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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
A CITY BEAUTIFUL.

A competition among the cities and
towns of the country i'm the way of
making communities more attractive
esthetically would do a heap of good.
Many cities and towns are nov active
In the work of Identification. They
are laying out parks, planting shade
trees, converting vacant lots into
beauty spots, cleaning up back yards
and putting streets and alleys and
other public places in good order. In
some towns prizes and awards are
given by Improvement workers. Sew
erai Western towns have their annual
cleaning day, when everybody turns
cut to do battle against untidiness.
So much can be done by a little in
dividual effort that a municipality
could never undertake TO do. The fac
tory owner can train fa%st-growing
vines over his dingy factory walls and
make them picturesque. The house
tenant can beautify the patch of lawn
in front of his house and plant flowers
in his yard. In the city of Paris among
the most pleasing sights are the
growing plants in windows in resi-
Dental sections, and that feature can
well be copied in American cities.
In our city the Shade Tree Commits
sion is doing q splendid work. It has
fairly transformed the small parks
planted thousands of shade trees and
cared for those that have escaped the
rayages of time and the bugs and pub
lie abuse. and it will have completely
reforested Newark in a few years
Next week the American Civic Assoc
citation. which was organized for the
esthetic Improvement of American
cities, will meet in Providence, r. L.
IN a good account IA be given Of
progress in Newark. But more Of in
dividual effort is needed in our city,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
THE FEMALE CONVICT.

State Prison Keeper Osborne was
free to declare at the recent conference
at Trenton Of executive heads of penal
and charitable institutions that he
would rather care for two thousand
male convicts than twenty-five female
convicts. In his experience, for one
thing. he had found that you can
never stop a woman from talking"
Perhaps if the South Jersey judge who
lately sentenced a common scold'' to
preserve unbroken silence in Jail for
sixty days had consulted Keeper Os-
borne he would have tried some other
form of punishment. A gag was out of
all question. The principal trouble. it
is said, Nm the State Home for Girls at
Trenton under the Eyler regime was
an attempted rule of silence. The in
mates could stand dungeons and man
acles and st~raitjackets, but enforced
silence was 'the limit Tho present
management, with more wisdom, allows
latitude for the tongue. and there are
no reports of trouble in the institution.
The proposed State r~eformatory for
women would have to deal with ma
ture womanhood with well-developed
p%ropensities, including an ungovern-
able tongue, and therefore the uceess
of UGH an institution would be doubtful
unless it was permitted to be a verit-
able Tower of Babel with every cell
vocal. Before the Legislature shall
take any steps for a woman's reforma-
tory this popularity of its population
should be carefully inquired into. The
State now has trouble enough with its
Railway R~eformatory and its insane
institutions and It's other institutional
charges without more than doubling
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
SOME BIG NATIONAL PROJECTS.

The prospectus of the National Drain
age Association, which is to meet in
Baltimore next Monday a week, is an
alluring one The association wants
the national government to pay for the
drainage of eighty million acres of
swamp lane in the United States. 1t is
calculated that, divided into f~orty-acre
farms. these lands would support two
million farmers and their dependents,
besides a large urban population. The
annual value of the crops produced
would be two billions, while the land
and improvements would represent a
taxable value of many billions. In adj
dition there would be obvious sanitary
advantages, and malaria and mosqui-
toe would be abolished.
There are now two great projects for
waterway navigation for Congress, one
in the Mississippi Valley and the other
on the Atlantic seaboard. The govern
hiNAt - oi0O hON Ch5d6CO III LiiC 81
gantic task of irrigating the many mill
lions of acres of arid lands in the West.
These enterprises call for a colossal ex-
penditure and, taken in connection with
the demands upon the treasury for
navy building and seacoast fortiflca-
ton, they represent a total that stag
gers the mind.
There is a limit somewhere to the
nations financial resources, and prob
ably 1t will be sharply drawn at the
coming session of Congress. 1t would
a great thing. indeed. If the govern
ment could command all the means tC
establish the proposed deep waterways
drain the eighty million acres of SWAMP
land, irrigate the entire arid West
build the Panama Canal, complete thu
s~eacoast Notifications, carry out thu
program of naval development and i'm
prove all the rivers and harbors, bu
there is a limit.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Our Jail system.

In this country we have made very lit
tie progress in scientific penology. For
the most part we are following the system
which existed in the Middle Ages and even
back in the earliest dawn of history. We
have extraordinary systems for arresting
and trying suspects, with the result that
some of those obviously guilty escape and
many apparently Innocent persons are con-
victed. Our jail system has little of the
reformatory element. A man is incarcer-
ated and left to brood and come out a
worse citizen han before. Occasionally
some sentimentalists evolve a plan which
proves to be worse than the old one, and
then there is a cry that there is no need
for reform.
There Is a very obvious need for COM
plete reform so that the derelict of so
ciety may be saved If possible, so that the
ex-criminal be not turned loose in a worse
state than the first to prey upon society.
But we are SO conservative by nature that
progress is slow and 1t will be long, we
fear, before we reach anything a
decent system of Observation-Disclosures
Inquirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
A REAL THANKSGIVING.

Governor Stokes's Thanksgiving
proclamation is a reminder to the peo-
pie hat in the year now passing they
have much to render thanks for. The
nation has been prosperous beyond de-
gree, the crops have been abundant,
no great calamity has marred the year.
we are at peace at home and abroad,
and there is nc cloud on the national
horizon. We have had financial
troubles, due to shameful exposures
of maladministration of financial
trusts and the distrust excited by
them. but these troubles are tenn
porary and will soon blow over.
The prosperity of the country is
upon a solid basis, business and
banking credit is sound, and the
government was never before in as
strong a financial position.
IN a general way the welfare of the
nation reflects the individual welfare.
But there will always be the poor and
the unfortunate and the suffering, no
matter what the general conditions of
life. There is no universal panacea for
the ills that flesh is heir TO. 1t is for
the many who have escaped these ills,
who have %prospered and been happy,
to take account of the blessings vouch-
safed them and render thanks accord
ingly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
Wasn,t Throngh RunnIng.

A well-known local character is San
Wellington, a colored man known as tn
duke" Tit duke is a fine cook ant
often accompanies camping parties. Las
fall a party of young men Sam was witt
decided to scare him with an apparition
Leaving the tent in his charge one night
on a pretense of going to the village, ont
of the party quietly returned envelopec
from head to foot in a sheet and with face
well covered with flour. He took his stand
In the doorway. Suddenly Sam looked up
and, emitting one horrible yell, dove
through the rear of the tent and wen
down the road at a terrible pace. The
ghost pursued. After about a mile OF rum
ming the duke was ready to drop and sal
down on a log, perspirlng freely. The
ghost came up and sat down on the same
log, putting and blowing. Absolute silence
reigned for a minute and then the ghost
remarked In a disguised voice:
w went some. didn't WEI"
Sam, whose teeth were chattering like
~eastanets, replied:
Yes; we did go some, an you jess wait
till All gets nah breff an we'll go some
more. Judges Library.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
A CONSTITUTIONAL coNvENTIoN.

The New Jersey State Civic Fedora
tion," which is a head without a body.
has conceived the idea of a new State
Constitution, and 1t proposes to have a
earliest practical date" There are GER
tain obstacles in the way of a consti-
tutional convention that evidently the
Civic Federation isn't aware of, or
doesn't stop to consider. There are
plenty of reasons. and important ones,
why the State Constitution should be
thoroughly revised. and by a popular
convention, but reasons do not obtain
in this matter. All the agitation and
all the reasons that could be brought to
bear would not bring us any nearer to
constitutional changes than we are
now elect a majority of the members
of the Senate refuse to surrender the
constitutional advantage they possess.
The subject has bee threshed over for
many years and without the slightest
effect. The Constitution provides the
method for amendment. Special amend
ments are to be submitted every five
years, and not oftener. and only after
they have passed two Legislatures.
Even with this guarded method of con-
stitutional change it is extremely hard
to get any amendment through. Last
year a thoroughly competent commits
sion of lawyers drafted judiciary
amendments and they were introduced
in the Legislature this year and then
completely ignored. AS the instrument
is not greater than the maker, the Con-
~stitution cannot prohibit the making of J
changes by a popular convention, but
to call a convention it will be necessary
to get a bill through the Legislature.
1t would be possible to get such a
measure through the House, but not
through the Senate, where thirteen
small-county Senators have a majority
of five. Doubtless some time in the
future, when governmental conditions
under the present Constitution shall be
uncomfortable, a popular convention will
be practicable, but at the present time,
and for some years, it would be a waste
of effort to agitate the question.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
PAPER WAKING IN KOREA.
Hermit Kingdom Supplies Best to China
and Japan.

1t is not generally known that the best
kinds of paper met with in China and
Japan are the product of Korea. 1t is
claimed by many that the Korean paper
excels the very best that is made in China
and Japan. 1t is produced entirely by
manual labor, and without the use of any
machinery. The raw material used for
the better kinds is obtained from the bark
of Broussonetia papyrifera, which is col
lected in spring and beaten in water con-
talning a large admiSture Of wood ashes
until reduced to "A thick pulp.
This is taken in large ladies and spread
upon frames of bamboo so as to form
thin sheets. Another kind Of paper is
made from old scraps trodden into pulp,
much in the same way that grape juice
is expressed in some countries. and,
though this mode of pulping is slow. it
has the advantage of not breaking the
fibre so much as when machinery is used.
After the pulp las been made into paper
the sheets areNpiled up to a height Of six
feet, and then cut into pieces, to be again
subjected to the Itamping with the feet,
At the same time the roots aud seeds of
q plant called t'tackpoul'f are added, the
soluble parts of which are supposed to
give t~enacity and toughness to the paper.
Philadelphia Record.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
AFTERMATH.

Camden's Big Republican Plurality.
[From the Camden Post-Telegram, Rep.l
The Hudson Observer confesses to sym
pathy with those who are inclined to look
with suspicion upon that $500 Republican
plurality down in Camden" and suggests
that it would De a good idea for the
Hahn committee to spend the next seven
weeks of its legal existence smelling
around these diggings to see If there isn't
something rotten in Denmark" Well,
let 'em come and bring their longest and
sharpest probes with them. And by the
same token, why not have the Bradley
committee do some smelling around in
Hudson County at the same time. Doubt
less they would be welcomed by the OBJ
server, whose candidate for Mayor, Mark
Pagan, was defeated by an overwhelming
majority.
But the Observer is mistaken In assert
ing that Camden has had no overhauling
since the mind Of man ran not to the con
trary.' Memory runs back to the over
hauling made by an Assembly Investigating
committee, which showed how a ballot box
was forced open at midnight and the bali
lots changed to show the election of a
Democratic Assemblyman, whose vote was
need to elect a Democratic United States
Senator. Surely the Observer hasn't for
gotten that incident in its party history.
Then there was another overhauling,
necessitated by fraudulent changing of the
returns to permit a Democrat to usurp the
office of County Clerk to which the Repub-
lican candidate had been elected, which
overhauling resulted In the usurper being
ousted, the honestly elected candidate taxi
ing his seat, and the men who doctored the
returns going to Jail.
In the past three years there have been
two reeounts of votes cast at elections in
this city, and both proved conclusively b
correctness of the returr@ A recount now
would be welcomed by the Republicans.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
The CHANGING Habit.

There is no doubt of the multiplication
Of newspapers, so-called magazines and
cooks. Everybody knows that these things
have multiplied, n If there should be a
skeptic, figures could be adduced to con-
vert, The number Of readers has also
Increased amazingly within one or TWO
generations. = These facts have suggested
to many minds hat perhaps the reading
habit, like other habits, may be overdone.
1t may be said that though the reading
habit has grown. the ''glancing'' habit has
grown In greater proportion. And the
glancing habit may load a mans mind
full of ill-assorted and indigested facts,
end It can scarcely be said to be truly cul-
tural In its effects, Gluttony for the
printed word has been thought to lead To
mental dyspepsia. It is the assimilation
OF the printed word Of that printed word
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
Apologize. for Davi. and Dickinson.

lFTOm the 9dSSdlC IleTdlu, DSiu.l
Hudson County papers apologies for
Davis and the equally indefensible Dick
inson-a pair execrated from one end OF
the State to~the other-are disheartening
as well as demoralizing.
But these puny protests Of Davis-Dick-
inson innocence cannot Withstand nor
stay irresistible trend of public sentiment
that Davis and Dickinson are twin con-
spirators as black as eve defaced a page
of history.
Tennyson says hat the wise world
mainly judges right, and In the case OF
the treachery and fraud in Hudson is nc
exception. People believe there was
fraud and traitorous dealings and will moi
think otherwise.
There is no chance, or luck, or con-
catention of terrestrial accidents or cir
cumstances that could evolve in, such
sequences an array of results as combined
to defeat Katzenbach and Pagan without
the cognizance and active participation OF
both the bosses.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

The fortitude of Charles T. Barney,
thd New York capitalist, after he had
fatally shot himself and while await
IND a surgical operation, displayed a
mhnhood that ought to have proved SUI
pefior to financial troubles. Mr.. Bar
ndy in his last conscious moments
thought Of the living and devoted his
bfief time to arranging his affairs for
his wife and family. 1t is a pity that
the world should lose sue a man in
su$h a way. The qualities he displayed
wete worth to the world far more than
his ealth.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
THE MACHINE AND THE REFER
ENDUM.

City Clerk Connolly finds that while
many of the referendum ballots in the
election We're made illegal by faulty
marking by voters, the voting ma
chimes used in a number of the dis
tricts of the city recorded the referen-
dunn vote all. right, when the machines
recorded the vote at all. There is moth
ing very surprising in that, although
our contemporary, the News, which
has been lamely bolstering up the vot-
ing machine with lame arguments,
seizes upon the statement of the City
Clerk, and devotes half 4 column of
editorial to the demonstration that the
fact that none of the voting machine
votes were illegal is a triumphant vim
i~ication of the machine.
BE it observed that the four PROPOSE
lions of the referendum were voted on at
the same time with the names of candi-
dates. The total vote on the referen-
dunn was more than 10000 less than
the vote for candidates. On the paper
ballot the voter had to make four
marks, but on the machine it was
necessary to move a separate lever
overhead for each proposition. But it
is demonstrated in the election returns
thai while 81 per cent. of voters in the
ballot-box districts voted on the prop
ositions, only As per cent. Of the voters
at the machine so voted. This takes
no account of nearly seven hundred
ballots that were wrongly marked and
we're not counted.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

a comparison made by the Hudson
Observer of the vote in Essex and Hud-
son counties shows that for the first
time in many years the total vote in
Hudson exceeds the total vote in Essex.
The Observer is mistaken. In 1904 the
total vote in Hudson for President was
80, OO9 and in Essex 80, $40. In the cleo
ton fSr Governor in 1904 Essex led with
so. 5Sg to 1929 in Hudson.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
The stnge sheperdess.

The StuEe SncpefutBs.
She sits on a property rock, close by a
property tree,
Watching a property flock out on a prop
erty lea.
She is a coquettish lass, poking her prop
erty crook
into the property grass fringing the prop
erty brook.
Under the calcium ray she sits by the
property rill,
Watching her lambkins stray over the
property hill.
Lovely she seems to you, but here is the
thought that stings-
Is her beauty unreal, too, like the other
property things?
louisville Courier-Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
Robin Hood.


To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Was Robin Hood n real parsonage? When
did he live? In what works Of literature
does he figure: N. M.
[Rrewer. in the Readers Handbook, :
says Robin Hood was a famous outlaw,
and observes that Stow places him in the
reign Of Richard l., but others make hi6i
live at divers periods between Occur DE-
Lion and Edward II. His chief haunt was
sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire
Stukeley asserts that Robin Hood was Rob-
ert Fitzooth, Earl of Huntington. The
chief incidents in his life are recorded by
John Stow. Still there are writer's, encylo !
pedic and otherwise, who do not encourage
the belief in the Robin -TNod story or IL.
mis- existence. Robin Hood Is the hero OF a
comic opera by r. De Koven: a drama by
Tennyscn, "The Foresters,' has Robin
Hood as main character; Hunter, in his
The Great Hero of the Ancient MINSTREL
sy of England" and Ritson's collection
Of Ballads. Anecdotes. Songs etc. also
refer TO him.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
An Unfair Advantage.

Doctor Ito patient whom he has been
examining)-You are suffering from nico-
tine poisoning, caused by oversmoking.
Patient-I never smoke.
Doctor-You never smoke? Well. why
couldn't you have said SO at the start?-
Fliegende Batter.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

Teacher-willie. why don't you keep
your hair combed?
Willie-'Cause I amt got no comb
Teacher-Why don't you ask your man.
ma to buy you one?
Willie-'Cause then I'd ave to keep my
hair combed.-London Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

An old colored nanny of Charleston,
s.. c., who had never seen any modern
street cars (this was many years ago.
visited some relatives in Savannah, Ga.
after the introduction Of the trolley lines.
So great was her wonder and delight that
she exclaimed, with geuine African enthu-
siasm:
my Lawdl De Yankees done 'mancipate
de niggers, and now dey 'mancipate de
mulel"-Harper's Monthly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

Twas easy to win her heart,
But the fact to me is clear,
There will be trouble when l try
To win her fathers ear.
Chicago News.
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and this could be called forth by a
system of associations covering all sec
tons and bringing in play the interest
of women and children.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

May I call you Mabel?'' he asked, paus-
ing in his perusal of the MENU.
IF YOU wish to-" said she; but my
name Is Gertrude. '-Plck-Me-Up.
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The First Husband.

Il met a fellow today" said Gaddie,
who was simply dotty about a buried
treasure; couldn't talk of anything else"
THAT reminds me of my wife, said
Peckham.
ure?"
almost constantly. Pm her second hus-
band, You know."-Philadelphia Press.
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worse.

She-You ought to get married. Tom-lf
it's only for discipline.
Held sooner join the ARMY
She-But YOU have TO stay in the army
for three years.-Phiiadelphla Inquirer.
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FROM STAR

Anonymous. communications cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects the
publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
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the trouble by adding an Institution to
contain hundreds of women whose
vocal powers will be continually in play.
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Skinner-Trying horseback riding to re-
duce your weight, Ell? Well, how does il
work?
Hevvywate-I've only tried 1t for 9
couple of days, and I've fallen off quite 8
good deal Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
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IN HUMOROUS I
Caught on the REBOUND.

The Man-Do you consider the opal un-
lucky?
The Maid-Well. If It's all the same TO
you. l would prefer a diamond illustrated
Bits.