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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
Words Of Wisdom.

A pound of care will not pay pound
of debt.
The key to every man is his thought.
Casual thoughts are sometimes of great
value.
People seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy after
The more we do, the more we can do;
the more busy we are the more leisure
we have.
Envy is passion so full of confidence
and shame, that nobody ever had the
confidence to own it.
The mind of youth cannot remain
empty; if you do not put into it that
which is good, it will gather elsewhere e
that which is evil.
There is no time in a mans life when
he is so great as when he cheeriully
bows to the necessity Of his position,
and makes the best of it.
Newton found that star. examined
through glass furnished by smoke,
was diminished into speck of light.
But no smoke ever breathed so thick a
mist as envy or detraction.
Mere bashfulness without merit is
awkwardness; and merit without
modesty, insolence. But modest merit
has double claim to acceptance, and
generally meets with as many patrons
as beholders-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is officially estimated that there are
10000 tenement houses in New York
city, and that they contain 500, 600
people.
Since the girls commenced to wear
bangs, it is impossible to tell one who
has combed her hair and one who hasn't.
-D4nielsonvtlIe Sentinel.
The PhiIadelphia Neaos has found a
retired business man who declares that
advertising is humbug. He is residing
in the almshouse at present.
The difference between a church or
ganist and the catarrh is said to be that
the one knows the stops and the other
stops the nose.-So77seTUiLl J0aIrh al.
AS you travel around the country you
are more and more impressed with the
conviction that the chief end of man is
to paint patent medicine signs on the
fences. Burlington Raaokeye.
Cuba has a population of l,4O0, 200,
comprising 100000 Cubans, 1OO, 900,
Spaniards, 646, 600 negroes and 81, 600
Chinese. The debt of Cuba is $50, ,000,-
0g0, and increasing at the rate of $l5,-
600 600 to $4,000, 900 annually.
According to the last census, Japan
tants.s THE capital of the empire, Toxic,
or, as it is otherwise called, Yeddo, had
at the end of 1879 population of $780,
TIL.
In the last decade (Is70-Is7s) the San
Francisco mint coined $319. AS, 600 in
gold and silver. The gold coinage was
$257, 32l, 900, ofwhich $249, AS, 900 were
double eagles or $50 pieces. The silver
coinage $62, 42S, 900, of which S26. .646, 600
in trade dollars.
s'All things come to him who will
but watt Not much. The fellow who
borrowed twenty dollars Of you last
summer will not come to you if you
wait five hundred years; and fortune
Of six hundred thousand dollars is still
more dilatory in making one visit
NorriStoUn Herald.
The "polyscope is the latest scien-
tiic invention, an instrument consist
ing Of peculiar light so arranged as to
make an examination of the interior of
the body entirely feasible. If these
scientific chaps keep on. it will soon get
to be a pretty difficult job to hide even
a guilty conscience.-W Waterloo o.
SsTUeT.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
A New Cereal.

It is stated on the authority of the
Kansas State board of agriculture, that
cereal new to that LOCALITY will grow
on the arid plains of the West without
irrigation. The grain is variously called
"pampas rice" :" rice corr" and
Egyptian CORR" and is thought to
have sprang from seed brought to the
United States by the Mennonites, who
came from Southern Russia. The ker-
nels grow in tuft like that on the top of
sorghum. Each els something smaller
and rounder than grain of wheat, and is
inclosed in 'shuck" or Independent
capsule: The berry can be eaten ground
into -four or cracked like wheat, or
whole like rice, or used generally like
any other cereal. The meal resembles
that of Indian corn, and in color is in
termediate between the yellow and
white varieties. A chemical analysis
shows that its percentage of starch, fat,
heat and fat in the animal organi-
zation, compares favorably with that
of Indian corn, wheat, rye and
oats; and in its contents of flesh-form-
ing albuminoids it surpasses all Indian
corns, and ranks with wheat, rye and
oats. The small percentage of cellulose,
or nearly non-nutritious fiber, is re-
markahle. The stalk makes as good
fodder as corn does, and few acres
will furnish a family with fuel for a
winter-a consideration of the first i'm
portance in that nearly treeless country.
All this signifies little in comparison
with its powers to resist drought, and
as to that an example, one OF great
many attested by the signatures
of practical, well-known farmers,
may be given. Forty acres of turned
over sod, which had not been wet with
rain for eight months, were planted
with two or three grains, deposited with
a seed planter, something more than
foot apart. There was no rain for five
weeks after planting, yet the corn ger
minated. After it was fairly started, the
hot blasts, from the Llano Es-
tacado blew over it, but it grew
right along, although grass and
garden truck beside it were fairly
burned up. 1t stood the rains equally
well, and finally it yielded sixty 60
pound bushels to the acre. 1t is more
over, worm and grasshoEper proof.
The board of agriculture prints mass
of letters which place these facts be-
yond question, and their signif-
canoe is of the first importance.
From New Mexico to the British line
there are tens of thousands of square
miles-5O0. 600, 600 acres according to a
reliable estimate-which it was thought
nothing but an expensive system Of ar
tesian wells could reclaim to any better
use than pasturage, and now comes this
African plant to furnish food and fuel
to this vast country, besides crops for
export. whose value it may yet be i'm
nossihie to exnress in nine fipIIres.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
A Strong Ease.


A Detroit lawyer had bill of $240
against certain citizen put into his
hand for collection the other day, and
he wrote a note asking the debtor to
cali at his Office and see about it. The
man promptly appeared, looked the
bill over, and said:
well, l guess that's all correct"
"You acknowledge the Indebtedness,
do youP"
II do"
And what arrangements will you
make to settle itPn
"TIl put in an offset. I've been feed
ing two hogs for this man all winter,
and my bill is Just $240. was figuring
it up this morning"
"What. $24O for feeding two hogs for
three or four months!h exclaimed the
astonished lawyer.
.'Just four months. sir, and the bill
is correct"
And what are the hogs worth to-
day?n
Ten dollars apiece
ssWell, you'll find it hard to convince
the court that your hog-feed was worth
any such money!
Hog-feedrh shrieked the other, as he
suddenly jumped up, do you suppose
I'm charging $24O for the feed them hogs
devouredp No, sir. / put in the feed
at only $40, but the $500 is for my Sum
day hat, which fell into the pen and was
gobbled down. and for my anxiety Of
mind for fear the porkers would catch
the mumps from my children. Mental
anguish is the backbone of this case,
sir. and every one Of my family viii be
seated III 4 row before the jury, and all
will begin to weep as rise to ask that
Justice be done man who lost as fine
COW as you ever saw nine years ago this
spring in-Detroit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
NO. 32.
Where.


Is the wind the soul of nature
Look how the wild leaves blow.
Restless as human creatures
They 1iutter to and fro.
There is moaning in the pine-tree,
And whispering in the oak,
And wailing at the window,
AS if spirit spoke.
Is the sun the soul Of nature
Look how the buds awake
And spread their tender petals
When the day begins to break;
How brooks rejoice and glitter,
The slow, broad rivers smile,
And torest-tops light up and laugh
For many leafy mile.
Is the sea the soul of nat1rei
Hear how it raves and sighs.
Sometimes with breast Of cleaning glass,
It mirrors heavens sweet eyes;
Sometimes with storm and thunder
It's milk-white surf it pours
In splendid crests of eager rage
Along the shrinking shores.
Oh cold and mighty mother,
Where is the soul we seekf
Thou hast no weeping for our woe,
No ear for song or shrek,
Thy heart is seamless granite;
Thou canst not help or save.
Thou givest to the baby flowers,
And unto mana grave.
Rose Terry Cooke. In Erdependezf.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
Wasn't Feeling Very Well.

We are told that the glory of young
man is his strength, and in these degeh-
crate days the statement is emphat-
ically true. Last evening number
of young men whose glory is their
strength were in Whetstene's drug
store expanding apd spreading them
selves with the kindly aid of a lung tester
The utmost limit to which any one
could force the lung-tester was 240.
Several others were just little below
this. and with all the pride of strength
the 240 man stood triumphant. While
the contestants stood about filed
with marvelings and envy, young
man from the Amish settlement STEP
ped into the store. He was strong,
healthy young man. They invited
him to try the lung tester, and see if
he could not rival the two hundred and
forty man. He was willing to try. and
at once began operations although he re-
marked that he was not feeling very
well. However, he took long breath
and began to blow. At once that lung
tester began to act as though struck by
an equinoctial storm. 1t expanded
and swelled like a balloon at a
county fair. Before the startled
crowd knew what had happened, the
thing registered two hundred and forty
and the young man was blowing with
terrific force. Fifty, sixty, seventy,
eighty-away it went and in moment
had rassed three hundred and was
jumping into the tens and twenties
as though operated u3on by the
bellows Of a church organ Finally
the young man stopped when he had
grown quite red in the face and the
tester registered three hundred and
sixty-two! AS he went out he remarked
again that he was not feeling very well,
but he would like to try the thing some
day when he was feeling bright and
ehipper.-Ioaoa City Republican.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08

The gentleman is sure to win. in this
life of ours. Ifyou speak the right word
at the right time; if you are careful to
leave people with good impression; IL
you do not trespass upon the rights of
others; if you always think of others as
well rs yourself; ii you do not put your
self unduiy forward; If you do not for
get the courtesies which belong to your
plish much IN life. which Others with
equal abilities fail to do. This is where
the race is not TO the swifl, NOR tho bAt-
tie To the strong. 1t ~ where you lnHke
people teel that you are unseliish and
honorable and truthful and sincf
Ts is IL what society rs locking ff
men. and It IS astonishing how
men are' able to win NJ sslk KezF
surneas nd u4eiu :nesS Whp pRA
QaeIIl{ee q wood nftea'HE pN1' i'eNe|
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
Not Much of a Loss.

A young lady went to a drug store,
Monday, located not a hundred miles
from tie market house, and had pre-
scription made up.
How much?" inquired the lady.
Fifty cents, said the clerk
But ] have only forty-five cents with
me-" replied the customer; can't you
let me have it for thatpn
"No, ma'am,n said the clerk, but
you can pay me the five cents when you
come in again.
I" But suppose l were TO die" said the
lady, iocularly.
.sWell, it wouldn't be a very great
loss" was the smiling response.
And Immediately the innocent clerk
gathered from the indignant flash on the
lady's face that he had been misunder-
stood, and before he could assure her
that it was the little balance and not her
that would be no great loss, she had
bounced out at go-as-you-p please gait,
ana was beyond the sound Of bis voice.
Cleveland Sentinel.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
Heirship.


Little store of wealth have I;
Not rood OF land 1 own;
Nor mansion fair and high,
Built with towers of fret.ed stone.
Stocks, nor bonds, nor title deeds,
Flocks nor herds have to show;
When ride, no Arab steeds
Toss for me their names of snow.
have neither pearls nor gold,
Massive plate, nor jewels rare;
Broidered silks OF worth untold,
Nor rich robes a queen might wear.
In my gardens narrow bound
Flaunt no costly tropic blooms,
Ladening all the air around
With weight of rare perfumes.
Yet to an immense estate
Am heir, by grace of Cod
Richer, grander, that doth wait
Any earthly monarch's nod.
Heir of all ages, L
Heir of all that they have wrought;
All their store of emprise high,
All their wealth of precious thought.
Every golden deed OF theirs
Sheds its luster on my way;
All their labor, all their prayers,
Sanctily this present day!
Heir OF all that they have learned
By their passion and their tears;
Heir of all that they have learned
Throu gh the weary toiling years.
Heir OF all the faith sublime
On whose wings they soar to heaven;
Hear Of every hope that time
To earth's tainting sons hath given!
Aspirations pure and high
Strength to dare and to endure
Heir to all the ages, L
Lo! fam no longer poorl
julia C. r. Dorr.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
The Debts of the States.

Below we have compiled a table show
ing the debts of the States of the Union
in 1910 and 1879. The figures for 1910
have been obtained from statement
published in 184l by Albert Gallatin,
and those of 1879 from the various State
documents. At this time the table will
be of macmillan intarest.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-04-08
TIMELY TOPICS.

And now courts have decided that q
chalk mark is patentable, and have or
dered the commissioner OF patents to
issue a patent to the man who wanted
one for such mark! The chalk is ap-
piled to a piece of pasteboard cut in a
strip and fastened together in circular
form, with beveled edges, so that it can
be slipped over sugar buckets, jars of
sweetmeats, cake boxes and the like to
repel insects.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02
THE DEMAGOGUE.

Each successive election
brings the demagogue more
prominently to the front; he is
a prominent and well known
character; he is a candidate for
every office in the gift of the
people from that of constable
to governor and even United
States senator. Some years
ago senator Coke was accused
OF being on very intimate terms,
if not actually related to him.
The demagogue is always a
shrewd politician, has an init
mate knowledge of human ma
ture the knowledge of its weak
points is his greatest strength.
The people take a fendish de-
light in being humbugged, the
demagogues chief business in
life is to humbug them, conse-
quently he is popular. Every
body wants to have something
for nothing, the demagogue
knows this and he panders to
the feeling by telling the peo-
pie that if he is elected the ex-
penses of the office he is to fill
will be lessened; if he wants to
be constable his bills of trim
mings" will be lighter; if a jury
is to be summoned his friends
will be let off or put on as may
suit their individual pleasure :;
il he is running for any other
office, all the way up to govern
or the promise of a reduction
of taxes or the expenses Of the
Office, all of which are eventual
ly to be paid by the people, is
given.
The performance of a given
service is worth a given sum and
whether it is paid directly or IN
directly it must come out of the
peoples pockets. No matter
what promises the demagogue
may make, taxes remain to be
paid the same as usual and the
chances are as two to one that
they will not be REDUCED. If
reduced in one way they are in
creased in another and still the
people have them to pay. The
demagogue is blatant in prom
ises, and the reverse in perform
ances. A large portion of his
stock in trade consists in abus-
ing other parties without sug-
gesting any remedy except
electing him to office. To have
the best administration in our
affairs at the smallest cost we
must elect honest men who
will conscientiously discharge
their duties and who must be
paid a fair and. reasonable
compensation for their time and
labor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02
BLOODY.sHIRT.

The Galveston News OF Fri
day publishes another one of
" Anti Bloody Shirts" COM
munications, in which the waiv-
er Of that garment takes excep-
ton to Shepard's speech at the
Brennan convention and frames
an imaginary one, which he
thinks would have filled the bill.
We think it has already been
shown to the mind of any I'M
prejudiced man that Mr.. Shep-
ard on the occasion of the Bren-
ham convention did all that
could reasonably have been re-
quired of any man. The action
of certain parties in the conven-
ton was at the time condemn
ed. To hold Shepard person
ally responsible for Hanc ock's
defeat is unjust. The democra-
cy of this district, with a una
nimity rarely seen, nominated
Mr.. Shepard by reclamation,
thus showing beyond any ques-
ton whatever, that he: is not
only the choice of the democ-
Isracy, but that hepossesses their
i confidence to such a degree
that the waving of all the
bloody shirts that ever existed
in the world will not have any
effect. He bases his opposition
to Shepard on the bloody shirt
and makes his attack upon him
on that basis. Can any good
possibly be accomplished by a
re-opening of this question !?
Hancock was defeated, is it
just to attempt to defeat Shop
ard on that account? Would
his defeat accomplish any good,
or would it in the least
change the result of two years
ago2 The revival of a dead is
sue accomplishes nothing be-
yond engendering bad feeling.
There are but two candidates in
the field Seth Shepard and
Wash Jones, the people must
now choose between them with
out any regard to the race made
by John Hancock. If Anti
Bloody Shirt is in the favor of
the election of Mr.. Jones why
docs he not come out fairly and
squarely like a man and say SO,
or is he covertly working in the
interest of Jones by making at
lacks on Shepard. Let him
come out and define his posi-
ton.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02

GEN. Ben. BUTLER has repen-
ted Of his evil ways; he has
confessed his sins and made a
profession OF the true faith
democracy. The St. Louis Re-
publican says, Buffers aban-
donment of the party he has
served so long, and with so
much zest, if not always.with
discretion, has a significance
and we think will have an in
fluence-far beyond anything
his brilliant and incisive oratory
can accomplish. There is no
keener observer OF political
signs than the man who, from
democracy Of the most advanc-
ed southern southern school,
jumped straight into radical re-
publicanism. Letting his prin-
ciples go for what they are
worth, there can be no question
in regard to his shrewdness; no
question in regard to his ability
to discern the drift Of the popu-
lafcurrent, and his promptness
in availing himself thereof.
Therefore, when Butler leaves
the republicans to Join the DEM
ocrats, we may be absolutely
sure that, IN his opinion, demo-
Gratis hold the winning card"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02
THE GALLONS.

Last Friday should be day
memorable in the criminal re-
cord of Texas. Three men we're
to have been hanged, but one
of them cheated the gallows by
committing suicide. 1t is to
be hoped that these hangings
will have a salutary effect.
Lynchfcld Burks was hung
at Waco for the rape Of Sarah
McBee. a little girl nine years
of age, committed on the 18th
of August 1879. He was hang
ed in thejail yard, a large crowd.
witnessing the execution from
the house top, sheds, etc. On
the scafold he rcasserted his
innocence and asked everybody
to be good Christians and meet
him in heaven. Burks was born
in Alabama in 1889. He came
to Texas in 1865 and for time
lived in Burleson county.
Allen Wright was hanged at
Dallas for the murder of Jesse
Wicks, near Hutchins, on the
4th of February last. The kill
ing grew out of rail-splitting
contract. The scafold was
erected in Trinity bottom near
town. He said in the presence
of five thousand people who
had assembled to witness the
execution: Before you stands
Allen Wright, who is to be exc
cuted. When l drop from this
scaffold l expect to drop into
the arms Of Jesus" AS the trap
was sprung the holiness band
began to sing and entertained a
large crowd with prayer, speak
ing and singing until the body
was cut down and the remains
removed to the potter's field.
Wright was a bright mulatto
aged about % years.
Roland Rucker, who was to
have been hanged at Palestine,
committed scicide by cutting
an artery in his arm. When
discovered by the jailer at 6
o'clock on Friday morning
Rucker was nearly dead and
died soon afterwards. Brown a
cell-mate of Rucker testified
that Rucker had an old two
bladed knife. Rucker was the
son of Calvin Rucker, one of
the pioneer settlers of Ander-
son county. Roland was about
23years of age. He was con-
victed of the murder of DR..
Grayson and his wife in 1873,
the murder being one of the
most atrocious ever committed
in Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02

THREE state elections will oc-
cur during the month. Arkan-
sas will hold an election for
state officers Monday, Septem-
Der 6, and will also vote on con-
stitutional amendment. The
next day, September 7, Yer
mont will elect state officers, a
legislature and congressman.
On Monday, September 10
Maine will vote for five con-
gressmen, state officers and a
Legislature, and will also vote
on the constitutional question
whether a plurality vote instead
of a majority will be required
for governor hereafter. Maine
is the only debatable state of
the three, and public interest
will, therefore, centre upon the
result in that state.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02
The New Orleans Times, ex-

The New Orleans Times, ex-
ira edition Of August 80, was
received by mail on Wcdnes-
day. The whole of the eighth
page is occupied with a novel
design, being an almost endless
traid of freight cars each car be-
ing the business card of some
representative New Orleans
business house. The paper also
has a well written article entit-
tied the Coming Empire, the
resources, development and
railway system of Texas" hTe
opening of Morgan's Louisiana
and Texas railroad is an event
in the history of Texas and will
be of great benefit to this state
as well as to New Orleans and
the state ST Louisiana.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02
TnE Galveston Nems, extra

The Galveston News extra
edition of September Ist is on
time. 1t is an eight page paper
containing sixty-four columns
Of matter. 1t has beenscarefal<i
ly compiled and may truthfullys
be said to be complete gazet-
teer of Texas, giving a descrip-
ton of the state by countess
also a complete history Of a
the railroads and their connec-
tons; the educational facili-
ties ofthe state, and an editorial
stating what Texas IS and may
become. If this edition OF the
News is properly circulated in
England aud Ireland it will have
a beneficial effect in inducing
immigration to this state. The
proprietors seem to have spared
neither trouble nor expense in
getting out this mammoth pa
per. We think it is the best
and most complete edition yet
issued by that enterprising pa
per.