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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11

training. They are, as a rule, Of big
physique, well proportioned, 1.-the in
their movements and have little fear
of bodily injury. Many of them lave
minds capable of quick development
along Intelligent lines.
"As 1 watched some of these men
at one of the camps running about
and kicking a football, 1 could pick
out among them a second Poe, De-
Witt or Coy. They took to their
athletic games with all the enthusi-
asm of youth and were tireless in
their efforts to learn the rudiments
of American field sports.
'It may seem idle to talk Of Rus
slams in connection with n organ
lied international sport at this time
when their country and government
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11

Today's Games.
New York at Cleveland.
Boston at ST. Louis.
Washington at Detroit.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
)
Daily Thought
Great thoughts, like great deeds,
need no trumpet--Bailey.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11
RESULTS AND STANDINGS
IN TWO MAJOR LEAGUES


ItStDTUhy 3 IOtsuIIS.
All games postponed on account OF
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11
The Largest Flower.

Mindanao produces the largest flow.
er in the world. Its habitat Is the
Parag mountain, $500 feet above sea
level. The natives give 1t the name Of
Bolo. Its full-blossom, fye-petalled, is
over three feet in diameter and weighs
% pounds. The flower was first found
In Sumatra.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11

Today's Games.
st. Louis at New York.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Cincinnati at Boston.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.
New, York, 1: Cleveland. 0 (1st
game.)
Cleveland, u New York, 3 (2nd
game.
Detroit, g., Washington, 5 (lst
game.
washington, 7; Detroit, 5 (2nd
game.)
Chicago, 8; Philadelphia, 2.
st. Louis, s; Boston, 1 (1st game.)
st. Louis, 4; Boston, 8 (2nd game.)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11

The Saint Anthony Juniors of this
city will travel to Port Reading on
Sunday to cross bats with the crack
Tiger A. c. of that place. They VIII
leave State and Smith streets at about
1870 O'Clock. Young will do the heav-
ing for the Saints and Silver will do
+ho r0oaixinp
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11

is In such serious shape, but I befieve
that they could run even the Ameri-
cans a close ace in athletic prowess
if any stimulus was given to their
development along athletic lines.
II believe that the American effort
to help these men, who became pris-
oners of war while fighting valiantly
for the allied cause, is one Of he
most important works which we have
undertaken"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
FEW COMIC VALENTINES NOW
Little Regret That Foolish and Vulgar
Custom Has Been Pretty Thor
oughIy Abandoned.

The comic valentine, which was
painfully ugly and coarse, and which
1ourished very broadly at one time,
has now almost entirely passed away,
at least in its cruder forms. 1t used
to be the greatest happiness of the
SchOolboy's life to purchase a very
large assortment of these wretched
comics and leave them on the front
doorstep of his school teacher, male or
female. Then when he had left a few
comics on the steps of the village con
stable and paid his respects in similar
fashion to the Sunday school superin-
tendent he felt that st. Valentines eve
had been well spent. The joy of st,
Valentines day has diminished greatly
since the practice of throwing valen-
tines on the doorstep, ringing the bell
and running, gave place to the less ex-
citing method of mail delivery. But
in spite of up-to-date interference
with the valentine spirit st. Valen-
tines day always will hold it's own.
The most famous valentine verse ever
written is still being attached to home
made valentines in painfully neat chill,
dren's handwriting in various happy
outlying districts where boys and girls
have real fun without spending much
money for valentines or anything else.
are still true blue in the joyous land
of boy and girl love affairs where
reigns the good st. Valentine.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

and placed the pardon in her hands.
/ babe her good-by, but the tears that
fell on my hand were from the eyes
of the child-wife, whose grief had been
50 deep that she had been fearless I'M
til she held hat pardon"
LincoIn's Chief Purpose.
Even so strong and patriotic a man
as Horace Greeley published an open,
letter to Lincoln, in 1868, calling the
president an opportunist and denounc-
ing his policies. In his reply Mr.. Lin
coin plainly stated that he did not
want to be known in history as 'The
Emancipation" but that his chief pur-
pose was ito save the Union" Here
are his sincere words:
my paramount object is to save
the Union, and not either to save or
destroy slavery. If / could save the
Union without freeing any slave, l
would do it. If I could save it by
freeing all the slaves, 1 would do it.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

dent who received us, Senator Trum-
bull cheerfully greeted President Lin
coin, saying:
"'Mr. President, 1 hope that you are
looking on the bright side of affairs.
On Capitol hill we all wonder that you
can do so well in these trying tin es,
especially as you have no preceden- %
guide you in anything, judicial, civil
or military
Source of His Precedents.
Heartily grasping the hand of Sen
atOr Trumbull, and also clasping mine,
Abraham Lincoln looked straight into
the eyes of the senator and squarely
turned toward me, and l saw upon the
face of that grand man a smile of con-
tentment, peace and hope, such as few
men ever saw; and Lincoln thrilled
me with his manner and his words.
Even now the memory of his words,
his wonderful smile, his confident a
ner thrills me. He very earnestly
said:
"1Thank you, Senator Trumbull, for
every word of encouragement. But,
please tell the boys on Capitol hill
that I have precedents for everything.
Tell them all that / shall commit no
dangerous error; that l shall not blum
der, because 1 have precedents, and /
carefully follow them. 1 get my pre-
cedents, Trumbull, by my bedside at
night. 1 get them while 1 am on my
knees. 1 seek my precedents then and
there; and they come to me from the
source of all wisdom
II have always felt and believed
that I saw and heard Abraham Lin
coin in n of his greatest moments,
when his spirit was in touch with the
Great Spirit that sent him to u.s."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
.WOWNII1
And Her Thin Shoulders Were Heav-
ing Convulsively.

guessed it might be some old love let
ter from Will Chandler.
Myra's tough little heart suddenly
melted-was this evening a repetition
of many other endings of st. Valen-
tines day? Had Ella Flagg hoped
each year that she would receive some
message from her absent lover?
And hen the full realization of the
misery she had caused brought a
dreadful feeling of wretchedness to
her heart.
II must tell her." decided Myra sud-
denly; Il must tell her about the let
tiers 1 have kept back-and when he
comes after her, I must tell him, too,
and 1 must help her get ready for
her wedding-it's my punishment"
Softly she opened the door and went
inside.
When Will Chandler came home to
claim Ella Flagg for his bride, people
marveled that Myra Watts appeared as
Elias maid of honor, and they could
not understand what had healed the
breach between the old friends.
Myra might have told you that it
was a bundle of suppressed letters
and valentines which Ella Flagg had
burned that memorable night when
Myra made confession of her wrOngdo-
ing; but she kept her secret, and so
did Ella, and Will Chandler refused
to listen to her story because he was
so glad and eager to hold Ella in his
arms again.
And when another valentine day
came around Myra sorted the mail,
quickly, .deftly, and in another spirit.
When at last she came to a large en-
bossed envelope postmarked Cali
fornia, where VIII and Ella were liv-
ing with old Mrs. F1agg, a beautiful
color suffused her dark face.
"Come out here and live with u.s."
wrote Ella on the back of the valen-
tine they sent. swirl knows of a
splendid position for you, and it is
summer all the time in California"
Myra went, and she says it is sum-
all the time in her heart, too, ever
since that night when she unburdened
it to her friend and brought happiness
to three sorrowing souls.
Copyright, 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
S~yndicate.)
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
One Paramount Object:
ITO Save the Union"

CECRETARY STANTON came to
N the White House one afternoon
to protest against a pardon which
President Lincoln had issued for a
soldier sentenced to be shot for deser-
ton. Stanton said:
"That mother-in-law who came to
you this morning was only shedding
crocodile tears. She doesn't care for
that son-in-law. I'm told that she
merely came as a matter of duty, be-
cause she had opposed the marriage
of her daughter to that man, and to
refuse to plead for his life would have
been almost objectionable. But she
didn't care for the pardon, and didn't
expect it,"
"AIl of that was very clear to me,
Stanton" was the reply of the WON
derful Lincoln.
Il only looked at her once, and then
patiently listened to her. / had made
up my mind to issue the pardon be-
fore that mother-in-law began to talk
and weep. 1 did not look at her a
second time. nor pay any heed to what
she was saying. The pardon was is
sued, in my mind, as 500 as l looked
1t that poor, frail, fearless Madonna,
the girl who would soon be a widow
but for me. 1 led her to a seat. wrote
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
Lyman TrumbuIl's SpOnta-,
neous Tribute to His
Leader.
Constant PeruSaI of Worlds Fin
est Literature Gave Him
His Command of Lam
guage.
LincoIn's Great Heart and Wonderful
Shrewdness Shown in His Pardon
of Deserving SoIdier-Dare-
devil Acts of Raider Nor
gan Won Admiration.

Seward, himself well known for his
admiration of and knowledge of the
writings of the Immortal William"
unable to control his admiration,
would turn to the president and say:
"tMr. President, our understanding
has been that you have Deve gone TO
school, and yet you quote Shakespeare
as 1 do not, and 1 am regarded some
what as a Shakespearean scholar
"Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress was
another book that he read. Feed a
growing mind upon the English of
these texts and you will have a choice
of English"
The scholarly congressman also
said: Il concede the speeches before
mentioned as a high rank of express
sion, but 1 think that the high-water
mark was reached when, looking back
we four years Of awful war, he said:
"tBoth read the same Bible and pray
to the same God, and each invOkeS his
aid against the other. The prayers of
both could not be answered. That of
neither has been answered fully. The
Almighty has his OWL purposes.
Blessed With Adversely.
"'Fondly do we hope, fervently do
we pray, that this mighty scourge of
war may speedily pass away. Yet, if
God wills that it continue until all
the wealth piled up by the bondman's
tive hundred and fifty years of unre-
Quilted toll shall be sunk, and until
every drop of blood drawn by the lash
shall be paid by another drawn by the
sword, as was said three thousand
years ago, SO still it must be said,
1.-THE judgments of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether" iGiee.@
From the cradle to the grave Abra-
ham Lincoln was blessed with adver-
sity and misfortune sufficient to con-
stantly compel his best efforts at all
times.
That he was not only blessed with
sufficient poverty to compel his best
efforts, but that he was also cheerful
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

handwriting was Enthusiastically that of
Will Chandler. Myra knew it at once.
She had had several notes from VIII
before he fell in love with Ella Flagg.
The envelope was addressed to Ella
Flagg.
Myra's black eyes blazed jealousy as
she held the missive up to the light
and discerned through the thin paper
the dainty decoration Of a lovely val
entine.
A little printed verse could be plain
ly read:
Amid these wilds I wander in despair,
1 sigh for her, so faithless, yet so fair.
Ye streams, We woods, we breezes tell
The agonies of soul for her 1 feel
A bit of doggerel verse-yet it set
Myra's heart to beating rapidly.
Will Chandler had sent this valen-
tine to Ella Flagg-what wonder-work-
ing thing was this Love which could
bridge the long years of ~estrange-
ment?
Year after year VIII Chandler had
sent a similar message to Ella Flagg-
and Ella had v received til Still,
VIII had doggedly sent the valentines.
Nothing in between, but on the days
devoted to the kindly saint, VIII sent
some message to his old sweetheart
and Ella got It'll
Myra Watts might have explained,
but she didn't.
Today her eyes glowed fiercely as
she hid the letters away in her bureau
at home.
"They ought to be my valentines"
she defended herself. $50 I'll keep
'em here! !"
That night Myra closed the post Of
flee at eight o'clock and started for
home. Her way led past the little
house where Ella Flagg lived with an
invalid mother. When Myra passed
Mrs. Jacob Hills house that good lady
ran out with a paper hat bag in her
hand.
"Oh, Myra," she painted, "do you
mind leaving this at Ella Flagg's
house? She's promised to fix my
mourning bonnet tonight SOS l can go
to Uncle Benny's funeral tomorrow.
I'm much obliged" she called over her
shoulder as she hurried into the house.
Myra turned into the Flagg gate and
went around the path to the side door.
There was a light in the sitting room
and Myra peeped through the glass
panels of the door before she knocked.
What she saw there stayed her hand.
Ella Flagg was all alone in the
room. Myra knew that Mrs. Flagg
was asleep in the adjoining bedroom.
Elias fair head was pressed disconso-
lately into the cushions of the soft
and her thin shoulders were heaving
convulsively.
Clenched in one thin hand was a
crumpled envelope and Myra shrewdly
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

~ VERY Lincoln story is a polit-
ical parable, pointing always
to the pathway leading to
fight reason and righteous
judgment, writes Smith d. Fry in the
Philadelphia Ledger.
Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom of Illinois,
whose young manhood was enlightened
and elevated by the friendship of Lin
coin, and was in his later years an
enlightening and e~levating influence
upon the young manhood of the writer,
narrated an experience which has
never been in print. 1t seems to have
been lost in the mass and maze Of
stories concerning that wonderful
nobleman who lived and died among
mortal men in our own land, with
malice toward none and with charity
for ALL"
Senator Trumbull accompanied me
to the White House one afternoon"
said Senator Cullom.
Ozark clouds were lowering over
the horizon. Disasters and defeats
developed discouragements day after
day. Over the minds of statesmen at
the capital apprehension brooded from
the rising of the sun to the going down
of the same.
with the purpose of encouraging
the serious-minded, care-worn presi-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
1Rr 1alRntttte
BY NRTTIR K. H

NUT of the heart of the long ago.
Faded and yellow, by time, you know,
But cherished still in shadow and shine.
Cometh to me her valentine;
Here is the oouplet. quaint and true.
The rose 10 red,
The violets blue
And l dream in the cleaning soft and low
Of the lass who penned it long years ago.
A little mid with the bluest eyes
That ever danced meath winter skies:
A roeuish miss, whose love was told
To the sound of q kiss in q moonlit void,
But here is the rest of her rhymins tunei
Love 10 sweet
And SO are you.
And q boys cheeks flushed ct the hnal line
OF Q rustic sweetheart's valentine.
Deep in the past, but dimly hid,
Behind her soft eyes dropping lid.
Ouivers and arrows that Cupid keen
Shot at the Castle Of Might have.been.
And palmer still the couplet true.
The rose is red,
The violets blue
And laughter low, which is half divines
Ripples across her valentine.
With q cherished thought for the love Il told
i tenderly open each yellow fold.
And my heart beats fast a. II did one day
In Q past that 10 hallowed and far away.
] can see the eyes that were deep and blnes
Love is sweet
And so are you
And sealed with Q kiss her valentine.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
Admired BravGdo of
Morgan, the Raider

"ONGRESSMAN SAMUEcelved
COX, long time famous in his
halls of congress, told the mar
rator of a visit which he hurriedly
paid at the White House one morning
when the Confederate raider, John
Morgan, was careering over Ohio, do
ing great damage and seemingly in
capable of defeat or capture. Congress
gresham Cox went to the White
House for information, saying substan-
tally:
"Mr. President, I have been to the
wal department, but can get no in
formation concerning John Morgan.
Can you tell me anything about him.
Where is he? Will he capture Column
bus? Will he
HE has not told me yet" replied
Mr.. Lincoln, "but 1 would be willing
to make a bet that he will capture Co
lumbus if he can, and carry off your
live stock and fancy chickens, Mr.. Cox.
if he can get them. No, we don't
know this morning just where he is,
but you may be pretty sure that our
DOlS VIII CdlCn I'LL SOOu. NuCA l1lCJ
do get him I want to see him.
One of Morgan's Tricks.
Il like that rascal, Mr.. Cox, like
him very much" continued Mr.. Lin
coin. John has a sense of humor
which thoroughly humanizes him. He
captures mail trains, examines all Of
the letter mail, let's ordinary CORE
spondence go right along, but the big
envelopes with the war department
imprint he takes possession of, ex-
amines, and uses for his own military
purposes. Only this morning 1 heard
of N of his tricks, and what do you
suppose it was?
I'm one of the big envelopes there
was a commission promoting a second
lieutenant to be major of his regiment;
the promotion was made for merit
and courage. Down in one corner OF
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
HIS Superb Command
of English Language

a DEPRESSING the house of rep
~ resentatives of the American
congress on a special occasion,
Representative Fess said:
"Who is this man, that he could
thus speak and write? Born in a hut
in Kentucky, at the age of seven he
accompanied his parents and sister
into Indiana, where they lived one win
ter in an open camp with but three
sides to it. And yet without having
gone to school more than six months
all told, according to his own state
ment, here is a man, thus starting
with no convenience, who has reached
a plane, an ability to speak the Eng
lish language not reached by any of
the scholars of his day.
"Where is the secret? 1 think that
it might be found in the sort of books
he read.
"The one book with which he was
quite familiar was King James YER
sion of the Bible. 1 once heard Parks
Cadman, pastor of the greatest Con-
gregational church in the world, say
that Abraham Lincoln's verbal knowl-
edge of the Bible was not equaled by
the theologians. l would not say that
upon my own authority, but cite it
upon his authority.
He knew Shakespeare, and in the
darkest hours of the life of the nation,
in the midst of great depression, often
when the cabinet was in session, MI.
Lincoln would quote page after page
Of Shakespeare, until the scholarly
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
Custom Will Not Down

Custom has decreed that on st. VAL
entine's day persons of the opposite
sex should exchange affectionate mis-
sives, and custom is mor potent than
any other authority known to man.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

and content with his lot, is well illus
trated by an incident of his career
which was narrated to the writer by
the sometime famous parliamentarian,
Congressman William NJ. Springer of
Springfield, ILL.,. one who was for
many years a leader of thought and
discussion in the procedures of the
house of representatives of the nation
al congress.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

the commission John read the words,
Approved. A Lincoln
fright underneath, he wrote:
"'Approved by me also, John Nor
gam and he forwarded that commits
sion to the worthy officer. I tell you,
friend Cox, 1 like Jonn and hope to
see him one Of these days. very SOON
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

9" am ready to accept any new
views as soon as they are proved to
be true views"
Well, by the course which he pur-
sued the Union was saved, and today
1t is the Gibraltar of the democracy
of the world. Great as was the cause
of emancipation for the enslaved peo-
pie, greater was the cause Of saving
this Union and making it the great
nation that it is today. zone and in
~separable."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14
WITTTIITN
THAT Timpkins Boy Has Sent a Val
entine to Lissy Edwards"

not-only Myra didn't have much to
say about Ella Flagg. Once they had
been close friends, but for many years
they had been estranged.
Elias mute, questioning face ap-
peared at the post Office window.
Myra nodded CURLY, handed Ella a
newspaper and a letter containing a
circular. Then she turned her back
and began to close up the Office for the
noon hour.
When she was all alone Myra locked
the door and took Elias valentine out
of her W box. 1t was postmarked
from a town in California and the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

a DEPRESSING the house of rep
~ resentatives of the American
congress on a special occasion,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-14

OSGA Co0 oL ~
IL years, and it was said that she
knew the handwriting Of every man,
and child in the village. And
gossips whispered that Myra always
read messages on picture postals be-
fore handing them through the window
to their indignant recipients.
Outside the closed window was an
expectant crowd pressing close to the
pigeon-holes, watching Myra and her
assistant as they poked letters into
the boxes and twisted their necks in
a vain endeavor to read addresses, for
Myra had a most aggravating way of
putting letters in with the addresses
upside down.
All the time Myra was sorting the
mail her eyes were wistfully searching
for a letter addressed to herself-for
Myra Watts had never received a val
enbne during all her 40 years.
"Humph~ she shifted impatiently,
as she thrust a large embossed en-
velope into a box, shat Timpkins boy
has sent a valentine to Lissy Edwards
Il wonder what her mad say If she
knew it? And here's n he's sent to
May Weeks-the impudent young
puppy-and Professionalism Ella-I
wonderY Mura deftly tucked the
fancy envelope into her own private
box, and, having finished distributing
the mornings mail, pushed open the
window and proceeded to hand it to
the eager girls and boys who pressed
into the tiny post Office.
The last one to appear at the win
dow was Ella Flagg, the little milliner
whose shop was next door to the post
office. Ella was a faded blond, with
light blue eyes and a face that once
had been vivaciously pretty, but now
was sad and wistful. People had de-
cided that Ella Flagg had begun to
droop from the moment that Will
Chandler left Littleford and went to
California. Some wondered whether
Ella ever heard from Will, but Myra
could have told them that she did