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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
THE "%STINGAREE"
One Just Reported Wa in All Probable
ity Something Else.

A dispatch recently described the capture
of a sea serpent which proved to be a
~''stingaree." 1t happens that the creature
referred TO is neither a serpent nor a stin-
garee. says the Hartford Courant. In other
respects the anecdote bears evidence of
accuracy and interest. The reason the cap
tive was not a serpent was because it was
broader than 1t is long and no more ike a
snake than a horse. The reason it was not a
stingaree Is because there is no such thing.
This fish was a sting-ray. There are many
varieties of rays. They are found abroad
and at home, In cold waters and in the
tropics. The familiar skate of the cold
water. not alcoholic variety is of the same
family.
Everybody who goes fishing in Long
Island Sound knows what a skate Is: II is
something you get when you do not want
1t. The sting-ray has a long and vigorous
tail, which is armed with n keen and ugly
point or sting. There Is a popular tradi-
ton that this sting is full of deadly poison,
but nobody has yet been killed by It. It's
wound is painful, but that is all, though
enough. 'Stingaree' is an elaboration of
Sting-ray. 1t strings out longer and sounds
more dangerous. It is given in the supple
ment to "Webster's Unabridged" and
sting-ray is referred to it. But authorities
in ichthyology pronounce 1t a mere vulgar
ism. This particular sting-ray found in
the Sound was of large size, but broke no
record. Eight feet across Is said to he n
frequent measurement.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
ENGLAND'S D%ECADENCE.
The Great Body of the People Said to Be
Becoming More Brutal.

The great strength of England has al
ways lain In the class who are called COM
mons or commoners, says the Literary
Digest. Goldsmith says that princes and
peers are to be made'by a breath, but a
p%easantry, a middle class. is the growth
of ages, and when once decadent ear never
be replaced. A striking article In the
Westminster Review is founded upon the
thesis that the great middle class of Eng
land are declining in everything that
makes for high character, simplicity of
motive and exalted principle. Mr.. w. r.
Alexander. who writes the article cited,
remarks:
mo one who diligently stulies the signs
of the times can fail to observe that the
conditions of modern life in England are
producing a change in the character of the
people. a change which Is especially no.
ticeable among the middle classes In our
large towns. Men are becoming more
shl ewd. more prudent. more businesslike,
and in a negative sense more correct, they
are becoming less courageous, less impui-
sive. less emotional. and. In a word, less
human. This is largely due to the %increas-
ing complexity of the mechanism OF life.
There Is a mechanical spirit abroad, me-
chanical qualities Of mind are being devel-
oped. the breath of a slrocco Is whitening
up the ordinary human feelings. Routine
and the dull details Of business occupy the
individual and tend to encroach more and
more on the margin Of time and energy
requisite TO the development Of he higher
qualities of mind and heart"
Humanism. heroism. the ideal life. are
things practically excluded from a business
career. In the words of this writer:
lowing to the strain Of competition the
professional man must work longer hours
than formerly. he must give more atten-
tion to his business, he must put more Of
his soul into it. He tends to be first man
Of business, and. secondly. a human be-
ing. and his STANDARD of conduct. his
methods of thinking. are formed accord
ingly. The degree of initiative. Of inde-
pendence Of JUDGMENT. OF imagination
which his work calls forth, must depend
upon the character Of the work and upon
the relative importance Of the position
which he occupies. but as n rule these are
qualities which he does not tend to de-
velop. II he is a subordinate he must con-
form to the will Of his superior and must
adapt himself TO his ways of thinking; IL
he il not a subordinate he has generally
to acknowledge the public as his master
and must strive TO please the public. He
must repress originality and Independence
of Judgment except within a limited
sphere. and must also reprcss imagination
and feeling"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
GENDER OF SHIPS.
Why They Are Usually Spoken Of as
Feminine-Some Observations.

Mr.. Kipling, champion of the romance
of machinery, has done much to prove
his case In his tales and poems Of the
locomotive, the motor car, the torpedo
boat, the destroyer, the submarine, the
tramp steamer and the ocean liner. Never
theless, both the literary and seafaring
world Is still divided on the question, us
the steamship of today as much Il thing Of
beauty, of romance, of inspiration, as
were the famous clippers, the swift pack
cts, the stately Indiamen and the daring
whalers of a day gone by?" l.
Recently "a gro6p of travellers, looking
upon their mighty vessel at its pier, noted
the vast sides gllstening with fresh paint,
decks and the shining brasses, and one Of
them quoted approvingly, The liner, she's
rs she?p queried an older man. That's
what l doubt. At least, If this magnifi-
cent monster is feminine at all, she's more
than a new woman or an athletic girl,
eYen.J She's an amazon-a giantess-a cir
Gus lady, fit to juggle cannon balls and
Rft men in her teeth.
EVERY craft is still conventionally
she l know, but most of them are losing
their femininlty. Now a ship, in her
movements, her style, her individuality,
Il suppose you have heard the old conun-
drum, Why is a ship referred to as she p -
asked another of the party.
Il don't remember 1t. What Is the
because she requires SO much rig
cling before she can go
well. on the whole, L think the She
is fitting. Once behold a full rugged ship,
under all her canvas her gilded figure
head courtesying deep into blue sea and
racing foam, her lofty maintruck swing
ing Its splendid arc against blue sky and
racing clouds, and you could never doubt
it. But when we change sails for steam
we should change sex and pronoun with
them. This ponderous leviathan ought
plainly to be he and then, think of a
battleship! Absurd,
The youth who had already quoted Kip
ling smiled and completed his quotation:
1.-The liner. she's a lady, and 'er route
is cut IN dried;
The man-o'-war, 'eI 'usband, an e always
keeps beside"
''Good!' agreed the other. ITS some
thing to admit that the man-of-war is
not a lady, too"
''Bven before the days of steam, wasn't
1t odd that she used to beg" asked a lady.
mo; but the oddly was in saying man
of war" was the reply. but 1 suppose
that was to indicate her masculine duties
-much as, when Maria Theresa assumed
sovereign command in time of war, her
hailed her as viking A ship of the line
was quite properly 'she'-and man-of-war
is an unofficial title, anyhow"
you're mixing me dreadfully," COM
planned a young girl, "How am l ever
to learn about ships when you begin by
telling me he is She and She is hep
1t Is an interesting question for the
tourist season: Do vessels lose their fem
ininity with their wings2 Are they be-
coming mannish? Is the liner not a lady?
Youths Companion.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
BEER AND THE NATIONS.
Defense of Malt Liquor Drawn from
Contemporary History.

With the growth of the beer industry
and the steady Improvement Of its product
has gone on a steady falling off in the
consumption of the fiery fluids which so
frequently, in early days. lured men into
sottishness and Influenced them to crimes,
particularly crimes of violence. Where
beer Is sold there is order presiding over
good nature.
For beer is but mildly stimulating; in
deed. its stimulation is nothing much
stronger than a peryasiye sense OF a fresh
ening of vigor. Properly made. beer Is a
food quite as much as 1t is a drink. 1t re-
inforces bodily tissues instead of disinte-
grating them; IT soothes the nerYes rather
lions Of what are called mental faculties
instead Of distorting and perverting and
confusing them All these assertions need
binary observation.
Beer-drlnking Germany leads in phil
osophy, and is unsurpassed in wit, in
poetry, in art. in research. Germany is
SO great that almost the whole OF Europe
is endeavoring to form n league against
her. In fctile skin Germany Is preemi-
nent. for the trade mark. made in Ger
many" has driven British manufacturers
almost to that rage of fear which is hate.
Germany gives victorious commercial bat
tie to all civilized countries except the
United States in the markets of the world,
and the people Of the United States have
become within the last. twenty-five years
a beer-drinking population.
Lord Salisbury spoke, some years since,
of dying nations" Today Great Britain
herself complains Of deterioration in the
stamina Of her people. Salisbury's dying
nations were particularly Latins-the
French. Spanish, Itallans--all Of them nom
drinks some beer, but her ruin is traceable
to gin and spirits. France. on the other
hand, is "bucking up coincidently with
the Frenchman's turning away from abb
sinthe, THE fairy with the green eyes
and taking to his beer. The argument
from contemporary history Is in favor Of
beer as a contributory agent toward the
making Of the men who are TO command
and control he future.-The Mirror.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
MAYNARD AT Il
PATERSON GIRL HAS RUN
AWAY MANY TIMES.
Gypsy Camps Were Searched for Her the
Last Time, but She was Found
in woman's Home.

PATTERSON, Aug. 16.-For the last three
days dillgent watch has been kept on a
couple of camps Of gypsies located along
the Collie road near Ridgewood, 1t being
suspected by the State S. F.. G. G. that the
nomads were either guilty of kidnapping a
~12-year-old girl or that they were harbor-
ing the child after she ran away from
home.
The missing child was Jennie Skflly, who
has been placed in several good homes by
he local branch of the society and who
Invariably ran away. Her parents reside
In Franklin Furnace and she was turned
over to the society after having left her
home several times.
Officers searched the camps of the gypsies
several times during the past three days
and each Time failed to find a trace of
the missing girl. The gypsies denied all
knowledge of the child.
YESTERDAY after Colonel c. c. Shelby and
Secretary John Hugs returned from a
fruitless search through the camps and
also the homes of a number Of people
in a colored colony on the Collie road. they
received a telephone message from Arthur
Coe. a driver for David Boyle.
The latter had met Messrs. Shelby and
Huggs, who told him of their business in
that locality. Coe was furnished with a
good description of the girl, and he
promptly identified her in the child sitting
on the porch at the home of Mrs. Bar
bara Bauserwein, the woman who was as
saulted with an AK by her husband about
five months ago, and whose husband was
found dead in the garnet later, having
hung himself.
Officers Shelby and Huggs returned 10
the Gofie road and questioned Mrs.
Bauserwein. She said that the girl had
come to her home a week ago, represent
ing herself as being an orphan and having
no home. h woman cut of kindness
took the child in and kept her pending in
quiries of friends.
Because Of the girls previous record, an
| effort wilrNb made to have her com-
mitted to the State Home for Girls,
When first brought to the attention OF
the society the child was picked up on the
street by the police. She was then given
a home with Mrs. Mary De Graw, OF
Little Falls. Shortly afterwards she rar
away and was again taken in by the
police at the Erie Railroad station in thi:
city. She was then turned over to the
care of Mrs. Louis De Reuch, of North
Paterson. Here everything possible was
done to give her a comfortable home, but
the child left there last week and was
located only yesterday. The officials be-
lieve her incorrigibie.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16

cipaI articles forming the eroln ore s,,oor
coffee. tea and eafao. appregatine ahout
sooo ono an In value or e,,g.r tho ouan-
tity imported In 1907 was 4. 3g1 600 ON mounds
md IN 1890 "a eS0 mr.. oo0 mounds while the
val1ie In 1877 was 500 s0e OOo AMI In 1890
so4 ae4 o0o tho ac,,aI nr,co nor no,,nd in
1907 being o. cents a. ayoinst . 4 cents in
1seo a rod,,ction - about 10 nor cont IN
nrice or coffea the imnorts IN 1917 wore
eS5 GOO ooo nonnds agoipst $40 mo 600 IN 1909
ana tba ,al,o IN 1oo7 MO- S7s mn 400 against
s,5 ooo ooo IN WOO an ovorogo ~ 90 ,onts
90 ra,,nd IL Ion7 ond : a oen4s - teoo ~
~ od,anoa - aha,,t On 49, oant ~ az
nr,oa nor nornd oF zoo tho in,norts IN
too7 ar,ountod 80 sta ooo ono IN voi,,o and
atauuo5 ~ ,aa.a,,a -, ato,,4 90 = oan.
~ - - no,'nd W. ~ 90 1000 nile
- J., 49, ~ I.nrans 30 ,oo7 ,,ora sto oo ooo
- .ps eI. !, ~, = It.t1o
~ ~ ~. - - ~ 80 - nnnnd
- Zoo ~ % 49,. - ~
vi ie'o, nus - - ioul
aoao 40 80 90 ss-ssau
~ a"oul %1Vv,VVV'Vs0 ~ 80, =
apout two-lhlIus pi II Va,ue VI 70 ~
ihpoTtti' subar snV"s u va % = =.
cent cacao' an advance OF a NIUE over
per cent cohee an ADVANCE OF ABOUT ~
per cent ana tea OF ABOUT % Der cent IN
price per pouhu'
turning 10 the great group OF arlleies
for use IN manufacturing a much greater
advance in price per unit or quantity IS
shown ana IN many cases also n great ad-
vance in actual quantity imported. Hides
ard skins as q whole form the largest
single Item In value or the articles i'm
ported for manufacturing, aggregatins ~
million dollars In value In 1907 ngainst AZ
millions In 1872 or this total, the group
hides OF cattle shows an increase Of but
4 million pourGs IN quantity, but OF Z
million dollars In value, the average price
per pound being % per cent. greater in 1901
than in 1899. while all other hides (except
cattle hides and goatskins) show an adj
vance of "a per cent. in value per pound,
%goatskins showing an Increase OF only
about is per cent. in price per pound. Raw
silk increased in quantity from 81 millions
to 1872 million pounds and in value from
&c millions TO 10 million dollars the adj
vance IN nrice nor round haing otor+ sc
- g 49, -. LIS y - {,
per ct inuia luDpel mcrs"seu from Of
nlillcn pounds 10 u mllllons, n IN Nalue
from 20 million dollars to SO millions, the
increase In price Der Mound being about o.
rer cent. Wool increased from n million
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
WOMAN WHO KILLED
FATHER A MANIAC.
Mrs. Madeline Langlotz Put in Strait
jacket at New York Police
Station,

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Crazed by her
terrible experiences Of the last few hours,
Mrs. Madeline Langlotz, the pretty young
widow who killed her father. George Was
ser. in a pistol duel after he had fatally
shot her mother at their home, 205S Third
avenue. is today being closely guarded at
the Mercer Street Police Station to pre-
vent her committing suicide.
All night she sat in a dazed condition
in a cell. helpless in a straightjacket with
Matron Katherine Doner within a few
feet constantly watching her.
Three times during the night she coll
iapsed. and once the ambulance was called,
but the matron, with the assistance Of the
reserves at the station, succeeded in re-
viving her before It arrived.
So desperate is her condition that 1t has
been deemed inadvisable to break the news
to her that her mother Is dead. She con-
stantly in lucid intervals, begs for news
of her mother, in defending whom she was
forced to kill her own father.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
SIGHT AND ITS POWER.
Some of the Ideas That Recent Discov-
cries Have Brought to the Front.

. The tails of comets have long defied sat
isfactory explanation. 1t is evident, ac-
cording to the best authorities, that some
repulsive force is active, overcoming grav-
itation and driving luminous matter swiftly
from the sun; but as to the nature of the
force it is possible only to speculate.
While the corpuscular theory of light pre-
vailed, the repulsive force was supposed
to I've due to the direct impact of the lu-
miniferous particles, but when the undula-
tory theory prevailed this explanation lost
its FEASIBILITY and was replaced by a gen
eral, rather vague, impression that the
force must be in some way electrical.
More than thirty years ago, however,
Clerk-Maxwell showed that as a necessary
of his electromagnetic theory
of light a body exposed to, radiation must
be repealed, and he gave a formula by
which the repulsion might be calculated.
According to this formula the earth must
experience a solar repulsiOn of many tons,
but so small compared with the suns ire
mendous gravitational attraction that its
effect is absolutely insensfble. Upon q
smaller body, however, the disproportion
is much diminished; and upon a mere par
ticle OF, say, a hundred-thousandth of an
inch in diameter, the repulsion should
greatly exceed the attraction, and the par
ticle pust be propelled by the light with a
eontiithally increasing speed.
The discoveries by Herr of electric
waves, such as render wireless telegraphy
possible, have practically affirmed the
truth OF Maxwell theory, ana W1lnln the
last few years two independent vertical
tons of his results have been obtained by
Professor Lebedew at Moscow and by Pro-
fessors Nichols and Hull at Dartmouth
College, who have succeeded in actually
measuring the repulsive force of beams of
light. This Is an extremely important step
toward the explanation Of a large number
of interesting and p~erplexing astronomical
phenomena.
Among the many suggestions offered to
account for the swift expansion of the neb-
ulous rings surrounding Nova Persei, none
seems more captivating to the imagination
than that of Professor Kapteyn, which is
that the phenomenon may be due to the
echoing of light. At the probable distance
of Nova Persef from the earth the OBJ
served velocity of the expansion exactly
equals the velocity of light. That being so,
1t is only necessary to suppose the space
surrounding the star to contain scattered
nebulous or meteoric matter, from which
the light of the explosion that is presumed
to ave produced the star Is reflected to us
at greater and greater distances from the
star as the light expands around it.
1t is like the reflection of the sound of
an explosion taking place in a hilly coun-
try, and coming to our ears In a succession
of echoes as it reaches more and more
distant ranges.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY
ARE REPORTED ABUNDANT
ALMOST EVERYWHERE.
Dun's Review Sums Up the Business Sit
uation-Money Situation Leads to
ConserYatism-Future Seems Bright.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Dispatehes to
Dun's Review Indicate that current bush
ness maintains a larger volume than is
customary at this season and confidence
Il expressed regarding the future, although
the financial stringency eompels coaserva-
tism In many instances. Boston reports
less than the usual midsummer quiet IN
wholesale circles, while mills and factories
are we'll occupied as a rule, and retail
trade is seasonably good.
Cotton goods move freely at Philadel-
phia; wool stocks are low and demand Is
active: coal sells well; building operations
are large. but collections somewhat IT.
regular. Wholesale ~drygoods houses at
Pittsburg report active trade for the sea-
son, country merchants buying freely FOR
future delivery, but unseasofAble weatner
has retarded retail trade and collections
are slow.
Prospects, for fall and winter trade are
encouraging at Baltimore and collections
improve. Visiting merchants place liberal
orders and sales of staples are larger than
a year ago. Jobbers report fair trade ana
anticipate an early fai. business, mer-
chants comii;g from the interior before the
usual date. Clothing manufacturers are
actively employed, hardware orders arrive
In large number, but distillers experience
the usual summer dullness. Seasonable
weather In the West has helped the growth
of corn and confidence is much increased.
Jobbing trade shows h usual fall activity
and collections sre good
Current trade at Chicago has lost no
activity. but financial conditions enforce
conservatism regarding new undertakings.
Banks show more discrimination in maxi
ing loans, and credits are more closely
scanned. Reports of railroad earnings and
progress of the crops are most satisfac-
tory. Stocks of summer goods Mt Cleve-
land are reduced by clearance sales and
fall business is steadily expanding, while
payments are generally satisfactory.
All lines of merchandise are active at
Minneapolis, although orders are small
pending final crop outcome. Demand for
building material Is beyond precedent and
collections are prompt. While there is
some disposition to defer buying at st.
Paul until the crops are assured, a satisfac-
tory demand is maintained in all leading
lines. Manufacturing plants are actively
engaged and collections are fairly prompt.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-16
VALUE OF IMPORTS
PAST ADVANCE IN MARKET
PRICES PLAY IN PROBLEM.
Government Statisticians Confess That
the Figures of the Worth of Our
Purchases Abroad Are Fictitious.

The apparent increase of more than
100 per cent in imports into the United
States since 1899 seems to be largely
due to an advance in prices abroad of
the articles imported. While there has
been more or less actual increase in
the quantity imported of most of the
principal articles forming the import
trade, an analysis Just being made by
the Bureau OF Statistics of that trade
in 1907 compared with that of 1899 In
dicates that the increase In the total
value of imports is largely due to ad-
vance in prices of he principal articles
forming the bulk of importations into
the United States.
This analysis, which is being made
both of imports and exports, includes
every article imported or exported in
which the quantity as well as the
value is stated In the monthly returns
made to the Bureau of Statistics. n
of which the average Valuation per
unit of quantity can thus be deter
mined by dividing stated quantity into
stated value. A comparison of the i'm
port and export prices per unit of
quantity In 1907 with those of the
earlier years thus gives an opportun-
ity to determine to what extent the
Increase in total value of imports or ex-
ports Is due to increased quantities. on
the one hand. or to advance In prices,
on the other.
While the number of articles form
ing the 1,400 million dollars worth of
merchandise imported in the fiscal year
1907 is so great that a study of prices
of each could not be made within a
reasonable limit Of space, 1t is prac-
ticable to compare prices for a few Of
the most imporfant of the articles i'm
ported. This comparison Of the figures
for 1907 is made with those for 1899.
that year being selected, first, because
imports have almost exactly doubled in
value since that time, and, second. be-
cause the fiscal year 1899 was suf-
ficlently distant from the enactment OF
the tariff law of 1897 to be considered
as fairly normal in its import trade
and not affected, as We're the imports
of Immediately preceding years. by
changes. actual or prospective, in rates
of duty.
While the total value of the merchandise
imported in 1907 was 81. 434, 421, 1875 against
s697, las, 4S9 In 1899, 1t Is practicable to find
a few great articles which aggregate prac-
ticallv one-half Of this enormous sum-. In
the great group foodsbuffs. four articles
sugar, coffee, tea and cacao-aggregate
practically $500. 100000 in value in the inn
ports Of 1907. and in the two groups raw
materials for use in manufacturing and
manufactures for further use In manufac-
turing. a dozen great articles aggregate
nearly $500. 100000 in value. this dozen ar
ticles being hides and skins, silk. rubber.
wool. hbres. copper, tin. tobacco. cotton,
lumber. pig iron, and nitrate Of soda.
The total value of all f~oodstuffs imported
In 1907 was SSOS.OO 0 900. and the four prin-