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Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
WOMAN is ACCUSED
OF DESERVING FAMILY

Mrs. Laura Smith, of Keyport, was
here today on warrant
brought here Saturday by Officer Wall
ing from Keyport. 1t is alleged by the
woman g husband that she deserted
him and their four small children about
a week ago and came to this city. She
will be taken to the Monmouth county
town. The arrest was made by Detec-
tives Huff and Long.
The children are seven years, FIVE
years, three years and seven months
old, respectively, and the youngest is
now quite sick.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
METUCHEH HAS QUEER
CASE ON ITS HANDS

Metuehen's police force is in a
quandary as to what action to take
to bring a supposedly insane man
into communication with his friends
or relatives. The man was found
walking along the eastbound Penn
sylvania railroad track. near the Le-
high Valley bridge at Metuchen, last
Wednesday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
BARRIERS WARNED TO
KEEP CLOSED SUNDAYS

PatroIman Andrew Jensen was de
tailed Saturday afternoon to notify
a barber at 401 H State street to
keep his shop closed on Sundays as
a complaint had been made against
him. The proprietor said he had
never violated the law, but that one
of his neighbors had. The officer
saw the other barber and gave him a
similar warning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
HORSE WAS STOLEN
FROM WOODBRIDGE

M. Lovkowitz, of Woodbridge, re-
ported to the police early yesterday
morning that his bay mare was stolen
from his stable at 70 O'Clock Satur-
day night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
FORM a COMPANY

William P o'Hara, of this city, and
Robert Sterling, have formed com
pany, known as the Well-Sweep Manu-
Company. They manufacture
powder to be put on the floor to lay
the dust before sweeping,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
The LEADERS

DISTRICT No. 1.
Miss Florence Davis.
DISTRICT No. 2.
Miss Emily LOTUS.
DISTRICT No. 3.
Miss Ruth Lind.
DISTRICT No. {.
Miss Henrietta Hanson.
DISTRICT No. 5.
Miss Beatrice Monroe, Tottenville
DISTRICT No. @.
Miss Emma Slower, Prince Bay
DISTRICT No. Z.
Miss e. Wittenberg, Sewaren.
DISTRICT No. 8.
Miss e. Keegan, Sonth AmIoy.
DISTRICT No. o.
Miss Lillian Guest, Metuchen.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09

bridge .2,3O0
Beginning today, the votes will be
counted every night at 8 o'clock and
the result shown In the issues of the
Evening News the day following.
Friends Assisting.
Remarkable interest is being
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
Addition Under way.

Fred X. Martin is building an addi-
tion to his place In New Brunswick
avenue. The addition is for the La
Roe Press establishment.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
Child Overcome by Heat.

Ruby Barrets, -year-old boy,
tainted from the heat Saturday at the
store of his parents in the Cook row
in Smith street. He was soon revived.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09

All prescriptions carefully COM
pounded at Sections, 70 Smith street.
+4434-S-9-1t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
BOY FROM NEW
BRUNSWICK LOST

John Sander, seven years old. of
80 Plum street, New Brunswick,
came TO this city by trolley yesterday
morning and was turned over to the
police by the conductor of the car as
he said he was lost. The boy said he
came here to find his mother. The
police communicated with the New
Brunswick authorities and sent the
boy home yesterday afternoon.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
BIG ROW ANTICIPATED
AT IRRIGATION CONGRESS
Special by United Press Wire.

Special by United Press Wire.
Spokane, Wash, Aug. "a SEN
sational resolution demanding that
Secretary Bullinger explain his atti-
tude toward the United States reclaim
alton service and answer charges that
he is inclined to relegate the service
to professional politicians, promises
10 make lively the national irrigation
congress which opened today.
Ballingers presence here, who is
expected to defend the charges from
the rostrum, adds to the situation s
intensity. Homeseekers are the
principal aggressors. They charge
that Ballinger overturned the Roose-
welt policies regarding the conserva-
tion and reclamation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09
NOTICE.

The new fire alarm boxes will be
tested on Wednesday afternoon be-
tween the hours of and 3.
G. T. LARSON, Chief.
*4427-8-9-3 st
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09

Buttermilk by the glass or quart,
Sexton's, 40 Smith street.
Nc Ies.zas s4434-S-9-1t
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An anchor to windward-an ad In
he EVENING NEWS
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-08-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15

been brought out of the branch and are
lying in large numbers alongside the wall
of the Potomac Park at the south end Of
the harbor. Sections of the pipe are
being removed from them and stored on
the wall preparatory to being shipped
away
While laid up here the machinery OF the
big dredging machine will be given a
general overlauling and she will be made
ready to go into service In the spring. 1t
is said that she may be employed in other
work about this city.
The supply of oysters in the shell Cn
sale at the 18th street wharf market Is
fairly large, but there is by no means a
glut in the market. In consequence of
the warm weather of the past day or two
the market has been rather duh. but with
the return of cold weather business will
awaken and the sales will be large In
spite OF the warm weather and duh mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15

this city is on her way to Philadelphia
with lumber aboard; schooner j. r. P
Moore is at Seaford, Del, for repairs
schooner Sidonia Curley has gone to the
Rappahannock River to load lumber back
to this port; barge Hearn is on its way
from Alexandria to Norfolk to load lum-
Der for this city or Baltimore: schooner j.
II. Whiting is at river point loading
oysters for this city: schooner Samuel
Wood OF this city is laid up for the winter
at Salisbury, Nd.
One of the sand-carrying scows belong
ing TO the Columbia Granite Company of
this city is hauled out on the marine rail-
way at the Alexandria shipyard for a gen.
eral overhaulin of hull and for other work
that will put her i'm first class order for
service. The lighter will be ready to put
overheard early in the coming week and
will then return TO service
The steamer Wakefield of the fleet Of
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ket there has been an advance in prices
in the past week, and this morn
20 cents per bushel, while bivalves from
bay points sold at $1.25 per bushel.
The pulling of the piles of the old pier
of the Inland and Seaboard Coasting Com
pany at the foot of o street southwest
preparatory to the building of a new
pier for the lighthouse establishment has
been completed.
The construction work on the new pier
will be started as soon as the piles and
other material can be delivered on the
ground. The new pier is to be the finest
structure of its kind on the river front.
The little tug ID. NJ. Key Of the Tay-
Tor fleet which has been lying out of
service at this city for two weeks or
longer. has gone into commission again
and is employed in general towing work
about the harbor. Capt. Jack Taylor is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15

river point: steam barge D. X. Jackson,
laden with cord wood and towing a raft
OF piles from Aqua Creek: schooner ]. O.
Cunningham. lumber from a river point
for the market: sloop Export. schooners
Sterling Sisters. ]. c. Braden and Turtle
Dove. oysters in the shell from a Potomac
point; bugeye Goldie c., lumber from
river point to dealers; power barge
Louisa, cord wood from Nomini to the
dealers.
Sailed-Schooner Eta and the LYDIA
Vernon for the Potomac oyster beds to
load back to this city: steam barge Lily
and Howard. light. for New York via
Baltimore; schooner Annie Grace. light.
from Georgetown for Baltimore: tug
Carter with tow of light vessels for the
lower river: tug Meade, towing light sand
scows to the digging machines on Green
way flats.
Memoranda,-S Schooner John McGinnis of
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GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

The big hydraulic dredge Gen. Mac
kenzie. employed for several months in
deepening the channels of the Potomac
and Eastern branch in the vicinity of this
city. completed the work early in the past
week 1t was expected that the dredge
would be brought around to this city and
berthed in the upper end of the harbor
for the winter, but her owners in Balt;-
more have secured docking room at
pier on the Eastern branch and she will
lay up there for the winter
The pipe-carrying pontoons used in
pumping the material excavated from the
bottom Of the branch TO the flats have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15

the Washington and Potomac Steamboat
Company, which early this week was
temporarily upon the route of the steamer
Randall. has been berthed in the dock OF
the steamer ST. Johns, at the Colonial
Beach pier, while the ST. Johns is at
Baltimore undergoing repairs. The Wake
field Is to receive a thorough oyerhauinS
before she resumes her trips upon the
river in the early spring.
The schooner Annie G. Grace. which
unloaded a cargo of lumber at George
town. arrived at Baltimore today in tow
of one of the Taylor tugs. The vessel
was taken from this city to the mouth
of the river by the tug Camilla and WAS
there met by the larger tug that COM
pleted her trip TO Baltimore with the YES
el The Grace goes To Baltimore TO seek
a charter and will probably load coal for
a southern port. y
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i'm command of the tug. with Capt. Frank
kintZ as mate.
The big steamer ST. Johns, which left
this city for Baltimore Tuesday night
last, arrived there the next morning
about ~ O'Clock. The run from this port
to the shipyard at Baltimore was made
in twelve hours. and no effort was made
TO push the big steamer. She will be
at Baltimore for about two months.
The seagoing barge Charles 8. Hearn
which unloaded fertilizer material at
Alexandria, sailed Wednesday in tow of
Southern Transportation Company tug
for Norfolk. The barges Susquehanna,
Roanoke and Warwick. from this city
were also in the tow with the Hearn, but
they will go to Baltimore.
Arrived-Ram schooner Levin T. Marvel,
lumber from the Mattaponi river for the
dealers; tug j. o. Carter, towing seven
oyster and lumber laden vessels from a
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
ESSAs@& 2S
a S@S5 - z E@---Sss-z;<sS &
r. WO
XMAS BEFORE THE MAST
How Crew Celebrated MerriIy Off
the Coast of California in the
Early Days.
.6V4rVbedYs

"A good many of you may have read
Richard H. Danas interesting story OF
sea life, Two Years Before the Mast. :"
Dana's vessel was collecting hides on
the coast of California, when that
coast was in a semi-ciVtlized condi-
ton. He thus describes Christmas
among the crew:
AS there were no hides to take
in, and nothing especial to do, the cap
tain gave fs a holiday, the first we
had had except Sundays since leav-
ing Boston; and we had plum
duff for dinner
The crew of the Russian brig. lying
alongside US, following the old style,
had celebrated their Christmas II
days before, when they had a grand
blowout and (as our men said
had drunk in the forecastle keg of
gin, ate up a bag of tallow and made
a soup OF the sktn!'"
Certain it is that Christmas is the
one universal festival the round world
over; and every resident of a Chris.
tan land carries Christmas in his
heart wherever he may go.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
Christmas Rooms Trade.

christmas booms trades of all
kinds" said a statisttcian of New
York. ut is, on the whole, bless
ing.
Take groceries and fruit A big
grocer tells me that where ordinarily
he sends out 100 tons of groceries a
day at Christmas time he sends out
$50 tons. And of oranges, he sells
a million a week in December as
against 100000 a week at other times.
Turkeys go from 5000 to $4,000
in this firms output, nutmegs from
five to IS tons. raisins from 1000 to
5000 boxes and cigars from 1000 to
5000 boxes
wines and spirits, which are pop
uIar Christmas gifts, sell so per cent.
better than in any other month
know a man who sold $225,OOO worth
of whisky last December as against
an average of $125,OOO for the other
months of the year"
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
Santa Claus Abroad,

It is strange to contemplate the
great variety of forms the Santa Claus
custom assumes in different countries.
In Belgium the little ones fill their
shoes with carrots and oats and hay
for the white horse St Nicholas is
supposed to drive. Very early in the
morning they run to the room in
which their shoes have been left and
find that the provender has gone and
in its place candies and presents are
found.
Among the Carpathian mountains it
is st. Peter, who, dressed as a bishop,
and accompanied by the dreadful Ru-
precht, is expected by the children on
Christmas eve. The visitor first de-
livers a short sermon, lays on the
table rod whitened with chalk, and
takes his departure with his tinkling
bells. while Ruprecht follows close be-
hind. The children now hasten to pull
off their shoes, polish them and tie
than together; and, as soon as the
last notes of Niklo's bells have become
lost in the distance ,<fey run into the
garden and secrete their shoes be-
meath a bush. Phey spend the time
until 10 o'clgck in relating stories,
then go to their shoes. to find them
filed with apples, nuts and goodies.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
Christmas Cheer.

odd man." wrote the BillvilIe citi-
zen, 1t was my intendin' to give you
q fine present fer Christmas, but l
come short this year by the sheriff
levyin' on my cotton an the govern
ment on my corn; so | kin only send
sou a gallon jug of the last named,
which amt much as my ambitions is
fer you; but III say this, old boy:
There's enough in that jug to make
you have the jo,liest time O. yer life
Ter a day or two; eff you cant buy a
circus ticket, there's a whole circus in
six drains, an a eternal movfn' pictur'
show in &c; so make the most of it! 4"
Atlanta Constitution.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11

the Anglo-SaXon notion of the German
Christmas is drawn from those child
hood hours spent over Hans Andersen
and Grimm, and the sight of Christ
mas tree brings to mind the wood-cut-
ter tramping home through the snow
laden forest, trailing behind him the
fir tree for his family Christmas cell
ebration, while, in the towns, the
black quadrangle of the venerable
market place is picked out in lights
blazing on the trees in the windows
of the gabled houses.
Fifty years ago, before the young
German giant had awakened from the
sleep of centuries, this idea of the
peaceful German Christmas was cor
rect, the Berlin correspondent of the
New York Evening Post says. But if
one of the burghers of old Berlin, re-
turning from making his Christmas
purchases on Christmas eve, were to
be transplanted into the roaring hub
of empire which his haupstadt has
become in the year of grace, 1909, the
good man would probably expire on
the spot
Fifty years ago, when Berlin was a
dirty, unpretentious, provincial town,
with ill-lighted, ilI-paved streets, with
a population renowned even in those
days for it's surly manners and IN
couthness. and with the iron hand of
militarism unchecked over it all, the
Christmas festival was the tranquil
celebration of which one has read. In
the Lustgarten, before the castle, a
Christmas fair was annually estab-
lished, which the king and royal fam
lily used to visit to buy jumping jacks
and gingerbread for the palace Christ
mas trees, like any other German
family. The Lustgarten fair has
passed away, the king of Prussia has
become German emperor, Berlin has
developed into a fair and beautiful
city, and all that remains of the
Christmas of once upon time is the
spirit-indeed a precious inheritance,
that still holds the branches of the
myriads of Christmas trees which
rich and poor alike set up in their
houses on the eve of the feast.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
SOME IDEAS FOR DECORATIONS
How to Make the Home Look Bright
and Cheerful for the
Holidays.

In massing holly for use on the
! Christmas table it repays one to wipe
off the leaves with a cloth dipped in a
very little olive oil, says the Housekeep-
er. Tall candles should light the feast
and the holly leaves reflect the twink
ling lights in beautiful manner. II
a chandelier hangs over the dining
table a feature which will delight the
children is to have a nosegay of arti-
fetal flowers suspended from the chan
delier to within foot of the table by
means of a red ribbon. This bouquet
should have the paper puff of the old
time fashion, and the bouquet itself
will be found to be a shower bouquet,
one small noseegay for each person,
in the depths of which some trifing
gift is hidden.
Snowballs of cotton, tightly wound
with white ribbon, also conceal gifts
most attractively, while the cheap but
pretty little Santa Claus candy boxes,
for sale at favor shops, are effective
upon the Christmas table, and will
hold quite good-sized package, or, of
course, may be used to hold the bon
bons for which they are intended. For
a luncheon or high tea during Christ
mas week, a beautiful table may be
set by employing the use of green
linen runners embroidered in white.
A holly bell or a bunch of red carna-
lions in a cut-glass vase will touch
the center of the table to brilliancy
and soft garlands Of southern moss
may lightly edge the linen runners,
or doilies if they be used instead.
The colonial glass candlesticks are
still in favor, and nothing is more at
tractiye in a country house. With tall
green or red tapers, a group of these
candlesticks placed in a mass of holly
as a centerpiece is both appropriate
and beautiful.
A quaint little Christmas tree may
be used as a centerpiece by procuring
at the florists little pepper plant"
which has lovely green leaves and red
berries, Wound with glittering tinsel
and tied with candied fruits held in
place with wee baby ribbons, or
hung with little favors of French jew
elry or articles OF trifing worth, the
little tree makes a 'centerpiece of
charm
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
ORIGIN of eift.Givinq.

It is believed by many that our Gus.
tom of giving gifts at Christmas
comes from an old custom of priests
putting on board of all outgoing ships
a boxi OF aims. This box was opened
at CBrfstmas-time, and masses said
for the giving of aims, and it was
calledl a Christ Mass" box. From
this has come our custom of giving
boxes and gifts.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
THE PRINCE OF PEACE"
His Wonderful Influence Continues
and Widens Through the
World.

All the old troublous questions of
the origin and destination of the Cali
lee Carpenter have passed, notes a
writer IN Golfers. All the medieval
worriment<fin discriminating between
human and divine has gone, all the
pHzzel inquiry into the miraculous.
: 1Sc5 a zk1d ytiIred over the
non-esss6tial. Theories of him fade
away, dogmas of his nature lose their
charm His gentleness has conquered.
His influence continues and widens.
Slowly Frightening, the CLEAN that
touched him spreads through the
world. His spirit moves on the face
of civilization, and makes it kindlier
every generation. The touch of his
hand is on the grief-stricken. Nurse,
physician, and nun are the messen-
gers of his teaching. The vestal fires
burned out, but never the fires of his
spirit, which answer each other from
mountain-top to mountain-top across
the continents. And deep in the heart
of the people they make family life
sweeter and ease the bitterness of
failure and ignorance and all life's in
completeness. That woodworking
personality was never SO potent as to-
day-so insistent and tenderly sure.
Under a thousand forms, creeds and
names, men serve him. And however
far we go in the conquest of nature.
Identifying the north pole, climbing
the sky, prying open electrical forces,
mapping out the subliminal, diminish
ing sin, disease, war, poverty, igno-
rance-always in the advance will be
that gracious figure of the Sinless One,
who Showed Love as the rule of life
One Perfect Man-ardent and gentle
the race will never tire of him
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
THE ROAD TO. CHRISTMAS
In Retrospect Grandfather Picture
YuIetide Journeys of Many
Years Ago.

All the year long we have been
travelling toward Christmas and my
old wife, our children and our grand
children-not all by the same road,
not all with the same expectations,
but all looking out alike for the first
glimpse OF its smoke rising above the
wintry landscape of the year. Now
we can almost fancy that we hear
the Ginning of the famous bells-alI
Christmas towns are famous for their
bells-and we know that we shall soon
be at our inn.
If life be a journey, and each
year stage upon the road, do not
know where else a sensible man would
stop for the recruiting of his health
than the fine old Christmas towns.
There, if anywhere, men are to be
found living together merrily; the inns
are warm, the cheer is good the
amusements are of the heartiest, and
the society is of the best | have been
through many a Christmas town-for
| have Travelled far-and have rested
thoroughly in each. | never found two
of them alike. OF late they have been
much grayer and quieter than they
used formerly to be; but l do not
think that l have been less happy OF
the quiet towns at which | have of
late years resided. Let me confess so
much. AS for these about me who
declare them to be not quiet by any
means, but perfectly uproarious with
jollity, l do not interfere with their
opinion. Children so easily deceive
J themselves; it is enough for me that
| am cd enough to see things as they
are
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
The Man in the Moon.

Rus Sian folklore tells that the man
IN the moon was one who was seeking
the isle in which there is no death.
At last, after travelling far. he found
the lohged-for haven and took up his
abode in the moon. After a hundred
years had passed, death called for him
one CT lristmas eve and fierce strug-
gle en- Issued with the moon, who was
victori Ious; and SO the man stayed
where he was.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
Christmas nlgbt
By Cbeudosia Garrison

Sometimes 7 think that Christmas
nights the best.
Before the nursery fire, when we're
GnGreSSed
Tnd all The toys are put away, except
Perhaps my engine and TIE baby'S
bear,
Chen T1lotber comes away from all The
rest
Downstairs to tell our Christmas
story there.
She takes the baby On Der lap ana We
$it'rcGnd berentbe beartb=fag seWe$t
Che pictures in the fire, and then
she tells
Hbcut bow Shepherds watched their
flcckS BY night
lind what fbe angels said, ana bow the
three
lUise Rings came riding and TIE
big stars light.
lind then she tells Us bow It showed
TIE way
@ lust a stable where TIE oxen STAY.
lind there they found 6im in Bis
I1letber'S arms,
II little baby Gbrist-gbiId and be
smiled;
Hid that (Sbe says is what made
/ Christmas day
( Ser you and me and every little
! Child.
Before the nursery fire when we're
undreSSed
Sometimes I tFjink that Christmas
nights TIE best.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-11
Christmas Crackers.

Do plants" for making pretty gifts
grow up to Christmas trees?
And are "the seasons greetings" sent
by salt sons of the seas?
Are Yule-logs cut from snowdriftwood by
Yule-tide washed ashore?
And could you stub mistletoe against a
parlOr door?
If Eve had tried from holly-twigs a par
ty-gown TO weave,
Do you suppose that Adam would have
called her Christmas Eve?"
Saint Nicholas in autosleigh defes police
and laws:
Do regulations as to speed contain San
Ia clause?
-Lippincott's.