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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
4 CENTURY THE span OF LIFE.

The well-preserved veteran at Atlantic City who
took dip in the ocean his hundred and first
birthday this week is object for wonder but may
the average span of life be extended century?
One of the speakers at the session of the Medical
Association Atlantic City showed that the average
of human life in the last century had been increased
by fifteen years and predicted that this increase
would be duplicated in the next twenty if the
knowledge now possessed by medical science be
effectively employed
Improved means of living better and purer food,
sanitation, increased leisure for working people,
moral reforms and the diffusion of education must
go hand in hand with medical science which in the
few years has made such wonderful progress in
the prevention we'll the of human ailments.
May not the average age of man be increased to a
hundred years before the present century closes?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
VOLUME LXXxuI.-NO. 140.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE "a, 1914.
TO BOLSTER UP THE PETITION FRAUD.

A petition as diseredited in its character as the
Commission League petition should, for the sake of
the reputable men who put their signatures to it in
good faith be permitted sleep its last sleep in the
archives of the city clerks Office filed document,
nnocuous because of lack suhceney of valid sig
natures, but as much an official record as if it had
met all legal requirements.
Hundreds of well-meanng citizens per-
suaded to give their signatures in the belief that the
petition was what it was represented to be, volun
tary and honest expression of the wishes of thousands
of legal voters. They find now that they were
deceived.
investigation resisted by the promoters of the
petition and insisted upon by the city clerk, has
shown that the petition is padded with about two
thousand fraudulent names. And honest signers
learn to their that unknown persons taken
from lodging houses hired to solicit names under
temptation to falsify, and that many hundreds of
names were fraudulently turned in by them and
attached to the petition.
What more do the reputable men who innocently
signed this paper want with it? And what value
morally and legally remains for it? How can the
reputable signers be reconciled to have their names
figure any longer on petition fit only for the scrap
heap? And yet it is soberly proposed by its crest
fallen promoters to keep the petition alive and fill
up the big hole made in it with many reputable
names might make it legal paper under the law
Those who go to the courts must have clean
hands. A petition reekng with fraud and con-
ceded to fraudulent by it's promoters cannot COM
mand the respect of any court The mere elimination
of the bogus fraudulent does not raise the
character of the petition and the substitution of other
names not fraudulent makes entirely different
instrument composite of and old that is not
within the contemplation of the Walsh act The
petition is in utter dsrepute-it has no moral status
or legal existence. 1t is only visible evidence of an
attempted gross imposition upon the Newark com
munity. 1t should be put out of sight forthwith
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Through the Great Canal

captain desires, through the twenty
four miles of Gatun Lake. There 1t
will enter the famous Culebra Cut, a
deep slice in the mountains, the only
break in the continental backbone Of
the two American continents from
Alaska to Cape Horn. For nine miles
the channel passes through this cut,
ending at Pedro Miguel. 1t is in this
section of the canal that so many
slides and breaks have occurred
twenty-six in all, covering total
area of more than 200 acres. For the
satisfaction of those who fear thati
this may be permanent danger, it
should be mentioned that a recent
special report on the geology of the
cut concludes that, when the banks
have been properly terraced and the.
pressure on the sides thus properly
adjusted there is no danger of the
slides endangering the operation OF
the completed canal.
At Pedro Miguel the ship will enter
another lock on it's downward trip to-
the Pacific. This lock will lower it
thirty three and one-half feet to Lake
Miraf1ores, small body Of water,
itself at an elevation of fiftyfour
and two-thirds feet above sea level.
A sail of a mile and a half across
this lake brings the ship to the sta
ton of Mirafores, where it will enter
a series of two other locks and be
lowered to sea level. At Mirahores
eight and a half miles of channel
separate the vessel from the Pacific.
The canal has been graphically COM
pared to a huge water bridge divided
into two sections, with the locks act
ing as water elevators at each end
Review of Reviews.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24

The mad monarch, unfortunate
Otto, of Bavaria, has a strong aver
sion to the thing which he once loved
best He cannot bear lakes or rivers,
though once he used to delight in row.
ing, says Pearson's Weekly.
His brother, Ludwig IL, who
reigned over Bavaria before him, and
was also insane, in like manner
turned against the music in which he
once took the greatest joy
Ludwig was the great friend and
admrer of Wagner, and Wagner's
death in 1889 nearly killed him. He
at once ordered all the pianos on
which Wagner had played to be
draped. in crepe, and never afterward
would allow music of any sort in his
palaces.
The present kaiser is we'll known to
be a man of an intensely practical
mind. the very last one would mag
inc to be influenced by any dread of
the supernatural Yet those who
know him best would never dream Of
mentioning within his hearing the
"White Lady of the great royal es-
tate at Konigsberg.
The original of this strange and
well authenticated apparition was a
| beautiful girl who was forced into
marriage with a Margraf of Bran
denburgh. old enough to be her father.
| Her heart was given to another, she
BETRAYED her husband. and in his
! fury he walled her up in the secret
passage leading to her apartments.
There the walled-up passage re-
mains to the present day, and no KING
of Prussia will permit the ancleh'
masonry to be meddled with. The
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Charm of Simple Life

conditioned on sincerity 1t demands
that a man be himself. his best self,
his natural self. The poor man
should not pretend to be rich and try
to hold his own in social display or
pace with the wealthy. The rich
man must not assume to be poor and
live below the style that his social
standing and good taste require. 1t
is an affectation of simplicity for the
scholar to think or speak or act as
if he were ignorant, an exhibition of
insincerity for the unlearned to mask
his ignorance with bluffs at knowl-
edge. The simple life cannot be
lived when harmony between char
acter. ideals and conduct between
profession and performance is want
ing.
Simplicity of life adds charm to hui
man existence that the strenuous
the red blooded the efficient, lifo
fails to yield. 1t brings leisure. 1t
gives ease. 1t has grace and ele-
eance and time for graciousness OF
nature and manners. The strenuous
life leaves no opportunity, except IN
the case of such rare souls as Azure
Illus. who ideally blended the strenu-
Gus life of heroic dutifulness with
the simple life of the spirit, Tor the
attainment of that unconsclousness
of oneself which makes the social HE
a delight and gain.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Why "PIunks" for Money

they are not in the list that fills
over two pages in Slang and It's
Analogous" a list that begins "ac-
tual ballast, BEANS and ends with
''wad, wedge. herewith yellow boys,
yennoms." We learn again that H.
100000 is a marigold fl0O, 900 a plum
$500 a monkey, and IS Cd q coach =
wheeA five-pot piece, fiatch, fore
coachWheel, George, half case, half
dollar, half Oxford, half yenork
madzacaroon or Stat
Great is the English language
But listen to Mrs. Hester Lynch
Piozzi, the author of British Syn
onym; or an Attempt at Regulating
the Croice of Words in Familiar
Conversation" Dublin. 179D; Money,
cash, cole, assets, ready rinc, chink
corianders, form a string of hateful
words Synonymous enough, or near
ly so, in the vulgar and despicable
dialect of coarse traders in the hour
of merriment: but to be ever sedu-
lousy avoided by those who mean
to be thought eminent for choice of
phrase and elegance of conversation. y
She quotes DIR. Johnson as having
said there was such a thing as "a
city voice. different from that OF
persons who had from their youth in
habited the court end OF the TOWN.
We know, Mrs. PioZzi, what Dr.
johnson said of you when you were
weary of Widowhood. although the
Brewer Thrale had left you not
merely "a parcel of boilers and watts,
but the potentiality of growing rich
beyond the dreams of avarice.' DR..
Johnson may have shifted at ready
rino." and snorted at "chink,' but
he surely would have smiled on
"plunks" and "plunkers." There IS
something substantial and sturdy in
the mere sound of the word.-Boston
Herald.
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l.. X. asks the origin of the word
"plunks," colloquial, familiar term
for dollars. He wonders whether it
has any association with the Plunkitt
family 81 remember hearing the
word before the Civil War. 1t was in
me after that historic event, certainly
as late as the seventies in New York,
where | was then living
The word is still heard in Boston,
although our "best people" prefer
"bones," sometimes cold bones.
Strange to say, 'plunks," or "plunk-
ers,' is not found in any slang die
tionary of Importance, though many
less pleasing or foolish synonyms of
money are treated with almost rev
erential consideration by compilers.
We find no word in dialect forms
that suggests an origin. Has the
plunker in the game of marbles any
thing to do with it? The 'nicker,
sometimes called a "plunker,' was
"pigger' that had been partly vitri-
fled in the fire, and generally had one
side burned to a darker hue than the
other. Did not ''plunks" originally
refer to heavy coins rather than 10
bills? Here is one of those ques
lions concerning derivation which
like the precise nature of the Sirens
song or the name assumed by Achil-
les when he hid himself among
women, is puzzling, "but not beyond
all conjecture. Plunks! The word
is significant. impressive. Hearing
it. we think of doubloons, moidores,
pieces of eight; of ventripotent, auri-
potent, auriferous and Vociferous
persons, bank directors, bondholders,
renters, shakers of pagoda trees.
Plunks, cold bones, long green, in
sect powder, mazooma with Its
variant mazoomda) words as sweet to
us as was the sound of Mesopotamia
to the pious old lady in the pew; yet
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Poison HemlOck

Water hemlock is a deadly plant
common in most country neighbor-
hoods. Its roots are eaten often in
spring by mistake for some edible
root, and death frequently results.
Cattle are often poisoned by drinking
water in marshes where it grows.
Greeks made poisons is a near rel
alive to the water hemlock. 1t stands
from two to seven feet high and has
clusters of small white flowers and
large, parsley-like leaves. The stalk,
being hollow, is often made into
whistles by country boys, and many
children are poisoned in this fashion.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Insurance and Assurance.

They were talking, the little group
of agents, about the words insurance
and assurance, some claiming that
the first and some that the second
was the better word to use.
But with a scornful laugh a Boston
agent in gold-rimmed spectacles said:
you are all very ignorant. Insur-
ance is no better and no worse than
assurance. Each has a special signifi-
canoe, and each is equally good in
it's place. The place for assurance is
where precaution is taken against a
certainty-against, that is, death Life
assurance, we should say If we spoke
with perfect correctness. The place
for insurance is where precaution is
taken against an uncertainty such as
fire, shipwreck, burglary. Fire insur-
ance, marine insurance, we should
say Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JUNE "a
Rebecca Harding Davis
copyrgh
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL

Rebecca Harding Davis, who was
born on June "a, 1881, has the double
distinction of being a distinguished
novelist and the mother of dis
tinguished writer. She was born in
Washington, Pa, and at the age of
thirty-two was married to l.. Clarke
Davis, a Philadelphia journalist. Five
years after this she published her
most celebrated novel, dallas Gal
braith''
Another celebrated woman born on
June "a, Caroline Give, was also a
novelist. Her masterpiece, Paul
Ferroll,3 was sensational novel,
which caused d great stir at the time
of its publication.
A third distinguished woman. whose
birthday falls on June "A is known
chiefly for her Letters from Egypt
This is Lady Duff Gordon. She mar
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24

From the St Louis Republic.
The male pedagogue is vanishing.
He began TO disappear along with
the ox-goad. the lang squirrel rife,
the prairie schooner, the log cabin
and the log schoolhouse. Even in
what remains of the Old West the
female schoolma am from Iowa, Hi
pois and Missouri has taken his place.
The United States bureau of edu-
cation recently issued a report show
ing that of all the pedagogues in this
broad land of ours but y per cent.
are males. The other 70 per cent. be-
long to the female of the species
Twenty years ago the female princi-
pal of a public school was rare in
dividual They are plentiful now.
Chicago has a woman school super
intendent. They are by no means I'M
known in other cities.
Statistics are dull things, but the
recent report of the United States
educational experts show that this
decline in the. number of male peda-
eogues has been going on for at least
two generations. Year by year the
percentage of men teachers left has
dwindled. In city and village schools
they have been almost eliminated.
There are many male teachers left
in the rural districts. but one look al
one of these group photographs of a
county teachers institute shows they
are outnumbered about three to one
by the women pedagogues. The lists
of graduates from teachers colleges
and normal schools show that mer
are no longer going into the profess
sion.
1t is not hard to find the reason. II
is an economic one. Teaching pay il
poor. Increased pay in the profess
sion has not kept pace with pay in
creases of farm hands or hod-car'
riers or other skilled and unskilleC
labor. few years ago Southern
Illinois township erected magnifi
cent township high school. 1t was
splendidly equipped in laboratories
classrooms and athletic fields. 1t wa
crowned with a copper dome costint
few thousand dollars. Nothing wa
overlooked from industrial chemistr,
to cooking arrangements.
The principal chosen was a we'll
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Psychology Of Pockets

To prove how undeveloped is the growing urchns mind
Turn small boys pockets and these treasures you
will find
A top, six rusty shingle nails hank of dirty string
snake deunct), railroad spike battered napkin ring
broken 6le rubber ball, some bits of broken rock,
And sundry of shattered barn door lock
To prove that lovely is deficient in the brain
Turn out her leather hand bag, which is likely to contain
Cancelled transfer thirty azzed squares OF Silk
A fragment of recipe for sterizng milk
pontless pencil stamps powder and puff
shopping list, some scissors and mancurng buff
To prove that mans creature of tremendous intellect
Go through his clothes morning and you'll readily collect
dry and useless fountain PEN knife that will not cut
scrubbed dates paper book entitled How Putt
Four keys locks long gone five crumped dollar bills
box of sticky cough drops and six numbered billiard pills
Pittsburgh Post.
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Some Newspaper Clinners.

Some Newspaper Clippers.
From the Boston Herald.
There have been famous newspaper
clippers Charles Reade was perhaps
the most noteworthy of these news
paper cutters. Every day he spent
several hours in cutting out items
police reports-stories of accidents.
descriptions of places, statistics of
all kinds, which he would paste into
huge scrapbooks. He told us how
ne collected material, for he intro
duced himself as Mr. Rolfe in "a
Terrible Temptation Rolfe, with
his plated buckets of letters, his 20
foiios of classified facts, ideas and
pictures, his solid quartos and folio
guard books called indexes. Thus
was he able to write in Never Too
Late to Mend" that wonderful de-
scription of an Australian sunrise,
although he>never saw Australia; the
equally wonderful account of the
flood in Put Yourself in His Place"
the sinking of the ship in Foul Play"
A master of description equaled only
by Victor Hugo, who, however was
not stickler for bald truth. Reade
thus gained his realism and his inspi-
ration.
Victor Hugo not only stored clip
pings; he filed prospectuses and
tradesmens circulars. When he
wished TO describe any trade. he
turned to his file and there he found
1.-THE vocabulary peculiar to it. George
Augustus Sala had a remarkable col
4 lection of clippings, otherwise he
never could have poured out his
stream of miscellaneous and curious
information for so many years. What
became of this collection? 1t is said
that the finest collection of clippings
concerning the theatre is in Detroit
the property of a veteran critic. In
these days the chief use of such a
collection is to correct the eloquence
of the press agent and to insure ac-
curacy in an obituary notice.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24

From the indianapolis News.
Some of the comments made on the
Presidents Characterization of the
business situation as psychological
depression" make it evident that GER
tain practical politicians and tired
business men should study their dis
tionaries, or, still better, take a term
or two in night school. Psychologist
is not word that they often meet
with in their everyday transactions
or in their occasional reading, and
hence 1t is not so surprising, after all,
that they should have only haZy no.
ton, or none at all, of what 1t means.
When the President said that the de-
preston was psychological he did no.
say or intend anybody to understand
that there was no depression, as some
of his critics have so confidently and
sarcastically assumed. He merely in
tended to express his conviction that
the material facts of the situation did
not justify the depression that was
felt, and that it was the result of UNI
founded apprehension.
The gradual development of the sit
uation up to this time appears TO
| confirm the Presidents analysis of
! the situation. The steel mills, which,
| by many, are regarded as the best
business barometer in the country re-
| port an increasing demand for their
! products. The wooden mills have beer
more than usually prosperous under
the new tariff. There is some talk
| of closing the cotton mills because oil
the high price of cotton, but this is
with the idea of lowering the price oil
cotton, rather than increasing the
/ raY-iP Of mi ~
Oliver Pillow Works, of South Bend
has lust announced that it will begI
work at it's full capacity. with 2,50C
men, on July 8. And from almos
every section of the country come re
ports of bumper yields of nearly al
crops. Many more instances Nigh
be cited to show the improvement il
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Farmer Finds Dance Music Improves
Quality and Quantity of Milk in Cows.

PORT JERVIS, N. Y, June PA
committee of farmers was appointed
today to watch and report on the eff
feet of dance music on milch cows.
The experiment is being made by
George Renso, who has a large dairy
farm here. Renso declares the effect
perfectly magical in increasing both
the quantity and quality of the milk
given.
Some of the dairy hands bought a
monograph. For amusement they set
it going during milking time. Though
unable to understand the improve
ment in his milk, Renso declined to
ascribe it to the music until the COWS
refused to be MIXED unless dance
melodies were played. He is now
I[eeping statistics to discover which
tango tune produces the most milk.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24

ried Sir Alexander Duff-Gordon when
she was nineteen. He was at that
time assistant gentleman usher of
the privy chamber of the king, and
his position brought Lady Duff-Gor-
don into court life in London. The
Duff -Gordons held one of the most
interesting drawing rooms in London,
and among the famous men who
gathered round their board were
Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, Tom
Taylor, the editor of Punch, who
wrote the famous play Our Amer
Jean Cousins;" Won Ranke, the Ger
man historian, and Heine, the Ger
man poet One of the most interest
ing personages in the Duff Gordon
household was Hassan Ell Bakkeet,
the little black boy who served to
amuse famous folk who forgathered
there.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
A TRANSATLANTIC ArRsHIp VOYAGE.

An oversee fight by air machine by way of the
Azores may be witnessed this summer the hydro
aeroplane of Rodman Wanamaker is soon to make the
attempt from St Johns. The melancholy and tragic
failure of a similar attempt not long ago at Atlantic
City has not deferred from the enterprise, nor
could it, wonderful growth of aviation has been
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Aged.

why, look here" said the mer-
chant, who was in need of a boy,
"aren't you the same boy who was in
here a week ago."
yes, SIR" said the applicant.
Il thought so. And didn't I tell you
then that wanted an older boy?"
Eyes. sir. That's why I'm back.
I'm older now. Ladies' Home Jour-
nal.
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Autopsy Reveals Thct All of Victims
Organs Were Transposed.

WASHINGTON, June 24.-With all
his organs transposed, his heart being
on the right side, the liver and APP
pendix on the left and the large end
of the stomach on the right, the case
OF Thomas Murdoch, a negro laborer,
who was killed in fall from a build
ing here, was the subject of comment
in medical circles today. An autopsy
revealed this curious anatomical phe-
nomenon, which was without prece-
dent in the district coroner's office.
The body of the negro was otherwise
normal and we'll developed and SEEM
ingly he enjoyed good health.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
College Men Get $1,000 for Barefoot Walk
from Philadelphia to st. Louis.

ST LOUIS, June 24.-Dr. Edward +.
Gilpin and Arthur DAILY. recent grad
yates of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania, completed a barefoot walk
from Philadelphia to st. Louis yes
terday.
A club at the university offered a
prize of $1,000 to any two men who
would walk barefooted from Philadel-
phia to st. Louis. Six started.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
Laborer While Painting House Hears He
Is Heir to $4,000. 600.
Guest Has Right to Fight Hotel Bill TO
Cooking Spareribs.

NEW YORK, June PA decision
by the Court of Appeals as to the
right of a hotel guest To have spare
ribs cooked for him without being
chased an excessive price has been
handed down in a suit of William
Morningstar against the Hotel La
tayette, of Buffalo, for damages be-
cause he was elected on his refusal
to pay bill of 81, which he charged
was excessive.
The Court of Appeals reverses a
judgment for the hotel and orders q
new trial chiefly on the ground that
evidence was admitted from other
hotel owners to the effect that Morn
ngstar was a Chronic kicker"