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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-12-28
The Clansman.
By B. M Jenes

man IhOmaS Dixon is N
Y clergyman, or he posed as
such for awhile, until be found
out that he could not make sue
cess at mlnistering to souls of
men or his congregation, did not
appreciate the ability of such a
man or God found that he was
sending more souls to the happy
hunting grounds. han to his own
heaven and reused his (Dixon's)
conscience whip him from the
pulpit. Therefore he conceived
the idea Of scurrillous writing,
and such writings to be against
the Negro. Therefore he wrote
Leopards Spots.
During the ante. belum days.
there sprang into much promi
hence, a young woman, because
OF a book written by her, known
as Uncle Tom s Cabin y true
story, since she wrote as things
actually were for he Negro, her
name is written high where all
may see, and in letters of the
sunlight. She is one whose name
is lmmOrtalized.
We all know or have heard or
have read of how many copies
were sold within the next five
years, not only in the United
States. but it was translated into
more than twenty European and
several Asialic languages. We
have heard or read of bow t was
received willingly, welcomely.
aud read eagerly by everybody,
both old and young and of the
feeling of hostility to slavery,
the sympathy it created for the
bondaged Negro Many were
and have been the tears shed
over that most wonderfulof books
and then some one not yet salts
fed with the success, thus far
crealed by the book dramatized
it and staged it. that the world
might more fully see and under
stand. 1t has gone forth and
done it's work. work which can t
be torn down. by no single or
several writer's to the contrary
In America, slavery has become
a thing of the past. And though
Harriet Beechnr Stowe has gone
to her reward, her soul like Gar
rison, Phillips, Jno Brown and
Lincoln goes ever marching con
.inuously perpetuating the good
great work.
AS l said Dixon was ministe-
rial failure, and to retrieve him.
self. he turned to the literary
field, and wrote, The Leopard
Spots, The CIansman and The
Traitor.
For what purpose, To coun-
teract the sympathy caused by
Uncle Toms Cabin. Will he sue
seed in SO doing?. NO, unless
he is aided bythose against whom
he has written. Is there any
fear of his so being aided? Yes
so it appears to me. How then?
BY their own efforts to suppress
it Why [ am surprised. How
could that ever be any aid to the
success of The Clansman? Your
surprise is not wholly unjust
since you have never considered
the thing pro and then con- You
rememb Der there was committee
of citizens waited upon the may
or previous to the play Saturday
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-12-28
"Evil Things That Men do Live After
Them'

The following from white
daily paper of Lexington, North
Carolina, ais food for thought and
may be applied to our dailies
here and all over the land, as a
whole. Let colored man steal
something or commit some
crime and he gets big heao lines
and front page with space suffic-
lent. But on the other hand
when worthy cause is espoused
or some able, sane and logical
speech made, only a small space
if anything. They never aim to
get our good deeds and acts
never fails to get onr bad ones.
Now why is it done? Is it innate
malice or commercial and racial
jealousy? The article in ques.
tion follows
HAS it ever occurred to you
that the newspapers of this
country owe something to the
colored race other than record.
ing day after day the crimes that
Negroes commit? What news
paper within your range Of read
ing gives any space to the color
ed race to promote the best in
terests of these people? You
cannot name one We hold them
up to ridicule, we show humor-
ously their dense ignorance and
quaint views to make white folks
laugh, and we tell with unfailing
regularity of the worst they are
guilty of, not forgetting to say
"big black brute and narrate
how he wds ynched. Now all
Negroes are not bad There is
many good man among them
1t is rare that we notice him. We
owe it to him to notice him, tell
of the good work he does not
only TO encourage him. but to en-
courage others of his people. The
new spapers Of the South have
not given the Negro a square
deal. Possessed Of all the preju
dices incident to white life in the
South. we nevertheless submit
that we as newspapers treat the
colored man badly and we ought
to do better than we have done.
By doing so we will contribute to
our own welfare"
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-12-28
st. Ausustine's Mission.

st. AugustIne's MISSION.
1920 South Grand Ave-, East. Ser
vices every Sunday. Sunday School,
4 p. m; Divine services, 7:45 p. m.
All are invited. Conducted by Rev.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION
100000 Sargent Says


d.
with made by Representative John
immigration
particular localities Bur-
Syria and Asia Minor
which
total admitted
preceding
said
Neither because of political beliefs
that compelled with Of bad
timber
directly
the United
we'll
will exclude from the United
Of
good citizens should be
the country matter what their
In tide immigration,
impossible divert the growing influx into
place as New York in day year
satisfied write
the
South Southwest the Northwest
according the had
this
is agricultural
that those of this
cities but it
continued prosperity this country immigration will
tide
immigration that
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
"BLACK HAND" WILL MEET
FATE OF MOLLY MAGUIRES
Organized in Italy For Noble Purposes Has Been Prosuted
in This Country to IBnoble Purposes---Ams of
Information Bureau Of immigration.

d. in
York elsewhere
the JUSTICE"
Chief
I'm the meantime
of the
There
there
These statements n O
Division Information
dng to the agricultural sections
into the cities of the Middle
Years continued Powdery
born Of Irish that State the Molly Magu
unjust that they typical of the Irish
native sod it
this nothing
zaion of
THE Black Hand Society will
Molly
Chief Powdey he has planned Uncle Sam will
the biggest intelligence
household servants skilled artisans will be supplied short notice Mr.
Powdery did directly, nmated that the Division
Information will solve the girl problem the United States
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
N. Y. G. RAILWAYS BANKRUPT.
Two Receivers Appointed by Judge
Lacombe-S2b, 100000 Deficit.

Two Receivers Appointed by Judge
Lacombe-$25, 100000 Deficit.
New York City.-The New York
City Railway Company, The lessee Of
nearly all the surface lines in Mad
haitian and the Bronx, went into the
hands of receivers on an application
made before Judge Lacombe, in the
United States Circuit Court, on be-
half of two of its creditors, tho Penn
sylvania Steel Company anG the Deg
non Contracting Company In grant
ing the application Judge Lacombe
appointed two receivers, Adrian Fl.
Joline and Douglas Robinson. The
receivers, under order of the Court,
we're to file bonds of $250,u0O each
The report made by the company in
March, 1907, showed liabilities of
$37,O0O,000 in round figures and a
deficit of 100000 That would
have left the assets of The company
$28, 900, 900. Since then the COM
pany has admitted deficit of $10,-
600, 900. A readjustment of the sehed-
ule of liabilities and assets shows
deficit of almost $25. 100000 whic
would reduce the assets TO about
$12, 900 900.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
Appearance and Reality.

Some people are rusty. Their
harsh, ungainly manners eat out what
is good in their character, and saw
the very flesh of those who come near
them. Some people are gilt A very
brilliant exterior they present; but
the first brush of hard using rubs of
the Citing, and reveals the base metal
beneath. A third class are polished.
The polish, indeed, is on the surface;
but it is a polish of solid worth, and
in the multifarious crosses of human
life, the more it is rubbed the brighter
it grows.-Rev. w. Arnot.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
Cocoanuts in Jamaica.

The milk in the water cocoanut is
food as well as. beverage.
The cart driven through the streets
of Jamaica by the quaint old darby
Urging along his rebellious steed in
THE form of a native donkey is an in.
teresting sight. One is amazed at
the dextrous manner in which the
Nvendor takes the unripe cocoanut in
his hand and deity cuts hole in the
top, from which you drink the milk.
Then you return the nut to the man,
and with his machete he cracks it in
to three pieces and cuts spoon
shaped silver from one side from
which you eat the white, jellylike
substance scraped from the inside.
These are the unripe cocoanuts. -
Philadelphia Record.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pieasedo0
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity Catarrh being a con-
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation Of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up. the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The prcprietors have SO much faith
In its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address
T. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
81 The third-ciass railroad fare Of
fRussia is less than that of any other
country of Europe. 1t averages a
little over half cent milo.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
MOTHER STAYS 8 CHILDREN
Buffalo Woman, Suddenly De.
mented, StrangIes Little Ones.
Killed in Their SIeep-Says She Did
Not Want Them to Grow Up
Crazy, Like She Is.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Mrs. Bertha Mund
strangled her three children, Christie
pher, aged eight; Helen, aged two
and Freda, aged eight months, at
their home, 925 Clinton street.
She then went to the Pennsylvania
Railroad yards, where her husband
is employed as a member of wreck.
ing crew, and informed him Of her
action.
When Mrs Mund met her husband
she said: Fred, I have made away
with tho three children; come home
and see. "
Mund hurried home with her and
when they reach 4 the house the
woman sat down at table and began
to cry. Mund telephoned to the police
and Patrolman Larkin found the cou-
pie at the table crying.
Officer Larkin arrested the woman
and she was taken to police head
quarters, where she said:
Il killed the children because did
not want them to grow up and be
crazy like me-.
The police say she doesn't realize
the enormity of her crimo and that
she killed the children while suffering
with sudden attack of insanity.
She has been i'll with nervous trouble
for about six months, but had not
given any signs of mental derange-
ment.
Mrs Mund killed the boy Christ
first. He was asleep on mattress in
the parlor. She wrapped blanket
about his head, covering his face, tied
a clothesline about his neck, t..rning
it around three times, drew it tight
and fastened it by several knots.
When found his body was half on the
mattress and half on the l-oor, face
downward.
Helen was Eext slain. This child
was asleep in crib in the parlor.
Mrs. Mund wound a cloth esline
around the little ones neck twice,
and after strangling the child she
carried the body into the bedroom,
put it on the bed and covered it with
quilt.
Freda, the baby, was the last VIC
tim. She was asleep in a baby car
riage in the kitchen. Mrs. Mund
killed her in the carriage. She tied
pieoe of clothesline about the baby's
neck once and fastened it in two
knots.
The appearance of the body indi-
Gated that the little one lived only a
moment or two after the fatal cord
was frightened about its neck.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
Peruna Tablets can now be procured.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND
AMERICAN FOODSTUFFS.
Contract For Canned Meats Placed in
Chicago--British War Office Has
Every Confidence in the Stock
vayd Product


Every Confidence in the StocK-
yard Product.
- Another large contract for timed
meats for the British Army has been
placed with Libby, Mcneil & Libby,
of Chicago, through the Director of
4Supplies Department of the British
War Office. This contract vas COM
petitive affair, England, Canada, Aus
tralia and Brazil entering with ten
ders. 1t was quality and method of
packing that got the Chicago firm
the business. General Clayton, of the
War Department. in an interview, ac-
cording to the London Standard,
stated that the British Government is
highly satisfied with the foodstuffs
supplied by Chicago, and they have
every confidence in the manufactures
entering Britain from the Stockyards.
"The food for the Army will be
packed under the supervision of Brit
ish representatives at the invitation
of the packers" he said, although
the Government is ready to rely upon
the new Pure Food regulations re-
Gently ;naugurated in the United
States All the talk about the inef-
ficiency of the new law is sheer nom
sense. British officers in America
have gone fully into the matter and
the authorities are perfectly satisfied
to place orders in Chicago when con-
ditions call for outside supplies of
canned meats.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
The Greatest Man.

William G. Charming paid a high
tribute to the common people when
he said: 1.-THE greatest man is he who
chooses the right with inyincible res
olution; who resists the sorest temp
tations from within and without; who
bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully;
who is calmest in storms and most
fearless under menace and frowns;
whose reliance on truth, on virtue,
on God, is most unfaltering. / be-
lieve this greatness to be most COM
mon among the multitude, whose
names are never heard"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
TIla NaiIonaI Gnme

George Davis is said to be organic
ing team for winter visit to Cuba.
Manager Joe Kelley, of Toronto.
has been drafted by the Boston Ma
tionals.
James Robinson, first baseman of
the Wilkesbarre team, was drafted by
the Chicago Club
The Boston Americans have won
eight extra inning games this season.
That is going some.
Stovall, Oldring and Barrett are
the only players in the American
League who have made five hits per
game this season.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
FIRE SWEEPS BIG HOTEL.
Saranac Lake Resort Burns Quickly
When Flames Start in Its Interior.

Saranac Lake, N. Y.-Ths big four
story frame Ampersand Hotel, at the
end of Lower Saranac Lake, and two
miles from the village, was totally
destroyed. Half dozen outbuildings
also went up in flames The damage
is estimated at 100000, and this is
covered by $4,000 insurance The
hotel had been closed to the public a
week before, and it was occupied by
about a dozen employees, Who had re-
manned behind to clean up and pre-
pare the place for the winter, when =
would stand untenanted.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
ACCUSED OF KILLING BRIDE.

PHILADELPHIA Coroner's jury
here decided that Mary e. Eichen-
laub. a bride of only few months,
was killed by her husband and his
mother.
Swearing to kill druggist who
gave testimony against him and a
Coroner's detective who worked up
the case, G. Russell Eichenlaub, the
husband, was led out OF court.
The testimony led the jury to be-
lieve that both the mother and son
procured cyanide of potassium.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01

using Doan's Kidney Pills ] suf-
fered everything from kidney trou-
bles for year and half. / had
pain in the back and head, and al
most continuous in the loins and felt
weary all the time. A few doses OF
Doan's Kidney Pills brought great
relief, and / kept on taking them I'M
til in short time / was cured. j
pink Doan's Kidney Pills are won
derful. :,
Sold by alldealers so cents box.
= Nsses- Milburn Co, Buffalo. n. X.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
DEFIANCE no 0. $. COURT.

St. Paul, MINI. Attorney General
Young appeared before Judge Bum.
in the Ramsey County District Court.
and asked for writ of mandamus
against the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company to compel that road to put
into effect the commodity rate law
recently declared Illegal by Judge
Lochren, of the United States District
Court.
Judge Bum issued the writ, which
is made returnable October 5, and the
papers were served on the railroad
officials
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
YACHT BLOWS UP.
Twenty-Five Hurled Into River a
Lantern Tonifes Gasoline

Lantern lgnIteS GaSOune.
Gallipolis, Ohio.-While out on the
Ohio River with party of twenty
two men, the gasoline tank on the
yacht Blanche M, exploded. All were
thrown into the river and four were
drowned.
The dead were: John E. Edwards,
clerk in the Gallipolis postoffice; ]. R.
Simmons, druggist, Harrisville, w.
Va; e. H. Brake, assistant cashier.
Harrisville First National Bank, and
]. Willis Fiddler, postmaster at Har-
risville and secretary of the West
Virginia Congressional Committee.
Harvey E. McGinnis, clerk of the
Circuit Court, Huntsville, aid w. E.
Meserve were badly burned.
The party from Huntsville had
come here with brass band to at
tend land sale and had gone on the
river for an evenings outing. The
explosion was caused by a lantern
falling on the engine, igniting the
gasoline.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
Prominent People.

1t is estimated that Secretary
Taft's trip around the world will cost
the Government $500.
The cultivation of flowers is one oil
the pleasures of r. II. Green. Of
Texas, son Of Hetty Green.
John D. Rockefeller, according tc
Annie Besant, of the Thesophical So.
ciety, is to be reborn an angel.
Or. Henry H. Rusby, dean of the
New York City College of Pharmacy
Columbia University, has been APP
pointed official expert in drug pro
ducts for the United States Govern
ment.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
BLrTLEsHIp COAL, $2,5oo,ooo.
May Even Reach $4,000, 600, as
Shown by Bids Opep,d,

Washington, D. C.-Bids opened
show that the cruise of the battleship
fleet to the Pacific and back will cost
$2,500,000 for coal alone if the ships
return by the Cape Horn route, the
one they will taie in getting to the
Pacific. Ii they return via the Suez
Canal, the coal bill will be $780,
900. The canal fees will amount to
100000, making a total OF $4,000
O00 If the ships are kept i'll the
Pacific Ocea, the coal bill will be
81, 1S4, 900, assuming that the bid of
the United States Shipping Company,
of New York, is accepted.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
Demand For scientific Men.

There is wealth of wisdom in the
advertisement of European teacher
of topography" in which he says:
I'm letterpress printing to-day there
is greater demand than ever for
scientific men - men who know a
little more than the ordinary" This
is so much a truism the world over
there can be no debate on the subject;
ones observation of events passing
round about him proves the assertion.
Inland Printer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
The World Of Snort.

DR.. Lasker, worlds champion al
chess, won three matches in the new
game of lawn chess played at Sum.
NIT, N. J.
Charles J. GHdden, whose road
tours have done more for practica,
automobiling than any other single
class of events, is now to take with
enthusiasm to ballooning.
w. Newton Bennington, the former
race horse owner, who was credited
with having accumulated fortune
was placed in a Long Island sanitar
ium. It is said he has little monet
left.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
DIVIDE rERsIA IMpARTIALLY.
Russia and England Create Three
Commercial Spheres by Treaty.

London official text of the
Anglo-Russian treaty has been issued.
The principal clauses provide for the
division of Persia into three spheres
of commercial influence.
The northern sphere is allotted to
Russia, the middle sphere Will be
neutral and the southern is allotted
To Great Britain. The latter's pre-
dominance in Afghanistan is recog-
niZed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
preparing Camp For roosevelt.

President Roosevelt will hunt bear
in East Carroll Parish. opposite Asa
tia Station, on the Iron Mountain
Railroad in Louisiana The camp
will be eighteen miles from Lake
Providence. Several noted bear hunt
ers of the parish have been on the
ground more than a month preparing
a place.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01

The Asahi, an independent Japan
csc newspaper, ridicules the idea that
an unfriendly feeling toward the uni
ted States exists in Japan, and calls
attention to the welcome prepared
for Secretary Taft as an evidence of
good will
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01

they get out OF Oruer
1t causes backache.
headaches, dizziness,
languor and distress
ing urinary troubles.
Keep the kidneys well
and all these suffer-
ings win be saved you.
Mrs. s. A. Moore. pro-
prietor of a restau-
rant at Waterville,
says: Before
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01

Dyspepsia is Often Caused By Cotarrh
of the Stomach -Peruna Relieves Catarrh
of the Stomach and is Therefore Remedy
for Dyspepsia.
Hon. NJ G. Butler, u s. Senator
from South Carolina for two terms, !
in a letter from Washington, D. O.,
x writes to to the Peruna Medicine Co., I
as follows:
~ can recommend PertitG for
dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I
haze been using y0atr' medicine 7
fOf. short period and feel Very J
match retteUed. 1t Is Indeed a !
WONDERFUL medicine, besides a
! good tonic.
s%%%%%+**++**+%*** +%+++*<%%+++*%
GATARRH of the stomach is the correct
U name for most cases of dyspepsia. Only
an internal catarrh remedy, such as Peru
ma, is available
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
$1,000, 600 % Fight Local Option.

The Pennsylvania State Federation
Of Liquor Dealers is preparing to
raise a fund of $7,500.000 with
which to prevent the passage of lo-
cal option law at the next meetlag Of
tbs PENNSYLVANIA Legislature.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
Belmont Defiant.

August Belmont declared New
York would have no transit improve
ment until confidence was restored,
and that the Steinway tunnel would
be opened when a fair arrangement"
was made with the city.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
Smith Attacks Trusts.

Charles Emory Smith, formerly
ostmaster-General, attacked trusts
at the American Bankers Convention
in Atlantic City.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01

An English scientist has discovered
that strawberries make the eater i'll
tempered N.Y.-4O
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
care Of snhrnarine Cahles.

Fifty fine vessels are constantly
employed in laying and repairing the
submarine cables of the world.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
THE Skim Mil

The skim milk is really the most
nourishing portion of the milk. 1t
contains large per cent. of protein
and most of the sugar of milk.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
TIRED BACKS.

The kidneys have great work to
do IN keeping the blood pure. When