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The Penn's Grove record., 1903-06-12
High School Girl Drowned.

While taking a ride in a boat on the
Mississippi River with the graduating
High School class, Nora Killing, aged
eighteen, was drowned at Eaton, Ind.
She grabbed an soverhanging branch,
Of a tree, lost her balance and fell into
the water The swift waters quickly
carried her beyond aid.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-06-12
Great Britain Protests.

The British Minister at Caracas, H.
g. O. BaxIronside. has presented a
protest to the Venezuelan Foreign
Office against the recent suppression OF,
Custom Houses at the ports on the
Orinoco and the Gulf Of Paria.
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ITS q dent."-New York Sun.
70 complete His Edncation.
"A sense Of Satisfaction.

"We r n of the richest nations
on EARTH" ~
"Of course we are" answered Sen.
ator Sorghum. And I can say without
boasting that I-have done much to help
along a few of the people who repre-.
sent its wealth. Star.
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should Saw. But Didn't.

0nOUIU C0yp 1SuU A<A0n H
Hell know your family doesn't like
me, but will you be my wifew
She-"Well, I should say not"
~ He taken aback)-"Whew! that's
rather short" ffA H 8af
She-I repeat, / should say not, but
as a girl in love doesn't always say
what she should, I'll say syeal''-Phit
adelphia Press. ~
1wES 4g8 -- a4f3
Removing the Causes.
$50 you belong to the Don't Worry
Club?"
IT do, and I'm glad Of it, although
my membership compels me to take q
few chances"
I'm what way"
81 had to quit looking at the gas
meter. and weighing my ice.'-Wash-
ington Star.
Ii Il -@%g
~ Hfs first Pair Or Tro users.
One cold day, little Tom. In his first
trousers, was walking out with his tiny
~oyercoat turned back to Its utmost
limit, when his father said to him:
sTom, button your coat!w
Tom hesitated awhile.
"Look at mine,'' added his father.
EYES," said Tom, ruefulIy. "but
everybody knows that you wear
trpupers."
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F,St,o, an r,c,,o,;.

8 q Ff6tfOM on N1CfiOM. "a
4"Have you read Wrighter's new work
OF fction?"
3 tNot exactly. 4siaheW
: "What do you mean?"
4 AWen, I've only read the advance no.
tees, but I suppose there is really more
fiction. ins them than there is In the
book itself."-Baltimore Herald.
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Not On toathe Predictions.

swell, Is married life all that it is
Is painted" asked the girl.
mot quite" replied the bride, with
what her friend declared later she was
almost sure was a sigh. We've been
married three months now, and during
that time Jack has spent but -four
evenings at the sclnb."-Syracuse Her
old
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) @a Gainesv1Ile's Dead. Last.
The Mayor Of Gainesville, Ga, esti.
mated that the total number Of deaths
resulting from the tornado there would
be more than 125.
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10 His Reason.

Smifhkins-'TKere's old Bifkfns. !
don't care to meet him. Let's turn this
way. Last summer I requested a loan
Tiffkins = "Well. he ought to have
obliged you ;she's rich enough"
Smithkins-ssThe trouble is he didr,-
Smart Set.
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DYING. CONFESSED TWO mvRDERa
Belts on Death Bod Admits Killing His
Father and Another.

Frederick, Md.-Samuel Belts died
in Meyersvillefrom a pistol shot wound
inflicted by himself. Just before dy-
ing he confessed that he and his BROTH
er Josiah murdered their father, Sam
uel Belts, seventeen years ago to get
$4,000 which he had. accumulated.
Belts also confessed that he partici-
pated in the murder of Walter Long
and buried the body secretly seven
years ago. Longs disappearance had
been q mystery.
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SCORES DRONNEDINFID0D
Damage to Property in South Caro-
lima Estimated at $5,o0O,O0O.
HEAVY LOSS TO COTTON MILLS


ny " AAO.A VI 1OA6OA5 -
Left Destitute-Thousands Of workers
Made Idle by the Destruction Of Plants
"A Railroad TrestIe Washed Away.
Columbia, s. eighty persons are
dead as a result of the food that swept
through the Piedmont Valley, accord
ing to- the latest returns from the de-
vastated district. At Clifton alone 100
operatives were missing from The vii
lage, and all were believed to- have
been lost. The damage toa railroads.
cotton mills and other manufac tories,
telegraph and telephone companies, to
houses and stores will make a Sgrand
total Of about s.. 900. Sixtythou-
sand mill workers are idle andSdesti-
tute, many Of them homeless The
greatest loss fife and property was
in Spartanburg County.
The Governor hasAissUed a proclama-
ton calling for aid.
At Converse thirteen dead afe re-
pOrted-an forty-one at Clifton No. 2.
At Clifton No. q twenty,sfx Homes
were destroyed, thirteen at Clifton no.
Land twenty at Clifton; No.s3.
afThe loss at Oliftonfs three mills will
approximate s$2,OO0000. IDAt Eacolet
the loss is nearly $1,00O.000.i
~ The greatest want among the eprviv-
ore sat GliftonsaWheEesAQ are desti-
At Converse Mills. the newest Of
Clifton'sS cluster, the walls were
washed away and the looms Ieftstand-
Ing. The engine bricks were carried
three miles down stream. demolishing
the operatives houses on the way.
The railroad situation caused much
uneasiness throughout the State. The
Southern Railway annulled trains be-
tween Columbia and ~Spartanburg, 200
feet Of the trestle at Shelton below
Union having been washed away.
The flood was due to a mighty cloud
burst along the headwaters of the
Pacolet River, in Polk County, N. G..
The crest Of the food, when it reached
Pacolet, was sixty feet high. The mills
we're located along the banks of the
stream in a deep valley, high hills ris-
ing on either side, and caught the full
force Of the flood. Mill men, con-
versant with the situation, say that the
destroyed properties will be rebuilt ON
the previous sites, and probably will
be in partial or complete operation
again within twelve months. The Glen
dale mill probably will be in shape to
resume work within sixty days.
- @gHg $3.50
Spartansburg, s. CA massmeeting
Of citizens was held here and $500
was subscribed for the relief Of the
flood sufferers. Many generous offers
Of assistance have been t~elegraphed
from other cities. Congressman. John
son left for Washington to see Secre-
tary of War Root, with the purpose, of
securing Federal aid, if possible.
Washington, D. C.-Absolutelyineces-
sary relief in the way of rations, medi-
cines, etc., will be given by the War
Department to the sufferers by theSdis-
astrous flood in South Carolina. An
appeal to Secretary Root from the
local authorities resulted in orders be-
ing given to General Chaffee, COM
handing the Department Of the East,
to this effect. He will authorize an
officer to proceed north from Atlanta
with sufficient supplies to relieve imme-
date necessities, as was done in the
case Of the sufferers by the Gainesville
(Ga.) catastrophe.
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Did He Do It?

visitor-"Sam, I shan't kiss you any
more If you don't wash your face"
Sam-sThere you go again, putting
temptations in a mans path. It's hard
enough to keep clean al it is."-NeW
York Sun.
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carried her beyond aid.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
NNNN~~~NNoN

All widows coolness Is on the out.
side
Married couples have to quarrel Just
to learn not 10.
The best thing for girls complex.
ion is for man to catch her climbing
an apple tree.
Some people seem to think that just
because man Is bachelor he Is deaf,
dumb and blind.
Nearly always you can tell when a
man is married by the way he acts as
ii he weren't when he is away from
home.
Ii Is just like woman when she Is
talking To a man over the telephone to
whisper to him SO Central" can't
hear.
1t is the girl that slips through Il
mans fingers just when he thinks he
has caught her that he keeps on want
Ing to catch.
BY the time an afternoon tea party
has got through with good woman's
reputation 1t looks as II 1t belonged in
u problem play.
Women are so conscientious that
when they are Ia bath tub and
servant tells them that some man has
called to see them they blush.
A woman has an idea that II Is bet
ter for her not to balance her check
book monthly 50 the cashier won't
know how little money she has
A girl always thinks man is I'M
pressed with the beauty of her face
when he turns around to take another
look to see how In the world she keeps
her hat on.
The skeleton that every man thinks
he keeps safely hidden in the closet at
home walks along the street behind
him. grinnlng over his shoulder at all
his friends.-New York Press.
A man can always make woman
believe he loves her II he remembers,
when he writes he Is coming to see
her, to ask her to wear certain dress
that she knows she looks pretty in.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
policemen nf thn seas,

Revenue cutters are the policemen of
the high seas. They have regular beats
to patrol along the coast, looking for
vessels in distress, suppressing snug
Cling, Illicit seal hunting and mutinies
They also enforce quarantine regula'
tions, examine ships papers, supply
lighthouses and act as life savers, am
bulance corps, fire department and mes
senger boys generally for the govern.
ment at sea-.
The first revenue cutters were built
at the order OF Alexander Hamilton
when he was secretary of the treasury
and except In war time, when they are
subject to the authority of the navy
they are still under treasury depart
ment orders Strange to say, however
it is IN times of peace that revenue cut
ters fight their hardest battles. They
save many lives and property that Is es
ttmated at many millions yearly. Their
name gives little idea of the great and
varied service they render the country.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
The Mast Made HIS CONN.

The Macedonian was sent to the
Brooklyn navy yard TO have a new
mast put into her. Old Jack Stady
bossed the yard then, and Captain
Hudson was commandant. When the
job was finished and the. ship was
about to sail Jack called on the COM
mandant. Captain" he said, 1--WE
axed you few favors in my time, but
I'm goin' to bother you with one now.
When old Jack. goes to Davy Jones
locker he wants you to send him below
in a box made out of that old mast.
viii YOU, do 1t, STRIP" The captain
promised Old Jack died not long after
ward, aud Hudson was as good as bis
word. The mast was cut down ana
sawed into boards, and the honest soul
was buried in coffin made of them.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

dinner When you married. there Is what you call
spread When die. there will likely be funeral
When you win battle, you dine aud drink. When you
lose you do much the especially drink. When your
corporations to inspect sewer they end up
task with banquet Even your clergy when they
to place minister In charge. celebrate by din
nern
II could exactly tabuate the mode OF life of our
distinguished men who have lived great age and been
Intellectually active last that We should
histories. | think IL Is with OF science our
great lawyers doctors and clergy who live
past the allotted span OF hreeseore years and The
return 10 simpler life besides would produce other
suits than those of increased health Perhaps
he less likely lose heads either in national
disaster or In days of national rejoicing We might also
be content with less lavish display In life large,
conduct all ceremonals with dignity aud less
garishness But the mob day Will always call
aud light just the old Romans yelled for bread and
games. Our own danger is that games and bread
becoming the end of national life Instead
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

awake. A writer who has observed
nature to some purpose holds to the
less popular theory that the habit of
Information Is rather to avoid the pangs
and penalties OF famine, says the Lon
don Globe.
From the little bats which huddle
In amorphous clusters under belfry
tower and barn roof, to the mighty
badger who sinks far back into his
subterranean lodging, almost all the
alternating animals are wholly or part
ly insectivorous. And when We come
to examine the creeping, or winged,
fare of these kreophagists, who with
draw from the madding world during
winter, we understa nd how 1t Is that
so many animals fall asleep and so
many birds fly away from our Barme-
eide feast Bees, wasps, ants, earwigs,
wood lice, gnats, horsehles, slugs,
beetles, larvae, worms and snails-
all these are seldom visible In winter
months; while the famine of insect life
In the fresh water of our ponds is de
ducible from the fact that efts creep
ashore TO wriggle asleep In the cracks
of earth and the frog tucks himself
to sleep In the bed of his pond. Toads
and snakes likewise sleep away the
famished months, and we are told that
1t is only minority of animals which
keep their eyes open In winter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

NAL given her by the nation, founded
the Florence Nightingale school for
trained nurses. And the American
Red Cross Society WAS inspired by her
work-Miss Barton giving her the
credit.
Miss Nightingale came from we'll
known aristocratc English family,
whose name was not originally Night
ingale. She was born in Italy and
owes her name to Florence, her birth
place.
Since the Crlmean War Miss Night
ingale has been a partial invalid
through overwork at that time Her
mind. however. is clear and she
spends part of each day reading and
writing. She has always been espe-
cially fond of birds and at her home
she has multitude of cages filed
with her cheerful little friends
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
CHIEF P. M. ARTHUR.
Head of Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and His Career.

+. NJ. Arthur, grand chief engineer
Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, dropped dead while speaking
at the banquet at the close of the an
nual union convention of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers at Win
nipeg, Man.
Mr.. Arthur had just arisen to re
spond to a toast, opening with: 1T
may be my parting words TO many of
you,' when he fell backward and eX-
pred few minutes afterward.
Although born In, Scotland y years
ago. p. NJ. Arthur was in spirit an
American. for he reached the United
States while still a lad and was
brought up amidst American environ
ments. He went to work IN the shops
OF the New York aud Harlem Rail
road Company as Il blacksmlth's help
er, and while there became Interested
An machinery and ultimately learned
that trade.
lie also made his start rs an engi,
neer in the same shop, beginning ms an
engineers wiper, and ,seryed his entire
apprentlceshlp 10 the end Of manning n
throttle himself on the New York Cen
trail Railroad
When, In 1863, that great single In
bor mower the brotherhood Of l.ocomo-
five Engineers. was formed, he was
one of the foremost and most radical
leaders in the movement Afterward
no did much toward making II what 1t
now is. the strongest and most con
seryntiye organization In the world for
when clothed with power, lie recog-
niaed the fact that more could be ac-
compllshed by going slow than by ag-
gressiveness.
As a reward for these labors ana 10
show their faith In his Judgment, ara
nc n tribute to his executive powers
the members of the brotherhood made
him their unanimous choice for the po-
sltlon of grand master Of the ORDER
whom In 1878. that Office was made va
cant by the death Of Grand Chief
Blanchard.
Nor only was Mr.. Arthur looked up
to and respected by the men AMONG
whom he was the acknowledged ieae,
er, but he enjoyed the trust ana eonn
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

Almost everybody believes that
Franklin was the inventor of the light.
ming rod, and in this one particular
nearly everybody is mistaken. The
first lightning conductor was not in
vented by the genius who is said to
have Caught the lightning wild and
played with bolts of thunder" but
by a poor Bohemian monk who lived
0t Seuttenberg, who erected his light.
ming catcher on the palace of the Gu.
rator of Preditz, Moravia, on June 10,
1854. The name of this inventive
monk was Prohop Dilwisch. His ap.
paratus was composed of a pole sur
mounted by an iron rod supporting
twelve curved branches and terminal
ing In as many metallic boxes filled
with iron ore and inclosed with a
wooden boxlike cover. This was trav.
ersed by twenty-seven iron pointed
rods, the bases of which were connect
ed with the ore boxes. This entire
system of wires was united with the
earth by large chain.
The enemies of Dllwlsch, jealous OF
his success, excited the peasants OF
the neighborhood against him, claiming
that ais invention was the cause of the
dry weather that was running their
crops. When the inventor laughed at
them and refused to remove 1t they
put him In prison and then destroyed
his work
NJ. Nielsen used triple pointed rod
years before Benjamin Franklin ever
thought of hghtning rod.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

ed them. He came to believe that the
motto of the order he represented could
not be lived up to If such events We're
allowed or encouraged. This motto Is
"sobrlety. truth, justice and morality y
Mr. Arthur resided in Cleveland.
Senator Depew said he was the clever
est labor champion in the country Be
this as 1t may, while he made errors
himself, Chief Arthur certainly pre-
vented the railroad employees of the
United States from making many
rrieyous errors of Judgment. He filled
the position Of grand master of the
brotherhood with great success to the
order and with signal honor to him
self
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
THE PIONEER WOMAN
NURSE ON A BATTLEFIELD

Florence Nightingale, the grand old
woman of England" at SO is feeble
and spends most of her time in sim
gle room at her pretty London home,
attended only by devoted nurse She
was the pioneer woman nurse on a
battle field and is the mother of train
ed nurses.
After years given to nursing during
the Crimean War, she returned to En-
gland and with the $4,000 testimo-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
Too Tempting.

Miss Arabella Paxton had long since
said goodby to her youth, but nobody
had accused her of doing 1t with resig-
nation.
What We're you thinking of to starr
Cousin Arabella Off In that merry-so-
round?' asked Mrs, Jennings Mt the
county fair. She had just received her
dizzy and disheveled relative ut the END
OF trip on The flying horses.
You needn't look so severe Mt me,
@id Mr.. Jennings reproachfully when
Cousin Arabeila had been Deposited on
a settee and left to recover her equilib-
rlum.. "She heard, II woman say the
machine was enough 70 scare anybody
Out OF ten years growth, and aftef
that she was possessed to ride In II.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

The whom woman loves either make or crush
her talent however small that talent may be To
him Is refreshing; her music fad. He never listens
to her play He Is rrated because she cannot entertain
his friends with popular music. She does play
he Is at home and she stops mentioning Beethoven and
Chopin and her dreams of studying with the great.
teachers Bitterly she realizes that she got
to her She takes the thread OF her life
away among her ghood relies the aspirations early
youth
middle aged who had In her youth given prom
ise of remarkable said speaking a talented
student 81 ambitious you are, my dear but |
married and my husband liked to hear play
struggled with myself and suppressed my talent
sake Sometimes the old craving for my music comes
and l forget him. Then | play with all of the
fervor of my starved These happles
mens of my life" Strange may this attitude
the part of husband is commonly found In the men
who welded to talented With some It IS a
deep rooted sense of jealousy. Some afraid
their wives talents. Their achievements su-
perio TO their husbands and fond mental
superiority In Most also dread their wiyes'
absorption In pursuing chosen work, the expense
domestic duties. When ambitious young women marry
they should choose who In sympathy with their
talents and who will help instead of retard In their
artistic progress Even IL do pima
Gle Of fame in the continuation of their they are
safely prepared should necessity demand Its practical
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

"Times amt what they used to be-, -
said Farmer Corntossel. In the days
gone by it used to be a disgrace to be
arrested"
isn't II now?"
II dunno. Pears 10 me like it's the
only way to get your name in the pa
per along with the millionaires that
own fast horses and big automobiles. "
Washington Star.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

dence OF the entire railroad directories
Of the country
So true was this that he could go di-
rect to any railroad magnate in the
land and at any time get for his follow
ers any concession that they could in
ason demand.
Strikes were in later years Chief Ar
thurs abomlna ton. He discountenan nc
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
One of Them in Hard Luck.

Jones-This talk about Friday being
unlucky is all nonsense. My wife ac-
cepted me on Friday.
Smith-But how about your wife?-
Judge.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
Winter sIeep of animals

1t is a theory commonly held that
animals and insects 20 TO sleep In
winter because II is too cold TO Keep
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

ON i'"AN Ahhoiit slavery. by national action made
the solution of the negro problem national question:
1t is clear that of the North can't compel by force
the elevation of the black With the sword YOU can
sever manacles but cannot lift up by tie
medium We must not go into the South with advice in
holier han-thou spirit acting though belonged
to the wserthanhou class Neither force plarlsee
ism converted
Suffrage must wait for education Education is prl.
mary; political rights secondary. We have tried the
experiment of giving the suffrage first and education
afterward and bitterly has the country suffered from
bunder No should receive the power TO control
other until he is able to exercise such control.
The negro race is at the present time inferior to the
Anglo Saxon We have centuries of civilization
behind They have had countless centuries of barbarsm
and two centuries of seryitude behind Them The human
slowly from the brute II give power TO
the brute the result will be wreck and ruin. plead for
the honor of the American people Fifteen million men
ignorant Vicious dishonest and Incorporate will be
rbe milestone hang around the neck of the nation
Fifteen million chaste, honest, Industrious
power for the nation Whether the African will be
feers for the feet of the nation wings for flight depends
upon education.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
why She Feared Raw Eggs,

A little girl who takes lessons In
water colors from young woman
painter found her teacher beating up a
raw egg preparatory to swallowing 1t,
ION, how can you eat raw egg"
the child exclaimed. 81 couldn't"
did you ever taste one?" she was
asked.
No"
"Well. then, taste this" suggested
her teacher. After she had taken a
spoonful she WAS asked If she didnt
like it and replied in the affirmative.
Let me fix you one them said hox
teacher.
"Oh. no. please" said the child
quickly. "I-why--aren't you afraid
you'll hatch chickens"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

A mans strength develops when he
mas something to do, not when he is
'dle.-Atchison Globe,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04
THE MARRIED woMAN's CRUSHED TALENT.

Six among ten of the most brilliant young
women who recently graduated from widely
famed college of music are soon to be married.
The question is being debated by those who have
eagerly watched the progress of the pupils 10
what VIII become of these talents? The more
pessimstc say: Their careers are over" Their
success or their retrogresslon Is almost entirely
within the power of the man whom they marry
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-09-04

Bob-Archie has just bought a seat
on the Stock Exchange. Edith-The
dear boy | shall make him two sofa
pillows for II at once.-Judge.