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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, Nov. q. 1s96.-For the Sc
hours ending at eight p NJ Friday.
For New York City and vscinsty,-
Cloudy, with showers tonight; fair on
Friday; cooler; northwest winds.
Hartnestss Thermeneser ReperE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
MORE ASPHALT WANTED.

Petitions are in circulation among the
owners of property on Grove street, be-
tween Mercer and Wayne streets, to have
the roadway paved with asphalt.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
HURT IN TIE NEW TUNNEL.

Michael Callahan. % years old. resi-
dent of Greenville. had his left ankle
broken this morning while coupling cars
at the tunnel being built undeh the Penn
sylvania Railroad st the Point of Rocks
by the New Jersey Junction Railroad. He
was taken TO ST. Francis Hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
A Horribte Svr,,csor,,

Have little more of the boozea''
asked Perry Patetic. after null at the
bottle.
I'll guess better not try any more, !"
said Wayworn Watson, with shudder;
I've been seein' woodsaws floating in the
air fer near an ur."-Cinctnnati En-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
Costly Feathers.

While there are probably hundreds of
men who make business Of killing birds
for their feathers says the Portland
'Oregonian," the best known OF the featil-
er hunters in the West is Hasnlif Smith,
the white chief of the Cocopah Indians.
Their reservation includes most OF the
land on Madeline Bay In the marshes
of this broad sheet Of water are found
the egret heron, and crane in large num-
bers. Smith reached San Francisco a
week or SO ago with several bags Of
feathers, chiefly egret The load weighed
less than four pounds, but it netted MIR.
Smith Sl,575 Even the hercns feathers
come high. They fetch at wholesale from
IS to $40 an ounce. One heron. Mr..
Smith says will yield often feathers
worth $3.50. II berons are more plenti-
ful than egref, they are more profitable
hunting, because there Is only small
tlft Qf covering on the egret sthat Is 10 ar
ketable.- Rhilad phia Record.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
MATTERS oFFAor

Stores. factories and Institutions can novv
get their supplies as good as any n. X. house
can serve them. Complete stock low prices
at D. 2. Cleary q Co.'S wholesale grocery
stores. Montgamerv and Greene sIreets
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12

guessing. . s.
What Is so mysterious about them 2.
Well, do they get married in order to.
sorees II order to get married c Truth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
BIG BLAZE FOR PLAMpIELD.

PLAINFIELD. Nov u. 1886. The dry
goods store Of Isaac Lederer, in this
city. was Quilted by fire last night. The
loss is $25,90o; insurance, $4,000
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12

Lots ard graves cared Tor BY Cemetery
Association: assessments; moderate pr1ceS:
peffeck title. Four and hall miles from
Court House; u minutes By rail- from Er3o
~. ~ washington ssxe>s. IS
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
BARRY CHALLENGES GAUDAUR.

TORONTO, Ont. Nov. 12, 1851. j.
P. Good, sporting editor of the Toronto
World, has received cablegram from
the London Sportsman asking if oars
man Gaudaur will row Barry on the
Thames for thousand dollars a side.
Gaudaur is on hunting trip In Muskoka
at present. He Will return in a few davs
when an answer will be obtained.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
GENERALLY APPROVED.

The utterances of the New York and
Massachusetts Republican platforms
on the subject of finance appear to give
very general satisfaction in the east.
If one may judge by the extravagant
praise bestowed upon them by the
Republican press. Here, for example.
Is what the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
says of the Massachusetts financial
plank-the most pronounced platform
utterance on money:
1t would be very hard to improve on
this utterance. 1t is better even than
the expression of the Wisconsin, New
York and Minnesota state conventions.
courageous and admirable as those
were. The west and the east are, as
these representative deliverances pro-
claim, in entire harmony on the finance
quest on, the most important issue by
far Of the presidential canvass. Either
the New York or the Massachusetts
declaration, but preferably the latter,
should be adopted literally by the ST.
Louis convention. 1t is as impregna BILE
as the Ten Commandments For the
coming canvass it is the Apostles Greed
Of the Republican party. The fact that
the Republican state convention utter
ances on silver grow more and more
rcbustly Republican as the national
convention approaches is of profound
significance The Republican masses
are as sincerely and courageously de-
voted to honest money in 1896 as they
were in 1875, when their representatives
III congress passed the law which
brought every dollar of the country's
currency up to the gold level in 1879.
They are as unaltera'bly opposed to bo-
gus dollars of silver as they were to
deprecated dollars of paper. The gold
standard, civilizations standard, which
the Republican party restored, the Re
publican party will defend against as
sault from within or without.
Yet many of the good people of
Utah last fall were made to believe
that the Republican party was the only
party that was likely to do anything
for the restoration of the white metal
to it's proper place in our monetary
system,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

For this reason: whatever hope there
is for silver in either of the two great
political parties is in the Democratic
and not in the Republican party.
While no president can enact any sill
Yer or anti-silver law. still the views
a presidential candidate holds on the
question win influence the party nomi-
nation of congressman. To nominate
a man for president who is favorable
to silver is to make a right start.
If the friends of silver in the Demo-
cratic party, and they constitute the
majority of that party we believe, are
determined and will work to a common
end. they can, in all probability, nomi-
nate silver man at Chicago. Against
them will be arrayed the influence of
the administration, very powerful in
huence, it must not be forgotten. This
being the case, it will first of all be
necessary for the silver Democrats to
always and on every occasion present
a solid front against any man who is
known as, or strongly suspected of
being. an administration candidate.
Such candidate would be very large
ly the creature of Mr.. Cleveland, and
Mr.. Cleveland is an out and out gold
standard man who is now, always has
been and ever will be an enemy to
silver.
the state Democratic committee will
meet this Saturday and fix the time
lot holding the state convention to
elect delegates to Chicago and to con-
slider other matters. Before the con-
vention is called the Democrats should
consider the questions above discussed
and send to the state convention only
delegates who will send to Chicago men
who will stand for silver through
thick and thin and who will ever OPP
pose any administration candidate for
the presidential nomination.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
FIGHT OR QUIT TALKING WAR.

England it appears is not to en-
ploy unchallenged ths Egyptian surplus
fund for defraying its proposed Sou
dan expedition expenses. At the very
first France objected, then seemingly
withdrew ner objection; after which
Turkey appealed to Russia TO make
intervention and now France. our dis
patches of yesterday inform us, is in
"a highly pecturbed condition, and
there are indications going to show
that the government seeks to retrace
some of the steps by which it has been
placed in the position of impotent ac-
quiescence in the dispatch Of an Egyp-
tan expedition up the Nile. and the
defraying of the expenses of it out of
the Egyptian debt surplus"
We are also informed that the Rus
sian newspapers are unanimous in OPP
posing Englands claim to employ the
reserve OF the Egyptian debt to pay
the expenses of the Soudan expedition.
Russia, it would seem, has arrived at
an understanding with France: and
both governments are now seriously
considering, so the dispatches state,
the adoption of a common political
attitude in order to formally establish
their opposition to a prolonged occupa-
ton Of Egypt and thus to pave the way
for effect;ng a cooperation to secure
the evacuation of Egypt as soon as
will permit"
1t is rapidly becoming evident that
before things settle down to something
like prospect of permanent peace in
Europe somebody. that is a national
somebody. and perhaps several of
them, will have TO be numerically
thrashed; and since such thing is in
evitable. it may be that the sooner
it is done the better. This eternal
talk among the big bullying nations
of Europe is becoming almost as tire
some-to compare great things with
small onas-as the occasional deluge
Of sbelNgerent talk on the part of our
own pugilstic champions. These
European national DULLES should either
shoot or put up the gun; fight or quit
etemally talking of war. than which
there is nothing more tiresome.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
MONEY THE ISSUE.

1t must be clearer and clearer each
day that the issue that will be before
the great national conventions will be
money. Everyone knows that the
Democrats will be for tariff for
revenue only while the Republicans
win be for a protective tariff. so far
as the tariff cuts any particular figure
What will they do on the money ques
ton is the question all are asking.
A few days ago there was meet
ing between Republican free silver
advocates and some Pennsylvania
manufacturers. This fact has brought
forth an expression of opinion from
the greatest manufacturer in Penn
sylvania. He says:
It is like the celebrated image which
was made of pure gold to the waist
and OF clay beneath. The one, protec-
ton. is sound, and it will bring pros
perity; the other is unsound, and will
maintain the present depression which
exists in this country. If l have to
vote for a free trader and sound
money or a protectionist and free sill
yer. I will vote for the free trader,
believing that sound money IS of even
more vital Importance than protection
to the interests of this country. There
can ard will be no genuine prosperity
in this country until all doubts are
ended in regard to the standard of our
money / DO not think that the Phila-
delphia coterie represents the manu-
featuring industries of the country any
more than Senator Cameron repre-
sents the sentiments of Pennsylvania.
From this it is very apparent that
Mr.. Carnegie looks upon sound money,
which has come TO mean gold and
nothing else, as of even greater i'm
portance to the country than pretec-
ton. 1t is almost impossible to real
lie at first blush what all this means
Think of so great manufacturer and
so good a protectionist as Mr.. Carnegie
declaring his belief that sound
money is of even more vital Importance
than protection to the interests of Shis
The issue of the day. of the time. is
money, and until that is settled there
can be no other issues.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
Or. Prices Cream Baking powdef
Worlds Fair HigheSt Award.
EARLY METHODS OF IRRIGATION

lOAhL1 MEIHODS OE' lhhIGAIION.
The earliest method of irrigation is
known as flooding" and is generally
applied by means of shallow basins. A
plot of ground near the river or ditch
from which the water is to be drawn is
incloseed by low embankments called
checks. These checks are multiplied I'M
til the whole field is covered. The water
is then drawn into the highest basin, per-
mitted to stand until the ground is
thoroughly soaked, and then drawn off by
small gate into the next basin. This
process is repeated until the entire field
is irrigated. This is the system practiced
on the Nile, where the basins some times
cover several square miles each, while in
the west they are often no more than four
feet square. There is both a crude and
slxillful way to accomplish the operation
of flooding, and there is wide difference
in results obtained by the two methods.
The Indian and Mexican irrigators, in
their ignorance and laziness, seldom at
tempt to grade the surface of the ground.
They permit water to remain in stagnant
pools where there are depressons, while
high places stand out as dusty islands for
generations. All except very sandy soils
bake in the hot sunshine after being
flooded, and the crude way to remedy the
matter is to turn on more water. Water
in excess is an injury, and both the soil
and the crops resent this method of treat
and Means in Arid
America by William E. Smythe, in the
March Century.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
HER COMMANDMENTS.
1-Remember that I am thy wife,
Whom thou must cherish all thy life.

1-Remember that I am thy wife,
Whom thou must cherish all thy life.
Thou shalt not stay out late at night
When lodges. friends, or clubs invite.
3-Thou shalt not smoke indoor or out,
Or chew tobacco round about.
4-Thou shalt with praise receive my pies
Nor pastry made by me despise.
5-My mother thou shalt strive to please
And let her live with us in ease.
6-Remember It's thy duty clear,
To dress me well throughout the year
Thou shalt in manner mild and meek
Give me thy wages every week.
S-Thou shalt not be drinking man,
But live on prohibition plan.
9-Thou shalt not flirt, but must allow,
Thy wife such freedom anyhow.
1e-Thou shalt get up when baby cries,
And try the child to tranquilize.
These my commands from day to day,
Implicitly thou shalt obey.
Boston Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
SIXTEEN TO ONE.


In the west every school boy is sup
posed to. and generally does, know
two important facts. One is that Co.
lumbus discovered America, and what
the term 16 to l means. Some good
gold people in tn east may know the
first fact, but they are wholly ignorant
of the second Such a one has been
writing to the Baltimore Sun to ask
what it means. He is answered in this
language:
A correspondent is informed that
the expression "16 to l." so much used
in discussing the silver question, refers
to the fact that an act of congress of
1884 directed thai the silver in a silver
dollar should weigh sixteen times as
much as the gold in gold dollar. At
that time one grain of gold was worth
sixteen grains of silver. Such was the
ratio" of silver to gold at that time
in the markets of the world. Since
1884. owing to the decreased cost of
mining silver and its largely increased
production, its price has fallen so that
the ratio in 1894 was 32.5 to 1. In 1894
321s grains of silver were required to
buy one grain of gold. In other words.
the silver miners found mining profit
able when they were selling silver at
half its former price In 1895 the av
erage ratio was BIG to 1.
This correspondent has no clear per-
ception of what 16 to 1 means. but it is
perfectly safe to say that he is for the
gold standard and is fully convinced
that free coinage of silver without
knowing the meaning of the term) is
a positive evil, if not wickedness in
herited along with original sin.
Perhaps we judge him harshly. for he
seems to be of an enquiring turn of
mind, which shows that there is hope
for him. Seek and We shall find"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
ELnorRroAL RAILROAD PROGRESS.

The projected electric railway to the
top of the Jungfrau seems to have en-
couraged engineers to try other and still
more difficult problems. 1t appears that
a French mining engineer is making
plans for an electric elevator to the top
of Mount Blanc; horizontal tunnel is to
be bored, and from there to the top the
ascent is to be made by electric elevators
in a vertical shaft one and half miles
high. 1t is unquestionable whether It is
practicable to bore such vertical shaft
as the work must evidently be carried on
from below upward. 1t is thought that
the time for the ascent will be thirty min
utes. The plan adopted for the Jung
frau has the great advantage over the
other: that the ascent itself will be one
of the most attractive features; for the
projected Mount Blanc elevator there will
be absolutely nothing of interest until the
top is reached. To get to the top by any
other means than by shaft or tunnel
seems out of the question, as the top for
miles around is all a mass of snow and
moving glaciers on which no permanent
structure could be built.-Electrical
World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE.

A county convention in Iowa has
come out for Ex-Governor Horace
Boies. of that state, for the Democratic
presidential candidate. Presumably
this portsnds what the acton
of the state convention viii be.
What the action of the Chi
cago convention in the matter of a
nomination will be. no one can say.
But whatever it is in this regard, as
well as in the matter of formulating
q platform, it is matter Of the most
vital concern TO the people of the west
in particular and the people of this
nation in general
Why should its action be of more
concern to the people of the west than
the action OF the st, Louis convention !?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

The Judiciary committee of the house
has submitted rather lengthy report
recommending that H. B. No. 12l be
passed over the governors veto. This
bill. it viii be remembered, allowed
institutions of learning of a
certain grade to incorporate when
they become possessed of $780,
600 worth of property. and to
confer regular academic degrees. The
governors reasons for vetoing the bill
were, in the main, cogent and full
justification for his action. The rea-
sons urged for passing the bill over
The governors veto are not convinc-
ing. 1t is very likely the house viii
pass the bill over the veto and that the
senate wiz also, as the senate recently
had one Of It's bills vetoed and there is
presented o splendid opportunity of
putting in practice the You tickle
me and III tickle YOU theory OF pol
ttics.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

According to the Chicago Times-Her-
aid the University of Chicago profess
sors have armed themselves to the
teeth with revolvers of all patterns
from the 32-caliber to the "A. Especially
is this said to be so with the divinity
professors. Hundreds of the students
have likewise provided themselves with
firearms, and it is said to be excep-
tional to find one who does not carry
a weapon. Only a short time ago the
great university had the war fever
very badly and when Professor Won
Hoist. the most eminent man in all its
faculties, protested against it, Presi-
dent Harper Was at great pains to
deny that the professor represented
the sentiment of the university From
what the Times-Herald says it is safe
to presume that DR.. Harper carries a
brace of 44-caliber, double-action Colts.
His position and the cause of higher
education demand that he should.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

10 go into the lifeboat before the lad.
But before they had helped HIM down a
wave broke over the hfeboat, 1t was
forced under the bow of the smack, and.
though it righted itself presently, It had
been severed from the wreck and was
terribly damaged. Notwithstanding this,
the injured captain and his crew fought
the storm for another hour in their eff
forts to reach the men. Alas. their hero
ism was fruitless: the smack broke in
two, and the eight men, and the boy for
whom they had missed their chance of
entering the lifeboat, were swallowed up
by the sea close to their homes.-West-
minister Gazette.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31
SUSPENSE OVER.

A fat little duck, as he waddled in the
muck,
Cried Mamma. when is Grover coming
back-back-back?
If he brings his little gun,
We can have such loads of fun;
wish he'd hurry up. Mamma. Quack!
Quack. Quack!'
Said the old duck. My dear, I'm afraid
he won't be here,
Though his presence is the only sport we
Observation-Disclosures!
For the country's very dizzy,
And he's probably too busy
Oh, my darling; there he comesl Quack,
Quacki Quack!'
New York Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

A word of grief to me erewhile:
We have cut the oak down in our isle.
And I said: ''Ye have bereaven
The song-thrush and the bee,
And the fiSher-boy at sea
OF his seamark in the even:
And gourds of cooling shade to lie
Within the sicsle's sound:
And the old sheep-dogs saffron eye
OF sleep on dutys ground;
And poets of their tent
And quiet tenement
All, imp!ousi who so paid
Such fatherhood, and made
Or murmurous immortality a cargo and
a trade"
For the hewn oak a century fair,
A wound In earth, an ache in air.
And I said: mo pillared height
With summer daiS over,
Where q dryad fled her lover
Through the long arcade of light:
Nor meath Arsturus rolleth more,
Since the loud leaves are gone,
Between the shorn cliff and the shore,
Pans organ antiphon.
Twas homeless envy fed
This blow at grandeur's head:
Some green reproach o'erdue,
Degenerate meni We drew,
That for his too plain, heavenliness our
Socrates we slew"
Louise Imogen Quincy in the April
Century.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

Prime minister of Spain, was born in
Malaga. February s. 1928. He studied
law. was elected to the cortes in 1854
He has held several high cabinet po-
sitions, and on the death of King AL
forlso XII, he became president of the
He has been connected with
the principal political events in Spain
for the past twenty years. He is a
member of the Spanish academy, and
is an author
Cuban affairs have brought him prom
inently before the public.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

1t was a fact as fixed as the stars
that the Chinese would claim to have
discovered the X rays many centuries
ago. And now they make that claim.
Yet it is only year since they dis
covered the fighting qualities Of the
.Iapanese.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

The American liner Paris. froa,
Southampton, is aground at ehe en-
trance to New York harbor. The ST.
Paul and New York of the same line
have been aground near the same place
within a couple of months. To the
inlander It seems that it is time the
American line get an entire lot of new
captains.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

Frying the fat out of the manufac-
turers for Mckinley is wholly wrong.
but it is far from being so great an
offense against the people and free in
situations as Reeds counting of quor-
uins wAen members were absent. Reed
still holds the car record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

1t IS so short time until the legis-
lature adjourns and there viii be such
a rush Of work THAT it is to be hoped
Senator Allison's resolutions of CEN
sure upon Ambassador Bayard will
come up and be passed. We are in
clined to think that the reason Bay
ard doesn't resign and return is that
he awaits the receipt of a copy of the
Allison resolutions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

Mr.. Chung. Of the Chinese legation at
Washington, has been made a master
Mason. Every time he addresses a
communication to his fellow Masons
the characters in which it is written
viii be taken for signs of distress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

No one could blame Governor Alt
geld If he should pardon all those in
dicted by the Champaign county grand
jury for not flying the flag over the
buildings of the state university.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-31

The Rev. W. H. Brown of the Con-
gressional church of Madison, Conn,
has been declared not guilty of heresy.
Thus has a prospectively brilliant ca
reer been blighted