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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
POLAR BEAR DISAPPEARING

winter months on the Spitzbergen
Islands. They consist of wooden
houses, located at a distance of 100
to 200 kilometers from each other, and
there are either two or three men at
each station. These men set traps
and also lay out poisoned meat or
seals bacon. One must reckon, how
ever, that fully one-half of the ami
mails killed through poison in this way
are lost, as the polar bear has the
habit of drawing near the water If he
feels sick. Thus it happens that the
sick animals are drowned or frozen
fast in the broken ice.
AS check on this deadly CONNER
cial pursuit, during the last three
years the Norwegian Government has
prohibited the killing of polar bears
by poison in the Spitbergen Islands.
Unfortunately, however, as the land
belongs to nobody, the hunters gen.
orally do not care for this, for there
is no police authority on the spot to
control them.
During the last three years there
have been comparatively few skins of
polar bears at Tromsoe and Hammer
fest, although those cities are the
principal markets for them. As it is
known with certainty that the polar
bear wanders, it may be possible that
it again exists at the old capture
places, SO that a larger number may
be caught again, but 1t is very doubt
full. One thing is sure, however, and
that is that the polar bear Is far less
numerous now on the East coast of
Greenland and Spitzbergen than was
the case between 1860 and 1SS0.-For-
est and Stream.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

Professor Lawrence Martin, OF the
University of Wisconsin, one of the
greatest authorities on glaciers and
glacial movements, in communica-
ton just received by the National
Geographic Society," substantiates his
claim to the discovery of new rail-
way route in Alaska, connecting Port
age or Passage Bay, on the west side
of Prince William Sound, to Tunagain
Arm.
Although the United States Geologi-
cal Survey, in a bulletin made public
January /, states that some excite
ment has been caused by the discov-
cry of a feasible railway rolfte" con-
Meeting the above two points, Pro-
fessor Martin points out that the dis
covery was made by the 1910 Alaskan
expedition of the National Geographic
Society under his direction.
The Government bulletin comedies
with the report made by Professor
Martin to the societys research COM
mittee chairman, to the effect that the
new route, by use Of tunnel about
two miles long, will avoid the glaciers
and yield low grades for both in and
out bound traffic, and that the dis
tance from tide water to the Mata-
nuska coal field will be reduced by it
to about 1876 miles, with only one ad-
verse grade, and that low one.
Professor Martin quotes from his
report as follows:
I'VE feel certain that. including the
cost of the long tunnel, railway only
eleven or twelve miles long and prac-
tically at sea level could have been
built from Passage Canal to Turn
again Arm for much less than the
5000, 900 used in the construction of
the sixty-five miles of the Alaska
Northern Railway from Seward to
Turnagain Arm.
This would have resulted in
marked saving of grades, a saving of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

with the slums-there were pictures of
overcrowding and bad housing in
city which had boosted it would not
have a slum 1.-THE New Jerusalem:
Here and Now" was the way the
meeting was headlined.
Well this started something, and
Rochester got a model building code
and an impetus to its enforcement.
Another time there was a lineup for
and against the saloon, with free
speech on both sides-and hundreds
couldn't get in. One nights study OF
unemployment. with a real hobo's re
cital of experiences, led to a general
overhauling of the city's philan-
thropies.
Strayer breaches Sunday mornings
to his regular flock, now more than
doubled; but they're pretty well
trained. 1t is these evening meetings
with the men and women who have
no church home, who aren't sure the
church offers any good to them
which he considers his real ministry
His swell church now has a parish
house which is hive of social work.
the greater part unselfish; and its
budget, once so hard to raise, though
now thrice what il was, comes easy,
for even the rich are interested in
religion which does things.
Strayer says it's nonsense to talk
about scrapping the church.
1T has a valuable plant and a
wealth of fine tradition. Don't sacri-
flee these; jump in and save it"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
ALASKA'S NEW RAIL ROUTE

.z,.+anoa and an elimination of nearly
oil of the glacier complications which
sin threaten the Alaska Northern
Railway.
III the government does purchase
and extend this railway 1t may SUI
be cheaper to adopt the Passage q
nal terminal, as could possibly pe'
done with the shortest route and the
Largest necessary tunnel for less than
81, 100000
"The harbor in Passage canal was
shown by soundings made by US II
1910 to be quite as good for ocean
steamships as Resurrection Bay, upon
which Seward Is located. Practically
no icebergs float into Passage canal
or Prince William Sound from Port
Wells.
respect could never be as great as
that which will come to Seward IL the
Bear Glacier, at the mouth of Resur-
rection Bay on the western side, ad-
yances a quarter to a half mile and
sends floating icebergs into the path
of the OCEAN steamships there.
..The maximum possible activity OF
the glaciers tributary TO Passage ca
nal and to the head of Turnagaln
Arm could never be such menace to
the building and maintenance of
railway as are Ine spencer ana par
lott glaciers on the Alaska Northern
Railway, particularly if the railway
were protected by tunnel in the crit
ioal area of snowslides and glaciers
near Passage canal
1.-The Bartlett glacier, though now
inactive could, by a very moderate
advance, completely block the north
ern pass across the Kanai Mountains.
Indeed, the railroad goes so close
to the glacier that even the slightest
advance will do great damage. The
Spencer glacier constitutes an even
greater damage to the railway"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

As illustrating the unfounded COM
plants which are sometimes made
against railway servants, w. r.
Jackson, the general manager of the
North British Railway Company, has
been telling a story, the facts of
which, he said, were ascertained in
the investigation of a complaint made
by the principal actor, says the Vest
minister Gazette. An old lady turned
I'm at one of the Glasgow stations,
and, going up to a porter, said II
say, porter. can you tell me where |
will get my train?" Where are you
going, madam" he asked What
have you got to do with that? Can
YOU tell me where l will get my
train?" But l cannot tell without
- well. I'm not going to tell
you where I'm going. I'll get some
one else to help me-
With that the old lady toddled far
Their up the platform, and. meeting
another porter, propounded her con-
undrum TO MIN. where are you
going. madam" was his natural
question. ooh" she retorted. you
are Just as impertinent as your mate.
I'm not going to tell YOU where I'm
going" She went up TO a third por.
ter and asked him il he could tell
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

Some weeks ago / came across
Horace Bushnelrs famous address
entitled Natural and Supernatural,
and ! discovered while reading 1t
statement made by DIR. Bushnell OF
an incident, well authenticated, which
seemed to point to the direct interior
ence of a supernatural agency in the
situation of a man who was in dire
distress"
In this way William P. Hall, who
is president of the American Tract
Society and one of the most influen-
tial and best known of American
evangelists, began the narration OF
an anectdote which he had obtained
from his father.
Mr.. Hall Is not only an evangelist,
but he has very wide business asso-
Citations, being president of a corpora
ton which has extensive dealings
with the railroad companies of the
United States.
my grandfather, Elias Hall, was
one of the pioneers who opened up
the settlement in the northern part of
the State of New Hampshire about
the middle of the last century or
perhaps a little later said Mr.. Hall.
He secured a tract of land in what
is now the township of North Bart
lett, in the White mountain district.
He was compelled to clear the land
so as to raise crops. He brought his
wife and children to log house
which he built. his nearest neighbor
being five miles away, in a little set
Element where there were a gristmill
and a Sawmill.
I'm the first winter there came a
week of what we should call blizzard
weather. The supplies in the house
ran very low and there was some
danger of starvation. So my grand
father determined to set out on snow
shoes for the settlement SO that he
could get some supplies. He had gone
through the unbroken forest fol
about two miles when he broke
through the crust of snow and fel
into gully, breaking his leg.
There he was helpless, his family
two miles distant on one side and his
nearest ueighbors three miles away
on the other, and, besides being help
less, he was in peril of attack by
ferocious wild animals.
my grandfather was a ferVent be
lever in the truth of the Scripture
saying that if one has faith when III
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

in the first place is simply because
they are falling toward the sun.
II you could carry a stone many
millions of miles away from the earth
and there it it drop it would begin to
fall toward the earth very slowly,
but as it fell it would continually
move faster and faster until when ii
finally struck the earth it would be
moving no less than seven miles in
each second.
In exactly the same way. each of
the little meteoric particles away off
in space began long ago TO feel the
full, or "gravitation." of our sun, and
to fall toward that body.
If the meteorite and the sun had
both been at rest at first, the meteor
lite would have simply fallen into our
SUI; but as our sun is moving
through space at the rate OF eleven
miles in each second, the meteorite
will not hit it exactly. but will miss
it and begin to swing around II in
curved path.
As the sun is so much larger than
the earth, its pull is very much
greater. If you could visit the sun
you would find when there that you
weighed more than twenty-seven
times as much as you weigh on the
earth
This great pull of the sun on each
of the meteorites makes them fall
very swiftly indeed: it is because the
pull is so strong that when they have
fallen toward the sun to the place
where the earth, is we find them NOV
ing some twenty-siX miles in single |
second.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

BY MARY
March should be a red-letter day
on the calendar of women who like
poetry, for 1t marks the 105th ami
versary of the birth of the greatest
woman poet since Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. Elizabeth's child
hood was spent at her fathers lovely
country estate In the Malvern Hills,
near London. The house was built
with Moorish windows and turrets
set all about with rose gardens and
groves which were the delight of
Elizabeth's poetic nature. Her room
is described as a lofty chamber with
a large stained glass window which
cast lights across the floor and upon
little Elizabeth dropped against the
wall with her hair falling about her
face"
At the age of eight Elizabeth read
Homer in the original, holding her
book with one hand while she nursed
her doll with the other Her father
encouraged her in this precocity, but
her grandmother said that she would
much rather see Elizabeth's hem
ming more carefully finished off than
hear of all this Greek"
At fifteen Elizabeth, who was very
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

ONE OF greatest and most momenous battles that Con-
gess will be opened when the debate begins the
Panama canal tolls which oyehadows all other
Wilson has thrown all the
of his Office his personality and his
submission Engands naughty demands
The President has appealed in language hardly
guarded to the timd He has declared
words bakdown by this nation vitality essential TO
foreign policies English listened such official
sons for national sacrifice did American
until yesterday
Against Leader Oscar Underwood and
Speaker them patriotic sentiment of the
country awakening the danger the sentiment that elected
President and Congress the pledge of free canal
tells finds little enough expression in the rail-
oadcontroed Eastern city that read Wash
ngton battle Washington the
pan heard from The spirit of 76 dead and
It cannot be cajoled or intimidated strangled.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
MARCH s
MARCH 6
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Copyrighted, 1918.

MARSHALL
fond of riding her pony, tried to sad
die him alone in a field. Somehow
she fell with the saddle upon her and
this resulted in her invalidism. which
lasted throughout her life. When she
was twenty financial reverses forced
her family to give up their beautiful
home in the hills and she spent the
next twenty years of her life in com
parative confinement in London.
Then when she was forty she met and
married the great poet, Robert
browning, who was six years her
junior.
The remaining twelve years of her
life, which she spent with her hus-
band mainly in Florence, were the
happiest days of her life, and, though
she had gained great distinction be-
fore this for her mastery poetic
works. there was now an added note
of depth and brilliance to be found in
her poetry, which reflected her greater
happiness.
In appearance Mrs. Browning was
exceedingly small and exceedingly
pale. "A pale, small person." wrote
Nathaniel Hawthorne of her, scarce
ly embodied at all. 1t is wonderful
to see how small she is, how pale her
cheek, how bright and dark her eye.'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
A CONVINCING AMERICAN CASE.

AGAINST THE legal opinion of Senator Root of New York.
the recognized representative of the railroads and their afl
has led the campaign repeal the free tolls
clause may be cited those of former
State Oney Knox other who eminent
legal British lawyers we'll leading lawyers
the Both Roosevelt and
any different Interpretation the treaty. which
negotiated during the Roosevelt administration AS Senator
his yesterday the British
official 1912 recognized the right of this
country the exemption for it said The trade should be so
regulated that only bonahde coastWse
for United States vessels would be bene
fted by the exemption"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Employs 40 Cooks Within Year, Womsn
Gets Nervous Prostration.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 6.-Em-
ployment of forty cooks within a year
caused a matron of Baltimore to
Succumb to nervous prostration
after yainly trying to cope with the
servant problem, according to a
member of a delegation from the
Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, which appeared yesterday
before the Senate judiciary commit
tee to urge the passage of a bill COM
pelling domestic servants to register
and enter into enforceable contracts
with housekeepers.
The bill probably will be amended
to apply only to Baltimore city, on
account of the impracticability of
compelling domestics to travel to the
county seats to register.
Homeless and Eating from Ash Cans,
Supposed Bcggar Has $4,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6.--For
twenty years William Kahler aged
seventy, has been a beggar, eating
food taken from ash cans and sleep
ing wherever he could find shelter.
Last night was cool, and the side
walk on which Kahler had made his
bed appeared so uncomfortable to a
patrolman that he arrested the old
man and took him to police station
so that he might have a comfortable
mattress and blankets.
In searching Kahler, it was found
that what was supposed to be hump
on his back was uncommonly hard,
and investigation revealed that it was
not deformity. but a tin box. which
was packed with gold coin and paper
money. Various false pockets in
kahler's clothes were emptied of ad-
ditional money. When all was
counted the total was found to be
$23, 600
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
THE SAN FRANCISCO FAIR AS A CLUB.

FOREIGN NATIONS make bold the Panama Pacific
fair diplomatic laundering club force the
fixing its laws suit them Italy has threatened
stay away the exposition because she does like
proposed immigration France do the
government prosecuting Limoges porcelain
porters for Justification If good showing by European
countries purchased the price of
national dignity better do without and let the expos
ZION be purely World enterprise AS for other i'm
affecting national honor and welfare the
answer appropriations for the dreadnoughts that Con-
pressh denied the nation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

You have long known that you do
not see yourself as others see you.
Do you know that you don't near
yourself as others hear you?
Laroy. a French scientist, declares
a person does not really know his own
voice He had several persons. all
intimate friends, record few sem
fences on monograph together.
When the records were reproduced
the persons could more easily recog-
nize the voices of their friends than
their own.
This is due, Laroy says, to the diff
fence in the quality of the tone. When
a man speaks he hears his own voice,
not only through the air as others do,
but it passes through his lungs,
throat and mouth. The sound thus
has a different timber from that con-
Quoted to the ear only by the air.
Another way to prove this is to put
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
That Old Cry Of "WOlf."


| From the Indianapolis News.
Julius Forstman is a WOODEN manu-
faeturer of Passaic, N. J. Mr.. Forst-
man has been known for many years
as "the man with the last word on
the wooden schedule" He may have
had the last word on the Payne-Ald-
rich schedule K. but he certainly had
no word in the schedule covering wool
and woolens as included in the new
tariff law. When the Democratic
Congress undertook the revision of
the tariff Mr.. Forstman was one
OF the wooden patriots who went
to Washington to see that no harm
came to schedule X. Like other pro-
tected manufacturer of his type, he
stood aghast at the proposed reduc-
tons. Adopt these changes ne told
the Congressional committee, and you
will ruin us. As a representative of
the wooden manufacturers generally,
Mr.. Forstman prepared an accept
able" wooden schedule. which he
urged committee to adopt. The COM
mittee did not take his advice, and
Mr.. Forstman went back to Passalc--
presumably to ruin.
But such are the quips of fortune
that he who looked forward to indus
trial death has lived to see a brighter
day. Mr.. Forstman has not failed as
result of the lower schedules on
wool, but he is now preparing to con-
struct a s1,O00,000 plant to handle his
enlarged business in worsteds. He
admits that there is something after
all in a lower tariff. He himself has
no cause to complain, and he is not
fearful of the future. Yet many were
the days when this Passaic manufac-
turer Joined in the wolf" chorus.
This old wolf cry of protection or
ruin has been found out. Unlike the
boy in the fable. however, the wooden
manufacturers-at least Mr., Forst-
man in Passaic-are not being pun
ished, but are learning how much bet
ter it is to be in business on merit
than on favor. The evidence from
Passaic certainly is encouraging. For
there we find one of the highest au-
thorities'' on protection recklessly go
ing ahead and spending million dol
lars to develop business Under the
new tariff.
This lesson should not be lost on
other manufacturers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
OLDLADY FOOLED PORTER

her where her train was She got
the same reply and said: well. if
YOU must know, I'm going to Pals
ley" The porter directed her to the
Paisley train, and just as it was leav-
ing the platform she put her head out
of the window and shouted: How do
YOU feel when you've been had? I'm
not going to Paisley at all; I'm going
to Edinburgh" which, it need hardly
be added, is in quite the opposite di-
recfinn.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
One on the Voice.

Lecturer-Ladies and gentlemen, we
shall consider this evening the funda-
mental principles of architecture. The
Etruscans--
A Wandering Voice-How dye build
a doghouse2
Lecturer (solieitously)-Are you go
ing to move?-Judge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
You Don't Know Your Voice

the end of a wooden rod between the
teeth and pronounce a vowel continu-
ally Have another person put the
other end OF the rod between his
teeth and stop up his ears He will
find the sound stronger than when it
reached him through the air. The
tone is also of different quality.-Bos-
ton Post
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
4 Dozen T1en in One

How many fail of success
And bring upon themselves distress,
Because year after year they wait
Ere they their powers concentrate.
They fit about rowing wing
And never stick to anything;
So of each task they undertake
failure they are sure TO make.
while they work with zeal intense,
But soon different task commence
When, meeting with some slight reverse,
They change again, perhaps, to worse;
And so they turn about, and shift,
With no direction idly drift
And think like many another Ounce
To be dozen men at once.
Noting how little some folks work,
Their tasks they are inclined to shrk;
Seeing how others forge ahead,
To follow them they oft are led;
Unsuited to the work, they fail,
And then at Fate they wrongly rail,
Or, making but slight advance,
Claim that they never had chance.
Though there dangers in rut,
To this our eyes we must not shut:
If we in some one line would win,
At once our task we must begin
And not too much our powers divide
Upon thousand things outside;
Nor eer attempt in work or fun,
To be a dozen men in one!
THOMAS F. PORTER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
He Looked Like 1t.

The big man of well-fed appearance
refused to yield to the persuasion of
the book agent. You can't sell mo
anything" said the big fellow.
II guess you're right" said the
agent, walking toward the door. "I
suppose the only kind of thing you
read is a bill of re"-Public Ledger.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
Unfortunate Memory.

Mike--Do yez believe in the recall OF
judges. Pat?
Pat-That l do not. The last time
/ was up before his honor he seq; "I
recall that face. Sixty days" I'm
agin the recall of judges-Life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
WOMAN AND THE PRIZE RING.

IF THERE any DOUBT about the women are
making in their the mmemor rights of rant
man necessary only look Paris and the prize fight
Chany early yesterday in which Mile Carpenter knocked
an English female pugs the title of champion
woman przeghter of the world But for that Mile Carpenter
u defend her title and If there women chaengers
the United States dates with the French champion
will show behind transatlantic rivals
1ial respect in the progress of the advancing sex
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
RELIANCE TIMBER FOR CUP DEFENDER

1T is now years since effort made TO lift
the Americas cup yacht that kept the famous trophy
his the Reliance 1t would be pleasing Dit OF
timber that good old vessel should form part
- c defender in the coming Vanderbilt syndicate
budng boat for the trial races and the platform INTO when he
mast is stepped will the Reliance This mean
uch fo speed but it ought something for luck.