davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Who was Edward Drinker Cope?

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Who was Edward Drinker Cope?
IGNORANT.
Tile was a famous American scientist,
born in Philadelphia July rs, 1910; died at
Philadelphia, April u. 1897. At the age of
Z years he made drawings Of jellyfish, etc.,
seen on n voyage to Boston. He was
educated at Friends Select School and
Westtown Academy, studied anatomy in
University of Pennsylvania, 1859, and
Joined Spencer F. Baird at Smithsonian
Institution; visited European museums in
1854; accepted chair of natural sciences,
Haverford, 1864; employed CS6S) by Ohio
Geological Survey; conducted scientific ex-
petition TO Kansas, 1871, and continued ex-
ploring West until 1879, discovering nearly
1000 new species, extinct and recent
vertebrate. During this time, and for
many years later, he wrote many i'm
portant works on discoveries, most of
which are contained in government reports.
He succeeded Prof. Leidy In 1891 in the
chair of geology and paleontology in the
University of Pennsylvania, and held the
place until his death. He edited the Amer
lean Naturalist. He received the Bigsby
gold medal. Geological Society of London.
1879; was elected to National Academy OF
Sciences In 1872; joined American Assocla-
ton for Advancement of Science in 1868
presided over biology section 1884, and
elected president in 1896. He was author
of nan important works.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

What would New Year be without
calendars? So say the mothers and
aunts who hope to elevate their sons
and nephews with inspiring sentiments
on morality done in gilt lettering. So
say the young Lochinvars, who, not con-
tent with Christmas, wish to testify
their love for the maiden of their choice
by the presentation of a Christy or a
| Gibson girl. SO say the intimate
friends at boarding school in their de-
sire to exchange calendars, upon which
they car cross off the days which bring
the Easter holidays rear.
So say the bankers and brokers, who
use the New Year to present their pa
irons with reproductions of famous
paintings. So say the butchers, saloon
keepers, bakers, confectioners and other
merchants, who delight in heralding the
days as they go by with glances into
the face of some girl whose smile re-
mains the same, no matter how the
cash register reads, So say the book
stores n department stores, for they
enjoy pleasing purchasers, especially
at the purchasers expense. So says
everybody. New Years was just made
for calendars.
There are some few oddities, such as
rustic gates with the months of the
year forming the bars; log hutsr ETC.,
but these are greatly in the minority,
What the people really like are the
pictures. And what a lot of pictures
were to be seen in h various stores!
There was the one of the girl who
must have been a first cousin of the
maiden, or, perhaps, wen a sister,
walking over stretches of country road,
sometimes with orange blossoms in her
arms, sometimes with skates over her
shoulder, sometimes with he arm of
a very pleasant-faced and altogether
charming youth placed lightly around
her waist, and always dressed in the
simplicity which, when initiated, proves
too expensive for ordinary folk, and
; always so unconscious of herself and
ESQ blooming with the roses OF health
that one does not tear off the IL by
"a inch months for fear of spelling
the picture.
But there are other calendar girls.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
DIGGING THE C

# our army engineers and medical
ha<~rScornplished nothing more in
Panama than the eStirpation of yellow
fever, hat in itself would be an ac-
complishment worth all it cost. There
has not been any yellow Jack" on the
isthmus in eighteen months, and the
sanitary measures inaugurated there
have made the general health good.
The death rate has gone down so per
cent. and the sickness rate has been
reduced a full 20 per cent. But, in adj
dition, other things are being accom-
plished there.
Colonel Cocktails, army engineer, is
digging the canal. The dirt is flying at
a rate unheard of in any previous great
enterprise, just about three times as
fast as 1t was dug at Suez, where the
difficulties were not as great as at Pan
anna. 1t is apparent that the right
man has at last been found for the
job; hat he is going about it the right
way, and he's struck his pace, which
Is fast and steady. If he is properly
backed up and not interfered with he
win have the big ditch open for busi-
ness on schedule time. Carry the news
to P%oultney Bigelow.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
ART IN CALENDARS FOR
NEW YEARS


There are the society girls of Gibson,
Harrison Fisher and Howard Chandler
Christy. These are usually attired in
evening costume. Sometimes they are
wasting their affections on a 30-years=
observation-disclosures husband in the
hope of his speedy decline and ensuing
wealth. Some of them are holding
cupids on their laps. Others are en-
gagged in a silent quarrel with strong
jawed young men In evening dress.
Some are merely doing nothing, their
hands in their laps and their eyes star
ing vacantly into space, building air
castles. In short, they are doing every
thing MISUNDERSTANDING married, en-
gagged, divorced, widowed and eve
dying.
Some of the most popular calendars
are the child-li ones. Dolly is made
to say her prayers. The baby is ex-
hibited in the midst of a plunge in the
bathtub. The small boy is caught in
the act of stealing jam, standing on
tiptoe on a high chair with his face
and hands a daub of sticky happiness.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
IN THE INTERESTS OF ART.

The arguments in favor of a%bolishing
The duty on works of art are so many
and sound. and the arguments against
1t are so feeble, that it seems impossi-
BILE that Congress can refuse to be
compliant when the representatives of
the American Art League introduce the
bill they are now drawing up for con-
sideration by the national legislators.
Among the 500 directors of the leagues
work who are prominently interested
In preparing the bill for the removal of
The tariff are some of the most infiu-
entail artists in the country, such as
Kenyon Cox, Daniel G. French and
John La Fargo, and 1t is safe to say
there is no one in any way Interested
in art matters who does not sympa-
thize with their aim. They argue that
II is he height Of absurdity to exact a
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

Mrs. Thomas T. Kinney, who passed
away last night in her home in South
Broad street, was identified with New
ark in many ways, and she welded an
influence socially and otherwise such as
few women ever command. Mrs. Kin
ney possessed a high order of talent,
and her mind and tastes were culti-
waited to an unusual degree. She was
also a woman of strong character,
while gentle and sympathetic in her
nature, and she was a natural leader in
the spheres in which her life was cast.
Her personality was a commanding one
in society, and her influence was al
ways for good. By her mere example
she benefited the charity work to which
her attention was largely devoted, for
she induced other women to give of
their wealth and effort to alleviate dis
tress and suffering. A noble and
exemplary mi widely known and
honored, Mrs. Kinney leaves behind
many fragrant memories.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

duty on paintings Of the old masters.
many of which are now kept abroad
solely because of this tariff, inasmuch
as a centuries-old anv or piece of
sculpture cannot be classified as COM
peting with the infant industries of
this country.
This is only one of many logical
reasons why the tax IN art should be
o%bliterated. and it is earnestly to be
hoped that the pressure the league is
bringing to bear in various parts of the
country will speedily accomplish its
purpose.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

much noise when the trouble was on
in the Philippines, have employed law
yers to take the national administration
into court on the question of the legal
right of the President to order the dis
bandment of the negro battalion at
Brownsville. 1t Is too be suspected,
however, hat this is merely a political
ruse and intended to keep negro re-
sentiment alive until after the Repub-
lican national convention has been
held.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Lowering of Flags.
he Editor Of the Evening star:

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Why are flags always lowered at sunset
and raised at sunrise? p. S.. l..
Primarily for the reason that a flag is
indistinguishable at night and there is no
reason to wear out good bunting Tapping
invisibly to the sky. On a certain his
toric occasion we are told that the flag
flew all night when "the rockets red glare
the bombs bursting In air, gave proof
through the night that our flag was still
there The hours are not exactly sunrise
and sunset. In the army posts the flag is
raised at reveille. at an hour fixed by the
adiutant. and lowered at retreat, similarly
fixed, about sunset In the navy the flas
is raised at 8 o'clock and lowered at sun
set. and these hours are liked for diplo.
matte officers entitled to display the ma
tional ensign.-Ed.J
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
A TRo1IEY pEpARTMrNT.

Commissioner Books idea of organ
i2ing a separate department under the
Board of Works to deal with the troll
ley service is a good one. There is
enough to do in thai direction to keep
a department busy. At present the
complaints that come to the board are
treated incidentally. Trolley affairs
are mixed up with all the other at
fairs of the board, and do not get tn
attention they deserve.
The matter of transportation of thou
sands of people in Newark is certainly
of Importance enough for separate and
special consideration by the board and
for the placing of responsibility def
nitely upon some head. The relations
of the board and the trolley company
would be placed upon a more satisfac-
tory basis by carrying out Mr.. Books
plan.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
History Of ConI.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
When, where and by whom was coal first
discovered and mined2 w. II. p.
1.-THE exact period at which coal was
first employed for private use is not
known, thought some say it was by the an
cient Britons. At all events, it was an
article Of household consumption to some
extent during the Anglo-Saxon period, as
early as A. ID. $50. England is believed tc
be the first country to have used coal in
any considerable quantity. In America the
first deposits to be discovered were those
in Virginia in 1701, and mining was begun
in 1850. This was bituminous coal. Elk
tended coal mining in the United States
did NOT really begin until about 1S20.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Feared the worst.

with stralning eyes the pale-faced man
watched the advancing policemen through
the window. No sooner had the blue
coats reached the porch, when, with trem-
bling fingers, he drew a heavy revolver
from his pocket and pressed the muzzle
against his throbbing temple. Before his
nervous fingers could pull the deadly trig-
ger his faithful wife dashed the weapon
asice.
John. Johnl' she gasped, don't
They've only come to summon you for a
jury"
'.If that's the case I'll submit peaceful
w." answered the man, wiplng the cold
sweat from his brow. But I'll die before
I'll shovel the snow Off that walk!'-
Judge.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
VIEWS OF EDITORS.


50 -
Mr.. Bryan has started on his hunt In
Texas, looking, we are told, for small
game, but prepared for bear. Maybe II
is the other way. Maybe he has bear
chiefly in mind, but, instructed by the
Presidents poor luck in Louisiana, Is
keeping the fact to himself. Mr.. Roose-
velt's hunt was widely advertised as a
bear hunt, but he found little more than
a few track. But for fish and 'possum
the party would have gone hungry. Lei
us hope that Texas will be more hospita-
BILE to Mr.. Bryan, and that his aim, II he
gets a try, may be good. And, after the
next election, when all is peace and good
fellowship again, a hunting party should
be formed, with Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Cleveland as members, and a
test made of their craftsmanship ano
marksmanship. Craftsmanship, when or
namented with neither a big bag nor a bis
string, is getting to be very little of q
decoration Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Always Unfortunate.

Here I stand within the hall;
For the elevator bawl
With a frown.
Going up?T l loudly cry,
And he urchin makes reply:
Going down."
Here you see me buying stocks,
Hoping to acquire both rocks
And renown.
"Going up?" / loudly say;
But my broker answers: Nay;
Going down"
When old Charon I shall meet,
Looking mystical, but neat,
In his gown
''Going up?" I'll murmur low,
And he'll doubtless answer mo;
Going down."
Louisville Courier-Journal
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Positions on the Violin.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Although experienced with the instru-
ment. 1 wish to settle a bet which is con-
nected with the request l ask you. A says
there are only seven positions on the
violin. and B says there are thirteen posi-
tons. Now. If you can give me your opin-
ion you will greatly oblige, F. M, Fl.
Neither is right. There are fourteen
positions on the violln.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Her one wish.

'Have you a single wish that remains
ungratihed?'' asked the indulgentsfather.
Yes answered the daughter, who was
beginning to carry weight for age. I am
80 years old today, and 1 wish you and
mother had postponed your wedding at
least ten years. "-Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Far from Quick.

call a messenger boy, quieki'' cried the
business man.
Sir said the model office boy, paling
p~erceptibly and visibly engaged in a mem
never yet spoken an untruth. n-Philadel-
phia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Hi. New Year. raise.

New Years had come and New Years
had gone, and Johnny, the ofice-boy, had
not been called into the senior partners
private office and patted IN the back and
told that the firm could not possibly get
along without him, and that his salary
had been increased to ten dollars per
week. He couldn't understand 1t; and
when several days had passed by, with
no change in the situation, he decided
that it was his duty to have the matter
adjusted.
''Mr. Johnson" he said to the head Of
the firm, ''ain't youse bin overlookin' me?'
'sWhy, l don't think so, Johnny" was
the reply when the senior partner had
recovered from his surprise. Let me see;
I called you down on Monday Tor being
impudent' to the istenographer, did / notg"
"Y-yep,' answered Johnny.
"And threatened to discharge you on
Tuesday for smoking cigarettes on the
Office
"Y-yep."
And pulled your ear the other day for
reading dime-novels during business
hours?"
"Y-yep.'
And lectured you severely for wills
ting and singing?"
"YEyep."
And again yesterday for putting pins
In the book-keeper's chair?"
"Y-yep."
"And when the manager isn't giving
you fits for shooting craps or throwing
paper wads, l hear the head clerk raking
you over the Goals for something or other.
No, my boy; 1 don't see that you have any
grounds for complaining that we are over
looking you"
IL mean, boss, about me dough. Youse
amt changed me salary"
"Oh, that's it, eh?" said the senior part
ner with a chuckle. We'll. although I
am at present engaged on a matter Of very
great Importance, I'll cheerfully lay 1t
aside and attend to your case at once.
Tell the cashier that I wan to see him
immediately"
And when Johnny received his money on
payday he found that his salary had been
reduced from five to four dollars.-Judge.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Not His Fault.

A frst-grade boy brought perfect spell
ing papers home for several weeks, and
then suddenly began to miss five and six
out of ten.
"How's this. SOM" asked his father.
Teachers fault" replied the boy.
How is it the teachers fault?"
to me.'-Lippincott's.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

1t was so cold on Broadway that the two
Arctic explorers felt at home.
by the way" said Pearman, don't
you think Columbus rather over-esti-
mated?"
why was he er-estimated?" welly
asked.
Fl discovered America the first time
he went to look for it."~-Exchange.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
FROM STAR READERS

Anonymous communications cannot bs
printed. Except on political subjects the
names of correspondents are not required for
publication, but as a guarantee. Of good faith.
Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
I'M I
FRYING to Make EN- Attractive.

Trying to Make EN- AttractiVe.
'You know, Katie" said the proprietor
of the railroad station restaurant, there
is a great deal in having your pumpkin
pies look attractive"
Yes, sir, I\know it." replied the girl;
Il have lone everything l could. I have
busted off those pumpkin pies every morn
ing for the last eight days!"-Yonkefs
Statesman.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Mrs. Bhikhiji Rustom Cana, a Parsee
woman, is in this country e~ndeavoring TO
establish free. scholarships in American
schools for the training of Hindoo men
and women as teachers for their people.
Colonel Benjamin C. Lockwood. com
handing the T~wenty-ninth REGIMENT 0.
infantry. has been placed on the retired
list Of the army on his own application,
after more than forty-three years service.
Recause Of his service in the War of the
Rebellion he is given the grade OF brlga-
dief-general on the retired list. General
lockwood is a native of Kentucky, ana
enlisted as a private in the Sixth Ken
tucky volunteer Infantry in October, lool'
He is now at his home in Detroit, Mich'
-
Stephen r.. Mallory, United States Sena-
tor from Florida, whose death mas 1us'
recently occurred, was a table companion
Of one of the old hotels in Washington q
Waiter II. French, of Boston, the file
clerk of the House, up to the time of the
~latter's death, several years ago. A gen.
Grafton earlier French had held Mallory on
his knees. when the elder Mallory, also a
United States Senator from Florida, lived
at the same hotel in the years preceding
fine outbreak of the Rebellion. There
Young French went as a hotel clerk In
k1S57. When asked in his later years why
he did not follow the tide of fashion to
an uptown hotel, he alluded to such assoc
Citations as this-his acquaintance with
father and son, both Senators from Florida
-as giving the old house a charm for him
which none of the newer ones could on
set.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

China Is menac with a new peril. Her
railroads ave begun to pay. Not since
mummies were burned for fuel on the
Nile railway has the Orient been so seri-
ously invaded. Henceforth it is fare
well to the idyllie peace OF the Chinese
ruralism. If the sons of heaven had re-
fused to ride behind the .profane iron
horse of the foreign devils. they might
have defended their land from innovation
to the last. Now there is nothing for it
but to submit to having their rice fields
cut up by the steel rails. But one peculiar
opportunity remains for them to save the
credit of their country-by making their
railroads picturesque. If they succeed in
doing this, they can be written down once
more as having achieved a complete
novelty. The train should furnish a brand
new motive for that patiently elaborated
Oriental art-bamboo passenger coaches,
decorated with choice panel paintings,
pagodas turned to account as switch
towers, n locomotive designs symbolic
of the national dragon having its tail
twisted by a European power.-Bostor
Transcript.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Same Old Joke.

Weary William Rhoades-Say, Happy,
wot's de difference between us an new
fall cider2
Happy ~Harry-Seareh me.
Weary William Rhoades-Dey don't have
ter put no acid in us ter keep us from
workin'.
At which the dry hay in the NOW burst
into a furious fiame.-Judge.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

Certain gentlemen in NeT England, =
evidently members Of thd anti-impe-
riaiist organization thai made SO
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27

you say he follows the ~races?"
Yes; It's the ponies that keep him
busy
"Ah! he's a bookmaker, Ell? Or a jockey,
~perhaps?"
mo; a pawnbrOke r."-Philadelph Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
A New Declaration.


New Jersey has not asked and does not
want Federal aid in the building of her
roads. This is the assertion made by the
Newark STAR, which can probably
speak as intelligently and authoritatively
for New Jersey as anybody. New Jersey
has already built about 1000 miles of
improved roads and the good work is going
rapidly and diligently on. So the plan for
the Federal government to appropriate
S10,0 O0,O0 0 a year for five successive years
for public highways In the States does
not appeal to New Jersey as strongly as
1t does to some of the States. 1t seems
to the New Jersey folks to offer a
premium for lack of enterprise and civic
spirit, and to be unjust to States that
have already expended millions for road
Improvement An appropriation Of $50,
900, 600, divided among forty-six States,
would. not go very far in road building,
and the expenditures once begun would
have 40 limit. All the money hat the
national treasury has to spare is needed
for other important purposes.
The declaration of independence made
by New Jersey Is a novel one, but there
is a good deal of independence and good
sense in it. Perhaps when our benevolent
and beneficent government gets all the
irrigating and draining done, the Panama
Canal dug, the inland waterways finished
and the navy made what some peaceful
people want to see 1t made, it can then
turn its attention more appropriately &c
helping the States make roads.-New
Haven Journal and Courier.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
Criticism. Of the .Nnvx.

The American people are not now nor
are they likely to become greatly excited
Nover the criticisms that nave been pub
lished from time to time of structural de-
tails of the battleships of the navy. For
one thing, they recognize that the subject
Is too technical for the lay judgment TO
pass upon, and they have, moreover, a
pretty firmly rooted confidence in the ONT
GERS of the navy-staff and line. As TO the
latter. it is perhaps just as well that TINS
happy optimism should prevail. The nayl-
eating qualities of the battleship fleet are
NOW undergoing a test. the results OF
which will be conclusive as to one aspect
of the question of the fitness of the vessels.
AS to the fighting abilities of the ships
they can only be determined in actual
warfare-a test which no patriotic Ameri-
can Is anxious 70 see made. No matter
what may be said by the self-qualified
and self-appointed critics of the designers
and builders of our warships, the vessels
have a potential force that carnct be
questioned. and IL that force, operating
morally and psychologically, shall be effec-
tive in maintaining the peace and uphold
ing the prestige of the country in the
waters to which they shall be sent, that
is all that the country can at present rea-
sonably Observation-Disclosures Ledger.