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The counter proposition, that human
beings were not liable to infection
from bovine tuberculosis, was harder
TO prove, owing to the difficulty of
experimenting upon human subjects,
but personally he was satisfied that
it was the case. The professor re-
cited at length post-mortem evidence
supporting this belief.
Dir. Koch said that if this point
were conceded, it remained to de-
termine the chief source of contagion.
Human immunity to bovine infection
disposed of the belief in infection
through dairy products, and he CON
sidered this source of danger so
slight as to be unworthy Of precautlon-
airy measures. Heredity was also an
unimportant factor in the transmits
sion of tuberculosis, though the con
trary had long been believed.
DIR. Koch said the chief source Of
danger lay in the sputum of consump-
tive patients, and a remedy was to
be found in a law preventing the con-
sumptive from throwing contagion
about him. Several methods to this
end We're available. The surest of all
would be isolation in sanitariums.
1 HIS, ullAul tuhutCiN' htS lhiplhNtlN
able, but he strongly urged the es-
tablishment of special consumptive
hospitals, the obligatory notification
to the authorities of the existence of
the disease, the dlsinfection Of their
quarters whenever consumptives
changed their residence, and the
dissemination of information to the
people concerning the true nature of
consumption as an aid in avoiding and
combating it.
DR.. Koch highly complimented DR.,
Herman NJ. Biggs, pathologist and di-
rector of the meteorological labora-
tories of the New York City Health
Department, upon the repressive
in regard to tuberculosis
taken in New York City, where, he
said, the mortality from tuberculosis
had been reduced thirty-five per cent.
since 1886. He recommended the sys-
tenn organized by DR.. Biggs in New
York City to the study and imitation
of all municipalities.
DIR. Koch closed his remarks by eX-
pressing his belief that the ultimate
stamping out of tuberculosis was pos
sihlp d.
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Mr.. Phipps, Of Pittsburg, tells me OF
a serie,-- ""stom in Scotland. When
a ma. -" sheep, the
landlord is II Il to buy the
flock at the termination Of the lease,
The animals are appraised by an eX-
pert satisfactory to both, and always
bring a little higher price than a new
flock. This is due to the fact that
sheep are curious animals, and unable
to care for themselves like cows and
pigs and horses. No domestic animal
is so dependent upon mar as the sheep
for food, care and protection. 1t takes
sheep a long time to learn a pasture.
They have TO be shown where the best
grazing is found, cautioned against
dangerous places, and somebody must
drive them to water. The instinct that
leads other animals to find these things
for themselves seems to be lacking i'll
sheep. 1t takes them a long time to
learn, too, and when a flock has be-
come accustomed to a pasture it re-
quires comparatively little attention,
and hence the owners of the land are
always glad to take the hocks Of their
tenants and pay an advanced price for
for them.-William Il. Curtis, in Chi
Gag Record-H Herald.
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There are many insects which feed
on n injure growing wheat, but the
greater proportion of the losses to
wheat fields chargeable to insects is
due to the attacks of less than half a
dozen species. The most destructive
of these pests is the chinch bug. The
great damage to farm crops by this
insect Is due to its wide distribution,
Its prevalence more or less every year,
h enormous multiplication in favor
able seasons, and to the fact that it
attacks all the cereals and most forage
plants. The next in Importance is the
Hessian fly. 1t is estimated that the
damage to the wheat crop by this pest
is about ten per cent. of the product
in the chief wheat-growing sections Of
this country, which indicates an an
nual loss Of 10000, 900 bushels and
ger. Next Of Importance are the
wheat nudge and grain plant lice. In
sects of second-rate importance are
the wheat-straw worms, the wheat
bulb worm, army worm, cutworms
and various sawfies.
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One Of the features of the Louis
lana Purchase Worlds Fair EXPOSE
ton at st. Louis will be a heroic statue
of Napoleon Bonaparte- ana the devo-
ton of a day of festiyity TO his mem
Dry. The sale of Louisiana to the
United States was Napoleon's concep-
ton. aud it was carried out against
the wishes of his ministers. The pro-
moters of the exposition, therefore,
consider that Napoleon did the Amer
lean Republic an inestimable service
which is worthy of distinguished rec
ognition, for the acquisition of Louis
lana by England, as one of the fruits
of the Napoleonic wars, might have
changed the whole current of Ameri-
can history.
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The extreme percentages of fol

The extreme percentages of foreign
born citizens in the United States are
found in the East and Northeast, and
the next greatest in the Northern Cen
trail division-the group of States in
Guiding Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Michigan. That New York.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massa-
chusetts have the larger proportions
Of foreign-born will not come as a sur
prising revelation. since the average
immigration returns show that about
eighty per cent. of the arrivals from
abroad settle in the section covered
by these States. About a quarter of
the Connecticut population is foreign
horn.
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- an ~
So JeStS~

Teacher-'What is an unknown
quantityF" Coal Dealers SOMA ton
of coal.'-Tit-Bits.
in what way did lie lose his self
possession every simply. He gave
himself away."-Philadelphia Times.
Patience-"The man I marry must
know as much as l do" Patrice-
what! No more than that, dear?"-
Yonkers Statesman.
why do you think she is so desper-
ately in love with him." ''She wears
4 color that isn't becoming to her, be-
cause he likes it.''-Chicago Post.
your face is like a peach" he said.
She blushed beneath her bonnet.
Nor dreamed he meant to say it had
Superiuous fuzz upon it.
Philadelphia Record.
Il wonder how so many forest fires
catch" said Mrs. Mcbride. Perhaps
they catch accidentally from the noun
tain ranges" suggested Mr., Mcbride.
Detroit Free Press.
"A financier is a man who makes lots
of money, isn't II, fatherE NO, Fred
dy; a fnancier is a nan who gets hold
of lots of money other people have
made."-Our Dumb Animals.
Mrs. Henpeck-''A child gets its
physique from its father and its dis
position from its mother" Henpeck-
In that case, my deal, it's a blessing
that we've never had any."-Judge
Why does it seem so very wrong
When others tell a %whopper,F
And when you need one of your own,
Why does it seem proper?
Washington Star.
Johnnie, your hair is wet. You've
been swimming again" Il fell in,
ma" Nonsense. Your clothes are
perfectly dry "Yes'm. l know'd you
didn't want me to wet EN-, so took
'em off before | fell in."-!Tit-Bits.
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What a wonderful era of generosity

What a wonderful era of generosity
and goodwill to institutions of learn
ing is that of the present! The am
bilious boy or girl who desires a col
lege training in these days in any part
of this country experiences far less
difficulty in obtaining it than did the
generation of thirty years ago. If
there are any Abraham Lineolns at
humble firesides at the dawn of this
century they need not confne their
studies to borrowed books painfully
conned by the pickering and uncertain
light of pineknots. May there not be
some little danger that to some extent,
here and there, the higher education
may be made too luxurious and too
facile? queries the New York Tribune
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DR.. John II. Beynon, who shot and
seriously wounded George Campbell
at Newark, is believed to be insane.
He had attended the chapel of the
South Park Presbyterian Church. of
which the Rev. DR.. Lyman Whitney
Allen is pastor. DR.. Allen went TO the
First Precinct police station to see
the prisoner. Dr.. Beynon was brought
into the captains office TO meet him.
He became violent, striking Mr.. Allen
in the face with his clenched fist. The
police said there was absolutely no
motive or cause for the shooting, and
that DR.. Beynon was laboring under
dementia. Campbell probably win re-
cover.
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A Mysterious Chest.

The Tsar Paul l, left a locked chest
when he died. inscribed, Not to be
opened for a hundred years The
Tsar was murdered on March "a, 1901,
just when he was intriguing to place
Russia under the power Of Napoleon.
Nothing is as yet known Of the on
tents of the mysterious chest, but II is
surmised that it contains important
papers on the history of a hundred
years ago, and especially ON the pro
1eeted attacks on England.
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NEWS OF THE STATE
State Profits by Lorillard's VIII.

The State Of New Jersey Will get a
comfortable slice of the Lorillard
money through its collateral Inherit
Rnce tax, which in this case becomes
operative under the clause Of the will
b%equeathlng the Raucocas farm to
Mrs. Allen. The State will profit to
the extent of five per cent. of the value
of the property because Mrs. Allen is
not a direct heir, and the property Is
not bequeathed for charitable pur-
poses. The value of the property has
been estimated at close to q million
dollars, The law provides for the APP
pointment Of appraisers to determine
the value Of property subject to the
tax. The law in six years has netted
the State upward of a million dollars.
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PENIS GROVE, N. j., FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1901. NU
%ClRcus.DAY IN TOWN.

/ swami 1t surely seems like a thousand
sence circus.day at Groveland-where l
was raised, you know.
And, still, | r~ecollect it as plain as plain
can be
The cages and the canyas and ring, IRON
A to y.
Them summers warn't o'erburdened with
things for us to do
Our fun was ball and fishin, and %socials,
mebbe, too.
And when the billboards snorted and
blazed from heel to rown-
Sayl Wasn't we excited at circus-day IN
town!
We boys land, land! I'm speakin' of
when my hair warn't gray
Were up and ready, anxious, while yet
twas hardly day!
Nigh four o'clock would ketch us, tho
pourin' rain like sin
Twas sort Of point of honor to watch the
circus come in;
To cheer and escort it, and yell the pro-
per road,
And answer bossy questions, and help the
men unload,
And marvel at how easy they drove the
tent-stakes down
To be at the begiunIn' Of circus-day IN
town.
we had not timefor breakfus'; we skipped
from chore to chore;
Twas jest a lick and promise-and then
away we tore.
We fought to carry water land never
asked a cent?,
And poked about the wagons, and peeked
in ev'ry tent;
And tagged the big procession, and waited
for the free
High tight-rope exhibition it takes a bow
to seel
Sometimes we met a cussin' (the "Hey,
Rubes'' did it brown.
But that was on the program OF circus
day in town.
And as for the performance-the chap
was dull, | swear,
Who hadn't wit to manage, at last, to get
in there.
By links! When all was over, our minds
were fired so hot
We'd give another circus on Parsons va
cant lot
sTwin" Jones Che's iedge) was master at
hangin' by his toes
'Babe" Smith was leadin' tumbler (he's
dead and gone, l s'pose)-
"Chub" Lewis (now in Congress well,
wasn't he a clown!
l swan; 1t sets me dreamin', Old circus
day in town.
Edwin i. Sabin, in Puck
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The attendants of the State EIospl.
tal for the Insane have presented a
petition to DR.. John w. Ward. medi.
eal director, protesting against the food
furnished them and the inmates by
Steward William p. Hayes. They say
canned meats, and not fresh meats,
canned vegetables and last years pro.
duce are served instead of fresh goods
paid for by the State, and that the
food as furnished and cooked is detri.
mental to the health of the patients
The protest has been forwarded to the
warden, William 2. Hayes, who has
entire charge Of the business manage,
ment Of the institution. It is probable
that an investigation will be made by
the Asylum Board of Managers.
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THECUREOFT~ TUBERCULOSIS
Dr. Koch's Hopeful View Regarding
Prevention Of the Disease.
CONSUMPTION THEORIES UPSET

The Famous Expert Says That the White
Plague is Neither Hereditary MOI
Transmitted From Animals - Greatest
Cause of Contagion is the sputum of
Afflicted Persons-A Bugbear Destroyed
London. - Professor Robert Koch's
announcement before the British Con
gress Oh Tuberculosis that the disease
in human beings and hat in cattle
were radically different and 0 trans
ferable from animal to man and vice
versa proved to be the most sensa-
tional feature of this remarkable
meeting.
In the course of his address, DR..
Koch said his experiments had salts
fed him that human tuberculosis and
bovine tuberculosis We're radically
different diseases. He had amply
demonstrated that cattle could not be
Infected with human tuberculosis.
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1t is claimed that great as is our an

1t is claimed that great as is u an
nual wheat crop it does not exceed the
production of poultry and eggs. This
is due to the fact that a large proper
ton of poultry is kept in the suburbs
of cities, towns and villages, the farms
not producing more than one-half. 1t
is almost impossible to get a correct
census of the poultry and eggs pro-
duced in the United States, rs but few
keep records of their fowls.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

Great statesmen, poets, novelists, SOL
diers and sailors pass away and their
services to the world are much talked
about. At Frankfort, Ky, Benjamin
f. Meek, the inventor Of the fishing
reel, died the other day. Though little
fuss is made about him, it must be ad-
mitted that he has conferred more
real benefit on the race than many a
greater man, as the world counts
greatness, The gentle philosophical
race of anglers is under an obligation
to him. Peace to his ashes!
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

The character of Abdul Hamid must
obviously have many facets. The lat
est of his visitors is DR., Herzl, the
Zionist leader, who reports to the
London Daily Mail that he is perfect
ly charming.
"The Sultan spoke to me with the
greatest kindness. l found him a
courteous, charming gentleman-one
almost forgot he vas this mighty po'
tentate. He has kept himself in touch,
l found. with all the latest develop
ments of modern life, and evidently is
far from having those medieval no.
tions which one somehow associates
with the Ottoman Empire"
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Mr.. Jacob Schoenhof pleads in the
Forum, for more attention to Higher
Technical Training" In this respect
he regards America as less enterpris-
ing than England and the Continent
of Europe, and ever than Japan. He
accuses American manufacturers Of
p~referring to exploit in their W
mills the highly educated talent Of
European countries rather than to ere
ate schools at home.
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Three specialists from Philadelphia
have been at Clayton examining the
eyes of several glassblowers in the be-
lief that they can make a glass that
Will protect the blowers eyes from the
heat Of the furnace, at the same time
not interfere with the work. After
looking into several Of the blowers
optics the specialists were surprised to
find so little injury from the heat.
However, they were satisfied that they
can prepare glasses beneficial to the
blowers,
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The continued wet weather has al
most ruined the wheat crop. Preced-
ing the rain Hunterdon County had
been suffering from a drought fol
nearly a month and the corn crop in
some sections was almost ruined. The
cherry crop was cut in two and other
small fruits and vegetables suffered.
So much rain has fallen that the grain
could not dry sufficiently to be stored
away, and now the farmers assert
that it has been entirely ruined az far
as -four making is concerned. The
crop, however. will be gathered and
the grain fed to chickens or swine.
The loss TO the crop will amout to
many thousand dollars.
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Sporting Brevities.

Five first prizes have been won by
New York exhibitors at the Atlantic
City Horse Show.
The New Haven Country Club com
bination has won the team golf cham
pionship of Connecticut.
Warren Zurbrick, of Buffalo, n. Y,
has lowered the worlds amateur com
petition cycle record for five miles at
Vailsburg, n. ].
The University of Pennsylvania
crew of Philadelphia easily won their
race against the Trinity College, Of
Dublin, crew On Killarney Lake, Ire
land.
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Jamestown, Virginia, where the
English gained their first foothold in
the New World in 1907, was burned in
1876. To-day nobody lives there. Lit
tie remains to mark the site except n
crumbling church tower, dilapidated
gravestones. and remnants of the
foundations of a few houses, is a
statement In the Ladies' Home Jour
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Learning how to do things and make
things is becoming a more important
element in educational effort in the
United States each year. The tenden-
cy is a hopeful sign in education, not
only because it dignifes and ennobles
handcraft, but because it represents an
effort to meet the demands of what is
certain to be an age of great industrial
activity
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A Long Journey, But No Results.

search OF the giant sloth, or mylodon, has
returned from its Is, 000-mile trip with the
conviction that the monster is extinct.
Hesketh Pritchard, chief of the expedi-
ton, however, during nearly a year spent
on the eastern side of the Cordilleras,
found some remains OF the giant sloth,
bearing al extraordinary appearance OF
freshness.
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HOMEMADE MILK COOLER.

the room and ice were double boarded
and packed with sawdust. Then I
built q tank of brick across one end
OF the small room and cased it up with
matched boards. The cut shows the
framework of the chest. Any one
having old brick and a small amount
of ingenuity can build one at a very
small cost, 1t does its work as well
as an ice-chest costing much more
New England Homestead.
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PEKlN DEADLOCK ENDED.


Washington, d. C.-The State De
partment received a dispatch from
Commissioner Rockhill, in Pekin, an
n~ouncing that a plan for the payment
of the indemnity to the Powers by the
Chinese Government finally had been
adopted. Amortization of the bonds
to be issued will begin in 1902, and the
plan contemplates the entire llquida-
ton of both principal and interest by
1910.
1t is expected that China will raise
$15, 100000 annually. This sum is
to be used to pay the interest on the
bonds and to form n sinking fund
for the ultimate liquidation of the
principal.
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AA22AAAIAAA1za
FARM AND GARDEN !
ER~~~~NwNwwE


The proper time to divide lily of the
valley roots is in the fall. When
planted in the spring they may not
thrive or bloom. The fall is an ex-
cellent time for dividing many other
plants and setting them out so as to
have them ready for a start in the
spring.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

A large number of Arctic expeditions
are planned for this summer. As
usual, no one knows exactly what the
explorers expect to discover or of what
use it will be when found.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

A newspaper prints an advertise
ment, according to the New York
Press, that deserves a response. 1t
reads: IF John Smith, who twenty
years ago deserted his poor wife and
babe. will return, said babe will knock
the stufing out of him.
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A Cheap Milk Cooler.

A few years ago. being in need of a
tank for cooling milk in cans, and
finding that a metallic or wooden tank
would be quite costly, l built a room
six by eight feet in one corner of a
small icehouse. The walls between
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

The Boer prisoners of wal confined
on Darrells Island, Bermuda, make
almost nightly attempts to avoid the
%patrolling gunboats Medina and Med
way and to gain the main land by
swimming. Several have succeeded
in escaping.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

Eleven years ago American goods
were practically unknown in India.
To-day in all the departments in the
larger cities American merchandise is
offered for sale.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

The discovery in New York City of
a man named Sausage leads dozens of
r .~ragraphlc celebrities 10 rise as one
man and assert that he inay ne the
missing link so long sought Tor by
scieptists.-DenYer Posi-.
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them up some. So these two extra
crates fill up the lower layer of boxes
after the top layer has been unloaded,
thus making III load weigh out nifty
bu~shels.-Elias f. Brown. in Orange
Judd Farmer.
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Japan has now advanced far enough
along the lines of Western civiliza-
ton to begin having her statesmen as
sassinated.
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CHICAGO SELLING VEGETABLES.


Chicago.-From four to six carloads
of vegetables are now being shipped
from Chicago daily to drought-strick-
en- section of Illinois and Missouri.
which ordinarily supply this market
with produce of this character. The
shipments consist Of homegrown
vegetables. Buyers have come here
from Kansas City, Centralia and va
rious other places.
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Philip MeKevitt, his wife and their
five children are in the isolation hospi-
tai, in Newark, suffering from small
poX.
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Hanged For Numbering Brother-in-Law
Elmer Il. Barner was hanged in the
jailyard at Harrisburg, Penn, for the
murder of his brother-in-law. Isaac
Miller, last August, nea Halifax,
Penn.
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The case Of the st. Louis man who
died of too much quail-e6ting points
n cold moral against hot birds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

Out OF an average annual loss to thh
worlds shipping OF PIP vessels, ninety
four are completely missing and neve
heard Of again.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-27
THE WEEK IN GOTHAM.
A Review Of PLAYS and Players in N,
York.

A Review Of PLAYS and Players in New
York.
New York, October 2t-"Uere we are
again. Sir Henry Irving did not say this.
but he probably thought It sIonday night
as he walked upon the stage Of the Kni,k
erbocker theater, IN the carb Of King
Charles ], and bowed his acknowledgment s.
OF q boiStcrous and enthusiastic greeting
Later, "me, too Ellen Terry came on and
was Just as cordially received. MIR. Irving
has not perceptibly aged since his last y.si
and Is Just as vigorous as when he first,
faced an American audience, Ass Terry
~ stu an attractive woman, and one or
the most effective actresses England has
ever sent across the big pond. The ar-
dlence on the opening night included many
persons prominent In social and business
life. KIM Charles Is not the best of MIR.
lrying's impcrseuations, but 1t pienses his
admirers and that Is all that can be cN-
pected. The play is produced with in.
crafty, several Of the scenes being e'alor.
ate, Tho repertoire for the week Includes