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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25

Hope might rise and fall, terror and
dismay might seize upon the crew at
| the mysterious variations of the COM
pass, but Columbus, unappalled,
| pushed due west and nightly added
to his record the above words.
To succeed today man must con-
centrate all the faculties of his mind
upon one unwavering aim. and have
tenacity of purpose which means
death or victory. Every other IN
clination which tempts him from his
aim must be suppressed,
1t Is the men who do one thing in
this world who come to the front.
Who is the favorite actor? 1t is a
Jefferson, who devotes lifetime to
rip Van Winkle," a Booth, or an
Irving who plays one character I'M
til he can play it better than any
other man living, and not the shall
low players who impersonate all
parts. The great man is the one who
never steps outside of his specially
or dissipates his individuality. 1t is
an Edison, a Morse, a Bell, Howe,
a Stephenson, Watt. 1t is Glib
bon, giving twenty years to his DE
cline and Fall of the Roman En-
pire." 1t is a Hume, writing thirteen
hours day on his History of Eng
land" 1t is a Webster, spending
it a Bancroft, working twenty-six
years on his History of the United
States" 1t Is a Field, crossing the
ocean fifty times to lay a cable,
while the world ridicules.
A one-talent man who decides upon
definite object accomplishes more
than a ten-talent man who scatters
his energies and never knows exactly
what he will do. The weakest living
creature. by concentrating his pow
ers upon one thing, can accomplish
something; the strongest, by dispers-
ing his over many, may fail to &C
complish anything.
A great purpose is cumulative; and,
like a great magnet, it attracts all
that is kindred along the stream of
life.
Oh, the power of a great purpose
to work miracles 1t has changed the
face of the world. Napoleon knew
that there were plenty of great men
In France. but they did not know
the might of the unwavering aim by
which he was changing the destinies
of Europe. He saw that what was
called the balance of power was
only an idle dream; that, unless some
master-mind could be found which
was a match for events, the millions
would rule in anarchy. His
iron will grasped the situa-
ton, and, like William Pitt, he
did not loiter around balancing the
probabilities of failure or success, or
daily with his purpose. There was
no turning to the right nor to the
left; no drea ming away time, nor
building air-castles; but one look and
purpose, forward, upward and on
ward, straight to his goal. His great
success in war was due largely to
his definiteness of aim. What les
son of the power of concentration
there is in this mans life!
All great men have been noted for
their power of concentration, which
makes them oblivious of everything
outside their aim. Victor Hugo wrote
his "Notre Dame" during the revo-
luton of 1880, while the bullets were
whistling across his garden He shut
himself in one room, locking his
clothes up in another, lest they
should tempt him to go out into the
street, and spent most of that winter
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25

time. 1t was my duty to obey orders
and to do the best I could. When it
was found that it was practically i'm
possible, excepting at great expendi-
ture of life and wholly unnecessary
expenditure to capture the city by as
sault was asked to find a good To-
cation for placing a great mortar gun
in such position that it would COM
mand the city. In the lower harbor
of Charleston there are numerous
sand pits and swampy islands. After
careful study L made up my mind
that one of these swampy is
lands was the best location for plac-
ing the great gun | had to go down
to firm foundations, | had TO put the
gun in a comparatively inconspicuous
place and 1 had to locate it so that it
would be aimed directly at the city of
Charleston
after l had done that and the gun
was placed in position, my particular
relation to this work was ended. I
believed then that the occasional shot
fired from this gun into Charleston
would be without material advantage
to us and l did not think that the
moral effect on the city of Charleston
would amount to anything.
After the war was over I OCCASION
ally met friends who had been in the
Confederate service and who had
some knowledge of the effect of the
shots from what they called the
Swamp Angel upon the people of
| Charleston really was. 1t was exact
! ~ as I thought at the time would be
| the case and if our artilerymen had
| fired shots from the Swamp Angel
into Charleston till doomsday it would
never have resulted in bringing about
the surrender of the city But it is
true I did establish the foundation for
the Swamp Angel"
Copyright 1913, by E. ]. Edwards
J All rights reserved.)
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desk in a revolving chair, and while
[ was talking he was occupied in
arranging certain technical papers
which lay upon his desk and which
had some relation to the ship canal
across the isthmus of Panama, but
some fifty miles south of the Panama
Canal which he was endeavoring to
secure capital to construct. He
wheeled around in his chair quickly
and looked at me over his spectacles
for a few moments somewhat dream
iiy. My remark seemed to nave
awakened memories which had been
overshadowed in recent years by ms
intense interest in his Panama Canal
nroposition. He was a short, thick
set man. with a large head, beauti-
fully proportioned, thick gray hair,
cha ggv eyebrows, smooth shaver and
of remarkably fair complexion for a
man of his years. He was then near
y YES" YES he said, meditatively, that
is true. | did supervise the construc-
tion of the foundations upon which
the great gun which has passed into
history as the Swamp Angel rested.
Il went into the war as commander
of a regiment which | organized ana
which was, in fact, the first regiment
of volunteer engineers in the Union
army. | was promoted and became
chief engineer of the Tenth Army
Germs and chief of the Engineering
Department of the South.
when the government at Washing
ton decided to make desperate at
tennis to capture the city of Charles
ton T. of course, obeyed orders. My
own personal feeling was that there
was no good military reason for try
ing to capture Charleston. The city
was of little Importance from a mill
tarv point of view. 1t had been ell
fectively blockaded from the pegln-
niY,p of the war and I couldn't see
~ hut sentimental reason for
making such elaborate and expensive
nreparations for capturing the city
"Iowever I said nothing at the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

"Missing-Last Sunday, many fam
lilies from church.
"Stolen-Seyeral hours from tho
Lords day by a great number of
people.
"Strayed-Half a hundred lambs:
went in the direction of no Sunday
school.
"Mislaid-A quantity of silver coins
owed to the Lord.
"Wanted-Scores of young people.
When last seen were walking up
Sabbath Breakers Lane, which leads
to No Good
'Lost-A lad carefully reared. Not
long from home. Supposed to have
gone to Husk lane, Prodigal Town.
Amy person assisting in the dis
covery of the above shall in nowise
loss his reward.
"Whitestone M. E. Church. Get
the habit"
Death.
PLAINFIELD. Conn.,, Oct. 25.--John
Walker, farmer near here, has been
bothered for months by hawks, which
have swooped down and robbed him
of poultry. Yesterday, however, the
cloud of gloom was lifted when Nc
Kinley, the family cat captured one
of the biggest hawks ever seen in
this section.
While Mr.. Walker and his family
were at breakfast they heard a COM
motion in the hen yard Members of
the family hurried out and saw the
cat volplaning to earth on the back
of the hawk. The bird had attempt
ed to fly, but found Mckinley too
heavy passenger. A shotgun ended
the hawks career.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25

At mass meeting in New York the
other night in the Cathedral OF ST.
John the Divine, the EpiScopalians
introduced a brand new species of
public prayer. They call it the social
litany" 1t goes like this:
From the sins that divide US, from
all class bitterness and race hatred,
from forgetfulness of Thee and in
difference to our fellow men, good
Lord, deliver us.
From the corruption of the fran
chise and civil government, from
greed and the arbitrary love of power,
good Lord, deliver us.
From the fear of unemployment
and the evils of overwork, from the
curse of child labor and the ill-paid
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
PRAYER UP TO DATE

toll of women, good Lord, deliver us.
THAT the labor movement may be
confirmed in DISTINGUISHED honor and
the employers of labor may fashion
their dealings according to the laws
of equity, we beseech Thee to hear
us, good Lord"
Sounds rather modern, doesn't it?
And yet it isn't likely that any of the
old prophets or church fathers will
turn over in their graves on account
of it. In fact, Isaiah and st. Paul
and the rest of them would probably
30. K" it if they were living now and
saw what was going on in our new
industrial society.
Churches move slowly, but they do
move.-EXchange
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
MUST BE A TERRIBLE FEELING.

Well! Well! Well!!! The Evening News just can't get
away that envou and jealous feeling Looked for
time as if really truly desired the election
james T. Fielder governor Now the News to be
alarmed Fielder carry Essex county by overwhelming
majority" What next?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
AN AUTOMOBILE ON EACH FOOT.

The roller latest development
motoring Each skate practically tiny automobile
and the power storage batteries
making this world lazy paradise but the
history of evolution gradually
appears when becomes egess he will have nothing
Which he attach his motor skates
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
Loves Young Dream.

AS the young man was taking leave
for the night, his voice, as he stood
on the piazza, arose passionately in
the still air.
Just one" he said; "just one
Then the young girls mother in
terrupted, calling from her bedroom
window:
Just one? No, it amt quite that
vet, but it's close on to II, so [ think
ye'd best be goin, just the same
Public Ledger.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
ANOTHER TRAGEDY OF THE MINES.

TO THE heavy toll of life which nature exacts from
price her hidden be added than
dead in the Stag Canon mine New Mexico OF all the
work when Wednesdays explosion occurred only wen
the death list is sweed by the of two of
This calamity has had scant mention in the daily
papers compared with the many columns of space given to
politics. because such things have become almost
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
Apartment House Growth.

| IN operation anu low cOdl lrduSpoI Id
ton costs.
Apartment House Growth.
From the New York Sun.
It might have been centuries in
stead of forty three years since the
first apartment house was erected in
this city,. so great has been the i'm
provement in this popular type OF
dwelling. Rutherford Stuyvesant,
member of the old Stuyvesant family,
was the first to introduce the apart
ment in this country He had seen
apartments in Paris. They were pop
ular there with the best of people.
Besides. 1t increased the ability of
the owner to pay his tax bills and
other expenses.
The tax problem interested Mr.,
Stuyvesant. as he owned considera-
BILE property about the city. Proba-
blv this was the reason for his in
terest in Paris apartment houses
After convincing himself that they
would go in New York he erected
the Rutherford, at 142 East
Eighteenth street, soon after the Civil
War. 1t was known as the French
flats and was the talk of the town.
The Rutherford Stuyvesant house is
still standing. and according to
brokers' has comparatively few va
cancies. 1t is five stories high. III
feet wide and 92 feet deep. There
are four apartments of seven rooms
each to a floor. 1t has steam heat
and hot water and is absolutely
sound proof.
The reception that met the apart
ment house was SO great that many
builders entered the apartment-house
field. OF late years the number has
increased considerably. These build
ers have given up the construction of
all but apartment houses, which has
got to be a science requiring con-
slant attention and application.
Through this specializing New York
has been forced in the last ten years
into the front rank as the apartment
centre of the world.
Many of our apartments here rival
palaces in grandeur and fittings.
Scores of such houses may be found
on Park avenue. Fifth avenue, Madi-
son avenue. Broadway, West End |
avenue. Riverside drive and cross
town streets to the east and west of
Central Park. private dwelling
fitted in the fashion of many of the |
suites in houses along these streets |
would rent for figures many times
that which is asked for these apart |
ments. Many families have learned |
this and are giving up costly dwell |
ings to live in apartment houses, in |
which they are deprived of nothing |
that they had in the dwelling. yet are |
saving several thousand dollars a |
year by the change, enough in many |
cases to maintain the latest in auto |
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
Cat Aviator Rides Chicken Hawk to
Death.

Boy-Boo-h I've gone and lost
the money mother gave me for the
meat!
Kindly Butcher-Come, come, my
dear, take heart, take heart!
Boy-Boo- 1 can't. It's liveI
she wants
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
Putting Ii Frankly.

when are you going to be in
earnest?"
what do you mean by that?"
well, my sister said yesterday,
When is that boob going to be in
.earnest?' philadelphia Record
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
In the Land of
Iokedon
Taking a Mean Advantage.

ON moving into a new neighbor-
hood the small boy Of the family
was cautioned not to fight with his
new acquaintance. One day Tommy
came home with a black eye and
BADLY despatched with mud
"Why Tommy" said his mother,
"didn't | tell you not to fight until
YOU had counted 1902"
"Yes'm," shifted Tommy. and look
what Willie Smith did while l was
counting Home Journal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
WHY, OH WHERE, THE STRAW VOTE?

Something wofuy lacking in this campaign Publicity
u-eaus and away behind times
that the straw vote diversion has been overlooked by
and other election results prophets?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Engineer Who Put Famous Swamp Angel in Position


laid the foundations in one of the swampy islands of
latter of the civil War
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
BaIIade Of a Yale Cament

| wonder in what Isle of Dream
Another Hinkey grips the foe?
wonder what spectral team
Big Hogan lays his rival low?
Or Gordon Brown, in ghosty glow,
Holding a rival charge at bay?
Their shadows drift in ebb and flow
Where the Coys of Yesterday?
wonder, in the Crimson CLEAN,
When Thorne will strike another blow?
When Chadwick under rushing steam,
Shall gain his twenty yards or so?
Can Buterworth no more bestow?
Has Bloomer vanished from the fray?
Where is the Glass used to know?
Where are the Coys of Yesterday?
Blue ghosts of old, we see them stream
In valiant line, after row;
Fitzpatrick stalwart and supreme,
Or mighty Shevlins clutch of VICE.
Do half-gods come when gods must go?
Has Tad Jones made his final play?
Must Y ale elms frost in Crimson snow?
Where the Coys of Yesterday?
John Harvards cheering echoes grow;
The Crimson line sweeps down the way;
For Hardwcks rush and Brickleys toe,
Where the Coys of Yesterday?
-Grantland Rice in Golfers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
Ten Years of Welded Silence After
Eighteen Years of Surveillance.


ST. LOUIS, Oct 25.-Denying each
of the allegations in her husbands
cross bill to her suit for divorce and
alleging that for ten years he and
she had lived as strangers in their
home, Mrs. Mildred Wagner told re-
porters that Charles Wagner, secre-
tary of a manufacturing company,
had sought in the record of their
twenty-eight years of married life
for accusations to make against her.
For the last ten years, she said,
they have occupied the same house,
but had kept separate apartments
and not exchanged a word, tfeir only
communication being between their
sons, James, aged twenty-six, and
Barton, twenty.
Court Builds barrier Around Ankles
of Fair Witness.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25.-In future
the shape of a womans ankle or the
color or texture of her hosiery or the
style of her shoes is not to affect the
Judgment of the jury or be an attrac-
ton for elastic necked ~pectators in
the courtroom of department of
the Superior Court. This branch of
the court is presided over by Judge
Grant Jackson, recently appointed.
Having these things in mind, Judge
Jackson has caused a specially con-
structed oaken desk to be placed in
front of the witness chair, so that a
witness will be visible only from the
waist line upward.
for "Strayed Lambs"
"StOlen Hours" and Lost PrOdigal."
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Rev. Frank
H. Ebright, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of Whitestone,
Long Island. believes that advertising
is as necessary in church work as in
business. His view on advertising
were shown in this advertisement
which appeared yesterday in the
Whitestone Herald:
"Stolen, Strayed, Lost or Mislaid
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
UPLIFT TALKS
THE MAN WHO SUCCEEDS Has A PROGRAM
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author of Pushing to the Front, Etc
Copyright. 1913.

by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
discovery America by Christopher
Columbus
" Journal simple grand words; This day
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

OO0, 900 cubic feet a day, and will be
so constructed as to allow for an in
creased output to another million"
The present cost price of gas in
Wtdnes is 91a cents a thousand feet.
The low price Is obtained by efficiency
in operation and low, coal transporta-
ton costs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
Apples Must Be Labeled.
nm the Denver Republican.

From the Denver republican.
After this when you eat an apple
YOU will know exactly what variety
it is. The pure food experts in Wash
ington have notified shippers of Colo
RADIO apples that hereafter an apple
must be branded for exactly what it
is. AS a result the Colorado Beauty,
an apple long famous in the East for
its fine color and flavor. will die a
natural DEATH 1t is nothing more or
less than a plain, everyday Ben
Davis, although it is 100 per cent. bet
ter than the Ben Davis grown in the
East.
The Black Ben, another Colorado
apple famous for its color and flavor,
has also been consigned to the junk
heap. 1t is a Gano. There are other
names under which Grand Valley and
Western Slope apples have been
shipped that will be heard no more.
Although Colorado has quite a rep
utation, built on the fancy names it
gave its apples, even though the par
emit tree was a common old Ben
Davis, it is not believed that the or
der of the government will affect the
markets in the slightest, for the APP
pies are just as highly favored and
beautifully colored as they were when
shipped as the Colorado Beauty.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
The TRUST and Argentine Heel


From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The only United states line of YES
sells plying between this port and the
River Plate and having refrigerating
ships, is the Lamport & Holt, which
every fifteen days has a ship from the
Argentine coming in at Pier, s, Brook
Ign. The understanding is that all the
carrying facilities of this line are now
under contract to the Armours, or
virtually to what is known colloquial-
ly as the Beef Trust. To an intima-
ton that the United States Govern
ment may attack this contract as in
restraint of trade, Mr.. Armour is
scornfully defiant. He does not
think law can to1ch the contract.
The department of justice may
think otherwise. Manifestly, the pur-
pose of the Underwood law to reduce
the cost of living, particularly the
cost of meats, is defeated, if a trust
can monopolize communications with
the Argentine, with Australia or
with South Africa, where it is
rumored that the Beef Trust is back
ing q big exploitation of ranch cattle-
raising.
OF course, in time the Lamport &
Holt line would have competitors in
refrigerating ships; but for the pres
ent our beef consumers would get lit
tic relief, with the ships actually run
ming carrying only consignments for
the trust, if the courts were to take
the Armour view of such contract.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-07-19
INDIANA RARbOR
GIRL PASSES AWAY

The death of Miss Ethel Jones,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Jones,
formerly OF Indiana Harbor, which oc-
Cured Tuesday evening at the family
residence. 1911 Spring street,
burg. W. Va, was learned with the
deepest regret by the many friends of
this lovely young woman, and the
members of her family in Indiana Har-
Dor. Miss Jones had been i'll for some
months with a complication of dis
eases. and her death was not unex-
ipected. The disease bafhed every eff
fort of the physicians, and it was seen
by the lofed ones that it was only a
question of time till her life would go
out. Miss Jones was a graduate of the
IParkersburg high school, class of 1911,
and in the fall of that year entered
the University of Valparaiso to fit her
self for a music and kindergarten
teacher. 1t was during her attendance
at this school that she was taken sick,
and was compelled to give up her stu
dies and return home. She was bright
and lovable, and endowed with beauti-
full traits of character which endeared
her to her companions and all others
with whom she came in contact. She
was a m of the Parkersburg
Baptist church. a devoted Christian
ana dlllSenI worker IN cnurCn aHalrS.
Her last request and desire was to live
in order 10 do more good.
Miss Jones was % years old. and is
survived by her father. mother and two
sisters-Mabel and Myrtle. Mrs. w. &.
Davis and Mrs. Sadie Evans of Fir
street are her grandmother and aunt
respectively, and Mr.. John Bevans of
Pennsylvania ayenue is her uncle. The
services in Parkersburg were onduc
ed by Rev. Arthur Hauk, pastor of the
baptist church there, after which the
remains were placed on the train and
hipped to Indiana Harbor, arriving
here yesterday morning over the b. &
o. railroad. The funeral took place
from Burns & cGuan' undertaking
rooms at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
and the interment was at Oak Hill in
Hammond. Rev. Smith. pastor of the
Baptist church. conducted the services
at the grave. The pall-bearers wer
Ed Gardner, Amos Haywood. John
Wheale.. James Spittle and VIII and
Harold Ford. All the vehicles used in
the funeral procession were automo-
biles. it being the first automobile fun
eral to take place in Indiana Harbor.