Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-04

Music hath charms to soothe the
savage breast A striking evidence of
the truth of the poets line was the
scene in the Federal prison at Atlanta
when the glorious voice of Geraldine
Farrar was heard by the assembled
c~onvicts in such songs as Annie
Laurie" "0id Kentucky Home" and
Home, Sweet Home" The prison au-
ditorium swan in tears and the prima
doa IA was also profoundly affected.
Miss Farrar was singing to men, most
OF them convicted of heinous crimes
aud supposedly hardened. But there
are chords IN the hearts OF the worst
of men that respond to the right touch,
and hardened indeed is. the man who
does not feel the powers of music and
the eioqusnce or the matchiess ballads
that belong TO our nation.
Now that the Senate insurgents
have routed the Aldrich rhalanx.
Speaker Cannon can go somewhere to
another dinner and repeat his Philippics
against Republican insurgency. Poor
old Cannon has outlived his era. He
doesn't understand what is going on.
He has no, comprehension of the ele-
country. For him there is no Republi-
canism that isn't of the Cannon brand.
But it will not be surprising to .~r
Cannon bow to the inevitable and "..,i..
from an arena in which he has s-.se,.
to be a gladiator, n is only a party
encumbrance.
A nice melon is to be cut by the
Southern Pacific Railroad, If all ac-
counts are correct. Thanks to govern
ment generosity, the road owns i'm
mensely valuable oil-produoing lands in
California, and it is proposed to sell
these holdings, worth from $1,000 to
$4,000 an acre. and divide the money
more than 800. OO0. 0o0-among the COM
pany shareholders. But that melon
isn't a circumstance to the size OF the
melon that will be cut In the future. If
s%yndicates get hold Of the government
Goa deposits in Alaska and the water
power sites they are after.
The Governor of califaraiA u in an
unenviable position, - 500 will be.
Ministerial associations are lining up
against the Jeffries- johnson fight in
July. and he will be bomharded with
remof1strances and overwhelmed by Wis
itino Halaa n ttnna ntx th@ DthA- hand
the interest In the fight is so intense
throughout the land that he will be
subjected to enormous pressure on the
other side. In California any interior
ence with the fight by the Governor
will make him an object of popular ex-
ecratlon. What shall the poor ma do y
More than 100, 900 automobiles regis
tered In New York attests the enor-
nous growth Of the automobile habit.
This for one State only. At an aver
age cost of $500 the number represents
an aggregate value OF $50, 600. 900. The
total cost of operation and maintenance
annually will probably equal the sum
of the first cost. But more than $1,000
chauffeurs are given employment, vast
industries are maintained. and thou
sands of keepers of garages are en-
abled to make good lieings.
Everybody has a humane interest In
he six day nurseries in Newark that
care for the babies of working women,
who ia1itat oar n eliyin~ nd lac xrn nn
other means of care for their little
ones, JardiBieres have been placed in
many buildings throughout tho city for
contributions to support these nurseries
and donations can he made today and
tomorrow. Let no person heedlcssly
pass one Of these %iardinieres without
omptying into it all his or her small
change.