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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
TO BEGIN BATTLE IN HIS DISTRICT

tn REPRESENTATIVE FOWLER doesn't propose to waste his
Inn valuable time at Washington as long as there are no bombs
left to fire at Speaker Cannon. Fowler never did pay much
attention to his congressional duties, except at such times as he
had a currency bill on the way to the congressional waste basket.
The large questions now before Congress are of less importance
than the Fowler fences in the Fifth New Jersey district. Next
Monday, 1T is announced, Fowler will open his campaign for renom
ination. His overtures to the Progressives for their senatorial NOM
ination having been received with disfavor, he will now begin his
congressional fight, and report has it that he will on Monday issue
a fve-thousand- word address, in which Senator John Kean, his fl
low townsman, will be duly pilloried. With Fowlers campaign
opened in Union, Morris and Warren, the rest of the State is sure to
get aroused. Politicians and candidates will arm for the fray, and
soon there will be "loyely fighting all along the line"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
THE COMET AS 1T WILL APPEAR.

NAV HILE the world has been disappointed by the miscarriage
wv of the cometary tail, there is compensation in the knowl
edge that there is soon to be afforded a celestial spectacle
that will fill all minds with wonder and awe. AT present the enyous
moon is in the way. BY shedding her borrowed radiance she puts
the comet in the shade. But after the moon attans her funess she
will begin to halve and quarter until, as a crescent, she will finally
disappear behind the earth's shadow. Then will the visitor from
the depths of space appear after sunset in splendid efulgence, and
we shall see the tail that so ungracously lodged the calculations
of the worlds dumfounded scientists stretched across the sky from
the head, the most glorious spectacle since the early ffties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
The People 5 Rostrum


vice-chancellor, chancellor or criminal
or circuit court judge will follow 1t.
There appears to be absolutely no
doubt az to the ability of the young
woman to fill the position, but what l
want to ask is this: Should a young
have dinned into her ears day
after day the dirty details of a divorce
proceeding? 1t is bad enough for the
bench to be compelled to listen to
them, but why not have a man take
the notes? 1t is not an edifying sight
to see a young woman busy with pot
hooks and dashes. from which bangles
The marital misery of an ill-mated
couple, Joined together by God, but
whom mar is trying to tear asunder.
FLORENCE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
High school Telescope Idle.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
A telescope which cost $500 is lying
idle at the High School while the most
interesting astronomical event in three
quarters of a century Is transpiring in
the heavens and every available glass
from small opera glasses to the great
telescopes of the worlds famous OBJ
servatories are being trained on Hal
ley's visitor. An eclipse of the moon
comes on Monday and with the general
interest in things celestial, it would be
interesting to watch them through the
big glass. The telescope would cost a
couple of hundred dollars to set up at
the High School, but the interest. in
%struction and general benefit which
would result would repay the Board OF
Education for the outlay.
STUDENT 'o9.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
OUR POLICY IN NICARAGUA.

TIT AVING permitted the Madriz gunboat Venus to clear from the
in port of New Orleans, fully armed and manned, the govern
ment has now, to balance things, allowed the Estrada gun.
boat Utstein, similarly armed and manned, to clear the port and
sail for Nicaragua. Both vessels have American adventurers aboard,
and a naval fight will be on when the Utstein reaches Nicaraguan
waters. An American gunbOat at Bluefelds has shoOed the Venus
off from an attempted blockade, but it won't have the i'll grace to
interfere in a naval battle between the two forces. Our government
diplomacy in Nicaragua has been as bad as laundering could make
il, and the hpshot of it will be a general feeling among the Mica
raguans of disgust and hostility toward a power that has no defined
policy and plays fast and loose in it's relations with a weaker state.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
An Eclipse of the Moon.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
On May % and "a, from about 1880
p. M. to 2:15 a. M, occurs a lunar
eclipse-a total eclipse of the moon.
From 1890 to 2:15 our moon enters and
is eclipsed by the terrestrial shadow,
and would be invisible to us were not
the solar rays that pass through our
atmosphere refracted or ent so that
they illuminate the surface of luna with
a din copper-colored light.
The diameter of the sun. that con
tributes the light. averages S66,0OO
miles: the mean diameter of our earth.
that intercepts this light, is 7,sl2hs
miles, and the average diameter of the
moon which will be eclipsed is 2,162
miles. Z. N. II.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 20. 1910.
"REAs0Ns" FOR INCREASING C%OMMUTAT1oM

cna HERE is now no question about a general advance in COM
mutation rates by the railroads that lead into Manhattan,
and evidently there is an understanding or genuemen's agree
ment among these roads. 1t is claimed by the railroad managers
that the suburban service is not profitable, because the terminal
facilities are SO expensive and, lattery, because the cost of labor
and materials has gone up. All the roads are through lines, and
their through traffic requires the terminals irrespective of the sub.
urban traffic. Terminal expenses cannot, therefore, be charged up
against the suburban service in a way to justify an increase of com
mutation rates. The Erie Railroad Company also puts in a plea of
Unfortunately heavy taxes by the State of New Jersey, a plea without
a bit of justification. Since the Erie has been in operation in this
State it has received an immense bounty in the shape of exempt
taxes, amounting to millions of dollars, and the taxes the company
now pays is less than the rates paid by individual propertyowners.
Ihe reasons advanced for Communication rate increase are not tenable.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
CLEAN. BUT NOT TOO CLEAN.

PLEASE, mann, lend me a quarter to
buy a toothbrush with. | kin git a
Job If I look neat"
do you think cleaning your teeth
will make you look neat enough?'
"Oh, l want da toothbrush to clean
me celluloid collar wid."-Cleveland
Leader.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
HEARD ON A CAR.

II wouldn't have known anything
about the comet but for the mana
ger at our place. He told me every
thing there a to know
Where did he get his informa-
tion?"
"Why he went up on top Of a six
story building two or three morn
ings and examined the comet with
a microscope"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
HOW THE COMET REVEALED A HOMICIDE.

TEAR of the comet had one satisfactory result. 1t extorted
from a murderer, arrested on suspicion of a lesser crime, and
held by the Newark police, a confession of an unsuspected
murder at a farm in Middesex county. The finding of the body
where the murderer said he had placed it was evidence enough of the
sincerity of the confession. Criminals against whom evidence is
wanting are subjected by their police custodians to what is termed
the "third degree" 1t is the business of the police authorities 10
obtain evidence of crime, and one of the means employed is to work
upon the feelings of the criminal. In this case the process, was
simple. Ignorant fear of a world catastrophe furnished the mate
rial Inasmuch as there are many suspects in the hands of the
police in the United States it would have been a happy thought to
make a general use of the comet to extort confessions of crime But
it seems that the device was employed only by the Newark police,
and with surprising results.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
JUST A CHANCE.

We are not through with this
comet business yet. by any cans,
There are q number of horrible pes
sibilities that 1t is just as vel, II we
value our peace of mind, we should
not contemplate. a@s
Take, for instance. that prophecy
that the North Pole would te1torH
up by the roots, because of the pl1
of the comet, and stuck up in an
other part OF the Arctic fed. We
are not banking very hard on
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Vice-Chancellor Stevens has commit
ted a woful error in the appointment of
a young woman as the official stenog-
rapher in that part of the Court of
Chancery which he controls. 1t is a
woful error, l mean from the point of
view of social economy 1t is the first
appointment of it's kind, l believe, and
the precedent established is a pernic.
ious me. 1 sincerely hope that no other
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
MAKING TIME PROFITABLE.

See herei" cried the busy merchant,
don't o know my time Is valuable p
We'll" replied the book agent, I'm
sure 1t might be valuable to me. II
you'll give mi five minutes OF It, I be-
lieve I can sell you a set of these
books."-The. Catholic Standard and
Times.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

prophecies after that tail tiasco. to
be sure, but just ~supposing.
We should have all that drcarySi
inane and depressing polar business
to go through again. Prominent ex-
plorers would be gay or sad ac-
cording to the weakness or strength
Of their earlier claims.
If the pole was moved ~faryenough
south to make it available for ex-
cursion purposes, that n of our old
friends. Cook or, Peary, who knows
his initials are bitten upon the end
of the earth's axis, might be ex-
cused for feeling gratihed. A grave,
thoughtful air might be expected
from the other one.
To be perfectly candid, however,
we do not think the comet had any
more effect on the North Pole than
1t had on us.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
DADDY s Good Night Stories
THE LITTLE BROWN JUG.
BY FARMER SMITH.

r." looks interesting" thought little Billie
Bubble to himself. as he spied a round
dark something IN the bottom of the little
brook.
"Ill Just go down and see what that is."
Little Billie Bubbles whirled round and round, for
little Bubbles always have to go down in a little whirl-
pool. Pretty soon he found himself in the bottom of the
brook beside the round, dark thing.
what are your" asked little Billie Bubble.
"Tm a Brown Jug answered the round thing in a
hollow voice.
whats a Brown Jug?' said Billie.
That's what l am" said the Brown jug. "Once I
was filled with sweet lemonade. l was in great demand
then" EH
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
A REMEDY.

A cablegram from Hayti brings
the interesting news that the comet
pills guaranteed to stave off I'M
pleasant influences-$1 a box at all
druggists-worked like magic. No
one who took them faithfully suf-
fered an ill-effects from the swish
of the giant tail. incidentally those
who neglected to purchase them es-
capped as by a miracle. !,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
THE PROBABLE ONE.

What do you suppose Is the song
of the desert?"
i don't know, but / should think 1t
would be. The camels Are Coming
Baltimore American.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

Halley's comet has a powerful in
1uence over the earth's inhabitants.
Many strange unusual results of this
influence have been reported. None
of these results are more remarkable
than that one which had Newark for
its setting. His conscience weighed
down with guilt, a murderer against
whom no charge had been made. con-
fessed all, through fear of the comet.
being of society, the question of the
comets tail may be waived.
South American revolutions seem to
have passed their day of glory by.
Until recently they were permitted to
run their illogical and picturesque
courses to the end. uninterrupted by
outside interference. 1t. is but neces-.
sary to gaze upon the plight of the
Nicaraguans to be convinced that the
good old days are gone. you mustn't
fight here says the American marine,
and reyolutionist and nationalist alike
must obey his dictum.
No more romantic quest could nav
been devised in this practical, prosaic
age than that one which takes a young
woman of East Orange to England for a
legacy. She was informed merely that
she had been left a fortune; the name
of her benefactor was withheld; she
was supplied with funds for her jour-
ney; she has no idea of the size of the
bequest. And this is 1910. But per-
haps the comet may be held RESPONSE
BILE.
That coyness with which the New
Ideaites greeted the advances of Con-
gresham Fowler, who for a few feet
ing moments entertained a senatorial
bee, Is to have a most interesting
sequel. A 5,000-word opinion of Senator
Kean is promised for Monday. Then,
| perhaps, we may expect a first public
expression of opinion from Senator
Kean concerning Congressman Fowler.
Again a semi-oficial demand is made
for cleaner streets in Newark. If the
agitation ceased it would be the STREETS
themselves which sooner or later wculd
clamor for reform. There comes a cer-
tain period in the life of an unmani-
cured street when 1t is impossible mad
then, 1t is its own best advertisement of
its condition.
A twenty-two-story building at Wall
and Nassau streets, Manhattan, is be-
ing demolished to make room for a
larger structure. The dismantled build
ing Is comparatively new, and, the
wrecker say would have stood for a
hundred years. The nervous surplus
energy of the metropolis in seeking an
outlet often traverses strange channels.
Considering the immense amount of
entertainment the comet has already
furnished the animate objects which
live and breathe and have their being
on this mundane sphere, does it not
seem in all fairness tina the mooted
question of the comets tail should be
waived?
The probe in the Ballinger inquiry
seems TO have uncovered personal
grudges as the foundation stones of
the famous controversy. The hearing
at its best was not an elevating spec
tacle and apparently it is degenerating
daily.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

whats lemonade?" said Billie. as he went to the top Of the Jug and let
himself down inside.
Don't you know what lemonade is % said the jug in great surprise,
s"whoop!" said little Billie Bubble coming u Of the Brown Jug in a hur-
r. "your voce sounded sc funny inside that I had to get out. Now, what
did you sayg'
1T said, Don't you know what lem onade tsp"
mo, of course not" said Billie. What is it" t4
ITS what little boys and girls always drink when they 70 to pcnfcs,"
said the Brown jug "A picnic wouldn't 70 a picnic without lemonade It's
so sweet and cool and goo to drink"
"You use Sc many strange words" said Billie, that 1 ever heard before
Now, what is a picnic?'
"wenl" said the Brown Judgi "there is one thing sur I am not going
to tell you what a picnic is If you e have a picnic yu will know what a
picnic is A picnic is a picnic. that all there is to that"
"Oh, very WE'LL" said little Billie Bubble. IF I ever rave a picnic I'll tell
you all about it,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

The STAR extends the priyi-
lege of these columns to the
public and invites signed com
munications of not more than
one hundred words treating OF
topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
ROMANCE.

ut seems she did something rather
odd-wedded her first love or some such
silly thing
mo. 1t was far more remarkable
loved her frst wedded."-Smart Set.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

know very little about the tail or what
it is composed of, or how long it is.
They and the tail appear to have found
cred in the ether sea. AMATEUR.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
THE WRONG WAY.

1.-The scientists, at least, cannot
complain that they were not in good
position to see the comet"
mop"
AZ should say not. They were
way up in the air all the time"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
p~ITTsBURG's F

Pittsburg turns to its baseball club as
a body of public servants whose honor
has never been Observation-Disclosures
ton Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
CLEANER STREETS; WHY?

A man who knows enough to come
in when It rains
Knows very well that cen though
infinite the pains.
Bestowed upon the streets; they're
wasted when
The plaguy things straightway get
all mussed up again!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

Considering the immense amoun of
entertainment the comet has already
furnished the animate objects which
live and breathe and have their being
on this mundane sphere, does it not
seem in all fairness that the mooted
waived?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
M
WM.TM
REIMBURSEMENT


All me, nut yesterday It was, |
thought astronomy
AS much a science as political
economy.
Not quite exact, but near enough to
make ~astrology
Seem nothing more beside it than
a mere apology.
Today, as l 1.-The situation scan, it
seems to me
That an astro!oger-and all I'M
learned though he be,
Equals the savant who has the big
est telescope,
When it to framing uo this
Halley's comet dope!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

The probe in the Ballinger inquiry
seems to have uncovered personal
the famous controversy. The hearing
at its best was not an elevating spec
tacle and apparently it is degenerating
daily.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20

Again a semi-official demand is
for cleaner streets in Newark.
agitation ceased it would be the
themselves which sooner or later
clamor for reform. There comes
tain period in. the life of an ur
cured street when 1t is impassab
then, 1t is its own best advertiser
its condition.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1910-10-26
La CORRESPONDENCE De PUERTO RICO oCTrBRE 26 1910.

d
| I'm dia encuentra su papa & su hi
! jito prendido de Ia cola de un cato
sPor que tiras de Ia cola a ese pe
bre animal?
Papa, yo solo tengo Ia cola; e
cato es ell que tira.
-lQuiere usted chorizos de ES
tremadura? Los doy baratus.
No los quieru. He estado en- Elk
tremadura, y Sc que los chorizos que
usted vende lus hacen con carne de
burru.
ESQ no es verdad. De otro modo
no Sc comprende que usted no haya
vuelto de EXtremadura convertible
en- chorizo.
Chico ahi tienes una buena pro
posiglon. Esa muchacha es rica y pue
des casarte con ella. No es guapa, pc
10 Ia belleza dura POGO.
4 ESQ es verdad. Pero aquf 10 malo
que hay no es que la belleza dure DO
co, sino que la fealdad no Sc va nun
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1910-10-26

10 ha ahrmado la prensa despues, es
taba rehacio para frmar tai ley qus
lfrmo al cabo; habiendo declarado i
timamel>te que no volvera a hrma'
lev al lguna de esa condlcidn. Y mler
tras Sc nos motejaba y agentes pa ga
dos por el tesoro de Puerto Rico all
iconsprlahan contra nuestros dere-
fchos \ lihertades dandonos por inca
PAGES ! die.endo que en- este pals nc
hay opinion; mientras csc pasaba
Ihallabase en- el homo una ley de
presupuestos QUE ahora Sc consldera
como uu despilfarro del dinero del
pueblo norteamericano, y de Ia cual
!! el senator Aldrich, uno e los gu Ia
ivotaron s:n protesta entonees, ati1
ma que pueden eeonomizarse
s3oo.ooo, eco.
Pensamos que el pueblo de los
Estados Jnitios reetifeafa todo ESQ
cuando dc clio Sc csnse. \ pensa-
nos cue en- este case 81 ncs lmporta
es defender 4 nustro pals De la lnjus
tic.a. I5e ahf porque deeea2os oecla
gar. inspire dos en- Ia verdad, cue los
que quis.e1on arrojar descredlto So
bre nrestgos hermsnos lleva-
ban en- Ia frente la mancha arrola :
oiza. In espejo rehejndo conocl-
/ das imagenes. Nos consideration ia
les como Sc veian. Nuestro aSombro
ante el ineNpllca bic y cruel ataque
nuestra fanla, ahora encuentra clara
Sc nos juzgo uno de tan
tos: Sc nos supuso tales como SC We
ron, y aquellas miseras lntrgas de
que Sc qulso hacer cqulen 10 ereNera
fuente dc leglslacion para seles hu-
lnanos, aquellas intr gas, deumos
enconraron, como todas, 1n buen
Dios que revelara a su tempo las Yer
dades, tantas en- elocuencla y en- Va
riedad cue no vacilamos en- recomen-
dar a nuestrOs cOmpatrlOtaS q lla eai-
cuanto les sea possible por ayuoa /
con su crltica y con lie eNpllcacion oe
la verdad, al buen pueblo de los rs
tados Unidos hoy tan sufrido como
el nuestro, resolver los embroila-
dos prohlemas que le crearon, que su
prensa denuncia constantenente, y
qse preocupsn ahora sus pensado
res.
Venttlrosamente nj tenemos. NJ de
bemos tener jamas borr1l de tocno,
nj consentiremos sin protesta presu-
puestos derrochsdores. Aunque Sc
nos niegue capcidad, los hechos nos
la reconocen.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1910-10-26
TEMP. MAX s. TEMP. Mn Il.
TRESCIENT1S NILL9
NES EtnR0CHAD0S

Genera.nleAte l1& iefaeta q'le ha-
va 500 el pam io vA .!laNl lla eh la
canata. el is4Tt' se1i.ez go ee nilf =
tros conpa' o'a> re slehsi'o n.oee
rado y g i,-'aae"
Los presutaA7i'- ttetzn -rp4l 7
muv dlsc@'ld@- pnF sa eanta''f ~
clnaci6n &c lo- deleg4e~e,- a ye'a}ar
la cuanus de os i-eth@- p5r i's en-
pleados Que desen-peuaa IN 81 rca-
SEQ el oaPei de lfeislazI'' 'st-r. ilahd9
tueron pedidaS leEes S.e > t1s"elas,
produIeronSe inrldertes N.Tlados
cusndo los fepublleailes, cohfet i'9S.
dlslmulados. -err"ta> m9N!l"ildo>e
los punos para no het!si GUAM % b,s
lmionlstas, frances, Gec.dlcos, .ea-
les, frente tIente Pefo 81 Eno 3 en
otro tienrQ s'eron i9s l1ieEt6Hlqac-
nos mliesrras &c nGnlI3 = r"L'il-ei--
cla. repreehano"so q Ee"@e iasta ia
sollcltud d patidaS iefc~Up',estas
para Ilne & moraAe@t 9 s'e resitt3
3 IA memoirs ce n'.e=fs.,s rat"te
ESQ 4lEnamo' y ttsna37a. le
te eAacto, lnf mucn" 42e = s.5.sa-
nozca esta reaiidaa. =. e PgcDc ~
falacla aarmar que tt.t - eatla.a
puertofri9H'n@ en- n.'.g,4A i'en-.ra.
fuente de aa';s5s J dc ele.,-atios COZ
ira el bolsi.!o re los sl',uyentes.
Cuando iGS sucesos 8.e mario &c
lsos. tue t''S"Hhocifo . allifstro- her
manoS ese E-si1to :, aa'l llc!ti.--