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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

in New jersey" unused the
Hotel Clerk.
Il didn't see nothin' so strange about
it." said the House Detective of the st.
Reckless. speaking in the professional
tone befftting one who had once belonged
to the uniformed force. THE lady wuZ
found dead in a swamp. as l remember,
and her husband couldn't properly ex-
pIain where he wuz the night she landed
there and he wuz showed to be in the
habit of takin' a club to her every oncet
in a while and labelin' her features with
one of them places marked \ shown
where the blow wuz struck, as the noos-
papsrs say. Of course. they didn't have
no actual proof that t'wuZ him croaked
her. but putin one thing with an
other
II didn't mean that" said the Hotel
Clerk. 1.-THE strange part was they didn't
find him guilty. l can't understand it.
1t must have been a serious blow to
state pride and deep blot on New Jer-
sey's fair escutcheon. I wouldn't be sur
prised to hear they'd sent up to the es-
cutcheon works for a new one. / can't
imagine what could have come over those
jurors 1 understand there's still consid-
cradle suppressed feeling against them in
Hoboken. Weehawken and environs."
1T don't usually turn out that way
over there said the House Detective.
Not that 1 recall said the Hotel
der in our sister state-if she is our sis
ter2has been something like being
chased the length Of through vestibuled
train and thrown off at a hemp factory
without stopping the train. These New
Jersey jurors must have begun to get
soft-fbered and weakened since their
state legislature abolished the good old
slip moose under the left ear of their
fathers, and voted in the comparatively
tame and uninteresting morris chair hav-
ing straps on the arms and live wires
running down its legs. Up until the time
they installed electrical features in the
Trenton penitentiary, you'd read that the
indictment had been returned and shortly
thereafter you'd see it printed under a
Toms river date line that the condemned
man spent several hours of his last night
on earth playing the national game of
pinochle, with the death watch, named
lleiney and August, after which he
silent as peacefIlly as little child but
arose early and donned the suit of neat
black that had been provided for him by
Sheriff Buttenheimer, ate a hearty break
melon, canned corn, ice cream, country
sausage, three cups of coffee, doughnuts,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
Anecdotes Concerning
We11-Known People
Not. Even a Curtain.

A T the Players Club in New York
4 y prompter said OF the late Peter
Daley:
He had the sunniest. cheeriest dispo-
sition. Once toured with him. The ac-
commodations were sometimes rather
rough, and on such occasions the true
gold in the man showed forth.
I'm a little southern town the dressing
rooms were awful. Everybody swore and
ragged. but Daley restored them to good
humor. Said he:
why this is nothing to what have
been up against at times. I played once
in q theater where at the end OF every
act, the stage manager had to come for
ward and say:
"'I must ask the ladies and gentlemen
I'm the audience to be good enough to turn
round. The players are about to change
their costumes"
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80 The HI

is that the guilty party has to stay in
Jail thirty or forty years before the
learned Justice Spifiefiinger or McGugsin,
as the case may be, can begin the con-
genial task of blasting reversible errors
out of the record And so they order
new trial. but by that time the witnesses
are all dead or in Jail themselves. and
serves them right. too. and third gener-
alton has grown up which feels no inter-
est in the person that was put out of the
way away back yonder in 1908; and so
they turn the prisoner out of his coy cell
where he's been writing autographs and
eating the cocoanut layer cake and the
chocolate fudge sent him by admiring
ladies who read his sad story as told by
Nell Bunkley in the Evening Exhaust,
and he gets job writing for the maya
zines and builds him villa over on Long
Island and is looked up to.
But when insanity is the plea and
there's a defendant that's got a large
available cash balance. or his family has.
that's where the conditions become ideal
for sailing and boating. If he happens
to be one Of those real sports from
Sportsylvania that's never had anything
of importance under his hat except the
part in his hair. and If the lady in the
case is a lovely model who once posed
for the leading house. sign and portrait
painter of Pittsburg, and If the crime took
place in some quiet. secluded spot like the
corner of 42d street and Broadway at
quarter past five on Saturday afternoon.
and IL the descriptive writers are feeling
in good health at the time and IL all of
the little troupes Of performing adjectives
are ready. and If the alienists don't begin
cutting the union rate on one another in
for everyone to put on their bathing
trunks and jump in and splash up.
First, they get the jury. That's the
start Of it. It only takes ten or twelve
weeks. or in extreme cases four months.
And when the box is filled, they tell the
prisoner to stand up and look at the jury
and the jury to stand up and look at the
prisoner. thereby providing a treat for all
concerned Then they shove all the facts
into the background If there are any
facts. and trot out their expert testimony
and compel those twelve real estate deal
ers and delicatessen princes and retired
faro dealers to sit and listen to brutal
disclosures in regard to the pneumogastic
and other intimate subjects that should
remain forever sacred to the individual
who owns them. until their poor tired
brains turn to mayonnaise and they don't
know whether the medulla OblOngatO is
grand opera or the name of a Spanish
restaurant, but are rather inclined to
think it is. This part is very important.
Larry. It's called informing the jury
us them alienists wot testify in murder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
The Power of the AID.

LILLIAN B. HILL the well known adj
IL vertising expert, read at an advertis-
ing mems picnic in Duluth some of the
stories from her unpublished history Of
advertising.
when p. T. Barnum." SO one story
ran. first went out on the road with
circus he carried a very small company.
yet his success was great.
How does IT happen. Barnum. q
friend asked, that your show is always
full. though your performers number but
six%
81 My bill posters press agents and pub
licity promoters number twelve Barnum
replied"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
POISON Never Took a
More Innocent and Allur-

more innocent ana Allur-
ing Guise Than DR.. Chal-
FAINT of Philadelphia Names
as the Source of Cancer
The Common Field Butter
cup, He Declares, Produces
Not Only Such Children's
Ailments as Measles, Chicken
Pox, Fever, Etc, But Is the
Cause of Cancer Itself
Contact With the Little
Blooms, or Eating Cattle,
Which Has Broused on
Fields of Buttercups, the
Physician Explains, Will
Produce the Disease, Which,
Once Given It's Start in the
Human Body, Can Only
Rarely Be Checked-With
Meat Infected by Buttercups,
or by Rubbing Buttercups
Against Healthy Flesh, DR..
Chalfant Can Produce a Case
of Incipient Cancer in Seven
Days-Dr. Chalfant Is to
Petition the United States
Government to Destroy All
the Buttercups.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
The Lady and the Detective.

IVA has taken up the Audubon Society's
war against the Merry Widow hat.
This hat is the worst omnivorous crea-
ton that the milliners have yet given
u.s." she said at a recent dinner. THE
number OF things required to trim the hat
Is frightening. Its appetite, in fact. re-
minds me of a police court episode.
"a detective was testifying in the case
of woman shoplifter whom he had ar
rested in her bedroom.
And, your honor he said. when I
told her the charge, she turned her back
to me and swallowed a purse. six suits ot
silk underwear a silver candlestick, q
Rubbish! Are you crazyT the magis-
trate interrupted.
Excuse me- What ! mean to say.
your honor explained the detective. Is
that she swallowed the pawn tickets"
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right in his diagnosis Of the malignant
possibilities of the buttercup, DR.. Chal-
FAINT set out to demonstrate to others the
correctness of his position.
His experiments were interesting and
varied. In one Of them he rubbed healthy
flesh with buttercups and produced an
irritation very similar to that which
marks the early stages of cancer.
Produces Cancerous Irritation.
Then he tried another form. In seven
days. by feeding healthy man on NUT
ton that had been infected by cooking
with buttercups. he produced a condition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
Poor Bill HiuuinS.

ISTHESE working mfnorities"" said
Senator Tillman at a Washington
banquet.
He smiled and went on:
"I said to a friend OF mine one day in
Charleston:
"'Bill Higgins doesn't seem to have
much voice in the management OF his
house. does hep
MY friend shook his head and laughed.
No said he, but Bill supports his
wife, his mother-in-law. his father-in-
law and his two brothers-in-iaw. and
therefore II may be said Of him that he
constitutes a good working minority"
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the fields in all its yellow glory.
myriad of brilliant spots in the
sedate setting of green. has a
terrible indictment to answer.
A distinguished Philadelphia physician
charges the buttercup with being the di-
rect cause of cancer. Not some of it. not
occasional isolated cases. but the sum
total of all instances of this dread dis
ease.
In fact, he goes even further in his I'M
limited assertion. He challenges any one
to show him a case of cancer where but
tercups do not grow.
1t is a startling blow at a flower that
ranks in favor with the violet or the
daisy.
Theme of the poets. plaything of the
children. the buttercup in the fields has
ever been welcomed as one of the special
joys Of springtime.
The love of the little yellow bloom is
innate in the heart of every child The
youngsters pick them. weave them into
garIands hold them under tiny necks
to admire the golden reflection they cast,
make them into bouquets and take them
into homes 10 become the most admired
OF decorations.
II II DC true tNdt the DulltTCup Is tHc
agent for disseminating cancer. then a
fell disease never found more innocent
or alluring way to do its deadly work.
Student of Preventive Medicine.
Since the time when DIR. Chalfant made
il his profession to aid in the curing of
ills TO which the flesh is heir he has paid
special attention to causes. believing that
the old saying about an 'ounce of pre-
vention being better than a pound of
cure" applies especially to matters OF
health.
lie first became suspicious of the but
tercup from a series of Investigations
that led him TO suspect that it was the
poison that brought measles. His paper
read on this subject at a conference of
physicians received considerable atten-
ton and so strong was the case he made
that "a number of doctors have been APP
plying the term "buttercup fever to the
familiar and old-fashioned ailment known
as the measles.
Then DR.. Chalfant went deeply into the
subject. He sought deeply into the medi-
cal lore of three centuries and found
Conditions that indicated a greater out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
Advice to the Lovelorn.

A n Albany politician was discussing the
heart troubles that Outlines draw
famous men unwillingly into court.
IF these men," said he. would paste
in their hats poor expatristed Abe Hum
mers advice. they'd have no difficulty
whatever.
"Abe's advice which he necessarily re-
peated to his clients, was:
Never make love to a woman through
an ink bottle"
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DREAD DISEASE Turks IN FIELDS OF GOLDEN BUTTERCUPS

| have passed forever II Dr. Chaffant IL
sustained in his charge that from its stem
and petals comes the poison that brings
| IN its train the horrors OF cancer and AL
led diseases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
BY IRWIN S. COBB.

/rT was mighty strange about that
last murder trial they had over
in New jersey" unused the
Hotel Clerk
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innocent buttercup, dotting
the fields in all its yellow glory.
myriad of brilliant spots in the
III sedate setting of green. has
terrible indictment to answer.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01
A BOILERS TO HAVE
SPECIAL MEETING SATURDAY

his staff ultimately declared a tie.
Busiest man in town. was the Vay
President Pulliam rambled along yesterday
afternoon, as he scattered a pile of mail
four feet high. You see, / haven't a thing
done toward my report for the annual meet
ing next week. Had a bully good vacation,
and now must pay the piper.
THE National board of directors will
meet at noon Tuesday, December 8, at my
office. The league will convene at 2 O'Clock
hat afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria The
American League will start its meeting on
Wednesday,. The National Commission will
convene whenever 1t finds time In the in
term. The commission has a lot of busi-
ness that it will probably dispose of at
that time. or course, it had been decided
ters in the February meeting. as at that
time the commission did not intend to meet
In December
Perhaps the most important matter on
the hands of the National Commission is
the disciplining of the major league players
who played against the Logan Squares and
other semi-professional Chicago teams at
the conclusion of the past season. The
Senators and White Sox are the only ones
deal. Milwaukee's refractory stars will
have to be dealt with by the National As
ISOLATION. President Pulliam says the com
mission has taken a firm stand on the mat
ter and that until the Washington and
Chicago players have sought and obtained
reinstatement at its hands there will be
nothing doing in the matter of contracts for
next year. He intlmatad that stiff fines
await the culprits. Garry Hermann, chair
Sunday, and the meeting is subject to his
call.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01

Glass A boilers, the Eastern League
and the American Association, will hole
a meeting Saturday afternoon at the
Hotel Victoria, New York city, to heal
from the committee appointed a few
weeks ago at Buffalo for the purpose
of framing a set of demands to be pre-
scented to the National Commission
which meets in New York early next
week. A call was yesterday issued by
President Patrick Powers to have all
the representatives of the clubs in
these two leagues meet Saturday for
the purpose of ratifying the work of
the committee.
The two leagues feel that in the mat
ter of drafting they are being given the
short end and will ask that they be
allowed to draft players at the same
time that the major leagues draft them.
The boilers also want a representative
on the National Commission and to be al
lowed to draft territory from National Com
mission clubs. The boilers also want to
draft from class A clubs and class B clubs.
The two bodies will also ask for a special
working agreement between them and the
RAZOR leagues. also the National Association
clubs.
No baseball war is feared as a result OF
the requests of the two organizations.
Colonel Harry Pulliam, president of the
National League, gumshoed into New York
yesterday. This baseball mogul has not
been In or about these diggin's since shortly
after that famous controversy between the
Cubs and Giants at the Polo Grounds, Sep
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01

Two new teams were framed up for
the six-day bicycle race today at the
office of P. T. Powers, the race pro-
moter. They are Matt Downey and
Menus Bedell and Joe Fogler and liver
Lawson, both formidable combinations.
Downey was originally slated to ride
with Patsy Logan, but that plan fell
through when it became known for a
certainty that John Bedell could not
ride this year. The latter was seriously
injured in the two-hours-a-night ace
at Boston. If Lawson can last for the
six days he and Fogler ought to be
prominent factors in the finish of the
long grind.
The cycling experts were out in full
force yesterday at the Vailsburg board
track to ook over the foreign riders who
are now training there for the race which
will start one minute after midnight next
that the American riders are going to
have the biggest jobs of their lives to win
back the title which was carried across
the waters last year by Walter Rutt and
Johann Stol. This famous little team Is
here again and bubbling over with con-
fidence In their ability to repeat the trick
they turned last December.
Lahrousee and Brocco. all seem to possess
the requirements necessary for the six
day riders-strength, speed and gameness.
Albert Wills, whose record of 81 miles
905 yards In 90 minutes behind pace recent
ly startled the cycle racing world, and
who is over here for the purpose of meet
ing Bobby Walthour next Saturday night
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01
SEVEN EX-MAJOR
LEAGUERS FOR
EASTERN CLUBS

If present plans &c through there will
be seven former major leaguers at the
helms of Eastern League baseball clubs
next season. 1t has been practically
settled that John CAMEL, who managed
the Cincinnati National League team,
will take up the reins over the Broncos
at Rochester. Harry Wolverton, as Is
generally known, will lead the Newark
team in 1909. The new Tiger has played
with the Chicago, Philadelphia and
Boston teams in the National League.
Clark Griffith. former manager Of the
Yankees, is slated for the managerial job at
Buffalo. If the deal goes through Griffith
will fill the job formerly held by George T.
Stallings, his successor in New York. To
ronto Is trying to get back Joe Kelley, now
manager Of the Boston Nationals. If the
Maple Leafs fail to land the manager who
won the pennant In the Canadian city In
1907 they will probably accept Dan Mccain,
the BeareGters' first baseman.
Hughey Duffy will be doing business at
the old stand in Providence. Jack Dunn
will again lead Baltimore, and Jimmy Casey
is to be given another chance at Montreal.
In Jersey City the managerial question has
not been definitely settled. Gene Mccain
may again be head Skeeter. but no contract
has been signed. Most of the clubs will
probably be able to announce their plans at
the Eastern Lea gue-American Association
meeting at New York Saturday.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01
BY WALTER e. ERLER.

1t is reported that Pete Herman viii
not start the bay gelding Harry Lake
in the match race over the speedway
Wednesday afternoon, and Captain e,
V. eager has filled the gap by enter
ing the bay trotting gelding j. B., which
will be a factor in the event if he
keeps trotting. The other entries are
George A. Oil, jr.'s, grand circuit flyer.
Robert hs&jr., Harry McKee's Prince
X, Doc Bodenweier's Dewey Ensign
and Samuel Dessler's Marique. This
event should be about the hottest thing
ever pulled off over the speedway, as
the rivalry Is of the two-edged sword
variety, and the horses are being pre-
pared for a desperate battle. Each
owner has agreed to leave his excuse
book home on this occasion.
Many horsemen are of the opinion that
Gil Brady didn't try to win on Thanks
giving Day when Dewey Ensign beat Rebe
In a recent conversation with the writeI
GIL said he, never tried harder to wiz
in his life, and that no trotter or pacei
ever went away from the black mare MS
the dun gelding did that day.
What will ultimately prove a severe
loss to the breeding interests of this
State was the lease Of the great bred
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01
TWO NEW TEAMS MADE UP
FOR SIX=DAY BICYCLE RACE

in a contest for the worlds champion
ship, went to Boston Sunday night to
finish his training there. The track in
Park Square Garden at the Hub is built
upon the same lines as the Garden saucer,
and Wills wanted to accustom himself to
the steep banks and sharp turns.
Another foreign team which is also
quartered at Vailsburg is the Australian
combination "Peddler" Palmer and Cor
don Walker. They both raced at Salt
Lake City during the past summer. and
Walker has been East for some time rae
ing at the Garden. Newark and Boston.
Work will be started tomorrow morning
on the track at the Garden. A large force
of carpenters will rush things along in ar
effort to have the course ready for prac.
tise by Friday morning.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01
HARRY LAKE NOT TOSTART
in NEXT SPEEDWAY RACE

stallion, Ed Winter. 2:18%, to NJ. II.
Reardon, of Indianapolis, Ind, where he
Will stand at the head of his recently ac-
CURED breeding establishment. Ed Win
ter has made three small seasons at
Hohokus, where his opportunities were
limited. and high class mares as scarce
as hens teeth. IN his new home his
opportunities will be much greater, and
that he will sire handsome individuals
possessed of extreme t~rotting speed there
can be no doubt. Ed Winter Is the sire
of Allen Winter, inner of the $50, 600
handicap at Readville. and several other
high class young t%rotters. He was bred
by R. L. Nash, at Lexington. KY. sired
by Jay Bird, $3.50 tsire of ia, including
Allerton, 2:0s4; Hawthorne, 2:0sA: Justo
dam Lady Ham, dam of Ed Winter, 2:12%;
Bond 80, 2:0gA, winner Of Kentucky
Futurity.
George Mcbride, the genial superintend-
ent of the Henry Jaeger plant, mas been
conspicuous by his absence from the
Speedway this season. 1t begins to look
as though George had forsaken the sport.
Cliff Woodruff is jogging the brown
gelding Admorell over the Speedway. The
horse has a pleasing way of handling
himself. There seems to be no good rea-
son why he should not make an extremely
fast trotter. His owner is authority for
the statement that he will be used exclu-
sively for matinee purposes the coming
sefson, and will not be started for the
rooney.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01
WILL TRY TEN
ROUND BOUT At
NATIONAL A. c.

All arrangements have been con.
cluded for the stag of the Nationa.
Athletic Club on Friday night, and q
choice program of exhibitions has beer
arranged for the members. Already q
majority of the 3,40O members Of the
club have made reservations, and Sec
rotary Musliner and his assistants, al
the clubs quarters, lat East Twenty
fourth street, are being kept busy.
frankie Madden and Harry Ferns
will appear In the final exhibition. They
will box ten rounds. There will not be
a decision, the rules of the club pro-
hibiting the referee from announcing
the winner.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-01
SIX=DAY RIDERS TAKE
in KLINE'S FOXING SHOW

Patsy Kline, the Newark bantam, and
his foxing pupils gave their last ex-
hibition of the season last night at
Kline's gymnasium, 2s4 Market street.
Kline had as his guests the six-day
bicycle riders who are training In this
city for the long grind at New York
next week.
Seven rapid-fire bouts with gloves
as large as pillows entertained the fans
for over two hours. The contests were
held in a ~twelve-foot ring, which made
plenty of action. The star bout of the
evening was one with John Bendokus
and Danny Savage, Bendokus using his
Battling Nelson style to the utmost ap-
probation of the crowd. The local lad
mixed it from bell to bell and his style
made a hit with those present. Danny
Savage showed that he had a good