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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-19
TIPS FROM EVERYWHERE.

CHICAGO, April 19.-Edward Payson
Weston has decided to lengthen his stay
in Chicago. Instead Of leaving early to-
day for st, Louis. he will remain here I'M
Til five minutes after midnight tonight.
a new chauffeur TO take his machine across
cago he will walk to Joliet and then on
to Braceville. He will keep on steadily
to st. Louis, passing through Dwight,
Bloomington, Lincoln. Springfield, Brigh-
ton and Alton.
CHICAGO. April 19.-Turfmen from the
Pacific coast are passing through the city
on their way eastward, including man
Anita and Oakland closed, in the hope of
tracks. With their arrival reports of an
attempted meeting across the Indiana line
or ut Buffalo City. Mich. again became
current, but no corroboration OF the story
was o~btainable. That the local magnates
will make no attempt to reopen at present
was the consensus Of ooinion here. John
Condor will have charge of the rae
ing situation at overland Park, Denver,
this year.
The Eastern racing season will open
Saturday in Pimlico. near Baltimore. with
a meeting under the auspices of the Mary
land Jockey Club that will extend until
May u. inclusive. This meeting takes
the place OF the usual spring season in
Bennings, which In former years began a
earlier. but had to be abandoned
because of adverse legislation by Congress.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-19
QU|T|N RUN
WITH YVES; SWEOE
BEAT SIMPSON

Bad feeling was manifested In the
ffteen-mile race between Henri st.
Yves, the $4,000 derby winner. and Pat
Whtie, the Irish champion at the Cliff
ton Stadium yesterday. Several times
as the French flyer attempted to go
by his opponent. White would take up
as much room as possible, and as the
track afforded very little more than the
necessary space, the arms of the men
would lock. Then a lot of ~squabbling
took place, and at one time the men
came to a halt. The referee, however,
settled the matter by ordering the men
to either go by or fall in behind each
ether.
The sudden shot-like spurts of the
little "Frenchy'' worried the big Irish
mar much as a terrier does a st. Ber-
nard, and at the tenth mile, with his
opponent a lap to the good. White quit,
His trainers urged him to go on, and in
a fit of desperation he made a demon
like sprint for two laps and then went
off for good. He gave as his excuse
that his heel was worn to the raw flesh
by his shoe.
The time made was ! hour 81 minutes
8 As seconds, and there was little doubt
among those present that If pushed
the Frenchman could easily have
beaten the record.
Next Sunday Dorando is billed to
meet the Indian Simpson at the same
track.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-19

NEW YORK, April l9.-Joln Svanberg,
the Swedish champion Marathon runner,
defeated Simpson. the Indian. on the eel
crowd. Syanberg went the full distance Of
% miles 3s5 yards in 2 hours Al minutes
442-5 seconds, rather a good performance
when il is considered that between this
tw~enty-fourth and twenty-ffth miles the
Swede dropped to a walk and lost a lot OF
time-ln fact. took him 5 minutes 1915
he tired toward the end was plain, and
he said he was taken with a stitch and
a chill.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-19

Guess the Tigers new suits were made
before the Payne tariff was heard Of.
Maybe there is not some style to them.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-19

ruper in the fifth. Joe took good care
hat Larry didn't get IA chance 10 hit
for the circuit. as he did In the first
game a week ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-26

more than million and quarter
dollars for every day in the year, an
annual tax Of more than S. for every
man, woman and child in the country,
billion dollars year on new buildings
and construction work our fires cost
half a billion dollars. No other nation
has such an unenviable record as this
Our fires are costing from six to eight
times as much per capita as any coun-
try in Europe. In the total cost of
fires. only to the actual destruction of
property, which amounted to s215, 0O0,-
900, but also the cost of maintenance
of fire departments and the amount of
insurance paid over and above the
money returned to reimburse owners
of buildings Is included.
While we are wasting several times
as much property per capita as
Europe, the assertion is made that we
are also destroying in these fires FIVE
other countries. In 1906, according to
the United States census, 5000 persons
died of burns and perhaps 10000 were
seriously injured.
Summed up: No other country suf
fers so enormous conflagration losses
as does the United States and it is this
class of loss. due to the rapidity with
which fires spread, involving whole
blocks and cities, that requires atten-
! ton. In spite of the most efficient fire
departments in the world, for which
American cities are celebrated, and n
spite of an abrudant water supply, all
human efforts are powerless when once
a fire gets under considerable Roadway
where inflc mmabie and 4lmsy building
construction prevails. with the result
that in every city and village in tile
| United States there is ever present the
possibility of large loss Of life and
property.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-26
WIT OF VARIOUS TiMEs.
Humor Of One Period Not Always
Agreeable to Another.


The standard Of wit varies from
time to time. What passes for the
genuine article at one period without
challenge is at another condemned az
nuerile. Stories were commonly told
Of Beau Brumme1l and his friends
which there is good reason to believe
to be authentic, but which would now
be regarded as too silly for eredencs.
The famous man about town once laid
wager with the prince regent that
he would see the greater number Of
cats, If the prince chose which side
Of Regent street he pleased. Al the
result Brummell saw about 30, while
the prince had not encountered one.
He was asked to explain the Msystem's
on which he gambled, and did so thus:i
1t was very hot morning. end George.
w., who liked to take. his ease, chose
the shady side Of the street. But cats
like sunshine, and gratified their II.
clination by summing themselves In
large numbers. Beau Nasha wagsrs
were not always SO successful, and he
once found himself nonplussed by Q
young woman at Bath. Having bet
that he would take rise" out o. the
girl. he addressed her with the re.j
mark that no doubt she was familiar
with her Bible, and had read the his
tory of Tobit and his, dog. snow. g
said he, "can you tell me the dogs
name?" The reply was as prompt a.
1t was pertinent oh yes, cir: his;
name was Nash. and avery impudent
dog he was"
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nearer John Burroughs. who is al
ways apt. thinks the yellow-throat po-
litely asks the wayfarer: (Which way,

nearer. John Burroughs, who Is al
ways apt. thinks the yellow-throat po-
litely asks the wayfarer: (Which way,
sir?"
One Of the destinations of advanced
study of the warblers is the possibility
THAI one may stumble upon rare spe.
cies. Frank M. Chapman touches up.
on this point in his Teachers Man.
ual OF Bird Life" He says: ITO the
field ornithologist warblers are the
most difficult as we'll as the most fas-
cinating birds to study. Long after
the sparrows,. fly-catchers and vireos
have been mastered there win be I'M
solved problems among the warblers.
Some rare species will be left to look
fort may be a member of the band
fitting about actively in the branches
above us-and in the hope Of finding
1t we eagerly examine bird after bird
until our enthusiasm yields to an ach.
ing neck"
Let the student, however, content
himself at first with the more common
of the warblers. The black and white
warbler is striped with the colors
which give him his name. In seek
ing it's food 1t creeps over the limbs
and trunks of trees. 1t is easily idenl
tilted. The myrtle warbler, more com.
monty known perhaps as the yellow
rumped warbler. Ringers late. 1t may
be known by its bright yellow crown
patch and the equally bright yellow
spot just above the tail. The rest of
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THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.
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x4|visitors always welcome.
NHall over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 10ss A. r. d q.
NJ, work on first degree Friday, even-
ing, April 90. II. G. Hoeck, w. M. M
H. S. Lawrence, Secy.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. 3S, r.. A. NJ.
Stated : $ At e0nvocati0n Monday May II
G. "a. Boggie. II. p.
I. S. Willard, Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. & s.
M.-Stated assembly Monday, May Ia
p. M,
A. d. Meeker, T. I. n.
l. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDRY No.
80, K. T.-Red Cross Tuesday, April "a
at 1880.
F. M. Wilbur. E. 6.
+. Wallace, Rec.
BLUE LODGE-Work on End de-
gree Friday, April 80, p. m.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o, 2.
s.-Regular meeting Wednesday, May
u, p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. w. M.
Edna c.. F>ularton. Secy.
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4
der or his hand. A workman last year
~ was helping to dig An e3cavae
ton for building on . crowded thor
oughfare had kinglet hight upon his
hat and stay there for fully Eve min.
utes while he kept up his measured
strokes with the pickax.
When the ducks, the geese and tho
wading birds begin their southern
journey every wing stroke OF
their way is punctuated by the report
of shotgun. The flight of some Of
the ducks is SO rapid that the eye
seemingly has difficulty in following
their course. Unfortunately for the
birds, however they have not yet sue.
ceeded through centuries of trainina
in acquiring the rapidity Of locomo-
ton sufficient to distance the projec-
tiles which man has designed to over
take them and to cut short both flight
and life.
EDWARD B. CLARK.
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Wines. z1arahalItpur ,uaa s4rt Is 1909

be even greater on this occasion. The
some sharp attacks on Milwaukee by
the prohibitionist speaker, and as
Mayor Rose is an ardent defender of
the Milwaukee situation, it is probable
that the fur will fly in earnest at the
coming debate.
Then did she frown, and call him
Clown"
And. I am told, she turned him
down"
And twas not fair, Tor how could he
Know where her waist was, for you
She wore an Empire gown.
HI. C. Bennett in Success Maya
zine
The recent fight to amend the rules
of the house of representatives is de-
scribed in detail in the opening arti-
Gle in the May Success Magazine. In
the same number the wife of coun-
try preacher discusses her financial
problems under the title Five Hundred
a Year" Will Payne describes grain
speculation in an article, THE Pit and
the Grower" and Walter Prichard
Eaton contributes a paper called THE
Right Kind of Stage Censorship" The
stories of the month are "The Sky
Mar a new serial by Henry Kitchell
Webster; Her Husbands People" by
Charlotte Wilson; The Woman in the
Dark" b. Catherine Cecil Thurston;
THE School Picnic" by Joseph G. Lin
coin, and Jimmy Pepperton of Osh-
kazoo" by Robert Barr. Charles Bat
tell LOOMS contributes humorous ac-
count of the work of Arthur Diehl.
1.-The Champion Speed Painter of
America" and Orison Sweet Mardens
editorial is entitled Mother"
The Bookkeeper for May offers an
exceptional collection of articles of in
terest to the general reader as we'll as
the business man and those who's
work is devoted specifically to the
keeping of accounts. Bookkeeping is q
term which is no longer restricted to
transcribing figures in daybook, cash
book and ledger: it covers the entire
field of recording transactions from
Of profit and loss which goes to the
manager or owner The term is genera
as applied to the office.
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Looker-On In Iona

Iowa Falls, April 26.-ITraveling men
are telling story on one Of the fra
ternity living in Marshalltown. It
seems that last week when the tab
ernacle building was being erected by
volunteer work, this travelling man
was called up by phone and the fol-
lowing conversation took place: tHel-
10, is this MT. Traveller"
Eyes"
This is Rev. Mr.. Blank talking.
We need more men on the tabernacle
building tomorrow. Can you turn sout
and help us day or twe?"
"Well, no, don't think I can"
us that SO. counted on you"
Don't see why, I'm not q tabernacle
man."
Awell, you can 50 TO 4,ell, y ana the
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.
Now, Mr.. Traveller was astounded.
He knew Billy was coming and
plain talk would be the order of the
day, but this was little too strong.
Then, too, b. was in doubt whether the
propesied trip, referred to the present
or future. The latter possibility both
cred him. So he called up Rev. Mr..
Blank, and asked What did you say
to me this morning. Haven't had
any conversation with you Mr.. Trav-
he felt better. Some profane travelling
man had suggested the trip.
The other day in one of 1oWa's best
hotels, the landlord picked up a five
dollar bill on the floor near where a
travelling man had been standing.
Soon after he followed this man into
the washroom. "Say, Bill, have you
lost any money!" asked the landlord.
Guess not" was the reply. 81 can tell
by figuring up; had thirty dollars
when 1 left home" IT think it is yours"
again said the hotel man, you figure
up, for 1 picked up five just where
you stood when you paid your bill
And so over to the table went the
travelling man to 'hgure.' Just how it
was settled this scribe can not say, but
all this suggested there We're at least
two men in the world that didn't want
a five dollar bill that belonged to
somebody else.
| In this column has been told the
story of the man that lost his pocket
book containing say $3.50. and after he
had offered a reward and given up all
hopes of ever seeing the pocketbooll
or money. the liveryman at Iowa Falls
found it in the back of the buggy seat,
telephoned him and brought it to the
depot as. the travelling man went thru
on the c. r. l. & P. r. r.
Again there was once travelling
man at Hubbard who left his pocket
book with $50 init under his pillow,
and then discovered his loss when he
was 10 miles out in the country driV-
ing to another town, and when he
drove back and arrived at the hotel
out came the landlard with 1t, and re-
marked, 1--WE expected you would De
back" Chambermaid found it ant
brought it down to the office.
Here's another true story. Once upor
q time there was merchant that had
but little faith in humanity. This was
in the days before egg cases We're sc
common. An egg buyer called on him
every week or two, bought his egg!
and packed them in barrels in Gu
straw, in the back part of the store
But much to the disgust of the buyer
the merchant insisted in counting ou
tubfull before the buyer could pacl
them, and as the storekeeper was fire.
quently called away, the buyer woul'
have to wait sometimes half an hou1
before the seller would count out an
other tubfull. all of which was irritat
ing to say the least. One day, afte
the eggs We're packed, in paying fol
them, the merchant handed back te,
dollars too much in change. When aske'
is hadn't made mistake was Yer,
positive had not, and then after TIL
mistake was shown and the ten dol
lar bill back in the drawer, he va
very much obliged. And strange to re
late after this experience, the merchan
took the buyers word for the numbe
; of dozen packed in each barrel. All o
; these stories prove there are at leas
, five honest men in the world
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the upper parts are bluish-gray.
streaked with black. The throat is
white, while the rest of the under
parts are black. yellow and white.
Don't get this bird confused with the
magnolia warbler, which has the same
general colors differently distributed.
In the fall and winter the more bril-
liant colors of both birds are partly
concealed by cold weather feather
growth of somber hue.
Other easily identified warblers are
the black throated green (Dendroica
virens), the black-throated blue (Den-
droica caerulescens), the cerulean war
bier (Dendroica 'caerulea), the red
start (Setophaga ruticilla), the yell
the chestnut-sided warbler (Dendroica
pennsylyanica).
Students of the warblers should go
to a museum and there study the
specimens which are on exhibition.
In the best collections the birds are
mage. This purpose of aiding in the
Identification of their fellows is the
only good service which a dead bird
performs. He is much more useful in
life than In death, and let not the bird
observer get the desire to possess a
collection of dead birds of his own.
| The instant that he does he knocks
much of the poetry out Of the pur-
suit of bird knowledge.
The start Of the swallows on their
southern trip is the sight of life
time. The birds will congregate in
myriads above some chosen meadow.
In ranks formed in close order they
will circle about brushing the tops of
the meadow grasses with. the tips of
their wings. Round and round they
go in dizzy flight until suddenly from
some point in the whirling column
there is an upward movement and like
great cloud with a hurricane press
ing at it's rear, the mass of birds
mounts upward, and then breaking in
to open order streams southwark
across the sky.
The warblers coming to us from the
| uOTIu III 0SpIOA0U0A Poo0 o00IA W Oh "
and then follow the great congrega-
ton of native sparrows, the hawks
the hermit thrushes and the rest OF
the scurrying throng
The golden-crowned kinglet is q
notable species, II we treat him well
this little fellow may consent to re
main with us all through the cold OF
winter. The kinglet ia the smallest
bird we have, with the sole exception
Of the ruby-throated humming bird.
The golden crowned kinglet is
bird Of particular interest. He bear
the distinction Of having been name,
by the philosopher Aristotle, who
something like twenty.three hundre,
years ago, met the little fellow and
observing his golden crown, called hin
Tyrannos, which in the Greek of tina
day meant kindly royalty" rathe
than "tyrant." the Significance whic
1t holds today. The bird retains tn
name in the form Of kingiet, as it re
tains the golden crown until this yer
hour. The gplden-crowned kinglet ha
!, q cousin who wears ruby crowr
Every bush and tree in the great cit
, parks and along the residence street
win bear q burden of kinglets. The
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-26
Makes a Prorheovi.

"Soon there will be IN this United4
States college bred sister for every
college-bred brother" is the prediction
Of President M. Carey Thomas Of
Bryn Mawr. She calls attention to the
TACT that even the Catholics have been
won over and are now strong ins the
belief that women should Cd to collAKe.
although they have long opposed ri
Educated men and educated women
working together. she says, viii riKhe|
the wrongs which educatedm work.
Ing alone have been junAbls y put
right. + =.
A.,.4S g ~. 4 :sSl5s =. -
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AMERICAS INEVITABLE DISTINCTION.

Certain experts employed by the
federal government are making ex-
taustive tests of building material and
building construction with a view ID
lessening the vast fire losses in Amer
ica, where 1t is asserted, the losses by
fire are greater than in any other coun-
try of equal civilization and advance
ment. These experts taking a keen
interest in the fire losses as they are
reported for the entire country, declare
that in spite of all efforts toward bet
ter building conditions, the death and
destruction due to fires and confagra-
ton in 1909 will eclipse all previous
records, with the exception of the years
in which Baltimore and San Francisco
fires occurred.
They. point to the fact that in six
teen days of April, five big fires in DIFF
ferent parts OF the United States re-
suited in a loss of six million dollars,
the death of twenty persons, the injury
Of seventeen, and the rendering home
less Of NOR than s,e0o and declare that
Fort worth's recent experience when
more than 300 homes were devoured by
the flames Is but a, repetition of what
has happened In the past and what will
occur : in thefuture until American
municipalities wake to the situation
ana enact legislation which will abso-
iutely prevent the further construction
of buildings that are not fireproof
It is pointed out by the experts that
in 1907 fires in the United --seos'
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Iona Newspapers
CUMMINS AND HIS BILL.
[Davenport Times.l


Senator Cummins proposes to follow
the suggestions of Taft and at the
same time provide against the contin-
gency that such economics may have
To be practiced as to jeopardize the
efficiency of the administrative de-
partments. Is order TO make sure
that there shall be enough revenue at
the command of the government so
that the antitrust laws, the laws
against land ing. the rate regula-
ton laws arr IT similar measures
may not fall M, ,anocuous desuetude
for want of available funds to enforce
them, Senator Cummins proposes the
income tax. AS Cummins rightly says
it is not a democratic measure, even
tho the democrats in their plat
form are committed to such tax, but
lis based upon good republican pre-
cedent-the income tax of 1861. There
is a considerable probability that the
revenue that such tax would yield
will be needed. Its principle seems to
be correct in that it proposes to tax
men in proportion to the benefit
which a sound and stable government
permits them to enjoy.
ANENT THE HOME MERCHANT.
North Kossutr Record]
Without any thought of sentiment or
suggestion that we owe allegiance to
anyone, the cold, hard truth is that
the retail merchants of our home town
are the best business friends we have.
| The retail merchant conducts a
school Of commerce for our education
| and the tuition is free. Every man,
woman and child gets the benefit of
seeing in the home town about any
thing that is of real Importance. He
protects us against fraud and deceit
He stands for the square deal.
You never ordered $40 light
ming rod of your home merchant and
then found your note for thous.
and dollars in the bank next day as
a result. You never paid him $50
for range that warped out of shape
getting the money back. He never
charged you SIS for trailer bug
gy that you found out afterwards
could be bought for $780,,
No, the home merchant is just like
you. He lives where ne does business
and his success depends on making g
friend of you and your neighbor. Like
you, he has to make good"
The retail merchant is now the on,
great factor is our commercial system
and this is true solely because he rem
ders us better service than we cal
get elsewhere. Take him away and gu
home town is gone; take our hom
town away and we deprive our chill
dren of the retail store. which is tn
: greatest single educational factor il
modern life No, it can not be. The re
: tail merchant will continue to abide i
, our affections so long as we value gu
homes, because the average citizen
proud of his home town Che Away
tells how near his farm is) and he Sc
cretly despises the methods of peddler
and the peddler system is no,
. known to be the legitimate catalo
+ house business.
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drop down from tn cir night flight by
the tens of thousands, and taking sta
ton in the foliage of shrub and tree
begin their work of insect eating. The
kinglets are SO utterly fearless Of man
that they will perch upon hls shout
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at is thought that the income tax
will win if the democrats stand firm.
But anything that depends upon the
firmness of democrats is mighty poor
proposition" in the estimation of the
Webster City Freeman-Tribune.