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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-01-01
CHRISTMAS PLEASURES
[coNTINuED FROM FIRST PAeE.l

songs by Une youngsters received COM
mendation. christmas Over All the
World" was another taking number of
the programme furnished by the young
people. The primary children, under
the direction of Miss Baird, acquitted
themselves nicely Presents were
then distributed and the affair was
over.
The Church of the Redeemer was
comfortably filled yesterday afternoon
at the carol and Christmas tree service
given by the Sundays chool. The tree
was handsomely decorated and lighted
with candles, while near at hand were
! the presents for the children. The
rector, the Rev. William M. Hughes,
made an address in which he COM
mented on the successful condition OF
the Sunday School both financially
and otherwise. At the conclusion of
the carol service the names of tie
different children were called off by
grades denoting their Sunday school
standing and they filed up to receive
their parents. Skates were presented
to the boys while the girls received
books.
A large audience greeted the Christ
mas exercises at the South Street
Presbyterian Church on Wednesday
evening. Instead of large Christmas
tree, there were a number of smaller
ones, which lent greatly to the attrac-
tiyeness of the scene. The children's
singing was unusually good while the
work of the primary and intermediate
departments in recitatiOnS, songs and
speeches was of high order. Accord
! ing to the annua custom of the
church, the children each brought
| gifts of clothing or toys which are to.
be sent to the Home for the Friendless
in New York city. AS the name of
each child was called he stepped up
with his presents. At the same time
were brought their mite boxes con-
| tanning contributions to the mission
airy fund of the Sunday school. The
children then adjourned to the Sunday
school rooms where refreshments We're
served.
The New Theatres of the Metropolis.
| In the past the architec ture of the
theatres of New York, as class, has
not kindled admiration. The great
city has had beautiful temples, courts
and residences; many stately edifices
for other purposes have set forth the
highest art of sculptor, decorator and
architect, but the taste displayed in
theatre building has rarely been
more than mediocre But this pres
ent winter has seen great change;
a number of new theatres have been
opened, and some old ones have been
fixed over. An article in the January
Architectural Record Magazine New
York;, by Arthur G. David, entitled
"The New Theatres of New York,
is written from the standpoint of the
artist and architect, and the subject
is also referred to in Abbott Halstead
Moore's critique on "Individualism in
Architecture. All beautifully il
| luStrated
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
IN HONOR OF LEO XIII.
sculptor Biondf Authorized to Design
international Monument to- Pope
To Top "A High Mountain.

ErLesto Biondi. one of the best known
Italian sculptors and the creator of the
Saturnalia, which was SO much appre
ciaied at the Paris exhibition, has been
definitely accepted to model the monu-
ment which is to be erected by inter-
national subscription to the memory of
Pope Leo XIII. on top of Semprevisa
the highest mountain of the Lepini
chain, the root of which is at Carpineto
the late pope's birthplace
The figure will represent Pope Leo
in bronze, standing and blessing the
land and sea. 1t will have an enormous
pedestal with bas-reliefs in the STYLE of
those of Babylon. representing the
world of sufferers and destitute persons
aspiring toward the Gospel, which will
be represented by an enormous figure
OF an angel. on whose wings the statue
or the pope will rise
The whole work is symbolic in concep-
ton and is expected to be most effective.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
FOX FOOLED THE WOLF.
An Animal story with n Moral Which
Had It's Origin Among the
Iroquois Indians.

As everybody knows, the wolf hates
the fox. According to the Iroquois In
dams, this is why:
One cold wintry day fox, who was
prowling about looking to see where he
might steal his dinner, saw a wagon
coming. 1t was loaded with fish. and
was driven by some fishermen who
were taking home their days catch.
"Ah, hal" said the cunning fox.
Here comes my dinner" and he fell
down by the roadside and pretended to
be dead
The fishermen, seeing him, picked
him up and threw him into the wagon
among the fish. Then the fox slyly
threw cut some fish. and when the fish
ermen were not looking jumped out
himself and made off with the fish he
had thrown out.
Pretty soon afterward he met a wolf.
who said: Il am hungry, and / guess
l will eat you for my dinner?"
But the fox said: Would you not
rather have fish for diuner?"
The wolf replied that, on the whole.
he thought he would prefer fish. Then
the cunning fox told him of the trick
by which he had just got his own din
ner, and advised him to try It, The
wolf was pleased at the idea, and SO
he ran through the woods and head
ed of the team which the fishermen
were driving, falling down in the road
IN front Of it and pretending TO be
dead. But the fishermen, who had by
this time discovered the trick the fox
had played upon them, instead of talk
ing him into the wogan, beat him with
clubs so that he barely escaped with
his life. And on a hillside near by sat
the fox, who laughed and laughed.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
MOST vENOMoUS SNAKE.
Hooded Cobra OF India Is the Direct
Cause of Hundreds of Deaths
Every Year.

One of the most interesting, as well
as the most deadly of all snakes, is
the hooded cobra, of India. In that
country hundreds of people die every
year from the venomous bite of these
reptiles. As 1T lies coiled up in a little
heap in its cage, it looks inoffensive
enough, and not nearly SO unpleasant
as the stub-tailed ebony moccasins. But
when excited, the cobra rears up its
head and about one-third of it's body.
and we now see the reason for the
name hooded" The ribs lust back
of the head are very long and slender.
and when they are extended straight
out from the body the skin stretched
between them forms curved shield or
hood around the head. On the back
OF this hood, in the adult snake. is a
most remarkable ornament, looking
like two eyes with pair of spectacles.
nosepieces and all. In no two snakes
is this ornament exactly alike, and some
individuals lack it altogether.
When the snake sways back and
forth, all ready to strike, it's tongue
playing like lightning, one may indeed
be glad that a thick sheet of glass is
between him and this terrible threat of
death. But one must remember that
this tongue has nothing to do with the
venom or bite, the poison fluid being
stored up in little sacs and when the
snake strikes it is forced down and
out through the hollow teeth.
This is the snake which the snake
charmers Of the east use in their per-
formances, and the photograph shows
a snake in one of the very baskets
which these strange people use. The
music of the flutes evidently excites
them to spread their hoods, as does the
presence of food
When the hood is not in use. it is
closed back upon the neck and folds so
neatly between the ribs that it disap-
pears, and the neck of the snake shows
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16

no sign of being different in structure
from that of ordinary species.
The cobra sometimes grows to a
length OF six feet, and often finds it's
way into the walls and roofs of houses.
being fond of the rats which abound
in such places in India These snakes
go about in pairs, and they never
stray far from each other The female
lays about II eggs, which are nearly
as large as those of pigeon. white.
and very soft shelled.
The natives of India have what they
call SNAKE stones" which are very
porous and absorbing substances. and
when these are applied TO the wound
they draw up a considerable quantity
OF blood. How such crude treatment
can ever effect a cure seems incred-
ible, but many instances have been re-
ported by Englishmen where deception
was out Of the question The wild
jungle fowl are said to feed on the
young snakes, and the curious little
furry creature, the mongoose, Is the
cobra's worst enemy, showing great
skill and cunning in attacking and
avoiding the fangs of the reptile. The
snake is invariably killed in these en-
counters.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
RELIGIOUS TRUTHS.
Gentleness and patience have the w,

Gentlehess and patience have the world
at their feet-United Presbyterian.
The wrong road never yet led to the
right place.-Karadac, Count of Gersay.
Ii is better to be fanatical in the cause
OF Righteousness than to freeze in self
love. But nothing is SO grand and ma
iestic in the universe as the sustained,
healthy and vigorous conviction in a
strong nature that nothing is good or
worth living for but what is holy.-T.
s. King.
Grant, oh Heav emily Father, that we
may so faithfully believe in Thee, and so
fervently love one another, always living
in Thy fear and in the obedience of Thy
holy law and blessed will, that we, being
fruitful in all good works, may lead our
life according to Thy good pleasure in
this transitory world, and after this frail
and short life obtain the true and i'm
mortal life, where Thou Invest and
reignest world without end. Amen
Thomas Becon.
When Mrs. Judson read the Lord IS
sermon on the Mount to the first Bur-
man convert he was deeply affected.
"These words" said he, take hold of nv
very heart; they make me tremble Here
God commands us to do everything that
is good in secret, not to be seen of men.
How unlike our religion is this! When
Burmans make offerings they make a
great noise with drums and cymbals.
that others may see how good they are"
Boston Congre gationalist
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
The Feast of Juggernnut.

The temple Of the Juggernaut is in
Bengal, India. Every year in March
occurs what is known as the festival
of Juggernaut, when the idols are all
taken out of their temple, and on cars
or chariots are drawn to visit their
countryhouse, which is about a mile
and half from the temple These
chariots are drawn by people, and it
is true that in former years the vo-
taries of the gods. in their transports
of religious frenzy. would throw them
selves under the cars and be crushed
to death by the moving vehicles, but
no occurrences of this kind have been
permitted during the past century or
more
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16

wealth in the interim, but the price had
not brought happiness.
when l come back with a fortune,
Jack, we will share it, you and /, but we
cannot live on expectations" She had
said this the morning before leaving the
states to Jack Baltch, then a struggling
medical student, and a familiar figure at
the stage door of the Gaiety. Flo Web
ster was a slip Of a girl in those days.
the toast of the men about town and the
idol of the gallery boys. She had danced
herself into the hearts of theater-goers
the evening of her first appearance. Flat
terry and attention had not turned hei
pretty head. however, probably because
her susceptible girls heart had immedi.
ately gone out to handsome Jack Baltch,
q man of whom men spoke CONTEMPT
Hously. and women proportionately ad.
mired
He had said to her one morning long
ago. with look which had caused her to
draw long breath: IF had the price,
Flo, would marry you tomorrow,
but"
She did not take into account that un-
finished sentence. There and then she
had resolved that he should have the
price"
After ALL" she sighed. coming back
to the present, 81 have brought him a
fortune-after ALL" She laughed bitter
ly Ia the faces OF the doleful saints; then
recognizing a fam liar step Ia the cor
0dor she sunk In large dusty chair.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
"a frivolous
Martyr ~ ~
By DONALD MILES.
Copy right. 1908. by Daily story Pub. Coz

CTARTLING headlines in the Morn.
~ ing Call announced the return to the
states OF Flo Webster, the vaudeville
favorite, from a successful engagement
In the klodyke. Her fortune was vari-
ously estimated with prolific wealth of
adJectiVes. Scores of young actresses
read the graphic accounts of Webster's
success; how chamois bags of gold were
showered at her feet as she sang and
danced to audiences of rough millionaire
miners on the rude stage in the cold
country. They devoured accounts of her
picturesque life, and illustrated Sunday
specials, pictured her wonderful dog
teams, the fastest in the Klondyke. and
her sleds laden with costly furs.
one morning before these stories were
beginning to find themselves in editorial
waste baskets dubbed dead matter" a
Weary-eyed woman stepped from a han
som before the ST. Mercia hospital, and
disappeared behind the forbidding black
b doors. The frowsy maid within was
bidden TO deliver slip OF cardboard,
oearins the simple inscription, FLO
Webster" to DR.. j. Wilbur Baltch. Baltch
was young visiting surgeon, who spent
whose patients were chiefly imaginary.
The woman waited impatiently in the
stuffy Office, striding back and forth
across the room, stopping occasionally
before the doleful picture of a weeping
saint, or the grim features of painted
martyr.
For all the simmer of silks, the ling
hng OF chains and chatelaines, aud the
sparkle of diamonds, she was not an i'm
posing figure. The beauty she had once
undoubtedly possessed had succumbed
no powder and paint, peroxide and cham
payne; but there was an expression in
her face of indomitable courage and
strength, and hint of womanly possibil-
dties in her wide eyes
She thought of her heralded success,
and smiled bitterly. The old happy DAYS
before her adventurous journey were
constantly before her. She had gained
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
ChildEilx eneSs.

Childlikeness, in its Scriptural sense
is perfectness of trust, resting in a.
Fathers love, a being borne on in its
power, living in tit means a sim
plicity which resolves all into one idea
of lowly submissiveness to One in whom
1t lives; buoyancy of spirit which is a.
fountain of JOY in itself, always ready
to spring forth afresh brightly and hap
PLY to meet the claims of the present
hour, resting contented in
ones lot, whatever that lot may be; a
singleness of intentions; a pliancy, q
yielding of the will, forgetfulness Of
self in anotherS claims-T. T. Carter
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
SATURD A.. JANUARY 10, 1904
" COUNTRIFiED."

DO they call you "countrfed ?"
Let it be your JOY and pride.
You, who love the birds and bees,
And the whispers of the trees,
trust me, friend of flowers and grass,
Little brown-faced lad and lass,
NauSht in all the world beside
Equals being "countrified"
Up of mornings when the light
ReGdens on the mountain height;
dearlng how the bird-throats swell
With the joy they cannot tell:
conscious that the morning sings
Like harp with unseen strings,
over which the breezes glide;
ihis is being 'cOuntrified."
Roaming Gar. on summer days.
VI when autumn woodlands blaze;
learning how TO catch and tell
natures precious secrets well;
ruled with sunshine. heart and face.
Or where branches interlace.
Dappled like the shy trout's side;
Thls is being "countrified"
what though little fix TO pose
An the city'S ways and clothes?
where is vastly more to love
An the brown of natures glove.
Health and happiness and tan
Are best fashions for a man,
All VINO near to God abide
Are, in some way. "countrified"
James Buckham, in Journal OF ArrI-
culture.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
BABY PAULINE'S YARN.
Little Girl with "a Large Imagination
Proved Herself Equal to
Sudden Emergency

Little Pauline is about five years old
and has large imagination. She makes
the widest statements with the most
demure air, and then puts her head on
one side and watches with dancing eyes
10 see If you took in the joke The room
of a family friend is a regular curiosity
shop for her. She has sat and listened
by the hour to descriptions of various
odd things that are in the collection of
curiosities. She took great interest in
a magnet used for a paper weight and
has played with it when her best beloved
doll had lost its charms. One day she
walked into the room with an exceed
ingly important air.
What do you fink?" she said
Il don't know, I'm sure. A bear?"
was the reply.
NO, sir. sawn little girl what
had swallowed magnet, and what do
you fink happened to her? Evewy time
she goes to eat, her spoon hops down
her troat, and the other day she was
playing wifi some nails, and the first
fing she knowed she swallowed 'em,
and her mother gived her penny to buy
some candy wifi, and she swallowed it
fore she got to the store Amt that
dreffie?" she exclaimed.
Fearful, What did they do for her?''
She paused moment, evidently un-
prepared for such question, but her in
vention was equal to the emergency
Why" she said. with big eyes and
bated breath, they got great big mag
net-oh, a 'normous big one-and opened
her mouth. and all the things coined w
again IN. Y. Times.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
The Philippine Islands.

The Philippine islands were discov-
cred by Magellan, the Portuguese navi-
gator. in March, 1921. They were taken
possession of by fleet from Mexico in
1865, which first stopped at the island
of Zulu and subdued it. Five years
later, in 1870, a settlement was effect
ed at the mouth of the Manila river,
and Manila then became the capital or
the Spanish possessions in the Phil
fppines
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
His salvation.

Bilter-You came near losing your
life during your recent illness, didn't
you?
Caterby-Yes; l tell you, old fellow,
IL l hadn't had women physicians, ii
would have been all up with me-
, Bilter-What! You had women
physicians?
Caterby-Yes, and while they were
holding a consultation over me i got
weli.-Towu Tonnes.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
RIDES A TORTOISE.
herman Animal Trainer Has n Steed
which, Although Slow, Is
Said to He Sure.

No 6O-mile-an-hour automobile or
wild Arabian nag for this gentleman
de much prefers deliberate and pain
FULLY SLOW travel via tortoise back, as
the picture shows. The rider is an ami
NAL trainer in a German menagerie and
MS speciality is educating huge South
Sea Island tortoises for racing purposes.
Not they are designed to repeat the
proverbial competition with the hare
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
A Feminine Revenge.

''That woman in front of US prevents
me from seeing the stage"
: well. that's too bad! don't see
what can be done about 1t. suppose
she has the right to pile her hair as high
as she likes"
"Oh. wouldn't raise word Of objec-
ton If it was her hair-but 1T isn't"
And the lady in the front seat heard
every word of this.-Cleveland Plain
Deelar.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16

but to strive with one another. His
method is to mount the shell of one of
these huge creatures and urge it on to
designated goal by holding before it's
expectant beak bunch of fresh and
tempting lettuce, or other vegetable
particularly pleasing to the tortoise
palate
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
A Few Exceptions.

Are your verses original ?" inquired
the dainty stenographer.
YES" replied the syndicate poet; "all
except one or two of them which wrote
myself. Commercial Trib-
Une.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
Familiar With rha

They say the English are slow to ap-
preciate humor, but Lord Champleigh
always laughs at my jokes"
THAT doesn't prove anything. He's
heard them all before Chicago Amer
lean.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
Up-to-Dnte SchoInr

The student in the geography class,
says the Washington Post. who de-
clared that Panama was bounded on
the east and west by warships and on
the north and south by marines is not
eonnning his studies to textbooks
that were published day before yes
terday.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
Posteritys Hard Job

"Posterity Will be just to me" said the
poet.
Il don't see how it's going to manage
1t, replied his wife, when it won't
have any chance 20 get at you Chi
cago Record Herald.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
AIacki Alas,

She sings soprano sweetly,
Her voice is like a Tyre;
But whenever she eats onions
There's trouble in the choir.
Cincinnati En&irer.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-16
Plausible Inference.

Gilbert-Pray, how do you know Miss
Merlin has remained single from
choice?
Horace-Because / never heard her
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
The Cruiser Korea Pats IntO EsgainaaIt
and the Lena to be DismantIed
in San Francisco
ADDITION TO ITALY'S ROYALTY
JAPANESE WILL TRANSFER LIAoYAYG
PENINsULAR TO CHINA Thus
MAKING PORT ARTHUR
An OPEN PORT.
--latest Dispatches BY Wireless.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 16.-The japanese
Government is determined to Illustrate
the departure of the Russian cruisers
Askold and Gromoboi.
MUkDEN, Sept. The panic caused
by the reported march ofthe Japanese ar
my and which allayed business has been
resumed. The Japanese army lost forty
thousand killed and wounded in one
days fighting, Twelve thousand wound
ed Russians are being Hospitality treated
here.
LONDON, Sept. 16.-The japanese
Eovernment intends to transfer the Lao
yang Peninsular to China, thus making
fort Arthur All open port.
VICTORIA, B, c., Sept. I6.-The Brit
ish warship Grafton has returned to port
and brings news that the Russian cruiser
Korea is off the northern coast of Van
couver and is expected to arrive at Es-
quimault:.
RACCONIZI, Italy, Sept. 16.-Queen
Helene gave birth to a son today.
NEW YORK, Sept. I6.-A great storm
is ra ging on the Atlantic coast. Lives
anci property are being lost and many
sh ipwrecks are occurring.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.--The Rus
sian cruiser Lena which put into San
Francisco for repairs, has been granted
permission to remain in the port of San
Francisco and dismantle.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17

PARIS, France, Sept. I4.--It is re-
ported that the Russian cruiser Korea is
about due at an American port on the
Pacific Coast.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. a.
The captain of the Russian cruiser Lena
visited the Mare Island Navy Yard to-
day, where the ship may be dismantled.
VICTORIA, B. c., Sept. I4.-The Brit
ish 'garship Grafton has been ordered to
'tect British shipping
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. ID.
The Russians are fortifying Tie Pass.
GIBRALTAR, Sept I4.-Oficers from
Russian cruiser have boarded the British
steamer Derven.
OYSTER BAY, L. l., Sept. I4.-Con-
sui General McWade at Canton, China,
has been removed by the President.
vLADIVOSTOK, Siberia, Sept. A.
The Russian prize court has released the
steslmer Calchas. The cargo of flour,
cot ton, timber, consigned to the japanese,
ha been confscated
MONTEVIDEO, Sept. I3.-Savaria,
chief of the Uruguayan insurgents is
dead. Peace negotiations have begun.
SACRAMENTO, Sept. r3.-The Nato-
ma winery has burned. The loss is $780,
600.
NEW YORK, Sept. I3.-Eight have
been killed here in tenement house fire.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. ia re-
port that the Chinese are preparing to
occupy the territory conquered by the
japanese is causing uneasiness here.
CHEFOO, Sept. I3.-Three hundred
thousand Chinese are engaged upon Jap
anese entertainments between Port Arthur
and Dalny.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. I3.-The Inter-Par-
liamentary Union in session here has
passed resolutions urging the Powers to
intervene in the present war and asking
President Roosevelt to use his influence
towards having the quarrel referred to
The Hague tribunal.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. I3--The
Government has received no official ad-
vices tending to confirm the alarmist
stories now aAoat. The only fact of in
terest is that rains are suspending the
campaign.
MUKDEN, Sept. I3.-The japanese
are within twenty-one miles of this city.