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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-22
PlrNEY NOT TOO YOUNG.

An editorial in the Sunday Call of the
10th inst, is devoted to a course of
reasoning intended to prove that Con-
gresham Pitney should refuse the guber-
material nomination, which the "Calli is
informed is within his grasp-nay, even
more, has been proffered to him; at least
the assertion is made that he is the choice
of General Sewell and other active Re
publican leaders," The Call submits
several arguments against Mr. Pitney's
accepting such nomination, and says
finally, " and he is much too yoang to
make satisfactory Governor" On
what grounds this statement is supported
is an enigma. Youth has never been
bar to prominence in any calling. Bry-
ant wrote "Thanatopsis' at the age of
nineteen. Shakespeare's greatest works
were the fruit of middle age. Shelley's
life work was ended before thirty-two.
Some of our greatest statesmen executed
masterstrokes in their thirties. Certain
ly many of the best governors in the var
ious states held the office at Mr.. P1tney's
age and younger. 1t is not antiquity in
character that gives it force; nor is it
necessary for man to be weighted with
years in order to have good Judgment.
The training which Mr.. Pitney has al
ready had in private and public affairs
doubtless already amounts to much more
/
than that of the majority amounts to
at twice his age. The force of that very
discipline, combined with his clear iudg-
ment, so often put to the test, and never
found wanting in addition to the pro-
nounced frmness with which he executes
decision, prominently fits him for any
position in life, be it Governor, or any
other high office requiring excellent
judgment, discretion and determination,
The faculty to think clearly and act in
diligently is not limited to hoary> heads,
nor is there fixed period in life at which
men fall heir to wisdom. Mr.. Pitney's
abilities as statesman are not limited
by the duties which surround the Cover
Iva . ShoAAs Lis ACOOIQ OOco uOL SludCR
of puerilty. We suspect the editors an
tipathy for General Sewell has lead him
to underrate the personality of Mr.. Pit
ney. Whether the Congressman shall
continue his public career, or retire to
private life, his friends, knowing the
calibre of the man, cannot restrain
feeling of resentment at belittling as
sertion that either age, or lack of age,
deprives him of the high attributes of
which they know him to be possessed.
The Common Council of Bound Brook
has granted a franchise to the Brunswick
Traction Co., to construct, maintain and
operate an electric road on Main street,
between the eastern limits of the borough
and Talmage avenue, for the sum of
$4,000, the company in addition to maca-
damize the avenue from curb to curb.
OUR candidate for Surrogate, David
Young, is well qualified to administer
the important duties connected with the
Surrogate'5 Office. Like the candidates
for the Assembly, Messrs. Welsh and
Poole, he is well known, much re-
spected and highly appreciated by the
people of the town in which he lives.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-22

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will vote in
Ohio on November End if he lives and is
able to reach the Buckeye State. In
Morris county, yes right here in Morris
town, there are some Republicans who
are not sufficiently interested to register
and some perchance if they happen to
register, do not take the trouble to vote
on election day. Every election is an
important one, and the forthcoming one
is no exception. We want a competent
man in the Surrogates office: we must
continue good men in the Legislature.
Compare the tickets nominated by the Re-
publicans, who stand on platform that
means every word it says, with that
placed before the public at convention
where 'scrapping'' and disorder were the
prominent features, save lodging the
endorsement of the Chicago platform.
AS Deputy Surrogate King remarked
twhat has platform got to do with the
election of Surrogate anyhow" Mr..
King and majority of the delegates
are out and out silver men. They talked
silver last fall, swore by the Chicago
platform, and at the Gold Democrats who
repudiated it, and after all they
dared not endorse it at Mondays Conven-
tion. Surrogate Pierson will find that it
will require something more than din
ner to the delegates to return him to the
Office he now occupies. The fact that
Freebooter Porter, who was only named
in opposition to Mr.. Pierson the day pre-
vious, came within seven votes of defeat
ing his nomination, plainly indicates his
waning popularity.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-22

The Common Council of Bound Brook
has granted franchise to the Brunswick
Traction Co., to construct, maintain and
operate an electric road on Main street,
between the eastern limits of the borough
and Talmage avenue, for the sum of
$1,000, the company in addition to macs-
damize the avenue from curb to curb.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-22

| THE State Board of Canvassers this
afternoon canvassed the returns of the
recent election, and found that the anti
gambling amendment to the constitution
had been carried by 802 votes, and the
ad iterum amendment by 7,426, and the
| Wcman's Suffrage amendment was de-
feated by 10,059. The returns also show
ed 961 rejected ballots.
William d. Edwards, of Jersey City,
appeared before the Board and raised
the point that the rejected ballots had
been improperly thrown out by the var
ious Election Boards, and that if they
had been counted the anti gambling
amendment would have been defeated.
His point was that the ballots had been
rejected under the general election law,
which provides that ballots can only be
marked with pen and black ink, or
with a black pencil. The special cleo
ton law, under which the election was
held, provides for the marking of ballots
with pencil, and says nothing about
color. For this reason. the rejected
ballots should have been counted. He
wanted the Sthte Canvassing Board to
send the returns back to the County
Boards for correction This proposition
was rejected, and the two amendments
were declared carried.
Mr.. Edward wants to consult with his
clients before proceeding further in the
matter, and Governor Griggs consented
to withhold until Monday the proclama-
ton making the two amendments part
of the constitution. MIR. Edwards is
understood to represent the race track
men,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-22

The Billy Thompson gang of the coun-
ty Democracy carried the ward pri-
maries in Camden, greatly to the disgust
of the old line Democrats. who have de-
cided to put an Independent ticket in the
field.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-22

The ticket placed in nomination by
The Republicans is an ideal one. This
statement is not made simply to catch
votes, but because it is the fact, and facts
of this character, are desirable about
~, named for public Office. The
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-22
Bulletin at 6 P. M. To-day.
POLITICAL DoDelNG.
The first plank unanimously adopted at
the Republican County Convention says:

The first plank unanimously adopted at
the Republican County Convention says:
We hereby affirm our allegiance to the
principles of the Republican party as
contained in the platform of the Nation
al Convention at st. Louis in 1896 and
particularly those planks relating to
sound money and the protection of home
industries.
The last resolution adopted at the
Democratic Convention, and then only
after bitter wrangle, reads:
Resolved, That we approve of the Dem
ocratic principles of Thomas Jefferson
and Andrew Jackson as enunciated by
them and their followers in all National
platforms.
The adoption of this by delegates open
ly avowed followers of and believers in
the Chicago Platform would be ludicrous
were it not for the fact that it is a bare
faced attempt to hoodwink those Demo-
Gratis who favor sound money, into yot-
ing for ticket not in the least in accord
with the wellknown principles of Jack
son and Jefferson.
The candidates named by the Demo-
cratic convention for Assembly caused
no end of talk among the faithful. Mr.,
Scarborough is well known throughout
the county. Last fall he was an out
spoken gold Democrat, and no longer
ago than yesterday declared that if the
convention had adopted a resolution
favoring the Chicago platform, he would
not have allowed his name to go on the
ticket. But though Mr.. Scarborough is
all right on this point, it is well
known fact that the silverites rule the
Democratic party in this State, and in
case Mr.. Scarborough had vote for a
United States Senator, he would I'M
doubtedly cast it for the candidate of
his party Mr.. Bergen is comparatively
unknown. He dispenses liquor in a
small hotel at Butler,
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The short stops of tba Train.

Sustained journey speed, from end to end of run, is not merely matter of high speed between stations It involves also mskirg the station stops short The more stops here are the more i'm portant is Iromptress at stations The observant II an who travels much can not fail to notice the effect on trainmen, on station nen and even on passengers of habitual fast running. All hands get trained to alertnegs and precision of movement Ii is a fine thing to watch the hanGlirf of a Nt1y train at a staticu 1t Is iLillia,.ls u see the speed without haste of the inspectors and the baggaeemen, the quick and smooth change of engines and the cut ting off of the dining car. have seen the other extreme on Southern rail road, where the easy going conductor ran past a flag station and tEcn backed down mile to let off cuc Lasseuger His serene indifference to time did not make me feel any safer cn Lis train = Engineering Magazine.
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snidera as Weather Pronheta

One of the best of weather prophets is the spider If there happens to be a web in the secluded corner of the porch, watch it carefully for a few days or weeks, and the spider will unfailingly predict the coming of storms.
 When a high wind or a heavy rain threatens, the spider may be seen talk ing in sail with great energy-that is, shortening the rope flaments that sus- tain the web structure. If the storm is to be unusually severe or of long dura- tion, the ropes are strengthened as well as shortened, the better to resist the on set of the elements Not until pleasant weather is again close at hand will the ropes be heightened as before. On the contrary, when you see the spider run ming out the slender filaments it is cer- tain that calm, fine weather has set in, whose duration may be measured by their elongation.
 Every 24 hours the spider makes some alteration in its web to suit the weather If these changes are made toward even- ing, just before sunset, fine. clear night may be safely counted upon. When the spider sits quiet and dull in the middle of its web, rain is not far off If it be active, however, and con- tinues so during a shower, then it will be of brief duration, and sunshine will follow. Chicago Record.
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Men With Memories.

The advantages of good memory to the historian are obvious, and we find 1t said of Gibbon that when he had once read book it was of no further use to him; 1t was as a sucked orange and could be thrown away. Carlyle like wise had prodigiously retentive mind, while of Macaulay's prowess in this line there are many stories told He could read book in the time it would take another man to cut the leaves, and, notwithstanding this lightning rapidity, he knew it all perfectly. Once, when crossing the Irish channel, he re- peated to himself the whole of Para disc Lost, ' and it was said that if all Milton works were lost Macaulay could have restored them from memory, While waiting i'll Cambridge coffee house for post chaise he picked up 8 country newspaper containing two DO litical pieces, which he read once through and never thought of again fo1 40 years, when he was able to repeat them without the change of single word. .-Household Words
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The BookkeepeF's Hete Noirs.

Ask a bonkkeeper what his bldck beast is, and he will tell you the monthly trial balance Stme of you know what that is. of course, but the majority of you perhaps do not. Let bookkeeping, the only kind that de- serves the name of bookkeeping, every debit must have it's credit-that is to say, every item that is carried to the debit of one account must be carried tc the credit of another
 Say, for example, you buy bill of goods from merchant. He enters the amount to your debit on his books and at the. same time credits an account called "me rchandise, this account be- ing debited with all tie goods brought goods sold from it When you pay the bill, you are credited with the amount and an account called leash" is debit ed, because it receives the money
 This will explain to the uninitiated the meaning of the term "double en- try" and it will also explain why, after the entries have all been carried to the ledger and balances have been struck thereon, the debits and the cred it's will agree if the books have been correctly kept To test the correctness of his work the bookkeeper takes of every month a trial balance, which consists simply of the debit balances in one column and the credit balances in another. If they foot up the same, the work has been correctly done If they vary, he must look for and find the er- TOT or errors before the next month s business is entered on the ledger
 . You can readily understand, there fore, why the trial balance is the book keepers black beast We have known cases in which trifling errors have elud- ed the most caresul search for several days and nights and even for weeks, torturing the soul of the bookkeeper almost past endurance But he has to stand it, for the error must be found Philadelphia Times
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The Future # the Red Man.

Having briefly reviewed some of our past history, the fact must be admitted that when the white men first visited our shores we were kind and confding, standing before them like block of marble before the sculptor, ready to be shaped into noble manhood. Instead of this, we were oftener hacked to pieces and destroyed.
 It is useless to deny the charge that at times we have been goaded to vim dictive and cruel acts Some of my own tribe, however, were soldiers in the northern army during the civil war Some of them were taken and held pris- oners in the rebel prisons, and the cruelty which, according to the tales they tell, was witnessed there was never outdone in border warfare with the scalping knife and tomahawk, and yet I believe that had the northern people been placed in the south under like cir cumstances their prisoners of war would have been treated with similar cruelty It was the result of desperate effort to save an expiring cause. 1 be- lieve there is no reasonable person, well grounded i'll United States history, who  will not admit that there were ten times as many who rcrished miserably ill southern prisons us have been killed by our people since the discovery of America recall tlt@e facts not to censure, but to show tEat cruelty and revenge are the of spring of war, not of race. aud that nntulc has placed no inn passable gulf between us and civiliza- ton.
 While 1 most heartily indorse the present policy of the government in dealing with our people, must admit, to be true 10 riy Cvn convictions, that l am worried Cyel the ration sys- tenn. under which so many of our people are being fed on the reservations. 1 greatly fear it may eventually vaga- bondize many of them beyond redemp- tion. It permits the gathering of lazy, immoral white men of the VI worst stamp, who spend their time ill idleness and in corrupting Indian morality. Simon Pokagon ill Forum.
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The Human Electric natterv.

The superstition that human beings should sleep with their heads to the north is believed by the French to have for it's foundation scientific fact They affirm that each human system is in it.. self all electric battery, the head being one of the electrodes, the feet the other Their proof was discovered from experi ments which the Academy of Sciences was allowed to make on the body of a man who was gnillotined.
 This was taken the instant it fell and placed upon pivot free to move as it might The head part, after a little vacillation, turned to the north, and the body then remained stationary It was turned half way round by one of the professors, and again the head end of the trunk moved slowly to the cardinal point due north, the same results being repeated until the final arrestation of organic movement.
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Richeiieu as an Editor,

The first reporter of France was Louis XIII. The National library possesses the manuscripts of 36 articles written by that king. Almost all are accounts of his military operations. These arti- cles were published in the Gazette de France. The 'copy." however, did rot go directly to the printer. Louis XIII wrote abominable French, and he had vague notions of orthography His ar ticles were corrected and often entirely rearranged by a secretary named Lucas, who copied them, sending to Richelieu the new manuscript Richclieu exam ined it i'll his turn and often introduced additional corrections. At the siege of Corbie the king wrote a few lines eulo- gistic of the cardinal, but afterward crossed them out of his article Riche- lieu wrote them in again, and so they appeared i'll the Gazette de France. = Revue de Paris.
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Those Love Letters.

Mrs Newwed recently returned home to find her lord and master dili- gently tearing up the contents of a drawer
 Why, Herbert, whatever are you doing, she exclaimed-'tearing up all our old love letters2 The ideap'
 But these are no good now, dear They only fill up the drawer D
 Yes they are, and I want them. Whatever made this sudden fit of tidi- ness come into your head?"
 'Only this, my dear: When 1 die, some one who wished to break my will might get hold of them and use them to prove I was insane. ''-Pearson' 's Weakly
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He Cheanened Pens.

Sir Josiah Mason was, according tc his biography, walking in Bull street, Birmingham, in the year 1928, when he saw some steel pens, price three and sixpence each. Josiah was hard uI maker of split rings No sooner had he seen the pens than he went home, made some better than those i'll the shop, sent them up to London and got large or der by return At 30 years of age Ma. son s capital was 80 shillings. At 60 he had given away G400, 900.
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Jumping a Straw.

Some years ago the late Major Roddy Owen was at Aldershot and offered to back himself to make horse he was riding jump straw Every one laughed, and although his fondness for horses was well known none believed he could ao- complish the feat A long straw was procured and laid on the ground Owen proceeded to blindfold the horse and rode him at the mark, which the animal cleared with bound that would have settled five bar gate. When he returned to collect his bets, all the sportsmen had vanished. Army aud Navy Journal
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Unfortunate Omission.

One of the most singular instances of punishment for an oversight was that shown by the commitment of an alma mao maker to the Bastille in l717
 It was made out by order of the Duke of Orleans, regent during the minority of Louis V of France, and read as fol lows:
 Laurence d'Henry. for disrespect to King George ill not mentioning him in his almanac as king of Great Brit ain. .
 How long this unlucky almanac mak- CT remained in prison is unknown. The register of the Bastille, examined at the time of the revolution, failed to throw any light on the subject Youth $ Gompanion.
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aow to Keep Awake.

The American in England affords matter for much perplexity and aston ishment to his English kinsmen
 A typical Yankee was being shown over an old church wherein hundreds of people werS buried.
 "A great many people sleep between these walls, '' said the guide, indicating the inscription covered floor with a sweep of his hand.
 'Sop' suid the American. Same way over in our country. Why don't you get moro interesting preacherP''
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Fakirs is the name given to cele- brated class of fanatics found in many parts of the east, but more particularly in India. Some of them will make a VOW to continue all their lives in one posture and adhere to it strictly. Others never lie down, but remain in stand ing position all their lives, upheld only by sticks or ropes under the armpits. They pretend to have subdued every passion of mortality.
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was tired all the time, and had dread- full pains in my side and back and head. was also troubled with irregularity of menses, and lost so much flesh that my friends became alarmed.
 My mother, who from experience is a firm believer in the Pinl1ham reme- dies, thought perhaps they might bene- fit me. I followed the advice Mrs. Pinkham gave me, and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and am now aswell as ever was. Miss MARIE F. JOHNSON, Cen tralia. Pa.
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Pwo-Febriin
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He Writes
 'I think most highly of Pyro-Febrin Tablets, not only from knowledge of their composition but from use in my own family as a remedy for Headaches and Head Colds. They contain no opium or other ingredients to which objection could be made, and are well calculated to accomplish the results intended,
 JOHN T, STODDARD,
 Professor of Chemistry" Will relieve any kind of headache in from five to fifteen minutes. Will stop hay fever and head colds in one day. For sick and nervous headaches, neuralgia, or any head pain or congestion, Invaluable to la- dies subject to periodical headaches Price 25o' &S@ To any One deSiYing 10 teSt kheSe 7a6Ieks, c MeyaI fyfak package zViE6e Sent # Airs adUeyttSemeRt De mailed, 1vifh 2-cent SfamP, 10
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu- ttonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an in- famed condition of the mucous lining of the EuStachtan Tube. When this tube gets infiamed you have rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the re- suit, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to it's normal condi- tion, hearing will be destroyed forever nine surfaces.
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness {cauSed by catarTh) that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
 F. CHENEY & CO.,, Toledo, O. EB- Sold by Druggists. 75c.
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J. c. Berry, one of the best known citizens of spencer, Mo-, testifies that he cured himself of the worst kind of piles by using few boxes of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. He had been troubled with piles for over thirty years and had used many different kinds of so-called cures, but DeWitt's was the one that did the work and he will verify this statement if any one wishes to write him.-W. D. Hnald
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WHAT TO DO.

There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy, fulfls every wish in relieving pain in the back kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passages It corrects inabil- ity to hold urine and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to get up many times during the night to urinate. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for it's wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need 8 medicine you should have the best Sold by druggists, price fifty cents and one dollar. You may have a sample bot tie and pamphlet both sent free by mail Mention The Press and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghampton, N. |. The proprietors of this paper guar antee the genuineness of this offer.