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The Penn's Grove record., 1900-05-11
Tho One Medium.

Change is written in everything
in firms which advertise as we'll as
everything and everybody else. Busi-
ness houses frequently change their
lines of business. or modify them.
No better argument can be offered
against the folly of employing bill
boards or any form of permanent ad.
vertising.
The newspaper is the logical ad-
vertising medium. It's necessarily
frequent appearance enables the adj
vertiser to be mp to-date q all times.
Those who la e used the expensive
and slow form of booklets, pamphlets,
circulars, etc, frequently would be
glad to recall them within a week or
month after thar issuance. - The
Newspaper Maker
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The Philadelphia Saturday Ever

The Philadelphia Saturday Even
ing Post states that to quicken our
commerce, vast schemes are under
way, the greatest Of them being a
canal cros the Isthmus, which will
ave more than 10, 900 miles in the
trip from New York City to San Fran
cisco, and which will cost, according
to one Of the estimates, at least $685.
900, 900. For land transportation the
projects exceed everything in the his
tory of the world. The largest tunnel
on earth is now being built through
the Alps to open a new route between
north and south Europe. It will be
twelve and two-ffths miles long, will
be completed in five and one-half
years. and will cost $14, OOO, 900. In
the United States a great tunnel is to
be built under New York City at q
cost of $35, 600, 600, for the local traf-
fc of that crowded city.
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The Harm in very Early Plowing.

Many farmers are very impatient to
start the pillow in the spring. As soon
as the snow disappears and they find
q few dry spots in the highway, the
pillow is brought out and started. The
soil being cold and wet, the upturned
furrow presents a smooth, glossy APP
pearance, and if future heavy freezing
does not occur it will bake hard and
firm, requiring several borrowings to
put it into a proper condition for a
seed bed. Not only is this extra labor
required, but the soil at blowing is so
soft that the horses at each step sink
almost to the bottom of the furrow.
This is very injurious and most of
these early blowers would not think of
allowing other stock upon the fields
when in this condition. The acts of
blowing obliterates the foot marks
and they imagine no harm IS done,
but they are greatly mistaken. No
farmer ever gained anything in the
end by blowing his soil when not i'll a
proper condition. Perhaps there is
some advantage in marking out lands
in a field that is naturally wet and
heavy, as the burrows thus made act
as surface drains, and if the land be
nearly level the water is drawn from
the surface soil to a distance of several
feet upon each side, and if it a be
drained off at the end of burrows q
positive gain will be accomplished.
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The KEYNOTE of modern nronacar

The keynote of modern propaganda
in respect to methods of control Of
food adulteration may be given in
these words-viz., an honest label!
No one wishes to deprive the poor
man of his right to use a cheap and
wholesome substitute for the more ex-
pensive article of food; it would be
an u~nwarranted interference with the
rights of both producer and consumer
to prohibit the sale of such an article;
moreover, it would be inimical to the
advance of scientific invention, which
has conferred a distinct benefit upon
mankind by its production. But it
should be sold under it's true name
and upon it's own merits, not as or for
the article Of which it is an imitation
or q substitute.
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THE GENIUS WHO WRITES THE ADS

We boast of our gifted writer's whose pen.
thrill the reading world,
Whose thoughts from the heights OF talent
are down to our level hurled,
Who feed us on mental jewels of beauty
and logic rare
As the flowers are fed from the dewdrops
hat spring from the cool night air.
As lights of the world we prize them, with
out them would life be tame,
Who keeps in quick circulation the goli
and the silver "scads,"
Who greases the wheels Of business, tie
genius who writes the ads.
His daily displays are gorgeous, his pages
with snap are ripe,
His thoughts are arrayed before US in boif
and attractive type,
His headings are gems Of diction that mag
net the scanning eye,
His phrases are sharp and meaty, yet sor
as a SIRENS Sigh.
His field is a world of flowers from tbs
looms OF the peopled earth,
From the roar of the busy fact ries; of sub
jects he knows no dearth.
BE is onto the freaks OF fashion, kno{
OF the latest fads
In the wonderful world of business, -
genius who writes the ads.
When the paper is brought to the fresidf
"AcA0 Ia 4dOCAS VI 00L AuRp41C1<
reign,
The dear ones we love and cherish care not
for the flights OF brain
OF fellows who tell of ~Datties, or the scribes
of political schemes,
Or the poets WHO feed our fancies Will
limpid poetic Dreams
they skip the big-headed flashes that cont
from the quiyering wires,
Scarce glance at the heads of murders, o.
accidents, scandals, and fires,
Ignore cen the deaths and weddings ant
the acts of society cads
Till they've feasted upon the banquet o
the genius who writes the ads.
Here's a pat on the bach for the fellow WHIT
sits at a desk in the store,
Who never with pen is scratching at fame:
ever glittering door,
Who tells of breath-raking bargains, O.
dazzling, enchanting displays,
OF drift from the wreck of bankruptcy, o.
special price-slaughtering days.
His pen is with spaciness sparkling, hi.
work is artistic and terse,
1t touches the hearts of the ladies and
touches the depths OF the purse;
He's the idol of daughters and mammas.
but the ogre OF stingy old dads,
And he magnets the cash that Is floating.
the genius who writes the ads.
Denver Evening Post.
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I IN 81. LOUIS.
Striking Street Car Men Use Clubs and
Stones-Many Arrests Made.

Striking Street Car Men Use Clubs and
stones-Many Arrests Made.
ST. LOUIS. Mo. (Special).-In accordance
with the decision reached by the st. Louis
Transit Company's employees a general
strike was inaugurated on the entire sys-
tenn at ~daybreak Tuesday. From time to
time during he afternoon and night at
tempts were made to operate the cars, but
In nearly every case resulted in attacks on
the crews by crowds along the streets,
practically stopping traffic.
Ariot call was turned In during the day
from the corner OF Broadway aud Washing
ton street, and q wagon load of police
turned out to keep order, but their efforts
were In vain. At this point a motorman
was hit over the head with a club, a piece
of brickbat struck him in the mouth, lacer-
ating his lip, and his nose was mashed by
a stone. The motorman left HE car and
ran into a saloon for protection. Finally
the motorman returned, and, amid a shower
OF stones and mud, succeeded in getting
his car away from the crowd.
In the afternoon two cars were sent east
from the Lindell Line sheds at Taylor and
FinneY avenues. When the cars reached
Ffnney and Newstead venues a crowd OF
strikers gathered about them and made
threatening demonstrations. The mounted
police made a vigorous effort to drive the
crowd away. In the attempt Sergeant
Hickman struck q mar three times with
his sabre, painfully injuring him. The
crowd broke all the windows in the cars
and otherwise damaged them. Numerous
arrests were made.
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Copper is to be king in the future
domain of industry, according to the
confident predictions of Old and New
World scientists. Electricity is des-
tined to be the motive power Of the
new century, and copper is needed
for electrical transmission. How far
this impending industrial revolution
has advanced already is shown in the
growth in a single decade-from 1890
to 1900-of American copper exports,
the increase being from 50, 800, 900 to
$36, 600, 900 in annual value.
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The whole trend of modern pencil
ogy has been toward the development
of a system of punishment which
will reform the criminal without the
exercise Of force. As a consequence
students of c~riminology have noted
that in every country where a humane
treatment of prisoners is in vogue
there has been q dimlnution in crime.
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The states Liehnnr.

The syndicate known as the Connecticut
Lighting and Power Company, which al
ready controls a majority of the trolley
ines and gas and electric light concerns
IN the State, and which recently purchased
water rights and power upon the Housa-
::ontc River, has now secured, according to
trustworthy information, control OF the
water rights OF the entire Saugatuck and
Aspetuck rivers, the Southport stream the
Westport Water Company aud Electric
Light Company, and has formed a new or
Plantation under the name OF Southport
Water Company. The syndicate proposes
to have control in the entire State In thu
Aectric and gas lighting, water power AMI
trolley systems. In Norwalk more than
$500 900 IL being expended In the erection
d q modern gas, electric light and power
plant.
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yINcLEs AND JEsTs.

mammal" Eyes, DEAR "How
does a deaf and dumb boy say his
prayers when he's got the rheuma-
tism?"--Harper's Bazaar.
Little Willy-"Papa. what is a
tray?" Captain Cannister-"That is
what the fellow calls it who was never
in one, my o Puck.
"Our wedding is off," What's
the trouble?" ssShe wanted to have
her name engraved Babe on the we'd
1ing-cards. Chicago Record.
Hoax-"What is DIR. Goggles spe-
cialty at the medical college" Joax-
ssThe eye" Hoax-"Then I suppose
be examines a great many pupils"
The man who cracks his fingers
everal times while mailing down the
carpet knows what it is to take pains
With his work. Philadelphia Record.
Her father has an iron will,
But I'll be a sutton bold,
Because I have discovered that
To her he's wilIed his gold.
Chicago News.
"I'd like to enlist, but I'm not
leavy enough" said Ricketts,,
fnlly. "Why not join n of the
skeleton regiments?" suggested Lar
kin.--Life.
"Capsmith often makes a spectacle
Of himself, doesn't he?" "Well,
hardly that: he is too Insignificant
to make more than a monocle of him
self."-Harper's Bazaar.
Lives of great men all remind US
We can make our lives sublime
Just by doing as they all do;
Advertising all the time.
-Manistee (Mich.) News.
Ida-"Would you refer to the wind
as feminine?" Gerald-"I should
think not" Ida-"But why not,
Gerald?" Gerald-"Because it al
whistle. Chicago News.
Patience-sI don't see how in the
world Penelope came to marry such a
quiet mani" Patrice-"Why, he
wasn't that way before she married
himl"-Yonkers Statesman.
Friend-"Did you see anything in
teresting during your trip around the
world?" Dime Museum Manager lin
disgust)-"Naw; only an Arabian
three-headed boyr'-Puck.
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Music,s Aid "a Marriaxa--

Miss Lillian c. Morris, twenty w years
old, Of New Haven, has obtained damages
from the Winchester Repeating Arms Com
pany for injuries resulting in the loss of
the second and third fingers Of her left
hand. A cartridge machine on which she
worked was responsible for the accident.
Miss Morris held that her skill as q pianist
was OF no value to her, as the loss Of the
fingers prevented her performing. Her at
torneys In arguing the case declared that
her chances for marriage were hampered
by the injury and consequent inability te
exercise her powers as q musician.
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Threw himself Into tho Flames.

s.Wash' Churchill, a farmer who lived In
the town OF Morris, In a ut Of insanity
made a boaflre In his own cellar, directly
beneath where his sick wife and his chill
dren were sleeping. Neighbors saw the
smoke and flames and rushed to the spot
to save the family. Churchill was de-
termined to die. Thrice he escaped aud
jumped INTO the flames, despite the efforts
Of the neighbors. He was roasted to death
In the fire. The house is q wreck and
friends are sheltering the sick wife and her
children.
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Cross Must Be Hanged.

The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision OF the lower court in the case Of
Charles B. Cross, OF Brooklyn, who was
convicted OF murder In Stamford In No
vember, his victim being Sarah G. King, by
whom he was employed. Cross Is only
seventeen years old. and will be the young
Hst person ever executed In this State.
His hanging will be the first In the new
execution house, which is now moor
porated in a new wing OF the prison at
Wethersdeld, instead OF being a house by
itself, as for the last few years.
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The United States is represented
at the Paris Exposition in a manner
which should be extremely gratifying
to every lover of American progress.
Our exhibit ia greater than that of
any nation except France, the names
of over 1000 American firms appear
ing in the catalogue, and their ex-
hibits occupying more than 300, 900
square feet of space.
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The Wet places.

At this time of year and a little later
the farmer can. thoroughly estimate
the condition of his farm as to soil
moisture. Some of the land will dry
out at the time it should, while other
land will hold water and show it on
The surface till long after the land
should be worked. 1t is, therefore,
the proper time to make a thorough
examination of all the farm, if there is
any intention to put in drains. When
the land is partly covered with water
the falls can be better estimated than
at any other time. and measurements
made for drainage at this time might
q some very bad mistakes that oc-
cur when the plans for the drains are
not made till the drying time in the
fall of the year.
The wet places generally are only
half productive. except in unusually
dry years. The water level is SO near
the surface that the roots cannot get
the depth they should, for it should
not be forgotten that 9 some of u
surface feeders really send down roots
quite deep, as per example, the corn
plant, whose roots have been found
four feet under the surface. Now, if
the water level is permitted to remain
within q foot of the surface it is evil
dent that the root operations of almost
any of our field plants will be seri-
,usly interfered with.
If the water in these wet places be
somewhat stagnant, as it is likely to
be if the soil is of heavy clay nature,
the damage resulting from the pres
ence of this water will be greatly in
creased. Water that moves through
the soil is bad enough, but stagnant
water is far worse, for it becomes the
breeding place of many kinds OF dis
ease, some of which are as yet I'M
known but make manifest their pres
ence by rotting of the roots of certain
plants. The arguments, therefore,
for paying more attention to the wet
spots should be allowed to have due
weight. Not only win the wet spots
themselves be benefited by draining,
but the land adjacent will also be inn
proved,
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It has become evident, through the
lessons of the Boer war, that the SOL
diers of the future will be largely
mounted infantry. The armies of the
world will require twice as many
horses, perhaps three or four times as
many horses, as in the past.
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Although Illinois falls far behind
Pennsylvania as a coal producer, the
returns for 1899 show that she ranks
second among the States. She mined
nearly one-tenth of the total amount
produced during the year ended last
July, and one-eighth of the bitumin-
GUS coal of the country.
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Boy Held For Bigamv.

William Henry Hall, aged nineteen years.
was arrested at Winsted, charged with
bigamy. Hall was held for the Superior
Court In $1,000 bonds. The police believe
Hall Is the youngest man ever arrested In
New England on such a charge. According
to the story told at the hearing, Halls first
matrimonial venture took Ilace on Febru-
airy a. 1899, when he took for his wife
Mary Ann McGuigan, at Norwich. In De-
cember Of the same year 1t Is alleged he
married Lizzie Hine, OF Winsted.
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Australia wants complete Judicial
independence, with no final appeal to
Her Maiesty's Privy Council. The
spirit of 1776 has reached the anti
podes in its march round the world.
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chinese Attack the RrItfsh,

OHHHebU 111S1CN VH0 Orht11Hs ~
A large body OF Chinese attacked the
camp Of the Boundary Commission and
wounded Major Penrose and four members
OF the Chinese regiment. The latter, which
was recruited In the vicinity OF Wei-Hai-
Wei and drilled by British officers, be.
haved very steadily. The attackers were
repulsed With a loss of thirty killed. The
The Penn's Grove record., 1900-05-11

The old question Els Crime q Dis.
ease'' is up again. Seems to be con-
siderable opinion that it is an ac-
quired taste, q habit fostered by
laxity in the enforcement of correc.
tive methods.
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BUDGET OF STATE NEWS
Nathan Hale schoo,hor..

There is an outbreak OF patriotic fervor
n the State just now over Nathan Hale
,~choolhouses. The Revolutionary spy.
Turing his vacations from Yale College.
before entering the Continental Army,
,augnt scnool IN several parts OF the
State, and two OF the buildings occupied
~ him for the purpose are stIIl In exist
snce. Both OF them will be preserved a,
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Captain William 81. johnson and Cap
tain JamesH q. Redmond, OF the New Haven
Fire Department, have gone to New York
to serve thirty days as lrenen. They were
obeying the order OF the New Haven De-
partment, which commanded them to
crowd all possible experience In metropol-
ltan fire fighting Int those thirty days.
They have been assigned to separate CON-
panies and both began as probationary
dremen. To get certificates as members
OF the life-saving corps they will have to
be on duty day aud night, with only that
time excepted during which they go to
their maala.
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EDWARD CLIFFORD HANGED.
superintendent Wattson's Murderer Die,
After Many STAYS.

JERSEY CRY, N. J. observation-disclosures
Clifford, who. or March s. 1896. shot and
killed William G. Watson, Division Super
intendent OF the West Shore Railroad, at
Weehawken. was hanged In the Hudson
County Jail.
Clifford was sentenced on September Is.
1886. to be hanged on February is, 1898.
He was reprieved to March 16, and since
then his execution has been postponed
four times by stays.
On Monday night Chancellor Magic re-
fused to grant a writ OF error or to certify
the fact In writing, SO that counsel was
unable to take an appeal. Counsel then
applied to Governor Voorhees, for a re.
prieye, but he also refused to interfere.
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WiIIi.m Alfred Jones Dead.

william Alfred Jones. who enjoyed a
considerable literary reputation in b for
ties. and was an associate Of Washington
Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Richard
Henry Dana and other we'll known literary
men Of chat period, died at his home In
Norwich, aged eighty-three. he left q
wife. His death was due to a complication
OF diseases Incidental to his advanced
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Descendant or Famous Indian Tribe Dead.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Ann Potter,
aged ~eighty-nine, a descendant Of the noted
Pequot Indian tribe, who died at Wojneck,
about three miles south Of Lantern Hill,
Indian Reservation, was held at the. Metho-
dist Church at Old Mystic. Few OF the
tribe are living. Burial was in the White
Hall Cemetery on the banks OF the Mystic
River, south Of the village. nearly opposite
the traditional Portus Rocks, which was
once the scene OF q bloody contest between
John Mason and the Indians.
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A New Way to Build = Navy.
An Imperial trade just issued by tbs
Sultan Of Turkey orders contracts to be
signed with foreign shipbuilders for reno.
waiting eight a~ntiquated ironclads.
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Forest Ffres In MARYLAND.

Many thousands Of acres around Cumber-
land. Nd, are swept by forest fires and
$500, 900 worth OF timber has been de-
stroyed, together with three school-houses
and many barns.
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New Name For : Territorv.

Congressman Moon, Of Tennessee, has
introduced q bill providing a territorial:
form Of government for the Indian Ter.
ritory, under the name OF Jefferson Ter
rifOrv
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Power Of tho Hat PIN.

Four men barred the passage OF Miss
Bertha Lynch and Miss Ada Robinson a
few days ago on Main street, Derby, and
demanded their money. Miss Lynch pulled
out a long hat pin and backed up against
q house for q second or two and then
sprang at the nearest man. Tho sudden
ness OF the attack Disconnected the foot
pads and they ran, pursued for 9 block by
two screaming women.
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Church struck 81 Llxhtnlnl

During q heavy thunderstorm the Metho.
dist Episcopal church at F0restvilie was
struck by lightning and completely de-
stroyed by IRE. The loss Is $500. and II
partially covered nv insnranea
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Drowned Mans Body Recovered.

The body OF Benjamin Bassett, who was
drowned while fishing with Wilbur Ben
nett in the lake In Putnam Memorial Camp,
In Redding, was found In the mud at the
bottom Of the lake. Bassett leaves q wife
and two daughters. Both men lived at
Bethel. They we're fishing in the dark, and
attempted to change positions In the boat,
when 1t capsized. Bennett tried to rescue
his companion, but failed. and reached the
shore with much difficulty.
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Russia is for once coming to time.
She proposes to reform her calendar.

The most expensive city in the
world-that is. the one that costs the
most to run and spends the most
money every years. New York City.
The Penn's Grove record., 1900-05-11

The mean distance Of the moon Fl I'M
khs earth is 2Ss, $50 miles.
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Historical museums, one in New London.
oy the Connecticut Society Sons OF the
american Revolution, and one In Fast
Hnddam, by the Sons OF the Revolution.
The rival society. The East Haddam
,~choolhouse, where Hale FIRST taught, will
% dedicated for patriotic uses on June 6.
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For Hens.

During the last winter the MONDAY
feed of onr flock of hens has consisted
Of cut bone three times g week, with
chopped cabbage, boiled potatoes, re-
fuse apples and pumpkins on the
alternate days. The pumpkins, a
small. p~ear-shaped variety, were
stored in q dry cellar, and at the
present writing (early in spring. those
remaining are still fresh and sound.
The best way Of feeding is to break
the pumpkin in half and remove the
seeds, of which, in their raw state,
the biddies are extravagantly fond,
Bake the rest for an hour or more and
serve hot on the halfshell. In q very
short time only the shell will remain.
and, if one fourishing flock proves
anything, the ssfruit of the vine" will
be found to agree as well with
feathered as with unfeathered bipeds.
Any variety in vegetable poultry
food is a desideratum, and while the
suggestion may seem unnecessary,
now that the time of green grass is
near, it is worth considering in con-
n~ection with spring garden making.
An exceptionally high egg record is
my most convincing argument, and
with that to back me, / recommend
q sufficient planting to insure a pump
kin dinner at least once a week for
four months. -Doree, in Country
Gentleman.