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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-03-17
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-03-17
Notice Of Appointment of Executor.

Notice is hereby given That the undersignr d
has been duly appointed and qualified rs Exec
tor of h. estate Of 4. H Sellens, lac of lie q
to said Estate are requested TO make immed
att payment. and til ,se .aying claims y. ain-l
the same wi present them, duly authenticated
to tho undersigned for allO vance.
WIN. O. CAWLEY.
Dated varch 18th, 1909
Durham, Norris u stiles. attorneys for estat'.
11-3
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
is 1T TO BE LEWIS
OR FRELLNGHUYSEN?


lican nomination for Governor. Until Vivian NJ. Lewis, of Pas
sale, demonstrated his capacity in the last election for making
majorities against apparent odds Senator Frelinghuysen
appeared to have the field almost to himself. His record as
a Regular is faultless, even though his legislative record has
its blemishes, such as that of the crafty killing of the re-
pealer of the odious voting machine act; but regularity
and an otherwise good character before the people tell in
the councils of the State leaders where the question of the party
candidacy will be settled. The main point, however, is that of
nominating a votegetter. Senator Freinghuysen has not demon
strated a capacity of that kind in his pentup Utica of Somerset,
and the qualities that would be commended to the Somerset voter
might not be equally attractive elsewhere in the State. The
veterans of the Republican State leadership know that they cannot
surely elect a Governor in 1910 with the majority of 1909, that re-
suits next year will be uncertain, and that the party nominee must
be a man who is at once popular and a thorough campaigner.
Senator Frelinghuysen is not we'll experienced in campaign work.
He could not make the vigorous canvass of Governor Fort in 1907.
Vivian Lewis is fully equal to the effort. As between Freling-
huysen and Lewis, therefore, the chances are that Lewis will be
the party candidate for Governor.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

being constructed there will some
day be a handsome structure and
add to the city's attractiyeness. But
just now it is a menac to pub
lie safety. Inadequate precaution
against accident is evident.
At no other place in the city is
there SUCH. congestion of travel.
Foot passengers and vehicles of all
kinds are constantly passing and
requesting. There have been many
serious accidents and some sad
deaths at the Prudential construc-
ton, the location of which, to some
extent, protects the public. But at
Broad and Market there is no such
protection. Should a crane break,
were a girder to fall, a miracle only
could avert loss of life.
Let us hope that some precaution
may be made to lessen the danger
to the public at this point. Yours
truly, JOHN SMYTHE.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
PROBLEM FOR poSTERlTY.
BY M. T. W.

A professor, not one of the kind in
quotation marks, nor n of those
who is never referred to without a
the In front of his title, but a man
who wears whiskers and has a
steady job in a college. has figured
out that, If the birthrate continues
to decrease at the present rate, in
$50 years there will be no nor
births in this country. This pro-
fessor is a very careful man, and
after he had worked out his cal
cuiations he proved his answer.
This means that when the time
limit. the professor has fixed, is up
the baby will be as extinct as the
dodo bird, and possibly more Sc.
The horse is not nearing extinction
more rapidly than the human child,
according to this man of science.
This is a sad thought. How cheer"
less Will be a childless world. Folks
might worry along for a hundred
years or SO without children, but
the time would come, sooner or
later, when they would miss the lit
tie ones and their childish prattle.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
CONVINCING: WHAT!

In the course of a conversation
with an English peer--a friend OF
mine-the other day anent the little
scheme they have in his country for
abolishing the House of Lords he
INDUCED in the following irrefutable
defense of that venerable institu-
ton:
Jaw, it's beastly rot, this talk,
what? They cawnt do anything Of
the kinder, y know. They're, I
might say, frightful ahsses, Ell?
Why, they couldn't abolish It, v
know, when we always had 1t, that
is to say, for quite some time. One
goes there when one has no placs
to go. and one meets ones friends.
and 1t is all 30 very pleasant, what?
Why, M deah fellaw, you've no
idea what a habit it has grown to
be. This-aw-idiocy makes one
quite Ill, really"
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
O~BSTRUCTING TRAVEL
ATTHE FOUR CORNERS

-Four Corners of Newark, where the daily congestion of traffic
is so great that four stalwart policemen are kept at the crossings
constantly to prevent fatalities. Not long ago the city authorities
compelled the contractor who is putting up a new building on the
northeast corner to remove a construction on the Broad street
side, and soon after it disappeared another obstruction quite as
bad was established on the Market street side, narrowing the
passageway along the frontage for some distance, this obstruc-
tfn being used for commercial purposes. At that corner there
are always crowds of people waiting for cars, and the occupied
space cOmpels people to stand in the street and take the chances
of injury by passing vehicles. Whether this obstruction was
authorized or not, it should be removed at once by the street de-
partment. 1t is a public nuisance and a danger.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

cording to Monday nights Evening
STAR, the civil service decision will
not be handed down this term. The
reader is left to infer that it might
be at the next term. which occurs.
I believe, in the spring or at some
other term during the next two or
three hundred years. No reaso is
assigned. No doubt the court does
not feel under any obligation to give
one, further delaying this already
long-overdue decision. However,
there is a reason.
Can you account for it on any
legitimate grounds? If not, I, as
well as many others who have
patiently awaited the honorable
courts finding, must revise our
heretofore estimate of the upper
courts and conclude that the Court
of Errors and Appeals Is susceptible
to political influence, II the pressure
be brought to bear from the right
quarter. L. G.
Nov. %, 'O9.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
CANAL ENTERPRISE
IN SOUTH JERSEY

- ndy Uy BdnI1rH d Just
canal company to build shallow boats for the transportation of
Vegetables and fruit from South Jersey farms to the seaside re-
sorts and city markets. This will be the principal and most i'm
portant use of the waterway. The resorts are distant from the
farms and generally separated from them by wide stretches of
morass With the improved means of reaching a market for
produce, agriculture will be greatly encouraged, and, as land in the
regions through which the waterway passes is very cheap, many
Iaborers in the city who have knowledge of husbandry will be in
duced to acquire small farms and raise truck for the market. AS
the newly organized company is to act as a purchasing agent, the
settlers can sell their produce on their farms or by delivery at the
nearest point on the waterway.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
civil service Delay.

To the Editor of the Star:
Sir-For the enlightenment of my
self and many others, will you kind
ly shed a little light on the follow
ing matter: Has the Court of Err
rors and Appeals any legal right
to delay or to hold up indefinitely
a decision for private reasons OF
their own, or at the request Of
someone higher up, to whom. for
personal reasons, they feel kindly
disposed toward? Are they respon-
sible to anyone but themselves. or
do they owe something to the peo-
pie at large whom they are sup
posed to serve and who pay them
for such supposed service? 'Ac-
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
ALL OVER.

II there was any doubt about the
fact that the bondN attaching Mrs.
Stetson to the mother church had
been completely severed and was
not even hanging by a thread, it is
now dispelled by the information
that she has relinquished the $4,000
per year she formerly enjoyed. And
even Mrs. Stetson will find It rather
difficult to attain a state of mind
which will make the loss Of $4,000
a year seem desirable.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
TELL KNOX THIS.

1t is not enough that Zelaya be
compelled to apologize and pay an
indemnity for his carelessness in
ordering two Americans executed,
but he should be forced to promise
faithfully, and ros his heart, that
he will never do anything of the
kind again. South American revo-
lutions will cease to be amusing
when they become fatal to citizens
of the United States.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
Seats for All.

scdth IoE ALL
To the Editor of the Star:
Sir-As a regular passenger on
the train that leaves Hoboken at
10:45 o'clock on Sunday nights I
write to ask If the Lackawanna Of
hcials cannot be compelled to fur
nish seats for it's patrons. The new
timetable has merged the aforetime
10 and 10:45 trains from New York
into the 1890 barclay street, with
the result that every Sunday night
men, women and children are forced
to stand in the aisles until Newark
is reached. The train serves New
ark and the Oranges and is always
well ~patronlzed by persons who
have spent the day in New York
and other places. A large crowd is
not an unusual condition of affairs,
by any means, but the ordinary
patronage, and it seems strange
that the railroad does not provide
sufficient cars.
THIRD AVENUE.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
A SAL
IN A MINING TOWN

ners and so many humble homes made desolate. The horror of
the great disaster was lightened for a moment by the rescue of a
score of living men, but the pail of death gathered again when
twenty-five miners, their bodies still warm, were found in a
walledin pocket, where they had waited vainly for rescuers. There
may be living men vet to be released from their tombs, but every
hour lessons the chances for them. But what a Thanksgiving!
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
THE DAYS BEST @

= <VVYY "A d a county judge down my q a few years. g. whose owe for
~ MI biblical lore was so pronounced that he couldn't resist the desire to
W air it IN every possible OCCASION" said Congressman Henry D. Clay
ton Of Alabama, a few days since zone day a n od darkey wal brought in from
the mountain district under suspicion Of maintaining al Illicit still There We
no real evidence against him. s&1e #s4Na NS@es @sM&
whats your am prisoner?' asked the Judge as h e peered at the
shambhng black mar HN
I" Nah names Joshua, jedge' as thu reply. Fl
Joshua, Ell? said the Judge as he rubbed his hands; Joshua o saw
Are you hat sam Joshua spoken of in Holy writ-the Joshua who made the
sun stands ng t. t
mo, jedge; was the hasty answer. 'tuarnt me- Ahn de Joshua dat
made lie moon shine, National Monthly.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
Danger at Four Corners.

Dangcr NJ -Four
To the Editor of the Star:
Dear Sir--It is gratifying to know
that the STAR may be relied upon
to point the right urs in every
public emergency. There have been
many instances of this display Of
vigilance. The most recent was the
story in this mornings paper calling
attention to the danger to the public
at Broad and Market streets.
The insurance company building
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

ON THE SIDE
HE TOLD ABOUT IT.

A man went out hunting
And shot a big deer,
But came home without it;
Now wasn't that queer?
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
WANTED THE GOSSIP.

WAS Mrs. Green at the meeting of
the card club yesterday"
mo, she couldn't come"
TELL me what. was said about her."
Detroit Free Press.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
A DANISH VERDICT
ON DIR. COOKS CLAIMS

Thursday and will announce its verdict. The Danish university
is universally conceded in Europe to be the best authority on
scientific questions about the Arctic, and its verdict will be ac-
copied by the scientific world generally. If DR.. Cook is a fakir,
as Commander Peary and his friends have declared, there is no
tribunal better qualified to expose him than the one to which he
has first submitted his evidence.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
hMOUS BITS OF PROSE q
BY FAMOUS PEOPLE ZIG
JuniuS Letter to the King
SIR PHILIP FRANCIS.
Born l74O.

Born I74O. Died 1918.
The famous Junius letters o which the following is a n extract APP
pearedi in English public prints iron, 176s till 172. The following part of
a letter, written in 1889, turned III to b propheicany truthful
distance of h colonies would mak it imposshlef for them to TX al
active part in you affairs even IL they were as well affected to your
\ vernmen as they oc pretended to be to our person. They were
ready enough to distinguish. between yu and your minister's. They complained
of an act of LEGISLATURE but traced the origin of it no higher h ITO HI serv-
misc of The Crown: they pleased themselves with the hope that thdr sovereign,
If not favorable to their cause, at least was impartial. The decisive personal
part yu ook against them las efectuany banished hi first distinction from
their minds They consider you as united, with you servants against America.
and kno how tic distinguish the sovereigna and a venal Parliament on n side
from h real sentiments of the English people N the other
They left their native LAND in search of freedom, N found it in a deser.
There is n point on which they all agree; they equally detest the pageantry
OF a king and the superciious hypocrisy of our bishops.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

One of the most Travelled
city corners in the United
States is the northeast cor
ner of Broad and Market
streets. This is one of the
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

There will be a sad
Thanksgiving in the mining
town of Cherry, ILL.,, where
so many families are be-
reayed Of their bread-win-
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
The People 5 Rostrum
.FEE+*4+

The STAR extends the privi-
lego of these columns to the
public and invites signed COM
munications treating of topics
of the hour.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

South Jersey enterprise
anticipates the completion
of the inland waterway be-
tween Bay Head and Cape
Aor ~, ouoan;1;o. o1oa+
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

There was a man in our town
And he was wondrous dry. /.
He drank a dozen foaming beers.
He drank a quart of rye
And when he found his thirst was
gone
With all his might and main,
He gobbled salty pretzels
Till he got it back again. :
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

Probably before the New
Year the University of
Copenhagen will have ex,.
amined the data to be
shipped by DIR. Cook next
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
Uncle Wall Mason
Tie Sanf1ogur Poet of EfnporEa, Kansas, Says Today


No wonder that cnes spirit freezes! They're always finding new diseases to
rob u Of u breath; each day hi scientists alright us with something new
that ends with tits" an cares US half to death. In
- - odent times the ills were simple: they ranged from jaundce
AHE hUE VT to a pimpe; and simple vas h dope the doctor can9s
yNuurn N wyo as smooth as sattn and spoke some words in bughouse
N. Latin, and babe III keep III hope. He'd prop us up and
mildly jolt us by putting on a inseed pou1tce, OF he would
feed us pills; n then he'd soak III for dollar which maddened US until we'd
boiler, and usforgeto ur Ills. In those old days, in memry cherished. We sell
dom of a sickness pershed; we'd live till bent and gray; Is old, old men, we'd
|drool md divel until like autumn leaves we'd shrvel,a like them blow away.
But o when we are feeling dizzy, the learned physicians all get busy, and
stand around our bunk, and feelo III pulse, and prod and smite us and say W
have some blamed old 1thD" all itMs are punk. Then N OF them his weapon
greases. and saw us into threeinch pieces. regardless Of our squeas: he takes
|us III apart and pokes u.s. ant sew US up again, apd soaks usf Tor 700 wheels.
Copyright. 1s by George Matthew Adams
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23

Senator Frelinghuysen, of
Somerset, who is slated for
the presidency of the Senate
next year, is also aSowedly
a candidate for the Repub-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-19
CITY OYSTER SELLER EFFORTS.

Notwithstanding the tremendous
slump in the price of oysters on the
rocks-nearly fifty percsnt-w within the
past two years. the city vender has
not reduced his prices one whit. This
is one OF the reasons why people have
not been eating oysters ravencusl,
these hard times.
Here is sample of the complaints
among the producers in 'ridewater, ia
ken from the Westmoreland Inquirer:
Weather conditions have no, improv-
ed, and the demand is still slow.
Dredgers, however, contend that they
are not getting their share Of the price
at which oysters sell in the consuming
markets. Oysters are retailing in
washington at 80 cents a quart, or one
iollar gallon, and that not dry meas
are. In the same market they are
bringing from so to rs cents q bushel.
grain measure, and yet the best the
buy boats are Offering is 25 cents bush
eis oyster measure. Tho difference In
the measure is considerable. It is said
that oysters can be bought from dredg-
ers at 80 cents bushel and carried to
Washington and sold at 80 cents a bush
Il and good profit realized.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-19
VIRGINIA PRESS ASSOCIATION.

The Virginia State Press Association
met in Richmond Tuesday. November
9th, in annual convention, with Presi-
dent Williams, of the Richmond News
Leader, in the chair. Gov. Swanson and
Mayor Richardson made brief addresses
OF welcome. The Rev. George Green,
OF Clifton Forge. responded for the
newspaper men.
Miss Bertha Gray Robinson, of the
Orange Observer. historian Of the asso-
cation. read paper dealing with the
history of the organization during the
past year. In the afternoon the editors
were entertained at lunch ut the West
moreland Club as the guests of the city
and the chamber of commerce. and later
given an auto ride around the city.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-19
POLITICAL

The Republican party polled about 20
per cent smaliervots in Virginia this fall
than IL did last fall. and their leader,
Congressman Slemp. says he is satisfied.
Well, he oughtto.be. ~, - 49,.
A great many people in discussing
the matter of elections advocate fewer
of them In one breath and in the other
argue for the fastening Of the primary
upon Us. One of the chief arguments
against the old State constitution was
that it required two elections 4 year.
that was changed and the people
thought to have rest. but somebody
started the primary idea and now we
have the two elections year back
again. : Eastern Shore Herald. 80.
The fight Ii on between the progress
sives and standpatters ip. the next Con.
gress. Cummips,l of tie. PrSffsaslsesp
has declared war against Cannon. oft
standpatters, and what the end will be.
no one knows. It is thought that Taft
leans towards the Cummins crowd.
Anyhow, Cummins has been invited by
Taft to come to, Washington and advise
with him as to the tariff feature of his
coming message to Congress. The is
sue lie clear between the two elements
and everybody appears ready to fight
it oot. 1--WE are in readiness TO begin
as soon as we get to Washington,
said Senator Cummins when interview
ed on the coming battle in which we
hope Cannon viii be spiked. The speak
sr is apolitical fake; the. sooner he is
crushed the better for the country and
all its people.--Free Lance. p..'sa
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-19
A POWERFUL GROUP OF MEN.
Richmond Time-Dispstehl


The Virginia Press Association,
which meets here this morning, repre-
sents collective power which, must
command instant respect. These men
whom we welcome today help to form
the public opinion of q great State.
Their work is nameless. Those who
repeat or act upon their advice do no.
usually acknowledge the source; often
they are quite unconscious of it. None
the less. these men are leaders. Ore
OF them, single. alert. deep thinking in
dividuai, sitting at q table, behind a.
bottle of ink, throws out . wise idea.
The next day and the next he hammers
that idea home. His brother writer's.
struck by the point of it. take it up.
They hammer it home. too. And pref
ty soon that idea is insensibly absorbed
into the warp and wool Of the public
thought Of the State. The original
editor, personally, is nowhere; he has
long since been lost in the shuttle; but
It ia his supreme satisfaction to,see the
child of his brain sitting in high places: |
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-19
TRUCKERS.

AS q rule, two productive acres of
land are required for each inhabitant
Of country.
According TO Nottingham nswspa-
per. an English potato-growing con-
test in, Derbyshire has resulted in a
yield of 22s pounds from one pound of
seed. cnt into so sets. There were IS
competitors. i
In 1850 there'were bat l. 449. 900 cult
waited farms in the United States. In
1900 there were no less than 5.7sg. 600
farms. IL is believed that the, next
census will show. that there sre not less
than 7.0eo coo farms. Of course these
figures do not show the size of the
farms. but they do STOW. that more
people are at the business.