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Balzac and His Debts.

with Balzacs rising fame rises the mountain of his debts," writes a critic. "These, starting from his two disastrous years of printing and pub fishing in Paris, accumulated until, at the top of his literary renown, he had to hide from his creditors in garret under the name of his landlady or his washerwoman. In 1887 Balzac, at this date the best-known and most-debated novelist in France, owed 162, ,000 francs about $32, 2,500. Then he must needs buy cane which was the talk of Paris, some gold buttons for a new coat, divine opera glass and dress ing gown beyond words. and give a dinner to the dandies of the opera, re- specting which Rossini said that he had not seen more magniicence when he dined at royal tables
 ''BalZac, three times millionaire, would still have buried himself in debt, for the mental exaltation of his creative hours was reproduced when he broke loose from the galley bench. He lavished in anticipation the wealth he had dreamed would be his. This gone he borrowed anew or devised another of those schemes that were to enrich him beyond the possibilities of literature. His schemes were essen- tially part of Balzac, the sovereign, unconquerable visionary.
 Jo land to France; nothing like oaks from Poland to make your fortune three times over! Behold him again gravely working out his plan to make cor ner in all the arts and putting up the Apollo Belvidere for competition among the nations-to act as auction ger to Europe. The child man, as his devoted sister, Mime. Surville, used to call him."
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The Triumphant Spider.

A little garter snake about five inches long went to sleep in a wheel wright shop, and a big black spider spun web around the reptile. When the little snake awoke it was literally in the tolls, and began to struggle. It finally managed to free its body, but not its head. Meanwhile the spider was industriously spinning fresh threads, stopping occasionally to give the snake bite. Then the real fight commenced and lasted for an hour. The snake could not get away, but it tried it's best to bite the spider with out avail Weakened by its futile ef- forts and the successive stings of the insect, it gradually ceased to struggle and finally died. Then the spider pre- sumably triumphant, disappeared un- der the wall
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ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW.

The Difference Between Hard Labor
 and Penal Servitude.
 The difference in Great Britain be- tween hard labor and penal servitude is one of period and treatment Hard labor varies as to period from a few days to two years, and however well a prisoner behaves himself the sen tence is never shortened. There are two classes of hard labor.
 n the first class the punishment ad- ministered consists of six to ten hours work at the treadmill the crank or the capstan, or at stone breaking or shot drill. In the second class the hard labor really consists of such punish ments as may be decided by the jus tices in session.
 Penal servitude is the modern sub- stitute for transportation beyond the seas.
 A term of penal servitude begins with nine months hard labor in a probationary prison, and after that the convict is employed on public works in penal settlement. The work is comparatively light, and in most pris- ons a well-behaved man gets off pretty easily. In addition to this, by virtue of a system of marks for good be- havior, he has always before him the possibility of reducing his sentence by at most about one year in five.
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Redeem Your Past Failures.

You may say that you have failed too often, that there is no use in try ing, that it is impossible for you to succeed, and that you have fallen too often even to attempt to get on your feet again. Nonsense There is no failure for man whose spirit is un- conquered. No matter how late the hour, or how many and repeated his failures, success is still possible. The evolution of Scrooge, the miser, in the closing years of his life, from hard, narrow, heartless money grubber, whose soul was imprisoned in his shin ing heap of hoarded gold, to gener- ous, genial lover of his kind, is no mere myth of Dickens brain. Time and again, in the history of our daily lives, chronicled in our newspapers, record ed in biographies, or exhibited before our eyes, we see men and women re- deeming past failures rising up out of the stupor of Encouragement, and boldly turning face forward once more Success Magazine.
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CASTORIA
 For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought z'sssss's sssss sss of ZxzzzzSx
According 10 Their Light.

It makes all the difference in the world where the language is used. According to President Harris of Am herst, for instance, a word that is looked upon as profanity in Boston may express tie deepest sentiment out West, in proof of which he tells the following story:
 "A rough miner died out West, and was laid away by his fellow laborers, with a common slab of stone to mark his resting place. On the stone was this inscription:
 "'Bill Jenkins: died June 13, 1901. He done his damnedest Angels could do no more.' "-New York Tribune,
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tow 1t Began.

Representative Hay of Virginia tells of an altercation in coored club Il Richmond that resulted in nearly all the members being haled before police mag istrate.
 "You were present during this trou- ble?" asked the magistrate of a wit ness.
 "Yes yo honah.'
 "Then tell us, in a few words, just how the difficulty began"
 "Well, yo' honah," replied the darky, with much gravity, q think it was when the chairman of de entertainment com mittee swatted de secretary ovah de head wifi de lovin' cup."-Colliers Weekly.
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His Epft0 ph.

Not many years ago an old official of the English Foreign Office retired
 from the service, to the great regret of his friends and colleagues. Both he and they, however, had a sense of humor, and card in the shape of a
 funeral tablet was placed upon the mantelpiece of his old room, bearing these words: "In memory of -, who departed his official life on the thirtieth of March, 1873. Scrupulous in the avoidance of every duty, he gracefully escaped the obligations of this transitory life. Regarding virtue as a thing beyond price, he was care full not to degrade it by practice. His mind was storehouse of knowledge of which he had lost the key, and in finally paying the debt of nature he left to his sorrowing friends the con solation of meeting his other liabili- ties" The gentleman so eulogized not only smiled over this satirical concoc- ton when he found it in it's place of honor but had it copied and placed over a mantelpiece in his own house.
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eWEETENING SUGAR,
How Poor Qualities Are Brought Up
 to the Standard.

There are certain kinds of sugar which fall short of the required stand ard of sweetness, and these sugars have to be sweetened artifcially.
 There are some establishments in Europe where they do this kind of thing. You are taken into the sweet ening department, 'and you see cones of sugar ready to be operated on. A cone is placed over an apparatus, apex downward. You notice many little holes in this apparatus close to the apex or point of the cone. Some thick ish liquid is poured on the flat end of the cone, and then the machinery is set in motion.
 The holes become the mouths of sue ton tubes, and the sweetening liquid is drawn through the cone, giving it the necessary quality.
 Another interesting fact in connec- tion with this article is that some of the pieces of lump sugar. are really made up of dust or fragments pressed together.
 If you will examine certain pieces you will observe that the crystal for nation of good sugar is not to be seen, and you will also discover that these close grained dumps" take longer to dissolve, though, of course, all sugar that takes a long time to melt is not necessarily made up stuff.-London Globe.
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To Supplement Our Civilization.

As result of observation and re fection during long life touching public men and measures in wide va riety, I would desire for my country three things above all others to SUD- plement American civilization; from Great Britain her administration of criminal justice; from Germany her theater; and from any or every Euro pean country save Russia, Spain and Turkey, it's government of cities From Andrew D. Whites "Impres sions of the German Emporer," in the Century.
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The Present Rate Law.

Tho duties of the present Interstate Commerce Commission are to correct all discriminations in railroad rates. If 1t finds that an unjust rate is in effect, the railroad is notified. If it declines to change it. the Commis- sion can bring suit in Court and if the Court decides in favor of the Commissioners finding, the railroad must obey, or its officers may be brought up for contempt of court and summarily dealt with.
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MELBA IN A TRAINYARD.
Railroad Men Hear Rehearsal and
 Criticise It Freely.

Criticise It Freely.
 The Melba car arrived from St.. Louis yesterday morning, says the Kansas City Journal, and within a few minutes the singer was transport ed to the heart of the Alton yards, about two blocks south of 18th street.
 The noise of the engines was so great that it was feared for time the diva's three-legged piano would need tuning before night. The re- hearsal was scheduled to take place ii the drawing room of madame's pri- vate car.
 A few tra-la's found their way through the car ventilators and set tied upon the ears of some horny handed gentlemen who wore blue over alls. They all knew that Melba was in their midst, and when the melodious peals reached them one of the Alton workers said hearing the music was just like stealing money.
 Just think said the truck-wiper, "society folks are tearing their hair in an effort to buy choice seats, while we are down here getting the whole works for nothing"
 T guess that's what you call class ical music" said a switchman, as sev- eral bars of melody crashed through the side of the coach and went scat tering through the yarus.
 "Too classical for me-" said another switchman, but styles everything nowadays"
 Ever hear grand opera?' asked a coach wiper.
 Heard Emmy Abbit once," said the first switchman. "Gave 50 cents to sit in the gallery. Ten beers and the Good Old Summer Time for me here after"
 Unmindful of the criticisms that were being offered on the outside, Mime. Melba and Miss Parkinson re- hearsed. The yardmen in the Alton, despite the fact that their ears have not been trained to music of the grand opera scale, enjoyed the unex- pected song treat on the ground that man can afford to enjoy anything he can get for nothing. There were some pessimists in the crowd, however, who couldn't reconcile themselves to the high notes.
 T heard Abbott once myself" said man who knocks the clinkers out of the locomotive fireboXes, but did you ever hear May Irwin?"
 Now you're talkin," said the coach wiper. She's got all these other song birds tied to a post"
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Do Your Share.

A little thought will show you how vastly your own happiness depends on the way other people bear themselves toward you. Turn the idea around and remember that just so much are you adding to the pleasure or the misery of other peoples joys. And this is the half of the matter which you can con- trol.-George S. Merriam.
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In Jail for SneeZ,ng.

As one of the good, kind ladies was walking along the tier after the church was over, saying kind words to the unfortunate sons of Adam, she stopped in front of cell COP on the sixth floor.
 She said, My good, kind man, what in the world ever put you in here?"
 He said, "Sneezing."
 She said, My goodness! How in the world could they put you in here for sneezing"
 He said, q woke the gentleman up.'' Cook County Jail Journal.
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AConfusing Advertisement.

London editor has received from Be, lin q printed notice of new hair dye, described in English. q de- liver the hair dye from the fair to the deepest dark" the Berlin man says. Then. with burst of candor, for which he cannot be sufficiently con- mended, he adds: Tt produces a ma. tural color and is thoroughly injuri. ous."
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An lmprOVement.

Mrs. Newed-Oh, Jack! I bought a darling of a cook book to-day.
 Newed (uneasly)-I thought all cook books were alike?
 Mrs. Newed-So did I. But this per feet gem gives two hundred ways of entertaining cooks, and also q great, big list of subjects they're touchy about Brooklyn Life.
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SPECIALIST FOR MEN SINCE 1876; ALL nervous, skin, blood, private and chronic dis eases of both sexes. strcture, urinary troubles and catarrh, CURED. Consultation free. Rupture cured without the knife. GUARAN- TEE RUPTURE CURE CO.,. 520 W. Third St., Los Angeles. Take Angels Flight car.
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You Can Get Aliens Foot Ease FREE

Write Allen s. Omsted, LeROy, NY, for a
 free Sample of Aliens Foot-Ease. It cures sweating, hot, swollen, aching feet. It makes new or tight Shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns lngrowing Nails sand Bunions. All Drug g1sts sell 1t. 25c. Don't accept any substitute.
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A Definition.

Little Clarence-Pa, what is an op- timist?
 Mir. Callipers-An optimist, my son, is a person who doesn't care what happens if it doesn't happen to him.-Puck.
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As We Talk.

Bilks (disconsolately)-Yes, my cred itors are making it hot for me.
 Jilks (consolingly)-Well, this is cold world-Pittsbur Post.
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Good incomes made selling teas and coffee 30 and 40% commission paid. Exclusive terri tory. Either sex. For terms etc, address CEYLON TEA CO.,, IA E. Market Street. Los Angeles.
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For bronchial troubles try Piso's Cure for Consumption. It is a good cough medicine. At druggists, price 25 cents.
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Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02

William Assakowicz, Max, Dull,
James Duggan, Miss Veronica Fuda-
II. Roy C. Hook, Carl Ihorborb, Will
lam jackson, Mrs. Kollack, N. KalisZ,
f. Larson, Mrs. Mary c. Matthews.
Stautaw Mailki, Miss Julia Orosz,
Miss Jennie Peterson, Mr.. L. RUNE,
Mrs. Mary Smith. Edward Wilson,
Frank Strecb, (Barge Isabelle), Eddie
Watts Ozark Matanzas), Eude Bard
avic, Franc Baczek, Barna Mihaly,
Masce Cekhbal, Antoni D~ombrowicki,
SEVERN. Gasiewski, Balewstaw Hsm-
iecki, Hlyabasko Janos, Kopasz An
dras, Jan Marcalis, Macy Mihalynak,
f. Petrueka, Gevi Szerej, Jok Simon,
Jozef Stucka, Apolonus Zabinski, Ro-
maius Borowik, Mary Chamula. Miss
Matus Cafol, Dobos Palnak, Ignacy
~Golis2ewski, John Luczow, Lii Roz'
mos, Adamowi Rosinshiemu, Jan
Sienko, Kristian A. Sorenson' Jozel
Tatarka, Jan Weiuroski, Warga Janos'
Miss Kathrine Nielsen.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02
BAD CASE OF LOcKJAW
WAS CURED IN NEWARK.

NEWARK, Sept. by the use
of ~antitoXin and anti-tetanus powder
the physicians at the City Hospital
have effected a cure in a lockjaw case
which for a time was believed to be
hopeless. The patient, who has been
discharged from the institution as
cured, is Alexander Jovezak, of No.
GAG Market street.
He was one of the numerous VIC
Tins of the Fourth of July celebra-
ton. He shot himself in the left
hand with a blank cartridge. He
neglected the wound and did not con
suit a physician. About ten days af-
ter he met with the accident his
limbs began to stiffen. He did not
realize his danger and continued to
neglect the wound until July %,
when he told his landlady, Mrs. Kat
rina Dobel, that he was too i'll to go
to work. She told him to stay in
bed and called a physician. He at
once saw that the youth was a victim
of the dreaded lockjaw, and that the
disease had reached an advanced
stage.
The patient was taken to the hos
pital, where the wad of cartridge,
which was still in the wound was re-
opened at intervals so that the aiAi-
tetanus powder could be placed in it.
AT that time the left arm was swol-
len to twice its natural size and the
muscles of the body were rigid. Jov-
nuo1fc IN NC 1nalyn6 hn hnannnn nm
conscious, and it appeared to the
physicians he was dying. They con
tinued their treatment, however, ad-
ministering the antitoXin through a
tube, together with enough food to
keep him alive. The antitoxin was
| given four times a day, in large dos
es.
After several days the patient be-
gan to show signs of returning con
sciodsness. He mumbled unintel-
ligible words and his jaws, which
had been firmly locked, relaxed
somewhat. The physicians, greatly
Interested redoubled their efforts
and were so successful than ten days
ago It was found Unnecessary to adj
minister any more of the antitoXin-
and Jovezak was allowed to get out
of bed. His limbs, which had been
immoVably rigid, were in their nor
NAL condition and, excepting for
weakness, he showed no trace of the
terrible ordeal through which he had
passed, In order to guard against
relapse the doctors kept him at the
hospital until they were certain the
cure was complete.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Trenton Times:
Senator Jackson, of MiddleseS
county, it is announced, will next
winter seek to secure the passage OF
a law providing for the erection OF
an armory in New Brunswick for the
use of Company H of the Second reg
iment. Whereat the Elizabeth Jour
nal is out with a request that an
armory be built for Companies G and
/, which are located in that city. II
may not come with very good grace
from Trenton, but the armory build
ing business has already been over
done. Jersey City, Newark, Paterson,
Camden and Trenton have expensive
buildings that have cost the state
and the counties at least n million
and a quarter dollars, and the troops
in Newark and Red Bank are sched-
uled to get new headquarters for the
three score or more calvarymen who
assemble two or three times a year.
For the interest on the amount
that has been spent for the five reg
mental armories, private capital
NOulQ ouppiy ouithpiC DuAihih5p ~
every military organization in New
Jersey, and heat and light them and
provide caretakers. The big treas
ury surplus is n temptation to the
promoters of all kinds of schemes but
there have been n quite so IN
worthy as the proposition that the
state shall supply the funds to build
company armories.
Asbury Park Prees:
The carnival commission should
cat out the firemen's parade. A
feature of this character is not in
keeping with general plan of carnival
week. If this parade is attempted
at all in future it should be made the
foundation of n separate celebration
of which it could be made the CEN
trail event of attraction by the offer
ing of suitable prizes. The commit
tee, no doubt, is actuated by a desire
to exhibit Asbury's splendid fire APP
paratus and efficient firemen on
Ocean avenue. That the parade
would be q limited one conveying no
idea of appropriateness vas assur-
cd in advance. Let it be abandoned.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02
AN ORDINANCE.

An ordinance to construct 4 fifteen inch
pipe in Lewis Street and
Kearny Avenue.
Be 1t ordained by the City of Perth
Amboy:
Section 1. That a fifteen inch
pipe sewer be laid in Lewis Street and
Kearny Avenue to connect with the
State Street sewer; to begin at a point
on Kearney Avenue near the s~outherly
boundary line of the property of John
p. Holm, and to run thence %southerly
through Kearny Avenue, as laid out
through the Paterson property to Lewis
Street; and thence through Lewis Street
westerly to connect with the sewer in
State Street, together with all necessary
manholes and receiving basins.
Section 2. That said work shall be
done under the direction of the Commit
tee on Streets and Sewers, and super
attendance of the Street Commissioner.
Introduced August Z, 1905.
Passed August 81, 1905,
Presented August "a, 1905.
Approved August "a, 1905.
H. Martyr Brace,
Attest Mayor.
Chas. M. Macmillan,
City Clerk.
1878 $50 At Wed. Sat
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02
A Laxative Cough Strip.

4" a cold or coagh nearly always pro.
duces constipation-the water all runs t'
the eyes, nose aud throat instead of pass
ing out of the system through the live
and kidneys. For the want of moisture
the bowels become dry and hard" Ken
nedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is thu
original Laxative Cough Syrup. j
meets and c,rrects the above conditions
by acting as a pleasant cathartic on thu
bowels-expels all colds from the system
md cures all coughs, Group, %whoopint
cough, LaGrippe, bronchitis, etc. G. A
sexton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02

With the solid backing of the
Perth Amboy delegates to the county
convention, George Haney could win
the nomination for sheriff with hands
down. There is a big field to choose
from and a mar must have his home
delegates backing him to give him
a change. An the men from here go
unpledged. buNit is to be hoped that
they have the Interest of Perth Am
boy in view enough to stand togeth-
er and work together to land the
sherir's nomination Tor this city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02
TROUBLE FOR MEMBER
or BAcHELCR's CLUB.

PLAINFIELD, Sept. 1:-Trouble
for at least one member of a bach
elors' club, organized in this city
Monday night, has come from its
formation. The young nan in ques-
ton, who is well known about town,
it is said, has been paying assidu-
Gus and excepted court TO a very nice
girl. The girl and all the young
mans friends had come to regard
least promising. When the Bach
elors' Club was organized the young
mar was among its most enthusiastic
supporters and charter members.
None spoke more valiantly and fer
vently for the freedom of man from
the designing wiles of husband-hunt-
ing woman. So o%utspoken was he
that he was elected president of the
group. The day after the %Organiza-
ton was effected the girl heard that
her swain was one of its prime NOV
ers, and her frame of mind immed-
lately resolved itself into a throb-4
bling, if intangible, question mark.
She lost no time in hunting the
young man up.
What was she to thing of his at
titude toward her in the light of his
membership in a bachelors club? il
is said she wanted to know. Could
a member and an enthusiastic or
g~anizer of such a club consistently
entertain matrimonial intentions
Tho Nrnt1nn t, r,arr.oI fAp urin1
and made a stammering and wobbly
reply. He felt his VOWS slipping away
from him, and a stern and chilling
~aloofness toward all femininity
seemed no longer such a fine and
splendid thing. The girl shifted and
ilounced away, leaving Il young de-
votee of celibacy in an agonized
frame of mind.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02
SEPTEMBER Q

The New Brunswick Home News
announces to its readers that it will
be strictly independent in politics
this fall and will support the best
men irrespective of party. 1t is not
necessary for the EVENING NEWS
to make such an announcement. We
think our past record has convinced
the people that we care nothing for
party politics. We stand for the adj
vancement of Perth Amboy. We have
also shown our readers that there is
a difference between a neutral and
an independent press. A newspaper
which refuses to take sides one way
or the other is not Independent; it
has not backbone enought to be in
= dependent. 1t merely remains neut-
Z II. "I%ndependent but not neutral
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hour platform at the beginning
bee stand by it today, stronger
Ser. Talk Perth Amboy'' is
M.tto and in politics, this applies
Rnrslingthe candidates who are go
R-Eefdo the most for this city and
than
gran
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-02
Numerous and Worthless.

Everything is ID the name when it
comes to Witch Hazel Silve. Il. &.
Dewitt Il Co.. of Chicago, discovered
some years ago how to make a salve from
Witch HszsI that is a specific for Piles
For blind, bleeding, itching and protrud-
ing Piles, eczema, cuts, burns, bruises
and all skin diseases DeWitt's. Salve has
no equal. This has given rise TO numer-
Gus worthless counterfeits. Ask for
DE Witt'a--the genuine. Sold by G. A.
Sexton.