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The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11

probably one Of the balloonettes of
which the immense envelope was con-
struoted burst and that spark from
the motor ignited the gas when the
balloon was carried into the air by a
sudden storm after 1t had alighted aft
er slight accident
The wind suddenly sprang up where
the airship rested Some of the by.
ISLANDERS remarked to the officers that
a storm was brewing and advised
them to secure the. airship, but their
warning was unheeded, and formida.
bic, gust of wind struck the airship
broadside. ~
At first the craft heeled over and
then her bows rose In the air, carry
ing with them number of soldiers
who were holding the ropes. After
poising for "a moment at height of
fifty feet the airship crashed to the
ground and the forward motor ex;
ploded From the bows shot forth a
dame, while from the rear came thick
clouds Of black smoke, shrouding the
entire structure
When the air cleared the airship. was
seen lying In an open field on a high
plateau, with the aluminium enveloped
In ragged, tangled strips. The metal
stays and bands and portions of the
motors were strewn about, blackened
and Burned scraps.
Officers rushed forward and found
that several soldiers had been hurt.
The four engineers who had occupied
the forward platform of the airship
had escaped death, but were suffering
from injuries. They were taken to a
hospital stlss "a
Airsblp the Work Of a Lifetime.
Count Zeppelin has devoted his life
time and his personal fortune to the
development OF his airships. The ves-
sci that was lost was the fourth he
constructed When his own money
had become exhausted the German
rcichstag voted him $12b,000 to con-
duct further experiments, and No.
was the result The German govern
ment agreed to purchase this ship on
condition that 1t. fulfill certain require
ments, the principal one being that 1t
remained In she air twenty-four hours
And land on terra hrna.
The airship wes 44s feet long, with
a diameter OF about forty-five feet:
1t tapered to blunt point at the bow,
while at the stern were various rud-
ders and frames used in steering. I.
was fitted underneath with two inde-
pendent platforms, each carrying q
: motor capable Of developing lao horse
power. As many las sixteen passen-
gers had been taken aloft at one time,
Sleeping accommodations were pro
vided for the crew, and an apparatus
was installed for the dispatch and re-
ceipt Of wireless telegraph messages.
The initiating gas was distributed
among sixteen separate interior COM
partments, which were contained with
IN the outer rigid envelope Of alumni
nuFn
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MORRIS COUNTY POLITICAL cALEN-
Tuesday, September 1st.
OAR, 1908.


Boards of registry and election meet at ten
a, M, and begin the house-to-house canvass.
Monday September 9TH.
Last day to file with county clerk petitions II
for nominations of county officers. (See COM
ment hereafter.)
Tuesday, September 9th.
Boards of registry and election meet from
one to nine p. M, to revise the registry.
Wednesday, September 9th. So
Last day to file with municipal clerk petit
tions for nominations of city, ward, township
and borough officers
Tuesday September a2d.
Primary day. one to nine p. m, in every mu-
nicipalty in the county.
Tuesday, October a7tll.
Boards of registry and election meet from
one to nine p M, for the last time to revise the
registry. Nss
Tuesday, November 3d.
Election day throughout the county.
OFFICERS TO BE VOTED FOR IN NOR
RIS COUNTY IN 1908.
State Officers.
Twelve Presidential Electors Ii
Congressman
Congressman for the Fifth Congressional Districts
The district comprises the counties of Morris Union and
Warren.
6Ies County Officers.
County Clerk, Sheriff. two ~ Members of the General
Assembly, Coroner.
Municipal Officers.
Every town. borough and township will elect it's local
officers
How Appropriations May Be Proposed in
Places Where the People Vote Upon
Appropriations.
In such places as townships, where the peo-
pie vote directly for appropriations, Republi-
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EASE !,
FARMERS LOT.
President Seeks Means Of
Doing So.


Four Men Named Are 10 Report on
Country Life, With View TO sscur-
Ing Legislation From Congress.
"There Is Too Much Belief Among
All Our People That the Prizes Of
Life lie Away From the Farm,"
Says MIR. Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay, N Y, Aug. 11.-With a
view to bringing about better social,
sanitary and economic conditions on
American farms President Roosevelt
has requested five experts on country
life to make an Investigation into the
whole matter and to report to him with
recommendations for improvements.
The report and recommendations which
the president himself may desire to
make will be incorporated in mes
sage which he will send to congress
probably early next year.
! In letter to one of these experts,
Professor L. Fl. Bailey of the New York
, College of Agriculture, Mr.. Roosevelt
says;
No nation has even achieved permanent
greatness unless this greatness was based
on the wellbeing Of the great farmer
class, the men who live on the soil, for
1t is upon their welfare, material or NOR
al. that the welfare OF the rest OF the ma
ton ultimately rests. In the United
States, disregarding certain sections and
taking the nation az whole, believe
1t to be true that the farmers In general
are better off today than they ever were
before.
Much Needless Loss.
While the condition Of the farmers in
some Of our best farming regions leaves
little to be desired, we are far from hav-
ing reached so high level in all parts OF
the country. In PORTIONS Of the south,
for example, where the department OF as
riculture. through the farmers co-opera-
tive demonstration work OF DR.. Knapp.
Is directly instructing more than $1,000
farmers In better methods OF farming,
there 10 nevertheless much unnecessary
suffering and needless loss Of efticiency
! on the farm.
| I doubt II any other nation can bear
| comparison with our own In the amount
both federal and state. to agricultural
| matters But practically the whole OF
i this effort has hitherto been directed to-
! ward increasing the production OF crops.
In the beginning this was unquestionabiy
the right thing to DO. But when this has
been secured the snort Tor better farm.
Ing should cease to stand alone and
should be accompanied BY the effort Cor
better business and better living on the
farm.
Farming Not Az ~ country Life
It is at least as important that the
farmer should get the largest possible re-
turn In money comfort ana social 3D.
ventagos from the crops he grows as that
he should get the largest possible return
In crops from the land he farms. A@rt-
culture 10 not the whole 81 country life.
The great rural interests are human In
terests. and good crops are OF little value
20 the farmer unless they open the door d
= good kind Of life on the farm.
| The president quotes from an ad'
dress delivered last May and ccntin'
ues:
Il Il especially important that what.
ever wan 1ssye te prepaEe QQHntsy chll'
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A team of horses belonging to Theo-
doreN Sharp, OF Bartley, left the field
as load OF oats was being placed on
the wagon to which they were har-
messed, and started for Chester, about
three miles distant, from which place
one of the horses had been purchased .
MI. Sharp gave chase in another wagon
and secured his team at the Chester
railroad station, where they had been
caught.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11

oren for life on the farm and whateveA
will brighten home life in the country
and make 1t richer and more attractive
for the mothers, wives and daughters OF
farmers should be done promptly thor
oughly and gladly. There Is no more I'M
portant person. measured In influence
upon the life Of the nation, than the
farmers wife, no more important than
the country home, and 1t is of national
importance to do the best we can for
both.
The farmers have hitherto had less than
their full share of public attention along
the lines of business and social life.
There is too much belief among all our
people that Nthe prizes of life lie away
from the farm. shall be very glad in
deed II you will consent to serve upon a
commission on country life, upon which
I am asking the following gentlemen to
act:
Professor L. H. Bailey, New York state
College Of Agriculture, Ithaca. N. T.,
chairman.
Henry wallace. wallaos's Farmer. Des
Moines, Ia.
President Keyon L. Butteraeld. Massa-
chusetts Agricultural college. Amherst,
Mass.
Gifford Pinchot, United States forest
waiter H. Page. editor Of the worid's
Work, New York.
VIII Recommend LegIsiatIon. ''a
My immediate purpose in appointing
this commission Is to secure from Il such
information and advice as will enable me
to make recommendations to congress
upon this extremely important matter.
shall be glad II the commission viii re-
port to me upon the present condition Of
country life, upon what means are now
available for supplying the deficiencies
which exist and upon the best methods OF
organised permanent effort In inveptiga-
tion and actual work along the lines
have indicated.
You will doubtless also iind IL neces-
sary to suggest means OF bringing about
the redirection or better adaptation Of
rural schools to the training OF children
for life on the farm. The natioAal and
state agricultural departments must uiti-
mately join with the various farmers
and agricultural organizations in the ef-
fort to secure greater efficiency and at
tractiveness In country life.
In view OF the pressing importance OF
this subject should be glad 30 have your
report before the end Of next December.
For that reason the commission will
doubtless find Il impracticablo to under
| take extensive Investigations. but viii
rather conffne itself to q summary Of
what Is already known. q statement Of
the problem and the recommendation Of
measures tending toward it, solution.
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The only complaint received from
the banks concerning their assess
ments was from the Dover National
Union Bank, who claimed they owned
$125, 600 in government bonds which
they forgot to include in their petition.
They asked the Board to change the
rate and allow them credit for the
$125, 600. 1t was granted and the as
sessment per share was lowered 500;
that ssfrom s2O5 to e1o5 per share.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11
naath of Woman Writer.

Boston, Aug. 11.-Mrs. Louise Chan
dler Moulton, the well known author,
died at her home here after an illness
Of more than eight months. Mrs.
Moulton was born at Pomfret, Conn,
April 10. 1885. She made her, first
venture in literature In writing short
stories and poems when only fifteen
years old. AT twenty-five her literary
success was well established, and she
contributed regularly to HHEper's. the
Atlantic ana other magazines.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11
New Jersey Constitutional Provisions Regard
ing the Right Of Suffrage.

Sec I. Every male citizen of the United
States, of the age of twenty-one years, who
shall have been resident of this State one
year, and of the county in which he claims his
vote five months, next before the election,
shall be entitled to vote for all officers that
now or hereafter may be elective by the peo--
pie; (a) provided, that no person in the mili-
tary, naval or marine service of the United
States shall be considered a resident in this
State by being stationed in any garrison, bar
rack or military or naval place or station with
in this State and no pauper, idiot, insane per-
son or person convicted of crime which now
excludes him from being witness, unless par
doned or restored by law to the right of suf-
frage, shall enjoy the right of an elector; (b)
and provided further, that in time OF war no
elector in the actual military service of the
State, or of the United States in the army or
navy thereof. shall be deprived of his vote by
reason of his absence from such election dis
trict; and the Legislature shall have power to
provide the manner in which, and the time
and place at which, such absent electors may
vote, and for the return and canvass of their
votes in the election districts in which they
respectively reside. 49,
d) The residence required to entitle person to vote
means his fixed domicle permanent home, and is not
changed altered by his occasional absence with
without his family CGdt0aIader Hoaoe HGrv. l3S
(b) The above constitutional provision adopted
in 1874 At that time the statute dsquaying witnesses
provided ''that person who shall be convicted of
blasphemy treason murder piracy arson rape sodomy,
the infamous crime against nature, committed with
mankind with beast polygamy robbery, conspiracy,
forgery, larceny above the value of dollars shall
in any be admitted witness unless he she
be first pardoned and person who shall be convicted
Of O.
doned for the same shall be admitted witness in
any case"
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11
THE COUNTY RATABLES.

Comparison with Last Years Totals
shows Falling orr.
On Tuesday afternoon the County
Board of Taxation sat in Courtroom
No. 2 until all the three or four dupli-
Gates remaining from the morning ses-
sion had been received and one pro
test had been made.
The total assessment Of real and
personal property with the exemption
deducted of each district in the county
compared with that of last year fol
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11
A Tesa 81 oood jar,.

s.No Tommie, dear. you dont get
any more jam. Next time, when you
have been a very good child, you get
some more"
"Eay, mother. do you think IL will
Keep 30 lOngf-- FL Brooklyn Life.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11
Forest Land For Empire state.

Albany, N. Y, Aug. 1.-THE state
Hand purchasing board closed negotia-
lions for the purchase Of about 1000
acres OF ferest land in the Catskills
The prices range from So to $3.50 an
acre. The different pieces Of land lie
IN Greene. Ulster and Sullivan coun-
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11

II just saw Goodley coming hOme|~
said the first subuxbanite. ''and he
was 'barxelcd.' sure enough.
'Whatr' exclaimed the other. .'Why.
I never knew him to drink at all"
''Oh, moi But II seems he went
swimming down IN the creek and some
one stole hle eiokhes.s = Phlladelphla
Press.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-11
IMPORTANT. FOR VOTERS.

cans may propose an appropriation or appro-
priations to be placed upon the official Repub-
the municipal clerk signed and verified in the
same way as in the case Of nominations for
officers in the places where the appropriations
are to be voted for.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Women in the Days News.

Miss, Ruth II. Northnop, of Nor
witch, Conn, has won the scholarship
offered by the Norwich Art Students
Association.
Members of DR.. Parkhurst's con-
gregation in New York City approved
the Doctors objections to Merry
Widow" hats in church.
A mems league for women suff-
rage has been formed in Holland, and
the Lutheran Church in that country
has given women vote in all church
affairs.
Miss Mary e. Cheek, of Toboso,
Ohio, is the only regularly appointed
woman rural mail carrier in the
State. She has served in this capacity
for six years.
Jane Adams, DR.. Cornelia De Bey
and Mrs. Emmons Blaine, whose
terms on the Chicago school board
expired, have not been reappointed.
A Hankow newspaper states that
two enterprising young Chinese girls
have left that city on pleasure trip
to England and America. They will
study domestic life.
Nine. Curie has been appointed
chief professor OF phy1ics at the Uni
versity of Paris.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
News Notes From Mexico.

Mexico's mail matter in the first
half of 1908 was 90.O00,000 pieces,
against S6,000,000 in the first half
of 1907.
Mexico buys American mining,
electrical, pumping, power and agri-
cultural machinery to the tune of
S17,500,000 gold yearly.
Mexico buys chiefly. in order as
named, from the United States, Ger
many, Great Britain. France, Spain.
Belgium, Italy, Hungary and
Hindustan.
In 1907 Mexico's silver production
was worth S35, $4,000 gold. and her
gold production was s17,793, 1000, a
total of s53,30S,000 for these two
metals alone.
Mexico exports chiefly, in order as
named, fibre. copper, raw hides, cof-
fee, lead, vanilla, istle leaf, cattle.
beans, broomroot, rubber. raw tobac-
co, woods and gum chicle.
Chinese are attracted to Mexico by
its liberal laws as to citizenship.
Many of them marry Mexican women.
Mexico likes American scientific in
struments, mechanics and builders
tools and hardware and buys them to
the value of $2,700,000 year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Prominent People.

Rabbi Wise, in his sermon in New
York City. denounced the Emmanuel
movement.
President Castro arrived at Basse
Terre, Guadeloupe; he said that the
object of his trip to France was to
settle diplomatic questions.
DR.. John H. Wright, professor of
Greek at Harvard University, and
Professor George A. Bartlett, for
many years connected with the Ger
man department at Harvard, died at
Cambridge, Mass.
DR.. Howard H. Russell, superin-
tendent of the New York State Anti
Saloon League, declared he had dis
covered plot to steal the leagues
secrets.
Admiral Bowles, at the meeting of
the Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers in New York, said
last year was the best in the history
of American shipbuilding.
Joseph e. S. Blackburn, Governor
of the Canal Zone, accompanied by
his wife, left Panama for New York.
Timothy L. Woodruff withdrew
from the New York Senatorship race,
leaving the field to Secretary Root
slone.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
The Field of Labor.

The building trades unions of Syd-
ney, Australia, are taking steps to
federate.
The report of the Amalgamated So
ciety OF Carpenters and Joiners shows
a total membership of $3.50.
The Luxembourg Government Is
treating incorriglble yagabonds to
bread and water for the first fonr
days of their Imprisonment. and to
the lowest scale of ordinary diet twice
a week afterward. The prisons are
said to be emptying fast.
Memphis (Tenn.) Bakers Union
has started label campaign, which
is hoped by the members will zoe pro-
ductfve OF results.
me Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn, re-
Gently appointed three REPRESENTATIVES
OF organized labor to assist in draft
ing the new city charter.
San Francisco Bakers and Confec-
TONERS Union has an organizer At
work unionizing the men working in
French and Italian bakeries.
The most recent acquisition NJ
membership of the A. f. of l.. is from
Jamaica and the neighboring colonies
OF Trinidad, Barbados ana British
Guiana.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
BY CABLE.
Third Degree For Nine. steinheil.

Third Degree For Nine. Steinhell.
Paris.-The examination OF Nine.
Steinheil, accused of numbering her
husband and her stepmother last May,
was resumed by Magistrate Andre
The scene and surroundings OF tne
crime are to be reconstructed IN tne
Steinheil residence, and Nine. Stem
he'll will be further INTERCEPTED un,
der these conditions in the nope Oh
extorting full confession. 1t IS Dc.
lieved at the Palace of Justice tnat
she alone planned and committed the
crime.
Government and Church Disagree.
London. In consequence of the IN
ability of the Government to come 70
an agreement with the Church party
regarding the Education bill, tne
measure has been withdrawn IRON
the House of Commons. The Arcn-
bishop of Canterbury demanded
larger grant for non-rate-aiueu
schools than the Government was
willing to allow.
Hill Dimes Ambassador.
Berlin.-Count John Heinrich Won
Bernstorff, the newly appointed Ger
man Ambassador to America. was
guest of Ambassador and Mrs. Hill az
dinner. Among the other guests was
DR.. Felix Adler, of Columbia unlVer-
sity, New York City.
Eignaud Chief of Paris Americamsts'
aris.--Henry Vignaud, secretary
of the American Embassy, has Deen
elected president of the Society u
Americanists.
Pan-American Scientists.
Buenos Ayres.-The American DEL
egates to the Pan-American Scientinc
Congress were entertained with pan
quets and receptions. The UniVeI,
sity of La Plata held a reception a.
which Professor Leo S. Rowe, OF the
University of Pennsylvania, Chairman
of the American delegation. spoke a.
reply to the address of welcome.
Edward Names Irish University.
Dublin.-The title for the new uni.
versity, which has been the subJect u
an acute controversy for some tinis,
was settled to the satisfaction OF an
parties when King Edward issued iss-
tiers patent constituting it 'Tne VA
tional University of Ireland
Morgan Bought the Caxtons.
London.--It is announced that tne
purchaser of the fifteen Caxtons from
the famous Amherst library, at PR
vate sale prior to the auction sa'e'
was ]. p. Morgan. He paid large
price for them.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Chicago Dead Robbed.

Charges that floral pieces, moss
and even cut flowers laid on graves in
Chicago cemeteries are carried away
and sold or used again have been
made, and an ordinance is being
drafted by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Howard Hayes intended to
stop the practice.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Spent $50. SO in Camnaign.

Richard c. Kerens, of st. Louis,
former Republican National Commit
teeman from Missouri and a defeated
candidate for the Republican Sena-
torial nomination at the November
primary, spent s59,570 in the cam
paign Just closed.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11

Almost the entire 100000 estate
of Theophilus Mare, who died at East
Orange, n. j., September 20 last, is
left to the United Hebrew Charities,
of New York. The will shows only
a few small requests to relatives and
friends.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
$40, 900 Fine For Taking Rebates.

Judge Knappen in the United
States District Court, Grand Rapids,
Mich, fined the. Stearns Salt and
Lumber Company, of Ludington,
$4,000 for accepting rebates from
the Pere Marquette on shipments
from Ludington to Toledo.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
ToEnd Indian Scryice.

Reorganization of the Indian serv-
ice along lines which will prepare it
for going out of business at no dis
tant day is the general aim of Com
missioner Leupp, according to his an
nual report just issued at Washing
ton, d. C..
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
LATEST News
BY WIRE.
Sardine Trust Not Ind;cto,

Portland, Me.-A mo HIP
The Maine Mercantile Comnaai agails
business in connection WIKI ga ~ Who's
ing and selling of American 's se. pact.
has been under investigator aIrdinss
Grand Jury of the Federal So, Oy The
reported when the jury ross eOurt va
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Thieves Rendezvous Round

PhiladelDhia, Pa. An ar,,
ground railroad" by which t Sauef'
nave been shipping thousands , n, We
lars worth of loot from the vh NJ uOl-
district here to New York ''' S;.s
fences" has been uncovered nv my ANY,
police. In their rendezvous AK S s0s
worth of plumber was found. ''V''
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Germany Adopts submarine.

The German Admiralty has deter
mined to go into the submarine
branch of naval construction heavily
with type that is the result of three
years experiments at Kiel.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Constitution For China in 0 Years,

An imperial Chinese edict pledges
the throne to continue the policy In
augurated by the late Emperor Kuan
Hsu, including the provision for a
constitution in nine years.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Auto Injuries Kill Mrs. nr,,.

New York City.-Mrs Mos., .
Dudley, wife of Topeka '' INK !
banker. who was, knocked dom. Aan'l
automobile in Broadway, dio " y y
Roosevelt Hospital. Neu Al
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Former Ohio Mayor a Suicide.

Former Mayor Adolphus Sebbohm,
of Pomeroy, Ohio. committed suicide
at a hotel at Gallipolis, Ohio, by
shooting.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-12-11
Blue Law Revised.

Washington, D. c. Az
blue law was resurrected n ancient
court when Horace o. Baluc III police
Der shop proprietor, was chara.s Oar.
keeping his place open IN sea S with
Judge Kimball said that ur ssuAdaqE.
law barber shop had to be- Sa aSs lta
~ closed on Sunday. '0soluIs