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THE END.
The Soft Felt Hat.

We are now perhaps as far as men go. reaching period of the greatest varia- tion in headgear seen for many years, The cycle of style that swings from stiff felt to softened Kossuth. or whatever may be the chance cognomen given to the latest thing out, runs sometimes by decades, at least if the Prince of Wales is obligingly constant. and for few years we are apt to see the full development of creased. knocked in. indented or split hats that will lend variety in tint and shape to the rather rigid styles of black and brown that have preceded.
 Mems attire needs some little varia- tion. although there are always the odd dozen who. no matter what the mode is, ever seem to have gone to the garret of the back street stores for their chapeaux and to the village tailor for their frock coats- The reign of soft hats. however, gives B chance for each man to show his individuality which is almost impossi- ble in the silk hat and it's beaver and felt associates. The manly man looks man. ly. the rake rakish, by single cast of the hat to one side, but above all the dude in the new hat can reproduce all the languor and @stheticism of his sar- torial philosophy. For him the hat is 8 triumph. Philadelphia Press.
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concluded from last Week.) THE PURLOINED LETTER.

ssThere is game of puzzles" he re- stunned, (Which is played upon map. One party playing requires another to find D given word-the name of town, river. state or empireany word, in short, upon the motley and perplexed surface of the chart. A novice in the game generally seeks to embarrass his by giving them the most lettered names, but the adept selects such words as stretch in large characters from one end of the chart to the other. These, like the over largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious, and here the oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too ob- trusively and too palpably self evident.
 'But this is point, it appears, some what above or beneath the understand ing of the prefect. He never once thought it probable or possible that the minis ter had deposited the letter immediately beneath the nose of the whole world by way of best preventing any portion of that world from perceiving it.
 But the more I reflected upon the daring, dashing and discriminating in- genuity of D.; ;upon the fact that the document must always have been at hand if he intended to use it to good purpose, and upon the decisive evidence, obtained by the prefect, that it was not hidden within the limits of that digni- tary's ordinary search, the more satis- fled I became that to conceal this letter the minister had resorted to the compre- hensive and sagacious expedient of not attempting to conceal it at all.
 '.Full of these ideas, I prepared my self with pair of green spectacles and called one fine morning, quite by acci- dent, at the ministerial hotel. I found D. at home, yawning, lounging and dawdling as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is perhaps the most really energetic hu- man being now alive-but that is only when nobody sees him.
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Gett,nr :. Dead Man Out of a Hotel.

"I was stopping at the United States hotel in New York several years ago." said MT. William l. Montague, land while there formed very pleasant acc quaintance with the chief clerk. We were chatting one afternoon when bellboy came to him and stated the man in No. 36 was dead. He had been ailing for some time and had probably died of what doctors now call heart failure. The hotel was full of guests, and how to re- move the man without arousing their suspicious was puzzling question. The deceased, had 8 sister living on Thirty first street, and it was decided to carry the body to her home. A hack was called, and two of the stoutest porters were called upon to dress the body in everyday costume, and with one on each side walk him down stairs as if he was in maudlin state of intoxication. Ev- erything worked to perfection, and in half hour the dead body had been seated in the hack and driven away none of the guests being the wiser for what had happened. St. Louis Republic
 Catching Fish While Asleep.
 "Never saw a fish asleep, eh?" said Cornelius Hinman, who Is located at the Lindell. "Well, have. I've seen them sleep sound and much to their sorrow. especially catfish. There is nothing more wary than fish. You know that you can't creep up on them nor drop pebble anywhere within 50 feet of them but what they will dodge away-that is, when they are not asleep. How l come to know so much of this is that I have caught them without bait when they were sleeping, although did use a hook and line. The first one that l ever caught this way was a large catfish that observed daily to be in one particular spot-the base of a wooden pile that protected an icehouse chute that led out into the water. A kind of nest was there, depression in the mud, and here that catfish was to be found every day at about 3 p, m. It would lay for hours in the rays of the afternoon sun and nev- CT move.
 "I decided to catch it. First I fished around there day after day, but to no purpose. Bait of any kind wasn't any inducement to that catfish. I concluded that it must be asleep when it would al- low fat minnow to swim by and never touch it. Igot a sharp plain hook, which properly weighted, so that it would act direct. I lowered it and moved it slowly up to the side of the fish. Then turned the line so that the hook was directly under it. Then gave the hook quick jerk. The catfish darted away, but not very far. I had him foul, and all be- cause he was sleeping. have caught pike and sunfish the same way at least a dozen different times. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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WHERE ARE THEW

Come near, 0 sun-O south wind. blow,
 And be the winters captives freed. Where are tke springs of long ago? Drive under ground the lingering snow.
 And up the greensward legions lead; Come near 0 sun Q south wind, blowI Are these the skies we used to know?
 The budding wood, the fresh blown meads Come near, Q sun @ south wind. blowt The breathing furrow will we SOW.
 And patient wait the patient seed; Come near, o sun--O south wind, blowt The grain of vanished years will grow.
 But not the vanished years, indeed! Where are the springs of long ago2 With sodden leafage, lying low,
 They for remembrance faintly pleadl Come near, o sun-O south wind. blowt Where are the springs of long ago2 Edith M. Thomas
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"I cGlIed one Jt1te morning, quite by 0cc5-
 dent, dt the ministerial hOteL."
 'To be even with him complained of my weak eyes and lamented the neces- sity of the spectacles, under cover of which I cautiously and thoroughly sur veyed the whole apartment while seem- ingly intent only upon the conversation of my host.
 ''I paid especial attention to a large writing table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly some miscel- laneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and few books. Here, however, after a long and very deliberate scrutiny, I saw noth- ing to excite particular suspicion.
 "At length my eyes, in going the cir cult of the room, fell upon trumpery fligree cardrack of pasteboard that hung dangling by dirty blue ribbon from little brass knob just beneath the middle of the mantelpiece. In this rack, which had three or four compart- ments, were five or six visiting cards and a solitary letter. This last was much soiled and crumpled. It was torn nearly in two across the middle, as if a design in the first instance to tear it en- tirely up as worthless had been altered or staid in the second. 1t had large black seal, bearing the D. cipher very conspicuously and was addressed, in diminutive female hand, to D., the minister, himself. It was thrust carelessly, and even, as it seemed, con- temptuously, into one of the uppermost divisions of the rack
 'No sooner hadI 1 glanced at this letter than concluded it to be that of which l was ill search. To be sure, it was, to all appearance, radically different from the one of which the prefect had read us so minute description. Here the seal was large and black, with the D. cipher; there it was small and red, with the du- cal arms of the S. family. Here the address to the minister was diminutive and feminine; there the superscription to certain royal parsonage was mark edly bold and decided. The size alone formed 8 point of correspondence. But, then. the radicalness of these differences, which was excessive; the dirt; the soiled and torn condition of the paper, so in- consistent with the true methodical hab- it's of D., and so suggestive of a de sign to delrde the beholder into an idea
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James Monroe was born in good circum- stances. though we believe his family was not rich. He was student in Wil- liam and Mary college. but left in t776 to become an officer in the army. John Quincy At:.lms was born rich, studied in Paris and at the famous university of Leyden and finally was graduated at Harvard in 1788. Then. after varied career in the diplomatic service of the United States government, he became professor of rhetoric and belles- -lettres at Harvard, all before he was elected presi- dent.-New York Sun.
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ing those corn grains made me hungry. Oh, I enjoyed the sensation so much. It made me ravenous. When returned from my walk I wanted to eat. So continued visiting the white pig and eat ing three good meals a day until l was myself again and as healthy as l am now. I don't care to understand the whyness of it now. am only too glad to be well. ."-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Rich Presidents.

An exchange says: ''It appears that no president was born rich. and that with one exception our great presidents were not only self made but self educated The exception is Thomas Jefferson"
 George Washington was born rich; it is recorded that his father at his death in l753 left "a large landed property to his widow and i've children" John Adams was graduated at Harvard college in l755 James Madison was born richand was graduated at Princeton in 1771.
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letter."
 His downfall, too, will not be more precipitate than awkward. It is all very we'll to talk about the facilis descensus Averni, but in all kinds of climbing, as Catalani said of singing. it is far more easy to get up than to come down. In the present instance have no sympathy at least no pity-for him who descends He is that monstrum horrendum, an un- principled man of genius. Iconfess, how ever. that 1 should like very well to know the precise character of his thoughts when. being defied by her whom the prefect terms a certain per sonage,' he is reduced to opening the let ter which left for him in the cardrack." :" Howl Did you put anything particu- lar, in itrs
 "Why. it did not seem altogether right to leave the interior blank. That would have been insulting. D., at Vienna once. did me an evil turn, which told him quite good humoredly that should remember. So. as 1 knew he would feel some curiosity in regard to the identity of the person who had out witted him. thought it pity not to give him clew. He is well acquainted with my MS. and just copied into the middle of the blank sheet the words:
 "A design so deep.
 If il Is not worthy of Aureus, is worthy of
 Thyseus. They are to be found in Crebillon's Atree.'"
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MYSTERIES!
The Nervous System the Seat of Life and Mind. Recent
 Wonderful Discoveries,

No mystery has ever compared with that of human life. It has been the leading subject of professional research and study in all ages.
 But notwithstanding this fact 1t is not gener-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-16
GAELIC FOOTBALL.

AN Interesting Game at Bergen Point
Promised for Labor Day.
: The New Jersey A. G. are ce rtainly
keeping pace with the times. and now
that Gallo football 10 becoming SO popu-
lar, it proposes to have a contest at its
games on Labor day that will bs well
worth a visit to Bergen Point. Ever
since the visit of the famous GB'ic
athletes in 1888. Gaelic football mas
steadily increased. Clubs have been Or
ganized all over the United States, and
leagues are formed In Chicago, Philadei-
phia and other prominent cities. In tue
metropolitan district one OF the strongest
clubs Is the William Barry Association,
of this city. which is composed OF famous
players who lave made records for them
selves In Ireland and this country.
On Labor day they will lue ND and
meet the Cargo weas OF Brooklyu, a club
that has been playing excslleng ball. Tie
Followers Of both Jeans have for a long
time been clamoring for just such a
chance, and they will be given an elegant
opportunity on Labor Day TO see Just
how strong their respective teams are.
Both teams have gone intro training for
this contest, and the bail will be put into
play at one o'clock promptly, aud the
captains Of both teams promise 20 put up
q game that for science. speed, agility
and daring has never been equalled IN
America. The winners will receive hand
some gold medals.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-16
SHOOTING AT SEA GRIT.
Private Graham Makes a
Big Score and Ties for
a Prize.
HoBOKEN BOAT CLUBS RACES.
All Have Entered Crews in the
Regatta-Ring, Canoe and
Wheel Notes.
HOBOKEN BOAT CLUBS RACES.

On accoun + of the -non.appearance OF
some of the competing teams, the Skin
mish firing set down for yesterday after
noon at sea Girt was postponed and the
men practiced at the 200 and 500 yard
targets, so that the best shots may be
selected for the regular team shoot
ng today. Many of the New jersey
boys made exceptionally good records
today.
The men of the First and Second Regi-
ments of the District of Columb la did
good work, scoring long runs of bulls
eyes. The meu feel sangufne OF captur-
ing some of the trophies. DULY a few
of the Pennsylvania men have arrived
and the Maryland team is not on hand.
Shooting in the Perrine memorial.
all comers' military, the Kuser.
the members and the Scheutzeu
matches are going on. In the Kuser
match, open TO all corners. seven shots at
200 yards, Major Pollard of Washington,
Private Graham of New Jersey and Pri-
vate Roebling of Pennsylvania have tied
at til irty three points out OF a possible
thirtY-iye.
In the Perrine memorial match at 200
and 500 y ards. Private Wells aud Colonel
RICHTER of New jersey have tied at IS
points out of a possible 80. In the
Schuetzen all corners continuous match
nc 200 yards, William A. Hayes of the
State Rifle Association holds first place.
with a score of GA out OF y possible 70. III
the members match at 200 yards Colonel
kuser of Governor Werts' staff again.
leads with a score of % OUT of q possible
%. The matches are continuous, closing
on SATURDAY..
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-16
PADDLE THEIR OWN CANOE.
What Is Going on at the Canoe Assoc
tons Camp.

What Is Going ON at the Canoe Associa-
tion's Camp.
Everything Is progressing finely at the
meet of the American Canoe Association.
The large dock at Brophy's Point is kept
piled high with the canoes, tents and
traps of the new arrivals. All the racing
at present has been merely for sport. On
Monday the racing committee ioEgsd
out the course for the races, and today
the bouys were placed IN position.
The Newton Boat Club of Auburndals,
Mass, is represented by Francis
j.. Burrages. Quincy Pond, aud
John f. Under. Lsrgs delegations are
present from Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa
and other Canadian cities. Frank
C. Moore. a member of the Kuickerbocker
G. c.. of New York. is present, as well as
a party from Arlington. N. j., consisting
of H. K. Schuyler, Miss Mackenas, and
Miss Frances MacCauiey. Camp fires
are held every evening.
A new model OF racing canoe will par
ticipate in the raca this year. Iii known
as the TN keel, and meets every requisite
for fast sailing. This shape Of the Graf
was designed by William p. Stevens. and
Is really a miniature of the great racing
yachts of America. It's lines were taken
from Herreshon' 8 Gloriana.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-16
A DEPLoRABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.
John A. Burns Complaint Should BE
Immediately Investigated,

John A. Burns' Complaint Should Be
Immediately Investigated,
John A. Burns, of No. 231 Cornelison
avenue, the roof of whose home, nestled
amid a mass of tree foliage, peeps above
the Montgomery street bridge over that
avenue and is a familiar sight to the
thousands who patronize the Montgomery
street trolley line, called upon Health
Inspector BENJAMIN this morning to lodge
a complaint. The substance of Mr.. Burns
complaint is that the Montgomery street
sewer has been bursted in the vicinity OF
the bridge for the past fourteen months,
n that during all that time the sewage
has been soaking through the immediate
soil, has rotted away the cement OF the
thirty-foot high retaining walls of the
Montgomery street grade, rotted away the
dozen or more iron braces of the wall,
which are now lying in his yard, and that
the walls are already in immediate danger
of giving way, to the detriment of his
property and the limbs, probably the life,
of some of the occupants of his home.
MI. Burns also claims that the stencil
arising therefrom has had its effect
upon every member of his household, and
that he himself during the past y ar has
lost twenty-three pounds of flesh, the loss
of which he attributes solely to the stencil
that arises from the rotten, sewage
saturated condition of the retaining wall
that looms up almost Immediately along
side his home.
Now, the Street and Water Commits
sioners have recently granted permission
to the Jersey City and Bergen Railway
Company to raise the grade of Montgom-
cry street in the vicinity of the bridge
about four feet in order to make the incline
from the hill more gradual than it is al
present and to do away with the present
nat bridge, over which the trolley cars
almost actually lean in their descent from
the Hill. This will almost completely shut
out the sight of Mr.. Burns home from
Montgomery street. For this he cares but
little, but he insists that the Montgomery
street sewer shall be immediately repaired
and the retaining walls in the vicinity OF
the bridge repaired and made strong,
Otherwise he will bring suit against the
city.
INSPECTOR Benjamin Immediately de
| spatched one OF the members of the sani
tary squad to investigate Mr.. Burns com
plant of the present nuisance.
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THE wANsER'S GREAT STAG.
Vocal and Instrumental Music. Singh
and Rating md Grand Trina

Vocal and instrumental Music, Singing
and Eating. and n Grand Time.
'Twould be hard to find anywhere in
this city a more talented body of young
men than the members of the Wanser
Club.
Last night the newly elected officers of
the club gave a stag entertainment to the
members. 1t was a perfectly impromptu
affair and no regular programme was
arranged. Nearly every member present
continuous performance from eight O'Clock
until two O'Clock this morning.
Mr.. Dingwall called on Mr.. John Glad
s~tone~irSt. He sang several songs and
was followed by Bert Dodd, who sang
Twelve Months Ago Tonight" He re,
sponded to several encores and them a
speech from Mr.. John Atkinson was called
on 1.-THE Prospects of a Republican
Victory this Fall" The Scheid Brothers
gave some fine selections and limitations
on the harmonica and guitar Robert
Roberts sang Dreaming as She Sleeps
He was accompanied by Prof. Geo. Brown.
Prof. Brown was a card. He sang humor
Gus songs, played piano solos and accom-
exhibitions of v-entriloquism. Mr.. Harry
w. Moore, of the 'Heldin Slavery" com
pany gave several German recitations
Geo. Blaich rendered In the Cleaning. ,
The Vincent Trio, from the Lafayette
Battery, gave some excellent Mandolin
and guitar selections. George Clemens
sang 1.-THE Girl l Left Behind" and other
popular songs. Walter Brown gave dia
lect stories, principally Italian and Irish
His supply of stories seemed ~exhaustless
and every one of them was received witt
loud applause.
AL. Tooles sang. several songs, playing
his own accomplishments. A really excel
lent piece of work was done by Mr.. S, r
Woodruff. He initiated a cornet with his
mouth and accompanied himself on the
piano. He also sang several songs. Harry
Scheid sang, as did Thos. Nugent. Harry
Turney rendered several banjo solos. FREQ
Schrivens sang "Hurra for Casey anc
everybody Joined in the chorus. Harry
Scheid and Geo. Clemens played a duet
on the piano and the harmonlca. Phi
Kaiser brought down the house when he
SANG several German songs. Mr. Robert
p. Stewart sang sally in Our Alley anG
other popular ballads with great effect
Messrs James Arts and Robert f. Mar
tens danced q reel and jig and Walter
Smith and Bert Dodd danced a breakdown,
Dodd told q number of his funny stories
At intervals throughout the evening
refreshments were passed around.
The boys voted last evenings entertain
ment far ahead of anything they have
ever had before.
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that she had no reSson for wishing 1t to
be done. Under cross examination the
witness said tuat it WAS q. stormy night,
when the three men came. but she did
not notice that their clothes dripped
water or that their SHOES were muddy
At six o'clock in the morning it was
hoticed that there were tracks IN the hall
them cut. Although the man Who
pushed her several times used
her roughly, she made no cutlery
at all. In fact ahe uttered
not q word. Ths man who pushed her
threw her against the wall aud hurt her
left arm. She was so dazsd, frightened
and grief stricken that she though sh
Furthern than this she could give nc
reason why she raised no alarm.
KNEW E SON WAS INSURED.
Mrs. Sham said her son lnsured his
life last fall. She knew IL at the time,
She never saw the policies. only the
wrapping paper about them. She knew,
however. that the policies were made
u will aud she was a bensfic-
larry under it. She was the sxecutrix OF
her husbands estate. She has not filed
an accounting. There are unsatisied
claimt against the estate. Mrs. Sham,
being examined again bv her W n
sci, teSL1ueQ LuAG hUOuL S4UU WAS Tue
amount against her husbands estate.
The funeral expenses of her husband
a been paid.
The Rev. Albert 4. Baker, rector of an
Episcopal church in Princeton. testified
that during John's Illness he held reli-
gious services, in his room frequently, and
tnat Mrs. Sham always appeared to be
reverent and ihtera$te |.
CANTWELL'S AUTOPSY IMPROPERLY CON-
nTYGTEn ~
DR.. David Warman OF Trenton testi-
fed that, in his opinion, the autopsy per-
formed by County Physlciant G tntwell
was improperly conducted. because he
neglected to !oog for disease rs well as
poison. He did not obey the rules laid
down for such Investigations. Wit
| ness said from the evidence regarding
Johns symptoms he could not say
Of what disease he died. According
10 witness young Sham did not die o
m%ercurial poisoning. His symdtoms Of
| such poisoning were not strength enough
to induce the belief that he had beer
killed with corrosive sublimate.
Assuming that Sham had gastritis
/ his mediaal treatment was improper
| Witness said he should not have beer
| a slop barrel of the patients stomach by
giving him all sorts Of medicine every
day.
The court took q recess until ffteer
minutes past W p. M.