The Holly chieftain., 1908-03-27
the crow Ii.

is president of the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution OF New Jersey. He ID
not the first of his family to occupy the
executive office of the state. as his
fathers brother George l. Fort was
governor from ls514O 1854. The pres
ent governor. who was born In 1852.
a wear after his uncle assumed ONCE.
went to see the latter when his sch''Oi-
ing was finished and he was starting
out in the law and asked his advice.
The ex-governor counseled him TO set
tie in Jersey City and become Demo
crat as that was the only party through
which In New Jersey he could hope to
secure political preferment. The fu-
ture governor said he was willing to
go to Jersey City. but he could not be-
come a Democrat. as he was convinced
of the truth of the principles OF the
Republican party. While a pupil Of
the Pemberton academy young Fort
was under the instruction Of Charles
e. Hendrickson. and on one OCCASION
was kept after school to perform GER
tain task and was SO slow about II that
the impatient teacher declared the only
thing his head would ever be good for
would be butchers block. Some
years later pupil and instructor We're
associates on the supreme bench of the
state and had good laugh when the
incident of school days WAS recalled.
Governor Fort attended the Albany
Law school and had for II roommate
the late Democratic candidate for tue
presidency. Alton Il Parker He u
married and has three children. in the
Republican convention of 1896 he nom..
mated Garret A. Hobart for the vice
His friends say it wouid
be singularly appropriate should he be
dominated for that office himself
American Music.
Even the severest critic OF American
music--and most of the critics vie with
each other for this title-cannot deny
the presence of an extraordinary and
ever increasing creative impulse In
American musical art. While. for rea-
sons to be considered. few American
works in large forms come to general
public performance and scarcely to
local, every year witnesses IL notable
increase of orchestral works. chamber
music. piano and vocal works in large
forms and other compositions by
American composers. OF smaller piano
compositions and songs the seasons
bring forth an appalling quantity and
too often, it is true. an appalling quail
ty as well. Yet In the midst of this
saturnalia appear many works of true
distinction. of breadth and beauty
works infinitely in advance of those
usually chosen to represent American
music on artists programmes. And
from time to time an American opera
rises from the composers conscious.
ness to completion-never to perform
ance-and sinks again into mystic.
rious obscurity. Oblivion OF temporary
neglect. we are fain to know which
Arthur Farwell in Atlantic.
Trials by Bread and Cheese.
There were many odd ways in an
Client times of detecting criminals. Our
ancestors had not lived long enough to
lose their faith in the cravings OF
and divine interference lii
earthly justice was superstitiously re-
garded as daily occurrence
No queerer example of this could be
found than the ancient mode of try
Ing prisoners by "bread and cheese"
The unfortunate offender was led, with
a halter round his neck, to the parish
church, and there In the presence of
all the people the priest put pieces OF
cheese and rye bread in u patten on
the altar. These he blessed, and then
the supposed criminal had to eat them
dry before the congregation.
II he managed to swallow them cas-
lily, he was acquitted, but if he choked
he was condemned. Naturally enough
scores of innocent folk were thus done
to death.-Pall Mall Gazette.
: A Trick Of East Indian Thieves.
In some Of the thieves schools in
India regular course of training is
gone through in the art of "pouching,"
or concealing articles of value in the
throat. The Englishman, newspaper
published In Calcutta, thus describes
the process:
AT first small piece of lead at
tached to thread is swallowed and
guided by the action of the tongue to
the orifice of the sac In the throat. As
soon as this has been thoroughly learn
ed the lead is coated with lime. This
eats into the sac and enlarges it. The
size OF the article to be pouched IL
gradually increased until 1t is said that
many of the Indian thieves can pouch