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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
CAT VALUABLE AS boy.
Judge Blair Decides It's Life
Is Worth as Much as
Gummere Consid-'
ers Child's.

In an appeal case tried in the Court of
Common Pleas, yesterday afternoon,
Judge Blair was called upon to assess the
value of cats life. No claim was made
that the feline in question was other than
the ordinary kind that nightly wafble on
back fences in some neighborhoods, and
as Judgment for the plaintiff in the action
in the sum of one dollar was ordered en-
tered, that amount may hereafter be re-
garded as a precedent.
1t may be remarked here, however, that
there are those who will disagree with
the Judge and think that his Judgment
must be biased by reason of living in a
neighborhood in which there are no back
fences. Unless proceeding on the popular
supposition that cat has nine lives, the
total amount of the Judgment be divided
by that number, and the value of each
life thereby fixed at IL 1-9 cents, which
amount many will still insist is extremely
high for a stay-out-at-night pussy.
The plaintiff, Charles Stephani of No
557 Highpoint avenue West Hoboken, may
be said to have secured memorable vic
tory and to have thoroughly vindicated
the memory and character of his cat.
For, while at the trial of the case in jus
tice of the Peace Eichmans > court, he
only recovered a Judgment Of fifty cents,
Judge Blair, who must now be regarded
as an authority on the question, saw fit
to double that amount.
OF course there were other features OF
the case beside the cat features. Others
were rquired to make up the 500 damage
which Stephani asked of the defendant
Lugui Sanprinni, of No. 407 Spring street
West Hoboken The declaration specified
damages to the house of the plaintiff and
a pane of glass, and for the firing of a
gun which killed the cat and caused the
plaintiff to suffer great fright and
anguish of body and mind" These can
only be regarded as trivial incidents, how
ever, because everything hinged on thu
death of the cat.
From the testimony adduced at the trial
of the important case it appears that San
frini kept pigeons and Stephani's cat had
an appetite for them. Sanfrini also had 8
gun, and that's the reason Stephani now
has no cat. The cats demise occurred
July II, 1900. Evidently more than one
shot was required for the job, because d
stray bullet went through Stephani's win,
dow.
Judge Blair was plainly annoyed at the
trifing nature of the case and remarked
that the suit should never have beer
brought. He gave Judgment so that the
costs of the action might be taxed against
those responsible for ii.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
put in the care and custody Of the admin

lstrator pendente lite to be appointed.
In associating Mr.. Grouse with the exc
cutor the Court does not mean to inti-
mate in the remotest degree any want
of confidence in the absolute integrity of
Mr.. Baldwin. nor to challenge in any way
his fidelity to the trust reposed in him
by said will. On the contrary, Mr.. Bald
win commands in the highest degree the
respect and confidence of the Court. The
Court, however, thinks that a business of
SO much Importance, and requiring so
much active attention, must largely en-
gage the time of the executor, and for
the purpose of relieving him from the
burden of the management of the whole
estate an administrator pendente lite may
properly be appointed whose character
and learning will be of great aid to the
executor, as well as to the Court. in the
management and conservation of this
estate pending the present litigation
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
S. ?. c. A. TO MOVE
New Quarters Purchased BY
the Society at Warren
and Grand Streets.

! The Hudson County Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will
soon be installed in new quarters. Many
| changes have necessitated the securing
of more suitable quarters in which tc
transact business. Such rapid strides has
the society taken that the present quar-
ters on York street are inadequate to the
demands for space
President Mccarthy closed a deal yes
terday for the purchase of the society s
future home. The property situated on
the northwest corner of Grand and War
rem streets was purchased for the sum
of $1,000 from the estate of Abram Post.
The building is a three-story one, seventy
five feet deep and forty-five feet in width.
The building is well located for the
society's work and there will be ample
room after some alterations to provide
quarters for all who have work in the
building Alterations will soon be made
and the society will take POSSESSION on
July l. This new home of the organiza-
ton was originally part of the Van Worst
estate, then all meadow lands. In 1888,
DR.. ]. d. McGill, President of the Police
Board bought it. He sold it in 1891 to
Abram Post for ST., 900.
President Mccarthy deserves the bulk
of the credit for negotiating the deal and
for developing the society into most
useful and beneficial public organization,
which is worthy the support of all public
spirited citizens. President Mccarthy took
hold in earnest in 1898. There were fac
tions to contend with previous to that
time which caused the society to be held
back. When opposition was overcome the
work began to broaden. Recent reports
show the great work done and the list of
prominent officials and citizens who sup
port the work literally each year. The
practice if ill-treating dumb animals has
been greatly reduced and owners of horses
and drivers have grown to respect the
power of the society,"
1t was ON May 8, 1885, that the society
was organized and the first meeting held
at Erie and Fifth streets. Several quar-
ters,have subsequently been occupied, the
present nome being at No. 2o11a York
street. Today the society holds firm
place in the community.
The present officers are:-President,
George M. Mccarthy; Vice Vice Presi-
dent, Charles j. Selyon, treasurer of the
Union Dime Savings Bank of New York;
Third Vice President, Superintendent of
the Pennsylvania Railroad; Inspector
Samuel A. Archibold and ex-Mayor VIM.
c. Farr of Bayonne are ON the Board of
Directors. These are members of the
Executive Committee Warden George O.
Osborne, DR.. Leonard ]. Gordon, A. P.
Hexamer, DR.. w. w. Varick, William
Vermilye. Charles ]. Rochat, Marshall
Van Wrinkle, Charles j. Carroll, Elliott
Greene, Jr., Harry Louderbough, DR.. John
Neyin and Commissioner Adolph Walter,
Jr
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
BALDWIN UPHELD
Judge Blair Declines to Re
move Him From the Ad-
ministratorship Of
Mcpherson Es-
tate
DECISION A vINDlGATION
Judge Grouse Appointed to
Act as Administrator
Pendente Lite.

In the Orphans Court this morning
Judge Blair handed down his decision on
the motion made by Counselors Vredea-
burg n, Van Winkle and Wall, representing
Mrs. Edla Mcpherson Muir only child of
the late Mrs. Edla Mcpherson, widow of
the late United States Senator John f.
cPherson. refusing to remove Aaron 5.
Baldwin of Hoboken, the executor named
in Mrs. McPherson's WILL and appointing
District Court Judge Otto Grouse of this
city as administrator to act in conjunction
witc Mr.. Baldwin pending the contest Of
the will.
Mr.. Baldwin, in whom the court ex-
presses its utmost confidence, is not tc
be disturbed in the performance of his du-
ties as executor, and is to have full com
troll of the estates interest in the business
OF Mcpherson s. Co. Judge Grouse will
handle only the balance in monies left af-
ter the creditors are paid. No bond is
exacted of Judge Grouse. The decision il
full is as follows:
In disposing of the pending application
the Court does not pass upon the ques-
ton of the power of the Court to appoint
an administrator pendente lite in the sum
mary way asked for by this petition.
The feeling of the Court is, and it exists
Notwithstanding the statute referred to,
that an executor who has been formally
appointed under will regularly admit
ted to q probate, cannot legally be sup
planted o.shand upon the mere taking of
an appeal and the presentation of a paper
as in this instance, but that in such case
an administrator pendente lite should be
appointed only after such appeal has been
heard and decree for the reversal of
the action of the Surrogate formally
made by the court of review. Notwith-
standing this view of the law. the Court
has concluded in consideration of the
character and amount of the estate in
volved in the controversy, and the possi-
BILE continuation of the litigation now in
progress respecting it, to adopt a course
which would not be taken If the estate
was not so large and so peculiarly con-
stituted.
The Court denies the motion to appoint
an administrator pendente lite in the
stead and place of the executor named in
the will, but win appoint an administrator
pendente lite to act with the executor in
the manag cement of the estate.
The prime purpose sought to be effected
by this argument is the preservation of
the estate. A large and important portion
of this estate consists of an interest in
the business now and for long time past
| carried on in the name of Mcpherson &
| Co., and it is quite clear that this busi-
ness could not be successfully conducted,
| if at all. and the interest of the estate
| therein be preserved by an administrator
pendente lite, solely by virtue of his pow
ers as such administrator; nor is it prob
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
IDEAL SUMNER TOURS
N. Y. Central r. r. Prepares a
Schedule of Delightful Excursions

New York. to Detroit, via Buffalo (Pan-
American Exposition). returning via Nj
agara Falls, st. Lawrence River, Mon
treal, Quebec and the Adirondack Noun
tains, only $51.50; same, including the
saguenay, only $3.50; to Detroit Great
Lakes to Mackinac, sault-ste. Marie, Du-
luth, returning via St. Lawrence route,
from $3.50 to $3.50; to San Francisco
with stop at Detroit Convention, Chi
cago, Denver, Colorado Mountains, Salt
Lake, Los Angeles, only $74.75; same. re-
turning via Portland Tacoma, Seattle,
st. Paul. etc, only ,sSs.75; same includ-
ing five and one-half days in Yellowstone
Park, only stss.25. For full particulars,
write Milton c. Roach, No. 1916 Broad
way, New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
HoBoEEA's TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD

The school ehildrensof THoboken observed
the usual custom today of contributing
flowers for the Memorial Day decoration
of the graves of soldiers In Flower Hilf
and Hoboken cemeteries.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
FIRST DEGREE WORKED

Council, No. 1859, K. of c., last night
Past State Deputy J. A. Burns took part
in the ceremony and lectured upon his
recent trip to Porto Rico.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29

DIED.
MURRAY-On Sunday, May 2s 1901,
Michael NJ, beloved husband Of Mary
"A II Ia

MURRAY-On sunday, May z6, 1yuk,
Michael NJ, beloved husband Of Mary
Murray, in his SD year.
Relatives and friends of the family, also
VIM. Barry b. & A. Association, Co. D
of Wolf Tone Club, and DIV. No. 2. A.
o. H. of A., are respectfully invited to
attend his funeral from his late resi-
dence, No. $40 Grove street, on Thurs
day, May 30, at A. M; thence to st.
Lucy's r. c.. Church. where a high mass
of requiem will be offered for the repose
of his soul.
ECKHOFF-On Monday, May q, 1901.
Frederick, beloved husband OF Agnes
Eckhoff (nee Drennan).
Relatives and friends OF the family are
requested to attend the funeral on Thurs
day, May so, from his late residence, No
252 York street. at $50 A. NJ. sharp; thence
to ST. Peters r. G. Church, where 8
high mass Of requiem viii be offered for
the happy repose of his soul.
Interment at Otisville, N. Y.
DOsCHER-On Monday, May 81, 1901.
and Dora Doscher, aged 9 years.
Relatives and friends are invited TO at
tend the funeral from the residence OF
her parents, No. S27 Bergen avenue. on
Thursday, May 30, at 2 p. NJ
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
An Old and Wen Tried Remedy

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething should always be used for children
while leething. 1t softens the gums. allays the
pain. cures wind colo and is the best remedy
Tor diarrnoea. Twenty-Five cents per bottle.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
SECOND BATTALION DRILL

The Second Battalion of the Fourth
Regiment, Companies e. II, 6 and II,
under Major Brinkerhoff will drill to-
direct the drill movements.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, May 20, 1s0a-Forecast for
the thirty-six hours ending az eight p. AZ.
Thursday:-Tonight and tomorrow, prob
ably rain; winds variable.
Hartnetts Thermometrieal Report
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08
MAKING POULTRY PAY.
Learn the Business, Be willing to
Work Hard, and Experience Is
Sure to Bring Success.

Success and failure with poultry de-
pend upon the poultryman himself.
There are good opportunities with
poultry and many ways of making
certain amount of money by judicious
arrangements and close attention in
the keeping of fowls; but for begin
ner to suppose that because he is pro-
and can secure a ikely-looking place
for business success is certain is mis-
take that may result in disappoint-
ment. Although just at first matters
may seem easy, the undertaking may
sooner or later end in a very sad awak-
ening to the reality of dead loss. But,
provided the business could be made an
adjunct to something else which does
not pay, then, with acquired knowledge
gotten only by eXperience-and un-
remitting attention to even the small
est details, it may be made to add very
materially to the annNal receipts, and
later on may be made an exclusive busi-
ness. Very great mistakes are often
made in attempting too much at first,
by keeping too many kinds; it is there
fore best to absolutely decide which of
the breeds in the market will be best
in the situation selected and keep and
breed nothing else. Learn at first, be
willing to do any kind of work, and ex-
perience will bring success. The pou,-
try business will pay if one will begin
with few and increase every year.
Farm and Fireside.
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08
NOTES ABOUT BEES.
Some Valuable Suggestions for Be.
ginners Condensed Into a Few
Short Paragraphs.

Among honey plants that may be
set in orchards where bees are kept
are alsike and sweet clover, but these
crops would not do the trees any
good. The raspberry is a good honey
plant, and it can be cultivated among
the trees without damaging them.
Cucumbers, squashes and pumpkins
are good honey plants that can be
gown in orchards, says ]. L. Van Ars-
dale, in the New York Farmer.
Smoke causes bees to fill themselves
with honey. Disturbance has the
same effect. They probably do this
because the smoke and the disturb
ance cause them to think they are
to be driven from their hives, and it
is their instinct of providing for the
future that prompts them to take
along with them as much of their
stored food as they can. After the
smoke passes away, or the disturb
ance subsidies, the bees return to the
cells the honey with which they have
loaded themselves.
Sometimes a small after-swarm of
bees will leave the hive and gather on
a near bush or tree. Those will go
about from bush to bush, but will
not return to the parent colony.
Such after-swarms often have much
trouble with their virgin queens.
Not all small clusters that leave a
hive are to be classed as after-swarm.
Frequently a number of bees will ac-
company a superseding queen which
is about to take her nuptial fight.
These always return to the hive.
Bees should not be transferred too
early in the spring, when the wealth
er is yet cold and there is no honey
to gather. Transfer them when fruits
are in bloom.
Disarrangement of the brood-comb
can be more easily overcome when
the bees are storing honey than at
any other time.
If it be necessary to move an api-
ary, do it just before the bees take
their cleansing fight in the spring.
Old comb can be used without
placing it exactly as it was placed in
the hive in which it was made. The
bees will straighten up everything to
their own taste.
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08
HENS NEED VARIETY.
One Kind of Food Retards Develop.
ment and Is a Serious Check on
Egg Production.

A writer says that hens do not lay
well on one kind of fool, no matter
what their other conditions are. This
is without doubt true. Most animals
like variety of food, and it is econo-
my to give it to them. The food of
fowls is naturally varied. In their wild
state they have an almost endless va
riety of animal and vegetable food.
Take insects, for instance. There is
doubtless as much difference in the
taste Of different insects as there is to
us in the taste of pork, beef, mutton
and fish. The insects themselves thus
give fowls great variety. Then there
is great difference in the taste of diff
ferent weed seeds, just as there is a
difference to us in the taste of rice.
wheat and oats. The fowls, having all
kinds of weed seeds upon which to
feed, are supplied with variety in
that line. Then come the grasses and
other green foods in endless variety,
all of which are eaten by birds. Thus
we see that the fowl is very omnivor-
Gus. We can only expect the best re-
suits when we follow the hint that ma
ture has given. 1t is therefore reason
able to suppose that the hen will do
her best only when given wide variety
of foods.-Farmers' Review.
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08
TaE SIoRY, 4 !! > !, Tflle$
SLEEP, BLESSED SLEEP.

Sleep, blessed sleep, with soothing, soft
caress,
Whose gentle touch doth benefit and bless
The restless mortals tired of work and
play,
Which cap with WEAKNESS the toilsome
day.
Deaths loved twin brother, calm and help
full sleep,
Soother of sorrow for the ones who weep.
How kindly are his ministration made,
BY dreams which lead to many quiet
glade
Where murmuring waters sing the soul
to rest
In realms devoted to the truly blest;
Who thus transported from the daytime
ills
Go without effort where this angel wills.
Beneath his touch the pauper dreams Of
wealth,
The invalid of full and boundless health,
The disappointed student OF success,
The friendless of devoted helpfulness
Received from those who in his waking
hour
But emphasize their selfish use of power.
SO sleep for all these toilers doth suffice,
His hand leads on through many para
disc
Where all things hoped for but delayed
are found
In lands of calm, where earth is holy
ground,
Where small ills vanish, and rude skies
that stormed
BY sleeps soft magic are to peace trans
formed.
And when at last all those who toll and
weep
Are called by Death unto that longer sleep
Which hath no waking at the touch of
morn,
They shall obey, not as do souls forlorn,
But as those who, acquaint with journeys
brief,
Accept the longer one with glad relief;
For they who sleep with calmly fiuttering
breath
Are but probationers of kindly Death,
And they who fold white hands and no
more weep
Are crowned with rest in an eternal sleep
1. EDGAR JONES.
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08
FOR POULTRY-KEEPERS.

Never keep hens over winter to sell in
spring.
Fowls that are shut up should have a
constant supply of grit.
A little fresh meat now and then is
relished by almost any hen.
The crops of all fowls to be killed for
market should be entirely empty.
Nobody wants a dirty egg. 1t is an
unfavorable commentary upon the
methods of the producer and an insult
to the dealer and consumer.
Do not overfeed on the plea of Sc
we're winter weather, and do not feed
too much shelled corn; also be careful
to give good fresh water at least once
day.
The women folks of the farm are by
far the biggest poultry raisers of the
country, and very often under very dis
couraging circumstances. That they
do so well is much to their credit ir
ability and industry, and that they dc
not have better conditions afforded
them is due largely to the shcrt-sight,
ed, behind-the-time views of their men
folks.-National Rural.
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08

scratching pens, and the other half
for roos ting room, nest boxes, feed
ing bins and coops, to be used in pre-
pairing for the shows. There is a
three foot raised hallway in front of
this room. At the back of this hall
way the coops q y are shown. Then
come the feeding bins "a A Az. The
nest boxes (B B b are placed below
the floor of the hallway and rest on
the ground. The bottom of the nests
is made in the shape of drawers three
inches deep, and can be drawn out to
gather the eggs by opening the door
(D) in the hallway. The rest of the
design is made plain in the drawing,
hence need not be explained.-J. 7.
French, in Poultry Keeper.
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08

turned toward the future, the eter-
nal. It was already SO near to one OF
them that the other vision was made
real. A few more partings, few
more meetings and the world would
be left behind. Until then they So
laced each other with those fond at
tentions which usually accompany
the days of courtship. How much a
little served that devoted pair,
and what compensations came
into their lives only those
know who love through all suf-
fering and in every misfortune. The
least trifles made the day bright; they
arranged and rearranged their two
rooms, each time with some new device
to make them more fresh and attractive
or more comfortable and convenient.
There was an air of refinement which
fingers long and is latest to be lost in
the home of those who have known
better days. They made few flowers
bought of the street vender, half alive,
live a week by careful nursing; and
then the green leaves, if by chance
there were any. would be kept fresh
even longer. The table was spread as
neatly as if they had nothing else to
think of. 1t is true, there were no dain-
ties to place upon it, only the simplest
fare care and economy could plan and
select. The rent of the rooms exhaust
ed the larger portion of their resources.
Then there were medicines and the
occasional visit of a physician to be
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08

:his being. His chief comfort now was
In reading music, realizing as far as
his enfeebled powers allowed him it's
tone and its meanings. For long
time rast he had heard no music
save the street organs, whose tangled
strains too often reminded him of
his own broken and miserable for
tune. At four o'clock in the after
Noon this mood and all other melan-
c1oly reflections passed away, and
the meeting of the husband and wife
was like that of long parted lovers,
when joy is mingled with tears, and
The remainder of the day they were
happy; they forgot their distress and
the approaching doom. All the or
ganist's pa ssion for his art was now
oncertrated into a sublime and puri-
fed affection. They spoke not of this
life, which held so little and so
brief a good for them, but their
thoughts and their conversation were
The Ely miner., 1901-03-08
THE LAST GIFT
BY John Albee.

TT WAS nothing-only few april
cots on common plate-that Am
brose Martin gave his wife one late
summer evening, but it was his dear
est gift to her, and to purchase them
he went out of their little apartments
for the last time. He had been sick
for two years-''the happiest years of
my life he often said. In them he
had learned to know and love his
wife more than ever before. In health
and prosperity neither was aware
OF the depth of the smooth stream
of their lives. But when ill-health
began to weaken his strength and at
length deprive him of his position
and one by one of all his resources,
so that he was compelled to move
from cheap to cheaper rooms, great
light of love began to illumine his
life. It drew the husband and wife
closer together. Although unused to
labor, the wife now became the
breadwinner. Having arranged ev-
erything for his comfort during the
day, she departed for her labors.
Here, with heavy heart, she went
through the duties of the day, for
she was constantly haunted by the
fear that at any time she might re-
turn and find her husband dead. He
was in that critical stage of his dis
ease when this was likely to happen.
Her heart almost ceased beating
when, punctually at four o'clock in
the afternoon, she opened the door
of their rooms.
Hitherto she had found him in his
accustomed place, propped upon a
lounge, small table by his side, on
which were few books, musical
score and photograph of his wife.
He had been an organist; music was
his passion; in it he lived and found
the intellectual and spiritual food of