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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
CANNON, SHORN OF HISPOWER, KEEPS OFFICE
House Removes Him From Rules Committee But Declines to Elect
New Standardization Adopted 1871 to 1885, Provides
For Ten Members to Be Elected

the point of order that that is not in
order. 1t Is not privileged"
When Speaker Cannon finally ruled
the Norris motion out of order he was
overruled, and then the new resolu-
ton formed new Committee on
Rules, with the Speaker excluded.
That ended the contest
Alignment of Members.
At various times in the afternoon
forty-two Republicans voted against
the regulars. On the adoption of the
Norris substitute the insurgents num-
bered fOrty-one, while on the motion
to depose Speaker Cannon the follow
ing Republicans voted aye: Represen-
tatives Carr, Cooper, Lenroot and
Nelson, of Wisconsin,; Murdoch, of
Kansas; Poindexter, of Washington;
Gronna, of North Dakota, and Davis
and Lindbergh, of Minnesota
The other insurgents showed the
sincerity Of their former declarations
that they were lighting against the
rules alone, and voted mo" Those
who Joined the Democrats on the larg-
err issue were Representatives Ames
and Gardner, of Massachusetts; Bar
nard and Crumpacker, of Indiana;
Cary, Cooper, Kopp, Kustermann,
Lenroot, Morse, Nelson and David
son, of Wisconsin; Dawson, Good,
Haugen, Hubbard, Kendall, Pickett
and Woods, of Iowa; Davis. Lind
bergh, Miller, Steenerson and Vol
stead of Minnesota; Fish, Foelker
and Parsons, of New York; Fowler,
of New Jersey; Gronna, of North Da-
kota; Norris and Kinkaid. of Nebras-
ka; Hollingsworth, Rowland, John
son and Taylor, of Ohio; Mclaughlin
and Townsend, of Michigan; Murdoch
and Madison, of Kansas; Poindexter,
of Washington; Plumley. of Vermont,
and Martin, of South Dakota
On every roll call the coalition had
a substantial majority. and it was
never in the slightest danger The
Democrats voted solidly throughout.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
CONGER REVIEWS ATTACK
Says Senator Aids |Did What He
Was Paid For"
Senate Investigation of Bribery
Charges at Albany, N. Y, Devoted
to Evidence of Experts on Ink.

Albany, N. Y-Another attack by
Senator Conger upon Senator lothian
P. Aids occurred in the Senate brib-
cry investigation. The legislator
from Groton showed that his spirit
was unbroken by the tension OF the
past six weeks when his counsel re-
called him as witness and ques-
toned him about the letter he wrote
to Aids in May, 1901. shortly after
Conger alleges Aids held up" the
bridge companies for a $1,000 BRIDE.
On. the face of it this letter ex-
pressed the most friendly relations
between the writer and the man ne
accuses, and concluded with the APP
parently affectionate tribute:
II knew we could rely upon Jo'
(Allds).
When Conger was asked what he
meant by this phrase he replied
scornfully:
HE (Allds) did what he was paid
to do
81 knew he was going to be in the
Legislature" explained Conger, and
I was not, and / wanted to keep his
good will. I feared he might do the
same thing again"
When Aids attorney, Lewis b.
Carr, asked him:
Ibid you have in mind the promo
ton of other private interests tnan
the bridge interests?" Conger replied
quickly;
That's hard to say. You never
knew what they we're going to prey
upon
Senator Conger's brief testimony
seasoned an otherwise monotonous
day devoted principally to the EVIL
dence of his ink experts. Both OF
these witnesses contradicted abso-
lutely the assertion of the expert en-
ployed by Aids, who declared that
the check stub which Conger's side
exhibited as evidence that the $500
Doodle fund was drawn from the Gro
ton bank on April %, 1901, had been
@'doctored" by the additions made
nine years after the original writing.
The Senate engaged in tedious
wrangle when Attorney Osborne
again attempted to offer in evidence
the letter from the Acme Road Ma
chinery Company, disclosing an al
legged proposition to pool bids with
rival concerns The prosecution"
has striven to connect Aids with this
letter because he held stock in this
company and at one time acted as its
attorney. Chairman Davis finally de-
cided to submit this question to the
Senate at another session.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Danger in Stiff Collars.

The high, stiff collars which some
women are so fond of wearing are
not only unbecoming, but dangerous.
From time to time cases of persons
asphyxiated by their collars are re-
ported. One such recently occurred
IN London, the victim being a young
woman employed in the postoffice,
anc the physician who attended her is
quoted as saying that in nine cases
out of ten the same result would have
followed a fainting fit, as the sharp
edge of the collar cut into the throat
and pressed upon the windpipe, The
supporters worn with transparent col
lars are not so bad as collar stiff
all around, 1t seems, but these, too
are considered dangerous, as they
press the side of the throat.-New
York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
TALK TO 1.-THE PRESS.
President Taft Discusses Statesman
Correspondents"

Correspondents"
Chicago, Ill.-Before the Chicago
Newspaper Club in an impromptu adj
dress the President warmed to his
subject, 1.-THE Press" and touched on
phases of journalism which, from the
emphasis he placed on them, APP
parently he feels deeply. He said, in
part:
1.-THE newspapers, of course, are
essential We say we do not read
them. Well, we have to read them.
There is a distinguished member of
one of the tribunals in Washington
who says he never reads the news
papers. Whether he gets his news
through his wife, or how he acquires
the information as to the progress of
the world, l do not know The diff
Guilty that I find is that I have to
read them: and after time of sensi-
tiveness-what shall / call it?-of a
sense of injustice, ones skin grows
thicker, one is able to forget phrases
of contempt and criticism, and what
a newspaper man ultimately learns
that, after all, if we can only survive
two or three days of attack ard as
sault and unfounded statements most
people will forget it.
+Now, I don't know whether you
number among your newspaper mem
bers not only newspaper men but men
who combine the profession of the
press with craftsmanship whether
you have among you the men who are
reformers down to the ground and at
the same time are engaged in hand
ing out their views and news suited
to their views as statesmen-corre-
spondents.
''If you haven't you lack distin-
guished type of newspaper man, dis
tinguished type which, am bound to
say, has not contributed to the ac-
curacy of the news furnished the pub
lie, for the reason that the newspaper
man who does his task rightly is a
man who furnishes the facts as they
are without respect to whom they
may hurt or help; but the man whc is
preaching an evangel or who is
helping a cause, and especially the
one who takes himself seriously, is
about Inc worst witness of events
with respect to those which his views
reach"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
What Hannened to James.

A very misunderstanding boy of
about thirteen years, with a. long
scratch on his nose and an air of gen.
eral detection, came to his teacher in
one of the Boston public schools, and
handed her note before taking his
seat. The note was as follows:
Miss B.-Please excuse James not
being thare yesterday. He played
trooant, but l guess you don't need
to lick him for it, as the boy he
played trooant with an him fell out,
an the boy licked him, an man they
passed caught him an licked him, an
the driver of sled they hung on to
licked him also. l had to give him
another one for sassing me for telling
his pa, so you need not lick him till
next time. / guess he thinks he bet
ter keep in school hereafter. Lip
pinc0tt's.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
mad GANDER SAVES CHILD FROM DEATH BY AUTOMOBILE
Causes Machine to Upset AS Neared Baby in RoadThe
Crouch Redeems Itself-Fowl Terror For Ten Years,
Inadvertently Does One Good Act and Dies.

Montville, N. IA bad tempered
old gander, known to everybody in
the village as '"The Crouch" re-
deemed bad reputation of ten years
standing, and at the same time lost
it's life, in saving Agnes Stilton, three
years old, from death under the
wheels of an automobile.
When the child was ready to go out
and have her usual romp in the little
frequented road the hired man chased
the gander into the smoke house and
closed the door by means of an old
fashioned wooden button. 1t was
necessary to take this precaution in
asmuch as there was nothing THE
Crouch" liked so much as to pursue
the little girl with Tapping wings and
shrill squawks. In this way every
time it had chance it would brighten
her into the house, leaving it in I'M
disturbed possession of the road.
Whether the smoke house door was
not buttoned tight or the gander
squeezed through crack, or few out
a window, is not known, but at any
rate Agnes had not been playing long
when "The Crouch" sailed into the
road, raising the dust, Kissing and
Tapping it's wings, and making for her
with all its might.
Mammal" cried the little child In
terror. shielding it's face with it's out
spread hands.
Just then touring car, driven by
Harold Grant, of East Orange, round
ed the sharp turn in the road. The
barn stands at the turn, cutting off
the view in both directions. The road
rarely is used by automobiles, and
this is the reason why the Stilton
child was permitted to play there.
Grant was going fast on a level
stretch, and as he swept around the
turn the old white gander stood up
so large in his startled vision he did
not see the fleeing girl beyond The
gander's neck was stretched to it's
full extent and the wings were spread
wide apart.
That was no time to stop, and
when, an instant after seeing the
goose, Grant spied the little girl
ahead, he let out a yell of alarm that
brought all the folk out of the Stilton
farmhouse on the rush. The East
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Formulation If Cities.

In 1891 there we're in Europe only
twenty-five cities which had more
than 100000 inhabitants. These
were London, Dublin, Paris, Mar
settles, Lyons, Amsterdam, Berlin,
Hamburg, Vienna, Naples, Rome, Mi
Ian, Venice, Palermo, Madrid, BARGE
Iona, Lisbon, st. Petersburg, Moscow,
Warsaw, Copenhagen and Constanti-
nople. Two only of these cities had
more than 0O,000-London. $780,
600 and Paris, 100000. Naples came
third, with 100000 and Vienna
fourth, with 100000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
GIRLS ROLL OVER TO REDUCE rLrs,
Has a Club Fourteen Members Who
Meet Daily Train Off Obesity.

laughed at the fears expressed, and
finally admitted she had done it all
by rolling over and over on the floor.
1T is the style to be hipless now,
and one might as we'll be dead as to
be out of style" she said. 81 discov-
cred that rolling reduces flesh and
removes hips, and I have been keep
ing it up. / hope that ultimately l
shall be as willowy as the willowest.p
That settled it. The fat women
held a meeting and organized the
Roller Club" Men who pass the
day in the street lodging automobiles
now pass the evenings at home dodg-
ing their rolling wives and daugh-
tiers, who simply are fading away as
a result of the exercise. The women
vie with each other in the number
of rolls made The average is 100.
The highest score is $50. Many of
the women wear pajamas for rolling
exercise, such garments interfering
less than do skirts.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
DEATH STEERS AUTO.
Mayor Expires at Wheel While 9th
crs Chat MeIrily.

St. John, Kan.-O. B. Shepherd,
Mayor of st. John, died from heart
disease at the steering wheel of his
automobile while speeding over the
prairie. In the car with him were his
wife, his wifes sister and a Mr.. Hor-
rer, guest of the family. Mayor
Shepherd had gone about eight miles
and the occupants of the rear seat
were chatting merrily, when it was
noticed that he was leaning over the
wheel as if looking at the front of the
machine.
Look out, dear" warned his wife;
"the car is getting out of the road"
Her husband made no answer.
Then she examined more closely and
found that he was dead.
Mrs. Shepherd screamed and the
other occupants of the car brought
it to stop. Mr.. Shepherds body was
placed in rear seat and brought
back to town.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Muskogee, Okla.-Society matrons
and buds who are inclined to obesity
have organized a 'Roller Club" here.
They are getting so thin their rela-
tives and friends are alarmed. The
fad is spreading, too.
Everything fat and feminine here
is on the roll. They roll before
breakfast, before luncheon, before
dinner and before going to bed. Con-
slant rolling over the floor may wear
the nap off the carpet, but that mat
tiers little SO long as it wears the fat
off the roller
The founder of the roller cult is a
pretty widow who, until she rolled
her superfiuous flesh off, was one of
the stoutest creatures west of the
Mississippi. Her friends and asso-
ciates noticed she was losing flesh.
At first they were alarmed, fearing
her health was breaking and that the
loss of flesh was the outward and Wis.,
ible sign of early dissolution. She
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

Orange man involuntarily closed his
eyes to avoid witnessing the tragedy
he felt, as he said afterward, was sure
to happen.
But it didn't. The automobile
struck the gander full tilt. but the inn
pact swerved the front wheels out of
their course, and by the time "The
Crouch" had come down, lifeless,
from it's skyrocket flight, the auto had
darted diagonally across the road and
was lying upside down in the ditch.
Grant had instinctively let go the
steering wheel at the psychological
moment, and he shot over the top of
post-and-rail fence and stuck, feet
up, in pile of fertilizing material.
He lost no time in Withdrawing his
head from the mess, and then fell on
his knees and prayed-just why. he
says, he doesn't know.
AS for Agnes, all had happened so
quickly she hadn't had time to be
scared at anything but the mean old
gander. She whimpered bit when
she saw how thoroughly and COM
pletely dead the gander was. Then
she stood and watched her father and
other persons right the automobile
and set it on it's way. 1.-THE Crouch"
is to be stuffed and mounted.
"The bird amt deserving of it,"
said Stilton, "but, howsomever, it
saved my girls life, though it didn't
mean to, and I'll do a good turn
~The Crouch, " which in its younger
days was called "Peter, was for more
than a decade terror, not only to the
other fowl in Farmer Abner Stilton' S
barnyard, but also to Mrs. Stilton aAd
all the children in the neighborhood.
1t was cantankerous bird with an
evil eye, and when it got after either
dog or child there was sure to be
some tall running to get out of the
-7ay.
Stilton's Muscovy duck, Sarah
Jane,' was the only living thing with
wings that even put up a fight When
"The Crouch" and Sarah Jane" got
going everybody fiocked to hear the
noise and see the feathers fly. Sew
eral years ago the gander chased a
tomcat up hemlock tree by the well
and kept it there until the cat was
attacked and killed by large hawk.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
WHAT'S THE USE
Sticking to Habit When It Means
Discomfort?

Old King Coffee knocks subjects
out tolerablC fiat at times, and there is
no possible doubt of what did it. A
Mich. woman gives her experience:
Il used to have liver trouble near
ly all of the time and took medicine
which relieved me only for a little
while. Then every once in a while l
would be suddenly doubled up with
an awful agony in my stomach. 1t
seemed as though every time took a
breath would die. No one could
suffer any more and live.
Finally got down so sick with
catarrh of the stomach that could
not turn over in bed, and my stomach
did not digest even milk. The doctor
finally told me that If did not give
up drinking coffee I would surely die.
but felt could not give it up,
However, Husband brought home
a package of Postum and it was made
strictly according to directions. 1t
was the only thing that would stay on
my stomach, and soon got so liked
1t very much.
DCSdA ~ SCI OObNSA ,
and week by week gained in strength
and health. Now l am in perfect con-
dition, and / am convinced that the
whole cause of my trouble was coffee
drinking. and my getting better was
due to leaving off coffee and taking
Postum.
"A short time ago tasted some
coffee and found, to my establishment.
that did not care anything about 1t.
] never havI to take medicine any
more. l hope you will use this letter
for the benefit of those suffering from
the poisonous effects Of coffee"
Read the little book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's Rea-
SON."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true. and full OF human
interest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Prominent people.

William Faversham, actor, is forty
two
Edwin Gould, capitalist. is forty
four years of age.
George Parmly Day, of New York
City, was elected treasurer of Yale
University.
Jacob H. Schiff, of New York City,
declared the Far East is becoming
this Nations greatest problem.
The London Court of Common
Council adopted a resolution con-
ferring the freedom of the city on
Theodore Roosevelt on the occasion Of
his visit next May.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
TAFT A BAD POLITICIAN.
Trying to Do Right Is, After All, tho
Best Politics.

Rochester, N. Yin his address
before the Chamber of Commerce
here President Taft made an earnest
appeal to Congress to subordinate
and sacrifice individual opinions in
order that the measures he had rec
commended in fulfillment of party
pledges shall be enacted into law.
The President summed up the
things which he declared had caused
some of his advisers to characterize
him as bad politician. In the first
place, he said, there was the tariff
law, and new Tariff bill always de-
feats party
In the second place had come the
corporation tax, bringing with it the
enmity of everybody directly or indi-
rectly interested in the more than
100000 corporations affected by it.
In the third place, there was the
alleged postal deficit, which had been
charged to the carrying of magazines
and periodicals at one cent a pound.
That was bad politics, because it ar
rayed all the magazines and period
icals against the Administration
In the fourth place, Congress only
reduced the duty on print paper thirty
per cent, instead OF putting it on the
free list. This offended the news
papers. And last of all, the Postal
Savings Bank bill had turned all the
bankers against the Administration.
49," he continued, my friends
don't see just where we are coming
out. But l am confident in the end
that the measures will approve them
90 rrn rho 4r@ II L.. e
are those that never come. The meas
ures that we promised ought to be
adopted, not because they will give
us political strength. but because they
are right. And if they are right the
people will find them to be right, and
that's the best politics in the end.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Tiny Rahn,s PitifuI Case.

"Our baby when two months old
was suffering with terrible eczema
from head to foot, all over her body.
The baby looked just like a skinned
rabbit. We were unable to put clothes
on her. At first it seemed to be a few
mattered pimples. They would break
the skin and peel off, leaving the I'M
derneath skin red as though it were
scalds. Then a few more pimples
would appear and spread all over the
body, leaving the baby all raw with
out skin from head to foot. On top
of her head there appeared a heavy
scab a quarter of an inch thick. 1t
was awful to see so small baby look
as she did. Imagine! The doctor
was afraid to put his hands to the
child. We tried several doctors rem
edies but all failed.
Then we decided to try Cuticura.
BY using the Cuticura Ointment we
softened the scab and it came off, I'm
der this, where The real matter was,
by washing with the Cuticura Soap
and applying the Cuticura Ointment,
a new skin soon appeared. We also
gave baby four drops of the Cuticura
Resolvent three times daily. After
three days you could see the baby
gaining little skin which would peel
off and heal underneath. Now the
baby is four months old. She is a fine
picture of a fat little baby and all is
well. We only used one cake of Cuti-
cuTa Soap, two boxes Of Cuticura
Ointment and one bottle of Cuticura
Resolvent. If people would know
what Cuticura is there would be few
suffering with eczema Mrs. Joseph
Kossmann, st. Johns Place, Ridge
wood Heights, L. l., N. Y, Apr. 80
and May 4, 1909"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Two Kinds Of Oil.

He was anxious to purchase
birthday gift for his wife. and as he
liked pictures and as the walls were
rather bare he soon hit upon the
form which his present should take.
Where shall | find something
really nice in oils for the dining
room?" he asked of an assistant at
the cooperative stores.
''On the third floor, began the as
sistant; then he paused and looked
Idoubtfully at the inquirer. Did you
mean painting or something in the
sardine line?" he asked. Tit-Bits.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

To encourage the purchase of
homes by married members, the Mar
BILE Workers Union in San Francisco
has decided to give each buyer $40
toward the price.
The smallest average monthly paid
up membership of the United Mine
Workers of America since its organ
ization in 1890 was in 1896, when
the number was 9617.
OF the 10000 saleswomen in New
York City department storess one
third are wives and mothers, the
greater part of these having taken
positions after their marriage.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
The National Came.

Catcher Archer has come to terms
with the Chicago Club.
Outfelder Jack Anthony, the Bos-
ton Clubs Raleigh recruit, has signed
with Worcester.
Ed. Abbaticchio has signed his
Pittsburg contract. He will be used
as utility infielder.
Manager. McAleer, Washington, has
decided to develop outfielder Wade
Killifer into catcher.
Davy Fultz, formerly of the High
landers. now a New York lawyer, is
coach Of the Columbia University
baseball team.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
Handicapped.

"Fain would | write poem on the
delights OF fishing" sighed the poet,
"but woe is mel l can't find word
to rhyme with angleworm."
''But why use that word at the end
of liner" queried the friend.
Because" Kissed the poet between
his set teeth, ian angleworm is all
ways at the end of line
And for an hour the silence was
so still that one could have heard a
pin drop. Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22

the message The apparatus is very
simple. 1t is somewhat larger than
the ordinary card case.
Professor Cerebotani, who is noted
as an amateur scientist, stated that
a French journalist had attributed to
him enormously the invention of a
wireless pocket telegraph instrument
some time ago. He wrote to the
journal denying the invention. How
ever, his letter was not published,
and accordingly nothing remained
for him in the way of vindication ex-
cept to invent the apparatus de-
scribed, which he proceeded to do.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
A Food Boycott.

In 1885, time of Edward III, Par
lament enacted food boycott. No
man, noble or peasant, was allowed
to have more than two courses at a
meal or elsewhere, and leach mess of
two sorts of victuals at the utmost,
be Il Aesh or fish, with the common
sorts Of pottage, without sauce or any
other sort of victuals" Any one, how
ever, could substitute sauce for
mess, but it must not have in it more
than two sorts of fish or flesh.