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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31
Fables WIthoul anY Morals.

a Coon VINO was Delng chased across
Field by Dog caught sight Of Fox
and called out:
''Pray give me your Advice in this
Moment of Perill"
Certainly" replied Reynard. sMy
Advice to you is to Climb Tree and
Escape the Dog!"
He then Disappeared within his Bur-
row to remark to himself that some Folks
never did know when they were well off.
A few days later the Coon, who had
barely Escaped with his Life, was doing
little Ciphering at the foot of tree in
the Forest, when the Fox came tearing
along at 2:30 gait, his tongue hanging
out, his eyes as big as onions, and the
Habitual Lear on his phiz faded into an
Expression Of Deep Concern.
'Hellol what's the Matter with you p
called the Coon.
II am Pursued by Dog, and can't
run mile furtherl What shall do?'
MY Advice is that you dive into your
Burrow and escape him, . said the Coon.
He then slowly Climbed to limb and
Remarked to himself that Fox who
was Idiot Enough to Travel around the
country Without carrying his Burrow on
his back would sooner Or later come to
some Bad End.
AN ARBITRARY ARREST.
A Gentleman who desired to make a
few Dollars in cash without going to the
Trouble of Breaking into a Bank, En-
tered Stable and took away a Horse.
However, as he went his way with the
Animal he was Overtaken and placed
under Arrest. and when brought into
court he cried in a voice of Lamenta-
ton:
''This, then, Obi Judge, is the boasted
Freedom Of Free Countryl A Peaceful
Traveller Is Arrested as he Travels Peace.
ful Highway 1 even had a Family
Bible Strapped to my saddlel'
:" Had you read your Bible more and
strapped it less you might not have Ap.
peared here" answered his Honor.
"While you Complain of the loss of you1
Liberty you forget the man who complains
of the loss of his Horse.
HIS CAPITAL.
A Man who had for years Slandered
the Public as Permanent Business was
one day brought into court and Heavily
Fined for a particular Specimen of his
Vituperation.
"Whatl" quoth he, +" but slander and
Yituperation are my Capital, and we
shall see whether the courts can rob a
man of his alll''
When all the courts had Decided
Against him he Indignantly Exclaimed:
g 1t must have been Packed Juryr'
But the highest Judges Affirmed the
Award of that Jury"
"oh, well the Judges were Packed,
too!n
But the People are with the Judges. y
"Then the People are Combined to
wrong mel This is Another Specimen
of that Freedom of which this country
boasts A Law which will not ALLOW
me to Blast the Reputation of Fellow
Man at Pleasure is an act of Tyranny
which should Incite Rehellionl I'll de.
part for the FIJI sn-Daroit Free
Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31
Testing srakemen,s tongues.

On the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad one of the tests ex-
acted from candidates for passenger-train
brakemen is the ability to make a dis
tinct announcement to passengers Of the
names of the several stations. On most
Of the railways it seems impossible for
the average brakeman to speak plainly.
Any sort Of jabber that happens to come
into his mouth he considers to be just as
good as the mention Of the real name
of the station. Scientific american.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31
"see here, T" said the star to

see mere, sad the star TO the man
ager, ''if you are going to have bouquets
handed to me every night, why don't you
get decent ones9 Look at this to-night's !;
it's all wilted Why can't always have
as good bouquet as had last night2'
GAS good a bouquet as you had last
night9' shrieked the manager; "why,
holy snn-hower, it's the same one l'-
LooeU Citizen.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31
NUMBER %.

Hatch. from the committee on agricuIture,
reported a bill for the establishment of bu-
reau of animal industry TO prevent the ex-
portation of diseased cattle and to provide
means for the suppression and extirpation Of
pleuro- pneumonia and other Contagious dis
easee among domestic animals. Printed and
recommended. .. Debate on the bill for the
relief of Fitz John Porter was continued,
Messrs. Ray, Follett, Thomas and Wolford
the measure.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31

sive, and by an arrangement entered into
with his English agent it was understood
that tea should be used instead of hay or
horsehair as the stufing of all cushions
attached to furniture transmitted by his
house. In this way there was fortune
made.-Toronto Nail.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31
WHAT MIGHT BE DONE.

What might be done if men were wise
What glorious deeds, my suffering brother
Would they unite,
In Love and Right,
And cease their scorn for one anotheri
The meanest wretch that ever trod,
The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow,
Might stand erect,
In self respect
Aud s the teeming world tomorrow.
-Muckdu.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31

"It is, of course, known" said the
ant man in conclusion, 'sthat these in
sects have their social grades-kings,
queens, soldiers, laborers, all differing in
appearance-just as we have, and, in
fact, the more you look into the matter
the more you see how closely they come
to US Cincinnati Enquirer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31
PENSIONS
The Amounts Appropriated in the
Last Fourteen Years.

The following statement OF the annual
appropriations made for United States PEN
sions from and including 1871 to and in
cluding 1884 win interest many persons. The
amounts are taken from the annual report Of
the treasury department:
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-01-31
DRIVER ANTS.

"Of all the ants" continued the
naturalist, "the drivers are the most
dreaded. They march in columns com
posed of millions, attack the largest ami
mails, enter houses, driving out every
living creature, and spreading devasta-
tation every where. In Congo, Africa,
they have even been known to kill the
sick that were left unprotected.
HOUSE DEsTRoYERs.
"The white ant, though not allied to
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
TENDENCIES AKONG QUAKERS.

At Winthrop, Me-, the Quakers have
introduced wonderful innovation on
old customs. They are building meet
ing house which is actually to be beau
tiful. It will exceed in its decorative
splendor any other Friends meeting
house in this country. Other meeting
houses are bare and unpainted. This
one will be tastefully upholstered. 1t
will also be finished in hard wood. A
bell is talked of, but it is thought that
the conservative tendencies Of the
Friends will be sufficiently strained by
the upholstery, the hardwood finish,
and the generally ecclesiastical appear
ance of the house. The denomination
has hitherto stoutly resisted all innova-
tions of this sori. The indications now
are that the old rigidity Of Quaker Gus
toms will have to accept modification,
in order to keep the younger Quakers
from running off and joining other de-
nominations.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
ANACORTES, w. T., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ?,

tenderly, absorbingly She is perfect
woman--she has been a perfect wife. She
has made me calmly and completely happy.
If once in while the old hope, the old dream
of a passion arises and sweeps before me i'll its
bloom and light, it is because it means youth
to me-that youth which we do not know till
we are old is itself the ideal that it holds up
for worship. Yet perfect as my wife is, fifty
years of this smooth life with her wear some-
thing of the commonplace and if across their
dead level of same content sometimes CLEANS
the shining of Alicia's face, it is not in any
disloyalty to her. l often wonder what be-
came of the lovely creature. Once could
not have spoken of her. At seldom times,
when sit alone by the fire, she comes d sits
beside me, and CLEANS Of light and shadow
make free with her sweetness, her beauty,
her pensive and ETHEREAL grace. Dear girl!
suppose she sleeps in her grave by this, but
she is shaft of the light of heaven in my
memory"
And Mr.. Fernalde rose, walking to the
window, just as the screen began to tremble,
and smothered cough and then an undis-
guised one, betrayed to me, if not to him,
that Mrs Fernalde had heard the chief part
of the monologue.
"And | had heard it in fragments and
sections more than once BEFORE" she after
ward told me, with her pleasant SMILE 81
know it means nothing-that no is just as
wholly mine as am his-that our love is the
imperishable sort-that We are welded into
one by fifty years together. And perhaps it
was ignoble of me to break the pretty bub-
BILE, to take away his little ideal, with which
he has found comfort whenever would have
my own way too much. Yet l thought it
was about time"
But she said nothing Of this at all as she
came bustling round the corner of the screen
that morning.
''There is such gale blowing outside" she
said, that the dust really rises in the house
fit to choke one"
"You haven't caught cold, Rosalici" said
her husband, turning In concern.
''Not the least, but | shall IL the hail. door
is open another moment There She comes
now. Make haste, and bid Alicia goodbye,
my love. She is just going"
"Who' he cried, suddenly opening his
eyes like lamps in their deep settings.
"Alicia-Mrs. Talliafero-1ear She mar
ried again, you know. On, it has been a fine
JEST she cried with her low laugh, ito
think that you should not have recognized
Alicia in all these weeks and NOR thsl"
Mr. Fernalde was quiet for few moments
looking at the sweet little laiy before him,
with her color like the halftarnished rose,
with tho soft brillancy Of her placid smile
Then. .he crossed over the hearth before me,
and he took her hand and bent down and
kissed her mouth.
"My Rosalic." said he, "will you not make
my adieux to Mrs. Talliafero youself! Tell
her-tell her have gone to the funeral of an
old friend ~
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
Chinese Interest in Sorghum Sugar.
[Chicago Tribune1

For 1900 years sorghum has been profitably
grown in China as n cereal, but has never
been utilized as a source Of producing sugar.
The experiments made in this country by
we'll known scientists in this direction have
attracted much attention in China. The peo-
Pile of that country are not slow to see that IL
the clear gain of its sugar value can DO added
to the seed crop it will prove a matter OF vast
importance to the empire. Accordingly,
some weeks ago the Chinese ambassador and
his two secretaries were among party of
visitors to the Rio Grande Sugar company's
works, for the purpose Of learning what they
could from observation of the processes en-
ployed in tho manufacture of sugar from
sorghum. Concerning the interest evinced
by the shrewd and inquisitive representatives
of tho Celestial kingdom correspondent of
The New York Tribune says: "If they had
been sugar experts, inclined to purchase the
whole concern as an investment, they could
not have studied the methods and machinery
more closely or more intelligently They
watched the cane through the rollers and
followed the expressed juice as it was clari-
fled and boiled through the vacuum pans to
tho centrifugals, and by their searching in
quiries kept DIR. Collier and Supt Hughes
constantly explaining every detail through
tho entire process. When the day was over
there is little doubt that they had a more
comprehensive knowledge of sugar.making
than any Of the American visitors" That
the Chinese ambassadors went there for q
purpose Is evident enough, and the next
thing to be expected is that one OK these days
China will be largely engaged in the success
full manufacture of sorghum sugar.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
Managing u Bird Dog.


The average amateur gets his dog talk
from books and says "To-ho," ''Down sir"
"Down CHARGE" Retrieve" ''Hi sir"
"Bring to bag ''To heel, sir" etc, etc. Ii
we ever forgot ourself and lent our dog to
any amateur and he went through this lingo
the dog would come in at night and try to
say "Say, pard, that man you lent me to
this morning must have been drinking, for
he called me lot of worse names than ever
you did when you licked me for being too
fresh and running over two or three gangs
early in tho day" And we wouldn't blame
tho poor dog. We don't hold any long con-
versation with our dog; it takes his mind
away from business When we get into q
field we say ''Yup" and wave our hands in
the direction we want him to go.
When he comes to q point, il he seems to
be nervous we say "YO-o-o," just as we
would to nervous horse, and II by any ac
cident we manage to kill bird when the
covcy rises, we simply say dead" and that
settles it. He gets the bird, brings it up to
us; sits down and at the word drop" let's it
fall out of his mouth and hies or again to
fresh fields and pastures new. II he runs
over bird we yell "Hey! you darn foolf'
and he drops down and remembers that il he
does it again he will get q corn stalk across
his flank. And 30 we go and the longer in
the day he hunts the less we have to say to
him, except to invariably pat his head and
call him ''good old snoozer" every time he
brings in bird.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
The Bones or the Dead.
[Gerald Massey's Lecture.l


From the earliest glimpse we can get
of cavemen we can see that they clnng
to the skirts of their departing friends
and kept such relics as they were able
to preserve. The primary type OF
permanence was the bone, and this was
the first thing that could be saved.
The bones of the dead were carefully
embalmed long ages before the body
could be preserved, as it was in Egypt
and In Mexico. The Bushmen, Hot
tentots, Maoris, and other races still
clothe the bones of their dead with
coating of red earth. This, as We
learn from Egyptian thought, was a
mode of refreshing the bones of the
dead in the likeness OF the living; and
this was the practice of the men who
buried the bones covered with red
ochre in the British shell-mounds of
Caithne 8.
Before the flesh of the dead could DO
mummified it was religiously eaten, and
this was one cause OF cannibalism. The
Mosaic and other sacred writings con-
tain no annunciation of mere doctrine
of immortality, and the fact has excited
constant wonder among the unin-
structed. But the subject was not
taught of old as matter of written
precepts, but as matter of fact.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
WOMAN AND HOME.
Various Phases of Woman's Work
..-Family Hints and Helps.
Stray Conn mon Sense Kitchen Rec.
fpes 49, Decorative Sugges-
tiOns-- Fashion Items.
Bill Arp's Talk.
ATLANTA Constitutional

The trouble with most of the girls is they
nre in too big a hurry to get married. When
they get through school or college they begin
to look round for a feller, and as fellers of the
right sort are scarce they kill tim, for q year
or two and then mate with somebody they
don't want exactly and the union is not
happy. A girl had better not marry at all
than to marry badly. Most of our men are
poor and they can't afford to marry The
girls and the boys are all on strain to keep
up with society. But if girl can support
herself she is independent and can take her
pick when she does marry. Mr.. Whitner
told me that he had to send to Michigan for
girls to work in his oificc, that he could not
find them here and he was now paying one
$500 and another 81 coo. That is a bad sign
for us. 1t is a reflection either on our girls or
our system of education.
There are many inviting fields for girls that
are not yet occupied. The world is full of
picture cards and Christmas gems, and they
ought to make the designs, for new patterns
are wanted every day. Photography is an
art that would just suit their taste, and
there ought to DO gallery attached to
every female college How nice 1t would
be to adorn the walls or fill portfolios
with lovely likenesses of every class that
graduates and every teacher and distinguished
visitor. How nice IL would be to see a lady
in charge Of a gallery in every town. How
much better she could arrange the dress
and the position AMI how kindly the children
would take TO her gentle voice. l know she
would get tho patronage Of all the young
mon and could have trunk full Of hand
some pictures to look at on Sundays IL she
wanted them.
Southern girls are teaching now all over
the land, ani that is good sign. Before the
war we used to get all our teachers from New
England. But then they didn't teach very
. long, for our young men AMI widowers mar
ried them, and they made good wives and
good mothers and they raised up good rebels
They don't come now, and our own girls have
monopolizcd the business. There is nice
young lady teaching not far from me and she
has sixty five scholars Another one has started
school close 10y and my little chapsare going
and now have to bear their lessons every
night, for they are in the cautious state and
don't want to be kept in at recess little
boy tickled Carl on the foot yesterday and
he got mark for cackling. He says he
couldn't help it, for it just tickled itself be-
fore he knew it. like these country schools
My bappiest memories are of the years that
walked two miles to one of them and car
ried my dinner in u basket and played on the
road, and at recess and noon, and stood up
In the long class and spelt the hard words,
and sometimes got head and told my good
mother about it and received her approving
smile. Those smiles and those tears. What
a word of love was in them.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
Wholesale Cremation.

When the Belgian chemist NJ. Creteur
was charged with the purification of the
battlefield of Sedan, he was compelled
to resort to cremation in order to dis.
pose of the heaps of half-covered
bodies. Not one case of illness occur
red among his $50 workmen, though
they were at work under blazing sun.
After the battle of Worth and Grave
lotte and the two sieges of Paris the
bodies of the slain were cremated, and
none of the usual contagious disorders
occurred. In Russia, after the retreat
Of the grand army, corpses were
burned Wholesale, and later, before
Paris, 1000 wero cremated wi h SIM
liar avoidance Of bad effect. 1t is said
il similar method had leen adopted in
Egypt tho cholera would not have
brok en- ont ut Damietta.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
Instructions on How to Fall Asleep.

[Cor. Chambers Journal.
/ had often noticed that when en-
gagged in deep thought, particularly at
night, there seemed to be something
like compression of the eyelids, the
upper one especially, and the eyes
themselves were apparently turned up
ward, as if looking IN that direction.
This invariably occurred, and the next
moment that, by an effort, / arrested
the course of thought, and freed the
mind from the subject with which it was
engaged, the eyes resumed their normal
position and the compression of the lids
ceased. Now 1t occurred to me one night
that would not allow the eyes to turn
upward, but keep them determinedly in
the opposite position, rs if looking
down; and having done so for short
time I found that the mind did not
revert to the thoughts with which it had
been occupied, and soon fell asleep.
tried the plan again with the same re-
suit; and after an experience of two
years, can truly say that, unless some
thing specially annoying or worrying
occurred, l have always been able to go
to sleep very shortly after retiring to
rest. There may occasionally be some
difficulty in keeping the eyes in the po-
sition / have described, but deter
mined effort to do so is all that is re-
quired, and ! am certain that if kept in
the down-looking position it will be
found that composure and sleep will be
the result,
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
How He Courted Her.

The following is Artemus Wards de-
scription of why he courted Betsy
Jane: "There we're many affectin' ties
which made me banker after Betsy Jane.
Her fathers farm jined ourn; their
COWS and ourn squelched their thirst
at the same spring: our mares both had
stars on their forhead; tho measles
broke out in both families at nearly the
same time; our parents Betsy James
and mine) slept regularly every Sun
day in the same meetin' house. and the
nsighbors used TO observe: How
thick the Wards and the Peasleys air.
1t was sublime sight in the spring Of
the year to see our several mothers
(Betsy's aad mine) with their gowns
pinned up, so that they couldn't sile
en-, a'lecktionately bilin' soap together
and aboasn' their neighbors
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
How Fashion May Bring Quiet
Nights.
IChicago TineS1


Fashion, omnipotent fashion, promises to
do what centuries of bootjacks, fire shovels,
cuspidors, and other utensils convertible into
missiles Of distinction have failed to accom-
plish. For countless ages such household
articles have been aimed at bowling midnight
cats by victims whose sleep was banished by
caterwaulings. Cats have been hit and the
breath has temporarily left their bodies, but
1t is not on record that midnight cat meetings
have ever been broken up through denuding
bed-chamber of utensils that might be
hurled at the feline foes of slumber. The
next night the cats invariably reassembled as
il by request.
But, unless fashion should suddenly change
her mind, relief would appear to be at hand.
Kittens heads are extensively used by fash
ionable milliners In Paris for the trimming
Of ladies' hats and bonnets. So large has
become the demand that Paris back-yards
are nightly invaded by cat-hunters, and the
breeding Of kittens for their heads has become
a regular business. Paris sets the fashions,
and this demand for kittens heads must ex-
tend all over the world The cat with q litter
Of young ones will be unable to send them
out into the world to initiate her own dissi-
patei career. They will have their little
heads chopped off, and the selfsame little
heads will be used to adorn the millinery Of
the fashionable lady. II this fashion should
hold out year or two nocturnal caterwaul-
ings will be heard no more, and a single boot
jack may last man lifetime.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
The COrean Jenkins"
[Chicago Herald.1

Sob Kwanfi Pom, secretary Of the Corean
embassy at Washington, has made the fol-
lowing observations in this country: "The
women Of America are all far more beautiful
than any others we have seen. notice most
women wear black clothes; many wear blue,
and when the weather il warm, white is very
commonly worn. Some women wear their
hats and bonnets tilted back, showing the
front hair, while others wear them squarely
on tho head. OF the two, the former style is
the nicer To seen
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
Inter Ocean,

Unhappy Perul She not only has the ex-
tprtionate demands Of Chilli to settle, but she
has $40 generals, 400 colonies, 2.21O majors,
1900 captains, and more heutenants than
anybody can count, all waiting for back pay.
She thinks some Of selling out a. total
wreck
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02

By arrangements with reliable land attorne, 9
In Olympia and .Washington, ID. o., my custo-
mers can have their land business attended to
the same as if personally present at either place
Parties wishing to purchase or locate Land
Scrip would do well to consult me.
fz5-AII latest Land Laws, Rules and Decisions
kent on file. Land Warrants bought and sold.
Conveyancing taxes paid, purchases and sales
10 ram;tted II u