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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03

In Canada I have frequently heard
superstitions about infants-such as,
if their fingernails are cut with scis-
sors before they are year old they
will become thieves, and If infants
are weighed they will die before they
are q. year old, says an Exchange.
There is another, I believe, about
what will happen to children who
learn to talk before a certain age,
but 1 don't know what the exact
doom is.
Picking UP an English paper the
other day the first item to meet my
eve was Fear of Weighing Babies"
the article stating that health visit
ors to the Stepney district found that
the women would not allow their
babies to be weighed as they firmly
believed that if a baby is weighed 1t
will die before it is a year old. Most
Canadian superstitions have their
origin in the older countries.
Scotch people are credited with an
especial amount of superstition and
an especial faith in "the little peo-
| ple." and it was to doctor of Scotch
| birth, though of practical tempera-
| ment, that the following incident
happened: He was driving in the
course of his practice late one night
| on an Ontario road, when his horse
suddenly stopped, and nothing could
induce it 10 go further. The doctor
urged and coaxed and wondered, and
| then there occurred to him an old
saving, that fairies could be seer
| looking between a horses ears. He
looked, and behold, he saw an i'm
mense procession of little green folk
| crossing the road in front of him
and not until the whole procession
had passed could the horse be in
duced to go on.
This gift of abnormal sight on the
part of horses, dogs, black sheep an6
other animals. as well as the origin
of the belief that the supernatura
may be seen between a horses ears
was touched on by W. ]. Winterbers
at the last meeting of the Canadian
Folklore Society, and from his paper
/ entitled Seeing the Invisible" | TAX,
the excerpts quoted below:
"a dog or a horse, and more espe
cially a mare, often sees a spirit
when it is invisible to the human eye
The mysterious manner in which dog
Il and horses betray fear when there il
j apparently nothing to dread, TIL,
bowling of the former by night ant
the wild PUSHES of the latter. doubt
less led to this opinion
The belief that one can see thu
vision seen by a horse or a bowling
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
This Divorce Married Rather Young.
Only Seyenty-fiye.
She Had the Last Word.

A country doctor in the North of
ireland, a bachelor, locally noted for
his brusqueness and irascibility, was
driving along q narrow lane, when
his passage was effectually barred by
an old woman, who was returning
from the bog, leading an ass, whose
panniers were filled with peat. The
woman led the ass ito the side Of the
lane as quickly as she could, but not
quick enough to please the short
tempered doctor.
Taught" he exclaimed, women
and asses are always in the wayi'
I'm glad we have the manners to
put yourself last" said the woman
calmly. The doctor drove on with.
out further comment.-Public Ledger.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
THE RECKLESS MOTORISTS TOLL OF DEATH.

IN JUSTICE the majority of motorists well
public general there improved traffic regulations in
punshmens for reckless who down
and kill MAIN people The record of killed and injured in New
York city 485 of whom 302 killed There
onlv e.
without offering any aid to their victims
CHASTITY record like this is calculated breed strong
prejudice communities against the and provoke hos
tity may lead The public refuses believe
that the sacrifice three hundred lives
single city necessary and unavoidable the of the
The conviction that this destruction of human life
ary criminal and that the law and its officers responsible
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03

The determination of the 'loyaP'
Ulster men to induce every man,
woman and child to wear flower as
a token of their aversion to home
rule reminds one how often flowers
have been used as emblems.
Since the leaders of the Yorkist and
L,ancastrian parties each plucked a
rose in the Temple Gardens, the Lam
castrian a red and the Yorkist a
white, this flower has been a popular
emblem. Apart from the fact that red
roses are symbolical of love and white
OF purity, the English national en-
blem is the rose; the Legitimist party
Of France formaJ the League of the
Rase IN limitations of England's Prim-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARpEN:
Author OF ''Pushing to the Front, Etc
Copy4Asht, tS4o-
THE DOCTOR HABIT

and any kind Of medicine will be con'
sidered q very homogeneous cQrnhinas
ton Were children properly reared
In the love thought, in the truth
thought. in the harmony thought
were they trained to right thinking,
doctor or medicine would be rarely
needed.
One of the tendencies of Ill health
is to make one morbid. People who
are constantly thinking about their
ailments often develop a morbid pas
sion for sympathy. They want to
tell everybody of their aches and
pains, to describe their symptoms.
Have you ever known a woman
who has acquired the doctor habit
woman who loves nothing in the
world quite as well as an opportunity
TO tell the doctor of her ailments?
She has poured them out to unw-s.'
come ears, to forced listeners, till she
longs for some one who can really
appreciate it all, who sympathizes
with her in her troubles, so she sends
for the doctor or goes to see him.
This becomes almost a mania With
some women who have few outside
activities to divert them. Their minds
naturally revert to themselves, and
they think of their unfortunate con-
dition until they become saturated
with the poisoned thought.
Confidence is powerful factor In
health. We should thoroughly be-.
lieve in our ability to keep ourselves
we'll by healthful, harmonious, happy
thinking So long as we doubt our
ability to maintain health, so long as
we picture to ourselves disease and
physical weakness, 1t is impossible
to attain to strong, normal physt-
cal condition.
The time will come when we will
no more allow discordant thoughts in
our mind than we would scatter this
tie seeds over our gardens. Know.
ing well that thinking Is building,
our thinking will be reflected in our
bodies.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
PENALTY OF A SOLD NOMINATION.

THE CONVICTION of Joseph Cassidy, the former political
of Queens county receiving $4,000 payment
nomination of William Wllett jr, for Supreme Court Judge
shp to which Wlett failed be elected body blow
graft system New York Wlett had already been convicted of
the bribery This isolated Wett did many
candidate had him Cassidy
peated any unknown the public These
will now expiate their Others
their punishment will be strong deterrent for woudbe bribe
and bribe-soctos the future in New York politics.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
A Foolish Medical Censorship.

From the New York World.
The County Medical Society has
now gone on record as against the
publication of pathological or other
professional matters in the lay press
by doctors, either directly or in lin
spired' articles. 1t deplores the
"self-laudation' of such methods and
condemns the unfortunate promi-
hence" given to physicians whose
names and pictures appear in connec-
ton with newspaper accounts of
new forms of treatment In which
their personal success is exploited. =
Doctors who receive such advertising
are informed that they Flower the
tone of the profession and they are
admonished to conform more strictly
to the "well-known principles of pro-
fessional ethics"
That is to say, doctors who have
made discoveries or devised new
methods of treatment which are Of
i'm portanee to the public must re-
strict the knowledge of them to other
doctors and to the few lay readers
of medical journals. Is the practice
of medicine at this late day an oc-
cult art about which nobody must
know anything but the initiate?
What faint is there in publicity that
can affect a Doctors reputation? If
a medical theory is sound, public
knowledge cannot harm it, and if
it is unsound, the best way to dis
cover the fact is through free dis
cusSion.
1t would be interesting to know
how much of this antagonism to
professional advertising" comes
from doctors who have no discoveries
of their own to make public, and how
much is inspired by jealousy, stupid
ity and incompetence. Certainly the
best way to educate the public in
health matters is by giving the ut
most publicity to medical discovery,
while that is likewise the best safe
guard against quackery. If individ-
ual doctors acquire some credit from
the process, must the fact damn
them?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

never to worry Has any irascible
man ever lived to extreme old age,
or did you ever see a very old wom-
an who had worried and fretted all
her life?
On the Wide Range.
From the Philadelphia Ledger
How wide is your horizon?
A child playing in sandpile in the
back yard cannot see over the high
board fence by which his little repub-
lie is bounded on every hand. On
this side of the fence there is the
small plot, where the sweet peas
grow, and there is a twirllng tree
whose branches are for holding out
clothes like Christmas presents to the
sun. and he has this sandpile wherein
he may dig and dabble to his heart $
content. On the other side of the
fence is ''sorcery and everything I'M
known" 1t is pleasanter and safer
here. Why look for a knothhole, or
way over, or try to get out at the
gate? Yet no inquisitive, acquisitiVe
child is content to be penned up in
his own backyard for playground
forever.
Our minds were not meant to be sat
isfied with a narrow range of arid,
sterile pasturase. They were not
meant to find their nourishment in
the petty gossip of a nelghborhood.
They were designed to roam at large
through the whole wide field of hu-
man interest. The home will gain,
not lose, by the inspiration of the
wife and mother who lifts her eyes to
the hills and beyond the hills to the
stars.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

a fortune accommodating for the wan
derer while he searched for gold, and
a mother pining for a son she loved,
who, she believed, would come to her
had he known of her illness and dis
tress.s
one-Lesged Skater Cuts Circle Around
,, 49,, Normal Ones. y----
COLLINGDALE, Pa. Feb. b.
Skaters who have crowded the ice on
Ridley Park lake the last week were
much interested in the skill of John
Evans, a business man of this place.
with only one leg. He can give many
skaters with two legs cards and
spades in speed or in fancy skating.
He has an artificial leg and Is so
skilful in its use that it would not be
noticed.
This Divorce Married Rather Young
Only Seyenty-fve.
OAKLAND, Feb. 3.-"Haven't you
been a little indiscreet?" asked Judge
Donahue, of Oakland of John War
rail-, eighty-two years old, who was in
court yesterday to show cause why he
should not pay alimony to his wife,
who is seventy.
Yes, judge, think l have" he re-
piled. Il married rather young. =
was only seventy-five."
Mrs. Mary Worrall recently obtained
a divorce and alimony from her octo-
genarian spouse after seven years OF
matrimony. She wanted him sent to
Jail, if he didn't pay up, but he con-
tended that the several thousand dol
lars worth of property he claims is
not his, but belongs to his daughter,
Sarah J. Ryan, of Philadelphia.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
THE GRAND JURY SHOULD ACT.

1T rs proper grand jury should take up nvest-
cation of the allegations and nsnuaons regard the Broad
upon members of the Board of Works
grand jury been appealed by members of the board for
~ an inquiry for the vndication aspersons by
irresponsible newspaper for which there other redress AS
matter simple justice public board the grand jury should
investigate up that farminded wants
70 see cleared ups
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03

Heir to s161.253 Missing, Is Officially
Declared Dead.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-John Kopp,
miner of gold and soldier of fortune,
who disappeared from this city
seventeen years ago, and has not been
heard from in sixteen years, was de-
clared by Referee Michael j. Egan
yesterday to be officially dead. II the
referees report is accepted by Surro-
gate Cohalan, 1851 ,25S, held for Kopp
by the city chamberlain, will be di-
vided among the miners four broth
erS and sisters.
The story of Kopp includes close
search for him during thirteen years,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03

In the Dutch Canals.
From "a wanderer in Holland" by E.
Y. Lucas
I think one may see barges and
canal boats in greater variety at Rot
terdam than anywhere else. One
curious thing to be noticed as they
lie at rest in the canals is the alb
sence of men. A woman is always
there; her husband only rarely. The
only visible captain is the fussy,
shrewish little dog which, suspicious
of the whole world, patrols the boat
from stem to stern and warns you
that 1t is against the law even to look
at his property. l hope his bite is not
equal to his bark.
Every barge has its name. What
the popular style was seven years
ago, when / was here last, I cannot
remember, but today it is will
helmina." English suburban villas
have not a greater variey of fantastic
names than the canal craft of Hol-
land, nor, with all our monopoly of
the word home" does the English
suburban villa suggest more compact
coziness than one catches CLEANS of
through their cabin windows or down
their companions.
Spring cleaning goes on here, as in
the Dutch houses, all the year round,
and the domiciliary part of the YES
sells is spotless. Every bulwark has
washing tray that can be fixed or
detached in a moment. ITS a fine
day, let us kill something" says the
Englishman. Here's an odd mo-
ment, let us wash something" says
the Dutch vrouw.
In some of the Rotterdam canals
the barges are so packed that they
lie touching each other, with their
burgess flying all in the same direc-
ton, as the vanes of st. Sepulchre's
in Holburn cannot do. How they
ever get disentangled again and pro-
coed on their free way to their dis
tant homes is mystery. But in the
shipping world incredible things can
happen at night.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03

From the indianapolis News,
The apparently marvellous way in
which Indians, EsSimos and other
primitive people make their way
through forests, snow-coyered areas
or other regions which have little to
indicate direction to white newcomers
has led to a widespread belief that
they possess mysterious sixth sense
of direction. Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
the Arctic traveller who has lived
much with Eskimos, is very skeptical
about the existence of any superiority
of sense of direction among primitive
peoples of any kind, and gives strong
evidence from personal experience
that Eskimos have no such superior
ity. The ability of Indians and others
to find their way he attributes solely
to their familiarity with the country
through which they are travelling.
They note many things that they have
seen before and that have no signifi-
canoe to the stranger in their land.
White men can and do acquire the
same ability to find their way when
they have learned to know a country.
When the land is equally strange To
the white man and the Indian or Es-
kimo, the white man, because of his
better developed reasoning power, is
more likely to have correct idea of
direction than the Eskimo.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
How Anger Poisons.

From the Boston Globe.
The physiological reasons why it
is well to heed the biblical injunc-
ton, Let not the sun go down upon
your wrath" were clearly presented
by Professor w. B. Cannon in his
Sunday lecture in the Harvard Med
ical School. If you are angry or
veXed when you go to bed you are
likely to deprive yourself of a good
nights rest and wake up the next
morning with a headache.
But that is not all the havoc which
anger works. DR.. Cannon showed
that it may stop digestion complete
ly and also turn so much sugar into
the blood as to cause serious kidney
trouble. Fear and other forms of
great mental excitement produce the
same effect. 1t has long been known
that mental states are closely allied
with physical states and that changes
in the mind may be followed with
changes in the body.
So 1t behooves us to be serene,
placid, never to get ratified" and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
You Can't Fool a Girl.

did not wish to let her know
How beautiful she seemed to me;
feared she might not care, and SO
did not wish to let her know;
How can you fool maiden, though,
However silent you may be?
did not wish to let her know
How beautiful she seemed to me-
did not wish to let her guess
The eager longing that had;
With no intention to confess,
| did not wish to let her guess,
And yet she softly answered Eyes"
Her manner confident and glad
did not wish to let her guess
The eager longing that had.
IS. E. KISER, in Chicago Record-Her
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
Pulls a So Bill on Bartender and Wins
$40.

MIDDLETOwN. N. Y, Feb. "a
man walked into a barroom here yes
terday and asked. Twill you change
SO bill, please?'
The bartender went to the cash
register to get the money, then turn
ed and said, "Ah, quit your kidding!
There's no such bill"
"I'Il bet you $40 there is" retorted
the stranger.
you're on" the bartender replied.
"Produce!"
The stranger produced. The bill
was one issued by the Connecticut
State Bank of North America in Sey-
mour in January, 1852. On its face
was estate of Connecticut. The
Bank of North America will pay to
the bearer on demand SO. Seymour,
January 1. 1852. No. 1928. F. At
water, cashier. G. F. De Witt, presi-
dent
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
Graft and Graftsrs.
e Rochester Herald.

| From the Rochester Herald.
Assistant District Attorney Moss.
of New York, in the course of re-
cent address in New York city, where
he has been an efficient prosecutor of
grafters, declared II am not de-
| Tending the known grafters, but 1
am trying to impress upon you that
none of us can look the other man in
the face and point finger at him
and say he that he alone is the only
CRATER. Any a man who has started
out to expose graft in official circles
has lost all interest in such an ex-
posture when some police officer or
other official has whispered quietly
in his ear. Even ministers of the
gospel have been known to have been
so affected.
1T is pretty nearly true that, as a
saloonkeeper told me, every man has
his price. The only way to escape
contamination is to do as the high
official in the Lincoln administration
3id-set out before your figure is
rea-;hed."
Mr.. Moss speaks pessimistically.
but it does not follow from this fact
that he is without some measure of
truth. 1t was Sir Roger Walpole, we
believe, who first uttered the maxim
that every man has his price, and
from Walpole's day down to the
present time a great majority of men
could have been bought pretty cheap.
You can buy some of them for
drink of whiskey: 50 will buy a lot
more, and a few thousand-well, we
do not love to contemplate what a
few thousand will do. In spite of all
our dogmas and all our churches, in
spite of all our schools and UNIVERSE
ties, in spite of all our boosted civili-
zation, very many men have their
price, and ii is not, in the larger
number of instances, very big one.
The reason why we have so many big
grafters is because these are pro-
tected by hordes of little would-be |
grafters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03

81 Square Inch Is Price Paid for Human
Il Skin.
CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-One dollar a
square inch is the latest market quo
tation on human skin. John Clark,
of Cincinnati, o., yesterday sold Sam
uel Nadile, twenty-seven, an cleo
trician of Melrose Park. 100 square
inches of cuticle for $780,, The skin
was transferred from Clarks legs
to Nadile's leg yesterday at the Oak
Park Hospital by Dr. w. f. Scott, of
haywood. The operation was pro-
nounced successful and Nadile's leg
will not have to be amputated.
Nadile was badly burned on the
arm, leg and body by a live wire last
December In January his right arm
was amputated, and it was decided
by DR.. S. w. Coffman, of haywood,
that his leg could only be saved by
skin grating.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03

Copyright, 1914, by E. j. Edward:
All rights reserved)
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-04-24

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that the
"CLADSTONE' or BEAUMONT PROP.
ERTY, near Lake Rruen, in the Third Ward
e Te 2H5 HrsFssn y posted sgsinst HUNT.
lators vim be prosecuted.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-04-24

The closed season in Louisiana for wa
terfowl shall be between February l and
November 1.
The closed season, in Louisiana, for
rails, coots and galinules shall be between
February and November Is.
The closed season on black breasted
and golden plover, Jack-snipe or Wilson
snipe and greater and lesser yellowlegs,
in Louisiana, shall be between February
l and November l.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-04-24
The HEALTH STATUS OF The NEGRO,

The health status of the negro is of vi
tai interst to every white person and to
every individual Of his own race.
1t is widely known that the death rate
among people of this race is abnorlnally
high. The cause is found not in climatic
or general sanitary conditions, but in the
negrO's ignorance of simple laws OF health
and in the insanitary surroundings for
which he himself is largely responsible.
These defects can be remedied-the first
by instruction; the second by enforce
ment of sanitary regulations especially
those which relate to water supply and
sewerage disposal, applied not to the ne
gro tenant alone but to the white land
lord as well.
The widespread misrepresentation exist
ing as to the healthfulness of the south is
due largely to the distorted facts. Morbid
ity among negroes particularly is exas-
gerated. The South has nothing to lose
by publicity. To make evident conditions
as they are will inspire confidence and
bring conviction to the fair minded.
To institute measures for the eradica-
ton OF any sanitary evil is intelligent and
civic obligation; moreover, it implies
economic foresight. But attack OH any
defect Of the social body to be effective
must De made concerted movement by
all interested.
To this end, Louisiana State Board of
Health believes it timely to- call confer
ence Of health and educational leaders
the South that agreement
may be reached concerning immediate,
practical measures for betterment of health |
among negroes.
The meeting will he held in New Or |
leans April 24-25. East OF the Mississippi |
a rate Of one fare plus 25c from all points
has been granted; west of the Mississippi |
the rate is &c mile round trip. Hotels |
have given % per cent reduction. Account
Of Health week, tickets on sale 18th. Re-
turn limit, April 9th.