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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
AT A REGATTA.

If you have ever attended regatta
you will know what a pleasant time
/ have been having. / have just re-
turned from Newbury, small town
on Lake Sunapee, in New Hampshire.
This lake is ten miles long and in
some places three miles wide. 1t is
very beautiful, being hedged in by
mountains, with pines and birches
along the edge. The last day of the
regatta was devoted to rowing, canoe
ing and swimming races. The two
races that appealed to me most were
canoe tilt and a creased pole race.
In the canoe tilt nearly always the
whole canoe was upset and the two
men had to tow the boat to shore and
empty it. After this. they padded
around as il nothing had happened.
For the pole race, long pole was
suspended over the water, and hav-
ing been carefully creased card was
placed on the end, the object of the
race being to slide out on the pole
and get the card Only three sue
ceeded in getting the card, and they
received cups, as did all the others
who won races.-Rosalind Dunwin,
in the New York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

So our dream comes true, chirps
the Los Angeles Examiner. Like a
giant in its swaddling clothes rises
the Greater Los Angeles, the metrop-
oils of the Southwest. Wilmington
has spoken, and now San Pedro will
Join hands in the march to inevitable
victory and destiny. Back of the
electric figures of yesterdays polls
lies prophecy and vision. Who
could fail to be stirred by their mes
sage-who deny his imagination that
feast of expectation they provoke and
Justify? On the canvas of near and
golden future we view the epic of an
imperial city; we see the Aladdin
Lamp of Commerce waved and vast
warehouses rize on the aaEGs, trains
in endless procession, tall ships
croHding toward the wharves, the
banners of trade aloft on sea and
shore. We see Los Angeles creeping
from the mountains to the ocean, con-
gregated Offices and banks and stores
and all the infinite activities that fol-
low in the wake of trade, and with
these in view vast city of homes
Southern California nesting
in gardens and grit about with
flowers
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
TWO HOME oMINGs.

Thursday; the maid already gone,
having left simple meal for two
ready to serve; Mrs Ashley intent on
saving every possible minute for help
ing the little seamstress, who ives
working at high tension on go
which Mrs. Ashley needed to
that evening; the telephone be.
message to say that three frieL4
would drop in to luncheon and then
Daughter Dulcie, slender, sixteen and
competent, walking quietly in, home
from her vacation twenty-four hours
earlier than expected
What luck that camel was the
first thing she said on learning the
situation. Things to tell you? Well,
rather! But they'll keep till this cri-
sis is past. You sit down, mother,
and sew just as If they weren't COM
ing. I'll make omelet and whole
wheat mullins and cosoa-don't you
give it thought. Isn't it good that
l saved clean shirt waist and
brought it in my bag? And now /
know why / lugged that bunch of as
ters home-to have on the table at
our luncheon. Oh, but I'm glad I'm
herei"
That evening, while Mrs. Ashley
was paying the seamstress, Dulcie,
close by, was exulting over the pretti-
ness OF the finished gown
Pretty? Yes, child, said Mrs.
Ashley, with a look at Dulcie that
made the little seamstress suddenly
homesick for her own mother, but
it's thanks to you that have it ready
for tonight, isn't it, Miss Brown
What would we have done il Dulcie
hadn't come to-day"
B Before that week was over the lit
tie seamstress, in smother home,
found herself realizing, as the morn
ing slipped away, that, there was still
two days work to be done before fin
ishing her engagement at Mrs. Brew
ster's that night.
IF / could have few hours OF
help this afternoon, Mrs. Brewster
SIZE had begun, when cab rolled up
to the door, and the sentence was
never finished. Ethel Brewster, pref
ty and high-keyed, had come back
from summer jaunt
Completely strapped. momsie.'
she announced gaily, at the threshold
Didn't have car fare That's why i
took the cab, counting on your peck
etbook at this end. Yes. I'm later
than said. but we found there was
a faster train with a chair car, so we
waited. The laundress? Oh, nom
sic. I utterly forgot what you wrote
about having engaged her to do UP
my things to-day! Been here all the
morning? Such a shame-for every
dud / have needs washing. I could
have brought those things in my suit
case instead of my trunk. Just as we'll.
And that isn't the worst. See shis
trightful trap-door. right in front Of
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

Paymasters' records in the United
States Navy show that twenty-seven
per cent. of the enlisted men save
money regularly and put it in the
savings banks, al d that almost as
large a proportion support families
out of their pay. This is another
proof, to the New York Tribune, that
the conventional tar with a rooted
desire to burn up his money as soon
as he gets ashore has passed out of
date. The new tar is a man of solid
er character, better education and
more practical ideas. The standards
of the calling have risen immensely
under modern conditions. Yet there
are those who still hold that sailors
are so irresponsible and so lacking in
discipline as to need to be watched
over even aboard ship by the marines,
the navy's armed police.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
ON SHIPBOARD.

The funniest experience ] had was
on recent trip where there was on
board a little girl of about twelve
years of age. writes a purser on an
ocean liner in the Tourist Magazine.
She struck up warm friendship
with me, and would walk the deck
for miles if would only accompany
her. She fell very i'll during a storm
and refused to be comforted Her
mother asked her il there was any
thing she could do which would ease
her suffering, and the young imp
(she was an American child) said
there was. If she would only
skidoo," and let the purser read a
book to her she would feel better.
And the indulgent mother came to
me, stated the case, and-well, I com
piled with her request, and read to
the child for little while each day
until she was well enough to come on
deck again.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
Destruction Caused by Rats.

Consul Maxwell Blake sends from
Dunfermline an extract from Scotch
newspaper on the destruction caused
by rats, as brought out by deputa-
tion from the Incorporated Society
for the Destruction of Vermin.
Headed by Sir James Crichton
}lrowne and the Duke of Bedford.
ley waited upon Lord Darlington at
the Offices OF the Board of Agricul-
ture to urge him to appoint a COM
mission to inquire into the subject of
the destruction caused to crops by
rats. The extract reads: "The depu-
tatiOu pointed out the enormous dam
age done by rats, which amounts, on
most moderate computation, to
Britain. This is arrived at by allow
irg only one rat to cultivated acre
OF ground. Assuming that each rat
does damage to the extent of one
farthing a day, this works out on the
forty million acres Of land at the
figure mentioned. Sir James erich
ton Browne incidentally stated that
two million people died of plague In
India, and said 1t had been proved
that the rat was the chief cause OF
the spread of infection. 1t was also
stated that the expenditure on rat
poisons ! In the United Kingdom
amounts to &25O.O00 per annum.
which is considered many times more
than would be required properly to
exterminate the vermin il the cam
paign were systematically conduct
ed. Daily Consular Reports.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

Country bookshelves come nearer
to representing the real reading of a
family than those in the city, admits
the New York Evening Post. The
Best Seller of to-day seldom shoulders
the Farmers Almanac Of yesterday
1t is in the country that poetry is still
being read to some extent. This lends
color to the suspicion that sophistica-
ton quenches the thirst for the Muse.
In a simply organized life, the old
craving still exists. We know of one
typical bookcase, in hamlet far from
the railroad, wherein at least half the
books are volumes of petry. We give
the list as they stood upon the shelf;
Matthew Arnold, Whittier. Longfel-
low, Browning. John @. SAKE, Mrs.
Browning, Scott, Tennyson, George
Eliot, Goldsmith, Mrs. Hemans, Mil
ton, Dryden, Will Carleton, Coleridge,
Alice and Phoebe Cary, and Holmes.
The range is perhaps the best thing
about this list And the books are
not mere mural decoration: they are
weli-thumbed, We recall an actual
farmer who remarked mo more
books for me In hayin time. was
readin' Last O tn Mohicans last
summer. an / couldn't hardly stop to
act m hay in,n
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
0oG1o 90 90 % o. %
Forthe.C hildrenEs

! the only good skirt | have left-and
school beginning Tomorrow"
BY this time there was a veil on
one chair, pair of gloves on another,
hat on the table and coat on the
couch. For the rest of the day, while
! the little seamstress remolded the
torn skirt and Ethel pervaded the
house, pouring out continuous tales
| OF the good times she had been hav-
/ ing, her mother was following her
about, picking up and putting away.
When Mrs Brewster paid the little
seamstress that night, she said, with
weary kindness, TITS not your fault
in the least, Miss Brown, that you
couldn't finish my dress. IL it hadn't
been for EtheTs coming to-day"
There she stopped, and the little
seamstress went away, thinking. She
was going home to visit her own
mother the following week. Youths
Companion.
A FABLE FOR OLD AND YOUNG.
Once child who thought well of
herself was walking along the street.
and saw anotheraehild, who was poor
ly clad.
How wretched it must be-" she
said to herself, ito be poor ana
shabby like that child How thin
she is! And how her patched cloak
futters in the wind; so different from
my velvet dress and cloak I"
Just then an angel came along.
What sre you looking att" asked
the angel.
II was looking at that girl, said
the child.
so was I, said the angel How
beautifully she is dressed"
What do you mean?" said the
child. II mean this one coming
toward us She is in rags, or at least,
il her9clothes are not ragged, they
are wretchedly thin and shabby"
"Oh, no." said the angel How
can you say SO? She is all white, as
clear as frost. never saw anything
SO pretty. But you, you poor little
thing, you are indeed miserably clad.
Does not the wind blow through and
through those fiimsy tatters? But at
least you could keep them clean, my
dear, and mended You should see
to that"
II don't know what you meant"
said the child. "That girl is ragged
beggar, and my father is the richest
man in town. l have white dress
and coat, trimmed with expensive fur.
What are you talking about?"
about the clothes of your soul, of
course!" said the angel, who was
young
Il don't know anything about
souls, +" said the child.
Il shouldn't think you did" said
the angel. Laura E. Richards.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
IDEAS OF a GIRL.

/ would take trip over to Asia
and see the Himalaya Mountains, the
highest in the world, if / had 81, 0OO,-
600.
/ then would like to join club,
and have pony and cart, which !
could use in going to the, club ]
would have to buy food for the pony.
would have a house with about
ten rooms in it, and have it all fur
nished, and all the nice clothes ]
wanted.
/ then would want to see Pike S
Peak and the Garden Of the Gods and
Great Salt Lake and learn how to
swim. They say you can not drown
in Great Salt Lake. would go South
and see them how they pick the seeds
out of cotton. would give the rest
of my money to the poor. Dorothy
Wiegand, in the New York Times
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

China has made a humble begin
ming in the work of equipping herself
with a modern naval establishment.
Prince Tsai Hsun and Admiral Sab,
aaval commissioners, entrusted with
this. task, according to advices re-
seived in Washington, ID. c., have
taken steps Ito ascertain the number
Of existing men-of-war and vessels. =
This done they will inaugurate a poll
Icy, it is said, Of raising the necessary
funds to enlarge the navy. OF foster
ing naval education and of inspecting
the existing naval bases.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

A wealthy man of Omaha is said
to have forbidden his sons marriage
because the young man has developed
bone tuberculosis How much unhap-
piness a little knowledge might pre-
vent! A disease, exclaims the New
York World, which is usually durable
in the patient and never transmitted
to his posterity scarcely seems to
justify a prohibition so positive. But
the boy may not obey.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
Dies in Fan From Window

AT Margate. England, Charles A..
Dun Miller, Agent General of New
Brunswick in London since 1896.
jumped or fell from a window and
was killed. He had been staying at a
sanitarium because of nervous trou-
BILE An attendant was constantly I'M
Charge, but Mr.. Miller succeeded In
eluding him and making his way to
the window. He was born in Ontario
in 1856.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
A Womc,,,s Profess.

The female compositors and other
workwomen In printing establish
ments Of Norway have raised pro-
test against proposed factory in
spection law, ia which overtime and
night work are forbidden for women
They do not desire protective legisla-
tion Of that sort.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
HOW 1T HAPPENED.

Here is a pair Of brand new gloves"
Said my mamma, one day;
I pnt my fingers In their rooms
And said, You'll have to stay"
Then | put on my hat and coat
And went out In the park,
And soon my fingers cried, I'VE won't
Stay shut up in the dark"
They made some pleasant windows right
At every finger end;
And there were five big, dreadful holes
For my mamma to mend!
-Philadelphia Record
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
Herald.

The Senator who failed in his effort
to frank a boxgOf pineapples should
not be discouraged. The mails, it is
believed, remarks the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal, are still open for dead
head shipments of Congressional
laundry.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

"The way in which some tailoTs
give credit" said Judge Rentoul, at
the city of London court, lis awful.
The idea of giving man credit for
$3.50 worth of clothes. Firms who
give such credit must charge enor-
NOUS prices"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

AS soon as the move to prevent
~the laws delay" accomplishes some
thing why not take up "the insolence
of Officer" inquiries the New York
Herald.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

A colored man up at Leavenworth
has broken the record for living un-
der difficulties. A surgical opera
ton showed that he had lived a week
with a blod clot In his brain as large
as mans hand.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

Says the Troy Times: Morocco is
the latest candidate for international
intervention. With all sorts Of in
ternal upheavals and the Sultan pow
erless to preserve peace or suppress
instruction, the probability of early
action by the Powers grows stronger
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
Times change

The captain was receiving the new
MILDLY, We'll, boy, the old story.
suppose. fool Of the family sent to
sea-" "Oh, no, sir" piped the boy,
that's all altered since your DAY.
Tendon News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

Be uniformly courteous to the ice
man. You will not get any more ice.
muses. the Washington Herald, but
you will keep cooler, anyway.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

Some people are SO stingy, remarks
the Philadelphia Ledger, that they
would rather look for a needle in q
haystack than buy one.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

There were recently discovered in
the city library OF Luneburg eight
volumes Of old Hamburg papers, some
Of which were dated 1918,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19
SNdturssaS CicnCe5

Telephone cables are about to be
laid under the English Channel by the
British Government. This is expected
to greatly facilitate business between
London and Paris.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

The latest improved life preserver
is a hollow belt of rubber, to which is
attached cylinder filed with liquid
carbon dioxide. On turning tap the
1iquified gas escapes into the belt,
volatilizes, and initiates it to it's fullest
capacity, twenty-seven and one-half
quarts, which makes it superior to
any cork belt.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

Graft is often successful, admits
the Philadelphia Record, but it is i'm
possible to bribe destiny.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

An extraordinary surgical opera
ton is reported from Paris. 1t APP
pears that DR.. Doyen, who is well
known in connection with cancer re-
search, successfully transplanted a
vein of live sheep to the leg of a
man suffering from arterial aneurism,
with the result that the circulation
was restored. The patient has now
completely recovered. The vein trans
ferred was over ten inches in length.
Numerous grating operations have
been performed in modern surgery,
but this is the first time that an or
ganism from a lower animal has been
transferred to man
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

Commerce far August on the great
Lakes hreke an records.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

In some interesting notes in the
Zoologist, Or. James Clark points out
the nowhere, probably, in Great
Britain are the conditions so favor
able for abundance and variety of
crustacean life as on the coast of
Cornwall And among the numerous
species there found none. perhaps,
are Of greater interest than those
which appear from time to time as
waits and strays from other parts.
Among those casual visitors 2Dr.
Clark notes the curious little gulf
weed crab (Planus minutus) This
species has its headquarters and
breeds among the drift weed of the
Sargasso Sea. The Gulf Stream oc-
casionally carries it to our shores. 1t
is usually found on drift timber COW
cred with barnacles. Such casual
drifting illustrates how species may
extend its geographical range, but it
does not appear that the Cornish
waters are suitable for the gulf-weed
orah
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-10-19

The energy stored up in ordinary
matter on the electron theory is enor-
nous. Assuming that each atom Of
hydrogen contained only one corr
puscle--and the probable number is
several hundred-then one grain of
it would contain as much energy as
that produced by burning five tons Of
coal And all ordinary matter con-
tains this vast store of energy kept
fast bound by the corpuscles. If any
appreciable fraction of this were at
any time to escape 1t is pointed out
that the earth would explode and be-
come a gaseous nebula.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-27
FINE VAUDEVILLE
PROGRAM At THE
CRYSTAL
La Sale Comedians Who are
Playing Engagement at Pop
uIar Playhouse Put Up An
Excellent Show,

1t has been a long time Albuquer-
que has he'd "a bunch Of vaudeville ar
fists like those who are with the La
Sale Comedy Vaudeville company.
which is playing all this week M the
popular Crystal theater The vaude-
here Saturday afternoon ana the fsme
of their worth went abroad so rapidly
that hundreds Of people were unable
to gain admission to the thcater last
evening. The company consists of
fourteen people. including a band and
orchestra. The price OF admission to
reserved seats has been placed at
twenty cents, while the rear seets re-
main at the popular price of ten
cents a ticket The performance con-
-ists of three first class vaudeville
stunts. with several moving pictures
during intermissicnS. and closes with
n good old tim. ut-er.picce which Is
simply a scream frnni start 70 finish.
II you don't IKE II laugh, il would be
advisable TO stay away from the Cry
stall all this week. but " YOU trjoy
sure and see the La SALES before they
leave. Mr.. Barr. in a Dutch charac-
ter role is hand 20 EAT and is GER
tanly an expert comedian. Musical"
story springs a number Of new gags
and ends his st1at with some xsia-
phone playing. RAYMOND O'Nieil exc
cutes a turn that is well rendered ard
much appreciated b. an audience.
Nine. NJ does e very clever dance
and concludes her act with "a ue-g
dance called the storm Dance.
which Is particularly a treat FOR la
dies md Childrca.
The 81 sins &C. IS called the Book
Agent. and is a confta - scream \
comui ite change Of Program viii be
made Tuesday Thursday the pro-
gram VIII BE- changed from melo-
drama. with moving pictures between
the acts.
Reserved seats may be obtained
Tevsday and "Wednesday for the
drama az the same price OF ten and
twenty cents.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-27

tered. Set for trial at adjourned
term.
RNicolas Sisneros, larceny OF live
stock.
Cicero MeHan, grand larceny. Plea
OF not guilty.
Wilkie McHan, larceny.
Ennis r. Flesher. selling liquor
without license. Plea of guilty: SELL
ing liquor to minors, plea of not
guilty.
Pedro Urvina, %assaulting wife. Plea
of not guilty.
Ed Hatley and oscar ,4atley, as
sault with intent to Kill. Plea of not
guilty.
Hilario o. Martinez. accepting bride.
Plea o. not guilty.
Htlario O.. Martinez. receiving bribe
as OFFICER. Plea of not guilty.