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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

State Of New Jersey, County of Hudson, IS:
i, G. w. Conklin, Cashier OF the above-naEaed
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief
G. w. coNKLIN,
Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10Th
day of February 1893
HORACE ]. JAQuITH
Notary Public OF ". J.
E. F. c. YOUNG,
J. D. BEDLE
GEO. T. SMITH.
Directors.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

THOMAS HUGHES. Undertaken
101 Montgomery street. N. Y. & N. j.
Telephone 1876.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

GEORGE STEVENS. Undertakes.
No. sos jersey avenue. Tel. 124.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

BoNNoT, THE FLORIST, has a
large variety of flowers always on hand.
No. 146 Newark avenue. jersey City.
No Grape chasers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

Increase your business telephone SER
vice does it. The New York and New
Jersey Telephone Coftpdny, Erie street,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17
TO cbRE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Brolno Quifline Tablets
All druggists refund the money If it2fails
to cure. 3. w. Groves signature is on
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
First National Bank, of Jersey City in the
State of New Jersey, at the close of business,
February g. 1903:
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

Cut Flowers and Funeral Designs at
STEIN. The Florist,
5S6 Newark avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

day Of February, 1908: 8
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

Total. Il .................,si 1856 a1s Is
State CT New Jersey, County Of Hudson. IS:
/. ]. II. Castens, Cashier Of the a0pve-
named bank, 40 soennly swear that the above
statement Is true to the best Of my knowledge
j. II, CAsTENs. Cashier.
j. II. cARscALLEN.
p c. VAN XAN{3T
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-17

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Third National Bank at Jersey City. In the
State OF New Jersey. at the close of business,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
Circus and the Stage.

"There is one difference between the circus and the stage that few people ever notice," said a press agent, "and that is in the matter of keeping costumes clean. A troupe starts out on the road with properties in good order and they are expected to last without any great amount of attention being Bestowed up- on them until the season closes. In the glare of the stage soiled costumes easily pass muster and a great many chorus girls who look spick and span would be the better for clean raiment. But cir GUS performers have to pay much att tention to keeping their tights free from dirt In the first place the work is apt to soil their costumes easily and under the tent there Is always a cloud of dust. In spite of many difficulties you will find that circus performers always wear clean costumes and it takes a sharp eye to de- tect any spots on the tights of people who appear in the better class shows.
 Usually several suits are carried along so that one can be cleaned while another is being worn. When in the tub tights do not look so fine as they do on the stage or in the ring and they are also very easy to launder."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
HEARING IN PERSIAN CAT CASE.
Appraiser From New York Sat In Judg-
 ment on Imported Feline.

From the New York Times.
 A formal trial of the case of "Colum- bia Patrick" the famous black Persian cat belonging to Miss Eleanor l.. Burritt, that was seized by the customs officials of Georgetown and held on the charge of having made his debut into the United States without contributing duty in pro- portion to his value, was held yesterday morning at the custom house. The New York appraiser who came down to judge the merits of the case took evidence and reserved his decision, which will be sub mitted to the customs officials in writing.
 In the meantime Columbia Patrick" occupies the office of Acting Collector Montgomery, is living on the fat of the land, and is busily engaged in overhaul ing the papers of the office and in other ways endeayoring to stihe his yawns and combat his ennui. He Is easily monarch of all he surveys, and the custom house officials have yielded him the exclusive use of a large office room
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Life Prisoners.

Life men always make the best pris- tioned at Pratt mines for a number Of years. You will find that the 'trusties are drawn from this class and we sell dom have any trouble in making them obey. man who is sent to the mines for six months or year Is always try ing to escape and in nine cases out Of ten is very unruly. I have often won dered why prisoners sentenced for life term are so well behaved and have heard several theories advanced. One is that a man in for life soon becomes reconciled to his confinement and decides to make the best of a bad bargain. Several futile attempts usually teach him the folly of trying to escape and as the years roll away he becofnes so accustomed to his surroundings that frequently he does not care to get out. You have, of course, heard of cases where men have positively refused to leave prison after serving a long sentence Then again numbers of prisoners never give up the hope of being pardoned at some time and they know that nothing will help their chances more than good conduct.
 After man has been in the mines for a long period of years he either goes further down in his degredation or he becomes subdued and quiet. This is mo- ticed especially in our penitentiaries, where a convicts entire character has been changed and he has been sent out in the world new man. The greatest evil we have to combat in the case Of convicts in coal mines Is the prevalence of most degrading bestiality and when once convict sinks to such practices there is little hope that he will prove good material for a trusty. Life men also make the best subject for religious work, as they take great interest in the Sun day serViceso o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
Djscharue of Convicts.

Hereafter conyicts worked by the state or leased to contractors must be carried back to the counties in which they were convicted. The new law does not of course affect existing contracts convicts now held on lease.
 Jefferson county is indebted to Sen ator Morrow for this just and equitable law. Lowndes, for example, has no more moral right to unload it's con victs on Jefferson than Jefferson has to reverse the practice and unload it's convicts on Lowndes, and it is strange that the practice of filling Jefferson with conyicts from other counties was permitted to go on so long. Here after convict, when his term is nearly completed, must be carried back to the county of his crime and there turned loose, and contractors or the state her self, as the case may be, to pay the transportation bills.
 It does not matter what the cost may be. No county has a right to turn loose it's convicts in Jefferson Jefferson will take care of it's own con victs, but it wants none from other counties, and if any come back here from other counties they will be care fully watched Few will return here when they know they will be kept un der espionage.
 Any warden, superintendent or guard of a misdemeanor, and the new law provides that he shall upon conviction be well and duly and properly fined There will be no such unlawful dis charges, and Jefferson may consider itself relieved of the ex-conyicts of sixty-six other counties. As a convict will receive no money when he is dis charged in his own proper county, it is safe to conclude that few indeed of them will return to Jefferson county. It will prove a good riddance, and Sen ator Morrow did the county good turn when he pressed the bill until 1t became a law. It's terms apply to counties of 100,0O population only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
Hearst for President.

q have been wondering for several months where so many little country week lies got their special correspondence from Washington" said a gentleman yester- day Papers that never indulge in any thing more pretentious than boiler plate have been publishing regular news letters from our Washington correspondent for several months past. A disclosure sent out from the national capital giving the methods of the Hearst agents immediately solved my problem. These men send out avalanches of special correspondence, pre- sumably news of national affairs, but in reality booming Hearst for President. Such a scheme is entirely worthy of the great yellow journalist and I have no doubt that it has done some good. It has kept his name before the public, at any rate The tricks of politicians to attract voters are legion and many of them are very ingenious but the credit should be given to campaign managers who have the time and talent for currying popular favor. Just because the publisher of a weekly paper uses padded letters sent out from Washington to boom Hearst Is no sign that he will vote for that gentleman for President. Even the agents them selves do not expect this much success. Only too often it is hard matter to fill up a paper in the country and this special spondence comes in very handily sometime"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27

found varieties that have gone through the season unharmed, although sur rounded by varieties that were de- stroyed by the weevil Some of the selections made by the government ex- perts withstood this year both the weevil and the root rot. All plans in a word are turned towards the selec- ton of strains that the weevil will not molest. The grape industry in France was saved in a similar manner, and sea island cotton was relieved from the root rot in that way. There is no other remedy, it is plain, against the pest from Mexico
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
LETTERS TO EDITOR.
The Felix Hall Case.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 In your esteemed paper of yesterday (Sunday) I noticed an article by Judge D. A. Greene, in which-he undertakes to defend the governors action in the Felix Hall case. When I wrote my opinion to the governor I criticised his action not that of Judge Greene. While it Is a surprise it is also a great pleasure to see that the governor has such a distin- guished unsolicited champion right here in our midst Had I been politician I never would have written as did to the governor; but I have no axe to grind on the stone turned by MT. Jelks.
 As to how much executive authority was delegated to Judge Greene, l do not care to take up at this stage. My letter was to MT. Jelks as governor of Alabama, not to Judge D. A. Greene. I know full well that trial judges make recommenda- tions to governors, but never have heard of a case where the trial judge was cre- ated supreme dictator as was done in the Hall investigation. If MT. Jelks answers my letter I will then show how much au- thority was given Judge Greene. Till then I do not care to take up three-cornered controversy with gentleman not criti- cised and wholly unconcerned except as a staunch admirer of the distinguished gov- ernor. CHARLES DENEGRE.
 Birmingham, October 26, 1903.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
Eiahtinn inc Boil WeeylI.

On the ninth day of next month an anti-boll weevil convention will be held at Dallas, Tex, at which Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will be present pre- pared to stay and to push an effective campaign against the destructive pest Many of his assistants will also be present, as will prominent growers from other states
 The annual damage done by the boil weevil in Texas has risen to $30,000,- 000 The territory covered by it pro duces about 34 per cent of the crop of the country, and it is predicted by the government experts that in the course of time the pest will be seri- ous drawback to cotton culture throughout the cotton belt.
 The boil weevil is accompanied by the cotton wilt or black root or root rot, as it is variously known, and in Texas the two are becoming serious tindrances to cotton production. In some counties more damage is done by root rot than by the boil weevil, but where both are together the cotton farmer is indeed in trouble.
 The state of Texas offers s50,0O0 for an effective remedy against the boil weevil, and congress has appropriated s3O,000 to be used in finding some bug, bird or beast that would destroy the weevil But all efforts to find a chemi- cal remedy or an antidotal bug, bird or beast have come to naught, and the belief prevails that the sole hope con sists in finding strain or variety of cotton that is weevil proof.
 Herman Webber of the plant breed ing bureau is giving his attention to the finding of a strain, by selection or hybridization, or both, that will be i'm mune against the attacks of the boil weevil. Time is needed in which to perfect his experiments, but even now there is high hope that he has found a resistant strain to the pests. He seeks an early ripening variety to be- gin with, and he writes that he has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
City Directories.

"The Wiggins Directories Publishing g company of Columbus, Ohio, is busily en- gagged in getting out the new directory for the year of 1904" said a business man. Tt is expected that the work will be finished in about two weeks when all data gathered will be ready for tabulating and printing
 Directory publishers furnish employ ment to a number of people in every town where they get out a book Young women find 1t very prof itable to spend few weeks in getting up material and they are well paid. Men and intelligent boys are also employed The usual method for assigning work Is to divide town up into a certain number of districts marked off by certain streets. Each per son is given one of these divisions and is expected to cover it thoroughly. The work is more pleasant than that of a book agent but it requires a certain amount of perseverance, and an over-sen- sitive temperament Is a great handicap. In town the size of Birmingham the population is constantly shifting. Work men are coming in from the fouhdries of the east and others are returning home. It is characteristic of a manu- featuring town. In the course of twelve months remarkable changes take place. Smaller towns do not find it necessary to get out directory more cften than once every two of three years but in a city 1t is of course desirable that the latest infor- nation concerning residents be easily ac- cessible Directory publishers usually have certain towns and cities which they work regularly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
Primary or Convention.

l The Montgomery Advertiser hits the political nail on the head when it says:
 The people do not want any more | trading and trafficking conventions, and it will be dangerous to try them on. It would tend to all sorts of bad feeling and discord And such discord would be dangerous to straight party supremacy. The threat of negro dom- nation is gone, and with it the power of outside pressure to force the bulk of the dependent movement in any county, in any district, in the whole state, is within the range of easy pos sibility. The democratic party can be held together only by the nomination of the best men made in the fairest way. The lines of natural cleavage have already been marked, and it would not require very big wedge to make the split"
 There is a whole lot of truth in the Advertisers remarks. A return to the rotten convention system would be con sidered by every honest and independ- ent voter as a release from party obli- gations, and there would soon spring up independent tickets. The new cleo torate will not, in other words, submit tamely to the Stevens-Nathan pro- gramme, as they would have been con- pelled to do before the negro was eliminated.
 If independent tickets and general scramble at the polls in November be desirable, then indeed let MT. Stevens and MT. Nathan have their way They in effect say that the people are lot of gumps who should leave the selec- tion of officials to their betters name ly, to the courthouse and statehouse ciques. This would be feasible if the constitution of 1901 had not limited the ballot to the whites, leaving them free to bolt whenever they are so minded. And they will be so minded just as soon as the Steyens-Nathan contingent take from them their clear and undubitable right to make their own nominations. No one questions the statesmanship of Messrs. Nathan question their right to assume that the political intelligence of the state is confined to two or three hundred men who make the sixty-seven courthouses of the state their rallying points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
Wall Street Methods m the South

Wall Street Methods n inc south.
 The affairs of the bankrupted South ern Car and Foundry company are to be fully investigated, past and pres ent. W ith a view of ascertaining what a just future would be. Sensational de- velopments are expected. The con- cern, it seems, never had working capital, and it was a constant effort to keep 4 af1oat on wind and water. It sank in the end, and it is now proposed at Chattanooga to find out who the wreckers were, and why they wrecked it.
 II is not customary in this pnrt of the country to conduct large enter rrises without working capital, and the collapse of the Southern Car and Foun- Gry company shows that it is no more possible to do so in this section than it is elsewhere. There were alleged questionable transactions all along the line and all such transactions are to he sifted to the bottom. The sitting cannot be too thorough or too radical. Let every devious transaction be un- covered, either before or after the Fittsburgers took charge of the enter prise. Nc matter where the blow falls, the public desire to know why cars were not nrofitably and successfully made in a section that furnishes at lowest cSst all raw materials As things stand the collapse of rhe South ern Car and Foundry company is a reflection upon the possibilities of this section, but doubtless the Chattanooga Investigation will demonstrate that even cheap iron and lumber and steel and paint cannot make good the want of a working capital. The capital of the enterprise seems to have consisted of succession of questionable trans actions" and unauthorized notes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
About Persons.

 Dr. Shirley Bragg. physician inspector of the state convict board came up from Montgomery last night and is stopping at the Metropolitan. The doctor will make an inspecting tour of the convict mines to- day.
 pr. R. S. Curry of Columbus. Miss, is registered at the Hillman.
 W. H. Wyatt of Atlanta was one of the Morris late arrivals last night. The Hon. George B. Randolph of An- niston. one of the United States commits sioners of the North Alabama district, is stopping at the Florence.
 J. Webster of New York is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 c. Y. Huggins of Corona was one of the Morris arrivals last night.
 John R. Hayes of Eufaula is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 J. c, Paterson of Blossburg was among the Hllmans arrivals last night l. W Hooks, travelling auditor for the Southern railway with headquarters at Selma, is at the Morris.
 Walter NeSmith of Vernon is registered at the Metropolitan.
 
 Robert L. Stevenson of New Decatur is in the city.
 R. J. McPhilps of New York was one of the Hillmans late arrivals last night. o. J. Dykes of Union Springs is at the Morris.
 c. V. LeCrew, G. D. Mccall and J. F. Cane of Atlanta are in the city. NJ II. Amerine, a prominent insurance man of Montgomery, accompanied by E. P. Armerine, were two of the Metropoli- tan's late arrivals last night
 
 Jack Haynes, the well known New Yorker, said at the Hillman last night, "All signs and omens point to the cleo tion of Col George B. Mcclellan as mayor of New York at the approaching election. Mayor Low and his lieutenants are talk ing; Timothy Murphy and his assistants are organizing. As to the personal popu- larity of the candidates Colonel McClel- Ian has decided advantage. Time will prove that this is a Tammany year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
 When ushered into your place in a Broadway theater, New York, you will be escorted to the .'thoid' seat in the "thoity-thoid' row. In New York, ex- cept in the best educated circles, they foil" flag not furl it. whirl is who'll" :" bird is boyd" skirt is 'skoit," If 1t Is on the East Side, and skuht on Fifth avenue. The "r'' is a dead letter. Now, what could be the reason of this? Try these accommodations and you will find that the tongue remains in the lower part of the mouth as if you were tongue tied. It never touches the roof of the mouth at all as it ought to. The matter with New York is that the masses of the people there refuse to use the tongue to pro- nounce 'r." They are voluntarily tongue tied Whey they are so Is a question that philologists or psychologists or some kind of scientists must answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
TOPICS OF INTEREST IN
 THE STATE OF ALABAMA

planters have not yet become so strenu- railroads. For districts not easily access sible by rail the steamboat is indispen- sible.
 The question as to who Is to be judge in the Seventeenth judicial circuit has been definitely decided by the appointment of Hon. Paul Speake by Governor Jeks. The new judge Is one of the youngest on the bench in Alabama but he has already made reputation for himself and is considered good man for the place he now holds. Judge Speake will open court in Madison county on November 16.
 A big strike among longshoremen at Mobile is now on and at last reports the strikers had little the best of the argu- ment. It is estimated that 1000 men went out because certain non-union men were not dismissed at their request. These men were employed in unloading cars and are now engaged in loading the ships. Very good progress has been made on several vessels but it is probable that other sympathizing unions will also be called out. The stevedores and ship agents state that they will be inconven- fenced but temporarily, as they will be able to get new men in a few days. For the past month or two our southern ports have suffered from similar strikes. At Galveston, New Orleans and Mobile trou- ble has occurred
 It is stated that decidedly the ablest and most notable address before the Ten nessee River convention at Chattanooga last Thursday was made by Judge Ricn- ardson." This refers to Congressman Richardson, who is one of the strongest men in Alabama today. The question of river transportation is one of much in terest to all our towns especially several of those situated within MT. Richard sons district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-27
eREvITY.

By Richard Garnett. Windows in heaven, lakes in transpar-
 ency;
 Eyes waning hour, of light not all un-
 drest;
 The distant rivers mimicry of rest; Cleans for a moment given to the sea; The passing face that snares thee inno-
 gently;
 Unbdden tears; proud sob with pride
 represt: Unlocked for look of love; these bring
 life zest Savory with the salt of brevity. Briefness of life doth life to life endear; One mortal heart for all the gods hath
 room;
 Restriction molds and rolls the suns
 alright; By circumspection of competed sphere Welding to orbs that kindle and illume. The beamless dust of spaces infinite.