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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
UPLIFT TALKS
WHAT WE GET OUT OF BOOKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN;
Author OF '.Pushing to the Front" Etc.
Copyright. 1918.


In order to get the most out OF his
reading, the reader must be a thinker.
The mere acquisition of facts is not
the acquisition of power. To I'LL the
mind with knowledge that cannot be
made available is like filling our
houses with furniture and bric-a-bra9
until we have no room to move about
Many people have an idea that i
they keep reading everlaSting1y, il
they have a book in their hands dur
ing every leisure moment, they will,
of necessity, become full-rounded and
well educated. This is a mistake.
They might just as well expect to be-
come athletes by eating at every OPP
portunity. 1t is even more necessary
to think than to read. Thinking, con-
templating what we have read, is
what digestion and assimilation are
to the food.
know a young man who has fornf
ed such q habit of reading that he Is
hardly ever without book, a maya
zine, or a paper. He is always read
ing, at home, on the cars, at the rail-
way stations, and he mas acquired
vast amount of knowledge. He has
perfect passion for knowledge, and
vet his mind seems to have been
weakened by this perpetual brain
stuffing.
To read constantly for the sake of
something to think of is to stultify
ones self Bacon said. "Readine
maketh q full man." But there are
different sorts of fullness, and that
of the idle gluten is not to be com
mended, Let the dlssipated reader
ponder the wise words of Milton:
Who reads
necessarily, and to his reading brings
not
A spirit and judgment equal or SUI
perior,
Uncertain and unsettled still re-
mains
Deep versed in books, and shallow in
himself.
What you get out of a, book is not
necessarily what the author puts into
it, but what you bring to 1t. If the
heart does not lead the head, if the
thirst for knowledge, the hunger for
broader and deeper culture, are not
the motives for reading, you will not
get the most out of a book. But if
your thirsty soul drinks in the writ
er's thought as the parched soil alb
serbs rain. then your latent posi-
bilities and the potency of your be-
ing, like delayed germs and seeds In
the soil, will spring forth into new
life.
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pert cites the valuable and even pre-
bordering fact that height and weight
are endowments which readily enable
a man to obtain employment
Being deficient in them his chances
for honest work are reduced Pur-
suing this acceptable conclusion Dr.
Goring shows that heredity in crime,
so-called, follows the natural law of
production, low stature being trans
mitted to children by their parents.
The same tables of laboriously COM
piled statistics indicate that the
health of the criminal appears to
have no effect upon his disposition
toward crime As for drink. accred-
tied universally as the greatest agent
of criminality, DIR. Goring finds that
the labelling is unwarranted, except
in the cases of violent offenses
against the person.
His final conclusion is, when viewed
with the fine spun stuff of crimi-
nologists of the hysterical school and
Only partly developed psychologists,
absolutely startling upon first read
ing.
1.-THE thing which we call erimi-
nality and which leads to the per-
petration of many, if not most. anti
social offenses today, is not inherent
wickedness, but natural stupidity"
In other words. the lawbreaker is
a fool. When the rewards of crimi-
nal habit or life are considered the
soundness of this conclusion will
grow in strength. The work of DR.,
Goring will be welcomed by all stu
dents OF these matters as the first
attempt to arrive at results in Grim
| inology by the statistical treatment
| of facts which, in a crude form, are
! without scientific value.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
MARCH
Lucy Larcom, Charlotte Richardson
copyrigh
BY MARY MARSHALL.
MARCH S
~fiot W hAS N
Copyrighted. 1913.

Today must be an suspicious one
for women with poetic ambitions if
one is to judge from the record left
by Lucy Larcom and Charlotte Rich
ardson, both of whom were born on
March s.
charlotte Caroline Richardson was
horp in England of the poorest of
parents in IT'S and received what
scanty education she had in a char
ity school where girls were fitted to
do domestic service. At fifteen she
was deemed sufficiently trained to be
cast on her own resources and she
went out to work, remaining in the
domestic service for twelve years.
Then she married a shoemaker named
Richardson who had long been de-
voted to her and had all gone well
she would probably never have gain
ed fame. But no sooner was she
married than the sad truth became
apparent that the shoemaker had con-
sumption. He died two years after
their marriage leaving poor Charlotte
with u babe in arms who, to make
matters worse soon became blind.
Meagre as had been Charlotte's ed
ucation she opened a school for girls,
and this would have been a good
means of support If it had not been
for her i'll health. In the meantime
she had written some verses which
came to the attention of her neigh
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05

| luding to the presence there of the
| governor of Massachusetts. / hap
pened to know that Butler expected to
be treated with scant civility and in
tended to speak with all his power of
sarcasm, but he was so touched by
Choate's graceful reference to him that
! he felt compelled to respond in terms
and in a manner which revealed to all
who We're present what his great gift
of personal charm really was.
"A night or two later Governor But
Ter was invited as a guest to a dinner
which was given by a banker friend
of mine in Boston. The banker called
upon the governor to be present at the
State House, and showed him a list Of
guests who were to be present 1t
included some of the leading profes-
sional men of Boston, a number of
the foremost bankers and two or
three men who had gained high liter
| airy regulations. Governor Butler
was told that with a single exception
that of Jonas French, who was
chairman of the Democratic State
Committee, every one of the guests
| had voted against him in the guberna-
torial campaign, and he was asked if
he cared to draw his pencil across any
of the names.
Not one he replied, L should be
very glad to meet these gentlemen. L
shall deem it compliment to sit with
them at the same table
well, do you KNOW" continued Mr.
Woodbury., that, although some of
these guests felt like withdrawing
their acceptances after they heard
that Governor Butler had been invit
ed, yet so perfectly did he charm
these men, so highly did he entertain
them, such were the refinement and
gentlenesS of his speech and manner,
that they all confessed they had dis
covered new Ben Butler, and some
of them actually declared that if he
were again to be candidate for gov
ernor they would feel disposed to vote
for him.
THUS was revealed the other side of
Ben Butler-a side of which the great
public had no knowledge"
Copyright, 1914, by +. j. Edwards.
| All rights reserved.)
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A REFLECTION ON A DEAD STATESMAN.

1T gross reflection upon John Hay secretary of state who
negotiated the HayPauncefote
instrument he deliberately to Great Britain the
right by the United States Senate forbid
for the passage domestic
warhps have any rights the canal
beyond paying and defense
than Great Britain though the canal American terri
tory indictment against the
majority that confirmed the that with this
understanding meaning of the treaty confirmed And
remarkable that until inventive and resourcefu railroad
lawyers recently gave such Interpretation of the HayPaunce
nobody in the United States had suspicion of its
alleged meaning?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
TO HALT NEWARK ENTERPRISE.

THE introduced in the Senate yesterday by Mr. Hen
messy Bergen county, for the creation of State habo
mission gives commissioners from different parts of the
State stop all plans for harbor development by
municipality the approval of the commission
Newark the only city the State that has begun the develop
definite plans In all the other cities
development is still in a nebulous state
vital why Newark enterprise should
be halted or nerfered delay And if
State board with everything to liable influences
friendly municipal waterfront development should be given
the authority plans who shall say whether they
will ever be carried out?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
NOTES OF SCIENCE

carrying bowling balls and also to
assist in bowling with them.
An artificial horn, having its elias
ITCHY, strength and insulating quail
ties, is being made in Germany from
hides, chemically treated.
SO good an insulator is dry snow
that the bare wire of the telephone
line to an Italian observatory on
Mount Rosa often is buried in 1t with
out interfering with the service.
Russia expects to produce 24,000,000
long tons of bituminous and 100000
long tons of anthricite this year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05

! How many of US know people, VINO,
a week after reading a book, could
recall scarcely an item of it's con-
tents. They read with listless minds,
like sponges, which let the clear
water through and retain all the dirt.
A great many people scarcely exer-
| else their minds at all in reading.
They let the words filter through the
brain, leaving almost nothing behlnd:
They might be called impression
| readers. The impression, the eXhll-
aration, the excitement, is all they
want. They do not try to remember
or to do any vigorous thinking Whlle
they are reading. They read just Tor
the pleasure it gives them. 1t is men
tai dissipation.
Such lazy readers not only get no
permanent benefit from their reading,
but they also demoralize their minds
by constant paSSiyity, so that they
become almost totally unfit for any
strong mental action Instead OK
strengthening their mlndS, they
weaken them.
Passive reading is more harmful IN
it's effects than desultory reading. 1t
will not strengthen the brain any
more than sitting in a gymnasium
will develop the body. The mind re-
mains inactive, in q sort of incident
revery, wandering here and there,
without focusing anywhere. Sucn
reading takes the spring and snap
out of the mental faculties, weakens
the intellect, and makes the brain
torpid and incapable of graphing
with great principles and difficult
problems
The superficial reading of even
things will injure the minds eff
cheney for doing good work. The
habit of skimming over newspapers,
CHANGING through books, catching a
heading here and a sentence there,
destroys the focusing power OF the
mind. No good reading can be &C
complished without concentrated
thought. The mind In a receptive
and responsible mood, must be TO-
cused with power, and every con-
flicting influence must be cut off. 1t
must be ready to grasp principle,
to hold a new thought, to reflect, to
analyze, to compare.
When you read, read as Macaulay
did, as Carlyle did, as Lincoln did
as did every great man who has
profted by his reading-with your
whole soul absorbed in what you
read, with such intense concentration
that you will be oblivious of every
thing else outside of your book.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
GOVERNOR FIELDER IN NEWARK.

THE RECEPTION given Governor Fielder last night by
representative citizens Newark without distinction of
exceptional tribute the chief city the State and showed
spirit of loyalty State government by whatever political
party administered which of the proudest characteristics
New Jersey And in of the State does its Governor
find welcome and greater respect than
mopotan city.
The practical program of economy and efficiency which Gov
Fielder has heart for the Legislature adopt has
great qualification Newark citizens generally and their sent
necessarily shared by the c representatives at Trenton
reception last night many citizens who had known
Fielder only by reputation and they present to make
personal acquaintance with Governor and him of their
support his administration.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05

Suppose that you own a cannery in
southeast Alaska, and have built an
expensive wharf. One day you walk
out on it and find that the timbers
which support it are rotting in the
water and the wharf has a list to
starboard Unless you prop 1t UP
quickly one of those winds that rush
down from the mountainous in win
ter at the rate of rs miles an hour
may topple it over, writes Allen
Forbes, in Leslie's. Do you send men
out into the woods and cut timbers to
support it? You do not--not if you are
wise. Every tree within reach is
probably included in a forest reserve
and is as precious in the eyes of
Washington as if it were some rare
species yielding costly ointment of
spikenard.
You first make formal application
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
RED TAPE IN ALASKA

to q subofficia of the Forest Service.
who is probably somewhere down the
coast, if he is not off on hunt for
moose or mountain sheep. If the for
est mans digestion happens to be
good, there is possibility that the
application may not only be acted
upon favorably, but the desired per-
mission may even arrive before the
wharf collapses.
But suppose there is an unbroken
silence and you become so desperate
that you go ahead and cut down the
necessary trees? Answer: Fine or
Imprisonment, or both" unless you
can square yourself in some way with
the majesty of the Forest Service. Of
any man thinks that this is exagger-
alton. let him inquire along the south
eastern coast, particularly of the men
who own wharVes.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
RETURN OF THE BASEBALL TOURISTS.

THE LANDING tomorrow of the members of the repre-
baseball that will have completed
eff the will the baseball world These have
most edtaby represented great American game we'll
the principal cities of Asia and Europe and
of the favorable impression of sawart
mercansm They have prepared the for popuarzng the
American national game other and may be affirmed
with they done for the brotherhood of
man and the amty nations than William Bryan and Andrew
Carnegie world peace faddists combined
doing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
Still Waters

Kitty never had no use for men,
Seemed to us she'd rather read an sew;
None of us could ever point TO when
She had ever entertained a beau.
Every time Teller to call
Kitty never had a word to say,
Never even showed him to the hall
When at 10 o'clock he went away.
Jim, we used to think, jes queer,
Women used to scare him to chill
When the girls come vistin us here
He jes spent the evenin sittin still.
Women amt fer me, he used to say,
Il can't get accustomed to their ways
Then he'd grab his hat an run away.
Jes as though his mind was in daze
Jim an Kitty scarcely ever spoke,
Least we never saw EN- if they did;
Never heard EN- ever pass a joke.
Much beneath still waters, though, is hid.
Both of 'em lived on the farm for years,
Never saw EN- arm in arm;
But you shouldn't judge from what appears,
Leastwse if you're Twin farm
Kitty disappeared one mornn bright,
All that day we looked in vain for Jim
But they both came back again at night.
Kitty, smiling, hand in hand with him.
Seemed they both had tired of single life,
So she said, while brushing back the tears,
Parson Brown had made EN- an wife
An they'd been engaged for twenty years.
Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05

New finger rings have hinge fas-
tening, insuring a close fit, not al
vaVs possible when q ring has to be
slipped over knuckles.
he. ursl i4me since 1885, Spain
in January had i fall of snow suf-
dcientiy heavy to Whiten the land
scape throughout the country.
A buttermilk fountain on the line
of a bottled water affair that a New
York man has invented is equipped
with an agitator for stirring the con-
tents and housekeeping faucet
A detachable, spring controlled
handle has been invented to facilitate
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
Saving lee by Electricity


From the Electrical World.
A marked advance over the custom
airy methods of harvesting ice has
taken place at Worcester Mass,
where ice is now cut by electric
power. The usual plan has been To
form the blocks on the surface of the
pond and to push them to the ice
house runway along a channel, which
is sometimes of such extreme length
that the blocks freeze together be
fore reaching the hosting chain. The
cutting by this method is extremely
tedious and the labor cost correspond
ingly high. At Worcester the saving
of the standard cakes is accomplished
by motor driven plant, situated
within a few rods of the icehouse.
By this means the services of twenty
two-horse teams and forty men are
eliminated.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
WILL HELP THE MUNICIPALITIES.

REPEAL OF the Hlery maximum rate law of 1906 by
the Legislature practically assured yesterday by the
Uy the Senate repeal bill the Governor strongly
of this law The result will be increase
n the tax income of municipalities Essex county AS railroad
property fixed by the rate OF all the
municipalities the the many small rural districts
State smaller than the large cities
with their costly improvements with resultant great advantage
10 the railroads in their tax assessments
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
Genoa, the superb.

Genoa, the superb.
| From the Catholic World.
| Genoa is nothing if not a city of
palaces. Whole streets of them, all
splendid, some more strilxingly elegant
! than their fellows, are waiting for the
visitor to pass and admire; or they
| invite him to enter and leisurely eX-
anime the halls where medieval no
| bility dreamed of greatness and war
| and the wealth of the picturesque
| caraVels of the blue seas. Near the
Piazza dele Fontane Morose is the
Palace Della Kasa, a fifteenth century
structure, originally the Palazo Spi-
nola, where dwelt the oldest Genoese
family From the plaza extend the
Via Garibaldi and the Via Baldi; and
on these all the splendor of the palace
city may be seen in superb fullness
The first street, despite it's modern
name, is of the sixteenth century and
the older Of the two; practically all
of the palaces here were designed by
Galeazzo Alessi. The Via Baldi dates
from the seventeenth century and.
with IT'S fine palaces, is monument
to Bartolommeo Bianco.
Today as you stand near Genoa's
long piers you may see a great ship
from that Western land of Columbus
slowly steam in from the open sea
There will be a cheer from home
come Genoese; there will be the sour
rying of many little boats about the
lordly steamer, with the flowers and
the fruits of Italy's soil; there will
be the gay Hitting of mandolins and
the songs of sweet-voiced maidens:
and the sun will be shining, and the
water dancing, and the sky blue, so
blue, with never cloud large as a
babys hand upon its lovely face
And if a friend walks down the spa
cious pier, you will greet him right
gladly. and take him away to the cool
of some palace inn high up among
the shadows of the olive and the pom
egranate, and bid him speak of ships
and seas and the loving days at
home. But if no one comes you will
stand near the seas and look upon
the friendly smiling of strange faces
from the westland, and be happy in
their joy and glad in the benediction
that will fall upon them from the
bounty of the fair Italian skies.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
Why Jerseymen Drink.
he philndelpbia Times.

FROM the BnlladelpDla I1mes.
The conversation at a recent social
function in Trenton turned to the eX-
IRENE precautionary methods OF some
people, and Governor Fielder told of
the rule laid down by certain fellow
native along that line.
One day while in Philadelphia, the
Governor said, the fellow Jerseyman
happened to collide with a bunch Of
hygienics, and among other things
they referred to the water supply of
his home city.
at isn't as good as 1t might be, !"
said the Jerseyman when questioned
as to it's quality. There is something
like 10000, 900 microbes to Il drop, but
it is the best we can do at the pres
emit"
What do you do to safeguard your
self against water of that kind"
queried one of the hygienics,' with a
look of concern. you surely take
some precautionary measures"
"Oh, yes" smiled the Jerseyman
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
washIngton's Next Move.

Washington's Next Move.
From the Washington Post.
Again it is Washington next move.
Carranza has put the burning ques-
ton squarely up to the United States.
| The rebel chiefs fiat denial of the
right of this government to get at
the facts regarding the manner of
Benton's death precipitates with
brutal directness a situation inVolv-
ing a showing of hands in a matter
of policy concerning which Washing
ton has all along refused to be pinned
down-our responsibilities under the
Monroe doctrine.
Even the foreigners at Mexico City
are up in arms over the reports that
the United States government is to
direct the Benton investigation Evil
IDENTIFY, the confidence of foreigners
in the declared purpose of the United
States to give them protection every
where in Mexico has been pretty
thoroughly shaken by recent happen
ings.
If the ground is not to slip wholly
from under our feet, leaving our
diplomacy suspended in the air, the
move that it is up to us to make
must be immediate and one that will
leave no scintilla of doubt as to where
we stand between the forces of tran
guilty and the forces of disruption.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
Birds Are Mere Groundlings.

Birds Are Mere GrOundIings.
From the London Chronicle.
1t is even more difficult to estimate
height than distance. and when one
reads how once again the height rec
ord has been broken by some daring
aviator, one is puzzled how to realize
what the figures of his record really
mean Well, at any rate, we have
the birds as a standard of compari-
son. Compared with Mr.. Raynham S
recent $1,000 feet. the common birds
of England are mere groundlings. for
generally they fly at no greater height
than 800 feet When migrating, how
ever. they mount higher though even
then the wild goose (the Hottest of
them) seldom reaches 1000 feet. The
highest flier in the world is the great
condor, who sometimes rises five
miles.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05

furnished world the character of Washing
had done nothing ese that
alone the respect of
Webster
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05

oIaUIUHIiiHsItr SHUWered WIFI Emigrhnt
Kisses When $38, 900 Is Recovered.
NEW YORK, March 5.-Ex-
pressions of gratitude in the form of
kisses were showered upon William
II. Egan, station-master of the Penn
sylvania railroad station here last
night by the 81 men and women
members of an emigrant band be-
cause he had been instrumental in
restoring to them a flour sack which
contained $4,000 in gold and bills.
The party, en- route from Montana
to Poland, dined in the station and
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

First, we dope the water and then
we boil it, and then we drink apple
lack "