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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02

at presume that very few persons
are now living who ever saw, GER
tainly very few who ever talked with,
Edgar A, Poe" said Captain Freder-
ick C. Wagner to me. I'm his day
he was a very prominent citizen OF
New York and was well known to
the Masonic fraternity of the United
States by his prominent identihca-
ton with the establishment of the
great Masonic home at Utica, New
York.
81 am fortunate enough to be able
to recall many meetings of Poe and
several interesting conversations
which | had with him at one time
or another" he went ON.
Having said this to me, Captain
Wagner took a wallet of the kind
used for carrying small papers or
documents from an inner pocket and
opening 1t after some searching
among the papers, took half sheet
of what used to be styled commercial
note paper. He showed me the date.
1t was in September, 1859. With a
delicacy, the reasons for which aft
erward appreciated, Captain Wagner
concealed the name of the writer of
the communication | saw 1t was in
a womans handwriting. The paper
was somewhat faded and the ink was
beginning to turn. The communica-
ton had reference to some business
matter, as | saw after I had read the
first paragraph of the letter.
"That letter." said Captain Wagner,
was written to me by a friend OF
my family a lady of Providence,
Rhode Island, who wanted me to exc
cute a business commission for her
1t is the lady to whom Edgar A. Poe
was once engaged to be married
"She had great admiration for
Poe's genius and for him as man
but there came day when she had
visible evidence that Poe could not
control his appetite and for that rea-
son the engagement was broken.
II knew the circumstances at the
time. But l did not then know that
Poe occasionally yielded to the temp
tations of INDUCING in spirituous
drink. | was speaking Of this to a
friend who knew Poe we'll and who
admired him greatly and he told me
that Edgar, as he called Poe, was tc
be pitied rather than censured. He
said that the trouble with Poe was
that il he swallowed even a small
amount of liquor it instantly affected
him-set his brain in a whirl-ano
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Captain Wagner's Recolections OF Edgar A. Poe

that this was due to some physical
weakness. He said that Poe's only
safety was in absolute abstinence.
Frequently when he was thought to
be greatly overcome by liquor it was
really the case that he had swallowed
only a moderate amount of whiskey
or brandy.
81 never saw Poe when he gave
the slightest indication that he was
not fully himself. ] used occasionally
to meet him at some .one of the
monthly receptions, which were given
by the Cary sisters. Alice and Phoebe
at their home on Seventeenth street,
New York. If there ever was what
the French call a literary salon in
New York, these receptions of the
Cary sisters could be thus described
We used to see George William Cur
tbs, dignified and yet cordial, fire.
quently the centre of merry group
| a very handsome man who had just
| gained his first reputation as an au.
thor. Occasionally Parke Goodwin
would stroll in, a heavy, thick-set
man, son-in-law of William Cutler
Bryant. There was romantic associa-
ton with Mr. Goodwin, since he was
known as a lad to have sat upon the
knee of Aaron Burr and when 8
| y
have met and talked with Burr il
the cemetery, where Burr had gone
to look at the grave of his father
once president of Princeton. Horac,
Greedy used to come in, dressed lik,
a gentleman without any eccentrici
ties of costume, and Anne Stevens
who then had a great reputation a.
the author of Fashion and Famine,
a novel which almost We'd in popu
larity with Uncle Toms Cabin Ant
sometimes Edgar A. Poe came in, no
at all affected in his manner, dream,
and often sad eyeL, rejoicing appar
emily, in the common tribute that wa!
paid to him even then, because hi
| genius was recognized, although TIN
| feeling was that its greater recogni
ton would not come till after hi
death, which was the fact. My recol
lections of Edgar Allen Poe ar
among the most pleasant of any o
those of my young manhood in New
York city,
Copyright, 1918, by Z. j. Edwards
All right reserved)
Tomorrow Mr., Edwards will tell 0
why George Law Failed to Get tn
! Presidential Nomination"
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Undoubt eddy real genius is re-
sponsible for the pronupciamento tnae
It takes a rich man to draw a check
a pretty girl to draw attention, a
horse to draw g. cart, mus1aI u
plaster to draw the skin, a topper TO
draw a cork, free lunch to draw q
crowd, and an advertisement TO ara"
trade. ~
IT is along this latter line. for tlA'
purpose of drawing trade, that q
newspaper exclusively for beggars is
published in Paris It's columns are
filled with notices of funerals, bap,,
tisms. weddings and other social anu
public events calculated to guarantee
generous responses to pathetic ap-
peals from the beggars. who, thus
apprized, flock to the scene OF the
functions, night or day.
A choice sample of humor In adyer-
Using is furnished by the notice Oh
dissolution of a disastrous business
venture between two gentlemen OF
color in the South. The following bon
mot for insertion in the local paper
was penned by the survivor of the
wreck:
de copatnership heretofore resist
ing twixt Nose Skinner en- me am dis
day resolved. Dem what owes de firm
will settle wild me, en- dem what de
firm owes will settle wild Nose.
About the last place in which one
would look for advertising is the
ehurchyard, but it has been demon
strated that even there all is fish that
comes to the net of the far reaching
advertiser. 1t is recorded of . certain
shopkeeper possessing grim sense of
humor that he had his grave dug and
a tombstone erected at its head some
years before his death, On the marble
he caused to be inscribed:
Here lies John Emerson, the Best
Halter in Ohio"
A Canadian firm went this one bet
ter. The senior partner having pass
ed to his reward, his business asso-
ciates erected a monument to his
memory. The tombstone bore these
words:
Here lies Abram Stokes, founder
of the firm of Stokes. Stokes & Co.,
who for many years have manufac-
tured pickles and bottled fruits. Best
of all and without a rival.
For her late husband grief stick
en- widow across the ocean put up
stone with this touching il scription
upon it:
Here lies dear departed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
ENGLAND's MENACING RACE PROBLEM.

GREAT BRITAINS Hindu problem conronts her in new
of her vast colonial empire Federal
have kept people of British Columbia where they
extremely undesirable judicial decision declares that the
only grounds upon which Hindu be shut out do
crime mendcanc This unfortunate ruling lets down
the bars to an inevitable Hindu immigration and the
troubles Africa of the of
these Asiatics repeated the Pacific The
phase of the situation the effect upon the oooo
of natives India who already profoundly stirred by
the hostility in South Africa
of the white is the everywhere is
merely prejudice but sefpreservaon That instinct
of antChnese immigration law for this
country and barred out Japanese inspired the California
discriminating against Japanese residents which English news
unsparngy What shall they of the
Hindu who British subject while the Japanese alien?
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Stitches in Time.


From the New York Tribune
over AZ per cent. of the infants dying
under one year of age do not COM
plete the first year of life. Almost
seven tenths of this AZ per cent. die
as the result of conditions existing
before they were born or of injuries
at birth. The figures for infants
dying on the first day, or during the
first week, after birth, are even more
striking. Now, as things go now
adays, this is matter for startling
drama; but we are glad to say that
so far it has been used only as in
SEPARATION for a monograph of the
new children's bureau at Washing
ton.
The bureau promises a whole series,
and very properly deyotes the OPEN
ing number to Prenatal Care" This
pamphlet Is the work of Mrs. Max
West of the bureaus staff, a woman
equipped for the task by university
/ training. by government research and
by motherhood. The directions for
prenatal care are simply written and
a glossary gives definitions of all the
terms used that are not in everyday
speech. The arrangement of the ma
terial is logical and the booklet is
indeXed.
Prospective mothers will do well to
address the Children's Bureau of the
Department of Labor, at Washington,
asking that Bureau Publication
(care of Children Series, No. y be
sent to them. The information hap
pens to be free-but it is also depend
q BILE.
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hallway and Auto Mishaps.

From the Chicago rd-Herald.
The municipal reference librarian of
Chicago, Frederic Rex. has taken the
trouble to collate some statistics re-
garding fatal railway and automobile
accidents for the fiscal year 1912, and
has drawn therefrom few interest
ing comparisons He. finds that the
number of passengers killed in all
ways on all of the railways of tho
United States during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1872 was go During
the same period, according to infor-
nation obtained by the Chicago sta
tistical expert, SOL persons were killed
by automobiles in twenty-five Amer
lean cities having a population of 100,
900 or more.
The comparison becomes startling
when it is realized that in the State of
New York alone such cities as Roches-
ter, Syracuse and Albany are not in
cluded Neither does the list Of
twenty-five cities include all other
cities in other States with population
exceeding 100000 1t must be apparent
at once. therefore, that the number Of
automobile fatalities, taking the
country at large has been greatly
underestimate. Yet, with this in
complete record, the comparison with
fatalities of passengers on the rail-
ways of the entire country is start
ling 1t is computed that the number
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
CLEANSING OF A STATE GOVERNMENT.

Investigations by Governor Gynn of New York and
District Attorney Whitman carried successful conclusion
administration government New York will have clean
had before and the already made gives
hope result will be accomplished Mr. Whitman has
broad trail of corruption in connection with the
work and the disclosures already made
long spectedhat State contractors have been
tematicaly assessed by political "bagmen'
The consideration for paying these assessments liberty
and cheat the State in the contracts Evidence
everywhere Governor Gynn has oppor
which Tden well utilized during his
which for him the gratitude of State
the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
EUROPE'S. LARGEST STATION

There is now being constructed at
Leipzig, Germany, a railway station
that will cost $35,O00,00O and which is
said to be the largest building of its
kind In Europe, says Popular Me-
chanics. The station is designed to
serve as a terminal for all the rail-
ways entering Leipzig, which, in adj
dition to being n famous university
city, is one of the most important
railway and Industrial centres of the
German Empire.
The location of the city is near the
boundary between Saxony and Prus-
STA, and the cost of the structure is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
FIGHTING THE EGG BARONS.

BETWEEN FEDERAL investigations and domestic boycotts
things getting very interesting for the cold spectators
who making luxury In Chicago the government suit
against Egg Board which fixes the price of these
commodities will be brought trial this week and in Baltimore
United States district attorney under instructions from the depart
justice looking the excessive prices of Mrs
president National Housewives League declares that
million throughout the country have joined the
buy eggs until the prices down. Womens organza
enlistng the campaign nation
against food oppression and the
of
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to be borne in varying proportion by
the Saxon State railways, the Prus-
sian State railways and the city Of
Leipzig.
The station is divided into two.
equal portions, one-half being the
property of the Saxon administration
and the other half the property of the
Prussian administration. There are
to be twenty-six platforms and, un-
der normal conditions, there will be
no crossings on the level between the
different lines. Half of the station
is already completed. The whole
structure will be finished within two
years.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
DECEMBER 2
Mrs. Barclay, Josephine Brohan
Copyrighted. 1918.
BY MARY MARSHALL.

Readers of modern fiction need no
introduction to Mrs. Barclay, author
of THE Rosary" a best seller on
two continents four years ago. She
was born on December ?, fifty-one
years ago, and is, by the way, a sis
ter of Mrs. Darlington Booth. Her
first success in literature did not
come till five years ago when she
published "Tbe Wheels of Time"
The next year appeared THE Ros-
ary," the most popular of all her
books, and since then have appeared
1.-THE Mistress of Shenstone," 1.-THE
Following of The Star" and other
novels and short stories
The postponement of Mrs. Bar
clay's literary triumph has been due
to the many cares and duties of her
family life, for she is the devoted
mother of eight children, two sons
and six daughters. Her husband is
country vicar in Hartford Heath,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
FORCE OF A PITCHED BALL

How fast does a pitched ball travel?
At Bridgeport. Walter Johnson and
Napoleon Rucker pitched at a ma
chine devised for testing the velocity
and striking energy of rifle fire, with
the. result of establishing mathe-
matically exact record. Johnson reg
istered speed of 122 feet second.
Rucker thought that with more
warming up the only johnson would
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
A CEREMONIAL BATH

of inspector des bains" had to be
there to receive her, attired in a re-
splendent uniform, cooked hat and
white gloves. This functionary led
her royal highness into the sea until
the water reached her knees, when
he retired with three profound rever-
ehces. The duchess, who was an ex-
pert swimmer, then proceeded to en-
joy herself.-London Chronicle.
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Am EXHIBITION OF UNPATRIoTIC GREED.

SECRETARY OF WAR GARRISON'S statement that the Steel
Trust sells plate Japan much lower than the trust
the United States striking instance Of the
graspng unpatrioc greed that built by the
much of its profits
government patronage the If anything needed to
people the recommendation by Secretary
for plants for plate and other material
wahips this fact dishonoable to the interests
combined rob their and country
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Identified.

Merchant-Have you collected that
bill of Jones?
Collector-Have / collected it? /
called at the house and found that
seven Joneses lived there. Six de-
clared they owed nothing and the sew
enth kicked me out of the house.
Merchant-That's the one. Go back
and get the money. Tit Bits.
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be capable of shooting at a velocity
of $50. feet. AS the record stands it
means that the interval of time from
pitcher to batted is a split second.
What the batsman at the plate faces
Is a hurting thing with a striking
force equivalent to about half that Of
a bullet from a magazine pistol As
q consideration of foot pounds, dis
regarding mass, one would come off
better if struck by railroad train.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
Art Of Driving.

Son Ca golf enthusiast must
acknowledge, father. that IT requires
great deal of skill to drive a ball
hundred yards.
Old Shucks. 1t don't re-
quire half as much skill as 1t does to
drive pig nifty feet. Boston Tran
script.
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in Herts County. England, and Mrs.
Barclay spent the years before she
began to write in the simple, quiet
life OF her husbands parishioners.
Josephine Brohan, or, to give her
name in full, Josephine Felicite Au-
gustine Brohan, was born December
2, 1924. She was a famous actress
of the nineteenth century in France
and succeeded the great Rachel in
Paris. Josephine was the daughter
of the famous Suzanne Brohan-
known as Suzanne.
Josephine was one of the cleverest
of the actresses of her time and al
most as famous as her acting are the
witty sayings attributed to her Sha
was particularly successful in Mol
Heres comedies. Her un.imely re-
tirement from the stage was due to
an affection of the eyes, which made
acting difficult at first and later inn
possible.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02

Considerable pomp used to attend
the entrance into the water of the
Duchess de Berrie, who, close on a
hundred years ago, first made sea
bathing fashionable in France.
When the duchess went bathing at
Dieppe her arrival on the beach was
hailed with a salvo of artillery. The
holder of the then newly created post
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Gears

II every wish were granted,
II every hope came true,
II every seed we planted
A lovely blossom grew,
If every day were sunny
And every one we're wise,
There'd be no sweet in honey,
There'd be no joys to prize.
If we knew that tomorrow
Would be just like today,
With not one touch of sorrow
No care to spoil our play,
No doubt and no misgiving
No heartaches and no fears,
Then vain were all our living,
We'd crave the JOY of tears.
We'd sigh for sacred sorrow,
We'd long to feel the rain,
And we should yearn TO borrow
The blessedness of pain;
For more than all the pleasure
That came and quickly fled
Adown the years we treasure
The tears that we have shed.
Edgar A. CUE
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BRIDGING THE NEWARK BAY.

ANY NEW bridge Newark Bay that does provide
should be permitted by the Federal
built and energetic protest to be made
department against bridge exclusively for the Central
The general public have rights of passage water
WAYS railroad body of wafer like Newark Bay
brdged places accommodate kchcuar trac and
railroad separately combination bridge would be very
large public convenience and timetan absolute necessity
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Distinguished.

A Philadelphia banker has dis
tinguished himself by giving sup
per party at which monkeys mixed
with the guests. To avoid confusion
the guests wore evening dress
Punch.
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The Village Inn.

There's hotel in this town. isn't
there?"
well, that's what folks are s'posed
to call 1t afore they go there. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
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In the Wrong Shop.

Customer Tin antiques shop, after
completing purchased BY the way.
have you got time table 1 could
look at?
Antique dealer with air of gentle
rebuke)-Not a modern one, sir
Punch.
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Injured Hunter Coolly Cuts on Leg
With PenIxnife.
Convicted Thief Applies to Jail for
Cell.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2.-Wallslng into
the Raymond street JAIL Brooklyn,
yesterday, bearing his own. commit
ment papers, Abraham Jacobs, forty
nine years old, demanded that the
clerk of the Jail lock him up and give
him plenty of work. Jacobs was SEN
fenced to thirty days last June for
petty larceny, but was bailed out
when he had served only eight days,
by his lawyer, who appealed the case.
1t was decided by the higher court
| that he must serve the remainder of
his sentence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
HOW to Attain oId Aro,

From American Medical Association
Bulletin.
The chances of attaining old age
are much greater il we live much OF
our life in fresh country air. sta
tistics go to show. according to Dr.
Desc, of Budapest, that the fourth
generation of the town dweller is
unknown, but enough is currently
reported to make the conclusion in
evitable that the sine qua non OF
longevity is a certain amount of time
spent in the country.
The city child is subject to a mum
Der OF disturbing conditions other
than mere absence of creature COM
forts, which undermine the eonsti-
tuition by throwing too heavy a bur-
den on the sense organs, through
which exhaustion of the central nerv-
Gus system follows. Among these
conditions are noises, a perpetual
round of hurry and intending Sc
quences of incidents eXhausting the
attention, to which are superadded
the physical discomforts of vitiated
air and effIuvia from human beings
and waste organic products, besides
offensive gases and infection laden
dust
To attain old age we have to re-
lieVe ourselves from worry, strains
and anxieties. withdraw periodically
from the whirl of effortful existence,
modify our diet, omit the use of slim
ulants and narcotics. and spend rea-
sonably long periods of time under
pleasant conditions in practical re-
tirement. Above ALL amusement
should be simplified and accepted
rather than sought after. Only vege-
table and semi-animal foods should
be eaten.
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German Love of the Gigantic.

From the Boston transcript.
Germanys taste for the great-bg,
it's interest in Gog-and Magogism,
have not been better eXemplified than
by the colossal new monument at
Leipsic ofthe Battle of the Nations.
Now that the Kaiser and his pag-
cant OF princes have circumnayigat-
ed the monument at the exercises of
dedication, and departed from the
shrine, leaving it shorn of the sacred
ness with which their presence invest
ed it, the common herd of artists and
sculptors are taking glimpse of the
monument. One writes from London.
Like the base of the Bismarck
Denkmal in Hamburg, it resembles
in shape the brides cake one sees, or
used to see, at Fortnum & Mason's
on the eve of grand London weddings.
The extreme masculinity of Teutonic
art appears in all the gigantic war;
riors in armor, grim, stark, stramm
gigantic, and not a bit sublime, who
as caryatides support the enormous
structure, or 'enormerous, as the
Irish country folks say when they
want to be superlative. This is the
very reverse of the Mediterranean
spirit nursed on ancient Greece.sAf-
ter all, Hercules was as great a hero
as Hermann Arminius or Butcher
Yet see how the Athenians glorifled
him in the Erechtheum. 1t is hardly
bigger than the small house of Fran
els /. on the Cours de la Refine in
Paris, an exquisite gem of architect
ure, by the way.
1.-THE Greeks and Latins could not
do without feminine divinities even
to express war. Bellona is not great
big creature in any of their works
But is she not touched with sublim-
itv2''
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Noticed This?

You'll find the same old twisted ways
Wherever mankind hocks;
We hand the dead all the bouquets,
And hand the live ones knocks.
Cincinnati Enquirer.