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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23

There is a new play that seems to
be a favorite, called make Me
Laugh" depicting the dismal condi-
ton of a king who couldn't find any
thing funny enough to laugh at. This
fabulous parsonage, however, is not
alone in his plight, and the skit holds
a lesson for many of us.
Long ago Emerson said: II ques-
tion if care and doubt ever wrote
their names so legibly on the faces
of any other population. Old age
begins in the nursery
Every man we meet looks as il
he's gone out to borrow trouble, with
plenty of ii on hand" said French
lady. upon arriving in New York.
1.-The Americans are the best fed,
the best clad, and the best housed
people in the world" says another
witness. but they are the most anx-
ious; they seem to hug possible ca
lamity to their breasts"
And it is indeed true that the
American people, as rule, take lite
much too seriously They do not
have half enough fun. Europeans
look on our care-worn, solemn faced
people as on pieces of machinery
run at forced speed and which
squeak for lack of oil.
If a man is living in a perfectly
normal way, he ought not to have,
as so many have haunted, hound
ed look. as though he suspected
either policeman or detective
were on his track. He ought not to
he worried and anxious every MN
ute. He ought not to take ms Noca ,
lion so very seriously, and should
not give the impression that the
whole universe is hanging upon the
result of his task,
Away with these fellows who go
bowlinp through life," wrote Beecher,
land all the while passing for birds
of paradise. He that cannot laugh
and be gay should look to himsel.
He should fast and pray until his race
breaks forth into light" Some peo-
pie have an idea that they comfort
the afflicted when they groan over
them" says Talmage. Don't DRIVE
a hearse through man S soul. w men
Vou hind ND a broken bone of the
soul and want splints do not make
them of cast IRON
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
UPLIFT TALKS
BY ORIsoN SWEET MAROBN,
Author of Pushing to the Front, ETC
THE CURATIVE QUALITIES OF A GOOD LAUGH
Copyright 1914.

why take life so seriously, anyway.
4 lot of play will not only improve
YOUR health but increase your efr-
cheney wonderfully.
Happy recreation has a very subtle
influence upon ones ability, Whlcn Is
and heightened ana null
tiplied by it. How our courage is
braced up, our determination, our
amhition. our whole outlook on life
hanged by it! There seems to be a
magic fluid from humor and fun
which permeates the entire being,
batbes all the mental faculties and
washes out the brain-ash and debris
from exhausted cerebrum and mus
cles We have all experienced the
ira nsforming, refreshing, renewing,
reiuvenating power of good, whole
some fun.
There is certainly something wrong
in the very idea of sacrificing the
iuices of our lives for the husks which
we get. Remember that there is
something else in the world even more
important than making money. hour
health. your family, your friendships
should mean a thousand times more
TO YOU than dollar-chasing.
Life was given us for enjoyment,
NOT for one long. strenuous, straining
scraning dollars together. Living
Getting was intended to be only a
mere incidental in the larger life OF
growth, of freedom of soul eXpan-
sion, mind enlargement. :.
TO he able to laugh away trouble Is
greater fortune than to possess the
mines of King Solomon. 1t is FOR
tune. too, that is within the reacn OF
all who have the courage and noplhty
Of sou1 TO keep their faces turned to
the light.
Talk happiness. The world is sad
enough
without your woe. No path Is wnol-
ly rough;
Look for the places that are smooth
and clear
And speak of them to rest the weary
ear
of earth. so hurt by one continuous
strain
OF mortal discomfort and GRIEF ana
pain.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23

The foundation of one of the great
OCT n,edical schools in the world, with
an endowment that it is believed VIII
approximate $60,O0OOOO, is lald III me
will of the late James Camppeil'
which has been filed for probate.
The estate of Mr.. Campbell, be-
lieved to be the Wealthiest resident
of ST Louis. is said 10 be worth now
$40 600 900 The will provides that the
widow. Mrs. Florence A. Camppell'
and the daughter, Miss LOIS ann
Campbell, are to share equally the
income for life. 5o,.1,
Twenty-one years after the death
NJ the mother and daughter the en-
tire estate is to go to st. LOUIS Ohl,
versitv for the benefit of the medical
school and hospital of that instltu-
ton. r,.,,i,
ipeti+ution under direction of the
Jesuit Order. 1t was founded as an
academy for boys in 1918. The Jesults
took charge of the school flVe years
later. and in 1885 medical depart
ment was added. The school now IS
at Grand avenue and Lindell Boule-
ward, in the centre OF the Glty. III III
1901 the Marion Sims College OF
Madeleine and the Beaumont Hospital
Medical College were consolidated
with the medical department of the
university.
The bequest was a complete sur
nrise tn the officials of St Louis Uni
versity. They had no intimation of
the contents of the will or of the de-
tails of the endowment, they said
According to the Rev. Bernard j.
citing, president of the university,
Mr.. Campbell had never even visited
the institution.
81 cannot account for st. Louis UNI
Versity being remembered, said
Father citing, except that Mr..
j Campbell was one of the first mem
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23

A hundred and fifty-six years ago
today Lii was born. She was ann
Elizabeth Turckheim, who, as Llh'
was one of the poet Goethe's insplra-
tionS. ii,
She was the daughter of rlch
banker. and moved in circle niue
above that of Goethe. He met her
when she was fifteen, charming
spoiled young girl-sweet natured, al
fectionate and highly accomplished.
She entertained him with an artiess
account of her young life, and before
she had finished Goethe realized, 10
his CONSERVATION, that he was in love
with her Goethe had already peeh
several times in love. He had an
emotional nature, and he dreaded tne
effect on his work that his friendship
with Lii must bring him.
The two became engaged. put the
course of their engagement never
ran smoothly. Lili's parents OBJECTED
to the match on the score that
Goethe was poor. Her mother sac
she cared more for rich huspalu
for Lii than for a famous one. ana
Goethe was moody, exactlng anu
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
WHAT WORKING GIRLS MUST LIVE ON.

Massachusetts commission composed of State
officials employers and working women has been
figuring on the average factory girls actual living
expenses and makes them $500 week. Adding
50 cents week for vacation and recreation and 10
for church offerings, the commission arrives at
s8.71 a week a fair minimum wage in the brush
making industry, which selected for the inquiry.
And yet it found that last year nearly onefth of
the girls received less than 81 week. two-ffths less
than IS and two-thirds less than Sc. But the COM
mission decides that account of competition from
other States it would be unjust to the industry to
jump the minimum wage to s8.71 at once. AS long
as a uniform minimum wage law in all States is lack
ing so long will industrial greed continue to grind
the faces of the poor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23

This morning, as I passed into the
Land Office, the flag dropped me q
most cordial salutation, and from its
ripping folds I heard it say: GOOD
morning, Mr.. Flag Maker.
u beg your pardon, Old Glory
said eyou are mistaken. ] am not
the President of the United States,
nor the President, nor a member
of Congress, nor even a general in
the army. l am only a government
clerk ,
Maker" replied the gay voice. Il
know you we'll You are the man
who worked in the swelter of yester-
day Strengthening out the tangle OF
that farmers homestead in Idaho
mo, I am not" was forced TO
confess. h
well, perhaps you are the one who
discovered the mistake in that indian
contract in Oklahoma.
"No. wrong again" / said.
"Well, you helped to clear that pat
| emf for the hopeful inventor in New
york. or pushed the opening of that
new ditch in Colorado, or made that
mine in Illinois more safe, or brought
relief to the old soldier in Wyoming.
No matter whichever one of these
beneficent individuals you may hap
pen to be, I give you greeting, Mi
! Flag Maker,
| I was about to pass on, feeling that
| was being Knocked, when the nag
stopped me with these words
you know, the world knows, that
Yesterday the President spoke wore
that made happier the future of ter
million poems in Mexico, but that act
looms no larger on the flag than the
struggle which the boy in Georgia is
| making to win the Corn Club prize
this summer. Yesterday the Congress
spoke word which will open tho
door of Alaska, but mother II
Michigan worked from sunrise unit
far into the night to give her boy al
education. She, too, is making tn
flag. Yesterday we made atneW Law
to prevent financial panics; yesterday
no doubt. a school teacher in Ohit
taught his first letters to a boy WHIT
will write a song that will give chez
to the millions of our race. We ar
all making the flag"
Out | said impatiently, "thes
people were only working"
Then came great shout from tn
flag.
LET me tell you who ! am. Tn
work that we do is the making of tn
real flag. l am not the flag, not a
all. / am but its shadow. ] an
whatever you make me, nothing
more. ! am your belief in yourself
your dream of what a people ma,
become. | live a changing life, a lif
of moods and passions, of heartbrealS
and tired muscles. Sometimes ] al
strong with pride. when men do a
honest work, fitting the rails to
gether truly. Sometimes | droop 70
then purpose has gone from me, an
cynically ! play the coward. Some
times ] am loud, garish and full c
that ego that blasts judgment; bu
always / am all that you hope to b
and have the courage to try for.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
POOR BUT JUST.

In one sense of the word he was
very poor. In another sense he was
not, for he had a cousin who drew
big salary as manager of a football
club. A few days ago he called on
him.
Jack" he said. with a convincing
catch in his throat. "can you give
something to help me? I have just
spent my last penny" He always
made point of spending his last pen
ny before going to see his cousin The
affluent relative smiled, Unexpectedly.
"Why, certainly, John! As a mat
ter of fact, I was just going to pay
fellow two shillings to mark out the
ground for next Saturdays cup-tie
match. But if you care to take it on
and you're a relation. I'll pay you five
bob! What do you say?
Thanks awfully, Jack; but though
I'm poor, should not like to rob an
other man of his job. So pay me the
extra three shillings and let him mark
the ground for two bob as agreed
t?"-Pearson's Weekly.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
RoOsEvELTs HOMECOMING.

Roosevelt is due the Imperator at Hoboken
tomorrow and he returns to plunge into national
politics He is not sick man, but his voice is
temporarily of repair But that will not incapaci-
tate him. The Rough Rider is back for the fray
and his bugle call will be heard soon after he lands
The Progressive party is not now the compact
and enthusiastic organization he led in 1912 Many
of his followers that year have apparently gone back
or are wavering between the old party shibboleths
and the new. Some have grown indifferent and there
is division of sentiment in the party, which he is
expected to close up.
But Roosevelt's presence at this juncture will
do much to restore the spirit of the Progressive party
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
What the Flag Said

am song and fear, struggle and panic
and ennobling hope. / am the days
work of the weakest man, and the
largest dream of the most daring. [
am the constitution and the courts,
statutes and makers, soldier
and dreadnought. drayman and
street-sweep, cook, counselor and
clerk. | am the battle of yesterday
and the mistake of tomorrow. | am
the mystery of the men who do with
out knowing why. I am the clutch of
an idea, and the reasoned purpose of
resolution. / am no more than what
YOU believe me to be and | am all
that you believe | can be. | am what
you make me, nothing more. | swing
before your eyes as a bright CLEAN
of color, a symbol of yourself, the
pictured suggestion of that big thing
which makes this nation. My stars
and my stripes are your dreams and
your labors They are bright with
cheer, brilliant with courage, firm
with faith, because you have made
them so out of your hearts, for you
are the makers of the flag. and it is
well that you glory in the marking.
Secretary Lane in address, to clerks
of interior department.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23

and put new energy into its management If he had
dallied South America this summer and fall there
would have been danger of the organization
going to pieces. Factions and Indifference have
already done a great deal of harmful work
The Progressive campaign this year will look more
to 1916 than to 1914. If the party can make good
showing at the polls in the Congressional elections
this year it will intact for the great battle of 1916
and there will be encouragement for the hope of
Progressive leaders that in that they can force
the candidacy of Roosevelt upon the Republican
party and present united front to the Democrats.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
SoO,OOO,OOO to University

bers of st. Francis Xavier's Churcn,
which is closely connected with the
university.
The largest gift ever received by
the university at one time heretofore
was 100000
The will of Mr.. Campbell provides
that the estate is to be held in trust
for Mrs. Campbell and Miss Campbell
bv the Mercantile Trust Company of
st Louis. At the death of either or
the present heirs the entire income is
TO revert to the surviving one, For
the children which may be born 10
Miss Campbell a trust fund of $l,ooo,-
900 is to be set aside, of Whlch tney
are to share only the income.
The Campbell homes in st. Louis
and in Greenwich, Conn, where Mr..
Campbell died last Friday, are left to
Mrs. Campbell for her life and after
that to the daughter Friends or
Miss Campbell in st. Louis yesterday
learned of her engagement to marry
Elzey G. Burkham, young civil en-
gineer of this city.
clause in the will states that in
the event the wife renounces the Will
the daughter shall receive no more
than 81 out of the estate.
The will provides that for the joint
lives of the wife and daughter the
trustee shan paw one-half of the net
income to the wife. as nearly as pos
sible. in monthly installments. The
daughter, however, is to receive only
so much of the remaining half of the
net income as the wife shall specify.
Kansas City Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
white Clothes for Summer Wear.

Nhite CLONES Tor summer WEAR
From the San Antonio Light
II has been for years a source of
expressed curiosity on the part OF
Northern visitors to San Antonio dur
ing the summer months that so few
OF our people, comparatively, dressed
for semi tropic weather. In the east
err part of the South folk have worn
white clothes in summer for genera
tons In Texas the number to APP
pear in cotton or linen or white serge
during the daylight working hours
has until this year been very small
Where in past seasons one man IN
fifty or perhaps 100 was dressed for
the climate, today one out of three
perhaps one out of two-is wearing
sensible clothes. Where, in the past,
the light stuff usually only bios
somed out on the roof gardens and in
places of entertainment in the eve
nings, after the greatest need for 1t
has passed with the setting sun, to-
day the thin suit is in evidence from
dewy morn to balmy eve.
White clothes do not attract the
suns rays like colored clothes, and
cotton or linen is not nearly so heavy
as wool. In these two facts lie the
explanation of why men should wear
light clothes in warm weather. why
the practise hasn't been common IN
San Antonio heretofore might be eX-
pIained in a number of ways, none OF
which matter much now that the re-
form has been accomplished. The in
teresting thing is that suddenly II
has become the general style for men
to wear appropriate clothing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
rrooper shaved OFF His Mustaehe. Loses
Leave at Same Time.

PARIS, June 23.-The following or
der to his regiment has been posted
by a colonel OF chasseurs on the east
ern frontier:
"The colonel caught sight this
morning of Trooper X. of the Third
Squadron, who had shaved off ms
nustache. This is unworthy OF
chasseur.
Zone cannot have too much hair
nm ones face in cavalry. All leave
will be refused to Trooper x. until
his mustache has grown again"
The colonel requests his captains
10 take severe measures against this
"effeminate fashion, which is utterly
out of place in the army"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JUNE %
Anna Turckheim, Empress Josephine
JUNE %
BY MARY MARSHALL.

jealous. So before very long the en-
gagement was broken.
In the meantime Goethe had be
slowed on her very real affection, aiida
all the misgivings he had pad on
their first meeting had been JIstlfleo'
He found it hard to work, hard 10
minsle with others, hard even to FOL
low Lii in all the excitement OF con-
certs. balls and parties that made up
her CAV life. oh he wrote to o
friend, "if l did not write dramas |
should go shipwreck." He disiked
the life of society, in which l4ih IN
sisted that he should mingle; he DIS
liked Lifts independence; he waf
Jealous because she was kind heart'
ed and merry, and he thoroughly DIS
liked her family.
When the engagement was safely
over Goethe wrote OF Lii: The poor
thing l pity to be born OF such
race
Five years after Lili's birth was
born Josephine. who became the Wite
of Napoleon when she was thirty
three. and who was divorced by MN
thirteen years later.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
THE BLESSING OF THE RAINFALL.

The recent rains have been godsend to the
Jersey farmer and truck grower Before they set in
there was a gloomy outlook for important crops
throughout the State, but the abundant rainfall
changed the whole aspect of nature and assured
abundance for growers who had begun to despair.
Be it remarked, also that the rainfall that gave
Inconvenience and perhaps discomfort to the city
dweer proved a boon to his domestic arder.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
Breaks Teeth on Bite of Pie. Now Sues
the Bakers.

ROCHESTER,, June 2S.-Claiming
that when she bit into custard pie
her teeth encountered marble and
that two upper molars were broken
off Mrs Glenn A. Miller has brought
suit in the Supreme Court for $4,000
against George n. Perry and Nelson
A. White, pie manufacturers of this
city.
Mrs. Miller alleged, and she has the
confederation of a dentist and five
members of her household, that she
bought the pie month ago and quar-
tered it at dinner. The pie makers
contend their system makes it impos-
sible for anything like a marble to
find its way into their products.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
Murderer win Die in Electric Chair
which He Helped Construct.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 2S.-Rob-
ert Collier, a negro, sentenced to
death last week for murder. will so
to his death October Is in the electric
chair he helped to install in Michigan
City.
Collier shows no sign of fear at his
anproaching death. 81 helped build
the chair and l was the first man to
sit in it after it was completed he
said. Nov I'm going to spend my
last moment in it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
Crows Take Fright When Stylishly
Dressed Figure Appears in Field.

MARINETTE, Wis, June %
Crows had been working great havoc
with the newly planted corn fields of
Howard Smithson. a young farmer.
until he went to Milwaukee and got
an idea from the fashions disported
by women.
He went back and made transfer
nation of a male scarecrow.
The upper part of the figure he
dressed with a low-necked garment
and the lower part with a slit skirt.
Soon after a flock of crows came
lowering over the field. They were
just preparing to alight when they
beheld such figure as had never be-
fore met their gaze. With one mighty
cav they flew away.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
Rdture'S Custom

Away back in December
We was strikin up tune
Askin' people to remember
All the Righteousness of June,
But at present we are sayin'
That the skies too fercely glow,
An we're tempted to be prayin
Fur little dash O. snow!
Here is June with all its roses,
An her song is low an sweet,
While the willow gently dozes
Where the land an water meet.
Here is June, picture splendid
Set in summers golden frame,
An yet before it's ended
Well be kickin' jes' the samel
Washington S
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
Seven Kittens Have Apple Tree for Their
Birthplace.
Barking of Dog Saves Life of Man
Overcome by Gas.

Overcome by Gas.
NEW YORK, June 23.-Charles
Kirchof, jr., son of Bronx physl-
clan, nearly lost his life last night
from gas which escaped from a leak
ing jet IN his bedroom. He was re-
vived with pulmotor and taken TO
Lebanon Hospital.
The barking of a dog aroused Mrs.
Mary Harmsworth, a caretaker, who
smelled gas and went to Mr.. kirch-
offs room. She found him uncon-
scious. A physician from Lebanon
Hospital arrived with the pulmotor,
and, after making Kirchof's recov-
erv certain, took him away.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
The Fourth of July.
be philndelnhia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
When a future historian reads in
New York paper of 1914 that in the
celebration of the Fourth of July
"Philadeiphia had S43 killed and
wounded in 1913, as compared with
255 in 1907" he will probably wonder
what sort of barbarians we were
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
Revised Version.

o Woman, in our hours of ease,
necessarily at Tango teas,
When pain and anguish wiring the
brow.
A perfect blessed nuisance, thou!
Sydney Bulletin.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
wildcat RaiIroading.

From the New York World.
There may exist somewhere con-
vincing reasons for government own
ership of railroads. There may de-
velop in the future convincing rea-
sons not now discernible.
But one of these reasons is not a
speculative control of railroads, any
more than bogus stock issues to help
Gould and Fisk out of a speculative
corner would have been a sound rea-
son for government ownership in
former days Another of these rea-
sons is not unregulated railroad con-
troll of capitalization any more than
unregulated railroad control of rates
would have been before the enact
ment of the interstate commerce law.
Another of these reasons is not bank
ing control of railroads for banking
interests. any more than control BY
favored shippers through discrlnll-
mating rates would have been.
Bogus stock issues were stopped
without government ownership, and
any remaining speculative control or
| railroads can likewise be stopped
| without government ownership. EX-
! elusive railroad control of rates was
put an end to by public regulation,
| and exclusive railroad control of cap
| italization can also be ended by pub
| lie regulation.
| ReguIatiye legislation, along with