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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

An unusual case, wherein a couple
of stolid Prussian officers of the re-
serve were charged with a long col
lection of offenses against the police,
produced several amusing interludes
in a Berlin police court.
The series of charges read as fol-
lows: I'D Libel against a public Of
fetal; (2) resistance with force to the
law; (3) attack against an official
while fulfilling his duty; (D attempt
ed release of a prisoner of the law.
The charges all arose from the fol-
lowing rather dictatorial sentence
which the elder Of the defendants de-
livered at the corner of Inter den
Linden and Friedrichstrasse one
frosty January night three hours
after midnight: 81 do not address
policeman as Mr.. any more than |
should so address a n-commis-
stoned officer who holds the same
rank as he does. As a reserve Off
Ger / am bound not to do. So"
This outburst was the result of a
mixture of considerable irritation and
an excess of gayety. The two officers
had been out to supper and then to a
dancing hall with their wives and
had taken a short drive In order to
cool their heads. They we're paying
for the drive when they had dispute
with the driver. In few minutes
q small crowd gathered. Berlin be-
Ing at this corner just as alive at 3
o'clock in the morning as at IL. The
supper party found itself quickly sur
rounded by group of drivers, all
noisily supporting their colleagues
claim. Quite naturally the wives grew
alarmed and their husbands took up
decisive tone of refusal to pay.
Matters came to a climax when the
elcer officer caught sight of a police
man and called to him, appealing for
aid.
To the general surprise the police
man remained standing several yards
away, as If he had not heard. This
was much more than the officer could
understand, and so he shouted: why
don't you come and help us?" 81 will
do nothing unless am called Mr..
Policeman" was the blunt answer and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
NOW FOR AN INCREASE OF INSANITY.


One sad effect of the strain of the European war
upon the human mind is bound to be great increase
of insanity not only Europe, but in America. There
are many people normally of weak minds and people
high-strung who easily give way to great emotions,
and the war must dangerously affect them men
tally.
In this country are millions of the foreign born
whose sympahes strongly enlisted for their native
lands They have relations and friends in the old
countries. Many of them yet feel they are in a
strange land With communication with Europe cut off
they will get little from their former homes or
of relatives and friends The strain of anxiety and
the war dispatches telling of battle slaughter, the
destruction of towns and villages and all the havoc
war, including probably starvation for millions,
cannot fail to unsettle the of many.
This is one of the sad effects of the great war
calamity in Europe which cannot be avoided and will
have to be provided for Largely from the immigrant
class insane hospital populations are recruited.
The records New Jerseys two State hospitals show
that In many ways the people of the United States
must bear the burdens imposed by war madness in
Europe, and this is one of them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

this kind is extremely pleasant and
he did not tire of 1t. 1T furnished
both mental recreation and at the
same time mental stimulus.
Therefore, as he had plenty of time
on his hands, it occurred to him that
he might find it an agreeable occupa-
tion in writing the history OF the
twenty years in which he served as a
member of Congress. He had no idea
when he began work that 1t would
give him any considerable money re-
turn. 1t was not until after certain
publishers learned of his writing this
book that Blaine fully realized that
1t was to be the source of large gain.
ut was written just at the right
moment for a large sale. Mr. Blaine
had been associated with President
Garfield as secretary of state, and
there was a general expectation on
the part of many Republicans that he
would be nominated for President in
1884. He was nominated, and the
election took place just as he was
completing the book. All this served
as a very fine advertisement.
'I have been tod that Blaine re-
ceived about 100000 net for the book.
"Of course. everyone knows the at
tendant circumstances associated
with the writing of General Grants
memoirs, and there were many thou
sand of subscribers to the book who
had been especially tempted to buy it
because of their knowledge that
Grant wrote 1t in silence-for he could
not speak on account of his mortal
disease-and, furthermore, that he
wrote it in the hope that 1t might
provide his family with competency.
"Of course one reason for the very
large returns which General Grants
widow received from the sale Of the
book was the unusually favorable
contract which was made with Mark
Twain for its publication. l believe
that I am safe in saying that no
other book written in the English
tongue, excepting, possibly, Web
ster's Spelling Book and the Bible,
ever brought such pecuniary returns
as did General Grants "reminiscences.
Certainly no one ever brought so
great returns in so short time
Copyright, 1914, by DR.. E. ]. Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
German Police Stand on Dignity

surprising explanation. Thereat the
officer ventured Ito express himsaAf
equally bluntly with the retort
quoted above. This was too much
for the policeman, who, with the aid
of a couple other constables who had
lust come up, took the officer into
custody, meaning to lead him to a
neighboring police station. There
was some very natural attempt at
resistance, but the man was easily
overpowered.
The officers companion, concerned
on account OF the bad temper shown
by his friend, touched him on the
shoulder and advised him to submit
with good grace, since he would be
quickly released This touch on the
shoulder was interpreted as an at
tempt to free the other and the sec
ond man was now arrested. and even
made to wear handouts. They had
painful wait of several hours in the
cells before they were informed that
they were free to join their wives,
who had been waiting shivering out
side the police station
The first act of the officers was to
institute an action against the first
policeman. The police answer was
not only that an action would not be
accepted, but that proceedings would
be taken against them. This was
actually done. Nevertheless, the court
was so unfavorably influenced by the
evidence of several eyewitnesses---
one of whom stated that he was so
indignant at the behavior of the po-
lice that he actually postponed a
journey to Frankfort and waited sew
eral hours outside the police station
in order to offer himself as a witness
decided to acquit both defendants
except on the formal charge of libel,
for which the elder officer was
fined los.
1t would be quite a mistake to con-
slider that these are the typical man
ners of a latter-day Berlin police
man, Indeed, the magistrate said at
the conclusion Of the case that he
had never before seen such a shock.
ing case in the course of thirty
years experience.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
CASE OF GET THERE FIRST.

1t was only in Belgium and the Duchy of Luzem-
burg that Germany could find open path into
France or France into Germany. No doubt if Ger
many had not violated the neutrality of these States
guaranteed by treaty France would have done so if
necessity required. Treaties never have been re-
spected in war times and neutral States have never
been safe from violence.
England is record in that respect. In 1901
when Denmark was a neutral power in the European
war Nelson destroyed or took the whole Danish fleet
at Copenhagen and six years later Copenhagen was
bombarded by British forces.
Great Britain's guardianship of Belgium is stra-
tegical. German possession of Belgium is a menace
to England Napoleon is quoted saying that Ant
werp was a pistol aimed at England. And German
occupation of Belgium implies a German conquest
of Holland which is British outpost.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
Ulster Volunteer Experts in Espionage

This intelligence department OF the
Ulster volunteers reduced espionage
down to a fine point. They are past
masters in the art, and they watched
the press men closest of all.
One London man. who engaged a
motor car for a review, found that
his chauffeur was riding at the head
of the procession, commander OF the
mounted corps.
Late that night, after he had sent
off his newspaper message, he dis
covered that the same chauffeur had
been doing an extra shift in the tele-
graph department of the postoff1ce,
and that he had served in both ca
pacities and learned the tricks of his
trade in the South African war.
In an Ulster club later one of the
brigade commanders told the CORE
spondent all he had said going to and
coming from the review, and what
was the complexion of his dispatch.
During the recent furry in the gun
running business one correspondent
caught a member of the intelligence
corps unawares. He was elated by
the success that had attended his eff
forts. and he opened his heart-and
his mouth--to the newspaper men.
The scribe was shown code and de-
ciphered code messages that had been
sent by the chief commissioner of po-
lice to Dublin Castle, and, to cap IL
all, there was a private message in
ordinary English to the chief secre-
tary for Ireland himself.
Was 1t any wonder that, with miles
of exposed wire, these men, who had
fought in campaigns less bitter than
this might have been, knew every
move that would be made by the au-
thorities, and were ever ready to
checkmate It? Some of these men
are not strangers to the little office
from which the secret service takes
its orders. Who knows? Some day
they may be back again.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

Domestic servants in Canada are
paid from $40 to So a month.
Spain has 3,613 organized workmen
in the typographical trades.
Women cannot work seven days a
week in the District of Columbia.
Winnipeg, Can, plumbers have re-
ceived a minimum rate of 90 cents an
hour.
There are STOPS locomotive engi-
neers employed on the railroads in
this country.
On August 10, at Providence, R. L..
International Typographical Union
will convene.
The Krupp industries in Germany
employ nearly $4,000, with a yearly
payroll of s35,OO0,o00.
Thousands of boys are owned out
right as slaves on the big plantations
of Argentina.
From the year 1445 until ITS the
miners of Scotland were bought and
sold with the soil.
Only 522,652 workmen in this coun-
try have attained the eight-hour day.
Denmark has a trade union mem
bership of almost 10000.
More than half of the 1872 car
penters in Holland are union work
men.
! Labor exchanges-as a municipal
bass-are to be erected throughout
| Denmark.
The Illinois Journeymen BARRIERS
| Association will meet in Peoria on
! Monday, September IA.
At present there are sixteen men,
bers of the British House of Com
mons who represent coal miners.
| In 1850 only one woman worked for
wages to every ten men: now the
ratio is one woman to four men.
| The employees in the big stores OF
Paris work on an aveage from seven
in the morning to 1870 at night.
| IL Is GSlIildlCQ Lllob I'LL 20" lONi us
! of the money spent on modern
| battleship is distributed in the shape
of wages.
The British Shipping Federation
have refused the demands of the
marine engineers for increased wages
A new building trades council. with
J 100 charter members, has been or
ganized in Tu1are county. Cal.
Monaghan, Ireland. Urban Council
have decided to increase the wages
of the laborers in their employment
by "a cents a week.
Iowa carpenters recommended thai
all persons employed on State worl
be American citizens or have declared
their intention to become such.
1t has been decided to increase Irisl
teachers salaries, the cost being $780,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
THE EsrpERoR,s APPEAL TO GERMANY

Emperor Williams speech from the throne to the
German Parliament appealing to a united Germany
and asking for an appropriation of 600 for
the war is an incident that will go down in history.
In the past in Europe monarchs have made strong
appeals the patriotism of their subjects in great
national crises, and German monarch ever before
confronted an emergency such that which the
German empire now faces.
Nor there be any question that Germany is
united behind the emperor, common peril draws
men together and extingushes all domestic differ
enoes Even racial and religious hatreds can be for
gotten in a nations patriotism. There 100000
Socialists in Germany, but they German citizens
and they have the German love of the Fatherland.
They may not fight for monarchy, but they will give
all their devotion to the of Germany, and of
Germany right or wrong"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
STATE HOME FOR CIVIL WAR RELICS.

Permanent State headquarters for the Grand
Army of the Republic now to be established In
new annex of State House at Trenton, where the
Civil War relics cherished by the various posts of
the State are to gathered together for patriotic
museum.
The great Civil War has faded into the past.
Its scars been healed and its issues are almost
forgotten. Very the men who fought the war
will have passed away and only the relics will
remain The Grand Army posts ready to give
their possessions up to the State to ensure their
care and preservation for posterity 1t is for the
State to accept and administer this patriotic trust
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

of the situation in the United States The safeguards
adopted by them against the insensate folly which
cost the country SO dear the past and might now
cost it much dearer were conceived by the highest
wisdom and in the amplest ways.
The nation may be proud of this action by the
men who represent the great financial interests of the
land. And it is most fortunate that its welfare in
an almost overwhelming situation has been well
guarded But for the prompt action of the banking
interests and the ready aid given by the Federal
government the country might now be involved in a
great disaster AS It is thanks to the great banking
interests the danger past and the nation is safe
guarded
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

In Ulster at the present time the
volunteers are entirely independent
of the government postal, telegraphic
and telephone service In each town
of any size Is a postmaster, who may
be a parson or may be publican.
During the warlike preparations there
came to him, by flashlight or by dis
patch riders, all the messages that
were necessary for the efficiency Of
the volunteers.
Nothing was too small for the mesh
of the net which the Intelligence de-
partment daily spread.
One of the many instances In which
this branch was useful, but one that
has not been fully recorded In the
daily press, was on the occasion OF
the now famous gun-running coup.
On that night, from Larne, Bangor
and Donaghadee, where the arms
were to be landed, every wire was
interrupted" There was not a single
message sent out after o'clock until
7 in the morning except by lantern
Morse code worked by volunteers.
That is why, although three of the
ablest correspondents employed by
7 London papers had bluffed their way
inside the Gordon of the volunteers,
they could not communicate with
their offices. These men have been
"up against the cleverest censors in
the world and each tried every ruse
to get even three words to his morn
ing paper in London.
Nothing went as far as Belfast
that was seen to by the intelligence
department-and three men who tried
to work what would have been the
biggest scoop in recent years had
to kick their heels against thousands
and thousands of rifles until they
hated even the sixth sense that had
bluffed them into being present at
the Illicit landing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
Surgical Shock

Shock is still one of the great mys-
teries of surgery. Many theories have
been put forward to explain just what
it is. Each of these has seemed at
tractive until its inherent defects were
discovered by experience.
In a lecture before the British Royal
College of Surgery DR.. A. Rendle
Short reviewed these successive theo-
.ies and described the experiments of
himself and others by which they
were disproved. But researches by
DR. Grille, of Cleveland; Professor
SherringtoD, of England, and DR.. F.
II. Pike, of Columbia University, New
York, seemed to him to offer at least
a clue to the real nature of shock
Professor Short did not formulate
definite theory, but suggested that
surgical shock was due to an inhibit-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
PLAIN LAWS FOR THE PLAIN PEOPLE.

How many Newarkers know what city ordinances
they are living under say nothing of State laws
how many statutes general municipal, they may be
innocently violating every day? A petition by the
Chelsea Neighborhood Association of New York to
Mayor Mitchell is a good move to be followed any
where 1t asks that the city publish in pamphlet
form all the laws affecting the everyday life of the
man on the street. And what is more, it is sug-
gesed that it be done in plain English emitting all
legal verbosities that the wayfarng man may not
err therein As the Chelsea neighbors put it: why
not let the people the laws which they have to
obey?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

ing or paralyzing of the important
nuclei In the region Of the fourth
ventricle of the brain and perhaps in
the cerebellum. These are 'contin-
ually sending impulses down the
spinal cord maintaining its func-
tional activity and increasing mus
oular tone" The effect of this par
alysis is to cut off these impulses,
whereupon the functions of the spinal
cord are greatly reduced, muscular
tone is abolished, and as a secondary
result the blood pressure may fall.
The respiratory centre and perhaps
also the vasomotor centre share in
this inhibition or paralysis.
Death" said Dr. Short, "is due to
the accumulation of blood in the great
VEINS" so that the flow does not pro-
vide a proper filling for the heart"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
PERIL OF SUMMER RESORT LIFE.

Is the gasoline stove too perilous device to be
permitted in community like Ocean Grove, thickly
built up with fmsy frame structures and tents?
One of the summer residents thinks SO after wit
Messing fire. started by the explosion of stove of
this kind which destroyed four cottages His sug-
gestion that the gasoline stove be barred by the
Campmeeting Association will be resisted by the
makers and vendors of this very convenient house
hold appliance who declare that gasoline stove can
not explode with proper but the trouble is that
it does not always get that proper care.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
In the World Of Labor

900 for the first year and eventually
$4,000 year.
New York city contains "A per cent.
of the trade union membership Of the
State.
Samuel Gompers is sixty-four years
old and has been president of the
American Federation of Labor for
half that period, or for thirty-two
years.
There is a general movement of Or
ganized labor to establish an indie
pendent labor party In every city and
town in Ontario, Canada.
Wilmington Del) Central Labor
Union has submitted a proposal to it's
affiliated local to have the business
men join them In Labor Day
parade.
Fraser river fishermen and Gamers
met in Vancouver recently and asked
the provincial government to give
white fishermen preference over Japs
in the future.
A bill to reduce from seventy to six
ty-five the age at which the old-age
pension can be claimed was intro
duced in the British House of Com
mons by one of the Labor party.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
DdWn

The baby Day came creeping Ger the hill,
slimmest prince in silver, in his eyes
All the hushed loneliness of light which lies
The lily's look within. He came so still
The sumberng birds were not disturbed until
He paused an instant in his vending; then
They woke in unison, as, it, again,
AS yester, did his silken footsteps thrill
The tissue of their dreamy sleep, and so
Were startled by the stiffness which befel!
Now one and now another note of bell,
In eafy steeple swung began to flow
Adown the world-the throats of gold to sing
The perfect bliss little Child will BRING
-Mahlon Leonard Fisher, in Lippincotts
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

TeutOn ana siHN.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the same measure that the os-
tensible cause of differences between
Austria and Servia Is too small to
justify war, the real cause is too big
to permit arbitration. The real issue
to be fought out is racial; the assas-
sination of the Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and the question of Ser
Wan official completely in the crime
are merely incidents in the historical
drama, which, after having been
played for three centuries behind
drawn curtains, is now to be f1n-
ished in full view of the public. I'm
agine that it were to be determined
whether the Spanish or the English
language, or Mexican or American
culture, should dominate the northern
half of the Western Continent, would
it be possible to obtain the consent
OF the governments OF the United
States and Canada to a mediation OF
the question by an Areopagus of Eu-
repean and American powers?
Austria, up to the rise of the Prus-
sian monarchy under Frederick the
| Great, and. in fact, down to the tri-
umph ofNapoleon at Austerlitz, was
| the leader among the thirty-odd
loosely-federated Germanic States
The imperial title, though awarded
| by election Of the princes and other
relying sovereigns of these States
had become practically hereditary in
the house of Hapsburg; and the Ger
man kaiser was understood to be he
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
Tomato Seed olive Oil.


We were quite sure. when the an
nouncement was first made that some
enterprising chaps over in Italy had
found a way to extract oil from to-
mato seeds, that we would get 1t in
our olive OIL 1t is now recorded that
1.-The Italians are now conducting ex-
periments looking to the manufacture
of an edible oil from the crude tomato
seed oil, and this oil, 1T is expected,
win become a cheap substitute for
olive oil in the preparation Of food
And this takes all the joy out of the
discovery of a new and promising
Industry.
The tomato seed oil industry was
successful in Italy from the first year,
and at the present time between 5000
and 5000 tons of wet tomato refuse
are worked out in the industry in this
way each year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
HOW the New Tarin works.

From the Dry Goods Economist
Those who anticipated a marked in
crease of our imports under the new
tariff will do well to examine the
governments most recent figures.
Secretary Redfield, of the Department
of Commerce, states that during the
first eight months under the new
tariff foreign manufacturers sent into
the United States only S.8 per cent.
more OF their finished products than
they did under the old law. This is
little enough in itself, but even a very
much larger increase in imports
would shrink into insignificance in the
light of the small part which imported
goods play in comparison with our
domestic production. Take wool man
nfactures. for instance. Our total
imports Of these for the year 1913
reached a value of less than $17,5O0, :
GOO. while the products Of this coun-