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The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02
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But the worst feature of it is the
tramping given the plowed ground, es-
pecially If in the spring.
Few, unless they have tried it, real
ize the injury done by trampinS
plowed ground that is a little wet,
which it often is in spring. The
sketch shows how to plow out the land
with but little tramping, and by max
ing half turns instead of whole ones
at what would be the point If plowed
out until done. By blowing as per
shape of diagram, five extra rounds
will bring sides to a point. 1t is ten
feet or ten burrows wider at one end
than at the other. You are, say, at the
north with a left hand pillow. Drive
south to dotted line. Throw out, turn
gee and follow the dotted line. Then
turn gee and pillow back, then east,
then south, and so on. By throwing
cut and turning and driving across on
dotted lines you are turning on the
unplowed ground. When you have
plowed off the five burrows oil each
side, your land is the same width at
each end and in good shape to finish.
-Lucious Stockwell, in Farm and
Home.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02
NEWS OF THE STATE
Herbert No FIrebug.

Amidst the clapping of hands and
the cheers Of a big crowd from Mat
awan that filed the court room at
Freehold the jury which tried Charles
Herbert, the alleged firebug. declared
him ~guiltless. So closes one of the
most sensational cases in the history
of the Monmouth County courts. The
jury went out at s o'clock and re-
turned fifteen minutes later. 1t took
many raps of Judge Heisley's gavel
and much active work on the part Of
the court officers TO stop the applause.
Herbert was apprehended by a mob
and was strung up twice to a beam
In a barn in order to make him con-
fess, but he steadfastly refused to
admit his guilt, after which he was
placed in Jail. There is still one more
Indictment for arson against him, but
1t Is probable that neither this nor the
Indictment against his mother for the
same offense will ever be tried. Her.
bert was released under $500 bail on
the untried Indictment. and left for
Matawan on the last train, with his
wife and four small children.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

The annual report on savings banks
for Paris, France, for 1900 has just
been published. 1t shows that at the
end of that year the number of de-
posits was 1O,316,OO0, the amount of
deposits being 1896, 000,000f. In 1882
there were 4,645,00O depositors, with
deposits amounting to 1902, 600, 000f.,
and the increase has since been unin-
terrupted. In 1882 1913 Frenchmen
put of every 1000 were depositors. The
proportion is now 26T per 1000. OF the
lepositors, twenty-eight per cent. are
minors, sixteen per cent. artisans, if.
teen per cent. owners of land or per-
sons without a profession, eleven per
cent. day or agricultural laborers, and
ten per cent. domestics.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

The Agricultural Department Is
about to publish a soil map that will
enable the farmer, wherever he is To-
Gated, to determine just what crops
will bring him the largest returns in
money. The map is to cover the whole
of the United States, and will be on
such a scale that every ten-acre patch
will be represented by one-eighth of
an inch square. But each farmer will
be able to procure a chart of his own
nighborhood on a larger scale, so that
he can arrange his planting in accord
ance with the suggestions which it
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

There is always a scarcity of pen
MES in the West says an official Of
the Philadelphia Mint, land a super
abundance of them in the East. Every
little while the banks out there set up
a boot and cry for pennies, but our
banks here are ever glad to rid them
selves of their surplusage in these
coins. 1t Is difficult to see why such
a state of things should be. I'm sure
a penny Is just as dear to the Eastern
er's heart as to the Westerner's, one
would no more throw a penny away
than would the other, yet here we al
ways have too many pennies: there
they never seem to have enough"
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02


With new street lights Pennsville
people are now thinking of trolley
possibilities.
Sicklerville truckers have been ship
ping peaches, for which they receive
fancy prices.
A S15O,OOO gas plant is talked Of by
Newark and New York capitalists for
Washington.
The Swedesboro Board of Educa-
ton finds 1t necessary to enlarge the
school house.
There will soon be nine rural free
delivery routes in operation In Mid
dleseX County.
Frederick Sleeter, of Blackwood,
has threshed 600 bushels of wheat
from twenty acres.
Mullica Hill farmers experience
great difficulty in procuring help to
gather their early crops.
DR.. Bassett Kirby, of Woodbury., re-
ports two cases of anthrax on the
Eastlack farm, On the Crown Point
road.
The 100000 produce crates made at
Swedesboro this season, If placed end
to end, would make 4 string over 100
miles long.
The big, green tomato worms, which
have been almost extinct for several
yecrs, have again appeared around
the lower part Of Gloucester County
1t requires 100 tons Of coal for the
Cumberland County alnshouse, at
Bridgeton, each year, and more than
double that amount for the hospital
for the insane.
From Morningsidc farm, at Earri
ronvllle. 500 crates Of tomatoes have
been sold from forty-lvc acres, and il
is estimated that there are 900 ncr'
crates to be picked.
A Woodstown farmer states tina
when he Gug his potatoes last seasol
he received eighty cents per barrel
This year he has gotten &2.2o per bar
II for ell he has sold.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

An inmate of the st. Pancras work
house would persist in going to sleep
instead of grinding corn, and as a con
sequence found himself at Marleybone
Police Court on Saturday.
In discharging him Mr., Plowden de-
livered the following p%anegyric OF
sleep: 81 do not see that he has done
much harm. He was tired, apparent
ly. Perhaps the workhouse hypno'
tized him. Surely you can let him
have his sleep out before you want
him to work. The more sleep he getn
the more refreshed he is and the more
likely he is to do the work In the end.
You cannot expect me to punish him
because he sleeps. For all | know he
was longing to do the work, but ma
ture would not let him. 1t is like a
physical disability. A unique speci'
men, no doubt, but l cannot punish q
man If his only fault is he Is too
sleepy."-London Daily Mail.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Carl Woller, fifteen years old, was
struck and hurled into the waters of
the New Market Pond. Plainfield,
from the Lehigh Valley Railroad
bridge by a passenger train. There
is a swimming pool beneath the bridge,
and a number of boys were swimming
about at the time. Woller fell on top
of them and then sank into n deep
hole. Owing to their fright none of
them could locate the spot and the
body was not found for two hours.
The boy climbed on the bridge to dive,
when one of his companions dared
him to wait for the train, which could
be seen approaching. He laughingly
stood waiting, but the train was COM
ing more rapidly than he thought. He
became confused, and was struck by
the steam chest on the right shoulder.
His neck was broken and his right
side was badly crushed. The body
was taken 10 the home of the boys
%stepfather, Robert Reutsch, of Clin-
ton avenue.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

~
"Blithers dimes out a great deal"
"Yes, his wife's time is largely taken
I'D by charitable work."-Ohio State
Journal.
Schoolmaster-'Now, Rogers, what
are you doing? Learning somethingF'
Rogers-"No, sir. I'm listening to you,
sir.'-Tit-Bits.
'You said you were going to marry
an artist, and now you are engaged to
a dentist" "Well, isn't he an artist?
He draws from real life."-Fun.
IT'S true that highway robbery
With Atlas had its birth;
First highwayman of all was he,
For he held up the earth.
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. B.-"Have you any near rela-
tives, NorahT' Norah-"Only an aunt,
mum; an she isn't what you might
call near, for it's in New Orleans she
lives, mum."-Harlem Life.
|. Mother-'I wonder how this new
book got in such a horrible condition.
Little Maxi heard papa say 1t was
too dry for him. SO l poured water
on it."--Glasgow Evening Times.
The way to tease the weather man
And keep his soul detected
Is lust to say his weather plan
Is better than expected.
Detroit Free Press.
Miss Henriques-"He manages his
automobile so skillfully l believe he
could write his name with itr' OF
tinger-"Oh, yes; | guess he could east
~ make his auto-graph."-Brooklyn
Eagle.
"Pet, you've carried that book in
your hands for two days, and you
haven't read a line II know, dearie;
but it keeps others from thinking that
we are on our honeymoon."-Harper's
Bazaar.
Fenceman-"Your garden is dug up
to perfection. How did you ever get
that boy to do it," Gardener-"1 gave
him a fishing rod and told him the
garden was full of angle-worms."-
Chicago News.
Knicker-"Was Jones's new book a
~success?'' B~ocker-'No it only reached
the two hundred and fftieth edition
before it was printed, so the pub
fishers didn't think it worth while to
get it out%."-Judge.
Mildred (still blushing)-"Am l the
first girl you ever kissed, Gordon?'
Gordon-"No, my love; but you are
the last" Mildred-"Am L, really?
Oh, Gordon, it makes me SO happy to
think of that Town and Country.
Nell-"See how tightly Mr.. Litewate
clutches the arms of his chair. l Won
der if he's sick?" Belle-"O! 10; it's
a necessary precaution. Don't you see
that Miss Pondrus, his fiancee, is sit
ting next to him, tanning herself?"--
Philadelphia Record.
"You say that you don't care for the
salary, so long as you can get a chance
to work?" said the Millionaire. That's
the idea answered the youth with the
sharp nose and chin. II am willing to
start in at a big reduction and take
one of those $25,000 positions you say
are so hard to fill at half the money"
Washington Star.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02
Shot by n Highwsyman.

Everett Van Orden, twenty years
old, of New Milford, while driving
home from Dumont about midnight
was held up and robbed of 500 by Il
masked highwayman. In a struggle
for a diamond ring worn by Van Or
den, he succeeded in forcing the rob-
Der to the ground, Van Orden whipped
up his horses to escape, but not before
the robber had emptied his revolver
through the back of the buggy. One
bullet lodged in Van Orden's neck.
He succeeded in reaching home, how
ever, and was taken to the Englewood
Hospital, where he is said to be in a
%precarious condition. There is no
clew to the highwayman.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02
AGRICULTURAL.


Owing to creeks and other causes
there are many irregular shaped
fields which are oftentimes plowed by
going around until finished in the
centre. This centre is often a triangle,
l never saw "A plowman but what
went around this triangle until 1t was
at last plowed out. To finish this way
leaves a large, open furrow. and neces'
states turning square around at the
point. Often the horses get their feet
out of the furrow and make trouble.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Taxation in Norway is becoming OPP
pressive, and living expensive in pro-
portion. An example will illustrate
this: Two banks having about the
same capital and doing about the same
amount of business pay taxes at the
rate of S1440 and $50, 40 per annum
respectively. The former of these two
institutions is in Central Europe, the
latter in Norway.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

THE OLD CELLAR.
A treasure cave it seemed to be,

A treasure cave IL seemed to be,
Full of delicious mystery.
Across the windows narrow panes
The spiders swung their silver chains
Upon the swinging shelves o'erhead
Were jars of jams and j%ellies spread.
Which, when unsealed On festal days,
Outshone the ruby's richest rays.
In one far corners dreamy dusk
Ripe apples stored their balm and musk
Huge pumpkins from the next n rolled.
Like giant beads Of richest gold.
Ranged upon shelves around the wall
Were frkins short and irkins tall,
Where, youthful palates to entice,
Green pickles swan in seas of spice
Among them, bullying boldly out,
Was the brown oak eask filed with ".kraut.'
P~erchanee that cellar, rough and dark,
Is type of many a man of mark
Whose mind, unpublished, yet has stored
Rich viands for hfe's festal board.
-Adela s. Cody, in Good Housekeeping.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02
Russia May Abolish Her Nobility.

At present the Cars subjects are
divided into four general classes-ths
nobility, the clergy, the inhabitants of
the towns and those Of the country.
The nobility is itself Of two kinds,
hereditary and personal. An officer
acquires life nobility on acquiring a
certain rank in the army OF navy.
Those who attain the rank of colonel
II the army and of captain in the
navy become hereditary mobiles. 1t is
most probable that when the proposed
reform of the Russian system of class
organization takes place the nobility
will cease to exist AS a separate class
In the nation.-Clevelane Plain Deal
er.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Professor W. II. Lynch, of Mountain
Grove Academy, at Mountain Grove, Mo,
is credited with reading more paid-for
newspapers than any other, man in the
United States, He subscribes for fifty
eight newspapers, six of them daiies. The
professor says: II use the newspapers in
my classes, They are the best instrument
in the world for teaching current history
and geography. The real drama of life in
its varied forms of commercial, political
and social relations must be seen and
learned through the mirror OF the world,
the newspaper. Every Friday morning il,
the academy is devoted to the reading Of
newspapers
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Secretary Long has issued the fol
lowing general order:
"All persons in the naval service are
strictly enjoined to refrain from any
public statement concerning the sub
ject matter of the court of inquiry re-
quested by Rear-Admiral w. S. Schley.
JOHN d. LONG, Secretary"
Admiral Schley's son says his father
will produce at the inquiry an unpub-
lished letter from Admiral Sampson.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Oxford is to have a new furnace OF
about 800 tons capacity, to be built
by the Empire Steel Company. Prob.
ably 1000 more men will be employed.
The residents of that once almost de
serted town are jubilant.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

DR.. Grenville C. Weeks, of Newark,
who has a summer residence near
Gladstone, has brought suit against
Somerset County for damages alleged
to have been sustained by him by a
fall from Il bridge crossing a creek at
that place on the night of November
10 last. The doctor places his damages
at 100000. The papers have been
served upon Freebooter William To-
gan.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

\ queer form of disorder is reported
from Denver, where, 1t is said, the
mobs make the cemeteries pleasure re-
sorts. and flock to funerals to crafty
a morbid curiosity.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Signs of a car famine are now
manifest in the West.
German tariffs are to be raised by
the new law to satisfy the agrari-
ans
The new directory shows that Chi
cago has more tLan 1000, 900 inhabit-
ants.
Virginia Prohibitionists have nomin-
ated o. G. Rucker, of Bedford. for
Governor.
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies
has adopted without debate an APP
preparation for the purchase of quick
firing guns.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Bradstreet's says: Heat, drought
and strikes have furnished their quota
Of disturbing influences, but despite
these n fair volume of business goes
forward, and nearly all markets have
taken the developments of the week
tall of which, by the way, have not
been unfavorable) calmly and eve
cheerfully."
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

The cry has been raised that the sue,
culent clam Of the Atlantic Coast is
in danger of determination. Certainly
the market supply is decreasing. Sci
entists say that the depletion of the
clam beds can be prevented by COM
paratively simple means.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

An immense swarm of locusts was
encountered near Allaire, in Howell
Township by persons driving from
Freehold to the shore. There were
millions upon millions of locusts in
the swarm, and they made such a din
that conversation was almost impos-
sible while driving through the swarm.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Taking into consideration the num-
Der of ships that are on seas and navi-
gable waters of the world, 1t is esti-
mated that about 100000 of the
worlds population are constantly
ogon+
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02
BRIDE DANCED HERSELF TO DEATH
Fatal End to the Celebration of a Polish
Wedding


McKeesport, Penn.-Mrs. Anna
Brudowicz, twenty-five years old, and
a bride of twenty-four hours, danced
herself to death at her wedding feast.
The celebration of a Polish wedding
usually lasts several days. This was
scheduled to occupy the remainder
of this week. 1t is customary at these
celebrations for every male guest to
dance with the bride, which honor
costs the guest M dollar. The dance
is a wild whirl about the hall in which
the festivities are held, and the bride
is passed from one man to another
as rapidly as the round of the roo is
made.
Mrs. Brudowicz had finished the
ninety-fourth round of the oom with
as many different guests when the
company was called to supper. The
bride complained of feeling sick and
almost Immediately dropped over in a
faint and died before medical assist
ance could reach her.
The young husband is almost crazed
over the death of his bride.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

John Bernhard, Il New Brunswick
milkman, was notified by the city
poundkeeper that his horse was in
the pound and he could get it upon
payment of thirty cents. Bernhardt
sent word for him to keep the horse, as
It was not worth the amount asked.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson, of 10
Clarendon place, Orange, celebrated
the sixty-fourth anniversary of their
wedding recently. Mr.. Anderson is
lightweight years old and his wife is
four year his Junior.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

Time has brought it about that more
than half the entire American crop Of
cotton is raised west of the Mississippi
River.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02
Favors Sale of Islands to America,

The new Danish Cabinet favors the
sale of the Danish West Indies to the
United States.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

A celebrated English physician az
serts that the increased height and
weight of English and Americans in
the last half century are chiefly due
to the increased consumption Of sugar.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-02

A Chicago inventor claims to have
developed an airship that will fly. IL
so he has surely produced a novelty.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-15
Why He Wanted . Receipt.

There was lawyer In the Indian
country who had none too good a repu.
tation for honesty, says the Chicago
News.
One Of the aborigines employed him
TO do little legal business. 1t was
done to the clients satisfaction. the
fee duly paid and a receipt for 1t duly
demanded. "A receipt isn't necessa-
~" the lawyer said. But I want it."
replied the red man. There was some
argument. and the attorney finally de-
manded his reason. "Since becoming
a Christian have been very careful
In all my dealings that may be ready
for the judgment" answered the brave
sententiously. land when that day
comes don't want to take time to 60
to the bad place to get my receipt from
you" The receipt was made out and
promutly delivered.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-15
GROWTH OF CARlCATURE.
John Laws wild Schemes Gave II
Tremendous Impetus.

CaricatH.e Is nowadays one of the
principal methods Of criticism. No
movement en- erroach the mark
without eliciting dozens Of works Of
art from carlcatlrists all over this and
all other countries.
This branch Of criticism and attack
dates far back, but the greatest i'm
pulse 1t ever felt came from the age
of tremendous speculation, when, in
1719 and $780, John Law was manipu-
lating things financial In France. Nev-
er before had the financial world been
so carried off Its feet as 1t was at that
time. Members of the nobility were
waiting for chance to purchase
shares In Laws schemes Duchesses
and ladies Of high rcnown tried their
most persuasive charms on Law in the
attempt to get hold Of shares. Men
hired out their backs for writing desks,
80 great was the press Of business in
making contracts. and one hunchback
Is reputed to have made 100000 francs
In this way In n few weeks. The
French went veritably mad over the
schemes to become wealthy. Natural
ly the papers Of the time, especially
those Of Holland. caricatured the state
of affairs. There were pictures of all
sorts, car!caturing Law, the nobility,
the schcsneD and everything connected
with them.
1t was this tremendous amount Of
pictorial work that first directed the
energies of William Hogarth. In Lon
don. In this direction. Caricaturing
began to be used more and more in the
political field, and soon afterward it
caused the shelving Of Robert WalpOle
from the English ministry. Ever since
then has caricaturing been one Of the
bitterest and most effectual methods Of
checking public men and their
schemes.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-15
NIGHTMARE.
The Sensation Tint Always Makes .
Man Coward.


"Strange that we are always so cow
ardly in Nightmares. remarked New
Orleans lawyer who has taste for
the bizarre. Il don't believe anybody
ever lived who stood up and made
square stand against the amorphous
horror that invariably pursues us in
such visions. When | have q night
mare and the usual monster gets Oh
my trail. my blood turns to water, and
my conduct would disgrace sheep.
am beside myself with stark. down
right fear, and | have no idea left in
my head except to run like a rabbit.
All pride, self respect. dread of ridicule
and even the instinct Of self defense
are scattered to the winds, and | be-
lieve. honestly. would be capable OF
any infamy in order to escape. have
no hesitation in confessing this, be-
cause. as far as | have been able to
find out. everybody acts exactly the
same way in the throes Of nightmare.
and l feel certain | would not make
such a pitable spectacle of myself in
reass5liSe, no matter what might befall.
Il think that the explanation Of the
nightmare panic Is to be found in tine
fact that the dream is almost invari-
ably accompanied by sense of suffo-
cation. 1t Is well established that
choking-the shutting off of ones
wind to use homely phrase-has an
effect upon the mind which Is entirely
distinct and different from that pro-
duced by any other form of pain or
peril J. fills the victim with such hor-
ror and distraction that he is for the
moment insane. He will do anything
to get relief This has been brought
out Oh more than one occasion in the
defense of men who have been choked
and killed their asSailants, and judges
have held that the circumstances Of
such an attack should be given special
consideration as cXtenua.in% the deed.
IL dreams the entire nervous system is
relnXed, and it is natural to suppose
that the mental effect Of sulfocation
would be intensified. At least, that Is
the best apology have to offer for my
sprints through nightmare land. New
Orleans TimeS-Democrat.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-15
Longevity of Fish.

There are some goldfish in Washing
ION which have belonged to the same
family for the last SO years, and they
TEEN no bigger and no less vivacious
today than they did when they first
came into the owners possession. A
few of the fish In the Imperial aqua
rum at St. Petersburg are known to
te $50 years old. and the age Of the
mcred fish In some Of the ponds at
tached to the Buddhist temples in
China Is to be counted by centuries, II
We are to believe the priests.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-15
Ae<ounded Tho Editor.

r. was once immensely surprised.
Through long suffering from Dyspepsia,
he writes, my wife was greatly run
down. She had no strength or vigor and
suffered great distress + ON her stomach;
hut she tried Electric Bltters. which helped
her at once, and, after using four bottles,
abe is entirely we'll. can eat anything. Its
a grand tonic. and it's gentle Laxative
qualities are splendid for torpid liver. !.
For Indigestion. Loss OF Appetite. stoma CD
teed cure. Only SOC at Parlor drug store.