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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
CoLoRED MEN IN THE WAR.

The race question in connection with the calling
out of the National Guard may arise especially in the
South There are no colored National Guard organ
izations in the South, and therefore none will be
called out there while negroes will not be enlisted in
any regiment. If the war is prolonged to demand a
call for large body volunteers the enlistment will
be by federal officers, and negro regiments will be
organized both North and South.
There are no negroes in the New Jersey State
guard and none are among the new enstments
without doubt hundreds of abe-bodied Jersey negroes
in the State would glad to enlist but there no
distinctive organizations for them there is chance
to enlist This discrimination against the race is
most unjust 1t should be the privilege of every
citizen white or black to fight the battles of his
country, and the record of the American negro as
a soldier is creditable. Negro regulars showed fine
spirit at San Juan and the Ninth cavalry, negro
organization, is one of the best commands in the
service.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
UPLIFT TALKS
ruE Habit OF FEELING PROSPEROUS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDENh
Author of Pushing to the 'FRONT.' Hs'
Copyrlght 1914.

future condition is the pattern which
is being woven for you, and If you fill
the pattern with all sorts of poverty
pictures, discouraging pictures, 90
not be disappointed because they are
faithfully reproduced in the great
life web.
We tend to become what we believe
we shall become. People who always
feel poor. who think that they always
will be poor, are in no condition to
produce the opposite condition.
Everything depends on our vision,
our hope, and expectations.
No one can accomplish anything
great in this world who is contented
with little, who is sure that he was
made for little things, or is satisfied
with what happens to come in his
way.
If Won would use the same effort
and energy to see prosperity and to
picture plenty as you do poverty Yeu
would not long he poor. You Woulo
very soon get away from these dis
tressing conditions But somehow 1ne
whole human race has such a horror
Of povery. that they concentrate
upon it and attract it. The man who
thinks he is going to be unlucky IN
everything he attempts is 1nf1niteiy
more likely to be so than the man
who is filed with confidence, assur-
ance and expectancy of success, be"
cause a failure atmosphere creates
a negative, unproducing mentality,
while q hopeful, expectant assurance.
confidence, creates u productive men,
tality which does things, achieves.
The mental attitude determines the
tendency of the life. According 10
this law, there is everything in feel
INC rich rich in everything that is
GOOD for us, everything that will help
ms to become what we intend to be-
come.
DR.. Marden's Uplift Talks will aps
near in the magazine pages of tins
paper every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Nothing New

There may not be nothing new I'M
der the sun, but there are a lot of
new combinations.
Some time ago a man went to a
friend and asked If he would help
him a patent.
What have you got?" the friend
asked.
The inventor hesitated.
IT'S a money coiner. all right" he
replied. Something absolutely new"
Good. Better let me see it,
Finally, the inventor came across
with the precious discovery. 1t was
q metal band to wear upon Il finger,
with a bit of plotting paper attached
to 1T. Every bookkeeper and ac-
countant and letter writer would
want one-that meant untold thou
sands.
"I'll look in the patent office rec
ords," said the friend. "and find out
if they have recorded any similar de-
vice"
He looked-and found fifty-sev
devices of precisely the same char
Plain Dealer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Duchess and Poetess

One of the youngest of the British
peeresses, the Warehouses Town
shend is versatile and has an I'M
usual number of interests even for
the twentieth century woman. She
is a very beautiful woman, and loves
to have everything beautiful around
her. At the rear of her Regents
Park house, she has, as London
journalist puts it, converted gar
den of a London residence into an
idyllic scene suggestive of the heart
of the country with the surge OF beat
ing waves upon the sand within ear
shot, a task that could only be ac-
complished by person of rare taste,
culture, and industry, with, of
course, large means at her command.
Lady Townshend has a dominating
sense of duty, and fulfils all sorts
of obligations demanded of her posi-
ton She regards society not with q
capital S, but as combination of
forces interdependent one on the
other A passion with her is in
sistence on the kind treatment Of
dumb animals.
Lady ToWnshend has used her pen
to good purpose in aid of more than
one cause, She has also written
charming little poems, and is at her
best when writing of the wonderful
phases of nature. Her poetic style
may be gathered from the following
poem, reproduced from "The Gentle
man" 1t is entitled, THE Pilgram's
Song:
| will look up unto the Frightening
hills,
Where all the armies of the waken-
ing morn
DO battle with the legions of the
Night.
And with their shining spears great
shafts of lighD
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
'Tis the mind that makes the
body rich.
Shakespeare

shakespeare
Form the habit of feeling prosper
GUS 1t will bring untold satisfaction
into your life and the best into line
with your mental attitude, with your
thought and expectations.
It is terrible thing to go through
life feeling poor, with a poverty
stricken expression and appearance.
There is everything in expecting that
grand, splendid things are coming to
you. This opens up the avenues OF
supply which the poverty thought
pinches, restricts, and cuts off. Every
thing comes through the gateway OF
the thought, and the flow is abundant
or stringent, according to the mental
attitude.
The poverty thought is abnormal
and robs us of many of the good
things of life which belong to us.
Generosity of expectation and abund-
ant faith of opulence are our birth
rights
No matter what your condition may
be in life, how humble, mean. or dis
Couraging, the habit of holding the
right mental attitude and facing the
right way, of keeping your confidence
in men and things, will gradually lift
your life to a higher level.
1t is a sad fact that, ignorant of the
laws Of thought, many of us make
impossible the very things we most
desire. Our antagonistic fears, our
lack of faith that We can have what
we desire. arc constantly fighting
against the very thing we wish for
most.
We all want to improve our condi-
ton financially, yet most people be-
lieve that they will never get very
far away from poverty. They do not
know that predicting poverty, talking
about their hard luck, and thinking
that fate is against them, are the
very things that drive prosperity
away from them.
Your mental attitude toward .'our
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Slavery in Rhode Island.

From the Survey.
The Supreme Court of Rhode Island
is soon to decide. for the first time in
the United States, whether q convict
is q slave, ward of the State, citizen,
or what not.
William e. Anderson, formerly a
convict In the Rhode Island State
prison, has sued the contractors of
that institution to recover wages for
his labor during Imprisonment The
Rhode Island Constitution prohibits
slavery as slavery, no matter what
the form may be. The limitation,
except as a punishment for crime"
present in the Federal and most
State constitutions, is lacking in
Rhode Island. 1t is upon this that
Anderson bases his suit. Behind him
Prison Labor. AS the constitutions
of Vermont and Maryland are similar
to that of Rhode Island, and prison
contracts are in operation in both
States, similar cases may be filed,
To Southern members of Congress
the suit has brought attention to the
fact that slavery is not necessarily
negro slavery. 1t has reminded them
that Indian slavery long existed in
the Providence plantations; and the
oratory of the SOS and COS may now
find echoes in a Congressional inves-
tigation of slavery" in a New Eng
land State.
Anderson claims damage in that
his mother and other dependents
were left in poverty. Fifty cents a
day was paid by the contractor to
the State for his labor and the use of
the prison buildings, light and heat.
How much of this was for his labor
and how much for the use of the
buildings, light and heat, the con-
tracts do not make clear.
No matter what the decision, it is
conceivable that there will be a
judicial statement as to what proper
rates of wages really are and that
the court will define conditions of
employment and other interesting
questions.
The proceedings are somewhat COM
plicated by the fact that another
case is being brought by Anderson
against another contractor in a Fed
eral court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
COMPETENT OFFICERS FOR COMMAND.

Criticisms by some editors and others of the vol
unteer law just passed by Congress are amazing in
their cheerful ignorance of military matters. They
cannot understand why the government should re-
place greenhorn military officers with regulars.
Doesn't this limit the promotions from the ranks?
says one But in this State there promotions
from the ranks, as all commissioned officers are
elective.
The objection that the new law is in violation OF
the State Constitution has point The National
Guard is now national organization and not home
guard Men who are sent to must have COM
petent officers no matter how got. for only the good
officer knows how to take of his command In
our Civil War unfit officers taken from civil life cost
the nation thousands of lives and many defeats. Had
the army been provided at all times with we-trained
officers the would not have lasted two years and
an enormous waste blood and treasure would have
been saved.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
POOR TIME FOR THE LITTLE NAVY MEN.

This is a poor time for unpatriotic congressman
who would weaken the national defense at sea- The
present trouble with Mexico is to strengthen the
hands of the twobateshp advocates when the matter
comes to a vote In the House, probably this week.
The little navy faction, who have been alleging
extravaganza in naval estimates confronted by
the fact that the pending BILL providing for two battle
ships is carrying S836,OO0 less than the law of last
year with only one battleship.
Great Britain has in commission or building
81 900 tons of fighting efficiency Germany, 1,228,-
900 TONS and the United States only 900 tons,
and while engaged in war that may at any
moment involve us with great power and tax
our naval to the utmost these cheeseparing
statesmen would declare years holiday and leave
us still further behind the two leading nations of
Europe and about a par with Japan, which will
soon outstrip
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
OUR FLAG AT VERA CRUZ.

The raising of the American flag with formal
ceremonies at Vera Cruz yesterday may be either a
historical event incident of passing interest
When the American flag was raised in Manila In 1898
who foresaw the Philippines it is today an Amer
lean dependency with well-ordered, popular form
of government with all kinds Of modern improve
ments and the people peaceable and prosperous?
There is no bitterer feeling against the American
in Mexico today than there among the Filipinos
when our troops destroying the evil results of
four hundred years of Spanish misrue and making a
future republic. Our flag still floats in Manila and
probably It will always remain there, the guardian of
human freedom and republican government in the
archipelago.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28

Pierce the deep gloom, and to a Sleep
Announce me dawning of another
This l may see, oh Thou supremest
Good,
Though | be poor and hungry and
alone
And in the nighttime, when the
gentle moon
Sails like a silver ship across the sky,
A little cloud making her floating
sail.
a fleet Of stars about her as she goes,
And all the world made sweet with
sleeping flowers,
The air vibrating with the nightin-
gale,
Whose throbbing notes like drops of
water fall
Upon my listening and enraptured
This, too. for me, Thou Spirit of all
good.
Thou Creator of birds and flowers
and stars
The splendid sunsets, like a golden
PyX,
Upon the purple altar-cIouds of
heaven;
Swift changing colors flash across
the sky
Mountains of silver, lakes of molten
gold.
Oceans of palest turquoise, wings of
flame,
Beds of great glowing burning GRIM
son flowers
And Ger the highest pinnacle of light
There hangs the little Evening Star.
Longing | gaze upon this pageantry,
Filling my soul with infinite delight:
As pilgrim, staff in hand, upon the
road,
l seek for knowledge, for the Truth,
for Light.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28

81 lived along the Canadian border
for a good many years before coming
TO New York" said level-headed
sort of man from Harley, according
to the New York Sun. and maybe
that is why | don't look upon Cana
dian silver as poison whenever l get
a dime or q quarter in change. But
New York people fear it more than
they do the devil and they take 1t
only as they would some contagious
disease-because they can't help
themselves. It's silly to begin with
and it's bad business besides.
"There are half dozen shops OF
various kinds that would have got
some part of my business in family
supplies, but whenever dealer turns
a canadian dime or quarter back on
me I mark him as bad and don't go
there any more. Some have business
sense enough to take an occasional
dime or quarter and pass it along,
and they are people who get my
trade. I suppose if a dealer got
every cent of Canadian silver circu-
tating in New York it wouldn't be a
very serious loss if he threw 1t down
a sewer. It's the small amount or
it that makes me tired with people
who are so afraid of 1t.
"Speaking of taking silver and
passing it along, one man where L
buy nv tobacco supply SHE'D little
at first on a dime l rendered, but he
took it after l had argued while
with him. lust because l liked him
and wanted to deal with him. He
had a sense of humor, and the next
time | went in l bought a quarter s
worth of stuff, and he gave me two
dimes and a nickel in change. one
of the dimes was Canadian and /
took it without word.
Next day | bought a dimes worth
and gave him the Canadian He took
il and gave it back in change two
days later, and that dime has in the
last two months bought $40 worth of
tobacco. don't speak of it, and he
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
LABOR NOTES

ONLY 25 per cent. of Norway's saw
mill employees are organized.
Union plasterers at Canton, o.,
have 100 per cent. organization.
There are about S,000,0 working
women in the United States.
Eight hundred coffin makers in
New York have formed a union.
Seventy per cent. of the steel work
ers of this country are born abroad.
Plumbers International Union is or
ganizing every worker employed in
the pipe trade.
While 90 per cent. of the males in
the United States of sixteen years and
over are wage-earners, only 20 per
cent. of the females of sixteen years
and over are engaged in any kind of
gainful occupation.
A conference was held in Edin-
burgh recently between the ship
building employers of the Tyne, Wear
and Blyth rivers, and the mems rep
resentatives on the question of the
riveters' wage scale.
The Amalgamated Association of
Street Car Men have purchased a
fourteen room residence building on a
choice piece of property in the centre
of Detroit, Mich, which they are now
remodeling for office purposes.
The Trades and Labor Council of
Toronto is comforting with farmers on
a pan whereby the working classes
of that city may be able to obtain the
products of the farm direct, thereby
eliminating the "middleman."
During the period of one year end
ing with January 81, 1914, the ANAL
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees of Amer
lea paid 500 death benefits in the sum
of Sl41, SSS.
If the report of the legislative pen
sion commission is enacted into law,
every employee of State, county, city
or town in Massachusetts will con-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Canada Money in New York

doesn't, but we both understand.
Whether he gets in other Canadian
silver | don't know, but that dime
circulates all right and causes no
trouble whatever.
"A friend of mine with the same
views l have on Canadian silver the
other day went into a haberdasher' s
shop and bought nearly SO worth of
stuff. He laid out on the counter a
So and two twos and had the change
in silver. There was a Canadian
quarter in this lot, and the dealer
shook his head. The customer in
sisted that 1t was all right, but the
dealer said he couldn't take It. There
upon the customer picked up his
money left the goods on the counter
and walked out.
Maybe that was good business, but
| don't believe it was, though ii may
have been the dealers Iule not 10 ac-
cept Canadian silver and he couldn't
break it, / guess he couldn't, because
| rendered a quarter to the same ran
a few days later and he wouldn't
trade In such currency. Another man
in the next block was different, and
trade with him now.
"In Canada American silver passes
everywhere, and there is no reason
that | can see why our people don't
reciprocate. especially as the AMOUNT
of Canadian silver would be very
small in the whole country and
almost entirely along the border. I
don't suppose there is town n
Canada in which American silver is
not in daily circulation, while ! am
sure there are hundreds of towns in
the United States where Canadian
silver is never seen and would not
be seen any oftener than it now IS if
Canadian silver were treated in the
United States as our silver is treated
in that country. There is not enough
Canadian silver in existence to reach
far into this country if it all came
over here. We may get over our
prejudice in time, but we have 1t bad
now"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28


although on all sides I was told
beforehand of the exceptional beauty
and remarkable qualities of mind of
my angel queen and consort (who is
winning all hearts,, yet now that
have seen her all seems to me like a
shadow which has vanished in the
night. Words fail me to tell of my
exceeding happiness and satisfaction;
1 only wish she had a consort worthy
of her merits, but l will do my best
to be to her a faithful husband. The
treasure which has been committed
to me shall be carefully guarded.
Thus wrote Charles VI, emperor
of the Holy Roman Empire, when as
a young man ne took as his wife the
charming Elizabeth Christina. 1t was
over two hundred years ago and yet
to this day the memory of the lovely
Elizabeth who united in her beaut-
full person all the virtues and graces
of a queen is as vivid as ever. She
had been brought up as Protestant
in the home of her father, the Duke
of Brunswick, but in order to marry
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Clttle Hiss April

Little Miss April, you coquettish thing
Flirting around in the green of the spring
My! you're a wonder
Bright in the morning, you dmple and sing;
Peeved at the incoming, furry and fling,
Snowfakes from under
smile-clouding thing
Sad in the gloaming-a wild burst of tears;
Fright in the darkness creature of fears,
Guiding close;
Bloom in the dawning-a glory of gears;
Cold in the sunrise-al haunting and jeers;
Noon-and the rose
Of the youth of the years!
Little Miss April, my full heart bring
PulSing with passion for you 1t fling
Down at your feet.
Flout me at dawn; at the noon you may jeer
Deep in the twilight you'll smile on me here,
Gentle and sweet
You feminine thing
Dixon Merritt in Judge
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Empress Slips on Frog

In "Pasteur,' the first volume OF
the Great Men Series" (Stokes) an
amusing story is told of how absent
mindedness nearly cost the great sci
enlist the favor of the French court.
Pasteur had been asked to conduct
some experiments in the apartments
of the empress, before Eugene and
her ladies in waiting. For the pur-
poses of a certain demonstration he
used number of live frogs and when
he left neglected to take them with
him. They speedily escaped from
their box and invaded the bed cham
Der of the empress, who, during the
night, stepped on the coolest and
most Shiny of them. Her screams
aroused the royal household, and it is
said she could never again bear the
sight OF a frog; but she was mag
unanimous enough not to bear a
grudge against the man who was re-
sponsible.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Humanity of Socialism.

ct am opposed to Socialism because
Of it's humanity; because 1t saps the
vitals of the human race. which has
no vitality to spare; because 1t lulls
to Incidence those who must struggle
to survive; because the theroies OF
good men who are enthralled by Its
delusions are made the excuse of the
wicked who would rather plumber
than work; because it stops enter
prise. promotes laziness exalts ineffi-
cheney, inspires hatred, checks pro-
duction, assures waste and instills
into the souls of the unfortunate and
the weak hopes impossible of fruition,
whose Inevitable blasting will add to
the bitterness of their lot
In this volume are COM
bined two essays by Edward
e. Adams-"The Case Against
Socialism" and "a Critique of
Socialism" presenting frontal and
extremely concise and pungent as
sault on the fundamental doctrines of
theoretical Socialism. If the Case"
prove too strong, the "Critique" will
be found very pleasant reading.
Paul Elder & Co., publishers, San
Francisco.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
A Narrow Range of Choice.

Sylvia. supple and slender. and
Aunt Belle, bulky and benign, had
returned from a shopping tour Each
had been trying to buy a ready
made suit.
When they returned home Sylvia
was asked what success each had in
her efforts to be fitted WELL" said
Sylvia, II got along pretty well, but
Aunt Belle is getting so fat that
about all she can get, ready-made, is
an umbrella. youths Companion
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
SALT FOR MOSQUITOES.

Fighting mosquitoes with salt is the latest plan of
campaign against the pests. The idea comes from
West Africa, where DR.. Scott, of the British medical
staff claims remarkable results He found that the
water inhabited by the larvae of the yellow fever
mosquito contained only O12 per cent. of salt. When
he added common salt enough to make a per cent.
solution all the larvae died within two hours. The
experiment might be worth trying by our New Jersey
MOSQUITO exterminators. Salt is cheaper than oil.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
Getting Even.

Apropos of foreign honesty, DIR.
story:
"On foreign railroad" he said. "a
commuter had a row with the con-
ductor. At the end of the row the
communter turned to friend and
said:
"'Well, the p. d. r. will never see
another cent of my money after this.
THE conductor, who was departing.
looked back and snarled:
'What'I you do. walk
"'Oh, no. said the commuter I'll
stop buying tickets and pay my fare
to you Public Ledger.