Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07

A railroad president, deploring the
opposition which so quickly developed
for the proposed increase In freight
rates. said: Manufacturers and ship
pers who ask injunctfons would I'M
doubtedly raise an awful roar IL they
were enJoined when they boosted the
prices of their various commodities.
Yet they do 1t and have been doing 1t
for several years, which has resulted in
an era of high prices of everything, ex-
cept railroad rates" Which seems to
indicate merely a railway desire to get
in the high price swim.
Eight delegates to the provincial as
senblies in China are pledged to suicide
unless Prince Chun will agree to sum-
mon a national parliament at once
We cannot understand this purely ORR
entail method of bringing great pressure
to bear upon high officials. The prince
is said to be thinking the proposition
over carefully. so he doubtless regards
the threat of the delegates as a serious
n Imagine the replies an American
might make to a demand coupled with
such a promise!
Has one of the riddles of the age
been solved? A scientist insists he has
succeeded in transmitting baser metals
to silver. The alleged product Of his
furnaces is assayed by government ex-
parfc ond found ~ ha pxtrap thnn The
silver in United States coins. Romantic
writer's have drawn upon their imagi-
nation to wildly picture the effect of
such a discovery upon the monetary
systems of the world. 1t may be pos
sible now to determine how nearly they
guessed right.
An announcement Of a professional
visit to this country Of Sarah Bern.
hardt is destitute of any intimatioa
that this Is to be a farewell tour. Isn't
this is a compliment to American So
phistication? First-magnitude stars of
the opera and theatre were wont but
yesterday to play to standing room only
on the strength of a positively last
appearance In the United States pro-
nouncement. Has the farewell tour
outlived its usefulness for advertising
purposes?
The involved case Of Hum On VS.. Ng
Yee Low moves merrily on with all the
fiourishes of the law in the wav OF
writs. attachments, warrants, charge
and counter-charge. The celestial
seems TO take to American law as
though it were an old friend and neigh
Dor he had grown up with. It is to be
hoped it is not his alleged aptitude for
ways that are dark and tricks that are
VAIN which causes him to delight in
the creaking Of our legal machinery.
Prince Fushimi, Of the land Of the
Mikado, visited the Brooklyn navy
yard and inspected the Florida. He
expressed amazement at the size of the
American d~readnought. If the Florida
as sine lay at anchor in the navy yard
seemed large to a veteran sea fighter
like Prince Fushimi, imagine the gigan-
tic proportions she would assume for
the enemy when equipped with her full
complement of guns and cleared for
action.
Baseball fanaticism reached a strange
climax in Greenport, l.. l., when a man
who was following the game with ex-
IRENE Interest drew a revolver from his
pocket and shot himself through the
head. Fans frequently express their
willingness to indulge in gun-play at
the expense of an umpire, but it is un-
usual for of them to be brought 20
that Respondent state by the great ma
tional game which induces suicide.