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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
DIR. Robert Reyburn Dead.

Washington, D. CDR. Robert
Reyburn, who attended President
Garfield after he was shot, died here,
aged seventy-six. He was a native
of Glasgow, Scotland.
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CUT A OF 10000.
Republic Iron and Steel Company An

Republic Iron and Steel Company An.
nounces a 10 Per Cent. Reduction.
Youngstown, Ohio.-Notices were
posted in all the works here of the
Republic Iron and Steel Company of
4 reduction in wages, effective April
1. About 1000 men are affected To-
cally. including all employees from
salaried men to laborers, except men
Identified with the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Iron Steel and Tin Work
srs.
The reduction is to apply to all
works of the company, including nine
rolling mills, nine blast furnaces and
one steel plant in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Alabama, and
affecting about $4,000 men. The re-
iuction is approximately ten per cent.
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identified as a Burglar.

John Doe," the mysterious man
arrested in the German Valley school
house last winter, was identified at
Morristown as one of the burglars
who robbed the Misses Perkins, of
that place, on October % last. The
Identification was made by Mrs. H.
W. Miller, of New Brighton, S. l., sis
ter of the Misses Perkins. She was
in the Perkins home at the time. of
the robbery. She recognized him as
one of the men who for over two
hours kept her at the point of a re-
volver while their companion made a
search of the house.
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School Girl Elopes and WEEDS.

Ella P~ritchard, a pupil in the Mont
clair High School, started ostensibly
for school. but met Paul Cristner, a
clerk in the Mutual Life Insurance
Company's offices, New York City. The
couple went to White Lake, Sullivan
County, N. Y, and were married by
the brides brother, the Rev. John
Pritchard. Mrs. Cristner is the
daughter of John w. Pritchard, pub.
Usher of a religious journal in New
York, who has a fine home on Hol.
land Terrace, Montclair. While the
parents of the bride were surprised
they forgave her. The chief objec.
ton of the family to the marriage
was she has not completed her edu.
cation. The bride was a member OF
the junior class of the High School.
Two other daughters are seminary
graduates, and it was the intention to
give Mrs. Cristner the same eduea
ton.
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Dog Ceremoniously Buried.

I Senator, a pet greyhound for many
years in the home of Prosecutor Eu-
gene Finley, of Paterson, was buried
at Jacobstown, Burlington County,
with such ceremony as usually ac-
companies the interment of a favorite
child. The body was embalmed and
enclosed in a coffin of polished chest
nut lined with white satin. The bur-
ial place is on the farm where the
Emley family has lived for nearly a
century,
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Prisoner Confronted by Girl.

Miss Aida Nelus, of No. 279 Freak.
ness avenue, Paterson, positively iden-
titled William Christie, of No. 10 Ra-
mapo avenue, as the man who brutal
ly assaulted her while she was alone
in her home in that city. The girl.
who is only thirteen years of age, told
Chief Binson that the mar came into
the kitchen and asked where her
mother kept her money. The girl.
badly frightened, stammered "She
carries it with her, and she's out
now" This seemed to anger the
man. He threw her on the floor,
kicked her several times and left the
house.
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MAYOR MCCLELLAN OPENS
GREENSBORO BRIDGE
In Flag Bedecked Auto He Leads
City Officials Over.
LONG ISLAND CITY DECORATED
New CantileVer Has a Capacity OF
10000 an Hour, Each Way-De-
signed to Prevent Congested
Traffic Over the River.
New CantiI
Facts About the New Bridge.

Total cost, including ap-
proaches, $20,000,0 900.
Location: From East Fifty
ninth street, Manhattan, across
East River and Blackwell's ISL
and to Long Island City.
Length, 1886 feet. Length
of Manhattan approach, 1852
feet; length of Queens APP
proach, 2672.
Type of bridge: cantileyer.
Builder, Pennsylvania Steel
Company.
Designed by Gustav Linden
thai.
Contract for masonry piers let
June, 1901.
Contract for bridge structure
let November, 1908.
Total weight of bridge, 49,
100000 pounds.
Bridge contains four trolley
tracks, two elevated railroad
tracks, two floors, a roadway
fifty-three feet wide and two
footwalks, each sixteen feet
wide.
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Rroker Shot to Death.

Henry A. Griswold, a retired real
estate broker, and former president
of the Anacostia Railway Company,
was found dead in the attic of his
home in Anacostia, a suburb of Wash
ington, D.. c. He had been shot
through the breast, and beside his
body on the floor rested an old-fash-
toned shotgun and a poker.
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Church Rartenders.

Believing that drunkenness is
caused by wines served at commun-
ion, the Rev. Theodore-Geisel, a Bap-
fist clergyman, of Bayonne, has be-
gun a crusade to abolish wine in
churches and to substitute water.
ION Easter Sunday" he said, "our
affairs will be transformed into tenn
porary bars. Wine, an intoxicant,
will be served from silver cups, with
a minister or priest temporary bar
tenders"
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LAWYER KILLED BY FALL.
Bert e. Farnham Found Dead at Foot
of Cif-Suffered From Insomnia.

Dunkirk, N. Y.-Bert E. Farnham,
a prominent lawyer, was found dead
at the foot of a forty-foot cliff at La
tona, a hamlet four miles south of
Dunkirk. He had been a sufferer
from insomnia for some time, and
was accustomed to take long walks.
Mr.. Farnham was forty-seven years
old. He was at one time associated
in the law business with Lester f..
Stearns, formerchairman Of the State
Tax Commission.
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Swallowed Harbor.

Quake ShalI0Wed Harbof.
Vera Cruz, Mexico.-The recen
earthquake made the harbor here S
shallow that ships drawing twenty
four feet touch bottom.
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uniform PARCELS Post Soon.

The parcels post service to foreign
countries practically became uniform
after March /, with a postage rate of
twelve cents a pound and a weight
limit of eleven pounds. Japan and
Sweden, however, decided not to
adopt the eleven-pound weight limit
until the next month, and France,
Hongkong and Denmark are expected
to conform in a short time.
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Gnnners, Tax in JerseY.

The House, at Trenton, passed a
bill requiring all gunners to take out
a license and pay an annual fee of 81.
The bill was opposed by the members
from rural counties. 1t originated
from the Fish and Game Commission,
and is expected to produce a revenue
of at least 100000 a year and make
the commission self-supporting.
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AUFuZZI On TUT IHUIds
Marseilles, France.-The Duke OF
the Abruzzi left here on the steamer
Oceania for Bombay, whence he VIII
proceed to the Himalaya Mountains.
He Is accompanied by an aid, a
quis Negretto-Sella. and a secretary,
Sienor FilIipi.
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snlendor of The Infinite.

Life has no zest when it has no re-
alization of the unattained. The man
who knows ell, who has all, and who
is entirely self-suficient, has never
had the satisfaction of coming into
ideal possession Of. the ~splendor OF
the Infinite: he has never reached
out and taken hold of the beyond.
Let us praise God for the rnmeas-
ured and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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TO CUBA.
Last United States Troops Sail at Ha-
yana For Home.

Last United States Troops Sail at Ha-
vana For Home.
Havana, Cuba. - Major-General
Thomas H. Barry, commander of the
army of ~pacifcation, accompanied
by his staff, the American Minister,
Edward v. Morgan, and the American
Consul-General, J. L.. Rogers, visited
the palace to inform President Co
mez officially of the departure of the
last contingent of American soldiers,
and to bid him farewell. They were
received in the red salon, the Presi-
dent being surrounded by the mem
bers of his Cabinet, the Justices of
the Supreme Court, officers of the
army, and a large number of Senators
and Representatives.
The American flag, which has flown
over Camp Columbia since October,
1906, was hauled down and the troops
will go aboard the transports Sumner
and Mcclellan to sail for the United
States
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Ahont Noted PeonIe.

The Shah of Persia is in financial
straits.
E~x-President Roosevelt will be his
W barber on his African trip.
Captain Baldwin and H. H. Clayton
will attempt to cross the continent In
a balloon.
Bishop Greer presided at a meeting
in Trinity Chapel, New York City. in
the interest of the child
Cipriano Castro informed President
Gomez OF Venezuela of his desire ia
return and live as a private citizen.
but has not received a reply to the
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Running No Risk.

'What?" asks the maiden aunt.
Going to marry that Mr.. Newwun?
Why, you hardly know the man, Imo-
gene. In the few days you have been
acquainted with him you cannot pos
sibly have learned anything of his
family or antecedents or habits or
personal circumstances"
"That is true, Aunt Keturah. But
you have always told me that no wo-
man who knows anything about a
man will marry him."-Success Mag
hzine,
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The Hint Overlooked.

Miss Ascum-sT heard Miss Cable
called on you the other day. I don't
suppose you got a chance to open your
mouth"
Miss Brighton, yes, 1 had it
open almost constantly"
Miss Ascum-"You did,"
Miss Bright-"Yes; yawning; but
she never took the hint."-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
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Revenge.

"He doesn't think much of society.
He calls it Goldfish aristocracy."
Perhaps he hasn't been invited to
It's entertainments"
oh, yes; he hac."
"And he declined?"
eyes. He said he wouldn't go to
Goldfish balls."-Nashville American.
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sERvIA c TERMS.
Her Minister in Vienna Will Complete
Her Humiliation.

Belgrade, Servia. = The formula
agreed upon by the Powers of Europe
and Austria-Hungary for the settle
ment of the dispute between the dual
monarchy and Servia has been accept
ed by the Servian Government. The
formula was presented at the Foreign
Office by the British, French, Ger
man, Russian and Italian Ministers,
and Servia will, through her Minister
at Vienna, deliver to the Austrian
Government a note to the following
effect:
Servia declares that her rights have
not been violated by the annexation
by Austria-Hungary of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and accepts the Powers
decision to annul paragraph rs of the
Treaty of Berlin.
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Comforting.

Ella-"I'm to be married to-mor,
row and I'm terribly nervous"
Stella-"I suppose there always is
a chance of a man getting away up
to the last minute. "-BFooklyn Life.
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Second Nature.
i've himself

Knicker-"Did Jones give himself
away?"
Bocker-"Yes, he called the side
door of the subway a the family
entrance. New York Sun.
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Chestnut Season.

my husband is so thoughtful"
said the Throop street lady. He new
er returns in the evening without
bringing ma home a lot of chest
nuts"
Mine brings home a lot of chest
nuts, too," replied her friend.
"And are they roasted?"
mo; but he is roasted before he
finishes springing off chestnuts about
being detained at the Office and hav-
Ing to show an old customer to the
station. Chicago News.
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Meant Much to Him.

Eyes," said the obese passenger
with the swastika pin in his tie, 81
always look forward to the opening
Of the football season with delight"
"You are an admirer of the sport,
eh?" rejoined the hardware drum
mer.
well, not exactly" replied the O.
p, "but I'm a surgeon."-Chicago
News.
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Jersey Gets Warship Pennant.

Frederick Petry and Philip Schlors-
berg, of the battleship New Jersey,
presented to Governor Fort, at Tren-
ton, on behalf of the officers and crew
the homeward bound pennant OF the
ship flown on its world cruise.
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Blown From Pier to His Death.

John Cassidy, a laborer, who was
working on the coal docks at Port
Reading, was blown off the dock by
the high wind and landed in an empty
coal bin forty feet below. He died in
a hospital at Bayonnetwo hours later.
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Eonndries to WORK Oyertime.

Lambertville foundrymen say busi-
ness conditions are better than for
months. Most of them have orders
on file that will require overtime
work to complete them within the
specified time.
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Knew the

Hub during a quarrel)-"Yot
talk like an idiot"
Wife-"I've got to talk so you can
understand me."-Boston Transcript.
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Girl Students Win a Strike.

Berkeley, Cal. - Twenty young
women of the senior class at the
University of California went on a
strike recently, and gained theii
point, when they discovered that
French novels assigned to them for
reading in connection with their
French lessons were shocking.
Secretaries to Take Office.
Washington. d. C.-Charles D,
Norton, recently appointed Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury to succeed
Louis A. Coolidge, resigned. is ex.
pected to enter upon his duties on
April 5, and c. D. Hilles, who is tc
succeed Beekman Winthrop as As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, will
take charge ON April Is.
Fanny Crosby's S9th Birthday.
Bridgeport, Conn.-The blind hymn
writer, Fanny Crosby, observed her
eighty-ninth birthday, when she was
a guest at a reception given in the
home of Mrs. Orville Rector by the
Fanny Crosby Circle of Kings Daugh-
tiers. She wrote a special hymn for
the occasion, which, set to familiar
music, was sung by the company.
Oldest Steamer Now 81.
Providence, R. Only thirteen
years the junior Of the Clermont,
Robert Fulton's first steamer, the
steamer James Morgan has just been
under Feredal inspection here. The
Morgan is the oldest steamer in the
country, having been launched at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, eighty-seven
years ago. She is used as an oyster
boat.
Sends For Friend; Kills Self.
Chicago, Ill.-Dr. c. D. Hewes, a
prominent physician, sent for d, Van
Wyngarden, his close friend, an un-
dertaker, and then shot himself to
death. When Wyngarden reached the
physicians Office he found him. dead
on the floor, a bullet having pierced
his heart.
Liquor Bill Loses in Minnesota.
st. Paul, Minn.-The bill prohibit.
ing the manufacture or sale of intox.
icating liquors in this State was
killed in the House of Representa-.
tives.
Quake Swallowed Harbor.
Vera Cruz, Mexico.-The recent
earthquake made the harbor here SO
shallow that ships drawing twenty.
four feet touch bottom.
Sent to Leper's Island.
Boston, Mass. - Pronounced q
,leper, Archie Thomas, a s~ixteen-year,
old Upton School boy, was sent from
the Massachusetts, General Hospita,
to the leper colony at Penikese Island
He came from the West Indies sever
years ago. He attended Upton High
School.
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Could Imagine lie Did.

"Ever seen Congress in session?H
NO." replied Farmer Coboss, "but
I know how it looks I hev a hired
man who kin git as busy dom noth<
in as anything on earth."-Wash-
ington Herald.
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"Do you think it an advantage for
a young singer to go abroad to
study?"
81 dunno as it's any advantage"
answered Mr.. Cumrox. but it's
mighty consider ate of the home folks
and the neighbors." Washington
Star.
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SLEEPING SICKNESS IN PARIS.
Missionary Recently in Africa Strick-
en- in Luxembourg Gardens.

Paris, France. A sensation has
been caused by the discovery of a
of sleeping sickness in the heart
Of Paris. The victim is a missionary
Of the Order of the Holy Ghost, who
dropped unconscious in the Luxem-
bourg Garden and was conveyed to
the Pasteur Institute. He contracted
the disease on the upper Ubanghi, a
river of Equatorial Africa.
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Reane.l hu Ecunwshin.

If we want to be builders Of the
spiritual Kingdom spirits must be
purified and refined by the fellowship
of the Holy Chost.-Sev. J. 4.
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NEGRO Murderer a Suicide

James vango, a negro murderer,
committed suicide in the Tombs, New
York City.
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Part Of the Treatment.

After being treated by a specialist
Tor a month, the stout parsonage,
anxious to reduce his bulk, received
his bill. He gasped, FASTENED to the
doctor. and arrived in great perspir-
alton.
Doctor, DOCTOR" he explained,
o~reathlessly, "this bill is as big as I
am. ] haven't lost an ounce"
Tut. tut" replied the specialist.
affably, sthe bill is part of the treat
ment; g that 1t has made you
persEire."-London Tit-Bits.
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The Long and Short of It.

"He may win the race"
eyes; he's short-legged, but long
winded."-Detroit Free Press.
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Common SCOT Preservers.

The chief ingredient in a new &C.
cret preparation for filling life-pre-
servers is said to be common SCOT.
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His Excuse.

His Excuse.
But why did you backslide?"
Because of the preacher"
"How was that?"
"He painted the pleasures of the
world so beautifully that it made me
American.
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Improved the Time.

Clerk-"But you just bought this
novel and paid for it."
Customer-"Yes."
Clerk-"Then why do you wish to
return it?"
Customer read it while wait
Ing for my change."-Cleveland
Leader.
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VOLUME XXI.
With the Funny

A young person named Percival Pepper
Once proposed to a girl prim and proper;
She replied, "It's a go;
Still, it's more CONNIE il fault
First to pop to papa, Mr.. Pepper"
-Lippincott's.
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Professor Alfred Messed Dead.

The death is announced of Profess
o Alfred Messed, the well known
German architect, at Berlin. He was
BORN in 1853.
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The Occasional Hero.

HE woke up n morning to find
himself famous"
"Well?"
"But people had forgotten all
about him by the time the 4 O'Clock
extras were out."-Louisville sCour-
ler7Journal.
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Illinois Bank Robbed.

Efingham, 1ll.-The Bank of Wat
son was robbed of $4,000 in cash by
cracksmen. The robbers also got
papers.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-02
Capt. Jesse Topping and His Blue
Team Won The firs! Prize IN
Exciting Finish.
CLOSED WITH ENJOYABLE BANQUET
Winning Team Had 451 Points and
the Captain Turned in $50 Points
himself-Five Years Membership
Went to Topping, Three Years TO
HOBO and One Year to Mason.

In one OF the most exciting hnlShe"
ever witnessed at the Young Mems
Christian Association in Hampton. the
ten days membership contest closed
last night. Capt. Jesse Topping and
his team of Blues wen the contest
although they had cl>s second IN
Capt. Moncure Hope and his Reds
In fact the race came near resulting
in neck and neck finish and the
closing hoursc of tire contest were
frcught with hard work by the twn
teams.
The contest resulted in bringing
100 new members into the association
and running the membership up to
339. Ii was started out 70 increase
the number from 1ln l. go and the
results were far beyond the cXpec-
tations OF the most sansrine member
OF either team. 1t was grand vic
tory fer the association.
Capt Topping's team turned in iIi
points. while Capt. Hopes team had
i02 points to its credit. The first
prize OF a five years membership in
the association, went t. Mr.. Topping,
for his personal wL:k in securing
$50 points. Mr.. Hope got the three
years membership card by securing
109k points and Mr.. Samuel Mason
fcl nri,n
bership. by securing +6 points. Mr.
Mason also won the gold watch charm
offered by Mr.. Topping to the mem
Der OF the Blues team who came In
with the largest number Of points to
..ls credit The contest in money
will result in adding to the treasury
OF the association a little more than
$500.
The closing feature Of the interest
ing event came with the banquet,
which was given the new and cid
members In the big gymnasium last
night. The Ladies Auxiliary was in
chafye of the affair and most tempt
ing repast was served. Mr.. Charles
Hefrelfinger was the POSTMASTER.
Impromptu talks we're made during
the evening by Messrs. Heffelfinger,
John H. Brown, G. E. Cheyne. J.
Archie Vaughan. N. Otto Lackey. J.
q. Birmingham. MFR. Smith and
others. The Colonial Quartet sang
several numbers and Miss Francisco
delighted her audience with a read
ing
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-02
No Drums in the Middle Ages.

As We come to the Middle Ages.
when the nations Of modern Europe
were struggling into existence. We find
that at first. the drum was not used
at all. So, although melody had been
known and practiced for many cen
turnes. rhythm had been quite forgot
ten. For what there is left to us OF
the music Of the Middle Ages contains
no bars, and we know that 1t was
slowly and monotonously chanted,
without the least accent.
In the eleventh century. however.
things began to improve, more par
ticularly as the Crusaders brought into
Europe all sorts of percussion instru-
ments from the east. Various kinds
Of drums. tambourines and cymbaIs
were then seen in Europe for the first
time since the days Of savases. and
they have been used, with very little
change. ever since.-St. Nicholas.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-02

taxes have been transmitted through
other hands,
Why wouldn't Il be simpler and
easier for the voter TO so In person
and pay his poll lax at prst and h'
done with ~
Nothing Is heard frcm the rural
districts. except from politicians. in
opposition TO personal payment.
Yet the men living In the country
are most remote from the treas
urers' Offices. 1t Is a peculiar fact
that practically all OF the bowling
about the Inconvenience inflicted up
on vcters emanates from thu cities
where II would require perhaps not
more than FIVE or ten minutes time 10
be spared by any voter who wines
TO qualify himself rs an eiectsr.
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How Ono Got His Name.

An example Of a curious Christian
name may he found" says a CORE
spondent. "pearer your Offices than
most OF the cases you have printed.
The facts are these. The father OF a
boy baby wished him to be christened
Thomas. The mother favored the
name Of Robert. When they arrived
At the church the matter was still
undecided. The father informed the
curate that the chiId's name vas
Thomas.
Oh. no. gasped the mother dis
tresssnliy.
The curate regarding the woman as
the ruling spirit promptly baptized the
infant Ono
The grave Of Ono kitchener is to
he seen In the churchyard OF 81. Giles .
Camberwell."- News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-02
Had Al the Symptoms.

The learned hobo was dispensing
knowledge for the benefit Of his less
eulightened companion.
Have you ever been bitten by a
dog" he asked.
Mays de time" replied the unen
lightened one.
Are you not afraid Of hydropho
bia?"
Nix on de hydro
IT'S q curious disease. When per
son contracts hydrophob;a, the yer!
though, Of water makes hin sick.
rs dat on de level" Youse amt
ssringin' me-?
1T is a scientific fact"
Den I bet I've had IL all me life. an
never snowed Wof vas De matter wid
me-"
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bacebaii.

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AT acknowledgements virginia.
II. Roanoke, College. 8.
A. u>ta--Augusta (South a,
lanticD :: Anderson Carolina Asso
ciatiLn) !.
At Rrmingham-isro t\a
tional) s; Birmingham tSouthcrn) 4.
At Charlottesville. Fa.-tnlversitS
OF Virginia. s. Amherst. !.
At Washington, ID. C.-Georgetcwn
,: Yale o. q
A; ACKNOWLEDGMENT eastern
League. /; Richmond Virginia
L"aaue). 3.
At Atlanta--Chicago (NationaD. 1;
Atlanta (Southern), >.
At Macon-New York (Americanl
>; Macon tS2uth Atlantic), 0.
At Observation-Disclosures GSouth
.Atlan,ic). 1: Boston (NationaD, )
90 inningSl.
At Observation-Disclosures (American) 9;
Nashville (SouthernD. 2.