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law, however, says that you must con
slider the circumstances and see If ht
was in his right mind or not when hE
committed the deed. If you find ht
was not responsible, you would aid
in lifting a great cloud from the minds
of the people Of this country. If the
beloved President lad met with a rail-
road accident and been killed, ouI
grief could not compare with what
it is now. If you find that he met his
fate through the act Of an insane man
it is the same as though he met it
by accident. l had the profoundest re-
spect for President Mckinley. !
watched him in Congress and during
his long public career, and he was one
of the noblest men God ever made.
l:His policy we care nothing about, but
lit always met with my profoundest
respect. His death was the saddest
iblow to me that has occurred in many
syears."
4 Judge Lewis was crying when he
finished, and the eyes Of many of those
in the courtroom were filed with tears.
i Judge Titus then arose and said that
Judge Lewis had so completely cover
Jed the ground that it seemed entirely
unnecessary for him to reiterate it,
and he would therefore rest.
] At 80 District Attorney Penney be-
gan summing up. He spoke in clear,
iwell-modulated voice, and every word
could be heard in every part of the
room. He said:
] 'It is hardly possible for any man
to stand up and talk about this case
without the deepest emotion. 1t was the
most awful tragedy that ever came
upon the world.
I'VE have shown you how this de-
fendant stood in the Temple of Music
that afternoon and shot down our be-
loved President. We have shown you
how he deliberated on and planned
this awful crime. We have shown you
how he attended anarchist and social
list meetings, at which were sown in
his heart the seeds of this terrible
act.
THE counsel for the defense saws if
the defendant was sane he was respOn-
sible and that if he was insane he
must be presumed to be innocent. He
tells you that this is a presumption of
law.
1T is also presumption of law that
every man is sane until proven in
sane. Evidence tending to prove that
the prisoner was insane has not been
1t has been proven that
he was the agent of the crime, and
there should be no question in your
minds as to the responsibility of the
This is no time for OratOrical dis
play. Counsel for the prisoner and
myself have endeavOred to eliminate
all SenSatiOnaliSm from this case. It
is not my intention to indulge in ex-
tended remarks. You undersuanu the
responsibility resting upon you. The
has said there should be no
lynch law in this State. He has told |
you that the people of Buffalo are to
be commended for the spirit displayed |
by them since the murder of the Pres |
ldent, Lut the law must be indicated.
This terrible thing has happened be-
cause there are people in this country
who, unless they feel the irresistible |
force of prompt and proper action in |
this case, will cause something awful |
20 happen to our beloved country.
Think, gentlemen, of that grand |
man who stood but few days ago in |
the Temple of Music, and how he came
from the lOWly walks of life, how he
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Group and whOOping cough, as it al
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ers.
Was first a school teacher, then law
yer, then Judge, a Governor, a Con-
gresham and then a President of the
United States, and above all, a loving
husband, and that on the last day
when he said: 1T is Gods way; good
by all, good-by, a man so great that
he could raise his hand and save his
own assassin, a man who could shake
the hand of even the very worst man
you could imagine.
1t is a great lesson that so great a
man can stoOp so low, that he was so
great that he could forgive his own
assassin. He was the nOblest man, I
believe, God ever created. A man who
stood near him in the Temple of Music
SAID to me: I have travelled in all parts
OF the world, and have seen people as
sembled to greet their rulers, but when
L saw the people standing in the rail-
road stations and along the country
through which the funeral train passed
that they might get look at the cas-
ket OF the great man, l was Convinced
as never before that there is such a
thing as national heart
THAT national heart was broken
and it will take Gods way and time to
heal it.
1t was broken by a class of people
who are coming to our country in in
creas1ng numbers, and while harbored
by our laws, are propogating their ma
-hc1ous views; a class Of people that
must be taught that we have no place
Ior them on this side; class Of people
That must be taught that they can't
take the life Of anyone, irrespective of
consequences.
Think again, gentlemen; here is a
man who does not want a LAWYER. who
does not believe in God nor in law: a
man who does not even believe in the
married relation-yeteveno our laws are
such that he is defended by two of the
ablest 1urists in our city, as if he were
the most respected defendant, and even
though he comes into court and saws
he was guilty, yet, gentlemen, you are
required under the Constitution, to lis
ten to the formal presentation of the
evidence, Notwithstanding the fact that
this man says he does not want it.
Gentlemen, I have said all that I
have to say; l have said more than I
ought to say. You have sworn to give
him lair trial on the evidence. Now.
what is the evidence? 1 say as it has
beep presented to you it fully substan.
t1ates the crime charged.
The duty of counsel on both sides
is ended. The court will charge you
briefly then it will be your duty to
take up the case. No doubt the same
thought, the same object is in all our
minds, that, although our beloved
country has lost her greatest man. if /
still should maintain the respect of the
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Light on a Great Question

at is my opinion" said one ga.
that a man who has a college deee"o
is very likely to be successful in lIfe y
yes" answered the other, ''and T. q,
a rule that works both ways. ms
who is successful in life is verv I'LL
to get a college degree. e."-Washipgro1I
Star,
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TiFeSOme.

I'm so tired" she sighed to the wu
man next door.
What dolEg?'
1--we been the last four hours at tbo
photographers having an tustantano
GUS picture of the baby taken."-E,.
change.
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Manage For Dxsnen.s.

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NURSERY INSPECTION.
Continued from last week. }

This certificate may be used with
STICK not grown in the nurseries only
by compliance with the requirements
OF the American Society of Official
Horticultural Inspectors.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-05

part of the War Department exhibit.
The Enclosure of the West Point eX
hibit will have the form and appear
ance of regular cadet barracks, the
top of the partition showing battle
ments, with tower at each corner. A
committee of professors of the Military
Academy has been appointed by the
superintendent of the Academy to pre-
pare this exhibit @. w. Larned, Pro
fessor of Drawing, who is a member. of
the committee, has recently sent Cap
tain Harris plan of this feature.
In the Quartermasters section will
be shown paintings, photographs and
drawings illustrating the Army Trans
port service. Uniforms of the army at
different periods from the Revolution
to the present day will be exhibited on
about forty lay figures.
The entire exhibit of the War De
partment under Captain Harris will be
of most entertaining character, as
the Captain has visited all the arsenals
of the country, gathering such things
as to him seemed Of public interest
and value in order to make an entirely
new and attractive exhibit.
MARK BENNITT.
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Bedrooms and breathing.

While no scientist, l think, will rec
ommend less than seven cubic feet of
air each minute for an adult, DR.. Reed
gives ten as the smallest amount that
will meet the wants of the body. All
of this, of course, is not absolutely
used, only needed that purity may be
secured. The average room-12 by 10
and 8 feet high-even If the room is
empty, will consume only 960 cubic
feet, or enough to supply air for one
person for about two hours. Now,
when two or even four persons occupy
such a room, the doors and windows
closed to keep out the supposed poi
sonous night air." 1t is not strange that
the stencil of vitiated air is overpower-
ing to one who enters the room after
breathing the pure air of heaven, such
as the good Father intended for use.-
Weekly Bouquet.
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1t has sometimes been said by un-
thinking people that the seacoast cities
of the United States are not well de-
Tended. A flood of new light will be let
into such gloomy minds by the Ord
nance exhibit of the War Department
at the Pan-American Exposition. When
the Exposition opens for it's six months
season at Buffalo on May of this
| year, the early visitor will find the
largest and most powerful guardians
| OF our seacoastS ever exhibited by the
| United States Government Even the
smaller of the two great new guns in
| the Government exhibit at the EXPOSE
ton will be larger than any ever before
displayed by our Uncle Samuel.
Captain Peter G. Harris, who repre-
sents the War Department, in charge
of the entire war exhibit, has been en-
gagged actively for months upon his
great work of collecting the newest dis
play of the kind ever made in this
country. 1t was an absurd question
perhaps that l asked when 1 inquired
if his exhibits would be ready on May
l, as though there were any other al
tentative for a soldier. The Captain
looked reprovingly at me.
But of the guns-great guns, indeed;
big around as locomotive boiler, thir-
ty odd feet long, with a more savage
muzzle than ever coughed destruction
upon any hostile fleet; built with the
accuracy of watch; so delicate in adj
justment that a little finger may trav-
erse the gun, thus moving a weight of
nearly half million pounds, yet ma
chine to spout a volcano blast and to
create an earthquake at the will of
man!
The big gun of which l speak is a
United States Army twelve inch
breechloading rifle, model of 1895,
mounted upon disappearing carriage.
Its weight, stripped of everything,
even the breech block, is $4,000
pounds. Its total length is 36 $500
feet. The maximum diameter at the
breech is 44.5 inches. 1t throws an
armor piercing shot weighing 1000
pounds, the length of which is three
and one half feet. 1t also throws pro-
jectile, an armor piercing shell Weighing
1000 pounds, four feet long, carrying
bursting charge of 1874 pounds of gun
cotton. The charge of powder Is 240
pounds Of smokeless or 400 pounds of
brown prismatic powder. The muZzle
velocity Of the projectiles under the
above conditions is 1890 feet per Sec
ond, with a maximum pressure per
square inch of $1,000 pounds. The
muzzle energy is 36,671 foot TONS The
power of penetration In steel at the
muzzle Is 300 inches, at 1000 yards
29.5 inches, at $500 yards 25.5 inches
and at $500 yards 235 inches. The
total weight Of the gun and carriage is
477,9 $50 pounds. The carriage is twen-
ty-five feet in diameter at the base,
and the gun when in firing position is
seventeen feet above the base Of the
carriage. When the shot is fired, the
recoil causes the mechanism to lower
the gun seven and one-half feet, be-
hind the parapet. The gun has an ac-
curacy of aim for about eight miles.
and the extreme range is about double
that distance.
AS / have said, guns of this type
have never before been exhibited by
the United States Government, and
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GREAT GUNS AT
PAN=AMERICAN
Uncle Sam Will Show Mammoth
Coast Defenders at the
Buffalo Exposition.

pearing would seen to possess very
great advantage. 1t is thought that on
low sites the rifle must be mounted
either on disappearing carriage or in
a turret. The expense of turret is es-
timated at about four and half times
the cost of the disappearing carriage.
The Endicott Board on Ordnance and
Notifications number of years ago
decided in favor of the disappearing
carriage, and the department has been
laboring to obtain a satisfactory one.
The one shown at the Pan-American
Exposition is considered the most per-
feet in the world.
The ten-inch breechloading rife is
from the model of 1895 and weighs &C.,
700 pounds. Its total length is 30.76
feet, and the diameter of the breech is
thirty-seven inches. The projectile is
an armor piercing shot or she'll The
shell carries a bursting charge of 22.4
pounds, having length Of four feet
The solid shot Is three and one-half
feet long. The powder charge is 40
pounds of smokeless powder, and the
muzzle velocity Of the projectile is
1900 feet in q second. The maximum
pressure per square inch is $1,000
pounds. The muzzle energy with the
charge of smokeless powder is 21,0S6
foot tons. The gun has penetrating
power of twenty inches in steel at
$500 yards.
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MORTAR IN FRONT UNITED GOVERNMENT
PANAMERICAN EXPOSITION.

At the right of the ten-inch gun a
twelve-inch mortar has been mounted,
and It Is no small affair. Farther to the
right is a five-inch rapid fire gun. All
are mounted behind sections of para
pet, and the four pieces represent one
gun of each type used in seacoast forti-
fications.
To the left of the great twelve-inch
disappearing gun will be exhibited the
old seacoast ordnance Of the United
States, arranged in q historical series,
the twelve-inch gun itself representing
the climax. Near the small building
specially constructed for this purpose
will be displayed the mountain, field
and siege guns of the present day, to-
gether with types of old guns used in
the different wars in which the United
States have been engaged.
The Ordnance exhibit will show the
historical development of ordnance in
the United States, gun representing
every type adopted by the United
States and showing the evolution of
guns, mortars and howitzers. Among
the howitzers will be one made in 1893.
There will also be thirty or forty tro-
ply guns, displayed according to peri
cd of capture. A novel feature will be a
trophy fountain, representing burst
ing shell, with water spouting from its
crevices. This will be mounted on a
pile of projectiles, surrounded by tro-
ply guns.
The largest guns mounted in any of
our seacoast batteries during the war
Of 1912 were twenty-four Founders, the
diameter of bore being less than six
inches and the weight of guns $500
pounds. They were little over ten
feet long, and the powder charge was
six and eight pounds of black powder.
They were mounted upon wooden car
riages. In 1929 the thirty-two FOUNDER,
with a caliber of GAL inches, using q
charge of eight to ten pounds of black
powder, was adopted, and in 1881 the
forty-two FOUNDER, with caliber of
seven inches and using ten to fourteen
pounds of black powder, came into use.
In 1914 the eight and ten inch Column
biads fired shot weighing sixty-five
pounds and used charge of ten to fif-
teen pounds of black powder. The ten
inch shot weighed 1916 pounds, and the
powder charge was eighteen and twen-
ty pounds.
In 1861 the first fifteen-lnch Rodman
gun was cast. These guns were
smoothbores of cast iron. The process
of manufacture was evolved by Gen
eral Rodman, who to prevent injuri-
GUS strains produced by cooling cast
lngs from the exterior, cast these guns
on hollow core and cooled by a
stream of water or air passing through
the core. Rodman's fifteen-inch gun
fired shot weighing 42S pounds with
charge of forty pounds Of black pow
der and was the first great gun intro
duced in modern times in any service
Just before the Civil War rifled mus
kets and guns began to displace
smoothbores. Captain Parrott's rifles
were the first ones of large caliber used
in the United States service. The lar
gest of these had an eight and ten
inch bore and were cast hollow and
cooled from the interior on the Rod
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NOTICE OE SETTLEMENT.

NOTICE is hereby given that the accounts of
~ the subscriber. administrator with the
will annexed of John J. Kinds. deceased,
will be audited and stated by the Surrogate,
and reported for settlement to the Orphans
Court of the County of Morris, on Friday the
3rd day of May next
Dated March IS, 1901.
ELMER KING, Administrator, &C.,
20l0 Morristown, N. j.
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man plan. They were strengthened by
shrinking coiled band Of wrought
iron over that portion of the gun which
surrounds the powder charge. The
eight-inch Parrot rifle fired an elon-
gated projectile weighing $50 pounds
with charge of sixteen pounds of
black powder. The ten-inch rife fred
2oO pound elongated projectiie with
twenty-five pounds of powder.
Inside of the main Government build
ing will be exhibited the machine guns
of all kinds, including the automatic
gun now being used by the United
States Army in the Philippines and
China; also several hundred small
arms, showing the development of
these arms from the match lock, wheel
lock, flint lock and percussion cap lock
to the breechloading magazine small
arms of today.
In the Engineering section of the
War Department will be exhibited
models of engineering work, both mil
Engineer Corps in the river and harbor
work. Among the latter will be mod
els of the breakwater being construct
ed in Buffalo harbor. very inter-
esting collection of models of engineer
ing work on the Mississippi River will
also be displayed. Two of the Missis-
sippi models-the Hydraulic Dredging
Plant and Hydraulic Grader-were
given the grand prize in the recent
Paris exposition.
In the Signal section of the War De-
partment exhibit will be displayed all
instruments and appliances used in
communication by flag, Photograph,
wire, telegraph, cable and by wireless
telegraphy. Wireless telegraphy will
be in operation at all times during the
Exposition, one station being located
at the Government building ON the
grounds and the other station some
miles away, probably at Fort Porter.
The Military Academy at West Point
has never been represented at any pre-
vious exposition. A very complete and
interesting exhibit, showing history,
curriculum, plant of the Academy, it's
work and workings. will constitute n
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

ESTATE OF BENJAMIN. f. OPIE, Deceased
pursuant to the Order of the Surrogate of
l. the County to Morris, made on the 14th
day of March, A. ID one thousand nine hun
bred and one, notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against the estate of
Benjamin f. Opie, late of the County of Nor
ris, deceased to present the same, under oath
or affirmation, to the subscriber on or before
the fourteenth day of December. next, being
nine months from the date of said order; and
hibit his, her or their claim, under oath or af-
firmation. within the time SO limited. will be
forever barred of his, her or their action there
for against the administrator.
Dated the 14th day of March, A. D.. 1901.
EDWARD A. OPIE,
Administrator,
2sO5 Morristowp. N j..
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CAPTAIN PETER c. RARRIs. q. 8. A
superintendent OF Ordnance Exhibit at Pam Amer.
lean Exposition.
they are designed for use in secret
Notifications, to which no visitors are
admitted under any circumstances. The
gun was manufactured at Watervliet
Arsenal, near Troy, N. Y. The car
rage was made at the WATERFOWL Ar
senal, near Boston. The disappearing
carriage was designed several years
ago by Captain Burlington, now Briga.
der General and Chief of Ordnance,
and improved and adapted to modern
steel rifles by Captain William Crozier,
Ordnance Corps, United States Army
1t Is known as the Buffington-C rozier
carriage. The mounting of these man.
moth pieces of ordnance has been in
the immediate charge of Lieutenant
r. 81. c. Kelton and small detail of
artillerymen.
To enable the observer readily to
make an intelligent comparison of the
mounts of our seacoast guns Captain
Harris has caused to be placed by the
side Of the great twelve-inch gun ten
inch rifle on a barbette carriage. In a
barbette carriage the rifle is at all
times exposed above the parapet. The
reader may remember the discussion on
the subject between General Miles and
the Ordnance Board, the general not
favoring the disappearing device, chief
ly on account of its complicated mocha.
nism and its liability to get out of or
der. Each carriage appears TO have its
particular use. On elevated sites The
parapet furnishes all the q faction
quired. but on Il + Il dis