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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16

Did you ever stop to think of the
one hundred thousand blind people IN
the United States and what caused
their misfortune? Did it ever occur
TO YOU that about thirty thousand
of these unfortunates are unneces-
sarily blind? Do you know that about
twelve thousand of these are children
who are blind because of the unfaith-
f,ilness of either the father or the
mother? Are you aware that twelve
thousand people are cropping their way
about in darkness due to injuries
which in most instances could have
been avoided by the installation in
factories of proper safety devices?
Twenty-Five hundred of them are
deprived from a livelihood because
of granular lids, which is prevent
able by the application of proper
remedies.
Two thousand are deprived of their
sight because OF Fourth of July ac-
cidents. Fifteen hundred will never
again see the light of day because
| of various causes, such as the drink
| ing or absorbing of wood alcohol and
| the neglect of proper treatment of
certain eye affections. If We look
! at these figures calmly, they are
amazing. We can hardly believe that
thirty thousand human beings are
shut out from earning a livelihood,
| who might now be employed, self
supporting and productive of several
million dollars worth of labor, II
preventive measures had been en-
| ployed in their cases.
we are q long suffering people, but
how much longer must we keep our
eyes closed to the fact that if the
doctor or midwife had dropped a
per cent. solution of nitrate of silver
! into the eyes of the newborn babe
six thousand pairs of eyes would
have been saved from the dreadful
effects of gonorrheal ophthalmia. II
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death bed, an act which considerably
depressed the devoted sister.
In her unhappiness, Sister Dora
turned her attention more zealously
to nursing and became highly skilled
as a surgical nurse. She could per-
from minor operations with greater
skill than most surgeons. Her pa
tents were most men and boys, VINO
had been injured In the mines. IN
1871 the men of the railway lines VINO
knew her devotion and skill as a nurse
presented her with horse and car
rage. But Sister Dora was too busy
nursing to think of her own pleasure,
In 1877 she took charge of sma iipoX
hospital in Walsall. England. and
continued at her post with heroic Tor
titude, in spite of her own illness.
She died of cancer in 1878 at the age
of forty-six.
Sister Dora will always stand out
with Florence Nightingale as tne
greatest of English nurses. she was
a woman of magnetic personally IN
firing zeal and remarkable skill. Al
though she lived in comparative op5
scurity her influence was widespread
and lasting.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16

one of the peculiar customs on
board Mississippi River boats, which
changing conditions have been un-
able to do away with, is the fixed
habit of steamboat men for having
their coffee promptly at o'clock
says the Commercial Appeal. The
custom was probably taken from
ocean vessels, where it is the custom
to have a cup of tea in the middle
of the afternoon. River men drink
much stronger beverage than pink
tea, and the black coffee on steam
boats is known all over the coun-
try.
The 4 O'Clock coffee on a steamboat
is the centre of social life of the
boat, and when the captain says to
the mate, Have you had your cof-
fee?" all class distinctions are
dropped, for back in the cook-house
it is man to man.
In winter time there is sort OF
red-hot stove league around the
kitchen table, where the records of
the Robert e. Lee and the Natchez
are compared with those of the first
Kate Adams or some other famous
boat. The records of the perform
ances of famous steamboats, are car
ried in the heads of young roof watch
men and cub pilots just the same as
the batting averages of "Ty' COOP
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JANUARY 10
Sister Dora
Copyrght
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Copyrighted. 1913.

BY MARY
One of the most heroic women Eng
land has ever produced was born on
January 16, 1882. This was Dorothy
Pattison, better known by her re-
ligious name, SISTER Dora" She was
one of ten daughters of an English
country clergyman and until her
twenty-ninth year lived in obscurity
at home. Then she became school
mistress of a nearby village school.
Three years later she made up her
mind to become a member of the
Order of the Good Samaritan a re-
ligious community of the English
church. Her father, although a re-
ligious man, objected vigorously, but
Dorothy had her way, and began
her life of a sister as a cook in The
kitchen of the community house. The
next year she was sent to nurse in
small cottage hospital in the Eng
fish mining district and while here
she received word that her father
was dying. The superior of the order
refused to grant Sister Dora permits
sion to be with her father on his
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
che Winter WAY

In smiles go the winter way
In dreams to kiss the lips of May.
In song to find with all each sheen
The world of beauty lit with green,
And through the brown and barren clod
The promised violet of God.
Ho! Ho! Ho Ho! No gloom for me,
In dreams to hear the silver sea.
Upon your sapphire shore again
Bring back the April Morn to men,
And Ariel in the cloven pine
Warm with the wild and ruby wine.
Why, roar the wind, and crack the blast
No earth ere yet hath held so fast,
That Spring with all her strength four-fold
Hath not burst wide the frozen mold
And drawn me down the wintry way
In dreams to kiss the lips of May.
Baltimore S
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AIbania's Troubled Throne.

From the Springfield Republican.
1t is not very surprising that Prince
William, of WED, brother of the
reigning Prince of Wied, should be
hesitating i'm his acceptance of the
throne of Albania. for which he was
chosen by the powers. He is de-
scribed as an estimable young man.
strong of physique and fond of gym.
nastics but of quiet tastes and with
a great fondness for reading, an inn
proving occupation which he may be
able to indulge better at his home
than in the wilds of Albania, which
is not devoted either to libraries OF
to foreign rulers. While he philo-
sophieally considers the question three
claimants on the spot, who are more
addicted to the sword than to books,
are preparing to fight the matter out
among themselves. Essad Pasha,
who had fame as a soldier before the
war and added to it by his long
defense of Scutari, did not wait for
the powers to act before setting him
self up as king of the Albanians, but
he has a formidable rival in the head
of the provisional government, Ismail
Renal Bey, and with Turkish sup
port Izzet Pasha is a decided menace.
1t is not likely that Prince William
would last long without the physical
as we'll as the moral support of the
powers, and the perils of joint ac-
ton in a territory so coveted as Al
bania are obvious. Perhaps it is as
we'll for the prince to wait and see
what turn things will take before
committing himself. There is a
chance for a strong man to distin-
guish himself, but the odds are
against success.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16

SECOND important step by the Board of Works
development the asking of bids for the dredging
the bay the bay front belonging the city
be used for filling the meadow where the
construction be done The enterprise of the board
good faith that fail impress Congress
procure Newark bay harbor improvement cooperation
Of the federal government.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
That's Different.

IT can't figure out these income tax
regulations
81 don't see why. They are not
nearly so complicated as the baseball
rules. You understand them well
nough.-Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Hello!

'rll bet that in days gone by men
did not talk back to their wives in
the fashion that they do nowadays"
THE telephone is certainly a great
Invention Houston Post.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
A BAN ON THE FREAK SHOW.

FREAK" SHOWS in which human deformities exhibited
to people abnormal should be prohibited Newark
Operators gruesome shows strangers
they come Newark for short periods
remain attendance falls off, and then another
The policy city should be refuse licenses
these exhibitions
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Coughs Up Needle That Entered Arm
and Pierced Lung.

BINGHAMTON, Jan. 16-Mrs. AL
bert Elliott. of Sidney, yesterday
coughed up the part of a needle which
entered her hand week ago last
Monday and followed a vein to near
her heart, which physicians feared
would be pierced.
The piece of the needle, which broke
while she was sewing, travelled in ten
days about five feet-up her right
arm, across her shoulders and down
TO near the heart. In some way 1t
was DETECTED from the heart and en-
tered her left lung. For the last two
days she had suffered hemorrhages Of
the lung, caused by the punctuEe
made by the needle. Early this morn
ing she felt tickling sensation in her
throat, and after coughing spat the
half-inch portion of needle into her
hand.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
This is Straight.

A skeptic, my son. is fellow. who
is always looking for something
crooked when you give him straight
Record
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Faint Praise.

What sort OF fellow is Brown 2"
well. he means WELL
$50 you think him a nuisance, too?"
Detroit Free Press.
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Cats. Violet Rays and Rheumaticks.

Cats, Violet Rays and Rheumaticks.
From the New York Evening Sun.
An experienced diplomatist DR..
Fritz Perl, the German min 'ster to
Haiti. arrived recently in New York
from Bremen on his way to his post.
and after few days in town proceed
ed to Haiti. He was accompanied by
a personal attendant of the human
species and also by q large Persian
cat named Weissberg, whose office Is
peculiar.
1t appears that DR.. Perl is sufferer
from rheumatism. His malady has
resisted all the ordinary remedies and
treatment which usually affords re-
lief. Salicylate of soda and massage
make holdings for him: the violet
ray pales it's Intellectual fire and
leaves him just as uncomfortable;
even radium-that universal panacea
is as onresponsive as its lead con-
tainer. DR.. Perl continued to suffer
until he hit upon the idea Of taking a
cat to bed with him.
This. then, is the high service and
the vicarious sacrifice of Welssberg.
He warns the diplomatist's bed for
him. and by imperceptibly slow de-
prees "absorbs his rheumatism or at
least that is what DIR. Perl believes
and explains to interested inqulrers.
The extraordinary experiment has
been In progress for some time, and
the diplomatist has already expert
enced appreciable relief He holds
firmly to the nation that the cat Will
gradually draw all the disease out OF
him into its own body" and while he
confesses to honest regret that his
cure will undoubtedly prove fatal to
Weissberg. in the end, yet he finds
such relief from the treatment that he
determined to carry 1t out fully. AT
present Weiseberg shows no active
signs of discomfort from the associa-
tion with Dr.. Perl. When the cat be-
gins to develop symptoms it will be
time enough to think of giving 1t
coadjutor in its good work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Happy Dreams.

It's possible fer de po' man ter be
des ez happy ez de millionaire-ef
you'll give him time ter sleep an
dream that he is rich.--Atlanta Con-
stitution
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Miners shy at Rescue Apparatus.

Miners Shy Mt Rescue Apparatus.
From Coal Age.
Many a mine explosion kills off
most of the trained men and as the
rescue work must be done either in
apparatus or in fresh air, the miners
usually declare for the latter. There
is in some regions q preference for
this fresh-air, work, because in such
localities. mine fires and secondary
explosions do not usually supervene.
However. in the greater part of the
United States. the risk of adding to
the death roll by these methods can
not be overlooked. The mysterious
second explosion ct Brookside shows
that even in the anthracite region
q violent explosion may follow the
first blast, though it would be a mis-
take to declare, in view of the pc
cular circumstances and undeter-
mined causes, that this second dis
aster would not have occurred had
the fan been stopped while an ex
piosion was made by men with
breathing apparatus.
But in actual service it has been
observed occasionally that the readi-
ness of miners to jeopardize their
lives, after disasters, was not always
so evident when they were asked to
depend on the mercies of a rescue
apparatus. which perhaps they had
never worn before or which they had
never used in actual mine-reseue
work. They prefer to face a greater
certainty of death with the natural
unencumbered use of their limbs and
lungs. To recall an old story they
do not essay to go out to battle in
armor they have never tried. Fur
thermore. it is better they should
not If more experienced men are OBJ
tainable.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

detected tipping a waiter the former
should be reprimanded and the latter
discharged. On a third offense a
member was suspended.
In the future five cents will be add
ed to all food checks at the club. OF
this sum three cents will go to the
waiter and the remaining two cents
will go to a general fund. the ulti-
mate disposal of which has not been
settled. The belief that better ser
vice can be obtained by tipping the
walters and information that many
tips were being given secretly re-
suited in the new rule.
Pays Last so Cents for Wedding, Then
NewIyweds Walk Home.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Cupid Nell
son Freeman and Miss Ellis Branch,
of Elmsford, went to Judge w. B.
Warehouses; office in Tarrytown yes
terday and asked to be married. The
judge tied the knot and Freeman gave
him half a dollar, all the money he
had. II certainly admire your nerve,
Freeman" said the judge, starting
your married life broke. You are
rightly named Cupid and you are no
longer Freeman" The happy couple
walked back to Elmsford, four miles
away
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Gold Toothed Raccoon Makes Bow
Washington Official Circles.

WASHINGTON, sJan. ia grin
ming raccoon with a glittering needle
pointed gold tooth has made his bow
in national official life, enjoying an
elaborate coming out party at the cap
ital. presented to the society of emil
nent statesmen by Democratic Ma
tional Committee Edward f. Goltra,
of Missouri. and consigned to the
protecting care of Senator Stone. The
raccoon was mascot of the Randolph
county, Missouri, Democratic club.
The animal lost its most prominent
front tooth when run to earth in a
hunt. A kind-hearted Democratic
dentist supplied the artificial tooth.
mate would do the raccoon good after
the shock of the dental operation and
presented him to Senator Stone yes
terday. The senator will turn him
over to the zoo with the stipulation
that he be treated as an aristocratic
beast should be treated.
Auto Wrecks Farmers Rig-He Accepts
Machine for Damages.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-George
Reich. a farmer, of Medford, Long
Island, accompanied by his sons,
George, jr., sixteen, and Ralph, seven
teen, went yesterday to the garage of
James Boldly, jr., of Patchogue. you
killed my horse, broke my buggy all
to pieces and came near killing my
two sons" the farmer began. 81 sup
pose you're willing to pay damages,
or I'll go to law"
Rather than have you go to law
I'll give you the car that ran you
down." said Boldly. How'll that
suit?" Reich accepted the PROPOSE
ton. He and his sons climbed into the
auto and drove off toward Medford
Walters Tips Are a Necessity, Chicago
Club Decides.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Tips for wait.
ers are a necessity, according to q
decision reached last night by tht
board of governors of the Illinois
Athletic Club.
For some time the club has had a
strict rule that when member was
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Diplomat Comes Home to See Tango.

Diplomat Comes Home to See Tango.
From the Baltimore sun.
John w. Garrett, United States
Minister to Argentina, who arrived
| in the city last night, declared that
| he had never seen the so-called car
, gentine tango danced in Buenos
Aires.
Mr.. Garrett will remain in the city
two months. He arrived in New
York yesterday afternoon. He left
Mrs. Garrett in Switzerland. He will
stop with his mother, Mrs. T. Har-
rison Garrett, at Evergreen, Charles
street extended. One of his first du-
ties will be to inspect the Garrett
building, which has been built dur
ing his absence.
Speaking of the tango, Mr.. Garrett
declared positively that he had never
seen or heard Of any dance in Buenos
Aires that was anything like the de-
scriptions he had read OF the tango
as danced here. 1t has been the gen.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16

that city, and l am curious to know
what it is. 1t must be something
very fine to attain the vogue it has
in America"
Thaw Versus the Constitution.
From the New York World.
Having made a farce of Justice in
New York, is the Thaw money to
nullify the Constitution of the United
States? Section 1 of article of that
document says: Full faith and credit
shall be given in each State to the
public acts, records and judicial pro-
ceedings of every other State"
In the case of Thaw, a fugitive
from New York, under indictment for
conspiracy, New Hampshire, having
him in custody, was preparing to
obey this mandate when United
States Judge Aldrich interviewed. The
issue has been in his hands for sew
eral months. He has assumed juris-
diction of the whole controversy. He
has appointed q commission to in
quire as to Thaw's sanity, which has
reported in the prisoners favor He
ntimates that on a further hearing
he may admit the defendant to bail
Bail for what? If this Federal
Judge, overruling the courts of New
OTh as u L ildh = sanity shall ldh6
jurisdiction of the conspiracy charge,
is he to determine that also? Where
does he get his authority? Would he
keep open court in this manner for
John Smith or William Jones, with
no Pittsburg millions behind them?
Federal interferences with State
acquisitions has been rare, indeed, al
though some notable cases, political
in their origin, have been very tempt
ing. The refusals by one State to
give full faith and credit to the
processes of another State have like
wise been few. Respectable author
ity is almost unanimous that requisi-
lions in proper form must be hon
ored without hesitation.
In this instance Judge Aldrich does
more than nullify the Constitution.
He assumes to pass upon New York
questions that have been settled in
New York. He seems to be in the
way of determining other New York
questions upon which New York as
yet has had no opportunity to pass.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

eral opinion here that the dance origi-
mated in Buenos Aires.
zone of the principal objects of my
trip to this country" said Mr.. Gar
rett, lis to see the tango, of which
| have heard so much in Buenos
Aires. We have no such dance in
that city, and l am curious to know
what it is. 1t must be something
very fine to attain the vogue it has
in America"
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

the turf older children of the officers
were at play, and up and down the
paths bareheaded girls, and matrons,
and officers in uniform strolled leisure
ly. From the vine-covered cottage of
Admiral Preble, set in a garden of
Towering plants and bending palmet-
tos, came the tinkle of tea-cups and the
ripple of laughter, and at a respectful
distance, seated on the dismantled can
non, were marines in khaki and blue
jackets in glistening white
1t was a family group, and had not
Swanson recognized among the little
audience others of the passengers from
the steamer and natives of the town
who like himself, had been attracted
by the music, he would have felt that
he intruded. He now wished foreman.
He wanted to carry with him into exile
a memory of the men in uniform, of
the music, and pretty women, of the
gorgeous crimson sunset. But, though
he wished to remain, he did not wish to
be recognized.
From the glances already turned to-
ward him, he saw that in this little fam
lily gathering the presence of a stran-
ger was an event, and he was aware
that during the trial the newspapers had
made his face conspicuous Also it
might be that stationed at the post was
some officer or enlisted man who had
served with him in Cuba, China, or the
Philippines, and who might point him
out to others. Fearing this, Swanson
made a detour and approached the
bandstand from the wharf, and with his
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

his service automatic To reassure
himself he laid his fingers on its cold
smooth surface. He would wait, he
determined, until the musicians had
finished their concert and the women
and children had departed, and then
Then the orderly would find him
where he was now seated, sunken
against the hawser-post with a hole
through his heart To his disordered
brain his decision appeared quite sane.
He was sure he never had been more
calm. And as he prepared himself for
death he assured himself that for one
of his standard no other choice was
possible Thoughts OF the active past,
or of what distress in the future his
act would bring to others, did not dis
turb him. The thing had to be, no one
lost more heavily than himself, and re-
grets were cowardly.
He counted the money he had on
his person and was pleased to find
there was enough to pay for what serV-
ices others soon must render him. In
his pockets were letters, cards, cigar
ette-case, each of which would tell his
identity He had no wish to conceal
it, for of what he was about to do he
was not ashamed. 1t was not his act.
He would not have died "by his own
hand" To his unbalanced brain the
officers of the court-martial were re-
sponsible. 1t was they who had killed
him. As he saw it, they had made his
death as inevitable as though they had
sentenced him to be shot at sunrise.
A line from "The Drums of the Fore
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

down to do him honor. But OF what
avail now was his medal of honor
They now knew him as Swanson, who
had been court-martialed, who had
been allowed to resign, who had left
the army for the army's good; they
knew him as civilian without rank or
authority, as an ex-oficer who had
robbed his brother officers, as an out
cast.
His position, as his morbid mind thus
distorted it, tempted Swanson no long
er. For being in this plight he did not
feel that in any way he was to blame.
But with flaming anger he still blam-
ed his brother officers of the court
martial who had not cleared his name
and with a clean bill of health restored
him to duty. Those were the men he
blamed; not Rueu, the sergeant, who
he believed had robbed him, nor him.
self, who, in a passion of wounded
pride, had resigned and so had given
reason for gossip; but the men who
had not in tones like bugle-call pro-
claimed his innocence, who, when they
had handed him back his sword, had
given it grudgingly, not with congratu-
lation.
As he saw it, he stood in a perpetual
niIIorv When they had robbed him of
his honor they had left him naked, and
life without honor had lost its favor.
He could eat, he could drink, he could
exist. He knew that in many corners
of the world white arms would reach
out to him and men would beckon him
to a place at table.