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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19

Writing is an art that almost any
educated person may learn, that is,
if they have enough industry in their
makeup But it is of little use TO
learn composition if you have not
ideas. You must have a plot before
you can write story. and plots are
the great stumbling block of the aV-
erage writer
Charles Garvice, the novelist, says
that it is while shaving that most of
his plots come to him. Lucky man!
Most people are too intent on seeing
that they do not cash their chins to
think of anything else at that partic-
ular stage of their toilet. But per-
haps Mr.. GarVice uses a safety razor.
A great many people think best in
bed, and many writer's sleep with
pad and pencil beside them. Nothing
is more annoying than to think OF
some gorgeous situation just before
going to sleep and then find in the
morning that the brilliant idea has
faded like a dream during the might
H G. Wells is one of those fortu-
nate men who brim with ideas. He
is said TO have a collection of plots
which no one pen could possibly hope
TO work into stories within lifetime.
He brings his ideas down at break
fast time and dictates them to his
secretary They have come to him
during the night.
Another lucky novelist is Cutcliffe
Hine. for ideas come TO him when
travelling. and as most writer's know,
a railway journey usually drives any
power of original thought out of their
heads Mr.. Hine has the additional
advantage of being able to work any
where or at any time, and no amount
of noise abstracts him.
Another very famous novelist, the
late F. Marion Crawford. always got
his ideas while on foot To think out
a novel he took a long tramp, some
times covering forty miles at a
stretch. The oldest method of col
Letting ideas belongs to Jerome K.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
How NoveIists Get Ideas

Jerome. He likes to wander from
room 10 room and generally takes up
his stand in front of the clock, which
he regards intently, though with ab-
soutely unseeing eyes.
Running water proves an insplra-
ton to some men. Stanley Weyman
has confessed that he finds house
boat capital place for working out
plots, especially in the early morn
ing With him a swim is not essen
tial to the process, but the mention OF
water brings to mind the fact that
Arthur Bourchler declares that he
reads plays in his bath and believes
that he can then do better work in
selecting than at any other hour oil
the day or night
Hall Caine is another writer who
delights in the morning, and says that
ideas flow more rapidly in the earliest
hours OF the day. In summer ne ~
often up and out at 3, and the niue
hut on the hillside near Greeba castle
IS pointed out to trippers as the spot
where the popular novelist composes
his chapter for the day
Some men never seem to think I'M
fill they actually sit down to their
desks. Robert Kitchens Is an eXample
i'm point. His thoughts do not begin
TO flow until he has his pen In MS
hand.
There are writer's who seem able to
think under any circumstances
others who must be far from the
throng. OF the former Walt Whit
man was an example, of the latter
Rudyard Kipling is one.
But the average author viii prop
ably tell you that the evening is the
hest time for thinking. When the
house is sti |, when he curtains are
drawn and the fire has died TO mass
of red Goals. then is the hour OF IN
spiration, and with most the dilhculty
is TO lay down the pen.
Neil Lyons does practically al ms
work at night, and his light BURNS w
his study till ? in the morning or
/ 1.lt or.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
AN ORGANIZATION FOR SABOTAGE.

Admission made at the industrial commission
hearing in Paterson by representatives of the Indus
trial Workers of the World showed the sinister char
acter that alien organization and its enmty to the
welfare both of society and labor. These witnesses
testified that their organization meant sabotage and
all that the implies including the destruction of
machinery and the blowing up of mills.
Conditions such as this organization aims at would
close more than half the factories in the land With
the threat of sabotage how many manufacturers would
repaain business and how many industries would be
started? The consequence would be unemployment
for millions of working people and almost universal
restitution. The workingman who embraces the
principles of the Industrial Workers organization
is not merely an anarchist; he is an arrant fool
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
FunstOn's Start

Two men were standing at Fiftieth
street and Fifth avenue as the Sickles
funeral party passed into st. Patrick's
Cathedral. Both uncovered as the
body passed into the church. Said
one of the men to the other as they
put on their hats preparatory to con-
tinuing their walk:
at is an interesting coincidence that
this morning, when the funeral ser
vice is being held in st. Patrick's
Cathedral for Major-General Daniel
+. Sickles. his protege, Brigadier-
General Funston, should be engaged
in the work of extending his lines
for what may be an armed clash with
Mexico.
ut was Sickles who turned the
thoughts of the reporter, botanist and
explorer Funston to war. In the days
when Weyler cooped up the reconcen-
trados and sent out young Rodiguezes
every morning to be shot at sunrise
the Cubans held a fair in Madison
Square Garden ostensibly for the pur-
nose Of aiding the injured and caring
for the sick.
IN reality all the money raised was
principally used in buying arms and
ammunition.
How Funston got letter of nitro
duction from Dan Sickles. as he was
affectionately called, learned to oper-
ate a dynamite gun, drill Cuban re-
cruits in a room over a Third avenue
saloon, sail from the Carolina coast
in the Dauntless with Dynamite
Johnny O'Brien, run the blockade,
land his gun and fight for Cuban in
dependence is now a matter of his
tory.
His brilliant services in the Philip
pine campaign, when his capture OF
A guinaldo won him brigadier- gen
eTalship has a fascination for every
schoolboy who reads history.
with Funston, with all his force,
ability and strength, at the head of
the army now occupying Vera Cruz,
who shall say that Sickles lived in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
ADMIRATION OF BUSINESS DISPUTES.

Disputes between business men can be settled
by arbitration of business There is a national
movement for this purpose, and it is gaining head
way The Newark Board of Trade, acting under its
charter has an arbitration committee ready to act
in any case submitted to it. and has the necessary
legal powers hear and decide questions in dispute
Litigation in the courts is expensive and annoying
TO business men If it can be avoided by referring
disputes to an unpreiudiced and intelligent arbitra-
ton committee competent to give honest judgment
why should this not be done? The average business
man is conservative and slow to adopt ideas but
the advantage of this plan of settlement is plain
that few should be blind to it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
THE INDIFFERENT CITIZEN IN POLITICS.

No remark could be more true than that of former
Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania, at Swarthmore
College, that there was less for educated men
who failed in their civic duties than for other
class in the community.
A foolish preacher in Jersey City not long ago
soemny warned the young men of his congregation
not to have anything do with politics He spoke
in all the innocence of ignorance and his advice was
vicious. But not infrequently the same kind of
counsel has been given from the pulpit.
But educated too often do not do their part
as citizens in the affairs of government, and that is
an indsputable fact. The deinquents may interest
themselves in presidential elections, but do not even
take the trouble in State and local elections
They do not realize that they have anything to do
under government but sefshy enjoy its advantages
If there was genuine awakening of the civic spirit
of this class of citizens there would be less to COM
plain of in government
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19

Tasso. out of respect Tor hef hlsh
nosition and as a courtesy to her pow:
erf,Il brothers, addressed several cf
his noems to this high born lady with
whom he came in daily contact At
hest she regarded him as a diversion
and Tasso, be 1t said, never even
dreamed of marrying her. Such
= thing would have been regarded
as an absurdity. But SO greatly has
the fight of time distorted the facts
and added romance to the matter of
fact that there is now widespread
tradition that Tasso had lifelong
devotion for Leanora. 1t has even
been said that he was cast into
nrison to prevent him from marrying
her whereas the facts show that this
Imprisonment was due to the hope
less insanity to which lie became
a victim in later life.
And at this time, when Leanora is
now supposed to have been signing
for her lover, as a matter of fact, she
was a plain worn-out lady of forty,
very much taken up with works of
piety and account keeping.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
An Original Oath of Allegiance.

In the old days when the Spanish
province of Aragon was proud and
INDEPENDENT monarchy the people
used when choosing their king the
following singular form OF election:
I'VE, the freeborn inhabitants of
the ancient kingdom of Aragon, who
are equal to you, Don Philip, and
something more, elect You to be our
king on condition that you preserve
TO us our rights and privileges If in
this you should fail we own you for
our king no longer
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
That Monkey.

A man had stayed out at ban
quet very, very late. He awoke in
the dawn and saw. perched on the
foot of his bed, an grinders
monkey that had climbed in through
the window.
His hands trembling, his eyes blood,
shot, the man drew his revolver from
beneath his pillow and said:
"If you're a real monkey, it's a bad.
lookout for you; and if you're NOT,
it's a bad lookout for me"-Tit- Bits
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
Whales.

The largest of all mammals are not
the elephants. but the whales. A
large elephant weighs about six toms,
but the largest whale reaches the i'm
mense weight of $50 tons and would
furnish four carloads of flesh and
blubber About forty different kinds
of whales and dolphins are known.
and, although they live in the onen
sea and look like fish, they are not
fish at all, but are true mammals,
breathing air and feeding their young
on milk, like COWS and horses.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19

he would be likely to be defeated by
Martin Van Buren,, who was sure to
be nominated as his own successor
in the Presidency
4 think, however that the chief
reason why the convention at last
gave its support to General Harrison
was due to the fact that the West
what is nowadays known as the Mid
die West-was beginning to exert Il
very powerful political influence.
There was d feeling throughout the
West as it was at that time that the
day had come when there should be
national recognition of the already
great and the rapidly growing influ-
enee of the Western States. General
Harrison was citizen of Ohio
He had represented that State in the
Federal Senate and he had gained
great popularity by reason of his
service in practically DISCRIMINATING
the dangerous Indians of the Middle
West.
1.-The first ballot gave Henry Clay a
plurality, but not a majority. Five
ballots were taken, it, | remember
correctly, before General Harrison
received a majority over Henry Clay
and General Scott
Harrison nomination was of i'm
lltii9t liIlpOi LdllCG " inc w uAS pal - q
especially because the Western States
Of that time were reioiced that a
Western man haC been nomina ted
for the Presidency, the first time in
the history of the country, executing
in 1885 but at that time there was no
national convention. Harrison was
nominated by State conventions.
That" said Mr. Silliman, was the
beginning of the pre- eminence of the
West in national politics. and from
that day until the nomination of
James G. Blaine. in 1854, every Presi-
Dental candidate of the Wing or Re-
publican party came from the West
ern States
Copyright, 1914, by DR. Il. J. Ed
49, wards all rights reserved
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
The Present Time.

An American mother was trying to
instil in her .seyen-year-old daughter
spirit of patriotism while they were
travelling in Mexico
Doris" she said this is George
Washington's birthday"
us it?" Doris queried indifferently.
"What'd he get?''-New York Amer
lean.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19

and by no loss of life The regulations this year
will insure the same good results. The change from
the conditions that attended former celebrations was
simply wonderful
Many cities were similarly exempt from Fourth OF
July accidents last year. while others not Pha
delphia had a record of killed and wounded amounting
to 343 Chicago, with population recorded only
one killed and thirteen injured There were no fatali-
ties in New York city The Fourth will be more
general this year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
When the West Began to Be Pre-Eminent in Politics

Some four or five years before the
death of the late Benjamin d. Sill
man, who had been widely known for
some ten or twelve years a the Mes
tor of the American bar, | spent an
hour or two with him in his law Of
flee. He was then nearly ninety
years of age. He had invited me to
call upon him, saying that he would
be very glad to tell me some of his
early recollections of the Wing ma
tional convention of 1899
Mr.. Silliman was delegate to that
convention, representing what was
then the little village of Brooklyn,
N. Y, all Of Staten Island, and one
of the upstate counties. ! had been
told that he was the last survivor of
the convention which had been held
nearly sixty years before my meeting
with him.
| asked Mr.. Silliman if he went to
the convention with the expectation
of supporting the nomination of Cen
eral William Henry Harrison for
President.
My recollection is: he replied,
that personally 1 would have been
very glad if Henry Clay had received
such support as would have made it
possible to nominate him on the first
ballot. But | learned soon after |
reached Harrisburg, Pa, where the
convention was held, that good
many delegates were persuaded that
as General Harrison had been nomf-
mated by Wing conventions in several
States in 1885 and as he gained cleo
toral votes in seven or eight States at
the election in which Martin Van
Buren, was the victor it was thought
to he the most expedient thing to
name him in 1870.
"Clay's friends were greatly disap-
pointed, especially as it was reported
to the delegates that Clay himself
was not taking any steps to secure
his nomination. / recalled that the
impression was quite strong that
Clay felt that if Ire were nominated
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
Beggar When Arrested shows Bank
Books with $4,000.

NEW YORK, June ia beggar
arrested at Fifth avenue and Fifty
eighth street yesterday had three
bank books showing deposits of S12,-
600 in city banks concealed i'm a we'll
furnished apartment he occupied at
AZ West End avenue.
When Policeman Cunningham ar
raigned the beggar for annoying pas
sersby with a pathetic appeal for
charity, he said his name was Joseph
Vouo, and that he was thirty six
years old, but remained silent when
Magistrate Simms in the Mems Night
Court asked him where he lived.
Magistrate Simms sent Vono to the
workhouse for fifteen days after he
admitted that he had lived here seven
years by begging. and had sent $40
weekly to his wife in Italy. Vono
often had social gatherings in his
rooms.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
THE pRopucT DE OUR NORMAL SCHOOL.

The graduation of nearly one hundred pupils of
the new State Normal School in this city yesterday
was one pleasing spectacles that crafty Newark
citizens The school building itself, erected by the
city and presented to the State is beautiful struc-
ture and fitting place for the ceremony of turning
out the young men and students who are to
take up the responsibilities of teaching in public
schools. To them it will be delight have such
an alma mater.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
Bald Heads Plan for Banquet; Many
Anxious to Join Club.

WINSTED, Conn, June 19.-Ofi-
GERS of the Bald Head Club of Amer
lea have arranged for the annual
banquet, to be held at the Hotel Win
chester October %.
The club has applications for mem
bership from every State in the
Union, and from London and Paris
have come requests for copies of its
constitution and bylaws. Hartford,
New Haven. Bridgeport and Pitts
field, Mass. have already made bid
for the 1915 banquet John Rode
meyer. the Canaan editor who Gre
ated the Bald Head Club of America,
was elected POSTMASTER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
Rearing a New Messiah.

From the indianapolis News
Mrs. Annie Besant, on whom the
mantle of Nine Blavatsky, the noted
Theosophist, fell at her demise, is
again very much in the public eye.
Some time ago she undertook the
guardianship Of two Hindu youths.
one of these bears the name Jiddu
Krishnamurti, and the other, MS
brother, that of Jiddu Nityananda.
Recently a court at Madras declued
that she was no longer entitled 10
this guardianship, and decreed That
the black brothers were to be restored
To their father. who bears the
euphonious name 6. Narayaniah.
Mrs. Besant took the boys to Eng
land. where she appealed the case to
a British tribunal.
Mrs Besant is training the older
boy, now nineteen years old, for a
great mission. He is nothing less,
She AYERS, than a new Messiah, and,
Young as he is, from material point
of view, she claims that he has been
in the fish thirty times before his
present appearance on earth. Inc
Two Hindu boys have been attending
oxford University. The Messiah IS
a lanky youth with straight, black
hair, a dark mahogany complexion
and rather stolid features. IT is not
explained what forms these thirty in
carnations assumed. In the trans
migration of Indus" it was shown
that the human soul could with
equal ease after so-called death pass
into the body of an ant or an ele-
phant. and If Jiddu Krishnamurti has
had experiences of that kind they
would make. edited by Mrs. Besant
very interesting reading
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
Judgment Debtor Chased by Constable
Hides in the Clouds with AerOpIane.

Los ANGELES, Cal, June 19.-T.
Kashiara, said to have been formerly
an aviator in the Japanese army, hid
in the clouds when Deputy Constable
Myers tried to attach his bi-plane
yesterday for a SIPS lien, according to
Myers.
With the aid of a field glass Myers
finally located a rapidly vanishing
speek in the heavens. which he de-
cided must be Kashiara and his bi
plane After waiting several hours
he gave up, to try again today.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
che Clttle Ball Player

With legs apart and shoulders bent
And sparkling eyes he stands,
The magic sphere of his delight
Clutched tightly in his hands.
With all his strength he sends the ball,
And views its rapid flight
A frown upon his chubby face
So softly pink and white.
His aim was true, he straightens up
And feels himself a man
Who hears upon a crowded field
The plaudits of the fan.
Tricycle. now, and teddy-bear
And choo-choo cars and all,
Are toys he'll never want again
He's learned to play baseball!
-Minna Irving, in Les
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Factory Men Golf Mad Cause Change in
Wisconsin Time.

KENOSHA, Wis, June 19.-The ex-
ample of Cleveland in setting the
clock ahead one hour, to conform to
Eastern time, in order to have one
hour more of daylight for workers, is
to be copied in this city because of
the interest in golf. which occupies
the attention of the leading business
people of the city.
The factory owners are all golf en-
thusasts-golf mad, their critics say
and they believe that the time they
would like to spend in playing golf
would be appreciated by their en-
ployes, who could also have more
time for out-of-door sports.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
Twins United Back to Back to
Separated by Operation.

PARIS, June 1.-TWO sisters who
we're born in May of last year and
who are united back to back are
about to be operated on by surgeons
in order to separate them.
The babies have been thriving
splendidly, and it is expected that
they will survive the operation. The
case is said to be unique in medical
annals.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19


Progress of the Crops.
From the Wall Street Journal.
In five of the leading counties of
Oklahoma, where there are wheat
farms of 500 to 1000 acres, harvesting
has been under way for a week and
exceptional yields are assured.
Threshing follows Immediately and
shipping will begin by June 25.
Carload shipments of huckleberries
from Sampson county n. c., are
being made daily, and much of the
labor usually available for harvesting
grain and cultivating cotton is en-
gagged in gathering the berry crop.
Favorable weather for the matur-
ing of wheat over all territory west
of the Mississippi has prevailed
during the past week Kansas City
reports that the earliest cutting of
record has begun in the southern
counties of Kansas this year.
Extreme heat which has prevailed
for several days throughout North
ern and Central Illinois and Indiana
has been particularly trying on the
oats crop where the soil was dry.
The eastern half Of South Dakota
as far west as the Missouri river,
claims that crops are well enough
supplied with moisture to be ma
tured without further rains. Brook
ings county reports a wheat acreage
20 per cent. better than last year
Harvey Osborne, manager of the
State Free Employment Bureau at
Kansas City, has orders for $4,000
harvest hands from fifty cities in
Kansas and oklahoma. As many as
$50 have gone out in a single day
Missouri harvesting will call for men
to be sent about June 20.