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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
Fri LITERATURE.
Vast Majority of Our Reading Prac-
tically Worthless from IL Lit
erary Standpoint.

A cursory glance through the various
magazines of the day presents to the
reader a very discouraging outlook and
yet one which has been long expected.
With a few exceptions, the vast major
ity of our reading matter is practically
worthless, from a literary standpoint. 1t
is a mere dainty bubble, good only for a
few short moments, and then breaks and
is gone. 1t has no stability, no worth,
expresses no meaning, teaches no lesson.
The world of to-day, SO far as literary
pursuits are concerned, is like a small
child who reaches for the sweets and lets
the solid foods go untouched. Pleasure
first, by fair means or foul, is the motto
of the present day generation. And the
majority of our publications are awak-
| ening to this fact and preparing to cater
to the public taste. Periodicals that
have hitherto occupied a distinguished
| place among the literary guides have
abolished to a certain extent all matter
that would be helpful and needful to
mankind for the lighter style of work.
Even those who still cling to the old idea
Oh SlNluS lOOu lOT Thought W Jne serious
minded reserve some space for love sto-
ries, light poetry and the like, all of
which, sooner or later, will encroach
upon the others territory until it en-
tirely occupies the pages of the periodi-
cal.
AS a matter of fact, we take life too
lightly, Few really seriously consider
the tasks set before them. If any con-
scientious thought presents itself, we
push it aside for some frivolous, idle
notion that can do no good and may
bring harm. says the Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal. Literature has for ages
been looked upon as one of the highest
branches of mans education. 1t is the
means whereby the persons most fitted
for the task may give to the world such
truths and teachings as are necessary to
their intellectual life. And no one can
gainsay the fact that without the liter
airy efforts of the few of our older writ
ers latter-day scribes would not occupy
the positions they now fill.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

Sheriff Carman was presented with
a badge on Saturday. 1t was a token
of appreciation and esteem. The
deputies doubtless appreciate the
checks which they were enabled to
get from the county because of their
term of service, and they still hold
the sheriff in esteem hoping that he
will again permit them to serve the
county. The badge will be passed
down from generation to generation
until in some future year tradition
will say that it vas presented to the
sheriff by the soldiers in the war at
Perth Amboy. Would it not now be
in order to present the Ostrander COM
pany with a badge for refusing to
grant the demands of the strikers,
thereby causing the strike? Then the
leader who declared the strike should
BIZ rewarded. Without the action of
these two the sheriff could not have
.oDoointad tho deputies
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
ROMANCE IN VARIED GUISE.
The Definition of the Word Is Sus-
ceptibIe of n Wide Diver
sifcatiOn.

What is romance? Even the COLO
qaial use of the term is varied. When
we say you are romancing" or call
anything as romantic as distinguished
from what is real or what is true, we
mean n thing, but quite another
when we apply the term romantic to
natural scenery, says .Harper's Maya
zine. And in this application we must
distinguish between the effect upon us
of that which we call romantic because
of human associations with certain
sights or sounds and that wildness OF
nature which we call romantic because
of it's absolute dissertation from any
thing human.
Keeping out of mind for the present
the use of the word in artistic and lit
erary criticism, let us try to find what
element of reconcilement there is in the
diversities of colloquial usage.
In all that is generally called romantic
in the cases above mentioned there is
the common element of strangeness.
We easily revert to what must have
been the original sense of the word in
its connection with those medieval
notifications of the Latin tongue known
as the romance languages. The Saxon
or Celt would have found his native
tongue sufficient for all ordinary needs,
but if he caught the Roman air in any
way, by travel or refinement of taste
and habit, he would, to meet the newly
developed need, borrow the graces of the
Roman speech-that is, he would ro-
nance
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

Men who have shot nearly all of the
dark continents animals have, as a rule,
nothing but contempt for the ~so-called
king of beasts" the lion. To the hunt
err he is a ~cowardly, skulking brute, far
more dangerous to the horses and oxen
at night thar to the human part of the
expedition, always ready to stink off
and escape a fight if given a chance.
There is nothing kingly about him, and
a single man can usually put half a
dozen lions to fight.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

Albania lies 1870 miles on the Adri-
attic sea and is so to 100 miles wide.
1t was formed originally, says William
Jackson Armstrong, in his Heroes of
Defeat" from part of Ilyris, all of Epi-
rus and part of Macedonia in the elev-
enth century. From this territory
sprung Pyrrhus, who defeated the Ro-
man invader; Philip and Alexander of
Macedon, the conquerors; Perseus,
whose fame as a soldier covered the
world so years after Christ, and
~Skanderbeg, who for 40 years defeated
armies sent against him by the Turk.
Ancient Albania lay in Asia, just east
of the Caucasus.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
D AMBULANCES.
The Service Is Far short of what the
Great City Stands in Sore
Need OF.

One of the most urgent needs of the
metropolis is a properly organized and
well-equipped municipal ambulance
service, says the London Express.
London is the only great European
city which is lacking in an effective
service of this kind, and there is no
European city in which it is wanted
more, for, according to the latest re-
turns, there is an average of 500 serious
street accidents every week in the year,
and of these the police ambulances can
deal with only 200 at the outside.
The metropolitan asylums board has
a complete horsed ambulance service in
existence, maintained in a high state OF
efficiency, in order to meet sudden out
breaks of infectious disease. Under nor
NAL circumstances, however, the SER
vice is far larger than the requirements,
and the board is accordingly planning
to extend this into a regular municipal
service.
In London there is no uniform system
for dealing with street accidents; no
central authority controlling ambu-
lances and keeping in close touch with
the hospitals. Even the telephone is
unknown as an adjunct to the haphaz-
ard systems which exist. Thus the
London hospital receives twicethe num-
Der of accident cases in our Anticipated
ambulances,
To the objections which are urged
against using infectious ambulances for
ordinary cases it is pointed out that
there are only two infectious diseases
which might be communicated to a
sufferer in a journey to a hospital
smallpox and scarlet fever-ands special
ambulances are retained for those cases
and are disinfected continuously.
In Liverpool and Manchester there
are ~six-horsed ambulances under the
control of the police. In ~Birkenhead,
Newcastle, Hull, Leeds and many
other towns horsed ambulances can be
called to any part by mean of street
telephone call boxes.
In New York a surgeon, with surgical
appliances and medicines, accompanies
the ambulance to the scene of an acct
dent. In most American towns the
pair-horsed ambulances flash through
the street like fire engines, and there
are always horses ready to be harnessed
and doctors on duty. The average time
between the striking of the telephone
gong and the departure of the ambu-
lance is Is seconds.
In Paris are the best horse ambu-
lances of any city in Europe, and in
scores of chemists shops telephones
have been specially fitted up for acct
dent calls to the ambulance stations,
and Vienna, Berlin, st. Petersburg,
Moscow and Warsaw have followed the
lead set by the French capital.
1t is London alone which in this i'm
portant matter is 20 years behind the
age.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

1t would appear that the Board OF
Aldermen is not going to heed the appeal
made by GA Working Horse through
the columns of the News. Nothing has
yet been done to start the water flowing
in the drinking fountain in High street.
Such places are public necessities and a
city cannot have too many Of them. 1t
would appear to be up to the Water
Department, but, if necessary, the alder
men could push the matter along. The
city can we'll afford the little that runs to
waste there. Let's have the fountain.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
TESTS OF THE HUMAN VOICE.
Over the Telephone wire One Cannot
Always BE Certain of the Per-
son At other End.

Many persons imagine that the hui
man voice is as easily recognizable as
the human countenance; they think
that they could never be mistaken in
the voice of their friends, but in the
branch telephone exchange of a big
business house the other day an ex-
pertinent proved that this was not ell
together true, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. One of the employees Of the
house took his place at the eX-
change, and, as various persons called
for various members he guessed who
was speaking. Out of ten guesses six
were wrong. He erred in the case of
his own brothers voice, mistaking it
for that of the proprietor. He was
sure that he had detected a fellow
clerk on account of the pronunciation
of coffee-"cawfee"-that he believed
to be peculiar TO this person, but the
event proved that there were others
In the building who also pronounced
coffee in that odd way. The girl at the
exchange said that she never at
tempted to tell people by their voices,
especially yer the phone. when you
make a mistake it is so embarrassing
she murmured. "A roguish voice says:
DO you know it is?' You answer:
Yes, it's Harry Whereupon the dis
appointed reply comes: No, it is
Jack That makes you feel small"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
PETROLEUM IN BURMAH.
In Use There Long Before the First
Well Was Driven in
Pennsylvania.
|Rappointed the deputies.

The use of petroleum seems new, but
1t had been used in Asia for a long time
before the first well was driven in
Pennsylvania. The following descrip-
ton, published in 1929, is from the &C
count of Crawford's embassy to Ava.
Petroleum wells supply the whole
Burmah empire with oil for lamps, n
also for smearing timber, to protect 1t
against insects, and particularly the
white ants. Its consumption for burn
ing is stated to be universal, until its
price reaches that of sesamum oil, the
only other kind used for lamps.
The wells, which occupy a space OF
about IL square miles, vary in depth
from 200 to $50 feet; the shaft is square,
not more than four feet each side, n
is formed by sinking a frame OF wood.
The oil, on coming up, is about the
temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
1t is thrown into a large cistern, in the
bottom of which are small apertures
for the aqueous part to drain off, when
the oil is left for some time to thicken.
1t is then put into large earthen Jars,
placed in rude carts drawn by oxen,
and carried to the banks OF the river,
from whence it is sent by water-car-
riage to every part of the empire.
BY the number and burden of he
boats employed in this trade, and the
number of voyages they are supposed
to make in the course of a year, the eX-
portation from the wells is estimated
to amount to II, 56S 900 Wis, Of 2613
nnVpAe oonA
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

Hearty cooperation is what is need
ed to make the carnival a success.
Let everyone do his share and all
work together. Be liberal when the
collector calls. Do the part cut out
for you and let the Others do theirs
and the fete will be the best ever
seer along our water front.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

1t is now time for the katydids
which sound the warning note of six
weeks before frost. AS far as can be
learned none have yet been heard in
this vicinity. Summer is now on the
decline and vacation will soon be
owe
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
q mo- CREDITORS.

William J. Rankin, executor of
Mary Rankin, deceased. by direction
of the Surrogate of the County of
Middlesex, hereby gives notice to the
creditors of the said Mary Rankin to
bring in their debts, demands and
claims against the estate of the said
within nine months from this date, or
they will be forever barred of any
action thereof against the said exc
cutor.
Dated June %, AQ3.
WILLIA ~. RANKIN,
1885 23-tf Executor.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
Fighters and Fighters.

"In France" boosted the man with
The struggling shoulders, Eve have the
science of the combating to a fine
point got. We fight with the feets."
"Ugh!" retorted the sporty American,
you're not so far ahead of us. Our
pugilists fight with their m%ouths!"-
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
watch Reporters work Overtime.

All the watch repairers in New York
work overtime hot days. They account
for this peculiar business phenomenon
by saying that when men discard their
vests they do not properly secure their
watches in the trousers fob. The re-
suit is an epidemic Of dropped time
pieces.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

Nellie married her for her beauty
but she hasn't much left.
Belle-And she married him for hi.
money. So they are in the same boat
Philadelphia Record.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

While on your vacation Don't for,
get to have The Evening News mailed
to YOU, and in this way keep in touch
with your home doings. No extra
charge for mailing, and address
changed as often as desired.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
In the Human Race.

A student of ethnology was telling his
friend that the Laplanders are of very
short stature.
Whit you be definite?" replies the
othV How many Laps to the mile?"
-BSston Transcript.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11
KILLING ANTS WITH CANNON.
FOrtresses of the Termftes, or War
rfOr Species, AssaiIed with
Artillery. !

Artillery charged with grapeshot has
been employed to destroy great for
tresses which the termites, or warrior
ants, have made in many tropical
countries, reports the New York Her.
aid.
In South Africa the termites work
enormous havoc. They live in a re-
public of their own, and some of them
have wings. The workmen, the SOL
diers and the queens, however, have
none.
The workmen construct their build
ings, the soldiers defend the colony
and keep order and the females, or
queens, are cared for by all the others.
These become, in point of fact, mere
egg laying machines which have to
remain tied to one spot.
Their nesting homes are often 20
feet high and pyramidal in shape. Cat
tie climb upon them without crushing
the4 A dozen men can find shelter
in some of their chambers and native
hunt6s often lie in wait insideA them
whenoNput after wild animals.
The Ants construct galleries which
are as Divide as the bore of a barge
cannon md which run three ofkfour
feet I'm rground.
The sts are said to be 500 hes
as high Ps the ants body, and
been es mated that if we bu
houses the same scale they
be foll pes as high as the by
of Ell
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

NASON' "o
k. of C Hall, corner S184Ms Rector
streets. G. w. FJthian, Chief Ranger
H. E. Pickersgill, Secretary, II Lewis st.
1. O. O. F. Laurence Lodge. No. 62
Meets Dad Fellows Hall, Smith Street
every Friday night. DIR. Frank Crowther,
N. c.; F. L. Harrington, Sec'y., Brighton
Ave.
Jr. o. U. A. M. Middlesex Council No.
63. Meets every I'd and 4th Wednesday
in City Hall. Charles Cluney, Counsellor,
G.. M. Adair, Recording Secretary 2o3
Madison Av.
K. of P. Algonquin Lodge, No. a.
Meets every Monday K. of P. Hall Smith
and High Streets. Harvey Stetson, c. c.;
Chris M~eshrow, K. of r. and S.
X. of C. San Salvatore Council. Meets
every I'd and 4th Wednesday in X. of c.
Growney, ,'' G. iIN K; Recording sec'y.,
Richard A. Bolger, I24 Market Street.
1. o. of F. Court Perth Amboy, No.
3o43. Meets K. OF P. Hall, High and
Smith Streets, every Ist and grid Tuesdays.
John K. Sheehy, C. R. Peter Poulsen, K.
s., I65 Elm Street H.
r. A.. Middlesex Council No. HOO.
Meets Odd Fellows Hall, Smith Street
every second and fourth Tuesday. Henry
Mccullough Regent, N. H. Moore, Secre-
tary, 90 Jefferson Street.
K. of G. E. Meets in Odd Fellows
Hall, Smith street, every Tuesday night.
George Bath. Noble Grand; Frank B. Reed,
Keeper of Records, I2e Mechanic street.
P. o. S. OF A., Washington Camp, No.
70. Meets every second and fourth Thurs
day K. of P. Hall, cor. High and Smith
street Fred Waters, President; !. M. Mills,
Secretary, 30 Oak street.
w. o. w. Perth Amboy Camp No. Ie,
meets at City Hall Ist and grid Wednesday.
Chris. Mathiasen G. c., DR.. II. K. Mason
Clerk, 634 Smith street.
Washington Literary Club meets in Un-
ion Hall Adelaide Building, on the Second
Sunday of Each Month at 3 o'clock p. m.
John Clark, President.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-11

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-26
MIR. MELLEN STARTS EAST.

With His Wife He Leaves St. Paul for New
 York.
 St. Paul, Oct. 24.-Charles Sanger Mellen, former president of the Northern Pacific, and who is to be president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, left this city tonight with Mrs. Mellen for New York. MT. Mellen will enter upon his duties with the New Haven road on Noyem- hnr i
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-26
ILL AT HIS HOME HERE

E. F. Welsh, one of the telephone line- men who works in Ansonia, is seriously i'll ct his home in this city with pneu- monia.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-26
THE COMING MEETING OF THE

THE COMING MEETING OF THE
 woMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS.
 Arrangements for the annual meeting
 Of the Woman's Board of Missions to
 be held at Plymouth church. this city,
 November 2-5. have 80 far progressed
 that it is now possible to announce the names of the missionaries expected to
 be present at that time. The list is as
 follows: Miss Laura M. Mellen of South
 Africa, Dr. Rose A. Bower of West Gen.
 tral Africa, Miss Agnes NJ. Lord of eastern Turkey, Miss Ellen M. Blakely
 of central Turkey. Miss Sarah A. Clos
 son and Mrs. c. c. Tracy of western
 Turkey. Miss Ellen M. Stone of Mace
 donia, Miss Mary M. Root and Mrs. b. R. Herrick of Madura, India. Mrs. E.
 B. Harding of Sholapur, India; Miss Emily s Hartwell Of Foochow, China, and Mrs. Edward s. Hume of Bombay,
 India.
 To many New Haven people special interest centers in Mrs. Hume's pres
 ence at the meeting. not only because Of local associations with the Hume
 name. nor altogether because she is one of the city churches, but chiefly be- cause of her resourcefulness and effl- ciency that she has shown during these
 recent trying years in India.
 Though missionaries of the Woman's Board are entitled to furlough every
 seven years, it is now eleven years loe i,, EI,s try. the very conditions which made it impossible for her to lay aside her re-
 responsibilities for her needed rest being conditions which made those years un-
 usually wearing. At the beginning of the first of the recent famines her girls
 school numbered 160; to-day it numbers about 600 The great increase is due to the reception of children orphaned by the famine and left destitute and starv- ing. The faith with which the care of
 so many of these children was assumed is equalled only by the ingenuity shown in finding means for their support. One noteworthy device was the teaching of gold and silver embroidery to many of the girls, Mrs. Hume herself designing the patterns. So well was this work
 done that the embroidery from Mrs. Hume's school is in constant demand and brings a good price. It is because
 such facts have been generally known
 concerning Mrs. Hume that her person. ality will be of particular interest to many who have never before seen her.
 She Is able at this time to leave her
 work in Bombay because of the pres
 ence there of her daughter Elizabeth, who, after graduating at Wellesley col lege and the Hartford theological semi nary, last spring married Rev. Byron Hunsberger. and sailed with him to en-
 gage in Missionary work in India.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-26
PEOPLES CHORAL UNION.

Preliminary Meeting Held-Season'
 Plans Outlined.
 A preliminary meeting of the officers and committees of the Peoples Choral union was held at the residence of Mrs. H. Grant Thompson, 114 Whitney ave nue, on Friday night last. There was very good attendance and plans for the coming season were thoroughly dis cussed. The first meeting of the union will be on the evening of Thursday, November F, in the City Mission hall on Orange street, near Court, and not in the Old Union armory on Chapel Street which has been the place of meeting for the past two seasons.
 Circulars were distributed to those present and they are in turn to hand them out at the factories of the city and other places where there may be persons who are interested in the work of the union or who may desire to be- come members and who are not thor oughly informed as to the methods and plans of the coming year. These cir culars convey considerable information. Among other things they state the times of the elementary and advanced sight singing classes which are to meet from to and from g to 10 respectively on the same evenings of the regular re- hearsals of the city.
 Another important feature of this year is the payment of dues. Instead of there being payment in advance of a net sum a fee of five cents will be charged for admission to each rehearsal both to members and visitors and thus the treasury will always have some money in it.
 It is thought at present that DuBoir's oratorio entitled Paradise Lost" will be studied and also an Irish ballad, ''Phaudrig Crehore," by Stamford. These are the compositions at present under consideration,
 There is to be the usual spring con: cert, perhaps in April, but this year in the Hyperion and popular prices will prevail as in the two years past
 The Peoples Choral union begins work again this year with renewed life and there is every promise that it will be even more successful than in the past. MT. Haesche is to be the conduc- tor again and Horatio Parker the mu- sical adviser.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-26
READY FOR BASKETBALL.
Managers of New League Confer and Max
 Franchise Transfers.

Managers of New League Confer and Make
 Franchise Transfers.
 With six cities represented, conference of the members of the new basketball league was held in the Hotel Garde yester- day to prepare for the season, which opens November ' in New Haven. Several trans fers of franchises were made and the man. agers announce that everything is now ready for the games. :
 The following cities were represented by managers: Hartford, William Jennings; Waterbury, T. Guest; New Haven, William Aufort; Meriden, T. L. Reilly; Bridgeport, William Lush, and New Britain, J. Barrett.
 The franchise of Stamford was transfer red to Wallingford, where w. s. Fogarty will own 1t. The South Norwalk franchise was transferred from Mir. Hawkins, of that city, to J. w. Hoyt, a theatrical manager of South Norwalk, who will add the basket ball management to his theatrical work. decided to adopt the sponge-rubber soleG shoes as regulation wear for players.
 The first game of the season will be play ed November at Temple hall, on Chapel Street, between the New Haven team, man. aged by William Aufort, and the South Nor walk team.
 Manager Aufort announced that he had signed Eagan, of the St. Patrick's T. A. B. team, and that he would probably be a good man for the team. The members of the To- cal team will report for practice in this city and will be put through a daily drill. are James Doran, who will captain the team; James Fox, Keever, Eagan, 0'Brien, Brown and Jerry o'Connell, the New Haven baseball player.