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The Penn's Grove record., 1908-07-03
The Change.


"My life is hemmed in by things I
cannot change, you see," said a girl,
explaining her depression OF spirits
to an older friend. She had been
talking about the ugly little town
where she lived, and how little money
she had to spend, and how there were
no concerts or lectures or chances
for culture, how monotonous and mar
row things were week after week,
how her health was not strong, and
there was no special thing she could
do in the world. 1t did sound rather
hopeless, and the older woman was
silent a moment. Then she said,
thoughtfully:
mo; you cannot change these con-
ditions of your life at present. But
there is one thing, Marjory, that you
can change, and it will make every
thing absolutely different"
"But what can 1 change? l don't
understand, cried Marjory.
"You can change your point OF
view," returned her friend. That's
all. But it's everything"
The girl thought it an unsympa-
thetic answer. She went home still
thinking so. But it stuck in her mind
nevertheless; for she was an lntelli-
gent girl.
at is the only change I can make"
she said to herself, and she tried it.
Her point of view had been from
herself-from what she wanted to do,
and have in the world, but could not.
She faced round to the point of view
that God had put her where she was,
had prepared blessings for her If she
would recognize them, and had given
her opportunities for unselfsh useful
ness to others in her daily life.
From that moment her life was a
study in transformation-from dis
content to cheerfulness, from languof
to activity, from a lack of interest in
life to a fullness of loving sacrifice.
at is all absolutely different" she
wrote her friend, a year later. Only
one thing has changed. That was
all. But it was everything.-For-
ward. 80
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Car Pulls Trolley Poles.

Edward Trawin, motorman, and
Joseph Coggins, conductor of a wat
ering car on the Orange and Passaic
Valley Railway, and several other
persons had a narrow escape in
Bloomfield. A trolley wire fell and
caught on the front of the car as it
was passing along Glenwood avenue.
This caused three iron poles to fall to
the street before the car was stopped.
One pole fell OF the watering car just
back OF the motorman, grazing his
head. Rolling along the roof of the
car it knocked off the conductors
cap. When the wire caught on the
car it pulled the poles down. It was
found on investigation that the iron
poles, which have been up about four
teen years, were entirely eaten
through with rust at the ground.
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So be careful what Won write -

So be careful what you write"
The first brain splitting puzzler is,
What will you be in if you answer
wrong?" And if you're not pretty
quick at this sort of nonsense you
will not write on the card, THE
SOUP" The next question is, where
did you go at the st. Louis Exposition
to have some fun?" "Pike." This
rare and delicious fish having been
successfully captured and enjoyed,
the attention is drawn to the third
proposition.
What is the only country Russia
has ever whipped?" If history is
your ~favorite diversion you will know
that it is Turkey, and the butler will
have the pleasure of presenting a
piece of that delicious fowl.
What famous singer spent most
of the winter in America after an
absence of some years?" Patti.
Further along the list comes the
bunker, "If your opponent on the golf
links did you one more hole what
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church entertainment, paltry ana
puerile as it is expressionless, would
be a death blow to the social activi-
ties of any organization less hardy.
What with moving pictures and wax
works and spelling bees and turkey
suppers and mems smokers and wom-
ems gossip, it is wonderful that we
have any veneration for churches at
at all, that we find any blessing, any
inspiration within them, and any in
iuence moving from them.
The church should be Bethel. It
should be the house of God. There.
too, we should see the ladder
stretching down from heaven, there
the ascending and descending angels.
There We should see God. There we
should make covenant with Him.
There we should enter into the pos
session of His interminable promise.
There we should have a glorious, an
exalted spiritual blessing.
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Underwear on a FIagpole.

James Allgor, of Seabright, who
for several weeks has been threaten
ing to rent his bungalow near the
Rumsen cottage colony to negroes,
was arrested on charges preferred by
Mayor P. Hall Packer, of Seabright,
n Mayor Mcmahon, of the Rumsen
borough, for SANDER and libel. ALL
gor holds the two Mayors partly re-
sponsible for his failure to obtain a
license for a merry-go-round, bowling
alley and shooting gallery to operate
In connection with his ice cream bust
ness, which he alleges was ruined be-
cause of the boycott by Rumsen cot
tagers. Over Allgor's bungalow were
two pieces of mems underwear bear
ing the names of Packer and McMa-
hon, while in front Of the house was
a sign announcing a sale of second
hand underwear. The flag and sign
were removed and Allgor was arrest
ed. Judge Bedford, of Seabright,
held him in $1,000 bail for his ap.
pearance before the Grand Jury.
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Killed While Stealing a Ride.

Louis Ellerston, son of Herman Ell
~lerston, of Gil Lambertson street,
Trenton, was killed on the railroad
tracks between New and Townsend
streets, New Brunswick, as he was
stealing a freight ride to his home
town. Ellerston, who was about six
teen years old, had gone to Spring
field. Mass, to get work. His father
received a postcard a few days ago
saying that he had been unsuccessful
and was coming home.
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Youth Drowned in Ray.

Although an excellent swimmer,
Peter Gill, a youth, of No. 458 Broad
way, Bayonne, was drowned in New
ark Bay, while his brother, Michael.
and a friend, John Wilk, were trying
to aid him. The accident occurred
off the City Park. Gill, who had gone
out a considerable distance, was
seized with cramps and. shouted for
help. His brother and Wiki swan
toward him, and were within a few
feet of him when he sank.
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TWENTY Die in SNOW.

A remarkable disaster has over.
taken the exploring expedition OF
Duke Adolf Friedrich, of Mecklen.
burg, in the volcanic region in the
extreme northwestern corner of Ger.
man East Africa. In the crater OF
Branca, one of the lower mountains
the party was overtaken by a terrible
snowstorm and twenty of the black
contingent, nearly half of the expedi
ton, frozen 20 death about
ninety miles south of the Equator.
The report has tho official indorse.
ment of Duke Adolf Friedrich, who
subscribed his name to it and 1t was
written In his behalf during his III
ness.
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Live Wire Falls ON Auto.

William P. Kent, an automobile
enthusiast, of Trenton, escaped death
by electricity when he took his hands
from the metal steering gear of his
machine and his foot off the brake
and huddled on the seat while the
broken end of a live trolley wire slid
over the top of his tonneau, coming
within an inch of his face as it slid
off the front. Kent was slowly driv-
ing whenathe wire broke and landed
on the top of his machine. He
dropped control of the machine, and
it crashed into a trolley car as it slid
back down a hill, but Kent saved his
life by his quick action.
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THE DAYS OF SEVENTY-sIx!
My G~randmother's Story.
BY E. NORMAN GuNNIsON,

BY E. NORMAN GUNNISON.
It was in the early summer,
When the drumming of the drummer,
Growing daily grum and drummer,
Beat the time for marching men.
When across each shaded valley,
And through every street and alley,
Calling patriots to rally,
Came the once again.
We were in a blaze of glory,
| For our gran'sire told the story,
How the Hessian and the Tory
|, From the face of Washington
Fled, like sheep when sore affrighted,
How their stalwart ranks were blighted,
just as morning fires were lighted,
Ere they scarce had fired a gum.
How, at Princeton and at Trenton,
Troops that Howe had fondly leant on,
Were surprised, while they were bent on
Christmas joys and hours of glee:
How their ranks were crushed and broken,
As a signal and a token
That their death-doom should be spoken
By the cannon of the free.
And how Sullivan's deep thunder,
With his cannon cleaning under,
Rent the morning air asunder,
As our Stark broke into town;
And how Forests grand artillery
I i W lit lltSoldu CIOOpS III plllOly
Pouring forth from the "Distillery"
Iron showers to crush them down.
Oh, what shouts we gave to cheer them!
Though we knew they could not hear them
Still our blessings fingered near them
We were girls and could not fight.
But we had an only brother,
He, the idol of our mother,
Shared with Stark and many another
In the glory of that night.
And, alb me!~I had a lover,
Though the calling of the plover
Sounds above the flowers which cover
His last rest on Monmouth plain.
How his eyes flashed wide with glory
AS he heard our gran'sire's story!
Can it be that, crushed and CORY,
He was buried with the slain?
He was but a boy, and tender,
And was delicate and slender.
All, what service could he render?
But he took his fathers gun.
Though he might be slightly froward,
He was certainly no coward;
In the morning, Abner Howard
Joined the troops of Washington.
Then the days grew sad and cheerless,
Though our men were marching fearless,
Chasing up the army, peerless,
Of the British to the coast.
And at Monmouth's dreadful battle
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Boys to Help Build a Church.

The boys belonging to the Pitman
Methodist Episcopal Church, OF New
Brunswick, have given up all athletic
sports for the summer and pledged
their available time to the Rev. Her.
bert J.. Betting, the pastor, in the
work of excavating for the foundation
for the new church that the Pitman-
ties are to build this year. Pastor
Betting has agreed to give all his
wedding fees for the next two years
to help pay for the new edifice, Mrs.
Betting having said she was willing
to forego the extra pocket money for
the benefit of the church.
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Wife's Winsome Wish.

Hubby (while dressing)-"That
COMPOUNDED trial balance was running
in my head all night"
Wifey-"John, you must tell the
manager and maybe he will give you
extra pay for working overtime. -
Boston Transcript.
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We could head the muskets rattle.
Men were slaughtered there like cattle,
In the ranks of either host.

In the ranks of either host. I
But Lord Howe was sore defeated,
And his shattered troops retreated,
With their dead behind, unsheeted,
And, in spite of all his talk.
Every hireling Hessian PETERS
Rushed and hurried, heller SHELTER,
Down to Sandy Hook for shelter,
And took refuge in New York.
Then came days of cheer and sadness
Days of hope and days of madness,
Of dependency and gladness;
And, alas, they told to me
Of his death! l could not save him,
But no tyrant could ~enslave him.
Twas my gift. | freely gave him
That my country might be free.
But | put away my spinning,
And the dress | was beginning
God forgive me if twas Shining!
For my eyes with tears were dim.
And | mourned him as none other
Ever mourned a patriot-lover;
Where the green grass spreads its cover
] was buried up with him.
Still, | married Gran'ther Holden,
And some days were bright and golden,
Though my heart grew sore and olden
When ! thought of Abner, dead.
But for years and years | tarried,
Nor consented to be married,
Till your gran'ther's waiting carried,
And at last, at last we wed.
1t was seventy years. The hummers
And the calling of the drummer X
Tell that earth is bright with summer
| With the summer that have fled
And hear a pleasant humming..
Hank! The British! Hear the drumming
l am coming, Abner, coming!
When they raised her, she was dead!
| am old, and sometimes weeping
Where the lovers now are sleeping,
With wild flowers DER them creeping,
Sad and happy feelings mix.
! tell to you her story
Of battle. and of foray,
That your hearts may feel the glory
OF the days of Seventy-Six.
*The old Distillery where Forest posted
his guns, long since torn down. *Nev
Jersey name for Hessians. s.lIumnhing
! bird. kIhe woodpecker.
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Wolf Dog Attacks a Man.

A wolf dog which, in visitation OF
the laws in Paterson, was unmuzzled.
attacked Alfred Leoncavallo on Ham
ilton avenue and bit a piece out of
his leg. The dog belonged, the po-
lice say, to a woman who refused to
tell her name. The victims wound
was cauterized at the General Hos
pital and he was advised to sue the
woman.
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Let Us Hope So.

William" she said, means good,
James means beloved. / wonder"
A flush mantled her cheek.
II wonder" she softly murmured,
"what George means?"
George means business, l hope"
said mother, looking up from the
Easter wedding announcements in the
evening Observation-Disclosures Bulle-
tin.
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Possibly Not.

Peggy-"Was that p'liceman ever
a little baby, mother?"
Mother-"Why, yes, dear"
Peggy (thoughtfully)-"I don't
believe I've ever seen a baby p'lice-
man!"-Punch.
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In All Parts of the State.

Lower Alloway Creek farmers are
hauling rhubarb to a Bridgeton can
merry, where they receive $40 a ton
for it.
BARLEY Reablic, fifteen years old,
attempted to swim across Neteong
Pond at Netcong, and when half way
over was seized with a cramp and
sank.
While playing about the freight
yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
in New Brunswick, William Low,
seven years old, was killed by a pass
enger train.
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Over the Teacups.

There's no use talking" said my wife
| ceased to eat<my food,
Beside my plate laid fork and knife,
Struck listening attitude,
oougnt, mentally, at least, to con
While she-went on, and on, and on.
And talked for half an hour!
Roy Farrell Greene, in Puck.
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Mathematical.

"Are you going to make an ex-
ample of that grafter?" said one
statesman.
Hes worse than an example
now" answered the other. Hes a
problem. Washington Star.
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Great Concessions From Film.

"They seem to live happily to-
gether."
Yes; he lets his wife select his
neckties and his stenographers."-
Nashville American.
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skylarkine Causes Drowning.

Michael Janeski, thirty-ive years
old, of 253 River street, Paterson,
was drowned in a clay hole at the
Luddy Grove, Singac, as a result of
horse play while in a rowboat. The
boat was overturned, and Janeski,
being unable to swim, sank before
friends could get to his assistance.
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The Lender of Men.

We all know perfectly well what a
true leader is. He is a MAJ of ideas,
a man who advocates a certain line
of action, and he works through the
press and public speech that the peo-
pie may be convinced of the wisdom
Of his eourse,-The Rev. DR.. Mason,
Pittshurg.
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His Crime.

FAN outlaw ball player" she .e-
peated in a puzzled way; why, I
didn't suppose they'd let an outlaw
play. What did he do?"
fHim? Stole a base."-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
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You Have to Count ,Em.

"Ah, kind friend" said the minis
ter, sit is deeds, not words, that
count"
ooh, I don't know" replied the
woman, did you ever send a tele.
gram?"-Detroit Free Press.
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With a Proviso.

rs 1t good form to have your
name in the papers?" asked the So
cial novice.
"Oh, yes" answered Miss Cayenne;
provided you don't get it in display
-type."-Washington Star.
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Means No.

ga woman's no means YES"
"You think so?"
81 know 80. Don't you?"
mo; / am all over that Illusion.
am married Nashville American.
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Because of the Gallery.

Il am going to play Hamlet"
Good That's art"
For n night only"
"Ah, that's Observation-Disclosures
City Journal.
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Had a Great Fall.

What happened to Humpty Dump
tyr"
He bought stocks on a margin"
Life.
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VOLUME XXX.
THE EAGLE SCREAMS,

! am the American Eagle,
And my wings flap together.
Likewise, | roost high,
And l eat bananas raw.
Rome may sit on her
Seven hills and howl,
But she can hot
Sit on Me!
Will she please put that
In her organ and grind it?
! am mostly a bird of peace
And ! was born without teeth.
But I've got talons
That reach from the storm
Beaten coasts of the Atlantic
To the golden shores of the
Placid Pacific,
And | use the Rocky Mountains
As whetstones to sharpen them on.
| never cackle till |
Lay an egg.
And | point with pride
To the eggs Nv. laid
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Hard to Saw.

Friend of the Family-"Well, Bob
by, how is your sister progressing in
her piano playing? Is she improv.
ing?"
Bobby-'I guess she's either i'm
proving or we're getting used to it.
1 don't know which."-Brooklyn
Life.
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In the last hundred years or SO.
I'm game from
The point of my beak
To the star spangled tips
Of my tail feathers;
And when | begin
To scratch gravel,
Mind your eyes!
I'm the cock of the walk,
And the henbird of the
Goddess of Liberty;
The only gallinaceous
D pluribus unum
On record.
I'm an eagle from Eagleville,
With a scream on me chat makes
Thunder sound like
Dropping cotton
On a still morning,
And my present address is
Hail Columbia,
U. S. A.!
See? New York Sun.
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One at a Time.

'I'm thinking of running for Con-
gress,'' said the village lawyer. will
you vote for me?"
"No, SIR" answered Farmer Corn
tossel, I'm In favor of lettin' the
present Congressman stay where
they are. There's no good of con-
tinually takin' men and gettin' EN-
out of the habit of hard work an
then bringin' 'em back home ag'in."
-Washineton Star.
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Near a Bad Bargain.

The agent of the titled wooer
found hat the ambitious American
girl had only $4,000 a year.
OF course he advised his principal
to withdraw.
But" insisted the latter, 81 could
scrape along on s150,000 a year"
Possibly, but who'd support your
wife?"
Even love could put forth no argu-
ment against this.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
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Something Doing.

TEST actually believe some
man is calling on Miss Passay."
Jess-"The idea! What makes
you think so?"
TEST notice that instead of
fastening her hair with ordinary pins,
as she used to, she's now using safety
ins."-Philadelphia Press.
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The Vital Question.

i think it's just splendid that
Bryan's daughter is going on the
stump"
Eyes, indeed. 1 wonder what she'll
ear .'-Philadelphia Ledger.
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Arithmetic Was Correct, Anyhow.

And have you n brothers and
sisters, my little MANI" asked the
kind old lady.
"Yes'm," replied the little man;
ST got n sister and one and a half
brothers,"
"What?"
eyes, ma'am; two half-sisters and
three half-brothers." -Philadelphia
Press.
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HY NOT let this In
dependence Day be
one on which the
hostess, too, de-
clares her indie
pendence, on which
she resolves to no
longer be bound in
--;4,,l H.,
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*The old Distillery where Forest posted
his guns, long since torn down. s*New
Jersey name for Hessians. sslIumhinE.
bird. kThe woodpecker.
Amador ledger., 1908-08-21
A Wonderful Bowman.

The Romans were very skillful bow
men, although they discarded the weap-
on in warfare, trusting to the charge
and to hand to hand fighting. Many
Of the Roman emperors were famous
archers. It is said that Domitlan would
place boys in the circus at a consider
able distance from him and as they
held up their hands with the fingers
outstretched he would send the arrows
between them with such nicely and ac-
curacy of aim that he never inflicted
wound.
The wicked emperor Commodus
boosted that he never missed his aim
or failed to kill the wild beast that he
shot with a single arrow. He would
set a shaft in his bow as some wild
beast was set free in the circus to de-
your a living criminal condemned to
die. Just when the furious animal
was springing on his prey the emperor
would strike it dead at the mans feet,
Sometimes 100 lions were let loose at
once in order that he, with 100 arrows,
might kill them. With arrows the
heads of which were semicircular he
would sever the necks of ostriches in
full fight.
Amador ledger., 1908-08-21
One of Hooks Practical Jokes,


Theodore Hook forged 1000 letters
TO 1000 tradesmen and others request
ing them to call on certain day and
hour at the house Of a wealthy widow.
Mrs. Tottenham. in Berners street,
London, against whom he had con.
ceived a grudgc.
These people began to arrive sooE
after daybreak. The rush continued
until nearly midnight. They came 10y
flfties and hundreds.
There were 100 chimney sweeps. 100
bakers, fifty doctors, fifty dentists. fifty
accouchers. There were priests to adj
minister extreme JUNCTION and Metho-
dist ministers to offer last prayers.
There were fifty confectoners with
wedding cakes, fifty undertakers with
cofTins. fifty fishmonSers with baskets
of cod and Holsters. They pushed,
quarreed and fought, and the police
were called out to prevent a riot. FL
nally among the hoaxed ones came the
governor of the Bank of England, the
royal Duke of Gloucester and the lord
mayor of London, each lured thither
by some cunning preteXt. A police in-
vestigation followed but the perpetra-
tor was not detected.
Amador ledger., 1908-08-21
DREDGE MINING.

The method of mining for gold by Of the dredger
has invaded Amador county any extent as yet 1t has
proven great o the northern counties after
an experience covering period of several years. 1t was
called into activity primarily practical method OF recover
ing the precious metal from the beds of the Sacramento and
tributary gold bearing streams But the field OF operations
has greatly enlarged 1t has been applied with equa
the workedout pacers adjacent to river chan
ne The methods of mining in early days left considerable
gold in the debris and ground by the then
methods left until improved appliances should
render them profitable work is due to the dredger that
Butte county last year lifted to first place among the
goldproducing counties of California.
While Amador county has been left in the cold far
as dedge mining concerned is not improbable that there
are many pacers worked hurredly in early days that
might reasonably be expected to yield handsome profit If
operated by the dredger system dredger set to work
the Moke1umne river in the neighborhood of Lancha
Pana and this believe is the only point in the county
that has been touched by the process How the venture
panned financially have not learned But surely
there many other places among the piles of angs from
the abandoned pacer that deserving of attention by the
deger According reports of the placer ground
in the neehborhood of Mokelumne Hill is under consdera
ton as possible field for dredger mining.
There may be obstacles in the way of the Introduction of
this kind of mining in this county that know nothing Of
outside of the first plant which mat
in itself dredger machine for gold mining is ponder
Gus and costly affair involving outlay of somewhere in
the negboorhood of before ready for the work
of gold extraction. That is big investment that
required by the opening of quartz claim the mother
lode Such expenditure would naturally be preceded by
thorough examination of the mining field find bey
ond reasonable doubt whether the conditions justified the
expense That is really the point in issue, whether
this county has been exported with the end in view of def
nitely determining its adaptabty for dredger mining