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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
Boards AND GLASSES.
Two Ornaments That Are Rarely
Found Upon Hotel Walters.

Two Ornaments That Are Rarely
Found Upon Hotel Walters.
"Ever see q waiter wearing glassesT'
demanded the inquisitor.
No one could remember, although
lust why a waiter should not be seen
with glasses as well as any other man
was not apparent.
Its just like the wearing of boards"
went on the inquisitor. "The proprie-
tors of our important hotels, restau-
rants and cafes will not permit either
boards or glasses to be worn by their
walters. 1t is possible that in some
old fashioned family or commercial
hotel the servitors may be found with
their noses straddled by optical helps,
but you won't find em along Broad
way.
'Now, this is fact worthy of note
because in every other calling in life
the number of persons wearing glasses
is on the increase, and even in our
schools considerable percentage of
very small children will be found
wearing glasses, and while, as l say,
hotel, restaurant and cafe proprietors
are opposed to the glasses, still l have
seldom found waiter whose eyes in
dicated that he was in the slightest
need of them.
"You may argue that restaurant
walters are generally young men,
Grant you that instantly, but all the
same thousands of men of similar age
have to wear them in almost every
other occupation.
''The majority of those servitors
commence in boyhood, and the demand
of their vocation causes no strain or
the eyesight. Consequently that may
account in a measure for the absence
of any necessity for the use of specs
Moreover the steam from hot viandf
would render them useless probably
New York Telegram.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

Mix boiled hogs lard and milk with
thick Cruel Stir it well together, with
fresh cheese, yollls of eggs and brains.
Wrap it in fragrant fig leaf and boil
in the gravy of chicken or a kid.
When taken out, remove the leaf and
souse it in a p0tful of boiling honey.
The name Of this comestible is derived
from the fig leaf, but the mixture con-
sists of equal parts of each, but rather
more eggs, because this gives it con-
sistency. This appears to have been a
popular dish among the Greeks. TO
us it seems about as nice as an oyster
eaten with brown sugar.
Aristophanes mentions a thirum of
salt fish aud a thirum of fat. In the
"Frogs" there is a dismal joke in the
form of a reasonable objection made to
leaping from high tower, 81 would
lose two fig leaves of brain" The
word occurs no less than twelve times
in the fragments of the comic poets.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
Salt Rising Bread.

Few housewives probably still make
salt rising bread, but those who do will
be interested in an experiment made
at Chautauqua last summer by cook
ing teacher. She heard it said that,
since the yeast germ which raises salt
rising bread must be derived from the
air, the bread cannot be made in per
fectly clean roomand hence is prod
uct of dirt To prove the fallacy of
the theory a small room was stripped
of it's furnishings, including the car
pet, and was thoroughly cleaned and
disinfected. Then the windows and
door were closed, and the bread was
set to rise. But it did not rise. An
other teacher, also a doubter of the
theory, put in a claim that the bread
had not been made right, and she
mixed the ingredients herself. But the
dough remained as lifeless as the pro-
verbal doornail, Then the windows
were opened, strip of clean carpet
was dragged in, the furniture was re-
placed, and more dough was made.
This fine the bread raised, as usual.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

A corner should never be cut off
with an upright piano The piece Of
furniture is too bulky when arranged
at this angle and contributes an ex-
ceedingly bad effect to the scheme of
the room. The piano can be pulled
forward and turned with its back to
the room, if desired, without cutting
sharply across the corner. If the back
is thus exposed, piece of silk or other
suitable material should fall over it.
DO not loop this drapery or try to give
it an upholstered look and use some
thing good in itself A small table
filed with little silver knickknadks, a
tall vase with flowers or a lamp is
often placed in front of a piano turned
in this way. This, however, if the
backing of the piano is a figured piece,
is apt to produce spotty effect. A
better plan is to put some rather mass
i've chair of plain lines and covered in
solid color in front of the piano.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

PUMPKINS AND soUAsHEs.
How They Have Been Kept Late anG
nI,rnna.h Severe Ernafa.

How They Have Been Kept Late and
Through Severe Frosts.
Pumpkins and squashes may be car
ried through quite severe frosts with
out injury by covering well with straw
or coarse litter. With especially fine
hills which may not have fully ma
tured it will usually pay well to do
this, as they will often make very de-
cided growth after the surrounding
vines which were unprotected are dead
beyond any hope. Four years ago
some very large pumpkins which l was
growing were in danger of being killed
by frost before maturity. They were
intended for show windows in some of
the large stores, and my object was
the largest possible growth and thor
oughly matured fruits. They were
carefully covered, fruits and vines, and
came through without injury and kept
growing vigorously until the second
frost came, which killed the leaves and
leaf stalks. At this time the pumpkins
only were covered, the vines being left
to care for themselves; but, being very
large and strong, the main vines still
remained green, and the pumpkins by
actual measurement made very decided
growth after everything but the main
stems was dead. Did all this trouble
pay, do you ask? l think so, for the
pumpkins were sold at satisfactory
prices for the purpose for which they
were grown, and the cards upon them
with the growers name and residence
were a good advertisement. Cabbage,
celery and all late growing vegetables
will be greatly benefited by liberal
use of the hoe and steel garden rake
to loosen and fine the soil and admit
the air and sunshine, says Rural New
Yorker writer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
Choosing a Minister.

The parish kirk of Driechton had
been rather unfortunate i'll its minis
tiers, two Of them having gone off in
decline within a twelvemonth of their
appointment, and now, after hearing a
number of candidates for the vacancy,
the members We're looking forward
with keen interest to the meeting at
which the election of the new minister
was to take place.
"Weel, Marget," asked one female
parishioner of another as they fore
gathered on the road one day, "wha
are you gaun to vote for?"
I'm just thinkin' I'll vote for none
O. them. I'm no muckle o. judge,
an it'll be the safest PLAN" was Mar
gets sagacious reply.
''Toots, woman if that's the way OF,
vote wi me-"
"An' hoo are you gaun to vote?"
"I'm gaun to vote for the man that
| think has the soundest lungs an II
no. bother us wi deein' again in hur-
ry."-Scottish American.
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TATTooING FORCEPs.

nations and so serve when tattooed on
the ear effectually to distinguish the
individual. Initials or whole words
may be tattooed. The tattooing process
is simple. The ear of the animal should
be thoroughly cleansed. India ink
should then be applied with a brush to
the hairless or inner side of the ear so
as to cover the surface where it is de-
sired the characters should appear.
The jaws of the forceps being so
placed on the ear as to bring the pierre
ing device over the ink, a sufficient
pressure should be eXerted to cause
the points to pierce the epidermis and
true skin, but not the cartilage of the
ear. The ink should then be rubbed
into the punctures, although generally
the mere piercing operation drives
enough coloring matter into the skin
to leave good mark. The wound soon
heals, and a mark that cannot be cas-
lily removed or tempered with is left.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
MARKING CATTLE.
Characters TattOoed In the Ear With
FOrceps and India Ink.

Characters TattOoed In the Ear With
FOrceps and India Ink.
The cut, from Country Gentleman,
shows a means of marking cattle,
which a Canadian correspondent says
is open to the fewest objections and is
practiced by many breeders of live
stock in Great Britain. The operation
of tattooing he says, is simple and
practically painless. The mark is legi-
BILE and fairly durable, but unless some
white fluid for use in tattooing black
skinned animals is available this meth
cd would be useless for certain breeds
of cattle and swine. The instrument
used is simple and easily manipulated.
1t consists, as shown in the cut, of a
pair of pinchers or forceps SO construct
ed as to permit of changing the mark
ing teeth or stamps. Numbers from
to may be arranged in many combi-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
METAPHOR OF THE SEA.
Terms Associated with the Water
That Are Very Expressive.


"Let me put in my oar" said a gen
tleman as he Joined three of his &C.
quaintances in the hotel cafe the other
night and took a seat at table with
them.
THAT is about the twentieth meta
night" answered one of the others,
land it seems so strange that we
should borrow so many of our figures
from the sea. l never thought of it be-
fore, but it is curious. l have never
been closely associated with the water,
and don't believe any of us have, and
yet we are using sea terms all of the
time They are wonderfully express
i've, too, and | don't know what we
would do without them.
"You want to put in your oar a mo-
ment ago some one talked about being
all adrift,' and l admitted that l was
'at sea- We talk about our weather
eye,' being 'spliced,' our 'mainstay' and
all that sort of stuff. We know what
it is to cast an anchor to windward,'
to back and FILL to steer through, to
be taken aback' and to have the wind
taken out of our sails
eve spin yarn try the other
tack launch enterprises, get them
under full sail and often wreck
them. We cry for any port in a storm,
take in reef get to our ropes end,
run before the wind and sometimes
keel over So it gees on until l be-
lieve we can talk about almost every
thing in the language of the sea."-St.
Louis Republic.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

A story was told the other day of a
little girl who discovered a cobweb and
then, seeing spider emerge from it,
called out: See the cob run! How fast
the cob runsr' AS matter of fact
she builded better than she knew, for
cob, or cop, is, according to the die
tionaries, the name sometimes given to
a spider; whence the word cobweb,
which is, strictly speaking, copweb.
Cop in this sense is probably an abbre-
Walton of the Anglo-Saxon attercoppe,
q Snider
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

Records are kept with knotted cords
in Polynesia. During the early part of
the nineteenth century and previously
the official taxgatherers on the island
of Hawaii, in the Sandwich group, did
all their accounts on rope 2,400 feet
long, which was divided into lengths,
each corresponding to district. Loops,
knots and feathers tied along the rope
served as memoranda for the hogs,
pigs and pieces of sandalwood col
lected from taxpayers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

to Westphalia, of which Jerome had
only recently been made king.
The disconsolate bride and her infant
son had returned to Baltimore. Her
life imbittered and her spirit envenom-
ed, she found no satisfaction In living
except in ambitious hope for the off
spring of her treacherous royal hus-
band.
Her love for Jerome was transformed
into hate and contempt. Jerome offer
ed her a title as princess and dover
of 100000 francs, which she refused.
When he learned that she had accepted
a smaller pension from the emperor
and rejected one from him so much
larger, he requested a reason for her
doing SO. She replied sarcastically, 81
prefer to hide under the wing of an
eagle rather than hang from the neck
of gosling." Again Jerome advised
her that she might have home in
Westphalia. She sent him the reply,
your kingdom may be large, but 1t Is
not large enough for two queens"
Her fame for wit and repartee was
ACIC WClC q NuItALG fSiii
of sarcasm and pithiness of humor
that made her conversation interesting
by it's brilliant and reckless malicious
ness. When she was ruthlessly shut
out from the regal circles to which her
husband belonged, it imbittered her
against the democratic herd. Neverthe-
less when she visited Europe she was
I. e nd for
of attraction in court and diplomatic
circles.
She never saw her husband but once
after he left her at Lisbon Years aft
erward Jerome was in the gallery of
the Pitt palace, in Florence, when
Nine. Bonaparte was also visitor.
Jerome recognized her as she silently
walked by, and he whispered to his
other wife, Catherine, "That lady is
my former wife," The recognition was
mutual, but no words were interchang-
ed. and they never saw each other
again.
Her son developed a wonderful like
ness to his famous uncle, the emperor,
and she lived in the hope that the re-
vival of the empire would reinstate
the Napoleonic dynasty and that her
son would be accorded his just posi-
ton in the royal household. When the
republic was overthrown in 1852 and
the empire re-established, she made a
desperate effort to secure the recogni-
ton of the validity of her marriage
and the legitimacy of her son. Jerome
entered a plea to the council of state
demanding that jerome Patterson"
should be prohibited from using the
name of Bonaparte. The council de-
cided that he was a legitimate child
and entitled to the name, but did not
recognize him as member of the
royal family.
Nine. Bonaparte lived to the ripe old
age of "a. and her latter years were
characterized by eccentricities in
Vulnerable. BY parsimonious economy
she accumulated a large estate, but
her vitriolic temperament held at dis
lance many who admired her beauty
| virtue and even her vaulting ambition.
l stood beside her grave only few
| hours after she was laid to rest, and
could not help contrasting her madly
romantic mesalliance with a royal
traitor with the sweet love matches
that have made the happy homes of a
great republic.-Sunny South.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

ITS wonderful" said the meditative
man. ''how one snail word, insignifi-
cant in itself, may induce an endless
train Of thought, speaking volumes, in
fact"
Yes" replied the caustic man. '"Take
the word but, for instance, when a
woman says, or course, it's none Of
my business, but Exchange.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
Plumbing, Timing, Steam and
Gas Fitting,

at their OFFICE, Al Mill street, Tele-
phone 1874 l, or at the store of William
Fl. Hibler, South street, city.
The Senior member of this partner
ship, JOHN j. CARROLL, has been
plumbing in this City for twenty-nine
years, and his reputation as plumber
is too well known, for.any further COM
ment. 253S
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
PICTURE FRAMING A SPECIALLY AT
3 ALPIN'S BLOCK. Te,eDhone ,, r
seaboard interchangeable Mileage Ticket.

Seaboard Air Line Railway has
placed on sale 1000 mile tickets at
1876. 90, which tickets are good over it's
entire system, and also over the lines
of it's important connections, repre-
senting in all approximately 10, 900
miles.
Full information as to these tickets
may be obtained upon application to
any agent or representative of the
company. 342l
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

A loaf of bread is favorite tails
man for locating a drowned body in
most European countries. Sometimes
it is found sufficient Of itself, some
times it needs the aid of some other
substance. Thus in England the loaf
is usually weighted with quicksilver
Notes and Queries.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
A simple Matter.

"John, I'd like you to wake me at
o'clock tomorrow morning. / want to
catch the early train"
"AI right, sir; all right" replied the
able servitor expressively; "all you got
to do, sir, is to ring. Philadelphia
North American.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
A little Rough ON Ma.

Daughter-The man marry must be
a brave man
Father-He win be If he narries you
while your mother is living.-New York
Press
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
Fan Cleaning and Onion Thrips.

FAN Cleaning and Onion Thrips.
One of the agricultural authorities
claims that the onion thrips pass the
winter months in matted grass among
old weeds and other rubbish as well
as among Gull onions that have been
left over in the garden in the fall. For
this reason a general cleaning up of all
rubbish in the fall is highly essential.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26

Tom-Are you going to wear mourn
ing for your wealthy uncle?
Jack-Only black pocketbOok.- Chi
9ago News.
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NOTICE.

JOHN J. CARROLL, who for years
has been in the firm of LooNEY & CAR
ROLL, has formed a partnership with
his son, WILLIAM J. CARROLL, and
are now ready to receive orders for
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17
For Reports of Corpo, ations.

The State Auditors Department is now
sending out the blank forms for the ap-
praising of the different col:poratio of
North Carolina. and also the blanks for
the reports of the various insurance
companies chartered in the State. Ac-
cording to recent decision of the Su-
preme court these companies must be as
sessed for the ad valorem tax as required
by the constitution. The annual report
OF the Auditor will be sent out next
week; the clerical force is now busy ad-
dressing envelopes. This report was
somewhat delayed in it's issuance by the
printers.
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HOW IT is DONE.

The first object in life with the Ameri-
can people 10 to ''get rich;" the second
how to regain good health. The first can
be obtained by energy. honesty and saw
ing; the second, (good hea lth) by using
Green's August Flower. Sh ould you be a
dependent sufferer from any of the ef-
fects of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, APP
pendicitis, Indigestion, etc., such as Sick
Headache, Palpitation of the Heart, Sour
Stomach. Habitual Costiveness, Dizziness
or the Head, Nervous Prostitution, Low
Spirits. etc., you need not suffer another
Gay. Two doses of the welI-Isnown August
Flower will relieve you at once. Go to
w. Fl. King & Co.'s three stores.
tues. thurs. sun
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17

meeting of the Democratic Executive
Committee of Wake County is hereby
called to take place at the Mayors Office,
in the city of Raleigh, N. c., on Saturday.
the 2Sth day of June. 1892, at II o'clock
a. M, for the purpose OF. calling eoun-
ty convention to nom inate candidates
for the Legislature asad the County
offices. 1t is earnestly desired that all
the members of the committee attend
this meeting as matters of Importance
to the party will be considered
AR 'dISTEAD JONES,
Chairman Dem. Elk. CON-, Wake Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17

Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity
to s p. M: Fair, cooler Tuesday
Local data for Raleigh: Maximum
temperature, rs; minimum temperature,
20: mean temperature, IA rainfall. .92
inches in twenty-four hours.
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HENRY T. HICKS-Capudine.
DOBBIN & FERRALL-Our Great Clear.
ance Sale.
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Patterns for Lace-making

Bureau Scarfs. Table Covers, Pill
low Tops, Doilies, Round and
Sailor Collars, Collar Tops,
Childrens' Caps, Bolero Jackets,
Yoke and Cuff Patterns. APP
plique Door Curtains, &C.. Prices
from Sc. all the way up to. ..... soc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17
Battenberg Patterns

Irish Point Lace. Lace Braids of all
kinds for fancy work. Arabian, Duchess,
Honiton and Irish Braids. Renaissance
rings and figures.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17

Services will be continued through
this week at the tent on North Blount
street. Last night they were conducted
by Rev. r. S. Stephenson and Rev. S. ].
Belts, of Bayonne. N. j.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17

The State superintendent of Instruc-
ton is sending out the census blanks for
reports to the County superintendent.
Rev. DIR. T. N. Ivey last night spoke
before the Epworth League of the Eden
ton Street Methodist church on his re-
cent trip to Colorado.
Messrs. F. A. Woodward, of Wilson,
and F. A. Daniels, of Goldsboro, were in
the city yesterday on the matter of a
bankruptcy cose from Wilson, heard be-
fore Judge Purnell.
Services will be continued through
this week at the tent on North Blount
street. Last night they were conducted
by Rev. r. S. Stephenson and Rev. S. ].
Belts, of Bayonne. N. j.
The exhibits from this State at Char
lesion are being replaced in the museum
as rapidly as possible. Curator Brimley
is back from the exposition, where he
had charge of North Cardinals exhibit.
The Sunday school of the Fayetteville
Street Baptist church will have it's pic
mic to Fuquay Springs next Thursday.
Train will leave at a. M. Tickets so
cents for adults. % cents for children
Governor Aycock will leave today
for Cooleemee, in Davie county, where
he will deliver an address before an
educational mass meeting Upon his re-
turn tomorrow he will remain in Raj
eigh several weeks.
The Sunday school of st. Saviour's
chapel will run a picnic and excursion
to Fuquay Springs tomorrow. Train
leaves Union depot at $3.50 a. m. The
round trip will be so cents for adult and
25 cents for children.
DR.. William Simpson left yesterday
morning to attend the meeting of the
State Board of Pharmacy at Morehead
City, where candidates for license will
be examined this week. DR.. Simpson is
Secretary of the Board.
Mr.. Hugh Morson, who has returned
from the Teachers Assembly at More
head City. gives a glowing account of
the excellence of the speeches and papers
at this meeting, and says he expects
much good to result from this session.
regular convocation of Raleigh
Chapter No. 10, Royal Arch Masons, will
be held this evening TUESDAY, June IT,,
1909, at Masonic Hall. Work in the
Royal Arch degree. Visiting COM
panions cordially invited to be present.
The funeral of Miss Annie BuffaIoe,
aged 80 years, took place yesterday morn
Ing at her home about three miles east
OF the city. Rev. R. S. Stephenson and
John t. Pu1len officiated. The inter-
ment was in the family burial ground.
Sheriff Mcdowell, of Burke county,
yesterday brought to the Penftentiary
Alonzo Stampers and Tom Watson, two
white men sentenced for two years and
eighteen months respectively, for
burglarizing st',res at Conley Springs,
near Morganton- 4
Mr.. John U. Smith has purchased the
Boylan place. on the northwest corner
OF Hillsboro aid Harrington streets and
VIII make exte nsive improvements. This
is a beautiful location, and when the
house is reraodeled and improved it will
~S SfIeSt > nOSL at
tractive residences.
The tax, listers, in order to accommo-
date the mill operatives, will be at their
omice iIa the court house Wednesday and
ThursdU' night from 730 to o'clock
This Is done to relieve solue of the rush
In the latter. part of the month. This
taxes in all mechanics who cannot get
here during working hours.
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The exhibits from this State at Char
lesion are being replaced in the museum
as rapidly as possible. Curator Brimley
is back from the exposition, where he
had charge of North Cardinals exhibit