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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-31
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Curious Fact Concerning American ex-Presidents

\ year or two after Abram s..
Hewitt finished his term as mayor
OF New York city | spent an hour
with him at q time when he was
disposed to be reminiscent and re-
Elective. l asked him If he remem-
bered a conversation he had in 1882
as we rode together from his Wash
ington home. near Jackson Square,
to the capitol. Mr.. Hewitt was at
that time a member OF the Lower
House of Congress. He asked me to
what I referred and l said to him
that / had called his attention to a
paragraph which had appeared in a
newspaper in which Mr.. Hewitt was
recommended as u Democratic candi-
date for the Presidential nomination
of 1884.
DO you remember what you said
TO ME when | called your attention to
this paragraph" l asked him.
He said that he had not the slight
est recollection. then told him that
he said: Il am the last man who
ought to enter the White House as
President. The responsibilities and
annoyances and confusion would kill
nae within three months They killed
President William Henry Harrison in
one"
Mr.. Hewitt smiled grimly and then
said:
mo doubt | thought so then. But
/ now know that any man of con-
scientious purpose who is able to
serve as mayor of New York for two
years without breaking down COM
pletely would be able to live through
a Presidential term.
"I am astonished sometimes when |
think Of the mental and physical
strain | endured during my term as
mayor of New York. In my opinion,
if a mayor is absolutely conscientious
and is anxious to be something more
than q mere figurehead, the office Is
the most trying ore any American
citizen can hold"
He was silent for a few moments
and, I thought, was about to revert
to some of the grieVous annoyances
and the difficult encounters with the
bosses which We're a part of his ex-
periences as a mayor. Instead or
that he spoke of an entirely different
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-31
COLD FEET FOR AsBURY PARKS GUESTS.

Asbury Park aims to be Atlantic City's most for
midable rival winter resort. But while Atlantic
City. after the big of March l. sending out
the slogan, mo boardwalk" visitors to
the New Jersey Methodist Conference Asbury Park
were sleeping benches the boardwalk with their
feet in snowbanks because they could not find hotel
accommodations. If this is SANDER Asbury Park
ii the authority of report made by the hotel
committee to the Chamber of Commerce of that city,
quoted by the Asbury Park Times. which aptly
heads an editorial on the subject, Gold Feet for
Visitors
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-31
THE MASS MEETING TONIGHT.

Probably before since the great Civil War
the manhood of this city called into mass meeting
on any national issue of equal importance to the
American people that which is to be considered at
the meeting called in the Kruger Auditorium
tonight Never since that great and patriotic gather
ing in 1861, after Fort Sumter had been fired on
The true spirit of American >freemen was exhibited
at that historic meeting There no falterng.
The patriotism of city aroused, money and
volunteers ready and that splendid spirit lasted
through the four years of the that tried mems
souls In the ffty-three years that have elapsed has
the manhood of Newark degenerated? Has the Amer
lean citizen become submissive to injury and INSULT?
Is he ready to turn the other cheek to a blow?
If there is decadence of the spirit of 1861 in
this town it will be shown tonight in an attenuated
assembage. If the kind Of nationalism preached and
practsed at Washington is that of the average Amer
ican then, indeed, the American citizen has become
femnized. Tonight's meeting will be test of the
patriotism of the of Newark.
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There will be qualification among
Carlyleans all the world over that the
historians birthplace is henceforth
secure from molestation, says the
New York Sun. The committee OF
management concerned announces
that the purchase Of the adjoining
house is complete and that there is
no further anxiety concerning the
building.
Every visitor to the little Dumfries-
shire village of Ecclefechan knows
"the Arched House" as it is called;
indeed, this humble building is the
only reason that can draw the visitor
to border hamlet which has few at
fractions.
Carlyle himself says harsh things
concerning it in letters to his brother
John. and was probably writing more
under the influence of the memories
of his struggling boyhood than from
any real contempt for the place itself.
Ecclefechan. like it's neighbor
I,ockerbie, probably grew out of an
ancient house of call on the high road
that goes north from Carlisle and over
the Lanarkshire Hills in Glasgow.
The historians ancestors may have
proceeded from either side the border,
and they certainly included, as he
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I matter. saying; Il wonder if it has
ever occurred to anyone but myself
what a brief term of life the great
majority of our Presidents, at least
since 1860, had after they retired
from the White House. This thought
occurred TO me one day and so forci-
bly, that / determined to look into
the histories of ex-Presidents.
found to my establishment that while,
with the exception of Monroe, all of
the Presidents between Jefferson and
Van Buren, lived several years after
their retirement from the presidency,
a strange mortality appeared to cut
short the lives of almost all of those
who served in that office after James
Is. Polk died.
Monroe lived only a few years
after he retired, and | have been
told that one of the chief causes of
his early death was the sense of hui
initiation that he should have been
compelled to rely somewhat upon the
benefaction of others for his support.
polk lived only short time after
he retired from the presidency. Mil
lard Fillmore survived longer than
almost all the others. | remember
to have seen Martin Van Buren, early
in 1862 He was then vigorous, al
though he had been twenty-one
years out of the presidency.
Andrew Johnson had only a short
time to live after he retired from the
Presidency. General Grant retired in
1877 and died in 1885. Arthur lived
little over a year after he retired, in
1885. President Hayes lived twelve
years.
81 find myself wondering whether
the very great strain TO which a Pres
ident is subjected, at least in these
later days OF our intense activity, did
not tend to sap their strength. | don't
know whether this is so or not, but
/ do know that the average years re-
naming for an eXPresident of the
United States at least since 1850. have
been not much over ten. Did you ever
think how few the number of living
ex- Presidents has been? That thought
has very often occurred to me-
Copyright, 1914, by Il. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-31
VOLUME LxxxHI.--NO. :
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 81. 191
THE BANK BILL PASSED.

The passage of the amended bank bill by the
House of Assembly last night ended controversy too
long prolonged and too personal in It's character.
The city of Newark was an important party In
interest in the matter of bank taxation The original
bill by Senator Pierce rank injustice to New
ark for that the citys official representa-
tyes led by Newarks city counsel resoutely opposed
it, backed by property and business interests For
this the representatives of Newark were assaied in
the person of the city counsel and the Essex assem-
bIymen, who were guided by the advice of Newark's
representatives called the creatures of boss
This <afEserabe SANDER persstently kept up by
u Evening News
This mich the debate has done 1t has cleared
up the bank tax situation Naturally the banks wanted
to get the minimum rate of tax Every property
owner does. Church organizations will get out of
paying taxes whenever they The entire COM
munity of taxpayers have the same desire The
Pierce bill proposed injustice to the Newark tax
payers and wrong to the local taxing system. Its
plan was politically and economically vicious and it
failed.
But compromise is the of politics, and the
bill passed is compromise between the good and
the bad. What it will amount to remains to be seen
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that of our eountry's President, Moth
ing can excel prize lighting. But as
a means of self defense it is a hope
less and depressing failure.
We have recently talked to several
men who spend each year hundreds
of dollars on tho noble art of self
defense. They have followed this art
carefully for many years, devoting
as high as three evenings a week TO
It, Without exception they are pessi-
mistic as to the results One man
says that enduring the atmosphere of
fight carnival has made the stuff
they serve up as air in the street
cars of his city less offensive to him.
1t has hardened him to poor ventila-
ton, but that is all Another claims
that struggling for the unreserved
seats in the back Of the hall has
developed his agility to some slight
extent, but that ii has cost him more
in clothing than it has been worth
Another declares that he goes to
prize fights for mental protection
that prize fights do not soften his
brain as fast as the modern sex
drama would, But outside of these
results none of the many earnest
devotees has been able to discover
any advance in the art OF self-de-
fense.
Sitting on a pine seat all evening
yelling for blood does not develop the
shoulders or the chest muscles. and.
considering the quality of air which
must be inhaled in order TO do the
yelling, II can't possibly improve the
pupils wind.
Watching a thousand face-massage
matinees would not improve the
watcher physically as much as saw
| ing one cord Of wood. As a mental
rest, watching two men hashing up
each others features is unexcelled.
| But the trouble IS the rest is far too
| likely to become chronic and incur
able
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THE REAL SECRETARY OF STATE.

Robert Lansing-it is just we'll to get familiar
with the for it is that of the secretary of state
of the United States great deal of the time Mr..
Lansing is the counselor of the department and
he has been designated by the President to act as
secretary of state when Mr.. Bryan is away"
This is judicious step. Mr.. Bryan will be
away" great deal this year He will have political
campaign engagements all the country, and in
deed, there will be urgent need for him, and what
with lecture engagements and banquets and political
speeches it is hard to see how he give any time
to the duties of secretary of and yet Mr. Bryan
can be spared in the state department
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NATIVES OF INDIA SUFFER
TORTURES FOR CHRISTIANITY

In her second letter to friends In
Port Huron, Mich, Miss Esther
Bragg, a former resident who has
taken up missionary work in India,
states that in her journeys through
the wilds of India she has seen the
natives torture themselves in every
possible way. In some places they
can be suspended midair with large
hooks in their backs. Others are nut
on a bed of spikes, which sink deep
into their flesh and they gradually
bleed to death.
"When asked why they do this they
reply, The burden of sin is so heavy
that If l do this | will ',ain favor
with the Gods and they will deliver
me-
1T is the gospel" says Miss Bragg.
that make our country what it is
today, and it is the gospel that is
transforming large districts of India
at present
"A great mass movement is now
taking place in Ballea, the head
quarters for the Ballea civil district,
and is sweeping through the entire
section. Village after village is ac-
cepting the gospel. breaking their
idols, cutting off their caste locks,
being baptized and openly confessing
their new Savior.
zone missionary says that from
January /, 1918. to November ! of the
same year, he baptized 1,02S Chamars,
low caste people, representing six
teen villages, and that 5000 more
living in fifty other villages are now
asking for baptism. He states that
hardly a day passes without a dele
cation coming from some new village
asking for some one to preach them
the gospel Of good news as they
| call it.
The doors are open throughout the
! entire district. Sometimes they send
| a worker out to one village where
| they have been called, and before
they get there they find numbers OF
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UPLIFT TALKS
by oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author of "Pushlne to the Front, bt'
Copyright 1914.
DON'T NAG THE BOY

children upon this plan of praise. She
never missed an opportunity to COM
mend them for doing we'll, or to show
appreciation of their efforts to do
right. This, she says, has had inf
nitely more influence for good upon
them than perpetual seolding.
"Donts' harm. discourage and dwarf
more children than almost anything
else
Many a child has been nagged, bull
lied. scolded, for every tritling fault
or mistake, until it became discour-
aged, when q little timely praise and
commentator would have worked
wonders in getting the best out of 1t.
Highly organized, sensitive children,
have often been seriously injured, or
their characters even ruined, by the
harsh methods of those who do not
understand the child nature and who
scold and nag and bully them into
obedience. Such children become sui
len, obstinate and irresponsible.
Every father should regard the child
as a sacred trust, bringing with him
into the world q sealed message which
he is bound t. deliver like a man and
= father to read. But it is the parents
duty TO prepare his child TO deliver
the MESSAGE he brings, to help him to
live up to his ideals. 1t is great mis-
fortune that so many parents feel an
ownership in a child. They look upon
him as a sort of chattel instead of a.
sacred gift which they have received
In trust; for which they assume re-
snonsibility. and enter into an implied
agreement to care for mind as well%fs
body; to guard, guide and rear with
the tenderest care and greatest solicit
tude.
The chief duty of the father Is NOT
only to feed and clothe hts son and
get all possible work out Of him until
he is twenty-one, but he is bound to
watch with tender care the mental
nnfoldings, the aspirations, the bent
planted by the Creator Himself in ths
breast Of the child.
DR.. Marden's Uplift Talks will APP
rear in the magazine pages of this
paper every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
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others who are eager also to hear the
good news. The calls are coming
into missionary headquarters from
the entire district, and many of them
are in vain, because of the insult
ficiency of the staff of workers.
Like all of the other great mass
movements there is also another side
to the situation. Some of the natives
would confess to the Christian re-
ligion for personal gain, but on the
whole a great work is being done.
A wonderful transformation is taxi
ing place. Old things are passing
away to be replaced by new. These
people, who We're once buried in the
pit of superstition, idolatry and old
heather life, are joyful at peace in
the new gospel, and are reaching
out O helping hand to their fellow
men.
Some of the converts are fearfully
prosecuted, but still remain true to
their newly adopted faith. Many
have been beaten until the blood
streamed from their bodies, while
others have been incarcerated under
false charges, school houses have
been unroofed, books torn up and
teacher and scholars driven off with
threats.
"A great change comes over q vii.
iage as soon as a majority of the>cit-
izeps become Christians. A police
officer said to one of the missionaries,
Why, you have transformed the
people. They used to be thugs and
thieves and caused us endless trouble,
but now they live honest. upright
lives. and we have no reason for COM
plant, but much for praise
"Some parts OF the country are not
open to the gospel. and there the
work is progressing more slowly, but
India is far more anxious TO accept
the gospel than the people of the
civilized world are to help in giving
| 1t to them"
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urious travel, Hardy men and brave
women who had crossed the plains
behind oxen Flooding two miles an
hour were not inclined to be overeX-
acting or fastidious when on a jour
ney; and these first steamboats, were
as far ahead of the OK train and the
bateau as the finest overland limited
train of the present day is In advance
OF the immigrant cars that were at
tached to freight trains and drawn
slowly across the deserts and over
the mountains for many years after
the completion and linking of the
Union and Central Pacific.
The pioneers missed the ease, the
luxury and the craze for exciting
amuseml,lts that are here today; and
we in turn have lost as well-have
lost their deeper faith, their lxeener
grit, their fine capacity to endure
fatigue and cold and heat; TO wear
rough attire and eat plain fare and
| make self-denial the one for another.
We have problems and duties ell our
own, and burdens to bear withal; but
the pioneers moved across a more epic
stage. and were blessed with some
rugged virtues that were peculiar to
their day.
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resentative of the Jewish families
whom Cromwell admitted, though
their lineage may be traced in not a
few noble families, Thus every coun-
try has been and is a melting pot.
But America. exhibiting the normal
fusing process magnitied many thou
sand diameters and diversified be-
yond all historic experience, and fed
not by successive waves of immlgra-
ton, but by a hodge-p odge of
simultaneous hordes, is, in Bacon's
phrase, an "ostensive instance" of a
universal phenomenon. America is
the melting pot.
Her people have already begun to
take ON such II complexion of it's own,
1t is already so emphatically tending
to a new race, crossed with every
European type, that the British illu-
sion of a cousinly Anglo Saxon peo-
pie with whom war is unthinlable is
sheer wilful blindness. Even today,
while the miXtu is still largely
mechanical. not chemical, the Anglo
Saxon element is only preponderant;
1t is very far from being the sum
total
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Not long ago 2 boy was arrested
in New York and tried in the Chill
dren's Court The first thing he said
TO the officer was Don't tell Mr..
Watkins Mr.. Watkins was a man
who had taken o. special interest In
this boy from the slums and was
trying to help him. He would often
call at the boys house and invite him
out for good time, take him with
him to his home. While in court the
fear that Mr.. Watkins would find it
out seemed to trouble the boy most.
He did not seem to care much that
his parents knew of his arrest, be-
cause he had been scolded and
ragged by them until he had become
calloused. He knew that Mr.. Wat
kins believed in him, saw something
in him which even his parents did not
see, and he could not bear the
thought that the man who had trusted
him and believed in him should think
that he had gone wrong.
When you have obtained q boys
confidence and affection, when he feels
that you have real interest in him.
and that you believe there is some
thing in him, you have tremendous
hold upon him.
The head of a. Chicago business
under him. For years he has felt a
kindly interest in these boys, taking
particular pains to notice them, to
watch their work, to praise them
when they do well, to correct them
gently when they fail, and to mani
fest in general g kindly interest in
their affairs. He says the results
have been marvellous, and that the
boys have shown wonderful develop
ment under the influence of his ap-
probation and praise.
Children are especially susceptible
to praise. A boy will work harder to
get the apprecia ton of those who
trust him and believe in him than
fer almost anything else. Nothing
except blame Will so dampen his en-
thuslasm as the lack of recognition
of good work or failure to appreciate
his attempts to please.
| know a mother who reared her
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SAVE, CARLYLE'S BIRTHPLACE

tells us himself, reiver, or thief, who
was hanged for sheep stealing. But
no man could have been more law
abiding than James Carlyle, the
mason who built this cottage in which
his famous son was born.
The house, or pair of houses Joined
by an arch big enough to drive a
wagon through, is Just a two-story
structure of lowland freestone, COW
cred with limewash; squared as to
windows and doors and firmly slated
as to the roof.
1t stands on the west side of the
broad village street not far from the
triclsle-half-oce f-ditch-that
distinguishes Ecclefechan from its
rivals, and not far from the smart
church which guards the little yard
where Carlyle lies among the kindred.
His wife is gathered to her fathers
at Haddington.
It is only within the last year that
the South end of the Arched House
that is to say, the adjacent dwelling
came into the market, and the sum
necessary for it's purchase, $3.50, was
provided.
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Dog Got Annuity of $1,000 in win, Rels-
tives Being Cut on.

BOSTON, March 31.-That birthday
parties were given in the honor of and
were presided over by "Pete Crafts"
a Boston terrier who was provided
with a $1,000 annuity by the will of
the late John Chancellor Crafts, of II
Lanark road, Brighton. q coal dealer,
was testified to yesterday when the
will was contested in the Suffolk
Probate Court by relatives. Frank
w. Crafts, of Reading; Henry w.
Crafts, of West Newton, and Mrs
Jessie r. Loewin and Miss Minnie
Randolph, who We're not remembered
in the will. are bringing the contest
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SADLY FOOLED.

lie was one of the smart men who
like to show their cagorness.
Sec me make him look small, -
he said. as the begger approached.
Then he listened solemnly to the
tale of hard luck.
That's the same old story YOU
told me last week." he said. when
the vagrant had finished.
rs it?' was the replay. "P'r'aps
| did, p'r'aps l did" he admitted;
but I'd quite forgotten meeting you
for the moment, / was ii Jail last
week. and there was such q lot of
us YOU see'
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Che Robin

When first the willow catkins show,
And water elms put on veil
OF golden glory, and tie flow
Of maple sap in trough or pail
With merry drip and tnkle makes
The pulses leap, the fancies throng
Then robin comes at dawn and wakes
And gladdens all the world with song
High on the cherry tree he tunes
His voice to many winsome lay,
Or in the long sweet afternoons
Till sunset sings his soul away.
Best Bird and wise, no idle praise
Nor foolish blame disturbs his rest;
Content he weaves divinest lays
Or tolls at humble loves behest
We crown him laureate of our woods,
We welcome his returning wings,
And dream of joys beatitudes
Whene'er the verna robin sings.
Benjamin S. Par
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GRADE CROSSINGS IN THE ORANGES

There is fair prospect that the grade-crossing
question in East Orange will be settled and it is not
improbable that the council will take favorable action
next Monday night the revised plans of the railroad
company. With the question settled in East Orange
the outlook for the settlement of the same mooted
question in Orange will be frightened. A municipality
loses nothing by standing up for its rights