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SUICIDE HAD $4,000.
Had No One to Care For Him-Left His
Treasure in His Hotel Room.

Had No One to Care For Him-Left Els
Treasure in Ills Hotel Room.
Omaha, Neb.-With $4,000 in cash
and railroad bonds secreted in his
room, John Bohn, Of Omaha, COM
mitted suicide because of lOnesomeness
and his inability to secure some one
to care for him.
Bohn was m old-time business man
Of this city, but retired several years
ago.. Three years ago his wife died,
and he moved into a small room in a
third-class hotel. He had no relatives
In this country, but was supposed to
be well connected in Germany. For
several weeks Bohn had made threats
against his own life, but friends paid
no attention to him. A few mornings
ago he failed to respond to knocks at
his door.
The room was forced and Bohn was
discovered sitting in the corner of the
room dead from a bullet hole through
the heart. His pistol was in his hand.
Knowing Bonn to be well off the po-
lice searched the room. The money
and securities were discovered in odd
corners and old clothes. Lying in n
corner of the room with a lot of old
newspapers were $4,000 in Govern
ment bonds. In an old waistcoat was
$4,000 in cash. Certificates of deposit
for large amounts We're hidden in an
old book. Under the carpet We're rail-
road bonds. A. bag of gold was found
in an old cupboard. The authorities
have taken charge Of the funds until a
claimant appears.
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Gods fatherhood makes him a teacher.
Mans childhood gives him a claim to be
taught. For man is not a finished product
of Gods skill, but a product in the max
ing. Our will, our thoughts. our knowl-
edge, all need training. And because we
are Gods children one prayer we may al
ways make with confidence is that of the
Hebrew psalmist long ago: Teach me Thy
will; for Thou art my God: Thy spirit ia
1t is ~unthinkable that God our Father will
leave such a ehildlike, earnest prayer I'M
answered. Yet some of us are like foolish
children who refuse to learn unless they
can go to some famous school and listen to
some ~wellknown teacher. We forget that
the greatest instructor of all dwells in
every man who turns to God with true
repentance and seeks His presence with a
childlike faith. He shall teach you" said
the Master. The place of teaching matters
little If we ave Gods Spirit to assign and
follow up the lessons, and if we first pos
sess the scholars NiuWG R6artu
of our lives that we are to learn the les
sons of Gods school. Unusual conditions
and experiences are like examinations
which test and declare what We have
learned. The ordinary day, with its rou-
tine of drudgery, is the time for learning:
He who despises this common school OF
life, with its little tasks and opportunities,
its frequent perplexities and its recurring
WEAKNESS, despises the plan of Gods for
his education.
To recognize Gods teaching in these ex.
periences of common life requires faith and
obedience. Gods will for daily work Is
plain enough in outline through the revela-
ton of the word and the long experience
of His children. If we use our present
knowledge and listen for His voice in con-
science. willing ever to carry out His will,
we shall know of His teaching. All Chris
tan experience is here at one. He who de-
sires to do shall know. 1t will not be with
out mistakes and Establishments, but in
experience with Him our growth in knowl-
edge shall proceed along with growth in
character toward a completed strength IN
Christ.-Boston Congregationalist.
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I'm All Parts of the State.

G. C. Lindaberry has been appointed
postmaster at Potters7ille.
Newport, Cumberland County, will
have a new 10000 schoolhouse.
Immense shipments of rhubarb are
being made daily from Greenwich.
The Board Of Education of Salem
has introduced sewing into the public
schools. /
Joseph B. Anderson, who has served
as clerk of the Canton Baptist Church
for forty-two years, has been reelected
for another term.
Many Salem County farmers, having
run short of fodder, have turned their
cattle out to Craze. Pasture started
very early, but of late has grown but
little.
Oyster planters in the Maurice River
Cove are now paying $50 and $50 a
month for ~deckhands on the boats, and
even at that price cannot get all the
men needed.
The Hunterd0n County Board OF
Freeholders has brought proceedings
to test the validity of the recent cleo
ton held to reduce the number OF Free
holders to three.
Harrisonville, about the only town
in Gloucester County without telephone
connection, has a prospect of being
thus connected, as poles are being dis
tributed in that direction.
With the increased population, Pauls-
boro feels the need Of police protection,
and the Township Committee has been
asked to furnish it.
Farmers, wives around Elmer are ex
~periencing trouble in raising their
spring chickens. The matches are not
alone bad, but the chicks died almost
as rapidly as they corre-from the
shell.
During the past year the Glassboro
p~ostofice issued 1892 money orders,
representing s~2s,253.11. The total
amount of business transacted was
SAG, 4O1. 40, the largest in the history Of
the Office.
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AGRICULTURAL
Deep -. SWALLOW Cultivation.

Deep W. SHALLOW Cultivation'
The matter of deep or shallow cuitl-
vation Is one that is frequently aus
cussed, yet the question is unsettled; SO
far as the cultivation Of some crops Is
concerned. One class of farmers be-
lieve that corn should receive deep
cultivation, but they fear the injury
resulting from the cutting OF the roots
of the corn plants. 1t is not beiieved'
however, that much, If any, damage
will be done to corn by deep cultivation
during the first stages of growth as
the roots are then tending downward
rather than through the surface soil,
the feeding roots extending later. IN
experiments made it was found that
when the soil was stirred to the depth
OF half an inch the loss Of water from
one acre was i've and three-quarter
tons, and when stirred to the depth OF
~three-fourths Of an inch the loss was
about four and a half tons OF water
per acre. Soil that was not cultivated
at all lost about six and a quarter tons
of water. The experiments show that
deep tillage retains more water IN the
soil than when the cultivation Is shall
low. Deep blowing, however, with the
ground rolled. and the soil cultivated so
as to keep the top earth fine md loose.
Is deemed better for all crops that feed
close to the surface of the ground, like
corn. though all crops feed near the
surface to a certain extent.-Philadel-
phia Record.
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Growing Faith.

Growth is characteristic of all life. 1t is
an evidence of health and increasing
strength. Every soul is born as a child
into Gods kinrdom. 1t must begin, and all
beginnings are small. In our judgments OF
others we ought to remember his fact.
One has no right to expect from a child
that which belongs to manhood. When
Abraham was first called into Gods service
he came as has every one since. His faith
was untried and his growth just begun.
God promised him great things which he
hesitated to believe. When told that his
descendants were to be as numerous as the
stars he staggered at the thought. All
passed like a dream before him. The pa
triarch was skeptical. Lord, how shall |
know that I shall inherit it," Gods word
was not sufficient. He wished some evi-
dence that would appeal to his positive
knowledge. He wished to know. Years
after that man staggered not at the com
mand of God when told to STAY his own:
The difference was not IN the quahty, OF
of his faith. 1t was the same man further
on. Gods laws apply in principle alike TO
all. Abraham's experience becomes IN o
measure a part of our own. A living faitn
solves all things. Abraham's vision of the
smoking lamp and parted sacrifice was but
Temporary. 1t served him for the moment
and then became a recollection. But his
faith became a permanent one. 1t was a
lamp that grew the brighter. Here hes the
strongest evidence of our acceptance with
God. The vine lives because OF its attach
ment to the tree. 1t draws its life from
other veins. Is your horizon wider. your
faith stronger, your sacrifice more wliiing.
These are your assurances OF greater Things
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
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Personal Mention.

p. A. B. Widener has offered to give
his $3,0OO.0O0 art collection to Phila-
delphia.
General Sir George White, who was
the defender of Ladysmith, has been
promoted to the rank Of Field Mar
shall.
Count Adami has presented to the
Pope his magnificent villa near Chieti.
Italy. and some GOO works of art con.
tanned therein.
When Mrs. Ellen NJ. Stone finishes
her lecture course this spring. begun
last October, she will have told 14s
audiences the story Of her KIDNAPPING
bv Macedonian brigands.
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and feel below the earthly deeps and be-
yond the earthly heights, and when we
pray God to increase for us this funda-
mental faith, be tempted to dictate to
God how He shall answer us or when. We
may want one answer; He may know that
we need another. We may choose to have
our answer in full all at once; He may
choose to give US but the first syllable of it
to-day, and to prolong the giving OF IL
through the years of a lifetime, perhaps
through the aeons of eternity. We may
undertake in our wisdom to impose condi-
tons upon God that we imagine He must
fulfill il He would answer our prayer. for
getting the one fundamental condition,
that we must impose upon ourselves hon.
est eagerness to hear the higher voices that
may call to us from day to day, and to
obey them when they do; honest struggle
to beat back the unholy temptations that
beset us. darkenins the way to our feet;
honest purpose to do the duties that
throng us hourly. momentiy, and in their
doing ultimately illumine any darkness the
soul can enterl
The prayer of the apostles was answered
hardly as they expected certainly it might
be, but answered nevertheless and to a de-
gree of richness that they were not able
all az nee to fathom; answered for them.
as it has been through the ages for all
their successors by right of spiritual inner
rtance; for them as for him. great and good
apostle unto us of our modern time, who
walked through the fires of sacrifice and
came in and out here among us for a score
of years, fighting his good fight, MS fight
of good, his fight for God and man. whose
words are vital yet within these walls. and
beyond them where men speak the Eng
lish tongue: answered. / say, that prayer
for them of the earlier time, for him Of
this later. not by any flashing miracle of
word or deed; not by any startling revela-
ton of a new heavens and a newsearth;
not by any suddenness of divine destruc-
ton and reconstruction; nay, but by and
through a gradual growing sympathy
with the purposes of the Redeeming Mas
ter; by and through the deepening, widen
ing. atonement of their souls and bis; by
and through their effort to live the life
that worshiped His, and suffering and cru
ciflxions, it meant to them to be and do
what should bear true witness to a Christ.
And thus only is it that God can fulfill
for any of US the prayer, Increase our
faith. The eternal Father of our spirits
can meet their deeper yearning for larger
faith. for clearer vision, only through and
by the human experiences He has made
possible for us from day to day, tie life OF
effort, of struggle, of heroism. He has
made it our privilege to live. The readiness
to do His will reveals it; the seeking to re-
alize His purposes interprets them, and
closer, ever closer, becomes the meeting
point of our actual earth and our possible
heaven, as we resolve that our earthliest
efforts shall be noble enough to bespeak a
heavenly meaning, and our earthliest hopes
heroic enough to prophesy a heavenly con-
summation.
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Prexentine car Cholera.

What we mean by calf cholera is
that malignant form of disease which
usually appears from one to three
days after the birth Of the calf, and
differs from scours, which is usually
due, to digestive arrangement and
nothing more. It is always more prev
alent in the spring, most in March, just
about the time the cows are shedding
their, hair and are debilitated thereby.
The disease is born with the calf. Its
cause must therefore be looked for in
the cow, Or in her treatment previous
to the birth Of the calf.
This last I take to be the most i'm
portant element in the solution of the
problem. If the cow is all right, the
calf is almost sure to be in the same
condition. In some cases 1 have no.
ticed that when the calf does recover,
and they seldom do, it always begins
to lick the whitewash of the stable
and scrape off the outer portions Of
boards as soon as it is able to do so.
This led me to believe that one cause
was the lack of these elements in the
animals system. Last spring I had
.hree cases in my herd in March. AT or
lingering around a short time I killed
them all.
I then took another COW, due to calve
In about thirty days, and fed her a
small handful of slaked lime and wood
ashes twice a day in bran. In due
time Ehn nnluod- and h calf came
through all fight-This COW mas.
the stable with the others, and calved
in the same loose stall where the
others did, without any special disin-
lection Of the place or any attempt to
guard against contagion.
After that the other COWS in the herd
were turned to pasture. There was
no more cholera in the calves, and
has been non up to date. From this
I infer that in many cases it is due to
the lack of mineral matter in the food
of the cow, and I would. suggest to
those who have trouble in their herds
to try feeding a mixture of lime, wood
ashes and bone dust to their cows pre-
vious to calving and note the results.
Treat the disease on the same basis
as that on which we treat hog cholera.
ID. P. Forney, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
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PENIS GROVE, N. J., FRIDAY, APRIL "a, 1908.
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Dog Population wfn.d ont.


mayer Reeds proclamation ordering
the killing of ali dogs found in Norris
town at large and unmuzzled. has re-
suited in the practical a%nnihilation Of
dogs there. The proclamation went in
TO eHect a few days ago, and it is esti.
mated that 1000 dogs died suddenly
tnere during the day. The order was
the result OF an attack of rabies that a
yellow bull pup of Pat Carrillio's suf-
fered. and during which he bit about
Ioo OF the town pets. The Town Coun-
cli ioregathered with Mayor Reed and
Needed that nothing but a wholesale
slaughter would save the situation. A
special appropriation was made to the
Street Cleaning Department for re-
moving the carcasses, and then the
Mayor issued his proclamation.
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Edward Groom, Burlington County's
Oldest resident, died at Mount Holly
from the effects of pneumonia. He
was ninety-fve years old. He went to
Mount Holly in 1916, and has lived
there ~ since. Mr.. Groom was a
carpenter by trade ana was best
known through his mania for raising
money for church bells and for erect
ing scaffolds and attending executions.
He had attended nearly every execu-
ton that had taken place in the county
since 1888.
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Fines For Prison Deputies.

James Langton, John D. Hassett and
James Dullard were fined 500 and
costs by Judge Rellstab, in Trenton,
convicted of malfeasance in Office. The
three men were deputies in the State
prison, and were convicted OF evidence
furnished Head Keeper Osborne by
Charles Roller, a forger, who said they
had been in the habit of bringing drugs
and other articles into the prison at
the request Of the ~convicts, and re,
~~.-...p PSF LIS Sn1rxySs
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Cannot Find Fam Help.

IF farmers of Salem County were
able to get what help they need, land
would jump $40 an acre in ten min
utes,'' said a prominent nan in Salem
a day or so ago. This question is both
ering soil-tillers of South Jersey proba-
bly, more than in any other part of the
State, because every man without per-
manent employment is fishing. Less
acreage is now under cultivation than
for years, because help cannot be Sc
cured, even at advanced wages.
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NOT Forgottan.

DR.. Man Salters-"And so you still
remember that lecture I delivered in
your own fifteen years ago. Well, I'm
very glad, indeed, to meet you"
Hi Titefist-"Yep; 1 paid a dollar for
two tickets to that show and didn't
git to use 'em. I didn't know but as
how you mout take EN- off my hands.
Here they be."-Kansas City Journal.
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Christisn Faith.

"Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear" is
"a line that ought to be said every hour of
a Christians life. Some good people ara
the prey of natural respondent tempera-
ments. Such need a double supply of grace
and must pray for it. The worries of busi-
ness or household care, the loss OF sleep
or the arrangement Of the bodily machin.
erv. put such Christian folk under a cloud
very often. To-day they sing like larks.
Tomorrow the barometer goes down and
they are in the dumps again. Such people
should look after their bodily health as a
spiritual duty. Moreover they should keep
their Christian faith where it will not be
exposed to every east wind or drenched to
death by every shower that falls.
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To Pave ocean City Streets.

The Common Council Of Ocean City
has awarded the contract to pave the
principal streets of the city. at a cost
of $4,000, to Dixey &Reilley, of Attain
tic City. Work will be commenced i'm
mediately and is to be completed with
In four months.
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Dodged a Fiery stream.

Without the slightest warning the
tank of the furnace at the first factory
OF the Woodbury. glass works burst and
and let out seventy-five tons of molten
glass. The workmen were driven from
the factory, while the fiery stream
flowed in all directions, setting fire to
the woodwork il many places. In the
excitement two alarms of fire were
sent in, and the firemen went in sep
arate directions, but finally. with the
good work of the employees, the plant
was saved, though the damage will
amount to several thousand dollars.
About 100 men will be out of work
until repairs are made.
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High thinking chisels the features into
The beauty of a pure and refined expression.
The tone of the mind assuredly reveals it
self on the face. IF our thoughts are kind,
generous and forgiving, our faces will UNI
consciously reveal the sweetness of these
virtues. Into a kind heart God pours His
light, which radiates on the face and makes
it fair and pleasing.
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Christian Toy.

Christian joy is an experience OF great
that sadness and ~sternness of life; 1t Is
never shallow or unrefecting; it is re-
strained, tender, sympathetic, confident:
We know it when we see it in the face OF
any whom we love; it helps us.-R- j.
Camphell.
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Boy Drovn.d by Capsizing Boat.

Orville G.. Haycock, aged eleven
years, 0 of Frank Haycock, of near
Pennington, was drowned in the REG
elsville Greek, while gathering drift
wood with a small companion. The
boys rowed into a stump, hidden from
Sight by the swollen tide, which cap
sized the boat. The body was recoy-
cred.
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Appropriately Alfred.

Penelope-"How do you like my new
automobile costume?"
Constance-"Well, you certainly look
dressed to kill."-New York Sun.
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Triple Drovninp In \ Lake.

The capsizing of a rowboat on a
small lake six miles east of Kalkasmia,
Mich, resulted in a triple drowning.
The victims are John Victor, his wife
and Maggie Fuetz, Mrs. Victor's sister.
All were from Kentucky. The unfor-
tunate people went down in the water
when only six rods from the shore.
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A Truthful Sign.

Mr.. Longear-''By the way, did you
ever know that large ears are a sign of
generosity"
Miss Beauti-"Of course, Mr.. Long
ear. They are a sign that nature has
been generous."-New York Weekly.
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Their Blase Conversation.

THE thing to do" said his social ad-
wiser, lis to be blase.n
Il know, I know" was the reply,
"but it's such dreadfully hard work to
be blase."-Chicago Post.
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Served Five Year. without Oath.

AT a conference of the Court of Err
fors and Appeals in Trenton the dis
covery was made that Judge Vreden-
burgh has been serving for the past
nve years without having taken the
oath OF office. Judge Vredenburgh was
originally appointed ad interim and a
month later was appointed for a full
term. He took the oath of Office when
originally appointed, but did notstake
a new oath when re%appointed. In or
der to avoid future complications he
vas resworn. A member of the Court
laid that Judge Vredenbu.gh's right to
sit could not be raised collaterally and
could only have been questioned at the
time of the hearing of a case.
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An elaborate Reasoner.

"You are base enough to confess Nat
you love her for her wealth"
my dear sir" answered Count Fps
cads, sthat is not baseness; that shdgs
my democratic breadth Of ideas cdn-
bined with consistent respect for tf-
dition."
sYou should love her for herself"
MY dear sir, beauty, intellect AID
refinement are mere accidents Of birp.
but money is an evidence of ancesthl
and possibly hereditary foresight atd
force Of Observation-Disclosures Still.
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cut and Dried.

Goodthing-"I have something to say
to you as soon as your father retires.""
Miss Forty-"How stupid you are,
love. Papa stayed up late tonight on
purpose to give us his blessing."-New
York Herald.
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Advised Invastmsnt,

Widow (earfully)-"Yes, my daugll-
tiers are now my only resources"
Friend-"Take my advice and hus-
band your resources well."-Princeton
Tiger.
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Was YET 3

Wife "You called me a regular
dream before we were married"
Bellows - "Well, a nightmare is 8
dream."-New York Sun.
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Tho Clock Plant.

One Of the curious and rare products
Of nature is the clock plant. Purdue
University, writes a Lafayette Qnd.)
correspondent Of the Indianapolis
News. had one of the few specimens
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Gun BUDGET
or HuMoR.
True Love.

True Love-.
You ask me do 1 s1ove you for
Yourself alone," my own,
My dearest one; / do; but more
love you for myself. alone.
Philadelphia Press.
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Crazsd Mothers Death.

Mrs. Marie Boylan, crazed by news
Of her sons death. stepped before an
Erie train near Montclair, N. r., and
was killed.
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Shaw In GERMANY.

Unreasonable cold weather with
heavy snowfalls prevails throughout
Germany.
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to be found in the world. 1t was OBJ
tanned from the Government gardens
at Washington two years ago by
Pierre Van L%andingham, expert gar
dener at Purdue, and the authorities at
Washington have asked that it be re-
turned, as all the specimens in the
Washington gardens have been lost.
1t is said that the plant at Purdue
was the only n in the United States.
Five small plants have been grown
from the one at Purdue, and they are
carefully guarded.
The clock plant is a native Of Borneo
and it is as rare there IS in other parts
of the world. The clock plant has a
number Of peculiar habits, from which
it takes its name. It is as sensitive to
the touch Of human fingers as the COM
mon sensitive plant.
The clock plant keeps a second
hand' running until about 4 D. m,
when it takes a rest for two hours,
such as the "hour hand" and the rest
Of the plant have all night. The plant
has leaves of two sizes. The smaller
leaves are near the stem, extending
sti(f1y toward the top at a sharp angle.
These leaves act as second hands"
andl the larger leaves are the sshour
halbds." Starting from a depressed DO.
sitidn, Ia which the leaves hang down
closa to the stem. they gradually raise
themselves until they turn toward the
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