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The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19
PlTH N POlNT.


He-"Are you interested in poetry?
She-"Oh, yes. indeed, l eve miss
reading the street car advertise.
ents.'-Philadelphia Record.
Miss BeanSby-"Perhaps you have
not read all of Omar Khayyam?' Mrs.
Porkihopp-"Perhaps not. Has he
written anything rGcently?'-Puck.
The Justice-"I don't remember ever
seeing you before The Accused
mo. your Honor; you see, you don'G
belong to our set."-Boston Transcript.
The hlindest man is one in church
Who tndeth out too late
He hash got a cent, when they
Begin to pass the plate.
Philadelphia Record.
Customer-"Waiter it is nearly half
an hour since l ordered that turtle
soup" Waitcr-"Sorry, sir; but you
know how slow turtles are, sir
Tit-Bits.
Amanda. and you will be treated like
an angel Maiden-"Yes, | suppose
so. Nothing 10 eat and less to wear.
No, l thank you."-What-To-Eat.
She weighed him in the balance,
Then answered him quite frank:
you're weighed and found wanting
A balance in the bank"
Chicago Daily News.
Miss QuiZzcr (who wants to know
everythingl-'Now, what do you con
slider to be the most curious thing you
ever saw, professor?' Professor Trot-
ter-'A woman, madam."-Harlem
Life.
1.-The boy" concluded the %oculist.
lis color blind" Then what do you
think we should put him at?' We'll,
what's the matter with making an
impressionistic painter of him p
Philadelphia Times.
"oh, where are you going, my pref
ty maid?' Il am going TO church.
kind sir she said. What do you
there, l would ask, pretty maid?' Il
pray. and l think up new hats" she
said.-Detroit Free Press.
ooh, Miss Stone" the undesirable
sutton pleaded, If you would only give
me the least encouragement That's
what l am doing, Mr.. De Trow," re-
piled the naughty beauty. Good
day."-Philadelphia Press.
Drug Clerk-"T've been docked a
weeks salary for making a mistake
and killing a man. Lend me So, won't
your" Friendly Policeman-"Couldn't
possibly. I've Just been suspended for
a week for killing another one."-
New York Weekly.
Assistant think we have all the
portraits hung except this one of An
drew Carnegie. Where shall we put
him. Chief tof hanging committed
Just above the Duke of Wellington,
A steel king outranks an iron duke"
Baltimore American.
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BANNER YEAR FOR TRADE
Commerce of the United States i!
Beating All Records
Trade Balance in Favor of America NJ.
tnnunt TO 500, 900, 900 in Fiscal
ies' Drawing to Its Close.

Washington, u. Cat the close OF
the last fiscal year persons who were
interested in and who understand the
significance of figures showing large
imports and exports were amazed to
find that the commerce of the United
States had amounted to The prodigious
total of 1924, 424 ,26G, and that the *
cess of exports over imports was
nearly S545, 100000. or only slightly
below the excess of exports shown in
1898, when they ran TO nearly $616,-
100000. The report for the fiscal yeaI
drawing to Il close promises to beat
the totals of either of the recent great
years. and the excess of exports will,
it is expected, reach quite 100000, 900.
With the figures of March now ac-
cessible, it is seen that the exports for
nine months reached S1,140.1T T2S.
In the same time the imports were
$500, 4S3, 391. The balance in favor of
the United States for the nine months
is therefore $5lO,GS7. 337, or within
S5,0O0,000 of the excess of the whole
expectation of the last year. The bal.
ance for last year, at the end of the
nine months period, was less by $12S,-
S32.671.
This showing is brought about by an
increase In exports of $50, 54O.O32 and n
decrease in imports of $40, 292, 639. The
Indications are that trade will continue
TO maintain the figures for the pre-
ceding nine months, and that the total
of exports and imports will reach 10
more than 81, q q OO0 with n bal
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Winter ExercIse For Cows.

A live stock question is that of win
ter exercise for cows which will al
ways have two sides. Most dairymen
admit, however, for the good of the
COW and her offspring she should have
a moderate amount of exercise every
day during the winter. unless of course
it is exceedingly stormy. Whenever
there is sunshine OR when there is no
rain or snow falling. she should be
turned out of the stable for an hour or
so during the middle of the day. The
man who is interested in producing
butter or milk, and who cares nothing
for the cows health or her future, can
probably make more money by pre-
venting exercise and feeding heavily.
Some dairymen can afford to do this,
but most cannot.
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The State Board of Health was noti-
fed that smallpox had obtained a foot
hold in the Lathrop Memorial Home, a
charitable institution In Albany. The
home is intended for the care Of chill
dren whose parents are out at work by
the day, but it partakes largely of the
nature of an orphanage. and is sup
ported by Mrs. Leland Stanford. who
came of the Albany family of La
throps. There are about thirty-five
children in the home, and nearly all
are more or less i'll with the disease.
which developed two weeks ago, and
was not recognized by the attendants.
They thought the child who came
down with 1t had the chickenpoX. and
the physician who looks after the in
mates was not summoned at once.
The home has been ~quarantined by the
local health board.
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STATE NEWS.
New Marriage Bill Passed.

BY a vote of % to 8 the Senate passed
Assemblyman Weekes's Common Law
Marriage bill. The bill is to take eff
feet on next January /. 1t is asserted
that the main reason for the passage
OF the bill is that under the law as it
now stands, after n man of wealth
dies. even though he leaves n family,
common law wives spring up and CON
test the will, which action results in
clouding the title to millions of dol
lars worth of property. Even when it
is proved that they have no claim
they have to be bought off. Hereafter
a common law marriage viii not be
recognized unless entered into through
a written contract of marriage, signed
by both parties, and at least two wit
neSses who shall subscribe to the
same, stating the place of residence Of
each of the parties and witnesses, and
the date and place of marriage. The
contract must be acknowledged by the
parties and witnesses in the manner
required for the acknowledgement of
a conveyance of real estate to entitle
the same to be recorded. Such contract
shall be filed within six months after
its execution in the office of the clerk
of the town or city in which the mar
riage was soiemnized. The law pro-
vides that such contract, or a copy
thereof, certified by the officer with
whom it is filed, shall be presumptive
evidence of the marriage.
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position. The platform, f, is raised by
two coil wire springs, n on each side
of churn. A chain at g connects plat
form f and foot-lever h. The lever b
is hinged at post a and works inside
of an iron rod attached to the post on
the right and to the base of i. The
churn works up and down and the
dasher stands still. Spring must be
just sufficient to lift churn with milk
in it.
The lower cut shows a barrel churn
to be run by foot-power or by children
sitting on c and playing see-saw. The
frame is shown, at a, with coil wire
spring at b, churn d, axle e on which
churn operates, being fastened to churn
on each side and revolving in the
frame. The platform at f is solid.
The spring b lifts the end of the churD
d, and C is for the foot or for children
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APATHY OF NAVAL MILITIA
No Ship For the Annual Exercises to BE
Furnished This Year

No Ship For the Annual Exercises to BE
Furnished This Year.
Washington, D. C.-The decline of
the State naval militia and the lack
of interest shown by those %organiza-
tons in the assistance the Navy De
partment has offered them is keenly
felt by naval officials, who see no hope
for the practical usefulness of these
bodies of men to the Government I'M
less there are closer relations between
them and the navy and some co-opera-
ton in the annual summer exercises.
The National Government contributes
over 100000 in support of he organi-
cations. Most of the States have shown
little interest in the work.
Lest year the Navy Department de
tailed a specially equipped vessel for
the exclusive training of the naval mil
itia. and provided that every organl-
cation should have at least one weeks
active duty on board at sea, during
which practical instruction was given
by naval officers in all the duties re
1uired of sailors and officers on regular
seagoing warships. But few of the
organizations took advantage OF the
Governments offer. This year the
Navy Department will provide no snip,
and the organization must do as best
they can for summer cruises.
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INVALIDITY OF DIVORCE
The Value Of a Decree in a State Other
Than That Where Granted.
DECISIONS OF SUPREME COURT

rhe General Principle of Matrimonial
DomictIe, is Standardization Parties
Are Legal Residents of the State, tho
Decree is Good Everywhere - Other
wise 1t is Not.
States Supreme Court has decided a
number of cases involving the validity
in one State Of divorce DEGREES granted
in other States. The Court held prac-
tically that in cases in which the de-
cree is granted in States where the
husband and wife have made their le-
gal residence it is valid in any part of
the United States, but that in other
cases in which there is no legal resi-
dence in the State in which the decree
is granted they are invalid. The opin-
ions were handed down by Justice
Gray, and involved the cases of Ather-
ton VS.. AthertOn, Bell VS.. Bell and
Streilwolf VS.. Streilwolf.
In the Atherton case the husband OBJ
tanned a decree of divorce / in the State
of Kentucky, where the parties had
resided as husband and wife, after the
wife had left the husband and gone to
the home of her parents, in Clinton,
N. Y. In his opinion Justice Gray
called attention to and laid stress upon
the fact that Kentucky was the place
of their marital residence, and he also
brought out the fact that notice of the
husbands petition for divorce had been
forwarded to New York. and that the
wife had made no response. The Ken
lucky court thereupon had granted the
decree.
The question involved was, he said,
whether the decree was valid in New
York, the question having been raised
by a counter proceeding of the wife
for divorce in New York. He CON
Guided that owing to the fact of her
former residence in Kentucky, and the
further fact that due notice had been
given her, Mrs. Atherton was as much
bound by the Kentucky decree as If
she had been present in the court
when it was granted. Hence the de-
cision of the New York Supreme Court
in favor of the wife, and against the
validity of the Kentucky decree was
reversed.
The other two cases also came from
New York. In the Bell case the ques-
ton of the validity of a decree granted
to the husband in Pennsylvania was
raised, and in the Streilwolf case the
same question was at issue concerning
a decree granted to the husband in
North Dakota. In both these cases
the DEGREES We're held to be invalid be-
cause neither the husband nor the wife
had domicile in the State in which the
divorce was granted. Therefore"
said Justice Gray. 1.-The DEGREES are moi
entitled to credit" In those cases the
findings of the New York courts were
affirmed.
In the Atherton case Justice Peck
ham dissentcd upon the ground that
the husband himself had been respon-
sible for the wife's change Of residence.
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Canandaigua is without a band.
Navigation has opened on Canadai-
qua Lake.
Mysterious fires have occurred in
Salamanca lately. Residents think an
lncendlary is at work.
Farmers In the vicinity Of Albion
have again contracted to raise sugar
beets for S4.75 per ton,
Rochester taxpayers this year are
assessed $15,65 per $1,000 valuation.
This is the lowest tax rate in ten years.
Last year they paid $19.S3.
At a meeting held in Malone the
Northern New York Baseball League
was formed, composed of Ogdensburg,
Potsdam, Canton, Malone and Platts-
burg.
Recent rains have caused Oak Or
chard Creek and its tributaries in Ma
CARA and Orleans counties to overflow
their banks, resulting in considerable
damage to property located on the
banks of these streams.
There were twenty-three oil wells
completed In Allegany County during
March, with a production of sixty
seven barrels; four were dry or grass
ers. There are twenty-four rigs up
and thirty-three wells drilling.
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Beet Sugar Project Delayed.

The proposed 100000 beet sugar
plant will not be constructed in Wells
vile, Allegany County, this year. 1t
has been found impossible 10 secure
the 5000 acres needed for beet cultiva-
ton to secure the building Of the
plant, because the farmers were reluc-
tant to make contracts until they had
made experiments on their farms. The
stockholders of the proposed plant have
raised $4,000 to make experiments in
the county, and all the beets that are
raised will be sold to the Bingnamton
Beet Sugar Company under contract.
1t is expected the experiments will be
so successful that farmers will provide
the necessary acreage for the building
of the factory next year.
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The Rest Garden Soil,

The first requisite for a good garden
or farm is good soil; this is indlspen-
So e. Plants cannot reach perfection
nj ISIS the conditions of growth are ia
w lble. 1t does not follow that the
soh must be naturally rich, but plants
do lot live upon soil, they live in it,
and partake of the food it contains. 1t
therefore follows that if the soil does
not contain the food the plant demands
for growth and the development of its
fruits. it must be supplied. The ques-
ton as to the best kind of soil is an ar
bitrary one. Natural conditions must
be accepted as we find them, u 1t
does not follow that naturally uncon-
genial soil cannot be made to produce
good crops.
The condition of the soil Is of far
greater Importance than its character,
and it is upon the former that success
largely depends. A lively loan Is IN
doubtedly the best soil for a garden.
Experience and observation show con
clusively that many unproductiye
soils are such from lack of proper til
lage.
The very general opinion is that the
difference in the cost of labor TO pro-
duce a crop is more than sufficient to
pay for the used on he sandy
soil, where all the plant food employed
is at once available. The delicate roots
of the plants can easily penetrate the
sandy sol. in every direction. AT the
same time the soil is pressed firmly
around the roots. This is an 1mpor-
tant consideration, as they are so deli
cate that they will Immediately perish
if exposed to the air,as is frequently
the case in heavy, poo~rly-prepared
soils.
Another important consideration is
that a greater variety of vegetables
can be grown on light soils than on
clay, and they will also be of better
quality. There are but few plants
that cannot be successfully grown on
light, sandy soils, while there aremany
that cannot be induced to perfect Their
crops on heavy, wet, clay soil.-C. L.
Allen, in American Agriculturist.
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snndIe Fooled on the Pines.

Sandie Macpherson was a soldier in
an English regiment, which landed in
India on Christmas Day. Sandie was
longing to neal a braid Scots"
tongue. Suddenly his face lighted up
as he heard the bagpipes approaching.
Guide be praised" quoth he to his
comrade; there's a Scots regiment
here. Maybe the Gordons or the Black
Watch" 4
Round the corner swept the pipers.
and Sandie's eyes bulged and his jaw
dropped as he saw, not Draw Killed
adde's. but active little black-faced
Goordhas.
THE Black Watch with a vepge,
ance!' laughed his comrade, ~glcefully.
Sandle didn't know that all Goorkha
regiments had their pipers. - London
Spare Moments.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19

Explorers of some Of the head wat.
ars and tributaries of the Nile say that
many of these streams are completely
covered by a growth of papyrus and
other plants, two or three feet in
thickness above the surface of the
water. The growth does not inter-
rere with the flow of water underneath
I. bur ii effectualiy stops navigation
,y small boats. Sometimes n heavy
aood will break the vegetation away.
il SPEEDILY arnws again
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AMERICANS IN THE NAVY.
During Spanish War Slxty-FIve Per Cent.
of the Men Were Native Born.

During Spanish War SlNty-FIve Per Cent.
of the Men Were Native Born.
Washington, d. C,-Secretary Long
has had compiled, in response to an
inquiry from the West, a table show
ing the proportion of native-born and
foreign-born sailors in the United
States Navy. This shows that during
the Spanish-American war, out of a to-
tal force of 22,S2S, the total of native
Dorn sailors was 10. 406, and of foreign
born, 1922. The percentage of native
born sailors was siXty-five, and, in
Guiding foreigners who had become
Americans by naturalization, the per-
centage was eighty.
The statement also shows that of
the foreign-porn sailors more than one
half have become n~aturalized or have
declared their intention of becoming
citizens. The statement further shows
that the navy is more exclusively
American than is generally supposed.
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ACCUSED OF KILLING A CHILD,
servant Testihes Against the Stepmother
Now Under Arrest.

Mount Holly, n. ]. Mrs. Mabel
Haines, of DelancO, "A arraiSned on
a charge of having murdered her step
daughter, Gwendolin, in Delanco. Mrs.
Haines ever since her arrest has main
tanned the charge against her is false.
The body of the child was cut and
bruised, and it was alleged by Mrs.
Haines that the child was subject to
fits. and might have injured herself
The father of the child alleges that its
death was accidental.
The testimony taken was to SHOW
that Mrs. Haines had beaten the child
twice a day during several months
and, according to the physicians who
performed the autopsy, this was the
cause of death. a woman employed
by Mrs. Haines said that once she
heard Mrs. Haines eXclaim: My, now
hard it is to kill that brat"'
1t was further testified by the phys
clans that Gwendolin's body contained
seven and a half ounces of arsenic,
more than enough to kill. Mrs.
Haines was committed to wait the ac-
ton of the Grand jury.
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400 Pine Trees Sold For $1,000.

A notable sale of pine trees has just
been made at Scio, Allegany County.
Luclus and Ebenezer Norton, owners
of 400 trees, which are the remnant of
the original forest on the Allegany
Hills, sold them for $500. The trees
are to be hauled to Wellsville and Bel
mont, and 1t is expected that 100000
feet of lumber will be obtained from
them. The price paid probably was
the highest eve secured for pine on
the stump, the average price per tree
being $15. Pine lumber is worth $40
per 1000 feet. These trees are the last
lump of virgin pine in Allegany Coun-
ty, the other trees having been bought
in the past three years owing to the
increase in the price of lumber. The
largest pine cut thus far measured six
teen feet in circumference at the butt,
and the rings indicated that it was
more than 295 years old. There is now
little standing timber in the county,
the telegraph companies and railroads
having used most of it for poles and
railroad ties.
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Mrs. Marcus NJ. Ansley died at the
family residence near C~astleton. Mr..
Ansley, husband of the deceased wom-
an, had suffered for nearly a year with
a peculiar contraction of the throat,
which physicians were unable to stop.
Several months ago the contraction be-
came so great that he was unable to
take solids. He took liquid food until
a few days ago when the oesophagal
passage closed. He was so debilitated
that an operation was impossible and
he starved t o death. His death oc-
cured thirty-five hours after that of
his wife. He did not know that she
had died. Their funeral was a double
one, and they We're inferred side by
side in one grave.
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PUT TO DEATH PENDING APPEAL.
Mexican soldier Executed Before Final
Decision Wa Rendered.

Oaxaca. Mex,-An official inquiry has
been instituted by Secretary of War
Bernardo Reyes, into the recent IKE
cutiOn of a number Of soldiers for al
legged INSTRUMENTATION while engaged
in the campaign against the Maya In
dams in Yucatan. The soldiers were
tried by court-martial and condemned
to death.
Pending an appeal to the Supreme
Military Court they were executed.
The court disapproved the finding of
the court-martlal, but the decision ar
rived too late to save the lives of the
soldiers.
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WHEN FATHER SLAVES HIS FACE

When father shaIes his stubbly face
At nine on Sunday morn.
There always steals upon the place
A feeling of f%orlorn.
an awful stiffness settles down
On all the human race;
It's like a funeral in town
When father shaves his face.
He gets the razor from the shelf
And strops it up and down;
And mutters wildly to himself.
And throws us all a frown.
We dare not look to left or right,
Or breathe in any case;
Zen mother has to tiptoe quite
When father shaves his face.
He plasters lather everywhere,
And spots the window pane;
But mother says she doesn't care.
She'll clean it off again.
She tries to please him all she can,
10 save us from disgrace
For he's an awful nervous man
When father shaves his face.
We try to sit like mummies there,
And live the ordeal through;
And hear that razor rip and tear,
And likewise father, too.
And if it slips and cuts his chin,
We jump and quit the place;
No power on earth can keep us in
If father cuts his face
Joe Cone, in the New York Herald.
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Churning Made Easy.

The upper illustration shows an old
fashioned dash churn run by o
power. Frame work for churn Is
shown at a a., made of n and one
half by two-inch stuff, The dasher
handle, b, is fastened TO frame a by pm
G, which goes through the handle, The
churn d is set on platform f inside oil
n circular ring e, which holds II IL
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19

The Brazil soft coal district, in In
diana. will be Indefinitely tied up by
a strike.
In Italy children of either sex under
nine years of age are not permitted
to work in factories.
The coal workers at Marseilles,
France, decided to resume work, and
the prolonged strike is finally at an
end.
-Four hundred coal miners who have
been ON strike at Blossburs, Ala, on
account of Il difference regarding the
charges for yardage work, have re
turned u work
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19
A Library For watertown.

Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, of Wat
ertown, daughter of the late Governor
Roswell p. Flower, has offered to give
the city of Watertown 100000 for n
public library providing the city will
contribute $4,000 per annum to main
tain the same. The city recently made
an application to Andrew Carnegie for
a library. Mrs. Taylor desires that
the library be named tine Roswell =.
Flower Memorial Library.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19

Cashier d. II. Lewis, of the Farmers
National Bank, of Vergennes, Vt, was
arrested by United States Marshal
Field on a charge of misappropriating
the funds of the institution. The short
age in the bank is 10Y placed at $75r'
300.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19

Max hohenstein, sub-contractor on
the Government building Mt the Pan
American Exposition grounds, at Buff
falo, was killed by falling from the
apex Of the dome. Hohenstein vas
placing a group of four horses on the
top when he fell 275 feet to the ground.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19
FUNSTON RELIEVES GRANT.
Two Peaceful Districts of Northern Luzon
Have Been Consolidated.

Manila.-The First and Second mill
cary districts of northern Luzon have
been o solidated and placed under
Command of Brigadier-G General Funs-
ION. Similar action has been taken
with rega d to the Fourth and Fifth
districts of southern Luzon and Cen
aral Sumner has been placed in charge.
This action has allowed the relief of
Generals Grant and Hall respectively.
and Is one of the results of the paci-
fled conditions of these districts. 1t
is expected that further consollda-
lions will be made at an early date.