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The Penn's Grove record., 1911-11-24

Elijah got as far as the door, then
turned. He saw Sabina looking hope
lessly out of the window.
"Sabina," he said, softly, Il didn't
mean that. l don't want to hurt your
feelings. l want to make you happy.
Haven't / shown you how much !
think of your"
YES" she replied, five hundred
dollars worth, with interest"
Elijah slammed the door as he went
out. At the gate he met Jethro Jones,
who was turning In.
Good morning, Elijah Jethro said.
cheerfully. Trying to cut me out?"
HUH" growled Elijah, hurrying on.
So it came that when Sabina opened
the door for Jethro her eyes were red
and her face was pale. Jethro's prompt
inquiry as to what was wrong was
answered by a tumultuous account OF
the whole affair.
And so you expected your turkeys
to pay the INTEREST,"" Jethro smiled.
"Ye-yes," faltered Sabina.
We'll, excuse the language, but
darn Elijah's skin and his skin game,
too! l wish there was a way for you
to trip him up"
Jethro's sympathy led him on to
other statements and remarks having
nothing TO DO with the turkeys or the
mortgage or Elijah Green, but he did
not find Sabina any more responsive
than she had been to Elijah. In fact
she was not even as responsive. She
pointed out to Jethro that If she mar
ried him people would say he simply
took her out of pity because she had
lost her home. Jethro went away
marveling greatly at the ~unreasoning
powers of women.
Next day he hurried up the walk to
Sabina's door, while she was putting
away her breakfast things prepare
tory to going to the schoolhouse.
I've got it, Sabina!" he exclaimed.
I've got the idea. Now, you let me
sell your turkeys for you, and don't
interfere with me at all, and I'll make
them bring the money you want"
To this, after much persuasion, Sa-
bina agreed. She went to her school
with a lighter heart than she had had
for some time. 1t was true that Jeth'
70 was going to do this because OF his
friendship for her-but then there
we're friendships and friendships, she
told herself.
Acting under Jethro's instructions
Sabina did not sell a turkey until a
e. rrt- -1~z-i-ir~ Doant<
who called and asked for one were
told that she was not yet ready to
sell.
When Jethro Jones got Elijah Green
to change five hundred dollars in bank
notes into gold coin for him, Elijah
asked:
Like gold better than greenbacks
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FOrei6n

England's 22d dreadnaught, the Cen
turion, was launched at Devonport.
Diplomatic relations between Russia
and Persia have ceased.
The excess of deaths over births IN
France during the first six months OF
1911 was stated officially to be 1879.
Gustave Michiels, the composer, one
of whose hits was Tar-ra-ra Boom de
Ay,' died in Brussels.
Roberts got away with $6OO,OOo
from an unguarded van on the Marseil-
les special mail train. The looted bags
were destined for India and China.
In the hearing in London concerning
the Olympic-Hawke collision, the Ad-
miralty tried to show that suction OF
the liner was to blame.
Russia ordered troops to Persia, as
Mr.. Shuster, American financial ageat,
refused to recede from his stand in
the taxation dispute.
Under the dominance of General
Chang, the Viceroy, a reign of terror
for rebels has been instituted in Nan
kin.
According to Russia's premier, s.
600. 900 persons are threatened with
famine, because of the poor crops, and
the authorities are preparing to spend
$4,000, 900 in relief measures.
Yuan Shih-kai assumed the Premier
ship of China.
A national strike of miners in Eng
land was temporarily averted by the
failure of the mems delegates to order
a referendum.
twenty-five paintings by German
and Dutch masters, have been cut
from their frames in the famous Lust
schloss gallery at Schleissheim, Ger
many. There is no clue to the thieves
Yuan Shi Kai was received at Pc
king with great JOY. Gen Chang reach
ed Tientsin at the same time going to
the foreign quarter.
Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte,
widow of a grandson of Jerome Bona
parte, brother of the first Emperor and
granddaughter of Daniel Webster, died
at her home in Washington. aged sev
enty-two.
Mrs. Augusta E. StetsDn has renew.
e d her campaign to succeed Mrs. Ed.
DIV as leader of the Christian Science
| Church.
Edgar w. Mix. the American aero
naut who committed suicide on Sun
dav. left letters feelings of his mental
depression and of his fear that he was
losing his mind.
Colombia's refusal to arrest Castro
has caused serious unrest in Venezue
la.
4 earthquake was feis in Southern
Germany, the shocks being especially
severe in Stuttgart and Frankfort.
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IErs evening NC ruilvu oroi ~
SabiEa five hundred and sixty-three
dollars and fifty cents, telling her
what he had done.
1T wasn't honest, Jethro." she OBJ.
jected. you've got to give it back
to Elijah"
Further discussion of this ethical
point was interrupted by Elijah, who
burst into the house angrily.
"You-you scoundrel!" he shouted.
shaking his fist at Jethro. "You rob-
beri You bunco man! There wasn't
a thing in those turkeys crops but
brass pool checksi You swindled me.
I'll have the law on you"
well, Elijah" Jethro smiled, cas-.
lily, "Sabina and | have just been talk.
ing the matter over, and | agree with
Sabina that it wasn't quite fair to
make you take your own medicine.
Now, if you'll agree to be reasonable
and to take Sabina's turkeys for the
interest that is due you, I'll give you
back your money. And, of course
she'll have to have plenty of time to
pay off the mortgage, because II peo'
pie found out about your turkey deal
they'd make so much fun of you"
"All right" Elijah snapped. But
how's she goin' to pay the principal?'
That" Jethro replied, dropping his
arm about Sabina's waist, rs some
thing I'll have to advise her about
mhon VIC nra m orriadv
AS the gate clicked after the de
parting form of Elijah Green, Jethrc
lifted Sabina's chin again, but before
kissing her he observed:
you ought to have had me as sales
manager long ago, Sabina."
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Mrs. Booth Harrington was granted

Mrs. Booth Harrington was granted
a decree of absolute divorce.
The Federal authorities in Texas
seized arms and ammunition hidden
there for future use by Mexican rebels.
DIR. Charles w. Eliot was warmly re-
ceived by the parliamentary arbitra-
ton group in the French Senate.
Archbishops Farley and Falconia,
who are to be made cardinals, sailed
from New York for Rome.
The Commerce Court held the long
and short haul clause of the Interstate
commerce law constitutional.
Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smith, Of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese OF
Pennsylvania, died suddenly of heart
disease at his home in Philadelphia.
Before adjourning its annual meet
ing in Richmond, Va. the National
Municipal League decided on a plan
for an exhaustive study of local option.
Mrs. Eva L. Emo and Miss Ada l..
Sanford. twin sisters, SO years old, OF
New Britain, Conn, were found dead
in a gas-illed room in Brooklyn.
The Supreme Court decided that the
Interstate Commerce Commission did
moi have power to prevent charges for
grain ~elevating in transit.
Generoso Chaldia, Ex-Governor Of
Colon province, asked President TAFT
to recall Governor Thatcher, of the
Panama Canal zone.
Seventy-ive business men on West
Madison street, Chicago, asked Mayor
Harrison to drop his vice crusade, as
trade has fallen off. He refused.
The ST. Louis & San Francisco Rail-
road made a deal with the Louisville
& Nashville, giving it the route to Mo-
bile and New Orleans, which it failed
to obtain from the Gould system.
Detectives learned that Luigi Bono,
the grocer who was murdered with a
Ratchet on the roof of a New York ten
ement, gave evidence which helped
convict the Lupo gang of counterfeit
ers.
DR.. Eugene Wasdin, a foremost vel
low fever expert and who assisted in
the operation on President Mckinley
after he was shot at Buffalo, died in a
sanatorium near Philadelphia.
Representative Jews met in the New
York law office of Senator O'Gorman.
who, with Senator Root, heard their
appeals for aid in the fight against
Russia over passports.
President Taft had his first Cabinet
council in nearly three months. II
was practically decided to split the
message to Congress into two or more
parts.
Under friendly questioning of De
tective Cavanaugh, Matteo Dellomo
wept and confessed he had murdered
his mother, sister and little niece II
Brooklyn.
Tha nnnnino of the oDera season a.
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Jul " neI una. NC uluI ! nOou Inc
money and wanted to invest it, and
that SO long as she paid the interest
on it she need lever bother about
repaying it.
Its just putting that much money
out at interest, for me-" he smiled.
And it will relieve you of worry over
what you may owe, SO you can man
g your place and make it pay you"
When Sabina signed the mortgage
notes and received Elijah's check she
had her first almost-tender feeling
toward him. And when she went to
him and asked him to give her a lit
tie more time on the interest, she had
been really affected by his generous
agreement.
Don't let 1t worry you a minute,
Sabina," he said. PAY it when you
can. l don't consider it a real bust
ness matter-between me and you,
you know"
But now Sabina owed him ninety
dollars, just for interest alone.
Now, Sabina was not the conven-
tional maiden lady in reduced circum-
stances. She was not a haggard, thin,
woebegone woman of uncertain years,
eking out an existence. She was just
twenty-five years old, neat and pretty,
and it took all she made teaching
school to keep her. She had relied
on her turkeys to pay the interest at
least. How in the world she should
ever pay the principal of the mort
gage had not occurred to her.
But Elijah, with ninety dollars in
terest coming to him, was not the
Elijah who had so generously loaned
her the money. Elijah was telling her
that times were hard and money was
close, and although he hated to do it,
he simply had to have money to meet
his own obligations. So, since the
mortgage was overdue, and the in
terest was unpaid-why-
"I1l do the best | can to raise the
money, Elijah" Sabina said. I've got
forty-nine turkeys, and when l sell
them
But f%orty-nine turkeys won't bring
you over sixty dollars" Elijah said.
You'll get about ten cents a pound
for them, and mighty few OF them
weigh more than twelve pounds"
Sabina looked out into the orchard,
where her turkeys were strolling
about. Elijah leaned toward her:
Haven't you changed your mind,
Sabina?" he asked.
Changed my mind? About what?'
About marrying me-"
Sabina turned to him, with her eyes
flashing.
well, Elijah Green! So that was
why you made me let you lend me
that money, and that was why you
we're so nice about the interest, and
that was"
mo, no, MOI" Elijah cried, squirm-
ing. 81 never thought of that. l lent
you the money because | loved you"
"And now you want YOU money
back because you love it." she said.
coldly.
Elijah arose, with an air OF grossly
injured innocence.
after such an insult as that" he
said, "you cannot expect me to con-
slider the mortgage a personal matter.
or one between friends. shall have
to place it with my attorney unless
you make a satisfactory settlement
by-by Thanksgiving day" This with
a malicious glance toward the tur-
keys, which were pursuing the even
tenor Of their ways, little thinking OF
he part they were playing.
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trail INES uecIueu 70 spcnu p1V,VVV,v~S
for new rolling stock and the Baltl-
more and Ohio $780, 900.
The confession of B. G. Spencer, on
trial at Springfield for the murder OF
Miss Blackstone, was admitted in evil
dence.
Gov. .Hawley of Idaho denounced
President Taft for pardoning Clarence
w. Robnett, a bank embezzler, on the
eve of a ten-year-prison term.
Gov. Mann of Virginia refused to in
terfere with the sentence of death
passed on Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, for
the murder of his wife.
1t was announced at Ithaca, N. Y,
that Tompkins County had voted
against all the constitutional amend
ments submitted to the people at the
recent election.
Representative Henry has drafted a
bill defining just what a trust is and
directing two to ten years imprison-
ment for violators of the antitrust
laws.
Thirteen men, officials of the Balti-
mors & Ohio and Lehigh Valley rail-
roads, were indicted in New York by
a federal grand jury, charging them
with giving or accepting rebates on
freight shipments from New York to
Western points.
In an editorial in "The Outlook"
Theodore Roosevelt said the present
anti-trus. laws were inadequate, de-
MED that he was deceiced by the Steel
Trust regarding the Tennessee Coal
and Iron purchase and expressed dls-
satisfaction at the settlement OF the
Tobacco case.
In granting new trials to 6. j. Gould
and J. L. Satterlee, ordered to pay
s539, 900 for losses incurred by the
trust Company of the Republic, the
New York Appellate Division held di-
rectors were not responsible for the
"small every day transactions OF the
corporations of which they were direc-
tors"
w. S. S. Dickson, member OF a
prominent English family, is under
bail on charge of taking jewels valued
al SO, 900 belonging to his hostess,
Mrs. Olga Won w Haskell. Of Mime
apolis.
The six delegates from Delaware 70
the next Democratic National Conven'
ton will doubtless be selected by al
rect primaries.
A mock lion roared through San
Francisco's Chinatown and COLLECTED
$40, 900 for the Chinese Red Cross 80
ciety. F-irecrackers and a Chinese
band aided the lions roar.
The First Presbyterian Church OF
Brooklyn celebrated its 9Oth annlver
sary and a gift of 100000 to the en-
dowment fund by Mrs. Roxy B. smith,
widow of William Van Rensselaer,
Smith, was announced.
Business men and clergymen in New
York united in an appeal to the pupilc
to oppose "paternalistic legislation OF
all kinds"
Robert G. Fowler, who is attempting
= 'cross-continent flight in an aero
plane. after making e~ighty-four miles
was obliged to land at Pecos, Tex, on
account of engine troaoles.
Having drawn the straw designating
him as the man to kill ]. H. McCabe
manager Of the Bogalusa (La.) Lum
bet mill. and failing to do 50, a mem
bers OF the Black Hand was murderer
by four confsderates.
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Turkeys Credited TO india.

In 1924 the first mention Of turkeys
in England is noted, and evidently
they were brought to Europe by mer-
chants who came by way of the Lee
want, a confusion of the West Indies
and East Indies resulting in the be-
stowal of a wrong name. The present
French names of dindes and dindons
show that they were believed to have
come from the Indies. BY 1541 Eng
lish gourments had realized the value
of the turkey and a rule was promul-
gated by Archbishop Cranmer pro-
hibiting the serving of more than one
at a feast. Fourteen years later they
had become SO common that records
show they were sold for as little as
four shillings each, and by 1873 we'll
TODD farmers were accustomed +
serve them for Christmas and othe
state occasions.
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spendthrift Trust for Earl.

Pending the settlement of her suit
for divorce against Binney Woodward
Earl, her husband, of Edgmonte Park.
Mrs. Irma Leigh Earl was allowed Site
counsel fees and SO per week alimony
by Vice Chancellor Walker. The mo-
ten Tor alimony was refused TWO
weeks ago because of the lack o. cor
raboration of the allegations in the
divorce petitions. John H. Backes,
Mrs. Earls counsel, presented physi-
clans affidavits in support OF the
claims set out in the petition
The allowance vas granted despite
the plea of counsel that Earl had abso-
lutely no erning capacity and no in
come outside that allowed by his moth
er from the estate of his late million
aire father. The action of the Court
practically creates a ~spendthrift trust
Tor Earl.
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LONG DELAY IN
ELECTION CASES
Atlantic County Fraud Trials
Held Up For CertiOrari.
REVIEWS WERE APPLIED FOR
Counsel for Bowman Charged with
Voting Questions Powers of Eli
sor-Drawn Grand Jury-8o
Similar Indictments.

Trenton.-In the application made
before the main branch of the Su-
preme Court for a writ of certiorari to
review the Indictment of Frank r.
Bowman, charged with voting twice
at the same election in Atlantic City
last year, all of the so or more indict-
ments found by the special jury for
election frauds in Atlantic county are
indirectly involved. The application
was made by George A. Bourgeois and
former Supreme Court Justice Gilbert
Collins, representing Bowman, and
was opposed by Attorney General Ed
mund Wilson, who argued for the
validity of the Grand Jury selected by
elisors designated by Supreme Court
Justice Kalisch when Sheriff Johnson
was indicted.
1t was submitted by Attorney Cen
eral Wilson that even should the writ
be allowed to review the Indictment it.
self it should not bring up for review
the question as to the Grand Jury's
validity. Should the Court decide to
review the action of Justice Kalisch in
appointing elisors the present writ
would in all probability be followed by
similar applications of the others un-
der indictment. This would mean an
indefinite delay in bringing the &C
cused politicians to trial, a condition
which the Attorney General is anxious
to avoid.
In presenting his application for the
writ Mr.. Bourgeois commended that
there is no power to hold a special
term of the Court of Oyer and Termi-
ner and to empanel a Grand Jury at
such term for the purpose of return
ing indictments.
The Governor and Sheriff were both
elected by the people" continued coun-
sci. "As to their holding Office, they
were on a level with one another, and
it cannot be that the Governor, elect
ed by the people, through the Court
or a Judge appointed by him, can,
! without a hearing and opportunity to
The Penn's Grove record., 1911-11-24
.SLAY MESSENGER
IN HIS CAR
irving G. Barger Found Dead
When Train Reaches Scranton.
ROBBER ESCAPES WITH LOOT
Murder to Make Lie Good-Bishie
Killed Express Messenger to Get
Money to Give to His
Mother.

Scranton, Pat vas to make gooo
IN a lie which William P. Bishie had
old his mother that prompted him to
plan the murder of United States Ex-
press Messenger Barger and the rob-
oery of the express car OF the Lacka-
wanna railroad. In his confession Bis
lie. said that until the last two weeks,
when he was employed by the express
company, he had not worked for a
ong time, although he had been hang
ng around the LackaWanna station at
Kingston, Pa. He had told his mother
hat he was working and she was con-
inually asking him for money for his
board.
In order to get the money, Bishie
said, for several days he had been
planning the murder and robbery and
aad picked Barger and his car because
be knew that this messenger always
placed his money on the desk as he
neared the station instead. of leaving
it in the safe until the train stopped.
Bishie says that when the train ar
rived at Taylor, three miles below
here, he raped on the door of the ex-
press car on the side furthest away
from the station platform and when
the door opened he asked Barger for a
ride to Scranton. The express mes
senger knowing him violated the rules
of the company by telling him to climb
on.
The murderer says he waited until
the engine whistled at the curve just
before reaching Scranton and then he
stepped behind Berger and blew the
mans brains out. Selling the money
he jumped from the train and on the
bridge crossing the river he took the
money from the envelopes and threw
checks and other papers and his revol
yer in the river. He went then to a
moving picture show and later went to
the hotel where he was arrested and
-rnr+ ~ had with his clothes On.
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GIVES UP RICH PULPIT.

Or. Arundel to Leave Trinity Church,
Pittsburgh to Preach Socialism.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-The Rev. DR.. Al
fred W. Arundel, rector of Trinity
Church, the richest in Pittsburgh, and
one of the most prominent Episcopa-
liam priests in America, will hence
forth preach the doctrine of Christian
Socialism.
After twenty years of association
with Trinity parish DR.. Arundel has
decided to leave, despite overtures to
have him remain. A year ago he clear
ly enunciated his socialist beliefs in a
series of ermon for laboring men.
since that time his views have become
known broadcast and DR.. Arundel now
is considering a proposition from a
great body of New York laymen of the
church to become a socialistic evan
geliSt.
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WEEKS NEWS
STORIES RETOLD
Events That Made a Stir Con-
densed to a Paragraph.
WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING
News Of Interest That Trlckics From
the White Hopge and the Various
Departments - Catalogue OF
Grimes ard Casualties.
WASHINGTON

John w. Garrett, Minister to Vene-
zuela, was appointed Minister to Ar
g%entina.
The trustees of the postal savings
banks announced that they would pur-
chase postal savings bonds at par.
Chairman Stanley of the House com
mittee which is investigating the Steel
Trust said he doubted the candor Oh
Messrs. Gary and Frick in making e4-
President Roosevelt their "father con
fessor."
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tarred MISS CnamuerIaIn u on~~y
Bend. Kan. n of them a wealthy
man, pleaded guilty to assault n
battery.
A gift of $4,000 worth of vacuum
cleaners has been made to the Red
Cross to be used as prizes for those
who sell the most Red Cross seals,
the money from which goes to fight
tuberculosis.
A gold watch and pin, three dia-
mond rings and a gold locket and chain
that were stolen from Mrs. Emma
Shuck, of Newark, more than three
years ago have been returned to her
by mail.
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vainly endeavored to make that sum
equal the amount she needed to pay
the interest on the mortgage held on
her little place by Elijah Green.
Elijah was the local money lender
and note shaver. When Elijah had
concluded the preliminaries of a loan
with you, you began to realize why he
was rich. He could bind you to more
different impossible agreements than
any one else. Elijah owned farm after
farm-all the result of his shrewdness
in the money-lending line. AS to shay
ing notes, he was credited with cut
ting out everything but the date and
adding that to his discount.
When he induced Miss Sabina Pen
nell to borrow five hundred dollars
from him and to give him a mortgage
upon her little place, he had really
acted more decently than ever before.
He did not want Sabina's place. What
he wanted was Sabina herself. He
had proposed to her-proposed In
about the tone and with about as
much sentiment as he usually mani
tested when he offered to lend one
third the value of a farm for a mort
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$4,000 TO CARDINAL GIBBONS.

Donor to Catholic University Gives
Fifty $1,000 Bills to Hide Identity.
Baltimore, Md.-Cardinal Gibbons
was presented with fifty $1,000 bills by
a donor who refused to make the gift
in check form for fear his identity
would be learned.
Although one of the stipulations OF
the gift was that absolute secrecy be
maintained, it was learned here that
the given is John ]. Ryan, a master
builder of Philadelphia, who built the
Catholic Cathedral in Richmond, Va,
and is connected with a lumber OF
leading Catholic clubs and charities.
The purpose of the gift, as an
nouneed by Mr.. Ryan, is to found a
chair in the new Gibbons Memorial
Hall of the Catholic University in
Washington.
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TO De nearu, anu IA "Hto
ly to be indicted were deprived OF hav-
ing their case presented before a jury
drawn by the Sheriff according to the
statute and, therefore, without due
process of the law, in that no oppor.
tunity was allowed to the officer OF the
people to refute the accusation made
against him."
The last reason assigned by Mr..
Bourgeois was that there is no pow
er, either at the common law or by
statute, to appoint elisors to draw and
summon a jury. The Court reserved
decision.
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well, I've really taken them on
commission" Jethro explained. I've
got them over at our place now, in
the back yard. Maybe you'd like to
pick out a nice fat one for your
folks"
Elijah was willing, and accompa-
MED Jethro. Into the back yard they
went, and walked among the turkeys.