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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
PEACE COMMISSIONERS.
Prominent CoIOmbinns Arrive at CO.
Ion and Board the M~ayfiOwer.

Ion and Board the Ma~yiOVver.
COLON, Nov. II. The Hamburg
American line steamer Scotia, which
arrived off the coast here flying the
Colombian flag, which had OH board
the Colombian commissioners and
which was boarded by an American Of
ficer from a steam launch belonging to
the United States auxiliary cruiser Dix
lie in order to ascertain if the Scotia
had Colombian troops on board, has
locked here. She had among her pas
sengers a number of prominent Colon
bians who formed a peace commission
from the department of Bolivar. The
steamer did not carry any Colombian
troops.
The commissioners were transferred
to the Dixie and from her to the May
flower. A special train from Panama
with representatives of the provisional
government is m~oment0rily expected.
The government representatives will
Immediately sc aboard the MayflOWer
for the purpose of learning the precise
object of the mission. 1t is considered
improbable that the commissioners are
acting under the authority of tie gov
ernment at Bogota.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Ice 8a second class matter.
lEMBER II, 1903.

occurred. This bed, being natural,
wa public property. If any oyster
planter could have owned it, it would
AVE meant a small fortune to him.
his bed lay between the shore ana
channel. A manufacturing industry
purchased the land with this water
ront. A bulkhead was built over the
yster bed and this rich deposit was
>onverted into a dumping ground for
lag and refuse. The bed is no more
md the State allowed it to go. 1t
vas done that the industries OF the
State might increase. 1t is evident
hat with the increase of factories
llong tidewater, the oyster business
ieclines and all the Investigations by
he State are useless as far as trying
70 ave the bivalves is concerned.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

The opinion of the city attorney as
20 whether the council has power to
change the material for q pavement
after the majority of the owners along
= certain street have petitioned for n
certain kind will be awaited with in
crest as it is q matter which concerns
very property owner in the city. 1t
would seem, however, that Alderman
4t-largo Eckert has the correct view
IF the matter. When a majority of
he people ask for a certain pavement
t would seem the duty of their repre-
7entatives in council to give it to
hem. AT the same time when an
1ther company offers to put down the
III material it would seem that
ompetition IN all pablo contracts is
lecessary.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
FIREME EN- KILLED.
Cleveland Trolley Car House Com
sUmed-Three Deaths; Two Injured.

Cleveland Trolley Car House Com
sumed-Thrce Deaths; Two Injured.
CLEVELAND, o. Nov. 11.-Three
fircmen We're killed and two injured
as the result of the largest fire that
this city has suffered in months. ,..
The dead are: Robert Duffy, truck
No. 2; James Schwcda, truck No. .;
Robert Reed, truck No. 2.
The fire was in the large street car
barn of the Cleveland Electric Rail
way company on IIolmden avenue and
Pearl street and broke out from, rs yet,
an undetermined aus Tho employees
Of the street ear company believe, how
ever, that ii was Of %incendiary origin.
The fatalities were caused by a wall
falling suddenly upon Duffy, ScllWcda.
Reed, Corrigan and N~andeyelde. The
loss is 100000.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
CALENDAR Of LOCAL EVENTS
Nov. 17-Plnk Tea, Baptist Chapel.

Nov. 17-P1nk Tea, Baptist Chapel.
Nov. T7-Bnll. German Verguegungs
Club, Braga Hall.
Nov. 17-Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works
st. Peters chapel.
Nov. IS, 10, 20-Fair, Presbyterian
Chapel.
Nov. 1S-Ira B. lice Lodge, Braga
Hall.
Nov. 20-Concert, Hamlet Society,
Grand Central Palace.
Nov. 23 to Dec. 3-Fair. St. Mary's
church, Wilder Hall.
Nov. 24-Roll Call, Baptist church.
Nov. 25-F. of A. Court Amboy No.
So, Braga Hall.
Nov. 2S-Danish Brotherhood, Braga
Hall.
Nov. 26-Concert. Simpson NJ. E.
church.
Dec. BALL, jolly Social Club,
Dewey Park.
Dee. 4-Braga's Concert, Braga Hall.
Dec. 9.-BalI, \ onug Mems Hebrew
Association Wilder Hall.
Dec. 1O-Private Reception, Braga
Hall.
Dec 10. --Masquerade Ball, Harmonic
Singing Society, Wilder
Hall.
Dec. 15-Ball, Central Pleasure Club,
Dewey Park.
Dec. 31-Ball, Woodchoppers, Cabin
Amboy. 40, Wilder Hall.
Dec. 31-Steamitters Union, Braga
Hall.
Jan. 14-Masquerade Ball, Hebrew
Progressive Association,
Grand Central Palace.
Jan. 2l-Ball, Original Hebrew Ladies'
Benevolent Society, Grand
Central Palace.
Feb. 2-Ball, Congregation Beth
Mordecai, Wilder Hall.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Mnyor End Cnnhier Indicteh.

ASIIENILLE. y. c., Nov. 17.-Dan-
iel C.. Champaign, former mayor of
Biltmore and cashier of the Fillmore
estate, and George r. Tennent, here
toforc timckeeper for the estate. We're
indicted by the grand jury of the supc-
rior court for cmbezZlemcnt of Sill
GOO office funds from George W. Van
derbilt. Both men have left the state,
and their Whereabout is unknown.
The findings of the grand jury are the
result of Investigations which have
been conducted for the last two
months. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
NOTICE is hereby given that or

NOTICE is hereby given that on
Tuesday the twonty-foruth day of
November in the year 1908 at the hour
of 10. 30 O'Clock in the forenoon of that
day or as soon thereafter rs the court
can attend to the same. / will apply
to the Circuit Court of the County of
Middlesex at the Ccrut House in the
City of New Brunswick for the ap.
nointment of three commissioners,
freeholders and residents of the City
of Perth Amboy to estimate and assess
the benefits to lands in the vicinity
Of the sewer laid in Davidson avenue
and connecting with the sewer already
laid in Market street in the City OF
PerthAmbov and State of Now Jersey.
CHARLES @. HOMMANN,
City Attorney.
Dated November IA, 1908.
4022-11-14-17-2l -23- At
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Colonel noyI<in shot Himself.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Nov. 17.-Colo-
mel e. Miller Boykin, United States
marshal for this state under Cleveland
and a leading banker of Camden, killed
himself accidentally here. After reach
ing home he picked up his gun, which
had a complicated, reversible action,
and wenrOut to shoot a hawk. He was
discovered an hour afterward lying
dead, while his gun was found leaning
on the opposite side of a fence.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Mines Produced s2o,ooo.o 900.

KIMBERLEY, South Africa, Nov. II.
AT the annual meeting of the share
holders of the De Beers Consolidated
mines yesterday Il report was present
ed showing that the diamonds produced
during the year realized n total of 500
205,SG0, giving a profit of $11,511, 400.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

Patrons of the Staten Island Rapid
transit will be glad to know that the
improved ferry service between New
York and st. George is so neal an
accomplished fact. They have been
eadiug much about the new terminal
1t st. George, but it is the boats
which really interest them. That
hey are to be the very best and fast
est of their kind afoat, is gratifying
news.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Fraud Charged In Fair Estate Case.

NEW YORK, Nov. IL Fraud and
misrepresentation on the part Of the
agents OF the Vanderbilt and Oclrichs
interests in the estate of the late
Charles l.. Fair is charged by Mrs.
Hannah +. Nelson, mother of the late
Mrs. Fair, in Il deposition to he filed to-
day in the supreme court by Bella y.
Eislcr, special commissioner appointed
by Justice Barrett to take testimony of
witnesses connected in any way with
the automobile accident by which Mr..
and Mrs. Fair lost their lives near Par
is. Commissioner Eisler will sail on
the Kaiser Wilhelm II. for Paris to
take the testimony of ten witnesses,
each of whom is expected to swear
that Mrs. Fair survived her husband.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
TIE NDuOcgC.

The monoclo is generally believed to
be an English invention, but y Ger
man historian claims that it was first
used by the German Prince Puckler-
MusEau. who waS fond OF surprising
his subjects.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
JnCIc I2e;lhcn Says:

De man who Ibis his life on de prin-
ciple dat he vii; be a Ions time dead
generally manages to live it in SIGH a
way dat heaps Of people wonder why he
didn't Gle a long time bclo' he did.-De-
troit Free Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Ink StNiMS on N3nYlOEnny.

To remove in; stains on mahogany
dip a cork in 4 little oXalic acid and
these have disappeared wash witt pure
water and polish as uGual.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Cost of ~Pincarp!cs.

~Pineapples costing four and five
shillin@s in England may be bought
three for a penny at Singapore, an(
we're even cheaper than this a few
years ago.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
France VIII Recognize

WASHINGTON, Nov. I'M. JUS
serand, the French ambassador, has
advised NJ. Bunau-Varllla, the minis
ter of the republic of Panama, that he
will formally recognize him as the
minister of the new republic.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

Itchiness Of the skin, horrible plague.
Most every body afflicted in one way or
another. Only y safe, neve" TAI ing
cure. DOan's Orltmont. At any drug
store. 80 cents.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

Kent-So yen really vert to that men
tai healer? Was her treatment success
full?
Carncss-Eminently; she made TWEEN.
ty-fye dollars out CT it.-Boston Tran
script.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

Grocer-Look here, young man, I'll
run up a bill against you if you don't
stop samplirg my goods.
,Boy-Oh, not AZ all; there's no ac-
counting for tastes.-Yale Record.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

81 my whole life to Burdock
Blood Bitters. ScIofulous sores covered
my body. | seemed beyond cure b. b. B.
has made me a perfectly well woma"."
Mrs. Chas. Hinton, Bervillc, Mich.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

Mary-But Why do you think they
are Sc certain to fall in love?
Amin the first place, their parents
hate each other; and, in TIE second
place, neither CT them has a penny in
the WOrld.-SIncrt Set.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Robbery Of rurs and SILKS.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Nov. III. NJ.
Bostwick's dry goods store here ha
been robbed Of it's stock of furs and
silks. The loss is $4,000.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
A Good Reason.

"Why did Larkin call Smith a lob.
eter? Because he is so rGd?"
mo. Because he is so unraad."-Chi-
capO RecOrd-Herald.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
=, the Vvcu!y-wifth century.

'"The classics seem to be going out"
"Yes, there are already several uni
versities which make football elective &c
the arts course"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

The li,tlo lolks love DR.. Woods Nor
way Pine Syrup. Pleasant to take; per-
fectIy harmless. Positive cure for coughs
colds, bronchitis, as hma.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

seryia is only &c hours b. rail from
Paris. One al get there without chang
ing trains, but it is still in the middle
ages stage of Development.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
Very EIIIc TO AnnW

"The fact is, my husband doesn't
seem to know his own mind"
"Oh, that's a very small Natter
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

A brussels lady who has Just died
left legacies to ensIro care Of hcr
canaries, the payments c~eaging as the
birds die.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

A hous .ho!d he, essity. DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. Heals burns. cuts. wounds
Of ATTY SORT; cures sore Threats, Group,
catar h, ,thma; never fails.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

1t is not necessary to he a good story
teller TO entertain folks. To be q good
listener is more important.-Wasning
ton (Ia.) Democrat.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

No loafer respects a man who works,
but a Woodworking man rather l0o';s
up to q mar who is smart enough tc
1--we in iIleles5.-Atchison Globe.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

Knife cleaning will be more easily
accomplished If yoF mix a little carr
Donate Of soda with the bath brick Of
the knife board.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17

81 was at the races to-day"
"Were JOu lucl,y?"
eyes. didn't have to walk home."-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
WALKER AT PANAMA.
Juntn and People Rejoice at Visit
of R~ooaeveIt's Representative.

PANAMA, Nog. H.. - Rear Admiral
Walker, who is practically President
R~Noseveits representative on the 18TH
mus, and Consul General Gudger, who
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-17
A BETTER JUDGE.

Mr.. Tightflst-And SO you are the
noble fellow who rescued my wife
from in front of the trolley car at the
risk of your life? Take this quarter,
my heroic man, as IN expression of
our undying regard.
MIR. Rags-All right, boss. You
know better'n l do what the woman's
Wuth.-N. Y. Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
Negro Influence on whites' Speech.

From the Richmond Times-Despatch.
 It needed not be said, as some of our correspondents have explained, that the negro slave initiated the language of the whites with whom he was thrown, and that his lingo varied here and there ac- cordngly. Imitation is a strong charac- teristic of the negro But 1t is quite as true that the whites also initiated to a greater or less extent the lingo of the ne- groes. White children who grew up with negroes and who were intimately associ- ated with nanny" always beloved and respected. naturally fell Into "mammy's" way talking This is to be noticed and is noticed to some extent today (for most white children in the south are nursed by negro women) not so much in the misuse of words as in the slurring habit. Some time ago we chanced to hear convcrsa- -tion between a Philadelphia girl and a Richmond girl. The former rolled her r's. made broad as and clearly pro- nounced each and every word almost "staccato'' fashion, to use a musical term. But the Richmond girl talked like a run ming brook. It was hard to tell where one word left off and another began. If her sentences had been photographer no spaces would have been found between the words, and the r's and h's would have been almost undistingushab The ne- groes undoubtedly corrupted the speech of the southern whites. Yet, strangely enough the southern negro who lives for . few years at the north learns to talk Yankee" fashion. M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
Matinee Girl of England

little indscretlons that would go towards undermining his reputation as man of sense. But mol There he talks and laughs, and makes love to the leading lady for all the world as though he were quite accustomed to receiving such flat tering communications.
 Mind you, there is a certain amount of excuse for the playgoing girl who loses her heart to an actor. In the first place, she sees her idol to an extraordinary ad- vantage. His cheeks are beautifully pink: his eyes wonderfully bright; his teeth bewllderingly white; his hair care fully selected. Then, his clothes become him so well. His coat, thanks to the art of his tailor, fits him to perfection; his trousers have that entrancing crease down the front that one seldom sees in real life; his shirt-front shines to an ex- tent that positively dazzles.
 Her mother and sisters, who are prob ably too sensible to waste the whole of their spare time and money in play houses, have to bear the brunt of this infatuation. They find themselves snub- bed for their humble outlook on life: they are told, with a curl of the lip that comes painfully near to being the real 1 thing. that their conception of love and marriage and so forth are quite out of
 
 ton is insipid, and that their noses would be all the better for little powder.
 Before I bring this necessarily painful article to a conclusion, let me assure the reader that these remarks do not by any means apply to the average girl who takes her recreation in the playhouse. Miss Hysteria, fortunately for both &C., tors and dramatists, Is the exception rather than the rule. genuine love for the drama Is just as healthy and just as much to be cultivated as a refined taste in literature, or music or pictures. The playgoing girl indeed, so long as she selects with discretion the plays to be visited, and regards the various themes therein set forth from level-headed point of view. is educating herself in very sound school. But when she begins to develop tendency for struggling hair, and when she feels the least bit inclined to take a gloomy view, of life. and when she sits down to pen a gushing little note to an actor, then let her bewarel For. deny 1t as she may. these are the first signs of that distressing malady known as play-going hysteria.
 As for a remedy-for I never like to do things by halves-I would suggest hard work. fresh air, and marriage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
ANECDOTES OF eEEcHER.
RecolIections of His Successor In Ply
 mouth Church Pulpit.

From the Atlantic Magazine.
 On April Mir. Beecher found in his morning mail letter containing only the words April fool" Well we'll" he said: 'I have received many letter This is the first time I ever knew of writer signing his name and forgetting to write the letter"
 After took the editorship of the Christian Union, says the Rev. Dr. Ly- man Abbott, urged MT. Beecher to give his views on public questions. "As 1t Is new,'I said, "any interviewer who comes to you gets a column, and the public Is apt to get your views in any other paper as in your own
 Yes" he said, 'I am like the town pump. Any one who will come and work the handle will carry off pail of water. !"
 On one occasion argued for Calvinism that it had introduced splendid charac- ters Yes" Mir. Beecher replied, Cal vfnism makes a few good men and de- stroys many mediocre men. It Is like a churn. It makes good butter, but it throws away a lot of buttermilk."
 Charles Sumner, in the senate, and Thaddeus Stevens, in the house, were pressing the reconstruction measures for forcing universal suffrage in the south. In conversation with me MT. Beecher thus diagnosed the situation: "The rad tcals are trying to drive the wedge into the log butt end foremost. They will only split their beetle.,,' They did. They solid flied the south and divided the republican party. If he had been preaching on re- construction the figure would have given 1t to his congregation from the pulpit.
 Mir. Beecher was denouncing the incon- sistency of church mempers; stopped; imagined an interlocutor calling him to account for exposing the sins of church members before the world and thus re- piled: DO you not suppose the world knows them better than do? The world ses this church member in Wall street, as greedy, as rapacious, as eager, as unscrupuolus as his companions. He says to himself: Is that Christianity? will go to church next Sunday and see what the minister says about this. He goes. ap,1 what is the minister saying?' In- stantly Mir. Beecher folded his arms upon his breast, held an imaginary cat purring comfortably there. as he stroked 1t with the other hand and continued: The minister Is saying, Poor pussy! poor pussy! poor pussy! Hr. Beecher made his congregation laugh, not of set SIrpose aNd never for the sake of the laugh. but because he himself saw, and made them see those incongruities, which are the essence of humor, and csten the most powerful arguments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
Church Attendance In Gotham.

From the New York Times.
 We printed yesterday the results of Q census of chureh-going, taken on Sunday, November 15, for that part of Manhat- tan Island which lies above Central Park. The results are most interesting and sug- gestive. It is a quarter of home, and consequently of churches. We should say 1t was the part of New York or at least of Manhattan, which might reason ably be selected as likely to show the best results in respect of attendance at church. to prove itself the most church. going part of the island. Perhaps the quarter abreast of the park might be taken as giving an equalschance of show ing high rate of attendance. But such selection would ignore the great fringe or tenement houses on the east side of that lower quarter, where a very high ratio of church attendance would be im- possible for absolute want of church fa- cilities. What might be called the church-going belt of the quarter would be almost bounded on the east by Third avenue, so that the quarter actually chosen looks likeler to secure good re- suits. from the point of view of the cen- sus takers.
 uc TtsullS IIpTe IdNOTdDle, we think, than any one who has not paid special attention to the matter would have ventured to hope. Roughly, one quarter (23.0f per cent) of the popula- ton went to church on a November Sun day when the weather was normal for the season. Undoubtedly that is a good showing for any part of New York. But 1t becomes less gratifying to Protestants when they alalyze it and see how large ly they are indebted for 1t to the Catho- lies, how disproportionately large is the Catholic attendance, or how dispropor- tionately small the Protestant. The Pro- testant population of the district accord Ing to the rules of estimation laid down by the Church News association, is about half as large again as the Catholic pop ulation. Yet the actual church attend ance reversed this showing. being more than half as large again for the Catho- lies And this although there are in the district S7 Protestant places of worship to l9 Catholic. The actual figures are 38, 750 Protestant church-goers to 62,2l1 Catholic.
 The natural deduction from these fig ures would be that the proportion of good Catholics was much larger than that of .good Protestants"; in other words, that the Catholics were more Catholic than the Protestants were Protestant But we leave deductions from these very in- teresting statistics to those whom they chiefly concern. and whom they concern very much indeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
Simple Toys the Best.
Ethel McKinnev in {

Ethel Mckinney in Good Housekeeping.
 A little girl in the Horace Mann kinder garten in New York was asked by her mother what she would like for a birth day present. She had so many things, beautiful toys and all else child could wish, that what to give her next became a problem. After thinking a minute she said: Tn school we have some boxes with little square blocks inside. Could q have one of those to play with all the time?" She had had fun building things with those cubes. It seemed greater bliss to have them at home to play and invent with, unhindered, than to possess any costly and perfect "boughten" toy. good for nothing but just to sit and loo att
 Why is 1t that children prefer sticks and eorncobs to French dolls and take comfort in a house made out of paste- board than in an electric-lighted dolls palace? Friedrich Froebel discovered that children's minds are not empty ves- seis. to be filled up with a judicious pouring in. but that they possess a. won derful force, creative self-activity" So he invented series of playthings. the gifts of the Kindergarten today. They are absolutely simple, but they give the child something to do, to invent with. to exercise his own thought and self activity upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
Horse Flesh in London.

From the London News.
 A considerable quality of horse flesh is eaten in London. One firm of slaughter CTS kill 25,000 horses annually, and they receive the carcasses of another 10000 which are killed in all parts of England. Curiously enough. London is the only town in Great Britain where the catsmeat man fiourishes. and there appears to be a surplus of sixty tons of sound horse flesh weekly of which the cats of the metropolis do not account for. There are sixteen licensed horse butchers In the me- tropolis, who are mostly patronized by Germans and Scandnavians, and, al- though the trade Is carried on subrosa it is hinted that a very large proportion of the tin delicacies which figure on our breakfast tables owe their origin to the horse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
His Purchase.
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post
 What did you buy with that money your uncle left your"
 T bought experience" was Hhe rueful reply.
 Spend it all for that?"
 My dear sir, I never was much on bar gain-day affairs and the ordinary price of experience is all that you've got"