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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
NATIONS LIBRARIAN.
THE NEW OFFICIAL KNOWS MEN AS
WELL AS BOOKS.

How the Great Library of Congress
Must Be Handled to BE of Benefit
to Our Lawmakers-Career of Mr..
Barrows.
The selection Of a librarian of con-
gress to take the place of the late John
Russell Young has interested a great
many people besides the congressman
who use the nations great ~storehouse
of knowledge and information. The
magnificent new home for this vast col
lection of books has changed it from
an immense heap of volumes to the lar
gest and finest library in America.
Owing to it's national character, the
library of congress needs to be put un-
der the management of a man who Is
not only familiar with books, but with
men. He must be an executive as well
as a librarian. More than that, con-
gress requires that he shall be thor
oughly alive to the topics of the times.
He must follow the trend of public
thought. He must anticipate the wants
of our lawmakers and be prepared to
meet them. Today the interest of con-
gress may center upon the treaty ports
of China, and the members who intend
to make speeches will want books on
China. Tomorrow the tariff on block
tin may be uppermoSt, n information
about tin mining will be wanted.
Samuel June Barrows, the. Boston
a who has been selected to be the
executive head of the national library,
is well equipped for the position. He is
a student and knows books. He is a
literary man and knows how to use
books. He is a congressman and knows
congress and what 1t wants.
One of the chief duties of the libra
rian of congress is the preparation not
only of exhaustive catalogues, but of
ready reference photographers of a
thousand topics which are liable to
come up in connection with the work
toricaI writer's and publicists. These
are days of rapid movement in public
affairs. After such sudden and radical
departures as we have witnessed in the
foreign relations of our government
during the last year 1t will be readily
recognized that somewhere the data on
all such subjects should be not only
stored, but marshaled in accessible and
disable form.
Fol such work as that Mr.. Barrows
has probably no superior. He has a
mind naturally alert and trained by
many years experience in the examina-
ton of public questions, SO that the
very first thing to suggest itself to him
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25

NulEE IN n -"
ing the torches, which shed a fitful light
over the assembly. At the other end was
a square stone altar, immersed in gloomy
shadows. In this it was that the devil
spirits were to manifest themselves to the
awestricken worshipers, who, at a signal
from one of the priests, Frustrated them
selves on the ground, chanting n re-
peatedly ~slapping their nearby nelghbofs
on the backs. Meanwhile several OF the
priests left the group n entered the dark
recess in the rear of the altar for the Eur-
pose of imploring the devils to manifest
themselves. In q few moments, with
startling abruptness and accompanied by
the most blood curdling yells, a strange
figure leaped into the uncertain gloom OF
the altar. The w~orshipers leaped to their
feet in frenzied fury and gashed themselves
with knives and sticks until the blood
flowed. The devil spirit then retired to
the shades of darkness, while a more I'M
canny visitor appeared. running round on
all tours and covered with the skin OF a
wild beast. He was followed by other
ssghostly'' visitors. each one known to the
worshipers by lame whose appearance
was the signal for repeated prayers, enun-
ciated with such frenzied zeal that the lii
was deafen1ng.
The last of the devils having disappear
ed, the sacred animals were brought IN
and slaughtered and their bodies placed on
top of a huge funeral pyre. The flames
Ieaped out, the smoke filled the dingy cave,
and with frightful bowls the ~worshipers
reascended from the temple, mingling in
groups gathered before the small coffinlike
structures where the devils would gather
after feasting on the animals. The func-
lions of the supernatural inhabitant OF
these dwellings were denoted by the
fetch signs adjoining the outside. Ac-
cordingly before one who was supposed to
be a powerful hunter gathered the war
riors and men of the tribe; before Others
the women and young children, praying
for long life and success, while Others at
tracted those intent On bringing the soul
to a high state of spiritual welfare in agri-
culture, fishing, spinning, cooking or any
of the hundred other necessities of a well
conducted community.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
How to Enjoy Life.
Start each day as if commencing q new

Start each day as if commencing 3 new
life.
Do not think too much of tomorrow.
Control your mind in giving attention
to only one matter at a time.
If compelled by circumstances to give
attention to more han one matter at a
time, weigh the most important n re-
curing immediate attention and excuse
yourself temporarily for not attending to
the others.
Think that you are but human" and
liable to error.
Remind yourself that you cannot act
beyond the abilities You possess and that
sstime'' alone will give you the necessary
experience you are DESTROYS of obtaining
If you are an observer. Remind your
self that other human beings are born OF
the same material and are subjects
Of the same desires" passions" and
feelings which possess you.
Know that when serious occurrences
take place in everyday business or in the
domestic circle life still fingers to en-
able you to reflect upon the foregoing
thoughts, which will rouse the minds
action If referred to, and SO bring you
back to your normal state Of feeliDg.-Ex-
change.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
NO PROFIT IN PROPHECY.
The ArchRngel Gabriel Leaves His
Disciple to Pay Her Own Debts.

Disciple to Pay Her Own Debts.
Some highly amusing litigation has
been occupying the attention of the Paris
courts. The defendant in the action in
question is Mile. Couesdon. 1t will be re-
membered that this young person achieved
no little notoriety by claiming to be in
constant communication with the Arch
angel Gabriel. For a long time immense
numbers of persons, some of them from
distant parts of the world, fiocked to listen
to her predictions, which were delivered
in doggerel that did small credit to the
literary ability of her celestial adviser.
Unhappily the voyante, after bringing off
one or two prophecies that seemed to make
her q serious rival of Zadkiel, neglected to
predict the fall Of the Meline cabinet.
Thanks to her pecuniary embarrass-
ment, says the London Pail Mall Gazette,
the public is now being enlightened as to
the origin of her inspiration. A former
associate of Mile. Couesdon is suing her
for el00, the sum, it is alleged, being
money lent to establish the prophecies in
business. The capitalist who promoted
this curious concern is a masseuse who at
tended on Mile. Couesdon n noted that
she was subject to frances. The masseuse,
who doubtless had professional reasons for
knowing something of the gullibility OF
humanity. suggested that her clients phys
ical infrmity might be turned to account
and advanced e100 to install her In an
apartment worthy of the representative
on earth of the Archangel Gabriel.
A little later a domestic servant was en-
gagged by the firm. She has now sued for
her wages and been awarded some e40
and a small sum in damages. Mile,
Couesdon's defense in this action was in
structive. She pleaded that the bonnie
had not been taken on as a servant at all,
but had consented to open the door to Wis
itors and to peel the family potatoes in re
turn for a complete initiation into the
mysteries of prophecy. In fact, she was a
sort of apprentice prophecies. This con-
tention was overruled by the court in the
regrettable absence from the witness box
of the Archangel Gabriel.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
rhree Crusnen men.

1t happened not so very long ago THAI
three girls had come to the theater to-
gether, and they, with the usual feminine
impedimenta of coats and hats and opera
glasses, quite filed up the three end seats
near the middle aisle. Beyond them sat
three men who had also come to the the
alter together. They arrived late-after
the curtain had gone up, in fact-and
the girls had to gather up hats, pro-
grammes and all and rise to let the other
trio file past them. That was all right.
Not one word was said, and both parties
settled quietly down to enjoy the play.
But at the end of the first act the men
wanted to go out. There were one or two
smothered groans this time as the clumsy
masculine feet tramped to and fro across
the skirts and toes of their neighbors, but
the groans were smothered, and every
thing looked as merry as could be.
At the end of the second act the three
men again went out. Still things were
serene. The curtain went down on the
third act at exactly the same momen that
the three men arose from their seats. 10
their surprise, the girls sat still.
ssWi1l you please let us pass asked the
foremost man of the n nearest him. lt
happened to be the chaperon, and with all
the dignity of her W months old we'd
ding ring she gazed blankly up at him.
ssPass?'' she murmured sweetly. why,
I think we have let you pass live times
already. We're very tired. Don't you
think you could use somebody else to
climb Overt"
The man looked at his comrades, and
as if moved by springs the three sat down.
And. what is more, they staid there.
The other two girls patted the plucky one
on the head and presented her with a box
of candy next day, and after the play was
over three women of different parties in
the neighborhood of those seats leaned
over and thanked her for what b had
done.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
SHOPLIFTING TRICKS.
Big Stores Now Keep Expert.
enced Detectives.
COSTLY MISTAKES OF AMATEURS.
KIeptomaniacs Are Little Trouble I'm
Comparison with Professionals,
Schemes to Get Arrested For Pure
poses of BIackmafl.

"There are three classes of shopliftersE
the petty thieves, the klepto1naniacs, the
professionals, " said he head of a big de-
partment store. "The first easily sur
render, cry and offer goods or restitution;
the kleptomaniacs either pay at once or
bills sent to their families are quickly set
tied, but the professionals-well, they re-
quire all the keenness of detectives trained
by criminal service to get even with them.
1.-The mass Of people believe we have
clerks employed to watch all suspicious
characters and action. That was the
case in the beginning Of detective service
In corporations. Clerks with keenness
and interest in the firms welfare were
paid to keep an eye on tho aisle crowds.
But trouble grew Il of that through the
arrest of innocent people or people whose
guilt could not be legally proved.
$50 city detectives gradually came In.
They demanded q good salary n got it.
The amateur couldn't put his case before
the grand jury, nor was he familiar with
the hours and doings and ways of court.
First only the chief was a sworn officer.
He governed the amateurs and made the
arrest. But the shops grew out of his reach.
They built up and around. His assistants
had to be as himself, and SO gradually the
detective system grew to what it now is
a distinct part of a great shop.
"Think of a dodge like thisl
"a woman goes into . shop. She Is
well dressed, nice looking. She buys
goods anywhere from $40 to 800 and has
| them sent to an address, collect on deliv-
cry. This looks squaree enough; there's no
risk here.
The driver asks at the bell if Mrs. So
and-so lives there. Yes; her room is as
the head of the stairs, or, If it is a hotel,
the elevator boy takes the package, mark
ed collect, up to the room.
1.-THE woman says the package is for her
and asks the carrier to wait a moment.
He may wait endlessly, for she has gone
out another entrance-gone for good. She
had taken the room until that time may
be just for the day, paid for it, and as
soon as her purchase arrives she is free to
go. There is no clew, for she has given an
assumed name at both shop and house.
HThis is the trick the drivers are most
afraid of unless they know the house is a
good one. Every department shop has sent
out especial instructions to the delivery to
watch for these especial cases.
These professionals go from city TO
! city. Each one of them communicates the
best chances for plumber to the other.
Each one knows where is the main chance.
One will spend a week in Philadelphia to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
SULU PEARL FISHING
AMERICANS NOW HAVE ANEW ENTER
PRISE opEN-To THEM.

The Pearl Shell Banks OF Our new
A~rehipelago Are the Third Richest
In the World-How the Business II
Conducted. !
Among other unique industries which
have been opened to American capital
and American adventures Is thai or
fshing for pearls. One of the most val
liable features of the Sulu islands,
which come to US as part of the Phil
ippine archipelago, is the pearl fishery
of that group.
These pearl bearing banks are, next
to those of Ceylon and Australia, the
most Important and valuable in the
world. Americans are fond of adven-
turous enterprises, and here is one
which will doubtless be greatly appre
ciated. Pearl fishing is always a spec
ulation, with a large element of uncer-
tainty as to results. This will only
spur some of our daring capitalists to
try their luck.
The pearls found in the Sulus are re-
markable for their fine, white color and
soft, iridescent sheen and up till the
present have found their principal mar
ket in London, but now that the ar
chipelago has become an outlying ter
ritory of the United States n may
naturally expect that these most
chastely beautiful gems will come more
into favor on this side of the Atlantic.
But it is not the pearls themselves
from which the large profits of pearl
fishing are derived. The chief revenue
comes from the sale of the pearl shells,
or mother of pearl, which brings in the
market from $100 a ton upward. As an
illustration Of this. while the West Aus
tralian pearl fisheries netted in n year
$500, 600 from the shells, the returns
from the find of pearls was valued at a
little over S150, 600, or about o~ne-third.
In this respect, while the pearls found
in the Sulus are of the finest quality,
the mother of pearl is sometimes char
acterized by a yellowish tint, which
renders it less valuable from q COM
mercial point of view as being unsuita-
BILE for many ornamental purposes, and
consequently makes the industry more
of a speculative nature h that car
ried on upon the adjacent Australian
banks.
Like many other fields of enterprise
in hat part of the world, the Sulu
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25

eonyinced that this object has been attain
"a. word is sent to the different villages OF
the tribe appointing a night for all to
gather In the sacred valley to take part IN
the great annual celebration. As soon as
It is dark, the priests who have charge OF
the sacred animals open the door OF the
pcn and allow them to escape into the tor
est, at the same time raising a wild Y
labaloo and calling upon the
w~orshipers to join in the pursuit. This IS
the signal for the commencement or the
c~elebration. and in an instant torches are
III, and. with wild tumult, the ~worshipers
1oin 10 the pursuit. 1t is continued for
several days, until the unfortunate beasts
are captured and returned to the sacred
pen.
All il now ready for the second n
more important part of the great function
THE large temple where this takes place IS
really . huge subterranean vault, origin
allv ( natural cave, over which q building
has been erected as hn entrance Il was
IS seanidarkness VIXEN we entered a y
va therefore mott easy to determine its
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
Coaundrun,s answered.

What is smaller than a mites mouth?
What it puts into it.
Why is the nose in the middle of the
face? Because it is the scenter.
Why is q lark like the Bank of Eng
land? Because it issues notes.
What lock is that which no burglar can
pick? A lock from a bald head.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25

exact proportions, but it appeared to be
about so feet long by 40 feet broad. A
series OF recesses had been cut on each side
and were filed with the most repulsive
looking idols which the human mind could
well imagine. the substantial incarnation
of the numerous evil spiritual gentlemen
who were to be worshiped.
The entrance end Of the subterranean
temple was occupied by the "koaks, bear
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
HIS CRY CHANGED TO A HISS. AND He cRAwLED INTO THE rH1cKET.

Already the lower half of his body was
writhing in the form OF huge snake, n
as the elder looked upon him, weeping
and helpless to offer aid, the awful change
went on. Even as he lifted up his voice IN
q great cry of agony his arms san into his
body, his head flattened, AND, the cry chang
ing to q hiss, he that had broken the taboo
crawled into the thicket.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
lrnothnieks rrnm Maine.

Ninety five per cent Of all the toothpicks
made in the United States are formed from a
white birch timber in Franklin county,
Me-, and yet scarcely more than 100 per-
sons are employed iii the industry in that
state
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25

She-Woman is more heroic than man.
She will endure awful fortunes without a
murmur, and / can prove it.
He-Of course You can-by any shoe
dealer. Brooklyn Life.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
EauaS to- the occasion.

HHave you "A Heart to Love Me?' !"
she inquired Of the pale assistant in the
music shop.
mot on a salary Of FL a week, miss
he responded sadly.-London Fun.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
a.cauGnt.

aCoppage. you always come in when
TIM busy
uNo; yo1 always get busy when yoa
see me come in. Chicago Record.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
Of SCOT.

One thousand tons of SCOT settle month
~ within the lis square miles OF Lon
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
A Diary.

aThere is nothing, sir, too little for SO
little a creature as man. 1t is by study
ing little things that we attain the great
art of having as little misery and as much
happiness as possible" This pronounce
ment by the most complete hero OF the
most complete diarist known strikes the
keynote of all memorable diaries.
1.-The great thing to be recorded, OBJ
serves DIR. johnson on another occasion,
sis the state of your OWE mind, and you
should write down everything that you
remember, for you canno judge at first
what is good and bad" These UMPIRE
meditated self conference.-the confessions
of individuality-form the charm of linen
who have kept a diary"-the spell of sthe
little great, the infinite small thing" the
appeal of truth en- deshabille.
I'm this glass" preached Atterbury OF
Lady Cults diary, ''she every day dressed
her mind" 1t is just this dressing o.
the mind" that makes diaries such inter-
esting human documents .-BlackwoodSa
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
The Life ~ an aceherss.

Icebergs in the Atlantic sometimes last
for 200 years.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25
Some Bulls.

During the most troublesome period of
the Land leagues existence a concert was
organized in Waterford On behalf of the
wife and family OF a local Suspect" AT
a committee meeting it was announced
that two sisters were willing to contribute
a duet on the piano. The mayor, who
was present, suggested that before they ac-
cepted the proffered services the secretary
should find out how much they would
have to pay for the hire of the second piano.
A magistrate in one of the east coast
towns of Scotland announced that he
would continue this case sine qua non"
A member of an urban council in
Cheshire objected to the floor of the public
reading room being covered with mating.
He thought petroleum looked better and
would wear longer.
At an urban district council in Stafford
shire a communication was read from the
C~rematorium society. A member wanted
to know what society that was, and, on an
explanation being given, he naively said,
ss0h, / thought it had something to do
with dairy produce. London Standard
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-20

The proprietor of n country shop once
worked himself nearly into brain fever
endeavoring to make ineligible the fol-
lowing note given to him by n small boy.
the son of one of his customers:
''mister Cream-Wunt you let my boay
hev pair Of Easy toad shuz"
However. he was probably not more
Mortified than the schoolmaster who re-
ceived letter from man who wrote:
81 have decided to inter my boy in your
scull."
The letter which one person wrote to
an editor when disseminating his paper
contains internal evidence of the truth
of its assertions:
81 think foulks orient to spend their
mummy for paypur, my dad dident, and
every one said he was the intelligentest
man in the country and had the smartest
family of boize that ever dug taters."-
Tit-Bits.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-20
TRAINS SOUTHWARK.
SUNDAY TRAINS.

An additions. tram will leave Bel Air, for
Baltimore and intermediate Stations, at 3. 15,
on SATURDAY evenings only. Returning,
will leave Baltimore the same evening at IL 30.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-20
P, Y. & B. R. R. TINE TABLE.

Trains Arrive at and Leave Havrc de
Grace on and after May FL, 1899,
az follows:
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-20

EDWARD h. AMBLER,
(Formerly of Hartford Co..
ATTORNEY AT LAW & NOTARY PUBLIC,
la Z. LEXINGTON ST. OPPOSITE NEW COURT
HOUSE, BALTIMORE, ND.
Collections. LcRsl Business. Aflidavits. Ac-
acknowledgements Dispositions taken and Pass
ports. Pension Papers prepared. Prompt SER
vice rendered.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-20

"You used to say you couldn't love
him il he were the last man in the
wcrld''
Yes: know"
"And yet you are engaged to be mar
ried to him. You have changed"
mo, not at all. You sec. il he were
the last man in the world there couldn't
be this rich old uncle Of his. who has
come along and promised to leave him
everything. Chicago Times Herald.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-20
ONLY A SONG.

Love says not much, but says it, oh, so well,
We cannot tell
What is the Ircanin= OF its secret spell!
Its charm divine :,
Is like the mrrinur of sounding shell
Heard in the pauses Of the oceans swell, i
In beautys oft recurring parallel.
Its feeling line,
Artless Of rule, yet more than rules OF art
Unconscious pierces, probes, with inward smart
The lovers breast, the patriots swelling heart.
Its music fine
Is such that il tho singer break his song
And stop the very spheres seem all a-wrong;
We bid him take his lutte and, sweet and strong,
Renew his strain.
"oh. singer, sing once more the ola refrain!
And echo faint its burden still prolong
In memory's chain!
And lest 1t perish, being only song,
Sing it again
Again, again!''
A. C. B. in Spectator