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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-02
MRS. SEAMAN, HOSTESS.


A card party was held at the home
of Mrs. Ralph E. Seaman, in Gordon
street, Saturday night in honor of the
Misses Edith Redpath, of East Orange,
and Miss Leona Browning, of Long
Branch, who are visiting at the home
of the hostess. The feature Of the
event was the playing of five hundred
for which William DeHaven was
awarded the first gentleman g prize and
Carrot Brodhead, second, Miss Elsie
Mercer, first ladies' prize and Miss
Anna Dover, second prize, and Miss
Edith Redpath, consolation prize.
After the card games music, both
vocal and instrumental was enioved,
after which a dainty collation. was
served. Among those present were.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph E. Seaman, Mr..
and Mrs. William DeHaven, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Stillwell, Nh. and Mrs
William Apologize, Misses Elsie Mer
Ger, Anna Dover, Agnes Hardiman,
Bessie Sofeld, Elizabeth Seaman.
Messrs. William Hanson, Carrot Brod-
head, Charles Stumps, Arthur Colyer,
Howard Jernee, Francis Seaman and
Walter Boehm, all of this city, Miss
Edith Redpath, of East Orange and
Miss Leona Browning, of Long Branch.
A PLEASANT SURPRISE.
A surprise was given to Mrs.
Thomas Farroat, of 98 Market street,
to celebrate the anniversary of her
birth, on Saturday evening, April 20.
About 8 P. M. she answered the door
bell to find her friends assembled on
the porch. The early hours were
spent In games and music and later
IN elaborate supper was served. The
table decorations were pink and
white. Flowers were In p%rofusion.
Mrs. Farroat was the recipient of
many beautiful gifts. The guests
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Porter, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rogler,
Mrs. Ecker, Miss Margaret Langan,
Miss Josephine Lunch, Adam, Louie
and Robert Smfdley, Miss Alice Far
roat, and Thomas Farroat, Jr., Of
this city, and Mr.. and Mrs. James
Clark, Of Tottenville; Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilbur Hudson, of Newark, and Mr..
Charles Rogler, OF ~Pawtucket, R. I.
All spent a most enjoyable evening.
EUCHRE AND DANCE.
San Salvador Council No. 299, x.
of c., will hold a euchre and dance
in their rooms Tuesday evening, May
is. This will be the last affair until
after the summer months and those
in charge are arranging to give those
who attend a very delightful even
ing. On the committee are: Charles
Warner, George L. Brennan, John ].
QUINN Thomas Fahey, Charles
Gregg, Thomas McDermott. AIexan
der S%okolinski, John Campbell and
John Powers.
ENTERTAIN AT BANQUET.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Kennedy, Of
Lewis street, rendered the members
of the Keystone Company a banquet
at their home last evening. Those
who attended were John H. Fritzing-
er, Richard Henderson, J. j. Powers,
James s. Wight and Donald Ken
nedy.
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-02
Three Boys Killed by Train.

Greensburg, Pa, May 2:-Three boys
each about fifteen years old, namely,
Isaac Cook, Charles Raekley and Will
liam E%cherhall, were run down and in
stantly killed this afternoon by a
Pennsylvania express train.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-02
Fred Hancy Buys House.

Fred Haney, of the city water de
partment purchased a residence to-day
at 1s5 Lewis street through F. L
Brown. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-02

II you have something to trade
put an advertisement IN our sx-
change column.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-02
LEAGUE.

The Epworth League of Simpson
M e. church will hold It's regular
monthly business meeting In the lee
lure room tonight. The annual cleo
ton of officers will take place. A
very interesting social has been pre-
pared.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-02
WEATHER

Observations of the United
States weather bureau taken at
8 o. ID. yesterday follow:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-02
AT BANQUET.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Kennedy, OF
Lewis street, rendered the members
of the Keystone Company e. banquet
at. their home last evening. Those
who attended were John H. Fritzing-
er, Richard Henderson, J. j. Powers,
James s. Wight and Donald Ken
nedY.
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lessons of the waters danger had made the fodder
follow the shore; the shallow half foated sk had been
familiar harbor of refuge in the binding smother and
into 1t he had climbed; his act and the wind and
the tide had done the rest Even if they missed him
now, he and the baby both gone-therefore safe
The image passed in flash like the lightning glance
around that accompanied it; for the Kanaka
trained life Regardless of the childS fright, he
set up wild balboa wild island chant, calling upon
his friends at the distant station for hep-hep in sud
den, terrible perhep for the helpless baby that whm
pered in the grinning jaws of death.
He knew that they would hear at that distance
in the teeth of the rising wind that drove the little boat
like chip the water deeper and deeper into the
white shrouded sea; but still he howled, like mailman
For there in the boat The one fixed
thwart immovable, if it would have been of
Leave the baby he could not, in that smother
where would again find the boat, if the did
not capsize teven he made safely to shore He had
knife to fight the terror that followed mplacable
the death waiting beyond them.
&c. with his impotent hands clasplng the empty sheath
at his SIDE his face ashen under the "copper" his voice
lifted in long drawn wailings Raja STOOD image of
despair his thin clothes utterng in the cold wind and
the baby at his feet glazing at the black water that lay
black thing that stuck up from the water like the tip of
a submerged spar keeping pace foot by foot.
For that wicked black fin the death of his hopes.
They were drifting out to death in the storm-and
shark was following the boat
THAT night a wonder happened at Reef Rock Life
Saving Station, professional lapse passed over
subsequently by the Revenue Service Inspector and
held against Captain The big ta-ender
storm, with all its omens and warnings, brewed and
broke and ignored-save for the personal element
of horror and hope.
Captain Canadians baby was gone Gone from the
station and the beach as if the flashing mad ocean had
swallowed him. and Raja too missing!
That the horror that froze the faculties of the
bury boatmen and set Their women running in scream
ing terror Ben had found prints in the sand of baby
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Captain Canadians and heir, and the brushed
and scked to the Mines did honor to the occasion and
their guests. Raja, exceling in his own pro-
fessional department. outdd himself 1t the pride
and boast of the company that they done the job right
But hilarty and feasting have their uS like the fort
nights storm, which had broken off before its end, to
gather strength with mutterngS and warnings In the
station there only laughter and speechmakng the
drinking of heaths in lemonade and "sof stuff and the
smoking of after dinner pipes. Outside, trouble
brewing.
The opportunity had been too good for Raa to let
pass without froc with the Captains baby and to this
end he had hurried through with his duty of setting
things to rights None of the company himself had
paid particular attention to the bank that was m
berng from the the teeth of the gentle land
breezea sign of coming storm, whose subsequent
actions could count upon with any degree of
certainty.
Raja the Kanaka alone noticed it. with passing an
xiety when summoned casually from playing life
in the boathouse he left the baby nodding life buoy
and betOOk himself for a moment to the kitchen
The moment stretched into many minutes. Safe
about the sleeping baby, within arms length of many,
he stood in the kitchen doorway watching the weather
landward The black thunderheads marshalng
the mainland, the wind in puffs and the air
grew cooler.
aThe blow shift he said "That is bad sign coming
The marsh fowl had stilled their cries, and
Raja looked and listened, his trained alert he
heard slight sound from the shore-he barest possible
sound as of rafting in boat Then he remem-
bered that he had left his clam sk the beach
that morning, and he hurried down to pull it up high
and dry.
He left behind him, in the station, the murmur of
voices sureed and happy in the open, the cold wind
bore down him with the weight of heavy hand fut
tering his fimsy garments
Before him, out to sea- which it covered now like a
white blanket to the verge of the Shore the fogbank
impenetrable as snow. He scowled, his wont,
where the ocean concerned.
presently it will cover the world night and the
will together, like evil spirts,-then if the
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Shoes and they led to the place where Raas boat had
been moored There too they found prints of the Kama
ka bare feet and broken paddle that belonged to the
boat.
No lifeboat launched into boiling surf as
the big white Number One then with less regard
to regulations While volunteers ashore were firing
rockets and burning Costen lights by the case,
hope of helping Carnahan, standing astride the
sternsheets of the lfeboat scued her with his long
steering sweep, the bent the oars with every
ounce of beef that in them. Breslin at stroke,
gloomed at the Pickering lights ashore through the fog
wraths.
They're maxim reg'lar Coney Island of it. The
whole village is coming over" he sad @the beach
combin bunch is rousin out boat on'y they won't
dare try out far in w ats COMM
The Hook ought to heard now; them felers fetch
the powerboat," another suggested hopefully "Were
Scrappn Sandy; but we kin W en- we find the kid
if we ever does, in this welter."
"Qut chinnn an whoop her up for the kindergarten
Bresn growled gancing up the white faced Captain
Well find EN-, all right"
RUT night without the finding of the lost
The storm fell and the beach spoke only of desola
ton and wreckage with warnings out all along the coast
to north and south.
One by one the searchers on shore and returned
to the station there to speak in fearful subdued tones in
the darkness and watch the elemental upheava spread
over the ghostly The big white lfeboat
last blown in bodily upon the beach; for the storm,
always happens those ATTITUDES had worked round to
the old quarter and that with fendsh suddenness that
forced the breath of life down the watchers threats.
1t all over then, and everybody knew it; the life
savers, who never give up hope, better than No
open boat could live in that sea- and Captain Canadian,
holding the senseless form of his wife, with the
blubberng openly round him. bowed his head and COM
mended the babys soul to God.
3There be souls to this night, mates, Canadian
said quietly. 3No ship that hugs the shore will pass
Reef Rock safe. Make everything ready
saint Raja gone too3' Mate Breslin demanded de-
G,~,@1xv MAIL %11~,t A fo~%xy E. O11
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nanIly. ell, Inen! "A 1OIty-IOlQ
kedge anchor can't drown that Ka-
naky, l tell you'll
Midnight came and passed. The
storm had grown to that which made
the village folk draw the blankets
close about their ears, thanking God
that they were not of the poor ship
men at sea.
Carnahan, down at the station,
stood high upon the sand blown
beach, a stone man, staring to sea, his
teeth clenched on his bleeding lip,
sitting back the cries that tore him.
But he, and the others, in the tower
and patrolling the beach, watched
and listened.
On both sides of them they knew,
from the messages that came in,
that ships were piling up. So far,
Reef Rock was clean, though just
before dawn the lifting light gave
them a glimpse of big square
rigger, topmasts gone, laboring
against the sea and storm and claw
ing offshore; but she was too far in
then. At three o'clock fore-and aft
schooner went on at Willow Station
to the south. Another had broken
her back on Island Reef; but that
was out of Reef Rocks call range,
save in exceptional cases. The
Storm King was garnering his har-
vest.
THE life savers were all in the boat
l house, with doors flung open to
the winds, when Canadians voice
came shrilly from the beach: @Tum-
bic out, men! A rocket off the reef!
Run her out! Lively now!"
He came himself on the heels of his
call, and the patrol with him, blown
from running. dts that square
rigger!" the coast guard painted. II
give her the flare, an she gimme the
flash. She'll hit head on, likely"
Besides the regular crew, wild
looking men, springing from no
where, who had evidently been wait
ing for news from the baby, tailed on
and helped. In normal times those
men looted lost ships; now they
struggled like carthorses, helping to
drag the heavy lifeboat and its COM
panion tackle wagon through wind
and sand to a chosen spot inshore
from the treacherous Reef Rock.
1t was no night or job to send a
lifeboat to sea. The doomed ship
was coming in to them. They saw
her,-a terrible, pitiful sight, in the
yellow glare of the lightning flashes,
driven straight for the waiting rocks.
They even saw the golden sheen of
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wind shifts, the poor coast ships Will
break their backs on the hidden
reef-and 1 shall hide in the boat
that takes off the sailors"
So he thought; but first he must
make safe the skiff, before wind and
tide stole it from him-when the life
savers would not have their CLANS
for breakfast. He hurried across the
wide beach.
The wind and the tide had fore
stalled him. The skiff was gone,
plainly foated off by the receding
tide, if not helped by the rising wind,
which came now with push denot-
ing terrible strength behind it.
There was only one thing to do.
To him the water was an element
familiar as dry land; the boat could
not have floated out far; he would
overtake it and fetch it from the
clutches of the fog. Afterward-he
was in the water now, swimming like
a fish
HIS heart gave a sudden leap. A
IL thin cry reached him, little
frightened wall coming from the sea.
1t came again, and his lean, 1.-THE
body shot up like cork, his eyes
starting as he strove to pierce the fog
bank that shrouded the mystery.
At first he was not afraid; but
now something seemed to strike in
upon him like physical blow some
panic that tore at his heartstrings,
terrifying him beyond reason. Fool
ish, foolish! The baby's voice? How
could he hear it, even down wind,
with the wide beach and a hundred
yards of water between? The baby
was back in the boathouse, of course,
or in its mothers arms. He struck
out strongly, nodding, smiling with all
his white teeth. Something doomed
I'D before him, and his hand flashed
up, grasping the gunnel of the boat.
He slipped eel like to the stern and
pulled himself up, staring with
amazed eyes and parted lips.
For the baby was crouching in the
bottom against a thwart, and as Raja
looked the child's pitiful wall went
up again. Next instant he was cud-
died, joyously crying, in the Ka-
naka's arms.
"Dood Rajy!" the boy murmured,
and blinked up at the wondering
rescuer. "Bad wife fling come"
1t was all plain to him, of course.
when he thought-with little thrill
of guilt. In the merriment at the
station the boy, supposed to be safe
under his supervision, had sighted
the fog bank rolling inshore, and had
wandered away to investigate. His
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

of lading and it was sent to New York and used as a practical transfer of the grain it purported to cover.
 Just how long railroads will be per mitted to issue bills of lading which bear no certain responsibility remains to be seen. When a railroad issues a bill of lading it should have the goods in hand. It should be held responsible for each and every bill of lading 1t issues. If this is not the law then the law should be changed. As the law now stands a bill of lading covers nothing with certainty. A railroad considers itself free to issue bills of lading when the property described in it has not been received for transpor- tation. The responsibility in such case should be rendered certain. The New York case is in the New York courts and perhaps when it is decided the bank and the business men will 1now where they are at.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
MT. Taft's Tariff Board

The tariff board is the administra- tion's champion piece of bumcombe. It is standpat institution from top to bottom, and when the standpatters want an excuse for postponing the re- vision of any tariff rate they plead that the tariff board has not reported. The President goes about demanding in his ponderous way scientific re- vision," meaning by that that revision must wait upon his tariff board.
 The Age-Herald's staff correspond ent at Washington explains some of the methods of this tariff board. It has special agent in Europe whose name is Burton. He is a newspaper man, and he fires back to the Los An geles Times columns of standpat mat ter directed against all tariff revision.
 The columns he has written while ostensibly engaged in gathering facts for use by the tariff board sufficient ly explains what kind of an institu- tion that tariff board really is. Let us hope Senator Works will lay the writings of Correspondent Burton be- fore the country. He should fill at least good part of one number of the Congressional Record with the matter he has received from his in- dignant California constituents. The Burton letters very fairly represent the entire device known as the tariff board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
VIII \
rom the New York World.

From the New York World.
 With justice, Representative Under- wood dwelt in his Fourth of July address on the efforts of the democrats of the House ito lift from the backs of the American people some of the unjust bur dens of taxation placed there by decades of misrule under republican admnistra- tions." Tn the frank spirit of non-parti- sanship they have seconded the policy of Mir Taft in promoting reciprocity. With true regard for their party's pledges they have attacked schedule by schedule the worst abuses of the PayneAldrich tariff.
 When Speaker Champ Clark some days ago made list of the bills embodying im- portant reforms which have passed the House at this session the mind of the average American must have turned to one Joseph G. Cannon, who though no longer speaker, Is still a member
 The number of greatly desired bills airn- ing at progress and reform that did not pass the House of Representatives when MT, Cannon was in the chair was very large. Waste-paper bags were stuffed with them every night. Possibly some portion of the secret-service expenditures was devoted to an effort to find out what had become of them.
 That Is why the democrats today are ir control of the House, with Representa-. tive Underwood as the majority leader
 That is why MT. Cannon was speaker for eight years and why MT. Clark is speaker now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
; IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Presidential ear

"As 1912 approaches those of us who take mus., interest in politics begin to pick out winners" said F. T. Warren of Pennsylvania.
 'iIt is pretty we'll conceded that Presl- dent Taft will be renominated by the re- publican party, and l think it is an even bet that he will be elected. It IS pe-
 ieyed, however, in republican as well as democratic circles that the democratic party has a better chance of electing a President in 1912 than at any time since 1892 l am in no sense a politician; am not even a staunch partisan usuaiiy vote the republican ticket in natloliai elections. In fact, I have been No'ins the republican ticket ever since Was old enough to cast ballot, wlth one exception, and that was in 1892 when voted for MT Cleveland
 There is one thing certain, and tha. is, never in my day has the derhocia'io party been so well off in presidential tih- Der as now. intellectually Woodrow Nh- son is the biggest man who has been regarded as an out and out caiuiua'e' but Governor Harmon of Ohio, Governor Marshall of Indiana, Speaker Champ Clark and Democratic House Leader Os- car Underwood are all strong men, ana all have the respect of the pupHc' III case of a deadlock Underwood might De nominated. Stranger things have nap pened. But as the situation 4ooks now ,V either Wilson or Harmon VIII pc the democratic standard bearer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
Let not his smoothing words Bewftch your hearts; be wise and cir cumspecf. - King Henry VI.
Olive Schreiner's New Theory

In her new book, "Women and Work" Olive Schreiner says that lone child is enough for the twentieth cen tury family. If Miss schreiner will mathematically follow her advice to the end of the century she will see that her teaching would shockingly reduce the population of the earth. Even China would be well-ni1h de- populated, and the growth of the United States would be sadly cut down. In every generation of thirty years, more or less, down would go the population of the earth one-half. In the course of three generations Birmingham's population would be re- duced to 16,500, and Atlanta, barring miscounts, would have perhaps 10000.
 No, Olive, this plan of yours is a misfit. The world will not accept it, and you have another guess coming to you. Your plan may be acceptable to the "400,' but it will not be accepted by any other portion of the people of this or any other country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
NAPOLEON PLANNED SUICIDE

insurgents been triumphant the restora- tion of the Bourbons would have been the almost inevitable result. Henceforth he became of paramount importance in the convulsed community; the reduction of Toulon had first fixed upon him the at tention which was requisite to encourage confidence in his superiority; the repulse of the insurgents in October, 1795, sna'yed him resolute and indomitable in conflict, and stamped upon him the seal of pre- dominance, although cemented in the gore of fellow countrymen and citizens.
 It is thus that opportunity only is want ing to men of real genius and capacity, to make manifest the qualities within them, and assure them of command ing position among their fellow men. This Napoleon had gained, and straight way the path of fortune was Svide and smooth before him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
CIGARS FOR KINGS

From Tit-Bits.
 The fact that Cuba has sent King George coronation gift in the shape of 10000 of the finest Cuban cigars. valued at about G40oO which works out at Ss a smoke, reminds one that the late King Edward was connoisseur of cigars. Shortly before his death his majesty placed an order with a New York firm of tobacco brokers for 500 cigars, which cost no less than e4Oo. FreqJently King Edward paid ;e750 for 1000 cigars, and the margin of profit, even at that unprece- dented price, was exceedingly small.
 As matter of fact, the cigars took three months to make, each leaf passing through the hands of two 'selectors, and it required the examination of thou sands of leaves to obtain those that were uniform in color and size. and free from large veins. When the cigars were fin- | ished the workmen received 3s Cd for each cigar. They were eight inches in | length and. at the thickest part one inch in diameter.
 The German Emperor does not like | which are made specially for him. The Emperor of Russia, too smokes cigarettes with cardboard mouthpieces, in prefer 'ence to anything else. King Alfonso of Spain never smokes cigars, but is a keen and constant cigarette smoker. The 1 Khedive of Egypt also smokes numerous cigarettes, while Pope Piux x. is the | first pope known to smoke a cigar, or, 1 indeed, to make use of any form of to- bacco
 l A Parisian tobacconist a short time | ago, being summoned for not possessing
 certificate establishing his right to call himself a purveyor of cigarettes to Her
 Majesty Queen Margherita of Italy, proved that he regularly supplied her majesty with cigarettes. He also declared
 that the Empress of Russia is devotee of smoking, and frequently receives con- sgnments of perfumed cigarettes from
 London. The Queen of Roumania, too, he said, is also great smoker, whne the Queen Mother of Spain and the exiled | Queen Mother of Portugal are confirmed | victimssto he habit