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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29
CHAPTER XIII.
From Darknegg t. Lignf.

pFOtA DdIAuShS w Light
3 1t was past, midnight, and Thoma,
/ Dexter and Little Make Believe were
sitting up alone. y
Walter and his father and .sarannt
had gone to bed, and Little Make-Be
lieve would have accompanied her sis
ter had it not been that it was nee
essary to 90 certain work in the way
Of clearing up, SO as to prevent disor
der on the following day.
This work being done, Little Make
Believe was about to wish Thomas
Dexter good night when he asked her
to sit up with him for few minutes
I've got strange feeling on me to
night" he said, 9 and / don't seem as
IL I want to go to bed for awhile. Let's
set up and talk bit"
She cheerfully complied, and they
sat together talking Of the events OF
the happy night, and then drifted into
recalling "reminiscences of the past.
The old man had been much moved
by the children. and more SO by Little
Make Believes sweetness. He had re.
lated to her the principal events Of his
life, and she was surprised to learn
that he had been married; she had
never heard it.
1T was afore you was born" hi
said. "If it happened that I'd become
father, my child would have been
two or three years older than you. II
was a lucky thing for all OF us, per
haps, that my wife didn't have q
baby. Shall we make bargain
Make-Belieye, you and me.'
II am willing to do anything YET
want, Mr.. Dexter"
''In the course of nater." he said, Al
can't expect to live many more years
TN near seventy now, but. old as
am, it seems to me that I'm only just
beginning to learn things. You've
been a great comfort to me, Make
Believe; don't know now how ]
should get along without yer. VIII
yer look upon me as yer father; and
let me take you ais my daughter
Then shall be sure OF yer. Yer
don't answer me, Make-Believe. Is
there anything wrong in what I've
saidg
"Me. SE; it's more than kind 81 yer,
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The Crater.

James B. Dill. whose recent speech
on Graft" at Oberlin college i'm
pressed the general country, told re
Gently, apropos of graft. a story about
a swindling tramp.
This tramp" said Mr.. Dill, had
the alert, INSCRIPTIONS, bold mind
that makes grating successful.
He was walking down a city street
one day when he saw a little boy
stoop and pick up something.
HE crossed over to the boy quickly
You have made find, my lad?
he said
Eyes, sir said the innccsnt boy, !
have found silver ring
81 thought So said the tramp. ITS
the one just dropped. Now amt ii
lucky ! had my name cut in it2'
What is your name?' said the BOY
suspiciously.
Sterling, lad
Take it, then. It's yours. said the
boy, handing over the ring with dis
appointed air. San Antonio Ex
press
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

What! Paul Jones, the pirate!"
must have been the shocked reelection
of many an honest Briton on hearing
that the United States was about to
pay belated honors to the famous
renegade" He himself, by the way.
rather neatly countered the English
Governments denunciation Of him as
a pirate, relates the London Chronicle.
He replied that he had looked into
dictionary and found pirate defined
as ian enemy of mankind" and "as
England was then at war with the
whole of America, the greater part of
Europe and much Of Asia, not TO speak
Of bit of Africa, she in point of fact
came as near being the enemy of man
kind as could well be conceived, and
that England was therefore the pirate
AND. not Paul Jones'"
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The Pleasure Of o,d A..

Free from the distractions of life, the
aged are at leisure to observe and adj
mire. II never knew" said Cornaro.
that the world was beautiful until 1
reached old age" This period was fre-
quently declared by him to be the most
beautiful Of his life. Writing at the
age OF ninety-one, he said that he felt
it his duty TO make known to the world
that man could attain to an earthly
paradise after the age Of eighty; but
only by means of the two virtues, self
restraint and temperance. At that
time ne was writing eight hours day,
walking and singing many other
hours, enjoying the beauties of nature.
and abundant in Iahors for the good Of
mankind, S0aA Health.
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Poured Gold in His Teen.

This story. hrs come to light in d
poilce court. A young man from Chi
sago arrived in New York, hoping ia
obtain work as waiter.
He failed, and was arrested for
stealing roll of cloth from a tailor
shop, In broad daylight. He pleaaed
guilty to the charge, and loId the fol-
owing story
All the money had was spent. j
aad no friend to help me get work I
pawned my overcoat and spent the
money got on it, except is cents. /
spent that for pair Of jliers. which,
used to to rip the gold teeth from
ny mouth. These cost me SITS and i
9awned them for $3.50. all ! could
ret, and when that money was gone
[ had TO steal or starve.
4 went to clothing shop. picked
Up roll Of cloth in plain view OF its
,wners, and stood ten feet from the
IGOR, waiting to be sent to prison.
where would be sure Of bed ana
some food.
Recorder Goh paroled the young
young man and the ofncials saw that
AZ was sent to his home ia Chicago.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

Farmers colleges in this, country
nave been sticking pretty closely to
their functions as experiment stations
and schools for teaching soil bacteriol-
ogy, intensive agriculture, horticulture
and stock tending. observes the New
York Evening Mail It is the belief Of
President Buttertleld, of the Rhode
Island College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts, that they must widen and
''soclalize" their work. They must
Nserve as social organ or agency of
first Importance in helping to solve eli
phases Of the rural problem" These
include not only produce growing, but
produce distributing and rural eco
nomics." The farming class must pros
per in every way and deepen its indu-
ence on the national life.
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The summer school for public school
teachers, conducted at Vineland by
Superintendent e. R. tombstone and
Miss Alice S. Morrison, principal at
the Training School for Feeble Mind
ed Boys and Girls, has just graduated
five teachers; They were: Misses Eliz-
abeth Preyz, Dorothy Caterson and
Elizabeth Peas, of New York City;
Miss Mary Kennen. of Utica, N. Y,
and Miss Gertrude Mczague, of Vine
land. The demand for teachers quail
fled to teach the backward or slightly
feeble-minded in the public schools is
increasing. The school here was start
cd last year as an experiment, and ow-
ing to the great success will be con-
tinued next year.
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Daretown Baptists have broken
ground for new parsonage
Cumberland County turkey raisers
say they are having no success this
year.
Two carloads of white potatoes are
being shipped daily from Riyerton to
New York markets.
The Bridgeton canneries have COM
menced their annual pack of tomatoes,
which promises to be large.
Potato business at Elmer still keeps
up at a remarkable pace, eighty-one
carloads leaving that station the past
week.
The committee which arranged for
the recent Changers picnic will recon-
mend that next years gathering be
held three days instead of two.
The Palmyra Township Committee
has under consideration the installa-
ton of a new fire alarm system.
Machinery and iron of the steamboat
Florence, which was burned near .Bor-
dentown three years ago, is being sal
vaged by persons from Perth Amboy.
Flemington's first free rural delivery
win be established on September /.
The route will be about twenty miles
in length, and LIE Roy G. Schomp will
be the carrier.
Vineland pQultry faneiers have or
ganized aby. nltry association, with
James Hforrists President; j. W. Soul,
VicesP aunt, M. W. stott, Secretary,
and ]. ~ treasurer.
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Although c. Asa Francis, Mayor of
Long Branch, recently denied any
knowledge Of gambling resorts in his
city, and stated his belief that there
were no such places, officers from the
County Prosecutors Office at 1.15 a. M.
swooped down on clubhouse at West
End, ostensibly conducted as a billiard
rarlor, and arrested tfty-five men
gambling in the rooms. Over the bill
lard parlor were found roulette. faro,
klondike and crap layouts. Not man
escaped from the rooms All were
taken in stages to Red Bank and ar
raigned before Justice of the Peace
Sickels. Eleven of the number gave
bail and returned home, while the re-
naming twenty-five. were carried to
Freehold and lodged in jail They ar
rived there about O'Clock, and at
once partook of the prison fare for
breakfast The alleged proprietors Of
the place are Otto and Charles Khun,
Joseph Moore and William Pope, all Of
whom were caught. The raiding party
consisted Of County Detectives Rue
and Strong, Assistant Prosecutor
Stokes, State Detective Doig and
half-dOzen deputies.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

Does the average family spenu 10
summer vacation season unwisely?
The question is raised by correspond
ent in Harper's Weekly. who presents
some new and sensible views on the
subject. He has in mind a family con-
sisting of father, mother and two chill
dren, with an annual income Of $4,000.
A New York family OF this type. as
rule, closes the town house or apart
ment, and moves into the country to
some pretentious summer hotel, where
they live the conventional life of the,
golf links and tennis court and coun-
try club. "They are obliged to dress in
accordance with custom, and the most
delightful afternoons outing is apt to
be cut short by the mandate Time TO
dress for dinner" Should not such a
family, argues the writer. accustomed
to business and social pressure most
Of the year spend its brief playtme III
a condition more normal than the life
Of a summer hotel? DO Americans lie
wonders, know how to playg
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To be continued.



Thure was a kind of blizzard oflrail.
road accidents last month. The aver
age daily allowance Of victims con-
coded to the railroads OF the United
States may be computed from the Sta
tistical Report of the Interstate Com
merce Commission for 1902. For
every day in that year the American
railroads killed one passenger, eight
employees, and fourteen other persons,
and injured eighteen passengers, 14O
employees, and twenty other persons.
That makes daily average of about
twenty-three homicides and one hun
bred and seventy seven injuries. OF
course such an average as this would
not be maintained except by very UNI
ohtrusive methods. If we had one
railroad accident a day in which
twenty-three persons were killed and,
III injured, it would not go on q
month without creating a strong i'm
preston that our railroads were ex-
travagant in their consumption of hui
man life. Last month this impression
began to be felt because the railroads
did good deal of killing and manning
by wholesale. Harper's Weekly.
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Standard OH BUYS Three EARNS.

The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased three large farms at Hamilton,
seven miles outside Of Plaindeld, and
is negotiating for several others, with
view to locating a plant to relieve
the one in Bayonne and to reduce the
likelihood of disastrous fire by sep
arating the amount of oil in storage
1t is understood the company win erect
a number OF big tanks to relieve the
pressure at the Bayonne plant.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

Harold Vanderbilt of Harvard dur
ing his freshman year had his troubles
with the secondhand clothing dealers
who buy the students cast-offs. On
account Of his great wealth he was
considered a good catch. Every day
for week POGO" asked him if he
had anything to sell. One day. becom-
Ing Disguised with these dealers. Van
derbilt said to POGO: Come with
me; have something to sell" He
escorted POGO to his stable, and
said: How much for my polo pony .
Good heavens, said POGO. Il buy
nothing what eats z
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

7 Henry Watterson, in the Louisville
Courier Journal, observes: II take no
stock in the dissertation ofs,the senti-
mentalists about what they call the
good old times There is a deal of
stuff and nonsense trolled off on this
aext Every man over fifty who is not
precisely boor is described as "a gen
tieman Of the old school, We need
but turn to the English satirists from
yielding to Thackeray to learn that all
the essential ingredients of Vanity
Fair had their existence one or two
hundreds years ago. In the proportion
that there were more nature and coars-
er fibre there were liveIier doings."
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over has re
-Awlending he LOOKING AHEAD.
Saw Possibilities in the Growth of His
Client.

Attorney General Moody relates the
9olice court in Washington, he went
N to see the workings of Judge KIM
Oall's court. Two colored boys of
about 10 years were being arraigned
,or having been disobedient and way
ward. Officers gave testimony that
the boys ran away from home and
slept in boxes and under doorsteps;
and one of the boys, Willie Jones.
was charged with stealing a bicycle
belonging to little white boy.
A colored attorney named Smith
arose and addressed the court in eff
feet as follows: IF it please your
honor, appear for that boy there,
Willie Jones-ster out, Willie Jones.
Now, he is the son of Mr.. Jones, that
gentleman there in white overalls.
Mr.. Jones says he thinks this great
city is not the right place to bring up
a boy, and if your honor sees fit to let
Willie off he will send him down to
Virginia to his old uncIe's farm, where
he can be looked after (here Mr.. Smith
was carried away with his argument),
and where he won't see any bicycles,
or tricycles, or automobiles, Or,
The judge stopped him here and
said, Now, Mr. Smith, you do not
think Willie Jones would steal an au-
tomobile, do your
Smith was puzzled for moment
and then replied: well, your honor,
they do claim this boy stole q bicycle,
and the Lord knows he is bound tc
grow Boston Herald.
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In Columbia, in the last college year,
537 students earned $02,436 This is
skiold the sum earned by students in
the university five years ago, says the
Philadelphia Press. This is true in
most colleges. When President Had
hey was installed at Yale as president
he spoke Of the increasing difficulty of
paying for college education. This
is a mistake. 1t was never so easy to
get a college education as now.
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Death For San lose Scale.

William Bodine, bookkeeper and pay
master Of the Wood foundry. Florence.
has peach orchard containing 1000
trees, all in the best Of condition. while
all around him other orchards are eat
en- up with the San Jose scale. Mr..
Bodine says he has a process which
means certain destruction to the scale,
and that he will show it to all growers
of fruit.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

1t is said that 100000 acres of
good American land are owned by for
eign landlords (EngIish and Scotch,
states the New York Press That is an
area larger than the State Of South
Carolina and nearly as large.as Maine.
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n q colIege education as NOW.

The japanese are buying large guam
titles of railroad material in this coun-
try for the line they are building from
Seoul, capital of Korea, to the Yalu
River, and thence to some point of the
Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchu-
ria, says the Philadelphia Record. The
Baldwin Works are shipping locomo-
tiyes by the hundred; car works in
Middletown, Pa, are building 500
freight cars ana the American Bridge
Company is supplying 10000 tons of
bridge material. Altogether the jap
anese Government is spending nearly
$5,O00O00 for rolling stock and bridges.
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Japan has increased her navy about
Is per cent during her war with Rus
STA; her captures have more than made
up for her losses. This is a fairly
cheap way to expand navy, and may
be some other power win be initiating
Japan's example yet.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

Z According TO a French international
almanac, which has just been sup
pressed, it appears that as long as he
remains in Russia the Czar draws an
nually from the Russian exchequer no
aess a sum than $40,000,00o
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

Many British aEiIIed shipbuiiders,
till recently employed in the English
naval dockyards, are emigTating to the
United States, where they hope to find
employment in the expected expansion
of the American navy
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

Mrs. Kate Owens, an elderly resident
of MillvilIe, had several teeth extracted
few weeks ago. The dentist admin
istered drug to alleviate the pain and
since that time she has lost all power
of speech. The strange case has
baffled all local medical skill, and Mrs.
Owens will be removed to Philadel,
phia hospital for treatment.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29

Professor Irwin #. Mather, new prin-
cipal OF West Jersey Academy, Bridge
ton. publicly announces that any boy
under sixteen addicted to cigarettes,
who will not stop the habit, will not
be permitted to attend the school.
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Dies From Year-Old Injury

Stephen j. McElwee, aged fifty five
years, died at his home at Riverton
from injuries received over year ago,
when he was struck by train in front
of his home
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Thieyes Cot a Bic Pumpkin,

Thieves visited the garden Of school
Trustee Branin, at Millville, ana stole
almost all the produce on the patch.
including a seventy-twopound pump.
kim
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The National Alliance for increasing
the Population Of France declares chat
France is on the way to become a
third class power, owing TO the dimin-
ishing birth rate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-28
BITS N %REvITIEs

A statue of the Sumerian Kins
David, found at Bismya, Babylonia, re
Gently, is believed to date back to 45O(
B. C.
Lhassa, the Forbidden City OF
Thibet, has 10000 people, two-thirds
iof whom are women, who conduct ali
the business of the city.
English agriculture is reviving
Last year the wheat area was in.
creased by over 100000 acres and
farmers everywhere increased theii
live stock.
A New Zealand publication, the
Contract Journal, makes this bull:
1.-THE clash of party cries is obstruct.
ing a clear view of the present posi-
ton of this country"
w. L. Bechtel, who has been ex'
plering Colorado for the last ten years.
has discovered in a cave a carved wal
god which he believes to be more than
1000 years old.
More courteous in its wording than
most epitaphs is one in a Derbyshire
Churchyard winch, dIter giving par
ticulars of birth and death, concludes:
Twas said he was an honest man."
An English druggist gives the fol
lowing list of blunders made by his
poorer customers: Catch an EEL" for
cochineal; prosperous PASTE" fol
phosphorus paste; grease it," for
c~reosote; "fishy water" for Vichy wa
ter; guitar" for catarrh; "everlast
ing" for effervescing.
One of the facts established within
a few years is that mosquitoes are the
deadliest of all creatures. A writer
in the Lancet adduces evidence which
indicates that flies, too, cause thou
sands of deaths, especially of infants
every summer, by communicating food
with diarrheal germs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-28
THOSE SCHOOL SITES.
School Board Committee Could Get Options
on But Half the Desired Lots.

At the next regular meeting of the
Board of Education, two weeks from
tonight, tits expected that they will
pass a resolution to the effect that a
meeting of the Board of Estimate be
called for the purpose of seeing what
can be done toward the purchasing
of lots on which to erect school
houses.
The special committee, appointed
at the last meeting of the board to
see real estate owners in regard to
the price on certain lands have been
able to get opinions on only half the
desired property thus far, but they
hope to have better results during
the coming two weeks.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-28
GOAT PULLED THROUGH.
Meal of White Lead Impaired His
Digestion, But Only Tenn
porarily.

There is a festive goat on the United
States steamship Galveston, which con-
voyed the peace squadron from New
York to Portsmouth, N. H.
The Atlantic was heaving a little,
and there was some sadness below.
Yet these calamities were joy beside
what struck the Galveston just after
luncheon, relates the New York Sun.
Patrick Spike, the goat. was reported
~indisposed. Surgeon Odell visited him
in the sick bay and reported that the
trouble seemed to lie in his digestion.
Yet what could it be that troubled the
digestion of Pat. for his favorite food,
the forecastle says, is the empty %
caliber cartridge cases left from Morris
tube practice? Once on a bet Lieut..
Rogers of the marines fed him a box
Of safety matches without damaging
him in the least.
The cause of Pats illness was cleared
up soon after. A seaman who was
painting missed the contents of a pint
can OF white lead paint and the doctor
found white lead in Patrick's whisk-
ers. Boatswain McClay, who stood as
Patrick Spikes next of kin on Patrick's
enlistment papers, sent his mate to
hold Pats horns while the doctor did
his dosing. The boatswain's mate
made an unprofessional diagnosis. He
said:
"There was a goat once on the
Brcoklyn-no, I'm a liar. it was on the
Olympia-that eat powder boxes and
nails and smokeless powder. Nothing
feazed him until he tackled a piece of
asbestos in the forecastle-no, I'm a
liar. it was in the engine room-any-
how. you'd have thought he could dl-'
gest a little thing like abestos, but, no,
sir. he turned up and died and we
buried him next day.
"You see, a goats insides is differ
ent from peoples; he don't digest
things, he melts 'em. Asbestos is the
only thing you can't melt. OF course,
white lead is a hard game; it is kind OF
wet and it will take some time for Pat
~ get up steam or it. but you're good
for ii, amt you, Patrick"
The boatswain's mate was right. AT
dinner on Monday a colored wardroom
messboy delivered this bulletin:
Patrick Spike is again taking nour-
ishment, sab. He has jest ct a box OF
q~uinine pills that de doctah left ON the
table, sab"