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The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-26

NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Volunteers to Aid Grating

A successful skin grating opera
ton was performed in st. Francis
Hospital at Trenton, upon the lower
right leg and hip of Helen Cornell,
aged fourteen, the skin for the pur-
pose being taken from her sister Mar
garet, aged twelve. The little girls
were both placed under the influence
of ether while the operation was be-
ing performed. Helen was severely
burned on March 5 while playing
near a bonfire in the yard at her
home. Her dress became ignited and
she ran screaming into the house,
where her mother extinguished the
flames, Helen and Margaret are the
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Cornell. When it was found neces-
sary to perform the operation Mar
garet agreed to submit in order to
ave her sisters life.
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r TRAINS CRASH.
Fatal Accident in Railway Yard Near
Birmingham, Ala.

Birmingham, ALIAS the result
of a wreck on the Southern Railway
a short distance east of Woodlawn, a
suburb of Birmingham, two men are
dead and W. persons injured.
A freight train with a dead" en-
CINE on the rea was coming toward
Birmingham. The operator, it is
said, allowed a fast passenger train
to enter the block, and it crashed into
the dead engine, smashing both en-
gines and demolishing several cars.
Three cars of the freight train were
thrown r the east-bound track
almost at the instant that a wreckins
train en- route to Helm, Ala, passed.
The wrecker struck them, and practi-
cally the whole freight train was
piled into the ditch. Two men were
caught under the engine.
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In All Parts of the State.


Gloucester County farmers are sell
ing their surplus sweet potatoes at
siXty-five cents a basket, many of
them going to Chester, Pa.
The new $4,000 Ocean City High
School building has been accepted by
the Board of Education from the con-
tractor, Joseph Steelman.
The State tuberculosis Exhibit will
be at the Millville Auditorium for ten
days. From there it will go to
Bridgeton and Vineland.
Joseph A. Throckmorton died at
his home in Red Bank, N. j., at the
age of eighty-nine.
Andrew Miller, who died at Rah-
way, was born in that town seventy
three years ago., and had always lived
there.
Work on the new High School at
Williamstown has begun, and the
contractor says it will be finished by
August 1.
Joseph Lodge, of Mount Royal,
has a family Bible containing the
records of the David Roos family
dating from 1888.
Rev. Percy Perinchief, of Ocean
Grove, mas been elected president OF
the New Brunswick District Preach
ers' Association.
Charged with threatening to burn
the barn of his former employer,
Charles Sutton, ear Merchantville,
Isaac Jackson, colored, was sent to
jail for thirty days by Mayor Long
streth.
The Cape May County authorities
have decided to place the road from
the Cumberland County line to Cape
May City in the best of condition for
auto travel.
The Civic Club of Vineland has
elected Prof. E. r. tombstone, presi-
dYnt; H. l. Branson and DR.. Theo-
dore Foote, vice-presidents; William
Chambers, secretary. and H. H. Pond.
treasurer.
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FOREIGN.

News from Rome says that fifty
yards of the exterior wall of the Vati-
can suddenly collapsed.
The British Unionist majority was
increased at the by-election for the
Clark was returned.
Mexicans are greatly concerned by
the fact that the cathedral in Mexico
City, a historic structure, was
cracked seriously by the recent
earthquake.
Puerto Cortez and Ceiba, accord
ing to advices from Honduras, were
captured by the Nicaraguans without
a shot being fired.
Manuel Bonilla, former President
of Honduras, landed at Salina Cruz
from the American gunboat Prince
ton.
Lord William Nevill was found
guilty of the charge of %swindling a
pawnbroker in London and was SEN
fenced to a years imprisonment.
A monument to Fragonard, the
painter, a native of Grasse, France,
was unveiled by Minister of Educa-
LlOh IL JAN
versary of the artists death.
Twenty-Five members of the fight
ing wing of the Social Revolutionists
were arrested in St. Petersburg, Rus
STA.
The annual report of Lord Cromer,
British Agent in Egypt, contains a
suggestion for the establishment of a
sort of modified home rule in that
country.
Ten Russian students entered the
University at st. Petersburg, fired re-
volvers At the officials, robbed h
cashier of $3.50 and escaped.
The French Minister of Finance at
Paris issued a decree applying the
maximum tariff to coffees from Porto
Rico and also to those from United
States ports after June so. Hitherto
the minimum tariff has been applied,
under the convention of 1901.
A strike of walters in the cafes of
Paris has begun on the ~boulevards.
Earthquake shocks were felt at
Tortosa and Murcia, in Spain; in the
vicinity of Constantinople, Turkey
and at Askabad, in Russian T~ranscas-
plan territory.
A menacing naval demonstration
was made by French warships off Mo-
godor, and the situation in Morocco
is declared to be critical.
The famine relief committee, a dis
patch from Shanghai says, is feeding
400, 900 persons. The Chinese Gov
eminent has ceased to give relief andSI
is said to be hampering the work of
the committee.
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TO VALUE THE BIG RAILROADS.
John F. Stevens Likely to Do 1t For
the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Washington, D. C.-John F. Stew
ems, who recently resigned as chief
engineer of the Panama Canal, is to
enter the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad for the purpose of making a
valuation of its property.
1t is believed that this action is in
tended to anticipate such action by
the Government, as the roads sec that
in the near future the matter of max
ing a Government valuation of rail-
road properties is likely to become an
issue and they desire to know their
status and what may be expected
when that time comes. In other
words, the roads want to be protected
against the possible disposition of
Government appraisers to underesti-
mate the value of their holdings.
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Gods Gymnasium.

Life is Gods gymnasium. He
takes the measures; we do not know
what they are. He puts US in u
places and gives us what discipline
need. The ministers call churches
means of grace, and prayer means of
grace, and the Bible means of grace,
and so they are. But, also, your ship
is a means of grace, and your kitchen
a means of grace, and your social
gathering is a mean OF grace. Let
a mar go into life believing this. TAX
ing life as his school preparing for
the life beyond, and what a glorious
thing it is to livei-Home Herald.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Regis H. Post was inaugurated
Governor of Porto Rico.
Havana bankers declined Governor
Magoon's invitation to borrow the
surplus in the Cuban treasury, saying
they could not lend the money they
had.
Philippine political parties praise
the work of General Allen.
Secretary of War Taft told Porto
Ricans in Ponce they enjoyed all the
liberty of the American people.
Havana is threatened by a milk
famine.
The reception given by Secretary
Taft at San Juan was a brilliant sue
cess. Guests from all parts of the ISL
and were present.
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County Doctor Mills a Suicide.

In a fit of insanity, County Physi-
clan Andrew M. Mills, of Newark,
committed suicide in his Office in that
city by cutting his throat. DR.. Mills
had been County Physician since Feb
ruary, but had not been able to per-
form the duties, owing to his nervous
condition. He was thirty-six years
old and a graduate of New York City
University.
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sixteen-Year-Old Boy a Suicide.

The body of Richard Greiner, six
teen years old, a son of Otto Greiner,
OF 2S7 Sanford street, East Orange,
was found hanging by the neck in
the cellar of his fathers house.
The discovery was made by the
dead boys eight-year-old brother
George. The boy is said to be so
affected by dime novel stories that
his father recently took them away
from him and got him interested in
a history of the United States. He
read in this an account of the hang
ing of John Brown and the story
made a deep impression on him and
may have prompted him to take his
life.
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MANY BUSINESS men
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY
Indicted at Toledo, Ohio, For Re-
Straint of Trade.
OUTSIDE DEALERS EXCLUDED
Brick, Lumber andPlumbing Combine
Men Accused by the Grand Jury
Indicted Ones Are Among the
Best known Citizens.

-lIkulCtCu OlNS &AAAOhS IA
Best known Citizens.
Toledo, Ohio. - Charging conspir-
-scy in restraint Of trade, ninety-one
business men of Toledo were indicted
oy the Grand Jury, which reported to
Judge Morris, of the Common Pleas
Court. The men are. among the best
known in the city. Some are not act
lively engaged in the business Of the
brick, lumber and plumbers COM
bine, which has beer under investiga-
ton, but are interested indirectly and
are included in the charges made
against the firms.
Very few members of the Master
Plumbers Association escaped the net
of the Grand Jury. The fact that all
are alleged to have used the scale of
prices as set down by the association
brought indictments against the indi-
vidual members.
In the list of lumbermen and
brickmen indicted are the names of
men high in local financial circles.
The head of the local lumber trust is
said to be the Toledo Lumbermen's
Credit Association. This trust, it is
alleged, has complete control of the
lumber market, raising prices when it
saw fit and compelling outside con
Germs to sell only to it, making it i'm
possible for the independent dealer to
get material outside the trust.
The Toledo Brick Supply Company
is the alleged head of the brick trust.
Well known men are named in the
bills against the officers of the va
rious concerns in this combination.
In the indictments 1t is charged that
the manufacturers fixed the prices tc
the exclusion of outside dealers and
in restraint of trade.
There will be no arrests at once.
time being given to the men indicted
to get attorneys and arrange for bail,
1t is said that the plumbers and
truckmen are not the only ones
hunted unrelentingly. The Prosecu.
tor does not deny that the Grand
Jury has investigated several combi-
nations which will not be reported
on, but from which some valuable in
formation has been secured.
The National Supply Company,
against which an Indictment has been
returned, deals extensively in plumb
ing supplies, oil well machinery and
all name of plumbers and carpen-
ters' tools. The books of the various
alleged organizations which directed
the operations of the brick, lumber
and plumbers combine have been in
possession of Prosecutor Wachen-
heimer, and it is said contain sufi-
cient evidence to make a prima facie
case.
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NURSES DEVOTION FATAL.
Dies From Scarlet Fever Contracted
in Vassar Hospital.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Miss Lucy
Won Rogel, a nurse at Vassar Hospi.
tai, died of scarlet fever contracted
while attending a stranger who was
taken sick or the streets of Pough.
keepsie. When Miss Won Hogel was
stricken, Miss Faithful Butler, a stu.
dent at st. Faiths, who is preparing
for a nurse, went to Vassar Hospital
to attend her. She in turn contracted
the disease, and is now seriously ill
in an isolated ward.
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In Jail One Year For S25..

Stephen Wass, of Cliffside, was
committed to the Hackensack Jail a
year ago because he refused to pay a
board bill for his infant son amount.
ing to $25. The superintendent Of
the Children's Home gave Wass sew.
eral opportunities to pay 81 a week
on the bill, but the father ignored
his offer. Wass received $25 from
his parents IT. Germany. He at once
paid it over and was released from
iail.
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With the Workers.

Street railway men of Sacramento.
Cal, have received a voluntary raise
of three cents an hour.
Many members of the United Assoc
cation or Plumbers, Gas Filters and
steam Filters are urging that the or
~ganization establish a home for the
aged and infirm, along the same lines
as the typos.
Chicago (Ill.) electricians wish a
scale OF 80 a day, an increase of afty
cents a day I'VE their present scale.
They set their OWL working rules.
and they have had no trouble in en-
forcing them for several years.
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Negro Attacked White Child.

Charles Hopes, a nineteen-year-
old negro, has been arrested at
Plainfield for attempting to attack
a three-year-old white child, named
Martha Mead. Chief Kelley de-
clared that the man had practi-
cally made a confession. Hopes was
surly and defiant when put in a
cell. To a detective sergeant he
said: well, l guess I can take all
that's coming to me-"
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Jersey Firebug Confesses.

Thomas Fitzgerald, who with Fred
erick Schwickhardt, is in the Morris
town Jail charged with setting the
fires that have caused Morristown
people to live in fear for some
months, has made a statement over
his signature to Prosecutor Charles
A. Rathbun. In it he confesses to
the fires he and S~chwickhardt set.
Schwickhardt still denies setting the
fires. He says ~Fitzgerald's confess
sion is untrue. The men are held
in $4,000 bail for the grand jury.
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Punished, Boy Shoots Himself.

Oscar Kearn, fifteen years old,
committed suicide by shooting him
self before several schoolmates.
Kearn attended the Gutenberg
grammar school, and was sent home
by the principal for not having pre-
pared his lessons. Just as the pupils
were going home at noon he reap
peared, and, meeting some of his
friends, walked to Bulls Ferry Road
and Thirty-fourth street, where he
suddenly left his companions and, go
ing into a vacant lot, drew a pistol
and shot himself. He died within
thirty minutes.
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A Sad Jolt.

"How it does jar you when you
have quite decided that a bank is
safe!"
"Yes?"
Safe enough to entrust with your
5000"
"Yes?"
ITO learn that they won't start an
account on less than $500."-Cour-
ier-Journal.
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MOB OF WOMEN REAT A MAN.
Take Revenge OH a Farmer For Cru.
city to His Wife.

London, Ohio.-George H. Ward,
a farmer, near Roscoe, Madison Coun-
ty, was soundly whipped by sixteen
women because of his alleged con
tinual whipping of his wife and other
cruelties to her.
Mrs. Ward died and Ward buried
her, digging the grave himself to save
expenses. The women met at an ap.
pointed place armed with buggy
whips. When Ward came from the
grave they pounced upon him and
beat him, crying, Beast" Brute
and "Dog."
Mrs. Ward before her death filed
a petition for divorce, alleging cruel.
tV.
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Becomes a Catholic to Wed.

Saul William Wertheim, OF Jersey
City, was received into st. Mary's
and later welded Miss Augusta Nc
Kaig of Centre street, Bloomfield.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Francis A. Foy, pastor of
the church. Miss Mary e. McKaig,
a sister of the bride, was bridesmaid,
and Frank Herman, of Jersey City,
was best man.
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SIeeping in Church.

Rector (showing a stranger the
church monuments) - "My grand
father has slept in this church for
eighty years"
Stranger-'Is he living?"-Yon-
kers Statesman.
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Either Way.

"Of course she doesn't like discus
sions about ages"
mo; usually when she's ques-
toned about hers she just says moth
ing, but lies low"
Eyes; or if she says anything she
lies low."-Philadelphia Press.
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From Wcman's View Point.

Announcement was made of the
marriage of Arthur T. Kemp, million
aire clubman, to Miss Sybil Kaye, in
England.
The wealthiest British woman liv-
ing is a Welsh woman; more, she is
single. Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot
was n of the three children of
Christopher Talbot, a popular NJ. P.
of the mid-Vlctorian era.
President Thomas, of Bryn Mawr,
has decreed that h~enceforth all the
learned young women Xnder her rule
must have practicable, Humon sense
pockets in their dreaE
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SHOT BROTHER AND WOMAN.
Jealous Iowa Man Killed Himself,
Too-The Woman Dead.

Ottumwa, Iowa. - Because he
thought his brother had gained the
affections of Mrs. Sallie Morgan, to
whom both had been paying atten-
ton, Ovitt Thompson, of Bedford,
Iowa, shot and killed the woman,
mortally wounded Roscoe Thompson
and committed suicide.
The oma had been separated
from her husband for some time.
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The True Fisherman.

Fishermen have a more philoso-
phic view of chance and fate than
any other brotherhood.
You'll find there are no fish in
that pond"
What did you tell me for? Now
you've spoiled my whole days fish
ng."-Fliegende Blaetter.
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A Mottn Tnrned Rirht.Side Ont.

Seeing is believing" All! turn it
about the other way: believing is
seeing" Jesus Christ will reveal
Himself to that sinner eye which is
the bliss of solitude" and the JOY of
the Christian life-will reveal Him
self to that inward eye so clearly, so
closely, so certainly as there win be
no room left for doubt.-Alex. Mac
Laren, d. d.
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Three Children Burned to Death,

Ethel Hicks, aged seven; her
brother Paul, aged six, and their ten
months-old baby sister were burned
to death in their home in Port Huron,
Mich, by the explosion of a gasoline
stove which the two older children
had attempted to light in the absence
of their parents.
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Andrew J. Campbell Seeks Pardon.

Andrew j. Campbell, one of the
four men convicted six years ago of
the murder of Jennie Bosschieter at
Paterson, and who is now serving a
term of thirty years in the State
Prison, is seeking a pardon. Judge
Gummere was appealed to, and he
advised that the Board of Pardons
was the proper tribunal to appeal to.
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Partners.

"Your two sons studied law, did
they not?" asks the old friend. How
r they getting along?"
Remarkably well. One of them
makes a speciality of prosecuting
trusts and the other is an expert at
defending them."-Chicago Evening
Post.
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Deadly.

Policeman (holding down a tramp
on the sidewalk) - mo damage,
ma'am: he's merely having a fit"
Kind Lady-"Gracious! Shall 1
get some water and throw it in his
face?"
Policeman-"Do you want to kill
l. ?"-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Drowned in Swimming Pool,

William Sander, "a student at
Columbia University, New York City,
was drowned in the university gym
nasium swimming pool and remained
there twenty-four hours before his
body was found.
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Her Husbands Luck.

"Was your husband lucky during
the race meeting last year,"
EYES," answered young Mrs. Tor
kins. HE had tonsilitis most of the
time and couldn't attend."-Wash-
ington Star.
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Light, All Right.

Yeast-"Are all the rooms in your
fat light"
Crimsonbeak-"Oh, yes; we have
gas in 'em all. "-Yonkers Statesman.
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No Attention to Her Now.

"You know Smith used to pay
marked attention to Miss Jones. Well
he has ceased paying attention to
her."
"How is that?"
They're married Judge.
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That New YORK Literature,

Horrible stuff to print in the
newspapers, isn't it,"
81 presume it is. What are you
reading it for?"-Chicago Tribune.
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Tho EYnprf

"Is Speedman a good chauffeur"
Good? Say! he caught a man
yesterday that every motorist in the
city has had a try at and missed
Leslie's Weekly.
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DeeDer Yet.

Toni suppose Yerner is deep
in loves young DREAM"
Dick-"Oh, he's past that stage.
He's troubled with insomnia now."
Catholic Standard.
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Nude Statues Drained.

Students of the Danbury, Conn,
high school, who bought statues of
Apollo and the Discuss Thrower to
adorn the schoolroom, were ordered
to drape them by the committeeman.
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BRYAN Believed to Be in Race.

Democratic leaders expressed the
opinion that w. j. Bryan, in his
Brooklyn speeches, removed all doubt
of his candidacy for the Presidential
nomination.
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DOMESTIC.

The Twenty-seventh Battery has
started from Fort Ethan Allen, VT,
for the Philippines.
Twenty warships under Rear-Ad-
miral Evans assembled off Old Point
ton.
John B. Dunning, a well known
war correspondent, died from tumor
in Philadelphia.
John Smith confessed to having
taken part in the murder of Jim"
Cockrill at Jackson, KY, under the
direction of Judge James Hargis.
The gift of a new chapel and a mu-
sic hall to Mortified Seminary for
Young Ladies by Mrs. Russell Sage,
both to cost $150,000, vas announced
at Mortified, Mass.
OF the $4,000, 900 issue of barge
canal improvement bonds advertised
for sale by the State Controller at AL
bany, N. Y, only $500, 900 were TAX
en- by the public, the remainder being
purchased by the State.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion closed it's hearing in the case of
E. H. Hartman and the Chicago and
Alton and Southern Pacific transac-
lions.
Standard Oil will fight verdict in
Chicago trial.
John Cadwalader, Jr., and John
Monaghan, of Philadelphia, lawyers,
fought with their fists in an anteroom
of a court about a question of verac-
ity.
Embezzlement of $20,483 is
charged against former Teller B. G..
Cavagna, of the First National Bank
of Cincinnati.
After killing his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Kate Paris, at Claremore, 1. t.,
George Golden was himself killed by
Chief of Police Leach while trying to
escape.
Mrs. Eliza Orne Ropes died in
Salem, Mass, releasing a $1,500,000
estate accumulated by her father,
which will go to Harvard University
and public institutions of Salem and
Cincinnati.
Interests on the Pacific Coast de-
clared that the plan of japanese eX-
clusion in return for admission of
Japanese children in the public
schools was a failure.
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Lovers Leap to Death.

Baked in their plan to elope, Stew.
art C. Gay, nineteen years old, and
Mable Pendleton, seventeen years old
killed themselves at Clifton Forge
Va, by jumping from the suspension
bridge.
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Hard Indeed,

Bing-"Is he a hard man to work
under?"
Sting-"I thought so when he fell
off a ladder onto my head."-Judge.
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A Give Away.

"Mr. Taffeigh is a smooth-faced
young man, isn't he, Matilda"
why, 1 thought itfelt-I mean"
"Matilda!"-Judge.
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Couldn't Supply 1t.

II see you advertise everything for
the baby?" said the man entering
the child's bazaar.
Eyes, this is the place." said the
floor-walker. What do you want to
get?"
well, what l want to get is some
thing that will get up out of a warm
bed on a cold night and walk the
Hnar n-Yonkers Statesman.
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DIR. Aked Aprires

DR.. Aked arrived from Liverpool to
take charge of the Fifth Avenue Bap-
fist Church, New York City, saying it
should not be called Rochefeller's
church.
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Reply of Christian Scientists

The Christian Scientists, in answer
to the equity suits, denied that Mrs.
Eddy is unable to look after her own
interests, or that she has been de-
priyed OF any of her property.
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The fishing boom is now on in Nan
tucket, and the industry shows more
activity than has existed since tho
decline of the whale fishery four
decades ago.
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One BETTER.

First Child-"Our baby can say
Papa"
Second Child (with lofty SUPERIOR
ity)-"Our parrot can say papa and
papa's swear words, too."-Los An
geles Herald.
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Nothing Mean There.

81 say, Uncle Jack, I dreamed you
gave me half a crown last night"
did you, me boy? Well, you can
keep it."-Tatler.
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A Toast.

Here's to the stork,
A most valuable bird,
That Inhabitants the residence districts.
He doesn't sing tunes,
Nor yield any plumes,
But he helps out the vital statistics.
Portland Oregonian.
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Very Practical.

what is a practical joker"
zone that you can sell for a dollar
and buy bread with" - Leslie's
Weekly.