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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-04
Continued From Yesterday

She couldn't withhold a little grudg-
which he turned her maneuver, and the
way it had detached them from the
surrounding crowd. For there, in the
dusky centre of the room, it was as If
they watched from safe covert the rest
of their panty exposed in the glare of
light; though not, as Flora presently
noted, quite escaping observation them
selves. For an instant Harry turned
and peered toward them with a look
in his in~tentness that struck Flora as
something new in him. and made her
wonder if he could be Jealous. She
turne tentatively to see If Kerr had
noticed it, and surprised his glance in
a quick transition back to her.
by YOU l~eave,' he said, and took
away her fan, which in his hand pres
emily assumed such rhythmic motion
hat it ceased to be any more present
TO her than a delicate current Of air
upon her face. Her face, which in the
first place he had so well looked over.
he now looked into with something
more personal in his quest. as if under
the low brows and crowding lashes
there was a puzzle to solve in the timid,
u%nassured g~lances of such splendid
eyes.
He was not, she felt sure, in spite Of
his light manipulation of her fan, a per-
son who cared TO please women, but
one of that devastating sort who care
above everything to please themselves,
and who are skillful without practise,
too skillful, she feared, for her defenses
to hold out against, if he intended to
f1nd out what she really thought.
"Aren't we supposed to be looking at
the %pictures?" she wanted to know.
He turned his back on the wall and
its attendant glare, "Why pictures"
pie to look at? Pictures for places
where they're all half dead. But here,
where even the damnable dust in the
street IS alive, why should they paint,
or write. or sculpt, or do anything but
live?" His irascible brows shot the
query at her.
Again the proposition of life-what-
ever that was-was held up before her,
and as ever she faltered in the face of
it. ~ suppose they do it here" she
murmured. with a vague glance at the
paintings around her, because people
do IT everywhere else.''>
His disparagement was almost a
snerl. That's the rotten part of it.
tecauee +he- do II everywhere else!
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-04
RICH PROGRAM FOR
ORGANISMS GIVEN,
Ocean Grove Delegates Are En-.
tertained-Essex Arrivals.

OCEAN GROVE, Aug. AT the first
annual convention of the National As
ISOLATION of Organists yesterday after
loon papers on THE Modern Organ"
were read by Louis Elmer, of the
Brooklyn Memorial Presbyterian
Church, and by DR.. S. N. Penfield, a
well-known New York organist. At 4
o'clock President M~acfarlane, who is
the official organist of the Ocean Grove
at 3 o'clock he played his now famous
composition, THE Storm" Last night
a song recital was given by David
Bispham, the Philadelphia baritone.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-04
JERSEYMAN, WATCHING
FIGHT, FATALLY STABBED.

NEW YORK, Aug. .S.-Harry Bergen,
4 years old, of Paterson, n. j., Is in
Bellevue Hospital with a stab wound
in the abdomen from which he will die.
Bergen was standing near the corne
Of Sixth avenue and Avenue B watch
ing a fight. In the mixup he was mis-
taken for one of the party and at
tackled.
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CHILD FATALLY BURNED
PLAYING WITH MATCHES.

HOBOKEN, Aug. martha Mulch
Ter, the pretty S-year-old daughter of
Henry Mutchler, was fatally burned
yesterday while playing in the kitchen
of her home at SO Garden street, when
she picked up a match and accidentally
lighted it. The match came in contact
with her clothing, and in a minute the
child was enveloped by flames.
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the Fountain House. Their also is
Frederick A. Jesse. likewise from
Bloomfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Poulson, of Upper
Montclair. have reached the Grove and
have secured accommodations at the
Aurora.
From Newark F. B. Crawford has
come to the Norman House for rest.
At the Norman, too. are Mrs. Ida
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Kulne and Mrs. A. c. Hilmar, also from
Newark.
Mrs. Fred c. Oehring, of Newark, is
registered at the Ormond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Hemstreet,
of Newark, are spending a fortnight in
the Grove. They are at the Queen.
w. K. Marterns and Charles Roberts,
who are at the Park View, are regis
tered from Newark.
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MINISTER DIES TO SAVE BOY.

NEW LONDON, Conn, Aug. A.
While heroically striving to save from
drowning II year-old Clarence
Blakesley, who was swept overheard
by the boom of a sailboat yesterday
afternoon, in Fishers Island Sound,
the Rev. Herbert L. Mitchell, an Epis-
copal minister, lost his own life.
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4BAYONNE RATABIES JUMpss7, zs6,S9S

JERSEY CITY, Aug. 3.-The remark
able increase returned by the ,Bayonne
assessors of s7,266, 1913 over the ratables
of last year is welcomed as good news
by the Wittpenn administration
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HAUCK FOR COUNCILMAN.

BAYONNE, Aug. 4.-Edward Hauck,
"a prominent merchant in the Fifth
ward of this city. has announced that
he will be a candidate for Councilman
on the Republican ticket.
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Copyright, 1908.
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.
Synopsis of Previous InstaIIments.

Flora Gilsey reads In q newspaper that at a
private view to society of the effects of
Elizabeth Hunter Chatworth, who was killed
while mountain climbing the famous Chat
worth ring. an oriental ornament, had strangely
vanished. The doors had been locked imme-
diately after the disappearance had been dis
covered, and all present had been sea rched. but
without success. The ring had vanished COM
pietely. AZ she reads, Harry cressy. her
hance, comes in. He had been present at the
private view before the auction. and he tells
Flora and her chaperon, Mrs. Clara Britton, Of
the strange disappearance. They go to a re-
ception, where Flora is Introduced to an Eng
nshman named Kerr.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-02-11
The Chances of Local Option.
Hearing For and Against on Law this Month.
Advocates Are Not Sanguine.

Local option now in the centre of
the stage will be given full hear
ing on the floor of the House on
February %. This announcement
was made by Speaker Cox, who al
so set February IS for the hearing
of the opponents of the bill. The
Law and Order Committee, which
has consideration of the bill, will
report it out without recommenda-
ton.
Conferences which Representa-.
tive Fair has called of the local op-
tionists has brought together about
so members who are willing to
openly defend the bill. This mum
Der will be increased to 70 or IS
when the bill comes to a vote, but
even the most ardent local option
advocates are not sanguine of its
passage
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Fleet is on Way Home.

With a booming farewell from
the guns of dozen foreign war
ships, the American battleship fleet
sailed from Gibraltar for home last
Saturday. 1t has been Sailing for
home ever since the ships turned
their prows from the Orient, but as
long as there were intervening
stops and ports of call, the sailors
hardly considered themselves home
bound. The next land they will
see will be their own. the next flag
the Stars and Stripes.
The ships weighed anchor at
nine O'Clock though they remained
with steam for several hours before
sailing. The home voyage will
probably be made with reduced
speed of ten knots an hour, as there
is no occasion for hurry. The yes.
sells will not raise their homeward
bound penants until they enter the
Virginia capes.
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State to Pay Teachers.
Bill introduced Carries S23, 900 900 for
Salaries.

A bill providing that from and
after June 4, 1909, the State will
assume and pay so much of the
operating expenses of the common
schools as is comprised in the items
of teachers wages was introduced
in the House by Walter S. Rey-
nolds. of Lawrence county.
Twenty-eight millions of dollars,
or so much of the annual revenues
and surplus fund of the State as
may be needed to carry the act into
effect is appropriated by the bill.
The computation of the amounts
to be paid is to be made upon the
cost of the Items for the school
year ending June I, 1909.
CONSERVATIVES CAN'T MARRY.
Marriage of persons affected
with consumption and other diseas-
es such as would affect their off
spring is prohibited by a bill intro
duced in the House by H. A. Nc
Clung, of Allegheny county. 1t
provides that before a marriage H.
cense shall be granted the appli-
cants must produce a certificate
from physicians that they are not
afflicted with pulmonary tubercul-
osis, epilepsy, venereal disease, in
sanity. imbecility aud idiocy.
For A WATER COMMISSION.
Expressing the belief that the
publication of the States water
supply can best be carried out by
the State in cooperation with the
counties, resolution was present
ed in the House by w. A. Magee,
OF Allegheny county, authorizing
the appointment of a commission to
investigate and report on the mat
ter OF the water supply of the State.
The commission is to be compos.
ed OF FIVE citizens of the State ap-
pointed by the Governor, who
shall report before April to the
Legislature upon their findings.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-02-11
Editors Want Laws Published.

The State Editorial Association
Wednesday adopted a resolution
asking that the legislature enact a
law requiring newspaper pubIica-
ton of certain laws. especially
those relating to the Departments
of Health, Dairy and Food, Fish,
Game, Factory Inspection and Ed
ucation, under the direction of the
heads of these departments.
The association believes that
such course will make for bet
ter public understanding of new
laws.
In order to obtain the passage of
such legislation, if possible, the
State Editorial association and the
Western Pennsylvania Associated
Dailies each appointed committee
to work jointly for this law. 1t
was proposed that the next annual
excursion of the association should
take in a trip to the Isthmus of
Panama, which would bring the
canal under editorial inspection.
The proposition is a good one, and
if it should be carried ont flood OF
light would be thrown upon that
great national undertaking by the
Pennsylvania editors that miph ht
eclipse the result of Taft's investi-
CATION. This highly interesting trip
would come off next fall, and tax
ing in Havana, could be accom-
plished in about fifteen days. A,
Havana the editors could arrange
for the raising of the Maine.
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DiSinfeCtiOn of Houses.

DR.. Samuel G. Dixon, State
commissioner of health, has issued
a circular calling attention to new
feature that has been inaugurated
by the State in its crusade against
tuberculosis, which is nothing less
than a systematic house disinfec-
ton. 1t is believed that dwellings
occupied by persons suffering with
tuberculosis become infected the
same as in the case of many other
diseases. 1t is to protect Others,
especially families that may uncon-
sciously move into such houses
after being vacated that the depart
ment of health has provided for
fumigation in al cases of tubercul.
osis.
The letter, reads as follows:
Dear Doctor:-The disinfection
OF houses that have been occupied
by persons suffering Of tuberculosis
is such an important feature of our
campaign against this disease that
this department has decided to ex.
tend somewhat its services for thi.
purpose. District health officer.
through you will be authorized tc
perform house disinfection tor tu
berculosis only, within the limit,
OF borough or first class TOWNSHIP
under the following conditions:
A statement in writing must b,
made by the chief burgess or presi
dent of the board of commissioner
setting forth the fact that the Dor
ough or township is financially un
able to do the work and askin,
that it be done by the board q
health. Upon the receipt of such
communication you are authorize,
to instruct the nearest available dis
trict health officer to disinfect tn
house in question. Instruct tn
ofhcer that IN rendering the bill fo
this service he must state on tn
voucher that the work was don
under special orders from Yourself
BY order of DR.. Samuel G.. Dix
on,
Commissioner.
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the next and also the question of
the tariff OIL lumber and how its
removal would affect the matter of
the conservation Of forests.
***
The thrilling incident of the res
cue of more than one thousand per-
sons from the steamer Republic
through the agency of wireless tel
egraphy has inspired Congress to
take some action with regard to
equipping of all passenger carrying
steamers with the apparatus. Had
the Florida been so equipped the
accident by which the Republic
was sent to the bottom would not
have occurred for the two vessels
would have been able TO exchange
signals in the fog. 1t appears that
the French Assembly has already
taken up the subject and it is prob
able that England will follow with
laws requiring vessels to carry the
wireless equipment. Its cost is
slight ranging from three hundred
to one thousand dollars and its
maintenance is not exorbitant, and
it is proposed by the Committee on
Merchant Marine 10 urge that all
ocean steamers carrying more than
fifty passengers shall carry the ap-
paratus.
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" thursday, FEBRUARY II, 1909
Greasy Hits Exemption.
Satiricaliy Demands That Auditor General
Disclose State Losses.

How much revenue the State has
lost on account of the trust COM
pany tax bill enacted two years
ago is what Farmer" Greasy
wants to know from Auditor Gen
eral Young. That loss, however,
since the law took effect, is author
itatively estimated to have been
about $3.50, 900. The bill enacted
came from Representative John P.
Moore, of Allegheny, and changed
lie taxing of trust company stock
on the market value or actual
Inc to the book or par value.
There are 800 trust companies in
ae State, and the larger ones have
zen the principal benefciaries of
ehe Moore law, but one of the chief
two is in Philadelphia and the
other in Pittsburg. The stock of
the Pitlsburg concern has had a
selling value 20 times it's par.
Representative Greasy presented,
on this subject, in the House, the
following satirical resolution of in
quiry.
Whereas Robert K. Young,
Auditor General, in his last report
submitted to the Governor, has
urged a tax on bank deposits, fav-
ors more rigid assessment of per-
sonal property and a levy on trust
funds, and also seeks other meth
ods of imposing additional taxes:
and
Whereas, The last Legislature
passed the act of June IL, 1907,
which was entitled "An act to pro-
vide revenue by levying a tax up
on the shares of certain ccmpan-
les, etc., and which act relieved
certain trust companies from the
payment of taxes which they had
heretofore been liable to pay unde,
the general law, and which act wa.
passed by that Legislature and ap
proved by the Governor, notwith
standing the fact that the Depart
ment of the Auditor General, afte,
making a thorough. painstakin.
and complete report on the loss O
the revenue previously derived
from such taxes, and which repor
found that in the opinion of tn
Auditor General, if that act passed
the State would lose IN revenue il
the neighborhood of $500, 900;
Resolved, That this House be
fore passing any law to increas
taxation requests the Auditor Ger
eral to furnish it with informatio,
as to how much revenue has bee
lost to this State by reason of tn
passage of the aforementioned ac
and that this information be flu
nished by him as scon as he ca
conveniently do so.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-02-11

There is hardly member of the
General Assembly at Harrisburg
who has not up his sleeve some
measure involving a new drain on
the treasury Yet this is a time
when all business and employment
is going forward at a slackened
gait, and when the chiefest con-
Germ of men and women is to adjust
expenditure to lessened income.
The real task before the legisla
ture should be to devise economies
chat should help the people to bet
ter bear the burden Of government,
but this is labor for statesmen
which political buccaneers disdain
TO even consider. --PAiPa Record.
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A o X THAT LASTED.
Conductor Gave Exhibition of Work.
ing in Handouts.

1hA LII
A dispatch from New York says
Constable Bloscher of Leonia, N. j.,
is a practical joker of the first wa
ter, at least he was until he had
an experience the other day, which
may have soured him on practical
Jokes for a while. The other after
noon be went down to Fort Lee with
a pair of handouts in his pocket. He
was fairly itching with a desire to
have his little joke and at last the
opportunity came. Coming back on
the Hudson River trolley line he play
fully snapped the steel bracelets up
on the wrists of the conductor of the
car. The conductor did not enjoy
the joke so much as the constable
and the other passengers. but he
laughed good naturally with them,
while he asked Bloscher to free him.
The constable. still shaking with
laughter, fished out his key, put 1t
in the lock and-broke it off in Jock.
The conductor had an awful time
ringing up fares, collecting ntckels
and punching transfers with his
manacled hands and not until he
got back to Fort Lee could he get
off duty and have the handouts filed
off his wrists.
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picious manner and fed when halted
then the defendants were acting
within their legal rights, as indicat-
ed In the section.
The clause "hees when halted:
which had been stressed by Solicitor
Cooper was defined by Judge Watts
as not necessarily running away
but that a person might fee and yet
not move faster than in a walk.
Many have questioned the matter
of both defendants being principals
in the commission of the deed. some
thinking that Avant, who admitted
firing the shot. was or ought to be
more responsible than DR.. Bigham.
Judge Watts cleared up tho mat
ter in his definition of principals and
accessories. "a person who Is pres
emf when a felony is committed, en-
couraging. aiding. melting or abet-
ting is equally guilty with the per-
son who altually commits the crime
said Judge Watts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-27
WANT HIM FREE
FOOLISH, SENTIMENTAL WOMEN
IN ATLANTA PETITION
Governor Brown to Pardon a Double
Murderer Because He Claims q
Change of Heart.

Change of Heart.
A dispatch from Atlanta says Gov.
Brown is being besieged by a dele
cation of Atlanta women, interested
in religious work, who made an ear
nest and fearful plea for the life of
John Harper, convicted of the muir
der of Sheriff Ben Keith in Muir
ray county and sentenced to die.
The delegation included represen-
tatives of the Kings Daughters and
active workers in some of the lead
ing churches of Atlanta. They urged
that since his conviction, Harper had
experienced a decided change of heart
and If given a chance to live would
be an entirely different man. How
ever, they were not hopeful Of secur-
ing his release but would be salts
fed with having his sentence COM
muted to life imprisonment.
In connection with the governors
action on this case. 1t should be
borne in mind that Harper, although
public sentiment seems to have
changed towards him in his own
county recently, was reputed to be
a desperate man and it was for a
homicide that Sheriff Keith was seek
ing to a%pprehend him at the time he
was killed. o.,
The case has been before the
courts and the pardon board In Va
rious shapes for several years. At
one time after his conviction Harper
succeeded in making his escape and
was at large for about six months
before his recapture. Since then, he
has been confined for safer keeping
in the Tower In Atlanta, where he
has been visited almost daily by
religious women who have greatly
interested themselves in the man.
Harper's Ease has been before the
supreme court twice and before the
pardon board several times. When
all hope seemed to be lost the de-
Tense would assert that new evil
dence had been discovered and secure
a respite In order to have 1t heard.
In this way. Harper has escaped from
the very shadow of the gallows six
or seven times. His tether has play
cd out, now, however, and his last
die has been thrown. .
In its report on the case. 1t is
understood that the prison board was
divided, there being two for extreme
punishment and one in favor Of COM
mutation of sentence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-27
KIDNAPPED GIRL RETURNED.
Mysteriously Left Near Home of Her
Father.

Jennie Lopez. the four and a half
wear old girl who was believed to
have been kidnapped while at play
in front of her home in East Thirty
ninth street. New York. on Septem-
Der 7 last, was mysteriously return
ed to the vicinity of her home before
daylight Tuesday.
A policeman found the child alone
In the darkened street two blocks
from the tenement occupied by her
parents. a long towel was wrapped
several times about the child's head.
either to muf1e her cries or conceal
her identity.
Since the girl was stolen her faith
err. who is a prosperous fruit dealer
had received numerous letters de-
handing large sums Of money and
threatening to injure or kill the child
if the ransom was not paid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-27
WENT TO HIGHER COURT.
Man Who Was to Have Been Tried
In Court Stricken.

George Walters, about SO years
old, who was to have been tried this
week in the Government Court on
the charge of operating an Illicit dis
filling plant. fell unconscious from
a sudden stroke Of apoplexy IN the
hall leading into the court room'
about 6 O'Clock Wednesday after
noon. 1t Is believed that he Will
die. Walters was a~pprehended in
June by Officer Merrick In Oconee
county and has since then been
under bond for appearances. He is
originally from Georgia. He was
moved to the Salvation Army Ctta-
del, having no friends or relatives
In the city. 1t is not improbable
that in falling he fractured his skull
on the stone floor Of the hall. He
FINGERED until midnight, when he
died.
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Friphtful Fall of Rain.

A dispatch from Pensacola. Fla,
says a terrific downpour of rain,
almost equaling a cloudburst, struck
that city early Thursday night, stop
ping street car traffic, putting the
city waterworks plant out of COM
mission and damaging other prop
erty.
Many of the streets were flooded
to a depth of four inches. Accord
ing to the weather bureau the rain
fall amounted to 4.26 inches In
one hour. ,