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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20

DIED.

MEEHL-In this city. on Friday. April 1s,
1895, George Meehl, beloved husband of the
late Catherine Meehl aged a years
Relatives and friends of the family, also
members of Washington Council, No 545, Amer,
can Legion of Honor. are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral on Sunday, April 81,
1895, at P. NJ.
MEYER-on Thursday, April IS, 1885, Angus.
tus B. Meyer. in his 5Sth year.
Relatives, friends and members of G. Wan
Houten Post, No. 3, G. A. R.; zeredaths
Lodge, No. 1S1, F. 6 A. NJ: Encampment No.
81, U. V. L., and Hudson Council, No. SSl,
N. u, and Gerrnania Bowling Club and Soarn
Bergen Republican Social Grub, are respect.
fully invited to attend tue funeral ssrvIcea
on Sunday, April IL at P. NJ. at his late
residence. No. 2l4 Jackson avenue,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The Grand Jury came into court yesterday
afternoon and presented batch of forty
bills to Judge Hudspeth. These were the first
list of indictments handed up by the present
Grand Jury.
The Anchor Athletic Club will give an
entertainment and reception Monday night, at
Kesslar's Hail. Good talent has been en-
gagged.
Admiral Farragut Council. No. 1852, Jr o.
U. A. M. will attend service tomorrow nlorn-
ing at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, New
York. The pastor, the Rev. Mr.. Altman, is
Commander OF the Farragut Association Of
Naval Veterans of the Port Of New York.
81 have been troubled with headaches.
began taking Hoods Pills and they have done
their work well. Mrs. SchaaEs ZIG Hill street,
West Hoooken. N. ].
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
HUXLEY MAY DIE.
By Gable to the United Pres

LONDON, April 20, 1ss5.-There is no i'm
provenlent in the condition of Professor Eux-
ley, the scientist. who recently suffered from
RELAPSE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
PLOBGHED Up A DIAMOND.


HDccsdI TO Inc Jf7SeD C3tu NelCS.
HAMM0NTON, April 20, 1s95.-Willam Will
Hanson found Valuable diamond while plow-
ing his farm at Anohora. philadelphia ex-
peitts pronounced it TO be genuine and offered
to buy it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
Ii AT TIENTSIN.
Rn Cable to tl1e U,aited Press.

LONDON, April 20, 1854 despatch to
the "Pan Mall Gazette from Tientsin
says Ii Hung Chang arrived there today.
He is in good health.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
CONSERVATIVE sKUPTsoHINA.


BELGRADE, April 20, 1Ss5.-The4 elections
for members of 1.-THE Servian Parliament
have been conducted very quietly and result
ed in the return of large Government major
ity in the Skuptschina, Chamber of Depu-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
WEATHER INDICATIONS

NEW YORK, April 20, 1Ss5-For the tnfr.y-
six hours ending at P NJ. Surday;-For New
Yorlr City and vicinity:-Falir today and on
Sy -srdy; Slightly cooler Sunday morning; north-
westerly winds shifting to southwesteray.
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more csl a, indiana.

ST. LOUIS, April 20, 1S95.-A special
to the Chronicle" from Anderson. Ind.
says that the first discovery of oil the
paying quantities was made last night
near that city. A company was drilling
be for gas. Oil came forth in such guam
titles as to necessitate the Gaping of the
well. Spectators are out today leas-
ing lands in this county, which is known
to be underlaid with pools of oil, and
the people We're never SO jubilant. A
public meeting will be called at once to
keep out the Standard Oil Company.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
MATTERS OF FACT.

--lSs4 Defiance tomatoes just In. Ask
your grocer for them. Cost more than come
mon goods but a great deal better. Wholesale
81 D. E. Cleary Co.'S Wholesale stores.
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PALMA HAS a STAG,

There was stag at the Palma Club last
night. The attendance was large, and all
though those who took part were not up to the
standard the performers were encouraged with
goed-natured applause. Cushman and Holcomb
made the hit of the evening Miss Cushnan
was pretty and was well equipped with popn-
lar airs Her side partner was also clever.
Saroni the female inpersonator, gave some
amusing limitations There were change artists
and comedy sketch teams galore There will
probably be one more stag before the summer
oea e.,y lass-1s
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ROSE OF BUTCHERS CooLLY.

In his new story, Rose of butchers
CoolIv," Hamlin Garland does not deviate
a hairs breadth from that creed of literary
realism of which he is rapidly becoming
the foremost Western apostle. His hero
inc is not a commonplace girl by any
means, but she leads a commonplace life,
devoid of exciting incidents ana possess
ing nothing of romance except that hav-
ing an opportunity to marry a rich man
she decides to marry one who is not rich.
The sole object of the story seems to
have been to trace the development of an
exceptionally rich feminine nature under
the conditions that prevail in the rural
districts of Wisconsin. In depicting the
gradual unfolding of the girls character
Mr.. Garland is guarded in his phrases, but
he does not mince his ideas. His heroine
losing her mother while she is yet an in
fant, and having no one but her father TO
turn to, has TO form for herself a concep-
tion of the differences of sex and of
womans place in the economy OF nature.
These ideas of the growing girl and the
various incidents by which they are
affected one way or another constitute a
good deal of the story. In fact they are
treated with such minuJeness OF detail in
many instances that the work might be
called a scientific romance OF the develop
ment of the instincts or sex II woman.
Although, as we have said, Mr.. Garland
is.guarded in his language there are times
when his narrative threatens to become
risky, but he is an American, not french,
realist and remains faithful TO Wisconsin
conventionalities. His heroine is not free
from temptations of nascent passion in the
days of her ignorant and uniformed girl
hood, but she comes out from them clean
and pure to develop into one OF those noble
high-minded women who are the glory OF
our social organism.
Beyond the record OF the development
Of character there is very little OF interest
in the story. Rose is born on farm and
lives alone with her father until she is old
enough to 90 to school. She has the usual
school experience of farm children, and IN
that mixed association comes near Eaylng
her mind deprayed by corrupting intiu-
ences that emanate from the coarseness OF
many of the vicious larger boys and girls
with whom she is thrown into contact. A
memorable first visit to a circus has the
effect of furnishing her with an ideal hero.
Enraptured with the physical beauty and
grace OF one of the gymnasts of the ring
her desire scars above the country boys
around her and she is no longer subject to
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FOSTER ON THE CONSTITUTION.

The immediate publication is announced
of the first volume Of a work on the Con-
stitution of the United States by Roger
Foster OF the New York bar, author of ga
Treatise on Federal Law" Trial bv
Newspaper and lecturer on Federal
Jurisprudence" at the Yale Law School.
The complete work will consist of three
octave volumes, and, judging from the ad-
vance sheets, Will constitute one of the
most important contributions to our legal
and political literature that has been made
for many years.
No exhaustive treatise upon the consti-
tuition of the United States has hitherto
been attempted since the commentaries OF
Judge Story, which were written more
than sixty years ago. At that time the
original sources of the provisions In that
instrument were in many cases concealed
from view; and so remained till they were
brought to light by the researches of
Stubbs and Freeman into the constitu-
tional history of England, and of numer-
Gus American scholars into the colonial
institutions. Mr.. Fosters work is de-
signed to place all this new information in
a compact and well-arTanged form, accessi-
bic to the professional and general reader.
He aims to present what will be at once a
complete constitutional history of the
United States and compilation of all the
precedents which aid in the construction
of the Federal constitution.
The author takes up each clause of the
constitution in consecutive order, and the
first clause terminates with the subject OF
impeachments. 1t contains the first ex-
haustive historical and ANALYTICAL argu-
ment against the legality of secession, the
first constitutional history of the Confed-
crate States the first history of recon
struction from a legal as well as his
torical point OF view and the first history
of impeachments N the different States
The last includes a large mum Der of Gu
rious facts known hitherto only to a few
special students, such as the conviction
and removal of a Governor for following
Lincoln's example in suspending the writ
of habeas corpus without authority from
the Legislature, and the removal OF a iudge
for obeying a decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States overruling de-
cisions of the State courts that were sup
ported bv the wishes of majority of the
State electorate.
Foster on the Constitution, volume 1.
Roger Foster, Boston Book Company.
Price in law sheep, S5.
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natures by an irrevocable marriage to an
ignoble one. To the heroine there comes
one chance of relief from the wretched-
ness that surrounds her. A lover offers to
take her away with him and give her free
dom and life and Joy. He argues that to
keep the letter of conventional morality
means death, and that there is happiness
for her only in breaking away from what
the world calls right. She remains true
to what she esteems to be her duty and
knows only "the years that the locust
hath eaten" and that utter barrenness of
Joy amid which the soul starves and the
heart dies.
While the book is heavy with pathos all
the way through it is by no means dreary
reading, for there are elements of courage
and hopefulness in the heroine that
tighten the gloom of every chapter. The
characters are not numerous and in the
main are sufficiently well depicted to in
terest the reader in their fortunes and
actions. 1t is not strong story, but it is
earnest in sentiment and free from the
morbidness that generally vitiates the
pathos of minor writers.
1.-The Years That the Locust Hath
Eaten" Annie E. Holdsworth. New
York: Macmillan & Co. Price 81 25.
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DIR. PHILLIPS.

A disappointing book. The author has
made an attempt to depict the life of the
Jew as it is lived in London, and has failed
most singularly in his endeavor. Accord
ing to the views expressed by Mr.. Dandy,
as shown in some of his created dialogues,
we are led to suppose that the Hebrew IN
London possesses an unconquerable aver
sion to associating with his gentle neigh
Dor, and an unlimited passion for playing
solo-whist. Indeed, the whole of the dia-
logue of the first chapter is devoted to a
discussion of various games of cards. Mr..
Dandy, the author, goes SO far as to say :
1.-The play went on almost in silence; no
lieht Jest or merry quip, no sacrilegious
sound of laughter disturbed the devotion
of Judaism to its living god" In such
manner does the author emphasize his
opinion that the These be thy GODS o
Israeli doctrine obtains in London, in spe-
cial reference to cardplaying.
DIR. Phillips is prosperous London
physician, who, married as he is to good
natured but stupid German woman, finds
delight in the company of Mrs. Cameron.
This lady was in the early part of the tale
a goyerness. DR.. Phillips convinces her
that they were created by an all wise
Providence for each other, and keeps her
in the seclusion of Bedford-souare home
The story is fairly well worked out, but
is marred in several places by stupendous
inaccuracies, no doubt on account of the
fact that Mr.. Dandy, the author, has
caught but slight glimpses of the life OF
the peculiar people. Indeed, perusal of
the book would incline the reader to the
belief that, so far from picturing the life
of the Mazda Vale Hebrew, Mr.. Dandy
had drawn his characters from the district
bounded by Petticoat lane and White
chapel road.
TChicago: Laird IL Lee. For sale by all
booksellers. Price 25 cents.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
NATURAL HISTORY OF sE1BoRNE

This is a reprint, in two volumes. and
with series of charming illustrations by
Clifton Johnson of the notes of that de-
lightful old parson-naturalist, Rev. Gilbert
White. What Izaak Walton's "Complete
Angler" is to lovers of the gentle pastime
White Selborne must be to the students of
out-of-door lie. The book has q perennial
charm, like nature itself. 1t is, in fact,
one of natures own books, written by her
from off the pen-point of an ardent lover
This is how most of the best books get
written. 1t is over 100 years since Gilbert
White kept his daily record of Seiborne
But because nature herself is the same his
book is to-day full of delightful interest.
When the first swallow appeared in the
new year, where the laburnum blossomed
and when and how he found q great stag
beetle, the migration of the buds, the
life in the streams and all the varying in
cidents of natures serial story, are here set
down with loving exactness. The present
edition has an appreciative introduction
by John Burroughs.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. For
sale by Doxey, San Francisco; two vol
umes. Price 81.
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actors, and he gloried almost as much in q
Gladstone ak that was given to him as If it
had been the original hatchet OF George
Washington.
Few men have been able to realize as
vividly as. he the Jeffersonian theory that
all men were born free and equal. 1t is
impossible to think of him as ever over
awed by any dignitary or as giving him.
self airs of superiority over any human
creature who had in him the making OF
comrade. He seems to have been greatest
not as poet, nor as q prose writer, nor
even as newspaper man, but as human
being.
He was not very rich, not handsome nor
imposing, nor particularly thrifty; there
were defects in his worldly wisdom, defects
in his literary taste, and defects IN most of
his literary work. Yet if there is any man
in Chicago whose death would be as widely
and deeply regretted as his, and who will
be so long remembered, one would like to
know who that person is, for his name
does not suggest itseIf.-E. S. Martin, in
Harpers Weekly.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Captain Charles King has written new
story, "An Army Wife" which is soon to
be published by F. Tennyson Neely.
''What the Speaker Does" is the title OF
timely paper which the Hon. Thomas b.
Reed has contributed to coming number
of The Youths Companion.
my Condolences is the title of the forth
coming memoirs of Frederick Locker
Lampson. The poets son-in-law, Au-
gustus Birrel, is editing the book.
M. Paul Bourgeois new novel, IL 'Idylle
vious works. The scene is laid in the
Riviera, and the story ends unhappily.
"Our Benefits From the Nicaragua
Canal,' are amply discussed by Arthur
Silva White, in a clear and logical paper
in the North American Review for De-
cember.
1t took 10000 copies of Rudyard Kip
ling's new jungle Book" to satisfy the
first demand in America and England.
Another large edition is now on the Cen
tury Company presses.
Professor Edmund ]. James, who leaves
Philadelphia for Chicago at the beginning
of the new year, has resigned the editor
ship of the Annals of the mer1can
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Professor Sayce's book on ''The Egypt
of the Hebrews and Herodotus" is Just
ready for publication. The travels OF
Herodotus in Egypt are followed for the
first time in the light of recent discoveries.
NJ. Zola is to visit England again next
spring He is credited with the intention
OF studying the provincial Englishman in
Manchester and other leading cities, and
the industrial and social life of the people.
Some letters especially interesting to
lawyers are to be published in the January
Century. They were written by Webster,
Writ and Calhoun and addressed to a
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lucky young law student, and they are
packed with advice as to his course OF
study.
Nine. Sarah Grand's new book will not
be published until next spring. She is a
wise woman in that she has allowed her
self time for reflection in the preparation
of second work. Most novelists are
by first success.
OF Charles Dickens immediate descend
ants there are living to-day his sons Charles
and Henry Fielding, and his daughter,
Miss Dickens, the novelist. Charles Henry
Dickens has seven children-three girls
and four boys, the second OF whom IS a
naval cadet. The Oldest girl made her
debut this year.
To the second edition of his novel "Men
Born Equal, Harry P. Robinson prefixes
note in which he denies that his story
was based on the Chicago riots. He says
that it was written some months before the
strike IN question broke out. Nor is there,
he asserts, one single line of portraiture in
any character.
Andrew Carnegie will present Home
stead with free library, to cost $4OO 600,
INDEPENDENT of the permanent endowment
for it's maintenance, which Mr.. Carnegie
will also provide. The building will COM
prise free library, reading-rooms, a
ID uSlC-u -uall. SVIEUdSluul, ClupioOiuS ohu q
swimming-pool. The building is to be
completed within year.
Owen Wister did not begin his working
life as a writer of fiction. He was as q
Harvard student specially devoted to
music, and accomplished a great deal in
the study as his graduation record shows.
He even undertook a musical career, and
made some preparation for it during a
visit in Europe, but he soon gave up the
idea-fortunately for the readers OF clever
Western sketches.
The seventh and concluding volume Of
the Due d 'Aumale's "Hstorie des Princes
de Conde'' is nearly ready for publication.
1t does not go beyond the seventeenth
century. The work has occupied its author
for more than thirty years, and caused
him much trouble in its early stages. The
first volume was seized by the police, the
Empire being extremely jealous OF the
prestige OF the Orleans Princes.
"St. Ives" the novel left substantially
complete by Robert Louis Stevenson at his
death, is described as purely romance OF
adventure. 1t is the story OF french
prisoner captured in the Peninsula wars,
who is shut up in Edinburgh Castle, where
he falls in love with a Scotch girl, who
with her aunt frequently visits the pr1s-
oners. After various episodes dangerous
plan of escape is decided upon, and st.
Ives becomes q free man. The perlls that
he undergoes while in hiding about Edin-
burgh, his adventures while on the Great
North road with strangers and robbers,
his final escape across the border into
England, his subsequent return TO Edln-
burgh, and many other incidents are told
as only Stevenson could tell them. The
story will appear in McClure's Magazine.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
Tribute to Eugene Field.

Field was hospitable and genial man,
very friendly with his friends. ready to
spend himself and his time for them, and
ready to make new friends when oppor-
tunity offered and the material came to
hand. He was as unworldly o person as
one often sees, careless of externals, as in.
different to profit and loss as his obliga-
tions as a man of family would admit. and
delightfully."- simple in his attitude toward
society.
He was intensely and whimslcally
American, and even while penetrated
with nervous dyspepsia he gloried, in
theory if not in practice, in the worst
denominations of American cookery. He
was the sort of patriot who would have
lived on pie and doughnuts in London il
he could, as an example to the British
Yet he seemed to have no Anglophobia
and maintained the friendliest relations
with some of the English writer's and
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Otherwise it is the old familiar story OF
ton has wrought comedies and tragedies
since ever the human race began, and the
theme would long ago have been worn
threadbare were it not that each land each
age and almost each set tofindividuals works
out the ever-recurring drama in different
way and presents new moral with every
new aspect.
The main lines OF Miss Tyler's story are
the same a those of every romance of the
kind, and record the wreck brought about
by young woman who being engaged to
one man falls in love with another.
Around these lines, however, is arranged a
series of delightful pictures of plantation
life, with sketches of folk lore, the songs,
the dialect, the social gossip, and all the
hundred phases of the daily routine of a
little community shut off from the out
side world and forming a society of its own.
There is something Of humor in the
book and something of pathos. light
comedy plays in the early chapters, but
the end is tragedy. The work from begin
ming to the close reveals an earnest and
genuine feeling, but the author is not a
master of tragedy, and the agony of the
consummation of the ruin of all is de-
scribed rather than depicted. There is
Just enough strength in the story to create
a sympathy with the victims of the sac
rifice, notwithstanding that the idea OF
honor which they cherished and for which
they died is alien to the minds of Amer
leans who were not brought up to regard
conventional honor as the supreme thing
in the universe.
In every respect it is a faithful record OF
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
AN EVENING THOUGHT.

Undergraduate verse is rarely worth re-
printing; but Edward Martin Hulme has
done well in collecting into dainty little
pamphlet series of minor poems, which,
he informs the reader, were written during
the first two years of his course at STAN
ford. A fair example OF the verse and
sentiment is found in the lines which give
the title to the pamphlet:
AN EVENING THOUGHT.
Love. If some evening when the SOFT white mist
Holds in embracing arms the weary world,
And the last sunbeaMs all the peaks have kissed.
And in sweet slumber all the flowers are fured
You should come to me, clad in Deaths dark
grace,
And gaze upon me with your tender eyes,
And with d sad, sweet smile upon your face,
Should say, Il bring thee peace the world
denies,"
Into the distant land do not know.
Into the darkness that hope means light,
| would, dear heart, with you most gladly go,
And you should be my guardian through the
night.
An Evening Thought, Edward NJ.
Hume. San francisco: II. S. Crocker
& Co.
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their influences. Ambitious now of rising
in life she induces her father to give her
a university career, and after that she goes
to Chicago to become writer. There she
meets the man in whom she recognizes
the complement of her own nature, and
turning her back upon & younger and
Wealthier suitor she marrieS him.
In story of this kind, where there is no
plct. nor mystery, where there comes no
stroke of fortune either good or Ill, and
where the characters, while better than
the average, are not above ordinary men
and women of the higher kind, the interest
of the reader depends wholly upon the
charm OF the authors style and his ability
to treat common things in an uncommon
way. Mr.. Garland's mastery of style and
his faculty of making the prosy realism of
American life entertaining to the general
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
Ross.n

A novel descriptive of life in Virginia,
tragic in conclusion, but charming in style
and accurate in delineations of Southern
character and dialect, is ''Boss," newly
published story by Odette Tyler. 1t is not
long, nor are the incidents of the narrative
either numerous or romantic, but, never
theless, as there is no trace of sketcniness
or padding, it shows from beginning to end
the attractiveness OF carefully finished
literary work.
According to a statement in the brief
preface the story is a record Of actual oc-
currences in one of the Southern States,
the scene being shifted and the names
changed for obvious reasons. The tragedy,
turns upon the blind devotion of the lead
ing characters to mistaken idea of honor.