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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

| that ] had received positive intima-
ton that / would be called to the
cabinet as poStmastergene
Mr.. Blaine said some very pleasant
things. He intimated that General
Garfield had always been especially
interested in the management OF the
New York postoffice, and had adj
mired the civil service program which
l had adopted there before it was
compulsory by law. He furthermore
told me that there probably would be
some embarrassing and difficult re-
sponsibilities for the new postmaster
general to meet.
AT last he said in substantially
these words: OF your qualifications
for this office General Garfield has
not the slightest doubt. and from the
point of view of politics he is certain
that the selection of you as post
master general will be a good thing
But there is just one thing which IL IS
necessary to be sure about.
II looked at Mr.. Blaine in some
establishment, for l realized that he
had been holding something back.
He smiled pleasantly and then said:
a In the event that Senator Conk-
ling should ALLEVIATE himself from
General Garfield and should attempt
fractional disturbance, where would
you be found? You have always oeen
an intimate personal and political
friend of Conkling and it was upon
his recommendation that General
Grant appointed you postmaster of
New York
81 then for the first time realized
that General Garfield and Mr.. Blaine
expected to encounter hostility from
Senator Conkling.
In reply to MIR. Blaine, | said: OF
course, every member of the cabinet
must give loyal support to the Presi-
dent. If the time ever came when
that support could not be given, then
the cabinet officer could honorably
do only one thing, and that is to re-
sign. And that is my answer to your
question:
THAT is all l wanted to know.
That is entirely satisfactory. Now
hurry away and see General Garfield,
and say to him that you have already
seen me- said Mr.. Blaine.
within an hour I had been offered
the position in his cabinet by the
President and was on my return
journey to New York"
Copyright, 1914, by DR.. f. j. Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
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Pl.xwrlrht.. Tributes.

While on the train between re-
hearsals of "a Thousand Years Ago."
Percy MacKaye's successful drama
of the Arabian Nights, the author
wrote the following graceful tribute
to fellow playwright, Josephine
Preston Peabody, on her recently pub
lished drama of Assist, THE Wolf of
Gubbio:"
Dear Josephine,
You've poured, I ween,
All in a cup. crystal cup
Pied with lights that flush and fall
ter
And flower again
All in a three-rimmed loving-cup
Fit for the dear Madonna's altar
Where thieves and shrews and wolfish
men
And wondering children may come
to sup
All in a cup. shining cup,
Held by the trembling paws and fing-
OF your divine Dog. Fra Lupone,
And him. his crony
Whose loving laughter fingers
In the echo OF song that bubbles so
easy
In syllabling: "d'Assisi. d'Assisi!''
Large white soul in the simple wee
body
Pulsing. you've poured in a glowing
cup
For joy of our generations
Wine: wine. distilled from the sheen
isAA oNt
OF Josephine
Preston Peabody
Fair befali Observation-Disclosures "a
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velously these laborers were making
the dirt fly" under the direction of
the most expert engineers the world
has ever seen.
But the 195,323, 900 cubic yards, the
original estimate, were not all tina
the Panama Canal laborers were to
dig after they had started. On ac-
count of the slides in Culebra cut, an
other hundred million cubic yards
We're to be added to their work. This
made 30, 32S, 900 cubic yards, which
were dug in eleven years.
Under conditions far more difficult,
the coal miners of West Virginia did
an amount of eXcavating in the same
eleven years that made the digging
incident to the Panama Canal look
like child's play. The work of these
West Virginia miners has never been
heralded to the world. The general
public has paid little attention.
But the fact remains that the men
who work underground in the mines
of West Virginia have done a vastly
bigger job in the digging line than
the men who work in the open on the
Panama Canal!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
APRIL II
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Copyrighted 1914.

AS the richest heiress in all Eng
land, she enjoyed fame second only
TO Queen Victoria among Englishwo-
men. 1t was said that in those days
no young Englishman of good family
refrained from proposing to her, and
rumor even included among the suit
orS the Duke of Wellington and
Prince Louis Napoleon But the
baroness was as Independent as she
was eligible, and she would have
none of her suitors. Finally, when
she was sixty-seven, she married an
American named Mr.. Ashmead- Bart
lett.
Throughout her life the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts was in close relation
ship with the most prominent men
and women of the day. She counted
the Empress Eugene among her most
intimate friends. She was a friend of
Charles Dickens, who dedicated
Martin Chuzzlewit" to her, and she
was an especially keen admirer OF
Washington Irving. Her principal in
terest of life, however, was in philan-
thropy. She was particularly inter
ested in neglected children. Among
her other interests were the cause OF
dumb animals and the care of
wounded soldiers and the extension
of industrial opportunities for women.
1t is said that no woman under the
rank of queen ever did so much for
the established church as did Baron
ess Burdett-Coutts. She died eight
years ago, when she was ninety-two,
and was buried in Westminster
Abbey
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
Our Water-P oisoned Infants

The high infant mortality common
Iy occurring in summer seems to be
Independent of water supplies in most
cases, but there is typA of enteritis
among children which may occur at
any time in the year. says DR.. Allan
]. Mclaughlin in the current En-
gineering News. This type is asso-
ciated with and probably dependent
upon u sewage polluted water supply.
IL sometimes shows a very high rate
of prevalence in the winter and spring
months. Thus Wyandotte, Mich.
with a grossly polluted river water
supply, has high enteritis rates, with
an abnormal prevalence in the spring
months. The Wyandotte enteritis
rates is higher in March and April
than the Benton Harbor rate (water
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
SEASONING For OUR NAVY.

Our navy will be of the Mexican coast
only for blockade, there is no Mexican navy and
Notifications But the service will be of
great value in giving experience to officers and men
and in seasoning them. The manner in which the
Atlantic fleet started upon its mission demonstrated
at the state of efficiency of our warships the
good training of the and the fine organization
of the navy department
But more than that is needed. The personnel of
warships must be hardened by service They must
be keyed up to the battle pitch. For there is no
knowing when navy will have far more serious
job than that of blockading small Mexican port or
the coast.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
The Practical Theory Engineer

It used to be thought that theory
and practise were about as harmo-
Nous as q losing baseball team is
with the umpire. 1t was thought that
theoretically" and practically" re-
ferred to two entirely different con-
ditions and were in two different
worlds.
The beetle browed practical man of
the old school-"no school, would
perhaps be a better term-noticed
that the text books began a severely
practical question with such words
as "disregarding friction" 1t also
came under his observation that ma
chimes have an mistaken determine
ton to regard friction. So he con-
sidered the theory to be wrong and
worthless.
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With the Worlds Toilers

The favorite tactic of the German
employers to oppose the workers
movements is the importation of for
eign workers.
The number of workers elipible for
organization in Norway last year was
259,125, including 35,077 females: g.
31S or 1886 per cent. are organized.
William e. Kelly. the new postmas-
ter of Brooklyn, is widely known in
labor circles as the president of the
National LetterC arriers' Association.
Thirty thousand workmen struck at
st. Petersburg. Russia, recently, be-
cause of the governments oppressive
attitude toward the labor news
papers.
The French and the Italian Fedora
ton of Hospital Employees have
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TIME FOR THE NATION TO ARM.

One of the results of the awakening of the nation
by the Mexican crisis is bound to be the strength
,enine of the national defenses We have too long
relied upon bigness to overawe other
nations and here are bearded by cheap Latin
American despot with only half his countrymen at his
back with the other half seeking his life. q
We need adequate navy and an adequate army
reserve We need merchant marine for training
naval reserve. We need more trained officers for
army and navy, with aviation service to compare
with those of Europe. We need guns and ammu-
milton; we need government armor plants and powder
factories. Year after year Congress has been un-
responsive to these demands and the nation today
faces much greater international perils than war
with Mexico And these perils have been invited by
unpreparedness.
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Women. Help Man the schooner Irene
No. Ho.

PORTLAND. Ore, April 21.-When
Custom House and Immigration De-
partment officials We're Informed that
there were three stewardesses aboard
the schooner Irene, which reached
Linnton from Hobart, they had
visions If the clipper engaging in the
passenger trade. But when it was
learned there We're four women on
board and two children the officials
figured there were almost as many
feminine members of the crew as
would be carried aboard the Impera-
tor.
Captain Mitchell was not long in
setting the Federal men on the right
track Mrs Mitchell had determined
to accompany her husband on the
voyage from Portland to Hobart and
Miss Jordan. of Sellwood, was signed
in the capacity of nurse for the
Youngsters. There was also the cook $
wife who IS signed on the articles as
cabin boy" AT Hobart Second Mate
Eutby joined the ship, and as he was
a husband of but two weeks he was
;tN epse to returning to the land of the
Stars and Stripes without his wife,
so she was welcomed on board and
signed as third stewardess.
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IF this old scholar-or mo scholar"
had an engine with it's valve-gear
removed. he would not junk it as
worthless. But that is what he Is
doing with his theory when he dis
cards it simply because it is incom-
plete. Fortunately, the junk heap
is more Uttered with specimens of
his kind than with discarded theory
Nowadays a man on the job is
more or less of a theoretician or
failure. Even a dyed-in-t they wool
practical man, il successful, knows
more theory than many a college
cub.
Don't junk your theory, even If, at
the time, it doesn't deliver just the
goods wanted. Save it until you can
use it.
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exdfl1pler

have hearache for the wide fields that misty rim
Grass under foot and living earth and that fills tohe
brim
The skycup from dawn to dusk then flooding softly spills
Till silver silence laps and laves the heights of all the hills
The fat fields the proud fields graywashed all with dew,
Humble in pride, unrestng they work the quick nights
through,
Yet smile when stir of browsing world clover shouts
wheat
must eat!
The fields the stripped fields with ravagng winds
play,
they le in valiant calm, dream of splendid May.
Faint heart of dust gallant be! Forget soaring frost
And haply dream of May outboomng Mays lost
Martha Observation-Disclosures, in May Ainslee's.
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planned the establishing of a special
international for those in the employ
of public health services.
Cigarmakers in Baltimore are ere-
ating sentiment in favor of bill be-
fore the State legislature which would
abolish the present system of sitting
and standing on cigar molds.
In West Virginia there are 70,32f
men employed in the mining industry
OF this number, 1852 are Americans,
$4,000 are negroes and 23,709 are for
eigners, the majority of whom are
Italians.
The recently organized Brewery
Workers Union at Albuquerque. New
Mexico, has secured a contract with
employers which calls for wage in
creases and a reduction Of working
hours.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

from deep welIs) for July and Au-
gust Marquette, Mich, with winter
and spring pollution of it's water sup
ply, has high enteritis rates at the
same time, while Sault Ste Marie
Mich, with water pollution chiefly
during the boating season, has high
enteritis rates in the summer and fall
Coming east to Cohoes, N. Y, there
was a heavy drop in enteritis after
a mechanical filtration plant was put
in operation in July, 1911 Thus the
January-J enteritis rate per 100,-
900 in children under two years old at
Cohoes during the past five years
was: 1909, IA; 1910, 1872; 1911 (flter
plant in operation in JULY, 1872; 1912,
so; 1913, 4s.-Engineering News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

The Government Bet.

An Irishman in the West intended
to take up a homestead claim, but not
knowing how to go about it, sought
information from friend.
Malachi" he said, you know all
about this law. Tell me what I am to
do about it-'
Well said the other. II don't re-
member the exact wording of the law,
but l can give you the meaning of it.
It's this: The government is willing
to bet you 100 acres of land against
$14 that you can't live on it five years
without starving to death. Public
Ledger, u
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WE DON'T WANT MEXICO.

I'VE will never haul down the flag that the blood
of our boys has planted there exclaimed Representa-
tive Mann meodramatically in the debate the
Flood resolution in the House That was not the
spirit of the resolution and it is not the spirit of the
American people We don't want Mexico and its
mongrel population. 1t would be disaster to con-
quer and annex the country. And that is the judg-
ment of every American of common sense.
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creasing? There is reason to think so,
If only because the safety of life has
so greatly increased. In insanitary
days infection must have carried off
many potential centenarians in the
flower of life The very fact that
there are so many more people in the
world than there ever were before In
creases the supply from which eente-
narians may be drawn
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welded on Platform of Speeding Train
on n Dare.


SPOKANE, Wash, April Eli
dare you young sweethearts to get
married on this train. And, say. if
you'll take, that dare I'll provide the
preacher. too
Conductor John Roberts of North
ern Pacific train 314. en- route from
Lewiston to Spokane, issued this
challenge to N e. Heath, a prosper
Gus young farmer of Lenore. Idaho
and Mildred Kittrell. a belle Of lilo
Idaho. as
You're on said Heath. THAT is
Pm game but it's up to Mildred
here. She has the last say"
WELL no. dare like that will get by
me-" responded Mildred. go and gel
your preacher"
The conductor started a search OF
his train and in few minutes re-
turned with the Rev. f. ID. Muse
pastor of the Christian Church al
Lewiston In a few minutes arrange
rnents We're completed. and the cere-
mony was performed on the real
platform of the day coach lust as the
train was crossing the Clearwater
bridge.
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Too Young to Get Marriage License, in
Jail for Jilting Woman.


NEW YORK, April 21-Albert Rau-
cher. not yet twenty years old. is I'M
able to obtain marriage license
without the consent of his parents,
and vet he is a prisoner in Ludlow
street Jail because he promised Miss
Anna Duchner tomarry her and then
changed his mind. And this is the
second time. that Raucher has been in
Jail for his alleged breach of prom
Use. The first time. was year ago,
when Miss Duchner sued him. Then
he failed to answer the suit and
Judgment was taken by default
Raucher was arrested a second time
two weeks ago for failure to pay
the Judgment, amounting to 5000.
Raucher decided yesterday that the
surest way out of jail was to marry
Miss .Duchner. She consented to his
release on this condition, and the
wedding was to take place in the
sheriff's office Accordingly, Deputy
Sheriff Mcdonnell took Raucher from
the Jail to the maria ge license bu-
reau in the city hall. His prospective
bride was with him. She gave her
age as forty, it was said. When it
came Raucher's turn to give his pedi-
gree he owned up to little more
than nineteen. The marriage bureau
clerk informed him that he was too
young to get license without the
consent of his parents.
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murder but such condition exists,
and prosecuting attorneys are in
Weighing against Ii to little effect.
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A GREAT LOSS DUE TO THE LEGISLATURE.
BY the failure of the Legislature to pass the
economy and efficiency bills State will be put
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Prairie Schooner of Old Carries Family
Southward to New Home.


HOUSTON, Tex, April 21.-Several
old settlers of Houston paused Tues
day afternoon on Main street, rubbed
their eyes, opened them again and de-
cided they were not seeing visions"
but that real prairie schooner" of
the old-fashioned type, mule team
and all, was trekking southwark along
Main street. Some of the older pion-
GERS could close their eyes and again
see the arid plains of mesquite, with
here and there in the long miles a
cowboy like an almost forgotten
punctuation mark on the scenery.
'"But this prairie schooner was real
and was rugged up last February by
Lemuel Hardwick, a southeastern
Ohio farmer, who since February has
been slowly "mushing" across coun-
try from the foothills of Muskingum
county, Ohio, toward Aldine in Bra
zoria county, where he expects to set
tie and engage in dairy farming.
With Hardwick on the trip We're his
wife, two sons and a baby girl of
less than year.
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ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Eats Dynamite; Wrapped Up in Bed
Awaiting Its Digestion

PATCHOGUE, L. l.. April 21.--
James Norris known Familiarity in
this part of Long Island as 'Dyna-
mite Jimmie ate a stick of dynamite
yesterday afternoon and now he Is
securely wrapped in feather mat
tress to prevent jarring the commun-
ity. Had he not worn rubber heels, it
is feared that he would have exploded
before he reached the feather bed.
For several years Dynamite Jim
mie' has been making a good living
by wrecking stumps on farms with
dynamite. 1t has been predicted that
some day he would be blown to pieces
because 1t was believed he handled
the explosive ecarelessly.
Friends said that Morris went to his
room down the street and wrapped
in feather bed to wait until
the dynamite is thoroughly digested.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-04
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT

The tax book for the collection
of the special assessment upon the
real property in district No. 1 for
the purpose of paying the second
payment on the Newark Sidewalk
Improvement District bonds has
been placed in my hands.
All owners of real property ly-
ing in the district are required to
pay their assessments to me with
in thirty days from Nov. Is, 1914.
If such payment is not made, ac-
ton will be commenced at the end
of that time for the collection of
said assessment and for legal pen
alties and costs.
Given under my hand this 9TH
day of November, 1914.
Z. B. CHEssER, Collector.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-04
Charlotte Ciphers

Charlotte, Dec. &c. NJ. Hous-
ton and family left last week for
Strawberry where they will make
their home.
Misses Clara McGill and Italine
Walden of Sulphur Rock spent
Saturday and Sunday with home
folks.
Miss Theo Brogdon, who is
teaching at Walnut Grove spent
Saturday and Sunday here with
her parents.
Hon. Chas. F. Cole of BatesviIle
passed through here Tuesday en-
route to Black River.
The stave mill that moved from
here to Strawberry is now run
ming and doing good work.
Miss Alma Lane and brother,
Everette, spent last Wednesday at
Batesville.
John Yates and family who
have resided here for several
years are moving to Walnut
Grove this week.
Mrs. Rebbecca Moore and son,
Burney, went to BatesyilIe Mon
day.
Miss Efie Blair who has been
attending school at Newark has
returned home.
Mrs. V NJ. Higginbottom Of
Madill, Okla, arrived last week
to visit Mrs. c. L. Moore.
Miss Vela Jernigan, who is
teaching in the BatesYille High
School, spent Thanksgiving with
homefolks.
6. J. Lindsey made a business
trip to Batesville Tuesday.
Miss Elsie Moore began a term
of school near Cedar Grove Mon
day.
Every one IS very much pleas
ed to have Rev. W. S. Storey re-
turned for our pastor the coming
year.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-04

Congressman Oldfeld tells the
editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade
that he likes his seat in congress.
And that's official confirmation of
a suspicion many folks have had
for several years.-Sharp County
Record.
Congressman Oldfeld has put
in more time ON the job since he
has been in congress than any
man who ever represented this
district. He doesn't quit the job
to come home and try law suits or
fix political fences, as many others
have done, but when congress is
in session, Billie Oldfeld can al
ways be found at his post of duty.
He has been absolutely faithful
and loyal to the best interests of
the people. Everybody, except a
few politicians, appreciate these
facts and the people are not going
to be in any hurry to take him off
the job just in order to pass it
around to some pie hungry poll
tician whose chief qualification is
that he needs the salary.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-04
HOME AGAIN; P. H. HULSEY
REPORTS TEXAS SUFFERING

Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. HuIsey ar
rived in Newark last Sunday
morning, after an absence of more
than year, and were gladly vel
coined back to their old home by
many friends. They left here
early in November last year for
Live Oak, Fla, where they ex-
pected to locate, but did not like
the country there and a few weeks
later removed to McGregor, Tex.
They have seen a good portion of
several states since leaving New
ark but Mr.. Hulsey says they saw
no country anywhere that looked
as good as this part of Arkansas.
They were living near Athens,
Tex, when they decided to re-
turn to Newark. Mr.. Hulsey says
that he never saw conditions
anywhere SO deplorable as they
are now in many parts of
Texas. Many people are actually
on sufferance, and he reports
a number of instances where peo-
pie have armed themselves and
gone into grocery stores in day
light and confscated food because
their families were on sufferance
and they were unable to obtain
food in any other manner.