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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
A NATIONAL ART GALLERY.

One Of the recommendations hidden
away IN a corner of the Presidents
message which should receive all pub
licity and encouragement is contained
in a paragraph in which the establish
ment of a national gallery of art is ad-
vocated. The President calls attention
to the Importance of this matter to the
artistic and material welfare of the
people and finds 1t a cause for congrat-
ulation that such a gallery is already
taking form under the guidance of the
Smithsonian Institution.
1t is a fact which one has continually
TO face that in this country artistic
progress has not kept pace with COM
mercial. We have been a nation too
busy in building along material lines
to give adequate thought TO art. We
have produced great artists, but they
have had to go to Europe for their in
spiratlon and training. Almost alone
of the great nations We have had no
national fostering of art, no great ma
tional gallery. no sufficient collections
of art works, and with such as we have
scattered in unsuitable places.
The Presidents recommendation
should give impetus to a movement that
will eventually enable US TO hold up our
head among the nations in matters
aesthetic no less than in wealth and in
dustry. The educational M inspira-
tional value OF a national gallery it
would be hard to overrate and the dig
nifty it would add to the national capital
would be a factor of no small impor-
lance.
The Presidents opinion that so far
from there being a tariff on works OF
art brought into the country, their i'm
portation should be encouraged ii
every way" is reiterated. 1t cannot bt
reiterated too often until it produces
upon Congress the effect that 1t mus
produce sooner OF later.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
The Word ..piker.,

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
can you give me the origin of the word
plkerF l.. J. X,
[The word ''piker'' today is used prln-
cipally In connection with Wall Street and
the race track, where 1t Is applied to the
men whose Investments or bets are of in
significant amount. Hence it has become
n sort OF term of contempt for the chan
who does things generally in a small and
Insignificant way-though l am not sure
Just how it came to have that meaning.
In English slang a ''piker'' is a tramp or
vagrant. Borrow, in his 'Wordhook of
the English Gypsy Language" says: 1.-THE
people are called in acts OF parliament
sturdy beggars and Migrants; in the old
cant language Abraham men. and in the
modern ''pikers.'' 1t is possible tina the
word as used today Is derived from the
name pike" that was given in California
In the Sos TO the migratory southern poor
whites, which was said to have originated
from the superstition that the first of the
class came from PIX County, Missouri.
Pike" says Mr.. Nordhoff in his book on
California. In the California sense of the
word, is the wandering, gypsy-like South
ern poor white. This person often lives
with his family in a wagon; he rarely fol-
lows any steady industry; he is frequently
a s~quatter on other peoples lands; he owns
a rife, a lot OF children, a dog and a wife,
and II he can read, a law book. He moves
from place TO place. as the humor seizes
him, and is generally an injury to his
neighbors. He will not work regularly, but
he has a great tenacity of life and Is al
ways ready for a lawsuit. Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
LOvELESS Welded LIFE
CONSIDERED "A GREAT SIN

an atheist and that God was a myth
with which to frighten children and
hold in check persons of low mental
power. Soon came the breakup.
Il love my daughter, Gertrude, just
as much as ever" h said. That is
a different love from that of husband
and wife. Except in the lower orders,
where the marital relation is matter
of animal instinct, mind is the great
factor in the union of man and woman
If time works changes in the mind and
the wife and the husband age drifting
further out of touch, clashing in their
ideals, moving each in a different in
tellectual sphere, then they should
part. The marriage shackles hold, but
L defy them. / am a Socialist and l
found solace in Bernard Shaw and
after him Ibsen.
81 first began to teach, but found
I had no capacity for teaching. Then
I was employed as a housemaid and
met a c~onsiderate employer. l was
happy. My father has tried to induce
me to ret Urn home to him, but | shall
earn my own way IL | have to do
washing"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
MESSAGE.

President Roosevelt's annual message
Il unusually long, but it is not prolix.
It covers many important subjects,
some of vital interest to the nation at
large, and all worthy Of far more ex-
tended comment than the President is
enabled to give within the limits of a
message to. Congress. The careless and
Indifferent man will not read the mes
sage through, but the man who sus-
tains a live interest in his country's af-
fairs and takes to heart the national
welfare will not fail to read it with
care.
The tone of the message throughout
is statesmanlike. The President takes
UP his subjects in the order of their
Importance, and treats them in a calm,
dispassionate way, but with character
istic vigor. He reafirms all he had said
before, renews former recommended
tlons, takes advanced ground ON some
questions, and is altogether favorable
To q progressive, vigorous and coura-
geous national policy for interior re-
forms and improvements, for the de-
velopment of our insular policy and for
the national defense.
A message by the President to Con-
gress is really a message to the Amer
lear people and an appeal to their
thought and conscience. President
Roosevelt had the people in mind far
more than Congress when he penned
his message. In the last analysis 1t is
the people who decide. Congresses
come and so. but their creator, the
people. remain always in evidence, and
the message of a popular President
gives form and direction to h popular
thought, and shapes the popular judg-
ment on questions affecting the veal
OF the nation.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
rHE EMpIoYER's LIABILITY.

A national employers liability act
that shall provide for employees of
government and of private interests is
demanded by humanity and common
sense justice. The hazards of industry
are necessarily great, as the enormous
n increasing number of injuries to
employees annually attests. The risks
are incident to the employment and not
Of the employees devising, so the re-
sponsibility for injury should rest upon
the employer. The law should make
such provision for indemnity in such
cases as win prevent the necessity and
burden of a lawsuit upon the injured.
AS the President points out in his mes
sage, the United States is behind all
other nations in providing for such
cases. That should be the shame of
Congress, which should see to it that
this nation should be the equal of any
in legislation of this character.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04

CHICAGO, Dec. Mrs. Wilton
Brewster Judd, who quit a home of
luxury to become a servant because
she believed in the ideals of Bernard
Shaw and Ibsen. gives this sentence
as the keynote of her new thought;
For a mar and a woman to live to-
gether when there is not love between
~them-nothing but the hollow form of
a marriage contract-I consider a
greater sin than for them to live to-
gether with love and without the con-
tract"
Mrs. Judd was graduated from the
Minnesota University, and is a daugh-
ter of II. A. Pratt. ex-Mayor of Mime
apolis. Judd was graduated at the
same university. He is a successful
lawyer, and his marriage was the OUT
come of a college This was
nine years ago. The literary men
whom Mrs. Judd worshipped held that
lawyers were little better than pirates,
and every legal victory Of her
panied ana annoyed her.
His prosperity brought her gloom.
Then she told her husband that she was
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varying policy. which. even II benehclal

varying policy. which. even n beneficial
under present conditions, might not
prove to be SO under contingencies that
might arise in the future. Any institu-
ton which accepts a fee Of matricula-
ton from its students is bound to give
them the best that it's facilities offer,
now and in the future, and a definite
restriction of policy such as the Jeanes
bequest called for, would violate this
implied contract.
It Is a matter Of particular regret that
SO many philanthropists insist that their
beneficiaries shall accept conditions
difficult or impossible to live up to,
trusting not to the judgment Of those
qualified by experience to know what
is best, but to their own narrow views
and prejudices.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
JOSEPH PULITZER.
Character Sketch Of the Father of
Modern Journalism"

He has been and is one of the most
prodigious workers the world has
known, says the Broadway Magazine.
of Joseph Pulitzer, whom 1t calls
father of modern journalism" Last
April, when the heads of departments
were gathered to celebrate his sixtieth
birthday, Mr.. Pulitzer sent one of his
remarkable cables-this man who came
to America as an emigrant, knowing
not a word of the language, has be-
come one of the great masters of Eng
lish-in which he announced his re-
tirement from active direction of his
newspapers. Every paper in New York
printed this announcement except one
the World. His editors knew he could
no more give up work than he could
live without breathing. Mr.. Pulitzer
was furious over his employees re-
fusing to take his announcement Sc
riously, but he was very careful not to
inquire who was responsible. He has
a remarkable faculty for appearing
densely ignorant about things he does
not want to know.
He is not only a worker, but a
worker who is driven on and on by
an idea, a fundamental thing he be-
/ lAtNGS III. iC tdlhp AIN lhN WCaANh ~
has won were not the objective, but
merely incidental rewards. For moth
ing could be more misleading than to
epitomize the career Of Joseph Pulit-
ger from the viewpoint of personal
achievement. That he came from
Buda Pesth, Hungary, where he was
born in 1S47, and in early manhood be-
gan as a reporter at meagre wages on
- Vnr--Nr4,tz ToAt = Gnrphn n nnxrTG-
paper published in st. Louis; that he
was frugal and inspired sufficient con
idence in st. Louis financial quarters
to obtain such loans as enabled him
speedily to becoming managing editor
and part proprietor of the newspaper
that in 1878 he bought the moribunc
ST. Louis Post and st. Louis Dispatch
combining them as the st. Louis Post
Dispatch and making that newspaper
a potent factor in public affairs In tn
West; that in 1888 he bought the New
York World and made 1t n OF TN
most successful and most powerfu
newspapers in this country-an thes'
things lose their real significance unless
there is presented an outline of VIVA
he accomplished with his newspapers
Today the World, with its combined
morning and evening circulation o
upwards of 800, 600 copies on week day
and nearly 800, 900 on Sundays, is en-
joying the greatest financial p~rosperit!
and power 1t has ever known. Beside
his achievement in sharing with tn
late James Gordon Bennett he homo
of being the father of the modern met
ropolitan newspaper, he originates
newspaper illustration as 1t is done to
day, and also the color comic supple
ment and the short, snappy editorial.
For years and years Mr.. Pulitzer wa
%scornfully referred to as an adven
turer, and the charge was true, in 1t
fair sense, because he adventured 4
fields that no other journalist had eve
dreamed of entering.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
swARrHMoRE RETAINS FOOTBALL

The wisdom of the managers of
Swarthmore College it win be hard to
controvert. They have arrived at a
conclusion upon the conditional bequest
OF 81, 000, 900, made by the late Miss
Jeanes, and have decided that, If the
bequest involves a decision affecting the
future policy of the Institution for all
time. 1t cannot be accepted.
AS an assertion of the independence
which should be basic in the policy of
any educational institution worthy of
respect, this decision is admirable.
The issue in this case was not as to
the fate of football in S~warthmore Col
lege. The trustees doubtless agreed, as
most college authorities. barring the
heads OF Columbia and Harvard, agree,
that football. if cleanly played, is use
full in encouraging the best qualities OF
manhood. But 1t was not for that that
they outlined their action. The issue
would have been identical had the donor
provided that every student in the col.
iege should specialize in physics. Il
was a question Of agreeing to an un.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04

Utility RiM.

DIIIIly k5llI.
Big Bill Taft is statuesque and stately;
You couldn't guess his size If you haven't
seen him lately;
A middleweight before and a heavyweight
Monumental. t-ranscendental,
Big Bill Taft.
Big Bill Taft is gentle as n mother
To still the fretful wall of the saddle
colored brother.
Benevolent to woe. but Draconiap to
graft,
Navigating, lubricating,
Big Bill Taft.
Big Bill Taft can melt a desperate,
Or hypnotize a king, or jolly a Mikado;
He smiles his little smile, and the loving
cup is quaffed-
Humoristic, eulogistic,
Big Bill Taft.
Big Bill Taft has problems to unravel;
He hasn't any home, he's always on the
travel
BY camel or balloon, by submarine or raft,
Dedicated, consecrated,
Big Bill Taft.
Big Bill Taft. indeed we like to use you:
We love to see you work, we'd hate like
time to lose YOU;
So keep your brogans dry, be careful of a
draft,
All-essential, presidential,
Big Bill Taft. Puck.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
A Toast TO the Men.

Here's to the men! Since Adams time
They've always been the same;
Whenever anything goes wrong,
The woman is to blame.
From early marn to late at night,
The men fault-fnders are;
They blame us II they oversleep,
Or il they miss a car.
They blame us II, beneath the bed,
Their collar buttons roll;
They blame us II the fire is out
Or il there is no coal.
They blame us il they cut themselves
While shaving, and they swear
That we're to blame II they decide
To go upon a tear.
Here's TO the men, the perfect menl
Who never are at fault;
They blame us IL they chance to get
The pepper for the salt.
They blame us If their business fails,
Or back a losing horse;
And when it rains On holidays
The fault Is ours. of course.
They blame US when they fall in love
And when they married get;
Likewise they blame us when they're sick
And when they fall 10 debt.
For everything that crisscross goes
They say we are to blame;
But, after all, here's to the men,
We love them Just the same!
Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04

The State Food Commission, organ
ized at Crawford yesterday, will have
a large field of usefulness. With a body
of this kind, filed with zeal for the
work, laboring in the cause of pure
food and drink for the people, there
will be some benefit in the pure food
laws, national and State. 1t has been
well enough demonstrated that the
laws regarding the public health are
only perfunctorily enforced by an Of
fetal State board. Volunteer effort IS
necessary to stir up official energies
atone for official neglects.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
o1rrzENsHrp FOR PORTO R1cANs.

None of the objections that are Justly
urged against admitting the Filipinos
to citizenship in the rear future car be
put forth to the repeated recommends
tion that the inhabitants of our nearest
island possession. Porto Rico, be made
citizens as soon as the proper legisla-
ton can be enacted. They have made
rapid and remarkable progress under
the tutelage of United States o%flcials.
They have taken naturally and kindly
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
A STATUE TO KEARNY.

A statue to General Phil Kearny, to
be erected in the city of Washington,
is the object of a bill introduced In the
House by Representative Loudenslager,
of New Jersey, the bill calling for an
appropriation of 500, 600. The memoir
of one of the gallantest soldiers of the
war who died In action has never been
properly preserved. There are imposing
monuments to other soldiers of the
great Civil War who were less worthy.
A son of New Jersey and the COM
mander of a Jersey brigade, General
Kearny should have a monument
erected by the State which he honored
by his valor, but the only public me-
mortal of Kearny is the artistic abor-
ton in Military Park. this city.
Immediately after the death of the
late Senator Sewell it was proposed to
erect a monument to his memory at
the expense of the State. Sewell was
one of the bravest soldiers in the Civil
War, but 1t would have been a bitter
injustice to a far more distinguished
Jersey soldier if that proposition had
been carried out. Mr.. Loudenslager's
bill might be amended to provide that
the State of New Jersey should pay part
of the cost of a Kearny monument. If
the bill was so framed it would be more
likely to pass Congress.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Please tell me when the last time was
that court fools or testers, as they were
called, were maintained In the kings
court. M. II. IL.
There were paid testers a good deal later
than the time of Samuel johnson, the au-
thor of 'Hurlo Thrumbo." Lord Busy
Mansel had n somewhat noted household
fool" Robin Rush by name, who died
about 1907. Sir Edward Stradling, of st.
Dorret's Castle, GlaInorganshire. kept a
Jester in his retinue as late as 1898. Shenus
Anderson was the household fool of
Murthley Castle, P%erthshlre. and his death
took place in 1888. At Hilton Castle, Dur
ham, a paid jester, was a member of the
Household at the end of the eighteenth cen
fury, and there were old folks In Cum
berland eighty years go who coul tell
many a story of 'Hilton's fool" The
household fool indeed. long survived
the Kings fool" The last official court
Jester in England was Tom Killigrew,
the comic dramatist. Pepys, in his
Diary under date February 81. 166T-6s,
writes: "Mr. Brisband tells me in discourse
that Tom Killigrew hath a fee out of the
wardrobe for cap and bells. under the
title OF the kings fool or Jester, md may
revile or 1eer anybody. the greatest per-
sons. without offense, by privilege of his
place" In other countries, however, the
kings fool held a recognized position at
court till a much later date When Peter
the Great. Gar of Russia. paid his mem
orable visit to England he brought his
favorite Jester with him, and Macaulay
describes the disgust of the English folk
at THE fool who iabbered at his feet and
the monkey which grinned at the back Of
his chair. Ed
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to our laws and our system OF educa-
ton. They have taken an Intelligent
share in the burdens of self-government
as far as they have been thus far per-
united, and have proven themselves
loyal despite the mischievous meddling
of seIf-interested a%gltators. They are tit
for citizenship and they should have 1t.
When they get it their progress and de-
veIopment will be even more rapid than
it has been in the nine years they have
been under protection of the American
flag.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
THE SERVANT PROBLEM.

The scarcity of h-ouseworkers is in a
fair way to being relieved if reports to
the effect that the supply of them now
exceeds the demand, with more still
coming from Europe, may be believed.
If it Is true the only people who will
be sorry are the jokesmiths, with whom
the opportunity to gibe at the sufferers
from the servant problem has been a
principal means of support.
The over-supply, provided quality as
we'll as quantity is contained in 1t, is
not likely TO be long continued. The
demand for good help" is too wide
spread and constant.
1t is one of the strange things in
human nature thai operates to prevent
a satisfaction of supply and demand in
the matter of houseworkers. Why
women of the working class will consent
to labor in a stuffy factory under dam
gerous conditions and temptations, for
insufficient wages, where they might
obtain a secure and comfortable home
with reasonable compensation by agree
ing to do homework, is not easy to UNI
derstand. Undoubtedly there enters in
a mistaken notion of independence"
which, however, a comparison Of the
conditions most certainly does not JUS
+ifxy
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Centre OF PonnIntion.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
what Is meant by the centre of popula-
ton and how IS 1t located? II. A. F.
1.-THE centre of population or any place is
the centre of gravity of the population.
The method of locating this centre used
by the mathematician of the United States
census department is as follows: Each in
dividual is assumed to have the same
weight ard the population is first dis
tributed by square degrees. A point Is
then assumed, tentatively, as the centre,
and corrections In latitude and longitude
TO this tentative position are computed.
The population OF each square degree is as
sumed to be located at the centre of that
square degree, except in cases where it Is
manifest that this assumption would be
untrue, as, for instance, where n part of
the square is occupied by sea or large lake
or where Il contains a city Of considerable
magnitude which is situated off centre.
In these cases the population centre Is estI-
mated as nearly as possible. Tbs. shortest
distances between each such degree centre
or population and the assumed national
centre is obtained. BY this distance from
the assumed parallel and meridian the
population OF each degree Is multiplied
The sum of the products of moment nortr
and south of the parallel is obtained. Their
difference Is divided by the total popula.
ton OF the country, giving a correction tC
the latitude Of the ssumed centre of popu
lation. In the same way the east wesl
components supply the correction for longi
tude. The centfe of population of tn,
United States at the last census, not in
GLIDING Alaska or Hawaii. determined b,
the method was located about six mile
southeast of Columbus, Ind, latitude 9
degrees 9 minutes Sc con north, longi
tude 50 degrees 40 minutes 81 seconds west
Ed
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DouhtIess the Reason.

Professor Searchem was engrossed in the
study of all things that crswled. To him
Il pin had but one purpose-to impale in
sects; tin ans but one use-to house
worms.
Professor complained his young wife
one evening, how the prices Of vege-
tables are soaringi Just think of 1t. 81 for
In Them
Perhaps. darling" commented the pro-
fessor,, as he strove to part the few re-
manning hairs on his shining head, 'they
are of a very rare species. ''-Harper's
Weekly.
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IN HUMOROUS VEIN.

wish.
A snowflake that started from VINO knows
where
Came lifting and futtering down
And rested at last in Phyllida's hair'
P%hyllida's hair of brown;
a moment, then melted away
As ever such flakes must die.
But / envy it much for its moments stay
Its life was a glad little holiday
Lived between earth and sky.
Now I cannot complain or rail at Fate
(Since Providence made me a mani;
But this would 1 wish were 1t not 30 late
And long since my time began,
That 1 might be only a flake of snow
To fall when 1 left the sky.
And melt on Phyllida's cheek below,
And of all the beautiful deaths 1 know,
This were the best to die.
Judge.