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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
FREEHOLDERS TO ISSUE
ONLY 1000 BONDS
IpeolaI @ az EYENINo NEws.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, Dec. Sat a
meeting of the Board of Freeholders
this morning the motion to issue
bonds for $102, 900 was reseinded
an, anu S~ msw ~, no Sog was aod 'sssu - y,
found that in the original estimate
the cost of the Jefferson avenue pave
ment had been included AS this is
half in Union county, that county Will
have to bear part OF the expense The
cost of Somerset street improvement
in New Brunswick was also included.
The city viii have to pay share of
this, so the amount for the county
to raise was reduced
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
THE ROOSEVELT PARTY

Special by United Press Wire.
Nairobi, British East Africa, Dec.
S:-Kermit Roosevelt arrived here
today from hunting expedition
from the Mau forest and Kilva. Az
ter few hours rest he left for Nom
basa. He bagged three bangos in
Mau Colonel Roosevelt is expected
here Saturday from Londiana.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
WATSON DENIES THAT
HE SOUGHT A TITLE
lpeetal 1n Un.ted Presa Wlra.

Special by United Prcss Wire.
New York, Dec. William Wat
son, author of "The Woman with
the Serpent's Tongue" today fatty
denied the statement attributed to
Violet Asquith, the daughter of the
British premier, that Watson had
thus attacked herself and mother
because her father refused to make
him a knight, and give him sub
stantial pension.
Il never asked Asquith for either
title or pension" declares Watson.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
FORMER DETECTIVE
AFTER HIS MONEY
spsoial q "a EHRNINe NRWs.


New Brunswick, Dec. 8:-Preced-
ing the meeting OF the Board Of
Freeholders today there was a dis
cussion over the bin submitted by
Frank Mulsey for services as county
detective under Prosecutor Berdine.
He had falling out with the prose-
cutor and was discharged The
prosecutor refused to sign any of his
bills so he presented them to the
freeholders. The bills amount to
$893.64. The matter was referred
to The county solicitor, Alan Strong.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
PROMINENT GERMAN DEAD
Al 10 tAe EvENING NEWS

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick. Dec. s:-Richard
Strassberger, prominent German OF
Middlesex county, and who was the
first president Of the Middlesex
County German-American Society,
died at Haddon Heights last night.
He was at one time the editor Of the
New Brunswick Journal, German
paper formerly published In this
city.
ne an advertIse,,-Ic \ word
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
Canal Hearing Dec. Ia.

New Brunswick, Dec. 8: Senator
Silzer announced today that hear
ing would be held on the canal aban-
donment matter either in New Bruns-
wick or Trenton, December 16. Tes-
timony Will be taken at that time.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08

The Perfection of Cold Creams
Dike's Peroxide Cream, for sale at
Lauer Drug Co, 25c. Smith and
State streets. 7476-12-S-Its
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
DON'T FORGET
BALL!

Third Grand Annual Ball, Perth Am.
boy Aerie. No. 1856, F. o. E.-THE
AUDITORIUM, Friday Eve. Dec. 10
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
oninlne Is Chean

100 2-grain pills at Lauer Drug
Co., for l9c. Smith and State streets.
7475-I2-8-1ts
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
SHELDON IS INDICTED

Special bv United Prsss Wts
New York. Dec. S:-The grand
jury this afternoon indicted George
Preston Sheldon, the deposed presis
dent OF the Phoenix Fire Insurance
Company, charging him g-ith grand
'arceny In the first degree,
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Independent Fire insurance Co.
would like to solicit business IA risks oniyl
for a reliable company.not In the trust 3OHAN
JENSEN. Smith and Herbert Sts., Perth AM
bov N. I
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08

Taxicab takes you anywhere Won
want to go at 81 an hour.
7502-12-s-1ts
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A regular meeting of Protection
Hook & Ladder Company was held
laet night, at which box of cigars
was received from Captain Dennis
Ryan, in honor of the arrival Of a
baby girl in his family
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Taxicab service day or night. sex-
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Taxlcab to the station, 15c; after
P. M, Csc. Sexton's Tel. I8I.
7502-12-8-1ts
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BE an advertIser--lc. a word.
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w Ca THEIR afr to-
nights colder tesnors
TOW.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-24

sarcastic wit. In I Samuel 17:2S he speaks two or three sentences which seem to settle this point beyond req sonable question. Let us briefly re- call the circumstances: The raw strip ling, David. visits the Hebrew camp, bringing "a box from home for his three elder brothers in the army Da- vid has probably never seen battle. He is standing among veterans who are familiar with scenes of carnage and yet he is the only man in all that host who is willing to face Goliath in single combat Ills talk reminds us of a captain of raw militia who volunteered to charge a force from which the "Stonewall Brigade" has re- coiled Eliab, Davids "big brother, naturally enough thought this pre- sumptuous and so he asks: With whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?'' It may well be doubted if Thomas Carlyle ever made more stinging sarcasm.
 In I Kings, 1927, we have a specimen of genuine inimical wit from that grave and solemn prophet, Elijah. A god who is so busy talking. or pursuing, or travelling or is so sound asleep that he cannot be aroused by the desperate cries of 45O of his prophets, yelling after him for half
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the criticism rests upon made ground: for the word smile never once occurs in the Bible.
 It is not surprising, however, that the Bible, upon the whole is not a funny book. If holy men of old were moved by the Holy Spirit to write Gods message of salvation to a ruined world, what req son have we for expecting them to write otherwise than seriously?
 James Madison was a witty man. He knew how to unbend among his personal friends, and, when time. place, company and occasion suited, he could set the table in a roar. But his papers In the Fed eralist'' are all perfectly serious; and, though very ably and admirably written, they show no sign of the authors wit Mir. Madison was deeply in earnest when he wrote those fine papers. He believed that the future of his beloved country depended upon the adoption of the pro- posed scheme of government-the consti- tuition of 1787; and hence he was in no mood for making jokes, and would doubt less have thought them greatly out of place, and utterly impertinent to the mat ter in hand.
 Still if our critic had carefully scanned his Bible. he would scarcely have writ
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KN a review of Henry Heine. the Ger
 man Byron." distinguished British 1 critic says that the history and liter atnre of the ancient Hebrews give the idea of a people who went about their business and their pleasure as sraVely as society of beavers, the smile and the laugh being often mentioned meta phorically," though the smile Is one of eomplacency and the laugh one of seorn'
 Jnde,ing from these statements alone, one would naturally think that, in one narticular. at least, this critic was like one of the characters in the Canterbury .Tales." f. e., the character of whom cbaucer says that his study was not mneh on the Bible. Somebody once asked Tallevrand if he believed the Bible. Yes" said Talleyrand. First, because I am Bishop of Antun; and secondly, because I know nothing whatever about it."
 Now, as we know little about ancient Hebrew history, or of ancient Hebrew literature, except what we find in the Bible, 1t may be fairly assumed that the criticisms above referred to were intend ed to apply to the Biblical authors; and if the critic had these writers in mind, then, so far as the smile" is concerned
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cry 'ingrate" ere he were chief magis- trate half year.
 In the opinion of more than a million Cleveland democrats, who never gave support to MT. Bryan. he is the Cicero of America, and they estimate him as did Cassius the matchless orator of Rome. O name him not; let us not break with
 him,
 For he will never follow anything That other men begin.
 There is not room enough in the demo- cratic party in which William Jennings Bryan and a rival may stall together. At the table he is MacGregor, and he will put up with no other place. This is partly a tribute to his extraordinary nat ural gifts and acquired accomplishments, but mostly 1t is to be attributed to the lack of sagacity and courage in those democrats who will have none of MT. MT. Bryan to transform the party of Jefferson and Tilden, Jackson and Cleve- land into personal asset. whilst he him. self Is the most valuable asset of the re- publican party.
 MT. Bryan is not only a powerful personal force but he is skillful politician in the councils of his own party. He might say with far great CT man, George Jacques Danton: "Au- dacity, audacity, and always audacity"
 He was in this town last winter and like another Caesar, he came, saw, and COnQuered. I'm was oman raUo1t ha- fore he arrived, but ere the sun had run a single course we compute as one day, the insurrection dissolved into th in nd dat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-24
GrazInn Under Water.

While on a cattle station n western Australia, says the Melbourne Times, a cattle ranger had an opportunity of seeing A remarkable instance of the way in which animals can adapt themselves to their surroundings.
 .On the upper reaches of the river there was a large pool just fordable at most times, but in a dry season very low" he says Among the horses making their run in the vicinity of this pool an old mare and a number of foals and yearlings used to come down every day in the long, dry summer, when the herb age was scant and scorched into dryness. They waded into the pool until the water nearly reached their heads and stood there for hours, diving to the bottom for a mouthful of succulent weeds, which they chewed at leisure with their dripping heads raised above the water.
 ''The overseer told me that during a long drouth some five or six years pre- vious, when hardly vestige of food was left on the run and bush fires had laid bare the sand plains, the old mare had discovered that there was plenty of lus- cious food at the bottom of the pools, which could be procured by diving for it. and, having once put her discovery into practice she continued to do out of preference what she had been driven to do by necessity"
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allegiance to his chief. There was one exception-an unheralded young con gressman from the ex democratic state of New Jersey, that voted democratic in every electoral college from the birth of the republican party till 1896 ex- cept when Greeley headed the ticket No one need be surprised if that young fellow from Jersey-his name is Eu- gene W. Leake-is heard from in the future.
 When Bryan was here stamping out sedition in the party New York was in a quandary-I mean Wall street. It had no use for Bryan, but pre- ferred him to Roosevelt and Wall street expected that Roosevelt would head the republican ticket. As a con- sequence the opposition to Bryan in the democratic party had no concert and no organization. When 1t was too late Johnson of Minnesota was brought out and the splendid race he made evidences that 1t would have been no very impossible task to beat Bryan for the nomination, had the opposition set about 1t three months earlier.
 MT. Bryan wrote the platform, that is as full of paternalism and un-dem- ocracy as an egg is of meat, nom mated himself for President and Kern for vice president. Nobody with spark of political sagacity believed at any stage of the campaign that the ticket stood the slightest chance of election and nobody with a spark of sagacity was surprised when the ticket was more disastrously beaten than that of 1900 or 1896 when Oklah oma was not 8 state. MT. Bryan even lost Missouri, and ran behind Harmon in Ohio, Mar
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be burden. disabled; you'll have to wait on him all the time.
 Glory be to Godr' was the diseon- certing reply.
 It was necessary-it could not be avoided-we were obliged-to take off-his han6s-both his hands,
 His two hands! An he hasn't thim at all? cried Maggie.
 No, my poor woman; am sorry for you "
 oh! Glory be to Godr' Maggie broke out again. and with such genuine. hearty joy and relief in her face that the doctor was nonpulsed
 Are you sure you understand?" he faltered.
 'Indade. thin, an I do. Oh, glory bel An thin the dhrink'll niver have him destroyed any more?''
 Well. I hope not" said the doctor, nystiied anew at this burst of optimism, but it's hard for man to break up that habit"
 But how would he get it?" cried Mag gie exeitedly. Himself can't ketch a holt O it, an who'd give it to him? It wudn'r be me, thin. An I'll never lave him out O me sight again the longest day he lives
 Grove street was beginning new day. Trim maids were sweeping the sidewalks; hyacinths and tulips shone brilliant In the dew and pleasant faces came to windows to look out upon the new world of spring.
 Mrs Morton was reused from a last nap by the sound of singing
 Maggie was to come this morning she thought, but she is usually so quiet"
 Down stairs she found her on her knees, the music following the rhythm of her broad back as she scrubbed and sang.
 Good morning!" said Mrs. Norton.
 Maggie turned a bright face over her shoulder.
 Toms home" she said.
 And the song went on singing in Maggie Evans heart.
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ten so dogmatically in denying wit to the ancient Hebrews. Shaw, in his English Literature" an admirable book, makes the fine observation that nature has placed the springs of laughter hard by the foun- tains of tears: and it is noteworthy fact that our greatest masters of pathos are also our greatest wits. Shakespeare easily leads in both departments, the pathetic and the humorous. The over whelming pathos of Lear, /and the side splitting fun of Falstaff are per fectly familiar to the educated world; and are, of themselves, enough to estab- fish Shakespeare's fame as the greatest master of pathos and of humor.
 Burns, perhaps. should come next, and then. with a long interval, Hood and Dickens.
 But to our original theme: The first specimen of wit which we note in the Bible is found in the ninth chap ter of Judges and naturally enough, it occures in Jothams political stump speech. We should not zine that Jotham was here speaking as an in- spired prophet, or as in any sense the mouthpiece of Jehovah. I hould hard ly have thought of giving this caution if I had not known a bishop to quote Jotham's fables as inspired auth ority
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a day. Is certainly a funny god and Elijahs sarcasm was intended to make this god ridiculous.
 The book of Proverbs is by no means destitl4e of wit Some of the situations described in the 26th chapter cannot fail to be witty to any reader who has im- agination enough to picture the scenes to his minds eye. The wit in the 18th, l4th, 15th and especially the 17th verses is quite sharp. The man who has the dog by the ears "can neither hold on with comfort nor let gD w.th safety as Jud5se Jere Black polntedly puts t.
 Again "Paronomasia," or play upon words. is by no means uncommon in the Bible. and occasionally occurs in the most solemn passages in the prophets. Now and then 1t takes a form which. in our time, would be called "a pun. Paul ire quently introduces if. But as the play Is upon Hebrew words in the old Testa- ment, and upon Greek words in the New 1t Is usually impraeteable to present it to the English reader in his own tongue. In Romans 1922, however, our transiator5 seem to have stumbled upon case which does no occur in the original: Be not eonformed to this world, but be ye trans formed by the renewing of your mind etc The Westminster revisers here have Fashioned" instead of "confCrmed' ana
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to settle a question which the bishop was gravely arguingl
 But what are the facts of the case? Here they are briefly set forth:
 That worthless demagogue, Abimel- ech, had been made king. Jotham saw the ridiculous absurdity of this pro- ceeding and at the risk of his life he determined to expose the popular craze. With the lofty crag of Mount Gerizim for his platform. he addresses the people" and like nearly all the successful stump speakers of modern times he tells a pointed aneedote which throws ridicule upon the wild proceedings of his countrymen. It was a straight-out stump speech from the "opposition." It was sharp pointed and witty. The anecdote about the trees going forth Ito anoint a king over them" was especially smart appropri- ate and striking. and the climax set forth in the reply of the bramble" verse 15) ought to have brought down the house." if any of the wild mob had sense enough to appreciate it's point and humor With nothing but this speech to guide us we should con fidently say that Jotham was gifted as a stump speaker.
 But take another example:
 Eliab must have been master of
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to a corner of her apron. Mind don't find you in 1t again phin schools kapin'w was her only allusion to his shortcoming, as she gave him a re- sounding kiss on the mouth and pushed him out at the door.
 When Patsy was gone Maggie sought relief from anxiety as was her way in work. All the afternoon she stood plunging her smooth arms into the suds, strengthening up to wiring by hand and shaking out each fresh gar ment with increasing satisfaction in her face. By the time her work was done the hope of Toms home coming had revived as fresh and strong as ever in her heart.
 The next morning was vital with spring, fit time for the revival of na- ture, ambition and hope.
 Grove street had its windows open, its furniture on the piazzas and its clothes-lines weighted with Oriental rugs. In one of it's houses Maggie Egan was on her knees. For years she had knelt there as regularly as at church and I doubt if she applied nerSelI more heartily to her rosary than to her floor cloth. Whenever Mrs. Norton came to inspect the work that day she reveled in the spectacle of Maggies broad capable back, just as expressive of energy and stability of character as the woman's face.
 At evening, when Maggie came for her pay, Mrs. Norton was suddenly struck with the pathos in her look. Relaxed, after hard days work, 1t revealed plain ly the anxious heart. What could be the trouble? Mrs. Norton had always garded Maggies lot as comparatively comfortable and promising. Boundless health and joy in work kept her income sufficient; her home, if rather comfort less, was snug and clean; she so seldom referred to her husband, whom Mrs. Nor ton knew to be away most of the time, that she did not think of his playing any part in her life. The bringing up of Patsy was some cause for anxiety, espe- cially with the prospect of heredity from such a father. but Maggie had but one child when other women had five or six. Moreover, not only did Maggie never com plain, but she always struck a distinctly
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AUST he relax his grip on his party7 MI That is a question that the dem l ocracy has three years in which to answer. No other American ever had such following. faithful to fanaticism, as he-not Jefferson, nor Jackson, nor Clay, nor Lincoln, nor Douglas, nor Blaine, nor Cleveland, each thrice a can didate, were twice elected; but Bryan, thrice a candidate, was thrice disastrous ly defeated, and each overthrow more signal than the last preceding one. It was different with Clay, who in 1924 was last in a field of four. Badly beaten in 1892, yet not so hopelessly as eight years earlier, he missed the presidency by the narrowest margin in 1844, and it is certain that he would have been triumphant in lS4O, if he had not been denied the nomi- nation of his party.
 It was a mercy from heaven that Clay and Blaine never reached the presidency. Miracles would have been expected of them. Thousands and thousands of men, of whom they had never heard, had lent them such party loyalty and personal idol atry that they expected fortune to come with both hands full to each of them individually, if their favorite triumphed, and neither Clay nor Blaine could have fed the multitude that hungered and thirsted for spoil and expected to be filled, with thousands of fragments left over. Douglas, in big measure, would have met the same fate.
 As for Mir. Bryan, four years in the White House would not yield him four weeks of the peaceful sleep he owns in private station. Though he should prove the greatest President of our history, some million or so of democrats would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-24

ONDON, January 23.-Nothing in the
 history of Europe has been more - startlingly romantic than the new era which has just opened in Turkey, and the accounts of the assembly of the par liament at Constantinople read more like a fantasy from 'The Thousand and One Nights than a serious piece of news paper intelligence.
 The two people who have probably brought about the result which we be- held yesterday were the Pope of the Ma hommedan church, who upheld the re- volting officers at Salonika, and declared that the demand for the constitution was agreeable to the holy law of Islam, and to Sir Edward Grey who by his prompt and spendidly adroit management of the situation, contributed largely to the lib- eration of Turkey.
 The Sultan, who has so long stood in the dark shadow of i'll luck over the lib- erty of his land, is old and terrified, frightened of the living, dreading the ap- pearance of the dead his court scattered, his minions dead or banished, and all the machinery of autocracy lying broken at his feet. This is the man who had to stand before the parliament yesterday and admit that 32 years ago the constitution had been granted. but that events oc- cured which led to his accepting the ad- vice that he should suspend it's operation.
 Constantinople has been elaborately decorated, and a hymn of liberty is heard rising through the streets. Even the Turkish ladies of the higher classes have taken the keenest interest, fact which is revelation of the widespread revolu- tion that has taken place. The ideas of progress and liberty have penetrated the harems, and have taken hold of the wom-