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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-05-04
ODD FELLOWS AT CHURCH
One Hundred Members Of Order
Attend Divine Service.
HEAR FINE SERMON ON LOVE
Rev. MIR. Wrightson says Members Of
Fraternities Should Not confine
Love to Their Brethren.

went 10 the iT5t NJ " Va vi t'"N-
day and listened to a sermon by the
Rev. Mr.. Wrightson They assembled
at Odd Fellows hall and marched to
the church In a body They entered
the church in couples and walked to
the seats which had been reserved for
them They were Ia degree regalia
Rev. Mr. Wrlghtsou too as his text
"And walk in love as Christ also hath
loved US and hath given himself for
us. He said in part:
Mr.. Wrightson's Address.
The influence of example is some
thing with which all Of us are con,
yersant. 1t is demonstrated to us ev-
cry day. We are what we are because
of where we are placed, You will see
the Importance of placing before
men high ideals Men are what they
will themselves to be. 1t is the pur-
pose of our Father that all Of us chill
dren shall be celebrated for excell-
~ence. Jesus is the representative of
what God would have us be. He came
into the world to show us what God
would have us become Jesus Christ
is that ideal man. Whatever may be
the attitude OF investigators toward
Christianity the result has been the
same
Our attentiR is directed to the
love Of Christ 1t IS beyond the range
of the human mind, to comprehend
the love of God We would have to be
divine ourselves. Col only knows the
love Of God. While this is true tins
love Of God may be appreciated by MS
as a fact | want you to note the OBJ
iects of Christ's love. Who loved us
that is a small word but there is much
in It. Paul says Christ loved me,
That is personal, that is definite Ev-
eryone can understand the love direct
ed toward an individual He wants
love not directed towards classes, bur
towards individuals. The thought Of
the apostle is that of a personal az
lection that is all-embracing
1T seems to me as | pronounce the
word can hear the tones in which
the man renounced them. Paul had
learned to estimate himself at his
true value He says, 4 am the least
of the saints. | am the chief of sim
ners. AS you pronounce this word
want you to remember just what !
you were. There are communions we
can have with our own spirit. | don't |
ask you to make a confession before
a congregation but to look it in the
face and remember that Christ loved
me a sinner. Isn't It remarkable? We
can understand why a mother loves
her wayward boy II he shall repay 1t
with blows We say he doesn't deserve
the love of mother What is our
just dues when we see such love?
There is another word beside love
in the gospel That word is grace
We bit the hand that fed us. We rails
ed up against the sovereign In spite
of our wanderings, in spite Of our in
suit to God he loved us. We get a
clear apprehension Of love OF Christ
when we consider what he renowned
for us. The sacrifice must have been
profound. God is not a prize that is
TO be held onto.
God Emptied Himself.
God emptied Himself and was
did Christ empty himself? Christ did
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
GERMAN UNIVERSITIES.
That at Berlin Has the Largest Attend
ance-Munich Holds Second Place.

According to Consul-General T. st. John
Gaffney, of Dresden, during the winter
1867 the twenty-one universities Of Ger
many were attended by 45,138 students, OF
whom 254 were females. ell gives the fol-
lowing details:
The Increase over the corresponding term
of last year is 2,740 students. In addition
to these numbers $500 persons awaited
themselves of the privilege of listening
without matriculating as members. or this
class 2,l6 were women. 1t is, therefore,
plain that only a small proportion of the
female students have m~atriculated and that
the greater number study as visitors.
As regards the various courses the figures
give the total number Of Protestant stu
dents of theology as 2,2OS and of Catholic
1,70S. The number of students of law is
given at 12.146; Or medicine, 7,0eS; of philos-
ophy. history and languages, 10.9S5, and OF
mathematics and natural sciences s,2S4. The
largest increase of students has taken place
in medicine and philology. while there is a
continued scarcity of Protestant theological
students. The best attended university Is
that of Berlin. with S,18S students: next to
this comes Munich with 1851; Leipzig, with
4.466: Bonn, with 1892; Halle, with $3.50.
and then Breslau, Gottingen. Freiburg,
S~trassburg and Heidelberg. The two last
have improved their position IN the tabu-
lated list Of a~ttendances, whereas Tubin-
gen, Gelssen and Erlangen. which are IA
vorite universities in summer, Take lower
places in the list than formerly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
IN FAVOR OF THE EXPRESS COM
PANY,

Under the Federal law parcels from
three to six feet in length and weighing
up to eleven pounds each may be sent
to almost any part of the world at the
rate of twelve cents a pound, but do
nestle packages are limited to four
pounds in weight and cost sixteen cents
a pound. 1t may be asked why this
distinction. If not merely in favor of the
express companies. 1t is also noted
that what is classified as Commercial
paper" which includes deeds, invoices,
manuscript, etc, goes abroad from this
country at the rate of one cent for two
ounces, while for transportation in this
country it must pay two cents an
ounce, or -four times as much. The for
eigner gets the benefit of the discrimi-
nation.
Clearly the law should be changed.
The express companies possess an ex-
t~raordinary advantage of the people,
thanks to such legislators as Senator
Plat, of New York, the most promi-
nent representative of the express COM
pany interests in Congress. A govern
ment parcels post to relieve the people
OF some of the expressions of the ex-
press company monopoly is demanded.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
A USE FOR THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.

Probably the first executions under
the new law in this State providing
for the substitution of the electric chair
for the Callows will be those of the
two negro fiends who %butchered two
women in a farmhouse in Camden
County a few days ago. The murderers
were apprehended five hours after their
awful deed while pawning two watches
stolen from the farmhouse, and the
proof of their guilt is complete.
The murders were perpetrated de-
liberately and for the purpose of rob-
berry, and the circumstances do not
admit of the least palliation. An ex-
ample Of swift Jersey Justice is de-
manded in this case, and the prose-
cutor of Camden promises to afford
one. The Legislature made an appro-
priation for erecting an electric plant
at Trenton, and presumably there will
be no delay in that respect. The
quicker the two negroes are electro
cuted the better it will be for the ends
of justice inc the safer will people
be in lonely farmhouses exposed to the
visits of murderous wretches.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
THE GARBAGE-sTREwN BEACH
BEACH

Prompt attention should be given by
Governor stokes to the complaint of
citizens of Seabright and other seaside
resorts along the North Jersey coast
of the dumping of garbage from New
York city so close to the shore that
the beach is strewn with decayed vege-
table matter and other refuse. For the
old nuisance has revived. In a COM
plant made to Mayor Mcclellan by
the Seabrlght Beach Club, the day and
hour were given when three tugboats
and their tow of scows dumped gar
bage within plain view of the seaside
jewellers. This is a long-standing griev-
ance against the metropolis, and 1t is a
serious One. 1t can easily be remedied.
If New York must dump its garbage
at sea, there is no reason why the con-
tractors should not be made to do it
so far out that no refuse can be brought
back with the tide to litter the beach
to create a noisome nuisance. 1t is a
to the health Of all the summer
resorts within floating range of this
NTH to permit the continuance of this
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
STATE CONVENTIONS AND RoosE.
WELT.

The Republican State convention, as
well as the Democratic State conven-
ton, will be expected to make some
direct and unequivocal declarations re-
specting the policies of President Roose-
welt. which now dominate the thought
of the American people and represent
the living issues in American politics.
The Roosevelt sentiment, or rather the
sentiment for the Rooseveltian policies,
is particularly strong in New Jersey,
overshadowing State issues as 1t did IN
1904. Whatever the two party plat
forms may say in regard to State ques-
tons will, therefore, be subordinate to
what they shall say about President
Roosevelt and the policies HI is I'M
~finchingly carrying out.
1t is we'll enough known that there
are men in the leadership of both po-
ntical parties who are not in sympathy
with Roosevelt. Some are bitterly hos
tile to his policies. They nave the dis
erection to refrain from any public ex-
preston of their views, but probably
they will attempt to influence the plat
form-makers and induce them to make
equivocal declarations. The Democratic
State convention cannot be expected to
indorse Roosevelt. 1t is insisted by
Democrats that the Presidents policies
are mainly of Democratic origin, and
they can, therefore, consistently affirm
the policy without commencing the
President,
but the Republican State convention
has no such refuge to find from a
square Endorsement of the President
and his administration. 1t won't do to
damn with faint praise" Half-hearted
support will go for nothing. There
must be no doubtful note in the Repub-
lican Endorsement. And, in fact, it is
upon that action by the Republican
State convention that the prospects of
electing a Republican Governor chiefly
depend. A strong Endorsement of the
administration to place the Republican
party in New Jersey In line with the
Rooseveltian policies, and a declaration
for the nomination in 1908 of a presiden-
tial candidate who represents and will
carry out these policies, may dispose at
once Of all doubt as to how the State
will GO in November.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

General Frederick Dent Grant is one
of the many army officers who bitter
ly realize the pernicious effect of the
anti-canteen law on the morale and
discipline of the enlisted force. While
in Philadelphia attending a veterans
reunion General Grant, who is himself
a total abstainer. expressed his opinion
in strong language. 1t is a fact that
at least two-thirds of the members of
Congress are of the same general opin-
ion, but thus far Congress has paid
absurd Difference to the clamor of a
comparatively few sentimental women
and ~petticoated men against the
restoration of the post canteen which
Congress %ignorantly and stupidity
abolished.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

Personal abuse and detraction of
public men, and especially a member
of the State courts. sounds no better
when uttered by q protested reformer
than by a case-hardened political man
ager. There has been a gratifying
absence of hat kind of tactics in
State politics of late years, and it
should not be introduced in the garb
of reform. The New Idea was not too
soon in disavowing all sympathy with
scurrilous attacks made on two JUS
tees of the Supreme Court and upon
former Prosecutor Riker. The only
possible effect of such attacks would
be reaction.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

unlawful practise resorted to by the
contractors to save the expense of a
longer trip to sea.
Thousands of New Workers summer
ing along the Jerseycoast suffer with the
others from this abominable and dan
gerous nuisance. 1t is almost as much
to the interest of the metropolitan au-
thorities to abate it as it is to New
Jerseys, on the ground of self-preser-
walton. Whatever measures the Gov
of New Jersey can take to put an
end to it should be quick and vigorous.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

On the Turf.
Some friends of mine went to the
track
And so did I,
They said they'd hit the books a
whack-
And so did 1.
They talked of ponies" and the
dope
And so did I.
They had their bosoms full Of hope
And so did I.
They had the tips ON how to bet
And so did 1.
They knew just where to spread their
And so did I.
They said they'd show the bookies
what
And so did /.
They fred their cash in fast and hot
And so did l.
They said they'd make a killing hit
And so did 1.
They piled 1t on the favorite-
And sc did l.
They smiled to hear the talent talk
And so did l..
The fav'rite came home in a walk
And so did I.
At least, he must have walked, be-
cause everything that ran in the race
got to the wire before he did.-Willian
]. hampton, in Judge.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
MAKE STATE INVESTIGATION COM.
PLETE.

State investigation will not be halted
with the exposures in a few commits
sion boards ard institutions or end
with the November election. The Leg
islature has set its hand to the work
and it must take in all departments
and agencies of the government, and
be complete. The State housekeeping
should leave nothing uninvestigated
and unclaimed.
The fact that in whatever direction
the House committee probe has gone
II has developed rank abuses is proof
positive that the evil is general and
affects all the parts. There never be-
fore was an overhauling of all the Of
fees of the State, and many institu-
tons and commissions never have been
inquired into as to their affairs. There
will now be time and opportunity for
that work.
The policy of the State has been to
place the care of institutions in the
hands of commissioners appointed by
the Governor and then depend wholly
upon the good faith and zeal and hon
esty of these men in their management.
Experience shows that intoo many cases
the commissioners are poor managers
or deliberately neglect their important
charges, or, as in one case revealed,
use their position for the benefit OF
relatives and friends. If the board of
of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Trenton had done its
duty there would have been no great
scandal, and the same may be affirmed
of the Railway Reformatory managers.
The people want to know what all
the State institutional arrangements
have been doing. They want 10 know
the whole truth regardless as to whom
1t hits. The question has grown en-
tirely beyond the narrow domain of
politics. 1t is a State question, in
which all men are equally interested.
When the unfortunate insane are
dubbed to death or sent to their graves
with a disease that existed only by
reason of maladministration, when a
convict can be done. to death in the
State Reformatory and when the vilest
practises can be charged against n of
it's officers, it is time to cease talking
partisan politics and go to work to
clean out the State institutions as
quickly as possible.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
The Bachelor Tax.

Atlantic City is in the throes of n little
war which began when a tax OF 500 was
levied upon a prominent bachelor, simply
because he was a bachelor who could al
ford to nay the tax. Now, the remainder
of the well-to-do unmarried men are up
in arms, and they have directed the at
tention of the authorities to a number OF
bachelor maids who. they contend, should
be taxed also. Al first glance this would
seem a fair proposition, but unless with
their liability to taxation goes the per-
mission to pop 4the question with pro-
priety, justice will miscarry, and the
feminine portion of the society or n
City by the Sea will be fined for their
inability to take the initiative IN a very
important matter. After all, the bachelor
tax will likely open up a question that
will prove to have a serious economic IN
terest in the life of the nation.-Baltimore
American.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

1t would really not be a bad thing for
San Francisco if Schmitz could rally
enough supporters to make him again
a nominee for Mayor OF course, the
impossible event of a majority vote
for the convicted felon could not re-
store him to the Office he so shamefully
disgraced, but if there's any virtue left
in the Golden Gate city. the mere fact
of the candidacy of the debauched nd-
dler would bring it out. and he would
be showed under so deep that the VIII
lain wouldn't know he 'also ran"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

railroad grade crossings by absolving
the companies from the regulation to
have whistles blown on the locomo-
tives, and all because somebody-in Guy
Fakes bailiwick doesn't like to hear
the whistles blown. is certainly not
the kind of a man to send to Trenton
to help make the laws of the State.
He shines best in o~bscurity.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24


Uncle Eph was standing in the door
way of Johnson's Cross Roads EN-
porium, al Red House, Georgia, when
the first touring car ever seen In the
neighborhood went putting up the road
toward S~quiggs's Corners.
"Sakes alibe, Marse J~ohnsing." he
exclaimed to the merchant prince who
never stopped his whiting, "wot's
dat?'
"Oh, jest one o. them hossless kerr
ridges answered the sage, who had
once visited Atlanta
well. who made it. Marse Johnsing
de debbil?"
"wuss thar that. Eph-them pesky
Yankees"
'Lawdy,f Lawdyi Now, want dat
jes' / 'em? Back dere In 'sebenty-
six dey freed de kentry, an den in
'sixty-t'ree dey freed de darkies, an
yere dey goes a-freein' de bosses an
mules!"-Judge.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
street Noises.
ro ths Editor OF the Evening ser:

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Will you please tell me why 1t Is that
some noises on the street are stopped by
the authorities, such as ragmen's bells and
hucksters calling out their wares. ETC., and
that ball playing is allowed, when it is a
thousand lines more annoying than the
above nuisances?
A dozen, more or less, boys make
Nichols alley a regular baseball ground,
and have all summer, and even on Sun
day, and to hear the yelling and the
screaming and jumping over fences after
the ball and bounding against the shutters
and breaking windows is something that
is a perfect shame the neighborhood has
to endure.
The arrest of a few boys and making
them pay fines would seem to be the only
way to stop 1t permanently.
A LONGTIME SUBSCRIBER.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

It is said that the Bergen County
Republicans are not altogether pleased
with the record of Assemblyman Guy
Fake, of that county. and propose to
retire him to the private life which
he is so well fitted to adorn. A legis-
lator who would seriously propose to
Increase the already great perils at
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

A teacher in one of the public schools
of Baltimore was questioning a boy
pupil about the word "recuperate."
As an example," said the teacher
I'VE will take the ease of your father.
He Is, of course. a hard working a :!
"Yes'm," assented Charlie.
And when night comes he returns
home tired n worn out, doesn't her
"Yes'm," in further assent from
charlie.
Then" continued the teacher, ut
being night, his work being over and
he being tired nd worn out, what does
he dor"
That's what ma a to know,
said Charlie-Minneapolis Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Since when have congressman received
more than 5000 a year for their services?
A. c. ".
TIT was on December IA. 1906, that Rep
resentative Littauer, of New York, intro
duced and carried through the House this
amendment to the legislative, executive
and judicial apportionment bill, increasing
the salaries of Senators, Representatives
in Congress and delegates from the Terri
tories to $500 a year, (which compen-
sation shall be in lieu of all other pay and
allowances except actual individual travel
ing expenses from their homes to the seat
of government and return by the most
direct route of usual travel once for each
session of the House to which such Sena-
tor, member or delegate belongs, to be
certified to under his and to the dis
bursting officer and filed as a voucher" A
division showed 204 for the amendment
and 60 against.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
Defacing Coins.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
What lis the penalty regarding the de-
stroying. defacing or in any other way
marking coin or specie of the United
States? WILLIAM.
[Section 5459 of the Revised Statutes says:
EVERY person who ~fraudulently. by any
art. way or means. defaces, initiates, I'M
pairs, diminishes. ~falsihes. scales or light
ems the gold or silver coins which have
been. or which hereafter may be, coined
at the mints of the United States, or any
foreign gold or silver coins which are by
law made current or are in actual use and
circulation as money within the United
States. shall be imprisoned not more than
two years and fined not more than $780,,
Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
origin of the polar Mark.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
What is the origin Of the dollar % sign?
IGNORAMUS.
1.-THE Spanish dollar that was taken as
the basis Of the United States coinage was
chiefly coined in the Spanish-American col
onies. The best known variety was the
pillar dollar, so called from the two pillars
on its reverse, representing the Pillars Of
Hercules, the ancient name OF the opposite
promontories of the Straits Of Gibraltar.
The rude imitation Of these pillars in writ
ing, connecting them by a scroll, is said to
nsve A been the ex 9TliElnt OF the "a t Goilar ma abs
dollar consisted of eight reals e r being
stamped upon it), the mark was designed
dollar was commonly called, the two YER
teal lines being employed to distinguish 1t
FROM the figure &-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
Apropos of Nothing.

your wife used to like to sing and
she played the piano a lot. Now we
don't hear her at all. How's that!
She hasn't the time. We have two
children"
well, well! Children are a bless
ing!"-Fliegende Blaetter.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

If the Atlanta Constitution doesn't
watch out it win be sued for Islander.
It Is in Delaware tina mosquitoes are
interfering with the mails. In Jersey
the bird Is only a disaereeable memory.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

1t would be sad If women were mems
business superiors. 1t Is sad II they want
to be. Business is hard. unyielding, un-
sentimental. There is little room in it for
the play of fancy or feeling. 1t Is In the
minor roles that woman succeeds, and IN
those roles she is Invaluable. But those
minor roles do not deal with the essence
of business, which Is mascuilne, and rather
brutal. Woman has not, as atrule, shown
special fitness for the steIler roles, and is
to be congratulated that she has not, There
is danger that as she becomes business
like her womanly attributes shall suffer
atrophy. 1t Is better for her to modify,
by her feminine influence, the brutalities
of business, than to take the helm herself.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24

A week ago most of the wiseacres thought that they could
name the Republican candidate for Governor. Today thew lack
that air of cock-sureness which distinguished them and are will
ing to admit that the outlook is decidedly mixed. If the
primaries were held this evening it is doubtful if any of the
asprants could come within reaching distance of a majority of
the delegates. 1t is anybodys fight at the present moment.
]. M.