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PASTORS IN BUSINESS.

Prices of necessaries have greatly in
creased. Wages have advanced, but it
does not appear that there has been
any increase in the average clerical sal
airy. which has always been low. The
underpaid minister supports his family,
if he has one, on the same amount of
income, which has been reduced prob
ably 30 per cent. in purchasing power.
Accordingly it should not excite sur
prise when ministers abandon the pull
pit to take up some bread-winning &C.
cupation. A dispatch from Pittsburg
says that pastors in that city are for
saking the pulpit to engage in the life
insurance business. Within the last
two years a score have given up their
charges and gone into the business, and
all of them are earning fair incomes.
One minister explains: Il do not quit
from choice. but from necessity. It is
not altogether a matter of money con-
sideration, but in consideration of the
higher cost of living. No charge has
offered itself that l think the salary
would justify my accepting" But it is
not every clergyman who is fitted for
secular affairs. The training of the
seminary is not calculated to develop
the business instinct. Pastors gener-
ally who are struggling along on small
salaries, and whose congregations are
too pool or too thrifty to pay more,
will nave to wait for a collapse of in
fiated prices. And the collapse will
come.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
ARRAIGNEp.

The e~ncyclical issued by the Vatican
and made public yesterday condemns
the ideas embraced in the term mod
ernism" as a peril to the church, and
i~nstructs the clergy as to their attitude
and duties in the matter. The ency-
clical lays down no new rules for the
church, but simply asserts and empha-
sizes a discipline that has been relaxed
to such an extent that some Catholic
pastors and teachers nave adopted and
disseminated ideas which the church
holds to be contrary to doctrine.
Teachers indoctrinated with modern
ism are to be dismissed and church au-
thorities are to exercise greater care in
respect to the literature that is circu-
lated and read among the faithful.
This deliverance to the Catholic
world at large is calculated to excite a
wide controversy. The encyclical says:
Modernism is a peril for the church.
Its reforms in faith, philosophy, the
ology and history are all errors and
drive those who believe in them to
atheism" The scholastic world will in
stantly ask questions and open up the
whole subject of science and philos-
ophy and religion. The modernism
thus condemned, 1t should be OBJ
served, affects the integrity of all
| Christian dogma, for all comes from
the same s~criptural source. The ideas
of the free thinking philosophers are no
less repugnant to Geneva than to
Rome.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

A Chicago man. while travelling in the
Southwest, CHANGED not long g to
put up al a "hotel' where a number Of
State Senators were stopping, on their
way to the capital.
At table their conversation soon re-
vealed to the other guests that they
were newly elected 'Solons," full of
the dignity of their new honors, and
anxious to impress everybody accord
ingly.
These gentlemen caused the Chicago
man to feel no little fatigue. 1t was.
will the gentleman from D~odgeville
have the butterT" and, will the gen.
tleman from iCentretown pass the
bread?" and, Does the gentleman from
Jungtown Junction care for the
pickles?" ETC., ETC., etc, a nauseam.
Even the natives were beginning to
suuirm nde these official formalities,
when the Chicago man turned to the
negro waiter, and asked, in his best
manner, "And now will the gentleman
from Ethiopia bring me another cup
of coffee ?'-Harper's weekly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
hudson NOW soI1n For FORT.

Both wings of the Hudson County
convention will support Justice Fort
for the nomination for Governor. The
Regulars in caucus last night unani-
mously decided in favor of his candi-
dacy. In a caucus of the New Idea men,
after five delegates had voted for
Sheriff Sommer. the whole body turned
to Justice Fort. This makes the Hud-
son delegation solid, and as far as any
other candidacy Is concerned it seems
to settle Hudson's choice On the first
ballot in the convention.
The action taken by the New Idea
men in Hudson reveals the line of
cleavage that was opened some time
ago between the organizations in the
two counties. 1t was observed that
the candidacy of Sheriff Sommer
evoked no response in Jersey City and
that it seemed to be d~isfayored by
Mayor Pagan and Corporation Coun-
sci Record. The reason OWNED was
the possible effect of a g~ubernatorial
Endorsement on the contest for Mayor
in Jersey City. There are many sup
porters of Mayor Pagan in that town
to whom the official activity of Sheriff
Sommer in Essex is repugnant, and it
was, therefore, unexpected for the
managers CT the Pagan campaign to
come out fatfooted for the Essex
sheriff.
Unless the unexpected happens on
next Thursday the Republican nomina-
ton for Governor will come to Essex,
and the candidate will be Justice John
Franklin Fort, of East Orange, who
has practically all of south and middle
Jersey, together with his known
strength in north Jersey.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
THE TWO COUNTY PLATFORMS.

Except on the question of h excise
there is not much material difference
in the planks of the Republican and
Democratic county platforms. Both
make practically the same declarations
of State policy. But they differ essen
TALLY, as was expected, in the matter
of a new excise law. While the Re-
publican platform takes both horns Of
the dilemma and favors at once local
option for prohibition and local option
for Sunday selling, the Democratic
platform stands for the latter and ut
terly rejects the proposition for any
kind of prohibition.
OF course the sentiment represented
by the State local option organization
will not stand for either principle.
State Agent Burke, who has been busy
all summer denouncing legislators who
failed to favor a straight-out local OPP
ton prohibition bill with no Sunday at
tachment, has not yet found his voice.
Evidently the organization awaits the
action of the two State conventions,
and it will be on hand at Trenton next
Thursday with demands for it's own
brand of local option and menace of a
wrath to come if it isn't adopted.
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VOLUME LxxvI.-No. 221.
A PUBLIC UTILITIES BILL.

There is little prospect of the enact
ment of a public utilities bill by this
Legislature. The bill prepared by the
Senate special committee may suit the
Senate, but 1t may also be very far
from being acceptable to the House.
That body will in all likelihood bring
up again the Hughes bill and make the
bill its ultimatum.
The struggle between the two houses
on the Railroad Commission bill will
be recalled. It occurred towards the
close of the winter session. and it in
volved prolonged hours, laborious nego-
~tiation, and finally concessions that re-
leased the legislators but put the bill
in the shape to be of no practical use
as a aw. If there is to be any serious
attempt made now to enact an effective
public utilities bill the members of the
two houses can settle down for a pro-
tracted fight.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
SOME SANITY IN PATERSON.

Newark people have been 10th to be-
lieve that the real sentiment of the tax
payers of Paterson on the subject of a
trunk sewer is expressed in the vapor-
ings of the Call and Guardian. It is re-
assuring, therefore, to read the common
sense talk of the Paterson Chronicle,
which is in marked contrast to the
twaddle of its two contemporaries. The
city of Paterson, together with the
East Jersey wateryC Company, is respon-
sible for the unconscionable delays that
have characterized the project of puri-
flying the Passaic River.
In sheer stubbornness the Paterson
city authorities nave uselessly ex-
pended many thousands of dollars
merely to obstruct the prosecution of
a great work that Is absolutely neces-
sary for its own salvation. For this
object 1t has twice employed expert en-
gineers to devise some plan by which the
trunk sewer project might be defeated,
and each time the expert has shown
that the cheapest and most practicable
plan is that of a trunk sewer. 1t is
confessed that ever should Paterson
decide to pay a million dollars more for
a local disposal plant than it would
have to pay toward a sewer, there is
no local site t o be had for such a plant
and the municipality would have to get
legislative authority to impose that
nuisance on another municipality, an
injustice that would not be tolerated.
The Chronicle sanely ~deprecates the
stupid ~stubbornness of the attitude as
sumed on behalf of Paterson, and adj
vises that the municipality at least def
initely declare itself, so that the other
municipalities on the river may shape
their plans. If, as has been said, the
idea of the men in control at Paterson
is that when the date for all sewering
into the Passaic shall close they will be
able to hang up the law in the courts
for an indefinite time, they make no
calculation of the conditions that will
exist four or five years hence. There
comes a time when the courts cannot
be used for such a purpose, and when,
indeed, the courts must act quickly
and peremptorily in the face of public
calamity. The men of Paterson are
taking very serious risks for their city
and the consequences may be disas-
trous,
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wears has never been properly hon
ored by this State. and every veteran
feels the neglect. There is a statue to
Kearny in our Military Park, but the
Kearny brigade can take no pride in
a creation that caricatures it's old COM
mander A fitting to COM
memorate both General Kearny and
his brigade would be In acceptable
substitution for the ef1gy that now
stands in Military Park.
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$4,000 to the city appropriation for the
preliminary work. it may fairly be ex-
pected that the commission will try to
make up for lost time by genuine dill
gence. The rule of delay, linger and
wait is about played out. The disgust
caused by the condition of the Passaic
this fall has stirred up a sentiment
that will not now go to sleep. 1t has
given a new determination to the pub
lie to have the sewer built at any cost
and to remove every obstacle that
shall now intervene.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

In round numbers this country re-
ceived 1,40O. 900 immigrants from Europe
during the last fiscal year. This addi-
ton to the population is equal to one
half the population of a number Of
the small states of Europe and South
America. AS soon as landed. the ar
rivals were swallowed up in popu-
lation to begin the process Of assimila-
ton.
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No Mans Land.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
What part of the country was 1t that
used to be called NO Mans Land?"
r. S. p.
ut was a tract Of 1857, $50 acres between
Texas. Kansas and Nebraska, 167 miles
long and 341a miles wide. 1t is also known
as The Neutral Strip and THE Public
Land Strip" When Texas was annexed to
the United States, in March, 1876, its north
ern and western boundaries were uncer-
tain, Texas claiming more than was ceded
by Mexico. BY the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, 1913, the United States acquired
the rights OF Mexico in the disputed ter
ritory. and in 1850 Congress purchased the
claim of Texas for S10,000,000. This con-
sisted of a strip of land just north of the
extreme northern boundary of Texas.
When Oklahoma Territory was organized,
in 1890. mo IN Land" was made a
part of it.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

General Phil Kearny's famous bri-
gade is dwindling in membership, as
are all the veteran organizations
growing out of the Civil War. The
brigade met at Boonton yesterday, and
there We're missing ones at r~oll-cal.
The name of the splendid New Jersey
soldier which the brigade proudly
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other days the exercises will appeal to
the interest of thousands. A combina-
ton of pleasure and philanthropy is al
ways grateful to the mind. and the
volksfest is peculiarly so because all its
features are volunteer and represent
the fraternal and human sentiment
that make for the brotherhood of man.
kind.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

The great round moon came out from
behind a cloud and swan In h open
blue.
Light of my life!" cried the lovesick
youth, dropping on his knees, can you
not see that / rivet, my eyes on you
every time we meet?"
stop" exclaimed the beautiful
maiden, Can you answer my ques-
tion?'
What question:
DO you belong to the riveters
union2"
Crushed and crestfallen he skunk
away in the shadows.-Chicago News.
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The German Hospital does a noble
work and should be nobly supported by
the Newark community. Its funds are
largely contributed to by an annual
benefit entertainment, and citizens of
German birth or extraction as well as
others are attracted by the double OBJ
ject of pleasure and aid for the hospital
fund. The volksfest opeped in Electric
Park yesterday, to be continued
throughout the week and terminate on
Sunday. presents features of great in
terest, and in these mild September
days the park should be filed with
great crowds. Today is Mayors day,
and tomorrow there will be a rare
musical treat in the shape of choruses
by the trained singing societies Sat
urday the turner's societies VIII afford
an exhibition Of gymnastic skill. and on
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
A Consumers Ditty.

A COnsumer'B DItty.
With meat at eighty cents an inchJ
Or eighty-f1ve,
1t is not really such a cinch
To keep alive.
What goeth up must downward come
Claim clever men.
They could relieve our feelings SOM
BY saying when.
With prices soaring to the skies,
AS is the trend,
A man needs more than mortal eyes
To see the end.
What goeth UP must tumble down,
So wise folk say.
Oh. kindly fates, speed to our town
That welcome day.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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laying I'm to His principles.

Magistrate-The plaintiff afnrms that
you sold him an absolutely rank cheese.
although you told him it was the king
of cheeses when he bought It of you.
Defendant-Quite true, but I never
said 1t was a good n I simply said
1t was the king of cheeses.
Magistrate-Well?
Defendant-Well. in my opinion the
king of cheeses would be h worst.
Are we republicans. or are we not, sir?
-Pele Mele.
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Intense Acting.

Miss Sue Brette-I understand your
wife's on the stage, too?
Foote Lighte-Yes, she is.
Did she ever act in her bare feet?"
Yes, she stepped on a C one
night, when retiring and you just
ought to have seen how she ,acted!"-
Yonkers Statesman.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

who are those people with Storm
ington Barnes?' asked HI Tragerdy.
'O!" replied Lowe Comerdy, they're
the pupils from his School of Acting
out on their summer session."
Their summer session"
yes; he's going to teach them how
to jump on and off freight trains
Philadelphia Press.
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VIEWS Of EDITORS.
EVIL of Ha.tx Legislation.

New Jersey seems to afford another glar-
ing example Of the evil OF hasty or I'M
considered legislation. The chief hope of
the people concerning the new Railroad
Commission was that it would be able
promptly and effectively to deal with the
grade crossings question. And now it APP
pears that 1t will AVE just a little more
influence in that matter than a fly on a
coach wheei.-New York Tribune.
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NINE ON VARIOUS STAT TOPICS oF INTEREST

Senator Hinchlihe is Passac County's favorite for the Dem
ocratic Gubernatoria1 nomination. He is able, honest, a man
of large affairs and of wide experience in the State government.
But he won't be named by his party because he is a brewer.
IF the party wanted to be consistent, frank and straightforward
it would nominate Hinchlife.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

Now that the Passaic Sewerage Com
missions scruples about going ahead
without a full bank account have been
overcome by the action of the Common
Council finance COMMITTEES in adding
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

Our Coal Barons have been, and are, engaged in the con-
genial task of manufacturing a local famine" so that they may
send the prices soaring. IF the increase went into the pockets
of the poorly paid mine laborers people wouldn't grumb1e Sc
much, but they will get little, if any, of it. And we must
always bear in mind that it is a sign of the Socia1stic and
Anarchistc spirit to criticise those benevolent gentlemen. What
ever they do must necessarily be right.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

well" complained the cranky woman,
81 never met a man so hard to please
as my husband"
THE ideal' exclaimed the spiteful
Miss Knox, how quickly men change.
It was only a few years 81 that he
proposed to you."-Philadelphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

Unless the harmony now existing in the Republican ranks in
Essex County disappears before Election Day, the Democrats
might as well give up all hope of seeing Essex in the Demo
cratic column this year.
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Their PItiabIe Plight.

Little boy (watching the cows feed
The poor cowsl I am sorry for them
They have to eat the same thing every
day and never get any dessert.-Bon
Viyant.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

To get an idea of the folly and faulty of those who have
been responsible for the retention in State Office of negligent,
inefficient and faithless employees, just ask yourself what would
happen to any political party that dared stand up boldly for
the incu1pated officials. No greater wrong has been done a
political party here in over a dozen years than that of per-
hitting those disgraced oficeho1ders to hold onto their jobs.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

Freddy-Love. darling, is a disease.
Dolly-Yes, and with some 1t appears
to be-a lingering disease.
N. B.-And then he called for his hat
and cane.-Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

How seriously some politicians take themselves They have
an idea that a piece of fine rhetoric sandwiched into a con-
vention platform will convince people that black is white and
If there be any doubters a few samples of clever oratory will
win them over. They forget that the average voter reads the
newspapers and knows just as much as they do.
The only profitable appeal to the voter is that which takes
for granted his intelligence and assumes him to be we'll in
formed. Don't try to fool him or he may lose his temper.
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oueer wish.

Caller-so sorry to hear of your
motor accident.
Enthusiastic Motorist-Oh, thanks;
it's nothing. Expect to live through
many more.
Oh, I trust not."-Home Magazine.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

Congressman Leake has been saying brash things about
William Jennings Bryan, but the Nebraskan isn't likely to lose
much sleep over the criticisms.
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STAR READERS

Anonymous communications cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects. the
names Of correspondents are not required Tor
publication, but as a guarantee Of good faith.
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IN HUMOROUS VEIN


Hicks-Does your wife believe all
you tell her?
wicks-She does when I am paying
her a eompliment-SomerviIle Journal
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Smith" said the grocer, severely.
did you charge Mr.. Jay for that basket
of peachesT
yes. sir the clerk replied; IT think
l did, sir"
well. charge him again." said the
other. You can't be too sure of a
thing of that kind."-Ex.
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If the Passaic County Co1byies had made a vigorous fight
for Frank Sommer they might be in a better position today
The whole aim and purpose of their fight seemed to be the
nomination of a few Assembly candidates.
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Traveler-Can't you hurry that horse
up a bit?
Driver-Fraid / can't, stranger. I've
tried everything 'cept twisting his tail,
an I'm savin' that for the climb up h
school hill-Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

Will the Republican State Convention come out fatty wit
an Endorsement of the socalled Bishops Bill?
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Assemblyman Crowther, of Middlesex County, used b
office to land himself as a member of the County Tax Boar
and now he wants to be Surrogate, although the term f
which he was elected to the Assembly hasn't expired yet.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

Of course the Republican State Convention will indorse
President Roosevets po1icies-that is, unless the trainers of the
platform want to turn New Jersey over to the Democrats.
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In what city and when were the first
electric a r run?
JAMES HENRY.
1.-THE first practical overhead trolley line
was built in Kansas City In 1884. In 1880
a third-rail line was constructed and Mr..
Van Depoele installed an overhead trolley
line at Toronto, Ont. OF course, there
were many attempts at electric railway
building before 1884, but they met with
little success. Thomas Davenport, of Bran
don, VT, built the first electric railway
as early as 1885, and many others were
constructed between that year and 1884.
But none of them met with any degree of
success before the establishment Of the
Kansas City line.-Ed.1
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John Howard Payne.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
VIII you kindly tell me something about
the author Of 'Home, Sweet Home" and
the circumstances under which the song
was written? J. X.
[Jphn Howard Payne was born at East
Hampton, L. l.. When little more than a
boy he left home and began the life Of a
nomad. He wandered in Europe and in
Asia. The song bad its first hearing in the
old world. on the evening of May 5, 1923.
at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. It
was at the first performance of an opera,
"Clari, the Maid of Milan" by Payne,
with. musical setting by Henry Rowley
Bishop. It was first heard in America in
Philadelphia in the Prune Street Theatre,
In December, 1923. seven months after the
first performance in Europe.-Ed.l