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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08

Japan, on the other hand, was
never invaded in its history; its
blood was never intermingled and it's
stock was allowed to remain pure.
It's national character was developed
without outside influence. The Shinto
religion of the empire has as it's
cardinal principles purity of body,
spirit and environment. Japan was
not exposed to the scourges and
plaques that Korea's dirt and fifth
brought upon it. The feudal system
sprang up in Japan, causing authority
to be respected and discipline to be
developed.
I'm 1910. Japan annexed Korea.
Prior to that time as many deaths as
nine hundred day had occurred in
Seoul alone; shortly afterwards not
as many people died from the plague
in the whole kingdom in one year.
Japan foreibly yaccnated 5000, 900
people in one year Courts were es-
tablished, giving authority to thirteen
thousand gendarmes. Hundreds of
miles of roads are being built. At
forestation on AN extensive scale is
being carried on. TO encourage the
silltWorm industry 1900, 900 mulberry
tree seedlings were set out in one
year. State and private banks We're
established. The postal savings was
installed and one in every six fami-
lies has a savings account. The peo-
pie, at first suspicious, have learned
that they will get their money back
whenever they ask for it. In the
first year after the Japanese oc-
cupancy the rice crop was doubled
and the wheat and barley crops grew
from 100000 to 36,000000 bushels.
The Japanese have built a model viii
lage in every province and are en-
couraging the people to build similar
villages throughout the kingdom"
Mr.. KEENAN, points out that Korea
has the same geographical advan-
tages as great part of the eastern
part of the United States. at is
| Just as well fitted to be the home of
| healthy, prosperous and happy peo-
rle," he says. at is located similarly
to the territory bordering on the At
iantic coast, from Portland. Me-, to
! Charleston, S. c., and extending in
ward to Albany, N Y, Harrisburg,
Pa. Lynchburgh, Va, and Columbia,
| s. G.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08

Broadway has a real farm. 1t is
near enough to the centre of the city
to make the five-acre parcel worth
S27S.QO the most valuable piece of
farm land in the world!
1t is located on the very ground
where Washington army made its
first stand against the British on
Manhattan Island, at the junction of
Broadway and Nagel avenue, at the
upper end OF the island. Broadway
surface cars pass the door and the
subway is easy of access.
Mrs. Adolph Zerrenner, born in
Brooklyn sixty nine years ago, mother
of family of thirteen and widow of a
Civil War veteran, runs the farm.
Two grown sons and one grandson,
typical farmers boys, are on the job,
and it is doubtful If they ever ven
tured SO far away from home as the
car that passes their door could
transport them.
There Is no middleman in their bust
ness. They do not go to market.
There is quite enough business for
them in their immediate neighbor-
hood. The neighboring grocers come
to the farm to market every morning.
They do not keep any books and can
only guess at the relative profits on
their crops. These are cultivated to
the limit. There Is something doing
the whole year around.
The farmers wife Is of a family OF
tillers of the soil who have operated
right in New York city for nearly a
century Mrs. Zerrenner remembers
when she was a little girl her father,
Nicholas Won Claim had a farm, only
ffty-four years ago, located in what
is now the heart of Manhattan.
1t might be asked how Mrs. Zerren-
ner is able to maintain a farm on such
valuable ground?
II the annual rental was fixed ia
cover taxes, it would be a fraction
| over S5035 annually. And what
| farmer could afford such a rent billi
| Mrs. Zerenner is able to maintain
| a farm on these gilt-edged city lots
| because she only has to pay, in cash
something like $135 year, which is
distributed among some of the various
plot owners; to others she gets hei
' rent for keeping the sidewalks fret
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Senator's Opinion of His Fellows OratOrcaI Powers

About a week before the retirement
from the United states Senate of
William w. Eaton, of Connecticut, in
the spring of 1881. passed an hour
or two with him in reminiscent and
kindly chat relating to his experience
with Senators OF distinction who were
his colleagues in the single term dur
ing which he served.
The conversation d1'ifted to the sub
jeet of public speaking, and l said to
senator Eaton that I knew he great
ly admired Senator Roscoe Conkling' S
brilliant gifts as an orator. The
Senator said that he had once had a
conversation of considerable length
with Conl1ling at a time when the
latter was in a mood to chat about
some of his experiences in the Sen
ate.
| think. from something the Senator
said that he was disposed to regard
with high favor Senator Matt Car
penter, fEWisconsin. as an orator.
Senator Eaton said to me that it
was a little singular that several
men who gained great reputation.
and deserved it, as orators, were ed
ucated at the West Point Military
Academy. There is he said, mo
classical education, as we understand
the term. at West Point; vet some of
the great students of oratory have
insisted that no man is so perfectly
trained as to make success as an
orator possible, IL he have the other
qualifications, unless he has learned
the classics and keeps UP daily as
ISOLATION with them
He spoke of Senator Carpenter 8
beautiful voice and of the peculiar
melodious quality which was in it
that never degenerated into sing song
or monotony. He told me that Sena-
tor Carpenter was we'll equipped
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08

physically for triumph as an orator
and that he always listened to the
Senator's speeches with admiration
because his diction was mastery.
He told me that he regarded Sen
ator Thurman as q more telling
speaker from some points of view,
than he would have been had he pos
sessed oratorical charm. There was
always the note of sincerity in Thur
mans speeches He was never OBJ
scure. His words reflected his clear
ness of thinking. | don't think Sen
ator Eaton cared much about any of
the orators upon the Republican side
of the House. | mean by that men
who had gained regulations for bril-
liant oratorical gifts
] asked him II he read the class
les, and he told me that he rare
ly turned to them, excepting that
he now and then read some of the
great English dramatists and writer's.
He had never consciously formulated
a style. He had tried to obtain mas
terry over his voice so that he could,
by reason of infection, convey his
meaning. He told me that he had
discovered that if a speaker took care
of his consOnants the novels would
take care of themselves.
He summed it ali up by saying that
If he had gained any success as a
speaker it was chiefly due to one
principle, from which he never devi-
ated. Not at any time had he spoken
in violation of his sincere conyic-
tions. Not one Of his speeches re-
fiected anything but sincerity of pur-
pose, and he declared very earnestly
that he had long ago come to the
conclusion that the first qualflca-
ton for the. oratory which is to con-
vince is that it must represent and
voice absolute sincerity of thought.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
\ CITY BEDEvILED WITH POLITICS.

There will be battle royal in the Jersey City
election for commissioner in June between the fac
tons for control of the commission majority. The
Wittpenn faction has secured the support of the
political chameleon, George L. Record, who may hope
TO get back his job of corporation counsel from which
he ousted by Wittpenn, when elected mayor
Meantime Record is going to the courts to GER
tiorari the recent appointments made by the COM
mission There is never any lack either of politics
litigation in the Jersey City government and there
enough ahead to last until the fall campaign begins
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08

step in one of the most far-reaching
improvements ever undertaken by
Philadelphia" There has been en-
tered into by that city and a number
OF railroads contract generally
called the South Philadelphia agree
ment" which win result in the aboli-
tion of a number of grade crossings.
characterized as insuperable obstacles
to the city's extension In one direc-
ton. The agreement calls for much
more than the abolition of grade
crossings, but this feature of the
agreement is interesting to Washing
ton-one of the first great American
cities TO make a successful fight
against steam railroad tracks along
and across city streets.
washington is always glad when
another city releases itself from the
grade crossing evil. Philadelphia
probably has not suffered as much
from this evil as have many other
cities, for when Washington was in
the throe5 of its campaign against
the railroads here Philadelphia was
pointed to as an eXamtle of how
railroads could eliminate grade cross
ings If they wanted to and the BEN
efits which such elimination conferred
upon a city. When many of Wash
ington's streets and avenues and a
large acreage of federal parkland
were given over to railroad tracks
and freight yards. Philadelphia had
been already freed as the result OF
millions OF railroad expenditure of
many of the grade crossings. Wash
ington is always glad when a city
gets rid of a grade crossing because
she feels that it may be one of the re-
suits of the great crusade on which
this city entered more than a genera
ton ago, and which crusade, after
years of warfare, resulted in streets
and parks being freed from steam
tracks and which also resulted in the
erection of one of the imposing rail-
road stations of the world.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Origin of Bucketshop

Frank Harris's new play, THE
Bucket Shop sets correspondent
asking for the derivation of this
phrase. 1t arose in Chicago. when the
market authority forbade any dealing
in options of less than 5000 bushels
of grain, says the London Chronicle.
To catch the man of small means an
"Open Board of Trade" as it called
itself, began business in rooms di-
rectly under the offices of the regular
authority. When business was slack
in the official rooms a member would
sometimes refer to the small specu-
lators down below with the remark /:
III send down and get a bucketful, y
and this small market jest gradually
resulted in the application of &the
ers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
A Work-a=Day Hero

Only the other day great steel
beam was being brought up to a giddy
height by hosting apparatus. AS it
passed a girder on which several men
were at work the beam turned just
enough to push one of them off, says
Harpers' Weekly. The man seized the
beam and was swung far over the
street. His weight gradually moved
down the end of the girder to which
he chung, and in a few moments he
would have been thrown off, when a
fellow workman sprang for the other
end, thus balancing il, and together
they were lowered to the ground.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08

, the wounded and sick soldiers of the
confederacy Her later novels, which
are still read to some extent. and
which met with enormous success at
the time of their publication, are st
Elmo" "Infelice' and "Vashtin
Unlike many other successful writ
ers of this country Augusta Evans
admitted the fact that writing with
hei, was q laborious task. She wrote
slowly and spent much time after the
writing of the first draft in polishing
and revising. Miss Evans was thirty
two when she married her husband
Mr. Wilson.
Another celebrated woman born on
Nav 8 is Madame Blavetsky, or
Helena Petrovina Hahn Hahn. as she
is sometimes called. She was born in
southern Russia eighty-three years
ago today Her remarkable ideas of
spiritualism and oecultism she de
rived from a journey in Tibet in 1875
Coming to America not long after
ward she found a kindred spirit in
Ii. s. Olcott, with whom she founded
the Philosophical Society. Later she
went to India and established a
branch of the same society at Bonn
bay. She did probably more than any
one else to popularize the philosophy
of the Buddhist religion throughout
Europe and America.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
least 2.O00.O COO speetators VIII

funeral cortege and at least 100000 spectators will
uncover as it passes
This is one of the spectaces that thrill people In
the long days our great Civil War scenes like this
were witnessed in all cities Then followed the bring
ing home of the wounded to be cared for in hospitals
The nation got used to battle slaughter Most of the
dead found graves on the battefelds, for as
proceeded transportation of bodies became impossible
If there shall be prolonged in Mexico dead
will find nterment in Mexican SOIL where the bones of
the killed in the armies of Scott and Taylor in 1916
now rest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
ReUenSe

I've quir a-goin' to Sunday school
I'm goin to be as bad
AS Captain Kidd or Nero was,
Or Jimmy Meyers dad.
I'm goin' TO be SO awful mean
I'm sure to go to h,
And when see the devil, then
I'll go TO him an tell
How that oil man what catches dogs
Came by our house one day
An coaxed Sport right into his net
An then drug him away.
An then I'll say, Good devil, please, -
I've come down here to work,
I'm just as strong as any man,
An | will never shirk,
If you'll just let me tend the fire
An keep it good an hot
Wher you have put that wicked man
Who took away old Sport
Human Re
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Is He Safer?

Bill-It is said that. SCATTERING all
traditions, the young king of Siam
will have only one wife, instead of
660 which his father had.
Jill-He doesn't believe. evidently,
there's safety in numbers.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
HoNoRs To rHE NATIoN,s pEAp.

The funeral honors to be paid in Manhattan
Monday to the bueaekets and marines killed in the
taking of Vera Cruz will be national and it is proper
that this tribute should be paid in the chief city of
the nation. The splendid thoroughfare of Broadway
will be draped from end to end as a setting for the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Move Forward.

Patience - This paper says that
women are employed as car conduc-
tors in the cities of Chile
Patrice-"Well, men like to hear
women say move up "-Yonkers
Statesman
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
How 1t Worked,

Madge-Have you really found that
absence makes the heart grow fonder :?
Marjorie-Indeed l have, Since
Charlie went away I've learned to
love Jack ever so much more.-Lip-
pincott's.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Slow Dying Baiks strike Planned by
Coffin-makers,

NEW YORK, May S.-There has
been SO little dying of late that the
recently organized Coffin Makers
Union of Greater New York has de-
cided not to order a strike unless the
mortality rate takes a jump. With
the health rate of the city away up
and the death rate correspondingly
low, the executive committee of the
union. decided that this was not an
opportune time for the proposed
wall1out, so the unions demands
have been sidetracked for while.
The union wanted higher wages per
coffin and a shorter per coffin work
day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Never Mind the Expense.

Redd-I see horse-hair automobile
tires have been patented by French
inventor.
Greene-They won't do for the New
riches. Nothing but camel's hail
tires will suit them.-Yonkers States
man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Empty Bean.

you can't educate brains into q
numbskull."
Il know; but do you think it really
hurts to drop a bit of education in
where the brains ought to be?"-Chi-
cago Record Herald.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
The farmers Friend.

The crow may be a friend to me;
That he'll have to prove,
l have a lot of friends, you see,
That I'm suspicious of.
Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Distressing Waste.

Jock-You'Ve won the first prize in
The rattle. and ySS ya're miserable.
Sandy-Yes; Il we're jist ma luck
buying two tickets when one wad ma ;
done. 1t We're just saxpence wasted
Tit Bits.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS


Fixed Modes for Long Life.
BALTIMORE. Md, May s.-Mrs
Anna Poudor, who celebrated her
107th birthday at her home here yes
terday, does not believe that diets
and fixed modes of living are a help
10 longevity. She says she has lived
and eaten as she pleased all her
life. The disposition to make the
best of what comes" she AYERS, is
what makes life worth living at seven
years past the century mark. Mrs.
Poudor was born near London, Eng
land. She has no living relatives
that she knows of and all her friends
of younger days are dead.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Real Farm Upon Broadway

from ice and snow in the winter, and
clear of weeds and leaves in the sum
mer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Cyclone Hurts Horse Into Tree Top;
Rescued When Tree Is Cut Down.

DANVILLE. Ills, May S.-5-A ey-
clone that appeared suddenly last
evening and disappeared after go
ing but a short distance flung u
horse into q tree-top and tore down
several farm buildings. 1t was neg
essary to cut the tree down to res
cue the horse.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Industrial Peace in New England.

From the Manchester Union.
= it is peculiarly gratifying TO every
one in any way connected with New
England, whether by birth or other
wise. that the first OF May found the
fntire region busy and without q
labor controversy of any importance
anywhere within its borders. In its
Factories, shops. on its railroads there
was no organized contention, and ap-
sparently there was general satisfac-
lion and contentment 1t is ire
mendously significant fact. Labor or
CARNATIONS are as strong and inhu-
Genital in New England as they ever
-Nere. Industry and the investment
pf capital have greatly increased in
recent years, and yet there is peace
between capital and labor. and this
without arrogance on the one hand
br supincness on the other. Labor is
self-respecting in New England and
fapital is cousiderate. That is the
cOnly logical conclusion from a knowl-
stdgo OF the general facts. and this
specially significant fact of harmony
nand peace on the once universally
tireaded first of May.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
x Aliens Add to Our Wealth.

from the Chicago Iribune
During the year 1918 there entered
the United States SS7, 495 alien men
who had been either farmers or farm
Z la borers in the old world, according
10, a writer in the Country Gentle
ssnan. Only two per cent. Of these
fneti went TO work on farms here.
The rest crowded into our already
bvercrowded cities
They did not go on farms where
esabor is greatly needed and where
tsv:iaes, on the whole. average up as
s.ood ms In industry, because the pos
AiUilitios IN agriculture have been
@craWde4 out of their vision. The
-gostrnnesIL does n0t take the initia-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
Grade Crossings Passing

From the Washington Star.
There is no siaekening of public
opinion in the matter of grade cross
ings. On the contrary, public opin-
ion becomes more and more pro-
nounced in opposition. In the local
news appeared the statement that
the town of Hyattsville won a vic
tory over the Washington, Westmin-
ster and Gettysburg railway when the
public service commission of Mary
land decided that the road may cross
Columbia avenue in Hyattsville only
on an overhead crossing or below
grade Washington and its &nvirons
have stubbornly protested against the
railway crossing at the grade Of thor
oughfares for pedestrians and teams
\ number of dangerous crossings in
the vicinity of Washington have al
ready been made safe by bridges and
the Benning grade crossing is doomed
Philadelphia is now rejoicing oven
what the newspapers in that city
write OF as IAN important forward
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08

tive in telling the immigrant about
the opportunities on land. The alien s
advisers in the industrial centers, the
foreign bankers, labor agents, saloon
keepers, on the other hand, distinctly
encourage the alien TO stay in the
cities where he is a source of revenue
to them.
Different from the attitude of the
United States toward the aliens is
that Of Canada. Canada selects it's
immigrants. The Canadian govern
ment has agents abroad for that pur-
pose. 1t requires the alien to go to a
given destination. He is even escorted
to bis new domicile. The initiative
which the Canadian government takes
in placing the immigrant on land
instead Of allowing him to herd in
the cities. adds materially to the
wealth Of the Dominion.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-16

provisions have been made for the NAV
who favors the lace or the blucher, the
latter being favored BY many who take
to comfort, or who may have trouble
in getting shoes that will give the least
degree OF discomfort to tender feet.
Another feature which is Incorporated
In the Spring styles is the rubber sole
and another. the Elkskin sole. These
have hitherto been used mainly in
shoes for outing purposes, and for that
matter will continue to be q feature of
the construction Of outing shoes, but
they will become more and more a fen.
ture Of shoes for general purpose and
street wear.
Rubber Or Elkskin soles have never
been surpassed for walking comfort,
and 1t IS this that makes them fa.
vorites. They may be had with either
tan or black uppers. and either In fat
heel or with a separate heel. It IS
thought that the separate heel viii be
In the lead owing to the natural desire
to require q heel support. They come
mostly In the straight bal.
1t is commented in the stores that
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-16

and variations from these fundamental
colora White over patent and gray
over patent will It 10 thought, ba the
popular combinations for such semi
dress affairs which usually occur at the
country club or for lawn functions. All
Of these combinations will appear in
Oxfords eor Spring.
The Custom Of English last Is easily
the favorite. Flat or rs heels lead.
and a general tendency favoring the
long amp is apparent It IL said that
we are getting away from the short
vamps. The long forequarter styles are
expected to lead by a wide margin.
This is q now in the direction Of
greater comfort.
The business man It q thought viii
call for blacks or dark tans. In fact
there 10 a strong disposition to favor
the darker shades Of tan in both the
regular and the Oxford shoes. While
there may be some pumps worn on the
street this Is not expected to be an au.
t~horitattve vogue. The oxfords Of gen
eral use will be the regular heights.
Button shoes lead strongly although