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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
Wild Guineas.

Guineas were raised by the old
time Greeks and Romans as table
fowls, but they disappeared from
Europe during the dark ages. In
Jamaica and some of the lesser An
titles they have reverted to the wild
states and are now hunted as game
birds as is also the case in England.
where they were kept in reserves. In
continental Europe, however, large
establishments are devoted to their
breeding. Africa, the original home
of the species, boasts Of Guinea
fowl which is beautifully plumed
The nape Of the neck is covered with
short velvet like brown down, and
the lower part has long, lanceolate
flowing feathers of white, black and
blue. The breast and sides are of a
beautiful metallic blue, the middle
of the abdomen black and the TANKS
dull pink with numerous spots of
white circled with black. The usual
American fowl is the pearl variety
There is as yet no standard of perfec-
ton set for the Guinea in this coun-
try. as the birds are not recognized
by the American poultry association
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
THE sPINNERs.

Women. 0 Women, o Women, o Women,
that sing as We weep and we weave,
VIII ye rede me the rede of the song shat
we sing and the rune of the rope that
we reeve?
OF thread of the hair of a love that is
dead and a hair Of love that will be
Do ye weave and We reeve ere the curtal-
ak cleave; but whereof do ye strand,
ye three?
Oh, Ed is the name OF the song that we
sing, and the slaves are of Sorrow
and Sleep;
And Weird is the name Of the rope that we
reeve as we labor and skelloch and
weep;
OF Hate with strand, and with Love Of Il
strand, of The hair of your heverils
twain
Do we reeve as we sing; and we bind them
with Dole that shall be till we slum-
Der againl
james E. Richardson, in The Reader.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
FOREIGN.

The steamer City of Grand Rapids
was completely destroyed by fire at
her dock at Tobermoray, Ontario.
The crew were rescued.
Gen. Maximoffslry, head of the In
terror Department Prison Bureau,
was assassinated by young woman
at st. Petersburg, Russia.
The Imperial Bank of Germany
raised it's rate one per cent.
Richard Cookers filly Rhodora won
the principal race at Newmarket,
England.
The Finnish Diet voted the appro-
priation to the Russian Government
Of $4,000,000 in payment for eXemp-
tion from military service.
At Pskoff, Russia, bank robbers at
tackled seven men who were escorting
a cashier who was carrying 1900
rubles murdered the whole party and
decamped with the money.
A telegram from Tetuan, Morocco,
is published stating that a native be-
longing to the Jemos tribe says that
several days ago Kaid Maclean es-
tured and put in chains by order of
Raisuli.
Mile. Ragozinnikova, who on Oc-
tober 2S killed General Maximoffsky,
Director of the Department of Prisons
of the Ministry of the Interior, was
hanged at St. Petersburg, Russia.
Leo veigelsberg, editor of the Pes
ter-Lloyd and an eminent publicist,
committed suicide at Budapest, Hun
gary, by shooting.
Almost all of the inhabitants of
the village of Karatagh, in Russian
Turkestan, the population of which
now is said to be 5000, were killed
by the landslide following the earth
quake.
The German Kaiser wiz not visit
England as had been arranged, ow-
ing, it is believed, to his indisposi-
ton.
The new United States Military At
tache, Capt. s. L. H. Slocum, and Mrs.
Slocum have arrived at st. Peters
burg, Russia, and taken apartments
at the Hotel de PEurope.
Inquiry into the Vancouver riots
disclosed that many Japanese labor
ers were held in practical bondage in
British Columbia.
King Victor Emmanuel announces
that he will present cup for an in
ternational dirigible balloon compe-
tition, to be held at Turin, Italy, in
1911.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05

the job can be done thoroughly with
the instrument shown here. This
combination of poker and clinker
hook consists of tubular shank hav-
ing hook and gripper at one end.
The hook is stationary, but the grip
per, having sharpened point, slides
into the tube. If the hook fails to
remove the obtrusive clinker, the
gripper is released, the point contact
ing with the clinker and breaking it.
Attached to the gripper, within the
tube, is a spring, which forces the
gripper toward the hook. A twist of
the handle is all that is required to
release the gripper.-W Washington
Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
Combination Poker.

A much-needed addition to the
kitchen poker is supplied in the COM
bination poker and clinker hook
shown here, device which will claim
many supporters. The large clinkers
in the coal fire defy all efforts to
dislodge them with the common
poker. Even the addition of little
profanity fails to help matters, but
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
Logical Deductlon.

Cook approaching master of the
house, anxiously) -" Gould We be
after telling me, Sar, the time O. day?
Shure all the clocks in the house is
different except one.
Master of the House That one Is
right, Mary. The Circle.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
DOMESTIC.

Robert NJ. Dubose, secretary of the
University OF the South, died in Sc
vance, Tenn.
At Shelbyville. KY. the National
Tobacco Growers Association unani-
mously adopted the raising of crop
of burly tobacco next year.
Leslie NJ. Shaw and other fnanciers
approved President Roosevelt's sug-
gestion for Federal control of trust
companies.
Mrs. Charles Nahlen, who had been
respondent over her husbands death
twelve years ago, was found dead in
gas-illed room in Chicago.
Carl Bundschu, manager of the
Elks' Club, at Knoxville, Tenn, was
shot and killed by Hollie Westmore,
land, porter, at the club.
II. E. Mcdonald, superintendent of
the United States Express Company,
officially announced that the amount
of money stolen from his company at
the night depot in Milwaukee, Wis.
was $1S,500.
An infant of w II. Banes, an en-
ploye of factory at Matoeka, w. Va,
is only eight months old but weighs
10 pounds. The babe at birth was
of normal weight, but now weighs
almost as much as its mother.
The yacht Kingdom, with about
sixty members of the Holy Ghost and
Us Colony at Shiloh on board, and a
crew of twenty, sailed from South
Freeport, Me-, for Jerusalem.
Control of the coastwise steamship
combination has been taken away
from Charles W. Morse and the old
managers placed in charge.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05

necessity OF laying one down to use
the other. Any one doing clerical
work will instantly recognize the time
thus saved AS novelty this little
device is one of the best ever pro-
duced from the Patent Office-W Wash
ington Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
ouR ADoprED IsLANDs.

Secretary Taft, in a speech in Ma
Mia, said the Americans must aid the
Filipinos in their work of building
up the islands.
Cuban agriculturists, political par
ties and newspapers joined in de-
mand on Governor Magoon that the
Cuban Treasury lend them S5,000,-
900 to harvest the next crop.
Governor Magoon decided to ap-
point az agricultural commission for
Cuba, at the suggestion of the Agrar-
ian League.
Secretary Taft had a conference
with Senior Osznena, President of the
Philippine Assembly, and expressed
qualification at the moderate attitude
of the body
The Cuban Attorney General is ex-
pected to show on the trial of the al
legged conspirators that the plot in
cluded assassination of Americans in
Cuba.
The anti-American feeling in Ha.
vana is growing. The authorities
have doubled the guard over the army
storehouses and other American prop
erty The Stars and Stripes was
Kissed at the National Theatre, and
Maurice Raymond, prestidigitator,
was fined $50 because he remonstrat'
ed with the audience for doing so.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
Countries Of One Crop.

Burmah is one of the worlds
single-crop countries, basing her
prosperity on rice, as Hawaii does
on sugar. and the Philippines do on
hemp.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
Plumbing, Timing. Steam
and Gas Fitting

at their OFFICE, Al Mill street, tele-
phone 2S4-l, or at the store of William
81. 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. 2538.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
NOTICES!

JOHN J. CARROLL, who for years,
has been in the firm of LooNEY s. CAR
ROLL, has formed q partnership with
his son, WILLIAM J. CARROLL, and
they are now ready to receive orders for
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
Ts our subsorrberu.

When you wish to change the address
Of your paper be sure and send the
present address as well as the new one,
II this is not done it is impossible to
make the change promptly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
LAWSON AFTER ROOSEVELT
Wants President and Gov. Johnston OF
Minnesota to Be Candidates.


New York, Dec, 23.-Hhomas w.
Lawson of Boston, who on last Tues.
day called on President Roosevelt at
the White house and who subsequently
said he would probably make a
statement to the public within a few
days." will, according to an interview
to be published by the World today
soon launch new political party.
It's candidates for president and vice
president, according to the plan as an
nounced, will be Theodore Roosevelt
and Gov. John A. Johnston of Mime
sofa.
1T matters not whit to me- said
Mr.. Lawson, whether Presidents
Roosevelt approves of the new party
or not, whether he consents to run as
it's presidential candidate or openly
refuses to do so. He will be our
candidate just the same and by the
vote of the people will be compelled
to complete the job he has commenced
the rescue of the country from the
wholesale thieves of Wall street"
Mr.. Lawson claims to have an or
ganization in every state of the union
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe-Latest Home and For
eign Items.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

William II. Taft, secretary of war
returned from his trip around the
world, bringing renewed assurance OF
Japan's friendliness toward the United
States, but declining to say anything
with respect to the political situation
in this country.
Speeches by Secretary Root, Presl'
dent Luis Anderson and Ambassador
Creel of Mexico, marked the close OF
the Central American peace confer
ence, which had been in session in
Washington for over a month, and had
agreed to and signed eight distinct
conventions.
John Sharp Williams Of Mississippi,
leader of the minority, and David A.
De Almond of Missouri engaged in
fist fight over the passing of the lie
on the floor of the house of represen-
tatives Immediately after adjourn
ment. Mr.. Williams struck the first
blow and Mr.. De Almond retaliated
vigorously with clenched fists.
Admiral Dewey gave dinner cele-
brating his SEVENTEEN birthday a week
ahead of time so President Roosevelt
could attend.
The fleet of 16 great battleships I'M
der command of Rear Admiral Evans
set sail from Hampton roads for the
Pacific ocean. President Roosevelt
gave the word to start and reviewed
the feet as it passed out toward the
ocean.
Messages from the battleship fleet,
reporting Fall WE'LL were picked up
by the wireless stations at Norfolk,
Va, and Charleston, S. G.
A law by congress authorizing an
emergency issue of currency through
the clearing house associations or
other machinery now existing should
be passed at once, says Comptroller
of the Currency Ridgely in his annual
report.
Senator Tillman made a speech In
the senate, filled with denunciatlon
of the president, the secretary OF the
treasury and the department OF JUS
tice, of financiers and captains OF In
dustry."
Mr.. Ansberry, of Ohio, introduced in
the house bill providing for sur
vey for ship canal to connect the
cities of Toledo and Chicago via the
Maumee river and Lake Michigan.
The president signed proclamations
creating the new Vegas national for
est in Nevada, and making an addition
to the Aquarius national forest in
Utah.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
MILK MEN INDICTED.
Grand Jury Accuses Fifteen Of Them
With Conspiracy.

Chicago, Dec. 22,-The grand jury
yesterday returned indictments
against fifteen members of the Hi
nois Milk Dealers association charg
ing conspiracy to raise the price o.
milk. The indictments are the result
of the investigation begun by States
Attorney Healey.
Among those indicted are William
J. Rogers, president of the Border
Condensed Milk company; Charles A
Wright of Chicago, manager. and JohE
r. Marsh, superintendent of the Bor
den company; j. r. Bowman, prest
dent of the Bowman Dairy company
C. E. Peck, of the same company;
George l.. Chappelle of the Kee &
Chappelle Dairy company; Ira Mix, o.
the Ira Mix Dairy compen ny, and
Howard Wanser, Charles Wanders
Edward F. Newton and Thomas r
Gore, local ,dairymen.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
MISCELLAN EOUS.

James H. Oliphant, senior member
of the stock exchange firm of James
H. Oliphant & Co., of New York, was
fatally shot at his office by Charles A
Geiger, a customer from Beaufort, S.
c., who, after firing upon Oliphant
killed himself.
At Karlsruhe, Germany, Karl Linde
nau, who was being prosecuted on a
charge of completely in the libeling OF
Olga Molitor and of having attempted
to blackmail her, was sentenced tC
three years Imprisonment and to five
years loss of civil rights.
Stories of alleged cruelties and bru.
talities, practiced upon defenseless in
sane patients by attendants, were tolo
in the hearing of the New York lunacy
commission appointed by Gov. Hughes
to investigate conditions in the Man
haitian State hospital, Wards island
Mrs. Theodore Weld Birney, founder
and honorary president of the National
Congress of Mothers, died at her home
in Chevy Chase, near Washington.
President Roosevelt signed a proc
lamation creating the Arkansas ma
tional forest.
Wireless messages reported that the
battleship fleet was nearing st
Thomas and that two men who were
i'll were landed at Culebra.
President Roosevelt directed the
withdrawal of United States troops
stationed at Goldfield, New, on Mon
day, December 80.
The main building of the University
of Oklahoma was burned.
Alfred M. Hewlett, president of the
Western Tube company, died at Ke
vance, ILL.,, of paralysis.
Princess Terri Pomare, of the royal
family of Tahiti, daughter of Queer
Marau, arrived in San Francisco from
Papeete.
Wireless telephone messages were
transmitted between Berlin and Copen
hagen, distance of 200 miles,
Rev. L. L. Conrady, the successor to
Father Damien at the leper colony at
Molokai, Hawaiian islands, is Ill with
tue sllp III 4NcW 1Olh. iAiS SohuilioAi
Is serious.
A rough count of the census OF
Cuba was cabled to the war depart.
ment by Gov. Magoon, showing the
total population Of the island to be
2,028,282.
The Republican state committee OF
Missouri Endorsed Taft for the presi
dency.
William r. Coyne, ST. Louis poll
tician, was convicted of perjury ano
sentenced to two years in prison.
William Bayard, M. D., LII. D., one
of the oldest practicing physicians in
the world, and the oldest graduate O.
Edinburgh university, died at his home
in st. John. N. B.. aged "a.
A package of diamond jewelry val
ued at more than $4,000 was stolen
from wagon of the United States
Express company in New York.
Mrs. Nellie G. Cochran of Chicago,
3S years old, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by M. L. Dillon, a
salesman, who then killed himself.
The Shelter City bank of Durango.
Col, state institution, closed its
doors.
Sixteen hundred Polish schools have
been closed by an order issued by
Gen. Skallon. The funds, $150,00O,
have been sent abroad to avoid con.
fscation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
Jury All of Women.

Denver, Colo, Dec. 22.-For tn,
first time in Colorado's history, ans
perhaps In the history of the countr!
as we'll, jury composed entirely O
women has been called into servici
and sat throughout law suit, finall.
rendering verdict. The suit wal
one being tried before Justice Carlor
and involved the question whether o,
not garment purchased by woman
from local merchant fitted the pur
chaser. The jury found that II did 1T
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

The story that an aged woman at
Findlay, o., was burned to death while
engaged in the ancient rite of burn.
ing incense for worship, is marred by
the incidental statement that she
poured kerosene on the incense That
is a modern rite, numbered by many
among the evils for which the Stand.
ard Oil company is responsible.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Mercury deliberately walked across
the face of the sun, as freely predict
ed. The sun did not take enough no
tice of the insectivorous planet even
to brust it off. Herein lies a moral
which the great ones of the earth,
teasei by small critics, might take to
heart. incidentally, the suns face
was just the same after Mercury had
crossed it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

New York has demonstrated in
curious new way it's right to be re-
gardeG as the city in which the strain
of life is most severe and the tension
highest. Central park, which is only
80 years old, is pronounced to be In
its dotage-prematurely worn out. 1t
is estimated that 100000 will be
necessary to restore it's lost youth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

There will be general relief over
the announcement that the duchess
of Marlborough has tried the pie pro-
vided for immigrants at Ellis island,
and pronounced it good. Although the
duchess is not popularity known as a
pie-biter, there is every reason to be-
lieve that her judgment is sane and
sound
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

France is the premier snail-produ.
cling nation, although Austria, Bra.
varia and Switzerland have thousands
of snail farms, where the famous es.
cargots are raised and fattened on
vine leaves. The demand for snails
in France is far too great for the sup.
ply to be left to chance, and thus it
comes about that snail farming is an
important industry. Paris alone con
sumes millions between September
and May, when these little creatures
are at their best.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

A woman in Boston has cooked g..
100000 doughnuts. The number OF
dyspeptics in the United States is said
to be 100000. A woman can not al
ways be blamed for all the ills of man.
kind
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

A Wisconsin real estate dealer
smashed the breakfast dishes, broke
the furniture and slapped his wife, for
which he was very properly fined. Fur.
niture is too costly to handle reckless.
ly these DAYS.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Columbia University has also de
cided to give up the system of con.
Quoting examinations on honor. and
will go back to the old custom OF
having the examinations supervised
by officers of the university to pre-
vent cheating If we are not mis-.
taken, Princeton is now about the
only university where the honor sys
tenn is still maintained with entire
success and satisfaction to all con.
cerned. 1t is unique distinction for
President Woodrow Wilson's young
men, and it is hoped may not be taken
away from them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

The supreme court of Missouri has
decided that lemons are medicine.
This partly explains what it means
when one says man has to take his
medicine. 1t means that lemons are
being handed to him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

DR.. Hurry declares that there are
vast quantities of gold in the air.
No doubt Likewise there are tons
of it in teeth. But it does not help
any in times of stringency.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

The moss-covered doctrine of anti.
guilty is absolutely untitled for mod
ern use and must give way to scien,
tific progress.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Some Chicago women purpose max
ing mince pies for charity. On Sec
ond thought, they might decide it
would be charitable not to make them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

A jackass in Connecticut commit
ted suicide. Perhaps he came to
sudden realization that he was a
jackass.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

So far no one has been discovered
who has refused the new coin be-
cause it has not the old motto
upon it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Five hundred dollars doesn't look
look like an excessive charge for an
expert in heraldry and genealogy
TO make for tracing an obscure
persons ancestry back to Alfred the
Great. though 1t seems to be neces
sary to resort to the courts to col
lect 1t. Climbing family tree is
q great art, remarks the Indianapolis
Star. but 1t has its perils as we'll as
its dizzy delights. There Is fire
qucnty danger of finding an ances
tor dangling from one of the lirabs
And sometimes found. too before
climbing back very far
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

A woman in Sheburne Falls, Mass,
has in her cellar jar of peaches dated
1869, and does not hesitate to admit
that she put them up herself.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Those who have endured desperate
adversely can best appreciate pros
perity.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

A heart of gold is always desirable,
but just at present, in the prevailing
shortage, a handful of it is very much
more convenient.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Ten million gold eagles are being
coined at the Philadelphia mint from
English bullion. That is enough to
make the British lion roar.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Now that Prof. Koch has chased the
microbe of the sleep sickness" to his
lair, he would confer a public favor
by getting after the microbe Of in
somnia.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Radical anger and petulant passion
plunge even the best men into the
ditch of destruction.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

There never was a loafer or criminal
of any kind that had any self-respect
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

One man kept his money in his
stocking and it dropped through
hole. That was a darned poor bank.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

Ewes hungry man draws the line
at eating his words.