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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
HILLEs WINS THE FALL ELECTIONS.

Chairman Hes, of the Republican National Com
mittee sees Republican victories all along the line
this year, and confidently predicts the election of
Republican House of Representatives with the gain of
eight seats in the Senate.
Mr. Hrles was the manager of the Taft campaign
in 912 and he issued number of statements before
the election Ellis last deliverance carefully
considered review of the situation in which he showed
that Mr.. Taft sure to be elected, with Repub-
can House to support him. The sequel showed that
Mr. Hilles was away Off in his forecast
1t will be observed that the principal factor in Mr..
Hless calculations is the decline in the Progressive
vote as shown in recent elections If the Progress
vote should out in the Congress elections
in numbers anything like the vote in 1912 Mr. Hilless
party will be beaten. Who shall with degree
of confidence what the Progressive vote will be in
November? Nor is it safe to judge that vote by the
results OF recent elections or that the Re
publican candidates will be the sole benefeares of
the political discomfort this year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
PUBLIC PARKS LIVING PLACES.

A public park is a living room. not show place.
says the park commissioner of Trenton, and he is
right The idea he expresses has come to be well
recognized in the large cities, and the old familiar
sign Keep off the grass has wei-ngh disappeared
in their parks. One doesn't need to be old to remem
Der when the lawns of Newarks parks were embe-
lished with these signs and when it was violation
of the law to park lawn or sit down on the
grass.
Many may go back little further to time when
the city's small parks were surrounded by high iron
ratings with gates that closed and locked at
night There was also dearth of benches, The
parks intended then to be looked at not for the
public use But Trenton is not quite up to the timeA
The mayor complained to the commissioner about
the trampled grass in Cadwalader Park and the COM
missioner retorts that the park is living room, not
a show place. And he is right. Commission govern
has greatly reduced the park appropriation and
there is less money to spend for maintenance, but
that is the fault of the commissioner reason
for keeping the people off the grass.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22

Lower California, MeXico's isolated
peninsula, the coast of which the Pa
cific fleet of the United States is now
patrolling, is one of the least-known
territories in North America. The fol-
lowing facts concerning this arm OF
land, which projects about 500 miles
southeasterly from the southern Dor
der of California, has been given out
by the National Geographic Society
in Washington.
The width of the peninsula varies
from about thirty to more than
hundred miles, and its irregular coast
line. over 1000 miles long, is bordered
nv numerous islands Being NANNY
a mountainous desert region, IL Is
thinly peopled and presents many
sharply contrasting conditions. Low,
sun-scorched plains, where death py
thirst awaits the traveller, lie close 10
the bases of towering granite peaks,
belted by forests and capped in win
fer nv snow; desolate plateaus OF
black lava look down on valleys
scanned with green bordered streams.
At the time of its discovery IN 1870,
bv an expedition sent out by CorteS
i'm search of a fabulously rich ISLAND
II is estimated to have been inhap-
tied by $4,000 Indians, who vigorously
resented the intrusion and prevent
ed the newcomers from getting foot
hold for more than century. Inc
Jes11its then came in and were won
derfully successful in exploring the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22

Seventy EIGHT years ago, in April.
1885, as we are told by history OF
the Texas navy in the IYeXas Alma
nac'' for 1850, the Lone Star republic S
war schooner Invincible, commanded
by Captain Jere Brown, encountered
the Mexican schooner of-war Monte
yuma off Tampico, says the LNtle
Rock Gazette. After battle lasting
several hours the Mexican vessel was
badly damaged, but succeeded in es-
Gaping inside the port. While stand
ing out from shore the Texan vessel
discovered the American brig Pocket,
laden with provisions for the MeX1-
can army. The brig was conveyed to
Galveston as a prize of war, and the
provisions were of timely assistance
TO the yictors at San Jacinto, who
were short of supplies
In retalia ton for the seizure OF the
brig, the Invincible was afterWaro
captured while in the mouth OF the
Mississippi river by a United states
war vessel and the crew charged with
piracy. The judicial officers at New
Orleans acquitted the Texans of the
charge after a trial, and the vessel
and crew were released to partic1-
pate again in the new republics war
fare.
The Texan navy's greatest strength
was four vessels, neither OF which
could really be classed with the hght-
ing ships of that time, the InVinclble,
Liberty. Brutus and Independence:
Thomas f. Mckinney, commissioned
a captain, was actually the secretary
of the navy He resided at the mouth
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
Body and Mind

The physiological reasons why it is
we'll to heed the Biblical injunction,
Let not the sun go down upon your
wrath" were clearly presented by
Prof. w b. Cannon in a Sunday lee
ture at the Harvard Medical School,
says the Boston Globe. If you are
angry or vexed when you go to bed,
you are likely to deprive yourself of
a good nights rest and wake up the
next morning with a headache.
But that is not all the havoc which
anger works. DR.. Cannon showed that
it may stop digestion completely. and
also turn SO much sugar into the
blood as to cause serious kidney
trouble Fear and other forms of
great mental excitement produce the
same effect. 1t has long been known
that mental states are closely allied
with physical states and that
changes in the mind may be followed
by changes in the body.
So it behooves us to be serene,
placid, tranquil, never to get rat
tied" and never to worry. Has any
irascible man ever lived to extreme
old age, or did you ever see a very
old woman who had worried and
fretted all her life?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES. GALORE.

The direct primary is bringing out candidates for
nomination in all the twelve Congress districts of the
State and the cry is still they come Before Septem-
her there promises to be names enough to make long
tickets in the party primaries.
The peculiar situation that now exists gives hope
to all three principal parties. The Democrats rely
mainly on a large Progressive vote, the Republicans
are confident that this will be almost negligible,
while the Progressyes believe that they will poll the
of 1912 and in addition attract disgrunted DEM
ocratic and even Republican votes.
The November elections nearly five months
off and there may be radical changes in the political
situation in New Jersey in that time There has been
great change in the situation it was five months
ago, when everything looked Democratic, and Re-
pubcans conceded defeat in the elections this year.
Jncomprehensibe policies at Washington worked this
change. Events may alter the complexion of affairs
before November
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JUNE %
Mary Victoria cowden-clarke
Copyrighted
by MARY MARSHALL.
Copyrighted 1914

strict disciplinarian, and taught heI
children to bring all their troubles to
her and so leave her husbands few
hours at home-he was away all day
playing or giving lessons-peacefuI
and quiet. So they went to their
mother for assistance in everything
and looked on their father as a de
lightful companion. They were even
warned not to ask him for money
he was so good-natured and so abb
sentminded, Mrs. Novello said that
he would always give the money to
Them She herself would use disere-
ton.
clarlle's married life was not es-
peeially happy But Mary's family
all held Mr.. Cowden-Clarke i'll the
greatest esteem. Clara NoVello
adored him as a child-she was much
younger than he was-and he taught
her to figure and do sums little by
little each morning while he was
shaving. At night, when she was
ready for bed, she would go to him
for a story, and after it was over he
would carry her upstairs and tuck
her in bed.
other famous women born today
are the eldest daughter of King AL
fonso and Queen Victoria of Spain,
the Princess Beatriz and Anna Swan.
wick, born In 1918, an early woman
suffragist, one of the founders OF
Girton College, Cambridge, and no.
table also as a translator
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22

decrease of one-third of one per cent, while New
York has remained stationary, and Connecticut has
slightly increased And yet the census shows that
the total population in the three States has increased
less than in from 10 to 10 other States that show
less adult illiteracy The illiterates are mostly
foregn-born which the three States named receive
the largest proportion
Figures cited by the Industrial League in Mew
York show that while illlteracy decreasing in the
South it is increasing in the North Atlantic States.
From 1890 TO 1910 in six Southern States the de-
crease was from 2,O27,951 to 1,427O6S but in six
North Atlantic States including New Jersey, there
was an increase from 79O772 to 1,1O3,872. And
these Northern States have neomparaby better public
educational systems than the six Southern States.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22

One OF the unique points of interest
near El Monte. Cal, is a ranch OF ten
acres devoted wholly to the euitlVa-
tion of the Freesia Purity-a variety
developed and grown by Ruooiph
Fischer. 1t illustrates how plants as
well as animals or other KINDS OIL
created things respond TO care anu
kind treatment.
Twenty-Five years ago this particu-
lar freesia, now SO highly valued conf
mercially, was no better than mil
lions of little bulbs of its kind except
for its pure white color, and that TO
the discerning eye of the florist differ
entiated it from it's comparisons, winch
were splotched with yellow.
1t was carefully set aside from
other bulbs and received especial care
and attention. the half dozen bulbs
which il Welded the first year were
carefully hand hybridized and tended,
and so on for half a dozen years
when a new improved and hitherto
undreamed of freesia appeared, re-
markable for it's size and color, ou'
having lost some of the delicate ira
| GRANGE which had characterized tne
little blossoms among which it made
| it's first appearances singular tact II
the development of any Wild species
of plants from their natural state t'
dollhouse conditions.
size and color improve, but perfume
is decreased in strength.
| Freesia Purity made hit with no
rists, so much so that its specla
headquarters were moved from thu
Long Island conservatory, where
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
Texas Once Had Navy

of the Brazos de Dios, the usual naval
rendezvous, and the most frequented
port of entry in Texas,
Shortly after the battle of San
Jacinto General Sam Houston was
conveyed to New Orleans by the Lib
erty. The Texan treasury was so bare,
of funds that it was necessary to sell
this vessel to pay the expenses of the
trip.
In 1887 the MeXicans attempted
blockade of Texan ports. Two MeXi-
can war vessels of a superior arrna-
ment encountered the Independence
near Velasco After severe fight the
Independence was .overpowered and
both vessel and crew were captured.
The two remaining ships of the
Texans captured many prizes and in
flicted considerable damage along the
Mexican coast for several months.
On August 26 two Mexican vessels at
tackled the Invincible outside the har-
Dor of Galveston The Brutus, lying
inside the harbor, ran aground while
trying to assist her sister ship. The
unequal battle continued all day.
Toward evening the Invincible at
tempted to retreat, but was wrecked.
The crew, however, got to land in
safety.
The last vessel Of the Texan navy,
the Brutus was lost during an equi-
noctial storm few weeks later, while
in the harbor of Galveston. Fourteen
of the fifteen vessels in port at the
time were destroyed Texas, already
hopeful of becoming part of the
United States, never revived its navy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
Lower California Little Known

peninsula and establishing missions.
one along each coast and the third
down the middle, which serve as the
regular routes of travel today. The
Indians have vanished from all parts
of their former territory, except a
few in the extreme northern end.
During the last half century all
parts of the territory have been Wis
tied, mainly by Americans, in search
of mines and other natural resources
but little of the knowledge gained has
become available to the public. Gold,
silver. copper, iron and other miner
ais and much fertile land have been
found but the scarcity of water. fuel.
forage and the difficulties of trans
portatjon have united with the other
causes to bring about failure to de-
Velop the resources.
The climate of Lower California in
general is hot and arid. Northern
conditions are closely like those in
adjoining parts of Southern Califor-
mia; in the middle they are more arid
but the extreme southern end, though
arid tropical, has more regular sum
mer rains. The peninsula suffers long
periods of drouth, during which no
rainfall sufficient to start vegetation
occurs over large areas for periods
of from three to five years. These
dry periods may be succeeded By
torrential rains which sweep the
country and roll great floods down 10
the sea.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
when Botany Was Indelicate.

from the Kansas City star.
Occasionally glimpse of the past
throws fresh light on the present In
1902 Mary Wollstonecraft made her
classic plea that women should be
treated as human beings. One feat
ure of the attitude of that day is
wildly brought out in this paragraph
from her "Vindication of the Rights
Of Women"
What a gross idea of modesty had
the writer of the following remark:
1.-THE lady who asked the question
whether women may be instructed in
the modern system of botany, con-
sistently with female delicacy, was
accused of ridiculous prudery; never
theless, if she had proposed the cues
ton to me | should certainly nave
answered-they cannot" Thus is the
fair book of knowledge TO be smut
with an everlasting seali On reading
similar passages ! have reverentlally
lifted up my eyes and heart to HIM
who liveth forever and ever and said;
"Oh. my Father, hast Thou, by the
very constitution of her nature. Tor
bid Thy child to seek Thee in the
fair forms of truth? And can her
soul be sullied by the knowledge that
awfulIy calls her to Thee
Consider the change from the day
when Mary Wollstonecraft pleaded
for the right of women to study
botany, to Helen Keller's article
urging the dissemination of knowl-
edge on preventable blindness IN
babiesi
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22

American women are yearly buy
ing more than S11,000,000 worth OF
French gowns and millinery. The
figures for 1913 show purchases OF
$40 915. 900. and this total does not IN
clude shipments to the United states
of less than 500 in value, With the
addition of these smaller shipments
which are numerous, the total amer
lean bill for French clothes FOR last
year would run wen apoNe lhe hS VI
first mentioned.
The declared invoice figures for the
wear appearing in the records OF the
American consula te-general at Paris
show that American women bought
costumes amounting in value to W.
800. 900. while the expenditure Tor
millinery was $4S60 900. The Lingerie
bill was $1,255, 900, while another 81
600, 900 was added TO the total for pur-
chases of feathers and artificial frult
and flowers.
The French hat not only retains Its
old time vogue in the United states.
but is increasing in popularity, while
it any rently is losing favor to some
extern. in other countries. For 1913 the
total value of French millinery eX-
ports showed a decline of 81 ,Ooo.0oO
from the exports of 1912, But, while
women elsewhere were thus buying
fewer hats with the magic label OF
Paris neatly sewed inside. American
women were expending 100000 more
on French hats than they did IN
1872.
If the French hat did not MAINTAIN
it's general sales record last year IN
the world at large, other French
clothing for milady compensated. The
total exports from France for 1917
were SCI 100000. this figure Including
the value of costumes, hats. and hat
trimmings. ornamental feathers. and
artificial flowers. the figure being 81
OOO 900 greater than that for 1911.
Of the total export figure for last
year. gowns r,pdc IN $50, 500 600 h. Is
and hat trimmings, $1,000, 900:
lingerie, $1l 900 900; ornamental
feathers, $l1 100000, and artificial
flowers, $s.7OOOO0.
The exports of lingerie have IN
creased enormously in two years, a
gain of s4,0OO,000 being shown over
! 1911. The figure for 1912 was slightly
! larger than that for 1918,
The returns for the first two
months of this year prove that in
Everything but hats the French deal
ers are likely TO have a banner
/ twelvemonth. The exports of gowns
for January and February reached
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
MIR. BRYAN,s INooMpREHENsIBLE TREATY.

The shame OF the treaty secretly negotiated by
Mr. Bryan with the state of Colombia, with it's
sharp legal talent this country grows greater the
circumstances of the agreement examined In all
the history Of American diplomacy and treaty-making
there was anything to match this performance
of our present secretary of state. There never
before treaty that Immediately upon its production
created general amazement and called for investi
CATION of its real authorship and its motives.
The tolls surrender bill strain upon
Democratic loyalty in Congress to a Democratic adj
ministration. The Colombian treaty following the
heels of that surrender is the breaking point. The
Democrats in the Senate in revolt but Democratic
sentiment at Washington is feeble compared with
Democratic sentiment throughout the land. The
voters who put the administration into power are
awaiting with wonder the explanation for this incom
prehensibe and deeply compromising act of a Demo-
cratic secretary OF state
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
Only One Voter in Parish

1882 these were abolished by decree
of Edward [.
1t is said that when Henry Walls
was mayor of London the tolls de-
rived from London bridge were in
SUFFICIENT for its maintenance and
that, therefore, with the royal sane
ton. the mayor established a fish
and flesh market near the Church of
st. Christopher-le- Stocks The stock
market was intended to aid the up
keep of London bridge, the bridge
keeper being vested with authority to
grant leases for market shops. The
church was spoken of as the spiritual
resort of AL cody shopkeepers.
Further references to this church
are found among the records of 1472
and 1543, the latter date embracing
the period when Henry VIII. was re-
ceiving a sum approXimating f46 as
rent for the market. In 1924 grave
yard was attached to the church. 1t
was upon this ground that the Bank
of England encroached, with the re-
suit that in 1881 the church was de-
molished. 1t would appear that, to
salve the conscience of the money
makers, the parochial rights and dig
mites of st. Christopher-le-Sto
were still maintained. The garden
with the fountain within the Bank of
England marks the iste of the old
burying ground, the last interment
within which occurred more than a
hundred years ago, being that of one
Jenkins, bank clerk, seven feet six
inches high
1t thus appears that, while the old
Church of st. Christopher le-Stocks
went its way its parish remained
comprising the open space in front of
the bank and the Mansion House, the
official residence of the lord mayor.
1t is said that this parish contains but
one inhabitant, and that he enjoys
full rights of voting for Parliament
and all municipal councils.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
A BILLION FOR GOOD ROADS.

A billion dollars to be expended in highway i'm
provement in the United States is formidable prop
ositon Congress to wrestle with, but it seems ea
sble if the money shall be raised by the States on
bonds guaranteed by the United States government,
which would insure low rate of interest for the
States to pay By this plan New Jersey would assume
an obligation of 600 if the State should come
in. New Jersey is far advanced in improved road
building however, that it would hardly be necessary
for her to issue bonds for further improvement
One point is missed by the orginators of this
bonding scheme and that is the cost of maintenance
after the roads built. New Jersey now well APP
preciates this increasing annual burden, since the
annual cost of maintenance is not far from two million
dollars for the improved highways of the State If
billion dollars worth of new roads are constructed in
the United States their maintenance will hardly cost
less than one hundred million dollars annually if they
are not permitted to be ruined
But this expense will be more than compensated
for by the enormous benefits to the population
billion spent in improved roads would add at least
billion to the real estate wealth of the country It
would decrease the distance between the farm and
the market by of thousands of miles, thus cheap
ening food supplies 1t would many millions
annually in and tear vehicles and help to
make rural life attractive the population con-
the cities
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
NEwARK's BIG REAL ESTATE ASSETS.

The monetary values given to the principal prop
erty assets of Newark by the auditor is by means
excessive. In some cases it appears to be much
below the actual value.
For example, the water supply system, inclusive
of the Pequannock plant. The figure named is
S1S,529,47S22 Several years ago when this prop
erty was not as valuable as now the representative
of large private corporation estimated that his
company could pay SIS 900 600 for the Pequannock
plant and earn a good interest the investment at
the existing water rates
Military Park is given valuation of $6,O0O,000,
Washington Park $1700,000, and Lincoln Park
81 geo 900 These are modest figures especially for
Military Park with its extensive frontage in the very
heart of the city, when considered in the light of
values of land for real estate improvement.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
4 GERMAN OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE.

Germany is alive to commercial opportunities.
Her latest idea is that of using the foreign press for
advertising The German foreign office, it is said,
has guaranteed to furnish s62,5OO to launch new
syndicate for German news service abroad provided
a similar amount raised in business circles The
parent establishment is an existing news bureau.
whose activities gradually to be extended through
out the world especially in the direction of replying in
proper form to ant-German and attacks on
Germany. The idea is not new to this country. A
number of our large private corporations have
publicity agents that watch the newspapers for crit
icisms or attacks upon them and make answer to
any inYdious statements. In Germany the idea is
taken up under government auspices and for all Ger
man interests