Them said the patient.
What is the matter with you,
man? You don't seem to have been
drinking"
Your letter, your letter." gasped
the patient. You said I had only a
few weeks to live
Are you crazy?'' said the doctor.
81 wrote you to take a weeks vaca-
ton in the hills and you would be
all right"
The patient, with the pallor of death
in his face, could scarcely raise his
head from the pillows, but he drew
from under the bedclothes the doctors
letter.
Heavens, mani cried the physi-
clan; this was meant for another
patient! My assistant misplaced the
letters"
The young officer sat up in bed i'm
mediately and was entirely we'll in a
few hours.
We are all at some time in our lives
victims of the imagination. The con-
viction that We are desperately ill, or
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
TRAINED OFFICERS FOR THE RESERVE.

IN CONNECTION with army strongly urged
Secretary Garrison there should be enlargement of the
facilities Point for the instruction of young be
commissioned officers Secretary Garrison recommends larger
of the national military academy for he
graduates join the colors into civil life they
should always the call of the government and with much
larger graduated the nation would always have body
thoroughly trained soldiers officer its
under unframed officers taken from civil life
disadvantage Most of the regiments recruited
Civil War little better than mobs and the officers had
everything learn by experience With West Point trained officers
a reserve force would be Immediately effective.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
FISH TRUST OBsTRUCTs NAVIGATION.

OBSTRUCTION OF navigation the New Jersey coast by
the pound subject complaint the federal
ment motorboa and the complaints
investigated This longstanding grievance and former
complaints Washington got attention because New Jersey
congressman them The fish trust
Influential with them than few hundred boat owners.
years the federal compelled the pound
net owner to come thee-mie limit and in doing
they submerged poles other Instructions perous navi
CATION fairly block navigation for
hreemle limit But State policy continues the
monopoly privileges the what is the
appropriation digging waterway the
inland waterway with the the upper coast?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE

will admit, for the sake of the argu-
ment, that they know more than we
do.
But what about the high school
girls? They are studying eX-
actly the same branches as the
boys. They are standing exactly as
high in their studies. There are
more of them in the high schools
than there are of the boys. BY what
process of reasoning does the gentle
man conclude that the school boys,
but not the school girls, know
enough to vote?
Also, a large portion of that knowl-
edge of history which in the gentle
mans opinion qualities the high
school boys to vote was impaired to
them by women teachers. How is it
that Mr.. F'ettinger finds these boys
fit TO vote, while the women who
have been found fit to teach and
train them are held unfit for the
franchise? We have always been
taught to respect the stern logic of
the male mind. Will not the gentle
man please explain?
MINNIE j. REYNOLDS,
State Organizer, Women's Political
Union of New Persey.
Newark, N. j., December H.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
HOW CANALS HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED.

MORE THAN thousand miles of canal in Pennsylvania,
built for cheap transportation and acquired by the Pennsylvania
railroad have been put of business Their beds filed
and finally taken roadbeds for railroad tracks The canal
system of Pennsylvania formerly by the State While
many canals in New York State uccumbed the railroad the Erie
canal by the great commercial interests in the
opos against assaults by the railroads. and result
the port of New York will have great barge canal for
tributary The sacrifice of canal navigation the United States
is national disaster.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
Wants Mr.. Fettinger to Explain
TO the Editor Of the Evening star:

To the Editor Of the Evening Star;
Sir-In your issue of December 9
Mr.. Theodore S. Fettinger is quoted
as advocating the extension Of the
franchise to male pupils of the high
schools in the following words:
-" they are well booked on
the history of our country, on cur
rent political history and have
fuller knowledge of what is required
of the citizen than most of those
who now have the right to vote.
1T seems to me that this would in
ject a very healthy, virile element
into the politics of the city, State
and country, and, without discredit-
ing the claims of the female suffra-
gists, 1 would say that these young
men could vote far more intelligently
than the women, uneducated ard
unconcerned about political and gov
ernmental affairs.
We will bow to Mr.. Fettinger's SUI
perior wisdom and admit that the
high school boys know more than
the women who are asking for the
ballot in New Jersey. Those of us
who have sons in the high school
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12

The province of Victoria has a
State mine at Wonthaggi, which re-
ports a profit of nearly $4,000 last
year. It's gross output was 470,261
tons for IL months and the daily ton
mage was about 1900 tons. Only .454,-
421 tons were shipped to market, the
rest being used by the miners and the
power house.
1t is estimated tiIat the coal area
exploited by the Wonthaggi mine con-
tains 265s million tons. The area COW
cred is 800 acres. The plant uses
electricity for hosting. haulage, venti-
lation, coal cutting and pumping.
The equipment consists partly of
engine-d driven generating sets produc-
ing 3-phase alternating current at
200 volts and frequency of so
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
PRISON FOR A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

THE CROOKED justice of the peace is unknown
character in New Jersey the the
of justice could be indicated in every
doing would be considerable colony petty mags-
State prison AS the people wronged always the
and usually the ignorant the their dues One of
in Burlington who with his constabes
shocking of wrong of young girl found
out has prison prolonged The
State Pardon Court should that the reprobate his
term. The example is sadly needed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
TAFTs GRATITUDE TO ROOT.

MR. TAFT is unable that the American people when
they turned verdict
his views and policies of the discard and
wanted no Senator Root of New York
Taft owed the forced nomination the Chicago convention that
was repudiated millions Republicans
small States When Mr. Taft tells convention
that Root with John Marshall Thomas Jefferson and
Alexander Hamilton merely his of persona
he is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12

MARSHALL.
and three years after his death she
secretly married the Count Won
Bamballes. So after all, though
Maria Louisa's marriage with Ma
poleon is the only thing for which
history remembers her, it was only
an incident in her life, an incident
that barely touched her frivolous,
complacent heart.
Mary Todd was born on December
10, 1878, and it is said on good au-
thority that from her girlhood she
often made the prediction that she
would one day be the wife of a Pres
ident of the United States. Whether
she had this ambition in mind when
she married the thirty-year-old Lin
coin when she was twenty-one no
one knows, but she did not keep her
ambition from her gifted husband.
1t is said that after the Presidential
election that placed Lincoln in the
White House his first remark was
There is a little woman who win be
interested in the matter" and with
that he walked home from the place
where he had been receiving the re-
turns to tell her OF his good fortune.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The True Prediction of john SwintOn

were very happy when they found
that the great John Jay was not only
willing but anxious to ally himself
with q movement which had for its
purpose the nomination of Salmon b.
Chase for President in place of Lin
coin. Mr. Jay had been told that
Lincoln was far more anxious for re-
nomination than he was for his first
nomination, and for that reason was
ready to use any kind of cunning or
political strategy which would
strengthen him with the political
leaders.
1T was, therefore, felt that in order
to build up a strong anti-Lincoln
party in New York there ought to be
considerable use of the patronage
which Secretary Chase controlled. A
vacancy occurred in the very infiuen-
tfal office of collector of internal rev.
enue in the Westchester, N. Y, dis
trict. This seemed to be a most
fortunate opening for those who
wanted to strengthen Chase and to
weaken Lincoln in New York.
The matter was talked over, and
Chase agreed to secure the appoint
ment of any man as internal revenue
collector for Westchester County
whom John Jay and the others rec
commended.
John Jay spoke at once OF very
bright and politically slsilful young
Republican of Westchester County
Chauncey M. Depew. No sooner was
the suggestion made than 1t was act
ed upon. The appointment was of
fered to Depew and he promptly de-
clined 1t. They were unable to find
any other man in Westminster Coun-
ty who had political skill enough to
use this office in the interests OF
Chase Therefore the scheme failed
and from that moment when the of
| fer of this Office TO Depew was de-
clined the scheming of the Repub-
! lican politicians who wanted to pre-.
vent Lincoln's denomination began tc
weaken, until at last 1t collapsed"
| Copyright 1918. by e, J. Edwards. All
rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tel
'sHow Edgar Van Etten's Lack OF
Schooling Helped Him."
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Dome

Homes not merely four square walls
Though with pictures hung and gilded;
Home is where affection calls
Filled with shrnes the heart has builded
Homel Go watch the faithful dove
Sailing meath the heaven above us;
Home is where there's one to love!
Home is where there's one TO love US
Homes not merely roof and
1t needs something to endear it,
Home is where the heart can bloom
Where there's some kind lip TO cheer it!
What is home with none to meet,
None to welcome, none to greet us?
Home is sweet, and only sweet,
Where there's who loves to meet us.
CHARLES SWAT