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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08
A CATECHLSM
FOR A PLATFORM

moments. is submitted to them. and it is demanded that they shall
adopt and declare the elaborate formula of principles that the
opnositjon candidates declared before the primaries, and upon
which they met defeat. This curious situation is brought about
by the legislation that has done away with the power of political
organizations to adopt platforms. Under the old primary system
the candidate would be pledged by convention resolutions, ac-
cepted by them. Under the present system, except for nomination
of Governor and congressman, there is no party authority to pledge
candidates, and no party responsibility. And they want the Gov
ernor nominated, too, without any party platform pledges!
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THANKS TO THE BURGLAR.

The dark lantern flashed through the
fiat Then came the CLEAN of a re-
volver.
Hands up!' Kissed the head of the
family. you're a burglar"
yves" gasped the intruder as he
faced the cold steel.
What nav you ~stolen?
Your wife's pug dog"
"H'm-er-if that's all you may sneak
out quietly"
And u mother-in-laW's parrot
a"You don't say. Well, here is some
loose change"
And your daughters ~phonograph.''
Good. Here is some more loose
change"
also your sons punching bag
what. Great Scott, man, come out
to the library and I'll open a special
bottle"
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08
And He Was a Jerseyman


n IRIS FLORENCE KELLEY was investigating working conditions n
lNu a glass factoryt town in New Jersey. She went about all one night and
AVA found the factories running full blast Little children were at work
busily carrying bottles back and forth. One factory was dark, n she supposed
it a shut down, To make sue,s she went back to it next morning 1t was
running full blast The proprietor showed her through the plant There were
no children nde age working there. General conditions wereg good. She asked
before leaving:
you do not run your pantat night?" ~
NO." he said. S4
do you let your fires go out?'
Yes"
THAT costs you money, doesn't HT' u.
Eyes"
The other bothe-makers say that they can't afford to close at night and
that competition compels them to use little children in their work"
YES, but l don't try to make as much. money as my friends. I o not like
to work At night, no do my employees. i do rot care % ROB the schools to get
my help My business is profitable enough, and 1 am satisfied From Golfers
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08
HOBOKEN ATONES
FOR STATE NEGLECT

own. and the event was most creditable to HobOken civic spirit
All Hoboken engaged in it with enthusiasm. The municipality
cooperated with the citizens, and the pageant was in every way
worthy to follow the greater pageant by Manhattan that preceded
it. This evidence of Hoboken's civic spirit and patriotism will not
be lost upon the people of the rest of the State. In Central and
South Jersey the cities on the west bank of the Hudson are com
monty regarded as containing the least desirable citizenship in the
State and as exemplifying all that is worst in politics and public
morals. That prejudice, bred in ignorance of the real character
of North Jersey population, ought to be well shocked by the spec
tacle of a patriotic celebration that no city or town in the tive
sections is equal to. In fact, it was there that the indifference to
State participation in the great Hudson-Fulton celebration existed
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A HIGH SCHOOL
ON THE EAST SIDE

is a step that will greatly advance the interests OF public educa-
tion in Newark. People cannot always be brought near to the
schoolhouse, and hence the schoolhouse must be brought near to
the people in their neighborhoods and sections. The elementary
schools are well distributed, but there is inconvenience in respect
to the facilities for the higher public education. The remoteness
of the High School at Branch Brook Park forbids the daily at
tendance of many who would otherwise be among its pupils. In
time all the large sections of Newark will each have their high
school and technical school conveniences.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08
Uncle WaH Mason


1 hear the splashfng Oft he rain upon the roof, upon the pane it murmurs at
the door; it paters forth a futile, boast; st whispers like a timid ghost; it
streams upon TIL floor And as sit me here alone, and listen to
A ANY its monotone strange fances come and 70; l seem to see, dis
- MMax- tnet and plain, dim faces drawn upon the pane, of friends I used
MIGHT to know. Soft voices whisper in the air, and friends / neer
I---- shall see again, are crying bitterly; the randrops seem tt be
their tears AM Ger h misty void Of years. they're calling CALI
lingylne. Q shadows ron a stness shore, begone, an torture me nj more,a and
leave me here alone! l fear the voices in the rain, thu voices vibrant with their
pan-I fear the spedres that complain, in weary monotonel But still they
woe; I hear them in the tempests, SWELL I hear them sigh, I hear them yell:
I"Where is that old green umberen, o swiped two years ago?"
Copyrights 1905, by George Matthew Adams 81 t@#AF 80
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GIVING HIM A TIP.

WELL" demanded the stern-faced
woman as. she leaned over the red.
handled broom. What do you want?'
Lady" said the wayfarer with the
long beard n matted chin, I'm an
actor by profession and in hard luck.
"Well, what have I to do with that?'
"Why-er-I was thinking if you
could spare me a quarter to get a shave
and a hair cut I could get a job in the
role of Virginius."
She eyed him disdainfully.
"Oh, that's a poor excuse" she said,
with a curl of her thin lip. 60 up to
the tow without a shave and a hair
cut and get a job in the role of Rip
Van Wrinkle" e
And before he could say another
word she started to unchain the dog.
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A SCHOOL FOR SMILES.

Paris mas a school where young
women are taught how to smile. II
remains to be seen whether the school
will be able to teach young women how
to smile while clinging to straps in
street cars.-Chicago Record Herald.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08
THE DAYS BEST STORY


A LADY afflicted with crosseys presented herself a a hospital com
~ planned that her eyes were so much at cross purposes that when she
4 \ wept thu tearsr ran down her back. After a consultation. the chief sur
operated with gratifying successs When asked what procedure he had
employed he explained "Oh. it wasn't So difficult 1 just treated her for
backteria'
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ting hin out Completely from their
inner lives? When this happens he can
tell himself that he has neglected his
paternal duty. He can also offer him
self the same consolation when his
nearly grown daughter ignores him
completely and potrs her sweet con-,
licences into her mothers ear.
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ANOTHER TOWN
WITH BAD WATER

Fary precaution in such a case. The city takes its water from the
Rartan, which, like all the streams of the State, is polluted
Removal of the intake to a point higher up is suggested, and a
plan of filtration finds favor. But no doubt there is a water com
pany somewhere near ready to take the job and the plant off the
city's hands
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X THE EVENING STARS TWO PAGE MAGAZINE :
Judge Goodpasture
Talks About Police
FARMER SMITH the Cedar Grove Phi
1 1ta 4s \ XIII.
Written especially for the Evening Edition Of the Star.

.1<K ow that the smoke has cleared away, l may
make "a few remarks about the police in general
and crowds in particular" said Judge Goodpasture.
In regard to the Tough handling of the Hudson
Fulton crowd by the .bluecoats. this must be remem-
bered: A few years ago our ancestors were a lot of wild
men, cutting each others throats. 1t Is not strange that
we. today, have a little bit Of it in us. You will notice it
more particularly in children. Innocent as they are,
leave two of them together and they are likely to begin
pulling each others hair and banging one another aSs4A
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08
MAKING HIM OVER.

H is a self-made man, / am told
Quite true; but his mother-in-law
insists on making some alterations.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
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In Ripping Good Humor
WHAT MADE HER BUY 1T.

He-What made you buy that apology
for a horse?
Wife-A good salesman
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08

New Brunswick finds that
it's drinking water is pol
luted by sewage, and ply
sicians recommend that it be
boiled before using, a neces-
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08

A catechism for the sue
cessful legislative candidates
in the Republican primaries
last month, prepared by
their defeated party OPP
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Born 1858
BY FISHER AMES.
NO. LxxxvIII.

v1TH HAT is patriotism? Is it a narrow affection for the spot where a man
M vas born? Are the veyc hds where We tread entitled 10 this ardent
" preference because they are greener? No. sir; this is lot the charac-
ter Of the virtue, and it scars higher for its object 1t is an extended seHIove.
flaments Of the heart 1t is thus We obey the laws of society. because they are
the laws of virtue. In their authority W e see not the array of force and terror
but the venerable image of our countys honor. Every good citizen makes that,
honor his own and chgishes it not only al precious but as sacred.
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FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1909.
AND NEWARK ADVERTISER
FOUNDED MARCH L, 1892.

By a whirligig Of politics
the Hon. Samuel d. Dickin-
son is reinstalled in Repub-
lean party control in Hud-
son county, even while the
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-08

The building of a com
mercial and manual training
high school on the East Side,
a section densely populated,
and chiefly nv wape-earners.
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Hoboken last night com
pensated for discreditable
State neglect Of the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration by
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-12-18

til they will be literally "skyscrapers" within cen
fury.
In one of these big buildings, while the machin-
cry will be out of sight domestic affairs Will be so
mechanical, automatic, that you can get al
most anything the family needs simply by turning
on a switch or pressing a button.
The fiat dweller of that distant day will not be
bothered with servants or the servant problem BY
pressing button the Christmas dinner viii come
up noiselessly from the kitchen on the mechanical
waiter or perhaps in pneumatic tube
After your Christmas dinner is over the dishes
will disappear as silently and swiftly you could
wish Some sort of mechanical dish washer in the
kitchen will take of them-or what is more
likely they will be made Of cheap composition
and will be destroyed by burning after they are
used once. The antiseptic precautions of the mod
surgeon VIII be common to the kitchens of the
next century and hygiene will be real science
When you have eaten your Christmas dinner If
you want to so out for the evening you can press
a button and aerocab will to the landing at
your door Or, II you prefer 1t, you may drop down
the pneumatic elevator to some point so or 100 feet
below the surface of the earth and be whirled
through the pneumatic subway at dizzy rate of
speed to your destination Only the speed will not
make you dizzy You will not be able to feel n
You may sit in VOW cushioned car well lighted and
warmed and ventlla,es by some process yet to be
discovered, and before YOU realize it the miles will
speed away and you step out 20 the opera or the
play.
you prefer to remain at your apartments the
kaleidoscope attached to your telephone may be
connected to any theater you desire and Won can
SIT In your easy chair and smoke while you see the
play projected the wall like the most perfect
moving picture All the stage settings VIII be there
to make the play seem real, and the improved cle.
phone will bring every shade and subtle inf, elton
OF the actors voice to your ear
1t seems certain that this teautoscope ARRANGE.
ment-the exact word to describe 1t will be coined
after the process is dscovered-will be one Of the
triumphs of the coming century. II will enable Won
to see the person you are talking TO over a tnle-
phone
The fight OF the coming atrship probably will ae
SO rapid that the business man and even the cal
AIRED worker, II he loves the country. can have !
VIVA or cottage at great distance from the civ
ana go 70 work in his own arship at slight ,ast
On Christmas day in the good century 10 come
THIS fieht in tho air will BE the means Of nan
,au'''S reunions that are impossible nov 4 few
nouIs VII axe enc 70 the most distant part Of the
country, ana the practical cessation of husiras.
eAI.ns the monday week win leave all fraa TO fore
gather with the loved ones and pay defs.se. visit.
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II will astonish many to learn from
government reports that the Indians
are increasing in number instead of
decreasing and that they are becom.
Ing more self.supporting. This graft.
flying improvement is laid to the
greater facilities afforded for the edu.
cation of boys and girls In the govern
ment schols and In the system OF ap.
American. 1t is time that some meas
ure OF Justice were being meted out to
The original possessors of the land and
efforts made to turn them from ROY.
Ing savages into useful and self-re
speeding citizens.
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probably will have provided for you combina
ton of telescope and moving picture machine by
means of which you can connect your room with
the toy department and the display by wire
or perhaps by wireless-and at the same time you
get prices and leave your order with the clerk by
telephone
But perhaps the woman of 2O09 will enjoy the
mad rush of the shops as much as she does to-
day during the holiday season. and then she VIII
go TO the big store and order her toys and pres
ents The store could deliver them through the
pneumatic package tubes which will go to all
parts of the city, but it will be more poetic to
have them delivered by Santa Claus.
Christmas eve score a hundred Santa
Clauses will set out from the various shops with
their airships laden with Christmas gifts to be de-
livcred at the various addresses 1t will no longer
be necessary TO deliver all goods in the rear OF
the big apartment building, but whether you live
on the twentieth or two hundred and twentieth
story of the big house you will have your own
private airship landing, and while the family Is
gathered ut the door TO receive santa Claus the
airship will settle on the landing and the cheerful
Merry Christmas" of the aeronaut will greet you
as he hands in the packages
The Christmas tree of hundred years from
now will be electrical marvel Festoons and
wreaths of rainbow colored lights and "chasers'
will scintillate from its green branches But the
presents that hang on II VIII be even more Won
derfu
There will be dolls as large the little girls
who will receive them. There viii be dolls that
can walk and with the improved photographic ar
engagements of another century there will be dolls
that can talk and others that sing beautiful
songs. Some of them, no doubt, will te able to
dance gracefully and to do tricks ttat would seem
miraculous II performed by automatou to-day
The mechanical toys of 20O9 will be marves OF
perfection The most imaginative man cannot
possibly conceive OF the things that will be
invented In the way of machinery but II is safe
to assume that the wireless transmission of power
will be perfected Wheels will spin without any
visible motive power. Power may be taken from
the suns rays or wireless power stations may be
operated by the waves, the waterfalls, or even the
winds Before the coal supply Is exhausted the
need for coal either for warmth or power, will
have passed away
And whatever triumphs men make In the IN
dustrial world they impart TO their games and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-12-18
IAN oLD.FAsHIONEp WlNTER.~

Those who believe that nature gives
various warnings In the fall when the
winter Is going to be severe, are pre-
dieting a strenuous season for snow
and ice and low temperature. They
say that the wild birds which stay In
the north during the winter have un.
usually thick plumage. The shells OF
nuts are reported to be heavier than
they are when mild winter is coming
and chestnut burrs are also OF the
"old-fashioned winter" Kind, If these
weather prophets are correct. Fur
bearing animals are Tore warmly
clad, according to the same wiseacres,
than they are before open" winters,
and the bones of geese make the same
prophecy. II is all very interesting,
but men who make the study Of the
weather their life work and bring to
bear upon it all OF the learning and
scientific resources of the age, utterly
reject these much trusted warnings.
They are certain that there Is nothing
in the whole theory of animal prep
arations, conscious or unconscious, for
differences in winters. They do not
believe that the trees grow more bark
or put thicker burrs on nuts because
the winter is going to be severe. In
fact, the scientific experts who deal
with the climate seriously and with
Infinite pains, In all civilized countries,
year after year, are sure that there Is
no nature sign language which tells
the character OF the weather months
In advance.
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Important to Mothers.
WANTED IT FOR HAIR WASH
No Trouble at All for Retired Singer
to Account for the Carbolic
Acid.

II was on my way home one night"
Illustrated Bits, "and the hour was
late. AS turned a corner at lonely
spot wild-eyed man stepped out in
front of me. In his right hand he
carried pistol and in his left a
cleaning knife. With a low, hooking
laugh he thrust his bully form athwart
my path, and said:
AT last | have you in my power.
l have sworn to kill the first man
met after a. N. You are he-also
it. Would you rather be shot or
stabbed?'
Immediately | saw | had to do with
a mailman. Quick thought was neces-
sary. Right there and then my long
training stood me wen in hand. TAX
ing pint bottle of carbolic acid
from my overcoat pocket, remarked,
. jovially:
"'Old scout, | greet thee as a friend,
Kill me If thou wilt, but first let US
drink success to the crime
1T made hit with the bug. He
grabbed the bottle and took a swallow
like a stage hand. AS he fell with
ing on the sidewalk l stepped over his
body and continued on my way"
How did you happen to have bot
tie Of carbolic acid with your asked
the incredulous press agent.
Il was taking it home to put on my
hair" answered the retired baritone.
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to him. as It does to the little johnny Of too
The lad of the next century will want a model
Of the latest airshp in his Christmas stocking He
Will expect n working model too-one that will
sail through the fiat like live bird and perhaps
carry his weight
Within the last hundred years steam and cleo
tricty have been developed and II Is entirely rea
sonable to imagine that within the coming century
men will travel through the air as commonly as
they now travel over the land. The automobile,
the trolley car the railroad train and the horse
draft animal-al will be gone. Men will use
the earth, as the birds do, for resting place for
their homes and the principal source of food sup
ply; but when they want to move from one place
TO another, they will mount into the ether, even
as the birds do, and fay swiftly and safely to
their destination.
II is probable that there will not be a wheeled
vehicle of any kind on the streets of great city
on Christmas day, in the year 2009. Our tunnel
system will have developed until the vast subter-
ranean net work of bores. chutes and pneumatic
tubes will carry on the heavy traffic of the city
without noise or confusion. The streets will be
given up TO pcdostrians--to those who walk for
pleasure or wish to travel short distances. The
sidewalk as It Is now will be no more, but the en-,
tire width OF the street will be given up to foot
passengers. There will be neither tracks nor
moving vehicles TO annoy,
The suburbanite who does not fly to work In
1000 will be shot through a pneumatic tube trav,
cling the five, ten. or fifty miles OF distance In
space of time that may be only few seconds and
certainly cannot be more than few minutes. 1t
may be that few people Will walk anywhere In
the year 2009. When man learns to fly he will
scorn walking too SLOW means Of progress
Perhaps our greatgreateraudchildren who no
doubt viii live In immense apartment buildings
towering a half mile from the ground may so
for weeks at a time without setting foot to the
earth.
With the passing of the Christmas sleigh there
will be no longer any need for reindeers for Santa
Claus. He too. will travel by airship and while
the old Santa Claus will be q myth the new Santa
Claus will be rs real rs the hewhskered and be.
furred boys who now entertain the children in the
department stores
1t is not hard to imagine that the big stores
Nill develop the Santa Claus idea TO the point that
Christmas purchases Will be delivered Christ.
tuas eve by ~ airship driver made up 10 imper.
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HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces-
sary to break lifelong habit would,
II II could be transformed, lift a weight
OF many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de
gree OF heroism to break the chains OF
a pernicious habit than to lead a for
Torn hope in bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood I was
lover of coffee. Before was out of my
teens | was miserable dyspeptic, suf.
fering terribly at times with my stom.
ach.
/ was convinced that It was coffee
That was causing the trouble and yet
l could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age of SO wss IN
very poor health. indeed My sister
told me l was in danger of becoming
coffee drunkard
But never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast. although 1t kept
me constantly Ill. until | tried Postum.
learned to make it properly according
TO directions, and now we can hardly
DO without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing for coffee.
i am no longer troubled with dys-
pepsia, do not have spells OF suferns
with my stomach that used TO trouble
me so when / drank coffee"
Look in pkgs. for the little book, The
Road TO MELVILLE" There's a Reason .
Ever read the above Iettcr' 4 new
one appears from time To time. Ihet
are genuine, true, and full of bunAE
interest.
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The remarks of President Swain &c
the students at the opening of Swarth
more college the other day contain
much of sound sense. DO not form
the habit in college of spending large
freshmen. When one has learned tbs
value Of money and has large de
gree of earning power, this matter VIII
usually take care of itself. College stu.
dents are not, as a rule, large money
earncrs, and are usually spending
money earned by others. 1t is usu
ally a safe rule not to spend much
money until you have learned how to
earn It,"