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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
Strangest Families in World

Wassilif, who was the father of ST.
He was married twice. BY his first
wife he had sixty-nine children in the
following order: -Four times quad
ruplets at a birth, seven times triplets
and sixteen times twins. By his sec
ond spouse he twice had triplets and
six times twins.
Undoubtedly the record for misfor-
tune belongs to a Belgian family
named Adnet. The father, Jean Ad-
net, was drowned his wife committed
suicide by throwing herself from the
roof of her house, while of his two
sisters, who lived, respectively, at
Client and Paris, one was killed by
the kick of q horse and the other by
a blow received from a falling scat
fold.
Jean Adnet had six children, four
sons and two daughters. OF these the
latter persisted through the overturn-
ing of o pleasure boat. One of the
sons was stabbed in a drunken brawl,
another was crushed to death by a
heavy wagon, while the remaining
two, who had emigrated to America,
were slain in 1891 while fighting for
Balmaeeda against the Congressists.
But of peculiar records the strang-
est was that held by a family nick
named the odd Family" that lived
at Ipswich at the commencement of
the eighteenth century. The names
of the father, mother and seven sons
each contained an odd number of
letters.
The youngest son, Ezekiel, enlisted
as a grenadier In 1903, and was
wounded % times. Five other sons
Roger, James, Matthew, Jonas and
David-died in different places, and,
by an extraordinary coincidence, were
buried on the same day in the year
| 1713. Ten years later another son,
Solomon, was, with Ezekiel. drowned
in crossing the Thames.-New York
Press.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Magnate Who Began Life as Tinware Peddler

of his initiation into active Demo-
cratic politics. but only the vaguest
recollection of his start in life. He
supposed that TX he gave himself to
1t for a week or a month and talked
with some people who knew him as
a young man he might be able to
recall some of the early incidents of
his business career.
However, after rejecting for
few moments, Mr.. Jones said: L
do remember that I began in bust
ness for myself as tin peddler. Do
you know what a New England tin
peddler WASP Well, he was a man
who owned a horse and a wagon fit
ted up with compartments that held
tinware and the simpler domestic
utensils of the kitchen. He was a
bargainer. He went around from
farmhouse to farmhouse and took in
exchange for tinware rags or old
copper, old lead pipes, used-up pew
ter utensils and various things of
that kind. That was the way most
of the farmers wives in those days
got their tin utensils. Well, that was
the way / started. Now / come to
think of 1t. tin peddling was the best
training in a business way for a
young man that was possible in New
EnBldIlus IL litduG HlIll SHTeNQ ~ d
bargain, but he had to be honest,
for most farmers wives had to be
shrewd in those days. Well, in that
way he learned human nature. He
learned how to drive bargains.
When Mr.. Jones's mind went back
to his days as tin peddler there
gradually was revived a recollection
of events long forgotten. He became
intensely interested as he followed his
own development from his days of
peddling until he had accumulated
capital sufficient to start him in bus
mess. He narrated these experiences
for an hour and he apparently took
delight in recalling things which had
long been buried in his memory.
"Afterward when | showed him the
printed proof of the talk with me he
read 1t over carefully and then said
it was all due to the awakening of
his memory by the fact that he had
recalled that In his early days he had
been a New England tin peddler."
Copyright, 1914, by f. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved).
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
MARITIME TAKES AN AMERICAN STAND.

SENATOR Marines announcement that he will not by
Ms support the President in his policy of sub
Brans demand for the repeal of the free tolls
canal law shows consistency in striking
attitude of other Democrats Washington who
voted the Panama canal law.
Wilson's message read to Congress not
convincing address Washington Park in 1912 when
he was free American ships Since that
speech delivered nothing has been added the why
as humating backdown and deliberately
surrender rights affirmed by the national legislature and written
The New Jersey stands with Leader Under
Speaker Clark the who make the fight
for American interests and national honor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.

LAST NIGHTS nearly total eclipse of the itself
partially ecpsed Newark by hazy sky but the
not dense enough of the satellite slender
crescent should have presented full
light lunar eclipse has value astronomers,
scence long ago got this very frequent phenomenon had
10 offer in the line of knowledge
spectacle it lacks the weird features of solar eclipse
Ror the moon looks about the it
light effect the landscape different
from that during regular phases At there
fore eclipse impressive The interest is in
watching gradually yelling unwilling of fair Lunas face
and the time and patience for this last night
the show satisfactory.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
WITH THE WORLDS TOILERS

levied on every member of all Indian
families, while the average income OF
the immigrant Is no more than $50 to
S75 per year.
Insurance policies approximetina
I,250,000 have been taken out by the
Pittsburgh Railways Company on the
lives of employees who have been with
the company more than one year. In
dividual policies will be given the
men. from the president down to thu
office boys.
Before the trades board act was
passed the average earnings of
women chain makers at Cradley
Heath, Eng, were cents an hour;
the trade board minimum was fixed
at cents an hour and the new ratio
makes this 51a cents.
New York's night work law proVides
for a period of rest between 10 p. m
and a. m. for the protection of tho
health and morals of women en-
ployed in factories.
Distress among the strikers in the
Nottingham, England, hosiery finish
ing trade is now very acute and there
seems to be very little prospect of q
settlement.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12

The story is told of q perplexed
young man who wrote to the query
department of a newspaper to know
whether the editor would advise him
/ TO buy an automobile or get mar
ried. He said he could not afford to
do both and was in a quandary.
The editor cautioned the young
man to deliberate earnestly and not
TO make up his mind without due
/ consideration. He was reminded
that while an automobile costs more
/ IL doesn't talk back, and that sec
ond-hand automobile could be trad
ed for a new one. Ii is not recorded
what was the decision OF the irreso-
lutte young man.
There have been men, good men,
whose lives, measured by ordinary
| standards, were successful, who
never married: but those who hear
or read of them feel that such ca
reers were incomplete.
To a certain degree, young man
should look upon marriage from a
utilitarian standpoint. a good wire
is so much capital. She makes MN
to be, by a kind of grace, a great
deal more than he is by nature She
contributes the qualities needed IN
order to convert his vigor into sa1e
as well as productive efficiency. She
introduces, for instance, into his IN
tellectual nature that ingredient OF
sentiment which intellect requires In
order to be able to do its best work
and makes home an Eden. To
Adam, Paradise was home; to the
good among his descendants, home
| is paradise"
Most married men are saner, mucn
more normal and level-headed. eco
nomical and careful, on account of
their wives. A model home is a great
corrective for a man. 1t keeps him up
to standard and saves him from get
ting blue and discouraged. 1t devel-
ops the affectionate side of his ma
ture and renders his character strong
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
THE GOODWIN FILM PATENT CASE.

THE CRUELTIES of our patent laws and courts are
cxemphed the of the Photographic Aim patent OBJ
tanned by Hannibal Goodwin of Newark twenty
ago. Mr.. Goodwin died comparatively His
other has them wealth
took years establish his patent right and
years litigation been necessary the rewards of
the invention
Mr. Goodwin and his widow, who inherited his rights
now in her eghty-second year The suit
eded Goodwin patent and there is to be
counting of from S5oo0OOO $25OoOOOo unless
likely carried appeal the United States Supreme
Court, which will years of delay
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
COME LIKE VOICES OF THE PAST"

QUOTING EXTRACTS from many leading newspapers
throughout the country dnounng the attempt repeal the
canal the Evening Post of New York
sneeringy Such of the
OF curiosity. They like of the past. The Post
paper that denounced Cleveland madman for his
Salisbury the Venezuelan boundary question that
Great Britain back down. and which reasonable
with Spain declared that its editor
ended But the the
voices of Jefferson Monroe and other of the nations
sages Cleveland
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
UPLIFT TALKSll n "
by oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author 81 ssPushing to the Front" Etc.
Copy. light, 1913
A HOME OF NY OWN

ar and more symmetrical. Men cAn
produce very much more because
harmony and affection In the nome. :,
There is nothing else which Will call
out the divinest qualities of a man OF
woman like unselfish service. The
very consciousness that one has oth.
ers depending upon him tends to CAP
out the best thing in him,
A happy marriage brings sunshine
into the life and broadens, softens and
sweetens the character. 1t Is great
educator, perpetual influence for
good
Who could estimate what civiliza-
stion owes to mans dream OF HAPPY
home of his own! What an lncen-
tive to man in all ages has been TINS
vision of home of his own! II Is
this picture which holds the youth 70
his task, buoys him up in times or
hardship and encouragement This
picture Of a home. this vision or
little cottage and some fair maiden
waiting at the door-this home vision
has ever been the great incentive OF
the struggler, the greatest incentive
of mankind! 1t is the dream OF "a
home of my own" that has lifted
multitudes of youths out of obscur-
ity. There is no spur on earth whlcn
has had anything like the influence
over man that this home vision mas.
The thought of hise home and wife
and children, dearer to him than NE,
keeps vast multitudes OF men grind
ing away at their dreary tasks, when
they see no other light in the distance.
To multitudes of people home is the
only oasis in their desert life
Home is the sweetest word in the
language 1t has ever been the favor
ite theme of the poet, the author, and
the artist. History is packed with
the achievements of men for the sake
of the home. They cross oceans, they
explore continents. They endure the
heat of the Tropics and the cold of
the arctics, they explore mines in the
wilderness, cut themselves off from
civilization for years for the sake OF
wife and home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12

There are 10000 Japanese workers
employed in Brazil, principally on the
coffee plantations.
Printers in Degrade, Servia. have
been granted an increase of 40 cents
a week.
While in 1910 the total number of
strikers in Russia was 1900, it rose
to 10000 in"1911, and 500. in 1912.
There are approximately 5000 men
employed in the mines of Butte, Mont.
alone, of whom 5000 are organized
In South Australia and Victoria
girls may not be employed until they
have completed their fifteenth year.
Leghorn, Italy, city council has in
creased the pay of its street cleaning
force by about is per cent.
The new immigration law of the
South African States raises serious
obstacles for Asiatics contemplating
emigration to the Orange river colony.
Almost 10000 Indians, who were born
in South Africa, but not in Cape
Colony, may not in future enter the
latter State. A tax of SIS per head is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

STANDARD bought and shipped ten
barrels full of the dollars to Vera
Cruz to pay off its employees through
out Mexico and for other transact
tons
The Standard stood to make $25,0
by the deal.
Huerta was advised. He instructea
his custom officials to levy duty of
$40. 900 on cargo of money on the
claim that it was manufactured sill
yer and thus could not enter free Of
charge.
The Standard at first protested,
then paid up.
Six-Year-OId "a Globe Girdler-Has Trav,
eled 100000 Miles.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.-Four
of little Luther Angles six years of
life have been spent in almost con-
slant travel, and he is claiming to-
day the record as a boy globe-trotter.
He arrived yesterday on the steamer
Honolulan from Honolulu with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. j. Angle,
of Chicago, completing his second
journey around the world. In all he
has Travelled 100000 miles, penetrat-
ing many out of the way places in
South America, South Africa, AUS
tralia and the, Orient.
Highest French Judiciary Decides ~
Cent Suit in Court Eight Years.
PARIS, March 12.--All three sec
lions of the Court of Cassation-fifty
judges In scarlet and ermine, the
flower of Frances udiciary-united
in solemn session yesterday to de-,
eide whether the Rural Cooperative
Loan Society at Magined, department
of Haute Savoie, had not paid %
cents too much for stamp duty on its
registration papers.
The hearing was climax of eight
years of litigation in various pro-
vincial courts in which the society
sought an order for the inland rev.
enue authorities to reimburse the
% cents. After listening today to
voluminous reports and lengthy
pleadings the Court of Cessation de-
cided that the society must have ita
money back
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
NO VOTES FOR SOUTHERN WOMEN.

DEFEAT OF suffrage bill in the lower house of
Virginia Legislature by the decisive of 10 IA fore
shadows the in the South generally That the
section conservatism strongest More than any other
part of the country home odashioned paacha in
tuition where the man head and the is
fill her traditional place houskeepe But the great obstacle
woman suffrage the problem The prospect
Of adding the electorate of the Southern
States question with white and white
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
THE KEY TO ALASKAN TREASURES.

THE SIGNING the Alaskan railroad bill marks the
ginning development of the great of Alaska
country embracing 59OSS4 square miles, about
sixth of continental United States 1t is practically
developed value of its natural
could exaggerated In coal alone the estimate
the thousands millions of dollars The railroad be built for
thousand miles key unlock this storehouse
treasures, and the government will hold the key.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
Bryan Gets Mixed Up on Phone Calls
and Gets Shock.

Bryan Gets Mixed Up on Phone Calls
and Gets Shock.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-Some
of the disadvantages and dangers
which beset the existence of Cabinet
officers in Washington are shown i'll
an experience of the Secretary of
State: Mr. Bryan, hearing a voice
on the wire after his call of down.
town office, said: This is Secretary
of State Bryan" Voice in surprise
and indignation: 1.-THE hell it isl"
Secretary of State, also surprised and
speeches. for few seconds, sput
tered: WHO is this speaking?" Voice,
triumphantly: President Wilson"
And before the secretary could speak
further there was click as the re-
ceiver was hung up at the other end.
Convicts Offer S35 Reward for Return of
Two Who Escaped "Honor Gang"
DALLAS, Tex, March PA re-
ward of $35 for the return of two of
their number who broke parole and
escaped has been offered by forty
eight other convicts, members of a
party which recently began working
the roads in Smith County without
guards or shackles, under an exper
mental plan of the State. The re-
ward is offered from the wages of
the men, paid them as part of the
experiment
Notification of the reward was re-
ceived by newspaper here yester-
day. with requests that 1t be pub
lished. ~
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
Convicts Offer sS5 Reward for Return of
Two Who Escaped "Honor Gang"
How Dictator Huerta Bested ArchboId
King of Standard Oil.

King OF standard OH.
PORT ARTHUR, Tex, March H.
President Huerta of Mexico and Pres
ident John ID. Archbold of the Stand
ard Oil Company, have just had a
little battle of their own, and Huerta
won, according to a story brought
here today by Captain jenkins, of the
oil steamer Winnifred, from Vera
Cruz.
The Standard, it is said, shrewdly
conceived the plan of buying Mexican
silver dollars in New York, where
they may be obtained now at a big
discount, then ship them to Mexico
and get their full value. So the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
The Worn Nickel.

From the Omaha Bee.
Did you ever stand on the rear of a
street car and listen to wrangle be-
tween a passenger and conductor over
a worn nickel2 Did you ever think OF
the trials and tribulations this little
coin causes the man whose business
It is to collect fares for the corpora
ton? Why Is he so captious about
the looks of nickel? Sometimes he
refuses to take one, even though It
might pass at bank. Well, the an
swer Is easy enough. In the first
place, bank tellers are expert In
money, and know a defective coin as
soon as they see 1t, and you never
think of disputing the question with
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
Polar Discoveries.


From the Review
In 1909 General Greedy wrote: Few
as are the years of the twentieth CEN
fury, they have witnessed polar dis
coveries which in extent and interest
far surpass those of any earlier COM
plete century" At that time Amund-
sen and Scott had not reached the
South Pole: Mawson and Wild had
| not explored some 1920 miles of the
Antarctic coast, and de Quervain,
Koch and Rasmussen had not made
their splendid marches across the
Greenland icecap, to say nothing of
such minor achievements as Fitch
ners discovery of Prince Regent Luit-
pold Land and Vilkitskii's of Nicholas
II. Land!
The era of pole-hunting is now hap
PLY over. and the best result Of
Peary's and Amundsens athletic feats
In the North and South Is that the
really important problems of the cir
cumpolar regions can henceforth be
attacked with a single mind. From a
scientific standpoint enough work re-
mains to be done In these regions to
last for several generations. The
Antarctic has only been scratched, so
to speak. Owing to the diverse scales
used in school Biographies, the aver
age man goes through life with badly
warped ideas concerning the relative
sizes OF various parts of the earth's
surface; and SO probably few people
realize that the Antarctic continent Is
very much larger than Europe-in
fact, about as large as Europe and
Australia combined. OF this huge con-
tinent we do not know even the shape
and location of the coastline. except
for one long stretch south of Austria
liza and few widely scattered points
elsewhere, while the whole interior,
apart from a narrow wedge between
Ross Sea and the Pole. Is virtually
blank on our maps. In the Arctic a
patch of million square miles is still
absolutely untouched. So much for
mere surface geography; but, OF
course, modern polar research includes
wide range of non-geographical
problems pertaining to such diverse
subjects as geology, glaoiology. me-
teorology, terrestrial magnetism, seis-
mology, oceanography. zoology, bot
any. physiology. ethnology and ar
chaeoiogy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES
What Is Ship Tonnagee
From the Engineering News.

what Is snip TonnageS
From the Engineering News.
There are three ways of expressing
a vessels tonnage: as gross tonnage,
net tonnage, and tonnage displace-
ment. The tonnage displacement is
measured in tons OF 2,240 pounds, and
refers to the actual weight of the
water displaced by the hull of a ves-
sci.
For assessing Panama Canal tolls.
warships passing through the canal
are to be taxed on their tonnage dis
placement, which is to be determined
from the vessels official displacement
scale and curves" in connection with
the draft, measuEed at the time of the
application for passing through the
canal. For the determination of the
mean draft, warship must be placed
at such location as the Governor Of
the Panama Canal shall order.
An interesting complication in meas
urement may arise here over the
question as to the draft of a vessel in
salt water or In brackish water. If
the draft OF the vessel is taken at the
approach to the lock, either at Gatun
or at Miraf1ores, II is probable that
the water will be fresh, or nearly so,
at least, when traffic through the
canal is sufficient to require a large
volume of water for lockage, so as to
continually flush the channel below
with fresh water. There may be con-
ditions, however. In which the surface
water will be fresh, but the water
near the bottom will be salt. and II
will be a puzzle to know what factor
to use in converting the total volume
displaced by the vessel into tons of
weight
All other vessels than war vessels
passing through the canal are to pay
tolls based on their net tonnage.
II seems pity that in the opening
of the Panama Canal. the opportun-
ity was not taken advantage of to es-
tablish, in place of the Anticipated
system of tonnage measurement. some
simple system of measuring vessels
passing through the canal which
should be easy OF determination, and
which might be the first step toward
standard for vessel rat
ing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12

There are 10000 Japanese workers
employed in Brazil, principally on the
coffee plantations.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-07
Saturday, May 8, 1914
At 1870 O'clock in the Afternoon

At 1890 O'clock in the Afternoon
at No. 2 Long street, Barre City, VT.
(Long street leads off Warren street
the following; Two oak 7-piece cham
Der sets; 2 toilet sets, and bureau
sets, hand painted; | green plush, solid
mahogany parlor set, cost $50; ] ma
hogany rocker; | parlor table, ! oak ia.
BILE. lovely art squares, 81 yds bed.
room carpet, lot of small carpets. p
yds. of stair carpet, stair pads, lot Of
oil cloth, parlor lamp, large mirror, lot
of beautiful pictures, 3 comforters and
blankets, 0 pr. of lace curtains, | oak
sideboard, 5 oak dining chairs, leather
seat, oak dining table, 2 other tables, oak
leather rocker, fancy rocker, oak chairs,
velour couch, pair portieres, | Junior
Andes stove, hot-water attachments; /
kitchen table and chairs, ] ice chest,
tea service, lot of dishes, sauce pans
tnd all cooking utensils, pair OF brass
fire irons, and many other articles not
mentioned.
This furniture is all practically new,
has been nicely cared for, and is as good
lot as has ever been sold in Barre at
public auction.
HOWARD SIBSoN, Owner.
c. F. SMITH, Auctioneer.