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Another stock subject, oftenest intro
duced by mothers, God bless them, is
children. o. the wonderful things chill
dren say and do. People who never talked
before on this subject can overwhelm you
with their exuberant garrulity. You are
informed that the Baby cut a tooth to-
day; THE baby is going to be a great
linguist, for 1t cooed something like a
Russian noun; II really believe the baby
Is too smart to live, he put his toe in his
mouth today" The bachelor living next
Greens by the babys crying all night,
adds his testimony, Yes, yes, it's great
baby; has lungs like lion; he'll be a
barker for a sideshow when he grows up
But all these topics grow monotonous
after while, and there Is felt a need
for more general information. This is es-
|sential to interesting and profitable con-
versation.
The most distinguished conversational
lists have been men and women of large
reading, and close observers of men and,
events Macaulay, Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Samuel Rodgers. Horace Walpole, Thorn
as Carlyle, Madame De Stael, Madame Du
Deffand, and scores of others that I
might mention, were as conspicuous for
their stores Of information and intelli-
gent observation as they were for their
conversational ability. These two habits,
reading and observing give one the abil-
ity to entertain, because they furnish the
mind with countless subjects In some of
which, or all. some persons or all, are in
|terested
He who would talk we'll must read. I
do not mean that he is to read every book
that Is published. The majority of books
that are issued annually are not worth
reading. Barring these, how boundless is
the field Of literature in this. the golden
age of worthy books. We have wealth
LOT publications, In our times, compared
with which all the past ages were poor,
indeed We have an enrichment of his
tory, biography, travels, poetry, science
and fiction. absolutely amazing, from
which the conversationalist may gather
profitable and entertaining topics and in
cidents that will give golden wings to the
passing hours.
But conversation is not always to be of
literature. any more than 1t Is to be al
ways religious. Hence, I would recon-
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"And the juggling of the guinea
helps the hurt that honor feels"
l am glad that the Niger won on
another account. 1t shows that the
race prejudice is just as intense at the
north as Ii is at the south and the In
creasing exodus of negroes from the
south to the north will soon make the
question acute and then 1t will De
settled
The way to compose 1t Is to enter
into treaty with Great Britain under
the terms of which that empire shall
take over Liberia and hold 1t crown
colony. Then hire all the educated ne
groes we have, from Booker Washing
ton down. to emigate to Liberia and
become British subjects, and there
work out their salvation, elevate them
selves to the skies, God willing.
Failing that, death will settle the
thing. Inferiority cannot stand with
superiority. There are not as many ne
groes in this country In 1910 as there
were in 1900. The negro will go to
Liberia, or go as went the unslavable
Indian.
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ness and join the church." is for mo-
ment to be thought of here; but q dis
tinct purpose and Understanding de-
termination to follow Christ whittier
soever he may lead.
g. Deny himself" ITO deny state
ment," and ito deny a request" are both
common in classical Greek. The heather
knew how to do both; but ito deny
ones SELF is unkonwn to the Greek clas-
sizes. and this use of the verb deny Is
found only in the Greek New Testa-
ment. Christianity invented the virtue
Of self denial, as 1t invented those
of meekness and poverty Of spirit. The
Greek word here used for deny" Is an
Intensive" form of the verb. meaning
to deny utterly-to renounce entirely"
You must sweep self clean out of the
way. The dearest and most binding Of
earthly ties must be utterly dissolved
when they come into conflict with your
LOYALTY to Christ. Father, mother, broth
ers, sisters, sons. daughters-even the
wife of your bosom, the mother Of your
children-must all stand aside in the
presence Of the claims of your Lord
Matthew X. 81 and Luke XIV. 26. are de-
cisive on these obligations and are 30
familiar that I need not transcribe them
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pidity to the whole long-drawn-out de-
bate, which has trickled it's muddy way
down almost a century of time. If there
were but one flash of inspiration, one no.
BILE sentiment. in the interminable series Of
guess and innuendo and doubt patience
might hold UP her head even yet. Igna-
thus Donnelly succeeds In arresting atten-
ton for a brief space, while he expounds
an inexplicable theory; but like all the
rest of the Baconian hypothesis, his the
ory consists of equal parts of improbable
ity and assumption, and the real prob
lem goes unsolved. 1 take for an in
stance the play "Timon of Athens Ac-
cording to the theory it was written by
Bacon long after Shakespeare's death,
and drew it's moral from Bacon's fall.
Very we'll. Then 1t is complete product
from a single hand. But how comes 1t
that this particular play is evidently the
long while 1t has been reckoned by the
scholars essentially n-Shakespearean,"
and full of inconsistencies" Did Ba-
cons hand forget its cunning? Was he
a poorer playwright In 1923 than in 1893?
The Baconians bring scant honor to their
idol And they miss the problem miss
lit hopelessly.
Here are few of their mis-apprehen-
sions I number them simply for definite
ness.
l. They assume that there ought to be
only one way to spell proper names. But
they should know that in the sixteenth
century even scholars were lax In their
photography. Again and again 1t has
been pointed out how Bacon at least once
spelled his name Bakon. There is no
proof that he ever spelled 1t with an s,
indeed! Our Baconians dare to spell Mar
lowe without the final e. and to insist
that one or both e's should be snatched
from Shakespeare. Green used to be
Greene and Pell, Peele. Enter the Bacon
ians. and exit the es! Why should not
any man spell his name as he chose? In
that period he actually did so, unaware
that pedants would come along and 6rst
blame him for his els and then puncture
him with a hyphen. 1t is foolish to sup
pose that because Shakespeare spelled his
own name in various ways he was there
fore either an ignorant man or two men,
or both ignorant and duplex. / notice the
very curiously ordained fact that Lady
Ann is even by a Baconian decorated
with one of the els distracted from
Shakspere, or was 1t jacques pierre? Pity
lit was not English into blackstone or
Jackson.
| 2. Just as far-fetched is the idea that
lin the sixteenth century plays were lit
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hHIs is July 4. and when I walked
abroad this morning a man, a for
= eign-born citizen, hessian, who
was forced to vote the know-nothing tick
ct 81 times in one day in that town by
the plug uglies'' of Baltimore, nearly go
years ago, aecosted me and demanded to
know why I did not display the STARS
and Stripes" and he challenged my pa
triotism. He had little old flag out at
his window that cost about cents the
dozen. What answered would not read
very well in print in a religious newspa-
per, though I claim to be as Indifferent
patriotic as Hamlet was Indifferent hon
est
s Now. 1 hold, and will maintain against
all corners, that no man can be pa
triot' except for the land of his birth,
where he first saw the light, where he
first drew from the breast of his mother
the milk that sustained his infant vitali-
ty. Hamilton, the foreigner, was an ad-
venturer. Had his lines been cast in
England he would have been a partisan
of George III, and perhaps the one man
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THE tendency of joke to recur at
somewhat regular intervals, and to
L "go the rounds" once more, has
often been observed. Similar laws ap-
pear to govern theological heresies. With
b sort of pulse-beat precision you shall
find the religious papers returning once
again to the advocacy or the denuncia-
ton of something said by somebody at
Chicago university, that hope of the
dreary season. And I have noticed kind
of regularity In the intervals of Baconian
activity, during which activity we are
asked to discard tradition and dogma,
prejudice and inference and examine the
natural and naked facts according to the
dictates of Baconian philosophy! Then
shall the statue of the worlds greatest
poet be knocked from its pedestal, and
the once late lord chancellor be set in
Boapstone splendor there. Then shall the
swelling tides of pilgrimage. which sweeps
to stratford- upon-Avon, be diverted to
st. Adams, a sadder, IL wiser, crowd
1t would be easy perhaps to let the
challenge pass this time also. But It
comes with such pertinacity and such dis
play of learning, such references to first
hand information, such a show of au-
thority and conclusiveness. all toned
down by gentle courtesy, that It seems
to require some reply. In comparison, In
deed, with the fine equipment of literary
lore with which the case has recently
been pressed can lay claim to no more
than Is easily accessible to ordinary NOR
tails; only that Stratford, with all its
glory and Shakespeare, however great
a fraud, are alike dear to me by ties of
natural birth and even kinship of soul,
nothing could bring me. with my lance,
into the lists against these unnamed, but
doughty doubters. the Baconian heretics.
For this Is heresy, whether 1t be true or
false. It is contrary to received opinion,
contrary to universal tradition, contrary
to the great streams of literature forever
associated as "Shakespeareana." These
with one consent confess that the STRAIT
ford boy became the London actor and
playwright, who made himself fairly rich
by the management of the Globe theatre,
and who has left us a monument more
desirable even than Bacons philosophy
in a mass of fugitive dramas which no
man of his time could believe worthy Of
the name of literature.
Behold the Baoonians eagerly seeking
those off-scourings of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries to bring them a
scented offering to their haro's shrine.
1t Is one more instance of the unexcept-
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ed. of the stone which the builders re-
jected becoming the chief cornerstone;
one more Illustration of how God raises
the poor from the dung-hill and sets him
among princes; one fairly modern proof
that good things can come even out of
Nazareth.
On the other hand, what the Baconians
say" is made to wear the air of plausi-
bility, and the unwary may easily be
made to believe that mass of names
Emerson, Macaulay, Speeding or
Greene, Ben Jonson, A1leyn-really proves
that these persons, one and all, consid-
cred "Shakspere' an ill-considered dog
and Bacon something in the garb of
poet. But 1t must be reverently insisted
that the Baconians are constantly read
ing between the lines, themselves substi-
tuting theories and guesses for facts, and
retiring from untenable positions amid
such names as in a cloud OF dust. Was
Emerson convert to the Baconian the
DRY? By no means. Was Speeding, who,
we are told, had spent 40 years in the
study of Bacon's life and works? Not at
ali ihuccu III lHo popuidI cultiOH VI DID,
cons works, published by Houghton.
Mifflin & Co.. we read: Verses were not
much in Bacon's line" Yet that edition
Is based on Spedding's, and the express
sion I take to be his own. Certainly no
man can read the few attempts at verse
preserved as unquestionably the fruit of
Bacon's genius and not thank heaven
that he did no more! A few paraphrases
of psalms are given. Is there any breezi-
ness. any flash of genius, any unforgetta-
BILE phrase in them. that one may found
hand wrote Venus and Adonis," or
Romeo and Juliet? Alas, not one.
Now this 1t Is fair to say: The evidence
for the Shakespearean authorship of the
poems and plays is at least as good as
the evidence that Paul WROTE the epistles
that bear his name. We know more
about the man Shakespeare, however the
name Is spelled, than we know about the
man Saul of Tarsus. But certain Ger
mans, some years ago, undertook to dis
prove the Pauline authorship of most. If
not all, of the epistles. 1t was a literary
heresy, and 1t Is exploded Similarly this
attack on the reputed author of the dram
as and poems is literary heresy, and
does very little more than provoke a
smile.
The fact is. 1t proves too much as did
the attack on Paul 1t requires us to con-
clude that Shakespeare, the actor, was
inconspicuous,' while he was making a
fortune in London as one of London 8
chief players. 1t insists that we know
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-04
CHRISTMAS CARDS
ON JULY FOURTH
PROVED |RKS0ME
Undertaken Called, Too, So Mrs.
Scott Hailed Miss Leighton y
to Court.

The sending of Christmas souvenir
postal cards on the Fourth of July and
summoning of an undertaker's wagon
to her home when everybody in the
house was in the best of health, LED
Mrs. Ida 7. Scott. of So Washington
street, East Orange, to appeal to Re-
corder Francis A. Mott, jr., n today
Miss Nettie e. Leighton, who lives
next door, was summoned I, tell what
she knew about it all.
Miss Leighton told the recorder that
she did send the postal cards contain
ing Christmas greetings last Fourth of.
July, but said these We're the only SOU
venir kind she could obtain at the time
and thought they might be welcome.
She also admitted sending from Can
ada a card which contained the infor-
nation that there are lots of people
here from Newport, Newark and New
jersey She denied sending the UNDER
taker around, however.
Mrs. Scott also claimed that a few
days ago her sister went out in the
back yard, and while there the family
dog was poking its nose through the
fence, and Miss Leighton called to her
to take the dog away or there might
be another dog poisoned in the vicinity,
and that she called here sister an any.
thing but complimentary name. Miss
Leighton denied all these allegations.
She finally promised Recorder Mott,
however, that she would not send the
cards around any more so long as
they were not appreciated.
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LEN RIDGE,
B%ELLEvILLE
N NUTLEY
IRvINGTON TO CHOOSE
HEALTH BOARD MEN.
Three Members to Be Named by
Town Council Tonight.

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AlLLBURN,
IRvINGTON
AND L T
SHADE TREE BOARD
FOR IRVINGT0N URGED.
Town Leaders Also Hope for
Better Postal Service.

The Irvington Board of Trade held
its first regular meeting of the year
last night in Masonic Hall, Irvington.
Michael A. Dougher, the newly elected
president, occupied the chair.
Recorder w. Eugene Turton, School
Commissioner Albion G. Christian, for
mer Freebooter Edward Jacobs and
James H. Byrne advocated a local
shade tree commission. 1t was urged
that other towns in Essex County had
such a commission. which did much
to protect the trees and beautify those
placer. 1t was decided to ask the
Mayor and Town Council to arrange
for the appointment of a commission
Letters were read from Postmaster
James l.. Hays and D. %. Davis, secre-
tary to Congressman Wiley, both of
which dwellcd e-ncouragingly upon the
matter of increased postal facilities for
the town.
Former Assemblyman George +.
Scribe said that numerous petitions
bearing over 5000 names, requesting
the Transformation of the Essex County
Speedway into a public boulevard, had
been circulated. 1t was proposed to
submit these to the freeholders, and If
they failed to take favorable action
efforts would be made to have a special
bill for this purpose passed by the
Legislat are.
Arrangements are being made for
he annual banquet on January Il.
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VAN DEREN SUCCEEDS
WITT in TOWN COUNCIL.
Harrison Solons Meet Tonight to
Re0rganize for 1910.

The Harrison Common Council will
meet tonight and organize for 1910.
There will be only one change in the
makeup of the Council-Councilman
Charles J. Witt will be succeeded by
State Prison Inspector Clarence L. Van
Deren. Mr.. Witt has served in the
Council from the Third ward for sew
eral years., but on account of moving
into another ward did not seek reelec-
ton this year.
Mr.. Van Deren has served before in
the Council and has an enviable rec
ord as an official of the town. Two
years ago he was assured that he would
receive the Republican nomination for
Congressman from the ninth district.
He was at that time a member of the
Council and did not seek reelection be-
cause of that promise. y
When it came to naming the con-
g~ressional candidate, however, MI. Van
Deren was passed over and George
Crichield was nominated, and on ac-
count of the deal given the Harrison
man the Republicans voters of West
Hudson voted to a great extent against
the G. o. p. candidate.
Mr.. Van Deren is a real estate dealer
and has resided in Harrison all OF
his life. Councilmen Peter Sullivan,
Joseph B. Henry and John ]. DAILY sue
ced themselves as representatives of
the First, Second and Fourth wards,
respectively. i
Councilman DAILY will probably be
elected president of the Council for
1910. 1t is not expected that there
will be any changes made in the APP
pointive offices, Mayor Joseph p. Rior-
dan will name his committees for 1910.
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ARLINGTON FLOCK
VOTES SALARY TO
RETIRING PASTOR

AS substantial evidence of their APP
probation of his sixteen years services
as pastor, he congregation of the First
presbyterian Church, Arlington, last
night voted to not only comply with
the pressing wish of the Rev. John
Hutchinson to be relieved from the
charge of The church, but also pledged
themselves to guarantee his salary for
a year to come; as well as to give him
and his family the use of the manse In
Eilshemius venue until a successor be
appointed.
The congregational meeting had been
called to consider the pastors resigna-
ton, which took effect on January l,
II a large proportion OF TIC church
members We're present. The Rev. Or.
Davis w. Lusk, of Newark, acted as
moderator. Mr.. Hutchison had asked
that delegates be sent from the church
to the Newark Presbytery on January
IL to request the latter body to unite
with the pastor in his request that his
official relations with the Arlington
church be dissolved. The following
committee was appointed to comply
with the pastors request:
Albert l.. Belden, Duncan McAllister
o OSNot W. Duilliait. IL DTuNlQt
for a success for Mr.. Hutchinson the
following were appointed: David Stew
art, chairman; Horace butcher, wal
lace j. Pfieger, Herman Q. Weiser,
WILLIAM j. Coons, John r. Sproull and
Duncan McAllister.
Many tributes of regard were paid to
the retiring minister, and then followed
the adoption of a resolution stating
that, as the members of the church
realized that with the adoption of the
resignation of Mr. Hutchinson his income
ceased. they, therefore, pledged them
selves to continue his salary for one
year from January /, 1910. Should he
at any time within ten months become
the pastor of another charge the con-
%gregation will continue to pay his
salary for two months after the time
he obtains such appointment. 1t is also
stipulated that Mr.. Hutchinson shall re-
main In possession of the manse until
the pulpit of the Arlington church is
permanently supplied.
1t is understood that the Rev. Joseph
Fulford Folsom, former pastor of Knox
Church, Kearny, but now of the Clinton
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Newark,
will supply next Sunday.
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BELLEvILLE.

Thomas Moran, 81 years old, died
yesterday In st. Michael's Hospital
after a lingering illness. The funeral
Caldwelrs parlors. Washington ave-
nue., to st. Peters Church, where a
high mass of requiem will be celebrated.
Interment will be made in st. Peters
Cemetery.
At the week of prayer services in
Wesley M. e. Church tonight the pas
tor, the Rev. C. E. Scudder, will preach
on 'Our Substitute"
The f. T. Card Club will meet to-
morrow night at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Wharton, of 327 North
Stephen street.
The Tuesday Afternoon Club will
meet today at the home of Mrs. p. v.
A. Brett. of $50 Main street.
Mrs. Theodore Van Ripper will be the
hostess of the Ladies' Afternoon Club
on Friday at her home, Holmes street
and De Witt avenu
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Wes-
ley M. E. Church will meet Thursday
afternoon in the chapel of. the church
at 3 o'clock.
Arrangements were made last night
at the meeting of Sancta Maria Court,
Daughters of Isabella, for a euchre,
which will be given in the rooms of
Belleville Council, knights of Column
bus, Thursday evening, January 10.
This committee will be in charge: Miss
Mary e.. Cullen, Mrs. Joseph A. Con-
molly, Mrs. John T. Burke, Miss Marion
A. Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Larkin and
Miss Mary Crowley.
There has been some speculation as to
the reason why Harry Ashworth was
not appointed police justice when the
Township Committee organized on New
Years Day. He was elected a justice
of the peace at the last election
On the Republican ticket, and it
vas generally expected he would
be named to succeed Justice John c.
La Faucherie, a Democrat, who is fill
ing out the term of the late Justice
Council. 1t has been explained, how
ever. that Mr.. Ashworth will not re-
ceive his commission as a justice until
next May, n consequently cannot be
appointed until that time. In the mean
time Justice La Faucherie will hold
over.
The new Township Committee will
hold its first regular meeting tonight.
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BIOOMFIELD-.GLEN RIDGE.
Mrs. France. Q. urann Dead.

Mrs. Frances @. Uranu Dead.
Mrs. Frances Caroline Urann died
today in the home of her daughter,
Mrs. George j.. Oberman, 26 Snowden
place, Glen Ridge, from apoplexy, with
which she was stricken four days ago,
She was so years old and was born in
Newburg, n. Y. She had lived in the
borough for several years. She was
the widow of Captain William ID,
Tram. u. $. N, formerly of Newbure.
In addition TO Mrs. Oberman, she is
survived by another daughter. Fun
eral services will be held tomorrow
night in her late home.
Miss Kathryn Cook entertained q
number Of West End people at a
euchre party in her home, 161 Ashland
avenue, Bloomfield, last night. Five
tables were in play. First prize was
taken by Augustus c. Ashley. while
Mrs. NJ. Kohlmeyer took second prize
The winner of third prize was Mrs
Christian o. Hilpert. Fourth prize was
captured by Mrs. Frederick Smith
Selections on the piano were rendered
by Miss Edith Ashley and refresh
ments followed.
The Bloomfield firemen were given
a run today for a small fire in the
home of Edward ]. Thompson, rs Gin
ton street. The cause was an over
heated stovepipe.
The Bloomfield Board of Health last
night gave a hearing to a number Of
citizens. including several master
plumbers, When twenty sections OF the
sanitary code were revised. Another
meeting will be held Thursday night,
when further action willsbe taken.