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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
The Cabby and His Bible.

An Edinburgh cabman was driving
an American round the sights of the
northern city In High street he
stopped, and with wave of his whip
announced;
THAT is John KnoX's house"
John Knoxn' exclaimed the Ameri-
can. who was he?"
This was too much for the cabby.
Good heavens, man" he exclained,
did you never read your Bible p
Westminster Gazette.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
Beating the Birds at Their Own Game

hope. The sole thing / wish to ac-
complish is to instill into the minds
of the people of my own country the
serious Importance of the aeroplane,
in order that the Federal government
may awaken from it's coma and see
that this nation takes its place in
the conquest of the air.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
A RAILROAD BELT LINE.

The plan for belt line railroad to circle Newark
and the adjacent towns submitted to the nterurban
conference is a much more ambitious and comprehen-
sive one than that Of the belt line proposed and
seriously discussed years ago for railroad
belt line around Newark for the benefit of manufac-
turers The nonsuccess of that proposition chief
y due to that the railroads did not take kind
ly to it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
RARNEs REnIvIvus.

William Barnes is making up the slate of nomina-
lions for the Republican State ticket in New York
for the Republican voters to nominate in their
primaries 1t but yesterday that the demand for
the elimination of Mr.. Barnes in the party manage
ment was loudly voiced throughout the State, and
here he is naming the who to compose the
party ticket in the fall
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15

enormous profit. actual and potential in the timber
holdings given them"
AS about 70 per cent. of the water power sites of
the country are now owned or controlled by COM
parativey small group of men who are constantly
adding more the prospect is that the nation will
be in the grasp of combinations in complete control of
its timber and water power unless government can
save the situation
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
The Art of Boxing.

Recent and current outpourings
from SNUG souls CONCERNING popular
interest in a certain Parsian event
have once more demonstrated how
many there are unable or unwilling
to differentiate between boxing and
prize fighting.
The arguments in favor of boxing
as an exercise for creating and main
tanning manly vigor and good health
would fill a book. The glove game
comes as near as any sport to de-
veloping evenly all the muscles of
the body. Another virtue of boxing is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
Drought Broken, Cincinnati BaptIsts Say
million Dollar" Prayer Did IL.
Lost Baby Found Playing with Cubs Ii
Den of Bears.

FIFTELD, Wis, July 15.-An old
black bear and her two cubs played
the part of mother and p1aymates
for Baby Ball, the two-year-ol old son
of farmer living near Fifeld. Yes
terday the little boy was found nest
ling close to the cubs in their brush
bed, hidden in a patch of briars.
He disappeared from his home two
days ago and a countrywide search
has been carried on to find him.
The big Goggles play. but Baby's
hungry" was the greeting the little
fellow gave the men who found him.
The child was starving apparently,
but was not suffering from exposure.
IL was evident to the men who found
him that he had been kept alive by
the warmth of the bears bodies
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
Celnpus TuSlt

ut is a year since last we met"
Remarked Thomas cat
Unto a feline friend who, too,
Upon back fence sat-
Indeed, it does not seem so long
A time since you were here,
But have noticed recently
How fast time goes, my dear.
Twas only yester-night that
Sang here melody,
And some one in the neighborhood
SHED many things at me.
"A boot-jack came, an overshoe
A nickel clock at last
! never realized before
That time could fly so fasto
-Yonkers Statesman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
Jack Straw's Castle.
the Manchester Guardian.

a iOhi liz -"uhNHNShSi
Jack Straw's castle on Hampstead
Heath. which is mourning the death
OF it's landlord. is one of those rather
numerous inns whose claims to honor
rest more on legend than on solid
facts. 1t is true that every Dick
ensian goes there, at least once in
his life. and there is solid warrant for
the pilgrimage on the authority of
John Forster
In 1887 Dickens wrote to him pro-
posing a winter tramp over the heath,
with the added attraction of II know
a good 'ouse there where we can have
red hot chop for dinner and a glass
of good wine" Forster adds that
this was the first of many happy
meetings at Jack Straw's castle. But
the story that Dickens often stayed
there has not the same authority.
The other Jack Straw legend Is that
the peasant leader built a fort there,
of which it can only be said that the
house is APPARENTLY built on an aneNn7
earthwork. whoever was its architect.
The first reference to the castle Is in
mention of a horse race on the
heath in 174S, but 1t has a corner in
"Clarissa Harlowe."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Vein OF Grim Hnmor Shown In win OF
Dead Railroad Man.

Vein OF Grim Humor Shown In Win OF
Dead Railroad Man.
ST. LOUIS. July ia vein of
humor runs through the will of Mar
tin L. Clardy. vice-president and gen.
eral solicitor of the Missouri Pacific
railway, just filed in the Probate
Court. Mr.. Clardy died on July 5.
Referring to the administration of
his estate, Mr. Clardy said in the will
II will have been in court a good
many years when die, and ask that
my estate, SO far as the administra-
ton of it Is concerned, may be closed
in a reasonable time and my name
dropped from the docket, not to ap-
pear any more in an earthly court"
Drought Broken, Cincinnati Baptists Say
million Dollar Prayer Did IL.
CINCINNATI. July 15.-The long
drought which threatened the crops in
the Ohio Valley has been broken by
the rain and the good members of the
Lincoln Park Baptist Church are jubi-
liant The Rev. George Robbins, their
pastor, acting as their spokesman. de-
clares that their prayers did 1t. Some
of them call 1t million dollar PRAYER.
The protracted dry weather had
broken ali records for forty years.
The Lincoln Park Baptists had de-
voted their Sunday services to prayer
for rain and the answer had come
within twenty-four hours. ut simply
shows the efficacy Of prayer" says
Mr.. Robbins.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

tivity. Most pursuits and activities
science, business and the like-ap-
peal but to one side of mans nature;
poetry appeals to the whole man, IN
wolves the whole man. Poetry Is a
discipline, intellectually and cmotlon-
ally. as rigid as science; it demands
nicer moral discrimination than man
is called upon to exercise in any other
sphere of activity; it sets standards CT
action to which man. in his daily life,
consistently fails to attain.
The pleasure of poetry is refined
and elevated. 1t differs from the
pleasure in the soda fountain or
the moving picture show; it cannot
always, like these, be gathered by the
casual passerby even as he plucks the
obvious berry on the bush. We work
in order to gain a high pleasure We
work because we cannot gain that
high pleasure without work. The
true enjoyment of poetry demands
effort, steadiness of purpose, some
times even pain, to achieve it. Learn
ing, said Aristotle, is painful, and
the adage is true even to poetry The
true enjoyment of good poetry lies be-
You'd the hills of effort
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15

in developing the capacity for quick
thinking. The boxer who permits his
wits TO go wool gathering is likely to
be awakened by stiff punch. The
cooperation between mind and BODY
which is one of the marks of the sue
cessful man is encouraged by box
ing as by few other sports Even
baseball is inferior in this respect, for
few plays in the national pastime
are pulled off with such startling
suddenness as marks the actions of
clever boxer.
Quickness of thought, swiftnees in
putting the thought into action-what
would not any ambitious man give
to attain these qualities. Yet both
may be accomplished by persistent
practise with the gloves.
Development of self control is an
other pronounced virtue of the manly
art. The man who flies in rage at
the slightest provocation, who finds
1t impossible to control his temper,
and who realizes that these faults are
calculated to ruin and embitter his
whole life and keep him constantly
/ in hot water could not do better than
! to place himself in the hands of a
good teacher of boxing.
Hard to Enjoy Poetry.
From the University of Missouri Bulletin.
The true enjoyment of poetry and
/ hard work go hand in hand. l'OPu-
| lar conception, in and out of school,
/ is likely to be to the contrary. Every
body reads; everybody IS in some
sense a student of literature, and the
| end sought by all is immediate pie lg-
ure, free from effort. And there is
such thing as a kind of pleasant
and harmless browsing on the hill
sides of literature that Yields mild,
narcotic pleasure; there is even a
kind of poetry that comes near fbe
class of pushpin, bowling and golf,
| affords mild tonic of mental recrea-
ton and produces a pleasing forget
! fulness of ones creditors and the
| stings of the world.
But this popular conception of the
study of poetry is, of course, wrong.
Poetry is not froth, nor IS it yet
the fumes of wine. Its end is pie asure,
but the pleasure is of the kind that
comes in all worthy poetry, only af-
ter effort and hard work. -he rue
study of good poetry demands high
er and fuller exercise of ollr facul-
ties than any other pursuit or ac-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
ANOTHER GOOD MARK FOR NEWARK,
JAMES SMITH. JR.

WEDNESDAY EVENING. JULY 15. 1914.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

TT RECENT occasions demand urg-
ent measures When a little
lie will not save a man he feels
justified in telling a big one.
There had been signs of the ap-
preaching conflict for several days.
Mrs Lysander John Appleton had had
an evening gown made: Daysey
Mayme, in addition to her new gown,
had purchased a new wrap; Lysander
Johns dress suit had been cleaned
and pressed and every roar OF pro-
test from him had been met with the
argument that they had to accept In
vitations to let the world know they
were invited, and that he must come
homo early that evening and get
dressed on time,
He pleaded everything from bust
ness engagements to neuritis and
blind staggers; he told his little lies
glibly,. and realized when on the way
home that night that the time had
come when lie would be justified in
telling a big one.
The clock struck six. No Lysander
John. Seven, and his wife's anger
had given way to apprehensins.
Eight, ana she was n V1ClIiu VI tiie
widest fears Nine, and she and
Daysey Mayme had removed Their
party dresses and sat huddled before
the front window watching for him
Ten, and they had stopped watch
ing for the figure Of a man crossing
the square and were looking for am
balances AMI undertakers' wagons,
and stretchers, and all the grewsome
sights that darkness can conJure.
Eleven, and Mrs. Lysander John was
on the lounge in Mysteries and Daysey
Mayne was declaring In one of these
rare periods OF sanity that come to
the unmarried that, thank Heaven,
she wasn't married. and had man to
worry over, when the doorben rang!
The door opened to meet Lysander
John! Dazed. trembling. with eyes
| filled with fear, he could only gasp,
Don't let her get me! Don't let
her get mel" as he staggered into
the room, and fell in heap on the
| floor.
1t was an hour later before he could
tell a coherent story. He was COM
| ing home from the cars, he said,
when n blonde woman sat down be-
side him He noticed that she gaZed
at him with admiring eyes, but he re-
| membered that he was married to the
| best woman on earth, and steadily
looked the other way. Suddenly she
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
r TELMER, the young poet, awak-
ct h.

TTELMER, the young poet, awak-
ems at 2 in the afternoon on a
Sunday because a ray OF the
sun strikes his face. He yawns,
stretches himself tries to go to sleep
again, but is forced to give it up
Suddenly, quite wide awake now, he
stretches out his hand and gets hold
of his pocketbook and his wallet. He
examines both feverishly, only to lay
them aside with a sigh of despair.
Then he remembers.
He remembers how last night he
drank just the glass of whisky and
soda he should not have drunk. For 1t
was that one glass which. in spite Of
all his good resolutions, drew all the
others after It.
1t was that glass which caused him
to stay all night in the cafe with his
friends, who afterward treated him
to an early morning breakfast with
long sQhnapses, and caused his last
ten Kroner bill to disappear, though
he was to use ii to-day to take din
ner with his sweetheart.
When Helmer half an hour later,
fully dressed and In the best of spir-
it's, lights his first cigarette. he real
ICES that his landlady, Frau Johum-
sen, whom he already owes four
weeks rent, is his only possible sal
walton. And he really succeeds in
making her lend him fifteen Kroner,
but she must have them back by IL
o'clock sharp Tomorrow (Monday). as
she has to pay an annoying coal mer-
chant.
Every cent OF Helmer's fifteen
Kroners Is gone, when, with his sweet
heart he leaves the restaurant where
they have dined.
II.
Monday morning at 10 Helmer IS
standing in his cigar dealers shop.
He has patroniZed him for five years
and owes him 210 Kroner for cigars
and cigarettes. but he has often Dor
rowed small amounts of cash from the
cigar dealer for short time, and now
he borrows 20 Kroner.
But l must have them to-morrow
at 3 without fair, the man insists,
FOR / need al the money ] can lay
my hands on to pay promissory
note"
In the afternoon Helmer Is sitting
in Cafe Dagmar with an absinth and
in the evening he spends his last two
Kroner for sandwiches and beer.
1t does not trouble him the least
that he has to pay the cigar dealer 20
Kroner before tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow seems infinitely far
away and he enjoys the fact that he
paid back Frau Jochumser her ff-
teen Kroner in due time,
III.
Tuesday morning Helmer gets up
late. At o'clock he telephones his
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

The Merry-G o-Round
AN AMUSING SHORT STORY.

old friend, the lawyers clerk, and sue
ceeds in getting thirty Kroner from
him on the express condition that they
must be repaid before 10 o'clock the
next day, as the money does not be-
long to the clerk himself. This does
nut bother Helmer. He borrows the
thirty Kroner. pays the cigar dealer
back the twenty at o'clock sharp and
eats a belatcd but very substantial
lunch at the "Perlina'
There is long, very long time
until tomorrow,
".
Wednesday morning Helmer rushes
around like a madman. 1t Is so an
noying not to be able to pay your
debt at the time promised and, be-
sides, it hurts his credit, which is his
financial mainstay. At last he suc-
oeeds in softening the heart of an old
aunt, who lends him thirty Kroner to
be paid back when convenient. The
lawyers clerk gets them with pro-
fuse apologies.
In the evening Helmer paints the
town red in company with a Swedish
cousin, who has Just come across the
sound to see Copenhagen. The cousin
pays and Helmer promises to pay his
share the next day.
v
The next day 1t appears that his
share, as far as they are able to RS
member, amounts to about fifty
Kroner. Helmer borrows seventy five
Kroner from his wine dealer, whom
he owes considerable amount for
whisky The money must be repaid
on Friday.
In the evening the cousin returns
to Sweden and Helmer invites his
sweetheart to take supper with him.
VI
Friday comes Helmer finds 1t nee
essary to do something. He writes
three long poems, digs up a couple of
old short stories which he modernizes,
and rushes from one editor to another
to sell his products He really sue
ceeds in selling the lot for 100 Kroner.
He pays the wine dealer and goes to
bed early, for he is dead tired.
VII
Saturday night and evening Helmer,,
with the best conscience in the world.
eats and drinks and smokes as long
as he has a penny left
VIII.
Sunday he borrows fifteen Kroner
from Frau Jochumsen,
TX
Monday he borrows twenty Kroner
from his cigar dealer, and pays Frau
Jochumsen.
Tuesday he realizes that life is a
merry go round, and all you have to
do is to keep II moving. Whereupon
he telephones his friend, the lawyers
clerk.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Manicure Lady
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

so, because have often had the feel
ing when some great big powerful
man went out of here that l would
be willing to be his wife If he had
good bankroll with which to main
tain me proper, even If he did give me
good shaking when l wouldn't
mind. Goodness knows, l would rath-
er have a husband like that than
some Of the little fiat-chested dudes
that mince in here just before the
matisee to get polished up to per-
feet pink. | wouldn't care a rap for
a husband that | could slam across
the room, and I am afraid If | should
marry that kind of a husband he
would be going across the room most
of the time.
"But the ideal kind of man,
think, for a husband for a emotional
yet gentle child like me. is hus-
band who could be as rough as Sandy
Ferguson If he had to be, but who
could also be as gentle as a little
trained nurse-and lat Is the way
would want him to be most OF the
time, because my girlish nature does
not lean none toward warfare. My
father is the kind Of a man | mean
big and powerful enough to always
be the skipper of his own house, but
as gentle as a kitten most of the
time, especially when he has been out
with a few of the old Romans, trying
his best to get all the high proof
stuff off the market forever No mat
ter how lit dear old dad is, he always
totes that beaming smile around on
his map, and he has always been so
good TO mother that she fairly wor-
ships him.
There amt many men left like
that now, George, at least among the
young stock. The young men now
have the muscles of children. and the
dispositions of cave men, instead of
the muscles of cave men and the dis
positions of children. Here comes one
of them to get his nails did now."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

Du Marcelli he began to say some
thing and then stopped.
surely your father knows y"
If he does, / can not possibly I'M
derstand >"
| did not pay as much attention to
his broken ordinations as ! should
have done but for the surprise and
confusion of coming so suddenly upon
him again: and when, as we reached
the hotel, he said:
Il wonder if your father will allow
me to speak ="
I'm sure he'll be delighted" T said.
and then, in my great Impotence, l
ran, upstairs ahead of him and burst
into my fathers room, crying:
Father, whom do you think l have
brought to see you-look!"
To my concern and discontinue my
fathers reception of Martin was very
cool. and at first he did not even seem
to know him.
You don't remember me, sir?" said
Martin.
I'm afraid I can't just place you"
said my father.
After I had made them known to
each other they sat talking about the
South Pole expedition, but it was a
chill and cherries interview, and aft
err q few minutes Martin rose to go.
Il find it kind of hard to figure you
fellows out" said my father mo
money that ! know of has ever been
made in the Unknown, as you call ii,
and if you discover both poles |
don't just see how they're to be worth
2-cent stamp to you. But you know
best. so goodbye, and good luck to
you."
| went out to the lift with Martin,
who asked if he could take me for d
walk in the morning. | answered yes,
and inquired what hour he would call
for me.
Twelve o'clock he replied. and ]
said that would suit me xactly.
The Bishop came to dine with us
that night and after dinner, when I
had gone to the window to look out
over the city for the three lights on
the Loggia of the Vatican. he and my
father talked together for a long
time in a low tone.
They were still talking when I left
them to go to bed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

f<r'VE been reading a continued
story in one of the evening
newspapers" said the Manicure
Lady land it is kind of queer lay
out, the plot of 1t and all. 1t tells
about a strong, manly young gent
about six feet tall who wins the love
of fair young society girl by acting
like a cave man. George, what is a
cave MANI"
81 remember reading something
about cave men in my school books"
said the Head Barber. IF / remem-
Der right, they was the first human
beings and lived a mighty long time
ago. They was bigger than the men
now. and more like big gorillas. They
had hair all over their big bodies and
lived in caves. That is all | know
about them, except that when 1t come
to a rough house fight they must have
been regular slashers."
Dear mel" exclaimed the Manicure
Lady. II don't see how no young
society lady could fall for that kind
OF gent. | amt no society queen
myself but goodness knows, George,
| wouldn't marry no gent ana do light
housekeeping in cave. A fiat Is bad
enough, but a cave-neVer!
This story didn't say though, that
the hero was exactly a cave man-it
said he used cave-man methods. |
suppose it meant that he was kind of
rough and harsh to her, and maybe
he beat her up little"
HE wouldn't have to be no cave
man to do that, II we can believe the
papers at ALL declared the Head
Barber. There are plenty of gents
moving in our best circles that have
been accused of beating up their
wives"
ut said in this story that all women
love to be mastered by some ruder,
stronger being than the women them
selves. Sometimes / believe that is
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.

! crowded closer 10 him, and he felt
singing sensation in his left arm
And that is the last he remembers.
lie hal a dim impression Of being
led off the car and down a side street;
of dark hallway, a brightly Lighted
room and something sweet to drink.
The next he knew he was standing In
front of his own door and 1t was mid
night.
"A poisoned needle" he gasped,
land here It isl" pullin~ a darning
needle from his left coat sleeve.
And such is the tie of duplicity and
understa nding between ali male
kind that his son, Chauncey Devere,
pulled out of its eye pink wool
thread that matched the ball in his
mothers darning bag. before his
mother and sister had caught sight
of 1t.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
FOLLOW YOUR HEART.
Dear Miss Fairfax:

For month have had atten-
ton paid to me by O. gentleman
% years of age who has me con-
fused whether or not / shall keep
company with him
He is in love with me. Still,
care very little for him; but l am
deeply In love with a young gem
tleman nineteen years old, who
also loves me. He has a wonder
full future and Is very wealthy
and, although young, has a very
mannish way about him.
ALICE
Never keep company with one man
If you love another one more. That
is an injustice to three.
The man you love is too young to
regard seriously. Go on loving him.
if you heart so Wills; but give him
q chance to grow up before you let
that love becomes an obligation
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
MOST DECIDEDLY NOT.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am a young man of seven
teen and am in love with girl
three years my junior. Is it prop
er for me to go out with her at
nights, which she does, although
her mother forbids her?
SAM.
Only your extreme youth excuses
you for influencing a girl of fourteen
to disobey her mother. Let her alone
and don't go out nights with any girl
with or without her mothers consent
until you are older.