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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Please tell me when and where the cleo
trio light Was first used. S.. b. ].
lin 1909, In England, Sir Humphrey Davy
produced the first are light. For many
years the use of such a light was confined
to laboratory illustrations, by reason Of
the expense of producing it, but In 1853
efficient electric lamps, working by voltaic
batteries, were devised in France.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
IN HUMOROUS I


A member of the school board OF a GER
tain Pennsylvania town relates the SAD
case of a young woman who failed to pass
her exa l~,ination for appointment as teacn-
err in the public school of that place.
The mother OF the disappointed youns
woman was asked by a friend whether the
daughter had succeeded in running Tue
gauntlet of the examiners.
mo" was the reply in mournful tone,
Jimmy didn't pass at all. Maybe you
won't believe. sir. but them examiners
asked the poor girl about things that hap
pened years and years before she was
born."-Harper's Weekly,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
Something In oils.

She approached the hoorwaIker and
asked:
Where shall I find something nice in
oil for the dining-room?"
o the fifth began the foorwalker.
Then pausing, he looked d%oubtfully at the
inquirer. DO you want a painting or
something in the sardlne line ?~"-Success.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
sensitive subject,

"Spacer out Of a job? why, I thought
he was running a fashion department in
a woman's magazine"
Yes, but he caused the maya zine to
lose SO many subscribers they fired him.
How IN the world did that h%appen7''
why, the lobster headed his column
New Wrinkles for Women. The Wasp.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

A physician writes to the London specs
tator thai he was recently attending a
patient whose husband came to see him
concerning her condition, and greeted him
with the words, 'Mr. Irving, do you think
there is any need for any unnecessary
anxiety about my wife?'-woman's Home
Communion.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

'Twould he a blessing without price
The lesson thus to teach,
II all the folks who give advice
Would practice what they preach.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
In the Latin Quarter.

Village Blacksmith Ito innkeeper)-And
what is your son doing in Paris?
Innkeeper-He writes.
Village Blacksmith-For pleasure or
money?
Innkeeper-We ell, whenever he writes ia
me, 1t is for money.-Bon Vivant.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
An Epitaph.

Beneath this stone a button lies,
A trousers button bright,
IT'S all we found of Farmer Green,
Who thawed out dynamite.
Detroit Free Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

haul was not obtained was the fact
that the man attacked had all his
in clearing house certificates.
Nevertheless, If these men had stolen
millions from poor investors, instead
of pilfering three cents from a man
of wealth, and If they had been pill
lars of the church and leaders of So
ciety, which the usual bank official
who goes wrong is, instead of hungry
and desperate men of the streets, one
cannot but remark the difference in
what would have been their treatment.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
VIII you please settle the following bet:
A says that the Fall River line boa Pres
ella is a side-wheeler; B bets that 1t is
not. A M
Ia wins.-Ed.J
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
The Whole nronhle.

Gailey-I've certainly managed to get
pretty deep in debt.
Wiseman-You don't say7 Then l gave
you credit for having more sense than
you really had.
Gailey-Huh! the trouble is that the
tailor gave me credit for having moro
dollars than I really have.-Philadelphia
Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
Talk.

Talk is cheap" SAID the man who
sneers.
ut is at the outset when you are CIV
ing away samples answered Senat Sor-
Shum. "But in the course Of time You
con command q pretty good price for lee
ture tickets. Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

Don't be afraid" said the woman on
the front step, that dog likes strangers"
Yes, madam answered Meandering
Mike. Il do not question your assurance
that he would like me. But do you refer
to him as a seeker for companionship or
as an epicure Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

Waiter presenting a plate before an old
man from the country)-For the music, sir.
Old Man gathering the coins up off the
p~late)-Thank you; the music was pretty
bad.-Lustige Blatter.
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FROM STAR READERS

Anonymous communications cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects the
names OF correspondents are not required for
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

rob the public treasury for the sole benent
OF a few American shipowners. But Just
at this ~juncture the reports are devoting
a great deal of space to discus lion OF al
legged Increased cost of living in other
countries, manifestly with a view to Gre
ating the impression that the United States
is no worse off in this particular than
the outside world, and that, therefore,, con-
ditions in this respect obtaining here are
not chargeable to our high protective tar
if policy. In short, a publication issued,
presumably, in the interest Of the wnoie
people and at the expense of the wnole
people, is being deliberately prostitnted 10
the service of a party and Of a clique witn-
In that party. And yet the high puonc
officials who tolerate. If they do not or
der, this were among the loudest In con
demnation a few years ago of Insurance Oh
1cers who used the money of ~policynoio-
ers to ensure the supremacy of this same
political party. What's the dinerencef
Norfolk Virsinian-Pilot
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uaIIroad omclaI ON Trial.

The trial of Alfred Il. Smith. vlce-presl-
dent and general manager OF the new
York Central Railroad, on a charge Oh
manslaughter in the second degree, Is an
unusual feature of crimina procedure, ana
will be followed with a good deal OF inter-
est. Twenty-four persons were killed py
an accident which occurred in the out
skirts OF New York city On the first day
that the company Installed electric service
on its Harlem division, and the district
attorney seeks to fasten the blame on the
management of the road. 1t will be re-
called that the train jumped the track at
a curve and there was criticism based on
the theory that the train was running at
a higher rate of speed than was safe, con-
siderlng that the electric engines were
much. heavier than the. old-style equip
ment, while the curve, the rails and the
spikes were the same as before. The ac-
tual cause of the wreck was somewhat
obscure, and 1t remains to be seen whether
it will be made clear during the trial just
begun in New York. The accident oc-
CURED under peculiar circumstances, ana
this is the first time that n high Official OF
a railroad has been indicted as the result
of such a casualty.-Spring1eld Union.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Jem Davis Appears.

Senator Jef Davis. OF Arkansas, bios
fair TO do a great deal of good. It Is
serviceable in this time of uneasiness 10
exhibit to the people an unbridled blatner-
skite, an unringed and u%nringable razor
back of the zinc hills, an u~ncloaked apostle
OF the creed that the best way to get money
is to rob somebody who has tina COM
modify.
Senator Davis tore through the tradi.
lions OF the upper house by making a
stump speech a few days after he took the
oath. In this he committed no crime. The
Senate habits are not sacred. He only
showed his recklessness in disregarding
proprieties. his calculated mode of attract
ing attention by a show Of boldness which
involves no risks. AT home. be 1t said, the
senator's personal reputation is that of a
poltroon, as they call it in the Southwest.
Ills boldness is purely that Of words, that
of the gamin who abuses respectability at
a safe distance.
His Senatorial outbreak had no excuse Of
timely necessity. 1t was a common stun,p
speech, one of his old ones, some say, and
contained no apposfteness. 1t was on
trusts, but did not show elementary knowl-
edge of hat a trust is. 1t was nothing
but an abuse of wealth. wealth and trusts
being synonymous In the Davis doctrine,
and equally useful for declamatory pur-
poses.
Davis ought to be a useful public figure
People susceptible of facile conquest by
panacea doctors should be sobered by the
spectacle of the demagogue who goes the
whole length of absurdity, coarseness and
destructiveness. Unless he disgusts multi.
tudes with his vaudeville caricature Of ''re-
FORM" he will fail in his real mission IN
Washington. Judging from his opening
performance, it may be safely predicted
that his function will be an eminent sue
cess.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Campaign Funds.
Whats the need of a campaign fund
when a party can use the government
publications for literature?'
This Is the very pertinent question. put By
the Washington Times. and has specia'
reference to Consular and Trade Reports
4 daily publication issued by the Depart.
ment of Commerce and Labor. 1t is {
notorious fact. commented on at the tim,
by this and other newspapers in differen
sections of the country, that Throughout
the Congressional campaign of a year aEt
there was scarcely an issue of these re
ports that did not contain arguments ii
favor Of high protection, just as the publ
cation was virtually converted into a sub
sidy organ so long as any form of a sub
sidy bill was before Congress. Nor hal
the latter policy ceased since, the publ
cation even now losing no opportunity L
] put in a stroke in favor of this scheme t,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14

Speedy.
"Has he a fine automobile?"
Yes, indeed. He's been arrested twice"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-24
official Vmdication OF Nr. Watson.

The State Corporation Commission of Vir-
ginia has made thorough investigation of the
management of the Southern Railway System
and has published a full convincing report.
This was published in the Times-Dispatch
of Tuesday, January IS, 1907.
This official report vindicates the position
taken by Mr. Watson in his controversy with
Pendleton of the Macon Telegraph last sum-
mer
The State Corporation Commission Of Vir-
gi1ia puts the blame for the wrecks and the
butchery of human beings just where Mr. Wat
son put ito the refusal of the managers to
spend enough of the earnings of the roads
UPON THE ROADS THEMSELVES
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-24
Editorial Notes.

EQfOY1QL VOteS.
Harvie Jordan, President of the decadent
Cotton Association, swore he didn't want it
any more-but worked on the sly to get it
again. He got it. The manufacturers are
pleased with Harve, and they had him kept
where he could do them the most good.
The Manufacturers are mighty smart set
of men, and they know how to get what they
want
So they kept Harvie on the job
Yes, the Manufacturers have compelled
Congress to so fix the laws that they sell in a
market where their monopoly sets the price.
The farmers sell in a market where competi4
ton rules the price.
And the Manufacturers mean to hold their
advantage-no matter how much the farmer
suffers
Therefore, Harvie Jordan was their for
President of the Cotton Association:
Does it hurt the Manufacturers to have Har-
vie knock Wall Street spectators?
No, indeed.
Does it hurt the Manufacturers to have Lon
Livingston yelling for Fraud Orders?
No, indeed.
The thing that would hurt the Manufacture
ers by lowering to legitimate rate their enor-
nous law-made profits would be the cry:
Broaden the cotton market by reducing the
import Duties on manufactured goods"
Yes, that's the cry which the Manufacturers
do not want to hear
Hence, they keep Harvie Jordan and Lon
Livingston busy making a vain fuss empty
clamor-about Fraud Orders and Cotton Fu-
lures
By reason of the Import Duties levied on
foreign-made goods, the American Manufac
turer compels you to pay very nearly twice
as much for everything you buy as it is hon
estly worth.
In that way the Manufacturers cleared more
than twenty-eight per cent on capital of ten
billion dollars in 1900.
Think of it-$Io oooooo,ooo invested, and
$2,888 900 clear profit
Why they could have paid off the National
Debt and dug the Panama Canal, and still have
had left to them as net profit dividend more
than per cent upon the investment.
And thew do that everv wear
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-24

How much net profit did the Agricultural
Class make in 1000?
Five per cent-out of which had to be taken
taxes and repairs
The Agricultural Classes had twice as much
capital invested and twice as many workers
engaged, and their product showed enormous
increase-but they sold in competition with the
whole world, and hence they made barely
enough to pay taxes and make necessary re-
pairs.
No wonder the Manufacturers want to run
Harvie Jordan's Cotton Association!
The wonder is that the farmers in that mon
grel organization do not catch on to the game
Ben Tillman must feel little awkward in
trying to gait" with professional negro
lover like Foraker.
Mutual hatred of the President is mighty
poor bond of Brotherhood
To save my life, I can't see a bit of method
i'll Tillman's madness at this juncture
Talk about furnishing the innocent as we'll
as the guilty "-what innocent man did Roose-
welt punish?
In morals and in law every negro in the
battalion became guilty when he concealed the
criminals and aided them to escape punish
ment.
1t is true that the dismissal of the negro
troops was not sufficient punishment for the
crime-but what more could the President
do?
According to the logic of Tillman's position,
the negroes ought not to have been dismissed;
therefore, the murderers would never have been
punished in any way whatsoever.
No position could be much weaker than this.
Even "corn-fed lawyer" might find frmer
ground.
One of the ''orators' who addressed the
the Southern Cotton Association at Birming-
ham last week was Joseph Hoadley
[ guess you know who Joe Hoadley is?
He's that millionaire Wall Street Cotton
gambler who takes Harvie Jordan on board
his sumptuous yacht, and who gets tip from
Harvie concerning bumper cotton crops.
Nice man to have as orator at a farmers
convention isn't it?
According to the report of The Florida
Times Union, Joe Hoadleys speech must have
done Harvie Jordan's Cotton Association a
world of good.
Zoe actually told the farmers that some of
the Wall Street operators were honest, and
that some of them were vultures.
farmers convention that has nothing
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-24

liza lite like Lees is not an inspiration to
higher, nobler ideals, then all our conceptions
of how the world must be elevated are utterly
false and misleading
When Marlborough died, I doubt if there
was tear shed in all the world When
Wellington was borne to his tomb, it was
grand pageant sublime, historic-but there
wasn't sob in all the realm of Great Britain.
Martial strains and thrilling requiems thrilled
ten thousand souls; orators with tongues of
fire spoke his praise poets, in lines that will
live forever, heralded his fame-but nobody
wept. How was it with Lee? I distinctly re-
member the day, in 1870, when we children,
i'll the High school building in the town Of
Thomson, looked UP in astonshment to see
Our beloved school-teacher shaken with pas
sion of sobs, crying like child
He had just been glancing over the morn
ing paper AS soon as he could command his
voice, he said General Lee is dead!'-and
he dismissed the school.
To my mind a heartfelt tribute like this is
more precious than any lines the poets can
write or any eulogies the orators can pro-
nounce Monuments may perpetuate his fame,
but nothing that can be said in prose dr
rhyme, nothing that can be done with chisel
or brush can ever tell future ages how the
Southern people loved Robert E. Lee.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-24

The "Work House Clock" on page 3, should
be credited to Thomas Hood,
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-24
THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE
BY Father Ryan.

BY Father Ryan.
Forth from it's scabbard pure and bright,
Flashed the sword of Lee!
Far in the front of the deadly fight
High DER the brave in the cause Of Right
It's stainless sheen like beacon light
Led us to Victory.
Out of its scabbard where full long
1t slumbered peacefully;
Reused from its rest by the battles song
Shielding the feeble, shifting the strong,
Guarding the right, avenging the wrong,
Cleaned the sword of Lee.
Forth from its scabbard high in air
Beneath Virginia's sky
And they who saw it cleaning there
And knew who bore it, knelt to swear,
That where that sword led they would dare
To follow and to die
Out Of its scabbard-never hand
Waved sword from stain as free,
Nor purer sword led brave band,
Nor Drawer bled for brighter land
Nor brighter land had Cause SO grand,
Nor cause a chief like Lee.
Forth from its scabbard how we prayed,
That sword might victor be
And when our triumph was delayed
And many heart grew sore afraid
We still hoped on while cleaned the blade
Of noble Robert Lee.
Forth from its scabbard all in vain
Bright flashed the sword of Lee
'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again,
1t sleeps the sleep of our noble slain;
Defeated, vet without stain,
Proudly and peacefully.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-11-01
NOT Affected AS YET.
Grain Movement to the Head Of the
Lakes Continues.

The grain movement to Duluth will
not be interrupted for the present at
least by the financial troubles. At q
conference between the comptrollers
of the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern roads and the directors Of
the Duluth board Of trade an under.
standing was reached whereby the
cars will be handled as rapidly as
they come forward. The roads are
anxious to prevent congestion there
and keep the cars moving In order to
get the crops into the elevators be-
fore navigation closes
The Duluth board Of trade Is doing
no trading. The trading room is open
but the members have agreed to make
no trades until the financial clouds
have passed. The action was neces.
sary for the same reason that the
Western banks had to suspend pay.
ment of Eastern checks. Duluth
grain firms are large exporters and
they were paying out their cash in re-
turn for clearing house checks on New
York banks. The country elevators
have ceased buying grain for the pres.
ent, but are taking for storage.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-11-01
HEAVY SLUMP IN WHEAT
Drop of Four Cents in Price on
the Chicago Board.

Chicago, Oct. 28.-The financial con-
dition in New York and the action Of
the local banks in deciding to issue
clearinghouse certificates and to de-
mand full legal notice on withdrawal
of time deposits caused weak mar
ket in all Of the grain pits. Wheat
within short time after the opening
struck a point cents lower than the
previous days close. The opening for
December wheat was 9TH to 90 and
from this point the price slid down
to SO. At 1920 it was holding around
81. The selling was in quite large
volume, but the demand was slack
and buyers were to all appearances
extremely reluctant to take hold. Brief
rallies took place after the breaks,
but the princ1 pal buyers were shorts.
There was little buying for investment
and the refusal Of the banks to pay
out large amounts Of cash limited the
opportunities of prospective purchas'
ers to put up the margins demanded
by the brokers.
Both corn and oats were weak for
the same reasons as affected the
wheat market.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-11-01
SALE OF MILITARY SECRETS
French Army and Navy Officers Un'
der Arrest.

French Army and Navy Officers un.
der Arrest.
Paris, Oct. 26.-Ensign Charles B.
Ullmo Of the French navy, who was
arrested at Toulon Oct. "a on the
charge OF being spy and who con.
fessed to having distracted secret
naval signal book and the naval cipher
code, and Berten, the army reserve
officer, who was arrested at Vendome
charged with negotiating with an
agent Of a foreign power for the sale
Of the military secrets, were brought
to Paris and arraigned before an ex-
aiming magistrate.
Ullmo confessed everything, declar'
ing he was heavily in debt and that
his object was to raise money, but
adding that he never intended to be q
traitor.
Berten denied the charge Of trea-
son, but nevertheless the correspond
ence seized when he was taken into
custody seemed to prove that he ar
ranged to deliver certain military doc
uments to an agent of a foreign power.
The latter Is not named, but It is un-
derstood to be Germany.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-11-01
SITUATION IS BETTER.
Financial Conditions in New York
Continue to Improve.
HEAVY GOLD APPROPRIATIONS
Engagements Already Made A99re'
gate $17,5oo,ooo and Have Had
Very Helpful Influence.

New York, Oct 2s.-The financial
situation continues to show encourag-
ing evidence of improvement, as ex'
ceptionally large engagements OF gold
have been made abroad and the stock
market is advancing on the general
demand for securities at low prices.
The gold engagements now total ST.
100000 and already exert very help
full influence. There are considerable
orders from abroad for American Sc
curities, which must be paid for in
gold, and this will augment the specie
imports. Investigation also discloses
an exceptionally large number OF
transfers Of stocks upon the books OF
the various corporations having head.
quarters in New York, indicating
heavy investment buying.
There are practically no margin
transactions on the stock exchange at
this time. No failures have been re-
ported anywhere in New York and
even in the case of the Kansas City
institution which closed its doors it
was forced to close only because it
was refused admittance to the priv
ileges of the clearinghouse remedial
efforts in that city.
The pressure upon the banks In
New York is distinctly abating. No
new runs have been reported and
those begun last week have dwindled
to almost insignificant proportions.
Wall street has assumed practically
its normal appearance, the crowds be-
ing no larger than in the days OF
financial Quietude. The adoption OF
clearinghouse certificates and the re-
fusal to pay cash for boarding pur-
poses has produced no apparent ex-
element whatever in this city.
In order to assist in the measures
undertaken to relieve the strain on
the currency situation the leading life
insurance companies have decided to
grant thirty days. extension Of time
on the payment Of premiums due on
pOlicieS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-11-01
NOT GIVEN ACTUAL CASH.
Chicago Depoeitors Paid by Check or
Withdrawal.

Chicago, Oct. 28.-The banks Of this
city are largely upon a checking basis.
They have taken the step of refusing
to pay out large amounts Of currency
and will not return to the former man.
ner of doing business until the finan-
cial condition in the East improves.
In all banks belonging to the Clearing.
house association or affiliated with 1t
depositors seeking to withdraw money
were given checks OF the bank itself
instead Of the actual cash. The de-
positors are allowed to draw the full
amount of their balances, but they
were compelled to accept the banks
checks instead of currency.
The rule requiring savings bank de-
positors to give thirty days notice be-
fore drawing out less than 500 and
sixty days notice before drawing out
more than 500 was also put in force.