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The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10
Firm Divides With Workers.

The New Jersey School Furniture
company, at Trenton, showed the re-
suits of cooperation between capital
and labor when it divided among it's
lei the results of it's policy of CO.
operation for the last five years. Five
years ago the concern called it's men
together and announced a plan of
cooperation. The officers of the cor
poration were to set aside each month
a certain percentage of the profits,
which was to remain in the bank
until the expiration of five years.
The time is up, and the treasurer of
the fund reports that, after deduc-
tons had been made for half pay for
all men while sick during the last
five years, as we'll as $500 paid for
death benefits, there remained in the
treasury $S400, which was divided
between seyenty-eight men, the high
est getting $3.50 and the lowest SIS.
Those getting the smaller sums had
already received sick benefits.
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nfuenca tn hreakinp If down

influence to breaking it down.
Let us see what these figures
show" said Mr.. Lane. 1.-THE average
monthly receipts from freight and
passenger traffic for each mile Of the
225,000 miles of railroad in the Uni
ted States reporting to this commits
sion for the first seven months of this
fiscal year were $3.50, which is $3.50
per mile per month more than the
average for the fiscal year ended
July /, 1905, the year of the last
Presidential election, which was GER
tainly not regarded as a poor year in
the railroad or industrial world. The
net revenue from traffic allowing for
all operating expenses, including in
creased wages and cost of material in
the fiscal year ending in 1908, is $37
per mile per month greater than in
the year 1904-05. The net monthly
revenue for this fiscal year is thus
far 81 less per mile than for the pre-
ceding year 1906-07, which may be
taken as high water mark thus far in
the history of the United States"
The interview which drew the
above comment is as follows:
New York City.-James J. Hill,
who has arrived in this city, says of
business conditions: while 1 cannot
permit myself to be too optimistic, l
am trying not to be pessimistic. The
general recovery in business which
has been predicted has not yet mani
tested itself to any remarkable de-
gree, and it is not to be expected that
it should. The prevailing conditions
were not brought about overnight;
they are the result of events of many
months, and a revival will no doubt
be correspondingly gradual"
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Keeping the Heart Tender.

We must keep our hearts tender.
Do you ask me how to do this? The
answer is very simplicity putting
ourselves constantly in helpful rela-
ton to others, says DR.. L. A, Banks.
Do the kind deed on every oppor-
tunity, and you may be sure that the
kind feeling will soon come to be
natural to you. The difficulty is that
we often curb our kind feelings and
restrain them. We shut back the
sympathetic word that is on our lips
until our tongues become dumb to
that kind of speech. Give your heart
a chance to show it's kindness. Give
your lips the opportunity to speak
the sympathetic word. Give your
hands and feet free will to go on their
mission of kindness and cheer, and
you will soon see that your heart is
growing tender and mellow, so that
none rejoices and you are not glad.
and none is sorrowful and you are
not stricken.
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DESTROYER CUT IN TWO.
Thirty-six Lives Lost in the Sinking
of the British Tiger.

Portsmouth, England.-Thirty-six
men, including Lieutenant Middleton,
the commander of the torpedo boat
destroyer Tiger, lost their lives in the
collision off the Isle of Wight be-
tween that vessel and the British
cruiser Berwick.
The vessels belong to the Ports
mouth division of the British home
fleet, and were engaged in night man
euvres in the Channel, while on their
way to Portland. The night was very
dark, and the Berwick was steaming
slowly. When the destroyer attempt
ed to cross the big cruisers bow she
was caught amidships and cut in half
with knife-like precision, sinking al
most Immediately.
The deck crew, who were dressed
in heavy oilskins and boots, went
down with the vessel, not having
time to free themselves from these
heavy encumbrances. Of the twenty
two men VINO were rescued most were
engineers and stokers who, having
light clothing, were able to keep
themselves afoat until boats from
other ships, which were Immediately
launched, picked them up.
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The Monkey Convict.

Pietro Barbuza, a monkey who has
Deen locked up in the MiddleseX
County Jail, at New Brunswick, for
five months, has been transferred to
the New Jersey State Homo for Boys,
at ~Jamesburg. Pietro, according to
the Jail records, was committed last
September for tearing up a flower
garden at Sayreville. He was re-
leased On bail, but came back a month
later on a commitment charging that
he was drunk and disorderly in New
Brunswick. we are mighty sorry to
see Pietro CO." said Warden Charles
Rogers. He is a real nice monkey
when sober. He goes to Jamesburg
for malicious mischief, begging, disor-
derby conduct and drunkenness. l
would like to see him let off, but
there is no doubt he needs reforma-
ton. An officer came up from the
home for him."
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS


Arrangements were made at Mont
clair for the removal to Brooklyn of
the body of DR.. Joseph O'Connell,
who died there of heart disease. DIR.
O'Connell was for many years a po-
lice surgeon in Brooklyn and was the
physician of Hugh Mclaughlin. His
death is attributed to a shock re-
ceived nearly six years ago when a po-
liceman, dismissed from the force as
a result of testimony given by Dr..
O'Connell, went to the latter's Office
and threatened to blow his brains out.
DR.: O'Connel1 had testified at the trial
that the policeman had been drunk on
post and was unfit for duty when ex.
amined. A few days later the man,
finding DR.. O'Connell alone in his
Office, slipped quietly behind him,
pressed the muzzle of a revolver
against his head and declared he was
going to kill him. Although Dr..
O'Connell grappled with him and held
him until help arrived he was an in.
valid from that day and never re.
covered from the shock of the en-
counter.
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Washington, D. C.-The Govern
ment will not prosecute railroads for
failure to comply with the 'commod-
ity clause" of the railroad law pend
ing a decision of the Supreme Court.
That decision has been arrived at,
1t is understood, after careful consid-
GRAFTON by the President, and he has
accordingly directed the Department
of Justice to bring a test case as soon
as possible after May 1, the day when
becomes effective the law ~forbidding
any railroad to transport any article
or commodity (other than TIMBER
manufactured, mined or produced by
such road, or in which It is directly
or indirectly interested.
Thus any railroad that owns coal
mines would be liable to prosecution
should 1t carry its own coal to mar
ket.
The decision OF the President fol-
lows the recent decision of the West
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The Value of Confession

Next to not SHINING" says some
one lis confessing SIM" A very learn
ed man has said: THE three hardest
words in the English language are.
I was mistaken Frederick the
Great wrote to the Senate: II have
just lost a great battle, and it was
entirely my W fault" Goldsmith
says: This confession displayed
more greatness than all his victor
les" Such a prompt ACKNOWLEDGE
ment of his fault recalls Bacon's
course in more trying circumstances.
81 do plainly and ingenuously confess
that I I'm guilty of corruption, and so
renounce all defense. l beseech your
l%ordships to be merciful to a broken
reed" - ittsburg Christian Advo-
cate.
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Americans Preferred in Work of Extending Lines-ManaEers
Admit They See Many Signs of Improving Business.

e"unemployed," who
are ~congesting the cities, subsisting
upon charity and menacing the peace
of various communities, if they really
want work can find it with the rail-
roads of the United States at once.
This S the opinion expressed here by
leading railroad men. The wages
range from $3.50 to $3.50 a day, in
Guiding good board and transporta-
ton. Within the next sixty days the
railroads must find 100000 men to
repair roads, bridges, Turkish up sag
ging tracks, build extensions and man
the shops. The ravages of the win
ter months have left much work to
be done, and it must be done speed
lily, for the railway managers admit
they see many signs of improving
business and must have their lines
and equipment in condition to care
for it.
Americans will have the prefer
ence. Heretofore it has been impos-
sible to get Americans as laborers,
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Chicago Police Chief Exonerated
For Shooting Anarchist Assaiiant

Chicago.-A Coroner's jury de-
clared Chief of Police George M.
Shippy and ]. F. Foley, his driver,
to have been justified in killing La
zarus Averbuch, the young Russian,
who attacked the Chief in his home
recently.
More than a score of witnesses
were examined, chief among whom
were Olga Averbuch, sister OF the
dead man; Chief Shippy himself, his
son, Harry, who is recovering o
a serious wound in the chest.
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because they were engaged in more
profitable employment and work
more to their liking. Furthermore,
they do not care to associate with the
motley gangs that usually go to make
up the repair squads. Now that many
men are out of employment it is
hoped by railroads to get a larger
percentage of Americans, who admit
tedly are the best workmen in the
world. Formerly forty per cent. of
the laborers employed in the spring
work were Italians on roads between
the seaboard and the Rocky Mount
aims. West of the mountains, espe-
cially on the Hill lines, Japanese
were employed. In the southwest
MeXicans, Indians and Italians pre-
dominate, but everywhere there have
been many Greeks, Slavs, Poles, Huns
and other nationalities. Because of
the financial stringency many thou
sands of these have departed for Eu-
rope. Now it is hoped to get the
work done by Americans.
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Suspended Interest.

"Would you say that author has
the gift of keeping your curiosity ex-
cited?"
After a fashion" answered Miss
Cayenne. you are constantly ex-
pecting him to say something inter-
esting, and he is always putting it of
till the new chapter Washington
Star.
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viii Not Enforce the "CommodHy Clause" Part of Rate Law
Pending Supreme Court Action.

ern Maryland, a Gould coal road, to
go into the hands of receivers. That
action, it vas announced, was forced
on it by the commodity clause of the
rate law, which, bearing as it did on
the roads prospective earning capac-
lty, affected its borrowing capacity.
The President, it is stated, has no
desire to add to the embarrassments
which surround the railroads in their
efforts to comply with the law, and
as the question of the validity of the
commodity clause" has been criti-
cised by competent legal opinion 1t
was thought best for all interests in
volved that a prompt determination
OF the question by the Supreme Court
should be sought. 1t is understood
that the railroads have given assur-
ance to the Government that if the
courts decide against them they will
Immediately and in good faith COM
ply with the law.
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Among the Workers.

The Workmen'a Unemployed bill
was defeated in the British House of
Commons.
The union movement has made
rapid strides among the farm labor
ers in Ireland.
In 1895 there vas no legislation
in New Zealand 10 protect $4,000
factory operatives
Union printers of the country have
contributed S12,977.79 to the Cum
mings memorial fund.
Japanese workmen are all labelled
with the character of their trade and
the name of their Fmnlnvar-
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One Point in His Favor.

A witty priest vas nee visiting q
"self-made' millionaire, who took him
to see his seldom-used library.
There" said the millionaire, point
ing to a table covered with books,
there are my best friends"
All" replied the wit, as he
glanced at the leaves, I'm glad you
don't cut them Heart Re-
view.
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Farmers Wife Defends Herself.

Vigorously welding a poker which
she managed to grasp while strug-
Cling with a man who had attacked
her in her home, at Beverly, Mrs.
William Baker saved her honor and
probably her life. Her assailant was
captured, and in the office of a Justice
of the Peace had to Re protected both
from his victim and her Infatuated
husband. The prisoner said he was
Robert Heist, a farm hand, looking
for work.
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Opposed Return of Flags.

Veterans of Joe Hooker Post, G.
A. R., of Atlantic City, decided to
send a committee to Trenton to op-
pose the proposed return of Confed-
crate battle flags captured by troops
from this State. The old soldiers de-
clare that the flags were fairly won,
and desire that they be kept as a pa
triotic lesson to coming generations.
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Hoboes Lose Good Thing.

Judge Milton Demarest, of Hacken-
sack, has ruled that q hobo caught
stealing a ride Oh a freight train is
not a disorderly person, and on the
strength of that he ordered Sheriff
Brewster to release eight hoboes who
we're committed, after being ordered
from West Shore freight trains at
Ridgefeld Park. This Jail has been
a free boarding house for tramps too
long" said Sheriff Brewster, and the
habit must be broken. 1t has been
a heavy expense to the people Of
Bergen County to feed this army"
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Polanders Going Home Because of
Reduction of Wages in Cotton Mills

Springfield, Mass. A wholesale
exodus of Polanders to Europe will
follow the ten per cent. reduction in
wages in the Chicopee and Holyoke
cotton mills. Seventy-fve per cent.
OF the 1900 operatives are Polish.
Steamship agents stated that they
nave sold all the steerage and second
cabin accommodations at their dispo.
sal in outgoing liners for six weeks
to come. Four days work a week at
reduced wages, the workmen assert.
will not pay the cost of living.
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Old Hem Cost Him shn1.

For calling Mrs. Annie G. Kerone
an "old hen" and a "cat" in the
course of a business dispute, Albert
S. Block, at St. Louis, Mo-, was de-
clared by a jury in Judge Rules
court to be indebted to her in the
sum Of 1901. The 81 is actual dam
ages, che $500 punitive. Block de-
MED using the words, but witnesses
said he did. He and Mrs. Kerone's
employers are rivals in the commits
sion business on North Fourth
street, st. Louis.
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Documentary Evidence.

Her Mother-"I should rather you
would not go sailing with that young
man, Clara; I don't believe he knows
a thing about a sailboat."
Clara-"Oh, but he does, mamma;
he showed me a letter of recon-
%mendation from a New York firm he
Used to work for, and they speak
very highly of his salesmanship-"-
The Circle.
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Public Library Gift.

By a vote of 321 to % the g
of Pennington, at a special election,
decided to accept the bequest of the
late DR.. William H. Bartles, who left
the town $40 900 to erect a public
library building. Hiram E. beats, at
the close of the election, announced
he would give che town a lot valued
at $4,000 as a site on which to erect
the building.
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Jottinge About Shorts.

OF late yachtsmen have wondered
why the public does not take as live.
ly interest in the sport afoat as 1t
did a few years back.
Coach Courtney, of the Cornell
Varsity crew, has discovered a new
Varsity rowing star in E. A. Stevens,
a junior in the College of Law.
New Orleans papers the
beginning of a campaign to abolish
horse racing in Louisiana. The names
of many we'll known men in that city
are signed to a petition now being
circulated for presentation to the Leg
islature.
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Manhattan's Sunday Sentiment.

Here, you stop that hand organ"
growled the New York policeman.
Me gotta de licens'," responded the
imported musician.
We'll, license or no license" an
swered the policeman, you can't play
Every Dayll Be Sunday By and By
on my beat. G'wan, o ."-Phila-
deIphia Ledger.
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Victim of the Trusts.

Mrs. Pneer-"You're putting near
ly as much wrapping paper as beef
steak on those scales and making me
pay meat prices for it."
Marketman-"Yes, Eaa'am, and I'm
letting you have all that wrapping
paper with a full knowledge of the
tact that the price of it, owing to the
soulless greed of the wood-pulp mo-
oopoly, is going up right along. Any
thing else this morning. ma'am2"-
Chicago Tribune,
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Feminine Notes.

P~aderewski's wife recently paid
$500 for four live chickens.
Mrs. St~uyvesant Fish is said to be
New York's best woman bridge
player. :.
King Victor Emmanuel expressed
the wish that Miss Elkins should
have no dowry.
Mrs. Sage granted an appeal of
little girls and gave back a house she
had bought of their father.
The craze on the part Of American
women for marriage with titled for
eigners is causing amazement in
England.
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The Only Way.

He-"There's the great Russian
composer"
She-"What's his name?"
"S-l-i-v-t-z-n-i-s-k-t-z-y,"
How do you pronounce it?"
with a syphon, 1 guess!"-The
Bystander.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10

Hackensack is to have a 4200-
pound cannon and enough eight-inch
balls to make two pyramids. The
cannon, from the Watervliet arsenal.
will be mounted on the historic
green" where Washington's army
encamped after the retreat from Fort
Lee. On Memorial Day Hackensack
will have the grandest demonstration
in it's history; the cannon will be ded-
icated on that day. TIE militia, fire.
men, veterans and every civic organ
ization of the place will be in the
parade. Mayor Linkroum is chair
man of the committee in charge.
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A Doubtful Question.

Young Wife-"Doctor, is my hus-
bands age against him in this i'll
ness? Is there any hope?"
Doetor-"Any hope? How can /
tell, madam, unless I know which
way you would like this illness to
end?"-Baltimore American.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10
Tn All Parts of the State

Salem County farmers will plant
an unusually large acreage of pota-
toes.
Gloucester County will have the
largest acreage of white potatoes
ever planted.
Authorities of Washington town
ship. Gloucester County, will prose-
cute farmers who plow beyond the
line along the public roads.
John Heldman, -eventy-one years
old, drank poison and died beside the
coffin of Ernest Syring, who had beer
his boyhood chum, in Union Hill.
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of Gold

Little self-denials, little honesties.
little passing words of s%ympathies.
little nameless acts of kindness. little
silent victories over favorite tempta-
tions-these are the threads of gold
which, when woven together, CLEAN
out SO brightly in the pattern of life
that God approves.-Canon Farrar.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10
CHILE INVITES GUNMAKERS.
Government Desires to Acquire a New
Artillery Armament.

Santiago de Chile.-The Chilean
Government has issued an invitation
to leading gunmakers to send repre-
sentatives here to witness the tests
which will be made next October. 1t
is the purpose of the Government to
acquire a new artillery armament,
and it is hoped in this way to create
interest in the bidding for the equip
ment.
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Already So Occupied.

"Johnny, where's your sister,"
Cup in her room"
81 q"uarrelled with her yesterday
and I am sorry. Won't you go and
ask her if she'll make up?"'
She's maxim up now."-Houston
Post.
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Versus Realism.

HE is of the romantic school of
poets"
What are they?"
1.-THE kind that think they have
40 troubles as long as they can
have groceries charged. Nashville
American.
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CommercialisIn.

Commercialism presents a good
side if it gilds the common expert
ence of life with hope and foregleams
the better day OF the idealist. Mere
things help in making more man.
Manhood is the supreme test and the
ultimate goal of 5effort.-Rev. I. ID.
Potterton, Episcopalian, Brooklyn.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10
s1.ooo.ooo For School Repairs.

One million dollars was voted by
the Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment, of New York City, for use in
repairing twenty school buildings
which were recently reported 20 be in
a dangerous state.
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More Than She Needed.

Mr.. X.-"Don't I give you all the
money you need?"
Mrs. X.-Yes; but you told me be-
fore we were married you would give
me all l wanted. ILLUSTRATED Bits,
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Howell-"What kind Of a part has
Rowell in the new play?"
Powell-"It is an emotional role
for him; in n act he has to refuse to
drink. "-Harper's Weekly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10
Fire Chief Elected.

At a convention in Beverly, Will
lam Van Kirk was elected chief and
William Bintliff assistant chief of the
Fire Department.
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Modern Entertaining.

SAY" yelled Mr.. Splurge to the
guest who was about to tackle a
sandwich.
"Well, sir?"
Cant you eat ham. Them chick
en- sandwiches is rented for the even
lng."-Washington Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10
Windy.

Oh, don't believe all things they say
About a sultry August;
Sometimes it's not at all that way;
Such talk is just a Jaw gust.
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An Uncomfortable Time

When a minister begins 10 drive
nome the truth, Ntherc are always
those in the CONGREGATION who would
reel more comfortable If they could
go home, too. -"
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Scrappeigh-"I was a ~confounded
fool when I got married."
Mrs. Scrappeigh-"Well, John,
married life hasn't changed you any"
New York Telegram.
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HID3HS' PENsEOE5 QUICKLY SECURED.

John Wainwright 4 Co, Wilmington, Del.
Expert Pension Attorneys of 20 years prac.
nee Will send valuable information and
bianks to widows on application, by mail.
OF soldiers and officers who served ninety
days in the Civil War are entitled to from s.
10 S5'a month. Soldiers to $l2 when g.; $s
"heh ~; $40 II month when IS years old.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-05-28

REMEMBER this is the regular So Sprayer talkn
S. than wait until S. JUST NOW
gone. Time NO LENGTHY LETTERS necessary We
ROVED SPRAYERS perhaps of them and that
plainly PROMPT SHIPMENT Twentfour hours delivery
OTHER POINT Newspaper people known 20
You discount all promises AT YOUR BANK
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-05-28


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htchng up the horses the work is done Handy at
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machine is handy John will sling it his back and tbs
spraying will be done while you thinking Send fo
our circular. YOU SHOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT 1T. O
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ing for the circular. small Sure Destruction Sal
Jose Scale sent free with each sprayer Oroered at
A RECIPE issued by a chemist, how to prepare SAM
tary lime milk for WheWash that will stick and stay
the walls Of the hen house. trees stable walls, makn
insect breeding impossible Anyone make it cheap
and quickly wherever located Ibis recipe will be sen
complimentary witt sprayer if ordered Immediately