The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-11
JERSEY ENGINEERING GENIUS
IS IN DEMAND EVERYWHERE
Millions of Dollars Worth of Newark and Vicinity made
Machinery and Supplies Used in Opening Foreign
Treasure Troves--Jcrsey Rifles Moved Down Bandits.

the Grand Lama of Mongolia, the cara
van was ambuscaded in a mountain de-
file by a horde of robbers. The guard
of soldiers sent with the caravan by
the viceroy fled and were seen ne more.
The camels were affrlghted and
wrecked some Of the Graded machinery.
But the Americans and the American
mules proved their worth as products of
New Jersey by standing their ground.
The Americans were armed with maya
zine rifles which had been chosen by an
officer of the National Guard of New
Jersey, and they did fearful execution.
Twenty-eight of the robbers were cap
tured and turned over to the nearest
mandarin. He caused each malefactor
TO be impaled upon a sharp stake with
arms and legs bound to the instrument
of torture. Then the executioner went
down the line looping off heads with a
two-handed sword.
Mr.. Dietrich photographed each de-
capitation, and noted that as a head
was taken off the assistant executioner
placed it facing toward the robber
to lose his Head. The heads, seemingly,
preserved consciousness for two to six
minutes, and each discovered head
seemed to take a vivid interest in
watching the b~eheadment of his fellows.
The,opening of the work al the mines
was timed to be on the day of a great
Buddhist festival, at which five thou
sand bare-backed riders competed for a
prize in a contest which followed a
course sixty-f1ve miles long. The Grand
Lama, otherwise called 1.-The Ever-liv-
ing Cod and his suite of Bones and
harem attended the opening of the
American plants, and were almost
scared to death by the Newark-made
steam whistles, at the first sound of
which thousands of Mongolians took to
the mountains, swearing hat the fiends
We're let loose. The Americans gave a
banquet to the Grand Lama and his
suite and the viceroy. all of whom got
very drunk by insisting upon drinking
much more American whiskey than
any but on old-time Yankee miner can
take without rolling off a forty-acre1ot
in high attitudes. Several Monaghan
bellies from the Lama's harem in UNI
Inaging around the camp In search of
"souvenirs' came across a recently
opened can of varnlsh made by former
Governor Franklin Murphy. 1t devel-
oped, from what afterward happened,
that the fair creatures of the Orient
supposed that the varnish was stained
honey, brought by the foreign devils
for choice repasts, and SO the women
spread the varnish on bread and crack
ers n were having a high old time
until Machinist Francis Sullivan, of
Paterson, took the varnish away, Civ
ing them in place a boz of axle grease,
which they accounted as a toothsome
delicacy. One of the Americans was
afterward highly regarded by one of
the Grand Lama's household on ac-
count of his presentation of ten pounds
of rancid Iowa butter that went to the
bad through an opening in the tin case.
The Monaghan opinion is that rancid
butter, putrid meat and rancid animal
and fish oil that would sicken a cleaner
of ~cesspools are gifts of great value.
G. WILFRED PEARCE.