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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15


Henry Clews, the great banker
says that Billy Hit had the never
say-die'' ambition and that he would
have camped on his sweetheart
door mat seven years longer II ne
had had to. Tenacity of purpose,
persistency of endeavor, is a ire
mendous power; everybody believes
in and admires the determined man,
the man who never gives up.
When a persistent man undertakes
anything his battle is half won be-
cause not only himself. but everyone
who knows him believes that he VIII
accomplish what he has underta en-.
People know that it is useless 70
oppose a man who uses his stumbling
blocks as stepping-stones; who Is not
afraid of defeat; who never, in spite
of calumny or criticism shrinks from
his task; who never shirks RESPONSE
bility; who always keeps his COM
pass pointed to the north star OF
his purpose, no matter what storms
may rage about him.
Everywhere we see people succeed
ing apparently out of all proportion
to their ability, and we do not un-
derstand 1t at all. We cannot COM
prehend why the boy who was at the
foot of our class in school or college
has distanced us in the great lie
race. for he did not have half the
ability we possessed. We laughed at
him in school, but, somehow, he mas
focused his energies upon one thing
and. like a tortoise, he kept plodding
until he arrived" He has managed
to keep ahead, to accumulate a COM
petence with one talent, while our
ten talents are still drifting without
aim or results.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15

"Who was the last survivor of the
Revolutionary War;" is question
that has often been asked The rec
ords of the pension Office at Wasnlns-
ION would disclose who was the iast
nensioner. but there was always
feeling that not all of the soldiers VINO
served in the Revolutionary war be-
came pensioners. :.
whoever was the last survivor, II
ie certain that in the year 1864 lhefe
were at least four living men VINO
were receiving pensions from the FED
cral government to which they wef.
entitled by reason of their service as
soldiers in the revolution.
Among these were Rev. Danlei
Waldo. In the summer or 1898
gentleman who lived at Hartford
Conn, and who was. II my recoiiec-
ton is accurate, of kin on ms molh-
er's side to Rev. Mr. Waldo, having
heard that the clergyman was sui
living and had passed his one num-
drsd1b vear-he was born in 1764-
went TO Central New York and Sc
cured n. photograph of the venerable
clergyman, Several copies OF tha'
photograph were struck off and one
of them came in my possession.
have 1t now.
I was interested in looking up ttit
history of man who was not only
a hundred years of age at the tim.
his photograph was presented to me
hut who was regarded as probably tn,
sole survivor of the soldiers or tine
Reyolution. | learned that this CEN
tenarian clergyman was a native OF
Connecticut, and it occurred to me tt
ask the Hon. John T. Wait, then 9
very prominent citizen OF Eastern
CONNECTICUT and afterward for many
wears a member Of Congress, repre-
senting the Eastern Connecticut DIS
trict. ii he had ever heard anythih-
about Rev. Daniel Waldo.
Heard anything about him? !
should say had" sad Colonel Wait
| recalled having heard someone say
| that Colonel Wait was the best al
thor ty upon the families of rasterr
| Connec lieut. for he had great fond
ness for genealogical study He hat
especial advan; ages for study of thi
kind. because, as a lawyer having
| very large practise, he had intimat'
| ACQUAINTANCE with almost every on
of the old fam lies OF eastern I IN
nect'cut.
showed Colonel Wait the photo
graph of Daniel Waldo which hat
been presented to me. He looked a
IL for long time. Then he saiu
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Private in the Revolution, Chaplain in the House

My boy, be sure to take good care
of this picture. 1t is valuable n more
ways than one. 1t shows you exact
ly how a man who was u soldier in
the Revolution looked when he
reached the age of one hundred years.
1t is a good p cture | have seen Mr..
Waldo. and / saw him after he was
ninety years of age. He has changed
very little N the ten years that have
elapsed nee l saw him.
81 am go ng to tell you someth ng
about Mr.. Waldo which the boys of
your generation ought to know and
remember. When Congress met-l
think it was in 1854, or 1t may have
been 1S55-there was, as Is custom
arily the case, a good deal of infiu-
ence brought to bear in favor of tho
appointment of this or that man ~
the chaplain of the Hose of Repre-
sentatves The contest got soIne-
what excited
"At last a Connecticut member OF
Congress said to his friends, why
not settle this controversy by taking
an entirely new man? / can name
lust the man whose election as chap
lain would prevent any hard feelings
and would give great satisfaction to
the entire country He is the Rev.
Daniel Waldo, still living, although
ninety-three years OF age AS q
mere boy ne enlisted in a Connect
cut regiment in the Revolution and
after he had served as a soldier he
went to Yale and studied for the
ministry. General Washington was
very fond of him. I think the whole
country would applaud If we were
now to appoint this one of the few
remaining survivors of the revolu
tionary army chaplain of the House
''The suggestion created the great
est enthusiasm" continued Colone
Wait, land the Rev. Daniel Waldo
| was elected chaplain. Although
somewhat feeble, physically. his mint
was perfectly clear,
| "Who among those who served II
| the revolutionary army would hav'
dreamed that seventy-five years late
one of the private soldiers would h
appointed chaplain of a Legislative
| body whose creation and existenc'
was made possible by the triumph o
the soldiers of the Revolution?" Col
onel Wait asked me. although hi
manner, as he put the question, wa
, that of man communing with him
self.
Copyright, 1918, by e. j. Edwards
! All rights reserved.)
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II does not matter how clever
youth may be, whether he leads ms
class In college or outshines all the
other boys in his community, he Will
never succeed IL he lacks this essen
tial of determined persistence. Many
men who might have made brilliant
musicians. artists, teachers, lawyers,
able physicians or surgeons, in spite
of predictions to the contrary, have
fallen short of success because they
were deficient in this quality. -,
Are your discoveries oIten prH-
liant intuitions?' asked q reporter OF
Tbomas A. Edison. do they come
TO YOU while you are lying awake
nights?" ,..,. ao,.,.
by accident" was the reply, nor did
any of my Inventions come indirectly
through accident, except the phono-
granh No, when / have fully de-
cided that a result is worth. getting
T on ahead on it and make trial after
trial until it comes. Anything | nave
begun is always on my mind, and !
am not easy while away from II uh'p
it is finished" ,..,A
A man who thus gives himseir'
wholly to his work is certain 10 ac-
comniish something; and IL he nave
ebsl'tv and common sense his success
will be great -. a.,
The persistent man never stops TO
consider whether he Is succeeding or
NOT The only question with him Is
how to push ahead, to get a httle
further along, a little nearer his goal.
Whether 1t lead over mountains,
rivers or morasses, he must reach II.
Every other consideration Is sacri-
feed to this one dominant purpose.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15

One of the most picturesque queens
of England-and one of the most I'M
fortunate, Henrietta Maria, was born
November Is. 304 years ago. Her
birthplace was the palace or the
Louvre, in Paris, and her father was
Henry ", known as Henry OF Ma
varre. She was brought up in tne
seclusion usually the lot of royal
Processes, and at fifteen. when
marriage was suggested between ner
and the twenty four-year-o king OF
England. Charles l., she was descrlpea
as "lovely sweet young creature.
She welcomed the ambassadors VINO
came to negotiate for her marriage
with smiles and was reported IN
glowing terms to the young king.
She was married by proxy IN
France and met her husband at can
terbury on June 10, 1925. The trouble
to start with was that the French
princess was a Catholic, and the mass
of the English people were strongly
Protestant at that time and resent
ed her religion. Besides, she was
very extravagant, and brought with
her from France a train or 44V
courtiers. who expected 10 i've on tne
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An Onium Farm.


Report of U. S. Consul at Hong Kong.
One of the chief trade sensations Of
South China in several years is the
high price paid for the opium farm"
or monopoly under government aus
pices of Macao, the Portuguese colony
on the Pearl river. opposite Hong
Kong. The contract has been let 10
responsible bidders at the rate Of
81, 056 666 local currency or about $780,
200 gold per annum. 1t runs for five
years. Under the terms of the con-
tract the farm" can import not to ex-
coed 500 chests of opium. of which 260
chests are for local consumption and
240 for export to countries permitting
legal traffic in the drug, which, in the
case of Macao, Is practically only
Mexico. Inasmuch as the present
price of uncertified opium of the
grades usually imported in Macao
runs around only $4,000 local currency
per chest, or total value of 81 SooOO
local currency for the 500 chests to be
imported annually, the price paid for
the farm amounts to $751; per cent.
of the total sum involved In add
ton TO the price paid for the monop-
oily the farmer" however, pays
tax of per cent. of the value OF the
oplum handled to the ordinary reve-
nues of the colony.
Perhaps the significant feature of
the situation is the fact that, accord
ing to Hong Kong experts. the actual
CONSUMPTION of opium in Macao does
not exceed rs chests per annum at
most, the nation inference being that
well toward 200 chests imported for
local consumption will find their way
into China. This phase of the new
contract is already causing agitation
among Hong Kong exporters OF the
drug who see in it a danger TO the.
legal traffic existing under Hong Kong
regulations and the treaty between
China and Great Britain.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15
ALL. ABOUT EUGENICS

A baby girl has recently been born
in Hampstead-to find herself ia
nous. At least, she is famous, al
though she does not know it at
present.
Her name is Eugenette Bolce, and
it is claimed that she is the first eu-
genie baby in the world.
What is a "eugenic baby and what
is eugenics? you ask.
Quite a lot of people are asking
that just now, and the answer Is by
no means so hard to grasp as 1t ap-
pears at first sight--of the word ECU
genics."
EIgenics-it is pronounced u-jen-
il,s-comes from the Greek word eu
genes, which means good in stock.
Eugenics is, therefore, the science or
producing a good stock or race of
people and a eugenic baby is !conse-
ouently a "well-bred' one.
Plenty of babies are "well-bred' in
one sense. of course, but they are not
eugenically bred; nothing particular
is done to bring the best possible ba-
bies into this best possible of worlds.
But the eugenists-Bernard Shaw,
Jerome X Jerome, Profs. Karl Pear
son and Metchnikoff ('the sour milk
cure" mani and Sir James Crichton
Browne are among them, and their
number Is increasing by leaps and
Ibounds-want to change all this They
want:
only healthy people to marry each
other, and
These people to do everything pos
sible, scientifically and medically,
during prenatal period in order to
| Insure healthy children being born.
! 1t is an accepted fact that the feed
/ ing. the amusements, the environ
ment of a mother-to-be all have their
| effect, in some mysterious way, on
the mind and character Of her child
before it comes into the world. A
woman who is worried or bored or
| Improperly fed will not have so fine a
lchild as she otherwise might; If she
does not give herself proper chance,
she does not give her baby a proper
chance.
| Keep yourself fit and your spirits
Inn" Is what the eugenists say to
mothers expectant, and that is why,
before Miss Eugenette came along
her mother went to music halls to
! .augh at George Robey. and Harry
7 Lander, and Wilkie Bard; why Je-
rome K. Jerome visited her and hef
husband talked cheerfully and ioked
with them and why she read funny
books.
II was all part of the treatment y
luart of the conspiracy to make Eu-
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lgenette the best-bred baby ever
known.
Sir Francis Gallon, the scientist,
was the father of eugenics. Six years
ago at oxford he set people thinking
furiuo5ly about his new theory of
Irace-culture. This is how he defined
cugenics:
THE study of agencies under social
control that may improve or impair
the social qualities of future genera
tons. either physically or mentally"
Eugenics, therefore, aims at so edu-
eating public opinion that reproduce
tion by the unfit will cease. But it
doesn't on this account, attempt to
force marriage only upon approved
persons and forbid it to those not APP
proved.
The supreme value of human love
between man and woman Is recog-
Inized fully in eugenicS, but where one
or beth-of the parties of a mar
iriage is lacking in moral responsible
lily and social sense or is physically
UNFIT in any way, II is suggested that
parenthood should be avoided for the
good of the rest of the race.
Eugenics is, in fact the elimina-
ton of the unfit and the encourage
ment of the At to reproduce their
stock.
II aims at improving the race men,
tally. morally and physically.-Pear
sons Weekly
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OUTLOOK FOR STATE ELECTION IN 1914.

THE ELECTIONS in 1914 will be of great Importance
elected together with eight senators
and House of Assembly counties shes will be
chosen while county will be elected six counties and
in four sheriff and will be elected
OF the eight retiring senators five are Republicans and three
Democrats of the Senate of 1915 the Republicans
and the Democrats three All but one OF
the present congressman Democrats In the election in the
which Progressive candidates up in 1912
the Republicans Progrees combined had total majority of
and majority Only the Ninth and Tenth
districts did Progressive exceed the Republican
If therefore, Progressive party the State shall hold its
year the chances for the Democrats to carry the dis
ticts they great falling off of the Progressive vote
this year dsnegraon the outlook is much less promis
ing falling off of than 100000 votes from the Roosevelt
vote of Republican about $4,000
give complexion years elections that the Democratic
leaders will consider
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Dreams

Morning, Beloved. Across the dew-wet grass
We two fare forth together, hand in hand
The birds with all their sweetest carols greet
Our joyous coming Well they understand
Our happiness. And all about our feet
The daisies nod welcome we pass.
Morning, Beloved.
Noontide, Beloved. Through lazy, dropping boughs
We catch Aeeting glimpse of opal sky.
The mellow sunlight's glittering golden sheen
Caresses u.s. How thick the shadows lie
Beneath our arching tent of living green!
From flower to flower the wild bees slowly browse.
Noontide, Beloved.
Evening, Beloved. Now with reluctant feet
Homeward we CO. between the gold and dark.
The sun has set behind the distant hill;
On high, lone beated meadow lark
Thrills out, and else the world is very still.
Only the night winds whisper, faint and sweet
Evening, Beloved.
Lillian Bennett Thompson
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RAGTIME AND SEXUAL LITERATURE.

RAGTME MUSIC and popular preferred by the
American Academy Letters problem novels and
would be hard have preference The vast
musical while they have love of
concord of sounds and ragme appeal to them
Beranger said: LET write the songs of nation and
who makes its laws The popular the expression
national sentiment As for the problem novel; belongs
degenerate order of literature that the world would be for
in being rdded of.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

stand the wonderful results of the
most modern method of treating old
orchards to make them more pro6ta-
BILE than ever before should read the
account given in this issue of the
Globe by a staff correspondent of
the change wrought in three years
by George Hamilton In an apple or
chard that had become as nearly as
possible utterly worthless When he
took hold of 1t the ground was COW
cred with worthless vegetation, and
was hard and sterile. and the trees
had grown to wood instead of fruit
The best apple orchard in Canada
will take on the same character sites
f left long enough INTENDED. on the
other hand. the worst apple orchard
one can find will improve indefinitely
under skillful treatment If only there
is some life left in the trees.
Mr. Hamilton applied the fourfold
treatment that thousands of others
have applied with equally satisfac-
tory results: cultivat' on. fertiliza-
ton. pruning and spraying. Plough
ing pulverizes the soil and kills the
weeds. thus letting the moisture
reach the roots of the trees Fertili-
cation may be effected in various
ways: manur'ng. ploughing in green
crops. and using artificial mixtures.
Pruning removes the parasitical
Young vigorous wood that robs the
fruit of its proper nourishment and
gradually starves to death the old
limbs which bear It. Spraying is the
only available means of protecting
the fruit from the biological pests
that prev on VI and thus nrevent II
from reaching its proper maturity
The effect was mag cal The crop
of the first year was only 100 barrels
of apples from 80 acres of orchard.
and the apples were of poor quality.
of course. The crop of the second
wear was 600 barrels and the aprles
were of improved quality In the
third wear there We're / 500 barrels.
and the apples were almost perfect as
sDecimenS
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
NOVEMBER IS
Henrietta Maria
BY MARY MARSHALL.

MARStiAls1b
bounty of the English king. Nat.
urally this addition to his household
grew troublesome. and without the
queens permission he expelled them
one and all from the court.
During the first few years or tneir
married life Henrietta was not happy
with Charles, but after they came TO
an understanding they were pecui-
iarly happy with each other. Charles
had always been regarded as model
in his private life, even if he was not
a very wise king, and Henrietta,
though extravagant and frivolous,
was pattern of wifely virtue.
The sad role that Henrietta had to
play in the subsequent career or
Charles I. and his final execution at
the hands of his subjects are well
known to everyone. When her hus-
band was in the hands of his enc
mics Henrietta made frantic efforts
to aid him to get allies from her rela-
tives on the continent and from the
Pope, but it was of no avail. At last.
in order to save her own life, she had
to escape to her own home, where she
was living at the court of her brother
when her husband waS executed
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ODDITIES IN TODAYS NEWS

spiritual admits that the CONVERSE
ton which she had with DR.. Pank-
hurst was brief and fragmentary,
but she insists ii was so emphatic
that there was no possibility of mis-
taking his position. The letter telling
of the communication from the hus
band of the famous militant was re-
ceived by C. +. Christensen, a New
York spiritua1ist, who lives at %
West Sixty-fourth street. The
writer, who is now in the city, signs
herself Mary Burke and gives her
address as Massillon, Ohio.
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pA3Alon&

SKINTS WILL NOT BIZ
WORM LONG THIS Win
TER -ONlX KBOUT
'rfREE MONTHS AT THE
rOST.
ScNOOISrIKRVyS WILL
LEKR GLKSSES rs Us
OAL.
FOO'TBKL.L PLKYERS
LlLLMEKR TtIEIR KRr1S
IN SLlNGS MOST OF TflE
TIrIEc
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Modern Nursery Rhyme.

fear little pussy, her coat is a swarm
OF germs of disease that will do me
much harm.
I'll run for the broom and scat her
away,
For pussy and / never, never must
play! -Lippincott's.
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WOMEN FOR CITY OFFICES.

WOMAN AS of6ceholder is likely have important
share in the new administration of New York city According
current rmor Mayor-elect Mitchell in giving
ballot and believes they should have wait
their usefulness public In the of charities
corrections there many lines of that
better than men, here that likely
for aroontments under the Fusion regime
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A CHEAPER THANKSGIVING TURKEY.

ACCORDING TO advices, there should be abundance of
turkeys in the markets for Thanksgiving Turkeys coming
from all quarters Southwest have
shipped New York New England and the South and West
furnishing big supply and there turkeys coming from
abroad turkey reasonable prices should therefore
be markets for Thanksgiving Cheaper turkeys
also mean lower prices for chickens and other fowl
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15
MIR. TAFT NURSES A GRUDGE.

MR.. TAFT sympahzes with japan in her demands Cali
orna says the people of California Should be restrained in
of although the States constitutional right
do what isn't questioned Restraint the
use of the army navy. But Mr. Taft has gudge In the
presidential election all the he in California 3945
or about one for every nineteen given Debs
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The Ever Ready.

Eager Young Man (who has called
on adored one)-I can't wait any
longer. dear. I really had to phone.
VIII you marry me?
Gentle Voice Tin reply)-Why, yes,
of course, will. But haven't you
got the wrong number?
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A Futurist.

"When is the man coming TO white
wash the fence?"
Tomorrow.
always tomorrow. AS an artist
he is a futurist of the worst type. ~
Washington Herald.
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The next International Co-opera-
tive Societies congress- Will .aAo
place in Basel. Switzerland, IN 1917
The government of Western Aus
tralia intends to introduce a general
accident and sick insurance bill. AL
the invitation of the government a
preliminary conference of the special
iy Interested employers and workers
organizations took place.
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Reason Enough.

"But, Peter, you should be grateful
that you We're saved from drowning,
and not cry like that"
Yes, but there come my aunts. ano
row I'll be kissed all the afternoon"
-Fiegende Blaetter
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No Room.

Have another piece of cake, john
NY"
mo, thanks; I'm full"
We'll. take some home with YOU.
Put some in your pockets
They're full, too.
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In Motor Terms.

"You speak your lines perfectly, Mr..
X" said the worried stage manager:
'but somehow you don't quite look
The married man. Try to look mar
ried, please. Boston Transcript.