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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

They had heard rumors and be-
came frightened This was the only
reason the panic-stricken depositors
would give for their mad run on the
Bank for Savings in New York a few
days ago.
The silly gossip of servant, it was
thought, started the rumor that the
bank was in difficulties. Although its
president stated that the deposits
were ninety seven million dollars
nearly eleven millions of surplus
and that the largest banks in New
York had offered to come to the res
cue with fifty million dollars If neees-
sary, yet thousands of men and
women crowded one another in their
frantic haste to get their money out
of one of the soundest institutions In
the country!
The whole fabric of the business
world hangs upon confidence. OuI
vast credit system depends abso-
lutely upon 1t. Anything which
causes disaster. Nothing else is sc
| sensitive as confidence. And there is
nothing quite so malignant in its
power to destroy it, to blast every
thing 1T touches, as rumor, the base
less gossip of idle or malicious people
Sometimes the least breath of sus-
picion will seriously injure mans
credit which 1t has taken lifetime
to build up. 1t has often made havoc
of a woman's reputation.
One of the cruelist things that a
human being can do is to peddle Cos
sip, to pass along Islander, or even a
true story which tends to injure an
other, or 10 put him in an unfavor-
able light. 1t is fatally easy to say
things which will cause lifelong
wounds; and many people are SC
careless with their tonguesi
Only short time ago a woman in
Brooklyn was driven to suicide by
the gossip of her neighbours. They
told her that her husband was pay
ing attention to other women; and
although he assured her that he was
doing nothing of the kind the gossips
succeeded In making her SO Jealous
that she poisoned herself.
] know people who would never
forgive themselves for striking an
other with their hands, but who dc
| not hesitate to stab an absent person
in the back with an unkind, unchar.
liable, cruel remark, or to spread q
bit of SANDER which may have disas.
trous effects on the victim.
Some years ago this headline ap.
peared in New York daily: "Geor-
gia Cayvan Dies on Sanitariun
Get; Falsehood Ended Her Career
Miss CayVan was an actress. She
/ began her career by reading selec.
tions from Shakespeare to customers
in her mothers candy store" il
Bath. Me. Later she graduated from
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
THE TREATMENT OF THE IMMIGRANT.

HOW IMMIGRANTS treated by constituencies harpes and
svinds this State told report by the State immigration
Commission Governor indignation with feeling
of shame that such things should be possible State
The immigrant by harpies he leaves the
railroad station and unless escorted and protected by friends
often deceived robbed abused by INSCRIPTIONS class of
cabmen There employment agencies that do scrupe send
immigrant girls TO places of evil resort.
The agricultural immigrant who wishes buy land deceived
by advertisements of alleged farms that be worthless
Swnders lie in wait private strip immigrant
savings and by false Acknowledgements taken noaes Special
mention made of the Greek boys who held in bondage
cities by Greek padrones working sixteen hours
despite laws The proposes
undo this great evil And why should have existed ong
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
UPLIFT TALKS
ny oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN:
Author Of flushing to the Front" Etc
Copyright, 1918.
TRAGEDIES OF THE TONGUE

the School of Oratory in the Boston
University and attracted the atten-
ton of Daniel Frohman, who brought
her to New York. In a short time she
became a star, and one of the most
oontllar actresses in New York city.
Her beauty, brilliancy, vivacity ana
remarkable talent made her such a
favorite that those envious Of her
began to reflect upon her character.
A scandal was started which preyed
upon Miss Cayvan's sensitive mind
that she fell into melancholy and
never returned to the stage. AL
though it was proved that the actress
was in Europe at the time of the
scandal in this country with which
her name was falsely connected, and
notwithstanding the fact that her
character received a sweeping vindi-
cation, yet the wagging tongues con-
tinued to peddle the scandalous gos-
sip until her melancholy developed
into paresis, and finally put her be-
yond medical aid.
There are thousands of people in
the great failure army today who
might have been success but for the
gossips. The unkind criticisms OF
companions or neighbors, the scan
dals calculated by the thoughtless or
evil minded unnerved them They
lost hedfI when even lnOSG IHty
thought were friends stabbed them
In the backs and they gave up the
struggle.
We probably have all of us come
, to points in our careers when 1t
would not have taken very much to
have discouraged us and turned us
the other way Who can ever esti-
mate the number of failures, the life
wrecks, that have been caused by
gossipers How many people have
been driven to suicide by cruel SLAM
der? How many people have become
disheartened and have laid down their
burdens and given up the struggle
because their sensitive natures could
not stand the strain of misrepresenta
ton?
There is no meaner, more cowardly
or contemplate thing than to take
advantage of another's absence to
discuss his shortcomings, and to ped
die idle gossip and SANDER about him
/ believe the time will come when
the person who says unkind, cruel
things about another In his absence
will be ostracized as an enemy OF
the race, will be despised as a traitor
| to everything that constitutes real
| friendship and true manliness or
womanliness. There Is no more de-
spicable habit thantthe gossip habit.
The people who indulge in it little
| realize that they are exhibiting their
own defects; that they are showing
themselves up in the most unfavor-
able light possible. Everybody who
knows them knows that he may be
! the next victim.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

! in the style of her much-admiredi
Pope. These caught the notice OF
some men of literary judgment,
among them the Actor Garrick, ana
they were so interested that they had
Mary's poems published at their own
expense.
But poor Mary seems to have been
born under an unlucky star, for pc
fore she ever saw her poems in print
she died of the measels. She was
barely twenty-four at the time, and
might, had she lived, have done great
things. Her work which shows great
promise was especially admired by
the Poet Cowper.
The other poet whose birthday falls
on February 26 is Katherine Sher-
wood Mcdowell. who was born in
Mississippi in 1S49. After her mar
rage she acted as private secretary
to the Poet Iongfellow, and through
his influence became interested In
the art of poetry writing. She pub
lished several volumes of popular
verse, among them "Suwanee River
Tales" of strong local interest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

In 1881 a master mason in England
was paid $1.20 week and laborer
SO cents.
Eighteen States limit the labor Of
children under sixteen years to eight
hours a day.
There are at present more than 400
labor exchanges open in England,
Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Tailors' Union No. SO, of Minneap-
oils, Mimi. was organized forty one
years ago.
Boston, Mass, phone operators
were the first women to organize UNI
der the auspices of Electrical Work.
ers international.
Hamburg. Germany. dock laborers
earn from $1.33 to $1.76 per day.
movement has been started to
hold a seriea of mass meetings in
Canada of the working class to pro-
test against assisted immigration
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

, building of the docks at Bremen
haven; 1t was the spirit of the men
that even so late as 1866 met all their
municipal expenses not by formal
taxes, but by their own free gifts.
Junk Is Costly stock.
American Maehinist.
The French have a saying that ut
is only the first step which is diff
cult" He is bold manager who
faces his directors with an apparent
reduction of two or three hundred
dollars worth of merchandise and
gives them an actual five-dollar bill
instead, but all this odd stuff cutters
up storerooms and costs pretty
penny trying to work in somewhere,
says q writer in the American Ma
chinist.
l know one concern which had a
large contract for some agricultural
work that needed about ton of mall
leable-iron thumb-nuts which, through
some mistake, were not tapped the
right size. They were carried on the
books for several years at their or
iginal cost and then the superintend-
ent of the shop wanted to scrap
them, but the manager said no.
Months later he was much pleased to
tell the superintendent that he could
use some of these thumb-nuts. He
felt proud that he had not allowed
them to be scrapped, but little cha
grined to find that in order to use
them a special die had to be made,
which cost about as much as new
thumb-nuts and that, after all, less
than 100 were required. Then he sud
denly remembered that as the mis-
take was made by the manufacturers
of the thumb-nuts. they really did not
belong to the company at all, yet
they had stood on the inventory as an
asset
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
What Good Roads Mean.
=. Es,.t.,nA.- 10


From Suburban Life.
Good farms and good roads go to-
gether Good roads mean cheaper
hauling prices, better profits-there-
fore, more money. The wealth of a
nation is the wealth of its popula-
ton. The population of the country
of France is known TO be the most
thrifty, the least poverty stricken,
and the best provided for of any
country in the world. And France
has a better road system, and more
good roads in proportion to its area,
than any other country of the same
or greater size. Has France rural
wealth because of its good roads, or
has it good roads because of its
thrifty peasantry2
1t is, therefore, for us in this coun-
try to look upon France not only as
q good example, but as the example
of the fulfilment of dreams We can.
not solve our problem in any other
way than as France has solved hers,
with any surety of success. She builds
her national highways first, owns
them, controls them, repairs
them. She has her depart
ments-her divisions correspond
ing to our States-build their own
roads as feeders of this system, con-
Meeting with it, joining national road
to national road. Finally, her par
ishes or communes-similar political
divisions to our counties-build their
own roads, interlacing, connecting
and binding together the whole into
one vast network of hard-surfaced
roads.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

Church of England bishops are
having gabby time trying to find
out if they've the nerve to strike out
of the womans side of the marriage
vow the word obey"
Isn't the issue one OF right interpre-
tation rather than the axe?
Give us the power to construe the
word, and we'd like to see it not only
kept in the woman's half. but also put
into the mems.
of course, to expect woman to do
the bidding of a burly, brutal hus-
band merely because he has bullys
might is absurd and abborrent. If
that's what ''obey" means or was
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

and to request the government to
stop IL for at least Ave years.
London (England) building trades
federation controls eighteen unions,
with 100000 members.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters, ac-
cording to their financial report up
until June 80, 1913. expended. $3,961.21
in the Dominion of Canada in excess
of the receipts from the Canadian
membership.
New England District Council of
Electrical Workers Unions has I'M
dertaken campaign for the imme.
date organization of employees of
every electric light and power COM
pany in New England.
The Bourne mills, in Tiverton, r. L.,
pay profit sharing dividend twice a
year, on the Fourth of July and at
Christmas, based on the earnings of
the operatives who work steadily
during each six months period
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
Che FIas

Your Flag and my Flag!
And how it flies today
In your land and my land
And half world away!
Rose-red and blood-red
The stripes forever gleam
Snow-white and soul-white-
The good forefather's dream:
Sky-bue and true blue with stars to CLEAN Alright
The gored guidon of the day. shelter through the night
Your Flag and my Flag!
And OH how much it holds
Your land and my land
Secure within its folds!
Your heart and my heart
Beat quicker at the sight;
Sunkissed and wind-tossed
Red and blue and white.
The Flag-the great Flag-the Flag for me and you
Glorihes all else beside-the red and white and blue!
Your Flag and my Flag
To every star and stripe
The drums beat as hearts beat
And ifers shrily pipei
Your Flag and my Flag
blessing in the sky;
Your hope and my hope
1t never hid a lie
Home land and far land and half the world around,
Old Glory glad salute and rpples to the sound
WILBUR D. NESBlT.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
POSTMANS LIFE HAZARDOUS

The camel postman in the Sahara
hasn't any cinch-that is, if he has
a family he's anxious to live for or
happens to be leading a care-free
bachelor existence. says the Chicago
Tribune. He needs all the nerve that
he can possibly summon on every trip
that he makes, for the wild tribes
regard him as their particular prey,
and he never does know when he
starts out whether or not he is going
to reach his destination.
Neither has the postman in some
parts of Switzerland the safest job
in the world. In fact, in several
places in that country 1t is con-
sidered Just about the most danger
Gus profession that a man can enter.
You see some of the postoffices are
situated at height of 1000 feet There
is even a letter box at the summit of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
Songs We Used to Sing
COMRADES"

We from childhood play'd together,
NV dear comrade, Jack and /.
We would fight each others battles,
To each others aid we'd fly,
And in boyish scrapes and troubles
You would find us everywhere.
Where one went the other FOLLOWED
Naught could part us for we were
CHORUS
Comrades, comrades.
Fer since we were boys,
Sharing each others sorrows,
Sharing each others joys;
Comrades when manhood was dawn
ing.
Faithful whate'er might betide.
When danger threaten'd my darling
Old comrade was there by my side.
When just budding into manhood,
| yearned for soldiers life.
Night and day | dream'd of glory
Longing for the battles strife;
| said, Jack, I'll be soldier
Meath the red. the white and blue.
Good-bye, Jack" said he. mo, neveri
If you go then, I'll go, too"
Chorus.
enlisted, Jack came with me.
And ups and downs we shared.
For a time our lives were peaceful,
But at length war was declared;
England's flag had been insulted,
We were ordered to the front,
And the regiment we blong'd to
Had to bear the battles prunt.
Chorus.
In the night the savage foemen
Crept around us as we lay,
To our arms we leap'd and faced
them,
Back to fack we stood at bay;
AS / fought savage at me
Aimed his speer with lightning s
dart,
But my comrade sprang to save me,
And received it in his heart.
Chorus
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
SHALL WIVES "OBEY?'

meant to mean, then out it ought
to go, the quicker the better.
And it is unfortunately true that
creatures of the male persuasion have
been known and are extant today
Though we believe growing fewer)
who have the colossal effrontery to
adopt that construction and expect
the law to back them in it,
Our idea is different. Where love
truly is, the obedience it exacts
doesn't rest on force or obligation
but on willingness, eagerness. Tc
obey the one you love is pleasure
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Correspondence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

Vanguard, which is nearly 10000 feet
above the sea level. Here all sorts of
disastrous things have happened to
unfortunate carriers of mail Three
have been crushed to death by
avalanches and large number
swooped down upon and killed by
fierce eagles.
Then in India the postman always
has to be on the lookout for snakes.
1t is claimed that within the last year
$50 were killed by snake bites and
twenty-seven eaten by tigers.
Queer, isn't it, when in this country
the business of being a postman seems
about the most harmless and least
dangerous of any man could pick
out?
In parts of Siberia they have only
two mail deliveries a year, while In
the interior of China they have nc
regular delivery or regular postman
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

ATTORNEY GENERAL WESCOTT if railroad passes
issued State officials under law of this valid replies
that the passes good long the law good and the law
is good until decides that it isn't This looks like
but dreaduly odashoned doctrine
legal adviser the New likewise
that few bumptious official legal advisers in New Jersey
who supreme wipe by personal
opinion.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
THE BURGLARS ONLY MARKET.

TWO BURGLARS who confess than fifty robberies
jeweler the receiver of their loot
may be the beginning general
the crooked line Burglars precious
and gems for their sell strangers The
the only market that makes their calling
while and they always know where find it, Wipe the
burglary will practically disappear The receiver is
worse the thief.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
THE sWINDLING OF THE POOR.

IN THESE bitter winter days swndng the poor by
weight in coal particularly nhuman robbery
rad enough for Woodworking people be paying for coal
of So $40 because they have buy it in small guam
titles but when they seventy pounds for the price of hundred
downright theft added extorion The
posed four hortwegh coal pedders by Judge Hahn this
city punishment the meanest crimes
against humanity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
Wanted TO Double His $500 by Machine
and Loses Entire Roll.
LINEN CENTURIES OLD

The cloth woven by the ancient
Egyptians was so durable that though
1t has been used for thousands of
years as wrappings for the mummies
the Arabs of today can wear it. 1t
is all of linen, the ancient Egyptians
considering wool unclean.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
The EeInn Immigrant.

The teiOn Immigrant
Edward A Ross in the March Century.
1t is estimated that between 175C
and MO twenty thousand British con-
victs were exported TO Maryland
alone, so that even the schoolmasters
there were mostly of this stripe. The
colonies bitterly resented such car
goes but their f-protective meas
ures were regularly disallowed by the
home government. American schol-
airs are coming to accept the British
estimate that about 10000 convicts
were marketed on this side.
1t is astonishing how quickly this
yellow streak in the population
faded. No doubt the worst felons
were promptly hanged, so that those
transported were such as excited the
compassion of the court in an age
that recognized nearly three hundred
capital offenses. Then, too, the bulk
were probably the unfortunate, or the
victims of bad surroundings, rather
than born malefactors. Under the re-
generative stimulus of opportunity
many persons reformed and became
good citizens.
What Radium win Do to Wheat.
From Farm and Fireside.
If you happen to have any radium
about the farm it may be well to re-
member that British scientist, j.
Thome Baker, has found that it may
be used to increase the yield of crops
Anyhow, he has found that when a
little over a grain of radiun is put
in a ton of soil, wheat sown in 1t Will
sprout a week sooner. and be six
inches high when the check plot is
only four inches high.
Pretty soon the roll-top desk farm
ers will be telling US that radium Is
a fertilizer, but, of course, it Is only
a stimulant which enables the crop
to take more out of the ground with
out putting anything in. In view OF
the fact that there are only twelve
grams Of radium in existence-eom-
mercially speaking-the matter isn't
very important to the farmer, and yet
it must be remembered that there are
considerable amounts of mineral mat
ter which carry very small quantities
of radium, and one of these days
agents may be about the country try
ing to sell IL to us for our crops.
Bigness Not the Only Thing.
From the Boston Herald.
Though everyone wants to see Bos-
ton doomed well and doomed now,
some already are shaking their heads
because the boom is aimed too low.
They see that bigger Boston need
not be a better Boston. Although the
right kind of boom would aim at both
bigness and betterment, those that
are urging our present boom have
talked only of quantity and the more,
not of quality and the better.
A rather small city may send its
name around the world and down
the centuries if only II has the will
to excel. Athens. In its fullest glory,
was not as large as Rochester N. Y.
Sparta was smaller still. Florence,
in the day of its greatest power, lay
within walls not two miles apart. And
Bremen has always been a little city;
today it is smaller than Nottingham
or Bradford; yet the key of its great
seal has opened every world port.
What made Bremen known from Par
amarillo to Singapore was not the
spread of dingy workshops, nor the
dredging of the Weser. nor yet the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Comnanv IF Na,v yorl ,,s suaa ,,as-
terdav in the S,nran,a Ca1,t prSot-
lyn. as administrlstor IF ne astate 9n,.
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yrbo eeseyts tha+ Dav sa;Jad - ,eos5,
his nromise 10 ,,,,rrx ber neep
A. tho limo sha ai1a<Ss r,a, v,,,,
iced ~ MO- ~, H., NJ s. ~,
Miss Uroodr,,sy e.;,,oa ~ a,tt,
she has yoarriad aea III
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circ,,ynstanoas ~, 1s,,,o -
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Ia roc as+ato Ti,e VIZ irie
estate broker. is supposed IN have
inherited about 100000 from his
father.
s8
Income Tax Cuts AIimony from $500 to
$500 a Month. Z
NEW YORK Feb GA nlea that
the income tax has So cut into His
! income Of sac 600 war that he can
| not tell whether he will he ahle Ia
nav Ia his wife 81 200 q month ali.
monv was made Yesterday in tbe
Sunreme Court nv Charies p Rn.
chanan, tobacco merchant art col
| Hector and vachtsman He hos an.
pIied to Justice Catalan in the Sn-
nreme Court fo- on order ,,odif,,irg
| the original order erantiny fba3
amount 70 Marina " I, Rmeha,ar
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
Birds Dim Bright Lights of Broadwa.
10 Keep Warm.

10 Keep Warm.
NEW. YORK, Feb. 26.-During the
last few nights while the tempera-
ture lowered around zero notice.
able dimness OF the great electric
signs in the theatrical district re-
suited in an Investigation and last
night employees of electric light COM
panies discovered thousands of birds
clustered about the electric bulbs.
Most of the birds that sought to
warm themselves by nesting on the
bulbs We're sparrows and pigeons.
! though If was reported that even
larger birds had perched on the signs.
+ The investigators said that the
warmth radiated by the bulbs, though
small in amount. had been sufficient
to save the lives Of thousands of
birds.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
Snow in South So Unusual Legislature
Dives Pages Holiday to Enjoy IL.

JACKSON. Miss, Feb. 26.- The
snow storm in Mississippi was, given
official recognition by the Legislature
yesterday when a resolution was
passed giving the pages a holiday SO
they might have snow battle in the
capitol grounds.