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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
COG AND MAGOG.
Various Traditions Relating to These Two
Inmous Giants.

Various Traditions Relating to These Two
Famous Giants.
Who were Cog and Magog? English
tradition says that they were the last of
race of giants who infested England
until they were destroyed by some of
the Trojans who went TO the British
isles after tho destruction of Troy. Cog
and Magog, it is said, We're taken cap
tive to London, where they We're chained
at the door of the palace of the king.
When they died, wooden images of tho
two giants were put i'll their places. In
the course of time great fire destroyed
these, but now, if you go to London,
you will see i'll the great hall Ct one OF
the famous buildings-the Guildhall-
two immense wooden effigies of men,
called Cog and Magog.
But there are other traditions of the
two giants One is to the effect that
when Alexander the Great oyerran Asia,
he chased into the mountains of the
north an impure, wicked and man eat
ing people who We're 20 nations in num-
Der, and who were shut up with q ram
part in which were gates of brass. One
of these nations was Goth and another
Magoth, from which we readily get the
names of the mythical giants 1t is sup
posed, however, that the Turks were
meant by Cog and the Mongols were
the children of Magog. We shall find
mention made of Cog and Magog in
many books, including the Bible, but
there is the great wall and tho ram
part of Cog and Magog, whatever may
have been the fact that gave the names
of the two giants to that portion of the
structure. Noah Brooks in st. Nicho-
lac
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
A Great Prosperity Restorer,

While the debt paying power of sill
yer is doubled the purchasing power
will be reduced one-half. There is not a
man, be he laborer ON the street or pres
ident of the United States, but would
find that his daily wages or his yearly
salary went only half as far as it went
in the days when silver was kept at par
with gold. There is not widow or an
orphan but would find that the life in
surance policy was worth in purchasing
power but half of what it would have
been worth. or pensioner but would
find that his $12 month was worth
but SO. And some men are persuaded
that by such policy prosperity can be
restored to the land. Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
A Remarkable Fortress.

In the northern part of Madagascar
is the most remarkable natural fortress
in the world. 1t is occupied by wild
tribe who call themselves the people
of the rocks. The fortress is lofty
and precipitous rock of enormous size,
1000 feet high and s square miles in
area. Its sides are SO steep that it can
not be climbed without artificial means.
Within it is hollow, and the only en-
trance is by subterranean passage.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
IN NATURAL COLORS.
Tints Impaired to an Ordinary
PHOTOGRAPH.


IifeIikc Tints Impaired to an Ordinary
Photograph.
1t has been known for long time
that if the suns rays are allow d to
shine upon the glass side Of photo
graphic negative and the eye is brought
into tho proper position it is possible
to see the positive picture in the origi-
nal natural colors of the object photo
graphed. From scientific standpoint
this is sometimes a matter of very
great importance. In order to bring out
this quality Of negative independently
of the suns rays Professor Lippmann
has, after long study, constructed an
apparatus which enables him to obtain
the same result with artificial light He
employs gas lamp with q Welsbach
burner, the rays of which are thrown
upon the negative by means of lens,
in order to have the rays strike the neg
alive parallel.
The negative is for the purpose
mounted upon a wooden stand with q
black polished surface. Another large
lens, held in black frame, is mounted
VII btDdihtC btaihf anu - AAk3ii
held upon the same stand is provided
Immediately in front of the focus Of
this larger lens To see the picture in
all its natural beauty Of color the angle
at which the negative is examined must
be exactly the same as the angle at
which the parallel rays strike it. 1t is
in the reflection Of the light rays and
its distribution through the larger lens
that the picture, which is fastened upon
the negative in dull black tones. is
again dissolved into its original re-
splendent beauty. Aside from its scien-
tific importance, it is matter of con-
siderable moment, for instance, in re-
production of portraits in oil after a
photograph, since tiDts Of hair, eyes
and complexion are plainly discernible
in the artificially colored positive thus
produced from the black negative. -Ex-
change
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
Tho workInrman,s place.

1t is to be noted that the free silver
party is largely made up of mechanics
and workingmen. And yet no ''class"
to use Mr.. Bryan's phrase--would be
SO quick to suffer from the adoption Of
free silver, and none would suffer from
it so long as the mechanics and work
ingmen. Their true place emphatically
is now, as ever, i'll the real Democratic
party-the party of Jefferson-now led
by that old Democratic warhorse, Cen
eral John M. Palmer And it is good to
know that many Of them so see and act
nccordinply Hartford Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
silver Down. Wheat Up.

Has any one observed any sympa-
thetic relations between the prices of
wheat and of silver lately? While the
price Of wheat has gone up about 20 per
cent during the last month, the price OF
silver has been sagging until it is now
worth only Go or sc cents per ounce
that is, until the silver in silver dol
lar is worth only 81 cents II wheat
and silver don't get together at this
critical period for the white metal, its
best friends will desert it on election
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
What Do WON no Wlth pollars?

Spend them. Do you wish to get as
little Or as much as possible for your
dollars?
What good will it do you to take in
twice as many dollars from other peo-
pie if other people are to take twice as
many dollars from you?
There are two sides to the cheap dol.
lar
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
Hard on the Laborer.

There is nothing more certain than
the fact that dollar worth only half as
much as the present one would only buy
half as much of the necessaries of life,
but it would probably continue to pay
for the same amount of work that a. dol
lar now procures. And would not that
be practically reduction of wages?-
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
The Craze win Soon subside.

Only ono course remains open to
Democrats--to guard faithfully the ark
of the covenant. This craze will soon
subside, and the Democrats will return
to the fold. When they come back in
legions, they will sing halleluiahs to
those who remained steadfast i'll the
faith. The true test of Democracy is
now to be applied Chattanooga Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
Napoleons Growth In Cosmopolitanism.

Napoleon ordered Marmont, in case
Butcher should resume the offensive, to
abandon Paris and hasten to Chalons.
This was not sudden decision. The
contingency had been mentioned in a
letter of Feb. to Joseph, and again
from Reims emphatic iDjunctions to
keep the empress and the king of Rome
from falling into Austrian hands were
issued to the same correspondent. ''Do
not abandon my son." the emperor
pleaded, land remember that would
rather see him in tho Seine than i'll the
hands Of the enemies of France. The
fate of Astanyax, prisoner to the Greeks.
has always seemed to me the unhap-
piest in history" In this ultimate de-
cision Napoleon showed how cosmopol-
itan he had grown. He had forgotten,
If no ever understood, the extreme CEN
tralization of France. He should have
known that, Paris lost, the head of the
country was gone and that the dwarfed
limbs could develop little or no national
vitality. Life of Napoleon, by Pro-
fessor W. M. Sloane, in Century
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
0ufclnzsen.

Jayson-They say DIR. Birthstone
either kills or cures.
Bayson-My butcher goes him one
better
Jayson-How's that?
Bayson-He does both. " Washington
Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
LAMBERTvILLE, N. j. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IA, 1896
THE WATCHERS.
. ye whose unrewarded eyes

o ye whose unrewarded eyes
Forever watch the oceans rim,
four ships perchance meath friendlier skies
Rest far beyond your vision dim.
Perhaps in some sweet bay they wait
Where bides the primal. perfect day,
Where airs from springtime linger late
Or never perish quite away.
In some faroff, diviner land
Where never garnered wealth grows old,
Safe harbored they may wait your hand
To strike their sails and yield their gold.
Henrietta Christian Wright in Scribner's.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14

Glowworms are much more brilliant
when a storm is coming ON than at
other seasons. Like many other mys-
teries Of nature, this curious circum-
stance has never been explained.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
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JUMPERS DEFEAT.

He Invaded the Kitchen and Then Fled
Before the Enemy.
Bridget has been so cross and hate
full and impudent that there's been no
living with her today, said Mrs. Juni-
per when her husband came home the
other evening.
"Impudent, Mrs. juniper" he re.
piled. "You don't mean to tell me that
you allow that servant girl to be impu-
dent to your"
ALLOW her, Mr.. Juniper? That girl
would be impudent to an angel if she
happened to be on her high horse. -
"Well, I'm not an angel by a long
shot, but I'd like to see her be impudent
to me, and if she's been sauoy to you
she'll have to apologize for it. y
Don't you go near her while she's
in her present mood You'd better keep
out of the kitchen.
"Well, l think sec myself keeping
out of my own kitchen if want to go
into it. 1 will go into the kitchen, and
I'll yank Miss Bridget O'Calligan down
from her high horse"
Needless of his wife's protests, Juni-
per went boldly out into the kitchen
aud said:
See here, girl, hear that you've
been impudent to your mistress. :"
'Impedent to me mistress, is it? Be-
dad, an who arc you to.make hin huz-
zy av yersilf, comm out into me kitchen
10 talk to me as ye talk to your wife.
Impedent, is it? Begorry, an yer foine
birrud TO say 'impedent' to amy wan,
an if Oh
"Look here, you,-
"Oi'm lookin here all roight, sorl
Ohm loollin yeez roight in dc DYE, an
it's Bridget O'Calligan who'll take de
opporchewnity av sayin to yer ugly ould
face phwat she's had i'll moind to say
liver since she KEN into this house, for
Or
You impudent
'Aisy, now, aisy, me foine gintel
min, or yell lave me kitchen wild dip
per av scaldin wather aroun your back
an the feet av Bridget O'Calligan assist
in ye out. Whin man has the divil's
own tongue i'll is head as ye have whin
things don't go his way, he's no cali to
use his word 'impedent' to amy wan,
an whin he filings at me he'll git it stint
back again, begorry, for it's not me
that's afeard nv any two legged thing
that walks the green airth, an SOL
Il tell you that
"oi tell ye to kape yer tongue still
an not chip in whin your betters has
the hurcl Open your jaw agin whin a
Teddy is talkin, an Oi'll mop up me
kitchen hure wild ye an pitch ye out de
windy afterward. OF will thatl OF IN
not wan to take that! Dim not one to
take impotence from the loike av ye, an
Or
But Juniper had fled up the back
stairs, where he nearly went into an APP
oplectic fit when Mrs Juniper, who
had been listening at the head of the
stairs, said between her giggles:
well how did you come out, Mr..
niper?"-Detroit Free Press.
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carIisle's rive Points.

/.
''There is not a free coinage country
in tho world today that is not ON sill
yer basis.
'There is not gold standard country
in tho world today that does not use sill
yer as money along with gold.
III.
''There is not silver standard coun-
try in the world today that uses any
gold as money along with silver
".
'There is not silver standard coun-
try in the world today that has more
than one-third as much money in circu-
lation per capita as the United States.
V.
"There is not silver standard coun-
try in the world today where the labor
ing man receives fair pay for his days
WORK -
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14

A NJ Buying, Renting Selling, Exchanging Type
~ writer's Of all kinds for business, family and
nrivate use Also buying and exchanging job and
odd lots of erchandise, lumber, machinery, ETC..
and esneeialy slow and dead stock. Advise wants
and offerings. Everything Is salable somewhere
49, II. ii. MANSFIELD,
245 Broadway, New York.
Hfav on 1905
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-21
Scoring DR.. Parkhurst.

The Women's Rescue league of New
York says by resolution that Rev. DR..
Charles II. Parkhurst has done more
harm to society than he can ever atone
for during the period of his natural
life. Through the agitation brought on
by him in his pulpit and through his
society, this so-called reformer has been
the means of driving disreputable
women into the dwelling places of re-
spectacle women, the state of the city
is worse than ever before. and the man
with money and church influence at his
command that will use the heartless
language he has and plan such cruel
methods against the outcast women is
disgrace to the pulpit and to Chris
tianity as well. The name of the soci-
city of which he is president should be
changed to the Society for the Propa-
CATION Of Vice. Disease and Crime"
We do not copy this bitter arraign-
ment in spirit of sympathy with its
severe language, but simply as an illus
tratiOn that there are two sides to
every subject. DR.. Parkhurst in our
judgment, began his exploitatiOns of
vice with honorable and commendable
intentions; but his zeal has at so many
places in his subsequent career got the
better Of his discretion that it is
fairly debatable question whether his
power for genuine usefulness to society
is not now practically extinguished.
That, however, Is not what We are at
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-21
A Significant Editorial.

The Catholic Times of London Is per-
haps the abiest Catholic paper printed
in the English language, and also the
most influential. In an editorial review
of the battle in this country between
the Cahensleyites (who want old world
languages and customs perpetuated in
America) and the So-called Catholic
bishop ireland and Bishop Keane) it
makes some admissions which, coming
from foreign source, are quite signlfi
cant.
1t first calls the attention of Euro
pean Catholics to the ''intense, not to
say bitter. opposition which the Ameri-
can people entertain toward any at
tempt to further the continued exist
ence Of continental languages upon the
soil, and among those who have found
home uDOn the soil of the republic
of North America" and then adds:
"As things are at present they show
beyond the possibility of doubt the
determination of America that every
European who elects to dwell beneath
the protection Of the Stars and Stripes
shall. as soon as possible, and to the
last limit of possibility. associate him
self and throw in his lot with the
people of the land which gives him 4
home and protects him in the enjoy
ment of it. We feel bound to admit
that such n policy is what we should
expect from an eminently patriotic and
eminently practical people like the
Americans. Speech is barrier between
peoples more impossible than seas or
mountains. For we'll or i'll, English
is the language of the immense major
natural that the people of the United
States should wish to hasten on the day
when all should speak the same tongue,
as all must rally round the same llag
tions. The day must come, however it
may be delayed
The Times goes on to warn the Ca
of the dangers of their course
in America and concludes with this
pregnant truth: "The American laws
allow liberation to every religious
body; but the Americans will not favor
any religious body which in any way
sets itself in opposition to the national
interests, perhaps, we may say, to the
national sentiment" 1t will be per-
ceived that this Is not the utterance of
an American Protestant nativist but
that of the leading church organ of
English Catholicism. With this fact
borne iE mind, it will, We think, bear
study.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-21
A NEW YEARS FANTASY.

1t was New Years eve and I dreamed a
dream,
And in 1t the year just passed
Went by me in It's funeral clothes,
AS we all shall be dressed at the last;
And it laid itself down In a lonely spot,
And covered its head with mold:
And the snow sifted over its resting place.
And winter blew chill and cold.
SO said in my dream: "Sleep well, Old
Year,
My grief for you Is spent
You gave me days l would gladly have
kept.
But you took them when you went
And since nothing you leave me, no more
can | give;
Yet We parted as friends" said /,
But your day is done, and your place is
filled.
Good night, and good dreams, and good
bye"
Then suddenly In my startled ears
was the din of a trumpet's sound;
And the long dead years of the long past
earth
Came rising up out of the ground.
Thousands. AN army, a multitude!
They covered the land and the sea.
With arms Outstretched toward the just
spent year
And eyes turned full on me-
And, as forth 1t passed to those beckoning
hands.
With a sorrowful glance behind,
| saw with shudder that all We're
MANNED.
Or crippled, or halt or blind.
And wall went up, the saddest wall
That ears shall ever hear:
ages and ages and ages past,
And never a perfect year."
With menacing front they turned and
stood
With avenging faces then;
Years where the souls of women were lost,
And also the honor of men.
Passions and hatreds and wrongs and
strifes
And sins that ! could not name
Rolled over my head in resistless flood
And struck me down in my shame.
Ny heart was full of strange resolve
When | woke. and the dream was done.
The night had vanished with the stars,
And new day had begun
"A strange resolve l can never keep,
To give to the world with its sorrowful
past
4 new and a perfect year
Virginia NJ. Cornell, in the Sun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-21
M'KINLEY AND THE TRUSTS.

From the Times-Herald.
Mr.. McEinley's sunnorters in tho west
have not been permiited to sir in hlissful
contemplation of their own beatituJs
while the storm nassed harmless oyer
their heads. They have seen tho Law ON.
forcement of law in the inter,st of Jaw,es -
aggregations of wealth the cold-hloo1ed
and mcrciless destruction of small busI-
ness enterprises. the corruution of Ieeisla.
lures and the other familiar forms of cor
poration activity suddenly bearing fruit
In the most destructive heresies ever pro.
mulgated in the name of great political
party. Having fought in the brunt of tho
battle against this mischievous nrona-
ganda, they are Interested in learning The
causes of the strange dissa ffectior. bar-
ing ascertained the causes they viii in.
sist upon the application of remedies
The first of these remedies must be the
determined enforcement of federal laws
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-21

present concerned with. A more i'm
pOrtant point is whether 1t is wise to
attempt the eradication of the social
evil by the dispersive process, which
simply scatters its poison over Wild.
ened area, exposing to pollution districts
previously exempt. Advocates of this
plan are numerous and influential,
numbering among them most of the
professional reformers of the land. Yet
the facts Seem to be altogether against
this mode Of treatment; and ii 1t has
failed signally in New York, after all
the stir and loud noise of the Park
hurst movement. 1t may well be doubt
ed whether it can be expected to sue
ceed on any smaller scale, in that or
any other city.
Personal rescue added to the central
ization of vicious places in separate dis
tricts seems the only effective palliative,
apart from the miscellaneous energies
OF religion and science looking to NOR
al and physical cleanliness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-21
Inadequate School GOyernme mt.

We notice with satisfaction that the
American Academy of Political and
Social science has lent its aid to the
discussion of methods for the reform
of city school administration. That
there Is need of reform in this quarter
is a general proposition which nowhere
attains greater force than in Scranton.
The other evening in Philadelphia
addresses We're delivered on this sub
ject by Professor Nichols Murray But
Ter. of Columbia university, DR.. Edward
Brooks, superintendent of the Philadel-
phia schools. and State Superintendent
of Instruction Schaeffer. Their address
ses have not been received i'm full, but
from the newspaper abstracts it ap-
pears that Professor Murray offered as
near approach to an ideal system of
school government, the system which
is to go into effect in New York city
on Jan. 1. This is based upon the idea
of absolute Capitalization of power and
responsibility, with a central Board Of
Education representing the whole city,
party, and which is to consist of three
departments, education, construction
and finance: and, lastly, the total di-
vorce of politics from school admins
tration.
DR.. Schaeffer in his addres undertook
to maintain that the methods of school
government in second and third class
Pennsylvania cities are superior to
those governing cities of the first class.
He was especially glad that in such
cities boards of control have exclusive
supervision of school finances, and are
not subject to the ignorant curtail-
ments of politically boss-ridden city
councils. His satisfaction on this point
may be ustified-probably 1t is-but
there Is another side to the question:
and that is the need of a rigid audit
ing of school hoard accounts. As the
matter today stands in Scranton, and
other thirdclass cities. there is abso-
lutely no check whatever upon the
wastefulness, the ignorance or the cor
ruption of school controllers. Bills are
ordered paid by vote of the board that
are not examined by any but the i'm
mediately interested members, once in
ten times. Even where boards are per-
fectly honest there Is a great waste of |
public funds through lack of vigilant
scrutiny of contracts and accounts; |
and where one or more members are |
actively dishonest, the opportunities for
public jobbery and robbery are bound
ed only by the size of the taxable pop