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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
NAVIGATING TIGER.
India Native Always Knows
Where He May Be Found.

l have lived for weeks alongside quite
small, well-delned forests containing
tigers. Looking down from the hill
side 1 could always tell when a tiger
was on foot, where he was walking and
when he lay down to rest, for all these
movements We're reported by screaming
birds and chattering apes from the
treetopS.
BY the like ~telegraphy and by tho
woodcraft which is born in them. by
the interests and habits OF countless
generations, the villagers are perfectly
we'll posted regarding the great beasts,
and particularly regarding the tigers,
in their ~neighborhood. The man eater
is we'll known over the whole of mis-
sometimes very extensive beat.
A sportsman arriving-provided the
villagers have confidence in him, and
this is a large provision, Cor they must
know their man-will have no difficulty
whatever in being accurately informed
concerning the ~man-eater's movements,
but whether he will persuade the vii
layers to help him to get up to his
quarry will depend entirely upon his
personal reputation.
1t is easy enough to build a little
leafy screen in a tree over a pool and
to sit and doze there night after night
till the tiger comes to drink in tie
moonlight and cannot be missed, but IL
is quite another thing to beat out n
face the man-eater On foot CoaSs-
quently the sportsman docs not always
get taken up to the m~an-eater, but this
is not because the villagers do not
know where he is, or, rather. she, for it
is the female who generally preys on
man.
The indiscriminate offer of rewards
in no way tends to the destruction of
the real man-eater, while it insures the
wholesale determination of the useful,
indeed Indispensable, deer n pig
stalker and the cattle -lifter.--J. D.. Rees
in Calcutta Statesman.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
Saint Gaudens Was Not
Michael Sweeney, MeDsboy
Friends of Famous Sculptor Are
Amazed and Indignant
at Story.

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE friends
of the late Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Americas greatest sculptor, are amazed
and indignant at the statement of j.
w. Furiong, of Providence, r.. l., who
claims he was a boy chum of the Ia
nous sculptor and that his name was
Michael Sweeney, a newsboy, and his
father a laborer killed ina tunnel ac-
cident shortly after the family came TO
this country from ireland.
Gustave Kobbe, who vas an intimate
friend Of the sculptor, declares the Fur
long story is as full of holes as a sieve.
He a Y that Saint-Gaudens's parent
age. his early life i'm this city, his first
steps in art, are matters that IAN be
read as easily as the pages of an open
book.
when / first met him." he declares,
h was at the threshold of his career,
and 1 and other friends at that time
F. H~opkinson Smith among them
often heard him speak of his expert
ences during the years when he was
apprenticed to ame cutters in this
city. must say for Mr.. Furlong thai
he tells his story as. if he believed 1t,
but 1t must ella to an entirely diffef-
ent person.
"Saint-Gaudens's father was a shoe
maker, never a laborer in the Hoosac
tunnel. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was
born in Dublin, out was only about SIX
months old when the family came 10
New York. These facts 1 heard from
Saint-G audens himself many years ago.
1.-THE father, Paul Ernest Saint-Gau-
dens, set up a shoe store in this city
and never was known here by n
other name than Saint-Gaudens. There
still are living in this city persons VINO
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17

BOSTON, Mass, April 1.-THE names
of Julia Marlowe, the actress. and Mrs.
Maude Thorburn Backus, of Brooklyn.
cited as correspondents in the suit for
divorce filed by Mrs. Clara L. Won Her
mann against Karl S. Won Hermann,
have been Withdrawn by counsel Tor
the former Hackensack
Mrs. Won Hermann's lawyer, in ex-
planning his action. said:
THAT Mrs. Won Hermann was sim
cerely honest in her allegations as con-
tanned in the libel against Miss Mar
lowe and Mrs. Backus. | am convinced,
but after a closer investigation and a
more careful sitting of the evidence, I
feel convinced that the source of Mrs.
Won Hermann's information is wholly
unreliable.
This does not alter my belief that
Mrs. Won Hermann should get a di-
vorce from her husband on other
grounds"
-Four years ago the Won Herlnann's
lived in fashionable style in Hachen-
sack, N. j.. and were leaders in
Hackensack society.
NEW YORK, April lion advice of
her physician, Miss Marlowe has left
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17

today of pneumonia. He had been Ill
but a few days. bob" Pearson, as
he was Familiarity known, was, in point
of service. one of the Oldest ana
shrewdest detectives in New Jersey.
He served over twenty years as a de-
tective on the Jersey City police force'
and took advantage of the law allow
ing men over so years to retire on halt
pay after serving twenty years IN the
department.
He was on Prosecutor Garven's staff
but a few weeks.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
EASTER MAIL
CAUSES HUSTLE
At POSTOFF|CE
Post Card Greetings of Relatives
and Friends Bring In.
usual Crush.

Clerks n carriers at the postohioe
today had a rush of business that was
almost as great as that of the Christ
mas holidays, according to POSTMASTER
l.. Hays. If Good FRIDAY nau
been observed as a holiday In the ohlIo
and only one delivery of mail mace, u
would have been impossible for inc
mon to have delivered by tomorrow all
tbe matter that was mailed to reach
friends before Easter.
Thc great increase in business is duo
to the prevalence of the postcard
habit.
easter seems to be growing into a
day for the expression OF sentiments
of regard similar to that of christmas,
Yesterday, as a big policeman parted
from a friend he said: ;,
~ hope you have a happy Easter
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17

were ehis customers in the little store
which for many years was i'll Fourth
avenue, near the old building OF the
National Academy of Design, at Twen-
ty-third street.
"Augustus Saint-Gaudens received ms
education in the public schools. AT the
time when he was supposed to be sell
ing newspapers as Michael Sweeney nc
was working as an apprentice toH a
cameo cutter named vet. h AVct
was a stone cameo cutter, n SAINT
Gaudens was with him for three years.
That was,until 1864, and he was then
IS years old. He then worked three
years for a shel cameo cutter named
Jules lie Brethon. Meanwhile he was
studying art, first in the Cooper Union
and later in the schools of the National
Academy of Design
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
AKIN TO SCANDINAVIANS.
Americans Closely Related by
Race, Saws DR.. MCCraCken.

NEW YORK. April 17.-Dr. II. M.
McCracken, chancellor of New York
University, who has visited the Danish,
Norwegian and Swedish universities TO
introduce plans for an interchange of
professors, returned home today on the
steamer Mauretania. He said:
Il found the Scandinavian people
much interested in the project. We are
more nearly connected with them by
race than any of the others, except the
Germans, and then, too. to my mind,
they are very much like us"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
PAROLES CONVALESCENT
IN MEDICINE THEFT.

Edward P. Spinney, wanted in New
ark for the alleged theft of $l4 ana
several medicinal inhalers, by stewart
e. Bruce, of New York, and Drought
here from Lynn, Mass, by Detective
Sergeant Quinn, was today arralgned
in the First Precinct Police Court. AS
he had NO counsel, and a just left
the hospital after a prolonged illness,
he was paroled in the custody OF the
detective.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
AWARDS WIDOW $2,75O.

JERSEY CITY, April lin the
Hudson County Circuit Court a jury
has awarded Mrs. Hugo Hegeman
81, $50 for the death of her husband, a
on the Jersey City, Hoboken
and Paterson Railway. He was killed
in a collision near Hoboken.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
RoBs BANK TO CORNER LIMBURGER

MADISON, Wis, April 17.-Cashier
Edwin c. Story, of the Citizens Ma
tional Bank, of Belleville, embezzled
$50, 900 of the banks funds, with which
he endeavored to corner the limburger
market.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17

the Hotel Plaza here and has gone TO
her home in the Catskills to ~recuperate
from the illness following the filing OF
Mrs. Ven Hermarn's suit.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
ROBERT PEARSON, CLEVER
SLEUTH, PASSES AWAY.
One of New Jerseys Shrewdest
Detectives Victim of
Pneumonia.

Especial to the Evening Start
JERSEY CITY, April 17.-Robert
Pearson, OF the detective staff of Prose-
cutor Garven, of Hudson County, died
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
BAyONNE Ex.ALDERMAN DIES.

BAYoNNE, April 17.-Former Alder
man Ebert Schofield is dead here. lie
was go years old.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17
HIS FINISH.

When the great King Xylantrophagus
Expired of a clogged o~esophagus
His body they hid
Under a pyramid
In a hieroaryphicked s~arcophagus.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17

NEW YORK, April lion advice of
her physician, Miss Marlowe has left
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24

he wa technically equipped for the
purpose Of revealing and reinvigorating
a discouraged and dissolving party, be-
cause after Mr.. GLADsToNB's sdeath no
man better deserved TO be described
as an old parliamentary hand. When
Sir H. CAMPBELL-B ANNERMAN died forty
years had passed during which he had
represented continuously the sam cleo
toral division in the House Of Commons,
He first was invited to engage in admin
istrative work thirty-seven years ago,
and he held one Office or another in every
succeeding Liberal Government. An all
around administrator and an ever ready
debater, he was most unlikely TO commit
any Ministerial blunder or any tactical
error on the floor Of the House.
Whether his remarkable achievement,
the regeneration Of a political party that
seemed moribund, will survive him seems
very doubtful, Ever since the gravity
Of his illness compelled him to relinquish
parliamentary duties, splits and gaps,
suspicious and dissensions have begun
TO disclose themselves in the Liberal
ranks. He found the Liberals a mob,
and made Of them a victorious army;
and it may be that his epitaph will add
that he was the last Liberal leader who
could win a general election.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24
The Cows Of Blueheld.

In all the exhibitions OF fiat footed
courage and candor that have been made
by political assemblages throughout the
country-municipal, county, district and
State-there has been nothing TO compare
with that Of the Republican city conven-
ton Of Bluefeld, ". Va, This roaring
body mel the other day and issued a
platform beginning as follows;
Whereas there has been agitation OF the dues
ton Of prohibiting rows bsinG Kept within the city
which Ia regarded A. an injury and dethment to
many Of our worthy citizens, now. therefore. belt
" RstJrSd, FIRST. that We m rm allegiance TO the
party In city state and nation contributing thereon
magnificent contributions OF the past and our ndel.
10y to lis present policies and achievements"
Nothing more was said about cows
and nothing Of importance about any
thing else, but the platform remains a
miracle Of undismayed and impertur-
bable valor in the face Of almost over
whelming opposition, Roanoke, in old
Virginia, had previously arisen to great
heights Of reckless patriotism in the
matter Of predatory COWS. At one time
the erection Of a new passenger station
there depended on the issue, complicated
further by the untimely consumption Of
two eminent railway officials just a. they
we're about 10 enter the old depot, The
consequent uproar had Quieted down,
however, timid drummers had been re-
assured, the local press quoted and
everything reduced to normal and orig
inal conditions. The incident, indeed,
d~eplOrable as it was, had virtually been
forgotten, when like a thunderbolt from
a previously TRANQUIL and opalescent
welkin came forth the rousing message
from Bluefeld, W Va, ~reopening the
whole question.
Far be it from us TO point out the con-
nection between the COWS in the pre-
amble and the professions Of party
fealty in the following resolution. There
are some things that must be left TO the
imagination Of the individual. But any
one can see that the Republicans of
Bluefeld, W, Va, have resolved to pre-
sent a serried front to the bastard foe,
and that magnificent contributions Of
T%hingumbob will continue as before.
Bluefeld Republicans appear TO be
hunting the Purple Cow and to have
found it. This is where the President
should be dee-liRhted.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24
The sOundness Of American IAfs Insurance.

From an article BY Grorsr CIsrsldnd IN the
QuiHqueRRioI number OF me Spectator.
The American people have had more than
sixty years experience with the American
plan OF legal reserve life insurance. and the
fact that about 5000, 900 OF them-men,
women and Children-as nearly a. can be
estimated, are now carrying life Insurance
policies can only mean that they have become
convinced OF the certainty Of that form OF
protection against the emergencies and un-
Certaintles OF the future.
The recent cutlery against life insurance
companies In general was born Of sudden,
though not unnatural. Indignation resulting
from the exposure Of breaches OF trust and
bald malfeasance on the part Of 4 few Insur-
anos officials, who we're deservedly swept
out Of ONCE by q wave Of popular resentment;
but ia the face Of The fact that approximately
one.hfth Of the entire population Of this cOun-
try nov are and long have been paying
premiums to these same companies the dis
position 10 indulge In undiscriminating criti-
Cism Of life Insurance companies In general
should have no permanent significance, but
should only be regarded ~ q not
but undesirable incident Of 4 moral awaken
Ing whose general trend is 10 the direction
Of wholesome reform.
In al. the adverse comments that have been
written aud spoken during this awakening
there has not been q serious Impeachment
Of the basic principles upon which American
life insurance rests. nor q single sober suR-
gestlon Of doubt as to the ever present ability
and ever present inclination OF ell reputable.
honestly managed American life insurance
companies to make prompt and full payment
Of ell legitimate claims on their policies.
IL must be conceded that these companies
are now managed and conducted p" those IN
whom we can have implicit trust. y reok-
lessly or flppantly impugn the hOnt or
ability Of their present management In whole
sale fashion and in q single breath because
Of past individual shortcomings IL . most
unjust and unpatrlotic thing to do.
In the recent life Insurance investigations
II was neither the principle northe benencenoe
Of American life insurance which was tried
and found wanting; what legitimAtely fell
under condemnation were only a few Of the
individual managers Of the business, to-
gether with certain pernIclous and unsafe
methods and practices In which they had
INDUCED or which they had permitted to
attach to the great interests entrusted to
their care.
The methods and practices 10 question
have for the most part been eliminated,
along with those responsible for their intro
duction.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24

day and discovered that every time the machine
was pulled ten m on the Republican column Il
voted ten. but svsry time IL was pulled ten times
on the Democratic column Il voted four.
M. PHIDIPs-Mr. speaker. doesn't the gen
tlemAn know that II this amendment passes that
We can prevent Just that sort OF thing
MI. RoBNsON-No No, cir, J don't knowlt, and
you don't know It. and you can't proyei It. and that
Is just one Of ihoss accidents which put a man who
was not elected In the majority leadership Of the
Assembly last year aud has left the county OF che
munE to have It's Affairs administered by men who
were not elected At the polls BY hundreds OF votes.
Now that IL Just what ! know. I believe You mean
II, but as I say to you dreamsu-I beg the Speak.
er'S pardoh-the dreamer Of AlleGtny county. I
say this bill will simply put usln a worse place than
we now occupy"
II is TO be hoped that the new bill will
prevent any such possibilities Of error
as those indicated by Colonel ROBINSON.
As long ago as 1893 the liability to mis-
take arising out Of the Use Of the Myers
automatic ballot machine in the city Of
Mount Vernon was demonstrated in a
case which came before the Appellate
Division Of the Supreme Court In the
Second Department from the city Of
Mount Vernon. The law required the
chairman Of the election board TO set the
dial Of the machine when the election
began at the figure O.. A prior law had
required that the dial should be set at
the figure O00S. The chairman was igno-
rant Of this change and set the dial at
four figures instead Of one, and the result
was most disastrous. Furthermore il
appeared In the case that although seven
electors swore that they had voted for a
particular candidate for Alderman by
pushing in the proper knob the voting
machine registered only two votes for
that candidate. This sort Of thing, Of
course, wa intolerable, and Colonel
RoBINsoN's statement would seem to
indicate that the voting machine Of the
present day lie but little better.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24
Sir Henry CampbelI-Bannerman

Nobody would assert, we presume, that
Sir HENRY CAMPBELL BANNERMAN was
a statesman of the first order; but when
we consider the complexity of the prob
lens with which the British Government
is now beset and the heterogeneity Of the
majority in the House Of Commons, we
must acknowledge that his country and
his party could have better spared a
greater man,
There has never been in Great Britain
a more incoherent and discordant politi-
cal body than the sO-called Liberal organ
ization has been since 1885, when Mr..
GLADSTONE was turned out OF office by
the secession Of the Liberal Unionists.
From that day until 1899, when Sir
HENRY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES became
the leader Of the Liberal Opposition in
the House Of Commons, neither Mr..
GLADSTONE himself nor Lord RosRBERY
nor Sir WILLIAM HARCoURT could per-
form successfully the indispensable work
Of reconstruction and harmonization.
Expert observers had come to believe
that the historic Liberal party, made up
of Whigs, Peelites and Radicals, was
doomed to quick disintegration, for to
r~econsolidate elements which every day
grew more incongruous seemed an i'm
possible task. Nevertheless, the task
was accomplished by Sir HENRY CAMP
BELL ANNBRMAE, because he united in
his personality prolonged parliamentary
and official experience, a slngularly
winning temperament and the ability to
inspire unlimited confidence. The two
latter qualities are o~ftenest exempli-
fled in q diplomatist, but there are politi-
cal and economic crises when they are
equally needful In Q statesman.
The aff~ectionate nickname C.. B. by
which Sir HENRY was familiarly known
bore witness to the depth Of the impress
sion made by the kindness Of his nature,
and the absolute faith in his fidelity to
his plighted word was justified over and
over again by his firm adherence to prom
ises made during political campaigns,
although the fulHlment OF them might
prove inconvenient and sven ine1pedient.
Aside from the moral and temperament
tai qualities which fitted him to propiti-
ate and conciliate conflicting factions,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24

The always esteemed Neus and Courier
Of Charleston, South Carolina, appears
10 be engaged in a death struggle with
the equally esteemed Columbia State Of
the same Commonwealth. The Ners and
Courier has always been opposed to
BRYAN as the Democratic nominee for
President and has maintained it's posi-
ton with at least specious and attractive
arguments. The State combatS these
various attitudes and overtures with all
the fury Of hot blooded ]eloquence, TO
say nothing Of display type and rever-
berating italics.
Long has the battle waged, with the
usual ebb and flow Of prevalence, but
at last it seems that the Neus and Courier
has got the underhold. The South Caro-
lima newspapers are all aligning them
selves against BRYAN, Senator TILIMAN
has issued a restrained but by no means
enigmatic utterance, and the state is left
to a following of two or three more or less
obscure journals and its own array Of
black faced decoration,
1t is needless to say, Of course, that
We %sympathize with the NeTs a dCOurier.
We mention the subject, however, only
10 introduce the States Incorporate sug-
gestiOn that THE Sun has tried to in
veigle its South Carolina contemporary
into the tolls of the Wall Street wolves.
That is so delightful that we must be ex-
cused for a moments pause in the inter
est Of merriment. The NeTs and Courier
was hostile to Mr., BRYAN at least a year
ago-much further back, no doubt but
into a sleeve so large as ours We may GER
tainly be permitted to laugh.
The truth is that South Carolina seems
very unlikely to send a Bryan delegation
to Denver; and what il more, a large
majority Of the Southern States are in
q fair way of doing likewise. Nobody
worth mentioning in that part Of the
country really wants BRYAN rs a leader,
and the fact Of interest is that every
body knows it. Circus sized type and
italicized vehemence will not affect this
situation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24

chief Of the Labor Division in order
TO reach the sooner Mr.. VAN FoLKER's
general benediction:
Under the guidance Of The present metropolitan
districts commissioner and the leading OF the eApa'
bic. newly appointed N, Y. state Commissioner Of
Agriculture in Albany the people OF this state will
no doubt experience more the valuable features OF
the important ~. y. state Dep, OF Agriculture
II they fail to experience it will not
be the fault Of the New York State
Interpreter 4 Press Editor. The law OF
1893 created the Office Of Commissioner Of
Agriculture and empowered the mourn
bent TO appoint clerks, agents, chemists,
counsel and expert butter and cheese
makers, the latter TO the number OF five.
We find In the law no mention Of a New
York State Interpreter & Press Editor.
The interesting office which Mr.. VAN
FoLKER fills so admirably and sc amia-
bly, Is perhaps Of recent creation. He
knows not only how to report an event OF
combined social and political importance,
but also how to butter the bureaucrats.