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The Penn's Grove record., 1908-03-20

New Haven, Conn.-John F. Stew
ems, a vice-president of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road, and a former chief engineer of
the Panama Canal, has issued a state
ment regarding the latter enterprise,
in which he prophesies a failure of
the undertaking.
In this statement FTr. Stevens says
that the canal will not help the Uni
ted States in it's trade with South
America, as practically all of the in
habitants of the Southern Continent
are on the east of the Andes, SO that
it would be of no advantage to make
use of the canal to reach there. Mr..
Stevens also says that in our CONNER
cial relations with the islands of the
Pacific and the Far East the canal
will be of little value. Our coal and
wheat centres are inland. Their pro-
ducts have to be started on their way
by rail. When loaded on cars It would
not be cheaper to ship to the At
lantic and then ship to the East by
the way of the canal than it would be
to send directly to the ports, on our
Pacific coast and then get on board
ship.
Furthermore, Mr.. Stevens believes
that our coal supply is fast diminish
ing and that China will be the coal
country for the future. Siberia, he
says, will be the wheat country of the
future, with India a close second.
Mr.. Stevens maintains that the
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it makes us want to give Ourselves 70
that one; and 1 tell you never IN
Gods world was there a city that
needed more redeeming love than
does this city of New York and
Brooklyn to-day. l have gone into
homes where the darkness OF despair
was because no love was there. l
have gone into homes where mothers
and fathers have said: None cares
for u.s.; no one will help us"
Don't tell me the world love us, be
cause we know differently. ! tell
you we have to have that love in us
that the Russian proverb says "dWells
in the house of labor" There is a
reward for him who loves his fellow
man. Then there is another anchor,
and that Is the anchor OF prayer. l
care not what a mans work or edu.
cation is, whether he is college bred
or has no education at all, but this
thing I am sure of, and that is, with
out a prayer in your heart you cannot
make life worth what God is expecting
of 1t. Prayer is our wanting to get
near to God, wanting to tell God OF
our difficulties, our troubles, our per-
plexities, our successes, our ideas, u
wanting to ash for His strength and
guidance. We have to have this an
Choir when things are going wrong,
when the world seems dark and life
is weary. We want to have this an
Choir in God to give US courage to go
on our way, and If we have not been
doing right to help us to return and
through III fellow men serve God.
Let US cast out our four anchors:
our anchor of faith in God and u
fellow men; our anchor of hope in
eternal goodness; our anchor of love
in universal service; our anchor of
prayer to God; and in SO doing may
the blessing of God rest with you in
all your labors.
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NUMBER 81.
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
She Needed No Help.

II have choked a roman to death
at 220 East Hanover street." was the
startling declaration Of Charles K.
Smith, a cook, as he entered a police
station at Trenton. The sergeant
called the reserves, and they placed
him in a cell. Then the patrol hur-
ried to the house. The bluecoats
raped on the door and Mrs. Sarah
Sheridan opened it. SIS there a wom-
an hurt here?" asked the ~roundsman
in charge of the police. mo, there
is not. Why?" replied the oma
"a mar came to the station and sale
he had just choked a woman to death
here" responded the r~oundsman as
he brushed past the woman and en-
tered the dwelling. There is no
woman choked to death here by any
one, but I fired a cook out of the
house bodily for getting drunk and
sassing me-" called out the m
THE idea of his doing any such thing
to me! No man can do that" ex
claimed Mrs. Sheridan as she banged
the door after the ~retreating police
men.
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#. Bowers, in the Indianapolis News.
DEALING WITH ANARCHY BEGUN
washinetoh officials Admit Difficulties Not Optimistic as 10 utcom If the
latest Measures-EHectiveM asu o Drastic to Receive Popular Sup.
DIFFERENTIATION o n Immigration Inadequate 60 Kesp out Anarehists.

Americans, not only to the full letter
of the law, but to the full of the
American spirit.
The men who have given the SUBJ
Ject of immigration the closest study
seem to feel hat the work connected
with the keeping out of the criminal
and the anarchistic classes should be
done on the other side of the water.
They believe that a means can be
found by which every intending en-
igrant from a foreign country can be
made to prove his record" before he
shall be allowed to step on shipboard.
The immigration inspection laws
were useful last year to the extent of
keeping out something fewer than
1000 undesirable citizens. The rec
ord was 900 better than for the pre-
ceding year, and yet the mar who at
tempted to kill Chief Shippy came in
as a desirable" and it took him only
a few months to do something more
than prove his u~ndesirability.
Educational Test Inadequate.
The reading and writing clause
which it was proposed to put in the
last immigration bill would not have
kept out Lazarus Averbach, neither
would it have kept out the Denver as
sassin; and, in fact, it wouldn't have
kept out one in a hundred of the real
anarchists who seek America. Some
other means must be found, if the
desire be to debar from the country
the men whose thinking drives them
mad"
There is recognition in Washington
of the fact that in the heat and pas
sion following the recent Denver MUIR
der, and the attempted assassination
in Chicago, there is a disposition on
the part of the police officials to con-
fuse anarchism with socialism and
with other forms of thinking and
practice which take no c~ognizance of
violence in any shape. The difficulty
is that in the heat and passion the Of
lcials are apt to do things which they
ought not to- do, and which tend to
increase, rather than to diminish, the
plague which they are seeking to
eradicate. Another difficulty is that
when the heat and the passion have
passed, there comes forgetfufness and
the officials lapse into the old state
of apathy, to stay in it until some
new violence rouses them.
All that has been said within the
last week was said Immediately fol-
lowing the assassination of President
Mckinley. Then anarchism was to
be killed, and anarchism kept on liv-
ing, and, from all appearances, it is
pretty much alive to-day. The Wash
ington preaching is for systematic
and continued pursuit of the anar-
chists, but the preaching, if one may
judge by the past, will not be fol-
lowed by the practice. Congress can
do much with a proper form of immi-
grafton bill, but there is no present
prospect that Congress cares to I'M
dertake the work.
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PANAMA CANAL MUST FAIL, SAYS STEVENS.
Former Chief Engineer If Isthmian Waterway Gives Reasons
T For PrOuhecy.[

Panama Canal cannot hope to become
anything more than an expense. 1t
will not meet expenses and it will cost
nor than is expected. 1t will be an
advantage, yes, but an advantage to
European countries and not to us.
The idea of the canal being of
great value to us in times of warfare,
since our naval forces can be quickly
sent from one coast to the other, he
says, is utterly absurd. 1t would take
days for the ships to get around, and
during that time hostile shells could
have done their work. Mr.. Stevens
believes that it would be a far wiser
plan of defense to put the money that
the canal will cost into a greater
navy.
Mr.. Stevens is not unique, however,
as a prophet of evil for ship canals.
Forty-odd years ago many British and
other mercantile economists were
cocksure that the Suez Canal could
never pay expenses. Yet for years
the directors of that work have had
periodically to reduce their tolls on
shipping in order to keep their net
yearly profits from exceeding the
twenty-five per cent. permitted by the
charter, and the $20,000,000 worth
of shares which the British Govern
ment purchased in 1875 are now es-
timated to be worth fully S155,000,-
600. There is no objection to Mr..
Stevens keeping company with those
who went so wide of the SueZ mark,
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100000 OUT OF WORK
IN NEW YORK CITY
Must Dig SuhWays to Aid Unem-
ployed, is Labor's Demand.
CONGRESS DISCUSSES MATTER
Central Federated Union Send Com.
mittee to Albany to Ask Hughes
to Investigate Cause of Delay in
Starting improvements.


New York City. = Declaring that
there are more than 100000 unem-
ployed in New York City, and that
the letting of subway contracts would
offer the most immediate relief, the
Central Federated Union voted to ask
Governor Hughes to investigate the
real status of the city's debt and
Comptroller Metz's reasons for de-
laying subway construction. A COM
mittee of three was ordered to go to
Albany to see the Governor.
The coming parade and demonstra-
ton of the unemployed of New York,
now scheduled for the afternoon of
Saturday two weeks hence, and the
discussion last week in Congress of a
labor leaders statement that there
are 100000 idle in this city alone,
brought the question of subway dig
ging home to every labor delegate,
and the report of the special commit
tee was put through with a rush. The
~reopening of public works was de-
clared to be the first duty of the city
In view of the number of unemployed.
Representative Willett, of New
York, stirred up Congress with a let
ter of Samuel A. Stodel, secretary of
the New York Council of Independ-
ent World Workers, giving the num-
Der of unemployed in New York as
503,500. Of this number Stodel esti-
mated that 147,500 are union men,
bers and 356,000 non-unionists. Lead
ers of the Central Federated Union
were asked for their estimates of the
unemployed, and with few exceptions
they placed the number above 500,-
900.
"A conservative estimate, based on
a canvass of the delegates of the re-
spective unions affiliated with this
body, places the number of idle union
workers in New York at 200, 000,"
said Albert Abrahams, vice-president
of the CT. u, land if you count those
working two or three or four days a
week." declared Abrahams, "the num-
Der will reach nearer 400 900. We
estimate the number of unemployed,
union and n%on-union, in New York
and the suburban cities and towns at
100000. We are told here that of
the members of the PAYERS Union, for
instance, ninety per cent. are idle;
the cigarmakers have one-third of
their men out of work, the building
trades one-half, and the printers,
compositors and pressmen, one
fourth"
The Unemployed Conference Com
mittee, which meets in the Labor
Temple in East Eighty-fourth street,
has determined to go to court, If nee
essary, to obtain permission to as
semble in the Union Square plaza.
The parade was to have been held two
weeks ago but was postponed, await
ing the result of the conferences with
the Mayor and Comptroller over pos
sible public improvements.
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Washington, D. Cit may not be
~reassuring information, but the Wash
lngton officials are none too optimis-
tic about the outcome of the attempt
to drive all the anarchists from the
United States. Those officials whose
duty it is to deal directly with the an
archists cannot talk for publication.
The officials who can issue orders to
immigration inspectors telling them
to be alive to their duty have talked
for publication, but the talk, like
much of the work done, is impotent.
Some one here has said that anar-
chists are made, not born. This is
largely true, and anarchists will be
made as long as there are anarchist
teachers who get within touch of re-
ceptive pupils. This means that as
long as there are anarchists in the
country their ranks will grow daily.
Since the shooting of the priest at
the altar in Denver and the attempted
killing of the chief of police, Shippy,
in Chicago, the Senators and Repre-
sentatives have been busy talking
about immigration measures, but they
have confined their talking largely to
the corridors and cloak rooms. Most
of them are just as afraid to-day to
pass a restriction bill that mean re-
Striction as they were before the
shootings gave them sharp excuse for
the passing of an absolutely drastic
measure.
One member, who is not more than
one generation removed from being a
foreigner himself, told your CORE
spondent that it wouldn't do to draw
a line part way UP the continent of
Europe and to say that no one from
below the line should come to this
country. What we ought to do" he
said, sis to draw a line down the mid
die of the Atlantic Ocean and another
one down the middle of the Pacific
Ocean, and to say no one shall cross"
Restriction Problem Difficult.
When a New York Representative,
on the floor of the House, spoke in
advocacy of a really restrictive immi-
grafton measure, several Representa-
tives whose constituents are largely
Southern Europeans, at once began
missionary work. They told the other
members what a wrong it would be to
punish the many because of the fail
ings of the few, and they did not neg
lect to touch on the matter of power,
the balance of power, of course, which
the men coming from some of the
European countries hold at the polls
in America.
One member, an Illinois man, told
a colleague who was urging no action,
that it would be far better for him
and for his people in the future to
have all immigration stopped from
their native countries for a series Ct
years, until the United States had OPP
portunity to assimilate those that
were here to that point of assimila-
ton which means the dropping of hy-
phens and writing of themselves as
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Industry.

"No, he couldn't; I got there frst!"
York Telegram.
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EXPLOSION KILLS EIGHT.
Militia Guard at Natchez, Miss, Fol-
lowing Wreck and Fires.

Natchez, Miss.-Eight persons were
killed, one was severely injured and
property valued at many thousands
of dollars a wrecked as the result
of an explosion of gas in the base
ment of a five-story building occupied
by the Natchez Drug Company, at
Main and North Union streets, near
the business quarter.
The dead are Cleve Laubat, Mrs.
Ketteringham, Miss Luella Booth,
Miss Lizzie Worthy, Miss Carrie Muir
ray, Miss Inez Ne%tterville, Miss Ada
White and Elias Hotchkiss. The lat
ter, a carpenter, ran from the build
ing and fell, breaking his neck. John
Carkett, seventy-one years old, suf-
fered fractures of both legs. He is
not expected to live. The wreckage
caught fire, and a stiff wind carried
huge sparks to the north and west,
setting fire to eighteen residences,
sever of which were destroyed.
All business has been suspended
and the local companies of militia
were put on duty.
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Self Conquest a Necessity.

Deeply, 1 fear, does this age need
to take to heart the stern, inexorable
necessity of self-conquest-not in
self-torture, but yet in earnest watch
fulness; not in extreme fasting, but
habitual careful moderation; 0
in morbid self-introspection, but in
thorough and vigorous occupation;
not in enfeebling the body by macera-
ton, but by filling it's hours of work
with strenuous and cheerful activity
and it's hours of leisure with bright
thoughtfulness and many a prayer;
by these blessed means we, too, even
in the midst of the world, may attain
to the spirit which is dead to the
world; we may be keeping under our
body and bringing it into subsection;
nay, in no mere formula, but a truth
full figure be crucified with Christ
F. w. Farrar.
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PHILANTHROPIsT PENNILEss.
DR.. Sill, of Worcester, Mass, Predict
ed His Death, Gave Away Money.

Worcester, Mass.-At the age OF
eighty-three, penniless and without a
relative to turn to for aid, DR.. John
Wellesley Sill, a well known philan-
thropist and ANGER specialist, has APP
piled to the overseers of the poor
here, having been in want for some
time, and has been sent to the State
Poorhouse.
A year ago he predicted his death
within six months, and in that expec-
tation' gave away all his property in
Wales and in Toronto, and all his
money to friends and charitable in
situations, keeping enough to live on
for six months. The time expired.
and his friends whom he had aided
refused to help him.
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Follow Him.

Sufficient for the day is the evil
thereof. Do not derange the order
of divine providence by adding to the
cares of to-day the solicitudes of to-
morrow, which are ofttimes either i'm
aginary or magnified by the magma
ton. Do but scatter your forces by
striving at the same time to give bat
tie to the enemy that confronts you
and also to the enemy afar off and
who may never come near. Follow
in all things the teachings of Him
which inculcate patience, forbear-
ance, an even temper, in time of trial,
and unfailing optimism. In other
words, don't worry.
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Fire smoIders For a Year.

1t was discovered that the ruins OF
the Janeway & Carpenter wall paper
factory, at New Brunswick, destroyed
by fire on March 10, 1907, are still
burning. A great mass of paper was
buried in the debris when the build
ing collapsed, and at various times
during the year flames have shot up
from the site. One Of the residents
became curious to see if the frs
could have lasted a year and, digging
down, found the mass of paper still
s~moldering. The plant, which m
ploys about 1000 men, has been re-
built at Highland Park, having been
in operation several months.
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Digging a Way to Heaven.

Bless God for the wilderness;
thank God for the long nights; be
thankful that you have been in the
school of poverty, and have under
gone the searching and testing of
much discipline. Take the right view
of your trials. You are nearer heay-
en- for the graves you have dug, if
you have accepted bereavements in
the right spirit; you are wiser for
the losses you have bravely borne,
you are nobler for all the sacrifices
you have willingly completed. Sane
titled affection is an angel that never
misses the gate of heayen.-Parker.
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Stepping Stones to Glory.

When God saves us He does it not
alone for our good, but for His. He
expects us to work for Him and to
see that not one of His children is
turned away hungry or thirsty. Sac
rifce and unselfshness are the STEP
ping stones to glory and in my mind
the least of the work of saving a soul
is done when we have gotten the pen
itent to open his heart to God. 1t is
the after-work that counts, the dis
play of the friendly Christian spirit
that shows the new convert that he
has friends on earth and in heaven.
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Soldiers Third Bride.

Announcement was made at Tren
ton OF the marriage, about a month
ago, of Colonel William H. Farley,
Assistant Quartermaster-G General of
New Jersey, and Miss Ada Comfort,
of Somerville. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. George c.. Mad
dock, chaplain of the State Prison.
Colonel Farley formerly lived in
Trenton, but is now proprietor of the
Somerset House, Somerville. This is
his third matrimonial venture. He is
sixty-two years old and his bride is
half that age.
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Pledge Saves Wife Beaten.

The signing of a total abstinence
pledge for n year saved Frank
Prickett from being sent to Jail by
Mayor Joseph F. Smith, of Millville,
when a%rraigned on complaint of his
wife, Frances, that he beat her while
drunk. Prickett did not deny the
charge, but begged that she give him
another chance. After tearfully plead.
ing, Mrs. Prickett finally relented, on
condition that he sign the pledge.
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Rhode Island Will Discover Just
How Many Are Idle PerfOrC

Providence, r. I.-As a result OF
representations of the labor unions
to the General Assembly that there
are $4,000 unemployed people in this
city the police of the five cities OF the
State have begun an enumeration.
This action is taken at the request
of George H. Webb, Commissioner OF
Industrial Statistics. Means will be
employed to get returns from the
country districts.
Habitual idlers will not figure in
the enumeration.
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Engine Kills Young Woman.

Miss Addie Filing, adopted daugh-
ter of George Filing, of North Vale,
was instantly killed by a switch en-
CINE. With two companions she was
walking toward the Northern Rail-
road depot on the track used by east
bound trains. The engine was trav-
cling west on the track and the young
women did not know of the fact until
the engine was near them. Miss Ell
ing was the last to see the danger.
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Halls of Congress.

Advocates of woman suffrage made
arguments before Senate and House
committees.
The bill increasing the pay of
officers and enlisted men in the army
al passed.
The Lodge bill to reorganize the
consular service of the United States
passed the Senate.
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs voted for the construction Of
two battleships. rejecting the Presi-
dents recommendation that four be
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United Half a Century.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Reap cele.
brated the fftieth anniversary of
their. marriage at their home in Bor-
dentown. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Reap
were born in Kensington, Philadel-
phia. They have been residents of
Burlington County for forty years.
They have three daughters and one
son, eight grandchildren and one
great grandchild.
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The Field of Sports.

Brown concluded it's basketball
season, losing to Williams by %
to IA.
No pitcher in the big leagues stud
les opposing batters more closely
than Christy Mathewson.
There will be no betting on the
Readville trots this season. New
England breeders decided to hold the
Grand Circuit races without pool sell
ing or bookmaking. a.
The Harlem Regatta Association.
OF New York City, voted to ask TO-
the National Association faces this
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In All Parts of the State.

Edward Keen, of Warrington, had
his right leg broken by the kick of
4 mule.
August Opperman, a Salem grocer,
fell dead while gathering a basket
of potatoes in the cellar of his store.
Mrs. James A. Cogan, who was ter
ribly burned at a rubbish fire, died
at her home in Gloucester.
c. Fred Ruhlman, a Trenton
amusement promoter, was held in
bail, charged with taking a moving
picture machine and S474 from Peter
e. Wurfiein. a nawsnaner man
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Trustees of Northampton Academy
of Music Renor Gain of $4,000,

Northampton, Mass.-The trustees
of the Academy of Music have made
public their annual report showing
for the financial year, which CORE
spends with the calendar year, a
profit of $4,000. This showing is the
more satisfactory when it is consid-
cred that it covers a part of the pres
ent season of hard times. The last
two annual reports have shown a
profit of $4,000, and have done much
to justify Northampton's experiment
of maintaining a municipal theatre.
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Truant Boys Arrested.

Marshal Biggs, of Millville, arrest.
ed Mckinley Reid and John Candy,
boys, for not attending school regu~
larly. Candy protested that he had
no good clothes, and the Marshal
took him into a store and fitted him
with clothes, shoes and cap at his
own expense. Both boys were placed
in school. At the first default in
their attendance their parents will be
sent to Jail.
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Human Sympathy May Mislead.

The cross separates not only from
sin but from friends and human
good. Gods children are sometimes
tripped by human sympathy when
what they need is divine sympathy.
When we see Gods children going
through trial let us be careful to up
hold and encourage them. Let us not
endeavor to lift the cross before Gods
time.-Missionary Worker.
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Newsy GIeanings.

Texas reports IN orderly" lynch
ing.
Cleveland decided to close its
schools and spend 100000 to make
the buildings safe.
Senator Johnston, of Alabama. OBJ
serves that Washington, d. G., has
no Sunday observance laws.
Winchendon, Mass, rejects Mr..
Carnegie's SIS, 900 and will build a
library out OF its own hands.
James J.. Hill discussed the bust
ness outlook, saying conditions would
improve If they had an opportunity to