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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
USE WINE IN SURGERY

When the Montenegrins took Europe
by surprise and plunged into war,
leaving their sister states still SILVER
ing on the brink, they entered the fray
armed with the most modern weapons.
One wondered at the adoption of the
latest methods of dealing with their
wounded, for until lately, at any rate,
they were content to follow the old
time Scriptural usage of oil and wine.
Herein was displayed more science
than they realized. On no account
will a native surgeon use water in
dressing a wound, but cleanses the in
jured part with strong wine, or a
spirit called rakija; and the people
will recount with pride the number
of desperate cases which have thus
been cured. One in particular is never
forgotten.
This was furnished by two duelists,
one of whom received a sword cut
which slashed through three ribs.
This terrible wound was first washed
with white wine, quantity was
poured into the body through the ZEN
vious rent" and the man was rolled
backward and forward then the work
of nursing him back to health began
and was successfully accomplished!
Another tells how he was shot
through the lungs in the battle OF
Vucidol, so long ago as 1876, and was
taken to the Russian hospital, where
he got "worse and worse"
a.,o FOL III H. c,f
cut another hole in him between two
ribs, but he remarks: "As l had two
holes in one already l thought this
was very stupid, and l knew l should
die if this were done so I asked the
black sister TO tell my people to come
and save me. They came, bringing
his wife, who took the poor emaciated
sufferer and carried him as If he had
been a baby. They poured rakija
he tells us, Gin at my top wound, and
some of it ran out at the other hole.
Then the black sister came and put
the bandages on. "They poured rak-
Tia into me very often, and the wound
got well, and in year l was strong.
He is now a hale old man, and re-
marks that he has drunk rakija ever
since, and no wine, for it is firmly
believed that whichever you are
dressed with-wine or rahja-you
must always drink in future.
In their observance for the dead
they are no less singular, and fol
an account of these we are indebted
to the vivid narrative of Miss Edit
Durham, who spent some months
among these most primitive but in
teresting people. She had the priv
| lege OF being present at something
like an Irish wake on one occasion
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
ATTACHING THE GUNNERs' LICENSE LAW.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT will be made at this session of the
Legislature procure the repeal of the resident gunner license
law The porsmen satisfied pay the ng
dollar many bucolics that dollar big
cartwhee the State of $64 902
year pays the of restocking and protection of
the passed the State appropriated $4,000
annually purposes With the income from fees the State
commission established large game farm shelter
and preaeve and for propagation game this provision
game would disappear from New Jersey before the
apper The law merely makes those who shoot
raw restocking and of the Species
sportsmen of New Jersey will it that the law
not chgaged a the demand of the parsimonious
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13

In this case there was only the SEM
blance of a body, the dead youth
having been killed while fighting with
the Russian army in Manchuria, and
the news of his fate only reached his
native village six months after his
death. But he was duly mourned
after the custom TO the people On
bier his clothes and weapons were
laid; and this done, his relatives and
neighbors began their mourning.
They met at some distance from the
house and came in procession-first
the men, then the women. When
within a hundred yards of the house
they began the death wall an awful
wailing. rhythmical chant-"Woe, woe
to us, Steve, o my brotherl Woe, woe
to us, my winged brother!" The cry
was taken in a quick breath which
rapidly became a convulsive sob, and
by the time they had reached the
house all were in a state bordering
on frenzy.
The men then hurled themselves into
the room and danced madly in front
of the corpse, or what should have
been, leaping a yard high, humping
their breasts with their great fists
and yelling frightfully. With tears
streaming they threw themselves or
the dummy corpse, almost fighting t.
KISS 1t. M eanWhlle, the mother anC
sisters in the background sang the
praises of their dead boy.
The men were allowed five minutes
of this ecstasy of grief, then the prizes
came forward and said: brothers
you have wept enough, make way fol
others" They withdrew, some reeline
with exhaustion; then came tn,
women, who followed the same OBJ
servances, save that they did no
jump. And so. village by village, cam,
the whole tribe to which he belonged
Some did not even know the poo
boys name, and had to be coached il
the details before beginning to wall
but they sobbed as bitterly as any
Going home the mourners compared
notes as to who had cried best.
At the burying apples, bits of breat
and quantities of rags are throw
into the grave, with fragments tori
from the mourners' clothes. In re
mote districts even today both mel
and women tear their faces with thei
nails that they may mingle thei
tears with blood in token of thei
grief, though the practise has beef
forbidden and has fallen into disus
| in the larger villages.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
Science vs.. "KnoW-Hnw. >,

From Engineering and Mining Journal.
A certain mine decided to change
its two-stage pumping system to a
single left to surface The head was
terrific, about 1900 feet. A pump was
built and installed. but the manufac-
turer was skeptical as to whether
valves could be made to stand up. II
developed that they could not; they
broke their seats steadily and disas-
trously.
Many mechanical engineers were
called into consultation, who expert
mented and figured and analyzed the
mine water and tried about every
hard alloy known to science, most OF
the brasses and bronzes and a large
number of more complex mixtures.
but not one of them was hard enough
and tough enough to stand up. The
valves continued their merry break
ing.
When the last alloy had gone to
pieces the big Swede pumpman, who
had watched all the experiments mod
estly and patiently, judged it to be his
play. by Jimmy, Ay feex heam." So
he got a hide, the best leather. and
he put leather facings on all those
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
FghIy=Priked Relic of Aboitionist DAYS

Recently / spent an hour or two in
the library of Robert Potter, whose
home is in one of the suburbs of New
York and who gratifies a taste for
literature and art, having abundant
time and means for the cultivation
Of these pleasures. Mr. Potter is a
retired business man, who in his
younger days was very active both
as merchant and a banker in New
England.
While looking around the library I
saw an ugly-looking weapon which
was hung in a conspicuous place
upon the wall 1 said: This looks
to me like a slungshot. 1t has all
the characteristics of that deadly
weapon"
1t was, in fact, a weapon of attack
or defense There was a lump of lead
in one end and flexible leather han
die extended from this end to a sort
of bracelet, by which the weapon
could be attached to the wrist
1t seemed such a peculiar and out
of-place thing to display upon the
walls of a library that I ventured to
ask Mr. Potter If there was not some
tradition or association which gave
it incidental value.
Eyes" he replied, chat little weap-
on had an association which I value
very highly. I will tell you about it.
Theodore Parker-who in his day
was one of the most famous of Amer
lean clergymen-used to preach every
| Sunday in the great music hall in
| Boston. He was a man after Wen
dell Phillipss own heart, at least SO
far as some of the great moral ques-
tons that prevailed in the years prior
| to the Civil War were concerned.
after Theodore Parker's death, ]
think about 1855, it was proposed that
| Wendell Phillips should be invited to
speak from the Music Hall platform
every Sunday morning or evening.
"At that time there was a very
ugly feeling in Boston, of which Phil
| lips and others like William Lloyd
| Garrison were the cause. In fact
this bitterness became so v;ndictive
and violent that Phillips life was
threatened and he received word thai
if he went to Music Hall and talke
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
Growing Tobacco in Maine.

From Maine Rural Life.
Unknown, perhaps, to a large part
of Names population, new pos
sibility in Maine agriculture has been
developed within the last few years,
through one man, Maitland B. Smith,
who, on his wonderful Pearl Brook
farm, a short distance outside of the
city of Belfast. produced the past
season more tobacco to the acre than
did any of the tobacco raisers in Con-
necticut, the tobacco State of New
England.
Maine IS proud of her corn and her
potatoes, but at the rate that the
tobacco raising industry has grown
within the past two or three years,
the Pine Tree State may soon have
another product of which she may
well be proud. Far from the warm
heat of southern suns and the fertile
valley of the Connecticut, fifteen
acres of tobacco were raised in the
heart of Waldo county in 1918, the
soil produced one ton of tobacco to
the acre, or more than 200 pounds
more to the average acre than Con-
necticut.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
Even So.

ASK anyone you chance TO meet on
the street what he is doing and he
WILL in nine cases out of ten, tell you
he is writing a play" said Eugene
Walter, author of several successes.
Everyone has Joined the playwriting
handicap now. l asked motorman
on the street car the other day how
his play was getting on and he said:
"'I've got it all finished except the
climax of the last act. That's been
bothering me great deal. Now in
the second act have the hero
'Forty-second street. yelled the
conductor, and I had to get off the
car just as l was about to hear how
the hero saved the girl in the second
act.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
Origin of "oid Glory"


Letter to New York Times.
DR.. Edward Hagaman Hall, in his
letter to the Times, that the Amer
lean flag owes nothing of suggestion
to the Washington coat of arms.
Neither does it owe anything of sug-
gestion to any early English flag that
may have borne thirteen stripes. The
number of the stripes was, of course,
determined by the number of colonies,
and it was not necessary for Con-
gress to go back to ancient history
for the suggestion of the thirteen
stripes representing the thirteen
colonies, when the Philadelphia Light
Horse had already adopted the thir-
teen stripes in its banner, which was
familiar sight to the members of
the First Congress on the streets of
Philadelphia. Moreover, the Phila-
delphia Light Horse, starting on June
81, 1775, escorted General Washing
ton from Philadelphia to New York,
on his way to take command of the
army at Boston. The exact time in
the year 1775 when the troop first
used the thirteen stripes is not pre-
cisely known, and it is possible that
Washington saw the thirteen stripes
carried at the head of his escort on
that occasion.
The History of the First Troop of
Philadelphia City Cavalry" privately
printed philadelphia, 1879, says of
the adoption of the thirteen stripes
at Boston that it is probable that
the suggestion was made to Wash
ington by Colonel Joseph Reed, his
military secretary, who, as a resident
of
doubtless many opportunities of see
ing this flag carried by the troop"
WILLIAM HENRY SHELTON,
Curator,
washington Headquarters, Bronx.
Ian T. 1914
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
CAUSES OF POVERTY

valuation of s26o,OOO. For working,
instead OF specializing, for doing
something socially useful instead OF
sponging on others industry, this
doctor has, in effect, been fined $751;
900.
In every city the worker Is carry
ing the speculator, literally carrying
him on his back, and Of all forms of
speculation private speculation In
land values is most active and most
injurious to those who pay the toll.
During the past ten years land
values in the city where DR.. GLADDEN.
spoke increased at rate almost
equaling the total cost of the city's
government. Who got this increase?
A few landlords. Who made it? All
the people of Cleveland-every newly
born child added $500 to the total of
the spectators gains.
This toll upon industry Is being
driven like wedge through every
city in the land, uplifting a few to
unearned luxury, crushing the many
to lower depths of want.
Next time, Brother GLADDEN., II you
want to uncover the big, continuous
and Unsuitable cause of poverty, don't
| forget this foolish Difference to the
! landlords.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13

Charles Sessions, secretary of State
of Kansas, has discovered a charter
of a railroad company wherein it was
specifically provided that turnips,
corn, wheat and other farm products
would be exchanged for stock and the
labor and materials furnished would
be paid for in mileage coupons. It
was the American Pacific Railroad
Company and was chartered in 1897,
just as the Populist was was waning
in Kansas. 1t probably is the only
railroad that ever had motto incor-
porated in it's charter. This COM
pany's motto was Equity and Inter
dependence. The company was to
build a line from Jacksonville, Fla,
to San Diego, Cal, with a branch
from some point in Texas to the
Canadian line and another branch
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13

"All of which reminds me of some-
thinA l heard an amateur novelist say
one time in Cincinnati. / met this
young newspaper man. He, like nine
tenths of all other newspaper men,
was a bug on fiction. He had the
script of a novel tucked under his
arm.
"'How are you making outT !
asked him..
Rotten he answered.
"'What's the trouble?'
Nothing he went on, only the
trouble is nowadays that us novelists
hatch a plot, spend lot of time
writing it and then find that our plot
has been used as a short story by the
late o. Henry
"And," continued Walter, the
young novelist is absolutely right
Washington Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
TURNIPS FOR r. r. SHARES

, from some point in New Mexico to
Topolohampo, Mex.
The object of the company, as
shown by the charter, was to provide
employment for men and women and
furnish a market for farm products,
which at that time were the lowest
in value in many years. An employee
that worked for the company for six
months was to be considered as hav-
ing a vested right in his job, and
could not be dismissed except for in
toxication or crime, and if acquitted
on these charges, had to be rein
stated.
Passes were to be given to all
United States, State, county and
township officials when travelling on
official business.
AS far as known, the company
never built mile of road and never
made a report.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JANUARY 13
Ethelnda Beers
Copyrighted,
BY MARY MARSHALL.
JANUARY 10

Very few people remember the
name of Ethelinda Beers, but every
one has heard of the poem which
made her famous a generation ago.
This was called when it first APP
peared 1.-The Picket Guard" but was
later known by its first line, "All
quiet along the Potomac" This APP
peared in a newspaper at first, and
later Miss Beers had it published in
book form with other poems. This
was her only book, and the day it
was published, October 10, 1879, was
the day of her death.
Mrs. Henrietta Stannard, better
known as John Strange Winter, was
born January 10, 1856, in England
She adopted the masculine pseudo
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

cifix," said Mr.. Fitch. Every time
too, it has been in plain sight, and 1t
is much more valuable than many OF
the articles taken"
Modern Styles to Replace Convict Stripes
in N. Y.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-The convict
stripe is to be eliminated from the
city prisons during the Mitchell adj
ministration, according to DR.. Kath-
arine B. Davis, the Mayors correc-
tons commissioner, who made her
first visit to BlackwelPs Island yes.
terday. The only woman member OF
the Mayors cabinet was especially
indignant because the woman pr1s-
oners have to wear striped garments.
"You can't reform woman In bed
ticking" she said. 81 believe strong
ly in the psychology of clothes. A
woman always has more self-respect
when she has on her best clothes.
Half the degradation and sullenness
of the prisoners is the result of their
hideous stripes and shapeless gar
ments." Bingham, cut in modern
STYLES, will displace the present ma
terial worn by women prisoners, Dr:
Davis said, and other than striped
clothes will be furnished the men.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
Go-to- Church Campaign Taken by Thieves
as "Welcome."

G0-to- Church Campaign Taken by TmeVes
as Welcome"
SOUTH NORWALK, Conn, Jan.
13.-The "Go-to-church" campaign,
which opened here, presented a rare
opportunity for criminals to operate.
Three burglaries were carried out
successfully and several others were
attempted. In the home of Willett
A. Hanford $500 and valuable jewelry
were obtained. Councilman e. G..
Hoyt lost 500 and silverware. Former
Mayor r. Fl. Golden was made
poorer by $50. The police are con-
WINGED that the burglaries were the
work of men who have been follow
ing the Go-to-church' campaigns
through the State.
Three Times Burglars Shun Crucilx in
Robbing House.
YONKERS, Jan. 13.-James S.
Fitch. real estate broker. whose home
at 165 Glenwood avenue, was robbed
of $500 worth of jewelry, silverware
and clothing, said yesterday that the
thieves again failed to take a valu-
able necklace with a crucifiX at
tached. Three times in thirty years
my home has been robbed and every
time the burglars have left the cru
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nyn because the publisher to whom
she offered her first manuscript re-
fused to publish it under woman S
name. John Strange Winter" was
for years supposed to be an offcer
in the English army, so perfectly did
Mrs. STANDARDS books portray Eng
lish military life. Her greatest sue.
cess was 1.-THE Bookless BABY,
which sold to the extent of two mil
lion copies within ten years. In spite
of Mrs. STANDARDS financial success
in writing she did not amass a for
tune, and in her later years devoted
considerable time and energy to COM
pounding hair tonics and face lotions,
On her death three years ago she
was found to have saved only 54l
pounds in English money.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
DISGUISED WITH THE THAW CASE.

THE AMERICAN public is sick of the Thaw and would
any disposition of the subject out of sight
AS an objecesson processes criminal justice has
compished that necessary has shown the sinister char
acer in called aenist testimony when
it has revealed the infinite of criminal
millions his command employ eminent lawyers to
take advantage techncaes nuoies defects
Public interest in the latest phase of the Thaw is
Iauguid because of the public disgust
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13

IF THE should wash through the low and sand
divides Seabrght from the Shrewsbury it would
cat communication with the government Notifications and
proving grounds Sandy Hook In of this would be
The making island of that
The should promptly pass Mr. Sculys resolution
Tor department survey with building wall.
only for military the protection of the extreme northern
New Jersey the proper business of the nation
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
friends

So many people come and go,
And there the pleasure ends,
For just a few respond in kind
These few we call Our Friends.
They are the blessing of our lives,
These chosen few we know;
Through them our hopes take nobler form
And by their faith we grow
And often when the solitude
Brings out our human needs
We take our friendship rosary
And count its precious beads
One at time they walk with us,
And lend friendly hand
These ones apart from all the rest
The few who understand.
-Fairmont Snyd
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
sENGLAND's SOUTH AFRICAN PROBLEMS

ENGLAND CAN easily with great mining strike
m black uprising South Africa than with the question of dis
elimination against the ndoo and the
South African that has converted English and
Beers into regiments fight strikers and blacks is just
tey opposed Hndoo immigration and would necessary
n England keep them out or declare for independence
- have serious problems in mind than the
u,.L Ssps7 Mexico.
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Astronomical Events in 1914.

Astronomical Events IN I5l4.
From the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Insti-
tute of Arts and Sciences.
The wear 1914 will not be remark
able in its astronomical events. There
will be two eclipses of the sun. The
first one. February "a, will be an
annular eclipse. and will not be Vlsl-
BILE at any part of the United States.
The second one, August q, will be
total eclipse. but will be visible here
as a partial eclipse only for about
30 minutes after sunrise. There Will
also be two partial eclipses OF the
moon. The first one occurs on March
II. and can be seen here between
the hours of 10 p. m. and 3 a. m.
The second one occurs on September
8, but will not be visible here.
A far more interesting event Will
be a transit of the planet Mercury
across the sun. This will take place
on November T. and will be visible
here from sunrise until about 8
o'clock. The last transit was in No
vember 1907; the next one will be in
May, 1924. They always occur in
the months of May and November,
because then the earth is near one
of the nodes of Mercury's orbit.
We are favored this month by haV-
ing two of the most interesting plan
cts in good position for observation
Saturn, with his remarkable system
of rings, anG Mars, the red star of
war. Let US hope it does not por-
tend war on this visit. Saturn is in
the constellation Taurus. Mars is
in the east, just below the twin stars,
Castor and Pollux. Besides the plan
cts there are visible this month the
finest group of constellat ions in the
heavens. Taurus, with the cluster of
the Pleiades and the V-shaped Hy-
AIDES; also Orion, with the four stars.
Betelgeuse, BellatriX, Saiph and Ri
gel forming a large parallelogram.
and inelosing the three stars of the
belt of Orion, the Great Nebula and
many fine telescope stars. Then
there is a constellation of CAMS
Major in the southeast, which in
cludes the Dog Star Sirius, the
brightest star in the Northern sky
and whose light takes 31a years to
reach the earth. Toward the east is
the constellation Gemini, with Cas-
tor and Pollux, the twin stars; and
CAMS Minor, with Procyon the Les
ser Dog Star. Note the beautiful tri-
angle made by Betelgeuse, Sirius and
Procyon. Toward the north is Ca
pella, beautiful white star of the
first magnitude in the const citation
Auriga. If one can get away from
the lights of the city many hours can
profitably be spent in studying the
winter consultations, for they are
undoubtedly more brilliant and in
teresting than at any other time of
the year