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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

THE Board of Health of the State of
New Jersey has just issued compila-
tion of the public health laws of the
State, made in the Office of the Attor-
ney-General by Theodore Backes, a
copy of which should be in the hands
of every member of local boards of
health as well as in all municipal Off
ces. Few officials are aware of the
laws enacted for the promotion and
protection of the health of the people,
and this compilation is so fully in
dexed that it will be found a ready ref
erence when any question affecting
the public health is raised. The power
conferred on local boards of health, as
set forth in the act contained in the
book, if exercised as it should be in
every community, would undoubtedly
improve health conditions and pre-
vent nuisances that are stealthily
committed and silently endured be-
cause of unwillingness of citizens to
prosecute. 1t would be good thing
If copy of this compilation could be
put in the hands of every good citizen,
so that he may be informed of the pro-
lection to which he is entitled,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

THE annual report on the building
and loan associations of the State, just
made to the Governor by Banking and
Insurance Commissioner Watkins,
shows that there are now in New Jer-
sey 461 of these organizations, all but
one of which are mutual" in which
all the profits go to the shareholders.
The total assets Of the mutual associa-
tions aggregate $67, 1902, 407, their total
membership is 143,SS6, and the num-
Der of shares 1,065, 1865. More than five
and a half million dollars were paid on
matured shares during the year, near
ly $4,000 was on mortgages, ard over
81, 100000 was loaned on shares. The
benefit of these associations to home.
getters is incalculable. The man OF
woman who is working for wages can
find no more profitable way of invest.
ing their savings and no easier way OF
buying home.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

THE "Hudson Observer" says
George M tanning, former Post
master and first citizen of Florham
Park, in Morris county, who is ac-
cused of many forgeries, was taken
from jail to court in Newark Wednes-
day, to testify in bankruptcy proceed
ings, where, under sharp examination,
he told the most remarkable story of
successive thefts that has possibly
ever been heard from mans lips.
He testified that thirty
years ago he had discounted a note at
the National Bank at Morristown for
S117. Upon this the endorsements
were forged. This was the beginning
of his career Of crime. He did not be-
gin to issue fraudulent paper in the
name of the borough until twenty We
years ago. Since then he had kept at
the practice. One forged note was
issued TO take up another, and with
each year he became more deeply in
volved, until the end came in diScov-
cry three months ago. Where in fic-
tion can this story be matched ?
Think of it A man engaged for more
than quarter of century in system
attic crime involving documents of re-
cord, to which he had forged the
names of his neighbors and yet, dur
ing the whole of that long period, his
thefts escaped detection"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

THE New Jersey State Board OF
Equalization of Taxes on Wednesday
sent its annual report to Governor
Stokes for transmission by him to the
next Legislature. The report shows
that the total ratables in New Jersey
this year amount to 1854, 527 AIS, a
gain of II per cent over last year, when
the total was 81, $50, 2l0,077. The in
crease in Morris county is S5,676, O92.
In the recommendations to the legis-
latlon is Il statement that many tax
my districts that were assessed on a
20, 30 or so per cent. basis have come
up practically to true value. 1t is
rather amusing to see and hear it SER
iously discussed that this assessment
at true value is a new law or some new
enactment by the Legislature. 1T
seems almost impossible to convince
the public that it is simple an enforce
ment OF a long existing law.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03


On Saturday the chairman of the
Congressional Committees on Rules
and on Ways and Means made the an.
nouncement that there would be no
tariff tinker1ng at the coming session
of Congress. This will have a Abene-
fetal effect on the business world, for
tariff revision a5ed 20 present condi-
tions would cauy us over the brink as
it did the last time we had a tariff re-
vision. If the tariff is to be amended,
and no one familiar with it's details
will argue that charges could not be
made which would be beneficial, it
should be amended by men thorough
ly conversant with its operations and
in one detail or schedule at time,
and in that with long preparatory no.
tice. Any proposition to revise" the
tariff is dangerous. 1t strikes at every
industry affected by, the tariff, and at
every importing business. 1t would
amount to notice to close the factor
les and to cancel orders for foreign
goods.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03
MT. FKEEDoM.

Rev. Mr.. limerick. of Sparta, con,
Quoted the services at the Presbyterian
Church on Sunday.
A dance was held in the new barn at
Combs Hollow Tuesday evening last
Peter Kennerup and family return
ed to their home at Orange.
Bert Lanterman took a load of PEG.
pie to the Ironia donation on Tuesday
last. The net proceeds of the dona.
tion amounted to sixty-dollars.
The>proceeds from the M. E. Church
donation were about thirty-dollars.
William Cleveland and wife return.
ed to their home at Newark on Friday
last.
Mrs. Andrew Lanterman is visiting
her son William at Morristown.
James Workman, wife and son Har.
old. of Newark, were the guests of rel.
atives here last week.
Miss Myrtle Thompson. of Port Nor.
ris, was entertained by relatives here
for q few days.
Jesse Clark and family, of Newark
were the guests of their parents for a
few days.
Mrs. Jane Briant, an aged lady, died
at her home on Friday last. She hao
been an invalid through an accident
and unable to walk for over forty
years. Funeral services were held al
the house and interment at the Pres
byterian cemetery on Sunday last.
George o. Coe and family, of Morris
town, aud Miss Laura f. Coe, of New
York City, were the guests of theil
parents here on Thanksgiving.
Miss Jessie Blackwell, of the State
Normal School, was home for a few
days last week.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
at the home of Mrs. Martin Carroll or
Wednesday afternoon of this week.
Mrs. S. D. Youugs is visiting he
daughter, Mrs George Wolfe at Mine
| Hill.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03
NEWS FROM
OTHER TOWNS
HANOVER.

! Miss Minnie Feibel, of Hoboken, Wis
tied Mrs. Matthias Babcock last week
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Ferguson spent
Thanksgiving Day with Miss Bella
Ferguson in Brooklyn. Miss Ferguson,
who has been at a Sanitarium in Brook
llyn since July, is much improved in
health.
Mrs. Mary Beach, whose hip was in
4 jured by a fall two months ago, went
to a Sanitarium in New York on We'd
nesday last, where she will receive
treatment under the direction of her
nephew, DIR. Bently Squier, of New
York.
| The children of the public school
| gave pleasing and instructiveTha
giving program ON Wednesday after
noon. School was closed on Thursday
reopening on Friday.
Mrs, Ina DeForest and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jud Carpenter and sons, Kenneth and
Clinton, of Brooklyn, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. DeForest, last week.
Thornton Webb, of Pennington In
stitute, spent his Thanksgiving vaca-
tion at his home here.
Frank and Edward Eckhardt and
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Eckhardt, of New
York, spent last Thursday with John
Eckhardt and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Sanders and Ed
Wark Lee, OF Campgaw, and Miss Edna
Decker, of Wycoff, were guests of Mrs.
Walter Raymond last week.
Mrs. William Ward entertained a
family party at dinner on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hopping enter
tanned friends and relatives on the
holiday.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison
Mead on Thanksgiving Day were Mr..
and Mrs. James r. Mead, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry DeForest, Mr.. and Mrs. William
F. Ely, Miss Sue Ely and Miss Mary
Schenck of Hanover, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Carl of Madison, and Mr.. and
Mrs. James Ely of Summit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Hopping, Miss
Ella Hopping and Luther Hopping of
Caldwell, took dinner as usual Thanks
giving Day with @. F. Hopping and
family.
Leo f. Kitchell and family Joined
family party of twenty at the home of
Mrs. W. A. Jewell last Thursday.
The death of Munson Griffith oc-
Cured at his home here on Monday,
Nov. rs, after an illness of over year.
Mr.. Griffith was Y years old, a life
long resident and respected citizen of
Hanover and a member of the Han
over Presbyterian Church. He leaves
a brother, Daniel Griffith, of Roseland,
a wife, Mrs. Martha Beach Griffith,
one son, Clifford, of Hanover Neck land
two daughters, Mrs. Charles Wesley
Ball and Miss Sadie Griffith, of Han
over. Funeral services conducted by
DR.. Ferguson, were held at his late
home on Friday at half-past one and
interment was made in the Hanover
eemetary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

Stuart III. Calkins of Baltimore has
received $4,000 for a vitrified ceremic
mosaic picture, which contains $4,000
pieces of mosaic and 1000 varicolored
tints. 1t required seven years to do
the work, and it is the first ceramic
mosaic specimen Of art ever attempted
in America.
Professor Eugene KIeAEemann OF
Germany, who has passed two years
in Harvard as exchange professor, in
an article in a German publication
praises American home life, saying he
has been surprised at the comfort and
beauty of our houses and the culture
of the people.
The state treasury OF Saxony places
the income from governmental forests
as its highest revenue producer after
the state railways. After deducting
costs, including salaries and wages of
employees, amounting to 81, 1857 $780, the
net profit of $2,126,037 was added to
the state treasury in 1906.
There are 1919 savings banks in
this country, with S,027, 1872 depositors
and the average amount due each de-
position is $433.79. Iowa, with 494 OF
these institutions, leads the LIST, but
the number of patrons Is only 1885,, 527,
while New York, with 1874 savings
banks, has 1851. 235 depositors.
New York city surface car conduct
ors, says the New York Herald, have
their own code of morals and do not
hesitate to say that their low wages,
hard work and the methods of the
managers justify them in getting their
Prerequisites" when they can, and they
fix reasonable amount at 50 dail.-.
DR.. John Quincy Adams has been ap-
pointed assistant secretary of the New
York municipal art commission. He
Is well known In this line OF work. In
1899 he went abroad to study art in It's
relation to cities and people, ana since
1901 he has lectured extensively
throughout the United States on art
In its relation to daily life.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

THE new Fish and Game Commits
sion has recommended some changes
in the laws, among them that both
resident and nonresident gunners
shall be licensed, no spring shooting
no sale Of game; no fish nets or weirs,
and no pound nets within one mile of
the coast. There is no intimation of
what nonresident gunner who has
paid his license may do with his game,
and, of course, the old proyisionsthat
he must not take trout of the State
remains. Is it not about time the
huntsmen Of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey come to an agreement to. be
sensible, and have the law against TAX
ing the spoils of the2hunt out of the
respective States repealed ?Dead game
is of no use toward multiplying the
living, nor is there any sport in kill
ing game If the hunter may not enjoy
feasuing on it, rather than leave it to
rot in the fields. Game wardens could
be more useful if, instead of waiting
on the borders to trap licensed gunners
carrying away game, they gave their
undivided attention to protecting the
fish and game in the closed seasons.
But the game laws are a riddle that
few can solve, and whether the new
commission will be any better than its
predecessor in making them clear, by
amendment or otherwise, remains to
be proved.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

AUTOMOBILES who are inclined to
the reckless driving of their machines
should make note of the fact that
Judge Foster of Monmouth county,
has just sent to jail for four months
James Coleman, chauffeur who ran
his automobile into a carriage at Deal,
last June, injuring two ladies. lie
must also pay the costs. That is the
sort of a sentence that is calculated TO
prevent recklessness in automoDiling.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03
ENDS THIRD TERM TALK.
President Roosevelt Again Says He
Will Not Be Candidate.

President Roosevelt Again Says He
Will Not Be Candidate.
Washington, Dec. SIN words suffi-
GENTLY emphatic to satisfy the most
persistent advocates of his renomina-
ton President Roosevelt once more has
made it plain that he will not be can
didate.
Il won't deviate one single point
from the announcement | have al
ready made" said the president to
Representative Hinshaw of Nebraska,
who came to tell him that the people
of that state wished him to run again
for the presidency,
This Isl the most direct and positive
statement that has been made by the
president on the subject of the third
term since his election in 1904
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

THERE will be general agreement
with The State Gazette" in the fol-
loving:
There has been such a thing as
Governors day at the State House
for a good many years, but it has heen
gwen up to confab between the execu-
tive and politicians and discussion of
The business of the State. 1t never
las been the peoples day. Such day.
Cover or Fort might establish to his
OwD credit and the satisfaction Of New
jersey citizens
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

WITH Governor Stokes as Chairman,
the State Board of Election Canvass
ers meet in the Senate Chamber Tues
day afternoon to pass officially upon
the vote cast for Governor on Novem-
Der 5. The board is composed of SEN
ators Frelinghuysen, Bradley and
Hutchinson, Republicans, and Hinch-
life and Price, Democrats. all of whom
were appointed by the Governor.
The board had before it two sets Of
figures to consider This is due to the
fact that in some counties there are
discrepancies between the figures GER
titled to the Secretary Of State by the
various district election boards and
those filed with him by the county
election boards.
According to the county board fig
ures Fort carried New jersey by a
plurality of 5000, while the figures
from the district boards, as compiled
by the Secretary of State, in readiness
for the State Board, show that New
jersey went for Fort by S.0l6 votes, or
fourteen votes less than the county
vote figures.
Under theelection law district board
figures are to be considered, the coun-
ty board returns being taken merely
as check upon the district returns.
1t is expected, therefore, that the
State Board certified to the figures as
filed by the district boards and declar-
ed that John Franklin Fort was elect
ed Governor of the State by plurality
of 8,016 votes.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

THE attention Of the editor of 1.-THE
Issue" has been called to the gross mis-
statements made In regard to the vote
in Morris county, but he has made no
corrections so far.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03
Lace dressing has been considcre,

Lace dressing has been considered
necessarily unhealthy occupation be
cause the workers have to live IN an.
atmosphere the temperature of which
may exceed 100 degrees #. a medical
officer at Nottingham. England, has,
however. shown that many lace dress
ers now enjoy vigorous old age after
doing this work from childhood and
that the death rate is below the aver
age
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

Keep Hens Away From Horses.
1t is almost impossible to destroy hen
lice when they once get a start on the
horse. Horses should not be uuartered
near henhouse, nor should chickens
be allowed to roost near the horses
stall. Farmers Advocate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03
MARRIED.

WALLER DORSEY. -On Thurs
day, November 18th by Friends cere-
mony at the house Of Frank Waller,
Elwyn Waller to Frances Dorsey.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03

Y1V1VVV WUN5NVy OatI ~ y 20 FIHUa
New York, Dec. g.. Grover Cleveland
Fuller, who but a short time ago was
earning $4,000 year as a jockey on
the big race tracks, did not have So
with which to pay fine imposed upon
him by Magistrate Barlow for intoxE
cation and was placed in a cell.
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The Naval Militia Fleet.

From Army and Navy Life.
In the whole naval militia fleet OF
twenty-five vessels there are only two or
three upon which the naval militia can
learn anything which will fit them for
service in the navy in time of war The
fleet consists of one old monitor one old
cruiser, seven naval gunboats nine yachts.
two sailing ships and a nondescriDt or
the vessels assigned to the militia, the
Granite State On. W was built in 1914,
the Portsmouth On. j. is an old sailing
sloop of war, the Puritan Cd. CO was
built in 1874, the Yantic (AIich) was built
In 1852, the Alert (Cal) was built in 1873,
the Pinta Ga tug), assigned to California
was built in 1864, and the Essex (Ohio)
in 1874. New York. Maryland, Louisiana
and Michigan have old Spanish gunboats
captured in 1895 the Sandoval Isla de
Cuba, Alvarado and Don Juan de Austria
and Massachusetts, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia.
Louisiana. Connecticut, Ohio and Illinois
have the little unprotected yachts Aileen
Huntess, Shearwater, Oneida, Stranger.
Hawk and Dorothea, purchased from
yachtsmen in 1898. and so small that a
single division cannot be accommodated
on any one of them. Does the navy ex-|
pect, or does. the country expect, the nal
val militia to become first-class seamenI
on vessels of tlis character? Only the
Newark On. Y.) resembles in the remotest
degree the ships upon which the naval
militia might be expected to serve in war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Quaker Talk.

Sheriff Gildersleeve of Nassau county.
N. Y. who recently seized near Cedar
hurst a lot of roulette wheels with cleo
trlcal cheating devices. said the other
day of his fine feat:
l am glad, admit, that succeeded in
proving this cheat. The gambling crook
Is more difficult problem than he looks.
II seems easy to show him up, but try it
once and see how hard it is-as hard as
talking Quaker"
The sheriff laughed.
Visiting Philadelphia" he said, "a
cousin Of mine thought that, for joke,
he would do little Quaker talk
well, on a country walk one day. he
saw, sitting on a fence near Cynwyd, an
old man who was. he felt sure, a Quaker,
for this old man wore dove-gray garments
and dove-gray stovepipe hat.
IN amuse him and myself with my
skill at this talk thought my cousin, and
he began:
" 'Good-day. How do thee-I mean. how
dost thee-do? Art-er-is thou well?'
From his seat on the fence the old
man frowned at my cousin.
'Hey?' he said.
"And my cousin smiled, resolved this
time to utter a swift, glib, graceful flow
Of Quaker.
"'These fertile fields-they is thys-that
Is, thee's-oh, hang it all, I mean, thou's ?
These fields are thou's?'
1.-The old farmer with feeble haste got
down from the fence. He took a plug of
tobacco from his hip-pocket, bit off a
piece and hurried away. He turned his
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Love Me, Love NV Monk.

Ezra Meeker. the aged pio eer of Pya-
lup. Wash. who achieved fame by cross
ing the continent on the Oregon trail with
an ox-drawn wagon and dog called Jim,
paid visit last month to New York
''Mr. Meeker,' said New York re-
porter what do you think of our me-
tropolis?''
ut is all right" the pioneer answered,
as he patted his dog Jim, Except for
some Of the silly new customs and ideas
that prevail. Take. for instance, the new
custom among society girls of having
monkeys for pets. Could anything be
nastier?
"And 1t is Incredible said Mr.. Meeker
how attached these pretty girls get to
their ugly monkeys. A young stranger
was telling me about it in the smoking
room last night over friendly cigar.
HE said his sister called on another
girl to condone with her on a broken en-
gagement.
els your engagement really and truly
broken off with Jack?' the sister said.
Yes said the other girl. L found
that Jacks love was not the profound, I'M
changing and unselfish affection he had
led me to believe, and so there was moth
ing for me to do but throw him over
"'And how did you find him OUT? said
the sister.
"'Easily enough was the reply. He
would not let my dear pet monkey Raj
ali bite him without getting furiously an
cry"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

the proud viceroys who ruled that CONT
nent for Spain. this one time metropolis
of the entire western hemisphere, fattened
on tons of treasure stripped from the
temples and palaces of the native Incas.
Later the mines of the Incas were found
and Lima, in the height Of it's glory, spent
9O,OO0,0OO on her church properties. Jack
will see the old cathedral, built in 1910, the
| same to which La Palata, the viceroy is
said to have ridden over a pavement OF
silver ingotS and on a gold-shod horse
whose name and tail were strung with
| pearls. In this same cathedral he will.
| If he properly tip the caretaker, be shown
the skeleton of the great and wicked Pr
zarro, conqueror of Peru, now crumbling
| in a glass coffin behind a curtain, his al
legged brains reposing in glass jar at his
rect. Jack Will also see the present sem
ate chamber of Lima. the original build
ing wherein the terrible inquistion was
still sitting century after 1t was aban-
doned in Spain. He will see legislative
clerks at work in rooms once the torture
dungeons of that bloodthirsty institution.
He will see the plaza outside where its
victims were burned at the stake-the last
of them. Mime. Castro, in 1916, for being
a Jewess."
A special bull fight in Jacks honor will
doubtless be held in the big bull ring of
Lima. But these relics of Spanish bar
barism are held there according to some
modern humanitarian notions. They are
not the bloody spectacles over which tho
dols gloat. He will also see the lottery
going full swing in the public square.
Before pulling out for Magdalena bay,
Lower California-when he will arrive on
March for extended target practice, and
whence he will depart later for San
Francisco to learn the further schedule of
the feet-he will behold here in Lima the
most beautiful women of the world So
| tbs said, at least, but also that these
Venuses fatten too early and soon lose
| their teeth They are restricted in
! their freedom even more than the fair
| daughters of Rio. for their real enjoyment
of church is deprived them by strict law
requiring all feminine millinery to be
DOTTED at the threshold of every place of
worship. Too, they are forbidden attend
| ance at weddings unless one of their i'm
mediate family is bride or groom and,
moreover, they cannot attend funerals on
any account which latter rule has some
| sense in it, and, after all-is one which we
would do well to emulate.
| JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS