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the creek from the Mare Island navy
yard.
We'll. brains will come through,
whether in the head of man or pig,
and Larry discovered himself under the
tuition of the ships company for'ard OF
that man-owar. Larryd sit up and
beg, squeak for grub, play dead, turn
somersauts. scratch his left or right
ear with the corresponding hind foot on
request. waltz to approved music on his
hind feet and go through his manual
generally without AIRY whimper or buck.
Larry was the candy pig all right,
and SO the men forard couldn't see the
thing leaving him behind on the main
land when the ship was ordered to the
Philippines. Larry was officially ordered
ashore before the start, but the order
didn't stick. Larry was hid in locker
or bilge in one of the unused boilers
or somewhere. and when the ship was
a couple of days at Larry walked out
on deck and nuzzled the trousers leg of
the officer of the deck, and that's all
there was to it.
After making Manila the man-o'-war
was sent around among the islands. and
in the progress of the peregrinations the
and impossible pets. So the skipper of the
ship gave orders that the fo'c'sle would
have to be cleared of its squeaking and
shrieking and wailing and whimpering
and kissing gang of pets. and Larry, al
though the best behaved and most dig
nffied of the lot, came under the terms OF
that order.
Three of Larry's heavy-hearted blue
jacket pals brought him ashore at Ma
Mia. and meeting up with bunch of our
volunteer outfit on leave, the deep-water
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husky. from a choked and aching throat
Each of us looked at Buck as he asked
the question, and each of us shook his
head
Nope, we didn't want any of Larry.
Not after what had been Not the way
the question was asked. Not with Buck
serving Larry. Not any way at all. 1t
was too affecting case of the days that
We're no more. Milky Larry for the men
of our battery.
Not mouthful of Larry was masti-
Gated at the feed. We all addressed our
selves to the vans and the frijoles and
the embellishments of the feast but
every man-jack of the outfit sent the
fragments OF Larry on their way un-
touched
DID the camp dogs get Larry? Not
much! Buck Regan assembled all of the
cut up portions Of Larry together put
the remains in a neat box. nailed the
Dox up. and that night he got permission
from the officer of the day to give Larry
proper sepulture. 1 think none OF US
who saw it will soon forget the picturs
that poor Buck made in the effulgent
moonlight of that night when he was
consigning the roast pig that had been
Larry to the tomb which he scraped out
beneath the shelter Of a spreading palm"
CLARENCE l. CULLEN
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Philippines eleven years ago, ana mace
me think of Larry observed an officer
Of the regular army who was sergeant
Of volunteers In the Aguinaldo country
during the Spanish war
Larry was a distinguished pig, and ne
became meat, too, as mostly all pigs 90
and must in the course of nature. But II
was the mournful day. all the same
when Larry was served up as roast pork.
Larry was fought over. gambled Tor
and given the best a-going during every
stage of his existence. Yet somehow
none of us has ever been quite able 10
get over the feeling of self-reproach AT
the thought of the way
However. this isn't telling you who
and what Larry was. Larry was plain,
pinky-white sty pig with the thorough
bred marking of a screw tall A bunch
OF bluejackets of American man-o-
war had picked him up somewhere-I
think at Vallejo, the little town across
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bows passed Larry along to our artillery
OUTFIT. Then, passing their horny mitts
across their moist eyes, the Sad-souled
memo -warsmen went back to their ship,
leaving Larry in the tender care of our
battery.
He was tenderly cared for all right
enough; we've got nothing to reproach
ourselves for on that score. His usual
diet was bananas and jumbles. and he'd
fall for mangoes and alligator pears ana
properly sugared hunks of pineapple on
occasion.
after four or five days around the
camp Larry found the man he wanted for
guide, protector, friend and pal. Pretty
shrewd choice, too. The man was Buck
Reagan. Buck was an educated chap and
had been lawyer; that much we knew
about him, but little more. Reckless,
brave, unsteady in habits. tender-hearted
as a woman-that was Reagan. He made
a complete mash on Larry; Larry doped
1t out right away that there wasn't any
two-legged creature on earth like Buck
Reagan. SO there they were-sure enough
affinities.
Now. Bucks great defect was that he
was an inveterate gambler. One night he
got leave of absence and went off to q
swell chicken fighting main. Larry trot-
ting along after him as usual Buck got
back in the morning in time to stand
reveille. But he didn't have Larry with
him, and he owned up like man. He'd
lost Larry to the 4th Cavalry at the cock
SImmediately Collection was taken up
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Of Dongan means nothing. To the vast
majority of the people of New York it
practically is unknown. Few persons APP
preciate how fitting is such a name for
the heights that dominate the gateway to
the western world, for comparatively few
know much of Thomas Dongan. the Irish
lord who introduced constitutional gov
eminent to the people of America, and
whose charter of liberties and privileges
formed the basis from which Thomas
Jefferson drafted a goodly portion of the
Declaration of Independence.
He served the last of the Stuarts, and
well would it have been for James III
had that Inflated monarch possessed
Inc wisdom, the courage. the statesman
ship, the tolerance and justice of the
man he sent to rule over the province of
New York.
Dongan the fourth English gov
ernor of colonial New York. Richard
Nicoiis. the first, was clever and polite,
but scarcely broad enough to handle
so delicate an undertaking with advant-
age to his royal master. Francis Love
lace. who succeeded him, was a fool and
a knave. II was while he was in con-
troll that the Dutch recaptured the city.
Sir Edward Andres. the third governor,
was able, but imperious and despotic
that he accomplished little good.
Never did a man have much harder
task than did Thomas Dongan, when, on
September 26. 1862 he was commits
stoned governor of the Duke of York's
province of New York. Europe was in
d ferment Of religious intolerance. In
France Louis XIV stopped at nothing
in his pursuit of the Huguenots: in
England Charles II, weak, vacillating
and icentious as Louis, gave
countenance to every form of oppres-
sion of Roman Catholics. although his
Professionalism was a pretenSe only: in
Germany the religious bitterness was
the Inquisition was in the flush of it's
horrors No one had more influence
with King Charles than his brother,
the Duke of York. who was Il Catholic,
and III whose honor New Amsterdam
was named New York, when it was
captured from the Dutch. The province
was given to the duke to exploit for
his own personal benefit. He was
far ADLER man than his royal brother.
His impulses were good, but he
changeable. and like most % the
Stuarts. avaricious. For his time he
was tolerant in regard to religion. BY
no means was he a fanatic. In state
matters he considered popular bodies
dangerous. ye; he gave more latitude
TO popular bodies than any other
monarch of that age. He did not rule
long after Charles died, and those few
years were stormy, but England had
worse kings and less liberal ones than
James H.
Thomas Donsan was n son Of Sir
John Dongan of Castletown. County
Kildare. His uncle, Richard Talbot,
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gan tried to offset this by sending Eng
lish Jesuits among the Indians, but the
arrival of the English Jesuits aroused
the enmity Of the ProtestantS of New
York so that Dongan had to give up this
plan. He argued with De la Barre that
the dispute between the French in Can
ada and the English in New York should
be settled by their sovereigns in Europe,
and that there was no profit in dis
turbing the peace and tranquility of the
colonists. Just at this time the lro-
quos had alarmed the people of Mary
land and Virginia by raids, and Don
gan was asked to aid those colonists
Instead he invited Lord Effingham. Gov
bany, where he had a conference with
representatives of the Mohawks OneI-
das, OnondagaS, CayugaS and SenecaS.
Peace was concluded. in recognition or
which the Indians buried five hatchets IN
the courtyard and the IrOquois gave writ
across the water BY this treaty, too,
Dongan got confirmed to the Duke of
York all the lands to the great lakes and
Niagara Falls. 1t was by this treaty that
he established the western and northern
boundaries of New York as they are to-
day.
He was a master of diplomacy, was
this Irishman. for the Indians. after
granting this to him. sang the peace song
in his honor. thanked him for media ting
in their favor with the Governor of Vir-
ginia and showered him with presents.
Dongan would have been very popular
with the people but for his religion The
fact that he and a few other Catholics
worshiped each Sunday in small cham
Der of the old fort in New York made
them uneasy. They became more UNI
easy when in February. 1855, Charles II
died and was succeeded by the Duke of
York James ii. This brought about a
New York no longer was q
government. but dependency
of the crown. and one of the first things
James as king did was to revoke the
charter of liberties and privileges he had
signed as Duke of York
Although the corporation of New York
sent an address to the new king con-
graduating him on his accession and
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was earl of Tyrconnel and lieutenant
governor of Ireland. Dongan was born
in 1854, was trained as a soldier, and
when Charles / was beheaded in 1913
the Dongans, being Catholics. fled tC
France. Young .Dongan entered the
service of the French king, and in 1913
was colonel of an Irish regiment. BY the
terms of the treaty Of Nimeguen all Eng
lish subjects serving in the French army
had to return home, so Dongan went tt
London. The Duke of York became in
terested in him and had him appointed
lieutenant governor of Tangier. After
two years service there Dongan returned
to London and became an attendant al
court and figure in society. He was forty
eight years old and a bachelor when ap-
pointed Governor of New York. He
spoke French. English and Dutch and
was a student of men and affairs. Court
~ and kindly. he looked and acted the
aristocrat No one ever knew him tO
raise his voice or lose his. temper.
The province he was sent to govern in
cluded Marthas Vineyard. Nantucket and
Pemaquid, as Maine was known in those
days. What were the boundaries of New
York no one knew. \ charter had been
given to William Penn for his plantation.
and he was using every art of which he
was master to stretch the limits as far
north, east south and west as he could.
The charter of Connecticut was vague.
So were the charters Sir George Carteret
and Lord Berkeley had to the Jerseys.
France claimed sovereignty over all the
Adirondack region down to Saratoga and
all of what now is western New York.
, Dongan arrived at Nantasket, travelled
a little through New England and then,
crossing to Long Island, proceeded to
New York by easy stages On Long
Island he got an idea of what he had to
contend against. For several years many
of the towns had refused to pay taxes
had traded only with Boston and had
given hearty announcement to SNUG
glers, privateers and. il was limited.
pirates. too. The new governor was well
coined by the corporation of New York
with a dinner in the city hall in Coenties
slip and due honor shown to him.
The city had 1900 inhabitants. The
Dutch predominated, but there was a
turbulence. Religion played a large part
in affairs of life and there was as much
bitterness shown rs in the old country,
although many of the inhabitants had fled
across the ocean to escape religious per-
secution. They wanted freedom of re-
ligious belief SO far as they personally
We're concerned, but they did not want 1t
for any persons who did not believe as
they did. There were Church of Eng
land Professionals. Dutch Calvinists.
French Calvinists. Dutch Lntherans.
German LutheranS. AnabaDtistS, Sing
ing QuakerS. Ranting Quakers. Sabba
tarians Anti-Sa bba tarians, few Jews. d
few infidels and few Catholics. AL
though there was great deal of re-
ligion there was a great deal of liquor
selling and liquor drinking. In one
fourth of the business houses of the town
liquor or toba eco was sold. Intoxication
TaS common
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because they would not acknowledge the
pope as the only vicar of Christ.
The first assembly and the governor di-
vided the province into shires and coun-
ties, and provided four tribunals, town
courts. county courts or courts of ses-
sions; a general court of oyer and termi-
ner. with original and appellate jurisdic-
ton, and a court of chancery or supreme
court. From this supreme court appeal
might be made to the king.
Most of the governors veXations came
through boundary disputes. 1t was easy
for the monarchs to grant empires in the
new world, the extent and conditions of
which they knew little about, but it was
difficult to fix the boundaries when there
never had been surveys and when the
grants themselves were vague. 1t was
more difficult. too, WHEN changes of gov
eminent in England arrayed one colony
against another. But Dongan was a rare
hand at diplomacy. The boundary dis
pute with Connecticut he settled not
only by getting for New York everything
New York claimed, but the Connecticut
commissioners assured the people who
were transferred to the jurisdiction of
New York that Gov. Dongan was
noble gentleman who would do for
others welfare whatever they should de-
sire in a regular way 1t is sad to re-
late that Dongan did not think so well
of the Connecticut gentlemen, for he
wrote to his royal master that they
were "grasping and tenacious and of
evil influence over the peOpe of New
York's towns on Long Island. who car
ried their oil to Boston and their whale
bone to Perth AmbOy rather than to
New York"
New Jersey bothered Dongan He COM
planned to the duke that it was hurtful
and inconvenient to have two distinct
governments upon one river. 1t led to
smuggling. tax lodging and multitude
of other evasions. He advised that east
Jersey be restored to New York, by pur-
chase, if necessary. But he was bothered
more by the question of the northern
and western boundaries of the province.
De la Barre had succeeded Count From
tenac as Governor of Canada, and used
the influence of the French Jesuits
among the Indians of the five nations
to advance the interests of France. DON
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wishing him a long, peaceable and happy
reign, it probably was with a mental
reservation AT the same time that they
sent the address they suggested the ex-
tension of the province. This was in ac-
cordance with Dongan's previous proposal.
y curious incident developed about this
time. A Jew, Saul Browne, complained to
Gov. Dongan thar he was prosecuted on
account of his religion. Dongan referred
the complaint to the corporation. which
replied that mo public worship is toler-
ated by act of assembly, but to those that
profess faith in Christ and. therefore the
Dongan did is not recorded. but Saul
Browne soon after became reader in the
synagogue in New York.
Under DOnganS wise rule New York
grew amazingly. From 1000 when he ar
rived. the population increased in a few
years to 1900. His influence with the In
dams tended 10 develop the fur trade and
turned the bulk of that business away
from Canada.
1. was not to be supposed that the
French would permit the loss OF this
commerce without a bitter fight The
French king complained to King James
against the conduct of Dongan. and
James who was in debt to and in terror
OF King Louis. was in a quandary. DON
gan was making the province rich. but
irritating the French king. so King James
entered into an agreement that hampered
Dongan while it did not prevent the
French from any work of aggression. To
punish the Indians for their friendship
for Dongan the French threatened to
make war on the iroquois. To support
his Indian allies Dongan even mortga ged
his Staten Island farm to raise money to
fit out troops. He was in Albany with
this expedition when he got advices that
recalled him to New York. The king
had acted on the suggestion for extend
ing the boundaries of New York, but in
n manner not contemplated by Dongan.
knsS James was so much Influenced by
the suggestion that he not only CONSOLE
dated New York with New Jersey. but
annexed them to the other colonies and
gave the name of Dominion Of New Eng
land to the whole territory. And he
sent Sir Edmund Andres, the imperious.
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among the men of our outfit. We had to
come across with the redeeming price put
on Larry by the 4th Cavalry, we came
across, and Larry was brought back to
our works. He hadn't been let out of the
wagon. though, before he trekked to find
Buck Reagan, and when he found
Buck he refused utterly to be
separated from him. Rather I'M
grateful. we considered it. the way
trouble and expense we'd been to in order
to get Larry out of hook.
-Four days later Buck hooked Larry
again to the 4th Cavalry on going broke
at stud poker We all had to spin
through again with the kale to redeem
Larry.
Not a week later, Buck came back to
our post disheveled and sad. from a
chicken fighting seance. and once more he
was without Larry. The 4th Cavalry had
Larry once again. Then we had a meet
ing with Buck under the gun.
This thing of getting Larry out OF the
spout every few days was getting monot-
onous and keeping the whole battery
broke. The meeting decided that Buck
should no longer be the custodian Of
Larry-that the bond must be severed. no
matter how tough the wrench. Resolu-
ton adopted.
Committee went and got Larry out of
hook again, and Larry was tied up for
few days, with the idea that he'd forget
Buck and perhaps choose another pal
when turned loose.
Nothing doing. The minute Larry was
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HIS morning I sa W
a cleanly butcher
ed rosy pink pig,
with an apple
pressed between
his wide-open jaws,
hanging h c a d
downward from a
hook in front of a
meatshop, and the
sight of this pig
carried me back to
an incident in the
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o a thousand thou
sand immigrants
the Dongan Hills
of Staten Island
have furnished the
first view of the
land of promise. as
with straining eyes
they have looked
over the seas for a
sight of the coun-
try of their dreams.
To them the name
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the battery's Thanksgiving day feed
Hated to do it and all like that, but
Larry was costing us most of our rum
money paying principal and interest on
him-those 4th Cavalrymen worked a
,saurous bulg on us every time they
rallied Larry on a bet-and Larry s. natu-
raj friend and pr tector was tied up in
the clink, and Larry was making an aW-
full row over that, and the grub outlook,
excepting we used Larry, looked pretty
punk for Thanksgiving day, and-well.
and so it was silently decided.
Larry, done to final degree of art
istry in the blending brown tones, was
served up for the Thanksgiving day blow
out. But serving Larry up as a main
victual number for a proclaimed holiday
and getting any of the men at the tables
t. eat Larry were two wholly different
matters.
I'VE looked at Larry as he came In on
the big platter, and then we looked at
each other out of the corners of our
eyes. We felt sneaky, mean, slinky and
contemplate.
And it was made worse by the con-
in the guardhouse, waited on the battery
mess table that Thanksgiving day. Buck
was the gloomiest looking one-time law
yer and then buck soldier you ever saw
when, Larry being chopped up, he
started to pass the hunks of Larry
around. as his job required him to do.
"'Will you have a piece o Larry he
asked man after man, showing the plate
heaped up with Larry's ribs In front of
each man.
Bucks question was hoarse. raspy.
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Not Half Bad.

From the Yale Courant
Young Woman (adoringly)-It must Be
awfully nice to be wise and know-oh-
everything.
Yale Senior-It il. siu.s5A
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Dongan found things in a sorry mess
within and without the city. The finances
of the colony were in a tangle. Money
was scarce, the people were discontinued.
taxes We're high and there had been a
good deal of peculation A government
house had been built and water system
provided for Wall street at heavy cost.
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unhobbled he beat it with all his might
to where Buck was humping post and
trotted post with Buck the rest of the
guard tour.
October payday swung along and Buck
went off on big vino souse. Larry fol-
lowed him. Buck picked was a far
keener gambler than Buck sober, and so
he put Larry up as stakes once again
the last time-on the outcome of scrap
between a couple of chickens.
well, that settled it. 1t looked like
the 4th Cavalry would just about annex
all of our outfits coin in the shape OF
redemption change for Larry if the thing
went on. Anyhow. Buck was on pro-
tracted toot, ind when he got back to
the post he was chased into the clink
and got a month and month"; month
in the guardhouse, that is to say, and the
loss of months pay.
Larry, when he got away from the 4th
Cavalry the last time, couldn't, of course,
be put into the guardhouse with Buck,
and so Larry was diSconsolate lost flesh,
whmpered over the separation every time
he thought of Buck. and altogether was
the most woebegone pig on either side
of the equator.
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additionally. Thanksgiving was ap-
preaching. Grub wasn't any too plenti-
full. The proposition was only limited at
at first. Then it took sort Of shape.
Nobody cared to come right out with it
in words. but as Thanksgiving day ap-
preached the understanding sort of tele-
pathed itself around the outfit that Larry
was going to be the piece de resistance OF
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Treasures Notice

Notice is herby given that the
books for the collection of town
taxes are now open and that same
will be open until March 18th,
1910. The levy is mills on every
dollars worth of real and person
al property. The following pen
alties will be placed on all taxes
not paid by Feb. 1st: After Feb.
1st. penalty of 2 per cent. After
Feb. 2Sth. a penalty Of 7 per cent.
After March 18th the books will
be closed and executions will be
issued The treasurer's S office will
be open from 9 a. m. to IL m. each
day. The public will please take
notice and govern themselves ac-
cordingly. J. d. Haselden,
Town Treasurer.