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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-02-17
NUMBER 81.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

Parody on the Old sexton-A Reply to
Bishop Potter, Who Has Stated That
''fhe Saloon is the Poor Mans Club"-
1t Fattens on Their Life Blood.
Nigh to a bar that was long ain made,
Stood a Landlord, old in his death deaf.
ing trade,
The day was done and he paused to wait
The thirsty train through his open gate.
A relic of bygone days was he
And his locks were white as the foamy sea
And these words came from lips so thin,
1 gather them in, ] gather them in,
Gather, gather, l gather them ini
l gather them in, for man and boy,
I ill to the brim, with grief-not iov.
And / curse every home, within this town,
And Ill up with dead the burial ground,
Mother and daughter, father and son,
/ bring down, in sorrow one by one,
But come they stranger or come they kin
l gather them in, I gather them I'M
Gather, gather, I gather them inl
Many are with me, 1 am not alone,
In this death-dealing trade, and l make
On the tear-stained affairs, and hearth
stones cold,
And my sceptre of rule is the license |
hold,
Come they from cottage, or come they
from hall.
Mankind are my subjects all! all!l al1l!l
They may loiter in pleasure, or toilfully
spin,
I gather them in, I gather them in,
Gather, gather, l gather them inl
1 gather them in, and their final rest,
Is there, out there in the earth's dark
breast,
n the old man ceased, as the thirsty
train
Game up to his bar to drink agatnl
Then I spake out loud, words quite bold
A mightier one than the landlord old
VIII dash to the earth this fearful sin
And into perdition will gather them inl
Gather, gather, will gather them ini
w. Searls, D. d.
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Flowers Placed Upon the Graves of the
Cemetery-An American Flag Raised
Over the Wreck in the H~arbor-Servi-
ces in the MERGED Church.
HAVANA, Cusa (By Cable).-The sun
shone brightly Wednesday morning for the
first time in several days, when the wreck
of the United States battleship Maine. de-
stroyed in Havana Harbor on the evening
of February IS, 1898, was decorated with a
large American flag. At Q o'clock the
Stars and Stripes were hoisted at half
mast by Captain Eaton, of the United
States auxiliary cruiser Resolute, who,
with Mrs. Estos Rathbone and Mrs. Dud-
ley, and ten sailors of the Res6lute. rowed
to the sunken battleship. The only others
taking part were a battalion, with officers,
of the First Maine Heavy Artillery.
An immense rope of greens was festooned
about the fighting tor, each loop hung
with laurel wreaths four feet in diameter
and tied with red, white, and blue ribbon.
The Cuban Club of Havana Had placed an
artificial wreath on the boat crane, and
this Captain Eaton transferred to the peak
of the gaff.
At 10 O'Clock high mass was celebrated
in memory of the Maine victims In the
MERGED Church, at which Major-General
Ludlow and several Of his sthn were pres
ent. The ceremony, which was very i'm
pressive, was attended by Brigidier-Gen-
eral George Il. Ernst, representing Major
General Brooke, Commodore B. J. Crom-
well, Captain of the Port, and other naval
officers, the City Council, the Executive
Committee of the Cuban Military Assembly
and other members of the Assembly.
In the afternoon the graves at Colon
Cemetery were decorated in the presence
OF the American officials, military and
naval details participating, The graves
were thickly covered with flowers.
The procession from the city consisted Of
marines and sailors from the Brooklyn and
the Resolute, the band of the Brooklyn,
Major-General Ludlow's staff representing
him, American women in ambulances, car
riages containing American visitors, a
troop of the Seventh Regular Cavalry and
one Cuban society.
1t was met by Governor-General Brooke
and staff at the cemetery. where a wagon
load of floral tributes presented by the
American women and local societies were
heaped upon the graves, each sailor and
marine also contributing some floral token.
The crowd looked on in silence, some kneel-
ing. 1t was 2.45 p. m. e the procession
reached the cemetery and the ceremony
was over in half an hour.
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NO NICARAGUA CANAL NOW.
The House Rules the Hepburn Measure
Out of the Sundry Civil Bill.

WASHINGTON, D.. c. (speclaD.-By the
decisive vote of 1877 to lO9 The House on
Wednesday sustained the action of the
Chair in ruling that the Hepburn Mic
aragua Canal project could ne be added
as a rider to the sundry Civi. Appropria-
tion bill. This action means tho abandon
ment of the enterprise by the Jnited States
for the present session OF CONGRESS.
This result was reached atter a battle
royal between the leading adv Gates of the
measure and those who were opposed to its
enactment as a rider on an a propriation
bill. There was no appnrent division OF
sentiment among those wh0sp Ike asto the
necessity and desirabillty of 'onstructinR
the canal, and nearly all favored Govern
ment ownership and control. The only
division was as to the eSpeditney OF put
ting it on the pending bill in dehance OF
the rules. Strong Appeals by Messrs
Doekery, of Missouri, and Moody, OF Mas.
sachusetts, for the MAINTENANCE OF the In
tegrlty of the rules doubtless had much to
do with bringing about the dc sion OF the
House.
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FORTY SQUARE MILES OF WHEAT.
1t Would Take a Man Thirty Years to
Plow and Plant 1t.

What is said to be the largest wheat
field in California is now being planted
to the grain that makes the staff of
life. 1t covers over 25, 600 acres, or
forty square miles. This enormous
field of grain is located on the banks
of the San joaquin river, in MADEIRA
county. The field is part in Fresno
county and part in MADEIRA county.
Clovis Cole is the man who is put
ting in this vast acreage, and he has
undertaken one of the largest jobs
that any man has yet done in Cali
fornia.
While it is true that larger acreages
pf wheat have been planted by certain
iranchers in this state, there seems to
be no record of an exact parallel to
the present case. On the Miller n
Lux ranch in Kern county, so, 600
acres were planted one year, but the
fields were scattered about in different
places. There were really a series OF
fields, located wherever there was a
fertile spot. Few of the fields We're
1000 acres, and in many instances
there would be half a mile of bare land
between them. The acreage planted
could not be called a wheat field OF
so, 900 acres, any more than all the
wheat fields in the state could be
classed under one head.
The Clovis field, however, is an
ideal wheat field. 1t is almost as fiat
rs a floor, with a gentle slope toward
the river. The outer lines of the field
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TRANCE VICTIM BURIED ALIVE.
Shocking Discovery when Mr.. RigIey's
Body Was ExhuIned For an Autopsy.

Shocking Discovery When Mr.. RigIey's
Body Was ExhuIned For an Autopsy.
NORTH ToNAwANpA, N. Y. (Special).-The
body OF James Rigley was exhumed a few
days ago from the village cemetery Of Pen
dleton. for the purpose OF making an au-
topsy.
The diggers found that the glass cover
ing OF the coffin had been broken. and the
dead mans features were horribly dis
torted and sprinkled with blood. This and
the positions of the hands and feet showed
that Rigley had been buried alive. Several
physicians who saw the corpse declared
that what had been supposed to be death
was only a rance No one would make
any estimate as TO how long after his in
terment the victim of the CHASTITY mistake
had revived and attempted to break from
tie tomb.
Rlgley succumbed after a short attack of
the grip. DR.. Monterey, his family ply
sician, had no doubt of his death, and he
was buried the Saturday preceding the
day on which the body was exhumed. The
fact that he held several life insurance
policies led to the disinterment, in order
that the autopsy might show the exact
cause Of death.
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pETRlFlED CAT IN A CHURCH,
Remarkable Curiosity Found in an Old
House of Worship.

Workmen who were tearing down the old
P~apakating Church in Deckertown, N. Y,
came upon a strange object which at first
was thought to be the image OF a cat, but
which upon closer examination was found
to be the petrlied remains Of a cat.
The petrihcation was foun imbedded
between the studdine plaster and weather.
boards. Abram L, RichaTts placed 1t on
exhibition in a store win t,V in Decker
town, where it has been seen by hundreds
Of people. The cat was nearly tull grown,
and had been turned into atone.
From its position it is evident that the
cat was Imprisoned when the church was
built half a century ago, as one foot is OK
tended and raised.
Thers is no bzir on the body, and though
the muscular tissues are shIunken the
Transformation Of flesh, blood and bone
into Is complete, and the cat is to all
appearances a model from the hand of
some great sculptor.
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THE NEW MAINE STARTED.


PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (Specia).-The an.
niversary of the blowing up of the battle
ship Maine in Havana harbor was marked
here with the beginning Of work on a new
warship to bear the same name.
The new Maine will be built by Cramps
and ut the company's yards at II o'clock
Wednesday the first piece of the keel OF the
vessel was laid. There was no formality in
the proceedings, but the ~skipyard was
thrown open to the public.
The Maine will be a sister ship to the
Ohio and Missouri. She is to have a speed
of eighteen knots.
The builders will endeavor to have the
new battleship ready for launching on Feb
ruary Is of next year and to Rave her ready
for service on the third anniversary Of her
predecessors destruction.
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France has paid its last pension to
Napoleon rs soldiers. In 1869 n law
was passed granting $50 a year to all
non-commissioned officers and privates
who had served ten years in the armies
of the First Republic or of the First
Empire and had received a wound.
For the first year the payments
amounted to $500, 900; last year tho
sum was $50, and the last recipient is
now dead at the age Of los years.
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SIGNAL MEN IN DEMAND.


Volunteers in the Philippines.
7H1NaToN, D. G. (Special).-owing to
theN essing need for additional signal
corps men in the Philippines and the diff
hculty OF getting reinlorcements there from
the United States, 1t has been decided by
theWar Department to strengthen the corps
now in the islands by the addition of one
company Of sixty men, recruited from the
volunteers In the forces now stationed
there. The company will be recruited
n the best men obtainable in the ger
ice and Differed by the best non-com-
Inissioned officers that the company COM
manders are willing to spare. The new
company will be divided into patches of
twenty men, who will be distributed
among the companies already organized
there, making a leaven Of forty old men
to each OF the new companies.
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Another gold discovery has ben reported
on Mcdonald Creek, in the Northwest
Territory.
An enactment in Washington requires
horseshoers to pass an exauInRtion and to
be licensed.
The Delaware Legislature has passed a
law requiring that barher-shoP4 be closed
on Sundays.
Mail advlees from Pekin sad that the
British Government hal advised China not
to submit to the French d. 1aads at Shang-
hal.
Colonel Hiram NJ. Bled 90, who has Just
died in Kansas City, was the commander
Of the famous Bledsoe Battery in the Civil
War
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william A. Clark, the new Senator from
Montana, was once a elockmaker.
John d. Rockefeller made 5000 900 one
day recently by the advance OF Standard
Oh securities,
enato Kyle, OF South Dakota, is an en-
thuslast on Bobby Burns, and attends all
celebrations held in honor OF the Scotch
poet, ~
Ruskin's sixty-four books bring him in
$40. 900 wear. Swinburne, h writes
very little, makes $4,000 a year by his
poems.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison will accompany
her husband when the eX-President goes
abroad this spring In the interests OF tue
Venezuelan Commission. M
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John Fichsler and his family, consisting
OF a wife and four children, we're found
dead in their home, seven miles east OF
Wakefield, Mich, a few days ago, by
n~eighbors who had CALLED GU them to in
vestigate, the Fichlers not having been
seen about for several days. The family
froze to death. Fichsler was a miner, but
had not been employed for nearly q year,
and the family had been in poor cireum-
stances for many months,
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The reservoir at the Big Dipper mine, in
the Iowa Hill mining district, near Auburn,
Cal. burst a few days ago and the water
carried away the entire mill, blacksmith
shop and drying-house. Five Chinese and
one white man, Joseph Farber, were
killed. The loss OF the mine is above
$50, 900. The Big Dipper is n of the
richest gravel mines in California.
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The President sent a message to Con
gress, Washington, a few days ago, calling
attention to the urgent necessity for the
construction of a cable across the Pacific
Ocean. 1t did not make any specific rec
~ommendation as to the mode by which the
cable shall be secured, the main point be-
ing that it is imperatively necessary that a
cable should be laid now.
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our ARMY.

We have no standing army
Nay, look around and see!
The man who plows the furrow,
The man who fells the tres,
The statesman and the scholar,
At the first word of fear,
Turn to their country, breathing,
'My mother, l am here y
Not Of a dumb, blind people
Is this our army made;
Where schoolhouse and where steeple
Have cast their friendly shade
Our army grows in knowledge,
AS it to manhood grows,
And, trained in school and college,
Stands ready for its foes.
The brawny arms OF gunners
Serve minds alert and keen;
The sailors thought has travelled
To lands he has not seen.
Not for the joy Of killing,
Not for the lust of strife,
Have these come forth with gladness
To offer up their life.
Behold our standing army
Not, as In other lands,
An army standing idle,
With empty minds and hands,
But each one in his station;
And peaceful victory
Is training for the nation
Heroes of land and sea.
Youths Companion.
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oUEsADA'S TALK WITH GOMEZ.
Both Think That Our 100000 Is Insult
fcient For Cuban Troops.

HAVANA, Cuba (By Cable).-senor Con
zalez de Quesada, in an interview a few
days ago, said that General Gomez and he
consider the 50, 900, 900 the United States
Government offers to pay to the Cuban
troops insu fl to cover the whole case,
but a good working basis to begin with.
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The womanly Woman Again.

"And what is your definition of the
womanly womanY' asked the inquirer.
"a womanly woman" said the gent
from the lake shore, sis a woman who
dearly loves whatever husband sho
happens to have. indianapolis Jour
nal
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A movem ent has been started which will
result In the appointment of a committee
to report to the Cuban Assembly the best
method of raising q loan of from 81, 000, 900
to 80, 900, 900 on the guarantee of the cus-
toms, and of obtaining the cooperation OF
the American authorities.
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Seventeen Injured in a Railroad Wreck,
Passenger Train No. % nn tie Plttsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad was wrecked a
few DAYS ago near Fleming Park, Penn.
The fireman died of injurip- AM seventeen
passengers were badly Injured
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Aleaky gas tube running from a gas fix.
ture TO a gas stove used to heat their room
caused the detth of Pauline Handler.
eighteen years old, and julia sovna, six
nights ago. The girls were employed as
servants In the house Of Isadore Siegel.
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Poisons His Twin Brothers.

James Hughes, a young son of Mrs.
Mary G.. Hughes, of Reading, Penn, gave
his twin baby brothers poison a few days
ago In mistake for medicine and both died.
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highlands claims in Nicaragua, it is SAID
in Lo don, will be rellnquisheSi to Ameri-
,ans for a reasonable consideration.
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OF the town 1t was found that there was
only one house in the place that had a flag.
staf. This belonged to Mr.. Higgins, an
who Is President of the Daguy-
pan Railway. He lent the staff to General
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Germans Instigated Matsafa's Attack.
Mail advices received at San Francisco,
Cal, from Samoa confirm previous reports
that Mataafa's attack was %instigated and
assisted by Germans.
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FILIPINOS ROUTED.
American Soldiers Capture Ca
lO0can and Put AguinaldO'S
Followers to Flight.
WARSHIPS OPEN BATTLE.
ShrapneI Dealt Death and Ruin to the
Enemys Forces.

Ca1oocan Was the Strongest Rebel Posi-
ton in tho Island of Luzon and Aguin-
aldo Had Gathered the Flower of His
Army There-The Place Was shclled
From Two of Dewey's Ships and From
Lsnd-Then the Troops Advanced
With a Rush and the Rebels Took to
FijGht-our Losses We're Slight, But
the Enemy Suffered Heavily.
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Otis, and at half past FIVE o'clock the Ameri-
can Gag was floating over the town. Its
appearance was greeted with enthusiastic
cheering by the troops.
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MANILA, Philippine Islands (By Cable).-
Another victory has been gained by the
American troops. and the town of Caloocan,
which was undoubtedly the strongest e,
position in the island Of Luzon, iy RS
The place was not won without a st-csgle
Aguineldo has been doing everything in
his power to draw supporters to his BAN
ner in order that he might attempt to re-
trieve the disaster that befell his forces
when they attacked the Americans and to
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A Message From the President.

Deaths From the Plague in Bombay.
There were 1000 deaths from the plague
in Bombay, India, during the past week.
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Congress will investigate the army beet
scandal,
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MAINE DAY" IN HAVANA
The Anniversary Of the Disaster OBJ
served by the American Colony.
CUBANS JOIN IN CEREMONIES.

Placed Upon the Graves of the
Cenetery-An American Fla Raised
Over the Wreck in the Harbor-Servi-
ces in the MERGED Church.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-09
Fricndship Versus Cash.

When "Our Mutual Friend" was
published, highly laudatory notice of
the book appeared in a leading journal,
which was written by Mr.. X, an ac-
quaintance of Dickens and very clever
man, who has been dead for many
years. Mr.. Y. wrote to inform Dickens
of the service which he had rendered
him, and not only did he receive a
grateful, not to say gushing, reply, but
the author was so delighted with the
timely lift which his book had been ia
vored with that he presented the re-
viewer with tho manuscript of the
work, which Mr.. y. afterward, it seems,
sold for e250.
Anthony Trollope had stormy dis
cussion with Dickens at London din
ner party about the transaction, assert
ing with characteristic vehemence that
Mr.. y. was wrong TO inform Dickens
that he had written the review; that
Dickens was much to blame for having
taken any notice of his letter, and that
the gift of the manuscript should neith-
er have been offered nor accepted as it
was practically bribery and corruption.
Literature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-09
4 Good Old King.

The old Emperor William was an
nounced to pay n visit to Baden Baden,
says a writer in Chambers Journal,
while happened to be staying there in
1879. Shortly before his arrival he
must have accomplished feat i'll a rail-
way carriage which a ''change artist"
at music hall might have envied. On
ly few minutes before the train actu-
ally stopped / had at point on the
line seen him in the costume of an old
gentleman en- voyage When the sta
ton was reached, the kaiser stepped
forth on the platform blazing in mag
nificent and bejeweled uniform. A lit
tie later on the same day his majesty,
once more in unofficial costume, was
inspecting on foot the pretty things in
the shops CT the Baden kursanl, rather
suggestive, as they are, of a section of
the Paris Palais Royal.
Two peasants from the neighboring
Black forest, evidently n young man
and his sweetheart, wistfully eyed some
little object. timidly asked the price,
and on hearing it almost tearfully turn
ed away. The grand and kind old kai-
ser had noted it all. The peasant pair
had just reached the exit from the in
closure when one of the people of the
shop came up to them, placed a packet
in their hands with some such words,
murmured low, az, by the will of the
kaiser. Cham bers' Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-09
Jack and the ReaustaIL g

Nellie Lynch, the agile dancer and
sprightly little Miss MufTett of Jack
and the Beanstalk, " to he seen at the
Burtis tomorrow evening. is a Chi
cagO girl. and gained great populari-
~ with Chicago audiences, while she
was a mem Der of the Henderson cN-
travagaZa forces. In Jack and the
Beanstalk' she does an acrobatic and
gymnastic swooning act that excites
wonder and never fails to make Il hit.
Following the traditional story of
Mother Goose. she sits on a tuiTet to
eat of curd and whey. when monster
spider drops from the flies to tn.
stage and that is what causes the
acrObatic swoOn. Harry Kelly, who
plays Sfnbad, is there to revive her
but before he succeeds in doing so.
Miss Lynch does more fainting
stunts" than the most emotional or
repertoire actresses can accomplish
even in the historical lights of Ca
mile" Miss Mutton" or East
LYNNE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-09
INSTINCT.

BOY Knows the Kind of Food lie Needs
\ grocer in the suburbs of Chicago
has a son about six years old who has
been kept in the country with an aunt
a @oodly part of the time. owing TO
his puny. half lifclcss condition.
This last summer when the little
chap returned home, he WAS round. fat
and hearty, but wlrcn he sat down to
his fathers table he refused the meat
and potatoes and demanded Grape
Nuts. the ready cooked food.
The grocer knew about Grapc-N
and had heen selling them over his
counter, but it never occurred TO him
to use them at his own table. 1t was
found upon inquiry that the boy began
to improve as soon rs he was put on
Grape. Nuts by his aunty, and that the
evidence of the value of the food
was shown by his condition.
1t is needless to say the grocer sup
piled Grape-Nuts to his little boy,
without further question, and the en-
tire family have pow joined the Grape
Nut army.