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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18

resisted the Church authority for
thirty-four years, and finally decided
TO burn the building rather than place
the institution within the power Of
the Church. 1t had stood idle and
empty for sixteen years.
When they We're about to carry out
their threat in 1856 they We're notified
by Pope Clement XIII. and Charles
III. Of Spain that charters had been
character of the institution was
recognized. On September 9, 1867, the
college was opened by the yiceroy of
Mexico and other men of rank. Not
/ withstanding their fight for independ-
ence the founders were devoted Cath
olics, and they named the school the
| COlegio de San Ignacio de Loyola.
| This name is still TO be seen on a
plate at the main entrance, but it was
| changed to ColegiO de la Paz when
| Comonfort was president of Mexico,
| in honor of his daughter.
Modelled after the royal palace Of
Madrid the building occupies almost
| five acres and cost 81, 600, 900. All of
4 the outer wall is of the beautiful
| tezontle, stone dark red in color,
with brownstone trimmings. Many of
| the walls are a yard or more in thick
ness and the cement is harder than
| the rock used
There are usually about 800 girls in
| the college. OF these 100 are free
pupils. About forty-five teachers are
usually employed, some of them
having grown up in the school. One
| of the statutes of the school declared
that a girl shall not be obliged to
leave upon the completion of her edu-
cation, but may remain for life if she
| chooses. Thus there are some snowy
| haired girls" there.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18

Signs of rain may be CLEANED, says
Prof Kuck in the Hamburger Mach
richten, not only from the behavior
of animals and plants and certain
phenomena of the heavens, but from
sundry signs that meet the eyes by
ones hearths and homes.
If the SCOT in the chimney tlickers,
or if where there is an open hearth
it glows on the links of the chain,
while small sparks come and go; if
the wood refuses to burn properly
and only glows; if the window, the
saucepan on the hearth or the cement
floor perspires; if the pump becomes
damp, then every housekeeping per-
son knows that rain is at hand.
If, again, the sausage becomes
nabby and the bacon damp, and the
scythe furnishes, and the coffee beans
refuse to grind nicely, rain may be
expected; if stockings rucl1le down
people say: Water is dragging my
stocking down."
IF smells won't leave a house rain
is sure to come" says weather book
of Leonard Reynmann, published at
the beginning of the sixteenth CEN
fury, and similar sayings are to be
found today up and down the coun-
try.
Again, if the smithy, or the smoke
issuing from il, smells; if the smoke
from the engine has a bad odor; il
the thatch of a cottage steams, or
the clock ticks erratically, or the
watch refuses to go, the countryman
prophesies rain.
Most of the signs may be explained
by the fact that in times of excessive
dampness in the air there is down
draught, but in other cases sheer
superstition comes into play. Ill
naturcd teasing and quarrels are said
to spoil the weather.
If q girl carries rake on her Shout
der or "a rake that is thrown away
lies with its teeth uppermost rain
cannot resist the evil charm and must
come. Even if a piece of bread and
butter falls on its buttered side this
in many districts is construed as an
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FOWLER A CANDIDATE AGAIN.

The announcement that Charles N. Fowler of
Elizabeth, will be candidate for Congress again at
the September primaries is not unexpected And Mr.
Fowler will in the Republican primaries. Mr.
Fowler has evidently abandoned his prepossessons for
the Progressive party and squarey back in the Re-
publican ranks.
And he has financial platform. 81 in favor"
says Mr.. Fowler, 'of sound scientific financial and
banking system worthy of a country representing
nearly so per cent of the bank resources of the
world That is to say, he is in favor of the Fowler
plan of banking and currency bill which he has car
ried around in his pocket years and never could
get a hearing for plan which, as he says is sound
and scientific and worthy of the country" with half
the banking capital in the world.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18

Zebulon B. Vance was, when
knew him. man of striking physi-
cal personality. He had at the time
of my first meeting with him served
as Senator from North Carolina for
one term and was beginning second
term. While he was a man of per-
sonal dignity, he was absolutely free
from self-consciouSneS and never
seemed to be contemplating his own
greatness. His manner was unCon-
ventional and cordial without at any
time lacking dignity.
He possessed the quickest, readiest
wit of any of the members of the
Senate of his time, and the charm
of his wit lay in that fact that it
was absolutely spontaneous. He
spoke rapidly and yet always clearly
and his addresses in the Senate were
all the more closely listened to be-
cause it was apparent that he was
speaking in all sincerity and with
out the slightest conscious ,.epara
ton or studied effect. 7 Dushy
hair, his bristling mustacne, his
overhanging eyebrows, and his rud-
dy complexion made him CONSPICUOUS
among his fellow-members of the
Senate.
I was walking with Senator Vance
one afternoon through Mcpherson
Square in Washington and CHANGED
TO see passing at some distance one
who was at one time a distinguished
predecessor of Senator Vance as d
representative of North Carolina in
the Federal Senate, the late Gen.
Thomas Clingman.
He had served in the Senate some
years prior to the Inauguration of
Abraham Lincoln and he was one of
those who retired from the Senate
after the Confederate government
was organized.
| said to Senator Vance that Gen.
Clingman had once told me that
Senator Willie P. Mangum, who for
several terms represented North
Carolina in the Federal Senate, had
resigned his seat in that body and
gave as his reason the fact that he
believed that man should retire
from public Office before he got too
old to know when he should retire.
yes" said Senator Vance. II
have heard that story. 1t was cir
culated in North Carolina about the
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Senator Vance and His OId-Age Theory

time l entered public life. | don't
believe ii was true. | think Senator
Mangum, who was a man of very
great ability and at one time n
prominent candidate for the Presi-
dental nomination, resigned because
he had got tired of public life.
There is nothing in this prevail
ent opinion that men get too old to
serve well as public servants. Take
the Supreme Court bench. Some of
the most vigorous minds on that
bench are those of men past seventy
years of age. Take the Senate as
it is now constituted. Why, the
other day | heard Senator Morrill,,
who, l believe, is past eighty years
Of age, make "a very able speech and
one which had great literary charm.
I think, take them as a whole, that
the members of the Senate who are
getting along toward seventy years
Of age, or who are even past that,
compare favorably with the younger
men.
"Who is there among the younger
men who can make a speech that
will compare in learning and in
magnificent flow of English with the
speech of John Morgan, the Ala
bama Senator? OF course, when "A
man gets along III years ne uoesn /
feel like walking quite as fast as he
did in his younger days. Perhaps
that is a good thing. If a man has
normal health there is no reason why
his mind should not be as good at
eighty or even eighty-five as it was
when he was fifty or sixty. / was
talking the other day with a gentle
man who is familiar with public af-
fairs in England He told me that it
very rarely happened that man
was put upon the bench of the
higher courts of England till he was
past sixty years of age.
II never took the trouble to find
out whether the story was true
that Senator Mangum resigned be-
cause he thought a man ought to get
out of public life while he was still
in vigorous mental health lest he
stay in too long, because | never
believed that such was the reason
for Senator Mangum's resignation.
Copyright, 1914, by DR.. T.. !. Ed
wards. All rights reserved)
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A Civil Service Attack.

From the New York Evening Post
By vote of p to 24-with A SEN
ators not voting-the Senate on Sat
urday voted to retain in the sundrv
civil appropriation bill the words
without examination under the civil
service rules" referring to the an
pointment of commercial attaches, >,
new class of officials to be semi
abroad under the department of COM
merce. IhlS continues a record in re-
gard to newly created openings in
the civil service of the government. of
which the Democratic party has rea-
son to be ashamed. There is always
some kind of excuse for keeping out
of the merit system the particular
class of posts in question at any given
moment; but the excuses are usually
very thin. In the present instance
the case for the exemption was chiefly
| represented by Senator Martin, OF
Virginia, who kept saying over ant
over again simply that I'VE believei
that "better men can be got "foi
this particular service" without ex.
animation than with it. He depre.
| Gated any extended discussion of tht
| question, saying that tho only thini
which will serve the country now il
vote" to which Mr. Brandegee very
naturally replied that it was doubt.
less prudent for man taking his pc.
| sition not to engage in any discussion
| of the merits of the matter. Five
| Democrats stood with the minority
| against the exemption, and it seem,
just to mention that among them were
| two senators whom we are by nc
means in the habit of commencing,
MARITIME, of New Jersey. and varda-
man, of Mississippi.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
THE LAW OF THE CITY CRosswALK.

Motorists everywhere need to bear in mind that
pedestrians have the right of street crossings,
and drivers of vehicles recognize this right This
maxim has been stated repeatedly by courts and it is
laid down again by Judge Su2berger, in Philadelphia
refusing trial to automobile driver who ran
down and killed a and convicted of man
slaughter, With a few such righteous convic-
lions and judicial deyerances motorists may to
realize the fact that the crosswak is legally part of
the sidewalk and not of the roadway, and that when
the pedestrian the crosswalk it is his bust
ness, but the motorists, to avoid collision.
Even in the crowded shopping centre of Newark
many chauffeurs approaching crossing assume that
they have undisputed right of way and drive on,
seeming to take malicious pleasure in compelling the
crowds of shoppers mostly women, to scatter right
and left in fear of collision. If few arrests and
fines should be had in such the rights of pedes
trians the crosswaks would be better respected.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
Tree Roots.

An article by A. Howard in the
Agricultural Journal of India de-
scribes the attempts made at the
Pusa experimental station to protect
field crops from injury by the roots
of neighboring trees, by digging a
deep trench each year between the
trees and the adjacent cultivated
area. In the case of some trees this
plan proved successful, but not in the
case of others. such as the pipal, ban
yam and teak. When the trenches
were opened up it was found that the
several roots had become connected
again. New roots had been formed
at the cut extremity, They had
grown across the trench, which was
twenty-four to thirty inches wide,
and united with the severed portion
of the root by a process of natural
grating, followed by a rapid thicken-
ing of the connections. which attained
a thickness of eight to eleven inches
in twelve months.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
DIDN'T CONSULT MIR. NORTHRoP.

1t transpires that the delegation that went to
Trenton Monday to urge upon the governor the
appointment of Simon p Northrop as successor to
Prosecutor Louis Hood neglected to consult Mr..
Northrop in the ascertain what his wishes
Mr.. Northrop is gratified by this evidence of
friendly interest but he doesn't want the prosecutor
ship and would not accept the appointment
Do doubt Governor Fielder duly impressed by
the petition of the delegation and by the laudatory
words uttered by them, and took the recommendation
into consideration; but what shall he now think of
Mr. Northrops disclaimer of any desire the office
the delegation shall wait upon the governor
with another name and rehearse the merits of the
candidate will not the governor have weary ears?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
Japanese Hairdressers for Men.

The professional coiffeur for men is
q. much older occupation in Japan
than that for women. There are rec
ords as far back as the thirteenth
century of male hairdressers for men,
for the samurai especially were very
particular as to how the hair was
samurai was of somewhat later
growth. 1t may be said, howeper.
that during the later Tokugawa days
the men appear to have appreciated
in their wives and daughters the same
careful attention to style of hair as
was observable among their lordly
selves. 1t is not without some sig
nificance that the first professional
hairdresser for women was a man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
In a Skyscraper

factory escape pipes. And sometimes
the steam floats lazily upward when
there is no wind.
Sometimes a breeze from the south
sends it northward, and i know it is
going to be warmer. Or when a biz
card is coming l see the team ripped
and scattered and blown to the south
or to the east by the wild winds from
the north and west. The weather man
does not have to predict the weather
for me. ] can see what is going to
happen when l see the way the wind
blows the clouds of steam. But the
hills themselves that encircle the city
and make new horizon are the most
delightful and imposing part. of the
picture. Sometimes they are dim and
distant, shrouded by the city's
vapors; sometimes when the air is
clear and sparkling they seem so
near that you can almost touch them.
and every house and tree on them
stands out sharply and distinctly.
There is a great joy in the prospect
from a skyscraper, and until one lives
with it day after day one cannot APP
preciate it."
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GREAT TRUNK SEWERS MAY JOIN.

If New York city shall carry out the project of
sewage disposal recommended by commission which
has made long and exhaustive study of the problem
the Passaic trunk may eventually be joined
with the trunk sewer system of New York to have
all sewage of the cities carried out to be chemi-
eally treated and discharged at
The plan proposed to New York is to divert all
It's sewage from the water front by great sewers
under the bay and make an artificial island where
the solid matter be removed and the purified
effluent permitted to flow into the 1t is
of the question to adopt other plan of sewage
disposal for the metropolis and the problem must
soon be met and solved.
The Passaic sewer will have it's outlet at Robbins
Reef near the Jersey shore and only the sewage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18

The greatest journalist the world
ever kneW lived 1,5o0 years or more
before the invention of type, acord-
ing to Rev. Dr. Frank N. Palmer,
who awarded the palm to st. Mark
and wondered at the marvels that he
might have accomplished if he had
lived in the days of printing presses.
st. Matthew put his chronicles in
twenty eight chapters; St Luke used
twenty-four to tell his story: st.
John used twenty-one, but st. Mark
covered an the details more wildly
in sixteen, and, true to the spirit of
action that animates his kind, put a
miracle in every chaptere
St Mark, DR. Palmer said, was the
reporter among the apostles His
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18

The ancient cave men probably
thought that there was no place as
delightful to live in as in cave. Of
course. we of the twentieth century
have different ideas. The joys Of
living high up in modern sky
scraper are thus described by a Gin
cinnati business man:
Until recently | had always had
my office in an old building where all
l could see from the windows was
bit of shabby street and a blank ex-
panse of bare brick walls. Now l am
having a new sensation. | am up in
the air where l have a wonderful
view, and until 1 had the opportunity
of daily acquaintance with it / did
not know how wonderful and change
able it could be.
'In the first place I look out to the
south and west. The river is never
twice the same. I see it's rise and
fall by the piers of the bridges.
Sometimes they are low down in the
water; sometimes as the river recedes
they stand high up. Then the river
craft-they have a singular beauty
when seen from q distance. The
other day L saw the stately process
sion of toWboats from Pittsburg
pushing their tremendous barges Of
coal ahead of them. They came
down the river one after the other
swinging majestically to avoid the
bridges and never halted. l have
even learned now to watch for the
regular packets coming and going
And beyond the river is the splendid
sweep OF the Kentucky hills.
II can see the varied roofs of the
buildings ON Mt Adams, which make
strange and bizarre skyline. And
not the least interesting sight is to
look over the roofs of the city. What
multitudes of people are in the great
factories and office buildings below
YOU! What stories of industry are
told by those great banners of labor,
the rolling masses of steam from the
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Best Of All Journalists

viewpoint, his language and his mar
veIous ability to give action and
climax, clash and color in a sentence
should be a glowing example to the
newspaper writer's of this day.
Each of the other apostles speaks
of skies that opened. Mark says they
were rent asunder. He is the only
one among his brethren who stopped
dutifully to describe the color of a
given scene. In the writings of his
fellows ii is told that the people went
to the Sermon on the Mount. Mark
writes wildly that the people ran.
In writing for the Romans he used
colorful illusions and his references
to wild beasts touched their intelli-
gence in sympathetic fashion at
every stroke.-Philadelp Bulletin.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
Prisoner on Why TO U. S. Substitutes
Shanghaied Sailor. and Escapes.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, June IS
Peter A. Grimes, convicted of forgery
and on his way to San Quentin pent-
Tertiary, California, shanghaied Al
fred Johansen, a Norwegian sailor, in
Nagasaki, Japan, substituted the
sailor for himself and escaped, ac-
cording to information developed to-
day in an investigation by federal Of
ficers yesterday.
Not until Johansen, in a cell in San
Quentin. told his story to a fellow
Norwegian was it discovered that an
innocent man was probably serving
the three-year term of Grimes. Jo-
hansen, who does not speak English
told his story through an interpreter
He said:
ashore from my ship at Nagasaki
was in a saloon and drank with
three men who approached me. After
two drinks with them | remember
nothing until I woke up in irons be-
tween decks on a ship. ] tried to eX
plain, but no one understood me-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRTsoN SWEET MARDEN,
Author OF Pushing to the Front" ct
Copyright MA
FOLLOW THE VISION

1t is astonishing how much power
there is in an intense desire and a
determination to accomplish a thing,
no matter whether it is hard or easy
As Napoleon used to say, firm
resolution can make realities out of
possibilities.
As rule. il is the intensity of that
divine hunger within us for achieve
ment. that thirst for knowledge that
must be quenched, which measures
our success power.
Bury a pebble, and it will obey the
law of gravitation forever. Bury an
acorn, and ii will obey a higher law
and grow. In the acorn is vital
force superior to the attraction of the
earth. All plants and animals are
climbing or reaching upward. Ma
ture has whispered into the ear of all
existence: Look up" Man above
all. should have a celestial gravita-
ton. The ambition of every true man
should be to be more, not TO have
more.
We see today with a clearer vision
all the wonderful things that are
waiting TO be manifested. We know
that the manipulation of all humap
law is mind, and that the master
builders are our thoughts, and with
tools thousand times finer than the
methods of the past, we build more
stately mansions for the soul"
Even in the commonest and most
mediocre lives there are moments and
hours of such nobility and unselfiBh-
ness that if they could be made per
manent, those lives would be I'm
measurably lifted.
4 .IrNNs
of our future, we must look for IL in
our present; if we would gaze on the
star of our destiny. we must look for
it in our hearts. The aspiration Of
today decides the action of tomorrow
and every thought, every impulse,
goes to the shaping of both. With
every breath, we either move toward
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
Right Bait.

A certain bishop was recently o
guest at the home of friend, who
had two charming daughters. One
morning the bishop, accompanied by
the two young ladies, went out in the
hope of catching some trout. An old
fisherman, out for the same purpose,
wishing to appear friendly, called
out.
Catching many, pard?'
The bishop, drawing himself to his
fun height, replied:
Brother. | am a fisher of men,"
you've got the right kind of bait,
all right was the fisherman's re-
ioinder.-Tit-B Bits.
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The first woman in England to
learn about these revolutionary edu-
cation methods of Pesta'o zzi was
Elizabeth Mayo. She had long been
interested in the educational prob
lens of England and had become
thoroughly convinced that a better
system than the one then preva-
liant should be introduced. Eduea-
ton of children was, at the time,
largely matter of examining facts
into the minds of the children. EliZ-
abeth even more than her brother
Charles realized what a beneficial M
f1uence the new method would have
in England.
The two Mayos opened school
where they put their ideas into prac-
tise. They employed the methods of
Pestalozzi with such notifications as
English children would need. The
school was very popular from the
start and called forth nation wide in
terest. Elizabeth Mayo devoted
much time to the training of teachers
and the result of her years of expe-
rience she put into two books, Les
sons on Objects" and Lessons on
Shells They were the first books
written in English setting forth the
new psychological tendency in edu-
cational methods