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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

When does the voting contest end?
Thanking you for the attention given
the letters, | remain, most respect
fully, BIG BIKE BOG'
J. P. ~:
Jackie Rockets Clarks" got his
second lacing of the season from All
Goullet Wednesday evening. 1t was
n clean victory, well deserved and a
good lesson on the track, to the little
Australian, which meant that it is
not always possible TO succeed with
foul tactics. If Clark is given a
match race Sunday with Rutt, the
German rider will beat the foxy
Australian, as will Goullet when they
meet next Wednesday evening.
The soreheads must now come out
and say that little Jackie was out of
form. Clark was doing his best, but
Goullet won because he was the bet
ter man. Even Big Cayanagh, in his
best form, proved he can beat the
little rider from the Antipodes The
"anti-cycing organ" will come out as
usual saying that Clark had still
heavy legs, "due to his recent ILL
ness" This to account for his defeat
from the blonde Australian. As
matter of fact, the admirers of Clark
are clever enough to find a good eX-
cuse in defense of their favorite!
"Tonsilitis, out of form, had too
much chicken fricassee, forgot his
handouts, etc., etc" until the deci-
sive waterloo will end all the unrea-
sonable comments.
We We're not surprised at the vic
tory of Bob Spears over Walter Rutt
We remember the splendid riding of
the elongated Australian last year,
when he won from Frank Kramer in
that team race at the finish of the
season. 1t will be worth while watch
ing Spears Sunday afternoon. If
Goullet takes the lead with Champ
Kramer on his wheel and Spears in
third position, the elongated Anti
podean will win the final of the One
Thousand Stakes. Kramer will have
to extend himself to beat Goullet
from second position. In case he
succeeds in getting in front of the
blonde Australian, he will have to
start another big jump to stop the
wonderful final sprint of Spears.
Don't you think, j. 7. N, Sunday s
race is worth while seeing? Youps
with best regards, S. o. & CO.
Rutt is not to meet Clark until a
week from next Wednesday night,
when Manager Mcfarland says he
hopes both men will be in their best
condition. The anti-cycling organ has
been tanned and isn't going to do any
more knocking, I understand, so
there, now. 1t has enough troubles
Of its own with it's reform editors
looping the-loop and it's circulation
-the-dip. Spears is riding well,
but he will hardly beat Kramer or
Goullet.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05
Bob Spears Prominent.


BY making the final of the Grand
Prize of Newark Bob Spears has at
tanned a prominent position in cycle
racing here. Spears has earned his
way into the final of Americas big
gest race, but what he will do in the
final is problematical. AT the, Motor
drome last season Spears was a bril-
liant performer and looked so fast
the Motordrome adherents expected
to see him beat Kramer after the
consolidation of the two tracks. lSut
the field at the Velodrome was far
superior to the Motordrome aggre-
cation and Spears failed to shine He
did, however, win two spectacular
victories over Kramer, which led
some of the fans to believe that Bob
had hit his stride and would repeat
his successes scored across the street
But these wins We're only flash in
the pan and Bob sank back into OBJ
livion again.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

How am | going to stop them"
from killing the sport when you are
doing all you can to put it out Of
commission?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

j. P. N:
sJust "a few words regarding the
races Wednesday night at the Velo-
drome. For the sake of unfolding the
sport, why don't they get judges who
have eyes enough to see who wins a
race? You take the second heat of
the $1,000 race, in which Grenda beat
Rutt by at least a foot, and yet those
men. who call themselves judges, an
nounced Rutt the winner. You
know as well as | that the crowd
Kissed the announcement to show it's
disapproval. I was sitting in the fifth
row, even with the tape, and ] had
an unobstructed view of the finish,
and l don't see how in Gods world
anybody could say that Grenda did
not beat Rutt. / think he beat Rutt
by a wider margin than Goullet beat
Clark. Now, if Rutt is a sport, why
did he accept the race when even he
knows, way down in his heart, that
he was beat? Decisions like the
above will eventually turn the crowd
away. What say you, j. p. N? Yours
for true sport, GEORGE LITTLE.
Why put it up to me, when you are
so positive?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

j. p. N:
Do not let them kill the sport at
the Velodrome. The decision of the
Disappointment Stakes really was not
good for the box" Even our good
friend Rutt was ashamed to ride
around with the flowers.
NO SIGNATURE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

D. L ~
Kindly give a little space in your
sporting column for the first time. l
wish to express my opinion in re-
CARDS the one-half mile heat between
Grenda and Rutt. J. p. N, | am a
steady patron at the Velodrome and
have no favorites but like falr play
Grenda positively won that heat D.
P. N, / was right on the tape with
both eyes on the wheels, ana II
were dying | would say with my last
breath that Grenda's wheel went
over the tape fully three-fourths TO
one foot ahead of Rutt's. Why such
unfairness is done, | can't UNDER
stand. Surely such dirt takes away
all the pleasure of going to the Velo-
drome, and certainly no fairminded
man or woman will continue to pay
to see such a thing pulled over their
eyes, and, ]. p. N, the opinion of
fully two-thirds of the grandstand
people is voiced herein. Grenda won
the heat. Yours for fairness,
FANNESS.
In talking about fair play, why
not consider the feelings of the
judges. Grenda may have won, but
it wasn't as bad as you say. So you
aren't going TO the Velodrame any
more!
J. P. N:
The Cycle Racing Association this
season has advised the followers of
racing that they are DESTROYS of
catering to the public. Well, they
might say this, for it is through the
cooperation of the patrons that the
racing game has such "a strong hold
in Newark If the management is
really DESTROYS, however, of pleasing
the fans they would do well to avoid
a recurrence of such a decision as
was given in the second heat of the
disappointment Stakes" Wednesday
night.
Old Kill-Joy has endeavored
number of times to get the bike fans
to think that racing is not on the
square. We would all dislike very
much to take such view of the stu
alton, but most assuredly repetition
of Wednesday nights decision will
make number of us sit up and take
notice.
The writer saw the finish of this
race from a seat in the grand stand
exactly opposite the finish line and
there is no doubt in his mind-and
many other obserVers-that it was q
clear case of a dead heat. E. H. p.
Just to show you how easy it was
to pick the winner in the Rutt-
Grenda race, here is a very able fan
and a very conscientious fan, who is
DESTROYS of saving the game from
going to the demnition bowwowe,
and who declares with absolute posi-
tiveness that the men rode dead
heat. Now, you who were there and
were not right on the tape and you
badly the judges erred. Especially
will this be clear after going back a
step and reading the first communi-
cation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

the Kisses which greeted the judges
on their decision of the Rutt-Grenda
heat.
Kramer's ride was wonderful while
Spears. in winning his heat, shows
that he's to be watched, but "Goul-
lie' is going so fast just now that he
has all of the riders guessing who
he's going to defeat next. He has
trimmed them all now, including
Clark, who defeated Kramer and
was taken SO sick that he had to
take a rest. Only one more for Al.
to beat, and that is "Steve" Kra-
mer, and it's going to happen Sun
day
When does the voting contest end?
Thanking you for the attention given
the letters, l remain, most respect
fully. BIG BIKE BUG.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

j. p. N:
Is there a premium listed on a dime
dated 1855? The coin has two arrows
by the date. Also, is there a premium
listed on half-dollars dated 1929. 1890
and 1881? j. l..
There is q one-cent premium on
each of your half-dollars. There is
no premium listed on your dime. -
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

France has a new sensation in the
sprinting ranks. Pierre Sergeant is
the man. Reports from Paris say
that young man is a conner. Frank
Kramer also speaks highly of him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

Professor Gus Troxler is putting
his gymnasium in shape for the bout
Monday night between Mickey Don
that there will be no interference.
The Troxler shows are good, clean
shows, and it is said that the present
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

Goullet, now that he has beaten
Clark, is anxious to meet Jackie in a
match race. He will be accommo-
dated, for General Manager MacFar-
land has arrnged a bout" between
the two little battlers for next
wednesday night. Nothing that
Mac" could put on the card would
make better racing, and I dare say
that the fans-the Goullet fans and
the Clark fans-will be out battling
as hard as the riders. Next Wednes-
day night-Goullet vs.. Clark. That's
is the" race to see.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

j. p. N:
Why is a ship or train referred to
as "she"? Fl. M.
Grammarians explain this by say
ing that the pronoun is used to per-
sonify some inanimate objects. 1t is
generally the rule that objects of
grace are referred to as she" Trains
are hardly ever referred to as She"
for the reason that they smoke.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05


What is a repechage heat, and how
do you pronounce that word?
OLD-TIMERS.
Repechage is consolation. AS used
in cycling, it means to give nom
qualifiers another chance 1t is pro-
nounced rep-e-Zagh.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05

Bill Bailey who lost his form for a
time, is getting back into his stride.
Bailey recently defeated Friol, Lorenz
and Van Bever. Bill may show in
our town before the season is over,
although Manager MacFarland has so
many big things to put on this year
that he may save Bailey for another
season.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

the Lord heard his prayer, and that on the
third day Jonah was cast by the while
upon the land. 1t is still further recorded
that Jonah then went to Nineveh and de-
livered his message; that the people re-
pented.
Now, the radical skeptic, without giving
the subject careful study, sums UP the
case In single dogmatic assertion. which
is this / do not believe one word OF this
story. A dogmatic reply, In kind, or
clerical rebuke OF some sort, will get no.
where and will leave the disputants look
ing at, or making faces az, each other
A sane criticism would be, however,
that the assertion Of the critic is far too
sweeping; for, unless one is prepared to
deny the credibility Of all history, some
parts of this story Of Jonah, on the ground
of the highest criticism, are such that one
cannot help believing them.
The first fact to be noted is that the
age In which Jonah is alleged to have
lived was not mythical, oat historical and
prophetical Jonah was contemporaneous
with Obadiah, Joel, Anlos and Hosea, who
belonged to the last grouping OF the Old
Testament prophets He lived In the time
Of Jeroboam, with whom he had great In
fluence. If, therefore, Jonah Is consigned
to the realm OF the mythical, there Is no
reason why these other prophets, and this
King, or ln0eeQ, no reason why lHe GTeeh
and Roman classical writer's Of the same
period, and even those who fourished
later, should not also o, consigned to the
realms of myth, Indeed, one can present
Just as strong reasons in support OF the
statement that Virgil, Dante and Shakes
peare were unhistorical as that Jonah, the
sen of Amittai, was such
Early in the eighteenth century the as
sertion was made. no. only that there
never had been suca a city as Nineveh.
but even a tradition Of tae city was ques-
toned There wee critics who did not
therefore hesitate to affirm that Nineveh.
as well as Jonah, was n myth,
But in 1841, under the accumulations OF
centuries, Nineveh was discovered and
found to have had the extent and mag
nificence as ascribed to 1t in the book OF
Jonah. The excavations made by Botta
Layard, Rassam, LOTUS, George Smith and
Rawlinson traced the walls made by Sen
nacherib and repaired by Assurbanipal
and discovered inscriptions which COM
pletely upset the views held by earlier
critics.
The facts are those: Nineveh, sup
posed to have been founded by great
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

Another adverse criticism on the Jonah
narrative is that no large sea monsters
frequent the waters OF the Mediterranean
But. as a matter OF fact, no less authority
than Cuyier calls attention to the Rorqual
Mediterraniensis, large species of whale
Indigenous to the Mediterranean Sea.
And it is well known to those familiar
with these subjects that the waters
through which a vessel sailing from Joppa
to any Spanish port would pass were ire
quented in early, times by species Of
shark called the sea dog. canis carcharias,
whose normal length at maturity, accord
ing TO modern works on zoology, Is thirty
feet,
The noted French naturalist. Lacepede.
states that these Mediterranean sea dogs
can swallow animals much larger than a
man without mutilating them. In his His
toire Des Poissons' is this statement:
Sea dogs have lower jaw of nearly six
feet in its semi-circular extent, which en-
ables lis to understand how they can swal-
low entire animals as large or larger than
ourselves"
And II Is a well-known fact that the
voracity OF sea dogs, and, indeed, that Of
many of the shark family. Is such that
they never chew their food, but swallow
everything they can without chewing.
This. then, in brief, Is the challenge OF
the skeptic: The retaining Of ones con-
seriousness for the length OF time alleged,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

-HE story Of Jonah is not only dis
credited, but is regarded by some
u critics as quite suitable for the
amusement Of children, and Is labelled
"The Pickwick" and "The Bigelow Pa
pers" OF the Bible. And one may think
from the frequency and violence OF the
attacks upon the historical integrity or
this story. and from the sport made OF It,
that It Is the most vulnerable narrative In
the Bible.
Not so very long since the story OF
Jonah was handled in such a way by an
eminent clergyman, who Is also literary
critic, the Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, as to
excite great merr1ment and outbursts OF
laughter" in the congregation, though such
results, the doctor afterward said, were
not intended. But If the story, as he as
sured his hearers, ''is wholly fiction" why
should not just such facetious and laugh
able results have been intended?
But IL, on the other hand, this narrative
is regarded by many intelligent and schol-
arly people as vertable history, then the
case is different. and the story is such as
may demand reinvestigation.
Adopting this method, II Is legitimate
first of ali, to bring before the mind the
more important facts, or what are said to
be- facts. and then ascertain what parts OF
the narrative are credible, and what IL
any, are to be ruled against. The follow
ing matters are found in the record:
Jonah, the son of Amitai, was born at
Gath-hepher about eight hundred years
before Christ. He was what is termed
Jehovah prophet, and, after prophesying
concerning Israel, was sent to Nineveb,
the metropolis os the Assyrian Empire, to
preach repentance to that great and wicked
city. Instead of obeying the command he
took passage at Joppa for Tarshish, either
the modern Tarsus in Cilcia, or else Tar
tesus in Spain; the latter place is the
more probable. The narrative from this
point on is so briefly and faultlessly stated
that one need attempt no pharaphrase, but
may give the story, UP to the point OF
Jonah's casting into the sea, precisely as
II is in the record. ending:
Now the Lord had prepared great
fish to swallow UP Jonah. And Jonah was
in the belly OF the fish three days and
three nights (Chap. 4. AID.
This account is followed by what seems
10 be the most improbable statement OF
all-that Jonah retained HIS consciousness
and offered q prayer while in that loath
some imprisonment, 1t is also said that
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

and under such conditions as arc
is incredible and impossible, anu
no power or agency on eartn Inr
have restored "a partly digesteo "
consciousness.
In this opinion OF the rationahst
tic let us say that we fully cono'
confess that we know of no a60'
earth that could have saved tno
dent prophet from death In ne
STOMACH Of a whale, proVldeu
there three days and nights. Il
This, then, is the evangelical con
OF faith: We believe the Bible ne1
and miracles because on sclentinc
they are possible; because tney &
ported by circumstantial, monun7
other indisputable proofs, anu
there were purposes Of sufneien
tude to justify divine interposi'ion
We believe that the jaws OF
monster opened and closed upon
obedient prophet, but God interpS
delivered him in order tnat ~
faithfully he might declare the oly..
sage; that the people OF NlnesEs
listen more atentively and opeaip'
what he had TO say; that Jonah
snce might be a prophetic sign o.
resurrection, and that his den
might also be a prophetic sign,
through the ages, that God can
children in safety, though ueau' -
morning of the resurrectlon'
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

presses the opinion that it was neither
sperm nor a bow.headed whale that swal-
lowed Jonah, each OF which has throat
large enough to do 1t, but was right whale
and that Jonah was not taken into the
food-stomach, but into the air chamber OF
the whale, which was large and comn1o
dlous enough to serve as refuge.
We quote the following from the edi-
torial notes Of The Bible Student and
Teacher October February, 1911, 12):
"a large whale may weigh as much as
eight hundred men, and it requires as
much fresh air as eight hundred men re-
spire. and the equivalent Of the respira-
tons of eight hundred men for twenty
minutes, that is, for four hundred respira~
tions Of the men, are drawn in at one
breath, through the whales capacious
mouth into its large air chamber. Its
mouth can give place for ten men standing
upright: and as 1t skins along the sea it
scoops In its food Of jelly fishes and small
crustaceans and other surface animal
cules, which quickly enter Its stomach;
but a larger object, Jonah's body, for In
stance, would pass into the air chamber.
Here Jonah might be wide awake, able
to mediate on the situation and to pray
to God and to sleep over night But though
not very lnconvenlent for Jonah, the whale
itself would feel discomfort and be likely
to seek relief by coughing up the prophet
on dry land"
ny. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

wafer, on Sdnu OT on
snow.
The difficulty is to
find a glass which will
at the same time keep
out both infra-red and
ultra violet rays.
Thousands Of various
spectacles were made by
adding various metallic
oxides to the constitu-
ents of glass. Some
times four and five met
ais were combined at a
time in one piece Of
glass,
All the ultraviolet
rays shorter than 300
are harmful Curiously
enough, the resistance
Of the glass against the
immical light is less de-
pendant upon Its color
than upon the metals
IIspd
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

Sir William Crookes
is the inventor OF
the Crookes tube, which
made discovery of the
X-ray possible, He finds
that the light viora,
tions known as the
ultra violet at the up
per end of the spectrum
aud the vibrations
known as the infra-
red at the lower end of
the spectrum are posi-
lively ruinous TO the
eyes
The ultraviolet rays
nre SO rapid that the
eve does not perceive
them. The infrs red
are so slow that the
eye does not see them
either.
Both make their pres
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

the growth known as cataract. The cataract
indeed seems TO be directly caused by the
irritation Of the infra-red vibrations. II is
really an effort 10 the eye to protect itself.
Flattening Of the cornea, astigmatism and
degeneration Of the cones OF the retina and
the fibre OF the optic nerve result from
the constant bombardment,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

THE old idea that what the eye doesn't
see Will never hurt 1t is completely
overturned by experiments made by
Sir william Crookes during the last four
years upon the effects of invisible
rays upon our organ Of sight.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

AS an example, copper and uranium oxide
give strong yellow glass, but such glass
IS far less impervious to the infra-red rays
than mixture of nickel and praseody-
MUM which gives an almost cooress
glass.
Other metals used are cerium, chromium,
cobalt, iron and maganese.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08
The Eve is Hurt by What 1t Doesn't See

II would be better If everybody always
wore glasses which would filter out these
two forms of rays, says Sir William 1t
is Imperative If the eyes are to be normal,
TO wear such glasses under artificial light
and under any circumstances of abnormal
radiation-such as strong sunlight or
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

from the Dody, and
when the jaws and
smallest part Of the
throat had been
taken on deck.
Then he adds:
Although a sperm
whale Is large, a
how-head whale IL
much larger, with
a throat not only
capa BILE Of swallow
ing a well-built
man, but in my
judgment a good
sized horse or cow"
M. P. Courbet, in
the Cosmos paris,
March Z, 1895 writ
ing concerning the
Monaco, after CIV
ing an account Of
a monster sperm
" h a lie captured
near the Azores,
says: ''rhe discov-
cries Of the Prince
Of Monaco were
such as to relieve
us OF all difficulty
in believing the
Bible story that a
whale could swal-
low Jonah"
In an article con-
tributed to the
A C g. d e my Of
Sciences, M, Joubin
states that "a
sperm whale easily
can swallow ami
mails. taller and
heavier than a
man; these
a n / N a | s, when
g " a ! ] w e d. can
keep alive for some
time In the ceta-
cean's stomach and
be cast up by 1t at
the moment OF It's
DEATH"
But 1t has been
pointed out of late
that the right
whale need not pe
excluded from sea
monsters that could
b We swallowed
Jonah. Professor
Ray Matthews, in a
report Of the jap
anese Fisheries OK
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08
by q Minister, on the
Lines of The
Higher Criticism. %

has been on a whaling
voyage who will cues
tion the following state
ment made by one Of the
crew OF a New Bed
ford (Mass.) whale ship,
that he, though a man
Of large build, weighing
one hundred and seven
ty pounds, frequently
had passed through the
mouth and throat OF a
dead sperm whale. He
says he did this after
the head of the whale
had been cut off
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08
of Whale Mounted at the American
80 scum of History, New York.
By LUTHER I. TOWNSEND, LID.

Light the Higher
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