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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
A cMALL HEROINE.

Probably the youngest heroine in
the country to receive a bronze medal
for bravery is Mary Eva Chase,
daughter of N. Oscar. Chase, of East
Milton road, Brookline This little
girl is only six years old, but last
November she saved her playmate,
Katherine Jackson, four years old,
from being run over by an automo-
bile, and the Massachusetts, Humane
Society has just awarded her medal.
Eva and Katherine were crossing
the road, when Katherine cried out
that there was an automobile COM
ing, and stood still in her tracks.
Eva, with a sudden push, showed
Katherine out of harms way, top
pling the little girl over on her face.
Eva, was, however, unable to save
herself The motor car struck her,
hurting her into an unconscious heap
in the road. She was taken to the
Children's Hospital, and remained
there for many weeks. 1t is thought
that she will lose the use Of one arm
through the accident, and it will be
many months before she RECEIVERS
from the shock. She sobs every time
she sees an automobile, but is radiant
over her bronze medal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
A Cultivated Memory.

E. G. Laston, who issued a chaI-
lenge to the world for the memory
championship, although only young
man of twenty-three years, is verita-
BILE walking encyclopaedia, for he has
memorized 10000 dates of the princi-
pal events in the worlds history since
the creation. 1t was quite by accident
that he discovered that he had an
exceptional gift of memory. He was
being trained as an army officer, when
an attack of rheumatic fever dispelled
his hopes in that direction. At that
time he happened to meet the zancigs
in India, who, noticing what re-
markable memory he had for dates,
advised him to cultivate it. He then
purchased copy of Haydn's "Dic-
tionary Of Dates" and sought to COM
NIT to memory the dates of the most
important events in the worlds his
tory by writing fifty to hundred
dates on a piece of paper, and re-
writing them three or four times until
he had fully grasped them, with the
result that he has repertory of
thousands of dates, and can give the
correct answers without the slightest
hesitation. London Tit-Bits.
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THE MAN SHE LOVED
By EFFE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS.
Observation-Disclosures MISREPRESENTATION

Enid shook her head.
II will come down and tell him
my cousin can see no one tonight;
she is terribly upset. Where is he,
Simmonds?"
In the hall, miss"
DR.. Waters received the girls ex-
cuses as to her cousins non-appear-
ance very gravely
II am sorry she is jill, but l quite
understand, he said, while he pulled
on his gloves; this is very sudden
and very shocking"
"Yes; we had no idea my uncle was
so i'll as he must have been," Enid
answered, as she passed her hand
over her throbbing brow.
The doctor looked at her keenly.
He was no worse than he had been
for years, Miss Leslie" he said,
tersely.
"You mean" she began, hur-
riedly.
II mean that Sir Robert might and
would probably have lived for years.
He has died from no disease, but from
an overdose of laudanum-a dose
strong enough to kill three men"
Enid grew paler and paler.
"Laudanum?" she repeated, me-
chanically. How"
THAT is what we must discover, :"
the doctor finished, promptly. "There
must have been some carelessness
somewhere, and it must be inquired
into. That is why I wished to see
Miss Knebwell tonight"
"She is not fit to discuss this yeti"
Enid spoke with decision and was
astonished at her own firmness after
she had spoken.
Then tomorrow. Anything l can
do you may depend, Miss Leslie, will
be done. ! should advise you to ap-
prise Sir Roberts lawyers of his
death without delay. Some one
should be here in authority; it is too
much for girl like your cousin to
take on her shoulders.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

home. Willoughby wanted to leave
him alone. but Lee wanted to kill
him
Upon careful examination the en-
trance was found to be SO large Mr..
Bruin could get out easily, SO vii,
loughby watched the bear while Lee
cut some logs from fallen tree, and
placing them in such a way as par
TALLY to fill the entrance he drove
some stakes to hold them there and
partially fill the two smaller side
openings.
Two axes, the only weapons at
hand, weighing but one pound each
and carried in their belts, were
made ready for use. Mr. Lee opened
the fight by jabbing Bruin with the
compass staff. Then a rush was made
for the main entrance, where the
bear received blow from the axe.
This only angered him and he ran his
big feet out through the bark and
slivers in way that made his oppo-
nents feel anxious He would gnash
his teeth and stir up such dust they
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tie went on until Bruin threw him
self on his back, biting and clawing
at the small openings, thrusting his
head out far enough so that Mr.. Lee
was able to deal him blow between
tSe ear and eye. Bruin turned, pull
ing the axe from Lees hand and land
ing it in the nest behind the bear,
thus leaving them with but one axe
and the compass staff to fight the
bear with
Willoughby then proposed giving
up the battle, but Lee had to have
his axe, and the only way to get it
was to kill Mr.. Bear, so the fight CON
tinued, Bruin getting more enraged
at every turn.
Finally he started out, and Lee,
seeing the advantage, let him come
until he was we'll out of the tree, and
then called to his partner, who was
on the spot and dealt him
a blow full in the face, which ended
the conflict. The bear proved to be
one of the largest the two men had
ever seen.-Eugene Guard,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

Is not the word ''fiay" being some
what overworked? asks the Newark
Call. 1t is commonly used for any
severe attack, either in speech or let
ter. The word means skinning, and
as this is somewhat violent process,
where the flayed is alive, it would
seem to be rather excessively applied,
unless the metaphorical fiaying is
somewhat more complete in its de-
mutation of hide than most of the
iiatribes appear to be. 1t is word
which deserves rest, despite its
availability for short headline.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
More Than one Way.

The caller, man whom he had
known in the old town back in Penn
sylvania, had dropped in to talk old
times with the busy lawyer, and the
lawyer had endured it patiently for
an hour and half. Then, unseen by
the caller, he pushed small knob at
the end of his desk, and bell rang
in the adjoining room.
Excuse me moment, Mr.. Hocken-
splutter," he said, stepping into the
other room and proceeding to hold
this one-sided conversation over an
imaginary telephone:
"Hello!n
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

The swallow and other birds go
400 miles an hour, and they make no
noise, no crack" Their feathers
are not even ruf1ed, insists the New
York Journal Man is at least ten
times as powerful in thought as
swallow. We feel justified in pre-
dieting that mans machine will fly
through the air 1t 1000 miles an
hour, and 1000 miles an hour if it
should be desired
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

1t would seem rather odd, thinks
the New York Journal, if the mothers
of the land had one particular day
which they called Babies Day."
Suppose they did that. suppose they
remembered the baby one day in the
year, and on that day walked around
with flower in their buttonholes.
And suppose they forgot the baby the
other S64 days in the year What
would become of the babies and the
human race?
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
IAL.E:: OF
A RUSSIAN HORROR

History will probably make it clear
that in no other country, since Chris
tianity was first preached, has a
change of regime been accomplished
by such revolving savagery as In Rus
STA. Human life there was set at
naught; human sufferings were a
luxury to the bloodthirsty.
Bombs were thrown among
crowds, exploded in churches, left on
the seats of tramway cars, dropped
at railway stations and theatres.
Children at play would find them in
courtyards or streets, and blow each
other up without suspecting the
deadly nature of the toys. Trains
were held up every day by armed
men, who would, if necessary, give
battle to the military escort. Mail
coaches were stopped, the horses and
the postmen shot, and the money
bags confiscated.
The authorities had to put up iron
chains on the doors of railway COM
partments to enable the inmates to
shut themselves in during an attack.
Banks changed the architecture of
the buildings in which they do bust
ness. Behind every window of the
cashiers room there is now a bullet
proof shutter, which closes at the
touch of a button. The saferooms
have double doors, with iron guards.
Policemen, liable to be butchered
every night, solely because they wore
the uniform and performed their
thankless duty conscientiously, had
to be provided with coats of mail.
Landowners fed from the smoking
ruins of their country seats to cities,
and lamented their unluckier kind
yed or acquaintance who were tor
tured and killed. People lived in a
mist of blood and died in a storm Of
maddening terror. Degrees of cruel
ty were attained by the anarchists Of
which modern men have lost the con-
seption.
In lonely part of the country,
near Briansk, one night peasant
woman was awakened by loud
knocking at the door of her hut. She
was alone with her child at the time,
and felt a strong dislike to open the
1oor; but the feeling that there
might be some fellow creature out
side in need of help moved her to
nearken to the promptings of human
ty.
She withdrew the wooden bolt, and
an ill-favored fellow stepped in
Looking around the hut, he ordered
aer in harsh tones to heat the stove
and boil water. Quaking with fear,
she obeyed. The water boiled.
The stranger now commanded her
% wake up her child and lay it in
;ub. With this behest she also COM
2lied.
Now, pour the water over the
brat, and be quick" he said. The
Unfortunate woman shook like an
Ashen leaf, but held back the vessel |
The ruf1an, brandishing an ak over
ler head, shouted, Pour out the
water, ! tell you, or I'll hew you in
:wo."
The woman looked in despair at
Ter child lying in the tub, then rails
ing her eyes to the human fiend by
der side, suddenly dashed the boiling
water in his face. He fell, bowling
and blinded, to the floor. The wom-
an caught up the child and rushed
wildly into the night.-Detroit News
Tribune.
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Thumb Prlnts in the ARMY.

( The navy is to follow the army In
adopting the Cation system of identi-
fication by thumb prints, although,
to avoid irritation among the men,
it will be applied to only new re-
cruits. For while the measure may
be plausibly explained as taken for
the purpose of identifying the dead
or wounded, every one knows that its
chief value is in capturing deserters.
OF course, as the men re-enlist they
will come under the new regulation.
but this is not quite the same thing.
Washington Post.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

There is ample power in the Sher-
man law against trusts, protests the
Boston Herald. There is ample pow
er in the Elkins law against rebates.
There is ample power in the author
ity of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to require publicity and i'm
Partially of tariffs and to require
equitable treatment of all patrons of
public carriers of Interstate Com
merce. What need is there for the
commodities clause" if these other
laws are properly enforced?
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

1t seems that characteristics are
not all national, Elinor Glyn says
that American husbands are too good
and tame to be any use, while an
American woman just separated from
her foreign husband declares that If
he had only had some naughty habit
like smoking or going to the races
she could have borne married life a
little longer. Which, chortles the
Pittsburg Dispatch, is calculated to
make the married man anxious to
please, get out and make bet or do
something deucedly fast.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
Stockholders Increase.

The fact that the number of stock
holders in thirty-one leading indus
trial and railroad corporations of the
United States is now 326.S47, or
101,2S0 more than before the panic,
is one of great significance. The
wider the distribution Of the stock
ownership of the corporations OF the
country the better for the corpora
lions and the country.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
BRIGANDs OF ToNK1N.

The outlaws of Tonkin whom the
French called pirates are, properly
speaking, brigands, who infest the
country both on land and water.
One of their resorts is the province
of Bacninh, where they have just
murdered French officer. There
The brigands openly and successfully
defy the forces of the government.
Long immunity in that quarter has
made them numerousand formidable.
This need arouse no wonder, con-
sidering that the troops in the field
consist of native soldiers whose lives
are too precious to be risked in
frontal attacks on brigand Businesses.
Just before the murder of the off,
GER a band of brigands made its ap-
pearance on the railway line between
Hanoi and Bacninh and inflicted loss
On some native levies who encounter
ed them. Upon this the resident went
for detachment of native regulars
to deal a blow at the enemy. The
troops met the brigands intrenched
In village, one house in which they
had turned into fortress, so to
speak.
The commander of the troops
found himself in a fix. To send the
regulars across the open to carry the
stronghold by storm, under heavy fire
from the brigands, meant heavy loss
and certain death to many of his
men to little purpose. The only all
ternativce was to blow up the house
along with it's garrison. But this re-
source failed him from no explosives
being at hand. The result was that
the brigands escaped.
The Haiphong paper rightly won
ders why the troops in the field are
not supplied with melinite bombs
Such engines Of destruction would
save much loss of life among the sol
diery operating against the brigands
Yet no bombs are supplied to the
troops, though the brigands have Of
ten defied them safely from fortified
houses, which the troops would not
attack from fear Of loss Of life not
worth while to incur against outlaws
The result of this Weakened policy
is that the brigand bands in that sec,
ton OF Tonkin increase steadily ii
numbers and strength. Pessimists
say that in time they will become toe
many to be terrified by melinit,
bombs. South China News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
BOY PLUcKY IN RUNAWAY.

With display of pluck that many
grown man might be proud of eight
year-old Raymond Breen, son of Mr..
and Mrs. George Breen, of Springfield
avenue, Summit, N. j., chung to the
reins of a runaway horse until ii
freed itself from the harness, then
chased it and finally caught 1T in
field some distance away.
With him in the carriage when the
horse took fright were his younger
brothers, George and Henry, five and
three years old, and it was in an
effort to save them that the boy
held onto the reins and vainly tried
to stop the horse. Although hind
wheel of the carriage came off none
of the youngsters was hurt.
Raymond was driving up and down
the Beechwood road waiting for his
mother to do some shopping The
shaft broke when he pulled up sud-
denly and the horse darted away.
Showing the youngsters from the seat
to the floor of the carriage, little Ray
mond braced his feet against the foot
rail and pulled with all his strength.
The horse, never feeling the puny
Juggling at the reins, gaMoped along
DeForest~ avenue for two blocks,
when the hind wheel collapsed. The
jar almost threw Raymond out. Then
the horse broke away and the boy had
to let go.
Assuring himself that his brothers
had not been harmed, Raymond ran
after the horse and when it came to
stop he was at the bride. Leading
the horse with one hand and his two
brothers with the other, the boy
marched back to meet his mother,
who cried for JOY when she found her
children safe.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

G. B. Smith, commonly known to
all seafaring men of the Pacific Coast
as Shanghai Smith, who committed
suicide at Seattle, following the
granting of divorce to his wife.
made all the arrangements for hif
funeral several weeks before he died.
Two months ago Smith entered an
undertaking establishment and an.
nounced that he was going to end his
life soon. He said he wanted the
Arm to take charge Of his funeral,
and wrote out an order authorizing
the firm to take his body when he
diad
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

Referring to frequent drowning fa-
talities the Washington Star says:
The law goes as far as possible to
prevent the exposure of the innocent
and helpless to danger, but it cannot
reach the foolhardy. who expose not
only their own lives. but those of
their children in their own enter
prises. 1t can only be hoped that
eventually men and women viii APP
proach the water with due realization
OF the fact that when they embark
upon it they are necessarily venture
ing into danger, and take the proper
precautions.
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The most successful administrators

of the world have been through a
classical course of education. declares
the Boston Post. The association
with the classic minds Of antiquity,
men of whom Plutarch wrote, gives a
breadth to the thought and heroism
to the heart that no merely technical
training can impart. Let us teach
our children to run lathe and take
an engine apart, but let us not ignore
the clarion call Of Cicero and Demos
themes. Our brain has two lobes.
One is as important as the other.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

Asserts the Baltimore American
A great amount of the illness and
death in every large city, especially
among the infant population, can be
traced to impure milk, and no effort
should be spared in safeguarding the
health of the little ones.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

Any man or woman who can dis
play as souvenir an article having
any money value taken by stealth
should beware of temptation, for, de-
clares the Christian Register, thiev-
cry turks in the pathway of such a
person.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

If those summer visitors to Eng
land who praise the politeness Of the
casual wayfarer under the fire Of
questions that sometimes besets them
were to make their pilgrimage in a
wintry east wind they would have a
different tale to tell of English man
ners. London Court Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

Moscow newspaper men have been
sent to prison for fabricating dis
patches on political murders. If
guilty, they deserve the punishment,
pronounces the Philadelphia Ledger.
With so much real material accessi-
BILE they could have no excuse for
fabrication
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

God hides some ideal in every hui
man soul. At some time in our life
we feel trembling, fearful longing
to do some good thing. Life finds it's
noblest spring of excellence in this
hidden impulse to do our hest--Rob-
.-t CollYer-
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Abdul Gives Up IS. 600, 900.

A Constantinople newspaper Is au-
thority for the statement that Abdul
Hamid, the deposed Sultan, has trans
ferred bank deposits amounting to
something more than $5,000,000 to
the Government
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

People who are married act as If it
was against the law for either one of
them ever to admit that the other
was right about anything, laments
tbe New York Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15
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Doubtless the accident insurance
companies have an eye on the aero
plane, suggests the Chicago News.

Our benevolence should take in the
needy. PHILOSOPHERS the Florida
Times-Union, before we display it for
the benefit of the well-to-do.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

The Boston Globe says President
Eliot may think that leading life
of usefulness in New England is "a
better business than loafng around
the throne
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-15

mo, Bertha; I'll not have time to
come home for dinner. It's already
400, and have several hours work
yet to do am very busy and have
been detained
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Patient Breaks Other Leg.

Within a, few hours Of leaving the
Altoona (Pa.l Hospital, where HIS left
leg was amputated, John e Stewart
of Huntingdon, fell and broke his
right leg.
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yes. goodby.

Yes, goodby.
Then he went back to his desk; but
Mr. Hockensplutter had already risen
to go--Chicago Tribune.
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WoopMRNIs FIGHT wITH a BEAR

On Wednesday George Wiloughby
and Elmer Lee, timber cruisers, while
in the woods about four miles west
OF j. d. Palmers ranch on Brum-
baugh Creek found a hollow log
which seemed to be inhabited On
looking in they found Mr. Rrnjn at
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR JUNE 20.

Review Of the Weekly Topics For the
Second Quarter Of the Year
Golden Text, Acts 4:S3- Ques-
lions For Individual Review.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-24
Washington Affairs.

Hon. Joseph Cannon was elected
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives again last Monday.
The amended rules of the House
takes away some of the powers of the
presiding officer.
1t is estimated that the Payne tariff
bill, while reducing duties will in
crease the revenue as compared with
the Dingley bill.
Tie arnored cruisers West Virgin
ia, Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, California, South Dakota
and Washington, eight of the finest
Of our sea fighters are designated 20
take part in the Seattle Exposition.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury Coolridge says the receipts for
the first Is days Of March have been
27 per cent better than for the same
period a year ago, while the differ
ence in expenditures has been IS per
cent in the treasury's favor.
Lieut.. Commander H. j. Cone has
been made the head of rhe bureau of
navy engineering, with the rank and
pay of rear-admiral. He distin-
guished himself in the round-the-
world trip.