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lered who he was, but she did not |
dare look into his face to see. Pres
entity he spoke again grufily:
Pm looking for Mrs. Hulda Ferry.
Can you tell me where she lives?"
Anna Jane jumped. why, yes, L
an" she said. I'm going right to
her house now. live with her"
"Oh, do you?" said the man. 'Then
Ill accompany you home"
He did not speak again. nor did
Anna Jane. When they reached Mrs.
Ferry's little low house Anna Jane
went up the steps, and he followed.
She opened the door and went in, and
he went in too.
He tore open his long ulster and
threw off his hat.
Anna Jane" he said, don't you
know me?'
Anna Jane tipped uncertainty, and
he caught her and put her in a chair.
| "I've scared you most to death, and
l didn't mean to-" he said regretfully.
anna Jane" he went on earnestly,
my wife's dead. l did Il foolish
thing by myself and wicked one by
you when l married her. but that's
bygoncs and can't be helped now. I'm
ten years older and a good deal wiser
And I've come to see if-if you won't
forgive me and let me have another
chance. It's the only thing that's of
any account to me now on earth, for
Anna Jane. l love you"
He kneIt down before her and put
his head in her lap. Anna Jane sat
like a stiff little statue. She looked
down at the big head in her lap and
the big man kneeling before her who
asked her forgiveness and said he
loved her.
She lifted her hand and let it fal
, upon his hair. He felt the touch anC
looked up.
"Anna Jane" he said, IF you don
, believe me, if you can't trust me, II
willing to pass the rest of my lif
: trying to make you-if you'll only Civ
mo a chance"
A wan little smile went over Ann
t James face. but it was like the frs
spring sunshine. and life and joy 70
g lowed it.
3 Anna jane he began again.
q Slow footsteps creaked over the tloC
l. Of the next room. The door Opene
IA and Aunt Hulda, standing there, sa
70 the strange spectacle Of her niece
the arms of stranger who seemed
el have Just been kissing her. AM
If James face was alight She was
N longer afraid Of Aunt IIulda or
il anything in the world Her voice RAJ
ri out with a glad little cry:
ooh. Aunt Hulda, Joe's come! Jo
he Gomez
no But it was left for Joe to make
Ter necessary explanations
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Swearing at Large.

Dean Ramsay could net cOuntenance
profanity. but he managed to tell in
his "Reminiscences" some good stories
Of weakness which afflicted many in
his time:
"A late Duke of Athol had invited a
well known character. a writer OF
Perth. to come up and meet him at
Dunkeld for the transaction Of some
business. The duke mentioned the day
and hour when he should receive the
man Of law, who accordingly came
punctually at the appointed time and
place. But the duke had forgotten the
appointment and had gone to the hill
from which he could not return for
some hours. A highlander present de
scribed the Perth writer's indignation
and his mode of showing it by most
elaborate course of swearing. But
whom did he swear atY was the in
0uirv made of the narrator. who re
nlipd oh. he didna sweer at Onythin2
particular. but just stude in ia middle
| If IN road and swOor at large | have
! from Il friend also an anecdote whlcl
shows how entirely at one period tn
practi~e Of swearing had become ia
| miliar even 20 female ears when miXe'
uD With the intercourse OF social llI'
4 sister had been speaking of he
brother as much addicted to this habi
DOR John sweers awfu', and we try
correct him. but she added in cal
did and apologize tone, ma doubt
is great set aft to conversation.
Smyrna times., 1909-04-07
somethina Wrong.

"There goes Jenkins.
isn't bright. Is he|'
"Why nOt?"
81 hear he is an HONEST alderman"
Words To Freeze The Soul.
"Your son has Consumption. HIS
case is hopeless. " These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Blevens,
a leading merchant of Springfield N.
C. bv two expert doctors-one lung
specialist. Then was shown the
wonderful power of DR.. Kings New
Discovery. "After three weeks use,
writes Mr.. Blevens, che was as wei
as ever. l would not take all the
money in the world for what it die
for nv boy. Infallible for Coughs
and Gods, its the safest, surest cur
of desperate Lung diseases on earth
5Oc and 81. 90 at Benton N. Weldon
drug store. Guarantee satisfaction
Trial bottle free.
Smyrna times., 1909-04-07
Il Demanded.

Chappy-Would you marry a woman
who had sued another man for breach
of promise? Sappy-It would depend
largely on how much the jury n"u
awarded her-Club Fellow.
Smyrna times., 1909-04-07
FOR SALE.

To close an estate-A Substantial BRlCk
DWFTJING. the residence of the late
Moses Price, located corner Main and Fra
zier streets, Smyrna, Del.
Apply to oror
w. L. WATERS,
Administrators
Smyrna times., 1909-04-07

Hone. ike the glimmering tapers
,,gb+ adorns and cheers the way
Goldsmith.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08
BRETON TWO STORY BEDS.
Many in Peasants Huts Richly
Carved and Ornamented.

The Breton peasant has some
charming qualities, courtesy, good
humor, detachment from the prosaic
side of life, but the virtue of clean
illness is not for him.
The cottages are frequently very
dirty and the approach to them is
sometimes over a pile of refuse.
There is nothing Of luxury in a cot
tage interior, but you may generally
count on two things to beautify even
the poorest. One is the white Golf of
Its mistress always spotless, however
dirty anything else may be), and the
other is the brass trimming of the
armoire, usually polished to a degree
Of brightness that is positively daz-
cling. Some of these armoires are
really beautiful, with deliberately
carved panels, and in many cases are
heirlooms that have been in the fam
lily for generations. Then there are
the beds-one of which the mistress
is very proud, will be modern, with
coarse Nottingham lace curtains
draped over it.
You give it a few complimentary
words in order to satisfy it's owner,
but what you really want to see is the
"lit-clos" in the far corner, and If it
Is a "lit-clos a deux etages" you are
more than content. Some of these
"lit-clos" are things of great beauty,
like the armoires, and the carvings
on h sliding panels are enough to
make a collector green with envy.
But imagine how stuffy they must be
to sleep Inland in winter the panels
are shut! One day | was expressing
my admiration of a certain "Iit-clos.
when madam pulled the sliding
panels apart and revealed the figure
of her husband sleepily rubbing his
eyes and wanting to know what was
the matter! She calmly explained to
him that I wanted to see the inside
of the bed and then explained to me
that her good man had been out fish
ing since dawn and was very tired. 1
begged him to close the panels and
go to sleep again, which he immedf-
ately did, but not before 1 noticed
that he was fully dressed. l am told
that the Breton peasant always dis
appears into the "lit-clos" fully
dressed and always energies there
from in the same condition.
While her husband slept madam
enlarged on the advantages of a "lit-
clos" in bringing up a family. She
told me that she had had six children
and that when they were little she
used to put three in the top etage
and three in the bottom, then close
the panels and leave them with an
easy mind.-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
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TO REBUILD MESSINA.
Merchants Of Ruined City Resolve to
Return When Wreck is Cleared

rome, ltaly.-Despite Premier Clio
llttf's statements indicating that the
Government will discourage the re-
building of Messina, the merchants
OF the city who escaped held a meet
Ing at Palermo and decided not to
abandon the place, but to return and
rebuild once more when the ruins
were cleared away.
The treasures which lie beneath
the ruins of Messina must amount to
an enormous sum. Pillage and theft
during the first days were INDUCED
IN 10 a considerable extent, and, IN.
fortunately, are still going on.
Inc treasures contained in the ca.
thedral have disappeared, but enor-
nous wealth, nevertheless, has been
recovered. The Commercial Bank
saved 20,000,0O0 lire, and the FIRE at
the depot of the Bank of Italy has
now been got in hand.
A priest and his attendant who
were found alive amid the ruins of
their presbytery declined to leave.
They preferred to remain in this dam
gerous situation, as beneath the ruins
We're hidden their treasures. They
told their rescuers life was not worth
living without their wealth.
The banks and commercial estab-
lishments lost huge sums in cash and
securities. Little, indeed, of the bull
lion in any of the lost cities was
saved except S4,000,000 in the
branch of the Bank of Italy at Mes
sina and a similar amount in the
vaults of the Commercial Bank at the
same place.
A special Government commission
will probably be appointed to go to
the scene of the disaster and make a
systematic search for securities, bull
lion, coin and artistic treasure lying
in the wreckage.
Besides the large direct interests
in Messina and Reggie there is
scarcely a large commercial house.
bank or institution throughout Italy
which has not been hit by the disas-
tiers. The religious orders, also, be-
sides losing members, lost property
and treasure, and the Holy See lost
churches to the value Of many mill
ions of dollars.
Ambassador Griscom, at Rome.
turned vel to Count Taverna, head
of the Italian Red Cross, $25O,0O6
from the American Red Cross.
The Pope welcomed sufferers at
the hospital established by him at the
Vatican and administered consolation
to them personally, leaving, techni-
cally, the confines of the Vatican to
do SO.
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TELEGRAPHIC ODDS AND ENDS.

EX-President Castro was operated
on for kidney trouble in Berlin.
Richard Garfield, the notorious
gambler, closed his New York resi-
dence and went to Europe.
Pennsylvania Railroad directors
plan to increase Indebtedness by
SS0,000,000 to meet issues maturing
in 1910.
The committee of nine who are in
v~estigating Wall Street methods ap-
pointed four subcommittee to take
up the inquiry.
The Rev. DIR. Aked, of New York
City, in a sermon drew a parallel be-
tween the earthquake in Italy and
the menace of anarchy to society.
Orville Wright, aeronaut, sailed
for Europe to confer with his broth
er William in regard to offers for
control of their aeroplane patents.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth
of Charles Darwin was celebrated al
Baltimore by the American Associa.
ton for the Advancement of Science
The elections held in France fol-
members of the chambers of Deputies
resulted in a victory for the Gov,
eminent and particularly for the
Radicals.
Guglielmo Ferrero, lecturing al
Columbia University, New York, de.
picted Nero and st. Paul as "collab.
orators" and denied that Nero sci
fire to Rome.
The Federal inquiry into the al.
legged relations between the packing
houses and the railways was resumed
in Chicago. redoubled precautions
for secrecy being taken.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York
issued a record breaking message,
with sixty-fve illustrations, defend
ing his administration against the
charge of extravaganza.
In the City Court, New York, tbs
case of Mary ]. Moore against Alice
J.. Eaton, which has been in the court
for twenty-three years, was settled
and stricken from the calendar.
In a lecture at Columbia Univer-
sity, Professor Ferrero, the Italian
historian, bracketed Nero and St.
Paul as the two ancients to whom
Christianity, art and civilization owe
more than to any two men in history.
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A Correspondent Writes a Touching Description of
the Horrors He Saw During a Tour of the
Ruined City Of Mes sina.

Messina, Sicily. - Eight thousand
soldiers and sailors are in this char
mel house, still searching for those
who were trapped alive beneath the
wreckage.
The scenes for a distance along
the waterfront make the stoutest
hearts quail. Little groups of men,
women and children, half clothed,
sleep huddled together, crazed and
numbed with grief and terror. They
are awaiting boats to take them
away. No family is complete. Men
are without their wives, many of the
women are widows, and children
have lost their parents.
Behind this line of refugees there
are a number Of improvised hospital
stations, where the injured, as fast
as they are brought from the ruins
on s~tretchers, receive first aid before
being taken on steamers for trans
portation to Naples, Leghorn, Cata-
mia, Syracuse or Palermo.
1t was astonishing how many peo-
pie still were being dug out alive six
full days after the catastrophe. While
the correspondent fingered for an
hour near one of these stations
twelve wounded were brought in.
They were almost naked, their bod
les covered with blood and dirt, and
they were hardly recognizable as hui
man beings.
The brunt of the work of rescue
has fallen upon the sailors, foreign
ers as we'll as Italian, and all have
done their duty nobly. Praises of
the Russians are on every lip. They
hesitated before no danger.
A correspondent made two tours
about the wrecked city, through
streets piled twenty or thirty feet
high with debris. 1t was a wilder
ness of a ruin a mile wide and two
miles long. Beautiful churches,
splendid villas in the foothills, hos
pitfalls, barracks and the university
all shared the lot. Two
thirds of the magnificent Norman
cathedral, the pride of Messina, is in
ruins and little or nothing remains
of the relics of Phoenician, Greek,
Roman and Saracen architecture
which marked the stages of Messina's
twenty-six centuries of tragic and
tumultuous history. The loss to the
world will be irreparable.
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CAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE

Messina, Sicily. - Earthquake ex-
perts who are here to study the phe-
nomenon generally agree that the
earthquake was the result Of a fault
in geological formation under Messi-
ma, which constituted a line of con-
tact in the volcanic action between
Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius, and
that a slip occurred similar to the n
which detached Sicily from the MAIN
land. That a subsistence occurred at
some points and that there was a ris-
Ing of the earth's surface at others is
proved by soundings, which show the
channel of the harbor deeper at some
places and shallower at others. The
British ~battleship Exmouth at a dis
lance one-half mile south of Reggie
found ffty-eight fathoms of water
where formerly there were 243.
Mr.. Perret, who was one of the
first scientists to reach the scene,
says he has proved the fact that the
first motion was upward and the Sec
ond ~oscillatory. He characterizes the
disturbance as intervolcanic.
The continual settling of the crust
OF the earth In this region has been
amply proved, for there have been no
less than 500 recorded seismic move
ments since 1905.
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Improved Methods Insure Cheaper
Goods.

For hundreds of years mankind
used the same style and size of razor
and had nc thought that it could be
improved until some genius evolved
the safety razor. That genius reaped
the benefit of his inventive talent by
charging from SO to IS for each i'm
plement, people being glad to buy at
those figures. Now comes another
ventor who has made possible a
better safety razor, and for only
five cents. That sum in post
Fps sent to the Book Publish
PCS 1874 Leonard street, New
'cure a razor postpaid by
This low price is only
81 DE- " the invention of
5ltthc " which produces
% 1rtr small cost.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08

Here and there the correspondent
encountered salvage parties at work
One party was trying to dig out a
girl whose crying could be heard
plainly, but as the correspondent
watched there was a sudden cave-in
and thereafter silence.
In one place two buzzards were
summing themselves on a window
ledge over the dead body of a woman,
whose wealth of black hair covered
her face and shoulders. Dogs and
cats are killed by the soldiers when
ever caught among the dead.
The air in Messina is almost I'M
breathable. The survivors of the dis
aster are SO dazed and worn out that
they are quite incapable of describ-
ing their experiences connectedly, but
the accounts of all agree that the de-
yastation was accomplished in less
than one minute. The strata below
the Strait slipped along the line of a
fault; then a tidal wave rushed in
and out, and all was over. All those
capable of analyzing their sensations
say that when the shock came they
felt an upward thrust of the earth.
This was followed by an oscillatory
hlOllOu, anu tllG crust Oi LIE GdrC0
vibrated. Few of the survivors are
able to explain how they escaped.
They know only that amid falling
plaster and masonry they managed
to jump safely from windows or
stumble down crumbling stairways.
By some evil miracle the prisoners
in the Jail all escaped alive. They
were considerable in number, and in
stantly set at work to rob the dead
and rifle the ruins.
In the first confusion the thieves
of all lear parts of Sicily made a rush
for Messina, but within a few hours
a Gordon of troops and bluejackets
was established, with orders to shoot
every suspicious character who tried
to pass the lines going in or out.
1t has been literally impossible to
count the dead, and the bodies that
have been extracted from the wreck.
In the first attempt at life saving,
bodies were positively torn to pieces
heads, arms, feet and hands lay
scattered among broken masonry.
The stencil from the bodies and
the fumes of burning flesh are as
suffocating as they are horrible.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08

There Is more Catarrh in this section o!
the country than all other diseases mt n.
gether, and until the last few years was sup.
posed to be incurable. For a great many
yeaE doctors pronounced il a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by CON.
stantly failing to cure with local treatment.
pronounced itincurable. Science has D. oven
Catarrh to be- constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment,
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. j.
Cheney Cos Toledo, Ohio, is the only con.
t~ernally in doses from 10 drops to a TEASPOON.
full. 1t acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one hun.
dred dollars ferany caseit fails to cure. Send
TOR circulars ard testimonials. Address FL.
CHENEY 4 CD, Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constitution
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08
The Appalling Horror OF the Situation Has Been IN
No Sense Exa9Qerated.

rows for possible Identification. but
as there were few cases where any of
the dead were recognized they are
now being covered with Quicklime
when this material Is available. 9th
erwise they are being left to decom-
pose where they are found. Now all
the efforts are being directed to get
ting the survivors away.
A royal decree was issued placing
the Messina and Reggie districts in
a state Of siege, which is stricter than
martial law. General Mazza, COM
mander of the Palermo garrison, is
placed In supreme command.
It Is reported, However, that the
King scout the suggestion that Mes
sina ard Regr..o ought not to be re-
built. He said: II have lost two
of t1e most beautiful jewels of my
crown, but Messina and Reggie must
be rebuilt, cost what may, and they
shall be more beautiful than ever.
Maybe this terrible calamity will
prove the strongest bond of reunion
between south and north. / will go
there If need be, and where the King
goes his people will follow"
A detachment of troops which
went TO the villages on the east coast
of Calabria found nothing but ruins
and the bodies of persons killed in
the earthquake. The survivors had
fed.
A convoy with 1000 rations of
bread, which vas going through Bag
nara, was rifled en- route by famished
persons here.
A number of small boats, all of
them overloaded, put out into the
channel to request food of incoming
steamers, which the officers Of the
vessels were compelled to refuse
them. Several of the smaller craft
cepsized and many persons were
drowned.
Whenever a boat approached the
wrecked water front, wild faced,
starving creatures, in blood stained
rags, waded out stretching forth their
hands and crying Bread Breadi"
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08

The Superintendent of the dining
car service on one of our great rail-
road systems is protesting holly
against the quality of apple pie
served blythe baker who supplies this
luxury. TT is too blamed good" he
exclaimed. I'VE don't want it so
good! Il is pie, pie, pie, apple pie,
all the time at every call for dinner,
and with each slice of apple pie every
passenger demands half a pint of
cream! iii the pie wasn't SO good our
cream BIZ would be about one-tenth
OF what II is. It's ten cents worth of
pie and 2 quarters worth of cream"
New York Press.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08
STANDARD OIL WINS CASE.
Company Will Not Have to Pay Fine
of 29,24O,0OO

Washington, D. C.-The S~29,240,-
900 fine case of the Standard Oil
Company will not be reviewed by
the Supreme Court of the United
States. The decision of the court ia
this effect was announced by Chief
Justice Fuller.
The action of the court consisted
in the announcement that the Gov.
ernment's petition would not be
granted. The effect of this announce
ment will be to leave standing the
decision of the Court of Appeals
which was adverse to the Govern
ment and favorable to the company.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08

remained almost six months, but my
case seemed hopeless. The urine
passed involuntarily. Two months
ago ! began taking Doan's Kidney
Pills and the improvement has been
wonderful. -Four boxes have done me
more good than all the d~octoring of
seven years. have gained so much
that my friends wonder at it."
Sold by all dealers. soc. a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08
New York's Night Mail.

The experiment of delivering mail
at 8 O'Clock in the evening in certain
districts of Manhattan is declared by
the Postmaster General, in his annu-
al report, as an unqualified success.
This is the second heaviest delivery
of the day, and relieves the morning
distribution to a very great extent,
thereby enabling the carrier to make
his first forenoon round in much less
time than formerly.-Brooklyn Stan
dard-Union.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08

With the fall of the old regime in
Turkey Abu-Huda, the Sultan's as.
THEOLOGICAL guide, philosopher and
friend, has come to the end of his
brilliant and lucrative career He is
now confined on the Island of Prin.
kipo, in the Sea Of Marmora, on a
charge of high treason.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08
Joshua Rhodes Dead.

Joshua Rhodes, a pioneer business
man and financier, of P%ittsburg, died
at his home in his eighty-ffth year.
Mr.. Rhodes, who was worth $25,0OO,-
900, was a lifelong friend of Andrew
Carnegie, who never entered the field
OF tube making, which was Mr..
Rhodes speciality.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08
Aerial Drill.

A young captain, who was drilling
the awkward squad, commanded
thus: "Now, my men, listen to me.
When I say Haiti put the foot that's
on the ground beside the one that's
in the air, and remain motionless."-
Success Magazine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08

An official of the American Motor
Car Manufacturers Association states
that $4,000 motor cars, with a value
of $105, 0O0, 1000, were produced in
this country in the calendar year
1907, compared with sales of only
$4,000 900 in 1903.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-08
Up-to-the-Minute Romance.

"Will you be my true lover" he
asked.
mo" she replied; ''but I Am per-
fectly willing to be your affinity"
Then be gave her a soul kiss and
they lived happily for a year.. The
only difficulty now is the adjustment
of the aIimony.-From Punch.