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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
TASTE IN NUMERALS

good many ask for numbers without
giving any reason; they simply have
"a feeling" that those are good num-
bers.
And the majority of new subscrib-
ers are wise enough to leave the
number itself to the company. The
commonest form of request is, "Give
me good number" Now, a good"
number is one that is easy to remem-
Der and hard to misunderstood. A
number with repeated figure in it
seems to have some advantages, es-
pecially If the two like figures are
separated as in 1854. But such details
must always be arranged with the
more important general rules.
An old, well-known number is a
business asset highly valued by most
firms. Sometimes a subscribers trade
will expand so that he keeps adding
one, two or three numbers until there
are ten or a dozen in his switch
board. It is~very desirable that these
should be in consecutive order at the
company's exchange. Every such row
Is tied together by a line underneath
so that the operator can choose a free
I wire quickly from the whole group.
But in cases where it is impossible
to place the original number in such
line the firm will often retain the
| first for incoming business and have
some for the later ones changed to
make consecutive group. Certain
numbers have been held in this way
for twenty years or more. They are
cherished like the original doorplate
or sign put up by tns founder.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
THE PLEDGE IN THE PLATFORM.

MR.. BRYAN, in campaign speech at Harrisburg during
presidential campaign made the declaration that "a man who
violates party platform criminal than the man who
embezzes money Bryan helped frame the Baltimore
platform and it was Mr. Bryan proposed that part of the
Panama canal plank would exclude aroadowned ships
from The platform drawn read paragraph by
paragraph unanimously adopted the committee of which
Mr. Bryan member and unanimously adopted by the
convention.
speech acceptance President Wilson said of the plat
form: "Fo very practical document We now about
10 the people United States adopt platform We
are about to ask them with Office and and the
guidance of their affairs people adopted the platform and
entrusted party with its affairs in order to carry
out that PLATFORM which says I'VE the exemption from tolls
American ships engaged coastwe trade passing through the
Panama canal" What Mr. Bryan think of "a who
violates party PLATFORM"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
A SEAT FOR EVERY PASSENGER.

REQUIREMENT for trolley companies to provide a seat
every proposed by the Brackner bill in the Assembly,
when all of shall be occupied the
admttanc any people until seats vacated
How such rule would work in Newark may be imagined
The limit of safety already reached in the number of
passing Corners and that point regulates the number
nearly all the lines In the busy traffic hours the
the limit If the company enforced the rule of taking
passengers all occupied crowds would be left
standing and thousands of people would wait for
hour while filed passed by.
they wouldn't wait There would be riot
ping place crowds of people demanding transportation Men
would push their way spite of the
the police The camor of complaint would fill the city,
every passenger would be ideal for trolley
system utterly impraccable when the conditions
sideed The public would for though the Public
Service should consent
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
Science BaAed by Divining Rod

ested to have two wells sunk where
the divining rod appeared to indicate
the presence of water. In one bore an
abundance of clear, sparkling water
was found at a depth of 400 feet, and
in the other at a depth of 800 feet.
Not only has Mr.. Hupfl made a saw
ing of 100000 on the cost of city
water since that time, but owing to
the GOODNESS of the water there has
been large saving in the cost of re-
frigerating for brewing purposes.
Reginald W. Petre, a mining engi-
neer of Baltimore, relates that in 1883
he and his partner were mining on
the Mokelumne River, California. The
particular mine which they were
working had apparently given out,
no more ore worth taking out being
found. They were on the point OF
abandoning the property when by
chance they met a retired Montana
mining man named Charles Thomas,
who was skilled in the use of the
divining rod.
They told him of their belief that
the ore body was exhausted, but he
asked to see the property. He axam-
ined the interior of the mine and also
the ground near the exterior. Then,
taking willow forked twig, he
walked to spot several hundred feet
distant, when the twig suddenly
twisted itself downward in his hands.
He indicated that mineral would be
found there by digging.
Mr.. Petre and his partner sank a
shaft and thirty feet below the sur
face took out some coarse gold. They
then went to a depth Of 40 feet and
found gold quartz in large abundance
W. w. Barrett, of Arlington, N. j.,
relates that several years ago he was
the guest of a friend in an Oklahoma
village This friend erected a house
on a fifty-foot lot before having a
we'll sunk for household purposes. He
employed we'll digger to sink a bore,
but was dismayed when told that
there was no water in the immediate
neighborhood.
Before abandoning the idea OF
boring a we'll the host engaged a
man in the vicinity who had repu-
tation as a douser. With a forked
witch hazel twig he walked about the
lot. When at the opposite end of the
lot from the place where the well bore
had been sunk the twig began tc
twist downward. Belief in this mans
power of divination was strong
enough in Mr.. Barrett's host to JUS
| tify him in having a bore sunk al
| the point selected by the douser
Plenty of water was found at 8
depth of eighteen feet.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10

Do WI believe in rhabdomancy?
Have you faith in the practical value
of the dousing rod or of the douser
himself? Have certain individuals the
power to discover water or metals hid
den beneath the earth's surface by the
use of a forked witch hazel rod or a
willow twig?
A congress of scientists was recent
ly held at Halle, Germany, for the sole
purpose of testing the efficiency of the
divining rod in discovering the exist
ence of water under ground or of min
eral deposits. Tests conducted under
the supervision of the congress result
ed in the location of three potash
veins, of coal deposits and of water
courses. One divining rod expert gave
practical demonstration of what was
claimed to be the power of the mys-
FERROUS rod and of person operating
it by locating a leak in one of the
city's water mains.
In this country many instances
have been recorded of the power of
the douser. One especially notable
case is that of James Eastman, who
was for many years passenger con-
ductor In the employ of the Great
northern railroad. NO udIuSl -IleduSu
business man exists in the United
States than James ]. Hill, yet when
he was president of the road he
thought so well of Eastman's ability
as finder of water that Eastman
was especially detailed to locate wells
along the line of the railroad, either
where the railroad contemplated es-
tablishing towns or where water was
needed by the company for its own
use. Up to the early part of this year
Eastman had succeeded in locating
fifty-two wells along the line of the
road He is the Great Northern's Of
fetal water finder.
Adolph Hupfel, the brewer at 161st
street and Third avenue, New York,
says he has spent 100000 less for
city water for brewery purposes since
1909, when Charles Hallock, douser
from the mountains of Greene county,
appeared one day at the brewery and
asked permission to try to find water
there, agreeing to ask no pay for his
services If he was not successful. He
held in his hands forked witch hazel
twig. and walking back and forth over
the grounds where the brewery is
located for time obtained no results.
Then suddenly the rod seemed to
plunge downward, as If magnetically
attracted to some substance in the
earth.
Mr. Hupfel was sufficiently inter
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
CENTRE OF ANCIENT ROME

Prof. Bonfs discovery of the
"mundus" or centre of the ancient
city of Rome, is only now beginning
to be generally known, says the New
York Sun. There were some difficult
natural obstacles to be overcome in
the course of the excavation.
The "mundus," pit in which the
instruments used in founding Rome
were deposited, was reached after a
close examination of Athe geological
structure by the sinking of shaft.
The site, which is at the northwest
angle of the vast impluvium in the
atrium of the Palace of Domitian,
was entirely covered by the solid
foundation of a second century build
ing.
The Romans themselves lost the
site of what was once the most sacred
of sacred spots, and apparently
Augustus made unsuccessful efforts
to find it. Prof. Boni laid bare the
shaft filled with the debris of the
Augustan era, which was probably
sunk in the explorations carried on
by order of the emperor.
Prof. Bonfs report has not yet
been prepared. Meanwhile. archaeolo-
gists are recalling that the references
to "lapis manalis" and "sulcus print
genius" and the phrase "mundus
Patel in the writings of Cato. Varro,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
An Anecdote Of Great ShOwmans Business Sagacity

called 'Iranistan' Barnum had often
invited the sculptor to visit him at
Bridgeport and the invitations were
sometimes accepted. But when Tran
/ istan' was completed and furnished
Barnum urgently invited Mr.. Ball to
go to Bridgeport and spend a few
days at this beautiful country home.
The day was fixed by Barnum and
the invitation was accepted When
Mr. Ball arrived at the Bridgeport
station he found Barnum there
awaiting him. The Snowman led the
famous sculptor through the station
to carriage drawn by four brilliant
| ly caparisoned horses and provided
with a coachman and footman in
snowy livery.
| Ball was somewhat astonished at
| the magnificence of this reception to
him, but he unhesitatingly took the
seat in the carriage which Barnum
pointed out. The Snowman then
seated himself beside the sculptor
and the carriage proceeded on its
way.
Speedily Mr.. Ball discovered that
this carriage was. at the head of q
procession which consisted of a long
string of circus and menagerie car
riages or wagons which were gaily
painted and in the midst of which
was a chariot in which was seated q
large brass band which footed away
vigorously. The procession made g
parade through all the streets OF
Bridgeport, and the Snowman in ex-
PLANTATION said to the sculptor thai
this was the opening day for the
| greatest show on earth
But it was not till the procession
disbanded and Ball was enjoying the
household Inequalities of Mr. Bar
mum that he learned that the grea'
Snowman had caused 1t to be widely
advertised that with him was to ride
in the procession the great American
sculptor, Thomas Ball. That ex
planned to Mr. Ball why SO many
people on the sidewalk looked at hin
with curious eyes"
Copyright, 1914, by e. j. Edwards
All rights reserVed.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
FEBRUARY 10
AdeIina Patti
Copyrighted. 1918.

February might be called the month
of famous singers, for it contains the
birthday of more operate stars than
any of the other eleven. And the
greatest of all modern sopranos is
among them-Adelina Patti, who was
born seventy-one years ago in Madrid.
1t would be hard to find a singer
who made her home in more coun-
tries than did Patti. Queen Isabella,
of Spain, and Empress Eugene, of
France, each called her her dear
country-woman," because of her
birth in Madrid. But her parents
were natives of Italy, so it is no
wonder that that country claims her.
But when she was a very small girl
her mother and father brought her
to America, where she remained for
sixteen years and where she received
her early training and made her de-
but So after all we can't be blamed
for dubhing her an American. But
after her fortune was made and a
very large income 1t was-she went
to her princely castle of Craigy Nos
in Wales, so the Welshmen have as
much right as any one to claim the
divine Patti as their own.
PATHS earliest recollections were Of
the trials of her parents on the stage,
for they were both singers by pro-
fession. When she was six years old
she dressed up in her mothers stage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10

The late Arthur Twachtman, who is
slowly but surely gaining posthumous
fame as an American painter, whose
genius was not recognized in his life
time except by a few who were OF
good Judgment, had wide acqualnt-
ance with painters and sculptors and
also with musicians. He was fortu-
nate enough to hear the first perform
ance of Wagner's "Meistersinger" at
Munich. and he had at that time
made acquaintance either with
Thomas Ball or intimate friends of
Ball. who related to him many anec-
dotes about the latter
Ball was a sculptor who lived many
years at Florence, Italy, and also
spent some months each year at
Munich, where Twachtman studied
The bronze equestrian statue OF
Washington in the Boston Public
Garden and the statue of Webster in
New York were Balls work, but he
was perhaps best known as the
sculptor who designed and executed
the Emancipation group which
stood on the Capitol grounds ii
Washington.
Mr.. Twachtman for some years was
a neigh Dor of mine. and 1 often had
the pleasure Of hearing his anecdota
"reminiscences of men who haC
achieved success in the world of art
He had a very keen sense of humor
and he once narrated the following
incident which was either told K
him by the sculptor Ball or by one o.
Mr. Balls friends:
I'm some way Tom Ball and P. T
Barnum, the great American show
man, established an intimate per.
sonal friendship at the time wher
Barnum was in the height of his ca
reer.
THAT friendship was maintained
until Barnum's death. How sl6ilfull,
the great Snowman was able to util
ize his intimacies with men who haC
gained high reputation was discovered
by Mr.. Ball just after Barnum hat
built his magnificent country hom
at Bridgeport Connecticut, which h
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
ODDITIES IN TODAYS NEWS

their daughter Helen, who had been
unable to use her legs for two years.
Helen walks from her home to tho
Jamaica Training School, and Is
taking an active part in outdoor
sports. She has surprised her
mother and father by expressing
desire to join a dancing class, so that
she may learn the new steps In time
for the annual spring dance given by
the students of the school. v
The girl says she became aware of
the cure in a vivid dream in which
she saw herself throw away her
crutches. She awoke to find herself
standing unsupported In the centre
of the room and could recollect dis
tinctly having walked through sew
eral rooms of the house.
Mayor Does Washing to Show He's for
Women Suffrage.
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL, Feb. TO-
IT am for equal suffrage, and if you
do not believe it come to my house
family washing" said Mayor joe
Catick yesterday.
The mayor recently stated that
mothers and daughters who neglect
their homes and spend their time talk
ing politics should be prosecuted for
contributing to the delinquency of
minor children.
This remark was resented by the
women, but the mayor stated that 1t
was directed specifically against the
delinquents, and was not meant as an
attack on woman suffrage. So, to set
an example to the women, he has in
vited everybody to watch him do the
family washing every Monday morn
ing.
The Harsh Judge.
A judge was recently at a privats
dinner defending harsh sentence.
Il believe, ME said, that 1t Is bet
ter for law and order that sentences
should err on the side of harshness
rather than on the side of lenity.
Look at nature. the great judge OF
us all Was there ever a harsher.
severer Judge. than nature, who sem
fences each and every one of us to
hard labor for life?"-Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
Is your business falling off?

Is your business falling off?
Try changing your telephone num-
Der. Perhaps your clients or your
customers can't remember it. Per-
naps they can't say 1t so it will be
understood, says the New York Sun.
Certain employees of the New York
Telephone Company make the study
of numbers part of their days
work. And it pays both the company
and the client.
There are always a few fussy folks
who are hard to suit in telephone
numbers. They want them made to
their personal order, like their clothes.
The company Is only too glad to do
this when it is possible, but mostly
it isn't. The company has to divide
its thousands of clients into groups,
arranging them SO as to give the
quickest and most nearly accurate
service possible to all. In the busy
exchanges every girl has to act daily
as the medium of a thousand CONVEX
sat atoms. If PERSONAL fancies dictated
the arran cement of the numbers this
would be impossible.
A few subscribers object to the
number "13" in any combination, but
not nearly so many as one would ex-
pect to find. Others want their tele-
| phone numbers to be the same as
house or office addresses. OF course
| there is about one chance in a thou.
! saRa kas-< this ssn ~ arranged.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10

Plutarch and others are now unex-
pectedly illuminated by the outcome
of Prof. Boni's patient work for f1f-
teen years, which has laid bare much
that seemed to have been hidden for
ever.
The "mundus'' was sacred to Pluto
and Persephone, and was venerated
until the fall of the republic as the
centre of the furrow which traced the
ritual boundary of the primitive city
1t was the innermost shrine Of the
ancient religion of Rome.
The "lapis manalis'' is a square.
rough-hewn slab of tufa, one of the
kinds of stone used in the construc-
ton of Rome, pierced with two round
holes. Prof. Boni appears to have
braved the terrible shades" which
legend says guarded the 'lapis mana
lis" and he found the vaulted
granary and favissae below the
granary The favissae, excavated
forty feet deep in the tufa below the
clay in the summit of the Palatine
hill, guarded the sacred seed for the
primitive Romulean race.
The "lapis manalis" concealed the
most ancient mysteries of the mum
lus," whence terminated and spread
forth the fundamental energies of the
Roman people, mysteries more ancient
than the Roman race itself.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10

costumes and put all her dolls in q
row for her audience and then danced
and sang for them, pausing in her
performance just long enough to say
Brave Adelina.'' The next year
when she was only seven she made
her real debut when she sang una
Voce" in New York All she hemem-
bers about that performance was that
afterward her father caught her In
his arms and her mother kissed her,
and a feeling in her child mind that
she had retrieved her parents for
tunes.
There was never a singer who re-
ceived more universal tribute and en-
couragement from crowned heads
than did Patti. In Spain and in
France she was showered with royal
favors. In Moscow she received five
diamond stars and two coffee cups
and saucers inlaid with precious
stones from the Russian emperor.
King Edward VII, when he was
Prince of Wales, called her his "old
and valued friend, Nine. Patti" But
still it was from the common people
that Patti received her deepest
tribute During the Franco-Prussian
war her sister was in Paris, and when
a soldier entered her house to con-
f1scate it he saw a picture of Adelirfa
Patti, and for the sake of the great
singer he closed the door and went
away.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10

A medical journal reports an ex-
pertinent upon a very feeble horse
twenty-six years old. The blood of
four lambs were transfused into the
animal and he Immediately showed
| marked signs of new life and vigor
and seemed much younger. The
younger, more vigorous corpuscles OF
the lambs rejuvenated the old horse
| and impaired a new vital force.
There are business houses which
| have become feeble from loss of the
old time vigor and vitality, sometimes
because the proprietors have gotten
along in years or because they have
made their money and are inclined TO
take things easy. But whatever the
reason of a declining vitality in BUSH
ness, If it is resuscitated and reju-
vented with new blood, with new
vitality, If it is not reinvigorated in
some way, dry rot will set in and 1t
will gradually peter out.
I have in mind proprietor who has
been running his business on the
same old plan, on the same old ideas
as his grandfather used. More pro-
gressive young men have moved 10
his town and have started the same
line of business, and although he sees
his customers gradually Shining away
from him he says that what his com
petitors are doing doesn't interest
him. He is never looking to see what
others in the same line of business
are doing, what new methods, new
ideas they are adopting. The result
is that he is helplessly in a rut and
his business is gradually dropping off.
A business must be fed just as much
as an individual, and it must be fed
on new food, it must be fed on new
ideas.
The progressive man keeps in touch
with his competitors.
The junior member of a firm re-
Gently established was asked by an
old business man how they managed
to get their store so quickly into line,
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How About Loss-sharing.

From the New Haven Journal Courier.
1t is to be shown that any scheme
of profit-sharlng can be made to work
which does not take into account lean
as we'll as fat years. In principle, If
manufacturer is to make division
with his employees when the income
is large, owing to good times, the en-
ployees ought to share with him in the
distress of bad times. 1t is quite
likely that If labor should voluntarily
take that attitude, which is fair,
profit-sharing schemes would begin
to multiply Meantime, it is obvious
that the gradual consideration of
sharing schemes is making more
and more for industrial peace. They
do not exactly revive the intimate re-
lations of master and man, as they
existed in the earlier years, but they
do establish a relationship of the most
significant character. Indeed. the
United States has developed a new
vision, and it is bound to work to the
greater contentment of the country.