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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
INQUIRIES for American Goods

greater part Of our requirements in
Germany, but of course, this source
will be closed TO us for some consid-
cradle time. We should, therefore,
esteem 1t a great favor If you would
kindly indicate to us some reliable
manufacturers of copper and brass
in sheets. bars, wire and tubes; also
phosphor bronze wire, which is chiefly
required in 201a SWG for drawing
down to finer counts over here; wire
nails; galvanized and black iron
wire; oval steel wire and horseshoe
nails AS we do not, however, con-
fine ourselves to metal goods, but
are also interested in chemical and
electrical lines, perhaps you may be
in a position to give us some intro
duction in these lines as well. IN
regard to chemical manufacturers,
we are on the lookout for a manu-
facturer of cyanide. This article has
hitherto been bought in large quanti-
ties from Germany and consequently
there is every chance of doing con-
siderable business in this line, pro-
vided we get into communication
with reliable concern of good
standing and substantial production.
Being connected with all the lead
ing copper consuming works in Eng
iiIlu, ONtutIls anu >
We are anxious to secure an agency
with an important American copper
selling concern"
23249-Osaka, aJpan (F'elt, Wire
Cloth. Pulp)-"Kindly give us the
names of some reliable houses who
are manufacturers Of felt, wire cloth
and pulp for paper making" Corre-
spondence in English.
22252-Paris, France (Dry Vegeta-
bles)-"Kindly let me have informa
ton about the trade in dry vegeta-
bles which can be exported from your
country. I am handling here beans
lentils, ETC., on commission, and for
good many years 1 have had the
best connections with the wholesale
trade. l imported these articles
generally from Hungary and Rouma-
MIA, but in view of the present
troubled situation, it is materially
impossible to import these goods and
I am therefore obliged to look Col
them elsewhere. Kindly give me tbs
names of some concerns who may be
interested in my inquiry. There is g
great probability of placing very i'm
portant orders with the firms who
i wish to make use of my services.
| Correspondence in French.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
Onions as a "sure Cure as Useless as
Their Odor.
ny DIR. LEONARD. KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A. B., NJ. A, N D. tJohns Hopklns,.

Onions as a "sure Cure as Useless as
Their Odor.
Medicines, like men, must deliver
the goods Independently of their Titles.
No kings stamp and no clinical pro-
fessorship can make metal OF a man
any better or heavier than he is A
malaria expert may not be much more
than a common scold, and a lord Is
often a leaden shilling which you
bend every way and who debases the
power he possesses.
Onions eaten at night, says one OF
the traditional "home cure" recipes,
are soporific and laxatiye. There are
many scientific pharmacologists,
though, who agree that onions are
rather terrific and provocative.
These are not light, but serious
words. Indeed, the gallant claims
made for the onion, as well as garlic,
puts the most immodest ten-color
patent medicine poster to blush.
The kitchen curists here outdo the
malaria expert. Onions, they tell us.
induce perspiration, cure coughs
and "colds," and aid digestion.
Garlic, they say, helps gastritis and
1eeks lure the tagging legs out of their
fatigue. Furthermore, say these sages,
onions alleviate the pains of "Theu-
matiz" and remove the water from
dropsical waterlogged sufferers of
heart and kidney ailments
Onions, like the philosophers stone,
will stop the ache of sore threats,
prevent lockjaw, heal black eye, and
stop the pain of sore and swollen
feet, so tits said. ~
Always be suspicious Of the told
about sure cures of any popular
"remedy." Be even more on guard
against any article which "has been
known to cure more than one eX-
elusive type of ailment.
1t is almost certain that any drug
which is hailed as a panacea, which
is said to "cure" two or more.mala-
dies probably does little good even
to one.
It is equally certain that any atfec-
ton which can be relieved by sew,
eral dozen drugs remains to be helped
by some not yet discovered.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
TOO BUSY FOR CONVENTIONS.

Garment manufacturers had national convention
at Toledo yesterday and twenty-five members of the
association sent regrets. They were too busy making
clothing for the lighting in Europe to be hearing
speeches and passing resolutions Could there be a
more eloquent sign of the times? And the kind
of message might be sent by shoe and other manu-
facturers as reason for non-attendance at annual
conventions
Only few of the large orders from Europe to our
manufacturers made public, but the story is told
in our rapidly increasing manufacturing exports and
the remarkable activity in many large industries.
These orders will not only be kept up, but their volume
will increase Manufacturers charging their
plants and increasing their outputs, and next year
they will have much greater facilities to fill European
orders than they possess.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19

The American Red Cross fund for relief work in
europe now totals nearly million and will prob
bly, pass that figure by the end of the week. Almost
Is fast as the money comes in it is paid out in support
IF the Red Cross work. The good that this work is
LONG is incalcuable.
No other philanthropy took such strong hold of the
ympathies of the American people as this one did
md it's benefactons have become universal In
var or pestilence in earthquake calamity, in great
foods and CONGREGATIONS the Red Cross figures giving
lid to the wounded the injured, the sick and
desparing.
It was beautiful idea to associate the Red Cross
~ith abe American Christmas season by establishing
he custom of afixing Red Cross seals to Christmas
packages This year, with the extraordinary demands
upon this world philanthropy, demands that have no
limit few indeed will be the Christmas gifts however
transmitted, that will not bear the insignia of the
Red Cross.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
rHE woR1p.wIpE REACH on THE CANAL.

One of the unforeseen effects of the Panama Canal
has been to turn sheep pastures on the other side OF
the world into orange groves. New South Wales is
now planting thousands of to oranges, which
viii be sent by way of the canal to the Atlantic
board of the United States arriving in midsummer,
when citrus fruits from other climates scarce.
This market could never have been opened if 1t had
not been for the isthmian waterway. AS the
Chicago Journal aptly puts it, who would have dared
predict that the steam shoves in Culebra Cut were
breaking up vast estates and encouraging intensive
agriculture in a commonwealth on the other side OF
the globe?" Such is the worldwide reach of this
great enterprise An instance of what it to
domestic trade appears in the arrival of steamship
at Galveston from San Francisco with $4,000 cases OF
fruit and wine the first cargo in the trade route
from California Texas by way of the Panama Canal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
UPLLFT TALKS
PURITY is POWER
BY oR1soN SWEET MARDEN,
author of pushing to the Front Etc
Copyright 1914.

People whom We may cali sexnsi
neuroties are unbalanced. selfish
usually cOld-blooded and lacl ali
sense of proportion. They are driven
under impulse, committing all sorts
OF unlawful criminal deeds.
is there anything truer than that
ITO be carnally minded Is death D.,
Keep the imagination clean y" .a,a
Hawthorne. That is one OF the
trCest conditions with communion
with heaven"
There are plenty of people who are
extremely fastidious about tbatr
bodies who will feed their minds uno1
the filthiest literature they can pei
hold of. They do not realize thai II
is thousand times worse to take
filth into the mind than into the body
1t is said that the minds phonogranb
will faithfully reproduce a bad or i'm
pure story even up to the point of
death. a distinguished clergyman
told me that an impure book was
shown him when a boy, and that al
though he had it in his sight but
few moments he would, in after life
have parted with his right hand II by
so doing he could have blotted out
its influence from his mind.
The most dangerous writer's in the
English language are those whose
polish reflect upon the mind the
image of impurity without presenting
the impurity itself. A plain vulgarity
in the writer Is its own antidote It
is like q foe who attacks us openly
and gives us opportunity for defense
But impurity, secreted under beauty,
is like a treacherous friend who
strolls with us in a garden and de-
stroys us by the odor of poisonous
flowers proffered to our senses.
A mayor of Philadelphia said he
could rid the jails OF two-thirds of
the boy criminals in the next year
If he could Danish bad plays from the
boards of the variety theatres and
put bad books out of print An officer
of the British government declares
that nearly all the boys brought be-
fore the criminal courts owe their
downfall to impure reading.
Purity of life means integrity; It
means mental power; 1t means phys
ical health; it means efficiency; II
means harmony of faculties; 1t
means increased self-confidence. It
means courage as against cowardice,
1t means a positive as against neg
alive mind, it means initiative in
stead of mental negativeness.
Purity means power, it means self
faith. Teach your children that the
right use of the sex instinct, the
preserving of it in its integrity, in
its purity. will bring them the great
est happiness, and make possible the
highest efficiency.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
BIG HOTELS LACK PATRONAGE.

The closing OF many floors by five Of the principal
New York hotels because of lack of patronage teshes
to one effect of the European The loss of pat
ronage is mostly that which had been supplied by
transatlantic steamers while few of the foreign
habitues of these hotels at battle fronts.
The business depression has also had its effect
upon hotels all cities No doubt the large hosteries
in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and ST. Louis have
whole floors that vacant. Hotel bars and dining
rooms severely feel this loss of custom.
But the business revival setting in will soon
start travel and fill the hotels, though may not
look any appreciable number of foreign visitors
until after the war.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19

II becomes more and more evident
that the export trade of the United
States is gradually recovering from
the shock caused by the outbreak Of
hostilities in Europe. 1t is estimated
that the exports for the month OF Oc-
tober reached $2OO0O0,OOO. This was
less than the 5000, 900 recorded in
October. 1913, and the $252,O0O,OOO in
October, 1912, but it marked a dis
finct gain over the low-water mark
of Sic, 900, 900 in August and $156,000,-
900 in September.
This estimate of s2OO.OOo,ooo worth
of exports in October is based on
the reports of ten leading ports
which handle approximately so per
cent. of the outward shipments-Ne
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Galveston. New Orleans, San
Francisco, Seattle, Detroit and Buff
falo.
In the absence OF detailed figures it
may be assumed that this increase in
exports has been due largely If not
entirely to the European demand for
our grain-for our wheat and flour.
War munitions and army supplies
also helped to swell the total There
has been as yet no decided upward
trend in exports of manufactured
goods generally, but this is not at all
unexpected and should not discourage
manufacturers as to the outlook.
The demand for American food
stuffs and army supplies u perhaps
only beginning-large shipments OF
these articles must swell the export
total as long as the war continues.
However, we must look ahead and be
prepared for the time when the Eu--
ropean demand for these classes or
goods will shrink.
But We may be assured that when
that time does come the demand for
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
HOW ENGLAND FINANCES WARS.

England is not only spending nearly $5,OOO,oOO a
day on her share of the but is financing the cam
paigns of some of her allies She has loaned $50, OOO
600 to Belgium, Ss,OOoOO0 to Greece, 100000 to
servia and 1853 900 to her various colonies and
there will be no interest pay long the fighting
goes on.
England was able 10 do the thing for her
allies during the Napoleonic She paid regular
subsidies continental powers opposed to Napoleon
including Russia and was their banker as long as
they varied on the Corscan Her great debt was
created in that way. 1t is possible that before the
present war is ended she will have TO finance her
allies this time Russia and France and perhaps Japan
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
CONSTITUTION AND RURAL PREJUDICE.

In his annual report to the National Grange, sena-
tor George W F. Gaunt, the grange master of New
Jersey took pride in stating that the State Grange
has defeated the proposition for constitutional
vention in New Jersey to preserve for the rural
districts the great preponderance of power in the
New Jersey Senate. As Mr.. Gaunt expressed it. the
proposition was to take representation away from the
rural districts"
An unatered State constitution sixty years old,
which has long outliyed its day and is in conflict not
only with the ideas of today but with the fundamental
principles of American government, is not good
either for rural urban citizen. That.truth will yet
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19

MY extreme youth, when l took
command of the army of Italy SAID
Napoleon, rendered it necessary
that 1 should evinee great reserve OF
manners and the utmost severity Oh
morals. This was indispensable 10
enable me to sustain authority over
men so greatly my superiors in age
and experience. | pursued a line OF
conduct in the highest degree ire
proachable and exemplary. In spot
less morality / was a Cato, and must
have appeared so to all. was a
philosopher and a sage. Ny suprem-
acy could be retained only by prov
ing myself q better man than any
other man in the army. Had yield
ed to human weaknesses L should
have lost my power"
Had Napoleon maintained TINS
high standard of morals he would
have been a much better and greater
man.
TO be pure in heart is the youth 8
greatest commandment. Do not listen
to men who tell you that vice is
necessity" Nothing is a necessity
that Is wrong. All wickedness is
weakness. Vice and vigor have moth
ing whatever in common. Purity is
strength, health, power, character.
without doubt the strongest men
i'll all times, the great men in all
ages, have been pure men, clean
minded men. There is a profound
philosophy in Tennyson's lines:
my strength is as the strength of
ten,
Because my heart is pure
Purity is power because it means
integrity of thought, integrity of
conduct. 1t means Wilderness. The
impure man cannot be great power
because he cannot thoroughly be-
lieve in himself when conscious that
he is rotten in any part of his nature.
Impurity works like leaven: it affects
everything in a man. The very con-
seriousness that impurity is working
within him robs him of power.
Apart from the mcral side of this
question, let us show how these
things affect a mans success in life
by sapping the energies, weakening
the nature, lowering his standards,
blurring his ideals, discouraging his
ambition and lessening his vitality
and power.
In the last analysis of success, the
handspring of achievement must rest
in the strength of a mans vitality;
for without a stock of health equal
to great emergencies and consistent
longevity even the greatest ambition
is comparatively powerless. And
there is nothing that will sap the
life forces so quickly as dissipation
and impure living.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19

Among American women this day
stands out as the birthday of Mary
Anna Hallock Foote, who was born
in Milton, N. Y, in 1849. AS young
girl her life was quiet and unevent-
full, broken only by a few seasons
study at an art school and occasional
writing. At twenty-nine she married
q civil engineer, Arthur Foote, whose
business called them into the far
West. Here Mrs. Foote made a sym
pathetic study of Western characters,
and has written stories of mining
camps and ranches excelled only by
those of Bret Harte.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
Labor News

In France 912 employers maintain
libraries for their workmen.
The union label stands for the
elimination Of child labor.
Flour and grist mills at Mime
apolls employ 1924 workmen.
A new Arkansas law limits children
under sixteen to eight hours work a
day.
Plasterers at Vancouver, b. c., are
paid seventy-flve cents an hour for
an eight-hour day.
Young girls in the silk factories
of Japan work from thirteen to four
teen hours day.
The Federal law now restricts the
service of trainmen to sixteen con-
secutive hours.
None but British subjects are to
be employed on government or mu-
nicipal work in British Columbia.
Fort Worth, Tex, has created by
ordinance a free municipal employ
ment bureau.
Statistics show that sickness in
| creases among children who leave
! school for work.
Richmond Cal, has a daily paper,
the Daily News, which is owned and
run by union men.
Minnesota's compensation law has
reduced the number of personal in
jury suits nearly forty-five per cent.
The Park Commission of Denver
has decided that non-union men will
be the first to be laid off.
In New Jersey the highest average
yearly earnings are in the industries
in which few women and children are
employed.
Akron (Ohio) Carpenters District
Council has asked the City Council to
insert fair wage" clause in all city
contracts.
In France the fatality rate for
quarry accidents is seldom more
! than one in every 1000 employed and
| in the year 1912 was even less thar
| one.
Cedar Rapids newspaper pressmer
have succeeded in negotiating a new
wage scale that carries average in
creases of 10 per cent.
Textile workers In the vicinity OF
| Fall River, Mass, are maintaining an
agitation for sanitary mills. The
workers assert that conditions are a
| menace to health.
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Expanding Exports and Stationary Imports

our manufactures will begin to make
itself increasingly felt. The stocks In
the neutral and non- manufacturing
countries will be well-nigh exhausted.
and these countries will be in a bet
ter position to buy in normal guam
titles than they are today.
In the near future, and temporarily
at least, the struggle for foreign
markets as far as the United States
is concerned promises to become in
large measure a struggle between
competing manufacturers in this
country, rather than with English.
German, French and other European
manufacturers. But. as we have re-
peatedly pointed out, it would be
dangerous to assume that European
competition is to be eliminated.
Though it may be restricted, there
will still be enough life left in it to
make the American manufactures
work for every sale he makes.
A study of the foreign trade re-
turns for October from the balance
viewpoint affords another reason for
courage. For returns of the ten ports
mentioned, which handle eighty-nve
per cent of the imports, show that
while exports have been expanding,
imports have remained practically
stationary. The value of the inbound
shipments in October has been esti
mated at s140000.0a0, practically the
same as in September, and but s1n,.
100000 less than in August. So marked
have been these two tendencies in the
last three months that, instead of the
unfavorable trade balance of 500. 000,-
900 of August we had a favorable
balance of s16.000.000 in September
and $50 000 900 in October
As long as this trade balance re
mains so favorable there is no rea-
son for worry as to how our interest
and other obligations abroad are 70
be met, and there is reason to look
for exchange conditions more nearly
normal.
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AND ALL FOR $500.

Philadelphia wants a superintendent for Inde-
pendence Hall. Naturally to have the care of
the shrine of American liberty be well up in his
tory capable of safeguarding priceless and
possessed of the executive ability look after the
work of the employees in the building. In fact high
are the requirements that OF twenty-one who
took civil service examination for the place not
passed. Eighty-three candidates to try to-
day, and If is found to up to the job
he will receive the muni1cent salary of $500 year
or less than is paid to policeman. Isn't that Phila-
delpha all over?
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~" for Eugene

She critically examined the gold
sleeve links which were set before her
and then requested the clerk TO show
her another line. She decided on a
pair, murmuring to herself Yes, Pm
sure he'll like these
"Do you care for any initials, miss?''
dueried the clerk.
"Oh, yes, ! forgot said she. 81
think I'll use his first initial this
time. You may engrave the letter
TT on them"
~" repeated the clerk, as he wrote
the instructions down. MAY I in
duire the name, miss, If IT Is Uriaf
or Ulysses? Names commencing with
'TJ' are so very rare"
Eugene" replied the young woman
proudly.
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impressed on the minds voters who have SO long
been mised on the question
CONTRACTORS WHO VIOLATED THE LAW.


The contractors on the New York subways knew
what the labor law in New York was when they made
their contracts All of them consult lawyers in their
business but without legal advice contractor en-
poying large bodies of aborers is bound to be ia
miiar with law so we'll known. And with this
knowledge they deliberately went ahead, made their
contracts and began the construction work They
hired eighteen thousand aliens in preference to native
or naturalzed aborers The peais that this was the
only labor to be got.
The lawbreaker always has a specious plea to
make 1t is absurd to make it in a city with hun
dreds of thousands of aborers and the rest of the
country to draw upon It is utterly absurd at this
time when so many laborers are out of employment
and eager for work and wages The truth ts that the
alien, ignorant of laws and his rights, is more
easily dealt with, will take lower pay and submit
TO worse conditions than the native and naturazed
laborer. And they hope to have the labor law
knocked ont by the courts!