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kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble. because the heart Is
over-working in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
Ii used 10 be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their BEGIN
ming in kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake
BY first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect of DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. II stands the highest for its
wonderful cures Of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits EvF
by all druggists in fifty ss4IFsa1k1 9:s$s
cent and one-dollar siz- s n 2
es. You may have a -<szlsl.s 3. .s4,5ssszE =
sample bottle by mail Home OF swanpRoOt.
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Or. KilmeF
& Co., Binghamton, N. 7.
Don't make any mistake. but remember
the name, Swamp-Root. DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root. and the address Bngham;on
N. Y. on every bottle.
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CIRCUIT COURTS

The arrangement of the terms
of the circuit court of the State.
which will supplant the present
county court and circuit court sys-
tenn ON and after February. l. 1904,
has been agreed upon by both
Houses of the legislature. The
following are the dates for holding
the courts in this section of the
State.
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Fire and sword are but slow engines
OF destruction in comparison with the
babbler.-Steele
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All advertisements (exccpting legal adver
tlsements and professional cards. inserted for
less than three months are considered tran
sient. and will be charged for at the rae Of
and three cents per line for each sUoc, eding
insertion.
Obituary notices, resolutions OF respect
and social organizations, other than those
which the editor himself shall give as a
matter Of news viii be charged for, az the
aforesaid rates
Our advertising rates are uniform, and a
liberal reduction is made on all standing ad-
on application. Changes of advert scments
must be handed in not later than Saturday
morning of each week
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ITO settle a bet" said the visitor,
chow long can a man 60 without
food?"
ASK the man over there" said the
snake editor
us he the editor who answers ques-
tionsr'
mo; he's poet" = Philadelphia
Press.
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The Serious Part OF If.

Actor-Hurry, or well miss the train.
Aetress-I can't find my diamonds OF
my purse
''Oh, well, never mind"
Eyes. but the purse had $40 in IT,
New York Weekly.
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OVer-WOrk Weakens
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every thee minutes.
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The Sun at One Cent
Is rHE CHEAPEST IuGH-CIAss PAPER
~ THE UNITED STATES.

THE suns special correspondents through
out the United States, as we'll as in Europe,
China, South Africa, the Philippines, Porto
Rico, Cuba, and in every other part of the
world make il the greatest newspaper that
can be printed.
Its Washington and New York bureaus
are among the best in the United States, and
give The suns readers the earliest informa-
ton upon al important events in the legis-
lative and financial centers of the country.
THE suns market reports and commercial
columns are complete and reliable and put
the farmer, the merchant and the broker in
touch with the markets of Baltimore, Nor
folk, Charleston, New York, Chicago. Phila-
delphia and all other important points in
the United States and other countries.
ALI OF WHIcU
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For everything you have missed you
have gained something eIse.-Emerson.
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5. NJ. TAYLOR.
GENERAL INSURANCE.
LIFE,
FIRE,
ACCIDENT.

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Patrons OF this Office are notified prior to
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Purcelyile haagefr
stop
on
BETWEEN WASHINGroN
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STOPS on signal d Daily E Sunday on,
r A whnon and Buemop
Nos i2 l22 wills topa smth's
'" " eHe between Washington Alexandria
Railway ~ al points south and Southwest via So0hen
O. e.. ACKERT 49,,
g. r. HARnwIcK GenlP Pass Agent washington d. G
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
Accidents to Employees.

Nine States now require factory Oh.
orators to report accidents suffered by
their employees. An incomplete record
made by the New York Bureau of La.
Dor in 1899, covering about one-half Of
the factory workers in the State for
three months, showed 1899 accidents.
According to DR.. Josiah Strong. on
this basis the annual number of acct
dents in the States factories would be
1876.
In a recent year, of 142, 42O employees
in the anthracite mines of Pennsylva-
MIA, Ali were killed. Of S7,8O2 en-
ployes in the bituminous mines 1913
were killed.
During the year ended June 80. 1908.
there were 1888 killed and 1862 in
cured on the railways of the United
States. The average for the year was
twenty-five killed and lit injured
every day.
In 1890 American railways killed one
person for every 300 employees, while
the roads Of Germany killed only one
for every $50, and those Of Austria
Hungary only one for every 1861. The
same year American roads injured one
person for every thirty-thre employees.
German roads one for every 169 and
Austrian n for every 292.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
WALLACE TO BUILD CANAL
Illinois Central's General Manager
to Be Chief Engineer.
Chicago Railroad Man to Supervise Big
gest Engineering. Feat Ever Under
tnken-TO Take Office on June 1.


Washington, D. C.-Rear-Admiral
Walker. President of the Panama
Canal Commission, received a telegram
from John Findley Wallace, of Chi
cago, General Manager of the Illinois
Central Railroad, accepting the APP
pointment OF chief engineer in charge
of the construction of the canal. Mr..
Wallace will receive a salary of $685.
600 a year. Mr.. Wallace will take up
his work with the Commission on June
|, 1t has not been determined when
he will visit the Isthmus, all matters
of detail being left for a conference
with the Commission.
In reaching his conclusion to accept.
Mr.. Wallace gives up his prospects of
promotion and a much higher salary
than $4,000 a year, but he is doubt
less influenced by the fact that by
taking the position of chief engineer
of the Panama Canal his name will
be attached to the greatest piece of
engineering ever undertaken. 1t Is es>
timate6 that about two years will be
required to complete the surveys, make
the estimates of cost, and decide on the
final plans. In round figures the canal
will cost 5000, 600, 000, and will require
ten years to complete. Aside from the
engineers, machinists and other skilled
labor the constructive work will give
employment to 10000 men.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13


Limitation is the sincerest fattery."
The English postoffice authorities have
just decided to inaugurate a system
of selling stamps in books, as they
are now sold at the postoffices in the
United States. Only one size of book
is adopted for the present, this con-
tanning twenty-four penny stamps and
selling at two shillings halfpenny. That
would be making a charge of a half
penny, equivalent to M cent, for the
books, the same amount that is
charged by our postofice. Small as
Is this charge, our Postoffice Depart
ment has made a nice little profit
out of the sale Of stamp books, and
there is no reason to suppose that tile
British office will not be fully as we'll
satisfied with the venture. These books
furnish a convenient cover in which to
carry stamps in the pocket, and their
popularity is amply attested by the
enormous increase in the number sold
from year to y~ear.-Boston Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13

The average condition of winter rye
on May 1 was S1.2. as compared with
SOB on April 1, 1904; 9a,S on May 1.
1903; S3.4 at the corresponding date in
1902. and S9.5, the mean of the May
averages of the last fen years.
The average condition of meadow
moving lands on May 1 was $50.
against 92.S on May l., 1903, $3.50 at the
corresponding date i'll 1902, and 9O.7,
the mean of the May averages of the
last ten years,
The average condition of spring pas-
lures On May 1 was 500, against 92.O
on/May l, 1908; $40 at the correspond
ing date in 1902, and 90.3. the mean of
the May averages of the last ten years.
OF the total acreage of spring plow-
Ing contemplated, 57.3 per cent. is re-
ported as actually done up to May 1,
as compared with $40 per cent, at the
corresponding date last year, and a
ten-year average on May 1 of 7O.3.
The available records of the DEPART
ment show for no preceding year such
uniformity of unfavorable conditions
as is reported this month,
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
Thread Mills on Short Time.
Thread mills at HOlyoke. Mass. and
Conn.,, We're ordered ruD
N short time.
College Notes.

Prof. A. E. Austin, of Tufts Col
lege medical school. will spend the
next few months working in Ludwig's
biochemic laboratory in Vienna.
The two thousand alumni of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy will be asked to sign a petition
against merging the institute with
Harvard University.
w. H. Carpenters gift of 100000 to
Columbia's Medical School will do
good by improving a department of
that university which is already in a
high state of efficiency.
The carpenter and pattern shop oper-
ated in connection with the engineer
ing department of the University of
Michigan has been enlarged to nearly
double its former size.
A conditional gift of $4,000, to Mt.
Holyoke College from Andrew Car
negie is announced. the understanding
being that the friends of the insti-
tuition raise a like amount before
June /.
An offer of 100000 Of her private
fortune has been made by Mother
Drexel, of Philadelphia. for the es.
adjustment Of a school and church
for the Indians of the Winnebugo
sNee) reservation,
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13

Wonderful stories are often related
of the loss Of precious articles and
their marvellous recovery; siich as the
dropping of d watch overheard While
fishing and later recovering it from the
stomach of a pike; dissecting gold
rings from the inwards of trout which
snapped the glittering toy before it
reached bottom; digging a set of false
teeth, lost when bathing, from the
stomach Of a catfish, etc. But truth Is
stranger than fiction. Anybody who
will can lie, but here is a true story Of
James H. Prentiss, of Ann Arbor, who
while fishing at zukey Lake lost the
5000 setting to his diamond ring. Hop.
ing that the glitter might have at
tracted a bite from a pickerel, which
grabs greedily for a flashing spoon
hook, every fish caught was carefully
dissected, and Prentiss had just about
given up hope of beholding his 5000
lkparkler again, when, as the last fish
had been ripped up the front, behanged
If the gem warn't found wedged be-
tween two boards in the bottom Of the
boat.-Detroit Tribune.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13

1t was the custom in old Japan to
bury living retainers, servants, and
even horses, upright in a circle around
the grave of a member Of any imperial
or noble family. The heads of these
poor wretches were left exposed, and
their cries Of agony during their lin
gering death could be heard night and
day. This awful custom was changed
by d tender hearted ruler in the second
year Of our Christian era, rough clay
images being substituted for the liv-
ing beings; but SO late as A. D. GAG,
another Emperor had to legislate
against the recurrence Of such living
burials.-St. James Gazette.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
Treacle For Horses.

Scientific tests in substituting trea-
Gle for oats and other cereals in feed
ing horses have yielded surprising re.
suits. 1t is now definitely established
that as a horse diet there is magic in
t~feacle. With this syrup on his bill Of
fare, the horse rapidly takes on solid
weight, develops ~prodigiously in MUS.
cular' energy, grows a glossy coat, and
enjoys uninterrupted Aealth. For
these animals, therefore, tteacle is de.
elared to be both d tonic and health
food. In addition to the many desir-
able results a treacle diet reduces the
cost of horse maintenance over twenty
five per cent.-London Tit-Bits.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
NewSy GleaninoS

speaker Cannon was reported as dis.
pleased with his growing boom for tho
second place on the ticket.
Ex-President Cleveland in a lecture
10 Princeton students declared he did
not transcend his duty or authority
by ordering out Federal troops dur
ing the Debs riots in Chicago.
Deputy Excise Commissioner Fl. w
Mitchell for the Brooklyn district re.
ports the receipts for liquor tax GER
tif1cates for the coming year at So
14O,63O, $123, 900 in excess of those for
last year.
The Board Of Church Extension of
he Methodist Church South has set
apart $10s, $50 for building work this
year.
A Grand Jury at Asheville. N. G..
failed to indict two men charged with
selling an illegal petriied man for
$1,000.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has
ruled that breweries cannot take out
saloon licenses except in their own
name.
Alexander Mckenzie. a professional
beggar of New York City, has invented
a device for the protection of the third
rail. The Interborough Company has
offered q prize Of 100000 for q d
eessful idea,
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13

and farmer, Catskill, N. Y. says:
Doctors told me ten years ago that l
had Brights disease, and said they
could do nothing to save me. My back
ached so l could not stand it to even
drive about, and passages of the kid
ley secretions were so frequent as to
annoy me greatly. l was growing
worse all the time. but Doan's Kidney
Pills cured me, and l have been well
ever since"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured MI. Overbaugh
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
For sale by all dealers; price so cents
DER box,
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13

The cucujo is the FREELY of the trop-
les, and it is the most brilliant of the
whole tribe of light-giving insects or
animals. ~Thirty-eight Of them yield
one candle power. Photographs have
been printed by two-minute exposure
Of bromide plates to their illumination.
People in Cuba confine them in proper
lanterns for going :bout the country at
night or for indoor lighting. Some
times they attach one of the insects to
each foot for travelling in the dark to
serve as a guide to the path. Ladies
use them as ornaments for the dress
and hair.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
FATAL TEXAS TORNADO.
Many Persons Killed and Much Live
Stock Destroyed Near Dallas.

Many Persons Killed and Much Live
Stock Destroyed Near Dallas.
Dallas, Texas.-A tornado in North
west-Texas killed Mrs. Mary Wagley,
her daughter, and Anna and George
Anthony at Moran. A dozen are Sc
riously injured. At Putnam one man
was killed and II woma injured. A
negro's cabin was swept into the Bra
EOS River, five miles above the Texas
and Pacific crossing, and three negro
men were drowned. A work train was
blown from the railroad tracks near
Creson and two negro laborers were
drowned. About twenty houses were
wrecked at Moran and half a dozen at
Putnam.
Hundreds of head of live stock are
reported killed in Shackleford and adj
Joining counties and crops are serious
~ injured by rain, wind and EaiI.
During the binding storm near
Phelps two trains collided and Conduc-
tor Austin and Fireman Armstrong
were killed.
A cyclone near Cordell, Oklahoma.
just north of the Texas line. wrecked
much property and two lives were lost.
railroad property has suffered heavily
IN the northwestern Texas storm area.
wesley Shurlock, fourteen years old.
was killed at Sunset, in Wise County.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
FRENCH PREFER OUR COTTON.
Manufacturers Admit 1t Has No Equal
in the World.

Paris, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of a
syndicate of cotton manufacturers
from Roubaix and Lille held q meet
ing in the Chamber de Commerce to
vote on the question Of joining with
English and Belgian manufacturers in
a scheme to suppress American spec
ulation in cotton. The plan advanced
was to discover somewhere on the
globe a new field for %cultivating cot
ton.
CASTOR Sinette, a leading manufac-
turer, violently opposed the plan and
declared that the Soudan cotton was
unfit for manufacturing purposes and
1t could lever come into competition
with the American product. He said
that nowhere in the world can the
equal of the American product be
found.
After a stormy session the propo-
sition to join with the British and Bel
gians was voted down by a large ma
j0rity.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
A Grain of Corn,

A Flemish artist has produced what
is said to be the smallest painting
in the world. 1t is a picture of a
miller mounting the stairs of his mill
and carrying a sack of grain on his
back. The mill is depicted as stand
ing nea a terrace. Close at hand are
a horse and cart, with a few groups
of peasants idling in the road near
by. All this is painted on the smooth
side of ordinary white corn. 1t is
necessary to examine it under a micro
scope, and it is drawn with perfect
accuracy. 1t does not cover a half
inch square, and it is in many re-
spects II of the most remarkable art
productions Of the day.-Tit Bits.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
WHEAT PROSPECTS ARE BAD
No Previous Record of Such I'm
favorable Conditions.
LARGE FALLING OFFlN AC ,EiGE

The Department of Agriculture's Month
Iy Crop Report Showed the Situation
With Regard to Wheat to Be Extreme
Iy Bad-Due to the Destruction of Seed
During the Hard Winter.
Washington. u. C.-Returns to the
chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the
Department of Agriculture made up to
May 1 show the area under winter
wheat in cultivation on that date TO
have been about 81, OS3, 800 acres. This
is 1882, 700 acres, or 15.4 per cent. less
than the area sown last fail, and 5,427,-
600 acres, or 1851 per cent. less than
the area of winter wheat harvested last
year.
OF this abandonment Indiana reports
904,000 acres; Kansas, $4,000; Ohio,
475.O California (mainly the usual
cutting for hay), $4,000: Oklahoma,
$4,000; Texas. 299. 900; Illinois, 269,-
600; Michigan. $1,000; Nebraska, 21S.-
O00, and Pennsylvania. Kentucky and
Missouri each between 100000 and
100000 acres. 1t is a noteworthy fact
that the whole of the thirty-one States
having more or less winter wheat ,ln-
der cultivation report some abandon
meut of acreage.
For the 27,OS3,5 800 acres remaining
under cultivation, the average condi-
ton on May l was 7G.5. which is iden-
teal with that reported on April l for
the entire acreage sOwn. The general
condition averages reported on May ],
1908, and May 1. 1902, were respect
lively 92.G and 76,4, the mean of the
May averages of the last ten years be-
ing $40.
The following table. shows for the
principal winter wheat States the per-
centage of the acreage sown last fall
that is now reported as abandoned,
also the averages of condition on May
/, 1904, as follows:
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
The Mercantile Situation.

Dun's Review says: Business con-
tinues conservative, purchases being
restricted to immediate requirements,
and weather conditions dominating
the situation. The current volume Of
business is satisfactory. Building op-
erations are deferred in leading cities.
Much structural work is projected.
and at some favored points last years
record promises to be surpassed. AS
a rule, manufacturing plants are not
working at full capacity, idle machin-
cry being more extensive in textile
industries.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
Boy Kills Little Sister.

The t~en-year-old son of John Schus-
ter, of Dead Moose Lake, N. W. T., is
accused of deliberately numbering his
six-year-old sister. The children. had
been playing together, when, without
provocation OF warning, the elder at
tackled the younger with an iron poker
and beat out her brains. The boy
showed no regret when asked why he
did it, and said he wanted to see what
it would be like to kill a person. The
authorities have sent the boy to a
Prince Albert hospital for medical ex-
animation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
COMMITS BURGLARY IN SLEEP.
Young Man Awakens TO Find Himself
Robbing Postof1ice.

Albany, Mo.-While asleep Hardin
Hughes, the twenty-year-old son of
Rev. Hughes, went upon a tour at 3
o'clock in the morning. The Hughes
home is our blocks from the p~ostoffce
MI. Hughes vas awakened by his son
who told him that he had been walk
ing i'll his sleep and had found himself
at he postoffice robbing the cash
drawer when he awakened. When day.
light came it was revealed that Hardin
mad risen in his sleep, secured a brace
and bit, gone to the ~postoffice. and. Sc
curing a box, climbed up high enough
to bore through the door two holes
mat released the plate glass. Then
entering he went to the delivery win
dow, climbed eight feet over into the
private apartment of the office and
bored three holes into the cash drawer
Young Hughes has been a sleen.
ak since his childhood. A post
once Inspector happened to be here
at d time. and will report the cas-
to Washington for action.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-13
TRADING STAMP BILL A LAW.
Governor Approves Measure That Was
Bitterly Fought.

Albany, n. Y.-Governor Odell signed
the Newcomb Anti-Ttadlhg Stamp bill,
which was frankly admitted as intend
ed to curtail radically the trading
stamp business as widely carried on in
this State. The trading stamp eoIhpa-
MES fought it to the last day Of the SEES
sion, and before the Governor. The
bill requires every trading stamp. ex-
cept those issued by individual mer-
chants OIL manufacturers, to bear a
stated face value in terms of money
and to be redeemable ia cash or mer-
chandise at the option of the holder.