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The Monte Vista journal., 1900-06-09

Superintendent Palmer met
Superintendent Carpenter OF Rio
Grande county at Center Tuesday
to discuss the formation Of a new
join, district with the school house
located Mt Center.
The new district. il formed. will
include 1 sections Of Saguache Co.
and g. of Rio Grandc tcrritoty.
The Monte Vista journal., 1900-06-09

One New York insurance com.
pany advcriiscs the fact that lis
assets exceed $500, 900. .0Oo or more
Than double the combined capital
Of the banks of England. France,
Germany and Russia. Yet il does
no, occur 10 the boastcd intcIli.
gcncc of proud Uncle Samuel that
the same talent and machinery en-
ploycd in building up these colos.
sal reserves could bc employed by
the State 10 furnish insurance N,
half the rates now charged, and
IN addition Ia I'M absolute security
10 the insured. the public. and no,
alone few stockholders. share in
the profits. But we digrcss. this
government Is not run for the pub.
lie, outside of the one postal de-
partmcnt. The public supports
the government and gives free Ii.
ccnsc for il To liz run in special IN.
tcrcst Of II few SPECTATORS. .-l'uc.
bio Press.
The Monte Vista journal., 1900-06-09

Governor Pingree ofNlichi- -,an, "A
s'nlwart of stslwart republicans,
has wearicd and declares that he
will this year support the demo.
cratic party in the general election.
The governor has always hither.
tobeen an independent Republican.
Speaking Of the increasing power
of trusts, Governor Pingree said
There is no use in hoping that
the republican party will do any
thing with them"
Are you preparing 20 announce
yonr withdrawal from the Republi-
can partyy
There is no announcement
about it. | only say what 1 have
said all the while. You haven't
heard me say anything against the
democrats for soma time. l be.
lievc that the hope Of the people is
IN the democratic party this fall"
The Monte Vista journal., 1900-06-09

The book which was presented
to President Kruger by II mess
engcr boy representing the child
ren of Philadelphia. on the day
he left Pretoria. contained II car
toon reproduced from The News
which was prophetic of the clr-
cumstanccs under which 1t was de-
livcrcd 10 the president. II re-
represented John Bull holding a
pistol to Krugcr's head and dc.
manding that he wipe the South
African republic from the map
under pain of death. The delivery
of the message of good will from
American children. which WIS
forwarded by the Philadelphia
North American, was one of the
most pathetic incidents of a pa
lhctic day.-Ncws.
The Monte Vista journal., 1900-06-09

If Mark Hanna carries Colora-
do this year for the trust president
it will be because the democrats
attempt to play n lone hand?-Ex.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08

anecdote shows the drift of affairs
concerning royal restraints. Prince
Christian Victor has, however, gone
to the Cape, and the prince of Wales
saw him off, as he did Sir Redvers
Butler. General Butler is doubtless
glad the prince of Wales was not to
accompany him, for who can watch
after the sacred person of a coming
king and see much of active service?
Yes, Tommy Atkins loves a fight.
But Tommy is a respecter of persons.
He says there are beers and beers.
''Those that disregard the laws of civ
ilization must fall before me; but there
is General Joubert, who buried our
General Symons and wrote Christian
letter to his widow. | take my at off
to i'm an hail is bloomin kind"
Tommy has a high regard for wo-
men. 1t is said that the English wo-
men have been held somewhat in sub
lection, but it is Tommy Atkins who
has made the world her fitting dwell
ing place.
When the Transvaal question is set
tied when the Chinese fowl over which
the nations of Europe have been so.
long saying grace is carved up and dis
tributed, like the 100-year-old chick
ems they serve at their dinners; when
the Alaskan and Canadian difficulties
are difficulties no longer; when the
sick man dies; when American meth
DDS have renovated the Philippines;
when General Gallifet has reformed
France and American agents and mis-
sionaries have made angels of poor Lo,
and when wars shall cease to the ends
of the earth-what, o, what, will be-
come of Tommy Atkins? Will he be
content to settle down with Harriet or
Dinah Shad, or will he, like Mulvaney,
does, here's to hint
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08
TEN HYGIENIC RULES.

(Ihe following maxims won prize
offered by the Partisan publishers
Hachette & Co., for the ten most eff
fectual rules for the preservation Ct
mental and bodily health. The authoE
DR.. Decornet, of Ferte-sur- Aube, won
in list of 500 competitors. The rules
as translated in the Lancet, run thus:
House Hygiene.-A house that is
clean and cheerful makes a happy
home.
General Hygiene.-Rise early, go to
bed early, and in the meantime keep
yourself occupied.
Gastro-Intestinal Hygiene.-Frugali-
ty and sobriety are the best elixirs for
a long life.
Epidermal Hygiene. - Cleanliness
preserves from rust; the best-kept ma
chimes last longest.
Sleep Hygiene.-A sufficiency of rest
repairs and strengthens; too much
rest weakens and makes soft.
Respiratory Hygiene.-Water and
bread sustain life, but pure air and
sunlight are indispensable for health.
Moral Hygiene.-The mind reposes
and resumes it's edge by means of re-
taxation and amusement, but excess
opens the door to the passions, and
these attract the vices.
Intellectual ygiene.-Gayety con-
duces to love of life, and a love Of life
is the health of health; on the other
hand, sadness and gloom help on old
age.
Professional Hygiene.-Is it your
brain that feeds you? Don't allow your
arms and legs to become stiff. Dig for
a livelihood, but don't omit to furnish
your intellect and elevate your
thought.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08
WOMAN's TEARS, IDLE TEARS.
Modern Goddess Is No Longer a Weep
ing Niobe.

What has become of woman's tears,
idle tears? A cynical old bachelor
lately remarked in the hearing of a
woman that he wondered what had be-
come of all the crying members of her
sex. He said that he had not seen a
woman cry in some years, and that, so
far as he could see, there are just as
many things to cry over as as there
ever were, and just as many women.
He did not object to the absence of
tears; he only wondered about it.
This thing has received attentions
of various kinds before now. 1t was
first noticed in the novels. The young
woman in modern fiction does not do
nearly so much weeping as she used
to do. To be sure, she has not always
so much excuse for it. When a young
lady was carried away by fierce ana
determined lover whom she did not
want, and told that unless she married
him at once her family and all her
immediate friends would be killed,
there was really a considerable excuse
for tears and sWOOns on her part.
This type of heroine flourished in the
beginning of the present century. She
was followed by the heroine, who cried
as child does, to get something she
wanted-and usually got it, if it hap
pened not to be the moon or anything
equally unattainable.
Sometimes she was young lady of
religious predictions and shed tears
over the sorrows Of others, or over her
own religious sentiments. It has been
estimated by careful statisticians that
Miss Ellen Montgomery, heroine of
The Wide, Wide World, must have
shed at least five gallons, two quarts
and one pint of tears in the course Of
her adventures in two volumes. But
the young lady in the modern work OF
fiction does not cry. If she is of
passionate nature she now and then
bursts into storm OF sObs," but she
does not often do it, as O1d-fashiOned
people would say before folks" She
is more likely to preserve calm and
more or less uncomprehended silence.
Another type of modern heroine is
the CHEEKY girl who endures all her
tribulations in silence or laughs about
them, and is the sunshine of the fam
lily circle while her heart is secretly
breaking. 1t must be confessed that
this type of young lady would be con-
siderably more to the taste of the ord
mary man than the old-fashioned type
of fearful patience. The mans wo-
man"-courageous gay, tolerant and
reserved as to her private feelings-is
coming to the front in fiction, and this
ideal is decidedly worth studying by
the novel-reading girls of today.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08
LYDDITE.

This explosive, brought into promt-
nence by it's use in shells at Omdur-
man and Ladysmith, is picric acid
made by acting on carbolic acid with
nitric acid. 1t is a bright yellow sub
stance, much used by dyers. When
exploded it produces an effect eleven
times greater than that of gunpowder,
killing not so much by the force Of
the pieces of steel shell it hurls in
direction as by the blow of the sud
denly compressed air. Lyddite shells
are, therefore, more humane" than
ordinary shrapnel, since they do not
mangle so much, but act by air concus-
sion. The shells have nose fuses only
so that they explode on impact Made
Of forged steel, they are used with s
and 90 inch breech-loading guns, with
hOwitzers and with and 6 inch quick
firing guns. Their chief utility is in
demolishing Notifications, walls, etc.
A small town in Kent, where expert
ments were made with it, gives the
name lyddite to the picric shell.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08
CHAPTER LXII.
The Grave Alone Gives Peace. -

The Grave Alone Gives Peace"
The sun was setting-the western
sky was all afame, great crimson
clouds fioated away with vapors of
rose and orange-crimson clouds that
threw a rosy light on the trees ana
fields. In the distance stood the old
farmhouse, the Light falling on the
roof with its moss and Iichen, the
great roses and white jasmine that
Wreathed the windows, the tall elms
that stood on either side of the fertile
meadows, the springing corn, the ricks
of understanding hay. The light from
the western sky fell on them all. From
beneath the tall elms with the trailing
scarlet creepers came a tall, graceful
woman, whose face was covered with
a thick veil; she stood for some time
watching the farmhouse, her beautiful
face white and set as the face of the
dead. She threw back her veil as
though she was gasping for breath,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08
CONSTRUCTION OF A CIGAR BOX.

The construction or a cigar box may
seem to be a very simple matter to the
novice, but the box passes through
nineteen different processes before it is
ready to receive the cigars.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY.

Queen Victoria has seen every
throne in the world vacated at least
once, and some of them several times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08

The Lawton fund is certain to reach
$4,000.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

Almighty God, the fountain of all holi-
ness, VINO by thy Word and Spirit dost
conduct all thy Servants in the way of peace
and righteousness. grant Us SO truly TO re-
pent OF our sins, so diligently to watch over
all our a.tions. so industriously to perform
all our duty that We may never willingly
trans gress thy holy laws, but that it may be
the work OF our lives to obey thee. tue JOY
of our souls to please thee. the satisfaction
of i,,l our hopes AMI the perfection of all our
desires to dwell with thee in the holiness OF
thine everlasting kingdom. Make us per-
feet in Christ Jesus; out Of his fullness may
we a i receive, and rest in him forevermore.
May his passion be our deliverance; his
wounds be our healing his cross our redemp-
ton; and his death our life. With his right
eousness may we be clothed; by his Spirit
may we be sanctifled; in his blood may We
be cleansed; and to his image may we he
conformed. AS he died, may We also die
unto sin; as he rose again, may we rise into
newness OF life; suffering with him here,
may we reign with him hereafter. Amen.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
CALIFORNIA STAGE ROBBERY.
Eoldness of Lone Highwayman Who
Gets $3.50 From Passengers.

Raymond, Cal. (SpeciaD.-One Of the
boldest robberies ever committed in
California occurred when three Of the
Yosemite Stage and Turnpike Com
p .ny's stages. a private conveyance,
and two soldiers were held up by a
lone highwayman.
The hold-up occurred at a point two
miles this side of Grub Gulch. Ser
geant Buchanan and another trooper
of Troop r, Sixth Cavalry, en- route
from San Francisco to the Yosemite
National Park, had gone ahead to
make arrangements for a camping
place. The highwayman suddenly ap-
peared masked, and getting the drop
on the soldiers, took away their guns.
and held the troopers until the stage
arrived The robber handed the driv-
ers of the stage card reading:
"Black Kid; they fooled me on the
Big Oak Flat Road, but you can't this
time"
From the three stages the robber
collected about $3.50. Cavalrymen
started in pursuit, but found no traces.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
HOUSE PASSES TRUST BILL.
Only One Vote Against the Littlefield
Antitrust Measure.

Washington, D. G. (SpeciaD.-Only
one vote was cast in the House against
the Littlefeld Antitrust bill to amend
the Sherman act of 1890 so as to make
it more effective in the prosecution
of trusts and combinations, their
agents, officers, or attorneys. Mr..
Mann Rep., I'D cast the negative
vote.
The bill amends the Sherman anti
trust law so as to declare every con-
tract or combination in the form of
trust or conspiracy in restraint of
commerce among the States or with
foreign nation illegal, and every party
to such contract or combination guilty
of crime punishable by a tine of not
less than $500 or more than $1,000 and
by Imprisonment for not less than six
months OF more than two years. 1t
provides that any person injured by
violation of the provisions of the
law may recover threefold damages.
The definition of person" and per
sons in the present law is enlarged
so as to include the agents, officers or
attorneys or corporations.
For purposes of commerce 1t de-
clares illegal all corporations or asso-
Citations formed for carrying on busi-
ness for purposes declared illegal by
the common law; provides that they
may be perpetually enjoined from car
rying on interstate commerce, and for
bids them, the use of the United
States mails
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

Do you show your love by your works?
While you have time, as you have opportu-
nifty. do you, in fast, 'do good to all men,"
neighbors or strangers, friends or enemies.
good or bad? Do you do them all the good
you can, endeavoring to supply all their
wants, assisting them in body and soul, to
the uttermost OF your power? If thou art
thus minded-may every Christian say yea
If though art but sincerely desirous OF it,
and following on till you attain. then thy
heart is right, as my heart is with thy heart.
"If it be. give me thy hand" do not mean,
"Be OF my opinion" You need not; l do
not expect or desire it. Neither do m ean,
II will be of your opinion" l cannot,
it does not depend on my choice; can no
more think than can see or hear as will.
Keep your own opinion; mine, and that as
steadily as ever. You need not even en-
deayor to come oTer to ma or bring me over
to you. l do not desire you to dispute
those points, or to hear or speak one word
concerning them. Let all opinions alone
on one side and the other; only ''give me
thine hand" do not mean. embrace my
modes OF worship, or, l will embrace your. "
This also is thing which does not depend
on your choice or mine We must both act
as each is fully persuaded in his own mind.
John Wesley.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

He finished His work. No other servant
ever did. All our work is rough-edged;
and the man who comes to deal with it after
we have left it finds almost as much
difficulty in touching it as he would have in
starting new work. But our Lord finished
His work. II have finished the work which
Thou hast given Me to do" And one OF
His last cries from the cross was but the eX-
preston of the same truth: 1T is finished.
1t is finished" Up to the very end OF His
life He was working. not willing to let even
the last moments of it slip by. Even in the
agony of His suffering on the cruel tree.
He opened the gates OF the kingdom OF
heaven to dying thief, and He made
new home for His mother. And so all
men who have learned Christ's
spirit, and who have begun to serve as
Christ served, desire to finish their work.
When John Eliot lay dying "a friend came in
to his room AMI found the wonderful old
man teaching a little Indian child his alpha
bet. Aud the friend said, Don't you think
you have earned a rest?' and he replied,
II don't think have. I prayed the Lord
long time ago to make me useful in my
sphere, and He heard my PRAYER, and now
that am no longer young. He leaves me
strength enough to teach this little Indian
child its alphabet" The old man of so
was determined. it was a possible thing ttat
he would finish his work for God Robert
E. Speer, in Remember Jesus Ch-ist.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM The
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

An Intercession - Christ Finished His
Work - Showing Love by Works - "A
Prayer for Repentance - Personai
knowledge of God-Pursuit of Hope.
Why they have never known the way before
Why hundreds staui outside Thy mercys
door
know not: but ask dear Lord, that Thou
Wouldst lead them now.
Wig in the hard and thornv way they press
Unloved, Uncontrolled, with none to bless,
In living death, know not; but spare Ihou,
And lead them now:
Saviour. be pitiful; their hell is here;
Dull parched sorrow that can shed no tear
Is theirs. They need indeed no further loss.
They bear their cross.
Eternal death TO live away from Thee,
Eternal loss apart from Thee to be;
Eternal gain to have in Thee some part
To know Thou art!
Dawn for US here, thou bright undying day;
Sc in no dark and sudden-ending way
Lifes tinorous steps shall falter, puS
straight on
Where Christ is gone
To wake and know the new life throbbing,
find
Doubt and disuuietude are left behind,
Eyes open q, ears attuned to heavenly sound,
is Heaven found.
&C. G. Fraser-Tytler, in ConSregatlonaliSt.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
In All Parts of the State.

- new band has been started at AL
loway.
Several Bridgeton packers are can.
ming Strawberries.
All of the large fishing firms of Bay
breaking camp.
High tides at Somer's Point have de-
stroyed large numbers Of mud hens
and their eggs.
out of 100 eggs placed in an incll-
oator by an Elmer man. but twelve
hatched, and five of these We're Grip
pies.
Mrs. Peter Fisher, fifty-fve years
old, of F'renchtown, committed sui
eide by hanging herself in an outbuild
ing. No cause for the deed can be
given, although Mrs. Fisher often re-
marked that she was tired of living
The cold weather of several days
ago gave setback to fruit and truck
Strawberries, which need hot sun
at this time, have been retarded, al
though several growers have been
picking.
Shad fishing is almost over for the
season, which has been fairly profit.
l.
have lost money.
A lifeguard at Atlantic City killed
what was supposed to be sea SER
pent, but which proved to be moray,
nearly twelve feet long.
The strawberry crop in Cumberland
County is being picked almost entire
iy by foreigners.
Industrial Park, better known as
the village grove. which for years has
been a noted resort for picnics and
fairs at Mays Landing, has been sold
off in building lots.
Potato bugs are so thick around Ce-
darville that several farmers have
plowed up their fields and substituted
corn for the tubers. Many potato
fields have been devastated by these
pests and they have gone to work
on tomato plants. .
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Notes of the Crusade.

Out of $40 towns and plantations in
Maine, 437 effectually prohibit the saloon.
Out of population OF 6610S6, there are
4O6. .S55 who never come in touch with sa-
loon.
We license saloon that makes a man
drunk; We pay policemen to remove TIE
drunken man to jail; we pay the officers OF
court high fees to try the prisoner; we pay
big salary to a judge to sentence him:
and If he mmit crime, we pay the ex'
penses Of a penitentiary to smut him up foi
years.
DIR. G.. Sims Woodhead, NJ. D., Professor
of Pathology in Cambridge University,
says: ''It is now generally recognized that
children should never take alcohol, which
according to the highest authorities, eS
erts an exceedingly deleterious action ot
rapidly-growing tissues, interfering with
their nutrition and preventing the devet
opment OF tLe.I Dronar fnnc'",r"
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Attacked His Mother.

Samuel Moore, son of Pres.den1
Henry c. Moore of the Trenton Pas
senger Railway Company. in a fit OF
insanity, attacked his mother with 9
razor and inflicted serious wound il
the neck. Mr.. Moore rushed tc his
wife's assistance and prevented fur
ther injury. Physicians were quickly
called, and they report that Mrs
Moore's injury will not prove fatal
The boy was taken to the New Jersey
State Hospital for the Insane. He is
twenty-three years old and a graduate
Of Princeton University. For two
years he has manifested highly nerv
ous disposition, which has been much
worse during the past few months
Before the attack, however, his man
ner gave no intlmation of the insanity
that had overtaken him.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

Who of US can wait to investigate the rec
ord for ourselves before believing and re-
ceiving the Gospel? We have the teachings
of learned men-but that is only testimony;
and other learned men today are busy dis
proving and correcting the teachings of
those OF former generations. What is
needed is personal experience of Christ.
The weakness of the church today is in
that we have gotten away from the simple
experiences of life in Christ. and are SUBJ
stituting for it researches in archaeology,
manuscripts. monuments. and mummy
clothes. Interest in sacred art. pictures and
architecture, ceremony and churchly ritual
and creads, are taking the place of personal
experience of the living Christ. Growing
less spiritual We become more exactly for-
NAL; lacking fervor, we multiply ceremony:
with less devotion, we have more elaborate
music. What is needed? Conversion-that
which brings a sense of the Divine presen SO,
the personal Knowledge of God.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Two onicials For One Salary.

Hammonton is in an odd legal mud
die over the Office of City Attorney. In
March last Matthew Jefferson, of Cam
den, was elected by the Council as City
Solicitor over Eli H. Chandler, of At
lantic City, who had held the position
for two years This is supposed to
have been the handiwork of a combi
nation opposed to Mr.. Chandler, and
was surprise. Mr.. jefferson, how
ever, failed to take the oath of office
as required by law and Chandler's
friends rallied their forces, adopted a
resolution declaring the office vacant
and elected Mr.. Chandler to his for.
mer position. 1t is reported that Mr.,
Jefferson proposes to fight the action
of the Council and collect his salary.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Professor Atwater,s Claims.

Is it not strange that, after more than
forty centuries have elapsed since the re-
suits OF Professor Noah's experiments with
alcohol were first given to the world, even
great university professors are expert
mentiDg with that mysterious liquid, and
that, too, without having in all this time
achieved any appreciabe results in ad-
vance OF those which Noah first discovered
and his biographer first announced? Surely
the persistency of scientific investigators
OF alcohol Is uneonquerablel One thing.
however. is pretty fully settled, namely,
that however capable the human system is
OF assimilating homeopathic doses OF alco-
hol, there is always something about the
liquid thus administered which demands
at first a frequent repetition of the dose,
and later the consumption OF it in such
allopathic quantities as turns men first into
spewiny idiots. later into fiends and de-
mons, and ultimately consgns them to tie
drunkard's grave aud the drunkard's hell.
Free Methodist,