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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17

Americans recently have become
so much interested regarding the
available banana, cocoanut and tim
Der lands of Honduras, as shown, by
their inquiries, that United States
Consul Harold d. Chun has sent a
report to the. department of COM
merce on the subject, which he hopes
will be satisfactory to most inquirers.
He says it is now impossible to OBJ
tain extensive tracts of land suitable
for raising bananas along tho coast
near Ceiba, but that east of Truxillo,
however, there is reported to be
plenty of land available for banana
production.
Mr.. Chun also makes a rather dis
couraging report regarding the avail
ability of cocoanut lands near Chun
or in the Bay Islands, for the reason
that jersons owning suitable lands are
reluctant to part with them, as CO.
coanut growing has now become very
profitable. But, again, he learns that
eastward from TruXillo, and espe-
cially east of Iriara, are many miles
of coast land reputed to be excellent
for cocoanut gardens.
Il am informed" continued Mr..
Chun, writing further of the re-
sources of Honduras, that there are
extensive tracts of fine timber in the
neighborhood of Caratasca Lagoon, in
what is known as the Honduran
timber prospectors who visited tbs
region some months ago stated that
the growth there compares very
favorably with the best found in the
southern part of the United States,
and that it would make an excellent
sawmill proposition. In order to cut
and export this timber it would be
necessary to obtain a concession from
the government of Honduras.
There is said to be a certain
amount of mahogany in the neigh
borhood of the Paulaya, Sicri, Tuas,
Plantain and Patuca rivers and their
tributaries, in the Mosquito, the priv
ilege of cutting which would have to
be obtained by concession. | am in
formed that concession has recently
been given to certain parties to cut
mahogany in this region, but | do not
understand that this will exclude
others.
THE manager of a banana company
tells me that he has completed ar
rangements to acquire about 10000
acres of timberland in the department
of Tegecigalpa, between RIO Hondo
and Agalteca, on which there are APP
proximately 100000 trees of pine and
hard woods. After being cleared. this
land would be good for cattle. sugar
cane or coffee. The company will
probably sell it for approximately 81
gold per acre. At present it Is impos-
sible to get the timber out, owing to
lack of transportation to the coast,
but the manager is confident that a
railway will be built into the vicinity
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Seek Land in Central America

I before long, as important interests
have valuable iron mine at Agal~
teca.
Large tracts of land suitable for
raising cattle are available along the
north coast of Honduras. / am in
formed that to the eastward of Trux-
lilo, and especially in the section
around Caratasca Lagoon, considera-N
bic areas said to be excellent for this
purpose can be acquired by denounce-
ment, at an approximate cost of 500
gold per acre. The great disadvan-
tage of the Caratasca region is that it
is remote and unsettled. The lands in
the Department of blanche are at
present without easy communication
with the coast, but the Indications
are that the railway line of the Trux-
lilo Railroad Company, now under
construction, will reach them within
two or three years. In other parts of
the country tnearer the more settled
portions of the coasD it costs, / am
told, about SIS per acre to clear, grass
and fence the land. Considerable
areas in the Bay Islands, especially
Ruatan, are also adapted for pastur-
age, but would have to be cleared.
fenced etc. In the islands conditions
should be favorable for loading, owing
to the many harborS with deep water
close to shore, and health conditions
are said to be better than on the
coast"
Mr.. Chun says, however, that he
would not advise an American with
$4,000 capital to buy grazing lands and
go into the cattle business in Hon.
duras under present conditions.
II am Informed" he continues, that
by expanding 81, 900 for land and build.
ings and $1,000 for cattle and expenses
until a person began to get returns,
he might make a fair living in the
dairy business if he is familiar with
the cattle business, speaks the Span
ish language and is accustomed to
dealing with Spanish Americans, and
if he is fortunate in getting the SER
vices of a capable and honest native
overseer. | am told that for 81, 900 one
can have 100 acres of good pasture
land, fenced, near the settled part of
the coast, and that this could carry
fifty head of cattle Twenty picked
native COWS would cost about 5000 and
would give returns of about 40 cents
gold per day each. Two men could
handle the business. | would not re-
gard this in the light of an invest
ment, however, but as a means OF
earning ones living; and If 1t is "a
question of residing here and earning
ones living in this way, the life on
this coast might be found disagreeable
in some respects, malaria and dysen-
terry being prevalent.
"Steers now sell for about S22 gold
on this coast, and for SIS to SIS in the
Interior. This does not apply to re-
pastured cattle, but to those from the
range, Ordinary cows can be bought
for about $18 picked ones for $26 to
$40"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
A STATE BOARDS JUDICIAL ACT.

The State Fish and Game Commission has judi
cally sat upon the fish and game license act and
decided that it does not apply to dewaters inter-
state rivers to bodies of water that not may
not hereafter be stocked by the com Mission. This
greatly limits the application of the law and likewise
limits the amount of revenue to be derived from it.
But it may be asked what authority the commits
sion has to interpret act for the commission to
carry out by any other than the plain terms of the
act. How the commission write into the law that
which the Legislature did not put there? A legsla-
tive act may be rnwise, but it is mandate for an
administration board for it to obey
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Mint Makes 1876, 626, s71 Coins

The United States minis in the fiscal
year ended June 80. 1913, turned out
1S6,626,S71 coins, pretty good years
work. The face value of these coins
was $97, 496,590, but this amount was
rather unevenly distributed, $3O,05S,2 SS
being in gold coins, $S,44S, 200 in silver
and s9,94O, 102 in, copper and nickel. In
number, however, the copper coins
had even more preponderance than
the gold coins in value, since there
were 17006Sf61 of Them against only
a, 221, 400 of the gold pieces.-Engineer-
ing and Mining News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17

mud and stone, others by dense
priclly hedges. Tapering poplar
trees, dark Expresses, mulberry, POM
eSranate, apple. cherry, silver olive
grew by the river side or east their
shadows around the house doors.
while tall shrubs marked the banks
of the river water courses, with
branches woven together by the star
like flowers of the clematis. sweet
honeysuckle and wild vines, and thus.
although the son of Jew, Paul lived
far away from his own country
among Greek manners and customs,
but under Roman laws, in what would
now be called an ancient university
city. in a fruitful plain between the
mountains and the seas"
The description of the early sur
roundings of st. Paul, though the
author is indebted i'm part to his inn
main features. But now what a
change! During the hundreds of
years of Turkish misrule many of
the fertile fields have become barren
The loaded fruit trees have been cut
down. The Cydnus has formed for.
itself a new channel, and the old
harbor, which was white with the
sails of many nations, is now an I'M
healthy morass.
Country villas on waterloo's Field.
From the Glasgow Herald
When the centenary of the battle of
Waterloo is celebrated next year Wis
itors to the famous field will find that
it has largely lost its rural appear
ance, as it has become a favorite site
for building of country villas. There
are no fewer than fifty now on the
field where Napoleon met his doom,
and many of them are built on the
very spots that We're occupied by the
combatants. The field is an ideal sit
uation for country retreats. The COM
pIetion of good motor roads from Nj
velles and Charleroi has done much
to stimulate villa building.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17

of her fathers literary abilities, but
she confined her writing to descrip-
tive sketches of rural scenery. Her
Cooperstown, N. Y, where she spent
the greater part of her life, because
of the orphanage for hundred chill
dren which she founded in that town.
Other celebrated women born on
April II are these: Mary Peters, an
English clergyman's wife. who wrote
popular hymns; Anna Garlin Spen-
Ger and Margaret Elizabeth Stratton,
both American educators; Isabel Bar
rows, a present-day editor, who was
the first woman stenographer ever
employed by the department of state
at Washington, and Augusta Bristol,
the feminist writer, who died three
years ago.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Hard on Hubby.

The Lady Ito the aeroplane dem
onstrator)-'I wish you wouldn't try
TO sell an airship to my husband
The Salesman-"And why not,
madam"
Because he isn't to be trusted
with it."
"But, madam, our new machines
are all fool-proof."
Ordinarily, perhaps. But you
haven't met my husband. "-Cleve.
land Plain-Dealer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
FIRE DANGER AT OVERLOOK.

Better fire protection at the Overlook Hospital
for the Insane is real necessity. The best possible
equipment should be placed there and the fire depart
ment organization kept in thorough drill. With it's
large insane population the hospital is tremendous
fire risk, and without ample facilities for preventing
or extinguishng fires and for the orderly exit of the
patients great calamity might happen at any time.
The freeholders' committee that ordered improve
ments in the fire protection at Overlook yesterday
was none too soon in it's action
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Famous Oak Is Dying

H. Roberts, take much interest in the
tree and for the last two seasons they
have been spraying it's branches to
stop as far as possible the growth of
the gypsy moths.
The Northam Colonists, local his
torical society, has become interested
in the tree, and it is understood that
the organization also intends to help
in the preservation of the dying mon
arch of the virgin forest.
The old tree has girth of twenty
three feet when the tape is held one
foot above the ground.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Was Damage Wreaked by "Northwester"
CAN Act of Providence

ing to the sworn testimony of Henry
Pennywitt, United States weather OBJ
server, the banner northwest wind in
Pittsburgh blew the afternoon of
May 81, 1911, when it reached a We
locity of sixty-four miles an hour.
This testimony was developed in a
suit for damages brought by George
s. Martin against a property holder,
whose sign had been blown down.
and in falling struck Martin. Attor-
neys for the defendant declared ii
was IAN act of Providence" and
called in the weather observer to
prove it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
APRIL IT
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Copyright
BY MARY MARSHALL.

Susan Fenimore Cooper was born
101 years ago today. She was the
daughter of the American novelist,
James Fenimore Cooper, and had it
not been for his curious dying request
that no biography be written to tell
the story of his life, Susan would
have undertaken this task.
Susan Cooper had been very much
loved by her father, and for years
she acted as his secretary. So she
knew more than anyone else did
about the details of his life, his am
bition and his methods of work; but
she respected her fathers wish and
left unwritten the book that she
might so interestingly have prepared.
Susan Cooper inherited something
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
BRlTIsnERs HATE YANKEE NOTIONS.

woman engaged in rescue work in English cities
has told the mayor of Blackburn that women police
could do excellent work in handling drunken
females and protecting girls in parks and dance halls
and the mayor agrees with her, but is afraid he
will not be able to get the idea accepted because
is an American notion and the people OF Lancashire
have for anything that bears the Yankee stamp
This is an epitome of the English feeling toward
America
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Mourning No Longer in Fashion.
From The Ohio State Journal.

From the Ohio State Journal.
The notice of the death of an emil
nent man in London contained these
words: "His wife and family will
respect his urgent desire that no out
ward sign of mourning should be
worn Ina referring TO this notice
the London Times says: The prac-
tise OF wearing mourning has long
been sliding into disuse, and proba-
bly, the next twenty years will see
it abandoned altogether, at any rate
among the wealthier people,
According to the London paper, all
badges OF woe are disappearing from
funerals. The black rosettes on the
horses brides and the Grape on the
hats and sleeves are seen seldom. So
it is with black edged writing pa
per and blecK-edged cards. 1t is
all going, because mourning is not
needed. either for memory or respect.
Here are two paragraphs from the
Times article
'Those whose sympathy we value
will give it us, without our advertis-
ing for it; il will seem all but indie
cent to go about the world demand
ing sympathy of strangers.
"And il we believe that those who
have left us have still the power to
observe our doings we must believe
that il is our hearts. not our clothes,
that they will read
All OF which may seem a little I'M
feeling, and yet it is only to give
an idea of the changes that are going
on in the world of mourning.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Horse Stands Hours with Lifted Hoof to
Keep from Stepping on Driver.

BINGHAMTON, n. Y, April ia
touching instance of the intelligence
and fidelity of a horse came to light
yesterday when the body of Frank
Harmon was found face downward
in a small brook near Owego with
blanket so wrapped about him that
he had been unable to save himself
after falling. over Harmon stood his
team. one of the animals having re-
manned for many hours without being
able to place one of its feet to the
ground, as lannon's face was under
the hoof, and the horses were unable
to move freely in the tangled harness.
Coroner Rubert said If he had fallen
face up he would have escaped. Had
the horse placed his weight on the
lifted hoof, lannon's body would
have been mangled.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Minister Makes Call for 65 Marriageable
BACHELORS With Votes.

SYRACUSE, April 17.-President f.
M. Parsons, of the village of Weeds
port, has sounded clarion call for
bachelors to come to his village and
marry sixty-five widows who own
property there.
The town has too many widows, he
says. adding that he knows sixty-five
of them who would marry again.
Friends of the executive see an
Ethiopian in the woodpile. The viii
lage is soon to vote on a municipal
lighting plant. Parsons opposes 1t,
and wants the sixty-fiVe. votes to
carry the proposition his way.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Cans Spne in Hreadp

In Already In Already!
o, addie, laddie, bark to me,
Yell never tread blther land in all your way of life;
o honey-sweet the kisses there,
And heart o grace the maids are fair!
For beauty dwells in Already lad when the young
In Already! In Already!
o adde, but the heart of me
Went pusng golden rapture lad through evry joyous
When | young in Already
And life all song me-
And merry hearts and loyal lad Jared gayly my side
In Already! In Already!
Lang Syne assie harked with me-
With dancing feet and dancing eyes, cherry lips of red
And love all she asked of me-
When love is all what can be?
Sure gold dross in Already and are current con
ALFRED THORNE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
May Send Male Gossip to Jail for SANDER
ing Rival.

GREEN BAY, Wis, April 17-Be-
cause he violated the anti-gossip law,
passed by the last Legislature, De-
tective Dan M. Hyde. prize ring ref
cree and hotel official in Milwaukee,
faces a term of n year in Jail or a
fine of $3.50.
He was found guilty yesterday by
jury of slanderous gossip about De-
tective Dick Cunningham. of Milwau-
kee. as a result of a prohibition fight
in Green Bay, in which the fight ref
cree was representing the clergy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Moves House Into State Where He Wa
Born to Die Happy.

PITTSFIELD, Mass, April H.
Eleazer Larabee has moved his
house from Vermont into Massachu-
sets because he was born in Mas
saehusetts and wants to die in the
old Bay State.
When he built a home in Williams
town he supposed that he was in the
State. Then government surveyors
came along and changed the State
boundary after he had paid taxes to
Massachusetts for several years. Lar
abee then had a new cellar dug over
in Massachusetts and yesterday
moved his residence into the Bay
State. The change cost him $1,000.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Woman Sacrifices Life Under Train to
Save Pet Dog.
Life-Saver's Dream Solves Mystery OF
Missing Man.

MISSING Man.
NEW YORK, April t7.--Ray Burch,
life-saver, saw in a dream the body
of his friend, William Bennett, an
other life-saver, who disappeared on
March /, lying on the beach at
Thatch Island. off the Fire Island
beach. Thereupon Burch sailed to
Thatch Island yesterday and found
the body.
Bennett was a member of the Jones
Beach life-saving crew. While sail
ing from Amityville to Jones Beach
he disappeared his boat being found
afterward. Life-savers of his own
and the Gilgo station crew searched
for the body for several weeks.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Progress of the quebec bridge.

From the Engineering Kecord.
In the erection of the Quebec bridge
across the st. Lawrence river, which
win have the greatest span in the
world, over 10000 tons of steel are to
be assembled in three spans, of a
ecmbined length of 1880 feet. $50 feet
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Cards and Reading Give Way to Tango
ing ON Trains.

CHICAGO, April 17.-"Tango your
way to the West" is the latest slogan
of the transcontinental lines. Instead
of playing cards and reading novels
travellers are using the victrola on
the best trains for dance music. The
tables and chairs of the dining cars
are removed so that the passengers
may amuse themselves with the
tango.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
ODDITIES IN
TODAYS NE WIS
class Eye Is ExpIoded By Mexican war

Glass Eye Is Exploded by Mexican War
News.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va. April H.
M. c. Canterbury, a farmer residing
fear here, was leaning over his paper
with his attention riyeted on a Mexi-
can war story, when, with a loud re-
port, his artificial eye burst, and a
shower of glass fell on the paper He
was uninjured, but fell out of his
chair in surprise.
The explosion was similar to that of
an electric light bulb. Glass eyes,
like incandescent lights, are made
with O near vacuum. Just what
caused the explosion was more than
local optician could explain.
Woman Sacrifices Life Under Train to
Save Pet Dog.
PEMBROKE, N. c., April 17.--De-
votion for her pet dog cost the life
of an old Cherokee (Croatan) Indian
woman here today. The dog, how
ever, was saved.
The aged Indian woman, accompa-
MED by the dog, was walking along
the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line.
Suddenly she observed the approach
of fast passenger train The dog, in
the meantime, had gotten a short
ways ahead of its owner. Unmndful
of her own danger, the woman made
dash for the dog. She managed to
save her pet, but in doing so was
struck and instantly killed by the
train.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17

IUIH IHt NHfIsIIun Herald.
Robert Bird, in his interesting life
of st. Paul. tells us that when Paul
lived in Tarsus the River Cydnus,
which gushes forth from a deep cleft
in the mountains to the north passed
through fields of rich red earth for
over twenty miles, receiving many
little streams on it's way to the sea.
Small villages, white farms and dark
mud huts were scattered over the
plain of pasture lands and fields of
grain. hedged vineyards and fruit
gardens some protected with walls of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

above the water The river is 200 feet
deep. with n tide of sixteen feet and
Il current of eight miles per hour.
Pieces weighing 1856 tons and COM
pound members nearly 800 feet long,
weighing more than 1900 tons, are
to be handled in midair and assem-
bled and maintained with precision.
Two cantilever arms must be built
out self-supporting for $50 feet be-
yond their piers and remain exposed
! for months TO the severest storms
and 64O-foot double track 5,000-ton
railroad span must be built at dis
lance, floated to the site, raised 100
| feet and connected to them with great
| speed and accuracy.
| 1t is expected that all this can be
accomplished in four years of elapsed
time, since work must be discon-
tinued during the long and severe
winters. To do this. elaborate proVi-
sion is now being made for all the
construction operations. the schedule
is prepared for the successive steps
and the details of operations are be-
ing minutely worked out. Even with
this care the cost of installation of
the whole erection equipment will
hardly fall short of s1,000,000, eXclu-
sive of maintenance, supplies and
labor, so that the total erection eX-
pense reaches thousands of dollars a
day for the actual working time.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17

Copyright. 1914, by DIR. E. j. e.
wards. All rights reserved.)
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-06-04

Every one fresh. clean. tested
stamped and guaranteed. Gcntry,
eggs, IN sealed boxes al Jaffa's, Ma.
Joys, Hawkins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-16
patted his cravat into more graceful eff.

patted his craVat into more graceful Ell
feet.
Back Of their irritation the girls were
really worried. They knew that Frank
was doomed to an unhappy matrimonial
experience as surely as fat steer Is
doomed to the stockyards. And he was a
dear boy They liked him and they felt
sorry for him and the future unknown
her who was to aff1ict him as he would
afiict her.
"a divorce will be terrible sighed
Annabel, There never has been one In
our family
I'm afraid" sighed Ruth; You know
no wife would ever give him the closet
space that he gets here at home. we
wouldn't, If mother hadn't somehow got
US in the habit"
"And he'll choose some fussy. particu-
lar, finicky, dressy girl who will think
she is the main member of the family
And Frank will still think that ne IS
And each will find fault with the
other"
HE won't have thing to do with some
nice, meek little thing who doesnt care
for clothes and so would adore him
"Of course. not dolefully. well, we
must hope for the.best.'
They tried to explain delicately 10
Franks next pal" as he called each OF
a long succession of girls. that her way
would be hard. She was a smart,
| wealthy young lady, whose face was as
attractive as her wealth, and all Frank
| family rather hoped that she would De
| the favored one. STILL they felt 1t DUTY