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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-12-17
BALL PROGRAMMES.
Made In Very Great Variety OF Styles,
Suited to All Occasions.

Made In Very Great Variety OF Styles,
Suited to All Occasions.
Ball programmes are made in hun
dreds of styles. A wholesale dealer in
] New York prepares sample book,
which is of the size of an atlas and the
thickness of a dictionary. Fancy cards
for some other uses are shown in this
book also, but of ball programmes alone
there may be 500 styles. The book is
like 8 great album. The dealer sends
out 2,5C0 such looks to printers and
! stationers.
| Programmes can be bought at almost
any price, including many at extremely
low prices. Nearly all are more or less
ornamented, many of them with en-
bossed work finished with gilt or in col
ors and in a great variety of designs.
, There is scarcely any society, perhaps
none, that could not find here an appro-
pirate programme There is, for in
stance, a ball programme embellished
with a trolley car. A number of pro-
grammes. suitable for yachting club
dances, have yacht surrounded by va
rious emblems of yachting and of the
sea. There are programmes for musical
societies, with appropriate emblems,
and for railroad men, for bicyclists, for
military organizations, for letter car
riers, for fremen.
The cords and tassels for the pro-
grammes are separate article of man
ufacture. They are produced in great
variety of colors, qualities, sizes and
styles and sold in enormous numbers
and many of them at prices that seem
marvelously cheap. 1t is probable that
nearly all the programmes Of the kinds
referred to, handsome and elaborate as
many of them are, would sell complete
at prices under SIS a hundred There are
folded ball programmes, with picture
decoration, that are sold at-wholesale,
without printing or cord and tassel, as
| low as 80 cents hundred.
The production Of costlier pro-
grammes, such as sell fer S. hundred
and upward, is a business by itself. These
are made il about so different designs,
ranging in price upto 81. 20 each. They
are made in a great variety of shapes
and Sizes and, as with the less costly
programmes, of designs appropriate to
the occasion on which they are used.
The more costly programmes are adorn-
ed with hand painted pictures. Cellu-
loid in various forms is employed in the
making of these programmes, and satin,
lace and papier mache are also used.
All these programmes are of larger size
than the less expensive varieties, and
each one is put up in box. A pro-
gramme of the highest price was an
elaborate production "A inches square.
The programmes most commonly sold
among the costlier kinds bring about
| $18 hundred
There are sold of the cheaper vari-
cites of ball programmes millions annu-
ally; Of the costlier far fewer. These
may be numbered in thousands. Winter
is the season of the most active demand
for ball programmes, but they are sold
the year round. Some ball programmes
are exported to Mexico and the various
countries of South America. Many of
the designs are equally suitable and ap-
propriate anywhere The printing is
done in the countries in which they are
used.-New York Sun num
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-12-17
a Model Town.

Hoopestown, Ills, a town of 4, 900
inhabitants, has never had saloon.
The mayor receives a salary of so cents
a year, the remuneration of each of the
councilmen is half that amount and no
fees are accepted. Last year the COM
bined salaries of the mayor and the city
fathers were given to help needy wild
ow pay her taxes. New York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-12-17

The citizen who is determined to
take care of himself alone is of very
little use to a community. and few tears
are shed when he takes his final de-
parture. Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-12-17
LONDON sLUMs.
The Rent Collector and the Difficulties He
Encounters There.


Encounters There.
Stun property apparently has its
drawbacks, though it is generally re-
garded as the most profitable, for most
of the owners do not as rule allow
such trihes as repairs to reduce the
amount Of the rents.
''This work is breaking up my nerv-
Gus system, - said man who has been
collecting rents for years in some OF the
worst Sums 81 am really beginning
to feel that I shall meet my death at it.
Much i'll feeling of which am the
victim is engendered between landlord
and tenant over the question of repairs.
1t does not Pay to be always repairing
such broken down property, though Of
course repairs are always being asked
for, and some people have decidedly
unpleasant manner of trying to impress
on me the necessity for such.
''They are continually alluring me
into all sorts of undesirable traps. l
nearly broke my neck once by walking
up a dark staircase in which a few
boards were broken and loose, and the
woman who had asked me to walk up
calmly told me to get my master to
have it mended. If there is dark, rick
ETY. staircase without a banister, l am
sure to be asked to walk up it, and on
one occasion l was nearly frightened out
of my wits by my head coming III con-
tact with some hanging paper and plas-
ter which had fallen from "a passage cell
ing and was suspended by a very mea-
ger support.
In addition to all this the tenants,
when they hear l am about, put pals Of
water and broom handles i'll the dark
passages / may traverse, besides making
other preparations for lestowing similar
delicate attentions On lie.
'tOnly recently a woman asked me to
come and look at the awful state Of Te-
pair of che of her rooms. Size took me
to large cupboard and opened it and
the corpse of a man tumbled into the
room. 1t was only her poor, dear hus-
band, she said, whom she had slowed
there for convenience till the coffin ar
rived. OF course she had put him there
only to give me pleasant little sur
prise, and she was so successful that a
doctor advised me to lay up for week.
Sometimes a brick or two will be
aimed at my head without my being
able to discover whence it came, and l
have just had an interview with man
who showed me broken window
through which he had showed his wife S
head backward and forward by way Of
Ind he sssazGSes,l
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Extenuation.

81 can tell when my wife buys some
thing she considers extravagant.
How can you tell?''
"She always explains that she bought
it with So bill she happened to have
tucked away. Chicago Record.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-12-17

The cost of a patent in Germany is
500. which includes the taxes for six
years.
The record-union., 1897-12-08
kWeinStOCk, Lubin C CO., 4OO-4I2 X ST.. SaCran1{

ago l happened to be at home when one
Of these agents that enlarge pictures
for nothing called at the house.
hunted up an old photograph and told
him to give us the finest specimen of
his workmanship that he could produce.
l was at home pretty much all the
time till he returned with the picture.
1t was good one, and of course it
was in a gaudy frame, for which he
wanted four pieces. I went into anoth-
er room, took the picture from the
frame, returned the latter to him as
unsatisfactory, and gloated over his
profanity as he took leave. The en-
larged picture cost me nothing, and
blindly offered to let him have all the
old family portraits / could rake up
on the same terms"
What are you kicking about, then?
You beat the fellow at his own game,
and served him right, too.''
"Of course 1 did, but married man
is always liable to get the worst of it
unless he figures accurately on his
wife. That agent went back and in
duced her to take three of these high
priced frames, and got an order for
two enlarged pictures from the hired
girl. I'm simply arranging to greet
him with that elm club when he puts
in another appearance."-St. Louis Re-
public.
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EBENEZER HALEY DEAD.
He Came to California Round the
Horn on the Brig Mary Jane.

NEWARK, Dec. 7.-Ebenezer Haley.
one of the few remaining pioneers OF
Alameda County, died at his home near
this place about q o'clock this morning,
aged 81.
Mr.. Haley was native of Yarmouth.
Nova Scotia, and came to California
around the horn on the brig Mary Jane
in company with the late B. B. Redding
of Sacramento and seventeen other pas
sengers. OF the nineteen passengers.
there are now but two survivors, Robert
Van Norden of Montgomery street, San
Francisco. and Freeman Dennis of
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Mr.. Haley leaves four sons and two
daughters, a number of grandchildren
and several great grandchildren.
Mr.. Haley. by his honest and upright
life, had won universal respect, and
his death has cast a gloom over the
community.
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Weinstock, Lubin q Co., 4OO-4I2 K St. Sacranenfo]
Gifts for him.

Mems Colored Border Hand
kerchiefs, SC TO soc.
Plain White Hemstitched Hand
kerchiefs, S5c to 81.
White Silk Handkerchiefs, csc,
soc, 75c and 81.
Silk IIandkerchiefs, colored
borders, 25c, soc and 75c.
White Silk HandkerchiefS with
initials, 25c and SOC.
Silk Reeier Mufilers, 81 to
s. so.
Fine Silk Mufflers, 75c to S. so.
Embroidered Suspenders, soc
to 81.
Silver Mounted Suspenders,
81 so to S..
Fur Top Gloves, soc to ST IS. =
Thousands of dollars worth of
new 1897 Neckwear in all the pop
ular shades and colors.
Fancy Hosiery. Cardigan Jack
cts, Sweaters, Pajamas, S. so and
S..
Smoking Jackets and Dressing
Gowns, S. to $40.
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Illinois Legislature.

SPRINGFIELD QlL) Dec. THE
State Legislature met to-day. After
the reading of the Governors message
both houses adjourned until to-mor-
row. The Republican Senator's eau
cused before the session began, and
decided to retain the old officers.
Speaker Curtis, calling the House to or
der, urged quick dispatch of business
and prompt adjournment.
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CAN'T BEAT A WOMAN.
He Got Ahead Of q Picture Agent
Once.

Murley had not been himself for sew
eral days. He walked the floor, NUT
tered to himself, and ran his fingers
nervously through his hair. I'm Muir
ley's partner. and after I heard him
hire a man for So to go out in the
country and cut an elm club that must
weigh at least ten pounds / felt 1t my
duty to talk with my old friend.
Don't worry" he said. in response to
my inquiries 'sI know just what I'm
doing. If you hear of my humping
a man to sleep with that elm club. you
mustn't infer that I've gone crazy. I'll
give you the situation. About a week
The record-union., 1897-12-08
Centemeri Kid
Gloves at ST so.

No doubt in the world that we
could make more money by car
rying some other brand, but some
other brand would not be of as
fine kid nor possess the fine fit
ting qualities that have made the
Centeneris such favorites.
The special advantages which
we offer you in this glove are
completeness of sizes and of col
ors, not to be found elsewhere.
The record-union., 1897-12-08

The new bank OF SaIInaS, WITH a pstIt.-
up capital of So, 900, reported for the
first time in the statement for July I'D
Since then there has been an increase
of $4,000 in paid-up capital and nearly
100000 IN individual deposit credits
The fourth report Of these banks in
1896 was made for October 9TH, when
the thirty-one banks gave their re-
sources at S31, ,31S,356 and their indi-
vidual deposits at SIG, ,295.
Loans have been increased -, 1885,
791 during the intervening twelve
months.
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CALIFORNIA NATIONAL BANKS.
REPORTED BY THE COMPTROL-
LER OF CURRENCY.
Increase of Resources From $31 -
194,965 on March 9th to $34,-
S13,612 on October 18th.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. THE fol-
lowing abstract from the report of the
Comptroller of the Currency shows the
condition of the thirty-two national
banks in California on the 9th of Oc-
tober, as follows:
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Leather Seat
Rockers. So IS.

Extra good value in Oak Rock
ers with cobbler leather seats,
turned spindles and embossed
back. Comfort and durability
combined for So s..
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This Little
Lady, soc.

A charming little lady, IA inches
high and clad in pretty dress and
hat, also shoes and stockings. A
winsome face and sure to make
friends wherever she may go.
Price SOC.
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Character Reading in the Kitchen.

Cook Ito policeman)-How neatly you
carve that goose! with a sudden out
burst of jealousy) You have deceived
me! I am not your first love!-Flie-
gende Blaetter.
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MAS AL
CATARRH

LOCAL DISEASE
and is the result OF
colds and sud-
den climatic
changes.
This remedy d oes
not contain mercury
or any other injuri-
Gus drug.
The record-union., 1897-12-08
Art Satins at SOC.

About twenty-five shades of Art
Satins in all the latest shades. We
have the colorS you want for all
kinds of Christmas fancy work. 1t
will pay you to see our soc quail
itV.
The record-union., 1897-12-08
Holiday Hints From
Department.

Oriental Floor Rugs, hand
! knotted fringe; size 27xoo inches,
red, blue, terra and green. A use
ful Christmas present. ST rs each.
! Armure Tapestry Table Covers,
2 yards square, knotted fringe, in
red, olive, terra Gotta, blue and
rose. Price, ST IS.
Tapestry Covers, so inches
square, in brown, red and olive,
L$I rs.
Extra heavy Tapestry Covers,
rich satin finish, knotted fringe, in
all the newest colors. Price, ST 48
each.
Full line of Moquette and Smyr-
ma All-wool Reversible Rugs in a
variety of the best patterns OBJ
I tainable. Complete assortment Of
the popular size, 3ox6o inches,
ES2 Is.
|WeMStOCk, Ii
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lChristmas Linens.

Our attention has just been
called to some of the latest arrivals
in fine Imported Linens suitable
! for holiday gifts.
! Very handsome Dinner Sets OF
Bleached Satin-finished Linen, in
kexquisite designs, heavy deep
knotted fringe, with one dozen
} Napkins to match. Price SIo.
Bleached Linen Dinner Sets
! with double row of openwork in
! sertion, fringed all round, and one
dozen Napkins to match. Price.
I SI2 so.
Perhaps the most beautiful Din
I ner Set in this collection is our
rich Double Damask Table Cover,
! rose cluster design with handsome
\ foliage border. One dozen Nap
kins to match. Complete, SIS.
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Irish Damask Linens.

A very attractive lot OF fine
Bleached Linens has just been
placed in stock at 81, ST IS and
ST so yard. All u inches wide,
but varying in quality and design.
The patterns are without doubt the
best ever shown in Our Linen De-
partment.
We can also furnish Bleached
Linens, 90 inches wide, superior
quality, for ST Is yard.
The record-union., 1897-12-08

1t would seem that there are
toys enough in that big toy room
of ours to fill every stocking III
Sacramento. It's such big buying
that makes possible the low prices
we name.
The $4,000 French toy, the
automatic Circus" is great
source of pleasure to the little
folks.
The record-union., 1897-12-08
Ribbons.

Just now you are looking for
fancy work ribbon. The particu-
lar shade and the particular width
that you require is most apt to be
here.
The quality will please you and
so will the price.
By the way, how that ribbon
section has grown and is grow
ing!
The record-union., 1897-12-08
ELYrS
CREAM BALM

Opens and cleans the
Nasal Passages, Allays
Pain and Inflammation,
Heals and Protects the
Membrane from Colds,
Restores the Senses of I
absorbed. Gives relief
gists or by mali; sample
ELY BROTHERS. q
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We Offer
To-day
|Angora Fur Sets
for Children.

To-day we shall offer a new
line OF Childrens White Turkish
Angora Sets, consisting OF tippet
and muff.
These sets make desirable holi-
day gifts to little ones, and you
cannot expect to get them at this
price later on.
The quantity which we have is
limited
The record-union., 1897-12-08

The above is the fourth and best
statement made this year, as Will be
noticed by the following comparison OF
aggregate resources in the several
statements submitted:
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Plaids.

Fully one hundred pieces OF new
Plaids and Mixed Sultlngs are be-
ing shown here at IOc, I5c and 25c
yard.
Novelty Plaids, "A inches wide,
pretty silk stripes in the latest
Scotch effects. Price, SOC yard.
The record-union., 1897-12-08
Over $50 Games.

Over $50 games are here and a
large part of them are new this
season. Here are a few samples.
Wild West Game, War in Cuba,
Hide and Seek. Price, ST 25 each.
Prisoner of Zenda, 81.
Rival Policemen and Across the
Sea, 85c each.
Golf, 45c; Coon, Csc; Hustle
Ball, soc.
New Editions.of Nellie Bly, and
Louisa, 65c each.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-12-31

folding her work. but she answered,
defantly: Don't know as I'll tell you"
We'll. you needn't, then. know
i'ready. And all I've got to say is, if
you prefer a cat to husband, why"
"You don't know one thing about
husbands, Melinda Thompson; why, you
never had one yourself!''
That's just it; know what it is to
he without one. There's my taxes,
now"
But Mrs. Mott hastily interrupted;
when taxes were the theme, Miss Me-
linda usually spoke loud and long.
You can't begin by giving in to a
husband. Melinda. know that. because
gave in to Mr.. Mott before we were
married and the only comfort got out
Of him in the 12 years we were married
was in his last illness. Then, could call
On the doctor to help me. He always
sided with me against Abner."
II guess he knew which one of you
was going to pay his bill" said her
visitor. thoughtfully. Look here. Lo-
r;lla. are you and Ezra going to be mar
ried on New Years day or not?"
I'VE are not" replied Mrs. Mott,
firmly. Then she hastened to the door.
etting in a huge tortoise-she:l cat,
which rubbed itself affectionately
against her gown. purring all the while.
Presently, he jumped up on gay
patchwork cushion in huge arm
"hair and fell to washing his face.
And you've given that cat Ezra's
hair" said Miss Melinda. solemnly.
Melinda Thompson. | have! Fur
'hermore. it's my chair, and always has
been, though Ezra has sat in il pretty
constant in the "A years he's been com-
ug to see me-"
Fourteen years. And how many
times has the wedding been put off ?
ienme see; there was the time you
1narreled over the piece the choir was
a sing at the wedding. You wanted
| The Voice That Brenthed Ger Eden.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-12-31

and he wanted-I forget what he did
want-and neither of you would give
in. Why didn't you have wedding
without singing?"
Never thought of that. The choir
took it real hard. too. after practicing
for four weeks twice n week to be ready.
| They wanted to please us both and
practiced the piece l wanted on Tues
day evening after the regular choir
meeting and the one Ezra wanted on
Friday. They did offer to sing 'em
both. but we couldn't agree which was
to come first. so that did no good"
"And the next time you quarreled
oyer the way you meant to celebrate
your golden wedding, didn't you? And
now it's about a cat!"
Melinda Thompson, it is not. It's
about a dog. that's what! Ezra Mason
has gone and bought dog-a hunting
dog-at his time of life! He wanted to
bring it here, too. knowing how afraid
Jason is of dogs. | told him fiat, |
wouldn't have Jasons life rlade a bur-
| den to please anybody. Then he said
he'd never speak to me again, and /
raid | guessed could talk to myself, if
! | got lonesome and wanted to hear the
sound of human yoice!"
There goes Ezra now. with the dog
at his heels" remarked the visitor.
Hes on the other side of the street.
That's how I came to know he and you
had quarreled. He only does that when
he's mad with you
Mrs. Mott tossed her head defantly.
THE pavement's free" she said. "Must
| you be going?" as Miss Melinda rose.
"ies. I'm going to run in and see
that strange family that's just moved
here. The little boys an invalid and
they don't know soul here yet, so |
thought maybe they'd like to hear
the news"
well. you're the one that can tell it
to them," said Mrs. Mott, under her
breath. as her friend walked away.
Jason; here, sir. come back!' For
the cat had slipped past her and out
into the street. pretending not to hear
her calls.
Contrary as n man." she remarked.
closing the door. That's just the way
Mr.. Mott used to go out after supper"
The big chair looked very Lonesome
without Ezra's portly presence in it,
and, stopping to beat up the cushion
as she passed, she remarked: I'm sor-
ry now told Melinda Thompson I'd give
it to the cat, but it's too late now
he knows it already. Anyhow, he
needn't have said he wished the Lord,
or whoever looks after cats, would
take Jason!"
Late that evening passers-by heard
Mrs. Mott calling Jason to come in.
What fuss she does make over that
cat" they said. Wakeful neighbors
also noticed a light burning in her
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-12-31
GRAPE UPON THE DOOR.

Eom ber Grape, somber Grape. morsel NOR
tails use to drape
Doors throug h which Death unnvited came
in dread and awful shape,
Waving slow to and fro that the thought
less throns may know
One home-Sunbeam was eclipSed beneath
cloud of bitter woe
Thou hast been through long years emblem
of earth's countless tears.
When darkest certainty replaced alter
nate hopes and fears;
When torn hearts long on the rack turned
like thee lack-luster black,
And the stars no longer shone in heavens
once hope-illumined track.
Yet those years have brought to me bet-'
ter views and thoughts of thee,
For each sorrow hath it's morrow which
experienced souls may see;
have learned that meath thy veil shines
the light which cannot fail.
Harbor-beacon beckoning homeward
through the darkness and the gale.
Badge of grief, badge of grief. back OF
thee, in grand relief,
Lies the glory which the reaper finds with
in the golden sheaf;
Death is life, end of strife. close Of years
with evil rife,
The beginning of the winning; rest when
sheathed the surgeons knife.
Ours the tear, theirs the cheer. and Heaven
vistas vast and clear,
Where their wings may spurn the chrysalis
which hampers spirits here;
Where each joy they can see with new
views from earth-mists free,
Proves the story of the glory that Is
promised you and me.
Somber sign. proof benign of thought
full love divine
Which hath made Death but Its messenger
to lead us oer the line
Welcome, friend. who canst end woes and
shattered spirits mend.
Unto thy kindly ministries in grateful
trust we bend.
l. EDGAR JONES'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-12-31

and evil, false and true, tempest anc
calm, sunshine and shower. night and
day.
Hail the year 1S9S! Yet many will
it cast down and many raise up; many
destroy and many make alive. Hope
will it fulfil in some and send utter
despair to others. AS in the years that
have passed, so in r0S will there be
simoons, tornadoes, zephyrs and calms;
hail, rain, snow and diffusive, heart
warming sunshine. There shall be
wars, sorrows, pains. joys, gladnesses,
Groughts, floods, plenty and famine.
War shall rage here and there, while
peace will be serene in most places.
Birds shall sing sweetest songs at
matin and eventide, while beasts shall
utter their terrifying cries.
What will the year bring to you and
you. and you? In the midst of such un-
certaintes, who so wise as to be able to
declare his own fate or that of another?
One having good memory may dilate
of 1897; but no man can predicate of
1898! But he may wish himself well,
and in the same breath he should wish
we'll to all others.
Aye, and it is a time when one may
very properly make introspection with
a view to information. AS 4 garden.
there is need for roofing out here,
planting there; wedding in this place
and watering in that place. Find out
the sins that are besetting, the vir-
tues that are deficient. BE honest and
let the work be thorough. All that is
good. cherish as the apple of the eye;
what is bad east off as an old garment.
Such an undertaking faithfully done
and conscientously adhering to resolu-
tions adopted will have Tnch to do
with regulation of the effects CT the
year before you.
Alas! how many good resolutions are
made at the beginning of every new
year only to be broken after few days.
or weeks. at the most; and so one year
is as another with IFS. Whatever we
do, the days will go quickly and the
| end Of il will he here Only too soon.
WILLIAM EosSER COBEE.