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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01

There has been nervou apprehension
in French newspaper offices as to the
fate of the American battleship fleet
in attempting the passage of the
Straits of Magellan. There are French
nava critics who, indeed, doubted
whether the fleet would be able to
reach the straits without some serious
mishap, but the consensus of expert
French opinion has been that the
passage of the straits involves fornid-
able difficulties and was very likely to
be attended by disaster, even il Jap
anese t~orpedoes did not sink the whole
outfit. Well, the battleship feet is
right there, and is cocky enough. Moth
ing has happened, and there is we'll
grounded belief on this side of the At
lantic that the straits will be cleared
by the fleet with no more misadventure
than might happen to "a painted ship
upon q painted ocean,"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01
MEADOW AND BAY DEVELOPMENT.


There now seems to be a sincere pur-
pose on the part OF our city officials to
adopt a plan for the utilization of the
Newark meadows and bay front for
public dock and warehouse improve
ments. A conference held yesterday by
city officials and the special committee
of the Board of Trade showed that the
great project fathered by Commissioner
Book has taken firm hold and viii be
pushed. Engineer Joseph o. Wright,
in the employ of the government, pre-
scented to the conference yesterday a
lucid and most interesting report on
the conditions to be dealt with,
The engineer had made an expert In
vestigation of the meadows and bay
front and also inquired into the COM
merclal need that make the development
of this section necessary. The engineer
recommends the acquisition by the city
of the necessary land, the same to be
dyked and drained to improve it's sani-
tary. conditions to make it fit for i'm
provements. This cal be done by
building earth embankments and put
ting in sluices. AS for the proposed
ship canal, with docks and wharves for
handling freight, a depth of thirty feet
would, as the engineer points out, be
of no benefit without a similar depth in
the channel of the bay. 1t will be
necessary, therefore. to dredgc a
thirty-foot channel from the Kill Won
Kull to a point opposite the mouth of
the Peddie street sewer.
Engineer Wright describes the char
acter of the facilities to be provided
for in handling cargo and the kind of
work hat will be necessary, with also
the plan of connecting the wharves
with the railroads and with extensive
manufacturing plants. To provide
sufficient room to build a modern
wharf system a strip of land at least
1000 feet wide to allow for a canal
1000 feet wide should be acquired. II
the bulkhead line could be extended out
into the bay there would be secured
more than fifteen and a half miles of
wharfage, while the canal basin would
have a water surface of 375 acres, with
1850 acres of LAND for storage and dis
tribution. But the government would in
all probability refuse permission to ex-
tend the bulkhead line out any dis
lance in the bay.
City Comptroller Bachelor judicious-
ly advises that no bond issue for this
work be authorized in the present year
by reason of the condition Of the bond
market, but existing conditions may
materially change before the year is
out, and if the city can borrow money
to good advantage at any time there
is no logical reason why the Board of
Works shall not go ahead and acquire
the land. Wisdom and policy do not
always reside In delay.
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lee shumeboard.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star;
Kindly tell me how the game OF ice
sb,ytaehoor I'd is PLAYED. M. II. H.
1.-THE game of ice Switchboard is easy to
play ON a smooth piece of ice five cir
Giles are marked out having a common
centre. the innermost circle having a
radius of six inches, and each other one
radius of six inches larger than that of
the circle next nearest the centre of the
target thus formed. The spaces between
the lines are numbered from one to five,
the highest number being at the centre.
From a line a little distance away, say
twenty-five feet, round disks are pro
PEELED by long cues toward this target
Tbe object OF the game is for each side
to shoot its disks as near the centre OF
the circle as possible, and to knock its
opponents disks away-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Governor Swettenham, who was so
prominent in the eye of the world at
the time of the Kingston disaster, ana
was later removed, is now run
q stock farm in Jamaica.
q Captain Jay ]. Morrow, who has just
been promoted to major of h Engi-
neer Corps, U. S. A., is a Pennsylvania
by birth and is 81 years old. He gradu-
ated from West Point in 1891 and was
with the army in Cuba during the
Spanish War and was later in the Phlilp-
pines.
J. G.. Phelps Stokes and his wife, who
was Miss Rose Pastor, have sailed for
a three months cruise in the Mediter-
ranean. Before starting Mr.. Stokes de-
clared that he would vote for the
Socialist candidate for President and
that he was still an ardent Socialist.
Miss Elizabeth NJ, Kilbourne, of Win
sted, Conn.,, claims to be the first wom-
an who ever took a stitch on the sew
ing machine. She was formerly a
teacher in Hartford, where h visited
Elias Howe's shop and was given a
chance to try his new invention.
Two Of the principal German singing
societies Of New Haven, the Harugari
Lledertafel, of which Paul Zimmerman
is president, and the Hermanns Soehne
Manneor-Chor, Joseph Goldbecker,
president, have each received two
handsome bound volumes containing
GOO German songs, the gift of Kaiser
Wilhelm and made through the German
consul, Gen. X. N. Buenz, of New York
city.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01
CHANCELLOR DAY ENRAGED
BY PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

SYRACUSE. N. Y, Feb. 1.-Chan-
cellor James r. Day. OF Syracuse Uni
yerslty, the only man ever elected
bishop by the Methodist Episcopal
Church who refused that honor, today
has the following to say of President
Roosevelt's message:
.'0f the Presidents message, If I am
entirely honest and frank. L am COM
PEELED to say thai much of it reads like
the rawlings of a disordered mind, and
other portions, in which appeal is made
to class prejudice and excitement, is
large with the suggestion of the adroit
and cunning, the shrewd, but reckless
demagogue.
1.-THE whole message is his familiar
ranting against what he calls criminal
wealth.. and it proceeds. upon the SLAM
derous assumption that so great a per
cent. of the corporate business of this
country is so corrupt as to demand
special messages to Congress, popular
harangues by the President and the
entire time, ability and effort of the
Congress in a volume of corrective
legislation such as the world has never
seen.
at Is wrong, a great w~iekedness, for
the Standard Oil Company to defend it.
self, but there is no impropriety in the
Presidents assaillng this corporation
by name and defaming it and SANDER
ing 1t with all the 'envenomed' in
huence of his great office while its
cause is still undecided in the higher
courts. The square deal has so long
been a farce that this Inconsistency
seems to have escaped Mr.. Roosevelt's
ethical standard, of which he makes so
much.
"As / am one of those hired book
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IN HUMOROUS VEIN.
HOW h shopned.

How She ShOppcd.
She looked at ribbons narrow and
She looked at ribbons wide.
1 hauled them out to beat the band;
TO fix her out l tried,
Sheilooked at purple aud at pink,
At blue and brown and red,
l felt my spirits slowly sink,
And I was nearly dead.
Behind her stood a waiting crowd;
They pressed on either side,
And their complaints were long and loud.
To fix her out I tried.
She fingered black, she fingered green
And yellow, gray and white,
And through It all she was serene
They, mad enough to bite.
Yet ever she demanded more
And would not be denied;
You bet the waiting mob was sore.
To fix her out I tried.
AT last she said, Now. won't o cut
A sample, please, of eaoh7'
I really smiled and did .so-but 40 eer
oh, say, she ,wasia peach!,
Chicago News.
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Nearly twenty-five hundred adult
foreigners nave attended the sessions
of the evening schools in Newark dur
ing the present term, and they have
Been enrolled in seventy-fve classes
The educational work thus done is of
SURPRISING importance. And the fact
speaks elouuently for the immigrant In
u State. Give him the chance to
learn about our laws and history and
institutions and he eagerly embraces
it. He wants to adopt American citl-
zenship intelligently; he wants to
identify himself with American ne
land in the night school he is afforded
the means to do so.
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writers referred to, a personal word
may be permitted. Not q nickel or
dime was ever offered to me by any
person, company or corporation for a
sentence or paragraph in print in any
shape or form whatever. No such par
ty knew q syllable contained in my
book until 1t was published.
II was warned that If I wrote my
reputation would be assailed by the
President, and eyery unworthy motive
would, be charged against me. 1 nave
been accused of personal pique and re-
venge. / am now charged with selling
my character and bartcring my repu-
tation. for pay to a cause that l know
to be corrupt. When one considers the
high source of such a Islander, can one
imagine a much lower descent OF
vituperation OF a more astounding use
of the prerogatives of the highest office
and influence of our land?
''These are strange times when
American citizens are to be assailed
under cover of a message to Congress
for exercising their i~nalienable right of
the discussion of the policies and acts
of the administration of the country.
If this liberty is to be taken from the
people, what is there left of the democ-
racy of which we boast?
What better are we than RUSSIA
when q President of the United
States will descend to such indecent
Islander and other assaults by inuendo
upon the honor of his fellow citizens,
whose reputation for honor and high
moral ideals are as firmly established
as his own, we are left to one Of sevral
possible differences.
eve will try to take the one that Is
the most charitable
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Evans in the Spanish war.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
VIII you please write an account of Rear
Admiral Evans's Spanish War record?
C. IT. N.
C"Bighting Bob was captain of the
Iowa, which was prominently engaged in
the battle of Santiago. The outlook of the
Iowa was the first to discover the Spanish
ships emerging from the harbor. The
Iowa rushed TO meet the enemy, keeping
up an incessant fire at a 5,000-yard range
Tt was Captain Evans's intention TO ram
one OF the Spanish ships, but their high
speed made this impossible. The Iowa
Joined the Oregon in the chase until all
but one of the S%paniards surrendered. At
one time In the hght the Iowa engaged
all the Spanish ships single-handed, their
fire being concentrated on her as the most
dangerous antagonist. None Of their shots
took effect. When the Vfzcaya, on IRE
and disabled. surrendered, Captain Evans
made all haste in lowering boats to save
the survivors. Discovering that Cuban
sharpshooters were firing at the men
struggling in the water. he ordered them
to deslst on penalty Of being shelled them
selVes.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01

I met A friend who was stationed at the
army DOS. and was invited by him to pay
a visit. He left me and in the afternoon
on my arrival at his quarters l was told
he had gone up to the inn" for a mp.
1 found my way to the place, went
through several long passages until came
to a bar IN q large hall where there were
no less thar forty couples sitting about
drinking liquor. I found my acquaintance
in a maudlin condition. There were
screened apartments In the place where
one might drink In private, and all this in
a .'prohibition" State. Let it speak for
itself.
I've had an official in the city Of Topeka
Kansas, treat me to wine, some or the
~contraband, you know" the man eH-
planned, Wines and beer sliced by the
city In these places find their way to city
employees cellars.
The anti-saloon league does more harm
than good. The W. c. T. u. nkewis
(There Is a branch of the latter organiza-
ton In California where among its four
hundred odd members there have been but
three births in six years.. One seldom
finds a priest Of the Catholic church adj
vocating prohibition for all. He advocates
temperance. Temperance does not mean
abstinence. If SO, one temperate in eating
would have to starve to death, since he
could not partake Of food.
The Anti-Saloon League is not fighting
for local option for that issues own cause.
Local option is the excuse for prohibition.
1 do not think Jersey will ever go dry"
Il believe in Sunday closing of saloons and
a limited number of them, but l do not be-
lieve that any league of fanatics should die
tate to a man as to what he must eat and
drink.
If ]. Frank Burke will send me a stamped
envelope, I shall be pleased to give him the
l'ames of n dozen patent medicines which
men buy to drink on Sunday, since the mix
lures contain alcohol.
ARTHUR WILEY.
Oranpe Januarv %
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The Doctors nIistake.

A doctor who thinks that all the ills of
the human race can be traced to the
drinking of coffee and tea entered a res
taurant recently and seated himself oppo-
site an IriShman who was busylng himself
trying to dispose of a steaming cup of
coffee.
'How often do. you use %coffee?" ques-
toned the doctor.
II drink it morning. noon and night,
sir"
Don't you experience a slight dizziness
of the brain on retiring at night?"
Indeed / do, sir, very frequently"
"You have a sharp pain through the
temples n in and around the eyes?"
fright you are replied the Irishman.
'You are possessed with a drowsiness
when you awake in the morning, and your
head often aches and feels very heavy"
Fright again." answered the lrishman,
still slipping his coffee.
'NYell, them exclaimed the doctor, sit
ting erect in his chair, aren't you now
convinced that the coffee is the esuse?"
rs that SOP" said the Irishman. in
establishment. Faith, / always thought
1t was the whiskey .'-Tit-biys.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01

The Seventh Day Adventists are a
religious body. In convention as
sembled at Trenton yesterday the New
Jersey Adventists named a committee
to protest against the Sunday observ-
ance laws as an attempt to enforce
religion by law" which means 'intol-
erance and persecution of Gods people
in the near future" Now, If every
body in New Jersey who is opposed to
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01

To the Editor OF tho Evening Star:
VIII you kindly tell me whether more
intoxicating liquor is drunk in cold or
warm climates? ii. S. II.
rThe matter OF climate In relation to al
coholic consumption is given close statis-
tical examination in an English work pub
llshed some years back and quoted in the
Springfield Republican, called 1.-The Tenn
perance Problem and Social Reform"
written by Joseph Rowntree and Arthur
sherwell. The authors not only brought
together the per capita consumption of
wine. beer and spirits for various coun-
tries, but reduced it all to terms of pure
alcohol by giving beer an alcoholic
strength of from 4 to s per cent, wine
from 10 to 10 per cent, according to coun-
try. and distilled spirits so per cent. So
reduced 1t appeared that the annual per
capita consumption of 'absolute alcohol
for various countries around about ten
1--. H.
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publication. but as a guarantee or good ralth,
ED.
Harmful Erect a Canteen Abolition.
10 the Editor of the Evening Star:
Some time ago there was a minister
who spoke IN Newark under the auspices
OF the so-called "Anti-Saloon League"
That gentleman uttered violent attacks on
our representative, r. Wayne Parker, and
also condemned our Congressman for his
stand on the cateen issue. l do not write
from what / nave read, but from what 1
have seen. No canteen in our army has
bred immortality, degeueracy and trunk
enness. 1t has been the sole of the
lowest dives of immortality which now sur
round the Western army outposts, spring
ing up like fungus growths.
When the a~ntl-canteen measure was not
in existence the soldier had a certain al
lowance of pure liquor. He was satisfied,
generally, with hat. 1t was taken away
from him, and he still wanted 1t. Know
ing soldiers did want 1t the saloon soon
took Its place near the army outposts. The
soldier went there for a drink. He pos
sibly had two. Another man treated him
and he reciprocated. Instead of two he
had ten. Had the soldier the canteen he
would have been content with his usual
allowance and also would have had pure
liquor. Wanton women soon infested the
dives to make the ruin OF the soldiers,
such OF them as might be weak. complete.
i quote an instance:
Last year l was near a post in Kansas.
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No Rest.

Oh, lot forlornl
To toll we're born
ia like to know the reason:
Months come and go,
But, as you know,
Toll always is in season.
Man cannot shlrk
His daily work,
Stern duty spurs and lashes;
In spring, alas!
We sIft The grass;
In winter, NOW the ashes,
Louisville Courier-Journai.
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the Sunday statutes should join the
Seventh Day Adventists, or be enrolled
under their flag, would not this re-
ligious denomination be in exposition
to make a formidable fight for the
wiping out of the laws that recognize
the sanctity of the first day of the
week?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01
Indian Tribes.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
VIII you give me the names and popula-
tion of some of the leading Indian tribes
still in existence? Ii. f.
fThe Indian tribes mentioned by name in
the last census with the membership OF
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Difference ExnIaIned.

Willie-I say, father. what is the Diff
fernce between well, and ''goodT' .
Father-I have noticed, my son, that
sbout the only time when you are good is
when you are not well!-Philadelphia In
quirer.
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Snow.
The snow is beautiful no doubt,
On palace or on hovel.
It's fine to write about
But mighty mean to shovel!
Washington Star.
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Snrc Thing.

Mrs. Pinchpenny's present has ar
rived" said the bride. Its a silver
plated cream pitcher.
How is it marked?" asked the groom.
Down, I suppose, or we'd never have
gotten it."-Philadelphia Press.
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silly Idea.

Miss Elder-The idea Of his pretending
that my hair was gray.
Miss Representations!
Miss Elder-Wasn't 1t, though?
Miss Peppery-Yes, just as IL you'd buy
gray hair.-Philadelphia Press.
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laughed

perhaps you would feel better" said
the hopeful and helpful person, 'if you
would do something to tighten the hearts
of your fellow men"
THAT'S just what 1 nave been doing"
answered Mr.. Sirius Barker. My hat blew
off and 1 had to chase it two blocks
washington Star.
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rh. Latest Method.

Eyes, Brown is always getting the cart
before the horse"
MY dear boy, don't be old-fashioned.
Nowadays we say getting the smell before
the motor ar."-Philadelphia InquEer.
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A Careful Girl.

would she love me If 1 were penni5
less" faltered the young man who was
about to risk his worldly all.
'She might nswered his wise friend.
"But no one would ever know it, my boy"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Two of the principal German singing
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
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VIEWS Of EDITORS.
we Neeo the Money ourselves.

We 9ECU NHe NAOMEy OuhsCAN1s
If it wasn't for the money they take out
of the country no one would care very
much whether or no American girls mar
ried titled foreigners. They generally pay
for 1t in more ways than one, and learn
In bitterness and sorrow the truth OF the
saying that all that glitters Is not gold.
But their Woodworking dads made their
millions out of the rest of us, and 1t is not
unreasonable to expect the money to re
main in circulation where it was secured
The question is really becoming serious,
aud some restriction viii have TO be placed
upon the absolute removal of so many
millions to Observation-Disclosures Tele-
graph.
The Sane Sunday.
Our modern Interpretation of rest is one
that actuates an individual, not to sit
down and think about his sins but to di-
rect his activity to a different channel
from that IN which> his faculties nave
become wearled. THIS changed view is
bound to affect our view of Sunday obser-
vance. 1t is recalled thet the first church
ever built In Brunswick Me, had a powder
magazine in the CARROT, the stocks In 'front.',
the whipping post behind, the graveyard to
the north and beyond that the pound. 1t Is
little wonder that, in such environment,
the New England Sunday was gloomy.
since those days, Americans nave learneu
to make Sunday, as well as the churches
more pleasant, and at times the pendulum
has swung too far in the opposite direction.
Therefore, one may echo the sentiment of
Gov. Guild that there is a happy mean,
between ~circuses and bullfights on the one
hand and the traditional cold meals,
promenades in the cemetery and perusal of
nothing less dismal Than Bakers Saints
Rest" on the er.-Springfeld Union.
SyIIabicalIy Considered.
Eight of the country's Presidents have
had t~bree-syllable names, thirteen have had
two-syllable names. or the four monosyl-
Liable Presidents, two-Grant and Hayes
were born In Ohio. The other Ohio-born
Presidents were Garfield. Benjamin Harri-
son and Mckinley. OF the citizens on the
Republican side OF the road who have been
talked of for the presidency OF late, three
Taft, Hughes and KnoX-have one-sy1lable
names. That's unusual, not to say unpreee-
denied. J'wo other monosyllabic citizens
Shaw and Crane-have been more or less
mentioned. Fairbanks and Cannon are in
the two-syllable class; La Toilette and
Foraker are in the class of the also left"
Courant.
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Climate and Drink.

Orange, January %.