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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-27

Baltimore and Return, SI.25, Baltimore
q Ohio r. r. Every Saturday and sun
day. All trains both ways, both days.
except Royal Limited. City Offices. lfl7
St, and GIG Pa ave.
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.SALTPETER FUMES
OVERCOME FIRENEN

CHICAGO. April "a dozen firemen
fighting a fire IN the basement OF one
Of the buildings of the Hammond Pack
ing Company early today were overcome
By fumes of burning saltpeter. and were
carried out by their companions barely
in time 10 save their lives. The res
cuers had 10 grope their way out
through the burning building IN the
dense smoke. and they were so long
coming out that the waiting crowds al
most gave them up for lost.
The blaze started from some unknown
cause in a pile Of hides that were being
cured by saltpeter. The damage was
so. 600.
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What You Want
and What You Get

Usually, when man pays out his money for
anything, he gets what he wants, or there's
good, strong kick for the man who sold him
disappointment
Why isn't this true of cigar purchases?
Why has the public been so long-sufering
with cigar manufacturers? Why will man pay
out his good money for poor cigars
It's hard to say. But it's easy enough to see
how great many manufacturers take advant-
age Of this careless buying, and unload inferior
cigars on unsuspecting purchasers. This finn
flaming game can't last forever.
Smokers every day are waking up more and
more to the fact that
Cigars are nOU made better
than eUer they Were.
Smokers can tell good cigars when they
smoke them-and they are fast finding out that
cigars in boxes stamped with the triangle Az
are invariably of better quality than cigars
which are not guaranteed in this way.
The Triangle A" on a cigar box is a sign OF
honest cigar values-and that's just exactly what
the American smoking public has wanted for
many day.
The better value we are able to produce
through our new scientific manufacturing meth
DDS is particularly noticeable in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-27
READINGS FOR THE BLIND
AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The following is the program for vol
unteer readings and music in the read
ing room for the blind at the Library OF
Congress, 2:3o TO $3.50 ?. m:
Tuesday. April 30, George Cabot Lodge,
reader
Thursday. May ., song and piano re-
cital; Miss Edith Pickering, soprano.
MISS Frances BeJhuue, cOntralto; Mrs-
Frank Byram pianist.
saturday. May 4, William s. Burns
reader.
The door to the reading room will be
closed promptly al 2.30 D. m. and will
remain closed until the end Of the pro-
gram.
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Mr.. TIGHE'S FUNERAL
HELD THIS AFTERNOON

Funeral services for Eugene J. Tighe,
the well-known Washington newspaper
man. wiz be held at 3 o'clock this az
ternoon in his late home, 1852 Irving
street northwest, and later in the Shrine
Of the Sacred Heart Church, Fourteenth
street. The body Will be placed tempo
rarily IN a vault in GlenwOod Cemetery.
Acting as Pallbearers for Adr. Tighe win
be w. W. Richardson. and Thomas. N.
Harvey. Of the Evening Star; Louis A.
MacMahon, John II. Miller. and Henry
Ransom, Of the Washington Times. and
Guy Finney, OF the Washington Post.
Ask for the Northwestern" OF nil
waukee. Huske & Smith. Gen. Agts.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
OFFICE GRAFT IN HUDSON.

A commission to inv astigate the ex-
penditures of the Board of Freeholders
of Hudson County having been applied
for under the law, Justice Fort win
doubtless appoint one There are sub
stantial grounds for an investigation.
Comparison with the receipts and ex-
penditures in Essex County shows
extraordinary extravaganza in Hudson.
In that county the object seems TO
be to eat up the public income as fast
as possible. The salary list in the reg
isters' office in Hudson is s61,o5O and in
Essex only SOS. 1925. While in Essex
the annual fees turned over amount to
$2O,1SO.sO, the Hudson County register
had less than $4,000 10 show. And yet
in Hudson the gross income of the
office was 500, 1861. while in Essex it
was s4S. 4Ss.1s. But this IS only a speei-
men brick.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
STOP RIPARIAN GRANTS.

The demand by the Republican
county convention for the prohibition
of all future grants of riparian lands
should, and doubtless will, be embodied
in the Republican State platform If
the Legislature, when it meets next
week. does not pass an act of pro-
hibition and abolish the commission.
1t will in all probability be Incorporated
in the Democratic county and State
platforms.
The present commission Is waiting
for the ina adjournment of the Legis-
lature to make a wholesale dispensa-
ton of the State lands to a horde of
eager applicants. If IN grants have
been made this year the commission
has acted secretly, as there has been
no publicity. 1t is essential to head
off the contemplated grants by legis-
lative action this month. 1t will save
to the State school fund many of the
most valuable tracts that still remain
in the depleted riparian domain.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
THE PARTY voTE-aETTER.

The Republican Gubernatorial situa-
ton is developing clearly for the nomi-
nation of Justice Fort, and unless the
unexpected shall happen ne will be the
choice of the State convention. The
preferences shown throughout the State
for other candidates are yielding, evil
dencing the fact that they were not
based on any opposition to the Essex
candidate, but simply on local favor.
Unpledged delegates, as in Mercer, have
come out for Fort, and Hudsons dele
CATION, elected for Collins, has turned
to him. 1t was made evident at Tren-
ton yesterday that state leaders who
had stood aloof had accepted his can
didacy. Sheriff Sommer will go to the
convention with a strong and devoted
following, but there now appears to pc
no prospect of his nomination.
There is more doubt on the Demo-
cratic side. Essex County will present
the name of Judge Child, and while the
Essex candidate is widely known and
liked among the Democrats of the
State, Difference will be given to h
wishes of a county upon the vote of
which so much depends. Frank Katzen-
bach, of Trenton, mis- opponent, has
some exceptional elements of strength.
He has a large popularity in Mercer,
and is favorably known in South Jer-
sey as well as in this end of the State.
The truth is that the Democrats, like
the Republicans, have been casting
about for the strongest man. They
want a vote-getter. And the best vote
getter will be the nominee.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
FIVE MONTHS OF AN EPIDEMIC.

1t was or April s, more than five
break of typhoid fever in the State
Hospital for the Insane at Trenton,
and yesterday Secretary Mitchell, of
the State Board of Health, submitted
a report OF the matter to the Gov
ernor Up to August 10 there were
eighty cases and sixteen deaths. What
the hospital officials and managers and
the State Board of Health did is now
a matter of history. The hospital man
agement did nothing; the warden fed
to Saratoga; a hospital doctor found
an excuse to desert his post; no at
tempt was made to trace the source
of infection or to clean up the filthy
places.
DR.. Hunt, the sanitary officer of the
State Board, had gone to Europe, and
we believe he is still there, probably
In the company Of the superintendent
of the State Village for Epileptics,
who is also on a prolonged tour of
Europe. Men and women were sick
ening and dying in the hospital. and
supine %officialdom looked on until the
sharp probe of a legislative investiga-
ton stirred them up and procured
some changes of executive officers.
Five months have elapsed, and the
typhoid epidemic has ceased, gaccord-
ing to report.
Two new officers nave accomplished
what the board of managers, the medi-
cal director, the warden and the State
Board of Health could have done four
months ago without the shocking
sacrifice of life. Let not the hagrancy
of this case of criminal neglect in a
State curative Institution be lost sight
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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
First America,. cum Race.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star;
Will you kindly describe the circum,
stances of the first of the internatlonai
yacht races won by the America?
T. p. H.
lThe schooner yacht America, ITO tons:
was built by George Steers and was salieo
in the name of Commodore John Z. Ste-
vens, but George Schuyler and some others
were part owners. She won the hundred
guinea cup at Cowes, August p, 1881. The
cup was offered by the Royal Yacht Squad
ron at its annual regatta, open to all ma
lions. Such a cup was offered every year
by the squadron and was the property Of
the owner. The America brought the cup
to this country, and on July 8, 1857, the sur
viving owners gave Il to the New York
Yacht Club, to, be held under conditions
that have been frequently published. The
owners OF the America who Joined in the
gift were John c.. Stevens, Edwin A. Ste
vens, Hamilton Wilkes, J. Beekman Finley
and George L. Schuyler. The first to con-
test for 1t was the british schooner Cam
bria against a fleet Of seventeen yachts off
Stapleton, August s, 1870. Nine of the COM
peting yachts, the Magis, Idler, Silvie,
America, Dauntless, Madge, Phantom,
Alice and Halcyon, came in ahead of the
Cambria.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
Career of nathan Hale.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
If you will be kin enough to publish a
brief account of the career Of Nathan
Hale, the Revolutionary martyr, you will
confer a favor upon an old friend of the
STAR and Advertiser. j. N. M.
Nathan Hale was teaching school at
New London, Conn, when the fight at
Lexington heralded the outbreak of the
Revolution. He at once enlisted and be-
came first lieutenant and then a captain
in the Connecticut Rangers" After serv-
Ice at the siege of Boston, he went with
his company to New York. In response to
a call of General Washington, he volun-
teered to enter the British lines and OBJ
tain intelligence. Disgusting himself as q
school teacher and loyalist, he visited all
the British camps on Long Island and IN
New York, openly making drawings ana
memoranda of the Notifications. AS he
was about returning he was apprehended
and brought before Sir William HoWe4l
who, from evidence found in his shoe, con-
demned him to be executed before sunE
rise the next morning. He was then places
in charge of the infamous unningham
and his letters to his betrothed ana ms
sister were destroyed, so, as C~unnlnsnani
afterward said, 1.-The rebels should never
know that they had a man who coulu olet
with such frmness." Hale was aiso ue,
MED the attendance Of a chaplain, anu
even his request for a Bible was ~reiuseu'
He was executed on the morning OF sep
ember %, 1776, in an orchard belonging
to Colonel Henry Rutgers, near the core
ner Of East Broadway and Market stree,'
New York city. As he assembled the scar~'
fold he said: "You are shedding the blooo
Of the innocent; If I had ten thousand
lives, I would lay hem down in the de-
Tense of my injured, bleeding country"
and his last words were: II only regree
that have but one life to lose for my
country.'-Ed.1
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DtaaDDointlng.

Mrs. Ray-Shershay had just returned
from a visit to the foreign cruiser that
lay at anchor In the harbor or the
great American city.
we had a n time" she said "They
showed us all over the ship. and PAID
us every attention. We didn't know
they had arranged an elegant luncheon
for us. and we were agreeably sur
prised, of course. when the captain IN
vited us into the dining saloon and
seated us at a long table spread with
everything that could tempt the appe-
tite. I tell you. Mrs. Upsome, we en-
joyed that luncheon. We didn't have
to hurry through 1t, either, and we
were waited on with the utmost polite
ness and c~ordia1ity."
The service was first class was IT.
interrupted Mrs. Upsome.
"The service?" said Mrs. R~ay-Sher-
shay, lowering her voice. mo; that
vas nearly all imitation. 1 give you
my word there was hardly a thing
worth carrying away as a souvenir. All
I grabbed was this little pickle fork,
/ do believe it's nothing but plated
ware!"-Chicago Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
REPUBLICAN UNITY IN ESSEX.

The Republicans in Essex County
realized in the election last year the
truth of the adage that a house divided
against itself cannot stand. Since the
primaries on Tuesday night compromise
has been in the air. A coming together
of the two discordant elements de-
pended on the terms. The gulf between
was not so wide that it could
not be bridged. Certain platform
declarations and recognition of the New
idea by the nomination of it's candi-
their imaginary districts were de-
manded. There were much conference
and negotiation and friction, with the
results witnessed in the nominating
convention last night.
The alternative seemed to be pre-
scented between a compromise n a
party defeat. The Republicans in Essex
County are not numerous enough to
run two tickets against one. They tried
that last year with unsatisfactory re-
suits. They will be united on their
county ticket this year. but 1t remains
to be seen how far the compromise
made will suit all the diverse sentiments
that are represented in Republican poll
tics. in Essex County. The crux of the
situation is the local option plank
adopted in the convention platform.
That plank is discreetly worded.
There is no mention of local option or
of Sunday selling or of prohibitory ordi-
nances, but the plank means all three.
The eleven Assembly candidates, If
elected, will go to Trenton pledged to a
local option law permitting municipali-
ties to pass ordinances absolutely pro-
hibiting the issuance of saloon licenses,
and also to pass ordinances permissive
of the sale of liquor on Sundays. 1t
might be predicted that the excise plank
will command more attention than all
the other planks combined.
Logically the convention could have
adopted no other course on the excise
question, and it could not have evaded
the issue. 1t was up to the convention
to make an explicit declaration. Local
option, as enacted in 1888 and repealed
in 1889, was out of the question. Local
option only as to certain days and hours
could not be adopted. AS compromise
is the essence of politics as well as
legislation, the convention adopted the
Sommer-Colby idea of yoking the two
opposites together to make the excise
plank. And therein lies the chief inter-
est of the platform n of the Repub-'
lican campaign in Essex County.
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HANDKERCHIEF MAKING AT CALD-
WELL.

Every now and her that too numer-
body, the County Board of Free
holders, wakes up and does the nex
pected. Away back in 1894 a legislative
act was passed empowering a county
board to establish a labor system in
pen~itentiaries. Thirteen years have
elapsed n the law has slept until last
night, when, without any discussion
whatever, a resolution was passed au-
thorizing a committee to advertise for
to establish in the Caldwell peni-
Tertiary a plant for the employment of
the convicts in the manufacture of
handkerchiefs.
The only industry prosecuted by the
convicts at Caldwell is that Of breaking
stone, which brings in some income for
the management and teaches nothing
to the %eonvicts. Handkerchief making
is now selected because the industry
is not included in the organized trades
in this State, inc the prison product
will therefore not come in competition
with free labor. Doubtless, also, there
is a contractor ready for the job. But
why does not the Board of Freeholders
act upon he suggestions Of Judge AL
fred F. Skinner when he was on the
bench and adopt measures to convert
the penitentiary into a reformatoryl
Handkerchief making will not go very
far in that direction.
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will be funeral marches to the grave"
The veterans are no longer able to pa
rade. Probably the last to be held was
that at Saratoga this week. With the
parades will go much of the impressive
ness of the G. A. r. to the public. The
long columns of veterans were an object
lesson, giving the spectator a realizing
sense of the magnitude of the war in
its members fought.
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rrerrthlng IN ProportIOn.

For many weeks the irritable mer-
chant had been riveted to his bed by
typhoid fever. Now he was GONZALES
cling. He ciamored for something TO
eat, declaring that he was starving.
Tomorrow o may have something
to eat" promised the doctor. The mer-
chant realized that there would be a
restraint to his appetite, yet he saw, In
vision, a modest -steaming meal placed
at his bedside.
Here is your dinner" said the nurse
next day, as she gave the glowerins
patient a spoonful of tapioca pudding
"and the doctor emphasizes that every
thing else you do must be in the same
proportion"
Two hours later the nurse heard a
frantic call from the bed chamber.
Nurse breathed the man., heavily
II want to do some reading, bring me
a postage stamp."-Harper's Weekly.
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And now the gladstone Eoldenrod
Ger every country field doth nod
The dusty ways
II brightens with its Furnished nue.
And gives a golden glory to
September days.
II turns zach neld into a plain
Where Journeys might be held again
BY warriors bold,
Whilst kings looked on and ladies' IAN
Were ranged about the fitting square
on cloth of gold.
The golden rod. tits written down.,
Is nj 10 he the warriors crown
or beauty's need.
But has u earned a floral name
or is IT. as the farmers claim
a pesky weed?
LOUISVILLE Courier-Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13

European governments as a rule have
deficits in their finances at the end OF
each year. and nearly all of them are
piling up new debts. Germany, for the
first time in many years, has a small
surplus OF seven millions. secured by
close economies and increased taxes
Compared with this we find our govern
msnt with a surplus Of $4,000 600 on
deposit IN national banks and $4o.0OO.oOO
in the treasury for use for the benefit
OF Ia business interests OF the country,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13

With the selection OF Halsey NJ. Bar
rett as the counsel for the Senate in
vestigating committee, that hating
body will now proceed to do something.
the first point Of attack being Hudson
County. Nobody has any doubt that
there will be. disclosures there az shock
ingly bad government. but nobody will
be surprised. The name Of Hudson has
for years been a synonym for bad gov
eminent. Hudson County tsxpayers
have not been blind to the maladmiDia-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
what He Has.

They always tell me wealth's a snare,
But mine is not at all a care.
1 do not own a bond or share
OF any stock,
Nor has it ever been my fate
To care how values 1uctuate.
OF any sort of real estate
I've not a block.
No large establishment / run,
AS some of my old friends have done.
Servants-I've not a single one
To cadge a fee.
At business I don't have to peg,
Nor do folk try to pull my leg
Or come around and favors beg
All day from me.
I might grub millions with the best,
But worry's something I detest;
I'm fond of comfort, and of rest
I like a heap.
With just enough I am content;
OF getting that I'm confident,
But money-I've not got a cent;
But joy is cheap.
chicago News.
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THE VANISHING GRAND ARMY.

Nine thousand veterans of he Grand
Army of the Republic died last year.
the biggest annual death rate In the
history of the organization. In 1890
the membership was 400. 4Ss. and at the
date Of last years report it had dwin-
died to 222. LAS. In the nature of things
as the Grand Army grows older it grows
less, and with accelerating speed
The present year win record a much
=rAatar mortality, end succeeding years
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Taste of Own Medicine.

As the particular allies of Japan the
British people have on their and quite
as delicate a problem as the United States
in the development of the sandlots mob of
thei. own on the western American coast.
The English newspapers will not have to
draw upon new sources of phraseology in
commenting upon the Vancouver out
breaks. The severe articles directed
Against the United States in relation to
the San Francisco riots and school ex-
clusion performances will serve for the
present case with little alteration.-Spring-
field Republican.
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Bryan and Chanler, under certain cir
cumstances. would make a very good ticket
1t might not carry New York-probably
would not-but it would fare better there
and elsewhere than the ticket of Parker
and Davis did. Mr.. Chanler's strength as
the running mate of Mr.. Bryan in the
national race could not be calculated from
the strength he displayed as the running
mate of Mr.. Hearst in the local race in
New York last year, but he would be no
drag on the Decentralization Star.
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tration and corruption, but they seem
to have resignedly accepted II all as
an evil necessarily incidental to politics
and local government, and let II go at
that. Perhaps when the evil is fully
revealed, when the corruption is placed
right under their noses; when they see
how the public money has been squan-
dered or stolen. their eonsciences will
revolt
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ONT of the Ordinary.

Goodley-He always seems to be very
earnest, at any rate.
Knox-Ol very. Why, he can say
How are you?" and give you the i'm
preston that he really wants to know.
Catholic Standard and Times.
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His Mistake.

The neighbors complain hat you
are maintaining a Nuisance
Il wish you'd speak to my wife about
1t: it's her fault"
TITS her dog. then?'
"Oh, it's the dog you've come about.
1 thought 1t was my mother-in law"
Houston Post
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VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Hnlf Right.

The New York Judge who refuses to
foreigners on the ground that
we already have too many ignorant voters
Is half right. The other half is that we
have too many intelligent voters who don't
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Inquirer.
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Mr.. Townguy-How long does a nsh
grow in a year,
The Guide-Wa-al, IL depends on
who's tellin' IL an his eddication an
nateral lnventiveness.-Chicago News.
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Young Doctor-It is nothing serious,
madam-only a light attack of dys-
pepsia.
Lady Patient+And what does that
come from. doctor2
Young Physician-It comes from the
Greek. madams-Chicago News
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'Mongst human beings you will see
Alarm clockS-'tis no nature fake,
Whose only use appears to be
In keeping other folks awake.
WASHINGTON Star.
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woman Like.

Patience-I understand he aud his
wife produce songs?
Patrice-His wife furnishes the
words, no doubt.-Yonkers Statesman.