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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
A JERSEY c1TY's ENTERPRISE.

An expenditure of $40, 000, 900 will BIZ
incurred by the enterprise of Atlantic
City in acquiring it's ocean front by
purchase or condemnation in order to
convert 1t into a public park. Tit
land to be obtained lies between the
inner line of the boardwalk and the
ocean. BY public ownership the city
will always have control of it's ocean
front, which is the city's great asset,
and no private enterprise can ever en-
croach upon it to set up Instructions or
preempt any part of 1t. Atlantic City
is an example of a progressive munich
patty.
The men who are at the head of the
city's affairs, unlike the men in control
of the affairs of some other municipal
tiles, can see further than the length
of their noses. They have built up a
magnificent city il a sandy waste, a
city whose growth excels ever the
wonderful growth of Oklahoma.
In addition to the land to be acquired.
Atlantic City will secure the splendid
amusement piers that extend far out
into the ocean, and it will build a Mag
ni1cent esplanade of concrete steel,
with ornamental casinos and music
pavilions free to the public. We would
suggest to officials and representative
citizens of municipalities in New Jer-
sey generally to visit Atlantic City.
The trip will give them needed in
spiration.
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Deserving the Ministry.

The reasons why more me don't study
for the ministry and why so many who
do make a failure of it are not difficult to
understand.
Few occupations, for the man of not
extraordinary talent, are more preearious.
In few are the demands so heavy The
minister is eternally in the local limelight.
Whatever he does is noted md commented
upon. He is expected to be guide and
mentor of his flock in practise as well as
preaching. The slightest lapse from a
rigid standard of conduct, that in another
man might seem wholly venial, is some
times sufficient to lose him his position.
The idea that a clergyman has an easy
time of 1t is popular, but mistaken. Not
only must he be of pleasing personality
and address, up to date in all matters of
general as well as theological Informs
tion and able to hold his congregations
interest from the pulpit, but there is the
constant round of calls upon him, the mp
peals of a social nature or for sympathy
and be~nevolence from his flock, which
make heavy inroads upon time, of which
he has too little to devote to his study.
The least indifference, the slightest offense
given one of his parishioners may serve
to bring his pastorate to an end. If one
only of his people dislikes him, that one
can. by simply perslsting in retailing his
grievance, drive him to look for pastures
new.
viii such demands of Intelligence, char
acter, patience, personality and education
upon him, it is small wonder that the
minister sometimes fails to qualify. If,
on the other hand, he does succeed, he is
too often wretchedly underpaid, and when
he arrives at an age over 80 there goes
around the talk that "a younger and more
active man is needed" Even at forty,
committees ON securing a pastor are likely
to fight shy of him..
All other professional callings advance
in salary. security and Independence. The
independent man in the pulpit Is likely te
be in constant hot water. unless he car
force himself to conform to the eonven'
tional ideas of his people and the strici
tenets of his creed. True independence
too often spells heresy.
With such conditions, 1t is small wonder
that men in the colleges prepare less ant
less Tor the ministry small wonder tina
men of religious inclinations are turning
from the ministry to the work Of socia
and charitable organizations, wherein theii
services are more likely to be appreciated
small wonde at the prcdicament of {
church in a thriving town of Pennsyl
wanna which has tried sixty-eight candi
dates for It's pulpit without success.
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NEW YORK. Dec. 3.-Bishop Potter
japan at this port. and a distinguished
company of Americans and Japanese
gathered at a dinner at the Hotel Astor
last night to bid farewell to the CONSUL
general, who is going to a new post at
San Francisco, how when he was visit
ing Japan some years ago he became so
fatigued climbing the steps leading up
to a Buddhist temple that he had TO
order a Manhattan cocktail when he
got back to his hotel in Yokohama
Not only did the father of the Subway
Tavern of recent memory drink that
Manhattan cocktail, but, as he con-
fessed last night, he made h Rev.
Percy Grant, rector of the Church OF
the Ascension in this city, and a te-
~totaler, drink another.
Bishop Potter told the story of the
Japanned Manhattan cocktail to Illus
trate some remarks he had made about
the adaptability of the Japanese people
to the customs of the Occident. he
didn't expect to get a Manhattan cock
tail when he ordered it, but he did
get it, and he congratulated the re-
firing consul-general Upon the clever
ness of that japanese bartender in that
Yokohama hotel.
"There is just one fault | have to f1nd
with the temples of III country, my
dear consul-general," said Bishop
Potter, in the course of his remarks,
land that is that in many cases the
steps approaching the sacred fanes
are SO long and wearisome that they
leave the traveller quite exhausted at
the portal. One day the Rev. Percy
Grant, who sits at my right here, ana
who was my travelling companion on
my trip to Japan, and ! climbed ever
so many steps to see a temple at Yo-
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VOLUME LxxvI.-No. 2ss.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1907.
INDUSTRY TAKES A NEW START.

II was a great day for New England
Industries yesterday, when thirty-eight
mills and factories which have been
curtailing operations or shut down re-
Gently resumed operations on full time
and with a full complement of hands.
Other assumptions will follow during
the week throughout New England, and
doubtless the same causes that have
re~galvanized industry there will bring
about a similar activity in other parts
Of the country.
This means ~remunerative work for
many thousands of operatives at good
wages, and cannot fail to have a stimu-
lating effect on trade and industry gen.
orally and continue the good work Of
strengthening returning confidence for
the healing of the wounds of business
suffered during the last few weeks
through the money panic. While all
times are good times for increasing
business and its attendant prosperity,
no time could be better than in this
holiday season, with Christmas only
three weeks off. 1t will insure a hap
pier Yuletide thar was expected three
weeks ago.
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Marston Moor and History.

To the Editor of tho Evening Star:
VIII you kindly give some facts in re-
gard to the place Marston Moor occupies
in English history? B. r. c.
LMarston Moor is the name of a York
shire plain In England, whore on July 2,
1914, the Royalist army. under Prince
Rupert, was beaten by the Parliamentary
forces, English and Scotch, under Fair
fax, tho Earl of Manchester, and the Earl
of Leven. The approach of Rupert forced
Fairfax to abandon the siege of York and
he took up his position on Marston Moor
with about 2o.000 men. Rupert, with about
the same number, came up with him on
the afternoon of July 2, and in the even
ing, at the head Of the Royalist right, he
made q fierce charge upon the Parliament
tary left, which broke and fled in dis
order. The Parliamentary centre had like
wise been broken by the infantry Royalist
centre and had suffered heavily, but while
the Royallsts were dispersed in search Of
plumber or in pursuit of the enemy, Crom-
wells famous Ironsides brigade, with the
Scotch regiments commanded by David
Leslie and some others, rallied. charged
h Royalists vigorously and remained mas
ters of the field, capturing 1850 prisoners
and all Ale Royalist artillery. The killed
and wounded on each side numbered about
1000. The victory resulted in the occu-
patton Of York and the control of the
whole north of England by the Parliament
tary orces.-Ed.]
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CROPS WORTH BILLIONS.

Crops valued at $7,412, 000, 900 seem to
show a pretty solid foundation for ma
tional prosperity in 1907. 1t is true that
THE value, a 10 per cent. increase over
that of 1906 and 81 per cent over that
of 1899, while showing tremendous
progress in agricultural products, may
be discounted a little by increased
prices in many lines, nevertheless, the
advance has been real, and this in the
face of adverse weather conditions in
the planting season and scarcity of
labor in harvest.
AS Secretary Wilson declares in his
report, 1.-THE farmer Will have more
to spend and more to invest than he
ever before had out of his years work"
of these crops we contributed to the
feeding OF the outside world, that is
exported, s1,055, 900, 900 worth of the
products of the soil. which is $40, 900, 900
more than we sent abroad in 1906, a
record year. As these exports exceeded
the imports for the year by S444, 900, 1000
in value. the balance to the credit Of ag-
riculture ought to go far toward clinch-
ing returned confidence in the financial
stability of the country, which was
never in doubt except in the minds Of
towards.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
VALUES AND VALUATIONS.

The world at large is cautioned by
the Commercial and Financial Chron-
icle that those who are looking for a
simultaneous stock market revival with
improved business will be disappointed.
Industrial affairs, where solvent" it
says, will have their shackles loosened.
Stock values are quite another prob
lem. There can be no return to the old
prices until there is prospect Of a re-
turn to old values.' Isn't there here
rather a confusion of terms?
All the old prices didn't correspond
with old values, but rather with false
ones. They were inflated beyond the
elastic limit. The pricking of the Dub
BILE was inevitable. When it came the
lesson taught was costly. but if it sinks
deep enough the lesson will be worth it.
The shrinkage of valuations, not values,
was what happened. and it will be welt
if 1t is a long time before the old prices
come back on the same foundation. In
vestors will fight shy of stocks that
climb in price for any but substantial
reasons
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
GREATEST CRUISE IN HISTORY.

As a German naval expert has re-
marked, the cruise by the sixteen
American battleships and attendant
ships from Hampton Roads to San
Francisco will be the most remarkable
in the worlds history. There have
been cruises by large fleets of sailing
ships, though not for such a distance.
but compared with the modern battle
ship the biggest wooden warship was
a cockle-shell.
The projected cruise will therefore be
a record one. Russia sent her Baltic
fleet through the Suez Canal to be de-
stroyed in the Sea of Japan, but that
fleet would nave been merely a mouth
full for the formidable armada that is to
go to the Pacific. And something more
than mere practise will result from this
spectacular cruise. 1t will certainly
make history, and 1t may open up a
new era in the worlds affairs.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
TROLLEY MEN cLuBHoUsEs.

Among plans by the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company is one to establish
clubhouses for the employees In all the
a barns. One of these clubhouses was
recently opened in a new barn at Mas
peth, and another is about to be
opened at Canarsie. The announced OBJ
jects sought are to preserve good feel
ing between tho company and its en-
ployees; to collect and disseminate
knowledge pertaining to street railway
construction, operation and equipment;
to promote the social welfare of the
employees, and to maintain the benent
for them in case of illness or debt.
This shows a human interest on the
part of the corporation in it's employees,
and it will go far toward establishing
the best kind of relations between the
CORPORATION and the employees. The
clubhouse will promote In esprit du
corps among the latter that will bene-
fit them and be advantageous toN the
employer. This excellent example is
well worthy of imitation In all cities,
and it can be adopted to great ad-
vantage. by the Public Service Corpo-
.o4;an
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
TIME BY A CAT.
How a Young Chinaman Knew When
It Was Noon.

It is related by the Able Hue. says the
Chicago News, that one day he and a
party of friends set out to visit a Chinese
Christian mission settlement among the
peasantry. They met a young Chinaman
on the road. and to test his intelligence
they asked him If he could tell them the
time, The native looked up at the sky,
but the cloud hid the sun from view and
he could not read any answer there Sud
denly he darted away toward a farm and
returned in a few moments with a cat In
his arms. Pushing up its eyelids with his
hand he told Hue to look at them, at the
same time volunteering the information
that it was not noon vet. While they
were puzzling over the matter the boy
went about his business. When the party
reached the village they asked the Chris
tian converts il they could tell the time
by a cats eyes. The Chinese pointed out
that the pupils of a cats eyes grew gradu-
ally narrower up to IL noon, when they
became scarcely perceptible lines, drawn
perpendicularly across the eye, and after
that dilation commenced.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
what Is nm Epicures

To the Editor of the Evening star:
Please tell me why a person fend of good
eating is called an epicure. Fl. r. c.
ISo far as ''epicure'' is concerned, it
usually denotes a person who is intelIi-
gently particular as to what is on his
table. The philosophy of the word may
be gathered from the Epicureans, ancient
Greek philosophers, so named from Epi-
curos of Samos, the founder He taught
in his own private grounds in Athens, and
his disciples, like the Academies, were
called the Garden Sect" His system was
that the chief aim of life should be en-
joyment; that the highest degree of en-
joyment is perfect repose, and that is to
be obtained only by keeping a sound and
healthy body. Epicuros lived B. c. S42-270.
His disciples were Metrodoros, Polyoenos
and Her:nachos. His Successors were
Polytratos, Basilides, PretArehos and others
of less note. Brewere observes, In a note,
that Hermaclitos of Ephesus CB. C. 54S-4S3),
taught that happiness is the end and aim
of life. Later, there was the sect of Epi-
curean8 in Greece in the early ages of
Christianity. They denied that God
troubles Himself about mundane matters,
and taught that the world was made by
the chance conf1ux of atoms. They disbe-
lieved in n resurrection, held that man
consists only of a material body, and as
this life is his end-all and be-all. his duty
Is to make the best OF it. without taking
any thought of a state after ~death.-Ed,l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
TAXES KILL THE TREES.

One cause for the destruction of the
forests lies in the taxes assessed upon
them. The story told by the owner of
seventeen hundred acres of woodland
In Pennsylvania is a story often
repeated everywhere where taxes are
assessed. The trees have been grow
Ing for thirty years, and should stand
for ten years longer for their de-
velopment. The tax assessor placed
an assessment for taxes on the trees
according to their market value, and
this assessment is repeated year after
veal although the trees paid no reve-
nue.. 1t is cheaper for the owner OF
the woodland to cut the timber and
sell it to save the ten years taxes
that he will otherwise be compelled to
pay. After the trees disappear the
landscape is defaced. and IL the land
is not good for tillage it becomes u
barren. 1t is public policy to preserve
the woodland, but the public tax steps
In and destroys 1t.
Would it not be better to establish
a discrimination in taxes in favor of
Woodland? Most of the States now
have state forestry commissions and
expend large sums in efforts to pre-
serve the forest growth. What, then,
is the of killing the forest growth
with taxes?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
UNCLE JOE THE 2 A

While the Russian Car is being
balted in his palace and his absolutism
is denied in the so-called Russian Par
lament, the American Gar is rein
vested with all his prerogatives and
with great enthusiasm, in the House of
Representatives at Washington. The
Russian Gar goes by the name of "The
Little Father" The title given to the
American Gear is "Uncle Joe" Speaker
Cannon, who Yields more power thar
any man in the United States, barring
the President, now presides over the
Sixtieth Congress and will be potential
in shaping legislation.
The rules of the House practically
give to the Speaker complete con-
troll of all bills introduced n of all
appropriations. No measure can be
brought before the House without his
consent and no man may speak upon a
bill without the Speakers recognition.
Uncle Joe Cannon is an infiexible man.
He is set in his ways and he shows no
favors. An honest and conscientious
man, no consideration could appeal to
him outside of his sense of public duty.
The President may recommend and the
department heads may estimate and
committees may favorably consider, but
If Speaker Cannon puts down his foot
and keeps it there, there is nothing
doing.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
SION MAcH1NEs roR STAMPS.

If Congress adopts the recommended
ton by Postmaster General Meyer for
the introduction of slot machines for
the sale of stamps and postal cards it
will have conferred a great benefit upon
the people of this couptry. There is now
no way in which a person can procure
a stamp except by going to the post
office or depending upon the courtesy
of a druggist or some tradesman who
may keep stamps for convenience of
his patrons.
Frequently stamps are needed and
vainly looked for late at night. BY
placing machines in postofice Hobbies,
railroad stations. hotels. department
stores. drug stores and other places
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
BISHOP POTTER TELLS A
az STORY~OF TWO COCKTAILS

kohama. When we returned to our
hotel / was quite worn out.
81 called a Japanese servant and or
dered a Manhattan cocktail. Now, you
know, I had no idea that he knew
what l meant by a Manhattan cock
tail, but l was quite sure that he would
bring me something and say hat it
was a Manhattan. Such is the inge-
nuity of your race, my dear consul
general.
ITO my surprise he brought not only
one genuine Manhattan cocktail, but
two"
A ripple of applause went around the
banquet table and several diners leaned
forward in expectancy.
well, here was a predieament,'
continued the bishop in his smoothest
tones. Il am sorry to say-or should
say that I am very glad to say-that
the Rev. Percy Grant here is q tee
totaler and that one Of his relatives
on the distaff side is a very well-known
member of the w. C. T. ia very we'll
known member.
Grant said 1, you will have to
drink this other cocktail
But, my lear bishop he protested,
what is the effect of this cocktail?'
ct is exhilarating, my dear Grant
said /.
Grant drank that cocktail, n In a
very few minutes he began to rub him
self about the region Of the vest-he is
rather an expansive man in some par
ticulars, you know-at least he was
then.
Bishop he said to me, you are
right; that is exhilarating.'
Then I called the bartender and
asked him how it happened that in
Yokohama he knew how TO make a
Manhattan cocktail.
"'Oh. l used to run a hotel in Gin
cinnati,' he replied"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
A BETTER STATE HEALTH SERVICE

A reorganization of the State Board
of Health is necessary. The board has
been m%oribund, and the principal occu-
patton of its executive officers seems to
be to get out ancient statistics and go
on prolonged vacations while drawing
their salaries. When, the typhoid cpl
demic prevailed in the State Hospital
for the Insane at Trenton the board
was negligent and it's chief officer was
touring Europe on a vacation extending
over several months. The a~cknowledg-
ments by the board secretary to the
Hahn committee revealed the perfume
tory character of the work of the board.
The importance of the duties assigned
to the State Board Of Health increases
every year, and the responsibilities will
be largely added to next year, when the
new food law goes into operation.
There should be appointed a thoroughly
competent and good executive board
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IN VEIN.

Those Good Old College Days.
o good old college days,
L see you thro' the haze
The hazy Macy days of yesteryear.
l recollect the hour
When in my youthful pow'r
l kicked the merry pigskin without fear.
What tho my knee is stiff
From Hefflefinger's biff,
What tho my hip is broke beyond re-
pairi
| mourn for them no. more
The while I'm dreaming DER
The cheers that round the gridiron rent
the air.
What tho l mo hear,
Deprived Of either ear,
Because the Harvards used them for a
mat?
What tho my neck is like
A solid iron spike,
Because the Princeton 'leven on it sat?
All that is left of me
Today is full of glee,
AS, lying on my back, I dream of days
When, spurred by battle-hymns,
I sacrificed my limbs
To cover Alma Matters name with praise.
John Kendriek Bangs in Harper's
Weekly.
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that win employ only competent and
energetic officers who can be trusted to
sea rns their, ~Balariesn The a1inancial re-i
sources of the board should also be ade-
quate for its work.
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There nave been times in my hfe,"
said he, gloomily, when 1 was tempted
to commit suicide"
''Oh, well,'' she said, its no use to
grieve over the past. We can all look
back and see where we've made mis-
AXE ."-London Tft-Bits.
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PEOPLE OF NOTE.

No F1ronean queen is so rich in jewelry
as the supreme queen of Siam. She has a
huge safe or c~aslxet, the handicraft OF a
London firm, in which repose marvellous
necklets, pendants, bracelets, anhets OF
diamonds. rubies, emeralds and pearls
galore. The second queen owns a scarcely
inferior casket and each Of the other
wives has her own special hoard. Inc
national iewcler has a standing order Tor
$500. eco worth of jewelry to be delivered
TO the king every year. much of when Is
distributed among the f~avorites of MS
harem.
The wives Of all the candidates for the
Presidency to succeed Mr.. Roosevelt are
profoundly Interested in American
Makes just at present. a writer declares
Mrs. Knox has ordered her winter silks
from New Jersey: Miss Roots trousseau
is said to be entirely of American manu-
f~acture: MIS-. Fairbanks will wear only
gowns made in Indianapolis and Balu-
more; and it is interesting to remember
that Mrs. Roosevelt always has patronized
homo trade.
Eugene Zimmerman, Of Cincinnati, is
rivaling William Waldorf Astor In be-
coming the largest owner OF historic
castles in Great Britain. He has already
acquired Kylmore and Kimbolton Castles.
AMI is now negotiating for the purchase
Of Tanderagee Castle aud of Brampton
House, the last of the historic Manches-
ter estates.
William T. Stead, the London editor. has
taken up the role of an agricultural bene-
factor. The means he has adopted to
prosecute his benefactions is a method OF
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Miss Ascum-Don't you really believe in
dreams?
Miss O'Bull-No, indeed It's supersti-
tious, and beside it's a bad sign when you
believe In them, for it always brings you
bad luck.-Phlladelphia Press.