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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04
Jim Casey's Fourth
The Most Glorious Day in a
Mountain Boys Life.

HSf z In CASEY had come down from ms
mountain home to attend the school
Ik9 in the village of Clayton, which rest
ed in lovely valley in West Vir-
ginia.
The boys had been talking for weeks
about the approaching Fourth, and the
royal fun they expected to have, and the
heart of Jim leaped expectantly. He was
a tall, awkward lad of II, whose ig-
norance of the ways of the village
and general lack of knowledge made
him a butt of ridicule by his tel
lows, but he was so good natured that TINS
did not concern him much, as the boys
really liked him, and their practical Jokes
were of a harmless kind.
He had never before heard of the Fourth,
and did not have the slightest notion OF It's
meaning. Nor had he the least desire to
know 1t was sufficient for him that there
was to be plenty of fun, and his happy ma
ture was content with this.
As a special mark of honor and favor,
he was assigned to the duty of ringing the
bell of the Baptist church, beginning at the
midnight hour
His companions did not think it necessary
to inform him that the sexton, crusty old
fellow, had refused to permit the bell to
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04

throat, that the frown disappeared from
the fathers face and proud, glad light
shone in his eyes
''You are superior to nature, Mabel, he
said, holding out his hands in welcome. 81
do believe you would look like rose new
washed in dew, if you did not sleep for a
fortnight"
''But do sleep, papa. When one is happy
one doesn't mind noise, even of cannon
crackers"
81 should have to be in a state of ecstatic
bliss not to mind 'em. The roar ora battle
field is music, compared to this. internal
banging"
"You forget, sir, that they are celebrat-
ing the independence of this glorious Amer
lea. l am ashamed for you. Where is
your patriotism" She released her hands,
put them behind her, and looked at him with
all the severity she could command.
"The Goddess OF Liberty offended with
one of her subjects By Jove! the role is
becoming. You should put on a red, white
and blue sash and sit on the platform at
the celebration to-day"
A wave of color swept over the neck and
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04

ter of thanks l got from him. He's just
eight years old:
Deer Uncle Ned: l am delited with
the munkey, thank you. He makes me
think of you often. And whenever mamma
winds him up and he begins to jump, NAM
ma and l feel as if we were back at your
house where all those toys are, and mamma
will look at the munkey and say: That's
your Uncle Ned all over"
'Good-by, from
"'your greatfull Hail."
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04
Something EnnnIIx Good.

80 you're not going to let your boy
have any fireworks on the Fourth"
mo"
Don't you think that's rather hard for
the youngster"
ooh, no. I've promised to take him to
the country and let him fall out of one of
his grandpa's cherry trees. Chicago Times
Herald.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04
Religious federation AMONG s..,.

A naive story is told of the reli-
gious simplicity of some of these
sealmen. One captain had taken a
crew composed almost wholly of
Catholics. A few "black sheen,
were, however, included, and one Of
the former, after the ships return,
was telling that it was the first time
he had ever been shipmates with
Protestants. But" he observed
"they were first rate fellows.
didn't see any great difference in
them from ourselves. They used to
come down every night and say the
rosary with u.s." Then, as an after
thought, he remarked: "But it was
mighty lucky for them that they
didl"-Frank Leslie's Popular Month
ly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04

"Do you believe in the saying Love
will find wayp"
"Oh, yes. Love will find way, all
right, but it isn't always the best way.
Sometimes it's the way to the poor
house" Chicago Post.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04
A FOURTH OF JULY STORY
BY CHARLES EUGENE BANKS.
think I've slept wink all
> night. Those COMPOUNDED cannon
crackers have been exploding since

"You would strike Fourth of July from
che calendar, eh, papa"
Col. tombstone whirled about in his walk
up and down the gallery to face his daugh-
ter, framed in the doorway She looked SO
fresh and beautiful in her light summer
gown, with bouquet of pansies at her
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04

y in the village OF Clayton, which rest
ed in a lovely valley in West Vir-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04

ecksniff-Yes, indeed, he actually
called me cross-eyed old hypocrite.
Newitt-How rude. It's not your
fault if you're cross-eyed.-Philadel-
mia Press
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04

Within Few years the accuracy in
the production of both fiat and round
surfaces has been so increased that the
speed of engines has been multiplied
by three. With the accurate bearings
Of the present the tripled speed gives
less trouble from heating and cutting
than did the slow speed of former
Engineers Magazine.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04
His Mothers Darling
szwVIY NIECE, Mary, was always we'll

II WWWlY NIECE, Mary, was always we'll
KLE meaning girl, but she would say the
AA wrong things almost every time"
said one old gentleman to another;
and she's got boy that's going to be her
very counterpart"
The old mans eyes twinkled, and his
plain, good-natured face was puckered with
enjoyment, as he drew from his pocketbook
small sheet Of note paper.
81 sent Hal monkey last year, that
plays all kinds of pranks when it's wound
up" he chuckled. Sent it to him for
his birthday, which happens on the
Fourth of July. Now, listen to this let
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03
MZ.GEW..SAHUA R.AHOCWG.

sian would urge that it had been inspired
by e sudden regard for the welfare of hui
man kind of the Eastern species. One is
brought to a chilling sense of this
in Russia by a recent eruption of
press censorship. When a censorship was
arranged here, 1t promised to be lenient,
for instead of assigning it to an official
especially employed for that purpose. and
hired to be rigid and exacting. it became
an attachment to a school for Eastern
languages, which the authorities wished
to help by other means than by direct sub
sidy. So 1850 rubles per year was allowed
for a professorship. the duties of which
were to include such inspection of news
papers as would keep the authorities in
formed on what their neighbors were say
ing of them. 1t seemed to be intended
originally as a sort of official clipping of
flee. If the exclusion of printed matter was
contemplated, the interdict was to lie
against Japanese, Chinese or Korean
origin, which at best could circulate only
in a small way and could not be seriously
missed if the mails failed to deliver them.
After the censorship had run nearly a
year, it enlarged it's scope to cover publ
cations in other languages. Newspapers
in English, printed in China and Japan,
and papers from Europe and the United
States fell under the ban. Since then all
these prints arriving by sea have been
transmitted to Moscow, where they are
read and mailed back, unless thrown away.
In spite of the news famine and the isola-
ton imposed by a long arctic season,
Vladivostack is an engaging place. 1t is
starting out with the ardor and confidence
of undaunted youth, and in its physical
habiliment it may probably always enjoy
the distinction of occupying most worthily
a frontier further from it's national cap
ital than any other city in the world.
FREDERICK w. EDDY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03
THE NEW JOURNALISM.
Even the SensatiOnaI Papers Have
Had Their Uses.
The Worlds Work.

The Worlds Work.
The sensational papers, along with their
noisy degradation of the profession into a
vulgar commercial trade, taught several
useful lessons. They enormously widened
the area of newspaper influence. They
discovered hitherto forgotten millions of
readers. They proved the possibility of
profitable 1-cent papers. hey brought
about the organization of profitable adVer-
Using. While they were making the in
active moraliSts mourn, they were teaching
men who were willing to profit by their
lessons the way 10 make journalism both
more useful and more profitable than it had
ever been. They were opening new fields
Of influence and of income.
Now, as a profession that can do an hon
orable and important service TO society be-
comes also profitable, it becomes increas-
inSly attractive to strong men. The period
OF the great editOr-the man who carried
on a party debate every morning and gave
his readers a sort of continuous gladiatorial
perfomance-is past. The day of the SEN
sational journalist is p~assing-the man who
boasts OF his papers circulation and of his
charltieS-becauSe other sorts of Self-con-
scious millionaires also have risen to play
this sorry game; and the newspaper bragg
CART is ceasing TO attract attention. Mean
while the conscientious, well-equipped army
OF high-minded men who practice the pro-
fession is increasing every year.
The truth is, journalism is just now be-
coming for the first time distinctly an in
dependent and attractive profession. 1t yet
needs a better esprit de corps, a sense of
professional dignity, and relief from the
quacks and the loud adventures of the
craft. There is need. too, of still higher
pay TO those thss write well. and of more
stable conditions of employment. But these
conditions are following the more stable
prosperity that the business is taking on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03
QUESTIONS AMI ANSWERS.

What is the return of population for Mis-
sissippi?-A. E. P.
In 1900 it was 1851. go.
Where is Company D., Seventeenth In
fantry?-D. l.. j.
At Vancouver barracks, State of Wash
ington.
Where and how often does the word girl
appear in the Bible?-N.
Girl" occurs in Joel, iii, 3; in %Zechariah,
viii, 5.
When and where did Gen. L. S. Grant
DEER. c.. S.
At Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, N.
Y, July %. 1885.
when did the Olympian period end?
IT. G.. S.
The first Olympiad reckoned from 76 B.
c., the 293d. and last ended in 294 A. d.
Right of Way: The statutes of Indiana
specify that "the right of way over the land
of another shall not be acquired by adverse
use unless such use shall have been con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03

tinued uninterreuptedly for twenty years
This is rather a negative statement anu
we should say. does imply a right tha'
might not be modified by circumstances
You should submit your case 10 a lawyer.
When was the first magazine puplsheu III
this country. and by whOm?-P. {.
The General Magazine and Historical
Chronicle" issued at Philadelphia, In I4l'
by A. S. Bradford. Six numbers were pub
lished.
Which country carries the most freight
on the railroads in a year, Great Britain OF
the United States, and what are the hs-
ures?-H. Z. 2.
The United States, by 1,O7l, 1919 TONS to
424. 929, 513 tons in 1900.
We have heard different stories, all
strange. of a so-called tailor bird. If there
is such a bird, will you describe its pc
cuIiarities ?-M. and j.
This is a common bird of India, Burma
and China, named from the way it makes
a nest. This consists of two or three
large leaves stitched together, the holes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03

in China. 64 B.. c. shintoism. 10000.
a development of the very ancient an
cestral worship of Japan. Judaism. 10000.
had Moses for it's great ~lawgiver. For
Polytheism 11s.COO.coO followers are claimed.
You may care 10 know. for purposes q
comparison, that Christians are put at 47.-
100000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03
Scarcity OF Telephones in London.
SPECTATOR" in the Outlook.

Spectator" in the Outlook.
To one coming from the whirl OF a me-
trOpOlis 10 this village, the almost entire
absence of the twitter of the tele-
phone bell is. on the whole. rather soothing.
Although it may be heard in the largest
business or theater offices, it does not whir
here, there and everywhere, as it does
even in small Western frontier towns in the
United States. In private houses it is al
most unknown, and to make an appoint
ment with a friend means. as of old. a day
or two for interchange OF notes. The new
woman, who does her marketing with
various market-stalls over the phone. I'M
der the shelter OF her own haIl or at her
library desk. has not yet been invented in
The village OF London. Perhaps, had the
enterprise 10 introduce this convenient in
ventiOn been wanting among the villagers
themselves. the crowd of American cleo
tricians at present working in london
would have made some Roadway, but for
the fact that a political obstacle blocks the
way in the shape Of an unreconciled con-
hict between government and private in
terest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03
PARROTS

~ Young Cuban and Mexican Par
NF&t8 rOts have arrived. Extra low prices
A during this month. Wholesale aud
retail. =. r. KEEPER,
All and 49, Massachusetts Ave.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03
The ExaItation of the Humble.

He that is down need fear no fall;
He that is low no pride.
He that Is humble ever shall
Have Goo 10 be his guide.
i am content with what I have,
Little be IL or much;
And. Lord. contentment still / crave,
Because thou say est such
FulIness 10 such a burden is
That 90 on pilgrimage.
Here little. and hereafter bliss.
Is best from age TO age
ohm Bunyan, author OF Pilgrims Progress
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03


Is the ambergris of stories Of the seas a
reality? 2. II so, what are the facts as 70
its nature and Value2 3. Where and how Is
cobalt found and worked, and for what is Il
used2 : e.
Yes. 2 II forms in the intestines OF the
sperm whale and is found ahoat on the
ocean. II once was used in medicines. but
now is employed in making perfumery-
Dissolved in alcohol. il is used as a base
and makes the perfumery more lasting An
ounce is worth about IS. 3. II is found IN
various parts of the world. nowhere very
abundant. A few tons are mined yearly IN
this country. It's oxide is the usual ore.
the native metal being found only occa-
sionally in meteorites and amounting 10
less than l per cent. OF the whole. Asso-
ciated with the ores, usually. are nickel
compounds. nickel and sulphur. The ore Is
roasted. cobalt salts are extracted with an
acid, arsenic is precipitated out with sui
phuretted hydrogen or an iron salt, and
cobalt is precipitated with chlorine water,
or by the use OF nitrate of potassa. altering
and dissolving. Cobalt's compounds are
used In pigments. chiefly in coloring glass.
china and Willow-pattern plates
take their color from one cobalt compound
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31

Few questions at the present
day are capable of arousing
more bitterness OF dispute than
that concerning the effect of alcohol
upon the human system. Some assert
that its daily use in moderation is, if
not essential, at least beneficial to
health, while others hold that the
word moderation" is inapplicable 20
the use of wine even in the most min
ute quantities.
! Science, which is impartial and seeks
facts alone without regard to their
possible application, does not hold to
either of these views in its entirety.
but inclines to the side of the total
abstainers. 1t does not regard alcohol
as food In the sense that it can be
taken regularly as a substitute for the
albumens. the fats and the starches
of ordinary food but it does say that
it may act as such, in the absence of
other food, for short time. and that
its use may in an emergency be life
saving.
This Is practically placing alcohol
with the drugs-substance which may
be useful in sickness, but are injurious
in health; and that is really where it
belongs.
1t is common belief that a drink of
whisky or brandy Is warming. but the |
reverse is the fact. Alcohol dilates
the blood-vessels Of the surface. and so |
makes the skin feel warm, but at the |
same time radiation of beat from the !
surface is increased and the tempera-
ture of the body is lowered. The action
Of alcohol is also to lower the vital pro-
'esses by causing a slow oxidation OF
he waste products.
The very fact Of its interference with
he oxidation Of the tissues of the body
'auses depression of the vital forces,
md so of the resisting power of the
to invasion by disease germs.
And here practice supports theory, for
is fact of common observation that
lnder equal conditions of exposure the
labitual drinker almost always sue
umbs sooner than the abstainer.--
fouth's Companion, 1901.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31

A colored minister at a conference
once told how hard it was to turn a
man out of the church for drunken
ness, when he began work in his pres
ent parish, ten years ago. Said he.
The members OF the church were all
agreed, and told me so, that drinking
was mighty bad thing, and a man
who drank ought to be turned out. but
like the rats, no one wanted to take
the job of putting a bell on the cat.
Finally | called church meeting. over
a particularly bad case, and after the
matter had been discussed /. as mod
orator, said. 1 wait for a motion Not
man made a sound. Well | said
IL none Of you will make a motion
will. / move that Brother -- be ex-
PEELED from this church for the sin of
drinking Not a word from any or
them. VIII some one second the mo-
tion?' | asked, but got no reply. Very
Well said /, I second the motion.
And now | said, the motion having
been properly made and seconded.
vote that Brother --- be expelled from
this church, and he Is expelled. And
he was, although there wasn't a man
who had said anything but myself. But
1t taught them the lesson. We haven't
had to expel only one or two more for
drinking in all these ten years. And
they've got so they don't dare TO have
me see them going into a saloon. now.
even II they don't have anything more
suspicious looking than kerosene can
with them-for some OF them. | found |
out, got so they even took a Kerosene
can TO get beer IN"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31

Very often moral cowardice under.
lies the beginning of drunken career
There are ideas of good fellowship as
sociated with drinking.
A hundred thousand young men
drink every day because they are
afraid people will think they are not
good fellows"
Have the courage to be a good fell
low of the kind that is not picked in
WHISKY When man wonders at
your ordering some harmless stun
something free from alcohol. point to
the drunkard at the other end of the
par. and say: THAT man once Thought
that a bracer would not hurt him.
am modest enough to believe that what
hurt him may hurt me, shall need
all my feeble ability to compete with
such geniuses as you other fellows
therefore | propose to keep intact nv
brain and the mucuous membrane that
lines me-"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
encouragement for Those Working Against
the Liquor Traffic.

! cion by the sheriff since the wearer q,
/ a"faglan coat wsrs caught few month
ago with a can of. whisky fitted under
| this garment This announcement ,yas
recently made by Samuel T.. Pearson
I;thp p9SoAi.sheria Of" PORTLAND, who
MimclAha CIU'6' N1Nrc can in wbt.b
one gallon of whisky was carried. was
9sNnihi1a1L 'o5 the speaiori- as the latest
gesaEfof .evading the prohibition laws
otshls {ftsiri,4
I The 'sugiggtSof Sheriff Parsons ad-
.aTesS vas, Does Prohibition Prohi.
DIt' and his answer was "Emphatir-
al!s> yGs.@ lie was. elected thirteen
months. ago and he was ready to take
an oath that.not onee:of the 400 saloons
that were rnnpiQg: vide open" in his
county when he entered on his dutios
is doing business now.
To-day four-hfths OF the state of
Maine is more free from the blight OF
liquor traffic" said MIR. Pearson "th,n
any similar extent of territory in the
country. There are still in operation
III rum shops in the city of Bangor
the state capital, but that is not the
tault OF the prohibition system but of
lack Of its enforcement | heard re-
Gently of man who became i'll in n
town In my county, and though the
doctor prescribed liquor as a stimrlant
1t was impossible for his attendants to
procure any"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31
France In Fearful Pllrht.

owing to the increasing spread O,
alcoholism crime has trebled in France
during the last fifteen years, although
the population mas hardly increased at
all In the course of the year 1899
there were 516,G71 persons committed
to prison. In Paris more than half tbe
persons arrested are below q years of
age, and nearly all Of them have com
mltted serious crimes. In one wear
alone there were thirty murders. thir~
ty-nine homicIdes, three parrlcideg
TWO poisonings, ia infanticides. 4212
cases OF cutting and wounding. twenty
hVe incendiarisms, 233 assaults. ana
I2'3OO robberies committed in Paris.
In 1880 the suicides in France were
Hve per 100000 inhabitants; now the
proportion Is twenty-five. In 1896
there were S75 suicides of young peo-
pie between l6 and 81 years old. and
eishty-seyen suicides of children IN
der 16.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31

Henry Ward Beecher, whose sermons
on temperance every young man should
reau' sald this: IF you say yes,
nave natural craving for it,. then IN
you say, That is the very reason
why you should not take IT. II Won
have no craving for it. why should
you peru yourself by it? And If you
nave SHch craving, surely, If you are
wise, you will not put yourself in dan.
ger by indulging it"
Look at the thing frc.l the view
point of your own interest. II Won
mad to employ young men to work for
YOU yGl would avoid drinking men.
Then don't drink whisky yourself.
Dont give every successful. conserya-
I'VE man the best OF reasons for mis-
treating you.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31
81 MIND the Time.

II .Miql the Time"
ohe siiS and'drraps, ns.uaust. ~ huui.
L. ot The he3e wiflr-the- lplrshing eyes
.Ihat c66ef~shiu' cr6Nrir in'.ln,r arms and
rode s-S
''SOn.Asg :boseni,r fan or. J.sc..
Nnd now he's grown. aid, ~, too. thinks.
Tho miles may div sic. tal$iWain. !, +.
ut the soft 'caresS-of. ls..1oye JhGod 'BIes
My childl' And he s-eSs. aBait,
Ihc mPthcIS face. with an angels Grace.
Away In. J dIsl2nt cins ~
Md he says apart to his usthing E"art:
IT miIsr4the tlmel"
u, mind the time. My xIearr., S-b,n she
4, ,-Was wfnsone and. sbhrp 'snT fair:
Hut the blooms 'derFnt Irdrh the Gacr. My
e,hPa 'ijs...s6ui.is .dfiaajj viii: corcr
I mind the time when her eye was bright
And her lips the life Of song:
But the light has. He'd. aad the song IS
dead. ".,....'
And the days are growing lo,s,
Her head Is. beltt with. the weight OF
years.
Perhaps-but I think that she.
When she kneels to pray. remembers 10
A word, as Of old. for me
And se fell asleep. with smile on his
lips.
And dreamed of the distant cline:
And an angel heard, and an angel wept
As he murmured low where he calmly
slept:
Il mind the time"
Henry Edward Warner in the Balti-
more News.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-31

w. j. Mckee. NJ. l.. A., who recently
returned to his home in Windsor from
his sessional duties at Toronto. sava
that the prohibition bill introduced By
Premier Ross is creating widespread
interest throughout the province, and
he thinks 1t VIII be the paramount
question before the Legislature at the
present session.