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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
PANAMA GROWS VARIETY
OF VALUABLE HARD WOODS

takes a polish and works readily.
There are probably 100000 of tnese
trees in Panama. The timber is woEtni
$40 a thousand feet and the tosss-
value is about $130,000.000.
The guayacan Is somewhat smaller
than most hardwood trees, averaging
20 feet high and two feet thick, and
branching 30 feet from the grounq-
The leaves are small and compound.
and the grayish black bark Is rough
and shaggy, with longitudinal fur
rows. The inforescence is a mass or
magnificent golden blossoms. The
wood. hardest and most durable of
the timbers of Panama. is akin to the
lignum vitae of the West Indies. IL
is much heavier than water, and to
be RATED must be carried with lighter
wood. Railway ties of guayacan
have been in use on the Panama rail
road for more than fifty years. The
small waste of the industry might be-
used for shuttle blocks, of which the
supply in the United States is fast
becoming exhausted. There are
probably 100000 of these trees IN
Panama, worth about $40,0O0,00O
The laurel, three feet in diameter,
grows on hillsides TO height of 10
feet. The bark is white. The wooa
ia yellow. hard, fine-grained, durable
and easily worked. 1t Is said to be
good for piling. There are probably
more than ], 900, 900 laurel trees II
Panama, with an average yield of 400
feet a tree, and total value 80
$50, 000, 900.
The Santa Maria or calabra is an
evergreen, attaining a height OF 100
feet or over with more than so feet
clear, and with a diameter at the base
OF about three feet. The bark is com
paratively thin, notified gray and
black, and slightl'. rough. 1t peeis
from the wood readily. The wood Is
grayish white, as hard and elastic as
hickory and also similar to teak. 1t
is durable, straight and close grained,
takes a good polish and splits longi-
IL dinally better than most tropical
hard woods. 1t was used by the In
dians for bows, and is employed al
most exclusively for palanquin poleh.
There is probably s7000o,000 worth OF
this timber in Panama.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
DO Not Lose Faith in Mexican or Filipino

people were collected on some na-
tional campaign, but they could not
be held together. The prominent land
holders were insanely proud, and
quarreled and fought and stabbed
each other over questions of honor
and precedence. Nobody could dc
anything with them. They were de-
spised and sneered at and condemned
from one end of the world to an
other.
Probably the reader thinks l am
describing the MeXicans or the Fill
pinos. But no, I am writing of the
Scotchmen of the Highlands. Every
thing 1 have said about their poverty,
their turbulence. their bloodthirsti-
ness and their reputation for treach-
cry is true. And now the Highland
Scotch are the most steady, honest.
Industrious, intelligent, brainy people
to be found. They are now every
thing which they We're not then.
What has made the difference be-
tween the Highlanders of that day
and this? A chance Education. A
fairly good government. A modicurn
of liberty What Carranza promises
to the Mexican, and what the Amer
lean government promises the Fill
pinos. Let us not lose faith In our
brown brethren. We may well learn
the best that humanity can teach
from the Highlander whose ancestors
not long ago as history goes were
lower in governing ability than either
the Fillpinos or the Mexicans.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
BY HERBERT QUICK

Author of "On Board the Good Ship
Earth" when Glory Ceased" etc.
The people l am mentioning lived
among mountains. The most promi-
nent men among them owned great
tracts of land, and ruled the people on
their estates as with rods of iron.
Many of these prominent men could
not read or write, although some of
the greatest educational institutions
of learning in the world were within
a hundred miles or so. Very few of
their tenants had any knowledge of
the alphabet.
They did very little work. Man
ana" was the watchword. A few little
truck patches were planted and tend
ed by the women, and they had some
herds of miserable, scrawny long
horned cattle and long-haired horses.
These people were bold fighters In
single combat, but the national vice
was assassination. The common men
knew nothing of national questions,
and generally followed the lead of the
man who owned the land on which he
lived. These big men in the country
were jealous OF each other, and were
frequently in the field with their BAN
ditti, stealing cattle levying black
mail, burning towns, villages and
country homes, numbering, slaughter
ing, fighting one day and running
away the next.
Sometimes large armies of these
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04

inent men and women of her time,
among them Washington irving and
Henry Clay. Her bosom friend was
Matilda Hoffman, who had the dis
tinction of being the first and only
love OF the bachelor. Washington Irv-
ing. 1t was through Matilda Hoffman
that Irving spent so many happy
hours In the Gratz household, and,
like all who came in contact with
Rebecca, he greatly admired her
beauty and goodness. SO it came
about that when Sir Walter Scott,
who was good friend of Washing
ton Irving, spoke to him of his plans
for the novel, "Ivanhoe," that he was
about to write, Irving suggested q
character modelled on Rebecca Gratz
as the heroine. Scott had no oppor-
tunity to meet the beautiful Jewess,
for he never came to this country,
but from the description given by the
American writer he WIS able to draw
his vivid picture.
When the finished novel came from
the press Sir Walter sent the first
copy to Irving with this message:
How fdo you LIKE your Rebecca?
Does the Rebecca T. have pictured
compare with the pattern given?'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04

power, very, very young-and taking
in on the ground floor q picked few
of his college and society chums. Men
with social and financial influence
often go ahead, not only of those who
have to depend upon their service,
character and parts, but ahead of
their own merit. We have no peers
in our directorates, but that is only
because we have no peers at all. We
do have our guinea pigs" however.
We call them dummy directors, but
they differ from the British heelers OF
business in name only. We have lots
of the evils of politics in business that
the British are discovering in their
business. Mr.. Brandes is showing
that. We simply have not gone as
far as the English. But II our evils
go unchecked, we shall have the same
results. We may never have to go to
England for a manager of an Amer
lean railway. England, being older,
is likely to remain older. But it Is
rot at all unthinkable that as we age
we may have to turn for master men
to Australia or Mexico. or some other
country that Is younger than oars.
where our evil tendencies. which have
humbled British pride as in this rail
way case, will not have gone quite SO
far as with us.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
General Buffers Joke About Specie Payments

who was afterward secretary of the
navy in President Arthur's admins
tration. Butler and Chandler were
warm political friends. The general
would greet a bank president with
this question, spoken in a very seri-
Gus manner: How are you going TO
act on the day Of the resumption OF
specie payments? Have you got gold
and silver enough on hand to meet
the demands of your depositors?
I'm every instance the general was
told that the bankers were confident
that there would be no special de-
mand for gold. The fact that they
could get gold IL they wanted 1t was
sufficient
"'Well, the general would say, you
had better get all the specie you can
so as to be ready to meet the de-
mand, which will be very great Then
he would go trotting off with his pc
culiar little walk to ask the same
question of other bankers.
only a few days before the LIST of
January, in 1879, General Butler said
to banker friend of mine that he
was ready to give $4,000 to anyone
who would secure for him or his rep
resentatives the first place in the line
which would be formed by the thou
sands who would make demand at
the office of the sub treasurer in BoS-
ton for the redemption of government
paper in gold. He said that place
would be worth $4,000. because the
sub treasurer would feel compelled to
pay out gold which could Immediately
be sold at very handsome profit.
"'You would lose your $4,000, gem
eral, was the reply, for there won t
be any demand. Furthermore, you
don't need to pay $4,000 to get that
place in the line, because 1t can be
secured without paying cent
And 1t was just as this banker
predicted On the morning of the re-
sumption of specie payment he sent
word to the general, at his office in
Pemberton Square, that the SUBJ
treasury was open and that there
wasn't any line and there was only to
be seen at first when the door was
open scrubwoman washing the
floor. To this communication General
| Butler made no reply, but he I'M
doubtedly had had great deal Of fun
out OF the matter"
| Copyright, 1914, by e. j. Edwards.
! All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04

Late in February, 1877, l spent sew
eral hours with General Benjamin T.
Butler He had stopped over in New
York on his way to g. ashington.
The general was in the best of humor.
He had been elected member of the
Congress which was to serve In the
first two years of President Hayes's
administration. He was going to en-
ter that body, he said, without any
party obligations to embarrass him.
He had q hatful of bricks which
would be available for him as weap-
ons of offensive warfare, for, mata-
phorically speaking, he expected to
hurl them one after another at the
heads of would-be statesmen who
were concerned in all kinds of move
ments for political and legislative re-
form.
Suddenly the general became seri-
Gus, and. after having produced a
cigar so that he might indulge in his
favorite pastime of a dry smoke, he
said to me:
There is one thing that / am going
to watch very closely. The govern
ment is going to make an effort TO re-
sumo specie payments on January l.
1879. | am curious to know how the
government is going to do It, and
where the gold and silver are coming
from l am going to advocate pay
ment of government oh. igations In
paper. behind which stand the credit
and faith of the government and the
American people"
was reminded OF this remark some
years later by a conversation which
| had with the late Charles Lew
Woodbury., of Boston, whose father
Levi Woodbury., had ably admins
tered the treasury department under
the presidency of Martin Van Buren,
"The bankers In Boston" said Mr.
Woodbury., never knew whether
General Butler was serious or wheth-
er he was having a quiet little fun
on his own account In the late fall OF
1878. They all knew that Butler was
man of infinite capacity, not only
for approaching humor, but for in
dulging in something like practical
Joking. He liked to get men on q
string, so to speak, but he never die
this in an unkindly manner.
"Well, the general went around
among his friends in banking circles
in Boston In the late fall of 1873.
remember one occasion when he wa;
accompanied by William E. Chandler
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
A CANAL TOLLS MESSAGE TOMORROW.

THE KNOWLEDGE that the sentiment among the Demo-
of Congress the subject of Panama tolls
chystazng opposition violation of the Baltimore platform
mpeed the President appear before the two houses to-
message asking that the free tolls provision the
Panama law repealed The presence Washington of
Sir Lionel Garden British ambassador to Mexico concdent
with this announcement
goes saying that the question surrendering the
rights of Amercanbut and owned canal the
demand of Great represents great crisis for the Demo-
cratic party which soemnly pledged maintain those rights
If Congress action the Panama Canal law the hills
valleys the country will ring with it when the Congressional
campaign is in the fall
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04

The republic OF Panama contains
great quantity of standing timber
Much of this Is hard wood. A con-
sular report from Colon says that the
caciuue Ia a small tree, growing about
forty-five feet high and foot thlck'
in scattered clumps or thickets on the
hills. 1t Is comparatively rare ana IL
the most valuable in the republic
being durable, hard, impervlous TO
insects and very beautiful. The grouno
color of the wood, when cut ana ageu.
is rich deep red, with black spots
and stripes. The natives demand at
least So for a cacique whipstock or
cane, and such canes have sold III
New York for s25. The cured timber
Is quoted at So cents pound. There
are probably about 100000 trees or
u.lnber 81 g in the republic, and the
value of the timber, aside from the
cost of getting 1t out, would be about
$1,000, 600. The name of this tree comes
from the fact that the ancient indian
chiefs (caciques) used the wood Tor
their sceptres or batons of office. The
ground wood is used by the natives
as a stypt.c.
The word caoba refers, in common
Central American usage, to three
kinds of trees that occur in the
higher parts of Panama. Two attain
a height of 100 feet or more. 1heh
timber is so similar to Honduras ma
hogany that it IS equally valuable
about 800 thousand feet. The amount
now standing IN the country is valued
at s1S0, 100000.
The espave, often five feet thick at
the base grows to q height OF 80 10
100 feet, of which 10 feet from the
base is clear. Some of the large
branches are available for lumber.
Some forests average Is big trees to
the acre The leaves are large, some
what heart-shaped, light green and
very abundant. The espave is priced
SO much by the natives as a shade
tree that they usually spare it in
clearing for planting. They use the
timber, however, for their canoes,
many of which last for generation
or more. The wood Is of a reddish
bay color, resembling mahogany, for
which it Is often mistaken. 1t IS close
grained, durable. uniform in TEXTURE,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

hausted and fell dead on the beach.
1t was found that the lobster had
gripped the cormorant's. tongue. and
the bird died of suffocation.
shoveIers Cut Six Mile Road to Altar
for Bride.
NEW YORK, March Miss Ger
trude La Croix, of Lynbrook, Long
Island, and Irving Motto, town clerk
Of Long Beach, Long Island, agreed
some time ago to be married March
2. They picked out Alfred Parsons
justice of the peace at Long Beach,
to tie the knot. They made all the
other arrangements, but they didn't
figure on the snow.
When the bride-to-be walked up
Monday morning she found her Pear
sail avenue home half buried In drifts.
Long Beach, the bridegroom and the
acting parson We're six white miles
away. The trolleys weren't running.
The railroad hadn't moved n train In
twelve hours. And the snow was still
falling. Miss La Croix refused to
postpone the wedding and made tho
mile journey in a coach and four
Two men with shovels removed the
snow drifts that halted them. Molitep
had shoveled clear the approach to
the town hall and was leaning on .
spade awaiting her arrival The cexs
emony was quickly over.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
BLIZZARD TALES OF HEROIsM.

AS IN memorable March Of wentysx years ago expert
marooned in the make thrilling Stories with
spice grit hepfuness For instance there
City express the New Jersey Central stuck in
snowdrift at Shrewsbury o'clock Sunday night until IL
O'Clock Tuesday morning with members of the out in the
tempest shoveg into the boiler that steam could be kept
the passengers saved from freezing while few candles
visible in the because the electric lighting dy
amo had broken down Louis Stoddad of the
polo fighting his way through the slush mile to
mkman mile grocery the darkness and
bowling blizzard bring back milk and canned goods so that his
fellow passengers would faint with hunger That man
is athlete to purpose
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
THE GOVERNORS PROGRAM.

THE JERSEY JOURNAL takes for granted that the Demo-
Legislature will fall down the Governors economy and
efficiency program Stacks of bills have been introduced calling
FOR appropriations says the Journal and there dis
position regard economy efficiency bills jokes There
outlook for the passage of of these saving bills
in their original form"
This criticism somewhat premature The Legislature has
lust into working action and there about five weeks for
the Governors program go through AS there be check
upon introduction of bills the point has significance of the
Legislatures purpose But what the Journal fails TO note the
driving of Governor serving the first year OF his term in
Office prediction made by The Star that the economic
the session will be increased State income from
of large decreased of administration
and improved efficiency due the Governors program
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES
"Can Republicans and Pregressives
Unite?"
Peter Grosscup, in the North American

"Cnn Republicans and Pregressives
Unite?"
Peter Grosscup, in the North American
Review.
We have gotten far enough now
into the Wilson administration to see
that Mr.. Wilson is not merely the tit
ular leader of his party cas- Mr. Taft
was accustomed to call HIMSELF, but
the actual leader; that his leadership,
though employing patronage and es-
pecially the Withholding Of patronage
as, one Of it's auxiliaries, does not rest
chiefly on the power OF patronage, but
is an intellectual leadership; and that
through this leadership there has been
imposed on the old Democratic party
a political philosophy from which 1t
cannot now step aside, and upon
which it must stand or fall In the
elections to come. That there is be-
ginning TO develop throughout the
country a distinctive fear that from
an economic standpoint the philoso-
ply may not be sound philosophy
fear from what is already happening
to our industrial activity, and what is
likely to happen-is equally clear.
The intuition of the country is al
ready stirred with the fear that 1t
may not be adapted to America or to
the new industrial era in which we
live. And out of intuition, If the fruit
borne Is what is feared, will quickly
come an opposition to the Wilson
idea, potential enough to succeed II
wisely utilized. Can common ground
be found on which to mobilize that
potential opposition into @ united and
effective fighting opposition?
But reaction is on the road. AL
ready some of the States that adopt
ed the initiative. referendum and re-
call are devlsing means Of limiting
the exercise of that power to the real
occasions upon which 1t should be ex-
ercised by the people directly. and to
that end are providing that the
requisite petitions be signed by the
petitioners In person, in the clerks
office of the respective communities,
after the petitioner has shown his
qualifications as an elector. Expert
ence has been at work here. And, II
an Industrial reaction comes expert
ence will teach another lesson, the
lesson that the foundations of pros
perity are an Industrial policy found
ed on stability and common sense
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
why wilson IL Liked.

John \. sleicher, In Leslie's.
The people like a President who
does things They like d spectacular
administration. That is why they
liked Roosevelt. That is why they
tired of Taft so quickly. Roosevelt
was @ "smasher" and buster" He
made the wheels go round and the
sparks fly. The people enjoyed him.
Taft, with his Judicial temperament,
was inclined to let things move along
quietly and to accomplish results IN
the fashioned way without thun-
der, lightning or pyrotechnics. His
work was effective but noiseless, but
the crowd didn't think anything was
being done. President Wilson appre-
ciates that the crowd likes the spec
tacular and he enjoys smashing pre-
cedents. He likes to walk into Con
gress and read his own messages.
He enjoys giving the legislative
branch of the government a little
rope for free pasture and then pull
ing It up within restrictions that he
himself imposes. All this pleases the
people. They are entirely satisfied
with anything he may do unless he
does 1t to them.
But every administration is finally
Judged from the long distance view.
Fireworks may please the crowd but
the far-reaching results of presiden-
tial policies will have to stand the
test of the bookkeeper's pen and PEN
Gil in the workshop and in the &c
counting room.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
THE MONEY LOSSES BY THE STORES.

THE TREMENDOUS and awful sweep of the second great
blizzard in this country revealed in the telegraph dis
patches approached the dimensions of national
calamity also terrifying think of the probabilities If
the continued day longer And that was pos.
she
The total money be estimated accurately but
in all the region affected the loss transportation companies
business municipalities public utilities companies,
hotels and restaurants individuals into hundreds of
millions fortunately there is disastrous FIRE loss to
add tens of millions the total Nor has there been loss
Of life In view of this exemption may well look with some
couanmy upon tremendous money LOSSES for these be
de good finally or be charged up profit and loss And
NAV have feeling ankunes that the experience not in
fnitely
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
U. s. Has 1,sOO,ooo Automobile


From the American Maehinist.
The United Kingdom, with about
100000 motor vehicles. including $780,
600 motorcycles, is we'll ahead of the
total of the other three leading Eu-
ropean nations, France, which might
almost be described as the cradle OF
the automobile industry, only taking
third place in the world with about
81 900 self moving road vehicles; Ger
many has 1900, writes the editor OF
the American Machinist. London
alone possesses more than Germany,
and in fact as many as the whole OF
France. Italy has about 200OO motor
vehicles.
In the United States there are about
1.2O0, 900 motor cars of all kinds, or
more than twice ae many as In the
nearest European country.
Great Britain can afford to buy
cars literally from abroad. She OK
ports, too, and as the profits made
during the past year have been In
considerable measure devoted to the
reduction or even elimination OF
good in the balance sheet ii may
safely be said that the British Indus
try Is reasonably sound. 1t has lived
down the wildcat financing and lack
of technical experience of the period
that Immediately followed the run
from whitehall, London, to Brighton
some seventeen years ago. Then 35
propelled machines took part, %
of them arriving at their destination
So miles away, though only 10 OF
them were In time for their occu-
pants TO take part In the dinner COM
memorating the repeal of the act
limiting the speed to walking pace.
The automobile is, of course, large
ly u vehicle for pleasure. and of the
motor vehicles in the United King
dom only $4,000 and in Germany only
1000 are estimated as belonging to
the heavy vehicle; that is. the COM
mercial section