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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
BLACKY,


would like to tell you about our
little cat. He is very black and has
not a white spot on him. He has
large, yellow eyes, and he is similar
to the cats that the witches carry
around with them on their brooms on
Halloween. Almost every one that
sees hi, says, What funny cat!
wouldn't like to meet him in the
dark" He seems to be very fond Of
the stove. One cold day this winter,
while my mother was about her work,
perceiving the stove door open, he
quietly crept in and nestled down
among the ashes and went to sleep.
After while my mother came to the
stove to remove the ashes. She
turned the crate and out flew Blacky
in cloud of dust and ashes. His
fur and ears were little bit singed,
but no further harm was done. When
my mother saw Blacky fly out she
thought that something had exploded
in the stove. But she soon found out
what it was. We had a hard time
getting the dust out of his fur /
guess the fright was enough for him,
for he has never since attempted to
go into the stove, but prefers to sit
in chair in front of it.-Edna
Thornton, in the New York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
.rMARY Ann HIIRRI.E y

/ once knew a woman named Mary Ann
Hubble,
And this woman always was looking for
trouble;
She was looking all day from the time she
got up,
To the cand1elight hour when she sat down
to sup.
She would look all around her, and search
high and low
just looking for trouble where'er she would
And you may be sure that this Mary Ann
Hubble
Had more than her share of what people
call trouble.
Deborah E. Odds, in ST. Nicholas.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
COMFORTING Assurance.

Doctor Most--e you
consulted me. I'm just the very man
to-er--cure you.
Patient-"Ah, that's lucky! You
are quite familiar with my complaint.
them"
Doctor Familiar? MY dear sir,
I've had it myself er-this twenty
years! "-Comic Cuts.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Inventor Of italics.

Italics we're invented, or rather, de-
signed, by Aidus Manutius, cele-
brated Venetian printer, who first
employed the new style Of letter in
an edition of Virgil in 1901. The
imitation of script, neat yet decora-
tive, became so popular that Manu-
thus dedicated it to his native country,
Italy, whence it became to be known
as Italian, or, more correctly, Italic.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

''What is a muckraker?" inquiries
a correspondent in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger. A party, answers the
Washington Herald, who steps over
all the pet corns of somebody you
rather like.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Rode Bareback Fifty Miles.

The winter record for bareback rid
ing is now held by Henry Cox, of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, who rode fifty miles
from Alden to Fort Dodge, only stop
ping for dinner at harrisburg. The
trip consumed eleven and half
hours.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Our bananas come from Costa RIGA
and cost few cents at our end of the
line, but at the expense of untold
privation and hardships, muses. the
Christian Register, for the poems who
raise them for our market
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Brown-"That coal dealer of ours
got Just what was coming to him.
Town" Howl"
Brown" Married girl the other
day. thinking he was getting 40
pounds. and only got SS, st. Louis
Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

It's wonderful, to the Pittsburg
Dispatch, how many men suffer from
overwork in their endeavors to hang
onto a political job with which no
work is connected.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

The city Of Wallsee, on the Danube
in lower Austria, once famous and
wealthy because Of its milestone in
dustry, has just seen its glory COM
pletely fade away through the closing
Of its last milestone concern.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Leaves 500, 900 to Charity.

The will Of Mrs. Hannah M. Earl.
widow Of William S. Earl, Of Troy. III
Y, founder of Earl & Wilson, collar
manufacturers, gives $66 900 OF So
600, 900 TO charity. ..,.,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
CoNUNDRUMs.

When is doctor most annoyed?
When he is out of patients.
What man invariably finds things
dull? The scissors grinder.
When is it easy to read in the
woods? When autumn turns the
leaves. Philadelphia Record.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Chicago goods have decided to
boycott whiskers, says dispatch.
How, inquiries the New York Ameri-
canon their own or on others
foonc7
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Most women, observes the Farmer,
can hurl epithets straighter than they
can stones.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Equal suffrage will win, prophesies
the Philadelphia Record, as soon as
it can stand a sense of humor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Reports state that the Japanese are
leaving Hawaii How much of it?
asks the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10

As result Of this attitude, nobody liked
him, and he missed those little personal favors
and courtesies which mean so much to even
The most business-like conduct Of business.
he managed TO get on bad terms with most OF
The local advertising agencies and publica-
tons, to which he addressed unnecessarily
harsh, and often sarcastic letters. When Mr..
Bowman, the head OF the firm which en-
Ployed him, endeavored TO expostulatc with
him in regard 10 these matters, he was UNI
reasonably offended, and displayed uncalled-
Tor shortness in his replies. Thus certain
GOODNESS grew up between him and his
employer The atmosphere" Of his Office,
that feeling about an Office which all viii
understand who have had to do with such
places, hecamc unnecessarily charged with
electricity.
OF course none, nor all, OF these circum-
stances vas s.--4cient 10 provoke his dis
charge. As matter OF fact, they had not
dir "a it, although Jimmy did
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10

With this condign threat, Mr.. Boggs thrust
Out his lower jaw, mopped his forehead, and
took his bearings Madison Square opened,
green and inviting, just ahead OF him. He
made for one OF the shaded park benches and
sat down.
If one passes among the shaded park
benches Of Madison Square, especially if he
passes between the hours OF eleven O'Clock and
noon, he IS likely to notice small number Of
passably dressed, clean-cut young fellows
scattered among the various nondescnpts that
luster there. They are distinguished from the
aondeseripts, also, by the erectness Of their
attitudes, a certain tenscness about the eyes
and mouth, and a tendency to stare into
vacancy These are the Young Enthusiasts
with Non-negotiable Ideas That hollow
checked youth, perhaps, believes that he can
write better poems than Swinburne maybe
he can. That long-legged young man, with
The black smudges on his knuckles, is certain
* he has invented a perpetual motto
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10

and the afternoons at MS desk, as co.-5ina-
ton manager, stenographer, and Office boy.
HIS efforts to influence the settled revolutions
OF business were comparable to those OF a
mosquito on a f1y-wheel His task was rem
dered the more hopeless because everybody
who knew anything about him knew OF his
rocket-like rise and no less rocket-like fall.
AS he turned down side. street to his box of
an Office, he wondered whether thev didn' t
know good deal more about the fall part
than he had known himself
Mr. Boggs, in the meantime, had betaken
himself to much-mirrored restaurant and
ordered sumptuous repast.
By the time he had finished his luncheon.
ne was in such capital spirits that he decided
to spend the afternoon at Coney Island
Accordingly it was nearly i've O'Clock when he
arrived at the Hallowell offices, and the edify-
ing surprise The latter, which had been
waiting with laudable patience, was enclosed
in little blue A. D. T. envelope, marked
" lMMEDIATE!" across the face. 1t read
as follows:
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= beg your pardon" he sad. Il didn't
mean to seem ungrateful. I'm worried, you
see"
We'll, now-that's the boy-that's the
boy. Mr. Boggs crossed his legs, produced
the lat cigar OF earlier mention, and lit it.
. | hats the boy, now! l says to myself, when
! hears this little piece OF news: I'll just let
jimmy II on this; and if he gifts his Job back
winch he'd certainly ought to-maybe he
won't be 50 short with his old Uncle Boggs.'
Cooperation IS my motter. Mutehool assist
ance, you know"
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machine; who is to DENY him, ofThand, since
the discovery OF radium? Ard, on this par
ticular May morning, a certain oriinary-look-
ing youth, With a neat serge suit, natty straw
hat, big graz eyes, and a determined mouth.
was convinced that he knew more about the
then embryonic business OF advertising than
the quite several men who made their liYings
out OF It. His name was flames Leonard. and
ne was not quite twenty four wears old. Until
two weeks before he had held the position Of
advertising manager in Sinpkins and Bow
man department store; d position which his
energy and ideas had raised from the ctisto-
mary obscurity Of such positions to startling
prominence. Because OF glaring faults, he
had been discharged
he youthful business genius who attains
suddenly to eminence, only to drop back like
an immature aeroplane, is much commoner
than one might suppose. Newspapers. in
laudatory items, and magazines, in adapta-
tons OF these items, called fiction. record his
ascent and leave him assembled. Even more
frequently than the love hero is HaDDiIv
Married, without a hint Of future divorce
proceedings; the business hero secures a
Splendid Position, without a hint OF future
humping the bumps. Inasmuch as the ratio
OF business reverses is hugely larger than the
ratio OF marriage reyerses, this state of affairs
is ,pardonable We shall, therefore, en-
deaSor to add our mite toward evening mat
ters up.
In spite OF his first success, Jimmy Leonard
had not made good advertising manager.
At time when advertising expenses we're
considered principally as a sort OF gratuity to
propitiate the powers behind the newspapers
"a small sum OF money to be turned over to a
superannuated advertising manager to use
pretty much as he saw fit-Leonard had new
ideas, ideas which have since proved their
vast superiority over the old ones. But his
experience with men was small; he had the
uncompromising severity OF youth-the mar
rowness OF few years and limited experience
and his success bred in him an over weening
self-confidence. 1t is bad enough when
seventy years acquires the opinion that it is
impeccable; but when callow twenty arrives
at the same conclusion, it is downright la
mentable. Young Leonard made the two
fold mistake OF becoming superciIious and
believing himself invaluable, which, of course
only about one man in several hundred mil
lions really is.
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The early lark had arisen, breakfasted &,
the worm, and turned his attention to otoa,
matters before Mr.. Boggs bethought him
again Of mundane affairs At fifteen minutes
past ten O'Clock, to be exact, a portly. nor.
spring gentleman sped nimbly down Nine
teenth Street, toward the side entrance ~
simpkins and Bowman's department store
At seventeen minutes past ten, the portv
gentleman ran plump into the arms Of 4
beaming-taced, business-like young man.
with black portfolio under his arm. The
young man was just leaving the big stores
side entrance.
Jimmy" exploded the portly gentleman
producing sound half way between a gasn
and below. You ain't--you amt seen.
him alreadyo''
Why, it's Mr.. Boggs!' commented the
other, his beaming expression deepening into
a broad grin. Seen Mr.. Bowman, Won
mean9 Oh yesln
Mr.. Boggs made a supreme effort and
with the assistance OF a solid bit Of mason ,,-
managed to remain standing He drew forth
purple-bordered handkerchief, in dazed
sort OF way, and mopped his forehead.
It's rather warm, amt it2' he oueried
:" 1t certainly is, if ones in great hurry. y
assented Leonard. did you want to see
me2"
Mr.. Boggs drew deep breath and opened
the food gates of his disappointment.
Yes, | did-worst kind-alI mistaken
he suffered Wilson wasn't Responsible
not him, not at all! All that doduastad
Bilkins-'
That's queer; Wilson'S just admitted his
part IN it, returned Jimmy Said YOU put
him up to it.
Who? Me7 Me put him up to it?"
walled Mr.. Bcggs, in genuine establishment
and horror. It's like his nerves.
His expression was 50 lugubrious that
Jimmy melted toward him.
Look here, Mr. Boggs," he said; aI.m
honestly sorry if I've interfered with your
business in any way 4 thought you wanted
to get Wilson out; and agree with YOU that
he's bad one.
: As for this smash-up, don't blame YOU.
The ad. business amt what it used TO be.
Nowadays you don't hear nothing but circu-
lation and class and pulling power and new
iandangled ways Of getdn' publicity. amt
blamin' you, YOU understand, but if it keeps
up-if it keeps up" He waved his purple
bordered handkerchief in solemn emphasis.
" II it keeps up, I'll go Vest Yes, sir dunn
me, sure as shoodn' I'll go Westla He
hauled down the handkerchief and mopped
his forehead. "S'long, Jimmy he con
GUIDED feebly. I'm goin' get cup o black
coffee"
With mixed feelings of regret and amuse-
ment, Leonard watched the unfortunate gem
uenan straggle down the street, and then
himself departed in the opposite direction.
Inside the little black portfolio under his arm
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brought up in the middle
Of the sidewalk. The May sun was shed
dazzlingly from bis expansc Of snowy waist
coat and Acknowledgement tie-cluster. In
one lat hand ne gripped fat cigar; his wide
brimmed, red-banded straw hat depended
from the other. The expression OF his face
might probably have been presented to the
American Society for Psychicai Research as
evidence OF the existence OF ghosts, or equally
startling phenomena.
Wouldn't take it, he murrnured. blink
ing in the bright sunlight and feebly locating
his head by means OF his hat He looked
down at the fat cigar, snorted, and thrust it
into vest pocket. Accused me of irwin to
improperly infloonce his decisions Ordered
me out! Me! After all I've done for him!
The burned stuck-up old animal"
Now what did | say to him-what did
say?" he asked argumentatively. II says:
Good morning, Mr.. Wilson Congratula-
tons on gettin' your job back knew that
young Jimmy Leonard could never hold
down the job OF advertising manager Tor
Simpkins and Bowman-yom Job saws.
And what does the old tree-toad say to that?
Comp! Just Oomp!' That's what he
says, damn i'm! Have one of them Havana
Resurgos, says |, endeayorin' to sprinkle
kerosene on the troubled waves. ANY er,
gagement for luncheon today And then
what happens2 Jumpin' Jehoshop,.at
Then he rises right up on his hind legs and
rares and rips and tears; and accuses me of
tryin to get business out of him by bribin
him with cheap cigars and lunches! Mel
Cheap cigarsl And about how he was a-goin'
to know where all his ads. went after this,
and the results they brung h-oratin about
circulations and the vital importance Of
proper publicity He couldn't a-carried on
worse if he'd been thu. young Leonard teller
himselfl III bet tdat's where he got the
palayer, too AID then he orders me Quit
Me! Orders me! Well. your old Uncle
Boggs knows more'n dead cat about several
things, just the same; and old Billy Wilson
knows he knows, too! III make the old sin
ner dance yeti"
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Yrs. in haste,
Wilson.

The reading of this note inspired Mr..
Boggs TO make two remarks The FIRST was
too blasphemous to print, and related to d
number OF horrible things that Mr.. Boggs
was willing to have done to him. The sec
ond, accompanied by huge sigh, was: It's
all that young Leonard's doings; the ad. bust
ness amt what it used to be- .
But the circumstances clearly demanded
more strenuous measures than remarks.
Jimmy must be seen and talked to before
morning
Mr.. Boggs, departing with the praise
worthy intention OF going to see Jimmy as fast
as electricity would take him, soon dereloped
bad case OF divided mind The address on
the slip Of paper would take him to Benson
hurst-forty minutes ride, at the shortest.
II he went Immediately, the dinner at Biliv's
would miss his cheerful presence. He ex-
pected good deal Of that dinner; Wilson
would have TO spread himself to make up for
the mornings insulting seance
Dinner first and Bensonhurst after
wards, " concluded Mr.. Boggs, unconsciously
damaging a very ancient and respectable
maxim
He improved the short walk TO Billy's BY
inyenting story suitable for young Leonard's
consumption. He decided to put all the
blame on the missing Bilkins, explaining that
irritation with Mr. Wilson had caused the
mornings version OF the matter Mr.. Boggs
determined to be very contrite He was good
al being contrite. Altogether this disDosi-
ton OF the affair struck him as being a most
worthy idea.
His enjoyment Of the dinner at Billy's was
marred by only one circumstance; the thought
OF the impending pilgrimage to Bensonhurst.
This circumstance, with the assistance OF
sundry drinkables that went with and fol-
lowed the dinner proper, begat in his fuddled
mind another idea, even more brilliant than
the first He decided that he would not 90 10
Bensonhurst at all; he would merely arise
with the lark, go Immediately TO the side en-
trance OF Simpkins and Bowman's-which
led to the Offices and await Jinnly's arrival
After the conception of this idea had ban
ished his skeleton-at-thc- feast, Mr.. Bopg's
JOY rapidly became unconfned Along 10
ward midnight, Mr. Wilson managed TO get
him into cab and direct the driver where 10
deliver him. Mr.. Boggs was feebly endeav
oring to explain, as the cab departed, the
great wrong that he had almost done his besht
friend, Ole Billy Wilshon. But his explain
atoms were not very lucid, ard Mr.. Wilson
was not prepared TO understand them, even If
they had beer.
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Dear Boggsie:-

Great SPIEL put up, wasn't it7 Bowman's
door was open just crack, and he was WATCH
ING me- Couldn't even tip you wink You
know he hasn't any use for you. That young
Leonard fellows filed him full of balloon juice. and
he's poison-sore on all those good old FRIENDLY
ways Of doing business. Besides, believe he
thinks you used to trim on those Parlor
Monthly contracts had to put it onto you. you
know. He'd just been rip-snorting. a little while
before you came in, about cigar-and-lunch adj men.
50 when you butted in with that CIGAR and talk
about LUNCHEON, it was up to me to rip ard
tear It's made me solid with him, though, con
GRADUATED me as soon as you left I'm
writing this P D. O., SOS you'll understand. and
and not doanything RASH. We're spending a lot
more money on publicity than ever before. and
guess We can fix it SOS you'll get YOURS, eh. Old
Speedo2 Say we dine at Biilys to-night-ON Me-
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The only comments Jimmy had to make
wouldn't have sounded well; SO he didn't
make them.
It's this way" resumed Mr. Boggs, en-
phasizing his points with fat forefinger:
Wilson brides that slick private secretary
OF Mr.. Bowman what's his name2 Bill
kins? The one that beat it after bein' too
free with the firms creditors about the time
you was fired, you know He paused to
roll the words over his tongue and give them
time TO sink into his listener. Well, Wilson
brides that Teller TO re-write some of YOUR
letters-that is, some of the carbon copies
that goes to Bowman Bilkins knew
he'd soon have to skip, so he didn't care
Well, he and Wilson gifts together and makes
your letters real strenuous; understand YOU
made EN- fair to middlin' strenuous yourself,
Ell? Well, when you tells a firm YOU NAV
have to take extreme measures if they don't
come to time, for instance, they makes it a
little stronger suggests the simpkins and
Bowman attorneys-see? Just changin' a
few words here and there; but enough 10
make you out real re-eater-not TO men
ton the biggest man that ever wrote an ad.,
and the gen-yew-wine boss OF Simpkins and
Bowman See? Wilson figured that Bow
man I'D call you up on the carpet, and you'd
be SO highly tightly proud and insuIted that
you'd resign on the spot without lookin' over
the letters careful enough to see how they'd
been doctored. Pretty cute of the old geezer,
wasn't it, eh?"
Yes" admitted Jimmy grimly. 1t was
rather cute"
" It was And about the time YOU gets off
the Job, he writes letter TO Bowman, droolin'
about his long service with the firm, and how
he hates 10 be out OF harness, and suggests his
wife and children see? Well, it all works
out lovely! Clever of that old goat, hey?
And him not Twin with bis wife these fifteen
years! Clever, eh?"
( Yes, oh, yes, admitted Jimmy.
Mr.. Boggs seemed disappointed that he
had not aroused more wrath and excitement.
" Aw, he's bad onel" declared the q live
wire, : with real feeling Always up to his
dirty tricks-eyen against his best friends
the old uee-toad! You ought to be able to
TX him, especially if Bowman's still got those
letters. Get after hint Make it hot for the
silPPeTy gdloot!
" I'm certainly much obliged to you, z said
Jimmy, rising, although your last remarks
give me pretty good clue as to why you're
loosening up on all this. I'll hope to return
the favor, sometime.
Leonard departed briskly, consulting his
watch, but as soon as he believed that he was
beyond the observation of Mr.. Boggs, his
step Jagged, his face resumed the strained,
worried expression characteristic of Young
Enthusiasts with Non-negotiable Ideas.
Jimmy's main idea was 10 start an adver-
Using agency that would really advertise. He
had even gone 50 far IS TO rent ofice-room in
the back OF cigar store, Being, for the
present, the whole agency, he spent the morn
ia1s securing tie city IS advertising sciici.or,
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ne carried the Leonard Advertising Agencys
ilrst commission. 1t was not very large
commission, but Mr.. Bowman had promised
others; and he had limited, moreover, that the
mornings explanations might make dltiel'
ence in the attitude of several other depart
racnt stores toward the new agency. jimmy
had graduated from the ranks of the Young
Enthusiasts with Non-1.c,...oo..ii.blc Ideas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10

iAI paragon OF success
full advertising solicitors,
Mr.. ]. Broughton Boggs
OF Hallowell's Agency,
sided precipitately out
OF Simpkins and Bow
mans of1ice-entrance and
f-o,t,. Il IL
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10

not know this He had found upon his desk,
one Saturday morning. sealed note from the
manager, which read: