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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
.LOUBET in ALGERIA
French President Welcomed
In African Colony.
aOSORS FOR NATIVE OFFICIALS.
Arabs Pay Respect to "the Great
White suItan"-Envoys and Ma
val ORcers Represent Brit
ain, Russia and italy.

ALGIERS, April 49, - Algiers pre-
sented a festive appearance in honor
of the coming of President Loubet to
visit the French north African posses
sions. The picturesque streets of the
ancient city were elaborately decorated.
Arches and stands had been erected on
the principal thoroughfares, and these.
with the principal buildings, were gay
with flags and streamers of the ma
tional colors.
Vast crowds filled the Boulevard de
la Republique and the streets leading
to the wharfs, and many Arabs in
quaint costumes mingled with the
throngs which awaited the arrival of
the great white sultan as the
French ruler is known among the ma
tives.
During the official reception at the
palace President Loubet personally dec
grated number of native officials and
also sent crosses of the Legion of Hon
or to the foreign ENJOYS and naval Off
GERS. The reception was a lengthy
function, involving a number of speech
es, to each of which the president re-
piled at greater or less length. The
Sale des Fetes of the Winter palace
presented a picturesque and brilliant
scene owing to the variegated cos
tunes of the native chiefs and the va
riety of uniforms worn by the officers
of the army and navy and the civil of
ficials and the robes of the ecclesiastic
al dignitaries.
After the general reception President
Loubet, surrounded by his ministers
and the presidents of the senate and
chamber of deputies, received the Off
GERS of the foreign squadrons and war
ships, the chief representative of each
nationality making a brief address, to
which the president replied. The din
ner following the receptions also pre-
sented a gorgeous spectacle with the
picturesque native costumes and the
foreign and French uniforms. Presi-
dent Loubet made the only speech,
which he concluded by drinking to "the
prosperity of Algeria and its grandeur
by the Identification of it's destinies
with those of France"
The dinner was followed by a great
ball given by President Loubet at the
Summer palace in the elevated suburb
of Mustapha.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
To Merge Railway Companies.

PHILADELPHIA, April 16.-The
board of directors of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad company has authorized
President Thomas to proceed at once
with the consolidation of the various
lines owned and controlled by the com
pany in New York and New Jersey.
This action is to be taken for the pur
poses of concentration and economy in
management and Of obviating the ne
cessity for separate boards of direct
ors One company in each state will
manage the lines to be merged.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

WASHINGTON, April 16.-Fresh
charges are being received constantly
at the postofice department in connec-
ton with the investigation now i'll
progress, but their nature is being
withheld from the public. Postmaster
General Payne said the correspondence
in the case of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Tyner would be made public later
on. Mr.. Tyner's resignation takes eff
feet May 10. No successor has yet been
chosen, according to Mr.. Payne, al
though a number of candidates are in
the field
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
II. PARISEN
2OI David st. So. AmbOy, N. ].
PIANOS and ORGANS
BRADBURY, WEBSTER and
HENNING PIANOS
Organs from $40 up. Square Pianos from
SIS up. Cash or InstaIIments.

The old male grizzly was nearest.
Just as Mr.. Holmes felt the hot
breath of this beast. he resolved to
do something desperate. He wheeled
round quickly. made last effort to
get his gun into position, and fired.
Then he was knocked down.
The bear buried his teeth in Mr..
Holmes right leg just below the hip,
tearing open the flesh. The pain was
well-nigh killing. The female then
came up and made vicious snap at
his ribs, but succeeded only in driv-
ing her teeth through pasteboard
match box. which ignited the
matches. She gave an angry roar,
shook her head and snapped at his
face, and he gave his head feeble
jerk. 1t was just in time. He heard
the teeth snap in his face with a
sound like the closing of a steel trap.
Then he swooned. When he recovered
consciousness, and, rising. recon-
noitered the situation, he saw the
larger bears. with the cub at their
heels, disappearing in the brush.
Peeping over the brow of the HILL
he perceived the guide, who rushed
toward him, saying:
"Thank God sir, you're alive! It's
the narrowest squeeze ] ever saw;
there was one chance in a million for
you to escape alive from three grtz-
zlies. That box of burning matches
scared them Off"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

PRINCETON, N. j., April 16.-Pro-
fessor s. S. .Orris, formerly of the
Greek department in Princeton uni
versity, who was making a tour around
with paralysis in a Hongkong hospital
by a returning missionary. Professor
Orris had almost lost the power of
speech, and his condition was unknown
to his friends, as he was travelling
alone,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
Arthur BOgart's Funeral.

The funeral of the late Arthur Bog
art was largely attended. There were
a great number of friends from out of
town. 1t is said the remains we're
brought direct to this place from
Elizabeth instead of Jersey City and
on the 1926 train Monday instead of
9.26. There was some delay after the
body arrived here, said to be on ac-
count of the lack of burial permit.
The floral offerings were numerous
and very beautiful.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
ALL IN THE sTILLY NIGHT.
ment in BIibmOre's Case and
Made Him Ridiculous.


Blibmore had long been afflicted
with acute, burglaritis. Not that any
body had ever tried to enter his
house fel&niously and tangibly, but
many mesked Gesperado had bry
ken into his Imagination and robbed
aim of much valuable sleep. Hardly
night passed that he did not have
a russ of burglars to the head as he
went about, fastening windows, set
ting electric alarms and fitting
chairs in the passageways so they
would tumble over and make a racket
if anybody touched them, says the
Brooklyn Eagle.
"Parmelia," he said to his wife one
night, have you been up to see if
the girls window is locked?"
mo, nor l amt a-goin'; that's
more" Mrs. Blibmore answered.
sharply, from her pillow. "Sakes
alive! How could anybody git in at
a third story window? Do you ex-
pect EN- to come with fyin' ma
chinese"
''All right" said Blibmore, re-
signedly. Il can stan it if you can
But when you git up some mornin'
an find your silver spoons gone,
don't come to me for any more"
Joshua Blibmore, you've been say
in that for the las 20 years, an
we've got them same spoons yet.
Goodness gracious! 1 most wish
the burgIar'd hurry up and git 'em,
SOS to have it over with"
Blibmore slept very little that
night; and even that little was trou-
bled by dreams of burglars letting
themselves down to the girls win
dow from the roof or climbing up
to it with 40-foot ladders. Some time
after midnight, as he lay awake lis
tening, he thought he heard a noise
downstairs. Slipping cautiously into
banister and harked. Yes, he was
sure he heard the sibiIant sounds of
whispers below.
Tip-toeing back to the bedroom, he
closed he door noiselessly and awoke
his wife.
"Sh! Parmelia," he whispered, "the
house is full of burglars!"
"Stuff and nonsense!" said Mrs.
Blibmore, who had heard the same
remark many times before. do, for
mercy's sake, git into bed an go to
sleep"
"But, Parmelia. tell you there are
burglars downstairs. I heard EN-"
"Well, why don't you go down an
chase 'em out? You don't want me
to do it for you, do you?" With
which the good woman turned over
and resumed her slumber.
Blibmore, revolver in hand, stole
out to the hall and listened again.
This time he heard no sound. save
the measured ticking of the dining
room clock. As minutes of silence
passed, he began to doubt whether
what he had heard before was really,
in the house. 1t might have been a
street car; trolleys sometimes make
kissing noises that at a distance
may be mistaken for whispers close
at hand. Somewhat emboldened by
this thought, he went softly down
the stairs, stopping often to bark
with bated breath. At the dining
room door he stood, well behind the
easement, and peered cautiously into
the room The light, which he al
ways left burning low for iusN such
an emergency, enabled him to\see
that there was nobody there; so Me
ventured in and turned it up. AS he
did so a sharp "Sh!" came through
the closed door Of the closet just
behind him The closet where thel
Silsar was kept, Blibmore leaps bell
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

WASHINGTON, April 16.-The sun
day school lesson committee in session
here has settled the complete lesson
course for the year 1908. For six
months of the year the lessons are to
be from the gospels and the remaining
six months from the Old Testament
A topically arranged two years course
for beginners for children from four to
six years was also determined on. 1t
will be a permanent institution and
will apply to the Sunday schools for
the United States and Canada. The
next annual meeting of the committee
will be held in Buffalo the last week
in June, 1904.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

WESTFIELD, Mass, April 16.-Lew-
is Parker, aged siXty-two, one of the
best known whip manufacturers in the
country, is dead here of malaria. Mr.
Parker had long been identified with
the whip interests of the town and
was treasurer of the United States
Whip company, the largest concern Of
its kind in the world His native town
was Hopewell. n Y
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
mental in Saving IA California
Mans Life.

A writer in Outing says ;hat the
grizzley bear, like other tcrocious
and resourceful beasts, IS his super
stitious side, which inclines him at
times to cowardice, and it was an
accidental play upon this weakness
which enabled a hunter, Mr.. James
s. Holmes, of Pasadena, Cal. to live
to tell the following story:
In August. 1896, Mr.. Holmes was
chatting with a guide up among the
Coast Range mountains, in San
Joaquin valley, Cal. AS they talked
they heard cracking of twigs be-
hind them.
81 believe it's deer" said Mr..
Holmes.
"No," said the guide: but he
changed his mind a moment ater,
when the cracking became uder.
They're deer, sure. Look out!"
said Holmes, softly.
Both men were then on their feet,
waiting. Mr.. Holmes had a rifle in
his hands. ard and the guido stood
Awatching the t IL e a ov them,
hence the cracking sound came. AS
they looked. the gray nose of grizzly
was otruded thro e. the foliage
and the men stepped backward. Mr.
Holmes is a crack shot, Tut he had
never had experience w t. grizaliee
However. the nose of t be made
fine mark d he ra.s d his rife
to blaze aw Y. lie a nearly 20
yards from he bear. just as he we {
about to fire there was more crack,
ling of brush, and two other az
larger grizzlies thrust their b
through the thicNet toward
The guide turned pale.
sDon't shoot!" he cried.
sauaMr. Holmes lowered his r
Run for the hill! Run
81" yelled the guide.
fr. Holmes did not catch
hctions to go for the hill
ran. Near the crest of the
clump of trees. and he md
them. hoping to find shelter oT
ing place. The bears, with f
bellowingH, went bounding
stones haparral after b
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
Lowell Inquiry Closed.

LOWELL Mass, April 16.-The TAX
ing of verbal testimony by the state
board of arbitration and Cancellation,
which is investigating the textile situa-
ton here and the cause of the great
strike, has been completed. Each side
will submit statistics, arguments of
counsel will be made, and the members
of the board will inspect Lowell mills
and a so called model mill in New
Bedford or elsewhere. 1t is the claim
of Lowell manufacturers that the
model mill can afford to pay higher
wages than the old style plants here.
The operatives have put no verbal tes-
timony, the burden of proof" being
placed on the mill agents who sought
to show they could not afford 10 per
cent advance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

hind corner of the sideboard and
called out hoarsely:
''Who's there?"
"Bang!" A loud report from TIE
closet was the answer.
Bang! went Blibmore's pistol, as
he broke from the room and dashed
up the stairs, four steps at a Jump.
The shooting had aroused Mrs
Blibmore, and she spra1m
just as her husband boun
room, slamming and lock
behind him.
What's the matter?"
t'I've killed a bupA1a|
BlibmA mRsped
"KilIed bur glar5 Whel
''Iu the dinii groom close He
shot at me through the doc, and /
shot back at him"
MIS-. Blibmore had her doubts. She
knew her husband. Regardless of
his warning she opened the door and
listened over the banister All was
quiet below.
81 don't believe word of it, said
she, starting down the stairs.
"Parmelia." Blibmore implored.
don't go down there. I tell. YOU
they're armed to the teeth"
Fetch that pistol, then, an come
along with me-" said she. "WeTl see
about it.
Blibmore kept close to his wife.
whose courage was doubtless aug.
mented by the belief that the bur.
glars existed only in her husbands
Imagination.
At the dining-room. however. she
paused with a look of horror on her
face. In the bright light she saw a
small red stream trickling out under
the closet door.
Didn't l tell you SOP" Blibmore's
voice had hollow sound Didn't
say l killed a burglar? Shan't / &c
for a policeman"
"Hark!" Mrs. Blibmore listened
intently.
Sh-h-h-h! A long-drawn. kissing
sound issued from the closet.
Bang! A sharp report followed
from the same quarter.
81 declared" said she, 'if them
strawberry preserves amt workin'i~
She strode across and opened the
closet door.
"Yes, sir (she peered in), an here's
two bottles of 'em busted all to
smithereens!" e8
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
BRIDGE WAS FLOODED.
People Had To Be Taken AcrOsss at South
River In Wagons.

Yesterday at O. 'clock the first troll
ley car crossed the bridge at South
River since the storm. The road was
flooded from end toward South Amboy
up to Yates Hotel on the other. The
people were taken across in wagons.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

All pallid in her shroud she lay;
A woman sadly said:
How wretchedly her robe is made
The lady in the coffin laid
Woke right up from the dead.
Chicago Record Herald.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

LONDON. April 16. The Rome cor
respondent Of the Daily Mail says that
Signor Prinetti has resigned the for
eign affairs portfolio and has been sue
ceeded By Marine Minister Mo-.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

is Mamie," began the basso pro-
between the anthems, 'are you
the national game?"
Mr.. Deepvus,' replied the
young thing, 81 think Ter
&c to take bass"
/, not Icing q natural born
here was another fee for the
Baltimore News.
hinE of a Mystery.
ted May and then sat OH
her for an hour after,
Ado you think of her2
gikes me that there
cy between her ca
st measurement
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16

VIENNA. April l6.SColonel lie,
commanding the Sixth regiment at Bel
grade with six other officers have
been arrested at Semlin, hungarian
frontier town in Croatia-Slavonia, six
miles from Belgrade, on the charge of
conspiring against King Alexander Of
Servia, who submitted the arrested of
ticers to a 4 pgrsohaI examination.
BLUEFI1 w. Va, April 16.-
News haS I'd here Of an explosion
at the Coal and Coke coln3a-
nys lyian Six men are re-
several severely in
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
shntIn His Home.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, April 49,
While seated in the window of his
house here Antonio Capello was in
stantly killed by shot from a shot
gun In the hands of an unknown man.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-16
A Trem&

Oats it, Ma
mother is petit
I s'pose he'll
gifts marria
Yes;
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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-06
TYPOGRAPHICAL
TRAGEDY i'm TEXAS.
Oath of the Country Editor
Whoth Etheth Were All
Thtolen by a Mithcreant.

W. are thorry to thay." explained the
editor of the Skedunk Weekly News,
that out compothing-room wath entered
lath night by ehome unknown %thcoundrel
who thtole every eth in the %ethtabIith-
ment and thucceeded in making hith eth
cape undetected.
"It hath been impothible, OF courthe, to
procure a new thuppiy Of etheth in time
for thith ithue, and we are thuth COM
PEELED to 60 to preth in q thituation moth
embarrathing and dithtrething. but we
thee no other courth to purthue than to
make the betht thtagger we can to get
along without the mithing letter. and we,
therefore. print the Newth On time re-
gardleth Of the 10th thuthained.
THE motive of the vulnerable NTH.
creant 18th unknown to nth, but, doubtleth,
wath revenge for thome thupothed in.
thult.
1T thall never be thaid that the petty
thpite of the thmall-thouled villain hath
%dithabled the Newth. II thith meet the
eye of the detachable rathcal we beg to
athure him that he underethtimateth the
rethourceth of a firth-clath n~ewthpaper
"hen he thinkth he can cripple IT hope
iethly by breaking into the alphabet.
we take occathion to thay to him. fur
thermore, that before next Thurthday we
VIII have three timeth ath many etheth
attn he thtole.-Richardson. Tex, Echo.
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a boarding-school miss, who had ATTENDED
a performance of Way Down East
She expressed her delight in sIowins
terms, and said that she thought .hs
could write a play just as good: she wa,
sure she could do 1t. because II dfdn',
look as If 1t would be hard at all an,
would I please tell her what she vou,d
have to do and how she would have 70
begin. =
Furthermore. she asked as a special IA
vor If 1 would talk to Mr.. Parker ava
get MIN to have it put on the star.
AMBITION OF LAUNDREss
Again. 1 was approached one ev.r,,.
WINE sitting behind the scenes of , IT,
a'er IN a far-off city by a thin and ~
Gus woman Of about so years. n, ,.r
Nno" any manager in New York;, ~.
ssAeo In a strong nasal dravi "w,-
yes" I answered in surpr,s.
now one or two. Why. do Won .,.-.
"eh'' she replied. me an my 49,.
mas writ a play. Me an my dart.- -.
my husband an my son is goInr 70 a.
IT, and we've got most all orr -.
learned" Verses
orr gasped. Have you had snv
per1ence" oh. yes; me an, INV 49,.
has.' Indeed! What have Won $50.
On extrys, extrys." was her rssn....
she went on: They was a ma, -
was gong to put 1t onto the stage for n
week and We was going to take it out on
the road with the money we'd make.
Due the man backed out an I thor,Sbt
maybe you know Of some manager I'm
New York that would take holt of IT"
upon my telling her that I didn't knov
any one who could be of any assistance n
her' she left me. much disappointed. sub
sequent inquiry revealed the fact thai she
a theater la1ndress.
Ihese are but a few of the nnumer,bl.
queer people who are making an eror, 20
achieve success as playwrights. along With
scores who are. of course. ndowed with
a greater intelligence. many who are ~
exceptionally good mental Endorsement
some who have all the qualjacaf,ous
necessary to the dramatist and win in fu-
ture forge to the front and realize their
expectations.
Since the production Of 'Under Southern
Skies my man has been considerably in
creased by anxious inquirers who seem to
think that any one who writes a success
full play can tell them just how to ga and
do likewise.
have often been asked how I vrits a
play. To be candid. I can't tell. 1 don't
believe that any one who writes a play
can tell how they do It. or course. every
one has a method OF w-riting-some work
fast. others slow: some work ar night.
others in the morning; some f~rresularIy.
others systematically. But Just how h
write a play would be a dihicuIt matter to
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-06

with bayonet, scabbard and 100 cartridges
Is one pound less than that of the old.
This is the result of q clever arrange
ment Of the new arm.
old. ~n 1he
With fits new substitute for q bavons.
n scabbard it weighs 9.A7 pounds.
against the 1894 pounds Of the Krae-Jor.
sensen. with the present bayonet and
scabbard.
b old style OF bayonet Is cn,.ra,v
done away with on the new arm. The
oayonet and cleaning rod are one ana the
same. AH
BY pressing a button under ths my,zz,s
the cleaning rod may be pulled out ten
inches, where the b~utton-catch holds r.
in place as a pike or bayonet.
The bayonet and Its scabbard are thpa
dispensed with as separate articles, sn,nb
as weigh down the older arm.
The advance In war methods has nada
a decrease in the use OF the bayonet. and
its place in the soldiers belt hereaftsr
will be filed by an ~intrenching tool. now
being designed, a tool with which the
soldier can hurriedly throw up breast
works.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-06

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
T~hirty-hve thousand Years ago. accord
ing TO biologists. tremendous and wonder
full changes occurred what is now Wash
ington County. Missouri.
For s55, 900. 900 years the molten mass
which is now the solid earth had been
gradually cooling, until a crust had in
closed the fierce fires that ragged in its
center.
This crust gradually increased in thick
ness for at least 5000 years. and with the
completion OF the granite, pegamite and
porphyry formations which formed this
crust The history of geology began and
the Archaen, or primordial. period ended.
II IL supposed that so intense was the
heat to which this crust was subjected
that had the germ Of life existed at that
remote period It could not have withstood
the terrific assaults which the Internal
nres made at frequent intervals to escape
Certain It Is that In the rocks which
abound about the st, Lawrence River,
known ss the Oldest rocks In the world,
there IN not the faintest evidence Of plant,
animal or fossil LIFE, and only In the lat
ter centuries Of the Archean period Is
there evidence OF life. and this In the form
Of an exceedingly primitive trace Of plant
life.
CRUST BATTLED WITH
TEM INTERNAL FIRES
Incesssntly and with limos irresistible
fierce did the powers Of fire in thu earth
mako assaults upon the crust often
shepidering their tremendous forces
against the granite cover until It was
pushed up for thousands Of feet, making
vast mountains where deep basins had K
listed before, and at times breaking
through In volcanic fury.
Despite this, slowly but surely hes earth
cooled, and over the great primordial
crust spread the limitless waters Of the
sarEcgsa Sea, containing In its compost
ton not only certain salts. but millions
OF creatures representing the lowest order
Of animal life
IN tie next 5000 years the salts Of the
sea end the dispositions of the animal life
In the water formed the first limestone
strata and the Cambrian age was finished.
At this time the Iaurentian hills had
been shouldered Up in their granite bleak
ness. but It is supposed that all that
could be seen of the great continent of
America was a few archipelagoes of land
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tons Of which one Arm in Washington
County sent out 1900 tons. Since then the
demand has increased to such an exte-.
hat II is expected the output this year
VIII be more than double this amount.
The value of tiff has also increased with
the growing demand unit It now brings
about 81 a ton, where a few years ago II
was not worth over s. a ton and frequent
ly brought less.
Tiff is found in veins running from . to
4 feet in thickness.
1t is never necessary to dig to any great
depth to find tiff in Washington County.
Near Cadet and Mineral Point, stations on
the Iron Mountain Railroad. 1t abounds on
the surface.
IMMENSE TRACTS
ARE BEING WORKED.
The firm Of Long &C. White ha, located
immense tracts of, and in Washington
County and opened several large tiff
mines. notably the mines at New Dig
gings. which is not very far from Mineral
Point.
At one of these mines tiff is found al
most unpolluted by any discoloriny CLAW