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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-24

silence would have seemed peculiar. AS
we could not speak Of the n topic
which interested us, we spoke of every
thing that didn't. | wish | could re-
member all the stupid things We said.
They would make a first rate modern
society drama of the i%nnoouous kind.
The ride seemed so long that ] was
afraid the driver had lost his way, but
if he had he found it again, fer
we pulled up alongside the station at
last.
We went into the writing room, and
there, III a corner. we renewed our dis
eussion. / tried to persuade Jane to go
back to Princeton. and she insisted that
/ should do SO.
We became so Interested that we let
a New York train go by, ana sheze
wasn't another within en- hour and a
nalf.
This meant that we should not reach
New York before 8 o'clock, and we
should have the pangs Of hunger added
10 our other woes. Perhaps it was this
prospect or it may have been the mutual
folly Of letting that train get away
which told upon our tempers. Certainly
our discussion became acrimonious.
"Jane," said I at last, 1--WE mustn't
quarrel again. There'sno use in it now.
People who are no longer anything to
each other have nothing to gain by
quarreling. It isn't as if we were en-
gagged and had our freedom at stake.
"You are quite right" said she.
"and since it seems that we can't talk
without quarreliug / suggest that we
don't talk at all.
OF course two people with SO much
on their minds can't sit side by side IN
perfect silence. It didn't take us five
minutes to find this out, and everything
we said made matters worse. So pres
emily Jane went v 9 to the other side
Of the room and pretended to be inter-
ested in a time table, while I sat on a
bench and read an old letter-the very
last resort of the human mind when it
must have something to do
We had the room to ourselves during
this latter period, but finally several
railroad employees came in. They had
walked down from the scene Of the
wreck. One Of them had evidently
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west an entire day isE2-
dropped from the calendar, SO that o so
to bed Wednesday night and wake up Fri
day morning. In going east, you reverse
the process and repeat the day.
aBy extraordinary luck this happened
TO me, as I sad, on Christmas, SO that l
had two Christmas days the same year.
The captain OF our good Pacific Mail
steamer told us that the event had never
happened before in the histerya of the COM
pany and co the best of his knowledge
had never happened before to any craft.
If that be true, the so passengers and $50
crew ma well boast of their experience.
ssBut two consecutive Christmas days
are no a success. The dinner of the Sec
ond day seems insipid by contrast with
that of the first, and the merriment of the
latter is succeeded By WEAKNESS on the
former. It is a curious place, that one
hundred and eightieth degree OF longitude
It PLAYS havoc with grammar and time.
According to the way you are going
YOU can say Huthfully: Tomorrow is to-
day and today was yesterday. Today was
Yesterday and tomorrow will be today.
Tomorrow has ne yesterday. and yester-
day has no tomorrow. Thoughts like
these are confusing, 80 say the least
Il can claim credit for the wettest
Christmas, " ehearfly voiced Walter Hutch
inson, the travelling agent Of . great Liver
pooI house. at was in the Malay u
try near Singapore. The climate there
was wittily summed up by the great gos-
ernor Sir Stamford Raffies as consisting
of two seasons. the wet and the dry. In
the latter it rains every Is minutes; in the
former all the time. Christmas eve it
was shower. shower, shower. During the
night it poured. Christmas morning the
landscape was like a mernaid's paradise.
The road was d line Of unhroken water,
the river not far away seemed a moying
deluge, the fields were sheets Of water,
broken by bushes ami trees in mathe-
NAUTICAL patterns and the unouitiyated
land was an oyeEflowed marsh
aThe air was full Of warm steam. and
ven could almost feel the'yegetation grow
Ing. The table linen and clothing were
damn. The water condensed on furniture
and triclied in .aittle streams down the
walls. ii d boat had sailed into the draw
ing room, ii would have caused no sur
prisa.. MY host had a blazing fire In his
fireplace, q poor imitation Of the raal ar
ticle. but ii cast q ruddy glow IN the room,
ana. what was better still made d pleas
aYt draft. We did not think Of nov OF
les 81 any ether form q wafer. We had
foo much of ii around us e~yexywhcre Z
"Mg od1ast Cfristnaaa wAz u E&Spt i"
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I-ESy
everywhere. Outside the
! palms nodded and huge Persian ~rosebushes
thrust their glorious branches into the
windows. Listless feI1ahin, sowing
Bedouins, staiwart Sudanese, crafty Ar
menians and sinister Levantines passed to
and fro. On the corner Tommy Atkins
in scarlet coat and with b~ayoneted rife
stood on guard, making the traveller thank
God fer Great Britain. There was .
Christmas dinner with an eastern finish
The turkey was stuffed with pistachio
nuts and Indian spices, the soup was null
ligatawny, the fish was red muilet, the
entree was a dainty Turkish pilau, the
coffee was the same Mocha as the khe-
] dives, and n of the wines came from the
amt Alexandrian vineyard which sup
piled the Caesars. There vas a plum pud
ding imported from England, and, most
wonderful of all, corn bread, New England
mince pie and canned stewed terrapin
from Philadelphia. In special honor OF
the day we drank from cups of which the
youngest may have seen Mshrnoud the
Terrible and the Oldest might have touched
Moses lips when he vas a youth in the
royal court of the Nile. One of the period
of Caesar, a humble piece Of pottery, may
have refreshed Joseph and Mary in their
flight into Egypt. Where we sat we were
in touch with LOCO years of history. The
very site of the palace may have felt b
feet of Alexander, Ptolemv, Cleopatra.
Mark Antony, Bishop Cyril ana Napo-
leon. Through an open door we could
catch a glimpse OF a natchless prize dieus
and in Its center q wonderful erucidxion
carved by a masters hand looked down
upon the place. !
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sanfa olans was Ia II.

"Those Americans down there, said
Santa Claus, as he sat on the lee sideof
IN iceberg and waited for Christmas
eve. s.seem to think I'm not up to date.
NowI wonder. he murmured as he
went in and rang up his polar stables,
what they'd think If they saw me at
it just at present2" Then he pressed q
button in tho side of the iceberg and
said: Grizzly, run out that new deer
less motor sleigh Of mine, while I load
her up. And look here. Grizzly, the
next time you take out that new cleo
trio airship of mine and break it just
when j want to use it, I won't let you
play in that toy orchard Of mine for .
whole yearl
sup to date, ehi' said Santa as he
jumped into his motor and pulled on
the robes. Well, Just watch me while
Fl m0telu
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It was at 0 pleasant dinner party at q
hrnous New York hotel, when the con-
versation turned to the approaching
Christmas. The guests were of various
eallings, but all were qualified to join the
Travellers club, having visited at least
three continents.
what was the oldest Christmas you
ever spentss" asked n at q pause in the
general chat.
II certainly can claim the most norther-
~ one,,' said Captain Leonard Smith, for
merly OF New Bedford. 1T was when /
was whaling in the arctic seas and my
ship was icebound in the pack about 100
miles north of Alaska. 1t was a beautiful
day, clear, quiet and intensely cold. The
stars looked like sharp points, the moon
like q clean cut silver disk and the heavens
as black as sin. Scientifically it was day,
but as a matter OF fact it was pure mid
night. Our bill of fare was wonderful.
We had seething punch, tea nj coffee.
Our meats were corned beef, corned pork,
and, best of all, some polar bear meat and
seal blubber. I will not recommend seal
biubber for these ATTITUDES, but in the far
north, after many months on salt horse
and canned goods, it's as delicious as
boiled chicken. We had potatoes, carrots,
yellow turnips and gingerbread pudding
with real raisins in it. There wasn't q
dish any one here would look at at the
present moment, but all on board vowed it
was the finest banquet they could recall. Z
IF I did not have the most southerly
Christmas, / had certainly the hottest, "
remarked William Fender Mclean, once
editor Of the Hongkong Telegraph, but
now q Gothamite. ssIt was at Port OAR
win, in Australia, which, next to the Mo-
have desert, is probably the hottest spot on
earth. December there is equivalent to
our June, and the weather of their Christ
mas is that of our Fourth of July.
"On account of that frighful scourge,
the white ant, timber cannot be used in
house construction, so that the roofs are
made of iron girders and corrugated sheet
iron galvanized. This makes a house a
veritable oven. The thermometer was
way over tho 100 mark, and every one in
our party was a picture of perspiration
and discomfort. But we were determined
to celebrate Christmas in good old fash
Toned style.
I'VE had a Christmas tree, wreaths and
evergreens, and some one hung up a
bunch of what he called mistletoe. Luck
lily we had an ice factory there, and SO Sc
cured small blocks of comfort at d or 5
cents a pound. Every drink, excepting
the punch. was iced, and every food. ex-
cepting the turkey and plum pudding,
was cold
Zone poetic youth shock a belt Of sleigh
bells to arouse the imagination and an
otker reaa aloud Dickens immortal
Christmas carol. We tried to picture the
rirping cold enjoyed BIZ Scrooge and Mar
Iey's ghost, but the effort proved futile.
Yet the awful heat could not weaken the
Christmas spirit, and both dinner and day
were unalloyed delight"
Tho eldest Christmas Of my expe-
renee" observed DR. Edward Bedloe,
United States consul at Canton. China,
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Few persons outside her family knew
anything about it.
Christmas was drawing near, and a
doleful day it was likely to befor me
The last three | had spent in the Weth-
erells' home, and the change from that
TO a lonely bachelor apartment and q
cherries dinner at a club was enough
to make me wish that ! had been q pa
gan with no knowledge of this sacred
festival.
IN any event, however, I should not
have been al the Wethereu house that
year. for since The early part Of Noyeln-
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nothing could ever part them. she prom
Used.
What would either Of us have said to
any absurd creature who had dared TO
prophesy that before another Christmas
should come we would be estranged?
Nothing that he'd have liked to hear.
you may be sure.
Yet it happened. The cause? Heaven
may know. You cannot learn it Of me.
Perhaps 7 made a nuisance of myself by
loving her too much; it is a great mis-
take.
/ remember that our first difference
resulted from James assertion that love
did not make me happy, and also that
my attempt to prove that it did was
productive of great unhappiness for both
Of u.s. What is the use Of trying to
prove anything to a woman?
If I had simply been happy, she
would have felt it, and that with her
sex is much better than knowing.
Still / dom see how SO small a mat
ter as my happiness could have parted
us or why we supposed that such a part
ing would help it. ! only know that one
evening when ! left her house / wasn't
engaged any more, and New York
wasn't New York any more, and the
moon in heaven vas not the moon.
My happiness-or whatever it may
Rave been-had lasted a little less than
a year.
Wedid not publish our estrangement.
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When Mr.. Nuwed rushed into his favor
tie cigar store, the perspiration was rolling
down his face, and he looked excited
ssQuiok, Charliei'' he said to the young
mar behind the counter. SECT out a box
Of Cuba Superbas for mel My wife will
be in here in five minutes TO buy me a box
of cigars. and she'll try to buy EN- for SO
cents. Here's SIS. Sell her those Superbas
for the So cents, Ole man. and save my
life"
And as Mrs. Nuyed stepped timidly in
her affectionate but precautionary spouse
stepped out the back way.
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II We go back some hundreds Of years,
there will be found instances OF writings
OF a length unusual in the romance OF To-
day. In the seventeenth century there wers
two stories of romantic tendencies written
BY a woman, a Mile. de Scuderi, and they
were drawn u to ten volumes eaohL
ssGrand Cyrus" and "clelie'' were their
titlas and those who read followed the for
tunes of the heroes and heroincs through
hundreds OF thousands Of quaintly ex-
pressed seltcnee4
10 a japanese writer. however, must be-
given the palns for the very longest story
Q record. He o~yerlappad a literary caf-
tufy rum when he gave 10 an eager world
q novel la 100 volumes. His uafaao WIN
Kong te Bakin, and be spent 40 years ia
evolving hiss tale.-New York Iimes.
Cheated Him.
II told Miss Rocks that one word from
her WINS worth i million doliars 90 PIE $
<sHaslzss
sste maIts Il sho chieeaa RecQrd
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. 81
WILLIAM IS. TALES
Copyright 1893 By the author.

told the writer II WAS the guest OF a Gear
friend, DR.. James f. Love, pasha, who
was attached to the khediye's staff. His
home was a palace similar in architecture
to those in Italian cities, but coIored In
Arab suggestions. Within it. was truly
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SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.
Annual Concert of the Maryland In
stitution to Be Given TOmOrrOW.

Annual Concert of the Maryland In
stitution to Be Given Tomorrow.
The annual concert OF the pupils of the
Maryland School for tie Blind will be given
at the Lafayette Square Opera House this
evening at o'clock. These concerts have
always been highly successful in past
years. and this seasons effort will in
no wise fall below the standard already
established. No charge is made for admis-
sion to the concert.sit being the intention
of the mana cement of the institution mere
ly to give some idea 10 residents of the
District of Columbia of the advantages
presented by tine school Children residing
in the District who ARE shut out from go
ing to school here by reason of defective
eyesignt may, under the provisions of sec
ton 1860 of the Revised Statutes enjoy
a course Of instruction in that Institution,
and so the concert is for the purpose of
affording an opportunity 10 Washing tonians
to Judge of the, work and aims of the
school Applications for membership may
be made either to Dr. E. NJ. Gallaudet, pres
ident of Gallaudet College, Kendall Green,
D. c., or to Mr., F., D. Morrison, superin-
tendent of the Maryland School for the
evening will embrace many enjoyable num-
bers and among those who will take part
will be Mr.. Francis Myers, who Is we'll
known in Baltimore, and Mr.. T. Harry
Maxwell of this city, who has lust COM
pleted his musical education. The program
will include numbers by standard compos-
ers and the affair, from all present irdi-
cations will reflect a great amount of cred
it on the Maryland institution.
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This lot Of 50 Oxfords we offer
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She Needed Care

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
l was glad to see the article in The Star
on the condition Of prisoners in the police
stations. And one of the worst features
and one not presented by The Star. is that
persons detained, without charge or war;
rant, are no better treated than the ac-
cused.
Some months ago I saw a lady I had
known for years thrown into the patrol
wagon, without word or warming Indig-
nant at the brutality of the proceeding T
IolloWed on to the station. where L was in
formed that there was no charge against
her and no warrant for her arrest Rut
some obstrusive person had told the police
man that she was half demented and an.
noying." 0--
l explained to the lieutenant that any on
parent eccentricity resulted from an injury
to her head several years before, but thai
she was Intelligent. harmless, refined and a
locked up that long hot July night in the
small cell on the upper floor, and in the
morning was permitted to return to her
home.
AS a result of my complaint to the Com
mlssloners, an alleged trial was held be-
fore court composed wholly of policemen.
winch Was the most Stupendous farce /
have ever witnessed.
The only defense was that she was taken
thus forcibly and locked I'D because she
needed immediate care. But the evidence
was unanimous that no physician saw her.
she was given no medicine or food or even
drink of water through that hot night
but was simply incarcerated like an ordin-
airy criminal.
The trial board acquitted all concerned
the Commissioners "cheerfully concurred -
and l was the only person found guilty
The Woman Suffrage Association of the
District secured matrons in the station
houses but there are not enough. and most
of the stations are without female" Wig
liant after six in the evening.
We need watchful women on the police
force, at our depots and steamboat
wharves, and a house of detention for the
innocent, and no station house where
women are incarcerated should be left with
out a matron any hour of day or night.
June 16; 1898. RUTH G. D. RAVENS
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Mrs. Perkins, Second Musicale.

Mrs. E. z. Perkins second pupils musi-
Gale at National Rifles Armory Wednesday
night brought out a large attendance of the
friends of those who participated in the
program, all the numbers of which were
well interpreted and received well-merited
applause. Some of those who were heard
only in concerted work Tuesday night were
last night given opportunity to show the
full effect of their voices in solos, and there
was also a ladies' chorus. a mixed quar-
tet and female quartet with baritone OBJ
ligato. The new soloists were Misses Mat
tie McLaurine, Bessie Blount, Helen
Wright, Margaret Storm, Lena Freeman.
Edith Walford, Louise HELEN, Harriet
Draper, Elizabeth Fill, Harriet Crum, Mrs.
Bessie Latham Gibson and Mr.. George
Cooper.
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regulation carrying into effect the fol-
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alton bill will shortly oe promulgated by
the Postmaster General: THAT second.
third and four-class mail matter shall not
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-23

inS on their arms tonight. viii probably
nave 10 resist the hushwbaclnE iae.lcs
Mhicn were pracuced on tne marines a.
Guantanamo
il If stated by we'll informed qr,ry
tIfates.ais ;ha, <, least three cav " Z
expire before the arny iga 2hts !agg b.
Cuba and begins active opera siol4 ,.rs ~ +
Iii" city.
~ tnbans viii b. EMPLOYED as uesyt,.s
enatps, 50 AS % expos ans a4rstfsf -e,s
ehc SiAniara Mas lar Artir, ..pe ,..a.l.
oNt hehuas niRs therefore b. cAgn.sg 10
occur h9pfsy ttou tht tilnt gne tfpasg BOG a
lhen niaren toNaF6 S.a5 lag,p q, ls-ss ustli
thc civ IS tn iheif bands
~ llt mesntHr Hegs Auu. VI ga--ps1a' =
sniiF WI. no b. sdie. li i raesfs. psd ,har
'4N VII .. 7vaos ~ eeg5as taery vestge
~ wf-t'saiiuu Yatinp feas2 x their yups
'iia lc 0iocisfts IA, hEfl.s ~ eioseIy as 10
proven; iie escaIH ~ Cirr,sra's ships.
a IS appreciated IA sas Spanish men OF
va as a. asessfs1e situation, and no
s1faf'so WullI6 br ssai tasre II the Span-
p'ief mao, al uiicrsg % leave the harbor
aith0tfst y wstAs ee ptss BILE for thu
A4lTfieasp 'liaps " srcsr the harhor lust as
q stallil is l'tsesSs for the Spanish men
81 va IS 4rtaE. Tone Of the armor -clads
Nnie| 80 2''araas5oaS given. will b. MI
h'@et a. essasS themselves to dancer a,
usTirir-cs. TIE torpedo boat des,royers
At'N iNfsaGs e~N's v'ill be allowed TO enter
do iseihnr = Hear Admiral Sampson thln,t f,
lazy s'sse chance OF doIng any execution
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THE CUBANS ARE ASSISTING.
At attacking the Spaniards in the Rear and the In
vaders in Front.

Especial Dispatch to tho New York neraid,
London Times and Tho Houston Post.
Conyrlgh,od 1898 by James Gordon Ben.
nott.)
Washington, June 22.--lmpor,ant mes
sages summarizing the situation near San
tiago were received this evening hy the
secretaries OF the war and navy respective
ly. The dispatches were dated "off Dali
quiri. June 22' and were sent TO Playa del
Estes. few miles distant. al which point
Lieutenant Colonel Allen Of the signal
corps has established a cable statiap con
meeting with Guantanamo aud Muie II
Nicholas
Secretaries Long aud AlScr were Era,i-
fled at the news. The lester expressed
satisfaction when copies were laid before
him.
body OF spaniardr Lieutenant Coloiel
Allen stated. had collected near tDe ian1-
ing place 20 oppose the dsbarkstlul q. IAc
troops, but under The agreement made al
The conference between REQ. Admull
Sampson General shafier and Cea~5als
Garcia and Reb 1909 Culsans we're attass.
lag the enemy IN the rear whils tue fiFs,
Americans lended deployed So ss 10 d,is,
The span,erde back 10 where tie Cuoans
were waiting To receive thenl
lieutenant Colonel Allen hltsher asairc
that Soee cnlans Mere coming 20 the %
sistanoe Q, the iorves
From L.ieuienan, Colonel NlIen's tsyesr.
the authorities Kot tae Impression auas =
lansing had bean ipaae q sssl,eapre, ast
evidently THIS Vas p9, ,cufxaat, &xAssosea
hoing twelve miles asstas iaasp Dasszirt
"nehonase the poinl weipl Ssoss,al stat
ter mentions az the on, g. wsset the
tr1ops as.iarksd.
~ y POI believed tiaa1 ANY great trouble
Was experienced ~ trtssx the troops.
TINS Is rv,aapt 5rpm tes tses that but n
ihw nouns we've issenFps To yal the troops
ashore, II IL nessfss1 "a certain in off,
cial cisc!as rhss Lsqaiti p.er. which be-
iongea 10 90 ore smelling establishment.
wee nn1,ipsee ~ ,he troops and the siege
guns v'ssich wsse on board the ships
llb-se NM hs no Delay in the forwardns
- sfo,tw, Stzftcr's instructions do no,
pefsnit him 10 remain Idle aud thus give
fne trfrry time 10 strengthen his position
and lax ambush 10 the troops. The land
Ing place n connected By a road with Ds,.
Quiri two miles away. which X CONNECTED
with Santiago de Cuba by rollroad. Over
the bed OF this road tno doubt exists ,ha,
ire tracks have been destroyedl the sun.
plies for the troops will be sent, white a.
men themselves, taking advantage OF Inc
Topography OF the country, will covcr !.
|Anickiy as possible the fifteen milo 49,
tween them and Santiago dc Cuba II /.
not believed that the forward fpovernen,
VIII be attempted before tomorrow morn
'ns y osyDrsak. 70 that the troops, rest