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The independent., 1907-04-25
GOODBYE AND
GOOD LUCK

London Answers: There goes eleven;
/ shall just have time to catch my
last" says the friend on whose ac-
count / have left the theatre at the
absorbing moment half way through
the last act when the tangled dramatic
web was being Strengthened out, and
all was coming happy, in the end"
A hanson pulls eagerly across from
the rank
"Euston," says my friend, and we
are soon deep in converse.
We turn into the big booking hall
of the vast station, and / stare with
astonishment 1t is crowded with peo-
hum of hundreds of people, all en-
gagged in conversation.
Emigration party" says my friend,
in reply to my look OF inquiry. "They
go from here every Wednesday and
gars! Well. bye~bye! See you on
Thursday Take care of yourself. and
make haste home"
To the West.
But In spite of the fatherly admo-
notion. 1 lingcr in the great hall, fas-
clnated by the strange crowd, and by
the knowledge that here before my
eyes hundreds OF dramas. nay, Il may
be tragedies. In real life are being en-
acted. The old country In sending
forth another short length or It's new
er-ending stream OF unwanted. Strug-
gle effort and desire have been all In
vain; there is no room In the land OF
their birth. no sustenance for them
The independent., 1907-04-25

From the measure now before the
New York legislature providing for the
Torrens system OF land titles a good
idea can be gained of the main points
I'm the system and the procedure neces-
sarv to install It, Should the bill be-
come q law land titles would be regis
tered with an officer of the county in
which the land IL located. That officer
would take tho place OF the register
OF deed In Nebraska. The cstab-
fishing Of title with this office
Is conclusive evidence of ownership.
behind which, after the original change
has been completed. nobody can go.
Transfers es title can then be made
merely by registering the same at an
expense Of three dollars The time re-
ulhrcd for the transfer IL SIX hours
and the registration II final evidence
nf goundneaa OF title,
The independent., 1907-04-25

Snow in the last half of April is by
no means SO unusual as the exciama-
tiOns of the people yesterday would
lead a stranger to think. Four years
ago general snow and cold wave de-
scended upon the Missouri valley IN
April 20 and 80. 1t came after a period
of warm weather and caught the frui.
trees all in bloom. The heavy masses
of blossoms covered by sleet, ice and
fsnoW made a pathetic sight. That was
the cold wave that went on to st.
Louis and froze up the dedication ox-
ercises of the exposition held a year
ahead of the fair opening. April
storms don't come every year in this
region, but when they do arrive they
are likely to be corkers
The independent., 1907-04-25

Des Moines has a fiourishing college
Of osteopathy, yet bill granting
recognition to that school of healing
after passing the Iowa house was
sidetracked when it reached the senate
Sitting committee to the great disap-
pointment of those interested in giving
that method of treating the sick an
even legal show with the older if not
more efficacious systems. Benefits
to the afflicted are secured by so many
different processes that the natural
tendency is to brush away all barriers
and leave it with the one chiefly inter-
ested to pay his money and take his
choice. If it were possible in any of
the schools to lay in a stock of absolute
knowledge this might be different but
beyond certain narrow limitations
there Is so much uncertainty, so
much conjecture, so much guess work,
II doesn't seem reasonable that any
school should be given a legal
monopoly of the work and worry of
abolishing sickness Thirteen states
have osteopathic boards to pass upon
the qualifications Of those who seek
licenses to practice this art and others
are inclined 10 think this is In line
with the square deal.
The independent., 1907-04-25

year ago w. j. Crandall Of Firth
was one of the well-to-do BUSINESS
men of Lancaster county. From his
Touring mill, bank and other invest
ments he received a handsome income,
but he had an ambition to accumu-
late a fortune that should dazzle his
friends in the Empire state where he
hoped to return when the goal Of his
ambition was attained He grew res
tive under the slow methods Of legiti-
mate business returns The board of
trade offered quick profits with at
least even chances to win. He
touched the harp lightly and the re-
sponse was pleasing to his ears. His
judgment was vindicated. 1t is the old
story oft related. He found the game
alluring. He played reclxlessy and
he played again and lost He tried
to retrieve and went deeper into the
swamp. After a succession of disasters
in the mad hope of saving himself he
risked everything, and everything
went. 1t is short but pathetic story.
The savings of years of close and care
full application to business thrown
away in this great national gambling
game, the real "dementia Americana"
which is causing the legislatures of
many states to take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
The independent., 1907-04-25

Maybe Attorney General Jackson IS
hackingNat the tap root Of the liquor
business in Kansas. Prohibition has
never prohibited there or elsewhere.
This has commonly been taken to mean
that such laws are unenforcable.
fact which has been made the reason
or at least the excuse for large
proportion of the votes IN other states
and towns against prohibItory meas-
ures. Bnt while prohibition laws have
been IN nominal effect IN Kansas. tns
business Of putting liquor on sale at
wholesale has not hcen disturbed. The
The independent., 1907-04-25

subdue his proud spirit it may be nec-
essary to put Mr.. Patterson in jail,
and at present Denver has no jail
room to spare.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
A VOTE.

Compulsory voting is a feature of the
new electoral system in Austria. The
new election law empowers the pro-
vincial legislatures to determine
whether voting shall be compulsory
or not, and Ave provinces now have
laws to the effect that every man who
without good cause fails to exercise
the franchise shall be hned from one to
fifty kroner, or from about twenty-five
cents to $40, according to his means.
The idea of these laws is that voting
is a bounden public duty, not merely a
privilege, and it is the correct idea.
Every citizen of military age owes a
duty to his country which he is bound
to meet in time Of war, and the duty
to take part in the government in a
country having a representative sys-
tenn should be as clearly defined. The
obligation of citizenship cannot be
shirked in the one case, and 1t should
not be in the other.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
No RA11RoAp RAVE PLANE.

1t is doubtful If either political party
in his State will take any stand on
the railroad rate question in its con-
vention platform in November. In the
first place, there has been no defined
sentiment exhibited anywhere in favor
of a statutory rate of two cents a mile.
The people who would be benefited by
such a rate do not, as a rule, travel
except at rare intervals. On the other
hand, a very large number of people
who constantly travel on railroads be-
tween their homes and places of busi-
ness would be injured by a statutory
rate because they now travel at a
considerably less rate by communication.
Political managers look to majori-
ties when they adopt platform planks.
They feel the public pulse on a ques-
ton and declare according to its throb-
bings. 1t would be grand for a party
convention to come right out ~iatfooted
III ldNor VI d pRihSiPiS tno' iS ~ PNPu
lar in some other States, but. judging
by present prospects, it wouldn't be
wise. The result In the election might
be disastrous. So it LAY be taken for
granted that the convention managers
will this year construct their platforms
without any railroad rate plank to act
as a boomerang.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
FLOWERS IN THE WINDOWS.

One of the pleasantest sights in
Centre Market is that of people buying
flowers and plants. 1t is more sug-
gestive on Saturday night, when the
market is crowded with people of
humble circumstances in life, and when
hundreds are seen carrying away
flowers and plants with their market
purchases. The love of flowers is uni
versal. and yet in many neighborhoods
of a city like Newark there is very
little evidence of that taste.
1t is told of an Oriental potentate Wild
visited Paris for the first time that he
rapturously admired, not the magnifi-
cent buildings and splendid b~oulevards
and picturesque parks, but the TX
quisite balcony and window gardens of
dwellings that met his eye on every
side. He had come from a land of
flowers and he found delight in the
modest blossoms which adorned a cot
tage window.
Newark is now well embellished with
pretty parks and handsome buildings
and well-paved streets, but it lacks a
grace that could pc so easily added to
it Inc would have such a great re-
fining influence upon the population,
the grace and beauty of flowers
in the windows and balconies of it's
dwellings. If the Partisan custom pre-
vailed here the aspect of our resi-
Dental streets in the summer would be
a constant delight to the eye. Could an
association be organized to promote a
better public object?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
ALDERMAN MARTINS RETIREMENT.

The announcement by Alderman Will
lam p. Martin that he will retire from
the Common Council at the end of his
present term and cannot accept a re-
nomination is received with regret. Mr..
Martin has served in the Council since
January /. 1902. with conspicuous abil-
ity. and with u%nfiagging zeal and in
dustry, and he has made a record there
that win ever be quoted in his honor.
His long public service has been per-
formed largely at the sacrifice Of his
private business interests. In fact. he
made these secondary to his public
duties, and he has never shirked a
duty, no matter how wearisome or un-
pleasant.
Alderman Martins example to his as
sociates in the board has been whole
some. His retirement from Council at
the end of the year will not, 1t is hoped,
mean retirement from public life. There
are other and less onerous public du-
ties that a man of his calibre can fulfil
without much personal sacrifice.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
RECORDS FROM KANSAS.
A State That Seems to Be Doing Well,
According to the Figures.

The Chicago Rccord-Herald has read
and duly dlgested the contents of the last
annual report Of the Kansas State Board
Of Agriculture, and it has evidently found
1t interesting reading, for II has extracted
and published these facts:
kansas has produced 100,000,0W bushels
Of wheat in one year more than any other
State in one year.
"ShA has produced in one year almost
a sixth of the total wheat crop of the
United States for that year.
"She has ranked first as a wheat yield
ing State five years Out of seven.
But wheat is a detail, compared with
corn. Kansas has produced 274,000,00Q
bushels of 1t in one year and SB,O0,Wo
worth of 1t in another.
''She has a single county which pro-
dueed 10. no. TAI bushels Of corn In one
year. She has a single farm in a single
county which has produced 104 bushels Of
corn per acre.
"she has bred John R. Gentry and Joe
Patchen.
'she has bred a merino sheep with a
fierce which yielded So pounds OF wool
AMI no one can show an equal
i'She has a town that has grown from
1900 to 10000 Inhabitants on a diet OF
"She is the second lead and zinc State
Ia the Union and the third salt-producine
State.
'she has a fine population and can boast
that nearly As per cent. of it Is Kansas
The total yearly value of her farm
products Is half again as great as the
total gold and silver production OF the
nation. and If the value Of her asrleut-
iturai products and live stock were divided
up each year there would be $50 Tor each
person in the state.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

The decision of the Navy Department
to order the four armored cruisers now
in Philippine waters to San Francisco
is evidently precautionary. Without
battleships the cruisers do not consti-
ute an effective squadron force for
any great emergency, and in the event
of trouble with Japan they could be
gobbled up. 1t is obviously the policy
of a government to take no chances.
With four other armored cruisers to be
sent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
the sixteen battleships that are to be
transferred to that ocean in the fall
will have their needed auxiliary force,
and the whole, together with the
lighter vessels. will constitute a fleet
greater by far han ever ploughed the
waters of the Pacific.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
OUR WORST INSTITUTIONAL SCAN
DAI.

The most astonishing feature of the
case at the State Hospital for the In
sane at Trenton is the calm indifference
of the managers and officers. Typhoid
was raging in the institution. scores
were stricken down with the disease,
patients we're dying, but although the
Health Board officers, who were re-
~lucantly called in to investigate. rec
commended remedial measures, nothing
whatever was lone by the asylum off,
GERS. The warden was enjoying a vaca-
ton at a summer resort and the medi-
cal director was otherwise engaged.
Indifference and neglect could go NO
farther. 1t may we'll be asked If a
management is capable of such neglect
in vitality essential particulars what may
not be the neglect in others? II the
warden, who Is supposed to oversee
everything, permits the dairy of the in
stitution to be filthy, and the water
supply to be contaminated, what care
is taken with the food and how are the
patients looked after? If the medical
director has no eye for the plain evil
dences of gross violations of sanitary
laws or doesn't care, how can he be fit
to have charge of a thousand insane pa
TENTS? What confidence can there be
in his judgment or fa~ithfulness to duty?
During the administration of Cover
nor Voorhees, there was an investigation
Of charges that rotten food was served
to the inmates of the State Hospital,
and that other serious abuses existed.
The charges were sustained by the tes-
timony of attendants and others, but
the scandal, like that at the State
Home for Girls. was permitted to drop
out of sight. The Vornees administra-
ton wasn't of the reform kind. There
was no sacrifice of life involved in h a
scandal. There is in this, the worst
scandal that ever arose in a State insti-
tuition in New Jersey.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
origin Of Carlisle indian school.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
When and under what circumstances
was the Carlisle Indian School started?
r.
irIt was instituted In 1879. and e clip
from a contemporary the following inter-
esting story of its evolution: A officer
in the United States Army, Captain X. n.
Pratt (now brigadier general, retired),
while engaged in fighting the Indians out
West. was led to compare them with the
negroes, of whose progress from barbar-
ism by association with the white man he
had made a study, and saw no reason why
the transformation that had taken place
in the negro race could not be obtained
by the sane means in the Indian. II the
red men were treated as a man among
mon. and proper methods were applied
to his case, he could and would become
civilized and Christianized-a promoter in
stead of a destroyer Of human welfare
An opportunity was now offered to this
thoughtful officer to give a practical test
to his theoretical optimism. He was de-
tailed in chargeIof captured savages who
were sent from Fort Sill. I. T., to Florida
for a long term of confinement. and sought
permission TO instruct them in letters,
Industry and conduct This request was
granted, with the resu1t that when the
time came to return them to their tribes
some twenty-five young men asked to stay
In the East and go to school-which they
were enabled to do through the aid OF
friends. And this led to reflections out
of which sprang the present Carlisle
School."-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

The Assembly investigation of the
State Hospital for the Insane at Tren-
ton will in all probability develop sorne
unpleasant facts in regard to the ex-
p%enditures. 1t was developed yester-
day hat a large discretion in the pur-
chase of supplies lies Wifi the warden.
The maintenance of the institution is
provided for partly by large State APP
preparations and partly by income from
private patients, and the testimony by
the treasurer shows hat the system
of finance is a loose me-. A thorough
inquiry into the financial management
is In order.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

The new antitrust law in Texas.
which penalties the sale of all goods
made by trusts and provides that any
person who deals in or sells or handles
any goods manufactured Or controlled
by a trust, or acts as agent for any
trust-made goods shall be guilty of
felony and punished by a term in the
penitentiary of from two to ten years,
has aroused the business interests.
Meetings are being held to memorabilia
the Legislature to call a special ses-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

An addition to the roll of Republican
Gubernatorial possibilities is Senator
Samuel K. Robbins, of Burlington. Mr..
Robbins Is a lawyer. 81 years old, a
Princeton graduate, was a member of
the Assembly in 19O4-5-6. In the latter
year he was Speaker. He was elected
Senator last year by a plurality of 2,227.
II South Jersey receives consideration
in the Republican State convention Sen
ator Robbins will be a favored candi-
date.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

There is a l~aundryman at the State
Hospital for the Insane at Trenton. He
does the washing for the institution
and he handles the clothing of the
typhoid patients. Evidently for that
reason he was selected to perform the
duty of cleaning out the well that sup
plies the hospital with water, and his
method has been to stand in the well
and clean it out with a broom. And
the board of managers sat around last
Thursday and decided that the water
supply had been polluted from the out
side by a leaky sewer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
rHr rMpIoYER,s 11Ap1I1rY Acr.

Judges, like other mortals, are prone
to disagree. The judicial judgment is
not infallible. An act of Congress last
year provides that any common carrier
engaged in trade or commerce between
the several States or any foreign ma
tions shall be liable to any of its m
ployees for all damage which may re-
suit from the negligence of any of it's
officers. agents or employees"
There have been conflicting opinions
as to the constitutionality of this act.
The latest is that Of Judge Adams in
the United States District Court in
New York, who holds that h act is
constitutional and valid. The issue is
yet to be finally decided by the United
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

The herd of cows that has supplied
tainted milk to the State Hospital for
the Insane is TO be sold and the dairy
abandoned. Mink is to be purchased
hereafter. 1t is easier to buy milk than
to take the trouble to see that a dairy
is not full of filth. That's the institu-
tons idea of it. There viii be no re-
duction of official salaries by the board
of managers. But a number of official
de%capitations are necessary.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

1t is probable that it is something akin
to carrying Goals to Newcastle to sug-
gest that the basic principle of trust
fcrmation-the economic justification for
commercial combination-is the reduction
of the cost Of production. Yet the ugges-
ton is ventured in the possibility that this
vital principle may nave been lost sight
of in the pride the syndicate must feel
In extending American methods of control
to the theatres of London and Paris. But,
in its natural and laudable pride. the
syndicate should not forget that in Its ex-
tension of control and power it is applying
distinctly American methods; that in so
doing it is putting American methods to
the test In foreign lands. We have a pride
In them which the syndicate must recog-
nize and regard. We might view with
eauanimity the failure of such methods at
home. But we cannot contemplate the
possibility Of the failure of them abroad.
Hence the suggestion that the basic prin-
ciple of all trusts be laid fast hold on and
kept steadily in view by the men respon-
sible for this 500, 900, 900 international the
atrical trust. The reduction Of the cost of
production to the lowest possible point is
the secret Of success. To the demnition
bow-wows with art. II it is obstructive,
let 1t go into the alley with the ancient
eggs and soft cabbaRes Of a forgotten age.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
Our Most valuable Human Asset.

who is. the most valuable human asset
our rulers, municipal, State and national,
Of course. excepted-in the United States
to-day? Unquestionably it is Mark Twain.
That this is the fact may be quickly and
easily demonstrated You admit, presuma-
bly,, that history and, possibly, your own
experience show that no man is SO i'm
portant or so indispensable that his place
cannot be promptly filled. Now, when
Mark T~wain-perish the thought-"passe
over who is going to fill his place? Echo
answers.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

From a national point of view Governor johnson is a $ well
known as Grover Cleveland was in 1884 when he became the
Democratic standard bearer. Mr.. Cleveland had been Mayor OF
Buffalo and wasn't a great while in the GovernorshiP. Until
elected President he had never been in Washington.
The trouble with folks in this part of the country is that
we are apt to coddle the delusion that the United states is
bounded by Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, with New
York IS the centre and pivot of it all. We are narrow and 1nsu-
lar, and the things that we don't know about our county-its
breadth, extent, location of population and the varied interests
of the people as a ho1e-would fill several Carnegie Libraries.
Several thousand miles away from Manhattan Island there
are statesmen, iursts, teachers and scientists second to none in
the country.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
NEW YORK ISN'T THE coUNTRY-1ARfF Observation-Disclosures
METHODS

Henry Watterson's candidate for the Presidency, on the
Democratic side. is Governor John A. johnson, of Minnesota.
Objections are raised OH the ground that Governor Johnson is
not we'll known. There is truth in that SO far IS the Eastern
States are concerned, but it does not hold good concerning the
great middle Western States. Mr.. Johnson's standing among
his own people is shown by the fact that he was elected Gov
ernor in 1904, although Roosevelt carried the State by 10000,
and he was reelected by a plurality of over 10000. Is there
Democrat in any Eastern State who could have made such a
showing?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

pillow, and the nurse presented them
for inspection to the person nearest the
door. who happened to be the profess
sor.
The latter Razed intently at hem for
a while, as II deciding whether or not
they were two or one. and then said
somewhat huskily:
Really. what a bonny little child"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20

States Supreme Court. 1t is of great
Importance to interstate railroads
which nave been protected from large
damages by State enactments limiting
their liability in cases of accident and
injury to employees.