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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-04

NIiddletown, N ", Aug, 4.-Frank w.
Van Tassell of this city has a silver
bracelet Of a snake pattern which he
claims he found with piece Of charred
bone at the Erie wreck near Laekawaxen
Sunday. He is convinced from this that
a woman persisted in the wreck.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-04
FOR SALE.

OANNATA'S Assorted Celery Plants for sale
" Mail orders promptly attended to and
filed in rotation. j. p. CANNATA, Florist
Mt. Freedom, N. j. 1879
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-04
JAMES ]. LoNERGAN.
Application.

To the Honorable, the Board of Excise Com
missioners of the Town of Morristown, n. j.
THE subscriber hereby requests your hon
il orable body to grant him license to keep
an inn or tavern on the premises now occupied
by him and known as the Farmers Hotel, on
Market street, in Morristown, New Jersey
aforesaid, for the term Of one year from the
granting thereof.
Dated July 26th 1899.
SAMUEL W. JONES.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-04

HEADQUARTERS of the Morris County
III Societies for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Children and to Animals, 10 Becker Build
ing, in Mr.. Thomas Martins Store. Agent,
1891 Telephone No. sOl.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
DRAMATIC CRITICISM.
GEast Lynne" as Revie wed by q
Wild and Woolly Topeka
Reporter.

The reports from those who attended the
production of East Lynne" in all its gor
geous misconception the other night unite
in pronouncing it little the worst show
that has ever cracked IA square yards Of
plastering off the ceiling of the opera house
in this city. Lady Isabel was about as be-
witching as sun-kissed maiden of Sene-
gambia and man who would fall in love
with her would fall into a coal pit through
two-inch guard rail. When she returned
from the mountains of Germany as Miss
Vane to play the nursery maid to her SOD
she looked as though she had played hockey
from a smallpox graveyard. The special
scenery where she met Sir Francis Levlson
and made a post-mortem contract to run
away with him looked like cross between
the malaria -smeared hills OF Arkansas and a
diseased vermiform appendix.
Mr.: Carlyle ,had! voice which had to be
raised with derrick in order for the people
in the back part of the audience to hear it,
and then when it was at it's highest pitch the
tackle would break or some one would knock
the blocking from under it and it would fall
like the price of steers during democratic
administration. Barbara Hare looked as
though she had been left over from a bargain
sale and didn't care much whether her lnsur-
ance ran out or not. Aunt Cornelia had
voice that sounded like cross between an
army mule with ringworm and cross-cut
saw, and was built good deal like an Okla
homa cyclone on stills. The only good thing
about the entire show that good deal Of
it was left out and it could have been i'm
proved upon by taking a meat ak and cut
ting out the rest of it and turning the actors
into the cornfelds and kitchens where they
belong.-Topeka Journal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
STRAWBERRY PLANTS.
How Progressive Market Gardeners
Take Care of Them During
the Fall and Winter,

Concerning the proper care of straw
berry plants in market garden during
the fall and winter the Country Gentle
man says: "There are, we suppose,
some market gardeners who do not give
their strawberry beds any care in win
ter, trusting to the matted foliage to
protect the roots, or to fortunate
weather. With an ideal winter, snow
falling early and remaining until well
into spring, this practice would do, the
beds coming out in good condition.
Last spring, after one of the severest
winters known, it was noted that wher-
ever snow fell and remained straw
berry plants came out in good or
der, while all other fruits were injured.
But the ideal winter is seldom realized,
and even if protected by snow during
the severe weather the beds are apt to
be exposed in early spring and subject
ed to alternate freezing and thawing,
upheaving and breaking the roots. The
wiser market gardeners keep their beds
or fields clearly cultivated until freez-
ing weather sets in, then cover them
three or four inches deep with straw,
swale or marsh hay. or whatever may
be the cheapest mulch available. In the
spring, but not too early, this mulch is
raked off the rows into the alleys be-
tween, and allowed to remain there till
after fruiting time, keeping down weeds
and retaining moisture. Some growers
treat their plantations of raspberries
and blackberries in the same way"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
CEREALS FOR FUEL.
Question That May BE Worth More
Consideration Than Is Usual
ly Given to 1t.

Prof. Thomas Gray is reported to
have estimated the value of cereals as
fuel to be about one-half that of coal.
We are not informed of what grain he
was speaking. If it be true of Indian
corn it would indicate that there are
times when corn would be much cheap
er than coal, especially in sections of
country far removed from railroad
transportation. In such places coal is
high. because of the cost of bringing i.
in and corn is cheap because of the cost
of transporting it to market. Thus in
1896 the average price of corn in Ne
braska for the whole year was only
- cents. During a part of the year the
price was much lower, and in some Sec
tons it was far below ten cents per
bushel. With coal at only 81 per ton,
very moderate price, it would pay to
burn corn rather than coal. Corn I'M
der the conditions named would be
worth $3.50 per ton, or ten cents per
bushel. But as coal has sold as high
as SO per ton in Illinois and Indiana
within a few years it has doubtless been
at price in some parts of the less ac-
cessible west where it would have
made corn worth at least Is cents per
bushel. The removal of part of the
corn surplus in this way might many
times stimulate the market for corn
and depress the home market for Goa,
both of advantage to the farmer
Farmers Review.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
HANDY FEED TROUGH.

the trough, inches apart at the bot
tom and a spread of IA to 16 inches at
top. Then I take an 18-inch board
and nail on each side ION the inside"
of these upright by As, but 1 let these
side boards drop into the cut made in
the bottom by 4, so the boards are
only 2 inches from the bottom of the
trough and have Pinch clear spread
at bottom, where the swill and feed
can come through. When I have this
all done, then I nail 1 by on the
sides, which makes the trough 2 inches
deep. Then nail up the ends tight as
high as the standards and the trough
is complete. The dimensions I have
given are for a 16-foot long trough
and for old hogs. If the trough is want
ed for young shoats from three to
eight months old use narrower bot
tom; 16-inch bottom is wide enough,
for little pigs. The 20-inch is too wide
for the little fellows, as they will get
in with their front feet. These boards
that are put in center of trough are
to keep the hogs from getting in with
their feet; also to prevent spilling feed
and slop On their heads and ears. I
think this is the cleanest way of feed
ing hogs and beats the feeding floor
all to pieces. I never saw a feeding
floor yet but what the hogs would leave
their offal on it while they were feed
ing and they would have to clean up
their feed in their own droppings, but
in this kind of trough they cannot
drop anything, neither can they get
their feet in it while they are full of
mud.-Cor. American Swineherd.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
LIVE STOCK JOTTINGS.

Milk quickly, clean quietly and regu-
larly.
Ventilate the stables and keep them
clean.
If horses are permitted to stand in
manure, expect scratches.
Breeding trotting horses will do for
the millionaire, but it is usually poor
business for the farmer.
Permit a hog to break through fence
once and it will give you trouble as long
as it lives and can find fence that it
can get through.
There are too many good, willing,
gentle horses-some of them at a low
price-to warrant man in keeping a
balky horse or exposing his life with a
vicious one.
Almost every day the killing of people
by bulls is announced. The man who
will go into a pasture where there is
q bull, with no means of protection,
would seem to value his life lightly.
The bull cannot be trusted. - Agricul-
tural EpitOmist.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
SALT AND. WOOD ASHES.
the Hogs Should Have ACCESS
at All Times.

Occasionally some one rises up and
condemns the use of salt
for hogs, but fails to give the reasons
for such strong assertions. 1t is just as
reasonable to say that man does not
need salt. The digestive organs of the
nog are nearer in resemblance to those
of man, than any other animal. If hogs
had no relish for salt, it would give
some ground for such statements. Some
are often killed, and that very sudden
ly, by getting an overdose of it, ard
they take this overdose because of the
excessive craving of the appetite for it.
Prevent this craving by liberal sup
ply constantly before them and they
will not eat so much of it as to be sick
ened and killed. With man the amount
used is considerably a matter of TRAIL
ing and habit. Still we should be count
ed wide of the mark if we said he could
be trained to do without, and that he
is better off without it. When mixed
with wood ashes, there is very little dam
ger of swine eating so much of the
mixture that the salt will be inju-
11OuS. IL lAC dSucS are lIOlu 1dTU WCOts
and unleached, they are much better
because they rid the system of worms.
But if we could only get the leached we
would use them rather than none, as
they would aid the bone formation.
The hogs relish them, and will consume
large quantities of them. There is al
ways little charcoal in the ashes that
they eagerly hunt out and eat. The
charcoal is an absorbent. At the COM
mencement of new corn feeding, an
abundant supply of salt and ashes
should be constantly within reach. If
no ashes can be had, feed them salt
alone, but get them accustomed to it.
before giving free access to all they
want.-John M. Janison, in National
Stockman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
them. Now don't tell me you are en-
gagged; are you?"

them. Now don't tell me you are en-
gagged; are you?"
Mrs. Powers looked up delightedly;
Miss Matilda smiled and shook her
head.
"You're not! Well, then, will you be
good enough to save your own Thanks
giving dinner till tomorrow, and help
us with ours? There'll be some good
company. I've captured the new
school-teacher, Miss Gibson, and anoth-
er nice girl already. Of course we will
send the horse for your mother"
THANK you, Lottie," said Miss Ma
tilda, in a voice that quavered just a
trifie. 1--WE shall be very happy to
come; won't we, mother?"
"Yes, indeed, we WILL" replied the
old lady, very emphatically, and, with
expressions of deep gratitude, Lottie
hurried away.
After helping her mother dress for
dinner, Miss Matilda went to church,
and at the close of the service, which
perhaps no one in the church entered
into with more thankfulness than she
did, she went home with Deacon
Trips family. Miss Gibson also ac-
companied them, and the ''other nice
girl" stenographer who was almost a
stranger in town, and whose heart had
been made warm by the unexpected at
tention, the invitation being the more
welcome from the fact that she board
ed herself.
There were few other guests and the
company was congenial one, all ap-
pearing to enjoy to the full both visit
and dinner. The feast, however, was
not extravagant. Deacon Trip was
possessed of only moderate means, and
he did not consider it justifiable to go
beyond these, even for Thanksgiving
dinner.
At table the stenographer monopo-
ized Mrs. Powers, declaring that she
reminded her of her dear old grand
mother, and Miss Matilda was at liber-
ty to cultivate acquaintance with the
school-teacher who sat beside her.
They got on together very well, indeed,
so we'll, in fact, that after a little chat
with others in the parlor they gravi-
tated together again, and it somehow
came about that, without seeming to be
inquisitive, Miss Gibson knew more
about Miss Matilda's affairs in less
than an hour than did the greater num-
Der of her acquaintance. who had
known her more than 80 years.
The next week new family came to
live in B, Garfield by name, who
were well endowed with this world S
goods and very fine people withal.
Their house was not quite ready for
them on their arrival, and, while they
were waiting, they stayed at Miss Glib
sons boarding place.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
Miss Matilda still has all the work
that she can do; and every day is a day
OF thanksgiving.-C. A. Parker, in N.
Y. Observer,
OUR FIRST THANKSGIVING.
President Washington's Pr0clama-
ton One Hundred and Ten
Years Ago.

Now, therefore, I do recommend and
assign Thursday, the 26th day of No.
vember next, to be devoted by the peo-
pie of these states to the service of that
great and glorious Being who is the
beneficent author of all good that was,
that is or that will be; that we may
then all unite in rendering unto Him
our sincere and humble thanks for His
kind care and protection of the people
OF this country previous to their be-
coming a. nation, for the signal and
manifold mercies and the favorable in
Propositions of His Providence in the
course and conclusion of the late war;
for the great degree of tranquility,
union and plenty which we have since
enjoyed, for the peaceable and "a.
tional manner in which we have been
enabled to establish constitutions of
government for our safety and happi.
ness, and particularly the national one
lately instituted, for the civil and re-
ligious liberty with which we are blessed
and the means we have of acquiring
and diffusing useful knowledge, and
in general for all the great and va
rious favors which He hath been pleased
to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in
most humbly offering our prayers and
supplications to the great Lord and
Ruler of nations and beseech Him to
pardon our national and other trans
gressions; to enable us all, whether in
public or private stations, to perform
our several relative duties properly and
pnnctually; to render our national gov
eminent a blessing to all the people
by constantly being government of
wise, just and constitutional laws, d.
rectly and faithfully executed and
obeyed; to protect and guide all SOW
ereigns and nations, especially such as
have shown kindness to us, and to bless
them with good government, peace and
concord; to promote the knowledge and
practice of true religion and virtue and
the increase of science among them and
us, and generally to grant unto all man
kind such degree of temporal prosper
ity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the city of
New York, the Sd day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-nine.
G. WASHINGTON
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
TASTED LIKE CORK.
The B1uest Thanksgiving the Old
Gentleman Ever Had, Made So
by Pretty Woman.

"Bluest Thanksgiving ever spent?"
unused the fine old gentleman who has
an unconquerable antipathy to prac-
tical politics. 1T stands out in my
memory like an obelisk on plain, and
it was not so very long ago, either.
II had been induced that fall to run
for an important office. It was done
against my better judgment and under
great pressure, but when a man enters
such fight he wants to win. I was in
close district and determined to put
up the very best fight that circum-
stances would permit. I advertised at
once for an extra stenographer, and
from the many who responded selected
beautiful, bright and dashing young
woman, who justified my immediate
faith in her ability.
"She did all my private correspond
ence, knew as much about the inside of
the campaign as I did, worked day
and night with willingness that was
surprising, and even took from one of
my shrewdest advisers the list of the
voters in the strongest section with
which had to contend, with full in
structions as to how the most influen-
tial persons among them could be won
to my cause. It twas great work, and yet
I fell several hundred votes short of
the normal party vote.
my successful opponent lived in a
neighboring town and graciously in
vited me to be his guest on the follow
ing Thanksgiving. It would have
looked surly to refuse, and I went. 1t
was really an admirable social function,
but the few hours put in there were
torture. The host met me with hearty
hand clasp. Turning, he said:
My wife Resplendent in satin and
jewels, I saw my stenographer. Love
and war; she murmured. He thinks
I was visiting my old home in New
England I held my peace, but that
fatted turkey tasted like cork. de-
troit Free Press.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29

before my eyes. I really believe that
is the, right way to do. never saw it
in that light before, I've tried very
hard to believe was going to be able
to get what needed, then waited till
it came before ], gave thanks for it,
Now, I'm going to begin praising the
Lord that we have received necessary
things, or the money to get them"
All the rest of that day Miss Matilda
held praise thoughts in her mind. 1t
was very trying day, too. Miss Bunce
called and said she had decided to let
her dress wait till after the holidays
and Miss Bunce always paid so prompt
ly, and sometimes even more than the
reasonable price" asked. Then Mrs.
Matthew Slawson came for her Jacket,
and declared it would be simply impos-
sible to pay for the making inside of a
month. Miss Selma Pringle next came
with material for a dress, but she want
ed it made in a way that would take
great deal more time than she would
be willing to pay for, as Miss Matilda
knew very we'll, and Mrs. Crane brought
a dress of her own to be made into one
for Della with the intimation that she
should not want to pay much because
it was ''only to be made over, you
know"
But through it all the little seam
stress praised the Lord that her mother
and herself had sufficient for their
needs, saying over and over passages
of trust, clinging to them lovingly and
tenaciously; and her faith grew in the
midst of its trials.
When evening came she resolutely
laid aside her work at an early hour
1T is not necessary for me to sew nig ht
as we'll as day. she declared. The
Lord is able to take care of US without
my doing that"
In spite of the discouraging expe-
riences of the day, Miss Matilda lay
down to rest that night feeling happier
than she had in a long time, and her
last waking thoughts were of trust and
praise.
I'm right glad to see you so bright,
Tidy" her mother said the next day.
you've seemed sort O. low spirited a
good deal O. the time lately. It's wor-
ried me consid 'rable.''
HAS it?' smiled her daughter, kiss
ing her wrinkled cheek "I'm sorry.
I ought not to have been anxious N.Y.
self, or to have worried you. The Lord
will provide if we trust Him truly, and
that is what I've made up my mind to
do-no halfway work about it, any
more than 1 would put that sort of
work into a dress.''
Several days passed bringing nothing
especially hopeful and much that was
disheartening, to outward appearance,
but Miss Matilda held on. She still
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29

Mrs. Garfield and her daughters
there were three of them, all arrived at
young womanhood-were at once at
tracted to the bright young teacher,
and they were soon very good friends.
A day or two after her arrival, Mrs.
Garfield inquired whether Miss Gibson
could direct her to competent dress
maker, adding, gracefully: "Your
own dresses, if you will pardon my
freedom, fit so nicely, and are made in
such excellent taste, that thought you
must know of one"
II feel fattered," laughed Miss Glib
son, land none the less because I am
my own dressmaker, but shall be very
happy to refer you to one who, I am
sure, is still better" Then she told of
Miss Matilda, her painstaking work,
her small pay and the results, repeat
ing what the seamstress had said about
her inability to slight her work. II
should make more if could do that,
but I can't. I've been tempted to some
times, but it doesn't seem right, and I
don't believe I could anyhow. It isn't
in me. I've got to take palms,
"Thank you, Miss Gibson" said Mrs.
Garfield. II shall find Miss Powers,
and if her work proves satisfactory, I
will let her have all our dressmaking
besides other sewing and will pay her
reasonably for it. The workman is
worthy of his hire
II was sure you would" cried Miss
Gibson, her eyes shining, land know
that she can have enough other work at
the same rates to fill her time. I am
so glad, Mrs. Garfield"
The next day as Miss Matilda was
finishing Miss Pringle's dress and try
ing to forget the state of the coal bin
while she sang: "How firm founda-
ton, We saints of the Lord" she was in
terrupted by gentle knock on the
door. She opened it, and in few
minutes it seemed to her that she
had at the same time opened the door
into a new life.
Mrs. Canfield's call did not mean af-
fuence, certainly, but it did mean abil-
ity to pay the expenses of her little
home with comparative ease; it meant
better food, warmer clothing, plenty of
fuel, and little leisure for recreation.
It meant, too, a still firmer clasp of the
Fathers hand. .... =?
Mrs. Denton was dismayed and some
what wrathful when she found that
Miss. Matilda would no longer sew for
her at the old reasonable" rates, but,
finding her work poorly done at other
places, and wishing to have her clothes
made by Mrs. Canfield's dressmaker,
her lapse Of patronage was OF short
duration, VI. : :. .>z-.z2 r. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
Live WEIGHT 0f Cattle

I have tried several methods Of find
ing the live weight of cattle, and find
the following the most correct: Meas
ure the girth around the breast, just
behind the shoulder blade, and the
length of the back from the tail to the
fore part Of the shoulder blade. Null
tiply the g1rth by the length, and if the
girth is less than three feet, multiply
the product by II, and the result will
be the number of pounds. If between
three and five feet, multiply by 16; if
between five and seven feet, multiply
by %; if between seven and nine feet,
multiply by 81; if between nine and
eleven, multiply by 40.-F. F. Frantz,
In Prairie Farmer. .~.-a q
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
Little Goes n Lon Way.

New corn is not go,d food for
poultry or any animals Green corn
may be fed to good advantage, but the
ripe corn only partially dry is bad for
live stock, unless it has be.'n soaked
until it is near or quite at the point OF
termination. Those who have tried
it in that way report that it gives as
good results as it does when ground
and cooked OF scalded. But the hens
do not want soaked corn. The hens
gizzard is gristmill in miniature, and
every one who knows much about
grinding grain knows that soft Or un-
ripe corn does not grind well. The mill
clogs up and refuses to do it's work.
The hens gizzard is affected in the
same way, and indigestion is the GER
tain result, as indicated by looseness of
the bowels, diarrhea and "cholera,"
which is about as often a result of i'm
proper food poorly digested and Of
filthy surroundings as of any cause
American Cultivator,