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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08
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II Is plainly not ambition to exploit
q freal that leads the English inventor,
Brennan, 10 demonstrate his single rail-
method OF getting train over the
ground Experlmenters have been Mt
work for n generation on the problem
OF making one rail- surface where two
are now used The primary object ID
economy Of power, There IL more re.
sistance from two rails than from one
Just as water offers more resistance TO
vessels with clumsy, broad bows than
It does to vessels having sharp bows.
With the two rail system It is estlmat-
cd that only - per cent OF the power
generated Is actually applied to pro
polling train. The rest Is consumed
In taking up" the friction caused by
the rails and the oscillation OF the bur
den.
Single rail trains have been run and
ave met with the approval Of trans
portatIon experts. Brennan's device,
recently exhibited for the first time In
London, differs from all others in the
method of balancing the train. He ap.
plies the principle Of the revolving tor
to maintain balance. This principle
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

In the three months ended March 81
Of this year over 5000 breakages Of
rails on the principal steam lines Of
New York state alone have been re-
ported. This Is at least a number
three times greater than ever known
before, It is variation Of previous
experiences altogether out Of proper
tion to the variations Of temperature
The temperature Of the winter Of 1901
was not so much lower than previous
winters AZ to account for the extraor
binary increase. It Is to be greatly
feared that the assertion OF the rail
road managers Is the true explanation
to wit, that the quality Of the stee
has been lowered.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

Now that the life insurance drummer
who didn't land Lincoln for a policy
has got his name in the papers as a
'afriend Of Lincoln" there Is chance
for a vast army Of unknOwns to leap
out Of obscurity.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

are. In time the pendulum swings the
other way, and the wizard in ignts
comes to his own. Writers pmehme
make ideas worth lighting for. Again
their ideas prevail without lighting, ana
the soldiers occupation is gone. Mac
Iaren's kingdom was the hearts Of bis
readers. To follow his fights Is peace.
His pen outreached Mac Iver's sword.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

New Orleans wants to beat the rec
ord and have 9 worlds fair ready on
time. Her citizens propose to get ready
to celebrate the finish Of the Panama
canal In 1915, and no doubt the canal
win accommodate them with couple
Of years grace.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

-Four cities think they are great
enough and good enough to have the
next Republican national convention.
Since professional prize fights were
barred the value Of political conven-
ton spectacle as a drawing card Is
coming to be generally recognized
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

A pabe who wouldn't kick at having
thirteen names tackled on at christen-
ing, as happened to SPANS heir appar-
ent. wouldn't be much Of an up to
date youngster.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

The report that a requisiticn has
been sent in from the Panama canal
for 1000 Morris chairs is likely to
make applications for jobs down there
more brisk for awhile.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

Greece would stop the How Of its sub
jects to this country but for the fact
that 1t needs the money which emf
grants to these shores send home.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

A former football star who secured
a captains commission in the Hondu-
ran army returned to this country
disguised with Central American tao.
tics. Perhaps he was informed that
Honduras was waging civilized war
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

people get funny Ideas when they
70 to America" says George Bernard
Shaw. And some people would propa-
gate extremely funny ones over here
II the police did not take hand.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

TO think Of those precious manuscripts
Of Henrik Ibsen having bean sold for
rubblshi Though, come to think Of It,
there are not lacking eminent critics
who say that his output was never
anything else.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

Rockefeller has another world to con-
ouer now that the Greeks are manufac-
turing denatured alcohol from currants
which does the work of petroleum at
half the cost.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

A political machine occasionally
meets a smashup. But there is always
some one willing to take the job Of re-
pairing 1t.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

After awhile perhaps diamonds viii
be so valuable that actresses will no
longer find 1t necessary to lose whole
hatful to get one reading notice in the
papers.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08
STEEL MAIL CARS
Southern Pacific Adopts New
Types.

San Francisco, June 6.--From
designs Of Its own motive power en-
tglneeIa, the Southern Pacific com
pany,s Sacramento shops have just
turned out the most advanced type
o. all-ateel postal car. There Is not
. scrap Of wood anywhere In the car
except the window frames. From
wheelsto roof the car is of ateol---
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

Kipling rhymes ''visage," "kissage"
and "this age" all together. And yet
some people say he is the greatest poet
Of this age.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

France would assist this country
and Japan TO settle their troubles,
but unfortunately for France this
country does not need her assistance.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

Everybody agrees that the mean tenn
perature OF some seasons Ii about the
meanest thing going.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

fare ana was not permitted to intro
duce football tactics on the battlefield.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
SAILING OF THE BArrLEsH1ps.

December 16 is the date fixed for the
sailing of the great %battleship fleet to
the Pacific, leaving Hampton Roads on
that date. The event win be unique
in American history and will be at
tended by a profound interest through
out the country. The voyage of the
Oregon fourteen thousand miles around
Cape Horn was spectacular, and the
progress of the noble ship was watched
by the American people with extraor-
binary solicitude.
So also will be the same voyage round
the continent in the opposite direction
of the great steel-clad armada that
carries to the Pacific the fortunes of
the Western Republic. There is a
promise of the early return of this
fleet to Atlantic waters. but the prom
Use will not be kept. Every vessel in
that feet is needed in the Pacific and
will be kept there, and a new Atlantic
battleship fleet will be built.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

President Roosevelt's Thanksgiving
proclamation is Rooseveltian in Ian
guage and tone. After adverting to
the blessings vouchsafed this nation,
and expressing high confidence in the
quality and ability of the average
American, the President points out the
duty of the average man to the ma
ton n to his fellow man, and adj
monishes him not to fall into love of
ease and luxury, but to ever remember
his moral obligations and his duty to
God and to his neighbor. The Presi-
lent draws an outline picture of the
ideal man and the ideal nation, and,
maybe, some day we will fulfil the pic
ture, but only after great tribulations.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
A BODY BLOW FOR THE TRUST.

The seizure at Norfolk, Va, of a
shipment of tobacco consigned to a
British company by the American To-
bacco Trust on the ground that the
tobacco was the subject of a pro-
hibited transaction is of vital impor-
lance to the administration OF the law
against trusts. The allegation is that
the tobacco seized by the government
Is owned under a contract, in restraint
of trade, between two American COM
panies and three English companies.
The Sherman act provides that prop
erty owned under such a contract, be-
ing in the curse of transportation,
shall be forfeited to the United States
and seized and condemned.
This provision of the law confers an
authority which is not obliged to wait
upon litigation. The process is sum-
mary. The burden of proof of inno-
cence must rest upon the owners of the
tobacco. The Importance of this seiz-
ure is that it shows that the govern
ment can, if it wants to, sit down upor
the whole business of the American
Tobacco Company. This monopoly has
an agreement with the British con-
Germs, by the terms of which the Brit
ish territory is divided up and compe'
tition is prevented. BY this arrange,
ment high prices are maintained, t.
both countries. That is what the gov
ernmen proposes to stop.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
VIEWS OF EDITORS.


The charge is made that the President
has destroyed confidence. 1t is false. So
far as confidence has been destroyed its
destruction has been wrought by the
very men or the very class of men who
are now lamenting its loss. Recall the
developments of the past two years, the
revelations of the gravest misconduct in
circles where integrity was supposed to
prevail and where it is so imperatively
necessary; the disclosures which so shocked
the public conscience and alarmed the
public mind in the life insurance inves-
legations; the astounding exhibitions of
railroad manipulation which Mr.. Harri-
man has provided; the enforced confess
ions of graft by officials whom few had
thought of suspecting; the discovery of
the means whereby the late William C.
Whitney and his associates amassed their
many millions; the shameful imposition
shown to have been practlsed on investors
in the traction stocks of New York city
bring all these things and many others
like them to mind and then say whether
1t is any wonder that credit has been
shaken and that people no longer feel
sure what stocks may be safely bought OIL
what men may be safely trusted? 1t is
not a case of legitimate enterprise suffer
ing from an undeserved attack. 1t is a
case of those who rave sown the wine
reaping the whlrlwind and none need hope
that the harvesting will cease until the
last sheaf has been garnered.-Phlladel-
phia Inquirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
STATE PAPERS ON CAMPAIGN
wIttpenn sure winner in Jersey city.

Wittpcnn Sure Winner in Jersey City.
[From the Jersey City Herald
At this writing, there is absolutely no
question as to the result of the municipal
election in this city on Tuesday week. 1t
is apparent to everyone, saw perhaps those
who will not see, that the fourth term as
piration of Mayor Pagan will be most
effectuaIly sqnelched in the election of H.
Otto Wittpenn.
The Faganites may make any claim they
feel foolish enough for, but 1t will not
sway the result one jot. This year the
people Of Jersey City are given the OPP
portunity to choose between a man who
has had six years in which to make good
and failed, and a man who in three years
has proven his worth.
Barnum, the Snowman, and several other
human nature students, have had much
to say about fooling the people some of
he time that applies to this city at this
time. For over five years they lave per-
mitted the present City Hall cabal to per-
suade them that Utopia would be as moth
ing compared to this city. II the people
would but give their approval to the many
schemes that were Matching. In every
confidence and with abundant generosity
have the people of Jersey City approved
of many of the unusual things that Mayor
= NEfh 1NhNi was C1C9buIJ 1OI LIE SCIlGIltHs
But Of late the people have begun to
take cognizance of the cost. Investigation
shows every cause for alarm. Every nook
and Granny of the public service under
Pagan control is made to pay Tribute to
his personal political machine, before any
other consideration is needed. Many of
the Improvements that were positively as
sured are still promising. The credit of
the city was never so low and a continu-
ance Of the present financial policy means
nothing but ruin. The bold, clustering
suits against corporations nave produced
nothing but enormous bills from addi-
lional counsel employed. In brief, the
people have seen behind the mask Of
hypocrisy for the first time and are we'll
nigh frantic because of their discovery.
Coincident with this discovery is the
knowledge OF the brilliant record of the
Democratic candidate for Mayor, as coun-
ty supervisor. Three years ago he was an
unknown quantity. Now the State knows
him for a man OF answering honesty. high
ideals and of absolute and unquestioned in
dependence in the performance of his
| duties.
The people have been watching him do
many seemingly impossible things with the
county government. They have con-
trasted his record of three years of ac-
complishments, against five years OF Pagan
promising and measuring the two men
themselves has obviated the necessity OF
any other test.
There could be no other result than the
selection of Wittpenn, and the balloting
on Tuesday week now means only the de-
tcrmining what the majority for him VIII
total.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

people who are opposed to trusts as
r-eactionaries and semi~anarchists.
Chancellor Day beholds in the trust
1.-THE philosophical institution from
which emanate influences that affect
beneficially philosophy. art. letters, re-
ligion, everything, in fact, that tends to
uplift humanity And this mar is al
the head of a college for the training
of American youth when he ought to
be under the care of an alienist in men,
tai diseases.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
NOBODY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.

There is no question now that the
| city needlessly paid a large share of
the cost of railroad track elevation and
depression, and that the large amounts
| Of money appropriated for the purpose
were gifts to the railroad corporations.
The city employs a law department to
look into all questions of law and adj
wise the municipal boards and exeeu-
tive officers in matters of the kind. 1t
pays good salaries to commissioners of
the Board of Works to look after and
protect the city's interests in its rela-
tons with the public service corpora
tions.
And yet agreements were mad and
carried out with the railroad corpora-
tons pledging payments of several mil
lions for a work that by a law of the
State was incumbent on the railroad
companies alone, at their exclusive cost.
The law was on the statute books of the
State when the first agreement with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company was
entered into, and it hadn't been re-
moved when the agreements were made
with the Central and Lackawanna COM
panies.
1t doesn't appear that any Board of
Works commissioner asked the ques-
ton whether the city could legally be
obligated to pay part of the expense of
track elevation, and evidently the law
depc. .aent never took the trouble to
look into the law. The people of New
ark IRE out of pocket several millions
and nobody has yet been held to the re-
sponsibilitY.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
MONDAY, OCTOBER %, 1907.
APATHY IN THE CAMPAIGN.

The worst foe the Republican party
has to confront in the State in this
election is party apathy. 1t was OBJ
served in the campaign in the counties
south of Trenton during the last two
weeks that there was very much of the
appearance cf a~pathetic interest. The
South Jersey voter did not respond in
such numbers and with as much vim
as in former State campaigns. There
was an evident lassitude. The aspect
of things in that section may be wholly
changed before election day. and no
doubt the Republican managers will
employ every effort to hat end.
Last year the eight counties of the
southern tier gave an aggregate Re-
publican plurality of 2O,SO4, and in 1904
the aggregate plurality was 1880. Cam
den County's Republican plurality last
year was 1878, exceeding the plurality
for Roosevelt in 1904. There is bound to
be a falling off from the figures of the
two elections, as Atlantic County is
looked to for a considerable loss on
the excise issue. The 3,64S Republican
plurality in that county last year will
be cut down to a much less figure.
Nor can Camden County come up
again with another 9,37S plurality.
Party apathy in the southern tier
might cut the Republican plurality of
1906 in half.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
A Iup1c1A1LY PACKED 1uRY.

Kansas court officers at Kansas
City have been restrained by a Fed
eral judge from interfering with Sun
day night theatricals, and the Federal
Judge takes occasion to lecture a State
judge who had fixed a grand jury for
the special purpose of mdicting the
owners of the theatres. In continuing
a temporary injunction in force the
Federal judge says:
This is a very remarkable case. 1t
is charged hat a Judge of one of your
courts has not conducted himself in
a fair, just and impartial manner He
has empaneled his jury and has done
so with the intention hat they carry
out his own personal ideas. l shall in
vestigate this matter, and if / find that
I have the power to stop these prosecu-
tons l shall do It,"
Empaneling grand juries to carry
out personal ideas is a practise by no
means confined to the Kansas judge,
and whether the personal ideas be good
or bad, the practise is a vicious one
and subversive of the purpose of the
grand inquest. If it can be used to
promote a good end, it can likewise
be used to promote an evil one.
There are some unthinking reformers
in New Jersey who would place the
selection of Grand Jurors entirely in
the hands and at the discretion of the
court. 1t would be better to abolish
the Grand Jury at4once. Neither the
sheriff nor judge should have the
power to name Grand Jurors. THAI
duty should be committed to a body
of representative men chosen for the
purpose.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

The automobile has come into play
with a vengeance in political campaigns.
At the present time scores of the ma
chimes are being speeded all over the
State, some singly and some in battal-
ions. 1t is asserted, too, that in most
cases the drivers of these machines pay
no attention to the automobile law, and
al times make express train speeds. 1t
is even said that the two candidates
for Governor, who are doing their tours
in automobiles, have more than ono
violated the law. Local constables and
justices wink at these violations, for
who would interfere with q political
campaign?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

New York's stock transfer tax, which
is paid by Wall Street operators most
.ly. has netted a total of $3,014.s62 for
the min months of the calendar year.
This is a big income, but it is $1,S12, 572
of last year. In September the receipts
were 1882, sO2, showing the stagnation
in the stock market. This is the tax
that was SO bitterly opposed by Wall
Street interests. 1t is a tax that can't
be shifted off OF a consumer. 1t IS to
a large extent a AK on the gambler.
the tax it is a relief for property
taxation.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

A beautiful exhibit of ~chrysanthe-
NUNS and begonias can be seen by the
public in the greenhouses of Branch
Brook Park, and people who love the
offerings Of Flora should not fail to
visit the park to view the exhibit be-
fore 1t is scattered. Every year at this
season the park commissioners have
these carefully cultivated flowers set
out for public view, and then appro-
priately send them to the hospitals and
asylums. This year the showing sur
passes that of all previous years in
beauty.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
J. Pierpont Morgan.

When a real leader is needed. Mr.. Nor
gan-"Old Morgan" as he was a few weeks
ago to the up-to-date financial hustlers-ls
sent for. He is the one man they all lean
on when they find they cannot go alone.
They laughed at his old-fogey conservatism
until recently, and declared that he was a
has been in business, But now all that is
over and it is up to him to save them
all. The way in which everybody turns
to him in this emergency of peril is one
Of the greatest compliments of his event.
full and remarkable life.-Hartford Courier.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

Jacob Hope, the head Of Philadelphia
famous monograph school for parrots,
said the other day:
There are worse things than a swearing
parrot, and one was brought over on a
German boat last month. His owner, a
sailor. swore that this Travelled bird knew
no profanity. and a lady bought him.
But he had to bring him to me. The
parrot, though he didn't swear, had EVIL
IDENTIFY spent most OF his time on shipboard
in the ladies' saloon, for what he would
do was this;
For hours at a time he would choke
and gasp and hiccough as if he'd never
stop, and then he'd sing out feebly, Stew
ard-bucket.' "-Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

A well-known banker was seated a
his desk a few days ago when the tele.
phone bell rang and the voice of {
lady who appeared to be very much *
cited was heard from the other end oil
the wire. The lady inquired If she was
speaking to the banker. and he replied
that she was. and asked her what sh'
wanted.
Il want you to stop payment on g
check l made out this morning." an
swered the lady. tt"
Did you lose the check, madame?'
queried the banker.
NO" was the rather surprising re-
ply, Il accidentally dropped it in the
fire and burned it."-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

This is Hades!' yelled Charon. Take
the barge ahead. This barge goes to the
barn. Step lively! Watch your griddle and
pitchfork."
"Shucks!' murmured a disconnected pas
senger. This place amt no Improvement
over the upper world."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
One more week of campaigning.

And did you ever see a duler campaign? Candidates Fort
and Katzenbach have, as a rule, been received with friendly
demonstrations all over. Their meetings have been we'll at
tended, especially in Newark, and the greatest courtesy and at
tention given to both. Outside of that there has been little
sign of life anywhere, and never before was it SO difficult to
get, in advance, a n exact line on the outlook for Election Day.
One forecaster, who hasn't made a mistake in his predictions
during the last twenty years, said the other day that he never
remembered a time when it was so difficult to foretel the result
as it is today. He remarked that it was easy enough to make
guesses-any fool can do that-but it was another thing to take
all the straws, indications and intangible drift and from these
make deductions that will stand the test Possibly he may be
able to figure out something this week, and if he does the
STAR will let you know about it.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28

Sammy" said a Germantown mother
recently to her youngest born, when
you divided those seven pieces of candy
with your brother did you give him
four?'
they wouldn't come out even, so / ate
one before 1 began to divide."-Har-
per's Weekly.