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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-09

cash quotations were as IollOWS.
 Flour-Firm.
 Rye-No. 2, 851a6S6c.
 Barley-Feed or mixing, 65@S5c; fair 10 choice malting, S1.07&1.1S.
 Timothy Seed-s s12. .5Nd14.50.
 Clover-$13d1S.
 Mess Pork-Per barrel, $15.75Gd5.s71a.
 Lard-Per 100 pounds, $9.50.
 Short Ribs Sides doose) ss.5099; short clear sides Cboxed), s9d9.25.
 Butter-Steady Creameries, 90G21c; dol ries, 1s@22c.
 Eggs-Steady. Receipts 6S75 cases. At mark, cases included, 110D15c; firsts, 17c; prime firts. 1Slhc.
 Cheese-Steady. Daisies, 13a131sc; twins, 1212G12%c; young Americas 13AQ131sc; long horns, 1314@131sc.
 Potatoes-Easy. Minnesota. $1@1.05; Wisconsin. S0q95c; choice to fancy, 40d42c.
 Poultry-Live. steady. Turkeys 14c; fowls, 12c; springs. 121sc.
 Veal-Steady. 50 to 60 pound weights, Sa9c; 50 to S5 pound weights, 91a91O1ac; S5 to no pound weights, 11c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-09
LiyerpooI Cotton Market

eign spinners. 126,oo0, against 1oS.o00 ras year and 1630O0 the year before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-09
St. Louis Grain

St. Louis, September S.-Cash wheat firm; track No 2 red, 91@911ac; No. 2 hard, 95cQls1 .02. Corn steady; track No 2, 6fQ65c; No. 2 white, 66q661ac Oats weaker; track No. 2, 431kc; No. 2 white, 441sl144&c. Wheat futures, December, 947s@95c; May, $lOoAc. Corn lower; De- cember, 62Ac May. 65Ac Oats weak; De- ceI-.ber, 455sc; May, 4SAc
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
TAFrs FIRST GOOD MOVE.

oTTaHE Canadian reciprocity agreement and the Presidents mes
sage recommending its ratification are making new align
ments in Congress. The character of the agreement, az soon
as it was understood. nonplused everybody in Congress. The Regn.
lar Republea1s we're fairly dumfounded by such a deliveranee from
fine White aoase. the ProgressYes we're aabbergasted aud the
Democrats divided, some approving it and others fayoring its rejec
tDn to compel fe President to call an extra session. If MIR Taft
had had the agreement drawn with the view to the discontinue of
The Progressive Republicans he accomplished his purpose. They
have denounced the payneAldrieh tariff and advocated tarif re.
vision TO cheaper the neeessaries of life. The pact proposes TO
cheaper food as far as Canadian products are concerned. But the
concessions To Canada involve q big sacrifice for agricultural IN
terests represented by the Progressyes in Congress. TO be con
sistent they must vote for ratification, but they are hearing from
their constituents and their personal mails are freighted with angry
protests. President Taft has at last taken a step in ful6lment of
his election campaign promises after enduring unpopularity for
nearly two years, and he finds an instant response from the people
No matter how the storm may rage in Congress, he can afford 10
be placid. For the first time in his administration he has the p6pu
lar sentiment back of him And if he succeeds in getting Me reel
procity agreement through Congress, should be not be encouraged
10 do other things that the people want him 10 do fFor instance,
give aid to the popular demand for a tariff reducti9h on other neees
saries of life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
TIE A SENATE ELECTIONS THIS YEAR.

TTA IGHT State senator's will be elected this year. The eight out
going senators represent Essex, Camden, Gloucester, Mon
mouth, Salem, Somerset, Union and Warren counties. The
Essex and Warren senators are Democrats, There are twelve Re
publioans and nine Democrats in the present Senate. In the
gubernatorial election only one of these Observation-Disclosures
Republican. There is, however no particular significance in that
fact. If party maiOrities for one year were carried over into sub
sequent elections Talts Republican plurality of 82,776 would not
have been replaced this year by a Democratic plurality of 40056.
nor would there be such an overwhelming change from the Re
publican plurality in 1909 of 41,502 on the legislative ticket.
Politically New Jersey has its moods, with very decided mani
festutions. Last year the State felt. the great popular impulse for
a political change because of the PayneAldrich tariff and its re
suldng high prices and Of Che great disappointment of the Taft
administration. But all impulses and movements of their kind
have their reactions, which often come unsupported. Seven of the
counties that will elect senators ths year are naturally Republican.
They elect twentythree assemblymen, or within seven of onehalf
the membership of the Assembly. If the Republicans shall carry
the seven counties they will undoubtedly elect majorities in both
houses. An important consideration that will enter into the cam
paign in these counties is the fact that the senators to be elected
will vote for a successor TO Frank O. Briggs, unless a constitutional
feeling of dismay that Republicans contemplate the sending to
the United States Senate OF a man committed to radical freetrade
theories. They know that Governor Wilson, who elected MARITIME,
will be in office at Che time OF the next election for United States
senator, and believe, therefore, they have reason to apprehend
that, given the same opportunity. he will procure the election of
smother free trader TO the Senate That argument will be made
very prominent by the Republicans in the fall campaign, and will
have due weight in the seven senatorial counties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
THE Distribution OF fHE spons.

TT o the vietors belong the spoi9@ Many years ago a politician
Il who didn't equlyoeate coined that phrase be believed IN
required salaries. Party workers needed the incentive of rewards,
and there is no incentive equal to thar of selfinterest. SO office
was held up as the sp2ds Of victory, aud the successful party ap
propriated these spells. The principle started has been adhered
TO by political psfHes at all times, and as a party policy there has
never. been aay great objection. But The practise can be abused
by personal use for individual purposes within a party, and then
it becomes reprehensihle. In New Jersey the entire official patron
age Is dispensed by the governor, a system that has been deplored
by many good men. In his hands, therefore. the yiotors "spols9
are not dspensable by the party, but by the individual, and he
can make awards without any regard 10 the party. To a limited
extent Governor Fort thus used his patronage, although not for
any one object of his own. How the patronage of his successor
has been or Will be distributed is now a matter of interest and
conjecture. Gossip at Trenton, based on a knowledge of the sup
port given TO the Governor in his senatorial campaign, has picked
out a number of the prospective beaefctaries. 1t is expected thar
a few nominations will be sent to the Senate tonight and it goes
without saying that they will be closely scanned TO ascertain their
inspiration.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
VERY

Whoever heard OF a man start
ing out with the intention of serv-
ing his fellow men and becoming a
hero all at once and then being
blocked by a fat woman-perhaps
we should say stout or obese LADY
with a trunk2
That's just what happened to a
NewarSer the other day. He looked
out from his shop and saw a young
eonflagration on the second floor of
the tenement across the street.
Selling his trusty fire extinguisher
M prospective hero lost no time in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
THE WAY OF A M

They had been quarreling and al
though hubby was willing to take the
blame all upon himself and smooth
matters over peacebly she was still
snippy and Indifferent.
Come over here. Jessie. Aren't you
curious to know what is in this pack
age?s
"Oh. not very; I can stand the
strain she replied, beIligerently.
well, it's something for the n I
love best In all the world he said,
coaxingly, trying to win a smile.
"oh, is that SOP" she suited. II sup
pose. then, it's those suspenders you
said you acknowledgements.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
Feels warm About Cold Cav.

To the Editor of the Evening Star.
Talk about "kickers,' here is a re-
ply TO the party who complains about
cold cars. In the first place. we
haven't had enough cold weather to lie
chilled to the marrow Then again
Mr.. Alex. Sauter, the cars cannot be
heated any more than they are, AND
what's more, IL your think about any.
thing else but being cold while In a
trolley car, believe me- you Won't
ever feel again as If you had to com
plain about cold cars
ANOTHER ALEX l.. K.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
THE FLYING BUG.

curtiss to Fly no More-Wednesday
headline.
curtiss Flies From water-Thursday
headline
Will the aviator soar?
Anymore
Just a few flights near the shore
Three or four.
Once you get the taste for flying,
When you say you won't you're
lying,
You'd go up If you were dying,
When it gets you, why it's got you
to the core.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
ALL SAD SHOWS.

The function of tragic art" ao-
cording to no less an authority than
Mr.. William Winter, rs to excite
pity and terror"
So far as we are concerned such
tragic art as we have happened
upon in the past few years has
been lop-sided, since it has excited
nothing but our pity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
SURELY NOT THAT.

If It is true, as a professor says,
that philosophy is the intellectual
effort which is undertaken with a
view of combining the common ex-
perienees of life and the results OF
scientific investigation into a shar-
monious and consistent world
theory" then it was something elsa
we had.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
A BUSINESS SESSION. j,

O. O far the House Of Assembly has received l07 bills and the
senate fortyeght bills. "A large number will make their
appearance in the Legislature at the session tonight. There
is never AT any session a lack OF grst for the legislative mills.
But when the mills are elogged and refuse TO grind the session lags
along without accomplishing anything until near it's close. There
are great expectations for the present session as to its accom-
Iishments and we hope to see them realized. The Republican ma-
iority in the Senate has been credited with the purpose of put
ting through without delay a number of important bills so as to
anticipate the House in passing bills OF the same character. If
chat program is carried out all legislative presidents for many
years will have been broken. There viii be a real business SEES
sion in progress the fourth week After the Legislature has con.
vened.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
Is wilson q Marinelte ON sunday .

Is Wilson n Martineite on sunday.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
How does Governor Wilson stand on
the so-called temperance question?
And how does he stand on the ques-
ton of a liberal Sunday?
read his recent inaugural address,
which is his political program, OF
course. and he is silent on these issues
of such vital Importance to a polyglot
community like this.
| have always understood that Tx.
man he boosted into senatorial dignity.
MARITIME, of Plainfeld, is very shaky on
these subjects. As the governor and
his man are hand-in-glove as free
traders and free silverites, it may not
be amiss to assume that they work to.
gether on the temperance and Sunday
questions.
| am not interested in the saloon o.
brewery business in any way, nor do
| cater to Sunday amusements, but /
know these questions are very much
alive and should be settled once for all.
A GERMAN-AMERICAN.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
AN INEXpERT OPINION.

is Friendship a Business Assert"
asks an exchange.
We think SO until an effort Is
made to realize upon it quickly.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
REFORM IN ATHENS.

Are o looking for an honest man?'
Yes" replied Diogenes.
And when you have found him will
0 persuade him TO run for office"
Yes. TIL stop asking questions ana
hustle for a campaign fund. Elk
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
BUT WHAT Is HAPPINESS?

Take from me, ho, for ! know.
and you know, If you'd only admit
it, thai the shortest lived things In
the world are the moments of
genuine happiness. BBLLEVTIiL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30

The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public ant
not more Than one hundred words
treating of topics of the hour,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
"a Baldwin street.

Tell us How to Earn, Not How TO speno.
To the Editor of the Evening Star;
In New York some well-meaning
women are conducting an exhibit Tor
the benefit of poor families to SHOW
that a family of five can live comfort
ably 90 on $500 per year. 1t Is ex-
planned that a three-room apartment
can be made habitable and that
healthy children can be brought up IN
such a place. The kitchen Is to be USED
as the dining-room, one room as the
living room and the other room to De
used as the bedroom for the wife, nus
band and three children. Although II
is rather hard to understand how any
one can keep healthy when he has TO
sleep In a room with four other per-
sons, we must AXE the word of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS who are at the
head of his exhibition.
In my opinion, these women are
wasting time. Instead of telling us
how we can live on $500 a year, they
ought to show us the way to make
more than that amount annually, 50
that we could live like human beings
and not have to be told how We can
keep clean and HI saEhz and sws1k<ksd on
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
The People 5 Rostrum


letting the public know what is going
on.
When the New Jersey League pro-
posed holding their meeting in this
city you gave the matter all the pub
licity it was worth. The notices you
gave it were responsible for the large
gathering of men prominent in local
building and loan affairs.
In telling the people of what tran
spired at the meeting you did not fail
to justly censure the men who made
such meagre arrangements for the ac-
o-ommodation of out-of-town men. The
Evening STAR also related the points
of useful information that resulted
from the meeting and the other bene-
fits which local men gained. This trait
which is dominant in your paper Is
one of the many reasons why | insist
upon having 1t in my home and recon-
mend it to my children. Keep it up.
.. r. H.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30

As a remarkable sequel to the recent
successful raid of custopI-house Off
oials upon two opium Joints in New
York coynes the announcement that the
famous sigel murder mystery may be
solved as the result of 1t,
Letters found in the raided rooms are
said to describe the manner In which
the granddaughter of General Sigel
WAS killed and to contain clues to the
IDENTIFY and whereabouts Of the muir
aerers.
The public will await the denouement
In This case-if indeed it Is at hand
with ill-concea1ed impatfence. The ma
jority of the unsolved tragedies are
forgotten in a little while and refer
ences to them arouse but passing in
terest. There were elements in the
Sigel case, however, which took a
powerful hold upon the Imagination
and made it impossible for anyone
easily to forget il.
Apparently 1t was sealed for all time
and the discovery of new evidence was
accidental.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
Laud. Evening stars Impartlality.

Lauds Evening Stars Im~partialify.
To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Being a resident of this city for a
number of years and a constant read
er of the local English papers I wish
to take advantage Of your "Rostrum''
columns to commend the fairness of
the Evening STAR in all public ques-
tons. Recently you published articles
concerning the $50 building q N loan
associations of Essex county which the
Federal government proposes to tax.
Although l am interested in a build
ing and loan association myself and
would naturally welcome the support
of such a strong medium as your
paper, / cannot help but admire the
impartial methods you employ while
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30

dashins madly across the thorough
fare and bounding up the stairway
quite a number Of steps at a time.
He was forced to come 10 a full
stop at the first landing when the
heavyweight limited at in a proceed
ing paragraph was wedged with
her personal property which was
done UP in a trunk. She, also, had
seen the fire and had hesitated only
long enough to pack her propcrta
which now blocked her exit TO tho
outer air and his to heroism.
Something usually happens in tho
meantime, and this case furnishes
no exception. Persons living on the
third floor came down and put out
the fire, and word was sent to the
congested landing that the crisis
was past.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30

a small salary. There is no doubt of
the fact that every workingman in the
country ought to earn more than he
does now. There Is no doubt of the
fact that the trusts are getting richer
and the workingman poorer.
The kind-hearted women ought TO be
told this, and then perhaps they would
realize hat the time they are taking
up in getting their names IN the papers
could be more advantageously used.
Bids n. Y. Women Keep Hands Of.
70 the Editor of the Evening Star:
One of the most remarkable things
that have been reported recently in the
public press is that meeting of a lot
of women in New York fifty who want
Governor Wilson to pardon Mrs. Caro-
line B.. Martin. convicted of causing
the death of her daughter, Mrs. ocey
M. Snead. Judge Ten Eyck in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer a few days
ago gave her a sentence of seven years
"a gu ~ AoPAAf CtAtb "
a foreign" State want to butt In
on Jersey justice and make n~ugatory
the work of many weary months upon
the part of the prosecution and defense.
Don't these women even know thai
Governor Wilson has no legal right
to do any such thing? He is a member
of the Court of Pardons, Of course. but
he is far from being the whole shoot
Ing match"
1t is more thar likely that these
women read so much about the gov
ernor's senatorial butt in that they
imagine that he can do anything he
sees fit, whether it jars the constitul
ton or not.
Anyway, their whole attitude shows
what we might expect il women vote
sentimental slush instead of common
sense and government by wild hysteria
instead Of stern Justice. M. B. c.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30

New York policemen gave satisfying
proof yesterday of their assertion that
they are not as London boobies are, and
that a battle such as was waged In the
heart of the English metropolis could
never be duplicated here.
Ten OF the New York guardians Of
the law charged a wild-eyed mob OF
several hundred, il reports may be be-
lieved, and captured a flag of a color
obnoxious to bulls and society.
Tt was not that the battle itself was
worthy of the name that 1t eKeltes com
ment. but because the situation was
chook-full of possibilities. and the po-
llcemen tied it In Knots before ary of
these possibilities could get a running
start.
Prophets of disaster have been fore
telling this long time what would hap
pen when portions of New York's popu-
lace began 70 battle in the street With
the authorities and even they must
admit this was a very poor beginning.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30

Five wealthy G~eorgians. convicted of
peonage after ighting through State
and Federal courts. gave a farewell
dinner recently. and after the eordials
had been served left for the Federal
prisons in Atlanta in a large touring
ear. When they have. served their SEN
fences doubtless they Will be rendered
a %coming-out party. and after the CON
yaptlonal congratulations have been
received will quietly resume their
places in the busy world.
This Is as it should be. Hitherto
there has been TOO much Of a ten
denoy to be cast down, to be morose
and to hang the head on the part Of
those who are condemned to serve
prison sentences. How much better
that such Incidents in the lives CT
hurry-up finenciers should be held
lightly and ever be made the subject
Of quip and jest-the inspiration of
festive occasions.
Just az a man is as old as he feels,
why should he not also be as innocent
az be feels, since SO heavy a percentage
Of guilt nowadays. is held to be merely
technical?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30

UMsFN
RUSHING THE SEASON

The sun shines bright. the March
winds blow
Bold, boisterous and contrary,
Which later won't seem strange,
you know.
But this is January.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
Mosquitoes and Reclamation

Mosquitoes and Reclamation.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
We read so much about the mos
q~uitoes, their determination. habits and
the different varieties discovered, but
this does not keep them from singing
us in the summer and autumn. We
we'll know that the female mosquito
lays several hundred eggs OF stagnant
water, and in one week we have the
~wrigglers and the next week the mos
quitoes ready for business.
All the digging Of bitches and
spreading of oil does not seem to him
der them at all, when we look over
these thousand or more square miles
of meadow marshes. On coming
through Hudson county towns In the
cars last summer several times weekly
in the evenings the pests almost ate
ton at a good speed they came In
swarms.
have often heard people remark il
~neighboring States that they would
like to live in Jersey If it wasn't foi
the mosquitoes. This is no doubt 6
! great drawback to the development OF
Newark and the rest of New Jersey
This great problem of doing away
with the marshes can only be accom-
plished by filling in, draining and dix.
ing on a large scale to produce any i'm
mediate results.
A slower and successful method II
by converting the meadows into for.
ests, which should a been done b1
the government a h~alf-century ago
Then we would have today forests o
valuable wood in place of marshes. Thu
evidence of this we see In the few scat
tered forests in the pu
there by nature. These valuable trees
absorb an immense amount of waite
and produce a loan of soil now wner'
once there were marshes.
Another drawback to the mosquito
problem is the reckless distribution o
the cities waste materials. | know o
property which twenty years ago wa
clean, dry property n today Is GOV
cred with everybody's ashes and rae
tory materials, having been there TO
years, not less than -four blocks +
marshes still left unified, breeuln'
mosquitoes by the thousands In sea
son. This sort of distribution is dofni
two things, running good property ant
preventing the lettering of swamp'
property. Every load of dirt and asneI
properly distributed will prevent tn
breeding of mosquitoes more tina W.
can exterminate in a lifetime. !.
HENRY BANGE.