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LINEUP OF YALE ACAINST WEST POINT Jones, Bomar, Wylie and Coy to Start in the
 Backfield. MANY SUBSTITUTES GOING Members of Army Eleven Are Picked to Face the
 Blues.
MANY SUBSTITUTES GOING

Accompanied by about a thousand rooters the Yale eleven left last night for New York, from where this morn ing they will leave for West Point to meet the Army eleven. With the eleven the following substitutes all of whom are certain to get into the game, were: Alcott, Berger, Phllbin Murphy, Dimes and Brown.
 Bomar will start the game at right halfback and for thls purpose he has been used carefully in the past few days, The other backs at the start will be Tad Jones at quarter, Wylie al left halfbaclS and Coy at fullback The end men will be those who have been practieing all the week, Burch and Howard Jones. The other iinemer will be the regulars: Paige, Brides Cooney, Goebel and Biglow.
 Since Ed Glass has been here coaching the line has shown marked improvement. He has been working with Goebel and Cocney especially both of whom are first rate materia needing only development. Brides Paige and Biglow, who form the re mainder of the center of the line, art in fine condition.
 As an end Burch is light, but very speedy. When tackling he figures ac curateiy and hangs on with tenacit! which usually stops his man. Howard Jones always shows up better In { game than at practice, and witt Burch makes up the rest of the line
 Murphy and Philbin are sure to ge in the game as halfbacks before it i, over. The former is one of the bes members of the varsity with the for ward pass and the latter one of tn, best for running and kicking, Coy i admitted to be the star fulIback 0 the eastern college.
 The score in the game last yea was: Yale 10, West Point s. From tn, outlook before the game there ough to be much bigger difference in tn tallies to-day with 0 for the Army.
 On the train which went two hour after the eleven the following play CTS who have been active on the tw elevens during the past three week went: Thornton, Boggs, Congdon Dunbar. Riddle, Beebe, Hagar Mitchell Bingham, Burke, Holt Hobbs, Andrus, Logan, Piggott, Eos ter and Denny.
 Following will be the lineup of bot teams at the start of the game:
 Yale. Position. West Poin'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-19
FINAL PRACTICE BEFORE THE FIRST: BIc CAME Light Scrimmage and Long Signal Drill for the
 Elevens. BOMAR AND BIGL0W KICK Many Coaches to Get Men in Trim for the Army
 Game.
BOMAR AND BIGL0W klCI

The final practice of the Yale eleven before they meet. the West Point team near the barracks on the Hudson, was held at Yale field yesterday afternoon and consisted of q long signal practice and light scrimmage,
 No attempt was made to score, for as often as the varsity pushed It's way to the fve-yard line the coaches called them back to the center of the field to try the advance again. The line showed up strong and on only one occasion was the second eleven able to break through it.
 The serimmage lasted about fifteen minutes and was very open. The for- ward pass was made use of to large extent, but the onside kick was not at- tempted and will probably not be used In the game to-day.
 Beside the scrmmage Bomar received special coaching in drop kicking and he and Captain Biglow practiced kick ing from placement for about fifteen minutes. Both sent the ball between the posts nearly every time.
 Johnny Hall, olcott, Billy Knox, Car Flanders and several other graduate coaches were at the field helping get the varsity in trim for the contest The lineup in yesterdays scrimmage:
 Varsity. Position. Second
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Third race, 8:l2 pace, purse s1,oOo
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
AN IMMORAL DECISION.

1t is to be hoped that the recent de-
cision of an English court that a
woman suing for divorce and receiving
a promise of marriage from another,
conditioned on her receiving the de-
cree. has ground for action against
the promisof for breach of contract,
will not be accepted as a precedent.
The judge that rendered the decision
awarded no damages, and as that is
the only sure redress in cases of breach
of promise the victory for the woman
was empty but the principle laid down
is bad. The engagement of these par
ties in a marriage contract when one
of them was not free to make it was
an immoral contract and should be
void,
No law should recognize a contract
attacking the integrity of the home.
that is calculated to break up marriage
there are any. of a union, and the
contract the English court held good
was such a contract. 1t was against
public morals. Such a principle up
held in law would put a premium on
family dissolution, 1t would make a
mockery of marriage, leaving the par-
ties free 10 consider themselves but
temporarily bound. 1t would be a n
tamount to the law recognizing trial
marriages" No such decision as this
English one would stand the test of
an appeal to the higher ourts in this
country.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
AMERIcA,s ARMApA SAFES.

The magnificent armada that sailed
from Hampton Roads today on the long
oyage around the continent will be fol-
lowed by the anxious hopes and fears
OF the American people. On a far Diff
ferent mission the ''invincible armada
WAS sent from Spain by Philip II. in
1858 to destroy the might of England.
What happened to it is history. The
elements conspired with British valor to
destroy the ships and annihilate Spain's
naval power. She I've recovered from
the blow. That armada was attended
by the pious prayers of the Spanish
people and the high hopes Of the Span
ish ruler, but it came to naught.
The mission of the American fleet,
which is incomparably mightier than
that of Spain in 1888, is not one of ag-
gression and s~poliation. 1t threatens no
other nation. 1t carries with 1t the
olive branch of peace. Built for the ma
tional defense, it can never be employed
to attack the rights and interests of
another nation. The fleet will eneircle
American oasis and go from one ma
tional seaport to another. 1t will visit
the Far East only by invitation of
Japan and in the promotion of the
international comfy. which we desire
above all things in the Pacific as we'll
as in the Atlantic.
The voyage Will be long. and there
VIII be perils of wind n wave to en-
counter. There may be disaster to some
Of the ships, but we must expect to take
the chances of accident "a the opera
ton of our w%arships. and not deem it
extraordinary If disaster should occur.
But these are stout ships, stoutly
manned and differed by the best
trained seamen, and there is a cheerful
confidence that when the armada ar
rives at its destination the message will
be flashed across the continent that all
is well.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
4 pA11sApE p1sF1auREMrNr.

Residents on the Palisades are stirred
up over a project by the owners of some
Of the Palisade land of erecting cheap
tenements. The tract to be built upon
has been used for park purposes and is
directly opposite Grants tomb. on the
Riverside drive. There is talk of an APP
peal to the Legislature TO buy the tract
and prevent the Disagreement. 1t is
not at all probable that the Legislature
would comply with such a request.
But there is an Interstate Palisade
Park Commission, and the public under
standing has been that the commission
secured the title to all the Palisades in
the ne%ighborhood of the tract in ques-
ton. II there is a threatened deface-
ment of the Palisades the commission
a been neglectful. If the tract in
question is not necessary to the preser-
walton of the Palisades the property
owners in the vicinity who don't want
their view Interrupted by cheap cree
tons should combine and purchase the
tract.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
A RIGHTEOUS PROTEST.

The confiscation by makers of phono-
graph records of the works of musical
composers without a 'by your leave
or the slightest recompense or ac-
acknowledgement given should be stopped
by Congress. A group of eminent COM
posers headed by Victor Herbert and
John Philip Sousa gathered in Wash
ington last week to voice their
righteous protest. why the copyright
laws should protect composers in the
sale Of their products in every other
respect and not in this is not clear.
The sale of the Photographic records
brings in enormous profits, but the
men who do the work which the
records reproduce do not share in a
penny. This, on the face of it. is dis
c%ouraging and unfair, and the copy
right laws should be amended to en-
able its correction. Not only the
monograph records, but the perfo-
rated rolls used in automatic piano
players are gradually %displacing sheet
music and depriving the composers of
their chief source of
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
A HUMBUe COMMISSION.

When Inquisitor Backes of the Hahn
investigating committee questioned
members of the State Sewerage Com
mission in regard to their work, they
were nonplused for reply They could
point to no results. They could give no
clear idea of what was done at their
occasional meetings in Jersey City. 1t
was made evident enough that the State
Sewerage Commission was a sinecure
body of little or no use to the State.
But a sinecure commission. If it has
an ordinarily smart secretary, can
make a brave show in its annual re-
port, and that is what the Sewerage
Commissions secretary has done in his
report this year. There are twenty-five
pages of a preliminary report, the de-
tails to follow, and the casual reader
might be deceived into the belief that
the report presents work done and re-
accomplished. Analysis, however,
shows that the commission actually ac-
nothing during the year.
The commissioners, we are told, met
tifty-two tines during the year, once
a week, and a long time between
and what these meetings
amounted to was made plain by the ad-
to the Hahn investigating
But the years record for
the State Sewerage Commission was
barren of good. All that the commits
sion did or might have lone could have
been done by the State Board of Health,
which Is the proper authority to deal
with river pollution and sewerage. If
the State Sewerage Commission is not
out by the next Legislature the
will be that the Legislature
wants to perpetuate a sinecure and six
salaries, including the seere-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. Dec. 16.-Miss
Ellen COPYRIGHT, aged So years, offered
a novel defense before Alderman Gahan
when she was sued by a trained nurse
to recover $12 for four days services
during an illness of the defendant. Miss
COPYRIGHT refused TO pay the claim be-
cause she declared she was not i'll,
but that during the four days the nurse
was employed she was in a trance and
was on a visit to heaven; that 1t was
only the empty body of Ellen Court
right that the nurse administered to,
the real life having been absent lin the
Kingdom of God"
Miss COPYRIGHT lives alone in a little
house on Grove street. One morning
recently the neighbors, having heard no
stir in the old lady's home, forced open
the door. Miss COPYRIGHT was found
unconscious-some thought dead-on a
couch. and a physician was summoned,
Who tried several methods of resuscita-
ton, but without avail. A trained
nurse was her employed to watch the
old woman and care for her. Miss
COPYRIGHT lay in a comatose condition
for four days, at the end of which time
she awoke, and, though very weak, was
soon thereafter able to be up and about.
The nurse left.
Miss COPYRIGHT refused to a the
and the suit at law was the re-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
DISPUTING NURSES CLAIM,
SAYS SOUL WAS IN HEAVEN

suit. In making her defense before the
Alderman Miss Courtright said:
II was not sick that morning when
they found me; It was not my real self
lying on the couch, only my empty
body; my spirit was on a visit to the
Kingdom of God.
Il was carried I'D and through the
gates into the kingdom by angels, n
there I saw a multitude of people,
stretching out from the throne of God
as far as 1 could see. Each was clothed
in white, and the ones nearest the
throne were clothed in the whitest
robes. Every one was happy. While |
was there / met my brother-in-law. He
came up, and. laying his hand on my
shoulder, said: I am so glad you ave
come 1 recognized others whom knew
on earth.
Heaven is made up of a great open
space, with but one gate through which
to enter. 1 returned to my body now
and then and found them forcing NOR
phine down my throat, and a nurse
there to care for me-"
The Alderman said he would not dis
pute her version of being in heaven,
but that the nurse did really stay four
days and administer to her body, and,
therefore. was entitled to pay. MISS
COPYRIGHT finally paid the claim
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16

heal to the tragic elimination Of her
evil course.
What would have been the emotions
of Hedda had Lovborg adopted the
method of a certain Jersey City factory
superintendent we shall not attempt to
imagine. To deliberately hold ones
head in a gas blast furnace until the
fumes do their fatal work may be an
effective and original method of making
away with oneself, but it is certainly
not esthetic.
And, if people must take it upon
themselves to shirk the responsibilities
and tribulations of life by the wretched
method of suicide, one wonders with
Hedda why it cannot be done with n
little more regard to artistic appear
ances. A least a method of egress less
freakish and painful than that of this
Jersey City hypochondriac might be Sc
lected.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16

scholarship is so apparent at Yale that
the dean Of the university is advocating
action to render its influence of as little
effect as possible. He has found that
by far the most of the students who
have to be reproved for poor scholar
ship live in the exclusive, high-priced
dormitories, and he recommends a
change in the dormitory system that
will prevent such men from forming
themselves into cliques. The expensive
private dormitory and club menaces the
democracy of any institution in which
it exists, and increases the handicap
put by wealth upon scholarship and the
attachments in college activities
that count most Importantly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
The oIee Fraud.


The efforts being made by the farmers
of the country TO enlist the aid Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt in securing amendments to
the laws governing the manufacture ana
sale of oleomargarine involve a large
question.
1t means far more than a c~ommohplace
controversy between the farmers and the
makers of a food product which completes
with the farmers butter.
1t is true that the hurt to an honest in
dustry is reason enough to command the
sympathy and assistance of the President,
of Congress and of the press of the coun-
try. But above and beyond this is a
greater question of principle, of enforce
ment of the law and of the extinction of
a vicious system of counterfeiting
The national Congress has declared the
sale of cleo unlawful unless it be mar
keted under certain clearly defined condi-
lions and restrictions.
Yet in the face of that law it is a we'll
known fact that great quantities of the
product are being sold constantly in a
way that constitutes an evasion of the
latter and a deliberate breach of the spirit
of the statute.
With the sale of oleo offered and priced
for what it really is the farmer has no
right to find fault. The man who pur-
chases 'bull-butter' because he is willing
to pay only the oleo and not the creamery
price exercises his legal and unquestion-
able privilege.
But the federation of a law 80 lax as to
permit dishonest dealers to sell, UNI
punished, factory-nade oleo as the pure
dairy product, and at the price of the
real article, which costs thrice as much
to make, is the infiction of a wrong, both
upon the public and upon the legitimate
interests engaged in butter-making.
Stripped of all technicalities, the merits
of the case are clear. The law declares
that the sale of oleo for pure butter
shall not be permitted under any condi-
tions. Oleo is being sold as pure butter
at pure butter prices.
This traffic does a double Injury. In
the first place. it robs the consumer, and
in the second. it works a wrong upon the
producer.
The government has but two alterna-
tives. 1t must admit that its officials dc
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
A Gentle Hint.

II got a neat rebuke for my curiosity
once said a ~well-known Baltimore man,
.'and 1t was administered to me by a native
of the Cheat River region in West Vir-
ginia.
II had stopped over night in the dis
trict in question, and in The morning was
strolling about the place, asking all sorts
OF questions. Presently | met a lanky
mountaineer. who greeted me with 'Howdy'
and passed the time of day most pleasantly.
Seeing that he was barefooted, q clrcum-
stance, it seemed to me, quite odd in a
mountainous region, / asked:
1T Is the custom of this country for the
men to go without shoes
'Waai. the native drawled. some on us
do. but most on us atten's to our own busi-
ness. "-Lippincott's.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
JEFF DAVIS CAREER OF STRIFE.

jeff Davis, the new Senator from Ar
kansas, who attracted attention in the
Senate by his vitriolic ~utterances about
trusts, has gone into the upper house
with a career full of interest for the
student of American politics. After
years of continuous strife and victory
in the State he represents, Senator
Davis attained the goal of his ambition
by defeating Senator James Berry, than
whom there was no more popular or
powerful Democrat in the Senate.
Senator Davis began hiss career in
politics when he was elected prose-
cutting attorney of his home district.
At the expiration Of his term he was
reelected. Immediately he began stump
ing his State as a candidate for attor-
n~ey-general. He was elected, and an
nounced himself for a second term as
encouragement He was victorious
again.
Then came his three successive VIC
tories for Governor and the announce
ment that he would be a candidate to
succeed senator Berry.
What. Jeff Davis in the Senate? I'm
possible was the reply. That it was
not impossible the Berry supporters
soon realized.
In this campaign Davis gave utter
ance to some of h homilies that have
made him famous in his home State.
II don't any of 0 kinky-
headed niggers to vote for me-" he
said once TO a gathering Of negroes
in a crowd that had gathered to hear
his speech. "All you coons and dudes
and old fogies go and vote for my
opponent
Then addressing his remarks to the
main body Of his auditors, he n
tinued:
Pm a man of the plain people. The
only ones / want to vote for me are
you boys with gallus n patches
over the ses6 Of your pants,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
SCHOLARSHIP AND WEALTH.

Wasn't it Ian MacLaren who once
said that for his own good a mans
best inheritance was poverty? Whoever
1t was, he voiced a truism thai most
people will un~hesitatingly accept.
Start two boys of equal talent, one with
wealth n the other with poverty, and
you place the first under an unmistaka-
bic handicap. He viii have small in
centive to develop his abilities, and
they are more than likely to become
%atrophled as a result. while his more
fortunate brother will have of necessity
70 make the utmost possible out Of him
self.
The facilitating effect of wealth upon
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16

Berry is trying to get all the 'goody-
goody' dudes and so-called respectable
element to vote for him. l want no
high-collared dude to help, make up
my majorities. People that put Florida
water in their baths can vote for him
and be -"
During a speech in a backwoods part
of the State which had not had the
civilizing influence of a railroad, he
said:
MY opponents want me assassinated.
If they ever kill me put my body in a
pine box made from the trees of the
noble forest, wrap it in a Confederate
flag and ship it back to my heartbroken
family"
In his campaign for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination Davis was OPP
posed by Colonel e. w. Rector. While
speaking at Hardy, a village in the
northern part of the State, Davis yelled
at the top of his voice;
Il wear white home-spun wooden
socks. But If Colonel Rector will pull
up his pants you will see hat he wears
silk socks.'
One of Senator Davis's constant as
sertions on the stump was that he was
born ON a farm. Colonel Rector said
that he. too. was born on a farm and
had driven oxen. Davis pointed to
Colonel Rector's soft hands as proof
to the contrary. The colonies reply
was.
Yes, gentlemen, it is rue that my
hands are soft, for I have not driven
cxen in many years. But they may get
hard again, as / am engaged in the
much more amusing pastime Of driving
a jackass."
In the campaign in which he defeated
Senator Berry Davis was charged with
drunkenness, coiIusion with railroad in
other crime In the political calendar.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
Hughes and Lyons. /

To tho Editor OF the Evening Star;
/. Is Charles E. Hughes, present Gov
ernor of New York, a Welshman? When
and where was he born2 Where did he
receive his early educational Advantages
>. OF what nationality is j. w. Lyons,
whose name appears on our currency?
l.. II. G.
RI. Governor Hughes is a New Yorker by
birth, having first seen the light OF day IN
Glen Falls. Warren County, that State, on
April Ii, 1862. He is the son of the Rev.
David c.. Hughes, of that place. He is a
graduate of Brown University, 1881,
A. M. 1884, and graduate of Columbia Law
School, 1884. 2. Judson Whitlocke Lyons,
who was Register of the United States
Treasury until recently, was born in Burke
County, Georgia, August 10, 1858. He is a
graduate of the law department of How
ard University, 1SS4.-Ed.]
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-16
The Color Line.

At the Army and Navy Club in Wash
ington a number of ''old timers were
one evening swapping stories OF the
Civil War when General Young told of a
soldier in the Army of the Potomac who
entertained some unique ideas as to his
financial value. as well as of the method
by which that value could be realized
He was a white man, and was detailed
for service as a teamster in a train that
was driven for the most part by negroes.
The darkies were hired at the rate OIL
SIS per month, but the white soldiers re-
ceived no more han their regular pay, SIC.
The man in question appeared somewhat
dissatisfied with this arrangement and
made an application to his captain
II should like he said gravely, ito be
appointed a negro by brevet, and be as
signed to duty In accordance with my
brevet rank!"-Lipplncott's.