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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30
CARNAT|ON day
CONTINUED FROM FIRST pAaEl

fAOM FIRST fAdEI
the rights of others. He won greatness
by meeting and solving the issues as
they arose mot by Sinking them Inject
ing them with wisdom, with the exer-
cise of the most skillful and cautious
judgment, but with fearless resolution
when the time of crisis came. He met
each crisis on its own merits; he never
sought excuse for Sinking task in the
fact that it was different from the one
he had expected to face. The long
public career, which opened when as a
boy he carried musket in the ranks
and closed when as man in the prime
of his intellectual strength he stood
among the worlds chief statesmen,
came to what it was because he treated
each triumph as opening the road to
fresh effort not as an excuse for ceasing
from effort. He undertook mighty
tasks. Some of them he finished COM
pletely; others we must finish; and there
remain yet others which he did not have
to face, but which if we are worthy to
be the inheritors of his. principles we
will in our turn face with the same reso-
luton, the same sanity, the same I'M
faltering belief in the greatness of this
country, and unfaltering championship
of the rights of each and all of our PEG.
pie, which marked his high and splendid
career,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30
LOCAL BREvITlEs.

Morristown Brandy drops and their
analysis, will be the subject for discus
sion at the meeting of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union. Tuesday,
February 8, at p. M, in their rooms at
Y. M. O. A. Everybody welcome.
In order that an inventory can be
made Messrs. Bennell & Co. announce
the store will be closed at five o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. Acker Merrill &
Condit having purchased the store will
take possession Monday. Mr.. Bennell
will be retained as manager.
The bad curve this ride Of Summit in
the Lackawanna is to eliminated to a
great degree by running the tracks just
west of the Passaic river through the
vale making connection with the Ber-
uardsville branch about a mile west of
Summit. Another bad curve between
Chatham and Madison will be greatly
eased.
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OBITUARY.
w. ALLsToN FLAaG.

w. Allston Flagg, we'll known in
Morristown, with a summer residence
on Madison avenue and winter home
in New York died in the latter city on
Wednesday morning. Mr.. Flagg who
has been ill for over year has made a
gallant uphill fight for health only to
succumb at last to pneumonia. He was
the son of the late DR.. j. B. Flagg who
resided on High street and was mem.
Der of the brokerage firm of Post &
Flagg which he founded in 1888. On
June 9. 1898 Mr.. Flagg was elected a
member of the Stock Exchange. He was
a member of the Morristown Club, the
the Morris County Golf Club, the Field
Club, the Union Racquet and Tennis
and the New York Riding Association.
A widow and three children survive.
WILLIAM H. MEsLAR.
William FL. Meslar, one of Morris
towns Oldest and highly respected citi-
zens died at his home on Washington
street Saturday morning after brief
illness. Mr.. Meslar was born February
Goth, 1886 and lived his entire life Of
sixty seven years in this vicinity. He
followed the plumbers trade from boy
when he started as an apprentice for
Ichabod Soaring whose shop then oc-
cupied the site where the Morris County
Savings Bank now stands In 1866, Mr..
Meslar married Sarah J. Shipman. The
deceased was connected with Washington
Engine Company from its organization
and officiated as foreman Of the Compa.
ny for several years. He was As
sistant Chief of the Fire Department for
three years, and also a member of the
Exempt Firemen's Association. At the
recent meeting of the State Association
he was elected vice. president.
Seven children survive. Walter, who
was in partnership with him, Charles,
Arthur and Harry, and three daughters,
Mrs. Eta Lowpacker, Of Bloomfield;
Mrs. Annie Beers, of Newark, and Mrs
Lena Woodruff, of Dover.
Funeral services were held from his
late residence on Washington street on
TUESDAY, afternoon, the Rev. J. l.. Hurl.
but officiating. The bearers were Chas.
McCollum, Amos Pruden, Frederick De.
Coster, John Denman, Paul Levy and
Thomas Dempsey. Interment was made
in Evergreen cemetery.
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WONDERFUL GROWTH OF THE
METHODlSTS

One million five hundred thousand
converts have been made by the Meth
odist Episcopal church during the four
years of the twentieth century thank
offering movement.
This is the spiritual accomplishment
to be placed on church annals alongside
of the $20,000,000 for benevolences
raised through the same movement.
This announcement is made in the
Northwestern Christian Advocate, the
figures being based on reports of the
probationers admitted to the church.
In making 1900, 600 converts the
church has done more than it originally
proposed to do, though not SO much as
its leaders asked for when the twentieth
century movement was fully organized
The first suggestion was 1000, 00(
souls; the second 100000 There is
however, chance, the Advocate be-
lieves, that if full returns could be &C.
cured, the higher figure would b.
reached. The number of probationerl
admitted to the church during each O
the last four years is as follows: 1899
257, 500; 1900, 2s7,19a; 1901. 273,ss5
1902, 295, 619.
In making the estimates of 1,500,00
converts, an addition of 100000 is mad
to the probationer figures, to allow TO
probationers who were advanced from
probation to full membership in charge
in the fall conferences, before the report
were made out. Two of the bishop
believe that this figure should be create
by at least 100000, bringing the total o
converts to about 100000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

AS will be known to most of our read
ers the present editor of the Chronicle
some time ago, disposed of his interest
in the paper to the Morris County Chron'
icle Company. Recently he resigned his
connection with the paper to occupy a
position with the Mutual Life Insurance
Co. of New York, whom he will repre-
sent in Morris County with an office In
the Trust Company Building, Morris
town.
In this, the last copy OF the paper
which he will edit, he takes pleasure IN
returning thanks to the patrons OF the
Chronicle for their hearty support
during the past nine years. and ne be-
speaks for his successor, james f..
Landy, newspaper man of considerable
experience, a continuance of their favor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30
WHEN VOTING MACHINES ARE USED.

1.-THE use of voting machines will
eliminate recounts and rejected ballots
from the election incidents and this will
save good deal of money and an aver
age of 1850 votes at each election re-
marks the Jersey City Journal. The
machines will record larger number of
votes in an hour than can be recorded
by the ballot system and a smaller num-
Der of polling places will answer. There
are at least 200 polling places where the
total vote is 200 or less and these can be
consolidated. This will save at least
$40, 900 year.
"There are now lila voting places
and the use of machines will reduce the
time of the election officers at least one
day. Even if there were reduction of
the number of polling places to about
914 the saving would be one day for
each of the four officers at each polling
place and this will amount to at least
$1S,280. The saving of printing bills
will cut out another $4,000 in the
State, for there are millions of tickets
used at each election
''These items should cut down the
election expenses something like $78,28O
and it would not take many years to
save the cost of the machines. The
election business will end on election
day within few minutes after the polls
close, and thus the suspense will be
over within an hour after the polls
close. Every argument is in favor Of
the voting machines, and if the State is
going to pay for them they cannot come
too SOON"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

Springfield, Mass, Jan. 20. The boil.
err makers and their helpers in the Bos-
ton and Albany railroad shops in West
Springfield, numbering about forty,
have struck. The step was taken to
secure the discharge of fellow work.
man, who, they claimed, was not a
member of the union in good standing,
for the reason that he had not paid his
dues for some time.
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JUST AS 1T USED TO BE !"

l wish were boy again,
That age were but dream,
That things would change from what
they are
To what they used to seem;
That I were but little boy
And from my mothers knee
Gould find that dear old Fairyland,
just as it used to be. n
II wishes only were horse,
How fast away I'd ride
Across the plains of yesterday.
Bold comrades by my side;
Once more I'd rescue captive maids;
All doughty deeds you'd see,
If were but hero bold,
just as used to be.
With Beanstalk Jack I'd sally forth
To giants gill galore;
In seven-l eagued boots I'd stride away
To that enchanted shore
Where ogres dwell, in castles huge,
And mermaids swarm the sea;
Oh, how I'd love to find them all
Just as they used to bel
My little boy says I'm all wrong
That nothing's changed at all,
That he can show me ogres fierce,
And giants more than tall;
Then, clasping his dear hand in mine,
He leads me forth to see
Years drop as leaves; I'm young again,
just as used to be.
Frederick Mitchell Monroe in
Town and Country.
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Kingston, Jamaica. Jan. 29.--In reply
to a government inquiry the chamber
of commerce reports that American
boots and shoes outrun those of Brit
ish manufacture because the orders are
filed quicker, the quality and shape
are better and the price is cheaper,
Americans completely dominate the ia
maican market in these lines. The gov
ernment's inquiry will result in urgent
representation on the subject being
made to the British manufacturers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

Those women who led the crusade
that kept Mormon Delegate Roberts out
of a seat in Congress, when asked if they
are preparing to enter upon a crusade
against Reid Smoot, if he be elected
United States Senator, reply in the mega,
tive, and give as their reason that they
expect their constitutional amendment
against pohgamy to be adopted ir time
to prevent Smoot from taking his seat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

A man in New York has asked the
courts to declare a sky scraper to be a
nuisance because it creates a draught
and keeps customers away from his
store, across the street.
That might be an objection iu winter,
but do the people object to the draught
in hot summer weather?
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

Cheap salad oil is given as the cause
of nearly killing family in Trenton on
Saturday night, and the State Board OF
Health has taken up the case with a
view to finding out whether the oil con-
tanned ptomaines that caused poisoning.
Beside the cheap bottled salad oils for
sale in nearly all grocery stores, there
are low priced sardines put up in the
same grades of oil, which make them
dangerous to health and life.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

The Newark health authorities have
discovered that II 900 pounds of barrel
ed sugar taken from the sunken steam
lighter Nanticoke which went down re-
Gently in the Passaic river. has been sold
to a confectionery firm in that city and
is being used in the manufacture OF
candy. The use of the sugar for candy
making has been stopped until the city
bacteriologist can determine whether it
contains any germs from polluted water
of the river.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

Sidewalks should be cleaned down to
the stone or cement if possible. it is well
to remember that frequently such walks
are more dangerous than those having
a slight layer of trodden snow on them.
Considerate householders who do their
sidewalk cleaning thoroughly-and
there are some who do-should sift a
very slight sprinkling of ashes, not
cinders, and never salt, on their walks
when they become icy. That may save
somebody's limbs and avert suit for
damages.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

Those whose business it is to prepare
Bible lessons for Sunday School pupils
are just now at high tension over pos
sible developments at the Chicago con-
vention OF Bible teachers, called for
February 10th. Conservatives and liber-
ais in theology are arrayed against each
other, and the conservatives admit some
alarm ov-r the possible ascendency of
the liberals, and the advance of higher
criticism.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

There is now left only one cardinal
who is the appointee of Pope Plus TX.
Leo has outlived all save Cardinal
Oreglia, and he Is IA and in poor health.
Great fear is expressed in Roman Cath
olic circles, especially abroad, that the
ceremonies of coming anniversaries will
prove too much for the aged pontiff,
hut the fear also beings on fresh gossip
about the succession.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30
DECISION AFFECTING ORDER OF ME-
CHANlcS.

State Secretary Meirs of the New Jer-
sey State Council Junior Order Ameri-
can Mechanics. has received notice that
Vice Chancellor Pitney has decided in
favor Of the State Council the suit
brought by the National Council to COM
pei the former to pay over about $50,
900 back per capita tax due at the time
the state council broke away from the
national organization, New Jersey to-
gether with Pennsylvania, Maryland and
some other states three or four years ago.
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lMnilhnr nernil. rrnin.

Palmyra, N. Y, Jan. 27.-Passenger
train No. Is, eastbound, ON the New
York Central railroad, was thrown
into the ditch few yards east Of this
station by mailbag being thrown I'M
der the wheels of the engine from
train No. 80, fast mail, westbound. No
one was seriously injured.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30
Ned Hanlon Get, Baseball Ground,

Ned HanlOn Gets Baseball Grounds
Baltimore, Md, Jan. 29.-Judge Har-
Ian has ratified the sale to Edward
Hanlon of the American league base
ball park. The consideration was
$1,000. In an interview Mr.. Hanlon
said that the ratification means that
Baltimore will have a baseball team
next year, but declined to say whether
the National, American or Eastern
league would be represented here.
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Former senator Allen Dead,

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 29--John Beard
Allen formerly United States senator
from Washington, is dead suddenly, at
his residence here of angina pectoris
Senator Allen was born at Crawfords-
vile, Ind, in 1S45, and came west while
a young man. He had long been prom
inent in Republican politics in the
northwest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30

A member of the New York Senate
has introduced bill against the evil of
landscape Disagreement by huge adver-
tisements. The time is coming when
legislative restraints will no longer be
necessary to check this abuse; for bust
ness men will soon universally realize
that for other than aesthetic reasons the
daily newspaper is the best place for
advertisements.
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noted Maine Artist Dena.

Portland, Me-, Jan. &c Charles Fred
Kimball, a landscape painter and one
of the best known artists in Maine, is
dead at his home at Morrills. Mr.. Kim
ball complained Of difficulty Of breath
ing and expired In a few minutes. He
is survived by a widow and daughter.
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Wretch.

George, did you ever love any other
woman as we'll as you love ME ~
sob, yes, dear; several of them"
Indeed! Why didn't you marry one
Of them instead of me r.
'sWell, suppose I'll be asking myself
that question, too, some day"
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The UItra-Canine.

"How provoking wanted to take
our bulldog out riding and now 1 have
TO wait until the maid cleans his teeth. 4
What is the trouble. Mabel ~
Why. he bit a tramp"
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AGRICULTURAL BILL PASSED.

The House after hard work has passed
the agricultural appropriation bill with
only one amendment of moment. an in
crease of the appropriation for free seeds
from $s7O,O to 100000.
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The Latest Phase of the william
Potter Labor Troubles.

Potter Labor Troubles.
Schenectady, N. Y, Jan. 30. = The
trades assembly at its last meeting
took up the appeal of the local painters
union in the matter of the strike that
is being waged by the employees of
Shafer 4 Barry, painting contractors,
over the unemployment of William
Potter, militiaman, and decided to
order general boycott placed upon
the offending firm.
This will cover all the trades allied
with the central body, and by this
move the trades unionists hope to
coerce Shafer & Barry into finally dis
charging Potter.
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HIS MOTHERS PRAYERS.


II remember her prayers, and they
have always followed me. They have
chung to me all my life."
"I had no fears of Gettysburg. and ii
you really want to know l tell you why
I'm the stress and pinch of the cam
paign there, went to my room, and got
down on my knees and prayed Almighty
God for victory at Gettysburg.
"And then and there made a solemn
VOW with my Maker that if He would
stand by the boys at Gettysburg would
stand by Him. And He did. and will.
AFTER this, don't know how it was
and it is not for me to explain, but,
somehow or other, sweet comfort
crept into my soul, that God Almighty
had taken the whole thing into His own
hands, land we were bound to win at
Gettsy burg"
(Reply to general who insisted on
the President signing the warrants for
the execution of twenty four deserters
There are already too many weeping
widows in the United States. For Gods
sake, don't ask me to add to the number
for won't do it"
REPLY TO A PLEA FOR THE
LIFE OF A SOLDIER.
"Well, think the boy can do us more
good above the ground than under it, "
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Tin every light in which the state of
the Hawaiian Islands can be contem,
plated, it is an object of profound inter
est for the United States"
GENERAL GRANT.
II approve, nevertheless, of whatever
may tend to strengthen and sustain
General Grant and the noble armie,
now under his direction.
my previous high estimate of General
Grant has been heightened by what has
occurred in the remarkable campaign be
is now conducting. while the magnitude
and difficulty Of the task before him do
not prove less than expected. =
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wounded2 Then, as the Scripture says
that in the shedding of blood is remission
of sins, I guess we'll have to let him off
this time"
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Logical REASONING .

Teacher-Tommy. can you tell who
Atlas was r.
81 Tommy Yes'm. He was a coal dealer
! l"A coal dealer :"
Il a'pOse he was. He held everybody
up" S1'
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THE BIBLE.

4" In regard to the Great Book 1 have
only to say that it is the best gift which
God as given man.
IAN the good from the Saviour of the
world is communicated to us through
this book. But for this book we could
not know right from wrong. All those
things desirable to man are contained
in il y
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Philadelphia, Jan. 29.-The Philadel-
phia and Reading Coal and Iron con-
pany, the last Of the signatory com
panies to the arbitration plan, opened
Its case during the day before the coal
strike commission. There were no for
maIities in opening the case. Simon
P. Wolverton, the company's leading
counsel before the commission, pre-
sented to the arbitrators in book form
all the communications that have pass
ed between the mine workers. their or
ganizatiOn and the coal operators.
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The Powys Castle Lost.

London, Jan. 20. ~ 1t is announced
that the British bark Powys Castle,
Captain Jenkins, from Tacoma Oct. 81
for Queenstown, was lost off Staten
Island, at the southern extremity of
South America, on Jan. 8. Two of her
crow were drowned. The rest are safe.
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MAJOR GLENN ACQUITTED.

Verdict OF the Court Martial That
Tried His Case at Manila.
Manila, Jan. 20. Major Edwin F
Glenn Of the Fifth infantry, who was
tried by court martial on the charge Of
unlawfully killing prisoners of war,
has been acquitted.
Major Glenn has been ordered to re-
turn to duty. The verdict is popular.
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A DEsERTER.

"The following reply was made by
Mr.. Lincoln to an application for the
pardon of a soldier who had shown him
self very brave in war, and had been
severely wounded, but afterwards
deserted M aas uaG f
'tDid. you say he was once badly
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STAND BY THE FLAG.

"Again I admonish you not to be
turned from your stern purpose of de-
Tending our beloved country and its free
institutions by any arguments urged by
ambitious and designing men, but stand
fast to the Union and the old flag"
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REMARKS TO NEGROES IN THE
STREETS OF RICHMOND.
LAST VERBAL MESSAGE

"a verbal message given to Hon.
Schuyler Colfax, April IA, 1855, for the
miners of the west.) "Tell the miners,
from me, that shall promote their
interests to the utmost Of my ability,
because their prosperity is the prosperity
of the nation; and we shall prove, in a
very few years, that we are, indeed. the
treasury of the world"
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A CHRISTIAN.

(Reply to an Illinois clergyman, who
asked Mr.. Lincoln il he was Chris.
tianl. when left Springfield, asked
the people to pray for me /; was not q
Christian. When buried my son, the
severest trial of my life. was not a
Christian. But when l went to Gettys-
burg, and saw the graves of thousands
of our soldiers, then and there conse-
Grated myself to Christ. do love Jesus .
AMERICANS ARE BROTHERS.
sLet us at all times remember that
all American citizens are brothers of a
common country, and should dwell to-
gether in the bonds of fraternal feeling"
Thoughtful men must feel that the
fate of civilization upon this continent
is involved in the issue of our contest.
Among the most gratifying proofs of
this conviction is the hearty devotion
everywhere exhibited by our schools
and colleges to the national cause. I
am most thankful if my labors have
seemed to conduce to the preservation
of those institutions under which alone
we can expect good government and in
its train sound learning and the pro-
gress of the liberal arts"
REMARKS TO NEGROES IN THE
STREETS OF RICHMOND.
"My poor friends, you are free
free as air. You can cast off the name
of slave and trample upon it; it will
come to you no more. Liberty is your
birthright. God gave it TO you as he
gave it to others. and it is sin that you
have been deprived of it for SO many
years.
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possible. Let none attempt it.
g In solemn awe pronounce the name,
and in its naked, deafness, splendor,