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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

A murderer had his head taken off
in Lucerne last week, but so many
brave men were butchering each other
in France and Galicia at the time that
the event caused hardly ripple. 1t
served, however, to turn the Conversa-
ton to the survival of this form of
capital punishment In Switzerland,
and gave grandpa an opportunity of
telling over again the story of the
last man beheaded in Berne.
THE headsman was dressed in that
black and red cloak that is now In
the museum" he said; "a long cloak.
the right half red and the left half
black. The sword he used hangs now
above the cloak. 1t is sharp, but hol-
low. and half filled With quicksilver.
which ran to the point as he swung
il and caused it to cut clear through
the neck at one blow. There was a
great crowd assembled to see the
execution, and they shouted horrible
insults to the criminal as he was
brought out.
THAT was In 1854, and after that
capital punishment was abolished in
the Canton of Berne. Lucerne is the
only canton that still has it, and
makes very little use of the privilege"
A few days after grandpa's reminis-
cences a document came under my
notice, dated 1929, entitled THE
"Headsman's Salary 1t contained
the market prices for all sorts of odd
Jobs in the torturing and beheading
line, and came from the Italian Can
ton of Tessin, a canton then governed
like a province of Switzerland.
A list of his duties, with the pay
ments. reads somewhat as follows:
For tearing with red-hot tongs. 20
lire go: hanging. decapitating, tying
to pillar and strangling, burning and
quartering, II lire 10 soldi apiece
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
THE JAPANESE ULTIMATUM.

The ultimatum sent by Japan to China is fraught
with the deepest interest to the United States 1t is
generally accepted to that the Toxic
is preparing to strike blow that will be momentous
in the worlds history.
The commercial domination of the Chinese nation
is the mighty prize which Japan is aiming to obtain
At other period in history has such great oppor-
tunity been presented With the nations of Europe
the only other country directly interested is the
United States.
Toxic evidently is prepared to act without bother
ing with governments attitude. She has every
thing to gain in commercial and apparently
figures that the American will not attempt
to force the issue of privilege in Asia.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

a young man of position and cul-
ture. whose naturally buoyant and
cheerful disposition had won for him
many business and social friends, be-
came obsessed with the fear that he
was a victim of cancer. Although his
physicians and friends had tried to
assure him that his fears were
groundless, the unhappy young man
persisted in diagnosing his own case.
For months he held to his morbid
delusion and then in a moment OF
despair took his own life and that of
his devoted young wife. Thus was the
power of the human spirit over the
body tragically demonstrated.
The very first condition necessary to
make life yield ell its possibilities is
health-that abounding vitality and
vigor of mind and body which make
living joyous-and health is depend
ent upon correct thought. Every
function, every nerve cell. every organ
in the body is powerfully Influenced
by the nature of our thoughts.
If we could keep out the fear thought
and hold the mental attitude open to
the harmony thought, the creative,
producing thought, we could very
quickly revolutionize our lives and
those about us. Fear opens the door
very things which we would keep out.
Confidence. hope, assurance, keep the
door closed, while every discouraged,
anxious thought tends to admit all
sorts of things which we would gladly
shut out.
The trouble with many of us is that
we over-emphasize and vividly viz
ualize the very conditions which we
should shun. We hold such fear pic
lures, terror pictures, of i'll health,
poverty and failure and their conse
quences, that we make these things
all the more real and more difficult to
remove. Instead of antidoting them
with their opposites we etch them
deeper and deeper into our conscious
ness.
believe that the majority of peo-
pie have some pet fear which often
amounts to an obsession, something
of which they stand in dread.
| know a man who has such a fear
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Rights of Serenading Cats

There is a widespread impression
that squalling cat which keeps a
law abiding citizen awa,se at night is
a nuisance, and that to end its cries
quickly and painlessly makes man
a public benefactor. But a Trenton
resident, who tried that sort of treat
ment on a neighbours pet singer, has
been sent to Jail because of his re-
fusal to pay the fine which was as
sessed on him by a local Judge. He
considers himself a martyr and SAYS
he will live on bread and water
sooner than admit that he has done
any wrong.
This brings up an issue which viii
interest s'eepless men and women
the world over. There does not seem
to be any question as to the right
of the distracted person to say
"scat!" to the serenadng cats. In
deed, his time-honored privilege OF
hurting bootjacks, hair brushes. cakes
of soap, slippers and other articles
OF wearing apparel and personal
adornment at the offending tabbies
and tommies remains unimpaired
The real point at stake is his right
to shoot cats that disturb his slum-
ber.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Labor News

Painters at Pittsfleld. Mass, have
asked for fifty cents an hour.
Denmark has thirty-seven CO.
operative slaughter houses.
Liverpool has nearly 5000 dwellings
under direct municipal control.
Ma hinists in Scotland are asking
for an increase in wages.
Garment workers at Cleveland are
voting to establish a relief fund.
Building trades workers throughout
England demand an increase in pay.
Dundee (Scotland) tax drivers and
cabmen have secured an increase Of
wages.
, Labor exchanges throughout Great
Britain found work for 100000 peo-
pie last year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Alaska Received Its Name

need not be paid until after SOW
ereignty had been transferred.
I'm my schoolboy days we knew
that section of the North American
continent only as Russian America.
was curious to know why the mama
had been changed, or rather why the
peninsula was called Alaska. I made
inquiries of Secretary Seward him
self. He told me that various names
had been proposed for the peninsula.
but that he, himself, had decided that
1t be called Alaska. He thought the
word was an attractive one. 1t had
a musical sound. Seward, I knew.
was very fond of Indian names, and
wherever he had chance to suggest
name he did not fail to choose an
Indian word. That, I learned, was
how the great peninsula was named
Alaska"
Copyright, 1915, by E. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
THE FIEND OF THE EAST SIDE.

The cunning of the degenerate who mutilated and
murdered two children girl and boy-on the
side of Manhattan has thus far baed the efforts
of the police. The first crime committed on
March 1s and the second on May g. The police
pursuing a systematic hunt for the fend when the
second crime perpetrated.
With such at large and stealthily watching
for third victim, what wonder the whole East Side
is in terror. And apparently the police rely upon the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

''chromosomes'-all of the factors of
Inheritance.
Thus, science might with precision
prophesy whether the offspring will
be male or female in accordance with
the number of chromosomes" pres
ent in the antecedent nuclei. Fur
thermore, the account of Eve having
been made of Adams rib might be
borne out by the microscopic study
of these tiny chromosomes. When
ever there is an extra "chromosome"
there will be borne female young
Plainly, from these discoveries, 1t Is
evident that Falstaff was off the
mark when he said: 81 have more
flesh than another; and, therefore,
more frailty." Much of the tempera-
ment, nature, human frailty and
strength comes down through the
third and fourth generations wound
up in the nucleus of cells more tena-
clously than a watch spring The
size of the man who springs like the
dragons teeth of Cadmus from such
a nucleus has nothing to do with the
associated character
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Swiss Headsman Survives

($3 50); placing a head on top of the
gallows. II lire (s2.4W; cutting off
hand, 10 lire (s2); torturing those of
the evil eye. lire (S140); Sitting
tongues and cutting off ears or noses,
lire SD; for every turn of the wheel,
5 lire (SD for all branding, thumb
screws. etc, lire soldi (25 cents)
for putting in irons, 1 lire 3 soldi (25
cents); for heating with rods, lire
10 soldi (50 cents).
The document goes on to say that
on account of those of the evil eve
reforming and many sinners escaping
from their durance vile and fleeing
over the border, the perquicites of the
headsman dwindled so alarmingly
that he was forced to beg the gov
ernment to intrust him also with the
duties of the dead horse man. The
whole dismal business was ended by
'Tessin's entering the Swiss Confed-
Grafton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Che Greatest Gift

Sometimes when am very, very weary,
think I'd like to le with heavens grace,
Where the CHEEKY river winds and smiles and beckons
With its bright brown running Ger my face.
oh, hear in dreams the calling of the waves,
And see the rivers edge of foamy lace
And sometimes like the quiet forest better
With no sound except the dropping of the leaves;
With the smell of blossoms, and of woody dampness
And the faint far rpeness of the distant sheaves
Then pray, God, let me lie within the forestip
And the dream of it my aching heart relieves.
But again when days and nights press close with anguish
Till there lies no line between the worst and best
Wiser grown, know that neither wood nor river
Holds for me the gift that heaven knows most blest
For know, because hope lies for better morrows,
'Tis not death | crave, but only love and
Southern Womans Magazine
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
MAY 6
Mary Anne Haneford
Copyright, 1915.
MAY 6
BY MARY MARSHALL.

Mary Anne Haneford is worthy of
remembrance because of her pioneer
work as woman minister. She was
born in New England, and as the
daughter of a shipowner, was sur
rounded by the necessities, if not
the luxuries, of life. At the age Of
sixteen she became self-supporting as
a school teacher, and four years later
she married Mr.. Haneford, also a
school teacher. Though by training
Quaker she became a Baptist and
eventually a Universalist. She was
ordained in 1858 in bingham, Mass,
and took up her work as a preacher,
first in Waltham, and then at New
Haven, Conn, and finally at Jersey
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

event of third frightful crime for the apprehension
of the degenerate.
But it may not be assumed that the police are
inefficient Scotland Yard, London, knew the de-
teetive game thoroughly when Jack the Ripper"
terrorized the Whitecbapel district and, though he
committed about of unnatural crimes, he was
not caught, and entire police systems and private
agencies were enlisted in the search
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Wide Awake at Times.

Senator Flubdub looks stupid to
me. Doesn't appear to know whether
he is going or coming"
He is not so sleepy as he looks
Ask him about his mileage and you'll
find he can tell you exactly what he
is entitled to. going or coming. =
Kansas City Journal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

City, N. j. She frequently acted as
chaplain of the Connecticut State
Legislature, being the first woman to
perform such duty. For many years
she was editor of "The Ladies' Re-
pository.''
Elizabeth Stoddard, who was born
May 6, 1923, in New England, also was
the daughter of a sea captain. In her
tales Of New England life she antici-
pated the realists of the present day,
and in such books as Two Men," and
Temple House, may be called an
epoch maker in American fiction. She
has been spoken of by authorities as
the only American woman who had
ever written good blank verse.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Moving Pictures.

Motion pictures We're first given in
New York city in March, 1894 They
were of the strong man Sandow. Mr..
Edison at that time had just about
that date the movies" may be said
to have begun.-New York American.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
MAY 81, MEMORIAL DAY. THIS YEAR

Memorial Day in the natural of calendar
events falls May 80, and this year May 80 will
occur Sunday Therefore. under the provisions
of act of the New Jersey legislature approved
year. Memorial Day will be observed Monday, May
81, which will be legal holiday The statute makes
the Monday Immediately following a Sunday falling
date that is to be publicly observed the legal
holiday
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

p T. My feIt IoOt Is al
ways cold, while my right one Is nor
NAL. What shall I do for it?
A.-Have no excitement, get lots of
rest and sleep do not overexert your
self, and keep your bowels active
Avoid hot dishes, solid food, meats.
nuts, beans, peas, salt, pepper and
other condiments. Take fifteen drops
of a saturated solution Of iodide of
potash in water after meals, increas-
ing one drop at time until you are
taking fifty drops, then go down
again to fifteen and up several times.
Drink three quarts of distilled water
daily, lots of fresh milk, and a Bull
garia tablet with your meals. Mas
sage the foot upward with alcohol
each night
K. P. J.-Q.-Can you suggest a
remedy for an excessive flow of
saliva?
A.-Use a mouth wash of one tea
spoonful each of compound tincture
of benzoin, glycerin and alcohol to a
cup of water. This will reduce the
flow of saliva. Also take charcoal
tablets after meals, five or six of
| them
Mrs W. II. H.-Q.-I am interested
in your formula for removing su-
perfiuous hair. Will this kill the
roots, or is it only temporary treat
ment?
A-Depilatories will not destroy the
roots of the hair, but the treatment
must be repeated when the hair
grows out again.
A. p. B.-Q-1-What remedies
should one have on hand in case a
baby ten months old has the Group
or spasms?
2-Is there any remedy for Ivy
poisoning? 1t is of long standing
Alt is best to do nothing,
neither groups nor spasms are dan
gerous. Group fifteen years ago was
confused with diphtheria, and peo-
pie were justly frightened. Nova
days, there is no danger. Group is
the beginning of a cold or dry cough.
! A little steam or moisture In their
| room is all that you need to arrange.
| Pit does not sound as II you have
poison ivy, but more like eczema.
Poison ivy does not stay long. If
/ poison ivy, the following is a good
| treatment: Fluid extract of grindolla
robusta, l part; water, parts, paint
ed on the parts will quickly relieve.
1t should be applied with a camel
hair brush.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Tho Value of Repetition.
From the American Magazine.

Tho Value of Repetition.
From the American Magazine.
James r. Garfield. of Cleveland, son
of the late President Garfield, told
one of the editors of the American
Magazine the following story about
travelling in 1873 as a boy with his
father, who was campaigning: One
night, after speech in Michigan,
young Garfield said to his father:
"Why do you repeat so much? Do
you know that you said the same
things several times tonight? Do you
know that you said the same things
tonight that you said this afternoon
In Detroit?" General Garfield made
this reply: you happen to be an
especially interested party and notice
these repetitions. Others do not. l
repeat the same statements deliber-
ately in order that people may finally
get them. Anything that I want an
audience to get and remember | re-
peat several timeS--in somewhat diff
ferent form, perhaps. This practice
| have developed out of my expert
ence. which has shown me that
peoples attention is distracted in
various ways, and that first or Sec
ond statement may not really get to
them. You must insist on an idea or
fact If you want to get anywhere
with it."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
ODDITIES IN
TODAYS NEWS
Rival Plumbing Contractors Toss Coin
for $3.50 Job.

] Rival Plumbing Contractors Toss Coin
] for $3.50 job.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Two contrac-
| tors who submitted the same bids for
/ plumbing at the Metropolitan Hos
! pital, Blackwelrs Island, tossed a coin
yesterday for the contract. Deputy
/ Charities Commissioner Wright, when
he opened the bids of Joseph b.
Brady. of 5810 Sixth avenue, and John
F.. Koop, of % Lawrence street, the
only offers made, found both to be
$3.50.
Brady suggested to Koop that they
toss a coin for the contract. Koop
agreed and tosged a quarer. Brady
called heads and won.
Nothing like having a couple Ct
sports bidding for contracts" COM
mented the deputy commissioner
Legacy of $4,000 to Girl who Kept
silence, Upheld by Court.
NEW YORK, May "a jury be-
fore Surrogate Ketcham in Brooklyn
Yesterday decided that the will of
Jacob Hyman, who gave his estate
to Miss Herta Gretsch and her two
sisters, Helena and Elsa, was valid.
Hyman lived with the Gretsch family
at AZ Sydney place, Brooklyn. He
died on January l3.
Miss Herta Gretsch, while a young
girl, often accompanied Hyman on
fishing trips. Her sisters also went
along, but Herta always obeyed Hy-
mans instructions to keep perfectly
quiet while the fish were biting, and
this won Hymans admiration for her
to the extent of his leaving her half
of his estate of $4,000 The other
sisters each receive one-fourth. After
the will was filed for probate relatives
of Hyman contested 1t. They alleged
that the testator was mentally in
competent.
Thief in Wine Cellar Proves to BE
Muskrat.
MANITOWOC. Wis, May 6.-The
proprietor of a north side thirst en-
porium had been annoyed by thief.
who entered the cellar without dis
turbing any of the visible means of
ingress. and removed the corks from
the choicest wines and brandies,
leaving the partly empty bottles
when he departed.
The mystery was explained when
he saw a muskrat with Jag making
its unsteady way from the cellar to
the river. For several days the sa-
entertained his patrons
by posting them where they could
watch the bibulous rodent enter
hole in the wall, gnaw the corks from
a few bottles and acquire load.
Then one day he saw the muskrat
the saloon, in company
with six others. The saloonkeeper
drew the line at the muskrat giving
q .souse party to his friends "on the
house" He broke up the revel with
a gun.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

be avoided. Even this peculiar rail-
road situation, so much resembling
a deadlock at present, is testimony
to the improved business outlook in
New England.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
Answers to Health Questions

S. e. G.-Q.-My left foot Is al
ways cold, while my right one Is nor
NAL. What shall I do for it?
Alma record., 1915-10-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION

The following is the program of
the Ferris s-Richland Sunday School
Convention TO be held at Pine Grove
Ferris Township, Saturday, October
18th, 1915.
FORENOON
Song service, led by Pine Grove
Sunday School
Scripture reading and prayer by
pastor.
Address of welcome by VIM. Shaw
Response by Mrs. VIM. Lee
Review lesson by S. S. Bollinger.
Report of Sunday School by Super
intendent.
Vocal music followed by Basket
Dinner.
AFTERNOON
Song service led by Pine Grove Sun
day School.
Recitation by Mrs. Fred Hatfield
Some of the greatest needs of our
Sunday School by F. d. Hare and S
Mack
Discussion.
Qualifications of a successful Sun
day School worker by John Yoder
and Mrs. VIM. White.
Discussion.
Song by Ferris Sunday School.
Our young people of the present
age; their spansibilities by f. E.
Erskin and Mrs. VIM. Shaw.
Discussion.
Recitation by George Wilson.
Business meeting.
Song and dismissal.
By order of Committee.
Alma record., 1915-10-14
INCREASED SALARY
Supervisors to Receive S4.OO per Day
New Provision i'm Drain Law.

New Provision in Drain Law.
Many of the new laws passed by the
last session of the legislature have
gone into effect. County officers and
attorneys are busy studying some of
these acts. The board of supervisors
are interested in one of the acts pas
sed in that it increases their salaries
from three to four dollars a day.
The county surveyor will in the fu-
ture receive six dollars a day, besides
fees for surveyors are made more
stringent. The law also compels the
surveyor to obtain the original sur
vey from the state land commissioner
before laying out a fiat. Records Of
fifteen years standing can be used in
the future as evidence.
The new drain law requires the
signature of but one taxpayer and
four freeholders to petition for the
cleanout of a drain.
The law formerly required that the
signatures of one-fourth of those trav-
ersed by the drain, he attached to the
petition.
Township Clerks formerly received
$3.50 a day, under the new law they
will receive So a day. Officers COM
posing township boards, board of re-
gistration, board of health, inspectors
of election, clerks of the poll and
commissioners of the highway, also
receive $500 per day.
Alma record., 1915-10-14
WRIGHT HALL NEWS

Miss Gladys Dershem, who is teach
ing in the Owosso High School, was a
guest of Otha McCracken over Sun
day.
Miss Nina Ressiquie spent the week
end at her home in Middleton.
Miss Hope Rose went to Ashley for
over the week end.
Miss Winifred Burkholder has left
college on account of the illness of her
mother.
Alma girls were well represented at
the Alma-M. A. c. game at East Lam
sing Saturday. Two cars drove over.
Those in attendance were Miss
Canyne, Miss Foote, Miss Hitchcock,
Jean Hatch, Marion Cooper, Lillian
Des Jardins, Edna Ward, Pauline
Markham, Phyllis Goschenhafee.
Olive Bate, Annawave Coleman. The
girls report fine time and wonder
full game. However, they were very
glad to return to Wright Hall and its
home like life.
Miss Bess Brown spent the week end
at her home in Farwell, accompanied
by Ruth Weston.
Miss Merle Mckay is spending the
week end at her home in Brown City
Many Alumni and old students were
present at the Opening Reception Fri
day evening. Among the number were
Paul Austin, Theodore Higbee, Ralph
Peacock, Esther Smith and Anda Gill
Eva Merrill is at her home in Breck-
enridge for over the week end.
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Edge6sld, 8. G.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stnyly.

The death of Mrs. Elizabeth
Tompkins Smyly at the home of
ber daughter, Mrs.. Albert Dozier,
at Johnston, marks the passing of
the last of her generation. This
connecting link between the remote
past and the living present has BEEN
severed. She was the eldest repre-
sentative of an old and honored
Edgefeld family, AID in the active
years of her life Mrs. Smyly was
the leading factor in the community
life. This eonsecrated woman has
Joined loved ones who preceded
her to the home beyond the skies.
A beautiful tribute is paid her by
cur Johnston correspondent.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-10-06
Plula Branch, S. G.
Mrs. Corrie Ryan.

Trenton has sustained an irrepar-
able loss. Such a devout Christian
woman .as Mrs. .Corrie Ryan, the
widow of the lamsnted 3. l. Ryan,
was an asset that can not be valued
too highly. Before succumbing to
the long Illness which she bore so
patiently and during which her
devoted children ministered to her
so lovingly, she was foremost in
every good work bearing upon the
welfare of the community life. She
has now entered upon her eternal
rest, deserving the commentator
well DONE" A beautiful tribute IL
paid Mrs. Ryan by our Trenton cor
respondent.