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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
NO COMMISSION IN KEARNY.

The Kearny commission government election yes
terday resulted as expected, although more
decisively A majority of five hundred in total vote
of s64 counting the twenty rejected votes
elusive of the wishes of the Kearny voters
The wonder would be that anybody should have
questioned the sentiment of the town if the disposi
ton of malcontents to overturn established govern
ment and of oce-seekcrs to fish in troubled waters
were not so evident in all municipalities.
But there is mystery about the Kearny election.
How did it happen that while there were 882 petit
TONERS for special election only 1872 appeared
at the polls to their votes for commission gov
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

The raising of peanuts has become
a substantial industry in Oklahoma,
the acreage having jumped from 49,
900 in 1912 to more than 100000 this
year. Stephens county leads all
others, it's acreage being 10000, as
against 5000 year ago.
Peanuts In Oklahoma yield from 40
to 200 bushels an acre, and, in addi-
ton, produce from one to two tons
of excellent hay. The hay is almost
the equal of alfalfa. Growers receive
from rs cents to $3.50 a bushel for
their peanuts. 1t is estimated that
the crop this year should be worth
considerably more than 100000
The success of Stephens county far
mers in growing peanuts has induced
farmers in other counties to engage
in the industry.
The production of peanuts has
started new industries at Duncan, in
Stephens county, where a peanut oil
mill Is now in operation, and a pea
nut products plant, employing about
100 persons, will soon be running
Stephens county farmers have real
lied a net profit of $40 to $3.50 an acre
from their peanuts. The cost of
planting, cultivating and harvesting
Is virtually the same as for corn,
ranging from $3.50 to $14 per acre.
The best soil for peanuts is a sandy
loan. They resist drought, demand
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Many Balloon Journeys

that even the sudden weather
changes, for which the great noun
tains are so notorious, could muster
against him. But wonderful to relate
he has never met with serious mis-
hap, nor has he ever injured one of
his passengers.
In the thirty years during which he
has been an aeronaut, from the time
he left the Academic d'Aerostation de
France with his pilots diploma Cap
tain Spelterini has made about $50
balloon journeys, and he has carried
more than 1000 passengers In safety
in the cars of his various ships
as he lovingly calls his balloons. His
principal expeditions include ten
great voyages over the Alps, which
he was the first man to cross, two
flights over Vesuvius when it was
in full eruption, and many ascents to
tremendous attitudes in Russia, Ger
many, France, Italy, Turkey, Eng
land, Egypt and South Africa for the
purpose of making observations and
Strand Magazine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

stephen of Lorraine, who later be.
came emperor of the Holy Roman
Empire.
Maria Theresa and Francis Stephen
had met before their marriage, which
is an unusual state of things for
kings and queens. Maria was siR
and Francis was fourteen at the time
of this first meeting, but as soon as
il was time for Maria Theresa to con-
slider the royal suitors her first
thoughts were of Francis. BY the
time she was nineteen the question of
her marriage was one of the most i'm
portant political issues of Europe,
but in spite of the advice of states
men and courtiers she would consider
no one but Francis Stephen.
As soon as Francis knew that the
lovely princess looked with favor upon
him he sent her his portrait for her
locket, and when he came to press
his suit she wore this in plain sight
of her whole court.
Though Maria Theresa did not live
to know of the dreadful ending to the
life of her beloved daughter, Marie
Antoinette, her life was full of sor-
rows and cares, but through 1t all
she could always count on the faith
fulness and steadfast love of Francis
Stephen, the husband whom she had
chosen in her girlhood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
BRINGING HOME THE WOUNDED.

The arrival of the hospital ship Soace with the
marines and sailors wounded at Vera Cruz, to be
transferred to the naval hospital in Brooklyn, will
not be dramatic event as that of Monday, but
will be equally touching to the popular sympathies.
1t may we'll be predicted that these men will have
no lack of flowers and delicacies and other kindly
attentions while in the hospital.
This will be the first experience of the kind since
the Civil War probably it will be the last one
in the present war. During the Civil War river
steamers employed to bring the sick and
wounded to Northern hospitals, and in the large
cities the landing of these patients became almost
daily spectacle
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
CUTTING OUT PROMISED LEGISLATION.

Carrying out the wishes of the President, the
Democratic House last night cut from the pro-
gram of Congress at this session all proposed legs-
aon except that which the President specially favors
1t is not yet decided whether debate is to be
limited, but the Republicans not unlikely to
prove troublesome, it will come to adoption of a
rule similar to that by which the tolls repeal bill
put through the House.
The so-called trust bills to be passed. In
what shape mortal affirm Reactionary
influences plainly shown in the most important
of these bills, which may not be any more effective
than the Seven Sister laws of New Jersey now
dead the statute books.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Masts of Latticed ubing

The old-style steel masts, with
single support, could be cut in two
and sent crashing to the deck with a
single shot from the enemy's gun.
The new masts are used as wireless
towers and for searchlights and signal
platforms, as well as for range find
ing.
The range finders, usually thres
men, pass canvas belts around them
selves in action. Otherwise they
might be thrown far aboard by some
sudden lurch. The top of the waste
basket" mast is like the lower end of
clock pendulum when it comes to
swaying. The ship leans over just a
foot or two maybe, the mast six or
O. dozen feet.
When the guns are firing oeltw the
conclusion sets the steel tubes vibrat-
ing like a suspension bridge with a
crowd crossing. Sometimes the yibra-
ton is so strcng thatthe range finders
can't work. Then the guns are stilled
for minute-Kansas City Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Rats Cost $36O,OOO,OOO

Many popular beliefs on medical
subjects seem to be based on instinct
without any facts to justify them,
yet increasing knowledge in new fields
frequently justifies opinions which
have been held for centuries, says
the Kansas City Times. Rats, mice,
flies, mosquitoes and the various
forms of body parasites have always
been held in contempt and disgust
and always and everywhere have
been regarded as vermin. Growing
knowledge of the important role
played by these lower forms of ami
NAL life in the transmission of dis
ease is ample justification for this
feeling.
The attention which has been called
to parasites and scavengers of the
human race has resulted in demon
strating another reason why man
kind has always abhorred them. They
are an exceedingly expensive luxury.
The Journal of the American Medical
Association comments on a recent
article in the Farm and Fireside,
which discusses the amount of dam
age done in this country by rats, and
estimates that there are in the United
| States at least 300,000,000 of these
| animals, alike destructive to prop
| erty and dangerous to health. Rats
are said to destroy hundred million
dollars worth of grain every year in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

food a period of reckless fishing be-
gan, and in a few years the best
and most productive waters were de-
pleted, and what should have been
made a permanent fishery of great
profit was destroyed. On the Atlantic
coast the catch of sturgeon fell from
100000 pounds to less than 1000, 900
in fifteen years, and even more rapid
decline occurred on the Pacific coast
and the Great Lakes. At present the
total annual yield for the whole coun-
try is less than 100000 pounds, and
is decreasing.
Meanwhile the demand for eggs and
flesh has steadily increased, with the
natural result on prices. A mature
female sturgeon now often brings
more than $3.50 The worst of the
situation is the fact that all attempts
at artificial propagation have failed,
so that unless prompt steps are TAX
en- to protect the sturgeon by law,
this fish will be practically extinct
| in American waters in a very few
! years. The commissioner recommends
| that the Legislature of all States in
which this fish exists or has existed
should absolutely prohibit it's cap
| ture or sale for a period of at least
ten years. Meanwhile, the Bureau OF
Fisheries proposes to transplant into
our WALLETS youn6 sturgeon ITOn
foreign countries; especially a species
from the Danube and the Caspian
Sea, specimens of which have beer
offered by the Rumanian government
Growing Demand for Mems Corsets,
From the New York Times.
One of the most significant feature.
of the corset trade at the moment /.
the noticeable increase in the demand
for mems corsets, or, as they are
more truthfully known, belts. Mos
of this demand comes from physi
clans or from heavy men who ar,
ordered by physicians to get thes,
garments for physical reasons The
main object of them is to give support
in needed places, and their beautify
ing qualities are for the most par
overlooked.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

Among living aeronauts Captain
Spelterini occupies position which
is absolutely unique. 1t would be i'm
possible to describe in less than a
volume all the wonderful ascents he
has made in different parts of the
world. And his unblemished record
is proof positive of his extraordinary
skill as a pilot.
In the treacherous wind currents of
the Alps, where most of his remark
able expeditions have been made, he
has ridden out storms which have
sent his balloon tearing along at
eighty, ninety or hundred miles an
hour; he has gone through the very
heart of binding, deafening, thun-
derstorms, when the knots of his bal
loon net have been set on fire by the
lightning; he has been obliged to
land on shelf of rock not very much
bigger than the basket of the bal
loon, and with a dizzy chasm falling
away Immediately below it; in short,
he has triumphed over every danger
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
MAY 10
Maria Theresa
GIFTED
MAY 3
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.

There was no woman of the eigh-
tenth century who played a wider
political part or had more wide
spread influence than did Maria
Theresa, who was born one hundred
and ninety-seVen years ago today
She was the daughter of an emperor
of Austria. She was herself queen of
Hungary and Bohemia and empress
of Austria in her own right. Her
husband was emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire, as were also two Of
her sons-Joseph and, succeeding him.
Leopold. Two of her daughters We're
queens, one of Italy and the other the
ill-starred Marie Antoinette of France
Even the large family of Queen Vic
toria cannot lay claim to so many
European crowns as did that of Maria
Theresa.
Maria Theresa was a very beauti-
full and highly intellectual woman, as
well as one of the most powerful mon
archs of her day. AS a young woman
she was sought in marriage by half
the eligible princes of her day. In
later life she was brought into daily
contact with the most brilliant and
charming men of her age, and yet, as
her biographer remarks with almost
a shade of regret, there was but one
romantic incident in her whole life
and that was her marriage to Francis
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

A smudge of smoke on the horizon,
then two skeleton towers of steel lat
tice work just above the skyline.
A battleship! A United States bat
tleship!
Why? Because United States bat
tleships are the only ones that have
masts of latticed steel tubing-towers
that look as If they were meant to
train crimson rambler roses and 100
or more feet high.
Fighting tops are obsolete in the
United States navy. The men who
occupy the nests at the top of the
masts nowadays are unarmed. Their
sole usefulness to the ship consists
In finding the range for the gunners
down below.
The towers are made of the latticed
steel, so they will remain upright, al
though riddled with shots from an
enemys ship. Shells may pass
through the network of tubing until
every strand is severed, and still the
tower will stand.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
We Eat Too Much Meat.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The curtailment in the consumption
OF meat by the people Of the United
States resulting from high prices may
not in the end prove to be an unmiXed
evil. A diet too largely composed of
beef, pork or mutton is not considered
healthful Many ailments that afflict
the human family are pretty con-
ciusiyely traced to carnivorous living.
With the exceptions of the people OF
Australia and Argentina, who get
cheap meat from their great herds
of cattle and sheep, the Americans
are credited with the largest per cap
tia consumption of meats In AUS
tralia and Argentina $50 pounds, and
in the United States 40 pounds per
inhabitant per annum is the present
estimated rate. The British, who are
the largest meat eaters in Europe
consume a little less than 120 pounds
per annum.
1t may in the end turn out that
permanent reduction in the cost OF
living may result from the larger con-
sumption of vegetable foods that cos
less than meat. If the meat rate ant
the death rate shall be concurrentlS
cut down what has been esteemed
great deprivation may prove a bless
ing in disguise.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Unexpected Hesitation in Buying Dollar
Bills for Ninety Cents.
LABOR NOTES

With the notable exception of Wis
eonsin, States have not insisted that
their employment bureaus should be
administered by experts.
A new moving picture theatre,
which has been started in Leeds,
England. will be financed and con-
trolled by local trade unionists.
1t takes $50 locals, unions, lodges
and branches to make up the Mis-
souri, union labor membership OF
81, $685. of which 1925 are women and
s7,972 are men.
When the members of the Bricklay-
ers' International begin to draw pen
sions on January l, 1915, the union
will have a fund on hand amounting
to $4,000.
OF the "a, 100000 people engaged in
gainful occupations in the United
States. $4,000 die annually either from
accident or industrial illness.
Two of the largest trades in New
York city have agreed with the labor
unions of their employees to adopt
rigid fire-prevention and life protec-
ton measures.
Boston Cigar Factory Tobacco
Shippers Union has decided to ask
for better working and shop condi-
tions for it's 800 women and girl men,
bers.
The International Association OF
Machinists has launched movement
for the establishment of the eight-hour
day for machinists throughout the
country.
The building with State aid of about
10000 workmen's dwellings in the sub
urbs of Dublin is to be recommended,
it is reported, by the commission ap-
pointed to inquire into housing condi-
tons in Dublin.
BY the old-style foot-power looms,
it required $50 hours to weave 500
yards of cotton sheeting. Now 1t re-
quires sixteen hours and thirty-five
minutes to produce the same quantity.
A widows pension bill, aiming to
contribute materially to the support
Of fatherless children in New York
State, has been completed by COM
mission after a seven months study
of the question in this country and
Europe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
The Modern Mother.

Mrs. Grammercy-Do you think
she's bringing up her daughter
right?
Mrs. Park-Indeed she is, my dear.
She gave the little thing a stuffed
bulldog to play with instead of
doll-Judge
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Not in Mourning.

Sir Squire Bancroft, the famous ac-
tor, once paid a visit to a sick friend
and brought him a basket of grapes.
The friend eyed them wistfully and
asked:
Are they black grapes?"
Bancroft had to acknowledge that
they were not
you see," he said whimsically, Sin
serious cases L never bring black
London Globe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Would Exhume Shakespeare

sects, and doubtless, they are all
correct, as we'll, and an ingenius
clergyman, noted rather for his levity
than his piety, once preached a SER
mon from "Old Mother Hubbard"
that developed a wealth of esoteric
truth and affected his audience to
tears.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Cheating the Clock.
from the Philadeiphia Press.

from the PhIIadeIphM FTtss'
Cleveland, Ohios busting city on
Lake Erie. has hit upon an ingenious
way of gaining an hour of daylight at
the close of the days work. Being in
something less than 50 degrees west
longitude, central time has heretofore
marked the hours there-the time
that prevails between the seventy
nth and the ninetieth meridian.
Cleveland has now decided to set her
clocks in accordance with Eastern
time. BY this simple method the
working day begins an hour earlier
and ends an hour earlier, with the
result of giving the worker IN the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Family skeleton Ratified by Child at

Family skeleton Ratified by Child At
"MOvie'' Show.
WINSTED Conn, May 13.-Only
the faint click of the picture machine
could be heard in a Torrington mo-
ton picture theatre last evening when
a lovers scene was being shown. The
picture story had reached the point
where the lovers embraced when the
silence was broken by the voice of
little girl who, turning to her father
exclaimed: "Oh, papa, that's what
the doctor did to mammal" The re-
mark caused uproarious laughter
Unexpected Hesitation in Buying Dollar
Bills for Ninety Cents.
BOSTON. May ia 81 bill marked
down to 80 cents remained in a store
window for twenty-five hours before
it was purchased today.
Hundreds stopped before the win
dow but made no move to accept the
bargain offer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
The Difference.

A pessimist complains he has eaten
1000 oysters without coming on a
pearl; an optimist gives thanks that
he has eaten that many oysters
without getting ptomaines.-New
York Mail
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
An ldeaIist.

Tommy-Pop, what is an idealist?
Tommy's Pop-An idealist, my son,
is a very young man who thinks all
women are angelS.-Philadelph
Record
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Punk Pitcher.

"Majolica pitcher brings $685. in
SALE" reads Mrs. Fan.
HUH" sneered Mr.. Fan. He
can't be much of a player. Buffalo
Express.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
In Land Of Jokedom
The Wise and the Foolish.

Those who wish to appear wise
among fools, among the wise seem
Standardization.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Natural.

Beliefs that girls hair naturally
curly?
NeIl-Yes; natural result of the
curling iron.-Exchange
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Block to PROGRESS.

More of us would make good If our
neighbor would quit shoving.-Chi-
cago News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

spring and summer months an extra
hour of daylight in which to enjoy re-
taxation or recreation.
A few years ago another scheme to
cheat the clock was proposed in Eng
land and widely discussed. This sug-
gestion was to move the hands of the
clock back arbitrarily in the long
summer days of that high latitude,
without any regard for suns time at
ali. But that was too radical prop
osition for the tradition-respecti
, Britisher, and ii was never adopted
| Cleveland is less conservative, and
also more scientific. Eastern time as
well as central time is determined by
the sun Cleveland has simply decid-
ell to ignore the arbitrary distance of
| fifteen degrees of longitude and set
her clocks by the seventy-tifth in
stead of the ninetieth meridian.
| Cleveland will not gain as much as
England would gain by a similar
method, for the days are never so
long In summer in her latitude as IN
| the latitude of the British Isles, but
an hour of sunlight at the close of
business hours is not to be scoffed at,
II will be a boon to thousands who
know and value the pleasure and the
profit to be gained out of doors Nor
| VIII Iue getting To WOlh dn mum
earlier to gain the added hour at the
end of the days work be any hard
ship on a bright summer morning.
To Protect the Sturgeon.
Fiom the Scientific American.
In his last annual report, the
United States commissioner of fish
cries says that 1.-THE story Of the
surgeons is one Of the most dis
tressing in the whole history of the
American fisheries" For years these
large, inoffensive fishes were sup.
posed to be of no value, and when
as often happened, they became en-
tangled in fishermen's nets, they were
} knocked on the head and thrown bacl
into the water. When it was discov-
!. cred that the surgeons eggs were
valuable as caviar and its flesh a:
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Hrbor Day, Rap is

Our flag is flying for Arbor Day,
And we'll patiently work and wait
Till our schoolhouse yard is green and gay
With tree for every State.
If we kill the weeds and till the ground,
And prune with careful hand,
When hundred years have rolled around
They will still be green and grand
Then with your spades from near and far
And we'll plant our Union grove
With sturdy tree for every star
That shines in the flag above
Selected.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

1t takes $50 locals, unions, lodges
and branches to make up the Mis-
souri, union labor membership OF
81, s9S, of which 1925 are women and
81, 1872 are men.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

A new moving picture theatre,
which has been started in Leeds,
England, will be financed and con-
trolled by local trade unionists.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

With the notable exception of Wis
eonsin. States have not insisted that
their employment bureaus should be
administered by experts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

BY the old-style foot-power looms,
1t required $50 hours to weave 500
yards of cotton sheeting. Now 1t re-
quires sixteen hours and thlrty-nVe
minutes to produce the same quantity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

When the members of the Bricklay-
ers' International begin to draw pen
sions on January 1, 1915, the union
will have a fund on hand amounting
TO $3.50 000
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

The building with State aid of about
10 900 workmens dwellings in the sub
urbs of Dublin is to be recommended,
it is reported, by the commission ap-
pointed to inquire into housing condi-
lions in Dublin
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1914.

VOLUME Lxxx1u.-No. 11s.