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Chinese High Compliment.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
DR.. James B. Angel. the president OF the
University of Michigan, was invited to dinner
at the Chinese Legation In Washington some
years ago.
The doctor sat at the right hand Of the
Minister. The floor Of the dining room was
waxed and slippery and there were no rugs.
He endeavored to move back his chair. 1t
slipped and the dignihed educator slid under
He arose much confused, but not a Chinese
said a word or gave any sign Of having seen
the accident. Ten minutes later his Chinese
host tried to move back his chair and he,
too. slid under the table. He got up and re-
sunned his seat and none of the Chinese made
q sign.
man around the table slid out OF his chair
and under the table. The doctor thought
they were making game Of him and pro-
tested.
My dear sir, " said the host. we are pay
ing you the highest compliment we can
over the accident we have each met with
the same mishap; so. we are all brothers to-
pether,"
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A Rahe.

From The NeU orleans Times. Democrat
A babes a babe. nor all the painters skin
Fen with the aureole OF heavenly light
Can lend TO II suggestion infinite,
Can symbol aught but infancy at will.
Wherefore | lift mine eyes from where 90 edn
He lies upon her arm, q human mite.
An earthly thing, His hidden power despite,
Unto that face that doth the silen I'LL
The sweet, sad face with wonderful dark eyes
That seem TO look beyond ell coming time
And plunge In visions OF eternity,
The face that doth div1nely synthetiIe
All earthly beauty in a mold sublime,
And link II with the wonder yet 70 bel
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A tall, dark party, in a long tailed coat
With a high plug hat concealing his crown,
Was a grim spectator on a ferrybost
Where a line OF autos came whiZzing down.
They were honking their honks In their various keys.
The weird and the startling and the other sorts:
In a few we're people whose style might please.
In others were rather unpleasant sports.
-eit onto the devil wagons," q lid exclaimed.
. The tall, dark party looked up 10 see,
And said 10 tho boy: Are you sure you have
named
Those strange eonvcyances property"
well. ! should guess yes" the youngster replied.
you will please guess again." the dark party
said:
eff I should have horns like those"-he sighed
81 never could wear any hat on my head
". J. IAlR7oH.
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senator Hoar's Fayorite Author.
From the Boston Herald

From he Boston Herdtd.
The late Senator Hoar. rather against his
will. once found himself at a sort Of literary
reception. MEMBER OF reading clubs. Brown
ing societies and similar earnest folk were
thick about him. The senator bore up we'll
for some time, but was finally forced TO seek
relief in his famous bunch Of keys. About
nered him and began to. talk literature"
"Oh, Senator" she chirped, how dote
on Rossetti. Browning. OF course, ! love,
myself returning to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Tell me. Senator. who Is your favorlte au-
Bin Nye," came the answer. with a quick
tyirl of the keys.
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I'm going where the air 10 pay,
And where III get some sleep,
where the bell doesn't ring all night and day
Nor hysteric women weep.
Yes. I'm going TO be q country bump.
To walk the woods and lane.
To hear the bulltrogs grunt and Jump.
And know it's not cocaine.
To watch the old hens sing their lay.
And sit with eager hope.
Knowing we'll It's Natures way,
And not b because OF dope"
I want to hear the turkeys pipe.
To soc the piggies squeal.
! want 10 see all Nature right,
And know I'm seeing real.
Whore man feels good in Natures lot
Where her laws she will assert;
Away from the nervous strain and trot.
Away from the pervert.
For everywhere my whole life's work
Has been Q rush. like the motors chug;
I'm glad to get out: not TO shirk,
But TO escape from being 9 bug"
XNvoI:
rye had to smell Il In laudAnum,
In pipe and in the gum.
Through the skin as morphine,
In sweat as opium:
In the breath as whiskey.
On the beard as beer.
Now ] want 10 smell Gods breath.
n breathe II long and clear.
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POEMS r. AD1
On a crawnsh in a Glass jar.

On . Crawfsh in q Glass Jar.
He seems a lumpish and inert cruStaoesn, In
His prison dull and motionless;
And yet l md a grewsome fascination In
The waving, never motionleBs.
Slow. winnowing legs or tentacies that minister
Before his Jaws eternallyi~
There's something in their tanning weird and
sinister,
That makes me feel internally.
Sensations rouse at sight of their grim quiverinCS
Not easy TO dehne In me.
I feel cold chllls and racing tingling shiveringS
Run up and down the spino In me.
We're I some tiny swimming water denizen
A crawnsh could nnd edible
And tasty as to us Is veal or v~enison,
1t 10 extremely credible
That when l glimpsed him looming huge and mas
sively
Beneath some sombre ledge Of rock.
His mighty nippers sprawled and lolllng p~aSsiyely
On some projecting edge OF rockr
And saw those feelers beckon at me crawlingly.
Their movement never hurrying.
That l should sicken. terrined appallingly.
And anxious TO be skurrying.
For while I watched their vague uneasy gllnmerng.
Their sequence kept necessarily.
The nickerinE. ~soft.lit. greenish water shimmerng
About them opalescently,
'Twould naturally daze and overpower me
To eye the shine and CLINT o. them
And know that he would speedily devour me
II / should be drawn into them.
Tho feelings OF the things he's made q diet OF
Disturb my system spinally,
Because l realize the horrd not of
The throes that shook them finally
When they perceived that ell their Wild. spasmodieal
Attempts to sprint convulsvely
Were vain with thO6e DELHI crate, methOdiOAl,
Hinged Joints that crooked repulsively.
watch their nutter. twitched and automatca
Now l have made a prize OF him.
And feel delighted. joyful and ccstatcal-
I'm many times the size OF him.
EDWARD Lucas WHITE.
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DOGS Ent a Church.
From the Church Eclectic

from NC CNuFcH ECItcIlr,
From the loneliest mission station in the
world, on an island 700 yards broad in the re-
mote Arctic regions north of Labrador, the
Rev. T.. j. Peck has reached England after a
perilous voyage in a so ton schooner. The
missionary first church at Black Wells Island,
Bafin Land, was made OF seal skins, but met
with an untimely fate; being completely de-
tfons Mr.. Peck and his colleague. Mr., ,Bilby,
gave. regular teaching 70 the n%eishboring
and Genesis INTO Bafin LANE diSloot.
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The Force.

/, too, could W q mansion grand,
Own acres noh OF fertile land
And win a pretty maiden's hand
With Jones's luck.
I. too. could shake the money mart,
Move armies by consummAte art
The rise and fall OF empires chart
With Jones's luck.
/, too, could have the power I rave.
/, too, could harness wind and wav
And make the elements my slave
With Jones's luck.
In fact, the theory Is sound,
Not Love nor Science will be found
The force that makes the world 60 round
It's Jones's luck.
McLAHpBuRoH WILSON.
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WALTHAM WATCHES.

Most people have heard how an error III
the drop of the Greenwich time-ball was
detected by a layman with a WAL
THAN watch. He believed in his watch
as against the signal of the civilized world.
His watch was right--the signal was wrong.
"The Perfected american Watch. an illustrated book of Interesting
Information about qnahhes. free uon request
AMERICAN WALTKAM WATCH COMPANY.
~ WAL THAN. MASS.
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The Old Soldiers Logic.
From The Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press,
Such reasoning" said Gen. F. D.. Grant,
In a military argument. reminds me OF the
reasoning Of old Corporal Sandhurst. Cor
poral Sandhurst was one day drilling a batch
Of raw recruits.
"'Why is it.. he said to a bright looking
chap, that the blade Of your saber is curved
instead of straight
THE blade is curved, the recruit answered,
in order to give more force TO the blow
Nonsense said the corporal. The blade
is curved 90 as TO fit the ecabbard. II 1t was
straight, how would you get it into the curved
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where Londoners We're Born.
From the London Chronicle

FTUW THO LVHuUH CHTVHIre'
Light is thrown upon the subject Of an
c~estral Londoners in the latest volumes OF
the report OF the London Trafic Commission
From one OF these we learn that of the
$500, 900 people 10 the admin ~istrative county
OF London only 5000 900 were born in II. But
that 10 probably o larger proportion than
most people were aware Of.
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INSTRUCTION.


TUTORING at students. home. All subjects
ates. Native language teachers. Regents. Morn
Ing hours II desired. School with Z years sue
Highest references. Same opportunities offered
summers anywhere on Long Island. For catA.
logue write the Headmaster, a. Won W. LESLIE
(Harva rd) "a West 44th.
INFORMATION about schools free, cave time
worry. sometimes money. zs b West io4th ST.
Manhattan.
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From the Atlanta Constitution.
Watch out. Mister Hoppergrass!
It's soon yo' song begin:
De mockin' btrd-he SEQ you,
En- he soon'll witch you ini
Watch out. Mister Butterfly
Mig hty nne you look:
LIT gal a-chasin' you,
Ter press you in a book
Amt dis life got trouble
Ever single day!
Only thingn save you
Is ter keep out er de way
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judlcious people that nothing Is more likely
TO endanger the liberty Of the press than
the abuse of mat liberty by employing 1t In
personal accusation. detraction and cal
umny."
United States Senator Isidor Rayner. Demo
crat, Of Maryland has been mentioned as q
possible presidential candidate Of his party
In 1908. A friend Of Senator German COM
mentlng on this recalled that Justice John
NJ. Harlan of the Supreme Court Of the United
States has a pet story about dark horses. In
"You never can tell, says Justice Harla an
where the lightning will strike. ! remem-
Der hearing my father say after Franklin
Pierce of New Hampshire was nominated,
John, after this nobody Is safc."
President Mckinley once said:
Always perils. and always after them
safety always darkness and clouds. but
always shining through them the light and
the sunshine; always cost and sacrifice. but
always after them the frultion Of liberty
education and civilization"
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From ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to Nature

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUs-Sir: At q luncheon
given TO DR.. william Lee Howard Of Baltimore q
few days ago at the University Club the following
reasons we're given by DR.. Howard for abandoning
his hfteen year practice as a specialist In nervous
diseases and devoting himself TO literary work.
BALTIMORE, March 10. NJ. d.
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Only a few of us left. boys,
Only a few OF us left,
scanty old Guard. weather beaten and SCARED,
There are only a few OF US left.
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There Are Only q Few Of Us Left.

From he For MePhsrson Hapsrsdek.
With laughter we challenge old Time In his light,
And the Joys of the past we behold
At meeting and greeting In union o .niRht,
The friends and companions OF old:
The men o. the camp hre. the march and the fray
The comrades of heart and Of heft.
Though memory mournfully leads us TO say.
There are only q few OF US left.
CHORUS.
Only a few Of US left. boys,
Only a few of us left,
A scanty Old Guard. weather beaten and SCARED.
There are only q few OF US left.
when Youth was in blossom how lightly We dung
Its petals abroad on the hours,
The sword was our sceptre, and vino was our cong,
And kisses a-plenty were ours;
How lightly we laughed while the shuttle OF tate
Flew weaving the warp and the welt.
Till now with the evening OF life wearing late,
There are only a few OF US left.
Some fell In the flush OF their manhood and pride
on the nelds OF the South long ago: -
Some on the far shores OF the Philippines died,
or in Cuba, with face TO the foe:
So, year after year. In the flowers and frost.
we find ourselves further bereft.,
There are only a few OF US left.
But Ill up your glasses. and let US give thanks
For a few, tried and true. who remain:
And march as we close up the gaps In our ranks,
To the end OF LIES Stirring campaign.
The sweet love OF woman, a glass and q friend,
And an obol for Charon's old raft
viii comfort us still while w wait for the end
There are only a few Of US left.
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PUBLICATIONS.
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FOSTERS
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book on Bridge ever published Fully Illus
trated.
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A veteran Georgia politician at the In
perial Hotel. New York. said the other night
that William r. Hearst and the term Hearst
ism reminded him Of the famous coon song
OF other days. beginning:
OF 81 Johnsing am my name,
IF yer doan let me in III bust UP de game.
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0UESTTOMs AND NsWERs.

A piece spoken by, sohOolboys some ni,y years
ssgG T !. ;I About Nls,polsonGi r and a. began an, IN thls w aSS
was credited to Charles Phillips. an irish orator.
but can nhd 40 mention Of him In the american
OF his was certainly a masterpiece. G, II. M
Charles Phillips. an ornament to the bar OF two
Kingdoms, was born In Sligo In 1887 and lived a life
of great forensic activity until his death In 1859.
He was called to the Irish Bar In 1907, having been
entered at the Middle Temple In 1907. and to the
English bar In 1921. Lord Brougham offered him
the silk and also a seat on the Calcutta bench, both
OF which he declined. He fTst occupied ONCE
under tho Crown in 1912. when Lord Chancellor
LyndhurSt made him Commissioner of Bankruptcy
at Dublin. and In Is+6 he became Commissioner
OF the Court OF ~lnsolvent Debtors. In which post
he served with signal credit until his death. His
speech on the dethronemcnt OF Napoleon was pub
lished In 1910. and the next year 1t was followed
by another on the historical character of Napoleon.
He was severely censured for the brllia ncy OF his
defence OF the murderer Courvoisler In 1870, Chris
TOPPER North, never a tender critic, wrote OF him:
There were frequent flashes OF fne Imagination
and strains OF genuine feeling In his speeches that
showed that nature Intended him for an orator"
Quite recently a seemingly remarkable man with
an original system has been Waiting large business
he can almost Instantly foot up correctly long
columns OF neures running into the ten thousands.
able TO teach this system easily 10 any one ofaverage
intelligence and also makes the rather remarkable
assertion that no mental effort Is required In the
operation. OLIVER A. GRAVES.
or course. the statement rs 10 absence OF mental
effort Is a mere fashion OF speech. Every now and
then appears a person with a natural aptitude for
mental calculation which. by unconscious exercise
or by deliberate training, becomes little short Of
marvellous. Such q person may teach various
short cuts to results In ordinary computation. but
when It comes 70 education Of another to equal
facility there has seldom been found any success.
One of the most famous Of lightning calculators
was Zerah Colburn OF Vermont. whose ability az
lasted only during his youth has probably never
been equalled. Just after the civil war H. d.
Orion gave public exhibitions and taught his
method. Some years ago q Frenohman. jacques
maud, gave public exhibitions. Not many years
ago q mathematical prodigy Of the sort was re-.
ported found In q New York grammar school.
But none OF these has yet supplanted the multipi-
cation table and the table OF logarithmS.
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Casino. j. N. says: A bots that II B has . card
TO play which matches one on the table Is Obliged
TO take In the card on the table.
a is wrong. 1t Is a common practice when o
player is afraid that his adversary will make q
sweep TO lay down a card, especially q court card.
which matches one on tho table, refusing TO take
In the two cards.
The Jersey City news., 1906-08-30

Notice is hereby given that ON the 10th day
ment filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners their
final assessment map and report for the
IMPROV VEMENT OF LEXINGTON AVENUE,
between West Side avenue and Mallory avenue
in accordance with petition previously present
ed to said Board on the 9Th day of July 1905,
and conformaby to the provisions of Chapter
217 of the Laws of 1895, and the same is now
open to public inspection In the office of the
Clerk of said Board.
And notice is also given that the following
streets or avenues, or particular sections there
of, are included in said assessment, namely
LEXINGTON AVENUE,
from West Side avenue to Mallory avenue;
WEST SLIDE AVENUE,
on the west side, from Lexington avenue tC
points 25N feet south and 50.0S feet north
thereof;
MALLORY AVENUE,
on the east side, from Lexington avenue te
po5Ns Is feet north and south thereof.
&4d that an accordance with the provisions
of the act above cited, the 9th day of August
1905. az O'clock p. NJ, and the Assembly
Chamber OF the City Hall. are hereby fixed ae
the time and place when and where the Bosrt
Of Street and Water Commissioners viii NEE,
to hear, consider and adjudieate upon all OBJ
in writing.
BY order of the Board Of Street and Water
Commissioner
GEO T. BoUToN.
Clerk.
Dasss Jesssy City, August 20, 1906
The Jersey City news., 1906-08-30

AN ORDINANCE FOR THE RELIEF OF
ihe r. II. II. Steel Laundry in consfruction
and maintenance of coal bin
~ ne 10 Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City. by
sne board OF Street and Water COMMISSIONER
LOT ana on behalf OF the municipalltv of 90 ~
CITY, DO ordain as follows:-
section !. That the r. H H Steel Iaundrv
pe @ dlo IS hereby permitted to construct a coal
on beginning at point on the northeast cor
ner 1l OF LaidlaW and Oakland avenues, and on
the building line of same; thence continI,ine.
along the northeriy sidewalk of Laidlaw ave.
nue. ana In a westerly direction about fors w.
IVY IVY 41l Ieet thence curving at right angles
Gnu e iuhhing IN southeriy direction ten c1W
leet' thence curving at right angles and rnn
nins IN an easterly direction fortv-t,vo 40,
rsst, ai, thenee curving at right angles and run
iins III d northerly direction about ten nm
teet to the point place of begjnnine. nro
M sIued that during the construction and rnainten
1iass i ielelh autnorized the said r. H. H. Steel
L.adundfy "a snail assume full and complete resnon
slplhty for any and all damage that NAV he
Gausea rsaiss Dy reason of said construction and
la atl.enance' ~ and that said construction and
maintenance shall be at all times subject to
the approval of this Board =
9e1ion z That the ordinance granting this
privilege shall be of full force and effecf for
a period of twenty coy years and theraaf f1er 4er
@ until such time as this Board, or its legally
authorized successors. shall revoke or mojify
the same. ~ odiiy
All work herein authorized to be done ,,naa-
eile supervision of the proper city authorities.
seccon .. That all cost and expense incident
70 the introduction, passage and publication Of
TINS ordinance shall be paid by applicant fo-
same, and such amount therefor as is esti
mated L by the Clerk of this Board to be neces-
mand oh ue-
Passed July 80, 1906
ANTHONY HAUcK.
A, President
NJ. M PAGAN,
Attest;- Mayor
GEO. T. BoUToN,
Clerk.
The Jersey City news., 1906-08-30

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed proposals will be received by the
Wednesday, August is, 1906, at 10 o'clock A.
NJ, in the Assembly Chamber of the city Hall.
REPAIRING OF THE THIRTEENTH
STREET VTADUCT,
In accordance with specifications on file in the
office of the Clerk of said Board
Blank forms of bid and agreement of sure
.lcs must be obtained at the office of the Chief
Engineer, City Hail. Jersey City, N. ].
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES
10000 STANDARD
of Cost.
About $500 square yards of brick pave
ment, upon new concrete base, at per
About 1900 square feet of relaid concrete
walks, at per square foot ......... 1s
= Time allowed for the completion of the work.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envel-
opes OF, endorsed, PROPOSALS for the Repairing of
Jas s. Nolan, Chairman Of the Committee on
streets and Sewers" and handed to the Clerk
of the Board IN open meeting when called for
IN the order OF business relating to sealed pro
posals.
The bonds required to be furnished on pro
posals land possible subsequent contract) are
those Of some surety company authorized to do
business In the State Of New Jersey.
Bidders must state single fixed percentage
OF the hundred per cent. standard above quoted
for which they will furnish an materials and
DO All the work comprehended in specifications,
per cent. SO stated will form the basis upon
which payment will be made for all items
:. me ~, Board reserves the right to reject any
interests of the city SO to do.
Ine attention of bidders Is especially called
10 section I, Chapter 1874, OF the Laws of 1891,
under the terms whereof no contract shall be
binding upon the city or become effectlye or
operative until the bonds offered bv the con-.
tractor have been approved as TO suffiolencv
by this Board and as to form BY the Corner
alton $, Counsel the President Of this Board hav-
The Jersey City news., 1906-08-30
STATE OF NEW JERsEY

SPATE OF NEW JERSEY.
COUNTY OF HUDSON.
lO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;-
BE 1t known that l, Sam Brunstein am en-
gagged in the manufacture of minearI waters
ana other beverages In the City of Jersey City,
county and State aforesaid, and having to use
| ana using bottles, boxes, siphons, and kegs In
which said mineral waters and other beverages
are are put up for sale, and in accordance with
~ dne statute IN such case made and provided
aS 40 herepy certify that my bottles are made of
giasS and having impressed thereon the name
me M letters and the words to wit:-sUnited
Horseshoe in form Of monogram. .sNicholas
ana Nippins, Mount Holly, N. J.' Camden
a0stsg s Bake nS ea@asn snenss n:Evn n r. p Eushs rs
an the above names have in addition the
words, ,e This bottle not to be Sold" also
words, to wit:-"Sam Brunstein, 317 Fourth
g. s. Jersey rsy CITY. N. =" United Min Water
Water Co. s17 Fourth St, Jersey city. N .
United Mineral Water Co, Jersey City. N
!! rbomsa %ssn Sinan B0.tling aisgn Co "a Kaighns
w. c." ~. M. w. Co.. Ny siphons. termed ed
hon-bottles are made in two parts, the bod
thereon, Sam Brunstein, s17 Fourth ST, Jer-
sey Ctty. H. also S. 3. in form of mono
gram United Mineral water Co. Jersey city,
n. y. Many of the above names have in ad-
sdition the word ''Registered' And upon the
heads, which are made OF metal. is impressed
Co, ]. c.. N J. My kegs are made made of " Iyoos w
having thereon IS B., j. G." rs. a. n wy 20
Brunstein." And do now file this certificate
m m the Clerks office of the County OF Hudson,
~ winch County my said business is carried
on. and under and by the law of New Jersey,
entitled IAN act for the better protection OF
n manufacturers az and bottlers OF and dealers in
beverages approved March i1th, 1881, and the
several supplements thereto
Witness my hand this 9th day Of August,
nineteen hundred and six de06)
Wttnesseth:
JOHN J. II, DUFFY.