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"Of coursem agreed the Barnard girl,
warmly.
"a warm welcome7" queried the Rad
cliffe girl
Yes. all sorts of little surprises
piles of chairs as high as the ceiling
that they have to climb over or crawl
under. and locked doors, and interrupt
tions on the way. oh. no personal vio-
lence-just q little annoyance. you
know. And we make up songs about
them
Come Early aud Avoid the Rush.
and Green Grow the Rushes o. and
our pet one-this is it."
Running to the piano. the Bryn Mawr
girl sang gayly. to the melody Of Ties
sie":
Hi. hi. here comes the freshest mushrooms
Bryn Mawr has ever seen;
They grow and sprout upon the campus
And they the greenest green
And so on, through a number OF
verses all deriding the 'verdant fresh
man.
Green was our class color. anyway.
that year." she explained as she left
the piano.
When it comes to electing their.chair-
man, as they have to do the very first
evening they reach college" she went
on, beginning once more to eat fudge,
the freshies have more trouble. We
break up their meetings and make them
all sorts of bother, and once we even
abducted the chairman that we knew
they were going to elect. One of the
sophomores lured her away somewhere,
I don't know how or where; but, any
way, she didn't turn up at the meet
ing"
That reminds me-" said the girl from
Smith, "of the time that they stopped
me from going to chapel when I was a
freshman. I was by way of being very
I waSl-and I'd made e. point of never
even being late for chapel. Well. those
wretches came early one morning and
tied me to my Morris chair before
was even dressed and left me there, so
I missed chapel altogether, and after 1t
was entirely over they came back very
politely and united me!''
"I thought you never had hazing at
Smith," said the girl from Vassar.
Is That Hazing?
Its all fun" pursued the Smith girl,
Indignantly. You don't call that haz-
ing, do your
well. no." said the vassar girl. al
though from days of experience. per
haps not. but 1 shouldn't call IL not
hazing, either"
ITS all fun" pursued the Smith girl.
earnestly Now. when they put ice in
your bed it's only a joke"
ice in your bedr' gasped the Rad
cliffe girl.
Il got into bed late one night" said
the Smith girl. THE lights are turned
out you know, at ten, so I u1dressed
and turned in in the dark A girl had
put big pieces and sheets OF ice in my
bed and I screamed blue murder.
knew who had done it and went and
dragged her in. We broke up the ice
and had an ice fight there in the dark.
And I got a cut across my nose that
looked-that looked"-and she hesi-
tated.
'As if you had been I'm a fight" sug-
gested the Barnard girl
Quite so" laughed the girl from
Smith.
Those 10 o'clock regulations are an
awful nuisance, aren't they?" said the
Wellesley girl. I'VE used to pin up
blankets at the windows to keep the
night watchman from seeing the lights
from the outside. He has a sort OF
chart with names and windows and
things all nicely marked on it and he
checks off the lights with pencil"
''Whe2 &c pack up before vacation, .
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away AeAEy eVgxy pair Of stockings
that the whole class possessed, open
work or not. Do you suppose they
stayed at home? Not bit Of it, They
got out ink and shoeblacking and wa
ter colors and colored their insteps
ana ankles in beautiful openwork de-
signs And they came to the dance
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and announce stubbornly that there Is
no hazing at Vassar-to speak ofiss sts
added with meaning.
Nor at Radcliffe" Nor at Barnard >.
Nor at Wellesley" Nor at SnoIth ;,
Nor at Bryn' Mawr. Nor at the
Wesleyan, now!'' were the cries thaf
answered her.
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and took all our men away from us.
You never in all your life saw any
thing like imitation stockings worn by
the freshman class that night
Are you very hard on your fresh
men?" asked the Barnard girl.
"Oh, no." exclaimed the Bryn Mawr
girl, I'VE only won't let them wear
caps and gowns, or low-necked dresses,
or after-d dinner black coffee-till after
Thanksgiving, and of course we make
them give us the right of way when
they meet us"
. "Of course-' agreed the Barnard girl.
I'VE do all that, only we won't let
them even wear hair ribbons. And in
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26

The defenders of the Constitution and special champions of
our liberties have discovered another Roosevelt crime. Hidden
away in the Presidents Provincetown speech-but nothing could
escape their vigi1ant and sleepless eyes-they found this awful
paragraph:
There is unfortunately a certain number of our fellow citizens
who seem to accept the view that unless a man can be proved
guilty of some particular crime he shall be accounted a good
citizen.
To be candid, there were few of us who realized the scandal
Gus character of that doctrine. But the Elect saw it, spotted
it first thing, and they have circulated, free of charge, their
views of the matter.
Really, the President ought to know better. He ought to
understand that men who manage to keep out of Jail and throw
a front are our first citzer" Never mind if they were guilty
of shady practses. Never mind if they did bride public
officials. Never mind if they violated the laws. Never mind
if they INDUCED in grating. Never mind if they skinned their
associates, shirked their civic obligations, gouged their employees,
played the part of Shylock, i1treated their families or were
guilty of foul ingrattude.
That counts for nothing SO long a they have evaded CON
Iviction by a jury in a criminal court. Such is the unwriten
law as was proclaimed many, many years ago for the protec-
ton of the intellectual rogue who tries to conduct his rascah-
ties within the law and would succeed in doing so if the law
were framed just right. from his point of view. We must not
go behind the returns. We must assume that the man whose
guilt you can't prove by legal evidence is, therefore, a fine,
ibe wretch, capable of any meanness, deceit or trickery, so
long as his skin is reasonably safe.
In teaching a contrary gospel President Roosevelt is surely
pointed mentors tells us that
"No red shirt behind a Paris barricade ever yelled an ex-
hortation to law1essnes one-millionth part SO dangerous as this
unparalleled speech by the head of a nation.
IT'S good to have someone to look after us and warn us
against false Prophets. Left to our own miserable selves wee
be foolish enough to applaud the Presidents declaration and
say, Amen" M.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
The Number sever.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
I am n years old and / live in a No. II
house. but what / want to now is what
the number 7 means as used so often in
the Bible. SEPTEM.
TSeven is the mystical and symbolical
number not only in the Bible, but also
among the Persians. Indians, Egyptians,
Greeks. Romans and other nations OF
antiquity. Various reasons have been
given for the preference for this number
in sacred use-all equally vague. On ex-
PLANTATION is that 1t consists of 3-the
number Of the sides of a triangle-and 4,
the sides of a square, these being the
simplest rectillineal figures. Again. 3
stands for the spiritual (the Trinity and
for the material dour elements), and the
combination represents the medal or SUI
perHatural sphere. The astronomical or
astrological explanation is In the observa-
ton Of the seven planets and the phases
of the mountaineering every seventh day.
The whole matter is le%arnedly examined
in an article based on a German treatise
in the Essays of James Hadley, pub
lished> in 1S73.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Newark,s Gain.


The work of converting Newark, N. j.,
into a seaport begins this week. That city
was a beneficiary to the extent of a half
million dollars in the river and harbor
distribution of the last Congress-, and t
the money is wisely and honestly expend-
ed It should add considerable to her bust
ness development and welfare. The pur-
pose of the appropriation Is to make a
deep channel through Newark Bay and
the Passaic River. eleven miles long, with
a minimum depth of sixteen feet of low
water. Newark is already a large manu-
featuring centre. with Paterson, Passaic
and Trenton within easy communicable
distance, When the new port Is COM
pleted all these industrial cities can ship
direct without sending their products to
New York for transhipment. That Sec
ton of New Jersey will make by the en-
~terprise going and coming. The material
excavated will be used in filling a tract
of low-lying meadows located between the
Passaic and the Hackensack rivers,
whereby over three thousand acres of salt
marsh will be converted into tillable n
productive land or else used for building
purposes, as 1t suggests eligible sites for
factories. Still farther up the tunnels
under the Hudson are starting booms in
Northern New Jersey real estate, as that
section will come into sharp competition
with the outlying portions Of Greater New
York as a place of homes for its overflow
population. Many things are coming to
New Jersey without costing her much.
Yet she is not entirely happy.-Boston
Transcript.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
A PICNIC wH1LE IT LASTS.

The State launch Protector, main
tanned at a large expense to the State
treasury by the State Fish and Game
Commission for pleasure trips, has
been doing more than the usual
amount of service in that way this
summer. The old State commission
has not yet been ousted. President,
Secretary and Treasurer Morris con-
tinues to draw the State appropria-
tions and spend the money, and Game
Protector Stratton, who is supposed to
have charge of the launch, is on
tinued in office and authority. AS
Governor Stokes has selected a new
State commission, pending the aboli-
ton of the old. it is only a question
when the latter will have to 60. and
evidently they are making the most
of their official opportunities. The
Hahn committee proposes to inquire
into the recent uses of the State
launch. If, as charged. any part of
the State appropriation has been used
to pay the expenses of the pleasure
trips the Ease is n for criminal in
dictment for misrepresentation of the
public money. The committee should
make close inquiry, also into all the
expenditures by President, Secretary
and Treasurer Morris since the COM
mittee concluded it's investigation of
the COMMISSIONS affairs.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
coNr1DENcE ON BOTH SIDES.

With the leaders of both the great
political parties in this State confident
of carrying the state election in No
vember the contest to be opened next
month will be one of the liveliest since
1895, when the first of a line of Republic
can Governors was elected in the per-
son of John w. Griggs.
It must be confessed by the Republic
can leaders that there is more real
basis for Democratic confidence this
year than there was in the last election
for Governor. when the Democrats fully
expected to elect Charles C. Black to
the office. The Republicans were not
handicapped that year by factional diff
ferences and there had been no investi-
cation of State affairs to develop great
scandals in the State offices. There
was no independent bolt in East Jersey
and even Mayor Pagan, of Jersey City,
was on the stump for the organization
ticket. On the other hand, the Demo-
Gratis were not well organized and were
split up In factions. This year they
appear to have compromised their diff
ferences and pooled their issues. The
evidence is they will present a united
front in the campaign in the fall.
But there is solid ground for Repub-
lican hopes of success, and it is found
in the legislation of the last two years.
The railroad tax law and other impor-
tant acts of Republican legislation can
not be lost upon the voters of the State
and will be brought into prominence in
the campaign. A great deal also will
depend upon the personalities of the
~gubernatorial candidates. If the Re-
publicans shall nominate Judge Fort
they will have on the stump one of the
most vigorous and effective campaign
speakers the State has produced. There
is no Democratic candidate mentioned
who could match him as an orator.
Leon Albeit in 1883 fairly elected him
self by his magnetic oratory. Judge
Dixon, who was no orator and who
made no speeches, was beaten by stump
oratory. No Democratic candidate for
Governor since Abbett's time was a
good campaign speaker.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
HOW RAILROAD TAX REFORM ORIG.
MATED.

Senator Colby Is quoted by a Tribune
for the equal taxation of railroad prop
erty and individual property originated
In a local campaign by Mayor Pagan in
Jersey City. and spread throughout
the State" when the League for Equal
Taxation and Limited Franchises was
started. Senator Colby adds:
Where or how the name New Idea
came to be applied to the movement I
do not know. I presume that the idea
of a railroad being taxed at local rates
was new. and that the men who fought
for It were known to be championing
this new idea, hence, I suppose, the
name"
1t is singular that the Essex Senator
should know SO little about the agita-
tion for equal taxation in New Jersey,
an agitation at least a quarter of a cen
tury old, n conducted at times with
fierce heat in the Legislature. For
many years the railroads maintained n
powerful lobby at Trenton to prevent
the enactment of laws increasing their
taxes, and they combined in 1884 to
fight in the courts the railroad tax law
passed that year.
The literature of railroad tax reform
is accessible to everybody in newspaper
articles, commission reports and legis-
lative debates, and those who lately
Joined the movement for railroad tax
reform can read it for their enlighten-
ment. 1t should be observed hat the
New Idea" originated in Essex County
without reference to railroad taxation,
the issue being franchise limitation. 1t
just picked up the question or the way
and at a time when the question was
on the point of settlement.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
1MpARr1AL ENroRcrMrNr.

An impartial enforcement of the Sun
day laws. as advocated by Senator
Colby, would affect other interests be-
sides the saioonkeeper. 1t would put
an end to all traffic on Sunday and
curtail many of the ordinary diversions
of people on that day. Under the State
laws a nan was recently punished in
South Jersey for selling a plate of ice
cream on Sunday, and in another town
a vendor of peanuts was fined two dol
lars for h offense of selling a package
of peanuts on Sunday.
Newark is under the same law, but
while Ice cream and peanuts are shame
lessly Haunted in the very face of
the law on q Sunday the law
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
THE BArr1EsH1ps FOR THE PACIFIC

A date late in November has been
fixed for the sailing of the battleship
fleet to the Pacific and the purpose
is to keep the fleet at sea during the
entire cruise, without harborage at any
point. The auxiliaries will therefore
include a fleet of GOLFERS and a repair
ship. The cruise will therefore be a
splendid test of the efficiency of the
ships and of the formation of the
fleet.
The opposition to this move by the
Government has been exerted in many
ways, and it comes principally from in
~terests that profit by the presence Of
the fleet in Atlantic waters. Every
firm that sells naval supplies or has
work to do for the navy, or that de-
ponds in any way on naval custom,
has made protest and Influenced others
to protest. The doubts about the policy
of the Governments action are in
spired from these selfish sources. The
battleship feet is not maintained for
the profit of any commercial class, but
for the benefit of the nation, and its
presence in Pacific waters is demanded
for some time.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
MONDAY, AUGUST &c. 1907.
FOR THE SENATE TO ACT.

From the nettle danger we pluck
the flower safety" The Senate when
1t meets with the House next month
can do much by judicious legislation
to offset the effect of the disclosures
of the Hahn investigating committee.
Nor should 1t place any dependence
whatever upon the effect of what nay
be developed by its special committee
in the investigation of municipal and
county affairs. Nothing that can be
brought out in such investigation will
serve to take the edge off OF the scan
dals in State boards and commissions
probed by the Hahn committees
The Senate should have a plan of
action when 1t meets. This should
embrace radical reforms in all the
departments of the State government
in which reform Is demanded. The
academic legislation lately so solemnly
discussed can be set aside. There is
no real public interest in it. There is
real public interest in the necessity for
reforms indicated by the present in
v~estigation. If the Legislature should
do its duty in that respect It will
atone in the public mind for the
shameful things that have been SO 'un-
pleasantly shown up
Governor Stokes is not unmindful
of the great necessities of the situa-
ton. 1t would do him high credit in
closing his term to take up all the re-
forms that are now so clearly needed
and set them forth in an earnest mes
sage to the Legislature. If the Sen
ate has been lacking in the spirit of
itiative in practical reforms. And it
need not waste time on anything else.
The Assembly can well enough af-
ford, from a partisan view. to let the
session end without the accomplish
ment of a single reform in.legislation.
1t is enough for the Assembly that the
= disclosures have been made. The
Senate occupies a different position
and it represents the Republican or
ganization in the State. If the party
leaders at Trenton do not perceive the
necessities of the situation and act
they are blind to party interests and
they invite a party disaster.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26

Secretary Cortelyou's plan for helping
the banks to tide over the period when
extraordinary demands are made for
moving the crops is certainly preferable
to that of waiting until the pinch comes
and then depositing large sums in a few
banks. The secretary proposes to an
ticipate an acute stringency by making
deposits in widely separated places,
where the need for currency is greatest.
He will not confine the deposits TO a
few New York banks, as his predeces-
sor did. What with the customs re-
ceipts and treasury balances there will
be an ample amount of money for the
purposes intended.
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less purveyors thereof are untouched.
An impartial enforcement of the Sun
day law calls for the same law for all
who sell on a6unday, for the private
club as well as the public saloon. and
for cigars, ice cream and peanuts. as
well as lager beer. There should be no
discrimination and no exceptions in the
carrying out of the Law. 5
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26


The peanut has come into its own. For
years scientists have prated of the great
food value of the more or less despised
goober, but 1t has never assumed an Inn
portance commensurate with these econ
iums. Its value has been limited to its
distribution in scent sacks at the baseball
games and ~circuses.
Oklahoma, almost a State, has already
decided that the peanut shall be one of its
chief products. 1t shall be made into flour
and butter and various other things, and
the words of the scientists shall not have
been for naught. Were it not for an I'M
fortunate political connotation 1t is possi-
Bile that Oklahoma might rejoice in the
name of the Peanut State" At any rate,
she deserves credit for progressiveness
and originality, May the peanut live long
and make Oklahoma prosper. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26

In his speech at Lexington Secretary
Taft again showed himself distinctively
the safe and sane man in politics, his ju-
dicial training serving him well in hold
ing a nice balance between two sharply
a~ntagonistic opinions or prejudices. His
handling of the negro question was in
every way admirable. showing an equally
sympathetic appreciation of the position
of each of the classes involved. That the
negro should, because of his color, neither
be deprived of any privileges nor have any
privileges is the sound substance of his
doctrine. Both the Southern whites and
the Southern blacks could feel entirely at
ease with him In the White House.-Prov-
idence Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26

Senator Colby has doubtless been
informed that during his absence in
Europe the story got u that n of
the leading opponents of the New Idea
was one of the first of the brigade of
office-seekers to make application to
the Governor for appointment to the
office of Secretary of State, after Gov
ernor Stokes had requested the resigr
nation of Colonel Sam Dickinson. In
an address last week Senator Colby
said that the men who represent the
New Idea are not in politics for official
emolument, but there appears to be one
man who is there with both feet
Who is he. and why should he net be
disavowed? Or is the organization no
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
Enmous Men.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Kindly inform me through your columns
who were Brahms, Counoo, Jbsen, Turge-
NEW and Theodore Korner. Were they
poets, composers of music or authors? l
could not. find their names in a handy en-
cyclopedia? HARRY
Johannes Brahms, German musician
QS3S-1S97), was the composer of sym
phonies, overtures and other orchestral
and choral works. His admirers consider
him a true successor to Beethoven.
Charles Francois Gounod. whom, judging
phonetically, you probably mean by the
second name given, was q French COM
poser QS1S-1S93), composer of Faust and
other well-known operas. Henrik 1bsen
C1S1S-19O6). Norwegian dramatist, is author
of the famous plays Ghosts" THE Mas
ter Builder" "a Dolls House." The Wild
Duck" "Hedda Gabter," al Enemy OF
the People, etc. Ivan Sergeerich Tur-
genev, Russian novelist (1S1S-1SS3), wrote
Fathers and Sons and numerous other
novels. Karl Theodor Koerner Q791-1s1S)
was a German poet and soldier.-Ed.1
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An Irish witness was being examined
as to his knowledge of a shooting az,
fair. Did you see the shot hfeo
asked the Judge.
mo, SOFT only heard it," was the
evasive answer. :,
That evidence is not satisfactory
replied the judge sternly; stand down.
The witness on leaving the o thrneo
his back and laughed derisively. me
Judge. at the contempt of
court, called him back and asked him
how he dared to laugh.
Did you see me laugh. yer honor!
asked the offender calmly. No, SIR
but I heard YOU was the irate reply
That evidence is not satisfactory
rejoined Pat quietly, with a twinkle In
his eye.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.