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The Penn's Grove record., 1906-01-05

1t is we'll known that Manx cats
have no tails, only slight stumps, and
hat the offspring of such in other parts
of the world, in the first generation
at least. are in the same abnormal
condition. While living in Scotland
thirty years ago we had a ManX kit
ten given to us, which, although born
there. was tailless. The door of our
breakfast-room was spring shutting,
like most of the screen doors in this
country, but opening only coward the
inside. Before the kitten was full
grown he had learned to let himself
in by pushing from the outside, but
never learned, although we often tried
to teach him, to pull it open from the
inside.
1t was not, however, the opening Of
the door from the outside to which L
wish to cali a~ttention-any cat could
have easily learned to do that; but the
fact that he had invariably, after he
had so pushed it and got his body par
TALLY in. he made a rapid turn or
whirl to prevent the tail that was not
there (but hereditary impressed on him
the fact that it ought to have been)
from being caught between the closing
door and it's frame.
This he did dozens of times every
day so long as we had him, and was
always willing to show off before u
visitors, as he never seemed to recog-
nize the fact that he had not a tail
like his neighbors.-Scientiic .Ameri-
can.
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A Clear Call.

at is very noble and lovely Of you.
Elsie. to give so much of your time
to that work among the tenement
house children. I'm sure l admire you
for it; but for my part. 1 never had
any call to that kind of work"
Amy call?' EIsie's eyes were
gravely questioning.
Eyes. of course. I suppose you felt
called to go into it, didn't your
Il don't know. 1 don't think l ever
thought of it just in that way. L saw
the need Of something 1 had time and
strength to do-that was all. But
wouldn't that be call enough|
Would it not indeed? What palmer
call can there be than a need b a we
can meet? What more eloquent ap-
peal than the cry of the hungry little
ones around Us for bread that we can
give?
There are not many loud and start
ling calls to any form of service.
but God has unmistakable ways OF
making His will known TO every one
whose own will is to know it. We
have but to keep u ears open to hear
His voice. our eyes to see His DECK
oning. Every opportunity is a call;
every outstretcned hand that ours
can meet helpfully is Gods reckoning
hand to US"
To most of us no other call will ever
come than that which comes through
human lips, no other than the reveal
ing of a vacant place which we may.
fill, a need for work which we can do
If we wait in idlenesS for some
other vocation than comes to US IN
these ways, we are but losing time
and the world is losing our service
Let US instead find in the duty that
lies nearest our present, definite call.
sure that when we are wanted for
another work that too will be shown
us. Opportunity-that is Gods clear
call to us.-YOung People.
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Gardening and poultry raising is a
natural and profitable combination. as
each helps the other and gives a va
riety of employment, whereby the
spare moments in each vacation are
p~roftably utilized. Fowls are natural
insect d~estroyers, and during the sea-
son when insects are most destructive.
II allowed to range in the garden every
morning and evening will render ex-
cellent service. 1t is a good plan to
raise all small vegetables, such as
beans, peas, onions, radishes and let
tuce, by themselves in a lot enclosed
by a chicken proof fence, and to have
another lot the same size for the chick
ems to range in. The year following,
let the chickens be turned into the lot
where the garden was and use for a
garden the lot vacated by the fowls.
BY thus giving the garden plot to
poultry every alternate year, the soil
is not only rested but wonderfully
fortified by the n of the fowls
which is absorbed by the soil as fast
as it falls upon it.-Joshua Humble. in
The Epitomist.
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oldest Dwellines In Eurone,

One of. the very earliest human set
Elements in Europe is Roche GORDON,
on the banks Of the Loire, seven miles
above Tours. Here limestone cliffs
stretch for miles and are ~pigeonholed
with caves, which are Oh different lev
els and open onto terraces. When the
rest of the country was nothing but
forest land Roche GORDON vas a thriv-
ing settlement inhabited by wild
skin-clad predecessors of the present
cave dwellers. These terraces and
caves were formed by the action of
mighty rivers, and during the glacial
period, when the climate of that por-
ton of France was very severe, man
drove out the bears and hyenas and
took refuge in these natural shelters,
which faced south, and so became hui
man settlements of a primitive sort.
Near at hand were the rivers and
great forests full Of hsh aud game,
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Commercial Methods.

If the man whose life is spent on
the farm would use his brains as we'll
is his hands, he would find results
much more profitable than at present.
1t is all well enough to understand
what is necessary in farm operations,
but of what avail is it if plans are not
carefully laid and as carefully exc
cuted? There is a city business man
who was brought up on a farm and
is now spending some of his city
earned money at the old occupation.
Largely, as a matter of sentiment, he
bought the old homestead, and after
a time used it for a summer home,
leasing the land on the share plan.
One summer, being at the farm consid-
erably, he noticed the rather slip-shod
methods of operation, and the next
year took charge of the farm him
self, engaging the necessary help to
do the work. Then he looked carefully
over the place and planned just what
he would do wita 1t. He had no
trouble after his help discovered that
his knowledge was not wholly theo-
retical. The farm is making some
money, solely as a farm, and will make
more in the years to come. 1t is run
as a business proposition. and every
detail Of its handling carefully consid-
cred. The commercial rules applied
to farming will bring successful
dianapolis News.
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Mangled as Train Hit Stage.

Homeward bound. after having
played a match game with a local
team, the members Of the Avon basket
ball team were in merry mood as they
drove through the streets in a big stage
which they had hired. There were
singing and shouting, expressions of
qualification owe the generous
in which they had been treated at Free.
hold. The men were in the midst of a
song as the stage started across the
South street crossing of the P~ennsylva
mia Railroad about 1 o'clock i'll the
morning, when suddenly the headlight
of a locomotive which swung around a
curve shed its full glare on the occu-
pants. There was the shrek of a whis-
tie, and the next moment a freight
train had crashed into the stage, hurl-
ing the occupants in all directions.
One of the basketball players was
killed outright and several others We're
so badly mangled that it was said they
could not live. OF the fourteen persons
in the stage not one escaped unhurt.
SO sudden was the collision that none
of those in the stage had time to open
the back door and get out. The driver
and two men who sat on the seat with
him also were unable to jump. AS the
train crashed into them the men were
sent flying in all directions. Some of
them landed several feet in front of
the train. while others were hurled
across a fence. The engineer. as o o
as he saw the stage on the tracks. blew
his whistle and damned down the
emergency brakes. This lessened the
force of the collision, and probably
saved the lives of many of those in the
stage. The men who were thrown over
the fence landed in soft dirt, and they
were the least injured. AS soon as they
could they went to the aid of their
companions. They found that John
Benneman had been killed instantly by
the collision, and that Howard Soffield
and Samuel Hampton were badly hurt.
The physicians found that four of the
other men, Leon and Robert Apgar,
Harry Dolan and Joseph Barrett, were
suffering from fractured skulls and
Thomas Murphy and Albert Barrett
had ruptured several blood vessels.
The driver and the two men who were
sitting in front of the stage were the
least injured. AS 0 as the injured
could be moved they were taken to the
Memorial Hospital in Long Branch.
Benneman's body was taken to his
home in Asbury Park.
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Cut Off Finger on a dare

AS the result of a "dare," Herbert
Franklin, son of James Franklin. of
Belford, lost the greater part of a
finger. He and Harold Bennett, son
of William Bennett. were playing to.
gether. Both were in the best of hui.
NOR. Harold had been chopping kind.
lings and had a Ratchet in his hand.
Here, chop that" said Herbert, plac-
ing his hand on the chopping block.
with one finger invitingly extended.
Harold made a feint with his hatchei
and recovered it too late, for in that in.
slant Herbert's finger had been severed
at the second joint. The hoys are seven
years old. The two youngsters, badly
frightened, sought a doctor in a hurry
There is no Ill feeling between the
boys, even now, and their parents are
said to be the best of friends.
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Leghorr family. They are slightly
larger tan the brown Leghorns, and
their eggs are about as large as those
of thelarger breeds. They are spright-
ly ami always on the hustle, though
they stand confinement remarkably
well, and a dozen hens may be kept in
a vey small pen.
Mny people on the farm object to
then on account of their color, claim
ing that they are shining marks for
HAWKS and small animals which prey
on he poultry yard, but this view
seems hardly well taken, since it has
been shown that the broods are con-
stanly being robbed even among those
that are totally black. Color makes
no difference, and unless a better OBJ
jectiol for discarding them can be
advaeced, We see NJ reason why they
should not regain their former pres
tige
There is certainly no prettier fowl,
if we fancy solid color, and they GER
tinly have merit.-Home and Farm.
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In All Parts of the State.

A new canning plant is to be built at
Goshen.
A big building boom is expected in
Camden in thu spring.
The Alcott Literary Association gave
a holiday soiree in the Millville High
School building. :
Many of the pupils of the public
schools took donations to the poor in
Millville.
The $500 raised by the Baptists of
~Pedricktown Will be used to recarpet
the church..
The Woodbury. Board of Education
has decided to allow the voters to de,
eide whether a new schoolhouse shall
be built.
Salem County sportsmen will join the
effort being made to secure the repeal
If the law which provides for a bounty
Of So on foxes.
Game Warden Avis. of Woodbury..
fined two men from Gloucester $50 and
costs for cunning when rabbits could
be tracked in The snow.
A larse part Of the roof of the Cum
berland Glass Company's window
plant, at Bridgetop, fell in, greatly in-
terfering with tie work BY the blows
erss
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Rest in Christ.

Coming to Christ, we enter into the
rest of faith. The very act Of rust
brings tranquility, even when the per-
son or thing trusted in is human or
creatural. and therefore uncertain
For to roll the responsibility from my
self, as it were, upon another brings re-
pose; and they who lean upon Chr1sts
strong arm do not need TO fear, hougn
their own arm be very weak.
The rest of faith, when we cease
from having to take care of ourselves,
when we can cast all the gnawing cares
and anxieties that perturb us upon
Him. when we can say, Thou dosr
undertake for me, and l leave myseIr
in Thy hands, is tranquility depeer
and more real than any other that the
heart of man can conceive. Thou wilt
keep him in perfect peace whose mind
is stayed on Thee, because he tusteh
in Thee"
Cast yourself upon Christ, and live
in that atmosphere of calm confidence;
and though the surface may be tossed
by many a storm, the depths will be
peace subsisting at the heart OF end
less Observation-Disclosures Maclaren.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-01-05
The Poultry Yard.

The above illustration shows a typi-
cal Leghorn.
This breed, though small, was at one
time very popular, especially with
those who lived in the country, but
the demand for larger market fowls
has grown so rapidly that the all-pur-
pose fowls, such as Plymouth Rocks
and Wyandottes, have almost entirely
displaced them.
White Leghorns have pure white
plumage, with clean, yellow shanks,
beaks and skin, and when fully ma
tured the males weigh about four
pounds and the females from three to
three and a half. They are counter
parts in all else but color of the brown
Leghorns, and possess all and possibly
more of the many good traits of the
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Hunter Strangely Shot.

Near Finesville, Samuel Sigafoss,
thirty-eight years old, was shot in the
left leg when hunting. The bullet en-
tered below the knee, SCATTERING the
tibia. 1t was feared at first that am.
putation would be necessary, but DR..
Brown says Sigafoss will recover. at
though he may be lame for life. Siga.
floss and William Walters, who accom-
panied him, sat down to eat after
placing their guns side by side, a short
distance away. Suddenly their hunt.
ing dog became uneasy. In scratch,
ing it sent flying a large pebble which
struck the hammer Of Sigafoss's gun.
1t had been left half cooked and was
discharged, the charge striking Siga'
foss.
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The Vegetable Garden.

Clean up and burn diseased plants,
the garden, pillow it and leave
it all winter.
Burn asparagus tops and manure
the bed.
You can make new asparagus and
rhubarb beds and plant sets of extra
early pearl onions for use next March.
Put some parsley plants in a box
and place it in a light cellar or in a
shed.
Put some frozen rhubarb roots in a
barrel of earth in the cellar, where
they will produce 'pie-plant' for win
ter use.
Dig chickory for salad and store in
sand in a dry cellar.
Blanch endive by tying lightly at
the tips.
Bury a barrel of cabbage in a we'll
drained spot and cover with leaves.
Or pile cabbages on the barn floor and
cover with straw enough to prevent
solid freezing.
Start a mild hotbed and have home
grown radishes and lettuce.-The Gar
den Magazine.
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Murdered Italian Found.

The body of a murdered man was
found in a clump of underground near
the Hudson River line trolley tracks
at Morsemere. 1t was lying face down
with the arms crossed. There were Il
number of deep stab wounds over the
heart and in the neck and the chin
was almost hacked in two. The body
was without coat or hat and there was
no signs of a struggle. 1t is believed
that the dead man was taken there
from a distance. The only article or
the corpse which gives a hope of iden'
LITIGATION is a gold ring inscribed with
the initial "R."
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advertisements

With no more piety than other people,
A DAVIS not recIoned a religious bird
Because 1t keeps a-cawIng from a steeple.
Forms are by no means confined to
liturgical churches. A printed prayer
is less formal than one which differs
in phraseology each time it is uttered,
if the first come from the heart and the
latter from the head. Some one thus
c~onfesses and questions and deduces;
I often say my prayers.
But do / ever pray!
And do the wishes Of my heart
Go with the words ] say:
Words without the heart
The Lord will never hear,
Nor will He to those lips attend
Whose prayers are not sincere.
Spiritual forces are all about US, per-
vasive as the subtle element we call
electricity. The power Of gOdliness is
the concentration of this energy with
in ourselves, so as to make it radiant
for good to others. We are in good
form. We have taken Christ to be
our Prophet and listen to His teach
ings. We recognize Him as u priest.
accepting the atOnement He offers. Is
He our King Whom we obey, in Whose
strength we 90 out to fight fearlessly?
Because h~ypocrites exist is no reason
why you should be a coward. Let US
not hesitate to say what we mean.
Let US determine to mean what we say.
A form of godliness may speak
words of sympathy to mourners, Of
warning to evil doors, of hope to af-
ficted ones. But the power is not
there. 1t is voice. voice; nothing
more" Although ministering to the
self-complacency of the speaker, it
ministers to no n else. The form Of
goodness lacks substance. The fimsi-
ness is revealed when its wearer needs
sustaining power. 1t is no rod and
staff to comfort when the valley of
the shadow of death is to be trod.
1t has no light to shed when a man
comes to the forks of the road and
knows not which way to take. Ii may
fool him for a while here. Its hollow
ness is apparent on his first arrival in
the world that knows no shams.
The power of goodness is profitable,
both for the life that now is and for
that which is to come. Its ~possessor
has "the tongue of the taught that he
may sustain with words him that is
weary" may "reprOye, rebuke, exhort,
correct A man is behind the voice
and Christ is behind the man. In
times Of trouble, it supports unfaiiing-
". When the house is darkened and
the friends make their pitiful attempts
to condole, they are anticipated by the
God of all comforts.
He whose form of goodness is val
idated by its power, with ~unblanched
cheek, with firm confidence, faces each
crisis of life, the supreme crisis OF
death. knowing Whom he has believed,
persuaded that He is able to keep
what is committed to Him throughout
nTnrOitV
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Found Dead in a Swamp.

The body of Adam FOrst. forty-f re
wars old. who lived in North Bergen.
was found in a swamp near the Public
Service Corporations railroad trestle
at Hudson Heights. Forst left home
about a week ago, saying that he in.
tended to go to a hospital. He hat
been in poor health for some time. He
never reached a hospital. so far as can
be learned. Dr.. Converse, the county
physician, says the MAJ had been dead
three days when his body was found,
and that his death resulted from expos.
ure and natural causes. p,
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by George, I'm glad it's over. I've
worked awful hard during the last
few years, getting my legal education"
"Well, cheer up. It'll be a long time
before you have any more work to do"
cleveland Leader.
Farmer Wayback-'Is your son doing
well at college?" Farmer Corntossel-
extra money, and he isn't a candidate
for either the nine, the eleven or the
crew."-SOmerville Journal.
Algernon-"I heah that you and Clar-
ence had an a%ltahcation lswst night
and he called youh evahwything."
Percival-"Yaws, but 1 got even with
him, deah boy. 1 called him nothing,
doncher know.'-Chicago News.
Investigators tell us
It's the little things that kill.
You'll find no deadly microbes
On a $1,000 bill.
Chicago Tribune.
Little Sister-"O, mamma, I've got
a cankef on my toe!' Big Brother
"That isn't a canker. A canker is
what they throw overheard on a ship
to make the ship stand still. What
you've got is a pop-corn"
"Phut's this" exclaimed Michael,
reading the legend on a new invention;
"'Pat. applied for? Faith, an whin
there's inny worruk to be done poor
Pat is always applied for, bad luck
to 'em!"-Boston Transcript.
When Smithers' automobile,
Upon a sudden within,
Ran straight into the ocean
And out of sight with him,
His friends remarked, How natural"
Although their eyes were dim
With tears; for he had bought the thing
To put him in the swim.
Judge.
mo, 1 never go to vaudeville shows"
said the collector, refusing the invita-
ton. why not?" asked his friend.
Because I've had enough of it. In my
business most everybody gives me a
song and dance of n kind or an
otherr'-Detroit Free Press.
II always save money on hats" said
Mrs. Wise. "How's that?" inquired
her friend. "Why, my husband has
read so much about the awful prices
women pay for them that it never oc-
ours to him that / could get one for
half the moneyr'-Detroit Free Press.
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HiccOughing TO Death.

Mrs. Harry Wettstein. a prominent
citizen and church worker, of Millville!
was at the point of death, suffering
from hiccoughs. For four days and
nights she has been hiccoughing with
only rare intervals of rest, each attack
leaving her weaker. In t~wenty-fouT
hours Mrs. Wettstein rested only ten
minutes, and was so weak she could
not speak aloud. Expert physicians
have done their utmost to alleviate her
suffering.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-01-05

We are living out these lives of ours
too much apart from God. We toll on
dismally, as if the making or the mar
ring of our destinies rested wholly
with ourselves. 1t is not so. We are
not the lonely orphaned creatures We
let ourselves suppose ourselves to be.
The earth, rolling IN its way through
space. does not go unattended. The
Maker and Controller of it is with it,
and around upon it. He is with us
here and now. He knows US infinitely
more thoroughly than we know our
selves. He loves us better than we
have ever dared to believe could be
possible.-William r. Huntington.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-01-05

Whatever affords US pleasure has
power to give US pain. Possessions are
precarious. Friends die. When his
gourds wither. what becomes of the
wretch who has no other shade? But
ito the upright there ariseth light in
the darkness Though Divine grace
does not ensure their exemption from
calamity. it turns the curse into a bless
ing, it enters the house of mourning
and sootheS the troubled mind, it pre-
pares us for all, sustains us. in all,
sanctifes Us by all, and delivers US
from ali.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-01-05

The Ioftiest examples of charity. de-
| yotion, s~elf-sacrifice, heroisIn. trust, pa
| tience and patriotism ever known to
history have found their motive and in
| SEPARATION in the Christian rellgion.-
| Horny B. Williams.