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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
HOLDING Yourself straight.

A soldierly and upright position is
greatly desired by most boys and is
quite an Improvement to any one, and
very often when they fall short in this
respect "A friend will accost them with
the remark. Why if You walk like
this now. what viii you do when you
him a sounding slap on the shoulder.
But perhaps they are not aware that
no one, not even the smartest soldier
in the army, can hold himself perfect
ly straight. Just you try it. Place
your right leg against the wall and
then lift the left foot from the ground.
Can you do it and keep straight? No.
You fall over every time.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02

This wild west of Ireland is the nat
ural home of ''poteen,' or Illicit whis-
ky. This is because the loneliness and
remoteness of the spots chosen for
making it, almost inaccessible through
the mountains and boys save to those
who know something about the coun~
try, are all in favor Of the smugglers
escaping detection, while its network
of mountain lakes and small running
streams affords the necessary cold wa
ter for condensing the distilled fumes
into spirit during the cooling process.
Dear beyond any parliament whis-
ky'-by which expression he denotes
that sort which has paid the tax impos-
ed by the brutal Saxon government
is this fiery fluid to the heart of every
true peasant son of Connaught, and
daughter,too, for that matter, for the
fair sex, especially if at all up in years,
takes its fair share. And, in the inter-
est of truth, it must be added that
those who inhabit the coast counties
from Kerry to Donegal, inclusive, are
also fully alive to its seductive merits
lnuScu- HdAiy uoStolo-T AoSdi' " Soul SS
will tell you that well made poteen
is better in sickness than the adulter-
ated whisky usually met with in the
small public houses in this region of
poverty, for in the Connemara country
at any rate the Illicit whisky is made
Of pure malt though rumor has it that
the less particular palate of Donegal
for instance. is satisfied with a fire
water mainly made from molasses, po-
tatoes aye, sometimes from almost
any other rubbish you please.-Cham-
bers' Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
A Bridge OF Knives.

This is an easy trick which looks diff
cult TO form ii you place three tum-
blers at right angles and ask some one
(who doesn't know how to make a
bridge with three dinner knives by
placing them across without any sup
port except at the ends which rest on
the overturned tumblers. OF course
he will say they viii fall down in the
middle, however you place them, but
this is not so if you are careful to over
lap all the tips so that they form a
kind of letter A where they meet in
the center. 1t is an interesting expert
ment in balancing
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
Just a Little hoy.

There is a boy in our town
(And he is woadrous wise),
Who, when The rain comes pouring down
And clouds o'erspreaG the skies,
Says, I'm just smile the best can
No matter how it poms,
And Wen have sunshine in the house
If il does rain cut of doors.
When naughty words swarm through his brain
And clamor to be said
He shuts his teeth together tight
And says, "l'll kill you dead
Unless you will he sweet and kind
And good and full OF fun;
You can't come cut until you are
No. not single one!'
He thinks when he's grown up man,
With wise ami sober face
He'll do some Hondrous deed to make
This earth brighter place
But nothing in this whole wide world
Can give more lasting joy
Or make more solid sunshine
Than just q little boy
Mary NJ. Parks in PHILADELPHIA Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
4 soar ABOUT a Man.

~ will sing you song about man."
said the minstrel. by the way, did
you ever notice that there never was a
song written about a man? All songs
are about roses and maidens and love
and trysting places and sunsets and
mothers; never one about the old man,
Come TO think about it, though there
WAS one, 'Fathcr, Dear Father. Come
Home With Nj Now In this song
the old mar is drunk In the Grst
verse. "-Atchison Globe.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
Doubling His joy.

young man" said the girls father,
do you realize that in asking for my
daughters hand in marriage you are
asking me TO give up my only childE'
"EXcuse me. sir" replied the young
man. but you are evidently laboring
under misapprehension. propose to
come and live with you after we are
married and you will then have two
children instead of one. Now. what
more could you ask Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
inst a CATERPILLAR.

The microscope has revealed many
wonders. among others that the com
mon caterpillar has 1000 muscles in
his body; that the drone bees eyes
each contain LOO mirrors, and that
the large. prominent eyes of the bril-
liant dragon flies are each furnished
with $4,000 polished lenses.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02

Sugar, starch, gum, dextrin, pectine,
saccharifiable cellulose, organic acids
and other eXtractive matters are, to-
gether With water the chief elements
in pulp fruits, The sugar is assimila-
bic and is a food Fruits which con
tain most of it, as bananas, dates and
figs, are tine hydrocarbonatsd foods.
Extractive matters are also nourishing,
but in less degree, as they are not 50
digestible With these and other rare
exceptions, however fruits, in the opn-
ion Of NJ. Balland, are little nutritive
and cannot be considered as foods.
Their juices. which please us by their
smell Or acidity, are condiments rather
than foods.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02

Fuddy What do you laugh at that
old joke for? When ! told it to you
three months ago, you didn't even
smile and now you laugh at it as
though you would die.
buddy Yes, know; paid to get in
here and I'm bound to make the most
of my moneys worth. Boston Tran
script.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
FOB SALE AT A BARGAIN.

City lot located on Sussex avenue, between
Columbia and Grant streets, also a country
house furnished with hot and cold water and
bath. Convenient barn and outbuildings.
Abundance of fruit of all varieties. Pleasant
surroundings, healthful location, beautiful
outlook Elevation 500 above M H. T. One
beautiful building site on thep-operty still I'M
occupied Address 10 or call at
BENJAMIN BROS. REAL ESTATE AG'N'Y
Rooms 43, "A and As Rabbit Building,
2l65 Morristown, N. J,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02

Sailors trousers. or "trombone pants"
as they have sometimes been called
expand in bell shape at the bottom so
as to be the more easily kicked off in
ease of the wearer's falling into the
wafer
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02

"Dauber says he is welded to his
art"
"He evidently thinks he is, or he
wouldn't mistreat her so shamefully."
Chicago Record.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02

She What. Are you going to dine
at the club? | should think you would
hate to take dinner there.
He Why?
She Because my dear. you will miss
what you get to eat Detroit Free
Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
Their First steps.

"a man goes wrong" said the social
sage, "from pure cussedness; woman
out of mere curiosity" -Philadelph
North American.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
Whippany River Railroad.

Time table for passenger service in effect
March 20, 1899:
Trains leave Whippany for Morristown, Z 80
a. M; 5.45 p, M, except Saturday; $3.50 and
8 50 D. M. Saturday only.
Trains leave Morristown for Whippany 6.45
and 8.45 a, m; sos p. m; $50 p. M, Saturday
only.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
ROCkaway Valley Railway,

Leave Morristown, for all stations to White
house, D. L. & W Station, $40 a, M; sos p.
Watnong Station. 9.l0 a. m. and $50 y m.
Leave Brookside for Morristown, 10 q. m.
and $3.50 p. M; for Whitehouse. $50 a. m. and
5. p. m.
Leave Mendham for Morristown. 2. 05 a. m
and 3.05 p. M; for Whitehouse, 1905 q. m. and
5. 81 p. m.
Leave Whitehouse for Morristown, 800 q. m.
and l.30 D. M. Arrive at Whitehouse from
Morristown, II. 40 a. m. and Z. 90 p. m.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
SUNDAY TRAINS.
GOING WEST.
GOING WEST

Leave Morristown for Dover, 6.03, TAI, o.42,
10.l5, 11.53 LIS, 10, AL, So, $50, tai.
1905 p. M, 200 a. m.
Rates of Communication from Morristown to
New York, 1856 per year.
Family Trip Tickets Fifty single trips to
New York, $50. Ten single trips $5.35,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
FEMININE FASHIONS.
Fresh Fancies in Wraps and Gowns
for the Fall and Win
ter Seasons.

Flaming red hats, feathers, ribbons
and velvet flowers are prominently
displayed by high-class uptown mil
liners, says the New York Post.
Box coats of otter or sealskin, with
3evers and collar of contrasting fur,
are shown among the luxurious dis
plays of winter wraps particularly
adapted for youthful wearers.
Gold-braid buttons, gimp, galloons
of various widths, applique designs
mixed with black silk braid or fine
cut jet, are lavishly used on new
French round hats, evening toques, ex-
pensive opera and reception wraps.
Jackets and fancy golf waists.
Tailor-made skirts of gray, fawn,
blue and black cheviot with trim,
pretty shirt waists of soft French
flannel or lightweight cloth, silk
dotted, embroidered in black, or soft
pastel colors, or merely with silk
stitched strappings and pin tucks, are
favored styles for this transition sea-
son.
Notwithstanding French redin-
gotes, directoire cloaks shaped like a
long enveioping saeque; three-quar-
ter coats, with cutaway fronts; short
er styles made double breasted and
with closely fitted backs, Louis XIV.
and Louis XIV. models with handsome
vest fronts, and very small Etons and
sDoleros In innumerabie new and natty
effects, are all equally in mode.
A very effective French trimming
much used on dressy French tailor
costumes OF cloth or camels hair, con-
sists OF a band of white cloth with
matching yoke and sleeve cuffs, near
~ covered with horizontal bands OF
narrow black velvet ribbon. This is
particularly becoming decoration,
and the tiny rows of ribbon crossing
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
Dressy BIouses.

A dressy blouse which will do for
dinner wear in the autumn and for
theater wear in town is made of white
glace. lined and tucked a.. over. The
front, which fastens down the left
side. displays appliques of lisse leaves
and insertions worked with jet beads
and attached to the silk by means OF
openworked hemstitching in white
silk. Another blouse in pale gray
glace is finely tucked and displays
broad plaits worked all over with
French knots back and front, the yoke,
of lighter tone, with these same
plaits running across the collar, show
ing deep ecru lace insertions. An.
other, in white crepe de chine, is fine
ly tucked and finished off with lace
yoke and collar.-Washingto Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
The Light of the World,
Our Saviour in Art.

Cost nearly $1OC, 900 to produce.
Contains nearly 100 full-page en-
cravings of our Saviour and His
Mother by the world 'sgreatest paint
|srs. True copies of the greatest
Masterpieces in the art galleries OF
Europe. Every picture is as beau
tiful as the sunrise over the hilltops.
Contains description ofthe paintings,
biography ofthe painters, the names
and locations of the galleries in
Europe where the originals may be
seen. Also contains a Child's De-
partment, including a Child's Story
of the Christ and His Mother, beau.
tifully written, to fit each picture.
This wonderful book, matchless in
its purity and beauty, appeals to
every mothers heart, and in every
Christian home where there are
children the book sells itself.
Christian men and women are max
ing money rapidly taking orders.
A Christian man OF woman can in
this community soon make 81, 900
taking orders. for Christmas pres
ents. Mrs. Waite, our agent in
Massachusetts, has sold over %, 900
worth of books in a very short time.
Mrs. Sacket, ouragent in New York,
has sold over 81 800 worth of the
books in very short time. The
book is printed on a velvet finished
paper, beautifully bound in Cardi.
nal Red and Gold, and adorned with
Golden Roses ard Lilies. 1t is,
without doubt, the most beautiful
book of this century. Write for
terms quickly and get the manage.
ment of that territory. You can
work on salary or commission, and
when You prove your success we
will promote you to the position of
Manager and Correspondent, at a
permanent salary, 10 devote your
time to attending to agents and the
correspondence. Wanted also a
State Manager to have charge of
Office in Leading City of the State
and manage all the business of the
State. Send for terms. Address
THE BRITISH AMERICAN CO.,
Corcoran Building, Opposite
U. s. Treasury, Washington, d. @.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
rondnesn for Monex.

Americans are accused of an I'M
due fondness for money" said one
of them who had just returned from
Europe, "and if that charge is true
they certainly deserve great deal OF
credit for talking about the subject
less than the people of any other ma.
ton. In my travels abroad came
into contact with many nationalities
and of all these none discussed the
question of money so little as the
Americans. I found that French and
Germans would ask me the price of vari
GUS articles with the greatest frank.
ness and evidently it did not strike
them as at all peculiar that men were
not in the habit of being asked how
much they had paid for their hats
and coats.-N. Y. Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
NATIVE RACES DYING OUT.
A be sIgines of Australia Are Fast
Going the Way of the Amer
lean Indian.

The cruel murders recently commit
ted by couple of black natives in
New South Wales have naturally in.
creased attention to the present con-
dition of the remnant of the strange,
mysterious race which formerly peo-
pied the Australian island continent,
says the New York Times.
The aborigines of Australia form q
distinct race, and it may be presumed
that the whole of them throughout the
continent sprang from the same stock,
although almost every large com
munity of natives has it's own peculiar
dialect.
mate of the number of aborigines, but
there is ample evidence of late years
that in many places they are decreas-
ing, and they may now be counted by
fives where they were formerly counted
by hundreds. In Tasmania they have
disappeared altogether the last of the
tribe in that colony having died in
1876. At the census of 1891 only 38,897
aborigines were enumerated, of whom
$3.50 were in New South Wales and
6,245 in Western Australia.
1t has been asserted that there are
some 10000 aborigines in Queensland,
but this is crude estimate and may be
far wide of the truth. In the case of
South Australia large number of the
aborigines in the northern territory
are entirely outside the bounds of set
Element, and it seems probable that
they are as numerous in that colony as
in Queensland. Altogether the abo-
riginal population of the continent
may be set down at something like
100000. The $3.50 aborigines in New
South Wales included 3,1S3 half-castes.
There are five mission stations in the
colony. These establishments, when
first formed were little more than
camping grounds for the aborigines,
where the blacks worked for their ra-
tions and elementary instruction was
impaired to the children, but now they
have developed into settlements with
greatly improved huts for the married
couples and adequate accommodation
for teaching, duly qualified instructors
having been appointed by the New
South Wales department of public in
struction. At the end of 1898 there
were $50 full-blooded aborigines and
half-castes living at the mission sta
tions, and on the same date 612 aborig-
inal children were receiving instruc-
ton in schools or privately. During the
year a sum of 6 1881 was expended on
the aborigines.
At the present time the New South
Wales aboriginalisge generally harmless
individual, possessing many privileges,
including free use of state railways and
tramways. He has great scorn of
copper money, but will readily accept
the smallest silver coin, and if he be
the head of tribe his great ambition is
to wear brass plate with an inscrip-
ton announcing his rank of king. Yet
despite the low position occupied by
the Australian aborigines In the social
scale, there is abundant evidence from
their songs and cherished traditions
that they are by no means destitute of
some qualities in which civilized men
glory-such as the power of inventing
tragic and sarcastic fiction, the thirst
for religious mystery, stoical contempt
for pain and reverence for departed
friends and ancestors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
A LIVING MONUMENT.
what Noted New York Publisher
Did for an Unfortunate Ger
man RarbeR.

"The late Col. Elliott Shepard, Of
my town." said New Yorker the
other day, may not at all times have
been exactly the kind of man his
distinguished father-in-law would
have liked to have him be, just as
that father-in-law's father thought
and said sometimes of his son: and
he may have had peculiarities notice
able by other people less intimately
associated with him, but he was a
man who always meant well and very
many times did well. One instance
came under my notice only lately.
My son, who is in New York Office,
introduced to me young fellow in
the same Office with him. He was
a very bright fellow, and incidentally
I learned that his given name was
Elliott Shepard. Later I asked him
how he happened to be so named
and he told me that Col. Shepard had
done great deal for his father and
he had named him for him in remem-
brance. Later some one else told me
the story of the colonePs Kindness
to the boys father. He was Ger
man barber, but of such superior in
telligence that the colonel became
interested in him as he saw him from
time to time when he was being
shaved, and at last suggested that
he had q better thing for him than
barbering. This was position as
sexton of a fashionable church, and
the German took it at once. Col.
Shepard was no less his friend here
than in the barber shop, and when
ever he could do him a good turn
he did it. With the usual thrift of
the German race. the sexton saved
his money, and in time he added an
undertaking establishment to his
other duties. He had first-class ac-
quaintance, through his connection
with the church, and before great
while his undertaking business
claimed all his attention. In the
meantime his family grew up around
him, and he had handsome home
and other possessions, but there was
nothing he priced more highly than
the coloneps friendship. When Col.
Shepard died his German friend was
on the high road to success and to-
day he is worth $15O,OOO and is get
ting richer every day. 1t isn't every
rich man who does as well by those
less fortunate, and surely a man can
have no better monument than this"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
cLoUDBURsTs IN MOUNTAINS.
They Create Great Havoc and Are
Much Dreaded in the
Valleys.

The most destructive form of noun
tain storm is the so-called cloudburst,
when the ripping brook suddenly be-
comes roaring river, carrying death
and destruction in Its path. The noise
made by cloudburst has no parallel.
About the rumble and roar of mass of
rushing. water is heard grinding,
groaning sound of falling trees, of slip
ping earth and of rolling powders,
while the banks of the stream far
above the danger line tremble as if in
an earthquake. Once witnessed a
cloudburst is never forgotten, says the
San Francisco Chronicle.
In point of fact, however, there is no
such thing as the bursting of cloud.
The term "cloudburst" is convenient
expression by which the result of u
very heavy rain is designated. Nearly
all the surface of the earth in the
mountain region is made up either of
rocks or adobe soil. The latter, in most
cases, has never been broken to Guilt
walton, and is almost impervious to a
heavy downpour of rain. The conse-
quence is that the mountains are cut
up with arroyos, gullies and water
courses, and in the course of unnum-
bered ages into mighty canyons which
astound the tourist. In an unusually
heavy rainfall the great mass of water
spread over large area, instead of
sinking into the ground, is quickly ac-
cumulated in the beds of the streams,
which rise many feet in short time.
When this accumulation is rapid
enough and the ''lay of the land" is just
right, the water rushes down the bed
of the stream in solid wall and is
called cloudburst. The same pre-
cipitation in an open country. or in one
in which the soil has been broken up
by cultivation, would be called heavy
rainfall and would do no damage un-
less continued long enough for the
streams to rise out of their banks and
food the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23

Alfred Emerson, who for the last
three years has been student and
teacher IN the American school for
classical studies in Athens, Greece, is
collecting museum of antiquities for
the University of California.
The total receipts of the board OF
church extension of the Methodist
Episcopal church for the year ending
November /, 1893, exceeded the total of
the previous year by more than $s2 600.
1t is estimated that the gain of this
year over last viii equal that amount,
making the gain in two years over
100000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL.
~ Jealous Dogs Tantrums and the
Undeserved Treatment He
Received.

Jealousy is as much a characteristic
of dogs as of human beings. Before
DeBrown married, he had a brindle
and white bull pup with a big,
wrinkled head. pointed ears, under
shot jaw, and sidewheel way of 10
comotion. He was heavy in front.
broad between the forelegs and
tapered symmetrically to the tip of
his ratlike tail. His name was
Zephyr, because OF his cyclonic ten
dencaes, and he thought more of De-
Brown than of the rest of the uni
verse in lump, says the Detroit Free
Press.
DeBrown recently took unto him
self a wife, and Zephyr at once be-
gan to prove misnomer. Husbands
always caress their wives during the
honeymoon, individual cases differing
as to the rest of the time. When the
dog saw DeBrown show visible affec-
ton for Mrs. DeBrown, there were all
kinds of trouble and no recess.
Zephyr first tried to slay his mistress,
and was temporarily put out with a
1uo<OeAAA Ddt. LIE nCSOh0 dttCAlpt was
thwarted with an ice pick.
But brindle and white bull dogs are
tacticians, and Zephyr changed his
plans of campaign. he hid under the
bed in the bridal chamber and bided
his time. When it came he made mar
row ribbons of silk gowns. tore lin
gerie into bandages such as are
sought for at the hospital, piled the
bed by mouthfuls in the middle of the
floor, stripped most of the furniture
of upholstery, and made the carpet
look as though it had been moth food
for whole season.
Then the pup lay down to enjoy the
approval of his conscience without APP
parent regard as to what the future
held for him. The husband glared up
on the variegated wreck and rushed
for revolver. The bowling Zephyr
thought that his time had come when
the wife put him behind her, expostu-
lated with the Infatuated DeBrown
and gave the homely brute one more
chance. Now he sticks closer than a
brother to her. and PAGES by her side
wherever she goes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-23
Mint spies.

Quester-What provisions do they
make in the government mints to
guard against the employees filching
the tempting coin?
Jester-Why, for that service they
engage spies, to be sure.
That's the first time I ever heard
of mint spies being used as nour-
Usher for honesty. Richmond Dis