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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-26

Former Warden John M. Fox is au-
thority for the statement that a ma
jority of the men imprisoned in the
Workhouse = probably seventy-fve
per cent.-would never have been
there could they have found employ
ment. In this connection one magis-
trate said:
MY experience is that there is
more distress among the worthy poor
now than at any time in the last
twelve years. I have committed,
chiefly at their own request, more de-
cent men this winter than l have sent
there before in any five years of my
term as magistrate"
Distress Among Women.
Mary e. Drefer, president of the
Women's Trade Union League, said:
"This year the distress among
women workers has been greater than
ever before. 1t is pitiful. The saw
ings of years have been exhausted,
and to this misfortune is added a
woman's constant dread of sickness.
Others constantly fear being thrown
out of work, and this is too often the
case. Manufacturers do not now lay
in a large stock which will keep these
women busy. They fill orders on
short notice. They want fifty girls at
once. The girls complete the order
in two days, and are then dismissed.
This is true in all branches of gar
ment trades. This high tension is
making the women of New York ply
| steal and ervou wrecks. 1t is a
most deplorable condition of affairs"
Frank Julian Warne, whose efforts
for a bill now pending in Albany,
| creating a commission to inquire into
the causes and effects of the unem-
ployed in New York State, and to sug-
gest remedies, are meeting with gen.
eral appreciation from all organiza-
tons, said:
mot wishing to be sensational, but
as truthful as possible in u limited
way of getting accurate figures on
present Industrial conditions, it is abb
solutely fair to say that more than
200 900 men are looking for work in
New York City alone.
Crowded to the Roofs.
Look at any city institution to-day
where the INDECENT get aid. They are
crowded to the roofs-the city can't
care for more. The hospitals are
filled and so are the insane asylums.
Where will New York place her un-
fortunates in another year if the pres
ent ratio of unemployed keeps up?
1t is a terrible question to face.
when a city's wardens turn out
200 prisoners before their terms
have expired to make room for incom-
ing crowds, you may imagine what
demands are made on the city's insti-
tutions."
Professor John Bates, of Columbia
University, in suggesting a remedy
for the economic Ill, says:
Loss of employment by large bod
les of men personally fit is due to
mal-adjustment, since there is lever
a time when there is not within the
limits of society to which these men
belong a need of their labor and a
chance to dispose of it's produce. The
trouble would now be relieved by a
migration from populous centres to
the country"
Percy Alden, M. p, in 1.-THE I'm
employed" says: There is a rapidly
growing feeling that the community
has a responsibility for the unem-
ployed and must discharge that re-
sponsibility, not by iniicting pains
and penalties upon the genuine work
er, but by enabling himto find work
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Puts Union Above the Law and
u. S. Judge Refuses Citizenshi

Danville, ILL.,. S. Judge Wright
refused naturalization to w. Strong,
a membero of the United Mine Workers
of America. When asked eff it came
to the point that the union and the
laws of the United States differed
which should you follow" Strong
answered: 1.-THE union, of course"
Judge Wright says: II can never
grant the right of citizenship in the
United States to any man who follows
the dictates of his trade union rather
than the laws of our land"
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Get Amax With God Alone.

Man is no better than a leaf driv-
en- by the wind untilhe has conquered
his lonely duties. This makes a man
the habit of confronting great
things in solitude, and chiefly the
habit of ~conyersing with God alone.
and of filling the soul with His
strength. For, remember, the man
who is a stranger to these habits of
solitude is neither his own master
nor the possessor of his own house.
He owns a great house, and an eter-
nal house, but it is shut up and
locked, and he lives outside. until in
his solitude he join God unto HIM
self. Pulsford.
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sun.-Thomas Carlyle.
New York City.-Suppose a parade
of the unemployed in Greater New
York should start from the Battery
to-day. How far uptown do you sup
pose it's van would extend before the
last man wheeled into line? The an
swer vouched for by the noted charity
labor workers of New York gives
Central Park at least unanimously,
or a distance of about six miles.
Herman Robinson, general organ
izer of the American Federation of
Labor, states that at least forty per
cent. of the members of the labor
unions in New York City r unem-
ployed. The latest report of the State
Department of Labor gives the men,
bership of labor unions in this city
as 100000. The present member
ship should be we'll above $4,000,
but inability to pay dues has caused
more than 10000 union men to lose
their membership cards.
1000 Idle Union Men.
According to Mr.. Robinson there
would then be at least 100000 union
men out of work in New York City.
OF homeless men and Migrants the
number is, under ordinary conditions,
about 10000. From such meagre
facts as may be collected the total
number of New York's unemployed is
more than 100000. Imagine such a
host-enough to populate a city al
most as large as Rochester.
That the cause of the astonishing
number out of work at the end OF
1908 was not due to strikes or sick
ness, but rather to the depression OF
business. 1t is represented by the
following table:
Idle on account Of 1908. 1907. 1906
Lack of work.: 1875, 900 20,7l6 5,799
age 49,. .......... 1000 l,o oss 81
Other reasons ........ Z,UOV ZOO oH4
A Stupendous Army.
Never in the history of any great
municipality has such a ~stupendous
army of unemployed been collected
at one time, according to the eco
nomic statiscians who have com
piled the above figures. and others,
for the information of the Legislators
at Albany.
The number of families applying
for assistance to the Association for
Improving.the Condition of the Poor
for the last six months is fifty per
cent. more than for the corresponding
months of a year ago. In three
months, November, December and
January, 900 a~ble-bodied men, will
ing and anxious for work, came to
this society for aid. The year pre-
vious only nineteen such requests
wara received.
Savings banks in the poorer section
OF the city report extraordinary
drafts in recent months. The actu-
airy of one of the largest insurance
companies says:
Raise Cash on Policies.
"As compared with the season OF
1~907-1908, the loans for h season
of 19O8-1909 have increased thus fal
over seventy per cent, while the NUM-
Der of lapsed policies increased tc
more than fifty per cent. The above
figures speak for themselves, and
prove c%onclusively that the holders
of smaller policies are terribly al
fected by the present hard times
This condition is general among In
surance companies.
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The World Of Snort,

Columbia defeated Yale at sockei
football by a score of 5 to 1.
High powered automobiles are los
ing favor in Europe, as well as Amer
lea.
C. L. Becker won the annual gol1
tournament of the Pinehurst IN. c.j
club.
West Point defeated Cornell ano
Columbia in a fencing meet at Wes'
Point.
Coach Conibear, of the UNIVERSITY
of Washington crews, wants az
American Henley" established OF
Lake Washington.
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DIR. John d. DrurY Dead.

The Rev, John D. Drury died at his
home in New Brunswick from heart
disease. He-was editor of the Chris
tian Intelligencer, with Offices in New
York City. On March g., when on his
way home, Mr.. Drury became i'll, and
had since been confined to his bed.
He was born in 1888, and was grad
uated from Rutgers College in 1858,
and from a theological seminary three
years afterward. He was a trustee of
Rutgers College, and left a widow and
four children.
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new YORK CITYS idle ARMY INCLUDES 100000 union men
Startling Figures Furnished by Organizer Herman Robinson
Not Due to StrikeS--VaSt Percentage of Cases
Due to Depression in Business.

10000 unemployed men and women cannot secure work in
York City.
2700 men have been discharged from Blackwel's Island Work
house before expiration of their sentences to make way for others
sent in.
900 willing heads of families, unable to secure work, are being
supported by the Association for the Improvement of the Poor. In
1907 the number was 10.
$50 able men, unable to get work, were sent to the Workhouse
in the last three months by City Magistrates on their own requests.
10000 union men in New York State have been forced from
their organizations for lack of funds to pay dues.
$34,542 900 were withdrawn from 1913 savings banks in New
York State last year.
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Foreign News Notes.

An American department store was
opened in London with a regulation
bargain-day rush.
Advices at st. Petersburg give de-
tails of atrocities by Persian Govern
ment troops on the frontier.
A banquet at Covent Garden was
arranged for the Prince of Wales by
the Royal Automobile Club of Lon
don.
The Italian Government considers
Petrosino, the New York detective
who was murdered by the Black
Hand at Palermo, as merely a citizen,
and is not likely to admit a special
claim for satisfaction.
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Wagon Cuts Off Ear.

Explaining that he had fallen off
his wagon and that one of the wheels
of his wagon had run over his ear,
Charles H. Campbell walked into st.
Joseph's Hospital, at Paterson, and
asked that the injured member be
again made fast to his head. The
physicians sewed the ear back into
place, but they fear the operation
may not be successful, as the a was
so badly torn and mangled.
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Acquitted Of Patents Death.

George E. Balantine, a former at
tendant at the State Hospital for the
Insane, Trenton, was acquitted of a
charge of manslaughter in the Mercer
Court. Balantine was charged with
having caused the death of Henry D.
Rue, an inmate of the institution.
Balantine had a struggle with Rue,
and his defense was that in the strug-
gle he had lost his balance and
stepped on the patients chest.
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RecinrocaI generosity.

Bless God for starlight. and He
will give you moonlight; praise Him
for moonlight, as He will give You
sunlight; thank Him for sunlight.
and you shall yet come to the land
where they need not the light of the
sun, for the Lord God giveth them
light for yer and ever.@Spurgeon.
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Leaves Wife Dead in Wreck.

AS a result of his wife's neck be-
ing broken in a runaway accident at
Freehold, after which he crawled
from the wreckage and walked five
miles to his home at Colts Neck, Geo.
v. Crawford, a farmer, ffty-six years
old. was arrested and committed to
the county Jail without bail on a
charge of manslaughter.
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Sizes in Peach Baskets.

The House passed a bill at Trenton
repeating the law requiring peach
baskets to be stamped to show their
size. Assemblyman Matthews ex-
planned there are 100000 of these
baskets made in New Jersey annually
and that manufacturers have great
difficulty in selling them thus stamped
because baskets made in other States
are not required to be stamped.
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In All Parts Of the State.

The Elmer Board of Education
voted $500 to put fire-escapes on the
schoolhouse.
pipes through the town and turned
on the gas.
Owing to the serious illness of his
daughter, Ruth, Rev. James William
Marshall, d. D., who was transferred
from Millville to New Brunswick by
the recent Conference, is unable to
move
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The 9 of Love.

The effort to do right does not
necessarily lead to the happy, spon-
taneous and loving practice of good
ness. This is to be found not in the
law, but in the gospel; not in the
sight of duty, but in the sight OF
love. 1t is afectionate, fliai graft
tude for unbought, unearned mercy.
1t is the great love of him who has
been forgiven much.-James Free
man Clarke.
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Kill or Cure.

did your wife feel better after
she got the medicine?"
well, hardly. Soon as she read
the wrapper she got three new dis
eases. New York World.
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Eight Months Coal Supply
One Company Has 2,50O,OO0 Tons.

Reading, Pa. Figures computed
here show that there Is sufficient an
thracite coal on the surface to supply
the trade for the next eight months
ut least.
1t is said that the Reading Com.
pany has at least 100000 tons OF
coal at its storage yards at Abrams,
Landingville and Mahanoy City, n
that nearly a million more tons Will
be added by the end of March, II a
strike does net interfere with the
vlonc
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Preached of Death: It Came,

mo one Of you can tell at what
hour death will come" said the pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church at
Poland, Ohio, in opening his sermon.
Hardly had he spoken the words
when Mrs. Matilda Williams fell from
her seat, dead of heart trouble. The
service was brought to a close with a
prayer by the pastor.
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Kills His Eighteenth Fox.

John Aide, an Egg Harbor sports
man, has killed eighteen foxes near
there. He recently killed a black
fox, known to exist only in the North
western States, and it is a puzzle how
it came. Besides the value of the fur,
Aide will receive $3.50 bounty for
each fox killed.
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..Pigs is Pigs.

A single-handed fight, without
funds to employ counsel, has Just
been won by w. M Davis, of Vine
land, a breeder of guinea pigs for
laboratory purposes. When the
press companies charged him double
merchandise rates for guinea pigs
he maintained that pigs is pigs"
and for e three years he has
waged a igh+ on that basis. He
laid his case before the Inter
state Commission, and after sew
eral hearings, at which he was OPP
posed by the ablest corporation law
yers in the country, he succeeded in
having the express companies sign
an agreement to eliminate the double
rate on guinea pigs, rabbits and rats.
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Trolley Prospers Under Receiver.

The fourth quarterly report of Ma
jor Wilbur F. Sadler, Jr., receiver of
the Camden and Trenton Railroad
Company, shows a steady gain in the
company's business. The net earn
ings we're s516, whereas during the
same time last year there was a loss
of $2Q25.
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Wanted EN- Younger.

Belle-"You'1l take to Maud. She's
a girl of a thousand"
Jack-"Won't do for me. I prefer
one of eighteen."-Boston Transcript.
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Bargains.

Scott suppose you are saving
up something for a rainy day"
Motif try to, but my wife mis-
takes every bargain sale for a show
u. "-Boston Transcript.
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Limit of Inemciency.

Hes no good at an argument, is
he? Not at all convincing?"
We'll, I should say not. Why, that
nan couldn't convince a woman that
she was pretty!"-Stray Stories.
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HERO OF FORT FISHER DEAD.

Colonel William Lamb, of Norfolk,
Va, Was Soldier and Politician. y
Norfolk, Va. Colonel William
Lamb, aged seventy-three, soldier,
lawyer, editor, merchant and poll.
tician, died here.
He was best known as the Hero of
Fort Fisher" in the Civil War, when
in a siege of three days he held the
fort near Wilmington, N. c., with
1900 men against the attack of TO-.
900 Federal troops on land and 600
guns on water, Butler and Porter los.
ing more men than Lamb had. .
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Cold Comfort.

Father, what is an empty title?"
well an empty title is your
mothers way of calling me the head
of the house. New York World.
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Guaranteed.

Pardon me-" said the Romford
lady on a marketing expedition, "but
are these eggs fresh laid?"
Absolutely, madam" replied the
grocer, promptly. "The farmer 1
purchased those eggs from won't al
low his hens to lay them any other
way."-Answers.
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Night Watches.

Doctor-"Now, take this medicine
and you will sleep like a baby"
Patient why, doctor, if you
mean our baby, I guess I'll not take
it."-New York World.
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Good Proof.

"You weren't yourself, uncle, when
you came home last night"
20, I must have been. Your aunt
wouldn't have let another man In
Judge.
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Design or Accident?

Bacon "That fellows shot his
man all right"
Egbert-"What is he, a Western
sheriff, a Southern colonel or only an
Adirondack guide?"-Yonkers States
man.
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Another Terror.

Knicker-sThe women of Sweden
have full suffrage"
Bocker-"Heavens, 1 suppose our
cook will be going home to vote
New York Sun.
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Birds For Food.

A single dealer in Madrid, Spain,
sells annually 10000 larks, finches,
and other small birds for food, and
the total number thus consumed is
estimated at a million in that city
alone.
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In Other Days.

THAT drug clerk must be very
old"
Eyes, he's an old-tiraer. He claims
to have seen a prescription once."-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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By the Garden Wall.

They sat upon the gate one night,
The youthlet and the maid;
@The stars above are not SO bright
As you," he softly said.
She lifted up her tiny hand
Toward luna's golden light;
"The moon above is not SO full
As you, my dear, tonight"
Clarence Richard Lindner, in Puck.
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"It's impossible for me to dress on
$4,000 a year."
well, my love, you must wear
less"
Don't be silly! You know per-
fectly well that the less 1 wear the
more it costs. "-Judge.
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Antitoxin Decreases piphtheria.

AnCltOXin decreases Dlpntnerla.
The annual report of the Board of
Health shows the death rate of Mont
clair for the last year was 1856 in
1000 of population Compared with
1907 there was a reduction of five in
the number of deaths from tubercu-
losis. Last year there were seventeen
deaths from that disease. The chief
cause of death in 1908 was pneu-
monia, from which twenty-seven per-
sons died. There were no deaths
from scarlet fever, and 1908 was the
second year in succession in which
there were none from d%iphtheria.
During the period from 1880 to 1894
the death rate from diphtheria alone
was 81 in 1000. The use af anti
toxin started here in 1895, and the
number of persons dying from diph-
liberia has fallen steadily since then.
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PENIS GROVE, N. j.. FRIDAY. MARCH rs. 1909
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Makes Bad Boy Good.

Five hours locked in Police Head.
quarters transformed James Dgaz-
drinski, formerly known as the tough.
est boy in Public School No. %, Pat.
erson, into the meekest and most
penitent of youngsters. James had
been before Recorder Carroll charged
with unruly conduct in school and
with striking his teacher, Miss Anna
Dougherty. Whatever got me here
for?" he insolently demanded when
taken to court. 81 amt done not'in'."
1t was testified that his "nothin" con-
sisted of threatening his teacher with
a knife when she ordered him a few
days ago to report to the principal.
George Brinkerhoff, and of punching
her when he was fighting with other
pupils. Lock him up for five hours, +"
said the Recorder. When leaving
Headquarters James turned to Ser
geant Kicker and blubbered, "Ill be
the coolest boy in de school now"
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Genius.

Pa, what is writer's cramp?"
'It's being cramped for money, my
son. All writer's suffer from it.
New York World.
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FROM LUXURY TO PRISON.
Former Trenton Merchants Now in
New Jersey ~Penitentiary.

Trenton, N. IA year ago DAVID
and John Brand, brothers, were the
most prominent merchants in this
city, living in magnifcent homes and
belonging to the best clubs. They
are to-day runners in Ward No. Z at
the New Jersey State Prison.
They conducted the largest depart.
ment store here. They were convict.
ed of abetting in the bhrning Of their
establishment and sentenced to State
Prison.
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No stumbling.

No man ever stumbles over his
neighbor when he is walking with
God.
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Governor Withdraws Resignation.
Governor Curry, at Santa Fe, in
response to a telegram from Wash
ington, D. c., telegraphed President
Taft withdrawing his resignation as
Governor of New Mexico.
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Two of a Kind.

A distinguished specialist In Wash
ington was called upon a week or
two ago by an eminent Government
official for treatment for a nervous
ai1ment.
THE first thing you must do" said
the physician, after an examination.
lis to give up both smoking and
drinking"
Whereupon the eminent official be-
came real peevish. Look here, doc
tor" he burst out. now you're talk
Ing just like my wife!"-Lippincott,a
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The Same.

did o succeed in touching old
Grindem?" asks the man with the
freckles.
Succeed? Just like getting
none from home!" replies the man
with the weary ears.
What! Did he loosen up?"
"Say, did you ever try to get
money from home? It was like that.
I got a lot of sound advice and a cold
turn-down."-Judge.
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A Parental Impression.

"Say, paw" said little Rollo, "why
do they call George Washington the
father of his country"
II dunno, son, unless it was be-
cause his country kept him hustling
to keep it out of trouble, and then
came to look at him as a sort of old
fogy whose advice didn't amoun to
much, anyhow - Star.
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Auction Note.

Il now offer you a Rubens," said
an east end auctioneer the other
night, "a perfect gem of genius, per-
haps the finest painting that came
from that masters hand"
There was no bid. The auctioneer
passed the Rubens, and, taking up
another picture, said:
Very well, gentlemen. I now Of
fer you a Rembrandt by the same art
list. "-Tatler.
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did o buy it?"

ST made enough money in W9ll
Street last week to buy a house and
lot
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A man willing to work and
unable to find work is, perhaps,
the saddest sight that fortunes
inequality exhibits under the
SIM Thomas CARLYLE.
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Social Paradox.

i We'll, no; but I wish I had
New York World.
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Series of Ovations on Trip From Oys-
ter Bay to Hoboken Dock, Where
Hundreds of Friends and Associ-
ates Say Good-by.

'Thank you; 1 wish you all good
luck, 1 wish all Americans good luck
Also"
This was the last word of Theodore
Roosevelt to his countrymen as he
left for Africa on the steamship Ham,
burg. The parting message was
hurled at the enthusiastic crowd
which swarmed about MIR. Roosevelt
at the entrance to the gangplank of
the ship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-12
GOVERNMENT BONDS.

The following shows yesterdays closing quota
lions for government bonds. compared with satur-
days