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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-30
DROPPED BOMBS UPON
A GERMAN VESSEL
japanese Aeroplanists Hit Marx from
a Height Of 700 Yards-Aban-
doned Guns Captured.

TOXIC, Sept. 30--lt is officially
announced that Il portion of the Jap
anese fleet has landed force in the
neighborhood of Tsing-Tau. They took
four field guns, abandoned by the
Germans. and afterwards held the
place with small part of the force.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-30

Rector of St. Michael's Catholi,
church.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
OPENING OF THE LEGISLATURE TOMORROW

WITH THE opening the 18Th Legislature at Trenton
tomorrow begin chapter State history Both the
Democratic majority Republican minority have programs
already session. and Governor Fielder Will use the
executive power he egmaey to carry out the
majority program Republicans davow intention merely
obstruc they will introduce progressive measures OF their
Economy efficiency in the administration of the state
government duty of this Legislature and 1t is on TINS
his most useful and effective work.
The influences potent in the past in blocking egsa
ton of this kind will Trenton prevent admlnsra
probable indeed that there will be an unusual
during the session. principal among the oooy
lists being representatives the fish trust the coal combine the
water company interests and the Morris canal lessees
The events may make material change IN the
settled programs they do in Legislatures 1t impossible
TO legislative business certain measures unless the
committees organized suppress bills referred them and
the House provide for the calling of bills out of COM
ttee enough dynamite in bills that have been pre-
pared for introduction lively sessions and perhaps disrupt
programs.
With large patronage dispense this Governor Fielder
will probably making appointments as Governor
Wilson Patronage the of the executive power
Governor second years of his term dominant
factor in State his last year when he has given out
the last patronage only waiting for his successor to
be elected
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
THE TAX WE PAY ON NEW JERSEY FISH

ACCORDING TO the last there were 74O0o males
of voting age in New Jersey 0323 in Newark There
also 52466 married 5O6985 married in the State
together widows and wdowers Without estimating
the population Jersey below the age of 2 and adding the
unmarried men and divorced the total is 854664
There are few people who fish in their diet at
least once week With many thousands that diet is semi
religious Counting pound of fish, ofa
and all 84664 week. the trust
tax of six cents pound would about 900 for
The State each week of the year.
people taxed by government in their cities and towns
and villages their counties and in their State
school indirect by the federal gov
tariff and internal But these taxes
altogether heavily the New Jersey citizen and
his family private which collected by the fish trust
their fish.
privately taxed fish imported and the government
pound the people would have just reason for
Indignation is home product it to the shores of
our State has ownership the waters
and the supposed to be free
10 all the people the State Private monopoly has tried for
years monopoly control of the watersheds of the State
with the purpose placing private the drinking water
which necessary human life air and nearly sue
ceeded Private monopoly buy watershed and rights
but buy appropriate foot of the beyond low
The monopost must build expensive dams
lay many miles of pipe The fish trust buys and builds nothing
monopoly its control of the comparatively nexpen
plant the fishermen the And taxes the
pie the wouldbe monopos with
envy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
IN SEARCH OF HEALTH

cred as drugs, but which still possess
singular curative properties.
Some diseases are best relieved by
special food prepared of materials
that do not aggravate the abnormal
condition of the patient, but that
tend to remove the disturbing cause.
Many of these preparations adver-
tised as special foods contain in
gradients which are harmful to per-
sons suffering from these diseases.
Diabetic foods are supposed to con-
tain gluten in place of starch, yet
most of the commercial diabetic
f1ours are by no means pure gluten,
since they contain considerable guam
titles of starch. Some of them are
nothing more than whole wheat or
Graham flours, and are positively
dangerous for diabetic invalids' use.
They are sold at a high price and
their merits are explained in mis-
leading and untruthful advertise
ments. Food adulteration in no form
assumes a more dangerous attitude
than when it puts on the garb of
medicinal preparations and poses as
cure for serious diseases. Patients
depending on fraudulent diaketic
flours would fare better on their ordi-
nary diet, for, while they feel secure
in consuming breads made from the
supposedly starch-free -four, they
may be INDUCING in sufficient starchy
food to bring their malady to a
speedy and fatal termination.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
INVENTS SAFETY ENVELOPE

velope flap is then sealed down with
the gum and the sender pierces a
hole in the centre of the package,
through which he passes piece OF
string, carries it round the lower end
of the envelope only, ties the string
and seals the knot with wax. AT the
head office the letter is opened at the
flap end. but without breaking the
seal. This exposes one end of the
batch of bills, which are then
counted, and if the total comedies
with the advice note the seal is
broken and the bills withdrawn; but
if there is a discrepancy between the
total of the bills and the advice note,
the official, without breaking the
seals, returns the packet to the
sender with remarkws concerning the
difference in the totals.
The sender is able to see at a
glance that he has made mistake,
because the seal is intact, and a note
could not have been withdrawn from
the envelope without tearing it from
the centre to one end. The system
admits of no dispute whatever. A
similar system is also used by a GER
tain firm in connection with it's i'm
portant correspondence between
various branches, only in this case a
needle and thread are passed through
the centre of the sealed envelope and
it's contents, and the thread likewise
passed round one end, tied and sealed.
In this way the letter is certain to
reach the addresses without being
tempered with en- route, as the letter
must be torn in any attempt to ex-
tract it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12

The public believes that every dis
ease has it's remedy, and in the search
for that remedy hundreds of cults
have sprung up. One man pins his
faith to minute doses of powerful
drugs; another walks barefoot over
wet grass another eats raw fruit
and grain; one is confident that mud
baths induce health, and still another
urges us to chew each mouthful of
food at least thirty times before swal-
lowing No doubt every one of these
cures is of some benefit to some
form of disease. The mistake of fol-
lowers of the treatments is in think
ing their particular remedy is a cure
all for every malady. There are no
universal remedies. Every type of
disease must receive special atten-
ton and be treated in the way long
experience and study has taught is
best adapted to the case. Certain
ills respond quickly to drugs the vir-
tues of which are sometimes wonder
fully effective; others need nothing
but fresh air; still others, a change of
climate, while a variety of diseases
need no drugs and no journeys to the
mountains, but are best relieved by
simple dieting. And just as the va
riety of drug preparations is almost
| beyond the power of the maker to re-
call and is daily being increased by
| the chemist and pharmacist, so a
great variety of remedies has been
! brought out that cannot be consid-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12

A South African inventor has pat
ented an envelope giving greater Sc
curity against tampering than the
ordinary envelope, says Chambers
Journal This novelty is of the con-
ventional shape and size, the only
difference being that on the external
surface of the flap, over the gum line,
suitable word, such as Intact" or
even the address of the sender, is
printed in some readily soluble ink.
When a person endeayors to ascer-
tain the contents by releasing the
gum of the flap either with steam
or moisture, this ink Immediately
runs, thereby conveying intimation
to the addressee that the letter has
been tempered with. The idea is very
simple, and certainly achieves its
purpose remarkably well. But there
is one slight drawback, since letters
delivered on a wet day are liable to
be soiled with rain or dropped on
damp ground, and as moisture causes
the ink to run, undue suspicion
might be created when there was no
cause for it.
One of the most effective methods
of sending important correspondence
and paper money through the post
which the writer has ever seen is
that adopted on the American rail-
ways. The money received from
tickets and SO forth at a station is
dispatched daily to the head office.
The dollar bills are slipped in a fiat
condition into an envelope of suffi-
Gent size TO receive them. The en-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
WASHINGTON LETTER

In a speech here the other night
Frank Morrison. secretary OF the
American Federation of Labor. de-
clared that Jesus Christ was a MEM
Der of the trades union at Nazareth.
This statement evoked applause. but
the speaker did not explain the source
of his information.
A property owner on the outskirts
of this city has a $4,000 house on a
lot he does not own. The owner of
the lot sued for his eiectment. but the
court ruled against him under the ole
law of adverse possession.
Former Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson was a visitor to the scenes of
his sixteen years labor. He came
back to obtain some material for the
book he is writing. 1t is to be named
Sixteen Years In the Cabinet"
An effort will be made during the
coming session of Congress to obtain
an appropriation for the purchase of
the land comprising the scene of the
battle of Bull Run. 1t is proposed to
make it into a national park and pre-
serve the monuments placed there in
the years gone by.
Dr. truman MlCHe1SOu. Oh the bu-
reau of Ethnology, declares that
Fox Indians Of Iowa are facing ex-
tinction. From q tribe numbering
5000 in 1921 they have dwindled now
to 1856. Consumption and allied dis
eases are given as the causes of the
decline.
A company has been formed here to
desiccate bodies after the Campo
Santo plan in Italy. The bodies are
to be placed in a mausoleurn. hermet-
ically sealed and desiccated by a SCI
entific process. In this way. it is
claimed. the features of the corpse
will be preserved.
A battleship to cost 2100o. 900 is be-
ing planned by the DESIGNERS of the
navy department. 1t is to be bigger
than any dreadnought now af1oat. It
will be $50 feet long, 100 feet in
breadth. and will require draft of
2S feet 6 inches. Congress has not
made any appropriation for this nice
little warship as yet.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
.SUPPLANTING THE MAGAZINE.

When Lord Northcliffe stated to
reporter his belief that the magazine
had had its day." and predicted that
the newspaper eventually would sup
plant it, as the purveyor to the pub
lie of current literature and art, he
did little more han define his ma
tionality and personal expencience,
says Century. British magazines and
British conditions differ vastly from
American.
But, irrespective of nationality and
environment, there are two reasons
that are fundamental and sufficient
why Newspapers cannot supplent
magazines. The men who edit a
newspaper think and act in terms of
newspaper and under the influence of
newspaper conditions. Their minds
gallop with the news. They must
catch editions and make a showing
with what they can snatch out of the
rushing moment. They touch the
high spots only. They think in lin.
type. They visualize life at 100
papers a minute. They see art in 60
line screens.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12

In the Advent season of 1889 Phillips
Brooks, who at that time was rector
of Trinity Church, Boston, delivered
ten or twelve MONDAY sermons at a
special service held in Trinity Church,
in New York, for the businessmen of
Wall Street and its vicinity.
Dr. Brooks's great reputation not
only as a pulpit orator but as man,
who cultivated the highest graces OF
the Christian religion, showing al
ways his love for man, dew immense
throngs to that church. They came
from Wall street business offices.
Great bankers We're there. The ca
pacity Of the church was not great
enough comfortably to seat the busl-
ness men who sought admission. inc
time taken for these services was The
noon hour, from II to l. Many bust
ness men forfeited their lunches, feel
ing amply repaid for that sacrifice by
the privilege of hearing Phillips
Brooks Excepting in the choir gal
lery, the entire congregation was
composed of men.
1t was my good fortune to spend an
hour or two with DR.. Brooks in the
library of his brother, Rev. Arthur
Brooks, who was rector of the Church
of the Incarnation, in New York city.
This meeting took place on the morn
ing of the day when the last Of these
Advent sermons was to be delivered.
In the course of the conversation
said to DR.. Brooks that at one time
I had been informed by Mr.. Murphy
who was the official reporter of the
United States Senate in the early
eighties. that with a single exception
Senator Preston D. Plumb at that
time representing Kansas in the
United States Senate-he was the
most rapid speaker he had ever at
tempted to report, and that Mr. Muir
ply had then said to me that Phillips
brooks was, in his opinion, the most
rapid speaker in the United States
and that it was almost impossible
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12

But imagine that same group run
ming a magazine. Now their whole
point of view differs. Now they dwell
insistently upon the thoughtful and
the scholarly. Passing events are
valuable only for their suggestions.
The ideal and immediate are insig-
nificant. The universal alone has
value.
The second reason lies in the public
point of view. The very form of the
newspaper, it's large white sheet, it's
swift, concise expressiveness, its par
tisan point of view, it's intense local
concentration, it's crisp, instructive
judgment of momentary values-all
are associated in the readers mind
with the alert, expectant, rapid
glance mood in which he picks up his
newspaper.
Lord Northcliffe is wrong. To as
sumo that editor or reader will OBJ
literate his instructive and educated
associations is to assume what can
not be. Both forms are necessary
to civilization. Neither can usurp
the others functions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
An Inspired millionaire.

An Inspired Millionaire.
From the New York World.
To Henry Ford's competitors his
10000, 900 profit-sharing plan is a
shrewd piece of advertising.
To emotional sociologists it is the
sudden dawn of an industrial millen-
mum.
To political economists it is a
doubtful experiment in idealism
which can be judged only by time,
the weight of experience being
against it.
To the country in general it is an
intellectual and economic stimulus,
adding new interest to the compli-
Gated problem Of readjusting the re-
lations between employer and en-
ployee.
Mr.. Ford himself believes that '1t's
sound thing economically and
socially that we have done, and the
time is not far distant when none
can fail to realize it." Be that as 1t
may, the undertaking is magnificent
,, in its conception of Industrial justice
and nobly patriotic in It's ultimate
purpose.
The American people can say with
out boasting that they are the only
| people in the world who breed men
that are willing to spend 100000
year in establishing the practical
worth of an ideal. Mr.. Ford is not
the first American manufacturer to
undertake profit-sharing with his en-
ployees. Many have admitted their
employees as stockholders. Many
more have established systems of
old-age pensions. supported entirely
out of profits. Mr.. Ford is doing an
old thing in a new way, and doing it
on a scale that appeals to the mag
ination of everybody. His plan may
prove unsuccessful, but it is worth
much to a great industrial country
! like the United States to learn the
| limitations of immediate profit
sharing and to have men who do not
hesitate to expend millions in
maintaining generous and humane
| theories.
Even though failure result, it will
not be the failure of Homestead. 1t
will not be the failure of the anthra-
cite coal fields. 1t will not be the
| failure of Cripple Creek and Occur
d'Alene. 1t will not be the failure OF
| the West Virginia bituminous coal
fields or the failure of the Michigan
copper country. 1t is never necessary
to call our troops to suppress the con-
sequences Of such an industrial theory
as Mr.. Ford is carrying into effect.
For itself, the World does not see
how Mr.. Ford's plan could be gener-
ally applied to industry. His success
as a manufacturer Is almost unpre-
cedented, and profits cannot be di-
vided on such a scale unless there are
profits to divide. Men cannot be paid
minimum wage of SIS a day unless
means can be found to enable them
to earn S. a day. If all manufactur-
ers were Henry Fords, the thing
might be easy, but unfortunately
Fords are few and far between;
otherwise American industry might
! be a continuous romance.
Nevertheless, here Is one of the in
spired millionaires whose coming was
foreseen by Gerald Stanley Lee, and
he deserves his welcome.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Lightning Reporter Bishop BroOkss Sermons

for stenographer to take him YER
batim.
The bishop smiled as he said that
he had also heard that the Kansas
senator was a more rapid speaker
than himself. Il speak rapidly" Dr.
Brooks went on to say, because
can't help it. I never use notes.
carry into the pulpit just few head
ings. These l frequently do not refer
to at all. My mind works more rap
idly than my vocal organs, so that it
| frequently happens that I am think
ing at least several sentences ahead
of my utterance.
Il have been told that even the
most expert stenographers have diff
f1culty in completely reporting me-
The best report of any of my sermons
that was ever made was written by
a man who was not a stenogra pher.
| had preached, ] think, about an
hour. / was told afterward that I
had never spoken more rapidly. The
next day | was shown report of
my sermon published in a newspaper.
1t was not complete, but that was
because the length of the sermon
would have taken too much space.
But there were two or three columns
of the report, and as / read 1T over 1
was astontshed to find that 1t was
absolutely accurate.
II made some inquiries, and I
learned that the report was the work
of a man who had trained himself by
system of mnemonics so that he
could report with accuracy and with
out taking a single note of any ad-
dress or sermon. l met the gentleman
afterward and he described to me the
| system which he had so completely
mastered. To me it was a revelation
of a capacity Of the human mind and
of memory, the magnitude of which
had never before occurred to me-"
Copyright, 1914, by E. J. Edwards
All rights reserved).
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12

The year 1912 was the greatest in
the history of the natural gas indus
try in California, the quantity Of gas
produced being estimated at nearly
one-half more than that produced IN
1911. This increase was not brought
about by the discovery of any new
fields but by an increased production
from the districts already reported,
particularly the Midway field, which
came into prominence as a gas pro-
Queer in 1910-11.
The total production of natural gas
in California in 1912, as estimated by
E. w. Parker, of the United States
Geological Survey, was 1854, 42S,OOC
cubic feet, valued at $1,747,379, COM
pared with 6,9S9, $780, 900 cubic feet
valued at $S00,714, in 1911.
The larger portion of the natura
gas produced in California is con.
sumed in the industries, the estimated
quantity in 1912 being 8,379, 632, 900 cubic
feet. Only 974,796,oOO cubic feet was
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
MAILS 100000 IN GOLD

More than 100000 in gold bullion
has been mailed out of Allegheny
Cal, in the last year by one mine
manager, even without the parcel
post.
When the Wells-Fargo Express
Company four years ago withdrew it's
agencies on the star route in Sierra
county, the stage companies refused
the risk of carrying the treasure, and
the mine operator was compelled to
go himself or hire trustworthy
guard. Then it was discovered that
a San Francisco company would in
sure consignment by mail. The
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
Miners Earn More Than Ministers

1t appears to be a popular miscon-
ception that the coal miner is the
most poorly paid and most grievously
oppressed mortal existing upon this
mundane sphere.
However much of truth there may
have been at one time in this hallu-
cination, the fact remains that many
a man of only reasonably good
physique who can and does work at
loading coal in the mines earns
wages which make the Salary of
many a clerk, bookkeeper, minister
and other professional men ap-
pear like the proverbial thirty
cents"
In many regions of West Virginia,
for instance, miners who work in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
FOOD FISH FOR THE INLAND WATERS.

so have raised in the State hatchery
Hackettstown established only that the State Fish
Commission what do with the More than
million distributed the northern
New Jersey thousands remain in the pools the
hatchery The commissions idea of raising larger food fish for
stocking excellent and may do great deal to reduce
of living There why the State should not
stock ponds with different varieties of fish
and cheap wholesome food for the people Gould
the income Fish Game Commission be put better
purpose?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
CALIFORNIA; GAS WORKS

consumed for domestic purposes, but
these figures are almost double those
for 1911, the number of domestic con-
sumers having increased from 1888
in 1911 to 1871 in 1912.
A considerable quantity of the gas
produced from the oil wells of Cali
fornia goes to waste annually, there
being no means of disposing of it.
Much of this gas is rich in gasoline,
and during 1912 several plants for the
extraction of this gasoline were erect
ed and successfully operated.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12

bullion was cast into bars of value
just under $1,000 each.
The miner took his bar to the AL
leghany postoffice, had it registered
as fourth-class matter and sent the
registration receipt to the insurance
company, with the amount of the
premium, which Is at the rate of one
tenth of 1 per cent. of the value of
the gold bar.
The miner uses one important pre-
caution, and that is secrecy. He goes
to the postoffice just before the clos
ing of the mail. The bar is placed in
the sack and the latter heaved into
the box of the stage coach. The stage
driver has no knowledge of the treas
ure.