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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
CHAPTER XVIII.
Continued.

Suddenly sense of chilliness as
sailed him. Mechanically he touched
the PROSTATE mans brow.
Good God. He is dead!"
Then he rose painfully to his feet.
The silence of that great waste of
desert was almost unbearable. Five
men out of six would have gone mad
in those first moments of realization
VINEYARD Mistley pressed his forehead
with his hands, now cold and damp.
His stern eyes slowly scanned the
horizon-it was almost dark. In the
sky, away to the east, was shade
of pearly yellow. This was the soft
promise of the moon yet below the
horizon. Mechanically the solitary
man turned toward it. Presently on
the hard black line of the horizon
there appeared a fanlike glow of
shimmering yellow, narrowing into
silver rays; then tiny spark of light
ever broadening With a flood of
glory the great globe slowly mounted,
till its lower edge parted with the
line of distant desert.
The scene was too majestic, too
awful, and too lovely for words.
Suddenly his gaze remained rivet-
ed on one spot to the west of him.
What is that?" he mumbled, stu
pidly. What is that?"
Slowly, like stricken tree, he
collapsed, falling forward on his face,
with his arms stretched across the
dead body of Paul Maritch
For an hour he lay thus. At last
he recovered consciousness and
awoke, as he had ever done from
sleep, with every sense on the alert
First he stood up and gazed fixed
ly to the west, along the white track
of moonlight which extended to the
very edge of the horizon; then he
balanced himself on the dead body
of the horse, and so increased his
spread of vision. Across the broad
line of light cast by the moon on the
sand was tiny silver streak.
Yes, that is the riveri" said Mist
ley. My luck has not forsaken me,
and his bad fortune has followed him
to the very end!"
Mechanically VINEYARD Mistley
scooped out shallow grave, and
gently laid therein the remains of
his desperate companion before he
left the spot
The peaceful moon looked down
that night on the grim desert, and
saw one of the finest and WHOLESOME
est sights to be seen on earth; ay,
finer and wholesome than the fairest
woman ever seen. That sight was a
brave man fighting doggedly, quietly,
and Willingly against odds so dispro-
portionate as to render one skeptical
regarding all things providential.
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House He Builded Falls.

H. w. Meyers, carpenter, has
spent nearly year of his leisure time
building a home for himself at Haw-
thorne, suburb of Paterson. 1t is a
two-story and attic building and it
was completed recently. After Mey-
ers had left to go to work the build
ing collapsed and in an instant the
work that it had taken a year to COM
plete was heap of ruins. Mrs Mary
Walls, who has been housekeeper for
Meyers since the death of his wife a
few weeks ago, had narrow escape
from death. She was at work in the
kitchen when she felt the building
sagging and heard the timbers splin-
ter and crash. AS she ran toward the
door she was struck by the falling
plaster and some of the timbers. She
was severely bruised. The ruins
caught fire, and not even the lumber
with which the house was built was
left to Meyers. When the building
came down there was roar and a
crash that startled all in the village,
and for time some believed that an
earthquake had struck Hawthorne.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
A STONE IN HIS APPENDIX.
Strange Case Of Young Mar Who
Suffered From Appendicitis.

Within period of less than twelve
months Clarence Lowe of Morrisville.
N. Y, has suffered from three severe
and prolonged attacks of appendicitis,
The last attack came on about three
weeks ago. Making no permanent i'm.
provement, the attending physicians
decided that an operation would be
necessary to save the patients life,
and few days ago the appendix was
removed. The surgeons were dunn.
founded to find that the severed ap
pendix contained what closely resem'
bled smooth stone or some hard sub.
stance nearly an inch in length and
resembling a filbert. The doctors are
strongly of the opinion that the ball
gradually formed in the appendix. as
the opening of the appendix is much
too small to admit of the passage OF
any hard subi<ance of the size of the
one they found. The young man is
making rapid recovery.
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new JERSEY STATE NEWS
Woman ana Children Drowned.

Finding of the bodies of a woman
and two children in Shongum Lake,
two miles from Dover, revealed a sad
case of murder of the little ones by a
mother who, at the same time, killed
herself. The body of the woman,
Mrs. Matilda Drifting, was in stoop-
ing posture, and one of the two little
children she still claSped in her right
arm, against her breast, while the
other child was held between her
knees. Both the childrens garments
had been pinned to the woman's with
safety pins, SO as to prevent them
from getting away from her. The
bodies were discovered by the hus-
band of the woman and the father of
the children. Mrs. Drifting was
twenty-eight years old, and the wife
of Otto Drifting, of Millbrook. The
two children were her nine-month's s.
old babe George and her stepchild,
Grace, three years of age. The wom-
an was the mans second wife, and it
Is said she was jealous of the atten-
tons that he showered on his three
children by the first wife. This is
thought to have caused her to end
her life and that of the two children.
Drifting was in Dover buying sup
plies for the week, and when he re-
turned to his home his hired man
told him that his wife and the two
children had gone to the home of
Mrs. Huss, washerwoman. Drifting
waited and then, as his wife did not
return, he went to Mrs. Huss' house,
only to learn that his wife had not
stopped there, although she had
passed along the road, accompanied
by the two children. Instantly Brit
ting became alarmed, knowing his
wife had been acting queerly He at
once thought of the lake as the place
she might have gone to. He met a
neighbor further on who told him
that he had seen Mrs. Briting and the
children near Shongum Lake several
hours before.
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CHAPTER xxx.
Fencing.

The following season happened to
be gay one, and among the gayest
was Lena Wright. She went out with
her father and mother; she went out
with her mothers sister, Lady ALI
ron. She went anywhere with any
one, and appeared to be suffering
from an Unsuitable thirst for change
and novelty. No number of dances
tired her, no partner wearied her by
dancing through from beginning to
end.
Some weeks had elapsed since Lau-
rance Loves dinner party, and Char
lie had not wasted his time He had
reassumed his old position in the
Seymour street household. The cir
Gle of visitors there had somewhat
changed in his absence, as he soon
discovered. This was the natural re-
suit of the colonel's presence. Like
all specialists, the old traveller was
much sought after by his kind.
Eastern authorities of every age and
nationality sought him out, and with
these rugged and sunburned wander
ers the colonel loved to travel again
over far off deserts, comparing notes,
asking and receiving hints. Gradual
ly his house came to be recognized
as the headquarters of the party des-
ignated 'alarmists. Among these
experts it soon became a semi-offic ial
secret that Vineyard Mistley was 'out
there" and a few were taken into
further confidence and allowed to
share the colonels anxiety at his
long absence. AS Vineyards broth
er, Charlie found himself of more
Importance among these ancient lum-
inaries of Eastern diplomacy. Thus
he occupied a double post in the
household. Firstly, as the colonel's
friend; secondly, as Lena's attendant
knight wheresoever she might be
pleased to go.
Through it all, like an undercur-
rent, ran the thread of his own dip
lomatic task. From Lena he had
learned nothing, but one important
step had been made in the right di-
rection. He had renewed his ac-
quaintance with the Baroness de
Nantille. She had even been invited
to the Wrights' at his suggestion,
upon which occasion he had with
imperturbable calmness devoted him
self to entertaining her, until he dis
covered that Lena was beginning to
notice it. Eaurance Lowe had been
present on this occasion, as on others
when the baroness and Charlie were
thrown together. and very little that
passed was lost by him.
There were many drawing rooms
in London to which Mrs. Mistley and
her sons had the entree. and where
they could be sure of a welcome;
and now Charlie suddenly began to
take advantage of this privilege.
Wherever Lena went, he was sure to
appear during the evening. At dull,
geographical and learned soirees he
usually put in an appearance--very
late, but by no means disturbed, for
1t had come to be an understood
thing that Lena sk-uld accord smil-
ing congo to any bumptiops and self
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
"Eve,s Annie Tree y

A fruit supposed to bear the mark
Of Ewes teeth is one of the many
botanical curiosities of Ceylon. The
tree on which it grows is known by
the significant name of "the forbidden
fruit" or Ewes apple tree" The
blossom has very pleasant scent,
but the really remarkable feature OF
tie tree. the one to which it owes its
name, is the fruit. 1t is beautiful and
hangs from the tree in a peculiar man.
ner. Orange on the outside and deep
crimson within, each fruit has the APP
pearance of having had piece bitten
out of it. This fact. together with its
poisonous quality, led the Mahome
tans to represent it as the forbidden
fruit of the Garden of Eden, and to
warn men against its noxious prop
critics.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Dies Trying to Save Son.

Trying to save his son. aged six
years, Stout Dawson and the boy
were both drowned in the Raritan
River at New Brunswick. Dawson
was fishing with his boy and two COM
panions. At treacherous part of
the river the boat was overturned.
The two companions of the Dawson
boy could swim and soon got ashore
Dawson made plucky attempt to
rescue his boy, but the current was
too swift and he soon became ex-
hausted. Before aid could reach him
both sank. Dawson was thirty-five
years old
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

American Homes and Gardens an
nounces that the winter time and
very early spring are not looked up
on with favor by the purveyors of
country real estate as the best sea-
son for their operations; yet the in
curing settler, looking about for a
suburban or rural residence, could
do worse than begin his discoveries
at such times. The person who is
new to country life, and who pro.
poses to adopt it permanently, will
have the country all the year round
He must stay there in all seasons, in
the pleasant days of summer and the
cold, unpleasant days Of winter. A
country road in winter time is not
always calculated to arouse enthus-
iasm for travel along it; yet it may
be that it is precisely the road you
will have to travel, morning and eve
ming, every day OF the year. 1t will
be an illumination into the variety
of country life to see such thorough
fares at the worst; it may not be so
desirable for the real estate man.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

Mere man must not allow himself
to be deceived by the optimistic wri-
ter who in the London Nation de-
clares that the average successful
male Americans control of the social
order is deeply rooted, that his pow
pr is superior to that of woman, and
that the American woman is not in
tellectually, morally and physically
superior to man. With such words
1t is sought to blind mans eyes to
the fate prepared for him. 1t is sad,
1t is terror inspiring, but it cannot be
avoided; the edict has gone forth; ;
man must and shall be abolished.
Nothing can save him, and nobody
wants to. He isn't worth the trouble.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

Town Topics maintains that one
of the most painful, pitiful. revolving
sights in the civilized world is New
York surface, Elevated or Subway
car during the rush hours. The car
is packed with men and women more
closely than the law allows cattle to
be penned. They stand on the plat
forms In the snow, rain or sun, and
to get on or off means pushing, SHOW
ing and fighting. Inside, they are
lined three deep between the seats,
two lines clinging to the overhead
straps and the third hustled, pulled
and jostled. The atmosphere is pois-
onous. The personal contact is dis
gusting. These men and women,
treated worse than the captives of
bandits and pirates, are free born
American citizens. They have each
paid the price demanded for comfor-
table transportation, and each is en-
titled to seat. They submit to
these outrageous and indecent con-
ditions because they are obliged to
get from home to work and from
work to home at fixed hours, and be-
cause they have never known any
better means Of transportation.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Fellowship For wellesley Girl.

Miss Helen D. Cook. of Montclair,
has been awarded the Alice Freeman
Palmer fellowship of $1,000 at We'll
lesley College. The fellowship is for
the purpose of assisting worthy stu
dents in postgraduate course in a
foreign university. Miss Cook will
pursue her studies next year in Ger
many. She is daughter of C. Alex
ander Cook, and was graduated from
the Montclair High School in 1901.
She entered Wellesley the following
fall. She took postgraduate course
at Wellesley, occupying the chair of
assistant professor of philosophy and
psychology.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
According to the Federal census

According to the Federal census
of 1900, only three cities in the
United States-New York, Chicago
and Philadelphia-had populations
lin excess of 8S8,409, the number of
!children between five and eighteen
in this town. Only five cities-the
three named, st. Louis and Boston
had populations exceeding 557,36S,
the number. of pupils in the public
schools here. From these compari-
sons some notion of the magnitude
of the educational system of New
York can be got. Nowhere else in
the world is there an establishment
of the same nature that approaches
it in the number of individuals en-
rolled or in the cost of it's mainte-
nance in labor and money. Yet there
are many New Workers who are COM
pletely ignorant of the methods and
accomplishments of their tremendous
engine of civilization.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

Persia, and Mira Ali Kuli Kahn of the
Royal College, Teheran, a scholarly
young Persian who is also educated
in English, and who acts as interpre-
ter to Mira FAIL.
The spirit of tolerance, the cry for
economic and social adjustment, the
efforts toward peace and unity which
are abroad in the world at the present
time are said to be due directly to the
presence of the great prophets Of
this faith. who have been manifest
ed in Persia during the past sixty
years. Since the advent of Jesus the
western world has been prone to
brush aside all such claims as III.
worthy of notice,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Fusing Rubies.

Little rubies, the price of which is
considerably below that OF large
ones Of the same quality, are finely
powdered. and then fused together
in the electric furnace. The mass is
quickly cooled by some trick that
is not made public, resulting in a
gem of good size, and retaining the
desired lustre and tint. Neither the
sapphire nor the emerald can be
subjected to this treatment.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
II. t. Williams, Quaker, Dies.

Thomas T. Williams, member of
the Society of Friends at Shrewsbury,
who was prominent figure at all the
big meetings held by that religious
society in Philadelphia, died at his
home at Oceanport. He was eighty
eight years old and was one of the
pioneer lumber merchants along the
Jersey coast, his yard being located
at Oceanport, on the, Shrewsbury
River, when that village was a great
shipping centre. He was a widower
and had lived a retired life for the
last twenty-five years.
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Russians Sell Daughters.

Reports from the famine districts
IF Russia show that the distress is
readily growing acute and that the
peasantry in the government of
kazan have been driven to despera-
lion and are selling their daughters
into slavery to the Mohammedans of
the Caucasus. The ages of girls sold
range from twelve to seventeen, and
the prices realized are from $50 to
=
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

The Federal Court of Porto Rico
has decided that for purposes of en-
ployers' liability the island is Ter
ritory. For purposes of citizenship
it is not. Our. dependencies ought to
be well grounded by this time in the
art of being all things to all men, the
New York Evening Post thinks.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Woman sneezes herself BIind.

AS the result of blindness, brought
on by . spell of violent sneezing, Mrs.
Joseph Jack, of Rose street, Trenton,
is undergoing treatment by Philadel-
phia specialists. Her trouble is pro-
nounced to be hemorrhage of the
eyes. While in bed Mrs. Jack was
seized with a sneezing fit After
much difficulty she was able to go to
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Tree spllts ROCK.

There is tree just beyond the New
England railway arch on the Middle.
bury road in Connecticut. which has
grown through solid rock many tons
in weight, making a large assure
which would require a dynamite ex.
plosion to duplicate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

With 500 lives lost in three acct
dents at sea within two weeks, and
400 lives lost inside of three months
through railroad accidents, the ques-
fion of "congested population" seems
to The Commoner to be rapidly solv-
ing itself
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
"Yellows" Are Fading.

The yellow papers are fading, On
exchange asserts. The color proved
not to be fast, on paper. 1t is a
question, however, whether the
bleached yellow is more agreeable
than the vivid original color, which
was fresh, if disagreeable. Now it ii
as disagreeable as ever, but is stale.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

Including the interest on the ma
tional debt, largely created by war,
the money spent in this country as
a result of wars or in preparation
for conflict, consumes every year
more than sixty per cent. of the total
revenue of the United States.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

The tailor's art makes more men
happy than all the paintings and
sculptures in the world.-James 0.
Madison, at the first convention of
the Merchant TaiIors' National Ex-
change.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Jersey oyster Settlement Burned,

Fire practically wiped out the oys-
ter settlement at Maurice River, near
Millville. The buildings in which the
oystermen lived in the season we're
small frame affairs. The loss is esti-
mated at $50,000,- on which there
was no insurance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

"a London literary critic thinks
that laughter is immoral. Physicians
say that 1T 10 splendid aid to di-
gestion. Shall we be morally dys-
peptic or unmorally unhappy?
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Cer,nany's Foreign Trade.

The Bureau of Statistics, at Ser
lin, estimates Germany's foreign
trade for 1906 as follows: Imports,
S2,085. 100000, increase of $685.
10000; exports, $1,561, 600 900, in
crease of $1,5OO,OOO.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

II believe the great mass of bust
ness men would rather do business
on the level than in any other way"
says Governor Hughes, of New York.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

Prosperity throughout the world
3has been marked during the past ten
years. America has shared in this
industrial progress.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
Blinded by Electric Flash,

While putting in fuse on his car
on the Queens County trolley line in
Astoria, N. T., Isaac Dunn, the motor
man, was made blind by flash OF
electricity.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
PREACH a NEW RELIGION.
Persian Missionaries Seek Converts in
New England.

Persian Missionaries Seek Converts in
New England.
1t will doubtless startle many PEG.
pie to learn that Persians, descend
ants of Mohammedans, are at work in
New England trying to make converts.
And the religious movement which
they represent is not only purely
Eastern but Persian, and in sense
Mohammedan, since it originated in
reform movement of Mohammedans.
New England has certainly reached
an interesting period in it's history
when Persian monks of a religion that
did not exist when the Mayflower
came to anchor there are not
only preaching but making converts.
The new religion is represented by
Mira Abul FAIL, an eminent oriental
scholar, formerly a distinguished pro.
lessor in the leading college of phi.
.osophy and theology of Teheran.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09
smaII island Appearg.

Al small island has risen out Of
twenty feet of water in Pensacola
Bay. ........;s
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-09

More than one-fifth of the land
surface Of the globe is under English
rule.
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sleep. in tie morning when she
awoke she thought it was still night,
so intense was the darkness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-30
SHOOTING FROM AFFAIR
AT ROCKiSLAND PEOPLE
That Is Reported to Be the Latest Plan
of cCaskrin-importatio of
MongreI Sheet.

Rumors gained circulation this after
noon to the effect that another Nc
Caskrin dodger would appear this af-
teTnoon in the shape of an Iowa news
paper with which the city of Rock Is.
land would be flooded between now
and election in the hopes of gaining
votes for the down and out candidate
The fact that the mayor of Rock Is.
land would go over into foreign state
and outside of the three cities at that
and engage the services of a mOngre
paper to boost his standing before the
people of Rock Island. seems almost
too prepOSterOus an undertaking fol
even McCaskrin to undertake.
Having antagonized the papers of the
three cities despite their friendship TO
ward him, he is now attempting to
play the sympathy dodge reinforced by
bringing into the state of Illinois Z
paper from another state to advance
his candidacy would prove a boom
arang TO the fullest degree. 1t is an
easy matter for a newspaper to stand
at distance and for consideration
misrepresent the situation in Rock Is