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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

will marry Louis M. Cohen. a lawyer,
next week. Her fiance filed her fa-
theirs will for probate.
Dog Given Bronze Medal by Women for
Saving His Master.
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-Jim, the
Great Dane dog. belonging to III. L.
Galpin, yesterday was presented with
a bronze medal by the New York
Women's League for Animals, TOT
saving the life Of his master.
On the morning of October 81 last
Jim dragged his master from his
burning apartment. Gas escaping
from a melted fixture had overcome
Mr.. Galpin, but he soon revived in
the open air, where the dog had
dragged him and awakened others in
the apartment. Jim is two and one
half years old and weighs 127 pounds.
University students Teach Tango to Pay
Their Educational Expenses.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1e.--It became
known yesterday that at least three
students at New York University
lege by teaching the one-step, tango.
hesitation, maxixe and other modern
dances.
One of these is Edmund Joseph Fix
man, who is taking a college course
leading to an A. B. degree.
although 1 am kept busy with my
studies" he said yesterday, ct find
time to do some professional teaching
on the side. ! have been able to sup
port myself and still have consider
able sum left after meeting all my ex-
penses. / am thinking of increasing
my staff of tango instructors. know
some very clever dancers among the
undergraduates"
Nicholas Ripperger, another stu
dent was offered considerable sum
to teach the tango and other modern
dances at a fashionable dancing
school in Brooklyn.
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PITIFUL BY CONTRAST.

THE CONTRAST between pier and dock municipal
New York side of the Hudson and the New Jersey
pul for New Jersey New York city 232 piers with
miles of wharfage while the Jersey side there
public wharf Jersey City and Edgewater Only
a these points public the All the
front is privately owned and fenced Jersey City
owns undeveoped of 500 feet of the tide
and is Characteristic of city enterprise that
undeveoped and nonproductive
There disagreement both sides of the Hudson
nevertheless had spirit public enterprise
vision brains all of which utterly
lacking the westerly side Of the Hudson
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How c. P. Huntington, Outwitted a BIackmailer

The late Coils p. Huntington was
accustomed to attribute the good
health which he maintained during
all his long life, in which were con-
centrated some stupendous intellectual
and business labors, to his keen per-
ception of humor, to his good under
standing of human nature, and to his
profound sense that every man had
his temperamental and well as his in
tellectual weak points, and that no
man is all bad who has any moral re-
sponsibility at all.
These things" said Mr. Hunting
ton to me one day, "have enabled me
to overcome many annoyances, sue
cessfully to meet many embarrass-
ments and emergencies, and on the
whole to handle and treat men as
they deserve to be handled and
treated.
Not the least of the annoyances
which have been my lot were the in
finite variety of the attempts to get
at my purse in small as well as in
large amounts / am not referring
now to the attempts at Matchmaking
legislators or politicians to compel
tribute from me, but to the petty
efforts of that kind which were con-
stantly made.
Let me tell you of an experience
that / had some fifteen or twenty
years ago. ! had become familiar
with the methods adopted by ire
sponsible writers to coax a few dol
lars from me, and / want to say that
I never knew of a case where any one
connected with a reputable newspa-
per ever offered hint to me that he
would like q little extra honorarium.
I think If, every one were as honorable
in this respect as the newspaper men
of whom ! have had knowledge. there
would be cause for congratnlatlon.
"One day man called upon me and
laid before me the. proof-sheet of an
article which he said he had prepared
and was to publish In a few days. He
told me that he would be glad If |
would look 1t over.
Il said to him that If he had already
prepared the article and was going to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19
Cuts should BE Cleaned.
he Rural New Yorker.

From the Rural New Yorker.
The danger from cut isn't always
in proportion to its size. Few of
these received in work about the
home and farm endanger life by
bleeding, for, unless a large artery is
severed nature has her own way of
stopping the flow before serious con-
sequences ensue; but all cuts, wheth-
er large or small, have within them
grave possibilities, for they mean
that the skin, that great protective
covering of the body, has been broken,
and that the soft tissues beneath
have been exposed to contamination
by dirt and infection by germs.
Most wounds contain more or less
visible dirt, carried into them by the
cutting instrument, and this instru-
ment, no matter what it is or how
clean it may appear to the eye, is
practically always a carrier of germs
for germs are omnipresent. In
healthy tissues nature is usually able
to take care of these invaders, and
the only evidence of the fight that is
going on between them and the blood
| is the matter" or pus, that forms
while the wound is healing. Occa-
sionally such germs as find entrance
are Immediately washed out by the
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UPLIFT TALKS
APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author Of Pushing to the Front" Etc.
Copyright, 1918.


that it is a wonderful privilege for
them to enjoy so many advantages
without ha'ing done anything in the
way of pro .ucing them.
{. THE child should be impressed with
the fact that but for what the past
has done for him he could not get a
jackknife or a lead pencil, suit of
clothes he could not get the adj
yantages of telegraph or telephone;
he would not have a roof to cover his
head, but for those who had toiled,
struggled and sacrificed for him be-
fore he was born. In other words,
every child ought to learn to be
profoundly grateful for the marvel
GUS things which he finds all ready
for his use when he arrives on this
planet.
This debt we all owe to the past
ought to make the human drones
willing to do their share of the
worlds work. Every time they put
their hands into life's great granar-
les to take out the products of 9TH
ers' labors for their use and enjoy
ment they ought to feel the sting OF
remorse for never lifting their hands
to put anything back in return.
If a person lacks appreciation he
will also lack qualities which make
up strong character. If one lacks
gratitude and appreciation he will
always be thinking of himself, he
will be selfish, unmindful of the rights
of others; he will lack the finer quail
tiles, the more exquisite virtues; his
nature will be cold and hard.
There is something about the culti-
walton of appreciation and gratitude
that enriches the character wonder
fully. No matter what a persons in
tellectual attainments, educational
culture may If he lacks those quail
ties he seems to lack about every.
thing that makes life desirable.
It is a terrible thing to rear chill
dred without developing in them
sense of gratitude and a keen appre>
citation of all the privileges and adj
yantages they enjoy today. We ex-
perience a satisfaction when we have
honestly worked for a thing which
we do not feel when it is given to
us There is something within us
which rebels at being helped, because
help from others tends to kill self
respect. We do not think quite so
much of ourselves after having ac-
cepted favors or a position which we
have not earned, as we did before.
The sense of justice in us is violated
We do not feel quite honest in accept
! ing something for nothing.
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Dogs Growing Fewer as Autos Increase

BILE dog, an honest dog that will look
you full in the eye, and, more than
that, one that you may be honest
enough to look full in the eye. One
may well believe that there is scarce
ly man in a hundred that may do
that. 1t is only when we are boys
that there may be such an inter-
change of glances-when you and the
dog fully understand each other and
speak IL common Language.
There may be better day com
ing for dogs despite the automobile,
AS the years go by we fail to insist
upon the annual mad dog scare of
years ago. Those who once hearkened
to the cry of mad dog have become
incredulous. They recognize that
human alterations are increasing and
see that sanity has been thrown to
the dogs. Oliver Goldsmith gave us
the line, in a poem. that it was not
the man who was bitten but the dog
it was that died,
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A forlornl looking tramp went to the
back door of a residence and begged
for shoes. The mistress of the house
gave him good pair and said to him:
There, put these on, and If you want
to show your gratitude Just happen
around here some morning after a
snow-storm and clean off our side
walk"
Some time after the lady was awak-
ened early one morning by someone
scraping the sidewalk in front of the
house. Looking out she found that
there had been quite a heavy fall of
snow, and there she beheld the tramp
to whom she had given the shoes
clearing away the snow from the side
walk with an old broken shovel When
he caught sight of his benefactress at
the window he raised his tattered hat
to her, and, his self-imposed task fin
ished, went away without saying a
word or even asking for anything to
eat. Three times the same thing hap
pened during the winter but the man
never asked for compensation or food.
This certainly was an exceptional
case, for we all know that apprecia-
ton and gratitude are qualities that
are unfortunately lacking in the ma
lures of many. people.
A little while ago / heard a bright
able young man say that he did moi
consider that he owed thetworld any
thing whatever. He said he came
here without his consent and that al
the work which the ages had been
doing to advance civilization and ado
to mans comfort meant nothing to
him, for he had nothing to do witt
it, and that he intended to get oul
of the world all that he could, anc
it would not trouble him very mucf
if he had nothing to give back.
Think of a young man facing NE
with that sort of mental attitude
Such ingratitude comes very near u
being a crime. No one can make the
most of his life without recognizine
his tremendous obligation to all the
marvellous things of the world that
have been made ready for him anc
acknowledging the debt he owes u
those who have suffered and sacri-
| feed all through the centuries tt
make these things possible.
One of the things which the mother
and the teacher should instill into tht
life of children is an appreciation o.
the advantages surrounding them
They should be taught that all of th'
ages have been working for them
discovering. inyenting. improving, ant
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19

first took an interest In the study of
archaeology. She later became life
long friend of Professor Putnam. OF
Harvard, and DIR. Pepper. of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania-prom
archaeologists. With DR.. Pepper, she
organized the American Exploration
Society and was sent by this society
to Egypt seventeen years ago to
maka/archaeological research in the
Nile valley She has published many
books on the subject in which she
was interested.
She is notable as having received
the first honorary degree ever con-
ferred by the University of Pennsyl-
vania upon a woman-that of Sc. d.
Mrs. Stevenson is active in 'civic
questions in Philadelphia, where she
has made her home for many years,
and was one of the advisory COM
mittee called by the mayor of that
city seventeen years ago to consult
on a municipal loan of twelve million
dollars. She is an enthusiastic advo-
cate of woman suffrage and has been
president of the Pennsylvania Equal
Suffrage Society since 1909.
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"In nv neighborhood," said Doctor
olddsh. in the indianapolis News, Il
have remarked that with the increase
in the number of automoplies the
number of dogs-or, as some OF oui
Young newspaper friends would say
'canines'-has been greatly diinih-
;sbed II need not be inferred from
this that the auto has been 1ugger-
nauting this fourpedaled friend OF
man; we know that a dog diVldeo
against himself cannot stand-but l
merely cite the fact. No one ever
saw a dog, at least a dog that is
| worthy of notice, lettering about a
garage. There is no affinity, no bond
| of sympathy or friendship between
the dog and the heartless enginery OF
an automobile, not the least
Let US give the dog credit for an IN
stinct that is perhaps superior to our
reason Time was when the auto
mobile was new in our community,
| and the dog, curious to know what
| this monster was, would rush INTO tne
| roadway to attack it. For such an IN
vestigator the dog days were over.
But in his fate all doghood seemed to
have learned lesson, and dog deaths
by the automobile made but neg1-
gible quantity in our statistics.
| How different it is in human eX-
perience! With out greater knoWi-
edge obtained, despite the edict OF the
superintendent of police, from news
papers and other sources, we continue
to be run down at the street crossings
when you and l were boys We had
little doubt that dogs and other ami
mals-certainly dogs-had q language
and could communicate real ideas to
each other. 1t is quite difficult for
me, even at this date, not to harboI
the suspicion that the dogs of this
city have advised each other as to
i the character of these autos, have
even pointed out certain reckless dri-
vers for especial condemnation ano
warned one another to keep out oil
their way. In Paris a number of dogs
are upon the police force. Such an
addition might not be out of the way
in Indianapolis. One thing surely
should commend them to the authori-
ties--whatever they might do they
would never say anything about it
at least not outside of dogdom.
"Some months ago, paper in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, joyfully welcomed
number of dogs trained in Paris tC
4 do police duty. Here, they said, is
an admirable addition to our po-
|
lice force and, barring the barking
Rio will hereafter be more quiet
and better city. But the authorities
who had imported the dogs, had made
a great mistake. The Language OF
Rio officialdom is Portuguese. There
was no way to take these French
dogs in hand, to speak to them In
their native tongue. Besides the poor
dogs were doubtless always thinking
of la belle France that they hao
left behind, and were doggedlN home
sick, surly and unsocial to all ad-
vances made to them. There was
nothing for it but to send to PaSif
for two policemen with whom thu
dogs had been associated and who
would be able to translate police or
ders into language that could be
understood.
1T is no small matter to secure
the entire confidence Of a respectse
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
FEBRUARY 10
Sara Stevenson, Lydia Thompson
BIZ MARY MARSHALL.
sVenson, lydia ]
Copyrighted. 1913.

Sara Stevenson, one of the foremost
women Psychologists in America, and
Lydia Thompson, an English bur-
lesque actress, were both born on Feb
ruary 49,
Lydia Thompson was born in Eng
land in 1886. Her father died when
she was child and when her mother
married, Lydia was forced to earn her
own living. She naturally turned to
dancing as the thing which she was
best suited to and was Joined soon by
her sister Claire.
At sixteen Lydia had already made
quite a name for herself in ballet, and
she was popular from that time on in
ballet and pantomime. She naturally
drifted into burlesque as she grew
older, and in 1870 she came to this
country. where she was the pioneer
exponent of English burlesque and
gained great popularity.
Sara Yorke Stevenson-Mrs. Cor
nelius Stevenson-was born in 1S47,
in Paris, though of American par
ents. AT fifteen she went, to live In
Mexico and it was there that she
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19

From the Ithaca IN. " Journal
It is good news that an army board
has reported favorably upon the pro-
posal to make Bull Run battlefield a
national park. 1t is to be hoped that
Congress will see its way clear to act
in accordance with the recommends
ton. The field of Bull Run has d
two-fold interest. 1t was the scene
of the first pitched battle of the war
and year later it saw one of the
hardest fought and, from the student
point of view, one of the most in
teresting battles of the civil contest.
Some one has said of the first Bull
Run that it was the best planned and
the poorest fought battle in which
the Federal forces participated. The
opposite might almost be said of the
second battle, which was the conclud-
ing chapter of Pope's unhappy sum-
mer campaign in Virginia. 1t was
fought without plans and without sys-
tenn, but 1t was desperately fought,
The vicious charges of the federal
brigades against Stonewall Jackson s
men in the railroad cut and the stub
born defense against Longstreets en-
veloping lines in the woods about the
Henry house are among the finest
achievements of the war
The Union forces had far more
reason to run from the second
Manassas than they did from the
first. But they did not run, and
thereby saved the grandiloquent gen
eral, who had come out from the
West to show Eastern armies how
victories were won. from even greater
humiliation than was his portion.
Whatever may be said of war in
itself, its teachings are all for
patriotism and the cost of preserving
such battlefields as Bull Run is in
Intestinal in comparison to the in
spira ton to be drawn from them
The visitor to the places where the
history of the country has been made
should be able to visualize the scenes
which have been enacted there, and
this he cannot do if the physical
aspect has been altered out of all
likeness to its original plan. We have
Gettysburg and Chickamauga; now
let us have Bull Run-and then the
others.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19
ALASKAN RAILROAD BILL PASSED.

THE PASSAGE by the House of Representatives last night
of the bill for government railroad Alaska follows similar
by Senate the President will sign the bill
10 government policy in Alaskan development may be
considered settled 1t settles the question raised when Secretary
Bainger intriguing give Alaskan wealth Wall Street
syndicate should be given private exploitation
be conserved for the people
Opened up by government enterprise Alaska will be
be pioneers and they will pour
develop establish agriculture and industries
while the will evncreasng income from leases
lands and waepower sites The story of California will
be repeated Only this time there will not be Oregon trail TO
perous voyages around the Horn The pioneers will
travel find paths blazed for them
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19
Ford's $5-a-Day Payroll.

From the Survey.
1t does not follow because you are
a Ford workman, man over
twenty-five and the head of fam
ly, that you are going to be paid IS
day. By no means. You've got to
be Investigated.
Fifty Investigators are dashins
about Detroit in Ford automobiles
accompanied by Interpreters and
armed with long lists of addresses
of employees. The machine stops be-
fore a house, and almost before the
Investigator steps foot on the ground
the door swings open. Come in,
mister calls the wife, sister or land
lady of some lucky bolt-screwer.
Lets see.' says the investigator,
searching his list. "Does--'' Eyes,
sure. he lives here" breaks in the
other, and into the house walks the
advance guard of the new pay en-
velope.
Does Joe Polianski live here" he
asks.
Eyes. he lives here all right"
What sort of man is Joe-pretty
good fellow?''
Sure he's a fine man."
What does he do evenings"
Always home evenings, goes to
bed early
Does he drink"
mo! MOI He not drink"
What does he do with his money
does he save any?"
Sure, he save. Some of it he send
to old country to help old folks,
some of it in bank"
well, now, if Joe should get more
wages what do you think he would
do with it?'
Save it and buy house, l guess"
| All right says the investigator,
| swapping his book together. Tell
Joe TO bring his bank book with him
| when he comes to work next week.
/ So it goes. Wife, landlady, neigh
! Dor and friend all speak a good word
/ for Joe. But the investigator makes
| up his mind as to Joe's character by
noting the manner in which he lives,
and the kind of people his friends
seem to be.
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WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

street railway employees, which
takes effect May 1, will be the high
est rate in the New England States
for this kind of work.
Thirty-five employees at Chance
Brothers glass works, near Birming-
ham, England, have an average of
54.44 years. service with the firm.
One of them has done sixty-five
years service.
1t is understood that Attorney
General McReynolds contemplates
the abolition of the system which
allows convicts to be used in making
articles afterward put on the mar
ket
The Retail Clerks Union of San
Francisco is about to present new
working agreement to employers, in
which it will ask for the closing of
shoe stores at o'clock on Saturday
evenings.
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Trade unionists in Missouri have
Joined hands with various anti-tuber-
culoss societies in an effort to COM
bat the white plague.
A report of the United Mine Work
ers shows the income for last week to
have been $2.159. OS1.69, and the expen-
ditures $2,103, 20144.
OF the $4,000 unemployed trade
unionists in Berlin, $500 are painters,
1875 are transport workers, 1888 are
bricklayers, 4,255 are carpenters, and
5,122 are metz workers.
1t is announced by the Great
Northern Railway Company of Ire
land that $4,000 will be distributed
among the staff in recognition Of
their service in connection with the
increased traffic.
The final maximum rate of thirty
two cents an hour for Boston (Mass.)
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publish it, I didn't think 1t was neces-
sary for me to glance at it.
He insisted, however, that 7 read
1t, did so and found it to be exactly
what | suSpected-a mass of atro-
cously false statements. It was sim
ply awful
Having read the article, I handed
the proofs back to the young man and
looked at him. He asked me if I had
read 1t through carefully, and I told
him that ! had. Then he waited for
me to say something else, but / had
no comments to make.
AT last he ventured to ask me II
the article was not all right. In reply.
] said to him: You have brought me
the article and asked me to read It..
/ have done So
Then he plucked up courage and
asked me il l had suggestion to
make
81 said; 1T is entirely your affair.
You have or someone else has written
this article and that is your or his
affair. am not at all concerned
about that
Wel?' said he, inquiringly and
with strong hint in his manner.
Well said / in reply. 1T is now
entirely your affair and will be until
the article is published. After II is
published it VIII become to a large
extent my affair, and I might as we'll
tell you that after 1t becomes my af-
fair ! shall attend to it with ali the
vigor OF which | am capa BILE and
that feel certain that soon after its
publication you and those who pub
fish il will have abundant opportunity
for contemplation at your enforced
leisure in a great institution over
which the state has authority, and
you will be well guarded from outside
interference while you write other
articles Of this kind if you think it
worth while
He took the proof sheets up and
went away. The article was not
published. Here Mr.. Huntington
smiled significantly. 4