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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
INSURANCE Be
INVESTIGATED
Commission Appointed 10 Re-
port at the Next Session Bills
Passed at Closing Hour.

TRENTON, Apr. 13.-Final ad-
iournment of the one hundred and
thirtieth session of the New Jersey
legislature was not reached until
many hours afteh the time set for the
end. 3 pm. The clocks were stopped
at 2.55 as usual, and the senate and
house plodded on through the big
measures and rushed through the
bills of minor Importance. The clos
ing hours were marked by lively de-
bates between the regular republicans
and the insurgents" the latter fire.
~quently resorting to flibustering tao
tics in their effort to force through
reform measures o which they were
pledged at the time of their election.
New Jersey is to have an insurance
investigation, but not the one so
strenuously contended for by Senator
Everett Colby in the senate and his
associate, Assemblyman William p.
Martin. in the house, but an investi-
cation devoid of all political bias, and
%condusted at a time when it can have
no political effect. Such an investiga-
ton was made possible by the adop-
ton in the senate yesterday afternoon
of a resolution introduced by Senator
Thomas ]. Hillery. of Morris, the ad-
ministration leader, providing for an
inquiry into all insurance companies
doing business in this state, and to re-
port to the next Legislature the exact
condition of insurance affairs in the
state and TO recommend such m
dial legislation as may be deemed ad-
visable.
The resolution provides that the
investigation shall be conducted by a
committee of three senators to be APP
pointed by President William J. Brad
ley, the senator from Camden county.
The committee is to have full power
and authority to employ counsel and
clerical assistance, to summOn wit
nesses and demand the production of
books and records, to have free access
TO the files and records of the New
state banking department and
TO secure reports of investigations in
other states, together with copies of
avs enacted and bills pending in
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
VOTE AT So A HEAD.

NEW BRUNSWICK, Apr. "a
The feature of Wednesday nights
meeting for the organization of a Cit
liens Alliance was IN address by the
Rev. w. W. Knox, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church, in which he de-
clarcd that conditions in this city
are in great need of correction, that
The people are confronted with the
problem of a large foreign population
marched up like sheep at election
day 10 v%ote(at 81 a head, that none Of
the local newspapers is Independent
and it is NECESSARY for the people to
get back TOY the old idea of a town
meeting, inlprinciple, if not in fact.
Organi2fio Of the alliance was
elected WITH c!aYeace ", Slack, pres
ifaut.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13

Gardens drug store, 81 Hall ave.
is q branch Office for the EVENING
NEWS, where Want adps. are re
ceiYcd.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13

John Plufia, OF 479 State street,
arrested by Patrolman Kozusko
last night on a charge of wife beat
ing. 1t developed this morning that
the copple had a quarrel and that
Mrs. Fiufka did some handy work
with her teeth. She said she was
willing to separate and let her hus-
band have their youngest baby, upon
hearing which the recorder dismissed
the case in a hurry, giving Mrs. Pluf-
ka his opinion of her in a few words.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
do You Beheve in Gh0sts2

aw VI fr W., ana U, are at all nervous, you are hereby warned 10 keep
1 1y o Ie lower part of New York next "Wednesday night
nolin o. raHS %ciihlHchyard, at a wiching hour, will troop A Bro
t tfSIG OF nSuTeS such as graced the island half a century ago, and in
VIC oe AStoF f1ouSe these same figures will dance the dances of our
gTanaEfherS and grandnothers. 1t will be yerv ghosiy verv
RE e1ii iTIpi Fr the tqi details and splendid illustrations of the MOST
sUMD1AAYSL6vC n RECENT YEARS SEE NEXT
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
IesuvluS: It's Recma}of Terror.

Z 49, w tmollhd years ago Vesuviusesent shudder over the world and
GoI ~ y y tWoo OF tays faireSt cities, with thousands of people. To.
4 40 II NtTyH$ o repeat its awfulperforrnance. When will do this
u 60 aS%t; ne luH history OF the errptonS of Vesuvms, with much in
& t % foma oatS ma me stories of eye-witnesSes of past erupions, will
~ De found IN NEXTTSUNDAYSAWORLD. ""
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
SAYS he WAS ROBBED.
John K0vas Tells of a Hold Up Near
New Brunswick.

John Kovas, a laborer in the cm-
ploy of the Sanitary Plumbing and
Construction Company, of King
street, is suffering with a badly
swollen face, a cut eye and is mourn
ing the loss of $40 which was taken
from him by four men somewhere
between this city and New Bruins
wick, after they had given him Il
severe beating.
Kovas, who had been in the en-
ploy of the Pennsylvania railroad at
Jersey City, was laid off because of
the coal strike. He received his
money, which amounted to $40, and
started for this city. He got on the
wrong train over the Pennsylvania
railroad and landed in New Bruins
wick. When he discovered his mis-
take Kovas started to walk TO this
city.
He had gone but a short distance
when four men stepped out of Il
woods, and one of them asked him
for a chew Of tobacco. He replied
that he did not have any. With that
one of the men struck him a blow
oven the head with a heavy stick,
knocking him to the ground. All
four men then set on him and gave
his a beating. after which they took
his money. Kovas made his way TO
this city, where he secured work.
Horse Had Fun.
One of the fire horses led a merry
chase for about ten minutes yester-
day afternoon when it ran from the
yard of the State street fire house to
which it had been led. 1t pranced
md ran about the high school
grounds adjoining and then went
down the terrace of A. Bollschweil-
IRIS property and into the street. 1t
finally returned to the city yard and
was caught easily. A large number
If people watched the horses capers.
Only Three Were Present.
Although the Chamber of Com
merce was to have held its annual
meeting last night, and the election
If officers should have taken place,
>nly three nlembers pvt in On APP
Nm effort will be mbdc to
lold a special meeting next Tuesday
4aiohf
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
lrt1H s MOdeL or Fa1merS WIfe:2
Ibe TeryzbkfC 0st4of C1ty'S Ptog1e5s.

l4Ea 1t cStS hveS human lives to build up a city, lust as the coral
~ PHyP Scn1ceS frAbody tomakesthe great coral bEmch. But do yu
,EE eeanze TO what m.exteH3 human life is drawn on to build up a mon
dMH SnouS COMMUNICATIVE New York? At present Hundreds of thousands
{8 are WORKING daaEand night to build this city. How many lose ther
j n a. eTstngftoryfuiey N~ewsYorker. ser,NEXT SUNDAYS
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13

Nothing is impossible: there are
ways which lead to everything; If we
had sufficient will we should always
have sufficient means" Newspaper
adyarti4inT is sufficient means by
which e accomlL'ish any otherwise
commercial /" iMapUsaibility."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
TWO SHERIFFS NOW.
Close Sworn in Despite Francis
Protest.

FREEHOLD. Apr. 13.-Charles p.
Close was sworn in yesterday as shcr-
if of Monmouth county by Judge
Foster, despite the protest of counso'
for c. Asa Francis, on the grounds
that Francis holds a commission as
sheriff from the governor and that a
candidate should be sworn in within
ten days after election.
Judge Foster said that it was his
duty to swear in Mr.. Close and that
Close was entitled to all the rights
and privileges of the office.
Mr.. Close made Il formal demand
that the Office of the sheriff be turned
over TO him, but this was refused by
Mr.. Francis. Mr.. Close will now APP
ply TO the Governor for a commission.
Gle who thinks he can find in
himself the means of doing without
others is much mistaken; but he who
thinks that others cannot do without
va. is still more mistaken" A mer-
rarely makes the first mis-
Nevcr if he is sane: but when
kuGes TO curtaii his ad, ertis-
\ sign that ..4 IS falling into
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-13
FUNERAL TOMORROW.
Mrs. Bertha Quick TO be Buried in
Alpine Cemetery.

The funeral of Mrs. Bertha Quick,
who, as told in yesterdays NEWS,
killed herself by cutting her throat
with a razor, will be held from the
house, 23 William street, tomorrow
afternoon. The funeral will be pri-
vate. lnterment will be made in Al
pine cemetery.
When Undertaken Thomas Burke
was preparing the body for burial
yesterday. he discovered that Mrs.
Quick had cut both her wrists as well
as her throat, in the attempt to make
sure of death.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19
SPARING THE ROD AND Spelling
THE SCHOOL.

The rod has been ruled out of public
schools quite generally in the United
States, and American school men Who
are running the schools in the Phillip
pine islands are following the same pol
icy over there, with what, according to
the Manila American, promises to
prove very damaging results. A pri-
vate letter from Tobigon, Bohal, P. l.,
accompanied by two copies of the
American, recites facts of experience
which go to show that the effect of
eliminating the birch from the school
room has been to make the young
F'ilipinos impertinent and ungovernable
and in some cases to invite assault.
AS it is, according to the American,
the bad boy of the schoOl-who exists
among the brown men apparently as
we'll as among the white-assumes
that, being big enough to coerce the
teacher, it is his duty to run the
school,,
In the islands the sentiment seems
to be very strongly in favor of corporal
punishment in the public schools as the
only remedy for existing decentralization
and confusion resulting from failure to
control inrorigibles in any other way.
The educational work in the Philip
nj, &c control
federal authorities and the Manila
American makes a very strong appeal
on this subject, manifetsing sincere
apprehension that unless arguments
With which the native Filipino is &C
quainted are restored to their time
importance the educational work of the
government in the islands will be pref
ty nearly wasted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19
CONFUSION OF LAW MAKING.

The growing tendency of legislatures
to pass laws has become a source of
alarm to many who view with candor
the results attained by the various ses-
sions. What can be done to check the
flow of useless and mischievous law
making is a question that affects our
democracy. If we elect representa-
tives to legislate for us we are bound
by their acts. If they are wise and
legislate little we do not know whether
to commend them or not, for there is
always a real or simulated demand for
new laws. Some states have attempted
to take back into their own hands
the enactment of laws by the referen-
dunn, but this method is of doubtful
efficacy The people have already too
much to vote upon and in the political
campaign the amount of consideration
that can or will be given to laws is
lot to state more than the bare out
line of the law proposed and the peo-
DE are forced to rely upon the state
ments of those who have informed
themselves, perhaps from self interest,
for the value of the legislation
The referendum does not seem to
fit the case except in restricted areas
such as a city or county In state it
cannot be relied upon.
latures for laws is twofold. 1t comes
from those who make special demand
upon those who have assisted to elect.
| On the other hand there is a strong
! motive working upon the legislator
himself-a desire to make a record. To
make a record and secure mis- re-elec-
ton the member feels that he must
connect his name with some bill which
will make a stir. Such men are often
reelected upon their record and otn
err men who did nothing but vote mo
are left at home because they did not
do anything"
The remark of former President
Cleveland that he ought to have
monument when he died, not for any
thig he had ever done, but for the mum
Der of crazy things that he had put
! stop to, is pat, but unfortunately all
of our lawmakers are not Clevelands
and Mr. Cleveland was not always con-
sistent. He often took the legislature
by the scruff of the neck and demand
ed that it pass his bills or tell him the
reason why not.
The whole course of American legis-
lation at the present time tends to
confusion and to anarchy of law, if
such a thing is possible.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19
Br@VeSf Man ON Earth

by the long continued butchery were
the men that they had no power left
to cheer. No power left for anything,
sun, except to kill and die
While memory last, sub, I can re-
call the smallest detail of that awful
battle-picture, and until the light
fades forever from my eyes, sub, can
see the bravest deed the sun ever shone
on or mortal eyes beneld. The shifting
current of the fight had brought the
federal line very near to where their
tai, and nearly opposite that very
point We were massing for another
charge under cover of a. concentrated
artillery fire that swept as with bes-
ON of destruction the intervening
space. At a distance of perhaps fur
long from where l stood, brook
flowed, but to reach it one must ira
verse ground swept by the fire of both
armies, and 1 pledge you my word, sun,
that a chicken couldn't have run along
that ground without having its head
knocked Off
"And just then both armies began
to cheer. Not in the battle-note you
all called the rebel YELL nor the
triple cheer of the boys in blue, but
in the strong, thunderous music of
people exulting over some great deed
of it's goodliest. All along both lines
the bugles were singing cease firing,
and the raging battle-storm nushed as
if the voice that said, Peace, be STILL
to the angry waves had spoken.
"Crowding to the front asked what
the soldiers were cheering, and Pat Gle
burne himself answered.: 1.-The bravest
soldier in either army, and the bravest
man on earth, Colonel and the next
minute my own pipe was Joined to
the cheers still swelling like the voice
of many waters.
"A woman, a Sister Of Charity, was
walking down that lane of death, cam
teens as many as she could carry,
swung over her shoulders, her eyes on
the ground, and her hands clasped in
| front of her.
Il am none too pious to live, sub, but
| believe firmly that when that woman
walked down between the fire of two
armies to get watan for the wounded,
| that the air around her was astir
with angels wings warding off the
! flying death, and if 1 had my way, sub,
! her statue would stand On the top
| most peak of old Lookout for all time
| to GOMEZ
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19
BY G. c. Kelly.

Yes. suh,'' said Colonel Churchill
Downes as he released the julep straws
from his teeth; There is no doubt of
it. 'Yo' old First was the ve'y best
regiment, bar none, sun, of all who
wore blue or gray endurin' the wah,
sub. No small admission, sub, coming
as it does from one who followed the
flag of the lost cause from Manassas
Junction until 1t was folded up and
put away as men hide the trinkets of
a dear dead love-
But, sub, the bravest soldier in
either army, and the bravest man on
earth endurin' that greatest wah ever
waged by mortal men, was a woman,
sub
mo, sub! That's no paradox, sub.
It's Gawd's truth, sub! And thousands
of men now alive will tell you the same
thing, for they saw her as we'll as 1
did. No man who saw the magnificent
exhibition of courage that woman
made, but will fight at the drop of the
hat to back the assertion-and drop it
himself, sub! WHAT did she do, you
ask? I'll tell you, sub. 1t was the last
day Of the Chickamauga fight. We
had broken and routed right and CEN
ter of yo army, but that grand soldier
Old Pap Thomas, whom you call the
Rock of Chicamauga,' had swung the
Fo'teenth corps across the road to
Chattanooga, and was holding out in
spite of all we could do to break his
battle-line. ALI around was the whirl
and din of raging battle. The thunder
of artillery and musketry rending the
air and shaking the solid ground be-
| meath the feet. A frenzied hurting of
blue line of defense, and wasting of
human lives like water. All about an
eddying, shifting sea of smoke, its
pillows tipped with fire and glinting
steel. On every elevation along the
blue line, a battery worked with fran
| tic haste and poured it's shower of
grape and canister into our charging
masses as they broke from the cover of
the wood and charged. Time after
| time, Pat Cleburne leading in person,
our men dashed right into the cannon
blaze and then the rolling musket-fire
broke and melted the columns into
groups of fleeing men Fastening back
! to the shelter of the timber. But, save
| for the cries of the stricken and the
hoarse shouts of command, there was
no sound of human voice. So exhausted
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19

r. W. Wilson, of Westfield, Ind, mas
solved the problem of wind-made cleo
tricty. Wilson calls upon the windmill
to perform its customary functions OF
pumping. He leads the water into
hydraulic regulator built on the princl-
pie of a waterlift, in which the pres
sure is controlled by weights, and from
which it is released by means OF au-
tomato valves. This regulator is the
means of maintaining an even pres
sure. whether the windmill is revolving
fast or slow. Under the uniform pres
sure the water is passed from the ny
draulic chamber through water motor
to which a dynamo is attached. Inc
inventors own shop is always bril-
liantly lighted by the wind, and VIII
sons gas bills look like 80 cents.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19
== Had Good Memory ==

William" said Mrs. Fitzwilliam to
her husband when he was starting for
the drugstore to get a cigar. Il wish
you would stop in at the hardware
store and get a package of tacks I
have been needing them for week or
more
"All right" said Mr.. Fitzwilliam,
genially, IF there's anything else you
have been trying to remember to buy
for a week or two just let me know"
When he entered the hardware store,
the merchants attention was engaged
by another customer, and Mr.. Fitzwil-
liam looked around a bit. The stock
was nandily within reach. When the
hardware man came up Mr. Fitzwil-
liam was curiously examining a new
patent flour-s sitter.
'SOmething new?" he asked.
That's the latest thing explained
the hardware man. You see, as you
shake this sitter that patent thing
there on the sieve moves back and
forth and forces the flour through. The
other sifters require the use of both
handsome to hold it and the other to
turn a crank. This can be worked with
one hand while the cook stirs the bat
ter with the other"
That's bully!" said Mr.. Fitzwilliam,
decisively, Il want one of those
ping the patent sitter. Mr.. Fitzwil-
liam picked up a queer-looking con-
trivance of canvas with metal clasps
at the lower edges, the whole thing
evidently made to fit into the hand.
Whats tnis?" he asked, swapping
it shut and examining the mechanism.
That's another new patent house
hold necessity" explained the hard
ware man. That's an ever-cool holder
for hot f1atirons. No more using Of
old cloths and things"
DO they have to use old cloths
IlOW dShcO NIL
nantly.
Sure" said the merchant. you see,
this is self-locking as soon as it is
clasped over the fiatiron and it is re-
leased like this, by pressing the little
finger on this little piece of metal
Gimme one," said Mr.. Fitzwilliam,
enthusiastically. I'VE ought to have
had those long ago."
Il suppose you have seen these new
roasting pans?'' asked the hardware
man, who was warming up to mis- work
You see, It is made of two pieces of
stamped steel, the pan and the cover,
and has no seams or corners. 1t is self
basting, as all the vapors flow down
the smooth sides to the bottom of the
pan, and it is kept from sitting on the
bottom of the oven by this little band
Of steel around the bottom
Mr.. Fitzwilliam's eyes sparkled.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19

should take an early opportunity to
call. Now"listen. You know the trunk
In our stOre-roOm that contains a lot
of presents your old sweetheart sent
back when your engagement with her
was broken. 1 must say there was
some handsome silverware there. By
the way, you never told me the name
OF that sweetheart. WHAT was ito"
Tooker groaned.
Very Well" resumed his wife Il
won't press the matter, since you are
so sensitive about it, But you We're
generous to her. 1 took a handsome
sllVer-modnted hand mirror out of that
trunk and Goldsmith made it look like
new at very small expenditure. Then
sent the mirror around to Jeanette.
You know I'd never use any of the
sent-back stuff, but 1 have no desire
to keep it, AS matters stand, Jeanette
mas very handsome mirror, and I
have a pretty new bonnet I think,
myself. it was a very clever idea"
Eyes," groaned Toker, "but Jeanette
won't think it quite so clever She is
the girl that broke with me and mar
ried Jollier."-New York Press.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19
A Ham Sandwich In Winnipeg.

The Clarendon hotel, Winnipeg, is
rendezvous for newly arrived cock
neys, who assemble there to meet and
greet each other. Last week two cock
neys were exchanging experiences and
one started to tell the other about
something funny which happened on
the train between Montreal and Winni-
peg.
Il was sittin hopposite woman and
a choild," said the speaker, land the
youngster said to it's mother, Nav
ma, wants sawnwich.'"
"'Wot koind of sawnwich will you
ave- Samme?' says she.
ct wants a am sawndwich,' says
Sammy.
"'You mustn't say "am,' my dear,
says Sammy's mother; you're in Can
ada now. you must say, Gam
AN the bloomin' joke Of it was,
said the cockney, punching his friend
in the ribs with a jocose grin, they
both thought they was sayin' ami"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19

That's the very thing my wife ought
to have" he declared. "She has more
trouble than a little roasting a tur-
key
By this time, Mr.. Fitzwilliam had a
formidable pile of kitchen utensils on
the counter, but before he escaped
from the hardware store he had also
purchased these necessities:
new patent can-opener.
A wire broom for cleaning the sink
A burglar-proof, toggle- jointed lock
Two ever-ready tub-noops which a
child could apply.
A family box" of assorted nails.
When he got home he piled his treas
ures before his astonished wife and
carefully explained their manifold
charms, observing that ne failed to un-
derstand how she had kept house so
long without them.
Yes, they are very handy, William -
said Mrs. Fitzwilliam; did you get
the tacks?"
Then he wilted and refused to be
mollified.-Chicago Record Herald.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-19
FINE ECONOMY

An unusually nice dinner, my DEAR
remarked Toker. Then as he settled
down to his cigar, he continued: "Hur-
ry up and dress and we will go to a
theater. I'll select something spicy
While you are getting ready.
Il. thought the sweetbreads with
green peas would hit the mark
thought Mrs. Tooker, as she hurried
upstairs. She was a quick dresser. and
reappeared in a short time. AS Tooker
went for his coat and hat she said:
My dear, aren't you going to say
anything about my lovely little theater
bonnet?"
Tooker scowled. II have asked Won
to be economical this month";" he said.
Bills are heavy the first of the year.
There's the insurance, you know, and
the rent"
DO you like the bonnet?" insisted
Mrs. Tooker.
Very becoming" replied Tooker.
But under the circumstances 1 think
your old one might have answered."
We'll, then, you old bear, this bonnet
is paid for-spot cash, at bargain
prices, and won't come in on the bills"
Where did you get the moneys"
inquired Tooker, sternly He is a man
particular about household accounts.
you know that $25 you gave me to
buy a present for jeanette Jollier, who
Is coming to live in this street. You
said you wished it because Jeanette's
husband was useful to you in a BUSH
ness way"
Surely you didn't dare" ex-
claimed Tooker, throwing his coat on
the sofa.
have sent Jeanette her present"
interrupted Mrs. Tooker with an air
of naturalization. 1T was delivered
by messenger this afternoon. with a
note that We were glad she was com
ing to live in our street. and that