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The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-03
NEW YORK QVERRUA
WITH HOMELESS MEN
Federated Unions to Ask Govern.
ment Aid For Unemployed.
LABOR IN DEMAND ELSEWHERE
Central Federation Moves to Draft
Plan of Relief For the Army of
125,OOO Out of Work-Whole
Country Needs Workers..

New York City. - The army of
homeless and unemployed men that
has crowded into New York in the
last few weeks has grown to such an
extent that a conference of men rep
resenting all the charity organizations
that have to do with such cases was
held to consider. some cooperative
plan of dealing with the problem.
The charity workers have found,
they say, that a large percentage OF
the army of unemployed men that is
crowding into the city is made up of
young men from the small towns
within a radius Of fifty miles OF New
York. They come because the small
factories which formerly employed
them have either closed down for a
while or have laid off some of their
employees.
Being out of work and having
nothing particularly to hold them in
their little towns, they have decided
that now is the time to make a trial
jump into the industrial life of New
York City.
1t was decided to give out a state
ment to all the papers setting forth
the industrial conditions of New York
at this time, and advising young men
in the little towns within striking
distance of New York to stay at home
unless they have funds to sustain
them while they r looking for en-
ployment here. AS for the profess
sional tramps, the police will be asked
to care for them.
With $4,000 persons out of en-
ployment in New York City, the Cen
trail Federated Union declared that
it is time for the Government to come
to their relief.
The city's army of the unemployed,
say labor leaders, who know what Is
the actual condition of industry, is
from three to four times as large as
it usually is at this season. A con-
sentative estimate of the idle was
given as follows:
Skilled mechanics ....... 20 900
Miscellaneous trades. 49,. SO, 900
Unskilled labor ........ .50,00o
Every winter New York has thou
sands out of work, not because work
is entirely lacking, but from unw1l-
lingness or inability of many to do
anything except the task to which
they have been trained. But now Ii
is different. Thousands of men,
young, strong and willing to work.
are walking the streets, unable to
find enough to do to keep them out
of the free bread lines. Twothousand
to $500 men, nightly applicants for
this form of charity, with 500 to
1000 turned away, testify to the con-
6ftion of many OF the poor
Pronounced Socialist delegates to
the Central Federated Union declared
that the warehouses should be thrown
open and the poor fed and clothed;
that the Government instead of clos
ing it's navy yards and throwing
thousands of mechanics out of work,
should supply more work for the idle.
One Socialist delegate declared that
John D. Rockefeller predicted two
years ago that 100000 men would
be idle by now and might have to go
to breaking stones.
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FAMILY OF FIVE PERISH
Dwelling of John Clark, in Boston
Suburb, Burns MysteriousIy.
Bodies Show No Sign OF Struggle to
Escape F1ames-Mother, Father
and Three Children Die.

Watertown, Mass.-John Clark, a
Boston scotsman, whose home was on
the border of this town, with his wife
and their children, John, eleven years
of age; Philip, nine years, and Doris,
two years, were suffocated and the
bodies of the mother and Doris
burned by a fire which completely
Quilted the home about 1 o'clock a.. m.
The fire was discovered by persons
who reside in the vicinity about 1
o'clock. Evidently the blaze had
been in progress through the interior
for some time, but it did not show on
the outside. AS soon as the fire was
seen an alarm was sounded, but the
firemen, called out half an hour pre-
viously by a false alarm some dis
lance away, were not back at their
quarters when the alarm for the
Clark home fire was rung.
The Clark house it at the northern
end of the town and about two miles
from the town centre, but the fire.
men, once started, urged their horses
to top speed to reach the scene as
500 as they learned of the alarm,
rung in their absence. On arriving
the fremen rushed through the fire
and smoke to the bedrooms where the
Clark family still were and brought
out the father and two boys. They
were found to be dead when brought
into the open air. The fire was too
hot to allow the men to go back for
the bodies of the mother and little
Doris. Their bodies were h-rned
with the building.
The f1remen and men from neigh
boring houses worked hard to control
the fire, but the building vas an easy
prey of the flames. The house a a
new one and well fitted up, standing
at the corner of Hovey and Belmont
streets. 1t was two and one-half
stories high, the Clark family bed
rooms being on the second floor.
Mr.. Clark was a sales aan in a seed
store on Faneuil Hall Square, Boston,
and his family was an interesting one
The little girl, Doris, was the baby
and pet of the family, and the two
boys were sturdy lads, well liked
by the people of the neighborhood.
The family had retired early, ap-
parently leaving everything about the
house safe and without danger from
fire. Just how TIE fire started no one
appears to know, as the building was
in flames when the fire vas first seen.
T. must have been burning for some
time previous to it's discovery, and
probably the smoke coming from the
fire had suffocated them before any
one saw the fire.
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Brothers Drown Together.

Daniel and Michael Dunn, thirteen
and eleven years old. respectively.
we're found drowned in Lake Hopat-
cong, near Raccoon Island. The boys,
who were sons of Joseph Dunn, a
farmer, left home about Dor Christ
mas Day to look after traps which
they had set. They took a sled and
crossed from the main lake to Rae
coon Island. They then skirted the
shore, which at this time of the year
is deserted, and got abreast of Neid-
fingers cottage, when they must
have broken through the ice. When
they failed to return home their par
ents thought they had gone on a fox
hunt with relatives, and would spend
the night with them. Search was
begun, which resulted in the discov-
cry of the bodies close together
under the ice, which was little more
than an inch thick.
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LOST UNDER ICE SAVING CHUM.
Boy Drowned by Another Who Could
Not Swim, But Was Saved.

Providence, R. George Whelan,
sixteen years old, gave his life for
that of his chum, Edwin Briggs, four
teen, at Greystone Pond.
Briggs had dropped a dime on the
ice near the bank and was searching
for it when the ice gave way and
he went down into water ten feet
deep. Whelan lay down on the ice,
stretching out his arms to Briggs.
The boy in the water, excited and
unable to swim, grabbed Whelan
about the neck with both arms, pull
ing him head foremost into the pond.
Whelan was forced beneath the ice
by Briggs struggles and did not re-
appear. Briggs chung to the edge OF
the ice and was rescued by villagers.
Whelan's body was found two hours
later.
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Making Worthless Things Great.

In some of the great halls OF
Europe may be cen pictures not
painted with the brush, but mosaics,
which are made up of small pieces
of stone, glass or other material. The
artist takes these little pieces, and,
polishing and arranging them, he
forms them into the grand and beau
tiful picture. Each individual part
of the picture may be a little worth
less piece of glass or marble or shell;
but with each in its place, the whole
constitutes the masterpiece of art.
So 1 think it will be with humanity
in the hands of the Great Artist. God
is picking up the little worthless
pieces of stone and brass that might
be trodden under foot unnoticed, and
is making of them His great master.
piece.-Bishop Simpson.
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Gods Fellowship With Need.

Notice that the VOICE of naad is the
voice of God. That need is an ap-
peal to God, we easily believe. His
tenderness guarantees His notice; but
here is another attitude of His love,
and a new emphasis upon it's meas
ure. Paul hears the Macedonian cry
for help, and he and his companions
conclude that they have been listen
ing to the voice of God. They have
not only grasped the idea that the
needy Macedonian has spoken to
God. He is somehow Gods represen-
tative-not only a suppliant for Gods
bounty, but a messenger to speak
Gods will. And these heralds of the
cross, loosing from Troas and cross
ing the Aegean are showing loyal
obedience as we'll as responsive SYM
pathy.
We need to learn that truth more
thoroughly. God has identified Him
self with human need. Surely the
life of the Man of Sorrows teaches us
that. 1t is what He bids us recog-
nize in His picture of the judgment.
"Inasmuch as We did it unto one of
the least of these MY brethren, We did
it unto Me-" This is love overpow-
ering! Every craving for food in
feeble, furnishing bodies is a con-
tinuance of His wilderness fasting;
every prison bar of every pining cap
tive a counterpart of the letters of
the savage soldiery in the governors
palace; every shooting pain of every
diseased frame an addition to the
agony of the crashing nails and pierre
ing thorns on the cross. "Ye did it
INTO Me-" What a marvellous state
ment of fellowship! {
The condemnation of the miser4
able victims of selfishness was in the
face that they had not listened to the
pleading of the hungry, suffering
Christ. Now this is the lesson: The
Macedonian need is Gods cry. Tho
response to the need is obedience to
Him. The failure to respond is re-
bellion.-'The Captain of Our
Faith" by Wallace MacMullen, D. D.:
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In All Parts of the State.


Under the new system of salaries
instead of fees the Gloucester Coun-
ty Clerks Office has been netting the
county treasury a surplus.
The old cranberry bog between
Clayton and Glassboro has been food
ed by the owner for a free skating
park.
At the Samuel Borton public sale,
at Mullica Hill, ten horses brought
$1,000; COWS brought as high as SS3
each.
Gloucester saloonkeepers are care
fully observing the provision OF the
Bishops law" requiring a full view
of the bars Sundays.
Collector of Taxes Flowers, of
Paulsboro, reports payments of taxes
to be much better than last year at
this time.
William H. Skif1man, formerly
president of the New Jersey State
horticultural Society, who was con-
victed of forging the signature of
the late William Lanehart, of Blaw-
enburg, was sentenced, at New Bruins
wick, to prison for five years.
Jarvis Ayres, a retired harness
maker, of Newark. died of heart dis
ease. He was seventy-eight years
old. He leaves a widow and two sis
ters.
John Knight, an amateur weather
f~orecaster of local celebrity, died at
his home in Bayonne. He was sixty
years old, and leaves three sons and
a daughter.
Celebration of the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the ordination to the priest
hood in the Episcopal Church of the
Rev. J. Isador Mombert marked the
services in st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, at Paterson.
At the morning services in Grace
P. e. Church, Haddonfeld, a litany
stool of oak, placed there as a thank
offering by Mrs. Virginia Delk Tay-
lor, vas dedicated by the rector, Rev.
Henry Riley Gummey, d. d.
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A pet fox terrier saw a man take
a gold-mounted umbrella from the
piazza at the home of his master,
Harry L. Parker, at Glen Ridge, and
gave the alarm by barking. Mr..
Parker hurried outside and chased
the thief. The dog also Joined in the
pursuit and passing Mr.. Parker over
took the fleeing man and seized him
by the coat. The man tried to kick
the Cog off, but couldn't. Fearing
capture by Mr.. Parker, who was
rapidly approaching, the thief
dropped the umbrella. Then the ter
rier let loose, picked up the UNI
brella and carried it in its mouth to
Its master. The thief got away.
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John f. Moore Dead.

John F. Moore, the oldest Free
mason in New Brunswick, and one
Of the Oldest in New Jersey, died in
that city of pneumonia, aged eighty
five years. Mr.. Moore was an engi-
neer on the old Camden & Amboy
Railroad, and ran several of the ear
Hest types of American locomotives.
In 1852 he became a member of
Union Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, and has retained his member
ship ever since.
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The Christian Measure.

OF a Chinese convert it was said
after his death, "There is no differ.
ence between him and the Book
A Brahman once said to a missionary:
"You Christians are not as good a.
your Book. If you were as good a,
your Book, you would convert India
to Christ in five years." What the
world needs is living epistles, AMI
epistles that are written as in the
Holy Scriptures, by the Spirit of thu
living God. When the men are al
good as the Book, the world will
know that Christ is sent of Cod
Home Herald,
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Rule SaDpho Poster Out.

Fearing the effect on the morals
Of young boys and girls the display
Of a poster advertising the play Sap
pho" might have, the Common Coun-
ell Committee on Bill Posting at New
ark instructed the manager of a To-
cal theatre not to put up the pic
lures. The poster is that %reproduc-
ing the kiss made famous in the play
by Olga Nethersole. Several men,
bers of the committee saw nothing
to offend in the poster, but a major
ity objected to it.
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Broke His Neck.

Uriah Vosler, for thirteen years a
New York policeman, had a day off
at Washington to visit relatives. At
the railroad station he was waiting
for a train to take him back to New
York when in stepping backward, 1t
is supposed, he fell down the steps
Of a cellar. No n saw the acct
dent, but several hours later the body
was found by the janitor. The po-
liceman's neck had been broken by
the fall.
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Riches Hard to Handle.

When we have much OF Gods
providential mercies it often happens
that we have but little of God,
grace; satisfied with earth, we arr
content to do without Heaven. Res;
assured it is harder to know how t.
be full than it is to know how to Le
hungry, so desperate is the tendency
of human nature to pride and forget.
fulness of God. Take care that yo I
ask in your prayers that God woult
teach you how to be full. "-J. Fl
Sturgeon.
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YOUNG SKATERS DROWN.
Rains Weakened the Ice and 1t Could
Not Bear Xermonters.

Rutland, Vt.-Three young people
were drowned, three children were
taken from the water unconscious
and three others were rescued in a.
exhausted condition after they had
tried to skate on ice weakened by
rain at Stones Pond, in Castleton.
The dead are: Miss Ida B. Franklin.
of Saratoga, N. Y, twenty-four; Miss
Ida Putnam, of Castleton, twenty:
and George Hunter, of C~astleton.
twenty-one.
The children broke through the
ice while skating hand in hand. Mill
hands who were working near by
reached them with planks.
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SAYS BONDS ARE FRAUDULENT
Governor of North Carolina Declares
They Will Not Be Paid.

Raleigh, N. Governor Glenn
has replied to a letter from Edward
L. Andrews, of New York, represent
ing the holders of North Cardinals
repudiated special tax bonds, in
which Andrews says 100000
worth of the bonds will be given to
some foreign country to collect I'M
less the State provides for payment.
He told Andrews that the bonds are
fraudulent and will not be paid.
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Minister Dies on Train.

The Rev. J. T. Tucker, a promi-
nent minister of Asbury Park, died
suddenly on a Southern train just as
it reached Chattanooga, Tenn. Death
was due to heart disease. DR.. Tuck
er had been in bad health for some
time and had retired from active
work. He left Cincinnati in company
with his son-in-law, Frank T. Ellis,
of that city, to spend the winter in
Florida.
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About Noted People.

Paquip, the famous a dress
maker of Paris, is dead.
Speaker Cannon says he never feels
better than when he is smoking.
Premier Wekerle, of Hungary, and
ex-Minister of Justice Polonyi fought
q duel.
Admiral Evans is said to be an
expert in fine embroidery and
"tidies."
The King of Spain has never yet
witnessed Carmen" which is re-
garded as rather taboo" in his own
Kingdom.
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Cotton Mills on Short Time.

The Arkwright Club, Boston
which represents the cotton mill in.
terests of New England, formally
voted te curtail production twenty
five per cent. between now and
March 1, in order to relieve condi-
lions in the cloth markets of New
York, Chicago, Boston and other
large centres.
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A Good Witness.

Now be careful, Mr.. Gibbins. You
were, 1 believe, an old friend of the
prisoner. Did you ever notice that
he behaved strangely when he was
alone?"
well, sir, yer see, I wern't never
wiz i'm when he was alone, sir.
London Taller.
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Teacher WEEDS His Pupil.

Miss Grace Emery, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Emery, and Van
Cleve Brugler. Vice-Principal of the
Haekettstown High School, were mar
ried at Belvidere. The bride was at
one time a pupil of Mr.. Brugler. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
J. de Hart Bruen. The couple will
make their home in Hackettstown.
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lannon's Inventor Dead.

George s. Slocum, who invented
the first steam lawn mower, died in
Newport, R. l., of nervous prostra-
ton. He was sixty-nine years old.
He invented a bottle washer for syrup
pumps, rotary pumps, a sand blast
for marking bottles and a sand blast
for finishing buttons. The latter
re~yolutionized the button making in
dustry. He leaves a widow.
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Mere Runlor.

do you take this woman to be
your welded wife?" asked the min
lister.
mo, sir" responded the absent.
minded millionaire. 81 want to state
emphatically that there is no truth
in the rumor whatever Washing
ton Herald.
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He Saw.

.sThe waves ran mountains high
wrote the beginner.
THAT expression is old" objected
the experienced writer. 1T was all
right twenty years ago, but it won't
do to-day"
81 see. Everything is higher now"
Washington Herald.
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A Break.

what a queer remark that man
made about the bride" said the first
wedding guest.
What was it?" asked the other.
"He said: How natural she looks;
don't you think so?''
Force of habit. He's an under
taker." - Catholic Standard and
Times.
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Fall Rivers Richest Year.

Cash dividends of $2,701.875 have
been paid out to stockholders by Fall
River (Mass.) cotton mill corpora
lions for 1907. On the total capital
of approximately $25,475, 900 this
dividend is about 1927 per cent. In
addition to the cash dividends there
have been stock dividends of S1,900,-
000
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Kindness to Aged Nets $50, 900.

Because he was kind to aged John
Caywood, of Lewistown, Penn, Lewis
H. Austin, a youth of Mays Landing,
is now heir to $4,000, under the
provisions of the will. Caywood's
estate is worth about 100000, and
is divided equally between Austin
and Caywood's daughter, Miss Sarah
Caywood, of Lewistown.
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Broke PLEDGE: Killed Himself.

Frank Amos, of Hastings, Pa,
made respondent because. he had
broken a temperance pledge. shot
and killed himself. His wife and
children, coming home from Clear
field County for the Christmas cele-
bration, found the body.
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Colonel e. L.. Cole Dead.

Colonel Edmund Lewis Cole died
of apoplexy in his home, in West
field. He was born in North Green
bush, N. Y, in June, 1S43. Since
the Civil War he had praetised law
in New York. A widow, a brother
and three sisters survive him.
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Different.

"She says her husband is a head
worker"
so he isl"
ga literary MANI"
mo, a barber. Houston Post.
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Realistic.

Wiggs-"Scribbler's new novel is
very realistic, dop't you think so?"
Waggs-"Yes, indeed. When ]
came to a six-page description of a
yawning chasm it actually put me to
sleep."-Philadelphia Record.
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Utility.
Music Thirty-one.

Professor-"But I told you to
write this song in two flats"
Freshman-"Yes, sir, 1 did; ]
wrote half of it in our fat and half in
the Jones'."-Harvard Lampoon.
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Preeaution.

"The new housemaid has sharp
ears"
"Then request her to wear tabs. I
don't want our doors all scratched
up."-Louisyille Courier-Journal.
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81 wouldn't come in if I were you,
ma. I'm just trying to catch two OF
three mice which got out of the trap,
and, gee, but they're liyely!"-Nev
York Telegram.
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LIGHTNING KILLS A GIRL.
Flash Hits a House While a Song
Service is in Progress.

OCHEfCC ID ia NIOSKOSS'
Reds Station, Ga.-Sedora Bryant
the t~en-year-old daughter of ]. D.
Bryant, was killed by a stroke OF
lightning that wrecked the house and
injured fifteen other persons, but
none seriously.
There was a gathering of neigh
bors at the Bryant home, twelve
miles south of Macon, on the South
ern Railway. The evening was being
spent in a song service, when the
house was struck by the lightning,
w. M. Phillips, Frank and Ava Phil
lips and James Warfield sustained the
most serious injuries.
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London,s Famous Murder Trial.

London's Famous Murder Trial.
The trial and acquittal of Robert
Wood. accused of the murder of a
girl. caused the deepest interest in
London and has given rise to a re-
markable characterization of the de-
PENDANT by Hall Game.
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Reason.

Jenkins-"Flies never annoy a
sleeping man."
Penkins-"What nonsense, Why.
L"
Jenkins-''The man wakes up and
is annoyed "-Hsrper.s Weekly.
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No Embracing Possible.

Maud-"Here's a Western couple
that eloped on a handcar."
Mayme-"How funnyl But clop-
ing on a handcar cant be such awful
fun"
Maud-"Evhy?"
Because the maj who makes It so
has to use both hands, Doesn't he9"
Cleveland Plaia Dealer.
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Break.

"Nhat a queer remark tina man
made about the BRIDE" said the irst
wedding guest.
what was it?" asked the other
HE said: How natural she4ooks;
don't you think soy"
Force of habit. He's an under
taker. catholic Standard and
Times.
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I'M yellow Journalism.

'Man to see you.
"What does he wans?'
wants you to take back
thing which was printed in yester-
days paper"
Tell him it will not be necessary
for him to come in; we've already
taken back everything we printed
vesterday."-Smart Set.
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PrnnerIy Classified.

The balloon trailed low over the
farm. Its dragging anchor lifte1 a
panel of fence, the roof of a corn
crib and nearly achieved the capture
Of a COW.
"Must be one of them grab-oags,"
remarked the farmer, shaking a
horny fist at the skie s.-Phiiadelphfa
Ledger.
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Not entity of Land Frauds.

Charged with land frauds, c. L.
and B. H. Talmagc were acquitted
by a jury at Roswell, N. M.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1908-05-06

not the cause. felt also constrained to
deep solemnity Yes. :. funereal pull.
and it was relief TO everyone when
at last they grounded in the single
of the consulate.
In less time than Il takes to write
Alfred Scanlon was appointed a Uni
ted States marshal, Charles Scanlon
an assistant United States marshal.
and the arrangement was made with
them 10 take full charge OF Capt Sat
terlee during his trial He was TO
live in their cottage, have his meals
served from the International hotel
and, while carefully guarded night
and day. was to be treated FIRST
class throughout.
The law Of the United States. g"
doomed 'ut little Sklddy. assumes
that prisoner is innocent until he is
actually convicted. | want both of
you to remember that"
The scanlons didn't understand a
word OF what he said, but they saluted
and looked very pluch impressed.
When you bought Scanlon you got
lot Tor your money. iasluding q pro-