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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
FEBRUARY II
Maria Rossett
Copyrighted,
By MARY MARSHALL.
Copyrighted, 1918

Maria Francesca Rossetti, the cid
est of the remarkable Rossetti family,
of which the Poet Dante Gabriel was
most famous, was born February IL,
1927. She was the most practical of
them all, and for that reason the
cares and responsibilities of the
family weighed more heavily on her
shoulders than on the others.
But though Maria was the most
practical of the family she was also
the most religious, and one of her
brothers once said that she was more
warmly and spontaneously devo-
tional" than any person he had ever
known. Maria had but one ambition
in life. While her brothers and her
sister gained distinction in literature
and art she longed for the quiet and
seclusion of the cloister. The re-
vival of medievalism which found
expression in the poetry and art of
the Rossettis was expressed in
Maria's religious devotion; but she
felt that her duty was with her
family and 1t was not till she was
forty-seven that the marriage of her
brother William left her free to take
the step she had so long contem-
plated. Then she entered an Angeli-
can order in London called the Sis
terhood of All Saints; but her health
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
What Tom Ryan's Friends Did for Him

As interesting personality as
served in the lower House of Congress
in the administrations of Presidents
HAYES. Garfield, Arthur and Cleveland
was Thomas Ryan. of Kansas. No
visitor to the gallery of the House
in these years failed to take note OF
him. His personality was striking
and not to be ignored. He was of fine
physique and with a perfectly nodded
head.
No one could have watched Mr..
Ryan from the gallery of the House
ten minutes without discovering that
he was a man who had gained the
cordial friendship of practically
every body on the floor. He had a
quantity attractive smile. He was
rarely absent from his seat or If his
chair was vac; -sl he was sure to be
found somewhere within the vicinity
of the House.
His Democratic associates on the
AUTHORIZATION committee, a committee
upon which he served for some years,
were very fond of him. Mr.. Ryan
rarely spoke and never made any at
tempt 10 display rhetorical mastery.
He was plain spoken, sometimes blunt,
and always concise.
When Benjamin Harrison was a
member of the United States Senate,
from 1881 to 1887, he became fond of
Mr.. Ryan, and it used to be said that
the friendship was due to the fact
that Ryan had been desperately
wounded in one of the battles of the
Civil War, he having enlisted as a
private, but had been promoted to
| the rank of captain. There was
| something about Mr.. Ryan's person
atty which appealed especially to the
senator from Indiana, who was in
1899 to become president of the Uni
| ted States.
President Harrison, it was report
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1.-The problem of getting a living
has been solved" says James j. Hill,
but we have yet to learn how wisely
to make use of our leisure moments"
A clear understanding of the posi-
bilities which live in spare time is a
prominent quality of the man who
does things" He wastes no time in
dreaming of what he would do if he
could go to college or travel or nave
command of long periods of uninter-
rupted time. He s not guilty of
.evading the possibilities of his career
by shielding himself behind adverse
conditions.
Thousands in our country have be-
come highly cultivated men and wom-
en- by utilizing odds and ends of time.
They have opened wider the door OF
opportunity, broadened their outlook
of life and entered new worlds of
science, literature and art-worlds
which are barred to the ignorant.
l wish it were possible to show those
who long to get on in the world, but
who feel crippled by the lack of an
education, how comparatively easy it
is to get goodssubstitute for a regu-
lar course at school or even college
in their leisure time at home.
"
college; but If you cannot, then do
the next best thing-study by your
self. No man is so poor that he can
not get a good education at home.
In fact, many of the trades and prov
fessions, as well as the classical
courses, are well taught by the cor
respondence schools, and 1t Is surpris-
ing to see how easy the whole thing
is, looking at it not from the stand
point of four full years in college, and
perhaps three more in preparation for
a specially, but by looking at the
single hours at home and the separ-
ate subjects. They are not at all
formidable. Nothing but false fear
or downright laziness can hold a man
or woman back now.
If people would only realize that a
college course is simply made up of
single hours Of study, reading and of
thinking, it would not seem so formid-
able. Every hour of highly concen-
trated study at home may be almost
as good as the same hour so spent in
q college.
Yet with all the facilities for self
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was already undermined and she
lived only two years at her beloved
"All Saints Home"
Maria's, memory was long cherished
by her family. Six years after her
death her sister Christina wrote to
her brother: "It was good Maria's
birthday yesterday, and / went to
the home and saw the sisters" and
in 1886 she still remembered her sis
ters birthday Tomorrow is our
Mary's birthday" she wrote, my
irreplaceable sister and friend"
OF the other notable women born
on February II there are several
writer's, Anne Manning and Lady
Ponsonby in England, and Josephine
Dodge Dascom Bacon in America.
Today claims princess, too-Prin-
cess Helen, wife of the late Duke of
Albany. The Duke of Albany was
the eighth child of Queen. Victoria
and therefore the uncle ofsthe pres
ent King George. Princess Helen
who is fifty-three years old today
was a princess of Weldeck. They had
one daughter, Alice Mary Victoria
Augusta Pauline, who became by
marriage the Princess of Teck, and
one son, the Duke Leopold of SAKE
Coburg.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

planes he saw Blondin cross Niagara
on a rope on stills, carrying a pas
senger In New York a parade of
5000 volunteer firemen most pleased
him. He did not go far West; 1t
was nine years later that the first
railroad crossed the continent: twen-
ty-one years before second was
completed.
The coming of this fresh-faced boy
of nineteen was a tremendous social
event in New York. where he was
met by Mayor Fernando Wood and
entertained at the Astor House and
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. both now
torn down: the Academy of Music
was floored over for great ball.
Part of the temporary flooring fell,
in spite of the ladies' wide hoop
skirts to discourage crowding. In
Philadelphia he heard Adelina Patti,
a girl of seventeen, sing. His coming
was a boom for the new-fangled
frockcoat; many men still wore blue
swallow tailed coats with brass but
tons all day; the new garment was
long known in this country as a
Prince Albert"
The Great American Desert"
graced the maps when the elder
Prince of Wales was here. Unnum-
bered buffalo still roamed the plains.
New York was a city of $4,000 in
habitants. The United States had
81 ,00O, 900 people-fewer than Great
Britain, less than one-third the pres
ent number. There was not "a sky
scraper, or a telephone, or an auto
mobile, or a good photograph in the
country.
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THE STATE AND THE CANAL RIGHT OF WAY

UNTIL THE State Legislature provides for the acquisition
Of the ship canal right OF way the rights idle
meet Congress to appropriate money building the canal
The State its good faith by its works The i'm
importance of enterprise this State should stir
Legislature action Every years delay the construction
the canal involves serious the State for will be loss
of years benefits from the canal
Through this waterway will large commerce. for most
the vessels that now long and dangerous trip along the
Jersey coast will use the canal Along the right of will
be established many manufacturing industries which will create
States wealth and population The open
ing will outlet southwark for the commerce
all Jersey adjacent New York Bay and this
greatly the advantage of the manufacturing interests
located those waterways.
To fulfill this obligation the Federal government the State
must money than is sight and here
Governor perform great public service by his
conservation of financial cutting all
expenses introducing ongneeded of admin
straton and providing of State
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17

The people of the United States of
Liberia, the little negro republic on
the west coast of Africa, recently
celebrated Mrs. Newport's day. This
festival commentaries the capture OF
Monrovia, and is one of the two
patriotic holidays of the Liberians,
the other being Independence Day, on
the 26th of July. The Liberians are
planning a great celebration for three
wears hence in observance of the CEN
tenary of the founding of the Amer
lean Colonization Society, the organl-
cation which was responsible for the
esta enlistment of a colony of liberated
slaves in Africa.
It was in December of 1916 that the
society was formally christened and
launched. The pioneer in the move
ment for the return of the blacks to
Africa was Rev. DIR. Samuel Hopkins,
of Newport, R. I. His plan attracted
wide attention, and several Engllsh
and Scotch societies contributed to
the fund, but the American revoiu-
tion prevented the prosecution of the
design for the time. Later small
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ed, had several mental reservations
respecting the more important dip
lomatic appointments and one of
them was his determination to APP
point Mr.. Ryan to the Mexican MIS-
sion no matter what appeals were
made from any quarter. The Presi-
dent knew that the Mexican mission
was the most desirable post in all
the diplomatic service-except posi-,
bly, the CONSUL generalship at Lon
don--for anyone who desired to save
the greater part of his salary. He
had been Informed that Mr.. Ryan
had sacrificed a good professional
opportunity by his long service in
Congress and, Furthermore, that as
Ryan was abstemious and careful
with his money he would be likely
to save much the greater part of his
salary as minister to Mexico.
The recommendation, which came
through the state department, that
Mr.. Ryan be appointed minister tc
Mexico, was thought by some Of
President Harrisons friends to hav,
/ been ordered by himself, and the
| Kansas congressman was appointed
and gladly confirmed, for he was as
popular in the Senate as in thu
| House.
I me report Spredu ABROAD just aItel
President Cleveland succeeded Pres
dent Harrison that Mr. Ryan haC
been able to save a considerable par
of his salary. and it was the prevail
/ ing impression among senators o
that day that it was this report tina
persuaded Senator Matt Ransom, o
North Carolina, to ask Presiden
/ Cleveland to make him Ryan's sue
cessor, a request to which Clevelan'
acceded.
Copyright. 1914. by f. j. Edwards
! AL rights reserVed.D
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
UPLIFT TALKS
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH YOUR EVENINGS?
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN:
Author of Pushing to the 'front.' htc'
Copyright, 1913.

education this country affords, its
correspondence schools and evening
schools, libraries and free lecture
courses, and all the splendid oppor-
tunities for home stuly in the long
winter evenings and odds and ends of
time, it is sad TO zee young people
grow UP in ignorance. numbering the
English language, Ignorant of their
own country's history and geography,
ignorant of a trade or profession and
knowing almost nothing of literature
There is no excuse for ignorance to-
day. Anyone who has ambition and
health can educate himself in his leis-
ure moments.
| know a number of young men who
had almost no schooling at all, but
who were obliged to go to work at
from twelve to fourteen years of age,
and who have SO improved their spare
time that no one could ever dream
that they were not college, educated.
l have in mind one young man
that was never even graduated from
a high school, and yet he has been
principal of two. He has been Of
fered professors chairs in some of
our universities. Long winter eve
nings and half holidays have meant
sonnet hing to this man. He has
squeezed from them their possibili-
ties
Wisdom will not open her doors
to those who are not willing to pay
the price of admission. She will not
sell her Jewels for money, but will
give them to every poor boy or girl
who yearns and works for her.
The moment young man ceases
to think of lack of opportunities,
either for an education or a career,
but resolutely looks conditions In the
face and resolves to change them, he
scores victory and lays the corner
stone of solid career. Even If he
must go slow, he will go far.
Young man or woman, whose edu-
cation has been neglected, what will
you do during the long winter eve
nings? Will you drift with the cur
rent, taking no stand concerning your
future? That way, the danger lies
that you will remain among the
eclipsed, the unnoticed, the unpro-
vided for. The future never takes
care of itself; 1t is taken care of.
shaped, nodded, colored by the pres
ent.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17

From the Boston Transcript
When President Edmund J. James
of the University of Illinois, left ii
TO his faculty to decide whether he
should resign there was enacted a
scene unique in American universe
ties. Small wonder that there was
general surprise that such a thing
could happen. The stories of car
dom in our universities and of the
autocratic powers possessed by all
presidents had made the rounds so
often that it was not believed that
any executive would submit his case
to the men he had himself been in
strumental in placing on the teaching
staff. And the fact that he asked
them to take a secret ballot only
added to the universal establishment.
When all is said and done, how
ever, why was not this the best way
for Mr.. James to determine what COM
petent men thought of his ability,
and to- find out whether there was
any truth in the persistent rumor
that he did not possess the support
of his faculty? How better could
petty differences be adjusted and the
confidence of the people in the in
tegrlty of their university be main
tanned? Needless to say DR.. James's
resignation was not demanded by
his associates, who, by an over
whelming vote-1SS to 3-proclaimed
their faith in their president. Still
later a ballot of instructors and as
sistants revealed an even greater de-
gree of confidence, only one dissent
ing vote arising. Alumni, too, Joined
the procession, various associations
adopting resolutions in which they
unqualifiedly approved the president
administration. Altogether. it was q
week of triumph for DR.. James.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

mine owners and government experts
will have a part.
Some of the largest sailmaking
firms in Boston have agreed to the
eight-hour demands of the Sail
makers Union.
BY a referendum vote the unions
of the building trades in Everett.
Wash, have decided to hereafter en-
joy a Saturday half holiday.
The command pay of lieutenant
colonel of the British royal artillery
and of the officer commanding a cav
airy regiment or a battalion of in
fantry willfbe increased from " cents
to s1.20 a day.
A report shows an average gain in
1918 in membership for the last
three months in organizations affili-
ated with the American Federation
of Labor over the corresponding
three months of 1912 of 174, 139.
According to a law passed in 1904,
every city of France of more than
10000 inhabitants is required to es-
tablish a free municipal employment
bureau.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
Senators Can't Play Hockey

The noted Jockey. Tod Sloan. was be-
friended by the senator in early days
and did not forget him in the heyday
of fame, for he never missed an OPP
portunity of calling to see his friend
Kern.
In his own inimitable way. the SEN
ator recalled the early days of In
diana; while his mind was set upon
holding the Democratic caucus in line
and watching every move to secure
the passage of the tariff bill. He is
one of the few senators who wears
a beard, which he strokes meditative-
ly with a patriarchal air. but his
twinkling and swapping dark eyes be-
| lie the semblance of age. In the
prime of life. Senator John Kern has
proved himself the man of the hour
in Democratic leaderships.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
MUSEUMS OF PEACEFUL ARTS

tronomy and navigation. safety ap-
planes, aviation, mechanical rats,
agriculture, mining, labor, efficiency,
historic records, health and hygiene,
textiles, ceremics and clays, architec-
ture, scenic embellishments, garden
ing, roads and bodybuilding ma
terials, commerce and trade, printing
and books. In addition. there will
be central library containing books
and periodicals relating to the SUBJ
jects of the museums.
This is the first project looking
toward the establishment of a mu-
scum of science and industry to take
definite form in the United States.
The outline is splendid in its breath
and scope; if carried through to
completion, this museum will be a
worthy companion of the two other
great museums in New York city.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
Who Would Believe 1t? Philadelphia
Air as Pure as Country's.

Women are prohibited from work
ing at night in Massachusetts. Ne
braska and Indiana.
In the commonwealth OF Australia
there are 10000 receiving old age and
invalid pensions.
There are nine States which have
not yet reached a fourteenyear age
limit, even for factory work.
The wages paid the musical instru-
ment workers of the country amount
to about $50, 100000 annaully.
Of the 32S,S90 people employed in
the manufacturing industries of New
Jersey S0,542 are women.
In the last thirty years more than
1000, 900 people have left Italy for
Argentina as immigrants.
Six States have no provision at all
for enforcement of factory laws or
collection of labor statistics,
Alarmed by the Is per cent. increase
in the number of mine fatalities dur
ing the year of 1913. Secretary of the
Interior Lane is working out a
remedial program in which miners,
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ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARDS of Atlantic County, is anxious
sisters laws applied rgdy and i'm
partially introduced by him insrucs Attorney
Wescot vigorously prosecute all offenders
against yet sleeping He is have ample
for the purpose.
AS there has been complaint under these
Until few days ago the attorney general Edmund Will
of Red Bank andpa Republican and it does appear
slightest putting the seven sisters
Nor he asked do Assembman Richards when
the Legislature session year. and after the laws had been
enacted
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Australian Soldering.
no RoGfOn Herald


From the Boston Herald.
Australia is frequently cited as an
example to other countries in the
path of legislative progress. And no
one will deny that in the matter of
social legislation the Australians have
adventurously blazed a new trail,
though where it will end is not yet
quite clear. 1t is largely expert
mental and nations that hasten
slowly will naturally wait to see the
results before pronouncing judgment.
much less attempting imitation. The
best that can be said of it at present
is that, on the whole, the direction
seems to be right, and the motive is
undoubtedly good. But how strange
it is that people eager to go for
ward in one way should enthusiasts
tically go backward in another. Aus
tralia and New Zealand have taken
to soldering under the old system of
compulsory military training for the
entire male population, and this has
been long enough in operation to en-
able us to judge of its effect. 1t is
already hated by a large section of
the people, and condemned by leading
newspapers.
This indignation is caused by some
thing more than the squandering of
public funds. 1t is due to the perse-
eution of the thousands of boys who
refuse to obey the summons to mill
tary service. They have-been put in
prison, herded with criminals, forced
to wear convict dress, additionally
punished with solitary confinement,
compelled to have their finger-prints
taken, disfranchised for life and de
barred from all government employ
ment Many parents have been
heavily fined and while families have
left the country in disgust These are
some of the effects of Australasia s
laundering incursions into the bust
ness of soldering. The example is bad.
1t is especially unworthy of free
commonwealth, and the people are
apparently getting ready to throw the
burden off.
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

, carbon dioxide, the principal pol
sonous element in the air. This, Pro-
fessor Pearson said, demonstrated
that there is little difference between
the air in the centre of Philadelphia
and that in the country.
Dr. Mary Walker Mistaken for Postmas.
ter-GencraI by Unsophisticated Visitor.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.--Mrs.
Thomas G. Patten, whose husband is
a representative from New York,
made a round of calls on the wives
of Cabinet ministers, accompanied by
somewhat thrilled because it was her
debut in officialdom-
At the home of the postmaster-gen-
eral Mrs. Patten and her friend
chatted for a few moments after
greeting the hostess.
rs that the poStmaster-genera
standing behind Mrs. Burleson?" in
quired the visitor. THE little man
wearing the frock coat and light gray
| trousers?,'
Good gracious, mol" replied Mrs.
Patten. That's DR.. Mary Walker"
Surgical Operation Performed on Prize
Winning Rooster Restores His Grow.
| NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Mrs. Joseph
Belts, of East New York, whose
prize winning chickens are famous
throughout the country, restored the
crow to her most precious. rooster
last Sunday by performing a remark
able operation.
| The rooster was stricken with the
malady known in feathered circles
as bound crop" He was at the
point of death when Mrs Belts cut
open his crop, removed several twist
ed spears of meadow hay and sewed
| the crop up again
The rooster crowed yesterday morn
| ing
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
WILL THE IMMIGRATION BILL BE VETOED?

VETO of the immigration bill with its mistaken and
wrongful excluding all erates the bill the
credit of the President with all intel
gent thoughtful people President Tafts veto of similar
bill for creditabe of his admin
straon The vote which the House nfu-
unreaonng utterly mistaken its views
of immigration and ignorant of the
social conditions in Europe that foster illeracy
iterates these shores fully capable
of education They denied the opportunity
That part of the oppression which induced them to emigate
emigraes always of ambition
enterprise Those who possess these qualities do
emigate the hand have good exclude
would admitted under the proposed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-17
GIVES POINT TO THE EDGE BILL.

THE PUBLIC Service Commission of Pennsylvania has done
Public Utility Commission has done and evidently
not disposed An order by the Pennsy
commission the railroads provide safety devices all
grade crossings dangerous The devices be sub
the commissions investigator for his approval.
hundreds of unprotected grade crossings in New
Jersey since Utility Commission established
been many shocking tragedies them The Edge bill
mandate the railroads safeguard
crossings They be obligated
Pennsylvania commission has ordered be done its
State Public Utility Commission has failed do in
New Jersey