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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
CROSS LIGHTING.
Not Hurtful to Sight, Despite Old
Tradition.

Tradition.
Some traditions die hard, being accepted
without ex animation by nine persons out
of ten. says Wissen fuer Allie. and by all
who are in or under authority, and like
officials generally opposed to or suspicious
of innovations Among these is the belief
in the hurttulness of cross lighting. This
method of lighting would seem only to be
held injurious in schools. for in our own
homes we are only too pleased If FIVE can
nave windows on two or more sides of a
room. Even in Germany, where statistics
and experimental investigation are used
in every department Of administration, and
where in each detail the executive is
guided by an order in council somewhat
inappropriately called an ~'erlass," cross
lighting is expressly condemned. Yet
Cohn and Fenstav, laval n Ferrans,
Rumbold and a royal commission for school
construction have urged the groundless
nature of the prejudice.
Provided always that the eyes are not
dazzled and hat no shadows fall on the
reading or writing. it is impossible to have
too much diffused daylight or its artificial
equivalent. The less of intensity with in
creasing obliquity Of the rays is acutely
1clI III Wtue IOpIict NoptNtohS WhNA hO'
high in proportion on the side opposite the
windows; whereas, il there be windows oil
light on each side, the intensity off illumi-
nation is edualized and its total amount
doubled. 1t is only necessary that that
coming from the right should be naturally
or artihcially the weaker, as by having
windows north and south, or by filling
those on the right with clouded glass.
Windows in front are always objec-
tionable, but light from behind, If not 50
strong as to cast a shadow, can but serve
to increase the illumination derived from
the proper quarter. As has been pointed
out by authorities, reading or other work
demanding clear but effortless vision is in
the open air, when the sky is overcast, a
real luxury, Under these circumstance
the light is ample but shadowless
1t comes from everywhere, but from nc
one quarter more than from another. The
most perfect artificial illumination con-
ceivable is that obtained by Hrabowsk's
! arrangement of h-emispherical milk glass
refectors with prisms and mirrors, by
which the light of an electric arc lamp is
diffused equally throughout the building
though the source is hidden from view
The light is photometricaliy equal to thai
of a clear summer day. and as free frou
color; It Is almost s~hadowless, and is, in
fact. superior to daylight. Is not liable tc
fluctuations, although its intensity can Be
regulated al will
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
KipIing,s RecensionaI.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
You will confer Il favor upon n regular
STAR reader by printing the words of
Kipling's Recessional. S. F. w.
LGOd of our fathers, known Of old,
Lord of our far-fiung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine
Lord God of Hosts. be with US yet,
Lest we forget-lsst we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies;
The captain and the kings depart.
Still stands Times ancient sacrifice
An humble and acontrite heart.
Lord God Of Hosts. be with us yet,
Lest we f~orget-lest we forget.
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire,
so all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Ninevah and Tyre.
Judge Of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
II drunk with sight of power we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee In awe
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law.
Lord God Of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forgst-lest we forget!
For heather heart that puts her trust
In rocking tube and iron s.hard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard.
For frantic boast and foolish word
Thy mercy on Thy people, Lordl Amen.
Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT.
Belief That the Dirigible Airship Has
Come to Stay.

The great balloon race at st. Louis and
the dirigible airship contests following
demonstrated to the public just what has
been accomplished In this line, Fl. II.
Windsor, In Popular Sciences, says:
The exhibition on the second day and
the race on the third day of dirigibles car
ried convincing proof to the tens Of thou
sands present that the controllable airshir
is a thoroughly accomplished fact. 1t is
the conviction of the writer. however, that
the dirigible, while a necessity in modern
warfare. is extremely unlikely to become
a serious problem for transportation even
of passengers. although it Is certain to be-
come popular and even COMMON as the
most exciting sport. For express or pas
senger traffic, or even the transportation
OF the mails, it will not, in the writer
opinion, ever reach the efficiency and re
liability Of either steam or electric cars
on tracks, while for carrying freight the
suggestion is absurd.
''This statement in no measure detracts
from the wonderful accomplishments
which persevering and fearless men havy
worked out; great credit Is due them, but
it is not profitable to expect results which
If not actually impossible, are practically
SO.
Progress has not reached its limit. now
ever, and such experts as Captain Baldwin
and Curtis expect an evolution OF the pres
ent dirigiblc to eliminate the gas bag, ans
substitute the motor driven aeroplane, with
ability to remaiss azoft as Ions as tho sup
ply Of fuel lasts-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
CLOCKS FOR USE
AT THE STATE HOUSE ?

1t is claimed by those familiar with
the manner in which some of the State
House offices are now conducted that
the clerks would hail such a rule with
delight. They say that nearly all the
employees in the building are conscien-
tious workers, and that many of them
are forced to remain late principally
because systems of ~transacting bust
ness are imperfect il the particular de-
partments where they are employed.
''That routine hours can be OBJ
served said a State official yester-
day, lis demonstrated in the depart
.nents where most of he employees
are residents of other parts of the State.
They include some of the most inn
portant branches of the States bust
ness, but by earnest application the
work is usually closed for the day in
time TO let clerks from out-of-town
catch their trains for home
As the matter now stands clerks are
supposed to be at their desks at 9 a.
M, to take an hour for lunehSand then
work until 5 p. m. This rule, it is said,
is quite generally observed, making
longer hours doublv burdensome to the
few employees who are subjected to
them.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
I'm MOROU I
Hist Pet Aversion.


There's the fellow who splatters the side
walk
With nicotine puddles in brown;
There's the fellow who ISLANDERS his
neighbor
And always is knocking his town.
There's the fool with the weapon unloaded,
And he who rocks boats Cloth are woret),
But the reuben who hoists the car window
Is the chump for whose ciaret I thirst!
All day in the train, you've been riding,
shut In from the drafts and the cold;
Already you've captured the SMILES
And all of the grip you can hold.
Then in comes the man from the barn lot,
Or the later patch over the hin,
And up goes the window beside him
While straight you go into a chfll.
He always sits down Just before you
The car is at 20, scant; :,
1t isn't as cold as the cornfield-
Just watch him beginning to pants
HI looks all around for a brakeman,
Then recklessly tackles the task.
Let me kill but the reub that hyists
windows .- 4 +
No more Of nfe's Joys will L ask,
Chicago News,
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The voting machines are a burden on
the municipalities in which they have
been placed. How to store them and
preserve them from harm Is a question
of expense. If all the election districts
in Essex County were equipped with
the machines the question would have
serious economic aspects. 1t might hap
pen that in sheer evaporation, and
with "A desire to get rid of the unde-
sired burden, damage would be done
to them to put them out of business.
The East Orange Common Councilman
who last night said he would be glad
II the machines in the town were
smashed only expressed the vengeful
feeling of many towards the device.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Consider Taft,
The chap we love;
A man of craft,
Yet like n dove.
He gets the homage of the hovel,
But even kings before him grovel.
Consider Taft
He belts the globe
And men go daft
To bear his robe.
Swart %potentate bow down in wonder
And haii him as a son of thunder.
Consider Taft,
And his great rise;
His praise we watt
Unto the skies.
Yet he in youth, though neat and natty,
l have no doubt was known as Fatty"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

plan Of fitting up a gunboat with cleo
trio apparatus Of high capacity as air
compressor and repair shop, so that in
stead of being obliged to keep near a
stationary base and limiting the radius
OF the submarines the base can travel
with them. That this plan will develop
their usefulness by extending their
sphere goes without saying. 1t will also
provide an element of increased safety
for these divers and the men that man
them.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
OFFICE BY LOT.

observation-disclosures must be pretty
hard up for a new, subject for fault
finding when, because the President
suggested that the South Dakota Sena-
tors, who could not agree upon the dis
tribution of offices within their gift,
should draw lots for the choice, they
charge him with running a lottery in
violation of law. 1t is safe to say that
such a settlement of differences is as
old as the hills, even among Senators.
and has prevented many a deadlock in
the filling of appolntive offices. If by
the tossing of a coin or the drawing of
slips of paper from the Presidents
Rough Rider hat Senators Kittredge
and Gamble were satisfied in the mat
ter of their patronage, what can be the
harm?
The law provides universally that trial
jurors shall be drawn by lot. Statutes
creating commissions or other such
bodies generally specify that in the first
instance the terms of office shall be
settled by drawing lots. These + not
the only examples, but should be
enough. The method of settling the
South Dakota deadlock as to which
Senator should have the naming of
which official was no more a violation
of the lottery law than is the toss-up
for choice of position and the kickoff
preceding a Yale-Harvard football
van1e
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Medical Director Evans. of Norris
Plains Asylum, who figured sensation
ally as an expert in the Thaw murder
trial. plays the same role in the cast
of Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, the muir
deress of the late Senator Arthur
Brown at Washington. The time that
the medical director will take from his
duties at Morris Plains will not be as
prolonged as in the former case, and
the fee will not be as fat.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
Development OF THE SUBMARINE

One Of the handicaps to the radius of
action and consequently the effective
ness Of submarines is the necessity Of
their remaining within easy access of a
shore station where they can renew
their necessary stores of electricity and
compressed air. The obvious remedy
is IL a movable base OF these supplies
and this win be provided by the naYys
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

compelled to increase the price from one
cent to two, and more are giving notice
newspaper readers are interested in a
matter that doubles the cost Of their
morning or evening paper. If they will
show that interest by an appeal to their
representatives in Congress for the only
remedy in sight the remedy will be ap-
piled.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
Enough.

Our little boy ate salt maekerel for the
first time the other morning.
where does these fish come from-the
lake," he asked, after the first bite.
mo; from the ocean," answered his
father.
"Gee!" said Benny, II don't wonder the
oceans alty.'-Cleveland Leader.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Sir remarked the solemn traveller,
you appear to be one who is making the
good fight"
"Well," replied the clerical-loohing
stranger, I'm sometimes accused of maxi
ing the good and the bad ones fight. Pm
a whiskey distiller. p-Catholic Standard
and Times.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
Payment of Election omcers.


To the Editor of the Evening Star;
Would ydu kindly inform me who con-
trolls the payment Of the election officers?
The bills made out by our board and other
boards in the city call for $50, which the
book Of laws allows us. When ! went to
collect | received check for SIS. / for one
will never serve on a board of election
again, as 1t is a dirty piece of work.
w. B.
1.-THE Board of Freeholders controls the
payment of election officers. Tit reasons
for the payment of SIS instead of $50 to
election officers were fully explained in
the EVENING STAR last Friday. The
compensation stipulated In the statute
passed April IA, 1903, was $50, but a repeater
was passed the next day making 1t $50.
This repeater was, through an oversight,
rot published and the confusion resulted
from this fact.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

81 really believe you married me simply
because l have money" said the heiress
who was as stingy as she was plain.
NO" replied her husband, candidly,
IT married you because I thought you'd
let me nave some-of it."-Philadelphia
Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Lawyer-So you want a divorce. from
your wife because she throws things at
you, eh?
client-Nothing of the kind. She's too
smart to throw things at me-.
Lawyer-But l thought
Client Qnterrupting) She invariably
throws things at the dog, but she always
anage to hit me.-Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
All Comes 70 the waiter.

AIRY Con lis 'olidays)-Fancy Twin ere
all yer life! Amt yer ever been to Lon-
don and seen the sights?
Old Salt-No, sir; but some of the sights
comes up and sees us.-The Tatler.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
Her Mind.

Tess-So Mrs. Roxley isn't going to ap-
ply for a divorce, after all.
Jess-No, she found out that there were
three other girls who were crazy to get
him If he were free.-Philadelphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
When RooseyeIt Went to war.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Did President Roosevelt resign the Gov
ernorship of New York State to go to the
Spanish-American War or was II a Cabi-
net office? II. L. AND ]. S.
Tile resigned the position Of Assistant
Secretary of the Navy to become ~lieuten-
ant-colonel of Rough Riders.-Ed.]
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
rho Humanizinw 81 FOOTBALL.

The football season isn't quite over, but
It is so nearly so that it is time to begin
to count up the casualties. a favorite
occupation of many who fail to approve
of the game. They start out bravely, as
usual, but they find horrible instances
few and far between. The best they can
do is to discover eight deaths directly
attributable to football. This is some
what less than one-fourth their usual
harvest. and of course the list of Injuries
is smaller than usual in like proportion.
And it should be noted that, as in former
years, all of those who fell Victims were
players on non-college or on small college
teams. There is not one instance of a
DEATH. and hardly one OF serious injury,
among the players on the larger college
teams, where the game is scientifically
played and the training thorough.
The lessening of injuries from football,
one proof of which is the >appreeiable re-
duction of the gross time for playing a
big game, is, SO far as It goes. a vindica-
ton of the new style of play. They have
not perfected football-even eight deaths
is too many. the opponents will say-but
they have got it started in that direction.
Let the good work go on. We have a
game worth seeing. at any rate. and which
more people than ever have seen this year.
New Haven Register.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
Alaska Wants seIf-Govern,ncnt.

Alaska must have self-government. Tho
final word has been s9oken on that sub
ject, so far as decent, seIf-respecting
Alaskans are concerned. Alaskans are
standing under the American flag; the con-
stitution is at once the promise and the
shield of their rights, and corporate con-
spirators who have sought to withhold the
boon of local autonomy must either will
ingly abandon their untenable position or
be dubbed into recognition of the, just
claims of decent American citizens, for 1t
would be cowardly TO further submit to
the t~yrannies of corrupt corporate domi-
nation.
If President Roosevelt wishes to serve
the best interests OF Alaska and Alaskans,
he will press the issue of territorial gov
upon Congress, and Congress
should not hesitate to concede to American
citizens in the northern country the same
rights American citizens elsewhere have
always enjoyed. Men who have been
standing on unholy ground in this matter
shoul seek shelter, for the day of reckon
ing is in sight.-Seattle observation-disclosures.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Carnegie will
visit Boston on ST. Andrews Day, Deeem-
Der 2, when the 250th anniversary of the
Scots Charitable Society will have a
suitable celebration in that city. Among
the invited guests are the six Governors of
the New England States, Ambassador
Bryce and others of note.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Asaph Hall, considered the greatest as
tronomer in this country. famous as the
discover of the moons of Mars, who has
just died at Annapolis, headed many gov
ernment astronomical expeditions and made
numerous important astronomical discov-
cries. He was a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and a foreign mem
Der of the Royal Astronomical Society of
Great Britain.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Too oft we find, in this vain world,
That, come right to the scratch,
The folks who dwell in marble halls"
Have marble hearts to match,
Chicago News.
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Her r-,,m,ta,,ou.

"she has wonderful control Of her
voice"
Eyes, she can do everything with it but
stop it."-Houston Post.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
An Act Of God.

A Philadelphia property man was reiat-
ing, in a sad and respectful voice, his mem
cries of Richard Mansfield.
eff one worked hard" he said, zone
got on with Mr.. Mansfield well. He never
rebuked me but once, and then it was
hardly my fault. +,
1T was a sultry afternoon in the spring,
and we were rehearsing one Of the Mans
field plays-I think it was DR.. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde'-and here and there l had to
supply a clap of thunder.
Everything went well for a time. Then.
in an unexpected place, a loud roar of
thunder rumbled forth. Mr.. Mansfield hur-
ried to me.
LOOK here he said. with a hurt look,
do be careful, won't you? A mistake like
that would be very serious before an audi
ence. That clap of thunder came in the
wrong place.
"I'm very sorry, Mr.. Mansfield. said Il;
but it wasn't my thunder. 1t came from
outside. washington Star.
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Much the same.

IT understand you married a tanner"
said one woman TO another, as they met in
after years.
.ewell. something like that" answered
the other. MY husband is a country
school teacher. Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
FROM STAR READERS

Anonymous communication cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects the
names OF correspondents are not required for
publication. bet as a guarantees of good faith.
Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of the United
States Circuit Court, Chicago, Is In New
York city to look over the st. Gaudens
statue of Lincoln, designed in accordance
with the will of John Crerar, a Chicago
merchant, who died n number of years ago.
leaving a fund now amounting to upward
Of $780, 900.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
PEOPLE OF NOTE,

1t is reported from Stockholm that the
Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded
to DR.. Laveran, of Paris, who Is cele-
brated for his work on the propagation
of tropical fevers by microbes which are
conveyed by mosquitoes.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

Answers to Correspondents.
Observation-Disclosures Cunningham was
the waitress selected by Saint Gaudens
as the model for the head on the new
coins.-Ed.
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"You the proprietor began the angry
patron. well, l want to complain about
the waiter
"Glad to hear it," interrupted the pro-
prietor.
what, you are2"
Eyes, it's a relief to hear n complaint
that isn't about the food.-Philadelphia
Press.
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The Tlppinr Habit.

AS a matter of fact the tipping habit has
become as strong in America as it is in
European countries, and, If 1t is an evil, 1t
is as much our evil as theirs. 1t is the re-
suit of the effort of each one Of us TO get
something a little better than his neighbor,
and from this 1t has come to be a neees-
sity In order to get anything anywhere
near as good as the other fellow. 1t is a
natural development Of this age of emula-
ton, OF which the evils are nowhere more
strongly manifested than in the United
States.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Government Ownership

That the United States Government all
ready owns and operates transportation
lines, whole systems of cable, telegraph
and telephone communication and even
purely commercial establishments is a fact
quite often overlooked in the discussion
of the policy of government owership Of
public utilities.
The telegraph and cable systems con-
Meeting Alaska with the United States and
binding together the islands of the Philip
pine archipelago aggregate nearly 1900
miles and are owned by the government,
which likewise owns and operates a line
Of five passenger steamers between New
York and Panama and also the railroad on
the isthmus. In the Philippines are gov
eminent slaughter houses, cold storage
plants and lee works competing with
privately owned establishments, and the
government also owns tenement houses In
Manila and farms in the country, (which
are rented to the occupants. There are
government circulating Libraries, stores
and railroad systems in the islands, while
in Porto Rico the government owns the
telegraph and telephone lines. Where will
government ownership end?-Boston Globe.
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More Fatal.

80 your father was 90 when he died
and your mother Jos. What was it that
they finally died off"
"Well, sir, l can't say as | remember
rightly now, for twas a main long time
ago. But 'twan't nothing s~erious.''-
London Opinion.