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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-10-20
Pledged to Mary Only wIdors.

There is q bachelors club in the
West whose only rule to which mem
bers swear allegiance when they join
the club is "Marry a widow" Young
girls and old maids alike are barred.
One explanation of this rule, given
by a member, is I'VE consider it the
part of wisdom to marry some one
who has already discovered that men
are not angels"
Another member gives this philan-
thropic reason: "Young girls always
have the best chance with their fresh,
blooming faces, and we think the
widows ought to be given a show, as
their lives have been blighted in a
measure, as it were. Anyway, they
seem to understand a man better"
Another view of the case is the fact
that anything forbidden suddenly ac-
quires wonderful interest. A lot of
bachelors who pledge themselves to
marry widows are sure to discover the
hitherto unappreciated charms of all
the maidens in town"
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In speaking the other day of the
great progress which has been made
in the postal service of the country
within recent years, Postmaster Mer-
rift told a story to illustrate that there
were still parts of the United States
which had not been touched by the
spirit of improvement.
81 stopped in at the P~ostofice De-
partment the other day." General
Merritt said, in reciting the story,
land in looking over ONE of the com
munications l CHANGED on one that
took my fancy nightly. 1t came from
the head of one of Uncle Sans offices
way out III the Rocky Mountains, in
an almost uninhabited section, and APP
peared to have been sent partly as a
note OF information and partly as an
ultimatum to the Government at
Washington. 1t read as follows:
"'Notice-This office will be closed
for the next three days, while the
postmaster goes on a bear hunt. You
can discharge me if you want to, but 1
warn you beforehand that I'm the only
man that can read and write in the
neighborhood '"-Washiugton Post.
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r.,ort. Of Business Conditions


sine manufacturers are busy.
pistrIbutive trade keeps up well at CHI
sago.
FAVORABLE conditions still govern Cana
dian trade.
An the business doing in iron Is for next
years delivery.
Alaskan navigation has closed at British
Columbia points.
southern cotton splnners have advanced
the price OF yarn. -.
Tohaceo is reported very generally active
ot naarIv all markets West and East.
Trade activity is widespread. all measures
Of volume and value testifying 10 pfeS"h-
ing prosperous conditions.
Lumber Is in urgent demand az many
markets in spite OF the advanced stHge VI
the season. and prices are irm.
The worlds wheat crop Will aum'teedas
be smaller, and rye, barley anu oats Siu aa
are not expected to be so large as se"i
& . all stanl.s
and particularly of agricultural proauc.s
will furnish a profitable balance 10 pro
ducers.
In the Northwest business and coiieo
lions are reported good without eAcep'
ton. and a like report comes from 'n'
Pacific coast.
General manufacturing industry Is run.
ming mil. and activity is so widespreas
tuat 1t is hard to prefer oneinuus'iy wa
other In this respect.
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Captain John K. Fleet, of the Unite
States Shipping Company, has received q
Newport News, Va, what Is said to be til
first Portuguese gold medal OF honor evs
presented in this country, for saving th
shipwrecked crew Of the Portuguese bar
Alice two years ago.
Attorney-Genera Monnett, of Ohio, hf
rendered a decision in which he holds thu
the ground BET railroad switches
roadbed and can be taxed as such. TIL
will add q large amount to the Ohio tax n
ceipts.
Miss Mary Hubbard, OF Winterport, Me
was burned to death In her house. Sh
was wealthy and her home was one OF I'll
finest In Maine.
william Leggett, OF Rochester. N. Y, 4
the employ OF Gaskjlrs Midway Company
was fatally Injured by an elephant a
Knoxville, Tenn, because he struck tn
animal on the head with a hammer severn
weeks ago at Battle Greek, Mich.
Rsar-Admiral Sampson, who mas been d,
tailedto the Charleston Navy Yard, arriyd
In Boston q few days ago and assumed cc3'
mand at the Yard.
Rear-Admiral Norman H. Farquhaar-
rived at Old Point Comfort, Va, ON
Washington, and 1. now in command che
North Atlantic Squadron, succeeding lar
Admiral W. T. Sampson.
Under the spell OF tue preaching ohe
Rev. DR.. A. b. Simpson, the sum OF $1,000
In pledges was raised on Sunday, fo,he
Christian aud Missionary Alliance at ar
negle Music Hall, in New York City.
Leo Casana, seventeen years old, Tho
lived with bis parents in New York ltyt
was taken to Bellevue Hospital violtly
Insane from smoking cigarettes.
In a boiler explosion at Brownslrg,
Ind, three men we're instantly killeend
Ave others were seriously injured. The
lead are Ian WATSON, engineer; Nate
Cook, head sawyer, and Milton Rober.
President Mckinley attended the vel.
come home from Manila OF the ThirtNth
Minnesota Regiment in Minneapolis, and
made q speech broadly favoring %eIpaiion
and retention of the Philippines.
J. b. Drumond, of Boston, a membt OF
the Massachusetts Legislature, was He'd
by bis guide, who mistook him for q leer
aud shot him while they were huntin in
the Maine woods.
Mrs. Matte Askins, OF Thompson, Mh.,
has made o confession that she killedher
fourteen-year-old daughter with morphine.
rhe mother then administered the dry to
her son and also to herself, but the poon
III not kill,
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PRESIDENT AT YALE
.,sor Arthur T. Hadley Installed
.. Chief Of the University.
.r...,v. ceremonie. of Day foiio"sa
xu,. nv a Torchlight Process
.ton Of the Students

u.vrx Conn. tSpeelal),-Artnur
Tn10r Hasley, LII. D., wa inaugurateo
,+teenth President Of Yale uh'Seis
hcsed Timothy D wight. inc cereuy
H. n,ocs in Battell Chapel, the coliese
~ In the presence OF hundreds OF as
Iruished men and women prominens
liner educational affairs in all SECTIONS -
le country. uera sjmplefn
rsaiya. They we're conducted III rus.
III the traditional Latin pronouneemen
fm,,inc baen abandoned ut Dr. HHuief ~
at The new president was ~
,i,h tba nresence not only OF
Iale alumni and Federal and otate 81
hi Inv the attendance OF the Tarn.ii
Princeton, Colunpia, lat az
f~Sicaeo. Brown, 0berlln n " no
finer universities and colleges. ors
Battell Chapel was hlled 70 tno atad
HE audience oom presented au a. IA siai
o"itiss 10 representatives OF other IN,
|, ,tntions wore the academic gowns INV
Inods ~ their respective Institutions. -,
ndiay himself wore the crimson noou u
award tvpical Of the degree OF Docloi
II Iows Win which Yale's older sister nau
/ ldHH, II
IGNORED him. uort,ra ths
Aftsrthe professional and overture the
|atirino nresident. DR.. Timothy DWiGnt
"a sba ~onening prayer. The Rev. pr.
F"sanh n Twicbell, OF Hartford, the senior
nenher of the Yale corporation ior1iaitJ
nSncte DR.. Hadley into office inc 9uulin.
stersd To him the oath. President hauiey
Ihen delivered his inaugural ADDRESS.
THE sinring of the commencement oue
oilowed the address OF the new presiu ~,
md then Professor George L. tlsher, uee.
m The Yale Theological School, 9mu III ~
lean Of the university, on oeha.l VI AZ
.aculty graduates and undefRr mha bans.
an address OF welcome. ino puasI
was pronounced by oim anonon .
lent Dwight, and the
broper was at an end: ..,d,ote.
/ Tbraa thousand Yale undergraduates
/ nd recent graduates united at night IN tne
demonstration in honor OF the inaugura'
lion The hit OF the procession was tu'
/ rain Of cars OF the Had y transports
tion Compapy.' the tableau being = sur
mise ali along the line of march. itcon
,aisted NJ locomotive aud three cars, eaei
si,teen feet long and seven feet hlgn
1igbted from within with lanterns. IN
otive moved on wheels and was htte'
with a boiler, which emitted steam az ever.
,stop. and continuously rang q eiangerou
hall az a warning OF It's approach
with the cars we've twenty seniors, carry
ing regulation railroad lanterns M
dressed In the garb OF brakemen, N
procession was reviewed at the Qity NJ
By the Mayor and the Court Oh oommo
Council. III, n I'M
'bonare near the campus on the old gyI
Ilnt
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It is not often that q lawyer gives
better advice, and asks no fee Tor ~
than was once given by a certain irish
Judge, who must have had both a sense
Of Justice and a sense of humor.
A turbulent peasant was a witness
in trial before Chief Baron OGrady.
The counsel, after Fostering him Tor
some time, put a question to MN
which reflected on the witnesses char
acter.
s.If We ak me that again I'll give ye
a kick!'' was the ans wer.
The counsel appealed to tue COURT
stating that an answer was necessary
to his clients case, and ending up
with the query: -.
What would your lordship advise
me to do?"
eff you are resolved to repeat the
question:" replied the court, I'd ad-
wise you to move a little from the W.T.
ness."-Youth's Companion
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Foreign.

The London Morning POSTS Madrid col
/ respondent says: THE appointment
General Weyler MS President of the Col
sultative Council OF War has been COZ
Armed, and is severely criticised by bob
military officials and civilians"
The Neuete Nachrichten, OF Berlin, sas
that the colonial council has adoptedh
resolution declaring 1t compatible with
German colonial interests to abandh
Samoa in return for sufficient indennifd.
ton.
Smallpox has broken out at Cape Tow,
South Africa, among the natives fr4n
Johannesburg.
DIR. Klapper, editor of a German papf,
has been sentenced to six months imprt-
onment for criticising the Emperor.
The long-standing question regardilg
the payment for the 27O0 tons OF coal pT'
chased at st. Thomas, d. W. l., for tie
United States Government In the war bis
b .er settled, the United States GoyeI'
ment paying $50. 900.
Crown Princess stephanl, widow of tie
Grown Prince Rudolph, will be married %
Count Ellemer Lonyay, nephew of a former
Hungarian Prime Minister. in London, IN
November %.
The SoeialistIc Convention in Hanover,
Germany, has resolved to move In the
Rsichstag for the abolition OF the less ma
jeste paragraph of the Penal Code.
Hiram Maxim is preparing to send from
London two batteries of Maxim-Norden.
feldt guns to the Philippines for the use oil
the American troops.
The Queen has sent a personal contrlbu'
ton OF $4,000 to the family of the French
sailor recently shot by the British eunhoal
Leds while fishing In English waters.
A Philadelphia woman named Caldwell
residing In Berlin, was attacked in her resi-
dence by a robber, who felled her With hi'
lst, then took her money and valuable:
and made his escape.
Formal notification that a state OF wa
exists between the South African Republic
and Great Britain was made TO the Frenel
Government by the secretary OF the Boo
agency In The Hague,
A circular has been sent to the inspec
tors of the Royal Irish Constabulary askini
for volunteers for the new South Africa
police which 1t is proposed to organize.
kilograms received at Vienna from Linz
capital OF Upper Austria, on tho Danube
report that the inhabitants of that distrlc
are In a state OF terror owing to a serie
of ''Jack the Ripper murders. Five won
en- have been murdered.
Arthur S~herburne Hardy, the newly ap
pointed United States Minister to Greece
with Mrs. Hardy, has arrived at Athens.
The Colonial Council, 1t is announced
Berlin, has unanimously approved the pre-
posal that the Government should under
take the construction Of the East Africa
Central Railway. The first section will !
to Ukami. II is to be built within thrs
years. The cost is estimated at $1,000, ou
The British Government is arranging "a
the enrolment of 500 Newfoundland hshel
men in the naval reserve. Interest In Il
movement Is being qnickened by the Tran
vaal war crisis.
The French High Court at Paris, has di
missed the case against NJ. Grosjean, a.
eused OF treason in connection with Il
Dsroulsde trial.
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THE NEWS ePIToMIzED.


Tie schley Testimonial Committee
the Royal rcanu has presented q han'
Iome loving cup to Mrs. Schley, the wi
Of Rear-Admiral Sehley.
President Mckinley telegraphed the Sc
rotary OF War an order promoting to Il
grade of Brlgadler- General the followir
officers: Colonel A. O. NJ. Penningto
Second Artillery; Colonel Royal T. Fran
First Artillery; Colonel Louis II. Carpei
ter, Fifth Cavalry; Colonel Samuel Owe
shine, T~wenty-third Infantry; Colon
Daniel W. Burke, Seventeenth Infantry.
The war In South Africa will result
the cutting of Of our mail service with Il
Transvaal inc the Orange Free State, sa
an official OF the Post ONCE Department
All mail matter from this country for Sou
Africa enters by way OF Cape Town.
Commander Taussig, OF the Benningto
has sent a report to the Navy Departme'
praising the work OF officers and crew
an engagement at Malabon.
Many trust officials and attorneys arriv,
In Washington In answer to the s~ubpoenasI
the Industrial Commission. They appai
emily fear that there may be legislation \
Rarding the appointment OF a commissij
to control the trusts.
Major Woodruff, Chief Surgeon |
Manila, has cabled Surgeon SterDberg, |
questing that tho corps OF female nuri
at Manila be Increased to correspond wi
the increase OF troops under General Off
command.
The task OF recruiting the voluntd
army for the philippines is practical
completed. 1t was announced at the WI
Department that all the regiments bal
been filled except one Of the addition
colored regiments, the Forty-ninth, VIII
needs less thar five hundred men.
DR.. senner, former Commissioner of n
migration, told the Industrial CommissiI
he was opposed to further restrictions !
immigration.
Australian federation is considered /,
accomplished fact, according to ConsJ
General Bray, at Melbourne. !
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Mrs. Letorde, wife OF Military Govern
Ludlow's acting chief clerk, died in E
yana from yellow fever.
The Manila newspaper Patria has be
suppressed and Its editor arrested, charg
with seditlous utterances.
The Beers showed every courtesy to NJ
Conynham Greene, the British Agent,
his journey from Pretoria to Cape Tow
South Africa. Six of President Kruger
body guard escorted him to the Transva
border. The burghers OF the Orange FIR
State were equally courteous.
The Mayor and Councilmen of Mayague
capital OF the province OF that name. For
Rico, have resigned owing to political d
ferences.
The taking OF the census throughout Il
island OF Cuba has begun. The people I
celve the enumerators well and give
the desired information readily. No d
iculty is expected In the cities.
The six artillery batteries stationed
Honolulu, Hawaii, have lost betvet
twenty and thirty men In the last fe
days by desertion. All the soldiers the
are anxious to be sent to Manila. TIL,
are willing to stand thirty days in t
guardhouse for the chance Of getting
the seat Of war.
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The life Of a telephone girl is not
altogether a happy one, and II the
public have sometimes reason to COM
plain of the invisible operator who
fails to put them in immediate con
nection with their correspondent, the
girl has still oftener reason to com
plain of the public. In Paris the
claims of these useful and much
maligned public servants have beer
recognized, and a splendid builaing
has been put up Tor them by NJ. Bous-
sord in the Rue Desrenaudes. 1t in
cludes every modern comfort and con
y%enience, well-furnished saloons te
which the girls may retire for period.
of rest, brilliant lighting, varnished
walls, and, most wonderful of all. al
sorts Of perfumes will be provided
gratis for the refreshment OF thu
weary operators. -London Chrcniele
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The new registration law in South Da-
kota goes into effect this year.
An international exhibition OF automo-
tiles has just been held In Berlin, Ger
many.
Through the efforts OF enterprising
Americans the city OF Mexico is to have a
public automobile service.
Prussian manufacturers have donated
over $3.50, 900 for the benefit OF the Tech
biological Institute in Berlin.
The Government has planned a notable
exhibition OF colonial products for the
Pan.Amerisan Exposition at Buffalo.
The Commissioners OF the District OF CO.
lumbIa have forbidden the sale OF giant
nrecraekers and dynamite torpedoes.
A sanitary committee is preparing to
thoroughly cleanse Jerusalem.
1t has been decided to make the Chicago
fall festival an annual fixture.
Chinese merchants in Portland, Ore.
complain of a lack OF business because OF
the falling off in the Chinese population.
A company is being formed in Italy for
the purpose OF placing a public service OF
automobiles In various parts OF the coun-
try.
The city OF New York has made an APP
proprlstion OF $40, 900 for the purpose OF
making a great relief map Of the whole
city.
British public revenue for the fiscal year
to date is sl5, 000, 900 larger than In the
same period last year, expenditure only
3 7.500.0 900 greater.
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Shadows Advice to women.

Sandow has been telling London
M what he things of feminine
athletics. He asserts that women can
preserve an ideal figure by fresh air
and exercise, and by those two factors
only. He disapproves entirely OF cor
sets. which he qualities as tight
splints, and he attributes to their use
the weakness of the muscles of the
back and a susceptibility to lung dis
ease. Naturally he condemns eighteen.
inch waists, and prefers the Venus OF
Milo, with her tw~enty-four inches OF
circumference.
But, though he advises outdoor
sports, while not considering them as
good as the ancient game OF bail
played by Nausicaa and her maidens'
he says that it is the muscles OF the
trunk which require exercise in order
to hinder the increase of embonpolnt
and neither cycling, walking nor row
ing sufficiently employs these muscles
No woman need fear, he says, to be
come too muscular, as a layer o
adiposs tissue is peculiar to her struc
ture, and is really intended to softel
the outlines.
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Bihins's wife was a tartar, and she
had been giving it to him hot one day.
After supper she sent him into town
for some hairpins, aud BiAins got on
the street car with hard feelings against
the world in general and the female
sex in particular.
Soon a vinegary-looking woman
got into the car, When paying her
fare she chose to fancy herself Of
Tended by something the conductor
SAID.
"Are there any gentlemen in this
car" she called out, "who will stand
by and see a woman insulted?"
Madam" said Bitins, rising eager
ly, 81 will"
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Here is a marriage notice from the
Saltwater Gazette. which possesses
the refreshing element of breeziness
without overstepping the bounds Of
refinement: Last week Probate Judge
Burns succeeded in tying the matri-
mortal knot which is to firmly secure
John McLimans and Mrs. Harriet
Whack for life. McLimans is old
enough to know better than to get en-.
tangled with matrimonial troubles, but
lacks experience. being q bachelor Of
ffty.nine years of age. The partner
he has selected is nine years his jun.
ior, but what she lacks in age is made
up in experience, as she has been
there before. kansas City Mol
journal.
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An explosion Of gas occurred at the shen>
andoah City Colliery, at Shenandoah, Penn,
and nre Immediately broke out in the
mine, hemming in twenty-five men who
were at work. Those attracted to the sur
lace OF the mint by the explosion Mt once
began vigorous efforts to rescue the i'm
prisoned men, and in this they were sue
~cessful, all the men being taken out alive
IN a comparatively short time. Three OF
the number, Adam Sobolinskt, William
Skayinski, and Joseph Caspayage, were
severely burned, and their injuries may
prove fatal. Several others sustained
severe injuries.
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In London this summer one of the
weekly papers offered a prize for the
best list of strong words, ito number
ten. The announcement specified that
but ten words would be considered
from one person, and a committee of
literary men would select from the
numbers offered the ten strongest
words in the English language. These
are the words that won: Hate, blood,
hungry, dawn, coming, gone, love,
dead, alone, forever Detroit Free
prass
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INSANE FARMER KILLS FIVE.
gabcock shoots Wife and Three sons
Then sIaYs Himself.

REDWOOD FALLS, MINI. (Speeial).-Frank
G. Babcock, a farmer living near this CITY,
murdered his wife and three sons on his
farm and then committed suicide. The
murder, it is supposed, was committed IN
a at OF insanity.
Babcock loaded his gun and went TO
where his two little boys were playing
near the house and shot both OF them
dead. His wife saw the deed and ran 70
the barn for safety. He found MS VIE IN
he barn aud shot her through the neau'
She fell dead.
From the barn he walked to where his
oldest son was at work, and at close range
lred a shot that killed him instantly. Re-
loading, he placed the muzzle of the weap-
an In his mouth and fred one barrel, Kill
Ing himself instantly. He fell over on the
gun. which still had one barrel cooked.
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General William R. shatter, who has held
the positions Of Brlgadier-General in the
regular army and Major-General in the
volunteer army, has been placed oil the re-
tired list Of the regular army. He will,
however, remain in command OF the De-
partment of the Pacific until relieved by
order OF the President, or until he is mus.
tered out on July l, 1891, on which date
the enlistment OF all Spanish war volun.
teers will expire as provided in the Wa
act OF Congress.
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FAITH CURE BELIEVER ACQUITTED.

An Indiana Judge Holds That a Parent
Need Not Call a Doctor for His Child.
LA PORTE, Ind. (Special),-The trial oil
James ~Chenowith, a believer in faith cure,
who was indicted by the grand jury oil
Clinton County for murder, being held re-
sponsible for the death OF an infant child,
because he failed to summon a physician,
has been acquitted. The case was taken
from the jury by Judge Kent, h held
mat there is no law requiring n parent to
provide medical attention for his children.
The State will carry the case on appeal to
the Supreme Court. The decision OF Judge
Kent is regarded as a great victory by be-
levers in faith cure.
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Dollar Handshakes.

Major Blanche Cox addressed a
crowd at the Salvation Army barracks.
The hall was we'll filed. After the
singing of several hymns and the Civ
ing of testimony n collection was taken
up aud the presiding officer announced
that Major Cox would shake hands
with any n for 81. Several were
found willing thus to contribute tothe
cause. -Denver (Col.) Republican.
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Prosperity of tn. Railroads.

Never before was so much railroad bust
ness being done in the United States as Is
going on now. All the great railroads are
taxed to the limit OF their capacity, and
are suffering from a car famine from wnion
ali the car works In the country, working
day and night, are unable to rescue them
The record OF this year will show an I'M
menseIy greater volume of business thar
ala Ja9S
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Governor steunenberg, of Idaho, visited
the War Department at Washington a few
days ago to protest against Secretary
Roots order withdrawing the regulars
from the Occur d'Alene region. He thinks
the prisoners in the stockade at Wardnei
ought to be guarded by Federal soldiers.
Secretary Roots idea is that the State
ought to be able to look out for these pris.
oners, II there are enough soldiers in the
region to guard the mines.
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$4,000 VERDICT FOR A BOY.
Chicago Jury Says the City is Responsible
For Terrible Injuries.

CHICAGO (speclal).-Paralyzed from his
waist down, his hearing impaired, his
tongue injured to such an extent as to rob
him of his power of speech, and suffering
from a broken spine, Henry Walters, nine
years old, has obtained the largest veraict
ior personal injuries ever returned against
the city Of Chicago-s90,o 900.
In January, 1898. when walking along
the Thirty-lfth Street Viaduct, the boy
fell through a hole in the plankIng, which
had been obscured by smoke from a pass
lnp enpine.