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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
REGULATION OF THE FOOD FISH SUPPLY.

THE FEDERAL commissioner of fisheries, DR.. Hugh M.
Smith stating that uniform federal regulations necessary
dwindng food fish supply of the United States from
extinction fish gradually disappearing from Chesa-
oeake bay conditions the Great Lakes
worse He strongly of the Lnthicum bill in the House
Of Representatives.
Some years ago striped bass of the finest of edible fish,
the New Jersey and sold at low prices
n Most of this fish from Southern
comparatively few taken coast Reckless
greed deprived the of this important supply as it
S bound o with other species.
few States have regulation of their fisheries Cali
fairly effective law. So has Maine The smelt
the of Maine be taken sent out
except while the salmon and other fish
we'll In New Jersey there is law except contempt
which about $4,000 annually for the State 1t
located outside of New Jersey and
the State had proprietary right or jurisdiction.
brief is shown by experience that the principle of State
regulation of fisheries complete failure. Except few
there is attempt regulation while predatory in
the alert given opportunities to do greater
evil The only salvation for the food fish supply the only remedy
whose greed makes the peoples food
DEAR uniform regulation by the federal government
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH

There Is a common saying that his
tory repeats itself. But science re-
flutes this popular dictum. For it is
a fundamental law of physics that
any real finite system never passes
twice through the same state. Thus
in a system comprising a number of
bodies at different temperatures, a
gradual reimbursement will take place
by conduction and radiation, in such
| manner that the distribution of tenn
perature approaches more and more
nearly to a uniform state. Never, I'M
der any circumstances. will the sys-
tenn. after such equalization has taken
place. return spontaneously to its ini-
tial state Time is unidirectional the
past irrevocable.
1t is hardly necessary to point out
that this Is true in the world of living
organisms quite as much as in the
non-living world. But in biological
science the unidirectional character
of time has a significance of its own.
For the history of a species of living
organisms, it's evolution, is the cen
trail problem of modern biology. That
species undergo modification, evolu-
ton, in the course of time, hardly
anyone would question at this present
day. But what is the trend of this
evolution? The answer is contained
in the principle of the survival of the
fittest: Evolution proceeds in such
direction that Individuals and species
less we'll adapted to existing circum-
stances give way to species bett er
adapted to them. In the living. as
in the non-living world, evolution
proceeds from forms less stable to
those more stable under existing con-
ditions. The problem of discovering
the physical law of evolution is emil
nently a problem of discovering a
law of stability, law of equilibrium.
In the physical world the condition of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21

There are four rather well-known
women born on February 21-Alice
Freeman Palmer, the second presi-
dent of Wellesley College; Emma
Thursby, the soprano singer; Eliza
beth Robins Pencil and Elizabeth
Rowell Thompson.
Elizabeth Thompson was born in
Rutland, VT, in 1891, the daughter of
a poor farmer. When she was nine
years old she went out to household
service with neighboring farmer for
the munificent wage of twenty cents
a week. That was not very promis-
ing beginning, but she made the best
OF 1t, and she was, moreover, exceed
ingly beautiful. So when she went to
visit in Boston, when she was twenty
three, she met and married a million
aire of that city named Thompson.
When he died, in 1869, she came into
very large fortune, large share of
which she devoted to the cause of
temperance. She purchased Frances
Carpenters painting showing Lincoln
signing the emancipation proclama-
ton and gave 1t to Congress. 1t is
now placed in the rotunda of the
Capitol at Washington In token of
this and Of her other good works she
was granted the freedom of the floor
of the House of Representatives, a
privilege which has never been given
to any other woman.
Elizabeth Pencil. who was born
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
SAWS IRON WITH TEETH

The other day press dispatches
from Boston described how daring
professional thief, George H. Prem
tiss, used his teeth to cut iron pipes,
and thus could escape from any jail,
prison, penitentiAry or reformatory
at his own sweet pleasure, says the
New York Press. 1t seems that this
same Prentiss not only had the power
of thus breaking, but recently used
his teeth to cut away enough pipe
from burglar-proof buildings, such as
Bostons fine police stations, and then
stole twenty eight pounds of the iron
and lead pipes from his own cell in
the East Deadham street police sta
ton.
These burglars, gunner and second
story men use their teeth to cut the
pipes at both ends. enter the buildings
| as they please, and then take the iron
away with them to sell for pocket
| money.
! This is not by any means so strange
or rare trick as the press seemed
| disposed to think 1t. A prominent
| dentist of national reputation, who
! does not care to be quoted, in a pri-
vate discussion said recently that GER
tain bold and shady characters OF
the underworld, such as yeggmen,
gunner, burglars and the like have
| llltlI leCtfl lilleu Win BOio Ut pau
mum when there is nothing wrong
with their teeth.
"a certain notorious crook, who is
now serving a long term in Sing
Sing" he said, had better be watch
ed with the utmost care. This fellow,
whose name I dare not divulge be-
cause of professional ethics, has sew
eral teeth filed with gold, and a hard
saw edge has been ground into this
gold, Briefly it may be said that his
mouth is filed with hard chisels and
cold saws, ready to saw his way
through steel and iron, soil or barriers
of any sort.
| Another criminal, now at large
who escaped from a Western peniten-
tiary in some-to the authorities
mysterious manner, had his teeth
filled with platinum, gold and a dia-
mond. He came to my office originally
and showed nae a newspaper clipping
with the account of an actress whose
name now escapes me, who had q
tooth filed with a diamond.
Can that really be done, Doc?
he asked with the familiarity com.
mon among those rats. Little think.
/ ing at the time what he could wish
with diamond teeth, answered, Yes
if you furnish the diamond
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21

Mr.. Johnson wrote home to his
father, asking him to have made a
careful reproduction of the uniform
worn by Washington, which was
done, and the garments forwarded to
Leutze. Eastman Johnson, in a lets
ter home, records that at the recep-S
ton held in the latter's Oeutze's)
studio, May IL, 1851, to celebrate the
completion of this great work, the
prince and the princess of Prussia
were among the distinguished guests,
and that the prince was a fine, sol
dferly looking fellow, who wished to
buy Johnson's copy of the Leutze pic
ture, but, because of the terms of the
contract Leutze made for disposal
of the original, it could not be sold.
The American flag evidently was
shipped to Leutze, but in this case
the painter, as well as his young
pupil, overlooked the fact that at the
time Washington crossed the Della
ware, Christmas, 1916, the colonies
did not possess a flag of STARS and
Stripes" and that in .portraying a
flag with stars the canvas failed to
record the truth, for at this date the
continental flag was of thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white, and
as a union the British union of the
crosses of SIS. George and Andrew
was still kept as symbolic of consti-
tutional sympathy between the Colo
MES and the mother country.
The American flag did not receive
its stars until June IA, 1777, when 1ffe5
continental congress so decreed the
standard of the united colonies. This
great American picture decorates
more homes, schools and colleges
than any group historical picture we
possess. and 1t is to be regretted that
it contains the flag error, since it
mars the historic evolution of the
symbol of the country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21

equilibrium can be expressed in the
form of maximum or minimum law
Thus, for example, for a purely me-
chanical system the condition for
equilibrium is that it's potential
energy shall be a minimum. Similarly,
for system subject to irreversible
changes, the condition for equilibrium
is that the thermodynamic potential
shall be q minimum.
Is there similar law applicable
to system in the process of organic
evolution? Is there some function
which continually diminishes as time
goes on, every approaching mini
mum value? Many may have sus-
pected the existence of such law
LIE Dantec, in his book, La Sta
bilite de la Vie."@ has the boldness
to express his conviction of the
validity of such law. But its full
standardization can hardly, as yet,
be said to have been established nor
its exact form determined. There is
scope for valuable work in this di-
rection. There is small but grow
ing body of workers in the field;
field somewhat difficult of access,
because of the peculiar combination
of qualifications and interests needed
in those who are to cultivate it: A
certain familiarity with at least the
fundamental facts of biology; a
readiness In the use of mathematical
machinery; and, above all, a thor
ough grasp of the laws of mechanics
and thermodynamics in all their as
poets.
Few men today combine such a
combination of qualifications and in
terests, and hence, until a special
body of workers has been trained
especially for the work, progress in
what appears to be most fertile
field for research is likely to be slow.
Scientific American
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
FIND MICE WITH WINGS

hour McGill in a short time noticed
that the mice grew less wild and came
closer in their search for something
to nibble on.
McGill tied bits of bread and cheese
on string, and at first pulled the
mice toward him. Then he hung the
string over the chandelier and in time
the mice came to climb it to the point
where the bread and cheese was tied
Gradually the food was tied higher
until finally 1t was as high as the
chandelier, eight feet from the ce-
ment floor.
Often the mice fell from this height
AS time passed, during the last eigh-
teen months, McGill says the falls be-
came more frequent and, to McGill's
wonderment, easier for the mice.
Recently, McGill says, he discov-
cred that when certain of the mice
lost their hold on the string that in
stead of falling they scared off and
slipped upright several feet away.
The fall was accompanied with a f1ut-
ter that aroused McGill's curiosity.
Then he trapped two or three mice.
On examination he found that thin
skin had grown from the bodies of the
mice and extended along the forelegs
to the heel, forming wing like ap-
pendage.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
WASHINGTON CROSSED RHINE.
PAINTING BY LEUTZE SHOWS

Every student of American history
knows that General Washington and
his army crossed the Delaware river
Christmas night in the year 1776.
But if we are to believe the corre-
spondence Of Eastman Johnson, IA
nous artist and a pupil of Leutze,
who painted washington Crossing
crossed the River Rhine, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean,
Mrs. Johnson, widow of the dis
tinguished painter, possesses some
remarkable letters, which disclose
strange items in the great paintings
of both her husband and his talented
teacher, LeutZe. She has not yet de-
cided to publish the telltale letters,
yet a few interesting points on the
picture of Washington Crossing the
Delaware" have been CLEANED from
immediate friends.
Leutze actually painted this picture
on the banks of the Rhine, and Ger
man soldiers posed for the leading
figures in this much-prized American
picture. Further, these Father
land" or German soldiers, wore the
continental uniforms actually worn
by the American patriots of 1776.
While this colossal painting, meas
uring twenty feet by twelve, may
well be pronounced the second great
est or most admired American paint
ing--the portrait of Washington,
rescued from the White House fire
in 1914 by Dolly Madison, holding
first place-yet the former Is classed
by foreigners as our greatest national
canvas.
The Leutze painting has many in
teresting points, but 1t has also an
error which should be corrected, as
1t will assist old and young better to
get the dates and events properly
registered.
To obtain accuracy in the costumes
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21

top to bottom He keeps his e.
open; nothing escapes his attent
he is always alert, all the time
sorbing and reaching out for know1a
edge, experience, methods and sys-
tenn.
He does not think so much of the
little money he gets as of the op-
portunity to learn his trade or pro-
fession. To be where he can observe
all that Is done, in close touch with
the men at the head of affairs, where
he can learn all the details. and
where he can study and compare
methods, and acquire the secret of
his employers success-these things.
he realizes, are worth many times
more to him than his salary. He is
satisfied with getting enough to Nye
on, and to have the chance to learh,
to get drill and discipline.
When he goes home at night, q
shrewd, ambitious employee realizes
what he has carried away with
his eyes during the day. what he has
got by keeping his mind alert, and
by his deductions as to the best
methods of handling the business, are
worth many times more to him than
the few dimes paid to him for his
days work. He knows that, if it is
in him, he will be able in a single day
in the future to make more, perhaps,
than his whole years present salary.
Hundreds of men and women In
this country today are bemoaning
their small salaries and lack of OPP
portunities, when they are right in
the whirlpool of business or trade,
the finest school possible for them,
If they would keep their eyes open
and their minds alert and learn to
see things and absorb knowledge,
they would no longer complain of
mo chance" or say that luck is
against them. They would realize
that they have been set on the road
to fortune and that by sturdy trudg-
ing they can arrive in triumph at
the goal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21

UNI at Columbia University Yesterday
afternoon.
IT though I would surprise my
friends" said Mr.. Worcester, showing
in motion pictures a peculiarly re-
markable war dance, when 7
brought these pictures home and
showed them how our little friends in
the hills danced, but when I got here
l found the joke was on myself rather,
for nothing on the other side of the
world can beat the dancing whicE
goes on right in New York There is
no question in the Philippines,
might say, of the propriety of any
of their dances"
Substitute Celluloid for Broken Bone IN
Boys Forehead.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Two unusual
operations were performed yesterday
at the Fordham Hospital by Drs.
Colosso, Nichol and Ahearn, of the
hospital staff In the first a strip of
bone from a mans leg was grated
into his fifth vertebra, which was
fractured last April.
The other operation was the SUBJ
stitution of piece of celluloid for
the frontal bone in a six-year-old
boys head. Solomon Epstein, the
younger of the patients, fell from q
roof near his home at 161 Henry
street recently, fracturing his fore
head and leaving part of his brain
exposed. After several weeks of
treatment at the Fordham Hospital,
Drs. Colosso and Ahearn decided yes
terday to substitute the celluloid for
the broken bone. The operation was
performed successfully, and at the
hospital last night it was said the
boys chances for recovery were
good .
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS
Comptroller Prendergast Asked to Sell
Pianos During His Snare Tine.

Comptroller Prendergast Asked to Sell
Pianos During His Spare Time.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-A rare
chance to make money on the side
was disclosed to Comptroller Prem
dergast yesterday in a letter from a
Milwaukee piano manufacturer. 1t
said:
"Use your spare time for the sale
of our pianos after business hours
and the results will surprise you.
After you have sold one or two
pianos you will see a fortune in the
undertaking, and 1t will pay you to
get a young man interested with you
who will do nothing else but sell
pianos.
"You have the confidence of the
people, which will help you wonder
fully. We want a trustworthy party
to represent our line of instruments,
one who is well acquainted in the
county. This Is the reason we come
to you and make you the above
proposition
According to the price list accom-
panying the letter, Mr.. Prendergast
need pay only $95 for a piano retail
ing at $3.50, and 1915 for a player piano
retailing for $3.50.
The comptroller sighed and put
away the temptation.
Tango More Startling Than War Dance
of Fiiipinos. Says Worcester.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Filipino war
dances cannot produce so startling
an effect as the steps which can be
seen at any time in America, accor I
ing to Dean c. Worcester ex-secr6-
tary of the interior. Philippine Is
lands, who lectured before a big au-
dience in the Horace Mann auditori-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRI5oN SWEET MARDEN.
Author OF Pushing to tho Front" Etc.
Copy light. 1913.
"cRoW OR co"

Copyright, 1914, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Grow or Co." This motto stares
the employees in the face in a certain
New York establishment. The pro-
prietor says that no one can stay in
his employ very long who does not
show signs of growth and especially
improvability. He says he does not
want any dead Ones" nor any sticks
around him. When a youth doesn't
show signs of Improvement he is
short lived in his establishment There
is no future in any enterprising con-
Germ for the employee who ceases to
grow-there is no promotion, nothing
but perpetual clerkship or monoton-
GUS desk work for one who ceases to
expand, to reach out. He who does not
advance retrogrades; he who does not
improve deteriorates.
/ once had in my employ a splendid
young man, earnest, faithful and
honest, but he could never get up or
on because lie did not seem to have
any capacity for absorbing knowl-
edge; he lacked improveableness. 1t
seemed to be almost impossible to get
new ideas into his head. He would
do the routine work with the utmost
faithfulness, was always on time,
and was never idle, but he utterly
lacked the capacity of growth and
expansion.
l have employed other boys who
seemed to take in every situation at a
glance, and they would advance by
leaps and bounds, as 1t were. simply
because their minds were open to
Impressions and active in assimi-
lating and applying knowledge. They
seemed to drink in useful facts as a
thirEtU npraOn drinks WAtpr. THEW
looked upon business as a school in
which they were bound to stand at
the head of the class.
1t is knowing how to do things
that is of value. An ambitious youth
realizes that to rise in the world he
must know the business he has
chosen through and through, from
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A POLYGLOT AMERICAN CITY.

IF THE American nation fusion of many races
nationaes melting pot for humanity such is New
York might be cassed foreign city of its poygot
population which 47844 foreign
stock either born Europe children of the Europeanbo Of
this Heterogeneous population Fl of the total of
British English Irish Scotch and Welsh composing the
largest percentage with the Yddishebrew having 10 per
cent the German third with 10 per At the time
every country the world the population
every tongue is spoken.
But Notwithstanding this diversity of New York
thoroughly American city in all its characteristics has been
said that Irish immigrant is American and New Yorker
reaches Ellis Island and in large this
may be said multitudes
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21

For about twenty-five years after
the close of the Civil War, or, to
speak more accurately from about
the year 1876 until 1890, many of those
who had gained brilliant regulations
as commanders, either in the Federal
or in the Confederate armies, were in
Washington either in public service
or else occupied with military re-
sponsibilities
The comment was often made that
the more brilliant achievements of
the soldier the more modest was the
man. When Chester A. Arthur was
vice president he had at the special
session of the Senate an opportunity
to become familiar with some of
those who, having served with honor
and great success upon the field had
subsequently been chosen to repre-
sent their States in the United States
Congress.
General Arthur said to me that he
went to Washington about a month
before his Inauguration as Vice
President for the purpose of spending
a few days at the Capitol, so that he
might become familiar with the
duties of Vice President.
II found myself watching General
Burnside, who was at that time
United States Senator from Rhode
Island he said. THE Senate
chamber gradually dissolved into
space and | pictured forth in my
imagination Burnside the soldier as
| remembered him when he was in
command of the Army of the Poto-
mac saw him in his tent at Fail
mouth Heights, directly opposite the
Rappahannock and the city of Fred
ericksburg. | recalled the vivid inn
pressions which We're made upon my
mind of the report which came from
Knoxville, Tenn, in the fall of 1863
telling of the desperate straits to
which Burnside was put.
"He was one of the noted men OF
| civil war times. and I am safe in say
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
When Chester A. Arthur Presided Over the Senate

ing that notwithstanding his defeat
at Fredericksburg, and possibly in
part because of it, he was one of the
great dramatic figures of the great
struggle.
Now. l saw him upon the floor of
the Senate, and he was as quiet. mod
est and unassuming a man as any
upon that floor. | noticed that he
occasionally exchanged conversation
with his colleague, Henry s. An
thony of Rhode Island, who was a
senator before General Burnside went
| to the war.
Usually Burnside sat erect in his
seat with unconscious and unaffected
military bearing. Occasionally he
would cross the aisle and sit beside
General Maxey, then a senator from
| Texas, who had seen brilliant SER
vice under the Confederate flag
II was afterward told that Burn
side and Maxey found great pleasure
in narrating each to the other ex-
periences of war days, and it was then
that I first observed the really great
commanders on either side after they
became colleagues in Congress were
on terms of most intimate companion
ship.
st was especially interested in Cen
eral Malone, who was a very eccen-
trio and interesting personality. He
entered the Senate in a most dra-
matte manner, making a brilliant
speech in reply to Senator Ben Hill,
of Georgia. Curiously enough, after
that venturesome start Malone be-
came one of the most quiet, docile
and unaffected members of the Sem
| ate.
81 am confident that it is to the
great advantage both of the North
and the South that military heroes
on either side have met as colleagues
and are still to meet as colleagues
under the roof of the Capitol"
Copyright, 1914, by e. J. Edwards
All rights reserved.)