Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-25
4GOEANN&NAT

After several unmistakable vista
ttons of mosquitoes it may safely be
assumed that the pest has not as yet
been exterminated. The exterminators
VIII doubtless, as in past seasons, hotly
declare that the singing visitors were
from Staten Island, Costa Rica or
Panama, and that the local brand of
Jersey skeeter has long since ceased to
be, but witnesses innumerable can be
produced to insist they were attacked
and lacerated by the native product.
1t is being demonstrated every day
In the police courts that for no type of
prisoner can apparent repentance win
more rewards than the wife-beater.
Although he nay have beaten his
spouse within an inch of her life, he
has but to say he is sorry and she
stanchly refuses to press a complaint
against lin. We're 1t not so easy to
escape punishment for this brand of
brutality instances of 1t would not be
recurring all the time.
According to the picture painted by
the press dispatches the Nicaraguans
are, giving an excellent imitation of
war. This is contrary to all South
American tradition. 1t is therefore the
more marked n interesting. The
battle of Rama, now raging. can never
be included in the decisive battles of
the world, but a large number of SOL
diers on either side have been killed as
conclusively as they might have been
in a regular war.
A South Carolinian seeks reelection
after having held office continuously for
flfty-two years. How many men there
are to whom the prospect Of being re-
tanned in the employ of the public for
yer a half a century would seem the
height of human desire. And yet the
fascination the public payroll has for
many is doubtless intensified by the
knowledge that position in line for it
is harder to hold than to obtain.
The original little Eva" is dead al
the age of "a. When she created the
sympathetic role she was, of course, a
mere child; yet Uncle Toms Cabin"
with its bloodhounds, Eliza, Marks.
ETC., is still playing to audiences of con
siderable size. What can be the secret
of its appeal at this late day? The slave
question explained the success of the
mass of absurdities when 1t appeared,
but what has kept 1t alive?
1t is said that the new thoroughfare
which New York city contemplates
building from Fourteenth to Fifty
ninth streets between Fifth and Sixth
emu will cost s35, 900, 900. That a
city can calmly seek such expensive
relief from the congestion of its main
traffic artery bears striking testimony
to its ability t realize and provide for
its mammoth needs.
After a two-years' search by agents
of the secret service a man who says
he threw the bomb which killed King
Carlos of Portugal has been captured.
duplicates LAS persons in the sue
cessful plot of the r~egicides. 1t would
seem that the secret service, If it in
tends to investigate thoroughly this
story, has its work cut out for it.
Again were those who had been saw
ing themselves for an evening view of
the comet disappointed. 1t would
seem almost that the unfavorable
weather is the result of the definite
intention of the weather man to re-
ward THE energy of those who arose,
sacrificing sleep for morning views of
the comet.