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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
Science and Cats.

The late DIR. S. Weir Mitchell, dur
ing his long years Of active work as a
physician and scientist and his thirty
years or so of production as a novel
list and poet. explored many fields.
says the Century Magazine. No sub
ject that he studied, either scientific
or social, Is more curious than the
one he described in a little-known pa
per entitled, "Of Ailurophobia and the
power to be Conscious of the Cat as
Near, When Unseen and Unheard. :"
In this paper DIR. Mitchell declares
that there are persons who have been
able to distinguish the presence of a
cat by its smell, but cannot any
longer do so, and yet who retain
ability to detect unseen cats.
'It is likely" he says, that the cat
carnations may affect the nervous
system through the nasal membrane,
although unrecognized as odors. Why
these emanations should, If plainly
perceived as due to cats, cause GER
tain symptoms in those who dread
Gates is readily understood.
oThe ultimate cause of unreason-
able terror Of cats l cannot explain y
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17

Those who want to know exactly
when a thing happens, and why,
should consult the census statistics,
or the year book of the department
of agriculture, or some other very
wise publication of that character.
When they find out they'll know
more, of course, but they won't be a
bit happier. As old Imlac, the philo-
sopher who would be a poet, told the
young prince of Abyssinia, poets
should leave such details to ordinary
folks and go after what is left. And
when he tried to explain what that
was Rasselas advised him to go on
further, as he was convinced no one
could ever possibly become a poet.
June roses, then, come In June.
Any one who knows more knows too
much. Those who know less have
missed much. They first blpomed In
the summer of the original year. Not
for them is tradition linked with
the worlds tragedy as with the pas
sion flower. They are of the earth
earthly, vet of such beauty as no
mere human mother could ever be-
stow upon her offspring.
They began to bloom for YOU at.
say, the age of ten Maybe the first
ones showed up toward the close of
May. At all events. you associate
them somehow with the shrill note of
the fife and the quickstep of the
marct on Decoration Day. Colors
and sounds and smells are the strong
est parts of memory. Perhaps that's
what they're for. ANYHOW. the pic
ture is clear. The boys in blue were
younger then. Someone sang REST,
noble spirit in your grave unknown -
and Squire Zucl. who fought at the
Battle of Island No. 10, blew his nose
very hard. You wondered if he was
afraid Of spirits. and asked father,
who laughed and said: Not him!''
Afterward you found out why he
laughed. But that afternoon the
squire drew the rampant and forti-
fcations in the dust of the village
street with a shaky cane. and you
looked on in awe. War certainly
must be fine, and shootin' and KILN
and Squire zuck wasn't afraid of
nobody, was he?
June roses come and go. Again
you see them climbing the trelli;
work of the front porch-not youi
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17

There is instructive reading in the annual report
by City Auditor James A Rowe for the chronic grum-
bier and the "knocker" as we'll for all the rest of
the Newark community. The report is most en-
tightening one and the presentation it makes of the
finances of our city is matter for great civic pride
It shows in the first place that citys credit has
rock foundation So well has money been expended
in past years that today assets owned by the city
exceed the sum of its real and nominal liabilities by
least forty million dollars.
The real permanent liabilities consist of S16,725,-
200 of bonds of which interest is paid out of the
tax levy The nominal permanent debt of nearly the
same amount is sef-paying. The water department,
which represents bonded debt of s1SS77 600, soon
to be liquidated shows net profit of $99,182 after
paying interest and sinking fund on the debt
The total expenditures of Newark for this year are
S1224441991 the general tax levy is $8,051 ,2912S
and the departmental revenue apart from the water
department is S1,229,79199. Out of the citys total
expenditures must be deducted $2,534,36930 paid to
the county government
The property assets of Newark, consisting of land
and buildings are rated by the auditor s67 4S23 13
which is by no means oYerestimate. The same
amount of property in private corporation hands
would be capitalized at than hundred millions
Should there be any wonder that Newarks credit
stands exceptionally high in the money centres and
that her bonds should command iattering premium?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17

Mrs. Wilson has recently received a
most interesting gift for the White
House collection of Presidential ware.
It is a handsome Seyres dinner plate
from a set which belonged to Presl-
dent Buchanan, and is the gift of
James Buchanan Henry, Of Annapolis
nephew and ward, who served as
his private secretary during President
Buchanan's administration, from 1851
to 1861, and also while he was minister
to England in 1896. The sad ro-
nance of President Buchanan's life
will be readily recalled.
The tragic death of his betrothed,
which drove him into politics as dis
traction from his grief, occurred early
in his young manhood. In conse-
duence of this sorrow he never mar
ried, but he adopted ad reared as his
own children a niece and nephew, the
lovely Harriet Lane Johnson, who
was a daughter of one of his sisters,
and his namesake nephew, James
Buchanan Henry, who was the son of
another sister.
The plate which Mr.. Henry has just
sent Mrs. Wilson for the White House
collection has an interesting history.
II belonged to an exquisite set of
pink banded Sevres, each piece of
which was deliberately decorated
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
Seek Sportsmen's Aid Against Fires

the danger from fires principally in
the spring and fall. when most of the
trees are bare and the leaves on the
ground are dry. The spring fires,
many of which are due to trout fish
ermen, may destroy the eggs Of game
birds and even the young birds them
selves. Since trout fishermen are
likely to hunt in the fall, the same
individuals, if careless, may be a
source of danger at both seasons.
1t is suggested that the manufac-
turers of arms and ammunition
ought to be sufficiently interested in
the matter Of perpetuation of game
to be willing to help in the campaign
against forest fires. This help may
come through the printing of some
brief fire warning on cartridge boxes
or some slip to go with any hunting
or camping supplies which are fur
nished Several manufacturers have
already expressed their interest in
the matter and their willingness to
| help.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Russell Sage Avoided Committing Himself

Several years before the late
Whitelaw Reid became ambassador
from the United States to the Court
of St. James, he decided to have
carefully prepared biographies of
some of the leading men. of affairs
then living written by those who had
literary ability and who we're other
wise competent for this work, with a
view toward the publication of these
studies in the New York Tribune.
Among the biographies which Mr..
Reid was especially anxious to pro-
cure was an authoritative one of
Russell Sage. 1t was, however, re-
garded as very doubtful whether Mr..
Sage could be persuaded to narrate
the important facts associated with
he was utterly Indifferent to notoriety
OF that kind.
However, IL was deemed eXpedient
to call upon Mr.. Sage so that it could
be learned from him whether or not
he would aid in the preparation of
this biography.
A man of literary accomplishments
and OF considerable experience did
call upon Mr.. Sage, although in great
doubt as to whether this fnancier
would listen to the proposition. He
was pleased and astonishcd to learn
that Mr.. Sage gave q most attentive
ear to Mr.. Reds plan and was SEEM
ingly not only willing but very
anxious to have the essential facts of
his career authoritatively set forth
He devoted considerable time to the
biographer, narrating, apparently
with great interest. some facts of his
life and expressing delight over the
opportunity to recall incidents which
had almost passed out of his recollec-
ton.
In due time the biography was fin
ished and was submitted to Mr.. Sage
He asked to have it read over to him.
He leaned back in his chair, listening
intently with half-closed eyes and
evidently desiring not to have his at
tention distracted in any way, &C.
casionally nodding his head in APP
prevail.
At last the Geographic. said TO him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
June Roses

front porch, but hers. You stand al
the foot of the steps, conscious main
ly of q pair of feet several sizes too
large for their owner. A few years
before you were proud of their an
normal development and measured
them haughtily against all corners,
"Times change and men change with
them Your pride has decreased.
Would that the feet had done like
wise! But she Is all unconscious
obviously, fearfully. rapturously I'M
conscious. She smiles, plucks rose
from the clambering vine, twists it in
the black cloud of her hair and asks
you about-your brother Richard,
You say he's all right, and look at
the rose and the hair, and the brow
below, with its faint shot of color
like the mark that sometimes streaks
through the white of Vermont mar
BILE. You know what "blue blood
means and it makes you think-you
can't help it-of the graVestones III
the village churchyard, and you hear
again, far off. the music of the fife.
She ought to aided, of course, out
she didn't Instead, Sam Spates gol
her And he ought TO a-beat her,
but it turned out different From all
accounts, he made her a good man
as they say back home. And you're
glad OF it.
June roses come and go. So do
other things. You wish they didn L
at least quite so much and often. Last
night you went out on the front porch
yours this time, but nobody Woula
have thought so for various reasons
First, there was your Oldest daughter
the one that grew up before you knew
it. almost. And she reached out ano
placed a rose in her hair. while tlle1
Young chap that's been incoming
around for the past two months stood
at the foot of the steps and looked al
her. -
And these roses will bloom ana
fade. as your life has, and will theirs
Which is a way they have. For 1t Is
with roses and lives, as old lmlae
said of the poetry that les IN an
things. 1t is never to be found III
the most precise account of what they
are so much as in the perception-out
family grasped. even in the month OF
roses-of what they mean.-Cinclnnatl
ENQUIRER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
Wind Makes You Work.
From London Answers.

From London Answers.
Office and workshop management
has in some large businesses been
brought practically to the point of
science. Books have been written on
the subject, and lots of curious little
facts have been ascertained by those
who have studied il.
Office staffs, for instance, work best
in windy weather, as do all brain
workers, the reason being that in
windy weather the ordinary more or
less exhausted city atmosphere Is
driven out by volumes of fresh
oxygen.
There is the same difference in the
quantity and quality of work done in
offices as there is between that done
in unventilated and well-ventilated
workshops, and for the same reason.
No brain-worker works as keenly in a
stuffy room as in an airy one.
Damp, dull weather has little or no
effect on the output of work in Offices.
but 1t has in workshops. Manual
labor is less efficient in damp than In
dry air. The reason is that moist air
acts as a conductor of electricity of
the body into the ground, This does
not affect the brain, but only the
muscles and the spirits.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17

| Mr.. Sage, ! am now coming to a
rather delicate matter. Of course you
are known as a man of great wealth,
and l have stated in the paragraph
which refers to your accumulations
that you. are generally believed by
those who have had some opportunity
to know something of your wealth to
have accumulated about $70,000,OOo.
Do you object TO that statement
being made? Would you like to
change it in any way"
Mr. Sage pursed his lips and
seemed to be meditating as though
making q mental estimate of the APP
proximate value of his accumula-
tions. At last he assumed a charac-
teristic pose He touched the finger
and thumb of one hand with the fin
ger and thumb of the other, a man
merism which those who had bust
ness association with him had OBJ
served was a constant habit OF his.
Then he began to rub his hands to-
gether gently, another characteristic
of Mr.. Sage when he was considering
important business propositions. At
last he said, permitting at the same
time gentle smile to play upon his
lips, as though he were pleased with
the thought he was about to express:
No, DO not say $40 100000. Say, in
stead, many many millions"
Once more he repeated that
expression, and the tone of
his voice and his manner were
those of a man who rejoiced in the
sense of accumulation. Again he
said: Make it many millions" still
rubbing the palms of his hands to-
gether and maintaining "a satisfied
smile which came to- his features as
he began to think of the great for
tune which he had accumulated. 1t
was a flashlight revelation of the
fundamental characteristic of Rus
sell Sage, but it was also a cause of
astonishment that he should himself
have been willing to ask that it be
said of him that he had accumulate
many millions"
Copyright. 1914, by DR.. L. J. Ed
wards All rights reseryed.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
THE PURITAN SPIRIT IN SOUTH JERSEY.

Woodbury., Gloucester County, is now the arena of
battle between Puritan and liberal ideas The de-
esion of the club there to play golf on Sun
day, something which it voted down a year ago. shows
the growth of the modern spirit and has aroused the
rancor of the local clergy, who laundering from
the pulpts against the Dissertation of the Sabbath
and threatening to invoke the law against people who
choose to enjoy themselves in quiet and heathfu out
door exercise the first day of the week It may be
predicted that Sunday golf will finally win even in
South Jersey. The Puritans lag sdperfiuous
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
WORSE THAN THE PATERSON PETITIONS.

Speaking of the revelations in Newark of the
frauds in the commission government petitions, the
Hudson Observer says Not even in Paterson, where
similar fraud discovered and exposed by the city
clerk, the job bunglingly done" Paterson's
frauds in fact quite unmportant by comparison
In Paterson the men who got up the petitions did
not hire needy and irresponsible strangers at five
cents to get signatures, done in New
ark The petitions gotten up did not contain burlesque
names such as 20. L. Kidd" duly to by affidavit
as genuine signatures of bona-hde voters
We believe that this is the first time since the
Walsh act passed that such affront to COM
munity was perpetrated all probability it will be
the last.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
LAST OBSTACLE TO TRUNK SEWER REMOVED.

The Court of Errors having sustained the refusal
by the Chaneery Court to enjoin the Passaic Valley
Sewerage Commission from extending the trunk
sewer to Robbins Reef in New Jersey waters of New
York Bay, the last threat to the great enterprise
of the Passac valley municipalities seems to be
removed The courts of the State could not be used
to stop great public improvement vital to the health
and material interests of more than of cities
and towns.
Since 1896, when the first Sewerage Commission
was created it has been constant battle to get
trunk sewer built. The influences against it pre-
vailed in legislature after Legislature, governors
either hostile Indifferent, the city of Paterson
delayed the work for years various pretexts, and
finally the Merchants Association of New York set
up its opposition, which carried into the Federal
as we'll as the State courts. 1t has taken eighteen
years for the Passac Valley municipalities to come
within sight of the completion of the trunk sewer
which now seems safely assured
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
Rival Celebrities.

A certain Welsh lawyer is the proud
father of thirteen children. On one
occasion he took his whole family our
to a country fair. After strolling over
the grounds he decided to take them
into a side show, which had seven
legged calf on exhibition. Approach
ing the ticket collector, he asked for
tickets for himself, wife and thirteen
children.
Are all these your children?" asked
the man, surveying the crowd.
YES" replied the solicitor
well, wait minute" eaid the
Snowman, land I'll bring the calf out
to see them. Western Mail
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JUNE II
Frances osgood

JUNE II
F RANGES Osgoo
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.

Today is the one hundred and
second anniversary of the birth of
Frances Osgood, one of the few
American women who have achieved
SUCCESS in the field of poetry. In the
Judgment of Edgar Allen Poe. Mrs
Osgood possessed true poetic genius.
II cannot speak of Mrs. Osgoods
poems," he wrote of her once, with
out strong propensity to ring the
changes upon the indefinite word
grace and its derivitiyes. About
everything she writes We perceive
the indescribable charm-of which
perhaps the elements are vivid
fancy and quick sense of the pro-
portionate"
At another time Poe spoke of Mrs
Osgood's poetry thus This Is in
deed poetry and of the most unques-
tionable kind-poetry truthful in the
proper sense, that is to say breath
ing of nature. There is. here nothing
forced or artificial-no hardly sus-
tanned enthusiasm. The poetress
speaks. because she feels, and what
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
criminal Procedure Reform

From the Philadelphia Record,
At the annual meeting last week of
the New Jersey State Bar Association
a suggestion was made to change
criminal procedure in such way that
appeals would be heard on the whole
case and decided on the merits, in
stead of on errors alleged to have
been made by the trial judge. This
would be in line with the practise
recently adopted in civil procedure,
and with the recommendations of re-
formers from the time when the late
David Dudley Field procured the
enactment of his famous code in New
York; but the simpification of jul
dicial procedure by legislation is of
little avail unless the judges refrain
from again complicating 1t by new
technicalities. The bill of exceptions
was abolished in New York seventy
years ago, but the courts imme-
diately evolved d substitute under an
other name Similarly the record re-
quired on appeals under the recent
New Jersey practise act has been held
10 mean a cease and exceptions The
simplifcation of procedure is in the
hands of the bench and bar, and
both must cooperate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17

When Villa proclaimed himself mill
tary governor of the State of Chihua-
hua he began the extraordinary eX-
pertinent - extraordinary because he
knew nothing about it-of creating a
government for 100000 people out of
his own head. says the METROPOLITAN
Magazine. 1t has often been said that
Villa succeeded because he had edu-
Gated advisers. AS matter OF fact,
he was almost alone. What advisers
he had spent most of their time an
sWering his eager questions and 40
ing what he told them.
There was the financial question.
1t came to Villa in this way. He no
ticed all of sudden that there was
no money in circulation. The farm
ers who produced meat and Vegeta-
bles refused to come into the city
markets and more because no one mad
any money to buy from them. the
truth was that those possessing silver
or Mexican bank notes buried them
in the ground. Chihuahua not being
a manufacturing centre and the fe"
factories there having closed down.
there was nothing which could be ex-
changed for food. So, like a blight
the paralysis OF the pTOuuCliOI "
food began all at once and actual
starvation stared at the town popula-
ton. I remember hearing vaguely OF
several highly elaborate plans for the
relief of this condition put forward by
Villas advisers. He himself said:
why, If all they need is money, let's
print some" So they linked up the
printing press in the basement of the
governors palace and ran off 100000
pesos on strong paper, with Villas
name printed across the middle in
large letters.
The first issue of currency was
guaranteed by absolutely nothing but
the name of Francisco Villa. 1t was
issued chiefly to revive the petty COM
merce of the State so that the poor
people could get food. And yet al
most Immediately 1t was bought by
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
IllUloIdbIe

When hear discoursing idle things,
Who beauty and corruption would unite
AS who should say: Now call We darkness bright
My wondering soul more passionately clngs
To every image every strain that sings
Of beauty-stll, ah, still the worlds delight
More vauing that bloom which knows not blight.
To which touch of Time DETACHMENT brings.
From rocky Chos, from sweet Avon's side,
From Athens, Siciy-our earth to bless
From each dear land where Joy hath dwelt with Truth,
1t comes adown Times inexhausted tide
In myraid FORM the ancient LONELINESS,
Wearing its glory of immortal youth!
Florence Earle Coates, in Living Age.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17

routine required for his ends. Almost
literally he lived on herbs in a cell
but stern joy in the passionate con,
centration of mentality was a suffic-
ing reward. This was the sort Of
American business man" that Henri
James confessed himself unable TO
understand.
However, the opposite tyne has
been met He is gay joviai, expan-
sive, snowy, noisy He throws about
his money-or other people s-with
great freedom He takes his pleasure
as he goes. The English clergyman.
whose knowledge of American mill
bonaires is probably con1ectural and
picked up at long range, ought to
come over and take his choice of the
two
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17

she feels-but then what she feels -
only felt by the truly poeticaL"
Mrs. Osgood was born in BoBtou
and showed her remarkable literary
talent from her earliest childhood.
When she was twenty-one she was
married to a young portrait painter,
with whom she took up her residence
in London. Her first published vol
llme of verse was entitled "A Wreath
of Wild Flowers from New England"
other similar collections, 1.-THE Poe
try of Flowers and the Flowers of
Poetry" and THE Floral Offering"
soon followed and the three volumes
which were bound with delicate, old
fashioned steel engravingS, were
seen fifty years ago decorating the
prin "parior table in many a house.
Mrs. Osgood was always delicate in
health. Like her poetry, which was
of the delicacy in vogue in early
Victorian days, Mrs. Osgood was far
from robust and no one was much
surprised when she died of consump-
ton at the age of thirty-seven In
California. where her husband had
taken her In search of milder climate.