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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-27
Use of the Mcclellan Suggested.

In order to assist in the prosecution of the
work, General Gillespie has recommended
that one of the army transports be trans
formed into sea going hydraulic dredge
for special use in dredging operations on
this project.
As the most available vessel for that pur-
pose, General Gillespie has named the
transport Mcclellan, which is due at New
York in a few days from a trip to the
Philippines, by way of the Mediterranean
and Suez canal. This recommendation IS
made in recognition of the fact that the
contractor cannot be required to increase
his plant for the work and the further
fact that the Mcclellan is the only trans
port on the Atlantic coast available for the
work. Similar action was taken in the
case of the transport Grant of the Pacific
service, which was turned over to the en-
glneer department for conversion into
hydraulic dredge for use in the extensive
operations for the improvement of the
mouth of the Columbia river
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-27
TO HURRY THE WORK
Digging New Channel to New
York Harbor.
WILL TAKE TEN YEARS
GEN. GILLESPIE SUGGESTS USE
OF THE MCCLELLAN.
Might Be Transformed Into a Sea-
Going Hydraulic Dredge-Army
Engineers Interested.
WILL TAKE TEN YEARS

Under the terms Of the river and harbor
act of 1899 a project was adopted by the
War Department for making an entrance to
New York harbor by way of Ambrose chan
nel formerly known as East channel, to
be 1000 feet wide and 40 feet deep at mean
low water. The work was authorized TO
be done under a continuing contract at a
cost not exceeding s4000,OO0. 1t involves
the excavation of a channel about seven
miles in length. The original depth through
this channel was 16 feet at mean low wa
ter, the shoalest part being the outer bar.
At that time the channel was used only by
towboats and scows and other ight-draft
vessels.
Progress Of the Work.
In his latest annual report General Giles
pie, chief of engineers, says that up to July
1 last the sum OIL s402, ,436 had been ex-
pended in excavating for about mile in
length on the outer bar.
He added that no result useful to naviga-
tion will be obtained until the cuts are car
ried through the outer bar, which is about
two miles long. The available depth at the
time of the last report was about sixteen
feet at mean low water on the shoal not yet
dredged. He also made the significant
statement that the entire cost of the i'm
provement of New York harbor up to date
is less than three-quarterS of 1 per cent of
the increase III the annual Fdlue VI IOISlSu
commerce of the port since the improve
ment began, and is less than one-quarter
of per cent Of the value of present foreign
commerce per year.
At the earnest solicitation Of the repre-
sentatives of the commercial interests at
New York, the army engineers are using
their best endeavors to expedite the work
on Ambrose channel, as it recognized that
under existing conditions it will take at
least ten years of unimpeded dredging to
make the channel navgable for deep-draft
ocean going vessels. 1t is conceded that
the contractor is meeting all the require
ments of his contract, and that he is en-
Oh
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
MAKING IMPRESSIONS ON A CHILD.

It takes but a moment to make IN
impression. The impression so quick
~ made may endure for centuries.
In one of the bricks brought from
the ruins of ancient Nufar by Pro.
fessor Hilprecht is a mark made by q
workman's hand in the long gone
ages. Meantime kingdoms have
risen and have fallen, and genera
tions have come and have gone, but
that impression has never changed.
AS it is with the clay brick, and
even more so, it is with the mind
and heart of the child whom we
teach in the home or in the Sunday
school. Impressions are being made
every hour that the ages of eternity
shall not wholly remove. Ought we
not to prize our privilege of impress
sion-makiug on the child's mind and
oharacter?-Sunday School Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
NOT THE sHIRKs.

Hard muscles are not grown by
soft living. Strong brains are not
made by feeble exercise. Useful,
capable, brave-hearted men and
women do not grow out of boys and
girls who always shun the difficult
tasks and seek only their own ease
and pleasure. To "endure hardness
as a good soldier" may not be a
wholly agreeable experience, but it
has it's compensations. Do you en-
joy yourself most on a cold day when
you dawdle around the fire dreading
to do something outside that needs
to be done, or when you march out
and go vigorously about 1t? The
enviable people in this world are not
the shirks. The enviable people are
those who strive after and obtain
''the god1ike power to do and know,
whatever for their own or the worlds
betterment needs to be done OF
known.-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
MR. MOODY AND THE QUESTIONABLE
BOOK,

Some one asked the late Dwight
L. Moody if he had read a certain
book. He replied, "No, 1 believe
there is poison in it at least 1 have
heard 81 on good authority" The
friend said, "But wouldn't it be
we'll for you to readit for y~ourself?"
"No," said Mr.. Moody eff I take
poison in my stomach the doctor has
TO come with a stomach pnmp TO
take it out. Why should 1 take poi
son in my mind? I might never be
able TO get it out.-Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
NO ONE NEED DESPAIR

But suppose, young man, you have
fallen and stained your manhood ;
suppose you axe in debt and cannot
pay suppose you have been idle
and missed your chance. Then les
me say to you as q brother, Do not
despair. If Innocence be gone, re.
pontaaoe is possible. Let me, who
in a measure may seem @ stranger
to you, but yet as one who holds
your welfare near his own heart, be-
eeech you in the name Of the Lord
to break the bonds Of sin before the
day is olcssd, and do what you have
to do before yea lie down to rest
Speak if you have 80 sp8ak, write if
you have to write, confess if you
have to confess, make restitution if
shat be your duty.
Act quickly and with all your
might; strike for liberty, that liberty
which is alone found when we open
the door of our heart to Christ. Had
You given him possession earlier,
this would not have happened. Now
let him have the throne of your ma
ture, and you will stand before set
Of sun a man free in Christ Jesus.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
The Home Circle.
EIzeY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.s
BY THOMAS 6RAY

The struggling pangs of conscious
truth to hide,
To uuenoh the bushes of ingenious
shame,
Or heap the shrine of luxury and
pride
With incense kindled at the Muses.
flame.
Far from the madding crowds igno-
BILE strife,
Their sober wishes never learned
Along the cool, sequestered vale of
life,
They kept the n~oiseless tenor of
their way,
Yet even these bones from insult to
protect,
Some frail memorial still erected
nigh,
With uncouth rhymes and shapeless
sculpture decked,
Implores the passing tribute OF a
sigh.
Their names, their years, spelt by
the unlettered Muse,
The place of fame and elegy sup
ply;
And many a holy text around she
strews,
That teach the rustic moralist to
die.
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a
prey,
This pleasing, anxious being e'er
resigned,
Lett the warm precincts of the cheer.
full day,
Nor cast one longing, lingering
look behind?
On some fond breast the parting soul
relies,
Some pious drops the closing eye
requires;
Fen from the tomb the voice of Ma
tuIe cries,
Fen in our ashes live their wonted
fires.
For thee, who, mindful of the I'm
hOnored dead,
Dost in these lines their artless
tale relate;
If chance, by lonely contemplation
led,
Some Kindred spirit shall inquire
thy fate
HAPPY some hoary,h headed swain
may say:
loft have we seen him at the peep
of dawn,
Brushing with hasty steps the dew
away,
To meet the sun upon the upland
lawn.
''There at the foot of yonder nodding
beech,
That wreathes it's old, fantastic
roots so high,
His listless length at noontide would
he stretch,
And pore upon the brook that bah
bles by.
"Hard by yon wood, now smiling as
in scOrn,
M%uttering his hayward fancies, he
would rove;
Now dropping, woeful, wan, like one
fOTlorn,
Or crazed with care, or crossed in
hopeless love.
Zone norm l missed him on the Gus
toned hill,
Along the heath, and near his ia
vOrite tree;
Another Came-nor yet beside the
rill,
Nor up the lawn, nor as the wood
Was he
"The next, with dirges due, in sad
array,
Slow through the ohurch-way path
we saw him borne -
and read (fOr thou canst
read) the lay
Graved on the stone beneath yon
aged thorn" d.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

RThis is No. "a of our series of the Worlds
Best Poems, aIr.nged especially for THE PRO
GRESSIvE FARMER by the e1itOr. In this
eeries selertiOus from the following authors
have already appeared: Burns, February, 1901;
Bryant October, 1901; the BrOwnings, Novem-
Der, 1901; Lord Byron and Phillips Brooks,
December, 1901; Thomas Campbell and Eugene
Field, January, 1902.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

"There's been another engage
ment," said young Mr.. Dolley, who
had been,reading the lates war news.
ooh, dear" sighed Miss Frooks, 81
wish L could be in an engagement"
And in few minutes she was right
in one.-Harper's Bazaar.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

As long as THE PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER maintains it's present standard !
must have it.-Adam Williams,
Wayne Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

it is a wholesome tonic shat he should
begin in honorable poverty. Pow
erty-I do not mean pauperism-is a
stern but faithful mother of genius
and of success. Alas that Spencer
died in want of bread but at any
rate he wrote 'FThe Faerie Queen;
and Milton, in darkness and neglect
the inward vision of his soul being
cleansed = imagined the Puritan
Epic. We owe the most of Scott's
novels to the loss of his goods and
out of the hardness of his life, like
water from the stricken rock, flowed
the lyrics of Robert Burns. For the
most part the pioneers OF science
have been poor men, and the prices
of commerce have come from a low
estate. It remains forever true that
the primrose path leads nowhere
save to the sluggard's garden, while
the steep and rugged path leads up
ward to the stars.
BULL 4h1N In
And let me add shat every man
should make the most of himself
spiritually. It is good to be strong
IN body, better to be useful in life,
best to be victorious in the region Of
the will. Defeat here is irrevOCable /;
victory here is decisive. If q man
falls under the power Of any sin, he
is d slave if he conquer any sin, he
is SO much more a man. This is the
ground where each of us must fight
his keenest, longest, and nOblest bat
tie. We ought not to complain if
we be- tempted, for temptation Q
warfare, and warfare makes sol
diers. The richest natures are the
most severely tried, because they
are provinces worthy the winning.
Thin natures r seldom invaded,
for they are like the sand of the des-
ert in which grows neither corr
nor wine. He who thinks will know
what doubt is, and he must think
on till doubt turns into certainty.
1t is the IA whose emotions are
the fullest who will know the dangers
Of passions, but when his heart has
passed through the fire it will be
lowered with a love to God and man
not given to poorer natures.
Our wisdom is to find the sin that
is most cherished by us-going
through our nature as with q can
die. When we find our sin, we must
face it, we must resolve it shall be
conquered, We must take off our coat
for the wrestle and grip this foe as
n who fights for his life. And
God will give to every true man the
victory. If the circumstances OF
OQr life and our work seem to be
against US, then We ought to be the
more vigllans as fighting in an
enemy's country, watching, praying,
and standing to our arms. If any
man venture on a base word or vile
jest in Our presence, then let Us
speak Gus bravely and sharply till
we put him to shame or drive the
leper from our company. Soldiers
and We are soldiers-have often to
be far from agreeable, and if a man
should resent cur Indignation there
will be better men TO approve it
and if the man whom we have pun
ished refuse to speak TO US again,
it will be no loss, and there still will
be left one Or two friends in the
world.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
A MUSICAL

I heard a new Guessing ganY,,>
recently. It was called "A MDsIo.,
Romance" Profting by a Ipu ~
conversation, the young hostess -
nouno9d that a lovely story Of II.
Civil War would be related in mr.,
cal numbers, and to the n VIII
should best interpret them a nr;z.
should be awarded. All were mn
vided with cards and pencils ana .
young woman seated herself at tbo
piano. The hostess then asked
What was the heroine c~alledpn
Whereupon the familiar notes NJ
"Sweet Marie were heard, n !.
began TO be understood that tbs
names of popular airs-given with
much spirit by the pianist-would
furnish the W to the questions
propOunded, to be recorded upon tbe
cards. The story progressed thus:
What was the hero's name? "Robin
Adair."
Where was he born? "Dtxie."
Where did they meet? "Comin'
thro' the rye"
At what time of the day was itY
''Just as the sun went down"
When did he propose9 CATER the
ball was over"
What did he sayP "Only one girl
in this world for me-"
What did she say? "I'Il leave nv
happy home for you"
What did he then bid her? IA
soldiers farewell"
What did the band play? "The
girl I left behind me-"
Where did he go? "Georgia."
Where did he spend the night
"Tenting on the old camp ground"
What did the band play when be
came home? "When Johnny comes
marching home"
Where we're they married? "Od
Kentucky home"
Who were the bridesmaids? "Two
little girls in blue"
Who furnished the music? "Whis
ling Rufus"
Who furnished the wedding FEAST
"Rory O'Gnady."
Where did they make their homer
son the banks of the Wabash"
What was their motto2 "Home,
sweet home"
Where did they always remain
s'Amerioa."
The music was a new feature, and
the fact that the airs were 80 we'll
known make it the more enjoyable.
The advantage of the winner being
go slight, the pleasure of SUCCESS wab
the more general.-February Ladies'
Home Journal.
While one boy is regretting his
want of opportunities, his lack Of
means to get a college education,
and remains in ignorance, another
with half his chances picks up a
good education in the odds and ends
OF time which other boys throw
From the same material, one
man builds a palace and another
howell. From the same rough piece
of marble, one man calls out an
angel of beauty which delights every
beholder, another a hideous monster
which demoralizes every one who
seas iF-Suocesa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

THE EPITAPH.
Here rests his head upon the lap of
earth
A youth to fortune and TO fame
unknown;
Fair Science frowned not on his hum
BILE birth,
And melancholy marked him for
her own.
Large was his bounty, and his soul
sincere;
Heaven did "a recompense as largely
send;
He gave to misery all he had-a tear,
He gained from Heaven C'twas all
he wished) q friend
No further seek his merits to dis
close,
Or, draw his frailties from their
dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope
repose),
The bosom of his Father and his
God.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

The plOughman hOmeward plods his
weaTy way,
And leaves the world to darkness
and to me.
Now fades the glimmering landscape
on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stiffness
holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his
droning flight,
And drOwsy tinklings 1ull the dis
tant folds:
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled
tower,
The moping owl does to the moon
complain
Of such as, wandering near her Sc.
cret bower,
Modest her ancient, solitary reign.
Beneath those rugged elms, thatyew-
trees shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a
Wondering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the ham
let sleep.
The breezy call of incense-b breath
ing morn,
The swallow twittering from the
straw built shed,
The cocks shrill clarion, or the echo
ing horn,
No more shall rouse them from
their lowly bed.
For them no more the blazing hearth
shall burn.
Or busy housewife ply her evening
care;
No children run to lisp their sire's
Or climb his knees the envied kiss
to share.
Oft did the harvest to their sickle
yield,
Their furrow oft the Stubborn
glebe has broke;
How jQcund did they drive their
team a-fieldl
How bowed the woods beneath
their sturdy stroke
Let not ambition mock their useful
toll,
Their homely joys, and destiny
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful
smile
The short and simple annals of the
poor
The beast of heraldry, the pomp of
power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth
e'er gave,
Await alike tn inevitable hour
The paths Of glory lead but to the
grave.
Nor you, ye proud! impute to these
the fault,
If memory Ger their tomb no tro.
phles raise,
Where, through the long drawn aisle
and fretted vault,
The peallng anthem swells the note
Of praise.
Can STORED urn or animated bust,
l. Back to its mansion call the feet.
ing breath?
Can hOnOr's voice provoke the silent
dust,
Or fa,tery soothe the dull, cold
ear of death?
Perhaps in this neglected spot is
laid
Some heart once pregnant with
celestial fire;
Hands hat the rod of Empire might
have swayed,
Or walked to ecstaoy the living Tyre /;
But knowledge to their eyes her
ample page,
Rich with the spoils of time, did
ne'er unrOll;
Chill perjury repressed their noble
rage,
And tree the genial current of the
soul.
Full many a gem of purest ray Sc.
rel
The dark, unfathomed caves of
ocean bear;
Full many d flower is bern to blush
unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the
desert air.
Some village Hampden, that, with
daunt,ess breast,
The little tyrant of his fields with.
stood;
Some mute, inglorious Milton here
may rest;
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his
country's blood.
The applause of listening Senates to
command,
The threats of pain and ruin to
desDise,
To scatter plenty DER a smiling land,
And read their history in a nations
eyes,
Their lot forbade nor circumscribed
alone
Their growing virtues, but their
crimes confined
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
BASTILLE DAY.
French Societies in North
Hudson Celebrate the
French Revolution.

sold Glory and the tri-color Of
France waved side by side at Kroebel's
Boulevard Park, North Bergen, Satur-
day, when the United French societies
OF Hudson county celebrated the fall of
the Bastille by monster picnic.
The celebration opened with a big
parade in which the several societies
participated. The procession formed in
line in front of the Prescott House Oh
Central avenue, West Hoboken.
The carriages in which the members
rode were elaborately decorated and
there were several floats Ill line.
The start was made at 80 p NJ. and
the procession, after passing through tile
principal streets of the Heights and
West Hoboken proceeded to the park by
way Of the Hudson Boulevard. On tllcir
arrival short address was made BY
IIippolyte A. Genie, president of the
united societies.
CROWDED PARK.
The park was crowded. Over 5000 per-
sons We're present. 1t was jolly good
natured crowd Among the attractions
were prize bowling and shooting. games
of every description for the ladies and
children, and dancing.
The winners Of the shoot wers MS fol
lows: First prize, D. J. Carlo, 4S; second
prize, Louis Reah. AS; third prize. NJ.
Ringey, 46; fourth prize, NJ. Steiner, 46;
Fifth prize, A. Kleiner. 46; sixth prize,
NJ Dinge.
The prize offered to the society maxi
ing the finest appearance was awarded to
the Liberty Guards. The Hon. Jules
Cambon ambassador of the French Re-
public, was patron, and Hon. NJ. Bru-
waert, French consul, was honorary
president.
The officers Of the United States socie-
ties -Hippolyte A. Geney, president;
G.. Antoine, first vice-president; l.. Burk-
hardt, second yice-president; Ed. Van
Den Bogaert, secretary; J.. Escoffier, as
sistant secretary; G. Rohr. assistant sec
retary; E. Pacailier, Sr., treasurer; p.
Bose, assistant treasurer; NJ Schuster,
sergeant-at-arms; M. Pacailler, Jr., as
sistant sergeant-at-arms; P. Cremonesi.
floor manager.
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
6HERIELvS NOTICES.
IEnIFfes sALE--IN cHANcERY or NEW

saERIF'Ess SALEM cHANcERY or NEW
Betwsen sssss rhe 1Iudsoa city Mutual Build ng
ard Loan Association Of Jersey city. complain
ant. and Kos4t1e Fricke, et al. defendants.
Fl. "a Fur Sale OF Mortgagsd Premises
Retufnable October Term. 1902.
Hudspeth & Puster. Solicitors.
BY virtue Of the above stated writ, TO me
directed and delivered ] shall sell by public
room, No At Montgomery street, Jersey CITY.
THURSDAY. the thirty first day Of July. A. D.
1862,
at two o'clock in the afternoon. all the follow
ing described land and premises, with the APP
purtenances, being the same described in said
All the following tract or parcel Of land and
premises hereinafter particularly described,
situate, lylns and being In the CITY q se.ssy
New Jersey, and which on map emitted
Map Of property of the Marion Building CON-
pany OF Marion, Hudson County. New Jersey.
surveyed and laid out by Mallory & Miller,
City Surveyors, Is bounded and described as
follows:-2eginnng at point on the westerly
side Of Giles avenue distant two hundre1 fess
southerly from the southwesterly corner OF
Giles avenue and Broadway thence runnlH
westerly and parallel with Broadway to the
centre of the block between Giles avenue ana
Wales avenue: thence southerIy parallel with
Giles avenue twenty (20) feet; thence easterly
and parallel with the first course, to- through
and beyond the middle Of the party wall BE- be-
tween the premises herein described and the
house next south to Giles avenue: thence north
eriy along the westerly side of Giles avenue
twenty coo feet to the point or place OF De-
ginning.
said Henry Schumacher by Edward f.. STAN
September 9Th, A. D. 1885, and recorded in the
Hudson County Registers Office in Ilber 5sS
: A,S - - CARL H. RUEMPLER.
Dated June 25. 1902
Jersey City News and Evening Journal
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14


TO MICHAEL REILLY, ANN REILLY, HIS
wife; Frances p. Coles. widow: Charles F.
Coles, Harry A. Coles, De Witt Iappaa,
John B. G. Tappan Eliza & Tappan Fanny
infant; heirs-at-law of Franklin Coles
dec'i Richard Lahey. Lizzie 4. Lahey. his
wife; Mary zimmerman. Tenant. and THs
You are hereby notified that public sale
made by the City Collector of Jersey city, On
the Sd day of July, 1900, The Mayor and Aides-
men of Jersey City purchased for the sum of
sixty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ALL
the land and real estate situate in Jersey Ci5V-
in the Comfy of Hudson and State of NeI
Jersey, fronting Hopkins avenue, whic5 IS
laid down and designated as lot eS c. In block
number 564, as shown upon l. p Fowle-'s
Official Assessment Map Of Jersey City, N. j..
1894. said sale being made pursuant TO the proc
visions of an act of the LEGISLATURE OF New
Jersey. passed March 3oth. 1886 entitled
..An Act concerning the settlement and coli
lection OF arrearages of unpaid taxes. as
sessments and water rates or water rents
in cities Of this State, and imposing an
levyiag a tax, assessment and lien In lieu
and instead OF such arrearages: and 2 en-
force the payment thereof, and to provirs
for the sale of lands subjected to future
taxation and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further. notified mat you appear
to have an estate or interest in said land and
estate shall be redeemed, as provided in said
acts, within one year from the date of sale
and before the expiration OF six months from
and after the service hereof deed for ths
same viii be given conveying to The Mayor
and Aldermen Of Jersey CITY the fee simple
Of said land and real estate according to the
provisions of the said acts.
THE MAJOR AND AIDERMES NE z OF + JERSEY
NJ. NJ. FAGAN.
Attest:- Nj. o'DoNNEIIiL.
tsale No 9.eS4.)