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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
WHO'S HEAD OF The HOUSE?
UNCLE sam WISHES TO KNOW
Wife Likely to Have the Better Of Husband Who May Be Away When
Census Enumeration CaSHe Will Ask You About Your Mother
in.LaH TOO---Rura Citizens Asked to Chain the Dog
After Census Work Begins Next April.

Are you married or single OF
divorced or widowed" If you have
been divorced and remarked, you will
be asked the number of years of the
present married life.
How many children are you the
mother of? How many children were
born and how many are living?"
These questions will be asked in
the order named, so do not get inn
patient and fretful and think the
enumerator is asking questions which
seem personal and impairment The
information is for the Government
The enumeration also will ask you
your nationality. The Government is
particularly anxious that this ques-
ton be answered truthfully.
What State or Territory, if born
in the United States? What country,
If foreign born? The place of birth
of the person being Intercepted; the
place of birth of the father of this
person and the place of birth of the
mother" are among the questions.
To Identify Citizens and Aliens.
The question of citizenship will be
thoroughly gone into, thus;
Were you born in the United
States? Were you an immigrant?
What year did you come to the United
States? Have you been naturalized
or are you still an alien?"
The enumerator will have to ask
whether all persons enumerated
speak English, and if not what Ian.
guages they speak.
The trade or profession, the kind
of work done by each person, such
as spinner, salesman, laborer, etc.,
will be asked. The general nature OF
industry, business or establishment
in which each person works, such as
cotton mill. dry goods store, farm,
etc. Whether an employer or en-
ploye or working on own account,
will be another question If an en-
ploye you will be asked whether you
were out of work on April Is, 1910,
and the number of weeks you were
out of work in 1909.
Questions Will be asked with a view
of classifying the illiterate, those hav-
ing just a common education and
those having higher education.
Other questions will show whether
Americans are as extravagant as they
have been alleged to be. 1t will be
asked whether the home you live in is
owned by you or rented. If owned by
you, If it is free of mortgage
The last question is if there are any
persons in the house suffering from
blindness, whether in both eyes; and
Ii deaf and dumb
Every citizen is asked to cooper
ate with the enumerators in order
that no mistakes will occur.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
GOVERNMENT TO WIPE
OUT NIGHT RIDING
President Determined to Restore
Peace to the Tobacco Belt.
FARMERS WERE TERRORlzED
Federal Net is Secretly Spread and
Burley Trust Will Be Prosecuted
Evidence Collected of Brutal
Night Attacks.

Cincinnati, Ohio - President Taft
is determined that law and order shall
be restored in the hurley belt of Ken
lucky, where murderous bands OF
Night Riders have been terrorizing
inhabitants for years, destroying
farming property, laying waste acres
of tobacco land and infiicting dire
punishment on numerous tobacco
growers who declined to enter the
farmers pool, namely, the Burnley
Tobacco Society.
The evidence which has been gath
cred by secret investigation ordered
by Attorney-General Wickersham
shows that men have been killed,
women and children shot at, many
have become maniacs and hundreds
of natives of the Blue Grass state,
unable to find protection in the home
lands, have fed to Ohio, Indiana and
Missouri to escape the vengeance Of
the Night Riders
For months the lowlands of Ken
lucky, Ohio and Indiana, so long the
scene of night riderism, have been
secured by special agents from the
Bureau Of Investigation of the De-
partment of Justice, collecting data,
which unquestionably will be used
soon against the Burley Tobacco So
ciety. also called the Farmers Trust.
The gathering of information has
been in charge of Special Agent Harry
w. Hoagland, aided by a score of
other special agents of the Govern
ment. So secretive have been the OPP
erations of Mr.. Hoagland and his men
that despite the fact that their work
was started nearly three mouths ago
it was only few days ago that their
presence became known
The Government is now prepared
to wage a relentless war against the
Farmers Trust The object is not to
prosecute the farmer, but to safe
guard to all the personal liberty CIV
en- by the Constitution.
In addition the Government will
expose and shatter the propaganda of
zone buyer" and zone seller" which
has long gone hand in hand with the
Night Rider terrorism. Hundreds of
witnesses have been examined in Sc
cret and proceedings will be brought
in the Federal courts of one of the
, States interested.
1t is reported here that the first
move will be bill in equity demand
ing the dissolution of the hurley to-
bacco concern as a violation of the
Sherman Antitrust law and the In
terstate Commerce act.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
SOFT, WHITE HANDS
May BE Obtained in One Night,

For preserving the hands as well
as for preventing redness. roughness,
ana chapping, and imparting that vel
vety 50 'tness and whiteness much de-
R'red by women Cuticura Soap, assist
ca by Cuticura Ointment, is believed
10 be superior to all other skin soaps.
For those who work in corrosive
liquids, or at occupations which tend
10 injure the hands, it is invaluable.
reatment.-Bathe and soak the
hands on retiring in strong, hot,
creamy lather of Cuticura Soap. Dry
and anoint freely with Cuticura ONT
ment, and in severe cases spread the
Cuticura Ointment on thin pieces of
Did linen or cotton. Wear during the
night old, loose gloves, or a light
bandage of old cotton or linen to pro-
tect the clothing from stain. For red,
rough, and chapped hands, dry. ifs
sured, itching, feverish palms, and
shapeless nails with painful finger
ends, this treatment is most effective.
Cuticura Remedies are sold through
out the world, Potter Drug & Chem.
Corp. sole proprietors, Boston, Mass.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
BOYCOTT DECLARED ON MEAT.
Cleveland Club Representing r.
600 WOrkmen Starts Protest.
Test OF Packers Assertion, That the
Gluttony of Americans Makes Meat
Expensive-Co Cooperation Asked.

Cleveland, Ohio. Four hundred
and sixty superintendent and fore
men of twenty-one of the largest man
ufacturing concerns of this city have
pledged themselves to aid in a general
boycott on meat for thirty days. In
addition to agreeing to do without
meat themselves, the superintendent
and foremen have promised to induce
as many as possible of the 1000 en-
ployes under them to dispense with
/ the food for the same period With
the employees in the pact, approx
mately 10000 Cleyelanders will alb
stain from meat.
The pledge is effective at once. The
anti-meat action was taken at a meet
ing of the Superintendents' and Fore
mems Club, in which practically every
manufacturing plant of the city was
represented. The idea of living the
vegetarian life for period originated
in the minds of few members Of the
club while discussing high priced
food at dinner Meat being the most
expensive portion served at dinner,
the members decided not to eat meat.
The pledge follows:
w Y, Cd w cb5O col AGi I'll Z Will
ing to assist both the State and the
municipalities in probing into the
high cost of living, particularly the
cost of meats which is prohibitive.
2. This agitation can best become
effective by refraining from eating
meat for a period of thirty days.
8. If this does not bring the price
OF meat within the means of poor
H. H. e.
ing meat for sixty days
4. We, citizens, do hereby ask our
representative in each councilmanic
district and the legislative bodies to
keep this agitation uppermost in their
minds and actions until the result
manifests itself
5. We ask the cooperation of all
persons who are interested in fair
play and the future of our otherwise
prosperous country.
6. This self-denial to take effect at
once.
The signers OF the pledge point out
that while most Americans eat meat
at least once a day, and often three
times a day, poor people of other
countries consider meat luxury,
while the well-to-do are content to eat
meat once day at the most.
Information from medical author
ities tends to prove that the American
workman eats too much meat" said
F. w. Sebelin, member of the SUI
perintendents and Foremens Club.
Furthermore, the meat packers
themselves say the price of meat is
caused by the gluttonous eating of
meat, and if the demand were less the
price would drop.
by refraining from eating meat
for month or sixty days the factory
employees of America would so lessen
the demand that the truth of the
packers statements could be tested.
BY living for period without meat
the workman will also prove to him
self that meat three times a day is a
luxury"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18

Washington, D. Care you the
head of the family, or is the head
out?''
This is one of the leading questions
that will be put to whoever may come
to the door when the census enumer-
ator calls next April
1t is important that the Govern
ment keep track of every head of
family, and the answer, though it
may cause domestic wrangling after
ward, will be recorded from the one
of whom it is asked. That is where
the women of the family will get the
best of it, as it is likely the men will
be at work when the enumerator calls.
"How About Your Mother-in-Law? 2"
"Are you married? Have you any
children? Is your mother-in-law liv-
ing with your"
These are few of the multiplicity
of questions which, beginning April
Is, 1910, will be asked every house
wife in the United States and it's
Territories by Uncle Sans army of
inquisitors known as census enumer-
ators.
From house to house all over the
country these inquisitors will go. If
you happen to be housewife and
answer the summons of the doorbell,
and four of your five children answer
it too, do not scold the enumerator
when he asks you If you are mar
ried Uncle Sam has not counted
noses all over the country for ten
long years, and it may be, as some
pessimists say, the race is lessening,
apd If ca thn Gnvprnnon ont wants RI
know in order to determine what
kind of premiums to offer for Roose-
veltian families,
Chain the Dog After April ii.
There is one request in particular
the Government makes of people liv-
ing in small cities, towns and rural
districts, and that is to have all dogs
chained after April IA, for at least
six months.
When the enumeration calls he will
begin by asking these questions:
What street. road or avenue Is
this? What is the NUMBER"
He will then ask: What is your
name? Are you the head of FAM
lily? What is the name of each per-
son living here on April is, 19102
The surname initial of eveEy person
in the abode? How many children,
their names, ages, places of birth r.
If you are not the head OF the
family you will be asked what rela-
ton you are to the head.
The enumerators will the sex.
color and race OF every person; the
age of last birthday.
Z Then come questions to the women.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
sWoPE MURDER PLOT.
Alleged Scheme to Kill Eight With
Typhoid Germs.

Kansas City, Mo. - Relatives OF
Thomas H. Swope, multi-millionaire
philanthropist, and his nephew,
Christman Swope, placed the investi.
cation into their death which is al.
ready well under way, in the hands OF
local law firm. The assertion is
made that Thomas Swope and his
nephew were poisoned, and that the
author of the crime also inoculatee
the entire Swope family of eight per.
sons with typhoid germs in an effort
to exterminate them. Shortly before
Christman Swope's death, the man tc
whom suspicion points visited the of.
fee of bacteriologist here and pro,
cured typhoid cultures, it is said.
1t developed that Swope's body was
taken from vault in Forest Hill,
Cemetery and submitted to medica.
examination. Attorneys representing
the Swope estate say they are con,
WINGED deep laid plot existed to xii;
first Colonel Swope and then other
members of his family, A person
who hoped to become sole beneficiary
of the Swope millions plotted the
deaths, they assert.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18

John Barker, the town marshal OF
Harrisonville, overheard the follow
ing conversation between two little
girls who were not yet old enough
to go to school: What makes a
horse act naughty when he sees an
auto?" one asked. Horses is used
to seem other horses pullln' rigs,
and they don't know what to think
of 'em goin along without horse.
I guess if you was to see a pair OF
pants walkin down the street with
out man in EN- you'd be scared,
too. Kansas City Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
Table Mountain.

At Cape Town, in South Africa,
where the traveller usually has the
first glimpse of the continent, is
Table Mountain, magnificent nat
ural curiosity, which rises behind the
city to the height of almost 1000
feet, and has a level top about three
square miles in area. Its resem-
blance to huge table is SO marked
that the dense clouds which collect
at times around the summit are re-
ferred to as the tablecloth. A pretty
little flower which is found nowhere
else on earth grows on top, while on
the northern side of its base is a
similarly rare tree, popularity called
the silver leaf tree.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
WHEN DINNER COMES
One Ought to Have a Good Appetite

A good appetite is the best sauce.
1t goes a long way toward helping in
the digestive process, and that is alb
solutely essential to health and
,trength.
Many persons have found that
Srape-Nuts food is not only nourish-
ing but is a great appetizer. Even
.hiIdren like the taste of 1t and grow
strong and rosy from its use.
1t ts especially the food to make a
weak stomach strong and create an
appetite for dinner
Il am 81 years old" writes Tenn.
grandmother, and have had weak
stomach from childhood. By great
care as to my diet enjoyed a reason
able degree of health, but never
found anything to equal Grape-Nuts
as standby.
when have no appetite for
breakfast and just eat to keep up my
strength, take 4 teaspoonfuls OF
Grape-Ntsts with good rich milk, and
when dinner comes | am hungry.
While il ! go without any breakfast
i never feel like eating dinner. Grape
Nuts for breakfast seems to make
healthy appetite for dinner.
"My little 1S-months-old grandson
had been very sick with stomach
trouble during the past summer, and
finally we put him on Grape-Nuts.
NOW hesis growing plump and well.
When asked if he wants his nurse or
Grape-Nuts. he brightens UP and
points to the cupboard. He was no
trouble to wean at all-thanks to
Grape-Nuts. /" Read the little book,
"The Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
There's Reason"
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, 1910-01-18
Hovv = Moose Eats.

OF all peculiar sights l think that
that Of a moose eating grass is the
most extraordinary. The neck is so
short and the legs are so long that
the animal usually kneels in eating
grass. True, they do not attempt it
very often, for grass is by no means a
stable with them; but even a moose
likes change of diet. The appear
Rnce Of these huge and awkward crea-
lures in this devotional attitude is not
only interesting but laughable.- -
From "Nature and Science" in st.
Nicholas
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
NURSE CHOKED TO DEATH
Coachman, Found With His Throat
Cut AfterWard, is Arrested.
Murder in the Country Home OF
Barnes COmpton-Police Believe In
jured Man Assaulted the Girl.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Sarah o
Breymer, twenty-six years old, gov
erness. was bound, attacked and
strangled to death in bed in her room
in the summer home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Barnes Compton, at Millbrook, Dut-
chess County, who were absent in
New York City. The murder was
committed within few feet of Polly,
little three-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs Compton, who was
sleeping on a cot in the same room.
The murder was done so quietly the
child did not awaken.
When Frank Schermerhorn, mar
ried man, who is coachman at the
Compton place, learned next after,
noon that suspicion was directed
against him, he went to his bedroom
in the coachman's house, wrote note
to his wife, in which he asserted his
innocence of the crime, darkened the
room, crawled under the bed and cut
his throat with razor. He was
found under the bed by Chief of Po-
lice Charles ]. McCabe. The chief
went to the coachmans house to get
the man and question him further.
When he entered the darkened room
he heard the trickling of blood, which
was flowing from Schermerhorn's
throat. He spoke, and from beneath
the bed came this gurgling query:
rs that you, chief?"
eyes, Frank and you'd better
come out, because want you" Nc.
Cabe replied.
I'm not guilty" Schermerhorn
said as he crawled out with great eff
fort, abut would rather die than go
to Jail. !"
Chief McCabe summoned a physi-
clan hastily, in an effort to save the
coachman's life After the cash in
his throat had been dressed, Scher,
merhorn was rushed to Vassar Hos.
pital, this city. Although he is SC
weak from the loss of blood he could
scarcely talk, he made a desperate
effort to divert suspicion from him,
self to Shtiro Chashi, the Japanese
butler in the Compton household
"The Jap did it, he said. II stood
under window o. the house and saw
him kill her"
The police take no stock in that
statement, however, and no suspicion
is felt against the butler.
The body of the nurse was discov.
cred by servants who had been
aroused by the intruders. An exam
nation of the house bore evidence
of its having been ransacked by bur
glars, although nothing of great value
was missing.
Schermerhorn had been about the
place all day, glibly going over the
incidents attending the finding of the
nurses body after the frightened ser.
wants had rung bell to his house
asking for assistance
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
About Noted People.

Herman Ridder refused appoint
ment as Park Commissioner OF New
York City.
Mayor Gaynor, Of New York City,
began his first day by compelling all
employees to work from 8 o'clock I'M
til 5.
Louis PauIhan, the highest salaried
aeroplane driver in the world, and his
wife arrived in this country from
France.
DR.. Charles r. Chandler, of Colum.
bia University, asked to be relieved
Of active teaching work. His request
was granted reluctantly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18

Outside the palace gate, hundred
yards away, stands the statue. gazing
eagerly into the pitiless desert, full
of the dreams of the dead soldier. 1t
is marvellous piece of work, and the
first sight of it, staring south, always
south, while about it's feet his
avengers and successors carry on his
interrupted work, brings frightened
feeling to the throat and an untoward
dryness to the mouth. And it is be-
cause of these things that you will
understand why the city is built on
the plan of the Union Jack, of which
Gordons statue is the centre.-Lon-
don Outlook.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
strong Enough to Walk.

A young lady entered grocer's
shop and asked for some good cheese
The grocer showed her an assortment
which did not please her. She wanted
some particularly lively" cheese. He
then showed her the remainder of his
stock, amounting to some half-dozen
samples. No, she wanted it still more
lively" At last the grocer, losing
all patience, sarcasticallv called to his
assistant: "John, uncnain No. and
let it walk in. '-Tit-Bits.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
Pathos Out of place in schools.

In an address at a teachers insti-
tute Miss Martha Sherwood said that
sad and pathetic stories should have
no place in the public schools. She
declared the pupils great need is hui
morous stories and the kind that
make children roll on the ground
with laughter. Anything to make
them laugh, and laugh loudly" she,
said. "It makes them grow, puts sun
shine into their lives and develops
contented men and women"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18

Twenty-six railway employees were
killed and forty-four injured in Can
ada in one month
The Oklahoma State Court Of APP
peals has rendered an opinion de-
claring that the eight-hour law of
that State is constitutional.
The total membership of the Uni
ted Brewery Workers Union at the
present is 1929, composed Of 1856
local unions and 1877 branches.
The number of wage earners eligi-
BILE to become members Of trade
unions is IA, 900. 900 In Great Britain:
5000. 900 belong to trade unions.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18

Washington, D. Whether, the
thirteenth census, on which the Gov
eminent expects to spend at least
S13, 100000 and probably more, will
reflect correct picture Of the Nation,
its people, their lives and resources,
is going to depend as largely upon the
people themselves as upon the Census
Bureau and its $4,000 enumerators
who will be engaged in the work.
Director Durand makes this asser-
ton in his annual report to Secretary
Nagel, of the Bureau of Commerce
and Labor. While the report reviews
the work of the bureau for the last
year, great part of it deals with
preparations for the coming census.
The director calls attention to the
fact that any person or corporation
may make returns and know that
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
WOMAN DEAD, 10 PERSONS HURT
Head-On Collision Between Passenger
Trains Occurs in Iowa.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa.-Mrs. Louis
Zee, of Cleveland. was killed, and ten
other persons. were injured, one prob
ably fatally. in head-on collision be-
tween passenger trains on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail-
road at Keystone. Iowa. The west
bound Overland Limited and an east
bound fast train were ordered to pass
at Keystone.
A freight train occupied the east end
of the siding, and the eastbound train
ran past the station to Lack onto the
other end of the side track. The
Overland Limited, running twenty
five miles an hour, crashed into the
other train as it was about to enter
the siding. Both locomotives were
reduced to scrap, and mall baggage
and chair cars of the Limited were
wrecked The engine crews escaped
death by jumping. Ralph Morrow, a
brakeman, was injured, probably
fatally
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
Prussian Election Laws Changed
Deficit of S23, 900, 900 Shown

Berlin. Emperor William opened
the Prussian Diet. The proposed leg
islation outlined in the Speech from
the Throne includes a bill for the re-
form of the election law and a meas
ure the purpose of which is to coun-
teract the tendency Of the laboring
classes to desert the farms,
Baron Won Rheinhaben, Minister OF
Diet the budget which showsJa deficit
of $23,000,000. 1t is due to an in
of $50,000,000 in salaries.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
MAN DEAD, 10 OTHERS HURT.
Fast Illinois Central Train Runs Into
a Freight on q Curve.

Pinckneyville, Ill, - Carl Kitchen.
fireman of the passenger train, was
killed, and ten persons were injured
in collision between an Illinois Cen
trail passenger train from Memphis
and freight train on curve.
Among the injured, all of whom
probably will recover, are w. M. Van
Lear. of No 241 Chestnut street,
Phils delphia, neck twisted and in
ternal injuries; I. Felber, No. 610
st. Clair avenue, N. w, Cleveland,
Ohio. back and neck injured, and G.
Rinaldo, Columbus, Ohio, neck and
wrist twisted.
Miss T. H. Mckenzie, of Lulu.
Miss, was hurt, but she tore up her
skirts and bandaged several wounds
of other passengers.