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The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-08-25
Third and Fourth TO Disband.

1t is reported on good authority
that the Third and Fourth regiments
of New jersey will be mustered out
of service now that peace has been
declared between this country and
Spain. If this be true the Freehold
boys who are at PonIpton Lakes
guarding the powder piills win return
within the next thirty days.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-08-25

All Republicansi the Third district
are content that Benjamin f. Howell
should seek third term in Congress.
The factions in Somerset are as one
for Howell; there is no disturbing
element Middlesex, while Mon
mouth, even if ex-Congressman Gels
senhainer is his opponent, promises
to give him small majority. The
denomination of Howell will help the
Republicans in Monmouth and Som
erset in electing their County tickets.
New York Press.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-08-25

President Mckinley. in his recent
letter to General Breckenridge, show
ed his regard for the volunteers in
these words: The highest tribute
that can be paid to the soldier is to
say that he performed his full duty.
Th e field Of duty is determined oy
his government, and wherever that
chances to be is the place of honor.
All have helped in the great cause,
whether in camp or in battle, and
when peace comes all will be alike en-
titled to the nations gratitude.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-08-25
OF SETTLEMENT.

(FISAL ACCOUNT.
Notice is hereby given that the accounts Of the
subscriber Executor OF said deceased viii be
audited and stated by the Surrogate, and report
ed for settlement to the Orphans Court of the
County Of Monmouth, on Thursday, the Twentieth
day o. October, next.
GEORGE H. yANDERBEEK.
Dated August 10th, 1898.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
HEALTH HINTS.
Simple Remedies for Common ALL
ments.

To cure cough, pain in the lungs and
splitting takes capsules OF eodliyer oil
with ereosote-codliyer oil, 16 minims;
creosote, five minims; take one capsule
two hours after meals every day for
four weeks. Paint the back between
the shoulder blades, also the painful
spot on the chest, with the tncture of
iodine night and morning. Take ten
drops of the tincture of nux vomica in
cold water before meals and at bedtime
for six weeks.
To cure old bunions which are large
but not infamed paint with the tincture
of iodine night and morning each day
until the skin peels; when the skin is
healed proceed as before, and so on for
some weeks. Wear shoes and stockings
too long for the feet, so as TO give the
toes more than enough room, to slide
forward without pressing against the
stocking or shoe. If no relief is OBJ
tanned within two months, go to a sur
geon.
Don't neglect your house drains, nor
the drainage about your house. The
first condition of family health is dry
and sweet atmosphere. With dry walls,
dry cellar and drains that carry off
refuse without letting in foul gases,
half the battle for good health is won.
Don't let your wells or springs be in
fected by drainage or from other causes.
Pure drinking water is indispensable
| for health at home or anywhere.
To relieve a weak feeling before meals
or the full feeling or distress after eat
| ing take ten drops of the tincture of nux
vomica in two tablespoonfuls of cold
water before meals or at bedtime for
six weeks, Drink a glass of milk be-
| fore meals and at bedtime every day
| for month or more.
Many deformities of the feet disap-
pear entirely without other treatment
than that of the proper shoe. The shoe
| that fits the foot is the cheapest shoe to
| buy. 1t wears the longest because, fit
ting the foot, it never undergoes that
transformation known as Closing
shape"
AS good practice in steaming the
face, do not allow the steam to be too
hot. You can parboil the tissue with
steam much below the boiling point
Troy Times.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
COMMON CRIME OF MURDER.
Its Woeful Prevalence Throughout
the United states.

There is not state or territory in the
union in which there is not a trial for
murder pending. In the state of Ken
lucky there are forty-seven cases con-
corning ninety-one prisoners for MUIR
der awaiting trial. In Virginia there
are at least twenty-three charges of
murder. In the first state only seven
of the men in Jail to be tried for the
capital offense of murder are negroes,
in Virginia there are eight. North Caro-
lima has 20 cases or more. Georgia 27,
Louisiana a score, Texas 80 or 33, Mis-
souri, "a, Illinois 16, Indiana 7, Michigan
3, Ohio s, Pennsylvania 26, New York
AZ, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Ver-
mont one each. New Hampshire has
Just settled one of her three by
sentence of 30 years imposed
upon a crazed assassin, California
has 27 cases on her docket, and, alto
gether, with a dozen more or less, there
are $50 charges of murder on the Grim
inal dockets of the various states and
territories.
Some Of these have only passed as yet
from the hands of the coroner or COM
hitting magistrates, others are on trial,
some are on appeal and a few have gone
through all the judicial procedure and
the convicted men are only awaiting
the executive action of the law TO COM
plete their record.
There is no dominating cause of these
crimes, unless it be that in the large
cities they are more frequently con-
nected with robbery. Love, revenge.
madness, pure thirst Of shedding blood.
gain, jealousy, political wrangles, fam
lily feuds and drunken brawls are a
few Of the sources from which the
homicidal acts have origin. Some seem
not TO have even the plea Of madness.
to which so many of the causeless
crimes are referred.
1t is a mooted point whether legal
punishment has any deterrent effect
upon crime, but no one can note the
terribly suggestive figures given above
without an earnest wish that punish.
ment have a real test.-Philadelphi
Times.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
SINGS ONLY IN HER SLEEP.
The Singular Recovery of Maine
Songstress.

From away down the coast of Maine
where the mysterious tide ebbs and
flows so fiercely, North Castine, comes a
story from a correspondent strange and
unaccountable. He writes that Mrs
Lucretia NJ. Judson, the once fayorite
singer of Portland, has regained hel
sweet voice after nearly 80 years ST.
lenee, Although she hears it not her.
self or knows why or when it happens
except when told by others, her voice is
the same and she sings the same old
songs she used to charm the listeners
with so years ago.
In many parts of Maine Mrs. Judson
was recognized in her early days as
possessing a sweet soprano voice. She
was the recognized leader in this sec.
tion of the country, and often received
invitations to sing in the churches al
Portland, Lewiston and Bangor.
One day a few years after her mar,
riage her voice left her, and she seemed
to lose all ear for music. Since that
time she has never been known TO sing
ment the loss of her voice, for she loved
music so well.
A few weeks ago Mrs. Judson came to
visit neighbor while a revival was in
progress a few miles from her home
After bedtime Mrs. Lynch heard tie
sweetest song she ever listened to. II
was one of the old love songs of her
youth. "Pve wandered to-day TO the
mill" etc. She was charmed and sur.
prised. The sound came from Mrs
Judson's room. Next morning enc
asked Mrs. Judson to sing the same
song again. She was astonished to hear
the lady say that she could not and had
not sung for 40 years or more.
"Why | heard you singing last
night" said Mrs. L.
"0h, no, you didn't" answered Mrs
Judson. "If you did | must have beer
asleep, for | don't know a thing about
it,"
The next night she sang a verse ot
another of her favorite songs. She
asked Mrs. Lynch to call her if such G
thing occurred again, for she did moi
believe it could be possible. While Mrs
Judson was filling the night with song
Mrs. Lynch crept stealthily to her room
The lady was sitting up in bed, her eye,
closed, and was singing as if her whole
soul was in her song, Mrs. Lynch
hadn't the heart TO wake her up, ant
listened with delight until she hat
finished soft and beautiful cadence.
Next morning the lady went to hel
home at Perce's Pond and her husband
is delighted, for be says she sings near
ly every night one of the old-tme melo
dies. When awake the lady has no eal
for music any more than if she hat
never been a singer.-Bangor CONNER
cial,
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
HE NEWEST CAPER.
II Is 10 Erect n swing In Your Home
and LafI Therein Gracefully.


II you are a first family here is an
Idea for you. II isn't, If YOU are not.
The decorator Is my authority. He
would be distressed TO learn that any
but a first family had taken up the ao-
ton. Because then be would have TO
think OF something else equally as
pleasing for his exclusive trade. No
doubt his life is enough of a burden to
him as it Is One ought not to make an
others troubles greater. So all readers
will kindly refrain from embedying
this hint In their parlors unless those
readers are of the class known IN the
shops as carriage people" Well.
1t is swings. All of the first families
are having swings in their drawing
rooms and in their boudoirs. The
swing is the latest style in eozy corners.
Not the old-fashioned swing made from
rope that papa does not want for any
other purpose, with seat constructed
from a bit of rough board which NAM
ma cannot use COR a cover for anything.
Pas beaucoup.
4 swing shaped like a carriage seat,
as big as it, but turned from highly
polished oak and filled with 81 and SIG
cushions. And with luxurious rugs that
hang over and down. And handily by
its side a little table on which are
favorite goodies and sprightly books.
First families are becoming elastic.
For these swings are really to sit in
and sway in. They are on the order Of
small gift chairs that may be seen but
not touched. The new swings are to
hold folk, young and old, and TO give
good time TO them. They-the swings
are fastened by four blackened heavy
iron chains to the ceiling. The deco
rator secures these chains without muss
or profanity by some process known
only to men of his craft. The swing
ut present is the exclusive thing.
But why not the hammock, too?
A pretty hammock, of course. Not
some hideous object which has been
out in the rain for six months or years.
A pink hammock or a blue one with
fringe, and embroidered satin cushions,
or a red one with oriental trappings.
There would be some trouble in hang
ing it, of course. You could not pin it
to the top of bookcase and catacor-
nered to point of china closet.
The social possibilities for five O'Clock
tea use of the hammock are prospec-
lively engaging. No tea with ham
mock possibly could be a failure. If
things got to being bit slow, some
pretty girl could founce into the ham
mock between the dressing rooms and
bid any visiting gallant: "Swing me,
Charley" And of course, Charley
would, after the fashion of Charleys,
and by thus much and more swinging
The tea would be the merrier. So why
not, why not the hammock, too? Even
without the too. The suggestion not
having arisen in the brain of decora-
tor, mere women not of first families
also might venture with tinted ham
mocks. And life would be the more
vibrant-Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Eliza Ann Colburn, of Boston
who died some time ago, leaves BY he,
will the sum of $4,000 to the Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Ami
mails.
This boss of Tammany Hall has q
chip of the old block in Richard 3
Croker, Jr., who is making a name fol
himself as a full-baek on the football
team of Brown university.
Maj. George S. Merrill, until re
Gently insurance commissioner Of Mas
saehusetts, is to be connected with the
insurance departments of a number Of
states, not including Massachusetts,, az
an expert adviser.
Father, mother and children, in q
family of a dozen at Lincoln Center
Kan, are all in school, the parents and
the two elder children being in the
same class. The father is an ambitious
minister, 45 years old.
TOD" Sloan, The American Jockey
who has met with such success on the
English turf, is astonishing the English
sportsmen with his magnificent style oi
living. He occupies a handsome apart
ment at Hotel Cecil, and has valet.
Admiral of the British Fleet Sin
Henry Keppel, now in the seth year o.
his age aud 10th of his service, has lately
undergone serious operation, but hiI
splendid constitution has helped hin
through, and at last accounts he wa'
making good progress toward recovery
Gen. Francis Canton, governor-elec
of Yucatan, Mexico, is a close friend O
President Diaz, and is regarded as one o.
the most progressive and enlightened
men of Mexico. He served through The
revolution of 1882, and was for seyera
years engaged in fighting Magayo In
dians, who, to this day, refuse to reeog
nize the authority of President Diaz.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
FASHIONS FOR THE LADIES.
Some seasonabIe Notes on the Latest
in Dress.

Lavender blue and the deeper iris
purple blue are two very fashionable
eolors just at the moment in both dress
and millinery.
There has been a steady demand this
season for fancy mohairs, and these
the manufacturers have produced in
very attractive variety of patterns.
Some of the designs have narrow de-
signs in openwork effects, and these
are made up over silk whose contrast
ing colors show effectively through
the fancy meshes.
Iridescent mohairs are still favored
for stylish travelling costumes, and if
the jacket and skirt style is chosen, it
is a pretty way to have the silk shirt
waist en- suite to match one of the col
ors in the mohair. Blue and gray, shot
with rose, or green interviewer with tan
color, make good semi-dark surfaces
for those durable fabrics that shed dust
and do not change color in the least.
The striped and changeable mohairs
make very natty appearing cycling cos
tunes. The fancy for fabrics with
blacks and colors of various kinds in
terwoven, has brought out many
twilled French goods of different
weights that are made into simple but
stylish suits appropriate for various
iemi-dress uses the summer through.
The dainty little Louis XVI. pelerine
with long scarf ends and the pictur-
esque Marie Antoinette fichu COM
plete many of the poetic summer toi-
let's designed by Partisan artists. They
are, as a rule, made of textile match
ing the gown, and delicate and lovely
Liberty satin, rich and lustrous of sur
face, but light in weight; India mus
Inns, fowered taffetas, French organ
dies, plain and fancy grenadines, and
etamines, batistes and sheer silky
grass linens are among the favored ma
terials used in making these fasrnat-
ing lace-trimmed summer gowns.
Soft and delicate lightweight silks
figured with tiny dot of satin of
contrasting color are made into charm
ing toilets with bodice cut down in
corselet style, and completed by a
guimpe of sheer India silk or shirred
silk batiste. On one model the gored
skirt is trimmed above the hem with
three rows of black silk guipure inser-
ton underlaid with ribbon the color of
the satin dot. The same trimming is
used on the corselet and sleeves with
pretty eflect.-N. Y. Post.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
Immense Tree In Maine.

Jay, Me-, claims one of the biggest
trees in Maine. II stands on the banks
of the Androscoggin, on the lawn OF
the late Dudley Bean. The circumfer.
ence four feet from the ground is 90
feet, diameter feet. About six feet
from the ground there are seven
branches radiating from its trunk
which are from IS inches to "a inches
IN diameter. The branches spread over
a space Of ground 27O feet in cireumfer.
ence, or 80 feet in diameter. When the
branches leave the trunk of the tree,
about seven feet from the ground. there
has been erected band stand, which
seats rs persons. A cooler place on
hot days cannot be found. A Boston
gentleman was riding by recently, and
the tree attracted his attention. He
examined and measured it, and was
astonished at its dimensions. He went
away with the remark that if the tree
was on his lawn $4,000 wouldn't buy il.
II was set out AZ years ago by Lafayette
Bean on the day of his departure for
California, whence he never returned
Boston Record.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
TAKING 1T EASY,
tnturea uphcaynIs Had No Terror,
for lin.


for Him.
One April day old Bill Wheeler, who
bad passed the winter on Ginger noun
tain. showed himself at the foot OF Gin
namon gulch, and took about an hour
to thaw himself out and drink hot
whisky. Then the bartender made In
quiry:
Didn't your son Joe go up the noun
tain with you last fall, Bill?p
Yes; Joe, he went along;" was the
seply.
"Coming down soon?"
81 can't say. About month ago he
was out one day and bar got arteT
him, and hain't seen him since. II the
bar didn't get him he'll be along purity
soon; if the bar did git him then l
reckon Bill will be late in shown up
and didn't your son Sam also go up
with your
"Yes; Sam, he went along, too.
"But he didn't come down with wou?'
MOT to-day We heard a strange
critter yellin' around the cabin one
night, and Sam got up and went out
TO see what it was. He hasn't showed
ND since. As nigh as | could make out
it was a mountain lion, but Sam IL
know all about it when he turns up
"You expect him to turn up again, do
you?"
"Wall, | can't say Sam was alius
leetle fighty bout his trips. If the
lion got linn then he won't come down
this spring; if he got the lion then we
kin look fur him any day"
"There were two other men went up
with you," continued the bartender
"Yes, l believe thar was-Tom Lee
and Pete White. Yes, the five of us
went up and made camp together"
''But Lee and White haven't come
down yet"
"No, not yet. Bout a month ago Tom
Lee was chasia' arter a buck and went
over a precipice up thar. Can't say how
fur lie fell or how he brung up at the
bottom, but he didn't answer when we
hollered at him. / must go up in the
spring and see if he's all right. Tom S
sich a queer cuss you never kin tell
much about him. He may be dead, or
he may hey struck a soft thing and
didn't want to divide"
"Bnt about Pete White?'
"Oh, Pete's all right, l reckon. He
was on the side of the mountain one
day when thar cum snowslide, and
the last seen of him he was bein' buried
20 feet deep. He was goin' toward a
ravine, however, and If he's ambishus
he'll dig his way out in week or more. "
"And you escaped all adventures
asked the bartender.
"Waal yes, nuthin' of account hap
pened to me, cept that we had cloud
bust up thar this mornin', and I've
had ride of 20 miles on log down the
creek and feel sort o shivery Every
thin and everybody is all right, l
reckon, and you might mix me another
glass of the same. IN. Y. Sun.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
OUT OF SOCIETY.
He Had Been in Ii to His Hearts Con-



I've been a bachelor ever since I
reached marriageable age" declared
the man who was wearing a mustard
plaster, slipping hot whisky and smok-
ing an imported cigar in his luxurious
quarters. Now | have retired perma-
n2ntly from society. You couldn't get
me to reception of the royal family
if | was cabled to come as the guest of
honor. I'm out of the swim and I'm
out to stay
"Of course I've gone a great deal and
have been recognized as a sort of social
convenience, TO be called upon when
needed, but there came a straw that
broke the camel's back. Some of the
girls at a nearby summer resort rec
ognized a scarcity of the male element
and sent an imperative call for me.
showed my usually accommodating
spirit and went. They gathered around
me like flies around a sugar barrel pnd
kept up such an Internal buzzing that
! could only make fool of myself by
splitting sentences and ideas in trying
TO say something. They took me in
bathing and they were so attentive that
! had to be towed ashore by the Gus
todian of the grounds and resuscitated.
They kept me rowing or sailing till |
couldn't move without creaking, sang
to me till | have what the doctor calls
a telephone ear on both sides, and
wound up by sending me home with a
mother and baby who received mes
sage to come at once. As the mother
was prostrated with dread ! took care
of the baby, coddled it, and even com
piled with its tyrannical demands for
tine bottle When we struck town it
was raining torrents and we walked
two blocks to get a street car. On that
car there were a dozen of the fellows
that knew me. At first they just
looked at me and sniggered. Then they
all filed solemnly 10y and congratulated
me in an etfusive manner. The baby
set up a yell. the other passengers gig
gled and blushed a deep red for the
first time in 80 years. may attend
on occasional stag party, but woman
now hath no charms for me."-Detroit
Free Press.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
Fashion Notes.

A novelty costume is of novelty suit
ing and velvet. The skirt is of the suit
ing. The waist has a cloth back with
velvet yoke. In front are velvet sec
tions from the bodice point to line
where the yoke should cross the front
of the waist. From this point the sec
tions turn back from a very elaborate
cheHisette arrangement that fills in
the entire front from collar to waist
line. This front is crossed with trellis
bars of inch-wide velvet ribbon in box
plaitings. The velvet sleeves are shirred
from The wrists TO the shoulders and
there are overhanging puffs of velvet
from the shoulders.
The velvet blouse is the delight of the
young woman's heart, and the variety
in which il is turned out is surprising.
Every costumer tries to devise a new
style, and the result is that there is n
medley in these garments that some
times renders a selection somewhat dif.
hcult.
Faneiful effects are produced by the
introduction into passementerie and
similar trimmings Of Jewels, steel and
the finest crystals. Passementerie with
drop trimmings are liked and fiat gal
loon is among the most popular parni-
tures.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

The situation that has not its duty,
ITS ideal, was never yet occupied by
rian.-Tholnas Carlyle.
Its good thing for humanity that
babies can't say what they think when
cutting teeth.-Chicago News.
Truth is the offspring of unbroken
meditations and of thoughts often re-
vived and corrected.-Wollaston.
Some people are proud OF :heir ca
lamities, if they are worse than Other
people's.-Washington Democrat
The average man win stay up till
midnight to earn money TO pay of q
debt. and get up at sunrise to assume
a new one.-Atchison Globe.
II feel so miserable" What's the'
matter?" Mrs. Robinson told me a
secret to-day, and I've forgotten what.
IT wasl"-Fliegende Blaetter.
Men who are too trifing to provide
for their own families are the best
hands to distribute tracts for the
heathen.-Washington Democrat.
Miss Tipton-"Did you enjoy Your
self at the opera last evening MISS
Westend-"Oh, awfully. Mr.. Blather'
skite is the most delightful converse,
tionalist | ever attended musical per,
formanee within. Y. Weekly.
Mrs. Wickwire-"Did you read
about that man who found s5O,00O while
digging worms to go fishing with?"
Mr., Wiekwire- -"Yes, dear" "WelI,
was just thinking what maybe you have
missed by always fishing with fies.'-
Indianapolis Journal
why" she asked, do so many OF
the poets write about goldenrod2 II
seems as if every one of them had tried
to glorify it." "Well," replied the man
who had worked on farm, 1.-THE only
explanation l can give is that the poets
probably never tried to raise potatoes
In a field where goldenrod had got a
| good start t."-Cleveland Leader.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-08
An Attractive Dish.

Green-pepper croquettes make an at
tractive looking dish, and they are also,
il carefully prepared, very acceptable
to a palate satiated with the common
round of vegetables. Good-sized, firm
peppers should be selected. A thorough
washing is the first step in the prepara-
ton, then the removal of the seeds, with
the after parboiling of the skins. When
these are cool they are stuffed with
minced chicken, veal, sweetbreads-any
meat that would be desirable in cro-
qLettes-well seasoned and combined
with cooked macaroni or bread crumbs.
Set them in a pan with little water, to
prevent burning, and bake until they
are evenly and nicely cooked. Served
on a pretty shade of blue china, the pop
ular green and blue effect is most pleas
ingly obtained, and the prettiness is
further heightened by the white of the
cream sauce which is poured over them.
N. Y Post.