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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
OCTOBER 9
Harriet Iiosmer
Copyright. 1915.
BY MARY MARSHALL.

One of the most successful OF all
American sculptors was a woman,
Harriet Hosmer, who was born Octo-
Der 8, 1881, in Watertown, Mass. She
was the daughter of a physician, and
as child she was extremely delicate,
having inherited something of the
frailty of her mother, who died Of
consumption when Harriet was a
small child. But Harriet's father
knew that this constitutional delicacy
could be overcome, and from her
babyhood he accustomed her to out
door life and the sports of boys. She
spent her time rowing, riding, driving,
skating, shooting and climbing trees,
much to the scandalizing of the neigh
bors, and little time did she have to
spend on the usual indoor occupations
of girls. The result of this life was
that by the time she had reached
womanhood she was without her peer
in the neighborhood for general health
and ruggedness.
Her work as a sculptor began when
she was a little girl. In her outdoor
life she would gather all sorts of
snakes, insects and small animals
from the woods and fields and take
them to a clay pit in her fathers
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09

precursor of longer blockades in the future U1ti-
mately the slides will be conquered but it will be
necessary to keep digging away until the supply of
sliding material is exhausted If the canal to
be built ALL chances of occasional interruptions Of
traffic had to be taken 1t must be remembered that
the canal has been open to navigation nine days out
of ten since its formal completion and conditions
likely to improve time goes General Goethals
whose resignation as governor of the canal was
take effect November l. has patriotieally decided to
stay the Job until the long battle with the forces
of nature seems to be finally won He has acted the
part the good soldier who will not desert his post
under fire of the enemy, and the whole nation will
applaud his public spirit and pluck
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Both Ends and the Middle

Two lawyers, members of opposing
factions in the Republican party, met
at an oasis near the corner of Broad
and Market streets on primary day
and began a dispute.
IN bet that We beat your candi-
date for committeeman by a vote of
two to one" said the "Anti-Dal" man.
I'll bet a drink on 1t for the bunch. y
The bunch" meant the lawyer boost
ing the regular Republican end and a
friend who accompanied him.
That's soft" responded the reg1-
lar. You're on"
And now" said the "Anti-Dal. -
I'll bet you another drink that we
beat your man."
"Of course I'll take that If Won in
clude my FRIEND" responded the regu-
lar.
The returns showed that the regular
candidate was defeated in the dis
trict, but not by vote Of two to one,
The adyersaries met and were about
to write their bets off by BALANCING
one against the other, when their
friend appeared.
Here, I'm a party to that bet" he
objected. Both of you fellows have
got to pay, because I've got to have
mine"
There was a little discussion. I'M,
the insistent one finally prevailed.
"You got the best of that" said on.
of the bettors, but IL you hadn't beer
here we'd have missed drink"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Banks which Extort Usury.

-
Comptroller williams declared that
he has found more than thousand
banks which are extorting usurious
interest for money, ranging from ten
up to one thousand per cent. All OF
these are In the South or West, with
few exceptions, and almost all of them
south of the Kansas lne-in the cot
ton belt, in fact.
Now. the interesting fact Is that
the Central Reserve Board, OF which
Mr.. williams and Secretary McAdoo
are members, recently deposited
$40. 900, 900 in cash in the banks OF the
south for loans on cotton and recon-
mended a low rate of interest 10
planters to carry the cotton crop. The
secretary and the board had no power
TO compel any rate of interest, and
many of the bankers of the South
announced that the funds would be
loaned as usual, meaning, we pre-
sume. for as high an interest as could
be secured.
If there is no federal law to prevent
this sort of robbery there ought to be
one very speedily. We believe that
in all but seven States there are laws
against usury, and the legal rate OF
interest, aside from special contracts,
ranges from six to- eight per cent
Outside of the seven States the hlgn-
est allowed by special CONTRACT is
twelve per cent. OF course it is pos
sible to prosecute for usury in most
Of the States mentioned by Mr.. Will
Jams. but few borrowers are III
position to do so. A borrower com
pelled to pay usury is seldom able TO
contest in the courts
But If the deposit of thirty millions
OF national money in the Southern
banks has not changed the system,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Some Color to This

The petit jurors were resting in a
room at the Court House one day last
week, when some one started talking
about dares.
mo one can dare me to do anything
and get away with it," boasted one
Juror whose mental state had been
considerably unbalanced by copious
libations. Go ahead; dare me to do
something" he said, looking around
defiantly.
az dare you to drink all the ink in
that inkwell." said another juror,
thinking he had the boaster stumped.
No sooner said than done The
Juror who couldn't be dared picked up
the inkwell and drained it to the last
drop. Just at that minute came the
call "All jurors wanted in Judge Os-
borne's court
The Ink drinker wobbled along with
the rest, but at the courtroom door an
attendant stopped him. whats the
matter with your face, it's all bluef"
asked the attendant.
"Oh, I just drank some ink" replied
the juror.
YOU'D better not go In" said the
attendant. There's ink all over youl
face and the judge might say some
| thing"
The daring man did not go in, and
furthermore, he went home for the
rest of the day. He was back the next
day ready for duty, and with very
hazy idea of his antics of the day be-
| FORE
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
CHIT CHAT

coaches surrounded by several of his
followers when Egan passed through
the car.
Hello. Tom" said Senator Egan
and this greeting was followed by
'hellos' to the remainder of the
party.
"Hello, Senator" replied the secre-
tary of state, and then he added
quickly, Don't you think it is about
time that you learned new political
Speech" evidently referring to one
that was used by Senator Egan in the
recent primary battle, when the lat
ten was lined up with the Wittpenn
faction.
"Oh, / guess not" quickly replied
Senator Egan. II guess the people of
Hudson county thought pretty we'll of
that speech, juding from the way in
which 1t was received in several
places, and also judging from the out
como of the election" and he passed
on through the car with a smile.
Even Secretary Martin smiled at the
senators ready answer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
A BRITISH TURNOVER OF WEALTH.

As OF the remarkable results of the war, so
many people in Great Britain being made spend
thrifts by the sudden access Of unwonted fortune
that the government has established savings
committee to thrift, and several unofficial
organizations have been founded with like purpose
While large classes, notably tradesmen and profes
sional men, have seen their incomes shrink disap
pear, many sections of the population enjoying
pay of which In times of peace they had never dared
to dream Thousands OF skilled workmen are earn
ing their six, eight and ten pounds week One OF
the big armament firms employs 10000 and
women at average weekly wage of four pounds.
This is why many British workmen buying seal
skin coats for their wives and motorcycles for them
selves To favorite complaint of the Social
lists, the rich in England is getting poorer and
the poor richer 1t is yeritable shift of wealth
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
KEEPS GoErHAns ON THE JOB.

Some people seem to think that the earth slides
which have again closed the Panama canal give the
engineers who advocated sea level ditch the right
TO cry 'T told you So" But 1t is pointed out the
other hand that this very mishap is vndication of
the lock plan adopted, the excavation of prism
eighty feet deeper than the present cut and corre
spondngly wider would have exposed volume of
sliding earth compared with which the existing men
ace is almost negligible. Furthermore, a sea level
canal would not have afforded the great central lake
TO receive the food water of the Chagres and dis
tribute it over so big that rise OF twenty
feet in the river means only few inches the canal
level.
The present closing of the canal, which must be
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Sparta and the Suffragists


hand, and splitting tobacco juice all
over the sidewalk the last time l was
here a few years ago.
Ny, oh, my, but everything in New
ark has changed. Even the Daily Ad-
vertiser Office where l used to take
lmy poems and place them right into
the hands of the waiting expectant
editor (for I'd never trust poems
or love letters to a carrier), has
been displaced by towering
skyscraper, with ssuffragette quar-
ters upon the first floor, while the
old stairway of smiles and tears to a
happy beat" is now, alas-but a
memory.
Well, let bygones be forgotten, One
cannot eat cake and have it, too, you
know. But one can pick up delectable
crumbs now and then from new
baking especially of the YUM Yum,
picked currants. stoned-raisin. FROST
ed icing. chubby Cupid variety
With best wishes, and trusting that
YOU may also get an invitation, and
the further hope (after hasty shop
ping) to meet you at the church, l am
trustingly. SARAH G.,
A Visitor from Sparta.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Who Owns GrinnaIkin?

Somewhere in the block of houses in
Washington street between Warren
street and tho canal bridge lives a
tortoise-shell cat that seems to
possess the vitality of dozen. 1t has
aroused the ire of a score of dwellers
there, and seems to bear a lease on
life considerably exceeding the nine
allotted to ordinary felines, if the
writer of the following missive sent
to The Star office is to be believed the
spelling and wording being a repro
duction of the original:
ITO Editur of Star office:
II want to know if man has not
as much rights as a cat? There is
a yellow cat lives somewhere around
here that is a darned newsence and [
know q boarder two doors down the
street that has shot twice at the cat
and acrost the street there is young
man who has done the same likewise.
1t is a yellow cat turtle shell colored
with stripes and its yell is something
awful to hear l don't particular mind
cats when they act civilized but this
creetur does not seem human.
"It yells the same on cold nights as
hot nights and it scraps with every
cat along Washington street and L
aint the only one kicking, I know
friends of mine above Warren street
who have thrown shoes and things at
the cat, SO Tuesday / went to the
woman who owns the cat and she
said she didn't own 1t, but 1 know
better for I have seen her feed it.
Well, I say whoever does own 1t they
had better shut its mouth or I'll have
a policeman attend to the cat. The
other night 1t killed the young maltees
kitten belonging to my landlady, and
no one seems abel to catch the cat.
81 want to know If there is not some
way by law for settling the cat. If 1t
must live cant the woman who owns
1t be made to put muzzle on 1t p?
This sounds funny in writing but I
want to tell you 1t aint no Joke to be
woke up mornings about two or three
with cat yells, for l have to work
hard. wish you would print this
so could have the owner see It.
Yours truly, -."
Apparently this is some cat
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Well, the most recent Washington
event has proven that one can never
tell just what's going to happen, but
that Washington, ID. C., affords
greater chances for sharper marriages
than Sparta or any place that | have
as yet tried, is beyond question.
If Suffragettes win the day there'n
be more women hiking to Washing
ton, both marriageble and mothers
with daughters to spare, than ever be-
fore-to my way of thinking.
There were no phones in Sparta
when Doll got engaged, no wires to
glow with happy announcements, but
she did the next best thing by rush
ing out letters telling everybody what
to wear and bring when invited.
Yes, and from what | have heard
and seen of the suffragettes, 1 believe
that all their talking around the bush
has been nothing more or less than a
last desperate chance.
Should / stay in Newark over Hal
loween | hope to see something of a
real bride. and not such a creature as
saw parading in a wedding gown,
long white veil, orange blossoms in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Two Perplexing Cablegrams

another cable from the United States
containing these words, You have
been nominated minister from the
United States to Austria"
This latter dispatch added confusion
to the situation. Mr. Phelps could no.
understand why friends in the United
States were cabling to him - the
message having been forwarded to him
from Nice--dispatches which showed
their anxiety lest he had met with
some misfortune, and other friends
at almost the same moment cabled to
him by way Of Nice that he had been
nominated by President Garfield as
minister to Austria.
In his perplexity, Mr.. Phelps COM
municated by wire with Mr.. Bigelow,
asking If he could give any explana-
tion of the mysterious conjunction Of
cable dispatches. To this communica-
ton Mr.. Bigelow replied: "There was
great fire night before last in the
theater at Nice, and many were killed,
and the report spread abroad that you
were one of the audience. That re-
port probably reached the United
States. 1t is a fact that yesterday
President Garfield sent your name to
the United States Senate for confir-
nation as minister to Austria. Does
this information clear up the mys-
teryT'
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate).
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
BROAD ST. BRIEFS

JULIE EISELE. who is now touring
the wilds west of Pittsburgh. writes
that at Bedford. Pa, they put up
mirrors at bad turns, which to date
have prevented 101 auto smashes and
caused 323 from women looking in
them and then using both hands to
straighten their hats.
ST
ALF HOLIDAY, secretary of the
.itney Association, says he thinks the
itney men ought to be permitted ito
choose their own routes around the
Four Corners, provided they don't lie
through Traffic Car Dave Banta.
Il
JOHN BERRY, who tenement
house inspects, and his brother, the
well-known assemblyman, Will, are a
frequent group talking politics on one
of the Four Corners. When some
stranger breaks in and they have to
change the subject VIII says he's
waiting for a friend to buy him a soda
and John says he just stopped to talk
a minute on his way to inspect the
Firemen's building.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09

The late John Bigelow, who died
last year at ninety-four years of age,
was, until mortal illness seized him,
q delightful narrator of anecdotes,
many of which were associated with
men and events of the days of the
Civil War and few years later.
One of the anecdotes Mr.. BiBelow
was fond of telling to his friends de-
scribed an embarrassing, but what
proved to be q most amusing, expert
ence of William Walter Phelps. With
Mr.. Phelps. Mr.. Bigelow had main
tained intimate personal relations for
many years. He had entertained Mr..
Phelps as a guest at his house in
Paris when he (Bigelow) was serving
as American minister to France.
Shortly after the election of Cen
eral Garfield to the Presidency of the
United States Mr.. Phelps went to
Europe, having in mind consider
able sojourn at Nice. He spent sew
eral weeks at Nice and in that time
entertained many Americans and
some European friends. Among those
who were guests was Mr.. Bigelow.
In the week of the inauguration of
General Garfield as President, March
4, 1881, Mr.. Phelps, with his wife, de-
parted from Nice. They went directly
to Florence, planning leisurely jour
ney through the lake district and
Venice, and then northerly.
A day or two after Mr.. Phelps ar
rived at Florence he was startled by
receiving a cable message from a
friend in the United States substan-
TALLY In these words: Are you safe I
Were you hurt7 Do you need any
help7"
The meaning behind these questions
Mr.. Phelps could not fathom. He sur
missed that some erroneous report had
| reached the United States that stated
some accident that had befallen him.
| While he was still puzzling over this
mysterious cable dispatch, he received
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
100000, 900 For tho Now Navy

$500 900 900 For tho New Navy.
From the Brooklyn Times.
The United states government plans
to spend $1S5, 100000 a year for three
years on a new fleet which, when
completed, will give this country the
second largest navy In the world.
England will remain the first sea
power, but even If the German fleet
be intact after the war, ours will be
superior, both in armament and ton
mage. In the new fleet that Is to be
built there will be forty-tlve fast
battleshlps and at least one hundred
submarines.
The navy is our first line Of defense.
There is no possibility of attack north
or south by land Canada has no
cause OF quarrel with us, and the
European war will exhaust England S
naval strength for generation to
come. OF course, Mexico is an irri-
tant, but If she provokes war, ours
will be only one of paciiicatlon there,
to the end that the country be re-
stored to civilized conditions.
But we face two dangers at sea.
Japan, on the Pacific, is intolerably
and aggressively ambitious, while on
the Atlantic one Of the victors In the
European war may, in years to come,
prove a grave peril to America
Therefore, all patriots should ap-
plaud and support the plan calling for
an expenditure of $400.O00,0 600 in
three years on the United states navy.
IT is little more than the ransom that
would be exacted from a couple of
coast cities IL foreign foe effected a
lodgment on opr shores.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
UPLIFT TALKS
A REAL FRIEND
BY ORIsoN SWEET MARDEN,
Author of Pushing to the Front" Etc.
Copyright, 1915.

I nature, and show their faults and
where they are making mistakes As
| it is. we go through life, blundering
along, blindly feeling our way, con-
stantly doing things that make US
the target of ridicule, because no one
has ever been frank and friendly
enough to tell us of our faults, and
most of us achieving a very poor
grade of success when we could be
making a splendid showing, If we
could only throw off our handicaps.
For instance, l know a prominent
man who makes such a noise eating
soup that he can be heard clear across
the restaurant or even in the next
room. He probably is entirely un-
conscious of the fact that he sets the
teeth of many people on edge, destroys
their comfort at meals, and that this
bad habit has even lost him business.
A splendid young man who has
great ability has never progressed
very far because of his silly habits of
twirling his mustache, running his
hands through his hair, twiddling his
thumbs, playing with his watch chain,
or doing some other aimless thing
which creates a prejudice against him
altogether out of proportion to the
habit.
Another victim of a trifling handi-
cap is a capable stenographer, who
has never understood why she did not
get on faster 1t is because she has
a habit of clearing her throat con-
tinually. Employers do not like to
tell her of this, and 1t has lost her
many a position.
Instances might be multiplied to
show what trifles often hold people
back, and what an injury our friends
do us by letting us be kept back
through ignorance of things which
we could correct if we only knew
about them.
A friend who would tell us, in all
kindness, what our weak points are
how they are keeping us back, how
they are standing in the way of our
popularity and advancement, and how
we could correct them-would be in
I,,o
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Labor News

The Chicago Telephone Companv ia
given credit for maintaining the
highest graded wage scale after
seven years of service. A girl having
worked seven years gets 20 cents an
hour, or $48 month. The maximum
is reached after ten years of service.
This is 20 cents an hour, or $50 a
month.
The Machinists' Union of San Fran
cisco has recommended to members
of the apprentice auxiliary that they
avail themselves of the opportunity
offered by the University of Cali
fornia to take a university extension
course of fifteen lectures in practical
mechanics.
The quarterly report issued by Off
GERS of the International Molders'
Union states that there has been a
decided improvement In business
throughout the country during the
last three months. For the last quar-
ter the International union issued
1S 900 out-of-worls stamps, which is
23,975 less than were issued for the
first three months of the present year.
Yorkshire (England) Miners Asso-
citation disapprove of any further ex-
tension of female labor in mines in
accordance with the report of the coal
organization committee, -.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09

garden, where she would study their
habits and model them in clay. Her
first school instructor was Mr.. Pea
body, brother of the wife Of Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and in spite of this good
mans powers as an educator he gave
the tomboy up in despair, being, un-
able to tame her wild spirits. She
was sent to boarding school, how
ever, where she received the best pos
sible education.
Harriet Hosmer was early convinced
that she wanted to become a sculptor
and her first problem was to secure
the proper preparation in anatomy.
Refused by many medical schools in
the East, she was finally accepted by
the medical school of st. Louis.
In 1852, when she was twenty-one
she went to Rome, accompanied by
her father, to begin In earnest her
study of sculpture. Here she imme
diately attracted attention by her
Daphne" and "Medusa-" "Puck on
a ToadstooP was one Of her most sue
cessful works. She made fifty replicas
of this, one for the Prince OF Wales
and cleared $4,000 profit from the
work. She discovered method of
giving Italian limestone the hardness
of marble.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Ballot Uplift and Suffrage
Up
Election

expressed. views of a president or a
cabinet member. The former are un-
influenced by political considerations
and besides are able and willing to
advance sound reasons for their
views
Or if the Judgment of mere man
is not sufficient, Mr.. Voter, put the
question to your wife or your
mother. She probably knows her sex
fully as well as it's self-appointed
leaders. f. B. w.
New York, October 8. 1915