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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
A Capitol of Mercy.

From the New York Mail
Plans have been approved at WASH
ington for the new 100000 building
of the American Red Cross, and ere
long that building, in a classic
design, harmonizing with the neigh
borhood, will take it's place, next to
the Corcoran Art Gallery, among the
monumental structures which stand
between the White House and Wash
ington Monument and the Potomac
river.
Private munificence has Joined
with governmental foresight in en-
bellishing that part of Washington
with superb buildings. The Corcor-
an Art Gallery, the Continental
building, the Pan-American head
quarters, this Red Cross temple and
the new Lincoln memorial will, with
other structures yet to come, con-
vert the old Potomac flats, where
in summer the humid heat still
seethes and surges, into an impress
sive congerie of palaces Private
munificence has a larger hand in
the erection of this Red Cross build
ing than public generosity, for of
the fund of 100000, which makes
it possible, 100000 was contributed
by individuals and 100000 was ap-
propriated by Congress. What is this
Red Cross building? 1t is the capitol,
so to speak, of the mercy of the
nation, not only toward the sick and
wounded in war, but toward the vic
tins of all manner of public calam-
tiles
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29

ct have often found entertainment
in studying the use of tobacco, as
il has characterized and indl-
vidualized many of my associates IN
the lower house of Congress and in
the Senate" said the late Senator
William p. Frye, of Maine, to me
shortly after his return from Pafls'
where he he'd spent some weeks as
a member of the commission Whlch
wrote the treaty of peace with spain
u am myself regarded as pretty
steady smoker. But l have known
some men who would discount my
capacity in that respect. When we
were in Paris ! observed for the first
time with what passionate tondness
NV associate, Cushman Is. DAVIS, the
senator from Minnesota, smoked
cigar He was the only man l ever
knew who actually ate an extra meal
solely for the purpose of smoking an
after-dinner cigar.
After 1881, when / first went to
Congress, / think it is safe to say
that almost every other man useo
chewing tobacco Speaker Carlyle
was an ardent devotee of the habit
7 think he did not smoke, but 1t was
his custom every morning to buy a
certain kind of fine-cut which came
i'm hulk. and not in prepared pack
ages He would stuff the tobacco into
a naper beg and consume the Whole
of II bv the time the days session
was ended. -.
II do not recall now any member
oe the House who used snuff, but
I do remember wildly the graceful
etiquette with which Senator Thur
man, of Ohio, used to take snuff out
| of a silver box, and. after applying IL
| 10 his nostrils, blow a. trumpet blast
upon red silk handkerchief, the
| gerry handkerchief which afterward
| became emblematic when Thurman
was candidate for Vice President
"t was told that President Hayes
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author of ''Pushing TO the Front htc'
COURTESY A BUSINESS MAGNET
Copyright. 1918.

GRAFTON. | have known a rich New
York man who carried a very large
balance at his bank to change ms
account because of little incivllity
of the receiving teller. One warm DAY
when transacting business at the
bank the man removed ms nat a1@
put it on the shelf in front or the
teller's window. The teller ordered
him harshly to remove his hat. Yes,
was the quick reply, II will, and l
will remove my account, too" which
he proceeded to do. This was a little
thing, you may say, but 1t is just
these little things that influence Gus
toners.
Bank officials often wonder why Mr..
So-and-So has withdrawn his patron
age, and they will probably never
know that it turned up on hasty
remark of q teller, a little disposition
onathe part of some official to be un-
accommodating.
On the other hand. men often go out
of their way quite distance in order
to deposit at a bank where the cashiers
or teIlers have been courteous, KIND
to them. have always shown disposi-
ton to accommodate.
Some railroads in this country have
built up an enormous patronage and,
made millions of dollars by this
policy of helpfulness and courtesy
among their employees to their pa
irons. While some parallel roads have
been unsuccessful and have gone into
the hands of a receiver largely be-
cause of the lack of courtesy. kind
ness and obligingness of their em-
ployees.
Courtesy pays in every business in
stitution. Human nature is so con-
stituted that people will often put
themselves to great inconvenience.
will even put up with an inferior ar
ticle or with discomforts, rather than
patronize houses that treat their GUS
toners rudely.
Courtesy is to business and society
what oil is to machinery. 1t makes
things run smoothly, for it eliminates
the jar and friction and the nerve
racking.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
THE ALIEN GUNNER AND HIS GUN.

BY UNFOLDING the Pennsylvania statute forbdding aliens
game carry firearms for killing the United States
Supreme Court uphod Jersey game laws In this
State take special license the but
the trouble of this class abroad with shot
guns destroy necvorous birds The carrying of
shotgun suburbs rural sections should be held be
presumptve of intent When the possession gun pun
the wardens need far afeld detect
Leaflets printed several languages have been dis
ruted among aliens instructng them about the game laws of
who violate the law do it with knowledge and
eli eraeiY.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Senator Fryes Study of TobaccoUsers in the Senate

secretary of the navy, Colonel Rich
ard Tompson, was entitled to the
distinction, If it be a distinction, of
being the most inveterate smoker in
Washington. He never was without
a cigar excepting at g time when
propriety forbade it's use.
Il think William Mckinley was
fonder of cigar even than President
Grant. He certainly smoked one
with more artistic grace, and he
smoked a good many. William Ma
hone, senator from Virginia-you re-
member what a little man he was,
nothing but bag of bones, as his
wife once said-smoled the blacklist
and the strongest cigars that | ever
saw. | would not care to tackle one
of them.
Roscoe Conkllng was a constant
dry smoker, but he never lighted a
cigar. He would cut one in two in
the middle and then chew first one
half and then the other. holding the
parted ends between his teeth. He
once told me that he did that be-
cause he thought it helped his diges-
ton.
But the queerest habit associated
with smoking that / ever heard OF
was one which characterized CaleS
Cushing. 1t was told BY one of Gen
eral Cushing's friends that it was
the great statesmans habit to smoke
| a cigar a little more than half way
up and then, after letting it go out
he would put it in little cloth bag
In that way he accumulated butt
after butt. and would carry then
around in this bag in the inner poke
of his coat When he wanted &c
smoke he would draw forth one OF
these butts and light it and after
smoking it for a while he would lie
it go out and return it TO the bag.
Copyright, 1914, by E. j. Edwards
! All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Speculation in the Future.

From the Wall Street Journal.
The president of a bank which con-
templates the establishment OF
branches abroad, but has not yet
come to a definite conclusion on the
matter, makes the following interest
ing statement:
1T may be that we are approach
ing the time when speculation in Sc
curities of American railroads will be
very greatly curtailed. The new
regulations proposed in the Presi-
dents antitrust program, combined
with those to which the roads are
already subjected, will remove much
of the element of mystery which is
essential to speculation, and the Sc
curities of our railroads will then
make an appeal only to the investor
That is wholesome and desirable; put
in a rich city, and a rich country
like ours, there will always be great
many people who will desire to
speculate, and if they do not find the
opportunity at home they will seek
it abroad.
American banks having branches
in the great foreign financial centres
will be in touch with affairs outside
of our own country, and through them
the opportunities will be afforded for
intelligent speculate in the securi-
ties of companies operating in Sec
tions of the world Of which the very
names are now unfamiliar to New
York ears. l think I can see the
time when London's supremacy as the
financial centre of the world will be
seriously threatened by New York,
and when there will be a stability to
our financial affairs such as we have
never known in the past. We shall
have solid security in our investments
at home and large profits from more
or less speculative undertakings
abroad, the risk of the latter being
minimized from the diffusion of our
capital all over the world, so that
calamity in one country will not af-
feet lis seriouslY."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
why Radlum Is Dear.

From the London Times.
The artificial price of radium, conf
planned of by DIR. Lazarus-Barlow in
the Times of Thursday last. has been
the subject of much discussion in
radium manufacturing circles, as all
those interested in this new work
realize that no matter what fresh
supplies of mineral may be found,
there will always be very heavy
works costs involved in its extraction.
Pitch-blende often contains to per
cent. of uranium, while the minerals
now being looked to for the increased
supplies of radium frequently contain
only l or per cent. The radium is
present IN the same relative proper
tons. and carnotite and autunite
NAV contain as little as five milli-
grams of radium to the ton of ore.
The value of radium Is hardly in
trinsic in the fullest sense; it depends
on the expense of treating the mass
of mineral with which 1t is assoclat-
ed. The mere fact that it may take
ten or twelve months or more to OBJ
tain pure radium bromide from the
ore alone indicates the high cost of
treatment. While, also, there is such
a deplorable shortage of rad1um,
many countries are Wiling 10 pay al
most any price in order to obtain the
priority of delivery.
1t is hardly just, writes a we'll
known radium chemist, to put the
blame on those responsible for pre-
pairing the radium, but it is reason
able to hope for a reduction In price
for the treatment of the low-grade
minerals In treating these poorer
grade ores the proportion of radium
to the total mass is so minute that
it requires the greatest skill and eff
ficiency to avoid losing most of 1t
in the ordinary works losses. Skilled
operators, expensive machinery and
the length of the various processes
involved are alone responsible for
the greater part of the expense,
though the attention of many scien-
tific men is at the present moment
being directed to means. of reducing
the length and number of the opera
lions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Advises American Girls to Stay at Home

dollars and the prima donnas need
advertising.
81 have been misrepresented in this
controversy, not SO much through
Interpretations as through incomplete
quotations, which have not made the
purpose of my suggestions clear.
Most emphatically | have cast no
slur on the honor of American girls.
1 have referred to the sex question
only incidentally. That has been in
jected by other persons, and most I'M
fortunately.
'I do not tell American girls that
they should stay away from Europe,
but | do advise them that it is I'M
necessary to leave their own country
in order to acquire musical educa-
ton and culture. In my lectures l
say: If you go to Europe, go with
your mother, your sister or your
brother Don't go without chaperon
or without money. Don't imagine
that you can scratch through some
how" when you do not know the rudi-
ments of the language of the country
to which you are going
Mr.. Freund's position has been in
dorsed by leaders in musical educa-
ton the coutry over.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
IANIIAPy
BY MARY MARSHALL.
JANUARY 20
Jessica Landseer
Copyrighted. 1918.

A sister of a famous artist is among
the famous women born on January
49, This is Jessica Landseer, whose
brother Edwin Landseer, painter Of
dogs, was probably the most popular
artist of his day. Jessica shared her
brothers artistic abilities and be-
sides painting some animal pictures
herself, spent considerable time en-
craving and copying the most popular
of her brothers pictures.
A popular writer of children's books
was also born on January 49, She is
usually known as Susan Coolidge.
Her name was, as matter of fact,
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. She was
born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1S45 and
boosted of descent from Jonathan
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
AsTlR FOR NEwARk's 25OTH ANNIVERSARY.

z PATRIOTIC WOMEN we'll taking up the
subject years hence of the 25Oh anniversary
the ding Newark the banks of the Passayak and
IS early for the civic spirit of Newark to best itself
ch within to make the memorable
doors should not be confined officials and
numerical organizations Newark womanhood has large
ay in the preparations and probably from will be OBJ
sed IL ideas for the celebration Organization essential
and th should not delayed Every principal element of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Care in Punctuation Needed

he is uncommonly diligent in sowing
discord among his friends and ac-
quaintanoes he takes no pride in la
boring to promote the cause of Chris
tianity he has not been negligent in
endeavoring to stlgmatize all public
teachers he makes no eXertions to
subdue his evil passions he tries hard
to build up Satan's kingdom he lends
no aid to the support of the gospel
among the heather he contributes
largely TO the evil adversary he pays
no attention to good advice he gives
great heed to the devil he will never
go to heaven he must go where he
will receive his just recompense of
reward. indianapolis News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
The Rich In Onr Novels.

Robert Herrick in the Yale Review
The life of our rich, especially in
the great cities, has been much ex-
plotted by the large tribe of journal
istic novelists. American life, as il
Illustrated in popular commercial fie-
ton, abounds approximately in
men servants, private cars, yachts,
clubs, international marriages, spec
tacular luxury and display-all Of
which is quite foreign to the expert
ence of the majority of readers and,
we may suspect, to that of the writ
ers themselves. Our luxury, it seems
to me, is the most unreal thing about
us as a people; in all the flux of our
social background the most uncertain
and ephemeral-the most uncharac-
teristic. And yet our newspapers.
magazines and novels are almost in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
THE REAL TANGO

of savage ecstasy. The dogs howl and
bark while the guitars play, and
when the men have swallowed glass
after glass of "agurdiente doble" the
scene not infrequently winds up with
an improvised duel with the knife
between two of the guests, one of them
is sure to rise no more from the
ground. The women scream, the dim
lamps go out. the gauchos leap on
their horses and gallop away, leaving
the dead man to be buried by some
good Samaritan the next morning
and this is the real tango.-From La
Revue Sud Americana, Paris.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Slight Mistake.

The sweet young thing had heard
people talk about microbes in kisses,
but had never heard of them being
mixed up in greenbacks. She was at
the bank, drawing money.
Are you afraid of microbes asked
the facetious cashier, as he produced
the bills. -,
"Oh, did you intend kissing me-
giggled the sweet young thing
Yonkers Statesman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
The Mexican Situation.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Naturally there are good many
varying guesses concerning the effect
the suspension of payments on the
Mexican national debt is to have on
the fortunes of President Huerta. In
Washington the prevailing official
opinion is that the attempt of Presi.
dent Wilson to establish financial
blockade against Huerta has been
successful and that the end of his
regime is in sight. Those who be-
lieve this are jubilant though why
they should rejoice in situation
which promises success to Villa is
something of a mystery unless they
are imbued with purely childish glee
over the barren fact that the United
States has been able to demonstrate
its power as dictator in the internal
affairs of a foreign power.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29

A successful New York business
man once sent a telegram to eacn OF
his several thousand clerks which
read. Ibid you say thank you, TO
every customer you waited upon TO-
day?" This man says that thank
you" has been the motto on which he
has built an enormous business. lie
has spent $4,000 in trying to impress
this motto. and all that 1t means
upon his statesmen and clerks, so that
they will not fail TO make every Gus
toner feel that it is a real privilege
to wait upon him.
The clerks are urged to estapIisn
the friendliest possible relations VIVID
their customers, to greet them with q
smile, and to talk with them, not at
or to them They are urged to make
such a pleasant impression upon
every customer that he will not only
come again, but will bring friend.
A successful business man has tried
to impress this idea upon the minds
of his clerks, always think of what
the customer will say when he gets
out of the store"
Competition has become so keen,
and the bid for public patronage so
insistent, that it is a matter of first
Importance for the business institu-
ton which would succeed today to be
popular to have the good will of its
patrons.
The officers of a bank, for instance,
know that they must win and hold
the favor of the public or go to the
wall They know that they cannot
snub their customers today, as they
once would, when there were fewer
banks, without losing business. With
a score of banks soliciting his busi-
ness and offering every possible in
ducement to secure it, it does not re-
quire very keen insight into human
nature to know that, other things
equal, the business man will patronize
the bank that has the most pleasant,
the most agreeable officers and clerks.
1t is human nature to like to be
treated with courtesy. with consid-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
ode on a Cpclan Comb

What gracious nunnery of grief is here!
One garbed in sorrows every mood;
Each sad presentment Celled apart, in fear
Lest that herself upon herself intrude,
And break some tender dream of sorrows day,
Here clustered lonely, full in marble gray.
o pale procession of immortal love-
Forever married to immortal grief!
All of life's childlike sorrow far above,
Past help of times compassionate relief;
These changeless stones are treasures of regret
And mock the term by time for sorrow set
Cold mourners-set in stones so long ago,
Too much my thoughts have dwelt with thee apart
Again my grief is young; full well know
The pang reborn, that Knocked my feeble art
With that too human wall in pain expressed,
The parent cry above the empty nest
S. WEIR MITCHELL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Do You Blame Him?

81 always knew women were in
consistent. but 7 heard of one today
who takes the cake. "
What did she do?"
Chased her husband out of the
house with stove litter and then
cried because he left without kissing
her good -by."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29

Edwards, Governor Winthrop and
other famous New Englanders. IN
like most women writer's Miss Wool
sew didn't begin her literary work
as a girl II was not until she was
twenty-six that she began her writ
ing and then success came almost
Immediately. Her second literary eff
fort resulted in the Katy Books, >
which are among the most popular
books ever written for young girls.
Still they have no SAVIOR of the once
popular goody- goody books and are
likely to continue in popularity for
another generation or so. Her later
life was spent in Newport, Rhode
Island, where she was constantly at
work with her writing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29

The population of the United States
has Increased for the last Atty years
at an average rate of 23.5 per cent.
ner decade, from 81, $4,000 in 1850 to
81 e79. 600 in 1910. At that rate of in
crease the population will be 1919
900 in 1920 The demand for bitumi-
nous coal has increased at average
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
POPULATION 113,475,OOO IN 1920

rate of g. per cent. per capita per
decade. from O.262 ton per capita in
1860 to 4.54 tons per capita in 1910
IF this rate Of increase in demand
is maintained during this decade, q
production of S35,176000 tons will be
necessary to satisfy it in 192O.-Coal
Age.
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Worse Yet.

She had Just finished reading The
Man without Country and as she
laid it down she sighed and said
IT can't imagine anything worse
than a man without a country.
II can" replied her friend,
why. what's that?"
"a country without a man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Near to 1t.

Hoax-I thought you said that the
man was a musician.
Joax-Nonsense.
Hoax-You certainly told me he
wrote melodies.
Joax-I told you he was a COM
poser of heirs. He sells soothing
syrup London Telegraph.
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

der sister of his own stepmother.
Father and son not only thus be-
come brothers-in-law, but Count Lo-
thar also becomes uncle of his
younger sisters and brothers. He
also, as the husband of his aunt, Ne
he will be the latter's great-uncle
and also his cousin.
Want Bureau or Matrimonial Records
to Prevent Hasty Marriages.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-Chief Justice
A. j. Petit, five associate justices,
Sheriff thinner, r. M. Sweitzer, Coun-
ty Clerk Richard McGrath, the circuit
clerk and six others met today to
formulate a plan to prevent hasty
marriages. Justice Petit advocated
the establishment of a bureau that
will be a combination of a social reg
lister and a Bradstreet report, a card
index system and court record of
every person in Cook county who has
ever been entangled in domestic diff
culties or criminal proceedings.
The pastors and ministers of the
city would be asked to cooperate
with the bureau in refusing to marry
persons whom they do not know I'M
less the applicant should bring GER
tificate from the bureau.
Charges She Changes Husbands with
Same Ease as Shoes.
CAMDEN, Jan. 29-That she
changes husbands with the same ease
with which she changes her shoes. is
the charge against Mrs. Hattie Hub
Ter, or whatever her legal name may
be, who was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Schmitz yesterday.
That she has had seven husbands,
at least, is the charge of Henry
Travel, who says he is one of them.
and promises to reveal all of the facts
at the hearing today
The formal charge against the
prisoner, who is attractive in spite of
her forty-eight years, Is bigamy,
Travel swears his Investigations have
produced a Pape. a Stiles, a Huber
and F'ravelle with whom she has
gone through the marriage ceremony,
each time making affidavit that she is
a widow or divorcee.
Travel declares the woman seems to
have something akin to hypnotic
power Just what 1t is he cannot
explain.