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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24

note has been sounded in the cabed of every
battle. Christian charity would show solicitude
about the dead and wounded of the enemy and not
take satisfaction at their greater loss
But what has Christianity to do with this war?
How people who either sincere Christians
sincere pagans regard it except with unspeakable
horror? Since the Thirty Years War in central
Europe with its appalling scenes and outrages its in
humanites and its callous disregard of everything
that pertains to religious faith the world has witnessed
nothing to compare with the present war 1t is
trey consistent with the conduct and passions of the
that the combatants should be consoled for their
losses by the assurance that the foe had sustained
greater loss.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
An Anecdote of Black Hawk, the Indian Chief

was one which was wildly recalled by
Bailey Davenport some thirty years
later. | will narrate the story as 1t
was told to me by a gentleman,
Charles E. Hall, now in New York,
who had it from Bailey Davenport.
Black Hawk told Colonel Davenport
that he gave himself up at a place
now called Prairie du Chen, in Wis
consin. 1.-THE agent who took me in
charge turned me over to an officer
at Fort Crawford. Then ] was told
that ] was to be taken to Jefferson
Barracks, st. Louis.
when | went aboard the steamboat
was treated with more kindness
than | had been in the habit of re-
ceiving by a young war chief. His
name was jefferson Davis and he was
q lieutenant in the white mans army.
mo one could have been more
friendly than this young war chief
was to me. He had a very kind heart,
| remember that at one place while
on our way down the river we stopped
for a short time. There were a. great
many people who tried to get on the
boat because they were curious to
see me, But how kind the young war
chief wasl He would not let them
enter the room where we were kept
and he protected us in this way be-
cause he said. he knew what his own
feelings would have been If he had
been placed in a similar situation.
If he had been made a captive he
would not have wanted crowd
gaping around him.
"When Jefferson Davis became
president of the Confederacy, and
afterward, when he, too, became
prisoner of war, ] was strongly re-
minded of the anecdote about him
which Black Hawk told my father"
said Bailey Davenport.
Copyright, 1914, by E, j.. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24

lowing was put up on the outside of
the building by the department:
Notice is hereby given that the
building to which this notice is af
fixed is not provided with sufficient
means of egree in case of fire salts
factory to the building commissioner.
In violation of chapter $50. Acts
1907, section 4; as amended by chap
ter POS. Acts 1914. section L.
This notice was torn down by
somebody on Thursday night. A new
one is in it's place, and the police of
the Brighton district are requested
to see that it stays put. Whereupoh
the owners called at Mr.. O'Hearn's
office and protested the notice on the
ground that such q warning to
tenants would seriously affect their
business"
OF course it will, and that is the
beauty of it. A very good weapon
is thus placed in the hands of the
commissioner to compel acquiescence
with the demands. When these own.
ers actually start work on their
promised fire escapes the notice will
come down, not before. Nor should
it.
The Disappearing Catawbas.
From the Southern Workman.
IN lfOO lllt 0dldWbc llblcllS VI
South Carolina were confined on a
reservation fifteen miles square. The
Indians soon rented their land to the
whites for few thousand dollars,
and later sold all of it, except single
square mile on which they now reside.
This small reservation is situated
about eighty miles north of Column
bia The nearest large town is Rock
HILL The tribe has grown so small
that its number now averages about
ninety mine. A few Indians enlisted
as soldiers in the Confederate army
and fought until the close of the Civil
War. Since then the State govern
ment has had them in charge. Each
year the Legislature of South Caro-
lima provides a sum of money that is
equally divided and paid to every
Catawba Indian residing in that
State. The families are all large.
The homes are nearly all poorly built
and furnished. Men earn their living
by raising cotton and cutting and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
LABOR NOTES

Bohemia has 2,540 glassware and
porcelain factories, employing more
than 10000 persons.
The twelfth census enumerated 303
enployments, and women were found
in all but nine of them
Twenty mine per cent of all the
girls over sixteen years of age in
Philadelphia earn their own living
Joseph English, president of the
Northumberland, England, Miners
Association, has resigned that office
In Illinois 59t05 danger points" in
industrial plants have been done
away with in the last twelve months.
The free lodging house in HOMO
ward. Toxic, has housed S55 900 per
sons since its institution, eleven years
ago Most of the dodgers have been
men between the ages of twenty and
forty.
delegation of trade unionists re-
Gently called on Minister of Labor
Crothers to urge the establishment
throughout the Dominion of Canada
of free labor bureaus, TO take the
place of private establishments and
remove many abuses which have de-
veloped under this system.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author OF f'Pushing to the Front" Etc.
HOW MUCH CAN YOU STAND?

they will stand before they break. In
the days of sailing ships, before the
discovery of steam power, timber hay
ing enormous tenacity of fiber and
great resisting strength was in de-
mand, especially for ship knees, Yhers
there was heavy strain in the times
of storms and tempests.
The same sort of tenacity of fiber,
of mental fiber, of moral stamina is in
demand today in every line of human
endeaVOr.
Your future will depend very largely
upon your breaking point. The dis
lance you travel in life will be meas
ured by the point in life at which you
turn back, at your giving-up point.
If you buckle when the strain CORES.
if your courage and your starlin sas
when the crisis arrives, when > J At
danger confronts you; if you sh .le
white feather, if you run away in thu
thick of the battle, you must not e.s
pect the world to give you very high
estimate; you must take your pace
among the average.
At the door of every occupa ton
there is this sign or advertisement:
''Wanted-A man of tremendous re.
sisting power, powerful tenacity of
purpose, a man who can stick and
hang, a man with Drawn and grit
who is able to stay by his proposition
until he wins out"
In a New York business place rs
this motto: Where others give up
is just where we get our second
BREATH
The man who is made of the stuff
that wins is just beginning to get his
breath when others around him give
UP and turn back. That is Just the
difference between the man who sue
ceeds and the man who f1zzles. As
long as your grit lasts you will last,
1t is the sand in a mans character
that counts. If there is no iron in hia
blood, no lime in his backbone, there
will be no sand in his character, and
he will lack the stamina which stands
strain and which laughs at opposition
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
sHERIFFs' ELECTIONS THIS YEAR.

The year of sheriffs' elections is always uncer-
tain one in State politics. This is the year for new
shoriffs to be elected in seventeen counties and the
contests for the Office will to large extent affect the
results of all the other elections-disric county and
municipality
In the days of official fees for the sheriff the Office
income looked to for campaign contributions.
The new sheriff also made partisan appointments.
This made the sheriffs office the most important to
be voted for, especially in the large counties where
the office fees very large. The power to draw
grand juries and the superior police power of the
sheriff added to this Importance.
Today the sherfs office is saaried. its powers are
somewhat restricted and the civil service law inter
feres with partisan appointments. Nevertheless, in
all counties large and small. the sheriff candidate
looms up largely in the election and factional per-
sonal influences enter into the election 1t has been
by no means uncommon for political party to elect
its ticket in county and lose the sheriff
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
MAYOR HAussLING,s RENoMINATIoN.

Mayor Haussng attended to his official duties dur
ing the primary election campaign and the time he
took from his duties mostly needed recreation
in the summer. But it was not necessary for the
Mayor to make any personal appeals to bring out the
party voters. His record in Office spoke for him.
One of the indictments against Mayor Hauss-
ling has already been indicated by the News in its
attack the Mayors large-hearted plan of pro-
viding the for Newark households to get fresh
fish at reasonable prices 1t is hardly to be supposed
that attack that line will powerfully influence
popular sentiment against Mayor Haussng. and yet
it might appeal to few dealers. it unquestonably
will to agents of the fish trust
On the other hand, thousands of wage-earners of
both political parties will be inclined to think that
who goes outside of the routine of his official
duties personally for the welfare the people
in time of stress is the kind of mayor they want in
office.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
Secrets, Of Health and Happiness
BY DIR. LEONARD kEENE HIRsHBE re.
A. B., NJ A, M D. (Johns Hopkins.

A score of years ago. when a child
was born. 1t occasioned no unusual
remarks. if the attending physician
reported to the family that the
mother of the child was i'll with
typhoid malaria pneumonia, .
typhoid fever or malaria"
Doctors who did that still retained
the confidence of the family and the
respect of their equally erring breth-
rem
But not today! Whenever a new
mother has fever nowadays, no
physician dares deceive" the anxious
ones by such false diagnosis. He
must state plainly and above board
that the young patient has been in
fected during her child's birth.
Fever and Infection.
In those newly gone years childbed,
or ''puerperal" fever, was unhappily
common. 1t ravaged the Iying-in-
hospitals and home maternity beds by
the thousands Whereas now no
woman need have any unpleasantness
during this delicate period. at that
time one young mother in every
twenty or so died in labor.
Often as many as eight or ten in
every hundred loving mothers thus
went to an early grave, because medi-
cal art had no medical science of bac-
teriology behind it.
The extent of puerperal fever was
such a medical scandal that the poll
ticians of the bureau of public as
sistance in Paris, in 1876, took notice
of it and demanded that physicians be
up and doing to avert this ever pres
ent plague. Wars killed fewer men
than this destroyed women.
About that time DIR. Semmelweiss,
of Vienna; Drs. Simpson and Lister.
of England: DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, of America, and Louis Pas
teur, of France, became convinced
that the bacteria, which was just
coming into scientific notice, were
responsible for this maternal malady.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24

There comes into every life worth
while times when success will turn
upon a question of reserves.
1t Is a question of how long you
can hold out. 1t may not be ques-
ton of whether you can do any more
than you are doing right now, but
a question of whether you have the
grit. the nerve to hold on. to continue
when those about You think the battle
is lost.
The world has been thrilled by the
recent splendid resistance OF the Bel
gians, who, confronted by superior
numbers for fifteen days, held the in
vaders of their country in check, thus
delaying their advance and enabling
the allies to complete their concern
tration. 1t is said in the heroic de-
Tense of Louvain and Aerschot, a
mere handful of Belgians held thou
sands at bay while the main Belgian
army reformed its position.
Many successful career has turned
upon that one point, the ability to
stick and hang on when everything
seemed lost.
On every hand people are failing
simply because they lack the power
of continuance. They lack that con-
tinufty of purpose which never let's
go as long as there is a breath of life
left
When Admiral Farragut made his
famous run past the torpedoes in Mo-
bile Bay he dashed himself to the
mast lest something might happen to
induce him to turn back, or lest he
might be killed and fall into the
hands of the enemy
There are times when we must
lash ourselves to the mast of mighty
purpose, of an invincible resolution,
lest in moment of weakness we
might be induced by some overwhelm-
ing odds to swerve from our course
or to turn back, to give up,
The tenacity Of the fiber of different
tlmbers is found by ascertaining its
breaking point. These woods are tested
as are metals to discover how much
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24

In other words. the discovery of
microscopic life as the origin of dis
eases, of various sorts, led these oh
servers to the conclusion that the
hands and instruments of the doc
tors must be blamed for child bed
fever.
Briefly, 1t is a wound infection
popularity called blood poisoning
with fever of one kind or another,
Experiments on animals soon con.
firmed these deductions.
Thanks to vivisection and the
''soul-stirring pains of outcast cats
and senseless guinea pigs. the death
rate of child bed fever, which was z
generation ago nearly eight wonneh
in the hundred, has nowadays dis
appeared almost altogether.
With the use of aseptic and anti
septic fashions in childbirth surgery
with perfect disinfection of the doc
tors and nurses flesh, clothing and
linens, and a complete sterilization
of everything that must come IN
contact with the prospective parent.
the complete disappearance-exc
with ancient doctors and deluded
quacks-of typhoid" pneumonia,
malaria" and other fictitious
''fevers,' which are really blood
poisoning, necessarily follows =.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
The Old, Old Story.

He was a long suffering traveller on
a little single-track railroad, and he
complained bitterly about the lateness
of the train and the irregularity OF
the service. The employee remonstrat-
ed in virtuous indignation.
i've been on this here line, SIR he
began, upwards of eight year, and
"Have you, indeed?" interrupted the
traveller, sympathetically. ''At what
station did you get n?"-Exehange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
THE SAFETY AND SERVICE OF
RANKS.

BANKS.
"Denositors entrust bankers WIN
such nower as they have today, ana
are unlikely to entrust that power 10
weak or evil hands. H. T. Da'iu
son, of j. F. Morgan Co
The value to the business public or
good banks can hardly be overesti-
mated.
THE financial lifeblood of the COM
munity flows through these arteries
| in the form of loans and discounts
exchanges. collections and other
transactions.
TO the bank the man of big al
fairs can come for consultation about
transactions involving large amounts
while the man of small affairs win
little knowledge of banking can turn
| to it for sound advice
! The banks help to keep the local
wheels of trade and industry moving,
| tide honorable men over business de-
pressions. keep local money at home
and in a score of ways help the com.
munity. The distribution of interest
on time or savings deposits, amount
ing to a large sum in the aggregate,
is strong incentive to tnrlft. AS
teacher of good business system, also,
a well-equipped bank is an excellent
school for it's depositors.
Several times a year banks are thor
| oughly examined by representatives
of the State or national banking
| authorities, as the case may be, and
also by Representatives of their boards
of directors.
The examiners count all the cash on
hand down to the last penny, then
check off all the bonds and other in
vestment securities. owned by the
bank, as we'll as the collateral on
which it has loaned money They eX-
anime all the notes discounted, verify
all balances due to and from other
banks by obtaining from them a for
NAL certifying as to balances.
/ Sometimes depositors upon being
shown a banks safe deposit vault,
ask: SIS this the vault where my
savings deposits are kept?' Some
seem to think that each depositor' S
money is kept in separate box till
he calls for it.
Money kept that way, while it
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
Through the Pumps.

Lord Mersey, head of the Empress of
Ireland Storstad Investigation Board,
said to a New York reporter the other
day:
much is still left to be desired. but
ships are safer than they used to be-
with a smile the veteran jurist
added:
I'VE no longer hear of shippers Of
fering such excuses for slow passages
as the one offered by the skipper of
the collier, who said:
well. gentlemen, no wonder we're
late. We pumped the whole Atlantic
three times through that ship coming
across. "
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
Threatened shortage of Seeds.


Threatened shortage of Seeds.
From the New York Sun.
There is going to be serious
shortage in vegetable seeds, and con-
sequently in vegetables, in this coun-
try If the European war is not over
soon. The same is true in the case
of many flower seeds. Fortunately
for this country, however, the great
staples. such as wheat and rye seeds,
are supplied entirely from our own
soil, and the war can affect them in
no way.
AT the office of one seed firm it was
said recently that the vegetable seed
situation is little short of alarming.
Practically the entire supply of such
seeds as beets, spinach, cauliflower
and parsnips comes from sections of
Europe that are now paralyzed by
warfare. There will be practically
none of these vegetables grown IN
America next spring unless the war
ends by that time.
Most of the vegetable seeds are
bought from Europe because they
can be produced more cheaply on
the other side. American farmers
never have been able to compete
with their European brethren in this
respect The seeds can be produced,
however, in this country and will
be produced in all probability if the
war continues.
In the case of flowers the bulbs for
tulips and hyacinths and lilies OF
The valley come almost entirely from
Europe. At present the seed mer-
chants cannot see how they are go
ing to get a supply for the coming
season. They hope that the seeds
lS..k 4
that the prices will be increased very
much.
Besides vegetables. the other agri-
cultural produce to be affected is
red clover. During recent years the
seed for clover has been very largely
imported. Already there has been an
increase ranging from 10 to is per
cent in the price of clover seed and
it threatens to go higher.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
SEPTEMBER %
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Copyrighted 1914.

MARSHALL. IL
stories to tell from her fertile imasi
nation.
But she did not begin to write ill
she was twenty-eight and then she
published "Nellies Memories tssle
which she had created in her imaSl
nation many years before. 1t met
with immediate success, reaching be
fore many years the fifty two-thou
sand mark. More novels followed
thick and fast. In all she wrote some
thirty mine. besides innumerable short
stories for the English magazines.
Among the best liked of her books
was Wee Wifey,' mot Like Other
Girls" "Only the Governess" and
Uncle Max"
Like Charlotte Yonge, who shared
Miss Carey's popularity as writer
for young girls, Miss Carey was of de-
cided high church leanings. Like Miss
Yonge. again, Miss Carey never mar
ried and, like surprisingly large
number of the English women who
have gained fame as writer's. her life
was singularly uneyentful. She died
five years ago. having survived this
immense popularity which her books
once enjoyed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24


Styles in novels come and go, and
in this sophisticated age of ours any
thing that borders on the "goody-
goody'' style of novel so dear to the
hearts of our grandmothers and
mothers is decidedly out of vogue.
And with this change in taste the
novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey have
suffered falling off in popularity.
But they are full of human appeal;
they are simple and unaffected, and
although we smile when we think of
our mothers staying awake all night
to read mot Like Other Girls" and
"Only the Governess,' these books
were really no more to be despised
than is much of the light fiction of to-
day. These books are only little out
of style, but like hoops and bustles,
resurrected from the attic trunks,
they strike us as absurd.
Rosa, Carey was born on September
"a, 1910, the eighth child of an Eng
lish ship broker of London, and in
her childhood she used to write little
plays for her sisters and brothers to
act. She was always ready with
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
For a Rainy DaY.

The careful husband had given his
wife some money to put into the fam
lily sinking fund. but she had spent it.
Two or three days later she asked for
more.
Didn't l give you some last Mon
day. he inquired in the we'll known
manner of husbands under similar
circumstances.
Yes, but spent it."
Spent it? l thought you had laid
1t away for a rainy day.
II did, Henry she smiled sweetly.
Il bought a raincoat, an umbrella and
a pair of rubbers with it'-Ex-
change
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24
Would Cut wilson's Salary as Part of
War Tax.

WASHINGTON, Sept 24.-Reduc-
ton of salaries of government Off
Gals, including Senators, Representa-
tives, army and navy officers and the
President, was proposed in resolu-
ton today by Senator Sheppard as
means of meeting the enormous
strain put upon the federal treasury
by the war in Europe" The reduc-
ton would vary from two per cent.
on salaries of $1,000 to twelve per
cent. on salaries of over $4,000 and
would be effective for one year from
November /, 1914.