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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Book Containing General Webb's Pardon

This was made crime by State stat
ute.
General Webb excused himself to
Governor Seward and went with the
officers of the law to the courts. He
was remanded to the Tombs, bail
having been refused.
"The arrest of General Webb was
purely political, but he had, in fact,
violated the law.
II have always supposed that t
was through the influence of Gov.
while in the Tombs more as a guest
than as a prisoner. He had a pri-
vate suite of rooms. was permitted to
entertain his friends, and his meals
We're sent to him from a high-pr Led
restaurant.
when his case was brought be-
fore the court for trial he pleaded
guilty. He was Immediately SEN
fenced for a term of two years in the
State prison.
Before the echoes of that sentence
had died away petition was drawn
up addressed to Governor Seward, in
which the governor was asked imme-
diately to pardon General Webb.
There was a great rush of citizens to
sign this petition. Within a day or
two and about two days before Cen
eral Webb was to be taken to Sing
Sing prison nearly twenty thousand
citizens of New York had signed the
petition. 1t was then taken to Gov
ernor Seward. He had no sooner
looked at the petition and read the
list of names, which practically was
a list of the most influential and
reputable citizens of New York, than
he at once pardoned General Webb
"The governor justified his action
by the record which this petition
made. When he retired from the office
| of governor he sent the petition to
| General Webb, who sent it to skill
| full bookbinder. In that way it was
| preserved between artistic covers II
ought to have a permanent resting
| place in some historical society
archives or in the State library al
! Albany"
| After Mr.. Clarke had narrated this
anecdote to me l asked one of General
| Webb's sons il the report were accu-
rate. ut is absolutely accurate" he
replied. but 1 don't think our family
would let that book go out of its pos
session
Copyright, 1918, by e. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
MURDER OF PRISONERS BY MExICANs.

ONE OF the abhorrent features of the civil Mexico
the execution of officers taken prisoners This begun
Euerta imitation President Diaz during
revolution against his The Constituencies officers and
when taken prisoners the present have been pitssy
murdered and the executions of few officers uarez by the Con-
stuonalists realatory
But this svagery warfare belongs the Spanish
and the has inherited The history of Spanish
warfare Europe and America long tragedy of murder and
of the unarmed the helpless and the unfortunate who had
into the of Spain During all of Civil War
there instance of the kind hargeabe either of the
posing armies
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
MYSTIC NUMBER THIRTEEN

What is the foundation of the 'thir-
that we are fully started in the year
1913 that the superstitions are be-
coming more and more weighted down
with the burden of their inexplicable
fears? For they are unexplainable-
no one can tell you just why they are
in such dread of the number If you
press them for reason
Neither is it in English speaking
countries that the date is fateful
one. You can trace 1t in France,
where the minister postpones the
publication of the names of new
Cabinet that the list may not appear
on the 18th of the month
You meet with 1t in Germany, too,
where even Bismarck would rather
sacrifice a dinner than make one of
thirteen at table. Again, you can
terror in Switzerland, in Italy and in
the Scandinavian countries. You And
it on the stock exchange and even in
gay, cynical Paris it creeps out when
a holiday starts on the 18th and half
the people stay shame-facedly at
home.
An English expert along statistical
lines, says the Chicago Tribune, has
recently compiled some valuable in
formation on this queer but interest
ing subject. The superstition, traced
back to antiquity, is thought to have
Its foundation in all Scandinavian
countries in mythology. Their ancient
gods and goddesses apparently
loathed the number. but back Of that
none can go.
AS for the reason in England two
explanations are offered, though
probably not one person in thou
sand who cherishes the delusion can
really tell them. One authority as
cribes the whole tradition TO the i'll
luck thought to be associated from
the fact that thirteen sat down to
the last supper.
But why any blighting or per-
nicious influence should result in
mankind from that solemn gathering
no man or woman of any sane mind
has ever been able TO say. Though
there are scholars who explain the
terror by pointing out that since
Judas. who was the first to quit the
table, hanged himself, the supersti-
ton has come down through tho
ages since then
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
THE JUSTICE AND HIS QUAKER MARRIAGE

THE POLLUTION of the marriage rite by justices of the
New Jersey led the demand the Legislature for
orbdding these petty magistrates perform marriages
Prompted legal hyse certain of these justices declared
they would the law they performed marriages
the Quaker Quaker marriages should be performed
Quaers with church authority this shfy attempt evade the
degradation of the marriage rite
sibly be upheld by the courts.
justice of the peace in Newark has violated the law by
of these syse marriages City Clerk Connolly who has charge
the marriage license bureau has taken this and doubt
jury will take due cognzance of it. is msdemeanor
marry couples without license but the penalty for justices
who violate the law should be that of this class will
dare to perform marriage under any pretense.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
A SAFETY LEAGUE OF CHILDREN.

AS THE law does suffice protect the
png per of city they be taught protect
This the purpose of the Safety League organization
ought become nationwide The children taught daily
play off the sidewalks ways
ley automobiles before crossing street,
if their clothing takes fire should
house.
$4,000 New York children wearing
green button of the Safety League not
adults either Men and children
larger growth State requiring
hafour every weeks in all New Jersey
teaching the children how accidents
makes the State mentor in sefpreservation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17

looked as If they had already been
hung and had begun to decompose.
What would that conservative lady
who was shocked by Jane Eyre" and
the Preraphaelites have said If she
had lived in the present generation?
In personal appearance she was
commanding figure, being nearly six
feet in height and in her mature
years strilzingly handsome. She mar
ried at the age of forty, the artist,
Eastlake.
Today's queen is Charlotte Sophia.I
the wife of King George III of Eng
land. She was brought from he'd
home in Germany when she was sew
enteen to marry the English king
whom she had never seen, but SHE
said throughout her life that from
the moment she met nina Few
hours before they were marri8d-
until his fatal illness many Years
later, she knew no real sorrow. ! She
is thus described by Walpole: she
is not tall nor a beauty, pale and
very thin, but looks sensible and
genteel. Her hair is darkish and fine,
her forehead low, her nose very well,
except nostrils spreading too wide.
The mouth has the same fault, but
the teeth are good. She talks great
deal and French tolerably."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17

But there is another and more def
mite reason for It's origin which was
only reached after a long and la
borious search on the part of NUM-
Der of learned men.
"The superstition, they say, that
where a company of persons amounts
to thirteen one of them will die with
in the twelve-month afterward, seems
to be founded on the calculations adj
hered to by the insurance offices,
which presume that out of thirteen
persons taken Unfortunately one
will die within the year"
So apparently, the superstition
comes from a ridiculous deduction
from Biblical history or from the
chance calculations of some forgotten
insurance mans computation, whose
theory would probably be upset In
Ave minutes by a moderen authority
upon life averages of healthy indi-
viduals.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
Che Old College man

The old college man keeps very close tab
On the football elevens his college out.
And nothing delights him much CAB
On the why and the wherefore it all came about.
He knows why they lost and he knows why they
He follows the games from Beersheba to Dan
And he always tell you what should have been done
The old college
The old college man is very good sport,
And never team has marched the field
But he has in spirit been there to exhort
The broad shouldered warriors to yield.
He will bet like hend on the team of his school,
And cheer from afar for the flag of his clan,
And he loses quite cheerfuly, too, a rule
The old college
The old college man may be staid you will,
And his zest for this life may be terribly tame,
But his pulse hits it up with wonderful thrill
When his old college team comes across with game
He's very droll fellow of infinite mirth,
gentleman built on very fine plan,
And his like doesn't walk the top of the earth
The old college
From the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE

the sexes? Let the Best Sex Win"
implies a struggle for supremacy. All
who are working to bring about a
condition of equal suffrage deplore
any suggestion OF sex antagonism.
Yours very truly,
MRS. MARY X. COLyIN,
First Vice President N. J. w. S. A.,
Sc N. Maple ave. E. Orange, N. J.
November H. 1913.
MANY thanks in return for your
expressions of appreciation of work
performed. AS to the second propo-
sition. your amendment Is accepted
We must adhere to form. -Ed.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
Retort Courteous.

Lady (to tramp)-How dare you
come here again after I had forbid
den you to call on previous occa-
sion?
Tramp-Begging your ladyship's
gracious pardon, but my secretary
must have forgotten to tick your
name off my visiting list.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
A DIsPENsATION FROM sTAMP-LICKING.

THE FLAVOR of postage-stamp will be familiar
to the public this coming holiday yo
no one the loss of that dcacy People mailing
viii not have TO their stamps fact they
stamps ALL They merely hand in the amount of
costape and will ax the II bit of humorous
say that will do the licking for the for
ne c;erk knows better than that He will use sponge
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
Woman Suffrage

To the Editor OF the Evening star
NY Dear Sir: / thank you for the
way in which your paper has handled
the convention of the New Jersey
Woman Suffrage Association; at the
same time l wish to call your atten-
ton to your editorial, LET the Best
Sex Win.
Woman suffrage means. as you
know. the sharing. not the surrender
ing. of rights. Men give up nothing,
so how can it be a struggle between
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
Nawsty.

Asker-what did you give for that
car?
Tellit-Took 1t for debt-chap owed
me a thousand dollars
Asker-Ah! Do you stand any show
of getting the other nine hundred?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
stole Suit for Sweetheart, But He
Kicked When 1t Was too Small.

Kicked When 1t Was too Small.
CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Pretty sixteen
year-old Eve Parker confessed to the
police last night that she entered q
mans room and stole a $50 suit of
clothes, because she wanted her six
teen-year- sweetheart, Clarence
Collins, ito look swell, like other fell
lows"
'He was out of lob and his clothes
got to looking tough" explained the
girl. II don't mind being arrested,
but he kicked because the suit was
too small for him!"
The unchivalrous Clarence. who de-
MED that he was a partner in the
theft, was also locked up.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
BY T. A. P.

Sputs Society for Prevention of Use
Trimming Ton womens has They have been stuck byand
therefore onhe spike feathers which
fashionable.
While the Spugs pugger along and the Spus their
suggestion the immediate launching Tut club
Diplomatic Notewhy get Huera sail his ship of state
Lake Huron for while?
The whole East up against the high price of
says New York newspaper
Hey didde dido,
Eggs have gone
The COW is longer the king.
That leap tame
Compared to the game
Of the cold storage warehouse ring
Hens in this story,
Get all the glory;
They flew DER the sun, we'll sing.
WHY is IT.?
Each week day is bright and fair
And sunshine floods the hours
Wherein labor for fare
But on the day that's
On Sunday, when we're free
The weather goes insane,
And forced to stay at home
BY that COMPOUNDED rain.
Sign Broad street:
Umbrellas Recovered and Repaired
Wish would recover mine
Latest T. r. Exploration Note-f they added to Rio would i'll
produce riot?
refrigerator loaded with $500 its way from
Atlantic Pacific still the agents
names in the New York directory.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Western Kansas, farmers In the Ar
kansas Valley are to get refrigerator
cars and reduced rates.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
Importation of Corn.

AmpDEhaAADH VI COTns
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Some more or less imaginative his
torians have regarded the Civil War
as having been fought to determine
whether cotton or corn was king.
Surely even a dozen years ago the
man who should have prophesied that
in 1913 the United States would be
importing corn for the feeding of
Americans would have been regarded
as dreamer.
Yet a French steamship came into
port recently with cargo of 1872, 900
bushels of corn from the Argentine,
and the news is that a number of
other vessels are under charter to
bring corn and other grains from
Buenos Ayres. For some years in the
past decade the total import of corn
and cornmeal has not totaled 5000
bushels. The largest import in any
one year was in 1909, when 22S.276
bushels came in. Here is a single ship
bringing from a single port on one
trip about 80 per cent. of that record
breaking importation during the
whole year of 1909.
The production of corn in the
United States has always been in ex-
cess of the consumption, according to
the records, about three billion BUSH
els being demanded for the American
market. For the first time, under the
new tariff, we are actually drawing
on the worlds supply That is an
epoch-making fact. Its significance
cannot be misunderstood. We are be-
coming more and more a manufactur-
ing nation. 1t has not paid to raise
corn in the East for many years. 1t
is ceasing to be profitable to raise 1t
in many sections of the West
Vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk and
cream to feed factory employees are
more remunerative. and it is the
policy of the government to leave the
channels of trade free so that our
manifest destiny may develop nor
maIly. Big corn imports are only one
incident of that general policy which
after exporting lands have had
chance to raise new crops must ma
terially reduce the cost of breadstuffs
for our mechanical workers all over
the country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

vate capital. They will refuse to in
vest in new railroad securities if they
become doubtful of the return, and
thus needed railroad repairs and i'm
provements Will be held up and the
system of transportation will be Grip
pied, while the public will grow inn
patient, then furious and finally in
sistent on government ownership and
operation, 1t is apt to be forgotten
that the present system of private
ownership and operation, with gov
eminent regulation verging more and
more on full control, is purely an ex-
pertinent A very nice mean between
public interest and private interest
must be maintained by State and fed
eral regulating authorities If govern
ment ownership is not to be forced.
The Great Question.
Premier Asquith's late Guild Hall
speech.
In addition to the waste of wealth
and human material in actual war
fare, there has been an unprecedented
addition, both on land and on sea, of
apparatus of organized destruction.
on the taxable capacity and credit of
the nation. which must react on the
springs of industry and on general
progress and material well-being.
Is it not time for statesmen and for
every man of business to take coun-
sci together to secure a more sane
and more fruitful appropriation of
the common resources of mankind?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
steals Two Eggs nnd Gets Years
Term in Prison.

Term In Prison.
HUNTINGTON. w. Va, Nov. H..
For the theft of two eggs Charles t.
Thumel was sentenced In the criminal
court here TO serve a year in the peni-
Tertiary. 1t was his second convic-
ton of petty larcency and the State
statutes provide the second offense
amounts to felony.
Attorneys for Thumel attempted to
proye him insane. They introduced
Magistrate Stuart, who testified that
he had committed the defendant to
the insane asylum on November 20,
1912. The jury returned a verdict in
thirty minutes.
Justice. BafIed by EIopers' Lies. as
to Age, Ceases Prosecutions.
ST. CLAIRSvILLE, w. Va. Nov. IL
SO many clippers come to this place,
which is West virginia's Gretna
Green. and lie about their age that
the local authorities have decided to
stop prosecuting them,
Hunter for Every Deer as six Day
Season Opens.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov H.
The Massachusetts open season for
deer began at sunrise today. incom-
ing trains brought many hunters from
other states. Snow covered the ground
IN the country and will aid materially
In tracking deer.
1t is estimated that there are 10000
deer in Massachusetts, and that there
will be hunter for every dear in the
six-day slaughter. More than 1.400
hunters licenses have been ssued in
Springfield alone.
High-Priced Peach and Hogs Fed by
Woman Cut Refrigerator Car Rates.
KANSAS CITY. Mo, Nov. 15.-Be-
cause President Ripley. OF the Santa
re Railroad Company paid Ave cents
each for peaches hero and saw wom-
an feeding a wagon load OF hogs in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
From Pole to Pole.

From the Toronto Globe.
Dreams of a Pan-American railroad
that will link the Hudson Bay with
the Antarctic Ocean are within meas
urable distance of realization. Last
week the rails were Joined of the
great longitudinal railway in Chile
from Inquique to Puerto Montt. This
line covers about 1850 miles. When
completed the road will extend from
the frontier of Peru to the Strait of
Magellan.
So far back as 1881 the idea was
mooted of a railway joining the
North and South continents through
Central America, but practical rail-
way men secuted the idea, at the
time as visionary and impract'cable.
In 1890, however, practical steps were
taken at an international conference
to carry out the work, and steady
progress has been made since then,
with the result that the undertaking
is now regarded not only as feasible
but as a financially sound proposition.
During the past four years the Pan
American Railway Committee, inter
ested in the project, has received
sympathetic support from the Inter
national Bureau of American Repub
lies, as well as from the State de-
partment at Washington, the several
governments concerned now recog-
nizing the economic advantages that
must accrue from the success of the
enterprise. Some of the Latin repub-
lies have gone so far as to offer spec
ial inducements to capitalists for the
promotion of the Pan-American rail
way scheme. One of the chief aims
of the committee has been the joining
of New York and Buenos AyreS,
total distance of 10, ZIG miles. OF this,
6, 444 miles of railroad have been com
pleted.
The line just opened by Chile FORCES
an important link in the chain that
will one day unite the Hudson Bay
to the most southerly point on the
South American continent and bring
into existence an Arctic-Antarctic
railroad. The romance of railroad
construction discloses few more in
teresting chapters than those which
will one day recount the achievements
of the engineer in this last great
struggle to annihilate space and to
link the ends of the earth together.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
In Plain United States Talk

approached the chauffeur
said he your ceased its function
Your runnator say unmitiEated oblivion
"Eut really
etugcnce iiator has evanesced'
My dsar:e Fellow T.
have
sscentncad."
And the 1aunenr understood
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17

refrigerator on its way from
Atlantic the Pacific and still the their
names in the New York directory.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
Anglo-saxon Unity.

From the LonuOn Dall MAIL,
The British people remain stead
fastly true to their firm and unwav-
ering belief in the essential unity or
the Anglo Saxon race. Yet the artl-
cles and cartoons which have APP
peared in some of the sober and usu-
allv well-informed United States
newspapers are evidence that our po-
sition is not clearly understood 1t
must be made clear to all. We have
never claimed any special or excep-
tional position in Mexico. and what
ever Interpretation has been placed
upon British official action in that
country. the United States may rest
assured that there is no real antago-
nism of views or interests between
the two peoples, and further, that we
regard any possibility of quarrel with
the United States on such an issue as
absolutely unthinkable.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17

Sign Broad street:
Umbrellas Recovered and Repaired.
Wish someone would recover mine!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17
Government Ownership of Railroads.
From the Snringfleld Republican.

In answer to a question President
Rea, of the Pennsylvania railroad,
says that government ownership of
railroads is bound to come quickly,
If by continued State and federal leg-
islation and commission orders rail-
road control is assumed without the
responsibilities of management"
There is certainly danger of that.
Government regulation or control,
with State regulation superimposed
in the various jurisdictions cannot go
beyond a particular point without
causing a strike by the owners of pri-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17

Latest T R. Exploration Note-If they added to Rio
produce riot?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17

Diplomatic NoteWhy get Huerta sail his ship of
n Lake Huron for while?
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-03
LAZY FATHER FLEES TO
HONOLULU, BUT IN VAIN

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Tnree times
has Otto Gurtz, convicted lazy ia,
ther," violated his parole, ana il :
safe TO say that if he is capture
again he will not get another cnance
to repeat it. Gurtz was found guilty
Of failure to provide for his family
and sentenced to the county jail.
He was given a chance 20 earn
money and released, but he did nc;
remain in the city long. He was cap
tured and sent back to the county jai..
Sheriff Ahern still believed that Gurfz
was of more benefit to the community
earning little outside the Jail and
so he was given probation a second
time.