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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20
HAD HIM THERE.

"See this coat?" he queried as he en-
tered a Michigan Avenue clothing store
yesterday.
"Yes, I see dot coat. Was something's
wrong?"
II should remark! See how it is all
shrunk up!"
Il sec. How did she Gomez"
II got caught out in the rain"
"Oxactly. Did I sell you dot coat
for waterproof ?"
"No, but it hadn't ought to shrink up
like this" ...
dot may be, but suppose dot coat
swell out und vhas so big dot she vhas
worth So more-would you pay me ex-
tra?"
"Of course not"
"Oxactly. She vhas even. If she
shrinks doan' blame me; if she swells
you doan' pay me any more. Please
doan' block oop der shtore, nv frendt-
dis vhas my busy day. -Detroit Free
Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20
NOT PRIDE BUT CAUTION.

Sweet Girl-Mother, Mr.. Nicefellow
is coming to take me out riding this
afternoon. I may go, mayn't 1?
Mother-If he drives up with span
of spirited horses. yoa can go; but II 10
comes with that broken down old nag
he had last time, you sha'n't.
"Why, mother, [ didn't suppose you
would ever have such foolish pride
my dear, a young man who comes
with pair of spirited horses expects ~
drive with both hands. New for"
Weekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20

Practical application is the onlv
mordant which will set things in tho
memory. Study, without it, is gym.
nastics, and not work, which alone vii,
get intellectual bread.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20

small boy ha, been known to display
more chivalrous devotion towards his
mother when she wore on especially
handsome new bonnet.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20

The great difficulty about advice y
the predominance of quantity over
quality.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20

SOME CURIOUS SUPERSTIzIONS.
In many a homestead spider will be
allowed to live, as the lord of the manor
is convinced that to kill one will surely
cause disaster to fall upon himself or
family. There is also SUPERSTITION
common in many New England States,
to the effect that if two pers ,ns are
walking along hand in hand aid meet
with post or any obstacle which causes
them to separate, that the one who
passes on the right of it will 60 to
heaven and the other to hell.
Many persons believe that if rock
ing-chair Should commence to rock of
itself, and there be no one in it, there
will be death in the family circle. A
needle falling and sticking upright in
the floor is supposed to give warning OF
the approach of a visitor, while dog
sleeping in room with his nose pointed
to the door, betokens the death Of "a
dear friend. Cats will, it is believe ID,
suck the breath Of sleeping persons,
and one will never be left in roo
where baby is sleeping. The to IN
dency to invent these beliefs is fast dy-
ing out, according to those who have
studied the subject, and that as civil
cation advances, the tendency to inves-
tigate all that pertains to the unnatural
increases, and that the ease with which
the fallacy of most of these old sayings
and superstitions is proven, deters their
rrOwtb
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20

I'D ever found out jest how much We
were to each other after ivin' together
fur twenty years.
about the style you say? Well,
there's Ellie now pointing up the
street where rosy faced, white haired
old lady, plainly but neatly dressed,
was receiving the grateful words of some
poor, half-clothed children whose arms
were filled with her gifts.
"God bless her." said the old man
lovingly, "and 1 hain't the only one
what seq so every day on their lives.I
I reckon I kin git ride home now
that she got her mornin's work done.
Come and see me-" he added Us hs
moved away with his faithful dog at his
heel.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20
THE DISCOVERY.

When old Columbus with his ships
About America lowered,
Each Indian mud with sprightly grace
Skipped from the surfy bathing place
And cried with wonder-stricken face:
"Great Heavens! we're discovered"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-20

what seq so every day on their lives.
/ reckon 1 kin git a ride home now
that she got her mornin's work done.
Come and see me-" he added as hs
moved away with his faithful dog ut his
heel.
4 POLITE IND ORDERLY SOCIETR
AS regards hospitality and gracious
manners, the monks of Athos put to
shame the most polished western peo-
pie. Disorder, tumult, confusion seem
impossible in the land of peace. Ii
they have differences and squabbles
about the rights of property, these
things are referred to law courts and
determined by argument of advocates,
not by disputing and high words among
the claimants. While life and property
are still unsafe on the mainland and on
the sister peninsulas of Cassandra and
Longros, Athos has been for centuries
as secure as any country in England.
SO far, then, all the evidence is in favor
of the restriction. Many of the monks,
being carried to tie peninsula in early
youth, have completely forgotten what a
woman is like, except for the brown,
smoky pictures, of the Panagla with her
infant in all the churches, which the
strict iconography of the orthodox
church has made as unlovely and non
human as it is possible to be. So far,
so we'll. But if the monks imagine they
could simply expunge the other sex
from their life without any but the
obvious consequences they were mis-
taken. What strikes the traveller
is not the rudeness, untidiness,
the discomfort of a purely male
society, it is rather its dullness
and depression. Some of the older
monks were indeed jolly enough; they
drank their wine and cracked their
jokes freely. But the novices who at
tended at the table, the men and the
boys who had come from the mainland
to work as servants, muleteers, laborers,
seemed all suffering under permanent
depression and sadness. They seemed
to lack any real interest in life.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07

Hall. at Bayonne, last evening, the
centennial anniversary of Washing
toms Inauguration, and at the same
time entertained delegations from
Orange Council, of Orange; DE Long
Council, of Brooklyn, and Longfellow
Council, of East Orange, and several
dozen Bayonnese.
Orator Joseph H. Wright was the
presiding genius. The hall was pref
lilly decorated with portraits OF Wash
ington, flags and streamers of the
national colors; there was a p~rofusIon
of cherry and apple blossoms, and the
highly embellished, heavily laden
long tables were surrounded by about
two hundred members and guests.
Toasts were responded to by Su-
preme Representative b. Mcdowell, OF
Jersey City; Mr.. Albers, of Hoboken;
Rev. William w. Knox, Rev. Oscar
Valentine, Colonel Charles w. Fuller,
Orator Wright, District Deputy Girls
void, William D. Gordon and others.
J. f. Sicily sang "Wel Bury Him
Tomorrow" ssWe've Both Been There
Before, Many a Time" and other dit
ties. Secretary William J.. Morrison re-
cited independence Bell, y Mr.. Tonner-
son sang big Foot Sal" and gave a
number of character representations,
Mr.. Downs sang "Hilla Hee, Hilla Ho,"
Mr.. Henderson exhibited his skill in
feats of legerdemain, Regent Tamlin
acclaimed "Spartacus' Address to the
Romans" and a quartette, consisting
of Messrs. Daniel T. Crispin, William
w. Knox, Leonard w. Amerman and
Thomas J. Kennedy. sang THE Sol.
dier's Farewell and More and More"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
Issues for the Next Campaign.

The Nea0dgk Journal is now con-
sidering the possible candidacy Of
Clinton B. Fisk for the Governorship
on the united Republican and Pro-
hibition tickets. Nearly three
months ago, The SUNDAY MORNING
NEWS pointed out the likelihood of
such a combination, and analyzed the
danger which it opposed to the
Democracy.
Doubtless it would be dangerous,
but w believe that, through the
proper instruction of the voters, it
could be certainly defeated.
There are two possible issues on
which the coming campaign may be
waged. They are the liquor and the
corporation questions. No doubt the
republicans will try to push the rum
bugbear into prominence, and will
ignore, so far az possible, the relations
of the two parties to the greedy com
panies, -railroad and other-that are
trying to absorb the vitality of the
State into their own veins.
Now, will the Democrats be foolish
enough to let their enemies choose the
issue for the contest? They certainly
need not. The democratic record on
the liquor question is sound enough.
The party has behaved with liber-
atty, and at the same time with a Ger.
tain measure of conservatism. No
body can claim that a law under
which a liquor dealer has already been
condemned to Jail shows anything like
subserviency to the liquor interest.
The claim is p~reposterous. We do
not assert that the Werts
bill is faultless, far from it; but it GER
tainly is the best liquor law we have
ever had, and the Democracy deserves
credit for it. 1t permits respectable
saloon keepers to conduct their bust
ness in peace; yet it forbids all those
abuses of the traffic which are often
sive to a large body of our citizens.
On the other hand, the Republican
record on the Corporation question is
VIGOROUSLY bad. Most of the leaders
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
SCHUBERT GI4EE CLUB.

A Banquet Makes the jolly Close of a
Successful Season.
The members of the Schubert Gle
Club held the closing meeting for the
third year at the arimory of Company
A, Fourth Regiment, last night. The
event was celebrated by a banquet,
enlivened by witty remarks from a
BRIGHT company of gentlemen. AT
the close of the banquet President
Foster called upon a number OF the
members, and several good speeches
were made. The treasurer made his
report, which showed that the re-
ceipts for the year amounted to a little
more than ST., 100. After a few remain
ing bills are paid there will be still
$26 in the treasury, something Won
derful for a musical organization.
This money was all received from sub
scriptions to the concerts, for no initia-
ton fee is charged and no dues are
paid.
President Foster referred to the past
and its many successes, and closed by
saying.-''The club cannot remain as
1t is. 1t must go forward. For three
years we have been creeping, and now
we want to walk. This is the most
successful musical club ever organized
in this city, and now it is time to have
a home of our own. During the sum-
mer it would be well to think the mat
ter over, so that we can start in with
the fall and go to work"
A number of the members seconded
the views of Mr.. Foster, among them
Mr.. Victor Baier, the successful young
leader of the club. 1t is more than
probable that before this time next
spring there will be a new club house
in this city, or at least a handsome
suite of apartments in possession OF
the club. Its success has been in no
small measure due to the untiring
efforts of Director Baier. OF course
when the club is incorporated-which
will probably happen next year-and
is the happy possessor of a clubhouse,
initiation fees and dues will be In
order.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07

crown jewels. But the mysterious
death of a young relative of the inn
perial family, who was shot by some
person or persons unknown, prevented
her from appearing at the ball except
incognita and shrouded in a plain
domino. / supplied the Empress with
several other fancy costumes, one
was that of Juno, and the other the
splendid dress of a Dogaressa, or VIE
of the Doge of Venice. For this last
named toilet she caused to be
fashioned the necklace in dia-
mond network, with a great
imitation pear-shaped pearl sus-
pended in each interstice of
the network, which was sold amongst
the crown jewels, and the fact of the
pearls not being real created a good
deal of talk at the time of the a
She never wore this authentic and
picturesque, but cumbersome, n
ment. She tried it on several times,
but it always marred the effect OF her
costume. 1t was sold for $4,000, a
price far beyond it's intrinsic value. l
last saw the Empress on the occasion
of her brief visit to Paris a few weeks
ago. She has almost entirely rega1ned
her health under the treatment OF h
famous physicians OF Amsterdam,
whom she consults annually, and with
her health she has regained agreat
portion of her beauty. Her com
plexion has naturally lost its fresh
ness, but the grace of her carriage,
the fine outlines of her features and
the beautiful mold of her bust and
shoulders are as striking as ever. l
have dressed many lovely women, but
never a lovelier one than the ex-Em-
press of the French.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
The Charter Hearing.


This day will be a memorable n in
the history of municipal reform in
this city.
The law is at work in two directions
Up on the Hill one court is striving to
punish wrong doing to set up an ex-
ample to deter the evilly disposed
from crime. Down in the heart of the
city, another tribune is shaping affairs
with a view to the establishment of a
better system for the regulation of our
government. The people follow both
proceedings with eager interest.
The hearing in the charter matter
is not in itself of vital Importance. 1t
is only one short step in the great
progress of reform. But the people
are so eager for some change from the
abominable system of the past that
they attach an exaggerated import
ance to every circumstance attending
the present contest.
This is all there is of the hearing to-
day:-Testimony is to be taken for the
formal establishment of certain facts
necessary to enable the Chief Justice
to decide the question whether
the city officials elected under
the old system or the Off
Gals appointed by Mayor Cleveland
under the new shall manage the city's
affairs during the month or six weeks
that must elapse before the Supreme
Court decides whether the new char
ter is valid or not.
The whole matter at issue is one of
secondary Importance, and the pro-
ceedings today are little more than a
mere formality.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
PERSONALS

The success of the Arion's great demonstration
on Saturday night was due largely to the per-
sonal efforts of Mr.. Adolph Schaub.
Mr.. John Muir, although hardly thirty years
old, has been twice Chief of the West Hoboken
Fire Department.
Sergeant Stamford, of Union Hill, has the
name of being the best informed man on base
ball in North Hudson.
x-Councilman Lohaus, of Union Hill, twirls a
bat with grace and dexterity.
MI. Richard Day, of West Hoboken, is a candi-
date for the nomination for Assemblyman in the
Tenth district.
A number of Gus Hombroch's Photographic
views of the Arion's new quarters adorn the
interior walls of that handsome new clubhouse.
Colonel and Mrs. ]. H. Benton and Miss Mamie
R. Edwards, of Jersey avenue, were among the
guests at the Centennial Ball in New York.
DR.. Walter Rae will move tomorrow from his
house on Wayne street to the house formerly
occupied by DR.. ]. Fl. Vondy, at the corner Of
Jersey avenue and Mercer street. DR.. Vondy has
moved into one of the flats on Wayne street, just
below Jersey avenue.
There was an expression of expectancy on the
face of w. H. Kern during the Board Of Works
trial yesterday.
tom Foley was in court yesterday at the
trial of the Big -Four.
Captain Louis McCulloch has resigned his
position in Company G..
Councilman Patsy Londrigan looks well in a
silk tile.
Chairman Erlenkoetter will have his hands
full to pacify the obstructionists in the Council
Chamber of Hoboken.
Mr.. Charles B. Thurston, president of the
Jersey City and Bergen Railroad, has been i'll for
several days and unable to leave his room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
The Empress Eugenie.
Worth, in the Boston Transcript.

Worth, an the Boston Transcript
Two things at the beginning of the
Empire combined to give to feminine
dress an added Importance. One was
the invention of the crinoline and the
other was the rage for fancy costume
ballsl The first one of these enter
tainments took place at the house of
Nine. Tascher de la Pagerie, one of
the relatives of the Emperor, and was
comparatively small affair of
an intimate and private
character. The Empress APP
appeared at it in her first fancy cos
tune, which was furnished byme, and
which was a dress in black tulle and
marabout feathers, representing
Night. She gave her own first fancy
ball at the Hotel d Abe, then on the
Champs Elysees, but long since torn
down. For this entertainment
/ made her an elegant costume, in
which she was to have personated
Diana. The culver was in silver, and
the Empress had caused a portion of
the diamonds of the crown to be
mounted as a long garland of oak
leaves and aeorns, which she was to
have worn fastened tr~ansversely across
the corsage. This garland was dis
posed of last ye5r at the sale Of the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07


of the party in this State
are the subservient tools OF
one or another company, and,
still worse, the party as an organize
ton has committed itself to the side
of robbery and oppression as repre-
sented by the notorious Senate bills
Nos. 185 and 317, defeated by the
Democrats in the recent Legislature.
Let the Democracy force this issue
on their opponents in the next cam
paign. Let them make their cry,
''The People Against the Mon
opolists," and we will soon
see Mr.. Fisk and General Sewell
and the rest floating from the placid
sea of iced lemonade, with which they
hope to seduce the voters, far away
down the troubled waters Of Salt
Creek.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
APPROVED THE BONDS.
The New Board of Finance in Session
Last Evening.

The New Board of Finance in Session
Last Evening.
The new Board of Finance met last
evening in the Council Chamber. All the
members were present, including Mr..
O'Neill, who, before the meeting had pro-
gressed far, asked to be excused. Presi-
dent Edelstein granted his request. He
withdrew.
CLERK, German then announced that the
bonds Of j. b. Cleveland, City Treasurer,
Fire Commissioners Conroy, Quinlan and
Henderson, and Street and Water Com
m~issioners Van Keuren, Dugan and
Somers had been filed. Mr.. Cleveland's
sureties are P. II. Hanley, Thomas
Potter, Michael Mullory, Michael
i. Desmond, Ferdinand Heintze. Patrick
F. Condor, Dennis Mclaughlin and
James Roche. Dennis Mclaughlin and
Owen Mcclure are Mr.. Conroy's sureties,
and Abram Post and James Roche have
bound themselves for Mr.. Quinlan's OH
cial rectitude. The Board took a recess
and after coming together approved the
bonds and adjourned to tomorrow morn
ing.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
AM ENTS
Lost in New York.

-OSN
"Lost in New York" a popular FIVE
act comedy drama, vas produced at
the Academy of Music last evening for
a run of three nights and a Wednes-
day afternoon matinee. As a whole
the cast vas excellent and
far above the average of
similar companies now on the
circuits with melodramas of the same
character. The large house present
was highly pleased with the clever
manner in which the play was
given, while the tank scene proved
an entertaining feature. As Ar
thur Wilson, the villain, Ed
ward j. Radcliffe made a good i'm
preston. j. Paige Smiths impersona-
ton of 1.-The Tramp caused the spec
tators to call him twice before the cur
tain. Patrice exhibited her clever
ness as an actress as Jennie
Wilson, the leading female role. She
was recalled. Miss Jennie Whitbeck
was particularly good as Tattered
Tom. The remainder of the company
gave those named good support.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
schedule of Cricket Games.

The entire schedule of the recently
formed Amateur Cricket League has
been changed by the admission of new
organizations. The eleven of the New
Jersey Athletic Club, of Bayonne, are
now scheduled for encounters as fol-
lows
May II. with the Bridgeport Cricket
Club at Bergen Point; May IS, with
the Newark Cricket Club at Newark;
May 25, with the Manhattan Cricket
Club at Prospect Park; June 1, with
the Amateur League Cricket Club at
Central Park; June %, with the New
Club York Cricket at Bergen Point;
July A, with Bridgeport Cricket Club
at Bridgeport; July 10, with the Kings
County Cricket CLUB at Prospect Park;
July 30, with the Newark Cricket
Club at Bergen Point; August 3, with
the Brooklyn Cricket Club at Bergen
Point; August 10, with the Albion
Cricket Club at Bergen Point; August
81, with the Brooklyn Cricket Club at
Prospect Park; September 5, with the
Staten Island Cricket Club at Bergen
Point; September Z, with the Amateur
League Cricket Club at Bergen Point;
September IA, with the Albion Cricket
Club at Prospect Park; September 81,
with the Kings County Cricket Club
at Bergen Point.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
Theatres to Which New
Workers F1oCked in
the Eighteenth
Century.
PARK EVEN THEN A FATAL NAME.
No Traces Now in Existence Of the
Old Places of Amusement.

The Editor of the JERSEY CITY
NEWS presents his compliments to- the
ladies Of Jersey city, and respectfully
in0ites their cooperation IN making
this column a feature Of general inter-
est and utility. Information and saIg-
geStionS are earnestly solicited, and
assurance as gdoen that all connmuni-
cations a0iU receaUe immediate and
careful attention, and eoiU be regarded
as strictly confidential If the oriterS so
desire.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
Notes About Women.

Mrs. George Riley, of Fourth street,
is in Rochester.
Mrs. John Menagh, of York street,
has been quite i'll.
Mrs. E. l.. Cranmer will spend q
portion of the ummer at Montclair.
Miss Hattie Vorhis, of Westside av-
enue, has returned from Schenectady.
Mrs. j. H. Marvin, of Pavonia ave-
nue., is entertaining Mrs. William
Rule, of Bridgeport.
Mrs. Sarvent, of No. 161 Cole street,
has returned from New Haven.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07
IIight in DARK Places.

There is at least one admirable
thing about our Jersey Doodle trials.
When there is a boodler to try, we try
him.
1t does not take us a month to
argue motions for change of venue,
three months to draw a jury, two for
opening speeches, a year for testi-
mony, and all the rest of lives to
establish the validity of the verdict.
We simply lay hold of our man,
yank him up on the hill, put him face
to face with twelve good men and
true, and then the music begins.
These remarks are apropos of the
trial of the big Four" now in prog
ress. Perhaps there may be evidence
to convict them, perhaps not. But at
least they will soon be out of pain.
The public will be spared the scandal
of a protracted legal circus. The law
yers will be the only people to suffer.
They will miss a good many fat fees
by the celebrity of our methods, but
who cares for the lawyers any way?
Meanwhile the public will be both
edited and instructed by the full re-
ports of the evidence which will APP
pear in our columns. Whatever be
the upshot of the trial, SO far as the
accused are concerned, nothing but
good can possibly result from the
e~lucidation of official methods, which
will be the main feature of the trial.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-07

Poor GRIFFIN He realizes how
much confidence is to be reposed in
the promises of politicians.
The public, too, can now estimate
the exact amount of commences there
is in a spirit of reform which dictates
the gross violation of faith for the sake
of c1aoi1s