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The Penn's Grove record., 1910-01-28
EXPRESS ROBBERS GET $40 600.
Four Masked Men Stop a Missouri
Pacific Train Near st, Louis,

Pacific Train Near st. Louis.
st. Louis, Mo.-Four masked men
stopped a Missouri Pacific train bound
from Kansas City to this place a short
distance outside of st. Louis and
robbed the express car of between
$4,000 and $4,000 in currency in
addition to making a raid upon the
pockets of the passengers and es-
capped.
The men stopped the train by pill
ing logs on the track and waving a
red lantern. The train was stopped
between Glencoe and Eureka. The
men mounted the engine cab and with
loaded revolvers compelled both en-
gineer and fireman to submit. The
two men were bound and gagged. The
mail and express cars were detached
and the robbers turned their atten-
ton to these cars. They ransacked
the cars for money and hurled 1t to
waiting companions. The men. had
horses near by ready TO, instant
flight.
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PLEAD GUILTY OF SMUGGLING
Eight Dressmakers Sentenced to Pay
Fines Aggregating $4,000. :

HHH0S "5Sho5"5 PHO'00V'
New York City. = Eight of the
dressmakers indicted for completely
in the sleeper trunk" smuggling of
millinery pleaded guiltythrough their
counsel before Judge Hough in the
United States Circuit Court. The
Judge imposed fines aggregating $10,-
900.
The eight dressmakers have con-
Quoted shops, mostly in Fifth avenue,
under fanciful French m Their
real names and the amounts of their
fines are: Ella Mcnamara, $25O0; An
ME E. Conlin, $3.50; Teresa F. Han
nor, $500; Annie L. McBirnie,
$4,000; Augusta Wickstrum, $4,000;
Mary Kenny, $500; Alice McEvery,
$1,000; Katherine O'Connell, $500.
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GOLD AND SILVER OUTPUT.
Country Produced $99,232,2OO Gold
$780, 900 Silver Ounces in 1909. -

Was ington. D. C.-Director of the
Mint Andrew has completed his pre-
liminary estimate of the production
Of gold and silver by the mines of the
United States for the calendar year
1909. DR.. Andrew estimates the gold
product at $99,232,200, against $94,-
5000 for 1903. Silver, 53,849, 900
fine ounces, an increase of 1,408,200
fine ounces over the previous year.
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parson shins Tree For Coon.

At the weekly "'coon hunt" a.
Paulsboro the Rev. Richard Danwick
pastor of the colored church, was the
winner. The dogs freed the coon AT
ter a three-mile chase and the dom
inie Skinned" up the tree and cap
tured the prize. The affair created
considerable sport for fifty men ane
boys,
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Intellectual Pursuits.

There are few joys in life to be
compared with a sustained interest in
some intellectual pursuit. Yet young
men of wealth often miss this CAD.
ness and fall short of their possibil7
tiles.
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MRS. BRADLEY A SUICIDE.
Wife of st. Louis Newspaper Man Sui
fered From MeIancholia.

Vile OF st. LOUIS N~eWSpaper Man sur
fered From Melancho1ia.
St. Louis, Mo.-Mrs. Louise M.
Bradley, wife of B. e. Bradley, of the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch, committed
suicide by shooting herself through
the heart.
Mrs. Bradley had been i'll for sew
eral months and suffc ned from melan-
cholia. She lived w her husband
and three children a1EJo. 4474 Wash
ington Boulevard, nut went to a
boarding house and Engaged a room,
evidently to commit hhicide.
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Burning shipwreck in Air.

BuTHI1g Sn1pNTeCK IN MT.
A monoplane collided with tele-
graph wires at Oran, Algeria, the gas
oline supply tube being cut. In a mo-
ment the machine was enveloped in
flames and crashed to the ground.
The aviator, however, escaped with a
few burns.
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Salvation

Salvation is not mere salvage
walton is high and holy service;
doing the will of God; it Is a ca
share in a divine purpose.-Rel
Fl. Stevens.
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5000 SEE DOUBLE HANGING.

Murderers Confess on Scaffold to KILL
ing Father and Daughter.
Osceola, Ark.-William and Charles
Mullins, negroes, were publicly
hanged before 5000 spectators for
the murder of A. Robinson and his
daughter, houseboat jewellers, from
Indiana.
They confessed on the scaffold that
they shot the daughter and burned
her body in a blanket saturated with
oil, and stood the father in scalding
water and then shot him.
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Massachusetts Bank Closed.
Taggart Accidentally Shot.

Natchez, Miss.-Thomas Taggart.
Democratic National Commit
for Indiana, was accidentally
while hunting with his Eate seer
tary, w. H. Norton, Eayette,
Jefferson County. Forty4 krdshot
struck Mr.. Taggart in thee, right
shoulder and chest. Besides other
injuries, it is feared that he will lose
the sight of one eye.
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BY CABLE.
Argentine to Buy Dreadnoughts He

Argentine to Buy Dreadnoughts Here.
Buenos Ayres. The Argentine
Council of Ministers has ratified the
recommendation of the Naval Commits
sion that two Dreadnoughts be built
by an American company. These bat.
tleships will be of $4,000 tons each.
with a speed of twenty-five knots.
Bryan Arrives at Lima, Peru.
Lima, Peru.-William Jennings
Bryan arrived here. He was landed
at Callao by a Government launch
and was met by a large number Of
prominent personages, including a
representative of President Legia,
Mr.. Bryan dined at the American Le-
CATION. The citizens arranged special
honors for the notable American.
Jackson and Hit Returning.
Berlin, Germany. - Count and
Countess Szechenyi and daughter
sailed for New York aboard the Amer
ika from Cherbourg. Others on the
same vessel were John B. Jackson
the new American Minister to Cuba,
and R. S. Reynolds Hit, the new
Minister to Panama.
Americans Slayers on Trial.
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.-Sal-
omon Selva, who appeared as prose.
cutting attorney before the court-mar-
tial that sentenced Groce and Cannon,
the Americans, and General Medina.
who was charged by President Zelaya
with the execution of the sentences,
are accused of having convicted the
prisoners Illegally.
Princes to Hunt in East Africa.
London.-The Duke and Duchess
of Connaught, accompanied by their
son and daughter, Prince Arthur and
Princess Patricia, left this city on .
shooting expedition in East Africa
They will make their headquarters al
Nairobi and will cover much of the
ground over which Colonel Roosevelt
hunted.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Wins Case on Reputation.
Paris.-The Court dismissed, by
courtesy, the case growing out of the
attempted seizure of lace curtaini
furnished for the residence in the
Avenue Du Bots De Boulogne of Mrs
JOnn VI. "A. LolSnIudH, Wllc VI IAs
United States Ambassador to Italy.
u
Sir Samuel Brownlow Gray Dead.
Hamilton, Bermuda.-Sir Samue!
Brownlow Gray, former Chief Justice
of Bermuda, died here. He was borr
in 1928.
Zeppelin Plans Great Airship.
Cologne, Germany.-Count Yep
pelin, the aeronaut, has a monster
airship, capable of carrying 800 per
sons, and which it is proposed to use
in a passenger service to be estab
lished between Hamburg and Cologne
and Baden Baden.
Negro Congressman See Gomez.
Havana, Enthusiastically all the
negro members of Congress visited
President Gomez at the palace ant
presented a petition demanding that
he investigate the incident which tool
place at the Plaza Hotel, where sci.
vice was refused for a negro.
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Cost $1O3,25O to Lose Election.
His unsuccessful campaign for
Mayor of Boston in the recent city
election cost James J. Storrow $103,-
$50, according to his sworn statement
of campaign expenses.
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81. Louis; entered
the home of Eberhard Anheuser and
carried away diamonds and jewelry
worth more than $4,000.
SO, 1000, 900 to Care For Indians.
Washington, D. C.-The Indian APP.
preparation bill, carrying approx
mately $4,000, 900, was reported to
the House. Senators Jones and Dix
on addressed the Indian Affairs Com
mittee, the former urging that a total
of 1886, 900 be included for draining
the surplus lands in the Yakima In
dian Reservation, and the latter advo-
Gated an appropriation Of ~$25O,0OO
for irrigation work.
Senator Aldrich in Florida.
Miami, Fla. = Senator Nelson W.
Aldrich, accompanied by his wife and
two daughters, arrived here. The
Senator is suffering from bronchitis.
but he made preparations to go fish
ing soon after his arrival.
Mary Adele Case a Bride.
San Francisco, CALVARY Adele
Case, a singer, whose engagement to
Claus Spreckels last year was broken
off as a result of parental opposition,
was married to William M. Beam, a
nephew of former Secretary of the
Navy Victor Metcalf.
Life-Saving Medal Awarded.
Washington, D. C.-Joseph Ryan,
a New York City patrolman, who
saved a man from drowning at South
street, that city, on October 10 last,
received a life-saving medal from the
Treasury Department.
States Richest Man Dies.
Raleigh, N. C.-John Louis Hinton,
North Cardinals wealthiest citizen,
died at his home near Elizabeth City,
N. G. He owned property in nearly
every State in the Union.
Colonel Robert Rae Dead.
Chicago, nI.-Colonel Robert Rae,
who was associated with Abraham
Lincoln in several lawsuits, died aged
eighty years. He was born in Phila-
delphia and educated in Lafayette
College. He came to Chicago in 1853.
North Carolina Bonds Rejected.
Providence, R. 1.-The State OF
Rhode Island was saved from litiga-
ton with North Carolina when the
House of Representatives voted to re-
ject a gift of 100000 worth of North
Carolina bonds repudiated by that
State.
Massachusetts Bank Closed.
Southbridge. Mass. = Deposits of
$~2,368,799 were tied up when the
Southbridge Savings Bank was closed,
by order of Judge Loring, of the Su-
preme Court, who issued an injunc-
ton following the discovery by Bank
Examiners of an apparent discrepancy
between the deposit ledger and state
ment of deposits as submitted by John
A. Hall, treasurer of the bank.
Taggart Accidentally Shot.
Natchez, Miss.-Thomas Taggart.
Democratic National Cemmi
for Indiana, was accidentally
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Wins Case on Reputation.

Wits OUSC OH 1VOPuNF0
Paris.-The Court dismissed, by
courtesy, the case growing out of the
attempted seizure of lace curtains
furnished for the residence in the
Avenue Du Bots De Boulogne of Mrs
John G.. A. Leishman, wife of the
United States Ambassador to Italy.
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SO, 100000 to Care For Indians.
Senator Aldrich in Florida.

Miami, Fla. - Senator Nelson W.
Aldrich, accompanied by his wife and
two daughters, arrived here. The
Senator is suffering from bronchitis.
but he made preparations to go fish
ing soon after his arrival.
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Zennelin plans Great Airship.

Cologne, Germany.-Count Yep
pelin, the aeronaut, has a monster
airship, capable of carrying 500 per
sons, and which it is proposed to use
in a passenger service to be estab
lished between Hamburg and Cologne
and Baden Baden.
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Sir Samuel BrownIow Gray Dead.
Hamilton, Bermuda.-Sir Samuel
Brownlow Gray, former Chief Justice
of Bermuda, died here. He was borr
in 1923.
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Negro Congressmen See Come.

Havana, Enthusiastically all the
negro members of Congress visited
President Gomez at the palace ant
presented a petition demanding that
he investigate the incident which tooh
place at the Plaza Hotel, where ser.
vice was refused for a negro.
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LATEST NEWS.
BY WIRE.
Burglars Get $4,000 in Gems.

St. Louis, Mo.-Burglars entered
the home of Eberhard Anheuser and
carried away diamonds and jewelry
worth more than $4,000.
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Mary Adele Case a Bride.

San Francisco, CALVARY Adele
Case, a singer, whose engagement to
Claus Spreckels last year was broken
off as a result of parental opposition,
was married to William M. Beam, a
nephew of former Secretary of the
Navy Victor Metcalf.
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jackson and Hit Returning.

Berlin, Germany. - Count and
Countess Szechenyi and daughter
sailed for New York aboard the Amer
ika from Cherbourg. Others on the
same vessel were John B. Jackson,
the new American Minister to Cuba
and R. S. Reynolds Hit, the new
Minister to Panama.
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Wall Street Easy.

The easy marks In Wall street their special
prey, l can't include In that class lot of the older
heads of banking houses brokerage firms. but you
would be surprised Mt the number of men engaged
in high finance there who barely escape It. 1t IS
generally the newcomer to whom they make plea
and who takes the chance with them of acquiring
n fortune This newcomer is the transient of Wall
street He has made stake In some other part of
the country and Is here to pny the big game with the
big players. Very few Of his sort win, And
only phase of the poetic justice OF his cleaning
is the inventor crank
'"The farmers friends make much capital out of
my crank especially IL his invention Is very radical.
They manufacture two machines that will
look good and that with some. assistance Will work
little, and they dood the country with literature ad-
vertisng this great achievement what 1t IS going to
mean to the world what 1t is going to mean to those
who get in on the ground floor then giving simple
but explicit directions for sending money through
the mail. These people sail within thrty-second
of an inch Of Sing Sing most OF the time and some
of them slip and get there
This sort of business VIII always be- more or less
Post ohice authorities minimize it. but they emit
absolutely stop it. Every young man must have a
certain amount experience with things OF this char
octer All the government can do is to see that he
gets 1t in the least expensive way
"It took me forty-no, thlrty-no twenty y-fve years
to get my experience. got into all kinds of trouble
because paid attention to business
The only way know of telling the good from the
bad In the inventions advertised for sale Is
to insist on thorough tests, These are In many cases
easily simulated. Wonderful sources of power may
be really hidden batteries and electrical connections
1t is very often dithcult extremely dficult to recor
nze old element In a dress, 1t is very readily
taken for element
IL have friend who takes little financial In
terest In every Invention OF possible practical
nature that is brought to bis notice He wins an
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MONEY TALKS.
the grasshoppers.' :

x RE you deposlting confidence in the hearts OF
Fyour fellow men?
Are you straIning your credit OF patience with
your frcnds7
Do you pay the world n reasonable rental for the
space you occupy2
Are you providing sinking fund of kindness to
liquldate offences against your brother men?
Are you Strengthening the tie that binds yourself to
your loved onesI
Do your actions create a feeling of confidence aud
opumismI
Can you draw upon the credence of your friends
without precipltOting panic of disyrust7
Have you any good deeds out at compound INTEREST,"
Docs your check OF honor ever come back marked
"No fuudsI"
Are you building up reserve fund OF health for the
red blood strlngency OF old age?
DO your friends "bank'' on YOU?
Is your word as good your bones company?
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THE only real work being done Is by the prorss-
sionol inventors OF the country and by the engineers
In charge Of various projects In fact, In the en-
gineers clubs IN the great cities OF the United States
you may find all the men, outside OF the chemical and
electrical inventors, who doing all the big work
being done In this country There's nothing In the
world that beat New England Yankees Invent
ing small automatic machines. This genius is born
in them. In great many ways ] consider them the
most remarkable Inventors in the world.
II don't believe I've ever bad ma ny cranks come TO
me from that part Of the country. They make mea
of good sound up there. The authors OF the
letters that I'm going begin to get this
mcubatiDg season Is over l can't say much Of. L
think they have exaggerated kinks in some of the
folds of their brains l am just sure anything
that I'm going to get the old windmill storage
power idea that have received every fall long
can remember
From what part of the country do the most cranl
Conner" asked, the inventor motoned for the boy
10 turn on an extra electric fan
Kansas" he replied They seem to flourish With
the grasshoppers."
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average of once In ten times. What he loses in the
other nine times does not amount TO his winnings
so think his ls pretty good plan. or course he Is
careful in looking out for himself 10 way OF con.
tracts and things like that and then be wouldn't
take a dyer perpetual motion solution He
gets expert advice possible all occasions too
But the general public does not scatter Its eggs
like this friend OF mine. \ who can half way
prove his dream get out gilt edged stock certia.
Gates and sell them by the hundreds. The hacker OF
noter and versed in all the why's OF putting the
article the market in the most attractive style
certain lose all his investment In very quick
order. The mere fact that he Is willing to take
chance at another mans game argues for his east
in the eyes of the money hunting man With
idea
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fans purred in different parts OF the room.
but Thomas A. Edison pressed his hand his brow
and gave little half Sigh, half pud, ms II extremely
warm, when he made this remark. Then be pointed
to large wire mail basket In one of his desk.
within the next two months" he said that Will bc
almost full every morning of letters giving me ideas
which Will reyolutionize the world All the strange
things that have occurred 10 strange humanity in all
parts of the country during these ncubating months
| Will hear about ! Will be offered In each case the
opportunity OF lifetime TO win fame aud fortune
All ln the world Will have to do is to work out the
Idea Easy simple-accordng 10 my correspondents;
q mere matter OF a few hours That's the harvest Of
this ideal hot weather shall reap.
IT can't afford the time to let them IN for talk any
more | had to stop their visits time l
found that they really up 6fty per cent OF my
time But one In all the hundreds | have had
anything TINT at all approached the practical The
rest were all alike, acted alike. looked alike.
"Nfy crank was always cadaverous. he had long hair
and Invariably some of the
central office rule.
Throughout the year average ten letters month
on perpetual alone and In the last three years
i
aeropane trying to get me TO work out ther
impossible ideas In every and whatever
idea the letter is always elaborate one screed
that has several of manual labor at least
to produce. Instead OF spending the time that way
my crank might have gone to work with jackknife
and some glue and with half the effort demonstrated
to his own satisfaction the impossbhty of his scheme
He always seems TO want TO get something with
lead pencil Invariably he wants somebody else TO
do the work for him.
"Oh yes / read all the letters. / read very fast.
For instance read novel In hours and then
tell my wife about 1t than she knows after she
has read it all day. And say, here's something
to me.
"Thc real egg of Columbus of education is learning
TO read properly We really leave out the most I'M
portant thing in common school education. We
toach children read like ths:-'On May the 9th the
wagon was sent to Morrstown, n. j."
Mr.. Edison held large catalogue before him in ap
proved fourth reader fashion. Each word he slowly
aud painstokngly arbculated Then with gesture
OF impatience he tossed the book to side.
One Had Good Idea.
"A single glance at line would have been sufficient
to inform the reader about what happened to the
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A Chat u,ah the Wizard of Mento Park About the
Impossible and Ridiculous Devices on Winch he is
hvHed to Pass Judgment.

Herald Co All rghts rterred)
shrug OF bis shoulders to sccentuate II possible the
extreme simplicity OF the whole thing
They utilize water air, oil, wood, stone almost
anything you can think of for bases They solve the
question 10y means OF ball bearings; they apparently
nll friction; they arrive at conclusions that
allow certain amount Of friction they get around
big obstacle in hundreds of adroit ways-on paper.
Not one of them is any good 1t is but waste of
time to listen to them TO read about them. But
what going to do?
"They come at me with all sorts of idens for the
utilization OF power they claim be able get power
for in One fellow sent me a special
delivery letter wanting TO make an appointment
TO show me how he could make a dynamo run a
motor After the motor stared he proposed run
ming the dynamo with It and thus get power for
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Sagon on May B. The art OF reading whole line at
once Is easy to acquire. 1t should be taught In the
public schools Then children would read with pleas
ure and would teach themselves rapidly as they
gro" older You might almost call me a crank on
ibis subject But have more than sn idea
As say, L never but one crank who really
had anything worth anything, BE had a mechanical
movement that was really wonderful. But couldn't
make any use of it The of them had the kind
OF junk that lumbers up the patent office think
that have been inflicted with every kind Of perpetual
lion scheme ever dreamed OF In the minds Of Tho
RS there was any doubt OF the solution
"bien. wheel here'-Mr Edison mazda
'rcle AS his right would ailow-"and
1 over there and there you are Easy. isn't
'entor spread ont his bands gave little
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or the magnetic something else, whatever they call
H. company really In existence II they happen TO
get hold of the real first class promoter farmers
friend they will at least have goudy collection Of
literature and stock certificates paste iu
their scrapbook when the Gual blow-up comes This
mas got TO come, know because their Inventions
or Ideas are not ot all practical IN the first place and
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tlonary, 1t was my painful duty to inform this agent
that since the earliest memory of man this same de-
Vice had been In general 1t took a long while
however for him TO be convinced and give up his
efforts and return TO Bogota
That is what becomes of good many of the
cranks | have met They 20 back to Bogota, hgura-
lively. l suppose when they get there they set to
work thinking up Ideas, laying plans for other
ever, get to the of meu with money and. given
model may be made to do certain snowy piece OF
work, eventually the radio this electro that
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nothing. All sorts of magnetic engines wireless iu-
ventons, or. better Ideas, and various OF
chemical processes are eagerly brought TO To be
worked out There's nothing in any Of them One
somewhat advertised attempt that of using ccnrifu-
gal force as motive power for airship is laugh
able Centrifugal force Is state. The inventor
might just as well put mince pie In his craft and ex
poet to prope 1t as the wheel with which he says he
can develop his wonderful force.
But he is confident chap. the crank You can't
say much or do much to shake bin of the firm belief
that be has accomplished something marvellous. a
man called time ago from Bogota He
was the representative OF inventor there who bad
equipped him with a fye thousand dollar letter OF
credit and sent him up here to astonsh people with
belt tightening device, which he believed was revoIn
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Copyright 1910. BY toe New

Copyright. 1910. by toe New Yorl
. HIS is great weather for cranks; they In
cubate in the summer time, you know
The curtains were all pulled down In
the long. high cclllnged library and electric
fans purred in different parts OF the room.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-18

Why not adopt the land whose sons