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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
OBITUARY.

Mrs. Edwin Wallis died at her home
on Broadway, Sunday morning at c. 80
O'Clock with cancer. Mrs. Wallis has
been a great sufferer for many weeks,
but has borne her suffering with great
patience. She lenves O husband and
three sons. The date of the funeral
has not yet been decided.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
SOUTH AMBOY
SENTENCE SUSPENDED.

In tie case of Frank Meinzer against
Benjamin Bush, of Keyport, on
account of a forged check, Judge
Strong suspended sentence, as the
prisoner had made restitution and re-
tracing his former plea before Justice
Mason, of not guilty, pleaded non
Vult.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

P~cnctrntive Power of Radium.
Mr.. Kunz, Tiffany's diamond expert,
recently during a lecture in New York
city, showed radium glowing through
a glass tube, a rubber tube, a piece Of
lead pipe, a piece of iron pipe, three
copper cylinders and a jar Of water,
the wonderful substance apparently
shining as clearly through all of these
substances at once as it did through
any one Of them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
THE US MEET.

The US will hold a meeting at the
home of Miss Viola Ainsworth, on
Bentley street, at 7.30 tonight. All
OF the members nre requested to be
present, as Mrs. Sarah Mason, of New
York, will address the guests.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
Made Him Sick.

Employer-Mr. Redink, you got off
yesterday afternoon under the plea Of
being iii. / saw you afterward going to
the races, ard you didn't appear at all
IL.
Clerk-You ought to have seen nc
utter the second race, sir. i was bad
enough thcn.-San Francisco Wasp.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
Fond of Animals.

81 think that every good nan i:
fond of animals" remarked the yount
woman.
I'm glad to hear you say So" an.
swered Mr.. .Pygmalion Packard, O.
Chicago. Il 'spose / can claim tc
think as much of animals as anybody
in the business. 1 bought several hun
dred thousand head of cattle this fall.
Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
Wienerwurst to Be.

"Of all the unlucky dogs" moaned the
poor dog, as the net fell ove him, I'm
the worst yet"
NO" replied his captor, the sausage
maker, you are not the wurst yet, but
you will be pretty oon."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
YOUNG PEOPLES ENTERPRISE.

The Young Peoples Society of st.
Stephens church will, on December
3, open what is to be known as q
Twentieth Century department. store
il K. of p. Hall. The society is very
we'll thought of in Tottenville, and
the store will be well patronized.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
GIRLS TALK BASKET BALL.

A number of Young ladies Of Totten-
vile held a meeting Saturday after
noon and talked over the advisab ility
of forming an indoor basket ball
team. There is a fine team at Gifords
and the Tottenville girls would like
to have one as good.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
W. c. T. U. MEETING.

The Moman's Christian Temperance
Union, of Tottenville, will hold a
meeting at the home of Mrs. e. =.
Nance. this afternoon. The business
session will commence at z. 80. Re
freshments will be served.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
A Frcnchman's Mistake.

Winks-Dr. Fauve, of Paris, an
nounces that the odor of floyrars has a
pernieious effect on the human voice
Jinks-Nonsense! When l give my
wife flowers, her voice isn't nearly So
sharp as it is at other times.-N. Y
Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

Yes" said the old inhabitant. I'VE
thought we'd ought tc do something
nice for Bill after his funeral. He only
had one fault. He couldn't tell the
truth"
What did you do for him."
Carved a little motto that his
friends would understandable lin
lie il peace "-Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
NEW JERSEY IN DRY DOCK.

The work Of repairing and painting
the big pilot boat New Jersey at the
shipyard of A. G. Brown g. Son, was
completed Saturday afternoon at 2
O'Clock and she left Tottenville for
the Burlee Dry Docks at Port Rich
mond, where her machinery will be
overhauled.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
A Variation.

"You say your wife insists on buying
your cigars for you?"
Yes"
"Ha! hal"
Don't laugh. It's serious. She says
the kind I get are too cheap to be good.
She insists on paying so cents apiece
for them. "-Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
POLICE HAVE NEW SHIELDS.

All of the Tottenville Datrolmen
have received the new design of police
shield. 1t is very much like the old
one, except that the number Of the
officer is much larger, and can be read
by any citizen This is the one great
advantage.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
Patience Rewarded.

She lin tears)-Oh, George, how car
you be so cruel? We have only been
married two days and you are sccld-
ing me already.
He-But, my dear, just think how
awfully long l have waited for tae
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Enquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
The Soft Answer.

Mrs. Erpeck-Oh, you needn't talk
You're not quite perfection yourself
l would have you know.
Enpeck-No, my dear, but wher
you're around I'm mighty near perfec.
ton.
Mrs. Enpeck-Oh, Henry!-Baltimore
American.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

Doctors Wife-Have you told Mrs.
Blank that her baby is Geaf L
dumb?
Old Doctor-Not exactly; but | have
told her that if the little girl grow up
and married her husband would be ze-
voted TO her.-N. Y. Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

Butcher-Wasn't that a good steak |
sent you yesterday?
Customer--Oh, it was a good durable
;teak.-Life.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

The Evening News is on sale at Ost-
burgs' A Main street, and at John
Boss Hotel, formerly John Kall's
stand. Extra copies of the News and
all NewYork papers can always be Sc
cured.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

Cholly-Quick! This way! Here
comes my tailor!
Algy-I nevah knew you had to dodge
your tailor before.
Cholly-Yaas, but this time l have
money, and might be tempted to pay
hmm. Y. Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
A PRACTICAL Way.

Sunday-School Teacher - Can any
little boy tell me how the Lord will sep
arate the sheep from the goats on the
Judgment day?
JOHNNY know, l know! Throw a
tin can down, and see which will eat it.
Puck.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
TrUstfulness.

Charley is a wonderfully bright
man" said young Mrs. Torkins.
"Indeed?"
Yes. He can pick out the horses
that ought to have won the race every
time. And if it didn't win that isa't
CnarleY's ault."-WashingtOn Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
A PcsNimlstic View.

In all vacations. it appears,
Men plan to cheat and rob;
Evsn an honest builders work
Is, at best. a put-up job.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
In After Years.

We sigh for things hat mother cooked,
And yet. there is no doubt,
They must have been the very ones
That father kicked about.
IN Y Sun
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
All Right Sc Far

What do you think of the doctrine
Of the survival of the fittest?"
ut is all right SO far. lam still alive
--Tit-Bits.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
METUCHEN.

The funeral of Smith Wilson was
held yesterday at 2 o'clock at his late
residence. He has been confined to
his room for four years, knowing not
a single person on account of weak
ness of tho brain and old age. Friends
and relatives were present from Staten
Island. Passaic, New Brunswick and
Perth Amboy. MI. Wilson died at
the age of eighty. Rev. DR.. Dorwood,
of the Stelton Baptist church, of1iciat-
ed. Interment was in the Piscataway
town cemetery.
DR.. Champion, the druggist, is i'm
proving rapidly. He came downstairs
Saturday.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist
church, will hold their regular month
ly meeting which was postponed last
month on account Of sickness. mex
Foulks.
William Orton's daughter Stella,
now has the scarlet fever, also Frank
Orton's trained nurse. making five in
all having the disease. The others
are all improving as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
Mr.. Clark s new house, on Amboy
avenue, is making rapid progress.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

why are you not at SCHOOL,"
q don't need to so. I'm taking the
absent treatment. Chicago American
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
FInnneIs.

1t is possible to wash fiannels with
out shrinking them, but the average
laundress is ignorant of the process.
After they have been Shrunf, 1t is well
to know how to restore them to their
normal size. Try laying the article to
be restored on the ironing board and
on it spread a piece of cheese cloth
which has been wrung out of cold wa
ter. Press with a hot iron until the
cheese cloth is perfectly dry. The gar
ment will show a decided improve
ment.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

important to Know. (
But few womtn show discretion in
the selection of things to be left UNI
said.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
Foulks.

Mr.. Clark's new house, on Amboy
avenue, is making rapid progress.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26

81 have attended that church
for year and hardly any one
has spoken to me-" How much
chance have you given the people
to speak to you? "a man that
hath friends must show himself
friendly" says the wise man.
Much more must a man who
wants friends. And if you have
shown yourself shy, surly and
suspicious, your lack of friends
is your own fault. In about four
cases out of FIVE the people who
fail to become acquainted IN the
churches which they attend, have
either forbidden all advances by
their reserve, or failed to re-
spond to those advances when
made,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
lDLENESS is POISON.

Arthur Brisbane, the talented and
forcible editorial writer of the New
York American, in a recent article
setting forth the vices and follies OF
royalty, gives utterance to the follow
ing striking and truthful sentences
Mans mind is so constituted that it
must have work to do to be normal.
Idleness produces mental and moral
idiocy.
What impels such men as the Grown
Prince of SaXony to do foolish and
brutal and empty things is exactly
what impels some sons of some Amer
lean millionaires to drunkness, dissi-
patton, gambling and imbecile amuse-
ment.
1t is what impels the sons of noble
men in England to hang around the
stage doors of music halls and marry
disreputable actresses.
1t is what impels other people to
monstrous and absurd display to have
vegetable Parties" and eccentric
balls, to fritter away the hours with
employments that have no possible use
but the killing of so much time.
No man feels right in this world
that has not something to do, some
thing that the world wants to have
done and something that has some re-
lation to the worlds progress.
Amy man that stands all day in a
switch box in the railway yard a,
Dresden, throwing levers back and
forth and switching trains, is infinite.
ly more honorable than all the titled
idlers in the world and infinitely more
important.
After awhile the man that doesn'
work will be loathed whether he is q
millionaire or tramp. After awhile
the man that does work will be the
only honored man, whether he saws
wood or fires locomotive.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
Your Column.

To snow our appreciation OF the ray in
which the Fulton County News is bel adopt
ed into the homes of the people of this county
we have set apart this column for the FREE
use of our subscribers, for advertising purposes
ubiect to the following conditions:
|. 1t is free only to those who are paid.up SUBJ
scribers.
q Only personal property can be advertised.
B. Notices must not exceed 30 W rds
I. All 'legal' notices excluded
g. Not free to merchants, or any one to adver.
tise goods sold under mercantile license.
The primary object OF this column is to af-
ford farmers, and folks who are not in public
business an opportunity to bring to public at
tention products or stocks they may have to
sell or may want to buy.
Now, this space is yours; II you want to buy q
norse, II you want hired help II you want to
borrow money, II you want to sell pig, bug
Ry' some hay, goose, or II you want to adver-
tise for wife-thls column Is YOURS
The New is read weekly by eight thousand
people, and Is the best advertising medium in
the county.
For SALE Two good mich
cows. VIII be fresh soon. Price
reasonable,
MICHAEL KNAUFF,
Ayr township.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
ABOY'S WILD RIDE FORLIFE

With family around expecting
HIM to die, and a son riding for
life, lS miles, to get DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, w. H. Brown,
ofLeesville. Ind, endured death 8
agonies from asthma; but this
wonderful medicine gave instant
relief and soon cured hlm. He
writes: 81 now sleep soundly ev.
cry night" Like marvellous cures
of consumption, pneumonia, bron.
chitis, coughs, colds and grip
prove its matchless merit for all
throat and lung troubles. Guar.
anteed bottles SOC and $l.0O.-
Trial bottles free at w. S. Dick.
sons drug store.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
CHURCHES.

PRESBYTERIAN.-R w. A. West,
ID. D., Pastor. Preaching services
each alternate Sabbath at 1880 a. m.
and every Sunday evening at 700.
Services at Green Hill on alternate
Sabbaths at 1880 a. m. Sabbath
school at 9:l5. Junior Christian En-
deavor at 200. Christian Endeavor
at 500. Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening at 700.
METHODIST EPIscoPAI-Rev. A. d.
McCloskey, Pastor. Sunday school
at $3.50 a. IN. Preaching every other
Sunday morning at 1890 and every
Sunday evening at 100 Epworth
League at 500 p. m. Prayer meeting
Thursday evening at 700.
UNITED PREsBYTERIAN-Rev. ]. L.
Grove, Pastor. Sunday school at 9:3O
a. m. Preaching every Sunday morn
ing at IO:30, and every other Sunday
evening at7:OO. The alternate Sabbath
evenings are used by the Young Peo-
pies Christian Union at 700 D. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 700.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN-Rev. A.
q. Wolf, Pastor. Sunday school 9:15
a. m. Preaching every other Sunday
morning at 10:30 and every other Sun.
day evening at 700. Christian En-.
deavor at 600 p. III. Prayer meeting
on Wednesday evening at 700.
REFoRMED-Rev. C. NJ. Smith. Pas
tor. Sunday school at $50 q. m.
Preaching on alternate Sabbaths at
1000 a. m. and 100 p. IN. Christian
Endeavor at 600 p. m. Prayer meet
ing on Wednesday evening at 1900.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
LENGTH OF QUARANTINE.

The State Board of Health in circu.
lar No , gives the time OF quarantine
that should be maintained in cases of
contagious diseases, which are as fol-
lows.
Small POx-Six weeks from com
mencement OF disease If any scabs
have fallen OF.
Chicken Pox - Three weeks from
commencement Of disease II any scabs
have fallen OF.
Scarlet Feyer-S Six weeks from an
nouncement Of disease, II the peeling
OF has ceased and there is no sore
nose.
Diphtheria -- Six weeks from an
nouncement OF disease, II sore throat
and all other signs OF the disease
have disappeared.
Measles - Three weeks from an
nOuncement OF the disease il all rash
has gone and the cough has ceased.
Mumps Three weeks from com
mencement OF disease II all swelling
has ceased.
Whooping Cough-slx weeks from
the commencement OF the disease II
strength has been established.
Typhoid-Six weeks from announce
ment OF the disease II strength has
been re-establisbe0. Quarantine Is no,
necessary In Typhoid fever.
These are the shortest periods o,
time and In some cases may be con
siderably increased.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
STATES SHORT OF TEACHERS.

While in New York and most
Eastern cities there is constant
rivalry among applicants seeking
employment as teachers, North
and South Dakota reports a
dearth of teachers in both says
the New York Sun. The condlt-
ion is described as a "teacher fam
inc" in many rural districts of the
two States, partly due to the in
crease in the number of schools
and classes, and partly to the
large number Of marriages among
the schoolmistresses. The teach
ers were sticking pretty close to
their hard tasks until the settlers
began to move in in large num-
bers. Many were BACHELORS
They did not long remain so. Fol
lowing marriage there was a
dearth of teachers. This card
was tackled to a schoolhouse door
in Hyde county, S. D., in a town
in which it had been impossible
to get a teacher from February
to March /.
TEACHERS WANTED
If single must be old and un.
attractive as two wealthy
bachelors threaten to mar.
ry the next teacher of this
school.
There were at the time of the
last school census 1888 teachers
in North and 4440 teachers in
South Dakota. One thousand
teachers in each are men; the
others, 1000 and 3400 respectively
are women. There is steady in.
flow of population into the two,
especially into the rural districts
and a few years ago, when the
hardships of travel for emigrants
were greater than they are at pre-
sent, the number of children re-
quiring primary instruction was
small.
At present the demand for fe-
male teachers in North and South
Dakota is much greater than it
has been at any previous time,
and the favorable business oppor-
tunities offered for young farmers
explain very readily why the
ranks of the female teachers are,
so to speak, "decimated by mar
riage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
THE GREATEST sLuNDER OF MY
LIFE.

In the Crerar Library, Chicago, is
a book in which five hundred men, out
OF work, have written of 'the greatest
blunder Of their life" It is a collec-
tion made by DR.. Earl Pratt. Here
are some of them
!. Didn't save what earned"
>. did not, as boy, realize the
value of an education"
3. "If had taken better care of my
money, I would be better in health
and morals"
I. Did not realize the Importance of
sticking TO one kind Of employment. 4"
.. "The greatest blunder of my life
was when ! took my first drink"
g. zone OF the greatest blunders Of
mine was not to perfect myself in one
of the lines of business | started out to
learn"
:. "My greatest blunder was when |
left school in the fifth grade"
:. "The turning point in my life was
when, at fifteen / ran away from
home. "
9. spent my money foolishly when
was earning good wages
10, "When let myself be misled in
thinking that need not stick to one
thing"
IL. Self-conceit, and not listening to
my parents"
II. WAS to fool away my time
when at school. The American
Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
IN THE PLUM GREEK DIS
TRICT.

Uncle Dan had come up from the
country to spend winter vacation
with his city nephews and neces. ~
Some of the younger members of the
family, says the Chicago Tribune, had
been relating school episode, which
put Uncle Dan in reminiscent mood.
THAT reminds me-" he said, "of the
teacher we had down in the Plum
Creek district three years ago this
winter" Then he went on to tell the
story.
She was mighty pretty girl, and it
wasn't more'n week before every
young fellow in the county was shy
ing round trying to make up to her.
They took her to all the church soci-
ables, and one or another was always
waiting for a chance to walk home
from meeting with her.
She finally seemed to give up all of
them but Tom Hammond and Bill
Bigelow. Then it looked as if she
didn't know which of 'em to let go.
What made it more interesting was
that Tom and Bill was the worst kind
of enemies. They'd both licked all
the other young fellows around there,
but somehow they'd never got togeth-
er themselves.
Finally they was to be a spelling at
the school house, and some way it got
noised about that Tom said he was
going to give Bill walloping if they
met there that night. ! guess nearly
everybody in the district was on hand
when they commenced choosing sides,
and the little teacher up on the plat
form looking her prettiest.
Bill and Tom got spelled down be-
fore they'd been at it long, and slip
ped out. Everybody knew the fight
would be started right Off, and all ex-
cept the ones that were still spelling
lispped out. When / got there they
were at it good and hard, and pretty
soon they went down with Tom on
top.
Everybody was so excited that no.
body noticed when or how the teacher
got there; but the first thing any one
saw, she'd got through the crowd with
a bucket of ice-water, and poured it
all over both of 'em.
The fight stopped quicker'n wink,
and when they stood up she told 'em
they were rowdies and ruflians, and to
shake hands and beg each others
pardon. Well, they did it, and she
asked everybody to go back in the
school house.
When things got quiet she said. 81
understand this fight was on account
of me. / hate fighting and I despise
fighters. If there is any young man
in this school house that never had a
fight in his life, let him stand up. I'm
going to ask him to take me home.
Every fellow in the house but Tom
and Bill stood up. When they all
set down again she said they was on
ly one thing she hated worse'n a fight
er or rutiian, and that was liar
She rode home with Deacon Swasey
and his folks.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-26
Worlds in years to come.

! WI iluo III years W COlle.
After long struggle, a few
thousand men, fighting for their
liberty, honor and homes, had at
last compelled the mighty British
nation to ask upon what terms a
surrender could be made. The
last stand of this long war was
made at Yorktown, Va. Thecom-
bined American and French for
ces forced victory, then a confer
ence for peace.
Then the old table played it's
part. After lengthy debate
terms were agreed upon; pens,
ink, paper and the old table were
brought forth, and upon it a docu-
ment was signed by the two gen.
erals which gave America her
freedom.
Since then the table has travel
ed about the country quite bit.
From its original owner it passed
to another Virginia gentleman,
and from him to James Ormond,
then residing at Newburg, N. Y.
From the father it passed to the
son, Rev. George X. Ormond, now
residing in Carnegie. The his
toric piece of furniture is wellpre-
served. 1t is not fancy; on the
contrary, quite plain. 1t has a
round top, about fifteen inches in
diameter, supported by strong
cleats beneath. A foot above the
floor three legs spread out to make
it firm. 1t is more substantially
built than the average tables of
a similar design.
Rev. Mr.. Ormond, it's present
owner, states that about twenty.
five years ago his father had a
complete history of the table,
which he was about to publish
but just before the manuscript
was completed the house took fire
one night and every-t thing was
destroyed except this relic, which
was saved with difficulty.