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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-22
Mt Masked Hall.

One of the best of the smaller masked
dances of the season was that which
the Thueringer Geselliger Verein had
arranged in NolIs Hall, Springfield
avenue and Jones street, last night. 1t
was an early hour this morning before
the company broke up. A feature of
the event was a humorous recitation
by Edward Eyrich, while singing by
Rudolph link added to the fun. With
Edward Eyrich on the committee of
arrangements were Frederick Zell-
mann, Edward Groeschel and Hugo
Eyricll.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Creased Gander Games.

An old time game was to tie a
gander's legs to long, slim, springy
hickory pole. They picked out the
toughest old honk they could find,
picked all the feathers off the head
and neck, and then creased literally
with hogs grease. AS the gander
hung high over the big road, at so
much, say, ten cents try, a man
mounted on bareback horse rode by
at full gallop and tried to pull off the
lodging, greasy gander head. This
may seem easy, but is one of the
toughest tricks man ever pulled off.
Men and grown boys are more apt to
pull themselves off the horse than to
pull the head off; pulling off its head
meant taking home the goose.-New
York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
The Parsons Trap.
BY JAMES w. WORKS.

A certain local preacher who lived
in Western New York in my boyhood
days cultivated small farm in ad-
dition to his clerical duties and was
accustomed to trap mink, muskrat
and similar small deer" He was
brought before board of deacons of
his church on charge of attending
his traps on Sunday. He explained
by saying that on one occasion he
was taking walk. 1t chanced to be
Sunday morning, and also he had
casually passed near one of his traps.
In the jaws of the steel trap he dis
covered live mink. AS the poor
creature was badly mangled and suf-
fering, he, out of humanity, took the
animal out and knocked it in the
head.
This seemed to be satisfactory and
the charge was about to be dis
missed when Deacon Cobb sprang his
trap: "Parson, did you set the trap
agin?" With deprecatory wave of
the hand easy to imagine but diff
cult to describe, the parson replied:
Deacon, / Just barely set it."
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

round and extremely fat, her slow pace
begets that corpulencie; few of them
weigh less than fifty pound; better to
the eye than stomach; greasie appe-
tites may perhaps commend them,
but to the indifferently curious,
nourishment but prove offensive.
Lets take her picture; her visage
darts forth melancholy, as sensible as
natures injurie in framing so great
and massie body to be directed by
such small and complementall wings
as are unable to hoise her from the
ground, serving only to prove her a
bird; which otherwise might be
doubted of; her head is variously
drest, the one half hooded with
downy blackish feathers; the other
perfectly naked; of whitish hue, as
II a transparent lawne had covered
1t; her bill is very howked, and bends
downwards, the thrill or breathing
place is, in the midst of it; from which
part to the end, the colour is a light
greene MKT with a pale yellow; her
eyes be round and small, and bright
as diamonds; her cloathing is of
finest downe, such as you see in gos-
Inns; her trayne is (like a Chynese
beard) of three or foure short feath-
ers; her legs thick, and black, and
strong; her tallons sharp, her stom-
ack fiery hot, so as stones and iron
are easily digested in 1t; in that and
shape not a little resembling the
Afric oestriches."
But one living specimen of the
dodo was ever known to have been
seen outside of Mauritius. This one
was brought alive to Europe by a
Dutch navigator, and exhibited in
London in 1889. The evidence Of
this is contained in a manuscript in
the British Museum by Hamon LES
TRANCE, and Is as follows:
about 1888, as l walked London
streets, saw the picture of strange
fowle hong out upon cloth and my
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Government By Commission.

David T. Watson of Pittsburg is one
of the leading lawyers of Pennsylva-
mia, as well as leading Democrat. 1t
is said he strongly favors the general
adoption of the commission form OF
government for cities, not only as a
means of securing greater economy of
administration, but of bringing about
needed civic reforms.
Government by commission brings
responsibility nearer to the mass Of
the people. Responsibility is now disH
sipated and lost in a multitudinqhs
divisibility. The elector is burdeIbo
with so much choice that he has
choice.
Mr.. Watson and DR.. Woodrow Will
son are on the right track. Fewer
elective officers and the short ballot
point the way to the reinstatement Of
popular rule and the end of the boss
system.-Philadelph Record
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
The Tight Little
YSID-

Observation-Disclosures q

An Englishman's pride in his own
country is both admirable and humor-
Gus at times. In a very good Western
story in Gunter's, entitled "The Re-
mittance Man." Preston Ward, the
writer, has his hero apostrophize
England in these words:
81 see a place where the grass is
green-so green; you don't know
green, Tom, till you see English grass
all rolled and pampered and trimmed
for hundreds of years by my father
and my fathers father, and their
hedges-trim hedges, Tom, not a
great rugged, cruel mountain ridge
that notches the horizon. English
hedges you can see over best when
a good old Irish hunter lifts his front
legs to take them. 1t takes your
breath, that lift, it does. Maybe
little trout stream plays for a while
through the green-so green-grass;
it's an English trout stream-never
clustering nor making fuss about
itself like the mountain fellows here.
And the whole country's filled with
trees-English trees. Great oaks
that have lived in our places since
we, and that guard the old homes
and the old families and make them
what they are. They're not afraid to
stretch out; they don't get ashamed
and stunted at timber line; there's
no scrub oak nor shrubs nor cactus
in my England. And all the places
are laid out in straight lines, and all
the families are straight like the
lines, and the hedges mean that this
is mine and that is yours, but we
won't quarrel about it, for we're all
Englishmen. Oh, it's a tight little
place, Tom; and it sometimes cramps
fellows like me and chafes us mortal
sore, and sometimes we-well, we
aren't as straight as the oaks, and
they make us ashamed to listen to
the English breeze whispering
through their English branches. But
it's tight little England-my Eng
land, Tom! And that's what I see
down there in the mountains. It's
calling me home; calling me, calling
me home like the echo we catch up
here"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

beauty's appeal to my sympathy was
my reason now.
"You are young" replied, Be-
verely. II trust this is your first Of
fense and that you will reform"
She covered her face with her lit
tie hands and for moment her
shoulders shook gently. But the eyes
that she raised to mine were fearless.
"Since you are so kind l will tell
you the truth. l did not steal your
pin. 1t caught-it caught in my
pompadour! You will find it adver-
tised in the evening paper"
Was this clever ruse to throw me
off l looked at her keenly.
"You don't believe mel" The gray
eyes flashed.
~ do believe you, and ask your
pardon. Butt can't understand
your position here-as servant"
"Is it necessary that you should.
Mr.. Barrows?" 1t was the Icy voice
of my hostess. Being now without
defence looked the picture of guilt.
when l need any detective work,
Mr.. Barrows, / will call upon you
perhaps. Until then, kindly refrain
from annoying my servants!"
1t was evident she thought me
smitten by the charms of her table
girl. So was-yet-was a we'll
meaning young man ever in a more
awkward position?
Nonsense, Lily! Mr.. Barrows does
not deserve such abominable treat
ment! And I'm not your servant"
"Oh, Daphne, think what you are
saying!" implored Mrs. Carter of her
mutinous maid.
II don't care. You'll have to tell
him, Lily. I'm sure he can be trusted
with our secret"
How blessed for that!
Then they told me how Mrs. Car
ter's lack of waitress had been sup
piled by her cousin Daphne. Know
ing Louise as did, could appreciate
the situation, and after mutual as
surances of forgiveness and conf
dence our strange session in the pam
try broke up.
When my sister returned to Chi
cago few days later, l did not ac-
company her, and in due season the
pearl scarf pin was fashioned into an
engagement ring for the loveliest
girl in the world.-Boston Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Character In Handwriting.

A sceptic Of graphology recently
tested the skill of two professors Of
the art To the one he submitted the
handwriting of Vacher, the notorious
criminal, the slayer of peasant wom-
en-. The professor without hesitation
pronounced the writer to be a good,
tender-hearted and lovable person,
who would be sooner or later the vic
tim of his altruism. A psychologist
tested another professor with Ros-
tand's writing. He would say nothing
until he learned the day of the birth
of the writer. He was told August /,
1868. After some deliberation the
professor declared that the writer
would be guillotined in 1910, and that
the sensation created would eclipse
that caused by the production of
"Chantecler." ."7-London Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

The average student of geography
knows that the Island of Mauritius
lies in the Indian Ocean, about 600
miles east of Madagascar, and that it
belongs to England, but he might not
be able to tell whether Mauritius is
notably distinguished from score of
other islands lying in the southern
hemisphere, although the name Maui
ritlus calls up before two classes of
minds pictures almost as vivid as
does the fateful names of Elba or St.
Helena.
One of these classes consists of the
lovers of romantic literature all over
the world, to whom the name Mauri-
titus suggests the tender and pathetic
idyl of Paul and Virginia" of which
this island was the theatre.
The second, and much smaller
class, are the paleontologists, or stu
dents of extinct animal forms, to
whom Mauritius is memorable as the
last home of the dodo, a grotesque
and clumsy bird, with only rudimen-
tary wings, which appears to have
been extirpated about the year 1850.
In an elaborate and costly work on
the dodo, published in London in
1S4S, under the patronage of Prince
Albert, is found the following quaint
description of the dodo, taken from
Sir Thomas Herbert's journal of his
visit to Mauritius in 1926:
"The dOdo comes first to our de-
scription. Here (and nowhere else
that ever could see or heare of is
generated the dodo Ia Portuguize
name it is, and has references to her
simplenes), bird which for shape
and rarenesse might be called Phoe-
nix overt in Arabia); her body is
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Living in a Glass House.

Alice and Nick and few poodle dogs
Were seated at home last night
The flames burst forth from the cracking
logs
And their glare was warm and bright
Daddy is after those naughty French"
Cried Alice in delight
'1t's good for them, too; they have no
Defense"
And her pride was pretty sight.
"Race suicide is terrible thing,
As Daddy has often said;"
Her eye was clear, her voice had a ring
Then Nicholas raised his head.
He laid down his paper, then took it up,
His words had meaning sting;
For he said, as he kicked the nearest pup:
Eyes, it's terrible thing"
Theodore c. Ditrich, in New York Amer
ican.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

poor health could scarcely attend to
my housework. My back ached as II
1t were being pulled apart, and my
feet and ankles were badly swollen.
The kidney secretions were in terri
BILE condition. was extremely ner-
vous and my heart palpitated violent
ly. Short use OF Doan's Kidney Pills
relieved me and soon my whole sys-
tenn was renovated"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. SO cents box.
FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

Selfe with one or two more then IN
company went in to see it. 1t was
kept in chamber, and was great
fowle somewhat bigger than the
largest turky cock, and SO legged and
footed, but shorter and thicker and
of more erect shape, coloured be-
fore like the breast of young cock
fesan, and on the back of dunn or
deare colour. The keeper called 1t
dodo, and in the ende of chymney
in the chamber there lay heape of
large pebble stones, whereof hee gave
1t many in our sight, some as bigge as
nutmegs, and the keeper told us shee
eats them (conducing to digestion)."
A distinctly plaintive note in all
the literature extent concerning the
dodo excites curiosity and compass
sion. In his introduction to the dodo
book, from which these extracts are
taken, this feeling is appealed to by
the author as follows: 1--WE cannot
see without regret the extinction OF
the last individual of any race of Or
ganic beings whose progenitors col
onized the preadamite earth"
An analysis of the reason for a
specially compassionate interest in
the dodo would seem to show that 1t
Is founded on the strikingly gro
tesque character of the bird, taken
with the fact that nature had been
cruelty unkind to her in the matter
of equipment for self-defense. She
could neither run nor fly, but was, as
one traveller expressed 1t, "a speci-
men of gigantic immaturity, a per-
manent nesting clothed with down
instead of feathers, and with wings
and tail so short and feeble as to be
utterly unsubservient to flight"
OF this cruelty of nature the dodo
herself appeared to be sensible, and
to show 1t in cher visage," according
bert. At any rate, 1t made the ex-
tinction of the dodo, after the discov-
cry of the Island of Mauritius by the
Portuguese about 1906, so swift and
complete as to give 1t, to one inter-
ested, flavor of tragedy. The last
of the fifteenth century and the be-
ginning of the sixteenth made an ere
of geographical discovery, when eveS4
sea was filled with the barks OF eA
plorers and marauding buccaneers IL
search of new worlds. To these ruth.
less food hunters the dodo fell an
easy prey, while the domestic animals
which accompanied civilization wan
tonly devoured her eggs.
In the narrative of one of these ex-
plorers, William van Vert Zanen,
who visited Mauritius in 1902, he
speaks of killing fifty dodos and TAX
ing them on board his ship, where
they were salted. Assailed thus, both
in front and rear, what wonder that
the dodos visage "darted forth mel
ancholy," or that 1t gave up the un-
equal struggle? The cut here shown
accompanied Zanens narrative, and
is supposed to be from drawing
made by him.
The scanty relics of the dodo,
amounting to little more than frag-
ments of head, leg and foot, can
be found only in the treasured collec-
tions of nations, while the paintings
made from life Of this despised and
martyred bird by Roelandt Savery
are beyond price. - From Youths
Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
FEED CHILDREN
On Properly Selected Food. 1t Pays
Big Dividends.

II parents will give just little in
telligent thought to the feeding of
their children the difference in the
health of the little folks will pay.
many times over. for the small
trouble.
A mother writes saying: "Our
children are all so much better and
stronger than thy ever were before
we made a change in the character of
the food. We have quit using pota-
toes three times day with coffee and
80 much meat.
Now we give the little folks some
fruit, either fresh, stewed, or canned,
some Grape-Nuts with cream, occa-
sionally some soft boiled eggs and
some Postum for breakfast and sup
per. Then for dinner they have some
meat and vegetables.
at would be hard to realize the
change in the children, they have
grown SO sturdy and strong, and we
attribute this change to the food ele-
ments that, l understand, exist in
Grape-Nuts and Postum.
"A short time ago my baby was
teething and had great deal of
stomach and bowel trouble. Moth
Ing seemed to agree with him until
tried Grape-Nuts softened and mixed
with rich milk and he improved rap
idly and got sturdy and WE'LL"
Read "The Road to Wellville,"
found in pkgs. There's Reason" &
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
RoCKEFELLER'sNidEwnLL
Harriman's VIII Fade From Human
Mind. But Oil Magnate's Never.


Pale Alto, Calm President David
Starr Jordan's address to the gradu-
ating class at Stanford University, the
subject of which was "The Wealth OF
Nations" reference was made to the
lives of 2. H. Hartman and other
great financiers in drawing the lesson
that mans success in life is not meas
ured by what he does for himself, but
rather by what he does for humanity.
"In those matters in which the
permanent wealth of nations is con-
cerned, in the long future of mental
and spiritual development, the name
of Hartman" said DR.. Jordan, finds
no place. The name of Newcomb In
the same connection will stand In
larger letters among those who by
life and influence have made this
world a broader and better one."
Continuing, he said: The name OF
Rockefeller will not suggest Standard
OIL or the association OF monopolies.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research represents one OF the wisest
and most far-reaching uses to which
any mans money can ever be put"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Queen a Good Shot.

The queen Of Italy is one of the fin
est shots in Europe, not only in COM
parison with her own sex, but as
Ngainst all comers. In her gfrlhood
she was great huntress, but she no
longer hunts; she now has an uncon-
querable aversion to killing anything,
and, though she still shoots, 1t is only
at clay pigeons or some such mark
Indianapolis News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

It is announced that the "Emper-
or" violin, which is part of the Had
dock collection in London, will soon
be sold. Its value is estimated at
$4,000. 1t is claimed to be the best
specimen of the work of Antonio
Stradivari (1649-1737).
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
lenses.

$50 you think your new produc-
tion should appeal to admirers of
both the old and the new"
YES" replied the theatre mana
ger; ''the leading actress is woman
with a future and the heroine of the
story is a woman with past. -
Washington Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Thump! Thump! Thump!

Mrs. Heck-"Your carpets are so
fresh and bright looking. What do
you use to clean them?".
! Mrs. Peck-"My husband. ."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

headache and dizzy
spells tell of disor-
dered kidneys. Neg
lect Of these warn
ings may prove IA
tai. Begin using
Doan's Kidney Pills.
They cure sick kid
neys.
Mrs. w. B. Conway,
lit Railroad st.,
Punxsutawney. Pa,
~~,-, fT 80 L. -.~.A
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Technically Speaking.

$50 there is to be divorce" said
the woman who discusses everybody.
"It seems but little while since he
asked for her hand"
"Yes," replied the rude man. HE
got the hand all right. But it turned
out to be a Observation-Disclosures
Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
For the Asking.

Pardon me, Governor" began the
interviewer, q"
Certainly, certainly" replied the
Tennessee Executive, reaching for
blank. What are you guilty of?"-
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Power of Suggestion.

Angry Man Cat the telephone)-
"You go hang yourself, Smithers!
(After pause) Do you hear me?"
Central-"Your party hung up!"
Puck.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
More Appropriate.

Society Woman-"I see by to-day's
paper l am referred to as zone of
fashions butterflies"
Her Observation-Disclosures the
way you go through your clothes. l
should think moth would apply
better. STRAY Stories.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Desperate.

Maud-"Jack proposed to me last
night"
Mabel-"Poor fellow; so he did
keep his word after all
Maud-"Why, what do you mean?"
Mabel-"When refused him last
week he said it would cause him to
do something desperate. IN. A. P,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
One Kind.

"Pop!"
Eyes, my son."
"Were there two of every kind
went into the ark?"
"Yes, my boy; two of every kind"
"And was there two suffragettes?"
-Yonkers Statesman.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Something Visible.

"Show me some tiaras, please. I
want one for my wife"
Eyes, sir. About what price?"
"Well, at such price that I can
say: DO you see that woman with
the tiara? She is my wife. File
gende Blaetter.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

Mother-"Tommy, what's the mat
ter with your little brother?"
Tommy-"He's crying because I'm
eating my cake and won't give him
any"
Mother - as his own cake fin
ished?"
Tommy-"Yesm m, and he cried
while I was eating that, too. ~
Brooklyn Eagle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15

The manufacture of rattan furni-
ture is beginning to attract attention
in the Philippines.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Unsatisfactory.

Have you seen the Washington
Monument"
"Yes," replied the New Yorker.
TITS pretty tall building, but what's
the good of 1t without any Offices for
rent?"-Washington Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
'ELECTRICrrY: THE GODDESS OF
THE AGE.

Her head is held among the stars,
Her feet are on the sea.
An airship with its whirling blades
Is poised upon her knee;
An auto tire is round her neck,
A trolley at her side,
Z And miles of insulated wire
About her waist are tied.
The lightnings of the wireless flash
Around her giant form,
Her brow is veiled in clouds of dust,
Her voice is like the storm:
She puts harness on the world,
1t moves at her command,
And all the secrets of the air
Are prisoned in her hand.
-Minna Irving, in Leslie's Weekly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
Feminine Amenities.

Violet-"I wouldn't want to stand
In your shoes"
Miss Smallfoot (coyly)-"You
couldn't. ."-Brooklyn Life.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
DANGER SIGNALS.

Sick kidneys give unmistakable sig
nails OF distress. Too frequent or
scanty urinary passages, backache,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15
LOST AND FOUND.
By MARIE STURTEYANT.

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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-15


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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-12-27
Opcn-Front Houses.

A few years ago the open-front poul-
try-house was practically unknown.
The tendency at that time was to con-
struct houses that were very tight and
ventilated by the opening of windows,
and In many Instances by means Of
flues and cupolas. This type of house
as rule, was more or less damp and
II did not take many years for pro-
gressive men to realize that damp
houses meant cold houses and an
abundance of disease.
The result has been gradual In
crease In the amount OF fresh air in
the house and less attention given to
warmth until today we have what Is
known as the open or cloth front
house One can still find, however
many types of poultry-houses. but the
open-front house is fast becoming the
standard for every climate.