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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-27
TWO YOUNG BATHERS DROWN
Virginia Paul Tries to Rescue
W. B. Lessig.
Both Victims Were Prominent in the
Fashionable Circles of Philadelphia
They We're Expert Swimmers. 1,

Wildwood, N. w. Brook Lessig.
a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia,
and Miss Virginia Paul, one of the
leaders of the younger set in Quaker
City society, were drowned near Wild
wood Crest. Miss Paul, who was
twenty-one years old and an expert
swimmer, lost her life in the swift
and t%reacherous ocean current in an
effort to save her companion.
Lessig and the young woman came
over from Philadelphia and were
guests in the household OF. Morton q.
Paul in his summer home in Wild
wood Crest.
The pair, accompanied by several
of their mutual friends, walked along,
just before shutdown, until they
reached a point some distance below
the regular bathing grounds. The
life guards had gone off duty, but
that gave them no concern, because
both were strong and daring swim
mers. Entering the surf, both were
soon beyond the breakers.
Hes only making believe" said
of the little group on the shore,
when Lessig threw up his hands.
There were cries of alarm when Les
sig disappeared from view with a
despairing shout borne but family
to shore.
With breathless suspense their
friends watched Miss Paul approach
Lessig. She vas seen to reach him.
and the two appeared to the watchers
to be working slowly toward shore.
but in a moment or two they were
submerged by a huge wave. When
they came up again into vision they
had drifted still further out.
The life savers launched a boat
and rowed with all their strength
toward the drowning pair. They had
hardly gone half way when Lessig
disappeared for the last time.
Miss Paul continued her unequal
battle in the rough water, but before
the boat reached her she, too, was
swallowed up by the ocean.
Miss Paul was a stepdaughter of
Clarence Jeffries, a Pennsylvania
Railroad official. She lived in
Swarthmore, Pa, a suburb of Phila-
delphia.
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VICTIMS OF SUDDEN DEATH
Mother Gives Her Life to Save
Young Son.
A Chauffeur at Kankakee, Ill, Drove
on the Railway in Front of
an Approaching Train.

Kankakee, Hl.-Mrs. George Gran
ger, wife of a retired merchant, of
Kankakee, and Miss Genevieve RAJ
big, of Chicago, a teacher of elocu-
ton, were instantly killed and five
other occupants of an automobile
were seriously injured when the ma
chine was run " by a Big Four To-
connective and caboose in Kankakee.
The party was on the way to Mound
Grove Cemetery. A string of cars on
a side track INSTRUCTED the view of
the chauffeur and the engineer. The
injured are George Granger, husband
of the woman killed; Miss Amelia
Forth. sister of Mrs. Granger; Miss
Jeanette Granger, a daughter; Paul
Granger, a son, and Ira Dole, the
chauffeur. Miss jeanette Granger
was found between the bodies of her
mother and Miss Rabig. She was
rescued thirty minutes after the acci-
dent by jaeking up the caboose.
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will be issued authorizing the UNDER
taking.
This settlement prevents actual
American investment in the aban-
doned Hankow-Canton line, but it is
the opinion here that American capi-
tai has been placed on an equality.
Washington, D. C.-The news from
Pekin that America would have a
share in the Hankow railway loan
was received here with intense salts
faction. The settlement of the issue
is a victory for the State Department,
which has insisted on the fulfilment
of the promise made to Minister Con-
ger in 1904. The State Department
has fought successfully the alignment
of the European group which sought
to exclude it. Its victory, department
officials say, augurs well for the fut-
ure, as the dispatches from Pekfn in
dictate that American capital will be
placed on an equality with foreign
money in the empire.
The result is another step in the
contamination of the policy of the
open door in China, so steadfastly in
sisted on by the American State De-
partment.
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Among the

Fourteen countries in Europe pro-
hibit night work for women.
Boston p~lasterers, now receiving
sixty cents al hour, want sixty-fve
cents.
Three hundred Jewish bakers on
strike at Montreal threatened a bread
famine.
The latest figures show that the
number of separate unions in Eng
land is close to 1900.
The street car strike in Evansville,
Ind, was declared off after long ne
gotiations. Forty of the union men
will return to work.
Window glass manufactures have
been introduced into China, and the
product, which is a novelty there, is
rapidly becoming popular.
Edward F. Cassidy. vice-president
OF Big Six Typographical Union, has
been nominated for mayor of New
York City by the Socialists.
James Wilson will lead the Pattern
Makers League of North America for
another year. The Toronto conven-
ton elected him unanimously.
Thirty thousand coat tailors went
on strike in New York City for an in
crease in pay and shorter hours in
spite OF efforts Of their leaders to pre-
vent q walkout.
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The Man Behind the Blast

At the head of the rock drilling
and blasting gangs in the New York
Central yards is a little Irishman who
knows the science of breaking up
granite cliffs from alpha to omega.
He knows rock as well as a Southern
epicure knows possum.
1t is a rare pleasure to see him go
about his task. He picks out unerr-
ingly the weak spots in the rocky
wall before him, probes them deep
with cunningly slanted drills and
then breaks the solid bluff into tiny
fragments.
All the time 1000 workmen are
toiling in the yards about him, and
the trains are coming and going ey-
cry four minutes. His position is
onerous, yet his responsibility rests
lightly on his shoulders. He is as
quiet and unassuming as a boy and
his laugh is as merry and jovial as
though he had not a care in the
world.-Alcolm.
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AMERICA WINS SHARE IN The HANKOW LOAN
China Agrees to Increase Amount From ~S275O0,00O to $4,000 600, One.
fourth Of Which is to Come to the United States and lhfeeOurthS
to Go to British, French and German Interests.

Pekin, China.-American partici-
patton in the Hankow and 'Sze-Chuen
railroad loan was assured at the
offices of the Foreign Board by Henry
P. Fletcher, the American Charge
d'Afaires, and LANG Tun-Yen, presi-
dent of the board. The loan is to be
increased from 27,5O0,00 to $780,
100000, and American bankers are
to get o~ne-fourth, the three-fourths
going to British, French and German
interests.
Americans are to have equal OPP
portunities to supply material for
both the Sze-Chuen and the Canton
lines and branches; they will appoint
subordinate engineers, and they will
have also one-half of all future loans
of the Sze-Chuen Railroad and its
branches, with corresponding advan-
tages.
The details of this settlement will
be arranged after the arrival here of
Willard D. Straight, the representa-
tive of the American inanciers. The
protest lodged by Mr.. Fletcher against
the completion of the loan with Brit
ish, French and German interests
alone will be Withdrawn, and an edict
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Around the Bases.

Be 1t observed that "Uncle Cy"
Young is still in the game.
Connie Mack is believed to have
strings on more than fifty players in
the minor leagues.
Lave Cross is now the manager OF
the Charlotte, N. c., team and is
playing second base.
Brooklyn runners are again cur
rem that Billy Keeler will be the Su.
perba's manager next season.
Worcester's sensational third base
man, Hugh F. Bradley, has been
bought by the Boston Club for Sep
TENDER delivery.
The Cleveland Press" has pre-
sented shortstop Neal Ball with a
silver loving cup for making that un-
assisted triple play.
Sandow Mertes, former New York
outfelder, has been appointed captain
OF the Stockton team of the outlaw
California State League.
The Athletic Club has purchased
two Southern League pitchers, name
ly. Thomas Atkins, from Atlanta, and
Lively, from Montgomery.
Manager Cantillon, of the Wash
ingtons, who has been sizing up the
Detroit leaders, says the champions
are not doing good, and are In danger
hof blowing up any time.
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CONFESSIONS OF A CLOWN.
At Last, There is on Sale a Book
Brimful of American Humor.

At Last, There is ON Sale a Book
Brimful of American Humor.
Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make me
laugh" The bookman is compelled
to reply that the rae of American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale is therefore predicted for
the Memoirs of Dan Rice" the
Clown of Our Daddies, written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guaran-
teed to make you roar with laughter.
The author presents to the public a
volume of the great TESTERS most
pungent jokes, comic harangues,
caustic hits upon men and manners,
lectures, anecdotes, sketches of adj
venture, original songs and poetical
illusions; wise and witty, serious,
satirical, and sentimental sayings of
the sawdust arena of other days.
Old Dan Rice, as proprietor of the
famous zone Horse Show" was more
of a national character than Artemus
Ward, and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged.
This fascinating book of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated, will be sent
you postpaid for $50 by Book Pub
fishing House, 1874 Leonard street,
New York.
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Jottings About Sports.

George M. Pynchon's sloop, the
Istalena, won the Kings Cup off New.
port.
r. c. Watson defeated c. M. Byers
for chief cup in the golf final at Shin.
necock Hills.
The Elmina finished first in the run
of the New York Yacht Club from
Portland, Me.
Captain Swanson won a race at the
Saratoga race track on a foul, as Ben
Loyal was disqualified.
r. D. Little and Robert Leroy won
their way to the final of the New
York State tennis championship.
Willis Britt, Ketchel's manager,
says that Langford is afraid to meet
the middleweight champion in a long
fight.
As a result of fou. riding in the
third race at the Saratoga tracks, A.
j. Aste's two-year-old colt had his
pastern Eevered and was destroyed.
Next season will likely be crucial
with basketball. The game is on
ktrial, to determine whether it shall
be retained as aninterco1Iegfate sport
H. M. Zeigler, who developed the
great Hermis and sold him for a price
said to be $4,000, is confident that
he has another good horse IL Barley
thorpe.
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Newsy GIeaninos

The homeward rush of tourists
from London has begun.
Battleships of the Atlantic feet be-
gan the work of turning tests in Cape
Cod Bay.
Bolivians at Guapai stoned the
houses of Peruvian and Argentine
residents.
Talk of combining the Marine
Corps with the army was again re-
vived in Washington, D. C.
Two regiments of Swedish troops
in the northern part of the country
mutinied and we're confined to bar
racks.
The French Government is pleased
with Germany's exertions to induce
Turkey to modify demands regarding
Crete.
1T was reported that the Union Pa
cihc has sold its Great Northern ore
certificates and thus closed out its
line of Hill stocks.
Rush of wine and other imports to
escape increased duties. will reduce
the estimated receipts under the
Payne-Aldrich tarif.
Arthur H. Grimm> brouehtrsHi
against the Swifts, the hrs and
other meat packers, cH they
had conspired to contr] ketai]
price Of meat.
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MIR. Balfour Calls Race Equality
a Menace to Civilization

London, England.-The House of
Commons unanimously passed the
second reading of The South African
Constitution bill. Mr.. Balfour de-
clared that this is n OF the most
important events in the history or
the British empire. He DENIED that
it was intended to give the colored
races equality with Europeans, De
claring that it would be Impossible
to do so without threatening the
whole fabric of civilization Inc
speech is considered important.
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1900, 100000 DRINKS MISSED
Prohibition Statisticians Say That
Means LAOS, O9S Men Went Dry.

Chicago, Ill.-Drinkers in the
United States have "gone shy" $780,
100000 drinks in the last two years.
That is the gist of statistics issued
from Prohibition national headquar-
tiers.
In the same period, the statisticians
assert, 1~,408,098 men who were ac-
customed to take an average of four
drinks of grog each day have become
total abstainers. If the 1900, OOO,-
600 drinks that were missed had gone
across the bar for consumption they
would have cost $464, 449,997.15 at
the regular prices, and if they had
been poured into a tank of sufficient
capacity they would have noated a
fleet of ba~ttleships.
OF this enormous shrinkage from
expected figures of increase of liquor
production, the whisky total is ST.
8S2,6O7 gallons, while the beer pro-
duction in the same time shows a net
shrinkage of 35,12O,472,6 97 gallons.
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FIGHT ON CORPORATION TAX.
Internal Revenue Bureau at Washington, ID. CO. ToId
Legal Contest Impending.

Washington, D. C.-The officers in
the internal revenue bureau who are
charged with the responsibility of
administering the new corporation
tax law have been apprised of the in
tention of corporations to resist the
law in the courts and test its constf-
nationality, but the Treasury officers
have not been able to learn the point
of attack. They believe that the law
will stand the test, and their chief re-
lance is on the fact that it was
drawn by able lawyers, who carefully
safeguarded it by adhering strictly to
the Supreme Court decision uphold
Ing the right of Congress to tax a
corporation for carrying on a bust
ness.
President Taft called to his assist
ance in the work of putting his ideas
into written language Secretary Knox,
Acknowledgement Wickersham and
Senator Root, all of whom are adj
mitted to be able lawyers, while the
President himself is not without a
reputation for legal ability.
1t has been suggested that one
point of attack would be that the law
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NO CHINESE HOGS FOR THEM.
Even LOndOn's Poorer Glasses Show a Strong Prejudice
Against Foreign POrkers.

London. - The first shipment of
Chinese hogs to England bids fair to
be the last. The Peninsular and
Orient Steamship Company believed
that the al could be brought
in large quantities in refrigerating
ships, and that the trade might prove
a competitor with frozen beef and
mutton.
The carcasses sold well in the
wholesale market, but the retailers
find that the public will not have it.
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is in reality not a tag upon the privil-
eye of doing business, whatever it
may have been meant to have it be,
but is, according to the fairest con-
struction, a tax on profits.
The officers of the internal revenue
bureau have collected evidence from
all over the country as to the number
of corporations, and conferences were
held as to the methods to be pursued
in collecting the tax. No definite
plan will be formulated until the new
commissioner of internal revenue
takes office. The Congress appro-
priated $15O,000 to assist the Treas
ury Department in organizing a spe-
cial force for the collection of the tax.
The officers of the internal revenue
bureau express the opinion that this
sun will not be sufficient. and the
next session of Congress will be asked
to make an additional appropriation.
The tax is to be paid on the earnings
of corporations for the calendar year
ending December 81. Returns must
be made before March 1, 1910, and
payment be made before June 80, or
heavy penalties will be imposed.
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a IN AUTO RACES.
Driver Eourque and Mechanician Hol-
combe Killed at indianapolis.

CuklDc lAiIlcu at ana
Indianapolis, 44rd.>HHrn1 Boureue,
driver, and Harry Holcombe, his me-
chanician, were killed at the opening
of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
when their automobile, going at the
rate of seventy-fve miles an hour,
was ditched. Holcombe's neck was
broken and he died instantly.
B%ourque lived ten minutes after
reaching the hospital.
A sudden veering, a skid, and the
car was in the ditch with its occu-
pants, who were in the Presto-Lite
contest of $50 miles. The tragedy oc-
Cured on the fifty-fourth lap, when
Bourque, hurting the car through
space at the rate of seventy-ive miles
an hour, had fought his way to fourth
place in a field representing the great
est pilots and most powerful speed
machines in America.
Bourque was the Springfield
.tMass.) man who finished second to
Chevrolet in the Cobe race at Crown
Point. Holcombe was twenty-five
years Of age and a native of Grand
Vile, Mass.
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THREE REASONS
Each With Two Legs and Ten Fin
gers.

A Boston woman who is a fond
mother writes ar amusing article
about her experience feeding her
boys.
Among other things she says:
Three chubby, rosy-cheeked boys,
Bob, Jack and Dick, aged 6, A and 2
years respectively, are three of u
reasons for using and recommending
the food, Grape-Nuts, for these
youngsters have been fed on Grape
Nuts since infancy, and often be-
tween meals when other children
would have been given candy.
Il gave a package of Grape-Nuts to
q neighbor whose 3-year-old child
was a weakened little thing, i'll half
the time. The little tot ate the
Grape-Nuts and cream greedily, and
the mother continued the good work,
and it was not long before a truly
wonderful change manifested itself
in the child's face and body. The re-
suits were remarkable, even for
Grape-Nuts.
Both husband and l use Grape
Nuts every day and keep strong and
well and have three of the finest.
healthiest boys you can find in a days
march.
Many mothers instead of Destroy
ing the children's stomachs with can
dy and cake give the youngsters a
handful of Grape-Nuts when they are
begging for something in the way of
sweets. The result is soon shown in
greatly increased health, strength
and mental activity.
There's a Reason
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, 4The Road to MELVILLE
Ever read the above letter? A new
ene appears from time to time. They
: genuine. true, and fun Of human
Interest.
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Died For Her Sons Sake.

Escanaba, Mich.-Running across
lots, stumbling over fences in the
darkness and taxing her strength to
the utmost, Mrs. Louis COPYRIGHT
dropped dying on the porch of a ply
sician's home after she had gasped
out that her young son had been ter
ribly burned.
Carrying the dying woman into his
study, the physician waited only to
see that death was a matter of a few
moments, and then started for the
home of the dying woman, where her
son lay, his flesh parboiled by escap-
ing steam from a broken boiler tube.
He was expected to ecove
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Woman Teacher Drowns.

Elmira, N. Y.-Miss Cora Thomp-
son, twenty-five years old, a teacher,
of Verona, N. j., was drowned while
bathing in the Chemung River at b.
hernia, a summer resort three miles
from this city. Her companion, Miss
Gene Beebe, of this city, was nearly
drowned, falling unconscious after
she reached the shore. Both went
out beyond their depth and Miss
Thompson could not regain shallow
water.
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MUNYON'S EMINENT DOCTORS AT
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Not a Penny to Pay For the Fullest
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WORTH
MOUNTAINS
OF GOLD
During Change Of Life,
says Mrs. Chas. Barclay
! Graniteville, VII was passing
through the Changeo of Life andsuffered

from nervousness
andother% annoying
symptoms, and |
can truly say that
LydiaE .Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound has proved
worth mountains
of gold to me, as it
restored my health
and strength. |
never forget to tell
my friends what
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FATHER T. J. DUCEY is DEAD.
Pastor of st. Leo's Catholic Church
Expires of Dropsy.

New York City.-The Rev. Thomas
J. Ducey, pastor of St. Leo's Roman
Catholic Church, died It st. James,
l.. l., where he had a country place,
after a long illness from dropsy.
Father Ducey had acquired national
reputation among clergymen and poll
iticians for the deep interest he took
in public affairs.
Father Ducey was born in Ireland
February 4, 1916. He came to this
country when five years old, and in
1859 James T. Brady, the lawyer, be-
came his guardian and later adopted
him.
Father Ducey was educated at the
college of st. Francis Xavier in this
city. While a boy he attracted atten-
ton by his quick wit. Mr.. Brady was
anxious to have him study for the
bar, but the students interest In the
church was too great, and after a
year or two of study in Brady's Office
he abandoned all thought of becoming
a lawyer, and began his studies for
the priesthood.
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TAFT D|sM|SsEs SEVEN
WEST POINT HAzERS
Cadets Punished Because Ro-
Iando Sutton Was Hurt.
VICTIM WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED
Attacked While Doing Sentry Duty
He Defended Himself and Cap
tured Two AssaiIants-He Was
Then Disabled With Tent Poles.

Then Disabled With Tent Poles.
West Point, N. Y.-An order from
President Taft dismissing eve ca
diets from the United States Military
| Academy was announced when the
cadets we're assembled on parade.
The cadets were concerned in the
hazing of Cadet Rolando Sutton, a
brother of Lieutenant James N. SUIT
ton, of the Marine Corps at Annapo-
lis, a second investigation into whose
death resulted in the finding that
Lieutenant, Sutton killed himself
either by accident or design.
The cadets dismissed are: John H.
Booker, Jr., of West Point, Ca, first
| class; Richard w. Hooker, Kansas
City, Mo-, third class; Earle w. Dun
more, Utica. N. Y, third class; Chaun-
cey G. Deyore, Wheeling, w. Va,
third class; Gordon Lefebvre, Rich
mond, Va, third class; Albert e.
Crane, Hawarden, Iowa. third class;
Jacob S. Fortner, Dothan, Ala, third
class.
The action of the President upholds
the action of the board which investi-
gated hazing at West Point, and of
Colonel Hugh L. Scott, Superintend-
ent of the Academy.
On the morning of June IA last, Ca
Diet Rolando Sutton, of the fourth or
'plebe" class, reported sick, and was
ordered to the hospital badly bruised
and suffering great pain. He did not
report for duty again until twenty
fhrno doyc Iof0r ond hio roco innnnn-
diately became a matter of concern
to the upper classmen, when it was
see that the authorities proposed to
dig to the bottom of it.
Before the board of investigation
which was Immediately ordered, SUIT
ton, true to the unwritten code of the
corps, proved a reticent witness. SUIT
ton gave a complete narrative of his
adventures on the night of June IS,
but professed to have been unable to
recognize any of his as~sailants.
The board, whose report led to the
dismissal of the cadets, was presided
over by Lieutenant Colonel Sibley,
with Captain Oscar J. Charles, of the
Seventeenth Infantry, and Captain M.
F. Smith, of the Twentieth Infantry,
az members. 1t was in session al
most daily for over a month. During
this period 135 cadets were examined
under oath as to hazing conditions at
West Point this year.
On the night of the attack. for
which the cadets have been dismissed,
Cadet Sutton was walking on a lonely
post when a number of third class
men, dressed in white sheets, sudden
ly ran out of the woods and attacked
him with tent poles.
Sutton, who is an athlete, was on
the alert, and succeeded in capturing
two of his a~ssailants, but he was dis
abled by a blow from a tent pole af-
ter he had beaten off three attacks.
He was injured so seriously that he
YVES three weeks in the hospital.