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Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-08
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monwealth. If the state of Mime.
sofa, or the people thereof|| voluntar-
lily, choose to make the discharged
volunteers present in this way, we
do not see that anybody outside of
the state will have any reason to OBJ
ject. Wisconsin has had no regi-
ments in the Philippines; if she had
there woald probably be the same
kind of a movement there to give
their fighting men a free ride home
as there is in Minnesota. Pennsyl-
vauia, North and South Dakota,
Kansas, Nebraska, etc. The mon de-
serve the recognition and the people
are glad to be able to give it.
Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-08
Hurting the Fair.

France is devoting more attention
to the Dreyfus trial than to the ex-
position to be held at Paris next
year. A few more attempted assas-
sinations by shooting and Internal
machines will have harmful effect
on the exposition. Visitors from
abroad will feel Inclined to wear ar
NOR like tie knights of old or to take
along ''med forces to protect them
Will attending the exposition.-Mil-
ton Globe.
Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-08
Fix YoT
Wheels =.

We wilYopen Y shop in the
Gorder buildiag in Oakes
about eptembefl5th for the
parpoi of repairing furniture,
bicycll 5, gasoline #oves and
lamps We have haa several
years Experience in TIE work
and vi guarantee to gM sat-
isfactil + in all our work. Il Let
Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-08
The Veterans of 81,

hold their Annual Encam pment at Philadel-
phia. The Nickel Plate Road offers special
low rates for this occasion. Tickets sold
Sept. 1st toss4th incl tsive, good for stopoyer
privilege at Niagara Falls without extra
charge. Full1nformation given by General
Agent, Ill Adams St., Chicago.
Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-08
Roads Can't Kick.

It is not thought that the officials
cf the railroads of North Dakota are
seriously displeased with the recen t
actionNQf the state equalization board
in raising the assessment-when they
consider the rushing business done
along all portions of the road in the
state. Whef it is necessary to put
on extra trainS to handle the business
that $4,000 additional annual tax
doesn't look SO ATge, All along the
line of the N. P. Xpr several years,
and now along the\ Great Northern
as we'll, extensive and permanent i'm :
provements are being made, looking
to the convenience of Apatrons and
cheaper transportation,
Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-08
Called Down.

"TheSstate board of equalization
raised the valuations of railroad
property four million dollars and the
farmers and business mems property
nine million dollars.-Mandan Inde-
pendent,
The above item is true as far as it
goes, but it does not tell the whole
story. The valuation of the railroad
lines was increased from thirteen to
seventeen million dollars, a raise of
so per cent. The valuation of real
and personal property was increased
from eighty-seven to ninety-six mil
lion dollars-a raise of ten per cent.
It will be seen that the state board
of equalization hit the railroads just
three times as hard asf it did the
farmers and business men. Then it
should be Remembered that in in
creasing the valuation of lands the
Northern Pacific is hit again in the
various counties by raises OF from 2
to 80 per cent. And this radical raise
in the valustion$of railroad property
was made by republicans which is
why the IndeH Hendent seeks to depre-
ciate the actih of the state board. -
Mandan Tiasins-,,-,--,,su
Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-08
Buffalo-Pitts Repairs.

Call at Oakes Flour and Feed store
for repairs for Buffalo Pitts thrashers.
JOHN REA, Agent
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
HE RETIRED BURGLAR.
Highly Exaaperating Ending of a
Prosperous Nights Work.


"One night when | set out as usual
with a definite object in view, knowing
just where l was going to 60" said the
retired burglar, Il stopped at another
house on the road, something that | very
rarely did, but somehow this house
struck me as being good. You know how
things come to you that way sometimes,
and we can't account for 'em. 1t was
too early, half or three-quarters of an
hour before I'd have got at the house
had started for, but | didn't even wait
for time. l just went ahead and went in.
"And I'm blessed if there was living
soul in the house-that is, as near as
could guess. couldn't tell for sure, of
course, without looking, but | imagine
can tell always as soon as | step into a
house whether there's anybody in it or
not In a dead house, so to speak--that
is, you know, where there's no lif1, no.
body-the airs dead. | don't mean with
the deafness of shut up rooms, but it
lacks something, and when there is some
body that something is supplied. | sup
pose it's a current of some sort that
the air is charged with but, anyhow,
you can tell by the feel whether there's
anybody in a house or not, and there
wasn't anybody in this. But it wasn't
deserted, not by a long shot 1t just
seemed to me as though they'd all gone
off somewhere for that night, the whole
kit and caboodle of EN-. and left the
house alone.
And it was a comfortable house, tell
you; everything just as slick and nice as
could be; people of means and people
who knew how to live and who lived
happily; poorly things all around and
showing so you could tell that the folks
had 'em there cause they liked%em, not
just for show. And the silver was what
you might have expected in a house like
that. 1t was solid and good and hand
some and at the same time kind of club
by-that is, it was inclined to be sort of
stoutish rather than tall and slender
1t looked good humored and cheerful
somehow, and it suited me right down to
the ground.
II got that stuff together, and it made
a pretty heavy sort of sack. And then
| stopped right there. | knew the house
was empty well enough, but ! wasn't
taking any chances at all. | might have
struck good trade up stairs, but I'd
struck a good one down sure. and it
seemed as though it would be blunder
to take one chance in a million of spoil
ing the good thing I'd got by reaching
after more, and so just went away and
went home. and | got there, with all that
stuff, almost as soon as I'd have got to
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
DIGGING FoR ISL.
After Reading This Amateur Liars
VIII DoubtIess OMIT.


Will Doubtless Quit.
81 have had some remarkable adven-
lures with big game in Africa" said
traveller, "but the experience which inn
pressed me most was a fishing trip. l
was stopping with an old friend who held
a post up in Nigeria. One day he said:
John, the larder is getting low.
Would you like days fshingY
Nothing better l replied. It's a
long time since I've whipped a stream
oh we don't use rods here. These
are the TOOLS And he pointed to
number of natives armed with picks and
shoyels.
II supposed it was a Joke and Joined
the procession that wound away through
the woods. Finally we came to piece
of open country, and the men halted on
the edge of a peculiar saucerlike de-
preston about a hundred yards across
1t looked like the dry bed of lake, and
such it was. Presently the men were
hard at work with pick and shovel.
The earth was baked very dry, and the
dust few in clouds.
FINALLY one of the men gave a shout
and threw something out. 1t looked like
a brick with the edges worn off.
broke it into pieces, when out rolled a
fish almost foot long, alive and open
ing it's gills as though it had been awak-
ened from a ten years sleep. The in
side of this clay case was as smooth as
glass and the color of mahogany and air.
tight. In this the fish had been her
medically sealed. The men were now
tossing out fish every few minutes
They lay at depth of from one to two
and a half feet, and it was not acct
dental. The fish at the approach of the
dry season leaves the surface and wrig
giles it's way down through the mud
then, by the aid Of the mucus on it's
scales, forms a smooth, hard case, in
which it lies until the rain comes."-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
THE VAMPIRE VINE.
A Plant That Drains the Blood of
Living Animals.

n DFulDB tne bIOO0 or
Living Animals.
The octopus has hitherto been regard
ed as the most hateful and horrible Of all
created things. There has, however,
been discovered in Nicaragua a plant
which is as fearsome as the devil6sh 1t
is a vine called by the natives "the
devils snare" and it seems literally to
drain the blood of any living thing which
comes within it's death dealing touch
A naturalist who has recently returned
from Central America relates the finding
of this singular growth in one of the
swamps which surround the great lakes
Of Nicaragua.
He was engaged in hunting for boz
tanical and chronological specimens
when he heard his dog cry out as if in
agony from distance Running to the
spot, he found the dog enveloped in a
network of what seemed to be a fine
ropelike tissue of roots and fibers. The
vine seemed to be composed of bare in
terlacing stems, resembling the branches
Of the weeping willow denuded of leaves,
of dark hue and covered with thick
viscid gum that exuded from the pores.
Drawing his knife, he endeavored to cut
the animal free, but it was only with the
ing the fleshy, muscular fbers. To his
horror and amazement the naturalist
then saw that the dogs body was blood
stained, while the skin appeared to have
been actually sucked or puckered in
spots, and the animal staggered as if
from exhaustion.
In cutting the vine the twigs turned
like living, sinuous fingers, and it re-
quired no slight force to free the hand
from its clinging grasp, which left the
flesh red and blistered The gum ex-
uding from the vine was of grayish
dark tinge, remarkably adhesive and Of
a disagreeable animal odor, powerful and
nauseating to inhale. The native serv-
ants manifested the greatest horror Of
the vine, which they called "the DEVILS
snare" and were full Of stories of its
death dealing powers. Its voracity is al
most beyond belief, its power of suction
being contained in number of in
finitesimal mouths. If the substance it
seizes is animal, the blood is drawn off
and the carcass dropped On lump Of
raw meat being thrown to it, in the
space Of five minutes the blood Is drunk
off and the mass thrown aside Scottish
Nights.
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THE END OF THE WORLD.
Scientist Figures That 1t Is Three
Billion Years OF.


Scientists do queer things sometimes.
One of them has attempted to calculate
in cold mathematics how soon we may
expect the Judgment day, and he prepar
ed paper on the subject which he read
before the American Association For the
Advancement of Science. Starting with
the total amount of energy stored in the
sun and the fact that the orb of ,day is
continuously distributing energy equiva-
lent to the work of seven men for each
area of the earths surface of the size of
the human body, our statistician calcu-
lates that it will require 3,375, goo, 900
years of outpouring before a sensible
dlminution of the quantity Of energy Civ
en- out can be detected. Up to this dis
tant period mountains will stand rivers
willrun, plants will grow and animal life
will exist much as it does today.
Ii you realize that solar energy as soon
as used reasserts itself in some other
form, either as sound, electricity or sinfN
pie motion, it is easy to see that this esti-
mate is too small rather than too great
AT any rate the world is not liable to
stop going yet for few years, according
to his reasoning.
Some idea of the vastness of the force
that is melted out to us from the physical
source of earthly life may be gained, he
says, by considering that if the energy
that the sun gives to earth in single day
could be bottled up and directed against
Niagara falls it would cause the great
body of water to dash back again up hill
for 1000 years. If turned into a single
blast of heat, it would cause every living
creature instantaneously to blight and
wither; the ice around the poles would be
melted in one and three-quarter minutes,
and in another IL seconds all the oceans
would be turned into steam.
If transmitted into electricity, spark
would flash from the earth as far as the
planet Jupiter. If collected into single
sound, the vibration thereof would not
only break every ear drum in the world,
but would uproot the giant trees of the
forest and even level mountains If
changed into a momentary flash of light,
its burst would be so binding as to pene-
trate the walls of the deepest dungeons
and destroy the sight of every living
creature In brilliancy this flash would
exceed the brightness Of the sun itself
over 100000 times.
For one man to expend an amount of
energy equivalent to that which the earth
receives from the sun in the tenth part of
a second he would have to work hard
continuously for 100000 years.
This calculation is remarkable in that
it's result differs by more than $3,373, 900
years from the period when scientists
generally believe that the world will come
to an end. Such experts as Darwin and
Huxley believed that it would sustain life
100000 years hence.-Philadelph In
quirer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
HAD FUN WITH THE PORTER.
A Joke That Somewhat ResembIed a
Two EdEed SWORD.

Two Edged Sword.
"The travelling men employed by a Ger.
tain cracker factory of this city," said
New Orleans drummer, "have all theil
grips labeled in big black letters, 'Dyna-
mite-Handle With Care Wherever
they go the inscription makes more or
less talk, and it is pretty good 'ad' for
the house. One day large sample case
arrived by express at a hotel in little
town not far up the country, and on one
side was the familiar dynamite lettering.
The luggage had been sent ahead of
traveller who was expected next day,
and, being on to the cracker factory gag,
the clerk thought he would have some
fun with a green porter who had just
been engaged. Calling the man into the
Office, he pointed out the case and told
him to carry it up stairs. The porter
read the inscription and turned pale as
DEATH
"'Scuse me, sir, but I'd rather not
touch that thing he said
"'Oh, boshr replied the clerk. What
are you afraid Off and walking over to
the grip he gave it a kick that sent it half
across the office. The porter let out a
yell like a Comanche and started for the
door. There's no danger in dynamite
said the clerk, giving the thing few
more jolts, and if you don't take it up
stairs right away I'll certainly have you
fred
'The poor porter picked up the case
very gingerly and, holding it at arms
length, began to mount the stairs. Sew
eral employees made a point of humping
into him on the way, and when he return
ed he was bathed in cold sweat. OF
course everybody had a big laugh, and
the matter was forgotten until next
morning, when black whiskered gentle
man walked in and wrote his name on
the register.
81 had my grip sent on ahead he re-
marked as he laid down the pen. Has it
arrived yet?
Yes, sir said the clerk. It's here
all right. How is the cracker business?'
"'Cracker businessp exclaimed the
stranger, looking surprised I'm not in
the cracker business
"What do you do thenY asked the
clerk, getting white about the gills.
I'm on my way to the salt Mines
said the black bearded man, to sell 'em
some explosives
'"rhe clerk held on to the counter with
both hands. Here, boyp he yelled,
bring me some water quick! I'm afraid
I'm going to faint. '"-New Orleans
TimesD Democrat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
he sooTHED THE LOST BOY.
Magical Eject of Jimmy and His Ba-
mana on "a Strayed Child.


While shoppers were putting in their
busiest time a little boy about 4 years of
age was wandering up and down the
sidewalk crying for his mother from
whom he had become separated. He was
hatless and would have been unat-
tractive but for big cluster of light,
short curls. Women stopped to pet and
fondle him. He broke away from them,
however, and ran on sobbing Mammal
Finally he ran into 6 foot policeman,
who grabbed him up in his arms and
asked him in a bluff sort of way what
the trouble was. The policeman quiet
ed the little fellow somewhat with:
"Oh, I'll find your mammal Come
along with me-"
The two started down the street, the
childs head resting on the policeman's
shoulder. Before they had gone two
blocks the child was sound asleep,
clutching in it's hand a penny the po-
liceman had given it. Before they got
far the child woke up with a start and
began to cry harder than ever. The
policeman put it down to walk. At the
corner crowd of newsboys gathered
around, plying the good natured blue
coat with all kinds of questions about
his charge. One of the boys put his
hand into his coat pocket and brought
forth a big banana, which he held out to
the youngster, checking the flow of tears
and causing smiles to come instead.
you're a good boy, Jimmy" said the
policeman as he patted the newsboy on
the head.
CAV, OATS all right. l was savin de
banana fer me sister, but let de kid have
it, and he'll fergit all about his old wo-
man"
The crowd laughed. The journey to
the station house was made quickly, and
the little fellow, with the penny in one
hand and banana in the other, had time
only to smile at Jimmy, who had quit
selling papers long enough to walk be-
side the lost child as far as the station
house.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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the house that I'd set out to go to if I'd
gone there. My folks was away, like
they was out of that house I'd just come
from, and babylike | spread the silver
out on a table in room down stairs and
looked at it and then left it there and
went to bed. | woke up in the morning
thinking of it and came down to look at it
again, and it wasn't there. 1t was gone,
to the last spoon, and latch showed back
from a window showed how
Il don't like to think i'll Of anybody in
my own profession, but I'd like even now
to meet the man thac swiped that silver"
New York Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
APPLICATION.

To the Honorable the Board of Excise Com
missioners of the town of Morristown, N j..
THE subscriber hereby requests your honor
Il able body to grant him license to keep
an inn or tavern on the premises now occupied
by him and known as the West End Hotel, on
Speedwell avenue and Spring street, in Nor
ristown, aforesaid. to endure for the term of
one year from the granting thereof.
Dated Oct. 10th, 1899.
THOMAS j. LOWE.
The foregoing application will be presented
to the Board of Excise Commissioners within
and for the town of Morrisbown, at their next
regular meeting, Wednesday evening" Novem-
Der Sth, 1893.
Dated Oct. 10th, 1899.
2O4O THOMAS j. LOWE.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
A Hnodeh Adder

When Tom Hood was passing his hon
eymoon in the country, he killed an adder
one day.
TEL your father" he wrote to his
wife's sister in describing the incident,
that they are called adders because
two and two together make four"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
In ChanCepV Of New Jersey

To Selma j. Funck, George A. Funck. Francis
j. E. Funck and Adrien j. Funck.
DY VIRTUE of an order of the Court of
ID Chancery of New Jersey made on the day
of the date hereof in cause wherein Numa J
Felix Is complainant. and you and the Budd'
Lake Mining and Milling Company, are de-
fendants you are required to appear, plead
answer or demur to the bill of said complain
ant on or before the Twenty-eighth day of
December next, or the said bill will be taken
as confessed against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose an agree
ment dated the twenty-eighth day of June,
1894, and deed dated the eighteenth day of
July, 1894 made by the Hattakawanna Mining
Company, which together constitute mort
gage upon the lands in the township of Mt
Olive in the county of Morris, and you are
made defendants because you are the widow
and heirs at law and next of kin of Adrien g:
Funck, deceased. who had an interest in said
lands or in the mortgage above mentioned.
Dated October 18th, 1899.
RIKER % RIKER,
Solicitors of Complainant
1854 Market street.
1884 Newark. N, j..
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SHERIFFpS SALE.
In CHANcERY OF NEW JERsE,

Between Marcellan w. Dixon. complainant,
and David r. Conklin and Laura A. Conk-
lin his wife, Henry Salmon and William G.
Salmon, partners, defendants. Fl. ia. for
sale of mortgaged premises. Returnable
to February term A. D.. 1900
NEWTON 8. KITcHEI, Attorney,
ID Facias in my hands, | shall EXPOSE for
sale at public vendue at the Court House in
Morristown, N. j., on
Monday, the 9th day of November
next A. D., 1899, between the hours of IL m.
and O'Clock p. M, that is to say at O'Clock
in the afternoon of said day, all that certain
tract or parcel of land and premises situate
lying and being in the township of Boonton,
in the County of Morris and State of New Jer-
sey; being lot number ten (l0) fronting on
Washington street, as marked and designated
on map of property at Boonton aforesaid,
belonging to Rachel Vaudeville and others,
made by Lewis Van Dyne, Surveyor, in the
year 1887 and is file in the Clerk 8 Office in
County of Morris.
Beginning at the westerly corner of Wash
ington street and Dawson avenue; thence Cd
along the westerly side line of Washington st.
south thirty two degrees and thirty.siX min
utes west fifty feet; thence CO at right angles
northwesterlv one hundred and twenty five
feet; thence CD at right and nOrtheasterly fifty
feet to the southerly line of Dawson avenue;
thence along said line southeasterly one hun
dred and TWENTY-FIVE feet to the place of be-
ginning, being the same land and premises
conveyed to the said David r, Conklin by
Rachel Vaudeville and others by deed dated
November % 1894, recorded in the office of the
Clerk of the County of Morris in Book E, IA
of Deeds pages 347 &c.
Dated October "a, 1899.
EDGAR l.. DURLlNG, Sheriff;
Chronicle and Bulletin. oao p. f. SS.AO.
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The foregoing application will be presented
to the Board of Excise Commissioners within
and for the town of Morristown, aforesaid,
at their next regular meeting Wednesday
AUGUST w. THEILER.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03

Truth and the feeling of integrity are
of the hearts own essence. Should they
call for sufferings none repent the sac
rifce
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03

If we could see ourselves as others
see us it would be a s8yere blow to our
abolition. Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
Washington uaTket,
81 Washington Street.
A. ]. A. BENNELL, Prop.
Telephone Gall 55 b.
APPLICATION.

To the Honorable, the Board of Excise Com
missioners of the town of Morristown, N. j..
THE subscriber hereby requests your honor
4 able body to grant him a license to sell
at retail by less measure than one quart, any
beer, ale or other fermented liquors, at the
place or saloon now occupied BY him at 81
Speedwell avenue, in Morristown New jersey
aforesaid for the term of one year from the
granting thereof.
Dated Oct. GATH 1899.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
Oyster Season

Is here. There's a differ
ence in the quality of oys-
tiers just as there is a best
to everything you buy.
We sell only the best and
you don't have to pay any
more for this than for
any other kind.
We give especial atten-
ton to our FISH De
PARTMENT, which is
the only place in town
where fish are sold ex-
clusively. They're fresh
daily. Smoked fish too,
of all kinds. Watch for
our display Fridays.
Stop at
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NJCHN1oRE

Is headquarters for Photographic supplies. Has
everything in this line, as well as complete as
sortment Of Cameras. Does developing and print
ing on short notice and in the best manner
possible.