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To these two examples of White
Mountain tramping trips, some of
them within the writer's own expert
ence, an indefinite number of others,
might be added. In these common
days of outdoor enjoyment and
Appalachian Mountain clubs, the
wonderful region embraced in the
White and Franconia mountains,
away up in the northern corner of
Winston Churchill's favorite State, Is
fairly g%ridironed with trails, path
ways and carriage roads, most of
them leading to a scenic surprise.
The New England Alps but lit
tie known to the general public half
a century ago., and not nearly as we'll
appreciated as they deserved to be
even twenty or twenty-five years ago.,
have to-day come to be one of the
most popular Meccas for the vaca-
ZIONIST on the continent. The region
has had development, too, curiously.
different from that of any other vaca-
ton section in the country; for, while
1t retains, in a certain sense, its lex,
cIusiveness," its welcome has by moi
means been confined to the wealthy
a~ristocratic few. Indeed. thesel
are socially democratic.
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teacher in the New York Institution
for the Blind. He studied law and
was admitted to practice at Buffalo
in 1859. In 1870 he was elected
Sheriff of Erie County, N. Y. 1t was
in 1881 that he "a elected to the
office which established his first large
reputation-the mayorship of Buff
falo. In six months he had attracted
such general attention that the DEM
ocrats gave him the nomination for
governor. He was elected by an
enormous majority over his Repub-
lican opponent, Charles J. Folger.
At the Democratic national onven
ton, July, 1884, he was the leading
candidate on the first ballot, and on
the second ballot he secured the
nomination. He was renominated
but Harrison defeated him. During
his first term, in 1886, he married
Frances Folsom. In 1892 he ran for
President again and was elected.
After his retirement from public life
Mr.. Cleveland lived at Princeton, N.
J.
In 1905 ex-President Cleveland
was appointed by Thomas f. Ryan
one of the three trustees for the ma
jority stock of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society which he held.
The Cleveland household was often
pictured, perhaps too intimately to
please it's master, as a beautiful
American example of domestic con-
tent.
The sporting qualities of the
statesman and his love of sport did
much to endear him to the average
American. He was a sincere lover of
nature and a sportsman-angler and
hunter-of the capital sort.
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Grover Cleveland was the twenty
second President of the United States.
He was three times nominated by the
Democratic party for the highest Of
fee within the gift of the people and
twice elected to that office. AS the
history of the country is written from
decade to decade and from century
to century, he will be rated in his
tory in comparison with his prede-
cessors and his successors in that
high office. His rating will undoubt-
eddy be high.
Grover Cleveland was born March
Is, 1887, in the village of Caldwell,
N. j., nine miles from Newark, in a
house still standing, the parsonage
Of the First Presbyterian Church.
His father, the Rev. Richard F..
Cleveland, a graduate of Yale, was
a Presbyterian minister Of high
character, a strong preacher, and fine
scholar, whose forbears were Con-
nectfcut Yankees. His mother was
Am Neal, the daughter of an Irish
bookseller and a German Quakeress.
The fifth of their nine children was
ohristened Stephen Grover, for the
minister who had preceded the clergy
mar in the Caldwell pastorate.
When Grover was four years old
the family moved to Fayetteville,
nea Syracuse, N. Y, travelling by the
canal, and afterward to Clinton, N.
Y. In those places the boy got his
schooling, and the tradition is that
he was in no wise remarkable at his
books.
In 1853 the death of his father
obliged him to earn his own living.
With his older brother he came to
New York and found a place as
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The Interpreter of Life.

Jesus is the interpreter of life. He
holds the secret of the life which is,
as we'll as of the life which is to come.
We don't know how to live, and we
will go On laundering and wearing
ourselves out until We take Him as
our. exemplar.
The fever of life is the result of our
experiment with the things which
ought to make for our happiness.
Somehow We cannot get the right
proportion, and instead of receiving
joy and peace and a larger life from
our use of the mixture, we find our
selves weak and feverish, and sick at
heart. Let us go to Him, and take
His life for our example. Let us
tote what things He counted precious
and what things He rejected as harm
full to the soul.
Let us accept Him IS the way, and
the truth, and the life, and He will
enter the room in which we are now
lying sick of the fever of life, and He
will take US by the hand and lift US
I'D, and fill us with new life for
service to His glory and salvation Of
our fellow men.-Rev. Percy T. Or
ton, in Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
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Indeed, the vacation seeker whs
cannot find a sufficient diversity of
amusement, exercise and study in the
White Mountains might as well cease
looking for what he wants on this
planet. In addition to the conyen-
tional tramping (the most helpful
and exhilarating exercise in the
world), there are delights of driving,
horseback riding, golf, tennis, fishing
and rowing, not to mention other at
tractive outdoor pastimes, including
the great national game played by
crack baseball clubs.
There is life and health and men
tai healing in the ozone of the White
Mountains, for, next to the impressive
beauty of their scenery. their most
important attribute is their wonder
full air. | shall never forget my first
introduction to it, as | descended
from the train from Boston at a little
station in the Crawford Notch.
The unfamiliar surroundings, the
quietude of that vast canyon, but
more than all else the elixir of that
peerless mountain oxygen, made it
seem as though we had entered a new
world and transformed us all instsn5
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Fatal Quarrel Over a Game.

An Italian stabbing ARRAY, in which
one of the participants was killed and
two others seriously injured, occurred
on Glen Ridge avenue, Montclair. A
party of Italians had spent most of
the night in the bottling place OF
Nicola Soda, just over the Glen Ridge
line. They were engaged in a game
known by Italians as fingers" in
which the matching of fingers serves
as the basis for a wager. Donate
~Lungarello kept tally of the game and
Petite Farello accused him of cheat
ing him out of the drinks. A quar-.
rel ensued and they adjourned to
the street to settle their differences.
There were about nine men in the
party, and while walking up Glen
Ridge avenue into Montclair Mich
aelo Currio noticed that Lungarello
had a stifetto. There was a general
scuff1e in an attempt to secure the
knife. Lungarello stabbed Farello
in the leg, severing the main artery.
and also cut Currio badly about the
neck and shoulders. Farello died
within a few moments. Policeman
Early, who was summoned by neigh
bors, notified Chief Henry Gallagher,
but meanwhile Lungarello had es-
capped. Currio was taken to the
Mountainside Hospital. Chief Gal
lagher located Lungarello in Newark.
1t was found that he. too, had been
stabbed, and his condition was SO
serious that he was taken to the City
Hospital.
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when without warning the locomo.
tive boiler blew up. Just how the &C
cident occurred is unknown.
The body of Engineer Roberts was
found on the track. The body of
Fireman Holman was blown into a
cornf1eld 800 yards to the real of the
engine. A strange feature of the &C.
cident was that Holman's overalls,
which he wore at the time of the &C.
cident, were found hanging in the
telegraph wires thirty feet above the
track. 1t is supposed that his body
shot directly through the wires.
Donnelly was blown down the
Stelton Lane road, in what is known
as the cut, near the bridge, a distance
of $50 yards. All of the bodies were
badly mangled. The locomotive
which blew up is the same one that
killed Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac P. Dunn
two well known residents of Stelton
at the Stelton crossing as they were
returning from services in the Bap.
fist Church there two years ago.
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In All Parts of the State.


G~ooseberries are plentiful in South
Jersey.
Russell Egley, even years old, fell
into Rancocas Creek at Mount Holly
and had gone down for the third time
when Budd Harmon, colored, rescued
him.
William t'reyer, who opened in
1863 the first market in Bayonne,
died suddenly of heart disease at his
home, 100 Broadway, at the age of
seventy. He was born in Manches-
ter, England.
The Ocean City Hotel Proprietors'
Association has elected these officers:
President, I'll. A. w. Smith; v~ice-pres-
ldent. s. H. Mayberry; secretary, Miss
K. e. Lewis; assistant secretary, Mrs.
Charles e. Haag; treasurer, Mrs. L..
Bakers.
Beets are bringing good prices in
South Jersey.
The record strawberry for the
Bloomsbury region this season was
picked by J. L. John, of Millville.
and it measured seven inches around.
The vineland Poultry and Pet
Stock Association has offered a re-
ward of 500 for the arrest and
CONVICTION Of thieves.
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HLn I'D
Last summer an enterprising Bos-
ton man, like the three Philadelphia
ans who lately started on a 10000
mile tramping trip to South America,
decided that he would do something
original in the line of pedestrianism.
Like thousands of other well-bal-
anced vacationists, the gentleman in
question selected the White Noun
tains as his objective point, and
reached them over a route which, he
claims, was never traversed through
out its entire length by any other hui
mar being.
Going from the modern Athens by
rail to Rochester, N. H., he walked
from the latter place to Alton Bay,
on the southern shore of incompar-
able Lake Winnipesaukee. From there
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Profile Lake, F~ranconia Notch.
he took the steamer, mt. Washing
ION" ~(scores of readers of this paper
will recall with pleasure a similar
experience), across the lake to Cen
ire Harbor.
Next day he tramped through
Moultonboro and Tamworth (the
Grover Cleveland eountry''), to
Wonalancet, annexing at that place
a local guide, who safely piloted him
oyer Mt. Wonalancet and Mt. Paugus,
two of the lesser hills of the White
Mountains, to picturesque P~assacona-
way village, where he changed to a
second guide.
The new pathfinder, an experienced
hunter, led his ambitious employer
over the mountains and through
dense woods that have been wholly
innocent of roadway or trail since
they were created, eventually strik-
ing in at Livermore, whence they
reached the summit of Mt. Washing
ton by way of the Crawford Notch
and the southern peaks.
Much of the way lay through
woodland solitudes where the eye of
a had seldom, if ever, penetrated,
and the chief member of the expedi-
ton says of it that it was ga walk
full of surprising interest as we'll as
interesting surprises"
This was in July, when the noun
tains were in their full glory of foil
age, sunshine and birds and animal
life.
A few months previous, in Febru-
airy, two other New England lovers of
outdoors enjoyed a pedestrian trip of
100 miles or more through the White
Mountains, travelling most of the way
on skis and making the ascent of Mt.
Washington in this way under condi-
lions that were nothing less than per-
ilous.
Three or four feet of snow almost
everywhere covered the trails and
roadways, and the Alpine character
of the journey was enhanced by at
least one avalanche.
Such are the contrasts one gets in
New Hampshire's White Mountains;
and yet American travellers rave over
the Alps and the Himalayas as If
there was no such thing as real
mountains in their own country at all.
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Two Men Drowned.


Almost on the eve of his wedding
day, Chester Hart, twenty-three years
old, was drowned in the Delaware
River near Cochran's Park, a pleasure
resort of Trenton. He had plunged
into the river to battle after a hard
days work. He dived from a row.
boat and did not rise. 1t is believed
he was seized with heart failure under
water. When Hart failed to reap
pear his companion. Joseph Suits, be-
came terrified and rowed away from
the spot to summon aid. The body
was not recovered until midnight.
Hart, who was prominent in local Ma
tional Guard circles, was to have
been married in a few days. Before
going to the river he had talked to
the young woman who was to have
been his bride. A short distance
from where Hart met death, John
Gengal, aged thirty, of Roebling, a
bridegroom of but a month, was
drowned a half hour later. Gengal
was bathing with a number of COM
panions when he was seized with
cramps and was carried so far out in
the stream the others could give him
no assistance. Gengal and Hart were
close friends and had saluted each
other on the water a half hour before
the first met death. Before Gengal
left home his wife warned him to be
careful, as she had a premonition of
danger.
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Into Harb0r.

If you reach Heaven, you will come
in as 1 have often seen vessels come
into the harbor Of New York, with
the storm-tide anchor swinging
proudly at the PROV. There r
Ships" said the eloquent Melville.
that never go down in life's tenn
pests. They shall be in no peril wnen
the last hurricane shall sweep eartn
and sea and sky, and when the fury
is ~overpast, and the light that knows
no night breaks g%loriously forth, they
shall be found on tranquil and crystal
waters, resting beautifully upon their
shadows" These are they who have
been piloted by the Holy Spirit; these
are the faithful ones whose soul was
anchored to Jesus Christ.-Theodore
L. Cuyler, D. D.
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Boy Thief's Swim Vain.

Miss Maggie Huldek, of No. 40
Ward street, Paterson. stood just af-
tea midnight at Second and Hudson
streets: Passaic. She had a $40 bill
in her hand. Michael Shedulski,
fourteen years old, grabbed the
money and ran off. Policeman Owen
Cunningham saw the theft a1d chased
the boy, who fled toward the Passaic
River, shedding his clothing as he
went AT the river bank the boy
kicked off mis- knickerbocker trousers
and naked, plunged in. He swan to
Dundee Island and the policeman was
right behind him in a boat. The boy
surrendered then. He and the po-
liceman returned in the boat. Some
one had picked up and carried away
the boys trousers, into one of the
pockets of which the lad had thrust
the money. The boy, who lives at
No. 10S Third street, Passaic, was
locked up.
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Woman Leads Posse All Niobt.

In a pistol duel with an alleged
burglar at midnight Albert G.. Riley,
a son of Freebooter John Riley, of
Hillsdale, was shot through the left
arm. The burglar was wounded in
the leg and the body. Charles. a
younger son, shot the intruder after
his brother had been wounded. The
fact that he could not be found by
the posse that searched for him until
daylight leads the police to think
that his companions were awaiting
him in a wagon near the Riley barn,
which the burglar had entered.
Traces of blood indicated that the
supposed thief had been shot. Mrs.
Riley was an eyewitness of the sloot-
ing, having watched her sons go out
to the barn to see what had caused
the dogs to bark. She aroused the
n%eighbors, organized a posse and led
the futile search for the man all
night.
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There Is one summer city in the
White Mountains whose population
expands to nearly 10000 during the
height of the vacation season; and
there are days when as many as 500
tourists ascend to the summit of
stately Mt. Washington, $500 feet
above the sea, on the famous Cog
railway, to be torn by that awful
mental conflict that always must be
fought by the man or woman who
has to decide whether it shall be din
ner indoors or scenery outdoors. And
what an appetite that mountain air
does give one!
Once, during an ocean voyage, ]
elected to forego my dinner in order
to enjoy an unusually fine sunset. AS
the barometer falls with the APP
preaching storm, SO did l fall in the
estimation of my travelling compan-
ions as the result of that little bit
of self-sacrifice. If l had but a half
hour on the summit of Mt. Washing
ton, and it was a question of dinner
or view, / would decide in the self
same way, however.
In passing, let me say that the
prospect from Mt. Washington's alti-
tudinous crown is one that cannot
easily be described in too extrava-
CANT language. In a way, it is even
more wonderful than the cycloramic
outlook from the top Of Pixies Peak,
which stands twice as high in the
world as does "Old Agiochook."
The normal radius of observation
extends for about 100 miles, taking
in the ocean on the east and includ-
ing a marvellous mosaic of lakes, riv,
ers, mountain peaks, notches, towns
and villages and forest tracts. Aided
by the r~efraction of the atmosphere,
there r some features of the land.
scape that can be identified 40 miles
distant. No one possessing anything
Ua-.-TNa- ArH.. -1.|.H -EN-.I-
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PLEADS GUILTY TO REBATING.
Toledo Ice and Coal Company Fined
$3.50 For Accepting Rebates.

Toledo, Ohio.-In the United
States Court the Toledo Ice and Coal
Company pleaded guilty to three
counts charging it with receiving re-
bates from the Ann Arbor Railroad
Company.
Judge Taylor assessed a fine of
$3.50 on each count. The remaining
152 counts in the indictment were
dismissed. The indictments were
brought under the Hepburn law.
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in the slightest degree resembling a
soul could look upon this scene and
not become a sound convert to the
doctrine of forest preservation.
Forty or fifty years ago the So
journer on the summit would look
out at night upon a gulf of darkness
almost as Opaque as that which fills
the yawning pit of the Grand Canyon
of a moonless evening, but nowadays
he can amuse himself by Identifying,
by means of their glittering electric
lights, the numerous towns and cities
that lie scattered throughout the sa-
BILE circle. The cities of Portland and
Lewiston can thus be picked out.
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BLOWS UP,
THREE MEN KILLED
Boiler on Pennsylvania Locomo-
tive ExpIoaes at SteIton, NJ.
NO CHANGE LEFT TO ESCAPE
Bodies of locomotives Grew Hurled
Hundreds of Feet Engine
Killed Isaac p. Dunn and His
Wife Two Years Ago.

New Brunswick.-Three members
of the wrecking crew of the Pennsyl-
MIA Railroad, stationed here, we're
killed when the locomotive of the
wrecking train blew up at Stelton
soon before l o'clock in the after
noon. The victims we're
William Roberts, engineer, of New
street.
John Holman, fireman, of 50 Hunt
ington street.
Robert Donnelly, f1agman, of 1SS
Albany street.
The accident occurred on Track Q,
a short distance west of Stelton. The
engine, 1853, was going toward Me-
tuchen. It left here at 1890 O'Clock.
p. M, 10 distribute ballast along the
road, and was running very slowly.
The three victims were in the cab.
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Carved His Name ON Melon

AS a result of carving his name on
a watermelon last summer, Alya G.
Montgomery is a benedict. Mont
gomery is a melon grower near
Owensville, Ind, and he cut his name
on a melon which fell to the possess
sion of a party of young women at
Fairfield, I'll. After the eating of the
melon a correspondence started, and
as a result Miss Arena Hardy, one of
the young women, is now the bride
OF Mr.. Montgomery. They will live
on the farm near Owensville and raise
melons, but no more melons will be
engraved.
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Woman to Die in the
Electric Chair at. Auburn

Watertown, N. YIN the shortest
time ever taken by a jury in Jeffer.
son County to render a verdict in q
murder trial Mary Farmer, jointly
indicted with her husband for the
killing of Mrs. Sarah Brennan, was
found guilty in the first degree, after
three hours deliberation, and later
sentenced by Justice Watson M. Rog.
ers to die in the electric chair at Au.
burn Prison in the week of August 2.
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HEAT KILLS IA IN CHICAGO.
Edwin Palmer, of Well Known Fam.
lily, Among the Victims.

misunderstanding heat and hui.
midity brought death and suffering
throughout the city, fourteen fata'
cases having been reported to the
authorities in n day. One of the
victims was Edwin Palmer, nephew
OF the late Potter Palmer.
Besides the fourteen deaths there
we're a score or more of prostrations
in the downtown district.
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Bullet For Cat Fills Woman.

From a bullet wound accidentally
inflicted by her son, Benjamin, ff-
teen years old, Mrs. Noah Talmage,
who lived on the Book Farm, near
Ogdensburg, is dead, The boy had
picked up a gun and announced his
intention of shooting a stray cat that
had been prowling around the farm
While he was handling the weapon
it was discharged and the bullet
struck Mrs. Talmage, causing the
fatal wound.
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Mrs. James Smith. Jr.. Hurt

Mrs. Smith, wife of ex-senator
James Smith, Jr., narrowly escaped
death at the Central Railroad cross
ing at the main street of Red Bank.
She vas pinned in her automobile
under the gates, and then released
only to have erjmachine grazed by
a swiftly passingfexpress. The gates
in falling struck Mrs. Smith a glanc-
ing blow Old the head, inficting a
painful scalp wound. The doctors
who attended her say that she es-
capped a fracture of the skull by a
small margin.
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an Important Distinction.

The self-denial required by Jesus
does not lie in seeking needless suffer.
ing for ourselves, but III bearing
humbly and submissively what should
come in the discharge of Christian
duty. LET a man, says Jesus, deny
himself and take up his cross"-the
cross God is pleased to send him, and
no othe--Scottish Reformer.
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Thy Last Thought.

Practice to make God thy las.
thought at night when thou sleepest
and thy first thought when thou wax
est; so shall thy fancy be sanctified
in the night, and thy understanding
be rectified in the day; so shall thy
rest be peaceful and thy labors pros
perous.-Francis Quarles.
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home here at $40 {. n. a. With 5%NN
The following statement signed by DR.. JoseBh D. Bryant, DR.. George
r. Lockwood, and Dr. j. NJ. Carnochan az given out:
"Mr. Cleveland for many years had suffered from repeated attacks
Of gastric Intestinal origin. Also he had a long standing organic disease
of the heart and kidneys. Heart failure, complicated with pulmonary
thrombosis and oedema were the immediate cause of his death -
Mrs. Cleveland was the only member of the family with him at the
time of his death. The children are at Tamworth, N. H., with Mrs
Clevelands mother, Mrs. Perrine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland returned from Lakewood on June :.
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Canadian Town Burned.

Fire destroyed a great part of the
business section of Three Rivers, Que
bee, Canada; tis lose IS Estimated al
over $1,000. 900.
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Paper Trust Companies Fined.

Twenty-four companies, all mem
bers of the Manila Paper and Fibre
Association, were fined $1,000 eacl
for Illegally combining in restraint O.
trade, by Judge Hough, of the Fed
eral Court, at New York City.
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Six Negroes LyncAed.

Six negroes, accused Of numbering
q white man, were lynched at Hemp
hill, Texas, and three oAhers wer.
found dead under circums1 3nces indi.
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Hieh ideals.

We should all strive for high ideals.
and live the life the Master has laid
down fol us.-1he Rev. James Alex
ander. Boston.