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Life Insurance.

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line; give us a trial Tel. HOW. B. B.
Life insurance.
100000
In 20 years or at death. Every dollar paid re-
'NEMLIC." Box 6, Star ONCE.
LOcksmiths.
C. H. HARMON. LOCK EXPERT.
Yale Keys zoe, guaranteed; Cabinet and
Keys of every description.
25s Washington st. tnear Market. Tel. Sl5s-J.
Musical Instruments.
VIOLIN. Magglni model. will be sold at a great
sacrifice. Music and musical instruments. g.
P. GUENTHER MUSIC CO.. 145 Halsey st.
Moving Picture Amuaemepts.
Model Amusement Co. Theatres; Model, 10
Springfield av.. Newark; Gem. 18th and Spring
field avs. Newark; Model. 1856 Main St, Or
ange. A free chance to ali attending the Gem
Theatre for an order of ST. redeenable at Re
gers uptown department store. Amateur night
Thursday at the Model, Newark C%inauevalli.
the Great. at the Gem; Bernard Hamill, sons
illustrator. at the Orange.
Notaries Public.
MAX CANS,
TA Broad Street.
Star Building.
(Second noor.)
olive OIL Importer.
THE L. s. Government chemist's analysts backs
my assertion or having one Of the finest
gal, $3.50; quart, 9Oc: mint. soc. in original sealed
packages. Write FRED. c. l. 2e4 Market st.
Paints and Oils.
WALLPAPER. Paints. Oils. Varnishes and
Brushes at most reasonable, prices. Wallpaper
Sc per roll uD. A. SCHROEDER. 1873 Ferry ST.
Pawn Tickets.
PAWN TICKETS. United Cigar coupons and
secondhand tools Of all kinds bought e.
BRBNNER. 286 Market st.
Pawnbrokers' Sales store.
OLD gold and silver bought. A Broome ct,
cor. Springfield av. J. HooKAY co.
Printers md Stationers.
YOU WANT VIA YOU WANT WHEN o
WANT 1T. BIRRELL-BROwN CO., Printers
and Statloners. 1874 Broad St. Star Building.
Pianos.
stS NEWLY . EVANS upright; used two
DION IL West Park st.
Poultry.
ALL KINDS Of poultry feeds. The "A. c. G:
BABY Chick Food" makes meaty broiiers and
early laying bullets. At all grocers'. Manufac-
tured by THE A. 20 65 to II
Nesbitt Ut.
Rooms.
THREE and 4 rooms for rent: cold water. i'm
provements. $3.50 and 5000 also shop for
light purposes. Apply at 11s Howard St. cor.
Springfield av.
Secondhand Clothing Dealers.
BEFORE you sell. see me. I pay higher prices
for mems and ladies' clothing than anyone
else. Send postal. I will call. NJ. FEINBERG.
1904 Mulberry st.
Sign Painters.
II. LEEN. 1875 Springfield av.; gold lettering on
windows, wood. tin or oilcloth.
Title md Abstract Companies.
NEW JERSEY TITLE N ABSTRACT co.
Nav Jersey Real Estate Titles Guaranteed.
I38 Broad st. Newark. N. ].
Baths.
cLINTON ST. %. OPP. Beaver st.-Moderate
prices: good service; ladies' day Mondays, 10
a. m. to 10 p. m. 7. W. ASTON. Prop.
H&--.--
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secondhsnd Clothing D.aIcrs.

BEFORE you sell. see me. I pay higher price,
for mems and ladies' clothing than anyone
else. Send postal. I will call. NJ. FTINBERG,
120Ih Mulberry st.
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RI and I rooms for rent: cold water. In
provements. So and $40. 80: also shop II
light purposes. Apply at 11s Howard St, CO
Springfield av.
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In 20 years or at death. Every dollar paid re-
turned with interest. Oldest American company.
"NEMLIC," Box 6, Star ONCE.
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i KINDS Of poultry feeds. The "A. c. @.
BABY Chick Food makes meaty broilers and
early laying pullets. At all grocers'. Manufac-
tured by THE A. CYPHERS CO, 65 to II
Nesbitt vt.
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Title md Abstract Companies.
NEW JERSEY TITLE AND ABSTRACT co
Nav Jersey Real Estate Titles Guaranteed.
78 Broad st. Newark. N. J.
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JsINESS MEMS LUNCH. 15c. Best In city.
Fry 1t. ALLIGATORH CAFE, 1876 Market st.
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Title md Abstract

II. LEEN, 1875 Springfield av. gold lettering
windows, wood. tin or dilcloth.
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c. II. HARMON. LOCK EXPERT.
Yale Keys zoe, guaranteed. Cabinet and
Trunk Locks put on. Electrical Bell Work.
Keys of every description.
258 Washington st. (near Market. Tel. S153-J.
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PRoFEssIoNAL CARDs.

FRAENTZEL g. RICHARDS. Patent law.
American and foreign patents, trademarks
and copyright and mechanical engineering.
Liverpool and London and Globe Building,
corner Broad and Mechanic sts.. rooms sol-eO2.
Phone 1851.
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Grain and Hay.
Waite PARKER.
Cash Feed Store. 300 Plane st.
Fair feeding hay. per wt.................. .76c
9ood timothy hay, per wi .............. .Bbc-90c
No. / timothy hay, per cwt........... .~e5c-$1o0
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MERCANTILE AUDIT G. ACCOUNTING CO.,
n-15 Clinton st. Union BuildlnR). Newark.
Certified Public Accountants furnished at rea-
sonable rates.
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Moving Picture Amuaemepts.
Model Amusement Co. Theatres; Model. 100
Springfield av.. Newark; Gem. 18th and Spring
field avs. Newark: Model. 1856 Main St, Or
ange. A free chance to all attending the Gem
Theatre for an order of So. redeemable at Re-
gers uptown department store. Amateur night
Thursday at the Model, Newark Cinquevalh.
the Great. at the Gem; Bernard Hanill, song
illustrator. at the Orange.
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Confectionery
COufcctiOneTs.
The Sweetest. PIrest Candy IN the State.
PH|LA. CONFECTIONERY co.

The new sweetment shop on Broad ST.. near
Cedar. Only the best ingredients used In the
skilled manufacture Of our candles. Delicious
chocolate and ice cream soda. Wholesale and
retail. NICHOLAS MILES. Prop. 100 Broad st.
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CONCENTRATIONS man wishes steady post
ton as carpenter; can also do painting and
other general work, H. BoNKoXSKI. t6
Beacon st.
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II L.. s. Government ctemist's analysis backs
my assertion OF having one of the finest
French OLIVE OILS imported. Gallon. ST.; Y
gal. $50; quart, 90c: mint. soc. in original sealed
packages. Write FRED. c. ELY. 294 Market st.
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THE MODERN, s Central av. new manage
ment; special dinners Saturday nights, %
cents, Sunday family dinner, 30 cents. Open
J a., m. to $50 p. m.
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MOURNING GOODS dyed French black and
delivered in "a hours at lowest prices. A.
ADLER, a Broome St, near cor. Springfield av.
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/ big bargains in slightly used typewriters:
Remfngtons No. 2. SIS: No. 6. $50; No. I, re-
built. s45: new No. 7. $50: almost new No. I
Underwood, $50; oliver. S25; franklin. Ham
mond Commercial Visible. sis; typewriter
tables. 81: Monarch. s55; 200 machines to select
from; also big bargain In Office furniture,
add ng machines. monographs. neostyles.
NATHAN'S, 1 White ST.. cor. West Broad
way, New York city.
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PRESTO" LUNCH ROOM.
Open all night.
1lS MARKET STREET.
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Furniture and Carpets.
Just out-our illustrated Home Furnisher's
Guide" Free on request. Cowperthwait & Van
Horn Co., 70 Market st, Newark. N. J.
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CLINTON ST, %. opp. Beaver st.-Moderat
prices: good service; ladies' day Mondays, /
a. m. to 10 p. M. t.. w. ASTON. Prop.
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'ou1try.

$500 NEWLY . upright: used two
months: only s2TB. others from $40 up. GEO
COLON. IL West Park st.
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FOR your Oriental fireworks Of every description
sec Kwong, Yee Yuen & Co.. II Lafayette ST
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Artificial Eyes

Edward Prokocimer, steamship tickets and ex-
shange office, 1876 Springfield av. Notary public.
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VIOLIN, Magglni model. will be sold at a great
sacrifice. Music and musical Instruments. G.
P. GUENTHER MUSIC CO.. 145 Halsey st.
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THE Manhattan Decorating Co; painting room
LIS; papering $3.50; best work cheapest rates
guaranteed. &. WAX. prop, n So. Orange av.
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Uph0isterers, Cabinet Makers.
r. VALENTINE. successor to Schaub & valen-
TIM, manufacturers Of all kinds fine furni-
ture. curtain-hanging, understanding. var
nishing. Wall tackings a speciality. A-28 Cen
tral av. Phone s565-R-
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THE ORIGINAL PENEK'S" U LOWER
MARKET still continues at 757-759 Broad st,
corner Bank. Floral designs and decorations
Lrtistically arranged. This is the original store
md our only other store is a branch located at
10 Orange st. Telephone 2l52-J.
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Music.
ron SALE OR

BARGAIN-Party having purchased automo-
bile will sell Doctors carriage, rubber-tired.
almost new, cheap. 40 Morris av., near 18th
aNenue.
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PAWN TICKETS. United Cigar coupons an
secondhand tools of all kinds bought. 4
BRENNER. 1856 Market st.
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s1.50 monthly up; kept in order; sold, so UP
guaranteed: don't waste time looking around
go to most popular exchange in New York city.
COHEN TYPEWRITER AGENCY. 1854 Broad
way, near 18Th. N. Y. city. Telephone. 1871
Madison square.
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WE have full line OF Oriental frecrackel
YICK & CO.. IS Fair st.
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WALLPAPER. Paints. Oils. varnishes an
Brushes at most reasonable prices. Walipaps
Sc per roll up, A. SCHREIBER. 1873 Ferry 8
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Pawnbrokers' Sales store.
gold and silver bought. A Broome st.,
cor. Springfield av. J. HoOKAY 20.
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Artificial Eyes.
ARE YOUR EYES DEFECTIVE
or failing from age? There is nothing that falls
so rapidly as the vision when once 1t shows
Signs Of weakness.
NE ARE SKILLED OPTICIANS
and will test your eyes free any time you desire.
Bee us when you have eve troubles.
FREEMAN. IA Academy st.
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eoT-GN 8 PARRIsCH. Of s15 Springfield av..
sold their store of groceries and vegetables:
IAN The creditors should come by the 2d OF
suns for their AAAs.
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YOU WANT WHAT YOU WANT WHEN Yo'
WANT 1T. BIRRELL-BROwN CO.. Printer
and Stationers. 1874 Broad ST.. Star Building
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watches and JeweIrx.
window Shades.

81, 900. 90 REWARD to any person who will
bring me a watch that 1 cannot repair. GEO.
BERNARD. 221 Mulberry ST.. Newark. N. J.
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~BoY-Bright. Intelligent boy wants work IN
office. Address GRADUATE. Box 8. Star
Office.
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Umbrella Factory

Umbrella Factory.
A. w. WOLFSON is still at Halsey and Mar
kat SITS. Taffeta covers guaranteed, 81. Re-
pairing done. Entrance 1T Haisey st.
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Notaries Public.
MAX CANS.
T4 Broad Street.
Star building.
Second noor.)
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M. OTEsKY the Photographer. of 1877 and tS
Springfield av., inv ties the public to see tn
special six photos for 30 cents. Also all kind
of our photographs reduced in prices.
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HELP WANTED.
MALE.

ACTIVE. reliable statesmen for city and State;
salary and commission. Room "A, 122 Mar
ket ST.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.


FOR sALE-At Hillside Park. one LAuster
balloon swing, including concession; plant Is
complete and has a large earning capacity:
best part Of season coming; can be seen In
operation today. Inquire OF manager Of swing.
LAUSTER BALLOON SWING N MANU-
FEATURING CO. Colt Building. Paterson,
N. J.
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WINDOW Sna0eS.
ENTERPRISE SHADE co. 555
Springfield av.: the only reliable makers Of
shade cloth and window shades. cheerfully give
estimates. l.. D.. phone 1917.
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GoING out Of business; SIS. 900 mems and
youths clothing and furnishings to be sold
regardless Of cost. Nothing reserved. ]. D.
ALPERTN. 10 Ferry ST
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Hat Cleaners.
UNION HAT

Straw hats cleaned and pressed while you
wait. Panamas a speciality. Union halter.
236 MARKET STREWT.
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CONSERVING OUR RESOURCES.

The necessity for conserving Ameri-
can resources is strikingly pointed out
by Emerson Hough in a recent number
OF Everybody's Magazine. Mr.. Hough
says:
In fifty years We shall have whole
states as bare as China. The Appa-
lachians viii be stripped TO bedrock.
The Rockies will send down vast floods,
which cannot be controlled. The. Cana
dian forests north of the Great Lakes
viii be swept away. Our middle west
Will be bare. The Yazco Delta Will be
ripped apart, because no levee will be
able TO stand the foods of those days.
We shall be living in crowded concrete
houses. and at double the rent we now
pay. We shall make vehicles OF steel,
use no wood on our farms. We shall
pay 10 cents for newspaper, so cents
for q magazine, as much for lead pen
ell. Cotton will be immensely higher.
Beef will be the privilege of the few.
Clothing viii cost twice what il costs
foday. Like Cinnamon. our children
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viii rake the soil for fuel or forage or
food. We shall shlver in a cold, and
burn in a heat. never before felt in
this temperate zone. meant by God as
a comfortable growing place for SPLEEN
did human beings-unless we wake
up"
Now. cOnfdentially, we are hardly
pessimistic enough TO believe the pic
ture painted by Mr.. Hough will ever
be realized. Certainly ii will not be
eat-grandchildren OF any child today.
Our resources are too vast TO be ex-
hausted within the brief space. compar-
atively speaking. of a half century, or
Of ten times fifty years. for that matter
SO there is no occasion for immediate
alarm. Nobody need lose any great
amount OF sleep over the matter,
The fact remains. though. that we
Our mountain ranges have been de-
nuded of their timber and little effort
at reforestatiOn has been made; lumber
has increased enormously in cost dur
ing the last decade, and it is certain to
go higher during the next ten years.
We have been wastefuI. too, with our
ranges. They have been stripped of
their vegetation and laid bare. Our
coal supply is rapidly diminishing. and
few new fields are being opened.
The conference of governors, unpre-
cedented in our history, that recently
concluded its sessions in Washington
cannot fail to be OF immense benefit to
the conservation movement. We can
not afford TO be selfish. Something
must be left for succeeding generations
There is enough for all of US. and to
spare, but there is no justification for
reckless. wanton waste.
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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
(Fuei.)


Wen begin with box. and the plural is
boxes,
But the plural OF OK should be oxen. not
oxes.
Then one fowl is a goose, but two are
called geese.
Yet the plural Of mouse should never be
neese:
You will find a lone mouse or a whole
nest of mice.
But the plural OF house is houses. not
hice
II the plural of man is always called
Why shouldn't the plural OF pan be called
PEN?
The COW in the plural may be cows or
But a bow, Il repeated. is never called
tine.
And the plural Of vow is vows, never vine.
If / speak of q foot and you show me
your feet,
And l give you boot. would a pair be
called beet?
II one is a tooth and whole set are
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be
If the singular's this and the plural is
these
Should the plural of kiss ever. be nick
named keese2
Yet the plural in hat would never be
hose.
And the plural of cat is cats. not cose.
We speak of brother and also Of breth-
rem
But though we say mother, we never say
methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his
But imagine the feminine she. shis and
So the English. I think you all will agree
Is the queerest language you ever did see.
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NOTICE.

Arthur Jackson, who entered the
railway station at Woodstock.
bound the operator hand and foot
and robbed the station, was sem
fenced to nine years in the Kings
ton penitentiary.
Aha, Had my thoughts been antici-
pated by the mysterious power that
sends these timely warnings TO souls
about to-er-yes. that's it. TO err?
Walking hurriedly away with my
drink of water untasted. l paced back
and forth in the smoking room. There
another sign caught my eye. | APP
preached it-identical In wording with
the other
Surely these warnings were not
placed there for nothing. Surely a be-
neficent railroad cOmpany's police de-
partment had not posted these bits OF
information through a benevolent de-
sire to inform and educate the travelling
public. There could be but one lesson
in il for mel saw it clearly.
| was being advised not to bind that
station agent hand and foot and rob
the stationi
1t all came home to me with crushing
force There was no other possible con-
clusion. There was poor Arthur repin-
ing in a noisome gaol mot jail-this
was i'm Canada) just because he had
made himself unpleasant to a station
agent Food for thought,
My steps quickened as / paced back
and forth. back ana forth. like a circus
hyena. / went and looked in az the
station agent. He had thu appearance
of harmless young MA. he vas eat
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with salt upon their heads. which, should
they shake it off, was regarded as the
very worst OF omens; and the idea was
hOary even then. II is scarcely surprising
that a substance in itself regarded as d.
vine should presage disaster to any be-
ing careless enough TO let lt tall: ano one
can picture stately rites of yore, where
salt was carried as holy relic might be
in Italy today, and where, on any acct
dent occurring TO il. the most terrible OF
heavenly revenges might be expected 20
descend. il is not the first lofty idea the
true meaning OF which has shed ltseH IN
its passage through the ages till now all
that remains to us is the mere lgnoole
superstition. Should any be so unIortu-
nate as TO drop or spill SAN To-Day, ne Is
at once, we are advised, to throw plncn
over his left shoulder three times SAYING
Go to the devil each time
In Wales, before any furniture Is taken
into a new house, II is-or was III re
eently-the custom 10 throw salt IN al
the door: and when child for the nrst
time leaves rs mothers house. salt IS put
in it's pockets; in both cases the stufI, OF
course representing charm 10 keep
away all evil. Children shedding their
first teeth were instructed TO wrap eac9 a
in a scrap of paper with some salt and
fling Il into the fire: but the German
child. in a somewhat different ritual was
TO take his into a dark corner ana drop
it there. whispering the Wnile;
Mouse / give thee tooth of bone;
Give me instead an iron one
The suggestion of the exchange De
tokens the thrifty Teutonic mind; ana one
hopes the mouse used all due influence
10 fulfill his share of the contract, 10 the
confusion of all dentists.
Salt was. of course an Indispensable m
gredient of all charms against WITCH
craft. The Scotch goodwife would throw. throw
some I'm the fire o nights and cry. Gude
preserve g frae a skaith! and many
legend was based on the story or the un-
willing guest at some witches SaDDath'
who. trying to make the best OF the un-
holy repast. asked for salt TO season MS
meat At the bare mention or the WoIp,
with wild screams the whole assembly
melted into air even as though the sign
of the cross had been made. or holy wa
Ter poured into their midst. And pot ohIy
i'm such spells as these must salt De USED;
IN pIayed its part in love charms, too, ana
i'm Henderson's Folk Lore We nave
recipe for the use of maidens who would
call their erring lovers back to them.
They must, we read. for three consecu-
tive Friday nights. throw pinch or SAT-
into the fire and chant the words;
ut is not this salt | wish to burn.
1t Is my lovers heart to turn.
That he may neither rest nor happy DC
Until he comes and speaks to me.
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THE SAVING SALT.
SuperstItions of What Chemistry
Calls Sodium Chloride.
(St Louis Globe Democracy

kOb. LOUIS GlODe DemOCTatl
The devil loveth no salt in his meat
for that is a sign of eternity and used
by Gods command in all sacraments a."
says Scott in his "DiscoVerie OF Witch
craft and indeed salt, no less than fire
was from the very beginning of time re-
garded as a gift from above. Homer calls
II divine. The old Teutonic races con-
sidered salt springs holy things and wor-
shipped themi Tacitus tells of a long and
devastating war waged over the question
OF lordship over one. Logs were soaked
in water from these springs and then set
ION fire, from which small quantities of
salt were produced; but. of course this
was only far inland. since all salt comes
originally from the sea There is plenty
Of evidence i'm Holy Writ for ceremonial
uses of it: the Mosaic law commands that
every oblations of thy meat offered shalt
thou season with salt: neither shalt thou
suffer the salt of the covenant of thy
God to be lacking from thy meat offering;
with all thine offerings thou shalt offer
salt. Leviticus. H., 49, and Ezekiel in
bitter reproach cries to Jerusalem that "as
Tor thy nativity, in the day thou vast
born thou vast not washed in
water to supple thee; thou vast not sailed
at all, nor swaddled at ALL xvi, a. Salt
was. in fact. put into childs mouth in
baptism. and a pinch OF II is thrown
into holy water 10 keep the evil spirit at
Some reason lies at the root of all this;
salt cannot corrupt and has therefore
always been regarded as a symbol of Inn
mortality; in Ireland a pewter plate of II
was placed on the heart OF corpse tin
burial, and then with Goals and holy
water thrown into the grave. The super-
stitions connected with il are legion: hut
perhaps the best known is TO the effect
that IL is unlucky TO spill IT, Some have
found an origin for this in Leonardo ia
Vincis famous Last Supper" at Mia
where an overturned salt-cellsr is repre-,
scented ky the side OF Judas the traitor.
bus II is in fact a very much more an
ci4 SUPERSTITION than that The victims
for Ros IN sacrifices were led to death