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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-26
EDaAR ALLEN Po1's COTTAGE.

Edgar Allen Poe's cottage at Ford
ham, N. X. has been purchased by the
New York Shakespeare Society. 1t will
be kept as it was when the poet lived in
it and will be always open to .visitorssv-
Exchange - -.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-26
SINGULAR ACCIDENT WHILE SHAW
ING

Frank johnson. thirty-three years old,
Of No. 316 First street, while stropping
his razor yesterday, was showed by his
ten year old son. The razor slipped and
severed an artery in Jackson's left arm.
He was removed to the City Hospital for
treatment. He was weak from the loss
of blood. but he with recover
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-26
GOING TO ARREST TIE FISH.

Captain Moses E. Newton and James
McNulty. Mr.. Robert Keiswetter and
Mr.. Fritz Mershamner, will journey to
Harvey Ceders, Ocean county, tomorrow
afternoon, where they will spend the
rest of the week in boating and fishing.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-26
NO ONE TO CALL FOR HIS BODY.
Suicide X ettle Had an Odd Letter In
a yVomanss Writing.

PITTSBURG, Pa. Aug. 26 lS95-W. w.
Kettle of Washington, D. c., shot and
instantly killed himself at the Hotel
Wiley, on Sixth street at S:55 O'Clock
this morning. The suicide stood in front
of the mirror in his room when he hred
the bullet into the base of his brain be-
hind the right ear. He fell dead IN ms
tracks. Just as a chamberma1d inserted
her key in the door leading to his room
the shot was fired. The frightened
girl summoned the hotel clerk who looked
over the transom and discovered the man
lying upon the floor. The door was
forced open. Mr.. Kettle was dead. Mr.
Kettle arrived at the hotel on Saturday.
Nothing in his actions caused suspicion
and all of yesterday he spent quietly in
his room. Saturday evening he mailed
Barlow, Fla
A note was found addressed to the
proprietor of the hotel. It read. read Ny Ny
one will call for, my body. Let 1t Pc
disposed of as the authorities see Mt.
Ny watch and $40 gxe to t the propre5ce
that the taking of my life will cause.
Mr.. Kettle was probably thirty, years
OF ag e eet end ten wore gray snt
clothing Little else is known about him.
1t is believed that he was connected with
the w ar department at w dSIlluS tOu
Another note bearing the signature of
O. A. Wylie in lady's handwriting was
found in a pocket. 1t read:-
81 hereby promise that [ will never
ask you to take me anywhere as long
as 1 live
Who Kettle Was.
WASHINGTON, Aug. &C. 1s95.-W w.
Kettle, the Pittsburg suicide, was a
clerk in the record and pension division
of the War Department. There seems
to be some melodramatic mystery behind
his death which cannot be cleared up
here at present.
The record of the department shows
that he was appointed in 1891 from Ne
braska, Illinois being his native State.
Mr. Kettle left the office on the 22d in
stant on seven days leave, but so
far as can be learned without having
acquainted anyone of the purpose OF MS
vacation or destination. On Saturday
morning last Colonel Edward Frey, a
clerk in the Paymaster Generals office,
called at the Record and Pension Di-
vision and inquired for Mr.. Kettles
whereabouts. He explained that Kettle
was to have been married last week
and had failed to appear at the. appoint
ed time, but vouchsafed no details of the
affair. Colonel Frey is on leave him
self today and he could not be seen
to learn such facts of the case as may
be within his knowledge.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-26

Hot weather proves depressing to those
rich their blood with Hoods sarsaparilla-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-26
IfYour Baby is Cutting Teeth

remedy, Mrs. Winslow S Soothing Syrup,
for children teething 1t soothes the
child, softens the gums, a1lays all pain,
cures wind collie, and Is the best remedy
tor diarghoea. s
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

sB Our great object in life should be
to please God.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

INDIGNANT.-There used to be an
old porter at certain Irish railway
station who was more remarkable for
independence of character than atten-
tion to his duties.
On one occasion two of the directors
were travelling over the line and noticed
that the name of this station was not
called, the neglect being the more seri-
Gus as it was a junction. This was made
the subject of complaint, and old Char
lev, who was the delinquent, was
promptly brought to book and repri-
manded.
He was very wroth that any one
should find fault with him and thirsted
for revenge. So keeping lookout un-
til he saw the directors on their return
journey, he stood opposite their car
riage and shouted in stentorian
voice:
"Cookstown Junction! Change here
for Randalstown, Castledawson, Mag
herafelt, Moneymore and all stations
on the Cookstown line and don't say,
ye blaggards, ye weren't towld."-An-
swerS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15
ROCK HILL BUGGY co.,
ROCK HILL. -
aOMPLICATED
OMBINATION
IOLLARS COMPETITION.

OUR would-be competitors are tearing
~ their hair and giving utterance to
some very strange sounds in their hope
less efforts to show the buggy-buying-
public why they can't compete with us in
price and quality of work. They assign
this that and the other reason but take
good care not to give the correct one.
They never admit that we have ciphered
the cost of manufacture down fine and
they have not, and claim that their work
is better than ours, etc., etc., While they
are doing all this, we continue 10 pull for
the shore by making the best vehicles
turned out by any concern in the South,
and as good rs any anywhere, and guaran-
tee every one of them to give perfect salts
faction. We got on top because we are
entitled to that exalted position, and it is
our purpose 20 remain there by making
nothing but the finest, best and most
stylish vehicles at less price than any
body else, and that is the complicated
combination that has collared competition
and is making it howl. We know our
goods are the best and we want you to
see our agent at Yorkville, Mr.. Sam NJ.
Grist, before you buy. We are sure he
can save You from 80 to SIS Oh Il PEGGY,
and that amount will pay for dandy set
of harness. ROCK HILL BUGGY co.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

was hit nearly 100 times. Nothing
of her was left above water, and of her
crew, 460 strong, over $50 were killed
or died from their wounds. All this
was from the fire of 6 and S-inch rifles
at distance of from 1000 to 1000
yards.
The destructive effect of these small
er guns bears out the contention of
Secretary Herbert, in recent article
in The North American Review, that
armored ships are indispensable as
protection against the rapid fire of
such weapons, even though no armor
can be made impenetrable to the larg-
est guns. The 1S-inch guns are slow
of fire, even the largest men-of-war
do not carry more than four of them,
and. they may be disabled by chance
shots; but the rapid fire of the 6 and
S-inch rifles could riddle an unarmored
ship and fill her as full of holes as Il
sieve in a few minutes. The progress
of the Oriental war so far indicates
that the bulk of the fighting is done
with the smaller, quick-iring guns and
rifles, and the greatest destruction is
inflicted by them. All these points
will be closely scanned by Western
nations and will have tangible effect
upon future armaments.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

The CoLoNEL's VERAc1TY.-"That
snake, gentlemen, wuz at least 80
feet"-
"Ha, ha! Ho, ho! Rats! Scat
Come off, colonel! Give us bigger
one to begin the season WITH
Eyes, sab, it wuz 90 feet, an it
might be 95"-
Zach! Where's Munchausen, De-
foe, Eli Perkins, Wiggins"-
''But it couldn't have been lessn'
80 feet frum"-
"From tip to tip of bis wings! Hip!
Whooray! Colonel's found the sea ser.
pent, dragon and woolly horse, all
combined"-
"No, sub, not from tip to tip neithah,
sab -
"Ninety feet from what, then colo
mel ?"
"Why, sub, 90 feet from me, an l
was blamed cahful at he didn't git
any closah, sah.'
"Come up, colonel, come up"
As they were downing the last round
one of the skeptics quietly asked:
"Colonel, how long, really, was that
snake?"
about four feet, sab !"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

The best wearing, most stylish, and
the greatest value of any $500 Mems
Shoes on the continent.
Best calfskin, dongola tops, solid
leather soles, with all the popular toes,
lasts and fastenings, and Lewis Cork
Filled Soles.
Each pair contains a paid-up Acct
dent Insurance Policy for 800, good for
80 days.
Wear Lewis Accident Insurance Shoes
once and you will never change. The
insurance goes for "full measure"
Talk with your dealer who sells Lewis
Shoes.
For Sale BY
CLOVER COTTON MFG. CO.,
Glover, S. G.
November 45 1y
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15
for the 4iome Cirflr.
THE LAST LOOK.

TO fully appreciate the following
lines YOU must have bent over your
own dear child, sweetly asleep in Jesus
and ready to join the heavenly choris-
ters. Heaven is lovelier, serener
place than earth. and there the lit
tie angels are safe and happy forever.
The poem was written by Edwin W..
Fuller, of Louisburg, n. c. 1t was
written upon the. death of his little
daughter Ethel and is dedicated to his
wife.
Do not fasten the lid of the coffin yet,
Let me have u long look at the face OF my pet !;
Please all quit the chamber, and pull to the
door,
more.
Is this little Ethel, so cold and so still?
Beat, beat, breaking heart against Gods Will {;
Remember, o Christ, thou didst dread thine
And while drink mine, let thine arm bear
meup.
But the moments are fieeting, must stamp
on my brain
Each dear little feature. for never again
Can I touch her and only God measures now
much
Affection, n mother conveys by her touch.
Oh dear little head; Oh dear little hair,
So silken, so golden, so soft and so fair;
Will never more smooth 1t Oh help me,
To bear this worst stroke of the Christening
rod.
Those bright little eyes that used to feign Sleep
Or sparkle so merrily, playing at peep,
Closed forever and yet they seemed closed
As, II for our sake she regretted to die.
And that little mouth, so warm and SO soft,
Always willing to kiss you, no matter how OFT,
Cold and rigid! without the least tremor OF
How could You claim Ethel, o pitiless death
Her hands no-'twill kill me, to think how
Through my daily existence, n tissue Of love;
Each finger print upon memory's page,
That will brighten, thank God anu not fade
with my age.
Sick or we'll they were ready at every request
sweet rest;
Their last little trick was to wipe "Bopeep's"
eye.
Their last little gesture, to wave us goodbye.
Little feet little feet, how dark the hearts
Where your patter is hushed in that desolate
ROOM;
For Oh! twas sight sweet beyond all COM
To see little "Frisky" rock back in her chair.
Oh Father, have mercy and give thy grace,
To see through this frown, the smile on thy
face;
To feel that this lesson is sent for the best,
And to learn from my darling, alesson OF rest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

Most REMARKABLE HAILsTORM.-
The most wonderful hailstorm on rec
ord as having occurred within the.
United States was that at Dubuque,
Ia, June 16, 1882. 1t began at 2.35
p. m, and lasted but 13 minutes, but
within that time hail fell TO the depth
of three feet. The hailstones, which
weighed from one ounce 10 % pounds,
were of all kinds of fantastic shapes
and were woven around rocks, sticks,
earth beetles, frogs, etc.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

B9@ The kind-hearted lady was a
little inquisitive, but as she had just
supplied Mr.. Dismal Dawson with one
of the most filling and satisfactory
handouts he had gotten hold of for
many day, she felt that she had
some right to be personal to a slight
degree. "Have you no trade by
which you could earn living? ?" she
asked. Mr.. Dawson drew himself up
haughtily, and answered, II am a
professional man, num-" "And what
is your profession, pray?" "Professin'
to be lookin' fer work.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15
DEADLY MODERN WEAPONS.

The captain of an American war
ship in japanese waters has written a
letter giving some interesting informa-
ton about the progress of the war.
From extracts published in the Wash
iugton Post we obtain an account of
his visit to field hospital near Ma
gaski, where he got fair idea of the
killing and wounding qualities of the
new small bore rifle which all Europe
is adopting.
The Japanese infantry arm is the
Murata, the invention of Japan's chief
of ordnance. The caliber is .3l5, and
the bullet weighs 295 grains. The
American saw a Chinese officer who
had been struck in the kneejoint by
one of these bullets fired at distance
of about 1000 yards. The thin steel
envelope of the bullet had broken, and
the Joint was simply a mass of finely
comminuted bone and splinters.
The knee was perfectly soft without
O bone in it unbroken an inch long of
course the leg had to be amputated.
The hospital was the admiration of the
French and English and American sur
eeons, and the medical staff were all
Japanese. The officer also saw some
thing of the effects Of modern shell
fire on the cruiser of the period at the
Yaloo rivers mouth. The Akagi was
hit several times by S-inch shells.
One of these tore off nearly half the
iron and steel port quarter of the
Akagi, killed her commander and kill
ed or wounded a dozen other officers
and sailors. 4 second shell from a 200
FOUNDER made hole S feet in diameter
in the side of the Akitsusu. The
Japanese fire was terribly accurate and
deadly. The Chinese ship Chen Iuen
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

GOOD MANNERS ARE HOMEMADE
Children must be taught what the pa
rents wish them to know. Teach them
truthful, gentle ways, and they will be
true and gentle. Ifa boy hears bad
language from his father, he will re-
peat it just as certainly as he has a
tongue in his mouth; and if little
girl hears her mother gossip, she will
gossip the moment she meets a play
mate. People who devour their food
like cattle must not expect their chill
dren to have nice table manners. Gen
tlemen and good women are home
made. There is nothing on earth for
which one ought to be more thankful
than for having been brought up in
the atmosphere of pure home. Such
a home may be narrow and even hard
it may be deficient in material COM
forts. A man as sturdy as an oak once
said: II was the son of poor parents,
and from my youth up was Injured to
self-denial and hardships; but l do
not remember ever to have heard a
word from the lips of either my father
or my mother that was not as it should
be-" Better such recollections than a
great tinheritance.-Mary Porter Lang
ley.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15
Aamrouos department.
WHY SHE MOVED.

The small woman in the Napoleon
had moved up to make room for the
plump matron in the Dutch bonnet.
They had evidently not seen each other
for some time and they didn't seem to
mind the other passengers at all.
$50 you've left your lovely fiat -
cried the plump matron. "Why, l
thought you were so delighted with it
that you would remain at least coup
lie of years."
"Oh, dear, haven't you heard why
we left?" groaned the small woman.
"No? Well, supposed not, and l did
promise Jack not to tell any one about
it-he thinks it a joke, the idea! its
Just like a man-but you really don't
count"
"Of course not-of course not"
The other passengers began to look
interested and move up closer, but she
never noticed them.
"You remember those awful people
in the fiat below US, don't you? She
was little woman with fuzzy head.
never could make Jack admit that
she used a curling iron like other peo-
pie. He used to say it couldn't be so
because her hair was always curled,
which only goes to show how vain she
is. And as for that baby of hers"-
"Oh, I remember now"
"Well, it cried almost constantly
until it fairly set me wild. Jack said
I looked like ghost and couldn't
practice on my piano more than six
hours day to save my life. 1t seemed
to me that every time began to play
it began to cry, and it required all my
frmness to keep on" ,
"And that was why you actually had
to move?'
eyes, indeed. Itold Jack wouldn't
stay there another month ifthey would
give me the building, and l told him
to tell the agent so too. 1t would just
serve him right-but Jack is so soft
hearted I doubt if he did it."
II hope that woman was satisfied
then"
Satisfied? Humph, just wait. The
udy We ulOSCu V"o 'ooS N'N'S ~ ~
the door, and as Ipassed her Hat going
down I saw that they, too, were NOV
ing. Yes, and what do you think?
actually heard her telling some one
that they were going because of my
piano. She said that 1 practiced so
much that the baby couldn't get half
an hours sleep a day and was so nerv-
Gus that he began to cry as soon as
commenced to play. Did you ever
hear of such impertinence?"
II never did," replied the plump ma
tron soothingly, "but you are rid OF
them now."
"Rid ofthem That's just it! Why,
all unconscious, they had rented a fiat
right underneath the new one we had
taken, and there we are with a years
lease, fiat not nearly so nice as the
old one and that baby's lungs develop
ing evey day."
And while her friend tried vainly to
console her sardonic smile went up
one side of the car and down the
other.-Chicago Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

R9 Poverty is uncomfortable, as 1
can testify; but nine times out of ten
the best thing that can happen to a
young man is to be tossed overheard,
and compelled to sink or swim for him
self. In all my acquaintance I never
knew a man to be drowned who was
worth the saving.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15

RY A little girl, noticing the glitter
ing gold filling in her aunt's front teeth,
exclaimed: "Aunt Mary wish l had
copper-toed teeth like yours"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-15
An ORIENTAL STORY,

An Eastern king was once in need
of a faithful servant and friend. He
gave notice that he wanted man to
do days work, and two men came
and asked to be employed. He en-
gagged them both for certain fixed
wages, and set them both to work to
fill basket with water from neigh
boring we'll, saying he would come
in the evening and see their work. He
then left them to themselves and went
away.
After putting in one or two baskets
full, one of the men said:
"What is the good of doing this
useless work ?" AS soon as we put
the water in one side it runs out on
the other"
The other man answered:
"But we have our days wages,
haven't we? The use Of the work is
the masters business, not ours"
II am not going to do such FOOLS
work." replied the other, and throw
ing down his bucket he went away.
lie Quiet uldu COulihueAl Hio'"oin
till, about sunset, he exhausted the
we'll. Looking down into it, he saw
something shining at the bottom. He
let down his bucket once more, and
drew up a precious diamond ring.
"Now see the use of pouring water
into a basket" he exclaimed to him
self. "If the water had brought up
the ring before the we'll was dry, it
would have been found in the basket.
The labor was not useless, after ALL"
But he had yet to learn why the
king had ordered this apparently
useless task. 1t was to test their
capacity for perfect obedience, without
which no servant is reliable.
At this moment the king came up to
him and, as he bade the man keep the
ring he said:
"Thou has been faithful in a little
thing; now I see I can trust thee in
great things. Hencefoward thou shalt
stand at my right hand"
Is not this a good lesson to teach
us to be faithful in the small duties of
each day, as we'll as the large ones !;
to do everything no matter how small,
as unto our heavenly Master? Little
acts of duty or kindness 60 Il great
ways when done for Jesus's sake.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26

meant ridicule for them but now means
roses for others. They have suffered in
the past, and the prospect of future re-
ward brings them back like retired WAR
horses to the combat, which is modern
one and for which their ideas and their
experiences are wholly useless. They
wave the bloody shirt of "tyrant man."
which the latter-day suffragist laughs at !;
they are full of awful Renaissance; they
are utterly impractical; they are a thorn
IN the side of the women who respect them
for their age and their unavailing work in
the past, but dread their effect on the work
of the present and the future.
The tone of the congress is very devout
Not only the ministers but most of the
other speakers and those in the audience
'Thank God - for something or other. As
far as l can Judge it is not particular
form of religion the women of the congress
cling to; they are quite tolerant but they
insist upon some form of religious belief
To be irreligious in the congress is to be
unpopular.
One thing to the credit of the thousands
of women who have attended the congress
is their appreciation of those who repre-
sent the better side of the suffrage ques-
ton. The favorites of the congress are not
those who love to listen to the empty babble
of their own voices. 1t is the women who
have something to say, who are fearless
and. tactful in saying it, who have minds
large enough to realize the prejudice and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26

The home or place of habitation without
music and art and literature is barren.
1.-The home is the type of the complete
law of evolution. What forces are at work
in our homes? The law of evolution is
ever at work gradually carrying US toward
the goal of the ideal. Woman in the home
may be taken as the symbol or type of the
ideal. She tells the story of evolution.
Again, l say. the idea of the home is funda-
mental, leading up from the mineral
through the vegetable and animal world,
finally eliminating in the human habitat
called the modern home of man."
On conclusion of the paper Miss An
thony said she wished the five papers read
at the present congress could be trans
ported to the Womans National Congress
in Washington. She said she had never
heard such thoughtful and beautiful papers
at any gathering of women she had ever
attended.
Miss Shaw said she hoped the women
were not there to enjoy merely an intel
lectual feast, but that they should seek to
evolve and extract new ideas looking
toward the perfecting of their own homes.
What is needed is to get out of the idea
that any place inclosed within four walls
is d home,' she continued. "More is re-
quired to make the perfect home. They
should be uplifted into the realms of love
and universal kindness" In conclusion she
said she had been very much helped by
what she had heard on the home question
at this congress and that she was going
home better woman.
Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor's paper,
sour Errors of Ignorance" was read by
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson. She said
There is in CarIyles "Sartor Resartus," after
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26

sentiment against them and to make allow
ances for them.
The applause which greeted Miss An
thony every time she stepped upon the
platform was due not only to a sentiment
OF obligation, but also to respect for her
dignity, her good sense, her unpretentious,
simple honesty, her quiet unwavering de-
termination. her well-advised counsel. :,
Miss Shaw has won the women of San
Francisco by the charm of her modesty,
her kindliness, her keen sense of justice as
much as by her wise head, her clever
tongue, her sense of humor and her forci-
BILE, fluent speech.
Mrs. Stetson, DIR. Shuey, DR.. Maxson,
Mrs. McComas, Mrs. May nard, Mrs. Mil
Ter and Mrs. Campbell are among those
who have introduced US to the real new
woman, who, by the way, is as different
from the terrible new woman of our ap-
prehension as pleasant dream is from a
nightmare. MIRIAM NICHOLSON.