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WHEN RUFF OWNED
PARIS

1t is notorious that Ruef made
the price of protection" so stiff
that the tenderloin laid down and
squealed and rejoiced when his
heavy hand was taken from the
throttle. Paris" is a pleasant
place, but it takes money to run
it. AS Mr.. McGee puts it. paris"
is already SO wide open that it can
not be wider unless you want the
privilege of giving a Knockout
drop with every drink All of
which assists the belief that our
laws against gambling are mostly
fD|,,, ~f
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INVENTED BY CARROLL COOK

/ think il must have been Carroll Cook who
invented this astonishing train OF reasoning Cook
belongs to the old fashioned tweededum and
tweedledee school Of lawyers whose ingenious.
trivialites have done much to make criminal
Jurisprudence kissing and disgrace They are
something like the medieval schoolmen who spent
their time painfully arguing such questions as
How many million angels could dance on the
point OF needle:" But this class of reasoning
is no longer in much favor with our courts
BAD FOR TOM WILLIAMS
Now this makes il bad for Williams because il
happens that this law is blind of an eye while the
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By Edward F. Cahill

good eye is sternly fixed on Will
Jams. If you should visit the
track TO take a chance you will
find policemen and constables and
deputy sheriffs and plain clothes
men waiting to catch you saying
your sporting lesson from mem
ory. You may even be arrested
for evidence and are quite likely
TO get your name in the papers
as degraded and immoral person
gambling away the money you
ought to keep for neglected wife
and children. You may become
part of a test case with all its
embarrassing potentialities. I'm
agine Carroll Cook constructing a
train OF what he calls reasoning
on your testimony.
Now anything may happen in
Paris. : The blind eye of the law
is turned on paris You can
make books, with books or with
out books, in Paris" and when
the town gets going after New
Years day there will be book
maker on every corner and two in
the middle of the block. Indeed,
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you pay your license from the
time it was granted, even
though your building was not
completed, and how they re-
fused to refund that money
so exacted from you.
Do you know that you arc
the ones that will suffer from
a repetition of this sort OF re-
girpe? For you are absolutely
in the hands of an unscrupu-,
Ioi1s administration
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GAMBLING NOT IMMORAL

Gambling is not by itself immoral or even neces-
sarily demoralizing. Every time the grocer buys
a barrel OF sugar he, engages in gamble. When
the liveryman buys bale of hay he makes bet
The wholesale prices of these and other COM
modities rise. fall and the dealer can not always
pass along the fluctuations to his customers. So
he wins or loses on his bet
1t IS accounted one of the domestic virtues to
buy house and lot for home, but the actual
moving cause behind the investment is the expec-
tation that the property will rise in value 1t is
speculation, gamble You expect to gain some
thing that you have not earned Virtue is not
always satisfied to be its own reward
RESPECTABLE GAMBLING
The whole business of fire insurance is fiat gam
bling OF the most reckless sort. There is no law
OF averages that governs the recurrence OF fires
The whole thing is pure guesswork and that is
the reason why the rates so extravagantly
high and the profits so enormous in normal times.
The men who deal the game try to make it
sure thing gamble but sometimes they get badly
stung they did with the San Francisco fire
Now they taking it out of us to get even.
DISREPUTABLE GAMBLING
Throwing dice is disreputabe and demoralizing
occupation, but, like life insurance, it is capable
OF reduction to mathematical certainty by the law
OF averages A cigar dealer will tell you that he
will let you throw all day against three fours,
poker dice, and he will win money that hand with
absolute certainty in the long run. Three fours
is shade better than the average hand But we
are all agreed that it is disreputable business
MOST RECKLESS FORM OF GAMBLING
The reinsurance of overdue ships is a highly
respectable calling Yet is absolutely the widest
and most uncertain form of gambling known TO
man. The Engshman's pastime of betting on
between two flies crawling up window pane
is amenabe to reason and Judgment than
making guesses for money about missing ships
BAD WHEN YOU LOSE
Gambling the is disreputable and
demoralizing because the pins set up SO that
in the final outcome you must lose You are the
sucker II you win no great harm is DONE but
you don't win. Then you rob the till or shoot
yourself But you can find dozen forms OF
gambling without leaving Paris" in which you
can get just quick action on your money as
you do with racing, and that without running
counter to any of the penal laws or doing any.
thing that is not accounted respectable.
Probably you do not know that III the last two
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NYTHING may happen in
Paris" When Paris is run
ming full blast during the COM
ing winter it seems as if Tom
Williams might have hard
time to compete. Mr.. Williams
runs a competent and expensive
racing plant at which the attend
ance has been large and profit
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oble. although nobody ever went to see the races
If YOU met friend who had been to the track
your first question would be, How'd you come
out" Nobody ever thought OF asking if the racing
had been exciting the sport good In Paris
it is merely question of win or lose. thousand
men or more have gone day after day to the track
and ii made no difference whether the shone
or the rain poured. They were out for the stuff
and to take a chance
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EDWARD F. CAHILL

although Paris has not yet fired up in full blast
and will not until early in January. think could
find you half dozen book makers doing a stiff
trade even now. Indeed there was no difficulty
about placing money on the recent election and
there was no memory betting about it either
The newspapers told people where they could
make their bets and upward of 100000 changed
hands over the election. OF course, Carroll Cook
would make you an elaborate argument that the
law concerns only betting on races or prize fights
and he would prove it to you by the procession
of commas and semicolons in the act but even
then we don't find any trouble about placing bets
prize fight.
PARIS" WILL GET THE MONEY
Now if the who go to the track to bet on
races find themselves embarrassed in the pursuit
Of their avocation and discover that they can
crafty their tastes in Paris" without paving the
price of admission what is likely to be the result
OF course, every means will be resorted to in the
hope of making the operations of outside book
makers difficult 1t was proposed for instance, to
withhold the overnight publication OF entries for
the races but that plan has been abandoned as not
feasible. Other means will be tried to delay trans
mission of results from the track but all these
devices are purely futile. AS long as telegraph and
telephone wires so easy OF access there will
be little trouble about getting the results Indeed.
the transmission of racing results is nearly the
largest single source of income enjoyed by one of
the telegraph companies. 1t is an uphill business
to buck against all that money.
HYPOCRISY OR GRAFT
In fine, the conclusion is difficult to escape that
in Paris" the laws against gambling are on the
hand than form Of hypocrisy and
on the other opportunity for honest graft Tom
MCGEE, who was on the inside OF things when
Ruef and Schmitz administered the Paris of
America tells how affairs were worked in those
days without the help OLA law against book
making Addressing his brethren in the saloon
business Mr. McGee writes:
None of you who were in business at that
time can have soon forgotten Abe Ruef and his
levy of tribute you and how he made you pay
arbitrary assessments for the purpose of conduct
ing his campaigns and how if you failed to patron
ize Hilbert Brothers for whisky and Drinkhouse
for cigars you in danger of losing your
license, and with it your business
You can not so soon have forgotten how after
the fire of 1906 Abe Ruefs board of police com
missioners kept you standing outside of the build
ing in Larkin streetson and cold nights night
alter night, when you sought the license to con-
duct your business unless you hired Ruef to
represent You. and then you did have to wait
at all ou must also remember how they made
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REDUCED TO ABSURDITY

That is to say, the law is not directed agains
betting on races unless the bet is recorded It i
the book making and not the gambling that con
stitutes the offense The reasoning reduces tl,C
law to absurdity.
Another Judge of the same court reaches al
identical goal by radically divergent road ant
this is his view
Legislation should be practical, and it is at
least doubtful whether statute making every
offer acceptance OF bet wager crime
could, in the present of morals and habits
OF the community. be enforced.
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A MEDDLESOME LEGISLATURE

With this agreeable pastime meddlesome leg
islature has interfered in the interest of good
morals-that was what it sad-so that now when
the sport from Paris goes into another county
to take chance he may likewise acquire law
suit in the operation unexpected part OF the
bargain. The needless law makers have even left
him in doubt whether he is committing felony
merely a misdemeanor. Such is the unhappy
plight OF the book maker from Paris.
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THE UNWRITTEN GAMBLE

Thus is the prosecuted book maker put to hi>
trumps and the one recourse he has been able to
invent by way of beating the law is something
that he calls memory betting" 1t is not a crime
to bet if you don't write it down. 1t is not book
making when YOU keep books.
1t makes difference that appellate Judge
in New York the other day held with this view
and declared:
If man should offer bet the ladies of his
party pair of gloves a box of candy, it would
be the laying of odds and publishing the same To
hold him be a book maker would in my judg-
nent, be departure from the rule that gives
TO the of the their ordinary and
accepted meaning. and would be construction
which within the contemplation of the
legislature
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IUDGEMADE LAW

This might be an excellent reason why the leg
islature should repeal the law, but it supplies no
justification for its repeal by the court
A third Judge, who dissents fatty from these
opinions, points out that gambling is the essence
OF the offense while the making OF book is
merely incident But wisdom goes by count
ing noses and two Judges know better
than one.
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WIPES OUT WHOLE
FAMILY TO HIDE
CRIME EVIDENCE
Farmer Kills Man, His Wife,
Her Mother and Three
Children.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Feb. bob
Clements, q white farmer. of Morgan
county, Ala. has been arrested.
charged with the murder of Henry
%Ecrnonson. his mother, his wife and
three children. md the deliberate burn
ing of their dwelling TO conceal his
crime.
After Clements had been lodged in
Jail his wife made q complete contes-
sion. She said that the murder grew
out of the relations between her huS-
band and Edmouson's wife. Ednonson
had for some time suspected he
woman and Clements, and the day OF
the killing he caught the pair together.
Clements picked up an X and
Drained Edmonson. The woman ran
screaming for help. but Clements
sprang after and struck her down. The
children rushed out of the house in
time to sec her die,
Insane with fear lest he should leave
any witness Of his awful carnage.
Clements pursued and slew the little
ones. one by one, and, warned by the
terrified screams of the grandmother
that there was yet one more telltale
tongue u%nsilenced. he ran into the
house, battered in the locked door Of
the old woman's room and killed her.
He then carried all the bodies inside,
locked the door. and, returning late at
night. fired the house and outbuildings.
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NOTICES.

n. j., November "a. 1908.
deceased. N'
Pursuant 70 the order Of George E. Russell.
surrogate OF the County OF Essex, this day
made, on the application Of the undersigned.
executor Of said deceased. notice Is hereby
siveh 10 the creditors Of said deceased to ex-
nlplt 70 the subscriber under oath or afhrma-
tlon their claims and demands against the
estate OF said deceased. within nine months
from TINS date. or they viii be forever barred
from prosecuting or recovering the sans
against the subscriber. ~
FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY.
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S4,000,0 900 IN AUTOS
IMPORTED IN 1908.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The total
appraised value of all merchandise re-
ceived at the port of New York during
the calendar year 1905. according to a
statement by the appraiser of the port.
amounted to 1914, 103, 1858, as compared
with 1856, 341, 20 in 1907 and $7S7, $50, 466
in 1906. There was a decrease of S1S,-
$780, 40 in the appraised value of
precious stones, cut n uncut, and
pearls during 1908. as compared with
the previous year, the value of impor-
tations in 1903 being $12. $50, 1896. There
were 1,706 automobiles of the appraised
value of SO, 965, 46S, against lab cars of
the appraised value of 81, 1923. 437 in 1907
and 1851 cars, appraised at $5,4Ss, $50, in
1905
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A BROKEN.HEARTED HORSE.

- LACK BoE;, a horse, was the pet
IL of the Royal Irish Light ORA
goons in 1914. The dragons
were then in India. when ordered
home. circumstances rendered it i'm
perative that their pet should be sold,
and Black Bob was bought by a civil
ian at Cawnpore. to whom the Irish
troopers returned half the purchase
money on the mans solemnly undertake
ing that the old horse should pass the
remainder of his days in comfort. But
poor Bob had only been three days in
his new quarters when he heard the
trumpets as the regiment marched off
at daybreak tn embark for Calcutta.
At the well-known sound the old
horse became frantic, and made every
effort to escape from the stable. until,
worn out with his eXertions and we'll
nigh strangled, he sank down ex-
hausted.
AS days passed by. and Bob saw no
more the familiar uniforms and heard
no more the trumpets nor the voices Of
his old comrades. he began to pine
away, refused corn and any other food
that Was offered him. SO his owner had
turned out into paddock. But the
moment he was free, Black Bob jumped
over the bamboo fence and galloped off
In The cantonments of the European
cavalry.
Making for the parade grounds, the
old horse trotted up w~hinneying to the
saluting point, and on the spot where
he had so often taken post, Watching
the squadrons of the Royal Irish dehlc
past, Black Bob fell down and died.
His heart was broken when he could
not find his old companions.
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FAMOUS TRAMP DEAD.

TARRYTOWN. Feb. lon the Gen
eral Philip Schuyler estate, at irving
ton, within a few feet of the Schuyler
homestead, James Kelley. an old time
tramp, was found frozen to death yes
ferday. Kelley was 20 years old, and
for fifteen years had been getting his
living from the back doors of rich
homes. He was known as 400 Kelly,
because he always worked among the
wealthy.
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ANT-EATER AND BULLDOG
IN BATTLE TO DEATH.
$4,000 Changes Hands as Re-
suit of Fight.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Feb. 1.-The
first battle ever waged in the United
States between an American bulldog
and a long-clawed ant-eater from Brazil
was pulled off here yesterday before a
club of wealthy men.
The tropical animal. imported espe-
cially to meet the bulldog, which has
never lost A battle, survived the battle
for only two minutes. IT was neces-
sary to beat the dog off 10 save the
skin of the %ant-eater from mutilation.
Fifty thousand dollars changed hands
On the result.
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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that the accounts OF
the subscriber, executor Of the last will and
testament of William II. Pohle. decea sed. viii
be audited and stated by the Surrogate and re-
the County OF Essex. on Friday, the twertv-
sixth day of February. 1909.
CHARLES cIsKA.
Dated January 10. 1903.
Henry w. Bgner. ir..
Proctor.
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NOTICES.

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
Notice Is hereby given that the accounts Of
the subscriber, the administrator Of the estate
OF Adelbert g, Wright. deceased. will be audited
and stated by the Surrogate and reported for
settlement to the Orphans Court OF the County
Of Essex. on Friday. the NTH day Of February,
1909.
FRANK G. CORNISH.
Dated December %, 1909.
Francis S. Winfield.
Proctor
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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
Notice Is hereby given that the accounts OF
th} subscriber. the administrator of the estate
Of James Pagan. deceased, will be audited and
stated by the Surrogate and reported for settle
ment to the Orphans Court OF the County Of
Essex. on Friday. the fifth day Of February,
1909.
JAMES F. CAFFREY.
Dated December "a, 1905.
M. T. Barrett,
Proctor.
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SOME LETTERS RECEIVED.

Here are a few letters received from
children who wish to Join THE STAR
Juvenile Humane Society:
Dear Uncle Jack-I am a constant
reader of your page. I would like to
join your Juvenile Humane Society and
l would like TO have a button. I would
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NEWARK, n. J.. January q. 1909.
Estate Of John Russ. deceased.
Pursuant to the order of George F.. Russell.
Surrogate Of the County of Essex, this day
made, on the application of the undersigned.
administrator of said deceased. notice is hereby
+fyen TO the creditors of said deceased to ex-
hlbft to the subscriber under oath or aff1rma
tion their claims and demands against the
estate Of said deceased, within nine months
from this date. or they will be forever barred
from prosecuting or recovering the same
against the subscriber.
JAMES RUSk.
Charles f. Senkowsky,
100 BROADWAY.
New York city,
Proctor.
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NOTICES.
NEWARK, N. j.. January IS. 1909.

NEWARK, N. j.. January IS, 1909.
Estate OF Annie Dey, deceased.
Pursuant 10 the order Of George e.. Russell,
Surrogate Of the County of Essex, this day
made. ON the application of the undersigned.
administrators Of said deceased, notice IL
hereby given to the creditors of said deceased
10 exhibit to the subscriber under oath or ar
firmation their claims and demands against the
estate Of said deceased, within nine months
from this date. or they will be forever barred
from prosecuting or recovering the same
against the subscriber.
MARY e. READ.
Horace Stctson,
Proctor.
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Newark. \

Newark, \. ].
Dear Uncle Jack-I do not hurt dumb
animals. I want to help them as much
as l can. | would like to have a but
ton, and / will show it to everybody.
We have a dog. It's name is Fancy. |
never hurt her. l give her meat and
potatoes. And when 1 give it to her
she eats it and jumps for more. Your
loving member.
FRANK BRANDON.
200 Newark street.
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MICHAEL BARRY.


NEWARK. y. j., December Is, 1908.
ESTATE OF Gottlieb Messerschmidt, deceased.
pursuant to the order of George e. Russell,
surrogate of the County OF Essex. this day
made, OF ne application Of the undersigned.
sdmlnistratrtx of said deceased. notice is hereby
gwen 10 the creditors Of said deceased TO eX-
ton their claims and demands against the
estate or said deceased within nine months from
this cate, or they will be forever barred from
prosecuting or recovering the same against the
CAROLINE NEsSERsCRMpr.
Lowy, Lowenstein & Lowry,
ProctoVe. II
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S E J.
NEWARK. n. J.. November 81, 1905.

NEWARK. n. j., November q, 1905.
Estate of Mary l.. Gray. deceased,
Pursuant to the order OF George f. Russell.
Surrogate of the County Of Essex. this day
made. on the application ~ the undersigned,
executor Of said deceased, notice is hereby given
TO the creditors of said deceased TO exhibit to
the subscriber under oath or affirmation their
claims and demands against the estate Of said
deceased within nine months from this date. or
they will be forever barred from prosecuting
or recovering the same against the subscriber.
GEORGE r. GRAY.
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NEWARK, n. J.. January 4, 1909.

Estate Of William Kelly, deceased.
Pursuant to tbs order of George Z. Russell,
Surrogate Of the County OF Essex, this day
made. on the application OF the undersigned.
administrator Of said deceased. notice Is hereby
given to the creditors Of said deceased to exhibit
% the subscriber under oath or affirmation their
claims and demands against the estate of said
deceased. within nine months from this date,
or they will be forever barred from prosecuting
or recovering the same against the subscriber.
MICHAEL BARRY.
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Riker & laiker.
Proctory.


NEWARK, y. j.. December IA. 1908.
Estate Of Augusta " picSerson, deceased.
Pursuant to the order Of George e. Russell,
Surrogate Of the County of Essex, this day
made, on the application Of TIE undersigned.
executor OF said deceased. n6tice Is hereby
given to the creditors OF said deceased to exhibit
II the subscriber WIDE" oath OF affirmation their
claims and dema nds against the estate Of said
deceased. within nine months from this date, or
they will be forever barred from prosecuting or
recovering the same against the subscriber.
JAMES A. CoE.
e. C.. and A. W. HARRIS
rTnctors
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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that the accounts Of
the. subscribers, the executors of the last will
and testament Of Edward Meeker, deceased,
will be audited and stated by the Surrogate and
reported for settlement to the Orphans Court
of the County of Essex, on Friday. the twenty
sixth day OF February next.
EDWARD c. MEEKEK.
IRA M. TAYLOR.
Dated January %. 1909.
Woodruff & stevens,
Proctors.
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NEWARK, \. j.. December ls. 1905.

Estate or Carrie NJ. BfoMn. deceased.
Pursuant to the order Of George e. Russell,
Surrogate of the County of Essex, this day
made. on the application of the undersigned,
administrator OF said deceased. notice is hereby
given TO the creditors OF said deceased TO ex-
hibit to the subscriber under oath or afifnla-
ton their claims and demands against the
estate OF said deceased. within nine months
from this date. or they will be forever barred
from prosecuting or recovering the same against
the subscriber.
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NEWARK, n. J.. December 81. 1905.

Estate OF Amelia KuIzer. deceased.
Pursuant TO the order OF George Z. Russell.
Surrogate OF the County of Essex. this day
made, on the application of the undersigned.
administrator with the will annexed Of said
deceased, notice is hereby given to the creditors
OF said deceased to exhibit to the subscriber
mands against the estate OF said deceased,
within nine months from this date. or they viii
be forever buried from prosecuting or recover
Ing the same against the subscriber.
ADOLTI KULXER
Nathan Kussy,
Proctor
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U. S. USES $4,000 IN PUNK.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-The United
States buys about $4,000 worth of
punk from China every year. accord
Ing to Willard b. Hull, ~vice-consul-