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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07

When you first go on boord your da-
habteh, the sailors assemble on the deck
to welcome you, and perhaps one or two
who have sailed with you before step
forward to shake your hand. They are
of all compilations, some very pale, some
of a rich and beautiful brown, almost
copper color. When you have been far
within the tropics and have braved hot
wind Or two amid the glaring sands of
Nubia and the shining rocks of the Cata-
ract, your sailors have assumed a differ
eat tint. The pale men have become
brown, the brown men black. Most Of
these sailors come from certain tribes
long settled in Nubia, but probably of
Arab origin. The Shellalee or Cataract
families furnish many of them. Now
and then Cairene is among
them; now and then a genuine
fellah of Lower Egypt. But after a
few days you recognize the Nubian, or
Berber, as his companions call him. His
face is generally Of high type Of manly
beauty, almost feminine, occasionally, in
the delicacy ofthe outline; but his limbs,
except in one particular, are like those Of
prize-fghter. Every muscle stands OUT
on his shoulders and arms, and, except
for the aatness of his calves, he looks
like bronze statue He has peculiar
way of swimming, hand over hand,
making great splash, and though he
can literally stay for hours in the water
without inconvenience, when your boat
has stuck fast on to sandbank, he is
not good swimmer in our sense Of the
word. Yet, if you inquire into his his
tory you will probably find that since he
was three years old he has been accus-
toned to take to the water, and has swan
the cataract on log since ever he can
remember. This swimming down the
worst parts of the cataract astride on
log looks very easy, but Is in reality ex-
tremely difficult, as should be sorry to
say how many of my countrymen have
proved.-MagGstns Of Art
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07
A Terrible Mali seryIce.

in an article in the Century entitled
''The cruise Of the Alice May" s. G. W.
Benjamin, now United States minister to
Persia, says Of the winter mail service be-
tween the mainland and Prince Edward
island: 'From January until May, at
least, Northumberland strait is frozen
over. The mails are carried across at the
narrowest part, near Cape Tormentine, or
Jourimain, distance of nine miles. The
carriers drag boat over the hummocks Of
ice which Is provided with runners like
double keel. When they come to open
water they cross in the boat. 1t is q
dangerous and arduous journey, and few
undertake it beside the hardy mail-car-
riers. For two or three winters past the
passage has been made sometimes by the
steamer Northern Light, constructed es-
pecially for this service She has frame
of enormous strength, somewhat of a
wedge form, with solid shoe of iron at
the bow; everything about her was
planned to enable her to crush her way
through the ice, which is often from two
to four feet thick. Her course is from
Pictou to Georgetown, distance Of some
eighty miles, although she often has to
go over two or three times that distance
to reach her port. In all the annals of steam
navigation there is no such packet service
recorded as this of the Northern Light.
Sometimes the ice is SO dense she can
make no headway, but is jammed fAst for
days and weeks, or carried to and fro by
the combined fury of ice and storms
The passenger who starts in her for
Prince Edward Island in March has be-
fore him the horrors Of polar solitude
and hazard. In the spring of 1882 the
Northern Light was three weeks making
this brief passage, fast locked in the ice
packs. Sometimes she was carried close
to the shore, but no one could bring aid
to the starving passengers, owing
to the threatening condition of the ice.
It was only after burning all the
woodwork in the cabin for fuel and be-
ing reduced to the last biscuit, that the
worn out and hopeless passengers reached
the destined port. Think of civilized
and enlightened people, in this age, shut
off from the rest of the world by such
frightful siege of ice, and tempest and
snowl Nor is this an occasional thing.
As regularly as the winter comes around,
the islanders look forward to this long
Information and isolation. We're it not
for this drawback, the island might be
a naradise -
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07
Pass Now in Fashion.

Are Angora cats getting to be fash
lonable for petsi" asked a New York
Mail and Ezpress reporter of an east side
dealer.
"oh, yes, indeed" was the reply;
"within the last month the demand has
been quite large, and, strange to say, I
sell as many by mail as in the city. Only
yesterday l sent one to New Orleans,
and last week one to Chicago. They
seem to be rapidly taking the place of
pugs. Come and see the cats"
So saying, the reporter was shown into
room where a dozen or more animals
with long tails and hair sweeping the
floor were playing together or sleeping on
hair cushions. Some were white, some
tortoise and others use-colored or blue,
in the parlance of the trade.
''There are also black and chinchilla
CATS" said the dealer ''These blue
ones are the rarest, but the white cats
seem to be the greatest favorites. Some
people maintain that only the white cats
are the pure bred. but that is not 50, as
quite frequently white cats will have diff
ferent colored kittens"
"What is the most valuable cat you
have7"
''This large white tom is the most ex-
pensive; he is worth $50. The other
cats are worth from $40 to $50. The
kittens are worth $40 for the males and
$15 for the females. f"
The dealer then explained the differ
ence between the Angora and the Persian
cats, which is very slight, the Persians
having longer face and larger ears
The animals are very delicate, and re-
quiro great care in raising, colds being
the chief enemies Of the feline kind.
Each cat must have hair-cushion and
be washed regularly and rubbed with
cocoanut oil. Birds and scraped beef
are found to be the best food for them.
A few cats are imported from England,
but most of them are raised by man in
Maine
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07

his latter and more frequent trouble, and
finally his death, may be attributed to
strong drink. When sober he was kind
and generous to fault, and those who
knew him years ago when he drank but
little can hardly realize the truthfulness
of the charge that the trouble between
him and Smith grew out of Hamlin's
abusive conduct toward his wife. who
was a sister of Mrs. Smith. Yet liquor
has the power to transform the bravest
men into woman beaters, and to make
the most generous and manly heart
craven and beastly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07
Saved by a Picture.
"Shan't go a step fartherl'

''Shan't go step fartherl"
"only just little way-we shall soon
be home now, and mothers waiting.n
II don't care I've made up nv mind
that I've walked too far already, and Pm
just going to sit down and rest; they
must wait, and 1 shall do as 1 choose
"But, father
."Now, don'tyou talk to me about butts, ;
Charlie, because I won't have it. shall
ut down here, and you can go and tell
your mother not to wait-not to wait. ;,
the man repeated, raising his voice with
The stupid anger Of intoxication.
Still, in spite of threat and refusal, the
child persisted in pleading that his father
should go home; but his words only
seemed to strengthen the man IS obstinacy,
md all the boy could do was to get his
father to turn aside from the hgh road
into field close by, where the man threw
himself at fall length on the grass some
what under the shade of the hedge, and
In few minutes he was sleeping heavily,
while the child sat down at little dis
tance, with strange kind of unchildish
patience on his features, to wait until his
father should wake Poor little Charlie
be knew too well how useless any attempt
on his part would be to rouse his father
from that sort of sleep.
Rather more than half an hour had
passed in this dreary waiting, and Charlie
was beginning to find all his small
sources Of amusement fail him. He had
watched large bee that kept lowering
over the convolvulus blossoms in the
hedge, and wondered if he had not nearly
finished his days work; had placed a
snail out Of harms way, and had been
tempted to chase beautiful painted but
terfiy that fitted past him; but he began
ut last to lose his interest In bees and but
terfies, for it We now tea time, and
Charlie was growing terribly hungry.
still he did not think Of dsssrtang biz
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07
Pancakes cookad by LInhinInn.

Some parties in Canada are reported to
have invented machine for cooking by
electricity. 1t consists of saucepan or
hot plate so isolated by non-conductors
that the bottom forms the positive pole
Of a current. The other pole is attached
to movable point. which travels over
the under surface Of the pan in circles
sufficiently quick not to burn hole
through. Some cakes were cooked in
the apparatus and eaten by the inventor
and his family, who are believed to be
the first members of the human race who
have eaten food cooked by the electric
spark. One lady declared she tasted the
flavor Of electricity quite strong. y
Electrical World.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07
Congressional Personal.

A Washington correspondent Of the
Boston Adusrtiser says in the House are
four ex-Senators-Kellcgg, Of Louis
lana; Poland, of Vermont; Eaton, of
Connecticut, and Pryor, of Alabama.
Dingley, of Maine; Curtin, of Pennsyl-
vania; Stewart, Of Vermont; Long, of
Massachusetts,, and Kellogg have been
governors. Hit, of Illinois; Kasson, of
Iowa; Phelps, of New Jersey, and Cur
tin have represented the country abroad
"Richelieun Robinson is the most strik-
ing looking, and SO deaf he can hear but
little of the proceedings; Abram s.
Hewitt is the most nervous; William
Walter Phelpsthe most precise in dress;
Belford, of Colorado, the widest; Ly-
man the most scholarly Randolph
Tucker the most difficult speaker; Fo-
land the most MISUNDERSTANDING; Hit
the slenderest; Dorsheimer the largest;
''Sunset" Cox the smallest; Kasson the
most diplomatic; stPhil" Thompson the
most innocent-looking Floyd King the
bravest-looking; Washburn the richest;
Geddes the most Like George Washing
ton in appearance; Bingham the hand
soonest; Wadsworth the most aristo-
cratic; Reed the most sarcastic; Horr
the dryest Blackburn the most elo-
quent; Eaton the quietest. Keifer has
the largest neck, Anderson the shrillest
voice, John s. Wise the biggest lungs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07

Mother, may Bridget cut that cake
now9'' asked little Johnny last evening,
right in the presence Of some company,
who had just got seated "No, my
child, not nown ooh yes; not now.
That's what you've been sayin' fur g
week, and you said you wuz a goin' te
cut it as coon as you'd have company. !
In an hour or so after Johnny got slice
Of the cake. Merchant Trapeler.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07
aco1Nc UP HEAD


The low school house stood in green Wabash
Loolin' out on long levels Of corn like q
A little log house. hard benches and we,
Sig barefooted boys, and rough 'uns, We stood
In line with the gals, and tried to get head
At spellin' each day when the lessons was
said.
: But one BaIly Dean, tall, bony and green
As green corn in the milk, stood fast at the
foot
Stood day after day, as II he'd been put
A-soldier on guard there, did poor Bally Dean,
And stupid God made him SO stupid /
doubt
But I guess God who made us knows what
He's about.
He'd long way to walk. But he wouldn't
once talk
OF that, nor the chores for his mother who
lay
Ashakin' at home Still, day after day
He stood at the foot till the class gan to mocki
Then to master he plead, ''Oh, I'd like to
go headr'
Now, it wasn't so much, but the way it was
said
Then the war struck the land! Why, that
barefooted band
It just nailed up that door: and the very
next day.
With master for cap'en, went marchin'
away;
And Rally fbo h,rff So
band
But he bore with it all, yet once firmly said,
when l get back home I'm agoin' up headl1
Oh, that school house that stood in the wild
Wabash wood
The rank weeds were CROWN white ghosts
through the floor,
The squarrels hulled nuts on the sill of the
door,
And the gals stood in groups scrapin' lint
where they stood,
And we boysl How we sighed; how we
sickened and died
For the days that had besn, for place at
their side.
Then one fever-crazed and his better sense
dazed
And dulled with heart sickness, all duty
forgot;
Deserted, was taken, condemned to be shot
AMI Bally Dean, guardin' his comrads half
crazed
Slow paced up and down while he slept
where he lay
In the tent waitin' death at the first flush
of day.
And Bally Dean thought of the boy to be shot,
OF the fair girl he loved in the woods far
away;
OF the true love that grew like red rose
of May;
And he stopped where he stood, and he
thought and he thought,
Then sudden star fell, snootin' on over
head.
And be knew that his mother beckon'd on
to the dead
And be said what have 1? Though live.
though l die,
Who shall care for me nowi Then the dull.
muffied drum
Struck his ear, and he knew that the mas
ter had come
-e- VAC S4uoo Anu ne passed In the tent
with sigh,
And the doomed lad crept forth and the
drowsy squad led
With low trailing guns to the march of the
dead.
Then with face turned away tow'rd dim
streak of day,
And his voice full OF tears the poor bowed
master said,
AS he fell on his knees and uncovered his
head,
Come, boys, it is school time, let us all pray
And we prayed And the lad by the coffin
alone
Was fearless, was silent was stin as a stone.
I'm line" master said, and he stood at the
head;
But he couldn't speak now. So he drew
out his sword;
And dropped the point low for the last
fatal word.
Then the rifles rang out, and a soldier fell
dead
The master sprang forward aGod help
u.s." he said;
at is Bally, poor Bally, and he's gone up
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07

Observing exchanges have discovered
that the greediest man after newspaper
is the one who is too mean to subscribe.
He is always in waiting for the latest
paper, and it is not on the owners porch
two minutes till the Inconsistencies
pouncss on to it, and, after reading il
invariably throws it aside with the re-
mark that he could make better paper
himself Electric Light.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07

According to the latest statistics the
number Of Jews in the German empire is
5e1, e12 or 1876 for every 10000 Of the
pepulation
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-02-07

The stride Of the great trottihg horses
varies from seventeen to twenty-five feet.
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Exports and Imports.

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A View Cremasory dedicated.

The Lancaster crematOrium, built by the
Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform So
ciety, was dedicated at Lancaster, Pa, with
appropriate religious services on the 18th ult.
The crematorium is the second establishment
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Two Girls Shoot Their Sedncers.

Gcorgiana and Josephine Conway, sisters
aged 20 and % years, respectively, nieces of ex-
Mayor Conway, shot two young men on Canal
street, New Orleans, La, on the Goth ult
GeOrgiana shot John d. Logan, son of ex-
Alderman NJ. d. Logan, aud Josephine shot
joseph A. Devonshire, United States deputy
marshal. The young ladies claim that they
were seduced by the men they shot. Logan
was shot in the back and face, and dangerously,
if not fatally, wounded. DevOnshire was but
slightly wounded in the back. The ladies and
their brother were arrested. The wounded
men were sent to Charity Hospital.
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Catarrh Cured.

A clergyman, after suffering number of
years from that loathsome disease, Catarrh,
after trying every known remedy without sue
cess at last found prescription which COM
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Oklahoma Payne Dead.

Capt. David /. Payne, the famous leader of
the Oklahoma boomers died suddenly at Well
lington, Kan, on the morning of the 25th ult.,
while breakfasting. He addressed meeting
the previous evening, and was apparently in
in his usual robust health when he entered the
dining-room in the morning. While eating he
was observed to lean forward and utter sub
dued sound, as if from slight sufIocation, and
then dropped from his chair to the floor and
expired immed lately.
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Business Failures of a Week.

The business failures occurring throughout
the country, as reported 10 G. r. Dan 4 Co., of
the Mercantile Agency, number for the seven
days, ending on the 2Sth ult.: United States,
222; Canada, 81; or total of 2i9, which IS a
decrease of % failures as compared with the
week ending Nov. 81 when the total was 277.
The failures for the week ending with the 14th
of November numbered $50.