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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14

Miss Helen e. Efross, of 4s Stirling
street, win spend her vacation at
Asbury Park.
j, H. Carman, Of 1891 Wright street.
is at Saranac Lake, in the Adiron-
dacks.
Miss Laura w. Bennett, of 20 stir
ling street, will spend the next two
weeks at Asbury Park.
MI. and Mrs. George w. Smith. of 70
Treacy avenue, have zone to BeImar.
Miss L. A. McManus, of 34s Lafay-
cite street, is spending two weeks at
Stonington, Conn.
George H. James, of 1876 Belleyillc
avenue, will spend the next two weeks
touring New York and Pennsylvania.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Irwin, of this CITY.
have returned from a two weeks So
journ at Ledgewood. N. ].
Miss Elizabeth wolhnger, of 1853
Court street. will spend her vacation
at ldtiiS ais, IN. L.
Miss Laura Epstein. of 81 North
Fifth street, has gone to the Catskill
mountains for a fortnight.
Miss Grace Smalley, of Earl street
will spend several weeks at Siasconset,
Mass.
+
Mr.. and Mrs. Leopold H. Interest
will spend the next two weeks in Mar
rowsburg, Sullivan county, n. Y.
Henry ~Schlittenhardt will go to At
lantic City next Saturday to stay until
after Labor Day.
Charles Zeigel, of &c Jay street, will
spend the week in Portland, Me.
M. ]. Foster and family have gone to
Leeds, N. j., for a fortnight.
Wilson j. Vance, secretary to Mayor
Haussling, and Mrs. Vance and daugh-
ter are stopping at Northport, Long
Island, for the summer.
John J.. Gilroy. executive clerk to
Mayor ,Haussling, and Mrs. Gilroy and
family are the guests of Mrs. William
p. Coryell IN her farm at Whippany,
Morris county.
Andrew J.. McKenney, Mayors mar
shall, and Mrs. Mckinney will go to
Boston for a week.
James Donovan, detective to Mayor
Haussling, has returned from a two
weeks vacation.
Miss Elizabeth I. Quinn is stopping in
Sullivan county, New York.
George B. Ashley and Mrs. Ashley, of
Roseville, are at Ocean Grove for the
summer.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14
BINGHAM spURNED BIG MONEY.

NETWORK, Aug. 14.-General Theo-
dore A. Bingham declares in a maya
zin article that during the first year
that he. was police commissioner of New
York city he could have easily have
made $500, 900 in bribe honey and that
81. 900. 900 would not be an excessive fig
ure for him to have realized had he
been seeking brides.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14
STANDARD OIL HALTS
BAYONNE TAX CONTEST,

JERSEY CITY. Aug. 14.-The Stand
ard Oil Company has, through its at
torney, George Holmes. withdrawn its
protest filed with the County Tax
Board against the assessment levied
on its property In Bayonne.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14
AWAY SUNDAYS, is DIVORCED.

CHICAGO, Aug. 14:-Should a man
devote Sundays 10 his wire? Mrs. Elfna
Louise Singleton, 1867 North Spaulding
avenue, argued in the affirmative; her
husband. James Monroe Singleton. a
bookkeeper, answered in the negative.
and iris led to their enhancement.
The wife obtained a divorce yesterday
from Judge McEwen in the Circuit
Court.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14
COLD WATER AND MELON KILL.

HAZLEToN, Pa, aug. IA. Mrs.
Wilson Spade, of Hobbie, aged So
years, died yesterday from the effects
of two glasses of ice water she drank
and some watermelon she ate at the
same time.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14
FALLS DEAD IN STREET.

ELIZABETH, Aug. H.-Thomas ].
Buckley, 81 years old, of s24 John
street, fell dead of heart disease in
Pearl street yesterday. He was an en-
ployee of the street department and
at work when death overlook him.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14
PEANUT KERNEL KILLS BABY.

SELIN's GROVE, Pa, Aug. ia
peanut kernel. lodged in his throat,
caused the death of Charles, the l.
year-old son Of Henry N. LANG. Of
Sunbury.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14

George B. Ashley and Mrs. Ashley, Of
Roseville, are at Ocean Grove for the
summer.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14

Miss Elizabeth +. Quinn is stopping in
county, New York.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14

Charles Mcguire, of 125 Sixth ave-
nue., and James Richards, of 280 Sus-
sex avenue, are camping for the ref
mainder of the season at the Hight
lands. !
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14

Arthur F. Messner, of AZ Dewey
street, will spend his vacation at At
lantic City.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14

James Donovan, detective to Mayor
Haussling, has returned from a two
weeks vacation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Strange Race of Ancient Britons.

Among the races of humankind
which away back Of history's records
passed like clouds over various parts
Of the earth n Of the most puzzling
to ethnologists is that Of the early
bronze age men who dwelt in Aber-
deenshire. Scotland, and are supposed
to have constructed the special forms
Of stone circles whose remains are 10
found there. These men differed Sig
nifcantly. says ]. Gray, from all the
prehistoric racial types previously de-
termined in Britain. They were re-
markably broad headed, and their av-
erage stature was only five feet three
inches, as shown by skeletons. The
British neolithic race was markedly
long headed, and the bronze age race.
which built the round tumuli. was also
long headed and tall.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
PROVED A POET.
A Youthful Experience If John Green
leaf Whittier.

A Youthful Experience If John Green
leaf Whittier.
John Greenleaf Whittier used to de-
clare that at a very early age he knew
himself to be a real poet and would
often relate, writes Mrs. Abby ]. Wood
man in her "Reminiscences Of Whit
tiers Life at Oak Knoll" an amusing
experience when he was a student at
the Haverhill academy. Mrs. Wood
man gives it in Mr. Whittier's own
words:
There is but little doubt that at the
age Of twenty I felt myself to be a
real poet, somewhat unknown to fame,
but sufficiently acknowledged as such
by the committee directing the dedica-
ton Of the new academy for them to
invite me to read an original poem on
that occasion.
Robert Dinsmore, an old Scotch
farmer in Windham and a writer Of
rhyme and doggerel verse, was also in
vited to do the same. The honor of
leading the procession which marched
through the streets of Haverhill to the
new academy was given to the two
poets.
I often laugh when l recall the scene
to memory. The hale old Scotchman,
short and plethoric, his uncertain step
and bearing slightly exhilarated by a
generous draft Of old Scotch whisky
before we started, was somewhat of
a contrast to me, a rather tall and slen-
der Quaker lad in Quaker hat and
coat and half frightened out of my
wits by the honor heaped upon me.
However, we delivered our poems all
right, and I am thinking that must
have been the time when I was dubbed
''the Quaker poet"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
SERVICE IN THE CABINET.
The Custom Of Our Presidents In thu
Republics Early Days.

The Custom Of Our Prssidsnts In the
Republics Early Days.
II President John Adams had been q
man of different temperament the GUS
tom might have been established in
the early years Of the government Of
the United States Of retaining the cab
met of one administration for service
with its successor where that success
sor succeeded to the political ideas Of
its predecessor. President Adams
sought at first to retain through his
administration the members Of the
cabinet Of President Washington. In
deed, at that early period the status
Of a cabinet officer was not exactly
that Of the present time, and in the
course of President Adams rows with
the members Of his official household
he resorted to the strange step Of re-
moving his secretary of state, limo
thy Pickering, and James McHenry,
his secretary Of wal.
President Jefferson Of course took q
new cabinet. President Madison con-
tnued in his administration a number
Of the cabinet officers Of President
Jefferson, and President Monroe held
some Of his predecessors. John Quincy
Adams also continued to meet about
his council board some of the advisers
Of James Monroe, but Andrew Jackson
began his administration with an en-
tirely new set Of official counselors.
He maintained also another set Of ad-
visers, unofficial, who became known
as the Kitchen cabinet"
For some time the gentlemen who
had acted respectively as secretary Of
the treasury, secretary Of war, secre-
tary Of the navy, postmaster general
and attorney general in the cabinet Of
President Jackson retained their seats
under President Van Buren,, but
changes only awaited the passage of
time.
President William Henry Harrison's
cabinet was brand new, and John Ty-
Ter sought to keep it together after
Harrison's death, but in less than six
months all had resigned except Dan
lei Webster, the secretary Of state.
Presidents Polk, Taylor, Fillmore,
Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln each
formed a new cabinet.
President Johnson's difficulties with
certain members of the cabinet that
existed at the death Of President Lin
coin are we'll known. Since that Pc
Rod, when for the second time in Amer
lean history the question of a cabinet
"a n~re0 ,}ov~L - -A-S- -.- -I1S-
the president wishes to have vacated
came up for angry controversy, cabi-
nets by mutual but tacit understand
ing end with the administrations
Boston Globe.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06

Italy is one of the greatest in history.
Notwithstanding the increased i'm
petus to observation and study after
the disasters of three and four years
ago, seismology has scarcely ad-
vanced. We can no more predict
disaster than Alexander the Great.
We merely know that in all proba-
bility, the connections inside the
earth will continue during q lengthy
period.
Montana itself must have been the
scene of terrible outbursts. The coun-
try near Virginia city is mute evidence
of the ravages of the past. Fifteen
miles from Sheridan, in q section of
the mountains almost virgin lies q
crater half q mile wide and perhaps
twice as long. A lake now fills most
OF it. But once, the pot boiled humid.
reds of feet in the air and three states
hereabouts must have shuddered when
the lava burst forth.
Will it renew it's activities? No.
body could guarantee that it will not:
nobody ear venture the assertion that
it will. There r craters extinct
of years that have suddenly
resumed with all their vigor. Under
US is-what? You know as much
about it as the wisest man.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
A COMMON ERROR.
Correct the Sentence Before You Read
the Exclamation.

Correct the Sentence Before You Reae
the Explanation.
MAY l examine the children a little
as to their knowledge of the Ian.
guage?' asked the visitor at the gram.
mar school, an old gentleman with O
benevolent aspect of c~ountenance, but
a shrewd twinkle in his eye.
Certainly you may smilingly an.
swered the teacher.
The old gentleman stepped to the
blackboard and wrote this sentence
upon it:
Pennsylvania abounds in anthracite
coal"
"Now," he said, II should like to
have some child point out the mistake
in that sentence"
One Of the older girls came forward.
picked up the chalk and rewrote the
statement thus:
"Anthracite coal abounds in Penn
sylvania."
"Not 10 bad" said the visitor, "but
you haven't found it."
Another changed it as follows:
pennsylvania abound with anthra-
cite coal"
"Still incorrect" was the comment.
"Anthracite coal is abundant in Penn
sylvania," wrote a third.
"That will not do either" said Mr..
Baxter.
One Of the big boys tried his hand,
with this result:
pennsylvania is abundantly sup
piled with anthracite coal"
"No; that is not so good"
Then a little boy stepped forward
and with his finger erased the word
"coal."
"That word isn't needed" he said.
":Anthracite' means hard COAL"
Fright" said the visitor. "You have
one bright pupil, anyhow. Miss Adair."
Youths Companion.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
A GRIM CEREMONY.
An Emperor's Death Hastened by Re-
hearsing His Own Funeral.

An Emperor's Death Hastened by Re-
hearsing His Own Funeral.
Emperor Charles V. of Spain brought
about his death by %rehearsing his own
funeral. For the last two years of his
life, after resigning the scepter of
Spain and the Netherlands to his son
Philip in 1856, Charles retired to the
monastery Of Yuste, in Estremadura,
and there lived a cloister life in close
intercourse with the monks, devoting
much time to religious exercises. Dur
ing this period, prompted, it may be, by
the example Of Cardinal de la Marck,
who for several years before his death,
In 1923, had annually rehearsed his
obsequies, the emperor, in the
summer Of 1853, formed the resolution
to celebrate his own funeral before he
died.
Accordingly, or Aug. 80 of that year,
the grim farce was carried out with
the most elaborate ceremonial. The i'm
perial domestics marched with black
tapes in their hands, and the emperor,
clad in sable weeds, himself followed,
wearing his shroud. While the solemn
mass for the dead was sung before the
high altar in the cathedral Charles
gave up his taper to the priest, typify-
ing thereby his resignation Of life, and
was solemnly laid his coffin. The cere-
mony closed with sprinkling holy wa
ter on his body; then, all the attend
ants retiring. the doors were shut. and
Charles rose from his narrow bed and
withdrew to his private apartment.
The damping Of the graveclothes in
duced a chill, which, aided no doubt by
the mental depression caused by the
grewsome ceremony, induced a fever
which ended in his death three weeks
later, on the 21st of September, 1858.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Weddinu RINGS.

Some n wanted to know without
asking directly how long a certain wo-
man had been married.
"About fifteen years." said a man
who Is a jeweler."
"How do you know?" asked his wife.
"You don't know anything about her.
You never met her until tonight"
81 IA tell by the size of her we'd
ding ring" said the man. "The width
Of wedding rings changes about every
five years. Their size repeats itself at
certain periods, but, figuring that way,
the woman must have been married
fourteen years ago, if not fifteen. She
isn't old enough for forty-1ve; conse-
Quently she must belong in the fifteen
year class"
Subsequent inquiry proved that the
jeweler was right.-New York Sun.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
WEALTH FROM THE FARM.

Since 1870 the capital of the Amer.
lean farmer has increased nearly 80
per cent. In round numbers, this i'm.
portant portion Of the national wealth
amounts to % billions, according to
the annual report of the secretary OF
agriculture. The percentage of in.
creas will doubtless reach 100 before
the close of this decade, and it is
hardly possible to exaggerate the
meaning TO the country of this doubl.
ing of its agricultural in
20 years.
Nothing steadies the finances of a
people better than q great and pros
perious farming region. That the
furry of last year did not become q
real panic "a due largely to the ex-
cellent condition of the west and
particularly to the 1ourishing agricul-
tural interests.
The Importance Of agriculture is en-
phasized by several remarkable items
in the report. It is shown that the
value of farm products in 1908 was
four times the value of the mining out.
put, including mineral oils and pre-.
cious metals, while 81 per cent of the
raw materials used in manufacturing
industries comes from the farms.
The number of farms has increased
1876 per cent since 1890, while the to-
tai acreage has increased 1916 per
cent. This mean that the country is
not falling into the hands of great
landlords, but ia being farmed by q
constantly growing number of private
holders. The figures show only a
slight increase of acreage over the
number of farms-less than might be
expected considering the Introduction
OF modern neutrality-suspicious.
Review.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
COMEDY IN CRIME.
Tho London Urchln With the Bun
Down His Back.

tho London Urchtn With h Bun
Down His Back.
It has been a matter so customary to
look upon crime as tragedy and crimi-
nails as tragedians that to aver that
comedy is more frequently to be found
in crime than tragedy seems at first
view paradoxical. Yet such is the case.
A little London urchin ran into a
bakers shop and, placing a halfpenny
on the counter. asked nervously and
~timorously, mister, ave you a 'alf-
penny buster (bun)"
Eyes, my little nan Here is one
quite hot"
"Thanks, mister. Would you mind
a-shovin' it down my back?"
"Down your back, my little man!
Why down your backY
"Cos, sir, I'm only a little un, and
If those chaps outside know I've a
buster they'll take it, and I nm SO 'un-
CRY, I am"
"Dear me, how wrong of them!
Come round here, my little chap. There
there, it Is down your back"
The boy ran OF. In an instant an
other entered-a bigger boy.
81 say, mister, as a little boy just
been in 'ereT
Eyes"
"And did e buy a 'alfpenny buster?"
EYES,"
"And did g arsk you to shove 1t
down is back, as us big fellows would
take it,"
EYES,"
"Yah! Where's your watch and
chain? Els got EN-. Els just round
the corner"
Out rushed the baker. In Il trice the
big boy collared the till and bolted.
The shopman saw the comic
side of 1t ~all.-London Strand Maya.
zine.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
A STRANGE LAKE.
Sulphur Islands Acid Waters Will
Eat Up Boats.

Sulphur islands Acid Waters Viii
Eat Up Boats.
A strange lake exists in the center
Of Sulphur island, off New Zealand.
1t is fifty acres in extent, about twelve
feet in depth and fifteen feet above tho
level of the sea.
The most remarkable characteristic
of this lake is that the water contains
vast quantities Of hydrochloric and sui
phuric acids Kissing and bubbling at a
temperature of 40 degrees f.
The dark green colored water looks
particularly %uninviting. Dense clouds
of sulphuric fumes constantly roll off
this boiling caldron, and care has to be
exercised in approaching this lake to
avoid the risk of s%uffocation. On the
opposite side of the lake may be seen
the tremendous blowholes, which when
in full blast present an awe inspiring
sight.
The roar of the steam as it PUSHES
forth into the air is deafening, and
often huge powders and stones are
hurled out to a height of several hun
dred feet by the various internal forces
of nature.
A boat can be launched on the lake
and if proper care be observed the very
edges of the blowholes may be safely
explored.
Some idea of the strength of the acid
saturated water Of this lake may be
gathered from the fact that a boat al
most dropped to pieces after all the
passengers had been landed. as the
rivets had corroded under the influence
of the acids.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
With thu Minstrels.

"Mistah Walkah, wot am de diff'unce
tween a trav'ler startin' to Tangier
an a plate O. veal hash?"
II give that one up, George. What
Ia the difference between a traveller
starting for Tangier and a plate Of
veal hash?"
"De n am Morocco bound, an de
uddah am half calf"
"Ladies and gentlemen, the celebrat-
ed vocalist, Professor Rox de Bote,
will now sing that beautiful and touch
ing sentimental ballad, Take Your
Face Away, Clarence; You Have Been
Using a Safety Razor.'"- Chicago
Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
Man and Woman.

Father Vaughan of London, preach
ing on marriage. remarked that a wo-
man said to him: "When you have
seen n man you have seen them all
in their moods and lenses. They are
all alike" His reply was: ut may be
so, but woman is like an irregular
French verb, and unless a IA studies
her in all her peculiar moods and
lenses he will misconstrue and misin-
terpret her much to his disadvan-
taCe."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
A Drink Of Water,

A glass of cold water slowly slipped
will produce a greater a~cceleration of
the pulse for a time than will a glass
Of wine or spirits taken at a draft. In
this connection it may not be out Of
place to mention that slipping cold wa
ter will often allay the craving for al
cohol in those who have been in the
habit Of taking too much of it and
may be endeavoring to reform, the
effect being probably due to the stimu.
liant action of the slipping.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
REFORM THE TAX LAWS.

The eleventh legislative assembly
will be expected to enact laws that
will be of benefit to the cititizens of
Montana, and there is probably no
other subject deserving OF so much at
tention as the laws affecting the as
sessment of property and collection of
taxes in the several counties. Under
the present system there is such lack
OF uniformity in the assessment, 90
many opportunities to escape a just
apportionment of the tax burden, that
@ large proportion of the taxes are
paid by a certain class of citizens,
while q number Of their more wealthy
neighbors escape with only q nominal
assessment.
This problem was recently the sub.
ject of discussion by the Great Falls
Tribune, which expressed the opinion
that about two.thirds of the actual
wealth of the state escapes payment of
it's Just share of taxation. 1t is of the
opinion that pretty nearly one-third
OF 1t pays no taxes at all.
The present laws for the levying and
collection of taxes are demonstra ted
to be a failure. 1t is high time we
turned our attention to their improve
ment. This is not a new problem.
Nearly every state in the Union has
had it up for considers alton. Many
of them have passed reform tax laws
which have worked more Or less sue
cessfully in catching the tax dodgers
and making them share the burden of
government. We have not ever made
such attempt in Montana. 1t is high
time we did. The real estate and i'm
provements thereon in the state of
Montana has continued to bear the
very heavy end of taxation long
enough. 1t is time they had equitable
relief, and a tax law which will give
them such relief will be one of the
most popular measures ever passed
by the legislature. 1t will justify
them in the minds of all fair thinking
men and women, even if it was their
sole record we believe that it would
be considered as sufficient to Justify
their meeting.
OF course a complex subject like
this, requiring much investigat alton,
information and thought, cannot well
be put in shape and acted on in q
sixty-day session. The wise way te
60 about it would be to appoint {
commission, or better still, a single
tax commissioner with ample salary
and travelling expenses, to report t.
the governor a year from next Jan
uary the most searching, modern, up
to-date tax law he can devise after
full investig alton of the tax laws O
other states that have wrestled with
this problem with some measure o
success. and personal conferences will
the officials charged with the admin
istratiOn of these reform tax laws II
other states. On receiving such re
port the governor should be asked t.
call the legislature in session agai1
specially to consider it, and so W
would hope of a good, efficient, equit
able tax law to take the place of GU
present inequitable, inefficient AM
out.of.date law on the subject.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06
KEEPING It Secret.

Village Postmistress-And what are
those dashes? Hodge-Oh, he'll I'M
derstand them right enough. Postmis-
tress-Yes, but we can't send them by
telegraph. Hodge-Well, they're the
price O. the pigs. He'll understand.
Postmistress-Yes, but you must put it
In words or figures, else we can't send
it. Hodge-Must I? Well, I'll whis-
per it to e. then.-Punch.