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down in the mouth about it.-Indianapolis
journal.
One radical difference between boy and
girl is that the girl can get enthusiastic
about tree full of cherry blossoms with.
Journal.
A writer in Forest and Stream tells US
that horse he knew of chewed tobacco.
Total depravity, it seems, is not confined
exclusively to the human race.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
DE man dat tries to save every cent OF
his money" said Uncle Eben, IAN de NAH
dat doesn't try to save none of It is both
mappin' out mighty hahd roads fob
deirsefs Washington Star.
Hoax-'It makes me furious when the
eossips say that Smiths maiden aunt is
soft ON me-" Joax-"You should bear in
mind that soft aunt, sir, turneth away
wrath. "-Philadelphia Record.
The author of the remark, Time win
TELL" was confronted by Time himself.
Look here!" said the old gentleman,
"don't you know you will get people all
Judge.
At Springfield, ILL.,, the other day an
American man who cannot understand
German was married to German woman
who cannot understand English. Their
family jars will be filled with mixed pickles
of speech, as it were.-Denver Post.
ssBilkins must have done something not
able one way OF the other, but haven't
vet heard about it." "How do you know
he's done it them" Il met about seven Of
his acquaintance this morning, and each
one referred to him casually as my FRIEND
Bilkins!' IN. @. Times Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-07-16

Don't Get Footsore! Get Foot-Ease.
A wonderful powder that cures tired, hot,
aching feet and makes new or tight shoes
easy. Ask to-day for Aliens Foot Ease.
Accept no substitute Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
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AN right, sir" replied Johnny. II
hope you'll see good game. Boston
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-07-16

A real grief needs no uniform Chicago
Tribune
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An eastern scientist has at last sue
ceeded in tracking the mumps microbe to
its lair. 1t is said the poor germ is quite
down in the mouth about Indianapolis
journal
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
Complex Origin of the Japs.

The Japanese are not as mixed a race
as the wodern "Britons," but they have
q very complex origin. 1t is certainly
not correct to regard them as originally
Cinnamon, for while they do possess
Chinese blood, there is certainly a
Korean strain in them, as well as one
derived from the Malayans and another
from the Amos or aboriginal inhab-
itants of the islands-the "savages" Of
Japanese historians. There has conse-
quently been none Of that disastrous
'inbreeding' which is fatal to animals,
nations, or a~ristocracies; and latterly
there is evidence that the Jap is grow
ing taller.-London Chronicle.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
THREE PERISH in WRECK
Fire Destroys the Bodies of Two of
the Victims.
Train Crash on the Missouri 'aciic
Causes Partial Destruction
of a Tunnel.

Jefferson City, Mo.-A wreck which
caused three deaths, the burning of
several cars of merchandise, the par
tial destruction of a tunnel and so in
terrupted the operation of trains that
this city has been without passenger
and mail service, occurred on the Mis-
souri, Pacific about four miles from
here.
Conductor Schumacher and Brakemen
Weyot and Nevis were killed. The
latter and Schumacher were completely
incinerated.
The collision occurred at the mouth
of a tunnel, a local freight crashing
into a through train. A fat car loaded
with lumber and the caboose of the
through train in which were the vic
TINS remained inside the tunnel and
were burned.
The heat of the flames caused the
rocks In the tunnel to crumble, and
many tons of them fell upon the burn
ing cars, smothering but not extin-
gushing the fire, and creating a dense
volume of smoke and hindering en-
trance to the tunnel.
The caboose was between the car Of
lumber and the massive locomotive
which ran into it. 1t was crushed and
broken into splinters and caught fire
from the overturned stove, the flames
communicating to the car of lumber.
Conductor Schumacher was so pin
Toned in the wreck that he could not be
extricated, the flames preventing help
reaching him. Attempts to extinguish
the fire in the tunnel were futile.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
Small Pc ultry House.

1t is generally considered that ten
square feet of floor space should be al
lowed for each fowl in planning a poul-
try house, and on this basis a house
for twenty hens would be about ten
by twenty feet inside. Usually this is
a safe measurement where no space is
provided for a scratching shed; in
the latter event much less space in the
house proper will suffice, as the hens
use it almost entirely for roosting pur-
poses. Prominent p%oultrymen claim
that six square feet for each hen is
Sufficient, but for the novice VIC advise
the ten square feet.
Whatever the dimensions, If no
scratching shed is provided, care must
be used that the house is free from
draughts and comfortable. In the
colder sections every poultry house
should be lined inside with tarred
paper at the back and sides. The front
may be arranged so that during the
warmer periods Of confinement it can
be covered with wire netting through
which the suns rays may come and
thus provide a pleasant place for
scratching.
If no place is planned for a scratch
ing shed it will be necessary that the
food be given at least twice daily, scat
tered among the chaff on the floor, else
the hens will not take enough exer-
else in the limited space, to keep them
in good condition. Whatever the plan
Of house, it is necessary to provide a
fair amount of light and ventilation as
well as to keep it fairly warm in
winter.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
TELEcRAPHER MEETS HIS FATE.

#
A telegraph man sat by his key
And dreamed there was peace across the
Then with a start he raised his head
And listened while the sounder said:
From Chiyoda and Kioto, Chinnampo and
Ka-San,
Chemulpo, Hakodate and places in Japan,
There an army of EN- marching to fight
the Russian Gar,
From Yongampo and Full, Mokpo and
Naniwa,
Hatsuse, Hashidate, Yongju and Yoshino,
Ping-Yong, Itsukushima, Tokiwa and
With Kogoro Takahira and Admiral Uriu;.
From Suma and Nagasaki, with Nagai and
From ~Ta-Tung-kau and Mil, with Baron
Kanako;
Asama and Azuma, Sasebo, Wei-hai-wei.
Sotokichi and Kasagi, Gensan and Akishi,
Seoul, Akitsushima, Chin-Yen and Asahi,
Yakumo, Yokosuka, Kasuga, Idzumi,
Iwate, S~hikishuma, Takasago and Chon-ju,
Yashima and Niitaka, Masanpo and Yalu,
Tsushima, Kamimura, Toxic and Chang
song,
The japanese are marching 300, 900 strong"
-
The telegraph man, with a CLASSY eye,
Lifted his head and heaved a sigh.
Then the sounder began again:
Russia is moving a million men;
The Gar is going to fight the Jap
At the following places on the map"
The telegraph man let out a yell
AS they carried him off to a padded cell.
New York Globe.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
NEGROMURDERERLYNCHED
Mob Batters Down Jail Doors to
Reach the Prisoner.
VICTIM KILLED A POLICEMAN

Fifteen Hundred Infatuated Ohio Citizens
Overpower Sheriff and Prison Guards
After Killing Negro the Crowd Drae
Lifeless Body Through the Streets OF
the TOwn-sheriff's Appeal Useless.
Springfield, Ohio.-A furious mob of
1900 men battered down the doors of
the county jail, broke into the cells and
dragged a negro prisoner, Richard
Dixon, who murdered Policeman Col
lis, into the Jail yard, where he was
shot to death, nine bullets being lodged
in his body.
The mob then carried the body
through the principal streets of the
city, strung it up to a telegraph pole
and riddled it with bullets.
Policeman Coils had served for
twelve years on the force, and was re-
garded as one of the most reliable and
efficient men in the Police Department.
He had gone to Dixon's room on the
negro's request. The negro said a
woman had his clothes In her possess
sion, and had got the consent of the
colored% proprietor to keep Dixon away
from his house.
Coils accompanied Dixon to the
room, and in a short time the man and
woman engaged in a quarrel which re-
suited in Dixon shooting the woman in
the left breast, just over the heart.
She fell unconscious at the first shot,
and Coils jumped toward the negro to
prevent his escape from the room.
Dixon then fired four bullets in Coils
body.
Dixon went Immediately to Police
Headquarters and gave himself up.
He was taken to Jail, and Coils and
Il wounded negress were taken to the
hospital. The killing of Coils soon be-
came the sole topic of conversation. 1t
was the general feeling that a trial
would only result in an insufficient SEN
tence, and talk of lynching was fire.
quently heard.
Nothing was thought of it by the off,
GERS until suddenly a group of boys
gathered in front of the jail. This
group was augmented by a few men,
and presently 300 men had c~ongregated
about the Jail yard and steps.
Sheriff Routzahn appeared on the
Jail steps and pleaded with the mob to
dispense, but he could be heard only
with difficulty. His appeal was inef-
fectual, and he was compelled to de-
sist. The mob then surged through the
east door, overpowered the Sheriff.
turnkey and handful of deputies, and
began the assault on the iron turnstile
leading to the cells.
The Jail yard gates were blocked by
fully 1900 men, thus making it impos-
sible for the militia to have prevented
access to the negro had it been on the
scene. Inc heavy ron paEuJlOn lea6-
ing to the cells resisted the mob effect,
ually until chisels and sledge hammers
were brought two or three minutes
later.
Fearing an attempt on the part of the
police at rescue the leaders formed a
hollow square. Some me knocked the
negro to the ground, and those near
him fell back four or five feet. Nine
shots were then fired into his PROSTATE
body. Satisfied that Dixon was dead
a dozen men grabbed the lifeless body,
and with q triumphant cheer the mob
marched through the principal thor
oughfares in the town.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
Speed of Birds.

Frequently arguments arise as to the
speed with which wild birds fly, and
many men Of science have sought to
determine something about it. Natur-
ally it is impossible to fix the record
made by such birds as grouse, quail
or snipe when they first arise, but it is
safe to say that they are not going one.
half as fast as the luckless gunner
who misses them imagines. With the
migratory fowl of known fast fight,
such as ducks and geese, something
more nearly accurate is known.
The green-winged teal is about the
speediest of them all. 1t does some.
thing like ninety miles an hour as
readily as a sparrow dives into an
inviting rainspout. The canvas-back
is only a triie slower, probably eighty
five miles being it's limit, while the
black duck, red head and mallard fall
below this. being timed at about eighty
miles. Still this is plenty fast enough
to insure lots of misses unless the
fellow with the gun looks down the
rib straight and pulls the trigger at the
right time.-Philadelphia Press.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
VLADIV0STQK DOMBAROED
Five BattIeships and Two Cruisers
SheIIed the City.
NO REPLY From BATTERIES

Japanese Squadron, Consisting of Five
Long Range. and After Forty-fivc Min.
utes Retire TO Askald IsIand-war-
ships Covered with Ice.
st. Petersburg.-A dispatch was re-
ceived at the Admiralty, saying that
five Japanese battleships and two
cruisers approached vladivostok from
Askold Island, steaming toward Ussuri
Bay. When opposite Patrochis and
Sotol Bays they took up positions for
battle and opened fire with all their
guns at long range.
The Japanese squadron was at a
safe distance, about eight versts five
miles and d quarter), from the shore.
Their fire was directed against the
forts and shore batteries. The town
was not damaged.
Most of the 200 shells fired failed to
explode, although charged with lyddite.
The Russian batteries. on which were
Commandant-Genera Voronetz, Briga-
dier-COmmandant-G General Artamenoff
and other military authorities, did not
reply.
The b~ombardment lasted fifty-two
minutes. When the firing ceased the
enemy retired in the direction of Ask
old Island. At the same time two tor
pedo boat destroyers made their APP
pearance near Askold Island and two
others mar Nann ATaiI1I NH $780,
ships were covered with ice.
The attack cost the enemy over 200
OOO rubles. Most of the shells fired
were from six and twelve-inch guns.
The population of V~ladivostok had
been warned in the morning by senti-
nels on the lookout that a lombard.
ment was probable, and had been noti-
hed that the Japanese squadron had
appeared on the horizon.
The people remained tranquil during
the firing. 1t is said that several Chi
nese In the town were hit.
Advices from V~ladivostok say that
q 200 japanese troops, who landed
at Plaksin Bay, on. the east coast Of
Northern Korea, are advancing toward
Musang. 218 miles from Wonsan. with
the Intention Of ultimately reaching
Hunehun, on the left bank of the
Tumen River, about a hundred miles
west of ~Vladivostok, and threatening
the Russian flank.
In order to checkmate this move the
Russian outpost, 1900 strong. which
crossed the Tumen, is advancing to
occupy Koyryeng. on the Tumen. a
walled city, commanding the trails
along which the Japanese must pass.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
Dairxing and Feeding.

Dairying is an occupation which has
paid in every section of the United
States, and has been accomplished
under difficulties which should not
have occurred. The farmer who makes
dairying a speciality gradually be-
comes Weather because his farm in
creases in fertility every year, and be-
cause the cattle enable him to sell the
products of his farm at prices much
above their real value in the form of
milk, butter and cheese. The value
OF the butter produced annually in
this country amounts to over $780,
100000, and there is a home market
for all that has been produced, but a
small proportion being exported. The
consumption of butter is estimated at
about eighteen pounds per year for
each inhabitant, and the total amount
produced is over 1900, 900, 900 pounds,
Of which over twenty-four per cent. is
made in the North Atlantic States, if
ty-four per cent. in the North central
group, seven per cent. in the South At
lantic States, eleven per cent. in the
South Central division, and four per-
cen in the Western division. 1t NAV
be stated also that twenty per cent. of
the product is made in factories. the
farms being the sources from which
the larger proportions of butter come.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
PRISON DUEL TO THE DEATH.
colored convicts Stab and Slash Each

Colored Convicts Stab and Slash Each
Other in Their Coll at Trenton
Trenton, N. 1.-TWO colored convicts,
Elmer Durant and Henry Jones, en-
gagged in a quarrel at the State prison
and Durant was killed and Jones was
severely injured. The men were M
ployed in the laundry and had hardly
been returned to their cell when they
began a fight, Durant being armed
with a penknife and Jones with the
blade of a pair of scissors.
Jones received a number of ugly cuts.
but succeeded in stabbing his opponent
six times with the scissors blade.
Durant died in half an hour. Jones
is in the prison hospital in a critical
condition due to loss of blood. 1t was
necessary to amputate his hand. There
had been some i'll feeling between the
two men. Durant was serving a ten
year sentence from Hudson County
and Jones was a seven-year man from
Union County.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
The Inaccurate world,

For the purpose of illustrating the
difficulties of evidence, Prof. Won Liszi,
of Berlin, arranged with two of his
pupils to pretend a quarrel, consisting
Of hot words, a walking stick, ana a
pistol loaded with blank cartridges.
The quarrel came off in the presence OF
twenty other young men, all highly
educated" who were not in the secret.
No two of the twenty agreed exactly
as to the u Of the quarrel. Eight
different answers were given to the
question: Who began the quarrel7
And vet people read history!-Epery-
body'a Maza3ina.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
Worlds Fair Pointers.

Saturday, July 2, will be Amateur
Journalists Day at the Worlds Fair.
The st. Louis Exposition authorities
have been notified that the war would
not affect Japan's exhibits.
General Ben Viljoen. a Boer leader.
will have charge of the Boer exhibit at
the st. Louis Exposition.
The perfume woods and plants of the
Philippine Islands will be shown at the
Worlds Fair in a special collection.
The Worlds Fair Committee on Ger.
emonies has assigned October 8 FOR
New York Day und October IL for
Miehlgan Day At the Eaig.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11

AGRICULTURAL.
ira

Asparagus
Asparagus is easily grown and once
planted will last in the same bed or
in the same row for almost a lifetime.
On the old farm where 1 was born
there was a small bed Of asparagus
which had been planted twenty years
previously. 1t had been overgrown
with grass and received no attention,
yet every spring strong shoots were
cut and prepared for the table. In re-
cent years asparagus has been planted
in rows so they could be cultivated
instead of in beds and the row system
is the best. When planted in beds
where the grass has covered the
ground, l am told that a heavy appli-
cation Of salt may be applied with
safety that will destroy the grass, but
will not injure the asparagus. Light
dressings Of salt are helpful to aspara-
gus beds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
Poultry Advice.

Don't neglect those frozen combs.
They make your focks look bad.
See that the incubator is in good
condition, and begin Matching now.
Don't let your eggs chill; gather them
three CT four times a day. Chilled
eggs never hatch.
The damp and changeab1e weather,
very common at this time of the year,
brings on colds and roup i'll the poul-
cry yard. If they are promptly at
tended to at first, you will save disas-
trous results later.
The weight of eggs is about one and
one-half pounds to the dozen. A
pound Of eggs will go as far as a
pound of meat for any family. Think
of this when you are feeding and car
ing for your fowls.
The first and last and many other
points in the chicken business is to be
sure hy9t your stock and facilities are
free from grave defects. Remember
the old truth THAT whatsoever a man
aoweth, that sha he also reap."
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
Promlnel [ People.

The late Lord Stanley, of Alderley,
mas left property of the value Of $751;
$50.
Clara Morris has just finished a story
dealing with the life of Illinois pio-
neers.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale, of Massa-
chusetts, is strongly in favor Of the
proposition to make a natural park In
New Hampshire.
Governor Alexander O. Brodie. OF
Arizona, went to West Point In 1866.
He became q mining engineer after
serving several years ln the Rgms.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
CHARGED WITH PARR1CIDE.
Son Of Wealthy San Francisco Pork
Packer Under Arrest.

San Francisco, Cal.-Albert, the son
of the wealthy pork packer, Joseph
D.tto~aS.~A, IL ~ao~---.aa+ bora GO
cused of mortally shooting his father.
At first the police believed that rob-
bers had attempted to hold up Butt
genback, but a negro porter said that
he had seen Albert enter his fathers
place On the night Of the crime with a
pistol in his hand, and soon after had
heard a shot fired. Albert and his
father had quarreled, and the son had
threatened to shoot the old man. Book
keeper Louis Bruno is in jail, charged
with being an accomplice.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
A Rack For the Feed Lot.

In the West we build a rack like
this for feeding straw in an open lot
to horses and cattle, Gays a CORE
spondent in an exchange. Lay two
logs, any length, say east and west.
matching them at the ends in top, and
lay the ends Of them six feet on the
inside. Build log cabin fashion until
it is high enough to reach a cows
brisket. Then lay only one log and
set it in the middle of the crib, notch
it we'll and spike it down. Now, lay
poles all along, resting the foot of each
under the bottom log on the inside
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
college Notes.

Grayson College building, at Dallas,
Texas. was recently destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of 100000.
Lord S~trathcona and Mount Royal
has given $4,000 to Manitoba Univer-
sity to enable the faculty to extend its
work.
The date of the debate between Bow
doin and Amherst Colleges has been
changed from March is to Friday,
April %.
A movement Is on foot at Yellow
Springs, near Xenia, Ohio, to move
Bsrea College from Kentucky ia the
nhin town
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11

Made Him Call Jailer to Open Door of
the Cell.

Made Him Call Jailer to Open Door of
the Cell.
st. Joseph, Mo.-Mark Dunn. convict
ed of the murder in this county Of a
wealthy farmer named Fenton, two
years ago, and sentenced to be hanged
March IL, escaped from Jail.
Dunn got possession of two revolv-
ers that were Struggled into Jail in a
coal oil a and forced the death watch
to submit to being bound with wire
Dunn had used in making baskets. He
held the Waterman prisoner for an en-
tire night and forced him to call the
jailer soon after daybreak.
When the jailer appeared Dunn. by
threatening to kill the death watch,
made the jailer open the cell. Then
the murderer locked the jailer and his
brother, a deputy sheriff, in the cell
and escaped.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
SIX KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK.
Broken Bridge Threw Train Into Greek
Bodies Seen Under Water

oOOACo OSCA Ouu0I water,
Wellsville, Ohio.-Six men were in
stantly killed and four others seriously
injured by the breaking of the bridge
across Yellow Creek at Hammonds-
vile, on the Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railroad. The dead: j. P. Mas, engi-
neer, Wellsville; Thomas Powell, extra
fireman, East Liverpool; ]. Henderson,
fireman, Wellsville; George Phillips,
conductor, Wellsville; G. King, brake
man, Wellsville; J. j. Kounts, brake
man, Wellsville.
Two engines drawing two cabooses
and carrying a part of a crew that had
been at work in the vicinity Of SaIina-
vile repairing washed out bridges and
culverts were returning to the Wells
vile shops when the bridge, weakened
by the floods, gave way and precipi-
tated the train into the raging waters.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-11
WIZ
A FEED RACK.

and leaning the pole on the top log in
the middle. Then lay one from the
opposite so as to make an X, usinglthe
log in the centre as a rest and the bot
tom log as a foothold. Fasten the end
poles, and the others will stay in place
as long as the straw is kept in there.
You can make them any length de
sired. The poles being laid alternate
ly, give space enough to admit the
horses to the straw, and 10y having
the poles ten feet or more Ions the
rack will hold a good load of hay or
straw for about twenty feet in length
Of crib.-Connecticut Farmer. I