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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE CANTEEN.

Senator Hansbrough, of North Da-
kota, has proposed an amendment to
the army bill for the creation at the
various posts of soldiers ex-
change Ito take the place of the can
teen), at which all kinds of personal
supplies may be purchased at reason
able cost, and which shall have gym
nasium and equipments for indoor
games and outdoor sports. 1t is recog-
nized that, for their own good, the
soldiers must have social opportunl-
ties, relaxation for the mind and exer-
else of an attractive kind for the
body. The canteen supplied these, and
was not harmful in a comparative
sense-that is, in comparison with the
injury done by resort to grog shops
and consumption of intoxicants with
out restraint Senator Hansbrough' Is
plan might win the men away from
those evil places. 1t seems to be
worth trying, and there is a consider
able sentiment in favor of the amend
ment.
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A GOOD sPELLBlNDER's STORY.

Opie Read, the Southern novelist,
who lives in Chicago, has accepted
the nomination for alderman from a
Republican convention in Republ
can ward. Until the last presiden-
tial campaign, Mr.. Read had always
affiliated with the Democracy. Dur
ing the campaign of 1900, however,
he made speeches in the West in be-
half of the sound money ticket. When
his bill of expenses went to Mr..
Hanna, the chairman noticed that Mr..
Read expenses in Denver were much
larger than at any other place. Mr..
Hanna called Mr.. Reads attention to
this. 81 reckon as much, Mr..
Read replied, "but did you ever play
poker in that pesky town." Mr.,
Hanna made no answer, but put an
20. K" on the account. Leslie 4
Weekly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25
SCRlPTURAL AUTHORITY.

In Southern Kansas last Sabbath,
says the Kansas City Journal, a
preacher discoursed from the text,
"The Good Die Young" He denied
that the good die young. He alleged
that the good who obeyed the laws
of nature, which are the laws Of God,
had the best chance for survival.
81 would like to know, said the
preacher, "where the idea that the
good die young could have origin
ated.
We have an idea it originated in the
fifth chapter of Genesis. There is
given the biography of all the old fell
lows who came after Adam. Seth
lived 912 years. Enos lived 905 years.
Oainan lived 90 years. Mahalaleel
lived 1916 years. Jared lived 962 years.
Methusaleh lived 969 years. Lemaoh
lived III years. Of Enoch, the only
good one in the lot, the chapter says
And Enoch walked with God; and
he was not, for God took him; and
all the days of Enoch were 365
years. Being good, Enoch lived a
measly little period of only 365 years,
while the others, being given to sin,
lived to grow up to manhood. 1t al
ways seemed strange to us that
some preachers pay so little atten-
tion to the facts of the Bible.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25
AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL

The bill making preparations for
the Agricultural Department for the
year ending June 80, 1908, has been
reported to the House. 1t carried a
total OF So, 158, $40, an increase over
the current year Of $576, 100.
The appropriations for the larger
bureaus and the increase over this
year s appropriations therefor are as
follows: Weather Bureau, 81, 148, 800,
increase, $103, 440; Bureau of Animal
Industry, 81, 1874 O30; increase, $98, $50 !
Bureau of Plant Industry, 1885, $50. (;
increase, $15. 140; Bureau of Soils,
Sl85, $40; increase, $97, 42O.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25

The will of the late T. Dewitt Tai
mage has been filed in Washington.
II leaves an estate valued at more
than $500, OcO, of which amount $3.50, :
600 is in personal property consisting
of secured notes, United States four
per cent bonds, stocks and cash in
bank; furniture, pictures and house
hold effects. The real estate is worth
about $500 The will gives "the
widows third" to Mrs Talmage and
the remainder share and share alike
equally to all of his children and
their lineal descendants.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25
Washington Valley Still in the Lead.


A very interesting clay pigeon match
was shot at the Valley Club grounds,
on the estate of Hon. Charles Russell
Whitehead, Washington Valley on
Wednesday afternoon between Mr..
Whitehead and Eugene Pierson, of
Mendham road, the former winning
by two birds. The score follows:
Whitehead.
oil OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Pierson,
Observation-Disclosures
James FROST managed the shoot to
the entire satisfaction of both parti-
cipants and the guests present. 1t is
understood that another match will
be shot in the near future. Mr.. White
head shot in sweepstakes at Mount
Freedom breaking twenty seven clay
pigeons straight, on Saturday last.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25

Booker T. Washington. principal of
Tuskegee (Alabama) Normal and In
dustrial Institute, has bought house
at South Weymouth, Mass, for his
summer home. 1t is not surprising
that he, as a oolored man, should want
to enjoy season in the liberal at
mosphere of New England.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25

A court martial has been ordered for
the trial of General Jacob H. Smith,
who was in command of the United
States troops on the island of Samar
The charge brought against General
Smith is conduct prejudicial to good
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25

The Scranton Republican sensibly
remarks that sThe next governor of
Pennsylvania will not owe his nomi-
nation to the gift of any boss, 1t
will come to him from the Republi-
can people and he will be theirs only
70 command.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25

The verdict of $50. DOC against the
New York Central Railroad for, the
death of one victim of the tunnel &C
cident indicates the degree of finan-
oial punishment the company will re-
ceive for the long neglect and crimi-
nal carelessness which caused this
great disaster. This seems likely to be
the only punishment. District Attor-
ney Jerome, who was omnipresent,
like the hero in the border drama,
when there was notoriety to be gain
ed, has ceased to move against the
guilty directors, and the Grand Jury
and the New York Legislature and
Governor have been equally paralyzed
by this powerful corporation. The
jury in the damage case is the sole
recourse, and it now seems to be about
the only means of obtaining justice
for wrongs of this kind.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25
EuPhEMIsM.

ssWhy, asked the visitor, do you call
this section THE Tenderloin?'
Perhaps" replied his mentor,
who had lived in a boarding house
HI. NJ A.sAiA,s -lsaeoasa.. it's. 80
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Governor Murphy has signed the
bill fixing the compensation of prose
cutors of the pleas at 81, 500 year in
counties with a population between
45, 900 and 60, 600; 50, 500 between
65. 900 and 70, 900; &S, 600 between 70,
900 and $4,000; 81, 900 between So, 00O
and SO, 600; $5,0 between 95, 600 and
105, 900; $4,000 between l05, 900 and
$50, 600; $1,000 between 1877, 900 and
200, 600, to be in lieu of all fees.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-25

The shipyards of New England have
not waited for subsidies to make them
busy places. Last year Maine turned
out 100 vessels and Massachusetts, So.
Connecticut yards were correspond
ingly active. This year, Names out
put is fifty three large and many
small vessels. In that section there
are under construction 175 vessels as-
gregating tonnage of 105, 900. In
addition to these the New England
builders have contracts amounting to
SIT, 900, 900. The lack of a subsidy
will not reduce the shipyards to idle
ness.
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MASTER CARPENTERS STATEMENT

To the Editor of the Chr onicle:-
I would be glad to have you publish
the following on behalf of the Master
Builders of this city.
Very truly yours,
DAVID Fl. WILDAY,
Gho.
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WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

To look successful is one of the few pleas
ures left to disappointed hope.-World's
People.
My son, money as a means is richness in
possibilities. but money as an end is pow
erty Of soul.-The Minority.
II is pleasant to be believed in. One feels
more of a man, somehow, and ones faults
do not seem so overwhelming.-Roma Biz
net.
There are dozens Of women who keep
their places in society solely by their con-
nection with the charities OF society.-A
Damsel or Two.
She toiled UP the stone steps to the fourth
story, wondering why we generally make
our condolences to people we do not ask TO
our best parties.-W orld's People.
The people who can't work or don't want
to work stand around and explain that all
the activity which stirs the country from
Maine to California emanates from greed.
Don't you believe them.-The Minority.
If you let people see that you feel what
you are singing, depend upon it you have
gone very far in making them feel it, too.
The key TO all art is the art of making peo-
pie believe that you believe ii yourself.-A
Damsel or Two.
THE trouble with Alf'' broke in Abner,
lis that with all his Bible reading he never
seems to get any practical benefit out of it.
Now. when I'm in doubt about whether a
things right or wrong l generally find some
Scrlptural sanction for the side / want to
win.-Abner Daniel.
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AS TO ROOFING OUT A LANGUAGE.

1t is said that one object of the visit Of
the Boer generals to Great Britain was TO
protest against the subordination of the
Dutch language in South Africa. 1t is said
the British commissioner Governor of
South Africa is discharging native Dutch
instructors in the local schools and substi-
tuting English teachers who know little or
nothing of Dutch. The Boer generals, it is
said, regard this subordination of the Dutch
language as preliminary TO its extinction,
and therefore they protest.
The British government has shown so.
much wisdom and tact generally in the
treatment Of foreign colonies and peoples
that it would be surprising if it has entered
upon the work of roofing out the Dutch
language in South Africa. At present Dutch
is the dominant tongue from the Cape TO
the interior of Africa, throughout the whole
of the so-called South African Republic.
English is extensively spoken and will
doubtless become the dominating language
in the end. but at present it is not. In the
present circumstances it would be a great
mistake for the British authorities to at
tempt to root out the Dutch language. His
tory has shown that the substitution of one
language for another against the will of
the people whose language is sought to be
changed is an exceedingly difficult matter,
and always productive of friction and
trouble. There is a maxim, "A language
lost, all lost and conquered peoples are
apt 10 cling TO their language their last
distinctive possession. If the British au-
thorities are content to bide their time
there is no danger but the English Ian
guage will eventually supplant all others in
South Africa, and they would much better
await the accomplishment of the result by
natural processes than attempt to hasten it
by methods that will rankle in the hearts
of the Beers and probably postpone the
very result sought to be accomplished. 1t
is to be expected that the British govern
ment will establish and maintain English
schools in South Africa, but unless It wants
to sow the seeds of future trouble there
should be no formal or ostentatious at
tempt TO root out the Dutch language. If
it is given time enough the English Ian
guage will do it's own roofing.
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that there would be scarcity Of food. This
is what DR.. Nautilus predicted years ago.
and yet the inhabitants of the civilized
world have more food and better housing
than they had in his time. If DR.. Andrews
is right the doctrine of the survival of the
httest is the true economic theory, and
those diseases which so thinned out pOpula-
ton before science took them in hand
should now be regarded as providential and
allowed 10 do their work. Fortunately the
history Of the last one hundred years does
not tend to sustain the views of DR.. An
drews. The earth's population is increas-
ing, beyond doubt, but there is large por-
ton of the earth's surface yet unoccupied.
By irrigation the United States can greatly
increase its production of food and the area
of standing room, while more scientific
agriculture can double the product of the
country already settled. Indeed, the more
study one gives to the conditions the less
reason Will be seen for a revival of the
dismal science and Of the necessity of DR..
Andrewss suggestion that scientific men
should devote themselves to the solution of
the problem of preventing the increase Of
population.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-24

eehee. The head chef who receives
princely salary. Is assisted By about 20
persons.
President Merrill. OF Fisk University.
points out that the well-educated and COM
petent negro doctor has an amazing oppcr-
tunity among the 10000 OF his race.
President Merrill knows OF twelve negro
doctors in Nashville alone all doing well ana
SIX or them amassing property. lie re-
ports also that II Is easier for coiored
physician 10 build ~ a self-supporting
practice than for the white doctor.
The King and Queen OF Roumania are
about to establish little theaters in all the
rural communes OF their kingdom. In these
theaters the villagers will give. once or twice
a week moral plays. having as their object
me lnculcation OF religious and social pre-
cepts. The first OF the theaters Will be
built on enc OF the royal estates.
Assemblyman George II. FAN. who intro
duced and championed the bill which re-
Gently passed the Massachusetts, Legislature
making mothers equal guardians OF children
with fathers. says that the credit for its
passage is largely due his wife. who. afte-
her marriage. took up the study OF law. She
is a member OF the Maiden school Board.
George c. Thomas. of the Philadelphia
banking house OF Drexel & Co. has made a
gift OF 100000 10 the Church OF the Holy
Apostles OF that city. 10 be used for new
parish house and school building. Mr.
Thomas is a prominent member Of this
Episcopal Church. is superintendent OF the
Sunday-school. and has always taken an
active interest in guild work among the
poor Of the parish.
Mrs. Fair. who was killed in France.
was Carrie Smith. of Newmarket. y. ].
Her father drove a delivery wagon for a
tailor there and her mother is said TO have
worked in the tailor's shop. The girl was
pretty and went upon the stage, where she
met and married Fair. The father disin-
herited the young man for the marriage,
received his share OF the Daternal millions.
which enabled him 10 go automobiling TO
his death in a strange country
Miss Hannah b. Clark has accepted the
position of dean Of Women OF Knox College.
GaIesburg III. Miss Clark was graduated
from Smith College. Massachusetts,. in 1851.
and then taught for five years i'm Dearborn
College Chicago. She next took a three
years course in the University OF Chicago.
For the last three years she has been dean
Of women in West Virginia University. She
Is a member Of the Chicago WOmenS Club.
She will teach sociology in addition 10 her
duties as dean. At present she is travelling
in Scotland.
There young fellow named Mallory,
Who had but very small salary.
When he went TO show
He unable to go
Anywhere but the uppermost gallery.
-Phlsdelphia Record
The health resort we soon may know
Will be a grand affair.
They'll sterilize its rain and
-Philadeiphia Press.
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kept a suburban hotel which was regarded
as Objectionable by club ladies in the
vicinity. Thereupon they appealed 10 other
clubs engaged in reform work. and the
presidents of several OF these organizations
called upon the Governor and asked him to
take away the hotel mans license This
was accordingly done. and. as the man
now AYERS. his business was injured and
his feelings and reputation hurt $4,000
worth. The ladies thus unceremoniously
hailed into court consider that the plaintin
is very presumptuous. "Of course says
one, with airy responsibility, he has
no case. We laid the facts before the Gov
ernor. but that was ALL The Governor is
the one for him 10 deal with why,
yes says another, surprised at having so
trifling a matter recalled; Yes. we went
10 the Governor last spring and told him
we wanted the house closed because too
much drinking was being done there. but
had completely forgotten the incident.
Sue US for damages-preposterous Mean
while it is slowly dawning on the compre-
hension Of other defendants that reform
work. especially where il interferes with
other peoples business. may be attended
with certain risks.
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CRIME AT HOME AND ABROAD.

An English statistician recently an
nounced that the average number of muir
ders in London annually is eighteen. AS
tonishingly small as this number is when
the vast population approximately six
millions) of the British metropolis is con-
sidered, the figures are undoubtedly cor
rect. Indeed, they indicate a considerable
increase in the rate of the crime above
that of few years ago. Some years since,
probably ten or twelve but one murder
occurred in Great Britain during a period
of one year. This freedom from intentional
homicide was so remarkable and unusual
as TO be commented on at the time by the
English press, but the fact was then
brought out that the crime of murder is
far less common in the immediate domain
of King Edward than in the United States.
Recent statistics show that in this country
there are about 10000 murders year. The
Journal has not at hand the local statistics
of crime but it seems not unlikely that
the Indianapolis annual record approaches,
even if 1t does not exceed, that of London.
The cause for the great difference in the
British crime record and ours is not far
to seek. In Great Britain the murderer
suffers the penalty of his crime, and with
specified as the only one occurring in a
year the perpetrator was tried and hanged
within five weeks of the commission of the
deed. Other cases are recorded where
hanging took place in less than two weeks
from the time of the murder. Nor is the
accused person deprived of any legal or
just rights by this swift action of the
courts. He is given every opportunity to
defend himself or TO gain mis- freedom
except those so freely resorted to in this
country-legal quibbling and the interposi-
ton of technicalities. The one point to
decide is whether he is or is not guilty,
and all TISSUES tending to obscure that
point are swept aside. Once proved guilty
no opportunity is afforded for making a
hero of him. There are no delays or post
ponements in the execution of the SEN
tence. He is hanged or sent to prison. and
that is the end. Consequently the British
ruffian takes a second thought, as a rule,
before he assaults a fellow-citizen, and
the second thought leads him to milder
measures. He has due respect for the law,
because the law is a force that comp els
respect-not thing he evade or from
which he can escape through one Of a
thousand loopholes. These facts and fig
ures should have a lesson in them for
those who hastily assume that American
institutions are superior to those of other
countries. We may have more liberty, but
Also 1t is plain. we have more license even
for criminals
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Portraits of Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, which have been in all the papers
lately, make that gentleman appear about
thirty-five years of age, whereas, as mat
ter of fact, he is sixty-one. Portraits of j.
Pierpont Morgan, Secretary Hay and other
well-known men of more than middle age
are equally youthful. This is not the fault
of the papers, whose hasty printing and
imperfect processes of reproduction would
naturally add the look of age rather than
take it away; the youthfuness is even
more strongly marked in the carefully
printed half-tones of the weekly and
monthly periodicals. The fault is with the
photographers who ''retouch" their work
until all lines and wrinkles, truthfully
copied by the unsparing and un1attering
sunlight from the living face, are obliter-
ated, and the pictured physiognomy is as
smooth and as free from marks of age
and of character-as that of an eighteen
year-old lad. 1t is hardly likely that vanity
leads these men to desire such misleading
Misrepresentation of themselves. If so,
they follow a very foolish guide. People
who know them personally at once discover
the difference between the picture and the
original, while those who have not seen
them are well aware lIldl Nldl 10
be a likeness is not really so. 1t is rather
a pity that photographers ever learned the
art of retouching, or, having learned it,
that they have made all classes of sitters
believe that it should be applied 10 all por-
traits Unfortunately. Now and then a
man is found with sufficient courage to in
sist that his photographs shall be finished
with all the lines in them that nature has
placed on his face. The result justifes his
course. Youth may not be pictured there,
but the real face, with its lines of humor.
of shrewdness, of wisdom-the Characters
tics that make the man-are there, and
give the portrait a value that no srnoothed-
out picture can possibly have. The word
man is used here, but what is said would
be equally applicable TO woman, were it
not for the fact that no woman who has
her photograph taken ever looks over thir-
ty-five-with or without retouching. Does
she?
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years end 10 the other were known. They
may depend upon the street cars. but II Is
single line OF cars and gives them less
knowledge OF the streets than walking
would do. Those who own horses or auto
mobiles or even bicycles become acquainted
with the town they live in. but it is an un-
usual exercise of energy that leads others
not SO equipped TO an equal familiarity.
Nevertheless. these persons doubtless feel
quite as much of the pride of citizenship
and genuine sense Of possession as If they
could draw map of every street and alley.
The out-of-town visitors know much more
OF the place by actual investigation than
they, but this fact does not in the least en-
harrass them nor lessen their sense of resi-
Dental Importance. But the situation
curiously illustrates the narrowness of the
orbit which the human creature often vol
unfairly creates for himself and within
which he willingly remains.