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The Penn's Grove record., 1910-01-07
TAFT HEARS RAILWAY SIDE
Conference at White House Re.
garding Special Message.
Presidents of Six Important Lines Pro-
test Against Proposed Amendments
of Interstate Commerce Law.

Washington, D. president Taft
and Acknowledgement Wickersham
spent two hours in conference with
the presidents of six Of the big rail.
roads of the country.
The railroad men had asked a hear
ing to protest against changes they
understood Mr.. Taft would urge to
the interstate law in his
special message.
1t is understood that they sought
to convince him that further legisla-
ton at this time would upset condi-
lions in the railway and industrial
world which have been righting them
selves in the last two years.
They seemed rather detected when
they left the White House and it
was inferred at once that their mis-
sion, so far as holding up the Presi-
dents special message was concerned,
was a failure.
Their failure in this respect was
later confirmed, when 1t was an
nounced for the President that he
still expected to send his message.
MIR. Taft listened attentively to all
that the railroad presidents had to
say, but did not commit himself in
any way. In fact, it is said he made
few remarks.
At the conclusion of the confer
ence the President told his visitors he
would give their statements due con-
sideration in anything he might do
affecting railroad interests.
Acknowledgement Wickersham de-
o1ipod To COW anvtbino about tho In
terview.
The railroad presidents were al
most equally uneommunicative. Pres
ident Brown, of the New York Gen.
trail, said:
"We came to offer a protest against
the proposed amendments to the in
terstate commerce law, and we re-
ceived a respectful hearing"
President Finley, of the Southern,
added that the protest was a general
n against proposed railroad legis-
lation at this time.
Further than this the railroad men
would say nothing. They declared
that they had asked for the interview
and that any statements concerning
1t must come from the White House.
Secretary Carpenter said that no
formal statement would be given out
by the President. Mr.. Taft and the
Acknowledgement had heard the objec-
lions of the railroad presidents and
would consider them.
The railroad men at the conference
were Presidents Mellen, of the New
Haven; McCrea, Pennsylvania; Low
EFT, Union Pacific and allied Hartman
iinpc. Roor Poodiuo. Fin1av South.
ern, and Brown, New York Central.
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. NEW CONCEPTION
} OF DEATH.


Few indeed are the men and wo-
men of full age-say twenty-five
who have not yet contracted the NAL
ady that will kill them, according to
that distinguished scientist and ply
stefan, DR.. Felix Regnault. Normally,
as contemporary investigators are be-
ginning to find out, it takes twenty
years for a fatal malady to kill a pa
tient. 1t may take thirty years. The
popular impression is that a man may
die suddenly or that he may only re-
quire a year to die in, or six months.
To be sure, a mar may be killed or a
child may die in a few months at the
age of one year. But, ordinarily
speaking, all deaths are very slow in
deed, and about ninety-five per cent.
of civilized adults are. now stricken
with a fatal disease. They do not
know 1t. In due time they will have
their cases diagnosed as cancer or as
tuberculosis or diabetes, or what not.
But so inveterate are current mis-
conceptions of the nature of death
that the origin Of the fatal malady-
in time-will be miscalculated by
from ten to thirty years.
In the case of human beings, death
barring accidents nearly always
caused by some specific malady. This
malady is as likely as not to be cured
what is called cured. The cure,
however, no matter how skilful the
treatment or how slight the disease.
has left a weakness behind it in some
particular organ of the body. One of
the organs is, if not prematurely
worn out, at least SO worn that its
resisting powers are greatly dimin-
ished. All of us in this way, when
we have reached a certain age, pos
sess an organ that is much older than
the rest of the physique. One day
We shall die because of this organ.
Even if we live toIbe very old indeed,
we shall not die of old age. but of
weakness of the lungs, or of the kid
neys, or of the liver, or of the brain.
Current Literature.
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A Maine Hunter.

With ~forty-fve notches in his
trusty sun as reminders OF his skill
IN bringing down deer, Vest" Ad-
ans, of Miles Notch, up in OXFORD
County, is a typical hunter. He has
shot twenty-five bears in his life, n
he has no mean helper in the person
Of mis- good wife, who assists IN set
ting traps and can shoot, too. Botn
are ardent natura1ists and understand
wood lore thoroughly. A son Of four
teen years has neve seen an electric
car .. steam engine, but he can shoot,
and 9TH he and his mother know
where the fishing is best in the noun
tain srreams near their cosey cabin
IN the rayine.-Kennebec Journal.
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How He Helped Her.

A lady who occupied a fifth floor
apartment, purchased a piece OF ice
from an italian around the corner
who dealt in this commodity. When
it arrived and in response to the whis-
tie she called down the dumb waiter
shaft, an order to send it up please"
a small voice replied, "You help-a
me pull-a the rope" This the lady
cheerfully did, but found the dumb
waiter so heavy that several times in
its upward progress the rope almost
slipped from her hands. When at last
she succeeded in hosting it to her
floor to her surprise a small boy
sprang out.
"This piece ice so big, he explained,
my father, he say, go up and help-a
the lady take it off-a the dumb wait
er.'"-New York Times.
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lettings About Sports.

Tex Richard announces that Salt
Lake City will get the big fight, and
that there will be mo fake"
Oscar Knudson, for six years coach
of the Chicago swimmers. has re-
signed. Ill health is the cause OF his
retirement.
All football schedules, of course,
have to be made up with the proviso
that there is such a game being
played next fall.
Professor Richard F. Nelligan, OF
the Amherst department of physical
education, is to get a varsity A. His
letter will be of the track variety.
Many organizations allied with the
automobile industry decided to hold
their annual meetings during the
week of the Grand Central Palace
show in New York.
Willie Hogg, pitcher on the Louis
Vile American Association baseball
team during the season of 1903, n
formerly an American League player,
died in New Orleans.
According to various reports JEFF
fries will have a notable retinue OF
assistants at his training camp. Jim
Corbett, Kid Mccoy, Jack (Twin)
Sullivan, Jack Root, Sam Berger and
Trainer Jack Mccormick have already
been Eentfoned{
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Some people swell up on emotion"
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick of the leaders OF
the Labor Trust to twist facts and
make the sympathetic ones" weep
at the ice house." CHATS part OF
the tale further on.)
Gompers ct al. sheer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympa-
thy by falsely telling the people the
courts we're trying to deprive then OF
free speech and free press.
Men can speak freely Il print
opinions freely in this country and no
court will object, but they cannot pc
allowed to print matter as part OF a
criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin
other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co., drive it's hundreds of workmen
out of work and destroy the value OF
the plant without regard to the fact
that hard earned money of men who
worked had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious "trust"
methods (~efforts to break the firm
that won't come under trust rule),
but instead of stopping they dare"
the courts to punish them and de-
mand new laws to protect them In
such destructive and tyrannous acts
as they may desire to do.
The reason Gompers and his band
persisted in trying to ruin the Bucks
Stove Works was because the stove
company insisted on the right to keep
some old employees at work when de
union" ordered them discharged and
some of "de gang put in.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have a look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
their union and, the demand being re-
fused, should institute a boycott
against that union, publish its name
in an unfair list" instruct other
manufacturers all over the United
States not to buy the labor of that
union, have committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott if the mer-
chants sold anything made to that
union. Picket the factories where
members work and slug them on the
a home, blow up their houses and
wreck the works, and even murder a
few members of the boycotted union
to teach them they must obey the or
ders of organized Capital?"
It would certainly be fair for the
mpa to do these things II Lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under u laws the
bovcotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order the
to cease boycotting and try
ing to ruin these union men. Sup
nose thereupon the company should
sheer at the court and in open de-
iance continue the unlawful acts in
a persistent, carefully laid out plan,
purposely attended to ruin the union
and force it's members into poverty.
What a howl would go up from the
union demanding that the courts pro-
tect them and punish their law-break-
ing oppressors. Then they would
praise the courts and go on earning a
living protected from ruin and happy
in the knowledge that the peoples
courts could defend them.
How could any of US receive pro-
lection from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to. and do punish
such men.
The court is placed in position
where it must do one thing or the
other-punish men who persist in de-
fying its peace orders or go out of
service. let anarchy reign and the
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COSTLY CLUB HOUSE BURNED.
Home of the Greenwich Country Club
DESTROYED.

Greenwich, Conn.-The clubhouse
of the Greenwich Country Club
caught fire and inside of three-quar-
ters of an hour burned to the ground.
Much of the furnishings for which the
clubhouse was famous was destroyed.
Many valuable cups, trophies, statu-
cites, etc., which had great intrinsic
worth, and a greater sentimental
value, were lost. At the time the
fire broke out the superintendent,
Mr.. Hahn, was absent in the village,
three miles distant, but Richard
Ritch, the bookkeeper, and Joseph
Dobel, the head caddy, and three
women servants fought the flames
and saved many articles.
The clubhouse cost about $4,000,
and it is estimated that the furnish
lngs cost between 100000 and s40,-
900. The Greenwich Fire Depart
ment made a good effort, over three
miles of muddy and slushy roads, to
get to the fire, but all except the auto
chemical engine arrived too late to
do anything but save some furniture
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St. Louis Woman Shorn of
Her Locks on the Street.

st. Louis, Mo. = Mrs. William J..
Ehlen, whose blond hair has been the
admiration of women for years, was
knocked unconscious and shorn of
her locks by an unidentified man as
she was leaving her home for church.
This was the third attempt in two
weeks to steal Mrs. Ehlen's hair. She
was stopped on the street on the pre-
vious occasions by a man. He first
offered money and then attempted to
clip off the tresses, but was frustrated
by passersby.
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ventions and thus cary out the lead
ers' schemes, frequently abhorrent to
the rank and file; so I was at the late
Toronto convention.
The paid delegated would applaud
and ''resolute'' as Gompers wanted,
but now and then sbme of the real
workingmen insist On being heard,
sometimes at the risEof their lives.
Delegate Egan is reported to have
said at the Toronto convention:
"If tae officers IF the federation
would only adhere to the law we
would think a lot mbre of them"
The Grand Coundl of the Provin~
cial Workingmen's Assn of Canada
has declared in favof of severing all
connection with uniSns in the U. s.,
saying "any union having its seat OF
Govt in America, and pretending to
be international in its scope, nus
fight industrial battles according to
American methods. Said metnods
have consequences which are Amor
rent to the ~law-abidifg people OF Can
ada involving hungfr, misery, riot,
hloodshed and murier, all OF wnlch
might be termed a result of the prac-
teal war now in progress in our lair
province and directed by foreign ennis
saries of the United Miners OF Amer
ica."
That is an honest Canadian view of
our infamous Labor Trust"
A few days ago the daily papers
printed the following:
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, DC, Nov. 10.-Char-
acterizing the attitude of Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison, of the American Federation
of Labor in the contempt proceedings
in the courts of the District of Column
bisx in connection with the Bucks
Stove and Range Company, as "a
willful, premeditated violation OF the
law" Simon Burns, general master
workman of the general assembly,
knights of Labor, has voiced a severe
condemnation OF these three leaders.
Mr.. Burns expressed his confidence IN
courts in general and in those of the
District of Columbia in particular.
APPROVED BY DELEGATES.
This rebuke by Burns was in his
annual report to the general assembly
of his organization. He received the
hearty approval of the delegates who
heard it read at their annual meeting
in this city.
"There is no trust or combination
of capital in the world" said Mr..
Burns, that violates laws oftener
than do the trust labor organizations.
which resort to more dishonest, UNI
fair and dishonorable methods to-
ward their competitors than any trust
or combinations in the country"
MI. Burns said the action OF these
so-called leaders" would be harmful
for years to come whenever attempts
were made to obtain labor legisla-
ton.
1.-THE Labor Digest" a reputable
workingman's paper, says, as part OF
an article entitled 1.-THE beginning of
the end of Gompersism, many organi-
cations becoming tired of the %rule-or-
ruin policies which have been en-
forced by the president of the A. F.
of L."
"That he has maintained his lead
ership for so long a time in the face
of his stubborn clinging to policies
which the more thoughtful of the
workingmen have seen for years must
be abandoned, has been on ccount
partly of the sentimental feeling on
the part of the organizations that he
ought not to be deposed, and the I'M
-rins-rnoe~ oe the men who were
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MORSE D0sS CONVICT G4AB
Convicted Barker Starts &c Ssfve
IS Years in Atlanta F son.
Former "Ice King Vet by Curious
Crowd as He is Hurried to
Penitentiary.

Atlanta, Ga.-Charles w. Morse,
quondam ice king, banker, master of
great fleets and millionaire; has be-
gun his fifteen-year sentence in the
Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. The
long fight is finished, the last legal
resort to escape the penalty has been
abandoned. The mar who was in
trusted with the Ire of many mill
ions, and proved faithiess to the trust,
enters upon a long period Of time
wherein ample opportunity will be
his to see the ghosts of dead hopes
and of murdered opportunities pass
in review.
Morse, some days ago, limited to
one of his friends that If the sentence
TO Atlanta was carried put he be-
lieved that it would prove a life term.
Well past the prime of life, the con-
victed banker looked at a decade and
a half in confinement as a sentence
Of death, yet he might have been sent
to far worse place. AS a spot of in
voluntary residence the Georgia pris-
on has many advantages over ordin-
ary institutions of confinement. Pris-
oners are not required to wear the
dreaded stripes, are allowed to smoke
in their cells, can talk within reason
able restrictions and may see n Wis
ltor a week. The convicts are con-
trolled in a purely humanitarian way,
and bodily punishment is not inflicted.
The Atlanta prison is a thoroughly
modern structure, and the Govern
ment has tried to make it a model.
The main building is an immense
brick affair, with quarters for about
1000 prisoners. 1t is surrounded by
great fields, $50 acres in all, which
are cultivated by the convicts and pre-
sent so prosperous an appearance in
summer that the spot appears more
like a country estate than a penal in
stitution. The building, in it's set
ting, looks not unlike a huge castle.
Accompanied by two New York
detectives, Morse left the train from
the side opposite the station, which
was crowded with people eager to get
a view of-him. He was placed in a
waiting carriage and driven to the
prison.
On arriving there Morse vas taken
to the office, where he gave the in
formation necessary for the prison
records. Later in the day he ex-
changed his dark business suit and
derby hat for the customary prison
garb.
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TRUST COMPANIES MERGE.
Morgan Supplants T. F. Ryan in FL
nance and Controls Billions.

nance and Controls Billions.
New York City.-Another indica-
ton of the eclipsing of Thomas For
tune Ryan by ]. Fierpont Morgan's
interests in the financial world came
when it was announced that the Guar
anty Trust Company would absorb
the Morton Trust Company and the
Fifth Avenue Trust Company. The
consolidation will make the Guaranty
Trust Company the second largest
trust company in the United States,
with aggregate deposits of $140,000,-
900 and assets of $170,000,00O
The merger will end Ryan's sway
Of the Morton Trust Company, which
controlled the Fifth Avenue. 1t will
give the Morgan and allied interests
control or influence over life insur-
ance companies with aggregate re-
sources of $2,3O2,S60,382, and of
railway and industrial corporations
with an aggregate capitalization of
$7,653,961,606, a total of almost
$40, 200, 100000.
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Last PanaI Army General.

The Duke Adolfo P~ianciani, who
died at Spoletow, was the last of the
general officers of the papal army
He was e~ighty-two years old. He
served under General La Morietere
and was with General Cialdini when
he surrendered to the Italians on Sep
TENDER 10, 1850.
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wsit1np TO Find Out.

r.ucinnati Tourist (who, for the
drst time, has just entered a res
tausnt in Paris)-"Have you or
dersd?"
81 Louis Tourist (who has reached
the table some minutes before, and
who looks up from a French bill OF
fare)-"Yes."
Cincinnati Tourist-"What did you
order?"
St. Louis Tourist Qmpatiently)-
"How do / know?"-Chicago News.
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INJUNCTION FOR THE wRIGHTs.
Preliminary Order Restraining Cur
tiss From Making Aeroplanes.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Judge Hazel, in
the United States Court, has granted
2 preliminary injunction applied for
by the Wright brothers, against the
Herring-Curtiss Company and Glenn
H. Curtiss, restraining them from
manufacturing and selling aero
planes infringing on patents 'for i'm
provements in a flying machine"
granted on May %. 1906, to Orville
and Wilbur Wright and subsequently
assigned to the Wright Company.
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addition 10 ibis,
the Aess % The ao4 81 iA1
A e of ana A8 tviis icsi s scty,
which has .euabisa him 10 Keep @ tirm
4 ip on the mach merry cf the 1rgani-
zation. and 90 bar his faithful bench
men in the positions where they could
do nina The most cod Wheneyer their
services laigrt b. needed.
Further than this, he ha@ never
Called, 1T the las conventions, 90 have
some senspalom ( spring on tire con
veation at tBe ps eloiO sieai moment,
which walasd phase hinl ~ tue Ugh Of
"a nsagtYB To sist cagfsF 81 us-Iaasn2
and excite "a wAys of mpsthetic en-
ghnssasm for htin whsea wQnla carry
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CONvICTs DIE OF POISON.
Two Men in Auburn Prison Drank
Wood Alcohol.

Auburn, N. Y.-Clarence Barton,
who was received at the prison on
May ~ with an interdeterminate SEN
tence for grand larceny, and Miles
Halligan, who came from Ontario
County on October 8 last with a SEN
tence of one year minimum and one
year and six months maximum for
burglary, died in the prison hospital
from drinking wood alcohol.
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JUSTICE LURToN SWORN IN.
New Member of United States Su.
preme Court Takes His Seat.

Washington, D. C.-The new asso-
ciate justice, Horace H. Lurton, of
Tennessee, took his seat on the bench
of the Supreme Court of the United
States at noon. After the reading of
Mr.. Lurton's commission by the clerk,
Mr.. McKenny, the oath of Office was
administered by Mr.. McKenny. After
kissing the Bible on which the oath
was taken, Mr.. Lurton assumed his
seat on the extreme left of the chief
justice.
Many people who sought entrance
were turned away for lack of room.
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Letter to Santa.

Note to the philanthropists from
the Oakley (Kan.) Graphic: "One
thousand four hundred and ninety
nine dollars dropped in our stocking
Christmas night would enable us to
buy a linotype. We have saved the
other dollar in the last four years"
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A Salvation Army ohcer in London
says he asked a boy what work he did
to provide him with food, ETC.. and
the reply was: 81 pix strawberries
in the summer, l pick hops In the au-
tumn, l pick pockets lin the winter.
and oakum for the ret of the year."
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Mrs. Morse to Make Home Near Hus.
hand.

New York City.-Mrs. Morse, wife
of the convict G. w. Morse, started
for Atlanta, Ca, over the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Mrs. Morse was accompanied by
her two sons from their home at 72S
Fifth Mrs. Morse said that
she may make her home near the
prison for some time.
In Bath, Me-, Mrs. Morse said, her
husbands home town, sixteen hun
bred persons already have signed the
petition to President Taft, whom she
Is confident will pardon her husband
in due time.
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"UNSINKABLE" TARGET SUNK.
Two Broadsides From the Charleston
All That Were Necessary.

San Francisco, Cal.-The air-cham-
bered "unsinkable" target which
cost SIS, 1000 to build, and which was
shipped from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard to the Philippine Islands, to be
used in the winter target practice of
the Pacific fleet, went to the bottom
after receiving two %broadsides from
the Charleston, according to letters
received at Mare Island Navy Yard.
The target was of armor plate, with
protected air-chambers to keep it
afoat, but the six-inch guns punched
II full of holes.
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A canal nine miles long, sixty-five
feet wide, and fourteen feet deep, in
Desha County, Arkatsas, has been
completed and is drafting about 120,-
900 acres of land contiguous to Ar
kansas City.
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The Death Watch

The "death watch" that produces
the weird tickings formerly 80 much
feared is nothing more or less than a
mischievous and destructive little bee
tie madly in love and very DESTROYS Of
finding its mate. Thus is the fallaey
of our ancestors regarding this mys-
terry dispelled.-Strand.
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Gar Attends a Funeral.

The Car walked three miles in
rain and snow to accompany the body
of Grand Duke Michael Nicholaie-
witch from a railway station in st.
Petersburg to the fortress of st. Pc
ter and st. Paul.
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"a ss 5orgers hr 4Is eFoo OF
alI alnd aa3 Yioleu terg a.
bgs unleGs. nate ttcm aad tnYeaten
violence * their members ara pun
fehe.0 Cor breaking the law. They
wan the eoarts 20 let them go free
ana > ,Ea same time demand punish
menL for other Iaan outside do
union" when they break the law
. Notice the 9kove reference
IS 6 violent members OF tabor
unions. The great majority OF the
supBeargH unioa men are ~peaeesbic,
aprseht citizens. The noisy, violent
y q get into oa,ce aitd the leaders OF
Tie great Labor Trust know how 10.
wass this KING a. mgn Ia Labor Sos.
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After investigating recently, a Brit
ish official reports the Kenis forest in
East Africa to be 287 miles long by
eight miles wide, and to cGAtain
standing timber worth 115,000,000.
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A variable stroke petroleum en-
CINE has been designed, intended to
overcome the difficulties which pre-
vent such engines being applied d.
rectly to the shaft of a vehicle, as in
the case of the steam engine.