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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

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
sense 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 gridironed 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
it retains, in a certain sense, its Tex
clusiyeness.' its welcome has by no
means been confined to the wealthy
or aristocratic few. Indeed, these
mountains are socially democratic.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23
Cook Had a Shock.

In North Side home the other
day, cat lost one of her nine lives,
and the cook had shock from which
she did not soon recover. 1t was the
cooks afternoon off, and when she
had finished her work, she turned
out the gas in the kitchen range, and
went away leaving the oven door
ajar. When she returned to get din
ner, she closed the door, and start
ed the fire. AS she went On with the
preparations for the meal, she heard
the cat crying, and looked every pos
sible place but in the oven to dis
cover the animal. Finally, when the
biscuit had been prepared for the
baking. she opened the oven door.
and out fell a roasted cat.-Colum-
bus Dispatch.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

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 / 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 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 marvellous mosaic of lakes, riv-
ers, mountain peaks, notches, towns
and villages and forest tracts. Aided
by the refraction of the atmosphere,
there are some features of the land
scape that can be identified 140 miles
distant, No one possessing anything
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

he took the steamer, MT Washing
ton" (scores of readers of this paper
will recall with pleasure similar
experienced, across the lake to- Cen
tire Harbor
Next day he tramped through
Moultonboro and Tamworth (the
Grover Cleveland country"), to
Wonalancet, annexing at that place
local guide, who safely piloted him
two of the lesser hills of the White
Mountains, to picturesque Passacona-
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
man had seldom, if ever, penetrated,
and the chief member of the expedi-
ton says of it that it was "A walk
full of surprising interest as well as
interesting surprises.
This was in July, when the noun
tains were in their full glory of foli-
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-
tions 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.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

Last summer an enterprising Bos-
ton man, like the three Philadelphi-
ans who laSely 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 yacationists, the gentleman in
question selected the White Noun
tains as his objective point, and
reached, them over route which, he
claims, was never traversed through
out it's entire length by any other hui
man being.
Going from the modern Athens by
rail to Rochester, NJ H., he walked
from the latter place to Alton Bay,
on the southern shore of incompar-
able Lake Winnipesaukee From there
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

The public playground has become
a fixed institution in the United
States and still it is only in the first
stages of development. Persistent
missionary work has been necessary
to persuade the lawmakers and adj
illustrators that no better field for
investment could be found. That
stage of the campaign has now been
we'll passed, contends the Washington
Star. The playground idea has be-
come established, and it remains now
to carry it out in execution to the
fullest extent of its possibilities.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23
CHAPTER III.
From a Pedestal.

Campion was still gloomily staring
at his ill-favored gift when Bales re-
turned from seeing the errand boy
safely off the premises. Il suppose, +"
remarked the attendant, with du-
bious and inquiring infection, II sup
pose as that there himage struck you
favorable from ornamental pint of
view, or you wouldn't have spent your
money on it, sir?n
ut was a present, Bales" said
Campion, unconsciously vindicating
his own judgment at the expense OF
SYPHILIS.
And now suppose you suggest
some place for this idol--how would
it look on the low bookcase?s
~It wouldn't look no handsomer
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23
Cats.

A cat may purr and purr, and be a
villain. Once let the cuisine fall be-
low the proper mark, and off goes the
ungrateful (but shrewdly) animal to
stop with friends who will look after
him better. That is the keynote of
the feline character, shrewdness. 1t
is the human traits in their charac-
tiers which make men call cats selfish.
The motto of the cat is Business is
business" If man takes this as his
motto, and acts up to it, we call him
a successful man, and we allow him
to write absurd essays on "Hints to
Young Lads" and so on, in our pa.
pers. But we do not honor the cat.
London Globe.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

The text of the new ruling on ice
cream, promulgated by the State
Department OF Agriculture, will ne
read with different feelings, notes the
New York FINES. OF course, cream"
has always been generic term, and
the ice cream vendors have availed
themselves of this knowledge to such
an extent that, as is well known, theii
product is usually guiltless of cream
that comes from the COW. But few
customers will be shocked by the
labels printing the facts. that pure
milk, sugar and flavoring extracts
with gelatine or eggs as binder,
make the ingredients of commercial
ice cream. They are wholesome.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

To adapt reasoning to the French
duelling practice, it is obvious to the
sane intellect, argues the Pittsburs
Dispatch. that meeting on a blood
less field cannot wipe away stains
upon personal honor. The duellins
practice had it origin in semi-bar
barous state of society and was the
legitimate successor of the theory
that he could have who could hold
1t had to do mostly with affairs of the
heart and had some semblance Of
sense in its practice where a fair LADY
was the reward of the survivor. But
the duel as an arbitrament of ques
ton of veracity or honor is an alb.
surdity run mad.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

The National Prosperity Organiza-
ton, of st. Louis, affords test for
the New Orleans Daily States to say
that there is no doubt that the Ameri-
can people are unit in favor of the
return of prosperity, but that there
is doubt whether it can be drummed
up. 1t goes on to say: There is no
doubt that it is well to be cheerful
and look on the bright side of things,
but it is necessary also to look at
things as they are, or they are likely
not to work out right, for it is i'm
possible to hypnotic whole commune
ties into the belief that situation
is entirely contrary to what 1t really
is or to make it so by pronunciamen-
to. 1t is evident that the restoration
OF prosperity will have to be brought
about by hard work and not by reso-
lutions and addresses. Moreover, it
is safe to say that moro is being done
to bring about renewed industrial
activity by business men whose
voices will not be heard in conven-
tions than by all the politicians who
are now engaged in an attempt 70
produce Wind-made prosperity
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

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 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.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

A kind nature makes numerous
friendships and close comprehensive
with many human beings less and less
necessary as we travel toward old
age. The old man, IL fully devel
oped, mature man, does not need
many friends. He does not need chat
ter to stimulate thought. He could
not tolerate the close daily intimacy
with many which makes up the
charm Of life in youth, moralizes the
New York Journal. The old mar
gets along with less friendship. as
he gets along with less sleep. Ma
ture arranges 1t that way.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

Observes the Chicago Tribune
The connection between the mosquito
and yellow fever is no more certain
than that between the common house
fly and typhoid. 1t is an active agency
in spreading dysentery, tuberculosis
smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, diph-
iberia and other diseases. In large
number of cases the sufferers are chill
dren. But the mortality among adults
due to this cause is not small.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23
Presiding Elder Abolished

In the General Conference az he
Methodist Episcopal Church. at Bal
timore, the time-honored title anre.
siding elder was abolished by the
adoption Of a minority report from
the Revision Committee Recommend.
ms that the name be changed Ia ssdis-
trict Superintendent by vote ~
S22 ayes TO 210 noes This viii AZ.
note the ONCE more correctly. since
y IS no longer merely sacramentaI
but administrative. - = -
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

The strength OF the country, OBJ
serves the Christian Register, is vest
ed in those millions of good, honest,
trustworthy farmers and mechanics
and professional men who are living
in comfort, doing their work quietly,
and voting according to their princi-
pies when occasion offers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23
Child Has Five Great-Grandparents.

Melva Shafer, five months old,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James S.
Shafer, of Washington. d. c., enjoys
the distinction of having FIVE great
grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
McNear, of oxford, grandparents of
the bahy's father on the maternal
side, are eighty-one and seventy-one
fer, grandparents on the fathers pa
ternal side, are sixty-seven and sixty-
five years old respectively The fifth
great-grandparent is Mrs. Elizabeth
Sparrows, of Hackettstown, grand
mother of the baby's mother.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

1t can be safely assumed, claims
the Boston Globe, that flying ma
chimes, principally for amusement
purposes, are bound to appear in
larger numbers in the future. Nor
are the foreign inventors to have the
field to themselves. American inven-
ton in this line is still progressing.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23
why Kings Lie Awake.

A London correspondent says King
Edward eats square meal just be-
fore retiring. This closely resembles
a clew to the origin Of the saying,
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown. Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

One of the great problems of life,
to the New York Press, is when there
is SO little in it how much less is
there out of it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

1t is stated that an ambitious dis
ciple of Luther Burbank is at work
on the production of assemblies onion.
Let us alone!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

DR.. oliver Wendell Holmes held
that thawing conservative was a
much more agreeable person than a
freezing radical
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

New York City has added $1,000
families to its population ~ the last
three years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

An aerop1ane can be quickly transs
formed into a geoplane by pulling
the wrong lever. observes the Boston
Transcript.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23

Subject: Temperance, Ephesians 81
6-2O - Golden Text, Eph. Sis
Commit Verses 10, 16-Com-
mentary.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-17
A Sugar Beet Experiment.

A news item from Dillon says that
George Austin, Of Lehi, Utah, an ex.
pert in sugar beet culture, has been
Sent to Dillon by the Utah'Idaho Su-
gar company to superintend the ex'
pertinent of growing sugar beets in
that section this year. The farmers
taking part in the experiment and the
business men of Dillon raised the
money to pay MIR. Austin's salary
while there. About fifty acres of beets
will be grown up and down the valley.
No one, with the exception Of the Bes'
verhead Ranch company, owned by
| Lewis Penwell and associates, has put
in more than an acre. This company
will attempt the cultivation OF five
acres.
The Oregon Short Line announces
rs a sort Of donation toward helping
the enterprise along, a special freight
rate for beet shipments from Dillon to
the factories at either Blackfoot,
Idaho, or Idaho Falls, Idaho, OF VI
per ton, which is about So. 40 below the
regular freight rate for hat class Of
freight.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-17
Texas Railroads Lose Millions.

GALVESTON, June 9.-Texas rail.
roads estimate their loss from the aood
at not less than $40, 900 700. About
220 miles Of track has been washed
away, and most of it damaged beyond
repair. Roundhouses, machine shops
and freight warehouses and depots
have been flooded and their contents
destroyed. 1t is known that seventy
five railroad bridges have been dam
aged, and about thirty of them are to-
tai losses. Between fifty and sixty
engines have suffered fromithe over
hows, and q dozen or SO r believed
to have been wrecked. Three hundred
and fifty cars, many of them loaded
with freight, were all but destroyed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-17

into the gold.bin of the American
farmer. The exports are but a triae of
the whole; yet the American farmer
has exported enough since 1892 to en-.
able him to buy every foot OF railroad
in the United States.
In the face of such statistics, and in
view OF the enormous crop production
of last fall. it is more apparent than
ever that prosperity reigns in the
country and that the so.called panic
was nothing more than q furry, which
was prevented from being really
serious by the American farmer and
his exports, which brought US the gold
OF Europe and relieved the currency
shortage.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-17
Will Irrigate 5000 Acres.
Chinook Opinion.

CnlnOOk OplulON.
The North Chinook Irrig alton COM
pany held an important meeting Sat.
urday afternoon and took steps for
the completion of their system. The
result will be the addition Of a large
area of irrigated land to the farming
country tributary to Chinook. The
contract for the completion OF the
ditch and reservoir is to be let soon,
and it Is expected to have the work
completed by the latter part OF the fall
SO that the water may be turned on
next summer. The stock of the COM
pany was increased by $500, and it
was at once subscribed by the present
stockholders. The company now has
plenty of funds to carry out their
plans.
The project is one of the best in this
section and Is based on storing flood
waters in an immense reservoir upon
the bench on North Fork. The reser.
voir will contain about l, 400 acres OF
water eight feet deep. The main canal
will run along the bench between North
Fork and West Fork, and may be
brought within q few miles OF town.
| Six thousand acres will be irrigated
from the ditch and give plenty OF wa
ter to all the holders Of stock. The
land to be reached is Of exceptional
quality, and most of it is or the bench
between the two creeks, although some
of the bottom land will be covered
from the ditch. 1t will add immensely
to the agricultural output of the Chi
nook section, and at a very reasonable
cost per acre.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-17
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.

In discussing the probable action of
the national conventions of the two
great political parties, q writer IN the
Metropolitan Magazine recalls the
fact that conventions have not always
nominated our presidents and vice
presidents. For more than thirty
years presidential candid ates we're
named by a caucus made up of mem.
bers OF the house and the senate.
This system died when 1924 the caucus
insisted upon by Martin Van Buren,,
and other friends of William H. Craw.
ford, OF Georgia, defeated Crawford,
which threw the election into the house
on account of the scattering electoral
vote caused by the entrance of Clay,
Calhoun, Jackson and John Quincy
Adams in the rrce. This fracas elected
Adams.
The campaign of 1928, in conse.
quence, was somewhat d~emoralized,
and in 1881 the republicans followed
the example the anti.Masonic party
had set the year before, and met in
convention in Baltimore 10 nominate
Henry Clay. The democrats held their
fret national convention In the same
city the following year, nominating
Martin Van Buren, for vice president.
The dominating figure Of the party,
Andrew J ackson, needed nc indorse-
ment OF his candidacy for the presi.
dency.
The democrats in 1885 aud lS40
nominated Van Buren, for the presi.
dency in Baltimore and the Wings
nominated Clay in the same place
in 1874, when the democrats named
Polk.
In 1885 Romulus NJ. Sanders intro
duced the two.thirds rule to the demo
cratic convention and it "a adopted.
The customs installed at these earlier
conventions which succeeded the ty'
ranny of the caucus chamber have
been continued and added to from
time to time, and the conventions TO-
day are merely the descendants Of
those that nominated Clay and Var
, Buren, nearly eighty years ago.
>. 1t is also recalled that Chicago il
the favorite convention city, six re
publican aud four democratic nationa
4 conventions having been held Their
0 since the present system OF nomina
i tions was adopted.
First Of the republican party's Chi
cago conventions was that OF 1860
d forever memorable for having nomin
d ated for president the illustriou
d emancipation, Abraham Lincoln. L
1865 the convention again was held i
lie Chicago, the nominee being the secon
great figure developed by the civi
r. war, Ulysses S. Grant. Beginning
l. with 1850 three consecutive convention
II met in Chicago. That Of the yea
At mentioned nominated fairfield. In lSS
lr James G.. Blaine was named, while il
* 1855 the convention placed Ben ami,
Harrison in nomination. For thre
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-17
SHELTER IS DAMAGED.
Flood lnvades Boston & Montana
Plant At Black Eagle Falls.

One of the most unfortunate results
OF the recent floods will be the closing
OF the Boston & Montana smelter at
Black Eagle Falls, which was badly
damaged by the raging torrent In
reporting the food conditions in that
locality, the Great Falls Tribune says
Fresh disaster visited the Boston g.
Montana smelter a. al result of the
high water Monday afternoon, when
the portion Of the south retaining wall
of the head race that was still stand.
ing, together with one of the head
gates, went out and greatly increased
the volume of water that was pouring
down into the power house:snd around
to the left, slowly eating its way to.
ward the lower workings Of the smelter,
including the steam plant. the shops.
general Office and other buildings.
The suspension bridge across the
river below Black Eagle dam also
went out yesterday morning, the pier
in the middle Of the river being swept
away and letting the bridge down into
the water. The remnants now hang
suspended by the cables that stretch
across the rapids.
The turbid yellow torrentithat pours
through the broken wall Of the head
race is rushing through the power
house, the whole west wall of which
has been washed away. Another
broad and swift stream is running
around the north end of the power
house, eating its way along the rail-
road track, and the bank against
which it washes is becoming gradu-
ally eaten away. Three or four ore
cars that stood along the track were
undermined by the torrent nd.toppled
over, and advantage was taken OF this
fact to form q barrier to the further
progress of the water toward the
buildings beyond. Sacks of sand and
gravel we're thrown in and:around the
cars by the thousand to help stay the
water, aad the work appeared to have
a good effect.
The loss of the suspension bridge
can be counted among the wors,
pieces Of damage done in Great Falls
by the food. The bridge was con-
strucsed 15 years ago and for several
years, until the Fifteenth bridge was
built, it was the principal means Of
getting to the smelter from the south
side of the river. Since the erection
of the other bridge, it has been largely
used for %smeltermen residing in Bos'
ton Heights and in the northeastern
part of the city. Its loss will mean q
great Inconvenience in many ways un.
til it is repaired.