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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN;.
Author of Pushing to the 'FRONT.' LII
1914
YOU OWE 1T TO YOUR MOTHER

come and hold burial service fer
her. The good minister came It hnn.
bred miles on horseback, and preach
ed the funeral sermon over the grave.
The neighbors came from many miles
around in OK carts and on horseback.
This incident showed that young
Lincoln was made of no common
stuff" This tender side of his ma
ture cropped out all through his life.
Many years afterward when he was
President, he said: "All that am or
hope to be, l owe to my angel
mother"
| have never known a man who was
neglectful of his mother to make a
real man. Such men are invariably
selfish and mean.
General William Booth. founder of
the Salvation Army, shortly before
his death. said
Il had a good mother. ] loved my
mother. From infancy to manhood I
lived in her. Home was not home to
me without her. And yet one of the
regrets that has followed me to the
present hour is that I did not suf-
ficiently value the treasure while I
possessed it, and that I did not, with
sufficient tenderness and assiduity
at the time attempt the impossible
task of repaying the Unreasonable
debt l owed to that mothers love"
You owe it to your mother
To manifest an interest in whatever
interests or amuses her.
To seek her comfort and pleasure in
all things before your own.
To make her frequent. simple pres
ents and to be sure that they nre ap-
propriate and tasteful.
To remember that she is still girl
at heart, so far as delicate little at
tentions are concerned, even though
she may be old and wrinkled.
To give her your full confidence,
and never to do anything which you
think she would disapprove
To make her a partaker, so far as
your different ages will permit, in all
your pleasures and recreations.
To lift all the burdens you can from
shoulders that have grown stopped in
waiting upon and working for you
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Son Was Ambitious

The oldest son of large family in
a New Jersey town was ambitious.
This town had its rich man. who
had a daughter. She was the centre
of attraction for the youth of the viii
lage In the rich mans home was
several servants. The ambitious town
youth had a brother who wasn't so
ambitious.
The paths of neither crossed fire.
quently. However, ON one occasion
they did. 1t was after II O'Clock one
night. The front door of the rich
mans house closed softly and foot
steps of the ambitious young man,
on the front porch, Joined echoes
with those of the less ambitious broth
ers, who was making his way from
the rear of the house.
Neither stopped until he reached
the front iron gate. There they
recognized each other but said not a
word, parting to return holAe by
different routes.
The ambitious youth had been call
ing on the rich mans daughter and
the less ambitious brother had been
calling on the maid of his aspiring
brothers friend.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Brran,s Peace Treaties.

From the Springfield Republican.
There was much jesting and even
scorn for Secretary Bryan's peace
treaties when he initiated the series
by signing one with humble Salvador.
He kept on, however, and signed
treaty whenever a government any
where would agree that it was a good
thing. His list gradually heightened
until he got as great a power as
Denmark to consider the idea. From
Salvador to Denmark made a string
that caused no little amusement
among the horde of Bryan knockers.
1t was simply rich, really, because not
a country on the secretary's list was
ever likely TO go to war with the
United States over any conceivable is
sue.
II is now the secretary's turn to be
amused. Gentlemen" one can Fancy
him saving, "plessR walk up and see
these interesting treaties which nave
just been signed by the Ambassadors
of his Britannia majesty. and the
French republic" There they are
treaties Identical with the one that
little despised Salvador originally
signed, and all designed to promote
the pacific adjustment of international
disputes, The list now runs from
Salvador to England, and that is moi
half bad. There is certainly nothing
ridiculous about 1t. Professor John
Bassett Moore, whose expertness, cru
dition and experience in the state de-
partment they constantly played VI
against Secretary Bryan's crudenesS
ignorance and amateurishness, say
the BRYAN peace treaty is an lad
vance on anything before 1T.
The Bryan peace treaty IS sun
plicity itself. 1t does not proVlde I9t
The arbitration of anything. II
merely binds the contracting powers
TO refer to a commission of investiga'
ton for a period OF one year any
question threatening war which has
not Welded to ordinary diplomatic
treatment and which does not involve
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Might Wed a Bachelor

A little girl of six sat looking
thoughtfully out the window of her
home the other day. Her mother
asked the cause of her seriousness.
oh" she replied, Il was just think
ing that when I grow up to be a big
lady ! aeoin' to get married and have
three children"
The parent was surprised and
amused.
well. you will be very fortunate,
indeed" she said.
Then the little girl again lapsed
into thought. Finally she said:
But you can never tell, mother.
might marry bachelor
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
REwARp1NG THE NATIONS HEROES.

generous recognition of the gallantry of soldiers
and sailors by the government is not only wise policy
but sheer justice The and navy departments are
emulatng each other in carrying out this policy by
rewarding soldiers and sailors who distinguish them
selves in action at Vera Cruz.
The records of these men command the pride of
their countrymen Their GOODNESS and intrepdity
under fire their noble sef-sacrifce in Drawing death
to rescue wounded comrades their resoute stand in
performance of duty in the face of imminent peril,
were qualities that distinguished those who received
their baptism of fire.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
General Federation Speaks

The great General Federation OF
Women's Clubs, representing one
million American women, at its ma
tional convention in Chicago last
Saturday, formally Endorsed votes
for women. The International Coun-
Gil of Women at its recent conven-
ton at Rome, Italy. did the same.
The Long Island Council of Women 8
Clubs in its nineteenth annual con-
vention, held recently at jamaica, n.
Y, did the same.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
$4,000 Bonus and S1OO a Week job if He
Quits Drinking.

PHILADELPHIA. June 2O.--A po-
sition at 800 week. and bonus Of
$4,000, to start with an architectural
firm is awaiting William Brownstein
thirty eight years old, of this city,
but first he will have to serve q
month in the House of Correction
and prove that he can stop drinking.
Brownstein was arraigned yesterday
on the charge of vagrancy.
Magistrate Renshaw was told that
a firm in this city would employ
Brownstein, an architect, at 500
week and a bonus if he would stop
drinking. The members of the firm
have tried in vain to cure his habit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
From Senator Thomas

United States Senator Charles S.
Thomas, of Colorado, a national fig
ure in the Democratic party for
years, says: THE one offensive fea =
ture of equal suffrage has been the
blackguard abuse heaped upon our
women by foes of the movement.
ScaYengers, commissioned to attack
and defame, have made pretense of
studying our lives, thoughts, laws
and institutions between trains. The
supposition that inclusion in the
responsibilities of citizenship implies
the instant degradation of our wives,
mothers, sisters and daughters can
only proceed from mental perversion
and degeneracy."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
woMANHooD's PLACE IN PENoLoGY.

Trained womanhood is finding its proper place in
New York's correctional institutions The appoint
ment OF Miss Mary B. Harris superintendent of the
female department of the Backwell's Island work.
house is part of Commissioner Katharine B. Davs's
policy OF recognizing that erring and unfortunate
womanhood is entitled to womanly DR.. Anna
Hubert had already been made resident physician in
the workhouse, and it is safe to predict that the
female prisoners will be healthier and happier in
mates and better women when they 20 out again into
the world.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20

you have been the best mother in
the world" cried son to his mother
on her deathbed. She was widow
who had struggled hard to support
her son. She took in washing and did
scrubbing In order to send him to COL
lege, but this was the first time that
her son had ever told her that she
had been a good mother. She turned
her tired eyes upon him and said
"Why didn't you say so before
john"
Think what it would have meant TO
this poor, hard working mother II her
son had only shown his love and APP
probation for her during her lifetime!
How il would have frightened up her
long, weary years!
'If folks could have their funerals
when they are alive and well and
struggling along, what help it would
bel" sighed Mrs. Perkins upon return
ing from a funeral, wondering how
Door Mrs. Brown would have felt II
she could have heard what the MIN
lister and her children said. Poor
soul. she never dreamed they set so
much by her!"
That young Abraham Lincoln was
no ordinary youth is indicated by ms
attitude toward his mother. The
hardships of a pioneer life were too
much for her delicate constitution,
and after they moved to Gentryville,
she faded away like q flower, and
died of consumption, when Lincoln
was only ten years old. 1t was a
terrible blow to the boys sensitive
nature His mother was buried in a
plain wooden box, under large trees
adjacent to his cabin home. Every
day for long time he would sit on
the grave and weep bitterly He be-
came sad and melancholy. and "a
far-away look crept into his eyes,
which never left him.
The boy was so impressed with the
fact that his mother should have a
more fitting burial that nine months
after her death he wrote a letter to
Parson Elkins, whom they used to
know in Kentucky, asking him to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Ten Most Illiterate States

1t is interesting to know that in
the ten most illiterate States in the
Union-Louisiana, South Carolina
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina.
Virginia. Tennessee. Kentucky and
West Virginia-there is not an equal
suffrage State "Screeching hell
cats" is the name that a prominent
editor in one Of these States recently
applied TO suffragists.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20

Mrs. Finley Shepard, better kaowu
as Helen Gould, was the eldest daugh-
ter of Jay Gould. She celebrates her
forty-sixth birthday today. Mrs
Shepard, in spite of her great wealth
and high position, has always been
exceedingly reticent and has been
most unwilling to place herself before
the public eye. She has been especial
ly diffident about being photographed.
She is described as a small, round.
dainty woman, exceedingly womanly
in her dress and appearance. She
moves and acts and speaks quietly,
unobtrusiVely almost timidly.
AS q matter of fact there is nothing
timid or reticent about Mrs. Shep-
ard, as she has shown on several &C.
casions when her action has been
most courageous. and straightforward
for instance, when she sent her
check for 100000 to the United States
government at the time of the break
ing out of the Spanish War, and later
when she opened a house in New York
for the reception of wounded Spanish
soldiers. Her apparent reticence has
been assumed merely in order TO gain
privacy and protection.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
10000 Words of Love In "Baroness's"
Breach of Promise story.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. June 20.-Deposi-
tions containing $4,000 words of the
international love story of the Bar
oness" Barbara Ursula Won kalinoW-
ski have arrived in st. Louis and are
ready for filing in the Federal Court
in her s2,500.O00 breach of promise
suit against Michael J. Hurley, sec
rotary of the Central Paint and sup
ply Company.
The average love story as enovels
go is about 40 900 words, SO that the
Baroness's romance outdoes fiction in
point of bulk at least.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Policeman Follows Dog for Hour Seek
ing Lost Boys Home.

NEW YORK, June 20-As Police
man John Shields, of the LenoX ave
nue. station, was at st. Nicholas ave
nue. and one Hundred and Forty
fifth street, yesterday afternoon, he
saw a girl about three years old
standing on the corner and crying
bitterly. Attached to a long string
she had a brown spaniel, who wagged
his tail and looked up at her SYM
pathetically.
AS the child was unable to tell
where she lived Shields thought the
dog might know more than his little
mistress, and he allowed the spaniel
to act as a guide. The scheme seem
ed TO be a good one, but it did not
work out. The dog started off at
brisk gait, but after nearly an hour
arrived nowhere in particular, so the
policeman became discouraged and
led his charge to the station house.
Later Mrs. Alice Kelly, of 1873 West
One Hundred and Fifty-ninth street,
claimed girl and dog.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
From Denmark

DIR. George Brandes, the famous
Danish critic and savant, whose
visit to America, just closed, eX-
cited such enormous attention In
New York, said in one of the many
interviews published. "In my own
country women have obtained q
large share of suffrage, and all with
out any passion, any heat OF disturb
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
DR.. Washington's Reply

Usually the lawyers have things
their own way in cross-examining
witnesses in the courts, but once in
q. while they meet their match, and
the result of the battle of wits is
funny to watch. In the Circuit Court
recently a very aggressive lawyer
was asking DIR. Walter Washington
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20

lightened age a county which does that is a public
nuisance The statute for mosquito determination
belongs TO the order of advanced legislation 1t i'm
poses on a county a comparatively trifing annual
expense order rid it and the State of an annual
visitation that not only vastly injuries property but
does infinite harm the health and comfort OF the
population.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Twin is Killed ON Railroad Track Like
Brother.

SCRANTON. Pa, June 20.-Martin
Langan, jr.. twenty-one years old,
met death on the Delaware and Hud-
son railroad near the South Scranton
depot yesterday in the same man
ner. and in the same spot, where his
twin brother, Joseph Langan, was
killed two years ago. Langan was on
his way to work, and it is believed
that he failed to hear the approach
of a south bound locomotive. which
bore down upon him from behind
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
PAssAIC MOSQUITOES MUST GO.

Those Passaic county freeholders who refused to
make the statutory appropriation for mosquito exter
nination find that they are not superior to the law
and the courts. The Supreme Court has allowed a
mandamus which leaves the freeholders option.
Passaic county not only has the mosquito pest,
but breeds the pest neghbor counties In this en-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
"Chit Chat" by Members of Star Staff

several questions about an injury
sustained by the plaintiff in the case.
The plaintiffs leg was hurt. and since
the accident had grown an inch or
two longer.
doctor, do you mean to tell this
jury that you medical men can deter
mine when this leg will stop grow
ing?" asked the lawyer, with a trace
of a sneer in his tone
"Oh, yes" replied the physician.
"Well, when will it stop growing"
demanded the lawyer.
"When the lawyers stop pulling it,"
shot back the doctor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Young Minister. LiOnized by Bellies OF
Town, Egged by SWANS.

GRAFTON, W. Va, June 20.-Rev.
W. T. EIsey, young bachelor pastor
of one of the city's leading churches,
was last night bombarded with aged
eggs by several leading. young
SWANS, who objected strongly to the
cleric monopolizing the attentions of
all the pretty and eligible young
women in the city.
For some time Rev. Elsey has been
lionized by the bellies of the town and
the young gallants decided to check
the hero worship before it had gone
too far. Several of them organized
and laid in wait for the minister as
he came from the home of a promi-
nent young woman last night. Be
fore he had gone far he was pelted
with eggs of uncertain age.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Mr.. Fairbanks lndOrses Suf-
frage

Former Vice President Charles w.
Fairbanks spoke on equal suffrage
June at the centennial celebration
at New Harmony, Ind. THE ballot
in the hands of women has not been
a freband, but a steadying, whole
some influence" was one of the
things he said.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Mayors of New York

At Auburn recently the mayors Of
New York State held their fifth an
nual convention. They voted unani-
mously for resolution indorsing the
submission of the suffrage amend
ment to the voters of New York in
1915.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Thoughtful Husband.

She-Are you wearing those pretty
suspenders gave you for your birth
day, George?
He-No, dear; was afraid the nail
I'm using as a button would rust 'em.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
Amusing to Note

Said she, "'Tis amusing to note,
In this matter of getting the vote.
That they let in the game
Men who can't write their name,
And the fool that goes rocking the
boat"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
SUFFRAGE SNAPSHOTS
BY MINNIE j. REYNoLl

ance. My brother was one of the
ministry that conferred the fran
chise upon them. Forty years ago l
translated John Stuart Mills's Sub
lection of Women into Danish. and
not a paper in Denmark would re-
view the book"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
PENNSYLVANIA Politicians

In Pennsylvania the Democrats and
Progressives have placed suffrage
planks in their platforms for the
coming fall campaign. The Republi-
cans frame their platform next
month
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Minimum Wage Laws

Colorado, California, Washington,
Oregon and Utah have minimum
wage laws for women. Massachu-
sets is the only non-suffrage State
in their class,
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OF Course

The act by which the Illinois Legis-
lature gave the women of that State
the right to vote in national and
municipal elections has been de-
clared constitutional by the Illinois
Supreme Court.
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Properly Classified.

rs that loquacious man an agi-
tator?"
NO replied Senator Sorghum;
"merely an irritator." - Washington
Star.
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June CWiIiSbt

The twilight comes; the sun
Dips down and sets,
The boys have done
Play at the nets
In a warm golden glow
The woods are stepped
The shadows grow;
The bat has cheeped.
Sweet smiles the new-mown hay;
The mowers pass
Home, each his way,
Through the grass.
The nght-wind stirs the fern,
A night-jar spins;
The windows burn
In the inns.
Dusk it grows. The moon!
The dews descend
Love- can this beauty in our hearts
End?
John Masefel
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The Fitness of Things.

Here's a story of sailors raising
chickens on shipboard."
"Why not? There's the hatchway."
Baltimore American.
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the national honor. Even the final
report of the commission would not
be binding on the contracting pow
ers; but it would be published TO the
world and an enlightened world opin-
ion based on the report Of neutral
commissioners would then be brought
into the equation of peace or war.
The plan adapts to international con-
ditions the inquiry and publicity fea-
lures of the Canadian labor disputes
law. II has the one great merit of
compelling a pause while facts are
established before nations can rush
into hostilities.
Afr. Bryan is the great force for
peace in this administration. He
should be encouraged in his good
work along peace lines; and he now
merits congratulate nS in having OBJ
tanned the cooperation and support
of two such great powers as Great
Britain and France.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20

From the Engineering Magazine.
I am sometimes asked if the stop
watch time study is aimed to speed
UP and drive the men. If | felt for q
moment that this was 50, ! would in
the future refuse to use one or have
one used for me. In the hands Of
men with their hearts I'm the right
place the time study is one Of the
most powerful agencies there is in
bringing about greater efficiency.
There are three ways to make a
time study:
1. Keeping the watch in the pocket
so as to fool 90 the workman.
2. Going up to a man and without
saying a word flashing a watch and
beginning to make notes.
8. Explaining to the men the pur-
pose of the study; why the watch is
necessary; what 1t all means; win
ming their consent and even their in
terest and approval, and then making
the study.
The first plan is the ranlSest kind of
deceit and the man who uses this
method should not be surprised if The
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"Unwisc" Owl Causes One Thing After
Another on Ranch.

. YISALIA, Cal. June 20.-Something
Of a natural history miXup at the
Losleben ranch. west of here. resulted
In the death OF two hogs, a grass fire,
destruction of a section of fence and
immense neighborhood excitement.
An owl flew into wires of the Tu-
lare Powder Company, causing short
circuit, which burned off the wires.
The wires fell into the hog pen,
where two of the animals, curious
as to the snakelike wires, seized them
in their mouths and were instantly
killed. Prompt work by employees of
the ranch prevented others of the
animals from sharing a similar fate.
Fire was communicated to weeds
along the fence. destroying wires
along the country road.