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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
SUFFRAGE SNAPSHOTS
BY MINNIE j. REYNOLDS

to enrich the soil of every land in
Europe. And what was the end of it
all? prisoner on st. Helena and
France with just the same territory
she started with.
will the present wicked and barbarous
war be ended After it is all over the
boundary lines of Europe will remain
practically the same with perhaps a
few square miles here and there de-
tached from one country to be added
to another. But millions of cannon
food" furnished by the mothers of
Europe will have been used to ac-
complish these pitiful results.
We can we'll imagine the war lord
of Germany repeating today Ma
poleon's cry, more mothers" They
will, kill by millions in this war. The
guillotine of the French revolution is
child's toy compared to the mines and
machine guns which NOV down hum
dreds at shot
And the bodies of women must be
used to furnish the material for these
machine guns to kill Throughout
the history the war lords and the
money lords, those who wanted fresh
bond issues to mortgage the labor
nations for generations to come-have
taken the sons of women to use in
this way. Not till women of all ma
lions have reached their full stature,
the point where they know enough to
demand the vote, to get the vote and
to use it, will this senseless relic of
barbarism, the war of aggression, be
abolished
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
THE VITAL QUESTION IS FOOD PRICES.

While the events of the in Europe continue
to absorbing interest the minds of the American
people have turned to what may be termed domestic
war-a war by sordd and criminal combinations
against the food of the nation. The Importance of
this attack upon the nations welfare and
upon the health and lives of the people is para
mount 1t transcends that the and of its other
effects upon country And the fight against the
public enemies who have made the war a pretense for
Cutting their unholy greed must be begun at once
and prosecuted in dead earnest.
The people themselves can do nothing but suffer
and complain. In such emergency they must look
to the men who represent them in public office and
who are clothed with the authority to act They
their Governor, to the encouragement,
to the county prosecutors to the mayors and alder
men of the cities and they must form some kind of
organization up the officials cooperate with
them.
Mayor Haussing has already acted He has put
the matter up to the Governor The city counsel has
already begun to examine the law to ascertain the
limit of the police authority The authorities in other
cities are taking action. What is the Governor who
represents the executive power in the State, doing?
What should the Governor do? Surely an executive
with adequate idea of his duties to the people
would not ask that question He would act on his
initiative and at
One of the seven sisters" laws apparently pro-
vides for the criminal offense now generally COM
med, and it is the duty of the encouragement to
enforce the "seyen sisters laws But they have
been enforced and there has been example made
any that might at this time prove deterrent
for the inordinate greed in active play. The
"seven sisters laws have been dead-etter laws.
But if appealed to now, what would the laws
amount to in the great emergency2 A brought
under these acts might not be decided in the courts
for several years. and it would have little effect
the present situation. Something immediate must
be done under the police power of the State. And
legislative session should be called by the Governor.
If there public need for special session and
drastic legislation that need is now.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST IL. 1914.
THE BRITISH TROOPS.
JAMES SMITH. JR.
FOUNDED MARCH 1. 1889.

Military experts awaiting with much interest
technical reports of the fighting in Europe 1t is
TO be expected there viii be considerable rivalry be-
tween the British French forces in the matter OF
efficiency against the Germans and Austrians. The
Belgans. apparently, have been able. by reason of
their Notifications, to offer stubborn defense No
doubt they have received much advice from the
French engineers and the English army experts.
Chief interest. however, rests on the actual field
work of the British unit. 1t is known that many
thousands of British troops in Belgium. But it
should be remembered that it took 100000 British
soldiers from all parts of the world to overwhem 25,-
600 Beers and crush the South African republic that
was created by Dom Paul Kruger and his handful of
sturdy Dutch The vedt of course, is far different
from the chessboard of Europe but when steel meets
steel it may be assumed that the same Netherandish
strain Of the German backed by perfect military or
ganizaton, again will reveal to the world the same
spirit that wrote the names of the Tugea river and
Spion Kop into the pages of history.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Secret of Sinners Magic Influence

For many years the most intimate
personal as well as professional rela>
tions were maintained between Parke
Goodwin and George William Curtis.
In many respects their careers were
of a like character. Both were maya
zine editors and jointly associated as
editors of the once-famous Putnam's
Magazine. Both obtained great popu-
larity as lecturers, and 1t was as
lecturer that Mr.. Curtis gained
sufficient amount to repay the credi-
tors his share of the obligations
which the failure of Putnam's Maya
zine entailed. Mr.. Curtis was under
no legal obligation to do this, but he
looked upon it as a debt of honor.
After Mr.. Curtis's death, in 1892, I
frequently heard Mr.. Goodwin set
forth in anecdotal form some of his
recollections of the delightful and life
long association he had with the
famous writer. One day Mr.. Goodwin
was telling me some of Mr.. Curtis's
experiences as a lecturer, when all of
a sudden new train of thought led
him to speak of an experience which
the latter had undergone in the days
when they were joint editors of Put
MANS Magazine.
Il never saw Curtis really excited
but once" said Mr.. Goodwin. II should
be more accurate if l said that I
never saw him really excited except
ing when he recalled his experience
with Jenny Lind. He was ordinarily
perfect master of himself. He con-
trolled his temper admirably when
he was attacked by Roscoe Conkling
at the Rochester convention of 1877.
He always spoke of the debt he had
incurred through his association with
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15

transportation to Germany to join their colors
And it is not unreasonable to believe that with
the organizations the German ex-solders and re-
seryists have in the United States embracing thou
sands of men, there is something more than rumor
in the British dispatch The Canadian border lined
with small towns and is undefended Rading parties
from the cover of American forests could up
the entire border along the whole of Canada and do
immense damage. May it not be necessary for our
war department to patrol the border protect our
neutrality?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
Have Always Co-operated

Continuing its romance the Times
says that the four State suffrage or
CARNATIONS in New Jersey, the Wom-
ems political Union, the Woman
Suffrage Association, the Equal Fran
chise Society and the Mems League,
the last three cooperate in all things,
while the Union co-operates only in
the legislative work on the suffrage
BILL or words to that effect.
On the contrary, the Union has
never refused to cooperate when
asked, and has extended many invi-
tations for joint activities. 1t Coop
Grated in the New Jersey suffrage
parades, and gave the mass meeting
for the last one, at Proctor's The
atre, at its own expense. 1t partici-
pated in four joint county campaign
conferences last spring, those of Es-
sex, Bergen being called by itself,
and those of Union and Morris by
the New Jersey Suffrage Association.
1t sent a large number of men dele
gates to the convention called by the
mems League for Woman Suffrage at
Asbury Park last summer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
PANAMA CANAL OPENING TODAY.

Four months and fifteen days ahead of schedule
time, the Panama canal the most wonderful work of
man, is opened today for the commerce of the world
Four centuries ago Balboa discovered the Pacific
ocean, unknown to civilized The American
continent then a savage wilderness. Today it
with human life and vies with the old world in
its civilization
The dream of the Spanish explorer and conqueror
has been fulfilled by the great northern republic of
which Balboa had vision. American enterprise has
made two continents out of and married two
oceans it has created worlds pathway and
begun epoch.
The celebration of the formal opening of the
Panama canal is to take place in March of year
when the worlds navies to take part. Probably
there will be few nations represented in the process
sion of ships to through the canal but the event
will commemorate the mightiest work of man. work
that does not need formal celebration distinguish
it such.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15

sPutnam's Magazine without betray-
ing the slightest symptom of regret
that this obligation should have
weighed SO heavily upon him.
But it was different when Jenny
Lind's name was mentioned. Curtis
once told me that he heard Jenny
Lind in Leipsic, four or five years
before she came to the United States.
He paid $780, or the equivalent, in
Germany money, for his ticket.
don't think any one in New York city
was as greatly excited as was Curtis
when Jenny Lind began her concert
tour in the United States.
Il once asked him why his recol-
lection of Jenny Lind and her sing
ing affected him so strangely.
"He told me in reply that when he
heard Jenny Lind sing in Leipsic he
was satisfied that there was some
thing besides her voice that SO mys-
teriously and strongly brought the
audience under her complete control.
He said that after he heard her sing
in New York he was persuaded that
she possessed some mystic or almost
hypnotic faculty which she exerted
perhaps unconSciously.s He was also
persuaded that Jenny Linds singing
and the wonderful command she
gained over her audiences furnished a
hint of the higher and almost unsus-
pected faculties not only of the hui
man mind but also of the human
SOUL and that he was profoundly
convinced that Jenny Lind gave the
first hint in modern times of what
the ultimate perfection and the ulti-
mate universal language of the hui
man race are to be. For music, Mr..
Curtis insisted, is some day to be the
universal language, as 1t is to some
extent the universal language now"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
THE GERMAN-AmERIcAN PROTEST.

The mass meeting of German-speaking citizens to
be held protest against the alleged par
TALLY of the press in printing the news of
the great war Europe natural expression of the
feeling that exists among them. For the obviously
prejudiced character of the cable dispatches is well
calculated to cause anger among people whose ma
tionalites are Disseminated against.
1t is true that in the their comments and in
their treatment of the war of the American
newspapers violate the spirit of neutrality This
however, would be the in any country. During
our Civil War Americans in Europe felt outraged at
tone the European press almost without exeep-
ton During our war with Spain the war news was
garbled to reflect troops and ships Americans
keeny resented this treatment but it should at least
teach fairness to the American newspapers.
In regard to the present war it can be simply said
that newspapers in the United States have no aterna
tive as to war They have to publish the cable
dispatches or omit them, in which latter they
would have no war news to print and, result
no circulation Nor could they s out the wheat from
the chaf the false from the true. There have been
few dispatches from German sources, and these
printed
During the civil war in Mexico the dispatches
were often incorrect and they generally favored the
Constitutionalists, inasmuch as Mexico City was
Isolated 1t is fact that not few of the news
editors of the American daes of German
nationality they had except to print
the cable dispatches received. for there nothing
else in the way of to print.
But men who cherish deep and abiding love of
the land of their birth, of its splendid traditions, its
music and poetry and romance and pride in its Won
derfu achievements in the arts and sciences, in COM
merce and manufacture-how could they read the
daily dispatches telling of almost uniform German
defeat without a profound resentment? And they
have right to give their feelings free expression
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
Got Some Things Wrong

In its issue of August / the New
York Times devotes nearly column
to the Womens Political Union of
New Jersey. This is very nice, and
we are much Obliged to the Times for
this unsought publicity, but it got
some things wrong.
For instance, it refers to a cam
paign which it says the women of
Hudson county have been waging for
more than three years to convert
Governor Fielder to suffrage, and re-
marks 1.-The Political Union has about
despaired of ever attaining their
purpose"
The Women's Political Union is not
organized in Hudson county. The
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation holds the fort in Jersey City,
and the New Jersey Equal Franchise
Society in Hoboken; and the unsuc-
cessful three years campaign must
be theirs, If anybody,s. All that the
Women's Political Union has asked
Governor Fielder is to please see that
our amendment is advertised this
summer, instead of being entombed in
his office, as it was last summer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
Evening Star Astrologer
Copyright, 1914.)

dicted. Widespread changes in the
management of theatres is prophesied
by the seers.
The planets are held to be inimical
to the large ambitions of men who
have been long in public life.
Dancing Is subject to planetary
sway, which will diminish the general
interest of the public which patron
ICES places of amusement.
1t Is said by the seers that a reac-
ton toward wholesome standards OF
dress and conduct is indicated. De-
cadent modes and extremes of every
sort will diminish.
A campaign of vigorous contest is
foreshadowed. Political parties will
b, affected with startling revelations.
In the Eastern States surprises will
be numerous, If the astrologers are
correct in their demonstrations
Persons whose birthdate 1t Is have
an omen that is not altogether lucky.
There is danger of loss through fire
or thieves. The health should be
safeguarded.
Children born on this day may not
be fortunate in their lives, but they
may overcome obstacles, If they are
trained out of the idle, careless ways.
These subjects of Leo may marry
more than once.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
How Newark Lost a Fountain

! which lay in the present site of Mail
street.
Mr.. Agens was acquainted with the
superintendent in charge of the work.
and the latter agreed to permit the
basin to be removed to Newark If a
place could be found for it.
Mr. Agens interviewed George
Peters, who then occupied the Con-
ditz mansion, now the home of the
Essex Club; John Bragaw and other
property owners in Park place. The
uncertainty of the times, however,
and the apparent inadequacy of the
Newark water supply made it impos-
sible to bring the fountain to this
city.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
Peru's Foreign Commerce

Peru's foreign commerce in 1913 eX-
ceeded s75,OO0.00O. gain of s2,325, 900
over 1912. This statement was made
by President Benavides in his mes
sage to Congress. Exports In 1918
were s45,o0O,0o0. decrease of $780,
900 from the previous year.
The President referred to the arbi-
tration treaty signed with the United
States and said that no effort had
been omitted to increase friendly
relations with foreign nations
Peru's public debt, the message said,
had Increased $1,000, 900. The president
admitted that the present state of the
treasury was a delicate one. He con-
cluded the message by pledging the
government to giving a free ballot in
the forthcoming elections.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15

How the city of Newark had to de-
cline the offer of fountain for Mill
tary Park because the supply of wa
ter was inadequate to permit it to be
used is told in an interesting letter
to the Evening Star from Frederick
G. Agens, of 731 High street.
Just about the time that the civil
war was brewing the present post
office building at the apex of City
Hall Park, New York, was nearing
completion. In order to avoid con-
gestion of traffic. Mail street was
opened at the rear of the post office
building. This necessitated the re-
moval of a Westchester marble foun-
tain basin, seventy feet in diameter,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
Mourning DlsappearinE.

From The ONO state journal
The notice of the death of an emil
nent man in London contained these
words: His wife and family will re-
spect his urgent desire that no out
ward sign of mourning should be
worn" In referring to this notice, the
London Times says: THE practice Of
wearing mourning has long been slid
ing into disuse, and probably the next
twenty years will see 1t abandoned
altogether, at any rate among the
weather. people"
According to the London paper, all
badges of woe are disappearing from
funerals. The black rosettes on the
horses brides and the crepe from the
hats and sleeves are seen seldom. So
it is with black edged writing paper
and black edged cards. 1t is all going
because mourning is not needed,
either for memory or respect. Here
are two paragraphs from the Times
article:
"Those whose sympathy we value
will give it us without our advertis-
ing for il; it will seem all but in
decent to go about the world demand
ing sympathy of strangers.
"And if we believe that those who
have left US have still the power to
observe our doings we must believe
that it is our hearts, not our clothes
that they will read"
And all of which may seem a little
unfeeling, and yet it is only to give
an idea Of the changes that are going
on in the world of mourning.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
UPLIFT TALKS
FREQUENT CONTACT WITH NATURE SECRET OF vlGoR
AND POWER
BY ORISoN SWEET MARDEN,
Author of pushing to the Front. Etc.

new creature, with a new grip
upon life. The cobwebs, the brain
ashes have been swept away from
the Jaded brain. He has been made
over anew. Life means more than
ever beforel His dimmed ideals have
been frightened and sharpened, his
ambition renewed. Ask him If a va
cation pays. and he will ask you, in
turn, If 1t pays the grub to throw
off its ugly shape and blossom out
into a butterfly; II 1t pays a rosebud
to open up its petals and fling out
its fragrance and beauty to the
world.
Character is fed largely through the
eye and ear. The thousand voices in
nature of bird and insect and brook,
the soughing of the wind through the
trees, the scent of flower and meadow,
the myriad tints in earth and sky, in
ocean and forest, mountain and hill,
are just as important for the develop
ment of a real man as the education
he receives in the schools. If you
take no beauty into your life through
the eye or the ear to stimulate and
develop your esthetic faculties. your
nature will be hard, juiceless and I'M
attractive.
The man who comes back from a
vacation spent amid the beauties Of
nature is often a much better man
than the one who went away. I have
seen the most nervous, harassed bus
mess men SO completely transformed
by few weeks in the country that
they did not seem to be the same men
that they had been before. They had
an entirely different outlook on busi-
ness, on life. The things that irri-
tated and worried them before the
vacation they did not notice when
they returned. They were new crea-
lures, born again.
Great minds have ever felt the pc
culiar healing power Of nature; the
divine currents of life in the country
have ever been balm for their
wounds, a panacea for all their ills.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15

No one can wholly divorce himself
from frequent contact with nature
without serious loss or Gripping de-
terioration. We all came out of the
earth; and 1t is by coming in fire.
quent contact with it that we regain
our lost nature and vigor. We have
a peculiar love for nature because we
are part of 1t. We are composed
of the same elements that enter into
the rose the fruit, the plant, the tree.
This is our natural home, and we
cannot live under the artificial condi-
tions of the city without serious loss
OF power and certain deterioration.
When you go into the country make
up your mind that you are going into
Gods great gallery of charm and
beauty to enjoy yourself and to see
what you can get out of 1t. Resolve
that you will come home laden with
riches that no money can buy; that
you are going to extract from the
landscape-from the mountains, the
valleys, the fields, and the meadows
a wealth which does not inhere in the
dollar
Learn to drink in beauty and
health at every pore. Try to realize
that the flowers, the grass. the trees
the brookS, the htlls-the charm ana
beauty everywhere-are Gods smiles;
that they are for him only who can
appreciate them, who can respond to
them, who can appropriate their
message. They cannot be bought:
they belong only to him who can
enjoy them.
What difference there is in what
two people bring home from vaca-
ton (the country. One comes back
tired disguised. bored. He has
spent his money and doesn't feel
that he has much of anything in re-
turn. Another comes back all ra-
diant with the riches which he has
drunk in and absorbed during every
moment of his vacation. He comes
back rejuvenated, refreshed, inspired,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
Afraid of Them

A Newark clergyman has travelled
extensively in China. During one Of
his trips his wife was given tea
by the eight wives of a mandarin.
When seated at the table the Chi
nese ladies looked with awe upon the
costume and appearance of their
guest. One of the native women
naively asked:
you have arms as large as Il
man; are you as strong as a man?''
Il do not know" was the reply.
Your feet are not small like ours;
can you run as well as a MANI was
the next question, as it came from
the interpreter.
81 believe So said the minister's
wife.
"Then you wouldn't let a man heat
you, even If he was your husband
who loved you?" was the next query.
mo; do not believe that 1 would"
she said
The mandarin's wives exchanged
significant glances. then one. more
bold than the others, said: Now we
know why the American men have
only one wife; they are afraid of
them"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
Not Glad of War

Let nobody think that the
Parisians are a hysterical bunch of
jingoes," said a returning tourist. II
thought so until l was in Paris when
1t was discovered that the war was
inevitable. The streets became filled
with mournful, solemn men and
women with tear-stained faces.
Everything and every person bore a
funeral air. Some of the American
papers had it that the people paraded
through the streets singing the MAR
seillaise' and cheering. / heard no
such thing.
1.-The waiter who cared for US in the
hotel was a fine young chap. who
spoke English perfectly. While he
was serving US i said to him:
Well, ] suppose you will be glad
to go to war
"'No,' he answered. Il will not.
although I will be compelled to. I
have been married but a short time,
and yesterday baby came to our
house