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The Washington times., 1914-03-13
Pitchers Try New Wrinkle Keep Hands Phdbe to Fling Curves
MINCE PIE
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING
By BUGS" BAER.

Pennsylvania rowing coach prohibits
his oarsmen from indulging in the, tan
90. This is fine business. Those shells
arc easily overturned.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

All the Federal League parks
are being built with numerous
exits, which will enable them to
get rid of large crowds in a few
minutes. II they really want to
get rid of the crowds, we'll lend
'em a few jumps.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

4 mnjolica pitcher brought sS55 at a
Berlin sale Tuesday, Don't knoU chat q
r,ajOlicG pitcher is, but it piH be prob
ably signed by Connie Mack. He has
got one of everything else on his staff.
And s655 is about Comics price nop
That $4,000 Reb Russell fasco cured
Cornelius effectively
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

Tho demand for English" clothing Il
getting SO keen, that they are even cut
ing the canal that way.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

L. G. F.-Based upon strictly inside
information Of the best available type.
Iris Speaker is drawing the same sti-
pend which Ty Cobb receives. And this
is LISTED as $3.50 per. You can gamble
on that and not miss It s237 either way
Now that the last conclave of mag
mates has been summoned for the next
six Or seven months. we can look for
ward with joyous anticipation even unto
the first of July doubie-header between
the ianks mad Browns. For all things.
in this game, as in all others. are COM
paratIve, and whatever happens Is bound
to look good compared to what has al
ready taken place.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

Not 10 be outdone by Engel WaIly Smith
announced this morning that today is his
birthday. The Mssourisn is twenty-five and
his only regret is that the thirteenth falls on
FRIDAY
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

Jack Bentley has cold in his left shoulder
Il is not serious enough to cause worry. but
for preca the silent singer is wearing
an expansive plaster 10 prevent further dam
we IN this storm beaten town.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

he whole camp smoked last night TO the
health of Joe Engel, q proud parent being
the host on the occasion OF the twenty-hrst
birthday anniversary.
Engsl's arm Is still somewha. sore but he
Is pitching under wraps and will continue to
10 50 until the kink has entirely disap-
peared.
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

With Alva Williams ready and Ed Ain
smith primed. neither OF these catchers has
anything on John Horny in the matter Of
condition. Henry is working as hard as
anyone around these parts in warming up
pitchers and he appears 10 be prepared to
aHswer the call 10 action at any moment
his chief SAYS the word
The Washington times., 1914-03-13

Yesterdays practice Was about the hardest
indoor work the men have yet had Basket
ball has been tabooed for all the regulars
bUt the newcomers are allowed TO go to the
gan hard they desire. In the after
noon they had the stiffest sort Of contest
v hlCh wound Up 10 8. the feature being the
faCt that Spencer tossed his first goal since
coming TO this place.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
DEIIBERArIoN BY CONGRESS.

When the responsibility for the further action OF
ehe government, after the dispatch of the Atlantic
aeet to Mexican waters thrown upon Congress
by the President it due Congress that it should
have time for deliberation. To Immediately adopt
i resolution fully indorsing the Presidents recon-
mendations and authorizing the momentous step con-
kenplated would have been incompatible with the
character Congress of deliberative body It
would be totally at with the traditions of the
Senate, which is deliberative.
The overwhelming sentiment of Congress sustains
abe President the attitude the administration has
taken, even among those who have questioned the
wisdom of the policy which the administration has
pursued from the outset of the troubles in Mexico
In the presence of national emergency there can be
no political partisanshp and criticism of policy
But there should also be precipitancy of action.
'Be you right, then go ahead is the
safe rule nations in all emergencies and the Sen
ate did right in deciding to sleep on the situation
before finally acting upon it, The country is pre-
pared as before in any similar crisis, and the
task to take up taking of Mexican ports,
but mprobably that of subduing Mexico and estab-
fishing government and new order OF things
by force of arms. This may mean occupation OF the
country and warfare continued for several years,
but none the less our government committed to the
policy it has adopted and the American people will
resoIutely sustain its policy to the uttermost.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

Today is the centennial of the birth
of Angela, Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
the Englishwoman who for years en-
joyed the distinction of being the
richest woman In the kingdom. Her
mother was the youngest daughter
of the great London financier, Thomas
Coutts, who married for his second
wife the actress Harriott Mellon, who
received the entire Coutts fortune at
the bankers death. Though posses
sing a fairly large fortune, Angela
never supposed as a young girl that
she would inherit her grandfather's
fortune. The fact that her step
grandmother. Harriott Mellon, had
chosen her, the youngest of five step
granddaughter, as her heiress was
kept q secret till her death and was a
great surprise to all concerned.
Angela had received a remarkably
good education for a prospective
heiress. She had met at st. James's
palace as a young girl statesmen and
men of letters, and counted among
her friends such men as Disraeli,
Samuel Rogers, and Tom Moore. She
inherited her fathers unusual breadth
of view and responsiveness of speech.
On the death of her step grand
mother she added the name of Coutts
to her fathers name of Burdett and
by royal license added the Coutts
arms to those of the Burdett family.
When she was twenty three she
moved into her own residence in Lon
don where she lived with her former
governess as her companion.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
Miners Outdig Panama Canal

Do you know that the coal miners
of West Virginia have actually out
dug the excavators of the Panama
Canal? The big canal has been adj
vertised in hundred ways. Not
word has been said about the even
more wonderful feat of the miners.
That's why you don't know that in the
eleven years, while the much heralded
work at the Panama Canal was pro-
ducing 295, 323 900 cubic yards of earth
and all of the excavat ting was being
done on the surface-the coal miners
of West Virginia We're getting out of
the bowels of the earth 542,949, 446
cubic yards. Think of 1t!
When the engineers of the Panama
Canal, in 1902 began their work. they
made a careful survey and found that
approximately 1875, $4,000 cubic yards
of excavation was necessary. This was
regarded MS stupendous undertaking
and was commonly spoken of as the
largest excavation job the world has
ever seen. Laborers were imported to
the Canal Zone, and column after col
umn was written showing how mar
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
PERIL FOR AMERICANS IN MEXICO.

Americans and other foreigners are fleeing from
Mexico Many of them leaving their possessions
there. They are wise 1t is possible that conditions
will be created in Mexico very to make the resi-
dence of any foreigner especially any American,
perilous. A warning given by our government
several months ago Americans to quit the country,
but thousands failed to comply with it, They took
the risk and remained.
In the city of Mexico hundreds of American
and other foreign residents. They organized and
we'll armed against possible uprising. When our
troops land at Tampico and Vera Cruz there may
be sudden rage of the Mexican populace in the CAPT.
tai ferocious uprising against the Americans and
perhaps all foreigners, who will have warning enough
to be prepared If such an outbreak and
the American residents beseiged there will be a
cry for aid. Can it be responded to?
The Americans who stay in the Mexican capital
and rely their Mexican friends forget the mob,
which respects friendships ties and no guaran-
tees The first battle in Mexico may be in the capital
itself and it may be massacre.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

unnecessary and wasteful expense of upwards of
100000 up to the time another Legislature shall
vene. Sinecurists will continue to draw unearned
money the State treasury, and inefciency will
rule in departments of the State administration. It
Is costly price to pay for do-nothing legislature
New Jersey ought to be the best financed State
of the United States. BY it's notorously wasteful
administration and its neglect of its great assets
the State is million dollars short of the amount of
money it ought to take annually into its treasury.
And think of what could be done with this capital!
The pity it is that the Legislature elected with
the pledge that great economies would be effected by
legislation and then violated the pledge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
NO COUNTY COMMITTEE ENDORSEMENT.

Republican County Committee Chairman Taylors
statement that the committee will not interfere in
any way with the selection of candidates at the pr-
mary, and will not indorse favor one candidate
against another" is very wide departure from ira
ditional politics in this county and State For many
years the county committee and not the voters made
nominations and for most of the time the county
chairman the real nominating power. 1t was the
exercise of that power in 1905 that provoked the
Colby revolt which resulted in the nomination and
election of Colby senator from Essex county.
That election broke the of the county chair
men. The tradition remained for several years, but
the power waned. Chairman Taylor is doubtless sin
cere what he says. The committee will not inter-
dictate But it will only be natural If the COM
mittee has its preferences.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
WHAT WILL THE coNsnruTroNALIsTs DO?

AS yet do not know whether we are about to
fght Huera and his faction or the two factions COM
bined. The blood feud the murdered Madero is
only half fought out Could it be reconciled by the
appearance of American soldiers Mexican soil to
discipline Huerta? Would the peon soldiers of Villa
fraternize with the Federas representing their OPP
pressors and the of Madero and turn their
arms against foreign deliverer? 1t isn't reasonable
s The American army and navy can open the way
FOR Villa to the Mexican capital where the constitu
tional government can be established and that gov
sernment would recognize. The President gives
ample assurance that mission is really for peace
and that we do not the Mexican nation. We
are really helping Mexico to constitutional govern
iment and the inauguration of reforms which the
common people demand Surely there is enough
among the Constitutionalist leaders to teach them
that the action taken by the United States
new and happier for their distracted country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

II jist loilxe to let her in at the
dure,'' said an Irish servant of a
lady caller 1.-THE very face of her
does one good. shure."
How glad we all are to welcome
sunny souls! We are. never too busy
to see them. There is nothing we
welcome SO much as sunshine. Some
one has said, "A happy human face
it is the gift that may be made by
poor or rich, by old or young. 1t is
the gift to which all are entitled, with
which all are pleased"
Oh, what riches live in a sunny
soul; what a heritage is a smiling
face--to be able to fling out sunshine
everywhere one goes, to scatter the
shadows and to tighten sorrowing
hearts, to have the power to send
cheer into despairing souls through
sunny and radiant disposition.
And yet all about us we see people
going through life peddling vinegar,
radiating bitterness, finding fault and
seeing only the ugly; worrying, fret
ting. cynical and pessimistic. Some
people have a genius for seeing only
the crooked, the evil and disagreeable.
Pessimism is always a destroyer, new
er a producer.
We need more joy peddlers and
sunshinemakers, more people who re-
fuse to see the ugly, the bitter and
the crooked who see the world of
beauty and perfection which God has
made, and not the world which sin
and discord and disease have made.
We need people who see the man and
woman whom GOD has made-pure,
clean, sane, heaithy-and not the
ugly, diseased, discordant dwarf. the
burlesque of man, which wrong
thinking, wrong living and sin have
made.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
Double standard in Murder.
nc louisville Courier Journal,

From the Louisville Courier journal
In two years fourteen women have
been acquitted in Chicago of charges
of murder In some of these cases the
defense offered was of the himsiest
character.
The district attorney in Chicago,
whose duty it is to prosecute such
cases, recently said: 1.-THE manner in
which the women who have COM
mitted murder in this country have
been able to escape punishment has
become a public scandal. The blame
must fall on the jurors who bring in
a verdict of acquittal whenever a
woman charged with murder Is fair
ly good looking and is able to turn
on a fioodgate of tears or exhibit a
capacity for fainting."
The clemency of juries in such
cases is not confined to Chicago. The
situation is about the same in other
parts of the country. A former dis
trict attorney In Milwaukee recently
made the assertion that In the United
States pretty woman can Kill al
most any man and escape punish
lment. Newspaper readers will have
little difficulty in recalling some not
able instances in which juries have
returned verdicts of acquittal that
were not justified by the evidence and
by the dictates of justice.
The so-called yellow press is to
some extent responsible for the leni-
eDcy with which women criminals are
treated. The defendant in every such
prosecution is described as "a beauti-
ful woman and yards of space are
devoted to her behavior in the court
room. Her picture is reproduced in
irnumerable poses, and she seldom
breathes a sigh or sheds tear that
the fact is not chronieled along with
a wealth of more or less imaginative
detail In this way sympathy is
manufactured among the unthinking
and emotionally susceptible classes,
and public sentiment. of course, plays
a considerable part in such trials.
There can be no question that
women escape punishment in many
instances where they ought to be con-
victed, and where a conviction would
be d pract cal certainty If the defend
ant had happened to be a man. There
should not be double standard N
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
POWER OVER INSURANCE RATES.

The decision by the United States Supreme Court
uphoding the right of State to regulate insurance
rates is important one to all the States and to
insurance corporations. 1t is in line with former
decisions by the court looking to State or federal
control of quas-public corporations.
In New Jersey under act passed last year only
discrimination in rates by fire insurance companies
contemplated but the State insurance commissioner
act only complaint and not on his own in
itiative The State is given power by the law to
regulate rates. A bill in the Legislature this year,
which not reported, gave discretionary power to
act in cases of discrimination. The insurance COM
panes may now look for future legislative bills for
insurance rate fixing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Political Renaissance of an ex-Postmaster-General

When narrating to me recently his
own experience in the difficult work
OF cabinet constructing, General
Thomas L.. James, who was postmas-
r-general in the cabinets of Presi-
dents Garfield and Arthur. said:
II think, after all, the most impress
sive of all the Incidents associated
with the selection of me by General
Garfield as postmaster general was
a half hours chat which I had with
James G. Blaine just before 1 called
upon General Garfield. in response TO
his invitation. at his apartments in
Washington two days before his in
auguration.
Il had been summoned to Wash
ington by telegram from Whitelaw
Reid, who was upon the most in
innate relations with General Gar
field, especially in the few weeks pre-
ceding Garfields Inauguration as
President.
81 arrived in Washington early in
the morning of March and went at
once to Mr.. Reds rooms in the old
Arlington Hotel He was in bed when
he received me- He said to me:
General Garfield wants to see you
at 10 O'Clock this morning. / presume
you understand what he wants to see
you for. But before you go to his
hotel it is thought best that you call
upon Mr.. Blaine at his house. He
will be expecting you. You have just
about time enough to wash up. put
on fresh linen, get a quick breakfast
and then reach Mr.. Blaine's house at
the hour when he will be looking for
you
Mr.. Blaine, who, everybody knew,
was to be President Garfield's secre-
tary of state-for that was the only
cabinet selection of which there had
been public announcement-gre
me with the utmost cordiality. l
knew him slightly, almost casually.
His greeting, however, of me was like
that of an old friend. / Had heard
much of the personal charm which
Blaine was able to reveal whenever
he cared to do it. and / realized what
that charm was before ] had been
with him five minutes.
HE said to me pleasantly, almost
informally, that he presumed l knew
that General Garfield had made up
his mind to ask me to become post
master-general
"In the reply | said that I pre-
sumed that it was for that reason
that General Garfield had summoned
me to Washington. and then 1 added
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
Restricting intolerance.

From the New York Evening Post.
Gratifying news comes from North
Carolina that the Supreme Court of
that State has declared invalid the
ordinance of the city of Winston
Salem establishing segregation of
whites and blacks, Thus far every
time one of these ordinances has
been tested in the courts it has
been thrown out as unconstitutional.
Twice this result has been accom-
plfshed in Baltimore, and now a third
ordinance is on its way to a, ruling.
A second ordinance in Norfolk, Va,
will be tested as promptly as possi-
BILE. In the Winston-S Salem case, the
court Is reported to have held that
the ordinance sanctioned the taking
of property without due legal proc
ess, and that the establishment of
such a principle might result in such
restrictions as to drive out Repub-
licans, Roman Catholics or Jews"
The court has here put its finger on
an ultimate danger from the estab-
lishment of this policy of segrega-
ton which far-sighted Southern men
ought never to lose sight of. It would
be an entering wedge that might, and
probably would. lead to other intol-
cradle abuses which no man can now
foresee.
The only refuge for those who
would establish the ghetto on Ameri-
can soil at any cost would seem to-
day to be to follow the example of
Clarence Poe who is leading the
North Carolina agitation for segre-
cation of negro farmers in certain
sections of the State. He declares
openly that If constitutional law
cannot be drawn TO accomplish this
"the South will find a way to get
around the constitution" as, he adds,
it has already found several ways of
circumventing that instrument.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRISON SWEET MARDEN.
Author of Pushing to the front, htc'
Copyright 1914.
THE SUNNY SOUL

A cheerful, optimistic mind is sort
of prism which brings the rainbow
colors out of things which are in
visible to the pessimist.
The prism does not make the colors
In the spectrum They are every
where in the light before our eyes.
Our light Is made up of all the diff
ferent eolors of the rainbow. The
prism merely separates them and
makes them visible to the eye.
The ability to radiate sunshine is
greater power than beauty or wealth.
If YOU would do the maximum of
which you are capable, keep the mind
filled with sunshine, with beauty and
truth. with cheerful, uplifting
thoughts. Bury everything that
makes you unhappy and discordant,
everything that cramps your freedom.
that worries you before 1t buries you.
Take joy with you; cling to her. no
matter where you go or what you do
1t is your lubricating oil which would
prevent the Jars, the discords, and
shut out the sorrows of life.
True religion is full of hope. sun
shine. optimism and cheerfulness. IL
is joyous and glad and beautifui.
There is no Christianity in the ugly,
the discordant, the sad. The relig-
ion which Christ taught was bright,
cheerful and beautiful. The sunshine,
the lilies of the field" the birds OF
the air." the hills, the valleys, the
trees. the mountains, the brooks-all
things beautiful-were in His teach
ing. There was no cold, dry theology
in it. It was just happy Christianity.
Refuse to be gloomy Cheer up! Get
YOUR mind off your troubles. Do not
think about them. Think of the
bright things in life. Think crate
fully of the good things you have.
wake up and be cheerful.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
some Remarkable CentenarIans.

some kemArkabie CentenarlHns,
From the Springfield Republican.
II the age of Isaac Cooley, reputed
ia, who died recently in Florida, is
as well authenticated as that of
Henry Dorman, who died the same
day at Liberal, Mo-, at the age of lis,
the coincidence is rather eXtraorli-
nary. Are any other survivors of the
eighteenth century still living? In
1904 at Tihis there was living Andreas
Nicolalvitch Schmidt, who by good
evidence was 100 years old. He had
fought at Borodino in 1872, and as or
derby sergeant was wounded at Sc
bastopol in the Crimean War. In
1858 he was sent to Siberia for letting
a political prisoner escape. The life
can hardly be considered favorable to
longevity, but 1t seems often to hap
pen that survivors of narrowing eX-
periences survive to a great age.
What specially impresses us when
one of these centenarians goes is the
fresh perspective their memories seem
to give to history. 1t amazes us to
reflect that a man of our own time
might have seen George Washington;
when two or three such veterans
overlap by a few years the way they
span the centuries is astonishing to us
| of smaller range and shorter memory.
1t hardly seems credible that of two
sisters one should die while Cromwell
| lived, and the other survive till the
Victorian age yet such is recorded,
sisters" being short for half-sisters.
This case of the daughters of Sir
| Stephen Fox is so curious that II may
be expanded a little TO show how the
generations may be linked together by
exceptional individuals. Sir stephen
Fox married in 1854, and his first
daughter died in 1868. while Cromwell
had still three years to live. Late in
| life Sir Stephen married again and in
| 1928 his youngest daughter was born,
| seventy-two years after her Oldest
sister. This daughter lived to be nine
| ty-eight, and died in 1925, when Queen
| Victoria was six years old. Thus her
death came 40 years after the death
of her sister. Theoretically the record
might be broken, but there is little
| likelihood of it.
Is the number Of the very aged in