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forced retirement at seventy. and vol
untary retirement after twenty years
service. at IL per cent OF the average
salary for each years service. not to
exceed $40 per annum. are the terms
OF bill No. 6s02.
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A seventh bill. No. 1916. provides that
civil war veterans. or clerks of thirty
years service in civil or military capac-
lily. both services included, or those dis
abled after five years service, shall be
retired with a pay OF $50 per month. To
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sary data. In July last he issued an
ments, calling upon them to furnish to
the Secretary of the Interior the date
OF appointment of each officer and en-
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bill. when It shall have been framed In
accordance with the data collected.
Since that time the President him
self has taken a step which greatly
facilitates the compilation of the neees-
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TTMEC
FACTS AND FIGURES

Total number in
United States. -. 140,000i
In Washington alone 10000
I Youngest age of en-
tering service. 80. 10years
Youngest person in
7 District service. 15years
!Cldest person in
District service 90 years
Longest period of
service in District. 66 years
Lowest salary drawn
in District. -. $156.5O;
II ighest salary
drawn in District. $6,000.0C
Number of different
I salaries paid in
District ....... 4SSi
Total amount Of
! District salaries. ..$1S,035 $50. &C.
I Membership Of Civil
! Service Retire
] ment Association. 1900
| (The above figures refer TO the
classified service
o
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hardship than that inflicted woman
thirty forty years faithful turned adrft True
advancing years efficiency be de-
accordingly there finally
the Government
fault of their been unable to
earnings their declining
years. gievous suffering result.
JOHN HAY.
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This given Of careful
opinion which
have hesitation expression unalterably opposed to
proposition looking retirement of civil employees
Government pension
WILLIAM MOODY.
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HIEF CLERK CHARLES NJ

talked with frankness and con
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Cabinet Officers and
Chiefs of Bureaus Ex-
press Views Favor
ing the Idea.
All IN Doubt, However,
Concerning a Proper
Plan TO Be Pur-
sued.

"Should Civil Service employees, on
reaching a certain age, be retired en-
pension7"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The delegates from New Jersey to the
National Republican convention at Chi
cage will be well housed, thanks to tho
foresight of Governor Murphy, who, as
early rs last fall, engaged excellent
quarters for them in the Auditorium
Annex. Chicago will be packed with
visitors on convention day and hotel
room will be at II premium Newark
Advertiser.
In one particular Trenton is ahead of
Camden, and that is the installation of
an underground police and fire alarm
telegraph and telephone system. ThrouE-
out the main part of the city all city
wires have been put underground, i'm
proving the service and guarding against
damage from storms, accident, etc. Cam
dea is in need of Il similar service. Cam
den Post-Telegram.
The probing of Hunterdon County
affairs cost a total of over 81, 100. and not
u freeholder was indicted. But the people
of that county have no kick coming
against Supreme Court Justice Swayze,
who ordered the investigation. They
know just where the boot ought to be
applied, and they may yet find the de
sired opportunity to reach the right spot,
which has already been made tender by
the ousting of the old Board of Free
holders. Newark Evening News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

NEW YORK, May 24.-Wealthy real
estate men with weak hearts are now
safe from the further operations of
"Dr. G.. Il. COLDER" the shrewd swim
dler who posed as a heart specialist
and picked up Il small fortune during
the last month by making men believe
they We're i'll and then robbing them
after he had them under treatment. lie
thus robbed Mr.. +. Setz of Brooklyn
and Mr.. w. O. Rogers of New York.
BY ingenious work on the part Of
Brooklyn detectives COLDER was caught
in his home, Alb East Sixty-ninth
street, and made n clean breast of his
misdeeds. His right name as he gave
it is Macmillan Muller, and he says
he first got the idea of making money
by working on the sensibillties Of
wealthy men while he was employed
as a nurse at Blackwelrs island.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24
TUESDAY, MAY "a, 1904.

m%otionless and a flagman is on duty.
This might be tolerated at n country
road crossing, where even there it il
very dangerous, but at n city's main
thoroughfare it is different. The rail-
road company seems to take its own
time in getting these gates in work
ing order. Perhaps q little reminder
from the city fathers might do some
good. 1t would, at least, let them
know that Perth Amboy is awake to
best protection of her citizens and is
not a place to be trIded with. After
some lives have been lost ut this
crossing everybody will be explaining
that the blame lies with someone else
and will probably result in the limo
ZEN hagman losing his job. Mean
timo the fact remains, the gates arc
still not in working order.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24
. FREIGHT HANDLERS STRIKE.
SHEPPARD THrns Down Union Presi-
dent-Cornpany VIII Not Yield.

Sheppard Ttrns Down Union Presi-
dent-Company VIII Not Yield.
NEW YORK, May 24.-Highly indig-
nant at the refusal of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford company Of
Gcials to make the slightest concession
o. any of their demands, representa-
tives of the Freight Handlers union.
the Freight Clerks union and the Fire
men and Oilers union held Il secret
conference with Lawrence J.. Curran,
president of the International Associa-
ton of Interior Freight Handlers and
Warehouscmen, who had come to this
city from Chicago in an effort to settle
the dock strike.
CuITan has delivered an ultimatum
to the management of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company.
While he made no overt threat in
writing, he intimated that If the com
pany ignores him the union he repre-
sents will take suitable action. He
did not deny that the plan would prob
ably be 20 extend the existing strike
to the entire system of the New Haven
line and to attempt to paralyze the
freight traffic.
Thc executive committee of the
Teamsters' association, representing
$4,000 men in Manhattan alone, has
sent Il committee to present an ulti-
matum to the officials of the New Ha-
ven system. The committee is EN-
powered to say to the railroad officials
that unless the freight handlers strike
Is settled all the teamsters in Manhat-
tan will be called out.
Dispatches from Fall River said that
By orders from New York seventy-five
men employed at the New York, New
Haven and Hartford freight house
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

More thievlng, robberies, fights and
brawis, with but a handful of police
men to give the city proper protec-
tion. Only one plain clothes man to
do all the detective Work. He hardly
gets started investigating one case be-
fore there are q half-dozen more.
With q population such rs Perth Am.
boy has the policemen are too far
apart for the proper protection of the
people and also to give each other
assistance if need be. In Plninfield
they are now contemplating increas-
ing the police force to eighteen patrol
mon. IL Plainield has use for eighteen
men Perth Amboy has use for twenty
five. How long must the city wait
for the increase while the city officials
sqnabble we the appointments?
The gates at the Smith street cross.
ing of the Central railroad are still
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

The gates at the Smith street cross
ing of the Central railroad are still
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

Entered at Post-Ofice as second class matter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

Iinp'd o. R. M. Pc Ambo Tribe No. 81
Council Sleep every Thursday. Vim.
SaDdbeck. Sachen, Hans S. Smith. c. OF X
Philip Schwartz c. Of w. "a Maple st. j..
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

In Hoboke on there IS talk Of abolish
ing c~o-education and it may DO de-
cided to have separate schools fol
boys and girls. In South Amboy, il
seems. they go to the other extreme
and do not even have n fence between
the girls and boys school yard. There
should be a happy medium between
these two which would result in a
benefit to both sexes. There is n Ger
tain advantage in having boys and
girls associated in their studies, but
there is nc donbt but that there
should be some privacy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

a FROCK OF NAVY BLUE LAWN.
This model is for IA navy blue lawn
f eek very simply made. The illustra-
ton shows the nature Of the tucking, the
fine tucks forming a shallow yoke and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-24

Judging from tho preparations be-
ing made to celebrate Decoration
Day throughout the State, it will be
observed somewhat in the old
fashioned manner when tho whole
town turned out with parade and
speech, making to do honor to tho de-
parted soldiers. Everywhere we read
of to WI meetings and citizon's COM
mittees being organized to arrange for
the celebration of the day.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Strenuous DyspepsIa cure.

why, that's nothing" said the
waiter in q Fulton street restaurant
who nearly dropped cup of coffee
when he saw man at the next table
put spoonful of horseradish on his
ice cream.
Do you see that fellow at the far
table? He's a dyspeptic, and he beats
anything l ever saw as far as taste
goes. That fellow comes in here ev-
cry day and gets cup Of coffee with
his menu. Now, would you believe
1t, he puts spoonful of tabasco sauce
In that coffee and drinks 1t without a
vince. He says it's good for dyspep-
STA. New York Sun.
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not believe could have raised ten
pounds OF weight from the ground, the
pain WIS go severe. This was my con-
dition when began using Doan's Kid.
ney PILLS. They quickly relieved me
and now am never troubled as I
was. My back is strong and can
walk or ride q long distance and feel
just as strong as did twenty-five
years ago. think SO much of Doan's
Kidney Pills that have given a sup
ply of the remedy to some of my
neighbors and they have also found
good results. II you can sift anything
from this rambling note that will be
Of any service to you. or to any one
suffering from kidney trouble, you are
at liberty to do So"
A TRIAL FREE-Address Foster.
Mflturn Co., Bu~alo. N. Y. For sale
by all dealers: price. SO cts.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
The Market Price of Titles.

A dealer in foreign titles and decor
ations, in response to an inquisitive
inquirer, gives the price of the com
modities he offers. The title of count
costs 10000 francs; viscount, $4,000:
baron, $4,000. These are Spanish.
''Chevalier" is naturally much less
expensive, the highest order being fo1
sale at 5000 francs.
The red. black and white rosette O,
the Red Cross, given for aid to the
wounded on land and sea, can actually
be purchased for 1900 francs; NO
further qualification being necessary
than the payment of this sum. One
month suffices the intermediary to Sc.
cure this decoration to the candidate
who desires it. The higher titles
necessitate a delay of five or six
months.
Half the purchase money has 10 be
sent to the dealer in titles on applica.
ton.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Tried to Tip General Manager.

The general manager of a steamboat
company was standing on the gang
plank Of a steamer one cay last week
when lady, accompanied by maid,
approached. She asked the general
manager if the maid could go aboard
with her satchel
I'D rather she'd stay ashore, as the
crush is so great now that she might
not be able to return" he said.
The lady replied that she desired
very much to get her grip on the
steamer, and the general manager Of
fered to take it aboard for her.
He did SO, and when he returned
the lady held out scent piece.
Here, my good man." she said,
stake this"
The official, rather astonished, and
half mind to take the coin and then
give the lady his card, thought better
Of it and declined the proffered nickel.
Later he acknowledged that the
joke was very, much on him.-Balti-
more Sum-,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Kentucky Mans Duty,

Jamboree, KY, August 20 Especially
After suffering for years with pain
in the back Mr.. j. M. Coleman, a well
known citizen of this. place, has found
complete cure in Dodd's Kidney
Pills. Knowing how general this dis
ease is all over the country, Mr.. Cole
man feels it is his duty to make his
experience public for the benefit of
other sufferers.
II want to recommend Dodd's Kid
ney Pills to everybody who has pain
in the back" MIR. Coleman says Il
suffered for years with my back. l
used Dodd's Kidney Pills and l have
not felt pain since. Ny little girl
too complained CT her back and she
used about half box of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and she is sound and WE'LL"
Backache is Kidney Ache. Dodd's
Kidney Pills are q sure cure for all
Kidney Aches, including Rheuma-
tism.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Their First faIsehood.

1T is said there should be implicit
confidence between married folk said
Fifth avenue clergyman whose
church is not far from Fortieth street.
81 am a believer in this little injunc.
ton; but l am also certain that l once
married couple who tried to deceive
not only one another, but even them
selses, at the altar. knew them both.
He was a bachelor of seventy; she
was a spinster of about sixty. But
you would not have thought so when
they came to get me to marry them.
She was attired like shopgirl out for
her first ball, and his raiment bespoke
the youthful dude of twenty-five or
twenty-three. His snow white mus.
tache had been dyed black and waxed
until the ends looked like knitting
needles.
II asked them their ages.
'Thirty-five, he said gravely.
Thirty she simpered.
Nov each was aware of deceivine
the other, but l want to tell you both
locked positively happy and untrou.
bled over the constituencies false.
hoods with which they had begun
their married life. New York Her
old,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
AUSTRIAN GIRLS WELL TAUGHT
Careful Education In All Branches
Accorded Them.

Careful Education In All Branches
Accorded Them.
Austrian girls are often taught IL
school until they are Is years old
They are not during this time kept
entirely out of society, but are dressed
with the greatest simplicity, never
wearing silk gown until they have
left school and attended their first
ball.
On leaving the schoolroom they
have one or two years training in the
kitchen and pantry, either by some
member of their own family or un.
der trained cook in another's house.
Though they may never be required
to cook for themselves, they know ex.
actly how everything should be done,
and long before they set up house.
keeping on their own account are
competent to take charge of a house
hold. They make most affectionate
wives and mothers, says Woman's
Life.
An Austrian lady is said to be a.
accomplished and learned as an Eng
llsn goVerneSS, as good cook and
housekeeper as German, as bright
and witty in society as a Partisan,
and as handsome as an American
In Vienna are found some of the most
beautiful women in Europe
Austrian girls are brought up IL
habits of industry, and are rarely
seen without some kind of work il
hand. They are famous for theil
great piles of linen, certain number
of yards of which are every year
from girls birth woven and laid
aside for her marriage portion.
The grandmothers spend much o.
their time in knitting for their grand
children, not only supplying their
present need, but laying by dozens
of stockings of every kind for the
young girls trousseau. Some of these
woven ones.
stockings are as fine as the finest
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
A Little Girls Loves.

Bessie (aged fve) was accustomed
to come to her mothers room before
the family was up. One Sunday morn
ing, while making the customary visit
the odors of breakfast in preparation
managed to reach the sleeping quar-
ters. Bessie, with her arms around
her mothers neck, gave one or two
vigorous sniffs, then, with an air of
anticipation, announced: Mamma
there's two fings l dess love mos of
enyfng in de world"
What are they, Ressie?" asked her
mamma.
God and baked beans," Bessie re-
piled, snacking her lips.-Lippin-
colts.
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To a Haven at Last.

have seen the worst of the world, and
l care no more
For chances and changes, for perils
afloat and ashore
God is over them all; spirit more calm
than fate
My times upon Him wait.
In the uttermost parts of the sea there
the corals grow,
And the wealth of it's oozy floor no divers
know:
When the laboring ship strains on
through an ocean of weed
Our captain takes good heed.
But better heed takes he who steers
without chart the storm,
Who hath hidden the north blow cold
and the south breathe warm;
That. though he splinters the shin on
the coral marge ~
He hath her crew in charge.
From the peril of fire and flow, from the
roof and rock
He hath gathered them man by mana
He will bring them home to the haven
where they would be,
Over jasper sea.
Black and White
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

Mrs. Elizabeth II. Thompson.
Of Lillydale, N.Y., Grand Worthy
Wise Templar, and Member of'
W.C.T.U., tells, how she recov.,
cred by the use Of Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
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Compound, and who can to-day
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When was thirty-hve years old, I
suffered severe baclsache and frequent
bcaring-down pains in fact, had
womb trouble. I was very anxious to
get well, and reading Of the cures your
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My family and relatives wero
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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
SimriY He'll.

Rufus Choate ,One of the most con.
sentative men of the time as to the
slavery question, is said to have ex-
pressed the opinion, as the result of
careful study, that he had no reason
to think that the industrial condition
of the slave, all things considered, was
worse than that of the laboring popu-
lation in most European countries, but
that for the colored woman the con-
dition of slavery was simply HE'LL
T. w. Higginson, in the Atlantic.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Deepest Sounding Ever Made.

The deepest sounding ever made
by any vessel was the United States
ship Nero while on the Honolulu.
Manila cable survey. When near
Guam. the Nero got $500 fathoms. or
31,614 feet. only &C feet less than
six miles. If Mount Everest, the
highest mountain on earth, were set
down in this hole, it would have
above its summit depth of 2,612
feet. or nearly half mile of water
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Not So Serious.

The conductor came running through
the train in great excitement.
Prepare for the worst" he shout
ed.
What's up?" gasped the passenger.
The train robbers are going to give
us brush.'
Thank goodness, it's not so bad,
after all. thought you were about to
say the Pullman car porter was going
to give us brush. Chicago News.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Newsboy's Limited Permission.

The late Ashbel p Fitch of New
York once described in congress an
encounter he had had with Washing
ton newsboy.
Il was On my first visit to Washing
ton," Mr.. Fitch said, "and naturally l
had some little difficulty in finding my
way about. There was an alert-look-
ing newsboy on corner, and accost-
ed him.
"'My lad l said, 4 want to go to
the White House..
Every WELL said the boy, you may
go; but don't stay more than half an
hour"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Struck a Snaq.

Northern Acquaintance = Colonel,
they say a japanese scientist has dis.
covered aeserum that is an infallible
cure for rattlesnake bite. Is it likely
1T will ever displace your famous Ken
lucky remedy?
Eminent Kentuckian-To what ia.
nous remedy do you allude, subj
Chicago Tribune.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Anticipated Trouble.

Simeon Ford has an able wit which
is available on every occasion. Here
is a congratulatory telegram sent by
him last week to a newly-married
couple:
May your future troubles be only
little ones Boston Advertiser.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Not the Real Thino.

Criticus-Judging from this picture,
should say your friend De Auber was
something of an idealist.
Brushleigh-Well, he certainly isn't
a realist-at least he doesn't realize
much from the sale of his work.
Chicago News.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
Swelling the Bill.

IF you refuse me" he said, and his
voice grew hard and cold, 81 will turn
o nthe gas at every burner and let it
flow unrestrained."
Mercy" gasped the maiden.
Would you kill yourself?"
No. cried the youth, but I'd do
my best to bankrupt your father
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01
COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS
0oan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength
and Health 70 the Sufferer, Max.
Ing Him Feel Twenty-Five
II. Years Younger.

J. b. Corton.
( q r m er and
lumberman. Of
Deppe. N. c..
says: Il suffer.
ed for yea )
with my back.
It was so bad
that l could not
walk any dis
lance nor even
ride in easy
buggy. I do
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

THO nrst days ne OF Dr. Ene's Great Nerve Rsstoa
&: SEND for FREE d. 90 trial bottle and treatise,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years a:o.-MRs THos. ROBBINS
Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y, Feb. IL, 1900
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

DR.. J. H. RINDLAUR (specialist),
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Fargo, N. D.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

It is the truths we do and not the
ones we indOrse that save us.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

Mrs. Winel"w's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethtng, softens the gurus reduces n.
Examination, alays pain, wind collie CSC bottie
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

The Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicago send Homo
Eye Book free. Write them about your eyes
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

~. David Kennedy's FavOrIte Remedy. the
GreaV Money and Liver Cure World Famous Write I1r
Kennedy . sons Rondout n. " for free sample bottia
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

Life is the fruit of the past and the
seed of the future.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

Benevolence for business only
breeds manevOlence.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-01

Put out the lamp of works and you
lose the light of faith.