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The Penn's Grove record., 1912-02-16

Swiss engineers have convinced the
Russian government that 1t is per-
fectly feasible to bore a tunnel
through the Caucasian mountains near
Tilhis, in order to join the Black and
Caspian seas. This will be a tremend-
Gus undertaking, as the tunnel will be
about sixteen miles in length, and the
Russian government had practically
decided that it was beyond the limit
of reality. However, the Swiss experts
have reported that the tunnel could
be built within seven years without
much difficulty, but at a great ex-
pense. A Paris firm of bankers, 1t Is
understood, is supporting the enter
prise which will be put into execution
about the early part of 1913.
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- NE Of the great fundamental
AYAA truths of ChrtEtianity is the
SLN deity of Christ. This truth
W/TA is n of the foundation
49, doctrines of the whole BIZ
BILE; and yet this truth, most plainly
expressed in the BibleIs disbelieved
by thousands of protesting Christians.
| have often wondered as to what
there is about Christ's deity which
should lead any protesting Christian
to deny it. Certainly. nothing can be
gained by the denial, but. on the con-
trary. a great deal is lost by It, The
TACT Is. there V would have been
a New Testament, such as we now
have, had not Christ been verify God
In flesh. Indeed. the Old Tektament
would be largely valueless and mean
ingless If Christ were not pre-eminent-
ly divine. ever in various ways By the
Old Testament prophecies. types. and
ordinances. And the New Testament
very distinctly proclaims Christ's de-
fty. In the Gospel of John. 1:3. (.
this truth is made remarkably clear
and pronounced. Rev. DR. C.. l. SEQ
field, in referring to that passage.
says: we have the announcement
concerning the deity OF lie Lord Jesus
Christ that in the beginning was the
word, and the word was with God.
and the word was God. Now there
is 10 explaining away OF that state
ment. and | believe that the hostility
manifested by the forces destructive
to Christianity. within and without
the church, to the Gospel of John. Is
due primarily to the fact that there
Is no avoiding or evading it. If the
Gospel of John stands as a divine
book. the question of the deity Of the
Lord Jesus Christ is settled IN the
very first verse of it. I DO not believe
that the proof of the deity of the Lord
Jesus Christ rests only upon that
statement. only say that opening
verse, there is gathered up the affirm
alive, which has many illustrations
and many lines of proof in Scripture.
that he is indeed very God. The
same was in the beginning with God"
OF no other person on earth was 1t
eve said in the Bible. or by divine
authority, that he existed with God
before the foundation of this world.
No prophet, priest. Or apostle ever
had the presumption to say. or even
the desire to say. that he was with
God before his own birth. Further
more, If Christ were not God ip-hA
man form. then he wa the greatest
impostor that this world ever knew of.
He could not have been even a moral
man.
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PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY Is. 1912.
a .Ulnt committee of the Massachu.

a JuInr committee of the Massactu.
sets Legislature made a systematic
attempt to end the Lawrence strike.
Conditions in Mexico have grown SO
much worse more United States troops
are to be hurried to the border.
George De Hart for forty-five years
the village blacksmith" of New
Brunswick, N. J., is dead at his home
in that city. He never rode on a train.
Governor Dix has removed F. Wyck.
er from the Office of sheriff of Onon.
daga County for farming out convict
labor for his own profit.
F. M. Ryan, president of the Inter
national Association Of Fridge and
Structural Iron Workers, called for a
special fund of $1,000 monthly.
David Graham Phillips, the author,
who was murdered in 1911, by a mad
man, left an estate of $13, 900. The roy
alties on his books amounted to $12,-
225.
Sixty-two private automobiles and a
large garage were destroyed in a
fire in Kansas City, Mo. A can Of
gasoline exploded. The loss was
1920, 900.
After having $4,000 volts of cleo
tricity pass through his body Wilbur
S%crudders of Johnstown, Pa, went to
work the next day with only a little
stiffness in his muscles.
Solicitor McCabe, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, issued a state
ment denying the charges made
against the department in connection
with the Florida Everglades.
A Polish girl, known only as Fran
els, employed in the home of l.. Fried
man, Brooklyn, was frozen to death
while crossing the meadows between
Canarsie Landing and Barren Island.
Supporters of President Taft decid-
ed to open headquarters in Washing
ton, with Representative William B.
Mckinley, chairman of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee,
in charge.
Charles w. Morse, the banker who
was released from prison on commute
IiOh vi oCAtcHCS ny lie TTGSlu6uL lOl-
lowing the report of physicians that
he had "only a few days to live" re-
turned to New York.
Automobile owners and c~hauffeurs
have contributed 1878, 290 to the state
for licenses for the fiscal year which
began February 1, according to a
statement by Edward Lazlnsky, Secre-
tary of State, made public at Albany.
All the walters of the United States
Military Academy at West Point went
on strike against extra kitchen work.
Cadets had to wait for their dinner un-
til some of the soldiers from the regu-
lar army could be pressed into ser
vice.
Fifty delegates have been elected at
Nome to the Alaska Republican Terri
torial Convention. They were all in
structed for the denomination of
President Taft. They will have to
travel 1900 miles on dog sleds to at
tend the convention which will be
held at Cordova.
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By forcing the issue from start to
finish Carl Morris, the Oklahoma
giant, ou%tpointed Jim Stewart, the
heavyweight, in a hot ten round bat
tie in Brooklyn.
Catcher George Schiel, formerly Of
the New York Giants, has been re-
leased to the Louisville American
League team by the Chicago Nation
ais.
At Los Angeles a new motor cycle
champion sprang into fame at the
opening of the new third mile saucer
track when w. E. Hasha of Dallas,
Texas, decisievly defeated Jake Roster
of Indianapolis.
Stanislaus Cyzaniewicz, known on
the mat as Zbyszko, a champion wrest-
Ter of Poland, won his wrestling match
against Giovanni Raicevich, a cham
pion of Italy, at Madison Square Gar
den, New York.
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to give 1t its proper title. has for
more than a century been known as
george Washington's church" not
only because he attended It's services
more regularly than those at any 9TH
er church, but because he was a MEM
Der and a pew-holder at this church.
1t was, indeed, while Washington
was a member that the congregation
In the year 1867 built the stately
house Of worship which has not only
defed all the ravages of time but is in
regular use to this day and has been,
even within very recent years, the
scene of many interesting religious
ceremonies. Something Of George
Washington's interest In the new
church may be surmised from the fact
that when 1t came to assigning pews
in the new edif1ce he outbid all other
members in the competition to win
first choice of location and subscribed
the record-breaking price of nearly
$3.50 for the pew upon which his fancy
had fallen and which he regularly oc-
cupied IN almost every Sunday there
after. This pew is marked with a sill
yer plate bearing a fac-simile of Wash
ington's autograph, and 1t is interest
ing to note that just across the aisle
is the pew long held by the Lees of
Virginia and which was occupied prior
to the Civil wal by Gen. Robert e.
Lee, the military leader OF the Con-
federacy.
The pew which George Washington
bespoke when Christ church was first
opened and for which he agreed to
pay a yearly rental Of five pounds
sterling equivalent to nearly s25). in
addition to the thirty-six pounds, ten
shillings which he subscribed for 1t
at the outset is now reserved for the
use of strangers, and this is a much
appreciated courtesy on the part of
the present congregation, for, of
course, every stranger who visits
Alexandria longs to sit in the great
square pew which was once occupied
by His Excellency, the General" and
to gaze up at the high pulpit from
exactly the viewpoint of the Father
Of His Country in the days when he
was the most conspicuous participant
An the church services.
George W~ashington's pew in the
cid church remains to this day exact
~ as 1t was when he occupied 1t each
Sunday morning, and this preserva-
ton Is a matter Of congratulation in
asmuch as all the other pews in the
church were somewhat changed In
style in the year 1860. The Washing
ton pew is in reality a double pew, or
two pews, bearing the numbers SO and
60. This pew. which is located on the
left side of the church, has two seats,
one facing the other, and there Is a
third cross seat against the wall, so
that there was supposedly ample room
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FOrei6n

Many persons were killed by foods
in Portugal and Spain and relief work
was hampered.
King Alfonso will meet President
Fallieres of France in a shooting
match at Biarritz in July.
The island of Martinique was shak-
en- by an earthquake. So far as is
known there was no damage.
Berlin diplomats said the exchange
of German-American notes on China
probably would influence other powers
to define their positions.
First Lord of the Admiralty Churc-
hill outlined the Irish Home-Rule bill
in a speech at Belfast and not a head
was broken.
News from Peking indicated that
Premier Yuan might prevent abdica-
ton; it was also suspected he was
planning a dictatorship.
w. Morgan Shuster, e~x-Treasurer
General of Persia had a long interview
in London with Sir Edward Grey, For
eign Secretary.
The French Minister of Marine
signed an order for three battleships
Of $4,000 tons displacement. They
are to be ready for delivery in 1914.
The Turkish cabinet has decided to
close all Italian institutions in Turkey
including private banks and the or
al. Scutari.
William Ball, one of the male adher-
ents of the London Suffragettes sent
to Jail for window smashing, has gone
insane while in prison and has been
sent to an asylum.
The first mate and nine men of the
Norwegian ship Askoy, which was
wrecked on Elizabeth Reef in the Paci-
fc Ocean, rowed 300 miles to the Aus.
tralian coast.
Three edicts issued in Picking de-
clared the formal abdication of the
throne in favor of a republican regime
in China; the publication of the
edicts, though expected, caused a pro-
+ und sensation.
NAord Haldane returned from Berlin
to London, carrying with him an out
line of the German naval and military
proposals to be made shortly in the
Reichstag; he had a long conference
with Premier Asquith and the First
Lord of the Admiralty Immediately on
his arrival.
In a battle between Haytien revolu-
tionists and government troops, Gener-
al Toribio, a rebel commander was
killed.
The cable ship Mackay Bennett re-
ports that the three masted schooner
Caledonia, which it was towing to
port, turned turtle with the weight of
the ice in the rigging and is now a
dangerous derelict.
News of the burning of Mexican
railway bridges neal Torreon was
confirmed; Mexican federal troops
won some further successes in the
south.
A Havana dispatch said the attacks
on Cuban credit in Paris had caused
delay in the payment of French
claims for property damaged in the
wal for independence.
The wrecking steamer Premier sail
ed from Kingston, Jamaica, to render
assistance to a Norwegian steamship
reported stranded on the coast of
Cuba.
A British court decided that the es-
tate of the late Dowager Duchess of
Manchester, consisting mostly of Am
erican securities must pay $500, 600
death duties in England.
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Personal

Sir Edward Grey was appointed a
Knight of the Garter.
DR.. Belisario Porras, former Minis
ter of Panama in Washington, has
for the Presidency of Panama.
Walter A. Post, President Of the
Newport News S%hipbuilding and Dry
Dock Company, and President of the
Dominion Land Company, died sudden
ly at Newport News, Va.
DR.. G. Armeauer Hansen, the biolog-
list and discoverer of the bacillus of
leprosy, is dead. He was the head
of the leper hospital at Bergen, Nor
way.
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"Um!"
COR do you think Taft will be the
mann"
"Humph!"
What do you make of things any.
way?"
UNI"
Excuse me, sir" said the inquirer.
but l didn't know that you had an in
trinity"
Nor l. either" was the reply.
But | have asked you a number of
questions and have had no direct re-
ply. took it that you were hard of
hearing and didn't understand"
"Oh, | heard all right enough. II
you had taken it that l was holding
down a fat job in the custom house
and didn't propose to talk politics and
bounce myself out. you'd have hit the
mark. Try me on broiled lobster and
I'll talk to you by the hour!"
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ARREST LABOR LEADER.

Clarence A. Dowd of Rochester, First
Prisoner in Dynamite Roundup.
Rochester, N. Y.-Clarence A. Dowd
of this city, business agent of the Ma
chinists' union was arrested here by
United States Deputy Marshal Fred c..
Vichmann, on a warrant charging him
with assisting in transporting dyna-
mite and n~itro-glycerine from one
state to another. Dowd is n
of the men indicted by the federal
grand jury at Indianapolis in connec-
ton with the dynamite conspiracy
cases.
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DIES BEFORE OPERATION.
Doctor Drops Over After Excitement
in Getting Patient to Hospital.

Somerville, N. J.-Dr. John P. Hecht,
n of the best-known physicians in
central New Jersey dropped dead in
the operating o of the Somerset
Hospital after he raced to the hospi-
tai to save the life of a railroad engi-
neer.
DR.. Hecht vas called from his home
to attend Andrew Grover, an engineer
on the Central Railroad, who was
found unconscious in the cab of his en-
CINE, which was drawing a freight
train at full speed. 1t is thought that
when the engineer was leaning out of
the cab window his head came in con
tact with a bridge.
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Valuable Doq-Some Day.

Brother Jimpson says he owns a
dog that not only points and retrieves,
but he has taught him to spin on his
tail like a top when he smells gaso-
line. Brother Jimpson says he's try
ing to develop a breed of dogs that
will be Invaluable in warfare, to point
fighting aeroplanes trying to sneak
over camp at night.
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Eoruet Hate.

We shall never save this world by
hate. by pressing 1t behind the bars,
or God would have sent Town a
sword to smite US, There is no other
way but to have the passion eternal
for the human kind. Forget hate and
in its place put peace, the love OF
God and good will for all on earth
Rev. E. A. Steiner, Socialist Grin
nell, Iowa.
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Lobster Instead

The man who wanted to talk poll.
tics was seated in the car next to a
mar reading a newspaper and after
fussing around for a spell he asked:
well, what do you think of the sit
uation?"
UNI" responded the reader as he
looked around.
DO o think Bryan will be n candi-
date again."
"Humph!"
will Roosevelt rum"
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The Girl in Modern Athletics

make the body supple and beautiful.
The danger to feminine attractions
lies In games like hockey and golf, in
which the most odd pastures must be
in order to succeed at all.
On a horse a woman can look per-
fectly graceful and yet perform much
the same deeds of prowess as a man.
1t is quite probable that the m
of the future will be built on robuster
lines, and that the young man of her
period will no fail to find her ador-
able.
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His Status.

"A successful aviator is a paradox
ical sort of a chap"
How so?"
"Becaus being all up in the all
suits him down to the ground"
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Suspended Judgment the Safest Kind

SuSOenQCu OOOStiiShN AS
81 try more and more every year to
hold Judgment Of others In suspense
till | can know all the facts at hrst
hand" said one who was ccuse OF
being too lenient toward Offenders
Certainly | am not qualified to judge
till then. Gods commandment is
Judge not!'" Suspended Judgment Is
the best kind of judgment 1t is so
impossible to know all the circum-
stances and impulses that lead anoth-
err to do certain things we condemn.
that our Judgment can be alto
gether Just. AS we know instructive
", and often protestingly. that others
cannot Judge us rightly, let us try to
remember that we are not qualified to
pass Judgment upon others.-Well-
spring.
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one lesson that God has taught me
In connection with the grace of God
is that there is such a thing as a d.
vine plan in a mans life, and that the
only wisdom in this world is to md
out what that plan is and to be led
into 1t step by step. and not TO miEd
what is the end of It'll. G. Mabie-
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PLAY Ealr.

Whether you win or not, play fair.
1t pays to play fair. | would rather
70 down In defeat with honor than
go UP in victory with dishonor.-Rev.
A. R. Williams, Congregationa1st,
East Boston, Mass.
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GUS RUHLlN FALLS DEAD.
Heavyweight PugilIst is Victim of a
Hemorrhage.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-Gus Rubin, once
prominent as a heavyweight pugilist,
who once fought Jeffries, and well
known in sporting circles throughout
the world as the Akron Giant" fell
dead in his home. No. 1890 Myrtle ave
nue., from a hemorrhage of the heart.
Rubin was 40 years old. A widow
survives him.
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Bible having been print
ed in Edinburgh in the
year 1867. OF the latter
day contributions to the
contents of the historic
edifice there may be men
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ARMY OFFICER sELF-sLAIN.
Lieut.. Powers, 9th cavaIary, Kills Him.
self in Philippines.

Manila.-First Lieutenant j. Rey.
holds Powers. Sth Cavalry, killed him
self while his regiment was proceed
ing from Camp S~totsenburg, at Qua
qua, province of Pampanga, to take
part in the manoeuvre at Luzon. The
reports of Lieutenant Powers's death
are meagre.
Six thousand troops participated in
the manoeuvres.
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acted Of the average public
man today. Washington made
his home, as is well known,
on the vast estate known as
Mount Vernon, and there
was no church on the estate
or in the immediate vicinity.
Attendance at divine worship
involved, therefore, a jour
ney Of greater or less length
by coach, and this was not
always pleasant, as any per-
son may readily surmise who
has had experience with the
red mud" of old Virginia in
the winter or following
heavy rains. That he was as
persistent as he was in
church-going under such cir
cumstances casts an interest
ing sidelight upon the char.
acter of Washington.
George Washington attend.
ed, from time to time, yari-
GUS churches located within
driving distance of his home
at Mount Vernon, but the
place of worship to which he
most frequently repaired was
and is located in the town of
Alexandria-for, be it ex-
planned, the historic edifce
stands to this day in a per-
feet state Of preservation.
This structure, Christ church.
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FEED SCHOOL CHILDREN FREE.
Mayor connery to Begin the Plan in
City of Lynn.

City of Lynn.
Boston.-Lynn is to be the first city
in the country to feed it's school chill
dren free, Mayor William P. Connery
after a conference with Mrs. Caroline
M. Engler, member Of the Board of
O%verseers of the Poor, ordered the
Board Of Health to investigate condi-
tions in the grammar schools, with a
view to finding out how many children
are in need of proper food. She found
many ase
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IN ALL PARTS
OF new JERSEY
Telegraphed LOCALITIES Cover
ing the Entire State.
FACTORIES RUSHING WORK
Cuttings From Late Dispatches That
Epitomlze the News of the State
for a Week-Fishermen Report
Good Luck at Coast Resorts.

The Township Committee has ap.
pointed George Benniger custodian Of
the Glassboro fire house.
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A general movement is in progress
in Millville to provide for the many
poor families who are daily applying
for relief.
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Nearly all of the glass plants in
Millville are running full capacity,
with indications of a steady blast un-
til June 80.
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In a fall from a trolley car on the
Bristol & Trenton line, William Reed,
40 years old, of Bristol, had both legs
crushed and is in a Trenton hospital.
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On her way home from church in
Woodbury., Miss Elizabeth Baylies, of
Wenonah, fell on the sidewalk and
broke an ankle.
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Millville's town cock, which has CIV
en- the official time to citizens for many
years, is frozen stiff, and all efforts to
start it have failed.
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ter where he might happ en- to be. This was the case
even In the trying days of the War for Independence.
However, Washington was enabled to be most regular
In attendance at church when in his home state of Vr-
ginia- And yet, even in the Old Dominion, church-going
required much more of an effort on his part than is ex-
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City Engineer Carter. who has been
busy securing the right-of-way for the
cutoff in the Strengthening of Wood
bury Creek, has completed his work,
and Assistant U. s. Engineer George
W. I. Miller states that the chart ard
data will be forwarded to Washington
at once.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-29
WASHINGTON GLAD
To Be A NEGRO
Negro Educator Predicts Great
. Future for His
Race.

Unity Church, Montclair, was packed
last night when Booker I. Washing
ton, tho negro educator, gave the
fourth in a series of lectures on Prob
lens of Today" Chairs were put in
the aisles and on the pulpit, and many
people stood in the aisles. Later In
the day Mr.. Washington spoke IN st.
Marks Negro Methodist Church. He
said In part:
1.-THE negro race is q new race. 1t is
just forty-eight years old and it has
the whole future before it. I would
not be- a white man il | could. because
I have work to do and the white man
has none. The negro represents a new
type of vigorous manhood. He under
stands and uses American civilization
better than the immigrant that comes
to this country.
He speaks English well. as though
he ia one with his white neishbor. He
prepares and eats his food just as his
white neishbor does. In the matter of
dress he does not seem to be a for
eigner. He generally wears good
clothes. He initiates his white brother,
If he lives in a Baptist neighborhood
he is q Baptist. If he lives in Il
NlclilOo1SL AclE " Aiooo AN AS q
odist. And, last of all, he is an Ameri-
can citizen II Is ready to risk his
life for the protection of the American
government.
1.-THE majority Of black men are not
idlers. On the contrary, they are will
ing to work, but they do not know how
to spend their money to advantage.
1.-THE negroes own one-twenty-fourth
of all the land in Virginia. In Georgia
they own sa2, 0OO,0 900 in farm property
alone. In the last ten years the ne
sroes In the South owned $3.50, 900 more
farms than they did in the preceding
ten years.
THE negro is also becoming a com
mercial factor in this country. They
own 10000 drygoods stores in the South,
1000 grocery stores, and ffty-seven
banks are owned and controlled solely
by black men. The relationship be-
tween the whites IN blacks in the
South Is good, Notwithstanding the lies
published in the Northern newspa-
| pers.''
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-29
WOMAN TAKEN SUDDENLY
ILL In ORANGE CHURCH,

While Rev. John F. Boylan, rector of
Our Lady Of the Valley Church, Or
ange, was preaching yesterday morn
ing on Divorce Evils Mrs. Abbie
South, an aged woman, was taken sud-
denly i'll. Father Boylan stopped his
sermon and had the womap removed
to the sacristy, where she was attend
ed by Sisters of Charity and other
women. Later she was able to go
home. Mass was being celebrated by
another priest and was not interrupted.
Father Boylan last week advised
Mrs. South not TO venture out to mass,
as the journey from her home in Lang
don street might be too great an ex~
ertion for her.