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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
A .Dude.

Do you know what a "dude" is =?
asks New York correspondent. The
name was given, l think, in one of our
daily papers to curious specimen Of
the genus homo which has lately ap-
peared in New York. He is young,
thin, pale, often hatchet-faced, almost
always narrow-chested and small
limbed His extremely tight trousers
painfully accentuate his lack OF fib r
His coat and long overcoat are an ex-
aggerated imitation of theBond street
(London) style, and in the evening he
wears avery abbreviated "covercoat." "
This garment, in its normal use, is
worn at "coyer" over the short red coat
of the hunter, but the "dude" wears it
over evening dress, producing an effect
which is amusing to the minds Of the
uninstructed, l saw "dude" at New
port last summer, at whom people
were laughing very much on account
of this same effect. As the tails of the
dresscoat came quite distance below
the bottom Of the 'cover-coat," thein-
evitable inference was that the lining
Of the former had come out. The shoes
of the "dude" should be of the shapeof
an Esquimaux kyack, or canoe, and he
wears broad-brimmed high English
silk hat, especially at theatres and con-
certs, where it is most in the way. In
his mouth, finally, the cigarette finds a
permanent home, as do the lilies Of the
valley in his buttonhole. He may bo
seen in quantities in Delmonico's cafe,
and he is a study.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
An Engineers Bravery.

Engineer james Church runs be-
tween Chicago and Louisville Like
other faithful veterans of the throttle
he is known as " Old Reliable When
Church's midnight express, bound
north, reaches a point near Bainbridge,
it must switch off to make room for a
south-bound lightning train. On are
cent Sunday all went well with Church
until he was within about a mile Of
the switch. Then, while running at
the speed of thirty-five miles an hour,
the side-bar of the driving wheels
snapped in two, leaving stumps on
each wheel The middle portion Of the
bar was thrown against the cab, wreck
ing it, killing the fireman, Amos
Thorpe, and throwing the engineer
back on the coal in the tender. In the
meantime the stub Of the bar attached
to the rear driving wheel was pound
ing the cab to pieces as the train con
tinued at increased speed, the throttle
having been thrown wide oren by the
blow. The engineer was struck in the
chest and face. but, staggering under
the pain In thechest and almost blinded
By blood, he succeeded, at the risk Of
his life, while the cab was being
pounded to pieces by the flying stub Of
the side-bar, in shutting off the steam
and applying the air-brakes, bringing
the train to a standstill. IL Church
had not stuck heroically to his post
the runaway train would have met
the oncoming express with appalling
velocity.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Commenting on the prevalence of
pneumonia, physician condemns the
habit of many people of sleeping at
night in single thin garment and
between linen sheets. He advises the
putting on of an extra garment at
night, even flannel sack, and the
sleeping between thick. warm muslin
or thin flannel sheets.
Many deluded child has been cured
of a cold by this means: Take a cup
of brown sugar and put it in sauce
pan to make candy, but instead Of
adding water in which to dissolve the
sugar, put in little tea made by
stepping thoroughwort. This will
impart bitter taste, which is not
unpleasant to the child after the first
mouthful, and is really good remedy
for "tickling in the throat"
In the first stage, in all sprains OF
injuries of like nature, dip the foot
in hot water, as hot as the patient can
bear it; then every few minutes add a
little more water still hotter, and so
on until your patient may perhaps be
able to bear it 120 degrees Fahrenheit,
so hot indeed that he cannot bear that
amount of heat with the other foot if
put in the water at once; this will re-
move the pain almost entirely; this
should be continued without intermis-
sion for six or eight hours, or until the
parts can bear pressure without pain;
if you will do this at the outset you
will save yourself much trouble and
the patient many months of pain.
After you have accomplished this take
a roller bandage and commence to
bandage the foot at the distal (dis-
tant) extremity, in order to drive the
blood before you, and never under any
circumstances make turn of the
bandage tighter above than below,
but keep equable pressure on all parts
and thus avoid strangulation. on.-MedS
cal Nelcs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
Among the Turkomans.

These Merry Turcomans, says re-
cent writer, seem to have nothing to
do but loating about all day from hut
to hut to see if they cannot surprise
some eatables. They gorge themselves
to excess on every possible occasion
with greasy food, and are continually
i'll from indigestion. They throng my
house, partly to satisfy their curiosity
by staring at me and partly to devour
the greater portion of any food l may
have prepared for my own use. In
this way, unless one is prepared to
feed dozen persons on each occasion,
he has no chance of getting a mouth
full for his meal. 1t is of no use say
ing that what you are eating is pig,
for they eat pork readily. Coyetous
rapacity seems to be their leading
characteristic. They appear to think
the whole world is bound to con
tribute to their support; they give
nothing in return. No one who has
not suffered as l have among the
Merv Turcomans by being constantly
intruded upon and prosecuted in every
way by their abominahle presence
could appreciate the exquisite luxury
of being left in quiet solitude. A
daily administration of half-glasses of
arrack to patients who require arrack
derman (spirituous medicine) for in
ternal ailments, aches in their
stomachs, and the like. This is all
pretense. 1t is simply method of
getting half-intoxicated at my expense.
From behind the awful mystery Of my
mosquito tent l gave replies to the va
rious consultants, on foreign policy,
improvements in the Notifications,
pains in their joints and stomachs and
soreness in their eyes. 1 indiscrim
inately order dandelion juice. and
scores of people are to be seen dotting
the plains culling that useful plant,
while in many an ev humping and
pounding can be heard as the juice is
extracted.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
A Bold Recovery.

Captain j. w. Smith, of Stockton
Cal, was an intimate acquaintance of
the late Doctor Glenn. In speaking f
him, Mr.. Smith said that after the
Mexican war closed the doctor felt the
gold fever and came to California. He
made a small raise and returned the
next season to Missouri for stock, and
brought over a drove Of cattle. Eleven
consecutive seasons he crossed and re-
crossed the plains for bands of horses,
mules and cattle. One incident showed
the character of the man. He had
camped, and his horses and mules, to
the number of $50, were feeding
around, when the Indians came and
stampeded the whole band, except one
thoroughbred mare, which was tied.
The doctor had run in debt for the
animals, and to have them driven off
before his eyes when he was without
other means to satisfy his creditors
was more than he could endure. There
was one man only with him, and
leaving that man with the came
equipage he mounted his mare and
started after the band. 1t was in the
spring, when the Indian ponies were
poor and soft in flesh from nibbling
the early grass, and the doctor over
took and fianked the herd. He was
shot at at least a thousand times with
arrows and guns, yet kept on the flank
of the band, his object being to tire out
the ponies of the Indians and to secure
the bell leader of the herd. After a
ride Of twenty miles he was successful
in that endeavor, and all the herd but
eleven followed the tinkle of that bell
back to camp. Mr.. Smiths last letter
from Doctor Glenn is in the handwrit-
ing Of Miller, the man who murdered
him.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
WORDS or WISDOM.

To win, work and wait-but work a
good deal more than you wait.
"Onesoweth and another reapeth, " is
a verify that applies to evil as well as
good.
Beautiful are the admonitions of
him whose life accords with his
teachings.
One true friend adds more to our
happiness than thousand enemies to
our unhappiness.
That was good prescription given
by physician to patient, "Do some
thing for somebody"
How many people would be mute if
they were forbidden to speak well of
themselves and evil of othersl
To things which you bear with i'm
patience you should accustom your
self; and, by habit, you will bear them
well.
He whose first emotion on the view
of an excellent production is to under
value it will never have one of his
own to show.
Our life experiences, whether sad or
joyful, should be fertilizers to larger
and stronger growth of character, as
the dead leaves of trees stimulates
them from year to year to higher and
nobler proportions.
He who is great WHEN he falls is
great in his prostration, and is no
more an object of contempt than when
men tread on the ruins of sacred build
ings, which men of piety venerate no
less than if they stood.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
NUMBER 80.
OUR DAYS


To-morow-what matters the storm OF
to-day;
We shall find the island of peace at last.
To-day is stormy but by-and-bye
The tempest and ruin will all be past.
The yesterday was mocl&ng dream
That left US sorrowful, full of pain;
But the fair tomorrow waits for us.
We shall build up the broken hopes again.
Time touches our eyes with tears that burn,
And plants the gray mid the locks Of gold
And robs the cheeks Of the tint Of youth,
And we say; Tomorrow we shall be old "
And We think of the fair land farther on,
Where life shall never know blight or frost,
Where love dies not at the touch of change,
And we find again the youth We have lost.
Nothing is done, from birth to death;
Our hope, our love, and life's sad deg
L only sample at the best
Of all that viii come in the far awak.
Then why do our tears so steadily fall
When the perfect life shall soon have sway
When the bright to-morrows and yesterday,
Shall merge themselves In glad to-day.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
FUN
A foot ruIe-Keep 'em dry.
A long strike-Twelve O'Clock.
In learning the fnte everu MAJ

A foot rule-Keep 'em dry.
A long strike-Twelve O'Clock.
In learning the flute every man can
be his own tutor.
Nomatter if the postage is reduced,
it is just as hard to lick tBo-cent
stamp as three-cent one.-Nezo York
Commercial.
By the way, another of the Balaklava
"six hundred" has just died. This re-
duces the ranks to about nine hundred.
-HarJord Post.
Room at the Top" Three dollars
week, one towel day, no weather
strips, steal your soap. Oh, yes, sonny,
we know all about that Room at the
Top Puck.
New York doctors have declared the
flesh Of the wild goose to be product
i've of no end of human ills. That's
right; everybody gets down on tho
goose.-HalCkeye.
Atlanta claims to have young lady
who has the finest ard prettiest hair IN
the United States. The name of the
party Of whom she purchased it is not
made public.-Chtcago Tribune.
IF there is one single editor" who
doesn't know all about Ireland the De-
troit Free Press wants his address. As
usual, married editors areto be left out
in the cold.-AtEanta Constitution.
At no other time in life, says Puck.
is a man 50 completely upset by threats
as at the tender age Of four, when his
mother tells him she is going to cast
aside his first trousers and put him
back in frocks.
A lady in Norwich, Conn, seventy
two years of age, has just begun to take
lessons on the piano. It is not stated
how her neighbors offended her that
she should resort to such a diabolical
revenge.-Norrtstolc1 Herald.
A ten-year-old boy cleared $2 in
Plainyille, one cold day recently, Sc
ing holders. A holder is one Of thos
cloth things that lie under the stow
while you are picking up a hot lid
litter with your bare hand.-Dan6urnA
Neacs.
"Mean," said the Arkansas man Of
his neighbor. why, there isn't drop
Of the milk Of human kindness il that
mans body. He's got dog that's an
elegant match for jerks bull pup and
he won't let 'em fight. -Somerot1s
Journal.
"No, aunt" said young Folkestone,
a. don't get on well at all with Clara
And. by the way, there's one thing I
don't like. I'm afraid she puts chalk
on her face" "Oh, that's nothing
replied Aunt Goodwin, laughing. "A
nice soldier you would make, now
wouldn't you? fyou can't face pow
der, George, how can you expect ever
to get into an engagement ?-Bos3on
Transcript.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
An Earptian EXECUTION.

The New York Herald describes the
recent execution Of Bedouin in the
foil owing account:
Last Wednesday a Bedouin named
Halabe Nouri was hanged at Stout for
having cut the throat of an Egyptian
tobacco merchant because he asked too
high a price for Syrian tobacco. This
execution was carried out in purely
Egyptian manner. The cadi of tb
town sat down under the shade of a
large acacia tree. All the notables of
Stout were present. On the cadi's
right were seated the family Of the
murdered tobacco merchant. At the
same distance and on the cadi's left
were the family of the murderer. A
few Egyptian policemen kept the
ground" The murderer was brought
before the cadi with a strong tarred
rope around his neck. The cadi turned
to the eldest male member of the fam
lily of the murdered man and asked
him
"Win you and your family pardon
the murderer, Halabe Nouri?'
The reply was "No, never. Let
his sin be upon his head p
The cadi remained silent for two or
three minutes. The eldest male mem
Der Of the family Of the murderer then
presented petition written in finely
executed fiourishes to the cadi request
ing that he deliver it to the family Of
the murdered man. The cadi turned
gravely to the eldest male member Of
the family of the murdered man and
asked him:
"Win you accept this petition which
humbly asks you to forgive Halabe
Nouri for his great crime?" The reply
was: "No. We will not accept it."
The cadi then made a sign with his
hand, and the end of the rope that was
looped around HaIabe Nouri's neck
was passed over stout projecting
branch Of the acacia tree. Four Arabs
pulled at the rope and Halabe Nouri,
the murderer-whose face, by the way,
was not blinded-was hauled up to
the bough Of the tree, and the other
end Of the rope was secured to cleat
that had been fastened to the trunk Of
the acacia tree. The unfortunate
wretch was left kicking and hanging
unHl death ensued from strangulation.
On the same day another Arab was
hanged at Benz Souef for having
killed copt.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22

Advertising.

1t is sometimes questioned by mer-
chants whether advertising pays. The
question will hardly bear discussion in
the following facts, rates of transient
advertising being figured: The Chicago
Tribune, it is said, for column a year,
receives $4,000. The New York
Herald receives for its lowest price
column s39,723, and its highest,
$348,000. The New York Tribune.
for the lowest, s29,764, and for its
highest, $85,64S, and these papers are
never at loss for advertising to fill
their columns. Their patronage comes
not from any desire to assist the re-
spective papers, but from business men
who find it profitable to advertise.
The sensible business man does not
consider whether he likes the paper he
advertises in or not 1t does not take
lnng to find out by experience whereit
pays him the best to advertise. That
it does pay he has no doubt, and raises
no questions. Long experience with
almost every business man who has
succeeded has proved that beyond
question. -Printefs' Circular.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
VOLUME v.
THE SHIP OF FORTUNE

My ship, she sails shifting sea;
Iknow not what her fortunes be,
CT if, perchance, the creaking blast
Will ever bear her home;
With head on hand, the livelong day
[ burn my eyes against the bay
And never see the gallant mast
Across the wheeling foam.
Behind my latticed window-bars
Iwatch at night the floating stars,
And Graded by the rolling sea
The silent hamlet lies;
An ebbing tide upon the sand,
The mighty water rocks the land,
And through the leaning linden tree
Repeats the crystal skies.
My freighted ship-perchance the gale
Gives battle to her swelling sail,
Her heaving charger meet the blow
And plunges painting back;
The current swims beneath her keel,
Her scarlet banners writhe and reel,
And in the foaming food below
The waters circle black.
Or yet thousand leagues from shore,
The red flames eat her to the core;
She leaps in all her blazoned gold
Along the kissing tide
Her quenchless jewels sink in slime
A treasure for the hand of Time,
And rushing through the empty hold
The ocean claims the bride.
All, 1riendl too long you followed here
The tagging footsteps of the year
To watch, beyond the melting bay,
The distant shining sea
A floating hull from other lands
Came reeling up the yellow sands
Aweeck of life, the sailors say;
For you-but not for me.
Dora Read Gooddle.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22

and she hung on to the poor old
woman and nursed her, and kept
death away from her, and did as much
as if she was her child. Now you
come upstairs, but don't make no
noise. You see, we intended to ask
her name and where she come from
this very day. If it is your mother,
don't give her no shock, and creep up
easy. Lawsi how you're trembling"
He was trembling, indeed, with love
and fear. He pictured his mother,
haggard, white, weak, merely paroled
for time by death, before he made
her prisoner for aye.
He stood in the doorway; and
propped up by pillows in the big arm
chair by the window sat his mother
pale, indeed, but country air and whole
some food, and above all devoted
nursing, had called back into her face
an expression she had wanted before
she wandered away. 1t was plain to
her sons loving eyes that she was on
the high road to complete recovery.
At the moment she opened her
eyes, and mother and son gazed on
each other; then, with a cry of love
and joy, the son was kneeling beside
the chair of the mother whom he had
almost worshiped all his life.
Miss Deborah waited for some few
minutes, to be on hand if the old lady
tainted; but she did nothing of the
sort. She cried over her son and
called him by name again and again.
Then Miss Deborah slipped down
stairs and out into the garden.
Meanwhile, mother and son had
happy conversation. She seemed to
gather new energy as she spoke. She
told him all the devoted attention she
had received from her nurse. She
praised her kindness, her goodness,
her beauty.
The keen old eyes had even de
tected that she was unhappy, and, oh,
how she had longed to comfort her
She had only heard her called Clara,
and of course believed her name was
Dickson. How could she repay this
angel? Oh, how she loved her !
"My son." she said, "if 1 could have
such a daughter for life If you could
only forget your foolish passion for
that girl 1 have never seen, and try to
love my Clara, and try to make her
love you, how happy 1 should beI'
But her son shook his head.
Mother, the name brings us the
pure. beautiful face of my Clara
whom have lost. can never love
any one else, and 1 fear I shall never
see her again"
A step came quickly but softly up
the stairs, and turning round as the
door opened the mother saw her Clara,
and the son his, standing in the door
way, gazing on them with strange
look of joy and fear.
But the next moment, "Clara !"
"Philip p rang out in tones that only
lovers can use, and the two were locked
in each others arms, while into old
Mrs. Dupont's face amazement, and
then joy unutterable, rushed, and she
held out her trembling arms and took
her new daughters head and held it to
bar baorf
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-03-22
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Bronze torpedoes are being intro
duced into the German and the Brit
ish naval service. They are said to be
very formidable.
Professor Johnstrup, of the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen, is of opinion that
there is evidence sufficient in many
parts of Denmark TO show that inter
yals Of warm temperament must have
followed the great glacial period.
Another plaster cast Of human
form has lately been taken from the
mold left in the ashes of Pompeii.
From the place and posture it is eyi-
dent that the man was overtaken by
the ashes while endeavoring to escape,
and was suffocated. The figure was
lying on its back, the head is bent
backward, and the skull is perfectly
preserved. The open lips disclose five
upper and five lower teeth, white and
even. The left arm is half raised and
the fingers one-half shut; the right
arm is pressed against the body and
the closed fist rests on the stomach.
Two rather small keys were found near
the body.
Much was expected from the discoT-
ery made by Professor Boil that the
images of the objects remain on the
retina of animals after death. 1t was
thought. for example, that the last
scene of a mysterious murder would
be found by properly examining the
eyes of the victim. Actual tests have
shown that the optogram can be Of no
use in detecting crime. DR.. Ayers
made more than a thousand expert
ments in the laboratory Of Professor
Kuhne, at Heidelberg, and met with
poor success The best result was OBJ
tained by exposing the eye Of living
rabbit, which had been dosed with at
ropine, to Photographic negative,
and even in this case the optogram
was imperfect, indistinct and evanes-
cent.
According to the recent calculations
of Mr. Darwin the earth and the
moon must have formed only one body
some ffty-four million years or more
ago, and at time when this body was
rotating at the rate of about one revo-
luton in five hours the mass now
forming the moon became separated
from it. Thus was the moon born;
and Professor Ball, in his exposition Of
Darwin's views, concludes that in
time the wound on the earth became
entirely healed, leaving no scar to tes-
tify to the mighty catastrophe. To
this final conclusion Mr.. 0. Fisher
now offers an amendment. He be-
ieves that the scars are the ocean
basins. When the moons mass was
thrown from the earth the liquid in
terror must have risen to fill the hole.
and portions Of the granite crust must
have been borne toward the cavity.
The holes only partially filed up, and
the crust became broken into the frag-
ments which now form the continents.