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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18

men, thinking, no doubt, of their
great campaigns and of the soldierly
fraternal relation which was estab-
lished between them.
1 was never able to learn what these
two generals talked about Their
conversation certainly had no rela-
ton to anything that was in progress
upon the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatiVes.
One afternoon, on day succeeding
a meeting of this kind between Cen
eral Johnston and General Sherman,
when they had chatted cordially for
more than an hour. | spent some
time with General Johnston in the
sitting room of his house on Con-
necticut avenue. / ventured to say
to him that there were many persons
who had looked with intense interest
at himself and General Sherman as
they sat together in the House of Rep
resentatives, thinking no doubt of the
attitude in which they stood to one
| another in Civil War days, and espe-
cially in the last days of the great
conflict.
| A smile exquisite in its tenderness
| lighted the bronzed face of the old
Confederate soldier. Then he said:
General Sherman was a great sol
der, and, like all great soldiers whom
/ have ever known or Of whom have
| ever heard, he is a man of tender
| heart, deploring war and all its awful
accessories as none but true soldier
can
| (Copyright 1914, by T.. J. Edwards
= All rights ra9erNedl.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18

Thus said an elderly and irascible
gentleman:
Flown for four years? Then, thank
God you're alive, sir, and don't fly
again"
A view, no doubt, that might repre-
sent the opinion of many But do
not purpose to retire, writes Claude
era White. in Harpers Week
~. Instead, profiting by experience,
hope to pilot aeroplanes for more
thousands of miles through the air.
How have l, in pursuit reckoned
SO perilous, preserved myself intact?
Luck" is the natural answer of the
layman, and If [ had to- respond
merely yes" or mo-" / should be
Obliged to say yes" But qualifica-
tiorfs are needed, and important ones,
too. In the category of impending
accidents, which examination falls to
reveal, should be placed that which
befell Mr.. Lorraine, when flying the
Irish sea. His machine, like mine,
had been pronounced in perfect trim,
but when a waste of water lay below
and no ships were in sight, his en-
CINE "pop-popped' and ceased to
work. Commencing to plane down, he
wondered how long the biplane would
remain af1oat. But then, the engine,
which was still running slowly, began
abruptly to fire again, and he flew
ahead once more. Thrice did 1t play
this trick, stopping merely to start
again, and giving it's pilot, each time,
the foretaste of watery plunge. And
then at last. when the airman was
close upon the Irish shore, 1t actually
stopped for good The machine fell
into the sea. and Mr.. Lorraine COM
pleted his journey, with hundred
yarlS' swim. This eccentricty of
thea engine had, 1t was found, been
due to the presence in the pertol
tank of some loose pieces of solder
relics, quite evidently, of it's making;
and these, with the swish to and fro
of the petrol in the tank, as the ma
chine rode the guests, had momen-
tarily blocked the mouth of the out
let pipe, only to be washed out again.
In the end, as might have been ex-
pected, a fragment damned itself in
the orifice, and refused to come out !:
and it was then that the motor failed
in earnest.
Once only, l think, when a motor
has stopped i'm flight, have felt that
intake of breath which probably rep
reSents the sensation, Having your
heart in your mouth" 1t happened
during my second London to- Man
chester" flight. Pursuing the Mctori-
Gus Paulhan, determined to make
up ground by night flight, then an
unheard-of exploit, and assembled
from the little village of Rhoade. some
sixty miles from London. Paulhan
being so far ahead of me as Lichfield.
1t was pitch dark and | rose into
vague, black void, nothing showing
in front save the outline Of my. ele-
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of thirty-two lives at the time of the
Veronese disaster.
This Thief Always Is Welcome. steals
SIS and Drops x75.
SMYRNA, Del, Feb. fS.-When
Charles Carey, a. farmer near here,
discovered today that a dozen of his
found. purse containing 800. The
thief had evidently lost 1t IN his haste
Carey has no way of learning the
identity of the owner of the money,
and the owner of course will not claim
it. Stealing chickens Is a whipping
post offense.
AS it is, Carey is SIS ahead of the
deal, the chickens being worth SIS,
Kicked Unconscious BY Horse, Putei
Buggy in Stable, Walks Home.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1S.-Louis Hine.
thirty-eight, a farmer living in this
county, was kicked and trampled on
by a vicious horse. His skull was
fractured and he became unconscious,
but went outside and took hold of his
buggy, placed it IN the stable, locked
the door and walked to his house, 15O
yards away. Members of his family
noticed his condition and called DR..
Theodore Minges. The man was still
unconscious, though he could get
about. When he regained conscious
ness he told the physician of the acci-
dent He may recover.
suite of Rooms and Special Maid for
Her Cats.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1S.--Mrs. H. B.
Graham, a society woman, wife of a
paper company official has fitted up
three rooms of her home and en-
ployed a special maid to look after
her cats Mrs. Graham has pur-
chased for $275 Romaldkitk Vice Ad-
miral, an orange Persian champion.
Mrs Graham has spent about $4,000
in the last few months for cats.
N"I have to buy and keep them out
of my pin money she said in ex-
planning her investments
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18

From the Engineering News.
There are three ways of expressing
vessels tonnage, as gross tonnage,
net tonnage and tonnage displace-
ment. The tonnage displacement is
mea sured in tons of 2,240 pounds, and
refers to the actual weight of the
water displaced by the hull of YES
sci.
! For assessing Panama canal tolls,
warships passing through the canal
are to be taxed on their tonnage dis
placement, (which is to be deter
mined from the vessels official dis
placement scale and curves" in con-
nection with the draft, measured at
the time of the application for pass
ing through the canal. For the de-
termination of the mean draft war
ship must be placed at such location
as the Governor of the Panama canal
shall order
An interesting complication in
measurement may arise here over the
question as to the draft of a vessel
in salt water or in brackish water.
If the draft of the vessels is taken at
the approach to the lowest lock, either
at Gatun or at Miraflores, it is prob
able that the water will be fresh, or
nearly so at least, when traffic
| through the canal is sufficient to re-
ouire large volume of water for
| lockage, so as to continually flush
the channel below with fresh water.
| There may be conditions, however, in
which the surface water will be fresh,
| but the water near the bottom will
be salt. and it will be a puzzle to
know what factor to use in convert
| ing the total volume displaced by the
vessel into tons of weight.
All other vessels than war vessels
passing through the canal are to pay
! tolls based on their net tonnage.
1t seems pity that in the opening
of the Panama canal the opportunity
was not taken advantage of to estab-
lish, in place of the antiquated sys-
TEN of measurement, some simple
system of measuring vessels passing
| through the canal, which should be
easy of determination. and which
might be the first step toward an in
ternational standard for vessel rat.
|
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
OUR REFORMED LEGISLATURE.

THERE HAS been marked change in the last few years
partisan demanor of legislators Trenton Veteran OBJ
the legislative sessions recall the time when the
Legislature deibeae body but asemblage of
partsan began their battle with the fall
gave and kept until final adjournment Legislation
advantage interests rather than for the benefit
railroad influences dominated This latter the
ground upon which the factions could meet amcably.
Legislature become deberave body The tumults
former longer parsanshp
personalities have almost disappeared and
spirit of courtesy prevails The good of the State is
apparent motive formerly the least thought Of The
railroad potent has lost its controlling in legislation
there committee graveyads for popular bills More
Legislature reforming its methods of doing business
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
RELATIONS OF PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS.

WOULD exceptional indeed if sessions of Congress
pass without serious question of difference between Con-
press and the executive assev his dealings
with Congress and stood out against his wishes Roosevelt
Congress- President Wilson has had his
but questions taking shape
sharp differences between the executives policies and
opinions his party Congress- the most i'm
portant subject being that of Panama Canal tolls.
The will pass the immigration bill with its educational
all probability Mr. Wilson will for the first time exercise
his power Taft had vetoed bill of similar
rpassage his defeated by
strong effort will be made the present bill
over the it will impair that
existed the Capitol and the White
help widen the differences other questions of
national policy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
A CTTY's RIGHT TO CELEBRATE.

THE DENIAL of home rule municipalities more
Extensively evidence than the passage by the Assembly OF the
bill authorizing Elizabeth celebrate their 250h ami
Why municipality should be compelled go the
Legislature for permission spend its money for such
understanding What from Cape May
Sussex and Mercer have purely local of such char
that they should have the whether shall be
by municipality? State policy affairs
affected celebration the
not the shadow of right interfere in any way.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
Corporation Chiyalry

From the New York World.
An attractive young woman of per-
haps twenty-five boarded the boat
at Norfolk, Va, which connects with
the New York train at Cape Charles,
| one night last week. Soon after the
boat left Norfolk the young woman
went into the restaurant for dinner.
Half way through the meal she sud
denly pushed back from the table, put
her hand to her heart and with a lit
tie gasp fell to the floor uncon-
scious.
Men rushed to her aid and the
head waiter hastily summoned the
st ewardess. A prompt search of the
boat disclosed the fact that there
was no physician on board. The stew
ardess and two or three women pas
sengers Immediately took charge OF
the young woman and applied all the
first aids at their command. Nothing
they did, however, succeeded in re-
st oring the unfortunate traveller to
consciousness.
A search of the young womans
purse showed her tickets for New
York, and also cards which seemed
reasonably certain to give her name
and ADHESION a street on the upper
west side of Manhattan
stretcher was prepared the
young woman tenderely carried from
the boat on it's arrival at Cape
Charles to the sleeper in which she
n ,11
the situation was explained to a
man who had reserved a stateroom,
and he promptly placed it at the dis
posal of the still unconscious young
woman.
Before the train started on its
journey northward the conductor tel
egraphed ahead to a station some few
miles up the line, and when the
train reached the station two doctors
were waiting to board it. Rather
than hold the train the doctors of
fered to travel on the road until they
had cared for their patient, the con-
ouctor assuring them they would be
taken back to their own town by the
company.
And then, while the doctors were
working over the young woman, train
officials verified by telegraph the
name and address of their charge
When the train reached Manhat =
tan Transfer the following morning
the father mother and brother of the
young woman were waiting on the
platform. The doctors had done tlfeir
work well. As her relatives hurried
into the stateroom they found her
able to sit up in the berth and sip
ping cup of broth that had been
hastily prepared for her in the
lunch room of the station at New
ark. Travelling alone may be UNI
pleasant, but for the woman alone il
is certainly not unsafe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18

There are 100000 working women
in this country, 100000 of whom are
receiving an average wage of ~ q
week.
The Minnesota Union Advocate, one
of the. foremost union labor publlca-
tons in the United States, is in It's
eighteenth year.
The Cedar Rapids, Ia, adjustment
plan, recognizing union shop condi-
tons, and depending upon mediation
and arbitration, has made possible
the construction of $6,0OO,00 worth OF
work without the loss of minutes
time.
OF the 800, 900 Slavic and Italian un-
skilled immigrants that arrived at
New York in 1912, one-third is crowd
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
The Worlds Population.
Antwerp Cable to Philadelphia Pub
Ledger

Antwerp Cable to Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
The population of the earth is
slightly over ,9O0,oOOOOO. an increase
of 140, 100000 in the last four years, ac-
cording to the Bureau of Universal
Statistics, which has just announced
it's figures for 1912 Asia now has
9S3, OO0, 900: Europe, 4S4OOO, 900; Africa,
1888, 900, 900; America, 1S7OO0OO0; Ocean
lea, 100000
The worlds commerce now amounts
to $40, 800, 900, 900, and it is CARRIED on
by 55,S02 sailing ships and 47,714
steamers. Other figures show total
of $4,000 miles of railroads, or enough
to girdle the globe twenty-five times.
A debt of $42, $50 100000 is the total
shown in the accounts of all the ma
tions of the world. of this total pub
| lie Indebtedness thirty-two milliards
are charged against Europe alone. A
century ago the public debt of all
countries amounted to only a little
over seven milliards.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
WITH THE NATIONS TOlLERS

ed in herds, hidden away in tene-
rhents of that city. without work, and
In many cases half starved.
1t Is announced that the combined
trade union and protection funds Of
the British National Union of Rail-
waymen amount to $1,900,O00.
BricSlayers. Masons and Plasterers
Union, of Hagerstown. Md. has put
in a demand for wage scale OF 5u
cents an hour, effective April 1.
With the fifty-hour week prevailing
in Rochester, Boston, New York and
Syracuse, and in some OF the clothing
houses of other centres, the year OF
1914 = shows the United Garment
Workers very close to the forty-eight-
hour week.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
A BARBER ASPHALT co. PROBE.

A PROBE of the Barber Asphalt Company by the govern
if unsparngy conducted is bound bring facts
mpate many public officials in cities of country. The
company monopoly and for it has had dominating
of for and highway paving
AS the company has New Jersey incorporation and has its principal
New Jersey also doing large business in the State
of the Seven Sister laws which former
attorney Wilson put sleep and which Assembyman
Richards of Atlantic county wants to enforced
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
A REVELATION OF HIMSELF.

THE BGOT President Wilson making absurd
harge Secretary Tumuy tamperng with the Presidents
correspondence up Mr. Tumuly by his contemplate
habit of mind to attribute its character
tic motives The of this President Wilson
as revelation himself Of poorest specimens
aanhood country produce.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
RESISTANCE TO FIELDER's PROGRAM.

!s SOUTH JERSEY politicians hold the three
that all of the States from the
oyster industry These commissions political jobs fact that
appeals powerfully the South Jersey politician than the
of the of the oyster industry So there will be
obstinate opposition Trenton the abolition Of these
missions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18

From the Chicago Journal.
The wheelbarrow is the most COM
mon medium of transportation in
Shantung, China. The load is bal
aneed about the wheel so that the
workman does not have to carry a
portion of the load, as is the case with
the American wheelbarrow.
Some wheelbarrows have but one
push man. and some a pulling man as
we'll; some have one, two and three
donkeys to aid in pulling, and some
are equipped with sail to obtain the
help of favorable winds.
The equipment depends on the load
carried, the maximum load being
about ton. Transportation by
wheelbarrow is from five to eight
times as expensive as transportation
by rail in this province. Thus. the
native methods of land transporta-
ton, even with labor receiving a wage
less than ten cents gold a day, are
costlys disproportionately so as COM
pared with the prices of other comm
dities.
Yet Shantung has tens of thousands
of wheelbarrows engaged in traffic,
1t is easy to appreciate what railroads
will mean to the development of this
densely populated province.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

X-Ray Shows That Boy Has Two
stomachs.
BERNE, Feb. 1S-A lad of nine
teen, who is patient in hospital
at Interlaken, was placed under the
X-rays yesterday and it was discov-
cred that he has two stomachs. Med
ical men are greatly interested in the
case and will send the youth to Ber-
lin to be examined by specialists.
Rooster Crows at Wrong Time and Be-
trays Thief 10 Policeman.
BAYONNE, Feb. 1S.-Policeman
William Clark was passing Tony To-
binak, of 81 Avenue e, just before
dawn yesterday when rooster in a
nearby coop crowed.
From beneath Tobinak's coat came
an answer. Then Tobinak started to
! run. He dropped Rhode Island red
rooster and two pullets.
Clark caught Tobinak. The prisoner
will be held until the owner of the
fowls is found
| Ship.
| NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-The steamer
Baron, of the Lamport & Holt line,
now IN port, mas on DOaru d NE Voy-
ager. He is Ernest Victor Hugo, a
relative of the famous French writer,
who. as first officer of the Lamport &
Holt liner Veronese. suffered paraly-
sis from the waist down as the result
of exposure and hardship when his
ship was wrecked on the Portuguese
coast. Later he developed insomnia
| and he cannot sleep unless soothed
| by the rocking of ship.
| The line which he has served so
well undertook his care and since
then he has been travelling as its
guest on, any vessel that he selected.
He came in yesterday on the Byron
from South American ports and I'M
less he changes his mind before that
vessel sails he will go back by her.
He wears medal bestowed by the
ROYAL Humane Society for the rescue
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18

From the New York Sun.
Celebration of the emi-centennial
of the death of stephen Foster is GER
tain to revive the discussion as to the
character of his songs. That they are
not really ok sings. though they
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-18
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

have the characteristics of folk-songs,
has long been the opinion of authori-
tative writer's on music. Foster in
vented his melodies, and sfrom this
viewpoint they are the art songs of
a composer who followed the idioms
of part of the population.
Yet many love to insist that "Old
Black Joe, "Massa's in de Cold, Cold
Ground" and other songs by the
author of THE Old Kentucky Home"
are folk-songs because they represent
the negro musical idloms.
The most important characteristic
of Fosters songs seem to many to be
their strong national form. Not only
are they American in their thematic
material, but that their composer was
native of this country marks a dis
tinguishing feature between them and
the popular songs of the present time.
Few of the men who are putting be-
fore the public the successful and
ephemeraI ditties of the day are
American, by birth, and indeed
few of them have been here more
than a year or more before they be-
gin to compose the one kind of music
which it is possible to make appeal
ing to the. American public today
There are, of course. incalculable
artistic distances between the COM
positions of Foster and the so-called
rags" that are the single form in
which the popular American COM
poser of the day seeks to express his
musical talents. 1t Isl another
popularity of the songs of Foster
that they were given to the world
when songs for Americans were writ
ten by their compatriots. That is not
true today and it would be pleasant
to believe that our national taste in
music unalloyed is better represented
by the negro melodies of Foster than
by their modern substitutes.
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From the Washington Post.
1.-THE city of Havana can give
Washington many points on santa
tion,n said George A. Joslyn, of
Omaha, president of the Western
Newspaper Union. II recently re-
turned from twelve days visit to
the capital of Cuba, and while there
was impressed forcibly by the en-
tire absence of mosquitoes and flies.
| did not see one of those insects in
all Havana. Possibly, and probably,
this is due to the great work of
Colonel Gorgas and his associates
Following the Spanish-American War,
but whatever the cause it is certain
that the house fly, which Washington
swats every summer. has been elimi-
mated entirely and, further than this,
the mosquito has become an abso-
lutely unknown quantity.
Havana has some 800 inspectors,
whose business it is TO distribute
lime and raw petroleum in all the
breeding places of flies and mos
quitoes They visit every house no
matter how small, every DAY in order
to take the necessary steps to drive
out the pests.
I'm Matanzas. which is but short
ride from Havana, flies are common
everywhere, and, of course, are
nuisance and breed disease. The,
American occupation of Cuba is re-
sponsibe for the absolute elimina-
ton of yellow fever. through the de-
struction of the malaria carrying
mosquito 1t would seem that the
success of eliminating the house ny
in the principal cities of Cuba should
be followed by a similar effort on
the part of the people of Washington,
backed by the federal government,
for. il Havana, with its all-the-year-
around eduable climate. can drive out
the fly. Washington should have no
difficulty in doing the same"
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che Prisoner Of Coue

Che Prisoner Of Coue
Still, although know our ways
Are divergent through all time,
Following love will shed its rays
On the path you choose to climb.
And your eyes my thought will meet
Shining in your guiding star;
Flowers shall spring before your feet
From my brooding love afar.
But your voice hear that cries,
"O the brambles trap my feet
o! the light that blind my eyes!
When shall love and freedom meet?"
GEORGE ROBERTS,
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Copyright, 1914, by T.. ]. Edwards.
All rights reseryed). >