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

1t is only occasionally that an ex-Presi-
dent, like Benjamin Harrison, can resume
an exceptionally lucrative law practise,
nor is it desirable that they should resort
to such a variety of enterprises as have
employed William j. Bryan's time for the
twelve years since he first became an ex-
Presidential candidate. 1t does no harm
for a candidate to exhibit some evidences
of propsr thriftiness, but the dignity of
the Presidential office should be such~as to
assure its occupant a reasonable income
for the remainder of his days. without such
recourse. There is nothing more pathetic
in the world than the impoverished ex-
Senator or ex-Cabinet officer, and with
both of these types h national capital is
familiar. The contrast between the atten-
tion and the adulation which they receive
In the days of their greatness, and the
striving for a livelihood that sometimes ac-
companies their later years, is pitiful.
From the liability to such an experience
our ex-Presidents should certainly be
saved. Bills to accomplish this by a PEN
sion system have beer frequently intro
dueed, but never seriously pushed. 1t Is
customary to grant the widow of a Presi-
dent or an ex-President an allowance Of
5000 per annum md the ranking privi-
lege, but no direct provision for the ex-
President himself has yet been made. 1t
will doubtless come in time. Mr.. Cleve-
lands testimony as to its essential pro-
priety will doubtless prove of considerable
influence in its further discussion.-Boston
Transcript.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

BY sus-sus7Sam S. sus-sus-stinson.
Light of my life, my pup-pup-precious one,
I bid You wuh-wuh-welcome to the store.
Il watch you notwithstanding through the
door,
And sus-sus-seet the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
To take your wraps My day has just
begun
When I can suSlsus-see my love once
And all my pSnt-up pup-pup- passion
In verses to my Aml-zua-zuz-zon.
Last n~un-nun-night I dud-dud-dreamed of
you,
And in my dud-dbdSdream I walked alone
Be-sus-sus-side the Asea. and ere l knew
You came up Through the wuh-wuh-
waves, my owR,
Like ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and you threw
Me Observation-Disclosures from your >far-off
throne. Judge.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
LEAP YEAR AND THE COST OF
COURTING.

Now that leap year is Upon us and 1t
is up to the other sex to do the court
ing, we wonder to what extent the fair
xooers viii adopt the masculine style
Of making love. VIII the fortunate
males singled out for special favor be
honored by boxes of candy, tickets to
the opera, and other expensive luxuries
commonly associated with that roman
tic period? We think not. Such things
constitute one of the prerogatives of
masculinity which there never has
been, and probably never will be, any
desire to remove. Just how the sirls
win go about it we don't profess to
know, but we are confident their
! attentions will take some less practical
form, which fact will probably conduce
to the peace-of mind of the selected
swain much more than would the cpn-
trary curse.
But when it comes to the cost of
counting we have something that is not
by any means to be sneezed at. 1t is
sweet to be in love, of course but il
is also exceedingly expensive. The
busy and prosaic statistician, from
whom not even love and romance are
sacred, has it all figured out that a
young man of wealth n fashion
spends. in the interim between his en-
gagement and his marriage, $4,000 for
dinners to his beloved and her friends;
$500 for flowers; $1,000 for jewelry; $1,000
! for automobiles and carriages, whether
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

A great metropolis is a magnet for
the undesirable citizen. New York is
just now undergoing a plague of
tramps who are drifting into town
over all roads to seek shelter and food
and drink without york. The places
of shelter for the needy are crowded
to OVERLOOKING and the charitable or
CARNATIONS are at their wits ends. a
nlapnanamastaats to send all applicants
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
IN HUMOROUS |


There wash an elderly business maj of
Cleveland, Of whom friends tell a story
amusingly illustrating his excessively me-
thodical menner of conducting both his
business and his domestic affairs.
The Cl4velander recently married a
young WOMAN living in a town not far
away. OH the evening of the ceremony
the prospective bridegroom, being detained
by an unexpected and important matter of
buslness,J missed the train he had intended
to take in order that he might reach the
abode of his bride at 7 o'clock, the hour
set for the wedding.
True TO his instincts. the careful Cleve-
lander immediately repaired to the tele-
graph office, from which to dispatch q
messagei to the lady. 1t read:
Don't marry till I come. Howard."-
Harper's weekly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

The Pagan administration in Jersey
City has ended after a six years trial
and the Wittpenn administration has
begun. The new law making the terms
of all mayoralty appointees terminate
with that of the Mayor goes into OPP
Grafton for the first time. 1t is proper,
indeed. that the new Mayor should
have the appointment of his department
heads. He will now be wholly respon-
sible for the acts of his administra-
ton. and If they are not satisfactory
the people can turn the whole outfit
out of office at the end of two years.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
TELEPATHY AND THE "UNwRITTEN
LAW"

There is a play called 1.-The Witching
Hour" now current in New York, in
which the author, Augustus Thomas,
propounds numerous interesting theo-
ries regarding manifestations of tele-
pathy and kindred phenomena. In
the course of this drama Mr.. Thomas
points out the possible effect upon a
jury, produced without physical COM
%munication, of the concentrated thought
and sentiment of two or three hun
dred thousand people.
In most of the recent notorious-mur-
der trials in which the "unwritten law"
has been evoked and which have re-
suited in the acquittal of the accused,
popular sympathy has been wrongfully
but almost unanimously aligned on the
side of the defendant. It is perth
ease is stripped of n~otoriety n the
jury is left to perform it's duty with
dllbIllOn ully " luS law dhU IhS
facts. Such a case has just been tried
in Chicago. A Mrs. Ansoline, under
trial for murder, advanced the defense
that she killed the man 'in defense of
her honor" The trial had every ele-
ment usually employed to excite SYM
pathy in such cases, even down to the
babe in arms. Yet the woman was a
humble person and the public was not
interested in her. The evidence was
clear and the jurymen did their duty
according to their sworn oath. She
was convicted and the law was upheld.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
NEIoquent silence.

MAUD and her beau are still in the
parlor," said Sthe girls father.
How do YOU know they're still there?'
asked the mother.
Because everything is still there
Philadelphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

Critics of the administrator who are
quick TO believe all that is being said in
d-isparagement of the navy should not be
permitted to lose sight of the fact that
they are shifting ground. Not many
months have passed since they were COM
planning that the sending Of battleships
to the Pacific would be construed as a
hostile act and that, in any event, it was
not part of the duty of a great and pow
erful republic to menace and browbeat a
nation like Japan. But just at present
these same remonstrants are only too
eager to be convinced that ours is a navy
so defective structurally and In the mat
ter of equipment that it could work no
mischief If 1t would. From their point of
view, therefore, It's appearance in distant
waters cannot possibly be regarded as
possessing any significance whatever. 1t is
idle to attempt to play the game both
ways. If the naval authorities are at
fault. the President isn't-Providence
Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
scared by a shadow.

And when one stops to think hat the
year just closing has been one of the most
prosperous in our history; that our export
trade has reached a new nightmare; that
our farmers have produced a greater value
than ever before, and that the general
health of the American people is fully up
to the standard, why should we take alarm
and stampede like a herd of animals be-
cause some stock gamblers have been play
ing the game a bit more recklessly than
u~suaI?-Toledn Blade.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

for charity to Blackwelrs Island to
break rock for macadam roads, but he
few who will avail themselves of such
a chance for a livelihood will not d
much to the stone pile. New York is
paying the penalty for it's reputation
for great wealth.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
saloons I'm Iowa Closed ON New Years
Day.

DIES MONIES, Jan. 2.-Saloons in
the cities Of Burling and Davenport
were closed on New Years Day. The
Iowa liquor law requires closing of
saloons on holidays, but several cities
along the Mississippi River have here
tofore set the law at defiance.
Attorney General Byers had notified
the local authorities that unless the
saloons were closed on New Years Day
he would close them all, permanently.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
A Lucky Miss.

Two Engllshmen bound West IN a tour
stopped over q few hours in Chicago re-
Gently. and during the interval dropped
into one of the vaudeville theatres,
Shortly after they entered a knife throw
ing team began its turn, the man stick
ing knives in decorative border around
the head and arms of his feminine part
nef.
After a few minutes uneasiness one Of
the Englishmen turned to the other and
said:
Come. let's go out of this bally hole
"Cahn't you wait to see it through?'j
Cahn't I wait? II should y not. ELS
ed ten chawnces. and 'e's missed 'er every
time, "&Lippincott's.
Cool.
Towne-I see Galley had to pay $4,000
damages to that girl he fitted.
Browne-Yes, and now he wants to marry
her for her Observation-Disclosures Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

Send rpae some money to get me out OF
this trouble wrote the Prodigal Son,
"and l promise to begin all over again."
"Yes,f Rnuttered the old man. crumpling
up the ldtter in his horny fist. That's
just WHAT I'm afraid you'd do. Didn't
expect you to confess it, though."-Wash-
ington Hefald.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
Provision for Ex-Presidents.

President Roosevelt has enough to keep
him going and can earn money with his
pen. He is not. likely to suffer in any
event, but the principle remains the same.
For a poor man to accept the Presidency
involves sacrifices which he ought not to
be compelled to undergo. 1t is the dignity
OF the nation that should be considered
rather than the wants or needs of a few
individuals. Something ought to be done!
but we have a notion that nothing will
be except in individual cases, as in Grants,
where there Is involved an element that
amounts or may amount to personal hu-
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
viii you please give me a good list of
books for q boy of. about II to read?
JAMES N.
I'm history and biography: Paul
Jones'" Daniel Boone Life of Benja-
min Franklin" an autobiography; Rules
of Conduct" George Washington; Bunker
Hin Orations,' Daniel Webster; Bio
graphical Stories" Nathaniel Hawthorne;
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
The Annual Exchnnge.

Now that the holidays are by
Mankind will roam once more
To scan with humble, downcast eye
Each big department store.
For these are days when fortune shifts
Her cross for man to bear.
He has to trade his Christmas gifts
For things that he can wear.
-Judpa.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

Blobbs-I believe shat women should
serve On juries.
Slobbs-Rut suppose a husband and wife
should be drawn on the same jury.
Blobbs-What of that?
Slobbs-Well, do yol suppose that jury
would ever Observation-Disclosures Record.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
A Fair EouivaIent.

The Big Man-Ho! So 1t was you drank
my beer the other day, was it?
The Small One-Well, you ran away with
my wlfel Amt 1 to hav no compensation?
The Sketch.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
simpye Enough.

The secret of real beauty is
AS plain as day.
You've merely to accomplish this:
BE born that way.
Catholic Standard and Times.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
FROM STAR READERS

Anonymous communications cannot ha
printed. Except on political subjects. the
names of correspondents are not required for
publication, but as a guarantee Of good faith.
--Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
AfteA. Another.

"of course saidlBatcheller, every mar
ried woman belevSs that the proper age
for matrimony is she age at which she
married"
UNLESS she hanpens to be a widow.
remarked Wiseman, S''and then she has
tens to declare that she was much too
young when she marfied the first time. -
philadelphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
outte Dinerept.

She dndigna1tly)-You had no business
to kiss me!
He-But it wasn't business it was pleas
ure.-Town Topics.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
Prohibition Law in Alabama Declared
to Be Unconstitutional and Licenses
Are Grnnted.

10 DC ntonSAAAAtAVhA
Are Granted.
BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 2.-Declaring
the Alabama prohibition laws so far as
1908 is concerned unconstitutional, the
probate judge of Cullman County yes
terday issued nine saloon licenses.
The saloon men claim that the pro-
hibition law is unconstitutional be-
cause it makes exceptions of counties
which voted on the proposition prior
to December II. The prohibitionists
have called on the Governor to enforce
the law.
Test cases will be started in Bir-
mingham tomorrow.
The probate Judge of Lowndes County
today refused to issue licenses for a r
rooms at Haynesville, Letehatchie and
Benton and a dispensary at Fort De-
post. AS a consequence application
was made for mandamus to compel
such action.
Montgomery saloons will begin ob-
serving the early closing law tonight.
The express companies have given ho-
tice that no more liquors will be &C
cepted for shipment into dry terri
tory.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
coal-n,inipr Accidents.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Can you give me the official figures of
the number of men killed in coal mines
in the United States in the last few years?
INTERESTED.
Number Of men killed in the coal mines
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Mrs. Catherine Hall, a widow, of Wapa-
koneta. O., recently discovered that she
owed s., LILO back taxes, covering six years.,
in which she supposed her father had paid
them. She voluntarily paid up In full.
Professor Marcerliani, a modest but
learned archeologist, who has made the
Typography Of ancient Rome a life study,
has, after several months of patient and
careful work, succeeded in reconstruct
ing in terra Gotta the principal buildings
of imperial Rome. His models, complete
in every detail. are now exhibited IN a
hall near the Forum.
Governor Bryant B, Brooks, of Wyo-
ming. who Is one of the wealthiest mep In
the state. as a young man knocked about
working as a farmland and c~owpuncher
and putting in a winter as a trapper and
hunter in that State.
Dainty Mrs. Chow Tszchi, whose hus-
band Is acting as Chimes minister, is the
first Chinest woman to be formally pre-
sented at the White House. IN the past
Chinese ministers have kept their wives
in seclusion. The only Chinese of the fair
sex who had ever been at the White
House before was Minister Wu's youngest
daughter, who attended several receptions
but was never formally introduced.
Probably the oldest minister of the gos-
pei In the world is the Rev. John Schaeffer,
who recently celebrated his t02d birthday,
at North Benton, o. For sixty years Mr..
Schaeffer has preached each Sunday. He
still enjoys a cigar daily after his dim
ner. He can read without glasses, and he
says he enjoys what he reads.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
u. S. COURT DECLINES TO
ENJOIN PROHIBITION LAW

vented by a State law thai has long
been in effect which makes 1t a crime
to carry intoxlcants of any kline into
a house of worship. The minister,
therefore. merely broke an empty bot
tie, which apparently served the pur-
pose as well.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
Number of men killed in the coal mines
of the limited States for zach million tons


Number of men killed in the coal mines
of the United States for each million tons
of coal produced, by periods:
General average, 1S90-1906. ............... 500
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
VIII Help some.

II that famous ..hole in the bottom OF
the sea" can be found it will be a good
place In which to dump the collection OF
deadly weapons which The police of New
York are getting from prisoners arrested
under the new law against concealed
weapons. The. law provides that they
shall be destroyed by drowning" and
the police are packing them in boxes and
barrels and dumping them in deep water
off Sandy Hook. That will help a little,
but the firearms and bowie knife factories
are still working overtime.-New Haven
Reqister.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
VIEWS OF EDITOR 5.


Patterson and Bonfiis. publishers of rival
newspapers in Denver, whose editorial
amenities toward one another have well
nigh exhausted the vituperatlve capacity
of the English language. ought to have
postponed their physical encounter a few
months. 1t might have helped enliven
things next July. when Denver is to have
a Democratic convention which promises
to be abnormally tame.-Springield Union.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

Number of men killed in the coal mines
of the United States for each 1000 men en-
nloNpd.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-10-12
Yesterdays Game.

CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-After eight in.
nings of clockwork baseball yester,
day, wild Bill" Donovan, premier
pitcher of the champions of the Am
erican league, weakened under pro.
longed strain and the Chicago world
champions captured their second
game of the present series from De-
troit to 1.
Detroit's hopes, which were high
after seven innings. in which Chi
cago had made only one hit, were
dashed in the eighth. In that SEN
sational portion of the game Dono-
van was hit for a home trip and a
double and three singles. Incident
ally he walked one man and allowed
another to score on a wild pitch.
Overall. on the contrary, was steady
throughout the game, holding the
Tigers" to four hits and one run.
That run marked Detriot's despair
ing effort in their half of the ninth.
Nothing could have explained the
excellence of Donovar's work up to
that fatal eighth. He had speed, an
assortment of curves, which he mixed
in battling style, and he cut the
corners with the greatest precision
and speed. He had the best of Chi
cago's batsmen swinging wild, and
twice struck out the redoubtable
Killing.
Not a runner of either side reach
ed first base until the third. Then
Overall passed Downs, and the lat
ter was sacrificed to second. where
his obsequies as a runner were per-
formed. This was farther than
Chicago went. Overall reached first
before Rosseman. who stopped his
grounder. and, instead of covering
the bag himself, waited for Dono-
van to do 50. and the latter dropped
his throw. But the big Chicago
pitcher got no further.
Overall Pitches Great Game.
Overalls pitching was mastery.
He was found for only four scattered
hits, no two OF which came in the
same inning, and one Of which had
to be counted because Messrs. Over
all and Killing both went after
Sehaefer's hunt. and each stopped for
the other to get it. He ISSUED passes
twice. Crawford and Mcintyre. who
hit above 500 all season. were un-
Continued on page fOur.)
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-10-12
THAW GOES BACK
TO MATTEAWAN
The New York Courts Refuse to
Turn Him Over to Penn
sylvania.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Oct. 70.
The proceedings instituted for an
examination Of Harry X. Thaw for
the purpose of ascertaining whether
he is still insane or not, was dis
missed today, and Thaw remanded to
the asylum for the criminal insane.
The proceedings we're Instituted by
the Pennsylvania authorities for the
purpose of taking Thaw to Phila-
delphia to answer in a bankruptcy
case which is now pending in the
courts. Whether the dismissal Of
the present proceedings is an
abandonment of the effort by the
Pennsylvania authorities to take
Thaw to that state or whether they
will now make an attempt through
some other form OF procedure could
not be learned.
The decision Of the court came as
a severe blow to Thaw as II means
hts return to Matteawan. Thaw has
often expressed himself as regarding
this as the worst place on earth. and
that he would a great deal rather
be a prisoned in the Tombs in New
York.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-10-12
British Women Workers.

ABERDEEN, Oct. 12.-suffra-
gettes and feminine workers In the
field of British industry gathered
here today for the conference Of the
National Union Of Working Women
of Great Britain and Ireland. A
reception was given the delegates to-
day by the Earl and Codntess of
Aberdeen. The latter will be me of
the speakers at the conference. and
win participate in the general de-
bate on the subject: The Training
and Practice OF Citizenship" The
union has IL branches aud is anil
ated with 14o other societies.