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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-25
VOLUME LxxxIIT.--NO. 0s.
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25. 1914.
REPUBLICAN PARTY vER-coNFIDENCE

The new confidence instilled into the Republican
party in New Jersey by Democratic disaster in the
Seventh Congress district may easily be oyerconh-
dence There are signs of that feeling now among the
Republican leaders and of desire to put sandpatters
in nomination. The Republican candidate In the
Seventh district didn't need the Progressive vote. He
would have been elected If the vote for the Pro-
gressive candidate had been given to the Democratic
candidate.
But 1t by no follows that the conditions
that brought about this result will be duplicated in
the other Congress districts throughout the State
In the Seventh district the Democratic candidate car
ied series of handcaps He had to stand for repeal
of canal tolls, he Hughess hand-pcked candi-
President for his surrender message to Congress-
The election was exceptional in its character And
the lsrge Socialist vote principally came from the
Democrats.
The canal tolls question will be rife In the fall
as we'll in the spring. If the Senate shall defeat
repeal question will be regarded by the average
voter settled II the Senate passes the repeater
the issue will dominate the campaign in this State,
but may not decide the election. 1t is to be remem-
bered that there is still third party in the field and
IL was created of the Republican party.
Unless the Progressves back into the
Republican fold the chances will favor the Demo-
cratic candidates. They have not yet been won back
The Seventh district not indication of Pro-
gressive support of Republican candidates in the fall
And the Republican leaders must not lose sight of
the fact that Roosevelt will be potent factor in the
political campaign this year
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OUR CAMPAIGN PLANS IN MEXICO.

Plans for military operations in Mexico were for
INFLATED by the general staff and war college long
before Madero murdered in his capital and
therefore as far as plans of campaign concerned
the war department is thoroughly prepared The
topography of Mexico where fighting Is to be done
has carefully mapped and every detail Of noun
tain valley and stream of town and hamlet has been
studied out The plans alternative to meet every
possible situation and emergency and provide for all
changes.
There were such prepared plans in 1898 for
operations Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philip
pines unknown country to our strategists.
General Shafter landed Cuba helterskelter with
illprovsioned army, which had to feel its way in
country strange to the officers 1t does not appear
that they had single map. Porto Rico was not much
better known away from the coast Plans of cam
paign had to be made the spot.
Our armies will enter Mexico with perfect knowl
edge the country. with definite plar5 and correct
maps. 1t is not likely that there will be any
operations from the Texas border, but its entire
extent will have to be strongly held while our armies
operating in South Mexico and the navy is grip
ping the coast. If Villa should finally embrace the
cause of Huerta it would be the signal for carrying
out the prepared plans for advance from the Rio
Grande by the route General Taylor took in 1S46.
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JAPANESE SYMPATHY WITH HUERTA.

a II is not singular that the Japanese In Mexico
City should be demonstrating in favor of Huerta
against the United States Probably tie Japanese in
California would be demonstrating in the way,
too they to disclose their real feelings They
don't know anything about Mexico the cause of the
quarrel but their sympathies naturally against the
United States 1t won't have the Pacific coast
made a dumping ground for the excess of Japanese
labor
Besides, the Japanese in Mexico and the United
f4Htes, feel 1t In their bones that Japan's next
will be with the United States. They have better
rrescence than the dull-witted men who sit In Con-
Eress at Washington and can't believe that such
thing sa q war for us on the Pacific be possible
These the congressman who don't want any navy
and who have perilousy held down its growth to let
Japan attain naval strength superior to
Probably Huerta will have Japanese officers in his
army He won't lack Japanese sympathy.
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THE MOSQUITO OUTLOOK.

Chief Inspector Dobbins of the Mosquito Exterm-
nation Commission, is confident that all the breeding
places for mosquitoes in Essex county have elim
mated. Four thousand of marsh have been
drained and other work effectively done There are
millions of mosquitoes alternating in houses and
other buildings and they will appear In May, but,
with the breeding places eliminated, they will not
reproduce their kind and will soon disappear
But with all the work accomplished we will still
be victims of neglect in other counties as well as that
of the careless householder who keeps stagnant
about his premises for the pest to breed In
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ONLY REGULARS AT VERA CRUZ.

The first brigade of regulars which sailed from
Galveston for Vera Cruz has trip of Gil miles.
Transports are not saers and several days will
eapse before the reach their destination This
will be the first employment of the army in agrees
sve operations, Vera Cruz is occupied solely by
sailors and marines of the navy.
Probably the government will send to Vera Cruz
only seasoned regulars, who will be readily accli-
mated, the hot and humid season Is coming on.
The regulars Injured to long marches in heat and
cold, and they know how to take care of themselves
and avoid the for sickness. Raw troops have
to be kept in camp and seasoned in the same way.
If march the Mexican capital from Vera Cruz is
undertaken it is probable that, with few exceptions
the will consist of regulars, although volunteers
will be used to garrison Vera Cruz and perhaps the
towns taken by the evolutionary army.
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NOT DEPENDENT ON NEW YORK

New York ideas of harbor development for the
New Jersey side of the Hudson and bay look to the
making of this development tributary to New York
Calvin Tomkins's plans hinge that idea. He
wants to break down the water barrier by freight
tunnels to make Manhattan the terminal point instead
of the Newark bay water front, which is a natural
for the railroads.
The object of Newark is to attract ocean-going
ships to its wharves to meet the railroads and ex-
change their freight. When this be accomplished
Newark will be seaport indeed and it's prosperity will
be boundless. We in nowise dependent on New
York for harbor development. We can go it
alone If choose.
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He Paid

When I lived in my young days
in the Latin quarter" said Robert
Henri, the New York painter, as re-
ported In the New York Telegraph,
II had some friends from Philadel-
phia who used to frequent a tiny
restaurant off the 'Boul Mich The
rule at this restaurant was pay be-
fore you eat The only dish served
there was a thin but very palatable
broth-price two sous. Well, young
Philadelphia took offense one day at
the suspicion and even ignominy i'm
piled in the pay before-you-eat' rule,
and resolved to break it. Accordingly
when the waiter placed his great deep
bowl of soup before him he fell to
forthwith. Pay before you eat!' cried
the waiter. Not T. the Philadelphia
retorted, taking a firm grip on his
bowl with both hands. But a snake
like something flashed before him
! and-presto-his bowl was empty
and the triumphant waiter stood
! flourishing a vast syringe. Pay be-
fore you eat, monsieur oh, very
WE'LL grumbled the Philadelphia,
and he laid his two sous ON the table
reluctantly, and the waiter squirted
his soup back from the syringe into
| the bowl again."
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HOW MEADOW DEVELOPMENT BEGAN.

Commerce dinner: 1.-The people and newspapers
houted us when first took up the proposition of
meadow development. When We asked for appro-
priaiion of 81 900. 900 we got rats from Newark
Everybody said, What Sink that money in a mud
hole? There wasn't single civic institution in the
city that stood up and said There's future there.
Mr.. Denman drew upon his fancy when he made
this statement. The Advertiser and Star strongly
advocated the redemption of the meadows. Years
before the prop Ion taken by the Board of
Works the enterprise of redeeming the meadows was
discussed in and out of the Board of Works and in
the daily press, ana favorably.
There was opposition by the short-sghted and the
Knockers" wfo could in it only the benefit of
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SAFETY OF THE PANAMA CANAL.

The protection of the Panama canal is first
consideration with the government. Hostile Next
cans others in sympathy with Huerta might wreck
seriously injure the canal. If Japan had object
in destroying it the attempt could be made by Japan
ese engineers under of Mexican commission
as act OF by Mexico
When the question of the governorship of the
canal up at Washington it urged that
civilian should be selected, but the proposition
wisely rejected, and Colonel Goethals, the canal
builder, named. We the necessity
for a military man have charge of the canal zone,
and the best officer of the army is the governor
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Oakland and Ottawa had been built
as far as Owosso, and as an adyer-
tisement the promoters of the road
were anxious to have the Legislature
go homo by rail via St Johns
THE ties and rails were hurriedly
laid on top of the snow and ice from
OWosso to st. Johns, and the legisla.
tors We're brought to st. Johns by
stage coach. About the time the first
train ventured into st. Johns there
came a February thaw. But the rail-
road people were determined to take
the Legislature out by train, and take
1t out they did. 1t must have been a,
1earful ride from here to Owosso, for
the tad1ng ice and snow left the track
a succession of hills and holes. Tho
Train was on the rails some OF the
time and on the ties the rest.
Dewitt had the Clinton county
seat and in 1867 there was a bitter
campaign for it's removal to 81
Johns. Eleven votes were necessary
to have the board of supervisors sub
nit the removal proposition to the
people, and the Dewitt supporters
couldn't see how st. Johns could
muster more than ten. The Bath SUI
pervisor, confidently figured as a De-
witt asset because Dewitt was closer
to his home than ST. Johns, Topped
10 SI. johns. hen he went back
home the indignation of his people
frightened him so badly that he left
the country, hurrying out by way OF
st. Johns. AT the election the fol-
lowing spring the proposition to move
to s.. Johns was ratified by the PEG.
pie.
st. Johns was badly bitten bv
wildcat money. Daniel Ball, who
operated a line of boats between
Grand Haven, issued currency which
was known as Daniel Ball money
which was very popular because it
was so handsome. An Adrian bank
flooded this section with banknotes
which everybody was eager to get,
because they were even more artistic
than the Grand Rapids output. When
the Adrian bank closed its doors there
was general mourning, as stacks OF
its currency were everywhere.
This was shortly before the Civil
War, and when the Clinton county
soldiers began to go South they col
lected lot of this currency, which
they soon put into circulation in the
Confederacy. So, you see, 1t wasn't a
dead loss
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"Frenzied Finance in 1887

There was a good deal of frenzied
finance in Clinton county. Mich, in
the years Immediately following The
admission of Michigan as state IN
1887" says General o. L. Spaulding,
a pioneer resident of st. Johns. This
county, almost an unbroken forest.
was to have been a beneficiary of two
or three schemes. Three railroads to
cross the State, as we'll as a number
of interlake canals were pro. ected,
Maple River was to have been link
in the great canal highway from lake
to lake, and was to be deepened and
Strengthened,
1.-The other prospect was the Oak
land and Ottawa railroad, which was
built from Detroit as far as Pontiac.
ut was not until the early nfties,
however, that the extension of the
road from Pontiac was really begun.
under the name of theSDetroit and
Milwaukee,. This road now rurs
from Detroit to Grand Haven and is
a branch of the Grand Trunk. At
that time the future st. Johns was
partly swamp and wholly woods.
Maple Rapids was just changing
from an Indian trading post and FUR
buying station to a village more per-
manent.
About 1910 two men and a woman
penetrated into the trackless forest
and made q small clearing. Shortly
afterward money became more plen-
tiful in this vicinity, for the trio had
established ccuE>erfeiter' plant in
their log hut A. United States mar
shall appeared one day and took them
away, but their clearing is stu
known as Bogus
"Promoters and exploiters flourish
ed in the late 30s and early 4Os. A
wildcat bank was projected for Lee
banon, Clinton county, but 1t never
opened its doors. Some Adventures
who came to the new country to get
rich claimed to have discovered salt
springs near a local deer lick. They
boiled water from these springs and
got an excellent salt deposit, thereby
impressing prospective purchasers.
1.-THE purchasers discovered quite by
accident that the salt deposit was Sc
cured by the surreptitious emptying
of the family salt bag into the kettle
and the salt springs exploitation died
a sudden death.
"In 1857. sessions of the Legislature
were limited by law to forty days and
the end of the sessions came in Feb
ruary. In those days Lansing had no
railway nearer than jackson. The
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UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN,
Author OF Pushing to the Front etc.
IMAGINATION AND HEALTH

scarcelv lift a pound weight. He was
as weak and nerveless as child. No
material substance had touched MIN
or opposed him-just a terrl1ylns
thought, which came like lightning,
did the work, made plgmy OF
giant in an instant.
Observation-Disclosures cases have been
recorded by physicians where patients
who had a mortal fear of chloroform
vent into syncope before a whin OF
cbloroform had been given. They
became perfectly unconscious through
tbe suggestion of their own minds
7 know of a physician who, while
away from home on fishing trip, was
summoned to attend a patleht VINO
was suffering indescribaple agony.
He had no medicine case, no drugs
with him. but the tactful physician,
knowing the power OF suggestion,
made small powders out OF ordinary
flour and gave instructions with the
greatest care as to the exact time anu
manner of taking. They were to be
given every few minutes.
The patient was told that ne was
being treated by a noted physician,
and his great faith in the physician
and the remedy in a short time
wrought a marvellous change in his
condition. He said that he felt the
effects of the medicine throughout his
entire being. Flour and faith did the
work
The sick thought must go before the
sick condition will depart. When the
diseased thought goes, the body. at
once rebounds and becomes normal.
Not long ago 1 heard of a young
lady who, while at the theatre with
her fiance, complained suddenly OF
feeling faint. Her f1ance, a young
doctor, took something out ut. OF I'M, ms
pered. Keep this tabloid in your
mouth, but don't swallow it" The
young woman did as directed, and inn
mediately felt better. Curious to
know what the tabloid" was, which,
although it had not dissolved, had
given her such relief, she examined
il on her return home, and found-a
small button!
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Mexican Veterans in Civil War

: lneNlcHn veterans III SiFAA NhEs
Fiom the New York World.
"A H. c. officers in Taylor's and
SCOTS y. ..ies in Mexico would al
most be L. 4oster of leaders in the
civil war.
Three Presidents OF the United
States, three Presidential candidates,
and the President of the Confederacy
were in the Mexican war. General
Taylor, afterward President, led the
northern army of invasion. u. S.
Grant entered the war as a young
lieutenant. Franklin Pierce, a briga-
.sier general of volunteers. arrived
rather late in SCOTS campaign. JEFF
ferson Davis was colonel of a regi-
ment of Mississippi rifles; the Presi-
dent offered him a higher command,
but he refused it because of a scru-
pie as TO the Presidents power to as
sign commanders TO State troops, a
thing he did later himself in many
cases.
General Scott, one of the three
Presidential candidates, had the re-
nnarkable honor of being in chief
command in Mexico and again for a
little period at the beginning of the
civil war, fourteen years later ana
forty-seven years after his bloody
action at Lundy's Lane. Mcclellan
fought the war through in Mexico,
Fremont i'm California.
The battle of Chapultepec alone
procured brevet promotions of colo
mel for Robert e. Lee, major for
Stonewall Jackson and Beauregard,
captain for Grant and Mcclellan.
Buell. was made major at Churubusco,
Mcdowell a captain at Beuna Vista.
Little more grape Captain Bragg
did not long remain a captain, but
was brevetted lieutenant colonel.
Albert Sidney Johnston led regi-
nent OF Texas volunteers. General
Worth, whose monument looks down
ON Broadway at Fifth avenue, was
right-hand man to Taylor and Scott
IN succession, was made a major gen.
sral at Monterey, aided Scott at Vera
Cruz and In the march to Mexico
City, and there received the Mexican
oyertures for surrender.
w. T. Sherman's Mexican war sery-
ice was in California. Armistead,
!. who fell at the thigh tide of the Con-
federacy" at Gettysburg; Longstreetr
twice brevetted for gallantry, and
Thomas. thrice brevetted. were less
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|"CF1IT CHATS BY MEMBERS
OF EVENING STARS STAFF

Raymond Smith, formerly treasurer
OF the Roseville Trust Company, has
not been dimmed by several months
incarceration is evidenced by an in
cident which is reported from the
jail.
A certain Roseville dentist was de-
tained at the Jail for a few hours
several weeks ago on a charge made
by his wife until he could secure bail.
AS he entered the room, Smith
jumped up and shook him by the
hand
Welcome to our city, Toni Won't
you have a dinner outsider"
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A medical Journal reports the case
of a clergyman who was sent to a
hospital suffering terribly. He said
he had swallowed several false teeth
and the plate, and that he felt the
horrible grinding. and cutting of these
in his stomach.
The physician in attendance tried to
talk him out of this idea, but to no
purpose. A little while later a tele-
gram from his wife informed him
that the teeth had been found under
the bed. Mortified and chagrined at
having made such a fool of him
self, the clergyman, free from his
imaginary suffering, Immediately got
up, dressed himself, paid his bill and
went home without assistance.
AS long as the man was convinced
that the false teeth were in his
stomach, all the talking in the world
could not have made him believe that
his suffering was delusion. This
conviction had to be changed first.
Medical history shows that thou
sands of people have died the vic
Tins of their imagination. They were
convinced they had diseases which in
reality they never had. The trouble
was not in the body, but in the mind.
Few of us realize the almost super
human power of the imagination in
its effect upon the body. Nothing is
better known that many people every
year die with imaginary hydrophobia.
It is a very common thing to regard
dog as mad which simply has a At
or is so frightened at being pursued
by those who are afraid of it, and
who protect their state of mind to its
brain that it appears to be mad.
1, ,,af all t.rA al
ity to contagious disease depends
very largely upon the mental condi-
ton, that it is possible for a person
during great excitement TO work with
perfect immunity among patients suf-
fering from the most malignant dis
eases.
I have seen vigorous, athletic man
so completely paralyzed by the shock
from an accident that he could
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Voranicty Plus.


Harold Kellock in the May Century.
One of the most noteworthy impor-
tations in the slaughter of the moths
has been an active green beetle, a
tiger in the moth world. Here is a
terrible creature. indeed, creature of
intrepid ferocity and magnificent
voraoity. Beside him the hog is q.
beast of most delicate appetite. The
green beetle would devour ten times
his weight In gypsy moth caterpillars
! in a single day, and be ready to
duplicate this performance on the
morrow. His nominal two seasons
I of active life are a wild orgy of slay-
I ing and feasting. His span of NOR
I tally includes a mere fortnight of
/ larval life and two brief summers
| of adult existence, representing less
| than five months of activity alto
| gether; but during this time he will
normally devour nearly six hundred
and fifty gypsy moth caterpillars or
| pupae as big as himself. A single
1 pair have been observed to eat two
/ thousand caterpillars within eight
weeks, gluttony almost beyond be-
Lief.
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL
APRIL. 25
Constance Cary Harrison
Copyrighted 1914.

BY MAR
April rs is the birthday of Princess
Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, the
only daughter of King George and
Queen Mary of England. The little
princess is seventeen years old today.
Among American women of note to-
day is the birthday of Mrs. Burton
Harrison, usually known as Con-
stance Cary Harrison. She is sixty
nine years old today.
Mrs. Harrison was born in Vir-
ginia, where she came from a family
descended from Thomas Jefferson.
After the close of the Civil War she
went abroad with her widowed moth
er and there completed her education,
specializing in music and modern Ian
guages. She was married on her re-
turn when she was twenty-one years
old to Burton Harrison, a New York
lawyer, and with him went to live in
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Merit In the POstoffice.
ON the INDIANAPOLIS News.


President Wilson believes that all
postmasters-first, second, third and
fourth elass-should be included in
the classified service. If President
Wilson persuades Congress that this
change should be made, he will be
comforting benefit on the entire
country. Mr., Taft, in his day, hoped
to bring about similar reform, but
Mr. Taft was at disadvantage. He
had a heady Congress, the members
Of which were not yet fully persuaded
that postoffice spoils did them more
harm than good.
But 1t seems that the present Con-
gress is coming round to the new
view. 1nnocently or by adroit design,
Mr.. Wilson has caused the greater
part of the postoffice burden TO rest
on the congressman. AS only the
fourth class postmasters are now in
the classified list first. second and
third class offices are open to dis