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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18

trying to rescue dropped umbrella
or a hat that had been blown out into
the street or a dropped package in
front of a rapidly-moving car, team
or automobile or in trying to pick UP
a piece of money which had rolled
into the street.
The early training of children in
precaution, in precision, in painstak-
ing carefulness, would avert most of
these tragedies. A child should be
Pught that he cannot take too great
care in protecting himself from any
thing that might possibly seriously
in1ure his health or endanger his life.
How many people gamble with
their health and lives through care
less. reckless living. Everyday we
business and professional men right
in the prime of life dropping dead in
the street, in their offices, or ON the
train, of appoplexy or heart disease.
The most of the fatalities were
caused by or were seriously aggra-
waited by foolish, careless, irregular
living, without proper regard to the
laws of health.
Only recently a man thirty-seven
years old, worth a great many mil
lions, died sudden of appoplexy on d
hunting trip in wyoming. This young
man was not content to travel in the
ordinary way. He wanted to be
hurled through the air at the great
est possible speed. He had mania
for speed" 1t was his watch
word.
AIlarge part of all the premature
deaths in this country are caused
by criminal carelessness, in habits of
taking too great chances or by over
speeding the human machine, and
could be prevented by reasonable
caution and carefulness in ones life
habits.
The habit of being careful, accu-
rate, cautions, in whatever we do
is not only the best possible insur-
ance upon the safety of our health
and protection of our lives, but this
habit of accuracy and of caution has
a marked influence upon the charac-
ter; it helps to bring orderliness,
system and sanity into the life and
affects everything we do.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
BY Il. J. Edwards.

The last years of the life of Ben
Halliday were spent in Washington.
He lived in one of the row of houses
the tenants of which on either side OF
him were Colonel Robert G. lngersoll
and Senator John Sherman.
| spent an evening with this veteran
of transcontinental service between
the Missouri river and the PacAc
coast before the days of railroads IN
his library in his Washington home
In the early winter of 1881.
There was nothing in his demeanor
to lead anyone who did not know
what his career had been to surmise
that he was a man of infiexioie VIII
and of absolute courage, both physi-
cal and moral, or that he had passed
years in developing passenger and
mail transportation between the Mis-
souri, river and the Pacific coast, fire.
quently with his life in his hands. His
voice was quiet and he spoke almost
in an undertone. Even when refer
ring to what he felt was in justice
due to him on the part of<Congress
he spoke without any suggestion OF
animosity or resentment.
The talk drifted to the early days
when he was the monarch of trans
portation across the plains to the
Pacific. He said:
Il don't suppose that it is COM
monty know that the first idea of the
pony express across the plains was
due to very great achievement by
General James Watson Webb,
General webb was for many years
both the proprietor and editor of the
Courier and Enquirer of New York
city. have been told that this
newspaper property was bought by
the men who started the New York
World and was the basis of that pub
LEGATION. / was in the Far West at
the time this happened, 50 / only
know this by hearsay.
But do know what General
Webb accomplished in the way Of
newspaper enterprise some years be-
fore the telegraph and the railroad
made it unnecessary for him to carry
on one of the most expensive and
audacious of newspaper exploits in
those early days.
\ News from Washington was
looked upon by the early editors as
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
General Webb's Fast Pony Service

more important than that which
came from any other loeality-even
more important than European news.
But it usually required the best part
of three days to get letters or dis
patches from Washington to New
York. There was intense rivalry be-
tween General Webb and the publish
ers of the penny papers of that time
and the general, knowing how i'm
portant Washington news was, de-
cided to establish a news service,
which his rivals could not beat and
which perhaps only one Of them
would dare to initiate, on account
of the expense.
General Webb caused q very careful
estimate to be made, first of the time
which would be required for bring
ing news dispatches by pony express
from Washington to New York and
where the relays could be established
Next he had a careful estimate OF
what service of that kind would cost
He found that he could put reliable
fast pony on his service which would
be able to bring to his office news dis
patches forwarded from Washington
not more than twenty-four hours
earlier
THAT part of the program pleased
somewhat staggered when he was in
formed that the service would cost
him about eight thousand dollars q
month on the average. However, he
thought the venture justified the ex-
pense, and he therefore instituted the
fast pony express between Washing
ton and New York.
ut was success in every way. II
gave General Webbs newspaper a
great deal of prestige, and while prob.
ably the direct returns in the count
| ing-room did not meet the expense
yet the indirect returns in the way OF
influences of business were very
| large.
"Of course, the railroad and tele.
| graph building put an end to this ser.
| vice. But it was the recollection OF
what General Webb had accomplished
in the way of fast pony service which
| justified the establishment of a some.
| what similar service between the
Missouri river and the Pacific coast
| Copyright, 1918, by e. ]. Edwards
| All rights reserved).
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This touching tale, for the veracity
of which we do not vouch, comes
from a source we do not know;
about 1860 a Spaniard, in Peru,
named Jose Salcedo, fell in love with
an Indian girl. He proceeded to do a
thing almost unheard of in those
times-he married her. Out of graft
tude, her mother revealed to him
vein of silver of unexampled richness.
He worked it, and drew from 1t con-
siderable wealth--too much for his
happiness, for his opulence excited
the cupidity of the viceroy, Count
Lemos, who had him charged with
high treason, the penalty of which
was death and tile confiscation of all
worldly goods 1t was in vain that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
College Snobbery.

From the New York Tribune.
One of the liveliest movements of
the hour is the effort to make our col
leges more democratic. There is not
much agreement as to method. But
| almost the country over undergradu-
ates and graduates are up in arms
and eager to attack the demon of
snobbery.
AS to the right and wrong ways of
approaching the problem John Cor
bin presents some exceedingly clear
cut ideas in the current Century. Har-
ward claimed Mr.. Corbins early coll
lege years and oxford his latter. So
that he speaks from pretty catholic
experience, and, be 1t added, with no
perceptible squirt toward his own
homes of learning.
For his text there is the classic tale
of the Harvard professor walking the
college yard. who asked troubled
and forlorn youth Are you looking
for anybody" "I don't know anybody
this side of the Rocky Mountains"
came the answer. OF such Is the will
derness of the outs in our large col
leges. And on the other hand, for
those who would be ms there lies q
period of campaigning which Mr..
Corbin very accurately compares to
the feminine business of social climb
ing.
How avoid all this and permit I'M
dergraduates to come together man
to man, on their merits? Mr.. Cor
bins recipe is frankly based on the
| Oxford and Cambridge idea. There
man rubs into immediate friend
ships by reason of his residence in
his college. The English college Is
small enough to be thoroughly in
| dividual. 1t is large enough to give
a student the spirit and life of the
whole institution. For the men of
special distinction there are the clubs
which fuse the colleges into one pow
erful tradition, working In a directly
opposite direction from the narrow
ing American fraternity or society.
Just how these principles can be
transplanted to America is another
matter Mr.. Corbin points out how
the Harvard Union, modelled after the
Oxford Union, failed utterly. He also
disapproves the quad system which
President Wilson advocated for
Princeton during late unpleasant
ness in that institution. The scheme
was too mathematical, too artificial,
he seems to hold, permitting none fof
the natural, sturdy individuality
which is the strength of the English
college.
For move in the right direction
Mr.. Corbin chooses the new resi-
Dental halls at Harvard. Three of
these are to house the entire fresh
men class each complete commu-
nifty in itself, with dining hall, ath-
letic teams, ETC., of its own. Thus.
for one year, at any rate, communities
more or less in the manner of an
English college are to be developed.
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! lives.
There are thousands of people who
get up in the night and go to the
| medicine chest or some cabinet and
take headache tablets and all sorts of
medicines from bottles or boxes with
out even turning on the light and
making sure of what they are taking.
| OF course, they think they know, but
how often they do not.
One is much more likely to make a
mistake when he wakes up in the
night suffering from pain, because he
is not always wide awake, his percep-
| tions are not keen and sharp, and he
should be doubly careful at such a
time.
It is a terrible thing to thus
thoughtlessly gamble with ones life.
Sometimes the servants, children or
/ other members of the household have
handled the drugs, changed the pack
ages or bottles and one cannot be
absolutely sure that he has the right
medicine without taking the precau-
ton to carefully examine the label be-
| fore taking.
At one time recently there was at
least dozen persons in this country
dying through the taking of bichloride
| tablets by mistake. Life is certainly
too precious to take such chances
with 1t. Thousands of people every
year. who are in good health,
with only slight temporary ailments,
die through some mistake in taking
medicines, when little precaution
would have prevented such tragedies.
It is a strange fact that physicians
who are constantly cautioning pa
tients in these matters are sometimes
very careless themselves and lose
their own lives in this very way.
Not only in taking medicine by
mistake, but in multitude of other
ways people are constantly endanger-
ing their health and safety and
gambling with their lives. Every day
| in the year people lose their limbs,
seriously injure their health or sacri-
flee their lives by .recklessly crossing
the street in front of rapidly-moving
automobiles or trucks, jumping on or
off moving trolley cars or trains,
lodging in front of teams, when wait
Ing a minute or taking little pre-
caution would have prevented these
| tragedies.
| How many people have been seri-
ously injured or haveSlost their lives
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
Another Lost Mine Romance

Salcedo demanded permission to ap-
peal to Madrid, and offered to pay
two ingots of silver daily during the
fifteen months that must elapse be-
fore reply was returned. The count
refused, and hanged him in 1859. But
the butcher got small good out of it.
The Indians, intent on avenging their
friend, destroyed the works at the
mine, filled it with water and con-
cealed the entrance so cleverly that
it could never be discovered. Neither
promises nor threats could extract
their secret, which remains so to this
very day" This story is more
romantic than those of the Gunsight.
Pegleg and several other lost mines"
of the American acknowledgements
and Mining Journal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18

TUESDAY CONTINUES to be assembly day at Trenton
Tor politicians Legislators of the State 1t is of the
traditions of New Jersey that will probably live for many years.
good 1t brings together weeks before legislative
newly members form necessary
and exchange views State affairs
The from Cape May Sussex meets the member
and counties of different character from
session begins he made realize that
egislate whole State of which his county only
small city also learns about country district
What wirepulng goes is beside the
That is inevitable anyhow for organization and is
before the select officers for
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
UPLIFT IN THE PLAYGROUND.

III THE IDEA the Chidrens Playground which few years
forced the unwilling authorities by few deasts and
has grown by degrees into public institution developing
dreamed of by its ognators and they all
for p This development the result of the thought
nd of those who have conducted the efforts of the
backgrounds their inception.
mistakes in departure OF this kind were nevi-
they honest ones but the idea has grown and
that today most important of the growing
for moral good Newarkis the Chdren Playground
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
THE OPERA SEASON OPENED.

NV THE OPENING of the Metropolitan opera last night
brilliant could desired Notwithstanding the exaspera-
by pawnng the tickets by middemans
attempt make ticket buyers pay double prices for
Metropolitan operate interest the United
fact world New York is prominent
operate enterprise.
How the hghcass popular which has established
National Theatre will sustained during
Metropolitan question upon which depends the per-
anency of splendid enterprise bring the best within
the reach of people of small means
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
"Be Careful What You say"

IN speaking of a persons fault
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with homes of glass
Should never throw stone
If we had nothing else to do
Than talk of those who sin,
tbs better We commence at home
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company
$ We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults, and who has not
The old as well as young,
Perhaps we may for aught we know
Have fifty to their one.
Then let us all, when we begin
To SANDER friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know,
Remember. curses sometimes
Like our chickens, roost at home
Don't speak of others faults until
You have none of your own.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
ONE-THIRD MORE FOR COUNTY COAL.

REPORT engineer of the Hospital for the Insane
furnished under contract OF so
quality the require one-thrd coal than
that institutional officers
wachfu of the quality of the supplies than they used
Ito be.
this the freehoders purchasing committee has de-
dd buy coal from the contracting rm and VIII pu
good in the market charging the contractor with the
If the does not succeed in wiggng
obligation he will be probably the first be really
penazed for gross violation of contract Onhrd more coal to
one-rd in the coal bill TO get inferior
results and the public paws bills How
of this has been paid the past for institutional coal
county the had it all his may
be imagined
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18

Experts figure that Pittsbugh's
yearly SCOT emissions would make a
pile one hundred feet in diameter
and six hundred feet high or larger
than the Washington monument. The
money waste and damage are esti-
mated at twelve million dollars year.
ly. Sample tests made some time
ago in Chicago of the cost of the
smoke nuisance in that city showed
that the smudge bill exceeded the
tax bill. which was about forty mill
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
GOVERNMENT NECESSITY SUPREME.

M UNITED STATES District Judge Relstabs refusal
injunction that might have seriously embarrassed the fed
government and that single ground paseworthy al
though in the last analysis it would hardly be needed
If the government stood critical need of certain supplies
whether of anything else it would take Them injunction
Injunction No of could stand between
ANYTHING necessities of national emergency whether
of railroad steamship obtaining supplies of any
kind But Judge Restab well states the attitude of the courts
such matters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18

Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Eliza
was the eldest of five children, one of
her brothers becoming valiant sol
der and one a well-known painter.
Like most authors" Eliza once
said, II made my first attempts at
writing in verse. The subjects were
chiefly soldiers, sailors, hunters and
nuns, and the verses were written in
pastoral style. My imagination
teemed with shepherdesses and shep-
herds-with Damons and Strephons."
Then she vent on to say that her
father once pointed out to her a real
shepherd in the county of Kent, Eng
land, and that after that she never
wrote in the pastoral style. At four
teen she destroyed all her poetry and
began in serious writing In more prac-
teal vein. She had attended a cook
ing school and she first wrote out the
recipes she had learned there and
copied them off for private circulation
among her friends. These proved to
be so useful that she decided to write
a cook book and this was one of the
first very successful books of the sort
ever written in this country.
All of Miss Leslie's writing, on
whatever it's subject, was carefully
done and full of good sense.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
SCOT Pile Costs $l2,OOO,OOO

lion dollars a year, and the cost of
smoke in other cities is fully as
great in proportion to the size of the
city This includes only the injury to
property. Doctors will tell you that
is the least damage. They will point
out how the smoke gets into the
throat and lungs, and Injuries the
health. causing chronic ailments
which diminish the happiness and
shorten the life of those who are
not responsible for the smoke evil
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
Ambassadors PindeII.
ON the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas city Star.
Lies won't hurt a real man.
This adage has been demonstrated
once more in the case of Henry M.
Pindell, editor of the Peoria Journal.
His enemies tried to prevent his APP
pointment as ambassador to Russia
by lying about linn.
But Mr.. Pindell has long record
for high-minded public service in his
editorship of the Peoria Journal,
which for years has had a reputation
as remarkable newspaper. Nobody
who knew The Journal and what it
had stood for in the community could
have the slightest doubt of the out
come of this latest attack. 1t is an
axiom that no newspaper editor who
is worth his salt can avoid making
enemies who would destroy him if
they could. If he does his duty he is
bound to antagonize crooks of high
and low degree, who naturally pursue
him vindictively and unscrupulously.
They woull stop at no lie to inJure
him.
But, after all, a man like Pindell
has nothing to fear from lies. His
career among his neighbors at Peoria
is a REPUTATION of the most elaborate
falsehoods that could be invented. 1t
was unnecessary for him to defend
himself. 1t is what a man does that
counts--not what he says.
The lies against Pindell were mere
ly certificates of character-proofs OF
duty we'll done.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
Won't Delay Schmidt Trial

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-Alphonse G.
Koelble, counsel for Hans Schmidt,
the priest who murdered Anna All
mueller. asked yesterday for another
months delay in the trial. General
Sessions Judge Foster denied the mo-
ton and said the trial would have to
begin tomorrow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
Women Denied Lay Rights

DANvILLE, Va, Nov 1S.-Women
were denied lay rights by the Vir-
ginia conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. last night
by vote of 11S to Ill. A heated de-
bate, beginning Saturday. preceded
the vote.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
TO Bring Wife Into Court SO He Can
Talk to Her.
M Clocks in West virginia Town of
1000 Population.

WHEELING, w. Va, Nov. 1S.-The
report of County Assessor William
Hanka shows a surprising lack of
watches and clocks in Ohio county,
w. va. In West Virginia watch
or clock is assessible as personal prop
erty. The town of Fulton, which has
1000 inhabitants, has no clocks, &C
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
Honolulu Wants Factories.

From the Hawaiian Gazette.
A good many business men, es-
pecially the retail merchants, are be-
ginning to think that Honolulu would
be a more solid city if the volume OF
business depended on factory employ
ment instead of on fluctuating and
evanescent plantation dividends. 1t is
the day laborer who Is paid every
Saturday night who puts ready
cash into the merchants cash drawer.
The Rapid Transit spending $4,000 a
month for laborers on track repair
and extension, Hackfeld's coffee hand
pickers, the new Kakaako shirt fac
tory, the pineapple canneries, the
iron works, printing establishments,
railway shops, mattress and furniture
factories, and the dozens of small
Oriental factories engaged in manu-
facture of miscellaneous articles OF
consumption and wear, are the con-
Germs that put the most cash into the
daily channels of trade.
Honolulu always has surplus of
unemployed labor. The best of the
imported laborers save their cash to
take back home, wherever that may
have been. The inefficient flock to the
towns, or rove from plantation to
plantation looking for easy work and
big pay, and very large percentage
of these finally drift to Honolulu,
where they complicate the charity
problem and add materially ton the
"white mans burden"-that of car
ing for and helping the inefficient.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18

county, which including Wheeling,
has population of 10000 reports only
274 watches and clocks.
Bride at 10, Widow at II; Again Bride
at 1S.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Nov. 49,
Married when she was sixteen years
old and a widow at seventeen, Hester
George, aged eighteen, was married
the second time last night. Her sec
ond husband is Albert George, who
bears the same name as her frs. hIs-
band, but Is not related to the family
of the dead Albert George.
Town without Mall Service for Three
Months.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Nov. 49,
Declaring they have had no mail SER
vice for three months, persons who
formerly depended on the mail carrier,
who Travelled the fifteen miles between
Clendennin and Walton, w. Va, to-
day forwarded an appeal to United
States Senator w. e. Chiffon for re-
lief. Piles of first class matter are
said to have collected at Clendennin,
and what is estimated to be four car
loads of parcels are in the hands of
the custodian of mails at that point.
Some time ago the government con-
Quoted an examination for mail car
rier to look after the route and re-
ceived bids for the work. The low
est bid, $4,000, was deemed 100 high
by the authorities and they refused
to accept it.