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SENATOR PENROSE TAKEH[BY DEATH Tariff Expert Succumbs to Lung Trouble at Washington. HAD BEEN ILL ONLY FEW DAYS Senate Leader Passes Away at the Age of Sixty-One Years in His Apartment at Washington—Had Never Been Married. Washington, Jan. 2. —Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania died here at 11:40 o’clock at night after a brief ill ness. Senator Penrose, who was sixty-one years of age, had been complaining for some clays of a severe cold and la grippe, but it was staled repeatedly by his friends that his condition was Improving and that he would be able to resume his duties in the senate. His recent work as chairman of the finance committee in handling tax and tariff legislation was a greater phys ical hardship, his friends said, than he realized. Reports from Senator Penrose's apartment at the Wardman Park hotel earlier in the night indicated that his condition was not so good ami physi cians were constantly with him. The first notice of his death was tele phoned by a physician from his apart ment to the hotel desk. The senator died of pulmonary thrombosis, as a result of heart fail ure, Dr. Roy D. Adams, his physician, announced. Doctor Adams and two nurses were the only persons in the room when the end came. His Career in Politics. Mr. Penrose, one of the most inter esting personalities in the upper house, which he entered in 1897 as the suc cessor to the late Senator J. Donald Cameron, was one of the wealthiest bachelors in the senate. An “old guard” Republican, he was a member of four Important senate committees — namely: the finance committee, of which he was chairman; banking and currency, iramigrantion and naval af fairs. Chief lieutenant of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, whose representative he had been in the Pennsylvania legisla ture for many years, Penrose did not iat first take a very prominent part In Republican party councils at Washing ton. Until his death, however, he never lost prestige as the leader of his party in his own state. Senator Penrose was an unyielding opponent of the Wilson administration and particularly of the draft of the treaty of peace as submitted to the senate by President Wilson. Bitter Foe of Prohibition. He consistently fought prohibition legislation. He seldom made speeches in the senate, reading few prepared addresses and those almost only on fiscal affairs, but he was quick in partisan repartee. His enemies charged him.with representing the “in terests.” He was perhaps the largest man physically in the senate, standing 6 feet 4 inches in height and weighing close to 800 pounds. He traced his ancestry back for more than 500 years and in his veins flowed the blood ol some of the most distinguished Amer-, lean families. Born in Philadelphia on November 1, 1860, young Penrose was educated by private tutors and at 1 the Episcopal academy In his home city. At sixteen he entered Harvard, from which he w r as graduated in 1881. He studied law with Wayne MacVeagh and George T. Bispham and was admitted to the bar in 1883. Entering immediately into politics, a year later he w r as elect ed to the state legislature, and from there went into national politics BIG CHICAGO BANK MERGER Two Fort Dearborn Banks Taker Over by the Continental and Commercial. Chicago. Jan. 4. —In a $60,000,00C bank absorption, the Fort Dearborn National hank and the Fort Dearborn Trust and Savings bank were taker over by the two Continental and Corn niercial banks. Checks on Fort Dearborn accounts will be paid over the Continental and Commercial counters, and the largesl bank west of New York stands behind a guaranty tq pay $60,000,000 of de posits dollar for dollar and penny foi penny. This joint action followed an all day session of the Chicago Clearing House association and leading finan ciers. The difficulties of the two For| Dearborn institutions were attributed to over extension of credits. U. S. PROTESTS TO PEKING Embarrasses Chinese Government by Demand for Detention of Leader. Peking, China, Dec. 30. —The Ameri can legation has protested formally Ito the Peking government against the return to the capital of Gen. Chang Ching-yao, former military governoi lof the province of Hunan, whoss troops killed Rev. W. A. Reimert, ar I American missionary, at Yo-Show ir June, 1920. The-government is em barrassed by the new American de mand, as Chang Ching-yao is now one of the followers of Gen. Chang Tsao lin. military governor of Manchuria. It’s A Full Purse and a Good Time When Christmas Comes to Everyone Who Joins Our Christmas Savings Club . - v Stop Dreading Christmas by Saving a Little Each Week During the Year. You can Join I DEPOSIT RECEIVE % lOc a week $ 5.00 \ 25c a week 12.50 I 50c a week 25.00 f Wit/i SI.OO a week 50.00 Interest $2.00 a week . 100.00 i Added $5.00 a week 250.00 | SIO.OO a week 500.00 I 3% Interest Paid on These Deposits *> r- * Call at Bank for particulars. Join today. It’s easy to savs when you form the habit of making weekly payments. Tob&cco Exchange Bank EDGERTON, WISCONSIN Who's Who? The child, the pride of the neighbor hood because of his keen intelligence, was left to play at the home of a neigh bor. T’rere was something different about this home that seemed to attract the child more than 'any other. Here he was amused by an elderly man, who read, played the piano, slept and did nothing to mark him as the head of a household. His wife on the other hand carried on a successful depart ment store where she spent twelve of the twenty-four hours. This condition seemed quite con trary to the "child's conception of domestic life. To him the duty of the head of the house was to leave after breakfast for business and return at night to dinner, while the wife was to stop at home and attend to the house hold duties. The child’s mother re turned and noticed that the child looked puzzled, but could not put his query into words. Finally he asked: “Mother, is she a lie?”—New York Sun. “Namby Pamby." There is much curious employment for the speculative person in consid ering the origin of things and phrases. There is, in fact, an altogeth er unexpected and rich field of strange learning to be acquired in this direc tion by one who has the will to it. How, for instance, did the odd expres sion “namby-pamby” arise, to indicate someone of a mild and jejune nature, j a milksop? The original Namby Pam- j by was a mild and well-meaning po- j etaster, Ambrose Phillips, who flour ished in the Eighteenth century, and was the butt of the critics of that age. Pope satirized him, and we find Carey writing, “Nqrses got by hear? Namby Pamby’s little rhymes.” The expres sion is thus seen to be in its origin a play upon a personal name. Crowded Orchard. Prof. L. C: Corbett of the United States Department of Agriculture says he found in England a specimen of intensive fruit culture the like of which he has never encountered be fore. Apple trees are planted in rows 14 feet apart. Between these are plum trees flanked by gooseberries and cur rant bushes. The growth is so dense that the w r ork of cultivation must be done by hand, and spraying is done by the installation of a permanent piping system. The company which owns this farm maintains a preserv ing plant for making jam when the fresh fruit cannot be profitably dis posed of. It Works Both Ways. “The vulgarity of wealthy people is so much more noticeable than that of' the poorer ones.” ‘'Yes, and at the same time it’s so much more endurable.” As It Sounded to Him. Shirley Brooks, one of the most bril liant Englishmen of his time, associ ated with Thackeray and the famous Mark Lemon in the editorial manage ment of Punch, hod a mind filled with poetry and he often wrote admirable verses himself. But he had no knowl edge of or love for music. Nevertheless, in his role as reporter for some Lon don newspaper Brooks one time had been called upon to write of a concert critically. He wondered how he was “going to get away with it,” and this is how he did it: “Over the deep abyss of bass there floated, like a poised lark, a silvery cloud of treble, amid which the shrill tremolo of the higher strings seemed quiveringly to glitter like the arrows of a sunshaft through the mist of early morning.” Average Man Weds ft Thirty. More than 1,600,000 men and women more than forty-five years old are eking out a miserable existence in sin gle blessedness, the census reports. More than 100,000 men about seventy six years of age are listed as bachelors and nearly an equal number of wom en, sixty-four years or more, also are unmarried, besides a still larger num ber of men and women fifty years old who are without mates as a result of divorce or death. The average man now marries at thirty and the average woman at tw r enty-five. While 98 per cent of the revenues of the govern ment are spent on war, a majority of the funds raised by city, state and country levies is.expended on schools. Meeting Expectations. / The old negress who washed for Mrs. Worth, says Everybody’s, came one day with a tale of woe calculated to awaken pity in the hardest heart. “Cheer up, auntie,” said Mrs. Worth consolingly. “There’s no use worry ing.” But auntie held other views. “How come dere’s no use worryin’?” she de manded. “When de good Lawd send me tribulations He done ’spect me to trlbulate. ain’t He?” Where Words Failed. The new guard was not familiar with a certain railway run in Wales. Came a station which rejoiced in the name Llanfairfechanpwllgogerych. For a few minutes he stood looking at the signboard in mute helplessness. Then pointing to the board, and waving his other arm toward the carriages, he called. “If there’s anybody there for here, this is it!” —Western Christian Advocate, Cincinnati. Jud Has the Right Idea. Jud Tunkins says an idle life is con tent with the blossoms of fancy with out waiting for the fruits of achieve- meat. Poultry and Veal Wanted Will start to receive poultry at our office on Wednes day, September 14th. Will receive after this on Wed nesday of each week at our office. We have a truck on the road that will call and get your veal calves and poultry on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of each week. Call Phone 157 F 22, or call Peters Meat Market to get our prices. H. C. PETERS Phone 157 F22 The Perfect Tobacco Case ALL READY TO SAMPLE Every case guaranteed to sample ‘'■^^s perfectly, any number of times, without A j damage to case or tobacco and sampling s' \ 4 N, can be done with one half the labor and / J £> expense. \ J _ / J ' Write for delivered prices in car load lots. The Perfect Fastener—Pat. Dec. 7, 1920 MAGEE BROS., Janesville, Wis. $5.00 will buy once again that kind of a Gossard FRONT LACING CORSET that so many women re member and often speak of as one of the best of values ever offered. HISS FRANCES QUIGLEY Millinery Parlors Our Motto Cleanliness Nowhere on earth does Clean liness count more than in a market. Realizing this,"we maintain a perfectly Sanitary Condition.*. Quality ONLY THE FINEST If[ta clean market, clean mar ket products, choicest of qual ity and right prices appeal to you, then buy your meats at H. :E. IPETERS Edgerton, Wis. Auctioneer FRED TAVES 1010 W. Grand Avenue Phone 869 Beloit, Wisconsin • Never before has it required as much tact and to con duct a successful sale as now. So employ one with years of experience. For reference in quire of your neighbors and friends. J. M. SWEENEY Auctioneer RATES REASONABLE Satisfaction Guaranteed Phone 321 Fll EDGERTON Tobacco City Meat Market Lyon & Biessman, Prop’s Dealers Id all Kinds of Fresh and Salted Meats OYSTERS AND FISH Butchering on Reasonable Terms DR. S. F. SMITH Practice Limited To Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and Fitting of Glasses OFFICE OVER / Anderson & Farman Store Edgerton, Wisconsin 30 years** '— REFRESHING SLEEP AND A BRIGHT TOMORROW After your book —an Tablet (a vegetable aperient) just before re tiring — to make your sleep clear and refreshing. Keeps away Head- | aches, Constipation and Biliousness. I Atwell-Dallman Drug Cos. DR. J. L HOLTON, DENTIST. Ladd & Holton Building Edgerton, Wisconsin Gty Steam Laundry Glen Price, Prop. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Telephone No. 37 Edgerton, - Wisconsin