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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
STATE PRINTING ABUSES.

The annual printing bill of the state
government is excessive. and it is fair
to say that at least one-third of the
printing done is unnecessary and USE
less. state reports are padded with
worthless matter. and what Is worse.
the. publication of the report lie uncon-
sclonably delayed. At the present time
the cost of white paper as well as labor
Is very high. and the cost to the State
for ali work done is correspondingly
high. A large economy can be made by
putting the state printing on a business
basis by cutting out all the unnecessary
matter that 10Y goes into print and re-
ducing State reports to a readable form.
There appears to be no proper official
responsibility as to the time for the
publication of reports. Some time ago
the state Board of Health was widely
%censured because its annual report ap-
peared in print a year after the report
was closed. 1t appears that the board
was not responsible for the delay. The
report was filed in proper time. and the
delay was due to the neglect Of State
officials and the public printer. Con-
tract printers for the state take their
own time in doing the State work and
give everything else precedence. Hence
the bound reports as a rule do not ap-
pear until long after the Legislature
ad5oarns.
A Legislature commission should look
into the mater Of State printing. con-
suit editors and job printers and forfnu-
late a new an: better system OF printing
the State rertorts and OCCUR .nnts.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
CITY QUALIFICATION.

The idea seems to prevail in a GER
tain quarter in the national capital
that the proper way OF beautifying the
city is to make it look as much like
Paris as possible. The French geomet-
rical effect produced by long rows of
dwarf trees of identical size and other
similar features has much to commend
it. But the slavish imitation of this
system Is not to be commended. The
landscape artist who will accomplish
the best results is the one who will
allow nature to cooperate in his plans,
instead of distorting nature to an
arbitrary geometrical system. Even II
the foreign way were best for Wash
ington. it would be unwise to extend
it to other cities. The definite and cir
cumscribed methods of laying out
cities according to Old World rules
would lose them their individuality
and constitute a departure from right
American ideals.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
MOSQUITO PEST AND MALARIA.

When the Legislature several years
ago was asked for an appropriation by
The State entonnologist for the purpose
Of investigating a method to extirpate
the mosquito plague in this State. the
fact was not known that the mosquito
was the source of the malaria so preva-
lent In many sections of the State. The
belief had always been entertained by
medical men and sanitarians that ma
laria was due to damp or swampy
ground in low-lying sections.
That theory is abandoned, and it has
been proven that the malady is the re-
suit of a poison injected into the human
body by the sting of a mosquito. BY
the same medium yellow fever is con-
veyed to human beings in Cuba. That
disease has virtually been stamped out
IN Cuba by mosquito extirpation.
Within three or four years much has
been done in New Jersey to destroy the
breeding places of mosquitoes. The
Newark meadows, once the source OF
an annual plague for Newark, have
been well treated, and with the most
gratifying results. But much remains
10 be done in this State to free it from
a costly pest and to destroy the poison
of malaria.
The Legislature has been ~sineularly
unwilling 10 make adequate a%ppropria-
tions for the work. One Legislature
pledged the state 10 an expenditure o.
SS5o.ooQ, but that was mere buncombe,
Succeeding Legislatures have a%ppropri-
ated small mount and left the local.
ties 70 their own devices. The mosquito
pest exists 70 a large extent in sections
Of New Jersey where It can be dealt
with only BY NEAR provided BY tbs
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MOI AVN hi thr North.

S%toughton ]. Fletcher, who has been rus
ticating on his stock farm in Tennessee, Is
in the city for a few days. "A while
Eago.'' said Mr.. Fletcher, 1T entertained
the belief that labor troubles were all
north OF the Ohio River. The other day
I was forcibly reminded of my error. I
employed a number OF colored laborers In
hauling gravel and in roadmaking. At
half past 7 a delegation Of these negroes
came to me and refused 20 go on with
the work.
What's the matter?' l asked.
Not shovelers enough was the an
swer.
"sWell. GO ahead and do the shovelins
yourselves; load your own wagons III
pay extra
They went away, and at 9 O'Clock an
other delegation OF negroes came.
whats the grievance now?>I asked.
1--WE won't work no mo- under a white
boss. We want a colored man 70 that
job
II told them that the white boss would
be replaced by a colored man as soon as
! possible, n they wenn away. At 1870
a. m. another. delegation Of negroes ans
peared. 4 rN
WHATS up nowg | asked. Then they
! told me they had struck for more wages,
and not another spadeful of gravel would
be thrown until / came to their figures,
This made three strikes before II O'clock
in the morning. Here the camel's back
gave way. | told them that it was my
turn at last. that had struck and | took
the first train and came North Indian
apolis News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
A POLICE CRIME.

There is a moral in the police dis
position of the case of the travelling
salesman in Cleveland who fell upon
an icy sidewalk and fractured his skull.
The policeman who found the. injured
man thought he was intoxicated and
had him arrested and locked up. Not
until seven hours later, when it was
too late to save his life, was 1t discov-
cred that the mar was injured.
Common humanity. in which so many
police officials seem so lamentably de-
hcient, should have dictated at least
a perfunctery examination into the
mans condition, and even a perfume
tory examination ought to have re-
vealed the truth. The policeman re-
sponsible should be made to suffer for
his criminal stupidity the severest PEN
atty applicable. Even had the man
been drunk he was in a condition de-
manding medical care. One of the rules
Of every police NJ should be that
persons arrested in the condition Of
helplessness of this travelling salesman
should receive proper medical attention,
whether their condition was attribu-
table to liquor or not. In either case
they are possible sufferers from dis
ease and should be treated as such,
instead OF with the shameful brutality
which is their usual lot.
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$4,000 LAZY HUSBANDS ARE
SUPPORTED BY THEIR WIVES

Twenty-seven thousand wives in New
York State support their husbands, ac-
cording to Mrs. Frederick Nathan. the
woman %suffragist.
Her announcement was followed to-
day by the statement made by other
workers in the suffrage cause that nos
Of these dependent husbands live in
New York city.
Mrs. Nathan was heard last night a!
Cooper Union, when Mrs. Cobden-San-
derson was introduced as the represen-
tative of the suffrage movement IN
England. s The meeting practically
marked the launching of the English
s~uffragette movement in this country
and o man got laid out xby this
speakers in caustic terms.
When Mrs. Nathan hurled her indict
ment at lay husbands a loud masculine
laugh a around the hall.
1T is no joke, said Mrs. Nathan
sternly. Men wax fat and women was
lean she went on, wholly unconscious
OF the physical contradiction IN tn
feminine array behind her. Men De
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care of oculists. They found her case
dif1cult to diagnose. They were at q
loss to explain the reason for her sud-
den affiiction, and only n gave her
cause for hope. He told her that her
sight might be restored as suddenly as
it had been taken.
At first, she said, she. scarcely re-
allied her position. She had never
beer troubled with her eyes. and the
thought of blindness had V come to
her. As the days went by and no re-
lief came she sank into a state of de-
preston from which her family found 1t
impossible TO rouse her. She had be-
gun to despair when the shadow OF
blindness was suddenly brushed aside.
When Mrs. Mckenzie entered her
daughters room on Wednesday to raise
the blinds the girl complained OF pain
in her eyes. She asked to have the
curtains lowered. As the mother stood
hesitating her daughter suddenly cried
out:
II can see you. mother! 1 can see
you'll
In another moment she had leaped
from the bed, where she was lying, and
ciasped her mother In her arms.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13

lieve hat the letters u. S. do not
stand for the United States, but US.
The world is made up of two classes Of
people, the cooers and kickers. / am
a kicker
Miss Leonora o'Reilty. who is con-
nected with a trade union, not only
assured the women they would have
the ballot, but told them what they
would do with it before Mrs Sander
son arose amid mad cheering and told
them how she had gone to jail for "a
great principle She dwelt on the
wickedness of the New York newspa-
pers. saying she would probably be de-
ported as a convict. but was quite will
ing to be sent away tomorrow so long
as she could have tonight.
Here she said, they tell you
women you are too good for politics,
In England they tell us politics is too
good for us"
Mrs. Blatch Insisted 1t was rue that
THE immigration officials had been ap-
preached on h subject Of Keeping Mrs.
Golden sanderson out Of The country.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
PARCELS POST AND NEWARK TRADE

A government parcels post. if estab-
lished, will be a great convenience to
storekeepers who have an out-of-town
trade, as well as to their customers.
In conjunction with the mail and tele-
phone. 1t will be the best and quickest
and cheapest system of delivery that
could be devised. A woman living at
Dover, or Morristown, or Plainfield, or
Passaic, who sends an order by mail
or telephone to one of our great de-
partment stores in the morning can re-
ceive the package free at her home be-
+, re night. The customer will be saved
the expense and fatigue and time Of a
Journey and the storekeeper will econ
omize in wagon service. or express
charges can be dispensed with.
A parcels post will greatly enlarge
the area of trade for Newark shop
keepers. 1t will carry that trade to dis
tanees that are now unreachable by
wagon delivery and too costly for
freight delivery. 1t will carry city
trade into rural sections and make
many customers among farmers and
villagers. Retail business men in cities
have every reason TO advocate a par
cells post.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13

70 the Editer Of the Evening Star:
Can you conveniently enlighten me as to
the source Of what we call eye stones?
NJ. IN.
[sone time ago the American Druggist
the subject of eye stones, observed that
the collection Of eye stones Is a dying in
dustry. In New York the principal sources
of supply are sailors who touch the Baltic
Sea, and. as might be imagined, the sup
ply is precarious. Eye stones are analogous
in some respects to bezoars, as they are a
concretion found in the stomach of the En-
ropean crawfish. Most of the genuine eve
stones, crabs eyes. crabstones or iapilli
cancrorum, are procured In the province
of Astrachan in European Russia. There
appears to be some confusion regarding
the nature OF the eye tone, for some
authorities speak of it as a concretion
in the stomach of a certain crab and ok
ers as Of a peculiar she'll formation which
is separated from the crab at the time it
are found fully developed at the end Of the
simmer. as the crabs begin to shed their
shells. 1t Is noted that these connections
are absorbed into the stomach of the crab
during the shedding season and there pui-
verified and absorbed, the dissolved cal
careous substance being used, it is sup-
posed, for the formation Of a new smell.
When these calcareous shells are not nor
mally developed and absorbed, it Is OBJ
served that the shedding process Is inter-
rupted and the crab dies an early DEATH
Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
His Tragic Christmas.

Although the Christmas-tide is here,
And hearts with joy are thrilled,
He sheds a salt. self-pityinR tear,
His heart with pain is filled.
The news has come to him today
Gould there be worse mishap?)
His fiancee has run away
To wed another chap.
But there is more to hurt his pride
And make him feel a cur
The knowledge that last Christmas-tide
lie bought a ring for her!
a diamond ring-oh, iuckless mani
That cost two hundred met.
Twas bought on ''easy-payments" plan
He's paying for it yet!
Walter Pulitzer, in Judge.
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IN HUMOROUS VEIN.
Won wonId Get wed.

You "Outu Uet "c"'
OF course you have to stay home nights
You would get wed!
OF course you miss your old delights
You would get wed!
OF course you've had to change your NE
OF course you've got a cranky wife,
OF course you find 0 live in strife
You would get we'd
OF course she is the one to rule
You would get we'd
OF course she thinks that you're a fool
You would get wedi
Of course her bills you have~to pay,
OF course her mother comes to stay,
,Of course your hair is turning gray
You would get wed!
OF course you rave to eat her cake
You would get we'd
OF course your teeth you almost break
You would get wed!
OF course she will not let you wink,
OF course she will not let you drink,
or course she will not let you think
You would get wedl
Town Topics,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13

Denver and July Z will be the place
and date for the Democratic national
convention to meet to nominate a
candidate for President. The selection
may be regarded as favorable to WILL
lam ]. Bryan. Seven months will
elapse before the convention meets, and
lots of things can happen in that time.
The Democratic candidate for President
this year may not yet be in grooming
for the race.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
uEwS % EDITIONS


NJ y - AAA1AVAA (00B
In his photographed contribution to
the new rCongressional Directory Seua-
tor JEFF Davis, OF Arkansas. does not claim
kinship to Jefferson Davis, Of Mississippi,
President Ty1er's sonzin-law. colonel in
the Mexican campaign, Secretary Of War,
Senator, n President of the short-lived
Southern Confederacy. As we understand
the case, there isn't any for him to claim.
Senator johnson, OF Alabama, mentions
that he quit school to enlist in the Con-
federate army, where he acquired foIr
wounds and the rank OF captain. Senator
Richardson, OF Delaware, credits himself
with "business-llke methods and strict hon
esty.p Senator Briggs. of New Jersey. mod
estly says that .as a pubIic-splrited citizen
he enjoys a high degree of popularity. :
Representative Hobson, of Alabama, in
forms HE brother Congressman and pos
terity that he's n descendent dn the
tenth generation) of Elder Brewster. of
the Mayaower. Representative Hamilton,
Of Iowa, says that he married a Quaker
ess and has a "~RooseveHian family Of
nine children" Representative Davenport,
OF Oklahoma, says that at each Of his two
weddings a Cherokee woman was his
bride; his colleague. Representative Car
ter. analyses himself as ..seven-sixteenths
Chickasaw and Cherokee and nine-six-
teenths Scotch-Irish.-Hartford Courant.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
The presidential succession.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Who becomes President in case both he
and the Vice-President die? c. j.
: THE Presidential succession is fixed by
chapter 4 OF the acts OF the Forty-ninth
Congress, first session. In case OF the re-
movai, death, resignation or inability of
both the President and Vice-President,
then the Secretary of State shall act as
President until the disability of the Presi-
dent or Vice-President is removed or a
President is elected. II there be no Secre-
tary of State, then the Secretary OF War,
Attorney General, Postmaster General,
Secretary OF the Navy and Secretary OF
the Interior. The Secretary of AgTicul-
ture and Secretary of Commerce and
Labor were added by subsequent enact
ment. The acting President must, upon
taking Office, convene Congress, if not at
the time In session, in extraordinary SEES
sion. giving 20 days notice. This act
applies only to such cabinet officers as
shall have been confirmed by the Senate,
and are eligible Under the Constitution
TO the Presidency.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13

There is a cheerful holiday aspect to
Newark's business streets that is most
attractive. The Christmas shopper Is
abroad, and storekeepers have all the
evidence of a successful holiday trade
in their already crowded stores and the
freedom with which currency is passed
over their counters. 1t is observed, too,
that buyers. as a rule demand the better
qualities of goods.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13

A cooperation by the brewers with
the police in the work of wedding out
the low resorts that are planted here
and there in our city can be made most
effective. The brewers can refuse to
supply these places, and their agents
can furnish necessary information to
the police to enable the latter to deal
with dlsorderly resorts.
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To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
About eighteen inches from our house i
n fence IL feet high $40 feet long. 1t Is
green with age. 1t just covers the WIN
dows of the bedrooms and keeps the sun
out, making our cellar walls green and
causing the lower boarding in the house
to partially di~sintegrate. Is it lawful for
that fence to be allowed to stand there?
CONSTANT READER.
I'VE cannot answer legal questions in
this column. We will state, however, that
If the fence is a nuisance and endangers
life o, health, 1t might be within the
province of the Board of Health to remedy
the evil. Otherwise, we would advise you
to see a lawyer.-Ed.]
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rs the room disinfected?"
Yes, mother; and I have sterilized the
curtains, deodorized the furniture, septic
ICED all the fixtures, vaporized the air,
washed my lips in an antiseptic solution
and
Have you septiclzed the mistietoe?n
Thoroughly, mother; everything is
done. Arthur Is waiting now in the hs-
drogen room"
Then you may go in and let him kiss
you. carbohydrates.
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Due to LonwfeIlovv ANYWAY.

Porfessor Goebel, OF Harvard, declares
that Lonefellow got his inspiration and
ideas for 'FTiawatha7 from the works OF
John Huckweiler, a Moravian, who lived
in Pennsylvania two hundred years ago,
II this is so Longfellow is TO be doubiy
praised for the brilliant and fascinating
poem because few would ever have heard
Of the beautiful story II they'd had to de-
pend on Huckweiler's works, which so far
as known. have not been circulated freely,
IL at all.-Topeka State journal.
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Two Nct,ces N ! po.tomce.

Employees are strictly forbidden TO read
any post cards which pass through their
hands,
1.-The public is warned that the employees
have strict orders not to let any post card
pass which contains vulgar or unseemiy
remarks on it.,'-Pele Mele.
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WIN Pitt.hurg Win,

Since the creation of Greater Pitts
burg the Smoky City people are claim
that the next census will show that the
metropolis of western Pennsylvania will
be the sixth In population among the
cities OF the country, taking the place
which Baltimore held in 1900. At the last
census Pittsburg and Allegheny unitedly
had 45i ,512 inhabitants and Baltimore had
sos, 953, or about 5000 more than the twin
cities. OF course, Pittsburg has grown
rapidly during the past seven years, but
Baltimore has not been standing still,
and intimates she will have 100000 by
1910, and still nave a big lead of Pitts
burg.-Aiientown Morning Cal.
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yisitor-How do you do, Tommy! I've
come to stay at your house a week, ana
I'm sure you can't even guess who ! am.
Tommy-I'll bet you one thing.
visitor-What?
Tommy-I'il bet you're no relation or
father's.-Harper's Weekly.
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worth TryIpr.

Il think said the maid OF more THAI
less unceratin age, that I'll use sulphur
on my face instead of powder after this"
rs sulphur good for the complexion
aueried her lady friend.
81 don't know" replied the unannexed
female. but I understand it is extensively
used in making matches. v-Chicago Daily
News.
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We'll" said DR.. Fell, arising from the
bedside, "the old man will recover. =
CONSERVATION.
His nephew is waiting outside" she
said. "Wi1l you break it to him as gently
as possible, OF shall 1?"-C1eveiand Leader.
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"At last he sighed, we're alone, I've
been hoping for this chance"
80 have ~ said she very frankly.
All! You have guessed, then, that I
wanted to tell you that / love you"
"Yes, and want to say No and get
1t over with. Catholic Standard and
Times.
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End of the Railroad Ticket scalper.

A matter of great interest to the rail-
roads as well as TO the travelling public
has escaped attention by reason Of the
pressure of public documents and gos-
sip incident TO the assembling Of Con-
gress. On Monday last, the Supreme
Court of the United States handed down
a decision h the ticket brokerage BUSH
ness known as 'scalping" is unlawful,
and that a permanent injunction win hold
against the system.
Although the railroads of the United
States were seemingly opposed to the
practise Of ''scalping,'' they never tried
TO reach agreement upon a method for
the eradication of the evil. On the con-
trary, the scalpers appeared to have the
covert support of the railroads, which in
some instances doubtless used them for
the establishment Of secret competition.
Hence an anomalous situation which for
a time made the scalpers proof against
the assaults OF those who tried to drive
them out Of business.
Eventually suit was brought against
scalpers by the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, in the United states court for the
eastern district of louisiana, which de-
cided that while the practise is wrong,
legal relief could be secured by the COM
pany only in individual casesfby separate
action In each instance. The railroad
company carried the case to the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals for the
fifth circuit, which reversed the decision
OF the lower court, and made the scalpers
he appellants to the court Of last resort.
The decision of the Supreme Court is in eff
feet that the scalper has no right or stand
ing in any court because non-transferrable
reduced-rate tickets sold by scalpers to
third parties are the property of the COM
pany Issuing them, to which the tickets re-
vert by violation of the agreement entered
into by the first purchaser.
This decision puts an end to the scalp
ing business for all time, and relieves the
railroad companies from an incubus upon
passenger traffic. 1t will doubtless be well
coined even by the companies which have
at times used the scalpers In competitive
struggles. Milwaukee Wisconsin.