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The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
CENSUS PROCLAMATION OUT
President Taft Calls on All Citi-
zens to Aid Enumerators.
M disclosures Will Be Made Regard.
ing the Person or His Affairs py
Government Agents.

Washington, D. president Tart
issued the customary proclamation IN
regard to the taking of the census.
In it he says:
"Now, therefore, I, William How
ard Taft, President of the United
State of America, do hereby declare
and make known that under the act
aforesaid it is the duty of every per-
son to answer all questions on the
census schedules applying to him and
the family to which he belongs, and
to the farm occupied by him or his
family, and that any adult refusing to
do so is subject to penalty.
''The sole purpose of the census is
to secure general statistical informa-
ton regarding the population n re-
sources of the country, and replies
are required from individuals only
in order to permit the compilation
of such general statistics. The census
has nothing to do with taxation, with
army or jury service, with the COM
pulsion of school attendance, with the
regulation of immigration or with
the enforcement of any National,
SIdIG OF lOCd1 law " nv
cau~any person be harmed in any way
by furnishing the information re-
quired. There need be no fear that
any disclosure will be made regard
ing any individual person or his af-
fairs. For the due protection of the
rights and interests of the persons
furnishing information every employe
of the Census Bureau is prohibited
under heavy penalty from disclosing
any information which may thus come
to his knowledge.
Il therefore earnestly urge upon
all persons to answer promptly, COM
pletely and accurately all inquiries
addressed to them by the enumerators
or other employees of the Census Blu
reau, and thereby to contribute their
share toward making this great and
necessary public undertaking a sue
cess"
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The Field Of Sports.

The alumni of the University OF
Wisconsin, it is reported, intend in
vestigating the causes OF the Badgers
decline in athletics.
Frank Hit, shortstop OF the
Bridgeport Club last season, n who
was drafted by the Philadelphia
Americans, has been turned over to
the Baltimore Club.
One of the items of expense to ma
Tor league clubs which is in itself no
mean thing is the cost of basebalis.
The Detroit team last season used
220 dozen, or over $4,000 worth OF
pills"
The New York National League
Club has not spent big money for ex-
perienced players this year for two
reasons. Good men are not on the
market at any price.
1t is said that McGraw has practi-
cally given up hope of Fred Tenney'a
return to form, and that he is con-
WINGED that Donlin will not come
back. Therefore Merkle will be the
regular first baseman.
Mordecai Brown, the three-fngered
pitcher of the Cubs. will receive a bo-
nus this year IL he pitches thirty-ive
winning games. He has signed a con-
tract covering two years at q salary
said to be the largest Of any pitcher.
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Hard Roads and Horses.

Tip has seen many a good horse go
wrong, and no veterinarian was able
to cur or help. Horse would
all right as long as he was out in the
pasture loafing, but nee he was har-
messed up or saddled and taken out
on hard streets he was all @stove up"
Now, a horse stands on his toes like
a ballet dancer, for horses heels
never touch the ground, so it is
strange that, shod with iron shoes,
they stand stony streets. Many
horses cannot trot hard roads without
rubber shoes, and many a "stove-up"
horse is about as good as ever when
SO shod, for these shoes seem to. make
a hard street as pleasant to walk up
no as a grass plot or a Turkey carpet.
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In a Northwestern L train an even
ing or two ago two young gentlemen,
whose conversation indicated that
they were preparing for college, stood
near the front entrance, owing to the
fact that 1t was impossible for them
to force their way more than a foot or
two into the aisle, and outlined their
plans.
when I get down to Yale" said
one of them, I'm goin' to cut out
the booze-that's right! Nix on any
kind of dope for me-"
II heard you talking" replied the
other.
"Say, I heard Pinkey's goin' to
Harvard. Is that right?"
Eyes, pa says Yale's no place for
him. He has one weak lung. How're
you comm on? Do you expect to
pull through"
Sure thing. It's a cinch. Only
thing I'm havin' any trouble about is
my trigonometry."
II heard your English was bum"
"Gee, it's fierce, but I guess I'll
buck through all right. 1 done a
good deal better so far this year thar
done on it last year."-Chicago
Record-Herald.
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Saved BY a Snow-Rank.

One day last winter during the big
storm Edward Edleson, the newsboy
on the train leaving Utica for the
north, attempted to pass between two
cars, when the wind, which was
blowing at the rate of seventy miles
an hour, blew him from the platform
into the snow-banks. Some hours
later he walked into the station at
Utica, uninjured.-Canton IN. "
Plaindealer.
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starting 1t Too High.

1t was in the days before church
organs and choirs, and Deacon Dorsey
volunteered to lead the singing of
an old hymn. He started out very
well: "My soul, be IN thy guard-ten
thou"-and he stopped, unable to go
any further because he had such a
high pitch. He started over again.
"My soul, be on thy guard-ten thou
and once more he stopped, this
time pitched so low that he could not
proceed.
"Say, Brother Dorsey" said n
of the congregation, hadn't you bet
ter start it with five thousand?"-
Success.
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WHAT'S THE USE
Sticking to a Habit When 1t Means
Discomfort?

Old King Coffee knocks subjects
out tolerably fiat at times, and there is
no possible doubt of what did 1t. A
Mich. woman gives her experience:
IT used to have liver trouble nea
ly all of the time and took medicine
which relieved me only for a little
while. Then every once in a while l
would be suddenly doubled up with
an awful agony in my stomach. 1t
seemed as though every time | took a
breath / would die. No one could
suffer any more and live.
Finally l got down SO sick with
catarrh of the stomach that l could
not turn over in bed, and my stomach
did not digest even milk. The doctor
finally told me that If 1 did not give
up drinking coffee I would surely die,
but l felt l could not give 1t up.
However, Husband brought home
a package of Postum and it was made
strictly according to directions. 1t
was the only thing that would stay on
my stomach. and l soon got SO liked
1t very much.
Gradually l began to get better,
and week by week gained in strength
and health. Now l am in perfect con-
dition, and / am convinced that the
whole cause of my trouble was coffee
drinking, and my getting better was
due to leaving off coffee and taking
Postum.
"a short time ago l tasted some
coffee and found, to my establishment,
that 1 did not care anything about 1t.
/ never have to take medicine any
more. / hope you will use this letter
for the benefit of those suffering from
the poisonous effects of coffee"
Read the little book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a Rea-
SON."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine true, and full Of human
intereee
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Rer.funcfOTY.

A young clerk in an office in Wall
Street was called before the manager
a. the firm the other day to explain
why he was doing his work carelessly.
"Mr. JONES'" said the manager, "of
late your work has been very per-
functory."
Just as the manager was going to
ask for an explanation, the young
clerk answered:
"Mr. Smith, I've been working here
for three months now, and though l
have tried my best that's the first bit
of praise 1 have received since I've
been here. Thank you."-New York
Sun.
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How Was 1t?

The illustrator was drawing a pic
ture of a boy and girl sitting on a
bench in a warm embrace.
my neighbors next door," he ex-
planned, "old maids, both of them,
wanted to know how 1 managed with
the models. If they both sat there
like that hugging and kissing for me
to draw them.
Certainly I replied. And 1
have to show the girl how to put her
head on his shoulder. Have to sit
there, put my arm around her waist
and almost kiss her. Yes, almost. l
don't have to kiss her. The other
model does that
Oh said my old maid %neighbors
when l explained it to them. I sup
pose then We must understand now
that when. we hear a shrek in here
we mustn't mind. It's just you
breaking in a model. = New York
Press.
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The Inheritance Tax.

The inheritance tax is a tax levied
on the occasion of the transfer of
property at death. A collateral In
heritance tax is one that exempts
from it's provisions inheritance pass
ing to the father, mother, husband,
wife or a lineaI descendant. A grad
uated or progressive inheritance tax
Is one in which the rate of tax in
creases with the size of the estate or
the amount passing to a single indi-
yidual.
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STANDARD OIL IN COURT
Government Attacks Validity of.
the Trusts Monopoly.
Arrays Its Forces Against Govern
ment, to Argue Appeal Against Dis
solution-Supreme Fight Begins.

Washington, D. c. The Govern
ment's biggest trust busting" suit
against the biggest corporation in the
United States, the Standard Oil Com
pany, of New Jersey, was called in the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Upon the verdict of the highest .tribu-
nal depends the life or death of the
Rockefeller combination and other
similar alleged m~onopolies.
The litigation involves thirty-seven
distinct corporations, which the Stan
dard Oil Company of New Jersey eth
or wi outright or in part, and six
individuals = John D. Rockefeller,
William Rockefeller, Henry M. Flag
Ter, John D. Archbold, Oliver H.
Payne and Charles M. Pratt.
In November, 1906, the Govern
ment filed in the Circuit Court for the
Eastern District of Missouri its bill of
complaint reciting an amazing story
of high finance, market manipulation,
price cutting. railroad rebating and
other alleged violations of the law
and asking for the dissolution of the
trust.
Three years later, on November 20,
1909, the Circuit Court, after hearing
the arguments of some of the best 10
gal talent in the country and receiv-
ing thousands of pages of printed tes-
timony gathered throughout the
try under a special commissioner, sus-
tanned practically every contention of
the Government. An appeal was i'm
mediately taken to the Supreme Court
of the United States by the defendant
company.
The monster brief filed by the Gov
eminent in the CASE Git fills two vol
umes of over 500 pages each) recites
a history of the combine from its in
ception in 1870 that reads like fiction.
Sixty-one million dollars was all
that was ever invested in the Stand
ard Oil Company, except a portion Of
the earnings, and yet the Government
brings evidence that out of this COM
paratively small investment has
grown dividends aggregating the stu
pendous total Of $548,436,446 from
1882 to 1906. Not only this, but in
1906, according to admitted figures,
the Standard Oil Company had a sur
plus of $261,061,811 in hand. In
1906 a dividend of forty per cent. was
declared.
Here are a few of the alleged in
EQUITIES upon which the arguments OF
the Governments counsel are based:
Refusal of pipe lines controlled by
the trust to act as common carriers
and accept independently manufac-
tured oil.
Relating, secret rates and other
railroad Determinations as an aid to
the monopoly.
Monopolized all the oil business
with the railroads.
Destroyed independent competition
by price cutting, by granting of re-
bates to individual customers and by
operating bogus independent con-
Germs.
Established a system of espionage
throughout the nation whereby every
detail of their competitors business
was made known to the officials of the
t-uSt.
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A BoOkWorIn.

"No one meets such various kinds
of people as we do" said a librarian.
"You see that little old man over
there? He is going through the en-
cyclopedias, one volume at a time.
He m In every day and begins
where he left off the day before. He
has read through an entire set and is
beginning another. Pretty dry read
ing, some of it, one would say
New York Sun.
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Munyon's Paw Paw Pills coax the liver
into activity by gentle methods. They do
not scour, grippe or weaken. They are a
tonic to the stomach, liver and nerves;
inyigorate instead of weaken. They en-
rich the blood and enable the stomach to
get ali the nourishment from food that is
put into 1t. These pills contain no calo-
mel; they are soothing, healing and slim
ulating. For sale by all druggists In 10c
and Csc sizes. II you need medical adj
vice, write Munyon's Doctors. They will
advise to the best Of their ability abso-
lutely free Of Charge. MUNYON'S, SD
and jefferson sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
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'Possums and Cats on Car Track.
Standing on the front of a Swope
Park car the passenger, who was
there to smoke a cigar unmolested,
found the motorman congenial. A
dog stood on the track as the car ap-
preached, but jumped to one side
Just in time to save himself. "a dog
will always jump off the track, night
or day, when a car approaches" said
the motorman, "but at night there
are two animals, n domestic, the
other wild, that will stand still and
be run over when the glare of the
headlight strikes them. One is a cat,
the other a 'possum. l hate to kill
a cat, but you can ring your bell
and yell at the top of your voice with
out soaring a cat off the track when
it sees that headlight. If I've u
over one 'possum I've run over a
hundred. Way out South in the
fall of the year, you know. they're
thick. I've often stopped the car
and got off and caught 'em. All the
boys on the Swope Park line had
plenty of 'possum this winter and
they got 'em the anne way did
Kansas City Times.
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Handicapped.

"Fain would I write a poem on the
delights of fishing" sighed the poet,
"but woe is me! I can't find a word
to rhyme with angleworm."
"But why use that word at the end
of a line?" queried the friend.
Because" Kissed the poet between
his set teeth, IAN angleworm is al
ways at the end of a line"
And for an hour the silence was
so still that one could have heard a
pin drop.-Chicago News.
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A Food Boycott.

In 1886, time of Edward Ill, Par
lament enacted a food boycott. No
man, noble or peasant. was allowed
to have more than two courses at a
meal or elsewhere, and leach mess of
two sorts of victuals at the utmost,
be it flesh or fish, with the common
sorts of pottage, without sauce or any
other sort of victuals." Any one, how
ever, could substitute a sauce for a
mess, but 1t must not have in it more
than two sorts of fish or flesh.
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LATEST NEWS.
BY WIRE.
a Suicide Over High Prices.

a Suicide Over High Prices.
Springfield, Mass.-An income once
ample for the needs of his family was
insufficient to make ends meet under
the rising scale of values, so Charles
L. Bliss, sixty-one, in helpless des-
pondency, hanged himself.
Motor Boat For England.
Newport.-The swiftest motor boat
In Newport Harbor, the Viking, is
being cased for shipment to London
by order of the owner, Alfred G. Van
ierbilt.
Ohio Graft Witness a Suicide.
Tifin, Ohio.-Walter Dagen, fifty
years old, who was expected to be
the chief witness for the State in the
prosecution of former County Com
missioners indicted here recently for
alleged grating, committed suicide.
Oklahoma For Income Tax.
Guthrie, Okla.-Both houses of the
Oklahoma Legislature ratified the in
come tax amendment to the Federal
Constitution.
Chicago Students Start Aero Club.
Chicago.-As a result of an invita-
zion from the Aero Club of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania to send dele
gates to the Collegiate Aeroplane
Convention in June, steps were taken
at the University of Chicago to or
ganize an aero club.
Divorce From Cruel Wife.
Denver.-Alleging that his wife
hurled a picture in his face while
there was a house party in their
Saranac Lake, N. Y, home, in August,
1904, the display of temper causing
him much humiliation and mental
anguish, John M. Rogers, Jr., has
brought suit for divorce here from
Fanny L. Rogers, who is in Pennsyl-
vania with their three children.
Submarine Signal Bells.
Washington, D. C.-Submarine bell
signals to warn vessels from danger
GUS points during the prevalence of
fog will be established under the
supervision and direction of the
Lighthouse Board along the cost line
of the United States and in the waters
of the Great Lakes.
Professor Jordan's Retirement.
San Francisco.-It wax announced
at Stanford University that President
David Starr Jordan would retire six
years hence, or as soon as he becomes
by age eligible for the Carnegie
grant.
Racing Expert Dead.
Chicago.-Percy Taylor, a promi-
nent racing man, died at his farm at
Fox River, lear Elgin, ILL.,, aged fifty
nine. He was born in England and
wrote for magazines on horse breed
Ing and agricultural subjects.
Eva Tanguay Yields Hatpin.
Louisville. - Eva Tanguay, the
actress, in police court, was fined $40
and costs on the complaint of Clar-
ence Hess, a stage hand at a local
theatre, who alleged that Miss Tan
quay had jabbed him with a hatpin.
Ohio White Slave Bill.
Columbus, Ohio.-The House of
Representatives passed the Geleerd
white slave bill, which provides pen
alties ranging from one year in the
p~enitentiary and $1,000 fine, to
twelve years in the penitentiary and
$4,000 fine.
Powder Explosion Cost SO Lives.
Juneau, Alaska. = Thirty-three
miners were killed by q powder maya
zine explosion in the Mexican shaft
Of the Treadwell gold mines. Twen-
ty-three bodies were taken out as the
total dead soon after the explosion,
but eight others were found in a later
search and two men died in a hos
pital.
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Kills Sister-in-Law n Himself.
Mrs. Jacob Conrad, thirty years
old, a widow, was shot and instantly
killed by John Conrad. her brother
in-law. Conrad turned the weapon
upon himself, sending a bullet through
his head and dying instantly. The
shooting resulted from the woman's
indifference to his attentions.
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Used to Paying.

When the waiter veered around she
took out her pocketbook.
For heavens sake" the man with
her cried. What do you mean?
Aren't you dining with me?"
II forgot" she a~pologized. II be-
long to so many Dutch treat clubs it's
got to be second nature,"-New York
Press,
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When a widow in Oklahoma needs
the wages her son of school age might
earn the State pays the mother the
amount and the boy continues in
school. The women of Oklahoma are
now trying to have the same law
passed for daughters.
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PILES

'I tried all kinds of blood remedies
which failed to do me any good, but l
have found the right thing at last. Ny
face was full of pimples and black-heads.
After taking Cascarets they all left. am
continuing the use of them and recon-
mending them to my friends. 1 feel fine
when l rise in the morning. Hope to
have a chance to recommend Cascarets."
Fred c. Witten, rs Elm ST., Newark, NJ.
Pleasant. Palatable, Potent. Taste Good
DO Good. Never Sicken, Weaken or Stripe
lOc. 2Sc. Soc. Never sold In bulk. The genu-
Inc tablet stamped c Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. VIZ
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18

Difficulty is being experienced By
japanese banks in finding employ
ment for their deposits. The First
Bank is said to have 100000 yen
S4,20O, 0O0) lying idle and the Nit
sui Bank 100000 yen ($3,6O0,O0O).
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TO USE RIFLE sILENCERs.

Maxim Says Government Has Ordered
500 and Will Soon Require More.
Hartford, Conn. - Hiram Percy
Maxim said on his return from Wash
ington, D. c., that the Government
has ordered 500 rifle silencers, to be
delivered as soon as possible.
The Marine Corps, the Navy De-
partment and the Department of Mil
tia Affairs have been notified that ST.
lencers will be issued as desired now
that the silencer has been oficially
adopted as part OF the United States
Army equipment,
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Pneumonia Kills Naval Apprentice.

PneumOnIa FIIIS NHVHI
Arthur L.. Burnet, of Phelps, N. Y,
an apprentice seaman at the Naval
Training Station, at Newport. r. l..
died from pneumonia. His death is
the eighth from that cause this win
ter, and several other cases were IN
der treatment.
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BISHOP L1LLIs A CoADJUToR.
Brother of Kansas City Banker APP
pointed to Leavenworth.

DTOtICF VI IAdAISdo Wy oohASA AP
pointed to Leavenworth.
Kansas City, Mo.-In Rome the
Pope announced the appointment of
Thomas F. Lillis, Bishop of Leaven-
worth, to be Coadjutor Bishop of the
Diocese of Kansas City. Bishop John
J. Hogan, eighty years old, to whom
Coadjutor Bishop Lillis will be as
sistant, expressed himself as greatly
pleased at the appointment of Bishop
Lillis.
81 was expecting the appointment"
he said. II regard Bishop Lillis as
one Of the great men of the Catholic
Church in America. He is a splendid
gentleman. 1 expect Bishop Lillis
to succeed me when / die"
Bishop Lillis is a brother of Jere
D. Lillis, millionaire Kansas City
bank president, who was slashed in
Jack Cudahy's home recently.
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French Radicals Plan For Com
hination of Powers Against U

Paris.-Jean E. Darbot, Radical
Republican, made a bitter attack In
the Senate on what he called the
american invasion of Europe" The
Senator said that the balance of trade
in favor of the United States const1-
tuted a profit of $500, 100000 an
nually at the expense of Europe, and
offered a resolution asking the gov
eminent to undertake diplomatic ne
gotiations with European powers for
an economic understanding against
the United States.
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my name IN your teStlmon1alS..-M
81. W. MITCHELL, Box 8, Sabattus, Me.
Another Woman Helped.
Graniteville, VII was passing
throughthe Change of Life andsuffered
from nervousness and other annoying
symptoms. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound restoredmyhealth and
strength, and proved worth mountains
Of gold to me. For the sake of other
suffering women I am willing You
should publish my letter. Mrs.
CHARLES BARCLAY, RID, Granite
vile, vt.
Women who are passing through
this critical period or who are suffer-
ing from any of those distressing ills
peculiar to their sex should not lose
sight of the fact that for thirty years
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com;
pound, which is made from roots and
herbs, has been the standard remedy
for female ills. In almost every com
munity you will find women Who
have been restored to health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
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TO RAISE MAINE AT LAST.
III IGlfISE WhINE III I10I'
House Committee Decides to Report
Bill Appropriating 100000.

Washington, D. C. - The House
Committee on Naval Affairs decided
to report a bill providing 100000
for the raising of the wreck of the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor.
Recently Secretary of the Navy
Meyer urged that he be authorized to
cause the wreck to be removed from
Havana harbor on the ground that it
is a ma to navigation there. He
estimated that 100000 would be re-
quired. Naval officials say that sixty
seven bodies are in the wreck.
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Beef Trust Must Show Books.

Justice Swayze, of the New Jersey
Supreme Court at Trenton, granted
the application of Prosecutor Garven
of Hudson County, for an order COM
polling the Beef Trust to produce its
books or forfeit it's charter.