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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

Iowa now has women factory in
spectors.
Agriculture is taught in Hungarian
schools.
over 600 nurses are employed in the
Moscow Hospital, the largest IN
Europe.
Longshoremen at Boston, Mass, will
ask for an increase of two cents an
hour.
A movement to raise the age limit
of children employed in South caro-
lima is under way.
An effort is to be made to organize
the unemployed girls OF greater New
York.
The figures for December. 1918, in
the American Federation of Labor in
dictate a membership of 2,114,6sl.
In OREGON the minimum wage for
women is 1854 per week.
The average wage of kitchen maids
In England is less than $l0u year.
An attempt will be made to organ
lie the retail clerks at Toronto, Can
ada.
There were 1858 men and 352 boys
employed in Ireland's fishing industry
last year.
St. Louis shoe factories employ 49,
oct persons.
England has eighty-six women
plumbers, PSI blacksmiths, fifty-six
carpenters and fourteen masOns.
Tho present unemployment rate
among Berlin. Germany, roofers is
forty-one per cent.
Jersey City will probably be the
first city to have women as autobus
conductors.
Fourteen schools have been estab-
liEhed ~ the Russian ministry Of
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So fundamental is the upbuilding of
rural life, in the opinion of DR.. P. P.
Claxton, United States commissioner
of education, that the observance in
the schools of one day each year as
Agriculture and Rural Life Day"
should become national custom in
stead of being confined to few States
as at present. I'VE can do without
some Of our anniversaries If need be, +"
says DIR. Claxton, ito have time for
this, the most fundamental of all. The
children in our schools should be CIV
en- an opportunity to pause in their
regular work and consider the sig
nificance of agriculture and rural life,
the worth and worthiness of tillage of
the soil, and the beauty and glory of
simple and sane life In the open coun-
try"
DR.. Claxton points out that in sew
eral States Agriculture and Rural
Life Day" has already been intro
duced into the schools at the sugges-
tion of the Bureau of Education. In
other States exercises appropriate TO
the purpose are held in connection
with Arbor Day. Thanksgiving Day or
the Harvest Home celebration. In
order to aid in the proper observance
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

1.-The pearl is the fashionable jewel
now in Paris" says woman just re-
turning from that city. Long ropes
Of pearls are worn in ways fashion
has never dreamed of suggesting be-
fore outside of the Orient.
zone woman I saw had her long
loop rope of these exceedingly be-
coming gems passed directly over her
forehead. the strands crossed at the
baok of her head in a pretty way
over her low couture. The long re-
mainiug loop fell down from the back
OF her head across her shoulders,
making q deep necklace that reached
to the waist.
IT have seen ropes Of pearls draped
over one shoulder down to entwine
waist and hips. have seen rope
caught up into the hair over one
temple with q tall aigrette orna-
ment. Caressing cheek and neck, the
rope was looped down to the corsage,
where II wandered about in most
capricious way, enhancing the folds
and frills OF the frock across the
bust. The woman who wore her
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
PEARLS IN PARIS

pearls in this way had also another
long rope about her neck. This hung
to her knees.
Needless to say this vogue for
lavish use of pearl ropes could be
INDUCED In by only a few women If
the real article We're used in their
makeup. But imitation pearls come
now so perfect not only in color and
sheen. hut also in weight, that often
q most expert gem appraisings eye
would be deceived by them.
mo gem is SO generally becoming
as the pearl. 1t beauties a beauti-
ful woman and does not mock at the
lack OF beauty in a plain woman, as
other stones do. II treats a poor
complexion with such kindness that
somehow the complexion brightens to
near approach 10 beauty by its ex-
quisite touch. II responds to all the
fair loneliness OF youth and softens
age as by magic 1t blends with any
costume. any color and fabric. A
simple froci1 loses none of it's SIM
plicity of tone If pearls are worn with
il. An elaborate frock does not be-
come overelaborate with pearls"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

Major, did you ever hear of James
Geddes?" the late Commodore Van
Santvoord asked OF his warm perso-
nal friend, Major Frank A. Bond,
one evening in Saratoga. There were
three in the group, the commodore,
the major and myself. We were sit
ting upon the broad piazza of one of
the large hotels and the commodore
had been relating many incidents as
sociated with his boyhood experiences
Just after the Erie canal had been
opened for navigation. With that
canal his father and later the COM
modore himself we're associated in
business way, and it was there that
the commodore learned the steam
boat business, which afterward he
developed highly and from which he
gained a fortune of ten million dol
lars.
why do you ask me if I ever
heard OF James Geddes?" Major Bond
replied Your own good sense
should have taught you that man
as interested as l have been for some
Years in canal construction IN the
United States ought certainly to nave
heard of James Geddes."
ut has always been a matter OF
wonder to me-" said the commodore,
y
as railroad manager, and especially
with the so-called system, should
have become so warm an agitator of
canal construction"
WELL returned the major, ct is
because-I have learned that the day
is surely comm when there will be
as general 2 canal system through
out the United States, experimenting
the railroads, as there is in Holland
or Belgium"
yet it was on account of the rail-
road that Mr.. Geddes withdrew from
canal construction, said the COM
modore. II remember to have seen
Mr.. Geddes when ! was boy. 1t
was shortly after the opening of the
Erie canal My father pointed him
cut to me at a time when he was
visiting Utica.
"Father said to me: There is the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
ICELAND'S NEW FLAG

cross; of Norway, red flag with a
blue cross; of Sweden. a blue flag
with a yellow cross, The only diff
ference between the flags of the
merchant ships and of the warships
of the three Scandinavian nations is
in the shape. Their merchant ves-
sells carry a rectangular flag, and
their warships tailed flag.
The Danish warship's flag has a plain
swallow tail, and those of Norway
and Sweden a double swallow-tail.
Neither the merchant nor warship
flags of France, the United States,
the Argentine Republic, Belgium,
Brazil, Chilli, Holland, Mexico. Por-
tugal or Spain bear the emblem of
Christianity. 1
Both national flags Of the ships OF
Greece have a cross, and also both
flags, merchant and warships, Of
Italy. The merchant ships of Ger
many carry no cross upon their flags,
but the flags of the German war
ships have a black cross
In Russia the merchant ships bear
a flag of three horizontal stripes,
white, blue and red. without cross,
but the naval vessels carry white
flag with a st. Andrews cross.
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To Iceland has been granted the
privilege Of lying her own national
flag upon merchant ships 1t is un-
derstood that this flag will be Of
azure blue with a white Roman cross,
being an emblem of lceland's azure
skies and snowy glaciers. Such
standard has been flown on shore by
many loyal Icelanders, but now the
Danish government will allow it on
Iceland's trading vessels. The Scan
dinavian flags are very beautiful in
their simplicity.
1t is not all the Christian nations
that wear the cross upon their en-
signs, and, euriously enough, there
are several instances In which
country's national flag for warshlps
has a cross upon it, but Its national
flag for the merchant ship has not
These instances are those in which
the flag adopted for the warshlps is
of more recent origin.
The national flag of Great Britain,
the Union Jack, which every British
merchant vessel wears upon her req
ensign, has three crosses-St.
Georges cross, st. Andrews cross
and St. Patrick's cross. The nag OF
Denmark Is a red flag with a white
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

1.-THE Pilgrims Progress" has been
the best seller in the world, next to
the Bible. 1t was published by John
Bunyan in 1878. In 1856. or in only
seven years, it had passed through
ten editions. 1t has been translated
into almost every language and hun
dreds of thousands of copies have
been scattered over the face of the
earth
It is. therefore. all the more inter
esting to learn now at this late date
that John Bunyan borrowed the en-
tire idea of THE Pilgrims Progress"
| from a work called THE Pilgrimage
OF Man" or in the French, in which
it was originally written by Guillaune
De Guileville, LA Pelerinage de
| rHomme."
The author of the French book was
born In 1896 and died in 1860, and
translations of his remarkable work
appeared in England as early as 1880.
1t is now known that no less a per-
son that Godfrey AChaqcer was the
| first translator Aof "Guileville's
Dream" and for a long time this
poem was considered original with
, Chaucer until his poem was compared
with the original French. Many other
translations of Guileville's work were
made into English.
| Inc trenchman wrote in verse and
Bunyan in prose, but there are SO
many resemblances that 1t is impos-
sible to suppose the Englishman was
not very familiar indeed with the
original in translation. The similari-
| ties are so many as to make the
theory of literary coincidence impos-
sible.
| 1t is also mistake to believe that
Runyan pretended to have written his
work in Bedford Jail, which he is
| said to have called q den" What led
to this mistaken idea is that In some
editions of the work the word "geoal,'
or Jail" has been inserted opposite
the word den" This does not hap
pen earlier than the seventh edition,
SO 1t is plain Bunyan himself did not
wish the public to believe that he had
written his work in jail The word
den" really meant in old English a
wooded valley or uncultivated part of
the country, and 1t was in such sur
roundings that he dreamed his vision.
He wanted his readers to believe that
he saw this vision while walking or
sitting in some sequestered spot In
the country. This is precisely what
De Guileville wanted his readers to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

sea monsters at depths which have
never been sounded.
The grimaldichtys profundissimus
is very heavy about the head, but the
body diminishes rapidly in size
toward the tail. 1t is covered with a
peculiar form of scales imbedded in
the skin, The head is round and soft,
with the appearance Of having been
f1attened underneath: the eyes are
extremely small but visible. and the
teeth are numerous and small The
fish is very pale and almost without
color except for a grayish violet tinge
in certain parts Of the head and un-
derneath the body. The inside of the
mouth is a dark violet almost black.
One of the most important points
of the discovery is to show that even
the great depths of the sea are light
ed by q feeble and diffuse light.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
Future OH supply.
10 pbilafielDbia Record.

Hukufr Oh SNppAys
From the Philadelphia Record.
Experience in the development Of
underground sources Of oil and natu.
raj gas In all parts Of the earth serve:
to show that the outflow is not con
slant. After limited period the
supply in any particular field of oper-
alive uplift dwindles TO the point OF
practical exhaustion. The tremen-
dous drain caused by the steadily in
creasing use of crude oil as q source
of lighting, fuel and power supply
both on shore and sea, gives occa-
sion for anxiety as to the future.
Before Drake sank his well near
Titusville and disclosed the wealth OF
subterranean petroleum in the north
western part Of Pennsylvania our re-
fined oil supply was derived from oil
bearing bituminous shales which were
mined for the purpose in various parts
of the country. 1t is quite possible,
even probable, that In the course OF
the years to come we may have to go
back TO the shales for needed sup
plies. The use of oil for naval pur-
poses on war craft, as well as for
trading and passenger service, has
added materially to sea demand at
the same time it's general adoption
for motor propulsion has more than
doubled its use on land. These con-
siderations are prompting q general
study of the area Of bituminous shale
deposits in the United States and our
territorial possessions as a means of
necessitous reserve in case of war.
There is already talk OF withdrawing
the shale lands from optional private
development against the time of
greater public need.
BETTER Than the Good Old Times.
From the Providence journal.
The times must be growing better,
In spite OF all the degenerating infiu-
ences and manifestations with which
we seem to be surrounded. We hear a
good deal about the palmy days of the
drama. the punctilious courtesy of the
"old school," the more rigorous mora
standard that used to govern human
conduct, the higher culture that once
prevailed in what were classified as
the best circles" and various de-
tails supposed to emphasize the vast
superiority of the good old times"
And yet we are likely to be some
what skeptical. Something of a
glamour invariably surrounds the re-
cedinR outlines OF ancient things and
past performances. The further away
they get the prettier they look. Ira
ditions and legends spring up around
them, increasing the esteem In which
they are held. Increasing age only
tends to add to their mellowness of
tone. BY comparison the things of
recent origin seem harsh and crude
out In Pennsylvania some time ago
there was a distinguished meeting of
octogenarians. A photograph was
taken of the venerable group, and al
though the men in 1t appeared to
average about sixty years, the young
est one was over eighty, the average
age was lightweight, and the impos-
ing central figure was a hearty old
nov of 112.
We seem to be learning the trick of
defying old age with some success.
The grandfathers and grandmothers
of the present day may be playing
their parts with rather less dignity
than was considered appropriate fifty
years ago, but they find 1t rays. You
can't get something for nothing, and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
FEBRUARY 10
Sarah Dorsey
Bx MARY MARSHALL.
Sarah Dorsey.
Copyrighted. 1918.

One of the most interesting women
of the South during the Civil War
period was Sarah Anne Dorsey, who
was born in Natchez, Mo-, in 1889.
She was educated by private, tutors
and became a proficient student in
Greek, Latin and Sanskrit. At
twenty-four she was married to a
wealthy lawyer. Samuel Dorsey, and
with him she went to live on large
plantation in Louisiana. Here Mrs.
Dorsey became greatly interested In
the welfare of the slaves and built
school and chapel on her planta-
ton for them. She directed their in
struction on week days and personally
taught a class of fifty or sixty OF
them on Sunday.
But In spite of her work for the
interest of the colored race, Mrs.
Dorsey was not in favor of abolition,
and during the Civil War she and her
husband devoted themselves to the
cause Of the Confederacy, Her house
in Louisiana was burned in the war,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
FAVORS A RURAL LIFE DAY"

of the day, under whatever name IT
may be celebrated, the Bureau of Ed
ucation has just issued bulletin con.
tanning material that can be used by
teachers and others in arranging an
interesting program.
Fittingly prefaced with the "Coun~
try Boys Creed,' the bulletin includes
sections of mans struggle for food,
the application of science to agricul-
ture, men influential in improving ag-
riculture-from George Washington
down through Luther Burbank, LIB
erty H. Bailey and other present-daY
men, our domestic animals and
study of forests.
How vegetables have been used as
medicines among different peoples,
bread-making through the ages, the
mysteries of mother earth, the origin
of food plants, cooperation among
farmers, wonders of single acre
these and other topics treated with
special reference to clarifying country
life. Following each discussion thera
is q list of suitable poems and songs
on farming and farm life.
BY the. records of the latest stas
tistics there are 100000 French fans
lilies without children.
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but she. nothing daunted, entered the
Confederate army as a nurse and
gave literally of her means to the
cause in which she believed. At tho
end of the war, Mr.. Dorsey found
that he had lost large part Of his
fortune and his death soon followed.
Mrs. Dorsey was still anxious to help
the lost cause and moved from her
estate in Louisiana to Beauvoir, on
the Gulf shore. where she assisted
Jefferson Davis in preparing his auto
biography. On her death. when she
was fifty, 1t was found that she had
left her entire estate to the Davis
family.
Mrs. Dorsey was widely known
throughout her life as a writer. She
wrote many books and was a con-
slant contributor to the magazines.
She was also noted for her letters
and counted among her correspond
ents savants in India, Germany, Italy.
France and England-among them
Carlyle. Herbert Spencer, Dean Stan
ley and the Rossettis.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS
Wall of Newspaperman's Skull Replaced
by Plate of silvered Copper.

Wall of NewspaperInan's Skull Replaced
by Plate of silvered Copper.
PARIS, Feb. ia newspaper man
has been supplied with an armored
skull by DIR. d. Martel, the brilliant
hospital surgeon.
The man suffered from O tumor on
the brain; the tumor was removed
after trepanning operation, but 1t
was found impossible X to restore q
portion of the wall of the skull which
had been cut away, so DR.. Martel
replaced 1t with a plate of silvered
copper, only millimetre thick.
wild Ducks Quack at Sportsmen as U. s.
Protects Them.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 16.-From above
the Missouri marshes and that of
neighboring States may be heard
these days the unrestrained, quack-
ling laughter of wild ducks Occa-
sionally they swoop down and kid
the bobb.ng decoys numerically.
Evidently the Wild Duck dailies
have printed full accounts of the new
Federal game laws. They certainly
are fine for ducks. But E. A. Quarles.
of New York, president of the
American Game Protective Associa-
ton, is here at the earnest instance
of the Western huntsmen, who are
begging him to appeal to President
Wilson to have the rules changed SO
they can have some chance at the
ducks. They point out that the open
season for this section is from Sep
TENDER 15 to January 1, when there
are no ducks. They disappear early
in the fall and return about Janu-
ary Is.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
Prince of Monaco Finds
New Species of Fish

The Prince OF Monaco's passion for
oceanography has brought to light q
specimen of a hitherto unknown
species Of Ash which was found in
the Atlantic at the depth Of three and
quarters miles. In honor Of the
reigning family OF Monaco it has been
called "Grimaldichtys Profundissi.
mus"
The depth at which it was found is
several hundred yards lower than the
lowest depths hitherto explored and
tends to prove the existence Of other
unknown raSes and species OF deep
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16
What | Would Ratber Be

I'd rather be Could Be,
If cannot be an Are;
For Could Be is a May Be,
With chance of touching par
I'd rather be Has Been
Than Might Have Been, by far
For Might Be is a Hasn't Been
But Has was once an Are
Also an Are is Is and Am;
A Was was. all of these;
So I'D rather be Has Been
Than Hasn't, if you please
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

had the distinction of being born in a
| taxicalb.
me temperature was near the zero
marx and the mother had been rid.
ing more than thirty city blocks. Sl1a
was accompanied by her husband.
Modern Woman shapelier Than Ancient.
Says Physical Culture Expert.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. 1.-THE
physique of modern woman is far SUE
, perior to that of the lady of tho
Grecian era, in the estimation of DR..
Dudley A. Sargent, Harvard's physis
cal director.
1.-THE human form has improved
since classical days." DIR. Sargent
said today. 1.-THE female figure has
gained in weight and height and in
the measurement of chest, arms and
waist
1.-THE hips and thighs are about the
same, except that muscle has taken
the place of adipose tissue. This
| change has come through the differ
ent mode of living nowadays, and es.
pecially through the physical exera
else taken by the modern woman"
Name and Address on $40 Bill Unites
Two Loving Hearts.
LEXINGTON, KY, Feb. 16.-New
York and Kentucky Joined today IN
an unusual romance. Three years
ago H. T. Baker, who gives his adj
dress as No. 2e9 East bath street,
New York city, had SO bill changed
at hotel here. On one of the bills
given Baker in change was the name
of Miss Daisy Morris, Brook street,
Louisville.
allowed him to call. They have corr
responded since, and yesterday the,
clerk at the hotel received an invis
ta.ion to their wedding, issued by the
young ladys mother The ceremony
will be performed February rs. Mr.
and Mrs. Baker will spend theis
honeymoon in New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

The Casualties OF Peace.
From the Kansas City Times.
It took APO lives to produce mil
lion tons of coal in the I'm ted States
in 1912. 1t took 4.52 in Great Britain,
These figures are cited by the Iron
Trade Review in commenting on the
report of the United States Steel
Corporation, whose subsidiary COM
pany, the Frick Coal Company, made
the very excellent showing of the
loss of 1888 lives for every million
tons of coal produced.
1t is rather startling to have the
figures put thus; to realize that even
for the Frick Company a man was
killed for every one-half million tons
of coal produced, that In the whole
United States a life went out for
every $4,000 tons of coal mined.
Peace hath it's casualties no less
renowned than war, and. the whole
structure of modern civilization in
wolves a constant percentage of
deaths. We all benefit from these
sacrifices of life, even when they
occur a thousand miles away. The
obligation of reducing them to a
minimum rests on US all.