Pertf? Rmboy Evening flews FOUNDED 1879 AS THE PERTH AMBOY REPUBLICAN. An Independent Newspaper published every afternoon, except Sundays, by the Perth Amboy Evening News Company, at 5 King Street, Perth Amboy, N. J. J. LOGAN CLEVENGER,.Editor D. P. OLMSTEAD,.Business Manager TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.’ The Evening News is on sale at newstands and delivered by regular carrier in Perth Amboy, South Amboy, Woodbridge, Carteret, Tottenville and surrounding towns for 6c per week. By mail, postage prepaid, per year.$3-00 “ “ “ six months .... - 1.50 BRANCH OFFICE: Newark, ... - F. N. Sommer. 794 Broad St. Long Distance Telephone ... - - 98 Entered at Post-Office as second class matter. • ___ MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1903. Republicans were much disappoint ed when it was first definitely an nounced that Harry Oouard would not be a candidate for assembly. He was recognized as a very strong man. After giving the matter some thought, however, it was realized that no better man could have been chosen for the vacancy than Dr. F. O. Henry. Both men are decidedlv popular and have many friends in the Democratic as well as the Republican party. Dr. Henry should be named to fill the vacancy and he will make an excellent run. The looal firemen in their deter mination to win a prize at the Allen town parade have the best wishes of the entire city. It would not be the first time they have taken the shine off all the other companies. The result of the Democratic county convention will be awaited with in terest. There seems to be all kinds of results probable now. With Assem blyman Gannon in the place, he and Jackson would find thomselves old time rivals, but this would be a case where both could not win. The manner in which the women of the Hospital Auxiliary seep constant ly at it, working for that institution, is an example for a great many others. While such an interest keeps up, there is no danger of the hospital being a failure. i - At tlyte rate the steamships are arriving in this port the report of the Collector of Customs will be still greater next year. A FEW CANNIBAL BIRDS. lomr Feathered Creature* That Prey ’ on I'hetr Fellow*—Unek Hawk* Are Worst Offenders. j The most unpleasant items on the dj bill of fare of the bird kingdom are thirds themselves, writes a naturalist. The most systematic cannibal anions ^■blrds is the perujaH falcon, or duck Bliawk, and why^^^-ds arc abundant pB^^XftStidlous^nrmand merely eats ^^xntfiesh of the head and neck and eyes of each victim, leaving the re mainder of the body untouched. Oc casionally, as among other animals a bird of strictly vegetarian habits will attack another bird, even one of its own kind, and kill and eat it in the most matter of fact way. Perhaps every order of the highet warm blooded animals may be in cluded in the list, from the sloth, which mutely resigns itself to the ter rible grip of a harpy eagle, to the human child, powerless before the at tack of some bird of prey frenzied with hunger. In certain districts eagles and hawks have been shot smelling strongly of skunk, but whether that fearless animal really figured, except accidentally, in their diet, is to be doubted. If any group of mammals Is to be entirely excepted it Is only that of the whales. The small er gnawers of wood, the rodents, suf fer most heavily, and untold thou sands are devoured by hawks and owls, while cranes, shrikes and ducks make way with their share, and even flamingoes will chase and devour a mouse with avidity. INSECTS ALWAYS IN DANGER. Hardly a SIiirIo t.roii|> Wlilch Doe* Not Suffer from Appetite of Some Sppdlfji of Ilird. There Is hardly a single group of In IJtHJIB which uix?b uui auui'i uwui ' 11tip petite of one or more species of bird, says Nature. The eggs and larvae are dug and pried out of their burrows in the wood by woodpeckers and creepers; those underground are scratched and ciawed up to view by quail, partridges and many sparrows; warblers and vireos scan every leaf and twig; fly catchers, like the cat family of mam mals, lie in wait and surprise the Insects oh the wing, more particularly those flying near the ground, while swifts, swallows and martins glean a harvest from the host of high-flying insects. When we think hummingbirds are tak ing dainty sips of honey from the flow ,ers they are in reality more often snatching minute spiders and files from the deep cups of the calyxes. When night falls the insects which have chosen that time as the safer to carry on the business of active life are pounced on by crepuscular feathered beings; ihe cavernous mouths of whip-poor-wills engulf them as they rise from their hid ing places and the bristles of night hawks brush them into no less rapacious maws if perchance they have succeeded In reaching the upper air. Reform. | “And was not the reformer affected |by the piteous crying of her childern?' I “Oh, yes! For the moment she was quite unmanned.”—Puck. | In Iklrawn. I “The lady next door is celebrating hei Sen wedding.” [Married 50 years?” rl —-jk.. , / STOCK-SELLING IN LONDON. "‘Contango** anil “Backwardation* Art* Term. Fa in 11 lar to Broker. In Urlti.h Security Murket. If it should happen—and it does often happen—that, instead of settling on set tling day, both buyer and seller (or bull and bear) prefer to carry over their ac counts, stock exchange custom has pro vided for such a contingency, writes E. S. Valentine, in the Strand. The bull pays interest on the money he owes, in the hope that the shares he has bought will rise. This is caJled “contango." When the bear, instead of handing ovet the shares he has sold, pays a rate in the ho)** that they will fall In price, this is called “backwardation.” These rates fluctuate with the state of the market. It being the interest of each party to raise or lower prices, we thus have “bull campaigns” and “bear cam paigns** carried out with the object each has at heart. But if, after waiting and resorting to all the devices that the system knows of, even to "cornering” or “rigging” the market, the price does not fall in the bear’s case or rise in the case of the bull, there is nothing for it but to purchase or sell, and pay the difference —i. e„ the speculator must close his ac count at a loss. The rate of “contango” is, as we may here explain, fixed on mak ing up or contango day. If there are more “bulls” than “bears,” the rate is high; if, on the other hand, there are more takers than givers of the stock, the continuation or "contango” rate is low. STIMULUS TO INDUSTRY. Mexican Governor Offer. Annual C'n.li Fri.e to Artl.Hii. AVIro Are Sternly find Sober. The governor of the state of Mexico has founded an annual prize of $500 to ue awarueu io me arnsan wno aunng the year has most distinguished him self for his industry and sobriety and for the prompt and unvarying attend ance at his daily tasks, especially on the mornings following Sundays and gen erally observed feast days. The initia tive of Gov. Villada. says the Mexican Herald, will have a good effect in stim ulating useful emulation among the working class of the state of Mexico, which has always been to the fore, es pecially during the regime of the pres ent governor, in industrial and educa tional progress. Not long ago the proas noticed with merited commendation the establish ment, under Gen. Vlllada's auspices, ol a place of innocent recreation for th( working class at Toluca. This Is prac tical philanthropy. The working class where it sees that an intelligent Inter est is being taken In Its welfare, will demonstrate its appreciation by closer attention to work. The example of the public-spirited executive of the state of Mexico is worthy of imitation. Tlie CnKlixh Are Slow. In no other country, says the London Lancet, have the people been slower to realize the value of the application of its own scientific discoveries to technical industries than in England. Notwith standing all the splendid discoveries witr which English scientific men are Justly accredited, the applications of these discoveries to the improvement of the arts and the Industries have been atilfzed almost entirely by German manufacturers, considerably to the det riment of English trade. THE VICES OF CULTURE. Some False Ideals Set I'p l»y Men Who Ought to Know Hotter—Buying lip Legislation. “Vice will never cease,” says Prof. William James. ‘ Every level of culture breeds its own peculiar brand of vice as one soil breeds sugar and another cranberries. If we were asked the dis agreeable question, What are the bosom fices of the level of culture which our land and day have reached? we would be forced, I think, to give the still more disagreeable answer that they are swin dling and adroitness, and tfhe indulg ing of swindling and adroitness and cant, and sympathy with cant—natural fruits of that extraordinary idealization ef ‘success’ in the mere outward sense of ‘getting there- osi as big a scale as we can, which characterizes the present gen eration.” The glitted and glamour that sur rounds the educated men who “succeed,” who “get there,” who manage large af fairs, direct corporations and their com binations, devise flotations, promo tions, stock deals, hide from the ordi nary vision the fundamental vice, and even when exposed, disposes to con donation. Public opinion visits Its se verest censure on the mere burglar and pickpocket who only does at his “level of culture” what, the financier does at his, and laments the ignorance, the lack of education in winch such viciousncss spawns. Public opinion denounces the man charged with a public trust who be trays it; the legislator, of great or small degree, who sells legislation, and, when it catches him. sends hirn to wear stripes. But how rarely, says the St. Paul Dis patch, is it that the men of education, college men, who were the bribers of the convict, are caught and punished. The ignorant level has its vices in plen ty, but they are vulgar ones, gratifying physical desires for the most part. One has to get up to the higher level of cul ture to reach the plane where swindling is a fine art, with college-trained brains guiding operations. We have the college man, the student, in politics, also, where he uses his ac quirement to further schemes by which to "get there.” We have them as lob byists negotiating with uneducated leg islators for their votes, and as legisla tors selling their own. We have them —as Prof. Williams said, there were Har vard men in journalism who boasted of their ability to furnish copy on any side of the question—making jettison of their convictions that they may keep their party footing. “There is not a public abuse for which some Harvard advo cate may not be found,” said the pro fessor. THE STAGE FARMER Many City People Have Provincial Notion** of Heal Knral I,lie— Farming u llii.ilne.ss. “Barn No. 7, Oakdale Farm,” read one of two men who were riding on an elec tric car through a pleasant country. The sign which had attracted his attention was painted on a large, well-kept build ing that stands in the midst of wide and fertile fields; and as the passenger took in the evidences of thrift and prosperity, he added: “It must take a man of some brains to run a farm that has seven barns like that!” No doubt, says the Youth’s Companion, the traveler thought he was paying a •compliment. His remark was based upon the representations of farmers In the comic papers and upon the stage. Too many persons get their knowledge of the farmer from such sources. Too many city people fancy that culture and intelligence come from living in brick houses and walking on pavements. To find “a man of some brains’’ in the coun try surprises them. The farmer of the stage and of the hu morous press is about as near like the real larmer as the caricatures ot uncle Sam are like the real American. The man who buys the gold brick is not the ungrammatical scarecrow in cowhide boots and ragged hat, "with a little bunch of whiskers on his chin,” hut the man who thinks the modern farmer looks like that. Both education and material progress have changed the conditions of country life. Schools have multiplied and im proved railroads and electric car lines have covered the country with a steel network. Telephones have opened com munication with neighbors. The grange has improved social life. Rural free de livery has brought the daily papers. Ag ricultural experiment stations have made farming a science, and the depart ment of agriculture itself has become a great professional school for con vert ing farmers into scientists. Moreover, there has been a change on the purely business side. Farmers now study markets, and strive as intelligently to supply certain demands as manufac turers try to fill other wants. Indeed .farmers are manufacturers. Their product is food. The principle ol combination, too, has come in. Farm ers’ cooperative associations make and maintain prices for large sections of the country, and reap the benefit of it. Origin of Woolwich Arsenal. Woolwich arsenal is said to owe its existence to an explosion. According to the story the surveyor general gave orders that some old French guns, captured by the duke of Marlborough, should be recast into English guns at Moorfields. A young Swiss student, Andrew Schalch, who was traveling in search of scientific knowledge, hap pened to be present and noted that the molds to receive the molten metal were not dry. He spoke to the au thorities of the danger, but the metal was run and the generation of steam in the damp mold caused an explo sion, attended with loss of life. Schlach was subsequently summoned to the ordnance office, his abilities tested, and he was then requested to select a site for a new foundry. His choice fell on Woolwich, where he was superintendent of the arsenal foi many years.—London Daily Chronicle. WILL HAVE TO HURRY. Delay means Loss of Money to C. A. Sex ton’s Patrons. The readers cf the Mews wlio want to get a fifty cent package ol Dr. Howard’s celebrated specific for the cure of consti pation and dyspepsia, at half price, (25c,] will have to hurry. After a great deal of correspondence, C. A. Sjxton succeeded in getting the Dr. Howard Co. to make this special price so that his customers could obtain sixty doses of the most remarkable medicine over discovered for the cure of constipa tion and oyspepsia, at half price, 25 cents. It is the regular size, the same that has been sold in such quantities in the large citiep for years at 50,cents Whether you will be cured of your con stipation or dyspepsia for a trilling sum, jr continue to suffer, depends on you. Many have taken advantage of this offer. Nine-tenths of the people Miller from con stipation or dyspepsia. Now is the time to cure yourself. If you have tried so many remedies without reiief that you are discouraged, Mr. C. A Sexton will give you appoituni ty to test Dr. Howard’s specific without any cost unless it cures, and will agr o to return the money if it does not give satis faction. Everybody wants to bo well—to be free from headaches, constipation, indi gost. O'). Here is your cliancc for com plete and permanent cure at trifling ex pense, with a reliable local druggist’s guarantee that the treatment will not Dost- you anything it it does not cure. Take advantage ol this oiler at once. Special Train To Allentown. Via Lehigh Valley Railroad account Firemen's Parade Jay, October 8th. Special train will leave Perth Amboy at 7.30 a. m., returning will leave Allentown 8 p. m., same date. Fare for the round trip $2.30 for adults; children, $1.16. Consult ageuts for further particulars. 9-30-8t FEEDING sHEEP ON WOOD. Great Dnmnwe Worked in Many Sec tions by C’lotio Granluff on Vouik» Fiiie Shoot*. With the rapid multiplication of great flocks of sheep in the far west has come the grave question of providing the wool bearers with sufficient prov ender. Many sheep owners in the west ern mountain reglops where there is lit tle or no grass to speak of have parti} remedied the difficulty by lceding their sheep on wood! Not cordwood, to be sure, but on the young and tender pine shoots which abound in the foothills and approaches of the mountain reserves, says the New York Herald. The sheep of the western mountain regions, generally of those varieties known as “grade” merinos and coarse wools mixed, are run In flocks, or “bands,” of 2,000 to 3,000 head, in charge of a herder, wrho is assisted by a “camp tender,” “packer” or “camp rustler,” whose business it is to look up range, move camp and “pack” in supplies, in cluding salt for the sheep. In the journey to the mountains the sheep are usually obliged to follow cer tain natural highways, and their prog ress and the work of handling them are largely governed by the surroundings, rn all cases of razing on the pine shoots the range is cut close, and this close shaving of the only vegetable cover, to gether with the loosening of the soil, is working damage In many sections, much to the alarm of residents not interested in wool growing. THE SULTAN’S PLAYERS. --i ntMirivui company illu.st 15«» K(‘july to Go on StuK'e ftiKlit or Day. The sultan keeps a theatrical com pany of his own, at the head of which is an Italian. Arturo Stravolo, of Naples. All the members of the com pany, says ih^ Bondcn Express, are re lations, by lnood or marriage, of the director. Being the sultan’s own com pany, all the male members wear a uniform and hold military degrees. The tenor has the rank of a general, the baritone that of a major, the first violinist is captain, and the horn play er merely lieutenant. The company do not perform on fixed days, hut only when the sultan wishes it. They are often awakened at midnight, and have to be rea.dy, dressed and “made up" within If) minutes to play before the sultan, who generally is himself the sole audience Abdul Hamid follow? the play attentively, and if anything is not quite clear he stops the per formance and has the passage ex plained *o him. Sometimes.. however, the sultan, in a fit of melancholy, leaves abruptly, and the nlayers have to stop and go home. The sultan does not permit children to appear on the stage. In a recent production of “A Doll’s House" two stalwart Albanian guardsmen acted the part of the rhil dren. Arturo Stravolo, who is a born comedian, is the sultan’s favorite. “But your Harry broke my window, 1 tell you!” Mrs. Bellingham persisted. “No, Mrs. Bellingham: he didn’t," de clared Mrs. Giddings. “He not only told me that he didn’t do it, hut he promised never to do it again.”—Judge. A Decided Relief. Miss Fisher—Quite a confidential chat you were having with Miss Kulcher. I fear you’ll find me dull by comparison. Mr. Blunt—Not at all. It’s a relief to talk to a girl who isn’t clev—that is—er —not at all! No) at all! Net Telling Trade Secret*. “What ere your eggs worth this morn ing?” asked the housekeeper. “I don’t dast to tell ye, ma’am,” re plied the grocer’s r.ew clcr’.t, “The boss sayjs I mustn’t only tell what we’re seB 11 TBni CALENDAR OF LOCAL EVENTS Oct. 8—Ball, Ladies Aid Society, St. Paul’s GermaD Church, Wilder Hall. Oct. 18—Ball, C. B. L. Father Quinn Council No. 8, Braga Hall. Oct. 14—Private reception, Braga Hall. Oct. 15—New England Supper, LadieR Aid Society, Baptist chapel. Oct. 15, 1(>, 17—Fair, Independent Order Good Templars, Temp erance Hall. Prospect street. Oct. 20—Reception, L. O. B. A., Wilder Hall. Oct. 22— Uonoert, unristian nmaeav or Society, Presbyterian Chapel. Oct. 24—Ball, Dana Relief Socioty, Braga Hall. Oct. 27, 28. 29—Bazaar, Grace Eng lish Lutheran church, Odd Fellows Hall. Oct. 29—Entertainment, Epworth League, Simpson M. E. church. Oct. 29—Entertainment and Ball, ladies of Vorwaerts, Braga Hall. Oct. 28—Privato reoeption, Braga Hall. Nov. 1—Braga Club night, Braga Hall. Nov. 5—Marine supper, Parsonage Ain Socioty, Simpson M. E. church. Nov. 11—Ball, Woodmen of the World, Braga Hall. Nov. 12—Entertainment, Epworth Leaguo, Simpson M. E. church. Nov. 13—Delta Baseball Club, Braga Hall. Nov. 18, 19, 20—Fair, Presbyterian Chapel. Nov. 18—Ira B. lice Lodge, Braga Hall. Nov. 25—F. of A. Court Amboy No. 58. Braga Hall. Nov. 23 to Dec. 3—Fair, St. Mary’s church, Wilder Hall. Nov. 26—Concert, Simpson M. E. church. Doc. 31—Ball, Woodchoppers, Cabin Amboy, 49, Wilder Hall. Dec. 31—Steamfitters Union, Braga Hall. THOMAS M. THICKSTUN Attorney-at-Law 122 Smith Street, * Scheuer Building PERTH AMBOY, N. J. I Forrest I.. Smith CITY SURVEY OR, I Scheuer Building. I Fred. Lupton. Herbert A. Bushnell. LUPTON & BUSHNELL SUCCESSORS TO LUPTON & LUPTON ..Granite and Marble.. Monuments Headstones and Fencing. Your Patronage Solicited. New Bruns'k Av. & Central R. R. CITY DIRECTORY. CHURCHES. Beth Mordecai, Hobart Street. Pastor, Dr. M. Kopfstein. Friday, 8.IS p. m. Saturday, 10.00 a. m. Hebrew School, Saturday I p. m. Sunday School 9.30 a. m. Congregational (Swedish)—Gordon st. —Pastor, Theodore Englund—Sunday Ser vices 10.30 a. m. 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 9.30 a. m. First Pfifth Amboy, Hebrew Mutual Aid Society, Pilin Street, P. Joselson, Trustee. Services, Friday 6 to 7 p. m. Saturday 8.30 a. m., 4.30 p. m. First Baptist—Fayette st.—Pastor, Rev. Percy R. P erris—Sunday Services, 10 and and 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school 2. 30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. Friday 3.45 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7.45 p. m. 1 First Presbyterian, Market st and City Hall Park, Pastor, Rev. Harlan G. Men denhall D. D. Sunday services, 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 9.30 a. m., 2.3O p. m., Junior C. E. 3.30 p. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6.40 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7.45 p. m. Graoe English Lutheran. Smith Street Pastor, Rev. E. J. Keuling. Sunday Ser vices 10.30 a. m., 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 2.30 p. m. Methodist (Danish) Madison Ave and Jefferson st., Pastor, Rev. A. Hanson. Sunday Services, 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Epworth League, 3.45 p. m., Sunday School, 2.30 p, m. Class meeting, Wed nesday and Friday at 7.45 p. m. Holy Cross Episcopal—Washington and Johnstone sts.—Rev.D. A. Willes, priest in charge—Sunday Services 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p m Sunday School 9.30 a. m. I Our Savior’s Lutheran (Danish) State St. Rev. V. B. Skov, pastor. Sunday services 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 2.30 p. m. Simpson Methodist—High and Jefferson Sts. Pastor, Rev. S. Trevena Jackson, A.M. Sunday services 9.30 and 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m.; Sunday school, 2.30 1 p, m.; Epworth League, 6.30 p. m.; Prayei 1 meeting, Wednesday, 7.45 p. m.; Bible I training class, Friday, 7.30 p. m.; Young' Gleaners, Friday, 4.30 p. m,; Junior Ep worth League, Friday, 7.00 p. m. St. MaryVs Roman Catholic, Center St. 1 Rev. B. T. O'Connell, pastor; Rev S. A. J Mitchell and Rev. T. F. Blake, assistants. M Sunday services 7.00 8.30, 9.30 and 10.45 ^ a. m. 7.30 p. m. Suuday School 2.30 p. I "*• 1 St. Paul’s German Church—South First I street—Pastor Rev. Jacob Ganns. Services I every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. 1 Sunday School every Sunday at 2 o’clock. | St. Stephens Roman Catholic (Polish)— I State St. Rev. J. Ziellnsk, pastor. Sun- i day services, 8.00, I0.30 a. m. Vespers, 4.00 p. m. Sunday School 3.30p. m. St. Stephens Lutheran (Danish) Broad St. Pastor liev. J. Christianson. Sunday services 10.30 a. ru. and 7.30 p. m. Sun day School 3 p. m. St. Peters Episcopal—Rector St Rector, Rev. J. L. Lancaster. Sunday servlets 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 2.30 p. m. W. T. U.—Meets at 27 Smith st. ev ery Sunday at 4 p. m. LOIXJTCS. A. O. U. W Meets Odd Fellows Hall, Smith Street 1st. and 3d. Mondays. I. B. Mandcville, M. VV.; J. S. Phillips, Sec’y., 7 Kearney Aye. B. P. O. E. No. 784. Meets K. of C. Hall, corner Smith and Rector Street 1st. and 3rd. Tuesdays. Dr. Flank Cmwther, E. R.; VV. A. Crowell, ,Sec’y., Gordon Street. C. L. B. Father Quinn Council No. 88. ' meets 2d and 41b Tuesdays every Montn A in K. ot G. Hall. William Itallahan, sec- ’ retary. D. of L. Meet in City Hall, every Mon day evening. Counsellor Mrs. .Jennie Ploff f rp