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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12
The Test of True Love.

Alicia" cried the ardent lover,
burning with the flame of a hot, rapt-
urous passion, will you marry me?
For your dear sake would l brave
the perils of both fire and water, the
anger of the elements! Say but the
world"
81 cannot, Arthur" replied the
maid.
Say not so, fairest one! Over hot
p~lowshares would l walk for you,
plunge down precipitous chasms into
the very jaws of death! Be mine!"
Arthur, l %cannot!"
"Ah, cruel maid! Cast me beneath
the feet of wild horses, throw me to
the wild beasts for food-all these
things will l suffer gladly for your
sakei"
And still I cannot, Arthur"
"But, really, Alicia" cried the
young man-"now, really! Look
here, I'll sell my dog, and buy you
a Sunday hat, if you'll walk out with
me-THERE!"
Arthur" replied the maiden, kiss
ing him affectionately on the brow,
and linking her arm in his, "let us go
out and sell the dog!"-New York
World.
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Messina and "Morocco."

One of the industries of Messina
was the expectation of sumach-the
powdered leaf of the sumach plant
the finest varieties of which grow in
Sicily. This is used in tanning goat
skins, and sumach gives a clear, white
tannage, unaffected by the action of
light, and therefore suitable for dye
ing into colors where permanence of
shade is desired. A genuine ttmoroc-
co" is goatskin tanned with pure SUI
mach, but there are many upholster-
ers who could not give this definition
offhand. Goatskins dyed with babool
pods or similar barks are only imi-
tation moroccos, although it takes an
expert to discover the difference.
Long wear, of course, reveals the de-
ception. Roam feathers are sumach
tanned sheepskins. Moroccos are not
used so much nowadays for covering
dining Ooh furniture, but motor
cars have given the trade a new mar
ket.-Manchester Guardian.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12
SCORE KILLED BY TORNADO
Business Section of Brinkley, Ark,
Demolished by Storm and Fire.
physicians, Nurses and Fire Fight.
ing Apparatus Rushed to
Stricken District.

Memphis, Tenn.-Thirty people
were killed in a disastrous tornado
which swept Brinkley, Ark, a town
of 1000 inhabitants. The bodies of
four white persons were recovered,
two more are said to be in the ruins
of the town, and the number of dead
negroes is %variously estimated at be-
tween twenty and fifty. Fire added
to the horror caused by the wind; and
the entire town was destroyed: The
property loss; according to conserva-
tive business men of the town; will
reach above $1,000, 00O.
The known dead are: Porter
Foote, j. L. Starrett; Henry Stove-
all; Jr.; Mrs. Phillips; Mrs. Belle Gar
den; Charles Frenze; Mr.. and Mrs.
Hood, Miss Clara Rose. A daughter
of t. w. Bunch, one of the wealthiest
citizens of the town, was reported
dead.
With the first relief trains from
Helena, Forrest City and neighboring
towns went all the available fire
fighting apparatus, but the destruc-
ton of the waterworks at Brinkley
practically rendered them useless and
the confagration burned itself out.
Among the buildings destroyed
were the stations of the Rock Island,
Arkansas, Midland and Cotton Belt
Railroads. In the latter building the
telegraph operator, T. N. Kinnell, and
a lineman named Richards were
caught by the falling timbers, but
were not hurt to any extent. When
they had crawled out from the ruins
they walked to Wheatley. a town
about two miles from Brinkley, and
sent out the first word OF the dis.
aster.
Kinnells message told that all the
railroad tracks passing through
Brinkley were blocked by the fallen
walls of the stations and by small
outhouses and trees which were
blown across the rails by the storm.
With the fire rapidly licking up
the piles of debris, there was every
indication that Brinkley would be
nothing more than q smoking pile of
ashes.
Forrest City, twenty miles east of
Brinkley, was the first town to send
aid. A special train was made up
there, and loaded with all the doctors
in town, 100 nurses and helpers and
the fire companies with hose and
several engines, started for Brinkley.
Nearly the entire State Of Arkansas
suffered to some degree from the
high wind. Fences and trees were
blown down, but the heart of the
storm seemed to concentrate on
Brinkley and expended all it's fury
there.
The tornado crossed the Arkansas
River at Fourche Dam and raised a
spout of water about 200 feet high.
1t passed toward the northeast and
swept a path about sixty yards wide.
The tornado vas followed by a vio-
lent hail and rainstorm, which lasted
throughout the night. The same
storm passed into Barcum and from
there to Kerr, in Lonoke County,
where several houses were demoi-
ished.
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PRISON TERMS FOR BANKERS
Britton and Schroeder Sentenced
at Brooklyn.
Convicted of Larceny Of the Funds of
the Eagle Savings and Loan
Company by False Checks.

7 Nt1ET ~
Brooklyn, N. Y.-Col. Edward
Earl Britton, military tactician,
prominent in society, and widely
known National Guardsman, and
Frederick H. Schroeder, Quarantine
Commissioner of the Port Of New
York and for years a political leader.
model citizens who had been found
out" as the prosecutor characterized
them in their trial, were sentenced to
Sing Sing Prison by Supreme Court
Justice Jaycox in Brooklyn for the
larceny of $4,000 funds of the Eagle
Savings and Loan Company. They
received indeterminate sentences,
Britton getting fourteen months and
Schroeder twelve months as mini
mum terms, the maximum being four
and one-half years in each case.
Immediately after sentence had
been imposed ex-senator Thomas
Whitlock, counsel for the convicted
men, obtained an order from Justice
Marean requiring the people to show
cause why a certificate of reasonable
doubt should not issue. Argument
on this order will be heard, and the
prisoners will remain in Raymond
Street Jail until a decision is ren.
dered.
Colonel Britton and Commissioner
Schroeder were, respectively, the
president and second vice-president
of the Eagle Company. 1t vas a
South Dakota mining venture which
led to their downfall. To finance
these operations they took from the
To n1o T0nonanu about CAT 000 hV
means of false checks. They were
convicted of taking $4,000.
1.-THE court feels deeply for your
unfortunate condition." said Justice
Jaycox in passing sentence. my
duty as a public official, however, re-
quires that l should impose sentence,
and that the sentence imposed should
be adequate"
Justice Jaycox explained that he
gave Britton the longer minimum
sentence because of the higher Office
he held in the company and his great
er responsibility for the funds. He
told the prisoners that at the end of
the minimum terms they could ap-
peal to the Prison Board for parole.
The court room was crowded with
politicians and ~Guardsmen, friends
of the prisoners, when sentence was
pronounced. The two men had
braced themselves for the ordeal and
passed through it apparently un-
moved. Before sentence was imposed
Lawyer Whitlock made an unsuccess-
full appeal for clemency for his
clients, stating that nine of the jul
rors, as well as the officers of the
lean company, joined in the request.
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INAUGURATION DEATH ROLL
One Hundred of Massachusett s
Coast ArtiIIerymen III.
Washington Organization Which a
ages Ceremonial Faces a De-
felt This Year.

Washington, D. C.-0ut of 500
members of the Massachusetts, Coast
Artillery organization who came to
Washington and participated in the
inaugural parade, no less than lOo
are now ill at their homes, in most
cases with pneumonia, as a direct re-
suit of their experience in WASH
ington.
The members of this organization
were especially unfortunate. They
were quartered in washington in the
National Rifle Armory, and there
were not ever cots provided for them.
So they slept as best they could on
the floor. On Inauguration day they
were held two or three hours in line,
waiting for the parade to form and
move; and finally they marched about
five hours, most of the distance in
snow and slush and a biting wind.
It was a fearful experience. The
Washington authorities had cleared
away the snow from Pennsylvania
avenue, but on the other streets
which made up the parade's route the
snow was in the main untouched.
JIG I1Gl1UCl vi lAiO OASohAN
has already died, another is reported
dying and several more are consld-
cred in the gravest danger. These
are by no means all the fatalities the
Inauguration fete has caused. 1t is
estimated that a complete roll Will
show a score or more of lives sacrl-
feed to the performance.
Even this is not so serious as were
the results of the last Cleveland in
augural, when about seventy-ive lives
were yielded up to pay for the in
augural jollification.
The Washington organization
which had charge of the inaugural
arrangements faces, in addition to
other troubles, a deficit. A big fund
was guaranteed, and the guarantors
will have to pay considerable assess
ments in addition to their subscrip-
lions. The revenues are secured in
the main from sale of inaugural ball
tickets and tickets to the big concerts
in the Pension Building for two or
three days after the inauguration.
This year both these occasions proved
unfortunate because of the bad
weather and the disgust of the people.
1t has been seriously proposed that
the people of Washington refuse, four
years hence, if there is no legislation
to change the date of inauguration,
to put up money for the inaugural
festivities. 1t is by no means certain
that this would deeply impress Con-
gress, but it would relieve Washing
ton of it's apparent responsibility for
the unfortunate results of the &C.
casion.
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Indian Burial Methods.

The Indian method of burial was to
fasten a. corpse upon cross-sticks sup
ported on poles in the ground or in
the boughs of the tree-tops. Here
the air and the elements silently dis
posed of the lifeless clay. until In a
year or so but little remained to bear
evidence of a tomb-perhaps some
broken sticks in the top and a few
scattered beads or human bones be-
meath the burial place. l cannot
conceive of anything more pitifully
gruesome than an Indian burial
ground of this type. l have seen them
in the fall of the year when the winds
were shaking and swaying the plat
forms and wringing the leafess trees,
Haunting the burial rags like signals
of distress from the dead, and whis-
Ting through and over the whitening
bones and neglected remains of those
who had many a time withstood the
TEMPEST and storm when the breath
of life stirred within them.-Army
and Navy Life.
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JOSIE MANSFIELD IN POVERTY.
Woman For Sake of Whom Fisk Was
Killed May Enter Convent.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-Josie Mansfield,
the once famous New York beauty
of the seventies, for the sake of whom
Edward Stokes killed Colonel Jim"
Fisk, is a resident of WATERFOWL,
S.. D., and has been for the last seven
years, and is known as Mrs. Mary
Lawler.
She is now about seventy years of
age, and is practically helpless as the
result of a stroke of paralysis. She
is penniless and is dependent upon
charity for support. A fund is being
raised to send her to an old women's
home, but she has practically decided
to enter a convent to pass her remain.
ing years.
Her brdther, M. D. Flint, of Water
town, died suddenly about two years
ago of heart disease. He had neg.
lected to deed to her a little cottage
he had erected for her, and this has
now been sold to the highest bidder
with his other property.
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Sinh Ends of News.

The California Aero Club has VOL
unteered to conduct aeroplane expert
ments for the War Department.
Accidentally shot by a crossbow in
the hand of a playmate, Kenneth
VIM, ten years old, lost an eye, at
Winsted, Conn.
Four cases of supposed diphtheria
at Brown University, Providence, R.
T., have turned out to be simple sore
throat.
Trying to cross the Vermilion River
on the ice, near Parker, S. D., Mrs.
Herman Feikens and three children
were drowned.
A strike of $50 stitchers at Lynn,
Mass, threatened to throw out of
work 5000 shoe factory employees.
1t is stated that the presidency of
the Consolidated Gas Company, of
New York, has been offered to George
B. Cortelyou, and it is expected that
he will accept.
Independent telephone companies
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New
York and Michigan, will organize a
$~2,500,000 long-distance company to
connect their systems.
A sudden March blizzard left Balti-
more helpless, with 5000 telegraph
poles down and 5000 telephones use
less
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Turtle Which Doesn't Grow.

A Brooklyn boy who spent last
summer in Connecticut found a tur-
ties egg in the course OF his country
wanderings. He broke the shell and
found inside a perfectly formed tur-
tie. He resolved to bring up the tur-
tie for a pet and experienced no diff
ficulty in feeding and caring for it.
But the turtle refused to grow any
bigger The boy brought it to Brook
Ign and it is surviving the winter in
good shape. In fact, there is no indi-
cation that it won't live as long as the
average turtle. But it is still the
size it was when it came from the
shell.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12
RAILWAY TWOCENT RATE
LAW HELD INVALID
Federal Judge Decides Against
State of Missouri
IN CASE AT KANSAS CITY
He Declares That the Court Reached
the Conclusion That the Traffic
Has Not Been Remunerative At
ter Trial-Road Run at Loss.

Kansas City, Mo.-A notable deci-
handed down by Judge Mcpherson, of
the United States District Court, in
the two-cent fare and maximum
freight rate cases, involving eighteen
Missouri lines. The railroads con-
tended that the rates fixed by the
statutes of the State were not remun-
e~rative, but confiscatory, and asked
that the enforcement of the statutes
be enjoined. The State brought pro-
ceedtngs to have them enforced.
The maximum freight law involved
reductions ranging from two per cent.
to forty per cent. on heavy freight in
carload lots. The railways secured a
court order temporarily restraining
the State officials from putting this
act into effect, and, on June II, 1907,
Frank H~agerman, of this city, repre-
senting the various railroads, petit
toned the court to make this order
permanent. BY mutual agreement
and at the suggestion of Judge Nc
Pherson, who desired to have a prac-
teal test; the two-cent passenger rate
law was put into effect on June II,
1907, to run three months. At the
end of that period both sides agreed
" continue the rate in effect, as the
results obtained had not been consid-
cred sufficient and the law is still be-
Ing enforced.
After many delays, the cases were
fnally brought to trial before Judge
Mcpherson. Bceh sides presented a
iOnu orrou Of Hnrrac fo unho1I tho;,
claims, some of the most prominent
railroad men and attorneys appearing
either as experts or counsel. The
final arguments were presented on
January 20 last. At that time Gov
ernor Hadley, who, as Attorney-Gen-
aral, had begun the cases, spoke for
the State, Mr.. Hagerman made the
principal argument for the railroads,
and a dozen other attorneys of prom
inence took part.
The courtroom was crowded with
lawyers and railroad men, eager to
hear Judge McPherson's decision.
1.-THE question:" said Judge Nc
Pherson in his decision, sis whether
the traffic wholly within the State of
Missouri generally referred to in the
evidence as local traffic, can be car
ried under the freight-rate statute of
1907, and the passenger-fare statute
Of 1907, at such profit as will give
q reasonable return after paying ex-
penses upon the investment, or
whether such traffic is carried at a
loss, or less than such reasonable
profit. y The court has reached
the conclusion that upon this question
the statutory rates fixed by either
and both statutes are not remunera-
tive"
The judge says as to the abolition
of passes that the evidence shows tie
passenger revenue is increased by rea-
son thereof less than one per cent.
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WORK
And Strength to Perform 1t.

A person in good health is likely
to have a genial disposition, ambition
and enjoy work.
On the other hand, if the digestive
organs have been upset by wrong
food, work becomes d~rudgery.
Until recently" writes a Wash
ington girl, Il was a railroad steno-
grapher, which means full work
every day.
Like many other girls alone in a
large city, l lived at a boarding
house. For breakfast it was mush,
greasy meat, soggy cakes, black cof-
fee, etc.
after a few months of this diet /
used to feel sleepy and heavy in the
mornings. My work seemed a terri
BILE effort, and 1 thought the work
was to blame-too arduous.
Sat home 1 had heard my father
speak of a young fellow who went
long distances in the cold on Grape
Nuts and rea and nothing more for
breakfast.
81 concluded if it would tide him
ONCl q llOl DiDS . ACofJ WOlhy II
might help me, so OF my way home
one night l bought a package, and
next morning I had Grape-Nuts and
milk for breakfast.
Il stuck to Grape-Nuts, and in less
than two weeks 1 noticed improve
ment. / can't just tell how well
felt, but I remember l used to walk
the IL blocks to business and knew
how good it was simply to live.
GAS to my work-well, did you
ever feel the delight of having con-
genial work and the strength to per-
form it? That's how I felt. I truly
believe there's life and vigor in every
grain of Grape-Nuts."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Rea-
son."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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LABOR LEADER IN JAIL.
Frank MCGEE ~Surrenders at New
Haven For Years Sentence.

Frank MCGEE S~urrenders at New
Haven For Years Sentence.
New Haven, Conn.-Frank J. Nc
Gee, the New England organizer of
the National Iron Moulders' Union,
decided to report at the County Jail
to begin the sentence of a year, i'm
posed upon him for intimidating
strike breakers during the recent
labor troubles at the McLagon
Foundry.
He came here from Pittsfield as
soon Is he heard that the Supreme
Court had sustained the Jail sentence
imposed upon him after two consec-
utive lower court trials.
The Moulders' Union has voted to
pay his salary during his Jail term to
his wife. MCGEE declares that a great
injustice was done him in condemn
ing him to jail, but he will see his
term through
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The Ofice-Seeker.


$50 you want to be the door
keeper to the House?" said the Pres
ident.
Eyes, sir"
"Well have you ever been a door
keeper"
No; no actual experience"
ANY theoretical -experience-any
instructions in the ethics of keeping
a door,"
81 cannot say that I have"
ever attended any lectures or
doorkeeping?"
mo, SIR"
"Have you ever read any text.
books on the subject?"
"Umph-I cannot say that I have
"Have you ever conversed with any
one who had ever read such 6
Eook?"
81 am afraid not, sir"
"Then, my dear man, don't you Bee
that you have not a single Quali1ca
ton for this position?"
81 do" said the applicant, and h
took his humble leave.
In this way Lincoln got rid of ap
plicants for positions-much the
same as Governor Hughes gets rid o
applicants to-day.-Judge.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12

lumbago. | decided to try Doans
Kidney Pills and a short while after
| began using them l was able to
walk. After taking seven boxes l
threw away my clutches and the
lumbago has not returned from that
day to this. Through using Doan's
Kidney Pills l am to-day a healthy
man."
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-MiIburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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GIRL SLAIN BY HIGHWAYMAN.
Slapped Robber Who Demanded Neck
lace-Accompanied by Fiance.

Baltimore, Md.-Jennie Reid; aged
twenty-one years, of this city, was
murdered by a highwayman at Mount
Washington, a residence suburb. She
and Joseph Mueller, to whom she
was engaged to be married, were on
the way to visit friends at Mount
Washington, and, according to Muel-
ler's statement, left the car at South
avenue. When they had walked half
a block and were in a lonely place,
they were stopped by a man who, lev
cling a pistol, called for their valu-
ables.
Mueller gave up what money he
had, and then the highwayman de-
manded a necklace worn by Miss
Reid. Her reply vas a slap in the
face, upon receiving which the man
fired, the bullet striking the girl be-
hind the left ear. She was carried
into a nearby house, but death had
been almost instantaneous. The high.
wayman disappeared.
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Tolstoy's Opinion of Kings.

In a recent letter Tolstoy says:
'The sovereigns now living, instiga-
tors of violence and massacres of all
kinds, are so far below the moral
standard of the majority that they
cannot even inspire disgust. They are
nsbut unfortunates, who deserve to be
V7aed. We should neither allow our
Indignation to rise against those
creatures, who are void of the most
sacred feeling of humanity, nor
should we combat them"
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12
RELAXING RIGOR IN RUSSIA.
Capital Punishment and Courts Mar
tial to lie Abated.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-The Gov.
eminent has determined to abate the
infection of capital punishment ard
the application of martial law in or
binary crimes. The Improvement in
the general condition Of the country
renders this possible.
The judicial department of the Min
i>ry of War has sent a circular to
the district courts martial recon-
mending the transfer to the civil
courts of all cases that can be set
tied in these tribunals. The death
penalty will be imposed only il the
most serious cases and after careful
consideration of all the evidence.
The carrying out of this reform
was strongly urged upon Emperor
Nicholas by M. Khomyakoff, presi-
dent of the Duma, at a recent audi
ence,
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FLORIDA'S KEEL is LAID.
Rear-Admiral Goodrich's Daughter
Starts Work on Battleship.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-The ceremonies
of laying the keel of the 1,000-ton
battleship Florida were held in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Construction work on the newest OF
the great warships was started in a
drizzling rain by little Gladys Good.
rich, daughter of Rear-Admiral Gas.
par F. Goodrich, the Navy Yard
commandant. She fastened a silver
horseshoe beneath the name plate
with silver nails, and afterward put
the first bolt in two thirty-foot kee,
plates.
She was assisted in her work by
several playmates, mostly children oil
officers attached to the yard. Many
officials, including the Admiral
cheered the youngsters as they ham.
mered the silver nails into place.
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BACHELOR LEAVES $500, 900.

Harry B. Shaw. of Chicago, Dies in
Texas.
Chicago, Ill.-News of the death
of Harry B. Shaw, a former member
of the Chicago Board of Trade, was
received from San Antonio, Texas.
He was seventy-four years old.
Mr.. Shaw was a bachelor, and for
nearly half a century had lived at
Chicago hotels. He left a fortune
estimated at 100000, which was
made in the produce business. The
bulk Of his estate was ~bequeathed to
his cousin, S. P. Bradley, a shoe man
u~facturer of Milwaukee.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12
DIES IN CHAIR.
Negro Murderer is Put to Death in
Sing Sing.


Sing Sing.
Ossining, N. William Jones, a
negro, was put to death in the cleo
trio chair in Sing Sing prison. Three
shocks were given before the man
was pronounced dead. Jones was
brought into the death chamber, ac-
companied by the Rev. S. E. Jones,
the prison chaplain.
Jones killed Llewellyn Bum at
Hampstead, L. l., on September I,
1907. His conviction of murder in
the first degree was the first that had
been secured in Nassau County.
Jones and Bum were employed in
a livery stable at Hampstead. On the
day Of the murder they had been
drinking in a negro resort in Hemp
stead and a quarrel followed. Then
Jones whipped out a revolver and
shot and killed Bum, afterward es-
Gaping to Jamaica, Queens, where he
was arrested.