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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

The world consumes II, 700, 900 600 quarts
II beer annually.
The sober man is always an Improvement
IN the drunken man.
Iu the race OF life the temperate maa has
The best Of 1t; the drinking man is haadi.
capped.
Great things have been done while the
Grain was excited by stimulanis, but
greater things wonli have heon DOM had
here been no artificial st%imulants.
Wearing the badge Is the displaying OF
one's colors, and tue colors OF tho total alb
l~tainers caH not DO displ we'd too publicly,
,Or the evil against which they are battling
S a public one.
Shullow-pated young men whose idea OF
good tlpe' con lists in sodden drunken.
lGss nay laugh at a companion who is q
.otal abstainer from liquor, but tho laugh
will be OF them by-and-by.
We can understand how q man may be
ashamed to be afflicted with the vice Of
drunkenness, but the man who in a crowd
u drinking companions H. ashamed OF
ayGwing himself II total abstainer is beyond
comprehension.
The Duke OF tegyil, who owns the island
u Iona. will NOT allow any one there tC
keep Il public house The residents are il
4 very happy state, Tor no policeman /;
needed, although several hundred people
i've on the island.
Rev. Madison 6. Peters says. I'm tn,
,lty Of New York axe 1000 saloons, or on,
Tor every 200 leople, These are hotbeds O
exception A u iewiGermans, they are KEEP
by low, iWterate, b~iasphemous, obscure
men, fuil nty peR cent. Of whom sr" Hr
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rvs,v yo,nr Man sbon,d Read Tb,.

The business world recognizes hat nc
man who drinks is as good MS he would be
If he never drank. Time was when in some
lines OF business 1t was considered neces-
sary to drink. Quite the c%ontary is the
ease now. Even saloon men prefer men
who do not drink the liquids they sell. All
the fairy tales about great things people
do when under the influence of liquor have
been exploded. The orator who must be
Intoxicated in order to make a speech is
no longer here and has never been here.
The lawyer who can not plead q case or cite
an authority witho, I spending the night
before in a barroor as gone to visit the
pale glimpses OF Z >on and he has al
ways been gone writer who pro-
maudlin, removed from tn planet before
the command, LET there be light" was
given. The bookkeeper, clerk, mechanic
salesman, artisan, young or old, is not at
his best when under the influence OF liquor
and he is not as valuable to himself, his
employer, or society.
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Fatten the hogs before the mercury
opdrs to zero. Better start in August,
even if a little grain must be bought
until the corn ID ripe. 1t will pay.
The weather for the next three months
is as q rule moderate. If hogs are fed
as much as their stomachs eau digest
and utilize, about thirty five per cent.
is first used for heat aud body energy
in temperate weather. In extremely
cold weather they will use about sixty
to seventy per cent. for heat and
energy. This will depend much upon
the age. and condition Of the animal.
We also learn from experience to
fatten with rapidity. Different feed
stuffs are required. Corn is the prin-
cipal one for the solid ration. Shorts,
bran, co~ttonseed meal is very good for
the protein it contains, and n small
portion of rye will fatten rapidly ii
fed Alright. Never feed liquid and
solid feeds at the same time, for tho
animals will swallow the solids unmas-
ticated. Feed at least an hour apart
Some advocate giving the feeds sep
aratelv, but one directly after the
other. This is n safe rule for hogs
which are not being fattened, but for
hogs that are to be fed to their full
capacity, the practice is wrong. IL
hogs are given their fill of solid iced,
then slop Immediately afterward, they
can drink but very little Stop without
overlooking their stomachs and caus-
ing disordered stomachs Tor a lew
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The Old Belief About whIskv's EH'RtJ
as a Medicine ~bHndone by Most
PeopIe-Some Ignorant Doctors Whose
Minds Need to BE D~isabused oithe ldes
1t is gratifying to note that there IL not
how that mistaken notion ing the
efficacy OF whisky as II medicine whlcn was
ut one time so widely prevalent among III.
classes OF people. Bat the old superstition
still exists to some extent even among puy'
sicians, as the following story shows:
A few years ago my baby, then two years
Of Age. was taken seriously i'll In the city
ot Howell. Mass, | called one of the lead
ing physicians. He examined the cAIll
gory carefully and scientifically, ana l
watched him V cry closely. When ne mac
finished the OK animation the first question
he asked was, "Have you any whisky IN
the house?' / replied, "What do you lind
to be the trouble with the child. doctor?'
90" he said, "there is a little iniamna'
ton in the intestines." But" L sai1,
a~.loctor, you ought to know about this
matter better than I do, but It really doesn't
seem to me that whisky Is the proper rem
edy to give a child Two years old for In
Summation in the intestines." well lie
said, Il guess we can get along without
it," and we did. The child got better. A
few weeks later l moved to Somerswortb,
where the child was taken sick again. l
called IA local ply sician OF the same school.
He examined her in precisely the same
way as did the former physician, and l
watched him very closely. When he had
finished | asked, "What do you ind to be
the trouble with the child, doctor2" and he
replied, "1here is a little Inflammation in
the intestlnes." And then | said, Do you
want some whisky?" He looked at me In
astonishment. why" he said, "why do
you ask tina question:" l replied that ]
lid not know but that whisky was the
regulation prescription for all children
when sick. He said that he was very care
tulhow he rescribed liquors for children
whisky would be about the worst thing oue
could give the child. 1 relate here this
that you may know that when your physi-
sian prescribes whisky for your babies or
Tor yourself it may be well to mix the dose
with u little "horse sense."-Sacred Heart
nnutaur
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

Rear-Admiral Farquhar was in command
OF the Trenton when that ship was wrecked
in the memorable hurricane at Apla,
Samoa, March 16, 1889, when by good sea-
manship he saved his $50 officers and met
from drowning.
R~ear-Admlrai SIMPSONS successor stands
sixth from the top OF the list Of Rear-Ad-
mirals. He has been In command OF The
Norfolk Navy Yard siuce June l, 1897. He
was born on April IL, 1910, aud appointed
to the Naval Academy from Pennsylvania
in 1874
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DEATH OF C. VANDERBILT.
The End Came Suddenly at His
Home in New York City.


New YORK CRY (special). Cornelius
Vanderbilt, head of the Vanderbilt family
In the third generation of its eminence,
died suddenly at his home in this city from
cerebral hemorrhage, tue result OF n third
stroke OF paralysis. The first stroke, which
occurred on July IA. 1896, narrowly escaped
being fatal. The second stroke, which &C.
Cured about a year after the first attack,
was OF q mild character.
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Avoid Drinking Companions.

Environment has n great deal to do with
the formation OF n young mans character.
II he frequeuts saloons, or other places
where liquor is dispensed, II he keeps com
pany with people who drink, there is sure
to be u gradual weakening of the resolve
Hhich he may have taken against
liquor, and the result is almost certain
tina he will fall into the drink hapit
Young men, set your minds upon some
thing higher than the companionshtp OF
those who frequent saloons. Life is alto
gether too short to be wasted in their com
pany. Nothing good is to be learned from
them, but much OF evil may be acquired
from contact with them. Vulgarity and
obscenity are the marks wherawith they
nay be known, aud it Is folly to expect
anything worthy or pure to exist among
them.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

The value OF the Methodist camp
meeting is being called in question by
zion's Herald. 1t suggests the adop'
ton of some other system, possibly
that OF Mortified, since Methodisn
has out-grown its primitive stage, and
the increasing culture and ability
alike of its ministry aud its laity,
should find recognition, as they will
find opportunity for better efficiency,
in the improvement, if not the aban
donment, of the primitive, spectacu
lar characteristics of its past.
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Dreyius ia not personally attractive.
Senator William L. Mason is the cham
pion rapld-flre orator.
Emperor Menellk OF AbyssInia has pre-
sented two sebras to Queen Victoria,
Admiral Watson, ling the Asiatic
squadron. now at Maniia, is Ia bad health
Min Yong whou, the new Minister to
Washington from Korea, speaks English
luently.
The Emperor Of Russia Is said to be the
most liberal dispenser OF fees among the
monarchs Of Europe,
Marshall Field, OF Chicago, Is to build
and present q fine library building to his
native town, Conway, Mass.
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VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION
More Than 1000 Government Troops
Captured by the Rebels,


PoNcE, Porto Rico tBy Cl6ie). Tie
.tea Philadelphia, Captain Cham
Ders, from Venezuelan ports, brings news
Of the spread Of the revolution and the
waning strength OF the Government. TDs
lnsurgent leader, General Citrlano Castro,
has 5000 men under his command.
1t is said shat n strict censorship ofcabla
DISPATCHES has been established; mail mat
ter Is freely opened, and a close watch Is
kent nnon outgoing passengers.
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A writer in the Century, in discuss
ing the international Date Line, points
put that by the acquisition of the
Philippines, the United States is the
only nation in the world whose trade
will have to cross the date line tc
reach an important part of its terri
DRY. We are learning new things
.bout our new possessions every day.
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nIsiinrnlshinr slck rowl..

When a bird is sick the comb and
wattles usually change color, no mat.
ter what the ailment may be, for which
reason the comb and wattles are the
parts OF the fowl to examine in case OF
sickness. In health they should be
Of a bright scarlet color. When the
comb looks white or pale or black
something is wrong; even lice will
cause the comb to change color to q
certain extent. When there is a re-
iusal o. fool the birds are out of con
lition, as no healthy fowl will refuse
20 ga if fed on a variety of food, I'M
less already full. Thirst TO a great
degree is another sign, and q nervous,
uneasy look is q warning. A sick bird
often drinks to excess, especially
when attacked by cholera; but again
at other times it refuses both food and
drink. ~
Sometimes a hen will be moping
about with dropping wings, showing
no other signs of sickness. Whenever
the comb, however, does not slow a
bright scarlet, aud the fowl is not live
", it should be examined and treated
Immediately. Delay is dangerous to
the fowl, for sickness in a flock IS
hard to eradicate if not driven OFT
early. A fowl may suffer for want OF
certain food which it cannot get in
confinement, and unless gratitied will
show signs OF sickness. For this rem
son a change of food often will effect
q cure.-Farm and Fireside.
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Specific CriminaIity.

1t is well to see In what crimes alcollol's
influence Is most marked.
According TO Marambat, OF 5000 coByicts
exam ned by him seventy-eight per cent.
we're ~drunkards; se~venty-nine per cent. of
those we're vagabonis and beggars; nifty
per cent. Of the assassins and tlfty-seven
per &C t. OF the incendiaries were drunk
ards. Mario found that tho drunkarls
stood In the first rank of highway robbers,
slshty-two per cent; yetault found among
forty alcoholic criminals that there were
fifteen homicides, eight thieves, five swind-
Iers, six %assauIters Con women, four as
eaulters ~(wounding), and two Migrants.
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Seven printers left the employ OF
the st. James's Gazette, in London,
without due notice. They struck in
sympathy with men in another depart-
ment in which there was a dispute
about wages, and the paper was
brought out only with the greatest
difficulty. The proprietors had the
seven summoned to court for com
p~ensation, and the Judge made an
order for the payment of the amount
of the claim, which was about $50,
This is n new phase of the strike
situation.
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KILLS HIS AGED PARENTS.
Peter King, Drink Crazed, Commits Double
Murder Near FlsRduIe, Mess.

SourHBRIDaE. Mass, (SpeciaD. News wa.
received here of a double murder which
occurred near the manufacturing village
OF Fiskdale, about ten miles northwest OF
this town, John KIug, about ~elehty-foul
years old, aud his wife, aged eighty, were
killed by their son, Peter, who was crazec
from the excessive use Of liquor. The skulls
Of both we're crushed by u heavy instru.
ment, and death was almost instantaneous,
The murderer also attempted to XIII his
brother Thomas, BUT only succeeded Ia in
nietlng severe wounds. Peter is now con
fined In the lookup here.
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Electrical science has now reached

Electrical science has now reached
a point when we can begin to consider
as a practicable proposition the con-
servation and distribution Of the
tremendous force generated by the
falling waters of the Sierra, says the
San Francisco Chronicle. IT should
be carried to the farms and be made
to saw wood, churn milk, pump water,
grind grain, fill silos, chop feed, run
sewing machines, cut sausage meat
and be handy generally. It has been
idle for centuries enough. When it
has done all this, let it turn to and
moisten the ground to raise the wood
to be sawed, milk to be churned, the
grain to be ground, the feed to be
chopped and the meat to be made into
sausages. Water is king.
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"a man who can not do without his
yrog," says an old veteran, "has no bust
ness in the army, and will never make a
soldier. 1t is the rankest nonsense to say
hat, 10 enlisted men can not have access TO
Beer, they will drink struggled whisky.
There is no need OF their having access to
whisky, Sharp inspection by company
commanders, ard swift punishment OF meu
ION al with whisky On them or in them,
will soon put a stop to that"
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

The Salt Lake (Utahl Herald says
,zsaar TIE Mormon Church
from tthes alone were 5000, 900 in tht
year eoding December l last, one
third OF the amount being cash anG
two-thirds produce, which was dis
tributed to the poor or paid as salar
les to church employees. For the
present year it expects a large in
crease, its estimate ! ing 800, 00t
cash and $500. eco in produce. Tive
years ago President Snow could no.
borrow any money from local or East
ern banks, and an issue Of 81, 900, 00t
twenty-year bonds was made Every
bond being taken and the interes'
duly paid, President Snow now pre-
diets that the bonds will all he re
deemed within five raat3.
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TRAGEDY FOLLOWS ELopEMENT.
An Irate Father In Pursuit Fires Buck
shot Into His Son-in-Law,

shot Into His Son-in-Law.
LoNavIEw. Texas (SpeciaD james For
sythe, a highly respected young man, and
Ollie Simpson, a belle OF Beekvllle, Pamela
County, eloped and were married a few
days ago. When Andrew simpson, the
girls father, learned OF the wedding he
started after the couple on horseback. As
he rode up to Forsythe's home he saw his
son-in-law and brought him down with
seven buckshot in the groin, leaving him
for dead In tho orchard.
King X. Forsythe, father Of James, came
out oil the house unarmed 10 see what the
trouble was, and was instantly killed with
o load of buckshot in the abdomen. S!mp-
son then dismounted and ran into the
house with his pistol, saying he would Kill
his daughter, but young Forsythe's mother
seized and held his pistol until the girl es-
capped. simpson then walked out and fired
the pistol at his forehead, killing himself
instantly,
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

Mr.. Gladstone ouce neatly defined
ieputation as "a noun OF numbers sig
nifying many, but not signifying
much" There are people who get up
delegations who forget that quality is
as important as quantity in such cases.
The moral effect of a few good, earnest
petitioners is incidentally greater than
that of a crowd of moral weaklings,
v though the crowd brings OF has
sent by express q monster petition.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

Arctic whaling appears to be as big
/ gamble as Arctic gold mining. The
profits are big when whales are found,
but when they fail to appear the sailor
mar is in a bad way. That is the fix
of the men who sailed in the Jean
aette, the Karluk and the Alexander.
Only one whale has been caught, and
she luck is worse than has been
Known in the Arctic for twenty years.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15
NEW DETAIL FOR SAMPSON.
Rear-AdirmaI Assigned to the Comsant
of the Boston Navy Yard.

WASHINGTON, D. c. (SpsclaD. The Navy
Department has assigned Rear-Admiral
Norman H. Farquhar to the command OF
the North Atlantic Squadron, to succeed
Admiral Sampson, and has assigned the
latter to the command oil the Boston Navy
Yard, to I'll the vacancy caused by the
recent death OF Admiral Picking. The
transfer will take place on October 10.
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NO MORE STUDENT WATERS.


NEW HAVEN, Conn. (SpeeiaD.-Yale un-
derSraduates will not be allowed to act as
walters in tho college dining hall. The
order has been passed that In the future
colored walters would run the commons
as at Harvard.
About Atty undergraduates have earned
their way regularly through the college
by waiting on table. They viii be com
PEELED to ilnd some other means OF employ.
ment.
Manager Tilson, OF the commons, says
that he thinks the service will be greatly
improved by hiring professional walters,
whose recltations will not interfere With
their promptness in reporting for duty at
the dining hail.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

1t is extraordinary that miners still
'efuse to use the safety lamps, even
when they have had terrible lessons
n their own mines. A strike re-
,ently occurred in one Pennsylvania
nine because the miners object to
using safety lamps, yet less than two
years ago an explosion occurred in the
pame mine in which several men were
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

The Rev. James @. Caldwell, a we'll
known Presbyterian minister OF Philadel-
phia. was instantly killed in Il runaway
accident in Germantown, an aristocratte
suburb OF the city. Mr.. CaldwelPs horse
SHE'D at Il trolley car and ran away, throw
ing him out OF the carriage. He formerly
resided at West Chester, Penn.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

A new and practical development OF
,he cooperative principle is rapidly
gaining ground in the Australian
agricultural districts. 1t is known as
Ihe shares system, and represents
combined effort on the part of land
lord and tenant i n agricultural produc-
lion, the profits, after payment of ex-
penses, being divided in proportions
mutually agreed upon beforehand.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

Berlin servant girls are forming a union,
Ireland has a National Coal Laborers
Union.
Labor is still in big demand In the Lake
Superior copper district.
Labor Day this year was devoted to out
door sports more than ever.
Toe wages OF 2o0o dock workmen in Ash.
tabula, Oslo, have been raised from five to
ten per cent.
Over 20, GOO lahorers are employed on the
grounds, buildings aud palaces OF the
Paris Exposition.
The strike OF tue Seamen's aud Firemen's
Union has begun and affects all ports In
the United Kingdom.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

We are still expanding. The latest
Move is to acquire coaling islands
near the Straits of Magellan. 1t will
be a lonesome quarter of the world
before long that does not somewhere
ay the Stars and Stripes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

HAVANA (By Cable).-The captains oil
British ships arriving here from Venezuela
say there are two parties against the Gov
ernment, and that the latter is extremely
suspicious. Any one wishing to land must
satisfy the off .ials that be is not connect
ed with either of the revolutionary parties.
The Government, it is also said, is very
u~Dpopular,
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rhree suoocolea In vault.

Two members OF the Fire Department
and a child of four years were xii ed by
gases In a vault at Cincinnati, Ohio. Mon
roe Dent, aged four, fell INFO the vault In
the rear OF his father'a house in Clinton
street, and the Fire Department was APP
pealed to for aid. Thomas Bland and
Harry Heinsheiner responded with a
ladder, and, descending, wern suffocatod
by the gases. The bodies were all re-
covered,
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

William McGlnness, twenty-five mouths
old, SOM OF James McGinness, a silk
twister, OF Paterson, N. j., was drowned
in a washtub In the basement OF his fathers
house. The mother was washing and went
into the yard to hang clothing. When she
returned the child was dead In tina tub.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

1t speaks well for the quality of our
.rmy in the Philippines that the num-
Der of officers who have died of wounds
received in battle is out of all proper
lion to that of the privates.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

General otis's plan OF campaign, to be
put in operation as soon as the dry season
begins in the Philippines, contemplated tue
division of his forces into two commands,
under Generals Lawton and Macarthur
for nm aggressive movement to the North
south and west of Manila.
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President comnutes Il Sentence.

The sentence OF Private McTeigh, FRS
Wyoming Volunteers, convicted OF striking
his 50 perior officer aud ordered to be shot
hns been committed By President Mckinley
at Washington to three years confinement
MT hard labor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

In England the Baptists lead In numbers
in the Christian Endeavor Society,"; Ia AUS
tralla, the Methodist; In Canada, me
M~ethodlsts; in tho United STATES the
6OOO societies.; Australia, 1000; India, Asa
China, 14s; Africa, 1856; Mexico, los; West
indies, 1903; Germany, 1O1i Madagascar. ";
Japan, rs, and Spain, So.
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President Andrade has purchased a Span.
ish gunboat, with an equipment of eight
guns, for S135, 900.
Sixty-six prominent politicians. among
them SENIOR Hernandez aud the editor OF
Ell Preganaro, were arrested on August IA
and more than 500 have been taken into
custody since.
A fierce battle was fought on August %
near Barqnisimeto, when the insurgents
captured 1000 Government troops and Sc.
cured a large quantity Of ammunition.
Senior Rodriguez, Minister OF the Inte'
rior, who resigned on September 6, was ar
rested the following day.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (By Cable. -Presi-
dent Andrade Is so DESTROYS of Terminating
the civil strife in the Republic that he mas
taken the field in person against the rebel
General, Cipriano Castro. There is much
excitement here over the acts Of the revolt
tionists,
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papti.m. In Presbyterian ohurebe,

The number OF baptisms last year In tn
PRESBYTERIAN Church were fewer in numbel
thar for some years. There were l7,6s.
ndult baptisms to 81, 574 the preceding year
and "a, 90s infant baptisms to 27,76s tn
year previous.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

Barns should have means of venti
lation, but it should be ventilation
that can be controlled. One OF the
best plans is by a window in each
gable end Of the building, up near the
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

Every total abstainer," says the @, T,
4. News, should carry upon his breast the
emblem OF the organization to which ho
all other orders display as publicly as pos
lible the badge adopted by their orgapisi.
lion to signify membership"
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

A courier who has arrived at Tripoli,
Africa, reports that the French mission
headed by T. Fonreau and Major Lamy has
been snnlhilated. He says the expedition
was a tackled by a largo body OF Tuhregs,
who, after suffering terrible loss, killed all
the members OF the mission.