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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28

1.-THE American people not only eat and
drink too fast said an experienced world
trotter the other day. "but they also pre-
pare what they eat IND drink with too
much hurry to do Improperly. An adj
mirable lesson could r learned from the
Cubans lat would Essen one national
evil of ours very maj rally. I refer to
the making of coffee, d rather, the prep
aration of coffee befo1j being made. We
buy our coffee roasted and frequently,
both roasted and grotnd, In bulk. and
its essence is constant1 escaping and d.
minishing its potency fr future strength.
The Cubans never bu1 their coffee ex-
cept In the raw state, amp the grains are
roasted only a very shoft while before
the coffee is to be madt. After being
roasted 1t is ground or tfaten Into par
ticIes about as small aA what we call
ground coffee. Then thetCubans roasts
this again thoroughly. Alter this second
roasting the particles are virtually pull
verified. The coffee then made by the
Cubans is the finest in Ehe world. 1t
takes more time and trouble, perhaps.
but the delicious result puld be worth
thrice as much OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Star.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28

States army for FIVE years and now set
tied down to live and die in his quaint lit
tie home.
I told him what I wanted.
SITS nothing to see; just made it to
suit myself" he said, speaking with a
slight accent, but using perfect English. :
why quotation marks around the
word love?" in answer to my question.
Because love is a word misused- There
is a doubt about it. It is much misunder-
stood. But now take truth. Truth we all
love. Down in the bottom Of our hearts
we love it, but do we dare to tell it? No.
Much as we love truth it must be veiled
and covered up; otherwise we would
have no friends"
He talked easily and simply.
sDescartes and Fichte were two men
who believed and lived as I try to do.
They wefe egoists, and so am |. The
next word, Satan Is just a reminder.
Satan is an Imaginary being who is pre-
sumed to try TO thwart our plans and
ambitions. Fear | put next to him. We
fear too much. Now l." pointing at his
shoes. the toe of each having been neat
ly cut QUIT like to go ~bareheaded and
b~arefooted. 1t Is only through fear OF
peoples tongues / do not. Fear is one
Of nv weaknesses. Gain I placed on
the window, thinking of the struggle aft
err the seemingly almighty dollar. But 1t
Is not so. ANY person who can suit him
self and have enough to eat lives In para
disc"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28
BY
| Alfred 3. Rowley

On Nov. IA and Is there Is to be ant
aerial display which will be weIf worth
staying up late at night to see. On
those dates, if the astronomers hay not
made a wrong reckoning, the earth Is
to be bombarded by millions of baby
planets.
Shooting stars the ordinary layman will
call them. But OF course they are not
stars. A star, as we well know, Is a sun
of great magnitude which shines By its
own light and is a great distance away.
II a real star should ever shoot any-
where near US, that would end things for
the earth and every one on it. Ne
before the star got within 100.O0Q,oU
miles.
What we shall see viii be the fight
of millions Of meteors through our at
mosphere. a meteor is a cold, dull, dead
mass of iron or stone. It has neither
light nor heat Of its own. All space Is
supposed to be sprinkled with meteors-
Sometimes they collect into masses and
go sailing about on an orbit Just as if
they had been consolidated into a planet.
It is this sort OF a mass which the earth
is to pillow through next month )
AEu q AtSlcOt n4ASS QN% At-4N1
phere, which is much denser than empty
space, friction causes it to grow redhot
and finally expire In a blaze of sparksl
This Is what viii cause the spectacle in
the sky mex month
The group Of mefeors which we are
about to encounter is known to the as
tronomers as the Leonids- It pays us
rare visits. Three times Ia each century,
or once about every SO years, the Leo
nids nave a habit of coming our way
Their course has been reckoned with con-
siderable accuracy because they have e.
somewhat regular orbit
The orbit is In the shape Of an eIlipse.
In the heavens this ellpse has an axis
v e 1900. 900 miles in length. At
aphelion the meteor group goes out be-
yond the orbit Of the planet Uranus
The real breadth Of the stream cannot be-
less than 100000 miles and is probably
100000 miles. !
In 1866 the earth took five hours to go
through 1t, moving at the rate Of about
Is miles a second. In 1857, when the
earth returned to the crossroads, the me<
teor stream was still going by, and Amer
lea especially had a splendid view. Even
in 1868 the stream had not gone hy coms
pletely. I
The calculations Of the great French
LIE VerrieE appear to fndi~
cate that in 126 A. ID. the Leonids, as
the swarm is.caued, because thesmeteors'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28

One of the oldest practitioIl Dau-
phin county, a retired phys mates
that the young doctors Of til Sent age
are not Is energetic as the ere in his
time. when I first hung Cut my shin
gle" said the venerable NJ. p, II found
my services in no demand, but all the
am I daily rushed out Of the house with
my medicine case and rode post haste IN
to the country for several miles. The
chances were that I loafed about the
woods while 2bsent, but it served to ere
ate the impression that ! was doing bush
ness, and eventually my practice grew.
~Once my neighbors became suspicious,
and they followed me SO persistently on
one Of these wild dashes that | thought l
was at last up a stump But all things
come to the good man that ! am" add
ed the old physician, 'and as luck would
have it I anne across q Woodman who
sat along the roadside with a cut foot. |
dressed the wound and my fame spread"
~-Philadelphia Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28

nAU LII - 1A6 49,
seem to radiate from Leo, were moving
in an orderly manner around a great or
bit which would take them past the
earth's. orbit out almost to Jupiter In
their nearest approach to the sun and
then they would recede, meyer to be seen
again In the solar system. But In that
year {126 A. d. the planet Uranus was
near the swarm as they passed his orbit
and be by the power OF his perturbing
attraction pulled them back and caused
them to pursue a smaller orbit, che pres-
ent path. Uranus captured for the solar
system this interesting group Of meteors-
The group is subject nov In its motion
around the sun to disturbing effects OF
pulls from the other planets, Jupiter
Saturn and earth These pulls make tha
accurate calculations difficult and pro-
duce a little uncertainty. as.to the times
Of the showers.
Only the transparent air protects us
against death from meteors- What the
effect OF a small meteor striking q human
body with u~ndiminished velocity would
be we can only guess. a meeeor's veloci-
ty at the instae+ It strikes the atmos-
phere is from50.0O0 to x250.Q0Q feet per
second. Wohhldt blow q man rnpieces
as If a can of nitroglycsrin han ex-
spleded against his breast, or wol1ptS
cinerafe him like astroke OF hgntnfnssF
even as it is itself incinerated by the
more than furnace heat~ OF ftE fasR
through the air2 However we may n
swer these questions, there remains plen-
tiful food for thought In the spectacle OF
thousands Of such missiles burning Them
selves into pulls Of gas a few miles above
our heads.
And, what makes the whole question
more interesting, occasionally the shield
Of the atmosphere proves insufficient, and
the earth's armor Is penetrated BY q me-
teor Of more than ordinary size and den-
sity. This is what happened at Mazapi4
Mexico, during the shower OF the An4
dromedes In 1885, and II may shapRen
again next month. y
The Mazapil meteor, composed smqstly
Of iron, buried itself tSvotor 14~eelfeet n
the hard soil and was dug PM, gat
ing with heat
As to peril from meteors. Il shQuIdj
said that the most dangena
entity do not belong to
swarm, but travel indepd
space. and strike unann
atmosphere. Such y66teors tf9dueptIy
reach the ground, fnd people haye on
rare occasions been killed hysthcm-
In another way. hovevers these me
teors may bring peril. Having once en-
tered the atmosphere and been huxned.
the substances that composed them ean~
not escape again. In tAe form<ofs gases
and microscopic dust they continue tol
float III the air and finally descend to the
ground and the surface Of the sea-
Whether these gases and this dust are
harmful Or beneficial scientists hare noc
yer decided.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28
SINGULAR SECT.
What an Egoist Believes and How
He Lives.

What an Egotst Believes and How
He Lives.
Two miles from Fruitvale, In the Al
lendale tract, stands a quaint little house,
says a correspondent of the San Francis
co Call. | had heard that-jt had been
built with the idea Of reaching heaven
and expected to see q tower shaped build
ing, hollow inside, with o ladder to climb
to the top. Instead, the house-for it is a
house and not a tower-was built to
please its owner, Ito get all the sunshine
and wind it cam Each OF the eight
sides has a window or a door. The sec
ond story is smaller than the first, and
the third Is smaller than the second. The
second and third stories are surrounded
by ratings. The house Is painted gray,
with white trimmings. The yard about
the house is neat. A lawn Just in its in
fancy is In front, a vegetable garden and
chicken yard in back. Trees are planted
near the fence and beds Of flowers neal
the house.
It Is Moorish In style and rather I'M
words oVer the windows and doors at
tracted my attention at once. No one
seemed to be at home, so / walked
dKUuuu LIE uUusS, fedulug TIE WOEuS DIS i
went and wondering what they meant to
the owner, designer and builder Of the
funny Rome-sDescartes, Fear Satan,
Gain and Fichte' over the second story
windows and Love and Truth. oyer the
third. Love- had QUOTATION marks
around it, and, true to ~womankind, I
asked about it first.
When I found Mr.. Nygren, the origi-
nator and owner Of this queer home, /
saw q nan dressed In q white linen coat
very much the worse for wear, shabby
brown trousers and a cap on the back Of
his head. | opened the gate and walked
into the yard. His face was red and
burned, a light mnstache hid a pleasant
mouth, and light, thick eyebrows gave 9
stern expression to a pair of light gray
eyes. He was a man between SO and As.
He was born IN Sweden, travelled
around the world. served in the United
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28

year of the Cox trophy. 1T was a very
hard match indeed said Miss Under
hill afterward as she walked up to the
clubhouse, ''and I really did not expect
to win,"
Miss Underhill has a long, full, sweep
ing stroke and lets the club fall perhaps
two feet too far down behind her. She
goes back very slowly, and also pauses
for q fraction of a second at the top.
She strikes the ball fairly, follows
through well and gets a fair although
not wonderfully long drive.
1t was her superiority in putting that
won her the match. Miss Underhill new
er makes a stroke without having made
at least five or six feints at 1t and rest
ing her club behind the ball after each
one, and this makes her one of the slow
est players in the country
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28

w.
prominent among the players of the ian
cient and royal game" She is a mem
Der of the Nassau Country club Of Glen
Cove, N. X. She Is By 10 means a
novice, however. She has played close
games with the crack men players Of her
club and was entered for the champion
ship tournament Of 1897. She failed to
qualify, however, but the next year at
Ardsley she was in the lists and was
only defeated after an exciting and hard
fought contest.
She began the present year well by
winning the open tournament for women
at the Lakewood Golf club last spring
and defeated a number Of the Nassau
men in club contests during the past sum-
ncr. At the beginning OF this champion
ship she was not regarded as a particu-
larly dangerous candidate, possibly be-
cause she was eleventh Of those who
qualified.
She received outright a gold medal,
and her club will have the custody for a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28

"You hare so vewy many obvious ex-
pressicns In this country, doncher
know" said the visiting Britisher to the
native.
Yes"
Now, faw instance, l see In the pa
paws sometimes that a dahk horse has
been nominated for office. OF cawse you
don't weakly nominate a horse, you know,
but I can understand where the expwes-
sion zones from, doncher know"
1T is easily explained. We Americans
nominate dark horses in order that we
may have q stable government"
The Englishman pondered over this
statement for some minutes and then
said:
An. / see! Vewy good, vewy goodi
III put that b my book about America
And Ne drew forth his memorandum
book and made the necessary. NOISES
New York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06
General wheeler u Religion. Man.

General Wheeler il religious man.
He was brought up in the Episcopal
church, with great reverence for
sacred things and faith in the efficacy
Of prayer. One Of his former secre-
taries tells the story that while the
general was engaged in canvass for
Congress some years ago he spent the
night at the plantation Of a constitu-
ent. His host accompanied him to
his room at bed time, and babe him
good night, bnt, being reminded that
the general might want n glass OF cool
water before retiring, he carried a
pitcher to the room and entered with.
out knocking. He was surprised TO
find General Wheeler upon his knees
before the bed engaged in his devo-
tions. He waited reyerently until the
general arose, and apologized for the
interruption.
Don't mention it," said General
Wheele-. ~ think all OF us ought to
kneel before We retire and thank our
good Maker for His mercies and bless
ings."
The members OF General Wheeler's
staff say that during the Santiago
campaign he never lay down to sleep
without Offering prayer, and never
arose in the morning without thank
ing God fpr his protection and preser-
yation. Chicago Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06
TIE BUILDING OF A SOLDIER.
Joe Jerry hoed In a stony field,

Joe jerry hoed In n stony field,
Under u sweltering sun,
The boy aud the rock and the native weed
Fought Tor the life In n battered seed
And the struggle was Just begun
"det ont Of tho mud and follow me-
Snid tho man with better clothes,
Against You arc vcrmln aud drought and
froat
You anger Nature with labor lost
Como whcro fair wind blows"
Dut thu boy diggcd on IN tho stony ncid,
With the struggle barely begun,
81 put the seed In this ground" said ho,
81 think hnd better stay aud SEQ
Whatever may be done"
Joc Jerry qua,r rled and placed the stones
Aud lifted the timbcrs true,
Then HIS ncighbors came with fovcred oyos:
"uoldl pans Of gold just there II llea!
Shall we wnit n day Tor your"
A sweet voice riftcd the evening calm,
Singing tho denth Of day,
A tired child came and went with kiss,
~ have n wife. aud n house aud this,
think had bcttor stay"
WAR war;" the cry-nnd tho cry camc
near
"lhoro IL fame, and TO apnro FOR nll"
have dying wlfc-and these,
I'll stay with them, n God ~ please"
But hc went ut tho second call
Come bnckr they cried through tho metal
hail
10 n soldier bleeding and grim,
Hc picked rifle out Of the dirt,
Answering only "Thc captains hurt
think III stay with him"
Frederick Brush, In Youths Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06
PEARLS or THOUGHT.


Tho cheerful mans king. --3ickor-
stan.
Praieing all alike IL praising none.
clay.
Reading is seeing by proxy. Her
bert Spencer.
Praise undosorvcd is scandal In dis
guise. Pope.
Sad experience leaves no room for
doubt Pope.
Tho brave only know how 10 for
give. Stcrnc.
Sweet mercy Is nobiity's truc badge.
Shakespeare.
Tho better wit IL, the more danger
GUS IL it-Lnndor.
Talent convincca genius but OK
cites IIulwor Lytton.
That evil Ia half cured whose cause
we know. Churchill.
The beginning ~ compunclion IL
Tho beginning Of u new life. George
Eliot.
Politonoss costs nothing, mud gains
everything. -Lady NJ. Wortley Mon
taguc.
Ridicule is tho sitter Of all energy
amongst those sho controls. - Bulwer
Lytton.
True contcntmcnt depends not on
what we have. A tub was enough for
Diogenes, but world too little ID
Alexander. Cotton.
To realize the real, n man must dd(
his work well Whatever II may be-
Aud how can ho do this ? by putin
honesty into II, courtesy aud iusti
with those whom ho employs, and go
erosity and human kindlinoss. -ChrisV
tian Advocate.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06

One of the oldest bridges in Europe
is soon to disappear, under the de-
mand for better navigation of the river
it spans. This is tho stone bridge,
with fifteen arches and total length
of 90i feet, built across the Danube
at Regensburg (Ratisbon), in Bavaria,
by Duke Henry the Superb, in 1885,
'46, The piers rest on piles, protect
ed by stone riprap and heavy ice
breakers; the roadway is very narrow,
and the footways allow the passage of
only one person at time. So far as
its stability is concerned, 10 wou'
probably stand for another $50 years,
but it interferes with the passage of
steamboats,.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06

The new feature OF the flannel waist
is that it is either tucked, hemstitched,
or embroidered in bands, both front
and back, very much on the order Of
the more elaborate linen waists, but
no yoke in the back, as that idea Is
decided y passc. Then there are the
new cotton corduroy shirt waists with
embroidered bosoms in contrasting
colors, or strips Of colored embroidery
down the front.
Those in white corduroy with bands
OF red embroidery on the front are
very chic and especially well adapted
to cycling, golf and yachting costumes,
when worn with the new homespun
skirts and scarlet coats, with which
the world seems to be too abundantly
supplied just now.
For morning wear at the seashore,
on the links and in the mountains, the
red coat has simply played havoc with
every other style OF jacket and swept
everything before it-and it has evil
IDENTIFY come TO stay.
For afternoon waists there is moth
ing more popular than fluffy white
gauze or lace waist for young ladies',
and with white serge or yelling skirts
are worn at many evening affairs.
The beauty of lace blouse is greatly
heightened when q collar and garni-
ture of some deep-toned velvet, such
as ruby or purple. is added, and espe-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06

coming TO tho we'll formed figure, and
tho favor In which they were held in
tho late spring will undoubtedly OK
tend TO tho fall and winter gowns.
Tho charming design shown is well
adapted TO all wool materials aud TO
such soft silks as crepe do chine and
the tho lovely liberty fabrics. No
harsh silk and no wiry wooden stun is
ever good for garments Of tho sort.
With tho guimpe, which may be Of
moussolino, chiffon or any soft finished
silk In white or some delicate har.
monious tint, IL is appropriate for
afternoon wear and informal dinnors
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06

In England they do not 80 lightly
accept n plea of responsibility for
murder on the ground of insanity, rs
they do in this country. A North
Hampton murderer was duly sentenced
and recently executed, although it was
proved that nearly every member of
his family for three generations, ON his
fathers side, and for five on his moth
er's, had been insane. Many had
committed suicide or attempted it; and
he himself had tried to kill himself
three times. The medical superin-
tendent of the county asylum said it
was the worst family history he had
ever known. The murderer killed q
woman for no other reason than ''be-
cause she led him such life;" and f.
nally the judge recommended the
prisoner to mercy. But the proofs of
insanity were considered insufficient
by the home secretary, and the man
was hanged.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06

The guards at Joliet, (Ill. ponitcn-
tinry have been armed with mauser
rifles carrying dunn dun bullets. The
only excuse offered for tho use of
these bullets in warfare il that, in
meeting n charge Of overwhelming
numbers of savages, il il necessary to
have bullet that will produce shock
enough to stop tho rush of any man IL
hits. There is no such emergency TO
he met in shooting runaway convict
in the back. The use of dum-dum
bullet in such case is simple bar
barism, without the excuse of ncces-
sity.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06
ALL WE'RE LYING.
How N. MIA Man stirred Up n Street
Car Row.

How the Mni Man stirred Up Street
Car Row.
Say, said tho street car CON
ductor 10 n inild.mnnnered man who
was deeply engrossed in his news
paper, Say, young fellow, don't
want this quarter. can't use II"
Tho mild man continued TO hold
out his hand for his change. but paid
no other attention 10 the conductor.
"5oe ho'oW yelled the conductor,
getting red in the face. "you can't
pass no quarter like that on mo. It's
slick. can't take IL for more than
| 20 cents. "
The mild man looked up and said:
'I'm sorry, because you gave mo that
worry quarter last night aud Pye been
laying for you since. VOL, give IL
here" He took the quarter and gave
tho conductor n nickel. As he took
tho quarter from tho conductor he
suddenly dropped his newspaper and
gave n chuckle
"WelI, WELL" he exclaimed, "hero's
luck. Bless mo, II that isn't an 1882
quarter with II stars and mn arrow.
It's worth 81. 49," He slipped IL into
his pocket with evidence OF much sat
isfnctiOn.
Here, give mo that quarter" said
the conductor, 81 was only fooling.
That's my quarter"
a huDRry-eyed man in tho corner
who overheard the conversation jumped
up and said:
Isn't that the very quarter / gave
You yesterday morning? missed
that quarter. IL was pocket piece
and n yalaLlo coin. remember now
that gave IL 10 You demand itp'
he said, looking fercely at the mi d
man. II you are gentleman you will
give IL 10 me."
at isn't yours. You never gave IL
to me. My wife gave me that quar-
ter by mistake. It's part OF collec-
ton that's been in the family since
lS27!' yelled the conductor.
81 tell you it's mine, said the hum
gry-eyed man. Thus they wrangled
and quarreled all the way down town.
"No," said the mild man to a neigh
Dor, as he stepped from the car, ''it's
only nm ordinary old shiny quarter
that / have been trying to pass of for
week. We were all lying. It's worth
about 22 cents"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06
what Constitutes n Healthy Man.

Ole of our medical contemporaries,
the Texas Medical News, thus sums
up the qualities which constitute q
perfectly healthy man: He should
have strong, healthy heart; not one
weak from disuse or the excessive use
of tobacco, alcohol or other causes /;
lungs we'll developed and that expand
rhythmically with ample breathing
space for health and a surplus for
work or disease muscles well round
ed and elastic, made hard aud strong
by use and carrying, like the camel's
hump, reserve energy for trying Jour
neys; nerves, natures electric wires,
properly insulated and connected,
bringing all the various organs of the
body into one perfect system, and all
under the control Of brain OF Just
proportions, well balanced and convo-
luted, not soft from disuse or de-
stroyed for the need of rest, educa ed
for the high duties ii has to perform,
not only to stand guard over and pro-
tect the health of and life of the in
dividual, but at the same time to fur
n sh feeling and thought and pleasure
for the human being. All of these or
gans, when properly constructed and
adjusted and perfect in every detail,
go to make up a healthy individual
and one possessing within himself o
power of resistance not easily over
come by disease-producing organisms.
Scientific American.