Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-16
Just a Line
About Men
You Know

Tt while away an hour a travelling
salesman once went into a Methodist
pr~ayer-meeting in a small village In
England.
II was at the end of the day, and the
long English twilight was coming TO
an end. The proceedings were min
teresting and the minister dry and
prosy. The stranger, sitting In front,
did not notice that the people had all
gone out one after another until he
was the only one left. AS the meeting
was coming to a close. the church was
not lit up, so tina it was pretty dark
when the minister came to the hymn
known as Wrestling jacob
'Come o thou traveller unknown.
Whom still / hold, but cannot see.
My company before is gone,
And I am left alone with thee;
With thee all night / mean to stay,
AND wrestle till the break of day"
"No, you won't wrest1e with me till
the break Of day." called out the
/ stranger. and hurriedly walked out.
Commissioner Adolph Fisch is the
possessor Of a goldfish of a variety
never before seen in Newark. Frier Is
who have seen the little beauty pro-
nounce 1t a wonder.
1.-THE most striking example of how
q person will Internationally swear to
matters OF which he believes himself
to know positively, but doesn't. was
shown to me the other day" said Bank
ruptcy Referee Edwin G. Adams. Then
he continued:
my informant told me to marx down
en- a piece of paper just how the figure
six appeared on my watch, without
looking at the watch. 1 thought il over
carefully and figured that the catch
in the trick lay In the fact that the
Roman numerals on the watch were
upside down. l was sure of this, SO l
very carefully traced Al on the paper.
Just look at your own watch and
see how mistaken l was,' concluded
the referee.
Sas
Joseph G.. Wolber, secretary to Chief
Engineer Sherrerd, was addressing a
business mems Improvement a%ssocia-
tion on the advantages to be derived
from the proposed ship canal. A
~youngster In the audience. sitting next
to his father, listened patiently 10 the
speech and when MIR. wolber had In
ished, said:
Say, dad, the man didn't say what a
blessing the canal will be to us. Why
just think, well soon be able to swim
in the new canal without being chased
by the o Cops never go down to
the meadows, and l hope they never
will"
William J. Martin, deputy collector
OF customs, tells OF a Californian who
raced across the continent to see a
relative who was dying, but arrived In
New York the day Of the funeral. For
several hours he tried to locate some
of the people with whom the deceased
had lived, as he wanted to know the
details OF the fatal illness. Finally he
met an old man who boarded at the
house, and asked: What did Mr.. -
die OFF" He dies of q Tuesday" re-
piled the informant.
"If walls had ears remarked a vet
eran Republican politician the other
day, these walls, provided they could
talk also. would have many a mighty
interesting story to tell"
Then he pointed to the bare walls
still standing in that part of old Ches-
ter row in Halsey street hat once en-.
closed the secrets of the Republican
County Committee. 1t was there that
the local G. o. P. was in Its prime.
when Major Carl Lentz held the whip
and made and unmade officials at It's
snap.
YES" added this veteran Republi-
can politician, IF these walls could
talk, our friend, the enemy. would have
enough campaign material for the re-
inainder of the century. But they
can't. and they are low going into the
lumber heap, like the ~1attene1 am
billions of many a mar that anx'ously
awaited his political fate within Them"
Harry O'Connell, Of the Board Of
Works,
Is a jolly good soul and fat;
With a heart true blue, and a glad
hand, too,