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The Penn's Grove record., 1907-09-06
SHOCK KILLS GENERALS SON.
L. Ii. Carter Meets Death Cleaning a
Chandelier in University.

Chicago. = l.. H. Carter, son OF
Brigadier-General w. H. Carter, Of
Chicago, commanding the Depart.
ment of the Lakes, was killed instant.
ly by a remarkable electric shock sus.
tanned in the dairy room Of the Uni
versity of Illinois at Champaign,
where he was a special student.
Young Carter was stone dead when
found. AS is customary in industrial
schooling, he had been set at the task
OF polishing and cleaning a combina.
ton electric and gas chandelier hang.
ing from the ceiling of a room in the
dairy. A piercing scream was heard
by c. G. Potter, a fellow s%tudent-em.
ploye, who was busy in an adjoining
room in the building. Potter rushed
to the aid of the young man and
found he had received a current OF
electricity.
Carter had been standing upon a
small stationary engine while reach.
ing up to the chandelier. The en-.
CINE was fastened with bolts driven
through the concrete floor, and this
completed the circuit. A ladder was
leaning near by, and when Potter
rushed into the room Carter's ~lifeless
body had fallen over against it, but
the hands of the dead man were still
clutched tightly owe the chandelier
which had been partly wrenched from
its fastening, Potter seized the body
and it fell to the floor, thus breaking
the circuit.
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TO STOP WHITE SLAVE TRADE
Government Appoints Miss Helen
Bulls to Get Evidence.
Planning Measures to Check the I'M
portation of Women and Girls
For Immoral Purposes.

Washington, D. C.-With the ap-
pointment temporarily to the Immi-
grafton Service of Miss Helen M. Bull
lis, of New York, who recently has
been connected with the Travellers
Aid Society, the Government will
bend its energies toward detection of
the systemized white slave traffic
believed to exist in the United States.
Thus far the immigration Service has
been unable to make any Roadway
against the evil. Miss Bulls has rep
resented to Commissioner-General
Sargent, head of the immigration Ser
vice, that she will be able to gain the
evidence necessary, not only to check
the importation of women and girls
for immoral purposes but to bring to
justice the men who are getting rich
through the infamous business.
Robert Watchorn, immigration
Commissioner at Ellis Island, came
to Washington for a conference on
this subject with Commissioner Cen
eral Sargent, and n result of their
talk was the appointment of Miss
Bulls.
The campaign against the white
slave traffic has been given impetus
by Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor. Mr.. Straus is
resolved that if the traffic can be ar
rested through his efforts it shall be
done. AS Minister to Turkey he was
a member of a society organized for
the suppression of the white slave
traffic in Constantinople.
Thus far the immigration officials
have been beset by many difficulties
in attempting to prevent the landing
of women and girls suspected of be-
ing brought to the United States for
immoral purposes. The results of a
mistake in questioning an entirely
respectable person are so serious
that the immigration inspectors hes
itate to make a searching inquiry un-
less they are absolutely certain of
their ground.
Because of this and the fact that
persons brought to the United States
for immoral purposes are carefully
coached before embarking for the
voyage, it has been found next to i'm.
possible to break up the traffic at the
large immigration ports. Many girls
are brought to the United States
without knowing that they are to vic
timized. and, of course, questioning
will not reveal anything in their
cases.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor received a few weeks ago from
the Japanese and Korean Exclusion
League in the Northwest a communi.
cation setting forth that there existed
an extensive traffic of Japanese WON
en-. Marcus Braun, an immigration
inspector, was SEN to the scene of the
complaint. While the complaint was
found to be generally true, the per.
sons complaining had no evidence to
point to the men presumably behind
the traffic, and Mr.. Braun was unable
to get evidence sufficient for the Gov,
eminent to proceed upon. He is now
engaged in al inspection of condi.
lions along the Mexican border.
Upon a complaint from Phoenix,
Ariz., Secretary Straus recently in,
structed the immigration officials
along the Mexican border carefully to
investigate the white slave traffic al.
legged to be maintained for the min.
ing camp towns and cities of the
Southwest.
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FEET OUT
She Had Curious Habits.

When a person has to keep the feet
out from under cover during the cold.
est nights in winter because of the
heat and prickly sensation, 1t is time
that coffee, which causes the trouble,
be left off.
There is no end to the nervous con.
ditions that coffee will produce. 1t
shows In one way In one person and
in another way in another. In this
case the lady lived in 8. Oak. She
says:
Il have had to lie awake half the
night with my feet and limbs out of
the bed on the coolest nights, and felt
afraid to sleep for fear of catching
cold. l had been troubled for years
with twitching and jerking of the
lower limbs, and for most of the time
] have been unable to go to church
or to lectures because of that awful
feeling that must keep on the move
When 1t was brought to my atten-
ton that coffee caused so many nerv-
Gus diseases. 1 concluded to drop cot.
fee and take Postum Food Coffee to
see if my trouble was caused by cof-
fee drinking.
Il only drank one cup Of coffee for
breakfast, but that was enough to do
the business for me. When l quit 1t
my troubles disappeared in an almost
miraculous way. Now I have no
more of the jerking and twitching
and can sleep with any amount OF
bedding owe me and sleep all night
in sound, peaceful rest.
Postum Food Coffee is absolutely
worth its weight In gold to me-"
There's a Reason" Read the little
health classic, "The Road to Well
rilles" in pkgs.
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FEAR A WATER FAMINE
Wells in Sullivan County Going Dry
Crops Ruined.

White Lake, N. Y.-Never before
In the memory of the oldest residents
of Sullivan County has such an ap-
palling situation been faced as that
which now confronts the thousands of
summer boarders from Manhattan
and Brooklyn because of the scarcity
OF drinking water. Unless there is a
considerable amount of rain within
the next few days, water will be SO
scarce that it will be a luxury.
At Mongaup Valley, three miles
from here, nearly every farmhouse
and hotel has it's own we'll, and where
there has always been an abundance
OF good drinking water, a petition is
being circulated calling upon the To-
cal priest to offer up mass on Sunday
next for rain. Crops of every descrip-
ton have been ruined.
There are only two wells that have
not run dry in the principal part of
the valley. 1t is no uncommon sight
to see men and women carrying wat
er for a mile or more from these
wells, their own having dried up.
Here the situation is no better,
and those who are fortunate enough
to have water have been selling it
to many of the fashionable hotels
here.
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.HTCKENS k~ ~
learn MONEY!A Ax
If You Know How to Handle Them Properly.

i. you raise Chicken:
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Two crimes which are on the decrease
are arson and counterfeiting.
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A Ditch is a Stream.

Judge Clyde, of Charles City, Ia,
has handed down a decision which he
took under advisement at the March
term in what is known as the Honey
field dicch case. Honeyfield filled up
a ditch that went through his farm
and which had been in existence some
fifty years. Honeyfeld is compelled
to open the ditch within sixty days,
and is perpetually enjoined from fill
ing it in again. The ditch was put in
to drain some land on the other side
of Honeyfeld's farm, a mile or SO
north of the city. The decision is in
effect that a ditch when legally put in
stands and is the same as any other
stream of water.-Country Gentle
man.
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g of FISH Life.

Fish " die a natural DEATH
said an old fisherman who has OBJ.
served as he f1shed. "If they did,
bodies of dead fish would be floating
on the surface of the water all the
while, because such bodies, if unmo.
Tested, would have to float.
"If fish in their native element
were never molested ! believe they
would eve die. If they had sui.
fcient food, which would be impossi-
Bile if they no longer preyed on one
another, there would be no reason
for their dying. 1t was to prevent
such uninterrupted tenure of life that
all fish were made fiercely predatory,
if not remorselessly c~annibalistic, as
many kinds are.
"a fsh's life is a constantly siren
uous n and n entirely selfish. A
fish lives only to eat and to avoid
being eaten Los Angeles Times.
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Prominent Peonle.

Secretary Taft is to come home by
way of Siberia and Europe. r
Hall Game says that "the English
drama is not dead and is not dying"
JUICE Austin L. Crothers, tie Dem
ocratic nominee for Governor CT
Maryland, was a farm boy in his
youth, and later taught school for a
number of years before he began the
study of law. He is a bachelor.
DR.. Henry Parker Willis, formerly
of Washington and Lee University,
has keen selected for the chair Of
finance at the George Washington
University.
Thomas w. Lawson is now a grand
father. A nine-pound cir, was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Lawson at
their home in Winchester, Mass.
DR.. G. Campbell Morgan created a
sensation at the Mortified Confer.
ence by his views on smoking and
theatre-going, saying a person was
only accountable to God for doing
what Gas right.
Major-General A.. ". Gree;y, re-
Gently assigned to Vancouver, Wash.
is said to hold the unique record OF
being the first volunteer soldier out
of the 2,000,0 900 who entered the
Civil War, to attain the rank OF
Mator-Gensral In the regular army,
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"Oficials and others have suggest
ed various schemes having for their
object the bringing of railroads. other
corporations and interests under the
exclusive control of the Federal Gov
eminent. To that end national incor-
poration has been proposed, as has
also a Federal license system. $
"The object which their advocates
have in view is undoubtedly laudable.
But that is not enough, if in the ex-
ecution of their plans they violate the
Federal Constitution and directly
lead toward the destruction of our
dual government.
Every power with which it was
deemed necessary to endow the Ma
tional Government was given to it
and in the exercise of these it was
made supreme. To prevent any pos
sible assertion by the National Gov
eminent Of inherent powers, those
assigned to it were carefully and ex-
pressly enumerated.
But to avoid even the possibility
of a contrary claim, the Constitution
was at nee amended by the addition
of ten articles-every one of which
operated as a restraint upon the Ma
tional Government. The last one, es-
tablishing beyond eve the possibility
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These marriages, though lawful in
the colonies, were void in England.
The whole country rejoices in the
passage of the bill into law.
King Edward notified the Lords
that he thought the bill should pass,
and this had much to do with it's 60
ing through.
The passage of the Deceased Wife's
Sisters bill ends a remarkable legis-
lative struggle, dating back to the
early history of the church.
Previous to 1888 marriages of con-
sanguinity and affinity we're wholly
covered by canon law and such mar
riages from 1888 to 1885 were void
able. In the latter year the Lynd-
hurst act made past marriages of af-
finity valid and future marriages
void. The House of Commons at first
rejected the prohibitory clause as re-
CARDS marriage with a deceased wife's
sister, but afterward accepted it.
A royal commission was appointed
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in 1847 to examine the marriage
laws, and from 1S49 up to the present
attempts were made, both in the
House of Lords and the House of
Commons, to pass the bill.
AS a rule the Commons have car
ried the bill by a large majority, but
it has been thrown out by the Lords,
through the aggressive opposition of
the bishops and a few ultra-ecclesias-
tical lay peers, although King Ed
ward, when Prince of Wales, set the
example of voting for it.
On August 20 last, after prolonged
and animated debate the House of
Lords, by Ill to 70 votes, passed the
second reading of the Deceased Wife's
Sisters bill, the minority including
every n of the seventeen bishops
who are members of the House of
Lords, and as the measure had pre-
viously passed the House of Com
mons this session it now becomes
law
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Women In the DAVIS News.

There is a growing list of Chicago
women who are interested in COM
mercial enterprises.
Mrs. Won Bredon, daughter of Sen
ator Newlands and wife of a German
army officer, died in Berlin.
The Empress of Germany slipped
and fell while playing tennis, so in
Juring a leg that she must stay in bed
some weeks.
The highest salaried woman in the
Government service is Miss Estelle
Reel, inspector of Indian chools
h receives $4,000 a year and ex-
penses.
The wife of a New York yachtsman
applies for divorce on the ground that
h has had only three gowns in
t~wenty-eight years.
Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan was created
a Papal countess, and it was said her
husband might be made a noble OF
the Catholic Church.
Lady Charles Beresford collects
ball programs as a hobby, especially
~favoring those painted by hand or de-
signed by lady artists.
Mrs. Piper, the celebrated medium,
OF Boston, has just returned o
London, where she went last Novem-
Der by invnkion of the Psychical So
ciety OF I'd
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Advantages of Toast.

"Did you ever wonder why toast is
always recommended for invalids?"
said a chemist. "The reason is that
toast is predigested bread. -
what makes fresh bread trying
for invalids is the starch in it.
Starch is very hard to digest. 1t
needs a good stomach to take hold of
the soggy starch in bread and change
it to strengthening, stimulating dex-
trine.
But when you cut bread thin and
toast it brown, the fire itself changes
the starch to dextrine. That, in fact,
is what the brown color in toast indi-
cates-that the starch is gone and
dextrine has taken it's place. "-Bos-
ton Cooking School Magazine.
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How to Cuss an Editor.

The number of obsolete words that
are to be found in a complete diction-
airy of the English language is con-
Siderably larger than the people have
any idea of. The following letter,
written by an alleged poet to an edi-
Tor who had treated his poetry with
lerision, furnishes some idea of
hem:
Sir: You have behaved like an
im~petiginous scrogle-like those who,
envious of any moral celsitude, carry
their unglicity to the height of Great
ing symposiacally the fecund words
which my polymathic genius uses
with liberty to abligate the tongues
ofthe weetless! Sir, you have crassly
parodied my W pet words, though
they were trangams!
81 will not coascervate reproaches.
/ will oduce a veil over the atra-
mental ingratitude which has cham
fered even my indiscerptible heart. l
am silent on the focillation which
my coadjuvancy must have given
when l offered to become your
fantor and adminicle. l will not
speak of the lippitude, the oblepsy
you have shown in exacerbating me,
one whose genius you should have ap-
preached with mental discalceation.
So l tell you, without supervacaneous
words, nothing will render ignoscible
your conduct to me.
Il warn you that 1 would vellicate
your nose if l thought that any moral
diarthrosis thereby could be per.
formed-if l thought l should not i'm
pignorate my reputation. Go, tachy.
graphic scrogle, hand with your Grass,
inquinate fantors! Draw oblectations
from the thought if you can of having
sy~nchronically lost the existimatiop
of the greatest poet since Milton"
And yet all these words are to be
found in the dictionary.-Tit-Bits.
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The National Game.

The Newark Club, of the Eastern
League, has released outfelder Dick
Herinquez.
The Montreal Club has signed out
fielder James Snowden, of the defunct
Du Bots Club.
Jim Mcclure occasionally goes
scouting for players for MS Boston
American team.
The Reading Club, of the Tri-State
League, has signed pitcher Fertsch,
late of Lancaster.
The Terre Haute Club, of the Cen
trail League, has signed pitcher Geo.
Scott, late of Wheeling.
Utility-man Charley Hickman, of
the Senators, says he is going to
make a pitcher of himself again.
Since Deacon Jim" Mcclure took
command of the demoralized Boston
American outfit he has been getting
good results out of the team.
It's back to the minors for out
fielder Lefty" Davis, of Cincinnati.
He was last week sold to the st. Paul
Club, of the American Association.
Hal Chase has been clouting the
| rsnscuous regularity for
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KILLS OFFICER,
THEN COMMITS SUICIDE
Chief of Police George Cassidy,
of Lyndhurst, N. ], the Victim.
THIEF FIRED ON HIS PURSUERS
Italian Murderer's Spectacular End IN
Passaic Marsha Kind of Bill
Sykes Death After ColdblOOded
Shooting of a Policeman.

Lyndhurst, N. IA thief caught
In the act here killed his captor and
then, when about to- be r~ecaptured,
committed suicide with the last shot
in his revolver, from which he had
fired a fusillade at his pursuers.
Patrolman George Cassidy, of this
place, was the victim. He was shot
and instantly killed by one of two
burglars whom he had arrested on
suspicion while on his way home at 5
o'clock in the morning. He had seen
the strange men walking along Valley
Brook avenue, and quickly recog-
niZed a coat on one of their arms as
belonging to Mrs. Margaret M. Hol-
den, who conducts a grocery only a
few doors from where he lived.
The brave young policeman used
poor judgment in not covering the
men with his revolver, for when he
reached the grocery store and raped
on the sidewalk with his night stick
one of the burglars suddenly drew a
revolver and shot Cassidy through
the heart.
Mrs. Holden had heard the men
talking, and had gone to her bedroom
window. She heard Patrolman Cas-
sidy tell the men they had no right
with her coat, and she saw the young
officer shot to death. She screamed
for help AS the policeman dropped
the burglars separated and ran in OPP
posite directions.
Asa L. circuit, foreman in the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad shops at Kingsland, had
seen the policeman and the prisoners
pass his house while he was waiting
for the baker. He heard the shot and
saw the burglar-murderer dash nast
revolver in hand. Circuit went into
his house, grabbed his revolver and
followed the escaping man. He yelled
for help as he ran, but did not pause
to tell what the trouble was for fear
of losing sight of his man.
The burglar reloaded his revolver
and would pause long enough to fire
an occasional shot at his pursuers
circuit has grit and was determined
to catch the man or die in the at
tempt.
VI - III Ouoa LII iAdN
and water went Orcutt, close on the
burglar. The latter became weary
and when near the A%yondale bridge
i've the Passaic River he lay down
from exhaustion and sent q bullet
into his brain.
He was removed to the Passait
Hospital and died during the after
noon. On him was found a receipt
made out to Alexander Lundeno by
the Elizabeth Mattress Company.
Neighbors carried Patrolman Cas-,
sidy to his home, two doors away, and
broke the news to his young wife
They had one child, a daughter, one
year old.
Mrs. Holden says a coat was the
only thing stolen from her store. The
burglars had evidently used a key tc
open the door, for there were nc
signs of violence.
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The Old Mans Counsel.

@Be keerful O. them city ways"
said the old man to the youth who
was leaving home, "but if you've got
10 git run over try an let it be by one
o. them big red devil automobiles
that kin afford to pay you damages
enough to buy Sue a pianner an help
me take the mortgage off the mule.
Don't let no cheap boss knock you
out, ner any telegraph pole fall on
you. Go in fer big things whilst you
air in the way of 'em!"-Atlanta Con-
stitntiOn
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HARMED TENNIS CHAMPION.
Outplays Leroy and Thus Gets Sixth
Champion Cup.

Newport, R. 1.-The national lawn
tennis championship in singles was
won by William A. Larned, Of An
napolis, Md, through his straight set
victory over Robert Leroy, of New
York, in the finals of the all-comers'
tournament, and the inability of Will
lam ]. Clothfer, of Philadelphia, to
defend the title which he captured
on the Casino courts from Beals c..
Wright a yea ago. Clothier de.
faulted. The scores were GO, c.,
6-4.
Larned, by his victory, also secured
permanent possession of the sixth
championship cup offered by the Ma
tional Association.
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Stub Ends of Nows

Beer in the form of tablets is the
latest.
In Chicago five men dio to every
two women.
The motor boat will soon supplont
the steam launch in the British navy.
Young Kingdom Gould, with FIVE
Columbia students, will prospect for
gold in Arizona.
Because of frequent assaults upon
priests in Italy the Pope has directed
them to go armed.
The cruisers Tennessee and Wash
lngton, back from Bordeaux, were. or
dered to the Pacific.
The test of the Mare aw
IN Missouri is resulting in p reat in
crease of passenger traffic.
DR.. George F, Nunz annou led the
discovery, in F. Asrty. xxx, of
the first diam.% united
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IN JAPAN.
Toxic Caring For $4,000 Sufferers
Through Floods.

Tokio.-In Toxic alone $4,000 pec.
pie, left homeless by the floods, are
being cared for at public expense.
About the same number are being
cared for in the Prefecture of Sal
tama. There is no doubt that thou
sands of others are homeless. The
whole town of Tukuchivama, near
Kiota, was submerged. Many people
are missing.
The American Consulate at Hako-
date estimates the loss caused by the
confagration there at $45, ZOO, 900.
About fifteen thousand houses were
burned and sixty thousand people are
homeless.
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A WOnden Leo

A sheep with a wooden leg is a
curiosity at the farm of Ira Quaint
ance, in Dallas township, says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. Early in the
year the sheep was struck by light
ming, it's foot and part of the leg be-
ing torn off. AS the animal was a
valuable one, Quaintance concluded
20 try an artificial limb. He covered
1t with wool, and SO well does the
sheep use it that people would not de-
tect the difference except for a slight
limp.-American Sheep Breeder.
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of cayil that the National Government
is limited to the powers specified in
the Constitution creating it, reads:
The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respective
ly or to the people, Other powers
have since been granted, and in the
future still others may be given, but
the Constitution as it now stands for
bids the exercise of any powers other
than those granted by it. 1t leaves
no room for finding in the language
of the Constitution a claim that there
are certain unmentioned and inherent
powers which the Federal Govern
ment may exercise.
"The attempts on the part of the
Federal Government to despoil the
States of the powers and functions
belonging to them will not tend to
smoothness in the working of our
dual scheme of government. Already
it has had it's effect. The indignation
of the governing forces of many of
the States is already aroused. 1t is
shown in the legislation of the year.
1t had not a little to do, in my judg-
ment, with the recent conflict of judi
cial authority in North Carolina"