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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
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To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
The people of the city of New York
have thus far realized that parks are
not merely for pleasure but also for
another purpose-tlat of cultivating in
the hearts of the inhabitants of the
city a desire TO become more closely
acquainted with the wonderful works
Of nature; to know the history of the
various flowers and how they may be
grown
Fol that purpose the people of many
cities have arranged their parks as a
college for the study of Natures works.
Central Park, in New York city. has
slips bearing the name Of the tree and
other valuable and interesting infor-
nation. In Newark the Shade Tree
Commission has done much toward
making it a City Beautiful" but let
them follow the example of their New
York contemporaries and also, by
of pamphlets or otherwise, let
the people know what the parks con
tain. Let them do this much for the
advancement of the study of plants.
H. 7. X.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
There is a loud demand just now
that every dog seen on the street with
cut a collar be destroyed. Many OF
your readers have expressed the desire
to bring the number of stray CANNES
down to zero, or as rear that as pos
sible. The danger to which the chill
dren playing on the street is subjected
is given as a good reason for all this.
Every argument has two sides to it,
and the writer proposes to defend these
poor animals, through your valuable
PAPER.
While on a car going south on Bel
mont avenue a few days ago l noticed
two boys teasing a dog which they
held Il captive in a doorway of a public
school. The car was held up at West
Kinney street and | was able to watch
the antics of these boys for several
minutes. Both lads, who appeared to
be Is or IS years old, held hats to the
dogs face until he growled, then they
shook the hats f%uriously in front OF
the dog, all the. while blocking any at
tempt made by the animal to escape.
The car again started on its way and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

OMETHING more than mere homily will be necessary to COM
pei a reform in legislative methods at Trenton. Every SEES
sion for many years has had the same characteristics. namely,
inattention to duty, committee neglect. abstention from work and
general languor for twothirds of the session, followed by haste,
slovenliness of work and generally bad legislation during the last
third of the session. There have been frequent promises of amend
ment before the legislatures convened. Presiding officers have
talked with firm resolve about a business" session, but it is always
a repetition of previous sessions. The habit is chronic. Not less
reprehensible is the night session, for which there is no need and
which is responsible for many bad or imperfect laws. We venture
the assertion that at least onehalf of the men who sit in the legis-
lature are by habits of life unfit for night legislation. The time is
entirely unreasonable for them. They are not in a normal condition
for mental labor at night. They have been accustomed all their lives
to day work and night rest. The night session is also demoralizing
for the average legislator, and when men legislate day and night,
too, their capacity for correct work and their judgment are impaired.
Two reforms ire demanded in the Legislature. One is a business
session beginning one week after the first bills are introduced. and
the other the abolition of the night session.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

The credit system is to be severely
limited at College Inn at Nassar. 1t
is whispered that there are about $1,000
of unsettled accounts on the books of
the inn. representing dinners, teas and
other entertainments ordered by col
lege girls with more soeiability than
cash. College Inn is an institution at
Nassar. and its patronage is confined
TO the girl students. If they entertain
beyond their means. if they incu debts
they are unable to pay and that their
parents decline to pay, something may
be said in exclamation. The inn is a
temptation to the girl to take her
chances. She sees other girls enter
tanning. and she is entertained. What
more natural than that she should yield
to these influences and contract obliga-
tons she cannot meet? College boys
are not innocent of the fault, when
they are given the opportunity, but
generally at the male colleges it is
cash down.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
SATURDAY EVENT NC, APRIL 10. 1910.


TIL would be we'll for the representatives Of the Board OF works
hereafter TO take the public. which is the employer OF the board,
into their confidence when they are negotiating with railroad
companies n other interests important plans that the public have
a material interest in. Private corporations maintain secrecy IN
their projects until they see fit to give them publicity, and that is
their mdoubted right. But the rule is not one for Il public board
TO adopt. In the matter of the proposed subway station the public
was kept entirely in the dark rs to the details until a bill was intro
duced in the Legislature, and the secrecy thus maintained proved
fatal TO the bill. In other important matters in the past, in which
public interests were involved. there was the same disposition to
withhold information from the public. The starchamber period in
official affairs is past. The people now demand publicity by their
public servants From the action of the Board OF Works in the
subway station and other important matters, the opinion pre-
walls to some extent that the board is dominated entirely by
corporate influence The STAR believes this opinion to be un-
founded. At the same time it suggests that the board hereafter
take the public into its confidence, and give evidence OF It's APP
probation of the fact that it is elected to serve the public.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
Az to Comets

AZ 10 SOUteNss
To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
With no claim to be a scientist, l
would nevertheless ask permission
just now, when the return of Halley's
comet Is exciting general interest. to
submit to your scientific readers a few
questions anent a hypothesis I have
presumed to entertain for many years
on these mysterious v~isitants,'
namely:
!. May it not be that gazing into the
heavens or any day in the year, we
may be looking through a ring OF
''cosmic dust which, while its par
ticles may be refecting-say, if at the
proper angle, to other planets-the
SUMS rays, we cannot receive II re-
Elections of ray therefrom until such
relations obtain between the sun, the
plane of earth's orbit and the ring of
dust as will create the proper angle?
A plank studded thinly with BRASS
headed nails, which is situated at some
distance from us might not be notice
able from most points, but should oui
walk bring us to a point at which the
reflection of the suns rays therefrom
would strike the eye, we might, | SUBJ
nit, behold n "comet"-the more
massed rejecting ~nail-heads in the per-
spective forming its head and the
sparser reflection alternating into d
tail.
2. May not the extraordinary phe-
nomenon of r~etardation of the velocity
OF a comet on approaching the sun
and the compromising ac~celeration on
its retiring be due simply to the suns
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
A CONGRESSMAN IN DISTRESS.

N1 CONGRESSMAN JOHN DALZELL. who represents the Pitts.
" burg district of Pennsylvania has been much concerned of
late about his district fences. Ordinarily there is no surer
Republican constituency than that of the Thirteenth, which Dalzell
has represented for twelve terms. But the pinch of high prices, the
frightfuI scandals in Republican city government in Pittsburg and
other causes have seriously impaired party loyalty. Now comes a
revelation that affects DalzelI directly. 1t is found that he has
knowingly and for a long time rented property out for gambling
and other unlawful purposes. because high rents were paid. Occu-
pants of this property have been frequently raided by the
police. but the rent was always forthcoming and the congressman
was always engrOssed in his congressional duties at such times.
.Dalzel has been the righthand man of Speaker Cannon, and he is
on the most important committees of the House. A defeat for
Dalzel in his district this year would be in the nature of a reyolu-
tion. And vet it seems possible.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
GOLD PRODUCTION AND HIGH PRICES.

MI Il. BRYAN in his messages to the Jefersonian celebrants
lVl( picks up a remark by President Taft in his Lincoln Day
speech in New York, to the effect that the prevailing high
prices are mainly due TO Increased gold production. which theory
haImonizes with the Bryan doctrine of free silver coinage. If Mr..
BRYAN was in closer contact with presentday affairs in the United
states he would know that the administration has been cudgeling
its wits to invent reasons other than the true ones for high prices.
For fifteen years the Sherman antitrust act was Il eadletter law,
and in this period the trusts grew to their present great power
over the people. Last year a tariff favoring the trusts was enacted,
and following it came an immense increase in the cost of neces-
saries. i til to get away from these palpable causes for present con
ditions that Mr.. Taft theories about gold, and is even compelled
to 90 over to the doctrine of Mr.. Bryan as a door of escape. But
Mr.. Tafts dilemma does not give any vitality to a heresy so thor
oughIy discredited and discarded. The American people know what
the causes are. They are not to be fooled.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

A felicitous and unique event
has marked Camden as a town
apart.
Recently a girl and her grand
mother were married in that South
Jersey metropolis on the same day.
Naturally, Romance, to preside at
both functions, was forced to do .
lightning change act.
Hereafter Camdenites need never
hang their heads in the presence OF
anyone. When the conversation
lags they may always fall back on
this reserve.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
NATIONAL GUARD AND THE CIVIL COURTS.

cts HE civil courts in this State should discourage Mitigation orig
mating in the National Guard. The affairs of the State
military should be settled within the guard and by the mill
tary code. 1t is almost ludicrous to see appeals taken into the
civil courts from disciplinary acts that belong exclusively to the
military law. 1t is true that the military law must, under the Con
stitution, be subject to the civil, but there is a commons sense
limit for the exercise of civil authority. Civil judges are, as a rule.
not competent to pass upon ordinary matters of military discipline
or expediency. And with the doors of the civil courts always open
to members of the National Guard military discipline and obedience
to military authority exist only in name. And without these ii
military organization is only one in name.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
The People s Rostrum


could lot see the outcome of the boys
folly. Had l read in that evenings
paper Of a mad dog attacking innocent
children who were on their way to
school, I would not have been the least
surprised.
If there is no accommodation for
these unfortunate animals, they should
not be found upon this earth. Let the
Humane Society wake up and try and
make some other disposition OF these
dogs. at least other than the police
mans bullet. DOG LOVER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
PLAYING FAVORITES.

wrong with the White House COM
missary department. The secre-
tary of the national carpenter shop
is kept busy most of the time n
larging chairs for the President,
while Mooley, the Federal COW,
was so hungry she broke out of he<
stall and ate herself to death.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

Senator Lodges cold-storage bill IS
exceedingly mild. 1t provides only thai
food kept in cold storage for more than
one year should be considered as adul-
terated, and that any food taken out
of cold storage and enormously marked
as to the time it had been in storage
should be regarded as mlsbranded In
violation of the pure food law. A year
is too long for p~erishable food to be
kept in cold storage. The James bill,
killed in the New Jersey Legislature,
made the limit six months. and left it
to the State Board of Health to say
whether the time should be extended.
There vas a penalty, too. in the James
bill, but Senator Lodge evidently knew
that no really effective measure would
get through the Senate. and it is doubt
full If the Lodge bill will.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
2 A QUESTION OF VALUES.

Faithful unto death, several
Bloomfield hens refused to leave
their eggs and persisted in a burning
chicken house.
This tragedy may be traced di-
rectly to the exorbit mt price of
eggs. If hen fruit was being quoted
on the Produce Exchange at its
nominal value doubtless the hens
would not have heeitated to secb.
safety in flight.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
KNEW HER

First Sweet Young Thing-what are
you doing here, dear?
Second Sweet Young Thing-Looking
for a husband.
First Sweet Young Thing-But you've
got one.
Second Sweet Young Th~ing-That's
the n I'm looking for.-Illustrated
Bits.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
Daddy;s Good Night Stories

DOCTOR BULLFROG.
BY FARMER SMITH.

father told her this story last night:
"The spelling class will now stand up said
49, DR.. Bunfrog. So they all got up and stood beside
their seats.
spell cat said DR.. BuIlfrog to little Willie Tree
toad. Cat said Willie, and he took his seat.
"Spell dog said DIR. Bullfrog to little Willie Tree
toad, but he did not have time for reply, for there was a
shutting of feet and every desk in the room went down
with a bang, and when DR.; Bullfrog looked over the
room there was not a frog to be seen. They had all
scampered into their desks and slammed the lids down.
The doctor was very mad. He hoped down the aisle as
fast as he could and opened Willie Treetoad's desk.
What is the matter with you?' he said.
please. oh, please, good doctor" said Willie Tree
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
TO BE SURELY.

We have been asked TO refrain
from all comment On the case of
the ma who is about to be par
doned from the Minnesota State
prison because of the excellence of
his verse along the line that it.
were better to send ninety-nine bum
poets to Jail than to keep one good
poet behind bars.
We will grant, the request cheer
fully.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

1a HE foresight and enterprise that took hold of the abandoned
Hudson river tunnels and completed them and added to
them have been well justified already by results. \ state
ment by Mr.. McAdoo. of the operating company, shows that IN
August last year there was an average daily traffic of S5.S46, while
last month the average was 141S71, a truly wonderful increase.
Mr.. McAdoo estimates the total traffic this year at 100000 and
more. BE it remembered that the connections on the west side of
the Hudson are incomplete and the connecting line to Newark is
yet to be finished. 1t will not be long before a million people will
pass daily under the Hudson between the New Jersey and Man
haitian shores
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

Perhaps it is true thai the advent of
Halley's comet has something to do
with the popular riots in China. The
Oriental imagination is likely to invest
the comet With some preternatural
character n regard it as an omen
of some portentous kind. 1t is not
many centuries & that the best
civilization of Europe took the same
view of Halley's comet. Nor can we
say that its appearance, flaming in the
sky at night, will not cause great per
turbation in sections of the United
States.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
JUST THAT.

Wisher-'Pon my word, old chap,
you seem to be having beastly good
luck, and | haven't caught any
thing, doncher know,
Fisher-Well, yer see, | guess it's
cause these fish in this here brook
is particular who ketches them!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

Vienna warmed up to Roosevelt. 1t
was not italian warmth, but 1t was
unusual for a city that contains the
proudest aristocracy in Europe and a
population fully satisfied that Vienna
Is the hub of the universe. To the
average Viennese America is a remote
country where buffaioes a be hunted
an hours walk out OF New York. It is
not so long ago that the average Eng
lishman had that belief. The great
Italian immigration has given TO the
Italian populace a better perspective
of America.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
RIGHT BACK.

"Barnum once said; The people
like to be humbugged,' and Newark
is a good circus town. bombasti-
cally remarked an attorney during
the course of the trial Of a crimi-
nal case.
Docs that account for your sue
cess?' quietly asked the attorney
for the State.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

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, 1910-04-16

Suburbanite-I went out to look
at that piece OF property you adj
vertised as being a stones throw
from the depot.
Real Estate Agent-Well,
Suburbanite-An I've got to say
is that I'd like to meet the man
who threw the stone.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

toad. Somebody said dog and W thought there was a dog coming"
BY that time all the desks opened a little bit nd two little bnnkers were
put out of each desk. -
TT is all right; it is ALI right" shouted Dr. Bunfrog jumping u p down.
There is not n dog coming I wanted sHtle Willie Treetoad to spell
dog" 4i
Bang went the lids down again.
Dr. Bunfrog jerked Willie Treetoads lid up nj said. What on earth is
the matter with you?"
I'VE don't like that word dog " said little Willie Please don't mem
ton it again"
At thisa IL scampered up ot of their desks and gathered around the
doctor
where, o h, where is that fly? said the frogs as their desks went down.
bang, bang, bang!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16
RAPID TRANSIT.

Hiram-Josiah bet Siras a dollar
that he could pick UP a hornet and
carry it across the street.
Siram-Which won?
Hiram-Well, Josiah got across
with the hornet. but Siras argues
that the hornet lifted him about.
twenty foot o the way.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

Chickens, chickens, everywhere,
and not a bone to pick.
This beautiful line from the poets
popped into more than head
yesterday when the south end of a
crate of broilers which was being
carried through, lower Broad street
fetched loose and permitted the
feathered jewels to escape.
1t was a splendid practical Illus
tration of the proverb Riches take
wings" and no proverb contest
necessary to excite interest in 1t to
white heat. The populace in that
neighborhood to a man, woman and
child Joined In the chase.
Hast ever seen a man, woman or
child chasing a chicken through
the principal street Of the city.
gentle reader? It is a moving
sight.
A large obese man EVE ap-
pears to better advantage as a
rough and tumble comedian than
when engaged in this gentle pas
time.
The street was filed with come
dams yesterday.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

Cholly-I've a notion to throw
myself into the water and end 1t
all. l cannot live without you.
Myrtle-Go and see papa before
YOU do anything rash. He has given
jobs to several would-be suicides
and he'll be glad to help you make
a living,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

WM:TN
THEY DON'T LIKE 1T.

Why. those women must be daft
Thus to hiss nice Mr.. Taft,
But that's what a good mar gets
Who tells truth to Suffragettes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

Reggy-Yaas, sevewal years ago ]
fell in love with a girl, but she
weiccted me, doncher know-made
a wegular fool of me.
Peggy-Now, that's what I call
a measly shame. I've often won
dered how it happened.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-16

The s~uffragette movement in the
United States has made its first serl-
Gus blunder politically. Those feminine
Kisses for President Taft when he was
eood-naturedly addressing the V
ton in Washington at the request Of
the convention managers have made
the worst kind Of an impression. A
more cogent argument against votes
for women could not nave been made.
If the salt water" bill, passed by both
houses of the Legislature, had been
made a law by the Governors signature
there is little doubt that a combination
would have been formed to get a bill
through the Legislature TO make a cor
nor in air for commercial profit, and
With as good reason.
Camden has spent the entire week
admiring itself and picturing to itself
its future greatness, out this Is not
mere vanity. 1t shows a growing civic
spirit that Camden has long needed,
and the STAR sy~mpathizes with the
weeks celebration.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-08

this reason. the sputum. or spit. OF
an individual who has consumption
Is filled with the germs OF tuber.
culosis.
In the early stages of the disease
the germ is found In small numbers
in the sputum. In larger numbers as
the disease progresses. and In count
less millions In the later stages. I'm
less this sputum Is destroyed by
burning or by disinfectants. 1t may
become the most common method OF
carrying tuberculosis TO other indi-
viduals
1t is generally believed now hat
consun.. lion Is not inherited. IL T.
true that the children OF consump
tives are frequently OF low vitality
and generally OF poor physique tn
does not mean. however. that tn
4 are bound to become consumr.t-e
They will get consumption OF
the germ enters their body. neing
weak, however, and being 'iralle TO
resist the action OF the baci Is, ,t,ey
are more susceptible than adi J.
uals who are physically W. AM
strong. There is no reason what.
ever why such children. If properly
cared for. should not grow 10 he
healthy and well-daveloped men and
women who will never get corsump-
ton.
1t Is possible to have the disease
for some time and not know IL mr.
suspect It, An examination of the
patients chest by a competent phv-
sician and a microscopical examina-
ZION or the sputum may discover Il
but If both Of these tests fail. It does
not definitely mean that tuberculosis
is not present. Repeated examina-
IONS should be made from time TO
Tune II the earlier symptoms OF tn
berculosis are present. Among these
or they are present, the individual