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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
THE LYNX.

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cat. A.,hough it looks so cat
like, it is not so near a relative as the
more powerful lion or tiger. There is
one noticeable difference between this
member of the Felidae family and the
ones with which we are more familiar,
and that is the little tufts of black hair
on the tips of the ears. If we could see
the lynx in real life we should find that
it is about twice as big as the largest
domestic cat we have ever seen, and
that its legs are long in proportion to
it's body. The uniformed might have
an idea that the poor thing had met
with an accident whereby it had lost
the greater part of its tail. But this
would be a mistake, for the short tail
it is often shorter than the animals
head-is a popularity of the lynx.
There are several species of lynxes
in North America, but they do not
differ greatly from one another. The
largest species is not found far south
of Canada. 1t is mostly gray in color,
but Is slightly marked with black and
brown. Other species are found
throughout Eastern North America,
and they are generally smaller and
more variously colored the further
south they live. Lynxes are killed in
great numbers for their fur, which is
very soft and warm. Naturally they
wear a thicker coal in a cold climate
than in a warm one, and so the fur of
the Northern lynxes is more valuable
than that of Southern ones. These
animals live in the woods wherever
they have not been driven out by man.
They bring up their children in hollow
trees or in sheltered places among the
rocks, and live on birds and other
small animals. They are particularly
fond of rabbits and are among the
worst enemies of these little creatures.
The early settlers in different parts of
our country. had frequent encounters
with the lynx, or wildcat, as they more
often called it. The animal was quite
capable of making things very uncom-
Portable for human beings when it was
in the right mood, but, like other in
habitants of the woods, it Is learning
to keep at a respectable distance from
man and his weapons.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
WRIGHT AEROPLANE
IN DARING FLIGHT
MEETS ACCIDENT
Wilbur Tries New Method of De-
scending and Badly Damages
Flying Machine

LIE MANS, France, Aug. 13.-The
Wright %aeroplane suffered an accident
this morning which will require sew
eral days and possibly a week to re-
pair. After two superb fights Wilbur
Wright essayed a new and daring
method of descent. He stopped the
motor at a height Of s~eventy-five feet
and tried to come to earth on a grad
ual descending glide. The calculations
were not absolutely correct and the
left wing of the aeroplane came in con-
tact with the ground. This tore the
frame of the machine. Mr.. Wright
was not injured.
With Miss Anne Morgan, daughter
of J. P%ierpont Morgan, among others
watching him, Mr.. Wright made two
flights yesterday. one in the morning
and the second in the evening. circling
the field five times In the morning and
remaining in the air for seven minutes.
The flight was undulating throughout.
The greatest height attained by Mr..
Wright was ninety feet.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
BROWNS SELF AND
CHILD FOR LOVE OF
FIRST husband
Mrs. Hanna Had Desperate Fight
with Mother, VINO Tried to
Prevent Rash Act.
Especial to the Evening start

NEW YORK, Aug. 19-Grieving over
the death of her first husband, Daniel
Splaine, Mrs. Nellie Hanna, 80 years
old. of S46 Eleventh avenue, after a
furious struggle with her mother. who
attempted to keep her from killing her
three children and herself yesterday,
wrenched herself loose and crying, You
will never see me again." "a to the
foot of Fortieth street and the North
river and jumped from the dock, carry
ing her infant daughter to death
with her.
Thomas Dreichter, of West New York,
n. J., and Louis Schott recovered the
body. An ugly cash on the forehead
at first led them to believe murder had
been done.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
JERSEY CITY COMMISSION ORGANIZES

The Jersey City Civil Service Conn
mission for the selection of policemen
and firemen has organized. with Gin
ton E. Fisk as chairman. The other
member of the board is Edward Cahul.
Frank Van Windle. clerk of the police
board, was made clerk, and A. H.
Moore, secretary to Mayor Wittpenn.
was appointed official stenographer.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13

Here are a few letters received from
children who wish to Join THE STAR
Juvenile Humane Society:
Newark, N. J..
Dear Uncle Jack-I would like very
much to become a m of THE
STAR Juvenile Humane Society, and
will be kin to all animals. We have
two dogs home. One is Jack and the
other Beauty. Jack is a fox terrier and
Beauty is a Manchester black and tan,
and is a young dog, about 2h months
old. We nave to teach Beauty a lot Of
things yet, and l hope l can put the
dogs in the next show. I would like
you to send me a button of THE STAR
Juvenile Human Society. Your nephew,
GUSTAV KLANNIG.
1876 Congress street.
Newark. N. ].
Dear Uncle Jacl5-I would like to be-
come a member of THE STAR Juvenile
Humane Society. ! am very Kind to
all dumb animals. I hav two pet dogs,
named Rover and Teddy. J also have
u small canary bird. whose name is
Daisy. Hoping to soon receive q but
ton, ] remain,
FRANK BRENHAUS.
3941s Paramount avenu
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FIXING UP GOvERNoR'S OFFIcH.
WALTER BURNETT.

TRENTON, Aug. 13.-During the alb
sence of Governor Fort, who is spend
ing the summer at Sea Girt, his offices
at the State House are being hand
somely renovated and improved. They
will be newly furnished previous to his
return to Trenton in September.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
CHURCH PICNIC A SUCCESS.

Success marked thes picnic Of st.
Johns Evangelical Church and Sunday
in kurz's Colosseum Park,
last night. 1t was in general charge of
the pastor, the Rev. DR.. Bernard Pick
Professor Alfred Benzler furnished the
music,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
SOME LETTERS RECEIVED.

Here are a few letters received from
children who wish to Join THE STAR
Juvenile Humane Society:
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THIEF GETS TEACHERS $40
r O ROOM OF PRINCIPAL.

The principal of the Lafayette Street
School reported to the Third Precinct
Police Station that a sneak-thief en1J
tered his Office IN the school and stole
$50 belonging to Miss Angela Duffy, a
teacher.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
OBSERVE THESE RULES.

Fill out the coupon carefully, so that
1t can be easily read. II not legible it
will be rejected. Mail to Uncle Jack,
EVENING STAR, Newark. N. j., and
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-13
MRS. STOKES TO TAKE STUMP.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Rose Pastor
Stokes, wife of j. G.. Phelps-Stokes, the
wealthy Socialist, has announced that
she will take the stump for the Social
list party during the AL campaign.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-05

A Syracuse business man, who, be-
sides being extremely active and am
bilious, has much sense of humor,
was taken sick with q light attack
OF pneumonia. His physician, aware
that 1t would be task TO keep his
high-strung patient IN bed, sought to
impress on him the seriousness of the
ailment and the necessity of absolute
rest; all of which the sick man lis
tened to In bored manner. Never
theless, he consented to obey his doc
tor.
But this enforced inactivity rankled
in him; and each succeeding day
found the patient importuning the
medical attendant to allow him to
get out to business. Then, disgusted,
he would lie back to cast impreca.
tions at the inexorable physician.
One morning the physician, after
having been up all night on an i'm.
pcrtant case, appeared at his patient s
house at the usual hour. He had
hardly stuck his haggard face in.
side the door. however, before the
man in the bed gave him quick
glance and sat up.
"Eh9" calculated the patient
Then shoYlng out his hand TO grasI
the Doctors satchel, he added; doc
] guess you'd better get into bed here
and let me go out with the medicine
bag New York Times.
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Temperance Notes.

The liquor traffic can never be le-
galized without sinners. and sinners
ought to be called TO repentance
not "co-operated" with.
In every State in the South the sa-
loon has demonstrated that 1t will
rule the people II let alone, and the
general desire TO abolish the saloon
resulted.
One OF the prominent liquor papers
In a recent editorial published the
statement that temperance measures
were pending in~twenty-three State
Legislatures.
Nine-tenths OF our poverty, squalor.
vice and crime spring from this pois-
onous tap-root. Society, by its hab-
its, customs and laws. has creased
the slope down which these poor crea-
lures slide to perdition.-Genera
Booth, of the Salvation Army.
The great cause OF social crime is
drink. The great cause OF poverty 10
drink, When | hear OF a family
broken up and ask the cause---drink.
II 90 to the gaIlows and ask Its yicj
tim the cause, the answer---drinlx.
Then ask myself In perfect wonder
ment. Why do not men put a stop TO
this thing:--Archbishop John IRE
Ispa.
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Carrying Ont Our Plans.

When the doing of 4 proper thing
has been decided upon. then it ought
TO be done at any cost save actual
wrong-doing. There is nothing that
so quickly and surely demorallzes our
character and our will-power as fail
ure to carry out our plans There is
nothing that so tones up and builds
up character and will-power as. the
resolute, insistent carrying out OF
plans at heavy cost to ourselves. II
you have made a plan for to-day's
work, let nothing but the hand of God
stop 1t. His hand may show in the
arising Of unforeseen circumstances
that are wholly beyond our control,
or in the pointing out of new duty
that would make the carrying out of
the other plan clearly wrong. Moth.
ing short of such providential him
drance ought to deter US. Yet most
Of us are more or less willingly turned
aside from our plans for hard work
by circumstances that were meant
only to test us. Every time this oc.
ours we have weakened our wills and
sapped our characters. We say that
when we tell a child or an animal tc
do thing, we ought, for that ones
sake, to insist on It's being done,
why should we not be as fair to our.
selves as we are to animals and chill
dren2
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Birds Killed by Hail.

"A singular feature of the storm OF
last Sunday night on the East Side"
said George Fix, of the State House
force, was the killing of birds by
the hailstones. The area over which
the fall of hail was heavy was not
large, but the stones did pelt down in
way that threatened to break the
slate in the roofs.
THE English sparrows, as every
one knows, choose thick foliage trees
as their roosting places, depending
on the leaves to protect them from
the rain. But the leaves, no matter
how thick, were no protection from
those heavy hailstones, and the spar.
rows were killed by the hundreds In
the vicinity of Miller avenue and
Dryden Road.
I'm front of the Evangelical
Church there are lot of thick GOV.
cred naples, which have formed a
choice roosting place for the sparrows
this summer. There they caught II
thick and heavy, and the slaughter OF
the birds was fearful Monday morn.
Ing we counted 312 dead sparrows
under those trees, and no doubt many
that were killed were swept into the
sewer by the storm water that rar
through the streets.
Some suggested electricity as the
cause, but there was no striking by
lightning in the vicinity, and the
wires Of telephone companies do NOT
run through those trees. They must
have been hit by the hailstones,
knocked into thewater and drowned
Columbus Dispatch.
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Teaching Nuggets.

Virtue is victory.
They gain the glory who give It to
God.
They who are fearless are never
needless.
There are no triumphant lives
without their trials
He only is fitted TO rule who is
afraid to rule wrong
Reliance on the right is expressed
by defiance Of the wrong.
He is never afraid TO be alone who
knows ne Is never alone.
no one is too young to stand
against that which he knows TO be
wrong.
Heaven never helps him who re-
fuses the aid Of that which lies at
hand
The proof of being worthy Of re-
sponsibility is being ready for it.
Henry F. Cope.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-05

,orner or bargain with woman Tor
ier soul In the glare of MONDAY In
he sight OF men, Much less wise Is
1e who parleys with Satan In the
,hambers of his heart.
Jesus didn't fool with Satan. He
heard his propositions and had done.
And that was the end of It. There
we're no dates for future conferences.
The matter was closed at once. He
vas as fair with Satan as He was
with Himself. Satan wanted an an
,wer. And he got II hot and fast.
Sote you that he went away and left
Him.
We ought not to fool with temp
.atlon any more than did Christ. It's
aot fair to the devil It's not person
Ally honest It is dangerous. He
gho fools with tempters and tempta-
lions is a fool.
One afternoon last summer as l
stood waiting for car by the tracks
where the electric trains course, two
boys drew near. When opposite to
me they deliberately Jumped from
platform to the charged third rail.
nearly had heart disease. In a
moment they jumped safely off. To
my advice they offered this bit of
wisdom: 1--WE jumped on wood with
both feet 10 the rail. The rails on
wood. All you have to do is to jump
off with both feet at once" A slip
and they would have jumped-into
eternity! A jump-a fiash--a limp
body by the track side covered with
4 paltry canvas--a cofln-a mound
IN Greenwood. A boy dead, +. home
iesolate, soul gone prematurely to
It's God. Because boy would fool
with death. Men and women and
temptationl How many are not like
.he boys?
You wouldn't cross Niagara with
rope for walk and a pole for sup
port and balance? No! Why? Be
,ause you're not a fool You would
at jump the Twentieth Century Bx-
press. You're not a fool! You
wouldn't put you're hand next
whirring wheel. You wouldn't fool
with death or danger. But you will
tool with temptation. You will play
with tempters. You will think a long
while before you will do evil. But
you will think evil and give audience
70 Satan now. Here! Nowi Aren't
you a fool? Wherein do you differ
from the boys?
Jesus dismissed Satan We would
be better and safer did we the same.
Repulse him. Get Christ TO help you.
Turn your back on him. Tell him
to go to. Kick him out If you have
%. But get rid of temptation. Dis
miss the tempter,
If you can't get loose from the
grip of the tempter any other way
then run. Better the woods than sin
Better retreat than disgrace. Better
caution than dishonor. Many man
would be without a spot that cannot
be blotted out to-day If he had only
run away II is better to run away
from an affinity in sin than to en-
brace
When Jesus refused to parley,
when He showed no mood to fool.
when He gave direct and unhesi-
tating answer Satan left Jesus. Not
otherwise is II with you. The adver-
sary will go when you no longer bid
him stay. And behold angels will
come and minister unto YOU"
Irving Square PRESBYTERIAN Church,
Brooklyn, New York.
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He Educated the Jrdge.

This aneedote is told of Chief Jus.
tice John Marshall Returning one
afternoon from his farm near Rich.
mond, Va. to his home IN that city
the hub of his wheel caught on D
small sapllng growing by the road.
side. After striving unsuccessfully
for some moments to extricate the
wheels he heard the sound OF an axe
In the woods and saw a negro mar
approaching.
Haiiing him he said IF you will
get that axe and cut down this tree
III give you q dollar"
II en- git yer by 'thout no axe, ei
dat's all yer want"
"Yes, that's all" said the Judge.
The man simply backed the horse
until the wheel was clear of the sap
ling and then brought the vehicle
2afely around It.
You don't charge a dollar for that,
do your" asked the astonished Chief
Justice.
No. massa; but it's wuf a dollar
to larn some folks sense"
The darkey got his dollar without
further questioning. - Atlanta Con.
stitution.
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Surely Not. Manitoba,

When the prohibition law OF Geor-
gia was signed by the Governor q
great crowd OF Georgians gathered to
celebrate the event, and when tho
word was passed that the act waS'
law the whole multitude sang "Praise
God. From Whom All Blessings
Flow" When the Chinese law pro-
hibiting opium came into force in
Canton that vast city put on festive
apparel and the people followed
bands of music through the streets.
as though they had been celebrating
Waterloo. When people know so
well the nature of their enemies, why
do they In any country submit to see-
ing their land occupied and dominat-
ed by them? The people of Manitoba.
who. are by considerable majority OPP
posed to the sale of liquor within
their borders, are, according to the
vaunts of the distillers, going to al
low themselves to be danced on by a
triumphant foe.-Montreal Witness.
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Whnt He Might Have Drunk.

A well known preacher riding in a
London omnibus was entertained by
a dialogue which was sustained upon
the one side by the driver and upon
the other by an elderly passenger.
"I understand you're Temperament"
began the driver.
"Yes, I'm pretty strong against
liquor" returned the other. i've
been set against it now for thirty-five
years"
Scared It will ruin your health?"
Yes, but that isn't the main
thing?"
Perhaps 1t don't agree with your"
ventured the driver.
"Well, 1t really don't agree with
anybody. But that amt 1t, either.
The thing that sets me against 1t is a
horrible idea"
"A horrible ideal What is it?"
well, thirty-five years ago was
sitting in a hotel in America with
friend Of mine. and I says, Let's or
der a bottle of something And he
says, No, sir. I'm saving my money
to buy Government land at rs. and
Cd. per acre. I'm going to buy to.
morrow, and you'd better let me take
the money you would have spent for
the liquor and buy couple of acres
along with mine. l says, All right
So we didn't drink. and he bought mo
two acres.
"Well sir, to-day those two acres
are right in the middle Of flourish.
ing town, and II I'd taken that drink
I'd have swallowed a city block, a
grocery store, an apothecary's, four
lawyers offices, and it's hard to say
what else. That's the idea. Amt II
horriblel"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-05
'EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Q.
Church Building a Loving service.
Luke z. LII; chron. az. rs.
Tnnfn-Churnh Erection.


Luke z. lii; chron. az. IS.
Topfc-church Erection.
Luke z. III. (See Matt. 8. 5.13.)
"All the centurions in the New Tes
lament are favorably mentioned"--
(a) centurional cross OLuke 10. IA.
45); (b) Cornelius (Acts 10. 1, ~;
(c) Julius (Acts 27. 81
This centurion was connected with
the garrison at Capernaum. Ills
rank correspond TO captain In the
modern army. A favorite, confidential
servant, or slave Clike Joseph In the
house of Potiphar) Is dying. The
centurion appeals to Jesus through a
committee OF influential citizens. OBJ
serve the choice OF loving service;
a servant gives unstinted and loyal
service to his master, the master
renders loving service TO his dying
slave, the elders OF the Jews gracious
ly serve the master, and Jesus renders
instant response to the anxiety and
faith of the master, the need OF the
servant, and the petition of the Jew-
ish elders.
A strong faith, an urgent need, and
a petition to Jesus always spell mir
acle, whether you use the alphabet
of the senses or the alphabet OF the
soul.
In the case OF the centurion Jesus
was besought to come and heal des
perately sick man. In the case OF
the widow Of Main, Jesus saw her
weeping at the bier Of her only son
and had compassion. The Master
responded to the faith of the one and
the sorrow of the other. Faith, hui
mility, and sorrow appealing to d.
vine compassion must triumph today
as of old.
Chron. %, is.
Nowhere does David's greatness
appear to better advantage than In
, the words he uttered: This Is the
house OF the Lord Cod" II will
(thereforo now make preparation for
IT." and the thing he did: David
prepared abundantly, stones, iron,
brass, cedar before his death"-just
prior to his surrendering the king
ship to his son Solomon.
Not David the warrior, conquering
for Israel, but David the retiring
king making ample provision for his
successor to build the temple Of Je-
hovah, is the David who merits great
est honor.
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Prisoners of Spain.

OF course, the pardon Of Porte
Ricans sentenced TO Imprisonment IN
the Spanish penal colony at Ceuta
previous to our acquisition Of the
Islands would be an act OF courtesy by
Spain, as we'll as OF clemency. They
were put in that dismal prison colony
as suspects long before we dreamed
Of Intervention in Cuba. Some OF
them are said TO have been sent there
as far back as 1882, and are still
serving indeterminate sentences
Seventeen, at least, are political prlS'
oners, against whom there Is no spe-
cific charge Porto Ricans ask the
friendly services OF the United states
to secure the release OF these prison
ers of Ceuta. and should the Govern
ment comply with their request, II
could do so only as an applicant for
the friendly consideration OF the
Spanish Government It does seem
passing strange, however, that ten
years after Porto Rico ceases 70 be
Spanish possession there should be
men In Spanish prisons serving time
for corspiracies to throw OF Spanish
rule. II Boston Transcript.
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Manners of the Meek.

"Thy gentleness hath made me
great, was the testimony as well as
the experience of the Psalmist. Man
ners having their source in a holy
heart are more gracious and abiding
than any that are taught" in the
schools of culture and learning. The
gracious manners OF really humble
soul are as natural as breathing, and
have not to be studied but the man
ners of society" are generally sub
Ject to the will, and put on" for the
occasion. o, praise the Lord, Love
behaveth not itself unseemly:" 1t has
no superiority" in it, but is gentle
and kind. Jesus, Himself the great
est teacher of the inward principle, +"
said, Come, learn OF Me, for l am
meek and lowly In heart" The
Church of Jesus Christ is the greatest
school of manners" in the world,
and Christian men and women ought
to be the "elite" of the land. Friends,
let us practice little more.--R. r.,
In the Nazarene Messenger.
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"Through a Glass DarI,Ir.r -

We must be content while here to
''see as through glass darkly," 10
know OF things In part" not in
their fullness; but when the day
breaks, and the shadows in which we
now walk shall fee away, then we
shall see clearly, and know more per-
fectly. There shall be no mysteries
In that world to come. There we
shall see clearly, and shall know
even as we are known" Let us
pray, then, for the increase OF our
faith, rather than our knowledge.
Let us seek that grace which shall
strengthen faith through such meas
ures of light as may be needed by
US. We are not called TO the exercise
OF blind, unreasoning faith Though
we do not know fully, yet we do
know in part" and sufficient for vi
telligent guidance, the facts stand
out the same, clear and indisputable,
to the acceptance OF our faith
Christian Work and Evangelist.