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Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
Don't Buu Bargain Presents.

Speaking of Christmas reminds me that it is not always safe to buy bargain presents for your friends who live in the same town with you. It's all right to do it if you are sending the gifts outside the city's shopping limits, but when you undertake to present. your immediate friends with the cuttings of the marked down" sales of holiday week you run big risk. For instance, one of the big dry goods shops made a special feature of liberty silk ruches, cutting the price ex- actly in half They really were tremen- dous bargain. Any woman who was not blind could see that with one eye shut and it was no wonder that they sold like hot cakes. A liberty silk ruche that looks like a s4 one and costs just 97 cents is not to be despised. Pretty nearly every woman who went into that store looking for Christmas presents bought one and l happen to know of four women who bought three apiece and sent them to the other three. And as a con sequence to-day those four women are the possessors of liberty silk ruches that are as alike as two peas in pod and each one of them cherishes a secret opinion of the other three.-M Milwaukee Sentinel.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
Rnltnau Snm,usrir-

Good land and seasi" shouted Mir. Bill lings,. as he rose excitedly to his feet. If he didn't know any more'n this election of hand-picked lunkheads he wouldn't pass for more'n six or seven, at most. It's a waste O breath talkin' to ye. My or sorrel mares got more sense than the whole passel of vel" and he started for the door.
 What was it 'Lisha was sayin' bout New Years res'lutions" MePherson asked the storekeeper, as the door shut with a bang. But Judson was too intent on his argument with Gibson to reply.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19

q said now that we was beginnin' a new century I was goin'-"
 What you talkin' about, Lisha! The twentieth century begun a year ago. To- morrow'll be nineteen hundred an one, won't it?"
 Course twill; but ain't 'one' the first number there is? An don't that make to- morrow the first day of the new centuryy'
 Not by long shot, Tess I've forgotten how to count It don't take hundred an one years to make a century, does it!
 'No, but it takes more'n ninety-nine. S'pose I was to begin with one, an count"
 Hold on a minute" interposed Judson, the storekeeper. Let's say that Bill, here, owed me hundred dollars an started to pay me in dollar bills, callin' out 'one,' two, 'three,-"
 Well, s'pose he did,"
 "No, Jud," suggested Seth Gibson. Here's the way heard that feller up to the academy put it: How old is a man on his one-hundredth birthdays"
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
An Important Dap.

Nowhere is New Years day more fes- lively observed than in the east, and es- pecially in Mohammedan lands. In Persia the No Rooz, Jas the new year is called) is by far the most important holiday ob- served by the subjects of the shah. On New Years eve the fun begins with the kindling of huge bonfres, and among the more active it is considered the correct thing to leap over or through the flames. The Persian Is careful to perform his fire dance in old garments, for on New Years day every one who has the means is bound by the strictest custom to appear in new clothes.-N. Y. Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
LISTEN! JOHNNY MUST BE PEEPING.
WHERE IS HE ?

He did not mean to speak, but the surprise Of seeing Santa with his pryinq eyes
 Caused little Johnny to exciairns "oh, hoI" Just old Santa about to go.
 He was well hidden, he meant to oe, And where he thought old Santa couldn't see. Look sharp and vwe1f-he's but a little man Hunt round the room, and find hirr1-if you can.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
A Veru Important Gift.

Mamma" said Brooklyn girl, "what would be an appropriate Christmas present to give Alberty"
 How long has he been coming to see youg" asked mamma.
 About four years"
 Then I think you had better give him tho sack. ."-Leslie's Weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
Struck bu the Resemblance.

Little Rodney (manipulating his Christ mas toy)-Hoo-es, pa!
 MT. Scrappington-Well what is it, my son?
 Little Rodney-Why, pa, my jumpin' jack cuts up just like you do whenever ma asks you for money!-Smart Set.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
MlIIle.s Useful Present.

Hired Man-So Sandy Claus he's brung ye a nice sled, has hey
 "Yep, an left six cords of firewood for paw bout two miles down the pike so's I could haul it home. "-Brooklyn Life.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

Evan, Gloucester County, has 4
newly organized drum corps.
Three hundred and fifty dogs have
been registered in Bridgeton.
Twenty residents of Woodbury. will
spend the summer up in Maine.
Thomas Cormelia, aged sixty-six,
was found dead in the cranberry bog
at Malaga, where he had been at work.
A new iron bridge is TO span Mantua
Creek between Wenonah and Mantua.
Barn dances are now popular with
the young people in Salem County.
Millville claims to have more bicy-
les than any other town in South
Jersey.
Twilight Sunday services have been
introduced at Bridgeport with great
success.
CLAYTON Borough Council has passed
an ordinance granting a franchise to
the Inter State Telephone Company to
erect poles and string wires in the Dor
ough,
The wild ~huckleberry crop in Allan
tic County promises TO be enormous.
For years hokey-pOkey vendors have
~ inelI Ohu way IN ,hitihi 'N' A'N
they are forced out OF business prac'
tically by being compelled to pay a IL
cense fee of 50.
BY the explosion of an oil stove in
her home at Bloomfield twelve-year'
old Anna Tate was burned to death
The girls mother was seriously burned
in trying to rescue her.
The Tennis Company, which will
manufacture Illuminating gas and es
tablish electric light plants, has been
incorporated In Camden, with an au
thorlzed capital Of 100000
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
LIGHT MING KILLS ELEVEN
Ten Boys and One Man Struck Dead
Under a Chicago Pier.
-
Been Fishing and Sought Refuge
From n s~torm-Bodies Mixed in
a Tangled Mass.

Chicago. - Huddled under Montrose
Pier, n mile above the north end Of
Lincoln Park, ten boys and one man
were struck dead in a heap by light
ming which swept Lakeview. A
twelfth victim, a boy, was found alive
under the pile of bodies. He was I'M
conscious and badly burned. He was
taken as rapidly as possible tn the
Alexian Brothers Hospital.
The survivor is William Anderson.
He r%egained consciousness at the hos
pltal, but is paralyzed from his hips
down. He was so weak he could
hardly talk, but he gave the names Of
two of his comrades who were killed.
They are Fritz Kusel, eleven years
old, Robey and Addison streets; George
Bravham, twelve years old, RobeY
and Addison streets.
The victims had been fishing and
enjoying the cooling breezes, and when
the storm came up they got under the
pier for safety. The lightning which
caused the accident burned out all the
telephone wires in the neighborhood,
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

The bee smoker is q great help in
working among bees, and If every one
who keeps bees would provide them
selves with a good smoker, it would
possibly be the means of getting much
better returns FROM their bees, than
to try to get along without it. Small
beekeepers, such as farmers, do not
provide many necessities in the line of
the management of their bees, and In
most cases they do not have a smoker
at all. No one needs a smoker so bad
as the farm beekeeper, for he does
not usually study the management of
bees without positive protection, such
as smoke will afford. The farmer has
but a few minutes to attend to his
bees, and without smoke he usually
makes a failure in the short bit of
time he has to bestow upon them.
Quick work with bees demand
smoke, whereas with lots of time and
patience We can get along in many
cases without it, but it does not pay
TO thus spend the time necessary to do
it. and the smoker enables us to do
good, effective and quick work with
bees. Everyone should provide them
selves with a good bee smoker who
keeps but a colony of bees, and in
every case enough extra may be made
from the bees to pay for several
smokers. Really, the smoker is the Sc
cret of success in handling bees, and
getting the best returns from them.
No apiarist can be found. it matters
not whether he is an expert in hand
ling bees or not, but is supplied with
n bee smoker, and it is his constant
companion when working with the
bees.
There is no other method of apply
ing smoke to bees that will absolute
ly control them. and it is no use of
thinking that you can furnish a sub
stitute that will answer the urpose.
You may furnish smoke enough to
quiet q colony of bees on the start,
but about the time you have the hive
open ready TO do some important
work, the bees come out ut you by the
dozens, and your substitute smoker Is
not the thing to put up a defence
against such an attack, and the bees
have possession of the entire situation.
The bee smoker is always charged
and ready for such occasions .-Farm,
Field and Fireside.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

II the preparation of the seed bed.
the selection of seed and the planting
have been well done, the cultivation
Of the corn crop will be easy and will
accomplish Its best results. The cult
vator should have in mind at least four
objects, viz, the conservation of mois-
ture, the destruction of weeds. the
feeding of the corn plant and the aera-
ton of the corn roots.
The time, and frequency OF
the civilizations will be modified by
the condition of the soil, but should
be adapted to best effect the foregoing
objects. Generally it is best to begin
with the harrow before or soon after
the corn is UP and cross-harrow in
four or five days. The Importance of
this early and thorough work with
the harrow cannot be overestimated,
and ought not in any case to be ne
elected. This narrowing destroys the
first crop of weeds, which is always
the most injurious to the growing
corn, and pulyerizes the surface soil,
forming the moisture below against
the time of drouth most sure to come.
Follow the harrow with the cultiva.
tor, using small shovels and running
close and deep the first blowing. Cul-
tivate every week, the civilizations
after the first being shallow and farth-
er away from the corn, until the corn
is too tall for the cultivator.
The impression is quite prevalent
that a corn crop is well cultivated
when it is plowed or cultivated three
times. Three civilizations may be suf-
ficient for the best results in some
instances, but five or six are some
times necessary. If a farmer contem-
plates planting and %cultiyating forty
acres OF corn with one team, it is a
mistake. 1t would be better to plant
twenty or thirty acres and give it the
cultivation necessary to attain the
best results, and use the remainder of
the forty for pasture or some other
crop.
The question OF deep or shallow cul
tivation has its advocates pro and con,
and will perhaps never bn settled to
the satisfaction of all, but the pre-
ponderance of opinion, based upon ex-
perience and backed by the principles
of science. favors shallow cultivation,
at least shallow enough TO prevent the
destruction Of the corn roots, which
form a network a few inches below
the surface surrounding the plant.
Deep ~cultivating tears out these feed
$3.50 \ I1-sl-
a very small area for food and mois.
ture. which we seek to save and rem
der more available by eultivation.--A.
u, MeCailsn, in American Agricultur.
lot,
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
In his address as retiring President

In his address as retiring President
of the Iowa Academy Of Sciences, pub
lished in Science, Professor W. H.
Norton gives a timely and interesting
resume of the various social services
rendered by science. Near the end OF
the address occurs the following pas
sage; Thus has science been an ac,
celebrating force in the evolution OF
society, Increasing food supply by
means of scientific agriculture, length
ening life by the repression OF dis
eases, and introducing a thousand new
means of livelihood, it has made posi-
BILE the extraordinary recent growth OF
civilized nations, 1t permits the pop
ulation of Europe to more than double
since 1900, and enables England.
which in the seventeenth century mer
thought too small for its scanty popu.
lation, TO support more than 3S,O0o,OOC
people in comparative comfort, Ii
lends some encouragement to the san
guine prophecy of Albert Bushnell
Hart that the Mississippi Valley will
sooner OF later contain & population
Of s5o,ooo,ooo,"
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
NEWS OF THE STATE


New Jersey is n t'rowing state
In the respect Of population and In
dustrial progress, New Jersey is one
Of the States that are c~onspicuousls
growing with their growth anC
Strengthening with their strength. II
is the only State in the East that at
tanned an increase of thirty per cent
or more, according to the last nationai
census, all of the other States reaching
and exceeding that figure being in the
West. The census average was POI
In the census of 1890. with the aver.
age 249, New Jersey attained 2T.l
per cent. increase, which was equalled
by no other Eastern State. In 1856
the State fell below the census aver
age of 9O.1, but in 1870 reached 34.S
the average for the whole country
being 22.6. Only fifteen States in the
West exceeded the New Jersey per
centage. The census of 1860 showed
an increase of 37.3 per cent. for the
State, and the general average was
1856. Again New Jersey wa far w
the lead of all the Eastern States. In
1870, the year of the first census, when
the total population of the United
States was 3,929,214, and when there
were seventeen States, New Jersey
was ninth in population, with 1S4,130
souls, or 6 1881 less than the present
population of the city of Newark. The
State now has nearly one-half of the
total population of the United States
at the time when the first census Wa
taken.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
BUFFALO BANK FAILURES
The Niagara Dragged Down by the
Crash Of the City National.
Fears of Depositors Were Quickly Al
layed by Superintendent Kilburn-
Declared other Banks Safe.

Buffalo, n. Y.-State Superintendent
of Banks f. d. Kilburn has closed the
doors of the Niagara Bank, n State
institution. The first that the deposit
tors knew Of the banks trouble was
when the notice closing it was posted.
The clerks of the institution were as
much surprised as the depositors. The
bank is a small one. with q capital
stock of 100000 and no surplus. Its
failure is due to the recent failure of
the City National Bank.
The City National Bank, according
to one statement, had loaned 100000
to the different concerns in which 2.
II. Griffin, its Vice-President, and also
President of the Niagara Bank, was
interested. The failure of the City Ma
tional under the burden of paper which
the Controller of the Currency claimed
represented injudlci0us loans, taken in
connection with the fact that concerns
in Which Mr.. Griffin is interested had
borrowed from the Niagara Bank
nearly twice the amount of its capital
stock, 100000, leaving 1t with Its sur
plus entirely wiped out, 1t is said,
caused Superintendent Kilburn to close
it.
As the news of the second failure
spread over town depositors fiocked to
other banks to draw their money The
savings banks, as well as the discount
banks, were called upon. Every de-
mand was paid.
Superintendent hilburn made a posi-
tive statement that no other bank in
Buffalo is at present in an embarrassed
condition, and he does not think any
more failures will follow the crash of
the City National and the Niagara.
When this statement became public
depositors in the various banks began
to feel easier. and soon business af-
fairs were back TO their normal condi-
ton.
The last statement showing the con-
dition of the Niagara Bank, filed with
the State Department in Albany on
June 8, gave its total as
S1,O61, 1874. This included loans, $685.
$40: liability of directors as makers,
$SS.230; due from banks, SSS,S09; real
estate, $37,694; mortgages, $9647;
stocks and bonds. $S3. 1872; specie, $46,-
122; cash items, S27,3S6.
Among the liabilities are: capital.
100000; undivided profits, S35,033;
due deposltors, S67G, ~; due banks,
$40 O3: due savings banks, S105, 1874;
due State Treasurer, $4,000; other
liabilities, $4,000. This report says
the bank had no surplus fund on
June 3.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

1t was at once the peculiar distinc-
ton and happiness of the late Sir Wal
ter Besant that he dreamed n fair and
noble dream and saw it come true.
The Peoples Palace, which has car
ried light and hope and comfort and
cheer to thousands of the poor people
of London's squalid East End, was
the realization of Besant's beautiful
dream. That famous and useful insti.
tuition has served as an example and
Il stimulus for humanitarian work all
over England, and indeed throughout
the English-speaking world, Besant's
memory will last longer for what he
did than for what he wrote. His ser
vice was to humanity rather than to
literature. His name belongs with
Abou, Ben Adhem's on the roll OF
those who loved their fellow-men.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
A Tribute to R~uxIey's Powers.

In response to a paragraph in Nature
calling attention to the proposal to
erect IL memorial to Professor Hux-
ley, the editor recently received TWEEN
ry-fve cents, accompanied by an an
onymous letter, from which he pub
dishes the following extracts;
In Nature the reader is informed or
a movement on foot in Ealing for q
memorial to the memory of Huxley.
With ~gladness l hasten TO contribute
nv mite. > . | enclose a postal
order for Is. as some little help toward
the memorial. Even now l am Civ
ing beyond my means, as am merely
4 casual dock laborer, living from hand
to mouth, and often hardly able to
make both ends meet, But c let
my mind get rusty, and from my boy
hood have had a Keen partially for
natures leading lights and their works.
Among the brightest of these and OF
whom any nation might he justly
proud. flashes out Thomas Henry
Huxley"
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

Coroner w. L.. johnson at West
Creek held the inquest in the death Of
Caleb Fithian, the young clammer,
of Parkertown, who was shot down in
his boat by Jacob Stiles, the aged oys-
terman and Waterman. The inquiry
lasted but an hour, and was confined
to hearing the evidence of Fithian's
fellow-clammers as to the shooting
The jury brought in a verdict to the
effect that Jacob Stiles "wilfully and
feloniously killed and murdered Caleb
Fithian." The aged prisoner in the
county jail is beginning to feel the eff
fects of confinement. He is nervous
restless and broods n great deal in his
lonesome cell. He insists that he did
what was right, and that no matter
what the consequences to himself may
be is he had 1t to go through WITH
again he should do as he had done.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
BIG SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR
Government Receipts About $7t,-
100000 Above Expenditures.
CASH BALANCE OF $l75,000,000

Comparative Statement of the Govern
ment Receipts and Expenditures For
the Fiscal Year Just Ended - Record
breaking National Treasury Figures
Surplus For June, S17.2s8,76O.
Washington, D. C.-The comparative
statement of the Government receipts
and expenditures shows that during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1901.
the total receipts from all sources
amounted to 1856, S4S, 300, and the dis
bursements to $500, 9S3, $40, leaving a
surplus for the year of S75,S ,999.
The receipts from customs during
the year amounted to 1898, 1856, 740, as
against 1898, 164,s71 for the fiscal year
1900.
Internal revenue receipts were $780,
514,410, as against $295, 327, 926 for last
year.
Miscellaneous receipts were SAL Dr.
157, as against $38, 74S,053 for last
year.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

Sunny Slope, Cal, enjoys the dis
tinctlon of being the largest vineyard
in the world. 1t is situated amid the
most beautiful scenery of that favored
land, two miles from San Gabriel. OF
n total OF 1900 acres, 1876 are devoted
to grapevine, the remainder being dis
trlbuted among orange trees, of which
there are 1900; lemon and olive trees.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

Childhood is a strange marvel, of
shallow deeps and deepest shadows.
1t is likely to contradict itself. Only
time tells, Modern parents may find
lessons for their own profit in the en-
Filtered youth of Hume and of Byron,
the tragedy of sensitiveness in Chat
terton's early trials and in the love
less years that have nodded the
thoughts of many of England's later
thinkers to gloom.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
and it was some time before the police

and it was some time before the police
arrived.
The top of the pier was covered with
zinc, one of the best conductors
known, and the bolt Of lightning tore
1t to pieces. DR.. Sawtell, Of the Ma
rine Hospital, n of the first TO ar
rive on the scene, said the bodies were
twisted together like so many WORMS
or snakes and every n of the eleven
was dead when he reached them.
One of the bodies is that of q man
forty-five years old and well dressed.
or the ten other bodies four were well
dressed and appear to be sons of we'll
TODD families. All of the others were
poorly dressed.
The same bolt of lightning also
struck an Evanston avenue trolley
just as it was passing Buena Terrace,
n short distance away from the pier.
1t knocked the car from the track.
turned ii about and threw the passen-
gers into a panic, besides burning out
the motor. The car was in charge of
Conductor Kemp, and he and the pas
sengers all felt the shock severely.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

1t would seem to be needless to
warn Americans that there is no work
for the unemployed in London. The
English metropolis has always been a
hard place for the stranger since De
Quincy celebrated 1t in his apostro-
phe to stony Hearted Oxford Street"
An American who would leave even
such congested quarters as New York
City or Chicago for London must be
endowed with very little good horse
sense.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
" AGRICULTURAL. .


Where a fence must be carried
across a stream OR out into the edge
OF a river or pond, the plan shown in
the cross section given herewith will
be found useful. Two logs are placed
side by side, and cross pieces of tim
Der are spiked to them. To these cross
pieces fence posts are spiked, and
boards nailed to these, as suggested.
The logs are kept in any position de
sired by anchoring them with wires
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05

yermicelli cut into little letters is a
thing commonly found in modern soup.
But it is not often that 1t saves a man
from financial disaster, as it did ! IN
the following case: An American Wis
iting England was dining In London
the other day during the height of the
Wall Street boom. The talk turned
on that subject, and the American,
who had bought largely at high figures,
maintained, against the general opin-
ion, that the great prices rested on a
solid business basis. Suddenly he
saw In the spoonful of soup which he
was raising to his lips four letters
forming the word "Sell." Somewhat
shaken by this, for he was a man of a
superstitious turn of mind, he went
on with his soup in a troubled mind
until only six of the small white capt.
tails remained floating in his plate.
They spelled the word Unload
Hastily rising he excused himself upon
a plea of indisposition, and took a cab
to the nearest open telegraph office. He
cabled to his broker, ordering the i'm
mediate sale of all he held in railways.
As New York time is five hours behind
our own, the thing was done before the
market closed. The next day the PAN
ic began. He had got out at the top
of the market.-London News.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-05
A CARNEGIE IN RUSSIA.
NJ. SoIodovnikoff Leaves $40. o For
Schools and Workers.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-A Moscow
millionaire, NJ. So%lodovnikoff. be-
aueathed princely sums for education
al purposes, and his will has just been
approved by the courts after a hard
legal struggle. The relatives received
modest allowances, The remainder OF
the estate, estimated at S10,500,0O0.
is to be divided into three parts, of
which two will form funds for the es-
tablishing of elementary and profess
sional schools in the governments of
Vologoda, Archangel and Tver. and
the remainder will be devoted to the
erecting of workingmen's dwellings
in Moscow. The rent for each family
shall not exceed $3.50 a month.