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lungs is likely to transmit that weakness to
his children. But there is no reason in the
world why the weakness should be allowed
to develop. There is no reason why the
lungs should remain weak. Weak lungs
predispose a child to consumption. They
provide a place for germs to settle. That
Is all that is necessary. Once let the germs
of disease gain foot hold, and they in
crease with a deadly rapidity. Pretty soon
the blood is full of them and SO loses its
healthfulness and its strength giving quail.
ties. If the weakness is in some other
organ, the disease will show itself in that
organ. The germs will get into the blood,
lust the same, and the body will begin to
lose strength. We speak particularly OF
consumption because 1t is most common
because it causes more than onc-sixth of
all deaths in the world.
If there is a weak aud crumbly spot in
the foundation of house, the owner clears
out the dccaying material, supplants it with
new, strong stuff. That's all there is to do.
That's Il that's necessary.
That IS exactly the thing to do with the
lungs. Keep them full of rich, red, whole
some blood, and the weakness will disap-
pear. Dccaying tissues will be thrown off,
and new material will be added until the
lungs are well and perfectly strong again.
This is the thing that DR.. Picrce's Golden
Medical Discovery does. This is what
makes it cure 9S per cent. of all cases of
consumption where il is taken according to
directions. 1t searches out disease germs
wherever they may be in the body. II ex-
terminates them completely and forces
them out of the system. II supplies the
blood with rich, life-giviug properties 1t
makes the appetite good, digestion perfect.
1t supplies the needed nutriment to all the
tissues and makes sound, healthy flesh.
There are some interesting facts about it told
in one chapter of DR. Picrce's great work, Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser" This book of 1908
pages will be sent free on receipt of tweutv-one
Ian oue-Ccnt stamps to cover cost OF mailing
oHIP Address Worlds Dispcnsary Medical AS.
ISOLATION. No. Cos Main Street, Buffalo, y. Y.
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Wanted

A good Steady Salesman to show q line of
staple everyday goods. Good salary to Il good
man. Send references, as the goods are sold
on time. Address.
DRAWER b., Greensboro, N. c.
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IN furcell's great church music,
which is far better known than his secu-
lar work, he is still full Of respect for
his works; he is also still dramatic, but
dramatic with difference. He was far
too great Il man not to see the fine dis
tinction, which foolish people nowadays
are apt TO ignore, between sacred music
and secular; far too great not to realize
that, although sacred music must excite
nearly all the emotions excited by secu-
lar music, or it becomes formal and un-
human, yet it must excite them with u
different object and from different
motive or it becomes sensational and
sentimental. Many English church com
posers have fallen into the first error
and written music which, rs Mr.. Bar
rett says, lis like chatf for dryness and
unlike chatf for heaviness. Many for
eign composers have fallen into the sec
ond-Rossini, for example. Rossini's
remark that he knew only two kinds of
music, good and bad, - is exactly what
might have been expected from the
composer of his ''Stabat Mater. But
Purcell steers noble course between
the two extremes. In his anthem and
III his great tie Deum," the original
manuscript of which has been lately re-
covered by DR.. Bridge, we have the
finest work of English church music as
well as perhaps the finest work of the
master himself.
His connection with Westminster
abbey waslnot the only post of honor
he held. He Was also organist of the
Chapel royal and composer i'll ordinary
to the king, and all this at 20. Besides
these regular appointments, we hear of
him playing elsewhere-at the Temple
church, for instance, on that exquisite
organ, which, for chastened and refined
beauty has scarcely an equal. At the
famous contest between the organ build
ers Harris and Smith, which lasted for
twelvemonth and became SO violent
that one night the friends of Harris
crept i'll and cut the bellows of Smiths
organ, Purcell was employed to play for
Smith. Perhaps it was partly owing to
him that the instrument was finally
chosen by Judge Jetfreys instead of the
one by Harris. -Temple Bar.
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A GOOD BUSINESS MAN

IN EVERY COUNTY OF MARYLAND To
MANAGE AGENTS AND ATTEND ALL
CORRESPON DENCE. THREE DOLLARS A
DAY. Address +. X. NJ, % South Calvert
treet, Baltimore, Md. jc24
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EDWARD ID. AMBLER,

ATTORNEY AT LAW,
No. 112 f. Lexington St, baltimore.
viii give prompt attention to all business
ntrusted to my care. Collections a special
ty. Itch
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Air In the Bones of Birds.
1t is often said by persons who are
~. we'll snnn9h acquainted with tho
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Siam Sapphire Mines.

The Pailin mines are spread over an
area six miles by two and consist of
IL mining villages, the chief of which
are Baw Taxa and Baw Dineo. These
two are more than four miles apart, but
they are Joined by an excellent road cut
through the forest and we'll drained
Sapphires are found all over this dis
trict The whole countryside is riddled
with holes sunk i'll the red soil down to
the sapphire layer. Formerly the stones
were found quite near the surface, but
these places have long since been ex-
hausted, although the Burmese still
continue to turn over the old heaps in
the firm conviction that precious stones
grow. Now the stones are found at O
depth of from 10 TO % feet in q red
dish, gravelly layer of varying thick
ness up to IS inches. The pit sunk is
usually some feet in diameter and
either square or circular. Soil is raised
i'll bamboo baskets attached to the end
Of a balanced lever, and when the sap
phirc layer is reached the stratum is
carried to the nearest water and washed
carefully for stones. Not more than one
shaft i'll three pays for its working OK
penscs, but when the sapphire layer is
struck the profits may be large indeed.
1t is all question of luck. To dig and
work out one shaft occupies two or three
men one month. Two or three Burmese
generally go into partnership and hire
Laos miners TO work for them and sink
the shaft ut the rate 2 ticals (2S Sd \
per Is inches. Occasionally sapphires
of considerable value reward the miner,
but the sapphires of Palm are of more
commercial value because of their guam
tity than because of their intrinsic ex-
cellence. London Times.
Air In the Bones of Birds.
L. snsl ..c.........
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JEFFERSON DALLAM,

III EKtSUN DAE1HaAW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bel AIR MD, 2bdec
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Royal Blue Line for New York an,
PhiIntIplnhin

Baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Co. on or
ders left at Ticket Offices, N. w. Cor. Calvert
den Station.
W. NJ. GREENE, Gen. Manager
CHAS. o. SCULL, Gen, Passenger Agent.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15
The Partisan Fire Department.

Most people Will be surprised 10 lea m
that the Paris fire brigade is simnlv ON
lnIantry regiment let out to the Town Nv
the Minister of War. Seventeen h,IndroS
men, divided into two battalions Of SIX
companies each. make up the powerful and
encient body. Each sapeur pompier is =
picket man, recruited from the general
army, Wner he must have already serve9
at least eight months. Unfonf1natelv
the regiment is broken up, the men haing
distributed over twelve Partisan barracks
AS may be easily imagined this sfafe IF
things leads to endless annoyance ana
difficulty. Each company Or half com
pany IS supposed ito attend to fires in its
own. district, and in every one of tha
twelve barracks are a fire engine and fire
escape, the cost of which is 81. O00 france
IN Berlin and ST. Petersburg, as in Lon
don, the fire brigade is entirely 4 civil
matters( having nothing directly TO do
with the government. Russian ireman
are peculiarly courageous and 90 ahn,,t
their work quite silently. NJ d7Almeras
considers that the French provincial fire
prlgades are very badly organized. and ba
would like ito see an inquiry made into the
Wnole matter. In Paris alone there are
each year three times as many fires as no.
cur IN Vienna. five times as many as in
Berlin, and twelve times as many as occur
in London, and all this, he says, is owine
to the absolute lack of reasonable preca3s
ton taken by the owners of large housas
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Re-
tyiovr !,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15
7RIBI9Y'S BhPTlSgRY.
Dedicated This Morning With
Imposing Ceremonies.

The new baptistry in Trinity Church,
Hoboken. a memorial of the lameated
John Stevens. was dedicated this morn
ing with elaborate services. The Right
Rev. Bishop Thomas A. Starkey, D. D.,
officiated. assisted by Bishop Henry Cod
man Potter of New York. who preached
the sermon, Bishop Talbot OF Wyoming
and Bishop Coleman of Delaware.
The professional and occasional. which
were especially composed for the occa-
sion by C~hoirmaster c. ID. Clark, were
exceptionally fine. and the entire musical
programme was beautifully rendered. A
procession was formed in the chancel,
the choir leading, followed by about fifty
clergymen and the four bishops. all sing
ing Come, Holy Ghost, Our Souls In
spire." It proceeded to the baptistry,
where a large brass ever filled with wa
ter was handed to Bishop Starkey, who
emptied the contents into the pure white
marble font before the of con-
secration.
This afternoon at four o'clock Bishop
starkey administered the sacrament to
about twenty-five people. AT this even
ing's service at 7:3O o'clock an orchestra
Of twelve pieces will assist the choir.
Miss Maud Morgan, the harpist, has been
engaged for the occasion.
I'm baptistry, which cost $4,000, Is oc-
tagonal in shape and abuts the southeast
corner on the church. just to the right
OF the pulpit upon entering the edifce.
II ad1oins the old chapel as well as the
cnurch proper, and can be entered from
poth places. 1t is thirteen feet broad, six
teen feet long and twenty-one feet high.
Inc font stands in the centre of the me-
mortal on a platform of white marble.
and with its cover, surmounted by a brass
cross, reaches eleven feet in height. The
cover is OF quartered oak. octagonal in
shape, gothic in design and is decorated
with elaborate carving. The font of white
marble, also octagonal In shape, and has
q base forty inches in diameter, with a
eoWl thirty-six inches In diameter. 1t IS
TOUR feet to the top of the bowl. Around
1t are two bands of resurrection lilies
twelve white polished marble coll
umns, which were made in Florence.
Italy. by the sculptors Fucigna Brothers
n four lancet windows in the sides Of
the memorial chapel have for their sub
lects Our Lords baptism by ST. John
N 4 River Jordan" 1.-THE Madonna. and
Fagots,' and st. John the Divine"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15
QUEER .CHAvCHRY SUIT
Four Governors Have Been in
Mr.. Georges Property
Case.

A somewhat remarkable suit was
heard this morning before Vice-Chan-
cellor Emery in Chancery chambers here.
1t was the petition of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard George, OF No. 40 Sterling Place,
Brooklyn. against Samuel George, exec
utor for Philip George, to compel an ac-
counting for an estate in Chester town
ship, Morris county. A peculiar feature
of the suit was that Governor John N.
Griggs vas formerly counsel for Mr..
George, but when he reached Governor
Werts seat he handed his brief to that
gentleman, who was in court to-day to
defend the suit. Opposed to him was
Colonel Leon Albeit, whose father was
once consulted about it before he was
elected Governor, and to sum up, Vice
Chancellor Pitney, who was hearing the
Bentley case in an adjoining court,
stopped his work to come In and testify.
1t seems that in 1887 Mr.. Richard George
bought from the Avondale Iron Com
pany three tracts of land. In the fol-
lowing year he conveyed the property to
John H. Breasnell, also of Brooklyn, and
took a bond and mortgage for 1900.
which they afterward assigned to Philip
George of Ringwood to secure him for
executing a recognizance for $1,000 for a
man named John Roseborn. who was
under for an indictment at the Morris
County Quarter Sessions.
Mr.. Richard George went to Mexico.
and on his return learned hat Philip
George was dead, the mortgage had been
foreciosed, and the recognizance can
celled, but the bond he could not find
anywhere. He hired eminent counsel and
at once brought a petition to compel an
accounting against the executor of
Philip George. Mr.. Richard George says
number has been cut down on the
estate, and he wants the profits and
rents which the executor has collected.
Ex-Governor Werts for the executor
Samuel George said that the petitioners
had some time ago consulted Governor
Leon Albeit, but he told them they had
no case. They had made various demands
for the property under the names of
Mrs. w. r. George, Mr.. Richard Gorge
and then Mrs; George; His client, said
Ex-Governor Werts, had received the
mortgage from Smith & White, of Brook
lyn, and had paid in good faith for it
Sc. 800.
Vice-C hancellor Pitney entered the
curt room at this point. He had once
been in the case, and was late in the
~fternoon clled as a witness.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15
DEATH OF JACOB G. VAN H0UTEN
The WeIl-K nown Prison Center
Keeper Passes Away.
Special to the Jersey Cftp Near

TRENTON, April Is, ~1S96.-Jacob G..
Van Houten, the well known and highly
respected center keeper ait the State
Prison, died last evening after an illness
of several weeks. He was in the eighty
second year of his age, and last Saturday
was he ffty-sixth anniversary of his
marriage.
The funeral will take place from his late
residence, No. IA South Broad street, on
Friday afternoon at two o'clock; inter
nent at Mercer Cemetery.
Jacob A. Van Houten was the Center
Keeper OF executive officer of the State
Prison. He was also the oldest prison
official in the country. His first con-
nection with the prison here began in
1851 when he came to Trenton from Eliza
beth. His ancestors were H~ollanders, but
both mis- father and grandfather were born
in Morris county, ~. J. Until 1856 he was
employed by a Trenton firm which had a
contract at the prison, and made weekly
visits to the institution, SO that his prison
experience had actually been more than
forty-eight years. During the admins
tration of William B. Van Deryeer. in
1856, Mr.; Van Houten was appointed a
shoe department..
Mr.. Van Houten retained his superin-
tendency of the shoe department until he
resigned in 1856, when Peter p. Robinson
was made Keeper, and formed a ompan
that received a contract for work in the
prison. In a year or two the company
sold out to a New York firm. for which
Mr.. Van Houten became a superintendent
In 1869, under David D. Hennion as Keep
er, he resumed direct connection with the
official force at the prison, having been an
pointed Center Keeper, q position which
he resigned two years later, when Robert
n: Howell succeeded Hennion, and became
an inspector for the Bay State Shoe Com
pany, which had large contracts for prison
work The company gave up its contract
In 1875, when Mr.. Van Houten left the
prison for about eight months. which
was the only time since he first entered it
in 1856.
The late General Gershom Mott was an
pointed Keeper by Governor Bedle. In,
1875, when Mr.. Van Houten was REIN
stated as Centre Keeper, where he has
remained ever since. under Keepers Law
erty and Patterson, who speak Of his SER
vices in the highest terms of commenda-
ton.
Mr.. Van Houten was married, but had
20 children. His wife has been blind
Tor the last twenty years. He was a
member Of the First Presbyterian Church
and a regular attendant at Its services.
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Tor bills surely you must have the res
&c pts!' urged Mr.. Collins. always po-

&C. 1ptsg' urged Mr.. Collins. always po-
Mrs. Bentley suddenly recollected here
Tthat she had a bundle OF receipted bills,
nut she said one night She found Peter
Benliey IN her room rummagipg in the
uraWers OF her writing desk. and he took
them away with him and kept them a
week. When he returned them she said
there were several missing. She Wouldn't
say Tor what object Peter had taken the
pilis unless 1t was to show to Mr.. Dixon.
Peter she continued, told her he would
turn her into the street,
Collins, bur Mrs. Bentley couldn't say
unless 1t was that he. with the other
s satbnr sb believed d that sa1,d the estate pf the, their
Then Nj. Collins branched off to inquire
about the silver, where It was kept and
she St w saia, + Il c . esdsq e raey s Meps KEPT w33S
wedding presents.
Those presents usually belong ito the
wife | believe" replied Mrs. Bentley,
The rule s, | believe. that It depends
S body ne 1oi seGun rs ! shf sea lagye IL a and 1aa sySFyr
at the lawyers wit.
Mr.: Collins then inquired infinitely into
dren. Mrs. Bentley said that Richard
Sing sSa'' Sing mar and ESQ $50 for esns The s. fees, s saf sft aT
homesick and she brought him home.
Mr.. Courtlandt Parker at the opening
Of the days Testimony examined Mrs.
Bentley as to Peters education, and was
about to go into the expenses of the
household at. the present time, when the
Vice-Chancellor said 1t was irrelevant
Mrs. Bentley a yearly sum. and present
expenditure was no part of the case. An
adjournment was taken at noon.
Mrs. Bentley, when Court resumed this
afternoon, was again questioned about
the sale of the house near the Court
House. which she said she had been adj
vfsed to sell because the building was de-
voted to the liquor business.
so you sold it on high moral grounds ?"
asked Mr.. Collins.
Mrs. Bentley replied that she did what
her adviser told her. 1t was agreed be-
fore adjournment that Mrs. Bentley,s
counsel should produce all the checks and
stats pertaining to the period since Mr..
Bentley's death, and the other side shall
produce books and receipts.
Tit case then was adjourned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15
STORY of Whiamnn

Walt Whitman, the philosopher poet.
Iha W pIaY De yege the Eaitor, in
friends in the days when 2Pfaffs, was
the headquarters of Bohemia in New
YORK city. Once Whitman said:4"Rill.
90 you know that I once had the chance
10 pecome a very rich mann"
.ls that SOP was De Vere's answer.
Why, when n wrote Leaves of Grass,
took 1t to a famous publisher in Rns-
ton. He had the work read and agreed
70 publish AMI boom i for me if I Would
permit the Acknowledgement of the Sfata
81 MASSACHUSETTS, to edit it, by eliminating
between 200 and 300 lines which he con.
siaered salacious and improper. / de-
clned, and he got Ralph Waldo Elmer
son TO invite me to his house. He was
qhe most persuasive and convincing man
1 ever met. He nearly persuaded me "a
permit the elision, telling me the bool
would bring me a fortune. While | woS,ld
ioe with him Emerson would almost ner-
suade me, but the instant / was aloha I
would resolve that the book should be
printed as I wrote it or not at all. I finally
determined not to permit it to be edited
ana 80 lost my chance of a fortune
Inc book made Whitman famous b,,t
ne never acquired a fortune through #
De we're is himself one of the greatest If
America's minor poets. His saTranna,
PoeIns are as soul-touching as anvtbjnp
Bret Harte of John Hay ever wrota e
chicago TlmeS-Herald.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15
old RUM0R REVIVED
More Talk Of Assistant Seere-
tary MeAdoo Running for
Congress in This Dis
trict.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. AYe..i Is 1foc.-
or the ST., 1854, 6l3 which the House Conn
mlttee has recommended Congress to APP
propriate for fortifications and coast de-
tense and for the procurement of heavy
ordinances for trial and service, and for
other purposes, but S27. 600 is for main
tanning the proving ground at Sandy
Hook, exclusive of salaries amounting
TO $4,000, and $1,000 for the repair of the
railroad tracks there. This report of the
Appropriation Committee viii be before
the House to-day, ard It will probably
pass without amendment
80 far as New Jersey Is concerned, this
week in Congress is an exceedingly dull
one, for the charter elections in the State
and the Republican State Convention
Thursday are such powerful magnets
that they have attracted the entire Com
gressional delegation from Washington
to their individual homes, hut when they
return they will find plenty to keep them
busy. for Congress will adjourn at the
earliest possible date.
It IS believed that by the middle Of
May the last Of the appropriation bills
VIII have been passed and that the
small Mfla Ian amount ct general legislation that
| or al, the latest June 10. TO effect
this early adjournment a vast amount al
tegislation Will be left unfinished some
OF which are the bills for the Dreservas
llon OF the Palisades, the Bankruptcy.
Nlcaraguan canal, Hawaiian cable. Pa,
clnc railroad, Fur Seal, and New Next
90 and Arizona Statehood bills, besides
the Monroe doctrine resolution and fhe
resolution for the election OF State SenaS
tors by the people.
mere Is quite a large number of New
Jersey people in Washington at present.
and they are apparently enjoying the
ueilgnt1ul weather and beautiful CITY
very much. Among those observed at the
CapltoI to-day were: C. C. Allen. Jersey
Sity; y. A. Terhune and Miss M. Ter.
nune, Mr.. and Mrs. A. u. Cox. DR.. W
reltwell, Mr.. and Mrs. N. Vanderbilt.
5eWln. Newark; George Austin. Cam
gen; M. and Mrs. ]. Donovin, Newark;
aha r; Reynoids qf Newark.
"A rumor IS floating about Washington
Inc Navy William McAdoo viii once
more claim his home in Hudson Co,,nfv
and thai next fall he will be a candidaie
against Allan L McDermott for fhe
democratic nomination for member nf
McAdoo, more than a decade
ago. took the Congressional tton
away from McDermott and was eiected
by t,y a large majority. and it is said he he.
ieves he can do it again. Ever since he
defeated McDermott the two men have
pssn opposed to each other with all fhe
pltterness that positive men can feai
ana should this rumor prove true 4 IvSelv
time in the Hudson County Democraay
be anticipated,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15

King Humbert of Italy rules over sub
lects whose share of the national deb
is 405 francs each.
After France, gay Portugal is the big
gest debtor. Each little Portuguese who
comes into the world is 69 francs in debt
1t will be news to most people to learn
that that aeee eco to the latest statistics
birth 922 francs SO confines in debt. me
national debt Of France is greater than
that 0 f.any other country in the world
amounting to 5 1925 0O, 600 francs, or
about 81, 0S5, 900, 900. ~
The debt Of the Germans lis 2.is1 900 ooo
francs, much less than that Of France.
The French a an average of So francs
each year. while the German tax
averages a francs per individual. This
is because the republican form Of govern.
ment as practiced in the land df the lily.
is more expensive than the monarchical
Another reason why Germany IS better
OFF financially is because her population
is on the increase In spite of the enor-
nous emigration yearly. Germany is the
most prolific and France the least prolific
country in the world. When Dr. Roux
made his discovery of anti-toxine as a
remedy for diptheria he was hailed as =
saviour in France. where SO per cent. Of
the population fall a victim to diphtheria
each year.-Exchange.