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GIANT COP THROTTLES
BEAR BEFORE CROWD
BIG ClNNAMON'S DASH FOR LIB
ERTY CUT SHORT BY
BlUECOAT.

Camden, N. Jed Hartman, one of
Camdens giant cops, had hand to
hand fight the other night with a Gin
namon bear as big as himself. Hart
man, at the expense of nearly all his
clothes, won out and trussed the bear
with clothesline. About 1000 people
saw the struggle and cheered Hart
man. After the struggle, when he
awoke to his less than half-clad condi-
ton, Hartman fled precipitately.
The bear came in over the Pennsyl-
vania railroad in charge of two train
ers. Something on its journey made
the cinnamon mad, and on the plaza in
front of the terminal, it bowled over
its two custodians and made break
for liberty. Hartman heard about 1t,
rushed into a grocery store and seized
a roll of clothesline, and ran for the
station. He ran into the bear, and
bruin promptly gave him side swipe
that sent Hartman ten feet away.
The cop, who is six feet eight inches
and weighs $50 pounds, got his breath
and started for the bear again. He had
formed the rope into lasso and cast
the moose. The loop fell short, and
as Hartman dragged it in the CHINA
mon made feint and got into close
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The largest book yet printed is q
colossal atlas of beautiful engraved
ancient Dutch maps. 1t takes three
men to move it from the giant book
case in which it is stored in the library
of the British museum. This monster
book is bound in leather, magnificently
decorated. and is fastened with clasps
of solid silver, richly gilt. 1t is unlike
ly to be stolen, however, for it is nearly
seven feet high and weighs 800 pounds
This, the largest book in the world.
was presented to King Charles II. be
fore leaving Holland in the year 1860.
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Pipes.

Mr.. Rattz of Minnesota had rats In
his garnet and shot himself. That was
rough on RattZ.
A Kansas woman dyed upon learn
ing that her hair was turning gray.
AS a still more forcible argument
against household duties for men,
comes the news of Maine man who
beat carpet so hard tack flew out
of the border and ruined one of his
eyes.
A waspish waist sometimes carries
with IL the sting of the safety-pin.
Now that the first robin has been
chronicled from many different parts
of the country, 1t remains for Missouri
20 report the first mosquito of the year,
said mosquito having bit a cripples
wooden leg and raised pine knot
thereon.
A Michigan man dropped dead
while hoeing in the garden. / told my
wife yesterday we could buy our rad
ishes cheaper than we could raise 'em.
"A soft answer turneth away wrath"
and gives the soft answerer the short
end. A soft answerer in Chicago
would be an easy mark in two days.
An Iowa man has been sentenced
to ten years in prison for stealing a
ham. Surely this could have been no
ordinary ham. Maybe it was the ham
what am"
1t very often happens that when a
friend wants to borrow SIS of you, you
haven't the money-and besides you
usually want to use it yourself.
Love is four-fifths moonshine and
he other fifth just blamed contrari.
ness.
Eat onions and sleep WE'LL" says
an exchange-and alone, we might
add.
Speaking of a highly intellectual
woman a New York paper says "she
was just running over with culture"
Sort of automobile. culture, so to
speak
Golf Is all right in it's way, but
when i was boy we played a game
called Loose the Hounds" that has
"goff' beaten to a pulp. There were
FIVE hounds. said hounds being select
ed from the fastest runners of the boy
coterle. The other boys were given a
block start and the hounds set in pur-
suit AS fast as boy was overtaken
he was bitten on the ear by the par
ticular hound that had nabbed him,
and he in turn became hound and
plked out to bite all the ears he could
overtake. When the last boys ear
had been chewed, we all went in
swimmin'
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RUN "sPooNERs' SPECIAL" CAR.
Connecticut innovation Proves Boon
for Sentimental Couples.

South Norwalk, Conn.-If you hap
pen along the turnpike between this
town and Rowayton, about midnight,
you may be surprised to hear the rat
tlety-bang of a street car gong at in
teryals. The street car is the Spoon
ers' special" and the gongis the cur
few, so to speak, rung by an indulgent
ard we'll tipped motorman, calling
SWANS away from fond good-bys for
the last car home.
AS the gong sounds, at the picked
spots along the road you can see
lights turned up in houses here and
there and youths appear. 1t is viewed
as a very nice arrangement for the
Rowayton boys and the South Nor
walk girls. But the Rowayton girls
do not regard it as a long-felt want.
Indeed, they are petitioning the rail
way officials to take off the midnight
car and &C back to nine o'clock for the
last trip
South Norwalk, as everybody in the
town will tell you, has more pretty
girls than any town this side of Water
bury or anywhere else. There silk
mills, corset factories, lace and shirt
shops, and when the six o'clock whis'
tie blows there is a beauty parade,
you may be sure. every night.
Rowayton, with its preparatory
lchools. has many boys, and it was
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natural that reciprocity should OBJ
70

natural that reciprocity should OBJ
tain.
But so many came that 1t was nee.
essary to spoon in relays, and the joy
of Rowayton boys counting South Nor
walk girls had its difficulties. The last
car left South Norwalk at nine o'clock
Now nine o'clock was all very well
when the sparkling was in its early
stages, but at the point of STEADY
company" that hour became cruelty
early. Often swain of the second re.
lay overstayed his good-by, and had to
walk home.
So the petition for midnight car
went in. South Norwalk girls added
their names to it, and how could the
railway officers resist the appeal?
They simply could not, and the mid.
night spooners' special, with its harsh
gong presaging the gentler tinkle of
wedding bells, runs joyously.
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A FEW FROZEN FACTS.
Unheard-of Sufferings as Endured by
the People Out West.

Your people here in the east must
have read of our sufferings in the west
in December and January" said the
man from Dakota, as he shivered
again, but ] don't suppose the papers
published the situation half as bad as
it was"
Shortage of coal, wasn't it?" was
asked.
Exactly. | bought the last ton for
sale in my village and paid $40 for it.
BY the middle of November | was
burning my fences. By the first of
December most of my barn had gone.
Before January was half through
was burning my woodshed and furni
ture for fuel We were crowded into
two rooms, but the weather held right
along at over 40 below. My children
had their heels frostbitten while they
stood in front of the stove"
1T must have been pretty tough"
Tough? Why, my dear man, no
people in America were ever called
upon to endure what we did for rs
days. Every COW, horse, sheep, calf
hog and dog in our country froze to
death, and though we used their car.
cases for fuel we still continued TO
suffer-
But the weather finally broke and
the coal famine was relieved?"
yes, but the last five days will
ever remain imprinted on my mem
ory. We had burned the last of the
furniture and begun tearing off the
doors. We had word that coal
train would reach us within the week
but how to get over that week was
the question. My wife is woman
weighing 200 pounds, while | am thin
and long and without an ounce OF
grease about me, as you see. On
one Of those last days we sat and
looked at each other for long time
There were seven freezing children
besides ourselves. Those 200 POUNDS
would keep the stove going until the
coal came and six of our lives would
be saved
Heavens, but you didn't mean that
YOUR wife offered herself as sac
rifice!" exclaimed the Mortified pas
senger.
mol" was the quiet reply. mo, she
refused to, and that's why left home
and can never, never return, and why
my faith in human nature can never
be restored should l live to be a
thousand years old. She wouldn't
be turned into fuel, sir, and she's
alive and fat to-day, and If any OF
you want to get up game of poker
I'll take a hand in to try and forget
my sorrows, "-Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle
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Wurdeman, Jr., of Ills Thirteenth
street northwest, in front of DR.. II.
Wells Woodward's office, 1918 Massa-
chusetts avenue northwest, and after
wards rang the physicians doorbell
summoning the latter to the aid of
the injured driver about $50 o'clock
the other evening. Mr.. Wurdeman re-
ceived severe laceration of the scalp
over the right eye. Strangely enough.
Dr. Woodward is an eye, ear and
throat specialist. After receiving the
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Fresh Euqs,

Honest, like my wife, but she's too
blamed sympathetic. Yesterday a
small boy came weepingly to the back
door with a basket of eggs and said
his mother had sent him to deliver the
fresh henfruit to Mrs. Brown who
lived somewhere or other-and (boo
hoo) he couldn't find (boo hoo) Mrs.
Brown at all. Well, my wife felt her
sympathes rising higher and higher
as she looked at those fresh country
eggs anc in about two minutes she had
paid the boy fancy price for his
eggs and sent him on his way rejoic-
ing. Last night we had a crackfest up
at our house. 1t began at six o'clock
near the gas stove and ended behind
an ash barrel in the alley. Two Of the
eggs were good, anyhow-Gnd my wife
says maybe the boy didn't know about
the other forty-six.
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al one OF the Friday cotlllons ym
she Is seen very little by the fashion
apies-in fact, she cares little 10,
small talk and late suppers, dancing
or the theater
horses are her hobby Many
RIBBON has she won. too. at the out
uoor horse shows, where she rides
ana drives herself. Four years age
MISS Rockefeller astonished even hei
in'iinates by entering 30 horses al
.he Westchester horse show II took
hours of begging and pleading Will
ner rather to gain his consent. but
II was finally accomplished. Miss
Ethel won because she frankly admit
'eu mat she was proud of her horses
ana wanted others to see what beau
uiul animals they really were.
ANA when her horse Tendresse
TOOK his blue Miss Ethers heart was
hlled with more happiness than II
would have been had Standard Oil
STOCK mounted another 10C points .
share.
An outdoo, Girl.
Miss Rockefeller is distinctly an
outdoor girl. She much prefers to
cahler over the Westchester roads
than to frivol at an afternoon tea
she can drive as well as she can ride
100 and many fine afternoon sees
her driving a spirited pair, with some
girl friend as companion. And she
never lets groom accompany her
Inc bride-to-be is young woman
VINO doesn't have to be amused. She
can amuse herself; she is never
bored; she is bright attractive. hei
gowns are marvels of taste and sim
pllclty; she cares little for iewelry
she Is graduate of Miss Spence's
school, from which so many daughters
OF millionaires have been sent forth
Miss Rockefeller is decidedly good
looking. She is rather petite, with
dark-brown hair and eyes and a pink
and-white complexion that speaks O.,
early hours and plenty of exercise In
the open air. Her face is well round
ed and her figure is excellent-in fact
she is a type of the well-groomed
American girl.
Fond of Early Rides.
Some of this comes from her early
morning rides. She never misses
them when she is up at lockwood
hall, her fathers stone palace at Irv
ington. On rainy mornings she may
be seen riding along the roads at q
brisk gallop, her hair flying in the
wind, her cheeks aglow with youth
and health
And this is the sort of a girl who
is going to join the Rockefeller for
tune with the Dodge fortune.
They will have everything that
money can buy-yachts, horses, 6
house in town, another in the country
with perhaps villa at the seashore
They will have hosts of friends, Of
course, because both of them have
so many friends already, and these
will join forces when the young PEG
pie are married.
When Miss Rockefeller become!
Mrs. Dodge, there will be no more
manageable Rockefellers. She is the
last of her generation to go to tn,
altar Ambitious mammas will hav,
to wait another 20 years for anothe
Rockefeller parti
All the grown-up Rockefellers will
have been married.
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-: }Rtgg'EE|.E
1YSsI1 UNCLE BY
A Load Of Hay.

A Load Of Hay
ny Jing, | seen load OF hay
To-day upon tn street
Somehow It sorter hit me where
My old hearts on tn beat
1t seemed { carry me. keiplunk,
Right back where | was small
Back yonder where they amt no crowds
Ner buildin's big an tall!
jist reached out an grabbed bunch
O. that there smelly hay
An sorter held It to my nose
An kissed IT.. that-a-wayl
why, darn my hide. | hicd right up
TIL tears cum In my eyca,
An fer u minute could see
TIL road L Paradise
TIL same old road that winds along
I" where tn crick is gay,
An where tn blithesomc mcadowlarks
Are sngin' in tn hay!
The same old lane whore | hey rid
More times than | kin tell
on top q loads as fragrant
AS honeysuckle's bell!
An / could see where | was born
Back there agln' the hill.
With mother staudin' by tn gate
An dad-an Tige AN Biz.
An could hear my mothers voice
A-speakin' soft an low.
And feel the pressure of her arms
Them arms used to know
An jlst when she had stopped L touch
My forehead with her lips
An brush tn hair from out my eyes
With those soft finger tips.
sorter woke up with crash
An heerd "a Teller say:
He stood there gapln up tn street
Behind "A load o. hayl
| HE stood there gapin' up tn street
TIL shofer hit him hard"
| An then / cum to an ! said
~ that policeman; "Pard,
| Yew needn't worry. I'm all right!
Yew couldn't kill n jay
| Thcts jist bin vlsitin' back home
| An dreamin' In tn hay!'
| He's only drunk" tn copper said
An jerked me to my feet
| An then somehow | squared tn thing
| An fixed II all up neat!
| I'm kinda weak an sore 4 day
| But don't keer fer this
| TIL thing I'm mad about b. gosh,
| Is mssin' mothers kiss!
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quarters. In a minute Hartman was
stripped of his clothes. This process
hurt Hartman's flesh so much that he
forgot his modesty. By an uppercut
on the bears nose he gained his free.
dom and cast the lasso another time.
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Animal THROWS DRIVER, THEN
PUSHES DOCTORS DooReELL
WITH NOSE.
READS SIGN OVER BUTTON
Physician Follows Intelligent Equine
to Helpless Owner - Remarkable
Story from a Hitherto Re.
liable Source.

Washington.-A Washington paper
which has always borne a high repu
>tation for scrupulous veracity. prints
the following;
Stranger than fiction is the story
of a big bay horse that threw j. II
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1907-02-14

presidents ideas of maintaining an eff
ficient army and strengthening the
navy
What do you think of the Browns
vile incident?' the senator elect was
asked
''Well, that is a point upon which
with my present information am in
clined to disagree with the president"
he replied. II think a proper course
there would have been court martial.
If the commanding officer was unable
to maintain proper discipline, he should
have been court martialed.'
1t is likely that the Camden and
Mercer delegates will oppose Senator
Hinchliffe's bills relating to the main
tenanee of public libraries and parks.
They provide that in all cities OF this
state now or hereafter having within
their territorial limits population of
not less than 100000 the board of al
dermen or other governing body shall
annually appropriate sums which in
their judgment are sufficient for the
care and maintenance of free public
library or libraries and park or parks.
These two bills are intended only to
apply to Paterson, but Camden and
Trenton are so close to the 100000
mark that they would soon be affected.
Those interested in Libraries in both
Camden and Mercer counties are of
the opinion that if the mandatory IL
brary and park appropriations are to
be abolished or modified it should be
done in a general act after hearing
is given to the representatives of all
the cities and towns that are interested.
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DRYDEN Sank Self For Party's Sake

The following lie the text OF Sena-
Tor Dryden'e letter to Senator Ere
linghuysen withdrawing from the
Senatorial race:
II regret that my state of health
peryented me from appearing before
the Republican members OF the Leg
isIature this afternoon. as arranged
last week. had hoped to be able TO
nersuade the gentlemen who are OPP
rosed to me, and who refused to be
hound by the action of the party eau
aus. that l conld worthily represent
the people of New jersey in the Uni
ted States Senate, and that their OPP
Dosition to me is based upo minis
taken grounds.
ssThis privilege is denied by my
pbysician in terms that are impera-
tive, and | must abide by bis decis'
ion.
'sAsI know of NO other means OF
influencing the minds of the gentle
men referred to, and can find no rea-
son for supposing that they VIII
change their attitude toward me at
any time in the near future, L have
come to the conclusion that l ought
not any longer to be candidate
II have had strong ambition to
represent the state of New Jersey IN
the Federal Senate for another term,
and have felt that could promote its
welfare and that of the nation in so
doing. cannot, however, allow my
personal ambition to stand In the
way of party harmony or the welfare
OF the state, and being satisfied that
a continuance of the present dead.
lock would tend to ing are both the
party aud the state have decided to
do what can to end it By asking you
to withdraw my name rs y candidate.
s'In taking this step | wish to ex-
press to you and your associates my
appreciation of the loyalty and ear
pestness with which you and they
have supported me and, what Is more
important, have supported the decis
ion of the party caucus"
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Dated February 7, 1907.
PATTERSON & RHoME. Atty's ($8.Io).
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The State Gazette.

The state Gazette" will contain a
full synopsis of the proceedings of the
Senate and Assembly of 1907, a list OF
all bills introduced, passed and vetoed.
The session promises 70 be one of great
interest because of their being Re-
publican Senate and Democratic AS
sembly. ;,
The Daily Gazette will be mailed
to subscribers for the session for seven
ty-five cents. -
No other newspaper in the state will
give so much in detail of the legisla-
tive proceedings.
A fact that ought to be known
throughout the state is that the
weekly State Gazette is only one
dollar year.
Address, THE JoHNL. MURPHY
PUBLISHING Co.,
Trenton, N. j !.
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The peoples lobby program as set
forth by the Newark News to intro
duce bills providing for four ste
nographers for each house at salary
Of 81 $50 each for the session. creating
an Office of State Printer of legisla-
tive proceedings and distributing
these is a scheme that would be q
very expensive one. The salaries OF
the officers alone would amount to
$4,000 year. We hope that no such
bin will be passed at this or any other
session of the Legislature.
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sALE.-By virtue Of a

HERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue of a
~ writ of e. ia. to me directed, issued out of
the Monmouth Circuit Court will be exposed to
sale at public vendue, on MONDAY, THE
EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MARCH, 1907, between
the hours of II o'clock and O'Clock lat o'clock
In the afternoon of said day at the Court House,
Freehold, in the township of Freehold county
Of Monmouth, New Jersey.
The said building is a two and one-half story
frame dwelling house twenty feet wide in front
and thirty eight feet deep and twenty-six feet
wide in rear with porch on front and side six
feet wide and the same is erected upon that lot
or land or curtilage, situated in the City of As
bury Park in the County of Monmouth and
state of New Jersey, and described as follows:
being Lot No 40, in Block No. 9 on map en-
titled. MAP of lots at West Asbury Park. N. j.,
belonging to Dayton and DeNyse (Section No
ayr, made by W. H. DeNyse, Surveyor &C., Aug.
beginning on the west side of Ridge Avenue
al the northeast corner of lot No. in Block No.
3 on said Map; thence ~ northwardly along
The west side OF Ridge Avenue fifty feet; thence
~ westwardly at right angles with Ridge Ave
nue. one hundred and thirty-fve feet; thence Isl
southwardiy parallel with Ridge Avenue forty
i've feet to the northwest corner of lot No. 3 in
Block No. thence "a eastwardly along the
north line of lots Nos 8, 2 and I, in Block No. 9.
one hundred and thirty-hve feet one inch to the
place of beginning.
seized as the property of Antoniette Meade,
taken in execution at the suit Of Charles Lewis,
aud to be sold by
PaTTERsoN q RHoME. Atty's ($s.Io).
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TNCHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
4 To Louise Barrett, wife of Henry J. Barrett,
Montague P. Barrett and Mrs. Montague p
Barrett.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Chaucerv
of New Jersey made on the day OF the date here
oil in cause wherein Aaron Harris is Com
pI ainaut and you and Henry J. Barrett, The
township of Ocean in the County of Monmouth
body corporate, and the City of Long Branch,
body corporate, are defendants, you are required
to appear ana plead demur or answer, but
without oath, to the bill of said complainant, in
the manner and form required by law and the
practice of said Court, on or before the
ELEVENTH DAY OF APRIL, A. d. 1907, or the
said bill will be taken confessed against you
The said bill is filed to foreclose a certain
Barrett his wife, to one Philip Levy dated
January 81, 1857 recorded in Monmouth County
Clerks Office in Book rs of Mortgages page $780,
February 1, 1887 covering property in the City
of Long Branch, New Jersey, and you, Louise
Barrett, are made defendant, because your
deed for said property to Montague p. Barrett
dated May 10, 1909 was executed without the
concurrence of your husband, Henry J. Barrett,
and you still have, or claim to have. title to, or
some interest in said property, and you, Mon
tapue p Barrett are made defendant, because
YOU hold deed tor said property executed by
said Louise Barrett, dated May 10. 1903, and by
some part thereof and you, Mrs, Montague p
Barrett, are made defendant because you claim
that as the wife of said Montague P. Barrett you
are entitled to an inchoate right of dover in
said property.
Dated February Ninth, 1907
SAMUEL c. COWART,
(ooo) Post-office address Freehold. N. ].
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Rumson Borough Bill.

Senator Oliver HI. Brown, of Spring
Lake. will introduce the bill in the
Senate providing for the incorpora-
ton of the Borough of Rumson. The
bill it is thought, will meet with but
little opposition.
The Committee of Fifteen having
in charge the Incorporation of the
borough, held meeting last Satur-
day night and received reports from
the different subcommittee, AL
were entirely satisfactory.
Nearly all the summer residents of
the famous Rumson road are in favor
of incorporation, and have signed the
petition asking that the bill receive
favorable consideration from the Leg
islators. Many new residents of the
Rnmson road have lately affixed their
signatures to the petition.
The advocates of new borough
feel sure that the project will go
through.