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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
CHARLES w. BoDlNE.

A letter received from George L.
Berry, also with the Second Regiment at
Jacksonville, written Monday, says:
cit is said that we are to have two
days march this week, starting Wednes-
day morning for Peallow Beach, and if
we go ! will write from there. Captain
Petty is on furlough now, and expects
to be in Morristown on the Goth We
do not Just know whether we will go to
Havana or back to dear old Jersey. We
expected to strike blow for Old Glory
instead of lying here at Jacksonville;
but we came to fight for Uncle Sam and
will go where he sends us, though we
would like to see the good people in
Morristown just the same. | will send
small alligator along pretty soon."
A letter received too late for note in
last weeks CHRONICLE said:
We received the box from the Naval
Aid Society Saturday morning, August
6, and how the boys did gather in the
books! l don't think there was boy in
the company that did not say that we
must have some good people in Morris
town to remember us so well; and each
of them sends thanks also for the writing
pads, which come in very good.
The box of books and magazines from
the Naval Aid was followed on Saturday
last by box of pajamas, comfort bags
and delicacies, which will probably
reach Jacksonville tomorrow.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
THE SUN WILL NEVER SET.

From the most charming and circum-
stantial letter in the New York Sun of
Sunday last, descriptive of the American
seizure of Guam, in the Ladrones, we
extract this:
cat the southeast corner of the terre-
plein there rises the wreck of an old
Flagstaff. Beside it grows tree almost
as tall as the staff. On that staff the
flag Captain Glass had taken from the
Charleston was hoisted. Lieutenant
Braunersreuther, who had been left in
command on the cruiser while the Captain
and executive officer were away, had wig
wagged over to the Australia and the
Picking to keep watch with him for the
first appearance of Old Glory above the
ruined battlements of Santa Cruz, the
bands on the two troopships were ready
and the crews we're at the saIuting guns
on the cruiser. The clouds had broken
away and the harbor and its hills stood
out clear and sharp in the early after
noon sun. The old gray fort, in its set
ting of green grass and shrubbery, marked
the foreground. Over this gray green
spot in the blue wafer rose the radiant
gloryof the Stars and Stripes, As the
first CLINT of color above the battered
parapet caught the eye of Lieut.. Braun
ersreuther he gave the order to salute
the United States flag. A laundering
roar from the forward 6-inch gun of the
Charleston starboard broadside battery
was the first response. Instantly the
port gun answered. The echoes beat
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

FITzHUGH LEE has fine sense of hui
NOR. When his major general uniform
was sent to his home for inspection Mrs.
Lee spread it out for his examination.
While he was regarding it his mind re-
verted to the time when he wore the gray
of the Confederacy, and the contrast was
amusing. Suddenly he said, with an air
of merriment: "Wife, put it away
might fire at it," Lee has a grand corps
of soldiers from dozen States, all dying
to fight; but they have never been per-
mitted to meet an armed Spaniard. The
other day when the peace tidings came
to him he called out: Seventh corps,
cease fringl'
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MORE "voLLEYv ToMFooLeRY.

By some myopean oversightedness the
country is without volume worthy the
affectation or claim of being a history of
the American civil war, with the result
that the school youth of the land are be-
ing today, as for thirty years, fed upon an
historical diet subversive of healthful
education and harmful to manful intelli-
gence. The colossal literary absurdities
and picturesque claptrap of the war just
concluded have been startling enough to
emphasize the expanse of folly and tom
foolery that illustrated its antecedent.
But surely we should be capable of
securing HISTORY of the late war with
Spain, and should discountenancea and put
to fight anything short of accurate and
exact truth in every particular. We don't
need imaginative, romantic or impossible
persons and things wrought by def fic.
tionists into plausibilities, to be devoured
as facts. We don't need to have heroes
specially exalted, to be viewed and wor-
SHIPPED. The nation asks simply to know
in unvarnished wording the character
and the import of mems actions. 1t has
itself sense enough to appreciate hero
when he is hero.
But the greatest need for historian is
to be historian, and to be historian
man must have sense, energy, impartial
ity, versatility, philosophical tendencies,
erudition and honesty. He couldn't set
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
LOTS OF ToMoRRows.

80. K. d." whose picturesque letters
to the Sun have afforded so much inter
est and instruction, crossed the 1S0th me-
ridian on the 10th of June, on the Austria
liza, of General Andersons expedition for
Dewey at Manila. On the day before, he
wrote:
Tomorrow we cross the 1S0th merid-
ian, and thereby arises peculiar COM
plication, for there will be no tomorrow
Tomorrow, today will be day be-
fore yesterday. Today, tomorrow is day
after tomorrow, and tomorrow, day after
tomorrow will be today. Today is today
here and in Honolulu, but tomorrow will
be today where we are and yesterday in
San Francisco. When it becomes tomor-
row in San Francisco it will be day after
tomorrow with us. Yesterday, today was
tomorrow, but today, tomorrow is day
after tomorrow
o. K. D. has got it o. K.
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o. K. D. has got it o. K.

GOVERNOR VOORHEES, is of the opinion
that there is no necessity for calling an
extra session of the Legislature to pass a
law giving the volunteers the right to
vote in case the war between Spain and
the United States terminates before the
election in November next. The present
law permits soldiers in the field to vote
while war is in progress, and the Gov
ernor believes that, although the war is
practically over, yet peace will not be
officially declared for months to come,
and that the New Jersey troops will not
be mustered out until after election day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

back from the cocoanut covered cliffs of
Orote peninsula and flung themselves
ag inst the hills on the mainland Of the
island. Back they came. diminished in
force but increasing in number, and
caught the deep booming of the guns as
the Charleston continued the salute.
Soon all the harbor was filled with the
noise. and occasionally. as it died down
bit, came the strains of the ''Star
Spangled Banner from the two trans
ports, and the ring of eager cheers from
the thousands of soldiers and sailors who
watched the beautiful flag rise to its
place at the top of the staff and float out
over the old fort. The island of Guam
was formally in possession of the United
States. Six thousand miles to the west
ward the starry banner had been pushed
at one stride. When it rises over Manila
and the Philippines never to be- hauled
down, as this expedition hopes-the sun
will never set on the land of the free
and the home of the brave
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

In the whirl of American migration for
our pastures new in the West Indies
and the East the Klondyke craze is calcu-
lated to take back seat. There will in
Porto Rico be no Chilkoot to chill the ar
dent rage for getting rich without capital
or labor, and at Manila therell be no
Skagway or other skalawag way of get
ting frostbitten and forgotten. If man
can't get along in either he can get back
if he can swim.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
THE WARsHIP PARADE.

1t is not only entirely pardonable, but
wholly patriotic and to be expected, that
the American people rejoice in the pos
session of the crack navy of the world
and that they are going on tomorrow to
give its battle-scarred ships reception
less noisy only than their great guns in
action and just as hearty as half dozen
millions of people in the metropolis and
adjacencies can make it.
The present generation may not wit
ness another war; the world will never
see another just like that now ended a
multitude of Americans never have seen
battleship; and it is Americans alone
who are today vouchsafed the great glory
of viewing a victorious and invincible
war feet.
Then, let bell and bugle, cheer and
chime, gun and gong, whistle and war
whoop, clatter and clang and defamation
and din combine in very bedlam, rending
the heavens with prodigy of noises and
rocking old earth with the thunders of
our joy! Run up the buntingl Let the
Stars and Stripes hutter from ten thou
sand eminences and float above every
space; SO that all the land might seem
as sown in banners and every stalk to
bend with bloomsi
1.-THE army and navy forever
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our RoYs WITH LEE.
JACKSONVILLE. Aug. is.

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 10.
EDITOR CHRONICLE Although there
has been enthusiasm displayed, over the
news of peace with Spain, we are sorry
to say some of our boys from Morris
town are on the sick list.
Charles Letcher, who was taken quite
i'll last Saturday was removed to the
hospital on Monday, but is improving.
He had slight attack of malarial fever.
With the good care he is receiving, we
hope he will soon be again on duty.
William Hayes, who has also been in
the hospital with the fever, is to be re-
moved to Pablo Beach, about twelve
miles from jacksonville, an elegant place
on the sea shore where most of the pa
TENTS are sent as soon as they are able to
be moved
James Babcock, who has been COM
planning with stomach trouble, was sent
to the division hospital to-day. Another
sorrow befell our boys in the Second
New Jersey Regiment. John j Katzen-
berg of Company G, aged 20 years, died
at the Second Division Hospital Friday
night, August IL, of typhoid fever. The
body was embalmed by Clark & Burris,
undertakers, and funeral services were
held at their parlors Saturday evening.
Chaplain Jones of the Second conducted
the services and the body, with an escort
from his company, was sent to his
parents at Rutherford. Being fine
young man, he will be missed by his
comrades.
The boys all expect to hear good news
on General Lees return from Washing
ton. On Saturday the First Alabama
Regulars arrived here from Nina and
the Sixth Missouri arrived to-day from
Jefferson Barracks, where they have
been in camp.
Berry and Mack took their turn at
guard duty last week, which we do not
like to see come around very often.
Captain Petty and wife, Sergeant Rod
der and Thomas Conlin sailed yesterday
on the Seminole on a fifteen days fur.
Tough.
The weather not being SO warm here
now, the boys are much more comfort
able. With regards from all the boys to
friends and parents, and hoping our sick
ones will keep on improving,
Yours sincerely,
CHARLES w. BoDINE.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
$4,000 A GOOD PRICE.
The Freeholders on Monday gave

The Freeholders on Monday gave an
option on the almshouse property for
$50, 900. although previous to the meet
ing $25, 900 was mentioned as the price at
which the county would sell. The rea-
sons for selling for $25, 900, as stated in
the CHRONICLE last week, are numerous
and we have as yet failed to hear an
argument advanced in opposition which
has the slightest merit. Real estate is
worth all it will bring, and no more.
Taking into consideration the unftness
of the old buildings, the increased annual
cost of caring for them and the expense
attending the working of so large farm,
it would seem that if sale can be made
for the latter sum, the taxpayers of
Morris county will commend the sound
judgment of the Board for consummat-
ing it. We understand the parties
represented by Mr.. Crane, to whom the
option was given, might be induced to
pay $25, 900, but not one cent more; and
they are now considering two other
pieces of realty which can be purchased
at lower figure. Freebooter Troxell
knew whereof he spoke when he said
that in his experience ''the time to sell
was when you have the opportunity.
Gas member of former Almshouse
Committee my experience was that the
poor farm did not pay and much less
land would suit the purpose. The pres
ent state of the buildings is bad; they
are constant expense. and the commit
tee is even now arranging for repainting
the buildings at cost of about $500,
and it is only question of year or two
when the buildings must be replaced
The committee, in company with the
architect, have visited several aims
houses built on modern principles, and
the opinion is general among the men,
bers that sufficient land can be obtained
and building in every way suitable for
the requirements of the county erected
for sum closely approximating $25, 200
and the additional revenue produced
from the sale of crops, machinery and
stock.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
DEWEY

We welcome the end of the war for OBJ
vious reasons, and yet we equally regret
the wind up for just one. Dewey, the
luminous pillar in the far East, must no
longer beam bright exhalation, visible
in every weather, and the music of his
guns, that set the hearts of all mankind
to dancing, may not again enchant the
characters of the Luzonian dawn with
the song promise of light and freedom.
Dewey's rightful area in the annals Of
this war will be broad enough to take in
the last and the least of his tars, and deep
enough to dock his Incompatible squad
ron.
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out on his journey lacking one of these,
and he wouldn't founder his craft if he
had aboard few additional qualihca-
tions for compromising thorough, vera
cious and instructive chronology Of trans
pired events. And especially in technique
and in minute narration he must be pre-
else to nicely.
We have been moved to these observa-
tons because we have seen that some of
the tomfool literature of the civil war is
already rampant in the newspaper nara
tives of that with Spain, and as it is GER
tain to impose itself upon the credulity of
the simple and implant erroneous ideas
broadcast among youthful students, we
mildly interpose protest to the intend
ing historian.
OF course we know, because newspa-
per says it, that Colonel So-and-so at the
hottest point of the fight dashed forward
in front of his men" etc., and because we
daily meet the Colonel on spin with his
wheel and SO full of bullet-hoIes that he
reminds one of street sprinkler. For
in the name of all that's horrible how
could the Colonel put himself in front
of his men in battle without catching the
shots they were putting up for the Span
iards! And what in the world did he get
in front for?
Then, we have two newspaper gems.
from Ell Caney and San Juan heights:
1.-The men were ordered to deliver their
fire only in Yolleysl"
Such an order, except in drill or salute,
is absurd, because it forbids soldier to
aim. And again:
1.-The Captain drew his revolver. I'll
shoot the first man who fires without or
ders! he cried to the volunteers, who
were firing at will and wildly
We most respectfully urge the war his
torian who may collate his data from the
current newspaper returns to puncture
these and like war jewels. Pirate cap
tains have sometimes thus addressed to
unarmed hireling crews these soothing
terms. An American captain in battle
who should use them toward armed vol
unteers would not live long enough to
wink his eye on a revolver. But more
than all, Mr.. Historian, all infantrymen
in battle, all the world over and in all
ages of the firearm, both load and fire at
will. 1t is absolutely Intellectual for the
individuals of an army to do otherwise.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

JOHN F. DRYDEN, the able president of
the Prudential Insurance Company and
who has many friends throughout
Morris county, announced on Tuesday
that his business responsibilities would
not permit him to allow his name to be
considered among the candidates for the
United States Senatorship to succeed
Senator Smith.
Mr.. Dryden is in every way well
qualified to fill the Office for which his
friends had hoped he would be an
aspirant. hence his decision has disapA
pointed large number outside of
Newark. where he has for many years
been prominently identified with it's
varied interests.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

The Hackettstown Gazette, sound
money Democrat, CURLY asks the Hunt
erdon Democrat of Pennington, which
has been bowling for gubernatorial
nominee "openly and aggressively iden-
titled with the Chicago platform y:
"Does our esteemed contemporary know
of Democrat in New Jersey, tarred
with the stick of reputation, that can
come within hundred thousand votes
of being elected Governor ?"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

e CORRESPONDENTS. where it is pos
sibIe to do so, will please post their letters
so that they win reach this Office by Wednes-
day a. m.
ADVERTISERS are requested to hand In
their favors each week as early as possible.
e Changes in Advertisements cannot
be made later than IL m on Wednesdays.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
SENATOR oALps DEMOCRACY.

Senator DAILY is either putting up a
large sized bluff or else he really thinks
his chances for obtaining the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination are good. In
a recent interview with the editor of the
CHRONICLE the genial Senator from
Hudson said: "Jim Smith and his gang
want to get me out of the way, but it
won't work. No man can head the
Democratic ticket this year who sulked,
fiunked, went to Europe, or who took to
the woods in the memorable campaign
of '96.
81 was in that fight throughout and
showed what kind of Democracy I was
made of, and l can't be crowded off this
year; and the old time bosses know it,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

The BernardsvilIe Neacs is very
anxious that the. Democrats should
organize clubs, and advises the club
organizers motto be too particular about
fixing up platform. Democracy itself
is the platform. The State convention
will put it in shape as soon as we shall
need their work. The 'sshape" will in
all probability partake largely Of lodging
the platform" issue altogether.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

IT IS generally understood that a
special session of the Supreme Court will
be called by Chief Justice Magic on
September for the purpose of taking up
the case decided at the last term of that
court, in which the government of the
city of Dover was declared to be illegal.
Dover had become incorporated as city
under a law passed last winter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

THE express companies in this State
refuse to pay for the stamps required to
be put on all shipping receipts, making
the sender in every instance purchase the
stamps or else packages intended for
transportation are refused.
What is good law in Illinois should be
good law in New Jersey, hence it is to
be hoped that a recent decision by Judge
Tuley in test case brought by the
Illinois Manufacturers Association in
which he ruled that the United States
Express Company must receive parcel
without the stamp, the court holding
that the party issuing the receipt should
furnish the stamp, may have some effect
on the express companies in this State.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

How instantly they dropped their hot
assaults on Shafter for the wretched con-
dition of things when the fact got abroad
that Montauk was many times as bad as
Siboneyl You see. Shafter had never
marched on Montauk.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

TIE Democratic State Committee
meets in Atlantic City to-day to fix the
date for the holding of the State conven-
ton at which the Democratic candidate
for Governor is to be nomiI 1t was
expected that the gathering wout~ 'e
held about September 20, but there arr
indications of that it may be deferred till
early in October.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

1.-THE highest tribute that can be paid
to the soldier, is to say that he perform
ed his full duty. The field of duty is de-
termined by his government, and wher-
ever that chances to be is the place of
honor. President Mckinley.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

GENERAL SKATER says, concerning
the army canteen: 81 have always been
strongly opposed to the canteen system
or the sale of Intoxicating drinks of any
kind on military reservations, and have
opposed it until absolutely overruled
and required to establish canteen at
my post. / regard it as demoralizing to
the men, besides impairing seriously their
efficiency"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

The Board of Aldermen Of New York
on Monday tabled the ordinance against
swearing in Greater New York. This
will save Boss Platt the trouble of swear
ing in private if the Republicans nomi-
nate Colonel Teddy Roosevelt for Gov
ernor, an event not at all improbable.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

BLANco resigned, rather than surren-
der. Only soldiers who fight are worthy
to surrender. To have received Blanco's
sword would have been burlesque, and
there was no way of disposing of his
mouth if we had taken that.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
Tour to Niagara Falls. Etc.

An eight days Fall Vacation Tour to
Saratoga. Niagara Falls, Toronto, Seneca
Lake and Watkins Glen. Starts August
80 Address for particulars HoNEYMAN's
PRIVATE Tours, Plainfeld, N. J. 1889
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

THE country has had for Secretary Of
State Jay, Day, and, prospectively, a
Hay. As the present Administration will
have had three such secretaries within a
third of its life this may be called for this
and other reasons she Hay Day of its dip
lomatic career.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

THE rustic who was told that city folk
oiled their floors ''to bring out the grain
is industriously sprinkling his farm with
kerosene.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

THE Spanish flag, that Lieut.. Brumby
supplanted at Manila with the Stars and
States, had fioated unchallenged for $50
years. And now may Old Glory futter
there forever!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

AS an expressive and ready letter wri-
ter, not less than as ready and express
sive sea fighter, Admiral Schley has de-
veloped rare qualities. He handles the
gun and the pen with equal facility but
with different effect. His brief personal
letters to admiring friends and strangers
are epistolary gems.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

JUDGE DEPUE on Monday rendered a
decision reinstating two veterans.
Messrs. Pemberton and Mead, who had
been removed from their positions in the
tax receivers Office, Newark, by the
Democrats in order to make room for
two active workers of the silver organi-
cation.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

THE interview with County Road In
spector Malley, published elsewhere in
the CHRONICLE, contains many excellent
suggestions relative to the care of our
road system.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19

A FRIEND asked for ''back number"
We mailed copy of an esteemed con-
temporary. If we get request for another
kind we shall recommend the Red Cross
to forward snrgeon-General sternberg.