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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
The New Jersey Magazine.

The State of New Jersey is now repre-
scented, and represented with much credit,
in the magazine field. A publication call
ed the New Jersey Magazine, with its
office of publication in this city, made its
first appearance this month. 1t is an il
Illustrated monthly devoted to the interests
of the State, with especial attention to
political and historical matters and real
estate. A department of fiction is also in
cluded.
New Jersey, with her rich traditions,
noble history and live present, her many
varied activities and associations, should
be an excellent field for such a magazine
rs this. The enterprise doubtless will and
certainly deserves to meet with a hearty
and general support. 1t should serve TO
build the name and fame of the State
abroad as well as at home.
Homer Davenport, the cartoonist and a
notable citizen of the State, Is largely
represented in the October number. The
Introductory article describes his life on
his farm near Norris Plains, giving special
attention to his love of animals and his
beloved stud of Arabian horses. 1t is
profusely illustrated with excellent half
tone cuts. Mr.. Davenport contributes a
cartoon on the political situation In New
Jersey and promises another for the No
NeIlDef ISSUE.
The editorial department and a depart
ment discussing the political situation con-
tain thoughtful and well-informed con-
tributions. There are two short stories,
including '"rhe Soldiers Return" from
the pen of that well-known writer and
citizen of New Jersey, Amanda NJ. Doug
las. Lieutenant Franklin r. Kenney, U.
S. A., writes '"The Truth About the
/ Army An article ON Elizabeth and Her
People is very timely and interesting,
while the eyes of the rest of the State
are on the sister city now celebrating
"oId Home Week. An appreciation and
~portrait of the late Hon. Cortland Parker
and a full-page portrait of James L. Hays
are other features. The real estate de-
partment and a department on Notable
Jersey Industries are well conducted.
The president of the New Jersey Publish
ing Company. which publishes the maEn-
zine. is Edward w. Forrest. William
Luckemeier is treasurer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
ROB MINEOLA POST0FFICE
AND HOLD UP SHERIFF
Thieves Take $1,000 in Cash, Stamps
and Money orders-Fourth Attempt
in Four Years.

MINEoLA, L. l., Oct. 12.-For the fourth
time in two years the Mineola Postoffice
was entered by thieves early yesterday
The safe was blown open and about $1,ON
in cash. stamps aid money orders stolen
incidentally a deputy sheriff was held ur
by one OF the robbers. while the Others
were at work at the safe. The thieves got
away with their booty
Three men were concerned in the rob-
berry. One of them stood on guard outside
of the postoff1ce while others did the in
side job. The man outside held up Dep
uty Sheriff George w. Smith, who is en-
ployed as a Waterman in the village. The
postof1ce building is on Main street, near
the Long Island Railroad station and about
three city blocks from the Nassau County
Jail.
Smith was patroling Main street at 2
o'clock Yesterday morning near the post
office. when he was startled by a command
to throw up his hands and stand still.
Smith looked across the street and saw a
man in front of the postof1ce who had a
revolver leveled at him. He obeyed the
command. too.
As he stood there he heard the sound Of
an explosion in the postoffice, and almost
Immediately two men came running out,
one of them carrying a mail bag. These
two and the watcher with the revolver then
started on a run down Main street. and as
they reached Third street turned into it
and were lost to sight.
An examination showed that the door of
the postoffice safe had been blown off,
probably with dynamite. Postmaster
William Mccarthy found that the tools
used in boring holes for the charges had
been stolen from a nearby blacksmith shop.
The mailbag in which the thieves had
carried off their plumber was found near
the fair grounds, half a mile from the
scene of the robbery, on the old country
road leading toward Westbury.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

"A Fountain Sealed" by Aune Douglas SedgWick-Sena
tor Beveridge on the Bible--New Novel by Cyrus
Townsend Brady The New Jersey Magazine

that will interest all boys. The campers
erect a tent near their home, and have
very good times together. Each boy takes
a turn at cooking the meals, and hunting
for eggs in their barn. One boy took an
interest in farming. another In pigeons,
and another took a great interest in build
ing.
TIL camp was on a small lake, where
the boys went boating, fishing and swim
ming. One day Jimmy, the builder, sug-
gested building a houseboat, and, after
some weeks of great labor, the houseboat
was finished. On this the boys spent most
of their time, fishing and swimming.
The book Is nicely bound and illustrated,
and very interesting, and any boy that is
fond of outdoor life will appreciate 1t.
TOM.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

Warren Cheney: ssThe Best Man" by Har-
old MacGrath, and a number Of others.
The John Lane Company is publishing
Napoleon at the Bologne Camp" by
Fernand Nicolay. This study is based on
a number of hitherto unpublished docu-
ments which came into the hands of the
author from his father, who was the owner
of the land historically famous for its as
sociations with B%onaparte and Bruix. In
teresting information has also been ac-
quired from old men who had seen and
talked with Napoleon and served under
him. The situation of the Emperor's army,
the details of organization for the expedl-
ton in which 1t was waiting to engage,
namely the crossing of the Channel and the
invasion of England are carefully exam
ined. Many incidents of life In this ne
markable camp, with views of Napoleon
and Admiral Bruix are afforded together
with a study of the state of public feeling
OF both sides of the Channel.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
PRISONER HEIR TO FORTUNE
Frank Thompson, Convicted of Petty
Theft. Inherits $3.50, 900.

AsBURY PARK, Oct. 12-Frank Thomp-
10 who stole a gold purse valued at $25
from the Nesbitt home. at Az Sewall ave-
nue.. last summer, and who is now serving
a two years term IN State prison for The
offense with -four additional years TO serve
of a paroled sentence when the two years
are up. has received word from a family
solicitor in Manchester, England, that he
is heir to an estate worth S150,O00.
The letter was addressed In care of
Chief of Police william H. Smith here and
was forwarded to Thompson At Trenton.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
Most Popular Books.

The most popular books OF the week in
Newark, as indicated by the demand at
the Free Public Library. nave been:
Fiction-"Barbary Sheep" by Robert
Hichens; The Younger Set" by Robert
w. Chambers; 1.-THE Helpmate," by May
Sinclair; Daughter of Anderson Grow"
by George Barr MeCutcheon; 1.-THE
Viewers" by Gilbert Parker; 1.-THE Car of
Destiny" by G. N. and A. NJ. Williamson.
Observation-Disclosures Science by
Samuel Clemens Mark Twain; 'Prag-
matism,'' by William james; 1.-THE Ego
and His Own,' by Max Schmitt; 1.-THE
Master Builder" by Henrik Ibsen; ORA
matte Opinions" by George Bernard Shaw;
'Macbeth," by Shakespeare.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

A new publication of Brentano's is Lucy
.Gort," a novel by Alice and Claude Askew,
the English authors of 1.-THE Shulamate,' -
a dramatized version Of which was seen
here a year ago. The heroine, a girl of
elemental innocence and purity, is trans
planted to the effete society of London.
where she comes in contact with a modern
cosmopolitanism that charms while it car
rles her beyond the breakers. The story
Is swift and relentless, ending unhappily,
but sustaining the readers sympathy.
Octave Thanet's latest novel, called 1.-THE
Lions Share" is just out, with the Bobbs-
Merrill imprint. The book marks the en-
trance of another popular novelist into the
ranks OF those who attract the ruthless
ness Of our modern captains Of finance.
Hers is a spectacular attack, emphasizing
the families made homeless, the women re-
duced to starvation or worse, and the men
driven to suicide through the sleight-of-
hand manipulation of stocks in vogue to-
day.
The fiction serial of The Century in 1905
will be a new historical novel by DR.. S.
Weir Mitchell, to be entitled 'rThe Red
City" This new novel by DR.. Mitchell is
a companion to his famous Hugh
Wynne.P While the former was a story
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
LONELY BRIDE A SUICIDE.
Jersey City Woman Couldn't Stand
Separation from Husband.

JERSEY CITY, oct. 12-separated from
her husband, Mrs. Sarah commerford,
nineteen years old, a bride of a short
year. ended her life at her mothers home,
$50 Webster avenue. last night by drinking
carbolic acid. She was found dead by
her mother when the latter returned home.
Mrs. Commerford. so her mother de-
clared to the police of the Sixth Precinct,
has been morose since herself and hus-
band. who is William Commerford, a ma
chinist, separated recently, and had sew
eral times threatened to take her life.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
srhe Blue oceans Daughter


III Blue Oceans Daughter BY Cyrus
Townsend Brady. Moffnt, Yard & Co.,
New York.
If the Rev. Mr.. Brady had labeled this
Yttest of his numerous literary progeny
'tfor Children" we would have felt freer
so accept 1t at it's face value. 1t is indeed
we'll adapted to the infant mind thor
olghly harmless and perfectly deserving
a. a place on the Sunday school library.
phelves. 1t is a book of adventure on the
sea. with a virtuous and beautiful heroine,
a brave and handsome hero and a murder
ously evil villain. The action occurs
aboard an American merchant ship of the
Revolutionary War period, and pursuit
and capture by an English cruiser. re-
capture by the Americans, mutiny and
shipwreck are some Of the Incidents in
cluded. The sentimental interest is con-
tributed by the daughter OF the captain
of the American ship, and the English Off
Ger who is its captor and later proves to
be a noble lord. As entertainment this
sort Of thing has its uses and its audience,
but not among persons of adult mind, to
whom 1t must appear the silliest nonsense
quite void of originality or any striking
trait in the writing.
Perhaps it is because we have read so
little Of Mr.. Brady's writings. and be-
cause Its publishers proclaimed THE Blue
Ocean's Daughter a 'high-spirited ro-
nance in DR.. Brady's best manner'' that
we looked for something quite different
As 1t is We humbly apologize to ourselves
for the mistake.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
SUICIDE AFTER w1FE's DEATH.

PASSAIC, oct. 1.-THE dead body OF
Jeremiah O'Brien, of Fourth street,
was found in the Dundeei Canal by
workmen of the United States Finish
ing Company at 3 p. m. yesterday,
o'Brien disappeared a week ago, and. ii
is thought, committed suicide. as he wor-
ried greatly over the death of his wife,
which occurred q year ago.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
important New Books at Public Library

important NCH -
The Desert and the Town." by Ger
trude L. Bell. is a record of a journey
from Jericho through the unfrequented
parts of Syria to Antioch. 1t is generally
considered the most charming book of
travel published in many years. Dutton, 50.
9TH Conquest of Bread is an exposition
of the gospel of anarchy, by Prince Kro-
potkin, author of memoirs Of a Revolu-
tionist'' and Fields. Pictures and Work
shops;' PSI pages. Putnam. 81.
"The House of Quiet" an autobiography,
by A. C. Benson; 253 pages. Dutton, $50.
"Rumford Fireplaces and How They Are
Made by G. Curtis Gillespie, contains
Count Rumford's essay on flreplaces. ac-
companied by a discussion of the same
subject by Mr.. Gillespie. A number of
drawings illustrating ~ireplaces, both me
dieval and raodern, are introduqedn 200
pages. Comstock.
1.-The Industrial Conflict contains a
series of chapters on p~resent-day condi-
lions, by Or. Samuel G.. Smith; 219 pages.
Revell, $3.50.
1.-THE New Theology" by r. ]. Camp
bell, is a restatement of the essential
truths of the Christian religion in terms
Of the modern mind. The author gives an
outline of his own personal Views; 25S
pages. Macmillan, $50.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
poLIrENEss CAUSED HIS ARREST.

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 12.-Joseph
Cahill was arrested early yesterday for
being over-polite. For several days he
has made a practise of tipping his hat
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
CLERGYMAN SUES CITY OF pAssA1c

PASSAIC, Oct. 12.-Constable viii.
lam Burgoyne yesterday served notice or
City Clerk Thomas r. Watson of a suit
for $4,000 damages by the Rev. Elias
Meade against the city because OF
which left his house high in the air.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
NEW Professor FoR pR1NcEToN.

P~ITTSBURG. Pa, Oct. 12.-The Rev. ].
L. Cotton. pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church OF Coralpolie, announced at prayer
meeting last night his acceptance Of a
professorship in the seminary department
Of Princetor. University.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

(Reviewed for the EVENING STAR by a.
boy OF IL years.)
THE Boys of Pigeon Camp" By
Martha James. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Company. Boston.
The Boys of Pigeon Camp" is a book
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

THE Bible as Good Reading" BY Al
bert j. Beveridge. The Henry Altemus
Company. Philadelphia.
Senator Beveridge evidently f1nds fire.
quent relief from the burdens of states
manship in the greatest of all things writ
ten. He knows his Bible thoroughly, and,
being from Indiana, naturally is obliged
to impart his knowledge by the medium
of writing a book.
There is reason to be grateful for this.
! however. The Bible is far too little sread
outside of the Sunday school and pulpit,
and its reading there too often obscures
it's power of human interest. Most people
can with right blame their lack of famil-
iarity with the Scriptures to some prosy
and unintelligent Sunday school teacher,
who. with dreary insistence upon text and
moral maxim and a total neglect of the
Books literary and narrative charm,
breaches them into a positive distaste for
the Bible. Mr.. Beveridge is right in as
sorting that if one can be induced to read
the Bible merely as good reading the
religion of it will work itself out, unob-
trusivelv but with all the greater strength
on that account. along with it.
The Bible and adventure, the Bible
and art. the Bible and politics, the Bible
and craftsmanship, the Bible and poetry.
the Bible and the law and the Bible and
cratory are some of the phases in which
Mr.. Beveridge attacks his subject. Il
am talking now says Mr.. Beveridge, %to
those who are asking each night about
their 6resides for something good 10
read and am telling them to read the
STANDARD novels. and more than the stand
ard novels-the standard histories and
biographies; and more than the standard
histories and biographies-the standard
poets; and more than both of these, the
current magazines, and all of them, for
they are the living expression of the
y9orld's thought today; but 1 am telling
that. more thar all of these put together,
they will find good reading considered
from the viewpoint of good reading and
nothing else. between the covers of that
volume which every home would be
ashamed to be without, but which is the
last one to be read"
The fascination of the wealth of varied
stories of love, intrigue and mighty
achievement running through both Tesla
ments, and all told in a way that, for
pure literary excellence, surpasses all that
comes after in the worlds literature, Mr..
Beveridge calls to attention and illus
trates by numerous citations. 1t is a
very interesting little book he has writ
ten, better than many sermons, and it
ought to be widely circulated. 1t GER
tainly will stimulate a revived interest in
the RibIp wherever IL is read.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

Of the time Of Washington the Cen
eral, the new one is of the time of Wash
|ington the President.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

including women. Some took ofense at
his poIiteness and an unsympathetic
policeman gathered him in.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

1.-THE Romance of Steel,'' by Herbert M
Casson, which has been published in a Sc
rial, is soon to appear In book form from the
press of A. S. Barnes & Co. 1t is the first
history Of our greatest American business
and describes the career of the billion-dollai
steel trust. The subtitle of the book vii
be 1.-THE Story of a Thousand Millionaires. .
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

Advance orders for Anne Warmers third
Susan Clegg book, entitled Susan Clegg
and a Mar In the House. has necessitated
q second printing before publication.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

"A Fountain Sealed" BY Anne Doug
las Sedgwick. The Century Co. New
York.
A girl and her mother as rivals in
love is an unusual state of affairs In
books as in life. That is the climacte-
ric situation of "A Fountain Sealed"
The daughter is a girl who is possessed
with the notion that she has a mission
in life. She is that greatest nuisance
in skirts, the woman who is perpetually
organizing things-tableaux from plays
ne the Greek dramatists for the Up
lifting of the lower classes; concerts
and oratorios for the benefit of people
who couldn't distinguish a musical note
from a bank note; literary clubs Tor
girls of the gutter who don't know
Dickens from Dante-and pestering
their friends to join in their enthu-
siasms and utterly repudfating them
if they don't. Any tasks that are
merely human or domestic or pleasure
loving are, to these women, sinfui TO
cultivate.
That is the sort of daughter Valerie
Upton, a woman of charm and sweet
ness and g~entleness and tact, in every
essential of character all that her
daughter is not, finds awaiting her In
New York when, at the death of her
husband after years of separation, she
forsakes a happy existence in England
to take up life again with her daugh-
ter. Valerie tries lovingly to win
Imogen's affections, sacrificing all she
holds dearest to accomplish it, but the
gulf between them is too great. the
daughter is too "cold-blooded, self
righteous, s~elf-centered," to be able to
respond. The principal bone of con-
tention is the memoir of the husband
and father, a pompous mediocrity whom
the wife apprised at his real value ana
whom the daughter ~worshipped. When
~ - 3 - - ~wy hfra IN hnr hntd
up to the ridicule of posterity by a
nincompoop biographer, the situation
comes to a crisis. Imogen enlists the
sympathies of an Englishman who had
come over to marry Valerie, and who.
though a good fellow, was quite too
simple in mind to be able to distin-
guish between sincerity and selfish
hypocrisy. The next thing that de-
velops is that Imogen wants to marry
Sir Basil herself and Valerie, though
she loves him, making her last and
greatest sacrifice to hersdaughter's hap
.plness, gives him up when she might
Easily have held him. The loneliness
of the mothers character, which has
had the readers i%ntensest sympathies
from the first-she is really an ex-
quisite creation-lends to the denoue-
ment a special ~poignancy.
Save that there is unnecessary diff
f%useness in the development of char
acters and action, the book m
itself unqualifedly to thoughtful novel
readers. Its movement is slow, but one
follows it with eager interest. Its
presentation of character and of life
in England. New York, Boston and the
hills of Vermont is undeniably well
lone.
The authors domain is the intel
1ectual, a fact demonstrated in all her
books. She is an American writer who
has lived long in England.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

The Bobbs-Merrill Company books for oc-
tober include: The Lions Share" by Oc-
tave Thanet; THE Apple of Discord," by
Earle Ashley Walcott; 9TH Broken
Lance by Herbert Quick; "The Heart
Line" by Gelett Burgess; His Wife," by
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

Warren Cheney; 'aThe Best Man" by Har
old MacGrath, and a number Of others.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-26
TEN IMPORTANT POINTS.
Every Pouitryman Should be Certas
That All Are Looked After.

nat All ARE Looked Aftefs
There are some mistakes which even
the most experienced poultry keepers
are prone to make, and they arise fire.
uuently not so much from ignorance
as from forgetfulness or force of cir
cumstanees, says a. v Meersch i'll
Western Poultry Journal. Neverthe-
less, as all mistakes in poultry keeping
are apt to prove costly, 1t is no bad
plan for the poultry keeper to put peri
odically the following questions to
himself: "a Am | overCrowding my
fowls In any way? o. Are my fowls
receiving any unsuitable articles OF
diet? 90 In my anxiety for eggs am
forcing egg production TO the possible
deu.i4nent of my breeding operations
next spring. "a Am ] breeding from
the pick of my stock only, taking care
that no hereditary faint of disease is
being transnlitted2 90 Is my poultry
yard in the highest possible state or
etiiciency--yiz have | every reason to
be satisfied with the way my birds
are fed, housed and handlcdG vi Are
my fowls oyerfed? "a Ale my fowl
houses as free as they should be from
red mites. fieas and other insect pests.
IA Am | certain that the fowls wa
ter is the purest and Is supplied reg
ularly in clean receptaeles? CO. Am |
reserving sufficient fresh ground for
chicken rearing? tl0) Is my stock OF
the sort most suited to my needs-yiz,
do direct my efforts TO the elimina-
ton of mongrels and bad layers?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-26
RURAL NEWS ITEMS
Contributed by the Censors
Live Correspondents
VIRoQuA

BISHOP BRANCH, June % Last week
was rainy one in the Hollow There
is now some hope of good hay crop
. Mrs Blanche Nicks called on her
parents last Sunday Chester Henry
and Willard Hanchett went out on
Datch Ridge one day last week for the
purpose of calling on the former s
brother, Mr. Eugene Henry. =. Chas.
Phillips and Jap johnson have one hun
bred and twenty feet of good tobacco
plants that will be for sale in about a
week. Frank Nicks has about the
same amount and just as good He
will offer his for sale in about the
same length of time There will be
an ice cream sociable at Bishop Branch
church on the evening of July 18th.
Everybody come. Mrs. j. H. John
son has a Jersey sow that had seventeen
pigs one day last week. Has any one
got sow that can beat that? George
Turner has telephone. Hello George.
- Asa Mason visited with his brother,
Chas., one day last week. There will
be church on Bishop Branch July 7th,
Sunday, at II O'Clock Miss Ida Han
chett visited with Mr.. and Mrs. Late
Harris one day last week Mrs. Ben
Wigsmore' daughter, Sophia, left
home or day last week to seek EN-
ployme . elsewhere. .... George Gun
ninghasn received a visit from MS
brother. Ewing, of Woodstock, one day
last week. A CYCLONE.