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The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Edison,s "obvious, Inventions.

Mr.. Thomas A. Edison recently made
a suggestion by which a common fail.
ing of judges may be turned to ac.
count. The patent law demands that
an invention shall show more eyi.
dences of imagination than are re.
quired in the ordinary makeshift i'm.
provements that are made every day
in machine shops; and yet the simplest
devices are the most effective and the
most profitable. The Federal courts
have several times in~validated Mr.. Edi,
sons patents on the ground that the
Improvements made by his devices
were 'obvious" solutions of the me-
patentable. AS in many problems that
require hard study, the solutions did
seem obvious enough-afterwards.
Not long ago Mr.. Edison was trying
to work out a new piece of mechanism
1t seemed a simple enough problem
when he began it, but it proved TO be
extremely difficult. After several days
exasperatingly futile work, his attor
ney happened to ask him how it was
coming along.
mo good, yet" replied Mr.. Edison
"But, of course, the thing is perfectly
obvious. 1 wish you'd bring a com.
mittee of those Federal judges down
here that are always saying that. If
this thing is so almighty obvious, per.
haps they can tell me how to make it,"
-Harper's Weekly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Fight With Brass Thief.


Charles Buffano, an Italian. who was
to be sentenced for stealing brass jour-
mails from the Susquehanna Railroad
in December last. was caught at tho
same work at Mountainview by foul
OelaWare, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad detectives. Buffano opened
hre on the detectives when cornered.
and they returned the fire. William
Jenlcke, of Jersey City, was shot in
h left breast. Patrick Downing, Of
Hoboken, received a bullet in the right
hip. Buffano was shot four times, but
jumped into the Morris Canal, along
the towpath of which the fight took
place. He begged for mercy after he
got into the water. and the detectives
fished him out. Buffano had bullets
in his right breast. right side and arm,
and a hole through his left lung and
back. A doctor who was on the train
pronounced him dead. but Dr.. Small
wood. of st. J%oseph's Hospital, Pater.
son, found him lively when the Bar.
clay street station in that city was
reached. Buffano was operated on i'm.
mediately after his arrival at the hos.
pital. Two .44-calibre bullets were
taken out of him. While on the eleva,
tor, going from the operating room to
the ward, Buffano, who had been
feigning, reached over and tried to GET
Detective Howard Stanley's revolver
from his pocket. Stanley raped Buff.
fano over the knuckles with a billy
and he became quiet. Buffano and
members of a gang controlled by him
have given the railroads neal Pater.
son considerable trouble for the last
three months.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
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Agricultural.
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Ventilation of Farm Building.

'OneAAatlOn OF farm Bu~tIdjn0R.
ihere are no small buildings on the
farm that can not be amply ventilated
oy the simple plan here described.
GENERALLY such buildings are of the
single or sloping roof sort. so that tho
plan can be carried out at small ex.
pense. In the rear of the house. near
one corner, build an air shaft made
by joining at the edges four boards
ABOUT eight inches wide. Set this into
the ground or fasten to the floor if of
boards, so that is will be firm. Have
1t open at the top. of course. and make
1t three or four feet high. In the side
OF 1t. next to the wall of the building
ana about a foot up from the floor cut
out a piece so as to have an opening
the width of the board and about six
lnches the other way, and in the side
OF the building opposite this hole in
the mari cut a hole of corresponding
size. Cover these two holes as well as
the hole in the top of the shaft with
Wire netting so that no bird Or small
animal can get in.
This is the shaft by which the air
enters the building. Then build another
shaft long enough to reach from about
eight inches to a foot from the floor
up through the roof so that it will
come out through the roof a foot or
fifteen inches. The top of this shaft
be capped so that the opening
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
British Sailor. Collar Goes.

The reformed uniform for the blue
jackets, which is to make the handy
man of our navy a different locking
sailor lad, anne into force at Christ
mas. The familiar caps and blue col
lars will disappear, and Jack will be
given a peaked cap and a jacket.
Sailors have several objections to the
old-time picturesque costume. The
baggy trousers were liable to catch in
machinery, the open jumper was nick
named the pneumonia catcher" and
the white straw hats for hot weather
were difficult to stow away.
A jacket loosely fitting, comfortable
around the neck, with a turned-down
collar and five buttons; a peaked cap,
light, ventilated, with broad, fiat top,
and, for use in hot weather, a cover to
protect the back of the neck: trousers
moderately loose; this was the recon
struction favored by the lower deck
of the Home Fleet.-London Mail.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Loves Child; WEEDS Its Mother.

Annie Petroff. a Slovenian girl,
eighteen years old, of Providence, r
l., visited Paterson with a baby ir
her arms to find the child's father.
who, she had been told, was working
in the latter city. The young mother
could not make herself understood te
Chief of Police Bimson. and three
Slavs who were in the police station
making a complaint were called in te
act as Interpreters. During the pro.
gress of the girls story she produced
a photograph of her former sweet
heart. One of the chance interpreters
recognized it as a man who was a fell
low boarder with him in a house In
lower Ellison street. An officer was
sent to the boarding house for the man
who proved to be Andrew Ferrara, d
mason. When he saw the girl and the
little baby he was so taken up with the
child that he wanted to wed the girl
at once. They were married in the
Greek Church in Passaic.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Womans Cornse in Bail Park.

The body of Annie Williams, col.
ored. aged twenty-five years, was
found under the seats in the bali park
at Vineland early in the morning.
The discovery was made by a dog.
Coroner Potter took the body to his
undertaking establishment. and aftef
an examination by DIR. George Gun
bingham it was decided to make an au.
topsy. There seemed to be no outward
evidence of foul play. The woman
was overcome by smoke recently
when the lookup was set on fire by a
fellow-prisoner. She mas figured in the
police court several times, but how
she came to die in sucl a place is a
mystery. Chief Marshal Nickerson and
Coroner Potter worked all day on the
case, but found no additional evidence.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02

AMBITIONS.

o for one moment of the glad content,
The deep, sweet peace, the very visible.
pride,
The vast, subdued elation Of the gent"
Displayed upon the clothing poster wide.
Who seems to say, as there he stands ar.
rayed,
In graceful posture, as BELTS the part,
With not a wrinkle in the coat betrayed,
The clothes a marvel of sartorial art
Who seems to say, as l remarked before,
To lesser mortals not so spick and span;
Bow down, We sans c~ulottes, and me
adore,
Behold in me s most superior man!
81 once was full of troubles, like to you,
But now | bid them haughtily Go hangr
Serene and proud, l hitch my wagon to
The garments grand of Klippenstock q
Whang!"
New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
The Pigs Lunch Counter,

Are You provided with a side table
where the pigs can go to get a lunch
when their mothers fail to furnish them
a sufficiency of feed to keep them
growing? The youngsters should never
get SO hungry that they fail to grow
rapidly and to supply feed where the
Did ones cannot get it is about the
only way to keep them thriving. says
an exchange. Make a pen by the side
Of the pasture with the fence made by
The boards put on perpendicular, and
spaced so that the pigs can and the old
ones cannot get through, and keep feed
there all the time until the pigs get to
eating we'll, then they may be fed at
stated times. There should be care
dsed not to allow the feed to become
stale or sour. Cleanliness IS next to
g%odliness, and as an element in sue
cessful hog raising possibly ahead.
There is in some quarters the mistaken
idea that the hog is not a Clearly ami
NAL; nothing is farther from the fact,
True he wallows in mud, but furnish
nim clean water and see how he en-
Joys a bath.
Do not require the pig to lunch on
corn, but see that he has some more
suitable b~one-forming material. Don't
expect bricks without straw. Oats are
the best grain. and at present prices
are not expensive. Stop made of bran
and shorts are about as good as any
thing if you have to buy feed and can
get them right. Often shorts are high.
Tankage is most excellent feed, and
can be used to good advantage when
feeding largely on corn, but see to the
price you have 10 pay. Don't feed en-
tire!y on corn, for some of the other
feeds combined with it will make a
cheaper feed, cheaper because better, if
not otherwi.e. Don't complain about
small bone and 'chuffiness'' in your
hogs and feed to produce these results.
Furnish pasture, clover. rape, blue
grass, and T'hile corn is the basis of
the feed, let there be something else
up to the time of final fattening.-
Farmers Home Journal. =
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Blind by Whooping Cough.

Luella Charlesworth, the six-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
C. Charlesworth, of West Millville. has
been stricken blind as the result of
%whooping cough. IL is believed that in
one of the paroxysms of coughing the
muscles of the eyes have been seriously
injured. DR.. John w. Wade, who has
been attending the child, recommend
ed her removal to a hospital, and she
was taken to Philadelphia. The
chances of restoring the sight are re.
garded as slight.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02

will be protected from rain. The lower
end is TO be covered with wire netting.
Fasten this firmly at the roof end and
with corner supports to the floor at the
bottom. The plan is simple. easy to
construct and works splendidly. 1t is
particularly good for ventilating poul-
try houses. In the plain illustration
A represents the shaft through which
the foul air passes and B the shaft
through which the fresh air enters.-
indianapolis News.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Feeding Corn.

I an n of those tina believe that
the corn plant is one of the most
derful plants that wei grew and that
it is. more than any other plant, the
n rendering greatest service to the
producer of pork, writes J. Owen in
Farmers Review. For myself 1 feed
corn heavily as soon as the hogs are
large enough to make the feeding Of
corn profitable, for. after all, it gets,
down to a matter of profit.
l gather from what some hog men
say in their writings and in their
;peeches at conventions that they have
discarded corn altogether, but 1 am
unable to find any feed lot that bears
out the claim. l think it is getting to
be fashionable to claim not to feed
corn, but the popular drift is due to
a reaction, from the too constant feed
ing of corn. I will admit that some
of the farmers engaged in the raising
of hogs have overdone the matter in
the past, but there is a recession of the
practice. Nothing has helped this more
than the high price Of corn. 1t is no
longer profitable to feed corn lavishly,
and the man that does feed it must
use the greatest car how he feeds it
or he will be badly out of pocket. The
time Of ten-cent corn was the time
when men shoveled the corn into the
hog troughs by the shovelful or cast
the whole ears into the feeding lot
without knowing or caring much
whether it was eaten or tramped into
the mud. That time has departed for
ever, and I never expect to see it re-
turn, and corn must continue TO be
a part Of the hogs diet. but it must
be used at the time OF finishing the
hog for market. The man that cannot
find any food for his hog but corr dur
ing the growing period OF the animal
10 making pork at a greater cost than
he can sell 1t for.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Wants to Be Borough Again.

Cape May Point will make another
effort during the session of the present
Legislature to secure reincorporation
as a borough. 1t was incorporated in
1878, and, after an existence of several
years, the act under which it had been
incorporated was declared unconstitu.
tional. A second act shared a like
fate. This discouraged the people, and
they declined to accept a later charter.
The bonded debt of the old borough
has now been practically wiped out,
the validity of thepresent borough laws
sustained, and there is a strong feeling
that the resort will not prosper until il
is again set apart as a borough and
permitted to govern itself, expanding
its taxes for its own improvement in.
stead of to assist the township.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Awards For Four Lives

1t was reported in New Brunswick
that a settlement had been made by
the international Smokeless Powder
Company with the families of the vic.
Tins Of the recent explosion at Parlin
who were Frank Spratford and John
Apologize, of ~Sayreville; Leon Rad.
path, of Boston, and John Price, OF
South River, paying $4,000 for the Ifs
of each of the four men killed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Senate Confirms Dill as Judge.

The nomination of James B. Dill az
Judge of the Court of Errors and APP,
peals was confirmed by the Senate in
executive session at Trenton. Senator
Colby made a speech opposing confir>
nation. Mr.. Dill before his appoint.
ment was a prominent corporation law.
yer. and was identified with the for.
nation of many big syndicates. Mr..
Colby was the one only voting no.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Lonely Farmer Burned to Death.

Edward Hill was burned to death al
his home at FRANKLIN the other night,
He was a farmer and lived alone.
Joseph Knuth, a neighbor, saw the
house was on fire, broke in the door,
and where tine flooring of the upper
room had already burned away he
could see Hills body lying across the
rafters. The origin of the fire is un.
known.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
strength For To-Day.

God promises strength to enable US
to do our present duty. If we believe
that, and act accordingly, we shall
never, never fail. "AS thy days, 50
shall thy strength be-" That is the
promise-a promise that never fails.
Yesterday has gone, not to return. To-
morrow has not come to US, and it may
never come. To-day is our day, and it
is the only portion of time that is.
Men who regret that they did not do
their work of yesterday, lose their pres
ent time because they are not giving
their whole strength to it. Men who
fear that they will not be able TO de
to-morrow's work are losing to-day.
and are not getting ready for to-mor-
row. God does not promise strength
for yesterday which is gone. nor for
tomorrow which may never come. but
for to-day, which is here. Let Us
therefore, trust, and use. while we
have it, DDS promised strength for
to-day. ''Suhcient unto the day is
the evil land the good thereof
Sunday School Times.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
Carnegie Library For Kearnv.

Andrew Carnegie gave the town Of
Kearny, through the Board Of Alder.
men. $4,000 for a public library. A
resolution was passed to appropriate
$500 for its support.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
FI%NEA@
k@@E9EHks

An irresistible invitation ION the door
of a city restaurant-"Please knock
the bell out of order Punch.
Have you seen Professor Gabbleton,
the scientist, lately?' YES. l listened
to him for more than an hour at the
club last night" Indeed! What was
he talking about?' He didn't say"
Puck.
What mighty pitcher sent this ball
With cunning curves Alright?
What mighty batsman will it meet
To strike it out of sight?
Mrs. Subbubs-"Mrs. Backlotz tells
me that that Mrs. Newcombe next door
to her is exceedingly cold and unsym-
pathetic, and" Mr.. Subbubs-"Ah.
that simply means that she doesn't gos-
sip."-Philadelphia Ledger.
Your little dog" remarked Subbubs,
"looks very odd. What did you have
his tail cut off for?" I'VE simply had
to do it," replied Cittiman; "he wagged
it so much, and we live in a fat, you
Observation-Disclosures Press.
"Ob, my" exclaimed Mrs. %Schoppen,
"Tve lost my pocketbook!" Never
mind, DEAR" replied her husband, "Ill
get you another pocketbook and you
can easily collect more dress goods
samples. "-Philadelphia Press.
Give me just two minutes" said the
book agent. "I'll do more than that"
answered the busy man. IN give you
three minutes to reach the elevator,
and when you get outside you can have
all day."-Philadelphia Ledger.
First Stranger-"So you are from
idaho? How does a woman run for
Officer" Second Stranger-'Just like
she runs for a street car. You never
know for certain which side she is
running for."-Chicago Daily News.
Constant Reader" has his say
In the papers every day.
He would show discernment fine
1t he'd change his name and sign
Constant Writer"
eyes, indeed, he had a splendid job
with the big insurance company"
what were his duties:' "Why. n
year in four he had to see that they
added an extra day to February in the
insurance calendars."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Mrs. Nuritch-"I want to get a pair
of the most expensive gloves you got"
Clerk-"Yes'm. How long do you want
them?" Mrs. Nuritch-''Don't be i'm.
pudent, young man 1 want to buy
'em, not hire me- Philadelphia
Ledger.
Muggins-'I wanted my doorway
painted white in the Colonial style, and
that fool of a decorator did it up
brown. l fired him on the spot" Bug.
gins-"I suppose you told him never
to darken your door again."-Philadel.
phia Record.
THAT last speaker" said the first
guest at the banquet, was rather
clever" EYES," said the other, 'and
he's a self-made man. Il thought his
delivery was rather slow" Naturally;
he began life as a messenger boy
Philadelphia Press.
The Humble Student-"And so, sir,
you agree with this authors contention
that genius and insanity are close al.
lied In your opinion, what is the
difference?" The Eminent Scientist
1.-THE lunatic is at least sure of his
board and clothes."-Life.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02
All the Town A-Toot.

All the bands of Vineland have COM
Dined and organized under the head
of Municipal Band of Vineland, with
w. B. Keighley, the shoe manufacture.
err, as leader. The officers are: Honor
airy President. Mayor Joseph A. Con-
well: Honorary Vice-Presidents. the
Borough Councilmcn; President, W. s.,
Keighley; Vice-Prcsident, Frank
Graham; Secretary. E. w. Harker;
Treasurer. II. C. Down; Business Nam
ager, e. ". Harker.
Swedesboro is enjoying i remark
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02

Like Peter, when a disciple is warm
ing himself, he is often in danger Of
denying his Lord.-EdWard White.
The infidel bowls at tie Bible mira
cles, but he aims at its morals.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-02

Swedexboro is enjoying 4 remark
able huildias boom.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21

a dress suit built for me, but~perhaps it Is just as well that you say nothing about 1t for the present. There are still a good many Populists over in Warren county, and they are disposed to favor me.
 have been busy around the different departments for a few days and have discovered the truly. great men of Washington. I had always supposed that the Cabinet officers, with their many cares and responsibilities, were most important personages and always surrounded with bodyguards and envel- oped in dignity. I was very much sur prised to find Secretary Wilson's of flee open and the old king bee of the farmers ready to engage in wordfest with any and all corners. Mir. Shaw, Secretary Of the Treasury. is more acc cessible than old Hemming. over at the Hollingsdale National Bank. and near ly every member of the Cabinet practi- cally keeps open house during office hours probably doing most of his real work at home.
 Bureau Chiefs the Really Great.
 The really great parsonage, howev- CT, the personification of chilly digni- ty, is the' bureau chiefs, through whom most Of the Congressman's business is transacted. He invariably impresses you with the fact that he is making great sacrifice to serve the govern ment. and would not do so If 1t were not that the Cabinet officers were really so incompetent that he feels it his patriotic duty to save the administra- ton from embarrassment by doing the work himself and keeping the machin- cry of the government in good order Every time I have to do business with one of them I get a better apprecia- tion of the impulse that prompts men to commit homicide. =
 After being all wrought up by one Of these fellows this morning I tried sar- l.casm on him and asked, In my politest manner. if I could get his permission to remain in town over night, It never feazed him. Without batting an eye. he remarked that if placed the matter in writing. he would refer it to the proper channels and send me a reply some time between now and adjourn ment day. Our Senator has invited me to din- ner next Wednesday night. and if get my evening dress in time. l will at- tend, and in my next letter try and give you some hint of how they manage | such affairs here.
 Yours affectionately
 KENT HOWARD, M c.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21
GRANDM0THER'S ELOPEMENT
Nv Rerthn E. Bush.

Copyright. 1SO6, by Daily Story Pub. Go.
 Granamo:ner was sixty years old and Just why that was a reason that she should be considered too old and fee- ble to go anywhere or see much of any body grandmother failed to understand, but to James wife 1t was conclusive, The place for old people was at home. where they could be waited on and cared for, she maintained, No one could say that they were not good to grandmother The sunnist room in the house was given to her, and she was not expected even to come down stairs to take her meals It's too hard TOT you to climb up the stairs. and Jane can take a tray up to you, James. wife had insisted in well-meaning, If mis- taken, kindness. The tray was always most bountiful supplied. Grandmother, too, was supplied with everything that an old lady could be supposed to want and was expected to sit all day Tn her comfortable armchair, dressed in black silk-James' wife did not approve Of colors for old peopl"--and read or sew or knit in happiness, ,-.,
 She ought to be very thahKFul TOT such a good home,' was the verdict of friends. who remembered when grandmother best dress had been on- ly a print, and her capital hands had done the cooking. sw'cping' washing and ironing, and sewing Tor q IdHlly