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The Jamesburg record., 1901-10-05
LEGAL FEES IN sLUMPsHIRE.
New England Town where the Law
yers Are Not Likely to Get
Very Rich.

"This must be.a good case you're on
now to bring you way to New York" ;"
said the Broad street man, encourag-
ngly.
The lawyer from Slumpshire bright
ened, says the New York Sun.
There's $50 in ton shares" said
he. "A man down here owes my ch-
ent that, and if he pays get half. And
1 guess he's good for It,"
''What? You come all this way on a
$50 case.
"You see, my client got kind of sick
of sending bills, so he said he'd just as
lief I'd come down and get it,"
"Oh! A matter of principle with
him. He pays your expenses, OF
course"
"Well, no. He said he guessed it
wouldn't hardly pay him to do that.
He said I could take it if l liked, and
he'd be satisfied with one-half if l
got it. Well, " see, the railroad runs
right across the county seat-straight
across the main street-and hasn't
got any gates there to shut down when
the train goes by. And the law is,
they've got to have gates. Well. went
in and saw one of the big railroad
men, and kind of called his attention
to that, and suggested that I didn't
much care whether the road went to
the expense of putting in gates or
not, but that did care about getting
to New York for nothing. So he was
polite enough to fix it for me. Iguess,
if the man pays I'll make enough for
expenses while I'm here, and if l don't
why, I sold three fat hogs last week
and, by gum, WORKS worth it,"
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TO THE MOUNTAINS.

On Thursday, October 10, 1901. the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will run
grand Autumnal excursion to the
Switchback, Mauch Chunk, apd Glen
Onoko.
A special train will be run on the
schedule given below, and excursion
tickets, including ride over the famous
Switchback Railroad and trip to Glen
OnokO, will be sold at the extremely low
rate OF $500 for the round trip; children
between five and twelve years of age
half rate.
Leave Sea Girt 1852, Manasquan7.4 As
Farmingdale8 sos, Freehold S 20, Tennent
S.27, Englishtown 8.31, Jamesburg SAB,
Dayton $50, Monmouth Jc. 8.55 Prince,
ton Jc. 9.04.
Returning, the special train will leave
Glen Onoko SIS P. NJ. and Mauch
Chunk $50 P. M, making same stops
allowing ample time for the enjoyment ol
the beauties of the "Swtzerland oi
America.
The Jamesburg record., 1901-10-05
A Bargain in Reading. SN5st2Sks

BY special arrangement with the New
York Journal we are enabled to offer
every subscriber to this newspaper an
opportunity to secure years reading at
about balf price. For 50 we will send to
your address for one year THE JAMES
BURG RECORD Isl year., the New
York Journals Saturday Review Isl a
year,. and the Cosmopolitan Magazine
Isl year,. If you desire you may SUBJ
sstitute for the Cosmopolitan either one of
the following dollar monthly magazines,
viz; The Designer, Success, Social Ser
vice, The Pilgrim, or Peppers Piano
Music Magazine.
The New York Journals Saturday Re.
view is the brightest weekly book review
published. Its contents include book re-.
views, book news, short stories, extracts
and illustrations from the latest books.
portraits and sketches of popular authors
and all the interesting gossip of the book
world. The Cosmopolitan is one of the
best OF the 10-cent monthlies. The De-
signer is fashion magazine. Success ia
one of the latest successes in periodical lit.
erature. The Pilgrim is a newcomer in
the magazine field, edited by Willis J.
Abbot. Social Service is monthly re-
view of social and industrial betterment.
Peppers Piano Music Magazine is. as its
title indicates, magazine of piano
music. With your home paper, a week.
ly review of books and one of these month.
" magazines you will be we'll supplied
with interesting and instructive reading
for whole year.
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Amusements.
EDEN MUsEE.


The most impressive and realistic wax
group ever made has just been placed on
exhibition at the Eden Musee, New
York. 1t represents the body Of Presi-
dent Mckinley lying in state in the
Capitol at Washington. The whole
eastern side of the large Central Hall is
given up this group. liz front of black
background rests a casket containing a
wax representation of President Nc
Kinley. This casket is an exact dupli
cate of the one in which the President
was buried and was made by the same
workman. 1t is copper-liDed and the
trimmings are exactly the same as in the
original casket, even to the figures on the
satin pillow. The features OF the late
President were modelled by artists who
visited Washington, and are wonderfully
perfect. The clothes were made by the
same tailors who made the ones used for
burial, and even every particular was
closely looked at, including the Loyal
Legion button in the coat lapel. .-,.-.
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HE SAID STRAIGHT LIQUOR.
Those Were the Magic Words That
United Two Gentlemen from
the South.

"It's a sad thing to be away from
home, sub, and have nobody to drink
with" said the man with the south
ern accent, as he poured out four fin
gers, relates the Philadelphia Record.
81 went into one of your hotels, sub,
a few days ago, thinking maybe ]
could pick up a congenial spirit in the
bar, but it seemed as if I was fated
to drink alone. Not soul in sight
sub, but bunch of northerners, who,
confidentially, sub, are deuced good
fellows, but chilly-take my word, sub,
chilly. AS I was saying, sub, there
don't pear to be a man in the place
that had anything warmer than ice
water in his veins, but I thought ]
would resort to strategy before sac
rificing sociability. Going up to the
bar I said, loudly:
give me little straight iquor!'
"a fist, sub, instantly pounded me
on the back.
"'Georgia, by gum!' exclaimed a
voice, and I turned to greet a man
from Dixie land. He was in the same
plight as | was, sub, but the Straight
Hquor'-which is distinctive south
ern order, suh-brought two congenial
souls together. Yes, make mine
Straight liquor"
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PLAYED FOR HIGH STAKES.
stih Poker Game That Was Played
on Train Between West
ern Mine Magnates

Joe" Cooper, an old western min
ing man, was in "a party at Deln,on.-
cos, where they were talking about
a recent pretty stiff poker game on a
transatlantic liner. This prompted
Mr.. Cooper to say:
"The funniest poker game 7 ever
saw was between the late Senator
Tabor of Denver, a mining promoter
of the name of Fields, and a stran-
ger to both, that was played on a
snow-bound railroad train near Dill
Ion, Col, in the winter of 1890.
'We four were the only passengers
in the only sleeper on the train.
Fields proposed poker. I stayed out.
Tabor had two bars of gold worth
perhaps $4,000 apiece, which he was
bringing up from one of his, at that
time, producing mines. Fields had
check book, and the stranger had
some currency. The game began with
one of the $4,000 gold bars as a buck
1t lasted II hours. Tabor had $11 900
worth of Fields checks besides his
own gold bars, and the stranger was
just four dollars loser when the game
ended.
'For taking good care of the play
ers," continued Mr.. Cooper, according
to the New York Times, "the porter
received $50. They had only two
decks of cards on the train, and I
now have one of them"
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THE soBERING MACHINE.
The Odd Institution That Character
ized a Sleepy Old Pennsyl-
vania Town.

s'The 'Tattler," of the Philadelphia
Ledger, recently met quaint and
amusing old gentleman, who said:
"a portion of my life was spent in a
sleepy Pennsylvania town, which has
grown little in the course of half
century, and still preserves many of
the quaint customs of its earliest days.
You will find in this idylhc retreat
counterparts of all the celebrities who
figure so delightfully."- in Miss Mitford's
Our Village In my boyhood it had
an institution which distinguished it
from all sister villages-an institution
quite unknown to modern commu-
mites. 1t was called the SOLDERING ma
chine. This consisted of rude, spring
less, two-wheeled vehicle, with board
body, drawn by a motley assembly of
hummers and roysterers, old and
young, who can always be summoned
in country place on the slightest sig
nal when anything exciting is in the
wind.
"When one of the rather numerous
town drunkards was discovered in
favorable position, the SOLDERING ma
chine was slyly backed up to the curb,
the victim was quickly pushed into the
cart, and then pulled through the
streets, over every possible obstacle,
by the jeering mob that manned the
ropes. The victim, it was assumed, was
julted, jerked and thumped into semi
sobriety by this rough riding. At
any rate, few of the town loafers who
had tested the tonic virtues of the So
bering machine 5earned for second
dose. Many of the noisy, ragged crowd
who helped to drag the SOLDERING ma
chine over its devious route had them
selves taken similar trips.
The rude apparatus, suspect, did
more for the cause of temperance in
its day than the more gentle and re-
spectacle methods of promoting the
reform. The appliance was carefully
housed, and all the bloods in the town
knew where it was to be found. Some
times it figured in parades, and, when
bedecled and bedizened with flowers,
flags and ribbons, it attracted almost
as much notice as the little, sputtering
hand engine which was supposed to do
duty at haystack fires"
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WAR ON CATERPILLARS.
Corps of Tree Defenders Organized
to Destroy the Pests in Phil
adeIphia Park.

Fairmount park, Philadelphia, has a
caterpillar corps composed of men who
do nothing but scrub down the shade
trees and kill the dislodged insects.
The implement used is simply an or
binary scrubbing brush nailed to a
long pole, and it takes considerable
endurance to keep up such work all
day.
AS soon as the caterpillars touch
the ground they start to climb the
tree again, and the men have to step
lively to kill all the fallen ones. Said
one of them the other day, according
to the Philadelphia Record:
''This is the only really effective
way of getting rid of the pests. I have
tried other ways, but they were no
good. Take tar traps, for instance. I
have watched caterpillars wriggle
their way out of their fur, leaving it
in the tar. Poisons, instead of killing
them, seem to make them fat.
81 took one of these lotions to drug
store where I had bought it and told
the man it was worthless.
"'Just pour some of it down a cater
pillars throat and see if he doesn't
die,' said the druggist. You're fool
ish,' said. You've got to catch your
caterpillar first to do that, and after
you've caught him you might as well
stamp on him, and then you know he's
dead"
The Jamesburg record., 1901-10-05
EMPEROR AND MONKS.
Beginning of the Friendship of
Kaiser Wilhelm for the
Order of Benedictines.

The friendship of the German en-
peror for the Benedictine order dates
from the year 1898, when his majesty
was present at the wedding of his
cousin, Princess Marie of Edinburgh,
to the crown prince of Roumania, at
Sigmaringen. The archabbot of the
German Benedictines preached the
nuptial sermon, which so pleased The
emperor that he invited the abbot to
sit next him at the subsequent ban
quet, and took him at once into the
high favor in which he and his order
have basked ever since, says London
paper.
Not only have the Benedictine
monks been allowed to return to their
Rhineland abbey at Mariaiaach,
whence they were driven many years
ago, but the splendid Romanesque
church Zone of the finest in Germany
which, during temporary occupa-
ton of the monastery by the Jesuits,
had been kept jealousy shut up by the
government, has been restored to it's
former owners. The kaiser has erect
ed in this church, at his own expense,
new and magnificent high altar Of
marble, and he crowned his favors by
offering to ennoble the abbot by Civ
ing him the prefix of 'von." This was
declined with thanks, whereupon the
abbot received from his majesty the
present of costly ring
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Newspapers in Iowa.

There are more newspapers pub
lshed in Iowa, in proportion to the
population, than in any other state of
the union. Massachusetts, so long at
the head of the list, will have to give
the first place to the Hawkeye state,
for, in proportiop to its population,
Iowa has more than twice as many
newspaper publications as Massa-
chusetts, and many more than a large
number of other states.
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at the places of their former meeting,
at I O'Clock in the afternoon, and
remain in session until 9 O'Clock in
the evening for the purpose of revis-
ing and correcting the Original Re
gister, and of adding thereto the.
names of all persons entitled to the.
rights of suffrage in the Election
District at the next election, who
shall appear in person before them or,
shall be shown by the written affidavit
of some voter in such Election Dis
trict to be legal voter therein, and
of erasing therefrom the name of any
person who, after fair opportunity
to be heard, shall be shown not to be
entitled to vote therein by reason
of non-residence or otherwise.
H. H. BROWN,
Chairman Midd1esex County Board
of Election.
J. L. SUYDAM,
Secretary.
Dated Sept. 23, 1901.
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Cobwigger- Things are invented as
we need them.
Merritt don't know about that.
I'd be much better off if somebody
had years ago invented a horseless
race track.-Smart Set.
The Jamesburg record., 1901-10-05

Mothers everywhere praise One Minute
Cough Cure for the sufferings it has relieved
and the lives of their little ones it has saved
Strikes at the root of the trouble and draws
out the inflammation. The children's favorite
Cough Cure. H. L. Jaques
The Jamesburg record., 1901-10-05

First Shade--What is that Chicago
spirit talking to Satan so much about?
Second Spirit-Trying to sell him
Job lot of fire escapes.-Baltimore
American.
The Jamesburg record., 1901-10-05
Good and Bad Thunder.

Winter thunder is considered
throughout Europe ito be of very i'll
omen. But April tkdnder is considered
to be very beneficial.
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FIRST MEETING
as Boards of Registry and Election,
ON TUESDAY, OCT. Is, 1901

From 10 o'clock in the morning and
continuing in session until 9 o'clock
in the evening, for the purpose of
registering the names of all persons,
in their respective Election Districts
entitled to the rights of suffrage
therein at the next
The Jamesburg record., 1901-10-05
uIsslilgs Of Boards Of RsgistTg
and Election.

Notice is hereby given that the.
Boards of Registry and Election in
and for each and every Election Dis
trict or voting Precinct in the County
of MidGlesex, will hold their
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
Meet I Terrible
 Death
Father and
 Daughters
 Cremated.

Versailles, Ind. March 2.-The home of George James, 4 miles from here, burned this morning and James and his four daughters were burned todeath. Mrs. James and a son were absent from home.
 At. 5 o'clock MT. James got up, built a fire and went back to bed. Later the stove tipped over and in a short time the whole house was in flames. The daughters awoke and rushed into the room where their father was sleeping. A son, 12 years old, who was sleeping with his father, escaped from a window. He went to the window of the room In which his father and sisters were and tried to get them out, but apparently they were all suffocated. The boy then rang the dinner bell un- til the flames forced him to re- treat. Before the neighbors, a. 1armed by the bell arrived, the house had fallen in.-Ex.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09

 Matters.
Irrigation Items,
Debate In the House of RepreSen-
 tatiVeS.

It was somewhat contradictory to hear Representative Mondeu, of Wyoming, urging the reclama- tion of the arid lands. in the House of Representatives, and invoking the !arid land reclama- tion plank of the Philadelphia Republican platform, and "Un- cle" Joe Cannon, of Illinois, and Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, repudiating this plank as ''ornam enta1," not binding, etc.
 If the Eastern Republicans of the House are not very careful and do not soon wake up to the situation, they will get into an embarrassing tangle over the arid land irrigation question, which is growing stronger and stronger with each day.
 The opportunity was just right in the House, had the Democrats as a whole been alive to the situ- ation and to the strength of the irrigation question, for the Dem- ocratic party to place the Repub- 1icans in a bad predicament. for the keynote of the Western irriga- tion question is 'home-building, " and the Republican party has heretofore always championed this class of settlement. The Democrats, by now favoring this idea them selves of providing homes in the West for thousands of American citizens, could with entire conssstancy change the Republicans with having forsak- en their old-tine policy for that of colony-building.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
Killed His Brother.

A heartrending shooting Oc- cured at Tempe this morning, m which the sixteen-year-old son of Juan Laza, a respected Mexican, lost his life at the hands of his eight-year-o1d brother. The boys were playing in the yard with twenty-two calibre target rife, and the tragedy occurred in the same old manner which has filled so many graves.
 The younger boy pointed the gun at the elder and saying I'm going to shoot you," pulled the trigger. The boy fell dead with bullet thru his heart. The younger lad is nearly crazed with grief.
 The news was brought to Phoenix by James B. McNeil, of the Ari- zona Mercantile Co.,, who report ed it to Deputy Sheriff Moeur.
 Enterprise
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
For Small Set
 tiers.

Congress is beginning to re- cognize that the national irriga- tion propaganda is not a scheme to irrigate vast tracts of private land at public expense, thereby putting money into the hands of specu1aters and those already we'll able to take care of them selves; but that 1t contemp1ates the reclamation and putting up on the land of bona fide settlers home-bui1ders. When this idea becomes firmly grounded in the minds of Eastern men-that the land is not to be reclaimed and then iobbed away in large tracts, but that 1t is to be be safeguard ed so that 1t will become avail able for the small settler who wants to take up forty or eighty acres, and build a home upon 1t and stick his blow into the soil and let the water follow his fur row, then there will be very little opposition to storing, by the Government, of the flood waters of the West, so as to make 1t available for such use.
 Such a policy carried out would people the arid West with the same class of hardy citizens as the earley pioneers who settled the great Mississippi valley, carving out for themselves and their children, homes in the wilderness, and making and creating their living and pros perity from the soil.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09

The husband who Is proud of his wife should not fail to tell her so occasionally.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
Irrigated:

', In the irrigation debate in the House of Representatives Repre- sentative Bell, of Colorado, stat ed that he had served on a special committee which went to the arid West to investigate con- ditions of labor and capital, and that they found in Utah the best labor conditions of anywhere in the United States.
 Why" he said, did we find thsre the best condition of labor2 The reason given was that the men employed i'll the coal mines and in the meta1liferous mine mines and everywhere else had small homes on this irrated land, and whenever there was a short age of work the miners of Utah went to their little homes and cultivated their land. A family can raise more on one acre of good fertile irrigated land, in my judgement, than can be raised on an average of three or four arces in the Eastern States. This con-
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09

The celebration of the thirty eight anniversary of the territor- ia1 government for Arizona took place on the 18th of February 19O1Sand was made the occasion of the dedication of the New Capitol building. There were visitors from all parts of the Southwest, to witness the rites. A large parade ended at the Capitol where the rites consisted mostly of speeches, Governor N. O. Murphy presided; and Chiefjustice Webster Street was Orator of the day. The first representatives of the Govern ment according to Governor Mur- phy crossed the New Mexico line in November, 1864, and plant ed the Stars and Stripes at Maya jo Springs north of this place fifty miles. The following spring the first Legislature was held in a log cabin at Prescott the seat of government was then moved to Tucson, three sessions being held there, only one of them being held in the same building. The capitol has been changed to different localities since that time, but was finally anchored at Phoenix and remains there at pres ent.
 Bonds were issued for the con- struction of the new capitol and it has just been completed. It stands beautifed with flowers. semi-tropica1 trees and shrubbery- whose venture in mid-winter Is the delight of Northern visitors. The building consist entirely of Arizona products and is a strik- ing structure, and Is said by ex- perts to be the best public build ing in the United States for so little money.
 On the 18th of February cere- monies were held during which Mrs. Frank Cox sang Hail to Arizona, the Sun kissed Land"
 Her composition will probably be the Territorial anthem.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
Jail Delivery. Desperate Prisoners Escape From the C0COninO C0un-
 ty Jail.
FIVE OF THE GANG GOT
 AWAY.

The Coconino county jail, had a sensational delivery of its Pris- oners last Monday night The jailer, who entered the jail at 6 o'clock for the purpose of feeding the prisoners, was everpowered and five of the most desperate Of the gang escaped.
 The following is a description of the escaped prisoners
 Dan Foley, about 5 feet 5 In- light complexion, smooth shaven. weighs 130, blue eyes; eyes are sore: age 28.
 Toney Evans, 6 feet in height, weighs 165, dark complexion, smooth shaven, small round black hat, dark clothes, about 21 years old. He has relatives in New Mexico.
 John Behin, 5 feet 10 inches, light complexion, blue eyes squinted, small light moustache, weighs 16O, wears corduroy cap. age 25.
 Ed. Smith, Sit 5 inches, black hair, black eyes and mOustaChe, weighs 160, age 26.
 Fred. Cotte, 5 feet 9 inches, weighs 170, dark hair, blue eyes, smooth shaven, small round brown hat, dark clothes
 The escaped prisoners are con- sidered desperate m the extreme
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09

wANTED-ACTIvE MAN OF GOOD CHARAC ter to deliver and collect in Arizona for old es tablished manufacturing wholesale house. $9oo year sure pay. Honesty more than ex- perience required. Our refereuce. any bank in any city. Enclose self-addessed stamped enveloped. Manufacturers, Third Floor, 3S4 Dearborn St., Chicago, III
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
A STRAY HORSE.

A Black horse with star in his face. Branded H on left thigh, about g years old weighs about 1000 pounds. Broke to ride and is gentle.
 Owner may have him bv calling onE. w. Wiltbmank of Greer, Ariz. and paying for this advertisement.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09

dition quadrup1es the inducement for 1aboring men to make homes on this land, and causes them to take lively interest in their re- reclamation"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
DO YOU WANT LANDS2

Forest Reserve and Soldiers Additional Scrip will h tile public moderate cost We have had large experience 1oane these serbs and umbermen FROM Title guaranteed all classes of Land Sps for particulars Reerence Union Bank and Trust Co., Helena Montana.
 THE COLLINS LAND COMPANY, ATLANTIC Q. HELENA
The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09
NEW IDEAS FOR woMAN's WEAR

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The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-09

Beauty is only skin deep, but that doesn't matter. It IS always worn on the outside.