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The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-05
Keep Pure the Heart.

Upon the outward appearance "man
looketh," but "the Lord looketh upon
the heart" And blessed are the pure
in heart for they shall see God" God
does not make our character. We
ourselves do that. And what we are
can be known only to ourselves and
to God. Character is that record
which is being written day by day, en-
craven deep on the soul-the immortal
part Of ones being. 1t stands-ir is
for time and eternity. Nor can we re-
write it in the ragged years of the end
of a mis-spent life. Christ a forgive
the sins of a thief in his dying hour:
But he could not give him the char
acter Of an honest man. The Bible
does not record the agony of remorse
that must have swept the soul of the
dying thief as he recalled his mis-
spent years and lost opportunities of
v~irtuous living and useful service. But
we who are yet in the flesh hold those
golden opportunities and can spare the
needless regret for their neglect. Let
US, then, pay heed to our character
building, keep pure the heart which
holds the issue of the life. "The time is
short. If thou wouldst work for God,
it must be now"
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What interested -.

when we visited Greenwich -
servator,y' said the traveller, 81 s~
my watch by the observatory clock.
Since everybody else who has a watch
does that nobody paid any attention
to me, but my wife created a big
enough sensation for both of US.
she had done a little shopping be-
fore we went down to Greenwich. In
her handbag also carried a remnant
Of lace. Far more attractive to her
than the observatory's wonderful clock
were the little iron pegs driven into
the observatory wall, which represent.
ed the true measure Of the British
yard, two feet, one foot, six inches, and
three inches.
Just at n o'clock out came her
bit of lace, and at the minute when
everybody else stood impressive with
the fact that standard time for a
large part of the civilized world was
being set within those walls, my wife
stood before the iron pegs calmly
measuring lace"
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Lace That Grows on Trees.

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, author of
"Harper's Book for Young Natural
ists," tells of a tree cloth or lace
which Indian girls in South America
use for clothes. In order to procure
this beautiful material" he says, ut
Is only necessary to break open a
branch of the lace tree, pull out the
pith, and unroll it into sheets. Often
these sheets Of delicate fiber are over
a yard square, and they are used by
the South American girls and ladies
as wells, handkerchiefs, mosquito-net-
ting, portieres, sheetings, etc. Al
though very delicate and pretty, yet
the lace is extremely strong and is
often made into harness, ropes, ham
mocks, and w suspension bridges
across the mountain streams. 1t is
SO abundant that it Is seldom washed.
for 1t is far easier to cut some new
lace from a nearby tree than to wash
that which was soiled."
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PIMPLES COVERED FACE

81 Zeidler Ave, Maspeth, L. l., N. Y.
Last winter a few pimples appeared
on my face but 1 did not notice them.
Finally they began to grow worse and
the pain l suffered cannot be de-
scribed. My face was covered with
pimples and they itched and burned
dreadful. If they were ripe they
would break and pus would come out
which was very unsightly. 1 would
stay at home, not daring to appear
in public. At night l could not sleep
with the eczema and my mother
bathed my face with --, but this
only made it worse.
Finally a friend told me to try
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. At last
she persuaded me and l sent for the
sample. Well, what a wonder they
did! After l had used them my face
started to peel the old skin. 1 then
used several cakes of Cuticura Soap
and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment
and my face was entirely cured"
(Signed) Miss Alma Rudroff, Feb. 81,
1913.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-Ady
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ChandA M Mind

"Confound s., isn't 1t a shame the
way some people fall heir to a lot of
money? Here's an item telling Of an
Omaha day laborer digging in a sewer
ditch who's been left 81, 200, 000."
Il see your kick. When the lawyer
found him and told him about it. he
looked up, damned his pipe full of to-
bacco, grinned and went IN back to
his work"
He did like thunder. He was out
Of the ditch and alongside the law
yer's automobile In a jify."
Struck dumb with surprise, though,
l guess?
Yes, he was-not! May the Lord
have mercy on me! How much did
you say 1t was?' he said. One mil
lion sever hundred thousand dollars?
Well, what do you know about that?
Now, amt a hi of a Socialist
st. Louis Republic.
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According to National Custom.

When General Sir Charles Napier
was governor of Scinde he deter
mined to suppress the horrible us-
tom of suttee-that Is, the burning
alive Of widows on the funeral pile Of
their husbands. The natives, how
ever, strongly disapproved of his con-
duct, and came to the general to re-
monstrate with him about it..
"All nations have customs which
must be respected" they said, "and
suffice Is one Of our most sacred Gus
toms.
Napier appeared to be much struck
with this remark, and after rejecting
for some minutes he said gravity:
BE it SO! This burning of widows
Is your custom. Prepare the funeral
pile! But my nation also has a Gus
tom. When men burn women alive
we hang them and confiscate their
property. My carpenters shall there
fore erect gibbets on which to hang
all concerned when the widow is con-
sumed. Let US all act according to
national customs"
But this arrangement somehow did
not please the natives, and the prac-
tice Of suffice was abolished.
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GarcIa's Method,

Mesdames viadot-Garcia and Mali
bran, the wonderful daughters of Man
uel Garcia. who was perhaps the
greatest vocal teacher Of all time, lit
orally learned in suffering what they
taught in song"
The discipline Of the Garcia home
was extremely yer According to
Mr.. Henry T. Finek, who writes in
the Musician, 1t was said that he
used to beat his daughters till they
screamed.
The neighbors, however, did not
confuse method with madness, and
on such occasions they quantity said,
"It is only Monsieur Garcia teaching
his girls to sing."-Youth's Compan-
ion.
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Poor Substitutes for Home.

at is a sad fact, but one which can
not be disputed, that the modern city
parent has relegated the secular edu-
cation Of his children entirely to the
public school and their religious in
s~truction to the church. Both Of
these institutions are struggling to
meet the requirements forced upon
them by the Indifference Of parents.
There is no institution on earth which
can take the place of the good home,
and those children who are thrust
upon strangers to learn the most sa-
cred duties of life are defrauded Of
their birthright."-Suburba Life.
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The quality Of Western Canada
wheat is recognized everywhere.
The latest census returns show that
in the Province Of Manitoba, which
stands out as one Of great wealth and
wonderful opportunity, the land area
under wheat increased from 1,965,200
acres in 1900 to 2,760,471 acres in 1910,
being an increase Of 40.46 per cent. in
the decade. The wheat area of 1911
is greater than that of 1910 by 334,461
acres. There are increases in the area
Of production of all cereals for 1910
over 1900, excepting peas and mixed
grains.
Of cereals grown in 1910 the largest
gross monetary return per acre was
given by peas with $2O.51, followed by
beans with 1857, fall wheat with
1857, corn for husking with s12.63,
fax $11.15, buckwheat s11.06, spring
wheat 1904. The smallest returns
were obtained from oats, rye and bar
ley in the order named.
The average value per farm holding
Of field crops, vegetables and fruit
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Small Girls Getaway.

An evangelist was once conducting
joint revival meetings in the two
churches, Methodist and Presbyterian,
of a small town.
Children's meetings were held every
day at the close Of school, first in
one church and then in the other.
One day two girls who attended the
Presbyterian church were discussing
the meeting which was to be held in
the Methodist church that afternoon,
when Mary asked:
What would you do If they should
ask you to pray?"
81 wouldn't do it," answered Martha.
I'D just tell them I'm a Presby-
terian."-Harper's.
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The Cheerful Person.

God bless the cheerful person-man,
woman, or child, old or young, il
literate or educated, handsome or
homeiy. What the sun is to nature,
what God is to the stricken heart,
are cheerful persons in the house and
by the wayside. They go unobtrusive-
ly, unconsciously, about their mission,
happiness beaming from their faces.
We love to sit near them. We love
the nature of their eye, the tone of
their voices. Little children find them
out quickly amid the densest crowd,
and passing by the knitted brow and
compressed lip, glide near, laying a
confiding hand on their knee and lift
their clear, young eyes to those low
ing faces.-A. A. Willis.
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Welfare of the Child

The most pleasing, satisfactory and
wholesome development Of our age
is the practical interest that is taken
in the child<en, remarks the Newark
Star. Public schools we have had
many years, but 1t was thought that
a few hours tuition was all that the
public was called upon to give the
children. For everything else they
must trust to their parents and
chance. Today in every city there
are well equipped Fairgrounds, there
are gymnasiums and assembly halls
in the schools, there are medical at
tendants and dental clinics. The sys-
tenn of teaching has been changed to
include these things that belong to
future occupations in life. In many
new ways the child has become an
important factor in the life of the
community.
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Broken Spell,

Among the White House CORE
spondents is n young man who
wears long hair and a continual poet
10 temperament. The other day the
White House squad were putting
Secretary Joseph Patrick Tnmulty
through the third degree. He was
exceedingly coy, and they had just
gotten him to the point where news
seemed likely forthcoming. when the
young nan with the poetic tempera-
ment drew from his pocket a small
leather-bouAd volume and cried out
ecstatically:
"Oh, Mr.. Secretary, have you read
this perfectly delightful little thing?"
The spell was broken, Secretary
Tumulty retired into his shell and
the disappointed news seekers went
outside. When they had reached the
safety one Gus Karger turned Zero
ciously on the poetic young man.
go back" said he, hoarsely; "go
back and sing to him. And when you
are all through we'll drop in and see
IL we can earn our salaries"
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Quaint Critic.

George B. Luks, the famous paint
er, said to a critic in his New York
studio:
Your criticism is, at any rate, orig
inal and amusing, my boy. 1t reminds
me of the colored laundress In the
Uflzi gallery.
when this colored laundress Wis
tied the Ufizi, her mistress led her
up to C~orreggio's masterpiece.
There, Hannah, what do you
think of that?'. she said.
Hannah, shaking her head, lugu-
briously, stared a long while at the
pictured angels whose white robes
were all yellowed by time, and then,
with a sigh and a disappearing shake
of the head, she said:
Ode saints is de last folks to put
up wiz bad laundry work."
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"EXaminitis,"

Let us remember that there Is such
a thing as e~xaminitis, and that a
brain crammed with a multitude Of
useless facts may show up brilliant
ly on an examination, but be so
clogged as to be unable to put the
knowledge to practical use. We know
we are raising the p~edagog's ire by
thus stating that there is such a
thing as too much knowledge, but as
a fact the worlds work is being done
by specialists who are densely ig-
norant of everything outside their re-
spective narrow spheres-and Of many
things inside. too.-American Medi-
cine.
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1886, e2e,e7 Coins Made In Year.

I~oo,oZo,o(l COINS Maoe IN year.
Uncle Sans money makers have
had an exceptionally busy year. AS a
result of their handiwork in the fiscal
year ending in June, 1913, 186,626.871
coins have either gone into circulation
or are in storage awaiting the de-
mands Of the public, say the Engi-
neering and Mining Journal.
The face value of these coins was
$37, 1876, $50, but this amount was rather
~unevenly distributed, S30,058,288 being
in gold coins. $3,448,2 200 in silver and
$3,940,101 in copper and nickel.
In number, however, the copper
coins had even more preponderance
than the gold coins in value, since
there were no. 68, 761 Of them,
against only ~4,221,40O of the gold
pieces.
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hams Vegetable Compound I improved
rapidly and today am a well woman. I
cannot tell you how happy I feel and T
cannot say too much for your Compound.
Would not be without it in the house if
it cost three times the amount. Mrs.
CHAs. CHAPMAN, r. F. D. No. z, Belle
vue, Ohio.
Because your case is a difficult one,
doctors having done you no good, do not
continue to suffer without giving Lydia.
f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a
trial. 1t surely has remedied many
cases of female ills, such as iniamma-
ton, liberation, displacements, tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
and it may be exactly what you need.
The Pinkham record is a proud and
peerless one. 1t is a record of constant
victory over the obstinate ills of woman
ills that deal out despair. It is an es-
tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has restored
health to thousands of such suffering
women. Why don't you try it if you
ned such a medicine2
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LlnQuIstic.

Bedell and Wilkinson, on a trip
through France, were dining together
at a Paris restaurant. Mr.. Wilkinson
persisted in ordering and asking for
everything he wanted In doubtful
French while Mr.. Bedell persisted in
offering explanations that were in the
nature of criticisms. At last Mr.. Will
kinson's temper arose to the explosive
point.
will you," he said in English, 'be
so good as not to interfere with me in
the use of my French?"
Very WELL" retorted Mr.. Bedell. 81
simply wanted to point out that you
we're asking for a staircase when all
you wanted was a spoon"
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"OIIve Oil" From Ponpies.

A few days are sufficient to finish
the collection Of the poppy juice in a
field, then the poppy heads are left
alone and robbed of their juice, the
sun soon dries them up, says the
Christian Herald. In a few days they
begin to shrink and change color, and
when they are quite withered and
have assumed a yellow-brownish tint
they are gathered by children, col
lected in heaps On a suitable spot, and
threshed out with long sticks by
women
The seed is then winnowed out
preparatory to its sale and export.
It contains about forty to fifty per
cent, Of oil, which is largely used In
France, on the continent and other
countries in the place of olive oil,
which it resembles closely. 1t con-
tains no opium.
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DRIVING a BaruaIn,

Old Mr.. Beeman was decidedly Pc
nurious, but as his premises were be-
coming over-run with rats he decided
to engage a professional rat-catcher,
when the following conversation took
place.
There, Mr.. Beeman," said the rat
catcher. 1--WE cleared your premises of
the varmints, and l take EN- all away
with me. You'll have no further trou-
BILE with rats l assure you, and you
won't have to bother about the dead
ones either, I'll put 'em right in this
box. The bill is five dollars"
Mr.. Beeman peered anxiously over
the rims of his silver trimmed spec
tacles. Don't l get anything for the
rats?" he inquired.
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expected that when the money bags
were frightened that this would be the
case. The fact is that money could
not keep pace with the development
natural to demands of 100000 new peo-
pie a year. Towns and cities had to
be built to take care of the country
and capital had not made sufficient
preparation.
But the crop Of 1918 will restore
conditions to a normal state, and the
natural and reasonable development
will continue.
Owing to a wet fall in 1912, and a
heavy snowfall during the past winter
there was a large area which it was
difficult to seed at the usual time the
past spring. Therefore as a general
thing seeding was later than usual. A
trip through the country in the early
part Of August showed that this was
no drawback. Wheat that had been
seeded in May was already ripening,
and had a stand fully as good as any
country had ever produced; the heads
were large and the prospects were of
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-05
LIGHT BREAKS IN
Thoughtful Farmer Learns About
Coffee.

Many people exist in a more or less
hazy condition and it often takes years
before they realize that tea and COT
fee are often the cause of the cloudi-
ness, and that there is a simple way
to let the light break in.
A worthy farmer had such an exper-
fence and tells about it, in a letter. He
says:
For about forty years, I have had
indigestion and stomach trouble in
various forms. During the last rs
years | would not more than get over
n spell of bilious collie until another
would be upon me.
THE best doctors I could get and
all the medicines l could buy, only
gave me temporary relief.
Change of climate was tried with
out results. l could not sleep nights,
had rheumatism and my heart would
palpitate at times so that it seemed
It would jump out of my body.
Il came to the conclusion that there
was no relief for me and that l wal
about wound up, when l saw a Postum
advertisement. l had always been a
coffee drinker, and got an idea from
the ad. that maybe coffee was the
cause of my trouble.
Il began to use Postum instead of
coffee and in less than three weeks /
felt like a new man. The rheumatism
left me, and l have never had a spell
of bilious collie since.
MY appetite is good, my digestion
never was better and | can do more
work than before for 40 years. :
Il haven't tasted coffee since | be-
gan with Postum. My wife makes it
according to directions and | relish it
as well as l ever did coffee, and l was
certainly a slave to coffee"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Write for copy of the lit,
tie book, "The Road to MELVILLE"
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum-must be we'll boiled,
Instant Postum is a soluble powder.
A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a
cup of hot water and, with the add
ton of cream and sugar, makes a de-
ucious beverage instantly.
There's a reason" for Postum.
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NO HELP, FARMERS QUIT.

Crops Rotting on Fields, II PennsyI
vanians Declare Business Improbable
Reading, Pa.-Eleven farmers in the
vicinity of Basket, Berks county, have
quit farming because of inability to
obtain sufficient help. Tkey are of the
opinion that the business is no longer
a paying one under such adverse con-
ditions. All have suffered heavy loss
by crops rotting in the field. They adj
vertised for labor in various papers
but were unable to get 1t and rather
than continue at a loss have Quit.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-05
The CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Optimism Throughout the Prov
inces of Manitoba, Sas-
katcheWan and Alberta.

During the present summer a num-
Der Of important delegations have Wis
tied the Canadian West for the pur-
pose Of securing information as to
the crop conditions and the conditions
of business generally. For some
months the financial stress was felt
throughout the Provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Co
lumbia as well as in other portions Of
the country. With a development TAX
ing place there, such as has never
before been known, it was to be
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-05
She Got Even

Little Lucy, aged five, had been to
church.
There was such a crowd, mamma"
she explained, that l couldn't find
a seat and had to stand in the aisle,
but l got even"
What do you mean, my child? How
did you get even?" asked her mother,
c%uriously.
81 didn't say any prayers"
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-05
His Bust.

Daniel G. French, the sculptor who
was commissioned to make the bust
of Ralph Waldo Emerson which is
now in Memorial hall, Harvard uni
versity, tells this story:
AT one Of the meetings Mr.. Emer-
son rose suddenly and walked over
to where the sculptor was smoking.
He looked long and earnestly at
the bust, and then, with an inim-
itably droll expression, he said:
The trouble is the more 1t re-
sembles me the worse it looks"
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-05

the brightest. 1t was not only in
wheat but in fax, oats and barley, the
same splendid conditions obtained.
Rains in all parts Of the country came
at the right time and the best of
weather throughout the season pre-
vailed in all parts.
The hay crop was excellent. AL
falfa, clover and timothy grasses were
good, and many farmers are now cul-
tivating these splendid folders.
The homestead shack is giving place
to comfortable residences. Large
barns are being erected where the i'm
provised log and mud stable gave shell
ter to the few head of cattle that the
early settler may have had in his pos
session. Fields are fenced, roads con
structed and great fields of grain and
pasture land are always in evidence.
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Brilliant

There are SO many musical lumi-
naries Of the name of Strauss-living,
dead, and moribund-that it is small
wonder that the Frohman announce
ment Of a new Strauss operetta Great
ed confused differences. The operetta
bought by Mr.. Frohman is by Oscar
Strauss-the Austrian composer of
1.-THE Waltz Dream" and THE Choco-
late Soldier"-who, now in his forty
third year, is composing as brilliantly
and as %copiously as ever.
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HAPPINESS ALWAYS HeInfuI.

A happy man or woman is a better
thing to find than a fve-pound note.
He or she is a radiating focus of good
will, and their entrance into a room
is as though another candle had been
lighted. We need not care whether
they could prove the f~orty-seventh
proposition. They do a better thing
than that; they practically demon
strate the great theorem of the livea-
bleness of life.-Robert Louis Steven
son.
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~ Noid ia arc OI ING Best
was $1,O24.7f in 1910, as against
$518.03 in 1900, being an increase Of
1918 per cent. in the decade.
Coming back to the crops of 1913, it
may safely be said that the yield Of
wheat in Saskatchewan will be about
115,000,0 900 bushels, with an average
yield of over % bushels per acre.
Oats, which are but a fair crop. will
yield an average equal to that of last
year. Barley is excellent, while fax.
Of which the average is considerably
less than last year, will produce a
greater average than for years. What
is said Of these crops will apply to all
districts.
Under date of August 18th, a report
comes from Regina which says:
UNLESS some dire calamity occurs
in the next few days farmers of the
Regina district will reap the greatest
wheat crop eve recorded in the West.
"a correspondent made an automo-
bile trip to the north and west of the
city, owe twenty-seven miles being
covered. Several fields were seen
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One AlI-Important Issue.

The renewal of faith is our master
issue. Not the tariff, not banking that
is ~panic-proof, not more equitable tax,
alton. not regulation of trusts and mo
nopolies, not race problems-none of
these are fundamental though impor-
tant. The allimportant issues are the
spiritual issues.-The Universalist
Leader.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-09-05

For rs years Wright's Indian Vege-
table Pills have been their own recon-
mendation in conditions of upset stom-
ach, liver and bowels. If you have not
tried them, a test now will prove their
benefit to you. Send for free sample
to 372 Pearl ST., New York. Adv.