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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
SOLDIERS HOME NECESSITIES.

cTN HE estimates of State institution boards and apartments for
supplemental appropriations this year aggregate the sum of
s1.2OOS44. This amount will be excised by the joint appro-
priations committee and the figures reduced below a million dollars.
In cutting estimates the appropriations committees ae usually in
1uenced TO a considerable extent from the outside. The claimants
with the strongest pull are favored. There are institutions i'll the
State that exert no influence at Trenton. and one of these is the
Home for Soldiers and Sailors and Their Wives at Vineland. The
annual appropriation for the home is about $65,000. but the home
is poorly equipped and sadly needs some essentials. The inmates
are aged and infrm. and, although the home is of four stories, there
is n O elevator. The home has no scales ON which TO weigh its pur-
chases of coal and other heavy articles. In a single year the saving
made in this respect would more than pay for a standard scales.
These two items are cited in illustration. The home managers ask
the Legislature for s46,s96 in the supplemental appropriations to
proyide the home with the necessities demanded. 1t is not for long
that these pensioners of the State will survive, and while they are
living it is the first duty of the State to make decent provision for
them. even if it is necessary to postpone or abandon some other
more fanciful objects of expenditure.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
PROBABLY TWO CABINET CHANGES.

cITA WO members of the Taft cabinet, Secretaries Ballinger and
Wilson. cannot well remain in office for the balance of the
Presidents term. In the case of Secretary Wilson he is 70
wears of age. and he has served in the cabinet since 1897, when he
was appointed by President Mckinley. Nobody will question the
integrity of the aged secretary, but be has demonstrated a lack of
Judgment S well as of memory, and a dependence upon a subordi-
mates, and it will ever be his reproach that he consented to the dis
missal of Clifford Pinchot for an act which he, as secretary, had
authorized and had official knowledge of at the time. How Sec
retarv Balinger can officially survive the charges against him prob
ably only the President knows. His retention in office under the
circumstances will place upon the administration a stigma that no
wise President would care to incur or his political advisers would
counsel. Probably when the second session of this Congress con-
venes there will have been changes made in the two secretaryships.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
WATER BILLS IN THE LEGISLATURE.

m LII the water supply legislation necessary at this session is
IN embodied in the McCran bill forbidding diversion of under
ground water out of the State. The bill is q necessary sup
plement to the Bachelor antidiversion act. Other water bills in
troduced have furtive private objects. One of these bills is brazenly
in the interest of the East Jersey Water Company. 1t contains the
usual "joker." The object sought is TO fortty the water company
against court iniunctions upon the diversion and sale of water from
its plant at Little Falls. The bill. if made a law, would reinstate
the company in it's usurped rights" in the Passaic. There are other
water bills in the Legislature that are of doubtful paternity. The
trail of the water.snake may be over them all. We repeat, the only
water bill that calls for legislation at this session is the McCran
bill. There is no doubt as to its paternity and it's objects.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
The People 5 Rostrum

has even been started. At the same
time it might be in order to ask why
we cannot have more of these comfort
stations scattered throughout the city.
The architectural features of the Mill
tary Park station will, ] understand, be
serve to make the building more
of an ornament than an eye
sore, as some people have feared.
The upper and lower parks could also
be used as sites for such stations,
while to the west a point near the court
house could be selected for another
such building. NORTH BROAD.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN RICHMOND.

TN ROSECUTOR PIERRE p. GARVEN, of Hudson county, who
liz has won wide celebrity by his determined investigation and
prosecution of the members of the beef trust, was formerly
Mavor of Bavonne. and made a good record in that Office before he
was appointed prosecutor. Garvens new prestige has now sug-
rested him as a likely candidate for the Republican nomination
for the eoveYnorship, and he will be doomed for that distinction
at a dollar dinner in the near future. The Republican cohorts of
the State have pretty well settled upon Vivian NJ. Lewis, of Paer-
son, but who shall say what sudden gust of popularity for Garven
will SILVER the Lewis boom into smithereens?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
THE GAYNOR KIND OF MAYOR.

m IL the sefrigIteous people in New York who opposed the
~ election of Judge Gaynor for Mayor held him up to obloquy
as the creature of a boss and predicted dire results if he
should be elected and sienced, dumfounded and fabbergasted
They are compelled to applaud the man they had condemned.
Mayor Gaynor has shown a capacity, a singleness of purpose, a
mastery of the details of administration, an insight and a resolu-
ton such as no former mayor of New York ever exhibited. He
does not talk economy and reform; he makes them He has proved
the ideal mayor. There is perhaps no counterpart of Mayor Gaynor
in any city of the country. And what an administration record he
will have when his term ends!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
stop splitting on Cars.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
AS most of us know, a vigorous cam
paign has been waged by the Board of
Health against expectoration on the
sidewalks. 1t is true that the efforts
of the health inspectors detailed to the
work of arresting offenders have been
confined almost entirely to Market and
Broad streets, but their work there
has been most effective.
Some time ago in your paper l read
that the same work was being one on
street cars. If that is so it was far
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

one grief stricken spectator sob
bingly asked the driver.
No, these were fresh eggs" the
driver replied, mournfully.
Other suggestions were made,
only to be turned down as imprac-
ticable.
A number of men gathered about
the chauffeur and threatened to
lynch him, but his W grief was SO
genuine it gave them pause.
II hadn't seen a fresh egg in
years." the auto driver blubbered.
IAN just to think that I should be
the innocent cause of this!"
But in time every one realized
the futility of crying over split
eggs, even, and went back. home
and to work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
E THIS STOP.

1t seems a shame that the South
Orange man who has been hunting
in Africa should say anything about
it when he started home.
Even though but modest accounts
of his homecoming creep into the
papers they + likely to serve to
detract a little from interest in the
real return from Africa.
Col. Roosevelt won't like it, and
the members of his reception COM
mittee won't like it, so let us have
no more of it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
A Proposal for Parks.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
/ understand from a variety OF
sources that the city will ultimately
have a comfort station in Military
Park, but a casual survey of the work
that is being lone on this ~long-needed
improvement onvey the impression
that the work will be completed about
the time hat the Panama canal is
opened for navigation. Still, l suppose
we ought to be thankful that the work
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
WE KNOW NOW.

Now we know what became Of
that pleasant March 4th which the
weather prophets promised for the
Inauguration.
1t was delayed a year in transit,
that's all. An investigation should
be begun at once to determine the
identity of the guilty party.
Probably some careless weather
shipping clerk got the tags 1909 and
1910 mixed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
QUITE REAL.

"And can't he act at all?" demanded
Hi Tragedy.
well, upon occasion he cwan," re-
piled Lowe Comerdy. For instance,
some free lunch, and he acted for all
the world like a man who was starved
to death."-The Catholic Standard and
Times.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

The STAR extends the priv
lege of these columns to the
public and invites signed COM
foundations of not more than
one hundred words treating or
topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
COULDN'T SWIM.

Did you read about that maj
who attempted suicide by stabbing
himself on a Hoboken ferry-boat?"
Seems to me I did,"
We'll, why in the world didn't
he jump overheard with a river
handy that way
Maybe he was afraid he would
drown"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

1(SANX&ATA

1t may be said for the South Jersey
oyster thai it would be all right to
''fatten'' it after it is taken from its
bed by soaking it in fresh water, IL the
water 1t was soaked in was pure. And
there's the rub. The streams of South
Jersey that flow into the sea must be
more or less contaminated With sewage
arfd factory waste. and as time passes
they will become polluted to a much
greater extent. The oyster absorbs the
water and is inflated by it. So when
the oyster partakes OF an
oyster that has been 'fattened' in q
sewage-tainted stream, he is taking di-
luted sewage with his oysters. There
is no getting around that fact. Better
give the benefit of the doubt to the
oyster and not to the oys-
terman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

1t takes a Senate committee a much
longer time to think than an Assembly
committee. The phenomenon has fire.
quently been observed. There are ex-
ceptions. of course, as when a powerful
corporation is to be favored. Then the
senatorial mind works with surprising
qulckness. When the same corporation
is to be ~disfavored the phenomenon re-
ours. The Assembly committee in the
phone probe was not precipitate in its
action. 1t waited until it got all the
facts in evidence and then it reported.
With the same facts in evidence and in
the same time, the Senate committee is
yet to report.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

The New York Sun pays q compl-
ment to Representative r. Wayne
Parker of the House committee on mill
tary affairs for his action and speech
on the provision of the army a%ppropria-
ton bill to retire five brigadier-generals
as major-generals. Mr.. Parker op-
posed the step as impolitic and unjust
to the army. He had in 1907 voted for a
similar provision and when reminded
of that fact in debate Mr.. Parker re-
piled hat he had repented the
moment he had voted for that act. The
moral courage of that acknowledgment
is praised by he Sun. and it was
worthy Of praise.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

1t is hoped that the joint ~appropria-
tons committee of the present Leglsla-
ture will exhibit some sense of respect
for the battlefags borne in the great
Civil War by New jerseys gallant
troops and provide for taking out of
the dingy vaults of the State House the
flags that have lain there SO long, ex-
posed to mildew and vermin, and
place them in cases with the flags now
on view in the State House. The treat
ment given to these sacred relics is a
burning disgrace to the State and a
brand of shame upon legislators who
thus exhibit their real lack of the senti-
ment of patriotism and State pride.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
HE MUST BIB SAFE AND SURE.

Wanted-A trust buster. A hon.
est, reliable man, who has had ex-
perience in busting trusts, so as
not to injure them or disturb public
confidence, may find it to his adj
vantage to see Attorney General
Wickersham. Applicant must know
how to go through all the motions.
giving the impression that he Is
about to break something, without
actually doing it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

How a sympathetic strike in Chicago
or San Francisco or any other distant
city can help the success of a strike in
Philadelphia is more than the average
man can cipher out. Industrial and
transportation conditions in this coun-
try are not close enough welded for
that.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

WMEM
JUST LIKE THAT.

He wanted a quiet home affair,
She in a church would wed.
MY way or none," he did declare.
None belt Them she said.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

A striking commentary on municipal
ownership is the record of the munich
pal ferries in New York, which have
shown a deficit of a million dollars a
year. Mayor Gaynor has looked into
the expenses and cut out a total of
$40 $40 annually, and this, too, without
stinting the service. He only cut out
the principal leeches on tile ferry sys-
tenn. A private business management
could doubtless cut out half a million
more of expenses. But Gaynor is an
exceptional mayor. Municipal II
ship inevitably tends to extravaganza,
favoritism, corruption and public loss.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04

The passing of st. Mary's Academy
at Washington n Blocker streets,
which has been in existence for more
than half a century, must give a pang
of regret to the many who were edu-
Gated within its portals, and who cher
the memories of their early school
days. Thus another local landmark is
soon to give place to modern improve
ment.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24

Mrs. B. B. Barr Of Henneesey.
okla. visited in Monroe several days
|last week
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
A Faithful Dog.

New York. In the Kings County
Hospital, Brooklyn, Joseph Donohue
suffering from tuberculosis, is be-
lieved to be dying, while his faith
full dog, Carlo, who is sticking to his
master in the institution, seems to
be wasting away with grief. At
least, the dog appears to be greatly
troubled and is getting thinner
every day.
With his dog, an intelligent cock
er spaniel, DOnohue lived alone at
Church avenue and East Thirty
ninth street. Recently he was re-
moved from there in an ambulance
The faithful Carlo followed his
master to the hospital. Efforts to
chase the dog away from the build
ing were in vain.
Both master and dog grieved so
over the separation that Carlo was
finally admitted to the corridor. He
walks or lies outside the door of
the ward in which is his master,
and shows great delight when he is
admitted to the bedside of Donohue
The dog eats but little.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
The Creeping Rails.

Do you know that the railroad
rails creep? They do, and on lines
running north and south, the west
ern rail "creeps" faster than the
eastern rail that is, this strange
movement of the rail toward the
south is more marked in one rail,
than in the other on the same track
Further more it has been noticed
that on such a line the eastern rail
wears out the faster.
Both of these points can be ex-
planned by the motion of the earth
as it turns from the west toward
the east.
Everything that has free motion
is dragged after the whirlwind globe;
every wind that blows and every
tide that moves feels the influence,
and train going north or south is
pulled over toward the east, and
naturally presses the eastern rail
most heavily. The western rail be-
ing relieved of its share of the
weight "creeps" more freely and
quickly.
1t is also noticed that the wheels
that run on the eastern rail wear
out first, and one cannot but think
that this earth motion is the true
cause. Elk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
Tribute to Rev. Hixson.

Rev. 3. F. HiXsOn who died at
his home in Monroe City, February
%, 1910, was one Of the most prom
inent Baptist minister in the state.
One page of the minutes of the
Bethel Baptist association is dedl-
Gated to his memory and contain a
splendid likeness of this noble
Christian gentleman, who was loved
and esteemed by all who knew him
and the following sketch of his life:
Rev. B. F. HlXson was born July
Is, 1927, died February %. 1910.
He was baptized into fellowship of
the Fifth Street Baptist church by
Rev. W. c. Busby He was ordain-
ed to the gospel ministry by Provi-
dence church in 1864. For forty
years he was pastor OF churches in
the Bethel Baptist association and
baptized more dian $500 souls. He
was truly a great preacher of the
gospel of the grace of God. His
praise is in all the churches. His
record is on high whittier he has
gone to be with the Lord, and to
join with those who laid so wisely
the foundations of Baptist success
in the Bethel association on which
he so ardently and so efficiently
built through all the trying years.
Blessed be his memory"
Rev. Hixson was the father of
B. E. and R. L. HixSon. of this city.
Journal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
"Boogers."

Sjrena Humphreys, she en- tell
Wore stories! An sometimes, wy
she
en- pure near almost make you
yell
You get as sCaitt as you can be.
An men Sirena she'll just sit
An watch you shiver; an she'll
grin
An asst you if she better quit
A-teliin' 'em wifi boogers il!
Sirena Humphreys her folks say
They don't know what in all tn
earth
Make her tell stories that-a-way
An men just laugh for all she's
worth
When you get scairt sol wy, she'll
stop
An, roll her eyes an twist her
chin
An make you almost purt' near drop
When she tells EN- wifi boogerS in!
Sometimes it's graveyards, an a
ghos',
Or sometimes pi-ruts, at IL take
Somebody at was loved tn mos
An cutlass EN-! An goodness
Sakel
Sometimes it's CannibalS at wont
Eat people while they are so thin
But fattens EN-. Sirena don't
Tell none without a booger in!
An haunted houses-woo! wifi
lights
At flashes green on ev'ry floor
An when lay awake at nights
| say won't asst her 10 more
To tell me things at make me
'fraid.
But very mex time she begin
| hope she has a ehos' or shade
Or mother kind O booger in!
Wilbur D. NeSbit, in Harper's
Magazine.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
Woman, Lovely Woman
But Alas, Without Beautiful
Hair No Woman Can Be
Handsome.

We ask every woman reader of
this paper to give Partisan Sage a
a thorough trial, and we gladly
make them this liberal offer:
Get a large SO cent bottle from
L. M. Wood to-day. Use it as di-
rected for two weeks. If at the end
of that time you are not satisfied
with the results, say so to L. M.
Wood and he will give you your
money back.
Besides being delightful and in
vigOrating hair dressing. Partisan
Sage will cure dandruff, stop falling
hair and itching of the scalp, or
money back.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
Hint" Books.

Take a small diary the year
will not matter and put down all
the family anniversaries, each
under its own date. AS you think
of some gift to suit each person add
a note about it u nder the proper
date If you give any article make
a note about it, adding the date, so
that you will not forget and give
the same thing next year.
Have a Christmas gift book. one
of the alphabetical sort, with a list
of the friends you wish to remem-
Der, and under each name make a
list of gifts suitable to that person
as ideas come to mind. On the
last pages make a list of the little
gifts you have on hand or may
make without thought for any
particular person.
Get a kitchen notebook in which
you may copy or paste recipes as
you hear or read them. Divide the
book, allowing several pages for
bread, others for cake, and so on.
Be sure and have chapters on
household hints, removing stains,
etc.
In addition to these | keep a
small notebook in nv handbag in
which jot down any new or clever
device about dress and all its access
sories- the way trimming or in
sertiOn is put on a gown, or sketch
roughly the pattern of collar or
belt. put down any unusual de-
signs | see in the stores, street cars,
trains, on the street or at social
gatherings. Whenever | am ready
to plan a new dress or to make
over an old one | refer to the little
book and usually l find some hint
which, when carried out, causes
my friends to ask who designed my
gown. Any little help toward
household furnishings is made a
note Of in the same way.-C. B. L.
in The Designer for December.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
Variations of Love

Into a telegraph office in an East
ern town there recently came a
much aeitated young woman. She
wrote upon one telegraph blank
tore it in halves, wrote a second,
which she treated in the same man
ner, and at last third. This she
handed to the operator, requesting
in a trembling voice, that he hurry
it up"
The operator obeyed instructions
and when the young lady had gone
he read the two messages that she
had torn in halves. The first was:
All is over, l never wish to see
you again"
The second read:
DO not write or try to see me at
present"
And the third ran;
Can you take the next train?
Please answer."-Mppincott's Maya
zine
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
He Couldn't See.

Little Jacks father was the teach
er of the Sunday School class of
which Jack was a new member, he
had been told that as this was his
first Sunday he would not be asked
any questions but he must pay at
tention just the same.
So, on the way home his father
asked him who it was who killed
Goliath.
Il don't know; I was sitting on
the back seat and couldn't see"
was the ready answer.-Ex.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24

Several thousand bushels of ap-
Piles, it is said, have been left on the
trees in Buchanan county of a lack
of pickers. Down here in Linn
county it requires a dime for pick
ing up three apples and even then
the purchaser is not expected to do
the picking. He takes them az
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
The Gopass and Compass

How do you find your way home
when out of sight of land?" asked
the girl of the captain.
BY means of the compass" he
replied genially.
"Oh, yes" she exclaimed delight
eddy; and when you are going from
home l suppose you use the gopass"
After that he kept busy and al
lowed no passengers to come near
him.-Buffalo Express.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
Good Roads An Inspiration

Good roads will lead to the GEN
eral improvement of the country
side. The farmer who drives to
and from town over a spacious
smooth, well-cared for road will I'M
consciously come to effect cores
ponding Improvements in the man.
agement and operation of the farm.
-Ex.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-11-24
Thanksgiving Thoughts


Today, how happy we should be,
Around the fireside, as we sit,
We farmers in our world so free
From bitter strife. There's not a
bit
Of worry that should reach us here;
For peace abideS with us, and
now
Has come the time for songs of
cheer,
And rest for hands that held the
pillow.
The harvest toll is long since done,
The corn is sarneFe9 and the
wheat r.
Is in the bin; while there is none
Of summers worry, nor its heat.
A rest from toll, great stores of
grain,
Peace in the land, prosperity to
stay;
So is it proved we do not toll in
vain.
Let US give thanks for these re-
wards today.
c. H. Meters.
Al Vaughn and wife and Miss
Ruth McAtee, of Hunnewell have
been the guests of their sister, Mrs
r F I.eake.