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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1908-12-19
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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
THE NEW HOSPITAL.

Newark is fairly we'll provided with
hospital accommodations. thanks to the
public spirit and the philanthropy that
distinguish the Newark community.
Tomorrow another fine hospital, erected
and equipped and to be maintained
by Jewish citizens, will be opened, and
it will be an important addition to the
facilities for the proper care and cure
Of the sick and injured in our city.
1t was not long ago that the Jewish
Orphan Asylum, which had been start
cd in a modest way, was installed in
n spacious and well-appointed build
ing. The last annual report shows
the results of good management, The
erection of a hospital vas a more am
bilious undertaking, and was attended
by difficulties which have all been sur
mounted, and tomorrow the new insti-
tuition begins the blessed work for
which it was created.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
pnDD1E ABAuDoNs coEDUcAT1oN.

After trying the system of coeduca-
ton of boys and girls, Pcddie Institute
has now abandoned it. and will here
after take only boys. while there will be
no females in the faculty. Coeducation
has not proved successful in other insti-
tutions and has been abolished in anum-
Der Of them. The amiable theory of the
advocates of this system of educating
the two x has not been justified by
results.
Boys will be boys, and girls will be
girls, and there is no offending the
nature of the one with that of the
other in their academic training. The
boy should be trained among boys as
q boy. and the average girl is best edu-
Gated among her own sex. Our colleges
and universities are looked to to turn
out strong, virile, self-reliant men, fitted
to battle with the hard problems of life,
and as the boy is the father of the man
he should imbibe a truly masculine
spirit, learning by his experiences with
boys at college to be prepared for his
experiences in after life with men.
AS for our girls, nobody wants them
TO be mannish. The more truly femi-
nine a woman is the more attractive
she is. The %happiest marriages n the
happiest homes are those in which the
woman is wholly a woman. Coeduea-
ton has been Objectionable to young
men in all institutions in which 1t has
been in vogue, not because of any
prejudice towards the sex, but from ar
instructive sense of its unhtness in tn,
scheme of education.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
VOLUME LXxVII.-NO. 50.
TUESDAY, JANUARY Is, 1908.
FOR A NEW HIGH SCHOOL NOW.

The new Board of Education has one
important task, and that is to rescue
the enterprise of a new commercial and
technical high school from the difficult
ties into which 1t was plunged by the
incapacity of the laundering elective
board and carry it to a successful con-
prove fully equal to the task. Some of
the embarrassments created by bad
business methods in the past have al
ready disappeared. Large claims by
architects have beer set aside by the
courts as unwarranted in law, and the
way has been cleared to that extent.
Tho need for a new high school has
become more urgent since the Common
Council authorized the appropriation
for its construction, and the conditions
have steadily become worse. A new
high school should be erected with as
little delay as possible. Nobody reeog-
nizes that fact better than the capable
men who now control the affairs of u
public schools, and it will be highly to
their credit if they shall succeed this
year in putting the enterprise in such
shape that new plans can be drawn
aud accepted and york begun in time
to have the structure completed and
ready when the school term opens in
the fall of 1909.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
IN VEIN.

How Clara illustrated a Poem.
Little Clara was told by her teacher to
make,
Like the rest of the class, a fit %illustra-
tion
To go with a poem. (which one shall 1
take?'
Asked Clara, poor child, in some pcrtur-
baton.
"The Old Oalken Bucket" the teacher re-
piled,
I'll try was the answer; and here's
what she drew:
A circle, three buckets. and off at one side
Some dots loosely scattered, a dozen or
two.
"This circle?' asked teacher. 1.-The WE'LL
she said, vexed.
But why have three buckets?- Come,
Clara, please tell"
zones the old oaken bucket; the messy
one next;
The third the iron-bound one that hung
in the we'll"
"Of course said the teacher; but what
are these dots?
I really don't see just what they have
to do
With the poem" ''Why. don't your said
Clara. '"Those spots,
Why, they're the loved spots that my
st. Nicholas.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
PASTOR DECLARES CHURCH'S
INFLUENCE IS WANING

It is all because the institution has not
advanced with theAgorld.
What we need is a practical religion.
The real prayer is In the real Christian
work of helping ones fellow man, IN
lifting up the under dog. The answer
to the PRAYER 10 in the results accom-
plished by that laudable labor. The
modern congregation of a church is
ready and willing to pay its pastor a
good salary. Also, 1t will pay fol. a sweet
singing choir. In return for this out
lay it wants to come to church twice
Sundays. listen to two literary sermons
end a lot of sweet music by Its paid
singers, indulge in some prayer and
then go home and live in peace until
the next Sunday comes around.
"Bible reading. sweet singing, prayer
and the usual sort of church religion
well in their places, but those places
are a very minor part Of the great re-
iigious obligations as l see them.
"a few men opposed me when l
wanted a change and insisted on the
kind of a preacher and the kind of re-
ligion that prevailed a hundred years
ago.
IF I stay, I shall insist o the re-
forms which | think are vitality needed
in the church to-day. l hope that the
cause will be taken up by other mem
bers of the profession who have long
been feeling as / do about this matter.
In a speech made by a prominent
man in New York a short time ago the
mention of the church was the signal
for an autburst Of Kisses. When the
name OF Christ was mentioned in the
same speech It was greeted with cheers.
1t simply shows that as | have already
said, the thinking people have long ago
seen that church does not mean, and in
a great many cases does not represent,
Christianity"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
INDUCING A THIRST.

Travellers in buffet cars between New
York and Philadelphia on Sunday were
treated to a very Texan aridity while
crossing Jersey territory. 1t was shown
that the bishops law" can be enforced
even on wheels at fifty miles an hour.
Not a drink was sold between Jersey
City and Trenton, by the stern orders
of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
Reading management.
OF course, upon crossing the Della
ware the reaction was great. The rest of
the trip was as wet as the traditional
outing of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of Boston. The
trains might have foated through
Pennsylvania territory if they had been
built that way. There's nothing like
%forbidding a thirst to induce it. Had
there been nc rule doubtless many of
the buffet passengers would have made
the trip in contented dryness.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
poL1cEMAN AVN oH1IpREN.

Judge Tuthill, of the Juvenile Court
of Chicago, is reported by the News
of that city as having declared that
gruffness shown to children by the po-
liceman on the beat serves as their
first -stepping-stone toward contempt
for the law. There is meat for thought
in this saying. The child does not look
upon the law as an abstract PROPOSE
ton. To him the law is %personihed in
the nearest policeman, and if that
officer is surly and domineering the
child is all too apt to regard him, and
the law in and through him, as a
natural enemy.
If the policeman is unfair, If he inter-
feres with harmless diversions, the an
tipathy is heightened and the earliest
opportunity of circumventing the law
that occurs the child is quick to seize
upon in a spirit of faneied revenge. II
every policeman worked upon the bet
ter natures of the Hkids' in his neigh.
borhood, appealing to their sense o.
fair play and intoxicating into his
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.-The Rev.
w. n. Harris, pastor of the North Bap-
tist Church, has not yet fully decided
what his future course will be. For
the last thre years he has been pastor
of North Church, and before he entered
the ministry he was an editor.
Pastor Harris has some advanced
ideas of religion, n finding last week
that some of his parishioners We're
planning to oppose some of these ideas,
he rendered his resignation. 1t was not
accepted, by an almost unanimous
vote, and a committee was appointed
to wait on him and endeavor to get
him to reconsider it.
Matters came to a critical point In
the North Church when, after a SER
mon in which Mr.. Harris severely took
to task many of the so-called Christian
methods of the p~resent-day church, q
committee met him with the request
that he be more conservative in his
sermons and that he abandon the idea
of making any radical changes in that
church. This the pastor fatty refused
and a few days later resigned. Elk
planning his act, he says:
''Thore is too much cfurchianity and
not enough real Christianity noWadays.
Through its own very s~lugglshhess III
puiling itself from the rut into winch
il has fallen, the church has lost much
of the respect and reverence that II
once commanded. It's influence IS 1aSt
waning among the thinking people, ana
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
TIE CAPITOL GRAFT TRIALS.

After managing by a combination of
delays to put of their trial for two
years, the men whose work on the
Pennsylvania Capitol cost the State
SO. 900. 900 more than the result is worth
are now before the bar to plead to va
riaus indictments ranging from con-
spiracy to defraud to just plain
graft" No more brazen Ease of pub
lie treasury looting has come before
the courts. The enormous sums graft
ed, the unheard-of extravaganza OF
expenditures, the barefaced methods,
such as substituting lead for bronze
and putty for hand carved mahogany,
make the case a most extraordinary
one.
AS the charges, built upon the re-
suit of a thorough legislative investi-
cation, involve the architect, the gen.
eral contractor. several former higl
state officials and a host of lesser
lights, the developments promise to be
sensational in the extreme and are ex.
pected to involve some even bigger
men. The battle will be a long and bit.
ter one. The public hope is that M
guilty nan will escape, whether n o
the stolen none is ever recovered Oh
.ot
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
OUR SALT WATER FISHERIES.

There are other State commissions
that will receive the attention of Gov
ernor Fort in a special message, and
doubtless among the recommendations
to be made will be one for a reconstruc-
ton of the system of fish and game pro-
lection, especially as relating to the salt
water fisheries. The fish that visit our
coast constitute an asset of immense
value, but it is a source only of expense
to the State, as there is little or no in
come derived by the State. Moreover,
this great asset is so grossly abused by
selfish private interests that 1t is rapidly
diminishing in productive value, while
the people of the State are compelled TO
pay extortionate prices in their own
markets for New Jersey fish, the output
of which is under absolute control by
a fish trust in New York.
There are also other grievances. Inter
cepted by great pound nets stretching
along the coast and across the mouths
of the inlets, edible fish are prevented
from reaching their spawning places
and are shut out from shallow waters
where hand line fishermen resort. The
bays and inlets are also swept clean of
fish by the nets of boatmen from Fulton
Market. This is a serious injury to our
seaside summer resorts, as well as to
the fishing communities along the coast.
Nor do the pound-net pay any
tax on their nets or catch. There is no
revenue from that source.
Place an adequate tax on the pound
net, require that the net shall have a
certain mesh, and that there shall be a
reasonable interval between two nets.
Copy the New York State law and for
bid non-residents to catch fish in New
Jersey waters. That will stop the Full
ton Market boats from robbing our bays
without paying a cent of tribute. Re-
qulre all fish caught in our waters to
be landed and officially reported, so that
our State statistics can give the annual
yield. Adopt a good law for the regula-
ton of the salt water fisheries and
there will be no inducement for the
pound-net fishermen to pack the Senate
fish and game committee with their at
ornevs
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28


become a greater art centre and mar
ket than Paris itself.
All this is soothing to our vanity. We
have been told, and with such apparent
show of reason, that we are h~opelessly
commercial in our tastes that an oc-
easional word to the contrary, especial
~ coming from an authority so emf
nent as Mr.. Seligmann, is additionally
pleasing n encouraging. It may be
tina Mr.. S~eligmann's remarks are
tinctured with just a bit of blarney, but
he certainly has the right idea when
he says that the greatest obstacle to
our further advancement as a people
in matters of artistic appreciation is
the absurdly prohibitive duty required
to be paid on objects of art.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
Leather Industry.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Will you kindly give a synopsis Of the
condition of the leather trade in this
country in your interesting question col
uIhn and oblige, s. e. K.
lin 1900 there were 1906 American leath-
er works, capitalized at $17S,g77, 421, en-
ploying 52.109 workmen, and showing an
aggregate output of $204 ,O3S, 127. In 1905 the
census takers found 1,0i9, capitalized at
S242, 5S4, 254, employing 1888 workmen, and
showing an aggregate output of $252, CO.
9S6. They found that the leather manu-
facturers had more than doubled their
1900 investment In machinery and tools,
They found that $50 establishments had
paid out $50, $3.50 for 1851, 613 hides in
1905, and $685. 29, 1894 for tanning materials.
Pennsylvania Is the leading State for sole
leather, leather sold in the rough, and
goat skins; Massachusetts, for uppers and
sheep skins; Wisconsin, for harness leath-
or The great American leather cities are
Newark, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, VIII
mington. Del, Chicago, Peabody, Mass.
and Camden. The census takers of 19G
found 1916 concerns engaged in the manu-
facture of American boots and shoes
These were capitalized at S122, 526,0 93. They
had 149, 924 wage-earners in their work
rooms. Their materials cost them $197,
1863, 495 that year, and their products were
valued Mt 1920 .l07, 45S. More than half OF
them 'specialized"-19S making boots anC
shoes for men exclusively, III for women
1870 for misses and children, 20 for youths
and boys. Massachusetts leads in thu
American boot and shoe industry, ant
after her come New York, Ohio, Missouri
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maine
Illinois, New Jersey, wisconsin, Minnesota
Michigan Sixty cities produce about four
tifths of the total yearly output. Brock
ton is now the boss boot and shoe city
The value Of the American boots ant
shoes shipped abroad In 1906 was sS,057, 6g7
about seven times the sale reported il
1885. The census takers of 1905 found SO
concerns engaged in the manufacture o
American leather gloves, mittens AM
gauntlets. These were capitalized at $40.
7O5.599 They had 1o,645 workmen on theil
pay-rolls. They paid out in wages tina
year $3.50, 253. Their materials cost then
$4,000, $3.50. They produced S,370.146 dozel
pairs Of gloves. etc, valued at SIT, 740.Ss5
In this industry New York leads this
! Statea.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
Mixed

Edwin Markham. at a dinner, said OF
mixed metaphors: when 1 was teaching
in Los Angeles I used to read every week
a little country paper whose editors meta
phors were an unfailing joy to me. once
remember, this editor wrote of a contempt
rary: Thus, the black lie, issuing from MS
base throat, becomes a boomerang In MS
hand, and, hosting him by his own petaru,
leaves him a marked man Tor nte. he
said In an article on home life: The faith
full Watchdog or his good wife, standi at
the door, Welcomes the master home with
an honest bark In an obituary Of a farmer
he wrote: The race was run at last. Like
a tired steed, he crossed the harbor par
and, casting aside whip and spur, lay down
upon that bourne from which no traveller
| returns Home Magazine.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
APPRECIATION OF ART

The plant that Americans have no
real appreciation of art finds no echo
in the bosom of a recent visitor to these
shores, Jacques %Seligmann, art dealer,
who is regarded as n of the greatest
eonnoisseurs in the world. Mr.. Selig-
mann AYERS that we are keenly alive to
The value Of genuine antiques; that we
have q remarkable interest and great
knowledge of matters pertaining to art;
that in our collections and our diserimi-
nation in art matters we are far ahead
Of England, and, finally and most net-
teringly, that New York is destined e
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28

The bills introduced in the two legis-
lative houses last night are nearly all
of some public importance, and some
of them are reform measures that
should command early action. With
the bills introduced On Monday night of
last week there is now In committee
enough solid work to keep the Legisla-
ture busy for several weeks. But this
represents a comparatively small part
of the legislation cut out for this ses-
sion and to take its regular course.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
Egyntian Labyrinths.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Where and what was the Egyptian
labyrinth? r. G. r.
1.-THE : Egyptian labyrinth was situate
at Crocodelopolis, near Lake Moeris, in the
vicinity Of the present pyramid of BialSh-
mu. 1t was built of polished stone with
many chambers and passages, said to be
vaulted, having a peristyle court with
5000 chambers, half of which were unde
he earth and the other above ground.
The upper chambers were decorated with
~reliefs; the lower we're plain, and con-
tanned, according TO tradition, the bodies
of the twelve founders Of the building and
the mummies of the sacred crocodiles. con-
ferring on the building the character of a
mausoleum and also Of a temple to Sebak,
the crocodile god. The labyrinth stood in
the midst Of a great square. Part was
constructed of Parian marble and of
Syenitic granite; it had a staircase Of
ninety steps and columns of p%orphyry, and
the opening of the doors echoed like the
reverberation of thunder. There is great
difference of opinion among authors as to
the name OF the king under whom the
labyrinth was constructed and the pur-
pose for which it was intended. and it is
probable that 1t was not built In a single
reign. According to some ancient authori-
ties 1T was inhabited by the Dodicarehy
OF Twelve kings, who conformity ruled
Egypt before Psammetichus l., while 9TH
ers say it was the place of assembly of the
governors of homes or districts, twelve in
number. according to Hero1otus; sixteen
according to Pliny, and twenty-seven ac-
cord1ng to Strabo. The labyrinth was
extant in the time Of Pliny, A. ID. rs, and
was then. according to that author, $500
years old. The ruins Of the foundations
or lower chambers have been found at the
nodern village of Howard, In Fayoom.
The next labyrinth in renown to the Egyp-
tan was the labyrinth of Crete, supposed
to ave been built by Daedalus for the
Cretan monarch. Minos, in. which the Min
otaur was confined by his orders. The
third of the labyrintEs of antiquity was
the Samian, built by Theodorus and art
lists of his school in the age of Polycrates,
90 b. c., supposed TO be a work of ma
ture embellished by art, having 150 coll
unlns erected by a clever mechanical con-
trivance. Other inferior labyrinths existed
at Nauplia, at Sipontum in Italy, at Val
dISpica in Sicily and elseWhere.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28

Why the people Of any municipality
should decline to accept a Car
negie donation for a public library or
any other public object is inexplicable
to a perfectly sane mind. There are
inicky people in the world who are
prepared with objections to everything
that savors of reason to others, but
the rejection of a gift from a philan-
%thropist, intended for the good and well
fare of humanity, smacks of inordinate
%conceit. The name of Andrew Carnegie
will live long after those who deride
his benefactions are forgotten. One OF
these DIRECTORS was very properly
turned down in the meeting of the East
Orange Council last night.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
He Used "Nu speIlin.y

A man with a waistcoat and diamond
shirt-stud that fairly screamed Pros
perity!" at all within seeing distance,
blew info the public stenographer's office
In a New York hotel.
Say" he demanded, "can you write a
letter to my goil?"
The stenographer assured him that She
could.
"Well," directed the sport, after giving
the name and address, "tell her I've con-
nected with a barrel of money on the
ponies and that I'm goin' to Narragan-
sett Pier for two weeks. See?'
For a few seconds the typist's fingers
few. Suddenly she stopped.
II can't for the life of me remember
she explained in a puzzled voice, chow to
spell Narragansett.'"
The man behind the waistcoat tossed his
cigar stump in the w~aste-basket and
scratched his head.
"N-a-r-nar-r-e-r-rer-r-oh, h. cut it
Quit I'll go to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Magazine.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-28
origin Of Savings.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Can you tell me the origin of the fol-
lowing sayings: !. 1T suits to a r." 2. Gle
is not worth his SALT" 3. 'He's a brick? 2"
READER.
II. The clause, at suits to a T." mean
ing it fits exactly, is as old as the familiar
instrument, the T-square, or T-rule ESQ
called from its resemblance to the letter
-, used by mechanics and craftsmen for
making angles true and for obtaining per-
pendiculars. The expression was In COM
mon use in the time of DIR. johnson. who
is quoted by Boswell as saying of Wharf
burton, You see they'd have fitted him
to n t." 2. When we say a person is mot
worth his salt" we are using one of the
Oldest phrases in the English language.
This expression has come down through
the centuries from Roman days. The
origin of the phrase is the same as that
Of our word salary, both having come
from the Latin salarium, or salt money.
8, h phrase, Hes a BRICK Is said tc
have originated from an Eastern ruler
who while visiting a neighboring prin-
eipality asked his host to show him the
Notifications. Waving his hand toward
his troops, which were drawn up in sol
dlerly array, the prince said to his guest;
These are my Notifications; every mar
Is a brick. "-Ed.1