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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-05-28
SENATE KILLS FREE LUMBER
Seventeen Democrats Unite in
Support of AIdrich.
Members of Both Parties Vote
Against Effort to Reduce Tariff
Duty at Demand of Progressives.

Washington, D. C.-The Progress.
sive Republicans and Democrats got
a swat at the hands of Senator AL
drich and his allies o IN both sides
that seems to preclude the possibility
of a successful contest against the
Finance Committee on any feature
ofthe Tariff bill. 1t was evident that
local interests and sectional prefer
ences CONCEAL the patriotism of legis-
lators of both parties.
The slogan of free lumber" was
chosen as one that would appeal to
all those who profess to seek to up
lift the poor and provide cheaper
homes. For six weeks it has been
whispered around the corridors that
Aldrich would go down in defeat
when lumber came to a vote.
An amendment proposed by Sena-
tor McCumber, a member of the Fl.
nance Committee, placing all dressed
lumber on the free list, and imposing
a duty of only fifty cents a thousand
feet on rough lumber, was rejected
by the crushing vote of Sc to %. 1t
astonished even Aldrich, while the
progressives were too dazed for fur
Their fighting for the day.
Ten Democrats and fifteen Repub-
licans voted for free lumber, and
thirty-nine Republicans and seven
teen Democrats against it.
The fifteen Republicans voting for
free dressed lumber were Beyeridge.
Bristow, Brown, Burkett, Burton,
CIapp, Crawford, Cummins, Curtis,
Du Pont, Gamble, Johnson, La Fol-
lette, McCumber and Nelson. The
ten Democrats were Clay, Culberson,
Frazier, Gore, Hughes, Newlands,
Paynter, Rayner, Shively and Stone.
The seventeen Democrats who
voted with the Republicans for pro-
lection on lumber were Bacon, Bal
ley, Bankhead, Chamberlain, Daniel,
Fletcher, Foster, Johnston, McEnery,
Martin, Money, Overman. Simmons,
Smith (Maryland), Taliaferro, Tay-
lor and Tillman.
Just before this conclusive vote
was taken Mr.. Johnston offered an
amendment placing on the free list
carpenters tools, door frames,
screws, locks and all other material
used in making a house. This was
rejected by a vote of "a to IL.
1t is the present intention of the
Finance Committee to increase the
duties on rough lumber and reduce
them on dressed lumber.
The Finance Committee met and
authorized Chairman Aldrich to sug-
gest many amendments calculated to
harmonic the warning factions and
make the Tariff bill more acceptable.
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The war council of Federal gener-
ais the night before the second days
battle of Gettysburg became necessar-
lily a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length
~ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At times
could be heard the voice of a sentry
challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of a horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Meade
still listening to the reports of his di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable and who
ranked as a military genius. To pic
ture in his minds eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to foresee what would be
the thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certain to be-
fall both officers and men, and they
must be ready to perform miracles il
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
On Little Round Top, In memory OF
which the colonel of the regiment,
Joshua L. Chamberlain, for his great
~tenacity and his daring heroism, re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind which
stretched the Confederate battle line,
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted,
Only One Man For Defense.
1t vas now afternoon. Lees at.
tack was expected m~omentarily, and
every man was waiting ~intently, with
his eyes fixed upon the pen space
that separated the two armies. Jusi
at this time, by a fortunate chance
it occurred to General Meade to order
General Warren to ride over the field
in the direction of 1.-THE Round Tops
Warren did so, and when he came tt
the foot of Little Round Top he lef-
his horse and climbed to the summit
What was his surprise to find at thi.
point only one soldier, an officer q
the signal corps. He no soonel
looked about him that it became in
stantly clear to him that the top O
this hill, where there were no troops
and which had been abandoned for /:
signal station, was in reality the Ike,
to the whole position. His astonish
ment gave place to CONSERVATION.
With his glass he noted a thickl,
wooded ridge beyond the swamp
there, he~surmised, the enemy wa
already forming his lines, to burs
suddenly upon the Union troops a
the base, where In the screenin,
woods nothing could be known OF III
movements Of the enemy until III,
c~onfederates were upon them. T,
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No Hoodoo For Him.

Elected to the Summit Hook and
Ladder Company on April %, thus
making him the twenty-third mem
Der, Thomas ]. O'Neill, who was
handed a badge numbered twenty.
three, refused to take it. 81 will re-
sign first" he said, and walked out OF
the headquarters. O'Neih says he is
pursued by No. % as relentlessly as
people in old times were bounded by
thirteen. He was a ball player, and
one of the stars at the game until on
one fatal 23d day of the month he
caused his team to lose the game and
later another until he was dropped
from the club. He tried twenty-three
times tor get a position on another
nine and failed.
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Tried to Bride a Judge.

Mrs. Augustus Fessler is under
bonds to keep the peace, at Montclair,
after being arrested on complaint of
John Cosgrove, who keeps a livery
stable on the adjoining property, who
charged the woman with breaking the
windows in his stable and otherwise
annoying his employees. Recorder
Yost stated in court that when ar
raigned Mrs. Fessler held out a roll
of bills to him and said: Here, take
this, Judge, and do the best you can
for me. He said he had also learned
that she had tried to bride the po-
liceman that arrested her and the
policeman that locked her in a cell.
As she has four small children, the
Recorder did not punish her for con.
tempt of court.
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Glorious Gift of Life.

Life, despite of all that cynics or
sentimentalists say, is a great and
glorious gift. There is good for the
good; there is virtue for the faith
full; there is victory for the valiant.
There is spirituality for the spiritual,
and there is, even in this humble life.
an infnity for the boundless in desire.
There are blessings upon its birth;
there is hope in it's death, and there
ls-to consummate all-there is eter-
nifty in Its prospect.-Orville Dewey.
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Teachers Safe Under Tenure.

Charles j. Baxter, State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction at Tren-
ton, authorized the statement that the
new tenure of Office act as it affects
teachers in the public schools. does
not call for any State examination to
test the ability of those now teach
ing in the schools, and any teacher al
ready in Office will not have to under
go any examination. Rumors that
there was to be a wedding out of the
teachers with a view Of reducing the
number who will be protected were
started. Mr.. Baxter say the relation
Of a teacher as to fitness rests wholly
with the local authorities employing
him or her.
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BY PH1LA BUTLER BOWMAN.

But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And Swallowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear
From their regal place there
On the blue of our banner-the stars.
The story grows old in the telling, .
Of the voice that vent ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast
Leaped up at the voice of, that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.
And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had mad,
fair.
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
But-the stars are still shining. on high.
Tho the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So | know what "the Union" cost, Lad,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out
And | hear your glad shout,
| thank God for the empty sleeve.
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TATE orders 900 Cut,

President Taft sent back to the
War Department at Washington, d.
c., the estimates submitted to him
for the support of the military estab-
lishment during the fiscal year 1911,
and indicated his desire that they
should be cut approximately $780,
900. 900.
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School Prunes Moo High.

J. P. Seeley, of Montclair, is out
with an open letter condemning the
local school authorities because they
permit the use of an arithmetic in
the fifth grade grammar which he de-
clares is a textbook of the Ananias
Club. Mr.. Seeley declares that the
arithmetic contains a problem the
answer to which makes prunes cost
ninety cents a pound. Mr.. Seeley
a y that this is too high a price for
prunes, even in Montclair. He criti-
cises the school authorities for not
removing the arithmetic from the
schools.
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George Howell Dead.

George Howell, a former Justice
of the Peace of Montclair, died at his
home in Pattenburg. He was seven
ty-two years aid. Mr.. Howell sank
all the artesian wells that supplied
Montclair with water up to the time
the present water system was in,
stalled. He is survived by three sons
and two daughters.
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OFFERED $4,000 NOT TO WE'D.
InduceJaent to Remain Single as
Long as Her Mother Lives.

Norristown, Pa.-If Anna Lima.
daughter of Joseph G. Bright, who
died on March 8 at Bryn Mawr, re-
mains single until the death of her
mother, she will receive $4,000
more than if she marries. This pro-
vision is made in Bright's will, which
was admitted to probate here.
To his son, Harris, Mr.. Bright left
$500 a year: to the daughter, Anna.
$1,000 a year during the life of her
mother, and the remainder of resid-
uary income to his wife. At the
death of Mrs. Bright the entire re-
siduary estate, with the exception of
$4,000 annually left to his son, Har-
ris, is to be divided equally among
his five other children, with the pro-
viso that if his daughter, Anna, re-
mains unmarried during the life of
her mother she shall receive $4,000
in addition to her share.
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BOY o AT CLOTH.
Woman Walking Near River With
Husband Killed.

Flint, Mich.-Arthur Merritt, ten
years old, of this city, while walking
along the river bank with a rife saw
a white cloth futtering in some
bushes on the opposite side Of the
stream and fred at it. Mrs. Lizzie
Atkinson, a bride of a few months,
received the bullet in her forehead
and died in a few minutes. Mrs. At
kinson was walking along the river
with her husband, and 1t was her
handkerchief with which she was
wiping some dust from her face that
caught the eye of the boy with the
rife. Young Merritt was SO affected
after the accident that he had to be
placed under restraint to prevent him
from carrying out threats of suicide.
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And why does my sleeve hang empty?
And so you are asking to know
" the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, so little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when | fold you SO tight
Have / only one arm
That shall shield you from harm?
One was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what "My Country" means,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You viii know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag futters out.
The time is SO little ago, Lad,
Andtthe valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and pain
For JOY in Gods country, newborn.
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Paralytic to Be Executed.

An unusual scene was witnessed at
the State Prison, at Trenton, wher
Richard Donegan, who is to be exc
cuted in the electric chair during the
week of July 5, was carried into the
death house. He is unable to walk.
because of paralysis of the legs. The
man was in his bare feet when trying
to escape after killing Joseph Sum
merfield, of Cumberland County, and
the thorny vines through which he
went cut his feet SO badly that he
failed to get away. Blood poisoning
set in, and paralysis followed.
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Sharp.

Mrs. Sharp-@So you told Mr..
Jones you wished you were single
once more, did your"
Sharp with quick wit)-@Only
that 1 might have the happiness of
marrying you again, darling ."-Bos.
ton Transcript.
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An Old Game.

City Girl-"Don't you play bridge
up here in the country, auntie?"
Aunt Peggfe-4Land, child, / amt
played it since / was a gal; but I'll
never forget the words: London
bridge IS fallin' down, fallin' down. &
Boston Herald.
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A Pessimisf.

whats dis talk of a free break
hst table?" asked Meandering Mike.
"It's another political dream an
gwered Flooding Pete ~It's some
thing dat'n never happen as long as
aere's wood to be chopped. Wash
ngton Star.
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Yield Up Your WIN.

1t Is not by ~constraint or by pain
full effort that we make real progress.
On the contrary. it is simply a ques-
h6n of yielding up u will, OF going
from day to day w-itheFsoever God
may lead us. discouraged by nothing.
satisfied with the present moment.
thankful to let Him do all who has
made all, and to leave our owH VIII
lmmovable within His will.-Fenelon.
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NO Peril.

as there any danger, captain?n
"Not a particle, answered the bluff
Did salt. "a moving-picture outfit
will soon be along and rescue us as
soon as they have taken a few films. "
kansas City Journal.
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Lawyer Sykes entity of Looting.

John Sykes, self-confessed forger
and embezzler, although still a mem
Der of the New Jersey bar, was sem
fenced to sixteen years in the State
Prison by Judge John Rellstab, at
Trenton. This was the last official
act of Judge Rellstab before handing
his resignation to Governor Fort
Sykes collapsed when taken to prison.
He got away with nearly all of the
Brooks estate and borrowed money
from almost everybody in Trenton.
His stealings are said to amount to
nearly 100000.
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Bind Yourself to God.

I thank Thee, o God, that I may
strive to do Thy work in the world
even when my heart is dry. / thank
Thee that / may bind myself to Thee,
even while | am crushed by my sins
and shortcomings; that, even when 1
doubt whether the love of God is in
me. / may yet press carer to Thee
where only the heart can find rest.
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Gvmnasium For seminary.

The Drew Theological Seminary.
at Madison, is to have a new $4,000
gymnasium, as the gift of Samuel w
Bovine. 1t will be in the rear of the
administration building, close to the
athletic field. 1t will be OF Italian
Renaissance architecture. 1t is ex.
pected the building will be ready fol
use early in the fall
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The Touch Artistic.

I'D like to take you to the theatre
tonight, old man."
Thanks"
aAnd / would If l had the price.
Gould you spare a fve?"-LouisviIle
Courier-Journal.
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Not Their Anniversary.

aLysanderp ~(sweetly). @do you
know what day this isl"
@slrel Our anniversary. Margaret.
dear" pretending to have remem
bered 1t all the time).
mo such thing" (frigidly). sIt's
the day you promised to nail the leg
on that old kitchen tablet"
Lysander paled, tried to square
himself on the anniversary blunders
failed utterly. and the fireworks wera
on.-Judee.
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In the field by General Grant; and he
so distinguished himself as a briga-
der that he was brevetted a major
general in 1865, for conspicuous gal
lantry in action" After the war he
led, and is still leading, a highly Inn
portant public career in his native
State of Maine.
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Daniel.

Daniel emerged from the lions den.
HE actually talks and doesn't save
his words to sell for publication. !"
they cried.
This they considered the real mir
acle.-New York Sun.
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PROBABLY Not.

Provoked Mother-aTommy, you're
The plague of my lifei"
Tommy Smuggling up to her)-
You wouldn't talk that way if some
,ody'd kidnap me, would you, NAM
na?"-Chicago Tribune.
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Practically NoiseIess.

Giadys-"Does that noisy Archie
Feathertop still come to see your"
Maybelle - yes, he still comes,
but he hasn't made a noise like a
proposal yet. Chicago Tribune.
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Not an b Dish.

Uncle zeb Cooking over the bill of
fare)-"HeHry, how do you order
hog and hominy at a fust class
restraint"
City Nephew-"You don't, uncle"
Chicago Tribune.
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Her WifeIy wit.

Mr.. Bacon-"Did you hear those
measly ROSTERS growing this morning
ear1y?"
Mrs. Bacon-aYes, dear"
Mr.. Bacon-"I wonder what on
earth they want to do that FORT"
Mrs. Bacon-4Why, don't you re-
member, dear, you got up one morn
Ing early and you crowed about 1t
Tor a week?s-Yonkers Statesman.
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OPENED.
About 100000 Acres Made Available
For Settlement.

For Settlement.
Washington, D. president TAFT
Issued a proclamation providing for.
the opening to settlement and entry
of about 440, 900 acres of land in the
Flathead (Mont.), 100000 in the
Occur d'Alene Udaho) and between
$4,000 and 100000 in the Spokane
(Wash.) reservations.
Registration, which will begin on
July Is and close August 5, must be
executed and sworn to at either Kalis-
pell or Missoula, Mont, for the Flat
head land: at Spokane for the Spo-
kane land and at Occur d'Alene for
the land in the Occur d'Alene reser-
walton.
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The Verdict.

First LAWYER asked the Judge
to try n of my cigars"
Second Lawyer-"Ill bet he found
It guilty. Philadelphia Record.
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AS Shakesneare Saws.

Roosevelt will be perfectly at
home in Africa. He kin make his
way anywhere"
you bet. The world is his Oyster
Bay."-Washington Herald.
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The yiewpoint.

1T is better you know, he quot
ed, to be a live ass than a dead
lion,'"
But" she replied, "you speak only
rom the viewpoint of the live ass
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Through the Graphophone.

"Ragtime music. you know, accord
ing to Sousa, is dead"
Perhaps SO, but it yet squeaketh. y
Chicago Tribune.
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LiI's voice.

NanE4Lil's something of a mu-
sician, isn't she?"
Fan-"No; she sings."-Chicago
Tribune.
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A Sale in Prosnect.

What is that picture intended to
REPRESENT" asked the friend.
Board and lodging for six weeks"
replied the artist, SYSTEMATICALLY
Washington Star.
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PineanpIes Lower.

Pineapples are coming in heavy re-
ceipts, bringing abouS a decline in
prices.
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Rest in the Lord.

Thou, o God, hast created us for
Thyself, and our heart is restless I'M
til 1t rests in Thee.-St. Augustine.
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An Anatomical Mystery.

We don't wish to ~insinuate
They were not real before;
But where, oh, where, are the hips that we
Don't notice any more?
New England Grocer.
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Idghtens the

with an habitaal sense OF the di1
vine presence. the trials OF life ara
Iightened.@E. Peabody.
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France and Germany Cehsurcu.
The Hague Court of Arbitration de-
cided that both France and Germany
we're at fault in the Casablanca dis
quite.
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It's the Unexpected.

when I got home this evening my
wife gave me a surprise"
"Iow?"
"She didn't ask whether I had
come straight from the ofice."-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-10
sOUlH SOON TO BUILD
ABBEY AT RICHMOND
As Planned By Southern
Societies.

Richmond, Va. Oct 9.-Battle Abb
hey, the Confederate memorial project
at Richmond, Va, is beginning to as
sumo tangible form. A site has been
selected and plans for the erection of
the building are well advanced. The
idea of great museum for the pre-
servation of Confederate records and
relics was conceived by the late
Charles Broadway Rouse of New
York. Mr.. Rouse was a Confederate
veteran, and in the latter years of his
life was stricken with blindness. Liv-
ing in darkness, he looked with his
minds eye far into the future, and
outlined a plan which found general
favor. Since Mr.. Rouse first set forth
his idea of permanent memorial
building Battle Abbey has been
theme of wide discussion The United
Confederate Veterans and their kim
dred organizations have given the mat
ter much attention. 1t is easier, how
ever, to form plans than to carry them
to a successful issue. The South,
which naturally might be expected to
supply the larger part of the funds
necessary to the undertaking, is not a
country of millionaires. The work of
raising the money has been slow 1t
is gratifying to know, nevertheless,
that it has progressed sufficiently that
a point has been reached where the
actual work of construction may be
begun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-10
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