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Blue-grass blade., 1908-10-25
BLUE GRASS BLADE

Beginning with the reign Constantine commenced the decline
of the Roman Empire especially intellectual
ment The church became rapid The
arts sciences learning virtue neglected Piety forms
and ceremonies took their These the control and
OF centous priesthood
to be lost the ruins grandeur The old empire
broken into fragments Pope and his satel
ites from bad to daily record From the
fourth to the fourteenth century all mercy of
the what the bleaching homes Of s
countless victims
The Popes and their priests all Christ
ndom Hierarcha rule had government prog
ess was out OF the question Christianity from
the god of Israeli trinity perfect of course as all
things must be from such perfect there could
be no improvement for that which susceptible of
amendment All learning outside taught by the
priesthood not only useless stood Christ
aniy the master of the and libraries on which
the chucn could lay hands destroyed benefit of
postey most the old Grecan been trans
lated into Arabic These with books were saved
from the presty the destruction f
books the church prohibited publication all others not in
her interest All denied reading forbidden
books Hence the vast literature of Rome where
preserved were useless Ignorance all the
inevitable
Ignorance being largely the of crime
Europe gradually depths misery There was
no public conscience dared opinion
to Christianity interpreted church could
follow its into practice the
saying think not that bring sword
To the free of this side the church every
torture called witches heretcs
into her corral all within her reach The most favorie ns
ment of torture cutting the
tongue breaking the bones Of its victims
burn them alive For hundreds Of
cnct all Europe lumined by the urid
quverng of witches
and herecs first in small numbers later
ands footing to Millions Not less than mostly
tortured and put death Bible authority
Thou shalt not suffer witch live The heretics
including Jews who tortured and murdered
under the forms Of civil
unknown Force used everywhere add members Christ
aniy Kings bought Christianity
with their armies to force conversions the Christian faith
Amid all these crimes degradation misery poverty
time dared To voltare other
world today indebted what liberty
their the church still left the
ilege showing During
all Europe socially morally humaney and intellect
ually dead Christianity church Popes
Blue-grass blade., 1908-10-25

Graphic Picture of the Renaissance with which Came Revival
Of Learning upon the Decadence Papa -.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25

not. 1 am pleased to say that hold
contracts on over twessy of the best
located lots in this new tract, which
are not for sale, and which by good
hard work / intend to pay out on, for
an experience of over thirty years in
the business world and looking back
over the past, seeing how many good
and profitable investments l have let
go by while using my hard earned
money in many pleasures that might
have been refrained from, or venture
some outlays in stocks or other get
rich-quick schemes, has caused me
to realize that it is time to invest in
realty whose building resources are
sure to make it grow. 1t is a well
known fact that the largest fortunes
in the world have been made by buy
ing lots while they are cheap in the
suburban part of growing cities. You
have read, now think, then act by
calling on me. Now is the time
Never postpone until tomorrow what
you can do today.
George w. Mcpherson, travelling
agent for the Point Richmond Cana
and Land company, room 5, NycC
building, Tonopah. Hours, 9 to II
a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25
4 NEW CITY OF
MUCH INTEREST
TO NEVADANS
Richmond, California, in Which Henry c.
Cutting is Interested, Offers Remark
able Opportunities to investors
and to Home Builders
soon as the land is ready.

soon as the land is ready.
Reader, you may be one who does
not favor filled in or reclaimed land.
If so, allow me to call your attention
to the fact that the most centrally To-
Gated and most valuable land in the
great city of Chicago; nearly all of
Montgomery, Sansome, Battery,
ront, East and Main, in fact the
wholesale district of San Francisco,
is filled in from five to twenty feet,
while over 1900 acres in the heart of
the great city of Seattle has been re-
claimed in similar manner. This
bit of history is applicable to most all
great cities in the world. For land
located adjacent to the terminals or
business center of a new town be-
comes valuable by reason of its loca-
ton and will be used regardless of
cost. At the head of the canal, as
shown by the official map of Rich
mond, which / have in my Office here,
has been laid out and partly built, a
large boulevard, 10 feet wide, which
is now being graded and will be
macadamized, from the Santa Fe de-
pot to San Pablo avenue, on which
one of the electric car companies has
franchise and will soon be operat-
ling it, making by about two miles
the nearest route to Oakland. Ad-
| jacent to this boulevard, on the
north, between the three built UP
sections, has been laid out forty-two
blocks divided into lots. A site has
been selected by the trustees and
decided to the city of Richmond, fol
the new city hall The fraternities
of Odd Fellows and Eagles have also
selected hall sites, and will soor
commence their buildings. 1t is neal
these hall sites, which is recognized
as the future business center of thi
new city, that l have selected ant
had reserved by the company, lots t.
sell on my interior trips Terms o
sale are from $25 to $50, as deposit
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25

and the balance payable in monthly
installments of from IS to $40.
While most of the lots are now ready
to build on, if NOT, the company
agrees to fill or lower them to the Of
fetal grade designated or ordered by
the city trustees, streets to be graded,
rocked, oiled or macadamized at the
expense of the company. which also
agrees to pay the city and county
taxes while the title remains in them,
or until the deed is called for. A
discount of 5 per cent for cash is al
lowed on all advance payments. The
city-building factors of deep water
for commerce. railroad terminals
and cheap fuel, above referred to,
have caused this great little manu-
featuring city to be given the name
of the "Pittsburg of the West, !"
which it is rapidly becoming. You
may be one among many of my
acquaintance who know that l have
been an agent for other townsite
companies for, the last seven years,
or in fact, from the very birth of this
new metropolis, during which time
/ have sold several hundred lots, for
| two or three hundred dollars each,
on easy terms, and which are now
worth as many thousands, and drawn
the bond of friendship near by hav-
ing put many spenders in a way OF
saving. These facts can prove by
many of the best citizens in any
town l may visit, not excepting the
great pioneer Nevada mining town OF
Tonopah. Call at my Office and look
at the large official map and get one
of the most carefully and truthfully
written booklets. Don't try to make
yourself believe that you cannot af
ford to pay the deposit, for that
have the authority to make to sui
your purse. AS to the monthly in
j stallments you can, if you wish
spare SIS month from whatever In
come you may have This you cal
, do, although you may think not
Try it and see. Besides, if you ar
/ sick, or out of work, the compan,
J agrees to extend your payments I'm
: til you are well, or work has bee
J secured. If reading the above broa
: guage and liberal proposition an
, facts have interested you, call an
} see me, and | will gladly give 20
} further information and prove be
S yond any doubt that Richmond, fo
l the reasons above stated, offers tn
r best investment for the installmer
s buyer or saver, oAany of the gres
0 townsite propositions around tn
n bay of San Francisco. However, RI
/ member, you are acting for your ow
d benefit and welfare, and it is to yor
s own interest, or should be, to devot
d little time in investigating by cal
o ing on me. Remember you are NJ
# favoring me, for my salary goes c
t, Just the same, whether you buy
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25
STOCK MARKET

The following quotations are fur.
nished by the reliable brokerage fra
Of. Kenneth Donnellan & Co.:
Tuesday, November "a.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
ELECTS
WOMAN DELEGATE
TO CONFERENCE
Wife of Former Local Pastor IS
Honored by Meth1diSts
at Plainfield.
IRIS. CHARLES S. WOODRUFF
A BALTIMORE RESERVE
Only One of Her Sex Chosen to
Attend World Wide G7ther.
ing of Wesley's Followers.
lsnnolal 70 the rrenIng star.l

PLAINFIELD, April 1.-The Newark
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church may be represented in the next
General Conference at Baltimore, Nd
by a woman, Mrs. Charles S. Woodruff,
wife of the Rev. Charles S. WoodruH
pastor of the Pennington Church, Tor
merly of Montclair Church., and sun
later of Eighth Avenue Church, new
ark, having been elected as a reserve
delegate by the Laymen's Association.
Should either of the other. lay dele
gates, who are NJ. S. Daniels, of Rose
vile; J.. w. Pearsall, of Ridgewood; W.
M. Dufford, of Paterson; James II.
JOY and DR.. II. K. Carroll, of Plainheld.
be unable to attend. Mrs. Woodruff VIII
take their place. The other alternates
are Joseph Walker, of Irvington, and
F. e. Morse, of Boonton. No other con-
ference has elected a woman delegate.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04

NEW YORK, April Announcement
that Andrew Carnegie viii add $1,000, 900
to the fun of the Carnegie Foundation
or whatever sum might he necessary to
include as pension benefciaries eligible
professors Of State universities, has
been made
No provision was made for this class
of educators in the original gift, for
the reason, stated by Mr.. Carnegie at
the time. that the donor thought it pos
sible that such institutions might pre-
fer that their relations should continue
exclusively with the State from which
their chief support was derived.
This view was not taken by the Ma
tional Association of State Universities,
which in the year following the estab-
llshment of the foundation, petitioned
the trustees for admittanee to the bene-
fits of the retiring allowance system.
1t was then found that the earnings of
the original fund of $40, 900. 900 were ex-
hausted through the outlay already
planned, and that if the faculties of all
State universities We're to be benefited
an additional So, 900. 600 would be re-
quired. The situation was placed for
mally before Mr.. Carnegie by DR..
Henry S. Pritchett, president of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching. on March 81 last,
and on that same day Mr.. Carnegie
replied that the money would be forth
coming for any state institution whose
application received the support of the
Legislature and the Governor of it's
State.
The Carnegie Foundation was estab-
lished by Mr. Carnegie on April q, 1905.
with a gift of a trust fund Of $10,0 900, 900
in 3 per cent. first mortgage bonds of
h United States Steel Corporation.
This fund was placed in the care of
trustees who include the presidents of
h better known colleges and univer-
stiles of the country.
The revenue of the fund provides pen
sions for teachers of universities, col
leges and technical schools in the Uni
ted States. Canada and New Found
land. who are retired after twenty-five
years service or having reached the
age of IS years, have taught fifteen
years preceding.
From the benefits of the trust were
excluded institutions supported by
State of colonial government and
schools under s~ectarian control.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04

1T told him I'd wait until 1890, and
sure enough he came to the house. He
told me that young Plum had received
a Black Hand letter, and that he knew
who sent it. l asked him whom he
suspected and this was what he said:
1T was a young g named Cutler
who was their chauffeur. He took one
of their autos out one night without
permission and it broke down in Irv-
ington, and that's how they found it
out, and he was discharged. He is
now living with his mother in Pater-
Son.
IT became suspicious and asked him
Mrs. Kruger told him. This arou ed
my suspicion further for 1 thought Mrs,
Kruger wouldn't tell her business TO
her hired help, and the next day |
directed my son Francis TO visit judge
Kruger in his office at the German
Savings Bank, and he did SO.
THE facts were laid before the judge
and he said at the time that it puzzled
him about Freeman knowing the case.
Francis told the judge that we sus-
pected that Freeman was the guilty
one, and we asked him about the let
( 4 EolA AZ ROINC iho W. 49,
that same afternoon the judge got it
back and Francis brought up some re-
ports Freeman wrote while in our. en-
ploy, as well as copies of pay slips with
his signature on them, and the judge
Immediately identified the handwriting
and checked off many where the re-
semblance was alike.
1.-The judge inquired into the state
ment made by Freeman that Mrs.
Kruger had told him about the letter
at u suggestion. and it vas denied,
and / was so confident that Freeman
was the guilty one at the time that
was willing to bet 800 to 81.
freeman visited me almost daily. FOR
/ arranged with the judge to have II
that way. and m day he asked me II
I could arrange to have him get two
or three weeks off to work with me on
the case. l bluffed him and told him thai
the judge was anxious TO keep the whole
matter quiet and that he was willing
to pay the $500 to the writer of the
letter. / was thus encouraging Free
man to write a second time, and thus
trap him. / went as far as saying that
If Mrs. Kruger told him that a second
letter was received for him to tel ms
lIIlHltnldlClN, ailQ tliC WV hASNht
him and /, would go to the hidi 6
place and get the $500 and divide it be-
tween us
"He was very much interested, ano
came down every day, and we kept II
touch with the judge, and he told us
our plans were good.
1.-THE police all along were work
ing up the Paterson end and looking foi
Cutler, and l understood that Tulte
even went there. for the judge told m
so. Now. after we laid the foundation
and were arranging to bring the thing
to a close. someone tipped off the po'
lice. With all due respect to the po-
lice, I want it understood that myself
and my men can make an .arrest as wei
as the police or detectives OF this city
or anywhere else"
Chief Gregory said that Freeman wa:
quite a scholar and wrote a neat back
hand. He said Freeman's father wa:
the Rev. Dr.. Freeman, q retired negro
preacher.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
PARTY IN DAUGHTERS HONOR.

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry A.
'Cozzens, % Pennington street, was the
scene of a merry gathering of young
people whom they entertained in honor
Of their daughter, Miss Helen Louise,
who is home from Mortified Seminary.
The hostess was assisted in entertain
ing last night by Mrs. Clarence Willis
Alling and Miss Helen Nichols. Among
eromble. Mrs. Elizabeth j. Crowell, Miss
Margaret j. Nichols, Miss Ruth James,
Miss Jeanette G. Mullikin, Miss jose
phine Dillingham;, Miss Julia Craven,
Miss Hela von Seyfried, Miss Donetella
Corbo, Ralph w. Vanderhoff, C. 2.
Waller Crowell. Clarence w. Alling and
Henry A. Cozzens, jr.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
Woman Gets Letter.

Jennie Allen, who lives a POS Court street. made a statement to Captain
Carroll that substaniated the M made by Freeman. She said that he called
at her house, n after they went out he stopped at a saloon at Court and
Broome streets Then. she says, they walked to High str.at, and after walk
ing u and down she got the letter.
I'VE walked up High street n m side, and then Freeman said we would
walk back o the other side. He told me that a wonan had wiredh him that
a letter would be in the tree. and he told me to get it, I saw it sticking out
of the tree. and after I got it Freeman told m nt to give it o him right
away, but to walk ahead of him. 1 asked him why, and he said that some
one might be watching. Then we wer both taken in
John Gregory, chief of the New Jersey Detective Agency, said to-day:
II claim that 1 laid this whole plot, which resulted in Freenans arrest with
my son Francis Right after the first letter as sent to Mr.. Plum. 1 should
say two or three nights after about 8 o'clock. when I was at my home in
Chadwick venue 1 received a telephone call
"'Who is his? l asked the caller, who appeared veryfa familiar.
"'Why this is Bill "a the answer
"What Bil2 1 asked. 81
"Bin Freeman. vas the answer. ~
Ibid you hear HI news? he asked. l answered in the negative and asked
him to tell me.a and his answer was, I can't tell you overt the phone. Can't I
you 1t your home in about an hour?
Il told him la / thought nt, for I wanted 10 get ito sleep and lie fol-
lowed up oy telling me that it "a vey important and concerned something
that happened up to the house.
This Freeman a aware that 1 did all of Judge Kruegers private work.
and when Freeman was q boy he worked in my Office
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
10000 MAsONs
AND "BR|CKLAYERS
ARE LOCKED OUT
Difference Over Working Hours
Hats Progress on Paris
Underground System.

PARIS. April A gigantic lockout
affecting 100000 masons. bricklayers
and allied worlmen in the building
trades went into effect today. The
trouble has been brewing for months
past YER the question of hours and the
application of the weekly day of rest
law. The men insisted on a maximum
day of nine hours. The masters Of
fered a higher wage scale and a reduc-
ton of hours last autumn, but this the
men refused.
The lockout will result in bringing
to a standstill the work ON the under
ground railroad system of Paris.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
MBR|OE STRIKES
VIGOROUS BLOW IN
FIGHT ON ANARCHY
By Paterson Mayors Order
Meetings Are Broken Up
by Police.
NIGHTSTICK GAG APPLIED
TO RED" EDITORS MEETING
Disturbing Element Not Allowed
to Gatller-"Worse Than
Russia" Cries Calninita.

PATERSON, April 4.--'This is worse
than Russia" said Ludovico Caminita,
editor of the suppressed Anarchist pa
per, La QUESTION: Sociale, today. and
Caminita hadn't yet got over his indie
nation at the action of the police in
ousting him and about a hundred Others
from the Offices of the newspaper Lass
night, where he was delivering a fiery
TRADE against the President, Mayor
Mcbride n the established order Of
things.
Ihls is supposed to be a free coun-
try. demand the right of free speech,
Inc breaking up of last nights meet
ing was the first step in Mayor Nc
Brides determined campaign to remove
the stain of Anarchy from Paterson.
The mayor ordered the Police Board 10
lake action over the proposed meeting
at Turn Halle. The owner of the hal
refused to ope it, and in response 70
the inf1ammatory circulars issued by tho
ag1tators the one hundred or more who
gathered attempted to hold a meeting
in the saloon in the building.
Broke Up Meeting In saloon.
Chief Bfmson sent fifty men to the
saloon and it was cleared. The an
archists gathered in little groups talk
ing in various languages, and denounced
the police. Then Ludovico Caminita
editor of La QUESTION: Sociale. who had
been in New York all day endeavorine
to induce some of the Manhattan an
archists to go over and address a meet
ing. led the majority of them to tbo
office of the newspaper, at 73 Prosnect
street.
Caminita was in the midst of h;s
TRADE when Police Captain Taylor
with Sergeants Sauter and Tracy ana
twenty-five men, arrived.
Il nave been requested to ask Won IN
stop this meeting" said the captain,
walking up to Caminita.
This is my home and 1 stand on NV
rights" said Caminita.
CAPTAIN Loses His Patience.
i awe asked o to stop this meet
ihg' ana l. am not going any further
In my requests" said the CAPTAIN.
Get Il of here as quickly as Won
can" the captain told the crowd
Ihe policemen. all of whom had nieo,
SUCKS showed them into the street and
left the editor alone.
a half hour later detectives reporta5
mat a meeting was going on or abou
to start In Straight street, at the Inter
national Hall. Captain Taylor hen
a \ that ne was tired of temporizinq
ana that another attempt to hold =
meeting in defiance of the orders of tba
authorities would result in arrests.
Later Caminita, with AIexardar
Berkman, husband" of Emma COLI
man, and others asked a local paper -
voice their protest in the name of tho
Constitution of the United States,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
100000 RAILROAD TIES
ABLAZE THREATEN OIL.
Spectacular Blaze Near Garfield,
on the Erie, Caused by
Sparks.

PATTERSON, April A spark from a
passing locomotive going east on the
Bergen County short cut of the Erie
Railroad late yesterday afternoon,
nearly caused the entire destruction Of
a pile of railroad ties. The ties. num-
herring 1000. 600. wer arranged in piles
in Woodbridge borough, about one-half
mile west of the GARFIELD station.
Several gondofa Ears also caught fire.
The flames threatened the oil pumping
station. The loss to the railroad COM
pany will amount to $1,000. The ties
are valued at abont 81 a piece and the
balance is reckoned on the cars dam
aged.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
Freeman's Statement.

Following is his statement in part: about three weeks ago l heard
that Mr.. Plum had received a letter stating his boy would be kidnapped II he
did not leave money. Several days afterwards a down town and stopped
into Chief Gregorys Office and told him about it. was led to believe that
he had the case,a and he told m to keep ny eyes and ears open. I went to
a saloon at West and Court streets about S25 o'clock, and when I left the
I saw or men N the corner talking in Italian. Several of them spoke
in English, and from what they said I thought that the Plum casew was
the one they we're talking about One Oft them said, I'VE will go there about
II o'clock and then said, I wonder if we will get fooled
I called up Gregory. at "a Chadwick avenue, and learned that ne had
moved. I wanted tot tell him Of the case because I wanted him tic know that
I vas making good. Then I went to the house of the Allen woman. and "
walked up % High street and hen to William. / told her that ! got a telegram
from another girl to set a letter III ofa tree.
After W walked back on the other side, tt. see If any of the men 1 had
heard talking we're around, l told her to go to the tree, got the letter, and
then walk ahead of me. She did this, and then the officers got us. 1 wanted
to get this cas- o make rood to Gregory and show him that I had his interest
at heart"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04
KIDNAPPERS DEMAND
$4,000 FOR BOYS RETURN.

NEW YORK. April 4.-Blackmailers
demand $1,000 for the return of 3-year-
old Bartolo Giuffe. the son OF wealthy
Bartholow Giuffe, who was kidnapped
from his home, la Bridge street
Brooklyn, by a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
woman. and today five hundred boys
and girls of a public school nearby are
aiding detectives in a search for tue
missing child.
The father has received INK following
communication from the iddIappers:
Yours will be found. Don't worry
and don't give the police a clue. We
understand each other with few
words. Think quick and prepare
$4,000 if you want peace. Look for a
person with good news and pay no
attention to the police"