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Inspection Service.


The inspection service of the health de-
partment is not, says DR.. Woodward. con-
S-itutcd 50 as to permit efficient inspec-
ton Of live stock intended for slaughter
only foriy-nine inspections Of abattoirs and
slaughter houses Were made. These re-
suited, however, in the condemnation CT
fifteen C&rca~seS Of hogs and seven of cat
t.e. Examinations Of pork killed in this
District demonstrated the prese nee in some
cases Of FiChinae, the Causa-ive agent Of
trichinosis in man. From these examina-
tons the health officer says, It would APP
pear that this disease exists among the
hogs here about frequently as 1t exists
among those killed in other places for ex-
port.
During the past year forty-four applica-
tons We're received and acted upon for per-
mission TO maintain dairy farms in the Dis
trlct Of Columbia, tWenty-three such ap-
y Icatiuns were granted. and the remainder
rejected. OF 13I applications for permits
sion to maintain diaries. JOB Were granted
and thirty rejected. OF 10l applications for
permission TO send milk into the District of
Columbia, ninety-five We're granted and six
rejected. OF permits which We're in force
at the beginning of the year. ninety-eigh
for the maintenance of dairy farms BIB
for the maintenance of diaries. and eighty
two for the importation of milk have been
Cancelled. At the close of the year there
were, therefore. in force, 1j2 permits for
the maintenance of dairy farms in the Dis
trict of Columbia. 800 for the maintenance
of diaries. and GOO for the Importation Of
milk
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EXECUTORS SALE on VALUABLE REAL Els
TATE. KNOWN AS NO. 4l3 10TH STREFT
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Affects EotH " mite and tOiUred.
Referring further to- scarlet fever and
cIphthariJ. d. Woodward says: Scarlet
fever VaS much more prevalent during the
past year than at any ;ime during at least
five preceding years. The number Of re-
ported cases in 1S9T-ISgS was 80: in 1898
iN.a IL was ~ The increase affected both
whit. and Col0red. Among The former the
rise was from 4ts: 20 $40. among the Iatter
disease was much less prevalent among
the C0iored people than among the whites
the ratio &" The white population being I ~
Ter thousand. and among the coIOred, III
The disease was somewhat milder in type
Thdn it has been OF recent years cXCcuf
fS.it-lN:4I, the per cent OF fatal cases being.
but eli. among the whites, = L. and among.
the colored. l92.
The increase in the prevalence of dipb-
iberia. while not so marked as in the case
Of scarlet fever. was unfortunately OF con-
siderable magnitude. The number Of cases
rose from 7N1 70 I.dI9: among the colored
from 2'-i 10 aiN. and among the whites from
4S4 10 1IJ. Its prevalence with reference.
To the population was as follows: Among
the whites. $50 per thousand: among the.
colored al. and among ;he entire popula-
tiOn. 36S- The per cent OF fatal cases
among the entire number Of patients fell
from IL II TO 1913 The fatality among the
whites rose from T.. ~ to L. so while among
the coIGred 1t feI from 81 rs 10 PHI"
Does Not Afford Protection.
Attention is again invited by DIR. Wood
ward TO the fac, that the law under which
the health department is operating with
reference TO scarlet fever and diphtheria
does not afford the public that degree of
protection which it is desirable that 1t
should. and which the public generally ex-
poets The most that It accomplishes, he
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HELEN VI. pENpIETON
RICHARD Il. RGALL, Administrators
Attorney FOR Administrator.
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wALrER B. WILLIAMS 4 III, ArcrIoNrLns.


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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

W. G.. Wills, the dramatist and
painter, once attracted so much atten-
ton by his pastels-according to a story
in the published memoirs-that he was
requested by the secretary to attend at
Osborne to do portraits of her majesty's
grandchildren. Mr.. Wills was a thor
ough Bohemian, and the invitation
filed him with dismay. In ignorance
of the etiquette which CONSTITUTES a royal
invitation in a command he thought to
get out of it by writing a polite note,
stating that a prior engagement would
prevent his attending. The next day a
telegram came from Osborne to the fol-
lowing effect: 'tThe queen commands
Mr.. Wills to attend at Osborne imme-
diately."
The artias was far too loyal a subject
to dispute her majesty's direct com-
mands. So he ruefuliy packed up his
belongings and started for the royal
palace. As might well be supposed, his
life at Osborne was uncongenial. When
he was doing a portrait Of a royal baby
on all tours and good humoredly said,
"Look up, little onel"' the lady in
waiting reproved his familiarity and
told him he must address the infant as
princess or your royal highness.
The pastel portraits which he made
still hang at Osborne, and as royal pat
ronage gave q great stimulus to sittesa
his reputation was made.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

world on a few hours notice. She does
not like to be left at home. She has
cruised around the world-not with her
husband, for the naval regulations do
not allow that, but after him.
Mrs. Coghlan calls herself a cosmo-
politan, for her Tome is where her hus-
band happens to be stationed. She has
been up the Mediterranean. on the Chi
ma, European and South American sta.
tons and also at the Mare Island navy
yard. usually preceding or following hei
husband and joining him at his post Of
duty. While her husband was at Ma
Mia it was not convenient for her to be
to Paris with the widow of the famous
General Custer, so as to be as near him
as circumstances would permit. She
returned to this country a short time
ago and has been visiting friends in
New York city.
Before her marriage she was Miss Jul
liza Barbour of Terre Haute, nd. She
was an orphan, attending school at a
convent, when she first met Captain
Coghlan. He was then q young naval
officer. Friendship blossomed into love,
and love ripened into marriage. Soon
after their marriage Captain Coghlan
was ordered to the European station on
board the Richmond. The young bride
went to Europe and remained near her
husband until he was relieved and or
dered home. Two years were spent in
Washington, whan her husband vas On
duty at the photographic bureau Of the
navy department. During their stay in
Washington the Coghlans were popular
IN naval circles, and they have many
warm frienSr tsere.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

a horn, and this will be a signal for tha
family to send for the mail which tbs
clerk will hand out, and to deposit with
him any letters or parcels which are to-
be transmitted through the mails. Tha
necessary precautions will be taken, OF
course. and the post boxes will be kept
locked.
II the use of the postal wagon be-
comes general throughout tAe United
States, not only will the -postInasteSe in
small towns be put out of office. but
postofices will be abolished and the
circuit will lave probably but one MaAp
office, at the starting point OF the post
wagons route.
Another and supplementary device ia
a sort of mechanical inc antomAtio
postoffice to be set up at a crossroads
on the delivery route. This repository
is a postoffice on a small scale, which
will not require a postmaster and whicM
will serve people living a from the
main route some distance.
h inventor of this contrivance a
sent to the p~ostofice department 81
model. His plan comprises a set OF
postoffice boxes made of metal. Each
patron has a box, in which his mail Is
delivered daily. There Is an electrical
arrangement by which the patron liv-
ing back a considerable distance and
even out of sight may be.informed v4ben
the carrier has put I'M mai for him in
his box. The pressing of a button IN
the box gives the signal at the ether
end of a wire.
Persons who do not desire this cleo.
trical connection can have their boxes
at much less cost. This plan also pro-
vides that the carrier shall carry
stamps, stamped envelopes n postal
cards to fill the order which he may
find left for him in the repository. By
the arrangement the inventor claims
that people living back one two and
three miles or more may be served
with free delivery along the route. The
patron would have to send somebody
from the house to the repository. and
except for that trouble would have the
same benefit from the free delivery as
persons living directly upon the main
road travelled by the career.
For several years the postal depart
ment has been considering similar
plans, as it a become a recognized
fact that the city dweller, with kali q
dozen deliveries Of mail every day, was
getting much more than he deserved
when compared with the rural resident,
who had to put up with one mail a day
and had no free delivery at all.
If the postal wagon system should be
generally adopted, it would mean that
q large number of the 10000 fourth class
~postoffices now established would be
done away with. Each wagon would
displaee from two to six small offices,
making one OF them a central distrihut-
ing station from which the wagon
would stsrs each morning and to which
II would return every night.
The daily gathering OF gossips at the
village p~ostof7ce would become a thing
Of the past, bu. it is probable that most
dwellers in rural communities would
gladly exchange this Improbable force
gathering for the daily paper and other
advantages which a free daily delivery
of mail would bring.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

ion that 1t impeded the view of those be-
hind her more than two ordinary mats
would have done. And so the theatre Of
ficials inly rage, and the Maid of Athens
smiles sweetly, the vindicator in Ancient
| Athens of the newer rights of woman.
~ derision Young creatures should not
be exposed. II they are to endure the ar
rows of this kind OF mirth, let 1t De later
in life and not at the time when It IS IN
tolerable. If a boy goes wrong, or TENDS
to go wrong, or has laws in his character
which are precisely the flaws his mother
hoped explicitly never to see N the chaf-
acter of a child of hers-in that kin anu
difficult case she may have the impulse
to take up any weapon thai lies near her
hand in order to threaten him away from
the road she hates to see him follow. Blu
assuredlv she is ill advised even then to
,,se the weapon of derision. The gentler
banter must be seldom used, and not upon
all boys+and not upon my boy unless II
be almost certain to justify itself by sue
cess in his case.
When physical culture came into vogue
and was applied to the upbringing OF pa
-.-. --a1 10
bies the first act of the reformers was TO
, discard the old-fashioned cradle. 1t was
| said not to be healthy for the baby to pc
! subjected to the seesawing motion OF the
| cradle.
Now, a Chicago woman physician mas
| come out with the idea that the bany
needs a cradle to get a little exercise ana
a healthy circulation of the blood. Sne
| discarded the cradle for her own children
but for her grandchildren she has grown
wiser. She declares the cradle is not an
adder of MANTLE brains, but only sends
/ the necessary amount of blood to all parts
of the body.
Something of this theory has made It's
way into a big babies hospital in this
city, where a doctor is arranging some
thing in the way of a baby exerciser, and
we may hear before long Of the baby
gymnasium, in which every day the baby
will be properly exercised.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

Lac q La 4e 4S4'D 49, NA
periences. But beside the adventures
Of a Chicago woman their exploits seem
like everyday affairs. Mrs. ]. H. r.
Bond has had more experience as a war
nurse than dozens of other women who
claim the title.
She was only II years old when she
began active work in her profession.
From the training school at the Queens
hospital, Birmingham, England. she
went to Netley to study. and from there
she went to Woolwich. When the Eng
fish went to Zululand, Mrs. Bond-then
Miss Alice Annie Crisp-was n of the
first nurses sent with them by the gov
eminent. She went all through the
Zulu war and the Egyptian campaign,
enduring all the h~ardships and priva-
tions that fell to the lot of the soldiers
and taking charge of the sick and the
wounded.
Mrs. Bond can show five medals CIV
en- her in recognition OF her services.
Two were given. her by the English
government; one, a bronze star, by the
late khediye CT Egypt and the order of
the Royal Red Cross by Queen Victoria.
Mrs. Bond was one of the first wo-
men TO be decorated With this cross 1t
was publicly presented to her by the
governor general of New Zealand, and
she holds it as one OF her most priceless
treasures.
These medals were not easily earned.
During the Egyptian and Zulu cam
paigns Mrs. Bond and the nurses with
her endured as much in the way of
hardships as any of the soldiers. They
did not expect or get extra Injuries on
account of their sex. AT one time in
Zululand Mrs. Bond and another nurse
spent a month travelling in OK carts
from up in the country down to Peter
MaritglunS. taking charge of 60 sick
and wounded soldiers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
The Evolution OF the stsa mshIp.

When it seemed that the limit had about
been reached with wrought iron as the
main reliance of the designer, mild steel
had been so perfected is to enable pro-
gress to be maintained. The arge boil
ers necessary to withstand the high pres
sure and furnish the W for high
speeds would have been impossible, but
for mild steel, and the same thing is true
of the moving parts of the engine. It may
be- noted also that workmanship had im-
proved, n the use of anti-friction
metals for bearings, combined with this
improved workmanship, enabled the high
rotational speeds to be carried out with
safety and reliability.
The machinery of Wampanoag, design
ed in 1865, was so heavy that only 30
/. h. p. per ton of machinery was OBJ
tanned. The San Francisco, n of the
earliest of the modern cruisers OF the
United States navy in which advantage
was taken of all the factors for reduction
of weight, obtained 1853 i. h. p. per ton q
machinery.-The Engineering Magazine.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

earned his education by winning an
Edinburgh scholarship and was grad
uated from the university with high
honors.
The aristoeratic surroundings of the
late DIR. John Halls luxurious house Of
worship are in sharp contrast with the
dingy neighborhood of the Regent
Square church, to which New York
looks for DR.. Halls successor. In even
sharper contrast are the stately Fifth
avenue parsonage n modest board
ing house chambers in which Mr.. Con-
nell lives in the heart of the cheap
boarding house district of London, a
contrast somewhat commensurate with
the contrast between salaries on Fifth
avenue and Regent square.
Mr.. Connell is unmarried. He speaks
with a slight Scotch accent. He has
natural oratorical gifts, but is always
self CO tanned and conservative in his
1tterances. He is an impressive speak
er. His voice Is deep and musical and
aas great carrying power.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
RICH CHURCH CALLS HIM.
Young London Divine Who Is O4ered
a LEtfth avenue rnlpit.

Rev. A~le1cn6,ar Connell, the young
divine who has been called to fill he
pulpit Of the sifth Avenue P~resbyte-
rian church. where New york's richest
and most fashionable congregation wor-
ships, is a young man, but he has the
reputation of being the most eloquent
and popular Presbyterian pastor in
LonGon.
The man who Las been asked to sue
coed Or. John Hall is a Scotchnan from
the highlands. He Is not yet SO years
old. lie is over 6 feet tall. broad shout
dercd and Very good looking. His hair
and mustache are brown and wavy-
and he i.as a hnelw nodded head. He
resembles n Of Ian Maclaren's he
roes in tha he comes OF humble origin,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
ono 81 Oaisa,a YsccsFa,rscitie..

One Of "Ouida's'' peculiarities is that
she cannot write at a table, but invari-
ably writes with a pad on her knee and
an inkpot on the carpet. In this way she
will sit for hours at a time. 1t is Incl
d~entally related that in such occasions
she has written as much as 10000 words
at a single sitting, but this is q statement
that surpasses belief, however prodigious
known to dictate 1000 words at a sitting,
columns Of the ordinary newspaper, at a
stretch is a test OF physical endurance
to which even SO prolific and indefatigable
a writer as Ouida would hardly care to
submit herself.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
FARMERS MAIL.
Plans For Free Daily
Deliveries in Rural
Districts.
THE EXPERIMENT IN MARYLAND
Postal Wagons and Autos
matte Crossroads Mail
Distributors.
THE EXPERIMENT IN MARYLAND

an experiment which may lead 70 a
radical change in our rural mail services
is now being tried in Maryland. In
stead of a number Of small fourth class
postofices, occupying cerIers OF gs1srs
al stores and front rooms in faTfnerSs
homes, the postal department has es-
tablished a travelling postofice which
covers a route 81 miles long, OF rather
makes a circuit of that length.
The travelling postofice lis contained
in a covered wagon which was invsnted
by a Maryland man. The wagon diff
fers materially from any vehjGls now In
postal service. 1t is planned especially
for the delivery of mail along eSantgy
roads. While light of weight it IL MAIDS
as strong and durable as material will
permit. <aGhe cover incloses complstel7s
having two windows on each side n
doors. Within there is room for q naasI
carrier to stand at a d~istrihtg9ng. tS-
BILE, which has drawers and ~NSsonhe}e4
for mail matter. Outside there IL i
drivers seat The body Of the wageM
is painted navy blue, and thp ruHnfnA
gear is yellow. On each side OF tho
wagon in large white letters is 'Us s.
Mail"
The plan is very simple. The postaA
wagon. equipped with he necessary
compartments and Appliances for ham
ding the mail, will travdrse certain well
defined circuits whore mail boxes VIII
be stationed at intervals.
The postal clerk will ride inside the
wagon, which will be driven b.. = rc~
liable man. This postal clerk VIII take
the mail from the boxes b place any
mail there may be for tia owner there's
in. This is arranged for houses net di-
rectly on the pest road. e
Where the houses are situated eiract<
ly on the post road the driver Will biow4
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
To nature near akin,
So / throw my mental lariat
And strive to "rana them in.
u,rls Gagged until married.

sStone walls do not a prison make nor
iron bars a cage in America perhaps, but
plain wickc-7ork is enough to keep in the
girl and keep cut the man on the island of
New Britain i'll Polynesia. There a girl
is kept in a cage from the time she is a
year old until she marries-not very
many years, for she is generally married
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
couRrsH1p IN poLYNEs1A.

when she is 12 years old. She is allowed
to come out to battle, but all her food is
sent in to her, and her best young man
does his counting through the bars. There
are many advantages about this system.
No staying out late at night, no clipping
with a man not in her set. The girls
grow fat and healthy on this treatment
and do not seem to mind their imprison-
~ ont
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

&~
cattle, but while Looping along On his
broncho he is often inspired, and these
Inspirations he writes out When he has
leisure. From the plains, the cattle and
various aspects of ranch life he takes
his themes and sings ~ofA&hings as he
sees them. His verses arg first printed
in the Colorado papers. to which he
sends them, and afterward they go the
rounds Of the press east and west. Here
is a sample of his verse:
My broncho is no Pegasus
To reach Olympisn heights.
But still up Rocky mountain slopes
Be takes me In his flights.
TITS here that thoughts come rounding
up,"
To nature near akin,
So / throw my mental lariat
And strive to 'rope them in"
One of his first contributions to the
Colorado papers was q story in verse,
entitled 'Bill and the Parson." relating
an incident just as 1t occurred in the
early days OF Creole, Colo, when that
little city was a prosperous mining
| camp, where gambling and lawlessness
were in full force. Real characters fig
ured in this poem, the principal one,
"Lanky Bill" better known to the east
as "SoApy'' Snaith"-his real name was
Jefferson Randolph Smith, the all
round bad man and marshal of Creede
being an especially good picture from
life.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
Mans Herd Lot.

We are told that wealth does moi bring
happiness, and we know that poverty
doesn't.-Tacoma Ledger.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
A SAILORS WIFE.
Mrs. Coghznn Always Tries to Be
Near Her Fighting Husband.

Mrs. John B. Coghlan, wife Of the gall
liant captain of the cruiser Raleigh, the
first of Dewey's ships to come home
from the Philippines. is an accomplish
ed CT charming manners. She is
a good type of the American naval Of
icer's wife. She is used to living in a
trunk" and thinks nothing of packing
up to move to the other side of the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22
a coWBoY POET.
A Colorado Puncher Who Handles
Both Fen and Lariat.

A new cowboy poet has appeared in
Colorado. His name is Harry Ealard.
and he is known as the Poet Lariat Of
the Ranges" He came originally from
Cincinnati, but at present he is en-
ployed on Stirrup ranch, near Canon
City. His daily vocation is to round up
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Canned rRulrs ANp VEGETABLES

CANNED -Pmeapales 2-lb. eve.
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81 90 pears. lib standard soc; black
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9-lb light weight 81 90
CANNED VEGETABLES-Tom Bib
iull weight s5I90c 2-lb full weisht 65n10'
okra and tomatoes, 2-l5 GOO; Lima beans. 2-lb
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T5c a No. striugless beans. 2-lb full weight
s, so red kidney beans, Glib fun weight Sc;
marrowfat peas 2-lb full weight 90c: early
June peas. fancy GLIB weight 40: Ameri-
can petit pois peas fancy 2-lh full weight
81 65Gpl. Is: asparagus. California 2l5-lb $500
corn Auburn cream 2-lb full weight 81 100
liz. No. / 2-lb full weight 81 .o5@l TO- Blue
Ridge. 2-lb S0GiS5c
CALIFORNIA FRUlT-Extra standard 2h
10 pyhch a :, f lemon cling " ye'iow
ricots $l75dl so. Bartlett pears 81 S5sfi 90
assorted 81 S0Gs1 65 standard eiS-lb pea hes.
low Crawford 81 50Gil 10. apricots 81. i0Tll Is
yellow Crawford 81 50fGl 50 apricots 81 55ip
co. Bartlett pears $l.55Nl SO.