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The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02
Teaching Poll Parrots to speak.

The strangest school in the world has
been established in Philadelphia by q
woman. It is a school where parrots
are taught to speak by means of the
monograph, which is a new method
only recently adopted by the founder
of the school, Mrs. Jacob Hope.
The old way of teaching parrots is
tedious and unsatisfactory. The tutor,
crouched in a corner out of sight of
the bird, repeats to it, owe and over,
thousands of times, the same word, the
same phrase, till his back aches from
his cramped and still position and till
his voice cracks and gives out. The
new way of teaching these birds to
talk is pleasant and wonderfully sue.
cessful. The tutor sets his phono-
graph going at the parrots ear, and
then retires to read or to look after
other business. His monograph, while
he rests, works for him. With a preci-
sion and perseverance that he could
never equal it drums into the brain OF
the bird the sentence that is to be
learned. This sentence the PARROT ac-
quires much more quickly aYd much
by the old.
The term at the Philadelphia phono-
graph school Of languages for parrots
lasts six months. The tuition fee is
$46a term, and the school has at pres
ent twenty pupils.-W. B. Trites, in
Leslie's Weekly.
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Good Navy EIarksmanship

An interesting illustration of the ex.
cellent craftsmanship of Uncle Sans
men behind the guns, as developed
during the recent inspection trip Of the
naval committeeman on the U. S. s.
Dolphin, has. just come to light. Rep
resentative Roberts of Massachusetts
was of the party. Approaching Gun
ner's Mate Spoer of the ship, MI. Rob
erts offered him a dollar to. hit a sea
gull. Spoer took a forty-pound six-lhil-
limetre Colts automatic gun, and after
a trial shot he popped a sea gull on the
fly at 400 yards. One of the Represen-
tatives was firm in his declaration that
the shot was an accidental one, where
upon Spoer shot another sea gull at
$50 yards. The crowd Of astonished
witnesses to the feat finally came to
the conclusion that SpOer was the
crack shot of the ship. This Spoer
modestly disclaimed, saying, "We've a
shipload of 'em, sir" Spoer got his
acknowledgment Evening Star.
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Pest of Woodchucks.

Woodchucks have been worrying the
farmers of Gorham. One farmer found
eighteen holes in his field, into which
the pests disappeared when any n
approached. The animal does great
damage, having a special fondness for
the growing bean pods, and they have
been SO numerous on Gorham farms
that to attack them with gun and buck
shot is about as effective as war
against flies with a pea shooter. Some
local genius has discovered a plan of
determination that has worked Won
ders. Local powder dealers have been
obliged to send out of town to replenisn
their stocks of explosive and there is
81 great a demand for empty bottles
that ~perchance here is a field for effort
on the part of some of Portland's liquor
sellers to make a profit on their
'sempties." A bottle filled with powder
with lighted fuse %protruding, thrown
into a woodchuck's home, is followed
by an explosion that invariably kills
the rodents. Farmers have taken up
this idea with success.-Kennebec
Journal.
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News of the Toilers.

The National Mine Workers of Amer.
lea now have 325. 600 members.
Retail meat cutters are ~endeavoring
to secure shorter hours at Minneapolis,
MINI.
Korea, the Azores and Portugal are
to be drawn upon for labor in Hawai-
ian cane fields.
Minnesota painters. decorators and
paper hangers have formulated plans
for a State organization.
Chinese BARRIERS work on percentage,
the employer receiving seventy per
cent. Of the earnings and the journey.
>lnen thirty.
Roofers' and sheet metal workers
Nrike at Montreal, Can, has been set
tied by the employers agreeing to the
n6V scale Of wages.
a Minneapolis, Mimi, an agreement
betkeen the upholsterers' union and
the ! Employers has been signed and will
beco e effective November /.
Prlkent Indications lead the labor
n6lons Of Indianapolis, Ind, to believe
What they a begin the erection of u
abor temple by January ], 1904.
|Eleven of the t~wenty-nine master
nmbers of Pawtucket, r. 4, have
ned an agreement with the Journey.
ID Mhich wages are raised from
R60 3 day.
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DOUBLE CRIME IN CHURCH
Husband Shoots Wife and Himself
While Choir Chants.


Lacrosse, Wis.-While the congrega-
ton OF the most fashionable German
Church of this city was
taking communion Sunday morning
and the choir chanting a Psalm, Her
man Rossow shot his wife in the
church and then himself. She is dy-
ing, but he. may recover to answer
the charge of murder. They married
three years ago, she being nineteen
and a popular girl and he twenty-seyen
years old, with the best Of prospects
and wealthy parents. For the past
Two years they have had domestic
troubles, eliminating a short time ago
IN her leaving him. Although a di-
yorce suit was not commenced it was
contemplated, non-support being the
charge.
Rossow has stated at different times
that his wife would not live to get a
divorce, but, being a %peaceable man,
no one thought anything of it. To-day
lie stopped at a livery stable near the
church, ostensibly to chat, but really
to watch for his wife, who he knew
was a devSlt church member. When
d entered the church he rushed to
the entrance as she was in the aisle,
Just ready to kneel at a pew, ran up
behind her and shot her three times
In the back with a revolver of large
calibre. the balls going clear through
her and passing mp the aisle.
The screams of the injured woman
mingled with the voices of the choir
and panic reigned instantly. Rossow
then shot himself in the region of the
heart, but did not hit that organ. Ros-
SOW evidently repented of suicidal in
tent and with blood gushing from his
wound raced up the street. Eugene
Derr, an ex-police officer, caught him.
Rossow says he goes not regret the
deed, as no matter how it ends it will
terminate his domestic troubles.
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SAYS CROPS ARE ABUNDANT.
Secretary of Agriculture Reports on Trip
Through Corn Belt.

Secretary of Agriculture Reports on Trip
Through Corn Belt.
Washington, d. C.-Secretary Wilson
returned to Washington from Ogden,
where he addressed the Irrigation Con-
gress. His journey both ways~took
him through the heart of the corr belt,
and he said:
"The corn crop, owing to the peculiar
ity of the season, was late and light.
Heavy floods destroyed it on the bot
tom lands to a great extent. Con-
tinued rains throughout June and July
saturated the level lands and retarded
the growth Of corn. The frost has
injured it in streaks. Through Central
Iowa perhaps one-quarter of the crop
has been touched, but what has not
been affected is ripening rapidly. Iowa
will not have as many bushels as last
year, but will produce more No. 2 corn
than last year. There will be plenty of
corn in the country because feeding
was extensive last year. Many feeders
lost money, therefore they will feed
less this year.
"a heavy hay crop was cut this sea-
son, and pastures are i'll excellent ION.
dition. AS to wheat. threshing has
been delayed by rainy weather. TAX.
ing I'LL farm products as a whole, there
is On abundance in the land"
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Older imam solon,on,s Temps..

1t is not generally realized that VIII I
Solomon erected his temple a thousa d
years before Christ, Americans in Pe.u
We're building their tremendous "struc-
lures to the glory of a creator god"
Yet this is the conclusion toward which
our archaeological researches in South
America now point. Professor MIX
Uhle, of the University of California,
writes in Harper's Magazine of the
slow but effective processes by which
these records have been unearthed. re-
yealing city buried beneath city, as
each new period of culture succeeded
its predecessor. The article is illus
trated by curious pictures of early pot
terry and of significant ruins.
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MEXICO VOTES GIRL A MEDAL.
Shc Ran City of Linares in Yellow Fever
Epidemic.

Epidemic.
Linares, MexicO.-The heroic action
Of Miss Manuela Flores, the beautiful
eighteen-year-old daughter Of old Col
onel Mariana Gomez, Mayor of this
city, has attracted the attention Of
President Diaz and the Mexican Con-
gress, which has voted a medal to
her.
This high honor will be conferred
upon Miss Gomez in recognition of
her brave and untiring service to the
people of this city during the yellow
fever epidemic. For several weeks
she has been the acting Mayor of
Linares.
Surrounded by the dying victims of
the terrible disease, and with her
father, the Mayor, lying at home
stricken with the malady, she assumed
the duties of Mayor and has directed
the affairs of the city in its time of
greatest distress with an ability that
has won for her tie praise of the
highest authorities of the Mexican
Government.
When death entered her own home,
she remained at her post of duty.
She saw the population of the city
reduced from 10000 people to less
than 5000, a result Of death and panic
due to the epidemic. When her as
sociates were fleeing to the mountains
to escape the scourage Miss Manuela
was directing and carrying out plans
for improving the sanitary condition
OF the city and using her utmost eff
forts to prevent the spread Of the dis
ease.
All the city officials were stricken
with the fever and died. AS they
dropped off, n by one. Miss Manuela
took up their respective duties, and
she is now performing the work OF
the other officials, as well as that Of
MayOr.
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AGED NAN KILLS GIRL.
Wealthy Coal Broker, S~ixty-fiye Years Old.
in Jealous. Rage Shoots Young Woman.

Wealthy Coal Broker, Sixty-fve Years Old.
in Jealous. Rage Shoots Young Woman.
Pittsburg, Pa.-George Worthington
Garwood, a wealthy coal broker, sixty
~ years shot and killed Hilda
Vogel, twenty-five years old, and then
killed himself in a room at No. 121
Moultrie street. Jealousy was the
cause Of the deed.
Garwood was formerly a farmer, liy-
ing at California, Pa. His wife and
nine children are still living. For the
last two or three years he has been
dealing in coal land options in and
around his native town and was very
successful. This business necessitated
his living in Pittsburg a good portion
of his time, and about two years ago, it
is said, he became infatuated with
Hilda Vogel, who was a waitress in the
restaurant where Garwood took his
meals.
Since then Garwood has frequently
shown his Jealousy over attentions
shown the girl by other men. Garwood
took rooms at the Moultrie House in
July and introduced the woman as
his wife.
The Garwood family is n of the
most prominent in Fayette County.
One Of the sons is principal of a public
school in Pittsburg and a daughter is
a stenographer.
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CATCH A REPEATER. WIN A PRIZE
Rewards of $50. ooe 10 Purge Election in
New York.

I4A 4O1A
New York.-Tha Citizens Union will
Offer rewards aggregating $4,000 for
the arrest and conviction of violators
of the election laws during the COM
ing municipal campaign. 1t is pro-
posed to obtain from fifty wealthy
members of the union $1,000 each tow
ard this fund. A capital prize of 5000
will be offered for evidence first pre-
sented which shall result in a convic-
ton. There will be several prizes of
$1,000 each and others of 500, $500,
$500. $500. 5000 and 500 each. Po-
licemen and election officers will have
the same chance Of competing as pri-
vate citizens.
The ~Offenses for which rewards will
be offered are numerous. An inspec-
tor of election who knowingly permits
a person not entitled to vote is a good
catch for the reward-seeker. So is
any person who falsely ~personates any
registered voter, or who registers or
votes under an assumed name.
Directly Or indirectly giving or re-
ceiving any money or other bride fos
voting Or Withholding a vote is an Of
Tense. If any inhabitant of another
State or county issdetected trying to
vote here his captor may win a prize.
An additional sum will be given where
the conviction is of an election official.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02

In consequence of the reckless driv-
lag of motor cars through villages
many of the local mayors issued orders
prescribing speeds of only six or eight
kilometres an hour within certain
bounds. These restrictions have been
brought to the notice of the Prime Min
lister, who has just issued a circular
to the Projects, in which he says that,
while he quite agrees that the speed
of motor cars should be limited in
places where there is considerable
traffic, he does not think it equitable
that the cars, which are so easily
handled and pulled up, should be
required to travel at a less speed than
horse-drawn vehicles. He consequently
invites the Projects to see that the ac-
ton of the local mayors is not vexa-
tious and beyond the real requirements
of public security, as it is necessary
that hostility should not be shown to-
ward the new means of locomotion,
which is destined tot render great SER
vices, and with which the public will
gradually become familiariZed.-Paris
Correspondence in London Standard.
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IN WHITE HOUSE AGAIN
Vacation Ended, President Roosevelt
Returns to Washington.
Ais Advent Marks the BEGINNING Of the
Busy Season in Legislative and
Administrative Matters.

Washington, D. C.-President Roose.
velt. accompanied by his family, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Loeb, and members Of
the executive staff, who spent the
summer at Oyster Bay, have returned
to Washington. Postmaster-Ge General
Payne, Major Symons and one or two
other intimate friends of the President
were at the station when the special
train arrived, but the President and
the members of his family were driven
Immediately to the White House.
where they spent the evening quietly,
The President received no callers ex-
cept Major Symons, who as Superin-
tendent Of Public Buildings and
Grounds, is Major-Domo of the White
House. AS only three members of the
Cabinet are in the city, it is not prob
able that a formal Cabinet meeting
will be held this week. Many persons
are in Washington, however, with the
object of seeing the President on vari-
GUS business and political matters. and
Mr.. Roosevelt will probably have a
busy time of it.
When the President WIS asked if he
had enjoyed his vacation, he said:
Il did. l had q bully time. Never
felt better in my life. m ready for
thirteen months more lard work.
The report has been brent recently
that President Roose1 t, in view Of
the resolutions adoptd by the Cen
trail Labor Union in Washington con-
corning the case of Foreman w. III.
Miller of the Government Bindery.
will confer with labor union leaders
in regard to a final disposition of the
case. This report. it can be said au-
thoritatively, is not true.
The President will confer with no.
body about the Miller case. in SO far
as 1t is concerned with the principle
set forth in his correspondence with
Secretary Cortelyou, when he ordered
the reinstatement of Miller In the
Government service.
That principle, as enunciated in Mr..
R~oosevelt's letter to his secretary. is
D a there shall be no discrimination
against the employment Of non-union
men in the Government departments.
Mr.. Roosevelt regards that point,
Which is clearly defined at the very
opening of the Miller case, and which
Is, III act, the only real point at issue,
as definitely settled, and any at
tempt to get the President to reverse
himself, and declare for Miller's dis
missal, as the Central Labor Unions
resolutions ask, will be futile.
Entirely aside from the principle in
volyed in the Miller case, the Presi-
dent may, however. have to reconsider
the case on its merits. That is, he may
nave to pass on it in the light Of the
evidence which the union may present
In support of it's claim that Miller is
unfit morally for employment in the
Government Printing Office, but so
far as the principle of unionism is in
volved in the case, Nj. Roosevelt will
not consider it further.
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NEGROES DIsFRANcHIsED.
Tive-sixths of Colored Men in Virgins
Now Have No Right to Vote.

Eive-sixths OF Colored Men in Virginia
Now Have No Right to Vote.
Richmond, Va.-Registration books
have closed in Richmond, and the re-
suit shows that 5000 negroes have been
DISTINGUISHED. Less than a thousand
are now qualified to vote, and they
have been entirely removed as a factor
in local politics.
Reports from the State at large JUS
tify the belief that at least iye-sixths
Of the negroes in Virginia have not now
the right to vote.
Republicans contend that their party
will be largely augmented from the
Democratic ranks, there being no fear
Of possible negro domination in the
future.
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500 Raward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleasedt,
learn that there is at least one drended dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its Stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is the only positive cure now knownto
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hau's CatarrhCureis is taken inter-
nally, acting directlynpon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces Of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation Of the disease, and givin,
the patient strength by building up the CON-
stitution and assisting nature in doing it's
work. The proprietors have SO much faithia
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for an. case that it fails to cure.
Send for list OF testimonials. Address
FL. CHENEY & Co., Toieio, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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KILLS WIFE AND SELF.


A.. Bruce Brownlee, Of youngstown, Ohio.
Committed Double Crime.
Youngstown, GA Bruce Brownlee,
one of the most prominent citizens OF
Youngstown, shot and killed his wife,
Henrietta, and with the same pistol
committed suicide by firing three bull
lets into his body. one of which passed
through his heart.
Brownlee had been drinking heavily
for some time. He came home drunk
at night, and shortly after his arrival
the shooting took place.
The only other person in the house
was Mrs. Hollingsworth. the aged
mother of Mrs. BrOwnlee.
They leave a son, Bruce. Jr., seven
teen years of age, who. upon learning
OF his parents death, lost his reason.
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STRAIGHT TO THE SPOT

the pain was less. He began to gain
and is to-day a well boy. hislifs saved by
Doan's Kidney Pills.
RIDDLES Mills, XVI received the
free trial OF pills. They did me great
good. Ihad bladder trouble, compelling
me to get up often during night. Now
l sleep well no pain in neck of bladder;
pain in back is gone, also headache
,INo l.. HILL.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02
Minneapolis Flour Mills stop.

All the Minneapolis -four mills were
closed indefinitely. All the men stopped
work. There was no disorder. Most
Of the mills had notices posted to the
effect that the time Of all the men
who quilted work would be ready forl
them the following morning and
all who did not report for duty a.
consider themselves discharged. Il
strike involves about 100 men.
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Payne Not to Resign.

II was said in Washington that Post
master-General Payne's health having
improved, his resignation fr0u tbs.
CABINET was not expected; MI lyme
INFORMED the President that his report
On the postal investigation would be
submitted late in October.
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First Class at Annapolis May Smoke.

On the recommendation OF Captain
Willard H. Brownson. Commandment Of
the Naval Academy, Secretary Moody
au.horlzed the discontinuance Of the
rule prohibiting smoking soafar as it
appi1es to the members OF the first
CLASS. In the opinion of the Secretary
the members of this class are .old
enough to be relieved Of such a restric-
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work of Traction Plows.

The sixty-horse power traction en-
gines used on Western ranches will
pull simultaneously seventeen four
teen-inch plows blowing to sixty acres
per day, or will plow, drill and harrow.
all at one time, with properly arranged
tools, from thirty-five to fifty acres
per day,
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More Teachers Wanted In II

More Teachers Wanted in the Philippine
The Civil Service Commission, Wash
ington. has received a call from the
Philippine Government for $50 male
teachers. at salaries ranging from 5000
to $1,000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02

Robbers Clean Out a Nebraska Bank.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
Ewing (Neb.) State Bank and escaped
with the entire contents, taking all
papers as well as cash. The noise of
the explosion awakened the citizens,
but the escape had been made before
a posse could be formed.
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shipping Rates For wheat Lower.

1t is announced that the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company's freight
tariff on wheat and flour is now being
revised and that the new tariff will
show reductions on rates for wheat
of from two to three cents a hundred
pounds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02

No Lynching indictments in Delaware.
The Grand Jury in the Newcastle
County Court, Wilmington, Del. after
all day, reported no indict-
ments in the lynching of the negro
White, who was burned to death by a
mob on June %.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02
Cuba to Urge Reciprocity.

At a melting of '5uban planters, sugar
brokers and bankers and merchants
at Havana, it was decided to send a
committee to the United States to seek
the co operation of the American
boards Of trade in support Of a reel.
procity treaty with America.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02
Corn Crop Escapes Injury.

Notwithstanding the occurrence of
light to heavy frosts generally through
out the corr belt, the corn crop has
escaped serious injury, except in the
western portions of Kansas and Ne
braska, and in the Dakotas. Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
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TilIman,s Trial Begins.

James-H. Tillman, former Lieuten-
ant-Governor of South Carolina, was
placed on trial in Lexington, S. G.,
upon the charge of having murdered
N. S. Gonzales, an editor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02
Typhoid Fever.

The average mortality from typhoid
fever is three times as great in Amer
lean as in European cities. The cities
in the United States which suffer most
from the disease are Washington. Chi
cago, Boston, Philadelphia and Provi-
dence, in that order.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02
MUSTAcHE CAUSES APPENDICITIS.
Patient Had Habit of NibbIing It and
Swallowing Hairs.

Sioux City. Iowa.. j. Snyder, a
cigarmaker, has had appendicitis from
from biting off his mustache and swal-
lowing the hair.
Snyder was taken to a hospital,
where an operation was performed,
and the surgeons found the hairs. AZ
ter recovering consciousness Snyder
acknowledged he had a habit of biting
his muStache.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02
GUILTY OF SEVEN MURDERS.


A Veteran @1E sfAeId-McCoy Feud
Strung Up at Last.
Richmond, Va. - Clifton Branham,
who was hanged at Wise Court House
for the murder Of his wife, was by his
W confession one of the worst des-
peradoes that ever infested the border
lands of Virginia and Kentucky.
As a member of the Mccoy gang IN
the Hatfeld-McCoy feud he killed
Jack Hatfield, George Ments and a
man named Mason. Then he became a
moonshiner, organizing a gang that
was a terror to Eastern Kentucky.
Seven murders in all were committed
by him,
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CARRIED WATER IN HIS HAT.
Ahereby an Ohio Man Saved Trestle From
BEST uction by Fire.

Best uction by Fire.
delaware, Ohio.-F. p. Hills. cashier
OF the Delaware Savings Bank. saved
a 30O-foot trestle on the Pennsylvania
hailroad from burning by carrying
water IN his derby hat. While visiting
us farm north of town Hills discov-
ered that the trestle was on IRE. The
water barrels placed near by the COM
pany We're filled. but no buckets were
at hand. Taking his new fall hat and
carrying water in it for almost an hour.
ne put out the blaze just a short time
before an express train went by at a
speed Of a mile a minute.