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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
ADMINISTRATION LoAyEs AND FISHES.

1t was once asked of man whose fidelity to his
public duties and to his obligations to his constituents
was doubtful what principles he had, and the answer
was that he had principles, namely five loayes
and two fishes. The principles of many of the men
who voted for repeal in the House OF Representatives
yesterday were in evidence when they voted ex-
cent perhaps in the case Eugene Kinkead, of New
Jersey who already is beted for the Jersey City post
office The loaves and fishes will be distributed after
the primayes and elections. The only possible ex-
PLANTATION or the phenomenon of congressman voting
violate their party platform and against the will
the nation as expressed in 1912, to surrender
tfona right at the demand of foreign power can
sae found in the of patronage and the sinister
of corporate interests that know no patriot
ism The best hope is that the men who were
thus sorddly influenced win be cheated out of their
expectations.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Flowers rhnt Give out Firc.
n the Christian Endeayor World.

From the Christian Endeayor World.
The most wonderful. il might al
most be said spiritual, attribute of
flowers is neither their beauty of
color or form nor their fragrance,
but. strangely enough, a mysterious
radiance that, like the aureola which
artists represent as radiatlng from
fhe heads of apostles or of angels,
sometimes surrounds them, writes j.
carter Beard. 1t Is strange that this
flower-hre is SO little known and SO
seldom noticed
The best time to watch for and to
witness the emission of tlower-iire is
lust after sunset of warm day,
when the atmosphere is perfectly dry
and clear. On the contrary, If the
air lis dense or the day has been
rainy, nothing of the kind can be
seen. The light emitted from flowers
IS sometimes continuous, but. ottener,
perhaps, represents itself in flashes
and chickering's like the sparks from
a piece of paper that has been cleo
trified. The duration of the light
varies according to the state of the
atmosphere and the sort of flowers
that are under observation.
4 daughter Of Linnaeus is credited
with having been the first. as long ago
as 1862. 10 have observed these lumin
Gus emanations. While seated alone
in her fathers garden on a fine warm
summer night her attention was at
tracted to Il cluster of the common
uasturtiums. whose flowers shone
with iridescent lustre amid the sur
rounding gloom. CaptiVated by the
charming novelty of the spectacle she
repeated her nocturnal visit 10 the
flowers a number of times, and never
nnce failed to witness the CLEAN OF
Tho nasturtiums.
Numerous other flowers. many OF
which can be found in our gardens
nre discovered TO be self-luminous
pfter exposure TO the strong, sus-
tained light of the summer sun; for
rot only do groups of nasturtiums eN-
hibit the phenomenon. but the corolla
Of the common sunilower. the dahliat
the tuberose. the yellow lily, and in
Iced. number of blossoms not
named here
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01

going TO serve proper cause
whether it be 81 or 100000 900
Some time ago a delegation from
Il small church in q Pennsylvania
town, where Carnegie once lived
called upon the philanthropist.
Mr.. Carnegie" said the chairman.
we have come to ask your help in
the purchase of pipe organ. We
need it badly and knowing that you
once attended our church, thought
possibly you would be interested"
''How much do you want?" asked
Carnegie.
well" answered the chairman
I'VE have figured ON 10000
Go back and raise $4,000 and I'll
talk with YOU" commanded the ole
fellow.
A month or SO later the delegation
returned and with a twinkle in his
eye, the chairman explained that tha
$4,000 was in hand.
Well said Carnegie. that's
enough for any organ. I'll not con
tribute a cent
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01

near the button when he calls on
you2' he was asked
We'll, | would have two buttons
and | would step on the one nearest
So he said dramatically throwing
up his hands and stepping in the
green carpet of Secretary George A.
Walters office.
The police finally got rid of this
man by informing him that his plan
would be too expensive.
The man with the traffic ideas said
he had stood for hours watching the
officers working at busy crossings and
he was certain he could improve their
method of signaling. He also wanted
10 teach the other members of the
force new police holds. The members
of the department are already we'll
equipped with the latter, and to dis
pose of the dreamer the. police told
him TO put his different-proposition
In writing with an estimate of the
cost
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
What Might Have Happenedto Colonel Henry Watterson

In the presidential eampaigraAf 1884
Colonel Henry .Watterson took active
part, but in the very hot weather of
August he spent a week or ten days
at a seashore resort on the Atlantic
coast a few miles from Norfolk. He
was then asked if he would speak at
a mass meeting which was TO be held
upon the public square in Norfolk
and he replied that he would do that
provided he could speak in the after
noon.
Colonel Watterson asked me TO go
with him to the Norfolk meeting, and
as ] had never heard him speak as q
campaigner | gladly accepted the in
Vitation. He said to me just before
he began his speech that he wanted
me to join him Immediately after he
had finished
IT want to talk about something
else than campaign speaking" he
said as we walked from the public
IKE talking about anything but cam
paign politics for an hour or two
after I have finished speaking
1t occurred to me to ask Colonel
Watterson how many terms his father,
Harvey NJ. Watterson, had served in
the lower house of Congress and when,
I knew in a vague way that the
senior Watterson had served several
terms in Congress before the begin
ming of the Civil War.
IT often find myself wondering"
said Colonel Watterson, ''how my
career would have shaped itself in
case my father had been willing to
accept appointment as governor of
the territory Of Oregon. Had he prom
ised to accept that apuointment it
would have been gladly made by
President Franklin Pierce.
cit is not generally known. | think,
that it was due as much to my father
as to any other man that Franklin
Pierce was nominated for President
in 1852. Father was delegate to the
convention. representing one of the
Tennessee districts. The balloting for
the presidential nomination was con-
tinued for a long time. The leading
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
WHY DO YOU APRIL-FOOL
Legend Gives One Answer, History Another

April to January /, same as it had
been in the Julian calendar in
Caesars time.
New Years. then as now. was a
season of present-giying. 1t was q
great disappointment to people. es-
pecially the servants and dependents
Of royalty not to receive gifts April
1 as well as Jan 1. 1t was then. so
some historians tell US, that the dis.
tressed gift-glvers bethought them of
presenting their relatives and depen-
dents with mock-presents, making
the old New Years day comic dupli-
cate of the real New Years.
Out of the disappointed expectations
of the servants and hangers-on of the
feudal lords of the 10th century have
grown the antics 20th century people
viii play next April Fools. day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01

The seeker for information about
April Fools day and its origin is
likely to be finely April-fooled him
self, as history and legend offer diff
ferent reasons for the practise of
foling our friends on April first.
Legend traces April Fools day back
to the early miracle plays which re-
presented Christ as being sent in
mocltery from Annas TO Caiaphas for
trial; the day is also said to be a
survival of the Feast of Fools cele-
brated by the early Romans.
History points to the changes made
in the lunar calendar by Pope Greg
cry of the 16the century as the reason
for the nonsensical antics practlseo
on April first. The Gregorian calen-
dar set New Years day back from
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
GENIUS WOULD AID POLICE

The dreamers with new schemes
have been annoying attaches OF the
Detroit police headquarters for some
days. One man believes he mas in
vented system by which hl,glars
and bandits can be frustrated. The
other genius thinks he has studied out
a plan to increase the efficiency of
traffic officers and other members of
the department
The fellow with the burg ar alarm
PROPOSITION would have a system in
stalled in every home and store, with
wires running into police headquar-
ters.
See how simple" begins this man.
Il would have a button in the floor
and when the burglar comes in and
orders nae TO throw up my hands !
say Sure and make one step and
land on the button. OF course, he
doesn't know it's there"
'Supposing you didn't happen to be
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Che WasbinS nacbine

Her hands we're like lilies, | said.
Don't doubt it, but what could she do ??
She knit while she read
And baked all her bread
And did up the weeks washing, too.
Her hands were all wet from the tub?
And roughened and red? Not a Bit
The washing machine
Just worked on serene,
While ladykins looked on and knit
But who turns the crank ?" Well, you see
The engine that's running the saw
The feedm and churn,
Gives power Ito burn,
So why get her hands coarse and raw?
| saw she was working too hard,
So fixed up these things for my wife,
Blue Monday has gone,
And I'm glad, for one,
To see some real joy in her life.
I'll give you piece of advice:
Make happy your own household queen
Just smash up the tub,
And say, mo more scrub
Then get her washing machine.
Alice Lindsey Webb
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
MHAT,S TIE ANSWER?

Ghcago's municipal store, selling groceries to the
unemployed at cost, has turned out failure, with
average sales of 80 a day. Customers had to prove
that they were out of work and owned no property
and were compelled to carry away their goods Did
they object to being conspicuous objects of quasi
charity, or acting their delivery wagons?
the jobless in Chicago. elsewhere smaller
than the pessimists would have us believe?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
BE,SIECE. WOMEN VOTERS

class until noon. In the afternoon
attended a reception at the Ford
HIM Friday attended to business,
and Friday evening gave readings at
the home of DIR. Waters from his
book of original poems to select
company Mr.. Sem acted as chair
man of the evening. Saturday, bust
ness again, and Sunday a trip 10
Westover Terrace far above the city,
where we have a magnificent view,
and where we are going to Duild a
home some day
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Says Racket street Is No Name for Quiet
NeighbOrhood.

NEW YORK, April 1.-Protesting
that Racket street is an inappro-
pirate name for quiet neighborhood,
residents of that thoroughfare in the
Ridgewood section of Queens have
asked the Board of Aldermen to have
their street renamed.
They say that for thirty years or
more the street was known as Van
derveer avenue, and was named for
an old Long Island family Some
years ago the name Racket street
was substituted for Vanderveer ave-
nue., while Nanderveer place. some
distance away, was changed to Van
derveer avenue. The petitioners say
that the name Racket street is detri-
mental to the neighborhood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
A Test of Ambidexterity

The crucial test of anbidexterity
comes with the simple operation of
nail trimming. The scissors act per-
fectly from right hand to left. but
do you reverse? | know a man, an
able man, who owns that, clever as
he is ct most things, he plays a bad
hand at nail trimming. But-he has
a wifel Personally, I can ply knife
on my right nails with my left hand
but not scissors. 1t must be the fault
Of the scissors. Perhaps someone will
supply ambideXtrous scissors.-Lon
don Chronicle.
How did the airship happen to
fall?"
THE pilot went UP in the air.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Returning from Lumber Camp. Is Told
He Is Dead and Buried.

MONTPELIER, t.. April 1.-Pat-
rick Driscoll, hale and hearty from
a season in numbering camp, ar.
rived here yesterday to be hailed with
establishment by his friends, who
thrust Unto his hands newspaper
stories Of how he had been killed by
train here Sunday. identified by
many persons, including relatives,
and had been buried in the Driscoll
family lot at Keene, \. H.
The police now believe that the vic
tim of the accident was a man known
only as alligator Pete" whose re-
semblance to Driscol was remark
able
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01

for ranging from two and half to eight years.
This swindle is a familiar one, but it is not often
worked upon so large a scale The ordinary victim
of the de luxe book agent, when he finds that he
has p1ucked, ashamed to tell of it and the
swinder goes on finding fresh dupes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Auto Injuries Win Him Clothes. Job anc
Bride.

PITTSBURGH, April IA series OF
experiences that included being
Knocked down by an automobile in
McKeesport, week in a hospital
with a nurse, discharged in new toy
gerry and with a check in his pocket,
to say nothing of a job and d bride,
all in one week. has convinced Steve
Verewski, twenty-siX years old, that
every American thorne has two roses.
The machine that hit him and ruined
bis clothing contained Mayor George
X. Lysle and other officials of Nc
Keesport
Verewski was dismissed from the
hospital. and in a new suit hat, shirt
and necktie he entered the office of
Mayor Lyse to thank him. He was
in a hurry to cash a check he had
found in II pocket In a few days
he will marry a young woman who
visited him in the hospital.
Lyslo viii perform the ceremony
free. Other officials will furnish
flowers, give the bride a present and
give Steve a job.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Whole Town Digs Grave for Aged Grave.
Digger.

MCCALL, Mo-, April Livery man
in this town was asked to assist
in digging the grave of John Burton,
eighty years old, who died at his
home here.
Burton, who had been a resident of
McFall for many years, had dug or
assisted in digging every grave in
the city cemetery. He never charged
for his work nor would he accept
money for his services when it was
offered. The men turned out in u
body and complied with the unusual
request.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
If He Wants His Legs Back, lie Must
Abstain from Drinking.

If He Wants HIS Legs Back, He Must
Abstain from Drinking.
LIVINGSTON, Mont. April L.
Stealing a mans legs to keep him
from getting drunk was the unusual
method adopted by colored North
ern Pacific porter who resides here.
Lee is a temperate and Industrious
mar and purchased a pair of wooden
legs for an unfortunate eolored
brother The disabled man had
been drinking to excess late
ly and Lees sermons were
without avail, so while he
was sleeping off a drunken spell, Lee
took off the wooden limbs and took
them to the Northern Pacific station
to hide them until their wearer had
promised to reform
Lee asserts that he paid for the
legs himself, so he can see no reason
why he should not retain them at
his pleasure.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Enlargiug the suc1 Canal.

FROM the engineering News
In order to make the Suez Canal of
sufficient depth TO carry the largest
ships now ahoat. work is now in
progress toward deepening the canal
TO forty feet throughout its length.
When the canal was opened i'm 1869
the width was seVenty-two feet and
the depth about twenty feet two
inches. The maximum permissible
drafts of ships using the canal in
1870 was 244 feet. In 1890 ships draw
ing 254 feet were allowed and during
the succeeding tWenty-four years the
increase has been at the average rate
of about one foot every six years
thus bringing the maximum draft
authorized now up to twenty nine
feet. In June, 1913, the depth of
thirty-two feet eight inches had been
increased over minimum width of
Ia feet six inches for a length of
about eighty-fiVe miles and over a
width of S2S feet for a length of
twenty miles. Under the latest
scheme depth of forty feet through
out is to be made and widening mp
to 197 feet in the south section and
the cutting of an appropriate number
of sidings on the north and central
sections where "A minimum width of
147 feet six inches is believed to be
sufficient The company has power
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
ODDITIES IN
TODAYS NEWS
Man with Artificial Leg Arm. Ear and
Hair. to Wed.

NEW YORK, April 1.-The most
artificial man in the world" by ais
own admission, sailed for Holland
Yesterday on the Holland America
liner Nieuw Amsterdam, where he
said he expects to marry the most
natural girl in the world. He is Jan
van der Blassbalk, forty years old,
former owner Of glass factory III
Batavia, on the Isle of Java.
Van der Blassbalk, to substantiate
his claim to artificiality, has a cork
leg, a cork arm, a rubber ear, d
glass eye and wig. While expert
menting with chemicals, he explained,
an explosion happened. which left
but little Of his natural self.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
A CHECK TO THE "DE LUXE sw1NDLE

The edition de luxe form of swindling has re-
ceiyed a check from Massachusetts, justice,
three sharpers who separated trusting Boston
woman from $50 900 having been sentenced to prison
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
rostoiiice Names.

ItHl tue lNtbllu l4euEtT.
The history of the origin OF post
office names affords many amusing
facts. Not a few of the names grow
out of blunders in writing or spell
ing. The postoflice department pre-
sumably hasn't the time to conduct
a special investigation I'm every
neighborhood, so it often jumps to
conclusions or draws upon its
ina gination. In the Princeton Press,
of West Virginia, we find a curious
instance OF n name conferred upon
a postotliCe because of an error in
one letter of "A petition. There is n
district in that State known as Hill
Top. When the people of Hill Top
decided to ask for n postoflice a
petition was drawn up and forward
ed. to Washington city. The writer
was not careful to dot the 49, in
Hill. Instead, he made a sort of
loop that was interpreted as an sc.
Call, a postofice Hell TopP" That
would never 40. 1t shocked the
agents of Uncle Sam; but they
thought they would comply as close
ly as possible with local sentiment,
so they named the postofiice Top
het.' Tophet was a hill on which
the refuse Of Jerusalem was dumped
and burned. The fires were almost
continuous, and hence Tophet came
to signify hell, or a place of endless
perdition. Many postoflice names
are duplicated, but West Virginia
boasts of having the only Tophet in
the land, What a difference one let
ter of word makes in historyl 1t
is said that Nome. Alaska, got its
name from the fact that the IA" of
the word Name was misinterpreted
for an % At that, II IS a very inn
pressiVe name.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

pears from investigation and obser-
walton, however, that the search
should be directed toward finding the
right job for the man. In othe:
words, employers have found that
instead of the old policy OF hiring
and firing" until the right man is
discovered, it is worth while to give
some study To individual adaptability
with a view to discover what work
a given man can do best.
Excluding drones who are beyond
redemption, 1t has been found that
men who We're n failure and who
would not, even if allowed to do 50,
stay in one line of work have made
valuable employees in some other line.
One Industrial concern believed IL
worth while to investigate this theory
and asked every man who left It's
shops or who was recommended for
dismissal to say why he was resign
ing or why he was not doing better
work and whether there was work
that he would like to do and felt that
he could do we'll \ majority of the
replies indicated that dissatisfaction
or unsatisfactory service was due to
a displacement OF men rather than
to sh'ftlessness or actual inetiiciency.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
Mhv ,Ien THROW Up Jobs.

from the Electric Rallway JournaA
TO find the right man for the job
r~5s an old anG ver-pressing problem
..is4Tj spite &c parades and mass meet
ms of The onemp!0yei. II now ar
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01

to raise bonds up to $sO,OoO.0OO for
this work, which it is expected will
be completed by 1919.
Heretofore it has been the policy of
the canal company not to offer a
greater depth of water in the canal
than is available i'm the port east of
SueZ 1t is claimed that with the
exception of sydney, Australia, there
is no eastern port which at low tide
has greater depth than that now
provided in the canal throughout its
fun length, but the completion of the
Panama canal with it's forty foot
depth and the general increase of the
Atlantic ports 10 carry boats of all
most that draft has led the company
to undertake this latest increase
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-06
CONSIDERED BIDS
AND ASSESSMENTS
City Council to Hold Special
Meeting Wednesday Even
ing to Finish Work.

Only n contract was awarded at
the monthly meeting Of the city coun-
Gil Monday night, two others ON
which bids were opened being held up
until Wednesday,, when a special
meeting will be held.
The contract for the lateral sewer
on Viets avenue in Riverside park
was awarded to Carroll Bros. Sew
grading Of University avenue, and the
supplying Of a for the city during
the coming year. None were accepted
however.
The bids on the grading work were
in excess Of the estimates Of the city
engineer, while the lowest bidd on the
city GOAL supply provided that the coal
should be weighed in Duluth. The
council desires that the coal should be
weighed on the city scales.
There were So provisions in the
ordinance for the regulation of auto
mobile traffic which was placed on its
irst reading last night. It regulates
he traffic on the business section OF
Grand Forks in every particular.
Scott Rex. attorney for the Roberts
son Lumber company appeared before
the council to protest against the sew
er assessment Of $3.50 which had been
placed against the concern by the spe-
cial assessment committee. He offer
ed to compromise for $500. The mat
ter will be taken up again at the next
meeting Of the council, the members
OF which inspected the property In
question this morning.
No action was taken on an applica-
ton from the Caledonian Curling club
for permission to extend its rink a
short distance into the public street.
The committee was informed that the
matter would have to be settled with
the property owners of the neighbor-
hood.