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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
Jersey FISH CHEAPER IN OTHER STATES

INVESTIGATION OF retail fish prices in Baltimore and
Washington as compared with fish prices in Newark and other
cities Jersey which has been made by representatives OF
The Star dscoes conditions that both Congress and the state
Legislature must cognznce of They show systematic
and ruthless robbery of the people in the purchase OF their sea
food by the trust and the middleman
The fact that wohirds of the fish sold in Baltimore and
Washington caught New Jersey coast and retals in those
two cities prices six pound cheaper than is
Jersey cities needs comment The fact speaks Tor
itself the to which New Jersey consumers
proved upon the monopoly that has the New Jersey coast IN
its grip and orbd people the State buy New Jersey s
except furnished the monopoly from New York. and at mo-
nopoy prices, with inordnate profits to the retailer
Our fisheries private possession but public
domain The monopost mpound the minerals of the earth
and even the for his private but the ocean is
open and propretohp of the fish that visit
our coast only the State And today the coast fisheries
are held private vested interest the fish supply withheld
from the people until oundy taxed for private profit and the
New Jersey compelled pay from six to ten cents
More for this fish charged for it in cities other States
1t is cruel especially when the cost of living is so high that
the fish which abundany from the to coasts
gift awse Providence should be seized by comorant
trust another State heavily taxed for trust profit
and New Jersey markets prices still further inflated and
higher pound than New jersey hSh is
sold for in the markets of Baltimore and Washington
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
A KNOCKERS WEAK KNOCK.

THE KNOCKER had been scratching his head for forty
eight hours the of local finances MADE by Cy
Nugent Saturday night and finally evolved these COM
ments Stripped verbage they that the mayor and Common
Council having appointed the Board of Education should dictate
TO the board what policy should be- and therefore are response
Bile for its mandatory appropriations This new doctrine OF
municipal government The idea of non-parsan board ao-
mnsraon the public schools to take them away from
political partisan control And if the mayor and counch snou
boss the why not also IN its appointments ana
its contracts? Was school appropriations made mandatory
for the purpose making the board independent OF the mayor
and the council?
The city counsel showed that Newark IN minority IN the
Feehoder Board control the county budget although
the city pays per of the appropriations mat the CITY was
credited in the with less than the actual number OF
civ members board alter the Fact stated but the
Knocker makes prolonged this nonessental point
while admitting the fact
After long abuaton of comparative figures OF cities as
TO their property and capita tax the application
being unrecognizabe the knocker takes mop No
parsons bearing taxation not always conclusive
he saws The informed economist knows that they seldom
are and that comparisons nearly all such are arclca In
short the Knocker invounariy paid high tribute TO the
the city in its correctness and also maze
sorry showing logic well ordinary information for those
who assal and belle their own city
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
Death Valley Unconquered

strange lights. like the flashing of
firef1ies. the phospheric phenomenon
of a weird, smoky waste.
1.-THE night brings some relief, but
the new day dawns hotter, it seems,
than the day before. The water in
your canteen is nauseating, as it al
most sizzles under the glare of the
merciless sun. The air pressure, hot
from above and below, almost stag
gers you, while your thick tongue,
swelling rapidly from thirst, all but
strangles you.
1.-THE sand dunes, marked only by
mesquite, swallow you without af-
fording refuge from the heat; the
wind blows as if from a fiery fur
mace; the sand shifts with the wind
and the trail is lost: the burros may
stampede. and the last of your grub
may be hopelessly scattered.
Many have suffered horrible death
in that far-away and lonely place,
gone mad from thirst and hunger
thrown away canteen, grub. clothing
and wandered aimlessly, only to lie
down and die. the prey of coyotes and
the grief of loved ones to whom their
resting place is unknown.
Some day, perhaps, a more fortu-
nate pilgrim has found q skeleton
and dug a grave, with an occasional
find of jewelry and papers by which
the remains could be identified, but i'm
the years in which have been famil-
lar with the stories of the lost in
Death Valley. but few missing ones
have been located. The valley had
swallowed them up as the sea.
1.-THE desire for gold is undated; it
took me across Death Valley in 1849:
it has lured many a prospeotor there
since that historic day when Funeral
Range was named, and today it is
calling, with sure and certain toll of
human life"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
Boy Asks Secretary Garrison for Dog
of War"

Death Valley has lost none of its
terrors since 1S49, when many gold
hunters persisted in their attempts to
reach the bonanza fields in California.
The relics of that expedition yet re-
main on Salt creek to remind pass
ersby of a heroic struggle against
great odds.
Today Death Valley practically is
unchanged. True, prospectors have
dug for gold and silver and copper in
the hills on every side; camps have
been made and abandoned here and
there; water holes and stations es-
tablished in times of cross valley
travel between Panamints and
Funeral Range, ranch has been de-
veloped on which figs and melons and
vegetables grow in great abundance
the Mecca of hundreds of desert
pilgrims and sightseeing parties.
A stamp mill and an aerial railway
have been built and operated, with a
telephone line reaching to civiliza-
ton; mule teams have been driven
into the depths and hauled out borax;
yet Death Valley, deep between the
towering gray hills, sunken, treach-
erous, desolate, isolated, is unaltered
by the coming of man.
1t is still the valley of death, claim
ing its victims one by one, and har-
boring many unmarked graves.
Carl c. Clemens, writing of the
death of Peter Busch, friend, says
that eight years of desert experience
failed to aid Busch, who was travel
ing by automobile. The car stuck
in the deep sand.
Clemens says:
zone has no idea of the oppression
of the heat in Death Valley In sum-
mer unless he has personal expert
ence of it. The sun rises hot and
! sets hot, with a. night sky full of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
Bethlehem

o little town of Bethlehem,
How still thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamess sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in the dark streets shineth
The everlasting light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
For Christ is born of Mary,
And gathered all above
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wond'ring love.
o morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy BIRTH
And praises sing to God the King
And peace to men earth.
How silently, how silently,
The wondrous gift is given
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming
But in this world of SIM
Where meek souls will receive Him still,
The dear Christ enters in.
o holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our SIM and enter in,
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidngs tell;
o come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Emmanuel. Phillips Brooks.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24

When Benjamin Franklin came to
London from Philadelphia in 1724,
according to a writer in the Daily
Telegraph, he found work as a COM
positor in a printing office.
While setting up Wollaston's Re
ligion of Nature" he felt a revolt
against some of the arguments, and
thereupon wrote his own ''Disserta-
ton on Liberty and Necessity,
Pleasure and Pain" Moreover,
having written it, he printed it him
self. He was then 10 years of age.
In after years Franklin regretted
his precocious efforts, and sup
pressed or destroyed most of the 100
copies of the tract. He did this so
thoroughly that only two survivors
are known, and one of these came up
In the HUH sale at Sotheby's, held
recently
Now for the romance of values.
About 1850 the late Mr.. Henry
Stevens, the well-known bookseller,
bought this copy for half a crown.
He offered it to the British Museum
at a guinea. 1t was refused. He
then tried two clients, Mr.. Brown
ami Mr.. James Lenox, at five
guineas. Nothing done
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24

The ghost-breaker in the melo-
drama had little faith in apparitions
and great confidence in a revolver,
saws the Boston Herald. The drama
fists and MIR. Warner may be pleased
to know that solemn exorclsm IS sun
practised in England. A ghost mad
annoyed the inmates of Asfordsoy
Rectory. Leicestershire, for more
than thirty years. A few days ago
Rev. f. A. Gage Hall, the rector put
on a cassock and surplice, went INTO
the section of the haunted house and
commanded the ghost or ghosts to
denart 'in the name of the Father,
the son and the Holy Ghost The
rector now believes that the exorcism
was successful. The rectory is an
old and rambling building, which mas
been the dwelling place of well-knoWn
nersons and the scene of horrid
deeds. .
This ghost of Asfordsby was not a
headless lady, not a blood-stalned ana
grooming spectre. 1t did not move TO
the clanking of chains. The hapit
of the spook was to pull OIL plankels
fand sheets from the beds of sleepers
in the middle of the night. Thus the
Rev. c. H. Strudwick, vicar OF Whet-
stone. recently slept in one OF the
haunted rooms.
He was awakened by a Juggling at
the bedclothes. In spite of his re-
sistanc he was left uncovered. The
vicar lighted a candle and saw heap
of disordered bedclothes on the moor
.There was nothing else to Indicate
that anything unusual had occurred.
searched the room thoroughly and
ali was in order. The door was
locked on the inside and no one could
have entered. But when the same
i thing happened the very next night
was glad to change my room"
How different the conduct OF the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24

Il have always looked back with
pleasure upon the part ! took in the
national convention in 1888, which led
to the nomination for President or
General Benjamin Harrison said
Chauncey NJ. Depew recently. Sena-
tor Depew had been speaking to me
reminiscently of presidential conven-
tions, in which he had taken part, and
of some of the personal characters
ties of Presidents whom he knew.
There was an impression among
the delegates at the Republican con-
vention of 1883 that General Harrison
was a man of cold temperament and
for that reason could not stimulate
any popular enthusiasm. l knew bet
ter. | had the best OF opportunities
for becoming intimately acquainted
with General Harrison. l knew him
well when he was a member of the
United, State Senate. | learned that
he was frequently misiudged. There
were superficial mannerisms and fire.
quently a lack of warmth which
caused men to judge him incorrectly.
He was at heart very kindly, man
of really tender disposition, not given
to instant condolences of friendship,
but singularly stanch in the friend
ships which he had established. More
over, although he was the target for
good deal of criticism and some abuse
after he became President and during
the campaign which followed his sec
ond nomination, in 1892, I never heard
him speak an unkind word of any OF
those who had treated him unfairly"
| was speaking of this conversation
to Mr.. Edward G.. Riggs, now associat-
ed in important executive capacity
with the management of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford fali-
road Company. Mr.. Riggs said:
"Senator Depew is absolutely correct
In his estimate of Benjamin Harrison.
knew him well. l met him many
times in the White House. have
the best OF reasons for knowing that
Harrison himself felt keenly that his
superficial mannerisms had caused SO
MANY people to misjudge him. | never
heard him speak of anyone excepting
with kindly or considerate words.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
wives Outlive Husbands.

From the New York Times.
Why are there twice as many
widows as widowers in the United
States?
Is it because widows are more re-
luctant than widowers to re-enter the
married state, or does it indicate that
the wife will outlive the husband?
These questions were raised in
statement dealing with national NOR
tally issued yesterday by the con-
servation department of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society. which con-
tinued
'1n 1910 there were S,176,22S widows
and but 1,471,S widowers in the
United States. The census shows the
astonishing fact that there were 10, 261
widows below the age of 20 and but
lilo widowers.
ITO what extent does the fact that
the average age of the husband is a
little higher than that of the wife
account for this?
"F'rom the age of 20 to "a there were
81, 1854 widows and but 1885 widowers
and the difference continues to a
marked degree throughout the older
age periods.
ITO every 100 widowers there were
264 widows IN 1890, 231 in 1900 and 21E
in 1910.
Such statistics as are available
show that the death rate of husbands
is higher than that of wives, and IL
is still higher among widowed males. y
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
GHOSTS STILL EXERCISED

old family ghost at Ionia, a planta-
ton belonging to the Riveses in the
Green Spring region, Louisa county,
Va. The guest goes to sleep He is
awakened. An old lady with a sweet
face stands with a lighted candle by
the bedside, puts the candle down,
then tucks the bedclotlnes tenderly
around the neck of the guest, takes
up the candle and glides through the
shut door or a wall. Not far from
Ionia is a house in which the ghost of
an old negro family servant rubs the
floor of the hall and dining room in
the early morning, and in a room
above, in broad daylight, rocking
chair will rock, although there is no
draught of air and no one ever ven
lures to sit in this chair. Only a few
weeks ago a girl, practical, Social
list and an ardent advocate of wom-
ans rights, assured us that in a his
toric house at Hadley she had heard
more than once someone singing old
songs, although she was alone The
voice was that of a woman and it
was sweet and melancholy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
$4,000 for Franklin Tract

Throwing it into auction at Put
ticks with a lengthy description,
he was rewarded with a bid of 10
guineas, Mr. Hotten beating the be-
lated British Museum at that price.
In the Hotten sale, 1872, the British
Museum lost it again at f22 los, and
ii eventually Joined the HUH library.
At the auction referred to the son
and namesake of the late Mr..
Stevens was ready. Remembering
tho price his father had originally
given he piously called, Half
crown" and Mr.. Hodge, the auc-
ticneer, courteously accepted it.
knowing the motive behind the call.
The next bid was the real start, $3.50
coming from Mr.. Quaritch's repre-
sentative. On went the duel between
him and Mr.. Stevens. With a big
effort the former reached E1,000.
Now, Mr.. Stevens, guineas?" said
Mr. Hodge.
mo, e. replied Mr.. Stevens, and
az the enormous sum of f1,005 the
more than sibylline survivor was his.
although Mr.. Hodge had playfully
suggested to his rival, Just beat
him by his family half crown"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
Distinguished Epileptics.
Al. n,,,bo xrorId HaroId

| From the Omaha world Herald.
Eugenists insist that epileptics
should not be permitted to marry, but
now come the doctors and historians
and declare that most of the men
of supreme genius the world has
known were epileptics. They produce
evidence to show that Napoleon,
Handel Paginini Mozart. Schiller,
Richeieu, Flaubert, julius Caesar,
Paul. Frederick the Great and Ma
homet were all epileptics. Talleyrand
tells of Napoleons fits.
They declare that the account that
Paul gives of his visit to Damascus
shows that he was an epileptlc
Suetonius says that Caesar had
fits. Max du Camp gives a long ae-
count of Flaubert's malady. DR.. Have
lock Ellis says a large proportion OF
British men of genius had at least
one parent that showed abnormalty
He declares that the character OF
Micawber was a correct account in
detail of the characteristics of Dick
ems father.
This discussion reminds one OF the
conversation of the old Quaker with
his wife when he remarked: Every
body is q little crazy except thee ana
me. and | sometimes think that thee
is a little queer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24

BY MARY
The wives of two of the rulers OF
Europe were born on Christmas Eve.
Elizabeth Amelie Eugene, wife of the
present Emperor of Austria, was born
in 1897. She was the daughter of a
Duke of Bavaria and was of excep-
tional beauty and intelligence. She
was noted as one of the most fearless
horsewomen Of Europe. Fifteen years
ago she was assassinated by an an
archist in Geneva. The Queen of
Denmark, Alexandria of Mecklen-
nurge- Schwerin, is thirty-four today.
She has two sons-the Crown Prince
Frederick, fourteen years old, and
Knud thirteen years old.
Besides these two royal women
there is Eliza Cook, the poet. to dis
tinguish Christmas Eve as a birth
day. She was born ninety-five years
ago, the youngest of eleven children,
of a London brasier. When she was
a little girl her father gave UP his
trade and bought a small farm in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
NEW NEWS OF. YESTERDAY


"A year or two before General Har-
risons death | had occasion, for bust
ness reasons, to spend two weeks in
Indianapolis. A friend had intro
duced me at the leading club of that
city. One evening about 1920 ! went
into the club and | discovered in the
reading room the ex-president sitting
alone in one corner. I thought he
seemed depressed and lonesome. When
he saw me his face lighted up in the
manner which delighted those who
were his intimate friends. for the ex-
preston always revealed the cor
diality and kindly sentiment which
were at the bottom of his. nature.
He asked me to sit with him and we
sat and smoked; I a great deal, he a
very little. He began to chat with
me \reminiscently. He spoke to me
of the men who were prominent in
public life when he was in the Sem
ate or when he was President. There
was not an expression of his which
lacked kindly spirit, although some
of those of whom he spoke had been
almost vindictive in their treatment
of him. At last he said to me: Mr..
Riggs, one of the saddest, if not ac-
tually the saddest, consequences of
service as President of the United
oNAit1C
loneliness. | suppose that is due to
his realization of his responsibilities.
| believe it to be true that every
President of the United States was
really lonely man. This does not
end with his departure from the
White House. A man who has been
president continues to be lonely Men
treat him with respect. They point
him out to strangers; but he stands
apart and must so stand until he has
passed on
1.-THE ex-President spoke with a
touch of sadness In his voice. I
could see that he was lonesome.
Once only as he sat chatting there
did any one come to him with a cor
dial greeting. Yet. he was beloved,
admired and his reputation was cher
ished in that club; but he had been
President of the United States. That
set him apart"
Copyright. 1913, by e. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
DECEMBER "a
Elizabeth Aneie Eugene
Copyrighted.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Copyrighted. 1913.

MARSHALL.
the country, where he felt he could
better bring up his large family.
Eliza, as may be imagined, had little
advantages save those she managed
to get herself, and her education was
entirely the result of her own ef-
forts. At fifteen she began to write.
Her most famous poem, 1.-THE OLD
Arm Chair" was written in honor OF
her mother, and it will probably al
ways stand out as one of the most
popular of homely poems in the Ian
guage. At the time that this and
other poems were published in New
York. she did not sign them. In
fact, 1t was considered unbecoming
fer a woman writer to make known
her identity without protest IN those
days. At length, however, her ad-
mirers grew persistent, and after re-
peated requests through the columns
of the paper she announced herself
the author. Later she published
magazine of her own, known as
"Eliza Cooks Journal"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
Opening Up East Africa


From the Railway Age Gazette.
An event of great economic impor-
lance will be realized early in 1914 by
completion of the Central railway in
German East Africa. Construction
was begun in 1904 and completed to
Tabora. $50 miles from the seaboard
terminal, in February, 1912. The rail-
road, when completed, will extend 7S6
miles-from Daressalam, on the In
dian Ocean, to Kigoma, ON Lake
Tanganyil1a. The line divides the
German colony into two equal areas,
thus making a trunk system from
which branches may be built over a
great part of the colony. A vast and
productive region is thus opened for
establishing plantations. 1t will also
become the outlet for the broad him
terland, in which lies Lake Tangan-
yika, with its 400-mile stretch of nav
igable waters, tributary to which is
a rich commercial region in the heart
of Africa. Along the extensive shore
Of this lake products will be gathered
and distributed by a fleet of ships CO.
operating with the railway. German
East Africa, with its area of 1884. 900
square miles and population of TO-
900, GOO is certain to respond to the
economic advantages created by the
completion of the Central railway.
Great areas of wild land will be
brought into modern cultivation, in
which large capital will be invested,
new mineral regions and forest areas
will be exploited and public highways
will be extended.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
CHRISTMAS AND GIFT-GIVING.

THE CHRISTMAS festival is dear to the people of the
United States cherished of all the holidays OF the
and brings together bond of sympathy all classes
and conditions life the young and the old the rich and the
and people all creeds and 1t the most firmly estab
shed institution civilization for it rooted in the hearts of
the people be dislodged
idea of the of this precious of the popular
Festivals regarding its temporal character be had from
the the parcel post and companies
and this only fraction of the total Millions spent that
the parcel post and ship
ments wealth transmitted by mail sent abroad 1t
interesting know the true figure of total cost to the
country of this And it worth nation all that
1T
that there is extravaganza IN Christmas gift giving
that money spent this way needed for necessares
But moralze this lose sight of the
GOOD influence the the lives OF people Whatever
calls out the thoughts and kindly impulses that nclines
people happy that prompts personal sacrifices Of
value beyond estimate like proclamation of the spirit
Of Christmas dscouagng abandoning the custom of
gifts
Tomorrow millions of homes Christmas will be supreme
and the millions childhood will be happy in the day
they had forward with ancpaons, while the
elders will be happy the pleasures of the children And who
MOULD rob childhood of its gifts? Would Danish Santa Claus