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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-11-16


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as published in Fitzgeralds Manual of
the Legislature of New Jersey Q90D dis
closes the fact that the division of muni-
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population. 1t also indicates the dis
crepancy between the population of those
municipalities which are divided into
wards. BY the act of March 8, 1882, which
is supplement to an act entitled An
act relating to the DIVISION OF certain
cities OF this state into wards Y. L. OF
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cities not aireaqy disldeo INTO "aros or'
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-11-16
WEATHER INDICATIONS

NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 190l.-Foreeast for
the thirty-six hours ending a eight p. NJ.
Sunday:-Tonight and tomorrow fair and
continued cool weather.
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his physical condition was such that with
out the excitement of the chase he could
hardly have sat upright In the saddle. Notn-
ing but grim resolution carried him through
these exertions. He knew he should suffer
for them later-as he did, for years-but MS
reason for the risks he took was that ne
never could have succeeded in getting
what he needed from the Indians If he mao
worn the airs of an invalid" That seemed
to him enough excuse for any rashness.
Nothing else counted where his work was In
question.
In the libraries of Rome, Paris. Quebec
and Boston, where he needed to scan in
Vulnerable historical papers and rapidly
CLEAN from them the points he needed, he
was forced to have some one go with him
and slowly read aloud these documents as
long as he was able to listen, while he
made brief notes of the ones he must study
farther. All this time he was suffering
with a disorder Of the brain that often pre-
vented his working more than fifteen min
utes without stopping for several hours
rest. and yet, with a stout heart and I'M
daunted squirt, he struggled on. He was
obliged to have a vast number OF manu-
scripts copied for his use at home, and this
was so expensive that he spent nearly his
entire fortune upon 1t. He knew that the
profits from his work could scarcely repay
what he had invested. but he was not labor
ing for money.
When he began to write a book he had all
the m concerning 1t read to him
Sitting in a shady corner. he listened first
for the chief features of the subject; then
came a second reading. during which he
noted details. In his very best health he
could never listen to reading for more than
an hour or two each day, and even then he
must often pause for rest. By this slow. pa
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tient method he absorbed the facts he need
ed and kept them in his wonderful menu
DRY. When 1t came to debating the book, he
spoke at a moderate pace and in finished
sentences that seldom needed to be revised.
This. however. was no lucky accident Lucky
accidents had nothing to do with the max
Ing of this man. From the first he had rec
ognized that he needed a good prose styls
in which to tell his story to the world.
and he had worked laboriously since his
college days to cultivate that style. Towar
the end of his life it seemed that he was
not going to live to finish his task. as he
had planned it, so he passed. over fifty years
in the struggle. and wrote "Montcalm and
Wolfe" the closing book Of the series. After
this. to his delight, a short new lease OF
strength was given him and he gladly put
it all into writing the volume called Fifty
Years Of Conflict" which he had thought
he must omit.
There are victories and victories. There Is
a wild bravery of battle, leaping up at the
clash of arms and carrying a man straight
or. without fear, toward the muzzle Of a
gun; there Is a steadfast bravery. fighting
in secret, with no marching. no music. no
misunderstanding but constant pluck
against lifelong Encouragement.
Paul Jones was a hero. In the Library
Of last week we gloried in the dash and
spirit of his brave life. His courage was Of
the sort that wins a red badge" But
surely there must be a shining white badge
for such courage as that Of Francis Park
nan. and 1t may be that some day. when
nations have learned to settle disputes with
cut b~loodshed, and the smoke Of battle has
cleared away from the world, we shall be
able to see that the silent, lonely victory
of the historians life was really the greater
Of the two.
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Work of the
Protestant Nations.

It has become apparent that It Is to the
Protestant nations. including Russia, which
is also outside the pale of Latin Christian
fty. America, Russia. England and Germany
1T Is these nations that the leading place
must be conceded, together with the deter
mination Of the worlds fortunes. Those
nations remaining in alliance with the pap
acy are. for the present at least, In an in
ferior position.
To give a full exposition of the inner re-
lationship Of the nation to religion and the
churches Is not possible here, but some re-
marks may be offered which will tend to IL
lustrate their organic connection.
~ In any large historical survey the ma
ton appears as guided by religious leaders.
Religion is seen to lave flourished in pro-
portion as the nation Is conscious Of its
strength and destiny.
ca The Christian religion tended from the
first to break up the Empire and to restore
nationality. Ultimately 1t became manifest
that the cause which undermined the Ro-
man Empire and accomplished its downfall
was the Christian church. In its eastern
half the Empire was resolved into nation
alities. In the west a c~hurch-Latin Chris
tendom-rose upon Its ruins. but within this
Latin Christendom the spirit of nationality
began at once to work. forcing its way
against the opposition Of the papacy, till, In
the age of the Protestant Reformation, when
nationality was felt as a conscious motive,
it sundered Latin Christendom into frag-
ments.
90 The Old Testament in its form as a
whole is simply the history of a nation
from its birth through all its fortunes.
Never did religion rise to a diviner and
fuller expression than under the realization
Of the conviction that God was protecting
the nation and determining its career. The
Hebrew prophets were primarily statesmen,
devoted to the nationality. as the incarna-
ton Of the divine will, in whose fortunes
were revealed the divine purpose.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-31
ITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

WRITTEN o THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
AThe statement that the 19-year-old son Of
Maurice Barrymore and the late
Yeorgie Drew Barrymore has given great
promise as an artist would probably excite
little or no surprise.
"Why shouldn't he be an artist" would
be the interrogatory comment.
And 1t would be pointed out that no one
In America could more Iegitimately come
into an artistic inheritance. II there were
anything in the laws of heredity. For young
Barrymore. whose name is John Sidney.
represents a family which includes on the
one side the names of the elder Mr.. and
Mrs. John Drew. George Drew. Mr.. John
Drew. Mr.. Sidney Drew and Miss Louise
Drew (who made her professional debut this
season.. and on the other Mr.. Maurice
Barrymore, his son. Lionel. now playing
lieutenant Denton in Arizona" and Miss
Ethel Barrymore. whose success in Cap
tain Jinks'' has been convincing.
But, as the sketches which accompany
this will show, Mr.. John Sidney Barrymore's
line of art is a departure from the tradi-
tional ANCESTRAL line. His talents. his in
stinct and his tastes lead him to the brush
and palettes instead Of the sock and buskin.
I Aside from any merit which this work
possesses. 1t is interesting as a study Of the
characteristics which have been trans
mitted, or rather shifted. from one depart
ment of art to another.
For example, there has not been on the
American stage any woman who had a
nicer sense of humor than the mother Of
this boy, and in the chevalier d'industrie,
the gaunt Anglo-Indian and other similar
studies that maternal influence is clearly
shown.
1t must be understood that all the
sketches here produced were taken quite at
random from the portfolio of a wholesome
minded, active-bodied boy of 1s. and that
they were done without the least idea of
ever being published. 1t is really this fact
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memory to this hour. was a ticket to the
Creedon-McCoy fight
This gift was coupled with the proviso
that when the fight was over Jack, then
fifteen, was to rehearse the rounds In detail
to the elder Barrymore after the theater
was over.
Some time after midnight che lad ap.
peared at The Lambs. and from that on
' till gray dawn the battle was fought over
with deepest interest on both sides. BAR
~" declared it was the best report Of a
fight he had ever had.
1t must not be supposed that young Bar
rymore has Sighted the stage entirely. He
made his debut last fall in his fathers
company. playing the young man In "a
Man Of the World" But the stage does
not attract him. although he confessed that
he would like to have his father change
parts with him some night in this curtain
raiser, declaring that an imitation of his
parent would be a "cinch."
The artists favorite of the old masters
is Rembrandt, and his reasons for liking
strong" OF the moderns he likes Watts.
because of his poetry. imagination and
meaning. suggested rather than expressed"
He would rather Illustrate Heine's Flor.
entine Nights the stories of Edgar Allen
Poe. or "Salammbo" than any books he has
read. and IL he had to make the scenery
and costumes for a play he would select
THE Hunchback Of Notre Dame as the
most congenial subject.
Like most artists. music appeals to him
deeply, and he enjoys anything from "Floro-
dora" to Tristan and Isolde but his own
musical performances are limited to a few
modest piano affairs.
He stands . feet II inches. and. no matter
what morbid fancies his pictures may in
Gicate. there is nothing but strong. healthy
American boyhood in all these ~seventy-ona
inches from toe tip to top knot.
II am awfully anxious" said Mr.. Jack
yesterday. Ito do something so that I won't
be known only as Ethel Barrymore's little
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-31
Achievements of
Parkman, the Historian.
Quiet Heroism of a Life Spent for His Country.

Seventy-seven years ago. in the city of
Boston. a hero was born. Nobody .ira rined
that he was a hero. though. He played
about and went to school. very much AZ
any other boy would nav done. Perhaps
he was a shade more quiet and thoughtful
'snan his playmates: perhaps he delighted
more in wandering through the widest
wPods he could find. but. really, thsrs was
nat much difference. He was never a
strong boy and had many days Of suffering
to endure. but between times he went ca
noeing and shooting and fishing, and had a
good time with the rest of the boys. says
a recent writer.
When he was II he entered Harvard Uni
versity. and it was while he was a student
there, before he was 20 years old. that the
great idea of his life work came to him.
He, had been reading and thinking about
the battles between France and England in
North America. He knew how long those
two countries had wranGled for the rule of
this continent, and the thought grew in his
mind. that the history of that great strug-
gle ought to be written and given TO the
world. Close on the heels Of this thought
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ten by Mr.. Charles Haight Farnham, shows
another view. Qittle. Brown & Coz 1t is
hard to believe in looking at the cheerful
face in the picture that here is a man who
was almost never free from physical pain:
who was disabled and stopped short in his
work by sickness, again and again. and.
above all, lost the use of his eyes for close
work while he was still a boy in college.
Just after he had determined to undertake
a work that made eyesisht seem absolutely
necessary. Yet all this Is true.
During his life among the Indians. In his
desire to get close to them and win their
confidence. he used to do such things as
hunting buffalo yer a broken country. Mhe
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came an eager ambition to be himself the
one who should write that wonderful. true
story, and the hope that he might do this,
and do 1t well. thrilled him through and
made his boyish heart beat fast.
For a long time he kept his idea a secret.
His college friends did not know until long
afterward why it was that the study of his
tory had a special fascination for Francis
Parkman. The history that he meant to
write was unlike most histories. It could
not be a story of courts and cities and
civilized places, such as he might learn
about in books. because the conflict between
France and England in cur country took
place largely in wild forests and along from
tiers; 1t must be a tale of adventure on the
outskirts of life. So into the wild places of
the United States and Canada young Park
man went whenever vacation set him free
from books. and he was always studying
these scenes with the idea of their place in
his work before him.
After he had finished his course at Har-
ward, graduating with honor, particularly
In history, he studied law for two years,
not with any idea Of being a lawyer. but as
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and after this two other volumes. one Of
them a novel. were published before he was
finally ready. in 1866. to put forth the first
of the great series which he had been plan
ming and working toward for more than
twenty years. France ard England in the
New World" he called the series, and 1t
was made up Of eight books. the last one
finished shortly before his death, at the
age of 20. in 1893.
All this sounds fairly easy and smooth,
as II Franc Parkman had simply chosen
the work he loved and then, by delight
fully interesting travel and study, had fit
ted himself to accomplish II. But the story
Of his brave life. as 1t has just been writ
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Christian Controversy
With Agnosticism.

Those who entered the controversy in be-
half of Christianity and against the adher-
ents Of the positive philosophy suffered at
first for the lack Of any adequate philosoph-
ical method on which to rest is the effort
to overcome this stupendous alliance be-
tween a humanitarianism working for the
Improvement of social conditions in combi-
nation with natural science, whose postu-
lates involved the denial Of the miracle.
and indeed Of all supernatural agency Gag
nosticism). It seemed for a time as though
the philosophy Of Hegel would serve the
purpose of a stronghold to which Christian
warriors might resort while in the stress
of a conflict which involved not only the
readjustment of Christian doctrines to their
new environment, but also the maintenance
of the idea of God, Of the kingdom of God
in this world and Of a future life for the
immortal soul. In Germany systems Of
theology were worked out on the basis Of
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a means Of fitting himself for the consti-
%tutional questions he would have to write
about. His next move was to study the
Indians as they We're before civilization had
changed them. This was in 1876, and to find
such Indians he had to seek the Dakotas
and other tribes of the Far West. For
weeks he lived in the lodge of a Dakota
chief. finding these red men with manners
and ideas quite untouched by contact with
civilized peoples. AS he wrote at the time:
They fight. with the same weapons their
fathers fought with before them, and wear
the same garments of skin"
The immediate outcome of this trip was a
delightful book called 1.-The Oregon Trail"
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propriate as its W any aspects Of truth
contained in other religions which have not
hitherto been illustrated in the history oil
the Christian church.
The influence of the humanitarian senti.
ment may be further traced in softening
the asperities of some forms of traditional
theology, as, for example. the Calvinistic
doctrine Of election with its alternatives OF
reprobation or preterition. These certainly
have not been the favorite doctrines which
have commended themselves to the spirit of
the age. The effort has been made to bring
the doctrine Of the atonement within the
! limits of human experience.
II.
Thus far the humanitarian sentiment has
been regarded in its combination with
Christian faith. and as giving new force
and distinction to Christian life and
thought. But. on the other hand, it must
now be noted that the same force working
apart from the church, and often in oppo-
sition to 1t, has been a Limitation to Chris
tian progress. In the French Revolution hui
manitarianism was associated with a mega
tive, destructive tendency, which overthrow
the church. dfsowned God and Immortality
and set up In the place of deity a so-caIled
Goddess of Reason. This negative tendency
has continued to exist and has found con-
slant manifestation. 1t has attempted the
dedication of humanity, as though the hui
man race were worthy in itself of being an
object of worship. 1t has exalted man at the
expense of God. conceiving of humanity as
alone immortal, as competent to steer, its
own course without supernatural direction.
1t has weakened the sense of nationality,
has injured and endangered family life, has
taken away the highest sanctions from mo-
rality and has reduced religion from being
a revelation from God to a purely subjective
process in the soul Of man. worthy Of re-
spect, but without authority.
Principles and convictions like these
found u%tterance in tho philosophy of Comte
Q7S9-1S5O, who called himself the Founder
OF the religion Of humanity and who
proposed the scheme of a humanitarian
church. limited by no national boundaries,
whose only deity was man, whose ritual
found a place only for great men who had
been the benefactors Of the race. Theology
and metaphysics were discarded as out
grown methods Of explaining the phenome-
ma Of the universe. and in the place they
vacated stood the so-called positive philos-
ophy," which rejected all supernatural in
The church of humanity had, in
deed. no history and was a failure from its |
birth. But the combination. first seen in |
Comte. CT humanitarianism with the meth |
DDS and principles Of natural science, has |
been the most formidable opponent against |
which Christianity was ever called to struC- |
gle. 1t has been represented in England by |
John Stuart Mill and by Herbert Spencer
and many others. To the influential writings |
of this school of thinkers is due In great |
the widespread. deep-seated skepti- |
clsm since the middle of the century. To
Ing the spiritualistic movement, the So |
called christian Science and other kin |
bred tendencies toward a crude supernatu- |
raliSm. |
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which is the sum total Of his systematic
attempts in this line Of work.
In appearance and manner he is very like
his father. and the possession of prize cups
won at Kings College for running and
jumping gives further evidence of the like
ness between sire and son.
Incidentally-and the description would be
wholly incomplete without 1.-THE dearly
loves sparring. and one Of the parental
birthday gifts, treasured as a priceless