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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
BIRTHDAY or NOTED WOMEN
BY MARY MARSHALL
OCTOBER IS
Elizabeth Simpson InohbaId
Copyrighted 1914.
CopyrIghted 1eil.

October is a month of many stage
and opera stars. Among singers who
were born in October there are Ne
vada, Jenny Lind and Carlotta Patti
the famous Adelina's sister. Among
actresses are such names as Mod
jeska, Peg Wellington, Mrs. Gilbert,
Cissie LOTUS and the great French
Amelia Brohan. But among them
all there was probably none who won
success with such. decided handicaps
as did Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald,
the birthday patroness for October Is.
Mrs. Inchbald was born in Eng
land October 10. 1853, and when she
was fifteen years old she left a happy
secluded home ito seek her fortune
She went straight to London, the
natural source of all fortune for an
English girl, and pressed her ambi-
ton to become an actress. This was
a remarkable choice of a profession,
for she had a very decided impedi-
ment in speech, and she was, one
would suppose at first sight, totally
lacking in grace or beauty. She was
very tall and angular, stiff and
graceless to degree. Her hair was
sandy auburn her eyelashes We're
colorless. She was fiat-chested and
freckled, and she was dressed as SIM
ply as a milkmaid.
AS might be supposed, this aspirant
for dramatic honors was not at first
successful. Her impeachment in speech
made acting practically impossible.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
UPLiFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN,
Author Of pushing to the Front" Etc.
Copyright 1914.
HEALTH AND NORMAL LIVING

/, things seen all the time are apt to
fall on us,
No matter how attractive the Vatiy
can or how Sumptuously fitted up
the pontiff's private qaurters may. be,
no matter how delicate the viands
upon his table, no matter il every
thing is done which servants and
friends can do for him, he is practi
cally prisoner, with the freedom of
the garden and the park. There is
little doubt that this limited envi-
ronment of the Pope tends to pro-
duce a monotony that is fatal to sSssc.=
NAL living.
A man is a very broad. omnivorous
animal, and his harmonious develop
ment demands a great variety of
food. both mental and physical. No
matter what element we omit in his
bill of fare, there is corresponding
loss, omission, or weakness in his
life You cannot get full, complete
man on half a bill of fare. You can
mot nourish his body and starve his
soul, and expect him to be 'symmetri-
cal, well-balanced, poised; nor can
you starve his body and nourish his
soul, and expect him to be a giant on
the physical as we'll as on the spir-
|itual plane.
1t is astonishing how much you can
learn from people In social inter-
course But it Is fact that you can
only get a great deal out of them by
giving them a great deal of yourself.
The more you radiate yourself, the
more magnanimous you are, the more
generous of yourself, the more you
fling yourself out to them without re-
serve, the more you will get back
The man who mixes with his fel-
lows is ever on voyage of discovery.
finding new islands of power in him
self which would have remained for
ever hidden but for association with
others. Everybody he meets has some
secret for him, If he can only extract
it, something which he never knew
before. something which will help
him on his way. something which will
enrich his life. No man finds himself
alone. Others are his discoveries.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
A Mutual Mistake

Voltaire was rarely willing to admit
that he had made mistake. How
ever, there is recorded one instance
when the famous French philosopher
and writer was not only willing, but
eager, to acknowledge his error.
A visitor one day mentioned that
he had recently spent some time with
Albrecht Won Halter, the distin-
guished Swiss Psychologist.
''Ah," said Voltaire. The is great
man, a great poet, a great natural
list, great philosopher; man of
wonderful accomplishments.
What you say, monsieur" the WIS.,
itor said. thoughtlessly, lis all the
more creditable to you, inasmuch as
Won Haller does not do you the same
Justice"
"Alas." replied voltaire. with a
grim smile; very likely we are both
mistaken"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
NEW USE FOR THE BUMPER APPLE CROP.

If that most wholesome of fruits the apple, and
it's products of cider vinegar and appejack are not
cheap for the American this fall and winter
there will be something decidedly wrong about the
working of the law of supply and demand The est-
mated crop of 210,000,0 900 bushels throughout the
country is far beyond all records, and 1t threatens
an embarrassment of riches, with the usual export
trade largely cut Off One suggestion for getting
rid of the surplus from the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, which has devised table
syrup made from apple juice Seven gallons of ordi-
nary cider will make gallon of the syrup. The
department will make the discovery the common
property of any cider press who may wish to
manufacture and sell the syrup and it might prove
valuable relief from the extortions of the sugar
barons
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
Taxing Public Servants.
From the Washington Post.


From the Washington Post
Class legislation of a most unjust
and deplorable nature is suggested by
the passage in the Senate of resolu-
ton calling upon the secretary of the
treasury for information as to the
amount of revenue that might be
raised by withholding for a year" a
percentage of the salaries of all gov
eminent officials.
Why should the employees of the
government be forced to bear the bur-
den of the treasury deficit? If taxes
must be imposed, there should be no
distinctions. The salaries of govern
ment employees have been stationary
for many years while the cost of
living has been rising and salaries in
all other walks of life have been in
creasing.
The government clerks, on whom
the burden would bear most severely.
have not been responsible for the drop
in customs revenue They did not
write the tariff bill that caused drop
of more than 10000, 900 of revenue
before the European war began. Nor
did they conceive the ship purchase
bill which will cost the government
$50 000, 900 or $40, 1000. 000 or any of
the other extravagant measures for
which the new revenues are needed.
Taxins the government employees.
however. is a poor way of meeting the
situation. 1t is class legislation of
the most offensive kind. 1t would
place the entire burden upon class
of persons least able to bear the
strain. In many of the States,
whether rightly or wrongly, the Fed
eral employees are being asked for
contributions to political campaigns.
usually amounting to 2 or per cent.
OF their salaries. and, If an additional
| ? or 3 per cent. were withheld, II
| in wages.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
Can Grow All Our Sugar

"a total of 100000 acres planted to
,beets would free us from dependence
upon foreign-grown sugar." says bull
letin No. ESQ of the United States de-
partment of agriculture in calling at
tention to the ease with which the
United States could make itself indie
pendent of the rest of the world for
its sugar supply. The bulletin prints
a list of nineteen States which have
been demonstrated to be we'll adapted
to the growing of sugar beets. These
States are California, Colorado,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North
Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota Utah,
Wisconsin, wyoming. These States
contain more than 100000 farms and
over 27s,O0O,O00 acres of improved
lands. The bulletin continues:
"If one farmer in four in these
States were to plant three-acre
patch and give it the care that could
readily be bestowed upon so small a
to buy foreign sugar. Two-thirds of
one per cent. of the improved land
in this area is all that would be re-
quired to accomplish this result. More
than that acreage lies idle, absolutely
unused, every year. Any one of the
States of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Minnesota, Nebraska or Ohio
could produce all this sugar. and
then have the beets occur only once
in a ten-year rotation; several of the
others could do it alone on Ave-
year rotation.
From this table 1t can be seen
that devoting the proposed 2.O00,0 600
acres to sugar-beet production would
have an utterly insignificant effect in
reducing the acreage of other crops.
II they were grown in properly con-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Some Sidelights on Daniel Webster

trout fishing. That was Webster's
recreation in the summer, and Marsh
field was only a short distance from
Plymouth. Probably 1t was upon one
of the occasions when Emerson and
Mr.. Davis met that the conversat ton
turned upon Webster. whom Mr..
Davis knew SO we'll and whom Emer-
son had, as he said, entertained at his
home in Concord, Mass, at time
wnen webster was engaged as coun-
sci to one of the parties of an i'm
,portant lawsuit.
Mr.. Davis long afterwards said !:
Emerson told me that when he saw
Webster in the courtroom, surrounded
as he was by distinguished lawyers,
he appeared to be like the president
of great college in the presence of
his faculty. Emerson also told me
that he discovered that Webster pos
sessed the rare gift which enabled
him to remember faces and associate
the names of the persons thus re-
membered with their faces and to re-
call the incident when subsequently
he met those persons.
''Of course, that is one of the choic-
est of compliments which a great
man can pay to any one with whom
he chats. l said to Mr.. Emerson that
I had found Webster very companion
able, of simple dignity. and vet al
ways conveying the impression that
he was a man distinguished above
his fellows, although he was not con-
scious of it.
Emerson, in reply. told me that
while Webster was in Concord he at
tended quite number of social
events and that 1t was amazing to
see how we'll and simply he bore him
self upon occasions of that kind. al
though some of them must have ap-
peared very tame to him. | knew
exactly what Emerson meant, for !
had discovered the same quality in
| Webster during my delightful asso-
citation with him.
Copyright, 1914, by E. j. Edwards
! All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

In the present day of the cinema she
might not have found this Stun
bling block However. she did the
next best thing to becoming an &C
tress-she married an actor. Once
married Mrs. Inchbald began working
with a determination seldom matched
by any actress. and eventually she
appeared as Cordelia, playing to her
husbands King Lear. This was the
high water mark of her ambition,
and that she won considerable sue
cess was a great credit to her. At
twenty-nine Mrs. Inchbald began to
write plays, turning out twenty
comedies and farces of considerable
success. She wrote novel, THE
Simple Story" which was declared to
be the best novel since the death of
Smollett.
In the meantime something strange
had happened. The graceless,
freckled, awkward Mrs. Inchbald had
become beauty! She was actually
considered to be one of the most love-
ly women of her day, lovely. so said
her admirers, beyond all words to
describe
Mrs. Shelley once said that when
she entered a drawing room where
Mrs. Inchbald was seated she could
gain no attention. II can never even
see her." said Mrs. Shelley, for all
the men are gathered so thick around
her and are so wrapped up in her
beauty that they have no eyes for
the other women"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

Long War and American Trade.
From the Baltimore News.
Belgium is rapidly being swept by
the Germans from end to end. The
scene of fighting on the French left
has shifted more and more to the
westward. Whereas, a few days ago
the line ran through Douai to Tour
nay, now it has been swept we'll back
OF Lille itself; Hazebrouck is barely
thirty miles from Calais and the
English channel. In the Baltic
Russian cruiser has been sunk; in
Galicia, Przemysl has been relieved;
on the East Prussian frontier the
Russians were unable to advance;
and in Poland the Germans appear
in astounding force all along the
Vistula from the Austrian frontier to
within thirty miles of Warsaw.
We may expect the tide of victory
II ebb and flow. but this record is
significant because it is nearly six
weeks since the military experts were
ousting the Germans from France,
and almost as long since they were
bringing the Russians well on toward
Berlin. II was conceded that France
must be whipped instanter to be
whipped at all; that once the Russian
pressure began the task of meeting
both enemies would be altogether too
much for the kaisers troops.
The world win not yet be disposed
to forego its opinion as TO the prob
able outcome No nation can keep
on doing what Germany is doing
now. But clearly she can keep up
the game far longer than most of us
Imagined. Lord Kitchener, when he
spoke of a three years war. seems
to have had a much better apprecia-
ton of Germany's resisting powers
than did those who figured on peace
BY Christmas.
1t would be idle to hope that the
United States may escape the serious
burden which the war will impose on
every nation. As an offset to II we
have, however hoped for an increase
in our foreign trade, and perhaps the
actual domination by us of markets
once German. That would hardly be
the result of war of short duration
nor would it likely be the result of a
war of problematical duration. The
effort to develop worldwide markets
for our products, to be successful
must be serious and we'll planned
must be backed by the willingness OF
capital to invest abroad and extend
our plants at home, must be preceded
BY study of the financial and credit
conditions everywhere and perhaps
by the establishment of banking
agencies everywhere. This takes
time: nor is it likely that our mer-
chants and manufacturers would con-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

The late William T. Davis, of Plym-
outh, Mass, combined the business
Of q. banker with the avocation of a
writer, as did Samuel Rogers, who
gained his fortu-a as banker, but
his reputation and farle as q poet
and litterateur.
Mr.. Davis was president for years
of a bank in Plymouth, but he was
known, especially in New England, as
the first authority of his kind on the
history of Plymouth Rock and the
Plymouth colony. He was an init
mate friend of the public men of his
day, and also of those who consti-
tuted what used to be called the
Boston school, of authors.
Mr.. Davis was man of great per-
sonal charm, ford complexion, some
what above the average stature, and
we'll proportional in figure, and he
wore a heavy and flowing mustache.
His manners revealed him as having,
by Unborn disposition and by lifelong
association with those who were OF
gentle refinement, himself attained a
high degree of cultivation. 1t was a
delight for those who were privileged
to know him to spend an afternoon
or an evening with him, for he pos
sessed an unusual gift of anecdotal
description of men and of events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson married Miss
Lydia jackson, of Plymouth. She
was Emerson's second wife, his first
having fallen a victim to consump
ton within year after her marriage
Emerson was thus brought occasion
ally into close personal touch with
those who were active in the intel
IIectuaI life of Plymouth. Mrs. Emer-
sons brother, DR.. Charles Jackson,
gained international reputation as a
lgeologist, and it was he who made
the geological survey of the State of
Maine. With DR.. Jackson, Mr. Davis
was in cordial personal relation.
In his early life Mr.. Davis had many
opportunities to meet Daniel Webster.
He occasionally went with Webster
Inn and down the brooks of Marshfield
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

When the late Pope Plus X. was ele-
waited to his high Office and from the
outer loggia of st. Peters Cardinal
new pontiff, a Venetian priest In the
crowd outside exclaimed:
Poor Cardinal Sarto must have
committed some grevlous sin, else
God would not have condemned him
TO be Pope and to suffer lifelong i'm
prisonment in the Vatican"
Over the entrance gate to the In
ferno Dante wrote: He who enters
here leaves hope behind" Over the
door leading to the Pope's quarters in
the Vatican it might be written: HE
who enters here leaves perfect health
behind
The Pope who enters here shuts out
of his life the best part of the poem
written in the Creators own hand in
the rocks, in the hills, in the noun
tains. in the valleys and in the
streams. in the lakes. in the oceans.
He turns his back on the great
world outside. shuts out of his life
everything that is worldly.
The human mind requires a great
variety of food. 1t requires new
scenes, new and constantly
changed environment.
A life shut out from the great
throbbing, pulsing world outside, the
world of beauty and activity, the
world of men and women Is unnatu-
raj. Such conditions are dwarfing to
the mind and deprives it of its most
valuable food, which can never be
supplied In limited sphere.
bring to the mind a large part of its
food. The mind feeds upon what the
Senses bring 1t, and we know from
experience that no matter how at
tractive a home or its surroundings
may be If we continually remain in
1t, shut in from active outdoor life,
the mind after a while becomes satu-
rated and satiated with the .pnonotony
of 1t all. Even the most beautiful
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
Spain Desires American Connections

The Spanish minister of foreign af-
fairs states that the Bank of Spain
will try to establish branch in the
United States similar to the branches
which 1t now has in Paris and Lon
don. He added that he hoped an
American financial institution might
be located in Madrid.
The minister of foreign affairs also
urged the advantages which would
accrue from a direct American steam
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
In the World of Labor


francs ($S.S6), and usually time and
a half pay for overtime. The work
day is ten hours. six days week.
IL a mechanic loses an hour or more
on account of sickness, lateness, etc,
1t is the custom to deduct it from
his pay.
Ninety eight per cent. of the photo
engravers in this country are or
ganized.
In New York State 43.9 per cent
of the total population is engaged in
gainful' occupations.
Returns to the London England
Board of Trade show an increase OF
only 2 per cent in unemployment due
to the war.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

st. John, Canada, has thirty-two
local unions, with a total member
ship of 2,147 members.
Printers at Bloemfontein, Orange
Free State, are paid $22 a week.
Krupp's shipbuilding yards at
Kiel, Germany, employ 5000 work
men.
Steel workers in Belgium are paid
from eight to thirteen cents an hour.
AT the close of 1913 Germany
claimed to have 3,S17,271 organized
workmen.
Average weekly pay in Belgium of
mechanics, machinists and toolmak-
ers is 50 francs ($6.75), helpers 20
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

crops except cotton and rice the ef-
feet of the beets in increasing the
yield of the others would much more
than counterbalance the acreage
taken from the latter. All that is
necessary, so far as acreage is con-
cerned, in order to make us indie,
pendent sugar producers, is to bring
the crop to a parity with flax or rye.s
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

sive candidacy of Beveridge makes
for Democratic victory, and the
weakness of the Republican organiza-
ton in New York and the vulner-
ability of the candidate in this State
make Democratic success possible.
Governor Baldwin is popular in Con-
necticut, and his friends are conf
dent he will be promoted to the SEN
atorship. And so it goes. Republic
can division is Democratic oppor-
tunity and the Democrats are dis
posed to make the most of 1t. But
now that the novelty is worn off, it
is not likely that even the most en-
thusiastic advocates of popular cleo
ton of senators expect the new sys-
tenn to produce better lawmakers
than the old.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

ship line to Mediterranean ports
whose ships would touch regularly at
Cadiz or vigo. promising regular and
improved through railroad facilities
from these points and also proper rail
road communication to Madrid.
The present attitude of the Spanish
government offers great commercial
opportunity to the United States at
this time and 1t is urged that advan-
tage be taken of TELEGRAM from
the American embassy, Madrid.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
9 BIest SecIuslon

o best secusion! when the mind admits
The law of duty; and can therefore move
Through each vicissitude of loss and gain,
Linked In entire competence with her choice
When youths presumptuousness is mellowed down
And manhood's vain anxiety dismissed;
When wisdom shows her seasonable fruit,
Upon the boughs of sheltering leisure hung
In sober plenty when the spirit stoops
To drink with gratitude the crystal stream
OF unreproyed enjoyment; and is pleased
To muse, and be saluted by the air
OF meek repentance.
o calm, contented days and peaceful nights!
Who when such good can be obtained, would strive
To reconcile his manhood to a couch
Soft, as may SEEM but, under that Disguise
Stuffed with thorny substance of the past
For fixed annoyance; and full oft beset
With floating dreams, black and disconsoate,
The vapory phantoms of futurity?
Wordsworth.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
Dodge the Experts

II don't see why they appointed
old Phiscal to that position on the
reserve board
We'll. you must admit that he's a
financial expert
Yes, that's just ii. | can't stand
to have financial experts around
Life.