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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
ENTERPRISTNG BARRISTER
GETS 100000 FOR A SHEER

An English barrister was once en-
gagged in a nautical case. in which it
appeared that a vessel had been ex-
posed to a very severe gale of wind
and had been thrown upon her beam
ends The barrister. ignorant of nau-
tical matters. asked a seaman who
was in the witness box how it was
they did not lower the topmast, upon
which the witness said. with a sheer:
IF you knew as much of the sea
as l do you would know that this Is
not a very easy matter"
This incident led the counsel to
turn his attention to the subject.
and he invented an apparatus for
lowering topmasts. for which he OBJ
tanned a patent and realized thereby
upward of 100000 by his invention
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30

"'"Well," he said, you recollect
that patent you got for me-.
Yes" I said, 81 remember It
very we'll"
And how you told me it was
perfectly worthless?"
'"Well," he went on, you con-
WINGED me that it was worthless; but
you didn't convince me that l didn't
want it. / took 1t out, sold it to
man in Illinois for $4,000, and with the
money bought drug store. The drug
store prospered. and became
wholesaler. Then l set up in the
patent medicine business, and now
I'm worth half million dollars. My
friend. you made my fortune, and I'm
here to thank you for what you've
done for me-"
"'"Oh," he replied, "he was the
sucker. You thought / was, but you
were wrong"
Now continued the patent ex.
pert, that story represents the com.
monest and most effective way Of
making money out OF patents. It
may be knocking my own game, but
It's the truth
Il have watched the romance and
the tragedy of the patent office for
number of years-and the place ID
full of both--with the result that
fully concur in this advice. Don't
take very seriously any advice that
your device has fortune in it."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
STORY OF PANAMA
Learn One Thing Every Day"
NO. 5. ABANDONED FRENCH EQUIPMENT
Copyright 1913 by Newspaper School, Inc.

! sive De Lesseps, toiled for years un-
der conditions so frightful that the
human sacrifice was unparalleled in
the history of engineering. Yellow fe-
yer and other tropical diseases, con-
stantly prevalent over the entire
isthmuS claimed a human toll SO
great that nothing short of herolsm
could have prompted continuance
of the work Day after day the re-
naming workers would have first to
bury those who had fallen victim to
the fever before resuming their work
on the canal.
How long human endurance would
have held out against the frightful
death rate will never be known, for
salvation came at last to the few who
had not fallen victims to one or an
other of the tropical fevers. De Les
seps's company went bankrupt.
Well might these cars, so closely as
ISOLATED with the tragic deaths of the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30

CANDIDATES FOR the New Jersey Legislature at the
primaries polls fall will have face the woman su
frage The proposed constitutional amendment by
this years Legislature again in next years and
will then be submitted to popular
in that referendum will give New Jersey the
right congressman and the of the ticket
The State organization of suragsts has started
clubs all New Jersey with the special object of
putting legislators record but probably few will
dodge Voting put up amendment the people quite
different from voting for suffrage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30

RIOT far from the Atlantic en-
IN trance to the Panama Canal
is a huge pile of old French
dirt cars, abandoned by the Ameri-
cans as unfit for the great under
taking started by them in 1905. Piled
high, one upon the, other this mass
of rusty and misshapen iron stands
as a monument to the heroic but
hopeless effort of the French, headed
by the impractical Ferdinand de
Lesseps, to achieve fame by uniting
the Atlantic and Pacific with a sea
level canal across the Isthmus of
Panama.
1t was the dream of Ferdinand de
Lesseps, after his triumphal compile
ton of the Suez Canal, to undertake
the construction of a canal across
Panama. Financed by the French
Government, together with large pri-
vate subscriptions. De Lesseps. the
dreamer, began work on the isthmus
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30

in 1879 Shipload after shipload of
equipment was sent to Panama,
while thousands of men left France
to take up the task of digging a
great channel across the isthmus.
De Lesseps' plan was sea level
canal, with no locks or dams. The
tiny dirt cars OF the French held
scarcely a cubic yard of material
They were expected to remove all
the dirt taken from the canal, which,
according to their plan, would de-
mand the entire channel to be dug
sixty feet lower than the American
plan required. Had all the French
dirt cars on the isthmus been in
daily use constantly since 1880 they
could not have removed the earth re-
ouIre to make a channel deep enough
to unite the oceans in a hundred
years.
Utterly hopeless as the undertaking
was, thousands of French laborers
led by the impracticable and impul-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30

French canal workers. have been used
as collins. AS the sun sets behind the
huge pile of old equipment 1t casts its
shadow over the graves of $4,000 men,
sacrificed In the impractical under
taking. What irony, that this great
pile of abandoned cars, oyergrown
with tropical vegetation, should mark
the resting place of those whose last
days were spent in vain attempt to
prevent the cars from being aban-
doned as junk.
Every day a different human inter
est story will appear in the Evening
Star. You can get beautiful intaglo
reproduction Of the above picture,
with Ave others, equally attractive,
7xeiA inches In size. with this weeks
Mentor" In THE Mentor" a we'll
known authority lovers the subject
of the pictures and stories OF the
week, Readers of the Evening Star
and The Mentor" will know Art.
Literature. History, Science, and
Travel, and own exquisite pictures.
On sale at the Newark Star office,
Branford place, and P. F. Mulligan,
927 Broad street. Price, ten cents.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
Electing a Senator by Mail

The adoption of the seventeenth
viding for the direct election of sena-
tors by the people, is likely to change
the personnel of the Senate, as pri-
maries affected the House. The old
type of personal leadership, prominent
at conventions and expert in direct
ing public opinion and enthusiasm.
is doomed and will soon be as exc
tinct as the dodo.
The new order of things DEGREES
that the senators must be chosen in
the silent political cloister of the pri-
mary. The canvass in the campaign
for the primary has been greatly i'm
proved by the facility for scattering
literature over the country through
the rural free delivery routes. 1t is
not necessary to go to little meetings
and hear questions discussed and
argued as in the old pioneer days.
The festive and frequent circular tells
the whole story, and the senatorial
timber of the future will depend on
the campaigning qualities of the
newer elections by mail method.
rather than on the old and impress
sive leadership in gatherings of men,
the action of delegates under the en-
thusiasm of party platform, and
thrilling personal debate and discuss
sion, as in Che days of Lincoln and
Douglas. Get the circular and fol-
low-up system started, and keep the
rubber stamp busy. and a. senator 10
created He does not have to appear
in person-others can write his cam.
paign circulars-but he must appear
in person to be sworn in. That much
of the old method remains.-National
Magazine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
RACE TRACKS AND ORAL BETTING.

ORAL BETTING privately horse race is an innocent
act 1t under the laws of New Jersey
The Belmont opened today meeting and
oral bets will made without objection Monmouth Park
Jersey closed after the adoption close and doubt
full the soealed antgambng amendment In its heyday
the most prominent racing track in the
The park up building lots and under the State
laws it will be impossible track be maintained The
adoption the of noble
sport Gutenberg Gloucester and Clifton
that which New York has would shut places
enable the Monmouth Park Association
exhibitions of the booded American horse European
place restrictions tracks. In England
royalty the France is society function
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
Gossip Of the Ioi!efs

The federation Industrial board Of
Australia, has decided that no EN-
ployer dare forbid his employees
wearing the trade unions badges.
The trammen of Brisbane have Just
emerged successfully from strike
over this point
The Musicians Union in Victoria.
Australia, has decided to maintain
the entrance examination for new
members, but members of foreign
trade unions will be recognized when
they do not stay longer than month
in the country. Otherwise the latter
must also undertake the examina-
tions.
Contrary to the avowed policy of
the American Federation of Labor for
a closer affiliation of allied crafts, the
Internationa Union of Steam and
Operating Engineers has declared that
it will not cooperate or take common
action with the International Associo-
ton of Stationary Firemen.
Total disability in Massachusetts is
met by the payment OF half wages
for a period of 500 weeks; in Kansas,
half wages for no more than ten
years: in Illinois, weekly payments
UP to 49, 500 in the aggregate, and in
California, not more than three
years wages in weekly sums, rang
ing between $641 and $92.05 For par
tial disability. Massachusetts allows
| half wages for not more than 300
weeks; Kansas allows from % to so
per cent. of the weekly earnings up
| to ten years; Illinois allows half
wages for no more than eight years
| California allows Go per cent. of the
usual wages for a period not exceed
| ing three years. Ohio adds, where
death occurs, $3.50 funeral expenses
to the payments of SUNG varying from
81. 500 to $1,000. Men who are perma-
nently disabled receive from IS to
S12 a week so long as they live. y
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
THE NEW JURY LAW NOW IN OPERATION.

THE STATE has new jury law, by the signing of
the Fielder act that really drastic than of the other
proposed 1t eectuay safeguards the
drawing jury without proposed placing the whole
hands of the through commission appointed
Judge system vogue provides for the sheriff
up citizens be handed the Supreme
who will than weeks TO examine it.
He strike off and all and may be
by the sheriff and after forty egbes
have been accepted draw jury from he whole
call a deal The court has had
makes absolute There
has been opposition this The opposition to the
pontmen grand Judge proposition that
wipng of the grand jury system Phe prediction
the law in operation will remain
unchanged
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
Savings of Today.

He who hesitates is bossed.-Mark
Prentiss.
Never put off till tomorrow those
Won can do today.-Charles Leedy.
The easiest thing in the world to
do is to make up your mind what
YOU would do If you We're in some
other fellows place.-W. M. Wood.
Scientific formula will never take
the place of holding hands in the
moonlight as mode of mating, and
the superlative idocy of lovers will be
always blessed. doctor Crane.
Many a man thinks he's got a high
strung and sensitive nature when he's
only got yspepsia.-Estelle Klauder.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
SINGULAR PUNISHMENTS
I'M OLD NEW ENGLAND

The following extracts from early
records give us a glimpse of some of
the singular punishments in vogue in
old New England:
In 1889 Dorothy Brown, for beating
her husband, is ordered to he bound
and chained to a post"
In 1913 the assistants order three
Stoneham men to sit in the stocks on
lecture day for travelling on the Sab
bath"
In 1861 Anna, wife of George Ellis,
was sentenced TO be publicly whipped
for reproachipg the magistrates"
I'm 1858, for slandering the elders.
she had q cleft stick put on her
tongue for half an hour"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
Mo Wonder He Was Angry.

The previously accepted lover was
Infatuated when one evening he called
on "the only girl' and was informed
by her that their engagement was at
an end.
"If you insist. Grace Cheever, on
breaking off our engagement, I will
publish in the Oakdale Times the let
ters you have written me-"
las you please" she replied indif-
ferently. toying with her bracelet.
"There is nothing about those letters
I need be ashamed of-except the ad-
dress '-Lippincott's.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
A Question of Etiquette.

The horse and the COW is in the
field,'" read the teacher. Mary
what is wrong with that sentence?"
Mary was evidently more versed In
the rules of politeness than in the
rules of grammar, for she answered
promptly:
1.-The lady should be mentioned
first.'-Youth's Companion.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
Quite Naturally.

A teacher in a.nearby town is noted
for his patriotic fervor. One day in
class, while in particularly uplifted
mood, he turned to one of his pupils,
an average boy Of ~.
Now, Tommy" said he, tell us
what you would think if you saw the
Stars and Stripes waving proudly
over the field in battle"
II should think" replied Tommy
that the wind was blowing John
Marshall School News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
OUR JERSEY STRAWBERRY.

SOUTH JERSEY strawberries have taken the place in
Southern and Delaware berries and the change
The berries that refrigerator from
South unrpe rule unpalaabe but there is
question about the Jersey berry which always fragrant and
grown anywhere compare with the
splendid varieties that rpen later the in the suburbs of
Newark product being sold large
no in the metropolis
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
A Significant Motto.

Genealogical Sharper-Well, madam,
what can l do for you?
Mrs. De Billions-I wish to consult
with you about a coat of arms for our
family. What do you think would be
a good motto?
What is your husbands business
HE was pork butcher-but he
had royal warriors among his ances-
tors"
How would you like The Pen Is
Mightier Than the Sword?' New
York Press.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
In the Land of
Tokedon
Something New.

ut may be trite and commonplace.
though fitting. to quote the we'll
known Wordsworthian couplet that
the Lives of great men all remand US
how TO make our lives sublime. -
Hamilton Advertiser.
No. no: these Wordsworthian COUP
let's are always fresh to us.-London
Punch.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
What He Did.

Between dances-or dances" rather
there was a great discussion yester-
dav afternoon. A young woman
ayerred that the ragtime composer
was the guy who put the tang in
tango, while her partner insisted that
the syncope writer was responsible
for the go therein.-Nek York Mail.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
n OURSCORE al

above power to add or detract. The world will little
note nor long remember what say here, but it
never forget what they did here 1t is for the living
rather to dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far noby advanced
rather for to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before u.s. that from these honored dead
take devotion to that for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion; that here highly
resolve that these dead shall have died in vain that
this nation under God shall have birth of freedom
that of the people by the people, and for
the people, shall not perish from the earth
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
They Can't Miss Him.

He is described as a man possess
six feet seven inches in weight. 1t is
thought that he will probably visit
Calcutta and the police have been
directed to be on the lookout
Empire
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30

STRETCH of public road in Mercer county repaired by
convict labor $96 The State road commissioner
could have been done for 5000 by private
The showing dscouragng for the plan of utilizing
convict labor for road building is possible that this labor
organized produce satisfactory and economical
but the experiment made would show that under
management the State will lose money every job
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30

war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can
long endure We are met on great bat
tlefeld of that war. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as final
resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might i've
1t is altogether fitting and proper that
we should do this but in a large sense
we cannot dedicate, we cannot conse-
crate, we cannot haliow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it far
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
THE MAYOR STICKS TO HIS GUNS.

MAYOR HAUSSLING remained firm in his judgment that
wood good material for paving horoughare like
Broad and consistent with that belief he vetoed the
Works ordinances that yesterday his
Experience show whether the right
wrong his belief but he will be accorded the credit
BDwaverng adherence what he conscenousy believed
be MS duty mayor
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
Getting His Bearings

woodchopper-I seen a lot O. bear
tracks bout a. mile north o. here
big ones, too
Hunter Good Which way is
south? Chicago Daily News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
FAMOUS ADDRESS BY
LINCOLN APPEALS TO
ALL TRUE AMERICANS

Editors NoThis famous address: delivered by Abraham
dedication Of Gettysburg battlefield, appeals to
be
out
n OURSCORE and years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent nation, conceived in
liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
are created equal Now engaged in great civil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-09

plcc passvity He saw that her gray eyes were star
ing into his with a strange expression OF wonder and
ainaZcmcnt.
"You-Rann?" was all she said
He started TO draw her toward the shore. \ vast
SWELL breaking far out rolled them together and
they were all but broken apart. When they up
right again he looked at her with swift apprehension and
thanked his stars that she had retained both the strength
and the presence of mind hold her breath and prevent
the water from rushing into her lungs.
Again he started to draw her toward the shore AS
the swcls lifted them ne could the old people Of the
party running dstactedly along the white strip OF beach
beside the rivers mouth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-09

CLOWLY Ram AliXter tolled up the gIaii'e NM y.
- Mission POINT. Hallway to the top Delta Looms
slipped from his arms insisted trying to walk atd
and permitted him to support her, staggering io' VIC
rest Of the journey. -. HMM,
\ few minutes later attracted by the isl' 9 Pun.
from, the ,abin window the scarchers troopng IN
upon them fire roarcd in the old stove in the corner
and a haiempty brandy bottle stood on the 'ao' '''
side the typewriter. ,
Did Samson get out? inquired Kann ailNi0uS :r
LOOMS. .,..i.,.
The girl her face white from the stress OF hGr adIt
ture her gray eyes grown big and round like those T
man turned and gently touched the damp golden heaa
as it dropped toward him. L., .he
And the heroine always takes the man who does INC
big thing. regardless" chanted the mschlevouS Mary
Pike. "a IL. go, ,,over
be a hero He may create them; but that all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-09

gripping the sill above him. staring out ~ the shifting
waters But hereafter that inspiring view would be- cut
of He would continue 20 DO his writing ~ the Dapin-
and he would miss that view. Her bungalow. no, ne
would never have built II for himself alone.
I'll burn the thing 20 The ground II he told
himself sayagcly
Blu, he stopped short at the III for ais dream was
no, vet spoiled Since Harold Samson, dc'tan'e son 81
rh san Francisco family, had come :" Cypress as he
declared "to paint the river She appears 10 every
phase 81 the moon and al every hour OF Oh, "eniF,olr
Ram felt that Delta had been slipping away from hi'n
Tomorrow, perhaps
It's the hero that romantic rather than the creator
Of the hero De- mu''crcl. sand u" matter ho" sensible
qir u.s. when She meets real hero, or one that looks
and prctends the hero lie paused, shaking his head
"pshaw" hc began again I'm 90 blame myself and
other writers who are always painting our heroes IKE
Harold Samson. Why shouldn't hero look Ike my sell
now. lust for q change, Perhaps don't measure
enough across the shoulders face IS too thin ! ~
thrty-two instead Of twcn,yiour There are our s"-
rics and when the women the prototypes u our men
IN flesh and blood, how IAN Wc expect No, oouIdh
blame Delta # II weren't Tor his boas'ng
THE skf reached the opposite bank in safety To
L Ram Nptcr. kccnly conscious 81 the uncertain
state Of the river II seemed tina, Harold Samson ana
Delta LOOMS consumed an unnecessarily long time IN
loading the boxes Of lunch the coffee pot and the water
Jug into the boat When the man again took up the
oars the sun hung a ball OF Smodcung ire Just above
the ever deepening, widening fracture IN the uNcr
mouth The shovel men gone now: Their work
was done. From where ne stood Ram could see huge
Jumps Of sand falling after another into tho under
i,u