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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29

BARRIERS license law has been started
by the Ohio branch of the Journey
men BARRIERS International union.
PoStoffice clerks are conducting a
campaign for the reduction in hours
of night work.
Building crafts in Arkansas are
working for a State building COM
mission.
On July at Rochester, Pa, Ameri-
can Flint Glass Workers Union will
convene.
South Bend Qnd) garment work
ers have reduced hours from "a to IS
with a II per cent. increase in pay.
Newark On. j. label council is CIV
ing illustrated lectures. which have
been the means of increasing the sale
of union label goods
Massachusetts State branch of thek
American Federation of Labor has
introduced twenty-seven bills in be-
half of labor in the State Legisla-
ture. 80
A compulsory workmen's cnmpen-
sation act has been passed by the
Maryland General Assembly and be-
comes a law November l. s19f4
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of the famous paintings of Duerer
Michael Angelo and Raphael. Even
tually when she was about twentys
four. she went to Paris where she
studied under AIRY Schaffer, who was
enjoying a great vogue as teacher
of English artists. In Paris she
painted portrain of Lady Elgin, the
wife of the famous Lord Elgin, and
this picture brought her almost i'm
mediate renown. So greatly was ii
admired in England in fact, that op
leaving Paris and going to London.
she was commissioned to paint the
portraits of various members of thee
English royal family When she was
Twenty-Five she married Sir Charles
Thomas Newton. keeper of the anti
quities of the British museum. After
Mrs. Newton marriage she abandon
ed Independent, work and spent her
time making drawings of the anti.
duities of the British museum-a
work in which her husband was deep
" interested. Her drawings served
her husband to illustrate his books
and his lectures. But the brilliant
young painter did not live many
years. for she died when she was but
thirty-four.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29

Every year the tide of emigration
flows more and more strongly to all
the far corners of the earth, and one
cannot help speculating what will be
the fate of the tens of thousands who
thus fare over the seas to WOO fortune
in other lands.
One thing is certain-among the
poor emigrants of today will be found
some of the colonial millionaires and
political leaders of generation
hence. while thousands will be men
of substance, the owners of broad
lands to hand on to their sons.
If we glance down the list of recent
multi millionares one is struck by
the number of men who have started
on the journey TO riches as almost
penniless emigrants. Indeed, Scot
land alone may claim at least a round
dozen of such men of millions as her
sons, leaving England to occupy the
second place.
Sixty years ago James Keene, see
ing nothing but poverty before him
in London, took steerage passage
across the Atlantic, to begin his chase
of the rainbow gold" which eluded
him so tantalizingly that, in disgust,
he abandoned the chase. He was not
long, however in finding another road
to wealth through the San Francisco
Stock Exchange which he followed so
successfully that within a score of
years he counted his gold up to
f1,000,0 00,-a mere fraction of the
mountain that was his later.
Half a century ago Charles
Fletcher. who was destined to be
known the world over as the Textile
King was earning few shillings a
week as a spinner in the Craven
works, near Bradford, before he, too,
voyaged in the steerage to America.
Within a few years he had factory
of his own at Providence, r. l.. other
factories quickly followed, culmi-
mating in the gigantic combination
known as the Charles Fletcher Cor
poration, of which the ex-factory lad
was the many millioned president.
In the early forties of last century
John w. Mackay was a barefooted
boy in Dublin streets, when his father
carried him over the seas to New
York. For long years he piled pick
and shovel in futile search for gold
in California. but before he saw his
thirtieth birthday he had discovered
the Great Bonanza, a mine which
quickly made him the worlds silver
king with yearly revenue counted
in hundreds of thousands of pounds
Nearly a century has gone since
James Gordon Bennett ran away from
his home at Keith, in Scotland, and
landed penniless in New York to start
that heart breaking quest of fortune
which. sixteen years later, led to the
founding of the New York Herald,
which was to bring millions to him
self and his sons.
And James Bennett was the pioneer
of at least a dozen other Scots lads
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che shot that killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
-presumptive to the throne of the Austrian en-
e, of slav inspiration and it had political
lect of vast and far-reachng importance
1t is the dream of the leaders of the Slav race to
jrm compact empire of the slav states to face
AUSTRIA and Germany. The victories over the Turk
in the Balkans by serva, Bulgaria and Montenegro,
which are slav, opened mp such prospects of great
SlavR confederation that Germany alarmed and
inST her taxes as well ornaments, and Austria
vi he point of with the Balkan states.
a dsrian intrigue is sedulousy employed in the
.kans to foment and keep alive mutual iealouses
nd antagonisms to prevent their union and to finally
absorb them into the empire which now includes
about twenty million disconnected Slavs Francis
Ferdinand was identified with this policy. and upon
his accession to the throne it expected that he
would pursue vigorously than Emperor Joseph
has to crush the aspirations of the Slavs
This assassination had evidently been carefully
planned 1t was one of the tragedies of the politics
of Eastern Europe. Unlike the murder of King Alex
ander and Queen Drags of Serva in 1903, which
merely made dynastic change in Seryia the assassi
nation of the prospective Emperor of AustriaHungary
has consequences that only the empire, but
all Eastern and Central Europe. 1t may be the be-
ginning the dissolution of the dual empire, with all
its momentous results for Europe.
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and in many cases by the action and
intervention of reliable Intermediates.
As to the export trade. the rela-
tions with the United States for eX-
portal ton of wool to America have
certainly become more lively and ac-
tive since the epoch when the inter-
est for general commercial inter-
course with the United States has
been awakened here by the founda-
ton and by the publications of the
American Chamber for the Levant.
The same must be said with regard to
the export of gals, carpets. intestines
and gum tragacanth from this consul
lar district to the United States.
1t may be stated particularly in this
connection that the Bagdad members
of the American Chamber, including
the new members quite recently Sc
cured for the chamber by this con-
sulate, number twenty-one paying
members, which marks Bagdad as
one of the important centres in the
Ottoman empire.
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PI-RLIC rsE OF THE SCHOOLS.

more extended of public school buildings
has been decided upon by the Board of Educa-
ton. But why this long hesitation and delay? 1t
was long ago discovered that the public schools are
civic centres and that the policy of using them only
a few hours schoodays wrong.
The schoohouses have been permitted to be used,
under certain rules, for purposes Why not for
all proper purposes that relate to the welfare of
the people? 1t would be moral blessing for Newark
if all its many public school buildings in use
every evening for meetings and entertainments
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Emigrants Who Found Riches

who similarly emigrated and found
vast riches for the reward of their en-
terprise. Three of them stand out
from the rest as examples of colossal
and well deserved succesS-Mr. Car
negie, who left his work as bobbin-
boy in Dunfermlne on five shillings
a week to start that amazing career
which made him lord of at least fifty
millions within fifty years; Donald
Smith, who left his cattle tending IN
the Highlands for the wastes of Lab
rador to commence his long climb too
millions and coronet as Lord
Strathcona and Mount Royal AMI
George Stephen, another herd-b "a
who followed in the wake of his eous
Donald to equal riches and a seat
his side in the House of Lords.
Here we have seven emigrants,
Graded in poverty, who together W..
considerable over f100, 900 by tran
ferring their activities to another Coz
tinent. And similar stories can be
told of others to whom emigration
has been the key to colossal wealth:
So many, indeed, are they that tflO
choose among them.
When Robert Gillespie Reid IAN
other Scotsman landed in Canada
at eighteen his only capital was q
stout heart and a strong pair Of
arms. He hunted gold in vain from
California to Australia bef9ye. -,ie.l
struck the right road a. lsfste and
built up a huge fortune.f contrac-
tor and railway pioneeT
Less than two generations ago Mr..
Frederick Weyerhauser landed IN
America without a dollar in his
pocket, and within fifty years he
CT
whole of England, and was able 10
count his potential millions in scores.
In 1871 Mr.. Sidney Kidman, an
other poor emigrant, spent his LAST
shilling in purchasing a horse for q
los. A score of years later he was
Australia's cattle king lord of 3d.
900 square miles of land. and counted
his sheep and cattle in hundreds of
thousands. And James Tyson, who
landed in Australia penniless. died
not long ago a millionaire five times
Overland a farm laborer in appear
ance and dress to the last.
And these are but selections from
the long list of those who have Jared
across the seas to find fame or FORK
tune-from Barney Barnato, who
started on his road to wealth by
dancing for coppers in the drinking
saloons of Kimberley to the Honor
able Andrew Fisher "a Scotsman
like Mr. Watt. prime minister of Vie
toria), who has fought his way to
the premiership of the Australian
commonwealth. and Sir Samuel Way,
Bart, who became chief justice ami
lieutenant governor of South Aus
tralia, in which he first set foot as an
immigrant two generations ago.
London It'll Bits.
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The Glove on the Pole.

A quaint custom in an English
town. Honiton, is ''proclaiming the
fair" The town obtained the grant
of a fair from the lord of the manor
so long ago as 1851, and the fair still
retains some of the picturesque char
acteristics of bygone days. The town
crier, dressed in picturesque uniform
and carrying pole decorated with
gay flowers and surmounted by a
large gilt model of a eloved hand,
publicly announces the opening of the
fair. as follows: " Oyez, Ovez, Oyer.
The fairs begun, the glove is up. No
man can be arrested till the glove is
taken down" Hot coins are then
thrown among the children. The pole
and glove remain displayed until the
end of the fair.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The First Million Dollar Check Cashed in Idaho

I was chatting, some time in the
spring of this year, with William H.
Alexander, who is prominently identi-
fled with the copper industry of the
United States, principally as an ex-
pert authority. He gave much of his
experience in this field of the mining
industry at the time he was a resi-
dent of Idaho Washington and other
States of the far West. He met in
those years some eccentric and very
interesting characters and had knowl-
edge of some who at one time were in
possession of millions suddenly gained
ard who afterward knew again what
poverty was
Mr. Alexander regards the late
James F. Wardner as perhaps the
most typical frontier personality with
whom he was ever brought in con-
tact. Mr.. Wardner was possessed cf
oVerabundant energy so great, in
fact, that it sometimes impaired his
Judgment. He was a man of both
physical and moral courage, and for
that reason, probably, was willing to
accept chances which would have ap-
pGlled the average man.
To illustrate this. Mr. Alexander
recalled the following incident:
Il remember one occasion when
Wardner was challenged to play the
game of seven up or high low-jack'
for s., 900 a game. He played several
games for this big stake, and my rec
objection is that he came out about
even.
THE most interesting feature of
Mr.. Wardner's career of which 7
have any knowledge was the fact that
he was the recipient of the first mil
lion dollar check ever paid out for
mining properties in Idaho.
"Wardner was the promoter of
what is now known the world over as
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines.
This property is famous because it is,
or was, at least, until recently, the
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largest lead-producing mine in the
world
Possibly a year after Wardner
promoted this great lead mine, two
men who represented large capital
which was seeking investment in
good mining properties called upon
him to negotiate for the purchase of
his interests. They were very
shrewd specimens of igh-grade min
ing SPECTATORS. They no doubt ex-
peeted that Mr.. Wardner. who was
only known as prospector, would
jump at the first proposition they
made to him. They had not been
long in negotiation with Wardner be-
fore they discovered that he was just
as shreWd as they were. Moreover.
he owned the property and was not
particularly anxious to sell When
they made this discovery they de-
cided to throw subterfuge aside and
to make him the final proposition
they had in mind to make in case
they We're compelled to do so.
"They said to him: We will give
you a certified check for $1,0O00O0 in
exchange for your quit claim deed Of
all your interest in this property.
"Wardner did not hesitate about
accepting the proposition, although
he was a good enough actor to con-
ceal his qualification at the certainty
of becoming a millionaire.
ut did not take long to close the
transaction, nor did it take long for
the news to spread abroad that for
the first time in the history of Idaho
single check certified for S1,000,0 600
had been paid to any one in that
State for property of any kind.
THE time was not distant when
other checks for larger a mounts were
paid for Idaho properties, but Ward
ner had the exclusive distinction of
receiving the first check for $1,000, 900
that ever went through an Idaho
bank
Copyright, 1914, by E. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
Me,ico,. Dlminished Cattle Herds.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
one of the effects of the long-con-
tinued war in Mexico has been the
diminuti7n in numbers of its cattle,
which formerly amounted TO many
millions of heads on the vast plains
of the plateau.
Hundreds of thousands of the cat
tie have been slaughtered by the
bands, raiding columns and armies
which have been constantly IN the
field; other hundreds of thousands
have been stolen or coniiscated, ana
millions have been shipped or driven
out of the country to he turned INTO
cash by either the possessors for the
time being or the legal owners.
The largest herds of cattle i'm Mex
leo were those of the Northern States,
States north of San Luis Potosi, Iac-
atecas and Topic and this entire re-
gion has been swept clean of cattle
and farm products by the soldiers
and the bands that call themselves
soldiers that accompany the armies
in the field.
Great numbers Of these cattle have
been driven across the boundary lire
between the United States and Mex
leo and have been sold to buyers In
the United States.
No class of plumber and loot IS
more eagerly sought by the rebel
commanders than cattle, for they
served either to feed their follow
crs or to bring cash 10 their pockets
or bank accounts in the border towns
of the United States.
The herds were carefully rounded
up and turned into cash at the ear
lest possible moment by the colonies
and generals who were out for lib
erty and loot. the constitution and
confiscation. patriotism and plumber.
For three years Mexico has con-
tributed annually supply Of cattle
TO this country far greater than nor
maIy. and the cattle buyers of
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona have
secured large numbers at low prices
from lawful owners eager to convert
them into cash before they could be
seized by robber bands. and from
agents of the robber bands, quick to
dispose of them after seizure from
their legal owners.
The result is that Mexico's herds
are less in total numbers of cattle
now than they have been for fifty
years, and very few cattle viii now
be shipped from the country, as
there is little or no surplus after the
home demand for meat is supplied.
This country's supply of cattle from
Mexico may be considered as ter
minated for the next five or ten
years.
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takes rank with the achievements of
The great explorers. II may not have
the same appeal to the imaginatiOn
the quest after microbes. the chase
of the mosquito and the fly. the
draining of marshes and the disin-
lection Of stagnant pools are not so
romantic in their seeming as the
ranging OF the seas. the penetration
of the jungle, wrestling with the ele-
ments or tanning the wild 4lCes OF
mankind. But in benefcent effecz
upon coming generations the quiet
man of science may prove to tower
above the navigator and the pioneer.
and his name may be written larger
i'm the books of the future.
The conquest Of tropical diseases
when fully achieved promises To open
the most luXuriant part Of the earth's
surface to the uses of civilized man.
Vast tracts of Asia. Africa and Sou n
America wherein until lately resi-
dence was almost the synonym IF
death Will become the field of busy
colonization and fruitful cultivation.
new figure must be set on the
earth's capacity to support mankind.
and this means an expansion Of the
race in the course Of a century or
two exceeding any that has taken
place within historic times.
The new zones Of hahitation viii
most likely attract very rapid settlr
ment as soon as the new methods of
life preservation become familiarized,
for as Dr. Gorgas points out, there
are no lands at present settled where
in the average return for labor eX-
pended is SO great as in the tropics.
The rich reward of effort will be Of
compelling power. and the rushes 70
these lands of promise may presently
approximate the movements Of popu-
lation due to the discovery Of gold
and silver.
Nor viii the effect on countries and
provinces already we'll settled he un-
important. We are only beginning
to realize what recent discoveries in
sanitation made in tropical climates
may ultimately mean to every region.
1t is marvellous that so little has been
done as vet in the way of eXter-
minating insect and vermin plaques.
But the possibilities Of the field are
gaining recognition as the fame Of
the pioneers in it spreads Both are
certain to develop n geometrical
ratio. There may come dav when
the greatest good Of the Panama
Canal will he thought To lie in the
fact that because Of II We learned IL
clean up the earth
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
SENDING THE CHURCH TO THE FARM.

City people in summer will desert the church for
the country Instead of the church sending them an
unheeded to return why should it not go to
the country after them? This is the practical
idea carried out by the Philadelphia parish of St
Luke and the Epiphany 1t has established Church
farm Media, where week days and nights
there are games and picncs with repasts the lawn
of an old-fashoned farmhouse and dancing in the
barn. Religious services Sundays are held in a
grove, one of Gods first temples Holy Trinity
Church also has a farm, at Croydon, where its Boy
Scouts camp out and other practitioners are well
coined. These Philadelphia brethren certainly have a
very sensible notion of up-to-date Christianity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
A Memorable Wreck.

The most memorable wreck in the
history of the American surf was that
of the bark Mexico, stranded on
Hampstead beach, Long Island, early
in the morning of January 3, 1897. She
carried 104 passengers and a crew of
twelve men. Four passengers and four
Of the crew were saved by a surfboat
from the beach. under the command
of Raynor Rock Smith. All others
were frozen to death, though the
wreck was so close to the shore that
their cries and even some of their
words were plainly heard on the
beach II was the story Of this wreck
as published throughout the nation,
that led to the establishment of the
United states life-saVing service.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
PRESERVING THE FORESTS OF THE EAST.

A government purchase of $4,000 acres of wood
land in six Southern States brings the national forest
reserve in the East up to 1,105,0 900 acres. The
$5,560.000 spent in conserving the standing timber
of the Appalachian Mountain system in the four
years since the plan inaugurated with the
$2,OOOOOO of the original appropriation still avail
able is money spendidy invested. 1t will mean many
times that sum in prevention of drouth and flood
and outstanding of water power, to say nothing of
of the landscape.
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Gratitude

| thank thee, Moon and Star and Sun
For shining on me, now and then,
Just as thou shinest on all men
With special favor shown to none,
When or whereer thy course is rum
| thank thee, Day. that all thy light
Is mine to share with all mankind!
And grateful, |, It's mine to find
My need of darkness in the sight
That follows day UNMARRIED flight
thank thee, Wind, that on thy way
Thou blowest fairly on us all!
Most thankful, |, the tempests thra
Is just the same where rich men stray
AS where grim poverty holds sway
Thanks give that, from Natures hand,
Both good and i'll broadcast are thrown
For where the power of gold is known
Rank favortism stalks the land
And |, alas, no wealth command
-Lurana Sheldon, in New York Tin
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the children but not far enough to meet the necess
ties of the population to justify cheeseparing
Every dollar spent on the Fairgrounds and public
baths is a good investment 1t not only makes for
better safety for the thousands of children from the
perils of street traffic also for better citizenship
The Fairgrounds are training schools we'll places
for play Out of them are growing organizations of
children with the best objects. and they promoting
a spirit among children never known before when the
only playground was the street and alley.
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When Rome Began to Fall.

The climax of the period of Roman
grandeur was reached about sixty
years before Caesar overthrow the
republic. During the sixty years in
question fell the Social war, the Civil
war of Marius and Sylla and the
Wholesale prescription of the latter.
The cause of the Roman downfall
was owing mainly to the absorption
of the old stock and the decline of
civic virtue. Swamped by the inflow
of non Roman races, the grand old
ideals of the fathers were forgotten,
and the end was inevitable.-New
York American.
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Dancing on TaIcum Powder.

1t has been found by experiment
that the best dancing floor is made
as follows: Upon the ordinary floor
sheet of rubber half an inch thick
is spread; certain smooth surfaced
linoleum Is laid over this, and tai
cum powder is sprinkled upon it
every day The highly polished wax
ed wood floors of a few years ago
are too slippery for the modern
dances. The shoemakers soon learn
ed this and introduced pumps with
pads of rubber inserted in the soles.
Now York World.