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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-02

Males and Females will be received in Schools
Nos. 2 $, H. IA and the High school. coniy
nlaies y, VIII be received in Schools Nos. 3 and
q: All females Of lower Jersey City who
wish to attend evening school are exnects5
10 attend School No. q =
IN the Central Evening School, which is
designed for advapced pupils, classes viii be
English and Arithmetic
Az the schools viii be opened for the regis
uation Of pupils on October T. and O.
The sessions will be held on MONDAYS. Tues
at 7:15 P. III.
BY order Of the Board Of Education.
.. ALLEN, President.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-02
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MATTERS OF F4CT.

New Jerseys best flour costs 25c more per
barrel than ordinary flour, but worth dollar
extra Wholesale only at D. e. Clearly Co.'S
stores, Greene and Montgomery stFets
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-02

Lots and graves Cared for 81 cemeterz
Association, no Assessments; moderate prices.
perfect title. -Four and half miles from
Court House: \ minutes by rail- from Erie
Depot ONES ovsr Proyident s4finra Bank
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-02

Sarsaparilla the nrst place among medicines.
+ = fhe One True Blood Rurifer and nerve
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10
MIDDLEBURY.

Two tickets in the field, republican and pro-
hibition, the former being elected.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10

The Easter services at Christ Episcopal
church were conducted by the Rev. r.
Heber Hoskins, of Detroit. The sunrise
service, begun at six o'clock, was attended
by very large congregation. The church
was decorated with Easter lilies and other
flowers and the sunlight increasing to its
fulness and shining through the chancel
window made the service an impressive one.
At 1880 morning service was held and
the sacrament administered. The evening
service occurred at 1880 and like the other
services was we'll attended. The sermons
were appropriate to the day and very help
full. The offering amounting to S217 will
be paid on the church debt and was, consid-
ering the times. a very good one. Rev. Hos
kin returned to Detroit, Monday, from
whence he will go to Atlanta, Georgia, hav-
ing received a call from parish there and
will preach there Sunday.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10
ST.
Well Have a Republican
President.
GRAND AND COMPLETE VICTORIES
ON EVERY SIDE
Show That People Now Want
Protection and Prosperity.
OWOSSO LEAVES BUT TWO RE-
MEMBRANES OF A ONCE
FAMOUS AND FIGHT
ING TRIBE,
While the County Continues its Good
Work of the Past Two Years.

The election on Monday was the most
complete and satisfactory republican victory
gained in Owosso in fifteen years. Run.
ming against one of the most popular men in
the city, the republican candidate for mayor
was elected; the city clerk received
majority of nearly a thousand, practically
everything but the straight democratic vote;
while the republican candidate for treasurer,
who had received but slight encouragement
from many republicans, won by most
handsome majority. The old war-horse, c.
A. Baldwin, who has saved the democratic
ticket from complete destruction several
times is at last laid low. The ticket lost but
two candidates, Aid. Mackey being defeated
not on party issues nor on the score of quail
idcation, but by sidewalk fight, such as
often come up in small wards, while j. IL.
Copas was elected on the ground that he
was better qualified for the office of alder
man than his opponent.
The victory we believe, is largely due to
the careful and persistent work of the city
committee in holding the republicans to
party issues ard working for straight tick
cts, the largest number ever cast in the city,
having been polled Monday. The personal
canvass made by Clerk Edwards and Treas.
urer Sprague was undoubtedly the best ever
made in Owosso and was larger factor in
the success of the ticket.
The victory of the republican candidates
for supervisor was on the ground of fitness
and fairness and we believe no mistake has
been made.
George Perrigo's majority for alderman
shows the satisfaction of the people at hav-
ing first-class man nominated, aud V. M.
Whites victory is a complete sanction of his
work in the council and vindication by
fourth ward voters of charges, personal and
otherwise, made against him by the Argus
and by people unable to control his action
In the council.
THE TIMES claims share in the credit
for the victory and believe we receive it. 1t
was the only paper in the city that sup
ported candidates because they were repub-
lican candidates and without direct pay for
the influence it might exert. The circular
which was issued by the city committee
from this office has received favorable men,
tion everywhere, as having placed the can
dldates before the people as they were, and
being largely responsible for the several
hundred straight votes.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10

Goes into the best homes

Goes into the best homes
in Shiawassee county and its
contents are carefully read by
an intelligent class of readers.
he use of its advertising col
umns convinces advertisers of
this fact.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10

In Corunna the conservative party won
by electing majority of the council, the
'progressives" securing the mayor and 9TH
ers. This means that Corunna will not for
the present, at least, bond the city for water
works or an electric light plant, and is, with
out doubt, the wisest course for the tax
payers Of that city, many of whom are really
unable to pay present taxes.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10

That alum in food is unwhoesome is fact as
well established that arsenic is poison.
Eminent scientists, by experiments upon beth
human beings and animals have demonstrated it,
Physicians everywhere aver it. Health Boards
and legislatures have passed laws restraining the
sale of alum powders, and making the Of alum
in food misdemeanor. Nevertheless alum bak-
ing powders represented as pure cream of tartar
powders for sale in almost every grocery.
Avoid every new baking powder untl you
have had it analysed and proved It free from
alum. Baking powders sold, either whole
sale or retail, at lower price than the Royal,
are almost invariably made from alum, and
should be avoided Under all circumstances.
Safety lies in the use of the ROYAL BAKING
POWDER. 1t is not only free from alum and am
mona, but its combination of chemically pure
cream of tartar and bi-carbonate of soda is act
ualy ant-dyspeptic, promoting digestion and
adding to the whoesomeness of the food.
CO., ST. NEw-YoRK
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10

Constables-Andrew Fillinger, Is plu. Lewis
Ball, 10 plu.; VIM. e. Collins 10 plu. VIM.
Johnson, plu,
For appropriation of ST. 900 to purchase site
and build town hall Yes 76 no 81.
VERNON.
The election in precinct No. 1 passed off very
quietly, the republicans electing their entire
ticket. A light vote was polled, the prohibition
lists polling between 80 and 100 votes.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10

The entire republican ticket was elected by q
large majority, Austin Trowbridge receiving 20
maj. for supervisor; Walter H. Skinner, clerk;
Gilbert j. Cole, treasurer; c. M. Fuller, high
way commissioner.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Professor Archibald Geikie, the dis
ringuished British geologist, is coming to
the United States soon on lecturing
tour.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

PEELED to pay rent. Even when he was
earning big wages this "galled'' him, and
when he got old and work was scarce it was
unbearable. To overcome this he bought
tent and put it up on the water front of
the China Basin. But he couldn't escape
even here, and policeman told him he
would have to make arrangements with
the owners or leave.
1t was at this time that Henry nit on his
bright idea. He begged three logs and a
number of planks and made raft. 1t was
OF good size, and he put his tent on one
end and on the other located his kitchen
stove. He then set it adrift, and was his
own master.
Judging by appearances the affair would
not be bad for camping out for few days,
but for continuous residence would be
rather damp. Old Henry, however, is as
happy as can be. He comes and goes
when he pleases and nobody dare say a
word to him. He generally keeps his raft
tied to the shore by a long rope and
anchored at the other end-that is, when
be is aboard. When he wants to go ashore
he takes hold of the rope and pulls until
land is reached. His cookstove is an
affair made OF sheet iron, but answers his
purpose. In fact, he is satisfied with any,
thing so long as he does not have to pay
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
would never seek aid from them."-
Chicago Times-Herald.
FRIENDS ON DEADLY LINES.

Pickets of Rival Armies Suspend Hostil-
Ht1es Temporarily by Agreement.
On that part of the line in front of At
lanta occupied by the Twentieth Corps the
pickets often entered into an agreement
not to fire for anywhere from half an hour
to three hours. The picket lines were so
close together that a Yankee whisper
could be heard by the Johnnies. The show
OF a head or any part of q body meant a
shot, and usually wound or death. When
the pickets became so weary from sitting
IN the cramped picket pits that life was an
almost unbearabIe burden a truce was
called for. If the call came from the Con-
federates was in this way, or the way
very similar to this:
"Yanks, how do you alls feel?".
Like Satan, or worse. These picket pits
give us the cramps
That's our fix, too. Suppose we stop
stretch our lbs and get rested ?''
mighty glad to make such contract" i"
"All right. We will let up three min
utes from now and give you three minutes
to get back into your pits before the shoot
ing begins"
''It is a bargain"
| Then these brave men climbed out of
| the pits, Strengthened their legs. stretched
their arms and talked to each other on as
! friendly terms as so many farmers who
had met at a line fence might be expected
| to do.
By and by the man who led in making
the contract stepped out from his asso-
! ciates and said: Pm sorry, Yanks. but
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
FEW WOMEN WALK WE'LL.
Some Simple Rules for Those Who Wish
to Step Gracefully.

Some Simple Rules for Those Who Wish
to Step Gracefully.
Have you ever noticed low few women
walk well? Nowadays, when the streets
are full of all sorts and conditions of
women, you have a good chance to watch
the varieties of gait. Very few walk grace
fully. One gives you the idea her feet are
too heavy, so unelast1c is her tread; an
other walks as if she is pursued. Yet
another walks as if every step would jolt
her to pieces, and there are some students
Of Delsarte who are thinking all the time
just how they must do it, and the result is
an affectation worse than any AWKWARD
ness.
French women have a special style OF
walking, pretty enough in it's way, and
which makes their dresses hang better than
they do in America. They throw their
whole bodies forward, keeping them quite
erect all the while. SO that a line dropped
from the chin would touch the bosom and
then fall sheer to the toes. The difference
is so marked that American women are
known at once in Paris. Most of the girls
who stay long enough in Paris, however,
adapt themselves to the French manner.
English girls have a distinctive walk,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

type OF draft animals. But Ed Fields is
dead and gone now. He died in the poor
house the other day. And yet at one time
he owned large part of the city of Tomb
stone and a mine worth more than half a
million.
DR.. Joseph H. Greer of 3o7 Oakley ave-
nue. knew Fields in Arizona and had as
sisted him from time to time during the
past three years IN Chicago.
II went to Tom bstone, AriZ., in 1879 :"
said DIR. Greer, land Fields was there be-
fore me, although the town contained but
seventy-ive people at that time. He was
| squatting on some mining property, which
was not supposed to be of much value.
But the town grew to $4,000 and he owned
two-thirds of the townsite, so that his
| rents increased until they gave him an in
come of over $4,000 a month.
1.-The mine which he owned was called
The Gilded Age and proved to be rich
property. Fields title to it was little
shaky, but he was backed by Boston and
New York capital, and IN the end secured
a perfect title. He sold the mine in 1881
or 1882 for $500, ,00O in cash, every cent OF
which went to him. After the town grew
and Fields amassed his wealth he assumed
q mode Of life that made him the most
! conspicuous character in the West.
HE was known everywhere as the Duke
of Tombstone on account of the gorgeous
manner in which he carried his establish
ment. He rode behind a handsome pair
of bays and kept negro valet. lie
dressed during the summer in white fan
mel and changed suits three times day.
When water was selling in Tombstone at
cents gallon he took three baths day,
and broke a bottle of Florida water In
every bath. He started as nine days
wonder, and was the most-talked-of man
in the country.
81 left Toni bstone and settled in Chicago.
One day during the Worlds Fair period
seedy-looking individual stepped into my
office, and | recognized Edwin Fields L
asked what he was doing, and he told me,
with a mournful smile, that he was store
man at the Southern Hotel. His salary,
he said was $14 month. Where had his
money gone? Well, [ asked him that one
day, for l could not understand how
man that never drank, never played cards
or gambled to my knowledge, could have
squandered a cool million of dollars,
which amount he certainly possessed at
one time.
HE told me that he had lost most of his
property in speculation on the Board OF
Trade, ard had then taken to the bucket
shops, where the most OF his money had
taken wings. He was at that time, even
with his pittance of a salary, drifting to
the bucket-shops in the vain endeavor to
retrieve his lost fortune. He lostthe most
of his money in st. Louis, but carried on
his speculation both in that city and in
Chicago.
Il do not know his birthplace, but he
was an Eastern man, and was well con-
nected. He had sister living at Steuben-
vile, Ohio, a brother at Farleys, N. Mex,
who owns big sheep ranch, and another
brother who owns an immense cocoanut
plantation in the Samoan Islands. Such
was his pride, or his peryerseness, that ne
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
JUST LIKE HIGHWAYMEN.
HOW District School Was Terrorized.

intense excitement prevailed in a GER
tain school district of San Luis Obispo
County recently, as the result of a report
Whlch mad spread from farmhouse to farm
house, that highwaymen were abroad in
the land, and had even descended upon
the district schoolhouse with intent. no
doubt, to avail themselves of any chance
for plunder that might offer itself. The
teacher had been rendered i'll by the terror
incident to the visitation in question, and
the schoolchildren were all more or less
frightened. So that the story as it sped
out from the schoolroom was picturesque
in=its thrilling details by reason of the ad-
ditions furnished by infiamed imagina-
tons. This was the schoolteacher's YER
sion of the affair:
The pupils were enjoying recess in the
middle OF the afternoon, and the teacher
was looking out upon the amusements OF
the young from the schoolroom door. All
was joy and merriment.
Hark! A clatter OF hoofs is heard down
the path that leads from the highway 70
the school. Nothing strange about that
Some visitors. perhaps. Two horsemen ON
fne-mettled steeds now leaped into sight.
The men were flerce-looking, heavily
bearded fellows, with dangerous black
eyes. They were dressed like hunters, and
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

and such a walk They have a stride
which is better adapted to flowing Greek
draperes than to gored skirts, and the re-
suit moves to amazement rather than to
admiration.
Walking is an art that deserves to be
cultivated, especially in these athletic
days. In the old-fashioned novel the
esthetic heroine never walked. She al
ways moved or "foated airily" or
''glided."
1t is strange that woman doesn't realize
that it is her mission to be graceful. We
cannot all be pretty; but the charm of
grace, even more potent than that OF
beauty, can be acquired by any one who
will take the trouble.
Why should any woman be willing to
make herself ridiculous? II you want to
walk we'll hold yourself erect; don't throw
your shoulders back. though you have
probably often heard that piece of er-
roneous adxice. Just keep them in a
natural position. Don't put your toes
down first, like dancing master, but try
to make both heel and ball of the foot
touch the ground at once. Hold your
BODY firmly, your head up, your chin in,
and walk great deal with these things in
mind. d.-Philadeiphia Ledger.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

each carried a gun at the horn of his
saddle. Swiftly they rode until within a
few yards OF the children at play, when
suddenly the animals were brought to an
abrupt standstill. The men sat motion
less, glaTing ahead at the schoolhouse
door.
At first the teacher was inclined TO step
out and address the strangers, but she ex-
pected them to show some mark of recog-
milton or respect. They remained like
statues, only shooting fierce eye-gleams
- ahead of them. The children, too, were
at first disposed to regard the horsemen
with the curiosity OF unsuspectlng natures.
They ceased their play and ran toward the
strangers, shouting cheerily, but their
breasts were soon invaded by feeling OF
awe at the unexplaina bic scene before
them. Two big, savage-eYed men, clutch
ing wicked-looking guns, and mating
their horses with such lneXpncable sud-
denness in front OF the schoolroom after a
break-neck run-the actions could be ac-
counted for in no other way than that the
twain were highwaymen.
The teachers wits we're taxed. The
glances OF those bad men seemed TO pierce
her like arrows. Their silence was more
menacing than speech. She whispered TO
a child near her, aud the little one ran
and whispered to others.
Presently the children moved with a
show of eagerness toward the schoo!room
entrance. The last child vanished within
the portals and the door was shut with q
bang The window curtains were drawn,
but eyes peeped from the sides OF the cur
tains.
The horsemen, who had all this time
maintained the statue-hke pose, suddenly,
ike a shot from gun, wheeled about and
dashing the spurs into the sides OF the
Eeeds rode off with reckless speed IN the
direction whence they came.
opened the door. The whole school
breathed more freely. There was no more
studying for the day.
This is about as far as the teachers story
goes.
The alarm spread among the farm
houses; old guns were cleaned up; doors
were secured more tightly, ana some rev
Of the more daring ones bestrode tneir
horses and rode out on the trail OF the men
who had caused CONSERVATION at the dls.
trict school. The robbers were heard OF
neVermore No depredations were re-
ported in the country round about, ana tne
people of the district wondered the more
they turned the mystery over IN their
minds
That same night Baron Won Schroeder
and his superintendent returned, after a
DAY OF cross country sport, to the Baron 8
hne estate-the Eagle ranch.
I'VE shall hear reports about highway
men now, and it will be amusing 10 noIe
the fidelity of the stories to the actual
event." observed the Baron as he dis
mounted
1t seems a shame now to have given
them such a scare, but IT was interesting,
nevertheless, TO mark what effect may be
produced by simply standing still and say
ing nothing after you have appeared sud
denly and unannounced. Then to disap-
pear with rapidity after the statue act
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

it in their power to sell very cheap. They
can sell cheap because there is little work
for them to do, and they nearly always
make good hauls. The new rivals are the
boys who loaf around the water front below
Channel street.
Some time ago several thousand piles
were anchored in the bay, and as they
fioated about colony of crabs found them
just the things to sun themselves on. In
fact, they found them so pleasant they for
got to get off when the tide went down.
All that was then necessary for the boys
to do was to go out and pick them up.
AS soon as the crabs heard the sound of
footsteps they would drop off the piles,
but instead of striking the cool waters of
the bay would drop into a sticky pool of
shiny black mud. In this position they
could do nothing to help themselves, and
it was not long before they were served
cracked on free-lunch counters.
The boys do very we'll at the work, often
catching several dozen in day. But it is
impossible to conceive Of a more dirty job.
They become covered with the ill-scented
black slime. However they don't object
to that, but rather think it adds to the
hilaritV of the paStIme.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
Hunt your holes and

the time is up. Hunt your holes and
watch out"
When the boys were safe in their graves,
as the picket pits were often called and as
they sometimes proved, 4ank called
back: ''We are fixed, Johnnies; let her
silver
And they "slivered," both sides.
1t was murderous business, that picket
| firing, much of it.
The pickets of the Second Massachusetts,
and Third Wisconsin made such an ar
rangement with the men over there one
hot afternoon. Things went along charm
ingly for more than an hour, when a
young officer appeared on the Confederate
line and ordered the men to go to firing.
''We can't do it, sir, said the sergeant.
eve have agreed with the Yankees TO Quit
shooting for two hours. The time is only
half up"
Sergeant, order the picket to begin
firing at once"
II can't break my word with the
Yankees, sir"
Then L will. Begin firing, every man
of you"
Not a man touched his gun or started
for the pits.
The young officer seized gun and shot
at the Union pickets. That was the signal
for our line to open fire. The balance of
that day the Confederate pickets in front
OF those two regiments didn't shoot to kill
Those who didn't shoot in the air sepa-
rated the chunks of lead from their car
tridges- blanked them.
That night dozen or more of the pick
cts left their pits and crept into the
Union lines, giving as their excuse the
conduct of the young officer Their haver-
sacks were filled the next morning by the
Massachusetts, and Wisconsin bows as they
started on their journey North. French
leave2 recisely.-Chicago Times-Herald