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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-28
Endurance Of the Stormy pelre,.

During a recent trip across the At.
Iantic the passengers on one steamer
lad q vivid illustration of the endur-
tnce of the stormy petrol Shortly az
Ter the ship had left the Irish coast
wo or three of these birds wero sight
I'D at the ships stern. One had been
faptured.at some previous time, End
It's captor had tied q piece of red fan
tiel round its neck and let it CO.. The
bit of red made the bird very ~conspic-
pous, and it could easily be identified.
THAT bird, with others that could not
be SO easily distinguished, followed the
bhip right across the ocean. Rarely,
Turing the daytime at least, was it out
Pf sight, and if for an hour or two it
was lost to view while feeding on the
refuse thrown overheard, it soon reap.
peared, and the last seer of it was
within a few miles Of Sandy Hook,
when it disappeared. When the fact
is considered that the ship, day and
night, went at an average speed of
nearly twenty miles an hours, the feat
performed by the daring traveller can
be appreciated New York News.
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Our Joyous Northern Neighbor.

The Frenchman of Canada remain.
essentially an Old World product.
Centuries of life in the New Woril
have not transformed his nature. Els
transplanting has modified his man
ners, given him new interests, su--
rounded him with new conditions, but
in spirit he remains what his ancestors
were when they came to New France
from Normandy in old France. He is
the same cheerful, optimistic, pleas
ure-loving being that they were. In
many respects he is as simple as a
child in others he is e. cunning and
as guileful as any small trader on the
earth. The French Canadian cannot
live in solitude; he must have society.
When his American neighbor in New
England has finished his work in the
fields or woods, and has done the
chores about the house and barns, he
gets himself into o brooding frame OF
mind, and reflects upon his mortgage
until the threatened return of interest
day drives him to his dark bed room.
When evening comes to the Canadian,
he leaves his pillow in the furrow and
greets the stars with a song that his
forefathers who fought with Fontenac
brought over from the land that their
descendant still calls ''la belle France"
Their tired women are never too tired
to dance in the midst of cares and
labors so heavy and evere that their
like has driven hundreds of thousands
of the habitants into the United States.
The old custom of visiting, of great
feasts on the day set apart by the
Church to the saint who is the patron
of the parish, and on the family ami
versaries, are kept up as they are at
home. Here as there the race is the
atrical; the dramatic effects of cos
tune and OF conduct are still dear to
the heart of this Frenceman who has
never seen France. and whose people
for generations were born in the SOM
bre forests of Canada, while he has
spent q life of toll on the fields that
decline to yield a fruitful harvest to
his untutored and inadequate cultiva-
tion. By the light of blazing logs in
the humble cottage, he and his neigh
bors are happy and cheerful after a
manner and to o degree that would
seem to the grave New Highlander
wicked levity and mad responsibility.
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"i' there is any rsrEi u re vile nce.''
aid the meliuG, "ShI would like to
taiS witt auy party tlsJ kacS 'strce no
was dsAd les the Il CD ne !oc vAtl."
A tall mau, wSn toed in eighty as he
Galse1, cams, to tie front.
az shauil L sc 70 base o litt'e tails
wi;n Oily sleu:J," said tn, tall man.
s"e used to b. detective, YOU know"
"iiow long si"ce liz Was cI.ei awayP
Asked tde medium.
"FM ae moatls."
NJ doubt you won't get him. I notice
:::at it generally taxes ! detective Any.
how two years to tn | TIE SAy ohck."-
'adisus.olis Journal.
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esthose who, onsomelo height,
hssching through all the weary hours Of
night,
wait the pale rose of the morning light,
wait for thee.
As n who, waking on a bed Of pain,
And, helpless in his agony, is fam
70 wait the sweet return OF sleep again,
I wait for thee.
Ashe who, In some vast cathedral, dim
With shadows, silent waits, on Bonded limb
The music Of the Eucharistlc hymn,
wait for thee.
Is deaf rAssn crave for song, and blind FOL
sight,
As weary sons OF toll long for the night,
Ind IS the fettered spirit longs for flight,
Hong for thee.
Arthur T. Froggatt, In the SpectatoI.f
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marches TO the church, 49,
Of food. for the famished dancers, who
have tasted for many hours. The
women climb to the roof by means Of
= ladder, and hand ths bowls to a man
at the skylight, or door, who passes
them inside. When Che dancers hive
refreshed themselves they perform
ceremonies known only to Che order,
put on their ordinary costumes, and
the dance and prayer for rain are
ended.
If rain should come and tina CROPS
are bountifulthe prayer has been heard
but If not, the Great Spirit is angry
With the red man, and has not been
propitiated.
Though that portion OF the dance
performed in the Plaza is public, tie
Indians will not permit tie Mexican,
10 witness it, or, in fast, auy Ct Sheir
ceremonies. When the t1'Nlhrls con-
quered the Southwest nssrly $50 years
ago, one of the first stepG they took
was to prohibit several of sas Indian
dances, which, however, were always
performed in secret, in the estufa.
The dances of a semi-relisious nature
are always performed by men belong.
ing to special orders, end even their
own women ara not allowed to witness
some of them, the strictest secrecy be-
ing enioinei. 1t was these secret cere-
monials that the Spaniards prohibited,
ander severe penalties, and this r~estric-
lion led to the Indian rebellion of 1880,
which lasted fourteen years. Many of
the Spanish priests were killed and
their churches and their affairs were
destroyed and d~esecrated, as the Speni-
rds had destroyed those Of the In
Hans who objected to the "new re-
Ggion."
After a cruel war the various tribei
we're conquered, village after village
being reduced, Isleta holding out to the
last. While the Indians confessed the
new religion, they never abandoned
their dances, and have preserved them
10 the present, but they will never per.
nit q Spaniard o a Mexican to witness
them. The Pueblo Indians also pre-
serve their barbarous custom Of pun
lshing supposed witches by swinging
them up until nearly suffocated, or by
,rucifying them-tying them on the
walls OF the estufa by the hands and
feet to projecting timbers. Recently
. witch was killed in this name An
officer with a detail of Government
troops visited the pueblo, and the
Cacigne promised that there should be
no more crucifxion. New York Re.
eorder.
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by local application !, as theycannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one
way to cure Deafness, aud that is by constitu-
tlonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining OF the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have q rumbling sound or imper.
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
nation can bs taken out and. this tube re-
stored - is normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are
caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for am
case of 10 afness caused by catarrh) that can
circulars, free.
+. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
~ Sold by Druggists. 75c.
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EamingOs, Tongues.

The beastly yitellius, as Gibbon calls
him, spent at leastsi1 millions OF money
on table in about as many months; lie
invented, or his cook invented for him,
a dish which he designated ''The Shield
of Minerva$ One of its principal IN.
gradients Jas famingos' tongues, OF
which, Wye add, both Pliny and Mar
tial speafh the eneomiastio terms.
Dampie lays that the famingos raw
'1arge { &gues, and near the root Is =
piece of nc which is accounted q great
dainty" tyhen Captain Owen was sur
veying the oosst Of Africa his sssi'
ors shot d, Hundreds Of these beau
tiful bir@ order, with an extrays'
gance wol " of Vitellius, to make
dish Of tongues alOne'-Ai the
Year Rout
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6usie's mother sent her to Warren'i
che other day for some shoestrings. TIL,
little girl tipped the door.latch aud slowly
walked up to the proprietor.
"Mamma sent me down for a pair OF
shoestrings," and Susie fingered her
pennies n~ervously as she looked into the
dealers face. Warren turned to a bunch
Of strings upon the wall and began to
pull a couple out. Then he stopped.
show long does she want themH"
Susie looked flustered. ST don't
know, but / think wants them
TO keep."-Boston Transcript.
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Animal and vegetable oils are more
efficient IN sitting troubled waters than
mineral oils.
There are venomous fishes whose
SHINES infict dangerous wounds, much
like the stings of snakes.
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Editor-Where did you work lasS
Appli anti was on a London pa.
rer. What did you do" Wrote
editorials on Anne. lean %affairs.r
.,Why did you leaye:" 'fDischarged.p
what for?;" "They found out that
] had lived in the Inited states long
enough 10 know something about
itn- New York Weekly.
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a Save to Duty.

Deacon Slocum--l am panied t.
see That a circus is to pitch It's tent
in our village next week, Sister
Beebe, Sister Heebe-Yes How
~deuorali ing! Eeacon II cum-Aud
vet those incorrigIble grand hi dren
Of miue insist on going TO it aud |
fear that / shall he compelled to 50
along to see that they don't get hurt
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Due to Expansion.

1t Is not generally known thai
people are taller on rising in the morn.
ing than when they go to bed at night.
The reason for this is that the verte.
bre of the backbone, twenty-four in
number, yield considerably to the
pressure of the body in an erect posi-
ton in the day, and expand themselves
during the reposs of the night
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Wit and Humor.


'NVhere did you 80 this summers
nsked n business man of another.
awe boarded 10 the country" "Wa,
It e~xpensive?" mot very. We Cot
a good deal for our money. My wife
cot the rheumatism. My boy, Tommy.
got his leg broke and little Mamie
got poisoned with ivy and all we paid
was $40 a week apiece Texas Sift.
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"Why," she said, as she watchon
the tumbling waves come ir. dc
they call them breakers" Il cannot
tell" he replied in solemn tones,
sunless it's because it costs lie 80
a day to get near them"-Washin3.
ton Star,
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Footman-Herr and Frau Ccmmer.
,ienratb send their compliments and
request the pleasure of your company
on the 18th inst Baron-Teuie. |
have already two invitation; for the
18th, / have not yet de idGd which
to accept Do you happen to have
the menu about you?--DurlharOier
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Cla,a-I understand you have a
new president for yonr sewing So
ciety? Cora-Yes; the former one
was incompetent "Yon Gou't say
Eyes; she said she colldu't under.
stand what any OF US SAD whrn WE
all talked together. "-A onkers tsteS
man.
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Mother-The paper SAYS a cat out
West has four kittens with six legs
each. What do you think of that?
Little NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. see
that's twenty-four legs. Well, or
cat has six kittens with four legs
each, an that's Just as many.--Good
News.
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"Iobson made quite a hit when h.
made his first appearance GA the
stage" What was h., pat" II he
sllust in Hamlet lie ap cared i've
minutes ahead of time aud Jtir edecT
On ilanles Was very Lme."-Llle.
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Stealing a Policeman.
rY S. BARINd-aoUID.

UTI1AND is the
smallest county in
England ; it is but
eighteen mile s
long, and its ex-
IRENE breadth is
fifteen. The con-
sequence of this
contracted area is
that whatever hap
pens in one corner
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81 am glad to see that Unison is
getting irregular In his haUits ="
'tilad. sorry you mean" No. Glad.
He was sober twice last week."-
Exchange.
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Suffered Mentally.

Pawson--Why does DeSmythe hes.
ltate So when he is talking? Las he
IN lmpediment in speech? Dawson
No; In his m.nd.-BroUklYn Lii e.
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DR.. Kilmer's SWAMP Roof curea
all Kidney and Bladder troubles
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory ~ninghamton. N. Y,
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Summer Weakness, that tired tired feeling,
loss of appetite and nervous prostration are
driven away by Hoods Sarsaparilla, like mist
before the morning sun. To realize the benefit
OF this great medicine, give 1t a trial.
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The thread-like material secreted by
mussels is gathered in Sicily and used
in silk manufacture.
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Frequent cutting and trimming Of
the hairs increase their thickness, but
not their number.
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The pow 4 OF steam was discovered
by a Flore. Sne officer, who was IDLY
experiment Be with n glass bottle and
a few drcs fkof water;
Tho sniety b tree coptiaucs 10 grow
in lenQl}Ve been fellsd.
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Fifty yearc ago Bedford Springs, up
II the Pennsylvania Mountains, was
the most famous American inland sum.
mel resort.
Among the Hindoos gambling is re-
garded on a certain day Of the year as
y religious duty.
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Some Chinese and many Africans
use the a as a pocket to carry coins
and other small articles.
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Karls Clover Root, the great blood purifier,
gives freshness and clearness to the complexion
and cures constipation 25 cts 90 Cts. ST.
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In China j~ailers are supported by
contributions from the prisoners and
their friends.
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Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces intianlma-
lion, aliays pain, cures wind collie. &c. a bottle
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Geography az q science was intro
duced INTO Europe by the Moors in
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-28

Cork bricks are about as heavy - or
binary porous bricks.
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The use Of fax dates back 1000
years before the Christian era.
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The Bakers Bill

,eIis Of greatly increased appetites in my lam
ly as a result of taking Hoods SarsaparltA.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-25
INGENIOUS SMUGGLING.

One OF the most ingenious devices
for smuggling was detected in
Russia not long ago, said 0. L..
Ratovitch of St. Petersburg.
A great number of false bank
notes had been put into circulation
within the dominions OF the Gar.
They could only have been import
ed, and although the strictest search
was made habitually over every
vessel entering a Russian port no
trace of the smuggling of false notes
was discovered. Accident, how
ever, at last brought the mystery to
light. 1t happened that several
cases OF lead pencils arrived one day
from England, and while being ex-
amined one of them fell out from a
package, and the Custom House
officer. picking it up, cut it to a
point and used it to sign the order
which delivered up the pencils to
the consignee. He kept the loose
pencil for his own use and and few
days afterward, because it needed
new point, he cut il again and
found that there was no more lead,
He cut still further, and was sur
prised to find a thin roll of paper
nested in the hollow place where the
lead was supposed to be. The
paper was one OF the false notes, and
in this way they had been smuggled
into the country.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-25

to make any dividend ON the cash
much more the fictitious capital
with which they are doing bust.
nessP
The poverty stricken Sugar Trust
as a member of the charity list
with hand on the throat of Congress
demands this donation from the
American people. Is it "a matter
OF life and or death" to its business
or stockholders Chairman Harter
of the House Sub Committee on
Trusts, in his letter OF July 20, 1894
to President H. O. Havemeyer,
attlrms that the duty of halt cent per
pound on all sugars above No. I6
Dutch standard mas put into the
pockets of the Sugar Trust and the
independent retiners within the past
three years over $4,000, GOO of the
peoples money, while the govern
ment received only s47o,75I within
the same period.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-25
THE DECADENCE OF SILVER.

The silver phantasy is in its decad-
ence. The raid on good money is
about over. As the Republicans
were the first to learn that the heresy
which they advocated in 1873 and
and later was unpopular because
they were most closely connected
with it, so the Democrats are learning
now that they have been inviting
not only the contempt of intelligent
men bui defeat at the polls, by the
surrender to the silver miners. 1t
seems however, to be the doom of
mlnorities in this country to seek to
return to power by devious paths
and by the adoption of cast off
theories and manias. Alter the
Satan of initiation had been driven
out of the Republican camp, the
Democratic hosts invited hiR into into
theirs, with the result of making
Mr.. Hayes President. And now
when the Democrats are becoming
sane anent silver, Mr.. Lodge, Mr..
Reed, and other Republicans are
seized by the insanity, and the
National Republican League adopts
a resolution gravely asserting that it
does not believe that there will be
a permanent return OF prosperity to
our country until the full use and
highest position OF silver sic] shall
be restored. But with this sorry
exception indicative of the proneness
OF politicians towards error, the
signs are that the silver epidemic is
on the Wane.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-25
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

a striking proof of the growth of the
missionary spirit is seen in the fact that
Australasia has recently sent mission
ares to Ceylon, Africa, China and
Japan.
The Irish Presbyterian Church re.
ports Io4,57S members in 1894, gain
of 1868 ever the past year. The total
income is $4,000, which is little
over S. head of the membership.
If the Bible had not been a book OF
immense spiritual vitality, it would
have been killed long ago, not so much
by its supposed enemies as by its mis-
taken friends.
In Malaysia is a popoulation of
6o,ooo,ooo, mostly Mohammedan
MalaYs. The British and Foreign Bible
Society has several European colpor-
teurs at work and twenty-five who are
natives. At Singapore alone Bibles
are furnished in forty. five different
languages.
The Baronness Langenau of Vienna,
who has been much prosecuted because
she is Methodist, recently spoke at a
meeting at West London Mission
and presented 1t with necklace worth
$4,000, to be sold for the benefit OF
the missions.
The London Missionary Society in
its hundred year has I,476 native
ministers, 6,75S other male native
workers, "a, 1oz church members, and
I25,oS4 scholars in its schools. The
income has been s5S6,soo, the veal
closing with a debt OF about 500, 900
1t is the fashion in France for the
government to parcel out the public
funds for the support of public worship
From SS,ooo,ooo to $4,000, 900 are
annually given the Catholics the Prot
estants receive about S35o,ooo, the
Jews about $4,000, and the Moham
medans about $50, 1000.
The American Board reports fol
June the receipt of S5S,6I5, agains
S39,o9S for June, 1898. The gain i:
both in regular donations, S27,I9t
instead of s25,o55, and in legacie'
Sa6,S64 instead of SS,2o5.
The distinguishing characteristic o
the Endeavor movement is its inter
denominationalism. Societies have
been formed in all of the evangelical
churches. and all on a common basi
without regard to the peculiar tenets G
the afflllating church. But loyalty t
the church has ever been one>Qf tn
cardinal maxims of the Endeaxorer:
Christian fellowship" is their seynot
! and symphony embracing all t
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-25
RELIGIOUS.
THE BIBLE AS A TEXT BOOK.

j Fitch in the Nineteenth Cen
fury London July commends the
use Of the Bible in the schools be-
cause he regards it as the only
available source of literary culture
for the great mass OF the people.
1t may be thought by some that
is descending 10 a lower ground
when we speak of the Biblical in
struction as great ciyiliziug power
and as an elevating and refining
influence on the intellectual life.
But this aspect of the question ought
not to be overlooked. Mr.. Matthew
Arnold was wont to insist on it with
characteristic lucidity and energy.
Literature. he always urged, was an
essential factor in the cultivation
of character and taste and this is
largely provided in higher schools
by the study of the ancient classical
writer's. But for the mass of the
people this kind of cultivation is only
to be attained in one way.
Only one literature there is-one
great literature for which the people
had preparation-the literature Of
the Bible. However far they may
be from having a complete prepar-
alton for it, they have some, and it
is the only great literature for which
they have any. x = If poetry,
philosophy, and eloquence-It what
we call in one word letters-are
powers, and benehcent wonder work
ing powers in education, through
the Bible only have the people
much chance of getting at poetry,
philosophy and eloquence x *
Chords Of power are touched by
this instruction which 70 eaattlfcf ether part nj
of the instruction in a popular
school reaches, and chords various
not the single religious chords
only. The Bible is for the child in
an elementary school almost his only
contact with poetry and philosophy.
y * All who value the Bible may
rest assured that thus to know and
possess the Bible is the most certain
way to extend the power and
efficacy of the Bible.
And in expanding this view into
more specific suggestion, he gives in
one OF his reports this counsel to
school managers - counsel which
has been virtually adopted now by
school boards throughout the
country.
Let them make the main outlines
OF Bible history and the getting by
heart selection OF the finest Psalms
the most interesting passages from
the historical and prophetical books
of the Old Testament, and the chief
parallels and exhortations of the
New part OF the regular school
work. This could raise no jealousies
Or if it still raises some, let sacrifice
be made of them for the sake of the
end in view. Some will say that
what we propose is but small use
to put the Bible to, yet it is that on
which all higher use of the Bible is
to be built, and its adoption is the
only chance for saving the one
elevating and inspiring element in
the scanty instruction of our primary
schools from being sacrificed to
politico religious difficulty.
No practical difficulties have
arisen in the Interpretation or in the
actual working out OF the very sim
pie and ineligible program OF the
school board.