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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14
IF WE SHOULD FIGH 7 JAPAN.
IBy cable Ia The Associat.ad press

IBy Cable to The Associated Press.
LONDON, April IA. 1S97.-The est.
James Gazette" this afternoon, referring
to the trouble in Hawaii regarding the
landing Of Japanese immigrants. says
that if a rupture between Japan and the
the United States occurs the latter may
find the Japanese navy a hard customer
to tackle.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14
BROOKLYN APLOAT AGAIN.

PHILADELPHIA, April IA, lS97.-The
United States cruiser Brooklyn was sue
Scesfully hoated out Of the dry dock at
league Island Navy Yard at l1:so O'Clock
this morning- She now lies at anchor
ing touches will be administered before
the big ship is declared seaworthvs
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14

DIED.

WILLIAMSON Tuesday. April IS. 1891.
Charlotte NJ, beloved daughfer ~
Charles and Margaret Williams. aged
20 years, 5 monts and Is days.
Relatives n friends of the family are
respectfully invited to attend the f,ineral
from her late residence, No. 297 Raiiroad
avenue. on Thursday. April Is, at
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14
BI-METALIsM RIDIOULED.

IBy Cable to The Associated Press.
LONDON, April IA, 1897 The Globe
sSt. James Gazette" and Pail Mall Gaz-
ette," this afternoon, all ridicule the idea
of the United States Bimetallic Mission
having any practical result.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14

Mrs. WinsIowss Soothlng svrnn 3
children teething should always Be iii
tor children while teething. If soffe,
the gums. allays the pain. cures Vii
Eeonc = Y the best remedy forlId
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14
MATTERS or ri an

Jerseys best hour costs z5c: more ~
barrel than ordinary -four. but worth 4 doi1ar
extra. Wholesale only at D. e. cleary C6ss
stores Greene md Montgomery streets.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14

Mr.. Hoos also received kindly messages
and personal congratulations from AS
semblyman William d. Nelson, 4Jimv
carlin, Counselor George q. Tenant, Mr..
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14

Executive Mansion, Washington,
April, IA, 1887.
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Sunflower Philosophy.

a love affair IS not the real stuff unless
somebody gets killed in it.
Give man half a chance and he viii
tell his secrets 10 a woman.
1t never comes natural to a man to be
polite to his kin women folks.
There is aood deal in boldly recognizing
a coming trouble, ana preparing for it.
The sign of a cheap person is one who
waits until Valentines Day to get even
with an enemy.
A real clever woman can fix her hair to
look as if she had taken the top of her head
off while She did it.
Noman is smart enough to understand a
gas meter, and the new electric light meter
is still greater puzzle.
When an unmarried man is a failure he
throws the blame on his parents; a mar
ried man Eo!ds his wife response BILE.
a woman hater who came TO Atchison
three years ago, has fallen with dull,
Sickening thnd before the Atchison girls
The poorest woman extends invitations
to visit her as lavishly as if her home
were castle and her husband a million
aire.
Some of the AtchiSon men are already
soaring their wives by threatening to go
to Nevada to see the Cotbett- Fitzsirnmons
fight.
on the principle that goods may ac-
Casionally be disposed Of by trying a new
market, an Atchison woman sends all OF
her daughters away twice year.
The morning times., 1897-02-10
BOURNE COCHRAN, DEMOCRAT"

BOURNE COCHRAN, "DEMOCRAT."
The country has felt a thrill Of excite
hent reading Hon. Bourke Cochran, Of New
York. has just visited Major Mckinley.
Sul more diverting-for Mr.. Cochran de
hurried, and wisely. as we believe, when
4 was suggested that his mission to Can
ton had been political-is a sentiment ex-
pressed in Mr.. Cockran's public interview
on this occasion. He objects to being
called a gold Democrat. He wants to be
known as Democrat-without adjectves.
This is the gentleman who was retained
by Hon Mark Hanna toward tie beginning
OF tire tate Presidential campaign 10 appear
IN Madison Square Garden and try to refute
the first important campaign address OF
EIr Bryan. Cochran made but a sorry mess
pfit He abused tie Democratic candidate.
hut answered none OF Ills arguments.
Bourke Cockran's subsequent course was
Eyen less effective. Crowds greeted him
in some Of the Western cities, but, as had
been the case in New York, the suspicion
sIways arose whether these meetings had
not been carefully paid to gather. Mr..
Cockra n, in short, while undoubtedly attract
ing some attention where he was not well
fnown, made only apoor spectacle Of himself
during the whole canvass. He brought him
self, justly, as we believe under the charge
,f being retained for these purposes, if not
sctually by the payment of money, at least
in Difference 10 certain employers to whom
be was necessarily bcholdcn.
There isEo danaerthat anyone, Democrat
,r Republican, VIII take BouIke Cochran
Ier.oasly. He may object to beng called
gold Democrat and may desire to lie called
L Democrat WITHOUT adjecdves He is not
Democrat of any kind, and his pretenseis is
the more shallow and his whole behavior
the more hlameworthy because he betra yed
30 carly in the campaign and outraged so
repeatedly so many times during the cam
paign the very New York friends who had
built him up from nothing into a figure at
Dne time rather consequential
The morning times., 1897-02-10

dollars, according to the most approved
methods; and he is just now ready TO begin
this work. 1t is well that all the people
should understand the nature OF this propa
ganda.
Thousands of the country newspapers
obtain from the chief centcrs each week,
OF each day, as occasion may require, GER
tain amounts of boiler-plate, as tits called
matter already prepared for the newspapers
IN question. This is the much abused boiler
plate; tradition has it that the country
editor prepares ii for his journal with a
handsaw. But ii gets there just the same.
1t appears like so much straight for
ward reading matter. In reality it is
advertising and ought to be known as
such; for if it is not strictly true that
advertising rates are paid for it. never
theless Mr. Hanna provides that it shall
be furnished so cheaply that it is not
only convenient but necessary in many
cases that the country publisher should
have it to fill up with
This is all a very pretty scheme, and
It confirms many thoughtful political man
ayers in this country, leaders of both
parties, in their conviction that the gold
people propose to try to make their vic
tory OF last autumn complete and final
for all time, and that the business world
is to be kept uncertain OF the future, not
merely by the proposed tariff changes,
which we believe to be inevitable in the
new administration and under the new
Congress. but by continued agitation of
the financial question as wen.
The people OF this country ought to un-
derstand Mark Hanna $ purposes He had
no end or money with which to operate
during the campaign. That condition is
just as true today. The small newspapers
everywhere are practically subsidized; and
SO. no matter what the consequence To the
business world may be Ito say nothing OF
the consequence to the permanent pros
perity of our people,, this propaganda is
to be kept up. There is this small ad-
vantage about it. We shall know where
to place the blame
The morning times., 1897-02-10
MARK HANNA's AGITATION.

1t is not at all likely that Hon. Mark
Hanna has changed his campaign plans as
Bome innocent persons have suspected. No
tice the announcements that he has
changed his plans. These, as recently
given in the dispatches from Cleveland
contemplated dropping all agitation of
political questions Mr.. Hanna is now said
10 be intending, on the contrary, to make
arrangements with several press agencies
Tor the use Of the patent insides'' fur
nisbed to thousands Of daily and weekly
papers in all the States, distributing an
Rnormous amount of the gold matter that
will bc prepared by agents Of the national
committee. The terms OF the contract
with the various associations" the dis
patch says. call for from one to three
columns OF the printed matter on the
financial question in all OF the patent in
Eides sent out. 1t will cost thousands of
dollars
We say that it is not at all likely that
hr- Hanna has changed his plans. He
is simply developing them. 1t was i'm
portant that he should first announce that
he had no plans, that the wicked agitation
of this financial subject should be dropped.
This would PUT the Democrats (and the
Republicans who do not believe in the gold
standard, and who never VIII entirely off
their guard. Butt now appears that Mfr
Hanna is prepared to spend thousands OF
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Mr. Pnrter and the AGO.

Mr.. John Addison Porter has an edi-
toriaI in his paper, the Hartford Post.
which says
The 400 are shocked at Dr.. Rainsforfs
advice that the respectable wealthy ought
not to attend the Brad!ey-Martin ball
masuue. They believe the rich can do
what they please with their money, no
matter how lavishly they spend it, and that
in the lavish spending there is enjoyment
and profit for the poor. This is their de
fanSe and it is the old one, riddled to death
many, many years ago. Bat while the 400
are shocked at this attack by DR.. Rains
ford, they were nos shocked at all by the
revelations of the Sceiey dinner
The morning times., 1897-02-10
The BuZzard's Bay Fisherman Ill.

(F'rom the Chicago Chronicle.)
Daddy Brunn, the hermit fisherman
whom President Cleveland few weeks ago
gave permission to build cabin on Gray
Gables estate, will not be able to enjoy the
realization of his cherished hope on ac-
count of his health. When Brunn'S cabin
rome in he woods was destroyed by fire
he OF permission to take up hisabode In one
of the shanties on the river front until he
could provide a better home for himself
During the high tide about ten days ago
Brunn was imprs oned by the waters which
flooded the land adjoining the river and
covered the cabin floor to the depth or
several feet Brunn had rot been seen for
several days and his ron appearance caused
OFFICER Chase to visit his cabin Tuesday,
when the hermit was found seriously Ill.
He was removed to the townhouse
The morning times., 1897-02-10
The Oldest Old Reporter

In a cosy nook on Newspaper Row."
He sits as he safe in the long ago
Quaffing his ale with an JUNCTION slow,
And watching the weariSome cbb and
OF the human tide in the street below;
But few at his face a glance will throw
Or nod as they pasS-or seem to know
That the silent man with the locks OF
Is the oldest Old Reporter.
Yet, sometimes out of the hurr ying crowd,
Where he turks, half dizzy and wholly
cowed,
A somebody utters his name aloud
Then the dull eyes flash with glance SO
proud,
one thinks of the sun through a breaking
cloud!
For It's good to feel that though wrinkle
browed-
With hair long grizzled, and back that is
bowed
They haven't yet folded his Coffin shroud
Round the oldest Old Reporter.
And sometimes, too-but these times are
rare,
A somebody offers his cup to share
Some friend OF the past, beneath skies
more fair,
When his veins held vigor enough and
to spare
Then he quite forgets he has silvered hair,
His forehead seems reft OF its lines of care
And tbs Greeley, and Ra aymond and T.
you'd swear
You were back in the sixties. drinking
With that Oldest Old Reporter.
But the past is doleful as well as dear
The few that he loved are no longer here:
And the young men jostle, and gibe and
jeer-
Yet his heart is stout, and he feels no fear
For he knows that his copy" is written
clear.
And he waits the day, when in voice of
cheer,
Some angel office boy says in his ear
The great City Editor wants to hear
From his oldest Old Reporter"
Gerald Brenan.
The morning times., 1897-02-10
LOU PAYN, THE LOBBYIST.

The New York dispatches have it that
Hon. Lou Payn, Gov. Blacks (and Mr.
Platt'sl new insurance commissioner, is
about to investigate the insurance com
raneS and 10 investigate them thoroughly.
We can see no objection to this, because,
If the companies are all right, they need
not and Will not suffer Moreover, we
can conceive that there may be some
thing the matter with them: and if there
is, who should object to its publication?
AT all events, the spectacle presented
ous) lobbyist, Lou Payn, begins thoroughly
to investigate something, is truly instruc-
tive and elevating. We hope the exami-
nation will go on; and while we are not
inclined to throw any bouquets at Hon
Lou Payn, lobbyist (or ex-lohbytst), still
it may be that he is the very person. of
Platt party in New York to apply this
probe.
Who should know better than he Just
how to proceed if he is in dead earnest?
Who should be able to discover more?
He has certainly been familiar enough
with all the methods of the corporations
usually Interested at Albany; and Will
know who to examine for witnesses. He
Will know just what leads will be likely
to prove productive.
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Confusion in a Georgia Breast.

The Ledger tells a good story OF the
bloomer girl AN aged man, sauntering
across a Columbus, Ga, street the other
day, was rudely jostled by youthful wheel
man. The collision tumbled the rider Off,
and the old gentleman promptly grabbed
him by the ear ''Durn YOU" he said. with
considerable asperity, I've a great mind
to take you across my knee ana spank you
good But he did not dosit He Just held
the young fellowHa minute and then let
him go why didn't you spank him,
uncIe?" said bystaHder. Well" re-
Piled the old man, Il certainly would if
hadn't been ieetie afraid that mebbe it
was q girl" E-
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Murphy and IngerSou.

In Boston, day or two ago, Francis
Murphy paid his respects to Robert G In
gerson. He did it in d way that cannot
help but be pleasing to the sturdy apostle
OF free thinking. Mr.. Murphy said: You
can get a great deal out Of man If you
don fight him. II you love him, you can
get great deal out OF him. Robert Inger-
soil and l are good friends We have had
many and many u talk ABOUT religion He
says the trouble with me is that have got
too much religion L told him hadn't got
enough, but what have gptI would divide
with him. l have seen that great man cry
as he has said to me that Jesus Christ was
one OF the greatest characters in the world -
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Acquaintance of Yours

III ii on. WIham Warner, Of Kansas City,
late member ofCongress and later Repub-
hcan candidate for governor oi Missouri,
cares for word of good advice, here it is:
That unless his law practice is very lucra-
tive, unless, say sit amounts to $4,000 a
year, let him be very careful atout this sup
posed arrangement by which Judge Nc
kenna, who is to- be Secretary OF the In
terror in the Mckinley Cabinet, is to he ap-
pointed to succeed Judge Field, and by
which Major Warner is then to be made
Secretary of the Interior. Better have it
copper fastened, Major Warner.
In the first place it is rot certain that
anything viii happen 10 Judge Field Then
President Mckinley, owing to the exigencies
OF the occasion, OF course, might not feel
like apI ointing Judge McKenna to any va
cancythat existed; and then ONE one might
come along, and ,aspart of the Mark Hanna
scheme, at that particular time, for, Of
course, the Hanna scheme will be everlast-
ing, would have to be made Secretary of
the Interior in place of Judge McKenna. II
Major Warner has good hing in his law
practice-if 1t is very lucrative, is worth,
say matter of $685. coo a ycar-he had
better hesitate.
Ihefe dTe SO many SHIPS or tncse CdbtneC
arrangements, present and future; and
the whim OF u President is law, and in
gratitude and broken promises strew the
edges of his pathway. He is not always
to blame. Sometimes there is no blame:
it is just circumstances And at other times
he can put the blame on the Almighty, as
Benjamin Harrison did. IL 1t is all in
black and white with Mr. Mckinley, that
is different; but Major Warner had better
be certain
The morning times., 1897-02-10
A WELCOME TO M'klNLEy.

The President elect, Hon. William Nc
KinIey, IL undoubtedly finding a thorn or
two in has rosy pathway. If he is, though,
Ii isn't a circumst ance To the troubles
he Old mans mind after he has really
assumed the duties of this high office"
The Times, even at this early day, desires
20 extend its greeting 10 tie President
llect. Washington city VIII receive him
With open arms HeiS not unknown 20 US.
he used to seem like a fine, everyday
human sort OF a man, chewing his cigar
tub contentedly in various public places;
md from that tand from other Democratic
ways We have always really liked him.
And now that his duties are certain to
be more onerous-moTe onerous, perhaps,
ihan those Of any other public character
II the world-we shall desire to tighten
Ihem in every possible way
The Times does not sympathize with the
methods which were employed to bring
about Mr. McKnIey's election, but what
leemed TO be tie popular verdict settled
in that, and we extend to him no frigid
nitten. He Will be the President, and
le wnl deserve the good wishes OF all
Eood Americans. Some Of tie people
whom he has already chosen to be closest
10 him, VIII cause him no end OF annoy
lnce. but they will suffer for it in due
peaSOn. If he him mself can escape, in the
maze Of patriotic intention and unques-
)ioned everyday corruption, in which
le VIII find himself involved, he viii be
very fortunate
The morning times., 1897-02-10
She Ate EVERYTHING Else.

a certain fat lady resolved TO consult a
physician about her corpulence. She had
had no previous experience with ''bant-
ing' of any sort. The doctor drew up a
careful dietary FOR her. She must eat dry
toast, plain boiled beef and a few other
things OF the same lean sort and in a
month return and report the result to the
doctor. AT the end of the time the lady
came and was so stout that she could hard
ly set through the door The doctor was
aghast Did you eat what told you?''
he asked. 'Religiously-" she ans wered
His brow wrinkled III perpIexity Sud
denly he had flash Of Inspiration Did
you eat anything else?'' he asked Why. 1
ate my ordinary ~ Gals said the lady.
The morning times., 1897-02-10
With the Bare-Legged Count and All

Count Pappenheim is an extraordinary
man. During the last performance OF the
Passion Play" at Oberammergau he ere
ated much comment among visitors by
driving about town in a very smart Lon
don mail phaeton, accompanied by his wife
On these occasions he wore short, light
color cloth breeches, embroidered on the
sides and so short they stopped several
inches above his knees His legs were bare
for several inches below the knees, and his
costume was further enhanced by one of
the broad hats and bright belts the peas
ants of that locality wear
The morning times., 1897-02-10

The item to the effect that Hon. Joe
Choate is worth two million dollars, all
of which he has made in the practice OF
his profession. recalls a story about Hon.
Joe Choate and Edward Lauterbach. They
were engaged in the prosecution Of
some suit 1t occurred to them after the
suit was won to present bill
Leave that To me, said Choate
Laute-bach had expected matter of
$3.50 for his half of the work; but Choate
laid down before him one day a check
for 81 600 Lautcrbach smiled and said.
Almost thou peFsuadest me to be q
Christian.
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Tbev Gave Iheir Last Cent

The death has just occurred OF a remark
able woman-Mother Aloysius Greve-in
her ninetieth year. For sixty-nine years
she had been in a convent at Thurles.
Ireland, for a greater part of the time as
lady superior. Those who remember the
terrible year OF the Irish famine recall
her heroism in attending to the sick and
dying. She and the sisters with her fire.
quently went supperless to bed, having
given their last crust to those starving
outside the convent walls.
The morning times., 1897-02-10
John sherman in Kansas

There is life-size photo portrait Of John
Sherman. the future Secretary OF S tate. in
the rooms of the Kansas Historical Society
at Topeka. 1t was presented by himself
some years go. He also donated the Origi-
nal manuscript OF the Kansas investigating
committees operations of 1856, and a
scrap-book that was made for the use Of
the committee, consisting OF 135 pages of
newspaper clippings about Kansas during
that stormy period
The morning times., 1897-02-10
B!ackhurn WouId Have Killed.

Dr. Gale, medical superintendent of the
Kentucky lunatic asylum, on one coca
sion dismissed an attendant, and said in
speaking OF the matter to Luke Black
burn. who was then Governor: He struck
one of the patients and 1 discharged
him. Discharged him. thuhdered Bla ok
burn, in an instant wrath. why did
you do that? By -, sir, you should have
killed him. If man were to strike one
of those poor unforttnates in my presence
I'd strike him down upon the spot
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Mrs. Sanford Entertained the Boys

(From the san Francisco Chronicie,)
If Mrs Jane l.. Stanford's house were as
big as her heart she would have had every
10Y in san Francisco as her guest Friday
AFTERNOON. As it was, she entertained big
crowd of them, and from l to O'Clock
the stanford mansion rang with the happy
voices OF over eco messenger boys, who
had been invited to enjoy Mrs. Stanfords
hospitality Mrs. stanford waited on her
visitors with her own hands, a fact that
The morning times., 1897-02-10

Anent Senator Morgans long and able
speech in executive session i'll opposition
to the Anglo American treaty, a good
story is told of the Senator methods on
the stump.
He went over to Maryland last fall to
help Senator German. He was the prin'
cipal speaker at big Baltimore meet
ing one Saturday night He began talk
ing at and he was still talking at mid
night and making such good speech that
he was holding his audience closely. As
the early Sabbath morning advanced sew
eral Clergymen on the platform began 10
get nervous, One of them spoke to the
chairman of the meeting. and the chair
man ventured to say To Senator Morgan
that il was Sunday. Whereuponthe Sena-
tor said:
Il am reminded that il is Sunday. Now,
what is this blessed da of peace and wor-
ship? What was its origin? What are its
lessons and duties" What its proper OBJ
servance?
And then he went on for an hour and
half more with a wonderfully beautiful
and appropriate speech in answer to his
own questions 1t was long after / when
he came to an end and gave the persons
In his audience chance to find out that
although he was fascinating and interest
ing speaker they were nevertheless dog
tired
The morning times., 1897-02-10

The women of this town are wearing Ill
fitting shoes. There are several sizes that
dealers ought to keep, which are the only
ones that will fit certain feet, that not
shoe dealer in Washington has been keep
ing. In New York, Chicago, and Philadel-
pbia they can be fitted Washington ranks
with the country towns in the matter or
shoes. / don't know about other goods,
hut am thoroughly familiar with womeu'S
shoes This trouble has deformed more
than one pretty foot 1t ought not to be
C. z. Langlois. Shoes for Women
The morning times., 1897-02-10

Signor G.. Trentanore, the sculptor of
the beautiful and muCf-tliScusscd statue
OF Pere Marquette now in Statuary Hall.
is now at the City of Marquette, on Lake
Superior. The city is arranging for the
erection OF Il bronze replica Of the marble
figure in Washington. Trentanore has re-
Gently received from King Humbert the
order Of Knight Of the Crown Of Italy He
is coming To Washington soon, and not
long after McKinley's Inauguration viii
begin on bronze bustof thencw President
The morning times., 1897-02-10
Snap Shot Interviews

II Mckinley does not steer clear OF the
rocks in his path, then viii surely be time
to blame him for the lack OF prosperity.
I expect that it will come after he is in
augurated. Why should we expect him to
have given up prosperity now. already?
Let 5 give him trial. In hard times peo-
pie are terribly graSping. 1t seems 20 me
too much that they have been expecting
If they want Mckinley boom as soon
as he is elected.-Tom Marshall, The Lose
kan.