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POUTH AMBQY '1
D IN UNKNOWN MANNER.
|lealy Had Fingers Cut Off And j
Does Not Know How.
Healey, better known as
while intoxicated and
on the tracks between South
and Morgan station between
eleven o'clock Thursday |
vas struck by something, sup
!a train, but he says he does j
w whatj hit him. He got up
Iked taJMorgan station, stayed
ad then went over to
Is fish house, where he
ing, and went to sleep.
Angers of one of his |
off and half of the
(t is singular that the
left intact and with
here is a hole in his
sn, who saw the con
i, went for Dr. Haines,
Seeded to awaken Healey.
the doctor what he was do
re and when doctor Haines re
i came here to, fix you up, " the
kized for t he first that he was
Dr. Haines dressed the
[and Healey is around again
A Dangerous Place.
is a sort of cave in at the I
of the Bordentown avenue |
Ever the Raritan railroad,
great hole which pedestrians |
to step into any dark night.
| to be Attended to at, once.
BoarJ of Education.
meetjKf of the Bqard of Ed- 1
aeltL^hursday evening, Dr.
ite was elected president |
board, and Frank DeGraw,
NEWS ITEMS.
Peter Slover, of Bordentown
[is improving his sidewalk by
in. an example whioh others
property on John, George,
several other streets where
Ihollows and roots of trees j
[to catch their feet in, would
follow. A few loads of
dirt would very liiuch improve the
appearance of the streets and perhaps
save many persons feet (and temper)
from injury.
Mrs. George Gregory, of Jersey
City, visitld her parents, Captain and
Mrs. Charles Parisen, of John street,
Thursday. Harvey Parisen, who is
on one of the B. and O. tugs, visited
his parents Tuesday.
Mrs. Oscar Berlew of David street,
was a New Brunswick visitor Friday.
Mr. Charles Steuerwald, Jr., is im
proving after several weeks illness.
Mr. Charles DeWorth, Sr., of Perth
Amboy, was the guest of Mrs. S.
Cannon, of the Heights, Wednesday
evening.
Walter Mnndy has made the largest
catch of shad this season. He caught
four last night in his net. Until then
Walters rtas ahead, catohing one shad
in his net twice while Mundy was not
catohing any.
Jonah Letts, living on Felter street,
is very sick with diphtheria. It is a
bad case. Mr. Letts' daughter, Mrs.
S. Slover, has a young babe two days
old. She is living in the same honse.
Her husband took their other ohild, a
little girl, to his father's, Mr. An
drew Slover, at once.
Charles Stratton, of Broadway and
George street, has been doing some
extra good work in the garden in
front of his house, sodding the gronnd
and laying out flower beds. It is
quite an improvement.
Miss Ruby Slover, who has been
substituting in one of the Red Bank
public schools on aooount of the ill
ness of a teacher, the last month, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Slover, of Bordentown avenue,
but will soon return to the State Nor
mal school at Trenton.
H. PARISEN
201 David St. So. Amboy, N. J.
PIANOS and ORGANS
E^ADBURY, WEBSTER and
HENNING PIANOS
Id up. Square Pianos from
?Cash or tn?tn?ments
WITH
Ml
u uk Foe.
xorthwest has probably fur
uore cougar tights and encoun
h wild animals than any other
th<; United States. A success
or fight is never a dull remin
partieularly when a human
;ts his cougar. James McGin
a came from the Red river in
est Canada, to the wilds of Cow
n southern Oregon, a few years
had a very interesting cougar
the Cascade mountains. Mc
yas an experienced hunter. He
otch and Canadian stock and
n the frontier, and is now liv
tlie south half of the Colville
eservation in Washington. In
of vigorous manhood he was
muscular, powerful man about
tall and weighed about 175
without carrying much fatty
ays Forest MidStream.
y before his encounter with
gar he had been thrown from
orse that he was breaking and
some injuries which required
dical treatment. To secure his
, he had to travel perhaps' five
iles to the doctor. On his first
noticed many cougar signs
le trail which he had to travel,
second visit to the drug store
hided to carry his rifle, and
him that he did, or he should
be living to tell about his
battle, nor would he be able
in evidence the four long
teeth taken from the mouth of
piished wild antagonist. Mc
faithful old ilog also was along
, 110 small factor in the final
The cougar first attacked
which made its escape in con
: terror. The savage brute
aped at MeUinnis, whose big
rather hefevy, and his aim was
inrriefl. in this way the bul
grazed the cougar's head and
?d its rage. While McGinuis
eavoring to eject the spent
e, the mechanism of the rifle
work, and before he could get
i big cougar w&s at close quar
? him, tearing his clothes and
away at him. By a well-di
low of his fist under the jaw
lugar he succeeded in turning
al away from him a little way,
lis juncture of affairs the old
tch Mac was lustily calling,
ivered his courage and got a
be cougar by the ear, and then
some diversion of their own.'
le dog and cougar were en
e hunter managed to get an
'tridge in his rifie. and by the
beast* had disposed of the
>ld dog he again attacked Mc
So enraged was the cougar
line" right up with its mouth
d so closely that McGinois
le rifle barrel into his inouth
its hjjad off. The cougar, in
^Ve, look the silver bead off
? The animal was an old
TeninTe and irVasured eight feet from
tip to tip. Mai- lias the four cougar
tearing teeth as trophies of his very
serious but victorious encounter with
a bad and hungry cougar.
SOCIAL LIFE IN COLLEGE.
An Important Factor In the Saceeaa
of ViionK Men Starting
Out lu Life.
It is doubtful if the educational
value of the living together of young
men at college -is fully realized in
America. During the last few years
this matter has be* n strongly im
pressed upon me, says Samuel H.
Iianck, in the Reformed Church Re
view. As editor of a college obituary
record I have carefully studied the
lives of a good many hundreds of
college men, successes ami failures
alike; for the men were taken as
they died and the sources of in
'ovulation in almost every instance
were the people wJ)o actually knew
them. The men who succeeded, who
were able to accomplish things and
live reasonably happy lives, were
often men of the most ordinary abili
ty, but they knew how to deal with
Iheir fellows. The men who failed
were of two kinds; those who had
failed from a lack of self mastery
? from la/.iness or vice ? and those
who failed through their inability
to get along wjth their fellowmen.
The latter were by far the more
numerous and their eases were
usually the most pathetic, for the
hardship that ensued to themselves
and families was the greatest; and,
moreover, one could not help but
feel that somehow tliey did not de
serve it.
To me the most striking thing in
the study of the lives of these col
lege men is the fact that few of the
latter type of failures were mem
bers of the college fraternities or
similar social organizations while lu
college. The fraternity men who
failed, failed because they could not
master themselves. There can be no
doubt that these social organizations
in our American colleges, especially
where there are no dormitories, de
velop in young men a marked ability
to associate successfully with their
fellows ? one of the first requisites
for telling work in any department
of life. It may be added that this
conclusion has been reached without
prejudice, tor I myself never be
longed to a college fraternity.
It Means the Same Thin?.
"He's a fool!"
"Oh, I wouldn't put it so brutally as
that. There are better ways of ex
pressing your opinion of hiim."
"How, for instance?",
"Well, you might say that he's the
kind of man who's likely to have the
simple inscription on his tombstone:
'He blew out the gas.' " ? Chicago .
Post. ........ '
MAKING THEM WHOLE
Poor People with Missing Members
Supplied Free.
ft*raa*e Reqarnt* Made of a Chart
tabJe Ansoclatlon That Supplies
Artificial Limbs, UJau
Eyes, Etc.
"I don't know whether I ought to
buy this man a woollen leg or not."
The secretary of the Association for
the Improvement of the Condition of
the Poor was pondering: "The last
man 1 bought one for was so happy
that he had to celebrate; and he cele
brated so hard that he got into a row
and the leg was smashed before morn
ing. Seventy-five dollars gone to splin
ters within 12 hours!" ?
There was a shade of humor in the
lady's meditations, even though the
subject was not a merry one, says the
Philadelphia Ledger.
"Artificial limbs seem to have a bad
moral influence some way," she said,
with Mime sadness. "When 1 supply
the missing portion of a man's anat
omy he almost always has to go and
celebrate. The last time 1 bought a
man a glass eye he did the same thing.
He was an educated man, had been a
professional man in his day; and after
he had been rejoicing over the new eye
for a little while, his chivalrous in
stincts prevailed, and he decided that
he must come up and show me how
nice it looked. He came ? " She
paused and shook her head mourn
fully. "He was very happy," she con
cluded simply.
The purchase of $75 or $100 arti
ficial limbs seems a rather expensive
outlay for a charitable association,
but when a recipient cannot be self
supporting without it, it is perhaps
the wisest charity. A man's chances
at money-earning are so painfully re
duced by any deformity that perhaps
he can be excused for celebrating when
the deficiency is supplied. At least
the association thinks so, and at one
time or another it has furnished al
most every member of the human form
divine.
The other day a one-legged man
drifted in with a strange tale of woe.
Twenty years ago he left the city for
the west. After serving his time at
knocking about, he had acquired a
small farm in Montana. The farm was
not particularly valuable, and when,
about a year ago, he got a chance to
sell it, he did so, and resolved to use
his little capital by returning to the
east and getting into some small busi
ness. He had barely started, with his
little stake in his pocket, when he was
run over and smashed nejfcly to bits.
Taken to a hospital in a Montana town,
he was made a pay patient, it was
minus one leg and most of his money,
and when he emerged, eight months
later, he adhered to his original plan
and continued his journey, though for
what reason he himself cannot tell.
With no relatives, and his old acquaint
ances scattered or forgotten, he
turned tip alone and friendless at the
society's doors and_ asketl for a
wooden leg. He had a little motley
left, but he did not dare use any of it,
as he felt he must keep something to
live on, and yet without the leg he
could do nothing for a living.
Then there was the man who haa
his hair all burned off his head. His
scalp healed, but his hair absolutely
refused to send forth a single tendril.
With a head bare and smooth as a bil
liard ball, he found it impossible to
get a job, employers either believing
him too old or refusing to have him
around, on account of his appearance.
He grew so sensitive over the matter
that he refused even to go to the asso
ciation rooms, because ? he "would
have to take off his hat to the ladies."
But he sent his wife to state the facts
in the vase and petition for a wig. The
wig was bought, the man got a job,
and, happily, refrained from "cele*
brating."
A young woman found herself in the
same predicament. All her hair fell
out in a severe attack of fever, and
when, after a long time, it began to
come in it stood out perfectly straight
and stiff from her head. The store
where she had been employed had re
served her position for her, but her
appearance attracted so much atten
tion that after awhile they told her
she would have to go. The association
bought her a $15-wig, and it proved
efficacious, for within six months she
was married.
One struggling widow who was keep
ing together a family of, four or fiv
children placed her false teeth in a
glass of water one night before retir
ing. The children had a little dog
which, as ill-nourished as the rest o?
the family, and having more appetite
than sens^, found the teeth in the night
and chewed thenx up. The secretary
smiled, but she bought the widow
a new set of teeth.
"How could the woman eat if she
had no teeth?" she inquired. "And
how could she work if she could not
eat? There are people marked down
on charity books to-day as incorrigi
bly lazy who got there through dys
pepsia caused by bad teeth."
An artificial %iose, for a man who ,
had been deprived of that useful mem
ber through accident, and a $50 flexi
ble hand, not to be detected in a glove,
lor a girl, were among other odds and
ends supplied.
"What?" said the secretary. "No, I
we haven't supplied any artificial |
brains yet, but I can tell you, we could j
do a good business if we did, and it I
wouldn't all be among charity pa- j
tients."
Her Point of View.
Madge ? Don't you think a girl
should marry an economical man?
Dolly ? I suppose so; but it's just
awful being engaged to one. ? N. Y.
Times.
"book agent got even.
Thrtatrnrd rrith Vlolrtcc bjr lh?
Huahaad, He Retaliates by Sell
ing Book to thr Wit*.
"There are slews and slathers of
schemes for getting revenge," said a
Washington business man who has
half a dozen "No Agents or Peddlers"
signs tacked; up around his office, re
lates the Star, "but the way a fel
low took to get even with me yester
day for a bit of warm talk that I
was obliged to hand out to him beats
anything that has come my way
down to date.
"The chap was a book agent who
came into my office the other morn
ing not much later than 15 minutes
after I had reached my desk. I was
busy with my morning's mail, and
when he unhitched the leather cov
ering around his stack of sample
copies of 'Photogravures of the Old
Masters,' I simply nodded in the di
rection of one of those 'No Agents
or Peddlers' signs and supposed that
he would take the tiint and mosey
out. But he didn't mosey. He was
a tall, heavy-set, healthy-looking in
dividual who appeared as if he might
be able to take care of himself pretty
well in a scrap, and no doubt he had
fallen into the habit of presuming
upon his appearance of physical abil
ity. Miyhow he began to spread the
book out and to show me the pic
tures.
"'Now, I haven't any time to fool
away with such truck as that,' I said
to him in a pretty testy way, when
I saw that he was bound to show me
his 'Photogravures of the Old Mas
ters,"! never bpught a book in my life
from a book agent, and I never am
going to buy one from a book agent,
and if you've got any regard for
your tonsils and understand the
meaningof the conservation of energy
you'll traipse right out that door on
your left and let me alone.'
"Well, the fellow seemed to regard
my conversation as just so much
mere airy persiflage.
" 'But I know,' he put in, 'that if
you take but one glance at this mag
nificent collection of perfect repro
ductions of the old masters, you will
change ? '
" '1 will do nothing of the sort.' I
broke in, 'and I'm not going to take
one-eighth of one glance at the col
lection, either. I'm a patient man,
but I want you to go out of here,
and quick. The gall of you people,
anyhow, prowling into a man's oflice
when he hasn't any more than got
down to his business a little after 9
o'clock in the morning, and springing
such rot as a collection of old mas
ters on him ? on your way!'
"Well, that fellow smiled right in
my teeth in a way that clearly
showed that he considered that I was
delivering myself of the usual ban
dinage under the circumstances, and
then he procee-ded:
" 'But, sir, I hate to deprive you of
the opportunity to look over .this
superb volume before you have given
yourself the chance to reflect upon
the extraordinary offer which I am
making. I am the only representa
tive of the firm publishing this work
to cover the District <Sf Columbia ter
ritory, and I shall perhaps not re
main here for more than a we?l; or
so ? I shall certainly not get down
this way again. As you will see this
volume embodies the most famous
works of the most eminent of the
old masters, and it comprises nearly
300 photogravures, with more than
600 pages of explanatory matter,
most of it written by the most nota
ble art critics of Europe, and?'
"'Oh, Mike? and Pat!' I yelled,
rushing to the office dor as if to sum
mon a couple of porters of the pro
portions of piano movers ?I only em
ploy one porter, and he's rather an
anaemic-looking colored man ? and i
then the book agent tilted his hat to
me with a flourish and disappeared
through the other door.
"My wife greeted me at the door
when I came home that evening with
an unusually gracious manner that I
can usually detect the meaning of ?
it generally means that she's m:'de a
purchase that's not down on the lit
tle schedule.
" 'Well, what is it you've blown
yourself to this time?' I said to her.
'You might as well tell me now. and
show it to me after dinner.'
"'Oh, but I know you won't be
cross about this,' said my wife, in a
tone of unusual confidence under the
circumstances. 'It's that beautiful
book that you sent that young -nan
up to show me? I never knew beiore,
by the way. that you were partial to
reproductions of the old masters.
But it is such a handsome volume,
and it really seems cheap at $15,
don't you think?'
"Then she racejl into the library
and brought forth the book to show
me. I was too stupefied to say any
thing for five minutes, but then I
gradually became able to get# to the
bottom of the scheme. There wasn't]
much to it. The husky book agent i
whom I had turned down had simply j
picked up one of my business envel
opes on his way out. Then he had
looked up my house number in the
directory, raced up to the house,
showed my wife the envelope and
told her that he had seen me and
I that I was vastly interested in the
book, but that if my wife wished to
purchase it to tell her that it would
be all right ? and she had bought it,
delighted at 'my growing artistic
taste,' as she put it.. He more than
squared it up with me for the in
stallment of inflated conversation,
which I bestowed upon him? but wait
till the next book agent drops in
t here, that's all."
Wihn Could Blame It?
"Hjis face wears a pinched look,"
o.bsexvedthe magistrate, as the tramp
slouched forward in the grasp of a
brawny policennm.-^Princeton Tiger.
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Tramp ? I jus' dropped in, muni,
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