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Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07
Special to the Evening News:

SOUTH RIVER, Nov. IA Hun
garian employed in Bissett's brick
yard met a horrible death shortly
before 3 O'Clock this morning when
he was struck by trolley car near
the Causeway in this place while he
was sleeping on the tracks in a
drunken stupor.
He was the second man to be kill
ed in this county since Saturday
while sleeping off a drunk, the other
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07
MANY CHALLENGES
Predict County Go
Republican By 1000

Special to the Evening News:
NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov T.
The indications here at noon are for
a clear republican victory for the
whole county ticket by about 1000
majority. The city of New Brunswick
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07

will, according to estimates made by
conservative leaders, go republican
by from 500 to 1000 The demo-
cratic workers about the polls have
but little money TO catch the waiting
floating vote, while the republicans
are very active and are well-supplied
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07
CLAIMS Assn

AT II o'clock last nightvd
named Theodore Nudshin was
by Policeman Long lying on the sidez
walk in front of the telephone ofiic'
with cut over his eye. He said thal
he received the cut from falling dow
but persons nearby declared that
had been hit by two men.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07
BUT ONE BID RECEIVED FOR
CITYS SHARE OF APPROACH
TO RARI TAN RIVER BRIDGE.

Sanford Harris, Contractors Who Built the Bridge, Will pba
bly, Get the Approach This Firm Was Also the Successful
Bidders for Building the COuntys Portion Aldermen
viii Meet Tomorrow Night to Award theCOntfact
Rector Street Paving Also to be Awarded
Then Aldermen We're Anxious to Get
Through Early Last Might
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07

Gardens drug store, 81 Hall :
enue is a branch office for the Z
ENING NEWS where Want" Al
are received.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-07

The election is not an exciting one
throughout the city because of the
extreme republican tendency The
contest in the second, fourth and
sixth wards is the greatest because
aldermen are being elected in those
districts The republican workers
appear to be somewhat better organ
lied than their opponents, and they
seem very confident.
The vote throughout the cityup to
noon was not as large as in 1904 or
1908, but was larger than 1902. The
vote in the fourth ward was the larg-
est on record at noon and in the sixth
il was larger than last year. The
total number of votes cast up to ~
O'Clock was SS4, as against 1,002
last year.
The vote up to noon was as fol
lows:
1005 1904 1903
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
A LINCOLN STORY.
row One Major General Was Made
During the Civil War.

During the civil war General But
tertleld was sent to Washington to
discuss a certain plan of army opera
tons with President Lincoln. When
ne appeared at the White House
Senator Sumner was with the presi-
dent. In a Biographical Memorial
OF General Daniel Butterfeld" the
conversation between the senator
and the president is given.
Mr.. President, said the senator,
you have issued an order which has
relieved General Saxton from the
command in front of Charleston
and placed General Gilmore in com
mand. General Saxton is very high
ly thought of, and | am much inter
ested in him. He has a natural feel
ing of pride that the ranking officer
should command. General Saxton
is OF higher rank than General Gill
more. DE is perfectly willing that
General Gilmore should carry out
all plans and operations and does
not desire to interfere with them at
all, but with the pride and spirit
OF the old army officers he simply
desires, and his friends desire with
HIM, that the ranking officer should
command. 1t will not interfere with
General Gilmore in carrying out the
operations"
You say, Mr.. Senator, that they
are both brigadier generals?"
Eyes, but General Saxton is. the
ranking officer"
"Will it be entirely satisfactory
to you, Mr.. Senator, and all our
friends and to General Saxton if the
ranking officer is in commando"
Perfectly so, Mr.. President"
Every we'll" said Mr.. Lincoln, 81
will arrange it. | will have General
Gilmore made major general"
1t was hard to keep from laugh
ing at the quick response and the
prompt action of the president in
taking the senator upon his PROPOSE
ton and thus meeting it. Mr.. Sum
ner babe the president good morn
ing and retired.
"No longer able to repress the
emotion the interview had caused"
writes General Butterfeld, 81
laughed and remarked, Mr.. Presi-
dent, is that the way major generals
are made %"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
How Various Nationa Slean.

In the tropics men sleep in ham
mocks or upon mats of grass. The
East Indian unrolls his light, porta-
BILE charpoy, or mattress, which in
the morning is again rolled together
and carried away by him. The Jap
anese lie upon mating with stiff,
uncomfortable wooden neck rests
The Chinese use low bedsteads, Of
ten deliberately carved and support.
ing only mats or cover lids. A pc.
culiarity of the German bed is it,
shortnesS. Besides that it otter
consists in part of large down pill
low, or upper mattress, which
spreads over the person and usually
answers the purpose of all the other
ordinary bedclothing combined. The
English beds are the largest beds in
the world. The ancient Greeks and
Romans had their beds supported
on frames, but not fat like ours
The Egyptians had a couch of a pc
culiar shape, more like an old fash
Toned easy chair, with hollow back
and seat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
A Mania For Pipes:

Recently a Partisan shoplifter
was arrested and searched. To the
atnazement Of the officials her plum
der was not articles Of feminine
adornment, but several costly meer-
schaum pipes.
When her apartments were
searched 1900 pipes were found,
some of which were handsomely col
ored.
Although for awhile she stoutly
protested her innocence, she at last
broke down and confessed that she
was addicted to the use Of tobacco
and suffered from a form of KEEP
tomania which led her to steal every
handsome pipe which she could
make away with without discovery.
She made no attempt to dispose
Of her pipes for profit, but kept
them in cabinets in her home. Not
one of the pipes, she admitted, had
been paid for, but she declared that
in taking them she was only obeying
an irresistible impulse and was not
morally responsible for her crimes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
CHINESE ETIQUETTE.
It is a Curious Mixture of Ceremony
and Deceit.


Very curious are some of the
rdles of etiquette observed by Chi
namen. Emile Bard. who has writ
ten book ON the subject of Chinese
life, says that in nine cases out of
ten, however. the form Of etiquette
has replaced the substance. With
the Chinese a refusal or unpleasant
truth must be expressed evasively.
Ii a Chinaman does not wish to
accommodate a friend he never
gives the true reason for his re-
fusal. That would be discourteous.
He lies politely. The ceremonious
forms of expression used in ordinary
conversation seem very amusing to
the European listener. 1t is fixed
rule that one must speak of himself
and of all belonging to him in the
humblest of terms and use the most
exalted language in referring to the
person or property of another.
Whether two mandarins or two beg
gars meet and accost each other
this is a sample of their converse
ton: what is your honorable
manner" "Your insignificant broth
er's name is Wang" "Where is
your noble dwelling?" "The hovel
in which l hide myself is in -"
designating the place. How many
precious sons have your" 81 have
only five stupid little pigs"
A Chinaman, wearing his finest
gown of silk, called at house where
he happened to disturb a rat which
was RECALLING itself out of a jar of
oil standing on a beam over the
door. In its sudden fright the rat
upset the oil over the luckless Wis
itor, running his fine raiment. While
the man was still pale with rage his
host appeared, and after the Gus
tomary greetings the visitor ac-
counted for his appearance in this
wise: "As | was entering your hon
orable dwelling 1 frightened your
honorable rat. While it was trying
to escape it upset your honorable
jar of oil over my poor and insig-
nificant clothing. This explains the
contemplate condition in which l
find myself in your honorable pres
ence."
1t is gross offense to call ma
tive by his name. A superior may
do this, but he becomes furious if
even a twin brother thus addresses
him. 1t must be either honorable
elder brother" or honorable youn-
ger brother" or some such form of
expression. Foreigners usually solve
the difficulty by applying to their
servants the names of their func-
tons, as boy, cody, gardener, cook,
mafoo (coachman) and so on.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Properly Introduced.

Margaret is a well brought up lit
tie girl who has some knowledge of
etiquette. She had been taken to a
house where there is large dog.
Don't go near the dog, Marga-
ret, said her mother. "He doesn't
know you, and he might bite"
Butsthat did not suit Margaret,
and she knew how to arrange mat
tiers. Going to the dog, she made a
little curtsey, such as she has been
taught to make at dancing school,
and said politely:
"Doggie, I am Margaret Brown"
Then, the introduction having been
made and the dog having no excuse
for not knowing her, Margaret
walked up and patted him, while he
wagged his tail with much gracious
ness.-New York Times.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Curran's Wit,

Curran's ruling passion was his
joke, and it was strong, if not in
death, at least in his last illness.
One morning his physician observed
that he seemed to Cough with more
difficulty"
"That is rather surprising" an
swered Curran, ''for l have been
practicing all night"
While thus lying i'll Curran was
visited by a friend, Father O'Leary,
who also loved his joke.
81 wish, O'Leary," said Curran to
him abruptly, chat you had the
keys of heaven"
'Why, Curran?"
Because you could let me in, .
said the facetious counselor.
ut would be much better for you,
Curran," said the good humored
priest, chat I had the keys of the
other place, because l could then
let you out"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Avaricious TO the End.

so strong is the avarice of the
miser," said Uncle Joshua, Chat
we are not surprised at its often de-
veloping itself as the ruling passion
strong in death Mr.. Watson, a
man of very large fortune and uncle
to Lord Rockingham, just before he
died desired his attendant to give
him shirt out of drawer he point
ed to. Lord, SIR said the attend
ant, what do you mean, to think of
putting on another shirt now?'
why said Watson, 4 understand
it is the custom for the shirt l have
on to be the perquisite of those who
lay me out, and that is an old rag
ged one and good enough for
Them"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Not That Kind Of Bird.

Most travellers who have gone into
the way places of the far west have
brought back clear remembrance of
the voices of the sure footed little
pack burros which 60 out there IN
der the pseudonym Of Rocky noun
tain canaries."
The meaning of the phrase is not
always so well known to those who
have always lived east. So it hap
pened that a Boston woman, who
was introducing young Denver mu-
sic student to her guests recently,
caused no little confusion when she
said:
Sand now, ladies, Miss Converse,
our little Rocky mountain canary,
will sing for us. youths Com
paniOn.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
HE WANTED TO SUE.
he Advice He Got Misht ProftabIv
Apply to a Larger Case,


Squire Aickerson was SITTING IN
his oIllee leisureIy reading the news
paper When a man rushed in with q
enid III each hand and asked in p
loud voice for Squire Nickarson.
i guess I'm the man YOU are
looking for, answered the squire,
laying aside his paper.
You Squire Nickerson?" asked
the man sharply. "Well, you are
the man I'm looking for, and | want
to file suit"
Whom do you wish to file suit
against" queried the squire. Here
the man released the children and
began some mild gesticulations.
which slgnited more heat to follow
i want to sue a woman down at
my boarding house"
What has she done ?"
Shes got a dishpan of mine.
squire, and l want to sue her for
Eyes, you might get the dishpan
by suing her for it." agreed the
squire, "but how does she happen
to have your dishpan?"
well, said the stranger slowly,
Il broke lamp chimney belonging
to her, and she took the dishpan.
She said that she would keep it un-
til | paid her for the lamp chimney.
But Dwant to sue her and get the
dishpan."
Now, look here, my good man."
said the squire, you don't want to
do anything of the kind You want
to take 10 cents, go down to the
grocery and buy lamp chimney
and then take it down to this wo-
man and get your dishpan,"
But can't [ get it by suing her ?"
asked the man stubbornly.
''You might get the dishpan, and
it might cost you several dollars.
Instead of spending car fare to come
up here and see me you could have
had new lamp chimney bought by
this time, and your dishpan would
be under your arm"
''The lamp chimney will cost only
5 cents"
''And you wanted to bring suit
rather than settle the trouble for
a nickel?" asked the squire incredu-
lousy.
''Never thought of settling it the
way you suggest, squire" remarked
the man after thoughtful pause,
"but | reckon you are right"
Whereupon he took his two children
by the hands and left the office.
Much obliged, squire" he shout
ed as the trio clattered down the
News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16

Thompson" said the bookkeep-
er to his assistant, do you know
why you are like Donkey"
Like a Donkey" echoed Thomp-
son, opening his eyes wide. a
don't"
Because your better half is stub
bornness itself"
The jest pleased Thompson inn
mensely, for he at once saw the OPP
portunity of glorious dig at his
wife. So when he got home he
said:
Mrs. Thompson, DO you know
why | am donkey?"
He waited a moment, expecting
his wife to give it up. But she
didn't. She looked at him some
what pityingly as she answered:
81 suppose it's because you were
born so.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16

One Of the quaint characters well
known to old timers of Portland,
Ore, was Robert E. Bybee, familiar
" known as Bob Bybee. He was
a justice of the peace in Portland
for many years, and tales innumera-
BILE are told of him. Once when
a jury was being impaneled one
of the jurors, a well known attor-
new. asked to be excused because he
was a lawyer. "Well," said Bybee,
Il guess that all the law you know
isn't going to disqualify you from
serving"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
The European Nose,

An Austrian scientist has been
attacking the European nose. He
says that it is a miserable, degraded
organ and a disgrace to civilization.
He admires the large, full nostrils
of the negro and says that it is the
sort of nose to have. That is the
nose that can smell. The nose Of
Europe cannot smell. It's olfactory
sense is gone. The London nose
could never snuff the London at
mosphere, nor, ne might have added,
the much more complicated odors Of
cologne. He attributes this degen-
Grafton to cigarette smoking and to
life in crowds.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
AXES IN PICTURES.
Queer Blunders That Have Been
Made by Artists.

! well meaning artist of the
eighteenth century painted a pie
ture in which Abraham was depict
ed as about to sacrifice Isaac with a
blunderbuss. The actual event which
the artist had striven to depict ante
dated the use of firearms by about
5000 years. There are also pictures
OF the lsraelites crossing the Red
sea, the men armed with muskets
and other weapons of modern man.
ufacture. In the matter of costume
the early painters found Stun
bling block. In the Edinburgh Ma
tlonal gallery is a picture in which
Pharaoh's daughter and her ladies
are arrayed in the long WASTED
bodices and hoped skirts common
to Europe in the sixteenth century.
In another picture of the same
date, representing Joseph and His
Kindred In Egypt" which is hung
in the national collection in Lon
don, there is no trace of the distinc-
tive features of Egyptian architec-
ture about the buildings. They are
all italian in type. In a painting by
Paolo Veronese in the same gallery,
"The Family of Darius at the Feet
of Alexander After the Battle. of
lssus,," the women wear pointed
waists and enormously distended
skirts, although the incident oc-
Cured in the year 1888 B. c. The
artist was Venetian, and he drew
the Venetian costumes of his own
period-1528-88.
Raphael, like so many others,
drew his Madonnas, his saints and
his martyrs from Italian models and
clothed them in contemporary Ital-
ian costume, giving the figures as a
background the scenery with which
he was so familiar. 1t was only
when travellers came to visit the
Holy Land and saw the people there,
unchanged in sentiment, habit and
customs for centuries, that they
came to realize that the pictures
were wrong.-Chicago News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Je4.rson Was Not Qualified.

As is generally known, the late
Joseph Jefferson and ex-President
Cleveland were boon companions.
Shortly after Cleveland was elected
president the second time friend
Of Mr.. Jefferson met him and said,
II hear that President Cleveland
may appoint you to an ambassador
ship"
"Where in the world did you
hear that? % was the response. 81
wouldn't accept it. Did the papers
say anything about it !"
eyes," his friend replied. They
said you may be appointed minister
to Cape Cod"
Wouldn't do" said Mr.. Jeffer,
son. II don't speak the language"
Boston Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Police IntelIiaence.

A gentleman one day asked a
shoeblack who was cleaning his
boots if he ever read the newspa-
pers.
The boy promptly replied: ooh,
yes, sir. / reads the paper"
''What do you read, my lad?'
asked the gentleman.
"Oh," retorted the boy, 81 reads
the house of commons news, sir"
A policeman standing near, who
had heard the conversation, strolled
up to the lad when the gentleman
had left and said, Odd you ever
read the police intelligence"
"Garn! They amt got noneP
CURLY responded the youth.
The policeman keeps watchfu,
eye on that boy now. - London
Globe.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Reauislte Of PopuIar ReIialon.

When Bishop Phillips Brooks
sailed for Europe on his last trip
abroad friend jokingly remarked
that while abroad he might discoy-
er some new religion to bring home
with him.
"But be careful of it, Bishop
Brooks" remarked a listening
friend. '1t may be difficult to get
your new religion through the Gus
tom house"
81 guess not" replied the bish-
op Laughingly, "for we may take ii
for granted that any new religion
popular enough to import will have
no duties attached to it."-Boston
Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Too Much Love.

He-You never seem to care a
straw whether l am comfortable or
not. You are not the sort Of a
wife vour sister was to her hus-
band. As long as he lived she was
perfectly devoted to him and never
tired Of seeking his happiness.
She-Yes. and what was the re-
suit? He got to loving her 50 much
that he made provision in his will
that she should not marry again
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
lneendiarv Friction,

An insurance adjuster was sent to
a Massachusetts town to adjust q
loss on a building that had been
burned.
GLOW did the fire start?" asked a
friend who met him on his home
ward trip.
81 couldn't say certainly, and no
body seemed able to tell" said the
adjUster, "but it struck me that il
was the result of friction"
"What do you mean by that p
asked his friend.
"Well," said the insurance man
friction sometimes comes from
rubbing $4,000 policy on $4,000
house"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
HIS SCHEME A BOOMERANG.
Il Came Back and Brought Trouble and
Mr.. Green With It.

"When | was new in the bust.
ness" said the dentist, Il resorted
to a good deal of freak advertising
MY pet scheme was to send bills to
people whom I pretended to have
treated. All these people were to-
tai strangers. [ simply selected
their names from the directory and
sent them bills for sums ranging
from IS to $50. Of course never
got any money! didn't expect
any-but l got plenty Of advertis-
ing, which was what l was after.
Usually the people that got the bills
were hopping mad, and large per-
centage of them caWe down to the
Office and demanded an explanation.
During those interviews [ put on
my incest professional manners,
apologized for the mistake through
which they had been bothered by a
hill meant for somebody else, and
not infrequently the affair ended
by my securing patron.
"But one day | met my match. l
had sent bill for SIS to a man
named Fl. S. Green for services rem
dered to his wife. Green and his
wife came down together. He did
most of the talking, but she had a
CLINT in her eye that told me she
Has capable Of butting in if occa-
sion demanded it.
4 received your bill this morn
ing said Green, but I refuse to pay
it on the ground that the work YOU
did for my wife was not satisfac-
tory; T.,
"That attack took the wind right
out of my sails. I was thrown COM
pletely off my guard. The work I
did for your wife?' I exclaimed.
why, good heavens, man, I never
saw your wife in my hfe'
Green waved the bill right under
myfnose. Fifteen dollars for serv-
ices rendered. he said significantly.
But I don't wonder that you are
trying to crawfsh. 1t is an afro
cious piece of work. But yoN can't
Iget ont of it. Here is your bill to
prove that you are responsible for
her condition. VIII you kindly
make an examination and see if you
can't fix her up? If you don't I'll
be tempted to sue you for malprac-
Itice.'
= HWell, l saw that 1 was in a tight
place. Green knew as well as I did
that l had never set eyes on his
wife until that morning, yet he
meant business, and as my little ad-
ryertising scheme would not bear ex-
tposure just then / was forged to
bknuckle under. His wife really had
suffered at the hands of a woefully
incompetent dentist. It took me
week to get her mouth into shape. I
must have done at least $50 worth
Of work before I got through, yet
there was that COMPOUNDED bill for
SIS staring me in the face, and the
only thing l could do was to accept
that paltry sum in payment and call
the deal square. New York Press.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16

A young man started in the liv-
cry business, and the first thing he
did was to have a sign painted rep
resenting himself holding a mule by
the bride. He was particularly
proud of this stroke Of business en-
terprise and asked Of his wife:
us that not good likeness Of
me? ?"
EYES," she replied. Its a per
feet picture of you, but who is the
fellow holding the bride ?"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
The Object.

'T want to put an ad. in your pa
per" said the weary looking man
Make it, Wanted, situation; any
old job"
"Shall I say money no ObjectT
suggested the clerk.s
mo, make it object matrimony.
II | could get acquainted with a De,
cent job I'd be willing to marry II
for life"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-11-16
Expecting Trouble.

"Now, children" said the Sunday
school teacher, 81 want some one to
tell me what happened to the loaves
and fishes which,
"Teacherp piped the new boy in
the back seat, swapping his fingers
"Well, do you know"
mo, l DON'T" replied the boy,
pessimistically, "but it's a cinch
that it'll be blamed on me. "-Phila-
delphia Press.