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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

The mind lives and grows with
knowledge for its sole food. And
nearly all of the brains of the coun-
try are starved, admits the New York
Journal. Almost every man must
confess that from the ending of his
school days he has gone backward.
The ending of school should be but
the beginning of study. The school
should give the child simply the hab-
it of study, and the power of concen-
tration. Study and concentration
should enrich the mind during every
year of life.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

I ada is $4,000. The salary of the
King of Greece is 100000. The sal
airy of the President of France is
$4,000. The salary of the King
of England Is $1,925,000. The sal
airy of the Emperor of Germany is
$3,852,370. The salary of the Gear
of Russia is $12.000,000.
The salaries of the Vice-President
of the United States, the members of
the Cabinet. ambassadors and minis
ters abroad are not sufficient to pay
their rent and living; in some cases
not enough by one-half, leaving moth
ing for their services
Judges Of the Supreme Court in
the County of New York receive a
salary Of $4,000, or $1,000 more
than the Chief Justice of the United
States.
To make the briefest possible com
ment on the above statistics, point
ing to one particular only, allow me
to compare the salaries paid to the
executive heads of the six or eight
leading nations of the world here
mentioned.
While the population of the United
States is greater than that of either
of the above named nations, except
Russia, and the wealth of the United
States is far greater than that of any
other, four times greater than the
wealth of Russia, yet the salary paid
to the executive head of the United
States is less than that paid to the
executive head of any of the other
nations mentioned, except Mexico and
Canada.
The salary paid to the President
of the United States is 240 times less
than that paid to the Gear of Russia,
nearly eighty-five times less than that
paid to the Emperor of Germany,
and nearly forty times less than that
paid to the King of England.
1t is obvious that mans wage
does not always compare equally
with what he represents.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

The fact that women still devote
much time to clothes and bonnets is
due to the persistence of an acquired
mental characteristic" fastened on
the sex in an earlier period of it's evo-
luton, argues the New York Globe.
AS the law of uselessness makes itself
felt her clothes centre will gradually
shrink to normal size--to an area
closely approximating that devoted to
trousers and ties and socks in the
male brain. Perhaps the time may
come when this centre will be as use
less and bothersome a vestige as is
the vermiform appendix. Even to-
day plenty of men wouldgbe glad to
pay surgeon $1,000 or even $4,000
for its removal from his wife and
daughters.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20
Splinter Freaks E.is INV.

Ed GrubGs, sawmill hand, was
hurt and may not recover. In at
tempting to split a two by four scant-
ing a splinter about twelve inches
long AID one inca and a half thick
lew OF and struck Grubbs on the
lett 1awbone, breaking the bone and
going through his throat. He was
carried to Monticello. Ca, where med
lcal treatment was given him by Drs.
Cecil and Prevatt. The splinter was
removed with considerable difflen1tv
from his throat and the wound was
bandaged sufficiently to enable his re-
noval to the Macon Hospital
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

Where would Abraham Lincoln
have stood in Civil Service examina-
ton for the Presidency" asks Comp
troller Metz. Among the candidates
in the 1860 campaign he would have
ssood at the head of the list. retorts
the New York World. He had already
proved himself an ADLER debater than
either Douglas or Breckenridge and a
sounder constitutional lawyer. The
speech he made at Cooper Union early
in 1860 still stands as perhaps the
most convincing piece OF political
pleading ever made in behalf of a
new party 1t is one of those rare
campaign speeches which rank both
as history and literature. We fear
that Comptroller Metz is no better in-
formed about Lincoln than about the
debt limit.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

No man is so judicially minded, in
sists the New York Evening Mail, as
rightly to be able to take money from
a corporation upon whose methods of
business he may have, as a Federal
legislator, to sit in judgment-partic-
ulariy when that corporation calls
upon him to defeat legislation and
prevent nominations. He may think
that he is hired for his legal skill;
every one else will believe that the
stake was his political influence.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20
The Dog in War.

Another field of usefulness has
been found for the dog in war. He
is already employed as scout. He
is now to serve in the ambulance
corps. Two French army surgeons
have taken up the question with ear
nestness, pointing out the limitations
of human agency in collecting the
wounded, of whom, after every en-
gagement, large numbers go to swell
the dismal list of the missing" 1t
is commended that dogs of keen scent
could with proper training render
valuable aid.-New York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

distance, and then the nearer glimpse
of gorse and fern, the bottom of his
mothers dress, the bright shining
rails beside him, till all the world was
blotted out by the grateful, impene-
trable blackness, the voice that called
him trembling away at the same time
into more and more immeasurab1e
past, from which at last it ceased to
come at all. The child slept But,
alas for the motherl
Again and again she called him.
Her throat was parched and sore;
her voice came hoarser and hoarser;
articulation grew gradually impossi-
BILE, and at last sound failed, but the
child never moved.
His rosy face was turned to her,
still resting on his chubby arms. He
was slightly flushed with sleep. His
bright lips were parted, showing the
little white teeth between. His long
dark eyelashes flickered little now
and then as a fly lighted on his fore
head or glossy, clustering curls.
A lovelier child it would be impos-
sible to imagine, such child as only
comes to young and happy parents;
and the mother, in a worn-out inter-
val, when the desire as we'll as the
power to struggle and cry were both
exhausted, found herself perusing the
details of his beauty as if it were all
new to her.
While so engaged she forgot her
own position and his for a little; but
the rush of recollection caught her
again inevitably, and then her frantic
struggles were redoubled, until it
seemed that if deliyerance were not
at hand death must come and re-
lease her.
And it was strange that during all
this time she never once thought of
her husband. 1t was evidently not
busy time on the line. Only that one
train had passed as yet. She had
fancied hundred times that another
was coming; but as none ever came,
by degrees the danger grew less
urgently present to her mind, and
when at last the unmistakable sound
smote upon her ears, coming in the
opposite direction this time, she
started into full consciousness again
for a dull torpor had been stealing
over her-as if the possibility were
new to her.
The train came in sight, but she de-
luded herself with the idea that this
one also must be on the other line.
She was SO sure of it that she watched
it coming, and collected her strength
to make desperate effort to attract
attention to her strange position.
She watched it until it was within
few yards of the sleeping child, and
then she saw her mistake, and it was
the last thing she did see.
For in the same instant, and before
she could utter sound, her senses
left her. The train swept on as the
other had done, crowded with people,
many of whom must have seen her
standing apparently leaning at ease
against the post, and any one of
whom would doubtless have flown to
her assistance could they have
guessed her need; but in the dust
raised by their rapid progress and the
rush and whirl of it nothing was WISH
BILE long enough to attract particular
attention.
The engine-driver saw her as he
approached, and saw, also, speck
which he supposed to be summer
wrap of hers lying on the line, but
forgot the circumstances before he
was well out of sight.
To be Continued.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

Mans real work has been accumu-
lating knowledge. Mans real task
to-day should be distributing knowl-
edge, declares the New York Journal.
Great books have been written; they
are not read, and If read they are
only occasionally understood. All of
our children are taught to read, but
our men and women do not read; or
If they read, their reading is trash
and froth.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

How to warn of trespassers With
out spring guns has been discovered
by canny peasant in the south Of
France. His woods were invaded by
nut pickers. He asked botanical
friend the Latin name for the hazel
nut, and put up the following notice:
"Caution-All persons entering this
wood do so at their own risk. The
Corylus Avellana abounds here, as
we'll as other equally venomous
snakes. Not a trespasser has VEN
tured into the wood since. New
York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

Referring to the noise nuisances
the Hartford Times says: The rapid
growth of population and the radical
changes in the common conditions of
life have made practices that were
once harmless both annoying and dam
gerous. Such changes come gradu-
ally, and their effect is hardly noted
until it has become really serious.
This nuisance of noise is such.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20
Candlepower Of Modern Lighthouses

A comparison has recently been
made of the power of the lights in
French lighthouses at various periods
in the past thirty-five years. In 1874.
when only oil lights were used, the
highest power was equal to $1,000
candles. In 1882, when the electr@
light was introduced, the power rose
to maximum of $4,000 candles.
Since then frequent improvements
have been made in the electric lights
until, at present, the most powerful
lighthouses project an illumination
nearly equal to 100000 candles.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

Every year the city is drawing
thousands of young men who, if they
only knew it, AYERS the Boston Tran
script, would be better off to stay at
home; they come to the city because
they have not yet had sufficient life
experience to measure the relative
advantages of the two courses which
are open before them. Thus the COM
missions study may become many
sided.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

Laments the Church Times: The
enjoyment of ease seems more desir-
able than the endurance of hardship;
wealth, however got, is of more es-
TEEN than honest poverty; virtue is
commonplace, and religion, which in
it's first stage of disesteem was pro-
nounced suitable only for women, is
now regarded even by those as anti
Quated and dull.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

In two Maine counties Oxford and
Knox-immigrants from Finland have
settled down on abandoned farms.
and the report is that they are doing
pretty well. There are $50 to 200 of
them. In the winter they hire out as
loggers to the 1umbermen.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

The difference between an airship
and the price of meat, submits the
Washington Post, is that the latter
will never come down fast enough to
hurt anybody.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

The Baltimore American says the
country is prepared for prosperity. "
Exactly, retorts the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. And when he rings, there'll
be a grand rush to open the door.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

L. "A. Shroyer, farmer in Batch
ford County, Ind, was unhitching his
team In the barn lot when coli
kicked him with both feet On the
legs. Shroyer attempted to walk and
found that he could not advance for
ward at all, and only by backward H.
comotion could he make his wav "a
the house. He is still unable to walk
other than crablike. y = :
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

1t is found out at last, muses. the
Buffalo Commercial, that in the die
ton and significance Of the weather
bureau occasional showers" means
rain upon every possible occasion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

Although the population of Lon
don's metropolitan district is 2.O00..
900 larger than that Of New York
the latter city does restaurant bust
ness one-fifth greater than the for
mer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20
Those long EARRINGS.

According to the fashion hints,
women will wear earrings this season
so large they will have to be support
ed on rollers on the ground. -Atchi
son Globe.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

A Turkish trade has been pub
lished ordering the purchase Of nifty
Maxim guns in Germany and counter
handing the contemplated order for
fifty French Hotchkiss guns.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

BUSINESS depression has not been
ieit IA Mexico. says s. M FELTON,, presl
loent'of the Mexican Central Railwayj
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-20

Nearly every nation has one or two
men that are not flying, says the New
York American.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11
A SERPENT STORY.
Terrifying Experience With q Deadly
Laneehead.

The Paris Bclair tells a blood cur
ding serpent story, the scene OF which
was the island of Martinique and the
dramatis pcrsonae Sergeant Legrand
and Private Durand and the snake a
deadly lancehead. - .-.A--.-s-~-A- :
The soldier had been punished with
a night In the cells for some trivial Of
Tense. but as the night was very hot
the sergeant had left the door open. In
the morning az Q O'Clock Legrand went
10 wake HIS prisoner and. TO his horro-,
beheld n lancehead snake coiled up and
fast asleep on the mans breast
The sergeant did not lose his presence
OF mind. lie stole nolselessly away
ran 70 the guard room and. followed by
all the men on duty, returned TO the
cell with a bowl OF milk and tin whIs.
tie. Placing the bowl Of milk at the
entrance 60 the cell, the sergeant began
to play the blue Danube" IL Is need
less 10 remark that the weakness %
the lancehead Is milk and music. The
serpent which was six foot speci-
men. awoke. glided from the soldiers
body toward the bowl. but II had lao
sooner buried its head In its beloved
drink than ten cudgels descended on
II with terrific force. killing II outright.
The soldier Durand. who was In
swoon, was taken to hospital, where
no lay for many days on the verge OF
madness. He finally recovered and re-
lated his horrible experimentation he
had awohe In the middle OF the night
ms the serpent was coiling itself on his
bare breast and how he had lain there
IN an agony for hours. not daring TO
move a muscle.
Durand was sent back TO France as
soon as he had sufficiently recovered.
The only truce OF his terrible expert
ence, adds tho Eciair. is that his hair
Is now snow white.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11
Ne SOUGHT DEATH.
The Unfortunate Nspolsop III. AZ the
Battle Of Sedan

Sarah Bernhardt mentions Ia her me-
moirs that Napoleon III. had two
horses shot under him at Sedan. Some
having thrown doubt on her statement
and denied that the emperor was ever
in personal danger at the time, Baron
Verify. son OF the late ceionei OF the
Cent Garies. gives what be afIlrms 20
be the authentic account OF the unhap-
py severeign's Persistent attempts 20
court death when be saw that defeat
was unavoidable. On Sept. 4, 1910,
nj 0 o'clock in the morning. Marshal
MaeMahon. returning wounded to Sc
dan. met the emperor riding out TO
Baaeilles. Napoleon III. realized that
the situation was desperate. He rode
slowly out. depressed and thoughtful.
under hail OF shot. During an hour
he inspected the positions. Bullets
rained on his escort Captain dfIende-
court was killed a few feet away from
the emperor. The latter. deliberately
seeking death. alighted, ordered HIS es-
cort TO remain behind an embankment
and walked up 10 a cemetery ON n
height, where be stayed for another
hour, exposed 10 fire. lie mounted
again and rode 20 another part Of the
Geld. General de Courson and Captain
de Trecesson were dangerously wound.
ed by his side. but not bullet hit him.
The emperor at last seemed 10 despair
OF meeting his death as he sought 10
and rode back TO Sedan at noon. In
the town itself shells fell thick, and
while the emperor was riding with his
escort up the Grand Rue one burst
just In front OF him, wounded one OF
the Cent Gardes and killed the horses
of two aids-de-camp. Napoleon III.
looked on stolidly, understanding. per
haps. that II was not his fate TO die In
action. The story that he had two
horses killed under him is, therefore,
not correct But there ia no doubt that
the unfortunate emperor, beaten and
Ill, pathetic and tragic figure, did de-
liberately seek death on the field 20
escape the disgrace OF Sedan which he
foresaw.-Paris Letter.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11
PAsTIMEs OF MAOMEN.
Cunning and Ingenuity Displayed by
the Insane.

Cunning and Ingenuity Displayed BY
the Insane.
Some OF the inventions OF the insane
are OF scientific value patient at
Vlllejuif invented qualification ma
chine" by combining bottle. a plank
and small metallic tubes. TO which he
had fitted faucets. Having set up his
machine, he produced leaves OF bread
the size OF mans head. The bread
was good-eo good that It was decided
10 make the machine known. One day
when It was In action the doctor sug-
gested taking photograph OF It. The
inventor watched him as II petrifed
for moment; then he fell upon the
machine. wrenched It apart and tram
pied IL undertook. The invention. an
exceedingly useful one, WINS lost, be
cause no one had seen him make IL
and no one dares speak OF II to him.
To allude TO IL is to bring on a furious
attack
Most lunatics, no matter how content
ed they may be, generally cherish a
furt1ve longing to escape. They coll
lect wax from the polished floors. take
the impressions OF locks and make keys
from empty sariine boxes, spoon han
dies or anything TO be found DIR. Ma
rle's museum includes collection OF
knives of strange and unheard OF
shapes. Som0 OF them have blades
made from pieces Of glass or slate and
set IN handles OF corset steels objects
harmless In themselves become dan
gerous weapons through the ingenuity
OF madmen.
Insane sculptors are as common as
insane painters. The insane sculptor
news out coarse statuettes. fantastic
animals, ferocious little horned and
grimaclng devils. An ex-mechanic
carves all his soup bones. That his old
trade Is still IN his memory Is shown
by the little screws that he makes out
OF the smaller pieces OF bone. He
works all day az his senseless and
ridiculous task. Another lunatic, who
believes he is the incarnation OF the
soul of Beelzebub, passes his time
carving toy men out OF wood Each
pair of his creations are joined to-
gether, now at the necks, now nj the
shoulders.-Helen Il. Meyer in Har-
per's Weekly.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11

Another case OF the bad boy rudely
fnterruptiDg loves young dream. A
Malate girl and her Romeo sat In close
proximity ON the couch In the draw
ing room lost 20 the world. They were
brought back from Eden by her little
brother. who. like many of his kind.
makes u n practice TO butt In at the
wrong time. lie walked into the room.
planted himself In front OF the young
man and asked:
gyms you ever tied 10 fish ilnef"
II certainty was not" was the reply.
"well,- responded the boy. II heard
pa tell ma last night that you'd make
a good sinker ~ Manila Gossip.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.
They Succeeded tho System of Non,i
nation BY Caucus.

They Succeeded tho System of Nonni-
nation by Caucus.
Conventions have not always nomi.
mated our presidents and vice presi-
dents. For more than thirty years
presidential candidates were named by
caucus made up OF members OF the
house and the senate. This system
died when In 1894 the caucus insisted
upon by Martin Van Buren, and other
friends Of William III. Crawford OF
Georgia defeated Crawford. which
threw the election into the house on
account Of the scattering electoral vote
caused by the entrance Of Clay. Cal.
houn Jackson and John Quincy Adams
In the race. This fracas elected Adams
The campaign OF 1898 I'm consequence
was somewhat demorallzed. and IN
1881 the Republicans followed the ex-
ample the anti-Masonlc party had set
the year before and met In conven-
ton IN Baltimore 10 nominate Henry
Clay The Democrats held their first
national convention IN the same city
the following year nominating Martin
Van Buren, for vice president The
dominating figure OF the party. Andrew
jackson, needed no Endorsement OF his
candidacy for the presidency.
The Democrats In 1885 and 1910
nominated Van Buren, for the prcsi:
dency In Baltimore. and the wings
nominated Clay In the same place in
1874. when the Democrats named Polk
In 1885, Romulus NJ. Saunders intro
duced the two-thirds rule 10 the Demo
cratic convention. and II was adopted
The customs Installed az these carfieT
conventions which succeeded the tyran-
ny OF tho caucus chamber have been
continued and added 20 from time 10
time. and the conventions today are
merely the descendants o. those that
nominated Clay and Van Buren,
Charles wadsworth Camp in Metro
polltan Magazine.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11

Michael Meyers Shoemaker wrote
"Wanderings In Ireland" An old
Irishman read a fragment Of IL that
related TO the readers neighborbood.
He asked the name OF the author.
Mr.. Shoemaker. Is itr' he comment
Ell. "a nice gentleman. III go ban.
It's q One country ba chose 10 travel
10 too May the heavens be his bed
for choosing II. and may every hair 10
his Donors head be mold candle 70
light his soul to glorylr
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11
The great and the little have need
OF each er.-Shakespeare.


What makes mo really mad" said
the woman, els 10 spend minutes. may
be hours. trying 90 get hold Of a white
hair which shows up on my head like a
dazzling light. yet which is tantalizing-
ly elusive when / try TO catch L. and
then when do finally separate u from
the brown hair and give II a vigor.
Gus pull TO find that have snatched
out good brown hair. after all. and
left the white one still shining ." New
York PronA
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-07-11

A man calls II the horizon where the
earth and thc sky seem to meet. but n
woman's notion Of the horizon Is the
families she can see moving in from
behind her front window curtains II.
further. they hang out their washlng
In spirit OF candor. they are. OF
course. all the more So The horiron
Is caused BY a number o. tninrr- chief
among them the srcenrisus instinct.
Only for this ssxt door woald sncan ~
little - tarir revision o. ppfe too or