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The Penn's Grove record., 1911-06-30

Inez picked up a firecracker. 1t was
lying near the barrel of lemonade and
was water-soaked because Of the care
l~essness of Lem Higgins, who had
been dipping the beverage out for all
corners. Eli was putting away con-
tentedly at a cigar which had been
given him by the congressman.
"Oh, Eli" Inez said. Light this
firecracker with your cigar.
Eli took the firecracker and applied
his cigar to the use, of course without
result, although Inez kept up a pretty
display of alarm.
Its wet" Eli said, difidently. He
was about to throw it away when Inez
asked him for it.
Let me keep it," she said. ut re-
minds me of something"
So she wrapped it In her handker-
chief, and later on they strolled home
ward. Eli maintained a heavy silence
all the way, although the night was
one that would have made a confirmed
womanhater propose to a millinery
store dummy.
At, the door of Inez's home Eli found
speech.
What did that firecracker make
you think of, Inez?" he asked.
ooh, I'm going to make you guess"
she smiled. tits a sort of a conun-
drum"
"Conundrum?
Yes. Now, you must guess it
Why is that wet firecracker like your"
81 don't see anything to that. Why
is it?"
81 won't tell you. l said l would
make you guess. Here. Take the
frecracker with you and think it CIT
If you can"
Wonderingly, Eli took the frecrack-
er home with him. Half the remainder
of the night he turned that firecracker
over in his mind. All the next day he
puzzled over the conundrum. The next
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The Yielded Life.

No man ever yet found God by first
getting rid of all the entanglements
and complications of his life and then
turning to God. Yet many a man de-
ceives himself into thinking that that
is what he can do. 1t is a hopeless
attempt. The time that a man needs
a physicians advice and treatment Is
when he is helpiessly entangled by
disease. The time that a man needs
God is when his life is SO wound in
and out with the entanglements OF
his wrong-doing the he 'recoils from
the thought of God. He must come
to God to get loose; he cannot first
get loose and then come to God. Only
God can get him loose; and God can
free him from every knot and shackle
of the hopelessly involved bondage
into which years of III doing and deal
lngs have brought him. He does not
see how this a be; he cannot see
how, until he has yielded up his hands
in acknowledged defeat and given
wei himself and all that he has to
Gcd, in complete submission and
resolutely declared purpose to do
Gods whole will. Then the miracle
Of release will begin. 1t can never be
granted upon other terms.
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CIST OF THE
WEEKS NEWS
Front Page Stories Retold In
photographic Form
INTERESTING MINOR EVENTS
BY Telegraph and Cable Roll In the
Important and the lnconsequen'
tIaI, but to Each 10 Given
Its Proper Space.
WASHINGTON.

The army needs 200 officers n tne
secretary of wal invites educated
young men to come in.
Without even the formally OF q
rollcall, the Root amendment TO the
Canadian reciprocity bill was defeat-
ed by an overwhelming vote.
Ex-Governor Yates Of Illinois de.
Tended Senator Lorimer before the
Senate investigating committee.
The American consul at Cartagena
cabled the State Department that Cas-
tro had purchased the Cuban ship
Oteri.
President Taft will veto the Reci-
procity bill if it is amended, but will
give any tariff legislation careful con-
sideration.
The wool and Farmers Free List
bills were reported adversely from the
Committee on Finance, and the de-
bate on reciprocity continued.
Ensign's commissions were issued
by the President to the SO members
of the Naval Academy class OF 1905
who passed the examination.
Attempts to fire on dummy airships
will De made during the naval manoeu-
vres in August. The army too Will
test shells against aircraft
President Taft took an entire day
of rest by way Of ~recuperating from
his week of strenuous visiting and
speech-making in New York and New
England.
Thomas S. Cutter told the House
sugar investigating committee Of the
extensive business interests of the
Mormon church, especially in relation
to beet sugar.
Albert ]. Hopkins, whom William
Lorimer defeated for the United
States Senate, told the Senate COM
mittee that Democratic votes were Of
fered to him eff he would come
through properly"
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have loved her just as much If she
had been Lily Langtry and had all
the wealth of Hetty Green. Probably
more.
On the Fourth of July Eli took lnez
to the picnic and rally in the grove.
They heard the Declaration of indie
pendence read and listened to the
singing of patriotic songs by he quar-
tette, the tenor Of which had the Slid
ing Adams apple In such cases made
and provided. They also heard the
congressman deliver an address on
True Patriotism" in which he de-
voted most of his time to explaining
his vote on the tariff bill. Then came
the picnic supper and the fireworks.
While Inez and Eli strolled about
the grounds watching the fireworks,
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GENERAL.

President taft visited Fall River,
Mass, and Providence, r. l., speaking
in the latter city On Canadian recipro-
city.
The postofice safe at Piermont, N.
Y. was blown open. About $1,000 in
postage stamps and $5S In cash was
secured.
Many nations were represented at
impressive services held at Trinity
church, New York, in Thanksgiving
for the coronation of King George.
The Army Transport Fitzpatrick ar
rived at Sandy Hook, N. J., with four
companies Of coast artillery for Fort
Totten direct from the battlefields of
Texas.
1t was stated at Saco, Me, that the
efforts to find the body Of Charles l.
Weymouth, supposed to have been
killed and buried three years ago,
have been in vain.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office in Washington, Fred Den
nett, rejected all the Cunningham
land claims in Alaska, thus reserying
to the government $3.50 acres of the
most valuable coal l..nds in Alaska.
Twins. the smallest born in this
country, arrived at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant T. Peas, of Law
~renceburg, Ind. They weigh three
pounds.
The will of Mrs. Mary G. Eddy was
admitted to probate in Boston; Attor-
ney General Swift Immediately took
an appeal to the Supreme court on the
question of domicile.
Brook Adams, treasurer of rhe First
Christian church at Wheeling, w.
Va, was relieved of the collection
plate in a room within 20 feet of the
pulpit during the service by masked
robbers.
Catharine N. Flanagan, Philadelphia,
won a manageable man in a church
lottery. He is willing, but the girl is
bordering.
The relations of the Mormon church
beet sugar interests to the American
Sugar Refining company were explain
ed to the House sugar committee by
q former Mormon bishop.
The three-platoon police system and
fixed posts will be used throughout
New York city.
Hazel Schmidt slept for 70 days in
vandalia, III. She looked surprised
when told Of 1t.
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fc3ElGN.

King George v. reviewed 1877 Of the
biggest fighting ships of every nation.
Princess Clotilde, mother of Prince
Victor Napoleon, died at her chateau
near Turin.
Montenegro has demanded $750,000
indemnity from Turkey for maintain
ing Albanian refugees.
Coronation Sunday in London was
marked by church services, diploma
tic and private entertainments.
King George participated, by cable,
in the laying of the cornerstone of the
new Fishremen's Institute at st.
Johns, N. F.
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Aus
tria-Hungary, youngest daughter of
the Emperor Francis Joseph, gave
birth to her 10th child.
Ferdinand Edmond Duez. receiver
for the dissolved religious congrega-
tons of France, was convicted of en-
bezzling and sentenced to twelve
years Imprisonment at hard labor.
Thousands of British dock hands
refused to handle cargo on ships be-
longing to members of the Shipping
Federation; a ~protracted struggle is
expected.
The captains of the American war
ships at Kiel, Germany, and n OF
American sender class boats dined
with Emperor William on board the
imperial yacht Ho~henzollern.
Three persons were killed and a
number injured by an explosion in
the nitrogen works at Trosberg, b.
varia, which were built with Ameri-
can capital.
The first promotion of the Prince OF
Wales in the navy, has been an
nounced. He ceases to be a cadet and
becomes a midshipman.
Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Harrison.
widow of President Harrison, had her
handbag snatched from her while
looking at the gondolas on the canal
at Venice. The thief was arrested.
The party of English treasure hun
t0rS WHICH 1911 Dan ridhSloSC "
months ago were saved from death on
a barren island 300 miles off the Cen
trail American Coast by the steamship
Navajo.
A dispatch from Tiajuana stated
that the surrender of Jack Mosby, the
rebel leader, to the Mexican federal
forces, it was believed, would end the
revolt in Lower California.
King George v. was crowned in
Westminster Abbey amid scenes Of
impressive splendor more than six
thousand persons witnessing the ac-
tual ceremony, which passed off with
out a hitch; the popular sentiment IN
London and throughout England was
evinced in bonflres, Examinations and
public rejoicings.
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III. PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. JUNEs30. 1911.

Governor Oswald West of Oregon
headed q posse and captured Jess
Hall, an en-convict. who broke his pa.
role.
The Olympic, the largest steamship
In the world, arrived at New York and
was welcomed by crowds along the riv-
err front.
The Federal court in Detroit yacat-
ed q temporary order, restraining
the proposed Calumet & Hecla cop
per mine merger.
The Massachusetts legislative COM
mittee ON constitutional amendments
reported a bill to provide for the mi
tiative and referendum.
Capt. D. H. jarvis, formerly secre-
tary and treasurer of the Morgan-Gug-
genheim-Rothschld interests in Alas
ka. killed himself in Seattle.
President Taft at the Yale COM
Increment said he was in absolute &C.
cord with the Supreme Courts Stand
ard Oil and Tobacco decisions.
Instructions for the August target
practice of the Atlantic feet calls for
the use Of aeroplane models suspend
ed from small balloons or kites.
Edward Valentine Lee, paymasteTs
clerk in the navy, was arrested in Buff
falo on a charge of stealing $4,000
after a chase lasting four months.
Interest and dividend disbursements
for July are estimated at $3.50, 000, 000
against $3.50, 900, 900 for the same
month a year ago, a gain of s18,000,-
600.
The United States District court at
Boston dismissed indictments against
several meat packers charged with un-
lawful combination in restrain Of
trade.
The New York Telephone company
agreed to abide by the Public Service
commissions order for a f~ive-cent rate
between Brooklyn and Long Island
points.
Judge Lanning of the United States
Circuit court, in a decision at VIII
mington, Del, ordered that the 30
called du Pont powder trust" be die
solved.
The Public Service commission
gave out figures showing that the sur
plus of the Consolidated Gas company
Of New York was increased in 1910
by $4,724,S49.
Edward Valentine Lee, who CON
fesses he stole $4,000 from the United
States steamer Georgia, married Au-
drey F. Kelsey of Washington while
under arrest at Buffalo.
The reflection of a vivid flash Of
lightning in a mirror into which he
CHANGED to gaze during a severe thun-
der storm, has deprived Harry Adams
of Atlantic City, of his eyesight.
A bill of particulars setting forth
more specifically the alleged violation
of the Sherman antitrust act was de-
MED by J. Ogden Armour and other In.
dicted meat packers at Chicago.
The armored cruiser North Caro-
lima sailed from Hampton Roads for
Venezuela carrying the special mis-
sion which will representsthe Unitea
States at the centennial celebration.
While his wife was holding up her
babe in the grand stand, to see the
father racing against a field Of a doz-
en.automobile dare-deyils, Walter Dom
nelly, went through the fence at the
state fair track. Milwaukee. and was
killed.
The secretaries of fourteen retail
lumber dealers associations, COM
prising the lumber secretaries bureau
of information and representing deal
ers' organizations from Pennsylvania
to the Pacific, were indicted by a spe-
cIal United States grand jury at Chi
cage for alleged violation of the Sher-
man antitrust act.
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PROPHET SMITH
TALKS SUGAR
Head of Mormon Church Tells
of Alliance With Trust.
MANY 0 M AT HEARING
And Havemeyer a Benefactor, Not a
Pirate-Women Eye the Graybeard
PoIyamist as He Tells of Church
and Its Dealings with the Trust.

Washington. When Joseph F.
Smith, the venerable president of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, was the principal witness at
the hearing of the Hardwick sugar in
vestigating committee his presence
attracted a larger crowd than had
been seen in the committee room
since the inquiry began.
Many women eyed the prophet curl
ously as he entered the committee
room and crowded closely around him
as he told the story of the relations
of the Mormon church with the sugar
trust.
Prophet Joseph is seventy-three
years of age. He is tall, spare of fig
ure, has keen blue eyes and like
prophets of old wears a beard that ap-
proaches the waistline. He stepped
briskly into the committee room and
when called to the stand responded
with a smile.
From the venerable and pic
turesque president of the Mormon
church, the committee heard an ac-
count of the struggles of pioneer Nor.
mons, the upbuilding of the beet
sugar industry through Church aid,
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS alliance, and
the dual operations of the Church as
a religious and business organization.
Concerning the inside workings of
the business of the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company, the president both of the
Church and of the company knew lit.
tie. Pressed for details, he suggested
that the committee TASK Cutler" Mr..
Cutler is the general manager of the
Utah-Idaho company. But President
Smith did know that Mr.. Havemeyer
and the American Sugar Refining
company had acquired so per cent. of
the stock in the Iormon companies
in 1907, and he cleared that Have
meyers money vas welcomed and
was largely responsible for the pres
ent prosperity of the beet sugar con
Germs in Mormon erritory.
The Mormon church, Mr.. Smith as
serted, had invested about $500. 900
in the sugar business ito help the in
dustry and those who had put their
money in it." The combination with
Hayemeyer, he thought, was entirely
within the law, and it was undoubted-
ly advantageous , the beet sugar
people. Havemeyer was described as
a 'benefactor."
Gn;l ~, ao,o;51. -z-.L.--
ton in restrain of trader" asked Rep
resentative Sulzer.
Il considered it as an extension of
trade" replied President Smith. st
enhanced the value of our farms, it
encouraged the growing of beets, it
cheapened the cost of production, and
that trade has been one of the great
est blessings ever visited upon Utah
and Idaho"
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are made pretty that they may not
only be noticed. but commented upon
In a pleasing manner
However, there is n more exas-
perating trait in a backward man.
That is when the young woman knows
he wants to propose but is too bash
full to even stammer out half the ques-
ton and allow her, with her quick
feminine intuition, to guess the rest
of 1t.
Inez Truloe was beloved by Eli
Gromlet, and had been SO beloved for
over a year. That Is plenty long
enough for a young woman to wait
for a proposal.
If this were a regular love story we
should have begun with the beginning
We should have plodded dulcetly
through the past year, should have
told of Ellis start of surprise, of the
flush that mantled his honest cheek
heart when one day he gazed into
Inez's eyes and read there his fate.
But, really, those are personal mat
tiers. This being a true story, we do
not feel justified in wrenching from
their hiding place the innermost
thoughts and feelings of Eli Gromlet
and spreading them here for all the
world to inspect and compare. Also,
If this were a regular love story, we
would roll up our sleeves, push our
hair back from u forehead, take a
firm grip on our cigar, and describe
a beauteous creature whose radiant
charms would make kings toss their
crowns to the floor, kick the throne
aside III abdicate IL order to clerk
in her fathers grocery. None of that,
however. Inez was good looking, but
she knew as we'll as we do that she
was no Lillian Russell or Lily Lang
try. She tanned quickly and freckled
easily, and in cold weather her nose
got red. But she had a good DISPOSE
ton, considerable common sense,
could fry chicken and make the best
egg biscuit you ever bit into. Also
and furthermore, she would one day
own her share of 600 acres of rich
farm land. Not that these matters In
fiuenced Eli in loving her. He would
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NLZ III LIS SpSSCA anu dCliOho,
he was entirely at his ease
save when with young ladies'. And
even when with them his backward
ness was more pronounced when the
young lady was one for whom be en-
tertained a high regard.
you can always tell how much Eli
Gromlet thinks Of you by how hard he
tries to get away from you" was an
axiom among the girls. "If he doesn't
like you at all he a talk to you by
the hour"
Which was a near-truth. Eli could
and did talk freely and %fuently with
the young women who were simply
friends or acquaintances, but when
ever the tender passion was awaken
ed in his bosom he yearned to be
neal the object of his affection, yet
could not carry on a conversation to
save his life.
Some women like that in a man.
They like to see him made dumb by
their beauty and charm. 1t certainly
must be gratifying to a young woman
to know that a fluttering ringlet or a
tempting dimple can drive speech from
the tongue of one of the lords of crea-
ton and render him oratorically as
hopeless as aowooden Indian cigar
sign. Nevertheless, ven the Vainest
woman tires of silent adulation after a
time. If women are pretty they are
willing to be told so by silence and
by glances in which hopelessness and
alteration mingle, but a little silence
of that sort goes a long way. They
teel that eyes and cheeks and hands
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evening he studied the problem from
all angles. 1t took him a whole week
to solve 1t.
One evening he called on Inez, and
solemnly laid In her hand he frag-
ments of the f~irecracker.
81 dried it out" he said. Then it
popped"
"Oh, Eli! / didn't mean that at ALL"
But he went right on and popped
and never from that day to this has
either of them thought about that
conundrum again, 80 no doubt we
never shall know just what was the
resemblance Inez saw between Ell
and the wet firecracker.
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CORNELL WINS RACE.
Varsity Fights of Five Colleges Meet
on the Hudsc..

Poughkeepsie, N. "a Cornell
crew came to the intercollegiate re-
gatta and by sheer pluck and stam-
ina won the Varsity race from Column
bia in a heart-breaking finish, after
the Light Blue and White oarsmen
had blazed the way for more than
three and a half miles.
When the Cornell oars began fash
ing in parallel lines with the blue and
white blades it was a sure thing that
something had happened to Columbia.
Her bow had been going mad for
nearly a mile. AS Cornell went by
100 yards before the line her stroke
went up two notches and she crossed
about a length and a half to the good.
Penn and Wisconsin kept up their
dandy fight right up to the line, and
the Philadelphia got in third by the
narrowest sort of squeak. Syracuse
was far behind.
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Think Of Your Neiahbor.

There are men going down into the
deep waters all about us who can be
saved if we will throw them a line.
There are our neighbors about us who
have fallen among thieves and who
san be rescued and saved by those
who Will be good Samaritans.-Rev. G.
3. Mitchell, Methodist. Chicago.
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Cornell Student Killed.

Pittsfeld, Mass.-Leonard Simons,
] member of the junior class of Cor
nell university, who came to the Gen
sral Electric company's plant here a
sew days ago as a summer student in
PRACTICAL work, was killed by receiv-
ng an electric shock while testing a
generator.
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F N FICTION.

Laying down her book. she goes to
the door and welcomes the caller who
has Just gone through a series OF
great misfortunes. The caller emu
merates the list OF unhappy things
and incidents and then leaves.
Dear mel" signs the lady. Why
cant people keep their troubles to
t~hemselves?"
She then resumes heading the novel
and weeping I've the imaginary woes
u the fictitious heroine.
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No Initiative for Rax State,

Beston.-The initiative and refer
endum bill was killed in the House of
Representatives here by a vote of 125
to rs. 1t is necessary to have a two
thirds vote. in order to make an
amendment to the constitution in
Massachusetts.
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LIGHTNING DESTROYS Church.

Montreal.-The st. Jean Baptiste
Catholic church, a magnificent stone
structure, was struck by lightning
and practically destroyed by fire.
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PoIsoNs HIMSELF IN HARVARD

Dependent Senior, Failing to Pass,
Ends Life with Cyanide.
Cambridge, Mass.--Despondent, it
is supposed, because of his failure to
qualify for the degree of A. B. from
Harvard university, Arthur E. Smith,
a senior, son of David 0. Smith of
Salt Lake City, committed suicide in
Perkins hall, n of the college dormi-
tories.
A bottle of cyanide of potassium,
found ear the body, showed the man.
ner of death.
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Fourth of July Lullaby.

Fourth OF July EuIIapys
Put little baby up in the tree top
When the commotion tells you that you
need a
Few feet between her and all OF the
sparks
Flung from the pin wheel, bomb and
torpedo.
Fasten her cradle upon the strong bough.
Put her milk bottle In her tiny pocket
Then leave the cradle until you come
home,
For il she's sleepy she'll nave the sky
rocket.
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Melbourne.-The new census gives
the Commonwealth Of Australia a
population of 4,4z9,495.
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The voice OF all nature cries to US
that there 10 a God.-yoltaire
The Penn's Grove record., 1911-06-30

Fireworks, naturally, led to the in
troductten Of waterworks.
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By Wilbur D.. Nesbit

was a young
man of seemly appearance
and commendable habits.
Industrious, saving = with
out being stingy-pleasant
In his speech and actions.
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President Taft visited Fall River,
Mass, and Providence, r. L, speaking
in the latter city on Canadian recipro-
citv
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1911-01-04
TIMELY HINTS
FOR FARMERS
Fattening Rations For Hens.

Ration L. Cornmeal. Eve parts;
ground oats (bulls removed. one part:
animal meal, one part: mixed with
sour milk.
Ration 2. Cornmeal, two parts;
ground buckwheat. two parts; ground
oats. two parts; mixed with sour milk.
Ration 3.-Barley meal. two parts;
middllngs, two parts; buckwheat. two
parts; cornmeal, one part; mixed with
sour milk.
Ration 4.-The refuse from shredded
wheat and sour milk.
When birds are confined for fatten-
ing sour milk aids digestion and keeps
the system from getting feverish. II
no milk Is available some form of ami
NAL or green food must be supplied to
make best gains. Should a chicken
for any reason go or its feed a good
plan is to turn It out IN the yard for a
time. It will usually recover In a
short time.
Water should be given once q day in
warm weather and grit twice a week.
The rations should be fed rather soft.
about like porridge The food should
never remain before them from one
meal to the other. Take it away twen-
ty minutes after feeding.-American
Cultivator.