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Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
HEBREW NEW YEARS.

Next Saturday the Hebrew New
Years will be celebrated. Prepare
tons are being made by all the local
Hebrews to close the stores Satur-
day and some of the days following.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Miss Amanda Johnson entertain ed
a number of her friends at her home
in Odgen place at a birthday party
Saturday night. All had a fine time.
The hours were passed in singing.
playing games and other amusements.
At II o'clock refreshments were
served. About thirty guests were
nreSent.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25

Edward Hesse, aged 40 years, was
found cut to pieces on the track Of
the Milwaukee road, having been run
over by a freight train. The evidence
produced before the c%oroner's jury
showed that he had been seen at Wau-
watosa drinking in a saloon shortly
before the accident. AS usual, a sa-
loon was the murderer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
ANNOUNCE

The engagement of Miss Malvina
Weiss and Adolph Goldberger will be
formally announced next Sunday at
a reception to be held at the brides
home 65 Hall avenue. Miss Weiss
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Solo
man Weiss and a popular member of
the Young Ladies Social Circle.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
TO ENTER BARNARD.

Miss Anna Holm, of High street, a
daughter of J. p. Holm, the Danish
vice consul, will enter Barnard Col
lege Wednesday. Miss Holm is a
graduate of the Perth Amboy high
school. She will take a four years
course
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
victory For German Arms In Africa.

BERLIN. Sept. 25.-The government
received Information from German
East Africa that attacks by the rebels
on Mahenge have been successfully re-
pulsed, that the Morogo rebels lost $50
killed and that the Grawerth column
had arrived at Kilwa after intlictlng
severe losses on the rebels in six fights.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
v-nnderstuyft Won Golden BOWL.

PARIS, Sept. 25.-Vanderstuyft, the
Belgian, won the golden bowl in the
bicycle race of twenty-four hours,
which has just ended here, covering
574 miles. % yards and 2 feet. MT
Butler. the American, was third, cov-
ering 332 miles, 30 yards and 1 foot.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25

LONDON, Sept. 25.-T1le British gov
eminent has decided to establish a
naval base at Singapore as part of a
vast new scheme of imperial defense.
A paper says that the Tanjongpagar
docks will be purchased under con-
domination proceedings.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
First Summer Lids

Straw hats were first heard of in
England in the reign of Queen Eliza
beth. In the reign of James l. we
learn of Lord William Howard paying
the then large sum of .f3 Gs for two
straw hats.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25

DUNKIRK, n. Y, Sept. pa large
dredge owned by the Lake Erie Dredg-
ing company of Buffalo foundered in
a gale off Dunkirk. Captain George
Miller and his crew Of six men were
rescued by the tug Cascade of Buffalo
after q terrific struggle in the heavy
seas. The dredge was valued at $780,
,lO0
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
Venezuela Must Withdraw Insult.

CARACAS. Venezuela, Sept. %. =
The French government has asked the
Venezuelan government to reconsider
its last note, which is looked upon as
nm insult to NJ. Taigny, the French
charge d'affaires.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
c. E. AT kEAsBEY.

The Christian Endeavor of the Pres
byterian church held an afternoon
meeting at the mission at Keasbey
yesterday afternoon. The Endeavor
society was well represented and the
meeting an interesting one.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
Travels of a Bottle.

A bottle thrown from, the transport
Peru on July 10. 1899 four days out
from San Francisco, by a trooper of
the Fourth cavalry, WIS found on the
ocean beach, San Francisco, on July
20 last
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
DISTRICT COURT.

In the district court this morning
Judge Lyon gave judgement on the
affidavit in the case of the Perth Am
boy Gas Light Company VS.. Norris
McHose for 1925.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25

KANSAS CITY, Sept. rs. United
States Senator Thomas q. Platt OF
New York arrived here from Denver
In his private car Courier and left for
the east last night. Senator Plat de-
MED reports that have been circulated
about his health. Notwithstanding his
denial the senator was wheeled about
in his car in an lnyalid's chair.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
SOCIAL MEETING.

The Young PEOPLES Society, Of
Grace English Lutheran church. will
hold a social meeting at the home of
the Misses Ebert tomorrow night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
OBITUARY.

The funeral of Matthias Sklenkar,
seventy-three years old, of 100 Wash
ington street, who died Friday, vas
held Saturday. He leaves five children.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25

BUTTE, Mont, Sept. 25.-Fire here
has destroyed the Auditorium, the Pub
lie library and a number of business
blocks. The loss is 81 100000.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
CHuRCH

Communion will be celebrated
next Sunday in Grace English Luth-
eran church.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-25
Bound to Get Out.

Some family skeletons tEept
in a loset.-Chicago Daily News
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31
EDITORIAL
CURRENT EVENTS: THE DRIFT OF THINGS
AS WE SEE 1T.

Last week began with the terrible massacre in
st. Petersburg then mentioned editorially, but ap-
parent quiet was restored much sooner than the
public had expected. Over about Mukden there
has been more fighting, although the thermometer
is touching zero, and General Kuropatkin wires,
Saturday, goth, that the Russians have captured
Sandepah. This small victory has caused great
rejoicing in the Cars official household. In the
middle of last week a blizzard swept the country,
the weather In New York being more severe than
at any time since 1888. Congress gave more at
tention to the Swayne impeachment matter than
to anything else. At New Orleans the great cot
ton convention was held, as we have reported on
page 5 of this issue.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31

seeds of mutiny throughout the Empire. And
for this sowing the long years of Russian oppres-
sion have left a fertile field. 1t is not in st.
Petersburg and Moscow alone that discomfort is
rampant. As the New York Evening Post says:
whether it be riot or revolution that st.
Petersburg is facing, the meaning of the outbreaks
in Poland and Lithuania is not in doubt. The
Poles are watching their opportunity, and Nlchol-
as IL, IN hiding as was his father twenty-five
years ago, will have to emerge to grapple not
only with liberalism and hihilism and anarchy, but
with what is an even grimmer spectre in the eyes
of Russian autocrats-the Polish question. The
horrors of the instructions of 1881 and 1868 are
still unforgotten in Warsaw as in St. Petersburg,
and the Poles of Lithuania, Podolia, and the
Ukraine have a list of grievances almost as long
as that of their brethren in Poland. 1t is every
where the same dismal story, slightly varied to
suit the particular locality: property wrested from
Polish landowners; the virtual suppression of
Polish as the language of courts and commences;
the more or less complete extinction of Polish
schools; the brutal punishment of the crime of
conversing in Polish in the streets or in any pub
lie place; the prohibition of bringing across the
frontier a Polish paper from Cracow or Lemberg;
the persecution of the Catholic clergy, Of Jews
and Ruthenian priests-nott to mention the sudden
visits of Government spies and the deportations
of suspects to Siberia. When Alexander III.
assembled the throne, though prisons were full and
the press was muzzled and e~xtortion was rife, he
could count on the army, the peasantry, the nobil-
ity, and the Church; Russia was at peace with the
world, and Poland was quiet. His son finds trail
tors among his officers, among peasants, the aris-
tocracy, and the priests; his armies are routed,
and Poland is restless. Will Nicholas II. be wiser
than his fathers"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31

1t is generally conceded that the butchery was
deliberate, and for the express purpose of ending
the trouble by terrorizing the people. And for a
time they do seem to have been stunned. General
Trepof, appointed dictator BY the Gar, though a
man of blood and iron, is also something of a
diplomat, and his proclamation is ~paternal in tone.
He offers a number of industrial reforms, but not
one ray of hope as to a change in the absolute
power of the bureaucracy. The people may seem
to yield, but the massacre of last Sunday can
never be forgotten, and the men whose kinsmen
and comrades were done to the death viii SOW the
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31

The trouble In Russia was the outgrowth of q
mechanics strike for shorter hours and better pay.
Working eleven hours a day, they received less
than half the average wages of American work
men. There were Nihilists and Revolutionists
among the strikers, but their leader, the pic
~turesque Father Gopon, an eloquent young pa
triot-priest only % years old, told them to trust
the Little Father" as the Gear had been affec-
tionately called. And as had been announced, Go
pom led o 10000 unarmed workmen to the gates of
the Cars palace Sunday that they might offer
their petition in person to the Emperor. But there
was no welcome from the Little Father" whom
they trusted; instead, a long line of troops with
rifles, bayonets and sabres. owe have come to pre-
sent our homage and grievances to the Emperor"
they said. "Iet the Emperor come out and hear
us; we do not wish to do harm. Long live Mich
olas IL If he only listens to our grievances We
longer endure our suferings. Better die at once
and end ALP But their pathetic appeals brought
no mercy for the suffering workmen. They were
ordered to dispense; there was parleying; two vol
leys from blank cartridges ;-then the third
from murderous guns left hundred of dead and
wounded crimsoning the snow. The strikers were
weaponless and could not resist. Father Gopon
who stood at their head was spared as if by mira
Gle. As the night came on, Maxim Gorky, the Rus
sian novelist, who has since been taken from the
bedside of his sick wife and thrown into prison,
made this public statement:
To-day inaugurated revolution Russia. The
Emperor's prestige will be irrevocably shattered
by the shedding of innocent blood. He has alien
ated himself forever from his people. Gopon
taught the workmen to believe that an appeal di-
rect to the Little Father would be needed. They
have been undeceived. Gopon is now convinced
that peaceful means have failed and that the only
remedy is force. The first blood has been shed,
but more will follow. 1t is now the people against
the oPpressors, and the battle will be fought to
the bitter end"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31
The North Carolina Legislature.

Last week was the busiest the Legislature of
North Carolina has had thus far. More matters
of Importance are coming up for consideration
than was expected when the session began.
The anti-jug law which the last Legislature in
tended to apply only to four counties, but which
was so worded as to become applicable to the whole
State, is to be repealed, the temperance leaders
agreeing that an accidental law is not wanted.
An effort will at once be made, however, to pass
the same measure in a correct, straightforward
manner. The Senate last week passed a bill to
prohibit the sale of liquor in Advance, Davie
County, but rejected Senator Pearson's amend
ment that Shore and Williams be included. The
temperance forces, however, will give these places
attention later.
There has been a great deal of criticism-and
just criticism SO far as we can judge-of the Leg
~islature's extravaganza in keeping an unnecessar-
lily large number of laborers and pages. The News
and Observer declares that if the present list of
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31

another issue that threatens to involve an extra
session of Congress. Indeed, the President re-
CARDS this as the paramount question now before
the American people. He has declared that ne
considers it far more important than the tariff,
even. His advocacy of tariff revision IS unWeak-
ened, but a poll of sentiment in Congress has de-
veloped so much opposition to readjustment OF ex-
listing customs duties that it is doubtful If such
legislation could be passed even if the President
did reconvene Congress in the spring. Conse-
%auently, Mr.. Roosevelt is willing to yield this issue
for the present, stating that he does not want to
force his wishes on the party, or to permit his
views to occasion radical differences; but his stand
on the question of railway rates is much more
uncompromising. This. he stated at a recent con-
ference with the Republican leaders, is the over
shadowing issue before the people. Fifty years
hence, he indicated, practically nobody would be
able to say whether the tariff duties on any given
article at this time were fftv per cent or five per
cent ad valorem, and nobody would care anything
about what the duties were; but the interstate
commerce question involved a principle dear to
every right-minded American, and he proposed to
fight for that principle. Unless, therefore, def
mite action is taken by Congress on the subject be-
fore March 4, an extra session will certainly be
called.
The Strongest Lobby in the World.
"This proposal of President Roosevelts has, of
| course, aroused the most determined and system
attic opposition among interested parties. 1t Is
said that twenty-nine railroad systems, comprls-
ing practically every railroad in the country, are
being merged into a concrete unit for the specific
purpose of overcoming legislation which would
throw the power of fixing rates into the hands OF
the government. The roads are burying their in
dividual antagonists in order to join forces
against the common foe. The combined strength
1n~wasnfngUon is
held to be greater than that of any other combina-
power concentrated upon a single purpose, a fight
is expected that will test the strength of the Pres
ident.'
The most gratifying feature of the situation is
that John Sharp Williams and VIM. J. Bryan have
had craftsmanship enough to come heartily to the
Presidents defense. With public opinion so
strongly on the side of the reform and the Demo-
Gratis occupying this commendable position, the
Representatives who desert the President are like
ly to be remembered by the people. But it is too
soon to ~prophesy victory. The greatest and
wealthiest lobby in the world may yet accomplish
a great deal.
The North Carolina Legislature.
Last week was the busiest the Legislature of
North Carolina has had thus far. More matters
- e ..
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31

o11S1 LII 10
sively organized as an impeachment court for the
trial of Federal Judge Swayne of Florida, the oath
being administered by Chief Justice Fuller. SEN
ator Plat, of Connecticut, was chosen as presid-
ing officer, and Swayne was summoned to appear
Friday. On that day, however, his attorneys
asked for more time, and this was granted. The
trial is now scheduled to begin February 10th.
Friday the Agricultural Appropriation bill
passed the House, carrying among other things
100000 for the Congressional free seed distribu-
ton. We are sorry to see that Congressman Pou
proposed to increase the amount 100000; it ought
rather to be 100000 less than the present figure.
The original purpose was good-that of bringing
in useful new plants from other countries. But
from this it has long ago degenerated into a
scheme of graft, each Congressman counting the
rabble by having his secretary send a package of
standard ordinary garden seed to every register
ed voter in his district. This ought to be stopped,
and an appropriation made only for importing
and testing new vegetables and plants that prom
Use to thrive in this country.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-31
Roosevelt's Biggest Battle.

President Roosevelt dearly loves a fight, and he
has now entered upon what promises to be the
greatest struggle of his political career. He has
resolved that the rebate system by which the rail
ways have protected and fostered some of the most
oppressive trusts in the country, must be stopped;
and that the Interstate Commerce Commission
which was established to regulate interstate
traffic rates but has been MANNED into helpless
ness, must be given the power needed to enable it
to protect the public. We cannot better describe
the situation than by quoting this extract from a
Washington letter to The Progressive Farmer:
"The regulation of railroad freight rates offers
, 1905-02-09
A UNIQUE RECORD.
Not Another Like It in Our Broad
Republic.

To give positive home testimony in
every locality is of itself unanswerable
proof of merit; but when we add to
this the continued endorsement from
people who testified years ago no evil
dence can be stronger. A Laramie
citizen gratefully acknowledges the
good received from Doan's Kidney
Pills, and when time has tested the
cure, we find the same hearty endorse
ment, with added enthusiasm and o
tinued praise. Cases OF this kind are
plentiful in the work Of Doan's Kidney
Pills, and such a record Is unique In
the annals Of medicine.
NJ. Connors, contractor and carpen-
ter, of GA East Twentieth street, Chey-
enne, Wyo.. says: When living at
406 East Twenty-frst street in 1899 a
gentleman called upon me, asking for
my opinion of and experience with
Doan's Kidney Pills. l told him that
to know the merits of the preparation
might benefit somebody who was ser
icusly troubled with backache Or kid.
ney complaint; that its use might
prove of great advantage to others;
that I had attacks of backache and in
dications Of weak or inactive kidneys,
which had undoubtedly given great re
lief. Since then l have been
bothered SO acutely as when Doan's
Kidney Pills first came to my notice.
When slight symptoms of either weak
ened or overexcited kidneys have ex-
listed I have appealed to Doan's Kid
ney Pills, and up to date not n OF
those appeals have been in vain. l
advise anyone suffering from backache
Or kidney complaint in any Of its var
ious forms to use this remedy. They
will not be disappointed"
Plenty Of similar proof in Laramie.
Call on Laramie Drug Co. for particu-
lars.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N.
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
, 1905-02-09
Worldly Indeed.

"a remarkable grace" said Henry
Phipps. the Pittsburg steel magnate
and a philanthropist, was once com
posed in the Scottish highlands. This
grace with the story of its compost
ton, is still repeated in Scotland. On
my last visit there a gamekeeper told
me about it with a dry Scottish chuc.
kle.
HE said that the man who had
composed the grace repeated 1t to a
friend. 1t ran:
"'Oh, gle us rivers O. whisky, cha'u-
ders o. snuff. an tons O. tobacco. an
may our children's children be lords
and lairds to the latest generation
THE other Scot listened to this
grace with profound interest. At the
end he said. after a moments silence:
"'Weel, it's a goot grace, a very
goot grace. but-man. ats a warldly
thing"
, 1905-02-09
THE n

Congressman Mondell has had a
lard fight over the opening OF the Wind
River reservation. 1t almost passed
the last session and again he came
very near the mark he other day. but
the fate of the bill, so far as this SEES
sion of congress is concerned, still
hangs in the balance.
In referring to the difficult task OF
opening an Indian reservation to set
tlement, the Cheyenne Tribune says
"One of the most difficult tasks a
congressman ever undertakes is to get
a bill through opening up an Indian
reservation or any part thereof to set
Element.
There are years of preliminary
work, embracing allotment OF lands,
surveys, segregations, treaties, formal
agreements and cessions of the land
owned by the Indians.
"All this must run the gauntlet of
the interior department and when fin
ally reduced to a plain bin it must en-.
| counter the accumulated ~prejudiCes
and ignorance of a century as express
ed by eastern congressman.
1T is a long. hard siege to convince
the man from Boston, who perhaps
never saw an Indian outside of a cir
Gus, hat some fragrant crime is not
going to be perpetrated against the
Indians.
"They do not really grasp the fact
that the Indian is a sluggard and can
not possibly make good use of the
large area allotted to Kim when lands
were no object to the settler Or to
Uncle Sam.
These gentlemen of the east are
slow to realize that under such a bill
as that proposed by Mr.. Mondell the
government will ~inaugurate schools,
Irrigation, plants. stock and farms out
of the proceeds of the land opened up
and thereby advance the Indians more
rapidly than in any other way.
moreover, it is found on investiga-
ton that each Indian of the two tribes
on the Wind River reservation will
have more land left land the best land)
than they will ever cultivate.
yet, in the face of these facts Mr..
Mondells motion Monday to suspend
1.-THE rules and pass the bill met with
defeat.
"Gentlemen. you are stopping the
wheels of progress. holding back the
development of Wyoming and at the
same time running counter to the best
Interests and expressed wishes of the
Indians themselves"
, 1905-02-09
TRAITS Of: GEN. sroEssEL.
kouropatkin Selected Him for Defend
err Of EortreaA


1t was Gen. Kouropatkin who in
sisted that Gen. Stoessel should be
put in command of Port Arthur. Kou-
ropatkin said of him: "Stoessel is q
bad tactician. Put him against equal
force, against a Gourko or a Skobeleh,
and you'll find him tricked and cut to
pieces in four and-twenty hours. But
stick him behind one of his own earth
works, where there's no question OF
"maneuvering, and all the forces OF
earth and hell will moi prevail against
him" Gen. Stoessel showed himself
to be a man of s%ingularly few words"
writes an English critic, though his
TIE Deum addresses to his troops after
the repulse of Japanese assaults, as
we'll as his dispatches to the car.
were couched in ~phraseology which
seemed to have been equally borrowed
from the Psalms OF David and the
pages of Victor Hugo. Otherwise he
was ever brief and ever abrupt OF
speech, this fortress-holder with the
tall, bulky but rather ungainly figure
and face so little suggestive Of the
conventional hero.
He could wire Hugoesque dis.
patches Of victory to the car" this
same critic continues. though to the
company of soldiers which sent word
that they could no longer hold their
post his only reply was: But you a
die, them And die they did. What
l order can be done was his rule,
and all breaches of discipline were
punished with the most merciless Sc
verify. Garry out the sentence was
his invariable reply to courtmartial
recommendations to mercy; 1t will
save lives in the end A dealer who
was found to be selling putrid timed
meat to the soldiers he sentenced to
be locked up for three days and fed
exclusively on his own poisonous stuff.
Never popular before. Stoessel
soon came to be the idol of his Off
cers and men, who recognized him
to be the soul and beacon of their
glorious defense. People say wrote
: correspondent in Port Arthur, that
Gen. Stoessel never sleeps: for when
al. the city is in darkness a light alone
burns in his headquarters and, 1t
might be added, in his heart. Apart
from his own stout heart, which ne er
failed him, another constant SO, cce
of his courage has been the inspiring
presence of his wife"
, 1905-02-09
itch-Ringworm.

e, II. Lucas, Wingo, Ky, writes,
April 25th, 1902; For 10 to - years I
had been afflicted with a malady
known as the 'itch.' The itching was
most unbearable; l had tried for
years to find relief, having tried all
remedies l could hear of, besides a
that one single application of Billiards.
Snow Liniment cured me completely
and permanently. Since then l have
used the liniment on two separate &C.
~casions for ring worm and it cured
completely. csc. soc. and $1.00 bottle.
Sold by Red Cross Pharmacy.