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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

GOVERNOR STOKES in this. the last
year of his term, has an extraordinary
amount of official patronage to dis
pense. In that he is more blessed
than were many Of his predecessors,
whose lists of appointments, were
nearly exhausted when they en-
tered upon their last official year.
A number of appointments have al
ready been made by the Governor.
The total great aud small, is seventy
Tour, not including the members of
the equalization boards in the twenty
one counties of the State, that bring
The total up to more than one hun
dred. In the judiciary the appoint
ments include a supreme court and a
court of errors Judge, two circuit court
judges, eight county law judges and
four district court judges, together
with three prosecutors of the pleas.
The executive heads include the Sec
rotary of State, State Treasurer, SUI
preme court clerk, State superinten-
dent of education, State prison keeper,
State labor commissioner and public
library commissioner. There are to
be appointed also members of the
State board Of assessors, State board
of equalization, State sewerage com
mission, and of nearly all of the other
State commissions and institutional
boards. Eleven inspectors of the de-
partment of labor are to be appointed
by the Governor alone. The aggre-
gate of salaries represented in these
appointments is about $4,000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

THE House Committee on Post Off
ces and Post Roads has reached an
agreement on the matter Of compen-
satfon of railroads for carrying the
mails The committee at first agreed
to recommend a reduction Of 5 per
cent in the price paid for carrying
$4,000 pounds or less per day and 10
per cent. reduction from the present
price for carrying $4,000 to $4,000
pounds per day. with fiat rate on all
over this amount of Sl8 per ton per
mile per annum, a reduction from
$2l.371 per ton. The roads at first
agreed to accept the and 10 per cent.
reductions if the fiat tonnage rate
were fixed at $40 per ton. The COM
mittee refused to accede this anG an
agreement was finally reached that
the price should be $40 per ton per
mile per annum. 1t is estimated that
these reductions will result in saw
ing to the Government Of about 3d.
100000 annually in the cost of railroad
mail transportation. The committee
also voted to reduce the rent of postal
cars about 81, 100000 annually and also
to deduct from the tonnage the weight
of the mail bags. The Department
was unable to estimate what amount
would be saved by the elimination of
the bags.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12
OBITUARY.
MRS. HELEN t. HEADLEY.

Mrs. Helen IT, Headley, the widow
of the late J. Boyd Headley died last
Friday evening. She came on to Nor
ristown some weeks ago to visit her
sister, Miss Latona Thopas, who died
recently. While here Mrs. Headley
had stroke of apoplexy from which
she never recovered; Her condition
was such that she was not told of her
sisters death.
Mrs. Headley was daughter of the
late Abraham Thomas, of Wilkes
Barre, Pa, and a descendent of John
Alden and Priscilla, and had many
articles of colonial date which she was
pround to exhibit. She is survived by
a son, William T. Headley and a
daughter. Miss Helen t. Headley.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12
legislative Manual.

The Legislative Manual for's1907 is
out, and the editor, Thomas f. Fitz-
gerald, has better cause than ever for
satisfaction with this work. 1t is far
and away better than any similar
publication in this country, and has
been so ever since its first number was
issued over a quarter century ago. 1t
is a handsomely printed, well-bound
and illustrated volume of $40 pages,
and contains pretty nearly everything
about the government Of New Jersey,
from its history to the names of the
county officers. 1t is simply invalu-
BILE as a reference book and should be
in every library in the State and in
every school house too. Mr. Fitzger-
aid prints it and the State buys as
many copies as it wants at dollar
each. Those who want extra copies
can buy them of the publisher at the
same price. The first Legislative
Manuel was published in the early
seventies by Frank Lundy, then Tren-
ton correspondent of the Newark
Advertiser. He gave it up after a
few years, when he came to Morris
town to take charge of the Norris
Republican, +" and in 1879 Thomas f.
Fitzgerald began the new series, and
he has since conducted the enter
prise with the greatest satisfaction
to the members and to the public,
simply by always giving more than
the moneys worth. No political
changes have influenced it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

PROPERTY HOLDERS and insurance
men throughout the State are much
interested in a bill which Assembly
man Joseph Tumulty, of Hudson, has
announced that hesWill introduce into
the Legislature next week. He pro
poses in his bill to do away with the
80 per cent. clause in fire insurance
policies, stating that in this way the
policy-holders can be saved much
money in premiums, and the com
panies be prevented from becoming
unjustly enriched. The bill is sure to
meet the united opposition of fire in
surance companies. The men at the
head OF the companies claim that the
so per cent. clause is necessary for the
protection of the companies, which
they assert could not otherwise stand
their losses.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

The Civic Association has secured
@, G. Vermuele, G. E., to read at its
next meeting, paper on the proposed
Passaic River Reservoir. AS it is a
subject of very great interest to Nor
ristown, the privilege is extended to
members to bring friends with them
to the meeting, which will be held in
the hall of the Y. M. c., Wednesday,
February 18Th, at eight p. M. AS
planned, the reservoir will come very
close to Morristown.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12
"A RARE MAN.

Throughout the excitement Of the
campaign Of last fall with the Colby
struggle begun in midsummer, and
from the beginning to the end Of the
joint sessions which resulted in the
election of Frank o. Briggs to the
Senatorship there has been one man
who, more than any other, has con-
tributed to the effort to restore party
harmony and bring out Of all the
chaotic conditions which have pre-
vailed the best possible results for the
people of New Jersey and the Repub-
ican party. High in the councils OF
his party even before his administra-
tion.of the duties devolying upon him
in his present office made him a ma
tional figure, he was in position to
add to his personal aggrandizement
He could, to advance selfish interests,
have so manipulated affairs that he,
not Briggs, would now be hailed as
Senator, and indeed 1t would have re-
quired no real manipulation, as that
term is generally used, but his merest
acquiescence would have sutficed to
have eliminated Dryden before his i'll
ness did so and other candidates would
have had no following worthy the
name.
Instead of such a course, he adhered
faithfully to the strictest interpreta-
tion of the constitutional provision
bearing upon the case, following his
own conscientious view of his duty to
the people of New Jersey and thrust
aside all insinuations that he enter
the race or allow his name to be used
by those opposed to the active aSpi-
rants for the honors. He thus not
only was true to the oath he took
wher he became Governor of his
State, but he also Showed an unwill-
ingness, amounting to positive refusal
to permit himself to be used to fur
ther the objects of those who sought
to bring about disruption where har-
mony should prevail, adding, if that
were possible, to his standing as a Re
publican of the finest and truest kind.
Such a man, foremost as he is as
patriot, and statesman, deserves all
the honor that Can be paid him by his
fellowmen. He is of the calibre of
which great public servants are made
and his elevation to higher response
bilities will reflect credit upon, his
State and upon those who call him to
such service. In recent years New
Jersey has given the lamented and
honored Hobart to the nation and the
work of the dignified and able GriggS
will long be remembered at the na-
tional capitol. Should the next ma
tiona! convention select a candidate
from the eastern part of the country,
it's choice could not be better made
than if it placed the name of Edward
Casper Stokes upon its banners with
that of the man who is to- succeed
Theodore Roosevelt. There would
then be that feeling of security which
the nation had when the Philadelphia
convention put Roosevelt with Nc
Kinley, for it would be recognized
that again it had been borne in mind
in selecting candidate for second
place that Vice-Presidents should be
fit men to succeed to the Presidency
in an emergency.,-Perth A m boy
Chronicle, February I, 1907.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

IT was to be expected that the Sun
day Call" failing in an attempt to
control the Senatorial situation in
this State, would vent it's spleen upon
some one. The Morris county leaders
were chosen to be the victims of its
wrath and last Sunday it INDUCED IN
bitter inyectives against Senator Hill
lery, County Clerk voorhees, aud John
III. Capsticll, but, as usual, was so I'M
just and untrue in its statements as
to defeat the purpose of It's publica-
tons. In fact, the chronic grudge of
the Cam against Morris county and
the men who manage its affairs, poll
tical and otherwise, has become so
familiar to well informed in this coun-
ty that its fulminations fail to excite
more than passing notice.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

GOVERNOR STOKES, in communi-
cation to the Trenton Times" indig-
nantly denies that he has in any way
practiced duplicity in the late Sena-
torial contest. He claims that he has
not countenanced any effort on the
part of his friends to secure him the
position, and has been at all times de-
sirous of securing a harmonious set
element of the differences in the party
and the election of competent
man for the position of United States
Senator.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

THE State Board of Education has
apportioned S7,04S, 945 to be devoted
to school purposes throughout the
State. This is an increase of ITO per
cent. over the amount of State funds
devoted to the schools last year, the
increase being due in part to the pas
sage of the Perkins Railroad Tax act
of last winter, under which the rail
roads taxes have been increased by
more than S3,0OO,0oo year. The le-
gality of this act is being attacked by
the courts.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

THERE is one thing that will be to
the everlasting credit of Senator John
f. Dryden, and that is had he been
selfish he could have tied up the Leg
islature in deadlock, as Addicks re-
peatedly did in Delaware. Mr.. Dry
den, however, is too patriotic man,
too faithful to his State and party to
resort to such methods. He is by no
means the self-seeker that his oppo-
nentS tried TO picture him.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

Any one who is acquainted with the
insect life of Florida will remember
the ubiquitous ant. and now comes the
alarm sounded in the chronological
News that several varieties of tropical
ants have been discovered in Florida
and Alabama, being recent introduce
tons. One of these, which is an espe-
cially destructive pest, feeds on either
vegetable or animal substances.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12
From the preface to Baedeker's

From the preface to Baedeker's
Southern Italy, we obtain this re-
markable advice: 1.-THE traveller should
adopt the Neapolitan custom Of reject
ing fish that are not quite fresh"
There are about 1000 lepers in Co
lombia, or one to every thousand In
habitants. Most Of them are now iso-
lated. Cases>ar rarely found among
the classes living with hygienic care
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

The Lincoln Birthday exercises of
Maple Avenue Public School were
held Monday afternoon and were in
charge Of the Sophomore and FRESH
man classes. DR. Pierson gave an in
teresting talk on Lincoln and told OF
several battles OF the Civil War. The
Washington Birthday exercises will
be in charge Of the Grammar School.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

Our Democratic friends still claim
the State for next fall and are boom
log Farmer-orator MARITIME for the
gVernorship.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12

with Chapter ls 1906 SECTION
more years preceding the first day january. 1907
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-12
SUBSCRIPTION BATES

)ne Year 200 Six Months. sl.oo
The newspaper., 1907-04-12
THE RECEPTION.
Large Crowd Gathers Express Congratulations to Hon. NJ
D. Vincent for Faithful Discharge of Duty.

At the close Mr.. Vincent de-
livered a carefully worded speech
that made plain to everyone pres
ent that our representative aPPre-
cia,es and feels thankful for the
good opinion of his constituents,
but also that he has no apologies
to make to those who disapprove.
He was careful to say in unmis-
taxable terms that his every vote
and speech in the late assembly
was based on an honest desire to
carry out the terms and promises
of the republican platform. He
severely condemned the Six
teenth for evading its duty and
violating its platform pledges.
He ventured the opinion that the
next assembly would contain a
majority of men who would re-
spect the platform pledges upon
which they were elected. He
made it clear that he respected
honesty in public service above
party policy and in fact made
just such a speech as his hearers
expected and wanted
We believe we voice ninety
per cent. majority of the people
when we say that Vincent is
man whom the entire North Fork
trusts and respects, in whose
hands We can feel safe and a man
whom we confidently expec to
grow in the public opinion and
fill higher positions OF trust than
the one he now fills.
Those who pretend to think
that the people do not esteem
honesty in the public service are
doomed to have a rude awaken
ing. More and more the people
are learning that, as was stated by
DIR. Dixon last night, Graft has
no politics" And they begin to
understand that the way to COM
pet, is to lay politics aside and
vote for an honest man when they
can find him.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

By holding our last pages till
Saturday morning we are enabled
to print an account of a most
enthusiastic meeting. Long before
the doors we're opened people
were awaiting to enter. Very
soon after the house was opened
all seats even in the gallery were
filed. The entrance of Mr..
Vincent. the guest of the evening,
was the signal for a demonstra
ton of applause that must have
been an impressive example to
our representative of his PoPu-
larity.
The Chairman of the evening
was E. J. Mathews who intro
duced the speakers, as per pro-
gramme on our first page except
for the absence of Mrs. E. P.
Martin and the failure of c. M.
Baily to respond. 1t would be
impossible to comment on the
speeches other than to say that
all were in the way of neigh
borly approval of the course of
Mr.. Vincent. Notable among
them was the remarks of F. D..
Catlin, of Montrose, who said
that the people of his home
county approved of Mr.. Vincent's
course in every particular. This
was welcome news to some of
the democrats present who re-
member that Montrose is repre-
sented by two loyal democrats
who always stood with Mr.. Vim
cent for honesty and decency. Itis
gratifying to know that both these
counties have representatives who
are appreciated by their consti
tuents, irrespective OF party.
The orchestra gave many choice
selections interspersing the short
speeches, and a male quartette,
consisting of F. r. Rockwell
Roland Oliver, P. c. Curtis and
A. ]. Castell rendered four selec-
tions in a manner that called for
applause.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

the charge OF conspiracy to unlaw-
fully secure United States lands
and was about to be sentenced to
pay a fine of $500 and serve 10
months in prison when he ap-
pealed to the supreme court that
his Imprisonment would prevent
his attendance upon sessions of
congress from which he claimed
protection under the Constitution.
He now moves the court to ad-
vance the case to immediate hear
ing on the ground of its public
importance. AS the term for
which Williamson was elected to
congress expired on the 4th of
March last, his appeal will hardly
appeal to the court as of any i'm
portance, as to keep him out of
prison would not affect his next
attendance on the next congress
of which he is not member. Still
it will be interesting to know if
congressman convicted OF
crime is SO necessary to his con-
stituents that the court will let
him free to serve them. The Re-
publicans of Oregon must have
been hard up for material for
public servants when they Sc
lected Senator Mitchell and Con-
gressmen Williamson and Her
mann, all of whom were mixed
up in the land frauds Durango
Democrat.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

MoNTRosE announces that her
oil we'll is nearly assured. At a
depth of about nine hundred feet
they struck an eleven foot vein Of
coal and below that got. oil in
small quantities. The we'll is
still going down and they are all
jubilant over the propects for oil
in paying quantities. We hope
they are successful. We need an
oil field to make the western
slope pre- eminent in one more
industry.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12
FATALLY DEFECTIVE.

DENVER, April 10.-The joke of
the sixteenth general assembly is
on Senator Drake and Representa-
tive Watson. These two men were
the chairmen of the respective
finance committees of both house
and senate. All that they wanted
in the way of an appropriation
was law providing that 10 per
emit of all moneys secured
through the sale of state land
should be turned over to the agri
cultural college board for the
board to purchase land upon
which would be started expert
mental farms in connection with
the agricultural college. The
agricultural -ollege is located at
their home and they wanted this
appropriation and nothing else.
They secured the enactment of a
law making the appropriation but
they forgot to incorporate in the
bill what is known as the repeal
ing act which says that: "all acts
in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed" and as result they
did not repeal Section 1850
which provides that none of the
principal from the sale of school
lands shall be expended. This
leaves their new law in opera
tive, and what the two men
wanted they did not get.
1t is strange commentary on
the ability of the men who were
respectively placed on the finance
committee of their two houses,
that they should be SO densely
careless as to vitiate their own
bills by failure that would be
inexcusable in the least conspicu.
Gus member of either house. The
repeating clause is almost if not
quite as essential as the enacting
clause Watson is old enough
and experienced enough to know
how to draft bill.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

AS will be observed by reading
the council proceedings, the
board have strictly observed all
directions given by the late cleo
ton. At the last meeting the
druggists permits were cancelled
and Paonia may now be said to
be dry SO far as Legislation can
make it so. The board are to be
congratulated on doing as they
were told. The same course of
respecting the will of the people
will earn them the respect OF all,
and they will retire from Office
with the best wishes of every good
citizen.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

FRANK CATLIN mentioned that
democrats could always see good
in dead republicans. but rarely
appreciated their virtues till they
were dead. We guess that is on
the principle that after they are
dead they cease to have power
for evil. Still, there is a larger
percentage ofgood live ones than
in former years. We can remem-
ber when his remarks would have
been accepted as absolutely true
by democrats.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12
bV democrats.

THE criticism of the President
for saying that Hartman was as
bad as Meyer and Haywood may
be alright. Still it must be taken
into consideration that the Presi-
dent often speaks hastily and
would hardly have made the
utterance with the intent to injure
the chances of the accused for
fair trial. 1t is very unfortunate
that the remark was made, but
we can not believe that it will
actually effect the decision of a
jury.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12
Knights Of Pythias Attention.

A lodge is to be organized here
of the above order on April 22d
and it is greatly desired to have
all old Knights report to J. A.
Bunker, Ii Nelson or c. I. Rawalt.
1t you are Knight, please make
it known.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

THE truth shall set US free" is
inscribed on a frieze in the new
Pennsylvania capitol. 1t may be
true in Pennsylvania, but in San
Francisco it is doing the exact
opposite.-Denver News.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

When the donkey saw the zebra,
He began to switch his tail,
"Well, l never" was his comment,
Here's a mule that's been in
Jail"
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

THE Thaw trial seems to have
resulted in hung jury. Strange
that merit should fail of recogni-
tion in an acquittal.
The newspaper., 1907-04-12
REPUBLICAN LAND GRAPTERS.

Representative Williams of Ore
eon who was convicted in 1905, on
The newspaper., 1907-04-12

Voluntary Observers Meteorological Record
For the week ending Apr. IL, 1907,
and corresponding week OF 1906.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-08-23
The M0urners' Neal

1t is little difficult to recognize the
connection between the hard-boiled eggs
and a mourning custom, and, as mat
ter of course, fanciful explanations
have been forthcoming in abundance.
Originally, there was no religious associ-
alton whatever in this ceremony of pro-
vision of hard boiled eggs for mourners.
The object was purely and simply one of
ministering to the physical needs Of peo-
pie who had been in trouble and had
been going without food. AS soon as the
funeral was over it was deemed neces-
sary that the living should be studied
and that the mourners should partake
of some food. and an egg being most cas-
lily and quickly prepared was prescribed
in consequence. There is really nothing
more in it than this, viz, the desire to
lose no time in providing a meal for
The Jewish outlook., 1907-08-23

people who were badly in want of it.
The egg, however, has always lent itself
to symbolism, because it contains the
germ of life and was often regarded as
a symbol of resurrection. It's use is also
found on the Continent on the Seder
evening, when hard boiled eggs are
eaten at the commencement of the home
service. In this case it was also symbol
of resurrection national resurrection.
"Why is pancake like the sum-"
Because, said the Swede, cit rises
out of der yeast and sets behind der
vest. '-Exchange.