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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17
RAPID GROWTH OF CRIME.

In his charge to the jury at Nash
court last week, Judge Brown, as report
ed by the Nashville Graphic, referred to
the rapid growth of crime in the United
State, which he attributed to the con-
tinually increasing population and i'm
portation of a foreign element. In the
year just passed, said he. there were
over eleven thousand homicides in the
United States, North Cardinals quota
being 2S5, Virginia $50, New York over
$50, Texas over LOO, the only State
moving a decrease being Kentucky,
whose record was $50, but a correspond
ing increase in other crimes. Judge
Brown then impressed the grand Jury
with the Importance of a strict obsery-
ance CT their duty as the custodians of
the peace and welfare of the county and
its citizens, stating that failure to punish
the guilty on the part of one jury did
great harm.
The figures presented by Judge Brown
must give pause to all and
good citizens. 1t is a sad commentary
upon our boosted civilization.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17
MISUNDERSTANDING AS TO a.
& u COLLEGE.

The acrimonious debate in the closing
hours Of the State Senate about the ap-
rropriation for the A. and NJ. College
was largely based upon a misapprehen-
sion of facts. Some Of the legislators,
seeing that the college was in debt about
sG8 600. seemed to think this debt was
unauthorized and made it the basis for
undeserved criticism of the excel
lent and progressive management OF
the institution. hey did not re-
fleet that the debt was due to the failure
Of the Revenue Act of 1901 and the dis
astrous fire Of November 29th, 1902,
which destroyed a three story and base
ment brick building, with brick and
wooden building adjacent. These build
ings contained he largest dormitorv in
the college, the college dining Ioon and
emergency the trustees determined to re-
place these buildings by the erection Of
larger and better ones. 1t WAS a wise
decision, approved by the Board OF As-
1lculI1rP ana Iuc bON . ooui.1H
1914, 24S has been spent upon these build
ings and it will require an additional 3d.
eco to complete and equip them.
The last Legislature appropriated
$4,000 to erect a textile building, but the
Treasurer has not been able to pay the
appropriation. The trustees could not
fcracan tho deficit and when thew COn-
tracted for the building they expected the
appropriations would be available. If the
1893 legislators had realized that the bulk
OF the debt was due to the erection Of
these buildings, authorized by law, we
are sure the severe and undeserved
criticisms in the Senate would nave been
withheld.
The Legislature evidently determined
closely the Agricultural Department and
the A. and NJ. College. They should be
'one and inseparable.' The arrange
ments already made by the Department
make such union impossible at once, but
q long step has been taken toward effect
ing it. The desire of the Agricultural
Department, worthy of all commenda-
ticn, to erect q needed Agricultural
Building at the college is a step in the
right direction. When it is erected. Of
ticers of the Agricultural Department
should have offices in it instead of in the
city Of Raleigh, the Commissioner should
give practical instruction in agriculture,
and the College and the Department
should "be married and live together
happily ever afterward." 1t will be the
best service the Department can render
to bear the chief part in the education
Of 1000 farmers sons every year. and
the best thing the college can do to have
officers, instructors and students at work
for the development of all the agricul-
tural interests of the Commonwealth A
long step in that direction has been
taken and the legislation of the session
OF 1908 will promote the desired union.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17
AS TO PISTOL TOTING.

Recent crimes il North and South Car
oilna, Where the man who killed his
enemy or antagonist whipped a pistol out
OF his pocket in a moment, shows that
pistol toting is all too common in the
C~arolinas. The press and the pulpit
the twin teachers and leaders of grown
up men-must use every influence to put
an end to that unlawful and DANGEROUS
practice. Many a man has stained his
hands in the blood of his fellow man in
a moment of passion, who would other
wise have no guilt of taking another's
life, if he had not been in the habit of
passed a law forbidding the sale of pis-
tolls except to officers of the law. 1t is
a good statute.
But, while the people of North Caro-
faults squarely in the face, and seeking
to remedy the pistol toting, which is
very rare among US when the number of
homicides is considered, the people of
C.iei oIdteS ought 10 40 likewise. In
fact the practice in these two States is
much less common than in some locali-
ties that assume to lecture the Carolinas.
A special telegram from Kokomo, In
diana, to the Chicago Chronicle shows
that the area of the chief pistol toting
is north of the Ohio river. The tele-
gram reads:
superintendent Ogg, of the city
schools, today ordered all the boys in
school searched for weapons. About five
hundred small calibre pistols were
found. All these had loaded cartridges
III them, and Chief of Police Taylor pro-
nounced them deadly weapons"
No such examination in any Southern
city would show the young boys growing
up with the deadly weapon toting habit.
Our men do more killing, but our boys
rarely carry deadly weapons on their
person. The next generation will show
an improvement in the matter of homi-
cides.
Speaking Of pistol toting a thought
full member of the State Senate who lives
in Piedmont North Carolina said it had
been his observation that no men, save
in case of an expected assault, carried
pistols except men who have some Sc
cret sin and who were conscious of be-
ing violators of the law. And he is
very nearly right about it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17
WHEN TO BEGIN STUDY.

The school teachers Of Massachusetts
nave re-opened the never-to-be-soIved
question as to what g children should
be sent to school. The new discussion
was opened by Mr.. Frank E. Parlin, su-
p~erintendent of the Quincy schools who,
in his annual report, said:
Had I a child he would not go to
school with my consent before the age
of seven, and I should expect him at the
age of fourteen to be much better de-
veloped and much better educated than
if he entered school at the age Of five"
Interviews with school superintendent
and educators of experience and influence
show many different views on this ques-
ton. some, wholly disagreeing and others
accepting Superintendent Parlin's point
of view, and still some others taking
middle ground. President Eliot, of Har-
ward University, said:
''This is really an old question and one
that has practically been settled. have
no new views on the subject and | be-
lieve, as I said. that the boy or girl who
enters the kindergarten at four and goes
to the public or perhaps a private school
at Six Will get a better start than one
who begins his school life at seven"
Edwin S. Seaver, superintendent Of
Boston Schools, believes in sending
children to school at an early age, say
ing:
LAS a rule I think that no harm can
come to healthy children if they begin
their school career at five
superintendent George I. Aldrich of the
Brookline schools does not think that
children are sent to school at too early
an age.
Superintendent Of Schools Francis
Cogswell, of Cambridge, believes in the
system now in in Cambridge,
Which takes little children off the streets
and places them in the Kindergarten de-
one-half to four and one-half years.
Superintendent Gordon A. Southworth,
of Somerville, said:
81 think that a child of five yeai,; old is
fUieC ~ ShOuSu " NC SUDJccUou TO some
educational work, but it more closely APP
proaches my idea of the fitness Of things
to modify the course Of study.
The law Of North Carolina does not
permit a child to be received in the pub
lie chools until the age of six. We may
take that as the formal expression of the
sentiment of this State as to the age
when children should begin to go to
school.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17

cause of Boston then was the cause of
all. The injury of one To- is the con-
Germ Of all. The tobacco farmers North
and South are destined to be doomed to
serfdom by the tobacco trust unless they
can find or make a way to get out of its
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17

Mr.. Hanna continues to tell us that
there are no trusts. If he will examine
the congressional Record Of February
18th, he will find an appendix to the
speech by Congressman LittIefield con-
tanning a list Of trusts in the United
States. The list was compiled by the
congressional Information Bureau; it
covers six pages of the Record and gives
the names of 500 trusts with an aggre-
gate capitalization of nearly $14, 600, 600
coo.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17
4 NEW TRAIN ON THE sEABOARD

On Monday a conference is to be held
between officials of the Seaboard Air
Line hallway and committees OF the Raj
eish Chamber of Commerce and business
Mems Association with reference to q
new train to be run into Raleigh from
the North every morning and to return
every afternoon. 1t would be a great
convenience to the people livlnp north
Of Raleigh, a splendid thing for the
business men of Raleigh, and would add
way system.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17
CASH For YOUR FARM

We can sell your farm, real estate or
business quickly for cash, no matter
where located. Send description and
price and learn how. Money to loan on
good mortgages. Estab'd 1898. Offices in
principal cities. Highest references.
A. A. POTTRER & co.
922 Real Estate Trust Building. Phila-
delphia,P T. a
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17

The truest and best friend a man can
have is a wife who does her best to keep
him in the straight and narrow path.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17

Some men do not hesitate to break a
promise because it is SO easy to make
another.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27
A Charming Trip.

Is In reserve for those who contemplate
visiting California during the Spring or
Summer On one of the several excur-
sions being organized by the Southern
Railway and Southern Pacific Companies.
The firs5 of these occasions is the Pres
byterian General Assembly at Los Ange-
les, for which tickets will be on sale be-
ginning May g. with limit sixty days and
stopovers for the wonderfully low rate of
$500 from New York In addition to the
Standard Sleeping car service, the high
class Excursion Sleepers operated regu
larly via these lines at almost one, third
the standard rates will be available. The
Excursion Sleeptrs are personally con-
Quoted and possess every requisite to
their rattan upholstery adding
greatly thereto Having operated these
excursions for the past six years the ex-
perimental stage has long since passed,
and their success is an assured fact For
further particulars address A. S TIL
weatt, X. p A., No.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27
For Your Information.

On account of the various improvements
looking toward better service on Morris.
town Branch and particularly the eleva-
ton and depression of tracks at Newark,
through the Oranges. and at Summit, the
Lackawanna Railroad has found it neces-
ssry to discontinue local freight No. n,
now leaving Hoboken at 1850, and New
ark at 1l.S0 q. m. daily except Sunday.
The train will be discontinued on Tues
day, March 81. The company regrets the
cutting off of this train but feels that with
the increasing passenger service on the
Morristown Branch and the general road
work in the way of elevations and depres-
sions now going on 1t will be impossible to
continue the train on Its present schedule.
With view TO giving the best service
possible under the circumstances the
Laokawanna has arranged to have train
leave Hoboken about 10 p. m, effective
April ist, picking up freight and making
all points between Newark and Port Nor
ris for delivery at O'Clock the next morn
ing. The closing hour at Newark for this
train will be D. m.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27
MENDHAM

Mr.. Will Phoenix and family who have
been spending the winter in New York
have returned to Mendham and opened
their summer home.
Mr., Taylor, of Newark, has rented the
Stiger House for the summer.
Miss Sarah Wyckoff is staying with her
sister, Mrs. Armstrong, of Morristown.
Mrs Harris Thompson and daughter
are spending some time with her nj, ce,
Mrs. Coursen, of Morris Plains.
Mr.. and Mrs John Stiger, of Bernards
Vile, spent Sunday in this place.
The Misses Oliver will hold sale of
their entire household goods and furniture
IN Wednesday, March %.
DIR. II. Sutphen, of Newark, has sold
his summer residence in this place to Mr..
Toilet, of New York
Messrs. Charles Ferry and Carl Stiger
were in town on Sunday.
E. l.. Garabrants new house is nearly
completed and he expects to take posses
ion next week.
Joseph Somers Is building q private road
from his house to the foot of the noun
tain.
At the road meeting held on Monday
evening at the Township Hall, it was de-
cided to macadamize the road from the
centre of the town TO the railroad station.
Mrs. Carter and daughter, of Morris
town, have taken the house belonging to
John Kennedy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27

1t was Sir Walter Raleigh who brought
potatoes into Ireland ut the same time
he brought the other American prod
uct, tobacco Sir Walter was busily
engaged in expressing the people about
Cork, so naturally Wien he planted
the potato on his estate at Youghai
near Cork. the people were suspicious
of it despite its palatabcncss. Cob
batt cursed the root as being the ruin
of Ireland, declaring it Il device of Sax
on ingenuity brought into their midst
to tempt and eventually to weaken
them. Sir Walter ate quantities of po-
tatoes himself before he could assure
the people of their harmlessness. Now.
with commendable gratitude, the tour
list is shown the very spot in the gar
den where Sir Walter planted the pota-
to root Close by it is another historic
al bit of ground. There, it is claimed,
Sir Walter rested under the shade of a
tree smoking his first pipe of tobacco
when his servant deluged him with a
pail of water under the impression he
was on fire.--What to Eat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27

We learn FROM Il Swiss writer of the
seventeenth century that Pope Alexar-
der VII, whose pontifcate extended
from 1865 to 1867, was related to the
Sultan Molammed ~. The connection
between these two contemporary SOW
ereigns is traced to one OF those occur
rences which il the times of Moslem
invasion and predatory aggression Of
ten led to strange blood relationships
between representatives of Christian
and Mohammedan houses.
The story is told by Wallichius, a
contemporary of Alexander VII. and
Mohammed ~. Some Turkish corsairs
attacked and pillaged the castle of the
Marsilis in 1928 and carried off Mar
gherita, the daughter of Mani Marsili,
and this fair lady was reserved as a
present for the Sultan Solymap, who
made her one of his wives. BY this
union she became the mother of Selirl
H., ancestor of Mohammed Nv.
From the same noble family AleXan-
der VII. was lineally descen led on the
maternal side LEONARDO Marsili, broth
er of the captive Margherita, had a
son, Cesare, whose daughter, Laura
married into the Chigi family and be-
came the mother of Fabio Chigi, known
on the roll of pontiffs as Pope AleXan-
der VII
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27
Itere.s q ouecr risl,.

Each one of us has at some time
eaten too much, but we have surely
not gone to such an excess as this fish
has. 1t is called the "black swallow
cr" and as Il swallower takes first
place fer its stomach is much larger
than its body. 1t will seize by the tail
a fish eight or ten times its own size
and work it's way over it by repeatedly
sliding forward one jaw and then the
other. Before taking a meal the swal-
lower is very respectable looking
fish, except for voracious cast of coun-
tenance, but afterward he certainly
has the appearance of having eaten
too much. Then the walls of his stom-
ach are SO stretched as to be transpar-
ent. Later digestion begins and the
swalIower is turned belly upward by
the imprisoned gas and his stomach
becomes a balloon, which lifts him
from the depths of the ocean to the
surface, and in this helpless condition
he is thrown about by the waves, per-
haps cast ashore and left high and dry
by the receding tide, in which case he
does not swallow any more, for the re-
turning tide finds him dead fish.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27

one reason why so many complain Of
poor success with late Matched chick
ems is that they do not take care TO
keep down the pests of lice and mites
about the coops and yards and 10
guard against filth Accommodations.
Others fail to provide fresh water as
frequently as they should. and many
neglect the matter Of shade entirely in
the hottest weather. All these faults
are bad enough in the early spring.
but are tenfold worse when the tenn
perature stands about the 90 degrees
point. Not only do lice breed much
more rapidly in hot weather, but they
seem to breed anywhere, outside Of
the buildings as well as inside. Then
If much is fed it should be mixed fresh
mt each feeding or there will be some
sour to cause scoms or d.arrhea. All
of these causes act to the disadvantage
of the summer hatchCd chicken. but all
of this can be guarded against if one
will but take trou' I" "~ot''~h
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27


The theory of the constitution is that
the three departments Of the govern
ment-the legislative, the executive and
the judiciary-are Independent of one
another. In practice the government
is not carried on in harmony with this
theory The system of checks and bal
ances does not operate as its Inventors
intended The president was to have
had the power of selecting his subordi-
nates the senate, through the exercise
of the power of confirmation, was to
prevent the appointment of unworthy
men, especially of men who might con-
nive with the president to usurp pow
er. In practice most of the presidents
subordinates are forced upon him. He
usually selects after consultation with
a senator, who stands for the whole
senate, for he has its power behind
him through custom which has grown
to be a rule of conduct, known as the
courtesy of the te."-Century.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27
National Manufactures Association at


National Manufactures Association at
New Orleans, April Is to II, 1908.
For the meeting Of the above associ-
alton the Southern Railway will sell
excursion tickets at one fare for the
round trip: tickets to be sold April Ii,
II and -. with final limit April 49,,
1903.
From the Trunk Line Territory tick
cts will be sold April II, u and l3,with
final limit April 10, on basis OF regular
to Washington OF Trunk Line western
termini. added to one tirst-class fare
therefrom BY deposit Of ticket by
original purchaser with Joint Agent
at New Orleans, and payment OF SO
cents. an extension of final limit can
be obtained to reach starting point not
later than April 30, 1908.
The Southern Railway operates three
trains daily from New York, carrying
Pullman Sleeping, Dining and Obser-
walton cars. Time only 80 hours be-
tween New York and New Orleans.
For further Information call OF adj
dress New y DIRK offices, 27l or 1855
Broadway. Alex S. Thweatt, Eastern
Passenger Agent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27
Meeting American Medical Associa-
ton. New OrIs ans. May IS. 1903.

Meeting American Medical Associa-
ton, New Orle ans, May SIS, 1908.
On account of the above occasion,
for the round trip, limited ten days,
for one fare.
From the Trunk Line Territory the
rates will be based on regular fares to
Washington or Trunk Line western
termini, added to one tiTst-class fare
therefrom, limited to continuous pass
age, and will be sold May l, 2 and 3,
with final limit ten days from date of
sale. BY deposit of ticket by original
purchaser, and payment of so cents, to
Joint Agent, New Orleans, not later
than May u, extension of final limit
may be obtained to enable the pur-
chaser to reach original starting point
not later than May 30, 1908.
The Southern Railway operates three
trains daily from New York, carrying
Pullman Sleeping, Dining and obserya-
ton Cars.
BY the request Of Members of the
American Medical Association In the
east, on Saturday, May 2, special SER
vice has been arranged to leave New
York at 4.25 p. M, via Washington,
Atlanta and Montgomery Trains com
posed exclusively of Pullman, Dining,
Drawing and Stateroom, Sleeping, Lii
bIary and Observation Cars. Those
desiring Pullman reservation should
send in their names as soon as possible.
Time, New York to New Orleans, 80
hours.
For further information call or write
New York offices, 271 and 1885 Broad
way, Alex. S. Thweatt, Eastern Pass
enger Agent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-27
WHIPPANY.

The annual school meeting was held at
Troy Hills school house on Tuesday of last
week. The meeting voted to raise 50 500
for school purposes, and elected Mr.. ". i.
Leighton, of Tabor; D H. Burnitt and
George w. Ball, of this place. Frank
Shipman was elected to fill the unexpired
erm of H. @ Fairohild, who resigned.
On Monday of this week the trustees
rganized by electing Geo. w. Ball. Presi-
dent of the Board and W. Il. Leighton
clerk 1t was then unanimously decided
o appoint township school commissioner.
Miss Sadie Hawkins was selected to fill
hat position, and will assume her duties
when a teacher is secured to fill her present
position.
Work has been commenced on the new
abroad betA een this place and Essex
Fells A gang of men are at present
working on the hill on the Lawrence
property.
Andrew Corbely is building a black
smith shop with rooms above 1t, on his
place.
Rev. John Hancock was in town last
week Mr.. Hancock was pastor of the
Methodist church of this village some
thirty years ago, having charge of the
church in Parsippany at the same time.
At present he is without charge and
cesides in Newark, supplying pulpit at
Summit Sunday evenings.
Miss Josephine Shipman died on Sat
urday after a lingering and painful IT,
ness. Funeral services were held on Tues
day from her late residence Rev. l. A
White officiating among the floral offer
ings was a beautiful wreath from the
Presbyterian Sunday School of which sha
was member and active worker. The
family have the sympathy of the COM
munity in their great sorrow and bereave-
ment
r. B. McEwan and family have re-
turned from their southern trip, having
spent three weeks in Florida and else
where.
The Hanover Township Committee held
the first meeting at their room in Whipo
nong Hall building on Saturday. Or
ganized by electing A. M. Webb. chair
man, and Phineas Farrand, treasurer.
Miss Eta Allen spent Sunday with H.
G. Reynolds
There is a rumor of another brick yard
being started on the Thomas farm, for
merly part of the Mitchell property
A social under the auspices of the M etho
dist Church was held in Whiponong Hal
Tuesday evening.
The annual meeting of the Ladies'
Missionary Society was held last Wednes
day with Mrs L B Ford, the following
officers were elected President. Mrs. Van
Gieson; vice-president, Mrs. H @. Bleecher;
secretary, Mrs. HI. Polhemus; treasurer,
Mrs. Aaron Fairchlld.
In last weeks issue through an error it
was stated that memorial windows had
recently been placed in the Whippany
Church This should have read the Par
sippany Church