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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
CONVICT -SO. s,S4s.'
John Boyle O'Reiliy's Life Among the
Lowest Criminals.

John Boyle O'Reiliy's Life Among the
Lowest Criminals.
One day O'Reilly was summoned by the
officer 10 whose immediate charge he was,
who said to him. t'You will go down to
the vessel mentioning her name). and de-
liver the articles named In this bill of
lading: read itP'
O'Reilly read it. It called for the de-
livery, in good order and condition, of
three articles, TO wit:-One convict, No.
9.s43, one bag, aud one hammock or bed.
O'Reilly was No. o,S43; his destination
was the convict settlement Of Bunbury,
thirty miles along the coast. west of FIRE.
mantle.
Arrived there he was assigned to one of
the road parties and began h hard toll
of a convict, which, however, was relieved
from the utter woe of Millbank's solitary
days, or the revolving cruelties Of
Chatham and Dartmore. Still IL was bad
enough. Among the criminals with
whom he was forced to associate were
some Of the most degraded Of human
kind-murderers, burglars, sinners of
every grade and color of vice. They were
the poison flower of civilizations corrup-
ton, more depraved than the savage, as
they were able to misuse the advantages
of superior knowledge. They were the
overflow of society's cesspool, the ire
claimable victims of sin-too often the
wretched fruits of heredity or environ
ment. Happily for the young, generous,
clean-minded rebel, who had been doomed
to herd with this prison scum, God had
given him the instincts of pure human
ity; and ill-fortune, instead of blighting,
had nourished their growth. He looked
upon his fellow sufferers with eyes OF
mercy, seeing how many of them were
the victims, directly or indirectly, of cruel,
selfish, social conditions.
In the Australian Bush he saw human
ity in two naked aspects:-The savage,
utterly ignorant OF civilized virtues as OF
civilized vices; and the white convict,
stripped of all social hypocrisies, reveal
ing the worst traits OF depraved human
ity. Both were naked and not ashamed"
For the savage, so-called, he entertained
a sincere and abiding admiration.
"Why," he said, years afterward, II
found that those creatures were men and
women just like the rest of us, the differ
ence between those poor black boys and
the men of the Somerset Club was only
external. l have good friends among
those Australian savages, today. that l
would be as glad to meet as any man l
kno W."-Life of John Boyle 'O,Reilly,
CdSsetl Publishing Company.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

Here is our old friend, the State
Gazette, again
The Democrats of the House shouted,
1ourned. There will be fun In the next House
when they tackle the corpse.
What does this mean2 Are we to
understand that the ex-Czar will find
means TO kick over the rules he has
himself devised? 1t will be an I'M
pressive spectacle to see him swelling
his chest against gag law, the tyranny
OF adictatorial Speaker and the brutal
oppression Of a ruthless majority.
Oh, we expect to have rare fun with
the dethroned Boss.
But, meanwhile, we cannot refrain
from having a good laugh out of the
Gazette. This is the pickle it has been
putting itself in over the tax bill. On
Tuesday last it said
The principle on which the tax bill Is founded
Is perfectly sound, but it is TOO far in advance OF
public sentiment.
This morning it had the follow
ing
Inc hDit1l Articles on the new TAX Dill tnal
have been published in New Jersey were from
The pens Of John w. Griggs and Carrot A. Hob
art. written for the Paterson Press. Both con
denim the measure as pregnant with disaster &C
New Jersey. The double taxation, and the in
auisitorial prying into ones private affairs, are
the features OF the bill that are denounced a.
particularly objectionable.
Are we then to understand that
Griggs and Hobart are behind the
age on financial matters2
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RAILROADS,


WEST RAILROADS.. Y. G. & Il. r. r
W r. Co. lessee-1rains leave West Forty
Sc cond street station, New York. as follows, and
twenty minutes earlier from the footof Jay street
New York; London. Detroit and Chit
cago. siU.5 a. H. -Al5 p Ill.,. &D y. nj ST. Louis
sis, "a Is D M Toronto, HOS a. m; +5.l5. "a Is p.
m; Bun alo. kochesueE. syracuse, Utica, suspen-
sion Lridgs. Niagara Falls, 80. tle;l5 q. m, .Ai5
.. IS D. M; aud ali.s0 for Utica only. Kingston
$50 *5.IAsi0.l5, alisO a. M s4DQ SIS. and .-Ijp.
nj atskill and Albany, 3SJ. *sf5, +l1la ais a.
m. s4-VU. |.l5. -Sl5 y. mS Cranstons- West Point,
Cornwall. Newourg. .tia 30 si0.As leA5.
all.U a, m. TLl5. SLIT, 440,sa.15, 5.35, sd30. N.I5.si.45
.. m. Montreai and Canada East, us a. M.
his p. m. Elegant sleeping cars fr Bnf-
faIo. Niagara Fails, DsIroli, CHICAGO and ST.
Louis, on ali through trains, ~a-A-Leave BROOKLYN
via BROOKLYN Ann ex. a1V-0 a. m; 500 .. m Jersey
City, r.. Il. X. station, ALA a M; SIS D. ~
.Dafiy. +daiiy except saturday. AL other trains
daily except Sunday. Tor tickets. time table, par
lor and sleeping car accommodated or Informs
ton apply onieeS brooklsn. No $50 Washington
street, No. f26 Fulton street. and Annex Office foot
Of FULTON street New YORK. city. Nos l2al. sb3; Isl
s43 Broadway. No. l3 Bowery. No. " Park place
Ho.5S West 125th street, and West Shore ststion
foot Of West 1ory- second street and loot Of "a
street. North Riveg. {. e LAMBERT. GeneralP
sen ger Agent NO. 5 Vanderbilt avenue. New 70 :
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The magazine which contains the
tale of the famous New York Story
Club has at once achieved a remarka-
BILE success. The first number was the
number for February, and the full
edition was sold out before the March
number was issued. The original
plans for the conducting of the maya
zine have at once been broadened, its
number of pages has been increased,
and for once at least a magazine has
sprung into full life with its first
number.
The March number contains twenty
short stories, all of the character that
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
THE GOOD OLD TINES"
How Noblemen Satisfied Their Creditors
and Dispensed Trade.

and Dispensed Trade.
Lord Granville heard the sinecure
office Of Auditor of the E~xchequer, with
a salary of $4,000 per annum and the
patronage of the Office. which he made
very serVlceable to himself by giving ap-
pointments to persons who had claims
upon him. He gave no remuneration to
my father for his services among which
was auditing the accounts of his landed
property, but he appointed him to Il
clerkship in the E~xchequer, with a salary
at that time Of about 900 a rear. This
salary, at any rate, my father received
without deduction; but the clerks ap-
pointed by Lord Grenville's predecessor,
the Duke of Newcastle, were not so for
tunate. The Duke was accustomed, on
giving an opinion, to charge the salary
with an annual sum payable to his butler
or some other dependant, and this charge
was known as a rider"
Even stranger things are said to have
been lone in those olden times (some peo-
pie call them 1.-THE good old times'O; for
instance, the expense of new windows to
to Clamber Hall, the Dukes seat in Not
t~inghamshire. was said to have been de-
frayed out of the amount charged for sta
tionery supplied to the auditor of the
Exchequer. The supply of stationery,
indeed, formed a nice little p~erquisite TO
civil servants in my fathers time. Sta
lOnery 10 a certain amount was allowed
TO each clerk, and at the end Of the year
any surplus over the cost of the stationery
actually supplied was credited to the clerk
by the contractors. He could take out
this amount for anything he chose. Ny
father took out his surplus IN books, aud
in this way obtained the Encyclopedia
Britannia" Gibbons Decline and Fall of
! the Roman Empire" Hume and Smol-
| lett's "History OF England" and other
works, handsomely sound. which are
now in my Observation-Disclosures of a
CtUu Servant IN Temple Bar.
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Nurses Mnrrx oftenest.

Miss Mabel Goddard, who has been
studying the relations between indus
try and matrimony for the past ten
years, states in pamphlet form that
the proportion OF marriages is great
est among trained nurses than any
other class OF women workers. 1t
may be gratitude that moves the
hearts Of men, and undoubtedly adj
miration and affection have some
thing to do with the result, but what
ever the main cause the fact remains
that quiet, docile, intelligent and
competent nurses find themselves at
the head of homes and families in a
remarkably short time after gradua-
ton. Like the Vassar girls, these
daughters of mercy marry well.-San
Francisco Argondut.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

Prof. Koch. the distinguished scientist,
has been making experiments respecting
the influence Of sunlight upon the growth
of germs. The results are significant,
showing very clearly the important rela-
ton of sunlight to health. especially as a
disinfectant. We quote a potion of his
remarks as follows:-"As to direct sun
light, it has been known for some years
that II Eills bacteria with toleraOle quick
ness. / can affirm this as regards tuDercie
bacilli, which were killed in from a few
minutes to some hours, according to the
thickness of the layer in which they were
exposed TO the sunlight. What seems to
me, however, to be particularly note
worthy is that even ordinary daylIg bit, il
it lasts long enough, produces the same
effect; cultures of tubercle bacilli die IL
five to seven days if exposed at the win
dow in compact masses
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
GIadstone and Homo Rule.

WE are told this morning that Mr..
Gladstone and the so-called Liberal
party are about to abandon the cause
of Irish Home Rule because Mr.. Par
nell has not been crushed. This is
passing strange. Mr.. Gladstone, we
thought, would have us believe that
Home Rule was a matter of principle
with him. He advocated it because
justice and humanity demanded it,
and because it was the only policy
that could restore harmony and in
tegrity to the British Empire. 1t is
fair to ask how Mr.. Parnell's person
atty can affect the deep seated prin-
cipie OF the thing. II Home Rule is
as right as Mr.. Gladstone used to say,
is it not right with or without Par
nell?
1t looks very much as il Mr.. Glad
stone was a Home Ruler for Parlia-
nientary success only. When he
thought his party could ride into
power on the Home Rule steed, that
was his favorite charger. Now he
thinks the old horse has grown a trife
lame, and he will try Welsh Church
Disestablishment for a while.
But the principle of Home Rule is
greater than Mr.. Gladstone, and will
triumph when his shiftiness is a mat.
ter Of historic censure.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07


A tall, well dressed and rather dig
nified woman was watching for an
opportunity to cross Delaware avenue
at the foot of Market street the othe r
afternoon and when the chance at
last app11red she stepped lithely into
a clear Space momentarily opened
among the trucks, wagons and other
vehicles that thronged the thorough
fare. She had crossed about half the
street when the stream of wagons be-
gan moving again, and at that critical
moment the lady stopped with eye
fixed on the muddy street and her
hand peremptorily waving back the
drivers who seemed disposed to run
her down. Most of the truekmen
swore as they pulled up their teams,
but all stopped, supposing that the
lady had dropped her purse. With
the utmost elaboration she stopped
and picked out from the gutter a
large and very dirty horseshoe, which
she placed, all dripping, in her hand
bag. At this the truckmen and spec
tators burst into laughter. "Oh, your
cheek will bring you luck; you don't
need no horseshoe shouted n
driver.-PhiladeLphio Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
AMUsEMENTs.
..The stili Alarm"

Joseph Arthur's still Alarm" which
enjoyed such a long run in New York, will
be the attraction at the Academy Of Music
next week. Harry Lacy has made a
great hit in this play and is deservedly
popular. The fire engine and the horses
add greatly to the interest, n the scenes
are very realistic.
It will run for one week with usual
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
AN ORDINANCE To LICENSE AND REGULATE
"A Bill Post ers in Jersey City.
7 ne lHuyOF UItu 1tItTHIfH o. q
ddin as Gohors:

A N ORDINANCE TO LICENSE AND
"A Bill Posters in Jersey City.
The Mayor and Aldermen Of jersey CITY do on
ddin as JoHors:
Section l. The Aldermen may. by resolution
passed BY at least seven coneurring votes aad
comes necessary in case of non approval By him
Of ordinances or resolutions aieelnG the city,
states and a resident Of Jersey cry TO post oills
4, nrs Se asy y Sit VI, wh nsEt n assas tb s1Hii ISSUE sIpi and IN 1b All
be revokaole at the pleasure OF the SAID Board OF
secton3 Eaca and every person. so licen sed as
aforesaid. shall, pay, into the treasury OF the eiLy
city. aud the clerk OF the city shah issue said
licenses. and anix the seal of the cit thereto. q nd
a Dook 70 De provided FOR tnas purpose: the license
lee 70 be paia BY those enkagsd n posting 9iiis IA
OF each year snail equal as many twelfth parts OF
the license FL as tasre are months rem ha aini2g; p s
ply 20 any person y VIC 1issas SAL H., Ha ss p lSe s eaxa Sss ~ y
Section 5. a transfer o. a license may be gran ted
by the Board OF Aldermen upon the payment Of
the sum Of I'VE dollars. and the provision Of Sec
tion Z shall be com piled with az syery Ir9asles;
tie e. ae oy t Rsss0n sae or P Srsssai soi'i he Fl e
s. me oath Of said : Dlcaat. m ade before an
person residsn. in Jersey G,;y agtnori1 ssrts 70 ,a a I
sucn applicant Is a citizen ~ The Initsd states ana
2 se scsam Of s, Ley ci, "a T recams apSl1eaiie1n Or spa ~
least SIX citizens OF Jersey City.
prosis ons 0 this ordlnanes IS upon this condition,
that the consent 81 properly owners ~ 'front.' 81
posted shall be nrst had and obiainsd:
sseSiop & That no person nos Licensed as acre,
Of not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence.
CHARLES ". ALLEN.
JoHs L. scorr.
Approved March :. 1881 rrvrrANn
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-Four Hundred Thousand Dollars

and the bids must DO for such and SO many of
the bonds as may not be so paid of by the
Sinking Fund Commissioner.
Bids will be received for any part or the
whole of said bonds to b, issued. The new issue
viii be dated January !, 1891, and will bs paya-
bic, principal and interest, in gold, in twenty
five years, with semi-annual coupons, and the
rate of interest Will be four and one half per
cent.
The Board reserves the right to reject any or
all bids if deemed for the best interest Of the
city.
Such bids must be filed with the CLERK of the
Board of Finance, in the City Hall, Jersey City.
addressed to CHARLES W. ALLAN, Chairman
Of the Committee on Finance, on or before
Wednesday, March IS, 1901. at 4 O'Clock p. M
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
How a Princess Dresses.

Though the Princess of Wales is
very simple in her attire at her home
and when in the country, she yet
thoroughly understands the art of
magnificent dressing when required.
She has taught women all over the
world the beauty of simplicity, and
the assumption of cottons has become
more and more general every year be-
she approves of them. Very
fond of both walking and driving it is
not marvellous that the Princess has
retained her beautiful complexion,
and that with her artistic knowledge
she is counted the best dressed woman
in England. Simplicity is the key
note to her attire, and it is by her in
auence that the we'll made cloth gown
and the small bonnet have retained
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

their hold so long in the fashionable
world. When she goes yachting, a
simple blue serge gown trimmed with
white braid, and a cap on which the
name Of the royal yacht
is painted, is the costume
fancied by her and her daughters, and
the one that permits them to have a
thoroughly good time and enjoy the
sea and the sea air rs they wish to do.
-IAa Lndies, Honle .LonrnaL
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

A lady teaching her little daughter,
four years old, pointed to something
in the book and asked:-"What is
that, my dearf"
why, don't you know" inquired
the child.
Yes" said the mother, "but | wish
to find out il you know"
WE'LL responded the little miss,
81 do know
Tell me, then, If you please said
the lady.
why, no,r insisted tho little one,
with an arch look; ''you know what it
is and | know what it is, and there is
no need of saying anything more
about it.r-Er.
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Highest Of all in LsAvening POwer.-U. s. Govt Report, Aug. I7'ISSs
RW a! B Bsxdsz
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

times tempted to bestow herself upon
the most importunate one in order to
end the unseeinly struggle.
Then the incentive to education.
and to the cultivation of ones especial
powers is lacking. Forgetting that
the triumphs which have made a holt
day of youth must lessen with the
years, many a fair one neglects that
training OF the mind which gives 10
her who is poor in all else. an endless
storehouse of wealth from which she
"a hope to produce treasures for her
own delectation and that of those
about her, long after the fitful bloom
upon her handsome sisters cheek has
faded with the roses of departed
SIMMER.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

83L% ~ A4&L
Pursuant to and by virtue of an order of the
Orphans Court OF the County OF Hudson. made or
the seventh day Of February, A D. 1881 the under
signed. guardian OF MARY Griffin. Julia Grinin and
Kate 9rifiin, minors. win sell at public yendue. on
1891. at two O'Clock in the afternoon of that day,
on The premises. all that certain tract OF land OF
said wards. situate In the towns hip OF Kear ney.
described as foglows:-
Reginning on the northerly side OF Reynolds
avenue. at a point therein distant eastarly four
hdndrsd ttUni feet from the corner Of the
same and Passaic avenue as the same arc
laid out on a map OF the soaring properly. made
o. r. Dunn surveyor. March 1851 and from thence
running north twenty ca degrees and ten 100
minutes east ninety-1ve Is. feet; thence south
sixty nine g69l degrees and hfty t5l minutes east
nifty hve t5) feep and ninety-two ~, hundretns
OF a foot, more or less, to the line OF land OF the
estate OF William Muloek. deceased: theme &c south
westerly along the line OF the same ninety i've
tsa) feet AM seventy nine al hundreths Of a foot
10 Reynolds avenue aforesaid: and thence along
the same norih sixty nine f5g degrees ant
dfty (N minutes west sixty eight (C9 feet ana
twelve 10 hundreths OF . foot more or less to the
place of beginning.
Guadisn.
Dated February 4. lssL
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ADVICE TO MorHERs-MRs. WISsLow's SooTH-
ING SYRUP should always be used when children
are cutting teeth 1t relieves the little sufferer
at once; IL produces natural quiet sleep by re-
heving the child from pain, and the little eherub
awakes as "bright az a button" IL is very
pleasant TO take. It soothes the Child, softens
HE gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regu-
ates the bowels, and is the best known remedy
for diarrh9a. whether arising from teething or
other causes. Twenty-Five cents a bottles"
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Contrary to Modern novations.

"Girls in love amt no use in the
whole blessed week. Sundays in the
mornin' they're looking down the road
expectin' he'll come. Sunday after
moons they can't think O. nothin' else
cause he's here. Monday they're
sleepy and kind o. dreamy and slimpsy
cause he's gone. Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday they git absent
minded and begin to look off toward
Sunday agin and NOPE aroun' and let
the dishwater git cold right under
their noses. Friday they break dishes
an go off in the best Don and SWIVEL
and look out o. the winder. Saturday
they have queer spurts of workin' like
all p'sessed and spurts o. frizzin' their
hair. An Sunday they begin it all
over gin."-ATena.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

WE most cordially and heartily give
our approval to the action of the
Democratic caucus upon the rum
question.
The members did themselves and
the party credit.
Now let us see what the Republican
papers have to say? Will they con-
tinue to tell us that the Democracy is
owned by rum?
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

A blind man who plays sacred
music upon an accordion is just now
perambulating the sire cts of Wind
sor. His affection attracted some
time ago the attention Of the Queen,
who, while taking, a drive, saw him
in the street and compassionately
gave him a donation. With an eye TO
business the ambulatory musician
now bears upon his breast a placard.
with the inscription:-"Blind from
Inflammation. Assisted by Her Ma-
jesty, the Queen. -.PittSbtTg Dis
patch.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07

An AccOmpAfSnou East Auulan 0ifL
One of the most interesting and
striking figures among the Oxford
students is Cornelia Sorabji, a tall,
olive-skinned girl, as slender as the
traditional Indian princess who
weighed only one rose leaf. Clothed
in her native dress of pale blue Grape
embroidered with gold, with its man.
tie draped over her head like a veil
and shadowing her astonishingly large
and brilliant eyes, she makes a strange
picture among the rosy blond English
women in their tailor gowns. at
eighteen, and Professor of Literature
in the university at Bombay, she still
tbirsted for broader opportunities,
and found her way to Somerville, and
attracted attention by her brilliant
examination papers for the history
and literary schools. The government
decided, however, that a oma with
knowledge of law was needed to
collect evidence in the Zenanas, and
she Immediately entered upon a legal
course. After six months's study her
papers on Roman law were held by
the examiners to be the most remark
able and able ever presented by any
student of either sex in the unworthy.
Prince Dhuleep Singh's two daugh-
tiers are also members of Somerville,
and on its rolls stand very many of
the most noted and noble names of
England. The outside world hears
less of the work done by women at
Oxford than those of Cambridge. be-
cause of a different system OF conferr-
ing honors, bat here is really found
the best example Of ONE freely
sharing in university life, and the best
proof that neither young men nor
young women are the worse for that
community of study.-EIizabeh Bis
land in Hdrpef'S BdzGT.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
Is Beauty the Greatest niessings

Is Ieauty the Greatest BIessing!
OF the beautiful women / have
known, but few have attained
superiority of any kind, says Anna
Katharine Green in The Ladies' Home
Journal. So much is expected by the
woman accustomed to admiration,
that she plays and palters with her
fate till the crooked stick is all that is
left her. This we see exemplifed
again and again. While the earnest,
lofty, sweet-smiling woman of the
pale hair and doubtful line of nose,
has, perhaps, one true lover whose
worth she has to recognize. an
acknowledged beauty will find herself
surrounded by a crowd of SNOWY
cyclists whose admiration so daZes
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-07
RAScH OFFICES:

7hfs paper Is democratic Tn principles
and Is i~ndependent in its vteWs on az
local questions.