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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
POETS HELD GOOD TEACHERS.
A Writer of Verse Declares That
Those who Read Them Acquire
Greater Patriotism.

eff you heed to the political princi-
pies of your country as recorded by
your poets, you cannot help but
acquire greater patriotism and become
better citizens" declared Bliss Perry,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly. in a
lecture on TYPES of Political Poetry"
at the University of Chicago.
Mr.. Perry reviewed the works of
some of the poets wholly apart from
their style and treatment of natures
subjects, but discussed their works as
affecting political matters. Said he:
poets telling of their emotions are
not heard, but overheard. They usu-
ally are too egotistic to enter into a
discussion of practical things, but
when they do treat of current events
they meet with popular favor. If we
study them sympathetically we can
not live quite as we do. We cannot
be as skeptical or as Indifferent as
we have been heretofore. In political
campaigns poetry is often employed
in landing or denouncing some can
didate for verse in the hands of a
capable man is a powerful political
instrument"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

america Must Have Ships" is the
subject of an editorial in the Boston
journal and which has been printed
on separate slips, n of which has
been received at the Evening News
office. The editorial dwells on the
necessity of more boats being built for
ocean trade which will carry the
American flag and supports the efforts
of the New York Board of Trade in
encouraging American shipbuilding.
This matter is of more than ordinary
interest to Perth Amboy. There are
few ports along the Atlantic coast
which can surpass this place for con-
structing vessels and any action the
government might take to encourage
American shipbuilding could not help
but be felt here. 1t would mean en-
pioyment for hundreds of men, for
the local yards would not long remain
idle. 1t is greatly to the interest of
Perth Amboy that the New York
BEARD of Trade succeeds in it's object.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
TO THE TRAVELLER IN MEXICO.
Advice from a Reliable source Which
Americans Would Do Well
to Heed.

Bring along your good clothes.
Draughts are dangerous a mile and
a half in the air.
Meals are invariably served in
courses, one dish at a time.
Coachmen, chambermen and walters
all expect a small tip.
Don't buy a rubber plantation of a
man on the street. Gold bricks come
cheaper.
Don't forget to shake hands with
your Mexican friend, both at meeting
and parting.
Don't find fault with the morals of
the natives if you go to the bull-fight
IN Sunday.
Take it easy for a day or two in this
altitude. There is 10 as much oxygen
here as at sea level.
You will need warm clothing every
day In the year in the City of Mexico
It is always cool in the evening.
Don't pay big prices for the AN
tiquities' sold on the curbstone. The
Indians make them fresh every day,
and they are used to working cheap.
Remember that Spanish is the Ian
guage of the country, and that if your
waiter or hack driver does not under
stand you, you are at fault, not he.
Don't be afraid to come to Mexico
for fear that Mexican chile dishes will
burn out your palate. French cook
ing prevails in all the better-class res
taurants.
You can't convince the MeXicans
that they don't know how to make
coffee. They have been burning it in
the roasting for several centuries, and
the present generation prefers it black
and strong.
Politeness and representation are
equally contagious in Mexico. Don't
be surprised if your friend who has
been here long enough to become ac-
climated, has adopted many of the
little mannerisms of the country, says
Modern Mexico,
Don't expect IN appointment al
ways to be kept to the minute. If
your Mexican friend should rush past
a dozen acquaintance on the street
without stopping to shake hands, they
would think he had lost his mind as
we'll as his manners.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
LIKE FINDING MONEY.
C. A. Sexton Offers Popular Medicine at
Half Price.

G. A. Sexton, the popular druggist, is
making an offer that is just like finding
money, for ho is selling a regular 90 cent
bottle of DR.. Howard's celebrated spe-
ciic for the cure of constipation and
dyspepsia at half price. In addition to
this large discount he agrees TO return the
money to any purchaser whom the spe-
cific does not cure.
1t is quite unusual to be able to buy
ffty-cent pieces for a quarter, but that is
what this offer really means, for it is only
recently through the solicitation of Drug
gist Sexton that this medicine could be
bought for less than fifty cents. He
urged the proprietors to allow him to sci
it at this price for a little while, agreeing
to sell a certain amount. The result has
Justified his good judgment, for the sale
has been something remarkable,
Anyone who suffers with headache,
dyspepsia, dizziness, sou stomach, specks
before the eyes, or any liver tronble,
should take advantage Of this opportun-
ity, for DR.. Towards specific will cure.
But if by any chance it should not, G. A.
Sexton will return your money.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
NEW FASHIONS IN FURS.
Monkey, Sable and Seal VIII Rule in
This Country the Coming
Winter.

All the fashions in furs are settled for
the approaching winter. The fur that is
newest and that is being introduced with
most trepidation by English furriers
is monkey. In America monkey Is going
to enjoy an assured success, but there
exists in this country an almost in sur
mountable objection to it, says a Lon
don report.
Women who know what they are pur-
chasing turn from the long, silky, black
ish brown hair with disgust. Those who
do not, admire it as a novelty, and finger
the sleek pelt with evident admiration.
So the furriers are carefully Disgusting
monkey under other names.
Monkey makes handsome coats and
enormous muffs. The Odor of the skin
is the chief objection. But this difficulty
of aroma the furriers have combated
with wonderful success. Whatsoever
faint remnant of it remains wears away
after the pelt has been in use a little
while.
Of the furs introduced this time last
year some are going to be in great de-
mand. Moleskin is one, but the supply
is becoming limited and the price Is in
consequence ascending. A substitute
has been found in musquash dressed to
initiate mole. Russian r0ny has quite
fulfilled the expectations that were built
p o it as a serviceable motor coat pelt,
but beaver and otter. for which a large
sale was predicted, have not caught the
taste of the moneyed British public. Any
one who wants sea otter will this season
have to pay a high price for 1t, owing
to the failure of the quest for them.
The vogue of some furs is on the wane
and growing costliness of others will
preclude their employment in many
quarters. Ermine is so scarce that 1t is
now costing actually three times as much
as it did last year, when 1t was in such
request for the coronation. C|hinchilla
will be less fashionable than it was last
season, and caracul will not enjoy the
vogue it had during several SHOWS. It's
wane set In II months ago and bids fair
to increase. But sable will triumph
again as the empress of furs, and for
seal there is a steady and extending de-
mand, the result of the renewal of popu-
larity that set in for that fur two win
ters ago.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
Plenty of Relatives.

1t is said that a daughter born re-
Gently to Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Dummitt.
who live near Monet, Mo-, has more
living relatives than any other child
in the United States. Among other
kin it has two grandmothers, two
grandfathers, two great-grandmoth-
ers, two great-grandfathers, IS great
great-aunts, nine great-great-uncles
IA great-uncles, ten gTeat-aunts, eight
uncles and eight aunts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

To the great majority OF the in
habitants of Perth Amboy the summer
is over. With the celebration OF Labor
Day the pleasure resorts begin to
close, the carnival of 1908 has passed
into history and today the schools
open Everybody is getting ready to
settle down to regular fall and winter
work. The pleasure seekers return
home and soon the leaves will begin
to fall.
The summer has been a cool and a
wet one. With the exception OF the
very beginning of spring there has
been no customary drought. In fact,
there has been too much rain to suit
the pleasure resort men. Fishing has
been good this season and boating
excellent. Besides an unusually large
number of picnics and outings there
have been two boat races in the harbor.
The summer will be remembered for
the large number of drowning accl-
dents which occurred both here and
elsewhere.
The country has been prosperous and
much money was spent for pleasure
this season. Taking it rs a whole,
Perth Amboy has had a very success
full summer and the people are ready
to meet the autumn days.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

No. a.. S. G. Garretson, Commander;
Adjt. Rev. E. B. French, Westminster.
Imp'd o. R. M. Pc Ambo Tribe No. 65
Council Sleep every Thursday. Peter
Axeen, Sachem, Hans S. Smith, C. of r.
Andrew Jensen c. of w.
Ira B. Tice Lodge No. 600 Railroad
Trainmen, meet every Ist and grid Sunday
Knights of Pythias Hall Cor. Smith and
Mulvaney Secretary, Charles Miller Tres-A
urer.
1. o. of F., Court Keasbey, No. 1867.
Meets last Thursday of every month, I
K. of c Hall, corner Smith and Rector |
streets. G. w. Fithian, Chief Ranges
H.. E. Pickersgill, Secretary, n Lewis st.
I. o. o. F. Lawrence Lodge, No. 6
Meets Odd Fellows Hall, Smith street
every Friday night. DR.. Frank Crowther, 4
N. c.; F. L. Harrington, Sec'y., ~Brighton>
Ave.
Jr. o. u. A. M. Middlesex Council No.
g. Meets every I'd and 4th Wednesday
in City Hall. Charles Quincy, Counsellor,
C. M. Adair, Recording Secretary 2o3
Madison Av.
X. of P. Algonquin Lodge, No. "a.
Meets every Monday X. of P. Hall Smith
and High Streets. Harvey Stetson, C. c.;
Chris Meshrow, K. of r. and S.
X. of C. San Salvatore Council. Meets
every I'd and 4th Wednesday in X. of c..
Hall, Smith tand Rector Street. w A..
Growney, G. K; Recording Sec'y., 4
Richard A. Bolger, 1874 Market Street.
1. o. of F. Court Perth Amboy, no
3o43. Meets K. of P. Hall, High
Smith Streets, every Ist and grid Tues
John K. Sheehy, C. R. Peter Poulse
S., I65 Elm Street
r. A. Middlesex Council No. HFoo.v
Meets Odd Fellows Hall, Smith Street
every second and fourth Tuesday. Henry
Mccullough Regent, N. H. Moore, Secre-
tary, 60 Jefferson Street.
X. OF G. E. Meets in Odd Fellows
Hall, Smith street, every Tuesday night.
George Bath, Noble Grand; Frank B. Reed,
Keeper of Records, I2o Mechanic street.
P. o. S. Of A., Washington Camp, No..
10. Meets every second and fourth Thurs
day X. of P. Hall, cor. High and Smith
street Fred Waters, President; ]. M. Mills,
Secretary, 2Io Oak street. n
w. o. w. Perth Amboy Camp No..
meets at City Hall Ist and grid Wednesday,
Chris. Mathiasen G. c., DR.. Fl. X. 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., 1903-09-08
Preferred Bad Money.

An acquaintance from the country,
having visited some friends, and being
about to depart, presented a little boy,
one of the family, with half a crown in
the presence of his mother.
please, is it a good one?" asked the
little fellow.
"Of course, it u.s." replied the gentle
man, surprised. why do you ask"
Because I'd rather have a bad n
and then they'll let me keep it. If / get
any good money it goes into the bank.
and | never get it again. STRAY Sto-
rieg.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

to indulge in mountaineering but had
not the means, wrote to various firms.
offering to place their advertisements
at different points of the ascent of
Mont Blanc on payment of a certain
sum. Some firms accepted the offer,
but it is thought the authorities will
object to the placing OF the advertise
ments.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

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., 1903-09-08
Rain-Water for G0i1re.

Distilled and rain water has been
found a cure for several cases of
goitre by an English physician, who
has communicated the results of his
experiments to the Lancet.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

Suitor-I want to marry your daugh-
ter, sir.
Father-Well, what are you coming to
me for?
Il wished to ask your consent, sir"
Have you got the g%irl's?"
ooh, no, sir; | thought | would get
yours before saying anything to her."
"Oh, did you? That shows where you
are short. The chap who got her asked
her first. Then he came to me, and /
hadn't a word to say against it. See?"
-COmfnrt
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
Small German SfrfaS

A German geographical MAGAZINE
points out that it is possible for a good
pedestrian in less than five hours to
touch upon seven of the smaller Ger
ran states, starting at Steinbach in
Bavaria.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
The Brutal Husband.

ooh, John, there are some lovely
hats in that window"
Eyes, l know. They look so we'll
there, that it would be a pity to take
any of them away.'-Chicago Amer
SCAN.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
Strange.

at is strange, indeed" unused the
thoughtful man.
at must be. WhatEs it?" asked the
other.
THAT when a man%s sowing wild
pats he should purchaseNso much rye"
Chicago Tribune.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

h Fate of Tire Flfrt.
She watched the gallants come and go.
She hirted so with every beau.
Now, when she'd have one come and stay.
They merely come-and go.
philadelphia Post.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

At the places of their former meeting, at
1 O'clock in the afternoon, and remain in
session until 8 o'clock in the evening for
the purpose of revising and correcting the
Original Register, and of adding thereto
the of all persons entitled to the
rights of suffrage in the Election District
at the mex election, who shall appear in
person before them or shall be shown by
the written affidavit of some voter in such
Election District to be a legal voter there
in, and of erasing therefrom the name of
any person who, after a fair opportunity
to be heard, shall be shown not to be en-
titled to a vote therein by reason of non
resident or otherwise.
Fl. H. BROWN,
Chairman Middlesex County Board of
Election.
]. L. SUYDAM,
Secretary.
Dated August 25, 1903.
Aug. 81, 3w-3t-ew.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08
Boards Of Registry
and Election,

In and for each and every Election Dis
trict or voting Precinct in the County of
Middlesex, will hold their first meeting
as
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-08

1. Insert in lieu of paragraph 10 II new para
graph, as follows:
10. TAeGoveTnor, or person administering the
government, the chancellor and tn attorney
general, or two of them, of whom the governor,
or person administering the ,overnment, shall
be one. may remit fines ard forfeitures and
grant pardons, after convictions, in all cases ex-
cept impeachm: mt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-24
ARRESTS DIFF" ELLISON.
WeU Knozra1 Character Charged rrith
AssauIting Policeman.

Accused OF having assaulted a policeman "Bin'
Ellison. who was sentenced TO five years in Sing
Sing on October 9. 1888. for assaulting Gr. Hen
rques a broker was arrested yesterday and locked
up in the West Forty-seventh-st station house.
When his name was asked he first said he was
Frank Jameson. and that he lived at the Park
Avenue Hotel He admitted later, when arraigned
before Magistrate Hogan in the West Side police
court that he Ellison.
Two young men, who are said to be a wealthy
mans sons. also arrested with Ellison They
gave the names OF George and Matthew Smith, and
said they lived at the Park Avenue Hotel. None
Of the men known at the hotel The three
prisoners were charged with having assaulted
Patrolman Frank MCGOWAN, who was IN plain
clothes and standing in the middle OF the block in
Forty-thrd-st, between Sixth and Seventh ayes,
at 8 a. m. The policeman alleges that Ellison as
ne passed with his companions dropped back and
gazed at him Then. without word. the police
man charges. Ellison struck him under the jaw.
knocking him down. II is further alleged that the
two young men went to Ellison's aid. but several
hght summoned other policemen who stopped the
quarrel
In the station the policeman grew furious when
ELLISON said he was Jameson - ,
In the West Side court the prisoners said they
had been dining at Rector's restaurant. at Broad
way and Forty-fifth-st., and that the policeman
had assaulted them without provocation. MCGOWAN
had no witnesses in court and Magistrate Hogan
paroled the prisoners until Saturday.
II has been ten years since 'Bif'' Ellison has
been in really serious trouble -Four of those years
however, were spent in Sing sing as a result OF
his assault on William H. Henriques. aged
broker, whose daughter Mrs. Leila Olyve Neame.
Ellison professed to love Mrs. Neame refused TO
receive his attentions, and complained her father
who went 10 Superintendent Byrnes with the story.
ByrneS summoned Ellison before him. and warned
him not 10 visit the Henriques house again. Some
time later he met Mr.. Henriques in the street and
beat him so badly that he was almost killed He
was sentenced to five years, but his sentence
commuted. Since he came out Of prison he has not
appeared in the police courts but before serving
his term he had several other escapades.
He was known around town q bully, and his
nickname came from the argument he most fire.
QuenJly used. Fred May. well known about
town, once thrashed Ellison soundly for insult
This is said to have been the only thrashing Eli
received
Ellison once fined $3.50 for brutality beating a
saloonkeeper, Hugh Stevin, because Stevin got in
his way at a theatre Another performance OF
which Ellison boasts is that he shampooed the head
OF fellow member of the Manhattan Club with
Welsh rarebit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-24
GUILTY OF RUNNING PooLRooM.
Verdict Against Proprietors of Women's
Resort-Police Captains Reform Efforts.

Annie Simmons ard Edward Graham, charged
with keeping poolroom in the rear Of hotel at
No. 81 West Eighth-st. were judged guilty by
jury yesterday afternoon. The woman said her
real name was Hannah Solomon, and that she
proprietor Of lodging house at No. 712 Seventh
Police Captain Michael German who was IN
charge Of the Mercer-st. station when the raid
made, in February, testified that the action
taken on evidence obtained by Ida Clark, matron
at the station. who said she had found eighteen
women in the place and that she had placed bet
on horses in The alleged poolroom. He said that
after the women were arrested he exacted prom
ise from each one that she never again would bet
horses
Annie Simmons. one Of the defendants. declared
that the place a restaurant. to which she had
gone to get something TO eat. She denied the tes-
uTnony against her. She swore she did not know
her codefendant Graham, and had him
before the day Of her arrest, at the police station.
Arthur g. Gardner, Of the of the
premises. and Albert Henrques, who said he
broker declared the place was not poolroom.
In his charge TO the jury, Judge Cowing said the
testimony was contradictory and that there
perjury on one side or the other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-24
WANTED TO BE MARRIED TO CONVICT.
Judge Mcmahon Refuses to Allow Young
Woman To Be Welded to Man.

young woman visited Judge Mcmahon, in Part
I, General Sessions yesterday and asked him If he
would allow her to be married to a young man who
had pleaded guilty to attempted burglary
4 certainly shall not give my permission for
such thing" said Judge Mcmahon to the girl. u
cannot countenance such proceeding. 1t is plain
10 me- if it is not tc you. that this young man will
be thief all his life. Three times has he been
arrested for theft, and he has already served two
terms When he gets out of Jail. if he marries you
he will doubtless live with you If you have any
money. If you haven't you can rest assured that
you'll never him again"
John E kohler, IT, twenty-five years old, an
elevator boy, Of No. III East Onehundred- and six
ty-second-st is the prisoner He pleaded guilty. Of
having attempted to take $40 worth of jewelty from
the fiat occupied by Mrs. Kate V Rogers, at No
90 East Eighty-eighth-st. December 8 last. In
1909 Koher sent Elmira for a similar offence
and also in 1901, when he out on parole from
the institution He has only been out OF jail short
time. For his latest crime he receive
sentence of five years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-24
NEGROES SUE INSURANCE AGENTS.
They Allege the Boston Society Has No
Charter Right to Insure Them.

New-Haven. Conn, Dec. 23-Eeven colored men
brought suit to-day against the local agents Of the
United States Indemnity Insurance Society Of
Boston on the ground that the society has no
charter right to insure colored men. and that the
local agents have accepted money from the plain
tins in payment for insurance
The plaintiffs sue 10 cover amounts which they
alleGe they have paid in. They assert that under
colored man Va =
AT the office Of the local agents it was declared
that claims have been paid 10 colored men here by
the society. and that there nothing irregular
in the proceedings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-24

PRoPosALs-NEw LONDON, conn, DEC.
L IS 1oO3-SeaIed proposals in tripiicate will be
ceived at Constructing ouarermaster. New Lon
dom Conn. a. Jany 10, 1904 for construction
Of Coal Shed Fort Terry N Y; reserves the right
10 all proposals any part thereof lnfor
nation furnished application Envelopes containing
proposals should marked Proposals for Coal Shed at
Fort Terry n Y" addressed CONSTRUCTING
Observation-Disclosures. q Granite Street. New London.
Conn