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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24

Popular beliefs on scientific SUD-
iects apparently run in waves. Many
of our readers remember the interest
in hypnotism which followed the
publication of "Trilby." Svengali
with his hypnotic eye" at once be-
came a real and possible parsonage In
the public Imagination. The news
papers were full of stories of girls
and women who had suddenly been
fixed and paraly ed by the hypnotic
gaze of some mysterious stranger
with piercing black eyes and who
had been compelled by his will to
perform fantastic acts which they
were powerless to prevent. Fiction
writer's took up the idea, and stories
centring around hypnotic influence
became common. 1t was used as a
plea in criminal cases, various Gull
prits alleging that they had been
hvpnotized and compelled against
their will to perform unlawful acts.
All this occurred in spite of the TACT
frequently stated and known by
every scientific man, that the limita-
lions of hypnotism are definite and
we'll recognized, that no person can
be hypnotized unknowingly or against
his will. and that few persons are so
susceptible as to be capable of be-
ing compelled to perform acts beyond
their own volition and knowledge.
Another popular fiction which later
on took the place of hypnotism was
Ithat of instantaneous anestheSia
Stories appeared in the newspapers
of women who had been accosted by
strangers, and under some preteNt
| had permitted a cloth or a handker-
chief to be pressed momentarily over
their mouth and nose. Immediate
| unconsciousnes was said to have
| followed, resulting in a period of in
sensibility and irresponsibility, vary.
| ing from a few minutes to hours oil
even days. Chloroform sprayed into
an open window by means of an alto
mizer, anesthetics tied to rag or
| the end of a pole and thrown into
| bedroom instant unconsciousness fol
| lowing the administration of drugs
unknown to physicians or pharma'
cists. were some of the variations oil
| this idea. In the minds of physicians
and nurses who see every day the ad
ministration Of aneesthetics, sucf
stories only excite mirth. Any one
who knows the difficulty and labor o
procuring Inconsistencies through
the use of anesthetics, even under thu
most favorable conditions and will
| every possible means of restraining
| and controlling the patient, know!
how absurd such stories are
A latter day variation of thes'
popular beliefs may be found in thu
poisoned needle" stories which hav'
been going the rounds of the press
recently. A woman goes to MOVING
picture theatre. enters crowded ele
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
BY IRENE WESTON.

From some beavers, wonderful lit
lie captains Of industry, / learned
valuable lesson the other day, les
son which so impressed itself on my
mind that l want to hand 1t on to
you. Those beavers were living in
captiEity, and had been brought,
think, from some great rolling river
in the far west of Canada.
No one can say if they brought
with them any recollection of their
first home. but the instinct
of generations worked in them
and set them to reproducing
the habits which the conditions OF
their free life made necessary. There,
in the home of their captivity-an ar
tiflcial pool designed to initiate their
natural environment-the clever little
workers were patiently and industri-
ously building a dam, obeying the
laws which nature had forced on
their ancestry far back i'll the dim
and distant ages.
And as they worked, each little fell
low doing his part without any un-
necessary fuss or trouble, the dam
grew and grew.
| returned the next day and found
that their patient work had been
ruthlessly demolished, for the ac-
commodation did not allow of per-
petual building operations. But again
the beavers were working away
quietly and patiently obeying that
mysterious instinct and not asking IL
the morrow would bring the Destroy
ing of their work, if they would never
see the completion of the design, If
their material would fail-if, if, if, to
the point of exhaustion, as is so often
the case with human workers.
Only an animal, you say, obeying
a. blind instinct, and not to be con-
fused with a human being, who rea-
sons every step of the way.
Just so. You have there the point
which l want to emphasize.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oR1soN SWEET MARpENi; =.
Author Of Pushing to the Front hte
THE MAN IN DEMAND
Copyright 1911

aeters are optimistic. Their ability IL
not wea kened by doubts and fears
and hesitations; they do not worry;
they are not oVer-anXious; they feel
that they are able to do the things
they undertake. These are the sort of
men that accomplish the great things
of the world, the giants that turn
neither to the right nor TO the left.
who do not go over, around or under
cbsta cles but through them, and are
always equal to the occasion.
II YOU are ambitious to be some-
thing more than an average individ-
ual. if YOU expect to step out of the
crowd and stand for something in
particular. you must not do things as
everybody else does them; YOU must
inject superiority into everything you
do; you must be original, inventive
/ resoureeful.
If YOU expect TO become an inn
portant figure in the world of com
merce. a captain of industry. instead
Of common soldier in the ranks of
labor. YOU must put your shoulder TO
| the wheel
Some of the best people ever known
good companions splendid friends
and extremely agreeabe-have never
accomplished anything worthy of their
ability. simply because they had no
stamina, nG grit. They were tame,
| commonplace; they lacked the fire,
force, the originality and the push
that accomplish things,
People whose blood is full of posi-
tive force are the leaders, the az
gressive men who get TO the front.
| They do not lag and loiter behind,
waiting to be attacked. They take
the initiative and push ahead, re
CARELESS of obstacles. They go
| through life taking it for granted
that they shall control their sur
roundings: they are convinced that
there is but one power in the uni
verse, and that they are part of
| that power. They act as if they had
| their trolley pole upon the great troll
| lev wire of infinite power, and that
they are equal to any task, no mat
] ter how great.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
EoREEITuRE OF THE MORRIS CANAL CHARTER

THE PUBLIC hearing the Morris Canal Commissions
bills probably settled the bills for this session If the
legislature should pass Joint resolution insucng Aor
Wescot begin proceedings for the forfeiture of the
anal charter non-usage and msusage and if the State with
abundant evidence be had should win it carry out
regard the canal that may be of benefit the State
Without reference Lehgh Valley Railroad Company
The late Corandt Parker who not only the leader of
he bar Jersey but expert in transportation, had
amar knowledge of Morris Canal history Mr. Parker in
earring Legislative committee several years denounced
he weckng Morris criminal and said that those
been guilty of criminals who should be prosecuted
strongly advised proceedings the charter annued for
oss and longcontnued Mr. Parker when he died left
earnest the people of the State legacy 1t would
we'll uttered repeated read the New
Jersey Legislature at its present session.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
AcLEAN.uP, TOO. OF FLIES AND MOSQUITOES

THE general cleanup of the city by municipality and
tizens recommended by Mayor tIaussng, by
he least important should be the fumigaon of cellars
DESTROY alternating mosquitoes flies The Board of Health
active hand in this work and preliminary the
Ieanup the board should instructions citizens how
he fumgation
How single fly between May and August Is may be
responsible flies the number of 100000
lies demonstrated This number if all survived would
Jury the thousand feet deep This fly might have
Aeen alternating during the winter and every fly
of disease germs and to health and life Every
eggs and the killing of the alternating
sect prevents the of mosquitoes which
10 other of prevention stop.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
AN ANIMAL AND A MAN

For goodness sake. let that much
Wanted and often misnamed reason
of yours rest. when it's advice is I'M
necessary and superfluous.
You have a thing to do, YOU know
it must be DONE Then why not go
ahead and do it, putting all your tor
turing doubts and reasonings aside
until there is need of them?
You have a dam to build, o bridge
to cross, and you want to make
success of it, do you not?
But all your effort, all your earnest
work is stultified by the feverish APP
prehension with which you search
the horizon of your life for signs of
coming disaster which shall interrupt
or even spoil your work.
You feel convinced that a thousand
small things will happen tomorrow
or, if not, the next day or even the
day after that, to interrupt your
work, and you are almost tempted
to lay down your tools in despair
But. my dear despairing one. why
do YOU not set yourself to command
success by the very force of your de-
termination? Each little drawback,
each little block or delay will not
daunt you if taken by itself, will 1t?
1t is only when You allow their ac-
cumulated force to assail you in an
ticipation that they become power
full to deter you from your desired
achievement
Make sure, when you undertake
some new work. that you are going
to be successful, and you will find
success waiting for you.
| It is the cowardly fears, the vexed
anticipation-the proud products of
that much-yaunted reasoning power
which lay waste your energy and
which bring to naught many a we'll
laid plan.
| Learn, like the beaver, to make the
| business of the moment your present
obsession, and you will have learned
l that lesson of which ] spoke.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
Development of seaside Resorts.

From the Medical Journal.
For many years the nations of
continental Europe have given con-
sidera ton to the development of sea
side resorts. Americans rarely stop
to realize the extent to which the
possibilities of these numerous locali-
ties along an extended and varied
coast-line have been recognized and
developed abroad with a combination
of business tact and hygienic insight.
In this country the exploitation OF
the seashore has been left largely to
chance. The number of seaside
resorts in Prussia has grown from
thirty-one in 1880 to 1856 at the present
time; in Germany as a whole with it's
comparatively small coast-line, there
are today 1874 localities in which the
possibilities of the seaside are publicly
developed in some degree.
The good that is accomplished in
the way of promoting health. en-
joyment and recovery from disease
by the modern development of the
seaside as a climatic and institutional
agency is undoubted. One wonders,
says The Journal of the American
Medical Association, whether there is
not a far greater opportunity for the
development OF some of our own
natural coast resources for the public
welfare than has been assumed here
tofore. The aim should always be to
reach every group of our population.
so that the less faVorabl situated as
well as the more opulent might reap
at low cost the advantages which a
favorable climatic location has vouch-
safed. Even if the seashore hobby
were worshipped like a fetish, it
could do little else than good; for
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
How Railroads Lose Money.
=, tho IJortford Timpg

From the Hartford Times.
More than a year ago several hun
dred citizens living along the line OF
the Central New England railroad pc
titioned for increased train service.
After due consideration the Public
Utilities Commission ordered the rail-
road company to operate four trains
between cartain points at certain
hours. The railroad lived up to the
order. 1t had to. The petitioners
didn't live up to their petition. They
didn't have to. They had the salts
faction of carrying their point and
of having the trains available when
they cared to use them-which they
didn't. The railroad lost 100000
Now, after a year of experiment 1t
has secured permission to discontinue
the trains. Things are back Just
where they were-except the $20'OoO
That is somewhere else.
And this is an incident which goes
to show that there is a very danger
Gus possibility of working injustice
upon the railroads when attempt is
made to direct their operating policy
by government authority.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
Che Centen I11ald

Demure and pretty, eyes cast down,
In plainest garb of sober brown.
The pomps of gay and social life,
Renowned for a more serious strife,
(Just for time), as all may see,
Filtration frills, frivolity,
Aside her lively pleasures laid,
You sec the dainty Lenten maid
With air devout-that always wins
She ponderS meekly DER her sins,
And for their penance, cuts her teas,
To lectures goes, with aim TO seize
In Browning clubs, things of like kind,
The chances TO improve her mind
And be a student, real and staid
This literary Lentcn maid.
The sweetest little saint she makes
And more admiring ardor wakes
In this new aspect, sweet and good,
Than in her gay and hippant mood,
But soon twill pass; her study inks,
And she will toss down learned works,
To come in stylish garb arrayed
The gorgeous, merry Easter maid
Josh Wink in Baltimore Amer
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
They All Bought Cansries. but the Paint
Came OFF the SpRrrows.

HASTINGS, N. Y, March 24.-Sat-
urday night 100 homes in this little
Hudson river city rejoiced in the pos
session of a canary bird. Every bird
had been bought that day, and every
one had cost the buyer 81. A peddler
came this way on Saturday with a
CARLOAD of cages, each containing a
canary bird whose singing qualities
were guaranteed. They sold fast
Yesterday the golden coats of the
birds began TO fade. and this morning
each was gray bird, and the gray
was that of the well-known English
sparrow. The peddler who sold the
painted canaries left town on Satur-
day night. He is not expected to re-
turn,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24

THE WALL Street Journal takes hand in the Morris canal
light and naturally takes the side of Wall Street railroad in
ere that are represented in the Legh Valley Railroad Com
anv The Journal concludes queery mixed article by saying
The excellent present for deadly The Lehgh
alley railroad present unfortunate should hand
the department Justice For many years the railroad
any could any have handed the property the State
didn't propose do surrender
violated charter The unfortunate owner the railroad
oanY knows why.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
Auto Criminals Well Treated

law or offended by the stencil of cells,
little cards, have been given to all
auto owners. The police, glimpsing
speed machine, arrest card The
driver is not molested Now the spit
ters and occasional iags also want
cards for purposes of arrest-but so
far they have got none.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
WHAT HE CAN DO.

Professor, know my son is rather
slow. but in the two years that you
have had charge of his education he
must have developed tendency in
some direction or other, What occu-
patton do you suggest as q possible
outlet for his energies, such as they
are?"
fitted for taking moving pictures of a
glacier"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24

\ colored woman was arguing and
arguing with her husband, and when
she had finished he said: "Dinah. yo'
talk don affect me no mo than a
flea bite"
well" she answered Use gawna
keep yo' scratchin,.'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24

tb
From the washington Star.
General William Booth, of the Sal
walton Army, was recently quoted as
saying that married men were worth
more than bachelors; that they were
more efficient, more dependable, more
loyal to employers and We're worth
more in salary. General Booths es-
innate of married men is generally
approved-by married men
The married man has always sus-
pected lack of courage in the bache-
lor, ecause he knows that the bache-
lor has never been subjected to the
supreme test of the soldier-the bat
tie test In a way the bachelor is a
shirker-skulker is such "A hard word
because although he cuts capers in
the ballroom, talks CALAMITY at tho
theatres and arrays himself with sar-
torial care, yet measured IN terms OF
the firing line he is not there! no
man can truly wear the Victoria cross
unless he has braved the stern dis
cipline of married life.
In the matter of efficiency how
could a bachelor compare with a
married man? The bachelor has had
no training He goes out and comes
in without let or hindrance. lie has
no need to conjure up excuses for get
ting out and has no need for invent
ing explanations for coming in late.
What does a bachelor know about
the furnace and how TO keep tho fire
going all night on scuttle of coal
What does a bachelor know about
concealing his real feelings and keep
ing the peace with his -wife's rela-
lives? What does a. bachelor know
about milk bills, millinery. bills. but
toning up waists, shoe bills for the
children, cleaning the snow off the
sidewalk and putting Il baby to sleep
A bachelor is apt to think that he
has discharged his obligations to so
ciety when he buys two matinee
tickets a box of candy and a bunch
of violets; but when he does these
things it is a hopeful sign, for it in
dicates that his future wife is on his
trail, and when this happens there is
for him no escape.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
TORREON ABOUT TO FALL.

THE TAKING of Torreon by the Consmonalists will be
IN important step the capture of the Mexican capital and
he dsodgmen Huerta from power for the key of the sit
the capital Villa has taken and occupied an important
utmost OF Torreon and promised be in oreon today
onorrow He kept his promise take Chihuahua and will prob
bly make good now
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24

!
of our people amid a hygienic en-
Vironment is likely to be wholesome.
Bug Month" in Kansas
! from the Kansas Industrialist.
This is bug month" in the Kansas
schools. Several thousand teachers
will, this month, impress upon their
pupils the necessity Of learning how
| to combat the insect pests that de-
stroy millions of dollars worth of
crops in Kansas annually. The agri
! cultural college, which requested
county superintendent some time
ago, to urge teachers to give bug
lessons in March, has sent bulletins
and circulars dealing with the va
rious Kansas pests. to teachers in
all parts of the State.
The school campaign against bugs
is directed chiefly against chinch
bugs, Hessian flies and grasshoppers
The agricultural college believes that
Kansas children should begin early
in their careers to study insect pest
control with the idea that a state
wide educational campaign against
the bugs eventually will result in the
elimination of these pests from Kan
aaS
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
To Take Tip Costs Job in New Tiples
MnInl-
Wife Driver Again Falls cupid's Victim
and Is Henpecked.

LIBERTY. Mo-. March 24.-Lafe
Choate. who two years ago hitched
his wife with pair of mules and
plowed with her in a corniield, has
married again More than that, he
is henpecked The man who whipped
his wife like q horse when she fell in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24

Blobbs-That fellow Bjones is a
mighty auarrelsome sort of fellow.
Slobbs-Yes, even his own state
ments conflict.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
Graft Cornca of Pigs Eye Onto That of
Boy.

Boy.
BALTIMORE. March 24.-An opera
ton of unusual interest was per-
formed at the Baltimore Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital yesterday, when the
entire cornea of the eye of a pig was
taken out and grated on the eye of
a three-month-old boy. The pig was
brought from Germany to this coun-
try for the purpose. The little pa
ticnt is David Kane, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Herman Kane, of Gettysburg,
Pa,
To Take Tip Costs Job in New Tipless
Hotel.
ST. LOUIS, March 24.-The famous
old Southern Hotel, closed two years
ago, will reopen on May l as g tipless
hotel Any employe accepting tip
will be discharged. The Missouri Ath-
letic Club will occupy rooms in the
building, which has been made fire.
proof.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

! whatever encourages the outdoor life
of our people amid a hygienic en-
Vironment is likely to be wholesome.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
ODDITIES IN TODAYS NEWS

the traces is as submissive as a child
to the former Miss Bessie Evans. of
Kansas City who since last week has
been his bride.
There is a reason. The new Mrs.
Choate weighs 200 pounds. At the
first sign OF trouble she put her foot
down and announced that if Choate
did not behave he would do a little
blowing himself alongside some of his
mules.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
Aged womans Wish TO &c Buried
Sunrise, Fulfilled.

NEW YORK. March 24.-In COM
pliance with her wish expressed short
tly before shs-died, Mrs. Elizabeth p.
Gardiner ninety-four Years old, 81
Bellport, L. l., was lowered into her
grave in Woodland Cemetery, Pat
chogue at sunrise this morning. The
funeral service was spoken by Rev
Jacob Probst of st. Pauls Episcopal
Church, Patchogue, an hour before
daybreak, and Just as the first streaks
of dawn revealed themselves the flu
neral moved to the cemetery.
Mrs. Gardiner was tie widow of
William C. Gardiner who half cen
tury ago conducted furniture stores
in Manhattan.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
NATURALLY,

The fellow who jumps out Of the
frying pan into the fire naturally
thinks he is hot stuff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-31

Adams Jewelry Store will be able
to show, for the next day or two only,
a few diamonds which have been col
lected through irregular channels
and which can be offered way below
the market on a quick turn for spot
cash or bankable paper.
These stones come through the
pawnbrokers and estate auction
sales and from those who have had
to realize Immediately in the large
cities.
Some of them are no doubt goods
which were heirlooms and had to be
turned loose to meet stringent con-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-31
Mrs. McNulty Entertains.

Mrs. F. NJ. McNulty gave an infor-
NAL tea Monday afternoon in honor
of Misses Mcintyre, Wilkinson and
Jackson, the guests of Miss Louise
McNuIty and Miss Sarah McLain'
Bridge was played at three tables
Later other guests not playing bridge
came in, and a most enjoyable time
was had. The rooms were prettlly
decorated with white carnations
Each honor guest was given deck
of cards. Late in the afternoon sand
witches and tea were served. Mrs.
G. w. Dozier and Miss Claire Wooten
will entertain for the visiting girls
Wednesday, y