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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30

Let me tell you something from
| my own career. With Mr.. Cooper
| edward Cooper, his brother-in Jaw,
began many years ago the manu-
Iacture of iron in New Jersey. There
| We're times when we had i'm excess of
three thousand artisans upon our pay
ron. There were some years when
| our expenses were at least a hundred
| Thousand dollars in excess of our re-
eelpts. We struggled along, not clos
ing down our works, partly because
III was economy not to let the plant
go TO ruin. partly because it was real
| economy not to turn our employees
! out into the cold.
| When it became certain that the
| treasury department at Washington
would resume specie payments before
the end of President Hayes's admin
| lstration, | was satisfied that this
would be followed, and, in fact, pre-
ceded for year at least, by a very
| great revival of business activity in
the United States.
AT the time iron was commanding
very low price so stagnant was
| trade.
Therefore Mr.. Cooper and I de-
cided to utilize our capital in buying
all of the iron ore and pig iron that
we could secure and holding it until
| III pii@S tiPBlttidltu. w & ulu tnal,
| With the resumption of specie pay
| ments there came a very great re-
Yival of business and q large demand
for iron. The price appreciated, and
| we were able to realize upon our ven
lture a large amount of money.
| enough to make good the deficit be-
! tween receipts and expenditures in
our iron manufacturing business.
Nov that was speculation-noth-
| ing else. Anybody else had the same
| opportunity for forecasting the fu-
ture that | did. There were some
iron manufacturers who did. There
was no unfair advantage taken of
any one. Our profits were as honor.
| ably obtained as they would have
been had they been secured through
the marketing of our iron products.
Speculation establishes market val
ues. 1t is the very essence OF COM
merce. and l only wish that people
who make use of the word in its
false sense could have full under
standing of what the value of hon
orable speculation is to any nation"
Copyright, 1914. by e. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
CHAMP CLARK.

The World delivers this blatherskite talk in a
double-eaded leader:
1.-THE Champ Clark kind of Democracy was beat
en- at Baltimore in 1912. It beaten again in
Washington yesterday.
at will be beaten at the polls whenever the is
sue is joined. Champ Clark will never reach the
White House the political corpse of Woodrow
Wilson, and his eleventh-hour treachery to the adj
minstration has destroyed nobody except himself"
The World was the most venomous enemy of the
Roosevelt nomination in 1912 and Roosevelt secured
an majority in the primaries against tre-
mendous odds, AS the party will thus expressed was
cheated by chcanery in the Chicago convention, the
World and other special interest newspapers did not
have the weight of fly in his defeat. The vote of
more than four millions for him independent
candidate in three-cornered fight showed the inn
portance of newspapers of the World type. Champ
Clark has planted himself the platform of ma
-tional patriotism and national rights and honor. He
is today greater figure in American life than he
ever was He is 10 the hearts of the people,
and long he shall act in public affairs to win
the hatred of the predatory interests and their
the press he will retain the confidence and affection
of the nation at large He could have no better as
1916
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PASSING OF THE DRUM

keeping the human wolves OFF the
rear of the army was terrific, and only
the inspired drumming of the boy and
his childish Long live France!" saved
them from succumbing time after
time. During a brave stand. or when
Ney halted his men and turned back
upon their annoyers, young France
would sound the charge with such a
SCATTERING roll of enthusiasm that the
rrenadiers waded back through the
snow and scattered the Cossacks like
chaff. Turning to flee to. the refuge
of the main body, some stalwart
would throw the boy astride Of his
shoulders and bear him off the Held.
From this point of vantage the drum
mer would beat the retreat and shout
back scurrilous street gam.n epithets
at the pig headed" Russians. When
they came to a river he was not at
loss for crossing, Simply mounting
his drum and padding, he went across
in comfort.
French archives are full of such
heroism. and the drummer boys be-
came the most popular and feted
members of the French army, barring,
of course. the marshals.
The Civil War too, saw the drum
mer boy, but he was passing. Toward
the last of the conflict he had begun
to go out. The bugle. while not SO
thrilling, did the business better, and
so the boy heroes had to go.
Men who have marched and charged
to the cheering music of brass bands
and to the silver notes of the bugle
say that nothing can touch for in
spiration the old-time drum. They
say that when the rhythm, the volume
and thrill of the rafting whacks once
permeates the blood of soldiers, they
are practically invincible, and that
with such martial incentive 20 insptSit
them, they would walk straight into
the mouths of the guns. oblivious to
danger. and thinking onlI of the
cheering drums at their sideg
In the survival of the fittest the
drums had to go. It could not be
helped, but no lover of true romance
and sentiment in war, no admirer or
the thrilling heroic side, can but re-
gret that the drums are no more
Philadelphia North American.
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linking the Farm to the City.


From the New York Mail.
Postmaster General Burleso
latest plan to develop the usefulness
OF the parcel post &c logical earrv-
ing out Of one OF the main purposes
of the government in undertaking
the carriage of packages.
The parcel post justified itself
against lobbied opposition by the
promise that it would reduce the cost
of living. 1t was urged that city
housekeepers could get eggs, poultry.
butter and other farm produce
directly from the farmer, cutting out
the profits of the several varieties of
middlemen that Intervene between
the producer and the consumer. The
idea was that the householder would
pay less and get better food supplies.
while the farmer would, at least in
many cases, save the cost of market
ing and get larger returns. So both
would be better Off.
This is precisely the way il has
worked out-where it has been fully
introduced. The trouble has been,
however, that it has not been tried
enough, An agency has been needed
to bring the producer and consumer
in touch with each other, TO open up
these channels of direct trade and to
round up city customers for the
farmers.
This is what is proposed in the plan
to be tried out in ten cities, where
the post offices are to be bureaus OF
information, supplying city people
with lists of the names and addresses
of farmers who are prepared to sup
ply produce direct to the ultimate
consumer, 1t will take time to work
out this plan. but 1t ought to work
to the mutual advantage of the far
mer and the city dweller.
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Animals Possess Special Sense

The French possess curious insti-
tuition in the form Of an institute of
geological psychology, established on
A farm near Paris. This station COM
prises meadows and barnyards, a
stretch of forest and a large pond
stocked with fish. Then, too, there
are spacious buildings, including
modern stables, a riding school.
stalls for isolating animals under
special observation, an aquarium and
a laboratory. A dovecote ia placed
upon the roof of the main building.
As evidencng the desire of the
French naturalists to study the habits
of living creatures under natural con-
ditions, it may be mentioned that a
complete diving apparatus has been
provided in which observers may de-
scend to the bottom of the pond.
There they may remain for hours, I'M
til the fish become accustomed to
their presence, and follow their ma
tural impulses in playing and feeding.
The under water student thus is en-
abled to note their habits at first
hand.
The other extreme of observation is
the construction of sheltered plat
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Great Manufacturers Definition of Speculation

About year before the death
Of Abram S. Hewitt, in 1908, met
him at luncheon at his club in New
York city at his invitation. He was
anxious to talk about the anthracite
coal strike which at that time was a
question of very grave concern
throughout the United States, es-
pecially in the eastern half
Mr.. Hewitt WAS at that time eighty
years of age. His mental activity
seemed not in the least impaired in
spite of sixty years of very active
business and public life. He had
served for several terms in
Congress. He was for one term
mayor of New York city. He
was chairman of the national DEM
ocratic committee in 1876, the cam
paign in which Samuel j. Tilden was
a candidate for president. He had
carried on extensive iron manufac-
turing. He was president of the
American Institute of Mining En-
glneers and he possessed a more pro-
found knowledge of the history of
American mining and metallurgy in
the United States than any other
American citizen.
Yet, Notwithstanding the variety
of his pursuits and the intense APP
plication which he gave to every
thing in which he was associated, he
was, although frail of physique, of
exceptional mental vigor, at least for
a man of his years.
Mr.. Hewitt went into the philo-
sophy of the relations of labor to
capital in the course of our CONVEX
sation, predicting that the time had
come when skilled artisans would
possess a considerable part of the
stock of the corporations in which
they were employed.
when that time comes" said he,
Eve shall begin to see 81 solution of
the difficult problems of the relation
between capital. ability and labor"
He looked intently at me for a few
moments in silence. Then he said:
II hear a great deal in these days
about the evils of speculation. There
is no evil in speculation. 1t is good.
1t is necessary. Without it business
and development would stagnate.
THE trouble is that people are
careless in the use of terms. When
markets are manipulated. when the
game is played with loaded dice,
when there is fraud. moral or legal,
then there is no such thing as specu-
lation. Yet, almost everybody is ac-
customed to think of speculation In
the sham meaning of the term.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
COOPERATIVE DOCTORING

DR.. Richard C. Cabot is once more
trying to get folks to adopt the club
system of doctoring. He would have,
say, 500 families agree to pay $40 to
$50 year each to a group of healers
one an eye, ear, nose and throat
specialist, one a sharp on nerves, one
a baby doctor. etc.-under contract
which should amount to continuous
health insurance,
Then, instead of waiting till dis
ease had made you so sick you could
no longer hold your head up, you
would be examined frequently, while
well. and kept up to par. The cost of
doctoring wouldn't, as now, come
when you were least able to bear it;
and, if the club doctors were up to
snuff, you'd save their fee several
times over in increased efficiency.
The suggestion isn't new, of course;
for the Chinese had this system many
centuries ago. But Americans, you've
probab bly, discovered, are slow to learn
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
Busy Days in WOODEN Mills.

American Wool and Cotton Reporter.
While the movement of merchan-
disc and of most materials continues
well sustained throughout the textile
industry, n conservative tone has de-
veloped at the higher cost of wool,
and the total sales in Boston have
aggregated but l,Si0,000 pounds. Con-
tracing is still going on in the grow
ing sections at prices a triiie higher
than a year ago. Leading wool and
worsted mills are running day and
night on orders. and the largest con-
Germ in Providence is employing 1000
people more than a month ago. But
the ease of the money market has
not diminished the conservatism of
the banking interest, and the unhappy
condition of the railroad situation,
accompanied by a falling Off in the
iron and steel industry, has exercised
something of sympathetic influence
on the textile industry.
A fundamental element of the en-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30

The drums and drummer boys who
for so many campaigns were the OBJ
Jects of so much sentiment are gone
Where not SO many years ago the
rafting snare drums sounded the re-
treats and the charges. now the bugle.
with its more penetrating and COM
manding voice, rules the field. As
battles became larger and wider in
their scope, it was found that drums
could not be heard above the roar of
the battle to any distance, and conse-
quently' they were done away with.
The little drummer boy was the
most touching figure in the wars in
which he took part Chosen for his
diminutive size. he frequently was
of tender years, and always in the
fiction of war times he was pictured
as sweet-faced cherub, wounded
terribly, but beating the charge to the
last. While this aspect of the appeal
to sentiment became so common as
to appear ridiculous, it originally
sprang from a true premise. The lit
tie drummer boys, almost without en-
ception. were brave little fellows.
Many n gallant youth did give his
life and many a heroic deed was per-
formed by the little salamanders.
They We're the favorites of the men
and the pets of the regiment; nothing
was too good for them. and on wet or
cold nights they never suffered for
warmth If they sank to sleep I'M
blanketed, some powerful trooper was
sure to spread over them his own
covering.
The most thrilling tales of the little
drummers come from Napoleon's cam
paigns.
On the retreat from Russia. when
grown men died by the hundreds from
the ravages of tho cold and Cossacks.
q goodly number of drums were
strung back along the grewsome path
of the fleeing Frenchmen. In the rear
guard, which was commanded by the
gallant Marshal Ney. was q clipper
drummer boy of about twelve years.
The constant fighting and burden of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
A GREAT GIFT no PRINCETON ATHLETICS

In the prospect of concrete stadium seating
Al 900 persons, to be ready for next falls football
games, Princeton is fortunate than Yale, which
is scratching around among graduates the money
to build its bowl" while the generosity of one
Princeton alumnus provides the whole sum, $780,
900, necessary for the Improvement This gift from
Edgar Palmer, of Rye, N. Y, is of the most
notable benefactions made to Old Nassau, and
besides being a splendid addition to the assets of
the university it will the large amount now
expended every year for temporary bleachers
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
LOYALTY TO ONES CITY.

OF all the great cities of the world New York con-
tans by far the greatest number OF wealthy men who
by gift or bequest give of their opuence to advance
the interests of art The Metropolitan Museum is a
great monument to their civic and art spirit The
latest contribution of armor, weapons and other an
tques and art objects is that by late Frederick
Townsend Martin, who did not leave large fortune
but spared no expense in making his collection Lv-
ing abroad, he loyal to his native city If this
spirit should be shown by wealthy Newark citizens
how quickly our embryonic museum would grow!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
Two Deer on lee Cake Sail Four Miles
Delaware.

forms in the branches of trees, where
students sit throughout the night
armed with electric flashlights to
watch the doings of owls, bats and
nocturnal insects.
1t is reported by a scientist that an
important conclusion reached by the
students is that some animals pos
sess a special sense whereby they can
drtect the presence of water even
though they cannot see it. The ex-
pcriments were undertaken at the
suggestion of an Australian, who adj
dressed the institution with refer
ence to his experiences with sheep
and cattle when being driven across
country.
In a place where the preseaoe of
water was wholly unexpected the
Australian noted some curious facts.
The leading animals suddenly would
lift their heads and draw long
breaths Then they would abandon
the beaten tracks and start running
through the brush. Sometimes they
would run for a mile and a half to
two miles, and could not be stopped
by the drivers, their course invari-
ably leading to a pond or spring
hitherto unknown.-New York Press.
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THE WIND-UP OF THE SESSION.

This Will be an intensely busy week for the State
Legislature, as recess may be taken April for one
week to permit the legislators study the appropria-
ton bills This is contingent upon final action on the
bank bill, which comes third reading tonight.
The contention over this bill has temporarily
obscured other questions, such the economy and
efficiency bills, which hang fire between the two
houses. The cause for this is simply the purpose of
the Senate Republicans to defeat one-half of the bills
they do not favor and compel the Assembly to pass
only those they do favor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
EIGHT MILLIONS GO TO THE LAWYERS.

In principle compensation to injured employees is
good thing for the workingman, but in practise it
Is altogether too much of good thing for the lawyer
Railroads employing 81 per cent. of all the railroad
labor in the country paying $4,000 900 year.
under the federal liability law, injuries
but only about 10000 900 of this sum reaches the
victims or their dependents The rest is eaten up in
the cost of litigation and lawyers fees A bill now
before Congress proposes to settle all such claims
without resort to the courts. and it is measure of
genuine humanity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30

they're miles behind most nations in
their use of cooperation.
Voluntary club doctoring isn't easy
to organize. It's a good idea, you'll
admit; but unless somebody comes
along and pulls you into it, you will
go on in the old way, trying to path
the lock on the stable door after the
horse Of health has gotten out.
1t would be different If we had our
health departments of government
more highly organized; If, in short, We
had more public doctoring.
We think nothing, as taxpayers, OF
putting up for scores of policemen
and firemen to protect our property.
But suggest that city hire enough
doctors to inspect for signs of disease
all its citizens and there would be a
furious protest.
Yet, If we ever get voluntary club
doctoring we're likely soon afterward
to have community doctoring. The
hindrance will be in the difficulty OF
finding out who knows how TO doctor.
That certainly isn't very plain yet.
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50 Shall 1t Be

If twenty years hence you should be
Inhabitng this sphere,
wish you'd do thing for me,
AS may not be here
I'd have you cast an eye about
In Arts great market-place,
And mark the men who fleer and Aout
And wear scornfuL face.
lnterrogate these scornful men
And you will find, | think,
That Chaos has arrived again
And Art is on the blink
The painters queer as queer can be,
The sculptor is as bad,
The poets singing off the key
The musc-maker's mad
Thus will they greet each rising star,
So will they blight and blast,
And rail against the things that are,
And harp upon the past
These scoffers, these obstructionists
These fossils--who are they?
The glad young, mad young Futurists
Who prance around today.
Chicago Tribur
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\ MYTH SURE.

The dealer in antiques was show
ing an old violin to a probable buyer
Yes" he said, that Is of historical
interest; that is the identical fiddle
Nero played while Rome was burn
ing!"
"Oh. that is a myth"
The dealer agreed. saying:
Yes, it is; and MYTHS name was
on 1t, but it has got worn off"
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Preaching Sermons Too Hard Work, Pas
tor Becomes Restaurateur.

BOSTON, March 30-After preach
ing twenty-five years. Rev Nathan
iel A. Marriott, of New Bedford. has
laid aside his clerical garb to don a
white apron and manage restaur-
ant.
He does this, he said today, be-
cause he believes that the life of a
restaurant keeper will be better for
his health than the strain of deliver
ing up-to-date sermons twice every
Sunday to critical congregations.
But the devil is lust as active as
he always has been and perhaps more
So" he added, 80 | shall go back into
the ministry just as soon as my
health permits. Restaurant keeping
is just n case of earning an honest
dollar to support my wife and three
daughters"
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jurors would take different view of the evidence if
again presented to them The sister and aged mother
of one of the doomed gunner had spent two days
visiting these jurors and pleading with tears that
they do something to the felons from the death
chair. 1t is hard to resist weeping woman, and
knows this better than the adroit counsel the
gunner.
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tire textile situation is the failure of
the production of textile fbres of
every kind to keep pace with the con-
sumption due to improved conditions
OF living. The inadequacy of supplies
OF labor and materials is the main
cause Of frmness, and operators
preach conservatism with degree of
ooluness that they would have been
AFRAID TO express last June, when
prices dropped, money was tight and
many observers we're the reverse of
cheerful as to the general outlook.
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From Geological Survey Press Bulletin,
Most people know in a general way
that large parts of the United states
have In the past been covered by the
ocean. but It is perhaps not so gen.
orally known that the continent is
now rising in some places and sink
ing in others. There is every reason
to believe that minor movements of
the land are constantly taking place.
Not SO very long ago, in a geologic
sense, the Hudson river flowed
through o deep canyon or gorge in
New York city. Soundings show that
this gorge extends through the harbor
and far out to sea. IL is evident that
the land surface has been lowered in
( this region, allowing the ocean to
creep in on the land, ill the old river
channel. and in places wholly sub
merge it. The submergence of the
land was greater at one time than 1t
is now. In excavating FOR some OF
the New York skyscrapers remains of
oysters and other salt water animals
have been found.
As O rule the only available lnowl.
edge in regard to the former sub
nnergence OF an area Is derived FROM
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

on the street. she said, and he was
smoking. Throw that dirty thing
away" she said. He did, then and
there, and asked her to marry him.
But she spurned his love, she ex-
planned. Several years later, accord
ing to her story, he again asked her
to be his wife.
''He would have given mp G.
then" she said. Butt would have
lost my own IDENTITY
Two Deer on lee Cake sail Four Miles
on Delaware.
PORT JERVIS, March S0.-Two
deer, chased to the water by dogs in
Sullivan county, sailed down the Dell
aware on q cake of ice yesterday.
Women screamed with delight at the
pretty creatures. The deer gazed in
wonderment at crowds lining the
banks and craned their necks as
though appealing for help.
-Four miles below town, the cake
of ice, at bend struck the shore,
and in a twinkling the deer fed
toward the New Jersey hills.