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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12

funds that are needed at the present
time any more than public support in
aiding the commission to overcome
such difficulties relating to deeds and
titles as now impede progress, and to
meet the opposition in the courts by
which the quarry interests on Hook
Mountain will seek to retain owner
ship of their present holdings despite
the Wainwright law.
The quarrymen, not content with
having done their utmost to defeat
the passage of the wainwright bill
for their own selfish ends, despite the
fact that there is an ample supply of
trap rock on the west face of Hook
Mountain out of sight of the river,
have continued their blasting on the
river front of the mountain with re-
newed vigor. During the fight for
the passage of the Wainwright bill, it
was clearly demonstrated to the pub
lie at least that the deposit of trap
rock on the west face of Hook Noun
tain vas equal in quantity with that
on the river face and superior in
quality. 1t was shown also that this
deposit was within easy access of the
railroad and the state engineer said
politically that there was no demand
by the state for the continued deface-
ment of Hook Mountain.
The plea of the quarry men at the
time was that the blasting of trap
rock in the present quarries was e
essary for the building of the state
roads. An investigation showed that
the Odell-Foss combination was get
ting an excessive price. from the state
for the trap rock quarried from Hook
Mountain under a contract made dur
ing B. B. Odell's incumbency of the
| governorship. State Engineer Van
| Alstyne stated that there we're large
; deposits of trap rock in other parts
of the state, much of it along the line
of the canal, which latter could be
excavated during the course of the
| enlargement of the canal and trans
ported when needed at a much lower
rate of cost than that at which the
| state is now compelled to buy rock
from Foss and Odell.
That the continued blasting on the
river front of Hook Mountain is van
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12
CHILDREN LOVE POETRY.

A child at its play is a natural
rhymer, having also a latent sense OF
metrical truth, writes Grace Duffield
Goodwin in Good Housekeeping. Take
any bright child of four or five and
see how initiative he is, how readily
he forms a little idea-less verse upon
some simple model. His thought
comes later; he will find the rhyme,
and, after a brief struggle, the meter,
and then he will instinctively choose
poetical words. He heaps them to-
gether in splendid and meaningless
masses, but out of it all you will get
a sense of color, of beauty, of rich
ness. He has emptied his treasures.
Every lovely word he knows is there
regardless of it's meaning. To him 1t
is lovely, not because of any attempt
at an embodied idea, but because OF
it's soft vowels, its singing conson-
ants, it's beat of music.
A child of five listened long to an
older person reciting softly that most
exquisitely musical poem of Hogg's:
Bird of the wilderness
Blithesome and cumberless,
Sweet be thy matin DER moorland
and lea,
| Emblem of happiness,
| Blest be thy dwelling place;
oh, to abide in the desert with thee
After a moment of deep thought she
arose, waving her arms slowly like
a bird in f1ight-"It's like wings
mother" she said.
: Here is an instinct to be trained
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12

dalism is generally agreed. Unless
definite action is taken quickly there
will be little of beauty to preserve
and the main purpose of the Vain
wright bill and the endeavors of all
of the friends of Hook Mountain will
be thwarted.
Considerable progress has been
made by the engineer of the Pail
sades Park Commission in perfecting
the plans for the highway which will
eventually be constructed along the
face of the cliffs and along the river
shore from Fort Lee to the southern
termination of the state roads at
Stony Point. Fifty million dollars
has been set aside by the state for the
buildings of it's roads. The highway
through the Palisades Park will ne
constructed by voluntary private con-
tributions. The friends of the move
ment, who have contributed largely
already, feel that something is due
from the public at large in the way OF
the general support of the commits
sion where 1t is needed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12

left to pay for posting the bills on
which she relied to advertise the en-
tertainment.
Having tried various ways of cir
cumventing ii difficulty without
success, she determined to be her
own bill poster. She went straight
to the hotel kitchen and persuaded
II of the maids to make her a guam
tity of paste.
Then she borrowed a bill posters
brush, and as soon as it was dark set
off on her adventurous round and
posted up one of the bills she had had
printed. The result of her enterprise
was a big house and a big success.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12

for service. 1t is ministered to in the
nursery SO long as the old-fashioned,
simple rhymes will answer the pur-
pose, but the child of four or five,
who refuses longer to listen to the
rhymed inanities which satisfied his
first sense of musical numbers, is left
without provision. The critical age
for the budding little poetry lover is
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12

from four to eight, and if those years
are not filled with something which
answers to the developing instinct,
that instinct seems to die, and with
it perishes a great factor for happi-
ness in mature life.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12

There is great good sense in the
Spanish saying that Through not
spending enough we spend too
much" This is "the Law and the
Prophets" in the matter of store ad-
vertising.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-12

The NEWS gives the news when 1t
is news.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

The Sitka Cablegram is dead. II. w. Robinson, it's editor, will be associated with the Juneau Dispatch. During the fourteen moaths the paper lived he did all the work-reporting, editing, type setting, press work and job work. He worked seventeen hours day and made the Cablegram model of decency and enterprise. He made but one mis- take: he ought to have quit sooner. A town that would not appreciate work like that ought to be left to it's own way. Unfortunately the Cablegram attracted wide attention to the gold find at Chiea- goff island, and thereby may have been the means that will confer lasting ben eft on people incaple of appreeiatiug good fortune.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04
The Victoria Falls.

The Zambesi river, carrying a huge volume of water two miles in width, as it reaches the western borders of Rho- desia precipitates itself into cavernous gorge, and thus traverses the northern plains of the country.
 This great drop in the river has pro- duced "the most beautiful gem of the earth's scenery" the Victoria Falls. Almost twice as broad as Niagara and two and half times as high, an inn mense mass of water rolls over it's edge to precipitate itself in magnificent splen- dor four hundred sheer feet into the narrow canyon below.
 Cndeterred, the Rhodesian engineers have, without detracting from the nat ural beauty of the surroundings, thrown across the canyon splendid 650-foot cantilever bridge and thus opened the way to Tanganyika, to Yuganda, to Cairo.-Sir Percy Girauard.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

THOSE republicans who prefer Frank D. Wells to J. w. Young for central committeeman certainly have right to their preference. But when they assert that those who oppose Mir. Wells and who recommended Mr. Young worked in secret they willfully misstate the facts. A large number of republicans here have long and openly contended that it is disgraceful for Mir. Wells to be the authorized representative of the party in this district. The meeting at which Mir. Young was recommended for the place was called by the chairman of the territorial committee, was publicly advertised, and was open and above board. It was the first republican meet ing ever openly held here. The ones who are now crying out against it on the pretext that it was secret and the work of clique aye the ones who have seldomest been seen in the open; and the career of J. B. Wingate, their leader, is proof positive of this assertion.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1906.
ALASKA.YUKON.PAClFlC EXPOSE.
 TON.

Godfrey Chealander was one of the first--if not the very first-to propose an Alaska exposition to be held in Se- attle in 19O7 Now that the scope of the exposition has been enlarged so that it is necessary to delay the exposition till 1909, Mir. Chealander and the other pioneers in the movement will have the more reason to be proud of their part in the undertaking, for it seems destined to reach proportions scarcely dreamed of in the earlier stages of the ideas de- velopment.
 MT. Chealander has wide acquaint- ance in Alaska and knows the resources of the territory and of the mining dis tricts on the Canadian side of the boundary line. It is expected he will be made director of Alaska exhibits, for which position his experience in con- nection with the Lewis & Clark Expo sition qualities him, perhaps, beyond any other Alaskan. If he is selected by the management for that important place his well-known zeal and energy will go long way toward making Alas ka's exhibit an index to the territory's greatness
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

Nor in Alaska alone, but everywhere in the United States, the presidents resolve to stand by Judge Wickersham will meet with popular approval. He is simply exercising his authority to prevent very small minority over riding the wishes of the United States senate
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

Now, then, if Southeastern Alaska reaches an agreement to stand firm for ex Governor Swineford for the short term and some one else for the long term, there may be very pretty con- test over the delegateship after all.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

Queer thing about society,"" re- marked the homegrown philosopher.
 What's the answer7"
 "When q woman once gets in she for gets all the cynical remarks she tormer- Iy made about it."-Ex.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

WITH all the exuberance of spirit last Friday there was none of the sickening slobber that was wont to exude from the Forum editors pen before he lost the district deputy clerkship.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

TIE people of this judicial division are entitled to know the evidence that was submitted to the senate committee in the case of Judge Wickersham. It concerns them deeply.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04
greatness.

THE Rampant delegates to the Juneau republican convention will not be able to even get their proxies there in time. The fact that meeting was held in Rampant is worth something, however, and much good may eventually come of it.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

THE editor of the Forum doesn't want a clique to run things. Just he and his astrological assistant are sufficient--and there is not enough of them to form d respectable combination, much less a clique.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

ESTIMATOR NEisoS is not quitter"- no, inleed Meantime, r. Roosevelt certainly is stayer,
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

Lawyer-Are you sure that the de- fendent struck you in the vestibule?
 Plaintiff-Yes, yer honor; once in the vestibulc and once under the bay win dow .-Ex.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

THE self-government demand is SO unanimous and persistent that the dele gate to be elected will have use for it in hIs campaign.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

Cultivation is the only read to man neFs. Affectation looks to he short cut, but it only leads oif into the mora-s of mamnerism. m.--Puck.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

SUBsCRIPTIoN.-On year, $7.5O; six months, S4.0O; one month 75 cents.
 ADVERTISING Transient advertisements, S1 per inch for first insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Contract adver- per month: One inch, $2.50; two inches, $4; four inches, S7 six inches, Ss.50; professional cards eight lines space, S2. Religious and funeral notices free. Twelve solid lines of small type make an inch. Advertisements changed without charge.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04

THE "bona fide" republicans of the camp: who are they and what were they doing June 252
Yukon Valley news., 1906-07-04
Notice of Final Settlement of Ad-
 ministratoP of Herbert Ravens
In the Matter of the Estate
 of

of Herbert Haven, deceased.
 Pursuant to an order of the Probate Court for Rampant Precinct, Third Division, Terri tory of Alaska, notice is hereby given, that c. P. Raining has filed with said court his final statement or account, as administrator and that on the 24th day of August, 1906, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m., has been set by the court to hear objections to said final account md the settlement thereof; and all persons objecting to said final account or the settlement of said estate are hereby notified to appear before the Honorable Court, in the court room of the court house in Rampant, at the time above stated, then and there to make such objections.
 It is further ordered that this notice be printed in the Yukon Valley News for six consecutive weeks, the first insertion to ap- pear in the issue of June 20, 1905.
 Dated this 18th day of June, A. D. 1906.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Commissioner and ex-officio Judge of the
 Probate Court.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18
ATLANTA NEGRO woMENs DREAD.
Believe Medical Students Have Permit ia
Cut Them I'd.

Atlanta, Ga. Feb, IT CSpecaD.-Ths Atlanta nsv
groeS-and they are much in evidence hsrs as
in any other city OF the SOUth-are a never raufna
source or hum0r TO the white residents. II ons
meets Atlanta In the smoking OF a
Pullman and his turn comes TO tell story, this
chances uinety-nine in hundred that iI VII.
deal with negro life character.
As evidences that the crop IS plentiful and
ever changing. here Is which developed n
course OF Tribune correspondents recent visit "a
this Southern metropolis:
While he calling Mayor Woodward =
delegation OF negroes entered TO protest against q
permit which they understood that the Mayor had
issued.
What was the permlt?' was asked
I'VE hears that you'ss going to allow them msds
zeal students 10 uss their sneak wagon an cascHs
coIored women an cut EN- Up in the vtsscrfns
ROOM was the explanation.
Investigation showed that negro women IN al
parts OF Atlanta believed that such a permit had
been issued and that their lives IN danger a
they venuured on the streets after dark How thu
carard started no one seemed To know. but nearby
every employer OF negro household help had ev1s
deuce OF tbs belief OF tina negroes N It and or rnes
fright
Most frightened OF all were the negro nanny
cooks. Most OF them are teshy and they believed
that on that account they were especially desired
by the medical students. &c cause thera6 De mora
10 cut up Many Of them armed themselves with
carving knives. with which they intended 70 nsn-
for their lives II the rubber tired wagon drawn ~
horses with rubber shOes-ths nOiseless vehicle o.
death-whiCh the students were supposed 20 Use
came sneaking up behind them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

To perpetuate the memory Of Robert Fulton.
whose inventive genius gave TO Americans the
first vessel propelled by steam TO make the
trip from New-York 10 Albany, and TO coTn-
rneuorate the centennial anniversary OF the
launching the Hudson River or That re-
rnarkable craft, the Robert Fulton Memorial
Association has been incorporated Under the
laws Of the State. the certificate having been
signed by these persons as charter members:
Ea3or General Frederick D. Grant O. 8 A.
who was appointed temporary president; Hugh
Gordon Miller temporary secretary Samuel
Clemens Mark Twain, r. Fulton Cuttlng'
Colonel John L Shepherd, Colonel h. o. o
Feistand. L s A. and Andrew F. Burleigh-
II is the purpose Of the association to raise
5000 600 10 erect q monument to Ronert r uiUoIl'
,non a site overlooking the Hudson River upon
whose waters the C1ermont first Piled ana 70
Law the cornerstone in 1907, upon me IoVth
.-r,va-sarv Of Fultou's first successful trip IN
that steamboat -.
saoo,s meeting will soon be held in this city
90 ,vbicb permanent officers will be elected and
-, names added 10 the general committee
h,cb bes already been formed and whfch IN
o,,,6es -be names of Colonel John Jacob Astor'
William Bayard Cutting. W. H Fletcher austen
= rox Eisbop David II. Greer. Governor Frank
" T4iggtns D. e. Jacobus. Rear Admiral 1eors9
W Melville. U s. N Cretired). z Fl OLcoVI Johh
George l. tkiVes' j. f1aIAIpOeAA ~@oH'
I2,,tI,- SCHUYLER. L N Seligman. William Stewart
,7,,,ralander. Howard Townsend j. q A Waro
-. 1yorsca white A large representation from
- oIa-ov have been invited II serve and many
- 80 Nv responded accepting and Endorsing
the plan -a,r.- 90 cao
pobert Fulton Cutting. in responding 10 Sec
-, MuIers invitation 10 serve on the general
-.+.aa and become one OF the corporators'
wrote:
,,-, ,,roiect was very well under way ~ne IN
me Pr - me and / was naturally pleased 70
preseH.tI9a -, the matter had been taken up Oy
know . ,,,xens / wish TO make corFecII LII,
pauIOtS T am not the grandson OF teoOoiI -.
nT-s Fulton was my srHluouAs- -.
ION Ceased 20 Join the comInittee IN sisii,1IS
o GS .TC,rporation papers silo eIIA Se5 +bat
CO.. IN further the rnoVeille ~. - ne-natnsted I
can Inlton's memory Is 10 pe pei 20 - 49,
Robert " lens Of the committee are, IL II can
believe tne 10 secure a site along the oahks o.
De hL ,ssoy, overlooking the TlVeF uPoii "ti-
the ClerInont uaVelie"-
co,one, John L. Shepherd wrote;
,,a enjoy honors on tno conihIt stS
DenoFe T,yain as Fulton made IL possible
with MAJ = 1,s "a earn living In our younger
- 7 held a position on -, a.st, ,vss
Gays. and I believe that Mark twain "AS
some u.I 1.a5 nv a steamboat company. teca
hlso eLnpi1 1rored 10 be called upon 10 90 what
speclaIly ~ success Of this monument
,..o,,a4, his military secretary "oVeri'or
1rra,l, W Higgins wrote TO Hugh "orooii NIL
ler the temporary secretaryi
The Governor desires ma 10 saz shas IN Siu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

could conceive of no invention which had done
so much 70 stimulate International commerce; TO
permit exchange OF commodities and to relieve
famine. After discussing at some length the
erect Of steam navigation upon his profess
sion. he said that the world had been slow 10
recognize the genius OF Fulton. but now that the
matter OF a memorial was under consideration,
New-York would be fortunate If the rest OF the
world permitted her to have the first the best
monument TO his memory.
In a letter TO Mr.. Miller Colonel John Jacob
Aston said that 1t would give him much pleas
urs TO a member Of the general COM
mittee Of the Robert Fulton Memorial Asso-
citation Rear Admiral George ". Melville.
Q. 5. n. (ret1red) sent a similar letter, and E.
E. Olcott- president OF the Hudson River Day
Line. wrote: LAS 7 am interested in the sub
tect shall be most happy 10 accept the honor
you PROPOSE"
AprOpos of Mr.. Olcott's acceptance, IL is in
tresting to note that the Hendrick Hudson. OF
his line, said 10 be the largest and most mag
nificently equipped river steamer in the world.
is 10 be put in service just 100 years from the
date OF the ClermontS first trip I'D the river
Invitations have been sent 10 the following
persons. many OF whom have already responded,
approving and indorsing the plans Of the COM
mittee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18
8cMrERs OF THE Sea

J. Stanley Gardiner. OF Cambridge University
has been exploring the Indian Ocean, and gives
II as his opinion that at one time there was land
connection between CeylOn and Madagascar.
But 1t is in describing the wonders OF the deep
that his report grows most interesting y very
considerable variety OF deep fish We're
brought up.'' he says. At least half the num-
Der secured seem quite new specimens. and.
believe are not described In any textbook.
Some OF these had enormous eyes. some only
rudinenary eyes. the size of pins head. while
some had no eyes at all. One OF the most In
terestiug discoveries we made was that floating
life Is exceedingly. abundant ar all depths down
10 about twelve hundred fathoms in seas twenty
five hundred fathOms deep BY floating lie
mean animals which form the food OF whales
and deep ocean fish. and which up TO the pres
ent have been believed 10 live on very close
10 the surface a variety Of enormous sQutds
were nshed out Well Jelly fish. and gigan-
tic prawns fully six inches long Some OF these
latter were blind. while others had huge eyes
but nearly all OF them had phOsphOrescent or
gans. which would naturally be due TO the fact
that they live depth where almost total
darkness prevails. The blind varieties had enor-
nous feelers. or antennse. some or them extend
ting 70 twice the length or their bodies some
forms. such the water flea, which Is onlv
about the size of pins head IN surface water
We discovered six or ten times that size IN sx
or seven hundred fathoms. -(Dundae Advsr-
User.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

give him great pleasure 20 allow the OF his
name as g member of this committee, and TO
add that he wishes all success to the worthy
enterprise IN which you have interested your
selves.
Major General Frederick Dent Grant, y. S.
A. In an interview said he regarded 1T as a
signal honor TO head such an association. for
so worthy a purpose, and especially so on ac-
count of tho many well known men identified
with it He said, however. that 1t would be
necessary for him TO resign as president and
take a subordinate place. either one Of
the Independents or as member OF the gen
eral committee, as the place OF president
would interfere with the performance OF his
military duty, but he felt sure there would be
no difficulty in filing prominent a place.
General Grant talked interestingly OF Fulton
and the effect his experiment had upon the de-
veloprnent of New-York City. and he remarked
that whatever his connection was with the
work he would do all in his power 10 bring about
suocess IN the undertaking.
Under date OF February ID Mark Twain. IN
response TO the committees request for his views
on the project, wrote the fOllowingi
am sure that but for Robert Fultons
genius and energy steam navigation would nave
remained in the egg centuries longer than IL did
He made the vacant oceans and the idle rivers
useful. after the unparalleled had been Won
dering for a hundred million years what they
were for He found these properties HaDilAty;
he left them an asset II Ia the peculiar honor
and privilege OF our concentrating age TO esti-
mate this majestic service at its sDIsIad19 es2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

the ranks and whose ancestry was most pie
beian, and as for King Louis Philippe ft IN re-
lated Of him that when on one occasion he was
pet1toned by a wealthy retail dealer at Paris
to confer upon his son the title OF baron on ira
occasion OF his marriage. he replied:
Mon Ddeu, my dear sir. am very sorrx
should be delighted TO oblige you. but you know
1 cannot DO so without the consent or my oabt-
net, and of the Chamber Of Peers. Alas 7 am
not the master. But" added his majesty. With
that queer little smile which used TO flicker
on his face whenever he was about 20 psrps-
trate one OF those sOphistries OF which hs waa
50 fond, between ourselves why should not tbs
dear boy assume one OF his own choice Ike su
many Others?'' EX-ATTACHE