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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
ELECTRICITY AIDS PLANTS

At Morane Farm. in the fertile
valley of the Miami River, about four
miles south of Dayton O., expert
ments have been conducted during the
last year to discover the effect of
electricity and artificial illumination
on the growth of vegetation. Plots
were marked off for exposure to diff
ferent kinds of electritication, the idea
being to carry out later on a large
scale thouse methods which offered
the greatest promise. In one plot a
network of wire was stretched about
fifteen inches above the ground.
One of the plots in the farm was
illuminated by large tungsten lamp
with a ruby bulb. while still another
was illuminated by a mercury vapor
lamp. A fourth plot received no arti-
fetal stimulation, while still other
plots had the electricity applied in
various ways. The plots tested were
planted with radish and lettuce seed.
Electric stimulation was begun thir-
teen days after the seeds We're planted
and three weeks later ten plants each
of radish and lettuce were selected
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRfsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author Of Pushing to the Front" Etc
WHAT DREAMERS HAVE DONE
Copyright. 1e1

1.-The dreamers live forever, while
the toilers die in day. What would
have become of this country, what
wretched conditions should we now he
living under had it not been for the
dream of our forefathers.
1t was Washingtons dream OF lib
erty and independence that enabled
him to endure the hardships of that
cruel winter at Valley Forge. 1t was
the same kind of a dream that sup
ported Lincoln through those fright
full years of the Civil War and that
enabled the Puritans to see a great,
a glorious country, where those with
out imagination saw only savage and
unbroken forests.
The dreaming capacity is not
mere phantasy of the brain. 1t is
the prophesying ability. 1t is a fac
ulty of seeing possibilities, fore
cast of what is possible to us.
The actualities of today were the
dreams which men laughed at even
20 years ago. We are living in re-
Ealities today which were once dreams
which people ridiculed. The dreamers
were often abused and prosecuted and
sometimes thought to be insane. The
locomotive, the railroad, the steam
ship, the telegraph, the ocean cables,
wireless biography, the automobile,
the flying machine-all these were
considered dreams of the insane by
multitudes of people.
Marconi, the Wright brothers, Pro
fessor Bell, Edison, Morse, and all
the men who have given us our great
modern inventions which have eman-
cipated us from much of the drudg-
cry and hard conditions under which
our forefathers lived, would have
been imprisoned or hung as witches
had they proposed these things three
quarters of a century ago.
Take the achievements of dreamers
out of the world, and who would care
to live in it? The men who see only
facts, who see only the things that
actually exist at any time have not
been the worlds greatest benefactors.
The men who have seen and antici-
pated the civilization of the future,
the men Who have seen and antici-
pated human wants long time ahead
these have been the worlds bene-
factors. 1t is those men who see
teeming cities, thriving factories upon
the desert, when others see only sage
brush and alkali plains that are the
true civilization builders.
The greatest benefactors of the
world have been the seers into the fu-
ture they have been the dreamers
of things to come.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14

What Makes Man An Engineer
From the American Machinist.
| recently asked some one hundred
young men who had just entered col
lege to answer certain questions
which | put in such a way as I
thought would bring out their rea-
sons for choosing engineering as a
life work.
The young men who answered the
questions were just starting their
course in engineering and were, so
far as one may judge by first i'm
pressions about an average lot.
Their ages ran from sixteen for the
youngest to twenty-five for the old
est. and fifty-eight of them were
either eighteen, nineteen or twenty
years old; they came OF American
parentsge mostly, although there
were a large number Of German,
Irish and scandinavian parentage,
and a few were of Dutch, Swiss,
Welsh, Hebrew and Hindoo eXtrac-
ton.
In reply to the question: why
have you decided to become an en-
gineer?" SO per cent. answered be-
cause of inclination; q per cent
stated frankly that they were in
fluenced by friends; is per cent
stated that previous experience in
engineering work had influenced
them; and Is per cent. gave as their
reason a liking for mathematics
physics and chemistry, which they
studied in the high school, About
per cent. of the class could not be
classified.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
sunken Art Treasures.

Paris Correspondent of London Tele
graph.
A correspondent writing to La
Liberte gives particulars of an arch
geological find of the greatest inter
est. At Nadia, on the Tunisian
coast, five or six years ago, some
Greek sponge fishers noticed a
strange mass of wreckage lying at a
depth of 1870 feet to the north of
Madhia lighthouse. Amid a tumble
of timbers lay splendid marble col
umns, bronze statuettes, a superb
life-size boys figure, and a Hermes
of Dioynsos which they succeeded in
bringing to the surface.
NJ. Merlin, the head of the Tunisian
antiquities department, applied for
and finally obtained various subven-
tons, and the admiral commanding
the Tunisian squadron sent a power
full tug and two torpedo boats to give
assistance. 1t has now been ascer-
tanned that the sunken ship was a
vessel of about 400 tons, 100 feet long
and % feet broad. She was laden
with an extraordinarily heretogene-
GUS cargo. Not only blocks of marble
but bases and capitals for columns
| effigies, statues, furniture, tiles
| leaden piping, lamps. amphorae. etc
Among the fragments were found fig
ures of a demgod and a maiden and
faun, which correspond almost eX-
actly with those upon what is known
as the Borghese vase dug up in Rome
| and now in the Louvre. The Hermes
1 bears the signature "Boethos," the
sculptor of the celebrated Child with
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
FORMER JUDGE KRUEGER's ADMONITION

WHEN of former Judge Gofried Kruegers standing
community speak subject of public concern his
uterances very things command attention
freely conceded that Mr. Kruger eminenty quail
great problems and his views invariably reflect fine
Judgment keen perception practical experience ohoug and
best all hard
1t characteristic Kruger express his ideas plain
y and logic of which carries conviction
with it.
Mr. Kruger occupies singuarly unique position
Newarkers While may be held that he is dstnctvey
sentative element of the city, he the add
tona exceedingly quality of being looked the
representative of of the population of the
community whole irrespective of creed political aa
tons is in affairs with large interests phlan
hrop proud hopeful of its future devoid of selfish
ness every loyal patriotic citizen He has figured
so onspcuousy Newarks past and contributed largely by
enterprise application of energy its business and
life general progress that declaration from him
sariy furnishes food for thought and reflection
Mr. Kruger opposed radical change Newarks
emf against commission rule and
all things depecates hasy and mpulsve action in matters of
vital Importance the people of this municipality To those
gathering the Board of Trade Wednesday night
urged the adoption by commission he waved the hand
admono Go SLOW the meaning conveyed in voice and
gesture. Stop! Look and lstenP
There occurred this calm-mndd American citizen Ger
lineage the axiom that famous generals and statesmen of long
ago impressed their followers DO the bridge until
you it, and that other wise saying Don't burn the bridges
behind you
AS invariably with him. Mr. Kruger
his He of the chaotic condition affairs
in Jersey City resulting from confused Interpretation of the Walsh
commission how Trenton turbulent from time
time under commission rule period of three years having
Elapsed before of operations forthcoming how Cape
May Camden Elizabeth Railway Hoboken New Brunswick and
Bayonne the latter occasions had rejected commission rule
ae polls and of the arguments advanced by the people for defeat
BY research and inquiry Mr. Kruger had reached
the conclusion that commission garb small article of
pare for city of Newark breadth and grth indicated in
his remarks
II annoying IT amusing to him to hear
tell of being driven from pillar post City
seeking information. amusing because bore the ntel
gence citizens when strangers Newark who visit City
Hall of knowledge and know what they after be
accurately directed by the elevator attendants the place
where the information is obanabe
The expressions of Mr.. Kruger the talk
everyday about but the careful
the people large have abiding faith and confidence
judgment me and large propositions has
guide solutions
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14

Sometimes when laying a new car
pet, the man leaves behind him an
untidy lot of odds and ends. l do
not mean mitres, or pieces large
enough to turn into rugs, but just
little bits that you feel are of no ac-
count, and you either consign them
to the waste paper basket or sell
them to the rag man for practically
nothing, just to get rid of them, not
thinking that there are many uses
you might find for them.
In the first place, they make a
splendid foundation for an. IRON
holder, covered with ticking or some
strong material, and, bound With
black tape, they will not fray out,
and will last quite a long time.
An odd bit, cut into strips and
tackled on the bottom of drafty door,
makes a much better weather strip
than the regular leather weather
stripping, as it viii not tear OF wear
out the carpet. or rub the polished
surface of bare floor.
A square bit, neatly bound with
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
WITH THE. NATIONS TOILERS

Savannah, Ga, is in the midst of a
trade union revival.
There are $4,000 mine workers in
the bituminous region of Pennsyl-
Vania.
In parts of Switzerland shepherd
girls wear mems clothes.
Industrial accidents to the number
of $3.50 occurred in the State of Wash
ington in 1913.
Canadian trade unionists demand
an eight-hour day on all public work.
Application for Incorporation has
been made by Dayton, o., labor unions
for a labor temple.
Over 100, 900 employees have been
dropped by the railroads recently.
There were 1141 workers in coal
mines killed in Pennsylvania in 1913.
The apprenticeship system prevails
in the jewelry, gold and silver smith
ing crafts in Germany.
The mills of Belfast, Ireland, en-
ploy nearly 10000 women workers.
Atlanta, Ga, Retail Grocers and
Butchers Association, through its
president, is reported as favoring a
mass meeting If necessary to impress
upon citizens the injustice of com
pelling clerks to work fourteen and
| fifteen hours a day.
"Colored people," defined as persons
other than white, including Malays
but excluding natives and Asiatics
are to be admitted to the South
African labor party, provided they
agree to the party's policy of adj
vancing white standards"
The International Brotherhood oil
Electrical Workers has adopted a
\ new constitution by a referendum
vote ratifying the action taken at the
international convention, in Boston
last year. The new constitution ad
mits women to membership under
full rights, and establishes two
! branches, one for women, to include
telephone operators and shop hands
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14

Civilization itself is largely the
work of dreamers. Because dreamers
dreamed we are enjoying a multitude
of comforts fuxuries and fac1lities
and useful things which but for them
we should have been deprived of. Be-
cause dreamers dreamed we have cole
leges. universities, marvellous educa-
tional facilities, vast libraries, mas
terpieces, which nations envy; in
fact, our lives are crowded with
things that dreamers have given US.
But for somebody's dream the very
land in which we live would still be
an undiscovered wilderness. The
dreamers have tunneled our noun
tains. have spanned our great rivers.
opened our mines of wealth; they
have made 1t possible for us to
travel across continents and across
oceans in portable palaces.
The automobile dream which people
laughed at twenty-five years ago is
now helping us to solve the problem
of crowded streets and many other
industrial problems. 1t is taking the
place of horses, making our streets
cleaner and our cities more healthful.
The automobile is one of the greatest
blessings that has come to women in
a long time, for it is taking them out
of the nfonotony of their homes, CIV
ing them variety of experience, WIDEN
ing and deepening their lives. 1t is
notwithstanding city life by Sempting
people into the country. 1t is adding
wonderfully to the health of the con-
fined business and professional man.
In fact, the automobile dream is be-
coming one of the greatest health
promoters, one of the greatest joys
and blessings that ever came to hu-
mainly.
There is a divinity in Legitimate
dreaming. Our desires, our longings,}
are the prophesies of what life my be
ought to be- The great thing is TO
fashion the life after the pattern
shown us in the moment of our high
est vision, to make our highest mo-
ment permanent.
The golden age onward, not behind.
The pathway through the past has lea
us up;
The pathway through the future win
lead on and higher.
Do not stop dreaming. Encourage
your visions and believe in them;
cherish your dreams and make them
real. This thing in us that aspires,
| that bids us look up, that beckons us
higher. is God-given. Aspiration Is
the hand that points us to the road
that runs heavenward. As your vision
| is so will your life be.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Political Puzzle Which Is Still UnsOyed

would be nominated on the first bal
lot-certainly on the second.
Thompson told me that Cleveland.
who was then mayor Of Buffalo, was
persuaded to go to Syracuse, where
the convention was held a day be-
fore the convention met He was
there only a few hours, and then
went back to Buffalo, because he was
satisfied that he could not get the
nomination.
Now comes the queer part of the
whole business, to my thinking. Dan
Manning, who afterward became
Cleveland's secretary of the treasury,
and who was the head of the Demo-
cratic organization, was thought by
Hutchins's friends to be friendly to
his nomination.
"A year or two later Dan Lamont
told me that Manning had privately
decided that Cleveland was the most
available man to nominate.
Whatever other man he had in
| his mind, he went to Hutchins's
friends and said to them that they
| had better scatter their vote upon
| the first ballot because if they made
| their support Of Hutchins strong the
| friends of various other candidates,
Roswell P. Flower, Perry Belmont
| General Sloeum and Grover Cleve-
land, might concentrate upon some
one of these and so beat their candi-
! date.
| "Mannings suggestion was thought
to be a good one In accordance with
it, John Kelly, who was then the
! leader of Tammany Hall, voted or
the first ballot for Cleveland. Sc
many of Hutchinss real friends scat
tered their vote that. he made a pool
showing, and as Kelly had voted fol
/ Cleveland the assumption was strong
that Tammany Hall would warmly
support him. The result was thai
Cleveland unexpectedly got very
large vote and was nominated, mucf
to his own surprise.
IT have often thought about this
and for the life of me I cannot thinl
out whether Dan Manning was play
ing shrewd politics in an. attempt t.
: nominate Cleveland, or whether des
tiny brought about the result which
two years and half later carried
: Cleveland into the White House."
copyright, 1914, by E. ]. Edwards
II All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14

Il am convinced that the true his
tory of the manner in which Grover
Cleveland was nominated for Gov
ernor at New York in 1882 can never
be told" said the late Mayor Will
liam r. Grace to me shortly after
Mr.. Cleveland's third nomination for
the Presidency in 1890.
II could tell much of the history of
the politics which triumphed when
Cleveland was nominated for the
third time, for I was in the thick of
that political battle Mayor Grace
continued, but in 1882 / was Mayor
of New York and was so occupied
with my duties that 1 did not have
any opportunity to learn what the
politics was which preceded the
Gubernatorial nomination / have
asked everybody who did have a
hand in that game and / find that
by piecing the various stories to-
gether there still remains missing
link.
II am now satisfied that nobody
knows exactly how or why Cleveland
was nominated and that it was by
the oueerest sort of destiny that the
nomination did come to him with his
subsequent election. whereby he was
pre-eminently indicated as the
Democratic candidate for President II
1884
"Do YOU remember Waldo Hutch.
ms? He was a member of Congress
from Westchester County, which adj
Joins New York County on the north
| He was a big, burly man and some
| times when / looked at him or talked
to him I could not help being re-
minded of William M. Tweed, FOL
Hutchins's figure and the shape o.
| his head were very much like thos'
which distinguished Tweed. The ex
preston of his face, however, wa
| entirely different, for he was a MAI
of excellent character. He had host
Of friends. He was about the onl.
man upon whom the two factions o
New York city would unite for tn
Gubernatorial nomination.
Hubert o. Thompson, who at tina
time was the leader of the count.
Democracy, the great rival of Tam
many, told me that day or two be
fore the convention met yer,
thorough canvass showed that Hutch
ms would have a majority over al
the other candidates in the field an
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
FEBRUARY IA
Anna Shaw, Princess Patricia
Coylght
BY MARY MARSHALL.
FEBRUARY IA

st. Valentines Day claims a varied
group of famous women-Anna Shaw,
American suffragist; Princess Pa
tricia. the English princess, who is
said to have refused to be Queen of
Spain, and Madeleine Sophie Arnould.
Mile. Arnould, the great eighteenth
century French singer, was born in
1744 of a modest respectable family,
who mad no ambition to have their
daughter go on the stage. AS a young
girl she had a voice full of promise
and face and figure SO charming as
to make her career as an opera singer
a double success. But her mother
kept her from such ambitions and
allowed her only to sing in church.
One day she was singing in the
Church of the Val de Grace in Paris
when the Princess Modena was pres
ent from the kings court. She ad-
mired her, and with true discrimina-
ton recognized an unusually fine
voice. She spoke so enthusiastically
of Mile. Arnould when she returned
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
is IT TO BE A LICENSE TO KILL?

AS YET the Legislature has taken up the question
railroad grade crossings and quiet influences work
the Edge bill in the Senate killed This bill merely provides
until the railroads prepared abolish their grade crossings
they adopt satisfactory methods of protecting
crossings that unguarded AS the Public Utility
mission has failed in its duty this is necessary
the Legislature mandate.
There is only argument against Edge bill namely
the the railroads The pohibtoy there
engineering problems solve The Legislature therefore,
whether the railroads shall be spared expense which
they abundantly able and human life
slaughter hundreds of deathtrap whether the lives
people shall be held of higher value than railroad Defeat
Edge bill would virtually legislative to kill
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
A World n,ade White

Loud ragged the gale and shrieked in mocking mirh,
Then sobbng fell when night to morn gave birth,
silent football trod the wndswept earth
And spread mantle white.
Wrapt in still Sleep none needed while that tread,
Now moving slowly swiftly sped,
Weaving cloak Of finest snowy thread
Alike for rich and poor.
Where costly buildings cluster thick and fair,
Spires, domes and towers cleave the winter air
Shrouded their forms, their architecture rare
Beneath a haze of white.
In crowded court no longer sordid grim,
AS though by magic spell or fairys within,
All evil stains hid meath garment TRIM
Clear, spotless indebted.
Over the fields, in long, unbroken, track,
Up the hilsides which their verdure lack,
Save where birds dark wings look strangely black,
White to the very skies.
Kings of the Forest stately proud of mein !,
In this fair presence, bowling low
So shall the heart that's pure, the conscience clean
In lifes rough world hold sway
MARIE c. LUFKlN.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
HIGH RATES AND PHENOMENAL DIVIDENDS

IN hearing by State Public Utility Commission yesterday
petition for reduction of by the Acquackanonk Water
the of the disclosed tes
dividend paid 1870 per and in 1912
SO per The companys proved have
memory He could recall of dividend
in 1918
he of for pay such dividends
public wrong The they paid sufficient evidence
extorona reduction of rs the
would allow dividend of than
paying that is gtedged What need the
State commission know order the reduction?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14

and weighed The plot. subjected to
the high frequency current, showed
greater increase in yield than any
of the others. Ruby light ranged sec
ond for radish. while violet light was
second for lettuce.
1t was found that the edible por-
ton of lettuce grown was rs per cent.
greater in the case of electric stimu-
lation than that grown under natural
conditions. The identification by
means of high-frequency currents on
| a larger scale showed that almost all
i the vegetables. grown under the wire
We're better than those grown under
natural conditions. The plants stimu-
lated included radishes. lettuce, beets,
cabbage, cueumbers. turnips, musk
melons. watermelons and parsnips,
and the gardener picked the vegeta-
| bles at least two weeks earlier under
the wires than those in the unelectri-
| fled portions. Sufficient energy was
radiated from the lines to give the
birds attempting to alight on the
wires a shock that felled them to the
ground partially stunned.-Electrical
World
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
USING BITS OF CARPET

learpet binding and a piece of the
binding sewed across the top for a
handle, makes splendid shoe pol
isher. or again, tackled on an old
scrubbing brush, a good floor pol
Usher.
In some instances little bits can be
used on the furniture instead OF roll
ers. For polished floor they really
serve the purpose better, but the car
pet must be very thick and the tack
well embedded in it. otherwise they
will scratch the floor.
Another use for stray piece, II
it should happen to be large enough,
is to place It under the cuspidor
bound with the carpet binding, 1t
will look ever so much better than
those unsightly rubber mats, and
again, there might be piece large
enough for baby's coach, or the boys
express wagon.
These and other purposes for stray
pieces that may seem to be Useless
may suggest themselves to you before
selling them for old rags or throw-
! ing them away eze5