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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-22
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Quick-C. ii. Taylor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
CONJUROR AS SPIRITIST

communion, took its place. This was
the apparition which fifteen years ago
impressed some scientists, who sent a
special delegation to Algiers to eX-
anime it. The apparition few to and
fro as though on wings. disappeared
for moment under the floor and re-
appeared. There were no trap-doors
or other devices on the stage.
Professor Dicksonn then explained
to the astonished audience how it was
done. The whole thing was a simple
if daring fake. a man dressed in
black with black mask and shoes.
stood in front of the black curtain
and was entirely Invisible to the au-
'dience. He could move about as he
liked without any one being con-
scious of his presence. There was
nothing TO prevent him from brand
ishing in his right hand a skull,
which thus appeared to be dancing
in the void. He also was able to
draw from q black bag at his feet the
mask of young girls face, from
which hung the robe of white muslin,
the whole effect being that of a child
at her first communion. The invisible
man waved the white form round him
then let it fall once more into the in
visible bag, and that, said Mr.. Dick
SOM was, TO use an American phrase,
''all there was to it
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
NEWARK IN A CLASS BY ITSELF.

1T is impossible adapt State government to the varied
Conditions all the sections of State with their
difference of their populations and the nature
their environments their ideas and enterprise The business
the Legislature every session is making laws repeating
or modifying old and is this necessity arising from the
inappcabi all sections of the State that
makes the flood of bills every session.
% Now may be asked how much better would particular
uniform plan of local government fit all the 400 municipalities of
State? The State in interpreting the constitutional
prohibition special legislation permitted municipalities and
be divided into classes for of legislation in ecog
milton differences their requirements but this has
proved too restricted
only cities of the first class Newark and Jersey
City they been able agree upon charter
cities How much wider then is the difference between
municipality like Newark and small borough? How
cessfuy their plans of local government uniform? Munich
pal government evolved of experience Newark in
corporation sevenght years old knowledge
experience and Newark has learned much of the art of local
government under the changing local conditions
knows ITSELF knows what it lacks, what it should
get rid should have vastly better than few egs
aors few doctrnaes and oceseekers home
would city up uniform plan of government guar
all municipalities of the State with populations
ranging South Cape May borough nearly four
Newark In population location public and
private enterprise civic spirit and general characteristics Newark
by itself 1t local government of its own
choice and making.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

IT have occasionally alluded in
some of my addresses to Christian
Endeavor organizations and to other
evangelical bodies to an anecdote
which | had from excellent authority
telling of little address delivered by
General Frederick d. Grant at a
gathering on Governors Island, New
York harbor, a few years ago., said
William p. Hall, widely recognized as
one of the leading lay preachers OF
the United States and vice-president
of the Christian Endeavor organiza-
ton.
al was told" said Mr.. Hall, "by a
gentleman who was present at this
gathering that one of the speakers
had referred to General U. S. Grant
as an ardent lover of peace and as
profound believer in the efficacy OF
the Christian religion in securing I'LL
timately worldwide peace.
General Fred Grant, replying to
this statement, said that he knew
that his father looked for the estah-
lishment of peace throughout the
world chiefly through the spread OF
religion. lie then said that only the
most intimate lTieiluS VI hio Abtio
knew that the latter was of deep
religious nature, that he was a man
of prayer and that as he grew Older
he became more and more convinced
of the truth which Is the basis of the
Christian religion.
"Curiously enough" said Mr.. Hall
II have recently had an unusual anc
really strange confirmation of the
statement made by General FREQ
Grant respecting his fathers religious
nature. My business relations brought
me not long ago into rather close as
sociation with a man of the name o.
Kocbee. I don't recall his first name
but 4 knew him not only as gooe
business man, but also as man o
profound religious convictions.
81 was chatting with him one da.
when | happened to mention the an
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
FORTY MILLION STAMPS
MANUFACTURED EACH DAY

in accordance with any criticism
agreed upon, and finally approved ~
the postmaster general. The original
engraving it is heated red hot in cya-
cent to make what is known as d's-
proofs. ia
The approved design is placed IN tf.2
hands of the engravers, who cut II
upon a small piece of annealed steel
After the approval of proof OF TINS
engraving it is heated red hot in sy4@
hide of potassium and hardened by
sudden dipping into oil and water
This single engraved subject is dupll-
Gated 400 times upon the large plates
that the stamps are printed from by
means of a transfer process, metnod
of reproducing engraving that was
devised many years ago by Jacob
Perkins, an American, who also orig
mated the present method of dupH-
eating bank notes.
The gum on the bach of postage
stamps is made by scientifically roast
ing the highest grade of tapioca
starch such as is used for making
pudding. If the 450,15O pounds USED
last year in the Manufacture OF
stamps by the government had been
converted into pudding it would have
given a meal to everybody in New
York city.-Washington Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

WHY GREAT BRITAIN waited after the passage
canal law make her be explained
during that period her relations with Germany
good shape. So great the tension times that
The relations of the had apparently
harmoned British government
mitted her protest.
Great Britain cordially hated Germany and is disked
by the people OF every continental country In France the dislike
traditional For the German it would fulfil his
ardent German army land in England and
German the prmacy of the from England
foreign and colonial markets The faith of nations
Punic faith whatever may be the understanding
between England will violate it if
The tolls question has thus been affected by European
politics. will a serious for Great Britain in the
near future she trouble with another great
dragged continental and looks the United
States moral aid and food supplies
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

Spools are not spooks. This is
what Professor Dicksonn, the cele
brated conjuror, says in the course
of a lecture at .the popular "univer-
sity" in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
Spirits are simply conjurors, and
have borrowed all our tricks; that is,
to say there are no spirits, no turn
ing tables, no phantoms. says the
London Telegraph.
Then, to prove his thesis, Professor
Dicksonn asked six members of the
a,Ilionee to some forward and take
part in his experiments. At his re-
quest all six placed their hands on
the table Immediately the table
began to turn, then struck three
sharr raps, and raced off the stage
This experiment over, the professor
asked two OF the spectators to be so
kind as to turn back their sleeves.
1t was then seen that under each
arm, between the wrist and the ell
bow, a small hook was concealed,
with which 1t was perfectly simple to
manipulate the table The lights on
the stage were then turned down, and
in front of a dark curtain at the back
OF the stage a skull appeared, dane
ing to and fro. Suddenly the skull
vanished. and the frail figure of a
girl, in the white robes of her first
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

There are nations which are best
judged by their women, in which the
feminine qualities of grace and charm,
of wit, of exuberance and emotion
are the salient parts, writes Charles
Saroba in London Everyman. In that
limited sense l would call the French
nation predominantly feminine peo-
pie. Certainly in no other country
have women played a more important
part. From the beginning of French
history, from the days of the Druid
priestesses in the forests of Gaul,
from the days of the women saints
like Ste. Genevieve, protecting the
population against the invading hosts
of Attila, French women have been
supreme.
The ideal of woman is the inspira-
tion of French chivalry. Again and
again in medieval history women APP
pear in turn to save the French peo-
pie, like Blanche of Castle and Joan
of Arc, or to lead the country to its
doom, like Isabeau de VaViere. Sc
powerful and dangerous was the in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Great Generals Prayed on the Eve OF Battle

ecdote relating to General Grant
which | have just told you.
II saw that what | was saying was
making a deep impression upon Mr..
Koebee. | realized that he had some
thing to tell me as soon as l mad
finished the anecdote, and this was
the case lie said to ME that at one
time before the Civil War ended his
father had been detailed for duty as
an orderly at General Grants head
quarters His position made it pos
sible, in fact inevitable, that he at
times be very near General Grant.
In that way he became familiar with
some of the generals personal habits.
lone invariable practise of General
Grant which the orderly observed
was that of praying. He frequently
retired to the inner compartment of
his tent and then prayed aloud and
very earnestly.
"My father could not help hearing
some Of these prayers, and he noticed
that, so far as he heard, General
Grant never prayed for success in
battle. But he earnestly prayed for
divine guidance, and was especially
earnest on the eve of some great
engagement.
81 happened to mention this to a
friend" said Mr.. Hall, land was TOLD
that a good many of the leading Of
ficers in the Civil War on either side
conspicuously General Stonewal
! Jackson, of the Confederate army,
and General o. o. Howard, of the
| Union forces, prayed every day and
on the eve of great engage
ment very earnestly, not asking
| for success, but for divine guild
ance, and, of course, you viii
remember the statement made by
| Gideon Welles in his diary thai
President Lincoln, on the eve of thu
Battle of Antietam, spent a Ions
while in fervent prayer, and later ac
knowledged to his cabinet that he ha'
done so"
! Copyright. 1914, by f. j. Edwards
All rights reservedO
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
EUROPEAN RULING CLASSES HATE US.

WE MUST forget that the existence and prosperity of
republic aront and threat the ruling classes
Europe the of the European
press we'll government it fully explains the dislike and
prejudice with which America and Americans regarded in
Europe among There also large element of
fear the United States its wonderful growth being looked
dsquet This feeling shown by the people
from whom all immigration To them ours is the
land of promise the refuge of the oppressed the champion OF
popular liberties and popular rule
Nor will be forgotten that when this nation was in the
agone of great Civil War the ruling class England would
have eagerly joined hands with the French destroy
the republic if sympathetic queen had stood in the way
the working class had opposed The ruling class in England
like better than in the early sixties and every American
traveller Europe made feel the dislike of the class
in other countries
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
WOMEN SUPREME. IN FRANCE

fluence of women felt to be that the
French were compelled to adopt that
peculiar Sale law dhe origin of the
hundred years war;, according to
which no woman was allowed to
ascend the throne.
But no Sale law could prevent
women from asserting their power
and personality. Diane de Poitiers
and Catherine de Medici, in the six
teenth century; Marie de Medici
Anne of Austria, Madame de Monte
span. in the seventeenth century;
Madame de Pompadour and Madame
du Barry, in the eighteenth century,
are only a few instances of women
playing a notable part in French pol
itics. During the great revolution
Madame Roland was one of the great
statesmen of the Girondist party.
During the Reign of Terror the dag
ger of a girl of twenty-five ended the
career of Marat. Marie Antoinette
was the evil genius of Louis XVI;
the ex-Empress Eugene was the evil
genius of Napoleon III.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
CHARACTER AUTHORIZATION

never saw him do one charitable
action" That's reputation. But all
that time the generous Right Hand
was the almoner of God, working IN
loving and secret fellowship with him.
That's character.
You will not drink wine, not even
for polteness's sake, and at the table
of an esteemed friend, and 'our Best
Society says you are fanatical,
bigoted prohibitionist. You refuse to
encourage a vile story with a smile,
Some people say you are cold
blooded hypocrite. You will not per-
nit yourself to laugh at a funny
story, well told, in which all the
laugh" is In it's profanity. And folks
say you are self-righteous. And you
carry your Bible in your hand when
you walk to church, and they say "a
canting Pharisee." Yet all the while
your character is that of sober.
pure minded. reverent, God-fearing
mana Christian. -Four regulations
all bad, and one character, which out
weighs and outlasts the four, going
into eternity with you.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

accorded him greater favors than any
of the other men of her acquaintance.
In fact, for several years she shared
her home in the valley of Montmo-
rency with him. Then there APP
peared on her horizon the eccentric
genius, Jean Jacques Rousseau. He
vas considerably older than Madame
d'Epinay or her friend Grimm, and
had led desultory sort of life, serv-
ing now as lackey, now as musician,
or a private tutor or an engraver' s
apprentice. But his brilliant writing
had already brought him fame, and
Madame d'Epinay awarded him the
full favor of her friendship. She re-
built a cottage on her estate where
during Grimm's absence from France
Rousseau lived and wrote. This cot
tage was known as the Hermitage,
and is familiar to all who have read
Rousseau's famous Confessions.
Madame d'Epinay herself wrote a
great deal that is of merit but her
greatest literary work was done in
collaboration with men of literary
genius, over whom she seems to have
exerte6 a peculiar influence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
Siberian Fire Department at Work

alcade passed us in a cloud of dust,
accompanied by the yells of the torch
bearing firemen. When the supply
of water ran out the carts dashed
down to the river and were repien-
ished.
This crude high pressure service
gave rise once to a rather humorous
incident that the Irkutslians tell with
great glee. During a fire several years
ago a string of water wagons went
down to the river, were filled, and
came rumbling back. When they
reached the fire the water was gone.
The enthusiastic captain of hogs
heads had neglected to put back the
plugs in the barrels. and had spilled
his supply for several blocks along
the main street.-Richard L. Wright,
in Through Siberia"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

Someone has said, Character is
what a man is in the dark" What
he is without an audience. His repu-
tation may be grand-stand play; d
safe, senseless slide to second with
the ball a quarter of mile away
a cloud of dust and thunders of cheers
from people who don't know the
Igame, says the National Magazine.
His character may be the sacrifice
hit that brings him Kisses from the
same class of people-an,i advances
the team.
What you wish you were, that's
your ideal. What people think you
are, that's your reputation. What
you know you are, that's your char
acter. To paraphrase Abraham Lin
coin, you may fool some other people
all of the time, but you can't fool
yourself one little bit of the time.
Reputation is a variable estimate,
depending not upon what people know
about you, but upon their guesses,
made from what they see of you
1--WE have lived together for fifty
years" said the Left Hand, land l
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
MAY BE A SOCIALIST CONGRESSMAN.

e THE SEVENTH Congress district election April
pected light Six candidates will it,
The district embraces PaSsae county districts In 1912
Bremners plurality there combined majority
of 370 against him. Probably than half the 1912
will poed in April The district cassed Republican
until 1912 The Socialist in that year 649. Last fall
the Socialists in Paterson poled 400 Passaic hobed
of Socialism Paeons increase of from the other
parties.
AS rule the Socialist to the polls elections If the
voting strength in 1912 brought in the April election in
"a light it beyond range possibilities that
Socialist will be elected Congress represent the Seventh
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

Something of the prosperity OF a
country and the standard of its in
telligence may be gauged by the
necessary issuance of its postage
stamps. Through the efforts of 6O0
men and women employed for this
purpose by the bureau of engraving
and printing 100000 stamps are each
day manufactured, counted and put
up in packages ready for shipment TO
the 10000 postotfices throughout the
United States. During the last fiscal
year a, total of s1S5, 504, $50 20 was real
lied from this source by the govern
ment; 5S6.117 pounds of ink were re-
CURED for printing such an output,
and the paper used came from 1,ooo
spruce trees ground to a pulp. These
trees were cut on the mountains or
North Carolina. and had they been
converted into lumber fifty well APP
pointed bungalows might have been
built of them.
When it is determined to issue
new stamp the matter is discussed by
the officials having charge of the sew
eral branches of the service involved,
and the conclusions reached are em-
bodied in a model made by a trained
designer and submitted for criticism
to the officers first considering the
subject. The model is then modified
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
MARCH II
Madame d'Epinay
Copyrighted. 1918.

The famous woman who does the
birthday honors for March II bears
the long name of Louise Florence
Petronille Terdieu d'Esclavelles de la
Live d'Epinay. She was born at VAL
enciennes France, March II, 1926, and
like all well-to-do French girls of her
time, was married very young. The
husband chosen for her was her cous-
in, who proved to be utterly worth
less. When she was thirty she left him
and retired to her family estates in the
valley of Montmorency. Here she en-
tertained many famous men of let
ters of the period, among them Di-
derot, the most original of French
thinkers of the eighteenth century;
d'Alembert the mastery mathemati-
clan, and Halbach, the fearless scep-
tic
Early in her career as the friend
of famous men she made the acquain-
tance of Frederick Grimm, the Ger
man critic. diplomat and man of let
ters, then little over thirty years of
age. Madame d. Epinay was at once
drawn to the cultivated German and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11

They fight fires in a peculiar way In
Siberia. First you find the fire. The
city is plotted into districts, each
with it's engine house ana watch
tower. On the watch tower, by day
and night, stands a guard who scans
the housetops for a sign of smoke.
When the fire has got enough head
way for him to see the smoke he
gives the alarm, and the engines dash
out. The spectator is amused, not 50
much at the dash as at the engines.
They are primitive, and the use OF
them is more so.
We went to a fire one Sunday after
noon in Irkutsk. 1t was close to our
hotel, so that we had an excellent
view. First came trolka team, that
dragged a hook and ladder carriage.
On the carriage chung the firemen,
bowling Cossacks with brass helmets
iammed down over their ears, who
carried in one hand-how the SYM
bolism would have stirred the heart
of notwithstanding torches.
Behind the hook and ladder was the
hose cart, and then came n hand en-
CINE of the type our grandfathers
used to drag to fires. After that, for
two blocks, filed a queue or water
filled hogsheads on wheels. The cav
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
This Land of Opportunity,
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
That is a picturesque story about
the Polish miners from Montana and
the bag of gold which they acct
dentally left at the Pennsylvania sta
ton in this city on their way to the
steamer which was to take them
back to their native land. But their
accidental leaving of the bag in the
waiting room is in reality not half SO
interesting as their having the bag TO
leave, which was not accidental at
all. Just how long these men had
been working in the Montana mines
we do not know, but presumably II
was not very long, and what the
party of twentyeight were carrying
back with them in cash was s3S, 600,
an average of 81, $50 per man. In what
country of Europe would anything of
this sort-anything remotely APP
preaching it-be possih,a? Our coun-
try is still the land of opportunity for
men who are willing to work and
willing to save. Nor is it amiss to
point out that, much as we may be to
blame for backwardness in the adop-
ton of measures for the protection of
workmen against the incidental hard
ships of labor, a chief reason for this
is to be found in the incomparably
greater need for those measures in
other countries. The normal condi-
ton of the American workingman-
take him by and targets so vastly
better than that prevailing in Euro
pean countries that he does not pre-
sent to the mind any such picture of
urgent need of protection against the
mlschances of life as is naturally in
the minds of European lawmakers
when they consider the subject. There
are other factors, less creditable to us,
that have contributed to our inertia
in these matters, but it is a great
mistake to ignore this most important
element i'm the case.