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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
THE PEOPLES WEAPON AGAINST THEM.

President Taft called a council OF the railroad
presidents permitted them to dictate the terms of
bill which I'm the Senate transformed into
measure to safeguard the public interests Mr.. Taft
would have given the railroads practically all they
want One of the Senates gifts was the enlarged
power of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which
has done superb service to the country.
That was because the commission was composed
of men who represented the nation. Changes in the
commission had partly changed its character until
the Daniels appointment That may have wholly
changed It, The freght-rate decision will show Mr..
Daniels Is to the commission. He has not sat, az
the other commissioners have, for months, patiently
listening to arguments and sitting the testimony. He
has nothing but his theories, and II has been made
evident by his record New Jersey public utilities
commissioner his theories incline to the railroad
interests.
Commission shall decide for the $50 900 900
crease the nation may attribute this increase and bur-
den upon the people to the least instructed member
of the commission. Al the verdict will be totally
variance with the evidence before the commission,
which has shown that 1913 the most prosperous
year the railroads have known, excepting only the
year 1910 that in both years they making
much money that they spent all they could for new
equipment and maintenance to conceal their big
profits
Is the great weapon forged for the people, the
Interstate Commerce Commission, to be turned
against the people?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
DETECTING COUNTERFEITS

ton placed upon 1t. Here Is a genu
inc bank bill. 1t has the feel" The
silk threads are present. If the en-
craving IS fairly well done and the
color approximates correctness, 1t be-
comes a dangerous counterfeit. and
bankers are at once warned to be on
the watch for it. In this connect on
the CHECK letter" often comes into
play.
All government notes are printed of
one denomination. four on a sheet,
and are lettered respectively, A, B. c
and D. Each note bears a treasury
number. If. when that number IS di-
vided by four there remains one, the
check letter should be A; if two re-
mains, the letter should be B; if
three, then c, and if there is no re-
mainder d. If the result shows
otherwise, then the numbering IS
wrong and the note is a counterfeit.
All denominations from 81 to $1,C00
have been counterfeited, as well as all
our coins. The most usual method CT
defrauding when gold coins are han
died Is to saw the cons in half, ex-
tract the interior and fill with base
metal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14

chap who signed himself Castro
Estrada asked would the "beneficent
assistant to the treasurer in chief
kindly send to him by return parcel
post one of the old-type battleships
which had just been ordered out of
commission. Castro Estrada thought,
he said in his note, that it would
serve very well for an excurs' on
party that he was getting up. H. o.
30 sent in a postal card request for
$40 gold piece as a souvenir, and re-
quested that 1t be forwarded to him
poste restante in Chicago. to which
place he was about to go forth in one
of the 30 family's numerous boxcars
Still another writer asked the assist
ance of the assistant treasurer in an
enterprise in which he would receive
a one-fourth interest 'out of hand"
IL he would Immediately forward one
:ce-making machine with all appur-
tonances" to John Doe, Hades,
L. r."
"Fsnally. to cap the climax" said
Mr.. Hamlin, IAN old gent eman called
che day while | was out to luncheon
and left word for me that his bull pup
had just torn to pieces and swallowed
his automobile, and would [ please to
give him another. He left his adj
Dress too. so | was able to write and
inform him that it all deuended on
whether he wanted a new automobile
or new bull pup. 1 haven't heard
from him since"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
A MASONIC TEMPLE.

The erection of a temple by the Masonic lodges of
Newark bruited more than two decades ago. The
attempt made to raise the capital and site was
favored in Washington street fronting the north end
of the park. But the lodges did not take kindly to
the proposition, and 1t abandoned. 1t has lately
been revived
The Masonic lodges of Newark prosperous,
and their members could readily furnish the stock
capital for the erection of imposing structure for
the establishment of the city The interest and prn
cipal of the cost would be paid by rentals If the
building contained large hall 1t would become
popular for frst-class entertainments.
All large cities and some smaller ones have their
Masonic temples Newark Masons have had the sub
ject for consideration for many years. and meanwhile
the city has grown apace. The time has to
carry out the idea.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
A Motorcycle MiIkman

As is we'll known. thousands of
students in colleges and universities
earn enough money by working at
different tasks to defray part or all
of their expenses. There is a wide
variety in the work done by the stu
dents, and sometimes a good deal of
originality is displayed in discover
ing a well-paying job A student at
the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege who owns a motorcycle has
found that he can make use of the
machine in cooperation with the
college dairy, doing a milk and
creamery business. Besides deliver
ing milk and cream to customers in
town, he makes runs into the coun-
try on his motorcycle, going out as
far as twenty miles to purchase
cream from the farmers and bring
it back to the college. The milk and
cream are carried in cans hung over
the rear wheel of the motorcycle
Scientific American.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14

How many people go through life
deluded with the conviction that II
they could only get a little more
money, get into a little more comfort
able position, own little better home,
or IL they could only get over the par
ticular trouble that is annoying them
at the moment. they would be happy!
| know a man who had very hard
boyhood, suffered great poverty, VINO
is now fifty years old, and he has al
ways honestly believed that il he
could only get the particular thing ne
was after, or get over the particular
difficulty that was annoying him at
the moment, he would be perfectly
happy; but he is the same anxious,
restless, expectant spirit today as
when a youth. He has been quite sue
Cessful, and has done some very re-
markable things, but he IS invariably
in hot water. There is always some
thing that nettles him, or destroys his
peace of mind, and, although he is
well-meaning man and provides conf
forts and Injuries for his wife and
children, he has made his family, his
employees, and everybody about him
very unhappy, because he is always
fretting and worrying-never salts
fed
Such a man purchases the means
of enjoyment at the cost or the power
to enjoy. He murders the capacity
for happiness while purchasing the
means for happiness itself. Even the
criminal thinks that his crime will i'm.
prove his condition, that the theft
will enrich him, or that he will get
rid of an enemy that stands In the
way of his happiness when he COM
mits manslaughter.
The entire human race. has been
hunting for happiness from the dawn
of history, but how few have ever
found it or have much of an idea
what it is.
People who are always thinking of
themselves. who are always trying TO
find something which will make them
happy, some indulgence which will
crafty their selfish cravings, are al
ways disappointed seekers. Happi-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
THE BASEBALL SEASON OPENS.

The opening of the national baseball season today
is truly national event, for it appeals TO millions of
the American people, men, women and children, and
transcends In interest all other events topics of
the day.
the new Federal League having made its debut
Monday at Baltimore in to show that it has
to stay and 1t will to heighten the general in
terest in the game.
But the games of the National, American and
Federal leagues represent only fraction of the base
ball interest the country and the attendance at
their games will be small this season compared with
the aggregate attendance at of interstate, State
and local leagues and clubs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
England and Her Roast Beet

Now In England, Scotland and
Wales the cost of living may have
climbed just as 1t has In other parts
of the world. but there never will be a
time when beef prices will reach the
high figure at which they are sold in
this country" remarked F. d. Clay
ton, of Milwaukee, an old pork
packer of that city, at the Willard.
Last year was in Wales, and
walked into butcher shop in one of
the principal cities. / saw fine cut
of beef that would have been priced
in this country at thirty-five to forty
cents a pound. l asked the butcher
what it was selling at, and he re-
Piled
"'Thats the best cut of beef In
Wales, and it is worth twenty cents
a pound. That particular cut is going
TO Lord Roberts
Conditions are not such that high
prices as we have IN America ever
ran prevail. There Is no disposition
among the dealers to boost the prices
whens occasion gives tlidfn afchance to
take advantage of conditions that
would seem to presage a shortage and
resultant higher prices. washing
ton Post.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14

The hand is quicker than the eye in
detecting fraudulent bank notes. The
feel of the distinctive paper used by
the government is the first warning
signal that the money rendered Is bad.
This paper is distinctive not alone be-
cause of the Introduction of silk fibre
in the bill itself, but because of the
treatment the stock receives In print
ing. says Popular Mechanics.
The silk threads are sometimes imi-
tated by pen and ink lines, but these
do not bear close examination. The
engraving has been the greatest pro-
lection, for even photo engraving fails
to bring out the proper color values,
and .retouching by craving tool makes
the lines heavy and irregular. Pho
Biography also fails in reproducing the
color of the SEAL which must be
washed in with water colors, the
black lines of the engraving shown
through in counterfeits.
The most dangerous counterfeit IS
that in which a genuine bill of lower
denomination is bleached out and a
false plate showing high denomina-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
MEDALS FOR SERVANTS

pensioners National BanlO or any
other insurance organization governed
by the law of April 8, 1910, or that
they have reared four children to the
age of at least sixteen years.
The medal is to be granted without
condition Of length of service to any
one who performs in connection with
his occupation a particularly meritori-
Gus act of devotion to the family by
whom he is employed. The Journal
Official of February 8, 1914, contains a
list of more than 1900 domestic SER
wants to whom the medal of honor has
been awarded by the Minister of
Labor
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
WRITER WANTED BATTLESHIPI


When he came over to New York
the other day from Washington
Charles s. Hamlin, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, told some facts
about the treasury department that
are not generally known, and, in ad-
dition, something about the troubles
that fell upon him as result of his,
kindness to a little girl up in the
Northwest part of the country, says
the New York Times.
That little girl wrote to the treas
ury department for Panama hat for
her father. She had used his hat, she
wrote, as a nest for six baby rabbits
that he had given to her, and they
had destroyed it. So she had taken
the 60 cents, which she inclosed, from
her bank to buy him another.
THAT letter was transferred from
the customs department to my desk
to answer" said Mr.. Hamlin, land it
amused and appealed to me. I went
out and got a Panama hat and sent
ii to her"
Then his new troubles began.
'The incident got into print, was
very widely advert sed in the news
paper press, and pretty soon requests
for this, that and the other thing be-
gan to pour in upon me from all parts
of the country. l was almost over
whelmed with Them
The writer's of these letters pleaded
fer varied assortment of articles. A
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Feat Capt. Manyatt Pronounced Impossible

The late Serene II. Scranton, who
built, In the early fifties, the Shore
Line railroad In Connecticut, which
afterward became q vital link In the
through route between New York and
Boston, was of family of railroad
builders. His brother was for some
years president of the New York and
New Haven railroad, and those who
were near of kin established the city
of Scranton, Pa, their achievement
having been memoralized by the
name of the city.
| was riding from Boston to New
Haven in 1871, and had the good for
tune to share my seat with Mr.
Scranton for an hour or two. He
told me many strange and exciting
romances of railroad building. He
was especially fond of relating stories
of the ihcredulityi of men of large af-
fairs and experience, especially about
the engineering features of railway
construction in the early days.
zone of the most interesting of the
stories of that kind which 1 ever
heard" said Mr.. Scranton, was told
me some years ago by a man who had
been with the Boston and Albany
railroad for many years, ] think from
the first day of its operation. He said
that the railroad was completed from
Boston to Springfield or it may have
been Worcester. And it was then
called the Western railroad. The
promoters wanted to extend it to the
H,'dson river, but there were the
difficult Berkshire mountains to be
conquered by the surveyors and rail-
road builders. In order to secure the
best engineering ability the pro-
moters of this line employed Captain
Whistler as the engineer In chief. He
was the engineer who afterward stir
veyed the railroad line from st.
Petersburg to Moscow in Russia. He
has son. who, | believe, Is quite a
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14

Mrs. d. Harry Hammer, the society
and club woman who created SEN
sation two years ago by burning hum
dreds of dollars worth of aigrettes,
again startled her friends at North
side luncheon several days ago by
declaring she nightly provides a free
lunch" for stray mice which may
wander into her pantry, says the
Chicago Record Herald.
Destruction of life in any form is
opposed by Mrs. Hammer. Though
she loathes snakes she does not be-
lieve that even they should be killed
Her Interpretation of the Biblical
commandment, Thou shalt not kill, !"
is "Thou shalt not kill any living
thing"
eyes 1t is true. 1 feed the rats
and mice about my house and I am
not ashamed of It," Mrs. Hammer
said. Haven't these creatures the
same right to live as a human being?
"Some people think l am a crank
but / have observed that any one
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
UPLIFT TALKS
BY ORISON SWEET MARDE,N.
Author OF ''Pushing to the Front, ETC
Copyright 1914.
CHASING RAlNPoWs

ness was born q twin, and only ne
who seeks another's good, anotherS
welfare. another's happiness, can lind
his own.
No man can be happy when he de-
spises his own acts, when he has any
CONSCIOUSNESS SIS of wrong, whether III
motive or act No man can be happy
when he harbors thoughts of re.
yenge. jealousy, envy or hatred. He
must have q clean heart and clean
conscience. or no amount of money
or excitement can make him truly
happy. With the sense of having
done right men have been known to
be happy amid the most adverse cir
cumstances. without that sense men
have been known to be most miser-
able with every worldly want sup
piled.
Remember, Mr.. Happiness-Chaser,
that wherever you go for happiness,
YOU will only find what you take with
Won Yourself. You happiness can
never be outside of yourself, and 1t
must be bounded by your own limita-
tons. Your ability to appreciate
and enjoy ssill mark the bounds or
your happiness.
1--WE shall find nothing in the world
which we do not find in ourselves"
Happiness comes from vigorous
self-expresSlon OF the hlgheSt lhlng Oh
which we are capable. 1t is the child
of honest effort.
The trouble with us Is that we try
to find happiness where 1t does not
exist, in transient, impermanent
things; we try TO find it in the graft
fcation of desire; we seek it in ami
NAL pleasure. Happiness lives in CIV
ing, in doing, not in getting, in grasp
ing.
Piling things around you, no mat
ter how high, can never make you
happy. What a man is, not what he
has, makes him happy or miserable.
The human heart is always hungry.
But unhappiness is the hunger to get;
happiness is the hunger to give.
DIR. Marden's uplift talks will APP
pear in the magazine pages of this
paper every Tuesday, Thursday and
Sa turday.
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prominent painter now" When Mr..
Scranton thus spoke, Whistler, the
painter, had not gained the great rep
utation which he afterward acquired.
After the survey was made over
the Berkshire mountains and the con-
struction of the railroad began, the
owners of the line occasionally in
vited prominent men to make an ex-
cursion to Boston for the purpose OF
witnessing what was then regarded
as a wonderful piece of engineering.
You, of course, have read the
stories written by Captain Frederick
M. Marryatt. ] suppose every boy
has read them. Well Captain Marry
att made a visit to the United States
just about the time the engineering
work was finished and the railroad
construction over the Berkshire was
under way People at. that time paid
almost as much attention to Captain
Marryatt as they gave to Dickens
when he visited the United States a
few years earlier He was invited to
be one of party to visit the work on
the Berkshire hills. He was so aston
ished when he saw that a railroad
was to be built over those mountains
that for a time he could hardly speak.
"At last he said: You people are
simply crazy. You are wasting your
money. No locomotive engine could
be built with power enough to pull
coaches over these mountains. When
1 go back to England l shall tell my
friends that you are trying to do an
impossible thing
Captain Marryatt did not live long
enough to know that the thing that
he called impossible had been accom-
plished by American engineers and
that American locomotives had been
constructed which were powerful
enough to haul trains of cars over
these mountains"
Copyright, 1914, by e. j. Edwards
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
QUICK LUNCH UNDER COVER.

In most of Newarxs qujck-lunch places the cakes,
nes and other articles of food ready for GUS
ess either by service the help-yourself plan, are
dther under glass wrapped in paper. This is
ne of the wise requirements of modern sanitation.
yands exposed to dust, and flies are not fit for
human use. New York is just congratuating itself
because it's Board of Health is going to follow the
ample of more progressive communities and enforce
his regulation, But there ought to be exceptions
Allowed to the rule. in Newark, New York or any
where eise and the need measure of public
afety applies the freeunch counters of saloons.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
Where Peaks Are Plentiful

Things are wonderful principally
by comparison. There are sixty or
more lofty mountains in California
rising more than 10000 feet above sea
level which are not considered suf-
ficiently noteworthy among all the
surrounding wealth of mountain
scenery TO have even received names.
ANY one of these. mountain peaks,
# situated in the Eastern part of the
United States, would. of course, be
visited by millions of people; but
California has seventy additional
mountain peaks more than 1900 feet
high which have been named. or 100
In all, as well as a dozen rising above
$4,000 archaeological Survey Bulle-
tin.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
Every Mouse "A Personality"

with the courage of his convictions is
always so character zed.
Recently l bought glass mouse
trap and ordered my maid never
again to use the ordinary kind which
slowly chokes the little creatures to
death. Now l catch them alive and
am studying 'mouseology.' 1t is an
engrossing pursuit.
every mouse has distinct per-
sonality. After l have observed them
for a day or two / give them a good
meal and let them go free. No
doubt some one will kill them, but
l will not"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
APRIL IA
Princess Beatrice
Copyrighted 1914.

BY MAR
April IA is remembered as the birth
day of Frances Barnes, the temper
ance advocate; of Princess Beatrice.
the mother of the Queen of Spain, and
of Rose Coghlan, the actress.
The mother of the Queen of Spain
was born fifty-four years ago today,
and married the Prince of Battenberg
when she was twenty eight Her
name in full is Beatrice Mary Vic
toria Fedore. She is a daughter of
Queen Victoria and an aunt of the
present King.
Frances Julia Barnes was born in
1916, and some time after her mar
rage she became associated with
Frances Willard in the temperance
movement in this country. She was
elected superintendent of the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union In
1891.
Rose Coghlan, the actress, was born
in Peterborough, England, in 1850
Her father was a publisher and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
OCEAN CITY ON THE MOTORING MAP.

Much of the prosperity of Atlantic City is due to
he thousands of automobiles which find access over
The meadows by a boulevard Ocean City, isolated on
In island the need of bridge for motorists and
ried to get State aid. Governor Wilson vetoed
,il for this purpose. Now Ocean City has gone ahead
md done the proper and pucky thing by building
he bridge it's expense, and the opening of the
Structure was great Eastertide event. Ocean City
will find that it's enterprise pays. 1t IS now on the
motoring map and may hope to become rival to
Atlantic City.