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touches the old life at Harewood, it is interesting to note that the oldest man in public life in the United States, the venerable Senator Pettus of Alabama, is a kinsman of Dolly Madison. Friend John Payne named his baby girl for Dorothca Spotswood Dandridge, daughter of Ma thaniel West Dandrdge and granddaugh- ter of Governor Alexander Spotswood, the colonial Virginian who sent out the ex- petition from Williamsburg to discover the Pacific ocean and found the valley of Virginia instead. When little Dolly Payne was g years old her godmother married Patrick Henry, the orator of the revolution, and then after Henrys death she became Mrs. Edmund Dinston. Henry and Winston were kinsmen, and both were cousins of Dolly's mother. Edmund Winston Pettus is a grandson of Anthony Winston, a brave revolutionary soldier, who was the brother of Edmund Winston and first cousin of Patrick Henry and of Dolly Madlson's mother.
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Senator Pettus will be S6 years old in July. If he lives until the expiration of the term for which he has been elected he will be 94 years old He was 76 when he first came to the Senate, and he had never held political office before. He was born in Alabama in 1921, when that state was still almost a wilderness. It was love affair which made him a pub lie man. When he was IS, as he puts it. he was "the most ignorant boy in the country" He fell in love with pretty Mary Chapman when he was a mere boy. Riding by her home one morning he saw her watering plants on the yeranda. The ardor of a youthful love was too much for discretion. He jumped from his horse, ran up the steps and popped the ques- tlon" without further ado. She laughed and said "Go on, boy; go to school and learn something"
 He was heart broken, but he did not give up. He went away to Clinton col lege, In Smith county, Tennessee, about forty miles east of Nashville. Clinton col lege has long since disappeared, but then 1t was a fiourishing institution, and there young Pettus learned Latin and Greek and mathematics. He stayed at the col lege three years, going once to Nash vile to attend a whig state convention in the days when political conventions were first coming into existence. Having ac- quired amount of learning which pleased his .'old field' masters, he re- turned to Alabama. He rode by the Chapman plantation, and there, good luck, he found Mary on the veranda wa tering plants. He jumped down, ran up the steps and taking off his hat, bowed low and said Miss Mary. have been to school" Her smile told him that there was nothing to fear. They were mar ried and lived together as fond lovers for more than sixty years. She died only two years ago.
 TomnrroW-The Observance of Flag Day.
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Sentence WouId-Be Assassins.

Tomorrow-The Observance of Flag Da
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Was We'll Known Journalist.

-dr Brooke was editor of the Luverne Critic when appointed to his present po- sition. He is an ex-journalist. and when he lived in Birmingham was printer boy on the Iron Age, predecessor of The Age-Herald. He afterward spent some years in the government printing office at Washington, then returning to his native state he entered the Journalistic field and has been accounted progressive and fearless journalist. He will probably be engaged for some time on the work Of examining the penitentiary records.
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Pictures Presented.
Applicants Passed.

These are names of applicants who passed successful examinations in the May examinations for license to practice medicines Dr. w. W. Perdue. Auburn Dr. w. c. Howell, Dothan; Dr. w. H. Riser, Milltown, Lamar county; Dr. w. F. Griffin, Tuscaloosa; Dr. R. J. Dckerson Yantley, Choctaw county; pr. c. A. Rodg- ers colored Mobile; Dr. s. D. Townsend, Troy.
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Returning to the families whose history
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
THE roIIUrroN OF RIVERS.

In commenting on the typhoid epi-
ments in the Delaware valley, the
Philadelphia Record remarks, with logic
absolute, that because a community is
nearer the head, or because 1t has an
other source of supply and Is not de-
pendent upon a river for its drinking
water, it Is not excused from contribu-
ting it's share to the general welfare"
But in this Delaware River proposition
all the towns bordering on the stream
are equally guilty. according to their
ability to pollute the stream.
The sewage of one upstream town is
enough to carry the pest to every COM
munity below that uses the water. The
only way to stop the pollution of the
Delaware is to stop all the cities and
towns on its banks sewering into it.
The attitude of these cities above Tren-
ton is something analogous to the posi-
ton maintained by Paterson for years.
1t has not only polluted the Passaic
with sewage, but resisted by every
means in It's power before the Legisla-
ture and in the courts all efforts to
purify the stream The flnal triumph of
the municipalities in the valley of the
Passaic will result in purging the Pas
sale and restoring it to the pellucid
stream it was in years gone by. The
only hope of the Delaware is in a SINH
lar scheme of diverting sewage from the
river. This. under authority of the law,
will come, but it is a matter of time.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

doubt beautiful. significant and rich In
qualities of Imagination.
But it is doubtful If his ideas will
ever be generally accepted. II the
acted drama on the ordinary stage has
lts strict limitations, the puppet stage
has far stricter. Mr.. Cralgss innovation
may be delightful in itself, and his
conception exert an important infiu-
ence in the art of the stage. But it
would always be a thing apart, a side
issue, as it were, and could never dis
place the drama as we know it. There
is room for both, but the play of action
will always have the greater appeal for
the greater number. If the drama were
to transfer its sphere of influence alto
gether from the theatre to the library,
we fear it would suffer speedily from
hamilton. To see a great play, yer
though it's acting in all Its parts must
fall far short of the ideal, is an ethical
and intellectual stimulus that it would
not be well to lose.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
roRT1r1cAT1oNs IN THE PACIFIC.

President Roosevelt is right in urging
that Congress make the appropriations
called for to complete the coast fortif-
cations projected for the Pacific States,
the Hawaiian and the Philippine ISL
ands, though the latter is su~bordinated
in Importance to the former. He made
strong recommendations In his mes
sage, based on the reports Of the mill
tary experts, in regard to these works.
and it is only natural that he should
seek to strengthen his suggestions by
any means in his power.
There is every reason for pushing
these works. We are weak in coast
Notifications, especially in the Pacific.
where the logic of the situation makes
them most needed. Not that there is
any immediate need because of sup
posed strained relations with Japan, the
fact that the President lays less stress
on the Philippine Notifications settling
that point, but hat it is on hat side
of the continent that the least has
been done. Congress should not stint
its appropriations for defensive works
The country needs them, and the coun-
try can afford them.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
CLERIC EXPLAINS
ATHOL MARRIAGE LAW

ST. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
recently held a large congregation,
nine-tenths being women, all Of whom
seemed deeply interested in a discourse
delivered by the Rev. William O'Brien
Pardow, s.. J.. recently appointed head
of Loyola School and one OF the most
noted speakers of his order.
But it was not alone the known elo-
quence of the priest that filed the
cathedral. The subject he had chosen
was full of interest to persons of all
denominations, more particularly to
Catholics, as it had to do with the re-
cent encycllcal of Pope Plus x. on
Christian marriage.
Father Pardovy arraigned those who
maintained that laws governing the
married relation should not be changed.
The church had changed many of its
laws, but it never had changed its doc
tr11e as to marriage inc never would.
The mar and the woman were at the
time priest and priestess OF God; each
gave the other the sacrament of holy
matrimony and only God by death could
thereafter put them asunder.
Father Pardow said he knew that
many Catholic women had thought it
great fun to lead men to believe they
loved them and then to marry someone
else. This, he said. was a mortal sin,
but many of these women had no
knowledge of its enormity. Catholic
men, too, thought they in turn had a
right to hui trife with the tenderest
thoughts of women
Every engaged woman or man, he
said, who subsequently married an
other, failed to recognize the awful i'm
pediment in the way. Their promise to
No. 1 rendered their marriage to No. 2
in a degree invalid, and now 1t is de-
clared to be an improper relation. This
was a very serious step for the Pope
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
4 pus1NEss SCHOOL BOARD.

All the nine men appointed by Mayor
Haussling as commissioners of the new
Board of Education under the law
adopted by the people of Newark in the
November election are we'll and favor
ably known, and they will make an
ideal board, in which the taxpayers and
the parents of school children will have
every confidence.
The new board with its nine men,
bers will be compact and every man
will be a working factor. The rule in
the large elective boards has been for a
few men to dominate and control the
boards affairs. Certain committees
have been regarded as desirable be-
cause of their dealings with contractors
and others. The scandals that have
arisen in these boards are evidence of
the reasons that made the committee
work attractive. 1t Is not to be in
ferred that all elective board members
have been thus influenced. On the
contrary, our Boards of Education have
had for members citizens of the highest
probity.
But the elective system for a school
board is faulty to the point of vicious
ness. 1t is contrary to every business
principle. If there were a private
owner for the great public school in
forests of Newark, would he think for
an instant of committing them to the
administration of a body of men elected
at random in different constituencies
without the least reference to their
ability or probity? The newly APP
pointed board is a return to business
principles in the management of the
public schools.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
THE STATE PROBABLY WINS.

1t is now tolerably certain that the
tain the opinion by the Supreme Court
declaring the Perkins railroad tax act
of 1906 constitutional on all points ex-
eept as to the method provided by that
act for dividing railroad property and
assessing it separately. one class of
property by the local assessors at the
local rate and the other class by the
State Board of Assessors at the average
rate of tax in the State. The court will
take UP this case first among the pend
ing cases and will therefore render an
early decision.
If. as is expected, there shall be no
more serious dissent by the court of last
resort from the opinion of the lower
court, the State will have won a COM
plete victory. The decision will, so far
MS a State court adjudication is con-
cerned, dispose for good of the system
of railroad tax exemption in New Jer-
sey, and will wipe out all alleged
charter and contract claims to such
exemption. Railroad property will be
put on an equality with all other prop
erty, and the railroad companies, instead
of hiring Hobbies and lawyers to defend
their unjust privileges in the Legisla-
ture and in the courts. will be enlisted
by their property interests in behalf of
good laws and good government.
The contentious and maneuvering by
the railroad attorneys in the tax case
litigation indicates a purpose, in the
event of an adverse decision, to carry
an appeal to the United States Supreme
Court. For the sake of more harImoni-
u relations between the railroad COM
panies and the people of the State, it is
to be hoped that the companies will
desiss from any such action and will
prompt and gracefully comply with
the law and pay the large amounts of
tax that nave been withheld from the
municipalities in a year when the
money has been sorely needed.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
THE PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION.

The Republican nomination for Presi-
dent in 1908 was within the grasp of
Theodore Roosevelt. He had only to sit
tight and it would inevitably have come
to him. But he has put aside the nomi-
nation. He will not accept it. He is
out of the running. Another man will
be the nominee of the Republican ma
tional convention at Chicago.
Secretary Taft is the candidate IA
vored by Roosevelt and his nomination
will depend upon the personal strength
that Roosevelt can transfer to him. 1t is
now Taft against the field, with Hughes
second leader. Neither man is wanted
by those who have the most bitterly
opposed Roosevelt. Their candidate is
Senator Knox. Of Pennsylvania. Fora
ker would suit them better. But in
getting Foraker they would in all prob
ability only succeed in electing Bryan.
The presidential yea will open full of
interest. especially on the Republican
side. and there will be politics galore in
Congress. The proceedings of that body
win be largely influenced by the forth
coming national conventions. Perhaps
that influence will be wholly for good in
the enactment of desirable laws and the
adoption of policies that the sentiment
Of the country demands. A presidential
election year is not a favorable time to
offend the popular sentiment.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
rwo KrNps on cRrM1NA1s.

An instance of the speed with which
justice operates in the case Of criminals
OF no position or influence is furnished
in Pittsburg where. for stealing three
cents, n and one-half cents apiece,
two men have just been sentenced to
serve lve years each in the penlten-
tiary. The punishment was KAT ex-
cessive. for the theft was a hold-up
made at night behind masks and revolt
vers, ana the only reason : larger
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
$50, 900 JOB REWARDS LONG
AND FAITHFUL SERVICE

PITTSBURG. Dec. 14.-From a source
high in the councils OF the Wabash
Railroad it was learned here today that
President Frederic A. Delano, of the
Wabash road. is to retire and is to be
succeeded by &. Is. Pryor. at present
fourth vice-president in charge of the
auditing department and accounts of
the road, located at st. Louis.
MI. Pryor is a close friend of George
J. Gould, and Mr.. Delano's resignation
is the outcome of d~issension in the
conduct Of the road. When Joseph
Ramsey, jr.. retired from the presi-
dency of the Wabash Mr.. Delano was
brought from the Burlington. and the
old Ramsey policies We're entirely
revolutionized and the policies Of the
Burlington men adopted.
The Burlington appointments on the
Wabash, as made BY President pelano,
were censured. and the Informant to-
day said that 50 Disguised was Presi-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

dent Delano at such humiliation that
he rendered his resignation to Mr..
Gould in New York a week or more
ago.
The man who will succeed Mr..
Delano. Mr.. Pryor, has been with the
Wabash for thirty years, and has had
charge Of the accounts and finances
for that period. At the time of Ram
sey's retirement Pryor was offered a
position as chief auditor of accounts
of Panama Canal construction by
Theodore P. Shonts at a salary Of
$4,000, The opening appealed 10 Mr..
Pryor. Nand he rendered his resignation
to Mr.. Gould. who is said to have re-
piled: III you are worth $4,000 to Mr..
Shonts, you are worth more to me.
l will give you $1,000 and make you
fourth vice-presldent OF the twabash
road" Mr.. Pryor remained with the
Wabash, and will now succeed to a
position paying $4,000 a year..
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

to take, but conditions made 1t neces-
sary.
Women" declared the priest. must
be made to realize that they cannot
jump into matrimony as they would go
to a picnic. Love is too noble a quality
of the human heart to be trified with
. by either men or women. The church
says there shall be no marriage without
love, but that the contract is one Of
holy matrimony, and that If the love
is not all that is desired it makes no
d~ifference-the bond remains unaffected
and Interchangeable.
"Thank God for such a clear defini-
ton of matrimony on this most impor-
tant pointi'' exclaimed the priest, with
a fervor that had marked effect on his
hearers.
Nov, what the the Pope changed as
to espousals?" he asked. He has made
clear that hereafter an espousal to have
effect must be a written promise to
marry, signed by both the man and the
woman before a priest, whose signature
is also necessary. together with those of
two witnesses. All priests have hith-
eric been worried by the absence of
proof in cases of alleged breach of
promise, but this requirement of the
Pope viii take all that worry away
The second change made by the ency-
clical in the law pertaining to matri-
mony is that greater publicity must be
given to marriages. The church and
state both require the presence of wit
nesses and now the church has gone a
step further. Heretofore when Catho-
lies have been married by Protestant
ministers or by civil process h church
has recognized such marriages. al
though the Catholics concerned COM
mitted a mortal sin in having the cere-
mony thus performed. Such marriages
after next Easter will not be regarded
as valid. This, Father Pardow conclu-
ded, was fundamental legislation and
should be remembered by all Catholics.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
BANrsHrNe THE ACTOR.

The actor has been the butt of critical
structure ever since "Roscius was an
actor in Rome but never probably has
he received a more sweeping condem-
nation than that voiced by Gordon
Craig, the son OF Ellen Terry. Mr..
Craig would get rid of him altogether,
and not only would he Danish the actor
from the stage, but the drama also.
His idea is that what really ails the
stage is the actor, who is too poor for
1t. and the drama, which is possibly
too good, at least too complicated,
for it," Mr.. Craig can conceive Of a
worthy rendering of a great character,
but not of a great play. So he would
reIegate the drama to the library to be
read instead OF acted, and substitute
upon the stage some rather simple
and abstract form Of motion and illu-
mination. needing neither the presence
of the actor nor any overt explanation
in Words
Mr.. Gordon Craig has lived a long
time in Italy and subjected himself to
the influence Of the Italian stage. where
the puppet show has reached It's highest
perfection, and is, indeed. a work Of
art. and it is in a sense the play OF
marionettes that he would substitute
for the present acted drama. Follow
Ing this idea Mr.. Craig has produced
effects in pantomime and silhouette on
4 highly specialized stage that are no
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

Majority Leader Patrick H. Ryan, OF
the Common Council. was a capable
member of that body this year and his
nomination by the Democratic aucus
as president of the incoming Council is
deserved. Alderman Sinnott. his oppo-
nent for the presidency, made a close
fight in caucus, and received the con-
ISOLATION cur of the majority leadership,
for which position he is well qualified.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

Twas a month before Christmas. or six
weeks, ] guess,
When all of the people who write for the
press
Began to get busy with prose and with
rhymes
And grind out their copy for holiday
times.
And now comes the deluge; prepare for
the rush.
You'll shortly be flooded with Christmas
time slush.
The pent food Of pifie its bounds has now
burst;
The waves are upon you, and this is the
first.
Louisville Courier-Journal
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PEOPLE OF NOTE.

w. D.. Stevens, the American diplomat,
who has just been appointed 'adviseE to
the Japanese ambassador at Washington,
has arrived In Toxic en- route to America.
A committee has been appointed in WASH
ington to select a site and erect a statue
to John Witherspoon, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence, upon some
government land in Washington other
that the grounds of the Capitol or the
Library OF Congress, the statue to be
provided by the Witherspoon Memorial
| Association.
Major w. L. Geary, of the United States
army. and the first white child born in
San Francisco, has just died at the Presidio
Hospital. His father was twice Governor
of this State. and Major Geary first en-
tered the service of the United States al
10 years of age when he enlisted as a
drummer boy In a Pennsylvania regiment
H. H. Garrikcr, of the Carnegie Museum
| Pittsburg, has returned from Costa Rica
He has been In Central America for Ave
years securing skim of animals and bird:
for the museum. He has shipped at diff
ferent times to the museum over 5,OO(
skins, and tho institution now possesses
the most complete and valuable collection
ever secured in Costa Rica.
Senator Francis e Warren, Of Wyoming
is one of the biggest sheep owners In tho
country.
p. j. Ridgway, publisher of Everybody
Magazine, was a crack baseball pitcher il
his college days.
Don c. Seitz. the big man Of the New
York World in the business end, ha'
4,.-lzT r, ,ttor IIa ruh4rlrutnHad throncf
Europe a year ago n has written q
book about what he saw.
Speedy.
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In the Sunshine.

i.
Do you think that this beautiful worlds
going wrong?
2 Get out in the sunshinei
Are you signing In grief when the airs
thrilled with song?
Get out In the sunshiuei
Just miss for a minute the thunder's rude
roll,
Drown sorrow, or slip from her leaden
control,
Let the light out of the heavens flow in
on your soul
Get out in the sunshine!
II.
Do you know that the great sun that
beams from the blue
Get out in the sunshineD
Is the light that God dreamed of-His
message to you?
Get out in the sunshine,
Get out where the daisies are nodding In
white
In the meadows that dreamed Of the dawn
through the night;
Throw wide the soul-windows and lei In
the light 49,
Get out in the sunsninei
Atlanta Constitution.
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Forbidden place.

Judge-Have you anything to say in your
defense?
Accused-I only wanted to bathe my ups
in the rosy mouth of the young lady.
Judge-In that case I shall sentence you
TO Ave davis imprisonment for bathing
In a forbidden place.-Bocian.
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william roll

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
VIII you please let me know what year
William Carrolton was elected to the AS
sembly? l think it was in the early
seventies. A READER.
William Carrolton represented Essex
County in the General Assembly during
the year of 1876, and must lave been
elected at the election Of 1S74.-Ed.]
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The permission to play interclass
games extended students of Columbia
University by President Butler I'M
doubtedly furnishes the opening wedge
in a movement that will end in Column
bias again returning to participation
In intercollegiate football. This is en-
couraging to all interested in the well
fare of that institution. There never
was any adequate reason for the abol-
ishment of the sport at Columbia.
Football. of all the games to which col
lege students devote themselves, Is
freest from the faint Of commercialism
and most instrumental in encouraging
the manly virtues.