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-THE City 1^5. JAMES LUBY. . . . Editoh PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY OFFICE, No. 80 Montsomery Streei CWELDON BUILDING..) Tee Jersey City News:—Single copies, two cents; subscription, six dollars per year; postage free. The Sunday Morntxg News:—Published every Sunday morning; single copies, three cents; sub scriptiOn, one dollar and îlfty cents per year; pot t&ge free. Entered in the pout office at Jersey City ai fécond class mail matter. All business communications should be ad dressed to The News Publishing Company; all others to the Managing Editor. BRANCH OFFICES: Advertisements, Subscriptions ana Newsdeal er? " Orders received:— Hobgeex—First and Clinton Streets, J. D. Sin clair, Union Hii.l—H. Fischer, No. 62 Palisade Avenue Bergkn Point—T. VV. Dobson, opposito Kailway Depot. Five Corners—G. W. Pheiffer, No. 6«3 Newark Avenue· WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1889. The Jersey Ciïï News, AVERAGE I j DAILY ι ^'^β® CIRCUL.ATION,j&*" I HICH WATER MARK, \ 44,GOO COPIES !— IN SIX DAYS. The Sum Morning News j i Γ Τι ! ^ I HIGH ! /, ©°i> WATER IV** *' j MARK, i ! t_ ! ! ! LARGEST CIRCULATION ; m budsun county. This paper is Democratic in principles end is independent in Us views on all weal (tuentions. Labor and the Great Pair. We are sorry to see the members of the Carpenters' Union so sot in their opinion against the Great World's Fair to be held in New York in 1892. The argument that it will overcrowd the city has some truth in it, but, in our judgment, it is more than offset by the great advantages of the enter prise. The mere construction of the Fair buildings will give lucrative employ ment to an army of workingmen of all grades of skill for two years. The preparation of the exhibits will give scope to the energies of expert labor ers in all parts of the world, and will afford them handsome profits. The care and operation of the exhibits will keep many hundreds busy. Then consider the work that will be made by the city's preparation for its swarm ol visitors, the preparations of the transportation companies, and the tens of thousands who will And work through the activity of the transpor tation lines. Finally consider the development of our industries that, it is just to expect, will result from the show—the opening of the new markets abroad, and the acquirement of new processes at home. Let us grant that there may be a brief period of reaction after the fair— six months, say—but will not the peo pie be in good shape to pass through it after three years of prosperity, and will not the broader effects of the dis play of our industries and commerce cause a very speedy renewal of busi ness activity and financial liberality? We think workingmen had better pause before opposing this great Na tional project. Thk wicked Major Ζ. Κ.. Hyde con - tinues to harrow the soul of the good Dr. Joseph A. Dear regarding those West Side sewers. It is too bad that the house of our only competitor should be thus divided against itself. Another Prohibition Failure. Now we are told that Plainfield finds the absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic a flat failure, and is about to restore high license. A New York newspaper says:— No license has not worked well in the town, RtiU some of the ministers would rather have high license than the free-and-easy -temperance conditions which now prevail. There have been two conviction Qpr liquor-selling, and it is com mon report that plenty of cellars and back rooms for tlie sale of liquors are open in the poorer quarters of Plainfield. It is the same old story over and over again, and yet the unwise friends of temperance will not see the truth which is so plain. Ottr little list of news matter» which Thk Jersey City News had Interesting articles upon yesterday, ■while our only competitor had nothing whatever about them, is as follows:— Who Can This Man Be? He Loves Tall Women. Janitor Photzkr's Plight. County Committee Primaries. Charley's Parents Relent. Taxpayers' Appeal (the list of the appellants). Your Cash or Your Cow. Read Before Hk Signed. Besides these there were numerous minor items. All but the last two were local. Such Noble Chivalry! A beautiful variation of the ordi. nary rule that prompts the employer to get as much as possible out of his employee for as little impossible, is il lustrated by the story we published yesterday from Hoboken. If the evi dence of Mrs. Begeman is to be be lieved, a steamship dock foreman in I that city not only provides heads ο families with pleasant recreation awa; from home in the evenings, but,in th overflowing goodness of his heart,pro vides their pretty wives, who may b< presumed to be crying their eyes ou from lonesomeness, with company t< I banish their solitude. If no one elsi is at hand to perform this mission ο charity in the homes of his employees he immolates himself upon the alta; of cliivalrie devotion and gives up hii own time to the lonely fair ones. 2ί< one can guess to what extent his gentil solicitude for their happiness inighl not have gone if Justice Rusch hac not, with ruthless hand, drawn th« curtain aside and made an ostenta tious public display of his secret bene ν olence. The noble devotion of thif ministering angel to the welfare of his fellow beings is too refined and subtlf to be appreciated by the ordinary run of mortals, and we fear he will be obliged to wait for his reward till— the next grand jury meets. Have Yon a Dollar to Spare? The unusually interesting story published in Thk Sunday Morning News of last Sunday, of the character of the work done, for worthy little waifs, by the Children's Home should arouse the widest interest in the wel fare and prosperity of that noble charity. The reporter did not deal in glitterintr generalities, that mean noth ing more often than something, in telling the story, but he got right down to individual instances of the good done through the instrumental ity of the Home. One lady, who, in her childhood, had been saved from the street by the Home, is now the wife of a prosperous merchaat, and one of its patrons. A boy who has been started on a career of already as sured usefulness by its fostering aid is aiming to be big enough to be eventually one of the trustees. Of course the cases particularieed In the story do not begin to embrace the number that might have been pointed out. They serve only as samples of the history of every child who has been sent, with God's blessing, through its door to a field of effort and ambition in the world. It is a pity that all the homeless and ill-treated and neglected waifs of the city could not be gathered beneath the roof of such an institution. The public poor houses are nests of vice that rear the youth they shelter to lives of degradation and crime. Bnt the influences and atmosphere of such a Home as this on Glenwood avenue are as pure and bracing as the influ ences and atmosphere of the Christian family circle. Its little wards go out from its doors the fit companions of any they meet; ornaments to any household, and trained to become use ful workers in the vineyard. It should not only be liberally supported in the sphere to which it is now forced to confine its efforts, but so liberally sup ported as to enable it to branch out to the aid of a larger circle of the needy little ones. Have you a dollar in your pocket this evening that you think you can spare to the Children's Home? Mail it to Mr. George W. Conklin, the treasurer of the Home, at the First National Bank. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Seribiier'e Magazine for December. Scribnem Magazine for December is a holiday number of striking beauty and attractiveness in its illustrations, and the text of the articles will appeal to the fancy and sympathy of readers, rather than to their desire for instruction in practical affairs. With the exception of the fourth instalment of Harold Fred eric's serial, each article is complete in this issue. The contents include a sym pathetic study of life in the poorest quarters of New York's tenements; a vig orous end paper, sure to provoke discus sion, by Edward J. Phelps, Esq., ex-Min ister to England; a genial and discrimin ating review of the whole tield of Amerl cau humorous drawing, by J. A. Mitchell, the founder and editor of Life; another st.ury by Mr. H, C. Bunner, editor of Puck, whose "Zadoc Piue," and "Squire Eive-fatliom," iu previous Christmas is sues, will be recalled; a vivid and pictur esque account of some characteristic Bre ton festivals; and a sunny picture of life and eccentric character on some of the least frequented of the Bahama Islands. Iu the notable list of artists contribut ing to this number are Will H. Low, Howard Pyle, Keuyon Cox, Herbert Den man, J. H. Twachtman, Ε. H. Blashfleld, A. B. Frost, ana C. D. Gibson, and be sides, almost all of the prominent humor ous artists of this country. "How the Other Half Lives," by Jacob A. Kiis, tor many years police reporter of the Associated Press, should appeal strongly to everyone interested in practi cal charity. The author's long familiar ity with the many phases of New York tenement life prevents his coloring the article with any of the false sentiment which so often disfigures work in this field. He sees the slums as they are, ac curately and clearly, and at the same preserves the ready sympathy of one in tensely interested in his fellow man. The many illustrations in this article are not fancy sketches, but are made from iu staneous photographs taken by Mr. Riis in his strange adventures, often at con siderable peril. Ex-Minister Phelps's remarkable pa per, at the end of the number, will no doubt arouse as much discussion as ap proval. Under the title "The age of Words" he presents, emphatically and with the ardor of oue who has felt, the evils of an age in which the opportunities to speak in public and to print are prac tically unlimited and unrestricted. Con temporary journalism and fiction are criticised without reserve. Many of his stinging phrases should become current, as ho has tersely expressed what sensi tive and fair minded people have long felt, Mr. Bunner's story, "Mrs. Tom's Spree," is a social picture of a rural "sum mer resort" in what the author calls the "Jim F.isk Era" of American life. Prof. Henry A. Beers contributes a delicately fanciful story, "A Midwinter Night's Dream." The serial, "In the Valley, de scribes a journey in the last century through the wilderness of Central and Western New York to the Lake country. Howard Pyle's full page picturee are a Une interpretation of the text. F.EKÏ50N ALS. Chief Engineer Charles G. Hay den, who went down with thé ill fated steamer Manhattan, off the Delaware coast last Wednesday, was a resi dent of Paterson, and was considered one of the best mechanics that city ever turned out. H« was besides a genial fellow. He leaves a wife and four children, the eldest a boy of fifteen. His residence was at No. 039 Main street. Miss Marie P. Bowland, a school teacher in I Lyndhurst, Bergen county, claim* the honora ο: f being the first woman to becoruo naturalized ii r New Jeraej' for the purpose of casting the ballot The suffrage in het case was limited to a vote ' for school trustees. She renounced Queen Vic - toriaand swore allegiance to Unci· Sara. * Haekensack boasts a female champion ral ; bird shooter. Mrs. Katie Schmultz. the wife ο j John W. Schmultz, who Is private secretary t< President Norvin Green, of the Western Unioi I I Telegraph Company, holds the record up to dat« ! with fourteen birds killed in an hour on ont i tide. Superintendent McKelvey, of the Susquehanni ' road, is said to have replied to petitioners whc j asked to have a discontinued train restored that the folly of running too many trains hac been clearly demonstrated. Three prominent gentlemen, of Arlington, have instituted a movement to start a Republi can newspaper in the village, which is calculated to fill the want felt by the Republicans of the tow neb ip for a party organ. The habit the coasting steamships have of tooting their whistles off Asbury Park is ex plained by the fact that several old ship captains live there, aad their former comrades notify them that they are starting out or coming safely home. If one of these navigators passes in the day time the friend on shore replies to the eig nals with a flag. Ensign William C. Cloke, of Trenton, who wit nessed the cyclone in the harbor of Samoa, has been ordered to the Kearsarge, the .flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron, which will leave port on December îi. Mr. J. P. Elliott, late freight agent in this city for the Erie Railroad Company, has resigned mat position ana iur. nenry Adams nas oeen ap pointed to the place. Mr. Adams is said to have had much experience in a position of this kind. He comes to Paterson from {Suspension Bridge at Niagara. Wheaton'e glass works at Millville were burned on Snuday, causing $10,000 loss and throwing 100 hands out of work. The Crescent Iron Works, Samuel L. Moore & Sons'1 Company, of Elizabeth, has applied to the Navy Department at Washington to have a com mission appointed to examine its plant and re port on its ability to undertake ths construction of steel vessels for the Government. It is anxious to bid on the 1,000 ton gunboats and the Naval Academy practice cruiser, and it adds one more to the list of firms ready to compete for naval work. The handsome summer residence of Dr. George M. Vandergrift, of No. 277 Henry street, New York city, located on a hill a mile west of Plain field, was burned Saturday. The building and contents were destroyed, involving a loss of about $Γ,ΰ00. The house was occupied by E. F. Budd aud family^ but they were away from home when the Are occurred. Dean McNulty, of St. John's Roman Catholic Church. Paterson, on Sunday preached in vigor ous language on the immoralities of men. In regard to the Southworth shooting case he de clared that if Pettus was a libertine, as charged by Mrs. Southworth, he deserved his fate, as he had transgressed laws human and divine, and if the old laws were in force he would have been put to death for his alleged crimes. The sermon created a sensation. Governor elect Abbett will deliver the dedica tion address at the formal opening of the St. Vincent's Academy, Newark, on Sunday next. Dr. Wikoff, of Princeton, refuses to accept the $375.16 awarded to him in his suit against the Tulane estate, and will not even allow his attorney to enter up judgment against the administrators. The doctor says that he does not care at all for the money involved, and that his suit was brought to secure to physicians just compensation for their services. The ruling of the court deprived him of this, and he prefers to remain unDaid. The Essex Subway Company has been incor porated in the Secretary of State's office by the following Newark men. Philip N. Jackson, David Young, Henry M- Doremus, J. Frank Fort Benjamin W. Hoffer, Samuel Klotz, Michael T. Barrett and James Smith, Jr. The purpose is to adopt some practicable system for putting all iiKutiug, yi >v ci, icjogi npu auu loiupuuuo w 11 ca underground. and a composition of wood pulp is noff receiving favorable considération. There is no expectation of applying the conduit for electric car purposes. An electric street railway project for Bridge ton has given way partly to that of establishing a regular line of coaches at five cent fare. The Rev. Asher Moore has signified his inten of resigning the pastorship of the Universalist Church at· Hammonton. He is nearing his eightieth birthday. Misses Caroline G. Lingle and Ella S. Leonard, the former publishers of the Atlantic Highlands Independent, are to engage in newspaper work in Washington. MR. YOUNG'S GIFT. A Flag for the School He Attended in Hi Youth. Van Houten Post No. 8, of the Grand Army of the Republic, is collecting sub scriptions to a fund for the purchase of a United States flag for every public school in the city. There are eighteen school buildings that are large enough to fly a flag of their own. and it is proposed to se cure flags for each about twonty-flve feet long. Although but a short time has elapsed since the ννοικ was begun, the receipts thus far are very grutifying. Among the prominent gentlemen who have sub scribed through Air. frank O. Cole are:— Postmaster Dickinson, Thomas Potter, Register George B. Fielder, John H.Hud soo, Commissioner C. II. Benson, Hon. William Brinkerhoff, Ephraim S. Wells and E. F. C. Young. Mr. Young sent a verv nice letter with his subscription, of which the following is a copy:— The First National Bank. I Jersey City, Nov. 25, 18H9, f Hail. Frank O. Cole:— 1 enclose my check for the purchasing of a flag for one of our public· schools. If possible have the one this check purchases placed on Public School No. I, in York street. It was my pleasure and privilege to have been one of its first scholars, and that was the school I left to commence uiy fight with the world. If the amount is not sufficient please get the flag and call oil me for the money. Very truly yours, Κ F. C. Young. There are a number of other people in ♦ ï,,. nit-*r Λ...11 ,ΐ... educational line to our public schools, and it would be a graceful act upon their part to follow Mr. Young's example and provide a flag for their old school Meeting of the Arions. The Arions turned out in force to their regular meeting last evening, and par ticipated in the last rehearsal prior to the grand concert to be given by the society next Tuosday evening at Kessler's Hall The arrangements for that big musiçai event are complete, and a grand pro gramme will be presented. The instru mental music will be rendered by Carl Re 11 01'8 orchestra, and the Arions will be assisted by Mrs. Lena Luckstoue Myers, mezzo soprano; Mr. Clintou Klder, tenor; Mr. Emil Grainm, violinist, and the Brooklyn Saengerbund. Clever Magician*. Professors Ferdinand and Adolph gave an exhibition of sleight-of-hand and sen sational magical feats at Kessler's Hall last evening to an audience of about one hundred peraons, including a score of gamins, who occupied the upper gallery and were heard from all through the en tertainment. The professors were clevei magicians and the performance was good. Sheriff' Dttvis Drops His Puree. Sheriff Davis' pocket book fell from .hi; ! pocket while he was driving Monday auc I the Under was made #75 richer. Then ' were some papers valuable only to tht ! Sheriff in the purse. : ! A WIFE'S STRANGE ERROR, SHE XJDBXTIFED Λ G HASTLi CORPSE WHICH H IS NOT I HKIt HVSBAXD. ι I Waldonla Kstruii£es a Fle-oue Youth— ι The Society Girl Learns to Swiiu—A Very Expensive Photograph. A case of mistaken identity involvina elements of dramatic interest sufficient tc make the fortune of a sensational novel has just occurred in Switzerland. A young couple named Favre, belonging to the working class, had lived happily ιο ί gcther for some years at Neuchatel, when the husband, a working mason, began to give way to habits of. drinking. Efforts were made to reclaim him and he became an abstainer for a time. Some mouths ano, however, he broke out again and left his home. His wife had heard nothing of him for three months, when one night she was awakened uy a voice calling her repeatedly from the street outside, and which she felt sure was that of her lius baud. She rose, dressed and went into the street, but fouud no oue. A few days afterward she read an ac count in the newspapers of a man who had committeed suicide ou the railway, at a small village near Bale. From the description of him she suspected it might be her missing husband, and became full of the idea that the voice she heard was a communication from him at the mo ment of death. She was corroborated iu her belief by learning, as the result of inquiries, that he had made applieation for work at a neighboring quarry, but being in liquor at the time had Deen roughly used by the foreman. The body for some time now had been interred, but in order to put an end to her sus pense the poor woman, having got to gether a little money, started off with the terred. She reached the village, and after some delay secured permission to open the grave. With two or three men as assistants she set to work. When the coffin was opened her com panions ran and left her alone with her dead. For twenty minutes unaided she Eursned her ghastly task' The body had eeu decapitated by the train, and the head, horribly mutilated, was wrapped by itself in a cloth. She uncovered it and recognized it by the teeth. One of the stockings also she knew again from hav ing mended it with a particular kind of worsted. Her worst fears thus confirmed, she returned home in the depths of sorrow. The aged mother of the man was informed of the identification, and mourning was being prepared for the whole family when the crowning act of the drama was furnished by a letter which has been just received from Favro himself, an nouncing that lie is at Winterkur, alive anil well! The wife had, after all, iden tified the wrong man. Who it is that actually lies in that lonelv grave no one knows. What would not Wilkie Collins have made out of thai, midnight voice, the graveyard vigil and the extraordinary denouement!—Pall Mall Gazette. Too, Too Exacting Girl. "Harold." murinered the gentle girl, a tear dimming the luster of the spectacles that rested lightly on her classical Grajco Bostonian nose, "I will not deny that our soul communion, our interchange of im pressions, our mental symposia, not only specifically paleontological but cosmlcal and metaphrastic in a general sense as well, have been pleasantly Emersonian. But you have taken advantage of a mo ment of perhaps unwonted soulfulness to endeavor to extort from me a pledge of earthly affinity. You seek to degrade—if psychomachy to the untimate level of mere intersocial volitiou." "\Valdonia," exclaimed the youth, "you misapprehend me. I" "Hear me out, Harold," she persisted. "I have confessed that I feel drawn to you by many Dsychocentric Influences. But there are other considerations. When two eurtlily lives assimilate there must be no clashing vagaries.no hygienic polemics. Harold," she continued, in a trembling voice, "pardon the question—there is so much at stake—but do you ever defile your immortal nature by eating pie?" The young man rose slowly to his feet and felt around in a vague way for his hat. "Waldonia," he said, in a voice of tragic misery, "the bitterest hour of my life lias come, but I cannot hesitate a mo ment. I wouldn't give up pumpkin pie for the soulfulest young woman that ever squawked! Good evening, Miss Tlcklo well!" The pale moon rose with the timid, Abashed demeanor with which she al ways rises over Hoston harbor, and her rays shone mildly aud pityingly on a youug man with his hat pulled down over his eyes, who was striding down the street, going out of his way to kick sav agely at every lone and friendless dog in sight, aud talking volubly and recklessly to himself in the dialect of New York.— Chicago News. How She Learns to ftwlm. A writer iu the Boston Uazcttc gives the following deeoriptiou of how the modern society girl learns to swim:— Yes," she said, with a giggle aud a shiver. "George is going to teach me to swim. Everyone should Know how, you know. It isn't safe not to, aud George says he can teach me in about a minute. I'll be right down, George, in a few min utes." And in three-quarters of au hour, after George has ran up and down the beach six times to keep warm, and swam around the mackerel fleet twice and duck ed under seventeen girls who asked him to do so, she appears, surrounded by a squealing chorus, who telephone from the hotel to the raft, "Maudie's going to learn to swim!" After the preparatory big-toe test of the water, the customary screech and run back, the customary ex planation to the dry people on the beach that "it's as cold as ice! " the customary efforts of three or four young men to get her in, the customary clutches and squeals and liub-bub-blubberiug, George finally gets lier out to her neck, heads her to ward the shore, tells her to have perfect confidence in him, to rest her chin in his hand and throw herself on to the water. Stuug by a deeire to show her bravery to the crowd on the beach, she throws herself with such unexpected force that George stumbles aud lets her down to a conveni ent level for swallowing salt water. Five minutes of reproaches, explanations, <-f n«{ η MIM «>> Ί ..nufflnrf nn/1 nnnfl/lann/i being restored, Maudie consents to try it again, but insists that George shall hold her hands instead oi her chin, and, with another shiver and giggle she graps his wrists and lets herself down, cautiously this time. "Oo-ooh! I never can—I am going down—Ge-orge! If you let me down airain I'll never speak to you as long as I live. I never saw a frog kick, aud if I get up off my knees my head wll go down again. Ge-orge! don't take me outso far; you are the most unsafe man to go in the water with I ever saw. I don't care whether I learn to swim or not—it would be easier to drown—I will never, never"— suddenly finds herself swimming "There! —I believe I've got it after all—why, it's just as easy—now let go of me, George, and see if I can't do it alone," and there is a great splash, George gets a voient kick lu the stomach aud one in the eye, there is a wild wave of stockiued legs in the air aud a teariug up of the sand be neath the water, theu a determined snort, a sudden calm, a violent striking out, fol lowed by a gentle glide aud a delighted giggle, and " Maudie has learned to swim." A Costly Photo. A photograph of the famous Lafayette Post, No. 140, of New York, recently ttn ished by Anderson, is the second largest in the world, so Mr. Anderson says. The largest photograph ever produced in this, or any other country; is that of the Sev enth Regiment, in which there are 84C recognizable portraits. The gigantic photograph of Lafayette Post is only a trifle smaller than the latter, and is a more valuable picture. So large a uum ber of distinguished men, it is safe to say, have uever before been photographed to gether. The picture is remarkable aside from Its size. The 800 or more figures were all photographed separately. The naturalness of the grouping also adds greatly to the effect. This big photo graph occupied eight months in its pro duction, and cost something less than Î5.000. In the immediate foreground the I commander, Colonel Floyd Clarksou, Ad jutant Theodore Grelg and Colonel James Hamilton, the senior vice commander of the post, are standing talking—at least they seem to be talking, for the com j mander lias his right hand extended as if empliasiziug his remarks. On the left I hand Lieutenant Chauncey M. Deuew, I Captain William Mitchell and others ] form another little group. And in this way the picture is made up, from the very front row to the remotest corner of the hall. The members of the post being grouped with such admirable attention to the laws of perspective that the be holder can scarely believe the picture was not all made at one "sitting."—Philadel phia Lcdaer. lileacliing; Little Heads. One of the curious features of the pres ent craze among women to have their young male offspring resemble in. out ward appearance the good Little Lord Fauntleroy is their determination 10 make the poor child have blonde hair. It is true that nearly fifty per cent, of the little ones have this attractive personal characteristic, but the proportion of them who wear long hair is very small. A fashionable hair dresser informed a New York Times reporter that he had recently received quite au Impetus to his business by fashionable women •••ho bring their children to him to have their hair bleached. "These ladies are very particular, too," said he; "they stand over the chair at each dressing and see that we make no mistake in the shade. We have prepared, iu consequence, a card on which are samples of the various tints we can ob tain in the bleaching process. It costs from $25 to #40 to have the hair colored to the desired shade. The process is very simple, ι wo ounces or peroxiue or ny drogen applied with a stiff brush will turn very dark hair into the most beauti ful Titian red, and repeated applications make the color so that one may graduate the shade very accurately." Insect Gardener·. Man is not the ouly animal who has discovered this eminently practical di vision of the vegetable world into weeds on the one hand and garden plants on the other. Our ingenious little six-legged precursers. the ants, have anticipated us in this, as in so many other useful discov eries and inventions. They were the first gardeners. I need hardly add that it is an American ant that carries the art of horticulture to the highest perfection; only a Yankee insect would be so ad vanced, and only Yankee naturalists would be sharp enough to discover its method. This particular little beast who grows grain resides in Texas, and each nest owns a small claim in the vicinity of its inound, on which it cultivates a kind of grass, commonly known as ant-rice. The claim is circular, about ten ο twelve feet in diameter, and the ants al low no plant but thé ant rice to encroach upon the cleared space anywhere. The produce of the crop they carefully har vest, though authorities are still disagreed upon the final question whether they plant the grain or merely allow it to sow its own seed itself on the protected area. One thing, however, is certain—that no other plant is permitted to sprout on the tabooed patch; the ants wage war on weeds far more vigorously and effectively than our own agriculturists. Even in our less go-ahead eastern continent Sir John Lubbock has noticed in Algeria (and the present humble observer has verified the fact) that ants allow only certain species of plants, useful to themselves, to grow in the immediate neighborhood of their nests.—CorahiM Magazine. A Dish-Washing Machine. Mrs. W. A. Cockran, of Shelbyville, Ind., has placed her name on the roll with the great inventors of the world, the result of her genius being a practical dish washing machine Slie began experiment ing ten years ago. Her husband left her financially unable for a number of years to complete her undertaking. By tlie aid of friends, however, she finally succeeded, and has a machine designed to do the work now done by the thousands of girls and women the land over. The machine i.. .. A Tt ).·, n.n,;,. 1 different sizes, for families and hotel pur poses. It is also made both tor hand and steam power, and is capable of washing, scalding, rinsing and drying from five to twenty dozen dishes of all shapes and sizes in two minutes, the number, of course, depending on the size of the machine. Mrs. Cockran has recently dis posed of lier invention to an Illinois manufacturing firm for a large sum. and will receive a good royality on all machines sold. Λ Girl in a Thousand. "It was the man or the money," said pretty Annie Stilson, as she carefully studied the odd-shaped figures in her aunt's old-fashioned carpet. "There was but one thing for me to do," she added quickly, and her dark eyes snapped, while a bright flush mounted to her cheek. "I took tiic man. Had I done otherwise I would have been a disgrace to my sex. The idea that they should think I w ould give up all my ideas of personal liberty for a few thousand dol lars." During this brief but forcible declara tion ofpiinciples the young gentleman under discussion sat quietly in a corner of the room apparently deeply engaged in the perusal of a book. By the provisions of her father's will Mies Stilson was to give up her sweetheart, Samuel L. linger, or forfeit her share of the estate, which amounts to between $5,000 and $6,000, and she refused. Mr. Uuger has not decided upon his future course. He will graduate from Knox College next ο une, and has been seriously considering entering some theological institute in Chicago. RAILROAD NOTES. Superintendent McDonald, iate of the Pavoma Horse Railroad, lias accepted a position in the "dead head" cur depart ment ot the Erie Railroad. Regular travel, which wes interrupted by the floods and washouts has been re sumed, and the through trains to and from the West are again running on schedule time. Work has commenced on the new Erie coal pockets to be built about three miles west of the Port Jervis depot. These pockets when completed will do uway with the pockets on the Eastern Division, near Carpeuters' Point. They will have a storuge capacity of 4,000 tons of coal and YT 111 liai V UIIUUIPJI-UUW ^iwavwj. 4.MV_J 11 ill coal an engine in three minutes. Under the present arrangements most of the en gines on the Delaware Division get coal at Laclia waxen, but will hereajter coal at the new pockets. An order was Issued by the Pennsyl vania Kailroad Company recently, re quiring all engineers and conductors to hereafter have their watches examined regularly by an inspector. At each divi sion terminus an inspector will be ap pointed and the trainmen must receive a certificate of accuracy from him at stated periods. The responsibility de volving upon the inspector will be an Im portant one, and ouly skillful watchmak ers will be appointed by the company. The directions to employees are explicit, and embodied in a new rule book which was issued by General Manager Pugh. Watch inspection has been a feature of the Pennsylvania Kailroad'» system for some time past, but this new arrange ment. being more thorough, will tend to decrease the liability to accidents that occur from disagreement of timepieces. Tne Pennsylvania Kailroad employees number more line watches among them than any other body of men in the world. The Pennsylvania Kailroad Company will in all probability have a hew rail road station ut Furmingdale before next sumlner's shore travel opens. Work will begin at Wiuslow Junction tomorrow or Monday on tlie new Phila delphia, Sea Shore aud Short Line Kail road, which is to be bnilt to Cape May. A contract has been made with one contractor to furnish sixty teams and 20C men, anil with another to work twenty iive teams. The iirst expects to build two miles per weak, and the company think rhat with reasonably good weather they will be able to complete the road by May 1. The largest locomotive boiler ever built in Paterson, and one of the largest ever built in this country, was recently finish ed at the Rogers locomotive shops. The length from smoke-box ring to the flange at the back end is thirty feet and the boiler weighs thirteen tons. The rage among the trainmen on the Amboy Division tiiis fall seems to be the growth of whiskers, some being a tine £ reduction, Douegals, Milton Chops or ublin Jaueys. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will not permit drunken or disorderly characters to get upon their trains, which requirement will be rigidly enforced. The Pennysylvania Limited, perform ing a daily cervice between New York and Chicago, needed but one feature to complete the perfection of its appoint ment. Tho men had their porter and barber and now the ladies have their maid and hair-dresser. The introduction of the maids is as novel as it is a unique fea ture. It exists on no other regular train will appreciate it heartily. The maids are colored women, aud there is oue employed on each train. They are especially charged to look after the comfort of ladies, chil dren and invalide. They are to assist the ladies in making their toilets, to dress their hair, and to serve as hand-maid to them in the fullest sense of the term, They will have an eye to the children,and have a care for invalids and ladies who may travel without a male escort. The New York and Long Branch Rail road is being relaid with new steel rails for next season's travel. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company has ordered fourteen new locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. A Lehigh Valley Railroad engine one day recently hauled a train of 180 coal cars from Easton to Bethlehem, twelve miles, in thirty minutes. MORRIS & EùSEX TAXES. Mr. William Gummere Continues the Argument iu the Case. Mr. William Gummere continued his argument yesterday afternoon before the arbitrators to settle the discutes over the taxes which the State claims are due from the Morris & Essex Railroad Com pany. A consideration of the evidence in the case, he said, would lead to the con clusion that there were few matters of fact in dispute. That the toial amount of the road's annual expenditure is chargeable to its capital account is un disputed. The annual payment which the railroad company is required by the supplement of its charter to make to the State, he maintained, is not a tax, because it is not an impost levied for the suDport of the State, but is entirely a matter of contract between the State and the company. So the only question for the arbitrators, he declared, was to deter mine the meaning of that contract. Mr. Gummere then proceeded to con sider what was meant by the term "cost of road." He maintained that when the Legislature in that connection spoke of the road it meant the railroad, including the right of way, with its embankments and excavations, rails and ties, bridges and culverts, passenger depots and freight houses, together with the laud used in connection therewith, and all other ap pendages, whether necessary to its opera tion or not, and In addition its rolling stock and equipments; and further that by the expression "cost of said road" the Legislature meant every expenditure made by the company in the construction of its road, or in the acquiring of property necessary or proper for it. A number of cases were cited by Mr. Gummere in support of his position. It -L 1J i... V., j 3 Λ*1.. Π suid, that the proviso of the company's charter which made the cost of the road ouly liable for taxes was in the nature of a contract for exemption from taxation, and as such was contrary to public policy. If the language of the alleged grant of exemption was open to doubt the benefit of the doubt must be given to the State. He did not think it necessary to claim thai the railroad company intended to defraud the State, but had misappre hended the meaning of its contract. UDon looking over the testimony in this case it will appear that in the early years of its existence the company treated all construction expenditures as going to swell the road account, no matter whether for real or personal property, roadway or for locomotives and cars. Every dollar which was spent by the company on its construction account was charged against the State, and by that meaiis the total cost of the road was •welled to such an amount as would pre vent the net earnings from amounting to seven per cent upon its cost. Up to the year 1868 it never paid $1 into the State treasury under the provisions of its con tract. In 1862 the coutract was repealed and a supplement to its charter was enacted that the tax of 11-2 per cent, should be paid annually. From 1866 to the time the proceedings against the road were taken the comdany did not charge up as a part of its road account all items of expendi ture which by any ingenuity might not be considered us embraced within the term "cost of road." In this manner Mr. Gum mere claimed the road from the time of its construction down to Ί884 had de ducted from the cost of its road $13,187, 444.74. Piles, Itching, Bleeding, Ulcer, etc., Cured without Cutting, Ligating or Chloroform. Our patients attend to tnisiuess while receiving treat ment. Illustrated papers sent free. Address Mrs Millei' and Jamison, No. 41 West Twenty sixth street. New York.*** William delanet. rnrntsmn* rnlrrtatter car rlageeand camp chairs to let, 34j Grove nirea: -ur ■ey City, N. J. Telei>Uone call. No. Advertisements Uxi>«rt the Head ο» MARRIAGES AND DEATHS Will ho inserted in tho Jersey Cray News «ni the Sunday Morning News at the rate of ten cents a line for the first insertion; jive cents aline for each sulweouent insertion. DIED RKII.I.Y.-On Monday, November 25, John E„ son M. J. BOYLAN, Funeral Director, 198 Pavonia Ave.. Jersey City. THE BLIND SEE, The Deaf Hear, the Lame Walk, THE SICK MADE WELL WITHOUT MEDIOINB Marvelous cures are performed daily at tue rooms of DR. FANYOU, No. 258 Sixth avenne, Ν. T., of Dyspepsia Insomnia, Catarrh, Paralysis and all Nervous and Chronic Diseases. Office nours:—9:80 a. in. to 4:80 p. m. The poor healed free frorti 9:30 to lfotO a m. Daft Electric Light Co., 115 BROADWAY. N. t. TATIOHAET ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC RAILWAYS m POWER STATIONS. STORAGE BATTERIES. Election Notice. si,y·MoaJiï' No. ΡΙΟ"ι,£ΓαίOMC,'1'1-»*p. 1» CCDated November 27,18S£ftï0R POST. Secretary. FVRNISHED ROOMS. (BURNISHED ROOMS, WITH OR WITHOUT -l· board. 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No. 234 York street. TO LET-Α NICELY FURNISHED RACK PAR lor; terms moderate. No. 194 Bay street. TO LET-Α HANDSOME BACK PARLOR,PARTLY furnished; suitable for doctor or dentist. Να 132 Wayne street. 1 OQ SUSSEX STREET-FURNISHED ROOM TO lût/ let, without board. If U AM1J lïliJS Boarders wanted—two pleasant heated rooms, good table. No. 134 Wayne street. T?URNI8HED ROOM WITH BOARD FOR GEN Γ tlemen, also tablo board; convenient to cars and ferries. No. 178 Fourth street. Finely furnished rooms, with strictly first class board; opposite park. No. 8 West Hamilton place. Furnished rooms with or without bourd; No. 94 Jewqtt avenue. Heights. Mrs. St. John. MSKS?® B0ARD - »*· mit avenue 3 th,n* ««it-claae. No. 8y Sum j,LffîuAd'NsrroeTOMS· WITH ~ NO. 228^ PLEASANT ROOM, WITH GOOD BOARD, 43 Ocean avenue. TO LET-SECOND-STORY FRONT ALCOVE ROOM with board. 232 Third street. en SUHfcEX STREET. — PLEASANT ROOMS, Ov heated, with board: table board; terms moderate. jëTïT J KKSEY AVENUE—SECOND FLOOR FRONT 1)Ut alcove, and third frout, with board. SITUATIONS ΑΝΌ WORK WANTED. RESPECTABLE GIRL WISHES SITUATION TO do general housework. Call at No. 183 Bay street. SITUATION WANTED BY A GERMAN GIRL TO do general housework or in a restaurant. No. 248>4 York street. SI ι UAl'lON WANTED TO COOK, WASH AND iron or do general housework. No. 150 Seventh street. WANTED-SITUATION AS PLAIN COOK IN À private family. Call at No. lti Erie street, seo ond floor. YOUNG GIRL WISHED A SITUATION TO DO housework or chamberwork. Apply at No. 285 Bay street. ___ __ FOR SALE. FOR SALE-CONTRACTOR'S CARTS, SENDER ling's patent; light and easily operated; to be seen at Contractor Henry BjTne's Wayne street; built to order by Ernst Schants, No. 188 First staeet. 1?OR SALE—FIRST-CLASS CORNER SALOON finely fitted up; good business; owner retiring terms easy. Particulars of .Louis Bettcner & Co.» No. 11 Newark avenue. 1?OR SALE-BULL TERRIER DOG, THOROUGH bred; dark tan, with white points: also water spanii 1 puppy. Apply No. 182 Fairvlew avenue, Heights. Τ UMBER BELOW COST. N. J. LUMBER CO.. 1-i yard. Tenth street, between Erie street and Jer sey avenue. Cl ARPENTER BUSINESS FOR SALE ON ACCOUNT J of sicknefle. Apply at No. 535 Jersey avenue. HELP WANTE Ό. WANTED-YOUNG MAN TO JOIN PANTOMINE company, able ahd willing: to play clown; must be of good height and quick to learn. Ad dress C. H. P.. News Office. Female. \\TANTED—A GERMAN GIRL TO DO HOUSE r work and attend two children. Call at No. 318 York street. REAL JES TA TE. TX)R HOUSES AND LOTS IN JERSEY CITY -Γ BERGEN, O BEEN VILLE, RAYONNE AND BBA UEN POINT. CALL OB WRITE TO JOHN N. BRUNS, lo. 137 ocean ATeans, Jersey city. So. 77 Mora AT6BQ6, Greenraia. END FOR LIST OF CITY AND COUNTRY PROP ERTY. ROBERT M. FLOYD, JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, 36 OCEAN AVE. COR. UNION ST, Real Estate & insurance. VI7 ANTED-A PLOT OF GROUND OF 12 TO 15 » » )ots. with or without buildings, for a heavy manufacturing business, will buy or lease on h long term of years. Address H.D. Dumont. No. 251 Broad way, New York. ^INSTRUCTIONS. HASBROUCK " ÎnstÎtutÉ, No. 1UJ GRAND street, Jersey City. Thirty-fourth year begins September tv A school of the highest grade, with the following departments, each of which has its superintend ent:— The Boys' Academic, the Girls' Academic, the Boys' Preparatory, the Primary (both sexes* the Muslo Department, the Art Department. Students prepared for college, professional schools and business. Catalogues and further information given at tie Institute. T>ir«otor*. I CHARLES C. STIMETS, Principal. Directors, J HORACE C. WAIT. Vice-Principal. DON'T ~ COMMENCE THE STUDY OF STENOGRAPHY AND TYPEWRITING until you call at Vermilyo's College. 816 Broadway Ν. Y. Pamphlets free. Also lessons by mall. Cut this out. THOROUGH PREPARATION FOR CIVIL 8ER vlce, business colleço, medical aua law school. Hoffman Educational Rooms, Np. 4<> Newark avenue. A YEAR—BOARD AND TUITION: BOYS *u5Xjv/V/ and girls. Address Episcopal Schoool Hud don field, N. J. VUUMJ «ΕΝΤΙ.ΕΛΙΑΝ WOULD LIKE IN ι-t ruction in French. Address DON. Jersey City News Office. SEECHAM-3 PILLS ACT ΙιΙΚία MAGrIC ON A WEAK STOMACH. 2Sots. a Box OF ALt PRU00I8T8. MODEMANN DENTIST, No·. 50» and 504 THIRD AVENU·» Southwest Corner 84th Street. No. 255 SIXTH AVE., near 16fch St.. Ν. T. k' ull Gum Elegant fedet»» •4, «7 ami «10. Perfectly adapted to the anatomy of the mouth, ana guaranteed to stand the test of time. Old Time Price», $10, Mi and $Ά). Artificial Teeth on Gold. Artificial Teeth on Silver NO CHARGE, NO CHARGE, for extracting teeth without pain when artificial teeth are to be inserted. (In this department a lady In attendance.) Teeth filled with Gold, Silver. Ac.. &c. Teeth repaired in fifty minutes. Sets made while waiting. See that the name MODEMANN is painted in full and plain letters, on the doors, stairs and win dows. We have positively no connection with any dental office that does not display the name MODEMANN, No§. 502 and 504 THIRD AVENUS, Southwest Corner 34th Street. No. 255 SIXTH AVE., near Kit* St.. X. f,