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Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19
COMMENT.

Th at the Gay for investigating tho
question of taxation has not passed is
81 ow 1 by the claims made by the
two priniple candidates for govern or
in their campaign speeches. Mr.. Black
has been presenting 10 the puopie o.
South Jersey figures which he says
show that they would receive larger
returns IN taxes under the Democratic
plan. Senator Stokes Inns just demon
strated to the voters of Raritan town
ship. in Hunterdon county, that while
that township this year received 80 :
35l from the State under the new
school law. under the Democratic
plan to tax the main stem at local
rates the township would get but $500
Both statements cannot be correct,
and the special taxation commission
will fiDd work in determining which is
truo -Tr ento ON Times.
The probing into the affairs of the
| Passaic county f~reeholder board de-
velops many cases of "graft" as we'll
as of downright robbery of the county
treasury by freeholders and contrac-
tors ingailty ~oollusion. In Ole case
a contractor got 81, 100 for work that
cost $500, and another obtained $3.50
for work costing $50. One of the nc.
cused members of the freeholder
board c mrnitled suicide soonlafter..th
investigation started. Ii a similar
disposition is felt by the other mem
bers of the board we may expect to
witness q series of self -slaugeters by
the time the evidence is laid before
the prosecutor of the Pleas in Passaic.
- Newark Advertiser.
The peach commissioners and coun-
Gil will meet in special session to-
night and jointly plan of further
improvement to the beach front. We
trust that both bodies will keep in
mind that harmony is the base of sue
cess and that the question before AS
bury Park is not how much money
snhll u0 spent, out now III can %
most wisely spent. The immediate
necessities Of the board walk and beach
front were plainly defined and demon
started last summer. We need first n
theatre or public amusement resort
where higE-olass entertainments can
be given. We need an extension of
the boardwalk to tie Deal iume with
connection to Loeb Arbour and We
need hot and cold sea water baths all
the year round. These are practical
needs and should receive primarily q
full discussion at the hands of our
governing bodies tonight. -Asbury
Park Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

searched in vain for the remains of
the Jersey, and it seems like a fulfill
ment of a prophecy that upon her
wooden skeleton a steel fighter is
building-a warship of the infant
country they sought to crush.
The surroundings of the old ship
show changes as remarkable as the
difference between the old British ves7
sci and the new man-of-war, for the
Wallabout basin has been filled COM
pletely since the government took the
marsh land for a navy yard, until now
fully 16 feet of solid earth cover the
remains of the Jersey. Away from the
sea she lies and buried like the breach
between the two countries, she is q
grim monument to the fact that the
)ast is forgiven, though not forgotten;
and now, though badly pierced by the
/ spiles for the foundation of the new
battleship Connecticut, her definite To-
cation crowns the movement toward
raising a worthier memorial to the
men who died on board.
The Whitby was the first prison ship
to anchor in 'Whailabocht bay" This
was in October, 1776, but the following
year brought two more. One of these
was destroyed by fire, which burned
most of the prisoners on board, anu
the charge was current that the vic
Tins set the fire in desperate %delibera-
ton, preferring death in that form to
the cruelties they endured. The sec
end ship was also destroyed by fire IN
February, 1878. The Good Hope,
Prince of Wales, Scorpion and the Old
Jersey took their places, thus forming
a chain of floating charnel houses such
as the world had never seen. The
most notorious, of course, was the Old
Jersey-the Hell" as she was called.
She was a 64-gun ship, which had been
in an action with a French feet and SO
badly injured as to be unfit for war
service. She was dismantled Of her
guns, spars and rigging, and even her
fgure-head was removed to decorate
a ship in active service. Thus, with
cut ornament or motive power to re-
mind one of life, this forbidding hulk,
with her filthy exterior, fifty Indicated
her horrible mission when h was
moored in April, 1878, as a prison for
American naval prisoners.
The following graphic description OF
the ship and reception to the unfortu-
mates consigned to her is handed down
to us by Capt. Dring, who delivered
one lot of 1870 prisoners captured By
H. M. S. Belisarius to David Sproat,
commissary of prisoners: I'VE at
length doubled this point and came ia
view of the WaJlabout, where laid be-
fore us the black hulk Of the Old Jsr7
sey, with her shtellites. the three hos
pital ships, to (which sproat Dcintsd Al
an exuiting manner. and said; .Thsrs:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19
TOUR.
NebraslSan Spoke at Bedford, Ind, on
National ana state Issues.

BEDFORD, Ind, Oct. 19.-The spe-
cial train which is carrying William J.
Bryan on his tour of Indiana was
more than two hours late arriving in
this city for the mass meeting which
was the closing event of the pro-
gramme of the sixth day. Mr.. Bryan's
voice shows evidence Of the strain
which he is undergoing. Nevertheless
the large audience, which listened for
an hour and a half to his discussion of
political issues, was attentive. The
speaker delivered his address from a
temporary stand erected in the court
house park. from which platform Sen
ator Beveridge delivered an address
two weeks ago. The park, which COW
ers four acres of ground, was filled
with people from the country and sur
rounding towns.
Mr.. Bryan made an earnest appeal
for the support of the Democratic ma
tional and state tickets.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

they were dead. SO pitifully deceptive
was their appearance. - % HeH
This inhuman treatment was lcalled
to the attention of Gen. Washington,
who addressed a protest and threat OF
retaliation to Lord Howe under date
of January IS, 1777, and while it re-
ceived no attention, it is to the credit
of Washington and his men that they
did net retaliate in kind.
For several years after the revolu-
ton the bones OF those who died on
board the prison ships we're to be seen
on the banks of the Wallabout,
bleaching beneath the winters storms
and summers sun. A number Of ap-
peals to remedy this neglect we're
made to congress, but no formal ac-
ton ensued until the citizens of
Brooklyn in 1892 resolved that they
should be removed 10 the graveyard of
the Reformed Dutch church and a
monument erected over them. This
plan was altered and the Tammany So
ciety of New York made sepulcher of
all the remains that could be collect
ed-lll.ng IL hogsheads, and inter- ed
them in a vault close to the navy
yard wall in Brooklyn, May 26, 1903.
The burial was witnessed by over &c..
900 persons, and was a matter of civil
Importance.
In 1855 an influential meeting Of
citizens resolved that the time had
arrived when the cities of New York
and Brooklyn cannot, without crimi-
nality, longer delay the necessary eff
forts for rearing the monument to the
martyrs of the prison ships" and an
organization vas formed called the
Martyrs Monument Association of the
United States. They set to active WORK,
selected a fitting site on the summit
of Fort Greene and agitated the sub
ject of funds. Enough was secured
by state and private contributions to
buy the property, remove the remains
to Fort Greene on June IL, 1873, and
then wait for more help, which has
come through the concerted action OF
the Monument association, Daughters
of the American Revolution, private
subscriptions and the appropriations
voted by the state and city of New
York and congress. OF this the gov
eminent has given 100000; New
York state, s25, 900; city of New York,
$4,000, and the private successful sub
scription, s25, 900, making in all $780,
600 which will be devoted to the erec-
tion of such a monument that our
children's children will not need to
ask: What mean We by these stones?' :
To the personal efforts of Mrs. S. v.
White, of Brooklyn. and her husband.
the Hon. s. v. White. much credit ID
given for the satisfactory conditions
cf re nTazces.
NICHOLAS J. QU1RK
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

carrying ore. The new line is for an
industry that has located here within
tie last few months for the manu-
facture Of tar roofing paper and other
similar materials. The steamships
will carry roofing pitch from Aus
tralia, more than half way around the
! world. This speaks louder than any.
thing else of the growth and progress
of Perth Amboy. We challenge any
port in the State to surpass it. Tell
your friends and relativ 20 about Perth
Amboy and its shipping facilities.
Talk Perth Amboy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

Lost anything; A cent-a-word put
n the Evening News will find It fof
you.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

A great deal of good for the whole
city will result from the proposed in.
speotion of the water works at Run.
yon and this city. The Water Com,
missioners have done an excellent
work this summer, but credit is also
due the Board of Aldermen for the
rart they took in readily supplying
the money without which the hands
of the water board would have beer
tied. Perth Amboy has reason to BIZ
proud of her water department. Let
the good work go on and may the
harmony which has existed bet weer
these two governing boards continue.
That is the way all city affairs should
be managed. 1t would mean the ad
vaucement or Perth Amboy in a man
ner never before thought of. Out oui
politics and labor with the one object
Of booming Perth Amboy as demon
strated by these two bodies and there
Is no limit to what might he accom-.
plisned.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

cut. While driving spilcs
to support the new ship, the workmen
located the sunken hulk of the old
prison ship, Jersey" of unhappy rev.
dictionary memory.
After the struggle for American in
dependence, this marine charnel house
was abandoned where she lay in Walla-
bout bay (the present Brooklyn navy
Yard, and slowly settling to the bot
tom, beyond the sight of men, contin-
ued to sink deep in the mud until all
trace of her was gone, even in the
memory of the last generation.
The local public had evinced inter-
est from time to time in commemorate
ing the patriotism of more than II ,000
prisoners whose sufferings were only
ended in death, by gathering the bones
of these unfortunates hastily buried
ashore and giving them proper burial
with such honorable ~obsequies as
could be paid the unknown martyrs
who sacrificed life and liberty rather
than accept the terms offered by Bril-
tish captors-service under the Eng
fish flag. Historical societies and the
United States government had
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

down town, was disappointing. Some
of the residences )of prominent Re.
pnblicans who it WAS thought certain
ly would decorate, did no even so
much as have n light in their parlor yet
some of them are supposed to be the
leaders in the party. A stranger, hav-
ing some of the residences pointed oct,
gazed in amazement end wondered at
tile indifferences shown. 1t is evil
dent that tho old time spirit of march
ing uniform clubs, each man with n
torch, and the residents striving to
ont do each other with their deoora-
tions has gone. Totrenyille, with the
Rough Rider Battery, the members in
uniform, dragging a cannon, was a
reminder of the old daJs. Such
organizations are now scarce, how
ever, and it is evident that, as tar as
outward Appearances go, apathy is
bound to show itself.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

Still another line of ocean steamers
is to dock at Perth Amboy. 1t was
but four or five years ago that a
steamship in the harbor attracted
considerable attention and was pointed
to with pride. Within the last two
years they have become quite com
mon. Already there are two lines
running to this port, one from Trini-
dad with crude asphalt for the Barber
Asphalt Company. and this other from
south America ports for the American
18s md Refining Company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19
Mignonne Evaded Her Nurse.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Mignonne, a
tiny toy terrier which belonged to Mrs.
August Belmont, has deserted her
home here, and Mr.. Belmont asks the
police of the Tenderloin station to find
her. He says that Mignonne ran out
of the house while her nurse was not
looking. The lost terrier wore a $500
collar Of gold studded with precious
stones, on which was engraved her
name, Mignonne Belmont" Mr. Bel
mont said the dog had been purchased
by his wife in Paris eight years ago
and was valued at $1,000, although he
would not think Of selling her for any
omnunt nf mOnav
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19

REMARKABLE historie
discovery was made at the
Brooklyn navy yard when
the engineers were prepar-.
ing the foundation for the
great battleship, Connect
cut. While driving spilos
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19
Pioneer Killed Near Fatal crossin,

PITTSFIEL.D, Mass, Oct. 19.-Otis
r. Barker, ninety-three years of age,
the pioneer wooden manufacturer in
this section of the state, was thrown
from his carriage and almost instantly
killed here. His team was frightened
by an electric car at the crossing where
Ia car crashed into President Roose-
velt's carriage two years ago. Mr..
Barker was an uncle Of Judge James
+. Barker Of the supreme court. A
widow survives him.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-19
THE DIFFERENCE.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1904.

The Republican parade, last night,
stirred up plenty of enthusiasm. For
the first time this year men were
heard discussing politics on the street
Formers end an interest was shown in
politics that has been conspiciously
fall.
If was all that was
old-tine torches,
life of n political
date and are
'arket. The
ticult + y
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01
MADE HER HUSBAND GREAT
Mrs. John A. Logan Has Public and
Private Record Of Which She
May Be Proud.

Mrs. John A. Logan knows person.
ally every national character Of impor-
lance from President Roosevelt to the
smallest grand army post commander.
Mary Simmerson Cunningham was
only II years old when, in 1855, she
became the bride of John A. Logan,
then prosecuting attorney of Gallatin
county, Illinois, and q hero of the
Mexican war while yet in his teens.
Her father, by appointment of Presi-
dent Pierce, was registrar of the land
office Of that county, and she had left
her studies at st. Vincent's convent,
Kentucky, to become her fathers
assistant, and there it was that the
black eagle Of Illinois met and wooed
her
While 1t has never been argued that
Gen. Logan was anything but brave
man. yet not many persons know that
his wife deserves the greatest of credit
for the record made by him.
Few women in this country dis
played greater personal bravery dur
ing the civil war than she did, for it
was her ambition that her handsome
husband should become famous. She
set the example at her own home by
her courageous deeds, of which she
would write the general, with the re-
suit that he would go into the next
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01

cago, in London or any other large
city, but be 1t said to the credit of
these hotels, they are no higher priced
during the exposition than they were
before it. The masses of the people
are looking, however, for something
less expensive. and it is easily found.
The people Of st. Louis are playing the
part of host in way that will make
friends of the visitors to the fair.
Thousands of homes have been opened
for the accommodation of guests, and
the prices charged for the accommoda-
tons provided are most moderate. In
fact, to Judge from what one must pay
for board and room, one would scarce
ly imagine that the greatest exposition
the world has ever known is in prog
ress in the city. Boarding house prices
compare favorably with those of other
cities, and 81 per day will secure a
comfortable room and breakfast II
hundreds of these hospitable homes
No one needs deprive himself OF the
great education that awaits him at
st. Louis for fear of exorbitant prices.
for they are not to be found.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01

st. Louis.-I was standing on the
Plaza st. Louis, admiring the scene
that stretched away into the distance
before me. ending with the magnificent
spectacle of the Cascades. I needed no
company, for the great exposition all
around me was sufficient, but as stood
there an acquaintance, the president of
western college, stopped beside me.
Magnificent beyond the dream Of
man." said l.
More than that" said he. do you
know" he continued, Ito me the great
est thing of this truly great EXPOSE
ton is the educational influence it will
have upon the millions who visit it.
Here in two weeks time one can gain
more practical knowledge of the kind
that will be useful to him in the strug-
gle with the world than he can get in
two years time in any university The
college education is entirely different
from the kind of education one gets
by seeing things, but for practical pur-
poses the seeing education is quite as
necessary as the book learning We
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01

battle with renewed spirit and dar-
ing.
The first money Gen. Logan sent
home out Of his pay his wife spent
toward the purchase Of a home, and
when he returned from the war she
handed him the deed for a house and
ten acres of land, bought from the saw
iRgs of the remittances which he had
made.
The famous saying, during and after
the war: Here's your mules" was
original with Mrs. Logan. Her broth
er-in-law had fine pair of mules, and
one day he went to Mrs. Logan and
said he would bet them against $500
that her husband would come over to
the democratic side. Mrs. Logan took
the bet without her husbands knowl-
edge and won, and with the general
drove all over Illinois, stumping the
state. Everywhere they were greet
ed with the cry: Here's your mules"
the disguised expression Of the loser
when he paid the bet.
The Boston Globe says that Mrs.
Logan is charming woman to meet
Added to the cultivation of life spent
among famous people Is the talent Of
native genius, and the two have so
blended that she ranks easily among
the foremost of her sex in the nation.
The deep love she evinced for her hus-
band is manifest in every tone and
look whenever his name is mentioned.
She is Methodist and devout
but in her religious SYM
pathies she is most broad-minded, and
under her presidency the Garfield hos
pital grew from the most minute Of
to a field of the most wide
and useful beneicence.
With her patrician face and snow
white hair. Mrs. Logan is probably the
most picturesque Of the military wild
Dws.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01
Delicious Compete Of Fruit.

Wet two rounding tablespoonfuls of
cornstarch with two tablespoonfuls of
cold water; then stir into one cupful of
boiling milk in which is two tablespoon
fuls of sugar and pinch of salt; while
hot pour this mixture onto the stif1y
beaten whites of three large eggs; add
ing little grated rind of an orange and
a few drops of orange extract. Line
mold with strips of oiled paper; then
with lady-ingers, and pour the mixture
in; set on ice to chill. Slice half pared
and eyed pineapple, pit one cup of sour
cherries; slice one banana; hull one-half
box of strawberries. Prepare one cup
full very thick strip, and while warm
pour over the fruit; let stand on ice I'M
til pudding is ready to serve; then de-
post it around the base; garnish with
cluster of cherries.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01
SURE CURE FOR THE BLUES
Best Remedy Against Them Said to
Be the Wearing Of the Best
Things You Have.

IF you want to know the best RENE
dy for the blues" said a thoughtful
girl to a companion, "I'll tell you. 1t
isn't to take a walk, nor to read aloud
to an invalid. nor to take course OF
Mark Twain, nor to buy a pound of
chocolates and eat them all yourself
it is something even simpler than these
remedies. l learned about it from d
person who said that while she had
often been threatened with the blues
she had really never had an attack of
them because she always used the cure
before melancholy had got q hold on
her.
well, not to keep you in suspense
any longer, the way to cure the blues
if you have them or to stave them OF
If you feel them coming on is to put on
all your best clothes and wear them
until the spasm passes of. The girl
who told me about this said that no
sooner did she perceive that she was
beginning to think what an unsatis-
factory world this was and no sooner
did she feel that all was vanity than
up to her room she rushed in hurry.
"Once there she would arrange her
hair as deliberately as possible and put
on her best petticoats-if silk, so much
the better-the best gown, collar, hat
and veil that she possessed. A pair of
fresh white gloves, she said, she found
a great efficacy In raising the spirits
Then she would go out to walk and as
she walked the beneficent effect of her
good clothes would make itself felt
and though she was in the depths when
she started by the time she turned
back she was feeling that all was not
as black as it was painted, and when
she arrived at her own door she was
confident that Gods in His Heaven,
ais right with the world gcshats
be.
Il have known a new gown to make
the most disconsolate Mrs. Gummidge
cheer up and take an interest in life;
have known a new hat to get an al
most hopeless invalid out of bed and on
her feet when her family had long
since given up all hope of her recovery !
The effect OF good clothes on self-re-
;pect cannot be overestimated Neither |
IAN it on the spirits.
Perhaps some psychologist will |
rise some day to tell us why these |
Kings are true. ! can't explain them,
,ut true they are for sure, and any
woman can bear testimony to the effect |
II good clothes is more than an out
ward and visible one-ft is far more.
t is an inward spiritually bolsterine
tp one. Chicago Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01

example, Japan. We are interested in
the progress Of the island empire, we
wonder at her greatness, we read vol
ume after volume to learn of her
progress. Here it Is all spread out be-
fore our eyes We see the same Japan
Commodore Perry saw when he broke
the bars Of darkness that shut the en-
pire from the world. and we see beside
It the Japan that is to-day waging war
witch one of the greatest nations OF the
world, the same Japan that is an i'm
portant element in the worlds COM
merce. It is an education in the prog
ress of Japan that no books can pos
sibly give us.
And SO it goes through all the great
exposition palaces. through the foreign
government buildings, through the
state buildings. and down the Pike.
Everywhere is a new and valuable les
SON easily learned and never forgotten,
TOR we learn it by seeing"
TO refer again to the United States
government building and its exhibits
as an educational feature. want to-
quote . part Of paragraph from the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01
Counting a Hens Feathers.

A very unique feather guessing con-
test was recently conducted by prom
inent company manufacturing feed for
poultry. Five hundred dollars in
prizes was offered for best estimates or
guesses as to the number of feathers on
hen. The first prize was $780, Thou
sands of guesses were received. includ
ing some very amusing ones. One party
who was probably looking for some
"catch" scheme, estimated none at ALL"
Many estimates in the hundreds of
were received, several in the
millions, the highest estimate being
600 ,06O,017. The correct number was
found TO be S,12O. The company says:
1--WE feel pardonable pride in HAVING
contributed to poultry science an item
OF information actually new."-st.
Nicholas.