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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Wall Street Napoleon Met His Waterloo

The late Charles S. Brooke, at one
time esteemed among the ablest of
the criminal lawyers of the United
States, was retained by Henry S.
Ives to defend him at the sensational
trial in 1883 of the latter for alleged
fraudulent transactions in connection
with some of his railroad operations.
Mr.. Brooke's attempts were partially
successful. He secured disagree
ment of the jury. | had accompanied
Mr.. Brooke to the courtroom several
times during the progress of the trial,
and he spoke to me frequently about
what he regarded as the narrow
escape of Ives from gaining q very
brilliant triumph in the field of rail-
way operations in which he secured
national notoriety and a nickname
widely applied to him as "the Napo-
leon of Wall Street"
Ives had undertaken to get the mas
terry of several railroad systems, be-
ginning with one In Ohio, and was
reported to have done this on what
Wall Street was accustomed to call
q shoe string" That meant the be-
ginning of very large undertaking
with no money capital to speak of,
but with a vast amount of assurance
and a considerable knowledge of
some of the peculiarities of the Wall
Street methods of those early days.
He became a conspicuous character.
He slipped up. No one could ever
tell exactly why. He just missed ac-
complishing what he set out to do.
A few days after the trial was
ended 1 met Mr.. Brooke and asked
him what he thought of Ives.
well" said he, 81 couldn't quite
make the man out. Even with me
he was somewhat taciturn or re-
served. He convinced me as feeling
absolutely certain that everything
which he had done was within the
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Portsmouth, where she Joined tho
sloop Swallow as a marine.
Hannah was more successful on sea
than on land. She became general
favorite and because of her brisk and
sociable manners was called Hearty
Jenny" She was looked upon as
boy and for this reason she was
given the post of assistant steward to
the officers mess.
The crew of the Swallow disem-
barked on the eastern coast of India
and all hands were ordered to take
part In the warfare going on. Han
nah proved to be one of the bravest.
She worked in the trenches and did
picket duty without flinching and
then received wound after firing
thirty-seven rounds. Unwilling to
let the army surgeon into the secret
of her disguise she dragged herself
off the field of battle and found
friend and faithful nurse in a native
woman, who dressed her wound and
sheltered her till she was well enough
to go back to her companions. Han
nah Snail next went with the crew
of the Swallow to Lisbon, where sha
learned that her worthless husband
had been executed not long before in
Genoa. This news seems to have
COLle hS ii T6lieI 10 HSl. Az any rats
the excuse for her adventures was
over and she returned to England
to tell the story of her strange expert
ences. She wrote an account of hor
wanderings. which was very success
full and widely read. She appeared
on the stage for while to satisfy the
public craving to behold the female
soldier" and later ended her days as
the keeper of a public house con-
Quoted under THE Signs of the Fe.
male Warrior
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24

A cobbler, when asked how long 1t
takes to become a good shoemaker
answered, six years-and then you
must travel" That cobbler had the
artist-soul. I told a friend the story,
and he asked another cobbler the
same question: "How long does 1t
take to become a good shoemaker
"All your life, SIR" That was still
better-he was a Michael Angelo Oh
shoes!
Persistency is characteristic of all
men who have accomplished anything
great. They may lack in some other
particular, have many weaknesses or
eccentricities, but the quality of per-
sistence is never absent from a sue
cessful man. No matter what opposl-
ton he meets or what discourage
ments overtake him, he is always
persistent. Drudgery cannot disgust
him, obstacles cannot discourage him,
labor cannot weary him. He will per-
sist, no matter what comes or what
goes: 1t is a part of his nature. He
could almost as easily stop breath
ing.
Money. position, infiuence-these are
no match for energy and persever-
ance.
With what delight we read Haw-
thorne's Scarlet Letter." perhaps the
most powerful romance that ever
came from an American pen. 1t
seems impossible that such beauty Of
diction, such facility of expression.
and delicacy of touch. could be elab-
Grated by any amount of drudgery.
But the notebooks of this shyest and
most bashful of mortals reveal the
secret of his genius Drudgery,
drudgery, drudgery. is written all
over his efforts. Nothing was too
trivial for record in his notes.
Everything he saw, or heard. or
touched, or felt, was imprisoned In
his notebook. and compelled to pay
tribute to his fiction.
Thousands Of men have been fall
ures in life because they did not go
quite far enough. They did not quite
learn a trade to a point OF efficiency;
In other words, they stopped Just this
side of success.
The patent office in washington Is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
UPLIFT TALKS
THE SECRET OF ACHIEVEMENT
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDENl
Author OF "Pushing to the Front EXC
Copyright 1914.

fulI of contrivances which are almost
successes: if the inventors had had
the persistence to hold on little
longer. they might have achieved NE
longed-for success, and died rich n
stead of poor. -.s
to visit every office and place OF busl-
nesss until he found a situation, no
matter how long it might take. After
persisting in this for a time when
would have utterly discouraged most
bove. he called at an Office, where he
was tod they never took boys VINO
had had no experience, and was asked
who sent him there.
The old gentleman was so pleased
at the boys pluck when ne told MIN
that he was calling at every office and
should continue to do so until he
found a situation, that he told him to
20 home and write him letter In his
best hand, and he would see what ne
could do for him. Many a boy mas
lost n situation by bad handWrltlngs
had spelling, or an WORCESTERSHIRE let
ter. But this boys letter was neat,
concise and intelligent, and ne got
the situation. He proved valuable
ond has been with the firm ever since.
Keen at it, whatever your work may
he. with a logged determination. Set
your teeth and say, ~ will" Let your
motto be, "Tenacity of purpose"
When you hear it, it should act on
YOU as the bugle call does on war
horse. -.
once and of an iron will; 1t either
brushes a life or solidifies 1t.
If you have not this persistence by
nature, you must cultivate it,. With
II YOU can succeed, you can make dit
ficulties bend. you can make opposi-
ton give way, doubt and hesitancy
Weld to confidence and assurance.
Without 1t the more shining qualities
Of nature will not ensure your sue
cess. and will very likely bring moth
ing but failure.
It is lesson after lesson with the
scholar. blow after blow with the
laborer, crop after crop with the
farmer, picture after picture, and
mile after mile with the traveller, that
secures what all so much desire.
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the fact that he ran up against some
men who were of greater experience
than he was. Yet he was persuaded
that the kind of attack which he
made, the guerilla method, the swift,
impulsive dash at his object, was the
only one which would succeed.
Now l will tell you something
Brooke. II learned incidentally that
Ives's methods had greatly interest
ed Jay Gould. Mr.. Gould had been
told that Ives had studied Gould's
own career and thought he had
learned the lesson of that career per-
fectly. There was something about
the dash and the audacity of Ives's
attempt to capture a railroad system
which caused Gould to give some
heed to his performance. 1t was not
a matter of personal interest to him,
since his railroad systems were en-
tirely without the field of Ives's oper-
atoms and plans, and l suppose he
felt that If Ives should advance to-
ward his own railroad system he was
perfectly competent completely to
throw the operator down.
II met Mr. Gould on the street only
a day or two after the trial. 1 knew
him pretty well. He stopped me and
spoke to me about the trial. Then he
made this singular statement to me-:
There was only one trouble with
Ives. If he had avoided that 1 think
he would have won. The trouble
with him was that he didn't know
what lawyers to retain. That Is one
of the first essentials for success of
plans such as Ives had
1T then occurred to me that Mr..
Gould was unconsciously revealing to
me one of the secrets of his own sue
cesses, and l knew that he always
made a point of retaining the ablest
lawyers whom he could secure"
Copyright, 1914, by DR.. E. j. Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
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be present, will cost you $5O,0OO," said
the agent. "A campaign to cover the
social season will cost 100000 up
ward"
Mr.. Andrews ordered the dinner
at $50,000 was rehearsed with his
hostess, so that he might appear to
be on terms of intimacy, and went
through his part in a rudy glow.
For a couple of weeks he was rush
ed" Then it appeared that he did
not propose to pay for a campaign
against the social Notifications, and
he was dropped so hard that his
self-esteem was fractured
These prime old waited million-
aires" said Mr.. Andrews, "are en-
gagged in a refined form of the grand
est indoor sport taking money away
from folks who haven't had it long
enough to get used to 1t. I can't
boiler. sold q rotary corn shelter
to the steel trust for a rolling mill"
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sent by any means the whole body of American
womanhood There thousands of women who
realize that their husbands, sons and brothers must
do their duty to their country and have the spirit of
the Spartan mother who enjoined her son to bring
home his shield or be brought home upon 1t. Not
even the suragists are united In this unpatriotic
test suffragst anti-war meeting in Jersey City
was spoiled by the declaration from some of the
women that If they true to their principles they
ought to enlist and fight alongside the men.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
SprinS---ln the Suburbs

No with steaming kettle and with rag
I'll thaw the pipes that thawng, quickly drown
The house. and, ere the plumber with his bag
Arrives, have brought the parlor ceiling down.
No more with aching back I'll toll and slave,
With freezing hands and knuckes cracked and sore,
To clear the that's fallen the pave,
And find next it's deeper than before.
No more upon a crossing shall pause,
The while trolley sweeper sprays my clothes
And fills with mud and sush my cursng jaws
And neck and cuffs and and eyes and nose.
Nor shall |, coming weary from show
Or evening function where I've been sup,
Find that the has let the furnace go
Completely out, and must build it up.
For spring is here, with sunshine and with showers
That the starting shoot and opening bud
And bring the tender grass and early flowers
And miles and miles and miles and miles of mud
j. M. Knox in Judge.
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The Victor.

Secretary Bryan, apropos of the
Monroe Doctrines new Interpretation,
said at a dinner:
I'VE desire no territory, no adj
vantage, from our weaker neighbors.
We do not wish to be one of those
powers that snatch all the profits from
the quarrels of their proteges.
1.-THE typical oldtime power, which
we don't want to resemble, suggests
the story of the business man who, on
his return fom the office, asked his
two little boys:
"Wen, what have you been doing
all day.
Fighting they replied.
Fighting, eh?' said the father,
and who licked?'
Ma they said" = Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
SHAKESPEARE DAY IN THE SCHOOLS.

The celebration of Shakespeare Day in the Newark
public schools yesterday intelgenty planned and
enthusiastically carried out Naturally, the in
terestng and valuable feature of the observance was
the presentation of scenes from Shakespeares dramas
by pupils of the high schools. Newarks boys and
girls took with them from their schoolrooms on the
350th anniversary of the great poets birth lessons
and Impressions that will stimulate the study of his
immortal works. Shakespeare is the common herit-
age of all English-speaking people, and judicious
selections from his writings should find a place in
every American school curriculum.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
A Money-Saving Primer

save for the benefit the habit brings;
to save for the children; for business
propriety; for old age; for individual
comfort, and for the happiness of de-
pendent ones.''
At the bottom nothing is more sim
pie making money, saving 1t and
making the savings increase. AS the
average man and woman hears them
discussed, however, these topics are
buried in a bewildering tangle of
strange words and terms. So l well
come every primer talk on money and
saving / come across!-Chicago News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
MUST STRIP OUR COAST DEFENsEs

To provide a sufficient force of trained soldiers
for immediate service in Mexico Atlantic coast
defenses must be stripped The big guns have been
ordered out of commission and the coast artillerymen
being drilled infantrymen If they sent to
the front and breaks out with an important
power coast will be in serious danger, as the
national guardsmen know nothing about handling the
heavy artillery. 1t is scathing commentary upon the
system of neglect by Congress of national defense
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
LABOR NOTES

The average government salary in
Washington Is S1,079, and the aver
age all over the country is S948.
The German Central Federation of
Machinists and Suckers will hold its
twelfth ordinary general meeting on
May 81 in Leipsic. The point of most
Importance on the agenda is probably
the "amalgamation question"
Bank clerks employed by the Guar
anty Trust Company, of New York,
have solved the high cost of living
problem by the organization of a 'co-
operative club" At present their COM
bined trade is getting for them a re-
duetion of ten per cent. on all COM
moditteS.
The twenty-f1fth congress of the
French Railwaymen's Federation
opened April 16 in Paris. The con-
gress will deal at great length with
the question of what shall be done 10
cause the railwaymen who were
victimized at the last strike to be
reinstated, as we'll as with the ques-
ton of the naturalization of the rail-
ways and the fusion of the railway
mems organizations.
The new California compensation
law Is being accepted by employers
many of whom have abandoned the
idea of forcing their workers to meet
the added cost, which officials are
showing Is intended to be placed or
industry. UP to date more than 2,50t
applications for insurance have beer
filed by employers whose payroll:
amount to $30,O00,000
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
Impressive Figures.

From the New York sun.
In 1898 the revenue received by the
entire Pennsylvania system, lines east
and west, for carrying the government
mails was a trifie over $4,000, 900. In
1913 this revenue was q little less than
Sc, 900, 600 The 1918 return from this
source was, I'm fact, below that re-
oeived in the years 1905, 1907 and 1912.
In the period freight revenues in
creased from about S9S,000.000 to al
most 100000, 900, passenger revenue
from 35,000000 to almost $S4,0O00 900,
and express revenue from about
"a, 900, 900 to $4,000, 000 Furthermore,
in 1918 the Pennsylvania system had
under operation 1856 more miles OF
main track than in 1898. These figures
supply a striking illustration of the
manner in which the railroads have
been burdened with postofiice business
for which they have received no re-
turn. The people of the United States
have become accustomed to seeing the
postal department run at a deficit
but probably ii is not so well known
that this result is attained even in
spite of the department being in the
exceptional position of having sub,
stantial portion OF its overhead
charges paid by the railroads. 1t is
pertinent to ask oneself how long the
postal department could continue If it
had to be run as a business concern.
1t is perhaps small wonder that our
postal department should be criticised
as the most inefficient organization
for it's size in the world.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
Two of a Kind,

This is my son Frederick, Mr.. Fos-
dick" said Mr.. Chambers, proudly. In
PRODUCING his f1ve-year-old boy to his
caller.
We'll, Frederick" said the caller,
do you obey your mamma?'
Yes, sir" replied Frederick prompt
ly, "and so does papa.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
The Cost of Smoke.

For the benefit of any who may not
see the analogy between a robbed
coal pile and a smoking chimney, 1t
may be briefly and simply explained
The visible part in smoke is nearly
all carbon, either as SCOT or cinder
and carbon is the principal combusti-
BILE part of coal, i.e., the useful part,
the part capable of yielding heat
Carbon completely burned forms an
invisible gas, carbon dioxlde: there
fore, whenever the gases from stack
show black they contain carbon.
which indicates that complete COM
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bustion has not taken place In the
boiler furnace. In other words, all of
the available heat in the coal has
not been realized. 1t is the same as
though the corresponding part of the
coal fed into the furnace had been
thrown away, for, although 1t has
passed through the furnace, 1t has
been thrown away up the stack be-
yond recovery. Is this, then, So very
different from robbing the coal pile?
The owner who, through ignorance,
allows conditions to exist which are
not favorable to the most economical
operation of his boiler furnaces, al
though he is unwittingly robbing
himself. is nevertheless stealing from
his own coal pile.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
NOT THE VOICE OF PATRIOTIC woMANHooD.

The women of New York, suffragist and anti-suf-
fragist, who gathered at Cooper Union last night
protest against going with the do not repre-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
The Regional Reserve Banks.

From the Indianapolis News.
The proposed location of the re-
gional reserve banks is causing an
outburst as vociferous as it is undg-
nified but quite natural. Seven cities
of Greece disputed the birthplace of
Homer. So, from the dawn of intel
lect the trivial boastfulness of local
ity has been in evidence. We ought
to have learned to do better by this
time. The almost insane obsession
that takes towns now and again as
to the number of their population is
common. But silly as this is, it is less
80 than the present strife ever the
regional banks. For it is not as IL
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
General villa Is a Summer Home, Says
Pupil In Examination.

General villa Is a Summer Home, Says
Pupil In Examination.
BALTIMORE. April 24.-What's the
matter with this sentence: "If you
hold a guinea pig up by his tail his
eyes will drop OUT? If any one does
not know. let him ask the pupils of
Friends School, Park avenue and
Laurens street, to whom was given
recently that question In a test paper.
If the answer proves satisfactory,
there are forty-nine other questions
asked in the same paper, a number of
which would be bound to stump some
of the brilliant intellectual lights of
this city.
Some interesting information on the
subject has been given by these stu
dents. The authorship of the famous
sentence England expects every man
to do his duty is ascribed alike to
Napoleon, William Penn and Presi-
dent Wilson. Disarmament, accord
ing to one of the papers, means to
be disrobed. A seismograph Is said to
be a form Of moving pictures, and p
group of fish is called a fleet"
One girl, when asked to give fact
of important interest about General
Villa, said that he QtO was sum-
mer home.
Baltimoreans will also learn from
the same source that Rudyard Kip
ling Is one of our foreign ambassa-
doris, with his post of duties in China
George Washington and Washington
Irving received the honor of writing
"Franklin's Autobiography"
Some of those who took the exami-
nation answered more wisely than
they knew. When asked to give
good example of a martyr, some
wrote President Wilson, others Theo-
dore Roosevelt. The difference be-
tween a planet and star. as revealed
in one paper, Is that one shoots and
the other doesn't.
One of the tests assigned the pupils
was a statement on the Ulster ques-
ton. The result: ulster Is concerned
in the oyster fight" ''Ulster is a great
artist" THE governor of New York
recently impeached."
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Hens Support Church In Missouri
Town.


Town.
RAVENWOOD, Mo-, April 24.-HoW
to make the hen pay the preacher
and bear all other expenses of the
church, and never know it, has been
figured out by members of the Har-
mony Church, five miles northwest Of
here.
The project followed Sundays egg
collection at the Harmony Church,
when the worshipers brought the
Saturday product of their hens to
church instead of the usual dimes
and quarters.
One hundred and sixty-eight dozen
eggs went into the contribution
boxes, or $25 worth, figuring the value
at sixteen cents a dozen, the present
price here. This makes the value of
the eggs of the community $4,000 a
year, and there is a move on foot to
market these eggs, guaranteed, as a
community. claiming the three to five
cents a dozen extra that is paid for
such eggs as compared with the I'M
certainties of the ordinary product.
The difference will pay the preacher,
keep the church in repair, buy spe-
cial music and coal and keep the
church's light plant running.
The women of the community have
agreed to undertake the plan. and
they will organize into an egg ship
ping company for that purpose.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
Dead Brother Is Made Heir to Half Estate
by Sister.


NEW YORK, April 24.-The will of
Anna Maria WEIGH, who died on April
8 at 1913 West Sixty-sixth street,
leaves half of her estate to her
brother, James WEIGH, although he
died orty-eight years ago and Miss
Welch caused him to be buried In
Greenwood Cemetery and erected a
monument over his grave.
Miss Welch left the other half OF
her estate to friend, Jane Guthrie,
on condition that Miss Guthrie give
aid to her brothers family IL they be
In want at any time. At the time
the brother died, in 1866, he was I'M
married, and his sister was his only
near relative. The explanation given
is that after burying the man she
supposed to be her brother she was
accosted while walking on Broadway
one day by a man who said. Hello,
sister. Don't you remember your
brother?" She became frightened ana
hurried on, and after reachingn her
home she wondered If she could have
buried the wrong man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24

The average government salary in
Washington Is S1,079, and the aver
age all over the country is $948.