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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
A MACEDONIAN CRY FOR HELP.

THE PITlFUL stories that coming from the Balkans OF
suerngs of the population thousands of
without shelter food and exposed the ncemency of
weather appeal vain American ympahies
urgently needed Already steps have been taken send
shpoad Balkans and the Red Cross will
be inactive.
Messna the theatre of great tragedy that brought
Forth magnificent American philanthropy There
story American history than that of American aid to
But the emergency the Balkans is
skngy dramatic the Mena earthquake and does make
appeal the Imagination of people distance. And
greater tragedy will be witnessed in the Balkan States
desoaed impoverished by warfare than MeSsna
There will be suffering almost without parallel and thousands of
deaths aid given. And nation ready
respond to the cry for help than ours?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
WHICH is "DESIRABLE?"

SOME QUEER logic is submitted in favor of government
large New Jersey by semiregou private corpora
ton composed noresdens and against the will of the
this anomaly of local government in New
Jersey This the logic held by the News ut extremely
doubtful Grove would be any satisfactorily governed
under borough present FORM One thing
certain would forever lose its characteristics and restraints
grow and like Hoboken Newark Is that
The coroary of this that Newark and
would better be governed the medieval plan of Ocean
despite the wishes of their inhabitants than the
elections the people and responsibility of
to the people Now, might be asked if that is desable?'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09

Yes, it is true that Supreme Court
decisions leaked in the old days" re-
marked an old time broker. II re-
member certain important suit about
twenty years ago. 1t was the great
case of those days, as big in It's way
as the Standard Oil and tobacco suits
of the present, says the Wall Street
Journal A week before the decision
came down the son of one of the
judges came into my office and l told
him that of the nine judges one would
decide so and So one would refrain
from any opinion and the remaining
seven would make decision so and
So
HE smiled and went away. Shortly
after the decision was rendered. and
the matter had turned out as l had
foretold. this young man came back
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
Che Darkness

The darkness has been very kind to me;
She has shut out the white flame of the world,
Hidden the sun of sorrow when it hurled
Its beam on me- and was lost in light!
She brought the velvet healing of the night
When | was frantic with the staring day.
Till round about me her great spirit lay,
waveless ocean, drowning my dismay.
The darkness has been very kind to me;
Like still prayer thought by lonely nun
Her quiet is; the days griefs, one by one,
Drift to the shore of long-forgotten things,
And hushed the loud earths old echoings.
Deep in her bosom, deep, Oh very deep,
hide my head when her first shadows creep,
And sink at last within the pool of Sleep
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE, in Golfers Week
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09

and 1870 the really great successes in
the field of fiction were made by
American women. They beat the men
out completely.
Then il also occurred to me that
these successes of American women
were not to be attributed to any To-
cality or special environment. For
instance, there was Augusta j. Evans.
born in the South, educated at home.
never so far as l know in personal
touch with the leading literary men
and women of the United States, who,
while still very young woman, wrote
novel called "Beulah," which sold
enormously.
at was at about the same time
that Mrs. Stowe. In her humble home
in Maine, wrote the epoch ma KING
novel, Uncle Toms Cabin" Her
entire training was different from
that of Mrs. Evans. Yet her story
sold by the hundreds of thousands
and, like Mrs Evanss "Beulah,' is
still selling.
About that time a young woman
who was born and reared on beau
tiful little island in Long lslant
Sound--by the way, it is the identica
island which is now the summer home
of Mr.. Dana-wrote and published
novel without even putting her name
on the title page. 1t was called
"Rutledge." It sold by the hundred
and thousands, and it was in practi
cally the same decade that Mrs. Am
S. Stephens, who was a native, :
think, of a little village in Connecti
cut, wrote and published move
called Fashion and Famine which
! became also enormously popular.
81 have been trying to explain tina
| singular phenomenon. l can't 90 II
but the fact remains that the great
est popular successes in the field o
| fiction writing between 1850 and 1871
were those gained by four womeI
whose birth and training were in en-
tirely different parts of the country
Copyright. 1914, lby e. J.. Edwards
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
x-Ray still a Mystery.

Carl Snyder, in Golfers Weekly:
Ever since Professor Roentgen dis
covered the mysterious rays" which
bear his name it has been a puzzle as
to what these rays could be. They
seem like form of light-they give
out light under proper conditions. Or
rather, they cause plants and screens
prepared with certain chemicals to
become luminescent or tiuorescent, as
the physicists say, when they are
bombarded by the X-rays.
But otherwise they do not Cor did
not seem tor act like ordinary light
at all. For example. when ordinary
light is passed through a prism it is
bent slightly out of its straight-line
course and the degree of bending
varies with the color-that, is, with
compound light like sunlight is put
through the prism it is split up into
all the colors of the rainbow.
Again, ordinary light rays, when
passed through certain substances
like turmaline, are 'po,arized" that
is, only those vibrations which lie in
a particular plane get through And,
again, 1t is possible to measure the
wave length" of ordinary light. even
of those waves which lie far above
and far below the limits of visibility
But all this was impossible with the
X-rays.
On the other hand, as everybody
knows, the X-rays are generated
when metal plate in a vacuum tube
is bombarded by an electrical stream.
1t is one of the great discoveries of
recent years that this electrical
stream. this beautiful glow which is
seen inside the vacuum tube, is due
to myriads of electric "atoms" or
particles which act for all the world
like the particles of gas-air, for
example. But while the weight and
charge of these electrical atoms can
actually be measured, no such meas
urement could be made with the
'X-rays." And SO the puzzle re-
manned.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
THE LAW AND THE BUSINESS FRAUD.

THE TRIAL and conviction under the statute making
msdemeanor for dealer mepresent goods in adverts
the first under the law This represented
in sign windows of he had temporarily rented
for the purpose that his goods samples greatly reduced
prices The advertisement found to be fraud The practise
renting for short periods and selling goods under
false has been in this city for
wears The ndctabe and swndlers of this char
aer suppressed with the aid of the business mems
organization recently formed fraud of this kind
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
JANUARY 9
Frances Ball, Julia Glover
Copyrighted 1913.

Frances Ball, who was born 119
years ago today, owes her place
among famous women to her life Of
devotion and zeal as a nun. She was
the talented daughter of a wealthy
merchant of Dublin, but turning her
back on the vanities of society, she
became when twenty-one years old
member of a religious com munity of
York, England, assuming the name
of Sister Frances Mary Theresa. Not
content with merely obeying the rules
of her order she branched out and
started community of the same
order in Ireland Later she founded
thirty-seven more branches of the
nuns who are now known as the Sis
tiers of Loret in various parts of the
world.
Quite a different type of woman was
Julia Glover who was born in Eng
land fifteen years before Sister
Frances Mary Theresa. She had a
good-for- nothing actor father who
forced the clever Julia on the stage
at tender age and lived on her in
dustry till the end of his life. He
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
LEAK" IN SUPREME COURT

to the office. He said his father was
greatly worried over the leak in the
court and asked me If I could help
them trace the source of my informa-
ton. told him what I knew. That
one of the Supreme Court stenograph-
ers had been selling advance copies
of the decisions to a very prominent
broker of that time. What this
broker paid for his information, |, of
course, do not know. but 1T was estao-
lished that | was correct as to where
the weak spot was In court
''Since then every decision by the
Supreme Court has been written in
long hand Zone copy, thus making 1t
absolutely impossible for any out
slider to get the news in advance.
This explains. in part. why it now
takes so long for the court to an
nounce it's decisions"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09

even went so far as to offer her to
one Samuel Glover in marriage for
the consideration of 1000 pounds, al
though Julia had pinned her af-
fections on some one else. She mar
ried Glover, however, but he never
paid the balance Of her marriage
price, but instead allowed her to sup
port him and his children by her act
ing. In spite of this hard treatment
Mrs. Glover was one of the most sue.
cessful comedians of the early nine-'
teenth century, and she was known
all over England for her joyous laugh.
One of her most successful parts was
Mrs. Malaprop. She played this role
successfully when she was seventy
one years old. She managed to get
through the performance though shs
was barely able to speak. She left
the stage in faint and within a few
days she had died. All authorities
agreed that she was one of the finest
comedians England ever produced
some going SO far as to say she was
the best actress in existence. During
her old age she was known as the
Mother of the stage"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
Locust Law Once More.
the New York Sun:

From the New York Sun:
Whether the number of rowdies in
the streets is now abnormally large
is a question on which statistics are
lacking There has never been time
when the roughs were not too nu-
merous, and some persons believe that
Mayor Gaynor's policy restricting the
use of the policenpan's locust resulted
in increasing their boldness.
The police themselves declared that
offenders of this class are not pun
lshed with sufficient severity by the
courts. Certainly this would noto-
riously true a few years ago when
the most absurd lenity was shown
to young men guilty of misbehavior
in public conveyances.
In any event. there will be no SYM
pathy with the blackguaTds and petty
thieves for whose suppression spe-
cial squad of patrolmen has been or
ganized. They constitute an unmit-
gated nuisance, and from their gangs
are recruited dangerous indicators
in all the various subdivisions OF
crime. They belong to that fraction
of the population which respects the
law only as it expresses itself in the
end of nightstick, and nobody will
be overcome with grief if few of
them feel it more frequently in the
year 1914 than they have lately.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
Uncle Sam Is Copper King.
Il II.

From Engineering ana Mining journal:
The commanding position of the
United States in the copper market
is we'll illustrated by the drawing by
our refiners of supplies from all parts
of the world. They get crude copper
from Alaska, Australia. South Amer
lea, Africa, and in considerable guam
tity from Europe itself. Copper from
Spain has been coming to us for many
years. This year we have been get
ting the output of Servia. During
1913 also some of the Katanga copper
has come to us. The steady increase
of our copper-refining capacity en-
ables our refiners to reach out for
this business, or perhaps we should
say that it is their ability to secure
it, that leads them to increase their
capacity
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
"Child- Material.

Agnes Repplier, in the Atlantic.
If parents do not know by this time
how to bring up their children, it is
not for lack of instruction. A few
generations ago Solomon was the only
writer on child-study who enjoyed
any vogue. Now his precepts, the
acrid fruits of experience, have been
superseded by more genial but more
important counsel.
Begirt by well-wishes, hemmed in
on every side by experts who speak
of Child material" as if it were raw
silk or wood pulp how can little
boy born in this enlightened ago
dodge the educational influences
which surround him?
It is hard to be dealt with as Child
material" when one is only an ordi-
nary little boy. To be sure, Child
material is never thrashed as little
boys were wont to be, it is not re-
quired to do what it is told, it enjoys
rights and privileges of a very sacred
and exalted character; but on the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
$4,000 Price Man Has to Pay for One
Hug.

BOSTON, Mas, Jan. 9.-Because
Charles P. Weber, sixty-four years
old. of Brookline, Rugged Mrs. Har-
riet E. Lamberton, sixty-two years
old, he will have to pay $13,500. A
verdict for this amount was awarded
by a jury in Dedham yesterday.
Mrs. Lamberton brought suit to re-
cover for injuries sustained while al
the Weber home in Brookline. alleg-
ing that she was embraced by Mr.
Weber, and in trying to elude him
fell down stairs and broke her leg
Mrs. Lamberton died on June IL. 1913
and the suit was prosecuted by hei
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE

then these bubbles over fees would
not arise.
But what are we to think of doctors
who thus publicly admit their in
ability to trace syphilis, yet at the
same time expect an increased fee?
The medical profession, in spite of
some shortcomings, is probably our
most public spirited profession; but
it's bane is the fee system and its
Nemesis the pocket nerve.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
ODDITIES IN TODAYS NEWS

| daughter. Mrs. Francis e. Crumb, Of
Lansing, Mich.
Her High &C" Dislodges a Pin from
Her Throat.
STURGIS, Mich, Jan eff you
swallow pin and the physician cam
| not help you, join a choir and sing a
high note. Miss Mary Austin found
that a good method. She swallowed
white-headed pin recently. and all
| efforts of her physician to dislodge it
were futile. She was informed that
| she must go to Ann Arbor Univer-
sity Hospital immediately.
As the train was not to start for
several hours, Miss Austin went to
her choir practise She did not in
tend to sing, but, as she could not
feel any pain, she decided to try. In
| her first high &C. the pin was dis
| lodged and came out of her mouth
| Her Ann Arbor trip was declared Off
Woman Justice of the Peace Marries
Chief of Police.
! LAPORTE, Ind, Jan. 9.-Mrs
4 Clara Hess, Indianas only woman
justice of the peace, was married at
Wheaton, ILL.,, today to William e.
Ansteiss. who, two days ago, was APP
pointed chief of police of Laporte.
Mrs. Ansteiss was Justice of tho
peace at Westville, Ind. where she
| has q country home. She also Is
prominent in lodge circles of the
State.
Long Sentence and Politeness Holds SUP
preme Court Overtime.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. "A long
sentence and a strongly developed
sense of politeness has resulted in the
| Supreme Court breaking it's rule for
once to drop work each day at 4:30
lip. m. Former Attorney General
Charles w. Mullan of Iowa, produced
| the long sentence. Chief Justice
White was the Lord Chesterfield of
| the occasion Mr.. Mullan was read
| ing the demurrer to an Indictment
when the clock pointed to 430. The
chief Justice turned out his electric
| light and assumed his polite smile,
which ordinarily is sufficient to call
a halt on lawyer addressing the
court at that hour. But Mr. Mullan
had his head down, reading at a rapid
rate. One minute went by with Mr..
Mullan still reading. Two minutes
elapsed with the lawyer on the identi-
cal long sentence he had begun before
4:30. Justice Lamar could not control
/ his desire to laugh. The entire bench
quickly saw the joke and joined the
junior member. After three minutes
waiting for the end of the sentence
that never came, Chief Justice White
drowned the lawyers voice by direct
! ing the crier to adjourn court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
John Lind-Coai Miner.

+ IDiIi 1bdl APN'
There are probably few people in
the country who are aware of the
fact that John Lind, President Will
sons personal repr esentative in Mex
leo, was at one time identified with
the Western coal industry. About
twenty years ago Mr.. Lind and Others
cf Salt Lake City, Utah, developed
what has later proved to be one OF
the most enduring and successful OF
the Western coal operations.
The company was organized under
the name of the Diamond Coal and
Coke Company, the operation being
located at Diamondville, in what was
then U:ntah County, Wyo. Their
original opening, No. | mine. is still
in operation. Some time later, prac-
tically the entire capital stock of the
company was taken over by the
Amalgamated Copper Company, ano
it has since proved to be the most inn
portant and valuable of that COM
pany's large coal properties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
Oil in the Next Great War.

From the review OF Reviews:
II a great war. such as all the Euro
pean nations are preparing for, comes
there will be no such thing as the
respecting of the rights of non-bellig-
erents who are not powerful enough
to protect themselves. In the same
way the oil fields of the lesser powers
would undoubtedly be seized by the
first nation, or coalition, that felt it
could further its own ends by their
possession. OF such are the great
fields of Rumania and the Dutch In
dies-Sumatra and Borneo. The oil
fields of Mexico would also be in
cuded in this list but for the fact
that the protecting wing of the Mon
roe doctrine renders them fairly safe
from European aggression. II the
United States. however, became hard
pressed for oil. as might happen in
war. this law of might and expe-
diency" would undoubtedly be in
voked to justify our seizure of the
Mexican fields. The Rumanian fields
would be the greatest prize for Aus
tria, save for the Galician fields, as
neither that country nor the other
two members of the Triple Alliance
nave any amount OF oil OF lHelr own.
These fields lie fairly easy to hand
for Russia, however, and, although
that country has more than enough
oil for it's own use, it would never
allow the Rumanian fields to go to an
enemy without struggle.
With the Japanese alliance still a
fact, the oil fields of the Dutch Indies
could easily be taken over by Great
Britain in case of need. On the other
hand, with the British navy out of
the reckoning, nothing could prevent
these fields falling to Japan should
their possession ever be deemed i'm
perative to the ex 'stence of that en-
pire. The Bornean and Sumatran
fields, which are becoming large pro-
ducers, would give Britain a very
considerable supply of fuel oil, but
the line of transport between there
and England is too attenuated and
exposed to mike it one to be de-
pended upon in case of war. To
Japan these fields would indeed prove
an incalculable asset
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
Works Sixteen Years to Pay Debts Made
While Slowing wild OATS

years James Conklin, an elevator
starter, has labored paying off debts
he contracted when he was sowing
his wild oats, and yesterday he
finished the task that his conscience
had set him. The score was settled
when he went to the Michigan Cen
trail railroad, inquired the cost of a
ticket from Detroit to Bay City, and
paid $3.50. Twenty-one years ago.
while drunk, he boarded the blind
baggage of train at Detroit and
went to Bay City.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

, other hand, il is never let alone. and
to be let alone is sometimes worth all
the ministrations of men and angels.
The helpless, inarticulate reticence of
a child is not an obstacle to be over
come, but a barrier which protects the
citadel of childhood from assault.
Efficiency in Selling Autos.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Extreme competition and a long list
of failures have forced automobile
manufacturers to get busy placing
their plants upon a scientific basis
of operation. The day of quick prof
its and haphazard methods is over.
One of the most successful makers,
after having got its manufacturing
costs down to a minimum, has per-
fected a plan for the sales organiza-
ton which bids fair to be an impor-
tant factor in continuing it's pros
perity. This concern keeps upward
of sixty men on the road who cover
carefully the subdivisions of the five
sales districts into which the country
is divided by the company. Each OF
the I'VE main districts is in charge of
a head salesman, who Is held respon-
sible for his territory, The company
is kept informed of all matters finan-
cial and other. which develop, and in
this way is in a position to anticipate
possible territorial weakness and en-
abled to act accordingly When the
company's dealers are not making
what is considered a proper number
of sales, the matter is Investigated.
If it Is found to be the company's
fault, the condition is corrected. If
it proves to be the dealers fault, he
is given an opportunity to correct
his methods, as the company figures
that it can only prosper in the same
ratio as does the dealer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09

Cut Doorway to Bring Coffin of 900
Pound Woman in House
HUNTINGTON, Ind, Jan. 9.-Mrs.
William Settlemeier, fifty-eight years
old, who weighed 600 pounds. died at
her home near here yesterday of
pneumonia. special coffin A inches
wide and % inches deep was required
for the body and it was necessary
to enlarge a doorway before the cof-
fin could be taken inside the house.
A dray wagon will be used for a
hearse at the funeral.
For 81 Harvard's New bureau VIII Get
Check from Dad.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 9.-The
latest convenience for Harvard stu
dents is a correspondence bureau
conducted by undergraduates. BY
writing alluring letters the bureau
expects to coax a check from father
to fix up blighted love affairs, OF
pacify the irate outbursts of the folks
at home. The advertisement of the
new enterprise appeared this morn
ing in the Harvard Crimson, the
daily newspaper of the college. Fol
dollar Harvard students now may
send letter to dad, who, 1t is hoped
will be so pleased with his sons com
mand of English that he will gladly
separate himself from part of his
dividends.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09

Copyright. 1914, )by e. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved).