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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

States has issued a bulletin urging
the prohibition of night work for
children eighteen years old or
younger.
The proposed seamen's bill regu-
lates hours and services and makes
humane provisions as to sleeping and
living space, proper sanitation, and
food for sailors on shipboard.
In three of the Southern States
Alabama, North Carolina and South
Carolina-nearly 10 per cent. of all
wage-earners in the cotton industry
in 1909 we're children under sixteen
years Of age.
The United Mine Workers have de-
cided, by a vote of 129,4 89 for and
1915 against, that the assessment of
50 cents a member each month shall
be continued until the strikes in Col
orado, Vancouver Island, West Vir-
ginia and elsewhere of the miners are
brought to a successful termination.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

conducted largely with lamps of high
candlepower; one of these lamps was
over 5000 candlepower, with a current
consumption of 05 watt per candle.
as compared with and 125 watts
per candle In the ordinary tungsten
lamp. This means more than twice
the light for the same energy con-
sumption Small and medium -eized
nitrogen filled lamps have not yet
been successfully operated at this
high efficiency, but it is claimed that
the ordinary tungsten lamps Will give
better service If filled with nitrogen
than If vacuum is used Hence the
announcement is one of extreme i'm.
terest to all concerned with efficient
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Che Rock-a-bp Cadp

The Rock-a-by Lady from Hush-a-by street,
g Comes stealing; comes creeping
The peoples they hang from her head to her feet
And each has dream that tiny ana fleet
She bringeth her peoples to you, my sweet
When she fndeth you sleeping.
There is little dream of beautiful drum
"Rub-a-dubl !" it goeth;
There is one little dream of big sugar plum,
And lo thick and fast the other dreams
Of popguns that bang, and tin tops that hum,
And trumpet that bloweth
And dollies peep out from those little dreams
With laughter and singing;
And boats go a-hoating silvery streams
And the stars peek-a-boo with their misty gleams
And up, up and up where the mother beams
The fairies go winging
Would you dream all these dreams that tiny and fleet?
They'll come to you sleeping;
So shut the two eyes that weary my sweet
For the Rock-a-by Lady from Hushaby street.
With poppies that hang from her head TO her feet
Comes stealing comes creeping
EUGENE FIELD
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
DECEMBER 10
Madame Reybaud, Mrs. Avery
Copyrighted, 1918.
BY MARY MARSHALL

By mari
Henriette Etienne Fanny Armand
Reybaud is the pretentious name of
one of the celebrated women born on.
December 10. The year of her birth
was 1902. She was novelist of con-
siderable merit and popularity in the
early nineteenth century. There is
popular belief that great men choose
as their helpmeets women whose only
ambition is to shine in reflected glory
women of the purely domestic type
and that great men are seldom
drawn to women of achievement.
There are so many striking excep-
lions to this rule, SO many cases
where, like Nine. Curie and her hus-
band, q man of great ability, found
his only abiding comradeship in a
woman of like attachments, that the
old theory needs a good deal of boil
STEERING. One of the shining examples
of the exception is TO be found in
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, whose
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Nitrogen Lamps Yield Double Power

The recent announcement before
the meeting of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers of new
form of tungsten lamp, with twice
at present in common use. has
caused widespread interest. The new
lamp has fiilament of tungsten, but
the bulb. instead of being exhausted
of air is filled with nitrogen vapor
at atmospheric. pressure. The. pecu-
liar property of the nitrogen is that
the tungsten fiilament may be OPP
Grated at a considerably higher tenn
perature than when in a vacuum.
without the troublesome blackening
of the bulb.
The experiments thus far have been
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

which the numerous, translucent,
reddish brown garnets are well scat
tered Those with diameters up to
five or six inches are common and
the largest taken out are said to be
the size of bushel basket. The re-
markable feature is the never-failinS
occurrence of a rim or envelope OF
pure black, medium grained horn
blende crystals completely enclosing
each garnet. The reddish brown
garnets completely surrounded by the
black hornblende rims, which are in
turn embedded in the gray gneiss.
present a striking appearance in the
walls of the mine pits. The garnet
bearing rock is fully three-quarters
of a mile long.-The Engineering and
Mining Journal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
AMERICAN AID FOR HUERTA.

s THE CHARGE that the Wells-Fargo Express Company
large Huerta by incredible There
this country fully capable of supplying
arms ammunition nation with if they
of profit The which the president of the express
merely says directions had issued
from Huea and make loans but this does
the charge that loan had been made The truth
asy charge will be made evident If the fact will
go heavily against the company in the popular mind.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

and warm. I needed 1t. Perhaps you
can afford another. 1 can't"
Twice Pronounced Dead; Man Dis
cusses His Experiences.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Edward w.
Hooker, Connecticut State senator,
and former mayor of Hartford, who
sailed today for Bermuda. has twice
been pronounced dead, but he was
very much alive today in discussing
his experiences.
He has been told by physicians that
his case is one of the most remarkable
in the annals of pathology. His heart
recently distended itself to ten inches
in width as compared with four
inches, which is the width of an aver
age persons heart. When this dila-
ton occurred for the first time year
ago, Mr.. Hooker became unconscious
and was thought to be dead. Twice
he was revived by artificial respira-
ton
Mr.. Hooker's heart is now reduced
to one-half more than its normal size
and its walls are slowly resuming
their normal thickness. but he is still
in such a condition that he cannot
travel by rail.
Mr.. Hooker is a third descendant OF
Joseph Hooker. the founder of Hart
ford
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A TAX Law DEFECT

1T is likely that the claim of certain fraterna organza
ons that by the phrasng of amendment the law their
property exempt from for will be allowed for
II obvious the amendment that the Legislature did
their properties Whether word inserted in the
by cessness by trick the meaning placed
plainly contrary public policy we'll that
erespecng organization should try take advantage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
TO LOOK AFTER AUTO sPEEDERs.

Is THE EXAMPLE in New York by the Hnng
of hundreds of fasspeedng has prompted the New
Jersey State commissioner do something the
nuisance in the large municipalities of this State inspectors
and do their whole duty the vehicle department
will get large additional income and the traffic conditions will
vastly improved The municipal authorities pay attention
of the automobile law and the average policeman
know what the law is or how it may be violated
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

name is known to Frenchmen for his
remarkable political writings.
Another distinguished wife of dis
tinguished man also claims December
13 as her birthday. This is Catherine
Hitchcock Tilden Avery, editor and
writer, who married early in her ca
reer the no less distinguished writer
Glory McKendree Avery. Mrs. Avery
was born in Michigan in 1874, a few
months before her husband, whom she
married at the age of twenty-six.
Both Mrs. and Mr.. Avery began their
careers as school teachers and school
principals in Michigan. Mr.. Avery
gained distinction as a writer of text
books and Mrs. Avery through hold
ing public office. When she was elect
ed member of the Cleveland School
Board in 1895 she was the first woman
who had ever held public office In
that city Five years later she was
elected az the only woman on the
library board of that city. She is
widely known as the editor of the
official organ of the Daughters of tho
American Revolution.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
STARVATION WAGE HIS TEMPTATION.

PARSIMONY OF bank in the salaries paid
poyee who hold positions of responsibility temptation
bank teller who has been
tory embezzg $4,000 received the prncey salary $4467
And he had the handling of large funds With
living what it is think of in bank being compelled sub
72 working day. while he had wealth within his grasp!
his employers responsible for his crime?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
ARGENTINE MEAT IN CHICAGO.

1T is like carrying Goals Newcastle for Argentine
transported and sold in Chicago headquarters prn-
cpa depot of supply of the and beef all the
pampas of Argentina being distributed by
big packing firms in Chicago AS the
competition and evidently there object
served az the bluff.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES.

tecontaglossal Dictionary exists in
an unfinished state only in manu-
script. He also compiled with more
success a set of astronomical tables
for the use of chronologists Yet this
astonishing man never enjoyed more
than an income of fifty pounds a
year as teacher until the eve of his
death, when the prime minister
bred pounds lin recognition of his
great learning and extraordinary at
tainments."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Pearls Of scotland.


From the London Chronicle.
Scotland still produces pearls found
mainly in the fresh-water mussel
They could, no doubt, be found in
England If the industry were profit
able. Cleopatra was not the only per-
son who swallowed a dissolved pearl.
Until comparatively recently they were
used incidentally in the West. and
still appear in the materia medica of
China. According to one Chinese au-
thority, a pearl, after being treated
with pumice stone and honeycomb,
mixed with the gall of a serpent,
might be drawn out to the length of
three or four feet. Make it into pills
and swallow them-henceforth food
will abe unnecessary The sug-
gestion is not that the patient would
be finished off, but that heswonld live
foodless, forever.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

Finds Pansies In Full Bloom with
Frost on Ground.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-"My DEAR"
said his wife at breakfast yesterday
to Professor Thomas G. Pause, Of
the City College, ''it is a pity If all our
pansies are down with frost" The
PASSES live on the Manor road, West
New Brighton, Staten Island.
Gator.
He found nine pansies in full bloom
bright, smiling and fresh as in May.
though the frost was deep in the
ground. He cried his discovery to his
wife. She thought he was joking
until she went out and saw for her
self.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Forecasts Weather n Month Ahead.
From the Boston Transcript.

Forecasts Weather a Month Ahead.
From the Boston Transcript.
Considerable interest is aroused in
France by the success which has
hitherto attended the attempts of NJ.
Mascart, a director of the Lyons OBJ
servatory, to predict local weather
conditions a month in advance. His
weather forecasts have been pub
lished in the observatory bulletin
during the past three, months. At
the end of July M. Mascart pub
lished in the bulletin a weather fore
cast for each day in the month of
August. Seventy one per cent. of the
forecasts were correct. In Septem-
Der the percentage of successful pre-
dictions was rs. His forecasts, indi-
eating, as they do, probable tempera-
ture, rainfall and wind velocity, are
likely to be of valuable service to the
farmers of the district The Thuni
derer goes bond for the truth of this
report.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
GrIef for street Car smokers.

From the Duluth News Tribune.
To smoke or not to smoke, this is
the question. If to smoke, shall the
place include street cars, or shall
this element of sociability be cut
from the list of street car attrac-
tons? Shall the business man who
is denied his smoke while back of
the counter or in the office light up
as he enters the car to go to his
home, or shall he wait until in his
own domicile? Kansas City has de-
clared against the car as a smoke
emporium. Minneapolis has the
question under consideration by the
city council Here in Duluth the
company as its contribution has or
dered all Instructions removed from
the rear vestibule to make room for
the social cigar, pipe and nail
Just how long will this be suffered
in silence Ky the ninety of the one
hundred? How long will the ninety
be content to stumble over pack
ages, boxes and grips that the ten
may smoke in,comfort and swap the
newest stories? Is 1t fact that it
would be an overgreat hardship for
any smoker to deprive himself of this
indulgence for the half hour from the
centre of the city to either end; or
even for an hour? Anyway, Duluth
smokers might as well be prepared,
for these movements never stop,
once they start.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Gets Back Valuable Papers and
.sThanks, for stolen OvercOat.

BOONTON, Dec. 13.-Frank III.
Pierce, of Boonton, a lawyer. with
offices in New York, went to a restau-
rant in that city few days ago for
luncheon. When he was ready to
leave he found some one had stolen
his hat and overcoat. In the coat
were valuable papers,
He got by parcel post yesterday the
papers with the following note:
Thanks for the overcoat. It is good
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Redlscoverlng New England.

Rediscovering New England.
From the Boston Globe
The Civil War gave a blow to New
England almost as great as that
which 1t gave to the South; for besides
the scores of thousands of its sons
who died In battle or of disease, ,other
scores of thousands saw, or thought
they saw, much greater opportuni-
ties in the South and West than
there remained in New England and
so left their residences there. Land
in the South could be bought, very
cheaply after the war. and in the
West it was purchasable for 81 an acre
from the government. besides the
homesteads of 100 acres which could
become ones property for filing fees
and for residence thereon" for term
of years.
Veteran soldiers were given outright
large farms in Kansas and other
States near 1t soon after the war, and
as result entire New England vii
lagos were completely depopulated.
Now nearly all of the desirable land
for homesteads-tha Is, good soil
which is sufficiently watered by the
usual annual rainfall-has been taken
and children and grandchildren of
those pioneers In the corn and wheat
belts are seeking a. new frontier. A
million of them have crossed the line
into Canada. Other millions will seek
the last frontier until they reach the
point where ordinary agriculture will
cease to be profitable. Then the tide
must turn backward.
Where can 1t turn to but to the
deserted or partly deserted farms of
the Northeast? There are in this sec
ton opportunities vastly more tempt
Ing than those, for example, in the
province of Alberta, some sections of
which lack sufficient rainfall to pro-
duce crops reliably, and are swept
in winter by cold winds and SHOWS,
which drive all their well-to-do resi-
dents who can get away to warmer
climate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
AIanIkn,s Mighty River.

FROM Leslie 3.
Dismiss from your mind any no.
ton that the Yukon River is a puny
stream fed by eternal glaciers and
trickling away to the sea. 1t is a
river, so mighty that it can spread
out over width of sixty miles on
the Yukon flats and still have depth
enough in the main channel to float
heavily laden freight steamers. From
its mouth (near st. Michael) at the
Boring Sea ii Is navigable all the
way to White Horse. in the Yukon
territory of Canada, an unbroken
stretch of over 2,1O0 miles. two-thirds
of the distance from New York to
San Francisco. Add to this the
navigable water of its tributaries
$40 miles on the Innoko River. 800
on the Iditarod, 500 on the Koyukuk,
and 1892 on the Tanana-and you will
begin to have a fair idea of what
big river we have in our great en-
pire beneath the northern lights.
The valley drained by this wonder
full river system of the north is the
hope of Alaska. The wealth of the
past and of today has come from
mines and fisheries; and the lifetime
of all mining regions is briefer even
than human life. 1t has been only a
few years, you remember, since the
Klondike was the most active mining
camp in the world; today it is a
valley long since deserted by the in
dividual miner and turned over to
two big dredging companies, which
work the .ow-grade tailings. And
these also must shortly pass.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

and warm. needed It. Perhaps you
can afford another. 1 can't"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-03
PROGRESSIVES LAY PLANS.

The state committee of the progress
sive party in Vermont held a meeting
in the parlors of the Hotel Vermont
at Burlington Friday afternoon with
representative present from every
county in the state except Orleans and
Essex. National Committeeman c. H.
Thompson of Bratteboro was present,
and the subjects of progressive news
paper, finance and other matters We're
discussed.
One of the FIRST pieces of business
transacted by the meeting was the addi-
ton of two women to the list of the
state committee. They are Mrs Guy
B. Horton of Burlington and Mrs. Rob
ert French of st. Johnsbury. Following
that an executive committee, consisting
of C. H. Thompson, M. l.. Aseltine and
+. l.. Kelley, was elected.
The meeting expressed itself in favor
of the financial apportionment plan,
formulated by the national committee,
providing the other states adopt it.
The plans call for $1,000 to be raised
for the support of the Progressive
party in Vermont A series of meet
ings were also arranged for, and speak
ers of reputation will be called into the
state for the purpose of holding county
rallies.
No action was taken in regard to the
establishment of a Progressive paper.
NJ. c. Reynolds stated that he was
willing to support the party with his
series of papers and came forth with
a tentative scheme to devote one page
per issue to the interest and news of
the party. If such plan were adopted
the price Of yearly subscription would
be one dollar per year. Most of those
present were apparently in favor of
the plan, but no action was taken. -
Rutland Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-03
Oujmbv 6. Backus Dead.

Quimby S. Backus, a State Senator
in 1902 died at his home in Brandon
on Friday morning, December q, at 10
O clock of Brights disease and heart
trouble. For two years he had been in
very poor health. He is survived by
wife, a son, Frederick E. Backus, and a.
daughter, Mrs. John O. Bowman of
North Carolina, and by three grand
children, Frederick Bowman of New
York, Mrs. Charles Payne of Westport,
N. Y, and Beatrice Backus of Bran
don.
He was born July 90, 1888, in Bridge
water. He came to Brandon village
from Philadelphia 16 years ago and de-
veloped the Backus heater works
which had been moved to Brandon from
Philadelphia and became one of the i'm
portant industries of the State. Mr.
Backus was the candidate of the indie
pendent league for governor of YER
mont in 1908.
The funeral was held Sunday after
noon at two O'Clock from his late home,
the Rev. Charles E. Beals officiating.
The services were in charge of st.
PauPs Masonic lodge, of which deceased
was a member. Interment was in Pine
Hill cemetery.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-03
GOVERNMENT BUYS BREEDING
HORSES.
Three Vermont Morsans Appear
in List-M Maxwell Evarts Ad-
visory Agent

Under the provisions of the current
appropriation act for the Department
of Agriculture authorizing the in
auguration of experiments in the
breeding of horses for military pur-
poses and providing 500, 600 for that
with the concurrence of the Secretary
of War, has appointed the following
gentlemen as advisory agents in the
selection of stations and to assist in
the operation of the Government S
plan: Henry Fairfax, of Virginia, for
Thoroughbreds; c. l.. Raiey, of Ken
lucky, for American Saddle horses;
Walter Palmer of Illinois, for Stand
ardbreds Maxwell Evarts of Vermont,
for Morgans.
Each gentleman acts with the officers
of the government in the selection of
stations of the breed he represents
The Secretary of War has designated
Lieut.. Col. d. S. Stanley of the Quar-
termaster Corps to represent the Army,
and the Secretary Of Agriculture has
designated Mr.. George NJ. Rommell,
Chief of the Animal Husbandry Di-
vision of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry, to represent the Department of
Agriculture.
Thirteen stations have been pur-
chased to date, as follows:
Thoroughbreds-G Gold Heels, by The
Bard dam, Heel and Toe. Charcot, by
Common; dam, spanish Match.
Saddle horses Young Bill, by Golden
King; dam by Bourbon Chief. Fair
Acre King, by Bourbon King; dam,
Aletha Chief. Richmond Choice, by
Rex Peavine; dam by King Richard.
Standardbreds MacNunne, by Mac
Dougall; dam, The Nunne. Sigler, by
Red Medium; dam, Maud Sigler,
BeGue, by Virgins; dam, Lady Ores
cent. Twilight M. by belmont, jr.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-03

The situation and the need of today
he outlines with uncommon sympathy
for the Progressive creed and its vital
principles. He could hardly have
spoken in different mood or phrase at
Staunton on Virginia day if he had
been militant member of the Progress
sive organization. Said he
eve are learning again that the SER
vice of humanity is the business of man
kind, and that the business of mankind
must be set forward by the govern
ment which mankind sets up, in order
that justice may be done and mercy not
forgotten.
"There must be a head in govern
ment. There must be a heart in the
policies of government, And men must
look to it that they do unto others as
they would have others do unto them.
1.-The word that stands at the center of
what has to be done is "service. The
business men of the United States are
not going to be allowed to make any
money except for quid pro quo; that
they must render service or get
nothing. Everything in business and
politics is going to be reduced to this
standard.
Governor Wilson realizes what it is
going to be to accomplish this through
the Democratic party, what enormous
obstacles lie in the way. For he says
sharply now that he could pick out
some men likely to be associated with
the government "who have not yet had
dawn upon their intelligence what it is
that government is set up to do. -
But he is ready. He has his "war-
paint on, and he assures those witt
intelligence still in the dark hat this
will be no rosewater affair. Governor
Wilson has clearly set his standard al
the highest. He means to work for the
people and for progressiveness.
Whe Their his practical ability in execu
tive and administrative force will match
remains to be seen. The spirit he dis
plays now is fine and high. He is com
PEELED now TO deal largely in the rhe
torical and the abstract And his oppo
nents are keeping very quiet. But the
time is near When great opportunities
will be at his hand We hope he will
prove that his endurance and persist
ence will match the courage and conf
dence of today. Boston Journal.