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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
AMERICA AMI JAPAN.

There are, no doubt, those who will
declare that the dispatch cabled Presi-
dent Roosevelt by yiscount Kaneko in
thanks for the recommendation in his
annual message that Americans should
participate in the proposed Japanese
exposition, was merely a conventional
courtesy, a bit of diplomatic taffy.
But the message of this privy coun-
cillor of the empire ION behalf of and
with authority of the people of Japan"
bears the stamp of spontaneous sim
certify.
1t seems that this embarrassment
to give it a mild term-worked
up by hostile influences on the strength
OF the hoodlum acts of San Francisco's
proletariat almost to the point of
strained relations has been dis
sipated by common sense and skillful
handling on both sides, and that Japan
recognizes in the official recommended
tion of the President the real good
feeling that exists between the two
governments. Indeed, this is shown
in the supplementary expressions. of
viscount Kaneko when interviewed on
his cable message.
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rhe FIrst nax of Conrre.n.


At lasts we're getting up and taking notice
once again!
The Congressman are coming into town by
every train
And no one cares for what the weather
bureau has to say;
With so much CHEEKY welcome, twill be
sunshine nyway
There's just one day of happiness In all
the fiscal year
When enmity is bsnlshed and affection
fingers near.
With compliments and flowers and with
music by the bands,
When mental gladiators meet and start in
shaking hands.
Mighty glad they are to see the people
that they know
Glad to meet a trusty friend or face a
stalwart foe;
Glad to hear the hearty salutation. wei
come home!'
That echoes from the sidewalk to the
statue on the dome.
1t is a good old custom since the days So
long gone by
To smile and lock a worthy foeman SQUARE
ly In the eye;
Here's to the brave who falls and to the
fortunate who wins,
Everybody shaking hands-and then the
fight begins.
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
THE CITY.

The Republican National Committee
having selected Chicago as the conven-
ton city, the Democratic National
Committee will now make a choice
among a number of aspirants. Chicago
is after this convention. too. and will
doubtless make a big bid. The ma
tional conventions of late have
all been held in cities of the Middle
West. obviously by reason of the
greater convenience of the attending
delegates and in transporta-
ton for the majority. But the East
should be given a chance.
Atlantic City is an ideal convention
city. 1t has hundreds of hotels and
can give accommodations to the big
gest crowd that a national convention
attracts. 1t has many attractive fea-
lures for visitors and there are ample
railroad facilities. Atlantic City will
build an auditorium to hold ten thou
sand persons, and certainly such a hall
is large enough for all the purposes
of a national convention. The SUCCESS
tion may be made to the Democratic
national committeeman. who are to
meet this week, that a shift of the
nominating convention from the West
to the East and to the southern New
Jersey seashore may be a presage OF
success in November.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
rArr's MISSION ru1r1IIEp.

Whatever may he the reasons for the
curtailment of what was believed to be
the original program of Secretary Taft,
whether personal or political, or affairs
of state, he is now embarked on the
Atlantic for his homeward journey and
may be expected to land about the end
OF this week. From what we know OF
his Journey, his trip around the world,
even though some of his announced
itinerary was omitted, has accomplished
much of Importance to his country. He
smoothed the way for the Filipinos in
starting on a career of partial self
government. harmonized antagonisms,
and left them feeling quite pleased with
themselves.
Taft's official reception in Japan
has renewed the good feeling between
the great empire OF the East
and the great republic of the west and
shown the world, what no doubt his
visit contributed to in no small de-
gree, the reality of the entente cordiale
that exists. In Russia he could scarce
ly have been made more of IL he had
been a visiting sovereign. And there,
too, doubtless his visit has served to
promote another international friend
ship. His welcome home will be
hearty and sincere, whether it takes the
form of a public demonstration or not.
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An Outrageous Pessimist.

An evening lamp, a mellow open fire, a
book, a bottle and good old briar; a little
wife who doesn't mind the smoke, and
doesn't talk-could Paradise come higher?
Boston Globe.
and the open fire didn't smoke (Which
they probably do), and that the book isn't
one Of those bad present day novels
(Which it probably isl and that the bottle
isn't filled with a bad blend of booze and
chemicals (Which it probably is), and that
the briar hasn't long ago been refused adj
mittance to the house by the mistress
thereof because OF its strong odor, and that
the little wife, who doesn't talk, doesn't
have other ways of expressing her disap-
probation of your lazy, sloppy ways when
someone may be coming to call any min-
ute.-Syracuse Herald.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

James McNiel Whistler was so far an
American that he was a West Point cadet
educated at the expenee of the govern
ment. and sworn into the military service
under the Stars and Stripes. He was 50
far an Englishman that he was made
president of the British Society of Scuip-
tors. Painters and Engravers, and Tor
many years mad his home in London.
Whether English or American, he GER
tainly exercised a wider and deeper IN
fuence on the art of both countries than
any other artist of his century. His Brit
ish disciples and admirers who revere ms
memory and who recognize the worth oil
his work nave subscribed for a Whistler
memorial taking the form of an appro-
pirate work by August Rodin, the most
distinguished sculptor Of modern times.
The committee of artists, statesmen, au-
thors and other eminent persons having
this matter in hand nave delegated to a
similar American committee authority to
procure a replica of the Rodin work to
be erected in America. The modest fund
required for this purpose will be raised
here by subscription, concerning which
those in this vicinity who are interested
may communicate with Mr.. Harrison 5.
Morris, Oak Lane.-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
HORSE AND AUTOMOBILE.

The statistician can readily prove
that the automobile is not driving out
the horse. No one imagines for a mo-
ment that, for purposes of pleasure
riding, it ever will drive put the horse.
But for the propulsion of trucks and
all manner of utility vehicles in the
large cities there cannot be a doubt
of what will eventually happen. AS a
matter of fact. the ooner the auto
supplants the horse in that capacity the
better. Just at this time of year, when
the first SHOWS are coming and the
streets are slippery, there is the clearest
proof of the superiority of the motor
driven vehicle.
The presence of snow in the city
streets always makes a problem OF
magnitude. Traffic is difficult enough
at the best, but much less with
the motor q than with the horse
vehicle. The falling of horses and
the consequent tying up of street
traffic are frequent incidents
in the city in winter. The substitution
of motor ears would obviate this and
not only the congestion of traffic,
many of the troubles of the street.
cleaning squad as well. 1t is In its
commercial employment that the auto
mobile has its greatest power of useful
ness, and in that aspect of the situation
it is to be hoped 1t has arrived to stay.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

An effort is being made by a number
of Boston admirers of the editor TO pur-
chase the historic Horace Greeley home
stead, near Amherst. N. II.
II. w. Putnam, Of the Harvard class OF
1869, was elected president of the Ger
manic Museum Association Of Harvard at
q recent meeting of the association, IN
place of Hon. Carl Schurz, deceased.
Congressman John e. Andrus. Of Yonk-
ers, N. Y. is going to give each OF the
needy families of his home city on Christ
mas Day a roast turkey and all the nix
ings, together with a barrel of -four and a
bag of potatoes. 1t is expected that more
than $500 persons will benefit through this
action.
Possessing in her own right a fortune OF
1000. 900, Miss Nellie Huntington, of Cleve-
land, Ohio. daughter of a late Standard OH
magnate. has forsaken society and Is de-
voting her time to the teaching of classes
of girls in a social settlement at Cleveland.
Miss Huntington has lately been instruct-
ing her pupils how TO hake them most OF life
in a fiat.
DR.. Charles A. Dorman, who was in at
tendance upon Jefferson Davis while tho
President of the Confederaey was impris-
oned and sick in Fortress Monroe, has just
died at New Haven, Conn. He wrote ex-
haustiyeIy OF his experiences at Fortress
Monroe when General Nelson a.. Miles was
accused OF harsh treatment of his prisoner
Mr.. Davis, and his defense of the general
was published widely.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
The wayslde Inn.

Inc WdyAhOe thHs
To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Where was the ''Wayside Inn which
was given to literature by LongfelIow?
C. +. F.
[Longfellow himself answers your ques-
ton in the prelude of the 'Tales," and he
subsequently made the, pubic statement
that the location of the inn as therein
given was not fiction but reality. The
prelude says:
"One autumn night. in Sudbury town.
Across the meadows bare and brown,
The windows Of the wayside inn
Cleaned red with fire-light through the
leaves
or woodblne, hanging from the eaves
Their crimson curtains rent and thin.
AS ancient is this hosiery
As any in the land may be.
Built in the old colonial days
When men lived in a grander way,
With ampler hospitality.
across the road the barns display
Their lines Of stalls, their mows OF hay;
Through the wide doors the breezes blow;
The waited cocks strut to and fro.
And. half effaced by rain and shine.
The Red Horse Frances on the ign
Sudbury is an old town of Middlesex
County. Mass. settled as far back as 1885.
and noted in history as early as 1876 for
the murder of a number Of White people
by the Indians. 1t is some twenty miles
from Boston and eight from Concord The
Red Horse Inn. which had been known
as a hostelry for a century almost right
| up to the time when Longfellow wrote this
poem. had been built in the early days OF
Sudbury as a country mansion by wealthy
English people, named Howe. who, in the
course OF time. met with reverses of for
tune and became innkeepers for a living,
l-Ed1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

The December Grand Jury drawn by
Sheriff Sommer will be sworn In to-
morrow. 1t is of the general average
of all the grand juries drawn by the
present Sheriff. The jurors represent
all elements of the community and in
clude two clergymen and W ply
slcians, a yice-president of the United
States Steel Corporation and the presi-
dent of the Essex Trades Council.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
with Thanks.

John Budd was a most sedate. precise
and altogether exemplary young man.
When he wooed and won Susan Smiley,
the belle of the village, everybody re-
joiced at Johns good fortune. However,
he bore his triumph with modesty and
decorum until the day of the wedding.
Then, for one awful moment. his air OF
aplomb failed him. When the officiating
clergyman asked, "Will you, John, take
this woman to be thy welded wife ?"
John responded blushingly, yes, please"
-Harper's Weekly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

An evening lamp. a mellow open fire,
a book. a bottle and a good old briar;
a little wife who doesn't mind the smoke.
n doesn't ~talk-could paradise come
higher 2-Boston Globe.
II she didn't talk beside the open fire
and didn't kick against the good old briar,
we sort of think--and this Is not a Joke
that paradise could certainly come nigh
'er. -Houston Pest.
BY evening lamp, by mellow, open fire.
by hook. BY bottle and BY good old briar,
the little wife who neither talks nor scolds
would YOU beholdY-lp Cleveland you can
eve her-clesfiand Plain Dealer
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

Madame Sarah Grand, in reply to the
charge that there had never been a fe-
male Shakespeare, points out that there
has been only one male Shakespeare. "She
might have gone further" writes a STRAIT
ford-on-Avon correspondent, ''and asked
IL there had ever been a male Corelli?"-
Punch.
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been achieved, and to the skilful di-
plomacy of Elihu Root, Secretary
of State, much of the credit is due. And
the two republics to the north of these
little hotspur States will be in a posi-
ton to see that they do not go back on
the new peace treaty.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
FROM STAR

anonymous communications cannot be
printed Except on political. subjects the
nameS Of correspondents are not required for
publication. but as a guarantee OF good faith.
Ed
American Veterans of Foreign Service.
To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
In behalf of my comrades of the Ameri-
can Veterans of Foreign Service / wish
to thank the EVENING STAR for its
courteous treatment of us in our efforts to
organize a strong branch post in Newark
OF the above order. the success of which
we believe is assured. We hope for and
expect a large representation of the COM
rades at our next meeting, Tuesday, De-
cember 10, at 3 p. m, at II james street,
when we will be prepared to receive the
application of all eligible comrades who
may wish to join az charter members.
Many private soldiers. who returned from
the late wars permanently disabled in va
rious ways, have been hardly dealt with,
and, while one Of our chief aims is to
strive to inculcate a noble spirit of gem
uine American patriotism in the hearts of
the people, we also intend to take an ac-
tive interest in the welfare of our dis
abled comrades who risked all they valued
In life and life itself In response to their
c0untry's call In its hour of need. Again
| thank you. Very truly yours,
DARWIN K. PAVEY,
newark Dec. 3. Acting Adjutant.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
TO KEARNY-

To
with apologies TO Longfellow and mel
~dentally to e. De Roy Koch.
No doubt the snow was falling fast.
AS through the night a car went past,
A pair. just soaked with mountain dew,
Who couldn't read the sign of blue:
To Kearny.
These men with ears benumbed by frost,
Got muddled up-in fact, were lost.
Cursed at their luck-they missed the ear,
They couldn't walk-so there you are
To Kearny!
In happy CD homes, there sat that night
waiting wives, trimmed up to fight;
All night they sat awake and stayed,
They knew their bubbles were afraid,
OF Kearny!
At break of day the snow had ceased;
1t was too cold for man or beast,
So then these men, as well they could
Went to a bar, and thought they stood
In Kearny!
There in the twilight, cold and gray.
Dead drunk. the cop said. as they lay,
When from the west, serene and far
Bowled gaily on another car
To Kearny.
ARTHUR DARLINGTON.
Montclair, December 8.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

First Clerk-What's the matter with the
boss this morning? His face is as long as
a fiddle.
Second Clerk-Why, the announcement of
the birth OF his thirteenth daughter was
put among the jokes by mistake in this
mornings OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Batter.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
A MODEM Advertisement.

The best cure for thinness Is our "fet-
tolin." It's effect is 80 strong that to each
purchaser of a packet we recommend our
'Durresin," an infallible cure for obesity
Lustige Blatter.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
ConIdn't Understand.

Two people were discussing an engages
ment which had just taken place between
a couple whose parents had long op-
posed 1t.
Il can't understand why 1t wasn't al
lowed before" said one, "that man Is
quite a nice fellow, and she isn't such a
Venus that she can afford to wait until
a Milo comes along for her."-Sourire.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

AT last the price Of meat is to grow
smallerl" exclaimed the CHEEKY citizen.
Yes, answered the man who refuses to
be comfofted; but this cold weather viii
sharpen our isppefitu so a. to make up the
diHerences Washington star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
An Elective Monarch.

A million OF men have died TO preserve
the Constitution as 1t is. but Providence
has passed no law exemptlng Americans
from the pressure of events or the opera
ton Of necessities. They will have to ac-
cept them, willingly or unwillingly, and
will gradually find that the only effect Of
the changes is to make their choice OF a
President. and therefore of his Cabinet
for Cabinet ministers in America are legal
ly only clerks-more and more a matter
of vital Importance.
The President Of the United States Will
in no long period of time be the greatest
elective monarch history has ever known.
London Spectator.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

Housemaid-Tell me, Susan, why only the
cook listens at the door when your master
and mistress have a row?
Parlor Maid (proudly)-Because she pays
me half a rouble a month for the place by
the keyhole.-Boclan.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
Cleveland.

In casting about for a candidate for the
Presidency, the Democrats seem to have
recalled the existence of Grover Cleveland.
His name is passing around, and 1t is j
possibility that a Cleveland boom may be
the result. The best thing that can be said
about Cleveland is that he twice LED his
party to victory; and that is high praise
for a Democrat.-Toronto Mail and Elk
nraaa
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
Tbi. was CrueI.

Elderly Spinster-Just think, l nearly had
q bat entangled in my hair last night.
He-Yes, they are fond Of living in old
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Blatter.
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viduals that acted upon the idea would
be likely to fnd an Immediate and
profitable response on the part of stu
dents.
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But ne ought to reel It.

Howell-Rowell is not a very observing
fellow.
Powell-Right you are. He could be
dead a long time and not know that there
was a flre.-Harper's Weekly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09

Little Gordon was studying his Sunday
school lesson.
Say, papa" he dueried, what did the
Dead Sea die of?'-Chieago News.
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To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Seeing a contribution in your Saturda v
edition relative to Kearny, I take the lib
erty OF enclosing a little ode in answer to
your worthy correspondent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
S5OO,OOO,0OO FROM
COTTON EXPORTS
One-F Fourth of Americas Do
nestle Foreign Shipments
BIG INCREASE IN VALUE
Failing Off In Qauntity More Than
Offset BY Higher Value Of Elk.
ported Goods-Europe
Gets Most.

Washington, February 22.-America )
pocketbook was enriched by practically
$500. 100000 through its expectations last
year of cotton. and products of that staple,
according to a statement issued today by
the bureau of statistics Of the department
of commerce and labor The export of
these products amounted to one-fourth
or % per cent of the s1,77S COG, 900 worth of
the domestic exports
. The following figures show the kind of
cotton products exported last year and
their value:
manufactured cotton $n3, 1871 936;
manufactures of cotton. si2. of0.0n cotton
and meal, 81, 1G5.2 6s; cotton seed, SOS, 022 /;
cottolene, lard. etc, chilly from cotton
seed oil siSO1 .O7S. bringing the total ex-
port of these products up to $iSJ, 9Ol, GSl. OF
the $4l3,0O00Oo worth of raw cotton ex-
ports $4,000. 600 ~ent to the Enited King
dom. s1l9.0oe.o00 60 Germany. si5.G00000 to
France, ss1 500, 600 To Italy, nearly 100000
to Belgium, s., 900 900 to Russia, and $1,000.
go to the Netherlands, while 10 Japan the
exports were valued at over 81, 100000, and
to Canada $7,333.O00. The figures show Il
reduction In the exports Of cotton sent to
Japan compared with 1900. while to Can
ada they show slight increase.
In quantity the records show falling
off as compared with 1899 the total num-
Der OF pounds shipped during that year
being 4131 Isl go, while for 1896 they were
only 1850 22s, o9O The falling off In the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
MONARCHISTS GAIN
SHOWN BY ELECTION
TOTAL NUMBER OF RUSSIAN MEM.
BEERS ELECTED is NOW 41o-A
BATTLE ROYAL BETWEEN RADl-
GALS AND REACTIONISTS.

st. Petersburg, February 22,-The re-
turns received today were only from fif-
teen additional electoral districts, bring
ing the total number of members elected
up to 40, as follows:
Monarchists, 70; moderates, IS; pro-
gressives, %; constitutional democrates,
"a; left party. 152; natlonalists, 40; in
defnites, II.
The monarchists made the greatest
gains, twelve seats, but they have about
attained their full strength, as an over
weighing proportion of the Jos members
vet to he elected will surely be opposl-
tional The results promise a stormler
session than that of last year. The howl
ing down Of ministers, it is claimed, will
be suppemented by battles royal between
the radicals and the aggressive reaction
lists under the leadership of men like NJ.
Eroushavan. the notorious anti-Semite of
Kishinev NJ. Kroushavan has received
MANY threatening letters. to which the
organ of the reactionists, the Russian
Banner. replies with first page notice in
dsplav type to the effect that Max Nj.
yinayer Joseph Hesse Prof. Paul AIlu-
koff and NJ kisaveter, the Moscow mem
bers OF parliament. call leaders of the
constitutional democratic party, have
been selected for retribution in case of
hair OF Kroushavan's head is harmed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
NEGOTIATIONS WITH
CHURCH BREAK OFF
BISHOPS DO NOT ACCEPT CON-
TRACTS-iNSULT TO FORMER
PATRIOTISM THE VIEW-EM-
BARGo ON FOREIGN PRIESTS.

Paris, February 22.-In an authoritative
statement today the Croix, organ of the
church, defines the attitude of the episco-
paey with feference to the negotiations
between the coadjutor bishop of Paris,
Monsignor Annette, and the project of
the Seine, NJ De Selves, as follows;
The bishops do not accept the contracts
which make the parish priests responsible
for important structural repairs of the
church on the contracts containing a
clause excluding secularized members OF
the dissolved orders from acting as par
ish priests. claiming that TO do 50 would
be a recognition of the law of associa-
tons. Further, the bishops look on the
inclusion of a similar embargo ON for
eign priests as being an insult to the
former patriotism.
Monsignor Athletic will not take the
initiative TO resume the interrupted ne-
gotiations which therefore may be said
to have terminated until further orders.