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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
Tango Aids the Cloth Makers.

From Fibre and Fabric.
Textile industry can make no mig
take in encouraging the tango. It is
a craze, and as such calls for special
dressing and quite out of the usual
trend when present-day fads are
being worked to the linn t: it calls for
increased yardage in ladies' dresses.
For several years fashion has die
tated reduced yardage In women's
wear, and 1t is q source of satlsfac-
ton to learn that the tango changes
conditions. A woman cannot safely
stand the strain of this new dance In
the close-ftt ng affairs that have been
and are so popular. She must have
more room TO save buttons and seams,
and the tango gowns are considerably
fuller and have more trimming and
founcings, all of which calls for in
creased yardage in the outfit.
During the last few years it has
taken less than half the cloth for
merry used to make a dress, and
weavers and everyone else connected
with the trade have suffered in con-
sequence. But now that the dresses
are becoming bit more full, or at
least the dressnakers are using more
cloth in them, many of the manufac-
turers state that they should sell as
much cloth this year as they sold last
y, ar. even with great deal more
com ng here from the foreign mills.
IL there was ever a time when the
textile industry needed fads and fash
ions that increased the amount of
cloth in DIR, sses it is now, when the
tariff is opening our markets to for
eign competitors, and If the tango
heips, all hail the tango.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

A new law in Tennessee provides
for a workmen's compensation COM
mission.
Since 1900 wages in the Japanese
furniture making industry have in
creased almost so per cent.
Pennsylvania employs the largest
number of women in the silk indus
try.
Since 1857 North Wales has had four
serious colliery disasters, costing If
ty-three lives.
On April 25, at New Brunswick, N.
J.. National Print Cutters Associa-
ton of America will convene.
France has 5.O46 trade union or
ganizations with total membership
OF 1,027.o59.
A f,ve-day week Of eight hours each
has been approved by the Australian
labor congress.
There are almost 10000 apprentices
in the German bakery and con1ec-
tionery industry. So
M. Caillaux. minister OF finance. and
NJ. Noulens. minister of war, nave de-
cided to introduce the English work
ing week into the state workshops OF
France. 1t is expected that the hours
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Popular Minister to the Court of St. James

between the United States and Great
Britain, due to our claims for dam
ages on account OF the depredations
of the Confederate privateers upon
American commerce would have been
easily adjusted had the treaty which
Mr.. johnson prepared been ratified. &
But 1t was not ratified. There was
q feeling that some OF the senat"
who voted to -ject this treaty had
conceived intense jealousy for Rev.
erdy johnson and. Furthermore.
feared that. were the treaty ratified,
Mr. Johnson's party would get the
glory.
General Grant, who was In Wash
ington at the time. greatly admired
the draft OF the treaty, as prepared
by johnson, and after Grant was
elected President the purpose was to
retain Johnson as minister to the
court of ST. James. But when he be-
came President he found party pres
sure too strong to resist. He was to d
that it would not be good politics to
keep Reverdy johnson in office as
minister to the court of st James.
He, therefore. reluctantly determined
to make a new appointment and on
the advice of Hamilton Fish, then
secretary OF state, he named the his
torian, John Lothrop Motley.
81 never knew what the real reason
was which compelled President Grant
to recall Motley about a year later.
have heard that Secretary Fish
found Mr.. Motley insubordinate. or at
least unwilling to heed his requests
that renewed attempt be made to Sc
cure a new treaty by which the Ala
hama claims could be adjusted. The
removal of Motley gave very grea {
tffense to influential Republicans who
were in public life, and especially to
Charles Sumner and Carl Schurz 1t
paved the way for bringing together
all OF those disgruntled or ideal!stic
Republicans who OF ganized, two years
later as the Liberal Republican party,
It'll Horace Greeley as the candidate
COR President.
President Grant always felt that II
2evordv johnson had been retained
as minister ne could have negotiated
new treaty which would have been
satisfactory, and then all of the I'M
| fortunate compiled tions which fol-
| .owed his recall and the appointment
of John Lothrop Motley as his sue
cessor would have been avoided"
| Copyright, 1915. by f. ]. Edwards.
All rights reserye0A
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

Sleep, indeed, is gentle tnlns'
If Is the supremest form of rest Our
notions of rest during sleep, however,
are likely to be a little upset When
We come to survey the ditlerent pos
lures assumed by various animals
during sleep. .ho
No beg.n with the human race, the
ma torlty of mankind PROBABLY steep
hlng upon the right or IetI sloe Oh
the BODY and with the knees drawn
up toward the chin. But certa
African tribes, for example, lie upon
the mack, with the head, or rather the
lack of the neck, resting on bar or
wood supported on two short pillars
The elep. ant, apparently invariably
and the horse, commonly, s4eep stand
ing. This is really astonishing. ASIDE
flOm the apparent difficulty of man
tanning the balance Of the body dur
ing these long periods of uncon-
sciousness, one would have sup
posed that a recumbent position IN
The case of both these animals was
imperative. Cattle and their KIND
commonly sleep lying down, ana ouF
ng many hours of the day they lie
down, as when chewing the cud.
More curious still, there are crea-
lures which invariably sleep hanging
head downward, suspended by their
hind feet. The bats afford a case IN
point. Among the BIRDS we meet with
tie same strange habit In the little
hanging parrots of India and the
Malayan region. In this they differ
from all other birds, which invariably
sleep with the head turned tailward
o1 err the back and the beak thrust in
ar ong the feathers between the wing
and the body, not under the wing as
Is commonly believed. No eXp.ana-
tion has ever been offered to account
for this strange habit It IS followed
oven by the pengu'ns. wherein the
feathers are go short as to fail com
pleteiy to cover even the back Owls
a e. perhaps, the only exception to
the rule.
And bv the way. the only other AMI
vale which thvs tu"n tho head back
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS
200 Dozen Duck Eggs Arrive from Ire
land Under Free Duty.

2 200 Dozen Duck Eggs Arrive from Ire
land Under Free Duty.
NEW YORK, March 20.-A sh p
ment of 1900 dozen duck eggs, which
are always In demand in Lent, were
'eceived yesterday from Ireland, sent
,nder the new law, which does not
impose any duty. These are the first
luck eggs from Ireland in a quarter
If a century. These eggs. are selling
IS high as thirty-eight cents Dozen
Demand so exceeds the supply just
now that prices are unusually high.
he principal supply comes from
Baltimore. few merchants there
make t their business to assemble
these eggs and ship them, principally
o New York. There are a few goose
aegs on the market. These too are
only shipped during the Lenten sea-
on and the quantity used is small.
What few have arrived brought
lightly cents dozen.
Babe Born on Imperstor During Gale
May Be Called Hurricane BILL"
A baby was born in the steerage
he Imperator, which locked yester-
lay afternoon.
The baby was christened Joseph
Tmperator Schnapp by Thomas Nc
MULLEN, one of the first cabin passen-
ers, who. with the aid of Mrs. Hays
Hammond. collected s2S5 for the
mother and child. Other passengers
suggested that the baby should be
AIMED "Hurr cane Bill" which may
1e his nickname when he grows up,
rs it has been inscribed on a piece of
paper and given to the mother with
he meaning in German.
Inventor Is Trapped In Hennery by His
Own Egg Alarm.
NEW YORK, March 20.-Sure. Will
lis O'Dell, of Tarrytown. is an inven-
tor. He invented an electric signal
from a trap nest that rings every
time hen lays an egg. 1t rang so
continually yesterday afternoon that
Mrs. O'Dell decided all the hens had
laid at once and the O'Dells were
worth a fortune.
She investigated and found that
O'Dell's patent lock had worked too
we'll when he had entered the COOP
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

March 20, 1919. She was the grand
daughter of Nicholas LongwCrth, the
famous pioneer of Cincinnati, where
she was brought up. On her thirty
seventh birthday she was married to
the diplomat, Bethany Storer.
Mrs. Storer has been prominent In
diplomatic society in this country and
at the courts of Belgium, Spain and
Austria. where her husband has
served as United States minister. Her
most remarkable achievement was
the establishment of the lockwood
pottery works near Cincinnati, where
she put into practical operation her
theories and skill in the art of pot
terry, which had long been faVorite
hobby Of hers.
When she went to Brussels she kept
up her interest In modelling and GER
amics. and set up a studio. where she
installed a gifted Japanese artist to
work in bronze. When her husband
was transferred to Madrid she carried
her studio and her japanese artist
there and amid all her various social
duties found time to carry on her
artistic work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
THE. SECRET OF LONG LIFE

Celebrating her 1929 birthday down
in Philadelphia q few days ago.
Aunt Mary Bender, with hair not
yet wholly gray, and with strength
enough to do her share of the work,
told how to keep young in spite of
time.
Just take care of yourself and ma
ture will do the rest. Early to bed
and early to rise. Be careful what
you eat. Look on the bright side OF
things and-keep busy"
e Aunt Mary ought to know. Her
granddad lived to he 104. and both Of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
First Railroad Charter in America.

First Railroad Charter in America.
New Jersey was the first State In
the Union to grant a railroad char
ter. In 1915 John Stevens secured
permission to construct a railroad of
wood or iron from the Delaware
River to the Raritan River" The
road was to be constructed within a
certain number OF years. and the pro-
visions of the grant not being COM
piled with the charter was later for
feitcd. The first effective charter was
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

her parents crowded the century
mark.
Keep busy!" There you have tn,
big end of the recipe. OF course. yoI
must also try to keep healthy-tha:
is, you mustn't wilfully abuse tn,
body God gave you.
But to keep busy. to keep inter
ested in congenial and useful serv-
ice is the main thing. Idleness kills
Frett:ng kills. Grinding on sand In
the machinery kills. But wholesome
interesting. well-varied work-tha;
lever kills.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
Little Stories Of New Jersey
BY ARTHUR e. WARNER

granted to the Camden ana Perth
Amboy Railroad, February 4, 1880,
and this was the first railroad to be
operated in the State.
The various canal companies, with
foresight into the possibilities OF The
road. united in 1881 with the railroad
corporation. In 1882 the New Jersey
Railroad was Incorporated and their
road built from Perth Amboy to Jera
sey City. This was In operation In
1898. making the first continuous road
from Philadelphia to New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
Il Secret

My ladies a the world to me-
'Tis to himself ! owe it
That can never more gae free
But an he must not know 1t!
When from my side he roams ava,
scarce believe I'm living;
But when he's here--rny laddie-ah,
die for want of giving!
Why must think upon his smile?
His eyes oerbright and bonny?
His gladness that doth sac beguie
1t robs my heart of ony?
We're | lad and he a maid,
would not be sac winning;
10 wound too deep I'd be afraid,
And deem such sweetness shining.
Florence Earle Coates in Harpers Magazine
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

From the Portland Oregonian.
We are not surprised to read that
the Baltimore woman who had fort y
different cooks in one year finally
succumbed to nervous prostration
The only wonder is that she survived
to tell the tale. What her SPECIAL
trouble was it is impossible to gIess.
All women have much to Undergo
from their cooks but the experience
of forty in a single year Is rare and
wonderful We wish this matron
would write her autobiography as
frankly as Marie Bashkirtseff did and
initiate all of us into the inner sane
tum of her woes. The spectacle
would be horrible. but at the same
time 1t would be instructive.
Her sorrows have naturally awak-
ened sympathy among her Maryland
sisters. They seem to agree unani-
mously that something ought TO be
done to check this appalling transit
torlness of cooks. The queen of the
kitchen has reduced herself to q
mere floating vision. Today she
dawns radiantly Tomorrow she is
cut down as a flower and withereth.
or at anv rate she fiitteth away and
Is not. No doubt her mistress many
time and oft wishes she could
wither her and wisheth all In vain.
The cook flourishes like the green bay
tree. 1t is the mistress who pines
and peaks.
What ought to be done about it?
The Maryland Daughters of the
Revolution think the evanescent cook
ought to be made to sign a contract
binding her to personal service for
fixed period. If she breaks her bond
and fades awav she can be sent to
Jail. where. the chances are. she
ought to have been in the first place.
The mistress can then appear at in
tervals and read her sermons on the
sin of fickleness through the bars.
This remedy is fascinatingly simple.
1t reduces the wicked cook to
peonage. or rather slavery, for the
neriod of her contract If such q
Jaw were enacted we are persuaded
that the moor Baltimore woman
would not have forty cooks the next
wear or the wear after that She
--o"'d NOT have anv cook thence
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
Graft in Japan.

From the Springfield Republican.
Japan is still IN the throes of the
naval scandal, and the arrest on a
charge OF graft of so important per-
sonage as Vice-Adm raj Matsuo, in
spector- general of, naval construc-
ton, Is significant of the scope Of the
evil. 1t is a hard blow to Japan,
which during the war took pride In
compa ing the loyalty and integrity
of its officers with the corruption rife
in the Russian army and navy But
It 8 not very surprising that the
swift assimilation of Western civili
cation, coup ed with increas ng wealth
and an increasing necessity for
money, should have broken down, to
some extent, the old ideals based on
the honor of a superior soldier caste.
New temptations have arisen, and no
dorbt the distinctions between right
and wrong have been somewhat
blurred in the transition to q new
order But I Is plain that Japan
means to root out the evil and make
its public services incorruptible. A
curious parallel Is to be found In the
case of the ancient Spartans, who
were taught to despise money. and
were gwen coin of iron, and who vet
when thew came in contact with
richer and more progressive countries
were reputed the most easily br'bed
of all the Greeks Strength against
temptation can he gained only by re-
sistlng temptation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

Workers in the province Of Ontario
are urging the passage OF the pro-
posed workingmen's compensate for
injuries act. They are aware that
strong efforts will be made TO weaken
the draft act, submitted by the gov
eminent commissioner. Throughout
the province trade union meetings are
being held for the purpose of Great
ing sentiment In favor of the act.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
Room FOR 5000, 900. 900 Only.
the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
From q happy obliviousness re-
garding other matters that many are
worrying about, a correspondent of
the Pail Mall Gazette has been fig
'uring on what folks will do when
the world is filled up-that is to say,
when 1t reaches a figure in popula-
ton that the products of the earth
will be taxed to the limit to sup
port.
According to one calculation, this
maximum population will consist of
5000. 100000 persons, assuming that
the fertile regions can support
207 persons to the square mile, while
the less arabic tracts will give food
for IA inha bitants to the square mile.
Based on the present mean rate of
increase in population, which is
placed at per cent for each decade,
there will be 5,994,0 $1,000 people in
the year 2072, or only 1853 years from
now.
Through figures long since fur
nshed by Sir John Herschel, 1t Is
further shown that, had there been
only two persons on the earth 5000
years ago, and had that number
doubled 100 times-once in every 80
years-and had only natural death
taken place, those living today would
stand shoulder to shoulder on each
others heads, and then cover the
sea and land, and reach out 100 times
beyond the orbit of the planet Nep-
tune.
This Is rather undressing, per-
haps, to the lay reader. Yet it is
not without ITS application to certain
vexed questions of the day. The fact
that we don't "reach out beyond the
orbit of Neptune" is probably due to
easily ascertainable causes. War is
one, pestilence another. famine still
another. Too much eating and too
much drinking may also help to eX-
plain. The lack of eugenic move
ment in the dark ages possibly has
something to do with the situation.
Anyhow, we are merely piffling
$4,000 900, or thereahouts; and
Jumping the living skeleton with the
fat woman, and counting the rest
an average, the entire lot could stand
within the confines of the District of
Columbia, without holding hands. If
you don't believe this. work 1t out for
yourself.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

He was a prisoner O'Dell had beer
playing at Chicken laying an egg
In order to ring the bell to get some
one to release him.
Assets Bit. Kissed and HOoted Him, 81
Receiver Quit Job.
PITTSBURGH, March Ca. B
Fell, receiver for the bankrupt estate
OF irwin F. Myers, of Mckeesport
has applied to the United States Dis
trict Court to be relieved OF his job
because an asset bit him. And raj
ran up his pants" leg and snakes
Missed him and parrots swore ant
monkeys chartered and scratched at
him and an owl derisively hooted a.
his efforts to take up his official task
The rat and the snakes and mon
keys and parrots and owl and gold
fish and white mice and rnorrnosets
and pretty dogs are all assets In
Myers 'pet shop" in McKeesport
The asset that bit Fell was a husky
bulldog. The receiver had ventured
alone in the shop. The dog grabbed
his leg and the rat rushed" at him
And when he saw a possum peerine
from dimly lighted rear room he
left. Then he threw up the job,
though his bond is $500.
=
Has 1t Cut $4,000.
BALTIMORE, March 2O.-The gen
eral reader may feel entitled to have
a full and formal affidavit appended
to this piece of news, but it's gospe
truth just the same. There's q man
here who thinks he's getting paid too
much and deftly Tops $4,000 off his
annual emolument. The man is John
T. Stone, president of the Maryland
Casualty Company, and he has beer
holding the wolf at bay on $4,000 E
year. The directors didn't want to
cut his salary, but he urged them e
that he might have q free hand In
bringing about retrenchment in ex-
penses all along the line. He said he
felt II only fair to begin with himself
So the $4,000 per annum was ampu-
tated, bringing President Stone with
in $4,000 of the $4,000 a year which
former President Mellen, OF the New
Haven, said was all any man or
earth was worth,
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

forth forevermore. If we add slavery
to all the other discouraging features
of domestic service how can we ex-
pect girls to enter that way of life?
Is 1t not just bare y possible
that il the Baltimore dame whose
sorrows we are hymning had given
her cook a decent room and decent
treatment she would have stayed on
without any compulsion from the
Legislature.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
Primitive Justice In the Bush.
From Harper's Magazine.

Primitive Justice In the Bush.
From Harper's Magazine.
Nearby his town. long ago, a saw
age tribe had murdered a family of
settlers in the night, says one lad,
who escaped death by OPPORTUNITY
tumbling to the floor between the bed
and the wall, himself wounded, I'M
conscious and left for dead What
the provocation was nobody knows.
1t is probable that there was no
specific provocation. 1t had doubt
less been a wanton th.ng-a en- ldish
mischief-undertake upon savage
impulse and accomplished for moth
ing more than the momentary pleas
ure of dealing death to some living
creature. This was the insp ration Of
many similar deeds-ne Their VEN
geance nor spoil, but the swift, be-
st!al, wanton blood lust, INDUCED,
celebrated, laughed over for the time,
and forgotten; and therein les suf-
fic. ent explanation of the terrible
character of the retaliation. What
ever the case the boy. having thus
narrowly survived, made his way to
Br shane. where he related his story
to the authorities, and to such good
purpose, as 1t turned out, that he
was given q rifle and free leave to
return to his district and shoot as
many black fellows as he could man
age, being heartily assured that the
law would not modest him.
You see," said our fel'ow-traveler,
"he was regularly licensed"
by the department of game and
flsheries?" I scoffed.
"Ah, come now!" he replied. II am
not joking. l do not mean to say,
he went on, that the authorit es gave
this boy an engraved license. suit
able for framing, but | do assert that
they commissioned him to kill black
fellows, and that his comm ssion was
not altogether singular. but one Of
good many, and he did kill black
fe'lows-hundreds of them, possibly.
He killed them where he could find
them, rum ng the bush or employed
on the stations, not even hesitating
In the presence of their white mas
ters, and by and by the thing became
nuisance 1t was awkward for the
station owners to have their black
boys disposed of in this way There
were complaints. I recall that one
station owner had his best black ser
want shot from the saddle on the road.
He was very angry; but the boy
fiourished h commission and the sta
ton owner could do nothing about it."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

Under the joint auspices of the Ma
tional Association for Labor Legisla-
tion and the American Section of the
International Association on Unem-
ployment. a national conference on
Unemployment Is to be held in Wash
ington.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20

Copyright, 1914. by f. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.l
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WITH THE WORLDS TOILERS

of work will be limited to forty-nine
a week.
Germany has 3,409 local unions OF
woodworkers, with a total member
ship OF almost 100000.