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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
THE UNJUST SUCKER" BILL.

Justice Mackey S office, i'll Belvidere,
was the scene of great excitement on
Tuesday, when 100 leading citizens of
Blairstown and adjoining townships
were arraigned by Fish and Game
Warden Hill, ON the charge of violat-
ing the fish law by taking suckers
from the Paulin's Kill with seine and
divers other devices that the law of
New Jersey prohibits. Among the
offenders of the law were merchants,
spectators, lumber dealers, farmers
and, it is said, one minister of the
gospel. The latter accepted a mess of
fresh suckers and was therefore held
as participant in the crime. He,
however, was not arraigned with the
others.
At first the party concluded to con-
test the constitutionality of the law,
but changed their minds later on and,
taking the advice of counsel, pleaded
guilty. The justice imposed small
fine and the costs, which ali hands
agreed to pay. Yetter and the other
moneyed men of the party will appeal
to the Legislature in the hope of hav-
ing the offensive features of the fish
law repealed
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
IRON INTERESTS BOOMING.

As result of the boom in the iron
industry, the Virgins fire sand pits
in the Scrub Oaks, near Flanders, are
waxing in Importance. These pits
have been worked for the past twenty
five years, but always heretofore on a
modest scale. Now that so many more
furnaces have been put in operation
the demand for fire sand has increased
corresponding and the output of the
pits last month was about $50 tons.
1t is estimated that the total output
for the current year will not be less
than ten thousand. The sand is used
for the bottoms of blast furnaces. 1t
prevents the molten metal from stick
ing to the furnace BEDS and is said to
be practically unreliable. The sand
from the Virgins sand pits is the
cleanest and of the best quality to be
found in Northern New Jersey The
supply is practically inexhaustable,
the beds comprising number of acres
while their depth has not yet been
sounded A present there are about
ten or twelve men employed, and the
sand is shipped via the High Bridge
branch of the Central Railroad from
Flanders. Iron Era.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
WHERE THE SOUTH STANDS.

The South, which is the Gibraltar
of the Democracy, bids fair to be as
stubbornly solid" for Imperialism
as it has ever been for any other issue.
Mississippi has just elected United
States Senator who won out as an
ardent expansionist. The influential
newspapers of the South, including
such journals as the New Orleans
Times Democrat, - Galveston
News" Louisville Courier
Journal" Memphis Commercial
Appeal, Atlanta Constitution, =
Little Rock( Ark. "Gazette, = Nash
vile America" and Mobile "Regis-
ter, are vigorously in favor of per-
petuating American sovereignty in
the Philippines. Baltimore Herald
(Ind.).
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
FRIDAY. JANUARY 9e, 1900
NOT A POLITICAL MEASURE.

A tempest in a teapot" was gener-
ally stirred up throughout the State
by the introduction of Senator Pit
ney Excise Bill, No. 2, which is
simply measure designed to correct
a clerical error. The Elizabeth
Journal commenting on the bill
says:
Senator Pitney, of Morris County,
recently introduced an excise bill in
the Senate, and it caused quite rip
pie of comment. Since then the
Senator has very cordially explained
it is simply an old measure revived
The bill which he introduced, is,
word for word, the same as appears
in Volume II of the General Statutes,
page l, 807. The only difference is in
the term of the excise commissioners.
1t is made five years instead of three
but this will be rectified to conform
exactly to the old measure. A SINH
lar bill was in the Legislature twice
before once it passed one house, but
failed to pass the other !; the second
time it passed both houses, but failed
1t is not mandatory measure, and
under its provisions, but may do so if
it's thinks proper. The bill is now
known us Senate Bill No. 2.
The Banner in its issue Of the 25th
editorially comments on the bill as
follows:
~ L. "a ~
those newspaper brothers of ours who
are dipping their pens in gall, to the
fact that this is most innocent bill.
Senator Pitney introduced and is
pushing this measure in conformity
with the wishes of the citizens of
Morristown irrespective of party and
is doing SO at the request of the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen ami of
the Morristown Improvement Associa-
ton. The above act is identical with
the act passed Feb. "a, 1892 while Ex
Gov. George T. Werts was in the
Senate, in all respects, except in the
title and in the period during which
an ordinance passed under the act is
not repealable. 1t was meant to be
the same in the latter respect and will
be made so. That it is not so now is
due to clerical error.
The law of 1899 as it now exists
affects cities-we want it to affect us,
as we supposed it did. Senate Bill
No. 2, if it becomes law. will not
affect cities in any different way
than the law of 1899 already does.
That is all there is to it. There is
no strike, " no "nigger IN the wood
pile, nor anything else of that kind
in it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
THE NEW YORK PoULrRY SHOW

Poultry, pigeons, pet stock and a
department devoted to cats, will be
the attraction in Madison Square
Garden from Tuesday, January 3Oth
next, until Saturday night, February
3rd. The New York Poultry and
Pigeon Association will have the
largest show they have ever given, and
the Garden will be open to the adj
mirer of the finest birds that can be
shown from 8 a. IN. until 10. 80 D. m.
each day. There are more entries in
all classes than even last year, and the
judging Of over seven thousand birds
will give the judges much to do, while
the prize money will roll up into round
figures. The clubs, which have their
meetings during the week and give
special prizes, represent the noted
breeders of poultry and pigeon
fanciers, and these sessions are i'm
portant to members and the public.
There will be superb showing of
pigeons, and the finest dipslay of ex-
hibition yards ever given in this
country Extra space is also allotted
to the incubators and breeders, and
to poultry feed and farm appliances
The showing Of rabbits and CAVES will
especially interest the young people,
and the great number Of bantams also.
The New York Cat Show. which is a
part of the exhibition, has a large
number Of entries, many OF them of
high value. The New York Show
always draws a crowd Of people. and
it is an event that ali look forward 70
with pleasure.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
PERHAPS LACK OF PATRIOTISM.

The Elizapeth Journal says: Plain
field is expressing regret because a
project for erecting a soldiers monu-
ment in that city has been permitted
to die because of the lack of sufficient
financial aid to insure its fulfillment.
The sum sought to be raised was
$40, 900, or about seventy five cents for
each man, woman and child in that
city. Let not Plainfield feel lonesome.
There are other cities just as lacking
in monument building zeal Eliza
beth hasn't a monument to anybody
or anything. Newark has a few, but
the most of them were given her.
Paterson has been talking of raising
monument to the late Vice-Presi-
dent Hobart, but the sum thus far
subscribed is so small as to be a shame
to the city, and has impelled the sug-
gestion that the project be wholly
abandoned. Monuments do not seem
to be in demand in most New Jer-
sey cities. "
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

Gen. Simon B. Buckner, Vice-Presi-
Dental candidate on the Sound Money
Democratic ticket in 1896. adds to the
discontinue of the Aguinaldian sym
pathizers by coming out with this
frank statement: IT favor the reten-
tion of the Philippines. There has not
been an instant of time since the for
nation of the present Constitution
when immense districts of country,
acquired either by purchase or by
conquest under the law of nations,
have not been controlled by the abso-
lutte will of Congress without ever
having consulted the inhabitants of
that country as to whether they
wanted to be part of the United
States or not The Philippines have
been acquired legitimately under the
laws of warfare to which we, as a
nation, are as much subject as other
nations.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

teachers who are receiving larger
salaries than himself. This IS an
offense to his dignity and handicap
to his usefulness. AS the multitude
is accustomed to judge superficlally,
| it also accounts for the generally
erroneous and low estimate placed
upon his services. One of our County
Superintendents recently resigned to
accept the principalship of primary
school at an increase in salary OF 5000
per annum. In no other line of effort
is supervision rated below service IN
subordinate capacity. For the State
to thus rate it, is little to its credit
and not good evidence of Its ability
to properly administer it's school
affairs That service so important and
exacting should have been so long un-
derrated and underpaid is unaccount-
able. Surely "the eternal fitness OF
things is not always controlling
influence in educational matters.
Though the duties of the County
Superintendent exceed those of the
City Superintendent in range, and in
difficulty, delicacy, and value are not
a whit inferior, he receives but from
one third to one-half as much salary.
In addition to offering rate of COM
pensation, which, though barely COM
mensurate with the services required,
will yet command the highest order
of qualification, the city board of edu-
cation knows no restrictions in its
selection. 1t is at liberty to obtain
the best service it's funds will secure,
whether it is found in New Jersey,
or comes from Maine, Massachusetts
or California. The State Board of
Education has but a meagre sum
placed at it's command and is limited
to candidates from the county to be
supervised. What perplexing and
we'll nigh impossible task is thus inn
posed upon this honorable body!
There is no force in the assertion
that our County Superintendent are
l
as well paid as those of adjoining
states. New Jersey knows what SUI
pervision is, what it can accomplish,
and should also know that it is worth
paying for. Let us be the first to get
out of ridiculous rut. The varied
and responsible duties of County
Superintendent will put good man
at his best every day in the year.
How unwise then to make it, as we
frequently do, an annex to some other
profession or employ ment, and how
mereenary in us to oblige an able
official to support his family either
meanly or else, in part, upon former
accommodations.
The foregoing is intended to be a
fair and impartial presentation of the
duties of the County Superintendent.
To exaggerate their Importance would
be difficult indeed. In many lines of
effort, and especially in this, there is
always service available, whose value
is beyond estimate, also that which is
dear at any price. Which shall New
Jersey bid for?''
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
THE PARSONS LIMIT.


He'd been preaching and exhorting
For a score of years or so
In portion of the vineyard
Where the harvesting was slow,
Where the temporal inducement
For his ceaseless diligence
Was a promise of four hundred
For his yearly recompense
Unrelenting was the ardor
He devoted to the cause,
And, though slowly came the dollars,
Still he labored without pause,
Till one day they came and told him,
AS he kicked against the pricks,
That they'd raised their offered
stipend
From four hundred up to six.
Then the good man sank exhausted
AS he feebly made reply:
DON'T pray you, men and brethren,
Thus my patience overtry,
For to CLEAN the four you've promised
Hath so warped my vital store
That 'twould kill me if you taxed me
To collect two hundred more 70
Boston Courier.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
DAILY IN THE SADDLE.

Congressman DAILY, of Hudson Coun-
ty, has been very much in evidence
during the present week, notwith-
standing his seeming turn-down at
Asbury Park some months since, at
the hands of Chairman Gourley and
his fellow members of the re-organ-
lied Democratic State Committee.
The facts that Mr.. DAILY is Bryan s
confidential representative and recog-
nized agent in New Jersey, cannot be
disputed The genial Senator took
especial delight in showing in the
Senate Chamber at Trenton Monday
night his instructions received direct
from Mr.. Bryan as to the arrange
ment of the meeting in New Jersey,
while as Mr.. DAILY said, "You will
notice he wanted me to even arrange
for the meetings in Paterson, Gour-
ley's own city" Mr.. Daily further
said Mr. Bryan will not shirk the
silver issue for it is just as much a
part of our Democracy i'll New Jersey
today as it was in '96 "
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
sHELDoN'S JOURNALISTIC Elk
PERTINENT.

The Rev. Charles H. Sheldon has
been very prominently before the
public during the last two or three
years
His book what would Jesus do, -
like most of his other works, contains
ideas strikingly impressed which
make Christian people think seriously
of their relations to their Master and
to their brethren of mankind. The
books therefore have been widely read
and up to a certain point largely SYM
pathized with.
We say up to certain point, that
point being where practical common
sense is merged in visionary socialism.
Most people who have read the books
think them fairly good except where
they touch their own personal inter
ests. Here the author and his readers
are as one, if we may judge by Mr..
Sheldon's actions. For example the
Jersey City Journal very aptly
calls attention to the fact that
Mr.. Sheldon's book What would
Jesus do" is copy -righted. Jesus
never copy -righted any of His dis
courses or teachings but on the con-
trary commanded His disciples to
make them known to all nations.
Some of His disciples had copy right
ed notions in their heads and wanted
to forbid some who did not follow
with them from teaching and working
miracles in His name. That, however,
Christ would not sanction.
Mr.. Sheldon, among his other no.
tions has an idea that he knows how
to conduct newspaper "as Jesus
would" and has prominently made it
known that such a newspaper could
be conducted If itswere backed by a
capital of 81, 900, 600 No one having
million dollars at their disposal up
till now has thought it wise to invest it
that way. Mr.. Sheldon, however, is
to have an opportunity to show what
he can do as a newspaper editor for
one week of seven days only. We ex-
pressly say week of seven days for
Mr.. Sheldon is to issue Sunday edi-
tion, which shows that he must have
changed his mind about some things
since he wrote his book. We hardly
think that Jesus would have issued
paper the distribution and the sale Of
which will deprive many of their
weekly rest. We make this single
objection presuming that the Sunday
edition of Mr.. Sheldon's paper will
be strickly religious which we very
much doubt
1t is an elegant advertising scheme
for the Topeka Daily Capital. II like
Mr.. Sheldon's books, the paper is
copy -righted, Mr.. Sheldon and the
editor should each make very COM
Portable sum out of this piece of SEN
sationalism. Mr.. Sheldon should retire
from the editorial sanctum at the end
of the week with enough experience
to keep him quiet about newspaper
matters for the rest of his natural life.
We are just afraid that he will not re-
tire with any added glory to his name.
Since the above was in type the
Chronicle is in receipt of circular
from the editor of the Topeka Daily
Capital which shows that he also has
keen eye to the value the expert
ment will afford him as an adAertis-
ing medium.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

The Long Branch Record says:
"The local clergymen are waking up
to realization that Long Branch has
enough saloons and licensed liquor
places. These estimable gentlemen, if
they go about it in practical, ener-
getic manner, can do much to purify
the moral atmosphere of our city It
is their duty to do so. They are the
moral leaders of the community If
they are negligent or cowardly in
their attitude toward immortality and
crime, what can be expected of the
average laymen2''
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
SAVING $500, 900, 900 IN FOUR
YEARS.

In 1895 there were 1,OSO savings
banks in the United States and the
deposits in them amounted to 81, Sal, :
900, 600. In 1899 there were 942 savings
banks in the United States land their
deposits were SO, 400, 900, 0O0 That is
the whole story of the growth and
prosperity of the country. Dallas
News" (Ind. Dem.).
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

A Pottawattamie Co, Iowa Grand
Jury has returned two indictments
against the Rev. S. j. James, of South
Omaha, a Christian Science healer,
and one against Mrs. Yates for their
part in the death of Ethel Yates, a
young woman Of Tabor, Ia. 1t is said
the girl died of appendicitis while the
healer was praying over her. The
authorities propose to make this a
test case and try to wipe out the sect
in Iowa known as Christian Healers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
NONE.

Rev. j. Fl. Hawkshurst, Methodist
preacher, of Ocean Grove, is quoted
as declaring at preachers meeting
that the newspapers of this country
are controlled by the Roman Catholic
Church, y and Rev. Mr.. Hayter as
endorsing this statement.
This leads the Paterson Press to
sensibly remark "What power can
control some ministers conquest"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
Malate Barracks,
My Dear Parents :

My Dear Parents:
1t is now five minutes to / O'Clock
a. m. have just finished my work
We landed here last Friday. The Sth
day after landing the Sd Battalion
was ordered to the firing line and
yesterday the 1st Battalion went out
in another direction. Headquarters
and the rest are now going out to
another line and as move with Head
quarters, | shall go too We are go
ing to place about 100 miles from
here, called COLOMBIA. I am now
Regimental Commissary. This is the
highest rank beneath 2nd Lieutenant.
think this letter will go on the
mail steamer tomorrow l am anxious
ly waiting for mail as we haven t had
any since Nov. End. The only regret
is that / cannot eat Christmas dinner
with you. Instead | will probably be
taking train of provisions to the
troops along the firing line. 1t is by
no means job without danger, it is
really one of the most dangerous one
i'll the army, as the insurgents will
brave anything to seize one of ou1
provision trains. There was a com
missary sergeant, about week ago,
attacked by band of insurgents
twice his number, but he had reliable
men and succeeded in killing eighteen
| Fillipinos with only two of our mer
badly wounded
| Well good by and good luck
Your loving son.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

An order has been issued on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad that af-
ter February 1st no trainmen shall be
retained who weigh more than 1SO
pounds. The allegation is that fat
men are too awkward and clumsy for
the service. Only thin men need APP
ply for positions on that road here
after
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

Mr.. Lands peroration against the
admission of Roberts to take the oath
of Office in the name of the American
home, in the name of American
womanhood, in the name of the
women crushed by the awful system
of polygamy and their innocent chill
dren, in the name of the honest Nor
mons themselves, was very impressive
and created an outburst Of applause
ON the floor and in the galleries that
lasted several minutes, dying out only
to be repeated again and again. At
the end of his speech he was the re-
cipient of a spontaneous ovation, as
Mr.. Littlefield had been the day be-
fore, by his fellow members.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26
ROBERTS IS EXCLUDED
Continued from FIRST Page.

who had taken refuge in the cloak
rooms during the dry -as-dust period
emerged therefrom and crowded the
floor Mr.. Lands possesses a great
fund of dry humor with which he in
terspersed his speech to the delight of
the floor and galleries Discussing
the compact which he insisted, had
been part of the terms on which
Utah had been admitted into the
Union and which required the Nor
mons to abandon the practice of polyg-
amy and discard it as belief, he re-
ferred to certain statements made be-
fore the committee by Senator Raw
Inns as to the Mormon Church, it's
members and polygamy, he read a
carefully prepared account of the
martial arrangements of the apostles
of that church after the admission of
Utah. This statement gave in much
detail the number of wives of these
apostles, their maiden names, their
children, and when the latter were
born, the statement asserting that
many of the latter were born after the
admission of Utah. He instanced
one case where two children had been
born to an apostle within three days
of each other and dryly commented
that they came within three days of
being born twins. Again he instanced
case where the first or legal wife of
an apostle had died and the second
wife had gone to live with him as his
legal wife. This, Mr.. Lands said,
was an application of the civil service
doctrine to matrimony. These sallies
ELECTED great laughter on the floor
and in the galleries.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

The Alabama pig-iron output in
1900 will exceed by at least twenty
five per cent. the record breaking
figures of last year,, 200, 900 tons,
judging by the additional furnaces
which are being placed in operation.
Within the past week three stacks
have been added to the active plants
These are the Tallmadega furnace,
controlled by Eugene Zimmerman and
associates of Cincinnati, the Truss
vile furnace, operated by Perry &
Smith, and the Gadsden furnace, the
property of the Alabama Consolidated
Coal and Iron Company. Every one
of these plants had been idle since the
panic six years ago, but have been re-
habitilated during the industrial re-
vival. Their united output is $50 tons
of pig iron daily.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-01-26

Mr. Lands defense of the Christian
missionaries whom Roberts had at
tackled was eloquent and forcible and
vigorously applauded. His reference
to Helen Gould, prefaced by the state
ment that Roberts was the only man
in the United States who had at
tackled her, were couched in terms of
the manifest eloquence and created
spontaneous and repeated applause. In
deed the mere mention of Miss Gould S
name was received with applause.
Mr.. Lands related an affecting incl
dent that occurred during his visit to
Santiago in 1885, He saw there a
dingy weatherbeaten steam launch
which DR.. Quicker, the physician in
charge of the military hospital across
the bay from the fallen city, was ar
ranging to bring back to this country.
In reply to a remark of his DR.. Quicker
told the history of the launch. He
told how such launch had become a
pressing necessity to the hospital ;
how he had applied for one to the
commanding general, who was unable
to furnish it; how he had appealed to
the War Department in Washington,
which could not supply it, and how
he had then laid the matter before
Helen Gould, who cabled to him the
same day saying her own private
steam launch was on it's way to him
for his use so long as it was needed
for the services of the sick and wound
ed soldiers. DR.. Quicker concluded
his recital with the fervent words,
as tears rolled down his checks,
" God bless Helen Gould. !" 81, too, -
exclaimed Mr.. Lands in reverent
tones, SAY, God bless Helen Gould. y
This story and the sentiment uttered
by the speaker were received with
prolonged applause.