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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-24

he is able to pay of the loan. His
master must provide him with a pillow
and a pair Of oxen, the seed for the.
crop and the necessaries of life. He,
also receives fixed allowance of oil,
wheat any barley per month, besides
yearly supply of clothes and foot-
wear, the price of them going to in.
crease the original debt. In harvest
time the khamme's, as he is called, is
entitled to an assistant, but he often,
prefers to take small indemnity and
set his wife and children to work in
stead. Usually he is free to seek en-
ployment on his own account from
January to April, and then he hires
himself out for day labor in the v&ne-
yards and olive groves of the French
-0l0nists. But in the districts now
given up to olive growing the khammes
are few, as their wages soon enable
them to free themselves; and besore
long, it may be safely prophesied,
the Arab will relinquish this ancient
usage In favor of modern European de-
vices for tiding over bad times. Per-
haps, too, it is hard to believe, he
may be gradually induced to secure
himself richer return for his la
Dor by using tools of modern shape.
and in particular by exchanging his
picturesque but ineffective wooden
plow for the powerful up-to-date ma
chine of steel and iron which the
French have brought into Algeria.
Three thousand years and more lie
between the two, and in the extraor-
binary slowness of the evolution OF
the plOw and the fundamental identity
of It's first and latest shapes one rec
ognizes the genius of its inventor.
Osiris or Bacchus? Triptolemus or
Buzyges was it? We only know that
the ground was titled with a share
drawn by oxen in the age when every
kindred. had a god for an ancestor
and the golden myths Of Greece wera
in the making.
At this point in my meditations be.
came aware that I still held Framp
toms coin in my closed palm. l tool
it in my fingers and began to examina
it. My little Greek just enabled mo
to decipher its superscription and gath
er that it was of the coinage of Size.
liotae, or early Greek settlers In Sicily,
dating from about 600 B. C. On one
side it bore an almost obliterated head
Of Demeter presumably; on the oh.
verse the figure of plow drawn by
two serpents. With such a pillow the
sacred line enclosing Greek and Etrus.
| can cities must have been traced, and
| with such pillow did Romulus draw
his circle round Mount Palatine, lift
ing it from the ground wherever a gate
| was to be. 1t differed but slightly
from the crooked hoe held by Osiris,
or from the hand plow with which
Sanger, Judge of Israel, fought the
enemies of his people, being all of ono
| piece, with pins or plugs inserted in
the stem to which the leathern thong
of the yoke might be attached. A
| tree trunk with a bent knee was an
obvious necessity, and, as to this day
in Algeria, the holm oak seems to have
been favorite for the purpose. He's.
iod, writing 700 years before tho Chris
tian era, advises a husbandman ia
cut down a tree of suitable shape
wherever he may encounter it ana
straightway bear it home
c. n. T. WOODBURY..
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-24
HOME FOR GIRLS NEEDED
Declared to Be One of tho Most Urgent
Necessities of New York
City.

The matron of home for girls
which is based on peculiar lines and
which accommodates only those who
can be left in the home a number of
gears, recently stated that one of the
most urgent needs of the hour In New
York city Is home for girls-and an
pther tor boys. for that mstte1-whioh
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-24

The money for the
arches at Valley Forge
is to be expended by
the Valley Forge park
commission under the
direction of the secre-
tary of war. A cOnsid-
cradle part of the en-
campment grounds Of
General Washington at
Valley Forge, in the
.,3-L g a@e- 1-10
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-24
noAenSf Tall aaaL

Doesn't Talk Back,
did you enjoy your travels?' j
II certainly did, and my wife quite
fell IN love with the Sphinx !.
''Sho did?'' ..s.
Yes, it's such : me ustener!s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-24
The Reform He Needed

Earnest But Prosy Street-Corner
Orator. want land reform; ! want
housing reform; want educational re.
form; I want
Bored Voice-Chloroform
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-24
0H0n& a& L.

Proof Of It.
"Maudie is a woman OF open ma
ture."
Il notice that It is hard to make -
shut up.~
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
Why Churches Fail.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Pursuing the article men and
Churches appearing in your Ros-
trum, issue of June s, 1 submit the fol-
lowing observations as to why men do
not attend churches in greater num-
bers:
From my training in a ministers
home, in a church university and as
an active past worker in all branches
of religious work, with supplemental
personal observations of conditions
throughout America, I believe emphat-
ically that churches will never be able
to gain active support from men as a
class until clergymen change their
tactics and the entire plan of the
church itself Is re~volutionized.
The church today is not a true reflex
Of the principles taught by Jesus
Christ, nor Is it regarded by the
rank and file of men as a posi-
tive force. Seldom, indeed, does a min
lister of the gospel voice anything
dynamic. Their preaching is largely
negative and platitudinous, and the
spirit of sleepy decay that has fallen
over the church as a whole has SC
imbued itself into the clergy that even
the ministerial voice issues forth in a
s%ing-song, freighted with dust OF
musty volumes, which the minister
himself too often has not properly as
simulated.
1t has been often said and as often
denied that ministers do not under
stand men. True, the minister gains
an insight into many phases of life
and has talking acquaintance with
many men in all branches of human
activity. But speaking generally. he
does not know these men. He does not
appreciate the inner motives that
~actuate their lives. His insight is
superficial, for the simple reason that,
generally speaking, the minister has
not lived the common life. He has not
felt the play of sidelights on a lay
mans soul. Without this he cannot
speak "as one having authority"
Why does the church cling to princi-
pies that even the ministers have
largely given over as unsound? For
instance, 81 believe in the Holy Ghost
. = the resurrection of the body
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 7. 1910.
STARS ICE N OUTING FUND STARTED

II 4 y ITH the advent of summer the STAR announces the lnau-
WV guration of its free ice and free outing fund, which starts
off with a substantial amount to its credit. 1t is hardly
necessary to point out the great good effected by the expenditure OF
a few thousand dollars in the field covered by the STAR fund. me
work done by the STAR fund last summer was benefcent in Its
results. 1t benefciaries were infants and their weary mothers,
sweltering in the heats of July and August, In humble homes, TOO
toor for the luxury of ice or for a days outing. The subscriber to
the STAR fund has the consciousness that he or she is sending aid
into the abodes of the worthy poor and bringing comfort and health
and strength to mothers and infants in the heats of the summer.
The summer vacation of the Newark citizen will be made more
ENJOYABLE by the knowledge that he has not forgotten to do some
thing for the welfare of the thousands of women and children in
Newark who take no vacation and to many of whom the summer
weather means distress, illness and even death.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
summer n1a.auerader..

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
How about vacations? How many city
chaps are preparing for their fo~rtnight's
s~ojourn in some fashionable summer
resort where their snappy clothes and
new accent will cast into oblivion all
thoughts of the $15-a-week Jobs they
hole at 1.-The Office" and where they will
introduce themselves as sons of rail-
road presidents, and how violently they
will make o to the temporary heires.
who sells ribbons at So per for eleven
months and two weeks in the year,
How like the Chinaman's opium this
all seems! Happiness for a few days
and then regrets, remorse and often
humiliation.
Why are young men and young
women ashamed of their positions?
Poverty is no disgrace, but by deceiv-
Ing others as to your true station In
life you admit that you do not hope
to rise, that your present position IL
not a stepping-stone to something high
er and nobler. The greatest men In
history were not always the sons of
the aristocracy. Besides you can have
a better time when you are honest and
not afraid of being found OUT
/ think the newspapers ought to take
this up just now and write an editorial
or two on the subject. Honesty is not
a policy but a principle. and when 1t
is ones principle to be honest n never
decelves. MAX WELL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
HAS THE STATE POWER TO ACT?

% TATE development will be seriously affected by the arbitrary
increase in the fares on the railroads if 1T is permitted to go
into operation. Families come into the State to make their
homes because they can live cheaper and better than in Manhattan.
In most cases the margin of difference is small and can be wiped
out by an increased expense for daily transportation. In all cases
the increase, added to the greatly inflated prices of necessares, rem
ders it difficult for families to make both ends meet. The State
has given to the railroads a monopoly of the highways with the obli-
cation to give to the public an efficient service at a reasonable
charge. That obligation precedes everything else. 1t must be full
filled before dividends are paid. 1t is grossly violated when the
consideration of dividends is given precedence and the desire for
corporation profit extinguishes all sense of public obligation. All
the railroads in this State except the Lehigh Valley have State
charters, and therefore are creatures of the State. Shall the State
stand aloof and indiferently see it's citizens oppressed and its mu-
inequalities injured by these corporate creatures? Has the State
no means of defense for its people? To ask the question is to an
swer it. Railroad sovereignty is not yet established in New Jersey.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
The People 5 Rostrum


sane man believes In the resur-
rection of the body? A little point,
you may say. But the church is cum
bered with just such dead issues.
Let ministers talk sense from their
pulpits. Let them teach upon topics of
direct interest to men. Instead of cry
ing persistently Love thy God" let
them, rather, show men to love their
brethren, and the love of God will take
care of itself. Let them cease shoot
ing high of the mark. Let them turn
the machinery of the church away
from chickering's and h%allelujahs (Which
are so peculiarly Joined together in
most church bodies) and apply it in
the way of helping men along the diff
cult pathway of life, instead of trying
90 hand them a compulsory passage to
heaven-never mind jolts on the way.
G.B. WINSHIP.
New York, June 7.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
THE ENGLISH OATH OF ACCESSION

TTA VERY reform step in government meets with stubborn resist
IT. ance from the ultra conservative sentiment. All the re-
form changes in the British government were fought step by
step by this logged spirit that clings to the past and present and is
insensible to human progress. For many years the democratical
spirito of England has commended for a representative Parliament
Ut succeeded in wiping out the rotten borough system in the lower
house. and after many years a reform is inevitable in the upper
house. A change in the ancient, absurd and scandalous oath Of
accession is also inevitable. Against such change all the bigotry
of England and Scotland is arraying itself. When it shall be an
accomplished fact, as it will be, an incubus will be lifted from Eng
land and it won't be long before the ultraconservatives who now
strenuously oppose will acquiesce with the reluctant acknowledge
ment that, after all, no harm has been done.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
Delays In Chancery.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
AS 1 am much interested in certain
litigation in the Court of Chancery, l
would like to know whether or not 1t
is true that 1t sometimes takes more
than three years to decide a case that
has been heard before one of the local
vice-chancellors. l do not care to ask
my counsel about the matter, for
reasons of my own; but 1t does seem
to me that If it does take that long
to decide some cases it would be adj
visable either to appoint more vice.
%chancellors or compel those now hold
ing office to sit during the summer
months.
If the accumulation of business is SO
great that years may slip by before
justice Is melted out 1t does appear
thai one or the other of these two
things should be done. The possibilities
of a long "hang-up'' of a decision may
be readily conceived. 1t may mean
disaster to q litigant, disaster that he
might feel for the remainder of his
business career.
1t must be understood that eve
after a decision has been rendered by a
vice-chancellor 1t is subject to appeal.
This would mean more waiting.
DEFENDANT.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07

of things, but as a starter the world
hasn't his equal. He "butted in and
asked questions on this side until the
people began to taxi notice, and he is
doing the same on the other. He is a
universal revivalist, who shakes UP the
dry bones, stirs up the spirit and sets
things going; then departs and leaves
the completion of the work to those
whose duty it is.
We need more Of thai kind, and,
though the conventions may be Jared
to their centres and the moss be
scratched off If the back of con-
servatism, the results are for the BET
torment of all mankind. He may not
be a great leader, but what a; scout
he is! e., w. ]. L.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07

eTT HE railroads have now called off the increase of freight
rates that they agreed among themselves to impose upon
the business, manufacturing and agricultural interests of
tbe country. but have not abandoned their purpose. By SO readily
agreeing to suspend action until the railroad bill is enacted they
confess their liability under the Sherman ANTITRUST law and vr
tualy acknowledge the patent fact that their agreement to raise
rates was a conspiracy in the view of the law. The situation now
created is this: If the railroad bill becomes a law the railroad
tariffs for increased rates will be submitted to the Interstate Com
nero Commission before the railroads promulgate them, and the
commission will have power to revise the rates after an inquiry as
TO their reasonableness. 1t is not to be believed that the commits
sion will fatty decide against the rates submitted. There will be
compromises and reductions, but in the main the railroads will be
the gainer. The estimate of total increased income by the proposed
rates by all the railroads of the country ranges from $5OO,O00OOo
to double that figure, so that at the best the shippers may expect
TO be compelled to pay from $200,000,O00 to $500 000,0 900 more than
they are now charged.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07

1Ta HE $4,000 fine imposed by the United States court at Trenton
upon a woman of large means for smuggling valuable goods
through the custom house by means of a false bottom in one
of her trunks is none too severe a penalty in addition to the con
fscation of the Struggled goods. The device adopted by this
woman culprit showed a knowledge of the law and a deliberate
purpose to violate it for gain. But to a person who can afford to
buy a $4,000 necklace a fine of $4,000 is not of very serious mo-
ment. A sterner penalty would be a better deterrent. Three months
in Jail for an offender of this kind would put an end to amateur
crime at the custom house. 1t would have a more wholesome effect
than a thousand fines.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
VALUE OF HUMAN SKIN

human skin. If good and healthy. is
valued at S1.66 2-3 cents a square inch.
or SO for three square inches. for graft
Ing purposes, by DR.. ]. P. Guerin, of
vancouver, Wash, who desires over
900 square inches to graft on a burn.
suffered by Otto johnson several weeks
ago.
h doctor offers IS to each person
who viii give up three square inches
of his skin to be grated on Johnson
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
TOO

According to a decision handed
down by the Appellate Division Of
the Supreme Court of New York,
p%ush-cart men have as much right
in the street as anyone else.
This ruling practically deprives
the policeman Of the metropolis of
n of his favorite pastimes. One
of the finest would hesitate q long
time before striking a push-cart
man at a damage suit a blow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
pLAlvFlELD,s vo71Nd MACHINES TO 90.

tn UBLIC sentiment in Plainfeld prevails against the arts OF
liz the official politician. The Plainfeld Council retreats from
it's position of opposition to the wishes of the people in re-
gard to a special election on voting machines and OF disregard OF
The State law. Another petition is to be sent to the Council and an
election will duly be ordered. AS the Bayonne Common Council
has also complied with the mandate of the law the people of the
two municipalities will now have the long desired opportunity to
vote the machines out. Extraordinary efforts will be made by the
voting machine trust to procure majorities in the election districts
of PIainfeld and Bavonne favorable to the machines, but the agents
of the trust were active in the many special elections already held,
and the results were overwhelmingly against them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
Mcr BE a sButter-ln,. hut

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Sir-What If Mr.. Roosevelt did butt
ir? Didn't he wake the English ma
ton up as 1t hadn't been awakened for
a long time? Aren't more people in
England talking today about Egypt and
the British possession Of it than ever
talked. and aren't they asking ques-
lions about things over there hat never
occurred to them before?
Mr.. Roosevelt may not be the finisher
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
THAT'S so. TOO.

A Kearny man recently sued for
divorce on the ground of desertion
and secured a decree. His wife left
him because she did not like
Kearny.
Yet Paris, France, asked for city
beautiful tips from this same town
across the Passaic. But perhaps the
Kearny mans divorce wife wouldn't
care for Paris.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
WANTS IT ALL QUICK.

THAT boy of mine will get along
all right"
What has he done now?"
why, I bought him a toy railway
OUTFIT for Christmas-track, engine,
cars and everything-and he has
raised freight and passenger rates
four times and made two stock
levies."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
LIGHT CONVERSATION.

Patience-He takes an awful long
time to weigh his words, doesn't he?
Patrice-Yes. but 1t takes such a lot
Of them to weigh anything, you know!-
Yonkers Statesman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
TALKED WITH HIS HANDS.

II asked him to keep his hands still
for a minute. as It would interfere with
my trick" said the prestidigitator.
you ought to have known that he
couldn't. He's a Frenchman!"-
Yonkers Statesman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07

The STAR extends the privi-
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, 1910-06-07
Daddy;s Good Night Stories
WAFFLES AND MAUDIE.
BY FARMER SMITH.
BY FARMER SMITH. Z


could hardly wait to get to bed last night.
80 that her papa could tell her more about little
49, Maudie Mouse.
Little Maudie Mouse lay very, very still under the
big leaf where her papa and mamma had put her.
She was almost asleep when she heard something
walking by the leaf with a very soft tread.
Goodness said Maudie to herself as her eyes
popped wide open, IT do wonder what that is"
She very carefully lifted up one end Of the leaf and
looked out.
ooh N.Y." right there In front of her with his BACK
turned, was wafhes. the cat.
Maudie's little heart beat so hard she thought
wafHes must certainly hear 1t.
What could she do?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
WHAT'S THE USE.

When hope which springs internal
in the human breast is yanked out
by the roots and thrown into the
gutter 1t affords a sickening spec
tacle for the bystanders.
Such a tragedy occurred yester-
day near the -Four Corners and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07

Picking Ter way veryc carefully, she scoded out the opposite side Of tn
Leaf and sampered Just as fast as she could go, her little bonnet bobbing u
and down. ..
"wen I declare" said wafes % himself. IF there don't g o a sleek, ia
little mous 1 guess can catch her all right" he said, licking his crops
Maudie looking over her shoulder saw wames coming after her with lon
strides. She thought her day had come. when suddenly h sped a nt
hole in a tres.
whats the matter with me lately" said Wafes in deep disgust
can't we catch a little mouse 1 must be getting old"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
FUN FOR H A OFF

PLANS FOR SUMMER.
Miss Flasher am going to the
mountains. My doctor says I must
go to some high place.
Ben Thar-Why the mountains?
Try a seaside hotel.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
TOO LATE.

You're the tramp that took my
cake from the window this morn
ing. Didn't you know better than
that?"
mot then. mum. That was be-
fore I ate it,"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
GETTING COMMONPLACE.

Always busy, the premonition
seems to be working overtime this
season.
A Newark boy broke his nose yes
terday and his mother came forward
with the announcement that she had
foreseen the accident in a vision.
Incidents of this kind which make
premonitions do chores will unfit
them for the more serious work of
presaging sudden and violent death.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
x THE EVENING STARS TWO PAGE MAGAZIN

SUME "CHEEKFUL" ADVICE.
Don't complain when things go
wrong,
No one pays attention.
Be a dub and plod along
Clear of all dissenston.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
SURE THINGS.

Longshot-Do you consider horse
shoes an emblem of luck?
Placer-Yes, when they are on the
winning horse.