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The Penn's Grove record., 1914-12-18
It Would Be Useless to Dwell Upon
the Reflections Of MIR. Sidney Pay

screw Fortunately he had neglected
to buy one, and SC your gift seemed to
come straight from Providence. John
is very much pleased. Already he has
found a use for it, as it happened
that he wanted to open a bottle of
household ammonia the very first
thing this morning.
AS for Fred's lovely books-thank
goodness you didn't send him any
more story books. John and have
been trying to induce him to take up
a more serious line of reading. The
J~osephus ought to help him in the
study of his Sunday school lessons.
| We were pleased to observe that he
read it for about an hour this morn
ing.
when you were put here last fall
did Genevieve tell o that she was
collecting silk for a doll quilt? She
insists that she did not, but she must
have done so, for how could you have
guessed that she wants pieces of silk
above anything else In the world? Fred
and Genevieve send love and kisses.
John insists that you come out to din
ner some Sunday very soon-next Sun.
day If you can. After we received your
presents we we're quite ashamed Of
the box we had sent over to your
hotel. but we will try to make up the
difference in heartfelt gratitude. Don't
forget-any Sunday. Your loving sis
ter, KATHERINE"
1t would be useless to dwell upon
the reflections of Mr.. Sidney Payson
after he received these letters.
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crease over the previous year of a
million pounds. The output OF dairy
butter was recorded last year at 4.288..
zl6 pounds. The Government depart
ment says that again this year a sub
stantlal increase in the dairy output
VIII be shown from this Province.
From this same source of information
one finds that through the splendid
growth in winter dairying. Winnipeg
now. for the first time in years, is
able to obtain a sufficient supply Of
mix and sweet cream from it's city
oalrles to satisfy its demand through
out the year without having To import
large quantities of these products
from the United States as was done
not longer than two years ago.-Ad-
v~ertisement.
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NOT IN DEMAND AS A PET
Nest Indian opossum Has Few Good
Qualities That Recommend Him
to Liking OF Humanity.

Although not exactly suitable as a
pet, the West Indian opossam is q
very interesting little animal.
Unlike most wild things, it prefers
the neighborhood Of man, and is q
perfect pest to the planter, especially
II he keeps poultry.
imagine a rat as large as a rabbit.
with a long prehensile tail, and you
have its picture.
It robs the fowl houses, steals ripe
fruit from the trees, eggs from the
nest, and fish from the pond. It is sell
dom seen during the day. as its sight
Is weak and 1t dislikes sunlight. "A
starry night for a rambIe" is the pos
sums motto, and he doesn't go hoT 8
till morning. Mrs. Opossum produces
ten or a dozen young ones at a birth,
and hides them away in a warm pouch
like a kangaroo.
Queer little naked blind things they
are, so that were 1t not for the ma
ternal pouch they would not succeed
long in the struggle for life.
Grown a little older, they are some
times taken for a walk on their moth
er's back, and it is a funny sight to
see the little fellows all clinging for
dear life to mammals tail.
The negro dearly loves a 'possum
hunt, and a ramble with Sambo and
two or three dogs generally produces
sport. The 'possum ordinarily takes
to a tree and tries to hide himself be-
hind the trunk. but the darby gets
him "'gainst de moon,'' as he calls 1t
that is to say, his form shows up
against the moonlight-and a charge
Of No. s oon brings him down.
Care must be taken in handling
him, as Mr.. Postum is apt to pretend
to be dead when he is really very
much alive. and Vol may get a sharp
bite II you pick him up.-Pennsylvania
Grit.
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Veteran Pastors Prayer.

Father in Heaven, take the twists
out of us; the snarls; the unsuspect-
ed crookedness; the moral ugliness
that carves bad lines in our faces when
we least suspect it. Make us
gentle, considerate, full of compassion
ate longing instead of fierce condem-
nation. Make us swift to help, with
out il or but. Show us the real val
ues under the surface Of ven disor.
derby lives, and make us glad these
values are there. Keep US from de-
spising people-even the debased, or
neighbors who tread on our toes. Root
out of US the subconscious feeling
that we are necessarily the good peo-
pie, and that all who differ from us
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For itching. BURNING skins.

Battle freely the affected surface
with Cuticura Soap and hot water.
Dry without irritation and apply Cuti-
cura Ointment with finger or hand.
This treatment affords immediate re-
lief, permits rest and sleep and points
to speedy healment in most cases Of
eczemas. rashes, itchings and irrita-
tons of the skin and scalp of infants,
children and adults. Free sample each
with 32-p. Skin Book if you wish Ad-
dress postcard: Cuticura, Dept. x,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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Snecious Plea.

Your honor, if we can show that
serious error were made in the choos-
ing Of the jury would you grant us a
new trial?"
That depends. What serious errors
were made?'
There were twelve of them. We
thought we were selecting men who
would acquit our client.".LouisviIle
Courier Journal.
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end to shopping hardships. 1t guaran-
teed him RChristmas to his own
liking.
He was bound by family custom to
buy Christmas presents for his rela-
tiVes. He had promised his sister that
he would remember every n in the
list. But he was under no obligation
to give Mesents which would be vel
come. Why rot give to each of his rel
atives soAe. present which would be
entirely heless, inappropriate and
superiuouA ? 1t would serve them right
for involving him in the childish per.
formances d the Christmas season. 1t
would be burlesque on the whole
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No Second Calls.

One day the Office bell sent forth a
shrill jingle and the Office boy has
tened in, as far as haste was in him.
to answer it. After a suitable inter-
val he re-entered the inner Office and
said:
"A client to see you, sir.
IAN old client or a new one?" asked
the lawyer.
"A new one, of course" answered
the boy.-Stray Stories.
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The Eir.t Tes+

"Dobble cares nothing whatever for
books"
Are you sure of that?"
quite positive. Why, I couldn't even
persuade him to glance through an un-
expurgated volume Of Guy de Maupas-
SAINT"
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Dear Brother: The secret is out. /
suspected it all the time. 1t is need
less for you to offer denial. Some
times when you have acted the cynic
I have almost believed that you were
sincere, but each time / have been re-
lieyed to observe something in you
which told me that underneath your
assumed Indifference there vas a
genial current of the romantic sentf-
ment of the youth and the lover. How
can / be in doubt after receiving a
little book-a love story?
Il knew, Sidney dear, that you would
remember me at Christmas. You have
always been the soul of thoughtful
ness. especially to those of us who IN
derstood you. / must, however, con-
fess that | expected you to do the
deadly conventional thing and send
me something heavy and serious. 1
knew it would be a book. All Of my
friends send me books. That's what
comes of being president Of a literary
ni,-h n-+ va" n~n tho nnIu ono oi1
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Always an Earnest inquiry.

What a lot of needless questions
are asked by children" said the ia
tigued parent.
Yes" replied Miss Cayenne. "And
tnere are a few of US grown people
VINO never seem to be seriously seek
Ing Information excepting when they
are asking What's trumps?'"
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Old Gentleman-There is something
wrong about that slot machine in
there. 1t claims to tell your correct
age. | am owe seventy, and it made
me out thirty-fve.
Hotel Clerk-That machine ia for
ladies only.
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fAte GN&t WGk
WI full Of the bitterness Of
Christmas-tide. MI. Pay
son was the kind of man
@NAx1 who loved to tell invalids
3RTSA that they were not look;
az M ing as well as usual, and
@5rS who frightened young hus
bands by predicting thai
they would regret having married. He
seldom put the seal of approval on any
human undertaking. It raj a matter
Of pride with him that he never failed
to find the sinister motive for the act
which other people a~pplauded. Some
of his pious friends used to say that
Satan had got the upper hand with
him, but there were others who indi.
Gated that it might be bile.
Think Of the seething wrath and the
sense of humiliation with which Mr..
Sidney Payson set about his Christ
mas shoppingi IN the first place, to
go shopping for Christmas presents
was the most conventional thing that
anyone could do, and Mr.. Payson
hated conventionalities. For another
thing, the giving of Christmas pres
ents carried with it some testimony of
affection, and Mr.. Payson regarded
any display of affection as one of the
crude symptoms of barbarous taste.
If he could have assembled his rela-
tiyes at a Christmas gathering and
opened a few old family wounds, re-
Winding his brother and his two sis
ters Of some Of their youthful %follies.
thus shaming them before the chill
dren, Mr.. Sidney Payson might have
managed to make out a rather merry
Christmas. Instead of that, he was
condemned to go out and purchase
gifts and be as cheaply idotic as the
other wretched mortak with whom he
was being carried along. No wonder
that he chafed and rebelled and yainly
wished that he could hang crepe on
every Christmas tree in the universe.
Mr.. Sidney Payson hated his task
and he was puzzled by it. After wan
dering through two stores and looking
in at 20 windows he had been unable
to make selection. 1t seemed to
him that all the articles offered for
sale were singularly and uniformly in
appropriate. The custom of giving
was a farce in itself. and the storekeep-
ers had done what they could to make
it a sickening t~ravesty.
I'll go ahead and buy a lot of things
at haphazard," he said to himself. Il
don't are a hang whether they are ap-
propriate or not"
At that moment he had an inspira-
ton. It was IN inspiration which
could have come to no one except Mr..
Sidney Payson. 1t promised a speedy
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Improved circumstances

1 understand that the Twobbles
nave decided to move into a more
fashionable apartment house"
Yes. They are doing that on the
strength Of the fact that Mr.. Twobbles
a recently been let in on the ground
hoor OF a new enterprise"
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What do you think of the location
they have selected for the new rail-
roa terminal, Mrs. Nurieh?"
I haven't given much thought to it.
but heard by husband say it's a per.
feet sight"
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Oh, Goal 'Lono!

What do you think of my football
coat?"
why do you call it that?"
Because it has a full back"
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medicine to give their children, be-
cause it is free from alcohol or danger
GUS drugs. 1t is pure and nourishing
and will build up the little ones in the
natural way.
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YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
Try Murine Bye Remedy for Red. Weak, Watery
Just Eye comfort. Write for Book of the Rye
By mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
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DOCTOR SAIDTHIS
BABY WOULD DIE
His Mother Says Father
Johns Medicine Saved
His Life

w h e n sending
this picture of her
baby, Mrs. Britt of
Athol, Mass, said:
The doctor told
me that my baby
would not live, but
l gave him Father
b n s Medicine
and now he is well
and strong. The
medicine made him
eat well and gave
him strength to
walk" Mrs. Britt
lives at 283 Kenne-
bunk street, Athol,
Mass. M o t h e T 8
should remember
that Father Johns
Medicine is a safe
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LIKELY TO SET YOU THINKING

For three or more names, we mail
free our booklet on important relation
of drinking water to health; instruc-
tive. entertaining. Hygienic Company.
23 West And Street. New York.-Adv.
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Literal.

"~Speeding's great sport, isn't it,"
Il tell you, it's just killing."-BaIti-
more American.
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And six feet of bathtub makes most
of US equal.
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DO you cultivate the tragic voice p
mo; shy my bootjack at EN-
Baltimore American.
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Public oninion.

You think that public opinion is
what really governs u.s."
Certainly. If it weren't for public
opinion we'd all go wearing u straw
hats as long as they were comfort
able"
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1t is better to be a coming man than
to be forty miles ahead of the process
sion.
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Trying to be content with what we
have is some trial.
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The homely girl can't afford to keep
her domestic abilities under cover.
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Women had better not count much
on the love of a man who cannot be
made Jealous.
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To BE Exnected.

I've been reading Shakespeare.
Hadn't poor Hamlet a dogs life?"
well, wasn't he a Great Dane?"
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Dairying the Principal Industry

Dairying is the industry, however,
which is making dollars for the Mani
toba farmer. 1t is developing at a rap
id rate in this Province for that par
ticular reason. The output of cream
cry butter last year was 1900, 900
pounds. at an average price of 27.5
cents per pound, which was an in
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-12-18

HOXSIE'S GROUP REMEDY SAVES LIFE,
suffering and money. No nausea. 5oc.-Adv.
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Dear Brother: Greetings to you
from the happiest household in town.
thanks to a generous Santa Claus in
the guise of Uncle Sidney. / must be-
gin by thanking you on my own ac-
count. How in the world did you learn
that Roman colors had come in again?
have always heard that men did not
follow the styles and could not be
trusted to select anything for a wom-
an, but 1t Is a libel, a base libel, for
the scarf which you sent is quite the
most beautiful thing l have received
this Christmas. / have it draped over
the large picture in the parlor, and 1t
is the envy of every one who has been
in today. A thousand, thousand thanks.
dear Sidney. It was perfectly sweet
of you to remember me, and / call it
nothing less than a stroke of genius to
think Of anything so appropriate and
yet SO much out Of the ordinary.
John asks me to thank you-but I
must tell you the story. One evening
last week we had a little chalng-dish
party after prayer meeting, and /
asked John to open a bottle of olives
for me. Well he broke the small blade
of his knife trying to get the cork
out. He said: If live to get down
town again, I'm going to buy a cork
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Making Ends Meet.
"She always has bills on hand"
What does he do9"
HE foots EN-"
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have been, and whether It would 10
have been better after all. / am afraid
that / am writing this like a senti-
mental school girl, but You must know
that have been reading your charm
ing little book, and it has come to me
as a message from you. Is it not real
ly a confession, Sidney? You have
made me very happy, dear brother. l
feel more closely drawn to you than at
any time since we were all together
at Christmas, at the old home. Come
and see me. Your loving sister,
"GERTRUDE."
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MESMERiZED
A Poisonous Drug still Freely Used.

Many people are brought up to be
lieve that coffee is a necessity of life,
and the strong hold that the drug,
caffeine. in coffee has on the vs.
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The Gifts
That
Failed
BY
GEORGE AIDE


r. SIDNEY PAYSON was
full Of the bitterness of
Christmas-tide. Mr.. Pay
son was the kind of man
who loved to tell invalids
that they were not look
ing as well as usual, and
who frightened young hus-
hands hy predicting that
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-10-09
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Francisco PARA was sentenced by
Judge Neblett at Santa Fe to from so
to 100 years in the penitentiary for
murder.
Senator Ia Toilette has declined the
request of the Wisconsin Progressives
to run as an independent candidate
for governor.
The womeps committee of the Den
yer Red Cross have realized S29,007,
and will execute various plans for
adding to it.
Charles IL Peabody of Seattle has
been appointed director of the federal
reserve bank at San Francisco. and
Felix Martinez of El Paso to SINH
lar position at Dallas.
The estate of the late Kirk G. Phil
lips has been sued by the State OF
South Dakota for ISL 900 claimed to
be due tho state from the time Phil
lips was state treasurer.
An increase from T3,544 to 1922
members In the last four years was
reported at the quadriennial general
conference of the United Evangelical
church, in session at Chicago
Battling Mexicans at Naco. Sonora,
riddled the town of Naco, Arizona.
across the line. Monday. Protest was
sent to President Wilson that the fight
ers might turn their rifles the other
way.
II. C. Works, an aged mining man
from Texas and Mexico. caused the
arrest at Los Angeles of Miss Frances
Lukas nurse, on the charge of hav-
ing stolen trunk containing $4,000
in securities and gold bullion.
The war will have no effect upon
the size of the exhibits of German
manufacturers at the Panama Pacific
exposition. says w. W. Schultz, expo
sition commissioner. who has been for
several months in Berlin and returned
to San Francisco.
Within 100 yards of the Utah state
| prison, masked man held up George
| A. Goff, cashier of the Sugarhouse
bank, and Clifford Goff. a boolskeeper,
locked the two men In the bank vault,
took S1,525 and escaped unnoticed
| forty minutes before the two men
were able to get out of the vault and
give the alarm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor e. Innes OF Eu.
gene, Ore, charged respectively with
murder and accessory before the fact
in connection with the disappearance
from San Antonio. Tex, last June OF
Mrs. Elois Nelms Dennis and Miss
Beatrice Nelms OF Atlanta, waived
preliminary examination and were re
manded to jail without bond.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-10-09
WASHINGTON.

Congress will probably adjourn oc-
tober 18th.
Secretary and Mrs. Bryan have
been married thirty years.
Cotton condition 1875 per cent of
normal. Condition In Texas, 70; Ar
kansas. 60; Oklahoma, so; California,
sc.
The bank tax of 81 thousand cap
ital has been retained by the Senate
finance committee in tho war revenue
bill.
All American diplomatic agents in
the danger zones have been instructed
to take no chances, but to temporarily
change their posts.
Items voted into the war revenue
bill by the Senate committee on that
measure are proprietary medicines,
cosmetics. perfumes and chewing gum.
All plans for holding the third inter
national peace conference at The
Hague next year have been abandoned
It was announced at the state depart
ment.
Strict orders for the exercise of
greater care in the handling of parcel
post mail matter by postal employees
were issued by Postmaster General
Burleson.
Inquiries are being sent out by the
Navy Department to builders OF air
ships as to their preparedness to con.
struct dirigible balloons If the navy
should decide to adopt that kind of
aircraft.
Representative Levy OF New York,
owner OF Monticello. announced that
In view of Secretary Bryan's appeal to
him to sell Thomas Jefferson's home
to the government. he was considering
doing so. Heretofore he has refused
all such proposals..
There were 1861 national banks in
operation in the United States at the
close of business Oct. /. according to
the September report of the comptrol-
Ter of the currency. Their authorized
capital was s1.075, ,6S4.175. with out
standing circulation secured by bonds
amounting to s735. .965. .67s and secured
by other than bonds. s32G. 1920.
Fifty-four ships. aggregating nearly
250,000 tons and worth approximately
s15.000,000 have been added to the
American merchant marine since the
new chip registry law went into eff
~ct.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-10-09
SPORT.

Scalpers are devising various unique
schemes to corner a big supply Of
tickets for the worlds series,
Peter yolo won the Kentucky
futurity for three-year-old trotters at
Lexington. Best time was 2:03h.
The Colorado School of Mines and
University of Wyoming fast ball teams
will meet at Pioneer Park, Cheyenne,
October 18th.
Soccer football will become one OF
the minor sports at the University OF
Colorado at Boulder, according to the
plans of James N. Ashmore, the new
physical director.
Denver baseball and Red Cross fans
turned out to see the benefit game be.
tween McGill's two fast teams. Denver
and Indianapolis, with the Rev. VIM.
A. Sunday as umpire.
James c. Smith, third baseman OF
the Boston National League Club,
broke his leg above the ankle in slid.
ing 70 second base In the ninth inning
of the first game of the double-header
with Brooklyn Tuesday.
The Colorado State School OF Mines
of Golden, and the University of Wyo
ming of Laramie, will clash on the
gridiron OF Pioneer park In Cheyenne
on Saturday afternoon, Oct. II.
When Joe Jackson decided he did
not like the Athletics when he Joined
them as raw recruit In 1908 and
skipped back to his South Carolina
home, he beat himself out of ss.963.74
Each Philadelphia player got 81 2,062.7s
for heating the Cubs in 1910. In 1911
each of Mack's men was handed a
check for ss,G54.59s and last year the
individual share was s3.24G.36, total
of ss.963.74.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-10-09
DISPUTE HOLDS UP PAY|
UTILITIES COMMISSION coNrRo.
vERsY TAKEN TO COURT.
Attorney General Farrar Rendered
Opinion That Employees Do Not
Come Under Civil Service.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-As the result OF a dispute
between the Public Utilities Commits
sion and the Civil Service Commission
as to whether OF not the employees OF
the Utilities Commission are in the
classified service State Auditor Roady
Kenehan has held up the pay OF the
employees since the commission camo
into being in August. The utilities
commission plans to mandamus Kene-
han to settle the question In the
courts. AS the case will undoubtedly
be taken to the State Supreme Court.
the four employees affected viii go for
some months without their salaries.
Tho law creating the public utilities
provided that the commission shall
appoint its employees at its pleasure,
which would remove them from the
classified service Also the statute
was passed after the civil service law.
and upon this point the commission
makes the contention that the en-
ployes of the board do not come under
civil service.
The Civil Service Commission holds
eAit RV9ANAoh NtAstt ~ naS nut tAtt Aht'hT
tion OF the Legislature in passing the
Public Utilities Commission law to
take the employees of the commission
from the classified service. If the
Legislature did, the Civil Service Com
mission claims, every state employ6
can be taken frcm the classified sery-
ice in time by later statutes.
Th attorney generals office rem
dered an opinion to Kenehan that the
employees of the utilities commission
do not come under civil service while
the Civil Service Commission rem
dered one exactly opposite to the audi
| tor.
Should the decision of the Supreme
Court be in favor of the utilities com.
mission. the powers of the civil serv'
ice Commission may in time decrease
until they no longer exist.