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rAx VALUATIONS ANp 1NcRrAsEs.

Under the old taxing system in New
Jersey. where the tax rae was high
and when the property-owner made no
complaint of excessive taxation, the
assessed valuation vas uniformly low.
In some taxing districts the tax rate
was as high as 3 per cent. but an ex-
animation of the tax bills showed that
the property-owner paid a less amount
Of tax than he would have paid in a
district where the tax rate was much
lower.
When, therefore. the valuations came
to be raised to full value under the new
Jaw, there were wide variations in the
Increase, ranging from 20 per cent. to
more than 100 per cent The increased
assessments I'm Essex CoBlty and in
Newark showed these great differences.
In Hudson County the tax rates were
high and the assessments ruled low.
There was always a marked difference
between the annual tax rates in New
ark and Jersey City, the rate in the
latter city being much higher, show
ing Individually that the Jersey City
rate of assessment was much lower
than tho average in Newark, which
was among the highest in the state.
Consequently, when the assessors in
Hudson County were compelled, after
refusing to do their duty under the law.
TO increase their assessments to figures
representing something like real value.
the total increase was greater than
elsewhere in the State. There is no
doubt that the railroad companies de-
sired the assessments increased, in
order that the railroad tax rate should
be reduced. and nobody possessed Of
common sense will wonder at that. If
the main stem has not been assessed
by the State board at honest figures the
board can be changed, as was the Fish
and Game Commission, by legislation.
But the delinquency of the State board
does not initiate against the system of
assessment of full value for4 property
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AFTER 20 YEARS
winner UNEARTHS COPPER

him not at all. He had a purpose in
view, and he meant to follow 1t stead
fly.
In the stock yards at South Omaha
one day four young men heard his
story. They heard experienced business
men scott at the story and intimate
that they were too old to be caught
for suckers and had already bitten at
schemes to grub stake prospectors to
their sorrow.
The young men jollied the old pro-
spector and heard his story. Some of
them had a little money. and the aver
age stockman is always ready to AXE
a chance.
"IIl go you, old man. said one of
them. "At least I'll get a run for my
money in taking a chance on you, and
there is nothing like a speculation for
making you sleep nights"
The others laughed at him. The more
they laughed the more obstinate he be-
came. He found three other young
men with more money than experience,
and the four grub staked the old man
for his last trip. They bore the rag
ging" they received at the hands of
the stockmen with cheerful grins.
In the meantime Christian Baysell
was climbing and struggling and blaz-
ing a path among the rocks of Wyo-
ming. Straight to the old path he went
in the spring.
Hatless, as he always worked, with
an old handkerchief tied over his head,
he climbed the summit of q mountain
one day and gazed hopelessly in the
direction of home. Food and money
were gone, and for the first time in
his search he felt hope leave him. For
twenty years he had sought and found
not, In deep despair he threw his pick
from him, vowing never to set it to
earth again, and, throwing himself on
the rocks, he lay for several hours in
hopeless detection.
The waning sun warned him to pre-
pare for night. AS he rose to find the
discarded pick the rays from the West
ern sun lighted a slim tree far below
him. With a fast-beating heart he
looked closely.
It was a slim little scrubby tree, with
three slender trunks rising from the
base.
Scrambling, falling. stumbling. the
p~rospector hurried down. And falling
to the ground beneath the scrubby
little tree. tears of joy ran races across
his tanned and weatherbeaten cheeks.
Three more days and paying rock
was picked up. Anxiously he scratched
the bfownish green rocks with his
knife, to be rewarded by the CLINT of
what looked like pure copper.
When the old prospector arrived in
Omaha last week the three plucky
young men who believed his story were
sought out Immediately and the good
news was told.
"Ach!" sobbed the old man. 1T has
come at last, the riches I have sought
SO long. 1t is a mountain of copper I
have found-enough to make us all
kings. And now my good wife shall
live in ease and be decked will Jewels"
The rocks were assayed and proved
to be all the old man claimed for them.
The location of his find he jealousy
guards.
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REVISION.

After considering charter revision for
New York city for three months, the
commission appointed by Governor
Hughes has submitted a report contain
ing important suggestions. But the
commission has not a time to do its
work as thoroughly as it should, and
the Governor is recommended to APP
point another commissic-l to go on with
the work and make a full report finally.
Charter revision is engaging the atten-
ton of a number of cities, among them
the city of Newark, and a
bill win be presented to the
Legislature mex year containing
the draft of a new charter prepared by
the capable commission which has been
at work upon it this year.. In some re-
spects the changes proposed win be
radical, but radical changes are needed
in our outworn charter.
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CONGRESS TODAY.

Congress seldom does n business OF
any Importance until after the holi-
days, and probably this Congress will
be no exception to the rule. The COM
mittees will organize and arrange for
the seasonal work, and to them will
be committed the many bills intro
mittee examination and work, so that
the real business of the session will
not assume definite shape until after
the holiday recess.
The Presidents message tomorrow
will be replete with interest. The great
questions before the country will be
dealt with with characteristic vigor
and the recommendations to Congress
will be in line with the general policy
of the administration. The currency
question is an immediate one, and will
probably occupy a large part of the
message. So also the question of the
better regulation of railroads and of
the suppression of the trust evil.
President Roosevelt believes in a
strong navy and is expected to take
advanced ground on that question, and
also as to larger appropriations for
the coast defenses.
A %do-nothing Congress is unbelieva-
bic. No former Congress since the
Civil War met with greater responsi-
bilities. and this Congress has the in
centive of duty that is always found
on the eve of a Presidential election.
The Republican party is in control of
both branches of the national legis-
lature. and 1t will be credited with
the responsibility for legislation.
The great interest of the nation will
now be centred at Washington.
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NNert Polnt,s Great chnin.

To tina Editor OF the Evening Star:
Please tell me where in the Hudson River
the chain was stretched across to keep
back the British ships and also something
about the effectiveness of this chain.
READER.
1.-THE chain to which yon refer was
stretched across the Hudson River at West
Point to prevent the British fleet from
making a second attack upon Kingston and
Albany. It was nearly a mile in length
and weighed almost two hundred tons.
many single links being as heavy as an or
binary sized man. To complete 1t in six
weeks sixty men hammered day and night
at seven FORCES and the cost of It was
placed at $500, 900. 1.-THE great chain Is
buoyed up wrote Dr. Thatcher, ''by very
large logs, about sixteen feet long, pointed
at the ends to lessen their opposition to
the force of the current. The logs are
placed at short distances from each other.
the chain carried over them and made fast
to each by staples. There are also n number
of anchors dropped at proper distances
with cables made fast to the chain, to give
greater stability" No British ship passed
this iron barrier. With its aid West Point
became the strongest military post in
America-so strong hat treachery was
tried where force of arms had failed.
When Benedict Arnold was plottong the
surrender of West Point he wrote Andre
and said: 81 have ordered that a link be
removed from the great chain and taken
to the smith for repair" The chain, how
ever, remained In place till the end Of the
war, and links Of it are still to be seen in
the museums Of Albany, West Point, New
burg and of New York city.-Ed.l
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OMAHA, Neb., Dec. z-lt mas re-
manned for an Omaha man, Christian
Baysell. an old prospector, to locate this
fabled mountain of conner somewhere
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THE NEW SCHOOL BOARD.

Mayor Haussling will soon be re-
quired to appoint the nine members of
the new Board of Education which is
to replace the present elective board of
thirty-two members, and the Mayor is
expected in these appointments to put
his best foot forward" by selecting
high-class men of well-known probity
end good business ability.
Considering the character of the great
trust to be confided to the new board,
and the delicacy and responsibility of
the duties of the board, membership in
that body should be esteemed highly
honorable, and it may be expected that
any good citizen who shall be named
for commissioner will gladly accept the
office. Mayor Haussling, therefore, has
ministration by naming a School Board
that shall rank high in civic merit and
do credit to himself officially.
The opportunity is also for the APP
pointees. The present system of school
management is in such bad odor that
the people of Newark will keenly ap-
preciate the better administration in
troduced, and will not fail to do honor
TO the men who shall have performed
the good work to be done. Comparison
will heighten the public value of the
new board. 1t will be a distinction for
a man to have served in the first reform
School Board of Newark, ind every
ma of honest pride looks to some dis
tinction in life.
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If you can raise the money, start In
to do your Christmas shopping today,
and finish it as soon as possible. There
is everything you need and will buy in
the stores now. The display of holiday
goods is ready and SURPRISES in variety
and beauty anything you ever saw be-
fore. BY shopping early you not only
get choice of goods, avoid he rush and
crush and strain of the later days, with
probable disappointment, but o viii
help those in the stores upon whom the
Christmas strain is so heavy. Consid-
erations of enlightened s%elfishness and
benevolent thoughtfulness for others
both urge early shopping. Christmas is
only three weeks off.
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cooper and Thnckernx.

the Editor of the Evening Star:
VIII o kindly state the main facts in
the lives of Cooper and Thackeray as
briefly as possible? READER.
flames Fenimore Cooper was born at
Burlington. this State. September IS, 1889.
He was the son OF william Cooper who
in 1888 founded the settlement of Coopers-
town, on Otsego Lake, removing thither
with his family in 1890. In 1902 he entered
Yale College, where he remained three
years. He became a midshipman in the
navy in 1908: married Susan Delaney in
1911. Among his works are "Precautlon."
THE Spy" THE Pioneer" ''The Pilot
THE Last of the Mohicans,. THE Path
finder" THE Prairie and THE Deer
slayer" He died at cooperstown, N. Y,
September IL. 1851. William Makepeace
Thackeray was born at Calcutta July Is.
1871. He went to England when ) ,years
old and was educated at the Charter House
School and at Trinity College, Cambridge,
leaving In 1880. In 1888 he began to devote
himself to literature and art. He wrote
for several papers, some of which he was
aftervard editor and proprietor. He died
at london December "a, 1868. Vanity
Fair" "~Pendennis," 1.-THE Newcomer and
many other amou novels are to his
credit.-Ed.1
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TN HUMOROUS VEIN.

His Parable.
An old darby, anxious to be a minister,
went to be ordained. He was questioned
thus:
Can you writer"
mo, sah!"
"Read?" II
mo, sah!"
How do you know about the Bible?"
MA niece reads it to me-"
Know about the Ten commandments
mo, sah!'
THE 23d Psalm?' i
"Nebber heard of him, sahl"
Know the Beatitudes?"
mo, sahi"
well. what part of the Bible do you
like best?"
"Par'bles, sah!"
Can you give us one?'
Deed, yes, sahp'
Let us have 1t then"
''Once wen the queen of Sheba was
gwine down to Jerusalem she fell among
thieves. First they passed her by on de
oddah side, den dey come ovah an dey
say unto her, Fro down Jezebel? but she
wouldn't fro her down; and again dey say
unto her, Fro down Jezebel!' but she
wouldn't fro her down; and again dey
say unto her for de frd and last time,
for l amt g'wine to AK 70 no mo, Fro
down Jezebel.' and dey fro'd her down
for seventy times and seven. till de re-
mains were 'leven BASKETS; and~A say
unto yo', whose wife was she at de fesSuE-
rection?"-Bystander.
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pRorEor HUMAN LIFE OR eAMEs

with a record of seventy-one persons
killed and ninety injured in pursuit of
game his season, most of them shot
"in mistake for some animal, the ne
cessity for taking some order with the
situation is forced upon us with in
.~creasing emphasis every year. In many
States now a license is required for
every hunter, but chiefly for the pur-
pose Of revenue in the protection of
gam and not with any idea of pro-
tecting human beings, which should be
considered as Infinitely more important.
Anybody can get a license who pays
for 1t. whether he knows anything about
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SEA SILK.
Spun by an %Enterprising shellhsh in
the Depths of the Mediterranean.

We are all getting quite used 10 ~associat-
ing silk with an industrious worm of most
unprepossessing appearances; and many Of
us are even reconciled to a firm BELIEF In
certain spiders which spin a beautiful
gossamer of daintiest hue and texture,
which has been woven, even by the spiders
themselves. into caps and other useful
things. But what say you and your young
folks. asks st. Nicholas, to an enterprising
shellhsh which. in its watery home among
corals and flower-like anemones deep down
in the Mediterranean spins a silk just as
fine in texture and beautiful to the eye
as anyone could wish to see? 1t would
not quite do to call this submarine silk
maker an oyster. for 1t is not exactly that,
though it certainly is first cousin to the
pearl bearers; neither may W. call 1t a
mussel, despite Its strong likeness to one;
we shall have to call it, then, by its own
name. the one scientists gave it, Pima
nobilis'-common folks do not seem to
nave christened it at nil. Pima is a big
shell, some two feet or so in length at
times, and very thin and brittle withaL,
like a piece of delicate china.
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handling firearms or not. The necessity
of requiring some qualification for a
license other than the payment of a
few dollars should be considered. No
person should be authorized to roam
the woods and fields with a gun who
cannot show that he knows how to use
it. Some very severe penalty enforced
on those whose carelessness kills Or in
jures another would tend to make even
inexpert gunners more careful when
they shoot, and sure that they see the
animal they shoot at instead of firing
at a rustling Of the underbrush.
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what Bliss.

What Bliss!
On Christmas night,
oh, what delight.
When stars are brightly cleaning,
And SHOWS are piled
And breezes wild,
And love, young love, is dreaming!
What bliss, | say,
With pas old sleigh,
And robes all warm and furry
And Dobbin, dear,
Who has 10 fear
That he will have to hurry!
And then-oh, well,
If / must tell!
Your own-y, ownest grille,
In coat and hood,
All tucked in good,
And warned to come home early"
What bliss, l say,
To ride away
With bells just family jingling,
AND later on,
When love has won,
Our chilly fingers mingling!
And then-at last
Hearts beating fast,
In loves delightful tether,
To somehow feel
Lips slowly steal,
And then-why-freeze together.
-Lurana W. Sheldon, in Judge.
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PEOPLE OF NOTE.

William H. o'Connell, who succeeds the
late Mgr. John Joseph Williams as arch
bishop of Boston, is the youngest arch
bishop in America, and head of the arch
diocese in which twelve years ago he
labored as an assistant priest in a slum
parish.
Grant Richards, one OF the best known
of London publishers, states that he be-
lievs the time is coming when American
writer's will be as popular in England as
Englishmen.
There's a Joseph w. Folk club in Nasn-
ville-formed TO urge the nomination Of Mis-
souri's Governor for the Presidency--and
Tennessee Democrats are said to be join
ing it at the rate of SO to 100 a day. The
Governors brother, r. e. Folk, is Ten
n~essee's State Treasurer and Insurance
Commissioner.
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A Fine Poiny.

TITS the little things that count" re-
marked the man with mouse-colorcd
whiskers.
How now?p
Once ! wrote a book and called it How
to Get Beautiful"
"Well?'
w didn't sell a copy. After some
cogitation I changed the title TO How To
Remain Beautiful ana the ladies' swamped
us with orders. You've got to study
woman nature if you want to get rich.p-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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To the Editor of the Evening Star:
When was the first United States census
taken? ]. B. K.
THE first census in the United States
was taken in 1890. 1t recorded only the
heads OF families, dividing the members
Of the family into the following classes:
Free whites males Is years and over,
males under IS years, females, other free
persons, and slaves. Until 1850 no essen
tial change was made in the form of
enumeration, though the classes were en-
larged to embrace age, occupation, physl-
teal inirmity and other data.-Ed.1
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Why He Didn't Rise.

1t was married mems night at the re-
vival meeting. Let all you husbands who
have troubies on your mind stand up.''
shouted the emotional preacher at the
height Of his spasm.
Instantly every man in the church rose
to his feet except one.
ana! exclaimed the preacher, peering
out at this lone sitter, who occ,insed q
chair near the door and apart from the
others. "You are the one In a MILTON .
ut amt that piped back this one help
lessly as the rest Of the congregation
turned TO gaze suspieiously at him. 81
ant get up-I'm Observation-Disclosures.
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Brother Against, Brother.

A8nAHbt 6IVtueEs
Brother against brutheri
A dreadful phrase.
The reader thinks
OF saber clinks
And wartime days.
Brother against brother!
But turn not pale.
OF feuds or wars
Or evil stars.
/ weave no tale
Brother against brotherl
When all is said.
It crowds a heap
To have to sleep
-Four in a bed.
Louisville Courier journal.
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The Rich ChiId's Nursery Rhyme.

Ride a mobile to Banbury cross;
Upset an old lady who drives a farm boss
Automo Billy laughs loud at her woes;
To him 1t is music wherever he goes.
With Ibis
Tootity, skootity,
Dashity, crashity.
Jumpity, bumpity, thumpity, humpity,
Gogglety, wogglety, jogglety, bogglety.
He shall have music wherever he goes.
Judge.
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Landlady Ito new lodger)-I must toll
you that l am very particular about being
paid punctually. Your predecessor owed
me for three months and, as he still
couldn't pay me, l turned him out.
Lodger-That is all right. l will take
your rooms under the same conditions
Fliegende Batter. }
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for tax purposes. This state Is not
going back to the abominable system
Of undervaiuation and discrimination
tina .ths new law has abolished.
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A Mems 10 an End.

bryan Dusty-what's Bill ser restless
fur? Hes been huntin' around among the
bushes fur hours.
Walker Rhodes--He read a piece in the
paper where it said a doctor'l often give
a man a quart of whiskey ter cure a
snake bite.
bryan Dusty-Well7
Walker Rhodes-He's tryin' ter find a
snake. Bohemian
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The time, the place and the girl! How
seldom we find them together
Bah. The combination that we seldom
find together is the man, the shower and
the umbrella. louisville Courier-Journal.
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The rool Behind the Gum.

There seems to be no way OF eilminalihs
the greenhorns from the real hunters
ranks by any such device as an
ton. Several courts to be sure have heio
that n hunter cannot be held tguihless OF
another's death simply because he took
him for a DEER" but fear OF punishment
will hardly wean from his hopeless folly
the fool behind the gun who is responsible
for most of these woodland tragedies.
Probably we shall not see the last of him
until we have seen the last of the game
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Jack-Tm going TO receive a great many
cigars and half a dozen pipes on Christ
mas.
Tonl-What makes you think so?
Jack-Why, I stopped smoking two days
~ago.-Judge.
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Il never knew a woman who wasn't
bound 10 have the last word with you
were to say, Take my seat, madam. -
PhiiadelpLia Press,
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