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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
ERIE INDICTMENT
ON REBATE CHARGE
BY FEDERAL JURY
Railroad Company and Others
Must Stand Trial on |. c. c.
Accusation.

The Erie railroad and others are
named In an indictment rumored to
have been brought in, along with
nineteen others. by the Federal grand
jury, which reported to United States
In the Federal Court chamber In the
postoffice building today.
Rebating is the charge under which
the railroad has been indicted and
the action brings to q head work
started by the Interstate Commerce
Commission several months ago.
The violation in question concerns
a shipment of Ave cars of valonia
from a Staten Island town to a point
west, and which, according to the
indictment was started from Jersey
City by the Erie railroad. Valonia is
an acorn substance used In tainting
and dyeing.
The valonia was stored in q ware
house. from which 1t was taken and
shipped, according to the Indictment
at the import rate, which is eleven
cents lower than the domestic rate.
The shipper is said to have consulted
other railroads about the shipment
and each quoted the domestic rate.
This resulted in the assignment be-
ing turned over to the Erie.
FolloWing this complaint was
made to the Interstate Commerce
Commission, presumably by one of
the railroads which had bid on the
shipment. Investigations by the
commission. which is empowered to
fix rates. resulted in their findings
being presented to the Federal grand
jury and the indictment is the re-
suit.
Pleas on all the indictments
brought in today will be heard with
in two weeks. All South Jersey cor
porations or persons indicted will ap-
pear In Trenton next Monday to
answer indictments, while Northern
Jersey indictments will be answered
In Newark two weeks from today.
After hearing its report Judge
Rellstab discharged the jury with
thanks.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
President Names Three
for Philippine Commission

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Presiderit
Wilson today nominated the three
following named for American mem
fbers of the Philippine commission;
Secretary of public instructions and
vice-governo of the Philippine
Islands, Henderson S. Martin, of
Kansas: secretary of commerce and
police, Clinton l.. Riggs, of Baltimore,
and secretary of the interior, Win
fred T. Denison, of New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
Women Vote in Chicago

CHICAGO, Nov 24.-The final count
of Saturdays vote at West Pullman,
where the question of the town be-
coming park district was before the
people, shows that the proposal was
carried by vote of 344 to 1888, and
that the women cast almost as many
votes as the men. The division was:
Women, 257; men, 29S. The men spoil
ed twelve ballots and the, women six
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
QUALIFY AS sTENoGRAPHERs
TsDecfaI to the Newark Star.I

TRENTON, Nov. 24.-The Civil Ser
vice Commission today announces
this list:
Male stenographers for service in
Essex county, David E. johnson, $50
Ocean avenue, Newark; Frederick e.
Mohrmann, 160 Watsessing avenue,
Bloomfield, and Daniel O'Neill, II Sy1-
van place, Montclair.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
Policemen Who Aided State
Gain Freedom in New York

NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Two ex-
policemen, Eugene F. Fox and Ashley
Shea, were rewarded today for their
revelations regarding graft in the po-
lice department by the dismissal of
indictments charging them with
bribery and perjury.
District Attorney Whitman, upon
whose recommendation the men were
released. said they were largely re-
sponsible for the conviction of four
police inspectors and other minor po-
lice officers now in prison.
Fox and Shea were charged with
collecting protection money handled
by Police Captain Thomas w. Walsh.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
TWO j. S. ARMY
FUERS KILLED AS
AEROPLANE FALLS
Lieutenants Ellington and Kelly
Victims of Accident at
San Diego.

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Nov. 24-Lieu-
tenants Eric L. Ellington and Hugh
L. Kelly, first division army aviation
army corps, were killed today in a
fall of about eighty feet in an aero
plane. The accident occurred across
the bay from San Diego on the
grounds of the army school on North
Island,
Kelly was first lieutenant in the
Twenty sixth Infantry and Ellington
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
Expect 200 at Dinner

Two hundred men of Montclair and
vicinity are expected to attend the
subscription dinner to be given for
Rev. DR.. Wilson r. Stearly, rector
of st. Luke's Church, in the Hotel
Montclair, tomorrow evening The
speakers will include Melville E. Stone
and Bishop Edwin s. Lines.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
Of Noblest Type of American Girlhood
Is Miss Jessie Wilson, White House Bride
She TALL Handsome, of Sunny Disposition Simple in Dres
and of Refined Manners.
ny NIxoLA cREELEY-smrTH

Enepdse Assoeiaon)
WASHINGTON Nov
the White House-the weddtng Miss
4 Jessie Wisonbe
the bride is like She
with
which the dominat-
ng quait is an
quality They
might vision of conquest and
dom
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
Suffragettes Burn Station
on Railway in England

BIRMINGHAM, England, Nov. "a.
Fife today partially destroyed the
Midland railway station at Castle
Bramwich a suburb. The fire was
started by suffragettes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24

NEW YORK, Nov 24.-Dudley Field
Malone. recently third assistant sec
retary of State, took office today as
to succeed John Purroy Mitchei.
mayor elect. as head OF the customs
service here.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24

Convention Rail- sfereotypers' Union.
Krueger Auditorium, Nov. %. Ticket.
(including wardrobe), so cents.
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10
eHAuFFEURs MUST NOT SMOKE.

GHAUFFEURS MUST NOT SMOKE.
The municipal authorities in Berlin
have issued an order forbidding chauf-
feurs to smoke while in charge Of au-
tomobiles. The order applies not only
to chauffeurs driving taxicabs, but al
so to anybody, prince or peasant. who
steers an automobile. 1t is based up
on the contention that smoking d.
Verts the attention of drivers and has
caused many accidents. There is
more governing In Germany than in
any other country, and this decree wiz
be considered an extreme manifesto
ton OF interference with private at
fairs. But it may get results in the
way Of reducing the total number of
accidents. If it does it will be ed
forced regardless of whether it is pop
ular. American observers of the use
and abuse of automobiles will feel.
however, that 1t is vastly more i'm
portant to forbid persons to drive au-
tomobiles after having drunk intoxi-
cants than while smoking cigarettes
or cigars. says the Louisville Courier
Journal The man at the wheel who
feels his oats is a really dangerous
factor In the somewhat difficult prob
lem of running at the maximum speed
possible upon the roads provided and
killing only a small number OF the
persons who subject themselves to
the risks of the road.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10

placing polygamy-a simple repudia.
ton by the husband of his wife, pro
vided he is well enough off to pay the
nekyah or marriage settlement, which
he is legally bound to hand over to
her.
The woman of the poorest classes
can go out alone. Custom does not
oblige her to wear her veil down.
Should her husband. in fit of anger,
wish to divorce her, he must first of
all produce the Nekyah, the dowry,
in ready money, not an easy matter
for poor man.
The real danger to domestic happi-
ness in the great mass of Turkish
homes is the growing tendency of d.
vorce, and divorce wholly favorable
to the man rs against the woman.
The payment of the modest nekyah
arranged at the time of his marriage
is a simple affair, and 1t is seldom
enough to keep the divorced wife for
the rest of her days. She is forced to
take refuge with her parents or to
find shelter with some of her friends.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10

Ing Extinct.
exterminated, and other curlews great
ly reduced. So adverse to the
shorebirds are present conditions that
the wonder is that any escape. In
both fall and spring they are shot
along the whole route of their migra-
ton north and south.
The accompanying Illustrations pre-
sent portraits of a group of birds, most
of which the average person probably
knows by sight, though fear that
only IA small minority have a clear
idea OF their very great economic
worth.
The jacksnipe Cor Wilson's snipe) is
one of the shorebirds Preferred to by
Mr. McAtee), which, as family, are
being rapidly exterminated. 1t de-
stroys large numbers of worms and
larvae, for which it probes with it's
long bill in the soft earth of corn and
potato felds-thereby doing the farm
er great service-as well as along
the shores of ponds, lakes and
streams. It also feeds on grasshoppers
and other injurious insects. 1t should
be carefully protected, especially dur
ing the breeding season.
The kildeer plover is another yalu-
able and beautiful shorebird which
is being hunted to death 1t frequents
meadows and pasture lands, as well
as shores, and devours great quanti-
ties of mosquitoes, crane flies, grass
hoppers, army worms, cut worms,
caterpillars, cotton-bo1l weevils, clover
leaf weevils, rice weevils, marine
worms, wire worms and crayfsh.
Doubtless everybody knows the rob
in, perhaps the most democratic of our
birds. beloved in the northern states
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10

Dor and very useful one, for it is re
markedly swift and graceful on the
wing, and is expert and persistent in
catching rose beetles, May beetles.
cucumber beetles, mosquitoes, house
flies and flies that trouble horses
and cattle. One observer records
that 80 parent martins made 1926 Wis
it's TO their young in one iay, each
visit meaning, probably, anywhere
from one to half dozen Insects.
The nighthawk (also called bull
bat, + probably one of the most
useful of birds. It feeds exclusively
on insects, and ranks next to the
golden-winged woodpecker (ficker) as
a feathered destroyer of ants, which
it takes when they are in the winged
stage Potato beetles, cucumber bee
ties. leaf hoppers, bugs Of various kinds
and enormous quantities of gnats and
mosquitoes are found in their stom-
achs. They are entirely harmless, for
they never feed on fruit, grain, grass
or vegetables. Yet they are being
hunted for sport and are being exter-
minated.
The loggerhead Cor southern) shrike
is a champion pest destroyer. large
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10

with the result that the damage they
do is mounting up, year by year.
1t is perfectly apparent that here
is a situation which demands immedi-
ate action, and that this action should
bring about the vigilant protection for
all time, and in all parts of the coun-
try, of all insectivorous birds. Many
of the most useful Of these birds are
already on the tobogganslide to-
ward determination, as the result of
stupid state legislation, or the lax en-
forcement of such laws as have been
enacted. To be explicit:
There are seven states in which the
robin is being legally killed by the
tens of thousands annually as game
These states are Louisiana, Mississip-
pi Florida, South Carolina, North Car
DINA, Tennessee and Maryland.
The black bird is legalized game. !"
and suffers the same fate in four
states-Louisiana South Carolina.
Tennessee and Pennsylvania and the
District of Columbia besides.
Doves are slaughtered by the whole
sale in 26 states, much to the loss of
the farmers, for this bird is great
eater of weed seeds.
Cranes, which are also very useful
birds, are much hunted for food and
for sport" in Colorado, Nebraska.
North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Of the sixty-odd species Of shore
birds ii. e., snipe, curlews, plover,
sandpipers and the like), at least 80
feed on noxious insects; yet all of
these birds are rapidly disappearing.
According to Mr.. w. L. McAtee of the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10
Only the Sultan Adheres to the Old
Style Oriental Jnstitution-Moc-
ern Turk Resorts to Divorce.

The domestic arrangements OF the
sultan are entirely different from
those of his subjects Most Turks
have one wife; the sultan has no
recognized sultana. Turks OF high
rank marry into their own class; the
sultan forms unions with women or
slave origin. The ordinary man may
not look upon an unveiled woman ex-
cept she be his relation or servant J;
the sultan has the right to talk with
any woman In the land face to face.
Turks of position model their house
holds more or less on the European
plan: the sultans household is orien-
tai
That does not mean that in the i'm
perial palace you would find women
siDDing sherbet or smoking narghilehs
or clad in baggy trousers. On the
contrary, you would find them smok-
ing nothing more oriental than a
cigarette. sitting on a European chair
and, yes, wearing corsets! But the
code Of morals is entirely different,
says the New York Sun.
The imperial harem is founded on
the old court system of the Byzantine
emperors and has an etiquette and
law OF its own. The first fact one
must grasp is that the wives or
favorites of the sultan have no i'm
nortance at all. They are nobodies.
The daughter of Circassian peasant
NAV be honored by the sultan's favor
and even bear him a child. but yet
he distinguished by no other title
than the commonplace ~Kadin Effen-
d." Only the mother Of the eldest
son receives the royal designation OF
asultan.v her whole title being 'Kha,
reki sultan"
Her dignity only results from her
being the mother Of . possible heir
to the throne; that IS, in the event
| that the sultan has no brothers for
the brothers have the right Of prece-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10

percentage of its food being harm
full rodents and destructive insects,
the latter including grassboppers'
crtckets and moths, which it frequent
" impales upon thorns or sharp tWlgs.
1t sometimes catches young Diros
Though this is more characteristic OF
the northern shrike, or butcher olrd,)
but It's diet is chiefly insects and sman
rodents 1t is, therefore, very Vaiu-
able to the farmer.
The golden-winged woodpecKer
(aIso called flicker "highhcle," etc.
is an Industrious tree protector, ano
the most efficient Of ali feathered ant
eaters. It is also feeds freely upon pee
ties. grasshoppers, crickets, caterpil-
lars. and other harmful insects, as well
as on weed seds. Yet it Is rapidly
growing rare because it is much
hunted for food. It should be pro-
tected everywhere and at all times.
In view of the decrease already ac-
complished in the general volume OF
bird life in America, in view OF the
enormous losses annually inflicted up
on the people of this country by the
rayages of insects, and in view OF the
destruction of wild life which Is now
furiously proceeding throughout Amer
lea. the Mclean bill, which Is now be-
fore congress. to provide for the fed
eraI protection of all migratory birds.
becomes the most important wild life
measure that ever came before that
body. In view of the annual economic
loss that will continue as long as
federal migratory bird bill fails to
pass, it is impossible for anyone to put
forth one good reason-un unless 1t be on
purely technical grounds-against that
measure. The Weeks bill, before the
lower house of congress, is precisely
like the Mclean bin, and it matters
not which one passes first
Unless the people of this country
wish to shut their eyes to their own
interests, and pay out millions OF dol
lars annually in the form of increased
cost Of living due to the losses caused
by insect pests which would be
destroyed by the birds, they should
demand that federal migratory bird
bill be at once enacted into a law. It
is Senate Bill No. 6497, and on the
senate calendar it is No 606 We can
not afford to wait until 1914 or 1915,
and congress has full power to act
this winter
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10
HAREMS OUT OF DATE IN TURKEY

dence as the elder male descendants.
And the royal favorite of the moment
will have transitory Importance on
account Of the influence which she
may exercise over the sultan.
Royal princesses are considered in
ferior to the mother of the sultan. who
is the real queen of the little world
of the harem, has absolute authority,
a large staff of officials and the SUI
preme title of "Valide sultan" Thus
it happens that woman of slave
birth may, if she be the mother of an
heir to the throne, eventually become
the highest woman of the land.
Every royal princess has her daira,
or separate apartments, slaves, ser
wants and so on, the management of
the household being given over to her
| kalfas, or ladies in waiting-that is to
say, Turkish women of good birth
who have remained unmarried
Royal princesses rarely take hus-
band of their own rank. They are
generally married by the sultan to
the sons Of men Of wealth and posi-
ton. such as pashas, officers of state,
high civil officials and the like, a
policy which is founded on very
practical reason, namely, that the ar
rangement makes the existence Of a
hereditary aristocracy impossible
One of the paradoxes in Turkey is
that the poorer a Turkish woman I :,
the greater her freedom. The rich
woman canont move step unaccom-
panied. Size sees Constantinople only
from the windows of her closed
brougham or through a veil .hick
enough to act as a mask. She may
dress as exquisitetly as mannequin
in a Paris dressmaker's showroom
but she must not display go much az
an inch of embroidery in public
When her husband wants to take q
second wife, or grows tired Of her
and wishes to divorce her. he has
both the opportunity and the means
IL he is a rich man. 1t Is not chic
among Turks of any education to take
second wife; but divorce IL 10
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10

1t can not be truthfully asserted that
the appalling list of deaths due to avl-
alton has been wholly in the interests
OF science. Men who have fallen to
their death while experimenting in the
field of aviation are entitled to all
the credit due to men who risk life
in the interests of scientific research
But majority of the victims have
met death while exhibiting them
selves to the public, not as scientists
but as showmen In response to a
morbid demand Of the public for new
thrills they have taken long chances
for price, not for the joy of discoV-
cry. Their deaths are due to the
same cause that impels death defying
feats under canvas. The general pub
lie wants to be thrilled. Americans
deprecate the bull fight, and have put
the prize fight under the ban. But,
after all, isn't it just as bad to de-
mand that men shall risk death n or
der to supply the thrill, as it is to de-
mand the blood Of ouIls or to delight in
seeing two human animals, trained
to the limits of physical perfection,
pummel each other to pulp under
the glare of electric lights in roped
in arena?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10

for his cheerful song and his hand
some appearance, glad everywhere to
be the companion and the friend OF
man when he is well treated. and high
ly valuable as a destroyer of harmful
grubs, worms and insects. Yet this
bird is murdered literally by the thou
sands for pot-pies by negroes ana
poor whites in the southern states
above mentioned, and is more or less
hunted in other states. Mr.. Il. A.
McI1henny, who lives on Avery Island,
La, says that during tne ten days or
two weeks Of the robin season tin
January when the berries are rlpe) al
least 10000 OF these useful and beau
tiful birds are slaughtered daily Tor
the pot. Every negro man and boy
who can raise gun is after them.
says Mr.. McIlhenny.
Although this bird causes some loss
to small fruit growers, it certainly
does vastly more good than harm. 1t
is constantly at work on lawns and
fields hunting for destructive insects,
which it is exceedingly difficult to
keep in control. 1t devours many
caterpillars, including hairy species,
which infest the orchard. woodland
and shade trees. Forty per cent. OF
its food is insects, and 43 per cent.
wild fruit. It would pay the farmer
well to go some expense in order
to keep the robins away from his
fruit trees and berry bushes rather
thar shoot these birds which are so
useful to him in many ways. To muir
der them for pot-pies is. of course.
nothing short of barbarous.
The purple martin is also fond OF
tho society of man, and when not
molested by the villainous English
sparrows-and still more villainous
men by whom 1t is shot for food,
chiefly in the soulful is glad to
breed in birdhouses near human habi-
tations. 1t males a charming neigh
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10
Day on Which Women Ru,e.

Candlemas day is not celebrated in
Holland much more than In England.
but its place is taken by festival un-
known in this country. Slipper day in
the Netherlands is the one Gay in the
year in which the Dutch woman
claims superiority over her husband
On that day she rules him to her
hearts content, and he generally
obeys good humoredly enough. That
Is, unless she is one Of those ladies'
not unknown in Holland or In any
other country who aspire to complete
rule over their unhappy partners
throughout the Philadelphia In.
quirer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-10
STREETS Of L]Vi1i|
Nearly All Of Them Were p,,,]
After Someone.
Each Has q MEANING. h..
MisspeIIine, Etc, IT Is Ipr0o =!
to Conjecture Their orio; 's'a''
Purport.

Londo11.-Those who arc
miliar with the London strssts ~
ably think least about tba;s ', : n
But the stranger who At ~ uls0'
walls, or possibly for the fret ' :. la'
his life, visits the netrcnorr.1 s
often speculate as to the or,,l
this or that thoroughfare or
how some of the curlorclr s0aa
streets he passes through c...s
their names. Since it has u
been the custom in this con. ivy
name the ways Of towns and
after somebody or something an. :.
be sure that every one Of tbo 49, :.
of London streets once had y
meaning. though that mear;ns T..
much lost its point in the con =
time, or the original spelling has II
so corrupted. that it is now i
cases practically impossible orss
conjecture the original mrno,.
the place-names Of the metroDoI,
Many London thoroughforas n
many a country village, probably \
their names to the existence Of 81
hosiery in the immediate nei,bs
hood, and around which in con,s.
time, other houses were built ca =
at last a street was formed. HsnS
Sword alley, off Whitefriars sfs
and Catherine Wheel alley near Il
erpool street station, no doubt
tanned their names in this man,1
Gracechurch street, city. is said
have mad nothing whatever N
with that particular virtue II ina
ginning, and perhaps there Is
more of it there nowadays than I'M
used to be. 1t was originally snpl
"Grass-church," because of the en-
that once grew along its edges o.
account of the fact that vendeH
herbs dwelt there.
Holborn is another corruption 4,
perfectly different word. Origin;
1t was "Old Bourne" or Hill Bouri
so-called from the stream which bn
out near where Holborn Bars all
ward stood, and ran down the side
the street to the Fleet river FN
the latter, as every one may supp
Fleet street took it's name And a
final example Of the corruption