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The Penn's Grove record., 1900-04-20
The Profits of Gardening.

Numbers of inquiries come to the
editors of horticultural and agricul-
tural newspapers of gardening profits
that may be made out of growing
fruits and vegetables for market.
Much attention is paid to the charac.
ter Of the soil, the climate and the
adaptability Of varieties to these con-
ditions; but one essential is owe all,
and that is the marketing of fruits
and vegetables after they have been
raised. Even when there are markets
convenient, a person may be wholly
ignorant of the methods of marketing.
It takes nearly as much art to know
how to sell as it does to know how tc
raise the articles in the first place. In
brief, the success of any proposed
market garden plan depends as much
on the man himself as on the natural
conditions of soil and climate.-Mee.
hans Monthly.
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It is estimated that the profits of
the Government in the destruction of
paper money since 1866 have not been
less than q million a year.

It costs So to take a bath at Cape
Nome, but little complaint comes
from there on that account. Com
paratively few Of the people up there
have found it out as yet.
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Tha I.hor world.

The English working man has 27s work
ing days.
Half the striking miners In the Pitts
burg, Penn, coal district have returred
work.
Seventeen per cent. of the watchm(
In tho United States ara women.
all were men.
The Building Trades CouA. III, OF
is trying to end the industrial wal
through arbitration committees
The section men on the Erie RaiIly
have received a voluntary advance
wages from $1.15 to $1.25 a day
Tho Partisan cAbmen have petltioned the
authorities Tor permission to raise their
fares during the Exposition months.
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To Erect an Insane A.v,u,n

There was a special meeting Of the Board
q freeholders In the courthouse at Mount
Holly, called for the purpose OF receiving
the report Of the committee on the pro.
posed county lunatic asylum. After CIV
Ing consideration to various sites, the COM
mittee recommended that the structure be
erected on the county farm at New Lisbon.
By this decision the building can be quilt
at considerable less expense than II placed
elsewhere, as there will be no ground Ito
purchase. b selection also meets the
approval OF those who ave had the care
OF Insane patients In other parts of the
stare, as the inmates will be Isolated from
III undue excitement.
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K . Warm Bed.

For years we made the good old.
fashioned deep bed covered With
boards and glass. This method proved
expensive and laborious. CASTING
about for a better way we met an ex-
tensive sweet potato raiser of the Ohio
River section. From him we learned
the following methed which we now
use exclusively and with perfect
cess:
For ordinary family use, the bed
should be made about 10x15 feet. A
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Her Muscle as a Credential.

The school in Upper Saddle River Bor-
ough, a few miles north of Hackensack,
which was closed a month ago because the
vandal scholars nearly wrecked the build
Ing and frightened away the woman teach
or, has been reopened. The new Board OF
Education put q new set OF rules In force
and put q now teacher In charge. The
teacher Is Miss Rosabel Meyers, Of Mexico,
N. Y. She was told what kind of pupils
she had to deal with, but smilingly sub
mitted to the Board a paper showing that
she was among the leading athletes In her
college.
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over 400 Bankrupts in the State

Reports OF the United States District
Court at Trenton show that in the eight
months since August Is last, 433 persons
In New Jersey have gone into bankruptcy.
Ut this number 343 have voluntarily filed
petitions giving all their earthly possess
sions to their creditors and praying to be
declared bankrupts, and the creditors OF
ninety nave forced them into bankruptcy.
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FARM And GARDEN


s~unnowers in the Poultry Yard.
Sunfowers are a very good and
cheap food for poultry, and are es.
pecially useful for feeding purposes at
the time the hens are moulting.
IF planted in the yard in which the
chickens run, they will afford some
shade, and the hens will be pretty
sure to get whatever seed falls from
them if such should be the case.
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FORMER SENATOR Relden Dead.

Former Senator John G.. Beiden, a prom
lnent resident Of Salem, died, aged severn
ty-dve. He had long identified with
The business interests OF Salem, and repre-
sented Salem County In the Senate from
1870 to 1872. He was for fifteen years a
alerk In the State Controllers Office, at
Trenton. He leaves q widow and two
daughters.
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sturgeon Fishermen Want Advances.

1t is reported that a number OF the prln-
cipal sturgeon fishermen in South Jersey
have been visiting the leading smokers OF
New York City with q view OF obtaining
The usual advances on future operations.
Prices ranging from eighty to ninety cents
per pound for caviar have been talked OF,
but SO far as can be learned the handlers
In New York City are not disposed to con-
slider the f1shermen's propositions.
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The war in South Africa is the for
tieth wal England has INDUCED in
during the reign of Queen Victoria.
No other State in the world has been
so often at wal or shed SO much h1man
blood.
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General White, commander Of the Lady
smith garrison. arrived in London on .
special train from Liverpool. Hs was I'm
mediately recognized by the people at the
station and enthusiastic lily cheere1.
Great crowds surrounded him and he
shook hands with as many as possible.
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TO PERPETuATE FAME.
Professor Holden's to Tell Of
His wonderful Discovery.

his wonderful Discovery,
The wNl OF Joseph W. Holden. Of Otis
Geld, Me-. who proclaimed In many leo
lures that the earth was fat, has been pre-
sented Tor probate.
Ono feature OF the will was that "A
italian marble monument to cost $300
yhklt b purchased with the following In
sorjpfion upon 1t:
sfrofessor Joseph w. Holden, born In
0tisfieid, August "A. 1876.
"Dted-, aged years.
s'Professor Holden, the astronomer, while
i boy at school discovered that the earth
b nat and stationary, and that the sun and
moon do move.n
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Strength Of Foreign Missionaries.

The total missionary.;;o force under leading
Christian societies doing strictly foreign
work WAS 1920 last year, and the total
native force was "a, 49,. There were e, 228
schools, with 944,430 pupils, and the In
come for the year was $14. 613, ga.
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whole VILLAGE Rproed.

The entire village OF Hanover was de-
,treyed by Are. Not a house was left
standing. The disaster was caused by a
forest fire, which, famed by a strong wind,
enveloped the village on all sides. The
loss was estimated at $25, 900. There was
little Insurance.,
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Els Jubilee al JustIce.

Squire John Hance, OF Bethlehem, Ham
lton County, has just been recommissioned
as n Justice OF the Peace. He has also just
completed his fiftieth year on the bench.
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NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, D. {.
What william J. Bryan Says.

What william ). Bryan Says.
APRIL s, 1899.
EDITOR NATIONAL WATERMAN:
congratulate you upon the splendid work the
National Waterman is doing. 1t is an honest
earnest. able. and. fearless exponent Of Jcfer-
sonian democracy and deserves a cordial sup.
port / hope that your circulation will increase
until you have readers in every precinct in the
United States The people should support the
$apers that fight the 5attte Of the people.
Yosfs truly, ". ]. BRYAN.
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LacI or physicians In Porto Rico

Three thousand people are dyirg In
Porto Rico for lack OF medical supplies
and the inability OF many districts where
the population reaches thousands to sup
port a resident physician.
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Christian Science Church to Organize.

The trustees OF the First Church of Chris
tian Science OF Orange have bought a plot
Of land 100 by LOG feet In Cleveland street,
Orange, and in the near future will begin
the erection OF achurch building.
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Bees Require Water.

0o0B Require At6Fs
Almost as soon as bees begin flying
in springtime, they will search for
water. It is absolutely necessary that
they have it when rearing brood. In
preparing food for the young bees,
they use water and honey, and if they
are not gathering nectar from flowers,
but are drawing on the honey in the
hive, they must have water to dilute
it in the preparation of food for their
young. When bees are gathering
honey from flowers, the nectar as they
gather it contains q large per cent. of
water, and on this they draw their
water supply, and are seldom '
seen at watering places during this
time, but if the honey flow suddenly
stops. they make o grand rush for the
water to thus SUPP " their large force
Of Matching brood.
Bees should always be supplied with
a convenient watering place, and this
should be as near the apiary as pos.
sible. Watering troughs for stock, OF
large tanks of water is not q good
place for them to get water, as mum.
hers Of them are drowned in such
places. A salt barrel, or any barrel
of light material filed with water, the
water constantly and slowly soaking
to the outside, makes an ideal water
ing place for bees, but no opening
should be left to admit Of them get
ting inside the barrel. Bees also
gather pollen largely in early spring.
and also during the entire season, and
this also forms a part Of the food made
up Of water, honey and pollen, that
they prepare for their young. Water
and pollen gathering in early spring
is the bees first work. and at this they
may be kept busy for a months time,
before any honey make its appearance
in the flowers, or at least to any great
extent. Bees have been accused Of
gathering water at mud holes and
filthy places, and thus communicating
their honey. but such is not the case,
as every impurity is distilled and
e~vaporated from their food or honey
as it passes through their digestive
organs, and nothing remains but ab-
solute purity.-A. a. Duff, in Farm,
Field and Fireside.
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The Washing ID Egypt is usually
done ~ the men.
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JiNcLEs N JEsTs.

Askin-"Would you consider the
occupation of a baseball magnate a
profession" Teller-"No; it's usu-
ally a trade"
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Copyright 1901

Some things strike my observation while
standing Ia this garden with a new sepul-
cher. And, first, post norton honors In
contrast with ante norton fgnominies. II
they could have afforded Christ such a
costly s~epulcher, why could not they have
given Him an earthly residence? Will they
give this piece OF marble to a dead Christ
instead Of . soft pillow for the living Jesusi
It they had expended half the value OF that
tomb to make Christ comfortable, 1t would
not have been sbksai a story. He asked
bread; they gave linn a stone.
Christ, like most of the worlds benefac.
tors, was appreciated better after He was
dead. Westminster Abbey and monu.
mental Greenwood are the worlds attempt
to- atone by honors to the dead for wrongs
Q the living. Poets corner In Westmin-
ster Abbey attempts to pay for the suffer.
ings of Grub street.
Go through that Poets corner in West
minister abbey. There Is Handel. the great
musician, from whose music you hear to-
day; but while I look at his statue I cannot
help but think OF the discords with which
his fellow musicians tried to destroy him
There Is the tomb OF John Dryden. q beau.
tful monument; but I cannot help but
think 81 seventy PEARS OF age he wrote d
his being oppressed In fortune and OF the
contract that he had Just made for a thou.
sand verses at sixpence : line. And there,
TOO, you und the monument OF Samuel But
Ter. The author Of "Hudibl as;'' but while
look at his monument In Poets corner
eannot but ask myself where he died. In
q garrett. There I see the costly tablet In
the Poets corner-the costly tablet to one
Of WHOM the celebrated Waller wrote: ssThe
old blind scho0lmaster, John Milton. me-
Just issued q tedious poem on the fall 81
man. II the Length Of It be no virtue. ii
has none.1 Theirs ts q beautiful monument
to Sheridan. Poor 6herfdenl II he could
have only disc6unted that monument for 1
\ mutton chopi
oh, you unf}ial children, do not give
your parents 81 much tombstone. but 8
lew more blanlf6ts-less funeral and more
bedrooml II I'VE per cent. OF the money
~ nQN spend @n Burns's banquets could
5coteh post Sonld mna
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-17
A WOMAN'S HEROISM.
A True Story Of the American
Revolution.

nIRECTLY after their wedding day
IL young Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher had
gone to their new home. 1t is true,
this was only rude little building,
but 1t was better than most Of the
houses in North CASTLE and, indeed,
In all Westchester county, n. Y, for
the matter Of that; and the young
wife had been supremacy happy. There
was the same rugged aspect to the
country then as now, and the huge,
moss-covered granite powders, the
wooded hillsides and winding valleys,
and beyond all the glistening waters
of the sound, provided landscape
upon which Mistress Fisher never
tired Of gazing.
But the young people were not to be
left to the peaceful enjoyment of their
new home. The war clouds which
had long been gathering broke in n
storm, and among the first to respond
to his country's call was Mr.. Fisher.
Enrolled in Maj. Paulding's band Of
patriots, he speedily became one Of
the most trusted of Washington's
scouts in the so-called neutral ground.
But his young wife, left to herself,
was as bold of heart rs her husband,
and soon found many methods of dis
playing courage and loyalty as
strong rs his.
After the battle at White Plains she
had gone to the camp and nursed the
wounded continentals with n care
which endeared her to all the soldiers,
and when Washington himself had en-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-17

supposed, and departed. The grief
stricken young wife had cut down the
body of her husband, never once
thinking that he was still alive, but to
her incxpressible Joy she had discov-
cred a faint futtering in the heart,
and through her careful nursing he
was soon restored and more deter
mined than ever to do his part In de.
Tending his home and country against
the attacks Of the Hessians and the
lawless bands which had been quick
to turn the struggle to their own adj
vantage.
And now Mistress Fisher was again
expecting visit from her husband.
II was true, she had not received any
direct word from him, but It had been
long since she had seen him and some
how she could not shake off the feel
ing that he would come that very aft
ernoon. Again and again she had left
her work and gone out on the low
piazza to gaze up and down the road,
but the sun had sunk lower in the sky,
the night would soon come and still
he had not appeared. She must be
mistaken, she thought, and resolute-
~ strove to drive her fears and hopes
alike from her mind. But with all her
efforts she could not succeed, and as
the long shadows began to lengthen
she once more left the house TO take
her stand outside and satisfy herself
that no one was in sight.
As she passed through the doorway
she suddenly stopped and peered in.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-17
CUTTING TO THE LINE.
A Teutonic Solomon Who Dispensed
Justice According TO His own
Convictions.

The prisoner was held on charge Of
possessing all to himself plurality OF sew
en- wives, but the German judge was ip'
clined to let him co.. :.
"Ass Get is, yed," he said, looking, down
over his glasses, "der effiitence is like dot
he has der pleurisy Of wives, aind't it, but
I'll led heem CO."
The amazement Of the prosecution was
immense. He was thrown into consterna'
ton. Getting upon his feet he blurted out,
in ill.concealed surprise: "Why, your honor,
on what grounds do you dismiss the case!'
"Vell," said the Judge, ION vat grounds!
Why, on der grounds outside der goort'
house, der grounds efferyvhere." :,
"But why dismiss it, your honor, when all
the evidence tends to show"
"Vhell, der reason ees dot hoh Won vile
of mine ownded, und he init q muldiblica'
ton Of dem-he has troubles of hecs own
enuif, yet, alretty. You are dismissed
aindt IT."
No, it was not the same man who was
held by the judge to be guilty Of trigonom;;
etry Just because he sported the luxury Of
three wives at one and the same time
Detroit Free Press.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-17
A LESSON IN COURTESY.
Neat Rebuke Given . Naughty Wom-
an by . Man In Working
Clothes.

One afternoon stylishly dressed woman
boarded an Illinois Central train at Forty
seventh street. She sat down in the only
vacant seat, beside young workman, who
was reading book. The man wore blue
overalls and carried q dinner pail. The
woman drew herself together superciliously
and elevated her eyebrows. In getting her
ticket she dropped her PURSE and the young ing
politely. She took it, without a word Of
thanks. All the way up town she fdgeted
and behaved 50 unpleasantly that the atten.
ton Of the other passengers in the car was
attracted to the little drama.
When the train stopped at Randolph
street the woman, in crowding past, knocked
the book from the workman's hands.
81 beg your PARDON, she condescended.
fellow, cheerfully. ''H's quite in keeping
with the rest Of your conduct"
And everybody thought it served her
right.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-17
NATTER OF DOUBT.
me issaiA Boy Knew People Pretty
wen, But He HAD Guess
Coming.

zone day last fall" said wellknown
Montana man, II was riding on train in
my state and got to be on pretty fair terms
with the train boy by buying few oil the
things he had to sell. Il was not q very
formal kind Of train, and when the boy
had finished his rounds he came over 10
cit with me and chin o Bit - he said. !
was willing enough, 90 he was q sharp lad
and there was nobody else 10 talk to, and
he wgnt right at things.
I" DO you know he said, that can tell
by looking at man mighty near what he
10. Now, there's that fellow over there in
tho corner; he's Chicago drummer. !
can tell him by the way he lets his money
20 and the flip style be has when he talks
TO people. And that chap over there with
the silk hat on, he's q. preacher from o
country town, I'm dead sure, and Ill 60
ask him IL you say So
II didn't say SO, because didn't care .
continental, and the boy went. on with bis
descriptions Of the people on the train. At
last l asked him what he thought was.
/ had on a pretty Aashy suit Of light stuff
and was thinking was looking pretty well,
60 / was willing to risk the boys venture.
He looked me over for full minute very
"WeH,' he said, at last, you've got q
sloo Of money, but amt dead sure whether
you are a cattleman or gambler. Wash
ington Star.
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tently before her. Down the road Just
where It left the woods she could see q
man running swiftly toward her house.
Her first thought was that II must be
her husband, but why was he in such
hastef He was running desperately,
and the frequent glances he cast behind
him showed that he was in fear of some
thing coming from that direction. In
an agony of suspense Mistress Fisher
clasped her hands and watched the
man. She was tempted to seize the one
gun in the house and go to his aid, but
restraining the impulse, as she realized
that the man was coming toward her,
she paused and waited. Once he STUN
bled and fell and low cry escaped
the waiting womaM's lips, but In an
instant he had regained his footing and
dashed forward with increased speed.
On and on ran the man, still casting
occasional glances behind him, and
soon she could see that he was not her
husband, but neighbor, Mr.. Butler,
one of the stanchest wings in all the re-
gion.
1t was evident, however, that he was
in trouble, and Mistress Fisher, relieved
as she was to discover II was not her
husband who was being pursued, watt
ed with almost breathless eagerness for
him TO approScb BE was near now,
and she could easily see that he was Ia
boring under great excitement; the
perspiration poured in streams down
his face and his alarm WINS evident in
every movement. He was soon near
the house, and as she thought he was
going TO pass without recognizing her,
Mistress Fisher called:
"AIr. Butlerl Mr.. Butler! What 10
Il? What Is it?"
The fleeing man glanced up, and in
stantly changing his course, darted into
the house after her.
"what is It? What isit?" repeated
the excited woman.
"The tories! the toriesl" gasped the
almost exhausted man. They've after
me. They're close behind me! They'll
get me sure, Mistress Fisher, II you
don't hide mel"
Mrs. Fisher stepped to the door again
and gazed down the road. Just emery
ing from the woods she could see band
Of men coming swiftly up the road,
and her neighbours words needed no
further confirmation: Had they seen
him turn into her house? She could not
tell, but, satisfied that in any event
they would stop there to make inquir-
les, II nothing more, the courageous
woman instantly TUNED and once more
faced the painting man in the room.
''Hide me! Hide me somewhere, any
wherel" he pleaded '.Don't let them
get mel" ,Ss-,as
Mistress Fisher glanced hastily about
the room. What could she do? Through
the kitchen doorshs. could see the hens
fiuttering In the ash heap. Beyond was
the barn. and II was tseless to think of
hiding there. And the tories were al
ready approaching and would soon be In
the house. iIl
'Herel" exclaimed the aundaunted
woman, seizing . brush made Of goose
quillE lying on the table. Taking .
knife she quickly cot several Of the
quillE loose. Then. cutting the feathered
parts away. abe blsRflhs .'pith" out Of
each and joined fonridf them in the
form Of long t4tH She worked rap
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