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The Penn's Grove record., 1913-06-06
Foreign

United States Ambassador Page was
received in State by the Duke of Con-
naught, Governor General of Canada,
at London.
The Portuguese Chamber of Depu-
ties, voted to abolish the legation at
the vatican, in accordance with the
law governing and separation of the
church and State.
Lieutenant BalabUchkin, a Russian
army aviator, was killed at Peterhof,
when his machine fell from a great
height.
A. Horn, a German aviator, was
killed when his machine fell 500 feet
at Hanover, Germany.
The International Women's Congress
was held at Paris, with 900 delegates.
Argentina has established a meteor
illogical station at an elevation of A.
900 feet.
Alfred Austin, poet laureate of Eng
land since 1895, is dead at London,
aged Is years.
A detachment of Russian frontier
guards was rushed to Kalisz, Poland,
because of the threatening attitude
against the Jews.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has bought
Lord Francis Hopes estate Deep
dene," neal Dorking, England.
Ambassador Page attended King
Georges usual Derby Week levee at
Buckingham Palace.
Real Admiral Robert E. Peary, the
Arctic explorer, received a gold medal
from the Swiss Geological Society.
The German armoured cruiser Blue
cher went aground at Romso Island in
the Cattegat during a heavy fog.
A bill regulating meat and meat
preparations has been introduced in
the Netherlands.
house at Pontneff, Russia, set fire to
it, killing the eight Jewish inmates.
Ambassador Herrick placed a
wreath on the tomb of Lafayette at
Paris in celebration of Decoration
Day.
The Mexican Senate approved the
bill authorizing the executive to call
the presidential election for Octo-
Der 26.
Lieutenant Jean Ferdinand Kreyder,
a French army aviator, vas killed
when his monoplane turned turtle at
Bourges, France.
A bill appropriating $35, 900, 900 for
the construction of three dreadnaughts
for use of the British navy, was killed
by the Canadian Senate.
Harold Hilton of the Royal Liver
pool Golf Club, won for the fourth time
the worlds amateur golf champion.
ship at St. Andrews, Scotland.
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eosse on swinburne.

Edmund Gosse, one of the oldest
friends of the late Algernon Swim
burne, wrote for the British Diction-
airy of Biography the life of that poet,
and now that James Douglas, in Lon
don Opinion, has called attention to
this publication, the poets friends and
relatives do not like some of the dis
closures that have been made by Mr.
Gosse. One of these is held to be
particularly offensive. This is a pas
sage which states that "Swinburne,
now became intimate with Adah
Isaacs Menken, who had left her
fourth husband, James Barclay. She
went to Paris in the summer of 1868
and died there on August 10. The
shock to Swinburne of the news
caused an illness which lasted sew
real days for he was sincerely at
tached to her" Adah Isaacs Menker
was an American actress, fond of asso-
ciating herself with lions. She claimed
to be the widow of John c.. Heenan,
the prize fighter, and there is in ex.
istence a story of her friendship for
Dumas, the author of the Count of
Monte Cristo, and a photograph in
which these two notables are taken
together. Mr.. Douglas does not like
this kind of biography. He suggests
that all that discredits and disparages
Swinburne should be taken out.
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WILSON MAY RETURN.
Intimation That President Contemr
plates Second Visit to Urge Jury
Reform on Voters.

Intimation That President contem,
plates Second Visit to Urge Jury
Reform on Voters.
1t has also been strongly intimated
thus early that a second visit to the
State may be made by President VIII
son in connection with jury reform
matters, and that he may make a.
speech-making tour to urge the people
to take advantage of the opportunity
given them by the referendum to re-
affirm their desire for jury reform,
ever under the rather poor compro-
mise conditions which it will be pos
sible to establish it under the best
bill that the Legislature would give
them. Whether the President comes
here again or not, it is certain that
the jury reform question will be made,
the big issue in the coming guberna-
torial campaign by all the candidates!
for all the offices in all the parties or
sections or factions of parties, and
there will be a wonderful diversity of
views or the subject expressed for
the people to digest and then act up
on. Despite the general feeling that
the anti-Wilsonites will do all they
can to oppose acceptance by the vot-i
ers Of the Egan measure, and the fact
that this is said to have been openly
declared even before final ADJOURN
ment of the special session, those
same interests are already declaring
that their end of the party has given
to the people an adequate jury reform
measure which needs only to be
adopted when put up to the latter on
election day.
The Wilson end Of the party is, Of
course, asserting that whatever pro-
gress the two bills may mean toward!
jury reform is due entirely to them,.
while the Republicans and the Pro-
gressives are not slow in declaring
that nothing has been actually attain
ed toward the desired end by the Egg,
an and the Fielder laws.
Acting Governor Fielder has signed.
the two jury bills and more than a.
dozen other measures that were per-.
mitted to go through to final passage
in both houses of the Legislature,
most Of them being to correct things
done at the regular session or to make
amends for some things that were not
done at that time. The second Martin
loan shark bill was not allowed to get
any further than introduction in the
Assembly and printing. Objection
arose to it in the House of its origin
because Of the fact that analysis
showed that it was even more in favor
of the loan sharks 1t was supposed to
be aimed at than was the original bill,
which was vetoed by Acting Governor
Fielder because it did nothing except
to legalize the usurious business Of
the sharks.
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General

A bronze statue of Kit Carson was
unveiled at Trinidad, Col.
Elliot Northcott resigned as United
States Minister to Venezuela.
The Canton (Ohio) Daily News
plant was destroyed by fire with a loss
of $4,000.
Edward Payson Weston started on
his 1,466 mile jaunt from New York to
Minneapolis.
General Joseph B. Leake, oldest
member of the Chicago bar, died, aged
eighty-five years.
President Wilson nominated Thad-
deus E. Thompson, of Texas, to be
Minister to Colombia.
The Human Derelicts Association
has been formed at Boston. 1t includes
the lame, halt and blind.
Representative Curley, of Massa-
chusetts, has prepared a demand to
Congress, asking for an investigation
of the bureau of immigration.
The Gatun Locks in the Panama
Canal have been completed and the
waters of the Atlantic Ocean can be
let in any time by the blowing up of
a barrier.
An amendment to the Chicago city
ordinance was passed putting a ban
on all suggestive songs or dances.
Violators will be fined from SIS to $500.
B. S. Walker, the banker of Macon,
Ga, who was poisoned by taking BIZ
chloride of mercury in mistake for
medicine, left an estate valued at
$500, 900.
Judge Flanagan ruled, at Mar
quette, that Editor Newett could not
offer what was published in other
newspapers as a defense in the Roose-
welt libel case, but could prove the
Colonels general reputation by his
actual acquaintance.
Farmers of southern Kansas, esti-
mate the growing wheat has been set
back rs per cent as a result of the
hot and dry spell.
The New York Prison Association
has urged the transfer of 300 prisoners
from Sing Sing to Great Meadows,
owing to the o~vercrowding Of the for
mer.
The National Maine Monument was
unveiled and presented to New York
city while citizens by unnumbered
thousands, some the most distin-
guished in the country, stood with
barred heads and while $4,000 soldiers
and sailors stood at present arms.
The Idaho Legislature appropriated
$4,000 to provide a poultry department
in the State University.
Three University of Alabama stu
dents plan to paddle from Tuscaloosa
to Mobile, a distance of 400 miles,
along the Black Warrior River.
A. l.. Westward, vice president of
the National Highway Association, left
New York on a 1900 mile automobile
trip to examine a system for a ma
tional highway to San Francisco.
The National Highways Protective
Society report shows that automobile
fatalities in May increased fifty per
cent ovsr the same period last year.
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Good STAGE Story,

Francis Wilson, whose knowledge Of
stage history is profound, has an
equal knowledge of stage stories.
Apropos of Hamlet, he said the other
night: Let me tell you an interest
Ing Hamlet anecdote. A gentleman
was travelling in a remote region Of
Belgium, and happened to pass the
nigh in a quaint medieval town
where a performance of Hamlet vas
to be given. So, after dinner at the
inn, he went. THE performance in
the primitive little theater was meri-
t~orious, and between the third and
fourth acts the manager appeared be-
fore the curtain and said; Ladies
and gentlemen, with your permission,
Hamlet will now search between the
benches for cigar stumps, this being
his benefit And Hamlet searched"
Mr. Wilson ended. rs it any wonder
that Belgium has just had a general
striker"
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MEXICAN REBELS
WIN MATAMORAS
Federals Make Last Stand on
Roof of the Cathedral
SEVERAL HUNDRED SLAIN
Sixty Killed by Touching Fence
Charged with observation-disclosures
of Shots Fly Into Brownsville, Tex.
Fatalities on American Soil.

Brownsville, Texas.-Matamoras, op-
the Mexican rebels under General
Luico Blanco with 1900 troopers. The
federals put up a hard fight. Major
Esteben Ramosa was shot while in
command of the outpost covering the
city electric power plant. Four other
federal officers were killed. The fed
erals made a last gallant stand on the
roof of the Cathedral.
The rebels made the power plant the
point of their principal attack in the
beginning of the fight, as it was being
used to generate power to charge
barbed wire fences erected at vul-
nerable points about the city. Sixty
rebels were killed at one point when
they charged against the fence.
After the outposts were driven back
the rebels gained access to all parts
of the city. The adobe buildings af-
forded the rebels shelter and rendered
useless the federal machine guns. The
federal artillery fire was poor.
AS the rebels circled in many fed
erals deserted and swan the river to
Brownsville. Some bullets fell on
American territory and several were
wounded on this side of the line. The
rebels with bombs set fire to several
places in Matamoras.
A railroad bridge between the Mexi-
can and American towns was set on
fire.
Private Davis, of the United States
Cavalry. was wounded by a stray shot
while p~atrolling the border on the
American side of the Rio Grande, and
Miguel Barragan, Major of Matamoras,
was shot.
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Morning With God,

Arise very early in the morning and
spend an hour in the study and afir-
nation of noble and exalted thoughts
that relate your soul to divinity. Then
pray to the radiant sun of wisdom
for the light Of lows divine and you
will feel that your mind is lifted up
and exalted into a higher state of con-
seriousness. AS you thus abide in
communion with the father-mother-
the positive heart of the universal
mind-you will realize that your pray
ers and aspirations have opened an in
terror door and your soul is being fed
on the mann of heaven Sc that its
potential life is made substantial and
vital, and all through the day you will
feel the happy effects of this early
morning talk with God.-Edward De
Voc, in Nautilus.
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JUST WANTED TO USE PHONE
And She Thanked Her Neiahbor So
Much First Time and Less Each
Succeeding Time.

First Time-Oh, Mrs. Smith, I'm
~dreadfully sorry to trouble you, but
would be SO kind as to let me use
your telehone for half a minute? l
should consider 1t such a favor. l
simply must get word to my grocer
at once and l can't leave the house
because I've got cake in the over and
oh, thank you so much. 1 think it
is perfectly sweet of you to be so
kind and neighborly. Thank you
again!
Fifth Time-May l please use your
phone for just a minute Mrs. Smith ?
I'm sorry to keep troubling you this
way, but-Thank you very much! It's
very kind Of you, I'm sure.
Tenth Time-May I use your phone
again Mrs. Smith? Thank you. Beauti-
full weather, isn't it?
Twentieth Time-Just want to use
your phone a second, Mrs. Smith. And
I'm going to ask some one to call me
up on 1t a little later in the day. You
won't mind coming over and telling
me when they do, will you? Thanks.
Ffftteth Time-I just came over to
phone Mrs. Smith. You haven't got
the telephone in a very convenient
place have you? It's so dark there
you can scarcely see the numbers in
the book. l should think you would
like 1t nearer to the window. Queer
weather, isn't it?
Fffty-first Time-Id like to tele-
phone, Mrs. Smith. What? Well,
declare! You think l ought to help pay
for the phone? So that's the way you
feel about doing your neighbor a favor,
it is? Well, l never heard the beat Of
that! OF course, I thought you were
perfectly willing or I'd never have
aske! to use it. Well, l never!
don't want to use your old telephone,
Mrs. Smith. l wouldn't use if for a
million dollars after that, and what's
more I'll never step foot in this house
again, and don't you come near mine
and | wouldn't be so mean and stingy
for worlds and I'll have one of my
own put in and wait till you want to
borrow it and then you'll see, and
oh, you needn't stand there holding
the door open-Tm going just as fast
as l can, believe me! Good day!-
Gordon Carruth, in Puck.
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Sporting

August Belmont announced that on
the last racing day of each week at
Belmont Park the "infield' will be
thrown open to the public free of
charge.
Hal Chase, who a few years ago
was hailed as the greatest first base
man the national game ever saw, has
been traded by Manager Chance of
the New York Americans to the Chi
cRgo White Sox for Rollie Zeider, an
infielder, and Baker Borton, a first
baseman.
At Indianapolis, Jules Groux in the
French car Peugeot, won the 500 mile
prize of 100000 and practically every
thing else in sight. His winnings will
aggregate more than $65, 900. His time
was 6:31:43.
The latest bulletin of Secretary Far
rell of the minor leagues contains this
item of interest:-"Terms accepted:
With Wichita, Hobe Ferris; with To
peka, Luther Taylor"
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COVENANT IN GOD
Real Significance of Fact That
Is Conveyed in Stone Point
ing Upward.

Jacob left such a stone at Bethel
1t was a witness to the fact that a
soul had been deeply conscious of the
presence, the forgiveness, the call, and
the protection of God, and had entered
into a covenant with him. In that
stone pointing upward Jacob had al
ready begun to be a blessing to all
the families of the earth. If all the
church towers and spires in Christen-
dom were gathered into a skyline,
what a reaching ~heavenward of human
aspiration they would reveal. That is
what they are: stones pointing up
ward, and bearing witness to the up
ward reach of the soul of man.
In many places throughout the land
there are points where humanity gath
ers and looks out toward the greatest
natural beauty that appears in the dis
lance. There is Cliff House at San
Francisco; there are observation
points at Niagara; there are "~inspira-
ton points" in the great mountain re-
gions; there are the ocean piers at
seaside resorts; places that stand as
witnesses to the impulse that human
ity has to admire and get as near as
possible to the beautiful. So are the
church spires witness to the fact that
souls of men are athirst for God.
They mark the places where men
gather to give their souls a chance
to look heavenward.
Have SPECIAL Drawing Power.
And thnoo nC31+1 Lo-o J-o--E--
power. They draw people to them,
until towns and cities and business
and commerce have been built up
about them. They draw until high
ways of travel are opened to them
as centers. They multiply the value
of real estate. Travellers are glad to
pay special prices for the privilege of
being near these drawing points. The
stones pointing upward have the same
power. Church spires draw buildings
up in the air. Sky-scrapers are not
to be found except where church
spires point downward. Where these
are lacking men live in huts, and the
comforts Of modern Christian c%iviliza-
ton are not to be found. If men
SOoAO hhO" IOddy Inc places Jul tA
the plains, where church spires would
point heavenward in twenty-five years
from now, they would rush there to-
day to buy land. The points in
heather lands where missionaries go
to preach the everlasting gospel, are
the places that will be the great cen
tiers of influence in the years to come.
Business, commerce, manufactures, all
things flourish in the light of the
gospel of peace.
1t is in the consciousness of God
that the soul of man develops. 1t is
in the light Of Gods truth that man
grows a conscience and a character.
And where these develop everything
else prospers. Christianity is the
most practical thing in the world to-
day. 1t blesses everything that it
touches.
1t is & great thing to go out into
a land that lies in darkness of ignor-
ance and superstition, and plant even
a single stone that shall direct the
gaze and the thought of the people
to God. How little did Jacob realize
how much the world would hear of
the stone that he set up at Bethel.
Let US claim Gods promise too, and
set the stones that voice the aspira-
tons of the soul of man, until all the
families of the earth shall be blessed
in us.-United Presbyterian.
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been changed and a number of doors.
The State has acquired all of that
part of the barracks that lies on the
north side of the street, and all of the
o~utbuildings which were added from
time to time since its erection have
been removed. The work of restoraI
ton of that part of the building will
be commenced within a few weeks. 1t
is hoped that the Legislature can be
induced at its next session to give en-
ough money to purchase the balance
of the property needed and the money
for the final restoration, which means
building across Front street. AS soon
as the work is done the building will
be turned over to the ladies who now
maintain it, to use it as a meeting
place for the various historical socie'
ties.
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Gods Promise to Mankind.

For the Lord God is a sun and a
shield; the Lord will give grace and
glory; no good thing will he withhold
from them that walk uprightly. "-Ps.
SAIL.
This is the Christians great prom.
Use in the day Of disappointment; for
disappointment will come in greater
or less degree, to every one who has
to go through Gods discipline on the
way to Gods Kingdom of Glory. Many
things which seem good will God with.
hold-even as a father withholds peri.
Ious things from his little child's
grasp. Much seems to US good that
is not good, or at least, not good for
US. Many things seem to US to be
of evil which are good, and are there
fore sent tt US. Let us place full trust
in his wisdom, and in his love, who,
whatever he withholds does not with
hold the best things, even grace and
glory" When he sees fit to disap-
point our hopes and to deny US some-
thing on which out affections have been
earnestly set, let US ask him to give
us such a sight of those higher bless
Ings which he has not withheld that
our minds may rise in faith and
love to the full belief that if the good
we desired had really been good for US
he would have bestowed it upon US,
since he bestows better things.
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Personal

Vice President Marshall left Wash
ington for a trip of ten days through
North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana.
He will made a half dozen addresses.
Mrs. Mary M. Emery, widow of
Thomas Emery, has distributed $780,
600 in securities among the Office force
of her husbands firm at Cincinnati,
as rewards for faithful service.
The wife of Prince Louis Philippe,
the pretender to the French throne,
will sue him for separation, alimony
and money she has advanced to him.
J. P. Morgan vas elected a director
of the Big Four Railroad to succeed
his father.
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Chimney Copy of Venetian campaniie

Chimney Copy Of Venetian c%ampaniie.
A mill chimney at Darwen, England,
said to be the most magnificent in the
world, is a copy of the famous Campo
nile of Venice. 1t was erected fifty
five years ago at a cost of $4,000.
The ownership of the land upon which
it stands was in dispute and it was
agreed that the claimant who should
put up the most expensive structure
for practical use should have the land.
The chimney was erected, and as a
consequence the mill owner became
the proprietor. The total height of
the chimney is 80 feet. The founda-
ton is a solid block of stone, on which
is a stone pedestal forty-two feet in
height, bearing a massive stone cor
nice thirty-ive feet long on each side.
The shaft rising from this pedestal
is twenty-four feet square, constructed
of red, white and black brick, with
sandstone trimmings.-Popular Me-
chanics.
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NEWS STORIES
IN MINIATURE
Minor Mention of a Weeks
Important Events.
A HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS
Paragraphs Which Briefly Chronicle
the Events of Interest as BuIIe-
tined by Wire, Wireless and
Cabie-Foreian News.
A HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS
Washington

The Japanese Ambassador an
nounced to Secretary Bryan that his
country approved the Bryan universal
peace programme in principle, but that
further objection would be made in
regard to the California land law.
Former Mayor Guthrie, of Pitts
burgh, was sworn in as Ambassador
to Japan.
Extraordinary efforts will be made
by Democratic leaders in the Senate
to report the tariff bill not later than
June 16.
President Wilson has approved the
will be presented in the House of
Representatives.
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Fined for Reckless privinu.

Miss Agnes Flick, a modishly dress
Ell young woman who accompanied
Frank Stehle, a Quaker City automo-
bile dealer, and Herbert Taylor, a
Philadelphia broker, on & flying trip
to Atlantic City two weeks age, when
Stehle drove his big machine into a
pole on Atlantic avenue. seriously in
iuring Taylor and Arthur Belt, also a
Philadelphia, was a staunch witness
for the defense when Stehle faced Re-
corder Keffer in Police Court. Stehle
was fined 800 for reckless driving,
and $25 additional for having a loaded
revolver in his possession.
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U. S. BOYS IN KINGS PARADE
Unfurl Stars and Stripes at "Troop'
ina of CoIors,"

London.-The Stars and Stripes
were seen for the first time at the
"~trooping of the colors," the annual
military spectacle on the Horse Guard
parade on the occasion of the Kings
forty-eighth birthday. Old Glory was
carried by the Columbia Park school
boys of San Francisco, who were de-
layed in London owing to the nom
arrival Of money and we're especially
invited to participate.
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PATERSON EDITOR GUILTY.
Faces Prison Term of Fifteen Years
for Treason.

Paterson, N. Alexander Scott,
editor of a Socialist paper published
in Passaic, vas convicted by a jury of
eleven men in the County Court of
''inciting hostility to the government"
The indictment was based on articles
and editorials in which the Paterson
police were held up to scorn and ridi-
Guile.
In an issue of February % Chief
Bimson was referred to as "Bimson,
the Strikebreaker," and the police
were called "the brass-buttoned an
archists of Paterson" A headline had
''Bimson Overriding the Government"
The maximum penalty under the
conviction is fifteen years imprison-
ment
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Police Rely IN Elnuer Prints.

Francis Gallon, finger print expert
and authority, estimates that the
chances of finding the fingers of two
persons giving exactly the same i'm
preston are not greater than one in
640,0 0 900, 900. Police experts regard
finger prints, which can not be dis
guised, as far the most conclusive
means of Identification.