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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04

@UCH a chatter and racket as
greeted my ears the other day
when walking through Washing
ton Park. 1t was quite evident from
the bobbing of tiny heads and en-
phatic chirps and thrills of bird voices
that something of greatest Importance
was afoot and that opinions were
varied and quite decided.
There We're two distinct meetings,
one in a tall chestnut tree, and tho
other in a beech. which appeared to
have suddenly burst their brown buds
into living, noisy leaves.
1t was intensely interesting to the
mere human being to watch the par-
llamentary proceedings, each sparrow
delivering her ideas of the matter while
the rest listened for "a moment, then
the clatter of innumerable tongues all
trying to make themselves heard above
the throng. 1 say her ideas, because l
am quite sure that it was a meeting of
the women from the method of pro-
cedure, and the subject under discus
sion was the ballot.
The other meeting in the beech tree
was faring even worse, and was made
up of debutantes and the ung set,
judging from the frequency with which
advice was demanded of their elders.
Every moment or so a committee of
one or two. or perhaps three, would
dart to the chestnut tree and a hurried
consultation take place, the others re-
naming quiet to regain the breath
n listen.
Then everyone began at once, the
discussion waxing so fast and furious
that the committee would return in a
hurry, more confused than before, and
silence would reign in the beech tree
for a moment until thoughts could lie.
collected. i,
One voice above all the rest gave me
q clue to their perplexity; they wanted
to vote, too, but in order to gain that
privilege they must have reached the
age of six months-and no one wanted
20 reveal that secret. Ghe elders were
jubilant because they had won their
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
ORDINANCE ENFORCEMENT BY SPELLS.

spasmodic enforcement of the ordtn ances, when they are enforced. with
indifference and neglect at other times. does not invite much respect for the
municipal law. People get to understand that ordinance enforcement is a mere
matter Of the caprice of the responsible officials. For many years in Newark
ordinances have lain dormant, and at intervals been suddenly revived and N
forced. causing discomfort. expense and evaporation, all of which would be
prevented II here ws systematic enforcement a all times
Street distractions ire forbidden by ordinance, but ordinarily there are OBJ
structons in the streets everywhere. Some time ago a Board Of Works Off
suddenly swooped down upon the newsdands, the least Objectionable of
distractions, and threatened to put a number of worthy people out of business
Newsstand serve the public and there is, therefore, a necessity for them
There is n necessity, except to private owners, for SON other distractions
If which nc account was taken a the time
An inspector of the Board OF Works has just made a raid o wagons stored
or the streets. That a proper But why should the nuisance have been
80 long that the wagon owners believed they had a vested interest
in the streets? Why not enforce the ordinances at all times against every
body? 4
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
my LOVE STORY.

A lady of sagacity and beautiful au-
dacity once had the pertinacity to
ask me at her door:
IF | can find a minister who is not
bold or sinister, why should l
stay a spinster-and you a bach
elor?'
1t was no time for puttering or stam-
mering or suffering. and so I
fastened, uttering as fast as /
could speak:
Had Ia home colonial. with furnish
ings baronial, 1 might feel mat
rimonial-but not on six a week.
She laughed and said quite cynical.
We'll, you're the very pinnacle of
everything that's finicar'-but 1
said nothing more.
thus We found no minister, and I
moved off to. Finisterre, and she
is. still a spinster, and I'm a bach
eldpre." Richmond Times.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
PROBABLY NO EXCISE LEGISLATION,

1t may be confidently predicted that there will be no new excise legisa-
an at Trenton this year. Those legislators who are satisfied with the Bishops
act and desire its permanency are not eager to supplement it with additional
legislation, while those opposed to extreme excise Measure will, of COURSE
rssoutely oppose legislation Of this character As for any important modd-
cation Of the Bishops Law looking to greater personal liberty, that seems to
be utterly nut of the question. The organization of the Senate forbids.
1t would be well to have HI fact recognized at Trenton 1t me and To-
waste no time in die discussion that a lead to nowhere. There is al m
bilious movement by the local opionists to force a local option bill through
the Legislature Governor Fort does lot favor the injection of the local OPP
ton question into legislation this year, and many people share his views. The
question could only be a disturbing factor o interfere seriously with the real
business of the session ana obstruct The passage of desired laws
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
STATE COMMISSION RHFoRM PROGRAM.

A sweeping reform oft the system of permanent State commissions is con-
iemplated in bills introduced in the Slate Senate last night, the objects of
these bills having been strongly recommended IN the inaugural address of the
Governor Briefly, a nw board is to be created to have all the powers and
duties of the State Board of Health and State Sewerage Commission, which
IRE to be abolished. The Riparian Commission is to be terminated and a
Department of Riparian Lands be created to have a single head. There is
to be a Department of Public Accounting with a single head and also a ON
missioner OF reports to edit State reports and documents
This is part of the program of reorganization and betterment of the state
offices that is in contemplation, and when tho program shall be carried out
the credit for opening the way to the reforms cannot be denied to the
Hahn Investigation. Whether partisan or non-partsan, that committee has
done a noble work. and the State is well repaid for the cost by the results
that win have been brought about by legislation.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
REGULATED ELECTION OF DeLgdAres.

The extension of the primary election laws to primaries held fr the
elecuon of delegates to district ant State conventions for the choice If dele
gates to national conventions is urge ed upon the Legislature DIV Governor
Fort in a special message. AS these primaries have no yet been called,
it is possible to get a act passed in time for the elections this year The
Governor recommends the appointment of a commission to make a full re-
vision Of the primary election laws to be acted upon a the present session.
Governor Stokes in his last nual message recommended the election
Of national delegates in primaries and the doing away with In machinery
Of conventions. 1t is pointed out, however that the authority of the State
cannot be exercised to that extent But it covers primary elections for
choosing delegates to conventions within the State and that is the authority
Governor Fort would invoke to emo the power Of choosing delegates
from political party committees. This strikes home at many political house
holds in New Jersey, and it will be a striking exhibition of virtue. not to san
mendatons.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
The RAILROAD TAX MIDDLE.

A bill drawn by two lawyers like Governor Fort and Attorney General Me
Carter ought to be impregnable as a law. The middle in the Ia relations of
the railroads with the municipalities caused by the recent decision b. the
Court OF Errors and Appeals in the railroad tx cases an be cleared up by
the bill introduced IN the House by Mr. Martin last night
The essential point whether a eassessnen of railroad second class
property by the State board should be at the average tax rate in the State
or Is before att he local rate AS a IL this property vas included in the local
rstabea it made the average tax rate much lower than it would be other
wise and 1t would be manifaty unfair to the municipalities to reassess the
property a that rate The bill as drawn provides for a reassessment for the
years 1905 and 1907 at the tax rates hen prevailing in the taxing districts
snd II guards against any undue delay in the payment of these long over
aue taxes by requiring tho companies to pay up at the rate of the a as
ssnsnent OF 1906 before they can appeal by certorari against the nw law.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF.

An individual applied to the cab com
pany for a situation.
do you know how to drive21
Yes, sir
You know that you must be polite
with all YOU passengers"
"Ahl"
And honest. For example, what
would You do if you should find in
your cab.a pocketbook containing $685.
0OO?"
Nothing at all; l should live on my
Income Philadelphia Inquirer.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04

point. The men had thrown up tholr
wings in despair and fled, crying in
shrill tones:
Anything. give them anything, 50
that we may have peace, and quiet
nests"
ana one ~hen-pecked husband re-
marked sotto voce, as he lit on The
fence near me:
MARK my words. The last argument
against woman's suffrage is smashed
in little bits. We men have maintaioed
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
NOT THE KIND HE WANTED,

Little Willie ran away TO hunt red
skins"
''Yes?"
But he didn't find any until his
father had finished with hin.
iper's Weekly.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04

that they should not vote because they
could not fight in times of war"
But, my human friend, they wouldn't
need to. Had Hannibal, with his
strongest army, come upon a party of
women armed only with their arts of
speech he would have not even have
had the chance to issue an ofder--and
he wouldn't need to. The retreat would
have been swift, they would not stand
upon the order of their going" but they
would "go at once
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
A NEW DEAL IN PORTUGAL.

Regcide in Portugal accomplished part IF its object. Premier Franco
whose acts of government inspired the revolutionary movemen that had such
q tragtcal sequel has resigned and a new ministry is in power to represent
the new monarch. The icy regime is likely to make concessions. The chaotic
state OF public affairs in Portugal demand them, and PortugaPs friends in
Europe win insist upon ONE yielding of absolutism to the modernism that has
taken such strong hold of the whole Iperian peninsula.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
MORE JUDGES.

Probate judges, saaried at $4,000, are now proposed fr hrst-cass eoup
ties The oy is always More judges!' AS if New Jersey hasn't got enough
and a plenty What is needed to be done is to reorganize the State Judiciary
to Distribute the work more equally nong the judges and get rid Of some If
the old lumber that survives in our system Of jurisprudence. Let the Legsla-
ture pass the judiciary amendments and give the people the desired chance
~ vote upon them next year.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04

The Heavy Man-Manager Cennem
is u wonderful manager, and 1t has
always been his endeavor to uphold
the actors rights.
The Comedian-And to "hold-up" the
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04
ASK A MAN TO MARRY HER?
WOMEN SHOULD BE WISER!
Nevertheless, 1t Is Hard to See the Dearest Fellow in All tht
World Drifting Away When the Slightest Touch
Would Hold Him.

AL "wen-conducted woman" n O girl who las been we'll brought up under
~ any nut almost impossiby extraordinary circumstances, ever would
dream of asking a mn to marry her Were she so far to forget
the object of her pursuit probably would fee as fast as his legs
would carry him
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04

"This were tn cost to me,
That he were lost to me-"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-04

. GIVE US THE BALLOT,
/ CRY BIRDS in TREES.
! They Congregate and with
! One Accord Seek Equal
Suffrage.
(BY LOU KENDALL.)
In Vaudeville.

- UGH a chatter and racket as
greeted my ears the other day
when walking through Washing
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26
4Who's Who In the Stery.

%SATAN" SANDERSON, the
hero. daredevil. quixotic friend and
minister of the Gospel.
HUGH STIRES, prodigal and
criminal.
UESSICA HOLME, the beautiful
heroine. helpless In the rush Of
events and the principal sufferer In
case Of mixed identity.
MRS. HALLORAN, the camp
oracle.
DAVID STIRES, stern, yet for
giving. and at the last made happy
by another's unhappiness.
THE BISHOP, the victim of a
misunderstanding.
HALLELUJAH JONES, the re-
ligious fanatic on whose shoulders
rests the whole weight of the story.
EMMETT PRENDERGAST, the
false friend. perjurer and thief.
THE SHERIFF, who is very
much divided between duty and in
clination.
VIC" DEVLIN, who turns
= champion instead Of prosecutor aft
er the hero's race with death.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26

brothers keeper! z, g., :, 2Iolo upon
l see it now" 0'''
She did not catch the deep compunc-
ton in the judicial utterance. She
stood an instant Quivering then turn
ed and, feeling bindly Tor the door,
swept from their sight
White and GREATNESS, Jessica climb
ed the stair. In her room she took a
key from Il drawer and ran swiftly
to the attic studio She unlocked the
door with hurried fingers, tore the
of the prodigal son and found a
heavy mallet. She lifted this with all
her strength and showered blow upon
blow on the hard clay, her face and
hair and shimmering train powdered
with the white dust, till the statue lay
on the floor, a heap of tumbled frag-
ments.
Fateful and passionate as the scene
In the library had been, her going left
pail of silence in the room. Harry
Sanderson looked at David Stires with
pale intentness.
"Yet l would have given my life"
he said in low voice, 'to save her
thisr
Something in the tone caught the old
man. He glanced up.
81 never guessed ne said slowly
81 never guessed that you loved her
too"
But Harry had not heard He did
not even know that he had spoken
aloud
David Stires turned his wheel chair
10 the Korean desk, touching the bell
as he did so. He took up the draft
and put it into his pocket. He pressed
a spring; a panel dropped and disclosed
hidden drawer, from which he took
cracking parchment. 1t was the
will against whose signing Harry had
pleaded months before in that same
room. The butler entered.
Witness my signature, Blake" he
said and wrote his name on the last
page "Mr. Sanderson viii sign with
you"
An hour later the fast express that
bore Jessica and David Stires was
shrieking across the long skeleton rail-
road bridge, a dotted trail of fire
against the deepening night.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26

AS he stood there Hugh came from
the library. His head was down, and
he went furtively and slinkingly, as
though dreading even casual regard.
He snatched his hat from the rack,
passed out of the house and was swal-
lowed up in the dusk. David Stires
had followed his son into the hall He
answered the gloomy question in Har-
rvs eyes.
''He is gone" he said, "and hope to
heaven l may never see his face
again. Then slowly and feebly he
assembled the stairs.
Ten, fifteen minutes passed, and old
David Stires re-entered the room, went
feebly to his wheel chair and sat down.
II have told her." he said presently
In q broken voice. "You are kind, San
derson, very kind God help us!'
"What has God to do with it2" fell
a voice behind them. Harry faced
about. 1t was Jessica as he had first
seen her in the upper room with the
bandage across her eyes.
"What has God to do with it?' she
repeated in n hard tone Perhaps Mr..
Sanderson can tell us. 1t is In his
line"
Please said Harry.
He could not have told what he
would have asked, though the accent
was almost one Of entreaty. The harsh
satire touched his sacred calling Com
ing from her lips It affronted at once
his religious instinct and his awakened
love. 1t was all he said, for he stopped
suddenly at sight of her face, pain
frosted, white as the folded cloth
ooh" she said, turning toward the
voice, ~ remember what you said that
night right here In this very room
that you sowed your wild oats ut col
lege with Hugh--that they were a tidy
CROP You were strong. and he was
weak. You led. and he followed.
You were Satan Sanderson,' abbot OF
the Saints, the set in which he learned
gambling why, it was In your rooms
that he played his first game of poker.
He told me so himself And now he
has gone to be an ontcast, and you
stand in the pulpit In a cassock' You
the Rev. Henry Sandersonl You nelp-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26

With a sigh of relief he stepped
through the wide French window into
the garden. The strain over, he longed
for the solitude of his study. But Da-
vid Stires had asked him to remain for
a final word, since bride and groom
were to leave on an early evening
train; the old man was to accompany
them a part of the journey, and "the
Stires place" was to be closed for an
indefinite period.
1t was not long before the sound of
gay voices and of carriage wheels
came around the corner of the house,
for the reception was to be curtailed.
One by one he heard the carriages roll
down the graveled driveway. A last
chime of voices talking together-Har-
~ could distinguish Hugh's voice now
and at length quiet told him the last
OF the guests were gone.
The east room was empty save for
servants who were gathering some of
the cut flowers for themselves. He
stood aimlessly for a few moments
looking about him. A white carnation
lay at the foot of the dais, fallen from
Jessica's shower bouquet. He picked
this up, abstractedly smelled its per-
fume and drew the stem through his
buttonhole. He heard voices in the H.
brary, and, opening the door. he en-
tered.
In the room sat old David Stires in
his wheel chair opposite ais son. He
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26

DUHQl ~
long? And | can see, Hugh! l can
really see! Let it stay off, just for one
little moment more!'
He held her hands by force. "Jes-
sica, wait" he said in a broken whis-
per. you must not take 1t off again
not nowr'
An incredible confusion enveloped
him. His tongue cleaved to the roof
of his mouth. Not only had the pain
full contretemps nOnplused and dis
mayed him; not only had it heightened
and Mortified the realization Of what
she must presently be told-it had
laid a careless hand upon his own
secret, touching it with an almost vul-
gar mockery. 1t had overthrown in an
instant the barbados he had been pill
ing. The pressure of those lips on his
had sent coursing to the farthest re-
cesses of his nature a great wave which
dikes nor locks might ever again forbid.
What dear goose you arew she
said. ''The light didn't hurt them-in-
deed, indeed! Only to think, Hugh!
Your wife will have her sight! Do go
and tell your father. He will be wait
ing to known
Harry made some incoherent reply.
he was desperately anxious to get
away. His thought was a snarl of tat
tiers threaded by one lucid purpose-to
spare her coming self abasement this
sardonic humiliation.
He almost ran from the room and
down the stair.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26

Harry was looking at her with n.
stricken countenance He had no an
swer ready The wave Of confusion
that had submerged him when he had
restored the bandage to her eyes had
again welled over him.
Il am not excusing Hugh now" she
went on wildly. He has gone beyond
excuse or forgiveness. He is as dead
to me as though l had never known
him, though the word you spoke an
hour ago made me his wife. l shall
have that to remember all my life
that and the one moment l had wait
ed for so long. for my first sight of his
face and my brides kiss! 1 must carry
1t with me always. l can never wipe
that face from my brain or the sting
of that kiss from my lips-the kiss of
forger, of my husbandv'
The old man groaned II didn't
know he had seen her!" he said b4lp-
lessly. "Jessica, Hugh's sin is not San
derson's faultr'
In her bitter words was an injustice
as passionate as her pain. but for her
life she could not help it. She was a
woman wrenched and torn, tortured
beyond control. numb with anguish.
To Harry Sanderson her words fell
with a wholly disproportionate VIC
lence. 1t had never occurred to him
that he himself had been individually
and actively the cause of Hugh's
downfall. The accusation pierced
through the armor of self esteem that
he had linked and riveted with habit.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26

liked him. His eyes
took in the simple order of the room.
lingering with light tinge of disap-
prevail upon the violin case in the cor.
ner and with d deeper shade of ques-
ton upon the jewel on the others fin.
ger, pigeon blood ruby in a setting
Curiously twisted of the two initial let
ters OF his lame. There came to his
mind for an instant whisper of early
Tprodigalities and witnesses which he
had heard.
81 looked in to tell you a bit Of
news" said the bishop. i've just come
from David Stires. He has a letter
from Van Lennap, the great eye sur
geon Of Vienna. He disagrees with the
rest of them. Thinks Jessica's case
may not be hopeless"
THE cloud that Hugh's call had left
on Harry's countenance lifted.
"Thank Godw he said. "Will she go
to him"
The bishop looked at him curiously,
for the exclamation seemed to hold
more than a conventional relief.
'He Is to be In America next month.
He will come here then to examine and
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-26
"WaIl she 90 TO htmP"

perhaps to operate. Poor child! 1t will
be a terrible thing for her If this last
hope fails her, too, especially now,
when she and Hugh are to make a
match of it."
Harry's face was turned away, or the
bishop would have seen it suddenly
startled. "To make match of itP' To
hide the flush he felt staining his
cheek Harry bent to close the safe. A
something that had darkled in some
obscure depth of his being whose exist
ence he had not guessed was throbbing
now to a painful resentment. Jessica
\ was to marry HughI
- ga handsome fellow-Hughv' said
the bishop. "He seems to have return
ed with a new heart-a brand plucked
from the burning. You had the same
alma mater, think you told me. Your
influence has done the boy good, San
dersonw He laid his hand kindly on
the others shoulder. 1.-The fact that
you were in college together makes
him look up to you-as the whole par
Ish does" he added.
itby was SSllulS Tic SOluDlndllOu
and-4id not answer But through the
turmoil in his brain a satiric voice
kept repeating:
mo, they don't call me Satan
nowy'
The white house in the aspens was
in gala attire. Flowers-great banks
Of bloom-were massed in the hall,
along the stairway and in the window
seats, and wreaths Of delicate fern
trembled on the prim hung chandeliers.
over all breathed the sweet fragrance
OF jasmine. MUSICIANS sat behind a
screen of palms in corridor. and a
long scarlet carpet strip ran down the
front steps to the driveway, up which
passed bravely dressed folk, arriving
! In carriages and on foot, to witness
the completion Of a much booted ro-
nance.
For a fortnight this afternoons
Event had been the chat Of the town,
for David Stires, who today retired
from active business, was It's magpata.
the owner OF its finest single estate
and Of It's most important bank From
bia pcaQexE1c c.. oo2d fdlRb $3.50.