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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
BURIED BY A COUGAR.
Hunter Has an Experience with Hum
cry wild Beast That He Will
Not Soon Forget.

A hunter who was trailing after
bear meat in British Columbia re-
ports to the Western Sportsman an
experience which he calls marrow
Craze" If the incident happened as
the hunter tells it, it was indeed a
narrow Craze; but one cannot help
suspecting that some of the invig-
Grating. ozone of the northwest has
got into the story. Nevertheless it
is worth hearing.
'It was warm day, and along in
the middle of the afternoon l began
to pine for rest and pipe. 1t was
all quiet and no traces of game, and
so when I'd had a comfortable smoke
l stretched out for a nap.
''It must have been an hour later
that 1 woke up and found myself COW
cred with two feet of leaves, snug
as the babes in the wood. I was all
tucked in that coy that nobody else
could have done it but cougar, and
most likely a female cougar at that.
1t occurred to me with some force
that I'd been filed away for future
reference, and that I hadn't walked
up any too soon. / didn't soothe me
to figure on that cougar showing me
away as dog hides bone.
1t seemed that the best thing for
me to do was to countermine that
cougars mine, as it were. So / hunt
ed up a log about my size and COW
cred it with leaves-a nice, fat hump
tho rrr,AnnI rHhaT, oh
close by, assuring myself beyond any
doubts or peradventures that nobody
had meddled with the working of my
repeater.
"The cougar came in such a short
time as to show how fortunate it was
l had walked up when I did, and with
her, as had calculated, were a choice
lot of young ones. She had left a
dinner located and had been off to
get her family.
swell, that cougar circled around
the pile of leaves for a matter of
minutes, crouching and picking a nice
select place to spring from. When
she got satisfied and made the leap
she went through the air tremen-
dous, throwing the leaves in whirl-
wind and scratching and snarling. 1t
was some of shock when she found
the log, but she didn't display any
disappointment. She just took the
scent and came to the foot of my tree
and looked up, real venomous.
at seemed to her an awkward job
to handle, having my gun ready so,
and the cougar had an inspiration.
She went to tree about ten feet
away and started to go up She was
after that meal and not to be discour-
aged by any trifles. 1t was her idea
to climb up above me on the other
tree and then bring me down with a
flying leap.
81 didn't lose any more time with
experiments or speculations, but let
her have it the first time she came
round the tree. The ball went
through her jaw and breast, and the
varmint went to the ground. The
young ones were running around, and
l knocked them over, too, with the
gun.
"Since then haven't gone to sleep
in the woods so careless and casual
like"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
HOLDING BACK.
The Spirit of Progress md Growth
Involves Changes Which Should
BE Cheerfully Met.

eff could keep my baby just as
he is, with all the dear, baby ways!"
says the fond mother, holding the
little form close, and shrinking even
in thought from the coming days
which must bring boyhood and man
hood, and draw her darling from her
arms into his own individual life.
eff L could keep him from growing
up!"
Suppose she should try. She
might compress feet and hands,
might prevent the physicalform from
developing naturally She might re-
fuse the brain all nourishment, the
mind all culture, and bar the growth
of reason and independence, but in
stead of her beautiful baby she would
have an abnormal creature, weak,
dwarfed, deformed, at once pitiable
and repulsive.
1t is much the same with all our
mad clinging to the treasures of to-
day. We like the old ways. the old
environment, the old conditions, and
we do not want them broken up, but
the law of change is everywhere, and
the command to go forward is uni
versal. However, we may refuse or
rebel we cannot keep our past, we
only mar and cripple our future. Our
yesterdays were dear, but they are
done; to-day holds it's work and it's
compensations, but it needs must
pass. Let us be content to go for
ward as Providence opens the way,
and greet our to-morrows and their
transformations, cheerfully. = Well
Snrinu
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
THE SPIRIT OF MERCY.
Will Tone Down the Tempers, Abate
the Savageries and Curb the
AVarice of Men.

Righteousness and mercy are two
elements which must combine in order
to the construction of any truly reli-
gious character. righteousness is at
the base of mercy, supporting and
sanctioning it, while mercy is the finer
flower, or the ripened fruit, which APP
pears on the stem of perfected char
acter. God can be merciful be-
cause the spirit of mercy, founded
on and guaranteed by righteousness,
is to become characteristic of earth
as it is even now characteristic OF
heaven. By this it is not meant and
cannot be meant, that sin does not
merit divine retribution, or that hui
man law must not take its course in
the detection and punishment of
crime. Yet sinful men are encouraged
to trust for salvation in the mercy of
God revealed in Christ, and it is proper
that human law should be admins
tered in a spirit of compassion for the
unfortunate as well as OF loyalty to
the interests of justice. 1t is also very
desirable that the terrors of the
courts, the rigors of the prison, and
the CONSTANTS of the asylum should
be mitigated by the loving Christian
ministrations of wise and sympathetic
men and women, who will carry to the
broken hearted the messages of reli-
gious consolation while pleading with
such unfortunates to lead thenceforth
better and more rational life.
The spirit of mercy, however, should
not be limited to prison corridors or
scenes of tragic woe. Mercy is quail
ity which should characterize all the
social and commercial actions and in
teractions of the day. Cruel CONNER
cial arrangements, whether of compe-
tition or. of combination, the intent of
which is to snatch from others their
fair share of the general prosperity,
are un-Christian and unsettling in ten
dency. Indifference to human suffer-
ing, excessive cultivation of the COM
bative instinct in humanity, maltreat-
ment of animals, and similar practices,
are all opposed to the development of
an ideal social order wherein right
eousness and mercy shall be the struc-
tural and guiding principles.
There is perhaps no teaching more
urgently needed at the present time
than that which exhibits the need of
mercy-of human mercy that is a
lesser counterpart or copy of the di-
vine compassionate all departments
of life. Mans inhumanity to man has
long been proverbial. The call is for
the general cultivation of spirit of
heaven born mercy that will tone down
the tempers, abate the savageries and
curb the avarice of men, leading the
various members of the community to
deal one with another in brotherly
and considerate fashion, as being all of
them children of one Heavenly Father.
N. Y. Observer,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
A TOUCH IN PASSING.
GIRLS Experience That Furnishes
Powerful Argument Upon the
Choice of Companions.

"It's queer the way different people
make you feel" the girl said, thought
fully. 81 don't mean people you know
or love, but people that you just brush
up against. The other day, for in
stance, when I went over to see Helen,
Sadie Graves was there calling. She
stayed an hour or more, and the whole
time she talked about nothing but
style. Now, usually, you know, the
clothes question doesn't bother me a
Bit like to be well dressed, of course
but | don't worry over it, for there
are always so many better things to
think about. But it was two whole
days before I could shake off Sadie
Graves, and then it was only because
somebody else helped me. I just lived
and breathed clothes, fretted over
dresses that were made last year, and
planning how / could fix them over and
longing for all sorts of new things;
it seemed to me that must be stylish;
that couldn't stand it not to be. Sadie
made you feel as if it were the one
thing in the world that girl should
live for.
"But the second evening Uncle James
had a caller, and happened to be in
the parlor. After the first greetings
they didn't notice me at all, and I just
curled up in my corner and listened.
Uncle James had been reading Mr..
Riis' Ten Years War, and he and ia
Their had talked it over a good deal
That had been intensely interesting,
but this man had lived it and helped
Oh, if you could have heard the things
he told All my little, selfish, con-
temptible thoughts about clothes, and
what people thought of me, just shriv-
eled up and blew away. Ihad got back
to the real worth whiles'-the being
glad and grateful for all the rich
things one has in ones life, and the
trying to help wherever one can. 1t
didn't seem as if I ever could be small
again. And yet I suppose I should be
If were with Sadie Graves. wish
might never meet her again, until
I've grown big enough in my thoughts
not to care!"
Was not the little experience a
mighty argument upon the choice of
companions and conversation? well
spring.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23

think this little fellow can do it.,
though n turalists do not report ever
having seen him so employed. They
do, however, know positively of one
use he has for them, and that is, in
sailing from tree to tree. They en-
able him to do this in the same way
as the wings of our modern flying
machine enable it's inventor to re-
main for a time in the air.
When he wishes to leave the tree
on which he is resting, he leaps into
the air, at the same time spreading
out his great webbed feet for sails,
using them so as to maintain hori-
zontal position, and thus with long,
slanting fight, reaches another tree
20 or more feet away.
When he has finished the fight the
toes are drawn together inclosing the
membrane between them so that eX-
cept for the awkward length of his
feet you might take him for only a
common tree frog.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
HOME AND HOUSEHOLD.

Mud stains on black material may be
removed by rubbing them with raw
rotato cut in half.
Paint splashes on glass may easily
be rubbed off with the edge of penny
dipped in cold water.
Linen may be made beautifully white
by the use of a little refined boraX IN
the water instead of using washing
fluid.
Wash fabrics that are inclined to
fade should be soaked and rinsed in
very salt water to set the color before
washing in the suds.
Wash leather and not flannel should
be used for needle books, as the sui
phur used in the manufacture of the
latter causes steel to rust.
To remove grease from cloth, sponge
it with a solution of salt in alcohol.
The right proportion is one teaspoon
full of salt to four of alcohol.
Never clear soup till the day it is
wanted; the stock should be made pre-
viously, but soup should be freshly
clarified or it will be cloudy.
To prevent SCOT in a chimney
make brine of common salt and pour
it over the Goals used. This is said
to keep chimney and fues beautifully
clean.
When anything boils over on the
stove sprinkle salt quickly over the
place. This will prevent the fumes
from rising and making the house
smell disagreeable.
To see if paraffin oil is safe to use,
put few drops in a saucer and apply
to them a lighted match. If the fame
spreads over the surface of the oil re-
ject it as unsafe, for under many cir
cumstances it naay explode. Good
paraffin oil will only burn on wick.
The secret of good packing is firm
ness and smoothness, and to attain
that everything should be put in the
trunk in layers. Before putting in the
dresses have firm layer of undergar-
ments, and then proceed with the
thickest and heaviest of your skirts.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23

MATCH GUN FOR BOYS.
Here's n Toy That VIII Afford Fun
to Youngsters who Are Bright
EnOught to Make One.

We will show you how to make a
real gun. Take glass tube of one
half inch in diameter and about five
inches long, and close it at one end
with sealing wax. Wheels and gun
carriage are made of cigar-box wood.
To fasten the barrel, glue hollow
piece of cork on the gun carriage, as
figure shows. The wooden parts of
the gun are connected by tacks and
glue; as axle for the wheels use a
strong knitting needle or a piece of
wire. To prevent the wheels from
coming off the axle, stick large
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
THE MATCH GUN.

glass bead on each of the axle ends.
Load the gun with parlor match,
inserting it head first, and closing the
opening of the barrel with piece of
cork or bread kneaded into a small
ball, to make it alright. Do not
insert too tightly, or it will prevent
the match from flying out.
The gun is fired with a second
match, as shown in figure. The match
will explode with the report of a
miniature cannon and fly from three
to five yards, enveloped in a blue
cloud of smoke.-Louisville Courier
Journal
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
Fish Story from ireland.

There is good fishing story in an
Irish contemporary. The enthusiast
tic anglers arranged fishing match
to decide the respective merits of the
worm and the minnow as bait. For
hours they sat patiently on a bank
without getting so much as a nibble.
AT last the proprietor of the worm
suddenly said that he had got a bite
and, jerking his line out of the water,
discovered at the end of it the other
mans min0ow, which, having by this
time grown hungry, had devoured his
worm
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
Obedience.

Obedience-how slow we are to ap-
preciate it's value, and we are still more
slow to work it into our conduct. 1t is
easier to choose our own path. 1t is
far more comfortable TO do our own
will. But God requires this of His
friend. There is no other path that
leads to these splendid heights of priv
ilege Many of us are missing the por-
ton that God holds for us because we
are unwilling to obey.-Rev. E. F. Hal
lenbeck.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
No Incentive.

Charley, dear" said young Mrs.
Torkins, do you think that women
ought to be prevented from voting?"
Certainly not"
Wouldn't you try to stop me if
wanted to go to the polls?"
Not for an instantp
swell, then what in The world is the
use of wanting to Washington
Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
THIS FROG CAN FLY.
Uses His Great Webbed Feet ms Sails
to Swing Himself from
Tree to Tree.

Upon seeing the expansive mem
brane on the feet of this little frog,
shown in the picture, you might cas-
lily imagine him using them in the
hot climate of his home (Borneo) as
fans to keep himself cool. To be
sure, frog tanning itself with it's
feet would be funny sight, but 1
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
Romance Versus Reality,

"Are you still heart whole and fancy
free?" queried the funny bachelor of
the pretty waitress as he lined up in
front of the lunch counter.
WELL" replied the p. W., frankly,
"my heart and hand may be had by
some good man for the asking"
Sorry Pm not in the eligible class"
rejoined the f. b., "for, being hopeless
ly bad, must content myself with ask
ing you for some pork and beans. -
Chicago Daily News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23

Electric rat traps are in use in Am
sterdam. They are connected by
wire with supply of electricity The
place where the bait rests Is the
only part of the trap which is a con-
ductor, and the moment Mr.. Rat
touches this, shock closes his ca
reer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
NOTES FROM A LIBRARY,

Poetry doesn't pay, and only some of
it pleases.
Frequently the best book is ON the
highest shelf.
The world knows genius by sight,
and rewards it when it is out of sight.
The author who is destined to live
hereafter may congratulate himself
on the fact that he'll have no appetite
then.-Atlantic Constitution.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23

A New York woman has named her
little daughter Ping Pong. Evidently
the little one who wants to have her
name copyrighted, says the Chicago
Record-Herald, isn't the only New
York woman with queer streak.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
A Lucky Minstrel.

Lew Dockstader, the minstrel, has
been advised that he was bequeathed
$4,000 and made residuary legatee
in the will of his aunt, Harriet f.
Clapp, of Chicago, who left an estate
of 100000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23

We have large stock of ruled goods
on hand and are prepared to do all
kinds of letter press work at short
notice.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-23
4 DIAGNOSIS.

Ada-He hasn't proposed yet.
May-I wonder what is the trouble
"Heart failure, I think. Judge.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-07-02

ordinary day school, the progress
of the individual at the expense
of his fellows.
*s*
1t is a melancholy reflection,
rich with profound teaching, that
now, almost half hundred years
after the Inauguration of a uni
versal system of education,
soldiers, missionaries. geogra-
pliers, inventors are all engaged,
indirectly, perhaps, but neverthe-
less actively, in crushing, en-
shaving and plundering native
races. The rising generation is
taught to worship force and
glorify the wholesale murderer,
and the lust of empire has super
ceded Christianity, mercy and
gentleness. Education has not
been on the side of humanity,
and, therefore, our present sys-
TEN of education is failure.
Education has not awakened the
sense of obligation, therefore our
present system of education is a
failure. Education has neither
brought refined pleasures nor in
tellectual delights to the poor,
therefore our education is fail
ure. Widely speaking, education
has given superficial polish to a
few, thus increasing the power of
the dime novel and the detective
story, but has left the vast
majority ignorant of the road to
real literature of merit, and in
woeful need of intellectual guild
ance and instruction, Education
therefore, as we have it, is q
failure.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-07-02

men and women allow free sweep
to vice and crime, and rank in
Justice, as long as it does not
spoil their own household? Can
an educated persons conscience
allow the capitalists of crime to
openly defy the laws, and the
abettors of drunkenness, and lust,
and legal theft, flaunt the fact in
our faces that no one dare modest
their traffic? There are more
Gains than one to cry Gam / my
brothers keeper"
*s+
With q real education not q
street, not store, not house,
not q room would remain unvisit-
ed by the angel of purity and
love, bringing gentler manners,
higher thoughts and nobler aims.
Then the length of the pocket
book would not indicate the
warmth of the social greeting.
Life everywhere would be better
and sweeter. The anti-social
tendencies of creeds would vanish,
and above all, true fellowship,
the real democracy, would stand.
"Forsooth brothers, fellowship is
Heaven and lack of fellowship is
hell fellowship is life, and lack
of fellowship is death"
~"
As it is today, the Sunday
school possesses far .vaster posi-
bilities in the direction of teach
ing knowledge of intrinsic worth,
than the ordinary school. Here
is taught, not, take care of
yourself" but Seek first the
Kingdom of Heaven (that is, the
pure truth), and its justice, and
all these things shall be added
unto you" The motto of the
work-a-day school is leach for
himself and the devil take the
hindmost. The central idea of
the perfect Sunday school would
be the mental, moral, and practi-
cal progress of humanity through
knowledge and love, that of the
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-07-02

Commissioners court was in
session last week, again as a board
of equalization. Some of the raised
valuations were allowed to remain
some reduced and the "difterence
split on others. Hon. Geo Yates,
the new commissioner from Lii
pan Flat acted in his official capa-
city forthe first time, but like he d
been use to 1t always.
l.. d. Mccartney, Of the Vest
ern Hotel, has returned from q
visit to the Miles country and
spent a night at the hospitable
home of Joe Thiele, the stockman
and farmer,
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-07-02
Mr. Il r Youno of I;t+la

Mr.. F. r. Young, of Little
Rock, Ark, who has been the
guest of his sister, Mrs. DR.. Mar
berry, for the past two months,
left last Friday for his home. Mr..
young was in very bad health
when he reached San Angelo, but
the high altitude and excellent
climatic conditions had very
beneficial effect, and he returns
to his family in much better
health. He expressed himself as
being delighted with our city and
the surrounding country.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-07-02

r. J. and Mrs. Flowers, of
South Concho, came in Friday
with Miss Minnie Whaley, the
latter's sister, who has been
visiting there for a couple of
months. Miss Whaley took the
train for her home at Eddy, in
McLennan county.
Tom Hart, now of Brentwood,
spent several days in the city last
week. His many San Angelo
friends were glad to see him
again.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-07-02

know of. Let the lazy go there.
Work is the condition of life.
~
Would to Heaven you attended
more to the ethical teachings of
the Bible, both at home and at
school. Find there, if you can,
excuse for your silly chatter and
social calls, your gum chewing
and your select societies. To be
sure,
John P.
Robinson he,
SEES they didn't know
everything
Down in JUDGE"
Yet for all that they knew
enough to cry, in words that burn
the thinkers heart. "Work while
it is day, for the night cometh
when no man can work" John
TX: AZ
1.-THE night cometh," and then?
Too late to rectify the wasted life |!
Too late to work the good that
might have been worked. Too
late to offer the hand of sympathy
and kindness, that was withheld
when it might have accomplished
aught. Too late for the healthy
activity, sympathy, love and So
cial action which go to make an
educated life.
*.*
If your education does not have
any direct influence as discipline
does not serve as u perfect guild
ance for conduct, it is useless.
knowledge must be of intrinsic
worth, and education build good
character and right conduct.
Whilst it is passably good to know
that Columbus discovered Ameri-
ca, do not think the requirement
as valuable as a realization of the
fact that irrational living will
make life a failure. The tissue
of disconnected facts taught in
schools, which goes by the name
of History, might well be replaced
by a course in domestic economy.
And how much better would it be,
were Latin to be superseded by
fellowship and loving kindness.
*.*
Have | not seen q family in
this town that met reverses, and
in but one single case, has the
hand of fellowship been stretched
out in friendly greeting to its
members. Education has not
tried to break down the social
barriers, and to the majority
poverty is crime. With finan.
cial failure, this family was shut
off from the light and warmth,
the laughter and song, the rain
and the dew, the moon and the
stars of human love. But for the
one hand, and that n woman's
the family was barred out from
human fellowship Think Of it
Therefore, | say, education is {
failure, if it has not entailec
upon children and parents shar,
OF duty and responsibility to
others.
***
Education failure? o.
course it is, if it has dissipatec
the moral forces of society boy
turning them into useless chan
nels. When education foster
selfshness and eXclusiveness
makes for individual well-bein,
and SNUG self-content, and dis
regards the duty of man in thu
community, it must be dubbed ,
failure. If n proper system o
ethics was caught, could citizen
give over the community at larg'
to iniquity? Can well BALANCED