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VOLl ME LXAXIll.—NO. 117._
MONDAY EVENING, MAY IS. 1914._
VILLA <;OFS MARCHING ON.
While the peace envoys will be parleying over
methods for the adjustment of the United States
Mexican difficulties in a cozy corner up near Niagara
Falls, far from the scenes of strife and carnage, Villa's
army will be marching through Mexico, attacking
Huerta's forces, battering down cities, leveling towns
and villages and sweeping ail before them.
Villa and Carranza care naught for peace con
ferences, armistices or such trifling matters. They
have entered into no agreement to suspend hostilities.
They started their war with one grim purpose in
view, and that to get the dictator's scalp. And this
purpose they intend to accomplish if it is in the wood.
It seems to be reasonably safe to predict that
Villa will take Mexico City, as his men took Tampico,
and that before peace plans crystallize Huerta will be
either in the hands of the enemy or fleeing to foreign
shores.
—-—
THE PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARIES TOMORROW.
Peculiar interest attaches to the primaries in j
Pennsylvania tomorrow. Candidates for United
States Senator, Governor and members of Congress
will be held throughout the State by Democrats, .
Republicans and Progressives. The interest will j
centre in the candidacy of Senator Penrose for re- ,
election.
Penrose is a reactionary Republican. Pennsyl
vania was carried by Roosevelt by a plurality of
51,807 in 1912, largely on account of the unpopu
larity of Penrose. Roosevelt received 174,121 more
votes than Taft. Has Pennsylvania changed in senti- |
ment since 1912? Has Penrose regained the power j
he lost in 1912?
In that year there were 447,426 Progressive party 1
votes and only 273,305 for the Republican candi- j
date. How will the poll of the two parties in to- !
morrow's primaries compare? No need to speak of j
the Democratic primary, for In Pennsylvania this
year there does not appear to be the ghost of a show ;
for the Democratic State ticket.
But will the Republican pendulum swing back to
Penrose? There Is a powerful opposition to him
within the party on account of his personal record
end affiliations, but In Pennsylvania a national issue
»uch as the Panama tolls question or the tariff over
comes personal objections.
The nomination of Penrose would probably mean
hts election. It would surely mean that If in the !
primaries tomorrow the Progressive vote should suf- .
fer a percentage of loss equal to that of the Progress-1
ive vote in the recent election in the Seventh Congress '
district of New Jersey the chances would he in his !
favor,
ANOTHER YEAR FOR LYING FOOD LABELS.
Unscrupulous manufacturers of food and drugs
have about one year more to deceive the public with >
the label “Guaranteed under the food and drugs act."
After May 1, 1915, It will not be permitted. Con-;
sumers naturally think this label means that the
article has been examined and approved by the gov-,
ernment as unadulterated. It merely signifies to the |
dealer that the manufacturer Is legally responsible for
the commodity being what it is represented.
The department of agriculture now tardily points
out to consumers what the wide-awake press dls- ,
covered long ago. that the government is virtually a ,
partner in mendacity with food and drug fakers. And
the partnership is to run for another year. The j
fakers have been to some expense to have those lying i
labels printed, and must have time to use them up.
ELIMINATION OF THE MOSQUITO.
Usually at this time in former years Newark '
experienced its first visitation of mosquitoes, but
they are not in evidence this year, although an occa
sional representative of the species, Which had been
hibernating in a cellar during the winter, has been
observed. With the excellent work done by the
County Mosquito Commission we may hope to have a
summer free from the pest. If there is any recur
rence of the pest we may attribute it to neglect in
adjoining centres.
Essex County set the example of good roads. It
educated the rest of the State up to their value.
The county was first to attempt the elimination of
the mosquito, and it has not yet convinced the
purblind authorities in many other pest-ridden
centres that extermination of the pest is not
only feasible, but highly profitable. The complete
extermination of the mosquito in New Jersey would
render material benefits to be calculated in millions.
ADJOURNMENT IN JULY.
If Congress shall be In session in the dog days
to keep several hundred representatives and more
than a score of senators who want to be re-elected
perspiring in Washington when they ought to be at
home doing campaign work, who is going to look
after their fences?
If Congress adjourns about July 1 there will be
time for these legislators to get back among their
constituents and make their campaigns. This would
allow only six or seven weeks to complete the work
of the session, including the appropriation bills and
the trust bills, all other legislation to "go by the
board,"
The House can rush this business through in six
or seven weeks, but how- about the Senate? That
deliberative body takes its own time and, moreover, it
has trust legislation of its own that differs materially
from that of the House.
One body cannot adjourn without the other, and
there must be agreement on the provisions of a bill
before it can become a law. Therefore either the
session will have to be indefinitely prolonged or trust
legislation must fail, which is the likeliest thing to
happen.
OUR EXPLOITED FISHERY INTERESTS.
A Cape May dispatch tells of the taking of $25,000
worth of mackerel ofT the coast there in ten days by
New England fishermen. This fish was immediately
shipped to New York and Philadelphia for the Fish
Trust, to be kept in cold storage or doled out in
Quantities not to disturb the established market
prices.
This is only a trifling incident of the State’s fish
ery interests on the coast, interests which the State
has abandoned to a combination of non-residents,
who, without even compensation to the State, are
exploiting this great property in w-ays to make fish
dear for the people and to make fortunes for them
selves.
Governor and Legislature have been supremely
indifferent to this great public wrong, although it
has been fully set forth in a public hearing at Tren
ton. and no justification of it has ever been at
tempted. Organized plunder of the people and diver
sion into private pockets of hundreds of thousands
of dollars that should be paid into the State treasury ;
are permitted. Why?
MAY MAKE WAR IMPOSSIBLE.
Further experiments by Giulio Ulivo with the
ultra-violet rays bid fair to make war impossible.
Four mines sunk in the River Arno had successive j
layers of fibre, porcelain, asbestos and wrought iron ,
enclosing the powder. The ultra-violet rays, projected |
from a point ten miles away and behind a hill at that, i
exploded all these mines within half an hour. Ulivo !
in time expects to blow up anything explosive eighty
miles away.
What chance would all the battleships of the
strongest power on earth have against this weird
agent which the weakest nation at the touch of a
finger could launch against them at a range four
times that of the biggest guns? It could also blow
up the magazines of armies. No peace propaganda
will ever abolish war. It will cease when it has be
come impossible, and perhaps Giulio Ulivo, the in
ventor of an infallible destroyer of destroyers, has
been chosen by Providence to usher in the millennium.
FRANKING BRITISH LITERATURE.
The abuse of the franking privilege by members
of Congress never before went as far as the act of
Senator Root, in promoting the. repeal of Panama
Canal free tolls. This was the sending out, under
his frank, of the address of the Lord High Chancellor
of England, which address was delivered in Mon
treal. Canada, not in this country.
The speech was an insidious plea for the sur
render of American rights in the Panama Canal.
Senator Root used the United States mails to circulate
in the United States a British contention against, this
nation, and the Carnegie Peace Foundation furnished
a list of 250,000 names to which the address could be
sent. Was ever an act of this character committed
before since our government was founded?
1 OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES
I*rpsblent Haer's Religious Faith.
From the Itallwn} Age Gazette.
All of Mr. Baer's work, life and be
liefs were strongly influenced by his
religious faith in individual responsi
bility. Mr. Baer was a deeply religi
ous man. It is a rather curious coin
cidence that, hating hypocrisy and
cant as he did, Mr. Baer s frequent
use of Biblical language should have
been taken as an Indication of affecta
tion. The charge of affectation was
wholly without foundation. The Bible
and Biblical language were probably
as much a part of Mr. Baer's life and
thoughts as were the tigurcs and
technical terms with which he dealt
In the management of his properties.
He was quite an unusually hard
headed. practical thinker, and yet lie
had at times an almost uncanny
power or prophecy.
Like a good many other successful
men of his generation, he was out of
sympathy with many of the present
day tendencies toward paternalism
and government by nebulous investi
gation. He was quite out of sympathy
with any form of organization where
in responsibility was divided or
spread over a committee. A consider
ab'e part of his success in life was
the res'-lt of his ability as an or
ganizer. and here again the guiding
principle appears to have been indi
vidual responsibility and authority
commensurate with responsibility.
"Rockefeller'* M nr."
From the Springfield llepubll‘’iiii.
Mr. Rockefeller's ind'gnant protest
against having the Colorado labor
strife known us ''Rockefeller's war”
comes from a perfectly sincere man
who lives in New York, and who,
like the rest of us. gets second-hand
informat on concerning actual condi
tions in the Co orado mining camps.
Mr Rockefeller reminds one of the
old-time absentee landlords of Ire
land. He is an absentee proprietor
In the shape of a minority stockhold
er, and he believes what his trusted
agents on the ground tell him.
The case is an excellent illustration
of the working of the modern system
of corporate Industry in relation to
personal responsibility. There is no
personal touch whatever between Mr.
Rockefeller, the chief owner and the
employes of the Colorado fuel and
Iron Company. He sits and labor?
most conscientiously in the office
building in New York; the activ*
managers do the rest in Colorado.
Unquestionably he has lofty ideals of
uplift and philanthropy, and his com
pany's hospital is the finest one west
of the Missouri River. But Mr.
Rockefeller actually gets as near to
the industrial empire of the Colorado
Fuel and iron Company as King
George of England gets to the* vast
British dependency of India.
If Mr. Rockefeller had spent more
of his time in the mining camps he
would know more surely whether the
miners had just grievances; and
when ids own statements of fact arc
flatly contradicted by the representa
tives of the strikers lie would be in
a better position to discharge his per -
sonal obligations to society and the j
State. No one shou’d judge Mr.
Rockefeller harshly. He dees not
personally deserve the persecution to
which some rabid and fanatical per
sons* would now subject him. But
the public in search of the truth re
garding the Colorado labor war can
not bo expected t• ► accept hi*- .state
ments unreservedly, when they arc
disputed, in view «*f the notorious
fact that a capitalist of his immense
financial interests can devote com
paratively little personal attention io
one little corner of the empire of
Rockefeller.
ICxecutive Control.
From the Ohio State Journal.
.Senator Root says that the ef
ficiency of Congress is on the decline,
and, if some matters were not re
formed, it would find itself hopelessly
swamped There is too much work
for :t—too many committees, too
many policies. It is a great, flounder
ing mass, with no backbone and no
nervous centres. He did not refer to
i residential dominat on as one <f the
troubles w'ith Congress, for that a
really the only vital th ng about the
congressional situation.
The senator's charge that Congress
is losing its efficiency is only descr p
tlve of a situation brought on by th.
evolution of the republic The execu
tive is becoming the governin' nl H s
functions embrace nine-tenths of
public duty. The nation natural y
turns to him, and fortunately, in
this case, the inefficiency of Congress
i.s met with the efficiency of the
President. The President Is not to
blame. He is simply an instrument
iri the logic of events.
The same situation exists in Ohio.
Governor Cox i.s charged with run
ning the Legislature. Thai fact is
not to i-*- used against the governor,
for it is simply saying the Legis
lature could not run itself, rt. like
Congress has shown its inefficiency
as described by Senator Root, and
this demanded the active interference
of the President. Happily, his inter
ference has been Justified.
Training (Supermen.
From the New York Times.
That there is a precocity of train
ing different from the precocity of
disease is the-belief on which Pro
fessor Leo Wiener, of Harvard, has
acted in tlir education of his son
Korbert. “The Education of Karl
Witte, or the Training of (he Child,”
is the title of Professor Wiener’s
translation from the- German of a
book written by Witte’s father, whose
method the professor adopted.
Karl Witte was trained by his
father. Reading fluently five lan
guages, besides his own, at nine, and
at that age thorough^ fam’iiar w'th
Homer P’utareli V rgil. Cicero. Os
s'an. Fcnelon and Metnatasio, besides
Sch'lie r and other classic German
writers Witte got his Pb D. degree
at Le’pslc at fourteen and was ap
pointed to the teMch’ng staff of the
University of Rerl'ii :-i s'xt^en. with
the of doctor of laws. FPs body
was always robust, and lie died at
eighty-three.
Master Wiliam .Limes H’dis and
Norbert Wiener both srns of Har
vard professors, were consciously
trained b»' tip* W*tte method. "S'di-’s
accomplishment**, wh eh have b',nn
rmwh were feeble '•omivirod
with b's o"otot\p* n nd although
young W ener got i»5s decree of mas
ton cf arts nt eighteen, and a doc
1 t.orata at nineteen, h s achievement
war. nothing Ike Kart Witte’s. Pro
fes«or Wiener sav» of h'm:
“Norbert *s not precocious. He is
'ply developed int'-Tgently. £
' cp'-id take alrre ; any child and dc
j ' hIop bin* In Mi sinv wnv. It is
■ rnei-f v tt'.c method of imparting
I learning.”
ODDITIES IN
TODAY’S NEWS
Find* Doorknob in Sloniacli of Snake He
Killed In Save Turkey.
LEXINGTON, Ky„ May IS.—Os
car Dennis, a tenant on the farm of
Grant Workman, while plowing dis
covered a. young turkey, under which
his wife had placed a setting of eggs,
in mortal combat with an immense
blacksnake. The snake had coiled it
self around the turkey and was in the
act of crushing it when Dennis came
to the rescue and killed the snake.
After death he cut the snake open
and discovered a white doorknob In its
stomach. The snake measured seven
feet from head to tip of tail. It is
thought that the rept ’e had swal
lowed the knob, thinking it was an
egg. _
main Pierced by indict, .Man Lives Thir
ty-six Hours.
NEW YORK, May 18.—After a bul
let had passed through his brain Ed
ward Treu, a young clerk, who was
found wounded ih the bedroom of his
home, 105 Oakland street, Williams
burg, on Friday, lived for thirty-six
hours. He died yesterday. The case
was considered one of the most re
markable on record by doctors at
tached to the Williamsburg Hospital.
Anxious Individual Saw Garrison, and
All of Htni.
WASHINGTON. May 18.—Secretary
of War Garrison tells the following
story on himself apropos of the ap
proaching heated term:
"Last summer I went on a tour of
inspection of the Western forts. On
one of the hottest days of the yeai
1 finished locking over Fort Leaven
worth Kansas, and then motored to
Kansas Citv. I went stra’ght to my
hotel, Oiled' the bathtub with water
and luxuriated. After the bath and
before drying 1 started a parade up
and down the room enjoying the 11 «r
breezes that strained through the win
dows. All at once the door was burst
open and a wild-eyed young man said
in surprised tones: . ,
“ 'I want to see the secretary of
W “r<Well, take a good look,’ I said.
•You’ll never see any more of him
than you do right now.’
Jenny Lind’s Salute !
There is a pretty story told of the
honor Jenny Lind once paid to the
\mertcan flag. It was when she was
in New York, more than sixty years
ago The frigate St. Lawrence had
just returned from a cruise, and the
midshipmen went to hear the Swedish
Nightingale sing at Castle Garden
Theatre, and the next day they called
on her in a body. Their enthusiasm
and her graciousness brought about
a visit to the ship and the acceptance
of a luncheon tendered her. When
she was about to leave the ship she
looked up at the Stars and Stripes
and said: _ „
"I wish to salute your flag.
So standing on the gangway, she
sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.
Silently from all over the ship men
gathered with uncovered heads, until
the ship's family was a'l assembled
on deck. Nor were they her only
audience, for borne upon the still air
her song had been heard by many
other vessels nearby, and when the
wondrous voice ceased steamers blew
their whistles and exultant cheers
rose from all sides, filling the harbor
with their tribute of applause for
the beloved artist and of loyal rev
erence for the flag she had so beau
tifully saluted. _
Out of the Ordinary
Woman up tho State, whose dress
was ripped by a bolt, was awarded
damages by the court. Some rip!
couldn’t have been much of the skirt
left except the hooks and eyes.
Esteemed citizen of Great Neck lias
asked the Board of Health of that
town to silence his neighbor’s dogs.
Look over the case and see what
you think of it Our guess is that
tho Board of Health is probably a
better shot than the esteemed citi
zen.
Cigarettes have been barred from
the shops of Thomas A. Edison at
Orange. No details are given, but
the kibosh may have come about
through the crusade against soft coal.
itight here is where New York
wants to stop bragging about being
so beautifully fast. Only city in the
country where the natives still keep
up the old Puritan custom of carry
ing a gun to church to protect them
selves against Indians.
In seeking the bravest ever born.
Here we’ve surely found her—
The girl of the modern waist when
worn
By a ninety-pounder.
Wondered what made a friend of
ours look so tired the other day, and
on investigating the can# wve found
that his shoes were so badly run
down at the heel fhut he seemed to
be constantly walking up hill.
Very much disappointed In Thomas
Furlong, of Downlngtown. Killed a
black snake which, he says, meas
ured live and a half feet. There is
nothing in a name.
Correspondent says that four tons
of dynamite used in a blast at Birds
bnro the other day loosened 15,000
tons of ruck Bet's ponder a minute.
Wouldn't think they could get all that
rock weighed so soon, would you?
Wonder why it is that when local
talent tdves a show it iH always so
good that the performance has to be
repeated in the adjacent town?
Answer in Saturday'* l'u/rk;
I fandango.
Che Broken Pinion
1 walked through the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing;
And I found on a bed of mosses
A bird with a broken wing.
I healed its wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with the broken pinion
Never soared as high again.
I found a young life broken
By Sin's seductive art;
And touched with a Christlike pity,
1 took him to my heart.
He lived with a noble purpose
And struggled not in vain;
But the life that Sin had stricken
Never soared as high again.
But the bird with a broken pinion
Kept another from the snare;
And the life that Sin had stricken
Raised another from despair.
Each loss has its compensation.
There is healing for every pain;
But the bird with a broken pinion
Never soars as high again.
—Hezekiah Butterworth.
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Political Incident of the Hayes Administration
In the recently published remir:,s
censes of Theron G. Strong, a leading
member of the New York bar and son
of one of the most eminent New York
Judges, the author feels justified in
stating that he had reasons for be
lieving that William M. Evarts was
greatly disappointed because Presi
dent Grant did not nominate him as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States to fill the va
cancy created by the death of Chief
Justice Salmon P. Chase.
Mr. Strong intimates that President
Grant would undoubtedly have nomi
nated Mr. Evarts as the successor of
Chief Justice Chase had it not been
for the fact that Senator Roscoe
Conkling, who had no fondness for
Mr. Evarts, persuaded the President
not to make the appointment.
In 1877 Roscoe Conkling, then Sen
ator from Now Y'ork, made an excur
sion to Europe. His friends chartered
a steamboat, so that they might make
him their guest until a point was
reached in the lower bay in New
York, where the Senator would be
taken aboard the steamship upon
which he was to make his passage to
Europe. Among the hosts were Gen
eral Chester A. Arthur, who three
years later was to be elected Vice
President, and to succeed to the
Presidency after the death of Presi
dent Garfield; Alonzo B. Cornell, who
two years later was to tie elected
governor of New York, and General
George H, Sharpe, who two and one
half years later was to b* speaker
of the lower house of the New Y'ork
legislature.
These three men had been removed
from office by order of President
Hayes for the good of the service, as
was alleged. General Arthur was the
collector of port, Mr. Cornell, the
naval officer and General Sharpe, the
surveyor. This action of Hayes
created a great division in the Re
publican party, which was afterward
intensified by the resignation of
Senators Conkling and Thomas E.
Platt from the United States Senate.
The factional rift was so great as to
make it possible to elect Grover
Cleveland governor of New York, and
then President of the United States.
After Senator Conkling’s hosts had
bidden him adieu and had watched
him as he stood upon the captain’s
bridge unt*l he was out of sight, I
had some conversation with some of
tho gentlemen, including General
Arthur, who were members of this
party.
General Arthur said to me: "I sup
pose that If President Grant had
nominated William M. Evarts as chief
justice of the Suprepie Court of the
United States, we should now be in
in the midst of factional distur-.
bances. I have no justification in the |
way of actual fact for my under
standing of the situation, but I be
lieve that Mr. Evarts attributed to
Senator Conkllng's appeal to Presi
dent Grant, the refusal of the w*ter
to nominate Evarts for chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Evarts did not know, I presume,
that President Grant first offered the
nomination of chief justice to Sena
tor Conkling, who declined it. I have
been told that this was the only case
on record of a declination of the of
fice of chief Justice.
“After Conkling declined the offer
Grant decided to nominate as chief
Justice one of the three men who rep
resented the United States before the
Geneva Arbitration Tribunal, which
passed upon the so-called Alabama
claims against Great Britain. He
first decided to appoint Evarts, who
would have been obliged to give up
hi3 practise, worth at least J50,000 a
year, in order to take the office.
“Senator Conkling had what he
thought good reasons for opposing
this nomination. Then President
Grant nominated Caleb Cushing, who
was one of the three representatives
of the United States before that tri
bunal. But it was impossible to se
cure the confirmation of Cushing by
the Senate. Then President Grant
nominated Morrison R. Waite, who
was esteemed a junior representative
of the United States before the Ge
neva Tribunal.
"After President Hayes went into
office there was strong reason for pre
suming that influences were imme
diately established for the purpose of
securing John Sherman’s nomination
in 1880 for the Presidency. Both
Sherman and Evarts, as you know,
were members of Hayes’s adminis
tration. The first steps toward Sher
man’s nomination were taken when
Cornell, Sharpe and I were removed
from the custom house.
“Now we shall see whether the cap
ture of the custom house in the in
terest of John Sherman is to be fol
lowed by securing the New York Re
publican organization in favor of
Sherman’s nomination. We shall see.”
(Copyright. 1914. by Dr. E. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
Shakespeare the Matchmaker
Probably many persons whose in
terest in Shakespeare is receiving a
fresh stimulus at the celebration, this
month, of the three hundred and fif
tieth anniversary of his birth do not
I know of the important discoveries of
Shakespe&riana made by Dr. Charles
William Wallace four years ago. Dr.
Wallace, of the University of Ne
braska. after searching for months
in the London Public Record office,
came upon a manuscript which
proved to be a deposition of Shakes
peare, telling of his part in bringing
about the marriage of two young per
sons in whom he was interested. This
deposition was signed in the charac
ters "indisputably written by the
great bard himself.” This discovery
of the names, the business, the char
acter of the family whose home
Shakespeare shared for thirteen years,
w as described in an article, ".Shakes
peare as a Man Among Men," which
was published in "Harper's Maga
I zine” for March, t910.
| Story of a Masquerader
The story of a masquerader is al
ways popular, mid “The Understudy,”
by l.eigh Gordon Gilther, who has
already done several short things for
Women's Stories, bids fair to be a
notable success in this kind of fiction.
Georgette Uane, like many another
girl, has overrated her histrionic
ability, and after a few months of
unsuccessful searching for a tiny
niche in the stage world, she reaches
the. end of her rope, if chloroform
and the coroner seem the only things
left her, yet Georgette resolves to
make a gallant last play, and with
her remaining few dollars she has tea
in a luxurious uptown hostelry with
roses and pink eandle shades on the
tallies Whereupon adventure comes
her way. A day later she finds her
self playing the role of Mrs. Tony
Van Alen, society leader, with an
adorable husband, a huge establish
ment and a complete line of worldly
possessions. fan she keep It up?
That is the question. This is a two
part story, beginning in Women's
Stories for May 1.
"Cross Trails,” Herman Whittak
er's big out-of-door novel, increases
in interest with every new develop
ment in the strange husband-and
wife situation which lie has created.
I A unique psychological study of the
! feminine: a challenge to every think
ing man or woman on a matter of
| vital importance today the single
I Standard of morality—"Cross Trails"
is undoubtedly one of the best tilings
tills popular writer has done in re
cent years.
In “Natalie Graves," by George
Pattullo. events are crowding thick
Use of Peat in Germany.
Peatccke in Germany, is proving
serviceable in many ways. It is not
only valuable for generating electric
ity at moorland stations, but is
in h used by blacksmiths and for
va. .ous metallurgical purposes, espe
' c'al.y us a substitute for charcoal in
producing high-grade iron.
A new turf-cooking plant at. Klls
abetli-Fehn, Oldenberg, converts
thirty tuna of peat into nine of coke,
with’ gas and tar as by-products.
Specially designed ocens are used,
and the gas generated is made to
heat the. retorts and to generate
electric current, to drive the peat
dredging machines. The tar yields
creosote oil, gas oil, parultin, sul
phuric acid and ammonia.
and fast on the heels of the big situa
tion which ended the last instalment.
Natalie in the city shows the same
pluck, the same high-spirited inde
pendence of the old Natalie in Buzz
ard’s Boost, and it is good to see her
beginning to get some of the things
she deserves from life. The way Nat
alie receives a proposal of marriago
is quite delightful, and after all her
hunting for her husband, he succeeds
in getting himself found at just the
psychologically opportune moment.
As for Natalie’s various friends, they
would make a good novel all by them
selves.
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
MAY 18
Mary Tracy
Copyrighted 1*14.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Mary Tracy, Lady Vere, who was
born In England on May 18, 1864, s re
garded as one of the highest types of
Puritan English womanhood, and Isa
bella D’Este, a contemporary Italian
lady, who also celebrated her b.rth
day on May 18, is regarded as one, if
not the highest, type of Italian renais
sance womanhood. Isabel a beloi ged
to the powerful d Este family, and,
endowed with wealth and highly de
veloped taste, was one of the greatest
patronesses of the arts In Italy of her
age.
Mary Tracy took as her motto in
her girlhood, "God will prov do," and
apparently she never hud occasion to
doubt the truth of these words, for,
in spite of the religious auster ty and
strict standards of her family,
Mary’s life was ful' of Joy and hap
piness. When she was eighteen eh«
married Sir Henry Hobby, privy
chancellor to King Henry VIII.. and
upon his death she epeedily consoled
herself in marrying Horatio Vere,
Baron Tilury, one of the greatest
English generals of the period, com
mander-in-chief of the Enghsh for* es
in the low countries. Lady Vere
showed her high ideals of lvr wifely
duty in fol owing her husband to the
low countries, fae'ng thereby ah sorto
of discomforts and dangers.
Among other notable women born
on May 18 is Lilia Elizabeth Kelley, a
well-known American elocution et and
writer, and Princess Marie Clemen
tine, a member of the cadet branch of
the Russian royal family. Fr’-> ess
Marie C ementine is flfty-six years
old today.
Sailors Rise to Fame
Tho new lord chief justice of Eng
land is one of a remarkable band of
men who have risen to eminence in
the church, at the bar and as au-.
thors, critics and painters, who com
menced their workaday life as sail
ors, for it is well known that Sir
Kufus Isaacs ran away to sea in his
early days and tpent a year rough
ing it as a "boy” on the Blair Athol, 1
a three-master which sailed from ,
Greenock.
Perhaps the most celebrated authors
who started life as sailors are Fen- 1
imore Cooper, the famous author of
“The Last of the Mohicans;” Clark
Russell, the author of "Alone on the
Wide, Wide Sea," and Frank T. Bul
len, the author of “The Cruise of the
Cachalot." This trio has made ex
cellent use of the seafaring lore
which only experience can give in
the long list of works for which
they are responsible.
Clark Russell has given the world
a very lively account of the first
Christmas that he spent at sea. “In
the first voyage I made," he says,
"my Christmas day happened to be
in the kingdom of Christmas—at
least in the southern realm of tho
white-haired monarch. We were
hove-to off the Horn in latitude 58
degrees south. We had ice ahead, ice
abeam, ice astern, ice as big as St.
Paul's, Ice like huge tombstones, ice
like the Turkish mosque, like the
spire under which we worship, like
the Lion's Rump at Table bay. We
were hove-to under a close-reefed
malntopsail and topmast-staysail,
and the ship soared and sank, and
King Christmas roared with laugh
ter in her shrouds, and we had plenty
of daylight to see the rushing snow,
to feel the barbs of the ice lance
and to watch the majestic attitude
of the Pacific surge. The galley fire
was washed out.
“What did I get for my Christmas
dinner? We had been hove-to for
three days. All the time the galley
fire had been washed out and we had
eaten up every vestige of cold re
mains. My Christmas dinner, then,
was a ship's biscuit honeycombed
with worms, on which I pasted some
salt butter, and this butter I sweet
ened with foot-sugar. There was
nothing to drink but cold water, tho
stinking water of the scuttle-butt.
My people, at home, no doubt, eating
roast beef and plum pudding, drank
to the safe return of the little mid
shipman, and the dear old mother
would, of course, believe that, like
herself, he was faring very well in
deed, on this same Christmas day."
Probably the most famous parson 1
who was a sailor in his youth wasJ
the eminent Dr. Newton, the friend 1
of Cowpc-r and Joint author with him 1
of the Olney Hymns. Newton's ad- 1
ventures during his seafaring life
would fill a volume. His father was
master of a ship in the Mediterra
nean trade, and at eleven Newton
joined it. Then he was waylaid by
the press gang and forced into the
navy, and having attempted to es
cape at Plymouth he was treated so
harshly that he escaped again and
embarked on an African trader, and
for years afterward he served on
ships engaged in the slave trade
between Africa and the West Indies.
Yet, although there was no kind of
wickedness which he did not com
mit In those wild days, he lived to
write one of the most beautiful i
hymns in the English language^
“Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prefl
Douglus Jerrold. one of the oiu4
nators of Punch and one of^H
greatest wits who ever lived, b^H
life as a sailor. By one of the s
est coincidences on record, o.H^H
very same ship where Jerrold
midshipman Clarkson Stanfield
famous Royal Academician, n'jjH
examples of whose patntings hun.B
the National Gallery, the Tate (■
lery and many other famous gall®
ies, was a common sailor. The t*
got up plays together, Jerrold doi.l
the literary part and Stanfield paln|
Ing the scenes.
I P. O. Prevents Fires. |
The postoffice department has just
repeated, in the current postal guide
supplement, the instructions through
which rural carriers are to report
forest fires to the proper authorities
during the coming season. These in
structions were first issued in May,
1912, and during the past two years
the co-operation has resulted in the
detection and suppression of many
fires.
State and federal forest officers will
make a special effort this year to
get even more value out of the serv
ice than has heen obtained hereto
fore. The usual procedure has been
for the State fire wardens or fed
eral forest officers to send to the
postmasters lists of local wardens
and patrolmen, with their addresses
and telephone numbers. These lists
are given to the carriers with in
structions tt> report forest fires to
men whose names appear thereon,
or to other responsible persons. This
year a special effort will be made
to follow up the sending out of the
lists by having the patrolmen and
wardens meet the carriers personally
and to take the initiative in arrang
ing such meetings, and also to map
out a plan of action to be followed,
i Co-operation between the rural car
riers and the federal forest officers
will be effective in the twenty States
in which national forests exist and
with State forest officers in the twen
ty States which have established
their own fire protective systems. It
is expected that the services of the
carriers will be particularly valuable
in helping to protect the new national
forest areas in the southern Appala
chians.
Ind a Absorbs Gold j
The report of the royal commission
on Indian llnance and currency, which
has just been issued, settles some
controversies and starts others, but
it does not clear up the mystery of
the hoarded gold of India.
From time immemorial India has
absorbed go,ld as a sponge absorbs
water. The flow of gold to India i
has always continued. In the last j
twelve years she has received $680,- |
000,000 in gold, partly in sovereigns
and partly in bullion, in addition to
enormous quantities of silver. It all
I goes into the country, but very little
' ever comes out. Lord Rothschild oh- I
j served some years ago that he had
noticed that none of the smooth gold
bars sent to India from England
ever came back. What happens to
this great stream of precious metal,
which continuously disappears like
| those rivers in desert lands which
lose themselves underground?
I The testimony of experts is con- ]
1 dieting. Some say it is hoarded,
while la few are ready to prove by a
formidable array of statistics that it
cannot be extensively hoarded. Those
who believe that India possesses a
vast store of hoarded treasure make
the widest guesses at its probable
total. The most popular estimate of
the hoarded wealth of India puts the
total at $1,500,000,0:10, which would
amount to $5 per head of the. popu
lation; but some creditable estimates
are far higher. The experts quarret
again about the probable eeffct of
India's absorption of gold upon the
world's money markets and the prices
of commodities. Some say that all
gold-using countries benefit thereby,
while others, such as Sir Edward Hol
den, appeal' to hold that "the drain
of gold to India" is a political menace.
The commission, while declining to
indorse either of these mutually de
structive contentions, has declared in
effect that an increased use of gold in
India should not in future be encour
aged by the government, but India
already seems disposed to resent thi*
recommendation.
THE PRUDENTIAL FIRST IN BIG STATES
The Prudential stood In first place in 1913 according to published records and the reports of
the various Insurance Departments In the following leading States :
Insurance Issued The Prudential
STATE and Revived ,,af„ 'ol<l,
in 1913 First Place For
New Jersey. $46,455,660 Sixteen Years
New York. 96,645,161 *Xhree lean
Pennsylvania. 76,285.845 Fifteen Years
Ohio . 32,426,356 Seven Years
Indiana . 21,051.592 Thirteen Years
Illinois. 39,676,734 Six Years
Michigan. 10,888,521 J"® *e,r*
Delaware. 2,780,568 FJght Years
West Virginia. 4,647.575 Four Years
Kansas . S.715,497 Six Years
Minnesota . t!ve vCar#
Colorado . 4,262,574 Five Years
•Years 1909, 1910 and 1913.
The Company also attained second place In many other
States, and since the close of 1908 has added to the insurance
in force on its books nearly a billion dollars, making; a greater
net gain than that of any other company in the world.
The Prudential
PORRBST F. DRYDEN, President