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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Life of the Paris Cab Horse.


About forty-five thousand horses pull the
cabs of Paris. The average life is lit
tie less than three years. They come up
from the country-three-year- olds-from the
meadows of Calvados and the fields of Nor
mandy, from Limousin and Finisterre and
the Gironde. Chained and strapped into
the thils of breakers carts they are driven
about the city until they are broken to city
sights and sounds-to the horrible steam
tram, with is dscordant clamor; to the
electric tram, that leaves behind it trail
of electric sparks; to passing regiments and
professions, and. notably, to the policeman
with the white wand. Then, being bit
broke, whip-broke. city-broke and heart
broke he is ready for the fiacre He goes
on until he breaks his knees-and longer,
even-until he has worked out his average
of three years All of which tends to
make for melancholy. Cocotte has long
been a favorite topic for sentimentalists
Childless women and men who do not
smoke have spent doubtless, too much ink
and tears over the Paris cab horse. My In
terest is on the human side of things. AS
for Cocotte, her end is useful but ignoble
Last year Paris ate 1880 horses-just
about the annual number of horses used up
in the fiacres. On addition the good Paris
ians ate 257 asses and 40 mules, but that
has nothing to do with the case.) l used
to wish that I were an honest fellow of
four shns, but not in Paris-not in Paris!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Fenelon's Character.
rom the b. klovers Magazine.

From the B. klovers Magazine.
Fenelons character was full of para
doxes, of the contradictions of opposite
qualities. At once plant and obstinate,
spontaneous and cautious revolutionary
and conservative his nature in the main
breathed out a delicious perfume of affec-
ton to all the world. He belongs to that
class of men whom optimists instinctively
adore and cynics habitually suspect. The
record of his life reveals the exquisite Gull
ture of the worldly gentleman united with
the exalted devotion Of the saint; and yet.
while one reads his plea of love for the
universal brother. and even observes his
unfaltering practice of the principle. one
cannot rid oneself of the haunting sugges-
ton that the gentleman is bidding for pop
ularity and the saint is playing discreet
game of self-seeking. He never does any
thing to be censured severely. but he fails
to convince one of his undivided sincerity.
Fortune favored him inwardly; the itinerary
of his personal ambition ran directly along
the road to honor and heaven. He was
forced into no battles no compromises. with
conscience: his motives. therefore. were in
trenched behind deeds of righteousness. and
one cannot impugn them without sense Of
uncertainty and possible injustice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Electricity Source Of Life.
From the World Today.


There is good reason for believing that
the chemical well as the physical
changes of protoplasm are produced by al
terations in electrical conditions, and that
the remarkable chemical powers of proto-
plasm shown in It's syntheses and decompo-
sitions are in reality electrical and resem-
BILE those produced in electrolysis by the
action of a current. When, for example
an electric charge is removed from an or
ganic compound it decomposes and new
compounds arise. We can therefore say
that those substances will poison the pro-
topiasm which give up or part with their
charges easily. Substances which give I'd
their charges with especial ease are mer-
curry and silver, which are accordingly very
poisonous We are even able. from electri-
cal data recently obtained to calculate an
proXmately for any salt how much will be
necessary to kill a given protoplasm in a
given time.
1t may fairly be said then that the forces
of protoplasm are electrical In large par
at least. and that they give rise under these
special conditions to the phenomena which
constitute life. This is of course quite diff
ferent from saying that electricity Is life
Lie Is name we give to a group Of phe-
nomena: while electricity plays a part in
producing these it is not itself the pheno-
mena.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Novelist's Gentleman.
From the Reader Magazine.

In that curious code Of morals which OBJ
tains in certain classes Of society man
may be gentleman and not pay his tailor,
but a man may not be gentleman if he
neglects to pay the debts he has incurred
over a game of cards to one who may have
no need for the money. A man may lie,
often and adversely, and yet be a gentle
man; In fact. that very question of how
thorough gentleman he is sometimes de-
ponds upon the dexterity and fiuency of his
lies.
A few faults he should not commit He
must not steal, for example, and he must
wear clean linen. He must not falsify I'M
necessarily, only upon those occasions
which particularly demand it. If he can
possibly help it he must not be a coward.
In this country he should not marry for
money, though in Europe that is not only
condoned, but looked upon as quite permits
sible, If not commercially clever. The gen.
tleman in Europe cannot dig and to beg
he is ashamed so the rich wife is the only
respectable way out of the difficulties that
he is very often in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Goats in France.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
The Bulletin della Societe d Acclimata-
ton, France,i advocates the rehabilitation
of goats. In France there are only 4
goats to each person. in Italy s, in Ger
many 10, In. Switzerland IA, in Sweden
and Norway 49,; in Spain %. in Algeria
100, and in Greece 10. 1t is remarka BILE
that in Switzerland, America and Mexico
the number Of goats has increased of late
years. In the United States the goat Is
valued not only for it's milk butter and
cheese, but its leather. The goat, in fact.
is taking the place of sheep and cows in
some countries. Among the best breeds
are the Alpine; varieties called Saanen.
Toggenbourgy,: Grayere and Schwartsshals
of Switzerland and the Zaraibe of Nubia,
called the pearl of goats. which is said to
yield four times more milk in proportion to
size than our best cows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Sensitive Horses.
rom Country Life in America

The horse does not like a nervous. fid-
getty, fussy or irritable man. He is too ner-
vous and irritable himself. "Why is it,
one teamster was heard to ask another
that Phin's horses are always gaunt?
Phin feeds WELL" YES" was the reply:
but he's like a wasp around a horse" A
well known owner of race horses, not at all
sentimental person. recently made an or
der forbidding his employees to talk in loud
tones or to swear in the stable. 'I have
never yet seen a good-mannered horse" he
says. that was being sworn al all the time.
1t hurts the feelings of a sensitive horse,
and I'll keep my word good to discharge
any man in my employ If I catch him swear
ing within the hearing of any horse in this
stable"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
Social Glasses in Our Schools.
From the Worlds Work

This separation of social classes in our
public schools threatens the understanding
between. class and class, tetween capital and
labor, between men and women who resent
and ought to resent being called the
masses" and men and women who know
them only as the employer knows the en-
ployed Hate on one hand. disgust for the
"canaille' on the other, seem far enough
from a modern republic. but they are easily
reached when the children are divided the
sheep on one side the educational fence,
the goats on the other I'VE used to go
to school together. Do you remember is
more than the formula of common greeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
In the Newspaper Office.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Who asked the visitor, sis that d:s-
gruntled-looking man, who swears so
much. over there in the cornerr, ---
That" heplied the reporter, who was
showing his fair cousin through the office.
lis the editor of our Sunshine Column
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
French Balls Thing of the Past.

Calamitous vistations continue to de-
scend upon this town. Now 1t is announced
that the French ball is thing OF the past.
Anyhow. they re not going to give French
ball this year-the wine agents." that is
to say. The town is holding its breath won
dering what the would-be ba-ad Willie-boys
who in other years engaged larkishly
in ''openin' wine are going to do to main
tain their yearningful regulations for wick
edness without a French ball.
All the same, il is indication of the
dawning of common sense, if not of de-
cency that the French balls have become
so profitless that they are to be abandoned.
The French balls of New York never We're
indecent. They were too hopelessy dull,
dismal and stupid to even approach in
decency. Vulgar and cheap and common
they always were, but the ''decousy
wicked was always totally absent from
them. The floor and boxes Were always
pervaded by drunken boys in the tow of
the sardonic wine agents." and along
toward daylight they generally got to
scratching and slapping each other on the
wrists
The town will do very well without the
French ball, especially in view of the fact
that the erudite Chuck Corners has
comfortingly announced that his annual
ball will be given at Tammany Hall right
along every year. no matter how many of
the other annual balls pass out of date.
7.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02

Vito (reading a novei)-"I wonder what
the author means when he says, The hero
heaved crimson sigh7'
Husband-"Oh, suppose the hero had
been gazing upon the wine when 1t was
red."-Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17
HoNoR WE'LL MERIrEp.

The election of our townsman,
James III. McGraw as delegate from
this congressional district to the Re
publican national convention, again
brings his name prominently before
the people of this section Of the State.
That he is eminently well qualified to
represent Morris county in this i'm
portant capacity is not questioned,
and we, together with many other
friends here, are pleased with the ac-
tion of the convention.
Mr.. McGraw's name is being very
frequently mentioned of late in con-
nectien with both the congressional
and senatorial offices. As chairman
of the Republican county committee,
and a very successful manager of Re-
publican county affairs, he, Of course,
occupies a large place in the conf
dence Of this party. 1t is current that
he might secure and has been frequent
ly urged to accept one Of these high
representative offices.
Chairman McGraw, however, is a
man of large business affairs, so suf-
ficently important that he cannot be
expected to grasp at a political office
because of any mere honor it might
bring to him. Furthermore, he is a
man whose sense of duty as a citizen
and loyalty to his party, would, even
under the best Of conditions, count for
more with him than any personal am
billions.
1t is unquestionably true that he is
being urged to become a candidate
because his candidacy would lend
strength to his party ticket and it is
also unquestioned that he would bring
to the office an exceptional force OF
ability and integrity.
While it is gratifying to his towns
men and friends to see his name so
prominently mentioned it is safe to
say that he is NOT running after an
Office at present. Ii he be nominated
it will be because of a general party
demand for his candidacy
There is need Of just such men as
James H. McGraw in offices of this
kind. In our judgement this viii be
the wisest and surest means of purify
ing our civic life. Nothing would
please us better or make us feel surer
that Morris county was contributing
TO civic righteousness her full share
than to see such a man elected to a
high representative Office. Madison
Eagle.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

Frank Click, assistant trainmaster
for the Lackawanna Railroad in Hobo
ken, has prepared statistics showing
the suburban passengers carried on the
Morris and Essex Division on April IL.
Each conductor counted the passen-
gers and the figures furnished by Mr..
Click are interesting, showing the total
number of passengers carried for the
day to be 45,449, as against 1920 in
1902, and AZ, 1913 in 1908. The total
number on at Newark for eastbound
trains was 2.62s off from the same
trains, 1868. On at Newark for west
bound trains, 1851, off at Newark fol
west-bound trains, 1854. Forty-seyen
per cent. Of the total business into Ho-
boken arrives between 6 a. m. and Il
noon in 43 trains, 245 coaches with an
average of 81 passengers per coach.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

THE Board of Freeholders is to be
commended inits action looking to the
reduction in the county tax for the
coming fiscal year. 1t is in a line with
the wishes of the taxpayers of the coun-
ty who feel that economy should be
praeticed wherever possible as the bur
den Of taxation has become grevious.
This action is refreshing contrast to
that Of the Morristown Board OF AL
dermen who 1t will be seen propose to
raise all that the law will allow, the
amount being 800, which with the
receipts from other sources will bring
the total amount to be expended BY
the city authorities UP to s84, $3.50, as
estimated by the finance committee
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION


Dover Moller Baker, Smith,
Downs.
Hanover Cook, Ringlieb, Milledge..
Jefferson Spencer, Baker, Smith,
Ringlieb.
Morristown Becker, Burchell, Nor
ris, Mitchell
Madison Weber, Schon eberg er,
Johnson.
Mendham Hoffman, Mills, Norris.
Morris Mills, Norris, Cook.
Mt. Olive Cliff, Bryant, Coleman.
Pequannoc LOCKER, Ringlieb, Mill
edge.
Randolph Downs, Smith, Moller.
RockaWay Smith, Downs, Moller,
Baker, Ringlieb.
Roxbury Bryant, Cliff, Downs,
Baker.
Washington Coleman, Young, Cliff.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
Allowing the sheriff 35 cents per day
for each prisoner in the county jail,
Authorizing the collector to advance
up to s., 900 to the sheriff for the pay
ment Of the jury fees and other court
expenses.
Authorizing the director and collec-
tor to sign notes in anticipation of
taxes, not to exceed the amount fixed
| by law.
Allowing the sheriff 5000 for janitOr
services in the buildings, and for the
care of grounds and heating plant;
and the county clerk and surrogate
800 per year each for the care of their
rooms.
Allowing the clerk 5000 for his ser
vices. and the counsel $3.50.
Fixing the salary Of the county en-
gineer at 1000 per year, and allowing
him assistance when approved by the
road committee.
Directing that the quarterly report
of the County Collector be printed in
all papers of legal age at sl25 apiece.
The bills handed over from the old
board were ordered paid and the board
adjourned.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

HUNTERDoN pays personal taxes at
the rate of S21O.3S for every man, wo-
man and child living in the county in
1900. Hudson's rate is but SAT. II, and
Camden's still lower, S40,S3. 1t is
evident that railroad property is not
the only factor to be considered when
discussing so-called equal taxation. !"
Warren's rate is 1892 per capita; Sus-
sex's, 1924 Salmen's, 1928. Is; MERGERS,
s122.16; Essex's, s12l.26, and Glouces-
ters S111.l2. All the others are below
800.
The greatest sinners in the way Of
tax evasion are found in some Of the
boroughs Of Bergen county, the fash
ionable residential sections" inhab-
tied by New York business men, in
Guiding not a few millionaires. who
have sumptuous country homes with
expensive furniture, pictures, rich
garments and jewels, and stables of
full of costly carriages and motor cars.
Take the borough of Overpeck as a
special instance. 1t is not wild
guess that the automobiles alone in a
taxing district like that would be
worth several times over the entire
personal valuation found by the asses
sor. Its real estate is assessed at over
100000 and the personal property at
So, 300.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

II anything was needed to show that
there is entire harmony In the Repnb-
lican party In Morris county, it was
furnished at Trenton on Tuesday IN
the selection Of Chairman James H,
McGraw az District Delegate to tie
National Convention and County
Clerk Voorhees, as a members Of the
State Committee. These were not
perfunctory actions BY any manner Of
means but hearty expression Of APP
probation Of the worth and services Of
the two gentlemen. Delegates from
ali parts Of the county We'd with each
other IN enthusiasm N this matter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

THE Paterson Press says, what
is this equal taxation business any
way ?" asked Congressman Gardner at
the Trenton house on Monday night.
1--WE don't know anything about it
down in our end Of the State We
doubt II half Of the people OF this end
of the State know much more ahoutit
than the brainy South Jersey repre-
sentative. No wonder everybody is
declining TO serve on that commission
soon after he begins to comprehend
the intricacles Of the problem
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17
ORDINANCE

An ordinance providing for the raising
Of money by tax for the year nineteen
hundred and four:
Be II ordained by The Mayor and Board
of Aldermen Of the Town Of Morristown:
/. There shall be assessed and levied BY
tax for she year nineteen hundred and
four the sum Of thirty-five thousand eight
hundred dollars
Said amount being as follows:
lst. For the expenses Of the
Town OF Morristowni0r
the year 1904, the sum
Of. ....... $40, 900 OF
snd For the expenses Of the
Board of Health. As per
its estimate - ....... 2 000 90
Bird. For the amount of the
annual rental TO be paid
for the use of hydrants
for fire purposes @... 500 90
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

$50, 800 90
! And that in addition thereto there shall
be assessed and levied by tax ten per cent.
Of the above amount and ten per cent. of
the amount directed to be raised in Morris
| town for County taxes, State school taxes
and special school taxes for the purpose
of meeting contingencies. covering def
ciencies and expenses and for the fees Of
assessment, collection and paying over the
same,
2. The Assessor of the Town OF Morris
town shall on the twentieth day of May
instant, proceed to levy and asses the taxes
provided for by the first section of this
ordinance upon the property Of the Ia
habitants and sesidents OF the Town Of
Morrisb0wn In the same manner and upon
the same basis as County and Township
taxes are nav by law assessed. and also
upon all property and estate both real
and personal. within the limits of Morris
town which may belong to any non resi-
nent in the same manner as upon the
property of the inhabitants thereof and In
conformity with the laws for assessing
County and Township tAxee
8. The Assessor OF the Town OF Morris
town before entering upon the duties of
his office shall take and subscribe on
oath or affirmation faithfully and im-
partially 20 discharge the duties OF his
office; and shall on she second Tuesday OF
August next lay the tax list and the
duplicate, properly made up and lsgibiy
written In ink. before The Mayor and
Board of Aldermen Of the Town OF Morris
town 80 be by 10 examined, revised and
corrected and shall attend the meeting Of
the County Board OF Assessors on the
Second Tuesday In September next, and
shall within thirty days after she adj
journnent Of she County Board OF As
SCISSORS deliver said duplicate. complete
and certified by the Assessor to be true
record OF the taxes assessed. 30 the Col
lector of the Town OF Morristown.
Approved and signed May Q, 1904
CHARLTON A. REED,
Attest Mayor.
CHAs STIIWKLL. JR.,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

THRoUeH an oversight there was
published in the society column last
week an item in reference to one Of
the local Churches. While intended
as bit of pleasantly it Jared upon
the sensibilities of many good people
and we very much regret It's publica-
ton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

A PORTRAIT Of the late Maj. Gen
Hugh Judson Fitzpatrick was formally
presented to the State blythe members
of the family on Tuesday. There was
present at the state house a number
of distinguished citizens OF the State.
Senator Kean was chairman of the
meeting, and the presentation speech
was made by ex-speaker Henderson of
the House Of Representatives Act
ing Governor Wakelee received the
portrait on behalf OF the State.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

New steel has been distributed
along the Laclxawanna to relay the
Lackawanna west bound track from
Morristown to Morris Plains.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-17

JUDGE DIXON characterizes as vi
cious legislation. acts intended to
create bipartisan boards, and questions
their legality, on the ground that they
deprive citizen of the right to be a
candidate for office. This opinion was
expressed In the hearing of an action
to prevent Thomas Coughlin from
serving as Tax Commission Of Hobo
ken, to which he was appointed by
Mayor Laundering as a Republican,
His predecessor, Joseph Giusto, con-
tested Coughlin's right to serve, alleg-
ing that he was Democrat. Coughlin
testified that he had voted the Repub-
lican ticket since 1901, but admitted
he voted at the last Democratic prim-
airy " to oblige friend" Judge Dixon
directed the jury to find for Coughlin.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-08-15

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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-08-15

Study the soil that is required for
different fruits, as the quality, shape
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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-08-15

The dairy department of the Mime
sofa board of agriculture is inaugural
ing a compaign against dirt this sum-
mer The commissioners will here
after see that every creamery and
cheese factory in the state is visited
by an inspector at least once year.