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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04

tinguished by a certain rugged AL
most orusque personality, but was
known to be a man of absolute per-
sonar and political integrity.
Governor Lincoln's son was an
ofhcer in the army of General Zachary
Taylor. He was with General Tavlor
at the time the latter won his most
FAMOUS victory. | remember we'll how
excited the people were when thew
were told that General Taylor got near
enough to the great Mexican general.
Santa Anna, to capture his wooden
leg.
I'VE heard a little later that Gov
ernor Lincoln's son was killed in that
battle, and after awhile the announce
ment was made that the body had
been recovered and that there would
be public funeral at Worcester
Everybody. with a single exception.
shared directly or indirectly in those
funeral ceremonies. l remember what
profound impression was made on
the great crowd which lined the side
walk when the white horse which
Governor Lincoln's son rode at the
time when he was killed in the battle.
was led behind the hearse which con-
tanned the body of the young soldier.
81 have said that there was a single
exception to the feeling of sympathy
and solemnity which characterized
that funeral There was a shoemaker,
who had a shop upon the main street,
and he ventured to put out a sign in
his window. on which was painted
these words: I pay no homage to
murderers.'
But If no homage was paid by this
shoemaker to the brave soldier there
certainly did prevail overwhelming
contempt and pity for the man who
would put up sign of that kind ir
| his window in the face of the uni
versal sentiment Of Worcester"
Copyright, 1914 by f. j. Edwards Al
rights reserVed.)
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In Times Of Peace.

From the Public.
Japan is sorely afflicted. This is
our opportunity TO strike. Burdened
already to the very limit of endurance
by the cost of the Russo Japanese
War, crop failures have left millions
of her people at the point of starva-
ton. And now is added the horrors
of volcanic eruptions. earthquakes
and tidal waves. Seldom does such
an opportunity come to a nation to
overcome its opponent. This is our
chance to render Japan forever harm
less One bold stroke now, and our
Pacific coast will be as safe from
japanese invasion as the State of
Colorado. This is the psychological
moment We may never again have
such an opportunity.
But il is not with dreadnoughts or
super dreadnoughts that the blow
must be struck. 1t Is not by any form
of force that the Japanese are to be
overwhelmed. Physical blow will pro-
woke physical blow in return. Were
we to over-awe Japan today with a
great armada, she would assume yet
greater burdens. she would starve yet
other millions of her people TO re-
taliate. But by sending her shipioads'
of food instead of shiploads Of guns
and armed men. we shall by one blow
disarm her. The cost of a single bat
tleship spent for food to save these
starving men, women and children
will do more to render our coast safe
from attack than all the dreadnoughts
we could launch. The price of one
battleship expended in succoring
these unfortunate people will save the
building of twenty battleships In the
future. Will our Congress rise to the
OCCASION Never has nation had a
better opportunity to show its real
worth.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04
THE EVER UNWILLING RAILROAD.

IN THE committee hearing the Edge gadecroSs-
ing bill Senator said the assembled railroad lawyers
thing the railroads asked to do but they kick
people bit in while and they will not be
Perhaps the railroads had fewer lawyers
payros they would be reasonable and have better
relations with the public.
giving protection to human life at the grade
crossings railroads fighting humanity There more
grade crossings in this State and 40 cent of them
are unprotected Edges bill requires the railroads
guard all these crossings signal gates other safety
devices these slaughter by trains
The Public Utility Commission has done nothing and is
the attorneys of the railroads that the regua
grade crossings left that body which does nothing
UP Legislature do something and it to be
whether the nhuman of the railroad companies
shall prevail this session
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AIMING THE MEXICAN PATRIOTS.

r THE FIRST definite and decided step taken by the
administration Mexico the raising of the
barge long been urged the President but
Justice party and necessary for the elmna
Events have abundanty that all the Con-
needed fair show by to drive
out Huerta and popular government.
by the administration brings the crisis nearer
recruits for General Villa into the field and
them with all the they need 1t puts new life into
national freedom Huerta in the
Beginning rapid advance the capital
But what part will have to play?
The downfall presents problems that
will have be grappled with and they Will be attended by I'M
difficulties has simply been waiting
watching with clear idea what will do When the change
the purely negative policy have pursued must necessarily
be changed positive
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SOME ODD CRUSADES

es, and at the coronation of King
Edward he was arrested with can
of gunpowder. He had announced
his intention of blowing up the stand
erected in front of st. Georges
Church.
Today we have among us gen.
tleman. an officer of the Veteran Re-
serve, who spends his life in an I'M
ceasing battle against the motor car,
He demands the utter abolition OF the
mechanically propelled carriage. Not
long ago he inserted the following ad-
vertisement in daily paper:
1.-THE motor. l should be glad to
hear from pedestrians or horsemen
who would support me in organizing
q, national horse and foot league,
with the object of restricting our
roads to horse and foot traffic exciu
sively."
I'm this matter" he explains, II am
a whole hogger."
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minister inveighed against card
players and gamblers" the laird. with
CLEAN of humorous malice in his
bright old eyes, would politely offer
his snuffbox to ''Leddy Betty" who
he well knew still enjoyed a little
game in the evening, with the civil
hope that her leddyship was
hearin'."
But when the discourse, proceeding
eloquently toward thirteenthly, be-
gan to deal firmly with careless
livers and profane swearers." Lady
Betty, innocent of the picturesque
expletives and foreign calculations
that decorated her neighbor's Ian
guage, would lean forward in her
turn, administer a coy tap with her
fan, and inquire solicitously:
'sYe're no sleepin,' / hope, laird ?"
Notwithstanding her friYolities,
Lady Betty at her death gave the
remnant of her patrimony to found
a. quaint but excellent village char
ity in aid of INDECENT widow women
of good report the usefulness OF
which was later considerably ex-
tended by bequest from her friend
ly enemy the laird.-Youth's Com
panion.
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Shoemaker Who Had a Contrary Dniniou

There is, perhaps, no better pre-
served American citizen, both physi-
cally and mentally, than Ira Dimock.
who has been for many years resi-
dent of Hartford, Conn. Mr.. Dimock
is fond of saying to his friends that
when he was born, George ". was
king of England. In his early child
hood William Tvs reign began and
ended. He was about ten years old
when Queen Victoria began to reign.
He has lived through the reign of Ed
ward VII, and read with interest of
the coronation of George V. When he
was born, John Quincy Adams was
serving as President of the United
States. He was able to cast his first
vote at the presidential election of
1S4S.
Mr.. Dimock is now the president of
a large manufacturing corporation in
Connecticut, and his Hartford home
ia house which was built by the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt in that part of
Hartford which is still known as Van
derbilt Hill When asked to what
he attributed his long and active life,
Mr.. Dimock replies: IT attribute it
to temperate habits. That is what
has done the trick for me-"
The recent disturbances in Mexico
and the apprehension that the United
States may possibly be compelled to
intervene reminded Mr.. Dimock of an
incident of his early manhood, TO
which he has recently made some pub
lie reference. When asked for little
fuller details, Mr.. Dimock said:
81 was working as an artisan
in a manufacturing establishment
at Worcester, Mass, at the time of
the Mexican War. I remember well
the excitement which prevailed
throughout all New England and es-
pecially in Worcester.
cat that time Levi Lincoln was gov
ernor of Massachusetts. His home
was at Worcester. He was very
prominent citizen and was dis
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04
Ill COST AND LITTLE BENEFIT FOR ESSEX

THE HUDSON river bridge bill introduced in the Senate
provides plan the 100000 of
lion among counties of Essex Hudson Bergen Passac
and Union bill impossible Bergen county which
ourhs of the benefits of bridge assessed the least
and county which the benefits and uncertain
highest Hudson might be content
since the bridge will help to build Jersey City and
enyrons for Essex the is utterly absurd
based the raables this
obviously unjust that could the sanction of
2 lepisl body.
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From the New York sun.
In his yearly report DR. Nicholas
Murray Butler deplores too much
slovenly reading matter" as an OBJ
stacle to education. 1.-THE substitution
of quantity for quality" and recalls
the fact that the great lawyers of
the colonial period and the makers
of the Constitution had few, but the
fittest, books; knew well few first
rate books
One reason aside from insufficient
or incompetent instruction in the
schools for the so often complained
of illiteracy. so to speak, of college
students is probably to be found in
the mass OF juvenile stories which
the Carnegie and other libraries feed
to them and which they skim through
at the double quick, getting no per-
manent impression. Their great
grandfathers read over and over and
assimilated a handful of books. The
little dingy or tattered home collec-
ton was often their school, college
and university. Let us read over
again Nicolay and Hays description
of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood stud
les:
His reading was naturally limited
by his opportunities, for books were
among the rarest of luxuries in that
region and time. But he read every
thing he could lay his hands upon,
and he was certainly fortunate in
the few books of which he became a
possessor. 1t would hardly be pos
sible to select better handful of
classics for a youth In his circum-
stances than the few volumes he
turned with a nightly and daily hand
the Bible. 'Aesop's Fables Robin
son Crusoe,' The Pilgrims Progress
a history of the United States and
Weems's Life of Washington These
were the best and these he read over
and over till he knew them almost
by heart"
Almost by heart! Fortunate the
child who has lived with few books.
In world of volumes swollen to
intolerable dimensions there are still
but few books. They are those we
make our own; that shape the mind,
store the memory, are the foundation
and the discipline of our intellectual
life.
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Issuing a Form.

Say exclaimed the excited young
man with the discolored optics, II
want you to strike me off a few
thousand cards"
IAN right, SIR responded the print
er, what shall | put on them?'
Just print None of your business
in big type. Then when the next per-
son asks me how ] got this black eye
l can just hand him card and save
words. Exchange.
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
FEBRUARY q
BIT MARY MARSHALL.
Katherine lyman, Amelia Webb,


Two writer's stand out as the birth
day patrons of February T. They are
the Irish poet and the novelist Kath-
erin lyman and the American poet,
Amelia Welby.
Amelia Welby was born ninety
five years ago in Baltimore. She did
not possess great education nor had
she many advantages but her poems,
published under the title of Poems
Of Amelia" received considerable
praise by the best critics. Edgar
Allen Poe, who was not lavish with
his praise of other poets, said of
them: None equal her in the riches
and positive merits of rythmical
variety. conception and invention"
Perhaps If her span of life had ex-
ceeded thirty-four years she would
have gained greater place among
famous women.
katherine lyman. who was born
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04

In Dublin In 1851, is an ex-
ceedinely versatile writer and
her name is familiar to many
American readers. She published
her first works, Irish poems
of a popular and rather sentiment
tai nature when she was twenty
four and has kept at her writing
with remarkable industry ever since.
She was married at the age of thirty,
two to barrister of note named
EIinkson. Her children-two sons ano
one daughter-have been source OF
the greatest pleasure TO her. In TACT
in naming the things she likes most,
Mrs Hinkson-she is known as
Katherine lyman only in her writ
ing-mentions first the society of her
children. Besides that she enjoys
talking to good listener, the COM
panionship of dogs and collecting
china
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04
ORANGES LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.

MAYOR MURRAY, of Orange, what Orange cti-
why the legislative committee go ren
to legislation affecting Orange should include the
hole adermanic body This has been the and Mayor
urfay believes observed the breach than
Observance He points that effective committee would
the city the chairman of the committee Newaks
legislative consists of the city counsel mainly with
committee of principal officials, and Newark has much
larger stake in legislation than Orange
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Cbink Rot / Shall TorSet

o, little flowers among the grass,
That smile upon me as pass,
Think not | shall forget your cheer
When ! am far away from here
All, no when Winter hides her face
OF this, your happy dwelling place,
And you no more on earth are seen,
My love shall keep your memory green.
In distant lands, in coming years
Your faces, flowers up through my tears
Shall often smile, and always be
Delightful solace unto me.
Your gentle souls about mine own
Shall hutter, wing away the stone
Against the door of Mirth that's rolled
And bid him forth, though am old
Accept my thanks for present bliss,
And for the Joy to follow this;
Smile on, and drink the morning dew
And, somehow, drink my love for you.
JOHN RHUDDLAU, in Chicago Pos
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

made to place the apparatus in the
hands of experienced operators, and
the only instructions given were that
for economical operation the cooking
devices should be disconnected from
the line as soon as any operation was
completed. According to the reports
a two-pound roast took less than
three-fo urths of a kilowatt hour of
energy, costing a trifle over two
cents. A four-pound roast and six
large potatoes were baked together
at a cost of three cents. A five and
one-half pound chicken and twelve
medium-sized potatoes and toasted
bread were also thoroughly cooked
for three cents. By using alright
cookers with compartments a four
pound roast and six large potatoes,
together with a quart of tea, were
cooked for cent and a half, and
three pound ham with twelve po-
tatoes and a small head of cabbage
cost q little more to render fit for
human consumption. A three pound
pork roast, six large potatoes. and a
can of corn and one pound fruit
pudding were thoroughly cooked for
a trifle over two and one-half cents
In one case family did Il weeks
cooking with electricity at a cost of
seventy-three cents. Another family
using an inclosed cooker operated the
appliances for a week at q cost of
1875 cents. In another home three
dinners for four persons were cooked
at cost of eight cents.
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THE NEW U. S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE.

THE NOMINATION of Thomas c. Haght of Jersey City as
United Court judge for New Jersey acceptable
c and will doubtless confirmed by the Senate without ques-
tou Mr. Haght from old Monmouth stock he of
Of LAWYERS and his Democracy hereditary county
counsel for Hudson displayed the ability that designated him
likely appontee the United States District Court udgeshp
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Electric Cooking Not Expensive.
From the Electrical World.
The municipal plant at Kansas
city, Kan, placed at the disposal of
eight representative families various
electrical cooking devices with the
request that the women doing the
cooking make records of the food
cooked and the time required for
each operation. No attempt was
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04
Burglars Six Days q Week, But
to Church on SUNDAYS.

NEW YORK. Feb. 4.-Following
burglary as business six days
week, attending church services on
Sunday and throwing away religious
trinkets which they stole because it
was opposed to their scruples to sell
such articles, Charles and Gustave
Reeke brothers, today continued to
point out to detectives the victims
of their many operations in Brooklyn
Charles. who Is twenty-one years
old, was recognized by two detectives
yesterday as a former burglar who
claimed to have reformed after serv-
ing a term in the Elmira reformatory.
With Charles at the time was his
brother Gustave, nineteen.
To the police the brothers confessed
to have committed one burglary daily
for six months except on Sunday.
why not on Sundays" the older
brother was asked
Because Sunday is a day of rest
and we attend church. And we were
decent in other ways, too Charles
added. After we'd break into a
house and find we had taken gold
crosses and rosary beads and other
religious things we'd always throw
them away. 1t would be wicked to
sell them"
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Kills Black Fox and Trades 1t for $
Farm.
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich, Feb. A.
One crack of his rife gave Isaac Kali
ma a farm which he had desired for
ten years. An animal which he shot
in the dark proved to be black fox,
which he sold for $1,000 He cashed
the pelt for forty acre lot.
This is the third black fox killed
in Upper Michigan IN the last four
years and Is coal black, except for
a tiny spot of white, not an inch
across, ON a hind foot. A silver fox,
worth $500, was killed last year near
the scene of Mr.. Kalma's lucky shot.
Kisses Wife Against Her Will; Sem
fenced to jail.
SAVANNAH. Ga. Feb. 4.--Whether
or not a man has a right to kiss his
wife against her will was decided in
the negative by Recorder John
Schwarz In the police court yesterday
when he sentenced Morgan Martin to
thirty days in Jail for displaying such
affection for his spouse against her
will. Mrs. Martin has begun a suit
for divorce and has received her first
decree. Martin admitted that he had
forcibly kissed his wife. but said that
he dearly loved her and could not
bear to be SEPARATED from her without
some display of affection.
Engineer Stops Train TO Break Hoodoo
and Is Discharged.
ALTON, ILL.,, Feb. 4.-Peter House
man has lost his job as engineer on
the Illinois Terminal railroad be-
cause a black cat sped across the
track in front of the train. There
was no chance of the cat being hit,
but Houseman reversed, put on the
air brake and made a sudden stop.
When the surprised train crew and
passengers looked from the windows
TO find out the trouble they saw the
engineer throwing snowballs at an
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BernhaFdtts Early stage Days.
Paris Correspondence London Daily Tele-
graph.
Mime. Sarah Bernhard gave yes
terday at the University des Annales
the first of a series Of lectures on
THE Art of Diction." The hall in
the Rue st. Georges was crowded to
the doors Not even when the great
criminal lawyer, NJ. Henri Robert,
was presenting his defense of Lady
Macbeth had such an audience been
seen. When Nine. Bernhardt appear
ed on the platform there was an ova-
tion which died down only to break
out anew when the lecturer laid aside
her cloak and the little red bar of
the Legion of Honor showed against
her dark corsage. For the first time In
her long and splendid career as "a
servant of the public" Nine. Bern
hardt faced that public not across the
footlights.
With graceful modesty she claimed
the indulgences of her audience for
a "debutante'' She was afraid she
said. that there would be a good deal
of egoism in what she was going to
tell them of her beginning as an
actress. Would they permit her, she
person, and to avoid the deadly itera-
ton of the first personal pronoun?
The little girl of eleven years old of
whom ! am going to speak to you
seems another persona second. il
not third-from her who f1fty-nine
years later addresses you here Did
ever woman, one wonders. acknowl-
edge the three score years and ten
with more subtle grace?
Then she told us of a little girl at
a. convent who thought she had a vo-
cation in the religious sense. q. vo-
cation for the religious life. One day
there was a f1utter in the dovecote,
for an archbishop was coming on an
archiepiscopal visit. Several of the
girls were to recite a Biblical piece,
Tobias and the Angel" Little Sarah
was not among them. But one of the
little girls had stage fright at the
last moment, and Mile. Sarah was
asked to take her part of the angel
She took it. triumDhantly. From that
day she felt she had new vocation
A Country of Mud.
From Suburban LifeN
Our country is a country of mud,
Our roads are no roads. They are
ruts, holes. stones. sand-disgrace
Our so-called, badly miscalled roads
impoverieh our farms, send our farm
ers to the city. keep our children ig-
norant, put our girls on the streets
ir search of the pleasure they cannot
find in the isolation of the farm, cut
off from human intercourse by reason
of impossible roads. Our children
cannot go to school when the roads
are bad. Only when rural roads are
good are rural schools well attended.
We have the greatest railroad
mileage, the greatest telephone and
the greatest telegraph mileage of any
country in the world. In our roads
we have the biggest opportunity
and the worst conditions-in the
world,
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Usage hedge tree. wherein was
perched the black cat
What are you doing?' inquired the
conductor.
This blamed cat ran across the
track and I've got to chase it back
across again to break the SPELL re-
torted Houseman, as he gathered
fresh ammunition.
Socn he dislodged the cat, which
fled back across the track. A COM
pany official was on the train. House
man promptly got pink envelope
stating his services were nc %qsN
needed.