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SUNDAY OBSERVANCE IN COLLEGES.

1t is said that, with a view to re-
moving the temptation of Sunday study.
the faculties of 101 American colleges
now make Monday a holiday instead of
Saturday. They Will undoubtedly, so
far as the studying goes, accomplish
their purpose. But there are worse
things than studying on Sunday, and
those are the very things the average
student, judging him by his class, is
more than likely to do. especially il he
knows there is another day of idle
ness TO follow.
The plan at all the greater Amer
lean colleges is to hold lectures or
recltations every week day and allow
the student the freedom of his con-
science as to the of his spend
Ing the Sabbath. A policy that, on the
other hand, narrowly restricts a stu
dents independence, and particularly
y matters of religion, is likely to defeat
isself. The student may be forced to
attend church three times a day, but
such compulsion will not inspire a
sentiment likely to result in much
church-going once he gets beyond the
faculty jurisdiction. There are some
things in which a wise policy allows a
maj to think and act for himself, and
the matter of Sunday observance. in
the colleges as elsewhere, is one.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
VICTORY AGAINST THE sxY-s1GN.

A notable victory has been scored for
the city of New York in the decision Of
the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court continuing the injunction against
a concern erecting an enormous sky
sign on the top of a building exceed
ing the maximum proportions allowed
by the building code. The sign nui-
sance has been growing in all big cities
until huge advertising devices have
not only become a disfiguring offense,
but in some cases a positive menace to
public safety.
The size of these signs have developed
beyond the bounds of reason and COM
mon sense. They make an ugly bill
board of the skyline of the city, a blot
on architectural adornment, an eyesore
in the landscape. New York city au-
thorities have been waging war for
some time on all these billboard mon
strosities with Indifferent success. This
latest decision will at least strengthen
them in their efforts to keep the sky
signs within the altogether too wide
limits now prescribed by the code.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
window-oIeanIng Extraordinary.

John s. Cox, speaker of the Tennessee
Senate, had an old negro servant who
liked his drink just as well as the best
Kentucky colonel in the blue grass State
One morning, just after the cold spell
broke, the darkey came to Senator Cox. .
'Marse john" said he, "Ill jes' up an
clean oess winders dis mornin'."
A right, Caesar" replied the Senkfof;
IT'S got ter have a half-tumbie=. of whi#
key, Marse John; dare amt nothin In
whiskey for cleaning windows" III
The Matchmaker was promptly givft
Caesar, who armed himself with some raj
and carried the whiskey to another room
TO begin work. A few minutes afterwar9
Senator Cox had occasion to enter his
room. Caesar was busy polishing tho
windows. The tumbler was on the table,
but no whiskey in 1t.
why, Caesar, what's become OF the
whiskey?" asked the Senator. II thought
you used it in this work" (,
80 / does, Marse John; SO I does" was
the answer. Eye see, sab, I drinks DIT
whiskey am blows my bref agin de wins
dersl"-Judge's Library.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
Blrthstones and months.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
WIN you please tell me something about
bifthStones and months? j.. S. j..
1.-THE following rhyme contains the usually
accepted list of stones for each month.
with the exception that some people at
tribute sapphire (as well as diamond) 70
April and chrysolite to September:
Jan.-By her who in this month is born
No gem save garnet shall be worn.
They will insure her constancy,
True friendship and fidelity.
Feb.-The February born will find
Sincerity inc peace of mind,
Freedom from passion and from care
If they the amethyst will wear.
Mar.-Who, on this world of ours, their
eyes
In March first open, shall be wise.
In days of peril, firm and brave,
To wear a Blackstone to their grave.
April-She who from April dates her years.
Diamonds shall wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentance flow; the stone
Emblem Of innocence is known.
May-who first beholds the light of day
In springs sweet fow'ry month OF
May
And wears ain emerald all her life
Shall he 4 lov'd and happy wife.
June-Who comes with summer to this
earth,
And owes to June her day Of birth. .
With ring of agate on her hand
Can health. wealth and long life conf
mand.
July-rhe glowing ruby should adorn
Those who in warm July are born;
Then will they be exempt and free
From love doubts and anxiety.
Aug.-Wear n sardonyx or for thee
No conjugal felicity
The August born. without this stone.
IT'S said. must live unloved and lone
| Sept.-A maiden born when autumn leaves
Are rustfing in S~eptember's breeze
A sapphire on her brow shonld binds
Twill cure diseases OF the mind.
O~ct-=October's child is born for woe
And life's vicissitudes must know;
But lay an opal on her breast
And hope will hull those woes to rest.
NoV.-Who first comes to this world below
With drear November's fog and snow.
Should prize the t0paz's amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true.
Dec.=f cold December gave you t!rth-.
The month OF snow aud ice and mirth
Place on you band a turquoise blue,
Success will bless whnte' er You dc.
-Ed.I
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
NV Love story.

A lady of sagacity and beautifui au-
dacity once had the pertinacity 10
ask me at her door;
'If I can find a minister who issnot ooio
or sinister, why, should | stay a
spinister-and you a b~acheldoreT
II was no lime for puttering or stam-
mering OF suffering and so ne
FASTENED, uttering as fast as ne
could speak:
aHad 7 a home Colonial, with furnish
ings baronial, / might feel matri-
monial-but not on six a week"
She laughed and said quite cynical: well,
you're the very pinnacle of every
thing that's fnical"-but l said
nothing more.
And thus we found no minister, and |
moved off to Finisterre, and she is
still a spinister, n I'm a bacbel-
dore.-Richmond Times-Dispateh.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10

The partial relief now being conceded to
commerce comes from the interests alarmed
at the public cutlery and fearful that it may
result in adverse Legislation. The money
changers fear that the people may inform
themselves and growing wise, will grow
meddlesome.
Our conviction today is that these inter-
csts are striking at the life Of the nations
present prosperity. and win succeed In
their attempt unless the people force their
Representatives in Congress TO pass reme-
dial and refor1natory currency legislation.
Philadelphia North American.
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TN VEIN.
The only way.

My butcher sells me doctored veal,
My goldman sells me clinkered coal,
My grocer sells ms moldered meal,
My baker stints the breakfast roll.
My vintner sells me weakened hook
With other tinctured chemic wines;
My broker sells me watered stock
And boosted shares in sailed mines.
How can I make both ends to meet
When thus these rogues my wealth purs
loin,
Unless l practise like deceit
And pay their claims with tainted coinT
Arthur Guiteman In Judge~
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
ooMMERoIAI1zATIoN OF THE KISS

"a rose red dot upon the / in loving
was the way that valiant sentiment
alist, cyrano de Bergerac, described the
kiss. But cyrano's lot was cast in
times less prosaic than these, and
Roxane vas not of a mercenary dis
position.
The double line adpwn the $ in
Sorrow would probably more nearly fit
the ideas Of the former IRE commits
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To the Editor of the Evening Star:
| Kindly state who the first inventors OF
| the locomotive were and give some early
| history. +. r. i.
ISir Isaac Newton, in his various ex-
perlments In 1850, proposed a steam car.
fiage propelled by the reaction of a jet or
steam Cuauot in 1863 built a steam car
rlage. Symington, in ITO, and Murdoch,
| In 1884, built working models, and in lIso
Nathan Read also made experiments In
steam transportation; but the nineteenth
century dawned without any further re-
suits in this field than a few
experiments. The appellation of father OF
the locomotive to the first inventor who
directed attention to Its IN
the nineteenth century belongs to Richard
Trevithick, of Camborne, Cornwall. HIS
first steam carriage was built in 1901. II
was adapted to carry seven or eight pas
SengcIs, and was said to have gone of
like a bird IT broke down, however. and
was taken to the home Of Captain Vivian,
who afterwards became the partner OF
Trevithick. The second engine was
built by Thevithick and Vivian in
1868, and was known as Captain Thevi-
thick's Putting Devil" In 1904 at Peng
barron, South Wales, a third engine was
built which was the first steam loco
motive ever run on rails. In 1903 Trevi-
thick built a circular railway at London
within an enclosure. This railway was
considered to be a great accomplishment,
and a shilling was charged for admission
to the steam circus and a ride behind the
locomotive, which was looked upon with
about the same awe that the loop-the-loop
Is at the present time. The engine en-
ployed here was called the Catch Me
Who Cam Blenkinsop's locomotive was
built In 1871. 1t was employed at the Mid
dietown colliery in hauling coal. 1t had
cog wheels engaging teeth on the side of
the rail. The fire was built in a large
tube passing through the boiler and bent
up to form a chimney. It drew thirty
tons weight at three and three-fourths
miles an hour. The next step in loco
motive building was William Hedley's
famous Putting Billy" This engine was
in use more or less till 1862. The most
prominent person in bringing the loco
motive into practical use was George
Stephenson. The Stockton and Darling
ton Railway, in England, opened for traffic
with Stephenson's engine in 1926. In 1923
the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
was completed and the $500 prize offered
by the directors for the best locomotive
was captured by S~tephenson's Rocket"
which attained a speed of twenty-four and
one-sixth miles per hour. The Delaware
and Hudson Cana Company's Railroad
can boast of the first locomotive TO run
in this country. The trial took place in
1929. The famous John Bull" now in
the National Museum, Washington. ID. c.,
was put into service on the Camden and
Amboy Railroad in 1881. In 1893, during
the exposition, it was run to Chicago from
Washington under its own steam, drawing
a train of two cars a distance OF 912 miles
without assistance.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
TabIe Repartee.

Say" confided the red-bordered napkin.
81 am really smitten with the pretty ste
%nographer who lunches here every day, but
she throws me over as soon as she rises
from the table,"
Yes" sighed the salt cruet, I'm sweet
on her myself, but she always gives me
the shake. "AChicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10

Gaddie-They say that after a man ana
his wife have lived together for a time
they grow to resemble each other.
Seckand-I guess there's something in
that. At any rate my wife reminds me of
her first husband-every chance she GETS
Philadelphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
Poor ReIatIons.

1T notice your name is D.. Are you
related to the wealthy family of that
name in London, may I ask?"
Mr.. d. poor, but re~spectable)-I am a
distant relative, sir.
Indeed? How distant?"
well, as distant as they can keep me-
-Cassel's Saturday Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10

Tell me. Mr.. Sweldnut,p said Miss
Gusch, what do you consider the six best
books OF the year.
nRealiy-er-Miss Gusch. replied Sweld-
nut. the novelist. 1--WE only written three
books this yelr. YOU know. 7-PhiladeIphin
Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10

The other night a little lad went to a
barber shop to get his hair cut. AFTER
the man had been cutting his hair about
half an hour the lad asked:
How much more have you got TO 40
"Only the 'front.' replied the barber.
sWell. you had better be sharp, or else
It will be growing at the back again.
Tit-Bits.
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me- wan WiIIIng.

In the morning mail the busy editor
found the following written on a postal
card: Dear Sir: I rave just graduated
from a correspondence school of journal
ism. Would you like to nave me write for
your paper9 J. Alexander McNutt."
Selling his trusty pencil the busy editor
dashed off the following in reply: Dear
]. Alex: Certainly. we would be pleased
to have you write for our paper. Kindly
address your letter to the circulation man
ager and inclose the regular subscription
price. Chicago Daily News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10

with many another fat man play no
small part in making his success as our
great enissary of peace to all he
world.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
DEFINITION.

It was a Boston boy who thus defined q
common and a proper noun:
William is a proper noun, and Billy is a.
common noun"
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suggestive.

Miss Barkis-I suppose you never dream
OF marrying?
Rondsby-Oh. sometimes. after a late
and particularly indigestible supper.-Ally
Sloper.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
FROM STAR READERS

Anonymous communications cannot be
printed. Excent on political subjects the
nance Of correspondents are not required If
-Edl
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
After the Honeymoon.

Mrs. spoon-Do you ever see figures in
the fire, dear?
Mr.. spoon-Yes, coal bills.-London opin-
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His Mind at Ease.

.I hear they've been having stormy
times at sea. Didn't your old woman leave
for nome by steamer
"she sure did"
"And-ain't you worried?'
mot a bit. She's been in seven railroad
wrecks. two cyclones and an earthquake
and it's my opinion that there amt a sea
fbe Lord ever made can swaller her!'-At-
lanta Constitution.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
Nation vs.. state.

Even In the South the States are very
willing to ave the government do certain
things which are expensive and necessary
and might well fall within the duties Of
the State. Those commonwealths seem to
think that they can catch the coon both
going and coming. The North Carolina
court of last resort has taken a strange
position. 1t upholds the decision of the
lower court in the railroad cases SO far as
the abstract question is concerned. 1t
holds that the State courts should settle
the railroad rate cases and that the Fed
eral Government should keep sut of the
matter. But it spoils the whole argument
by declaring hat the fines imposed by the
lower court were illegal and they are re-
mitted. Doubtless the lower court will not
feel much gratiiea to be given an abstract
right which it has no power to enforce. II
there is NJ pehalty, hat is the use of a
trial?
The matter of employers liability is a
vexed one, concerning which, a final decl-
sion is much to be desired. We have
passed such a law In his State-a very
stringent one-but it has not been finally
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
She's More Than Hail.

Man calls his wife his ''better half"
But that's a sort of bluff;
He can't deceive himself, for she's
The whole thing sure enough.
Philadelphia Press.
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Not firing OF religion.


General Booth. the head of the Salvation
Army, in an address to his followers In
Berlin, told them that the people every
where seemed to be firing of religion,
There are 1000, 900 in London, he said. who
never enter a church. In America ne
found much the same condition and it is
to be observed even in heather countries,
he declared.
U~nfortunately evidence to support Gen
eral Booths statement is to be found In
many empty churches in this country and
it is to be presumed that he knows where
of he speaks as to his own land. But IL
Is not that men are becoming tired Of re-
ligion. 1T would be a disaster to them II
they should.
They have become, or are becoming, in
different to it. But generally speaking,
they still have full faith and confidence
In religion. They believe it is a good
thing for other men. They see persons all
around them who need it and they know
that it is the greatest agent In existence
for the moral and material well-being of
all.
They are not tired of it in the sense that
they would willingly part with it. After
struggles lasting through all the centuries
from the time the great message of the
gospel was given to the world they are
now at liberty in practically every civil
lied country to worship or not as they
please.
Having gained that liberty and feeling
secure in it, without that eternal vigilance
held to be the price of all liberty, they
do not think of it as the great boon 1t
really is. So long as it is not threatened
or menaced 1t is not a matter of much
concerns to them.
But let some one say that they shall not
have it and it will be quickly seen that
they are not tired of religion. An at
tempt TO close the churches of this country
would fill every one of them with men de-
termined thai they shall not be closed.
So long as many believe that salvation
is free and easy it does not seem worth
their while. 10 fill the churches the
pulpit must convince them that 1t rs
neither free nor easy; that to gain 1t NJ
must be earned in the good fight that
never ceases and that 1t is worth the sac
rifces that must be made for it.-Pitts-
burg Leader.
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Tie Big Men Of the south.
PUMPKINS Life ont of saratoga.

Pumping Life Out of Saratoga
In every corner of this country an inter
est will be felt in a movement by a cru
zens' committee of Saratoga to prevent tne
pumping of gas from the mineral water
veins in thai section. For on this gas DE-
ponds the working and the healing power
Of the springs, and on the springs, 10 d
great extent, depend the fame and popu,
Iarity of Saratoga as a pleasure resort.
And not alone for the joy and gaiety J.
dispenses today is Saratoga admired anu
held dear. In it and around 1T cluster as
soeiations of "a happy past, of countless
bygone honeymoons, of jubilant meetings,
the like of which have not been lived III
any other place in this country, though
Niagara Falls as a similar rendezvous mas
always been a close second. OF its water
falls it was possible to rob Niagara, pue
few ever suspected that the gases OF sara
toea Springs even could be abstracted III
such a measure as to exhaust the supply
Of them.-Boston Transcript.
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VIEWS OF EDITORS.
The Lurx sxstem Asaln.

Rhode Island is a small State, so sma'
that when they want 10 raise a real Fresi
Dental turkey there they send It over hi
Connecticut to feed. But small as Rhou
Island is they do some thinking there
President w. A. Morgan. of the Rhod'
Island Bar Association. declares that I'M
jury never was and never will be. III ny
opinion. the bulwark of anything or any
body except the ambulance chaser, the ~,
v~enturess who makes a business of breael
of promAe suits. the husband willing 1
make money out of his wife's shame af'
of the same stripe"
Some recent verdicts give pertinence am
impressiveness to his declaration. Some
who commit crime have reason to tnlhi
better of the jury system than Mr.. MOT
gan does. Juries may not know MUS
about the written law, but they know
lot about the unwritten law, and they ITO
quently use their knowledge n way ina
makes those who have some knowledge o
and respect for the written law sqnlrm
Mrs. Bradley thinks well of the jury sys'
|tem.-New Haven Journal-Courier
The Big Men of tbs South.
The big men of the South are in retire
ment politically. Some of the biggest to9
even at home. The demagogue has peeh u
the political saddle these past Few years
but let us once be in the running asali
and there will be no scarcity OF capacity u
lead.
Do not discredit our own and those 81
our thinking and acting. We have nothlnA
in common with the extreme West. ana Jus
dogmas of their political creed. They have
been against the South since they came
into the Union. Why longer look to then
e., a,ndidatos or for comfort?-Nasnyille
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FOUR MEN TO HANG.
Notable Black Friday in Kentucky on
February IS.
Special Dispatch to 1 e Star.

Special Dispatch to Star.
LEXINGTON. KY. January .1.~:Fridly,
February l.. Will be BLACK Friday in
Kentucky. four men are TO ray the
penalty on the gallows on = that day for
men die for criminal assault. while the
other two die for murder. Only one of the
doomed u~n issa negro asiuy Lyon and W.
K. Fletcher are to- be hanged at. Russell
willie. Logan county. for criminal assault;
Ben Huffaker. to be hanged. at RusseIiv.lle
for murder, all white. and Jesse EIi assra1d
WI be hanged at, London. Laurel reapty,
FOR murder. Fitzgerald is now in jail here
forsSafe keeping. having been brought here
to Escape from tie fury of mob Lyon
and Fletcher are charged with crime
that has become noted all over the country.
About two years ago they attacked the camp
OF an aged German named Giadder. in
Logan county, and outraged the fifteen
ycar-old daughter of the aged man, Mary
Giadder. Both the men were married and
had families. When they were arrested
aEd the girl in broken English told the
story of her brutal treatment. a company
OF state troops was all that saved both
men from being lynchcd by mob Huff
faker Is to die for the murder of a fellow
convict in the Eddyville branch peniten-
tiary. With a knife ne attacked Ben
Shiriy. with whom he had quarreled. and
killed him. The Fitzgerald negro with a
negro woman named Amy Henson, killed
Mrs. Martha Broughton in Knox county
for the purpose of robbery. They cut her
head off. When they were trailed with
bloodhounds and arrested the woman con-
fessed. The Knox county jail was stormed
by a mob. but state troops guarded the two
murderers and brought them here, where
Fitzgerald has since been incarcerated.