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The Penn's Grove record., 1912-03-08
General

Mrs. Annie Yeamans, the actress, is
dead in New York at the age of 76.
Many Ohio society women are TAX
ing advantage of Lent to have their
appendices removed. Seventy-six pa
tients have been operated on in Cleve-
land since Ash Wednesday.
The body of Lieutenant Commander
Samuel B. Thomas, U. S. N, who died
at Los Angeles on February 8, was
buried with military honors at New
port, r. /.
Fire destroyed the big pulp key
mills of the DUPONT Powder Co., along
the B~randywine Creek, at Henry Clay,
Del, entailing a loss of $500, 900. The
company carries it's own insurance.
]. ". Paterson, sheep raiser of Glen.
dive. Montana, lost 1900 sheep in Is
minutes during a 60-mile blizzard. A
flock of 5000 tumbled over a steep en-
bankment.
The Mayor of Lawrence asked mill
owners to end the strike by posting
notices ~conceding the demands of the
strikers as to hours and raising the
wages of the poorest-paid employees.
The financial expert of the Steel
Trust Investigating Committee report
ed that j. P. Morgan & Co., made $685.
100000 out of organizing the trust;
that it makes $13 a ton, or 40 per cent.
profit, and that it controls 80 per cent.
of the industry and not so per cent,
as represented to MI. Roosevelt in
1907.
Mr.. Roosevelt returned to Oyster
Bay from Boston silent as to his COM
paign plans; the manager of the New
York headquarters said a tidal wave
of Roosevelt enthusiasm was sweep
ing eastward.
A catfish weighing IL pounds was
caught in a lake near Newton, N. ].
1t was the largest caught in that vi.
cinity in many years.
Arthur w Shaw, a shoe manufac.
turer of F%reeport, Me-, ID under two
indictments charging him with lar.
ceny of 94,756 from his W com.
panies.
Frederick M. Foster, sole survivor
Of the auto accident in which five per-
sons lost their lives in Trenton IN
Jan. II, was fined $3.50 in the Central
Police Court for driving the car with
out a license.
According to a report to the Mary.
land State Board of Health, rattle
snake poison has been used success
fully as a cure for tuberculosis.
A smuggling plot was discovered
in San Francisco when a boat load of
Chinese was captured at Oakland
Creek. 1t is said the band had land
ed 400 Chinese a month at that port.
The United States troops on the
Mexican line were ordered to be vigil
ant in patrolling and enforcing the
neutrality laws, while commanders OF
army posts were reminded to be con
stantly ready for field service.
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A large part Of u wi failures in
life from seeing flaws and fail
ures in others that We do not need to
see at all. The keen-sighted pessimist
does a great deal more harm than
ever the easily fooled. often mistaken
optimist. For the man who looks for
flaws in other peoples lives usually
leaves those flaws worse than when be
found them, by the notice and atten-
ton that he gives to them: and this
leaves him worse OF himself. The
man who lives so much in the sun
shine that he won't sec other peoples
flaws helps those flaws to die. and
gathers new sunshine and strength in
so doing.
Don't look for flaws as you go through
life:
And even when you find them.
IT'S wise and kind to be somewhat blind.
and
Look for the virtues behind them"
Virtue-hunting means virtue-fnding:
and the right things that We hunt for
most eagerly we add constantly to our
selves. But the best part of this get
ting is that it is all In the interest Of
others.
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Commissioner Huson. Of the state
department Of agriculture. says the
supply Of horses in New York state
falls short of the demand by over So
900 head.
Because the American-made torpedo
has not come up to the expectation,
the Navy Department Is to try the
Whitehead torpedo used by Great Bri-
tain.
Applications from 393 persons, who
were seeking homes and work, were
received by the New York branch of
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor.
Two feet of snow covers diamonds
valued at $4,000, which were lost by
a salesman from a New York firm on
the streets of Omaha. A large reward
has been offered.
Theodore Roosevelt said he did not
care a snap of the fingers for the
Presidential nomination, but agreed to
seek it because he wanted to see the
principles of the ~Progressives carried
out.
W. r. Hearst and his newspapers
were condemned and denounced by
the Chicago Federation of Labor in
the most v%itriolic language ever
heard on the floor of the Central La
Dor body.
A receiver vas named in the Unit
ed States Court for the banking firm
of M. Rosett, with a chain of banks
in several states; the failure was
caused by a run on a branch at Perth
Amboy, N. ].
A resolution presented in the Mary
land Legislature, asking for an inves-
tigation of the charges that hotel
keepers in Baltimore were planning
extortionate rates during the Demo
cratic convention.
Life insurance men said the pro-
posed law in Italy providing for a
state monopoly of life insurance
would have little effect on American
companies because they already had
practically ceased doing business In
that country.
F. S. High, a district saleman for
the National Cash Register Co., who
Is under indictment with other officers
and agents of the company for viola
ton of the Sherman antitrust act,
was arrested in Boston as a fugitive
from justice from Cincinnati.
The Waters-Pierce Oil Company, it
was announced at st. Louis, was plan
ming a national investigation in search
of evidence to prove that the Stand
ard Oil Company is evading the law
and perpetuating an illegal trust in
defiance of the United States Supreme
Court.
1t was announced that Morgan &
Co., Kuhn, Loeb G. Co., and the Ma
tional City and Chemical banks would
be subpoenaed and forced to show
their books In the House Money
Trust" investigation, and that J. P.
Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and T.
F. Ryan would be called to the stand.
In an article in an engineering mag
azine Montauk Point was urged as a
new American port for transatlantic
passenger and mail service, the writer
maintaining that the fastest liners
could arr at least $4,000 a year
more than at Pr Mt by making the
point their term j..
The District Attorney decided to let
Mortimer L. Schiff and his lawyer,
Howard S. Cans, testify before the
grand jury in New York, in the Brandt
case, after every precaution shall have
been taken against immunity follow
ing; Brandt was freed from prison,
and said he would not go on the stage.
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TO CUT DR.. WEEKS PAY.
Bill to Make Pay of Superintendent of
E%pileptic Village $4,000.

Introducing of House bill All by AS
semblyman Adams of Mercer County,
providing for the reduction of the sal
airy of DR.. David F. Weeks, superin-
tendent of the Epileptic Village, at
Skillman, from $4,000 to $4,000 a year,
is taken by members of the Board of
Managers of that institution to be a
direct slap not only at the superin-
tendent but at ether members of the
governing body of the institution.
The reason why Assemblyman Ad-
m is believed by the managers to
desire to antagonize the board and re-
duce the salary of the superintendent
is that the board has opposed two
measures introduced by Assemblyman
Adams to reimburse Charles w. KAT
er, a local contractor, for a reduction
in the contract price of a school build
ing he erected at the institution.
Assemblyman Adams, a former en-
ploye of Contractor Kafer, last year
made an effort to have passed a meas
ure which would enable the contractor
to secure from the state the sum of
$3.50, which amount had been deduct
ed from the $4,000 contract price of
the building.
1t is because of alleged defects in
the erection of the building and alleg-
ed poor workmanship that the sum in
question was withheld from the con
tractor and strenuous efforts on the
part of Mr.. Kafer to put an 20. K"
on the bill.
However, as the department of the
State Architect accepted the building
there was nothing left for the man
ayers to do but pay the sum-, as pro-
vided by law. Later, DR.. George B.
Wight, Commissioner of Charities and
Corrections, asserted that the work
was not what it should have been. 1t
was claimed that the mouldings were
not properly placed and that even in
the face of the fact that the building
was new, at least one pair of stairs
needed strengthening. The managers
also asserted hat the plastering was
not workmanlike and the building
throughout was generally unsatisfac-
tory.
The Board of Managers, in paying
the bill, after acceptance Of the build
ing on the part of the department of
the State Architect, did so under pro-
test, and following the payment there
was a conference at which members
of the board and Contractor Kafer
were present. Contractor Kafer was
given assurance by DR.. Wight that if
he would make necessary changes he
would recommend that he receive the
$3.50 which had been withheld.
However, after the contractor had
made repairs, DR.. Wight was of the
opinion that the improvements were
not what they should have been, with
the result that the contractor was still
kept from collecting the sum.
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ECONOMY IN LIVING.

In these days of high prices 1t is
we'll to remind ourselves that meat is
an expensive luxury that can be cut
In two. We do not need so much meat
as we usually have served. A pound
OF meat mixed with vegetables and
served as a stew will be as satisfying
as a 1fty-cent steak which is often
only half eaten and thrown out to the
dog or into the garbage can.
We eat too much of proteid foods.
1t has been often proven that we'll
masticated food eaten slowly will sat
tsfy the appetite on a third less than
when it is hurriedly eaten. The over
amount taxes the bodily functions and
is not only wasted but depletes the
system to remove it.
For brain workers easily digested
food should be chosen; rice, fish, eggs
and custards are all good.
We want dishes that are good, whole
some and appetizing, and they may be
prepared If thought and study is put
upon the subject, at a great saving of
the pocket book and no difference in
the attractiveness of the table.
Goldfish a la Mode.-Take a cup of
shredded Goldfish, two cups of mashed
potatoes, a pint Of milk and two eggs
well beaten, half cup of butter, pep
per and salt; mix well and bake in a
buttered baking dish twenty minutes.
Mountain DeW.-Take q cup of
cracker crumbs rolled fine, the yolks
of three eggs and half a cup of sugar,
Juice and rind of a lemon, three cups
Of milk, and bake twenty minutes.
Beat the whites and put over the top
for frosting.
A well-equipped kitchen with all
the conveniences for housekeeping is
a great pleasure, but we must never
get so welded to it that in an emer-
gency we can not get good results
with poor, or no tools at all.
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NEWS BY
TICK AND FLASH
WhatInterests the World Chron-
icIed by Telegraph and Cable.
GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Washington Looms Large as a Center
of Interest-LesisIatures Busy In
Many States-The Lights and
Shadows of the News.
WaShin6fOn

The federal Bureau of Labor decid-
ed to investigate the wage and work
Ing conditions at Lawrence.
The House committee on foreign af-
fairs reported favorably on the Sulzer
resolution to recognize the new Chi
nese Republic.
President Taft will 500 start on a
speechmaking campaign, in which he
will reply to ex-President Roosevelt's
Columbus speech.
At least 70 midshipmen in the Navy
School at Annapolis failed in the re-
cent examinations. twenty-five were
forced to resign.
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Personal

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank ]. Gould denied
reports of differences with Mr.. and
Mrs. George ]. Gould.
A son was born to the Crown Prin-
cess of Sweden. The Crown Princess
is a daughter of the Duke of Con-
naught, governor-general of Canada.
Miss Inez Milholland, of New York,
a friend said, had renowned matri-
mony because CT her devotion to the
suffrage cause.
Eladio Victoria, newest president of
Santo Domingo, took the oath of office
for six years and selected his cabinet.
President Taft accepted the invita-
ton of the Union League Of Philadel-
phia, to be it's guest on April 27,
Grants birthday.
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COAL MEN DENY
MINERS TERMS
Committee Presents Formal Re-
fusal and Prepare for Strike.
NEXT MOVE UP TO UNION
No Action viii Be Taken Until Off
cial Notice Is Received from Com.
mittee-News Causes No Sur
prise in Mining Districts.

New York.-The first gun in the
long war thought to be impending be-
tween the owners of coal mines and
their employees vas fired when a big
assemblage of anthracite coal operat-
ors, gathered in the Offices of the
Trunk Line Association here, author
lied the appointment of a committee
that will formulate a reply emphati-
cally denying the demands of the min
ers That such a move may precipi-
tate, in a month, a strike of under
ground workers as big as that in Eng
land is the belief of both the operat-
ors and miners.
Principal demands of the organized
employees are for 20 per cent. increase
in the wage scale; an eight-hour day
and recognition of the union in permit
ting part of each workman's pay to be
~subtracted from his envelope for the
benefit of the union before it reaches
him. Following is the brief resolution
adopted by the meeting of operators
after a conference lasting less than
an hour:
Resolved, That J. L. Cake, Alvin
Markle, Percy Madeira, E. P. Thomas,
w. H. Truesdale, F. D. Underwood, L.
F. Loree, Joseph Dickson, George F.
Baer and Morris Williams be appoint
ed a committee with full power to rep
resent the anthracite coal operators
and with instructions to formulate a
reply in writing to the anthracite
mine workers declining their de-
mands.
None Of the committeeman would
permit his name to be used in discuss
ing the situation further. Several of
them intimated they had no doubt the
decisive action of the mine owners,
coupled with the moral support given
to the miners by the progress of the
British strike, would bring about a
hard-fought conflict here.
From the operators comes the word
plenty of coal on hand but that is
denied by the miners, who insist the
GOODNESS of the winter created an alb
normal demand for coal, and practi-
cally all that has been mined has
been distributed.
Scranton.-Word of the refusal by
the operators of the miners demands
at the meeting in New York OCCASION
ed no commotion here either in min
ing or business circles in the upper
coal fields, as far as inquiry and OBJ
~servation could discover. 1t was what
was expected by the miners leaders.
The demands of the underground
workers have always been met with
refusal at first, but in subsequent ne
gotiations a better understanding was
brought about. The prediction is made
that such will be the case in the nego-
tiations now pending.
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IekkEM 1e~eAL.
Mice in Queer Nest.

When an old gas main was being
taken out at Sunderland (Scotland)
recently, a NOUS was seen to run out
at the end of the pipe. The pipe was
then broken up, and in the interior
was found a nest containing six young
mice. How the animals could exist
in a pipe which had gas passing
through it is regarded as remarkable,
but the fact that there was a fracture
in the pipe may in some degree e
plain the mystery.
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Murderer Scott Sentenced.

Joseph Scott, alias Richmond Joe.
who was arrested in this city some
time ago, has been sentenced to the
Eastern P%enitentiary, Philadelphia, to
a term OF moi less than eleven nor
more than twelve years. Scott muir
dered his sweetheart during a quarrel.
At the time of the crime he made his
escape from the Quaker City, but was
captured here while riding on a River
side Traction Company's trolley by
State Detective Frank c. Wright. He
was taken to the Second District Po-
lice Station where he confessed.
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Attacks New Marriage Law.

According to a statement issued by
Registrar of Vital Statistics David S.
South, of New Jersey, rabbis of the
Hebrew faith are prohibited from per-
forming marriage ceremonies under
the Martin act, recently passed by the
Legislature and signed by Governor
Wilson. In addition to this, Mr.. South
finds fault with other parts of the act
and strongly indorses the passage of
the Gill bill, which is intended to cor
rect the errors appearing in the Mar
tin act.
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at once sent to the House, where 1t
was favored by 4 vote of Sc to SO.
A few weeks ago in the Senate,
Washington, Mr. Percy bitterly attack
ed Senator-elect James K. Vardamann,
his successor, and repeated a former
declaration that he would resign when
the Legislature convened.
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The surest test OF a mans we'll
being and progress Is Just the oppo-
site of what he has accumulated. It
is what has he left behind? What
can he do without? What has he out
grown?-Rev. N. NJ. Waters, Congre-
gationalist. Brooklyn.
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N LACE Is a good thing. but peace
in the ordinary sense Of the
word Is not the DO
mum of human happiness or
usefulness. Rest and freedom
from pain are comforting to the sick,
and may be signs Of approaching dis
solution. Peace in a community may
Indicate prosperity, or It may be in
sensibi1ity to duty and indifference to
fraud and political corruption. A
man freezing to death or under the
influence Of some poison needs II be
reused and kept moving. Some COM
munities need nothing so much as to
be walked up and forced to fight for
good government.
Peace In the church may mean
prosperity or decay. 1t is written In
the Acts: Then had the churches
rest" and walking in the fear of
the Lord and in the comfort Of the
Holy Ghost were multiplied" This
was after a period of persecution and
steadfast contention for the faith.
There have been other times when
the church had rest because 1t was
asleep to its duty.
Righteousness First.
The command to contend earnest
ly for the faith once delivered to the
saints" does not indicate that Chris
tians in a world Of sin are to expect
or be satisfied with peace until
righteousness is established. So long
as God has a controversy with men,
controversy is the duty Of the church.
So long as immortality and inidelity
exist. the church has a mission to op-
pose them. Often its greatest need
Ia for some one to stand, as did the
prophet Of old, and call men to line
up. Choose ye this day whom ye
will serve" When this call is heard
there are always some to plead for
peace. art thou he that troublest
Israeli" No. the men who trouble
the Israel of God are those who pro-
mote immortality and infdelity. who
belittle the word of God and deny the
doctrines Of grace; and very often
these cry Peace, peace" when they
themselves are disturbing the peace.
When men in the church deny God
as the Creator, or that Christ is God,
or that he died on Calvary as a sac
ri1ce for sinners and ros from the
dead, or that the Scriptures are in
spired and true, the church has a
controversy with them, and woe be to
it If. through fear Of man or love Of
ease or for any other cause. 1t shr%
from its duty.
Danger Of the Church.
The greatest danger Of the church
is, It's i~nsensibility to the beginnings
Of unsound doctrine. It credits loose
teachers with being better than they
seem. It says Of them. as a minister
said of a student who seemed to deny
the atonement, He does not mean 1t.
and, at any rate, he will get over It
when he gets to work" It strains
its charity beyond the scripture point.
It does not heed the e%xhortation Of
John, the apostle of love and peace:
IF there come any unto you and
bring not this doctrine. receive him
not"
A writer, describing a visit to the
home of Henry Ward Beecher. speaks
of q painting which Mr.. Beecher
showed him, representing a huge
mastiff asleep near something he had
been left to guard, and a lap-dog
quietly drawing It away. That"
said he, pointing to the mastif. as
Orthodoxy, and the little dog is
H~eterodoxy." II ever the church
needed to be awake. It is now,-Her-
aid and Presbyter.
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Love-.

Love will scale the highest noun
tains, swim the deepest rivers, breast
the waves of the Hellespont, outwit
all unfriendly diplomacy to reach the
object loved, and love will find the
way to overcome all obstacles, to
make them one in heart and service
for mankind.-Bishop Fallows, Episco-
palian, Chicago.
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Single Fare Required.

In a decision filed the Board of Pub
lie Utility Commissioners held that
the present exaction of two fares on
the turnpike line of the Public Service
Railway Company between Jersey City
and the Meadow Shops is unjust and
unreasonable.
The board makes an order that the
company on the turnpike line afford
a single fare of five cents, this ride"
that will enable the passenger 80 de-
string to ride from points in Jersey
City out so far as the Lackawanna
crossing near the Meadow Shops.
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ASK RESIGNATION OF PERCY.

Both Houses of Mississippi Legislature
Pass Such Resolutions.
Jackson, Miss.-Both houses. of the
Legislature passed a concurrent reso-
luton demanding the resignation Of
United States Senator Leroy Percy.
After it's adoption in the Senate by
a vote of 26 to l3. the resolution was
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-03-08
Municipal Care Of Trees.

State Forester Alfred Gaskill gave
out a warning against tree butchers"
who, he says, are going around vari-
GUS sections of the state soliciting
orders for pruning trees and who do
the trees much more harm than good.
Mr.. Gaskill was led to speak by
some of this pruning" which was
done to shade II on West State
street this city. e State Forester
found one tree which had been badly
cut and from which the sap was free
" running.
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SHUTS UP LAKEWOOD HOTEL.
Poor Season Forced 1t to cIose-cred

Poor Season Forced 1t to CIose-Cred-
itors Descend on 1t.
Lakewood, N. 1.-THE Lakewood
Hotel, which is owned by Nathan
Straus and which has been operated
by Louis Frenkel under a lease,
clsoed it's doors. Immediately there
was a rush of creditors to the hotel.
The closing of the hotel is attribut-
ed to several causes, chief among
them being the severity of the wealth
er and the waning financial quality Of
the patrons.
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The creates Race.

Out Of the chaos of our social sys-
TEN, out of intense greed for wealth
and power, out Of our shattered NOR
ais will com a mightier and greater
race, the highest the world has ever
known.-Rev. H. G. Swearingen. Pres
byterian, st. Paul.
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greatly Improved Phonooraph.

A new duplex phonograph has been
introduced in Paris and by its mean
1t is possible to have a continuous per-
Torrance, without break, for hours.
The whole opera of Carmen was thus
produced, so odd records being used.
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Her Artistic Eve.

Il sometimes think" said Mrs. Lap
sling, who was looking at a collection
Of family portraits, that the pictures
they take nowadays aren't half as
good as the old vagariotypes they
used to take 60 years ago."
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HE common problem, yours,
mine, ~everyone's,
Is, not to fancy what were fair in life,
Provided it could be, but finding first
What may be, then find how to make it
fair
Up to our means. -Robert Browning.
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Abe Martin Save

When folks tell you you haint
changed a bit it's usually cause they
can't think O. anything else t'ssay. 1t
costs more t keep tn good will O.
some people than it does a tourin' ear.
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Wife, left that child in your care
and look at it! What has it been cry
ing about?
Husband-About 10 hours, l think.
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I LIFE spent In brushing
* - clothes, and washing crockery,
an s"eeping floors-a life which the
proud of the earth would have treated
as the dust under their feet; a life spent
at the clerks desk; a life spent in the
narrow shop; a life spent in the labor
ers hut, may yet be a life so ennobled
by Gods loving mercy that for the sake
OF 1t a king might gladly yield his
crown. Cannon Farrar.
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EMERGENCY SHORTCUTS.

The modern kitchen, with its up-to-
date equipment is the pride of every
home-maker who is fortunate enough
to possess one; but the real genius