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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25

Ounding, paling, winding, or bending
and semblable waste of cloth in vanity,
but there is also the costly Turing in
their gowns, so much pouncening of
chisel to make holes, so much dagging
of shears with the superfluity in length
of the aforesaid gowns trailing in the
mire, etc" This would not come so
much amiss by the way in describing
a very smart 1903 frock.
So it appears that these happy folk
of long ago went gayly on in their
vain ways of spending very much
more on gorgeous raiment than they
could we'll afford or than the law al
lowed and bravely defied fines and
forfeiture in order to present a gallant
appearance.
But this is a unitarian age, and if
some strenuous soul were to introduce
sumptuary laws to-day they might
prove unexpectedly popular as offering
a very decent means of escape from
the ruinous elegance of modern dress.
For instance, it would be satisfying to
say with conscious virtue Harry
wanted dreadfully to give me an en-
mine stole and muff this year, but l
felt that We must obey the law, which
forbids it to any but billionaires, you
know"
! Or:
Mime. Branagan wished fairly to
cover my new frock with open-stitch-
ing, but l wouldn't put myself in a
position to be cursed by the dear
bishop for all the frocks in Christen.
DOM
Or, with a sigh:
Irish point would have been love
ly thing to trim this dress with, but
we aim to be law-abiding citizens and
lace is forbidden to those with less
than $4,000 year"
1t would be much pleasanter to say
such things than to acknowledge open.
ly or tacitly that you couldn't afford
| the article or to strain every nerve
to get them and pay the consequence
There are plenty OF level-headed WON
en- to-day who could extract a degree
of restfulness out of the conscientious
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25
Colonization Not a Success.

France spends annually for her col
onies a little more than $25,00O,OO0,
while the aggregate of its business
with them, export and import, is but
$62,OO0,000 and but 1000 year emf
crate to French colonies. But France
has not been the least successful
country in building colonial en-
pire, for Germany's geographically
large possessions cost more than the
aggregate of the exports and imports
from them.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25

Those Legislators who have recently
xSsproposed laws about kissing and cell.
AS6acy and taxing real or bogus lords
smight try their luck at few sump-
tuary laws. They would be quite as
well-timed as the others and more
useful, and perhaps just as little
Needed. especially If they should aim
to restrain the expense of citizens In
apparel for it is sadly recorded that
never were such laws made but to be
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25
n ReIiJaI 81 .Sump1tlarY
Late,s Might BE Of Serjice.

the satire of the poets quantity prove
that sumptuary laws were universally
disregarded.
The complaint of Chaucer's Parson
concerning the sinful, costly array of
clothing is to the effect, with the
spelling modernized, that ''the sin in
superiority of clothing which maketh
it so dear to the harm of the people is
not only to the cost of embrouding,
the Disgusting, indenting or barring,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25
a HERO OF THE sHlPYARDs.

Triumph Of Clear Grit, Cool Judgment
and Quick Action.
On Friday last a big boiler, weigh
ing sixty-four tons, was about to be
lowered into the hold of a steamship
at the New York Shipyards. The
hundred-ton crane, SO called because
it will lift weight of 100 tons as
easily as a college girl lifts a wooden
dumbbell. was swinging its great
arms toward the monster boiler,
eighteen feet in circumference.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25

1t has been demonstrated that al.
talfa can be successfully grown in
nearly all the northern states.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25

Perohed on the top of it was work.
mana poor Norwegian who scarce.
ly speaks English. His back was to-
ward the crane, and he never saw it,
nor did any one else until 1t was with
in two feet of him. If the arm of
the giant crane struck him it would
crush him as it would an egg she'll
Twenty feet below was the ground
strewn with jagged pieces of iron, to
fall on which was instant death. The
workmen below saw his danger and
shouted to him. The man turned
half way round and felt the crane
coming. 1t was death either way,
and, paralyzed with fear, he collapsed.
At this critical moment when every
one else had lost his head, one man
was there who knew what to do, and
did it. Twenty feet away when the
impending doom over the man was
first seen, in less than two seconds he
cleared the space and stood among
the jagged iron.
Jump for your life! It's your only
chance!" he cried, and he braced
himself to catch the falling man,
while the crowd held it's breath. The
two men came together with an i'm.
pact so great that both were picked
up senseless. It was a case Of clear
grit, cool judgment and prompt
action.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-03-25
Danger in Nightmares.

II believe that dreams sometimes
kill said prominent specialist on
nervous diseases the other day. "Of
course 1 don't know that they are IA
tal but l have every reason to think
so. I had a woman patient whom
was treating for a number of compile
cations, including weak heart. She
could not bear any excitement and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
Scotch School Children,

The fact that Edinburgh board school
children are below the average height
and weight Of scholars in England may
be explained in some measure by the
bad system Of meal times laid down in
Edinburgh and Scotland generally. A
dinner interval is not allowed in Scot
fish board OF other schools, half an hour
or 20 minutes being granted at noon
for luncheon, which generally consists
of a piece" |. e., bread and butter. AS
the 5caC1i Glasses are not dismissed
till three p. m. the children have prac-
tically no nourishing food between $3.50
q. m. and $3.50 p. m. The Edinburgh
Merchant company, which provides ex1
cellent secondary education to some
5000 children of the middle classes. has
resolved to adopt the English system of
meal hours. So welded to custom, how
ever, are parents in the Scottish capi-
tai that the Edinburgh papers are full
of letters, from heads of families o
testing against the change.-London
Chronicle.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09

NEWS ITEMS.

Metuchen's main street has now the
distinction of being curbed. The
work was finished last week and is a
good job. A grade was established
and q curb and gutter laid. In some
places great changes were made. At
one place much filling in was neces-
sary as the bottom of the curb stone
was above the sidewalk. Metuchen is.
improving her already excellent
streets. The borough shows its indie
pendence by matchmaking it's own
main street, the bids received being
regarded as too high.
Sickles Bros, of Perth Amboy, are
going to give away tomorrow free a
full book of stamps. See what they
say on page 3. adv.
The fourth year of the grammar
grades will, beginning Monday, assem-
BILE in Washington Hall. The High
School is so largely attended that it
has become necessary to take one more
class from the auditorium and put it
in a separate class oom There is a
great demand for a new High School.
The old one is very large but is not
large enough to accommodate the 500
scholars attending.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
A TRUE ~FINANCIER.
The Man Who Got One Hundred and
FOrty-Five Dollars for IA
Ninety-DOIlar Mule.

The road to financial success, says
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch, is to ask
a little more for everything you have
to sell than you think it is worth. |
remember a few years ago that James
Stewart, of Millersburg, came to town
with a mule to sell, and tried all day
to sell it for 500, without finding any
me-.
He was about ready to go home,
when along about shutdown a fellow
walked up to where it was tied, and
looked around it. threw his thumb I'M
der it's lip and took a peep at its
molars, and finally asked him what he
would take for it. Thinking he was
like the other chances he had encoun.
tered during the day, and that there
was no hope of a sale, he asked the
man $3.50.
The stranger walked around the
mule again and offered $145. But
dim said he was determined to get his
price; the other man was stubborn, and
said he wanted to go home, and If
that wouldn't buy it go he must
Finally Jim concluded that he want
ed to go home, too, and with the all
of seeming reluctance that was played
to perfection, he agreed to let the ami
nal go at $145.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
Grammar and Groceries.

The purist who figures in the following
story was the proprietor of a grocery in
st. Louis, but the Chicago Record-Her-
aid, which prints the story, suggests that
he probably came from the east.
One day he was called to the telephone
in great haste. Does some one wish to
speak to Mr.. Perkins," he asked.
YES" said the girlish voice at the
other end of the wire. Mamma wishes
me to tell you that she wants the eggs
she ordered this morning very bad"
81 am sorry" replied the grocer, that
w have not, to my knowledge, a bad egg
in the house. Couldn't your mother pos
sibly use good Ones?"
Dear mel" he murmured, hanging
up the receiver. Il wonder why she rang
in my a that way"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP.
Woo DB
NEWS lTE ms.

Miss Florence Vandeveer, formerly
of this town, was married to DR..
Vail, of Railway, on Wednesday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. W. Boynton are
expected home from Colorado next
! week.
Mrs. F. I. Perry spent Tuesday in
New York.
Miss Ida P. Lockwood has returned
to her home after a two weeks visit
in Lltchfeld, Conn.
The Woodbridge boys are practising
for a baseball game.
Miss Laura Gutter will entertain
the Afternoon Whist Club on Friday.
Miss Jennie Shrouds is taking up
shorthand aud typewriting in the
High school here.
Sickles Bros, of Perth Amboy, are
going to give away tomorrow free a
full book of stamps. See what they
say Oh page 8. adv.
Great preparations are being made
for the "Trip Around the World" on
Friday evening. Don't miss it for
anything. Tickets only 25o.
The Orpheus Society has taken up
the Creation for their first piece.
Mr.. Frank Valentines house on
Green street, is almost completed.
Mr.. Waldo E. Berry has signed the
lease for the house in Sewaren, prev
iously owned bv MI. Metcalf, and on
November l will move into it. Mr..
and Mrs. Metcalf and family will
move to New York.
Mrs. Wilson Warlng and Miss Anna
Warning have returned from a trip to
Mt. Pocono.
Mr.. James MaGowan and Miss Katie
MaGowan attended the State fair at
Trenton on Thursday.
There will be a grand musical by
DR.. @. F. A. Klein and his pupils at
the W. A. A. club house on Monday,
October 10 at 7.30 p. m. Admission
will be 25c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weiss, of Newark,
were in town on Tuesday night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
MR.. BOSS A DELEGATE,

At the meeting of the Eureka En-
CINE Company members, held in their
hose house, Eurkea Place, Wednesday
night, John Boss, first assistant chief
of the T~ottenville Fire Department,
was elected a delegate to the South
ern New York Volunteer Firemen's
Convention, which will be held next
Tuesday and Wednesday at Green
point, L. L. Many firemen from
T~ottenville and Pleasant Plains will
attend the convention.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
NEWS ITEMS.

Police Captain N%aughton, of West
Brighton, was a Tottenville visitor
yesterday afternoon.
A reception and dance was held at
Nelson's Hall, Kreischerville, last
night.
The gang of laborers which the
Rapid Transit Railroad had at work
on the Main street crossing, have com
pleted their job, and q decided i'm
provement is noticed at that place.
Captain George Androvette, former
ly of Tompkinsville, but now a resi-
dent of Philadelphia, is spending a
few days with Captain Reuben andre
vette. Of Broadway.
James Christopher, of Washington
D. O., is visiting his parents, MI and
Mrs. Christopher, of Broadway.
Milton Mesereau, of To~ttenville,
was in Newark yesterday.
Mrs. H. A. Kreps, OF Brooklyn, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. George
Moore, of Lafayette Place, Totten.
vile.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
In Snow-CIad Siberia,

Heretofore the transportation facil-
tiles have been so inadequate that the
journey to Arctic Siberia has been sell
dom attempted. The completion, how
ever, of the great Trans-Siberian road
has brought the country within COM
paratively easy access to the traveller,
who, by leaving the great railway at
Gkutsk, can take a side trip by horse
sledge, northwards TO Yakutsk. Here
one bids adieu to civilization and, with
reindeer team, makes an abrupt plunge
into a wild, frozen and trackless coun-
try where, in isolated and scattered set
Elements hundreds of miles apart, are
found the various nOmadic and hunting
tribes of the Arctic. The territory over
which these tribes roam is enormous,
being one and a half times as large as
all Europe, and that they are children
of nature and utterly unsuited to the
ways of the modern world, is proven by
the fact that they still kindle their fires
by the use of wooden implements, such
as were used by the cave jewellers of
prehistoric days.-From unknown ST.
beria," by Walter L. Beasley, in Four
Track News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
SHDNaANG is
UNEXPLAINED.
Johnson had Bullet in his StOm.
aCh but will not Tell Who
Fired the Shot.

Yesterday afternoon Jack johnson
went home and not finding any dinner
asked his son Fred why he had not
gotten il ready as he had told him to
do. The boy replied that he hadn' t
been told to get dinner. The lie was
passed, 1t is said, and johnson is de-
clared to have picked up a kettle of
boiling water and started towards the
boy. The latter ran out OF the house,
pursued by his father.
Some say that the boy pulled a re-
yolver out of his pocket and told his
father that if he threw the kettle at
i'm he would shoot him. Others say
shat the boy a down the street with
Int saying a word to shis father. In
me manner johnson was shot in the
omach and walked down to DR..
aine's office where the doctor probed
II the bullet and found it about eight
nine inches from where it had en-
Tered, it having entered the feshy
part of the stomach n followed to
the opposite side, just beneath the
Skin. johnson refused to tell how he
vas shot. There are several stories
kgarding it. No n has been
rested.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
Speaker Gully,

Mr.. Gully, the speaker of the house Of
commons, has one great hobby, and that
is to know more thoroughly than anyone
else the geography of his own country,
and his knowledge in this direction is
really wonderful. He was n day, some
few years ago, and before he came to his
present high position, travelling from
Carlisle to London, and on the way he
was able to tell a companion the name
of every stream they crossed, even down
to the smallest brooks.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
ELECTION REGISTRATION.

The registration for city election
begins in Staten Island today. The
books will be opened from Z O'Clock
this morning until 10 O'Clock tonight.
All who can are expected Ito register
today. There are but four registra-
tion days, today, Saturday, October
10, Friday, October 10 and Saturday,
October 20. The city election Will
take place Tuesday, November 3.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
HAVE METALS LIVES?
Scientists Claim Leads to
Amusing COnjectUres-Crimb nal
Code Will Need Revising.

l read that some great Italian scieH
fist has discovered that there Is life
in metals. The statement has a
strange, uncanny sound, and 1t will
take some repetition before we are
reconciled to it; but, at the same
time, scientific men have been work
ing up to the discovery for years past
says a writer in London Skoach.
Matter may be regarded as a form
of thought, thought may be regarded
as a property OF matter" wrote u
ley 80 or 10 years ago, and from this
statement to the discovery that met
ais exhibit certain phenomena of life
is no far cry.
The Italian savant declares that it
is possible to destroy this life in met
als-to poison a metal just as you
can poison a man.
This aspect of the discovery vexes
me, for | see in the near future a So
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
metals, with substantial Offices, a
monthly or weekly record OF onvlc-
lions, and rich endowments from sen
sitive, old ladies who have devoted the
latter half of their lives to keeping
cats and lapdogs in luxury.
There will be an sct of parliament
specifying the oflense5'to metals that
are punishable b.. fire and imprison-
ment. Working metals n an unfit
state, packing them improperly, beat
ing them into shapes they do not
wish to assume-these and similar
crimes must soon come within the
range of the law.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
Trouble Either Way.

my money" she said, makes me
doubt. l would always be afraid you
had married me for that"
tits easy to remove such doubts" he
replied.
How" she asked.
why, if you should give your
money to me first" he explained,
there could be no possibility that
married you for it, and yet it would
not be lost to U.s."
For a moment she seemed convinced.
AThen a shade of doubt again clouded her
.5peautiful face.
In that case" she said, 81 would al
lays be afraid I had married you for
lur money."-Chicago Post.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
CAR OFF THE TRACK.

The heavy air 'sswashed the sand
down on the trolley tracks, corner OF
Broadway and Bordentown avenue,
last night, and trolley a No. 6,
which came in at 6 80 o'clock, jump
ed the track while trying to go around
the curve. The tracks were complete
ly covered with sand. They succeed
ed IN getting the car on the track
finally and did not attempt to go to
the end of the route again. Later on
the cars managed to 90 round the
eurXau such times the late Steven
missed, for be- was always
D9dS. no matter how hard it rained,
clearing the cutters at the crossing
and very often the trolley tracks also,
on the curve. Just to accommodate
the people and because it was near
where he resided.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
siberia's NavigabIe Rivers.

One result of the opening of the ST.
berian railway has been the discovery
of many previously unknown, or I'M
utilized, resources of the broad land
that it traverses. Investigation of the
Yenisei and Obi rivers, for instance, has
revealed the fat that they are naviga-
BILE to ocean steamers for a distance of
nearly 1000 miles. Oil has been discov-
cred in central Siberia as we'll as in the
province of Irkutsk, and encourage
ment by a special grant is extended to
prospectors for gold.-Youth's Compan-
ion.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
SOUTH AMBOY
NEWS ITEMS.

superintendent shepherds yach'
was brought here on Tuesday to be
put in winter quarters at the P. r. R.
s~hlpyard, but owing to the heavy sea
on, they we're not able to haul hel
out.
1t is said that the South Amboy
football team have received a chal'
lenge from a New Brunswick team
for q week from Saturday, to be play.
ed at South River.
Charles Tues, of Perth Amboy,
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Christian, of Main street.
Mrs. Selb is very ill again after be.
ing thought on the road to recovery
by her family.
Mrs. Cannon, of Perth Amboy,
formerly of this borough, is reported
as very Ill.
Miss Grace Brown, of John street,
has a position as saleslady in Sickles
Brothers dry goods store, in Perth
Amboy.
The Raritan River Railroad COM
pany is building a platform for Parl-
ms Powder works, for the loading
aud unloading of freight.
Mr.. Oscar Mundy was a Perth Am
boy visitor Wednesday.
The bricks have come for Rehfuss'
new building, and Mr.. Mundy has
eight men at work on it.
Miss Irene Bogart was a Perth Am
boy visitor Monday.
MI. and Mrs. James Pryce, of
Plainfield, have been visiting Mrs.
Pryce's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Slower. .
William Walters has been repairing
his duck boat that someone had been
so kind as to smash the stern entirely
out of, while lying on the beach.
Rldgeway Such bagged quite a
number of English snipe on the mea-
dows last week.
Chris Straub Jr., has had his meat
wagons newly painted.
1t is said B. Hunt has a position in
New York.
George Walters, florist, has carna-
tions in bloom in his green houses.
The Ladies Aid Society, of the Bap-
fist church, will hold a clam chowder
suppersaTuesday night in the Sunday
school room at 5 p. m. 1t a be pur-
chased by the quart at 20 cents.
Lots of apples are being brought
into town, beauties, probably for ship
ment.
Tomatoes are said to be very scarce
and high priced, sixty cents a crate,
and yet one of the gentlemen farmers
has had a quantity of his plants with
fine green and ripe tomatoes on,
ploughed under. 1t is said that he
might better have given them to those
who couldn't afford to pay the pre-
vailing price, or at least have sold
them at a lower figure, to them.
Libby King and her baby brother,
the oldest and youngest children OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston King, OF John
street, are i'll with diptheria. They
have a professional nurse in attend
ance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
YELLOW RIBBON CLUB.

The Yellow Ribbon Driving Club,
of Pleasant Plains, is talking over the
plans for a run on the Hudson County
Boulevard two weeks hence. Last
week the club drove to Plainfield %
strong, by way of Tottenville to Perth
Amboy and then out. On every whip
in the carriages and on every bride
on the horse were yellow ribbons.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.

The engagement of Miss Lillian
Peterson to Robert Graham, both of
Tottenville, is announced. The we'd
ding Will take place Wednesday,
October 81. Both young people are
we'll known and very popular.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
COON HUNTING.

Jonn Everett SAYS he caught a coon
in his cornfield Monday. So now the
local coon hunters have caught the
COOL fever and are preparing for a
coon hunt and soon the woods will
ring with the old song of Coon,
Coon, Coon" again.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
MAY ENTERTAIN THE MEN.

The ladies who were invited to
attend the reception given by the
Aquahonga Bowling Club in the club
house Wednesday night, were so we'll
pleased with the way that they were
entertained by the club that they may
hold a reception to which the club
members will be invited. :
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
Matter of Size.

Annette-Dorothy is certainly a
lucky girl. She must have been born
with a gold spoon in her mouth.
Genevieve-Yes; and from all indi-
cations l should judge it was a table
snoon.LCincinnati ENQUIRER.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
j%ROUNDSMAN PROMOTED.

Roundsman Charles Sherwood, who
is known as the most popular police
man from Tottenville to New Dorp,
has been promoted to the grade of
sergeant, and assigned to duty in the
18th presinct, New York.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
American

'Foreigner-Your young girls are the
pictures of health; but why. dothe mar
ried women look so delicate?
American-Oh, they always work
themselves sick getting ready for the
wedding.-N. Y. Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
x All The News From Surrounding TOWNS. y
TOTEM WILLIE.

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., 1903-10-09
Pigskin Instead of Rubber.

A Scotch firm is authority for the state
ment that rubber tires for vehicles of all
kinds will soon be displaced by pigskin.
The firm has a process for tanning the
skins which renders them SO hard that
when used as tires they will wear longer
than rubber and give equal satisfaction
in other respects.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
MORE ROOM NEEDED.

The Public School, at Tottenville,
is so crowded now that the Board of
Education have found it necessary to
get more room. They have leased a
room from the trustees Of St. Peters
church, Kreischerville.