The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07

that Congress will be
Washington's wasting the peoples
Sole Heir money If it under
takes, through the
Court of Claims, to distribute the
$305 900 which it is proposed to pay
among the heirs of George Washir e.
ton. Mr.. Roberts emphatically as
serts that he is the sole heir of the
Father of His Country, and that he
will be able to prove his heirship as
soon as he can recover the papers
which John Paul Jones took with him
when he sailed away in the good ship
Rover "Observing that your COM
mittee is aboutfto award S305, 600 to
the supposed heirs of George Wash
ington," writes Mr.. Roberts to Chair
man Roberts, II forbid any such pao-
ceedings, for / am the only heir to
that land, and l will prove it when
get the original papers from England,
the papers that John Paul Jones took
in the Rover on his first trip write
this as warning. so that you will
not spend the peoples money un-
necessarily"
X Il <
Church growth in the United States
has been greater than the increase in
population between the years 1900
and 1906, according to the special re-
port on the census of re-
Six Years ligious bodies for 1906,
Growth of now in press. In the
Churches principal cities of the
country the growth both
In number of religious organizations
and communicates was greater in the
years mentioned than the increase in
population, while in the area outside
the principal cities the rate of in
| crease in the number of new churches
established was approximately the
same as the rate of population in
crease, although in the number of
communicates the increase in the out
side area, as in the cities, was in ex-
cess of that in population.
Out of every 1000 people in the
| 100 principal cities of the country
that is, chose which had a population
Of more than rs, 000-there were 400
church members, while for the area
outside these cities there were 1863,
and for the entire country there were
391. AS compared with 1890, the re-
| port shows gain of ninety commune
| cants in each 1000 of population for
the principal cities and gain OF fifty
one outside of them.
! Female members in 1906 outnum-
bered the male members by thirty
| two per cent. in the continental
United States, while in the principal
| cities the excess of female members
| was proportionately less, being $780,
526, CT twcnty-three and one-half per
cent.
The President has given the en-
ployes of the Government permission
to petition Congress to enact legisla-
ton providing for a civil pension list
to be maintained by de-
Civil PEN auctions from the salar-
sion List. les of the employees. but
the Government to make
1 good the deficiency of the first few
years. Secretary MacVeagh is the
| leader CT the sentiment in the Cabinet
| for civil pension list, but the argu-
ments which the Secretary has made
| to his colleagues have converted prac-
| tically all of them. They are all to a
! greater or less extent embarrassed by
the presence of superannuated en-
| ployes, many of whom have done ex-
! cellent work and whom they are un-
willing ruthlessly to discharge. and
| yet they realize that the economy for
which the President is so anxious can
not be attained without getting rid OF
the deadwood.
X X 4
Representative Olcott introduced a
bill providing that the grave of Rear
Admiral Wilkes, in Arlington Gene
terry, be appropriately marked Mr.
Olcott says the family
To Mark of the Admiral is UNI
Wilkes Grave. able to erect a suit
able monument, and
in view of his honorable record the
National Government should not do
less than place a proper memorial
over his last resting place. Admiral
Wilkes was the first man to set up
and use fixed astronomical instru-
ments in the United States, and in adj
1ition to his notable Civil War record
he circumnavigated the globe as early
as 1898.
That is the name which members
of Congress humorously apply to the
farmers bulletin on the economic
use of meats" recently issued by the
Secretary of Agricul-
"Uncle Jim's" ture, who is still called
Cook Book. by those who served
with him in the House
"Uncle jim" Wilson, or occasionally
"Tama jim" Tama County, Iowa
having been his home in the days
when he served as a. Representative
The conference on the bill providing
for the printing of a special edition
of the bulletin was agreed to by both
houses of Congress. The House
passed bill providing for an edition
of 100000 copies. The Senate
amended it by cutting the number tc
/ 100000, but the conferrees compro
missed by setting the figure at 500,
900. Uncle jim s" cook book fur.
nishes recipes for large number O.
/ dishes to be made from the less ex
| pensive cuts of meat, for sauces witt
which to make such selections more
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