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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
WEDNESDAY. APRIL rs, 1909.
THE CITY TAX BUDGET.

Muptcpanues in New Jersey are about to feel the pinch Of the State legN
this year in respect to he public school revenues. Newark will feel it
anu+siv The finance committee OF h Common Council has begun he prepare
ton OF thu tx budget for 1909. and, in view OF the situation presented, it is
monumental task. There need be n o apprehension of extravaganza in the ex-
pAndtures to be voted. That fear need lot keep n taxpayer wake IN the
contrary. the city fnanciers will be sitting up nights, burning thu midnight oil
trying Il devise ways and means oil econonizing expenses to prevent the tax rate
from soaring to the figure IF two dollars on each 800 of valuation, a att that
considering the present rate of assessed valuation, would be the highest IN the
history. There was n % extravaganza in last years budget. he Council
then was confronted by a situation in respect to the school moneys similar to the
rresent one which is however NOR serious financially. But it is not yet
apparent how n material etrenchment can be made. The schools will need
expenses N school construction mi site Will call for more. h police
department estimates ae for a N increase Of $4,000 over last year FOR salaries
An the departments needs Increase each year. Ours is a growing city, and
3eromth involves increasiug expense. 1t goes without saying that III work OF
the 6nanc committee this year will be attended by more than usual public
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Row 6Ne Man Saved a cytu
BY ROBERT SHACKLETON.

III 7 WAS back 1.-THE Thirty Years War, it a in 1881. that the principal
i event fnsthe5 history Oft the city too place; the principal event. in the
= Judgment ofSe every inhabtant. 1t is annually COMMUNICATED b a play
a pageant, in which all that happened in the course of thu great day-the day
of the MeistT-tr trunk, the Master Drink-isr represented by generals N coun-
sehors soldiers and people, costnmed in character, in he streets, in the mar
tket place, in the Rathhaus
For the ferocous TWy captured Rothenburg. and, enraa by. his losses
declared that the town should be destroyed, the leading inhabitants slain
am the rest turned over to thu sohdiery But women IN children waled
lanentaby as he rode to the Rathhaus, and chung to his stirrup imp4ortng
mercy. he flung them mercy with contempt. Let the dogs live" he
said; Il will be mercffuL None but the burgomasnr and all the counsel
lors # the owl shall die
N He went into the great room % the Rathhaus, nd called for wine and
a frightened girl carried in a huge-end trimming obet- goblet 20 huae
that he urst inoa great laugh. Am 1 to drinkt hM?, he said. holding st
up And then grim humor seized him. IF n man of Rothenburg will drink
this at a single dfaught l will spa the city nd spare every nfe.r
There was a great silence, and then a former burgomaser a certain
Nusch-hfs name is worthy of remenh rance-stepped intrepddly forward and
took the goblet from Tiys hand. He drank. and the silence deepened as
the foot off the goblet slowly rose in the air.; he drank n drank tin every
& drop wa drained. Then Ii fels enseHss to the floor
"Revive hin!" said Imy; and Nusch came slowly back to life
1ify as a good loser You have Won" he said, admiringh, as the
man raised himself and looked around
whercst Rothenhurgs nero could only asp tut with touch Of good old
fashioned humor even in such a presenc
4 never-could-ssve another town. Harperss Magazine Tor May.
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Kitty Of $3.50, ooo, 900
Frederick Upham Adams Gets This as tie Annual Cost of
the Speculative Game IN the United States.

~ HERR are a score of Wall street brokerage houses that make from
$4,000 to- 100000 annually in Years lot marked by iessened specu.
laton due to financial and industrial depression. There are hun.
dr9s n other houses that are disappointed with return which fall below
such figures as as5Oo0. 500 900 and, $Ts000 II seems reasonable to ssume
that there are 1000 speculative firm In the United States with ar average
net income OF $20ee0each. Every consideration tends to prove that this is
a ultra Conservative statement yet it implies that our speculative friends
us t'dig down into their pockets for another s4oO0oNmo before they can-hrps
TO extract dividends from the quotations which are manufactured for them on
the various exchanges. rs .18R. - 1.~8
The approximate annual cost of the speculative game. to these wis
patronize brokers and commission men in the United States is thus Indicated
this recaptulahon: 81 ~
Operating expenses of speculative firms u..,.... .n..... -. 1eototdo
Profits to suchf firms ron COMMISSIONS paid by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 40o0o0o
Paid by customer to banks on interest account 4eecooo
.E. ---
Cost Of the ...... 49,. 1B000hoo
s1SoOOoooa 1t does nct imply that this is the gross amour. of loss us
tanned by those who speculate in Wall street and elsewhere. Tt has nothins
to do with that This $3.50 100000 is a fairly accurate statement of h. size Of
gambling in stocks and bonds-From The Cost of the Wall Street Game" In
he Nay Everybody1s @H
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
YESTERDAYS GREAT BATTLE IN SOUTH ORANGE.

- For a fortnight the election campaign in South Orange divided the interest
OF the world whit the dramatic eventsi Turkey and completely overshsdowed
the Senate debate on he tariff To the people Immediately concerned the hap
in Turkey n Washington d c., were affairs of remote interest A
whether a street Improvement should be assessed upon the village population
Is a whole or principally pn the property benefited hung in the balance
The Citizens party, with Ira A Kip. j, for PRESIDENT of the Village Board, con-
frontcd the Peoples party whose presidential champion as Charles E
Souther. Never before in Its political history was South Orange so stirred up
70 militant, and, as the sequel shows, the opposing forces we're almost equally
divided. The battle Of the ballots yesterday was fought from early morning
until night, an there was n cessation not even for lunch. The whole voting
population was under arms Those who escaped the conflicts In the morning to
30 to business early we're wayiaid by press ang In motor. cars in the evening
and placed or the firing line It vas a greet al exciting, day for South Orange
Village and the sounds II the conflict we're heard a far as the Newark City
Hall, by telephone One side or the other had to win. There could be n 10 drawn
battle And the fonune of var favored the Citizens party Ira A. Kip will
.he the village president and tbs Citizens party will controlt the Board of Trus-
tees 1t is u etot the patriouc IN law-abhing spirit Of South Orange Village
10 say that the result is universally aoauiesced in
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
cMNa's Se\f-made Statesman
Yuan Shh-k'af Rose from Humble Origin to Be the
Greatest Official in the Chinese State.
BY ELEANOR FRANKLIN EGAN


~ r HEN the great empress owager of China died, she not only be-
wv queathed the throne to q ruler of her w selection. bt she also
' left in control of the various boards of government men of her
sressive of China's statesmen. The personnel of the Wal WI Pu, or board
of foreign affairs, val especially satisfactory from a foreign standpoint hav-
ing as its active head a man who had proved himself ito be a staunch friend
of reform, ant on upon whom China and the world could rely for sane and
enlightened Judgment in all governmental affairs. This mar was his excel
lency Yuan Shh-kai.
opinion of the great viceroy.
He answered me indirectly. Governor Yuan was of humble origin you
know he began. He ws born in the province of Honan-that province
south OF the Yellow river which is almost annually flooded by tho great
muddy stream called Chinas Sorrow As a boy. he studied the Chinese
classics and sch foreign books as had been translated into TIM Chinese Ian
try. And this / think, is the first element o. his greatness that without
any knowledge of foreign language, la ", literature, science OF government OF
the history and progress ofc civilization, he has occupied he highest M nos
responsible positions sin the gift of he empire, h Ia shered he ship Of state
on a straight course between he shoals of conservatism bn h me han and
radical reform on the other. until he AT brought her near to the harbor of a
safe, progressive poncy"-May Everyb odys.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
FEMININE SACRIFICE.


Bant, bant, bant. 4.
OH Fashion, at thy decree;
AND | would that my tongue could vel
come
The things hat taste good to me.
Oh, we'll for the Alderman's wife,
That she bravely starvcs to get slim;
And we'll for the tailor maid
Who runs and jumps in the gym.
And the stately hips go off.
cts surely a wondrous fcati)
But, oh, for a touch of mayonnaise.
And the taste of a thing that is
sweet.
Bant, bant, bant.
Oh, Fashion. at thy decree;
But the tender grace OF a rounded
form
Will never come back to me,
Carolyn Wells.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
WHAT TO DO wITB ABDuL, HAND.
future period.

Dethroned and in duress ex-sutan Abdul Hamid awaits the pleasure III his
eaptors and dethroners Prudential policy would dictate that his life be spared
The men who are seeking to mo@nfze Turkey and Islam are diplomatic. They
know the dynamic force they have to deal with. They apprehend the enect of
appeals to Moslem fanaticsm. In the late reactonary movene the active
emissaries o. the Sultan were HI Koran readers. who corrupted the soiaiery in
their barracks and tried to corrupt the constitutional troops investing STEAMBOAT
These fanatics are numerous, and can SOW the seeds Of revot in favor of the
deposed regime Abdul Hamid is enormously wealthy, and, if at liberty. can py
the cost of organizing another reactionary movement and iaigating fresh
smaksscres. Forbidden by policy from executing the imperial monster, the con
sttutionaIrs mus securely chain him. Sol can the new order 81 things hope
for any stability while the dethroned Sultan is alive There is one advantage
gained by holding Abdul Hamid in captivity He will be ahostage for his good
behavior and against a fanaucal uprising N
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
SIZE DIDN'T COUNT.

A New York publisher having bust
ness at the capitol connected with
pending legislation with reference to
international copyrights, vas hurrying
through the corridor of the building
when he encountered a Hop o My
Thumb scurrying along with an arm
ful of papers larger than himself.
Hello, SOM" cried the publisher.
And what may be your position in this
establishments"
Tn a page, sir" answered the adj.
"A page. Why, my boy, you're scarce
~ large enough for a paragraph
Lippincott's.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
OUR NAVY AND OTHER MA IVES.

Answering a query in h House of Commons yesterday, the first lord of the
remarked that he American ~ was not taken into accoun in the
two-power program FOR tbs British navy, Britain u arm only againstt W
European powers combined, without regard to the size of the American nav
That sets att rest a mooted question. 1t means, alo, that there is n o contingency
IN the view of the British government to make a war with the United States
possible The assurance is mutually satisfactory, as WI have hen, no occasion
to apprehend a future war with Great Britain. Thessze Of her w need give
rus no concern. But therea other martmep powers that haye interests in con
ft with our WI m w must keep step with them in avail progress or as
Captain Mahan says. submit to uninatio and a colossal indemnity at some
Aptpre priod
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
NOW.

And just about now wife announces
that she can't keep house this sum
mer unless she gets:
A new rug for the parlor.
New curtains for front and back bed
rooms.
A new sofa.
A new icebox.
photograph.
o, it's a gay life.-Detroit Free Press.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
W FOR A CURE.

II remember once" says Professor
Grange. hearing two very ordinary
men, a bricklayer and a plumber, dis
cuss love in a smoking ear.
II hold, said the bricklayer, that If
you are terribly i'm love, the way to
cure yourself is to run away
The plumber shook his head and
sneered.
.f"That will cure you he said. pro
vided you run away with the girl
The Taller.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
THE TWO pipERs.

He.was a. long-haired bard,
: His daddy was a plumber:
All winter long had labored hard
The on worked spring and summer.
And thcugh.he. saw some verse in type
No payments came for days;
And dad makes more at laying pipe
Than the SON makes piping lays.
Chicago News.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
NEW yeRsEY.s DLMLNuriyE roRRs1 ResE.ye

The state administration taiks big, when it does talk, of a State forestr re-
serve Governor Fort told at Montclar about the magnificent domain Of ten
thousand acres tneariy all scrub pine n swamp in the South Jersey barrens)
and of he 300 acres ht viii be added this year The city OF Newark at the
present inn holds the fee for more han sixteen Thousand acres.a nd it Won't
be eng before the city will own thirty thousand1a acres all upland and mostly
forest The State made the bluff OF acquiring the inland lakes n in several
years ot a footo lake property has been acquired AT least two good sized
lakes could nave cen purchased With the money wasted on useless special COM
missions last year The forestry policy of New Jersey is much of a joke.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28

In IN interview with the new Sultan of Turkey, cabled specially to the Morn
ting STAR, assurances are given thth he'll in entire sympathy with the consutu-
ftona regtme which released him from his long. gnded captivity and placed him
IN the throne The interview has a peculiar interest, since it is the first tne
tire new Sultan hs given uterance to his thoughts nd yiews. H e sends in the
Morning STAR interview a message to he Western world saying ne is a "con-
yinced and ardent supporter of the ause of enlightenment, liberty and progress"
THE civilized world will live in the hope that the new political dispensaton in
Turkey will be permanent and that's Sultan Reschad will develop into wise ant
3 statAsmanUke euler
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
Better 2e3t uNklssed
BY w. D. H0WELLS.

4 BSTRACTLY speaking. we should say that till women had thu right
to vote, they had,n right to influence vetes, and that If they tried
empire should be confined they are dangerously ear the confines OF incivhn,
nc say n worse. There Is also a question of taste involved, and with this
we may rnahe a little holder. We know that English ONE 20 about cleo
uoneerng With their husbands when their husbands are Standing for Par
lament. tut the fsct Toes not convince us Of its proprity. There ne ecgns
round Tor believing that till women vote he elecioneemng in all its primary
me SECONDARY forns is best left to the men, ever TO the politicians, even to
he heeders. The example Of Georgiana, the beautiful duchess Of Devcnshlre is
against our pecept;s The kissed a butcher to gain his vote. bt there can al
way be the doubt whether butcher were not better left unkissed-Harpers
Magazine for May ta9@s .r
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
A HAPPY INVESTMENT.

Have you heard what Sharpe gave
his mother-in-law for d birthday
PRESENT.
No. What?'
AN automobile. She's SO delighted
with it she's off touring all the time" Z
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IN RIPPING GOOD NJ
+44444s
THERE ARE BETTER SEATS.

File is now, they say. on the very
pinnacle of fame, and yet he isn't ex-
actly in comfortable circumstances
That's not surprising. Did you even
sit on a pinnacle of any sort? ?"
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
INSULATING.

Lady said Meandering Mike, "you
don't want. to listen to no hard luck
story do your"
Not a bit of It."
You relieve my mind. IL you want
to hear sometnin' worth while you jes'
gimme a chance to show what I kin do
rs an .after-dinner Observation-Disclosures
ton Star.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
SUCH AN obi THING,

Elsie-spellin is awful queer, isn't It.?
Now. h-osr-s-e spells 'l1orse''-
M~amnna-Yes, dear.
Elsie-An' il you put another rs" on
to itit makes a whole lot o. horses.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
II pLAdIARISr.

II heard Crittick remark" said the
playwright's friend, that some Of the
passages in your comedy were worthy
of Congreve." +
"oh!" exclaimed the playwright,
"that's too bad!"
why. that surely means a compli-
ment"--
Not much! It means that he's on
to me,'-The Catholic Standard and
Times.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
4 PUZZLE. INDEED,

This" declared the eminent orator,
lis the very KEY to the whole ques-
tioH." -
But" interrupted a small man in a
rear seat, where is the keyhole?'
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28

Jane-Why, Mabel, your hair is in
frlghtful disorder. Did you forget to
brush it?' =.
Mabel t~coldlN)--If YOU knew . little
more. Jane, you wouldn't be so hasty.
This the latest thing in coiffures-and
it took me two hours to get it.-Cleve-,
land Plain Dealer.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28

The DAVIS Best Story

4 tt diapers shop in Leeds they employed q small boy to run erands
The other day while he a waiting in the shop 3 lady came IA ana
asked the shop assistant fol- a yard of silk When it "a placed in
ront of her. she exclaimed: '@' .#~~~4 .~w~a%- ~r
"oh, really, / must he mac l want muslin
On hearing this the boy rushed ot Of the shop, and, seeing a policeman
across the way, ran W to him, shouting:
Come over quick; there's a girl in our shop gone mad. She wants
zins!' @#F# 44 81
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW,

do you and YOU wife ever get int.
an argument" :
No: I try to argue with her son,e-
times, but all she ever does il to malse
a lot OF u~pfvunded assertions in reply.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
PHILOSOPHICAL.

Flysway-What did Dashing's credit
ors DO when he died.
Observation-Disclosures everything up to
loss by fire.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
Some o3 Me Risks
SaNdMoes Bake
BY BENJAMIN BROOKS,

bfooKs ndKts PTn UF ystef6s OF SonVmkm and explains
10 the water is made to subsideu under al r-prssure. He goes or
to say:
I'M UT the unfortunate sandhog' the crouching, sweating digger Of earth
is seldom found who an stand fifty pounds of air oil every square
inch OF him., inside and out there is the difficulty
There are other difficulties. Suppose the afr pressure Tor than counter
the chimney-the caisson; then tons # iron or oncret must be piled
on 1t to sink it, sometimes it is possible to uset h future pier for this purpose.
Suppose the air. more than balances the water and blows out, causing a leak
and the sudden imprisonment Of Mr.. sandhog. Suppose, OF the other hand,
hat through the breakase of a pipe or he explosion of cylinder, it falls below
normal Therea again is danger. 1t is all danger. in a way until the cafsson is
safely N hard rocks nd filled with concrete. When We arrive at a habit
able structure like the Metropolitan Tower, seven hundred fleet high, standing
anke-deep in sixty feet of mud. with nearly four thousand tons bearing on
every ankle, W see hat nan is monkeYng with. weights and balances SO
enormous that they ouuun his Imagination Mathematics is his only medium
for arriving at hem
More battling still. the constitution and endurance If Mr.. sandhog him
SELF, though a most important factor, cannot be scientifically determined at
all He may, at any moment with the pressure of three additional atmos-
pheresu pon hmb drop with heart failure, or be struck with paralysis OF
the rest OF his days. All miscalculatons oversiehts, accidents and bunders
in this business are payable in human hfe No large undertaking of this
sort is without tits tragedy, and n has but to stop and red thu familiar
little able or the Brooklyn bridge to be set thinking If h prices W have
to pay for the things We have 20 have"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
First published in The Topeka State
Journal THURSDAY. August IS. 1879

duplication notice In the District Court
OF shawnee County. Kansas. J. VIII
Kelley. plaintiff. vs.. Frank supplee, ct al,
defendants. No. 256ss. TO Frank Suppiee'
If living, and Mrs: Frank Supplee, his
wife. If living; or if dead, the unknown
heirs, executors, administrators devisees
trustees and assigns of the said Frank
Supplee and Mrs. Frank Supplee, his wife
The American Bank of North Topeka
Kansas, corporation, or if dissolved. its
Unknown successors, trustees and assigns
You and each of you will take notice that
you nave been sued in the District Court
OF shawnee County. state of Kansas by
J. VIII Kelley. plaintiff. and that you
must answer the petition filed by said
plaintin in said cause on or before the
sth day of October. 1909, or said petition
VIII be taken as true and Judgment rem
dered In said action against you deter
mining the interest and estate held or
claimed by you adverse to the plaintiff
In Or to the following described real estate
situated In Shawnee County, state of
Kansas, to-wit: Lots ISIS, 25N and 529 on
Union Avenue in Quinton & SteeIe's Addi-
ton to the city of Topeka, and adjudging
said interest and estate, If any there be,
null and void, and quieting plaintiffs title
in and to said real estate against you
and each OF you and forever barring and
excluding you and each of you from any
interest or estate therein J. Will Kelley.
plaintiff. by Whitcomb & Hamilton, his
attorneys. ISeal-l Attest: r. l.. Thomas,
clerk.