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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07

We are all of us constantly, but
unconsciously, molding others by our
thoughts about them. The qualities
you see In your friend and those with
whom you come In contact you tend
= enlarge. If you see only the little,
mean, contemplate side of people
you cannot help them out of their
faults, for you only intensity and flS
them; but If you see the good the
noble, the aspiring traits in them,
you will help to develop these quail
ties until they crowd out the base,
unworthy ones.
An opportunity to associate with
people who see the best instead of the
worst in US is worth far, far more
to us than an opportunity to make
money. 1t increases a hundredfold
our power to develop noble charac-
tiers.
Whenever you hear a person trying
to belittle another, discard him from
your list of friends, unless you can
help him to remedy his fault. Do not
flatter yourself that those who tell
you of the failings of other people
and criticise them and hold them up
to ridicule, will not treat you In the
same way when an opportunity pre-
sentB itself. Such people are incapa-
BILE of true friendship, for true friend
ship helps, instead of binders; it never
exposes the weak point in a friends
character, or suffers anyone to speak
i'll of him.
The disposition to see the worst
Instead of the best grows on one very
rapidly, until it ultimately strangles
all that is beautiful and brushes OUT
all that As good In u.s. No matter how
many times your confidence has been
betrayed, do not allow yourself to
sour, do not lose your faith In people.
The bad are the exceptions; most
people are honest and true and mean
to do what Is right. When everybody
else denounces and curses a man,
charity says, wait, wait. there is
God in that man somewhere" and
this is what we want to see in men,
the God image in them, not the sa-
tanic reflection.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
NAMES OF CONSPIRATORS
AGAINST RALEIGH UNKNOWN

reign; the doing of it would probably
have cost him his crown. So on the
day before that appointed for the
execution he was reprieved In the
Tower. His prison was the upper
chamber of the bloody tower, but he
was not ill-housed or closely con-
| fined.
For fourteen years Raleigh remain
ed in the Tower He had hosts OF
| friends who tried to gain him MS
freedom. but the unknown powers
against him were too strong to per
nit of this Prince Henry of Wales
had O romantic interest in the OLD
traveller who had founded q colony
| in America and who had brought
gold and strange new things from
strange lands.
Had the prince lived to be king,
Raleigh's end would have been differ
emit: but the prince died in his youth.
When Raleigh was finally released
and made his last Inflated voyage q
warrant for his arrest awaited his re-
turn, for during his absence there had
sprung UP o plan for marrying the
heir to the throne, Prince Charles, to
the Spanish infante, and the policy
of king and state was to be friendly
to Spain.
The Spanish ambassador. through
revenge, demanded the head of Ra-
leigh He was again committed to
the Tower, where 1t was hoped to
murder him. Sir Thomas Wilson, an
emissary of the king, was deputized
to this work and to give out that
Raleigh had taken his own life. The
scheme did not work and the king
called for the execution of the former
Judgment Raleigh saw his old cage
no more and from the fatehouse of
Westminster he was taken to the
place of execution In palace yard.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07

Many romantic stories are told as
to the discovery of oil. An amusing
incident Is taken from an ancient
record. In 1907, on the Great Kama
VIVA, near Charleston, several salt
wells were established, and there was
difficulty in striking the salt, says
the National Magazine. After many
vexatious failures one planter left
some darkies working at a well, CIV
ing them instructions to keep on dig
cling until they Struck salt or reached
hell" They kept on digging while the
planter went on O visit TO neighbor-
ing town. Post-haste came one of
the darkies, his eyes rolling. Mas
sey massey, we struck it." You
mean you struck salt?" asked the
planter. mo" was the reply, 1--WE
struck hell, and she am afire with the
flames of Lucifer." In digging for
salt they had struck gas, which had
ignited and formed a vivid conception
of the lower regions, according to
the darkey conception of the place Of
| torment.
At first the gas was considered q
nuisance and the oil was used only
| for medicine. Later II was used for
| lamps and workshops. The real value
| of gas was discovered along the Little
/ Kanawlla A number of Parkers-
burg men who had abandoned the shlt
project secured large paying quanti-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
NO RECOGNITION OF sUFFRAGIsM.

THE RESOLUTION passed by the Democratic House
declaring suffrage State and federal question:
usng gresona action referring question back
States attitude Congress the administration 1t
for Congress
These the States where have the suffrage and
where they will have the balance power elections BY massng
Their they elect defeat candidate for Congress-
|The Progressive party submission of suffrage
amendment the national Constitution and naturally
port the suffrage States could be unified would go
of party may conceded that the
|caucus showed courage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
REDEEMING THE DESERT.

FOR THOUSANDS of years the Nile has performed
service humanity When the engineers proposed the
dam Assuan Upper Egypt they accounted dreamers by
and profane urbe of the plans of Providence by others
he accomplished and supplies additional
irrigation thereby increasing and rendering profits much
larger
Work has been begun upon project reclaim
desert the Soudan in what known the Cza territory be-
the Blue Nile and the White Nile below Khartoum The
|plan dam the Miles, distribute their through
|great bring cultivation something like
of land The enterprise of the general
|plan Nile regulate flow In this particular
Territory believed great advantage
irrigation will result the production of other crops
Immense value
Dammng Blue Nile and the White Nile will furnish
eck the flood further up than the Assuan dam and
|ep regulate the river ow making possible the distribution of
|more into the arid regions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
STRUCK LUCIFER'S ABODE

ties of oil instead, and gas was util-
lied. The romance incident to all oil
developing sections of the country was
experienced in West Virginia. Hun
dreds OF thousands of barrels Of oil
were shipped, fioated and RATED to
Parkersburg and from there sent on
to market. During the war General
Jones of the Confederate army de-
stroyed about 100000 barrels of oil at
Burning Springs. The revival of the
oil development came Immediately
after the war, and in 1872 the start
was made toward keeping the Stats
tics. The Fairview oil fields were
opened in 1890, when the famous
"Copeley" well was drilled in Lewis
county and opened new territory in
Gordon sand.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

biological survey, department of ag-
riculture, in two short collecting trips
to Panama, has procured about 300
different species of birds, and 1t is
estimated that larger variety is to
be found within the limits of the
canal zone than in any one State In
the United States-about 900.
RecIuse, Earning 81 u Day, Left Fortune
of $4,000.
NEW BRITAIN. Conn, Feb. t.
Never earning more than 50 day,
Patrick Coughlin, a recluse, left a
fortune. Bank books showing de-
posits of $1,000 have been discovered
in q hut he occupied, and this, with
his property holdings, will total $780,
00O
Coughlin was q Waterman, and rel
atives say he subsisted almost entire
ly on bread and onions. Twenty
nephews and nieces will inherit his
wealth. He was seventy-four years
old.
Suffrage Causes Household Revolt, Son
Leaves When Mother Votes.
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.--Henry Ur-
sprung, eighteen, does not believe
women should vote. His mother,
fifty. holds the opposite view. Be
cause she went to the polls and reg
istered on Tuesday, Henry left home
and has not returned.
"But he'll come back when he II
lonesome and tired and hungry" the
mother said today. "Pll tell you
how it happened. Henry hasn't much
use for suffragists. I believe, how
ever, it is woman's duty to vote.sl
said so before registration day. Henry
became provoked. He said IL ! reg
tstered he would leave home.
"'Well, did you register? he asked
me on Wednesday,
st told him 1 had registered. He
didn't say a word He just went to
his room, packed his things and left
the house"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
CITY OF CONTINUAL CHANGES

of enterprise and capital have been at
work and made the city over, recre-
ated it. Where meek little ten
story edifice covered when you went
away an architectural geyser or vol
cano now shoots into the air; the win
ter skyline has been sawed into peaks
and chasms, and the horizon has been
lifted a hundred feet above the level.
where IL used to keep the beautiful
autumn sunset lingering low adown.-
w. D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine
for I,ehriarV.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
MEMORIALS IN PERIL.

BETWEEN THE thieves and the dishonest junk dealers
bronze may have material
orias Two such have recently been stolen in the neghbohood
of eagle several hundred pounds
stolen the memory of the victims
pf British prison ship during the Revolution The who
koid old metals told him that they had three
more agreed buy The other bronze tablet marking
he Anne Hutchinson and others massacred by
dans. pried off the rock which it boted OF
fence received this loot also, and got the lions
OF the profit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07

Two Brothers.
From the New York Sun.
Lucius Nathan Littauer and Will
lam Littauer are rich men OF mature
age and copious experience of busi-
ness and the world. The elder brother
was long in politics and has been
caught before in benevolent designs
on the Treasury. They are graduates
of Harvard College. No accident of
fortune or want of opportunity and
education can be pleaded In their be-
half. Deliberately, and to save a
little money, they try to put up a
smuggling job on the United States !:
are found out; lie, pretending they
thought the smuggied tiara was an
antique; get acute gooseflesh, plead
guilty; settle up. The elder brot her
makes q very creditable performance
with his lachrymal ducts. The court
Is told by his counsel that one day
In Jail will slay this elder brother.
who has diabetes, a peculiar form Of
diabetes, apparently, and one that
requires freedom.
TT is sad spectacle" says the
learned judge, when men Of such
high standing In the community fall
from grace to commit such a cheap
FlOldl4On OF inc law. Will ITO III
tention of criticising the learned
judge, it was a cheap violation. A
fine OF $1,000 apiece and suspended
sentence on the two brothers for
their two offenses OF smuggling and
conspiring to smuggle.
1t does not appear that William
Littauer has Diabetes but doubtless
1t would have been cruel, IL would
have injured his health and heart to
separate him from his brother.
Possibly some healthy, rich. intelli-
gent smuggler will yet be made to
repent in jail. That there Is much
shame to the prosperous smuggler,
men or women, on being detected and
fined, may be doubted. 1t is clever to
succeed in bilking the government.
It is unpleasant to be taken In the
act; but, bless you! no moral repre-
hension, no social degradation at
taches to the practise of this attrac-
tive little NAHUM prohibitum. There
may be public weepings, but there
will be private srinnings OF the cul-
prit. But who would laugh at year
or two in jail?
VIII some customs scorning pluto
crat with perfect constitution be
treated to that seclusion; or is all this
long gathering virtuous threatened
severity but painted lightning?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Fickle.

Popularity is very ficlfle!" ex-
claimed the off-hand orator.
whats the trouble?"
Every time get crowd interest
ed in my remarks an automobile tire
blows out and the audience rushes
off to see what the matter is."-Wash-
ington Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Wise Choice.

Mrs. Darlsun-Dat oil man o. yohs
is a purity good provider.
Aunt Chloe-He shows his sense.
He wants to keep me busy occupyin'
dis here skillet as utensile instid of
a weapon.-Washing Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
What's the Use?

There is great deal of education
wasted"
How sop
"a man will learn six languages
and then marry woman who won't
let him get a word In edgeways. -
Louisville Courier journal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Philosophers.

Oars lots err what dey calls "philos-
ophers" settin' on de river banks of
1ife, an de reason you don't see 'em
anywhars else is kaze de worl' don't
need EN- In its business.-Atlanta
Constitution.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
A Wide Assortment.

She thought she would try the new
telephone.
What NUMBER" asked central.
"Why, l don't know. What num-
bers have you?"-Louisville Courier
Journal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
A Sinecure.

What are you doing now, Bil1?"
I'm collecting" collecting what?"
my thoughts "Goshl you always
were lucky IN striking an easy job"
Boston Transcript.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
On Church. Going Sunday.

Church Usher-Where would you
| like to sit, sir?
| Prosperous-looking Stranger-Why-
e-r-r-about the fourth row. centre,
and an aisle seat, please.-Judge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Why Not Cut the Wires?

1t is an excellent suggestion to send
Harry Thaw and his immediate
friends and admirers to Siberia to
cool off. The only drawback to tho
plan is that we have telegraphic con-
nection with Siberia Milwaukee,
Navru
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Real PhiIanthrophy.

Some day real philanthropist will
arrive on the scene and give ten
cents to some worthy cause without
demanding that the cause raise an
additional fifty cents. Atchison
Globe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Still the Honeymoon.

"Is she very much in love with
! him %
every. She still believes 1t 10 the
other fellows fault when he stays out
late at niGht"--Detroit Free Preas.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Where the Accent Is,

In spite of difference in language,
pay" Is the first syllable of pa
triotisrn'' from Huerta's soldiers
point OF view.--Boston Globe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Not Due Yet.

"Does your wife ever nag your
asked the first walking gentleman.
mo" answered the second We've
only been married year. She calls
1t coaxing, SO far."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

the army could easily obtain enough
horses to supply the commands at
peace strength. If there were an
emergency requiring a larger num-
Der of horses the war department
would have great difficulty In getting
them even with the reasonable de-
partures from the official specifica-
lions. This is due, in part, to the
falling off in the product of those
who are raising horses
The automobile has finally had its
influence on animals. despite the as
sertion to the contrary, and this Is
observable to those who have the
task of buying horses in quantity
The motor trucks also seriously af-
feet the market for draught animals,
but that has to do mostly with the
mule, SO far as the army Is con-
cerned. The mule will always be a
necessity, despite the improvements
which have been made In the motor
trucks. The animal must be used
with the troops In the field. The
trucks will be useful for supplying
the column In the rear.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Few Horses in Event of War.
ON the Army and Navy RARister

The army quartermasters who have
to do with the purchasing of horses
| for the military establishment say
that there is really alarming scar
city of animals. OF course. the war
| department is more or less hampered
by the fact that Congress has not
appropriated sufficient money to en-
able the quartermaster's department
to acquire horses In sufficient number
to supply all the mounted commands.
1t is hoped that during the coming
fiscal year 1t will be possible to make
good the shortage in horses caused by
the distribution of troops on the Dor
der and elsewhere and by the In
crease to war strength OF troops
serving abroad
The prices paid for horses is about
the same as 1t has been; indeed. the
contracts most recently awarded are
at prices less than they have been
for two years. With sufficient funds
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Electric wheel Chairs.
From the Electrical World.

A concession has been made to q
Chicago company to operate 200 cleo :
trio motor-driyen chairs at the Pan
ama-Paciflc Exposition in San Fran
cisco in 1916. These chairs will seat
two passengers, and will be operated
In q manner similar to the familiar
man power" chairs now in service
in Atlantic City, Palm Beach and
other resorts.
A small motor placed under the
chair seat is connected to the two
rear wheels Of the chair by means Of
chains, and the electricity for oper-
ating the motor is drawn from q
small storage battery under the
wicker dash. The speed Of the chair
Is three and half miles an hour,
although speeds ranging from one to
ten miles an hour may be obtained.
A small foot pedal under the fodr of
the car actuates the braking mechan-
ism and the controllers. BY various
pressures on the pedal the controller
can be operated to give four different
speeds.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
nnek as Mosquito Eater.

| From the Louisville Courler-Journal.-
The declaration of DR.. Gebbing, Of
! Germany, director of geological
garden. that by letting wild duls eat
| fhe larvae of mosquitoes we may get
rid of the pest Is decidedly interest
| ing: but would nature produce
enough wild ducks to kill off the mos
ouitoes? In Florida waters wild
| ducks abound. Yet there are many
hardy surviving mosquitoes. Where
the raft ducks of Florida are pro-
tected they become quite unafraid OF
human beings, and even If they do
not appreciably reduce the mosque
toes they are worth more as an eX-
ample of wild life harmonizing with
civilization than they could be, In
diminished and constantly diminish
ing numbers as game.
But 1t Is doubtful if they will ever,
under the most rigid protection, thin
out the mosquitoes. Ducks are fond
of open water, and mosquitoes are
fond of stagnant water in the tangled
grass roots in swamps where they
are fairly inaccessible even to ducks.
Here in Kentucky ducks are migra-
tory winter visitors. Mosquitoes
breed after the ducks have gone to
the North.
1t should be borne In mind that a
neglected barrel of rain-water will
breed enough mosquitoes for family
supply, and even If all the rain bar
rels and empty tins were turned over,
many summer ducks would have to
be employed to keep down the mos-
qu.toes In the natural receptacles for
water where mosquitoes now abound.
A Word without Pedigree.
Phil Hale In Boston Herald.
"I. X" asks the origin Of the word
"plunks," a colloquial, familiar term
for dollars. He wonders whether it
has any association with the Punk
EFT family. IT remember hearing the
word before the Civil War. 1t was
In use after that historic event. GER
tainly as late as the seventies in New
York, where l 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 considerat ton by compilers.
We find no word in dialect forms tina
suggests an origin. Has the plunKer
,ne game of marbles anything to
~ with It? Did not plunks Originally
refer to heavy coins rather than to
bills?
Here Is one OF those questions con-
corning derivation which. like the pre-
else nature Of the sirens song, or
the name assumed by Achilles when
he hid himself among women, Is puz-
zling but not beyond all conjecture"
Plunks, The word Is significant, i'm
pressive. Hearing 1t we think Of doub-
looms, moidores, pieces of eight; Of
ventripotent. auripotent, auriferous
and vociferous persons, bank direc-
tors, bond holders, renters, shakers
of pagoda trees.
plunks, cold bones, long green, in
sect powder, rnazooma with its va
RANT mazoomda); words as sweet to
us as was the sound of Messopotamia
to the pious old lady In the pew; yet
they are not in the list that fills over
two pages in Slang and Its Analo-
giles"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
An Irish Sons

Over me lifts the peat reek
That parts and drifts and veers,
And the winds uneasy moaning
Is loud about mine ears.
sr
The waves upon the single
They murmur drearily
And the streamers of the fog wrath
Drive in from the open sea.
The mist hangs over the passes,
The mist hangs over the moors,
And the eerie cry of the curlew
1t quavers and endures
And it all is lonely, lonely,
And there's sorrow on every face,
But the heart of me needs must love /
For the land is mine own place!
CLINTON SCOLLARD, in New Yc
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Ely, Magnified by Moving Picture Lens,
Causes Panic In Theatre.

Ely, Magnified by Moving Picture Lens,
Causes Panic In Theatre.
PITTSBURGH, Feb IA common
house fly, which made Its way into
the lens of a moving picture ma
chine and was magnified several
hundred times in a North Side nick
elodeon," was the cause of q panic
among the audience, which, but for
the prompt action ON the part of a
few cool-headed spectators, might
have turned into a tragedy greater
than was being depicted on the
screen.
The machine operator had just begun
to run off the thriller" of the night,
when there appeared on the screen a
monster with legs like the limbs of
a big tree, eyes as big as saucers
and huge body covered with hair
that looked like standing wheat The
audience, terror-stricken, started to
rush out when coo,-headed persons
stayed the panic.
Sigh Of Contentment May Cost Man an
Eye.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. Finishing
his dinner yesterday, j. E. Jones, a
real estate man, weighing $50 pounds,
sighed contentedly and forced a but
ton from his vest with such force
that 1t split in fragments, and one
of the pieces, striking his friend,
Christopher Smith, with whom he
was dining, in the left eye, probably
destroyed the sight The other piece
caught Smith in the cheek and OPEN
ed up a. deep wound, which it took
three stitches to close.
Finds Many Species of Birds on Canal
Zone Island.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-On little
island in Gatun Lake, formerly
known as Lion Hill before the i'm
pounded waters OF the Chagres river
isolated it from the rest of the canal
zone, are more species of birds than
in any one locality in the western
hemisphere e. A. Goldman, of the