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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
John M. Tunis Dead.

The remains of John M. Tunis, who
died suddenly on Monday of last week,
at his home in Newark, were brought
to Madison Thursday morning for in
terment in John Hancock cemetery,
East Madison. The funeral was held
Wednesday evening at his residence in
Newark.
Mr.. Tunis was a member of one Of
the Oldest families Of Madison, having
been born there in 1840, and resided
there until 1897, when he removed to
Newark, where he has since resided.
Mr.. Tunis is survived by a wife and
one daughter, Mrs. Frederick M. Glib
SON, Of Jersey City.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
Friday Evening club.

An interesting lecture was that of
A. Radcliffe Dugmore before the
Friday Evening club last Friday even
ing. He had as his topic Swapping
Africa's Wild Game on Roosevelt's
Hunting Trail" and his graphic de-
scriptions Of African hunting, to-
gether with pictures he had taken
while in that country, made most
enjoyable evening.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
uniyersIty Extension work.

The Columbia university proposes
to extend its work to northern New
Jersey, particularly to the large in
dustrial centers Of population here.
The project is warmly endorsed by
Governor Fort, Ex-Governor John w
Griggs, Hon. James l.. Hays, of New
ark President Of the State Board Of
Education, Judge Francis Scott, of
Paterson; Hamilton W. Mabie, of
Summit, and many Others. The Col
umbia university alumni in northern
New Jersey are heartily in favor of
the plan and will cooperate actively
Ia carrying il forward.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
INDEPENDENTS WERE BUSY.
Have TWO Fires to Extinguish in
Quick Succession.

Independent Hose company had a
lively hour Thursday morning. A
small fire was discovered in the room
in the rear Of George Melick's store.
Chief j. Fred Runyon handled a
stream from the chemical and soon
had the blaze extinguished. The fire
was in a revolving rack filed with
rubbers and standing in the middle Of
the room. Ten dollars will cover the
damage. Just how the fire started is
not known but one theory advanced is
that someone had gone after a pair of
rubbers and the room being dark had
lighted match to see the size num-
bers on the boxes.
Hardly had the hose been coiled
away on the machine when tele-
phone message from Mrs. Byron Sher-
mans residence on Speedwell avenue
told of chimney fire there. Mayor
Ayers, Chief Runyon and Messrs. Voor
hees, Muchmore and Geary jumped in
the chemical and were whisked in a
jiffy by Chauffeur Pangborn to the
scene. Assistant Chief Day and May
nard Day went in the formers auto.
In no time at all the fire was extin-
guished without damage to the house.
The nozzle for use in fighting chim-
ney fires patented by James r. Voor-
hees, of the Independents. was used
and it gave great satisfaction, work.
ing like a charm.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Women's Town Improvement Meet
Ing to be Held in Lyceum Hall.
The women's meeting at $50 on
Friday afternoon, the 25th inst., will
be held at Lyceum Hall, instead of
the Y. M. q. A. building. In addi-
tion to the speakers already announced
there will be stereopticon views and
address by ]. J. Levison, M. F., Ar
boriculturist of Brooklyn Park De-
partment. His subject will be "Our
Shade Trees" most important mat
ter for the consideration of Morr s.
tonians.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
win Hold a washington social.

On Wednesday evening, February
twenty-third, the members of Mrs. A.
M. Guerin's class of the M. E. Sunday
school will hold Washington social
in the Junior room, commencing at
half-past seven. A silver Offering will
be received at the door. A pleasing
program will be rendered and refresh
ments served. Homemade cake and
candy will be for sale. The proceeds
will be used for the missionary offer
ing.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
Resigns From Madison Board Of Health

Dr.. I. N.Van De Water has resigned
from the Madison board of health. He
IS been member Of the board ever
Since the incorporation Of the borough.
having first been appointed by former
Mayor James P. Albright. For fifteen
consecutive years he served as treas
urer of tine board and was elected to
the presidency four years ago.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
Madison Library Omcial Resigns

Miss Agnes Miller has resigned from
the staff of the Madison public library,
her resignation to take effect on March
1st.
During the three years Miss Miller
has been connected with the library
she has given exceedingly interested
and effective work, and she has won
for herself the highest regard of all
those with whom she has come in con-
tact.
Miss Miller goes on March 1st to
take charge of the free public library
of Princeton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
pensions prop on Is .ooo, GOO.

The pension bill, carrying Sl55,674,- :
900 was reported to the house Thurs
day from the committee on appropria-
tions. 1t represents cut from the
estimates of the department. OF only
about sl75,OO0 The appropriation is
about $4,000, 900 less than last year,
the estimated payment for pensions
being that amount less than for the
preceding year. 5.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
WEDDING BELLS.
HINcHMAN-GRoGAN.

The marriage of Homer Hinchman,
of this town, to Miss Marion Grogan,
of Albany, N. Y, by the Rev. Father
Hillock. formerly of this town, on Sat
urday, February 18th, has been an
pounced. Mr.. and Mrs. Hinchman
are now stopping at the Park house.
In the spring they expect TO start
housekeeping.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
Local option Hearing the ssth.

Assemblyman Radcliffe, cha.
of the committee on corporations, hal
fixed February 28th as the date for a
hearing on the house bill proposing to
establish local option law In New
Jersey. He says there will be ample
opportunity given to discuss the
merits Of the question.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
Win From Nutleys.

The Morristown high school basket
ball team journeyed to Nutley Friday
evening and defeated the team from
the Nutley high school by a score Of
twenty-three to twenty-eight. Peter
Pierson, of the Knockers, played cen
ter in the place of Mcintyre and put
the ball into the basket for eight
goals.
The lineup:
MoRRIsToWN 81 NUTLEY
Bockoven. :.:........... Spinning
left forward
Viedt t................ Woodruff
right forward
PlerSon. .....,.,....... -. W00dDuck
center
Clarke. ...... ...............G German
right guard
Little, Ford. ....... Winter, Fitting
left guard
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19

A REPORT made to congress by a
n commission appointed to examine
land titles in the District of Columbia
disclOses that many lots of land occu-
pied by modern business houses and
residences in the national capital are
still owned by the government, not
withstanding the present tenants be-
lieve they have a clear title to the
property.
This question Of land titles in the
national capital is not new one. Two
years ago congress created a commits
sion to study it. The commission con-
sisted of the attorney general, the sec
rotary of war, Senator Scott of West
Virginia, Representative Bartholdt of
Missouri, and one of the district COM
missioners. The report reveals a hor-
rible land tangle, which the courts will
probably never be able to straighten
out. The tangle is the outcome Of the
wild speculation in real estate that
took place for good many years after
the capital was laid out.
Private lands were acquired in
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19

nEER and elk preserves may play an
- important part in reducing the
high cost of beef. According to gov
eminent experts who have made all
investigation of the cost and methods
of raising venison, declare that the
game laws of the various states are
preventing deer and elk farming and
denying the country one of it's chief
sources of cheap and good meat. Deer
and elk can be raised readily in near
ly every state in the Union. They are
easily controlled and cheaply fed.
The increase of elk under domestica-
ton is fully equal to that of cattle
The state and the government,
through it's Yellowstone park officials,
have co-operated with individual
ranchmen in caring for the vast herds
of elk in the JacksOns Hole region in
Wyoming. It is estimated that there
are 10000 elk in the Yellowstone park
region. constituting the only great
herd left. For two or three winters
these elk have been fed, and have now
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
Now Planning a Substitute for Beef

come to look upon the feeding as a
matter of course. and State Game
Warden Nowlin of Wyoming, who has
led the feeding experiments, says that
the last of the great elk herds is be-
coming rapidly domesticated. Several
ranchmen in the Rocky mountain coun-
try have conducted private elk pre-
serves for years. Outside of the pri-
vate elk preserves there are few herds
left in the west.
Barrett Littlefield, who lives near
Slater, has several hundred elk on his
great ranch. Every season he ships
many carcasses of elk to the Denver
market, besides supplying geological
gardens throughout the country. He
has found it profitable to raise elk for
the market-so profitable that he
abandoned the cattle business years
ago and has devoted himself entirely
to the raising of venison There are
two other elk preserves in northwest
ern Colorado. J. B. Dawson, a Routt
county pioneer, has several hundred
head of elk on his ranch near Hayden.
In nearly every state in the Union
the killing of deer is forbidden ex-
cepting in the fall and during a linn
tied period. If deer and elk are to be
raised for the market the venison
farmer must be allowed to kill for the
market, whenever the demand is there.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
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:>'.:.1 2HfAiI j S So, y.

In selecting trees to plant for shade
this spring don't forget the white
elm.
Roses do not require frequent wa.
tering, especially if the soil is kept
well hoed.
The jay bird is very destructive to
fruit and should be killed on sight
and his gaudy plumage exposed in
the top of tree, as a warning to 9th.
ers Of his ilk.
Many growers say that weeds are as
valuable fertilizer as clover and COW
pea, If they are turned under every
year.
The grower who will sort his ap.
pies into two or more grades and pack
we'll, will get more money for his
fruit than the one who throws all
kinds together in a barn ;, and places
a layer of the best ones on top.
Red raspberries do well in the
chicken yard, give shade when most
needed, and the fruit is mostly out of
reach of the fowls.
Some of the late blooming plants,
such as asters and nasturtiums, may
be lifted and potted before frost and
kept alive and blooming indoors for
several eaks.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
Governments Census OF Indian Wards

the government or by missionary en-
terprise is 25,777. In these schools
no effort is spared to teach the child
some industry by which he may sup
port himself when he comes of age,
and the Indians are gradually learn
ing to live by the sweat Of the brow
upon the product of their own self
respecting handiwork, rather than up
on the bounty of the government.
The Apache Indians employed on
the Roosevelt reclamation project un-
der the act of June II, 1902, earned
$34, 900 in 1909, and rendered eminent
ly satisfactory service in regions
where, on account Of the heat, white
man could not have labored. Sheep
herding has given profitable employ
ment to many hundreds of Navajos
and Pueblos in the past year, and
Pima and Papago Indians, employed
as navvies on the Southern Pacific
railway, earned many thousands of
dollars. The Sioux farmers have done
well, though they are deficient in the
quality Of persistent patience that
makes the most successful sort of ag-
ricultural laoorer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on the
w part of amateur diplomats con-
corning the proper form of diplomatic
correspondence nearly precipitated a
war scare in two nations not long
since. 1t was announced that the en-
peror of Germany had deliberately
affrOnted the United States govern
ment by employing affectionate terms
in addressing President Madriz of
Nicaragua, whom our government had
refused to recognize.
Great and Good Friend" is the
way the kaiser's letter to Madriz was
commenced. This had sinister sig
nificance to the amateurs. Immedi-
ately the newspapers were filled with
stories that Germany had espoused the
cause of Madriz; that the Monroe
doctrine had been thrown down and
repudiated by the warlike KAISER; !;
also the emperor had been acting
queerly of late and undoubtedly was
bent on making all the trouble he
could for the United States. After a
little inquiry the war scare faded
away.
In all probability said a state de-
partment official, "the emperor never
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
Bad Land Title Tangle Is Revealed

Washington, in the early days, by a
very simple process. The territory
mot exceeding" ten miles square was
ceded to the United States govern
ment by Maryland and Virginia and
placed under the authority of three
commissioners, appointed by the presi-
dent. They or any two of them were
required, under the direction of the
president, to survey and by proper
metes and bounds define and limit a
district of territory, and the territory
so defined was established as perma-
nent seat of the government of the
United States. Power was given the
commissioners to purchase or accept
land on the eastern side of the Poto-
mac, for the use of the United States,
and the commissioners were further
required to provide suitable buildings
for the accommodation of congress,
the president and public officers of the
government of the United States. 1t
was to raise money to erect the pub
lie buildings that the government
planned to sell it's land to private par
ties.
No sooner had the capital city been
peared on the scene, and as a result Of
their operations, it is asserted, much
land which belonged to the govern
ment illegally passed to individual
Ounnrc
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19

long as the owner, SO in the long ruL
it is cheaper than sticks and much
more satisfactory in every way. The
upright standard of the support con-
sists of wires running parallel to each
other except at intervals, where they
converge and engage each other. There
are other circular pieces of wire with
downwardly projecting prongs which
can be fastened on the standard at
any Of the points where the sides con-
verge, thus forming shoulders in
which to hang the prongs. These
rings, it will be seen, can be moved
up and down the standard to accom-
modate the growing plant and placed
where most needed. Many plants that
are strong and healthy when young
turn out badly because they are not
properly trained, and with this support
they can be given the proper direc-
ton. Aside from it's other advantages,
the device is much more attractive
than the usual unsightly stick used
for this purpose.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19

I'm the present census the govern
1 ment has made a great effort to OBJ
tain. through special agents, full and
authentic data concerning the tribal
relations of the Indians, as a decade
hence when the fourteenth census will
he taken, it probably will be found
that those Indians who are now de-
pendent wards of the nation have be-
come full-fedged citizens.
The Indian population of the United
States decreased in the decade from
1890 to 1900, from 273,607 to 266, 100.
In 1880 the care of the Indians cost
the national government $5,2O6,1O9;
in 1909 the cost had risen to $751;
724162, more than three times as
much. The total attendance of In
dian children In schools conducted by
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
FRUIT GATHERER is USEFUL
Most Ingenious Time Saving Contri-
vances Prevents Damage to
Apple as it Falls.

One of the most ingenious of time
saving contrivances is the fruit gath
erer designed by Kentucky man. 1t
collects all the fruit that falls from
a tree and holds it where it can be
quickly picked up and placed in bas-
ket, also saving the apples, pears, or
whatever they may be from damage
by falling.
A circle of stakes Is driven around
the tree in a radius wide enough to
include anything that falls from it. A
circle of canvas, with hole in the
middle to receive the trunk of the
tree, is fastened around the latter and
also fastened to the stakes with the
outer edge of the ring lower than the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
Quaint Table Manners.

Jerome S. McWade, the Duluth mil
lionaire, talked at a dinner about tho
delights of a backwoods vacation.
Il go to quaint backwoods village
every summer" he said, "and number
less are the quaint people | meet
there.
"OId Boucher, for instance, the jan
ltor of the village church, is most
amusing with his quaint ways. / had
old Boucher to lunch one day, and
the cold lobster was served with a
mayonnaise sauce. When my servant
offered this sauce to Boucher, the old
man stuck his knife in it, took up
little on the blade, tasted it, then
shook his head and said:
Don't choose none.'"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
keepinu Ii DRY.

An old woman of wealthy New
Jersey family was going visiting. The
coachman, who had not been in this
country long, had just been equipped
with a new uniform and a new silk
hat. Before they had gone far it be-
gan to sprinkle, and the old woman
told the coachman to fasten down the
side curtains of the wagonette.
He drove up to a hitching post be-
side the road and, dismounting, hung
his new hat on the post, and began to
fasten the curtains.
The old woman noticed his bare head
and asked him where his hat was.
''Oi took it off me head, mum, so as
it wouldn't get wet" the coachman re-
piled.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
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Bungling Diplomats Cause Trouble

knew that the note in question was
sent 1t was regular routine matter
in the German foreign office and fol-
lowed the stereotyped form.
Nations are excessively polite to
one another in their interchange of
communications. Every letter that
goes out from the state department to
a foreign government has this cere-
monial finish:
Accept. excellency, the renewed as
surance of my highest consideration"
The cermonail letters of all coun-
tries begin in about the same way.
For instance, all of England's COM
munications begin:
George ", by the Grace of God, of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, king, defender Of the
faith, emperor of India, etc."
Nicholas, by the Grace Of God, en-
peror autocrat of all the Russias, car
of Casan, car of Astracan, ETC., lord
of Plescott and grand duke of Smo-
lenski, ETC."
Germany's letters are very much
like those of Russia, in that they be-
gin by announcing all the titles of the
ruling potentate. William H., by
Gods grace, emperor of Germany and
king of Prussia etc., is the way the
present emperor addresses his cere-
monial letters. The emperor writes
with quill pen, and if one may Judge
by his signature on file in the state
department, does not take much time
-,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
OUNCE A PROFITABLE CROP
Cultivation on Increase in United
States Where 1t Has Been Grown
for Many Years.
(BY J. e. MANDELLl

In habit of growth the ounce is a
low dwarfy tree which admits close
planting in the orchard. Ten feet
apart each way is sufficient distance
for most varieties. Planting the trees
at the above distance will give about
435 trees per acre.
While the ounce will grow on al
most any kind of soil, a medium
heavy clay loan, being easy Of cult
walton, is the ideal soil for it. In such
a soil the ounce readily responds to
good cultivation, and if given good
care it will continue to produce good
crops of fruit for many years. In
case the soil should be hard or de-
fcient in plant food liberal applica-
ton of manure will be very helpful
in making the soil better one and
keeping the tree in vigorous condi-
ton.
The ounce does not require a great
deal of pruning. About all the care
that will be necessary along this line
will be- to remove and cut out the
surplus shoots and dead branches. An
occasional shortening back of the
longer branches may be necessary to
keep the tree in it's natural form.
The best time for pruning probably
is juse before the beginning of the
growing season. Any wounds made
at that time usually heal promptly.
The ounce is propagated in many
ways. The methods most in use are
by budding, grating, cutting and
from seed. The method of propaga-
ting by cuttings is the easiest. The
cuttings should be made from the
fresh young growth Of the previous
season and be treated as any other
cutting.
The ounce begins to bear early
usually in two years after planting
The size of trees and kind to plant de-
pend to some extent upon the locality
and the taste of the grower. Two
year old trees seem to be preferred
by most planters.
The ounce is so easily grown that
the care required in raising it is more
than amply repaid by the value of the
fruit produced. When the ounce is
properly prepared for the table by the
many methods recommended it is a
very delicious fruit.
The ounce finds a ready market
and sells at good price, all depend
ing on the quality. The price paid
the past season ranged from two to
three and half cents per pound.
The ounce has been grown in vari-
GUS localities throughout the United
States since the early days. It's cult
walton is on the increase and in some
sections we find it planted on a COM
mercial scale. But owing to the fact
that the ounce, including all The
varieties, is unfit for eating uncooked
has kept 1t from taking much promi-
nence among the commercial orchard
fruits.
The uses to which the ounce may
be put are many. but its chief value
is as a preserving fruit. Where the
ounce is grown it is naturally more
used. In France and some of the
other European countries, large guam
titles of the ounce are used yearly
for making ounce marmalade and
wine. The marmalade industry, es-
pecially in France, is quite an ex-
tensive one, and the finished product
finds quite ready sale.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
GRAPES OF HIGHEST QUALITY
May Be Secured by Placing Paper
Bags Over Clusters, Preventing
Fruit From Rotting.

In many sections not all of the
grapes were killed by the heavy freeze
and storm in April, and not a few of
those that were killed came out later
with new shoots bearing some clus-
tiers of grapes.
If you wish to procure grapes of the
highest quality and free from rot, slip
and fasten paper bags over the clus-
tiers. Growers manila paper bags are
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19

the kind to use. When the grapes are
about half grown cover each bunch
with a paper bag by Sitting the top to
fit the stem of the bunch and fasten>
covered with paper bags are not only
of better quality, but they ripen earli-
er, and the bags are a protection
against frost for late maturing sorts.
The illustration shows how the opera
ton is performed.