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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
OUR NEGLECTED Ep1LEpr1cs.

The great needs of the State epileptic
village at Skillman, in Somerset County,
are set forth in the annual report of the
managers, who declare that the institu-
ton will require an expenditure of half
a million to give to 1t the facilities that
were contemplated in its establishment.
There is no hospital or assembly hall
or power house, and there is a lament
able lack of other important structures.
As far back as 1884 the necessity for
a separate place of maintenance for
~epileptics was urged upon the Legisla-
ture, but 1t was not until 1895 that the
torpid legislative conscience was
touched. Meanwhile, epileptics were
sent to the insane asylums, to be herded
In with lunatics, as, in fact, is the case
to this day. In 1896 a bill was intro
duced for an epileptic village and it
failed to pass. In 1898, ten years ago,
principally through the efforts of Gov
and then Senator, Stokes. an act
was passed appropriating $4,000 for
purchase of a site. and the same year a
small beginning was made with a few
patients.
In ten years an institution of such
Importance to humanity should have
developed ample facilities, but the an
nual appropriations nave been meagre,
and the constant appeals Of the ana
gers have been callously ~disregarded.
The Legislature had plenty of money to
invest in a new Senate chamber and
other luxuries, n had little enough
to disburse for the benefit of the epilep-
tics, a helpless class, entirely worthy of
the benevolent car of the State. Ten
years of neglect reflects discredit upon
New Jersey. Is this neglect, which
amounts to ~inhumanity, to be con-
tinued?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE.

A remarkable editorial article in the
New York World yesterday sets forth
the qualities of character, the high
order of craftsmanship and the avail
ability of President Woodrow Wilson,
of Princeton University, as the choice
Of the national Democratic convention
for candidate for President. This
article expresses in powerful language
the sentiment of the thinking Democ-
racy of the country, and it presents
reasons for the nomination of DIR. Will
son that are irrefutable, reasons that,
naturally. appeal more particularly to
the Democrats of New Jersey.
At present the Democratic Presi-
Dental nomination is 'in the air." Mr..
Bryan is prominent for reasons well
understood. He is the only Democratic
leader who has constantly kept him
self in the limelight. He has been in
cessantly active. More than a year
age he received the hasty Endorsements
of a number of State organizations.
That was before Mr.. Bryan came out
unqualifledly for national ownership of
the railroads. a proposition which he
afterwards retreated from. Judge
Gray. of Delaware, has his partisans
for the nomination, but he is a color
less candidate, too far removed from
the masses. Woodrow Wilson lives in
the world, is a factor in daily affairs
and Is In close touch with the people.
He is a master of statecraft and he
exempliies In his character all the
public virtues that the American peo-
pie would ideallze in their President.
along has dwelt in the Republican
Presidential candidacy, and popular
discussion has related almost wholly
to the struggle between the friends
and opponents of the Roosevelt ad-
rn~inistration. But the Democratic
candidacy now assume prominence in
the public mind, and the development
of sentiment for Woodrow Wilson will
aoon give it an equal interest with that
which has watched the phases of the
Republican Presidential contest. How
the New Jersey Democracy will be
aligned remains to be seen, but a State
is always looked to to stand for its
favorite son, at least as it's first choice,
Ia a national nominating convention.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

The malls at the p~ostofice in Au-
gusta, Me-, were held up for a full day
by order of the Board of Health be-
cause the breaking in transit of a
mailing case containing a culture of a
case of possible %diphtheria necessie
tated the disinfection of all mail mat
ter. 1t would seem that the mails
should be closed entirely to such dan
gerous material. It is quite conceiv-
able that the break might not have
been discovered until many Of the let
tiers that had come in contact with the
~contagion had been distributed. Even
as 1t was, the delay that resulted was
important to be considered. If such
matter must be entrusted to the mails
or the express companies at all, it
should be only in properly labeled
packages as nearly unbeatable as
human ingenuity car provide.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
prohibition In the south.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Just what portion of the Southern
States has gone dry?" J. w.
Maryland is now the only Southern
State in which no decided step has yet
been taken in the matter of prohibition.
Delaware divided In halves on the ques-
ton. Alabama has voted to become dry"
January 1. 1909. Georgia has already be-
come dry" North Carolina is q prohi-
billion State to the extent of 95 per cent.
of her territory. South Carolina is about
equally divided for and against. Virginia
is more than half prohibitionlst. West
Virginia Is in the same condition. Florida's
prohibition percentage is rs. Tennessee
has the same. Mi~ssissippi's Is 90. Loui-
slana's is 6S. Arkansas has IS dry coun-
ties and only 81 wet" Tennessee will
have only 4 wet" counties after April
1, 1908. Texas has AZ wet counties, 81
partially so, and 145 entirely "dry."-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
FOREST PRESERVATION.

Backing up the excellent work of the
Roosevelt administration in adding vast
tracts of timber and to the forest re-
serve, and thus saving 1t for future
generations from the d~epredations Of
the lumber men and land pirates, is the
excellent record made by the Bureau Of
Forestry, with a very small force, in
saving these tracts from disastrous
forest fires. According to Chief Clifford
Pinchot, of the bureau, there were
about 100 fires last year on the govern
ment reservations which were checked
by the caretakers in time to prevent
serious mischief. AS there is only an
average of one man to care for each
200 square miles of these tracts, these
foresters are certainly laborers worthy
of their hire.
The splendid showing made by the
National Government in its forestry
policy should stimulate more energy
on the part of the States in ex-
tending their forest reservation and
preservation policy. New Jersey has
made a small beginning. but she should
DO more, and is amply able. There are
many large tracts of forest land in the
state hat are needed for conserving
the water supply. The State should
acquire as much of it as possible before
Il falls a prey to land spectators and
is denuded of its forest growth.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
A M-ohammedan Prayer.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
VIII you please print the Mohammedan
prayer, asking punishment for all outside
the faith of Moslem? READER.
1.-THE following is the prayer, which is
repeated daily In every Mohammedan
household and mosque. 81 seek refuge
with Allah from Satan, the accursed. In
the name of Allah, the compassionate, the
merciful, o Lord of all creatures, o Al
lab. destroy the inhdels and polythelsts
thine enemies, the enemies of the religion!
q, Allah, make their children orphans
and dehle their abodes and cause their
feet TO slip and give them and their
families and their households n their
women and their children and their rela-
by marriage and their brothers and
their friends and their possessions and
their race and their wealth and their
lands as booty to the Moslems, o Lord of
all creatures!"-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
IN Q VEIN.
Speed

Speed.
Talk about our autos and the way they
burn the air :.
The speed that they are making doesn't
really compare
With the swiftness that's expected from
the average citizen
Who gets into the hustle and the hustle,
now and then.
He's got to keep on lodging to the left or
to the right;
He longs to teach his muscles the rapidly
of light. i
II you feel yourself unwilling to be cut
down like a flower,
You've got to side-step at the rate OF sixty
miles an hour,
Dodging wagons as they whirl In strange,
dellrious glee;
Dodging grafters all alert wherever you
nay be;
Dodging consequences when some foolish
thing is said:
Dodging some debater who decides to
punch your head;
No wonder men get nervous as the days
go rushing by.
The nations Indigestion isn't wholly due
to pie. ata
This 1ife's a constant study to develop
speed and power
When you must side-step at the rate Of
sixty miles an hour.
-Washington Star,
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A committee would then examine the
various bids, together with these reports
of the tests, and relying on VanDycks
reports, would recommend that the con-
tract for the purchase of hard black
be made to that bidder whose sample
had been SO reported to be the best.
1t is charged that pursuant TO this
conspiracy the Bloede company submit
ted several bids each year from The
spring of 1901 until 1906. The rating
of 100 was given the Bloede sample
every year, except one, when 1t was
rated at 9S, the highest mark given mai
year.
The indictments also charges that the
contracts were each year awarded to
the Bloede company, and that company
from July 1, 1901, to July l, 1905, fur
nished to the bureau the hard black
used there, which averaged 0 225,-
600 pounds a year, at the rate OF 40
cents a pound.
The Indictment purports to give de-
tails of the transaction between Van
Dyck and Bloede as to payments made
the former. IL appears that VanDyck
received his commission in the form OF
checks, which after being Endorsed, he
would return to the Bloede company
and receive in lieu thereof New YORK
drafts.
Attorneys for both VanDyck and
Bloede appeared before Justice stat
ford yesterday and agreed to $l0,00o
bail each. The attorneys asserted that
the Indictments were of a
nature and that the alleged fraud did
not involve necessarily a loss to the
government. They claimed that the
bureau received the best color obtain
able at a price 10 cents less per pound
than 1t had prior to the letting of con-
tracts to the Bloede Company.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

Now that the holidays are over, poll
tics will rule in Congress and in the
country. Congressional politics this
year is of two kinds, namely, that in
which the Republicans and Democrats
are arrayed against each other, and
that in which administration and anti
administration Republicans are in con-
fict. The latter promises to be the
more bitter and more picturesque Of the
two,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
A Sims Watches.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
How are the watches on shipboard d.
vided up? John w.
ION shipboard, for the purpose of disci-
pine and to divide the watch fairly, the
crew Is mustered in two divisions, the star
board fright side, looking toward the bow
and the port (left). The day
at noon. and is thus divided: Afternoon
watch, noon to 4 p. M; first dog watch,
4 p. m. to 6 p. M; second dog watch, 6
p. m. to 8 p. m; first watch, s p. m. to
midnight; middle watch. II q. m. to 4 a..
M; morning watch, 4 q. m. to 8 a. M;
forenoon watch, s a, m. to noon. This
makes seven watches, which enables the
crew TO keep them alternately, as the
watch which m on duty at noon one
day has the forenoon next day, and the
men who have only four hours rest one
night have eight hours the next.-sEd.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

irons will discover that they are not
assisting the walters, but a soulless
corporation, and when this is realized
the tendency to liberality must suffer.
If its effect were to discourage parasite
cal giving utterly, then the Chicago
syndicate would, quite contrary to its
intention, be performing a considerable
public service.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
The RecaIcitrant Furnace.

When father rises with the dawn,
Then there are lively goings on.
Our angry sire
Awakens all his kin and kith
The while he tolls and wrestles with
The furnace fire. i.
Dad gives each knob a lusty shake,
Declares he will later take
Proceedings dire.
OF course he gets his nerves awry;
It's tough to be defeated by
The furnace fire.
The furnace is a sturdy foe,
1t worries poor old father so
That In his ire
Some day he'll likely take a stand,
Go out and buy gas heaters, and
The furnace drel
Louisville Courier-Journai.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
Sir Isnnc Pitmnn.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
WIN you please publish a sketch of Sir
Isaac Pitman, one Of the inventors of
s~tenography? B. q. w.
ISir Isaac Pitman was born at Trow-
bridge, Wiltshire, January 4, 1913. He was
first a clerk and then a schoolmaster at
Observation-Disclosures QS32 to 1886 and at
Watton-Under-Edge, where he issued his
"Stenographic Sound Hand" QS3D. He
was dismissed from Walton because he
had Joined the Swedenborgian Church. He
conducted a school at Bath .(1S39 to 1873,
hut henceforwarl his career was the his
tory of the development of shorthand and
spelling reform. In 1912 he brought out
the Phonetic Journal. and in 1915 opened
an office in Lonlon. He was knighted in
1884 and died January %, 1897. Ben Pit
man, his younger brother and disciple,
came to America, and, with r. B. Prosser,
published THE Reporters Companion
and TINE Manual" His system was the
same as Sir Isaac's as published in 1885,
Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
Tnft,s Loyalty.

OF course MI. Taft indorsed and defended
President Roosevelt's attitude on great ne
tional questions; of course he denied and
denounced the imputations from certain
well-known sources of executive RESPONSE
hility for the recent upheaval. Secretary
Taft Is neither traitor nor migrate, nor can
any effort on the part of his enemies make
him so. Therefore he did In Boston just
what he should have done and consistently
spoke for the administration which he has
helped to make. He has given his enemies
within the party no vulnerable point Of
attack; hi. fidelity and his loyalty to pria-
ciple and to friend must remain unques-
tioned.-Atlanta Constitution.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
A Dentists Child.

DR.. Frank c. Bostwick, official dentist
to the Sultan OF Morocco. has been spend
ing his vacation In Plainfield, N. j., and
at a recent dinner he said apropos of a
bad child:
1T is wise to punish children, but not
corporally.
II know a dentist in Gibraltar who got
out a birch rod to punish his little son
with one day.
The boy, looking at the rod, said,
piteously:
Papa. would you mind giving me gas
first?' philadelphia Bulletin.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

States is about normal, while our in
crease in imports from Germany vas
greater on the average than In the two
preceding years, Germany ought to be
satisfied, and as Jhe United States still
maintains her average balance of trade
Uncle Sam shouldn't complain.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

Reversed.

The foreign visitors to China had asked
to see a native execution, and the gov
ernor of the province, for a consideration,
had consented to oblige them.
"Have mercy. your highness," walled the
wretched criminals, as they cringed before
the governor. Have we no CHANGER"
None whatever" responded his high
ness cheerfully. TITS a case of 'Taels
I win, heads you lose.' bohemian.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

why don't you get some new ideas
on the tariff?'
whats the user rejoined the states
man. Nobody understands the old ideas
clearly enough to prevent them from
seeming novel and startling II you spring
them suddenly. "-Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

A witticism was attributed the other day
In Washington to the President. A young
man, the story goes, during a call at the
White House told the President that he had
been married a year before and was all
ready the father of a boy. II congratulate
YOU" said the President. II am sure Won
find 1t pleasanter to be a loving sire than
a signing over."-chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

az am afraid" said the candid critic,
that your constituents won't take the
trouble to read your speech. It is long
md uninteresting.,
81 made 1t 50 on purpose answered
Senator Sorghum. Its length creates
the impression that 1t is a pretty big piece
Of work, and IL they don't read 1t they
can't find fault with it"-Washingtop
Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

what are your views on currency?'
asked the busy citizen.
Mostly sad and reminiscent" answered
the man who had been to the races
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

Pa" asked little Willie, IF cts Is
shorts for cents what's short for dol
lars?'
"All married men at this time of year,
my son." replied his father.-Philaielphia
Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

80 she married a poor man., said one
New Yorker.
Yes" answered the other; "she was
so blinded by affection that she never
stopped to consider the limited alimony
he could afford to pay."-Washington
Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
AS Little Sraggie Told r.

II know that old lady over there
whispered little Maggie.
d you, DEAR asked her mother. 'eWho
Is she?"
Why, she's the little lame boy wa
| told you about watts in my class i'd
schools grandmother" Philadelphis
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
FROM STAR READERS

Anonymous communication cannot ha
printed. EXCEPT on political subjects the
names of correspondents are not required for
publication. but as a guarantee of good faith.
ED
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
She'd Change Her NT,ud.

Though the new woman claims that her
mission
Is work for the sex's glory"
She'd gladly resign her POSITION
To list to the old, old story.
-Philadelphia. Press
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

New Jersey now owns 361 voting ma
chimes, for which she paid o 100000.
Some of the folks think q better use could
have been found for the money-Hartford
Courant.
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Best In the world.

However, the railroad engineers OF the
United States are doubtless the most eff
cient class of men In the world, In that
important profession. They have pushed
ines across the continent in compare
lively short spaces of time, in the face
of almost in-sur1nountable obstacles; and
now that they have reduced the science
of tunneling to a nicely, and made under
ground work cheaper and easier thar sur
face digging under certain circumstances
they will continue to make surprising reVe-
latlons as TO the digging capacity of
human labor applied in the operation OF
~up-to-date e~xeavating machinery.-Mll-
waukee Wisconsin.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
Cause and Erect.

81 started to propose to Miss Hoamley-
Rich last night, but I lost my courage"
said Tom.
Dick.
mo, but her father did; that's why /.
lost my courage."-Philadelphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
wilson us the sonth,s Candidate.

The World has already presented John
A. johnson, Governor of Minnesota, as an
available Western candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for President. 1t takes
equal pleasure in presenting Woodrow VIII
son as a Southern candidate, no less avail
able and with Presidential qualifications
exceeded by those of no man whose name
will be presented to any national conven-
tion,-New York World.
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whe Thex Are Quiet.

81 like to go to church."
''Why?'
well, it's comforting to see a mar keep
a hundred women or so quiet for an hour.
Bohemian.
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PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Chancellor MacCracken, of New York
University. will go to Europe in a few
days, accompanied by his wife, to spend
the rest of the winter there. While he is
away his son, DIR. John II. MacCracken,
the university's syndic, will ave charge.
King Edward has sent to TIE British
Museum a collection of passwords used
for the court and city in 1912 and 1920,
and signed by George Nv. Passwords are
still used in the Tower Of London.
P. N. Daskaloff, editor of the Vetcherna
Pochta, of Sofia, Bulgaria, has arrived In
New York to study the situation, having
heard that Bulgarian immigrants in this
country are suffering from lack of en-
ployment and from other reasons. He will
write a series of articles when he returns
home. and will try to give advice regard
ing immigration to this country through
his paper.
from the Ninth Virginia District, who sue
ceeded his father, the late Representative
Campbell Slemp, and became in his turn
the only Republican member from the Old
Dominion, is of medium height and rather
slender. with a thin face, which is made
interesting by large brown eyes that are
unusually expressive. He aspires to build
up In his State what he calls a Southern
Republican party, which shall follow the
traditional Southern attitude on sectional
questions but strictly Republican upon
national issues.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

The New York World is going right
along with a campaign for Governor john
A. Johnson, of Minnesota, as the Demo-
cratic nominee for President, just as if
nothing had happened. II the World could
have fallen in with the Courier-Journal
last spring and summer 1t might now be
talking to some purpose. 1t is too late.
Governor johnson won't have 1t. Mr..
Bryan won't have 1t. The Courier-Journal
exhausted the argument against Mr.. Bryan
without effect. In accepting the inevitable
1t simply takes heart of grace and makes
n virtue of necessity. The trouble With
New York is that it sees nothing In the
West and South until after the event, AMI
is too almighty sure of Its insuf1ciency
and ignorance before the ven Our dear
Brother Pulitzer has gained great riches
IN the East, but he knew more when he
lived In Missouri.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
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President roosevelt Hits ont.

President Roosevelt, in his letter to Sec
rotary Metcalf, hits squarely out from the
shoulder.
AS he says, there may he honest differ
ences of opinion regarding the command Of
hospital ships. but there can be nothing
but condemnation for a high officer OF the
navy who resigns rather than obey the
commands of his superior officer. Admiral
Brownson, as we have already said, had a
perfect right 10 express his opinions to
the Secretary of the Navy and to the
President, but to desert his position as
head of the bureau of navigation rather
than transmit an order of which he did
not personally approve was setting an ex.
ample to other officers thai could be moth
ing less than harmful. Such action is de-
structive of Observation-Disclosures In
quirer.