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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30
SOCIETY IN POLITICS.
Prominent People Throng the
Meeting in Crescent
Hall.

The meeting in Crescent Hall was
notable for the presence of a large num-
ber of women prominent in social circles
on the Heights. The hall was wholly in
adequate to accommodate the crowds who
wished to attend the meeting Many
were sent away and found consolation at
the outdoor meeting on Crescent avenue.
opposite Brinkerhoff street The COM
mittee which had charge Of Crescent
Hall, with the assistance of Mrs. Finn
and her daughter, had handsomely dec
GRATED the place with flags and bunting.
All around the side of the hall, iraped in
artistic designs, were American flags
through which were interviewer long
streamers of red, white and blue bunt-
ing. In the rear of the hall were pic
lures of Mckinley and Hobart, fastened
on two large silk American nags, which
crossed each other in a pretty design. On
each side of The pictures were handsome
oil paintings. THE stage was set in a
parlor scene and was also profusely
decorated with flags On each seat in
which was used by the audience in
saluting and applauding the speakers.
and song sheet with several Of the
national songs upon it which were sung
between the different speeches.
At eight o'clock the hall was crowded
and the audience began to grow i'm
patient Sheriff Toffey who was in
charge of this meeting. a few minutes
later mounted the stage and was slowly
applauded. He said that he did not get
up there to make q speech, but merely
to ask the audience 70 be q little in
dulgent, as the speakers were on their
way and would soon be there
He was a little mistaken in the "soon. .
as It was some time before anyone APP
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30
DANGEROUS POLITICAL ZEAL.
TWO Mem Fight ON ihe Street Over
Free silver.

William Wilson, of No 800 Monroe
street. Hoboken, and George Garborini. CT
No. 433 Madison street. Hoboken, were
arrested last night for fighting on the
street. Wilson, who IS a stanch Bryanite,
and Garborini. who is a stanch Mckinley
ite. had a political argument. The two
men allowed their tongues to do the fight
ing for over an hour. But then Garbo-
rinis denunciation of Bryan became so
strong that Wilson could hardly control
himself After the men had called each
other liars several times they clinched
and tried to batter one another's faces.
Officer McKenna arrived on the scene of
battle and took the men to police head
quarters Here Garborini charged Wilson
with assault and battery.
When the Recorder heard their story in
court this morning he told them he was
glad they took such an active interest in
politics; but he said he would have to give
them fifteen days each for carrying their
argument to a fight on the street
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30
POLITICS IN BRIEF.

The German-Ameriean Independent
Mckinley and Hobart Club will hold a
big German Sound Money mass. meet
ing tonight in Pohlmann's Hall The
meeting will be presided over by Mr..
Henry Pattberg, a staunch Democrat,
but good sound money man. The speak
ers of the evening will be General Will
lam G. Heppenheimer and William L. F.
Frankenbach, Cashier OF the Yorkville
Bank
There win be a Democratic mass meet
ing tonight in Mazzini's Hall. Central
avenue and Poplar street. under the au-
spices of the Franeo-Italian Democratic
Club of the Heights. The speeches will
be in French and Italian.
The parade and mass meeting to be
held tomorrow night in Pohlmann,s Hail.
under the auspices of the Twelfth Ward
Democratic Club promises to be one of
the largest demonstrations of its kind
held this campaign in that section of the
city. 1t Will be the last gun the silver
men will fire off upon the Heights. and
they intend it to be an effective one
The Lafayette Republican Association
win meet tonight
Returns win be received by special wire
at No. $50 Sixth street. headquarters of
the Third Ward Democratic Club, Tues
day evening. The public are invited.
r.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30

kicked everyone in sight, cursed and in
every respect acted the part of unciviliz-
ed beings. The hall once cleared, the
gang collected on the street and jeered
the Republican speakers until compelled
to disburse by the police. This is the
second time free silverites have besieged
sound money meetings and broke them
Ip in this campaign.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30


the last strains OF the song died out the
boys in unison shouted out at the top
Of their lungs the following verses
Mckinley is in the White House, with
Bryan is in the cooler counting out his
year.
Hobart the driver and Mckinley the
boss
The words seemed to tickle the audi
who repeated them again While the boys
We're shouting several gentlemen entered
the stage, among whom was Mr.. Frank
O. Cole, who had just finished speaking
at the open air meeting.
It was then just ten minute to nine,
and Sheriff Toffey looked relieved. He inn
mediately introduced Mr.. Cole. who pros
eeeded to entertain the audience until
some of the other speakers arrived. He
told several funny stories until he got
the audience IN good humor and then
branched off onto the issues of the CAM
paign, saying practically what ne had
toned his telegram to Cornrade Nc
Kinley and told the school boy story of
the mills. and concluded by appealing to
the voters in the audience as honest
Americans to vote for Mckinley.
Mr. C. II. Benson, Of this city, was the
next to speak He condemned the free
coinage Of silver and upheld the gold
standard.
c. Stahl of Trenton, the Commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic of this
State Mr. Stahl is veteran Democrat,
but he said that he had to cast aside the
ties of party this year and vote for Me-
kinley and Hobart, as the honor of the
Stars and Stripes was more dear to him
than any party affiliations. He did not
see how ne was obliged to vote or support
a fellow who had captured the nomi-
nation for the Presidency by a lot of
rhetorical pyrotechnios, which he had
fired at lot of men in the convention
which nominated him, and that too
when a good many of those delegates are
sorry now that they gave him the nonf-
nation and viii not support him.
Commander Stahl then spoke Of silver
Il am a Democrat still, he said, "and
if honest Democracy gets control Of the
party again ] shall return to the party
can stand under a high protective tariff
II necessary, but I cannot stand under
reputation. | came to this country
thirty-six years ago from Germany and
earned my citizenship by four years hard
fighting in the War of the Rebellion
am an American and proud of it, but I
still have friends across the sea whom
| would not have say that was a sub
Jeet of any country which was filed with
swindlers who paid their debts in fifty
three cent dollars, SO / cannot support the
Chicago platform. Another thing in that
same platform which l cannot support
IS the breaking down Of the Supreme
Court, an act which in my mind is MOTH
ing short of treason
After Colonel stahl had finished, the
audience sang America at the con-
cusion of which Sheriff Toffey was com
pelled to announce that there would be
no more speakers, and the meeting ad-
journed with the singing of the first
verse of America
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30
MA1TERS or FAcr

Stores, factories and institutions can now
get their supplies as good as any N Z, house
can serve them. Complete stock, 1ow prices,
at ~ q: Cleary & Co.'s wholesale grocery
sf2rss, Montgomery and Greene streets.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30

NEW YORK. Oct. 80. lss6.-For the ss
hours ending at P. NJ. Saturday.
For New York city and vicinity
Showers tonight. clearing Saturday
mornings fair: cooler Saturday afternoon:
southwest winds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

LFor other polities. See Fourth Page.l
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30

MCKINLEY. is in the white House, with
out any fear;
Bryan is in the cooler counting out his
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30

''Sewan the cart, Bryan the horse
Hobart the driver and Mckinley the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-25

infest single tree, as one may often
see in the long roadside avenues of
central France, they succeed in largely
stranglng and choking the foliage of
their unhappy host
OF the curious sticky berries of the
mistletoe much used for preparing
birdlime. the writer says: The pulp
surrounds a single seed. for whose sake
the whole mechanism has been de-
veloped by the parent plant. And this
is the object subserved in the shrubs
economy by the sticky material Mis-
tletoe berries are much sought after by
sundry fruit eating birds but especial
ly by the miStle- thrush, which owe.
both its common English name and its
scientific appeliation of Turdus visciv-
orus glue-eating thrush to its marked
affection for this mystic food. Now, as
the bird eats the berries. it gets the
seeds entangled on it's feet and bin b,
the sticky surroundings. and then. fly
ing away to another tree ii gets rid
them in turn by rubbing them off side
ways in a fork of the branches. Thai
happens to be the precise spot that best
suits the young mistletoe as place
ground beneath. it would be unable to
maintain itself without the aid of a
host -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-25

"One thousand dollars Twenty
hundred dollars"
There was little excitement about
it. Mr.. March left his chair and walked
up and down the floor How had it
been that he had never before realized
what a small scratch of his pen could
do? They were his own flesh and blood
Ihey We're, in one way and another, en-
during the hardness the daily and
nightly wear of mind. the pitiful
gnawing solicitude which belongs with
small means. Soul, mind. and body.
the hardness touched them all, bind
ing them down with its iron touch.
narrowing them With its cruel limita-
ions. His own flesh and blood They
had stood to him as of far less value
han this money he had been accumu-
ating.-money which could never bring
him more than food, clothing, and
odging.
Yes. it could. 1t could bring to him,
his very self, his very heart, the hap
liness of five families,-this rare privi-
eye which he thanked God could come
With an easy scratch of his pen
AS he still crossed and recrossed his
flee floor his movement became quicker.
glow spread over his face. and new
'ght shone in his eye. At length he
at down and slowly wrote again the
lecks lingering over them as over an
1joyable task; and when all were
aished each showed still one more
pher.-Demorest's Magazine.
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Raising Geese.

The Homestead" thinks the coming
boom is in the raising of geese for mar
ket. William Rankin has found that a
well managed goose pays about as well
as cow In Rhode Island where
large numbers are reared. the product
in the principal goose industry centres
average from 200 to 80 per cent. on their
value. Most breeders dress their goslings
for market or sell them to fatteners in
June or July. when they pay the best
considering the time and feed given
rather than grow them to maturity and
take the chance of selling them at a slight
advance for breeding purposes. There
lore. it is best to place orders for young
GEESE for breeding purposes in the spring
)r early summer for young stock to be
delivered in the fall The great call is
or fancy plump young geese for roast
ng-tough old birds are unstable for
ating. II geese, whether young or old
ire changed from one place to another
ifter January first. they are liable not
o breed well that season. and they
breed better the third season they are
IN place than they do the second sea-
son. all other conditions being equal
Therefore, breeding geese should be Sc
cured as early in the fall as possible
Aot later than October. to insure the
best results. This gives them sufficient
Time to become acquainted with their
lew surroundings and feel thoroughly
4 home before the breeding season.
Ii Is also well to have at this date all
birds which are TO be mated, penned
or yarded. by themselves. Breeding
geese should be kept active and mod
erately thin in flesh through the winter
by light feeding, and by allowing them
free range. or such facilities for swim
ming as will induce them to take much
exercise. If deprived of the latter they
must not be fed much fattening food.
Geese are grazers as much as COWS.
ana can be spoiled by too much grain.
10 pond. puddle or n tub OF water
set level with the ground, as well as an
abundance of green food, is of the great
est Importance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-25
Pine Cones In Open Crates.

If there is anything more comfort
able than to sit costly in front of good
CRATE on stormy evening. few people
are aware of it. Equally few. perhaps,
are those " no know how To make this
soui-satisfying luxury yield all the
pleasure of which it is capable. Thu
pine cones that fan from the trees il
autumn make a very beautiful fire
when laid upon the burning logs of the
fireplace or on the anthracite in the
efate. They flare up with bright
steady flame until burned to a glow
ing red cinder, each cone preserving its
shape and outline ana remaining q
Thing of beauty till it finally falls int
Kaleidoscope fragments. AS a pleas
ing diversion for an invalid. one could
not do him a kinder little service thar
TO collect a lot of these cones and send
them with an appropriate line or two
Last winter the holidays brought
nothing that pleased one hopeless con
Sumptive so much as large hurlar
bagful of selected pine cones for the
ire that made the beauty of his wan
ing days. The donor wrote on the bag:
Give me Of thy balm, Q fir tree
There are many quotations about
the pines that VIII occur to everyone
The lettering may be done with pen
Gil and then outlined with heavy brown
cotton or wool on an ordinary buslfel
bag and tied when filed with yard
of brown ribbon. 1t would surely give
pleasure to weary one. Small
branches or twigs of lichen-covered
oak or hickory also make delightful
top fuel for the open fire the tiny mos
ses emitting many colored lights and
the cherry cracking trying in vain to
drown the singing of the pixie" OF
fairy in the wood, as the legend has it,
but which peculiarly soothing sound
cold science attributes to an impris-
oned insect.
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A Few Ciphers.

There. That's off my mind for an
other year"
Mr.. March gave an impatient little
fling to the last sheet in series OF
letters he had been writing. Short
and stereotyped they were.-all running
much like this:
Dear -:
Enclosed find a trifie in remem-
brance of the day, with good wishes
for all.
"Affectionately,
John March"
IT'S kind of nuisance" went on
Mr. March, as he gazed at five checks
which lay on his desk with the letters
each one dashed off and left to dry
while the others We're written.
Il don't know" a grumble coming
into his tone, really 1 don't,-why
should keep it up year after year.
There are something's which might be
considered outgrown as time goes OH
and this is one of Them.
Still Mr.. March had a feeling that 1t
would not be discontinued. this every
Christmas offering of small sum OF
money to each one Of his Kindred II
was too firmly based on old associa-
ton. With the passage of the years
he had grown apart from them; his IN
terests and theirs had become widely
separated, and yet he could not well
have persuaded himself to sever TINS
almost only link which bound him 10
the members of his own family.
1t had begun soon after he had left
home and come up to the great cit!
in search Of the fortune which mao
finally crowned his efforts. He mao
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-25

The measureless popularity of Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters has been the growth
of more than a third of century. AS in
the past the coming new year will be
ushered in by the appearance of a fresh
Almanac, clearly setting forth the ma
ture. uses and operation of this medicine
Of world wide fame. 1t is well worth
perusal. Absolute accuracy in the astrO-
nomical calculations and calendar will.
as before. be valuable characteristics
statistics, humor and general fnformas
ton. accompanied by admirably executed
illustrations. The Almanac Is issued
from the publishing department Of the
Hostetter Company at Pittsburgh. and
will be printed on their presses in Eng
lish. German. French. Welsh, Norwegian
Swedish Holland. Bohemian and Snsn.
isll. All druggists and country dealers
furnish it without cost.
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HOW MlSTLETOE GROWS.
ecuIiarities OF the Bush OF Ancient Druid
and Modern Christian.

The mistletoe is perhaps the plant
ar excellence of Christmas tradition.
tore so probably than the holly, for the
alter has only decorative uses while
ne association of the former is with
oliday festivity and mirth Frank
.eslie's Popular Monthly says: NO
liant on earth has ever aroused so
any kinds of interest on all possible
Hounds as the mystic mistletoe Take
how you will that strange shrub is
wonder. From every point Of view
teens with curiosity. It's parasitic
node of growth. its parodoxical green
ess among the bare boughs of winter,
S pale and ghostly berries, its sticky
ruit, filled with viscid birilime have
II aroused profound and respectful at
ention from the very earliest ages
hen its religious Importance in so
lany countries and ages. it's connec-
ion with Christmas and the midwinter
aturnalia, its social survival to our
wn time as the Yuletide symbol. and
5 modern relation to the pleasing an
.chronism of indiscriminate kissing all
nvest it alike with an additional facti-
ious Importance. Yet. strange to saw
yet been written at any adequate
ength. The modern mistletoe, as we
know it today, in its present highly
VOWED and degenerate state as a con-
rmed parasite, is no longer an enig
ma. 1t is a woody shrub. with yellow
sh-green leaves. which specially affects
he branches of appletrees, pears and
ooplars. The people who get their
IDEAS vaguely and at secondhand from
books have a general notion. indeed
hat the mistletoe's favorite haunt is
the British oak; this is a complete mis-
take as it was the very rarity of the
mistletoe on oaks that gave one, when
found there, its peculiar sanctity in the
eyes of primitive peoples. In the pure
ly wild condition, mistletoe grows
mostly on poplars alone: in civilized
and cultivated soils it extends it's dep
relations. wherever it gets a chance,
to apple orchards and peartrees.
And this is the manner of the gen.
Grafton of mistletoes. The young seed
ings sprout on branch of their invol
untary host, where the seed has been
carried by birds in a way which l
shall hereafter more fully describe. at
its proper point in the life-history of
he species. Instead of roofing them
selves, however. like mere grounding
plants, by small fibrOus rootlets. they
'asten by a sort of sucker-like process
% the tissues of the tree on which they
iced; and penetrating its bark to the
living layer just beneath, suck up elab- |
,rated sap from the veins of their vic
i'm. Thus they live at the expense of !
he poplar. whose food they appropri-
tie; and when many of them together
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Vienna an.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty:
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.
Our homes are cheering for her sake,
Our door-yards brighter blooming,
And all about the social air
Is sweeter for her coming.
Unspoken homilies of peace
Her daily life is preaching;
The stil refreshment of the dew
Is her unconscious teaching.
And never tenderer hand than hers
Unknits the brow of ailing:
Her garments to the sick mans ear
Have music in their trailing.
Her presence lends its warmth and health
To all who come before it,
If woman lost us Eden, such
AS she alone restore it.
John G.. Whittier.
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Dorothy's Mustn'ts.

I'm sick of "mustn'ts.'' said Dorothy d:
Sick of '-mustn'ts'' as l can be.
From early morn till the close of day,
] hear mustn't and never a may.
It's You mustn't lie there like sleepy
head"
And. You mustn't sit up when it's time
for bed:
You mustn't cry when l comb your
curls:"
You mustn't play with those noisy
girls"
you mustn't be silent when spoken to-
You mustn't chatter as parrots do;
'Yo, mustn't be pert and you mustn't be
proud;
you mustn't giggle or laugh aloud"
You mustn't rumple your nice clean
Dress
you mustn't nod in place of a yes
So all day long the ''mustn'ts' go,
Till dream at night of an endless row
Of goblin "mustn'ts,' with great big eyes
That stare a me in shocked surprise
OH / hope l shah live to see the day
When some one will say to me, Dear.
you may;
For I'm sick of "mustn'ts" said Dorothy
ID;
Sick of ''mustnts'' as I can be.
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox in The Sunny Hour.
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Nothing would serve to better unite
the eastern and western sections of Ok
ford county for business and social
purposes than an electric or steam
railway from South Paris and Norway
through Waterford to Fryeburg We
need cross country line. and while we
are about it let's extend the other way,
and meet the Portland and Rumford
Falls road at Buckfield. Hebron or
Minot.-Oxford Democrat.
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Railroads and Steamboats,.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Arrangement Of Trains in Effect
October 4. 1895.
Passenger trains leave Augusta as follews:
THROUGH TRAINS.

passenger Trains leave augusta az follows:
THROUGH TRAINS.
GOING WEsT-S3o A. NJ. for Lewiston.
Pennington. Rangeley, Rockland, Port
land. Bridgton, Boston and Montreal; 1905
a. NJ. Daily for Brunswick. Lewiston,
portland and Boston, week days con-
meets also for Pennington, Phillips.
Rangeley. Carrabasset, ROckland, Mont
real, Toronto and Quebec; 305 and $50 p. M.
Sexpress( for Brunswick. Bath, Lewiston.
Portland, Boston; 11.00 p. NJ. might Pull
mani every night for Lewiston, Bath.
Portland and Boston; 1.50 A. NJ. Portland
and Boston.
GOING EAsT-1.5o A. NJ. might ex-
pressl for Skowhegan. Belfast, Bangor,
Bar Harbor. st. Stephen, st. John, Hail.
iax and Aroostook county; 9.10 A. NJ. for
Waterville. Skowhegan. Bangor, Vance,
boro, st. stephen and st. John; 1912 p. NJ.
for Waterville; 2.35 P. NJ. for Bangor, Bar
Iiarbor Old Town and Houlton via B. &
A.; 3.47 p. NJ: for Waterville, Oakland,
North Anson, Bingham, Skowhegan, Bel
fast Foxcroft and Greenville, Bangor,
Old Town and Mattawamkeag; IT'S p. M.
for Waterville.
SUNDAYS only. s.15 A. NJ and 2.55 p.
NJ for Waterville and Bangor.
The Night Pullman Train leaving at $50
A. M. Poing east does not connect for Show
hogan on Monday mornings. or for Bel
fast, Foxcroft or beyond Bangor. Sunday
mornings.
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS,
AUGUSTA TO SOUTH GARDINER.
RI Sun onlv
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CALENDAR COMING EVENTS.


Temperance.
At Old Orchard Feb. 17.-York Dis
trict Lodge Good Templars.
Grange.
AT Norway, Jan. 5-Oxford Pomona
Grange.
At Auburn, Jan. 6.-Androscoggin Po-
mona Grange.
At Skowhegan, Jan. 12-13-Somerset
Pomona Grange.
miscellaneous.
At Swanville. Jan. Waldo County
Veteran Association.
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Through tickets to California and ali
points South and West may be had Of E.
H., Walker, ticket agent, Augusta, the
only office in Augusta selling via all
routes and checking baggage free Of ex-
pense- GEORGE IT, EVANS General
Manager; l.. T. BOOTHBY, GenI Pass
and Ticket Agent.
Portland. Sept. rs, 1896.
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A South Portland man will shortly bring
suit against his wife for divorce. on the
ground that she is running his health and
uniting him for business by poor cook
ing.