The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-22

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Take a good mouser with you wher
yon go to the fields to haul in thu
shocked corn.
A man in the state of Missouri is the
owner of a span of giant mules, theil
weight being 1920 pounds each. Ht
has refused $3.50 for the team.
So far as mans popularity and use
fitness is concerned there are bu
small odds between his being rated a.
mean and stingy or as dishonest
When young man has earned ant
saved up 500, it is lots easier for hin
to say mo" when tempted to spend his
money foolishly. Try it, young man
and see.
Education of the higher sort will be
worth much more to the American
people when it is regarded as a help tc
success in any business in life rather
than as stepping stone to one Of the
few professions.
We cannot interpret Scripture to
mean that we are to forgive our neigh
Dor seven or more times when 1t is a
case of his chickens scratching up our
garden The rule may possibly apply
to other things, but not to the chicken
deal.
America furnished England meats,
oats, hay, mules, horses, flour and
many other things for the conduct of
the Boer war. We are inclined to be-
men the war would long ago have been
ended.
Florida comes to the front with fine
crop of her delicious oranges this year,
the trees having mostly recovered from
the baneful and destructive effects of
the great freeze of few years ago.
The Florida orange is one of the very
best Of it's tribe.
The inexhaustible forests of Alaska
prove to be good deal of a myth, the
timber supply all along the Yukon riv-
er having already been so depleted in
supplying fuel for the steamers that
unless supplies of coal can be secured
the navigation of that river will soon
have to cease.
The experiment stations seem to
agree that, weight for weight, the cobs
when ground up fine are worth as
much to feed as the corn. 1t is hard
for the average stockman to believe
this statement and harder for the cow
to whom he feeds it,
The bur oak tree, in keeping with its
native ruggedness. rarely ever shows
any coloration of its foliage in the au-
tumn, the leaves passing from normal
green to a rusty brown. The jack oak,
on the contrary, affords some of the
most beautiful color schemes to be
seen anywhere in the fall of the year
Now comes a friend of the English
sparrow and claims that these birds
will eat the box elder bugs We ser.
ously doubt the truth of this state
ment. We have watched both the birds
and the bugs closely and have never
yet had the pleasure of seeing the
sparrows making a meal off the bugs.
The adulteration of food products
seems to find its largest development
in France Of any country. OF 652 sam
pies Of native wines recently tested
only ia were found pure and Of 376
samples Of milk only 80 were not adul-
terated. 1t is no wonder there are
more deaths than births in that coun-
try.
A late writer calls attention to the
marked advance In live stock by citing
the fact that in the year 1900 in Great
Britain a calf sold for as small sum
as "a cents. This is not good evidence,
for in the year 1895 1t was common
practice for the dairymen in the CEN
trail west to feed their calves to their
hogs
The little island of Porto Rico is
showing this winter what she can do
in the way of furnishing Uncle Sam
with nice oranges to eat. While the
shipments this year viii not be large,
the fruit comes along the first of any
in the orange season and win be fac
tor in this business of considerable inn