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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-27

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CENT-A-WORp
Brick HOUSE CORNER High and
Gordon ST. Price SIS, 900. Terms to
nit. Lot 66x120, ten rooms, all i'm
'rovements. A. M. johnson, 50 Water
treet. 3198-9-14-tf
NANTED-A GIRL to learn millin-
cry at j. Kreielshe1mer. III Smith
It. 36~83-10-6.tt
FIRST CLASS Machinist wanted al
once. Perth Amboy Dry Dock Go.
3~833-10-93-tf
FOR RENT-SENEN 1ooms, fine cor
dition, bath and every convenience,
Bis. Also furnished room. 10 Market
vt. 3857-10-27-tf
FOR RENT-TWO FURNISHED
rooms on second floor, stationary
vashstand. 80 Gordon st. Orr
Rector. 3S47-10-26-6
WANTED-TWO GIRLS to learn
dressmaking. Sc Catalpa ave.
3~810-10-22-tf
yANTED-GOOD SECOND hand
heating stove. Addresses. H. Post
>ffice. 3S50.10-27-1
NANTED-EITHER SEX, 10 people
to canvass Perth Amboy, South
Amboy, Metuchen, Woodbridge and
rottenville. Prefer people living IN
he above places. Wages So to IS per
diy. Gall Tuesday or Wednesday
'vening Z to 8. Ill Smith ST., Perth
Amboy, N. j.. 3~S54-10-27-1
\ PLEASANT 6 room house with
bath, hot and cold water and gas.
enquire Evening News, or 255 New
Brunswick ave. 10-22-tf
WANTED-SEVERAL persons of
character and good reputation in
'ach state Gone in this county requir
I'D to represent and advertise old
established wealthy business house
Vt solid financial standing. Salary
s21 weekly with expenses additional,
vi payable in cash direct each We'd
nssday from head offices. Horse and
@ srriage furnished when necessary.
R s~ferences. Enclose self-addressed
Envelope. Colonial, Caxton Build
;ng, Chicago. 3302-S-16-tf
FOR RENT-A BARN and stable,
suitable for one horse. Enquire at
News office. 3lb4-7-25-tf
HAND PAINTED CHINA shirtwaist
sets are the popular thing. Orders
taken for studs, cuff buttons and belt
buckles, also hat pins, at ia Rector
street. 7-17-tf
GUARANTEED BICYCLES $15.
Sewing machines, all makes, lowest
market prices. 1856 State street, A.
Jensen, dealer. S046-7-10-tf
FOR SALE-High Grade 10 horse
power steam engine and boiler.
Second hand. Excellent condition.
Manufacturer, care Of Evening News.
4-8-tf
BOILER AND ENGINE FOR sale at a
bargain. Sturtevant 10 horse power
steam engine and boiler in A 1 condi-
ton, cost $3.50, will sell for $3.50. In
use 2 wears. Address @. D.. News
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

A few days since an Eastern paper COM
planned that. having ''milked'' the earth Of
its oil, the Standard Oil Company had be-
come a controlling element In the manipu-
lation of railroads To the overweight
imagination of the writer. oil field after oil
field has been drained by this INSCRIPTIONS
corporation until the country is near the
end OF oil. The fact that crude oil ad-
vanced recently more than 50 per cent was
accepted in other quarters as evidence that
oil is giving out to an extent that the end
is near, and that that which has been the
light of the mass of people outside the
larger cities and to tens of thousands in
them will soon be no more. forcing the con-
clusion that the millions must grope in
darkness and eat their food uncooked II
some substitute is not found for refined
coal oil. But while we were contemplating
the widespread disaster which the loss of
coal oil would cause, Professor Day, who
is an expert in all that pertains TO coal oil
and to oil-producing fields. comes forward
with statement that there Is an abund-
ance Of oil and will be for more years than
any one now living will have any use for it,
Indeed, the professor leaves the inference
that the sources of oil supply have not yet
been more than touched by the Standard
and other companies. Because refined oil
is advanced / or cents a gallon or crude
oil 80 cents or 81 a barrel, there is no evil
dence OF scarcity OF OIL either in the bowels
of the earth or in the market. When the
Standard advanced the price OF refined oil
last summer and fall IL was understood
that IL could DO so because II Is a monop-
oily The head Of the company was giving
now and then a million dollars to an edu-
cational institution. and his litarality was
Offset by an increase which would pat three
millions In the strong box of the man who
had given a million to enlishten and evan
gelize the world. So Ear as the price Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

crude oil is concerned. no prudent person
would dare openly conjecture the motive
of the Standard in advancing it. Not long
ago a similar advance was Dade. whereat
the SPECTATORS slipped in and went out
shorn. 1t is hoped that DR.. Day and his
oil science is right in his prediction. Even
refined oil is such a boon that humanity
benefactor for supplying 1t. even at high
price. without the fear that on some spe-
cially dark night there will be no oil for
millions of lamps. AS for the pessimistic
prophets who are telling that il is probable
the Standard has "milked" the earth of oil
even to dryness. let them go to and cease
their gable, lest they give the Standard a
hint which will lead the company to double
the price of oil.
For years the country has been told that
the supply of anthracite coal is getting low
in the measures in the earth and that it
must be higher and scarcer, as the supply
is near exhaustion. Now we are told that
in the anthracite region new veins have
been discovered that contain 800. 900. 900
tons. II is announced that this
discovery will insure anthracite to the
world for two hundred years, with the
usual coal-mine troubles. Doubtless long
before that supply is near exhaustion the
world will have supplies of heat and light
that will far exceed anthracite and
Standard made kerosene that humanity
will wonder how their predecessors sur
vived so many years with coal for heat and
kerosene for light. The earth may, in some
distant period. be turned over to unbear-
able cold and impenetrable darkness. but
when that shall be humanity will have been
transferred to some better land. At any
rate. let us not add to our present troubles
thoughts of the woes of those who may
have neither coal nor coal oil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

The resolutions adopted by the Manu-
facturers' Association at New Orleans have
a business-like ring. They are in effect, a
declaration of personal rights and COM
mercial independence. They admit the right
of the owner of labor to do what he pleases
with it. provided he does not interfere with
the rights of others, and they claim the
same right for the owners of capital. They
recognize the equal rights of union and non
union workmen to employment and the
protection of the law. and declare the right
of employers to be unmolested and unham-
pered in the management of their business
This is the ground to which all parties must
finally come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17
C0RTELYoU TO YOUNG MEN.
The Secretary of Labor Speaks from
Full Experience.

Saturday Evening Post.
Mr.. Cortelyou speaks as follows to young
men beginning business:
IF en- spent as much time doing their
work and perfecting themselves In trying
to do it still better as they do in endeavor-
ing to secure political influence, and pro-
motion on the strength of that influence
it would be much better for them, and their
success would be more rapid" He added
that his experience had taught him that
in the government service. as everywhere
else In the long run merit tells. Here and
there, of course, luck or favoritism helps
a man and for the time being he pushes
rapidly to the front, but 1t is the old story
of the hare and the tortoise. The man
who wins in the race of life is the man
who has staying qualities and who uses
his brains. The trouble with so many
men,, Mr. C0rtely0u continued, lis that
they are lacking in the essential qualities.
For instance, you find stenographer who
may be good stenographer in so far as
he can take down the words you utter
and accurately reproduce them, but who
Is simply a machine. If for example, you
should make an obvious mistake. or If, as
SO often happens in dictation, you use a
plural where manifestly the singular is
intended, the stenographer will transcribe
it without either having the intelligence or
the desire to make the correction or to call
your attention to 1t. Again you find a
good senographer who has absolutely no
initiative or no imagination. Give him
the exact words to write and he will write
them, but give him merely skeleton and
trust him to dress it up, and the chances
are that he will be unable TO do 1t. Then
there are the men who never appear TO
get into close touch with their superiors or
to understand their idiosyncrasies, so to
speak, who every day must be told the
same thing and who only do just exactly
what they have to do Another class is
composed of intelligent men who begrudge
their work. and who think that when they
are employed to do certain things they
must not be asked to do any more. These
| are the men who show in verious ways that
| they regard II as a hardship, and in fact
as imposition. to be asked to work half
| an hour overtime. Now, when you ind
| a man who combines all the qualifications
| that are requisite he is bound to succeed.
| Men may think at times that their work
| Is unappreciated, but good men are always
| in demand and the employer recognizes
| ability when he finds it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17
INDIANA AT THE WORLDS FAIR

Governor Durbin evidently intends that
Indiana shall make a credtable showing
in the worlds fair at st. Louis, judging
citizens named represent the life and In
dustries of the State. Each man seems to
have been selected because he represents
industrial and business interests. The peo-
pie of Indiana have a right to expect
great deal from such committee in the
way of direction. organization and inspira-
ton. The people. however, must respond
to the calls of the commission when they
shall be made.
Because of her location, Indiana should
be as fully represented in the exposition as
any State in the Union. For reasons which
it is not necessary to state. Indiana did
not make the showing she should have
made in Chicago in 1893. There must be no
failure in any direction at st. Louis. The
State must be thoroughly organized and
reused to the Importance of the occasion.
The worlds exhibit is at our door; Indiana
has made great progress in the last decade
so great that her own people would be
surprised by full Indiana exhibit. More
over, there will not be another worlds ex-
position in this part of the country for a
generation. The State will not, for many
years. be asked for money for such pur-
pose as no other city is sufficiently large to
aspire to a worlds fair In the central West
Chicago had all the experience it desires,
and st. Louis will have had year after
the exposition shall be closed. Therefore,
with the feeling that this will be the last
of the worlds fairs in this part of the coun-
try, Indiana should make a vigorous and
general effort to make an exhibit which
will give her a place among the greater
States in the industrial arts and the educa-
ton which marks the progress of the
people.
There is every reason to believe that the
commission that Governor Durbin has
named is equal to the task. and that it will
take up the work and apply to 1t the ex-
perience of business men animated by the
high purpose of having Indiana grandly
represented in the Louisiana Purchase Elk
position. The commission will doubtless
appeal to State pride, to which Hoosiers
ALWAYS promptly respond
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17
DIM NOTIONS OF SCIENCE.
Evidence that Many Have Little Con.
ception of What Ii Means.
Washington Post

Washington Post.
Government scientists, who now and then
called upon TO act as referees and ex-
aminers in civil-service examinations for
scientific positions, gradually being
forced to the conclusion that these exam
nations are profoundly misunderstood by
very large body of the American people.
In one case, a few weeks ago, the answers
received by the referees from on appli-
cant showed clearly that the person ex-
amined did not possess even the most rudi-
mentary knowledge of the science involved.
They were such. in fact, as child might
return, after a few months in school or a
few weeks spent in reading textbooks for
beginners Now IL this had not been only
one in many cases OF the sort, the referees
would have been justified in concluding that
the applicant was a mere trifier, seeking
10 perpetrate a shallow joke on the gov
ernmen. scientists. The men of science
have wavered between regarding such APP
plicants as mere triners or honest simple
tons. AS matter of fact, however. there
are large parts of the United States
where science is In much the same stage
that 1t was in England during the middle
ages This may sound harsh, but when
one sees such astonishingly crude and me-
dieval works as Slaughters (of Paris, Tex
Cattle and Horse Breeding and Has the
Negro a Soul?" selling like hot cakes, one
is forced TO admit that science is behind
hand in the regions where such books cir
culate. In such districts there are scat
tered here and there a few honest students,
mostly young men who are on the right
track and who spend their spare earnings
and time in buying and studying good, first
class and high-grade modern works on
science; but even they are woefully lacking
in information, for the reason that their
resources are limited. The reports or
learned societies and institutions cannot
be purchased, and the books they purchase
have to be ordered. and are all OF them
more or less on the beginners stamp. The
either downright ignoramuses, who, having
memorized a lot of law and newspaper In
formation, by virtue of which they have be-
come the crossroads Solomons, feel that
they are equal to the task OF Milling the
place of plant pathologist or aid In ornitn-
ology: or else are young men VINO, having
mastered the rudiments or some science,
imagine that because they are at least
eighty years ahead of the intelligence OF
their home locality they are fully equipped,
not realizing that they must enter In COM
petition with young men fresh from two.
three or four years course in Eastern uni
versities. Why they come to grief they
never can nor will understand until they
come 20 Washington or some other scien-
tific center and see for themselves Unless
of thinking their failure Is due TO discrim-
ination or partisan political feeling on the
part of the government men or science
| against their home section. while; on me
| other hand. the examiners fall into the
| error of supposing they are fooisn Jokers
| for sending in such nosensical examination
sheets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

Turk was never more fiendish than the Jop-
lin mob. What will Missouri do about this
outrage? These outrages are increasing
The wrong man was hanged in Louisiana
on Monday. What is the United States go
territory from American fiends? If the Jop-
lin outrage had been perpetrated upon
American citizens in foreign country Sec
rotary Hay would have asked an immedi-
ate explanation. but. being done in State
Of the Union where the stars and stripes
float. the United States is helpless.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17
THE LOWELL LESSONS.

One of the causes of the strike in the
Lowell CMass.) cotton mills is that the en-
ployes are paid lower wages than in the
cotton mills of Fall River and New Bed
ford Like many other people, the strikers
can see but one side of the matter. Fall
River pays 10 per cent. more than Lowell,
therefore Lowell should pay 10 per cent
more. The Lowell mills turn out only the
coarser goods. the machinery is not the
most modern, and smaller quantity Of
goods is produced per capita than in the
mills with the latest equipment The
Lowell operatives are not so expert work.
men as those of Fall River, else they would
not work in mills with an inferior equip
ment If they were more expert and the
Lowell mills were better equipped the cor
porations could afford to pay more wages.
At one time all the advantage was in favor
of Lowell. with abundant water power,
the cotton industry there being old before
1t was started in Fall River with steam for
motive power. OF late the dividends of
the Lowell mills have not averaged per
cent. per annum. 1t is, therefore. doubtful
If they can afford to increase wages 10 per
cent IL the shareholders are to be paid
anything on their investment To put
modern machinery into the mills would
cost a large amount of money, so it seems
that about the only thing for the owners
to do is to shut down their extensive fac
tories unless they can obtain an inferior
class of employees from southern Europe.
The Lowell condition presents a lesson
or two that might be of value. The first
and most obvious. Is that the better and
more modern the equipment of the mill,
shop or factory the greater the profits
earned and the better the wages. Again.
1t appears that the most expert workmen
are employed in the shops and mills which
produce the best quality of goods. and the
more labor expended upon less effective
machinery the lower the compensation OF
that labor. The best machinery, the bes,
labor and the highest wages go together
Lastly, IL is the expert worker, turning out
the most goods. who produces the condi-
tons necessary to the payment of the high
est wages, and those workmen who
do as little work in an hour or day as they
can, so as to have long jobs or jobs fol-
more men. force the conditions compelling
the payment of low wages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

Congress that they had captured fifteen
American vessels and made $50 officers and
seamen slaves. In 1876 the United States.
following the bad example of European
powers. signed a treaty agreeing to pay the
Dey of Algiers 100000 for the ransom OF
American captives and promising to pay
$500 annually during the continuance OF
the treaty for the ransom of such other
prisoners as might be taken. This was hu-
initiating. but nothing better could then be
done, and humanity demanded 1t. European
governments were doing the same thing.
In 1915 the Dey dismissed the United States
consul and declared war against the United
States. Then squadron of ten American
warships was sent to the Mediterranean,
the Algerian pirate fleet was terribly pun
ished, and the Dey accepted terms including
the instant surrender of all American pris-
oners, full indemnifcation for all property
destroyed. the absolute REIMBURSEMENT OF
all claims to tribute from the United States
thereafter. and a promise not to reduce pris-
oners of any nationality to slavery. After
humbling the Dey of Algiers the American
fleet sailed for Tunis and demanded and
received from the ruler of that state $4,000
in payment for American vessels which he
had allowed the British to capture in his
harbor. and then required the Bey of Trip
| oil to pay $4,000 for the same kind of injury
to property. In two months the United
States accomplished, in the way Of hum
bling those piratieai powers. what the COM
bined powers of the Christian world had
not dared to attempt. We never had any
trouble with them afterwards Algeria was
organized as a French colony in 1884, and
is now probably the most important Of all
the French possessions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

Gunton's Magazine.
The forests should be preserved to pro-
tect the water sources and the lumber sup
ply of the future; the mining laws should
be improved to give greater encouragement
and protection to prospectors and mining
operators. and greater revenue to the recla-
nation fund; the grazing districts should
be put under control, in order that the re-
naming grasses may not be destroyed and
that barren ranges may be restored. The
present situation is serious menace to the
meat supply of the Nation.
In the reclamation fund, created by the
national irrigation act, there is now about
600 which is being drawn upon to
meet the cost of surveys and Investigations
now being conducted. In some districts of
Utah, Colorado California, Arizona and
other States where favorable reservoir To-
cations are found the people are planning
to shape local laws and conditions to meet
the demands Of government irrigation off,
CialQ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17
UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT
Against Municipal Control Of New
York's Lighting System.

York's Lighting System.
Rochester Post Express.
The Electrical World and Engineer fur
nishes an unanswerable argument against
the proposed municipal electric-lighting
plant for New York city. After suggesting
that, as the city electric lighting is barely
per cent. of the New York Edison BUSH
ness, the scheme may have Wall-street
origin. it adds:
Possibly the public is not so anxious to
increase the number of city departments,
city enterprises. city officials and city pay
roll Possibly the citizens do not overlook
that fact that this same department. asking
for control of a lighting plant handles its
water supply so badly that thousands Of
New Workers buy other drinking water in
order to be safe. and are often unable to
battle, so laden with dirt and impurities il
the city supply furnished them. This has
gone on for years. Possibly the public
wonders whether II would be likely to get
better city light than it gets city water or
whether the one supply would be handled
any more economically and efficiently than
the other has been, 10, these many years.
right before assuming these other serious
obligations"
The advocates of the manipulation
OF public utilities are not likely to pay
Some of them at least have actually con-
tended that the more work you throw on
a municipal government the. more salts
factorily will il be performed. Possessed
of the notion that a mule hardly able to
bear up under load OF 1000 pounds would
trip along lightly under a load of 1900
pounds. they would contend that the best
way to improve the water supply of New
York would be TO engage the city in the
electric-lighting business. IL not the alb
surdity Of such position self-evtdent?
One reason why electric lighting costs
new York so much at present is the refusal
OF the officials to make a contract with the
Edison Company for more than one year
1T stands to reason" says the Electrical
World and Engineer" discussing this phase
of the subject, that any company would
make reasonable concessions on the basis
of a long-term contract when on a precar-
ious renewal from year to year. il has to
protect itself against the loss involved In
the purchase of dynamos. lamps, poles
cables, ETC., which would be required fol-
a brief period of only twelve months
This, too. is consideration that the ad.
vocates of municipal ownership studiously
avoid.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

Department of Agriculture more credit
than IL deserves. IL has undoubtedly intro
duced many valuable plants. but has
private enterprise. The agricultural ex-
pertinent stations of the States and schools
of chemistry, botany and allied subjects
supported sometimes by States and some
times by private endowments have con-
tributed much TO the progress Of agricul-
ture- 1t is doubtful II the Department OF
Agriculture has done as much TO promote
tree culture as the late Hon. j. Sterling
Morton did long before he secretary
OF agriculture in poDularizing the observ-
ance of Arbor day and creating public
sentiment In favor of tree culture. The
nurserymen of the country. and especially
the inventors and manufacturers of agri-
cultural implements, entitled to much
OF the credit for agricultural progress
which the President would bestow wholly
upon the Department OF Agriculture.