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The river press., 1913-12-31
new FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Currency Measure Designed to Con
troll Supply Of Money

Washington, Dec. 23.-President
Wilson signed the Glass-Owen cur.
rency bill at Sol o'clock tonight in
the presence of members of his cab.
met, the congressional committee on
banking and currency, and democrat.
ic leaders in congress generally.
With few strokes of the pen, Pres.
ident Wilson converted into law the
measure to be known as the federal
reserve act. reorganizing the nations
banking and currency system, and
furnishing in the words of the presi-
dent "the machinery for free and elas-
tic and uncontrolled credits, put at
the disposal of the merchants and
manufacturers of this country for the
first time in so years."
Generally speaking, the first steps
to be taken to bring into operation
the nations new financial system will
be through an organization committee
of three members, constituted of the
secretary of treasury, secretary of
agriculture and comptroller of the
currency. Banks have sixty days
WITHIN which to flle their applications
for. membership in the new system,
and one years time is allowed before
government will compel the dissolu-
tion of any national bank that refus-
es to join.
The new law will make little direct
change in the present operation Of
national banks, except to allow them
to loan a certain amount of their
funds upon farm mortgages. It's
chief purpose is to add a new piece
of machinery to the banking system
that will take up the slack" during
the changing business conditions of
each year; that will give the banks
place to quickly convert their as
sets into cash in time of need, and
that will bring out new federal cur
rency when it is needed and retire it
when money becomes cheap.
The river press., 1913-12-31
Hold Schools on Warships

Washington, Dec. 24.-Every Amer.
ican warship will be a school ship
with the advent of the New Year,
Secretary Daniels promulgated an or.
der today putting into effect his new
educational system in the navy Jan
l, and hereafter for an hour and q
quarter each afternoon every enlisted
man on warships will be engaged in
self-improvement under the watchful
eyes of his commanding officer. Com
missioned, warrant and petty officers
will be designated to act as pedagog
ues.
The river press., 1913-12-31
TO CHANGE LAND LAWS
Grazing Homestead is Proposed by
Wyoming CONGRESSMAN

Washington, Dec. 29.-With over
400 public land bills referred to it
the house committee on public lands
is preparing for busy session. The
caucus decision to consider no other
matters than tariff and currency at the
special session having been lifted
with the convening of the regular ses-
sion, the committee will hold special
meetings in an effort to give consid.
GRAFTON to the many meritorious meas
ures on which it is expected to re.
port.
One of the first measures informal.
ly discussed at the initial meeting of
the committee was the Mondell graz.
ing homestead bill, which it is hoped
to get through during the present con.
gress. This bill provides for the en-.
try OF areas the maximum of which
may be designated by the secretary of
the interior for as high as 1880 acres,
according to value and location. I'm.
provement of the lands in lieu of cul.
tivation will enable the entryman to
acquire title.
Secretary Lane has indicated his
desire for some such legislation, it is
understood by those who have talked
with him, and it is believed the Mon.
dell idea will receive favorable action
by congress. Much of the remaining
public lands, it is pointed out, can
only be entered for their grazing val
ue. and 1880 acres is none too much
to enable settler to make good. AS
these entries may only be made on
areas designated by the secretary Of
the interior, it will not be possible
for anyone to secure such entry of
purely agricultural lands under the
proposed law. The unqualified sue.
cess of the Mondell 230-acre home
stead has demonstrated that the des.
ignation idea is the only practical
safeguard against abuses formerly
complained of in the administration
of the public lands.
The river press., 1913-12-31
HobbIe Skirts Cause Accidents

Chicago, Dec. 26.-Hobble skirts
and high heels are the cause of many
minor accidents on railway trains, &C.
cording to bulletin issued by one of
the largest railroad companies in the
country. The bulletin shows forty
four such accidents were caused on
the road in August by the prevailing
styles. In September forty-two suf-
fered injuries because of their inabil-
ity to move quickly in the close.fitting
dresses, and in October the injured
numbered fifty-two.
The river press., 1913-12-31

discovered gold mine. He took pos
session, but the church organization
represented by Peter H. Anderson of
Chicago, laid claim to a share in the
discovery, because the missionary was
in its employ. Mr.. Hultberg lost in the
state supreme court.
He appealed to the United States
courts and the decision was there re-
versed. 1t was decided in his favor
in the state court on the second hear
ing and now Anderson is taking it to
the United States supreme court.
The river press., 1913-12-31
Montana Fugitive Captured

Tacoma, Dec. 29.-Earl Kempter, a
miner, "a years old, has been arrested
at Seattle on warrant charging for.
gerry. The warrant was issued in Mis-.
soula nearly three years ago. Kemp
ter says he will return to Missoula
without making a fight against extra
dition. The arrest of Kempter brings
to a close a search conducted by the
Missoula police since Feb. 13, 1913.
The river press., 1913-12-31
LABOR LEADER DEPORTEO
He Advised Refusal Of Aid for Grief
Stricken Families

Calumet, Mich, Dec. 26.-Charles
H. Meyer, president of the Western
Federation of Miners. was put on a
train and sent out of the copper strike
district tonight. The deportation was
the direct result of refusal of fam
lilies stricken by the Christmas eve
disaster here to accept relief from
a committee, the majority Of whose
members belonged to the Citizens
Alliance, an organization combating
the five months strike of the fed
Grafton.
At the meeting of the relief COM
mittee tonight it was stated that the
federation had forbidden its members
to accept any relief of the panic VIC
Tins. A section of the committee
thereupon was delegated to confer
with President Meyer of the fedora
ton.
They arranged meeting with Mr..
Meyer at Hancock, at which the Cit
izens' Alliance men told the union
executive that his attitude was
against all dictates of humanity They
demanded that he retract statements
credited to him that the cry of Fire"
which started the panic, causing the
death of 72 persons, was raised by a
member of the alliance. Meyer, it
was said, refused to make a retrac-
tion satisfactory to the committee. A
short time later he and John Tanner
of California, an organizer for the
federation, were observed on a street
car going from Hancock to Hough-
ton.
The river press., 1913-12-31
Damaged by Storm

New York, Dec. 26.-Two men
drowned in East river and 10 men
the crews of two barges wrecked on
the New Jersey coast-given up as
lost, is the cost in human lives of the
storm that swept over this city and
its environs early today. At Sea-
bright, N. j., fashionable summer
resort, 80 miles south of here. most
The river press., 1913-12-31
Church Wants Gold Mine

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. 29.-The case
of Nils o. Hultberg against Peter H.
Anderson, involving possession of a
gold mine in Africa, is starting on its
second trip to the United States
courts.
Mr.. Hultberg. who several years
ago represented a Swedish Evangeli-
cal church as a missionary in Africa,
The river press., 1913-12-31
Cattle From Mexico

st. Louis, Dec. 24.-Heavy cattle
shipments from southern Mexico will
he started to this market beginning
February l, 1914, according to an an.
nouncement tonight by E. T. Jones,
manager of a O,OOOacrc ranch in
the states of Chihuahua and Tobasco.
The cattle will be transported on
hCof and tv water to Galveston.
The river press., 1913-12-31
Favor Government Ownership

Washington, Dec. 23.-Government
ownership of the nations telephone
lines would cost less than $9OO,00O.-
900 and would present no greater
The river press., 1913-12-31

Water right blanks-only correct
form published-for sale at the RIV.
Err PRESS Office.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
How, Forgiveness Eornsts

When love forgives, it does not ask
If it is possible to forget also: low
rejoices in forgiveness as the means
by which it a forget. One who
claims to have forgiven, but not for
gotten an injury, has not learned the
meaning of forgiveness from the
heart" Divine forgiveness blots out
our transgressions and remembers
them against US no more. AS far as
the east is from the west, so is the
AM of Gods forgiveness of the
sins. He puts behind him and holds
against us no more. Our forgiveness
of others must not be less. And in
Christ it need not be less; for in him
we may have in our hearts the infinite
love of our Fathers forgiving heart
and know the blessedness of forgiving
as fully and freely as he forgives us.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
LIneoln,s Usual Swear Word.

On one occasion Lincoln, when en-
tering the telegraph office, was heard
to remark to Secretary Seward. by
jings, governor, we are here at last"
Turning to him in a r~eproving man
ner, MI. Seward said: Mr.. President,
where did you learn that inelegant ex-
p~ression:" Without replying to the
secretary, Lincoln addressed the oper-
ators, saying: Young gentlemen. ex-
cuse me for swearing before you. BY
jings' is swearing, for my good old
mother taught me that anything that
had a by before it was swearing"
The only time, however, that Lincoln
was aver heard really to swear was
on the occasion Of his receiving a tele-
gram from Burnside, who had been
ordered a week before to go on to the
relief of Rosecrans at Chattanooga.
who was in great danger of an attack
from Bragg. On that day Bur inside
telegraphed from Jonesboro, further
away from Rosecrans than he was
when he received the order to hurry
toward him. When Burnside's telegram
was placed in Lincoln's hands he said.
On Jonesboro." He then tele-
graphed Burnside as follows:
September 21, 1868.
"If you are to do any good to Rose
Grams it will not do to waste time at
Jonesboro. A. LINCOLN"
David Homer Bates, in the Cen
fury.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
Foreign

The shortage of men in the British
navy is nine per cent, exactly the
same as in the United States service.
Baron Ilkeston, member of the Lib
eral party in the House of Lords, died
in London.
Fifteen women and girls were fined
$40 each, or seven days in Jail, for
wearing projecting hatpins, in AIDE
laide, Australia.
Lieut.. General Jenkher Jacobus C..
C. den Beer Poortugael, aged 81, inter-
national jurist and author and several
times delegate to The Hague Confer
ence, died in The Hague.
The Porte instructed the Turkish
Army to fire no shot till the allies had
attacked, and ordered the peace en-
voys to stay at their posts till hos
tilities were resumed.
The century old boundary dispute
between Columbia and Venezuela has
been renewed and several clashes on
the frontiers of the two republics
have resulted. 1t is not expected
that a will be declared.
The River Seine is rising rapidly
and Paris fears another flood like the
disastrous ones of 1901. The river
is rising at the rate of two inches an
hour. Some of the lower parts of the
city are already flooded.
The visit of Senior Culbeton, new
Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See,
to the Vatican is thought to signify
that the acquiescence of the Vatican
is necessary to the situation of the
Spanish Government if Spain adopts
a liberal policy.
Business houses, residences and
shops of the United Railways were
burned at Merida, Mexico, at a loss OF
500, 900.
The returns of the French success
sion duty department for 1911 shows
that there were 359,113 estates worth
5,761, 900, 900 francs, making 666 mil
~lionaires in French money and AZ mil
lionaires in American dollars.
The Cunard Line has asked the Aus
trlan Government for a concession
for a steamship service between Tri-
este and Portland, Me. A similar con-
cession is held by the Canadian Pa
ciic.
A rebel leader demanded 1000
goats from a Mexican town to feed
his soldiers.
~Suffragettes in London hurled lead
slugs stamped Votes for women"
from slingshots, and at Birmingham
they tore up the turf of golf links.
Chancellor Lloyd-George
the Liberal party would work for the
emancipation of the land from IAN
effete and Improbable system"
Lieutenant Smith and nine blue
jackets have been lost from the Brit
ish cruiser Perseus. They were
watching for pirates on the Oman
coast of the Persian gnls
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
Lincoln and IN. HumorIst..

During some of Lincoln's daily Wis
its to the war department there were
many spare moments while he waited
for fresh news from the front or for
the translation of cipher messages,
and when he did not I'LL up the other
wise idle time by telling stories he
would read aloud some humorous ar
ticle from a newspaper, as, for in
stance, Orpheus c. Kerr's droll re-
ports from Mackerelville, or Petrole-
UNI v. Nasby's letters in sarcastic
vein; at other times Artemus Wards
lectures. Some of Nasby's
letters were irresistibly funny, espe-
cially those relating to the continuous
struggle for the ~postofice at "Confed.
rit Cross Roads" and to the backward,
ness of some Of our generals, relates
David Homer Bates In the Century.
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Why Lincoln Launhsd-

Lincoln was annoyed greatly in the
spring Of 1863 by a trio of doctors rep
resenting the homeopathic interests,
says the Philadelphia Times. The
president listened to them patiently
day after day, and finally dismissed
them by saying he was too busy with
the war to give the matter attention.
The doctors then tried Stanton, but
he told them they must get the ,deci-
sion from Lincoln himself. When they
returned Lincoln greeted them with a
loud, unctuous laugh, and explained
the mirth, when asked, by saying he
had been thinking of the story Of a
boy who tried in Sunday school to
read the biblical passage about the
three men who went down into the
fiery furnace. Their names-Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego-troubled the
boy greatly; he could not
them. The teacher helped him twice;
but again he encountered the names In
his reading and began to cry.
Don't cry. Johnnie" said the teach
er.
Il c-can't h-help it," sobbed Johnnie.
for here comes those three ID
fools again!"
But the pests had fed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
ALWAYS NEAR CAPITAL
Lincoln Never Had Complete Rest
During Civil War.
Unpretentlous House, a Cottage In
the Soldiers Home Grounds,
Where He Spent the Hot
Months, Still Is Object
of Reverent Interest.

While u recent national chief ex.
ecutives have fed from Washington
and its summer heat and moved to
cool summer capitals, as, for instance,
BuzZards Bay, Oyster Bay and Bev.
erly, Lincoln in his day was forced
ever to remain on guard in the ma.
tons capital the year through.
During his four troublous years in
Washington he took no vacation and
his summer residence was within
easy ride of the seat Of government.
The Anderson cottage, in the sol.
diers' home grounds, was his summe
home, and it was here, guarded by
a company Of cavalry, that he lived
while handling the reins of govern
ment through the Civil war. He rode
to the White House every day and re-
turned at night, the hour more often
than not being late.
His simplicity of taste was such
that he would gladly have ridden
without escort. but the secretary of
war, the trenchant Stanton, insisted
on the cavalry escort, for the presi-
dents safety.
Lincoln said he did not want it;
he couldn't hear himself think" with
the soldiers gathering along beside,
before and behind him. But with his
usual complaisance in what he deem
ed non-essentials, he yielded. Some
times he rode horseback, accompa-
MED by the escort. At times he was
called on to make a sudden journey
from his cottage to the White House.
One such call was on the receipt of
news of the reverse at Chickamauga.
Lincoln mounted his horse and rode
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07

Fred S~nodgrass outfelder. of the
Giants, predicts that the National
League pennant lies between the
Giants and the Phillies.
In the international skating races at
Christiana, the Russian, I~ppolitow,
won the 5000 meters event in 8 min.
43 40 secs Mathiesen, the Norwe-
gian champion, won the 1900 meters
in 2 min. % Ito secs
Jim" Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian,
who was crowned the worlds greatest
athlete at the Olympic games at
Stockholm and has been stripped of
his amateur achievements because he
has confessed to playing professional
baseball, has signed with the New
York Nationals.
Bescher of the Cincinnati Reds is in
a class by himself in continuous base
running feats. He has led the Nation
al League in steals for the last four
years, his totals being as follows: 1909,
81; 1910, 70; 1911, 80; 1912, 81.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
TWO DROWN IN SOUND.
Duck Hunters, Numbed by Cold, Lose
Hold on Upturned Skiff.

Duck Hunters, Numbed by Cold, Lose
Hold on U~pturned Skiff.
Greenwich, Conn. The keeper of
the Captain Island lighthouse report-
ed a winter tragedy of Long Island
Sound here, in which George Wilmot
and Herman Hyernberg of this city
lost their lives. Both were men with
families.
The lighthouse keeper said that he
heard screams for help, and was able
to make out at a considerable distance
a man clinging to an upturned boat.
He and his assistant launched their
lifeboat and pulled rapidly in the di-
rection of the cries, but dusk was rap
idly falling and they lost sight of the
boat. They continued, however, their
efforts at rescue and finally found the
skiff, but the man was no longer cling
ing to 1t, and they heard no further
cries.
Hyernberg was employed as winter
caretaker Of the Island Beach Cor
poration resort property. The day of
his death he came ashore in the skiff
and drew his monthly salary. He in
yited Wilmot to accompany him on a
duck-hunting expedition, and the two
set out about $50 p. m.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
JANITOR SENT
ALL The BOMBS
Farrell, Ex-Convict and Lunatic,
Maker of Internal Machines
NEW YORK MYSTERY SOLVED
Blew Up Helen Taylor in Her Flat a
Year Ago with a Package That
Was Delivered by Mail-Sent
Bomb to Judge RosaIsky.

New York.-John Paul Farrell, a
gaunt, specialized janitor, ~ex-sailor, ex-
convict and graduate of an insane
asylum, pointed to himself as the
maker and sender of all three bombs
that have been police mysteries of the
past year.
The bomb that killed Grace Walker
at 103 West Seventy-eighth street a
year ago., the bomb that went off in
Judge Otto Rosalsky's home, Gil West
10th street, on March 16 last year,
and the bomb that killed Mrs. Made
line Herrera at 1473 Fulton avenue,
The Bronx, on Sunday night-Farrell
claims each of them as his own.
For each of the three bomb explo-
sions Farrell gave his motives. He
said that Grace Walker had been a
friend of his, that she abandoned him,
that when he called at her home to
reproach her for keeping bad com
pany she told him to mind his own
business and slammed the door in his
face. That was ten days before her
death.
From hat slammed door Farrell
says he went back to his basement
room at S18 East Fourteenth street,
where he was then %janitor, and there
manufactured and addressed with a
typewriter his first bomb.
His grudge against Judge RosaIsky
had nothing to do with the Brandt
case, although it was suspected at the
time that the sentencing of Brandt by
Judge Rosalsky was responsible for
the bomb. Farrell says he put the
Judge on his list of recipients of in
fernal machines because the Judge
had sent a pal of his De Rosa the Bull,
to prison for thirty-nine years.
The third bomb, which killed the
wife OF Bernardo Herrera, blinded her
husband and seriously hurt Miss Sa-
rah Fughtman, was aimed at Herrera
because Herrera had discharged Far
rell from his job as assistant janitor
of the Fulton avenue apartment
house.
These in outline are the reasons
given by the gray-haired janitor for
his three big adventures in crime. In
only n of the cases has corrobora-
tive evidence been developed.
In making mis- confessions, Farrell.
who IS a bent, gray-haired man, prob
ably 90 years old, spoke without emo
lion or the display of any heroics.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-07
General

Mrs. Declan Troy, Yonkers, n. Y,
is the mother of twins, born 80 hours
apart.
The North Carolina House passed a
bill to hold liable to a fine the person
who gives tips and the receiver of
tips.
The West Virginia Legislature
unanimously ratified the income tax
amendment to the Federal constitu-
ton.
Prosecuting Attorney Gunter of All
ken, S. c., said he hadn't the "least
idea of convicting F. o. Beach on a
charge of attacking Mrs. Beach.
Park-in-Pines, a winter resort hotel
at Aiken, S. c., and Savannah, Ca,
dock property valued at $780, 900
were destroyed by fire.
Trenton gossip says that William J..
Bryan, Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsyl-
van1a, and Robert L.. Henry, of Texas,
have been decided upon as members
of the new Cabinet.
The Legislature of North Carolina
has ratified the 18th amendment to
the Constitution providing for the
election of United States Senators by
direct vote of the people.
James j.. Gallagher, who shot Mayor
Gaynor on the S. S. Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse on August 9, 1910, died in
the New Jersey state asylum at Tren-
ton OF paresis. Gallagher was serving
a 12-year sentence.
An appendicitis epidemic. has
struck the st. Francis Industrial
School, near Philadelphia, SO boys be-
ing affected. Philadelphia physicians
believe that the spread of the dis
ease is due to a microbe.
President Taft has signed a meas
ure providing for a 3d. 0 900 Lincoln
Memorial to be erected in Potomac
Park, Washington, D. C. An appro-
priation of $500, 900 will be asked of
Congress to start the work.
Edward l. Church, teller of the Ber-
gen & Lafayette Trust Co., Jersey
City, testified that he had made resti-
tuition of $4,598 embezzled from that
institution.
Cipriano Castro, ex-President of
Venezuela, was released from Ellis
Island, New York, under $500 bail. on
a writ of habeas corpus by Judge
Holt.
A board of naval officers will con-
vene at the Naval War College at
Newport TO determine what prompted
Commander Frank Marble, a member
of the college to shoot himself in
February, 1911.
Doctor Robert Macarthur, head of
the Worlds Baptist Alliance, has
rendered his resignation as pastor of
the Tabernacle Baptist Church, At
lanta.
Fifty delegates from Western Indian
tribes will urge President-elect Wilson
to appoint an Omaha Indian, Thomas
L. Sloane, of Bender, Neb., Commits.
sioner of Indian Affairs.
The damage to the citrus crop of
California due to cold weather and
storms is estimated at $50, 900, 900 by
A. ]. Cook, State horticulturist. He
says only 20 per cent. of the crop was
saved