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The Penn's Grove record., 1900-03-23
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Edith-"He says If I don't marry
him he--he doesn't know what he'll
dol" Ethel-"Ahi has the poor fell
low no trade?"-Puck.
Farmer-ssSee herei You We been
loafng around here half a dayl"
Tramp-"Well, half a loafs better'n
none, amt it?"-Pack.
He says that he ''beIieves in signs"
Yet lacks the self-restraint
To keep a doubling finger off
A fence that's labelled paint"
Philadelphia Press.
Now, major, did you never wish
yourself well out of an engagement"
"Only once, ma'am, and that was in a
little affair with a widow. Sydney
Bulletin.
The Waitress SIT looks as If the
new baarder is going to stay" The
Mistress-"I noticed hat he helped
himself twice to the prunes. -Har-
per's Bazaar.
Foozle-'We don't call them bunk
ers' over on our links now." Tee
mo; what then?" Foozle-"They're
SO hard to get yer we call 'em kopjes."
Baltimore American.
Topnots-s'I won my wife with my
voice." Wigwag-sYou sang to her,
eh?" Topnotes-"Yes, aud she said
she would marry me if I would prom
Use g to do it again."
Clara-"They say Nell is going to
marry a man old enough to be her
grandfather" Maude-'.Is itpossiblel
/ didn't suppose there was a man liv-
ing that old. "-Chicago News.
Master-ssWhy did you run away,
my boy?" Boy-.'Because the mis-
tress was so unkind to me-" Master
Tut, tutl That's no excuse. Do
I run away?"-Golden Penny.
She dresses in nothing but gingaam,
That her praises the poets may sing 'em.
She Is trying to look
As IL she could cook;
Do you think she'll be able to string 'em?
New York Sun.
"Are- you an advocate of spelling
reform?" "No, by Jinksl I'm TAX
ing a dictionary that costs So a num-
Der, and I've got t~wenty-forr numbers
of it bound and paid or."@Chicago
Times-Herald.
Kantell-"How did you manage. to
get hat messenger boy to deliver your
message so quickly?" Kraftie-"I
took his dime novel away from him,
and told him he could finish it when
he got back"
Astylish young fellow named Vest
Applied to the Courts, much distressed; 7
81 am sure you'll agree
Vest is vulgar" said he.
"But Westcott might do" he confessed.
Philadelphia Record.
He-.'The engagement of my friend
Jack and his girl is at an end" She
-.Oh, what a pity! What was the
cause?" He-"Why, they were mar
ried privately yesserday."-Philadei-
phia North American.
Carrie--ssTell me, Kate, how was it
you did not marry Mr.. Tyler?" Kate
-"He told me I was the only woman
he ever loved. If a man will lie to
you before marriage, what stories
won't he tell Observation-Disclosures
Transcript.
"Papa," said Tommy Northside,
who had been reading news from the
Atlantic shore, s'what kind of a steamer
is a coastwise steamer" ga steamer
wise enough to keep off the rocks along
the coast" replied Mr.. Northside.-
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
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The Seeding Apple.

Among apple growers o sharp con
troyersy has been carried on for years
as to whether it is better to improve
our list of available varieties by i'm
porting from foreign countries or de-
veloping new Seeding apples. Dis
couragements are found on both sides.
A very large proportion of the apples
brought from foreign countries have
proved of no value after having been
fruited IN this country for a dozen
years, while Of the Seeding a thou
sand varieties have proved not worth
the growing to every one that has
proved good enough to be propagated
By graftings.
But, however discouraging the pro.
dnction Of seedlings may be, it is true
that all the progress that has been
made in apples, taking the world as a
whole, is through seedlings. We must
not forget that every good apple we
have now was one of a multitude of
seedlings. It is, of course, recognized
that the work of producing new varie-
ties in this way is very, very slow.
The man that plants 10, 900 seeds must
handle and care for 10000 trees. He
must not only take them out of the
Seeding rows and transplant them in
to ground with more space, but he
must sometimes replant them. Be-
sides that he must give them fair at
tention and cultivation. The ground
must be kept fertile and the trees
must be sprayed. The borers must
be kept off and the canker worms must
be prevented from stripping the trees
OF their foliage. The grower may
have to wait ten years for results, as
it is a known fact that q valuable a
riety might be late in coming into bear
ing. After years of waiting for fruit he
may find that not one of the 10,0 900
trees is superior in anything to fruit
now being grown.
Such must be the experience oil
those that labor for the production of
new and valuable varieties. The mai
that begins the work knows that the
chances are that he will never rear
the benefit of his toll, for ven if he
should develop a fine variety, years
must elapse before he will be able to
get anything from it. Hs realizes
that he will have to cut thousands of
scions from that good tree and graft
other trees, and that he must then
wait . few years more till they are fit
to place on the market.
When all that is accomplished, he
still has the question of advertising to
face. and this "a expenditure of
labor and cash. But, hard as the way
is, it is the surest way to get new
fruits. Instead of one man planting
10000 seeds, q good many men should
each plant q few seeds, and thus dis
tribute the burden many shout
ders.-Farm, FieJ iresids.
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According to the labor bulletins

According to the labor bulletins of
Massachusetts, Boston servant girls
keep on their kitchen shelves volumes
of Goethe, Schiller, Eliot, Dumas,
T~hackeray, Victor Hugo and Shake
speare. One a imagine tears for
the orrows of Werther and Charlotte
splashing into thepancake batter, and
the suffering scrapple forgotten for
a comparative criticism of Mary Cow
den Clarke. The cook book weeps
alone, and the bursting sausage and
the insurgent apple butter bubble hap
less protest. Beautiful idyl of homel
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The Paris a commission cost the

The Paris peace commission cost the
Government $155, 1O2. IL. The Philip
pine commission cost 1916, 400. 81.
The Investigation of the conduct OF
the wal by the commission of which
General Granville NJ. Dodge was presi-
dent cost $1O5, LA. 81. The work OF
the secret service during the war cost
$1S, 1862. SO. The investigation of con-
ditions in Cuba and Porto Rico by
Robert P. Porter and Gonzalo G..
Quesada, which resulted in the disso-
luton of the insurgent army, cost
$~13,273.35. The Investigation into
affairs of Porto Rico cost $40, 637. 81.
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The modern custom of knocking
down national conventions to the
highest bidded must wear out soon,
remarks the Indianapolis Journal.
The prices paid in recent years have
been out of all reason. Some cities
have already ceased bidding, and all
will when it is found that the conven-
tons cost more than they are worth.
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advertisements
THE EVOLUTION OF ."susY."

a little lass, just eight years old,
Ives like the skies and hair like gold,
Of to school in q frock of blue,
With a basket of lunch and a book or two
This is Susyi
Adebutante of sweet eighteen,
In a satin SOW all simmer and sheen,
Flushed and eager at her first ball,
With a score OF men at her beck and call
This Is SueI
T~wenty-eight and is affably borel
With America after a year abroad;
Hell maid and poodle are brought from
France,
And she reads French menus now at q
glance
This is Susannei
1hirty-eight and a spinster still.
The last few years have treated her III.
Her hair Is gray. aud her face has ~creases,
And she darns the stockings OF five little
nieces-
This Is Aunt Susani
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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The English press was amazed at
u .'hysteria" during the Spanish
War. Yet not even at news of the de.
struction of Cervera's feet was there
anywhere in the United States an out
burst that could be compared with
London's frenzy when Ladysmith was
relieved.
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OF more than $50. 600, 900 given to
institutions of learning last year, in
the United States, is is said that less
than half a million was given to the
colleges of the thirteen Southern
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SOY KILLS HIS FATHEI

Would Do 1t Again.
CHICAGO (SI ecial).-To save his mother
from being cut to pieces by her husband,
who had attacked her with a large butch
er's knife, Edward Finch. fifteen years old,
shot his father, George Finch, through the
heart and for an hour was a fugitive.
When taken into custody the boy wept
bitterly, and said he expected to be hanged
az once, but that he would do hi deed
again II necessary to protect his mother.
The killing took place at the Finch home
In Austin. The youthful slayer is a pris.
nner at the Austin Police Station.
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Keeps Tab ON the Hen.

g. o. Burroughs. Of Clayton, is some.
thing OF a mechanical genius, besides 0
lover of fancy poultry. He wa bothered
about keeping individual records of his
hens, but he isn't my more. He invented
a device by which the hen, when she en-.
tiers her nest to lay, steps on u spring
which shuts her in. There she must stay
until some one comes to release her and
marks the egg up to her credit.
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widow Died of Grief.

Isaac Frye, a prominent resident OF
HardingyllIe, died a few days ago. At the
funeral Mrs. Frye, the widow, was incon-
solRble with grief. When she returned to
their lovely home she was stricken down
and by night she was a corpse. Her body
was laid beside her husbands.
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DR.. McKim, who proposes to i'm,
prove the human race by putting all
the imbeciles to death, runs a great
risk. Suppose it should be decided
to begin with him?
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Farmers HOLD Out For Pricea.

the tomato packers in Bridgeton a few
days ago. The packers offered $3.50 a ton
for tomatoes, but the offer was refused
aud the growers will continue to demand
"a. Tie packers say they will be unable
to pay that amount, and IL the farmers do
not recede from their position they will be
obliged to keep their canneries closed
during the coming season.
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Fear Peaches Are killed.

Nurserymen and fruit growers in Somer.
set and Hunterdon Counties say that the
heavy now and sleet that fell recently
practically killed tho peach buds, as we'll
as the buds of most OF the early species OF
fruit. The trees were covered completely
with q coating of ice.
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HERMAN E. TAuBENEcK DEAD.

Former Chairman Of the Peoples Party
National Committee Expires in Seattle.
SEATTLE, Wash. (Special).-Herman E
raubeneck, former Chairman of the Ma.
tional Committee of the Peoples Party
lied suddenly in this city. He came here
from the East about two months ago ir
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Boys Lost Underground.

John Butler, John Haley, Lawrence Con
nell. James Bryne, Edward Sherman
Michael Flaney. John and Mathew Tobin
boys ranging from nine to thirteen year.
OF age, were lost in a mine at Plymouth
Penn. They had been i~mprlsonad foI
twenty-fou- hours when found by q search
ing party. They were completely ex
hausted and had laid down to die.
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AUTOMOBILES IN THE WOODS.
Self propelling Sieds Haul Lumber IL
Minnasnfa

SELL FrOpell1ng Sleds Haul Lumber in
Minnesota.
A new use for the automobile has arisen
In the vast Minnesota forests that sunplv
the country with white pine. One Of The
large lumber companies has been expert
incnting the past two years with a design
for q sled that should propel itself and
haul q Q over the ice and snow roads Of
the forests, and 1t has this winter suc-
ceeded In making a sled that goes. 1t is a
locomotive on runners, and the power OF
tho engine Is applied to two drums. one at
each end of the sled. These drums are
lifted with sharp teeth, about two inches
long, that stud the surface as pins the
cylinder OF a music box. These drums re-
volve and traction Is gained by the stick.
ing OF the teeth into the ice and packed
snow Of the roads.
so lar this winter one automobile OF This
make has hauled 5000, 600 feet OF logs fol
an average distance of Ave miles. and the
average load OF the machine is from 40 y0O(
to GO. 200 feet OF logs. The haul Is over az
leo road, g Q made through the forests
BY sprinklinR water over the route and
permitting 1t to freeze, when ruts are cut
Tor the runners Il is expected that this
form OF sled, when fully perfected. will
come into general use In tho Northern
Minnes0tn forests.
Alabnmass New Railroad Ailease.
Fully 500 Miles Of new railroad will be
pullt IN Alabama this wear.
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The Cleveland Humane Society has
taken possession of a bear that by
dancing and doing tricks earned $15a
week, which served to support forty
gypsies. The latter are reported to
be finding it hard to bear up under
this cruel blow.
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Fatal Mine Accident.

One man was killed and two were In
jured by the premature explosion OF a
blasting charge in the copper mine about
one and a half miles from Somerville. Az
but three of the fifteen men employed In
the shaft had left a few minutes before the
explosion occurred. j. Matterson, of Bed
minister, was instantly killed. George Ger
man, OF Somerviile, has his skull fractured,
oneknee crushed, and was otherwise bad
ly injured. John Schmidt. also OF 6omer-
vile, was able to assist his fellow-work-
men, who were injured, but he subse quently
became unconscious. He revived later and
was not seriously hurt.
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women to Improve a Town.

married women at the home of Mrs. Rob-
ert B. Davis. The object OF the society is
to see that the borough is kept in a sani-
tary condition, and to aid in enforcing city
ordinances n in the general improvement
OF the borough.
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A Russo British clash in Persia
should at least give us some musical
Lalla Rookh a map names with
which to offset the Boer tongue twis-
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Tn Al, part. 81 the st,t..

III <AII EuItB OI JIG St8t6s
new bell has been placed In the Auburn
ehurch steeple.
southern shad are selling in the. Glouces-
apiece.
and sell for "a a thousand on the bay shore.
Brtdgeton fishermen at Bay Side ars
getting good prices for them,
At the present rate OF shipments the can
ming houses will be depleted OF last years
pack before the season opens the coming
fall.
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Live Stock Perish IN Farm Fire.

Fire destroyed the barn OF Howard Me.
lick, at Stewartsvills. Five horses, six
COWS, $50 chickens and twelve hogs ger
ished. The wagons, sleighs, and, in fact,
nearly all the contents Of the building,
were destroyed. Loss, about SIC, 900.
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Woman Dies at the Age of 105 Years.
The death OF Charlotte p. Mason, oil
Sandwich, N. H., at the age OF los years Is
announced. She was the oldest member
of the Free Baptist Church, at Sandwich,
having Joined In 1873.
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Fewer Lawxers For the state.

Governor Voohees has signed the bill re-
pealing what is Familiarity known rs the
Dunna act, regulating the examination of
those desiring to secure licenses to prac-
tice law In this State. There will be fewer
attorneys In the State.
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FARM and GARDEN.
Advantage OF Square Fields.

Advantage OF Square Fields.
Wherever practicable or at all CON-
renient to have them So, 1t will be
'ound that fields of a square shape,
IL nearly SO, are the most economical
IN fencing, and the best, for several
reasons. Ittakes less fence to enclose
! given area in the form Of a square
chan any other shape, and next to the
square comes the oblong. By all
means let the corners of fields have
right angles, unless there are impor.
tant typographical reasons for having
them otherwise. When a field is
square there need be no short rows
in c~ultivating it, and the exact area Oh
the field is easily calculated by the
number and distance of the rows. Thus
the farmer may know to a certainty
the quantity of seed and fertilizer
he is using to the acre, and how te
count the cost of blowing and cultivat
ing any crop.
Also the yield per acre, if he will
weigh and measure. And if the whole
farm is laid off in squares, there neec
be no more guess work as to how
many acres the cult 7able land con
tains. A farm looks better having
square-shaped fields, and roads are
placed to better advantage. 1t was a
wise provision of some of the States
to lay off the counties in exact squares
and then divide the land into square
sections of $40 acres each. Thus all
farms in those States may have the
square form. whether containing the
whole section, or only one-half, one.
fourth, /or one-eighth thereof.
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rhIn tx

Machinery has d sted which
tolls iron into suck thin sheets that
1900 Of them. piled one upon the
other, are only one inch In thickness.
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Thin Seeding.

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes that having been in.
formed by n whom he knew to be q
good farmer that he had planted wheat
sixteen inches between the rows and
three inches apart in the rows, one
grain in q place, and had harvested
eighty-four bushels to the acre. he
planted a small plot to wheat on Sep.
TENDER %, 1898, On hard clay soil
that was MANFRED in the spring and
planted to strawberries. The plant.
ing was six inches apart in the row
between the strawberry rows. Two
rows he planted n grain to the hill
one row two grains to the hill. He
gave the wheat one cultivation on
April "a. The average number OF
heads to the hill in the rows planted
one grain to the hill was eighteen
large heads. The largest number OF
heads to a single grain was thirty,
which gave a yield of 2097 grains.
The row with the two grains to the
hill gave an average of nineteen heads
to the hill. The greatest yield was
thirty-six heads to the hill, which
gave a yield of 2035 grains-sixty
two less than the one grain hill. The
yield was at the rate of 106 bushels tc
the acre, providing the planting was
twelve by six inches. I planted a
small plot to oats on the same kind OF
soil on April "a, planting six inches
apart, one grain to the hill, and Guilt
waited four times. The yield was al
the rate of It's bushels to the acre,
providing the planting was dcne
twelve by six inches. He has raised
as many as forty-ive large heads from
a single grain, when planted six by
six inches apart n grain in a hill,
and in 1897 he had two hills of rye,
n Of which yielded 126 heads and
the other 127 heads, each grown from
a single grain. The plants have more
room for their roots and are album
dainty and constantly fed at such dis
tances while in close seeding they
have periods of starvation.
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DR.. Hills. of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, says the love for money has
become SO fierce that it imperils civil.
ization.
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delicate health, and had been living at the
residence of his brother. The body was
taken to Mr.. Taubeneck's former home In
Illinois.
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NEWS OF il STATE.
Gigantic Canal Project.

A CSC, 000, 900 syndicate, Of which ]. N.
Huston; former Treasurer of the United
States, is the head, has, 1t is said, taken up
the work Of constructing a canal across
he BayonAe Peninsula from New York Bay
to Newark Bay n thence to South New
ark. The new company has acquired the
New York and Newark Bay Ship Canal
Company, which was incorporated in New
Jersey thitty-four years ago, and is au-
thoriHed by act of the Legislature to build
the canal. The act of Incorporation also
permits the absorption OF the old Morris
Canal. It Is the purpose Of this company
to build a ship canal through Bayonne and
to South Newark with an extension by
means OF piers and basins two miles out
Into New York Bay, The chartered plans
OF this n way contemplate on each side
OF the canal slips n basins to accommO-
date warehouse buildings, elevators, cold
stores and kindred structures. The plans
contemplate the possible accommodation
OF 100 steamers at one time within the
piers and basins. The trunk railways
centering into Jersey City will be con.
nected by branches to the warehouses on
this canal, and that the incoming product
may be transshipped with the maximum
OF convenience and that refrigerated pro-
ducts may be exported without change oil
temperature. It Is possible under the
charter to construct a canal either 200 OF
600 feet wide. The depth is designed to be
thirty feet at low water throughout the
total length Of the canal, which will fur
nish altogether sixteen miles of water
front. dry dock and shipbuilding plan
Is contemplated in this enterprise.
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M.chine Ouns sIaurhter Game.

A party Of sportsmen who nave returned
to Vineland from a duck hunting expedf-
ton along the jersey coast, complain that
"pot hunters" on a steam aunch are bold
ly violating che game laws by exterminat-
ing with machine guns brant and geese In
Delaware Bay. The launch follows an inn
mems flock OF brant and geese around the
shore and pour into the birds a continuous
volley OF shot, killing hundreds. The
slaughter continues even until very late
into the evening when the moon is bright.
The law prohibits the killing OF game with
guns other than those held at arms length.
It Is also unlawful to kill the birds between
n hour after sunset and one hour before
sunrfse.
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DR.. TALMAdgS sERMoN,
SUNDAYS DlscouassBY THE NOTED
DIvlNEH

Subject: Drama Discus3ed-It Cannot De
Suppressed-Christiapity Should Con-
troll and Reform Public Amdse,n entA
Tho Church Should Go to The 1heatefs
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Trenton Gamblers Sent to Jail.

As a result Of the crusade against gamb-
fling started In Trenton recently, Judge r.
8. Woodruff, in the County Court. sem
fenced Daniel Mahany Charles Ford, Patrick
Bruthers, James Jackson, Alfred sBritton
and George lowering to one day In jail
each Inc the costs OF the suit, for running
gambling resorts. The sentence was a sur
prise, the men expecting to get of with a
light fine. They were at liberty within ten
hours after they were sentenced. Judge
Woodruff was surprised greatly when he
the men should be kept In jail at least
twenty-four hours, and also that they
should be treated as prisoners and not
allowed to stay In the room usually re-
served Tor visitors and counsel.
The Afro-American advance. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1899-19??, 1900-08-18
PRODUCTS OF OUR ISLANDS.
We May soon ne Independent of the
World for Everything We
May Need.

The people of the United States pay
over $3.50. 900 600 annually, or practi-
cally million dollars in each day OF
the year. for tropical products, all OF
which can be produced and most OF
which are now produced in some de-
gree, In the islands under considera-
ton. Some of these are for use in
manufacturing and some as food
stufFs.
These include raw silk, tea and rice,
and the small proportion Of our sugar
importations which Is manufactured
from beets. Sugar, coffee, india rub
Der, ibers, tropical fruits and nnts,
cocoa, tobacco. or the finer grades OF
spices, gums, indigo. dyewoods. and
abinet woods form the important fea-
lures OF these imports, and all OF
them are articles for which the United
States is more or less dependent upon
other parts Of the world
All of these articles are now pro-
dueed, TO a greater or less extent. in
the islands in question. Sugar is