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Japan,
Korea and
China
Progress Reviewed
By a Missionary.

- he empire of Japan, since
the jubilee celebrations on
n. October $40, 1909, a en-
&W#NK joyed a period Of quiet de-
- velopment, during which
A Christianity has made nor
NAL progress. In the department OF
education far-reaching efforts are be-
ing made IN the one hand by seeking
state recognition Of the more ad-
vanced mission schools, and on the
other by forming plans for a private
Christian university on the lines OF
the Waseda university in Toxic.
In Korea, the mighty revival move
ment is still progressing. The Korean
Christians display praiseworthy Eager
ness to make known the Gospel to
their heather neighbors. In China
there is the usual mixture of reform
and reaction. In one year -four hun
dred and eighty new postofices were
established, two new railways were
constructed and opened for traffic,
and several commissions were sent to
Europe to study questions OF political
economy and administration. One
striking symptom of the new era is
the great national exhibition at Nam
king. after the pattern of Jul interna-
tional exhibitions. 1t is intended to be
a great demonstration to the non-Chi-
nese world of all that Chinese culture
has already produced, and an object
lesson to the Chinese themselves in
the many things they have still to
learn from the west. The missionary
societies intend to make use of the
opportunity to inaugurate a great
evangelistic effort among the vast con-
course of people visiting the exhibit
ton, and have secured a building close
to the exhibition grounds as their
headquarters.
PandeT to Superstition.
A comparatively trifiing incident
will serve to show what a devious
course is being steered. The prince re-
gent had abolished, by an official de-
cree. the superstitious practices OBJ
served at eclipses of the sun and
moon; yet, when an eclipse actually
-
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General

Government estimates for 1912
show a saving of more than $21,000,-
900.
It was said nine high union-labor
officials were likely to be prosecuted
in the inquiry into dynamiting out
RACES.
Three hundred families of Staten
Island have Joined in a cooperative
purchasing club to combat the high
cost of living.
The trial Of Harris and Blanck, pro-
p~riators of the Triangle Waist Com
pany, in connection with the fire in
which more than 140 lives were lost,
began in General Sessions, New York.
In a grapple for a revolver in a
quarrel over a dog being fed at the
breakfast table, Mrs. Bert S. Shaffer
shot and killed Harry B~eckendorf, a
boarder, at Avoca, Pa.
Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor of
Philadelphia, announced his depart
ment heads, all of whom are compar-
atively young men and students of
problems.
W. ]. Burns asserted in Indianapolis
that Samuel Gompers, organized labor
leader, knew all along that the McNa-
maras were guilty; he said Gompers
had that knowledge when the union
men killed by the explosion of the
crafts boiler in the Ohio River six
miles below Pittsburgh; five others
were injured, two CT them fatally.
Samuel Atkins, Jr, a Harvard juni-
or and grandson of Charles w. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard, gave a
dinner at one of the university's most
fashionable restaurants to Emma
Goldman, the anarchist.
Persla's National Council telegraph
ed for aid to the American Congress
and the parliament of all other coun-
tiles.
Mrs. Ellen Sheriff. Babcock, mother
of Mrs. James s. Sherman, wife of
Vice-President Sherman, died in Utica.
Mrs. Babcock was seyenty-two years
old.
One woman was killed. two persons
were reported dying and another was
seriously burned by the explosion OF
q can of oil with which Mrs. Edward
Case, of New Albany, Ind, attempted
to start the kitchen fire.
Samuel Gompers declared William
]. Burns would go to any length to
malign organized labor and that his
statements could not be more false.
The 1920 anniversary of the
founding of the original New York
Bible Society was observed with 9
special service in the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
Rear Admiral George Francis Faxor
Wilde, U. s. A. (retired), died at his
home, in North Easton, Mass.
Word was received here of the
death OF TOD" Schriver, the aviator
In Ponce Porto Rico.
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have been visited by drought and fam
inc, and the greed of the Chinese mer-
chants has, as usual, made these Gala
mites a pretext for an enormous rise
in the price of provisions. This ex-
cited the starving populace to fury,
and caused disturbances in many
parts of the empire. Riots broke out
in HUMAN at the capital, Chang-sha.
and in Yuan-chow and other towns of
that province, where popular feeling
is hostile to foreigners, and much mis-
sion property was destroyed. Happily,
no lives were sacrificed, at least among
the Protestant Christians. With the
help of a fotilla Of English, German,
Japanese and other foreign g~unboats
the government quickly succeeded In
quelling the disturbances.
Good Work of Missionaries.
In the province or Kan-Su. where
there was also great distress. the mis-
sionaries gained the confidence of the
people by distributing quantities of
food and seed.
Some foreign houses of business. to
their shame be it said. place difficult
ties in the way of the Chinese in the
closing of the opium dens and others
have introduced cigarettes to take the
place of opium. One English firm ac-
tually succeeded, with the help of the
British consul, in securing the reopen
ing of already closed opium shops.
The under secretary of state for India
assured the British parliament that
the An%glo-Indian government could
not shorten the period of ten years
agreed upon between India and China
for the gradual cessation OF the i'm
portation of opium, because such a
measure would put too heavy a strain
on Indian finances, would cause dis
turbances among the taxpayers and
opium growers, and would be a source
of trouble between the Indian govern
ment and the tributary states. In
spite of this, however. England. as well
as all the other civilized countries and
China, agreed to the proposal OF Presi-
dent Taft to hold another information
al opium Observation-Disclosures Re-
view of the World.
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~ALExANDER WINS.

Mayor Who Hired Burns Defeats So
ciaIist Hartman at Los Angeles.
Los Angles, Cal.-Mayor Alexan-
der was reelected Mayor Of Los An
geles by q majority estimated from
10000 to $4,000, defeating Job Harri-
a the only other candidate, in a
campaign in which al sides agree that
the Mcnamara pleas and confessions
had much influence.
Alexander was the candidate Of the
Good Government forces, and Harri-
man of a Socialist element.
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JUDGE RAY CRITICIZED.

Personal, Political and judicial Acts
of Jurist Questioned.
Auburn, N. Y.-Led by John IA.
Brainard, former United States Ref
eree in Bankruptcy, an attack was
made upon United States District
Judge George w. Ray Of Norwich. AT
the Cayuga County Bar Association q
resolution was adopted calling upon
the judiciary Committee Of the House
Of Representatives At Washington tc
investigate Judge Rays personal, poli'
tical and judicial acts.
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He Redeemed Us for Himself.

1t was not enough hat Christ should
deliver us from the condemnation ard
penalty of sin; he has also redeemed
us to himself. to be a people for his
W possession. so that We should be-
come his bond.servants and slaves.
An. what a claim isn This, that be
should be able to putt hand on
each of our members and say. This is
mine; / purchased it for myself and to
use 1t at any prompting but mine is
sacrilege."-F. b. Meyer.
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kICheu d IUULUaiI dIonS LILO nl5AA"~J -
for 80 miles, Boston to Ipswich, In
E IL hours.
Next years race for the interna-
tional a~eronautical cup, to be held in
America because of Weyman's victory
in England this year, will be over a
closed circuit of five kilometres, and
probably in Chicago.
Governor Wilson, addressing the As
bury Park Elks Lodge, on the golden
rule pleaded for a stronger and more
uplifting brotherhood in America.
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After the Robbery.

Woman Ito detrctive)-Why. 1t was
this way: There came a ring at the
door and there stood two men who
said they were from tn gas company.
inspecting meters. They looked SO
dishonest. l thought they WERE. SO !
let them ini
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ttEGtc-Ey uELEGs tN hElHHHHS r1ttN-'
ing sections are cooperating for beau
LITIGATION through systematic use of
shade trees. Each avenue has chosen
one or more varieties, and several
hundred have already been set out, a
row on each side Of the sidewalks,
making four rows to each avenue.
In a quarrel William Paynter, a col
ored ash cart driver employed by the
city, is alleged to have threatened to
kill Special Officer Kirk, of the Victor
Talking Machine plant, Camden, with
an ak, and was taken to the City Hall
at the point Of a revolver. Later PayH-
ter was held under $500 bail on a
charge of assault and battery.
Found hiding under a porch at his
home at Aerial, Frank Norcross was
locked up in the Camden county jail
~ County Detective Doran and Con-
stable Nevins, of Camden, on a charge
of deserving his wife and four chi
dren. He had been sought several
months, having on more than n oc-
casion fooled officers.
After a thorough investigation of
the death of four-year-old Norman Lu-
cas- from carbolic acid, given him in
mistake for a scarlet fever remedy by
his mother, Coroner Leconey. of Riv-
erton, has issued a burial permit. Cir
cumstances surrounding the tragedy,
says that official, are the most pa
thetic of any case ever brought to his
notice.
Run down by a trolley a of the
Public Service Railway Company at
Broadway and Chelton avenue, Cam
den, George Snyder, five years. old, OF
No. 2019 Fillmore street. was SO badly
injured that he died shortly after be-
ing admitted to the Homeopathic Hos
pital. The little fellows skull was
fractured and he sustained body in
juries.
Aroused during the night by the ar
rival of the police patrol in front of
her home al Atlantic City, Mrs. John
s. Jack looked out and saw the officers
lift the unconscious form of a mar
into the vehicle and hurriedly depart
for the City Hospital. Next morning
she learned that the man was her hus-
band and that he had died soon after
reaching the hospital.
=rT
Attracted to the home of Lawyer
Harry c. Kramer, at West Ceilings
wood, by a Pickering light, Policemen
Wilson and Nichols found a self-con-
fessed tGrglar hiding in a corner OF
the cellar. He was taken to the Of
fee of Justice Of the Peace Clark
where he gave the name of Leopold
Rutter, 20 years old, and admitted
that he was only recently released
from State prison, where he served
five years for burglary in Hunterdon
county.
William B. NicoIs, Of Franklinville,
Is clearing 100 acres of husband to
set out in fruit trees.
More deer were seen this season
near Millville by the hunters than
have been seen for years. but only
three were secured. Frank Kane, of
che South Jersey Hunting Club, killed
one at Little Mill. Louis Wathier,
with q Millville party, secured a nice
big buck at Head-of-the-Tuckahoe Riv-
<|t y : - MIN
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Daily Thought.

We sleep. but the loom Of life never
stops; and the pattern which was
weaving when the sun went down Ia
weaving when it ome up tomorrow
Henry Ward Beecher.
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Friends Buy His Freedom.

Sumner A. Walters, a Phillipsburg
chauffeur, who was convicted at Belvi-
dere of felonious assault and jailed
when unable to pay a fine and costs
amounting to $470,36, has been releas-
ed from the prison by his wife paying
the amount, which was contributed by
Walters friends. Walters was run
ming his automobile at reckless speed
and struck a car belonging to John
Smith and family, of Alpha. All were
thrown out and hurt, a child being SO
badly injured that it died a short time
after the accident.
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PRISON TERMS
FOR MNAMARAS
lanes B. Sentenced for Life
and John ]. Gets Is Years.
INQUIRY TO BE NATION WIDE
Escape Extreme PenaIty-Will Be
Questioned by Grand Jury-Prose-
cutor Says the Case Has Just
Hegun-PIans for MeManigai.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Life imprison-
Aent in San Quentin, the prison OPP
posite San Francisco, was the punish
ment melted out to James Barnabas
Mcnamara by Judge Walter Bordwell.
1t is the penalty Mcnamara will pay
for the dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times Building Oct. /, 1910, which
caused the death of 81 employees of
that paper. John Joseph Mcnamara,
his brother, was sentenced to serve 10
years in the same prison. He had
pleaded guilty to participation in the
dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron
Works the Christmas following the
Times explosion. Both men will be
kept here until they appear before the
federal grand jury which is to begin
a nationwide probing of the dynamit-
ers' organization.
The proceedings in court included
the reading by District Attorney Fred
ericks of the brief confession of James
B. Mcnamara. The confession, pen
ned by McNamara's own hand and
bearing many evidences of a man lit
tie skilled in letters, follows:
!, James B. McNamara, defendant
In the case of the People, having here
tofore pleaded guilty to the crime OF
murder, desire to make this statement,
and this is the truth:
On the night of September 80, 1910,
at 5.45 p. m, | placed in Ink Alley, a
portion Of the "Times" Building, a
suitcase containing sixteen sticks of
80 per cent. dynamite, set to explode
at / o'clock the next morning. It was
my Intention to- injure the building
and scare the owners. did not In
tend to take the life of any one. !
sincerely regret that these unfor-
tunate men lost their lives. If the Civ
ing Of my life would bring them back
| would uIadIy give 1t. In fact. In
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sin

sin is separation from God. Death
ia separation from life. Hell is sep
aration from heaven.-Rey. j. B. Ely.
Presbyterian. Philadelphia.
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A Noble Sacrifice.

81 understand that her father died
in the insane asylum"
Eyes, he did,"
That's too bad. too bad"
"Oh, 1 don't know. He accumulat-
ed a million dollars before he went
in"
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NATIONAL GUARD
NEEDS SEA GIRT
Quartermaster General Murray
Opposes Abandonment.
TIME is NOT YET RIPE
The Cost of Maintaining the Militia
During 1911 Was $a59,547, IncIud-
ing Federal Appropriation
of $95, 1854.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Quartermaster General G. Edward
Murray has taken issue with Adjutant
General Wilbur F. Sadler, and in his
annual report, submitted to Governor
Wilson, says the time is not yet ripe
for the abandonment of Sea Girt as
the annual encampment. General Muir
ray thinks that the Government may
have other plans for the National
Guard, and suggests that it would be
we'll to hesitate before taking such an
important step. He says that it is
doubtless the intention of the Wal De
partment in the near future to pro-
cure desirable sites for field maneu-
vers of the organized militia, and that
for the Fourth division, comprising
New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvan-
la, the camp grounds would probably
be in Pennsylvania.
General Murray's report shows that
the total expenses for maintaining the
Guard during the past year have been
1858, 547,07, Including the Federal ap-
pIOpIldUlOu, dIuOuutllS " YoO,AO1,OV.
If a plan formulated by Adjutant
General Sadler, calling for an entire
reorganization of the Guard, is favor
ed by legislative enactments many
field and staff officers may lose their
places. The plan is to be submitted
to Governor Wilson, and the Execu-
tive will be asked to recommend a
bill for the reorganization of the
Guard.
Great secrecy has been maintained
by General Sadler and those aiding
him in the formulation of the plan,
but some of the details have become
known. The adjutant general wants
the militia reorganized strictly on the
lines of the field service regulations
of the United States army, and a bill
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Glass Town Hard Hit.

Glass Town Hard Hit.
A receiver has been asked for the
Brothers Glass Company, at Clayton,
by DR.. Edward Moore, president OF
the company. The situation has been
for a long time such that this step
became necessary, as the plant has
been idle since last June. An attempt
was made to resume work in OctotS,,
but the blowers would not go to work
until full settlement was made for
wages due for last season. 1t was
practically a strike and few men are
receiving weekly allowances from the
Glassblowers' Association. Blowers be-
gan to go elsewhere, and it is said
that a number of good orders held by
the company are being filled at other
plants.
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PENNS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER s.. 1911. NUN
WeKTFGHEN
2a@ABINET

m ACK of the loaf is the snowy
49, flour,
And back of the flour Is the mill;
Back of the mill the wheat and the
shower
And the sun and the Fathers will.
-Babcock.
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Personal

James Whitcomb Riley, suffering
two years from paralysis says he a
written his last poem.
Governor eddie of Nevada, gazing
at the volume passing over Niagara,
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Borough Clerk Hiram Vanmeter, OF
Elmer, has issued over ESQ cunning
licenses during the present season.
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A new hotel in curse of erection at
Wildwood is being built of concrete
bricks, made on the premises.
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Ger, as oIICIcnU aru as w.. ~A~-rr~~
as the regular" in case he is called
upon by the Government to act in
time of war.
General Sad1er recently gave an in
timation that he was not satisfied
with the present National Guard when
in his annual report to the Governor
he insisted that there were too many
"frills" in that organization.
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IN ALL PARTS
OF new JERSEY
TeIegraphed Localities Cover
ing the Entire State.
Cuttings From Late dispatches That
Epitomize the News Of the State
for a Week-Fishermen Report
Good Luck at Coast Resorts.

Sewing has been introduced in the
Bridgeton public schools.
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Buffalo has adopted vaccination
against typhoid.

President Taft has consented to at
tend the citizens peace dinner to De
given in New York on Dec. 80.
Martin Littleton, on the opening OF
the Sixty-second Congress, denied thai
he had sold out" to the Steel Trust.
When Homer Austin, d Sufheio,
Mass, farmer, went the rounds OF ms
traps, he found a panther weighing "
pounds in a fox trap.
Two persons, a man and a woman
while returning from the opera were
shot to death by highwaymen in oli-
ferent parts of Chicago.
1t is estimated by X. R. Kenna, sup
ervisor of the Wisconsin income tax
that the state will realize at least Sl'-
0eO. 900 from the tax the first year.
Lord" George Sanger, the veteran
retired Snowman, known as the Bar
mum of England, was murdered by an
employe on his farm. He was "a years
of age.
Henry B. Martin Of the Antitrust
League has filed a petition OF I'M
peachment against Martin Littleton
with the Speaker of the House at
Washington.
Walter Drew, chief counsel to the
National Erectors' Association, said
labor leaders were rushing to tell
everything they knew to get immunl-
ty.
Several persons, including convicts,
were injured and four buildings dyna-
mited before fire which broke out in
the state penitentiary at Huntsville,
Texas, was extinguished.
The Union National Bank of Column
bus, Ohio, suspended business; the
last statement of the banks condition
showed a~ggregating $780,
300.
Benjamin j. Duveen of the SNUG
Cling art firm which d~efrauded the
Government of millions of dollars was
fined $4,000 by Judge Holt, in New
York.
Suit against the National Cash Regi-
ster Company, of Dayton, Ohio, was
filed in the United States Circuit
Court at Cincinnati; the company was
charged with being in a conspiracy in
restraint or competition.
Attorneys for the indicted Chicago
meat-packers, in an effort to put of
their trial on criminal charges. petit
toned the United States Supreme
Court to declare the criminal sections
of the Sherman act unconstitutional.
The Government sued the National
Cash Register Company, charging con-
spiracy in restraint of trade, but not
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HEN a main amt got no ideas
of his own, he'd ought to be
kind of careful who he borrows from.
Owen Wister.
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The new library of the Pilesgrove
Library Association was opened to
the public.
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Pork Prices InexcusabIe.

Pork Prices
Farmers do not altogether under
stand the pork situation in Woodbury..
They are receiving only So per hun
bred as against $12 last season, while
the retail price for pork chops and
sausage is 20 cents a pound. Farmers
declare they have never seen finer
pork than that produced this year,
and there seems to be plenty of it.
The farmers also claim that the
high price the consumer is forced to
pay is up to the retailer entirely.
Want Geran Law Changed.
Resolutions were adopted by the
Trenton Council of the United Com
mercial Travellers asking for a change
in the Geran election law which would
do away with personal registration In
a case where the voter was absent
from his city IN the various registry
days. A legislative committee was ap-
pointed to present the views OF the
association to the Governor and the
Legislature.
Woodstown's School Problem.
The voters of Woodstown district
will decide on the proposition to lease
the Bacon Academy and purchase the
adjoining property for $4,000 and to
authorize the erection of a school
building at a cost of 100000. There
is no question but that more school
facilities are needed, but the proposf-
ton is a big one. 1t is c~ontended
that with a building of the capacity
mentioned, the school will be a paying
investment, as pupils from outlying
districts are coming into central
schools more each year
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earees nsse aised iay ne -
ha1ds 5f Ene stag
JAMES 2, @NEN @sA
TIE prisoners faced the sentences
braYely Nathec 2fofQ' 9o7n 3i
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C. P. Fox, of Daretown, has secured
a patent on a wheat-cleaner.
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Br1QSeUOu pupllC
C. P. Fox, of Daretown, has secured
a patent on a wheat-cleaner.
A new hotel in course of erection at
Wildwood is being built of concrete
bricks, made on the premises.
Borough Clerk Hiram Vanmeter, of
Elmer, has issued over ESQ cunning
licenses during the present season
The new library of the Pilesgrove
Library Association was opened to
the public.
More than $4,000 square feet Of ce-
ment walks have been laid in Millville
during eight months.
A photograph of the first company
of militia in Vineland has been pre-
scented to the Historical Society by
John A. Ackley.
The new stack erected at the WHIT
ney Glass Works, Glassboro contains
more than $4,000 bricks and cost ST.
500.
The Ankokas Canoe Club, of Mount
Holly, has acquired land on which a
handsome club house will be erected
in time for use next year.
A large auto-truck each morning
takes 80 cans of milk from Woods
town, getting into Philadelphia before
the early trains.
Miss Ethel Etter, teacher in the
Pennsgrove School, has resigned and
accepted a similar position in the
C1,fb At1anfio Cifu schools
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ing sections are cooperating for beau
LITIGATION through systematic use of
shade trees. Each avenue has chosen
one or more varieties, and several
hundred have already been set out, a
row on each side of the sidewalks,
making four rows to each avenue