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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-09-24
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-09-24

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wtiiiouri, aanias & Eeras Giienbabu
in sSinOiOr. Mo., srplobirts lstts 8o.
DE elm nit Dpnamit bslabsnsr Dasson
sines 6ra6t3uses. Sieben Perionen
wurosn sstOotst uno breisis usrlsst,
siuise 10 ihwsr, Oab iie luubridsinli9
iterbenImeroen.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-09-24
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Wenn sic unsefGbr iubiel Gsb
ausssssbsu babeu, pis sic beabiidtisen
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in ieber 5lafde bieier Wieoiiin. Die
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bs,isbsn. @r mirb bem Publifum oi.
rstt psrtauft burd bic @isentbiimer.
Or. Pster Sabrnsg & CONS 60. 112-
11s 90. SOpue Guenus. Chicago, 81.
Sorui's alpenfrduter 8lutbeleber lit
;u bubsn bel Senrp Walter, 1011 @soar
Npenue.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-09-24

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8. 8. Cannon BON Buffalo, Wtitslie'
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laiien, neil iie Sur 3eit oes seorobten
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9smsien iino. Die Gntluiiuns Der Sei'
ben bat unter ibren Sameraoen srObe
@ntriiitun9 berpor9erufen uuo es 1T
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lid oaran, Sas Sorssheu Der @ompanie
nit einem Streit Su bsantporteu, unb
icllte oisisr cine 3sritOruns Der ..llniOn
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beute abeno ftatt uno in oerislben wirb
wabridsinliG bsidlOiisn psrOsn, mas
man in Der ansslesenbsit tbun mill.
E% llutsrri9t i'm 3lapisripiel srs
theilt uuter siiuftissn 8soinsunsen
Srdulsiu emma 5ren. SIS. .Piue Str.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30

week. Four-ifths of the full force of
1000 men are at work for the Amer
lean Shipbuilding Company; 10000 men
are back at their jobs in the Reading
collieries; a knitting mill at Catskill
has resumed after two months idle
ness; Detroit car works and foundries
have reopened with 5000 men busy;
mills in Maine have one back to full
schedule; 1000 men are now working
full time in a reopened automobile a C
tory in Michigan, and the Herreshofs
have put on a full force at full time at
their yacht-building yards.
Such news more than offsets the
pessimistic stories from a few railroads,
which, by the way, report increased
earnings. and make it plain that conf
dence is fully restored and that bust
ness is getting ready to boom.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
THE FRENCH TARIFF AGREEMENT.

BY the signatures of the President,
the Secretary Of State and the French
Ambassador t the document, the COM
merciaI tariff agreement with France
goes into effect Saturday. Unde this
reciprocal agreement the United States
grants a reduction of 20 per cent. on
champagnes and other sparkling wines
coming from France in return for the
granting by France of the minimum
tariff of the lowest rate applied to
other nations on certain food products
from the United States and Porto Rico
to France and Algiers.
There are stipulations attached to tho
treaty permitting the withdrawal OF
the concessions under certain condl-
tions and arrangements for adjusting
difficulties and disputes. The agree
ment ought to stimulate trade between
the two great republics, and from tho
published details 1t would appear that
the United States had by no means the
worst of the bargain.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
WHY WOMEN TALK.

This question, why Women Talk
is one that has %perturbed the married
men of every generation from Socrates
down. Probably there are few men
who have not at some time or other
sat listening to the verbal outpour-
ings of one of the fair sex and Won
dered amazedly wherein lay the source
of this seemingly inexhaustible flow
of language. We would not have IL
otherwise; bless their hearts, not We
like to listen. Except when it's OF the
subject of bills it eases our minds and
relieves us of the necessity of think
ing ourselves only, in our own slow
or and more methodical processes Of
thought and expression, it is an ever,
lasting marvel how they do it ant
what they are going to say next.
This is the problem that a Frenel
professor of physics has just attacked
proving to his own satisfaction at leas
that women talk because they can
help themselves. They talk becaus
they are so constituted physically tina
they can't avoid talking. 1t is al
absolutely scientific. Not the %frivolit,
or vacuity of her mind, as woman
detractors have contended, is respon
sible, but the greater Splidity of he
chest. BY measuring the volume o
The pressure of the air on the feminin
chest and the masculine chest tn
french scientist has discovered tia
E man in talking tires himself jus
four times as much as a woman. Frof
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 90.-"It is,
without doubt. within the power of the
American people and in keeping with
the American principle of s~elf-govern-
ment TO limit and even to exclude en-
tirely the liquor traffic from any Sec
ton of the city or country. In this the
rule of the majority should hold.
But the reform of man cannot be
brought about by legislation. The
strongest appeal, to my mind, is that
which is made directly to the indiyld-
ual, asking him to abstain because of
the evil effects of drinking pom him
physically and spiritually"
In such phrasing the Rev. Thomas f.
Burke, c. p, leader of the Paulist band
of missioparies. holding meetings for
non-Catholics at the Church of st. John
the Evangelist, expressed his opinion
last night of the anti-liquor movement
now active in the various parts of the
country.
Temperance work has always been
one of the features of the Paulist
fathers work. he continued. I'VE wit
ness the growing sentiment for tenn
perance with joy. The methods of it's
advance may not always meet with our
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
Degrees in Free masonry.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
What are the thirty-three degrees in Free
Masonry? w. S. S.
LODGE. Entered apprentice; q Fellow
craftsman; 3. Master mason.
York Rite-(a) Chapter-4 Mark master;
5. Past master; 6. Most excellent master:
7. Royal arch mastn. (b) Councils. Royal
master; 9. Select master; 10. Super excel
lent mason. (c) CommanGery-11. Red
Cross y knight; II. Knight Templar;
lS. Knight of Malta.
Scottish Rite-(a) Lodge of Perfection
4. secret master; 5. Perfect master; 6. In
innate secretary; z. Provost and judge;
s. Intendant of the building; 9. Elect OF
Nine; 10. Elect of fifteen; II. Sublime
knight elect; -. Grand master architect;
Is. knight of the Ninth Arch; IA. Grand
elect, perfect and sublime Mason. (b)
Councils Of Princes of Jerusalem-15.
Knights of the East or Sword; 16. Prince
of Jerusalem. (c) Chapters of Rose Croix
III, Knight of the East and West; IS.
Knight of the Rose CrOix de II. r. ID. NJ,
(d) Consistories of Sublime Princes of the
Royal Secret-19. Grand pontiff; 20. Master
Ad Vitam; q. Patriarch Noachite; p.
Prince Of Libanus; %. Chief of the taber-
nacle; "a. Prime Of the tabernacle; %
Knight of the Brazen Serpent; 26. Prince
Of Mercy; q. Commander OF the temple;
28. Knight of the Sun; 20. Knight of ST,
Andrew; 80. Grand elect knight, X. H.
or knight Of the Black and White Eagle
81. Grand Inspector inquisitor commander
90. Sublime prince of the royal secret; So
Sovereign grand inspector-general Of the
! thrty-third and last degree.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
YOUNGER MEN IN THE GUARD.

A marked change in the personnel
of the New Jersey National Guard will
have been effected by compliance by
the State with the provisions Of the
Dick militia law. The State Guard
has been over-officered, but under the
old system that was a good fault. al
though the presence in the guard OF
officers incapacitated by age for ac-
tive service has been a drawback. The
National Guard being a school for the
volunteer soldiers, it could do no better
work thar that of training men in the
duties of officers.
Under the Dick law the National
Guard becomes something more than
a police force and military school; it
is an effective reserve, organized,
equipped and disciplined by regular
army methods and ready TO take the
lheld as a second line of defense. A
supernuity of commissioned officers is
not necessary. And especially the mer
in command in the State Guard should
be in the vigor Of life. All who shall
have passed the age when vigor is i'm.
paired should be honorably retired.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
WHY LAW COURTS ARE cIoGeED.

Senator Hinchliffe's resolution for a
special committee of the Senate to ex-
anime the calendars of the various
courts of the State to ascertain the
amount of business done and the rea-
sons for the congestion and delay in
litigation, with a view to making rec
concentrations for legislative action, Is
exceedingly we'll timed and is neces-
sary.
A thorough investigation of the court
calendars is likely to develop facts
of a nature to call for decided action
by the Legislature.
1t Is we'll known to lawyers that the
work of the courts is most ~unequally
divided up among the judges of the
State, and it is also well known that
while some judges are Woodworking
and do all that could reasonably be re-
quired of a good judge others are slack
and disposed to study their personal
conveniences. 1t is also we'll known
that if New Jersey had a well-ordered
judicial system the work of the courts
would be done better and more ex
peditiously with a less number OF
judges than now obtain.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
THURSDAY. JANUARY 80, 1908.
FREE HIGHWAYS, FREE WATER.
WAYS.

There has been considerable educa-
ton Of public sentiment in this State
on the subject of canals and canal
transportation since a bill was first
introduced in the Legislature for the
abandonment of the Morris Canal.
At that time the belief prevailed that
the canal system was archaic and of no
practical use, the railroad having sup
planted it. People saw the canals of
the country in a state of neglect and
dilapidation, and attributed their de-
cay to the operation of a natural law.
They know better now. Railroad
policy wrecked the canals to destroy
them as competing carriers. The Morris
Canal. once a well-paying enter
prise, was strangled by the Lee
high Valley Railroad Company
after its lease to that COM
pany. The Delaware and Raritan Canal,
once doing a prosperous business, was
made a mere tender to the United Rail-
roads of New Jersey. Canal abandon
ment' in the Legislature has meant the
public gift. of the canal property TO
the lessees who wrecked the canal, and
the utter wiping out of canal transport
tation.
The Camden Post-Telegram now holds
that the State should own the canals.
The States policy of free roads, says
the Camden paper, SHOULD be sup
plemented by Il policy of free water
ways" A few years ago the press of
South Jersey was inclined to favor
abandoning the canals to the l~essees.
II is better enlightened now The
late Cortlandt Parker was a strong adj
vocate of State ownership of the canals
and wrote some able articles on the
subject that made people think. There
is a lot of thinking on the subject now.
1t may well be asked, if we have i'm
proved free highways, why not also I'M
prove free waterways?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
NINA Rend,nr IN Lean year.

ID you believe in undertaking, Mr..
%Simpkins?"
why, no, Miss Higgles. Do your
eyes. Would you like to have me show
my skill?"
do you mean that You will read my
mind?'
yes, Mr.. simpkins. Please fix youI
thoughts upon some pleasing object and
think hard
Il am thinking"
'.Ah. you are thinking about me. Why,
Mr.. Simpkins!'
'What is it?"
""You are thinking that I look very at
traetive this evening"
"Wonderful, It's all true"
"You-you are thinking of asking me a
question
yes. YES. Can you tell me what the
question is2''
Give me time, and please think very
hard. All, yes. The question begins will
WILL"
YES, yes. Go on
"'Will-you-be-my--"
why do you stop7 Can't you get IL
There's only one>more word :
But this Is so embarrassing"
mot at nil. It's a scientific experiment
| Come. the last word"
Wife,
Mary
"Georgei"-cleveIand Plain Dealer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
The Rage for Haste.

The rage for risk IN this country is only
euualed by the rage to make haste. 1t is
an old proverb, but one peculiarly applica-
bic to our present tendencies, to make
haste slowly" Yet this proverb appears to
have no believers in our trying and siren
nous age, The papers are full of deaths
by drowning of those who have ventured
upon thin ice, in haste to avail themselves
of a winter outing. The daily chronicles
are filed with accidents to life and limb
by those who will insist on trying to catch
a trolley car flying past. Time flies and
every one pursues 1t, regardless of what
may happen. New Workers who a few
years ago spent an hour in reaching their
homes from their offices, rush frantically
to catch a subway train which will take
them the same distance in a quarter OF the
time, and are impatient Of they miss 1t,
though they know another will be available
IN two or three minutes; the fastest ocean
steamers are the most crowded, though the
voyage is too short for the rest and change
which should be the accompaniments OF
sea travel; even our elevators must shoot
us with rocket-like> Velocity to the tops OF
our sky-scrapers. What these and the
other manifold hurries of modern life mean
to our mental and physical health the neu-
rologists can tell us, and their report is moi
reassurlng. 1t is, perhaps, too late to warn
this generation against the vice or hurry
ing. but perhaps a later one may develop
a saner philosophy of t~ravel.-Leslie's
Weekly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30

Twenty years is the limit fixed by Gov
eminent Forester Pinchot for the exhaus-
ton of our timber supply. or twenty-five
years, possibly, allowing for the growth
of timber In the interval. This is a def
mite statement by an expert. Yet we doubt
if it will halt in the least the present
wasteful manner of tree cutting by lum-
bermen or increase very greatly the de-
mand for systematic and extensive re-
planting of forests.
Yet already many valuable species, high
ly valued and once common have become
SO scarce that their timber is no longer
in the market, except here and there In
small quantities. The black walnut and
the hickory are no longer obtainable in
commercial quantities, and the white pine.
the most valuable tree this country has
produced, is vanishing rapidly.
We ave not adjusted our tariff laws to
these changed conditions. The cutting of
trees on American soil should no longer
be stimulated by duties on the importa-
ton of wood products. The need and justi-
hcation for this have passed away, and the
duty of a wise government is to protect,
foster, renew and extend our tree growth
by every legitimate means in it's power. -
Philadelphia Press. -
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
GOOD BILLS AND BAD.

Some good bills have been introduced
in the Legislature, and there are more
a-coming. 1t is not surprising that the
covert interests that get up bad bills
should be on hand with their private
axes and that they should inveigle
well-meaning and ingenious members
into introducing measures that will not
bear close examination. In the rush
of good legislation the bad bill may
slip through. 1t may even be made to
appear to confdlng legislators as a
good and necessary bill, devised in the
interest of the people at large.
You may shut the lobbyist out of the
Legislative chambers. but you can't
choke off the Introduction of bad bills.
These are elaborated by lawyers i'll
their offices and given to influential
persons to hand to members of the
Legislature, Nobody knows anything
about them until they appear in Senate
or House, and are referred to commit
tees, which marks the second stage OF
the unobtrusiye work of the promoters
of a bill to get it enacted into a law
Several bills of this character are
among the bills already introduced
But there will be a critical inspection
of all important bills this session, anc
the bad bill seported out of committee
canno long masquerade as q good bill
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
OUR RETIRED GOVERNORS.

Governor Stokes humorously explain
ed at the banquet of the West Hudson
Board of Trade last night that 81 am
here as a private citizen, with nothing
against anyone" He could not have
more felicitously described the status
of the Governor just retired from office
In New Jersey.
1t is IN glory of our free institutions
that a private citizen can be so readily
translated into an exalted public Office
and again tina he should, at the expi-
ration of his term, quietly and natu-
rally step back into private life
after helping to inaugurate his sue
cessor in office. The most impressive
spectacle in American politics is the
inauguration of a new President for
eighty millions of people, and the i'm
p-ressiveness is the same, to a lesser
degree, in the case of the Governor Of
a State.
But the STAR has made the query
before as to the policy. not to say COM
mon sense, of permitting a retired Gov
ernor to quit the service of government
without providing for the utilization Of
his three years of valuable experience
in some honorable public position in
which his knowledge of public affairs
can be used to advantage. Considered
from the economic standpoint, this
neglect is absolute waste of good ma
terial. 1t ignores hat which may
inure to the best advantage for the
State.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
MORAL REFORM, LICENSE
SOLUTION, PRIEST HOLDS

personal approval, but the desire to
lessen the moral evil does meet with
our strongest approval.
The legislation of the Catholic
Church in regard to the saloon business
is plain. In the words of the Council
of Baltimore, Catholics are admon-
ished against selling liquor as a liyeli-
hood. Where they find it impossible to
quit it, the council has laid down four
regulations for their observance.
"'First-Let them sell no drinks to
minors.
"'Second-Let them sell no drink to
those whom they foresee will so to ex-
cess.
'Third-Let them keep their saloons
closed on the Lords day.
'Fourth-Let them at no time permit
on their premises b%lasphemy, cursing or
obscene language
But if you show a man that his
soul is injured, that his body is weak
ened, that his life is rendered unhappy
and that his home is made miserable
you will exert an influence for good
that will surpass the power of any leg
isfation. Legislation may follow, but
the moral reform must be accomplished
first"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
Poster Censors.

There is a considerable degree of agitation
in the neighboring city of Newark over the
application Of a s.rict censorship to pie
torial advertising posters. y board has
been constituted with official authority 10
inspect and approve or condemn all
posters with which circuses, theatres or
other places OF entertainment, or, indeed,
any concerns whatever, are to be adver-
tised. Those which the censors condemn
are not permitted to be displayed, while
those which they order to be toned down.
must be thus treatedebefore they are placed
before the public eye.
1t was inevitable that such a board and
its acts would incur complaints and criti-
eism, and even some attempted ridicule
from those who should know better. Mod
'esty, decency and virtue are the easiest
things in the world to make needless fun Of.
But the fact seems to be that these Newark
censors have proceeded with excellent dis
erection. Their work shows no hint of prud-
ishness or OF fhe offensive phases Of
"puritanism,' but is eminently practical and
instinct with common sense.-New York
Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
Strike Statistics.

IN thu E1ffnH 81 tbR JTAnnfnn STAR
WI - -, q. s4ntioz t.s+
""S II eeoiu i' . ~ I"
year anu no" ala II compare WIN tn"t Oh
other years. 5. A, j.
1--WE haven't the statistics for last yea.
The year 1905 is the last one for which we
have tbe fr,,res Tn that wear tbe ,ndus--
4,,oI .a..-Sc -. -.
paNe u 'e ~ SUITS a OioN',
"S A'V'' stIlNes' me hummer OIL ihuustFla'
establishments directly involved was S,2a2.
The numbc of striking workmen was 49,
S37. The number of workmcn who lost
wages because of the strikes was 221.6ss.
The strikes lasted, on an average. twenty
three days and a fraction. THE industries
of the United Statea suffered less from
strikes during the wear 1906 than in any
year since 1882" remarks the Bureau of
Labor. ''These favorable industrial condi-
lions as regards strikes during 1895 were
apparently exceptional. and can not be
assumed TO indieafe any lasting tendency
toward Industrial peace
The year 1894 holds the record for strikes.
1t appears more than 100000 worlmen en-
listed in them that wear. and for 3d. DAYS
ION an average) more than $50, 900 workmen
were out.
The bureau stateg that in the twenty
five years ended December 81, 1906, there
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
HOW NEW YORK ENDORSES HUGHES

Honors are nearly divided as between
adopted by the Republican County
Committee of New York last night.
Hughes was indorsed as the candidate
of the New York Republicans. Secre-
tary Taft has made the request that his
friends and partisans in New York
should unite in the paying of that
tribute to New York's Governor, and
his wishes were carried out, in the
county at least. But coupled with this
was a strong Endorsement of the
Roosevelt administration, which, under
the circumstances, was gratuitous, as
Governor Hughes is not a part and
parcel of the national administration.
Secretary Taft is. He embodies in his
candidacy the policies as well as the
desires of President Roosevelt. He in
carnates the genius of the Roosevelt ad-
m~inistration. When the county commit
tee went out of it's way to indorse the
Roosevelt administration, therefore, it
gave a quasi Endorsement of Secretary
Taft, the principal opponent of Gov
ernor Hughes. But the latter now has
at best the recognition and Endorsement
of his party in New York County, and
that gives him a new and more secure
standing as a candidate before the
Chicago convention.