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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-05-08

The frst IRE that has occurred In
the business distrtct In many months
broke out Tuesday mosniag IT
O'Clock. when flames were discovered
In the Erocery and bakery a. W. r..
Bason. whose store and stock were
consumed. and also Mrs. Anderepn's
millinery store. Much ~ the An6er-
son stock va saved. but was damaeed
BY water. Bacon's loas n abOut ea.1oo.
With $1,000 Insurance. Mira Anderpoa
carried $3.50 insuranco.
Valuo11o Wen - 4anco.
A crtesian well % great vnluo -
Just bsen completed On what r. knoxvu
- tho Mcclellan ranch. D SALTY oeun-
~. The dow ri struck ~ = Genthl u
about 1.t0o fest. ana water ncu
pours forth from the piping u tho rnHo
Of shout Zoe gallons per inmate. uh1ch
= a1pao fos al purpoeee - ~ Ynneh.
Bnt what wakes the we1l - yaiuan,o
- the fAet that tho water q hnny1lv
tmpreGna1ed With natural -
be1ng n s10le1ent Qnan1ialO to
ana ligak "a ne bni11fnU -
TanGn.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-05-08

The battieship Nebraska arrived al
San Francisco Friday from the Bre-
merton navy yard M proceeded to
Mare island.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
LAST YEARS FAILURES.

With the yearly average number of
failures for the last ten years Oils,
the total of 1925 for 1907, lower than
some previous individual years, car
not be considered large, and if it had
not been for the money panic" the
number would have been away below
the average, for during the first nine
months there were fewer than ever
before, taking into account the total of
credits. But the panic" failures were
the largest in liabilities of any year
since 1898, though, at 1912, 342, 692, they
fell short of that year by about s32, 0oO,-
900.
However, the figures are not as bad
as they look. for in comparing 1907 and
1898, the record years, the number of
firms has grown 81 per cent, clearings
have tripled and the total wealth of
the country has grown almost as much
as the number of firms. So the situa-
ton is anything but discouraging, and
a complete recovery may be looked for
before the end of the year.
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that 1t places all the power in the
hands of the President. Considering
that, while it empowers the President
to appoint governor, chief engineer,
CHEF counsel, a supreme court for the
zone, to fix their compensation, powers,
duties, and relative jurisdiction, until
such time as Congress may otherwise
provide" all these powers have the
safety string to them in the usual pro-
viso. with the advice and consent of
the Senate"
Without knowing anything more of
its true inwardness than appears or
the face of the published synopsis of
the bill. one would say that instead
OF making the President a sort of die
tator in the zone, the measure hedges
his powers with pretty strong safe
guards against a tendency toward any
one-man power.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
p1cK1NsoN's FATE IN BALANCE.

Next Friday. night will be pregnant
with events in Jersey City. The politi-
cal existence of Samuel ID. Dickinson,
whilom Republican leader of Hudson
County, is to be decided by the out
come of the election for chairman of
the Republican County Committee.
Dickinson is not a candidate for chair
man; he only wants to own that official,
and his candidate is his faithful hench-
man, Sheriff John c.. Kaiser. He is no
longer the titular head of the Samuel
d. Dickinson Association, from which
he has retired after taking down his
sign. and If the Republicans of Hudson
know themselves he will be relegated
to the real by the action of the county
committee next Friday night. Effaced
from the party leadership in Hudson,
the necessary thing for Dickinson to do
is to remove himself from the secre-
taryship of state, as per request by
Governor Stokes and the Republican
majority in the Senate. If Dickinson
shall do hat the broad mantle of public
charity will be thrown over him to
cover the sins thai have dragged him
down to such a low moral estate
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
Use FOR OUR aovERNoRs.

When a Governor of New Jersey ends
his term he goes out into the world to
earn his living the best way he car in
some private occupation. 1t is held that
he is sufficiently compensated by the
S10,0 900 a year salary for three years and
the temporary honors he has enjoyed.
But why should the State lose the serv-
ices of a man who has had three years
experience as Governor? Why not util-
lie them in some honorable way?
There was a suggestion of such a
course in the designation by Governor
Murphy of three former Governors as
a commission to look into the matter
of Morris Canal abandonment. That was
a temporary appointment, but it pointed
out q good policy for the State to adopt.
An Ex-Governor may not need an Off
cial salary, and, in fact, the question of
compensation would be entirely subor-
dinate to that of a proper recognition
of a retired executive, and retaining for
the State in some way the benefit of his
knowledge and experience of public
affairs.
For example, Governor Stokes will re-
tire from office this month. Governor
stokes served terms in the Assembly
and Senate, and the knowledge of State
affairs he obtained al a legislator has
been very largely added to in the execu-
tive office for three years. He would
doubtless accept an important COM
m~issionship if stendered him. and such
an appointment in his case would estab-
lish a precedent for future newly
elected Governors to follow. 1t is true
that former Governor voorhees, is a
State Water Commissioner, but he was
not appointed by his immediate sue
cessor.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
A sHoRT-LIvEp ALLIANCE.

The unnatural alliance between Great
itain and Japan cannot long endure.
has already been strained by occur
noes on the Pacific coast and the
aspect is for a much everer strain
that quarter The British nego-
tors of the alliance apparently failed
take into consideration the relations
the United States and Japan and the
ssibility of a conflict between the two
Wers, which, under the terms of the
glo-Japan treaty, might involve
eat Britain as the ally of Japan.
British national opinion counts for
nething, and it is easy to divine
at that opinion would be If Great
itain should be dragged by Japan in
a war with the United States or be
ought to the verge of such a war. A
me of Indignation against the gov
lment would sweep over England,
ntland and ireland and all the
glish-speaking dependencies. The
panese alliance would, in the end,
ove a calamity for Great Britain.
n the order of world and race poll
S, the white race must necessarily be
unit against the yellow, which SC
satly predominates in number. The
lite nation that goes over to Asia is
renegade. Japan and China have
proved all their modern military
'ength from the western nations. but
at could not be prevented. Japan
at Russia with European weapons
d European science, but not with the
tive aid Of another western power
lgland is the first of these powers tc
k her fortunes with those of ar
liatic nation, and stand pledged tc
ut Japan's battles against a white
wer. The alliance is unnatural and
mot endure.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08

TACOMA, Jan. S.-Dr. Charles Nc
C%utcheon, who, eighteen months ago,
began propagating English skylarks in
Western Washington, has just received
word from England hat a large con-
signment of skylarks and English and
Irish songbirds have been shipped to
him, and he is now expecting their ar
rival daily.
DR.. McCutcheon believes that within
a few years the English skylark will be
abundantly scattered throughout the
Puget Sound region, Notwithstanding
the fact that their propagation could
scarcely be said to more than have be-
gun. In the short space of time that he
has been experimenting with this peer
less singer he has found that it takes
to Western Washington as though the
country was it's natural habitat.
DR.. McCutcheon is a native of Great
Britain, and as a child was passionately
fond of the music made by the song
birds in the fields and lanes of England
and Ireland. The memory of the mel
ody made by the skylark never left him,
and even after he had been years in the
United States, where the song of the
little ldTk Is ueNtT iSdIQ, ne WOuiu lIS-
quently refer to its music in the most
enthusiastic name when talking with
his friends.
One day an English ship dropped
anchor in the harbor here, and on
board of her was an English skylark
in captivity, belonging to n of the
sailors. By mere chance DR.. Nc
Cutcheon went aboard the vessel.
While talking with the captain, to his
great establishment there suddenly
burst on the air the thrilling notes of
an English skylark. The bird sang
with all the abandon of the birds heard
in his boyhood.
The doctor was enraptured, and
never left the ship until cage, bird
and al belonged to him, while the
s~ailor-owner was consoled by several
jingling gold pieces.
The skylark vas the wonder of DR..
M~cCutcheon's circle of friends for
months. 1t proved an exceptional
singer even of the skylark family, and
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
Dumas's Works.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Kindly print a list of the works of Alex
ander Dumas, pere. READER.
[Following is a list of works of the elder
Dumas, in the chronological order in which
they appeared: 'Agenor de Mauleon,"
THE Brlgand,'' 1.-THE Horoscope" AS
c%antio,' THE Two Dianas," "The Page of
the Duke of Savoy Marguerite de
Valois," La Dame de Monsoreau; or,
Guardsmen.'' T Three Musketeers,"
Twenty Years After THE vicomte de
Br~agelonne,'' Ten Years Later" Louise
de la VALERIE" The Man in the Iron
Mask The Son of Porthos," The Wal
of the Women" 1.-The Black Tulip"
Beau Tancrede; or, The Marriage YER
dict, . The Chevalier d'Harmental; or, The
Consplrators,'' THE Regents Daughter"
"Olympe de Cleves," Madame de Mailly,'
sequel to "Olympe de Cleves;" Joseph
Balsamo," Memoirs of a Physician"
The Queens Necklace" "Ange Pitou;
or, Taking the Bastile, or Six Years
Later" The Countess de Charnay,'' AN
dree de Taverney,'' The Chevalier de
Maison Rouge Monsieur de Chauvelin's
VIII" THE Woman in the Velvet Neck
lace" 'The Companions of Jehu,' The
Aide-de-Camp of Napoleon" sequel to
THE Companions of Jehu;" "The First
Republic; or, The Whites and the Blues"
DIANA de Fargas," THE She Wolves of
Machecoul," 1.-The Last Vendee,'' sequel to
THE She Wolves;'' The Corsican
Brothers, "Masaniello; or, The Fisher
man of Naples The Count of Monte
Cristo,' Edmond Dantes," Monte Cristo
and His Wife," The Son of Monte
Cristo,'' 1.-THE Countess of Monte Cristo,"
1.-The Matchmaker, " THE Russian Gypsy"
THE Twin Lieutenant and blanche de
Beaullou ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
NEwARK,s BIG SHARE OF IN.

BY virtue of the Court of Appeals
decision in the railroad tax cases ap-
proximately five millions of tax on rail-
road main stem will be collected and
distributed by the State to the munich
palities. to pay their school taxes. This
amount represents the assessments for
the two years of 19O6-1sO7 for the two
following years.
Essex County's share of the tax is
about 81, 300, 600, and the share of New
ark is approximately 100000 If the
railroad lawyers shall make no further
contest by carrying an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court this
money will all be payable in time for
the Common Council to adjust the
annual tax ordinance to the new and
q atifying conditions. The taN-rate
this year must of necessity be low
while the receipt of the tax money from
the State each year will be a means Ct
keeping down future tax-rates.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
Occupations of women.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Have you any statistics on hand by
which 1 could get an idea of the num-
Der of women engaged in the various ocou-
pations open to them? MRS. X.
Women at work in the United States Is
the subject of a report issued last year by
the census bureau, based on the returns
in 1900. In hat year in continental United
States, by which is meant the United
States exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii and
other outlying possessions, the total num-
Der OF women sixteen years of age and
over vas 3,4S5, $50, while those at work
numbered 1883, $50. Most of the women at
work were young; 6S.4 per cent. being
Under thirty-five years of age; Az per
cent. under twenty-five, and ESQ per cent.
had not reached the age of twenty-one; 1873
per cent. were married; LII per cent were
widows and 13 per cent. were divorced.
In 1900 women were represented in all hut
nine of the 303 occupations in which bread
winners of the country were engaged. Tho
returns showed, among other things, that
5 females were employed as pilots; on
steam railroads 10 were employed as bag
sagemen, 81 as brakemen, Z as conductors,
45 as engineers and 1remen, and 26 as
s~witchmen, yardmen and lagmen; AZ were
carriage and hack drivers; 6 were reported
as ship carpenters, and 2 as roofers and
skaters; 1855 were returned as blacksmiths
and sos as machinists; 8 were boilernlakers;
81 were charcoal, coke and lime burners,
and IL were well borers. Two women were
reported as "motormen." Almost one
fourth Of the total number Of women Al
work were servants; 456, 405 were farm
laborers, 96.S per cent. of whom We're IRON
the Southern States, and 61,S04 were
negroes. Their were 3SS, 144 dressmakers
327, 2O6 teachers. 32S,935 laundresses, BOZ 7s
farmers, 231, ass textile mill operatives aad
1852 housekeepers and stewardesses.-
Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
POSTAL FRAUDS MADE EASY
BY A~NTIQUATED SYSTEM

WASHINGTON. Jan. S.-Experts en-
ployed by the Congressional postal
commission have reported an amazing
condition in the service. Their report
shows that fraud is SC easy of accom-
plishment that the commission, which
meets tomorrow, hesitates to make it
public.
The experts show how, by connivance
between two postmasters, for instance,
money otders in almost unlimited
amounts could be issued n paid
without discovery by the government,
500 orders being returned as 81 orders,
and the postmaster who had defrauded
the ~governmApt Of 500 would obtain a
clean bill of Meath, his bondsmen
would be discharged and the govern
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
A voluntary messenger.

1.-THE late Robert Pinkerton of the great
detective agency" said a Chicago de-
tective, was a religious man, and he
liked nothing better than to listen to q
good, liberal, intelligent sermon.
"He was once talking to me about, the
change for the better that has come over
American sermons in the past ten or
twenty years. He said sermons were gem
tier than they used to be. They no
longer reeked with fire and birthstone.
once he said he heard a famous evan
gelist preach in San Francisco. The evan
gelist shocked his congregation a good
deal. He told them that his grandmother
had been a good and moral woman, but
she had never professed religion, and
therefore he was confident that at that
moment the aged lady was suffering eter-
nal torment.
"A young man arose at this, and with
a look of disgust started for the door.
The evangelist pointed an accusing finger
at him.
There is a young man. he cried, who
is also on the downward path
THE young man turned. His face was
very red. But he smiled pleasantly and
said in a loud, pleasant voice:
Is there any message L can take to
your grandmother, sir?' Washington
Star.
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ment be none the wiser regarding the
deception.
Begun on the ~old-fashioned system of
single-entry bookkeeping, h modern
double-entry system has never been in
stalled. and when it has been pointed
out that checks were necessary, a du-
~plication of the old single entry system
has been ordered, with still no adequate
checks and no corresponding totals, a
discrepancy in which would instantly
reveal the existence of error o. fraud.
The postal commission, the members
of which are Senators Penrose, Carter
and Clay and Representatives Over
street, Gardner and Moon, has deter
mined to undertake at once a complete
codlfeation and revision of the postal
laws in accordance with the advice Of
the experts it employed last spring.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
VOLUME LxxvII.-No. Q.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY s, 1908.
4 LONG BATTLE WON AT LAST.

After an agitation and struggle last
many years the railroad tax ques-
n in this State is settled by decisions
the State courts in favor of equal
cation for railroads and other prop
".
che battle was begun in earnest a
arter of a century ago during the ad-
n~istration of Governor George C.
dlow, who, in an annual message,
nmented on the injustice of the rail-
I'd tax system at that time, which
aid better be described as a system
railroad tax exemption. The battle
s continued by Governor Albeit in
4. and 1t was in that year a new
stem of taxation for railroads was
acted, q compromise by which the
tie received more revenue but failed
establish the principle of equal tax
n
his tax act of 1884 would have
IN Of much greater benefit to the
tie IL the State Board appointed to
minister the law had been loyal to
duty. But the board soon fell under
influence of the railroad companies,
l its assessments for many years were
tually fixed by the railroads, and at
ninal values. This abuse bred dis
itent anew. In 1897 the Legislature
ew a tub to the whale by giving
second-class railroad taxes to the
tressed municipalities. That con-
sion cost nothing to the railroads or
State, but it was a step towards
realization of equal taxation.
his issue took decided shape in 1904,
! the political parties were COM
led to recognize 1t. In 1905 was
ssed the so-called Dufield act re-
ing to second-class property, and in
8 was passed the Perkins act. es-
,lishing a complete system of rail-
I'd taxation. That system, except
V as to the different methods pro-
ed for assessing railroad property.
now an accomplished fact, and the
nciple of equal taxation is now for
first time established in the laws
this State. The battle has been
&. the State has lost many millions
tax revenue. and the people have
omitted for many years to the gross
injustice, but the battle is won at
t. There is now equal taxation in
W Jersey.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
IMPORTING SONGBIRDS TO
FILL WEST WITH MELODY

the change to the Sound climate seemed
to fill it with new life and energy.
His experience with this lark taught
the doctor that the bird would thrive
in the climate of the Sound region,
and he began thinking of %colonizing
a covey of the birds here to see II
they would not multiply and become
the feature of country life that they
are in Europe. The opportunity Tor
putting his idea into action did not
come until his trip back to the land
of his birth eighteen months ago. lie
then visited bird dealers in Liverpool
and made arrangements for the send
ing of shipments of larks, linnets, bull
finches and other Irish songbirds TO
him annually.
The first shipment he brought along
with him. Many died on the road, but
there were sufficient of the larks still
living when he got to Tacoma to make
a good showing. He promptly con-
structed an aviary at his summer home
at S~tellacoom, and kept them during
the fall, winter and the early portion OF
last spring. He then turned them loose
to shift for themselves. For many days
the birds hung around the orchards OF
S%tellacoom and then apparently paired
off and nestled. Occasionally during the
spring. summer and fall their songs
could be heard. Every few days the
doctor hears from the birds, and from
all indications he is confident that they
have become thoroughly acclimated,
and will increase and soon spread well
over the Sound region and be filling
the fields and meadows with bird music
never before heard in the United States
or Canada.
The shipment of larks now on the
way. and which DIR. McCutcheon is ex-
pecting to arrive daily, will be treated
the same as those brought over by the
doctor himself, being placed in the
aviary at Stellacoom and kept during
the winter and early spring. The sky
lark Is strongly attracted by civiliza-
ton, and makes it's home in hedgerows
and in fields of grain. 1t does not mi
CRATE, as many other birds do. 1t is
also a hardy bird, and takes fast hold
on the country in which 1t lives, thriv-
ing and multiplying.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
TAFT ON ARMY PAY.

That part of Secretary Taft's report
: the War Department relating to the
crease in the numerical strength of
3 army and his recommendations for
pairing the losses strongly back up the
ports and recommendations of those
authority already made public. But
considers that one reason is sufficient
explain the difficulty of securing en-
fmonts and reenlistments, in the mad
uacy Of the army pay. The secretary
.lieves that better pay for the
listed men and noncommissioned Off
rs, including considerable additional
ducement for men to reenlist, would
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have a markedly beneficial effect upon
recruitment. 1t is well known that the
larger %pecuniary rewards of civil life,
contrast to army life, with it's small
pay and irksome restraints m disci-
from entering the army or reenlisting
when their terms expire. Something
must be done to make the army more
attractive, if we are to keep it at even
the minimum strength that safety de-
mands. Increased pay and the restora-
ton of the canteen should be the first
steps.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

DIR. George 1. Adams has returned to
Washington from Peru, where. since 1905,
he has bsen chief %geologist to the govern
ment of Peru.
Secretary of the Interior Garfield Is not
believed to have ever worn a silk hat and
he shuns the Washington statesman's
frock coat for an ordinary business suit.
An opera composed by a priest Is the
novelty and innovation which Is now In
Fini, of Turin, the musical priest as he
is called, will very shortly give his opera,
III Battista" ("The Baptist'), In Mantua,
Venice and other towns.
Queen Alexandra has lately conceived a
great liking for fencing, and Is now taking
lessonc from one of the best known fenc-
ing masters In London.
Colonel Charles H. Whipple, Of the United
States Army, has assumed the duties
of paymaster- general with the rank of
brigadier-general. He is a son of Bishop
Whipple, of the Episcopal diocese of Min
nesota, VINO was generally known as "the
apostle of the Indians and to the In
dams themselves as "Old Straight
Tongue" General Whipple was born in
New York in 1S49 and entered the army
as a majcr in 1881.
Mrs. Herbert Parsons, wife of the Con-
gresham and chairman of the New York
County Committee, has made Washington
gasp by a social innovation. Washington
calls are a solemn ceremony, to be lam
guidly undertaken from n soft-cushioned
carriage and with a footman to run in and
deliver cards when the caller feels too
fatlgued or bored to go through the forms
in person. But always the caller-and the
sex is always feminine-dons her very
gladdest raiment, the sweeping, swishing,
rustling kind. Mrs. Parsons has been max
ing her calls on foot, clad in a cloth walk
ing suit with a short skirt. a soft felt
hat with feathers and a shirt waist.