SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. CAPE MAT STAR ASD WAVE

ABOUT 30 Y SCOUTS | By Charles W. Eliot, President! Emeritus of Harvard University. The scout is to be friendly, a brother to ever}' other scout, anda friend to all people. He is to be polite to everybody, but especially to women, children, old people, and the weak and helpless. He must not take pay for l>eing helpful or courteous. That means no "tip" for a kindness done. There is a common saying that manners make I the man or the woman ; and surely 1 manners do express unerringly the quality of the individual. Nevertheless. it is the '•Utfracter of the! man or woman that really forms the manners. Wl«en, therefore, the scout law says that the scout must be courteous, it means thai he must acquire the character which finds natural expression and courtesy. Our New England people are apt to lack gentle and eour teous manners. When I say "our people." T mean the Americans. ' and the immigrants who have already been here, say three gener i-j tions. Some of the new races which have lately come into the country are more courteous in act and speech than the people of English / descent long\settled in the coun- 1 try ; but none of the recent immigrants approach in this respect the 1 Japanese, tlie most courteous race i among whom I have evere Hved or < travelled. That, courtesy is one of i the fine fruits of their prime vir- < tue of loyalty. The world would l be a very different place if not i only hoys, but all men. were able i to conform to the scout law. "Be 1 courteous!" i '• "The scout is kind." That 1 means that he is the friend of ani- 1 mala, that he will not kill nor hurt j ' needlessly any living creature. ' This precept is the more needed, ' because savage man is apt to be a ! 1 hunter or a fisherman, and his off- l spring are not brought up in an enviropuiA-iit of kindness toward! either wild or domestic animals. | , Most hoys go through a period i , when they seem to be experiencing i , the sensations and tendencies of , remote ancestors in the savage i miiua: n lu w»c .XI '

state. The scouts will have to pass : through this period rapidly. The scout is to be obedient. •' Major Higginson was just saying] that obedience is a virtue which 1 often contributes to large serviceableness. During tlje past fifty, years the- American people have ametimes lost sight of the good ef-] fecta of habitual obedience. Indeed. they have sometimes rebelled against oliedience. A partial explanation of this state of mind is that in the factory industries one has to obey not a superior, such as s teacher or a very skillful artisan, hut a machine. Tending machinery involves an incessant and urgent obedience to the motions of the machine and to its speed. To tend a nlaclnne properly is to give it the most watchful obedience ; 1 but obedieucc'to a" machine is more obedience to a superior person who is befriending or teaching one. To Whom is the 'seOtit to la- obedient! "To his parents, -his patrol leader. I his scout master, and all other , duly constituted authorities." — that is. that precept is thoroughly: republican. Stlfblp" republics de- 1 pend on the obedience of citizens to duly constituted authority, eonstitnted usually by the action of the majority of the voters: and the , difference between the American , Republic and the Mexican is that ( the people of the United States are | obedient to duly constituted an- ( thority. and the Mexican people | are not. Very wholesome teaching is contained in this clause of the] scout code. This is the way of civilization, this is the way of pro- ( cress, through ol>edien<?e to duly j } constituted" authority. , STRANGE MIGRATIONS ' OF FISH,' In the March American Maga-,' zine Cleveland Moffett writes an-!1 other article in his new "Doing the ] ' Impossible" series. The present1' article is entitled. "Living Won-]' ders of the Deep Sea," and it is a,' report of important discoveries re-;' eentlv made by oceanograpliers, ' 1 fishing three or four miles down in ' the sea. In the following extract,1 taken from tlie- article Mr. Moffett describes some of the strange migrations of deep sea fish : "Experiments by Professor! Agassiz on the 'Albatross.' and byi other oceauogfaphers, have clearly) demonstrated that various species' of deep dwelling fish practice an| up and down migration from the lowest depths, where they pass the i day. a mile or two beneath the sur- 1 < face, to higher levels of the ocean, ]i higher, to which levels they rise at | * half a mile, or a mile or two miles • c night. Tliis seems to be their reg- •

ular scheme of existence, up at night, down in the daytime. Some tlof these deep dwellers, when dark- ; ness falls, ascend almost to the: , ocean surface and then, having ac1- complished thpir purpose, descend . again. r "What is their puropsef It is j the simple and natural one of get t ting food for themselves, food be- - ing more abundant in the upper ' levels than in the depths. And , ! they come up at night because . | many of the fierce top-dwelling • i fish, swift darting mackerel, for » instance, are unable to see at night. . which leaves the slow and pun.v >] depth dwellers free to feed oni ; small shrimps, crustaceans, fisli . larvae, etc., that float abundantly i [ at and near the surface, whereas r in daylight they themselves would I • be devoured by their powerful en- , | cmies. These upward migrators-] . from the depths have enormous | ••yes which, doubtless, enable them i • to see perfectly in the moon snd ] ; star light, diffused through the up-j ■ ' per levels, that must seem to them j .] ':->ntlv illuminated .after the] i utter darkness below. "It may he mentioned that the] [ method by which these deep sea i i fisli accomplish their nightly verti-' • ] cal migration is very much of a ■ | mystery, as there is a difference [ • the near surface water j • and that at a three-mile, • depth of several tons to the square ' How do these weak, frail] creatures accommodate themselves . to this enormous pressure below 1 . ! and then to the release of this presI'nre above* What saves them from the double peril of being crushed ] as they eo down or blown to pieces i hv the force of gases released from j ■ their bodies as they go up! And ihow do they alter their specific] gravity so as to ascend for a mile1 ;or two at mil and then descend for ! a mile or two. it lieing noted thai '•they have no air bladders!" | If every one of the million trains opj era ted on the Pennsylvania Railroad | J system in 1014 had arrival and depa-t- j I own particular route without a sem- j of a train accident, 19 people, j 6 biance or train accmeni, in people. |

s ' classed in the ^Interstate Commerce I j Commission's accident reports as pas- ] - j wagers, would have been kilfed."- ? As it was. not a single passenger was , killed in a train accident on the entire , " , Pennsylvania system of 26.198 miles of ; f | track. Yet nineteen so-called passcn- ' B gers were killed. "{ This is the way they lost their lives | " on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1914: j 1 ■ Six people in falling, jumping or slip- ] ping from moving cars or trains; f 1 1- Two. in attempting to get on moving ] ' i Two. slipping off , station platform in ' ' front of trains : * ] Two. standing ton close to edge of " station platform and being struck by: . trains; ' One, jumping off ferry boat : '• One, throwing himself between cars] ^ of moving train . Three, crossing tracks at stations in [ front of trains; * ] One. struck by coach and thrown j ' J One. aasaulted by another passenger and thrown from train. ; The railroad was powerless to prevent : '< ' these fatalities. It is railroad accidents i I , of this kind that help to swell the acci- 1 i 1 , dent- statistics of the carriers of the i < Three hundred and one human beings | ' who wore or might have been useful j I , and women — people who trespassed > I on the property of the Pennsylvania J .railroad — were killed in 1914. These - deaths arc charged to so-railed "rail- ; < road accidents."' yet the railroad was j I ] , powerless to prevent them. c ii Those killed- in 1914 -on the Pennsyl-,1 (vania Railroad while trespassing include |1 people from all walks of life; students, j 1 lawyers, painters, salesmen, miners, sol- } 1 • diers. stationery engineers, and others. J The Pennsylvania Railroad has lor I- : years conducted an aggrestsve 1 1 campaign against trespassing^aM ihe j t ] dangerous practice of stealingTMca on | S j trains. Some idea of the awful waste 1 I 'of human life caused by trespassing on •' I railroad property — an evil ■ to which 1 - thousands of deaths are due every year I ! —can be gained from figures, showing •' ! the fatalities from that cause on the I {Pennsylvania Railroad oast of Pitts- 1 i alone in the past eight yCars. This 1 . lis the record: iYear S umber Killed 1907 572 1908 475 | 1909 410 I 1910 336 , I 1911 r...... 338 « 1812 256 J 1913 311 ) 1914 301 J | The railroad management will redouble its efforts this year to reduce the £ ] practice of trespassing. To this end it | will seek the co-operation of all. county. C •city and borough authorities along its a lines.

it BALKAN STATESMAN'S PBEe DICTION ABOUT THE WAR < i- — — e I To conclude, then, we can say 1 1 with certainty that the Russians j 1 d and their allies have the best of it, [ 1 and that this terrilbe struggle will j ] is end in the complete defeat of Oer- - t many and Austria-Hungary. I ' • • And what will be the result? I r The outcome of the present war ] * d may be conceived thus : . I e First : Russia will expand a* j ' g the expense of Austria-Hungary. ] i r will annex Galicia, and will de |l !, mand from Turkey the occupation ■ v of Constantinople and a part «.fj' niAsia Minor. ]1 li : Second : France will regain her j i y j two former provinces of Aisac.'j island Lorraine. d i Third : England will be benefit- ' i - ted by gaining possession of the ' vyTJerman colonies, as well as a part • is j of Asia Minor. " l Fourth : - Belgium will receive ' d j as recompense for her stoic reais- ' >- : tariff the Duchy of Luxemburg., n , Fifth : The two kindred king- j r e-doras of Servia and Montenegro' will receive as a reward for a I ■ <■ ] struggle not less stoical, the two]'' a j Austrian provinces peopled by the i v i- ' Serb race. a' Sixjh^ Italy as a reward forji e her neutrality would receive the v r I provinces of Austria-Hungar}- in-lp 0 j habited by Italians. |' e j Seventh: Rou mania for tliejii 1 same reason would receive Bulko- j p s ! vin.a. an Austrian province peo- ii v I pled largely by Roumanians. j " i- j As to Turkey, which has beenjd 11 1 dragged into the war by German , ' d political intrigue, she will be erjs- ] <• s | ed from the map as an. independ- 1$ t i ent country. Tt will he the same , ;< d : with Albania : for her inhabitants. 1 1 c!who are in a state of perpetm l o p 1 anarchy, cannot long exist as an ; s, r ; independent people. | e • J This. then, is my view of the } jenditions that will be imposed S| : upon the conquered. Perhaps] . changes may lie even greater; for jo j it is possible that Austria-Hun- 1 < . jgarv like Turkey, may cease fo|tl « ! exist as an independent empin-. j ti . jNor is it inconceivable that certain , !• .. I provinces might lie snatched frx^n : i«

c Germany, as for example Germin i . Poland. But here -vou have inlaj :few words my opinion of the n ] tual srtuation now existing |n j ^ ] Europe, and mj' predictions f(>r f the future. — Fro.n "Europe — Jjf- . Iter the War." by Dr. Yovitclfe- . i ritch. in the American Review of • ' Reviews for March.

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AS TO FISH The Pound Fishermen's Association is squaring itself to fight the; i movement in the direction of elim- j , inating pound nets along the New • ■Jersey coast. j It is claimed that .two-thirds of1 1 1 the fish taken in New Jersey wa-' I : ters are shipped out of the state i and that the pound net fishermen] controlied by a fish trust. \ The fishermen deny this, and de- 1 clare that they are enemies of the] j trusts. Last summer it was dem-j onstrated in Newark, that it wasi ] possible to get fish directly from ! the ocean into the municipal marwhere thqy were sold at thej' rate of six cents a pound at a fair | profit. j1 Before this move was made hv 1 j the authorities of Newark, fish .ifjl •the same varieties were bringing I sixteen cents a pound in private j! markets. There is apparently a j screw loose somewhere. It may not!1 wise to drive the pound fisher- j1 out of business, hut there ■ should ba some way found to keep 1 the price of sea food taken from • Jersey waters and sold to Jersey citizens, down to a reasonable figure. 1 ET MOTHERS OHX.Y KNEW . Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for relieve Feverlshness. Head- I ache. Bad Stomach. Toethlnc Disorders. 1 and regulate the Bowels and de- i stroy worms. They break up Colds in hours. L'sed by mothers for 26 ' All Drucclsts. 25c, Sample free. Address A- S. Olmsted. I-eRov N Y 2-18-4 HEATERS AMD RANGES. Call and see our line of Stove Boards, Hods. Oil Cloths, Stove Blacking and enamels. JESSE M. BROWN -

Control for all time of the Pruidcntial insurance Company of America by its nearly 13 million policyholaers has been effected under the mutualization plan, ac- • mording to a statement issued by President Forrest F. Dryden. Mueh^bf the Prudential insurance | lias' been written on a non-partici- ! paring basis, but from now on, jwitu the exception of holders of • l>olicics issued in exchange for lapsed insurance, the entire business will participate in the Comjpany's surplus earnings, without I any increase in premium rates, j Those who have non-participating , policies will share in this distribution of the Company's earnings. ; What this actually means is that 1 1 lie control, of $361,459,866.05 of 1'i-udential assets, with liabilities ,of $324,978,566.51, and surplus and capital of $36,481,299.54, will hereafter be vested absolutely in the great army of holders of Prudential policies, and that they will ] manage this interest through a direetorate selected by tlienisclves. ] Coining as it docs at this time. Mr. Dryden 's announcement is of . ••special interest, inasmuch as 1914 ! was the greatest year in Prudential history. The Company, during that twelvemonths broke all world's records for volume of : paid-for business, writing more | than any life insurance company j in the world, and at the lowest exrate in its history. This business totaled $518,963,821, of * which $346,782,340 was in the In- ® j. lust rial class and $172,181,481 " Ordinary, while the total is an in- ( ; crease in paid-for insurance of k | $185,599,328. The aggregate i amount of Prudential business on the Company's hooks at the close <»f 1914 was $2,592,478,248. representing 12.835,645 separate poli- £ In his statement Mr. Dryden ! sa.vs. among other things — "Over ninety per cent, of the outstanding capital stock of the Company has been purchased from the Company's surplus funds and transferred to the Honorable Austen Colgate as trustee for the polThe success of mutual- ™ II'.. Ituiuci .-1. 1 lie .">ucve»B ui IUUIUHI-

1 1 ization does not depend upon the i ] acquisition of the remaining stock. -jThe Stock already acquired gives i j to the policyholders control of the • Company for all tijne. "From this time, therefore, all - Prudential policyholders, except i the holders of policies issued in exchange for lapsed policies, will receive their proportion of the Company's earnings, which will be distributed among them in the form [of dividends. S^ich distribution will give to non-iarticipating policyholders benefit not called for bv the policy eqitracts. and *to | participating policyholders in adjdition to those wiich they would j otherw ise receive.] The first distribution of diviiinds. as the result of mutualizamn proceedings, j will be made in thi year 1916. "The purpose < the Company ; is to pay -dividcni on Industrial j policies not later lan five years "j from the date of is u\ and annua I- | ly thereafter, an< on Interinedi- . ate and Ordinary policies not , ; later than two veai from the date Jof issue, and annt lly thereafter.] provided that all ue premiums .have been paid. p "The Company ies not eon- , tempjate any incre :• in its prem^•iurn rates. 'i "1 take this opp tunity .to ex- ' press the appreciati of the Com- ! ]pany of tlie loyalty hown by our] field force during 1 • progress of i 'j these proceedirifes. Ve recogniy.e j ] that the length of t e necessarily ! ['required for their msuinmation ! has been a serious ic nvenience to ! . the force. We feel, owever. that! 1 j the Company, its lolicvholders j and its producing ree will be I . ' amply compensated ' the fact I • that the entire proo dings have , 1 been taken under 11 supervision * ] of the Chancellor of he State of t j New Jersey. The ce paid to ' i stockholders, having teen fixed • not by private negot ion but by ! , judicial determinatio guarantees ] ] to our policyholder! that such j price is not in exces f the true ; . value of the stock pu ased. ! "The final approval ven bv the j = Chancellor is an assur le that the | policyholders' rights lave been! fully safeguarded in <*y respect, j . This statement emphlzes anew! the determination of tiCompanyj/ to do all in its power fats "policy- _ ' ' CASTOllA For Infants and Clarea In Us« For Over 3pears L Always bears I i Signature of J 1

HORSES FOR SALE Constantly on hand all sorts of hordes from the heapest to the best, any size or kind. Just write what you want and I will send it on 10 days trial and will take it away if nol satisfactory. You positively take no chance as the animal Must Suit You. Remember that the guarantee is good on Horses ; Co we .sold at Auction as well as at private sales. Most of Cape May County horses come from Woodbine, on account of square dealings. MAX POTASHNICK ^ Woodbine, N. J. STOP ! LOOK ! LI STEN FOR THE WAGON New Line of Embroidery from 1 inch to a yard wide, to 75c a yard. Lace Sash Curtains with loops. Anything you want is right in the wagon. Store open evenings and stormy days. J. Laventhol 319 WASHINGTON STREET

I WHEN FURNISHING A SUMMER HOME 's whether it be a cozy bungalow or a magnificent mansion, it is of first e importance to secure tlie aid of a reliable dealer. Your comfort and I] pleasure depend on your selection not for a day only as with many ,t purchases, but for years to come, and, a large percentage of the cost :- can be saved by the advice and assistance of an experienced dealer. WENTZELL'S, 33 Perry Street n Refrigerators' of tried and proven qi&lity. New importation of □ mattings. New Linoleums, Crex Grass Rug6. Everything in house I- furnishings. Come in and see. r — — — — ' ~ • £2 to H. C. BOHM 232 JACKSON STREET FOR FRESH FISH ~ Taken from hia'own fish pound daily ALL OTHER SEA FOODS IN SEASON Both Phones Prompt Deliveries Elwood L. Chamber. Jere E. Chamber. 1 -

Chambers Bros. DEALERS IN Fresh Fish, Oysters, Clams and Crab Meat. 322 MANSION STREET CAPE MAY, N. J. Auto Delivery Keystone Phone 2^8D Bell Phone 17W DERR'S ICE CREAM Special Attention to Family Trade. Orders Promptly Delivered Factory, 314 Mansion St Dining Room, 313 wa#tjJ2J&°* TABLE D'HOTE DINNERS A SPECIALTY Keystone Fbone 5a A GET AN EASY PUMPING WELL F.GOODELL ELDREDGE ARTESIAN AND DRIVEN WELLS. Non.corro.ir. points n.ed eaclu.irely. 153 York Are,, We.t Cape Mar ~ FOR PAYING RESULTS Advertise in f The Star and Wave i