The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-06

mencement of a suit at this particular
time. It follows SO closely upon Colonel
Prices newspaper wrangIe with ex-Judge
Ludlow McCarter as to justify the notion
that it may be part of that bitter quarrel.
1t was blow between the eyes to the
Colonel; but his answer, backed with the
written proofs of his wife's weakness, is
not less serious blow to her. 1t seems
incredible that ex-Judge McCarter has sac
rifced his client and his cousin-and Col.
Price says his loye-upon the altar of pub
lie shame and dishonor to crafty his per-
sonal spite against her husband; and yet it
looks as though that might be the case.
The recent terrible tragedy in Hobeken,
by which two bright young girls lost their
lives and home was made desolate, is
an apt illustration of the uncertainty of
life. 1t should also be lesson to druggists
as regards the preparation of medicines.
If these girls had been sent to their death
by the blunder of a clerk suddenly reused
from his sleep in the night, there might be
some excuse for his carelessness, but when
SO stupid blunder is made by a man who
processes to be, and is regarded as, an ex-
pert in his business, during the ordinary
business of the day, it becomes absolutely
criminal That Mr.. Am Ende feels keen
remolse need not be doubted, but that will
not restore the lives his error has cost, and
if the law should lay its hands upon him
and infiict punishment in some measure
adequate to the offense he has, though in
advertently. been guilty of, neither he nor
his friends can raise any objection. His
attempt of suicide was merely freak of
hysterical insanity and should weigh moth
ing in the consideration of the subject. It
was not an expiation in any sense of the
word, nor would it have been had he sue
ceeded in his suicidal design. Morally, of
course, no guilt attaches to Mr.. Am Ende.
He had no intention of doing any one an
injury. And yet by his gross carelessness
two young girls, just budding into woman
hood and with probably long and happy.
and it may be useful lives before them,
have been sent to their graves. Not even
Mr.. Am Ende himself can lay claim to
entire immunity for such an act as this,
however innocently committed.
An old Bergen County farmer walked
into ex-Collector Farrier's Office the other
day and laid down one hundred Hudson
County war bonds for which he received
500, 0O0-and therein lies q lesson in inter-
est for borrowers. The holder bought
those bonds twenty years ago and
he has held them ever since. Every six
months he collected So, 500 interest, $1,000
year, SAC, 900 for the twenty ysars. BE
has thus received nearly three times the
amount invested and now he gets back the
whole amount he did invest-more, in fact,
for he bought the bonds probably for
ninety-five and possibly for ninety-two.
Now s240. 900 for an investment that did
not exceed $4,000 is pretty good return,
even for twenty years. Yet even this does
not represent the entire profit If he re-
invested each So, 500 of interest as he re-
ceived it from the county In that case he
would have an average interest of nine and
half years on the STAG, 900 interest he has
collected. Even at four per cent. that
would net him over 5000, SO that alto
gether this creditor of the county has had
pretty good thing of it though no better
than he was entitled to for having placed
his money at the disposal Of the authorities
at time when it was SO sorely needed for
the preservation of the Union. 1t was a
patriotic act, and We are glad his patriot
ism has borne such good fruit.
That the Board of Education should have
been forced to go outside of the city to find
new School Superintendent and High
School Principal is serious reflection up
on the competency of our local teachers
especially as the refusal to appoint any
one from the schools under the Boards
supervision was avowedly on the ground
that no fit names were presented. We do
not understand, however. that the odium
of incompetency rests upon all the city
| pedagogues. As either position is one
worthy of the ambition of any of the teach
ers, the Board seems to have assumed that
all engaged in our schools who felt them
selves capable of filling the bill applied,
and to have canvassed the merits of those
only who put themselves forward as candi-
dates. Upon all these gentlemen, whose
| narnea have heen ref,1sed for obvioua rea-