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A RIGHTEOUS WAR AND ITS FRUITS.
Until our present war with Spain it
had long been the abstract thought both
in this country and Europe that, because
of the compact and powerful territorial
organization of the United States, of
their wide separation from monarchical
governments, and of their entire immu
nity from all forms of foreign alliance,
the need for a colossal naval establish
ment would probably never become even
an affectation on this side of the Atlantic.
A foreign war against this country, and
especially a war foreshadowing, as does
the present one, long duration and large
expenditure, had always been discounted
in international calculation as altogether
unlikely; and this universallyjjreceived
theory undoubtedly contributed until
within recent years to restrain Qur due
naval development and to confine our
flag to few and fragile warships that rode
in peaceful seas. Astounded, then, may
the world well be at seeing the United
States emerge from this struggle second
only to Great Britain in naval arma
ment, having entered it at the low rating
of fifth among the powers. Evenjto-day
no country dare despise our fleets and
guns.
But our marked advance toward naval
supremacy may be reckoned as'among
the least potential of the prime sequences
certain to flow from a successful contest
teeming with material and patriotic
blessings. Va9t incidental fruits cluster
about the victory certain to reward our
arms—fruits that it will be ours to gather
and for our posterity to cherish through
all the changes of time. As to the Amer
ican motive and purpose, they are the
loftiest and purest that ever animated an
uplifted arm for the defense of stricken
humauity. Nowhere in the annals of na
tional self-sacrifice are there parallels to
the abnegatory unanimity and enthusi
asm with which this country undertakes
the military rescue and deliverance of
an impoverished and appealing people
who have not even the remote claim upon
us of a common origin. This spectacle of
a great and peaceful nation, more skilled
in the amenities and arts of commerce
than in the intrigues andjacrimonies of
jealous foreign States, challenging to war
the wiliest and wickedest kingdom of the
earth—and this in behalf of liberation for
an oppressed and helpless island—may
never again embellish the platonic annals
of time. Oat of the negro’s crimson and
costly emancipation came no recompense
to the hand that struck from his limbs
the fetter of his inheritance; and the
armed rescue of Cuba can repay this na
tion only through the poetic gratitude of
its patriot heart.
Yet there abide for us material and re-,
splendent trophies at the close of the
present war. The enormous necessary \
expenditures of the government will have j
thrilled theffi accid arteries of languorous
trade with a veritable vitaltiy. stimulat
ed the currency circulation, and reawak
ing our business interests to eager and
profitable energies. For such a general
and desirable result only a great national
irruption, whether warlike or otherwise,
could have sufficed; for, withj varying
condition of success and failure offsetting
each other in different sections and the
sense of depression present everywhere,
widespread prosperous conditions would
have continued impossible. And worse '
than all, our pople, having experienced
five full years of grinding hard times, !
were growing hopelessly used to a miser
able and misfit state of poverty. As we
have intimated, the war will assuredly
dispel that nightmare. The nation will
rise, a rejuvenated giant, renowned and
regarded the world over, and the Atneri- j
can people will agilely adapt their genius
and pursuits to new and higher demands.!
And. yet more devoutly to be wished,
the United States are destined to survive
this struggle a concrete nationality patri
otically and perpetually cemented in all
its parts, its entire territory peopled by j
homogeneous millionsjsingle in national
loyalty and supreme in love of country.
The yellow ensign of Spain having been
swept from this hemisphere, there will
linger with us not a vestige of the bitter
ness of civil]war that clove the land into
open chasms, and not a living ember of
distrust in the ashes of its memory. The
men in blue and the men in gray who on
six hundred battlefields symbolized the
genius of war by feats of devotion and
valor that put to rebuke the vaunted ex
ploits of the ancients are to-day shoulder
to shoulder and step to step in the march
of martial glory, and the grandeur of
. their united courage will forever illumine
the thrilling story of America’s philan
thropic deliverance of the bleeding An
tilles from the thrall of Spain.
Well may we hail to the dawn at length
of a day when no living foe may with
impunity assail one star in all the galaxy
of Old Glory and when there are precious
few Americans at home or abroad who
would not yield up their all in its defense.
An aide of Geheral Gomez, who has
been in Washington for several days,
has returned to the island with full in
formation as to the intention of this gov
ernment to supply the insurgent army
with arms and munitions of war. A
thorough understanding now exists be
tween the administration and the Cuban
insurgents. It is the expectation that
the great Cuban chieftain will ^render
valuable assistance to the armies of the
United States in the conquest of CuJ|i
and the expulsion of the Spanish thc|gj^
from.
THE DEACON’S VIEW OF THE WAR.
For the Morris County Chronicle.
Wall, wife, the war has really cum.
And now we’ll have to fight;
And I’m so old I must stay at hum,
Or I'd go with all my might.
For, wife, whenever I think of the Maine—
And the dead of her gallant crew—
I feel as if I could w hip all Spain
Without any more ado.
For, wife, it makes my blood to bile
At the Cuban slaughter there,
And their sufferln’s ieapin’ pile on pile—
By thunder! it makes me swear.
What’s that, wife, that you’re a-sayin’ now ?
I mustn’t blaspheme any more;
There’s no need of my makin’ such a row
And breakin’ the boards in the floor.
Wall, wife,—cum, cum, now don’t get mad
And talk to me that a-way,
For I know in your heart vou’re jast as glad
And agree with all I say;
For our country made the grandest stroke
That was ever made by man;
'Twas the people’s friendly heart that spoke
In the noblest way we can.
For, wife, we have got to fight this war,
Though peace of our lives is a part;
There’s no U3e talking peace any more,!
For the Spainard has no heart.
You say your heart is filled with woe,
And from sorrow you fain would weep
At the thought of the boys who soon may gol
To their last, long, quiet sleep.
But pray for the Army and Navy, wife,’
That’s what you women can do;|
And then to the Lord, who rules this strife,
We can trust our hoys in blue.
For I tell you I’m proud of my country, wife,
When she tells the Spaniards to go;
And for Cuba’s freedom and Cuba’s life
We’ll strike the mighty blow.
—Louina Mary Crane.
Morristown.
SHOULD SEEK A “DUG-OUT.”
Mr. Bryan, the talkative “Orator of
the Platte.” should seek, were he at all
wise, the shelter of one of the “dug-outs.”
which are so numerous in his State,
for use in cyclones. At least,one would
think so judging by the following, from
the Trenton True American, Gold Demo
crat, which in turn clipped it from the
Savannah News, Democrat:
“There has been a good deal of talk of
General Lee in connection with the
Democratic nomination for President
since his return from Havana. This sort
of talk, however, is not given any en
couragement by Mr. Bryan’s friends. It
is worthy of notice that while they are
ready to admit that General Lee con
ducted himself in Havana admirably, and
that he is very popular with the people,
they never fail to call attention to the
fact that he was not in accord with the
regular Democracy in 1396. He was
against the Chicago platform and against
the Chicago ticket. He was, they say.
an out-and-out supporter of Palmer and
Buckner. By talk of this sort they think
they have nipped General Lee’s Presi
dential boom in the bud.”
?According! to the last official state
ment of the Government there is an
available cash balance in the Treasury
of $319,000,009. In order to avoid any
financial disturbance Secretary Gage
will probably keep a large working bal
ance on hand, although he would be
perfectly safe in letting it run below
$100,000,000, and he may do this in the
hope that Congress will authorize an is
sue of war bonds before availing himseif
of the authority vested in him by exist
ing law to borrow money on bonds to
protect the gold reserve. This was the
law under which President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle actedjduring and
after the panic of 1893. This power
may be used only as a last resort and not
until it becomes absolutely certain that
Congress will not extend to him the pa
triotic help he and the country have a
right to expect at its hands.
It is understood that the claims made
bySenor Polo, formerly Spanish minister
to Washington, as to the indignities he
suffered on his way from Washington to
his Canadian retreat, were caused solely
by the necessary examinations made by
car inspectors at divisional terminals em
ployed by the railroad companies to test
the wheels by tapping them with a
hammer. They never do this kind of a
thing in Spain, and the experience was
new to him; and in his overwrought
state of mind he imagined that the car
wheel inspectors were about to break
into his private coach and do him per
sonal injury, hence his complaint to the
public as to attempts to break into his
sleepiag car by American officials.
The Army reorganization bill pro
vides that during a time of war the pay
proper of enlisted man shall be twenty
per cant, higher than daring times of
pease. This will make the monthly pay
of a private soldier $15.60, instead of $13.
LODGE NOTES.
A special session of the Grand En
campment, I. O. O. F. of New Jersey,
will be held in the hall of Alpine En
campment, No. 39, on Tuesday, May 17,
at 3 and 7 o’clock p. m., for the purpose
of giving instruction in the unwritten
work of the Order and conferring the
Grand Eacampment degrees. All Past
Chief Patriarchs are invited to attend.
The far-famed team of Snath Trenton
Eicamoment will exemplify the degrees
of the Encampment branch of the Order.
A delegation from Enterprise Eacamp
ment, No. 44, of this city will attend.
Wednesday evening, May 11, has been
selected as the date for the annual “La
dies’ Night’’ of Loantaka Council, Royal
Arcanum, and the exercises are to be
] Held in the Y. M. C. A. hall. Arrange
| ments, not yet completed, are in the
I hands of the following committee: Ora
! tor George Grove. Charles Slater, Joseph
Ambrose, E. A. Carrell, John K. Boni
face, Charles Foster and D. L. Fox.
Local Entertainment for tha Maine Food,
A benefit entertainment for the Maine
Monument Fund will be giveD by the
Morristown Minstrels in Lyceum Hall,
Tuesday evening. May 10. The proceeds
are to be devoted toward the erection of
a monument over our brave sailors who
jp®at_down to their death in Havana
i ' . The performance, will be a
c one, given by the vwry best of
talent under the direction of Robert
Smith.
THE CARE FREE VIENNESE.
They Rarely Take Life Seriously Unless at
a Funeral.
“.The native Viennese is a jolly, good
natured, shiftless creature,” writes Ed
ward A. Steiner, discussing “Austria
and Her Troubles” in The Woman’s
Home Companion.
“No people on the earth are so jolly
or so easily and so much amused.. Go to
the Prater, the largest public park in
Europe, and from 100 different beer
gardens comes the noise of tooting brass
bauds and stamping feet and beating
drums. Merry go rounds swing old and
young, and dime museums and music
halls are as full of people as they are
empty of decency. Go to the cheaters on
any night and you will find them
crowded by an enthusiastic audience,
the galleries filled by noisy students and
working girls. The court theaters,
which present only legitimate dramas
and operas, have also their numerous
devotees. Go to the coffee houses, of
which there is one on every corner, and
you will find them full, especially in
the afternoon, with merchants with
their noses in the newspapers and clerks
sipping their Mocha and officers smok
ing their cigars, and cue pushing and
card shuffling youths. At night these
coffee houses become the rendezvous of
the lower element. I have never seen
the Viennese serious, unless it be at a
funeral, and I suppose that even out of
that he manages to get some fun. Yet
he is easily excited, and although loyal
and law abiding his good nature may
quickly turn into a fiery passion, and a
Viennese riot is a serious matter for the
police.”
LIVING IN CITIES.
The Apartment House Is Breaking: Up
American Homes.
I have no mind to harrow up the
minds of my readers with any explica
tion of the miseries and mysteries that
confront the average housekeeper in the
daily maintenance of a simple but com
fortable existence for her family. As for
herself, an existence at all seems a
struggle which at times she would glad
ly give over. One might define a hero
ine as the average American woman
who,does her own housekeeping. But
some hint of the unnatural and unhappy
state of affairs existing at present may
be deduced from the consideration of
two economic facts.
First, woman is by nature a borne
founder and a homemaker. This is not
intended as an assertion of personal be
lief, but as a statement of scientific fact.
It was woman—not man—who opened
the industrial world. It was woman
who made the first rude dwellings and
dressed skins and wove textiles for
clothing. It was woman and not man
who made the first fire and the first
utensils for cooking and the first rude
tools for industrial ends. All her activi
ties clustered about the hearth and min
istered to the Home. If the woman and
the work had not reacted upon each oth
er so that today women should be by
nature homemakers and home lovers,
there are still depths for the scientists
to sound in the working of heredity and
of natural selection.
And yet—here is my second fact—the
enormous piles of stone and brick rapid
ly filling the choice plots of ground in
our large cities and shutting out the
light of heaven with their gabled tops
are mute if not magnificent witnesses to
the fact that the investment oficapital
is all against the perpetuation of the
separate home. The shrewd modern in
vestor is willing to put hundreds of
thousands against hundreds of dollars
that'ffor his lifetime at least) women
are going to prefer the ease of the apart
ment hotel to the separate house with
its privacy, its own table, and—alas—
its own service. — Helen Watterson
Moody in Scribner’s.
TALL BUILDINGS.
The Skyscraper Considered as a Devioa
For Saviug Labor.
In the tall building it is emphatically
“a condition, not a theory,” that con
fronts us. The inauy storied office build
ing is a necessary product of certain,
economic factors which have operated in
spite of the architects, and more intense
ly in the United States than elsewhere.
This is what has made it so peculiarly
in American product. Of these econom
ic factors the cost of laud, so common
ly alleged as the controlling one, has
really been tbe least important. Land
in parts of Paris and London is as cost
ly as in New York and Chicago, bnt the
15 story office building has never come
into vogue there, while, on the other
hand, buildings of 10 or 12 stories are
not uncommon in American cities of the
second and third rank, where land is
relatively cheap. The causa causans of
the skyscraping monstrosity is to be
sought in the drive and hurry of Amer
ican business life, and in the accom
panying American propensity to save
time and labor. The skyscraper is a
huge labor saving and time saving de
vice.
Each building is almost a complete
city, often comprising within its walls
banks and insurance offices, postoffice
and telegraph office, business exchanges,
restaurants, clu brooms and shops. The
business man can provide himself with
clothes, shoes, cigars, stationery and
baths; receive and dispatch his mail and
his telegrams; speculate oh ’change,
consult his lawyer and his architect in,
their offices and transact bis own busi
ness—all without leaving .the building
in which his office is located. The ex
press elevator which shcots him up to
the sixteenth story or drops him with
breathless speed to the basement is a
product of this same American haste
and economy, and without tbe elevator
tbe tall office building would be an im
possibility. It ik the triumphant suc
cess of the skyscraper as a time saving
invention which has made it so eon
spicuous'aud insistent an element in oor
American architecture. — Engineering
Magazine.
Your Table Linen l
will be more inviting if washed with Fairy Soap.
A white soap for keeping things white, as pure
as can be—efficient without being harmful. The
k soap of the century. *
FAIRY SOAP
^ is sold everywhere in three sizes—for the toilet, I?
JL the bath, and laundry. Made only by f
U THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, |
i Chicago. St. I^ouis. New York. J
XkAKAMoMAnMAknAMmMMAWinAWMMnv 1
SANITARY PLUMBING
AND
HCDUSE FURNISHINGS.
Best Grades of Kerosene Oil by Barrel or Gallon.
FAIRCHILD & OLIVER,
78 Park Place, ■ - Becker Building
NOW
IS
To buy something for the Garden or Grass Plot.
We handle the Bradley Fertilizer, Wood Ashes and
Pennsylvania Agricultural Lime.
WRITE US FOR PRICES.
DALRYMPLE-HASTINGS CO.
YARDS AND OFFICE, 57-63 ELM STREET,
Telephone No. 24. - - - Morristown, N. J.
1/lilPJO FIRE PROOF.
lUNu 0 STRONGEST AND HARDEST.
The ^ree ^rom Acid; Vermin and
Best TV IllUOUn Germ Proof; Strengthens Buildings.
WALL PLASTER ASBESTOS FINISH.
In the Market! Saves Time, PCMCIIT V
LABOR and MONEY. uLIYICIl I ■
The DALRYMPLE-HASTINGS CO. Agents.
Telephone No. 24. 57 to 63 ELM STREET, • Morristown, New Jersey
0 Few ol me many Bargains at Jonnson’s.
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DRESS GOODS from 15c the yard up. They need to be seen to be
appreciated.
Assorted lot of Moire Taffeta, striped and fancy Ribbons from 2 1.2 to 3 1-2 inches |
wide at 18c the yard, well worth 29c.
All Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs at 5c each.
Ladies’ Tan Hose 5 cents the Pair.
Ladies’ Fast Black Hose slightly imperfect, 8 cents the Pair.
Children’s Three Thread Lisle Hose, full regular fast black, 25 cents the pair.
Ladies’ Ribbed Vests 5 cents each.
J. SEARING JOHNSON,
2 Union Row, Mulford Building, - Morristown, N. J.
Up=to=Date Hatter and Outfitter.
Branch Store of C. NADELL of Paterson.
No. 9 WASHINGTON STREET, - MORRISTOWN, N. J.
ESTABLISHED SINCE 1885.
Spring Styles now ready. Special—Try Freeman’s Reliable #2.00 Hat, in Pearl, Brown,
Tan and Blacks and Havana Brown-a new color—warranted to be the best for the
money ever put on the market. Sole Agents for Morristown and Paterson.
Call and examine our new line of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Hats and Caps and a new
line of Men’s Bicycle Hats. All the latest styles and prices to suit everybody.
.Read Special Prices!.
Try our Special #1.50 Hat in all Shapes and Colors.
Try our Line of Boys’ Brown and Black Derbies at #1.00.
Pearl, Grey and Black and Brown Alpines for Boys at 75 cents.
.Our Line of Shirts.
Negligee at 49 and 75c. A Full Line of Boys’ Shirts, white and colored, from 49c upwards.
A Line of Mens’ Working Shirts, our own make.
.Very Special Bargain....
A carload of Trunks. Satchels and Dressing Cases has been received, to be sold far below
New York prices.
A Special Line of medium weight Underwear at 25c and upwards. Special Line o* Boys’
Pants 25c and at 49c all wool. A bat and ball given with every hat.
FIRE PROOF STORAGE
FOR ONE MONTH OR LONGER,
MAY BE OBTAINED OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
ON APPLICATION.
J. H. VAN DOREN, Cashier.
I LAMEST DfeYAMD M1Qf 6001$ 11011# IH HEW JERSEY '
i ujy
| k .POST office block
TRUTHFUL ADVERTISING WILL SELL HONEST GOODS.
The largest, best and most variously beautiful assortment we’ve ever had, which
is equivalent to saying that nowhere, at any time or place, has such a stock bee*
shown throughout the entire State of New Jersey.
Scotch Ginghams—Silk Band Ginghams In a beautiful variety of small checks, large
plaids, stripes and corded effects; also a fine line of Domestic Goods at From 5e to 39e per yd*
Madras Clotha—Scotch or Domestic; also a pretty line shirtings absolutely fast colors a#
From 10c to 25c per yd.
Batisted—Homespun and Linen—heavy, medium and light weights; also an assortment of
Linens at From 12^c to 33c per yd.
Organdie1—Organdy Carreaux—Organdy Bayadere and Openwarp Organdies, a range of
prices From 17c to 44c per yd.
Challies—all wool and silk and wool—numberless exclusive designs—bought right and sell
ing right at From 29c to 75c per yd.
(Morristown Chronicle) Bee Hive Coupon.
If presented at time purchases are made this coupon will entitle you to 10 per
cent, discount on all goods bought in our store between date of this issue and
May 1st, 1898, excepting articles selling at special prices. Will also be accepted for
face value when enclosed with mailorders. L. S. PLA.UT & CO., Newark, N. J.
Ns Agents or Branch Stores Anywhere. Mail Orders Filled. Free Deliveries.
L. S. PLAUT & CO., 707 to 721 Broad, 8 Cedar St., Newark, N. J.
COE & MITCHELL
Mlcai Garpeileis aofl Builders.
ORDERS FOR JOBBING PROMPTLY FILLED.
ESTIMATES GIVEN AND CONTRACTS TAKEN.
Shop on Pine Street^ Morristown, N. J.
W. I. COE. S. MITCHELL.
STURGIS BROTHERS^
THE BUILDING CONTRACTORS
MASONRY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
HIGH GRADE STONE AND BRICK WORK A SPECIALTY.
Residence 54 and 56 Early Street.
P. O. Box 116, - Morristown, N. J.
Longwoon Kennels and foamy raids
DAVID L. PIERSON,
PROPRIETOR. |
Personal Attention Given to the!
Boarding, Training and Nurs- J
Ing of Dogs, »
Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs ForjSale
From Selected Fowls,'SI .Of for 13. 291
Houdans, $2.00 for 13.
MS' All eggs from selected, prize win
ning stock.
Address, P. O. Box 22,
Morristown, N. J.
ESTABLISHED 1873.
JOHN D. COLLINS,
Gorjtpactoi* and B&ilder,
Mason Work Done in all its Branches.
Stone, Brick Work and Plastering,
All Kinds of Jobbing Promptly Attended To.
Residence and Office, No. 25 Miller Street, Morristown.
Personal Attention Given to All Work.
Us pMslown Decorating Co.
46 South St., Morristown, N. i.
PLAIN and DECORATIVE
PAINTING
PAPER HANGING,
Sign Writing, Graining Kalso
mining and Glazing.
WINDOW SHADES
Cornice Poles, Etc.
F~ CD FR SALE '
The Large and Valuable
Homestead of William L. Kin,
DECEASED.
AT MORRISTOWN. N. J.
Its Frontage on Morris Street is 485 Feet.
Its depth on the side nearest the M. & K.
R. R. station is 247 feet, and on the other
side 632 feet. Its rear line is nearly 600 feet.
PRICE, $50,000.
This is an unnsual opportunity for acquir
ing lots for dwellings and for business pur
poses. The property is also admirably suited
for the location of a large hotel.
ALFRED MILLS and
JOHN E. TAYLOR,
Executors of Wm. L. King, dec’d.
Morristown, Sept. 9. 1897.
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