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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON
WON BY OBEYING MOTHER

When a young man George Wash
ington had an ambition to become an
officer in the British army and OBJ
tanned through the influence of his
brothers and the Fairfaxes a commits
sion as midshipman.
After obtaining his commission
George made all his preparations for
his departure when his mother in
formed him that he must abandon
the idea. With unquestioning obedi-
ence though a heavy heart he re-
signed his commission and returned
to his studies.
Mrs. Washington made no outward
show of her appreciation of this sac
rifice of her sons ambition until
some time later. When ordering the
yearly supply of clothing and house,
hold supplies from England she in
Guided in the order a good pocket
knife. Upon its arrival she present
ed it to her boy with the injunction,
always obey your superiors," and it
was his compliance with this COM
mand that later fixed the star of des-
tiny of the new nation. The boy car
ried the knife with him constantly
and frequently related to friends the
| injunction that accompanied it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
Revenue Boats
Save Thousands
Of Lives Yearly
Speedy Little Cutters Likewise
Snatch $11,ooo,o 900 Worth of
Property Annually from De-
struetion at Sea.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 10
The United States revenue cutter
service made a new record in 1872
Thousands of lives and hundreds of
vessels. valued, with their cargoes,
at nearly $1,000, 600 were saved by
the little cutters which guard the
coastline OF the United States.
The annual report of Captain F. p
Bertholf, commandant of the service,
just made public. is a recitation
of thrilling adventures of this arm Of
the federal government. A total of
260 distressed vessels were assisted
and 2,212 persons rescued from dam
ger. One hundred and six persons
were actually saved from drowning.
Forty-five derelicts and other dan
gerous distractions to navigation
were removed or destroyed.
FOR every dollar the government
invested in the maintenance of the
revenue cutter service" says Captain
Bertholf, there has been a return of
$4.36 in the form of property saved
from the perils of the sea, and this,
In addition to lives saved and other
beneficial acts performed in the in
terests of mankind. To accomplish
this work there have been twenty
five cruising cutters and eighteen
harbor vessels and launches actively
employed during the year.
THE fiscal year 1912 was probably
one of the most trying periods to
shipping of any year in the last quar-
ter of a century. Frequently gales
swept the Atlantic and CUFF coast,
while in the winter months the un-
usually low temperatures caused
great danger to shipping and actual
suffering to the crews on account OF
the ice conditions, even as far South
as Chesapeake Bay. These conditions
resulted in almost constant calls for
the assistance of revenue cutters
The report sets forth that the
wretchedness of the people of the
Aleutian Islands is increasing year
by year, and will continue so until
the government does something for
them They have been frequently
aided by the service. and the report
recommends that they be trans
ferred to other settlements.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
CHAS. SUMNER CREATED
THE NAME OF ALASKA

While visiting the site of the old
home of Charles Sumner in Wash
ington 1 was reminded that during
the six weeks vacation allotted him
by the adjournment of Congress, in
the late Sixties the Massachusetts,
senator created the name alaska"
He gathered together information of
every kind for his great speech in
the Senate and had become immersed
in the story of the peninsula of the
Arctics.
He wrote to John Bright and in
sisted that he was controlled less
by a desire for more territory than
by a sense of the amity of Russia.
manifested at the time of the Civil
War, and by an unwillingness to
miss the opportunity of dismissing
another European sovereign from
our continent, predestined as he be-
lieved to become the broad, undi-
vided home of the American peo-
pie.
He pictured Alaska as he chris
tened it, without form and without
light. without activity and without
progress, the life being solitary and
feeble" He estimated the number
of Russians and Creoles at about
$500; the number of aborigines with
in. the jurisdiction of the Fur Com
pany at about 5000, and those OUT
side between 10000 and $4,000, most
of them being like our Indians How
little Sumner realized that this same
Alaska, purchased more as price
of peace, would become the great
bone of contention in undeveloped
America in less than fifty years and
the centre of Conservation storm"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
The Difference in Men.

One man win settle down into the
routine of his calling, digging the
ruts deeper each day. until he loses
power to see out from them. Another.
in the same vocation, shows an ability
to make each days work source
Of new growth in power and in APP
probation. So one person will rest
passiveIy on the fact of some we'll
established love or friendship, and
thus lose. after time, the beauty of
the relationship and the meaning It
once possessed for his life; while an
other actively woos the love of his
friend every day, and so finds a deep,
ever opening below deep in the rela
tionship, with an ever fresh realiza-
ton of the truth and wonder of life
Edward Howard 'ggs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
FRENCHMAN CONVICTED BY
TOOTH MARKS ON BUTTER
Imprint Of DentaIs Disastrous
to Larder Thief.

Improving on the finger print
method of detecting crime, the Paris
police have obtained proof of a burg
lars identity from the tooth marks
which he left in a pat of butter.
Pierre Bessaud, the alleged burglar,
broke into his former employer S
premises at Montreuil-sous Bots,
hoping to find jewelry and money.
Failing in this. he went to the kitchen
and had a feast. Then he rode away
on a stolen bicycle. When arrested
he denied everything, but the police
found the marks of his teeth, in
Guiding one which was broken. ex-
actly reproduced in a lump of but
ter, into which he had probably Bit
ten by mistake in the dark.
He still protested his innocence. as
sorting that he did not like butter,
but when the magistrate sent for
some butter and made the prisoner
bite into it the imprint left by his
irregular teeth was found to be iden-
tical with the impression made ir the
larder at Montreuil.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
THIRTEEN EAR-OLD BOY
6 FEET e INCHES TALL

Somerset county. Pa, has a 13-
year-old boy six feet six inches tall
and still growing. For two years he
has been wearing long trousers, and
his fond parents are puzzled NhaI to
do V it'll him, because he ouigrpws his
clo hes before he outwears them.
tie is well developed AMI strong
and weighs in the neighhorooud of
20C pounds. Although normal at birth
and when a child, within the past TWO
1cars he began to sprout up to an
enormous height, and a special bed
was constructed before he could OBJ
tain rest,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15

animals all do multiply until their
further increase is stopped by lack of
| food-which is famine, by encroaeh-
ments on their increasing numbers
| which is war, or by parasites and
pests-which is pestilence.
We know, too, that man tends to
multiply-the Noah family already
numbers thirty-two people to every
square miles of land on our old ark,
Earth, counting in desert, swamp,
rock and sand as we'll as arabic.
And this human swarm is growing
faster than ever. There are great
authorities who declare that war,
pestilence and famine are as iner-
ent in the frame of human society
as in that of wolves, rabbits, worms
and fishes.
All we can say is that if this is not
true man is the only living thing
of which it is not true.
But if it is true, what shall we say
! of a God who placed US here with
/ the urge upon us to multiply sc
coercive that it has filled the Orient
with 5000 people to the square mile?
Two of the most virile minds in
the world are Theodore Roosevelt and
Rudyard Kipling. In many ways
they are alike. Both are something
in the Berserker line-stark, savage
men. each with a bushel of brains
Each has his ideas on this matter OF
population--and they seem to be OPP
posite ideas. In a recent story
| Kipling, prophesying of the year 2000
sees the population of the world de-
creasing to 100000, 0OO. 5OO,OO0,0OO and
then to 450. 00900O. THE planet" says
one of his characters, has taken al
precautions against crowds for the
past hundred years" Anyhow
says another. men live a century
apiece on the average now" I'VE
are all rich and happy" says an.
other because we are so few anC
live so long" In this story Kiplinl
sees human powers so far increased
that a girl runs a cutivator by means
of a switch in the house, So if
have got his meaning, prophesie'
Rudyard Kipling.
Roosevelt. on the other hand, SEEM
| to fear evil from a decreasing brit
| rate. He cries out against what h
calls race suicide I do not think h
has uttered his full thought in tn
premises. perhaps for reasons of pol
lev. I suspect that there be peopl
whom he would like to see hav!ni
fewer children, and those whom h
would fain see rear more.
This brings us passengers on thu
Good Ship Earth to consideration o
the kind of passengers who do mul
tiply. and the sort, if any, who do not
If there is a sort which do not. ar
they better or worse passengers thai
those who do? If we are to stay o
this spinning airship as it shoot
through space-if we cannot get OF
save by death, and if our descendant
are to sail on after we have been alb
sorbed back into the decks from
which we rose, the question must b
of interest. If we really think, mus
it not be the one most interesting O
all questions?
J.. The Chinese have an annual brit
rate of between 50 and so to tho thou
sand. In Russia it is 40. In Frenc
Canada it is probably equal to tn
Russian rate. In Japan It is only
little, if any, less. In Germany it
30. In German Austria and Spain !
is "a. In Italy, Holland and Finlan
il is about 35, In Norway, Denmark
| England, Scotland and Belgium it /
about 20. In the United States it /
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
NORRIS CANAL INVESTIGATION.

OUR TRENTON contemporary the Times speaks of Gin.
vesgation of the Morris canal abandonment proposition
ago The Times exclusive information point If
there any investigation the fact known outside of
said that there Morris canal
Investigation of the three several
The governors point of fact, made investigation,
simply reported findings furnished Lehigh
Valley Railroad There real nvestga
proposition until year special
commission which yet to look into the that brought
dsuse the and the by which
way restored to the public
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
THE "SQUEALER."

ROSENTHAL WAS assassinated because he "squealed"
"Jack Rose the principal witness against Lieutenant Becker
among his kind. Every hand against him
the of Rosenthal Other witnesses
Becker have sought obseury. James Purcell gambler
former against the police gafers has been bounded police
and criminals alike and it by his wife
insane fury he killed the little daughter he idozed
tempted kill his wife. He a "squeaer" Re exposed
the in the police department who taking toll
the social evil accommodating fortunes the protection
and the traffic What moral decadence here
Toeraon sympathy and conradeshp degraded
who backmai takes bribes
fergus the who exposes him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
SALARIES IN THE NATIONAL GUARD.

NO SALARIES paid to officers of the New Jersey
National Guard who receive only small allowances necessary
with their duties The exceptions the
general and general who 50
each and employ salared clerks while the military soreeepor
Trenton 200 salary On the other
ing officer of the New York State guard is salaed.
Albany Legislature provides Of 5000 a year
e pointed out that by the Dick law the responsibilities
the maiorgenera the Guard have been
greatly increased These increased upon major
of the New Jersey division suggestion
salary compensation for him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
IF, AND WHAT THEN?

BRIGADE of Rough Riders and battery of horse ar.
lery command of Roosevelt for duty in case of
inrYentiqn is suggestion that should appeal Mr. Taft
friends The might relieve appreensions
that confessed the looking TO
single six9ear presidential and the barring all
Who should have served in the office When Roosevelt
the hope expressed IN quarters
Npud do their duty but Roosevelt their
smithsonian Institution and returned amid popular paudits
S,nl.los that the Of destiny should head Rough Rider
brigade IN Mexico, win aures and return conquering hero
.sYh. then
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15

ACCORDING TO UNCLE ABNER.
The house of representatives tried
to sing the Star Spangled Banner"
the other day and fell down dismally,
but congressman are not elected to
sing. They are elected to distribute
garden seeds.
From the manner in which the
Turkish army is being persistently put
to fight. it ought to be able to gradu-
ate a remarkable number of aviators.
Rhode Island is figuring on spend
ing large sum for good roads, but
she cannot spend very much and keep
the roads in the State.
The public drinking cups have been
taken off all fountains in Kentucky.
Nobody ever used them, anyhow
Noah Webster plays safe on almost
every word by allowing the public to
take a choice.
England is to build twenty -one
dreadnoughts, but probably all will
be several years out of style before
the last one is completed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
TIMBER OF GUIANA

The ''greenheartp of British Guiana
is one OF the most remarkable and
useful trees in the world. OF the
three varieties-yellow, black and
maintop-all are durable if cut at
maturity and grow to such dimen-
sions that logs can be had from
eighteen to twenty-four inches square
and seventy feet long.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
People,
RoStrum
Woman Denounces Strikes.

W oman DenOunces stflkes.
To the Editor of the Newark Star;
Sir-In reply to a letter published
in the Newark Evening Star of Feb
ruary II, I wish to say that all this
letter contained is the truth concern
ing the strike going on in Arlington.
It would be a good thing if those in
this strike would be moved by our
good Fathers Westman and Rigney
and go back to their work. 1 am
speaking from experience, fully know
ing that strikes are no benefit to the
workingman or woman. The walking
delegates are the ones who benefit
from a strike. l had $3.50 kept from
me one year ago because my deceased
brother left the ranks of hatters'
union and returned to his bench. At
his death I had to pay the money as
a fine because he did not stick I
would like to know who got this
money MRS. LEAHY.
Albert street, North Arlington.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
THE SPACE WRITER'S ALIBI.

THE SPACE WRITER'S ALIBI.
When bills come due, l think, by
jng,
I'd like to be prince or king
Or some rich foreign potentate,
Instead of poundin' this machine
With throbbin' brow and Spirits
mean.
And bein' paid at liner rate.
But still no Teller ever filings
A bomb at me as at the kings,
Although I may deserve the fate.
Whene'er an auto hastens by,
| fetch deep and jealous sigh,
And keep on grindin' all the while.
I never get a chance to go
In an auto fifteen miles or so
Or put on any style.
But while the folks are bein' spilled,
I never am among the killed,
An that consoles me quite pile.
read of yachts upon the bay
That cruise in a majestic way,
And take in all the winds that blow.
Most everybody else can sail
But I must labor, without fail,
A-knockin' out a dime or so.
But when a yacht turns upside down,
I'm never one of those to drown,
never have a chance to go.
It's mighty nice to play with wealth
And travel in pursuit of health,
But when the autos blow sky-high
And railroad trains are wrecked. by
gee,
And steamboats, sink far out to sea
Without a chance of rescue nigh,
And other things go to the bad,
I'm alwayh pretty gol durn glad
That l can prove an alibi.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
Regular Meal.

HE eagerly swallowed every word
she bestowed on him, he fed upon her
very look, he lived upon the smiles
she gave him."
That's what ] call an all-consum-
ing passionH'-Judge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15

and increase in
numbers prob
ably gave him no
trouble.
B ut W e o II
board the Good
Ship Earth are
doomed to a voy-
age of indefinite
length. 1t is an
awful truth that
every living thing
on board tends to
IN Il | t p y, and
that plants and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
Her Habit.

1T did Jack no good to marry his
stenographer, for she continued the
habit Of the office in their home.o
How so?r
When he starts to dictate she
takes him down. Tit Bits
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
FROM THE HIcKEYvILLE CLARIOi

FROM THE HICKEYVILLE CLARION.
The Hotel Hickeyville had grand
fish dinner the other night, and the
bill of fare consisted of sardines and
Goldfish. Mss Pansy Tibbitts is TAX
ing a correspondence school course in
stenography and typewriting. She
has taken piano lessons so long she
doesn't expect to have any difficulty
in learning to run a typewriter pretty
RAPID. Old Man Purdy says he don't
know which is the fastest typewriter
made, but there is some pretty swift
blonde ones around this town.
Grandma Perkins, who has been at
the point of death for ten years, has
bought a new bicycle so as to ride
over To West Hickeyville, where she
has accepted the lucrative position Of
foreman of the -four and feed mill.
Elmer Jones went to Tecumseh last
spring to accept a lucrative position
with the ball team as shortstop but
the captain said he wasn't short
enough. Elmer is six feet four in
his stocking feet when he wears 'em,
VIII oh is not frequent. Elmer ex-
fpects to go back into the crayon por-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
"On Board the
Good Ship Earth
The Kind of Passengers That Multiply
By Herbert Quick
NO. XVIII.

Copyright 1913, by Herbert Quick.)
TATHER NOAH, on the ark, for
tunately had a voyage so short
that the tendency of his live
stock-human and brute-to swarm
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
CONTRIBUTED.

Changing seasons Oft remind US
How Affections mar our lives,
In the winter we have chilblains.
In the summer we have hives.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15
ON THE as ~ ~
SPUR f IF MOMENT
BY Roy K. Moulton

trait business. A crayon portrait
artist ought to make a good vaude-
willie attraction. providing he draws
we'll.
Renfrew Binks, the station agent,
says the heat expands the rails so
much that it is nine miles farther
from here TO Purdy Junction in the
summer than it Is in the winter. Miss
Euphemia Nudge went into drug
store down to the city to get some
complexion powder The clerk asked
her what color she wanted, and she
said flesh color, of course The clerk
gave her some red ochre.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-07

and put it into the Mutual Alliance
Trust Company. Alexander Gordon.
Mr.. McCombs's law partner. Identified
this check
The third contribution came from
John Lynn, OF the importing arm of
Ohm Lynn s, Co, OF this city and was
apparently certified so that it might
DC cashcd The check was verified by
Miss Sarah Mckenzie, secretary to Mr.
Lynn.
Following the introduction of the
checks. r. Fl. Hornby. assistant sccre-
iary OF the Mutual Alliance Trust Com
pany, testified as to the Sarecky ac-
count. and Edwin Gibbs. assistant see.
rotary OF the Farmers Trust Compa :.
told of the Sulzer account. tho totals OF
feature OF Nh Glbbs's statement was
that deposits totalins $500 were made
.%!so S5.l00 OF the total deposits were
made in cash. and in December. long
ttcr the campaign had ended.
M'. Richards, after the introduction
Of the bank testimony, called attention
10 the fact that the Sulzer statement
showed about sixty-cight contributions
"ggregatins $500. whereas the de-
posits at the Mutual Alliance Trust
Company from the day OF MIR. Suffers
nomination until his election amounted
70 about $1,000. Enumerating the
checks making up this total. Mr. Rich
ards showed that there is ninety four
instead of the siXty-eight, mentioned in
tho Sulzer statement.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-07
No INTENTION
TO FORCE ACTION
Railroads Showing Their Will
ingness to Cooperate With
Commerce Commission.
fspecia. 10 me TiTnes-Dlspa,ch. !

New York. August s-Daniel willard pres
id-nt o; the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and leader and spokesman FOR the htty-two
Eastern railroads seeking an advance in
freight rates, denied to-day that the Ming
OF tsr!.c calling :or Increase OF per
cent In rates would indicate a desire 70
force early action on The part OF the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Mr. willard said that the time tho Inter
state Commerce Commission refused to grant
the request Of the railroads TO open case
No. 500, which Is known is the rate case.
the commission said Il wouI: order an in
vestigation OF the whole matter. Two OF the
COMMAS sioners III minority report stated
that III their opinion the commission could
not properly 60 into th- matter unless act
ua! tariffs had heer printed and fled and
we're before ,Ge comnission In evidence.
members. said Mr.. willard 'the railroads
concluded 10 go ahead with the preparation
OF the ne" tariffs along the lines indicated
IN their application. and 10 Gie such tariffs
as soon a they could BE- prepared. in order
that actual tariffs mi shit bc before the com e
mission wncu the matters come UP for con-
siGeration. thus meeting the objections rails
ed by The minority report
ne Minis % the tariffs as now coEtem-
plated io-s not N any sense indicate friC-
tion between the railroads and the commits
sion, bur quite contrary. II indicates II any
thing. desire on the part Of The railroads
10 comply FULLY with the expressed wishes
OF the commission, and should BE 50 under
! stool ~ the public. The tariffs To be hled
VIII very likely he suspended by the com =
mission unit! AN inquiry OF the whole ques-
zion can be conducted"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-07
DEATH COMES AT LAST

Wellington. Mo. August 6-Thomas
f I.ockhart. after spending twenty
seven years in he'd. virtually in one po-
sition. to day met the death he FOR
years had prayed for
i.ocish0vt's joints were ossincd so
that the only movements OF the body
ne c ri,.h imaKG We're snr,1iSiEins 81
of two fingers on the right hand, With
his shoulder and finger movement
Loclthart had written an autobioErap phi q
cal book which brought him funds sur
.icicnt to purchase the home here IN
which he died. and To pay for i nurse
To care for him constantly He had
published several other writings. most
~ OF u biographical nature and en-
phasizinS precepts OF patience
i.ockhart took TO his bed Christmas
night. 1856. following a long ride
through cold rain He never left It..
He was forty three years old.