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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

% pieces Of Victoria Lawns and India Linens re-
ceived the past week. We have marked them SO
low that we expect to be sold mt again this week.
Our prices are 12l?c, 15c, zoe. 25c to I5c yard.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15

The precious metal has been employed
both externally ana internally, in tie
metallic state, in solution and by sym
pathy, for a great variety Of the ills that
flesh Is heir to, for over 900 years. The
train Of thought which led the ancients
to elnploy this highly priced material
can be well told in the quaint language
Of the distinguished Dutch physician and
chemist, Hermann Boerhaare; writing
about 1925, IL says: The alchemists
viii have this metal contain / know not
what radical balm Of life capable of re-
storing health and continuing il to the
longest period.
What led the early physicians to
imagine such wonderful virtue in gold
was that they perceived certain qualities
therein which they fancied must b.
conveyed thereby into the body; gold,
for instance, is not capable Of being d.
stroyed: hence they concluded ii must
be very proper to preserve animal sub
stances aud save them from putrefac-
ton. which is method Of reasoning
very much like that of some fanciful
physicians who sought for an assuaging
remedy in the blood of an ass ear Ls
reason the ass is y very calm beastr'-
Professor Fl. Darlington Bolton in Pop
ular Science Monthly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15

During the past year the department
Of agriculture has been represented in a
number Of European countries by a spe-
cial agent, charged with the duty Of
urging the use abroad of Indian corn AZ
human food. A statement from Ger
man official sources presented in de-
partment report shows the heavy in
crease in our shipments TO that country
as the result Of this effort. The trade
returns Of tho fiscal year just ended also
bear witness to the effective work which
has been done upon this line. During
the twelve months ending June 80, 1892,
we shipped 73, ,i6s, ,G72 bushels Of corn,
valued at $l0,625. .5l7, against 30, 16s, ,213
bushels, valued at $i7.652. 6s7. during
the preceding year.
A comparison Of the trade of six
months, furnished in recent report
from the national statistician, shows
the results which have been accom-
plishea. He says: From Jan. to
June 30, 1892, we sold 55.554, ,173 bush
els, valued at S29, ,05s, ,552, against III
600, 1913 bushels, valued at 81, ,Tg1, ,S25.
for the same period of the previous
year. Another gratifying fact is to be
noted. Heretofore, when our shipments
Of corn abroad have been large. it has
been sold at a low price. Thus in 1890,
the only year IN which exports were as
large AS those of the past season, the
average price was only All, while the
average price received for the Ship
ments of 1892 was SOL cents per bushel. Y
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15


''Did you ever ride on locomotiveg'
asked o. G. Haskins. II tried it once
and have no desire to repeat the expert
ment. 1t was out in Colorado, where
you sometimes run SO close to bottom
less chasms that You could drop your
hat into them, and make turns so short
and sudden that it nearly disjoints your
spinal vertebre. The master mechanic
was an old friend Of mine and gave me
permission to ride over the road on the
engine of the lightning express. The
engineer did not appear to fancy my
presence much, but treated me civilly.
We were behind time, the night was
black as Erebus, and terrific thunder
storm was raging. The engineer was
determined to go in on time, and the
way he rushed around those curves and
across canyons was enough to make a
mans hair turn gray.
''The peculiar thing about these noun
tain engines is that they do not take a
curve like any other vehicle. They 70
plunging straight ahead until you feel
sure that they are clear of the track and
suspended in midair, and then shoot
around and leave you to wonder by what
miracle you have been saved. The
trucks take the curve in the orthodox
manner, but the superstructure is SO ar
ranged that it consumes more time in
making the turn. With the lightning
playing about the mountain peaks and
half disclosing the frightful gorges and
swollen torrents, the great iron leviathan
swaying and plunging along that slip
perry, serpentine track, | first realized
the perils Of railway travel and the re-
sponsibility Of the sullen man who kept
his hand on the throttle and his eye On
the track. l stood with my heart in my
throat, admiring his nerve, but not envy
ing him his job. AT the first stop |
clambered back into the coach and staid
there. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15

| must confess that | have always
blindly supposed (when | thought of it
at alD that the currant Of the plum pud-
ding was the same fruit as the currant
Of our gardens--that slightly acrid red
Eerry which grows on bushes that follow
the lines of back fences-bushes that
have patches of weedy ground under
them where hens congregate. ] fancied
that by some process unknown to me, at
the hands Of persons equally unknown
perhaps those who bring fattened raisins
from grapes. these berries were dried,
and that they then became the we'll
known ornament Of the Christmas cake.
Ii was at Zante that my shameful ig-
norance was made clear to me. Here
learned that the dried fruit Of commerce
is dwarf grape, which has nothing in
common with culrant jelly. Its English
name, currant, is taken from the French
s.raisin de Corinthe," or Corinth grape,
title bestowed because the fruit was
first brought into notice at Corinth. We
have stolen this name in the most un-
reasonable way for our red berry. Then,
to make the confusion worse. as soon as
we have put the genuine curranfs into
our puddings and cakes we turn around
and call them plumsF'
The real currant, the dwarf grape of
Corinth, is about as large as a gooseberry
when ripe. and its color is q deep violet
black; the vintage takes place in August.
1t is not d hardy vine. 1t attains lux
uriance, was told, only in Greece; and
even there it is restricted to the northern
Peloponnesus, the shores Of the Gulf of
Corinth, and the Ionian islands. Com
stance Fenimore Woolson in Harper's.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15

No farmer engaged to any consider
able extent in butter making can afford
to be without a butter test, to deter
mine which are his poor cows and which
the good ones. Were he compelled to
80 to the good cows stall every day
and get nickel and deposit it with the
poor COW 50 she could pay her way,
and therefore never expect to see the
nickel again, this continued Just for fhe
compulsory fun of caring for an un-
profitable cow, lie might condemn her
because he saw the nickel and had it III
his hand. They undoubtedly would
come TO appear as large as wagon
wheels.
At the same time, while testing as to
the comparative value Of the cows as
milk and butter producers, changes Of
feed would also determine the value Of
various foods III this product ana do a
GOuu1B work at every test. He can tell
how much ten Or thirty cent butter lie
feeds to his hogs. He can determine
whether the butter fat in the weekly
amount Of milk corresponds with the
weekly amount Of butter obtained. that
is in its ratio, and if not. why not:
Would separator be profitable? He
can determine all these things and many
more himself, ana need not take any one
else's word for it, which alone is worth
the cost Of the test. He can very quick
ly determine if he cares for his business
whether few dollars investment in a
test is not the best investment ever
made. These things now being brought
to the general farmers door and placed
within his grasp operation and easy
comprehension, it seems that the next
ten years must witness q great revolu-
ton in dairying intelligence.-H NJ
Oulbertson in Wisconsin Farmer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15


A very interesting question is before
congress and the American Bar associa-
tion arising out Of the unfortunate mas
sacre, Of the Italians in New Orleans.
The relations between this country and
Italy were strained nearly to the point
Of war. Diplomatic intercourse was not
discontinued. but Baron Fava, the Ital-
ian minister, was recalled.
The issue in the controversy arose
from the conduct of the mob that broke
into tlie New Orleans jail aid killed the
Italians who had been arrested for the
murder Of the chief Of police. For
everything done by the people Of the
city. and for everything done or left
undone by the government and courts
Of the state of Louisiana, the federal
government was responsible to Italy
The men engaged in the outrage We're
acquitted, and this government recog-
nized its moral responsibility at least
by paying small sum Of money to sur
viving sufferers.
The question before congress and the
Bar associations international law com
mittee is clear. What remedy is there
for condition Of law, international and
domestic, under which the United States
is responsible to a foreign government.
even to the point of war, for the acts of
the people and courts of single states
1t is an interesting and important ques-
ton and one in which the whole coun-
try is concerned.-Harper's Weekly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
NUMBER 5
eE4IND rHE FoorLIeArs.


Isabella coe will star next season in
"Niobe."
IA Message from Mars + the name Of
a new play.
Colonel NilIikeu has finished a play
which he calls sumter"
"Cupid's Chariot. new piay by ".
Sayersi was produced at Omaha recently.
Frederick Robinson tia. fallen heir tor u.
large fortune and will retire from the
stage.
John Ernest Mrcaun has finished new
one act comedy called The Country
Actor
Florence Ellis returns to the stage next
season in play called The Groves of
Blarney.n
The report that tHe New York Broadway
theater Was to rs turned into a music hall
IL not true
Richard Mansfield viii De seen next sea-
son in Joseph Hattonis dramatization of
The Scarlet Letter.
Hoyt's new play. ''A Temperance Tour"
will be given ten weeks run at the BOs-
ton Park theater- beginning Nov. ~
II Is aid that Nat Goodwin would never
have been treated 81 nicely by Henry Irv-
ing this summer If Dizey hadn't initiated
Irving.
Another boy violinist, kotza DumtscheH,
is to come to America from St. Petersburg.
He is eleven years Of age and is said to be
very handsome.
Byrne and Harris0n's new opera. s.ve-
nus, /" ~ finished. ana The clever authors
are already at another, which will be pro-
duced by j. M. Hill
The contract which Mnlc Patti has
made with Mr. Mayer IS for forty concerts
in the United States and Canada, for
which she il To receive 500, ,00U.
Nine Sarah Bernhardt has gone back to
Paris intending to enjoy a perfect rest
after her hard work In London When
quite refreshed, she viii make q tour
through Belgium. Holland, Austria and
Russia.
The Duke Of Edinburgh ana the queen
of Roumania are writing an opera t0-
gether, 50 the Paris Figaro says. Carmen
sylvia supplies the libretto and the prince
the music, while the theme Ut the work "
laid in prehistoric times.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15

Mail carriers are sometimes prone tc
make mistakes, just as other people are.
Not only in their business, for that oc-
ours often with the most careful, but
sometimes socially.
1t was only a few evenings ago that
one Of the East End mail boys made
such a mistake socially as to place him
in ridiculous manner before the few
friends who have learned Of this mis-
take.
For some time past Uncle Sans agent
has been paying noticeable attention to
one of East Ends fair bellies, that is, in
an indirect and seemingly unconcerned
manner. In fact, the young lady did not
know of the intended attention until he
asked permission one day to call upon her
that evening. When he would 60 to the
house to deliver any letters to the young
lady he would always ask if Miss -
was in, always using her Christian name,
and in this way he became, as he thought,
pretty well acquainted with the object
of his affections.
The young lady was not reciprocal in
her feelings, and when she was asked to
allow him to call she hesitated some
what, but finally said yes.
The young man was not acquainted
with the fact that this certain young
lady had a sister almost the exact image
of herself. but she knew it and was de-
terlnined that the sister. should help her
in her cleyerly laid scheme the sister
should entertain the letter carrier.
All arrangements We're made for the
evening, and when the doo%ell sounded
the sister answered and the young man
was ushered into the room He did not
detect any difference III the sister and
was not aware that he was talking with
any other girl than the one he had asked
to call upon.
The evening hours flew quickly and
he was about TO depart, when he began
pouring forth some endealing terms to
the young lady, who listened attentiyely
until he had finished, when, with
smothered laugh on her face, she asked,
sits my sister you wish to see, is it not.'
The letter carrier was dumfounded.
He had committed himself, and to one
wholly uninterested in the affair. He
reached for his hat and with one bound
reached the door and was soon wander
ing down the avenue beneath the electric
light. He was surely wiser if not
happier man. The letters are still de-
livered to the house, but the letter man
is scarcely ever seen, and he never asks
for Miss - -Pittsburg Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
SNAP SHOTS.

The small Photographic portrait wns
first made rs FEWER in 1851, and was al
first used On visiting cards.
The new National League " Amateurs
has made beginning, ana appeals ~ ann
ateurs to support id on what it intends to
do. State divisions are to be formed first
and promote photography ia their own
localities.
Excessive hot weather has tendency to
dissolve the gelatin film, and amateurs
are cautioned to use the alum bath ana
ice freely. or 10 wait for cooler atInos-
phsre, before undertaking the develop
menr " exposed plates.
II, when you are tOnInZ aristoiypcs your
bath becomes stubborn and win not work
satisfactorily. il you are sure it IL not from
lack of gold, you will lind that the addi-
tion Of 4 triile Of q saturated solution Of
nitrate of lead viii frequently set yOa
right
Miss Catherine Barnes has made many
photographs about Edinburgh. and has
been greatly assisted by many distin-
guished photographers. She has also been
the target of many English hand cameras
and has been photographed by flash light
bE Mn. Slingsby, an expert English pho
tOnrTipher
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
A Natural Incubator.

The officers and men of the United
States cutter Rush relate marvellous
tales of wondrous discoveries made by
them during their 1890 cruise. They
dredged fer deep sea oddities in the al
most fathomless sinks of the Pacific's
bed. They collected marine algae so
delicate III figure that it took the finest
microscopes to bring ont even the coars-
est outlines, leaving the minute fbers as
n hazy mist ON the vision, and finally
outdid themselves by getting a fine
Photographic view of creature sport
ing in the sand of one of the low lying
islands which leads their paleologist to
the belief that some of the supposed
antediluvian monsters are still in ex-
istence.
But the feat of which they seem
proudcst was the discovery Of a natural
incubator on the sides Of the volcano
Bogoslov, where millions Of awks, gulls
and other sea birds deposit their eggs
and leave them to be Matched by vol
canic heat. Who says that birds are de-
void Of ilttelligence:-St Louis Repub-
liz
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
RAILWAY RuMBLEs.

A street ear line y now being built III
Tashkend, the capital Ut Russian Turkes-
tan, by French company.
One Of the important improvements the
Grand Trunk has in contemplation IL the
construction II several iron bridges on the
Great Western division
The Wabash people have ordered com
plete new outfit IN the way of locomotives,
coaches and freight equipment for the
new Detroit and Chicago short line.
The Wells-Fareo business has always
been identified with the Sante lie system
and its operation now over the Frisco lines
simpliiics the express business W the en-
tire Santa lie system.
The Central Railroad Of New Jersey
mas abandoned lis old passenger station at
Elizabeth, = j., after an occupancy OF
thirty-seven years and moved into the new
and beautiful stone and brick structure
near by.
The Central Of Georgia. has appointed
w. A. Moore roadmaster of the Columbus
and Western Is succeed Edward Ford,
who resigned u accept the Office IL super
intendent of the South Bound road. Mr.
Moore was formerly roaasaaater Ut tine
South Bound road
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
A Chinese citv az Toa.v

Annoy proper and its suburbs have a
living population of about 1000, 900 and
a dead one Of four and half times as
many. The wells are shallow and are
sunk ON the edges of the graveyards,
and even among the tpmbs themselves.
| have not eeen one whose water is not
muddy and discolored by the perpetual
turning up of the soil
The city is relic of the past. It is
walled the same as it was in the time of
Confucius. 1t has no sewers whatever.
The streets vary from two to six feet in
width; no wheeled vehicle can use
them. An Equestrian would experience
great difficulty in turning corner.
Here and there is an open space or
plaza. dug out SO as to be huge open
cesspool; into it the streets discharge
their filth. Cor Practitioner.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
Does Lightning Sour the MIX?


1t is a well known fact that milk is
especially apt to sour during the preya-
lence of thunderstorm, and from this
it has been surmised that the electric
discharge held some mysterious sway
over the 1acteal fluid. An Italian ex-
perimenter, one Professor g. Tololnei,
has been making trials Of various sorts,
the object being to throw some light Oh
electric influence over milk molecules.
In his first experience he passed aa cleo
tric discharge from a HOltz machine Be-
tween two balls of platinum hanging
two inches apart in a bottle containing
a quart of fresh milk; secondly, by send
ing a current between two strips Of
platinum at Nhe bottom Of Y tube
filed with the same fluid; thirdly, by
subjecting milk in test tube to the ac-
ton of strong battery current through
a silk covered copper wire wound spi-
rally around the tube.
In each one of these experiments.
which We're as thorough as any lover of
science could wish, it was proved that
acidulation of the milk was delayed in
stead or hastened, as had been expected.
Three equal portions Of milk from the
same milking thus treated began to
grow acid on the seventh, the ninth and
the sixth days, respectively, while other
portions of it which had not been treated
with electricity was rankly acid on the
evening of the third day. Having thus
disproved the popular theory of lightning
being the direct cause of the acidifca-
tion Of. milk. Professor Tolomei tried
ozone and found therein the mystic
agent Of milk souring In his second
trial Of ozone he brought the surface Of
a quantity of milk close to the two balls
of the machine used. and the fluid al
most instantly became acid in conse-
quence.
Here at last a mystery that has puz-
zled professors and peasants alike has
been made plain.-St. Louis Republic.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
LITgRARY LuMINAalgs.

Mrs Humphry Wards new novel viii
not be- finished for TWO years
ID is announced that zoia is collecting
material for q new novel which will have
TO 90 with Tie pils;rimases to l-ourles.
Walter Bcsapt, The English novelist.
was intended by his parents for \ career in
the church mt hc lrifted naturally into
literary work.
Mrs. Isabel Maiion is judged to Ne the
best paid writer cf her aex la this country
Tier Bah letters are printed ia eighty
newspapers each week. She Is Bairi-
more woman. "A widow. stili yOung. ana
her home IN NOW in New York
Francois Eoppe,, whu has been called
the French Tcnnssop III unmarried ami
leads q Guist liIesf study in a quaint old
house IN the Laiin quarter of Paris. lie
works very sloNiy, producing compara.
lively little in tbscourse 0f II year.
1ne nrJ ciect1e ls-ns was the Invention
a Stale and petric ia iSsG. but scores of
fnen hags inte las,ic improvements and
adapted II " popular use.
Tests recent y uaas.eat Cornell uniressity
show aluminium hsts nU VERY inarSyt inllu-
cnce upon the magnetic e0nduettvity uf
cast iron, hat slightly decreases it, pei-
neabiIity.
As compared with sas illumination The
advantages VT electricity on bealih i TIE
result vi TIVE things-iu thc first place
the electric light does Ant draw an the
oxygen, aud iu the second place il gives
Of no nczionS ssses.
Milan Il said II l,e the best lighted citr
ry, fg. rsr.-xfst.s4n 1TST.4Yt lfs4s .a-4. 49,.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-15
MEAT gATlNe ANp MORALITY.
Count Tolstoi's First Step in the Regen-
Grafton OF Mankind

only desire to establish the PROPOSE
tions that, in order to lead moral life,
it is necessary to observe a certain Sc
quence in good actions; that if man is
serious in his aspiration to lead good
life the practical manifestations of that
desire will necessarily unfold themselves
in a certain order, and that in tS;s order
the abstemiousness (self mastery is the
first virtue which he will have to cult
vate. In the pursuit Of the virtue Of alb
stemiousness he must again observe a
certain definite order, and the first step
therein will be abstemiousness in food
fasting.
In the practice of fasting the first
thing from which he must abstain, if he
really and truly aims at leading good
moral life, is animal food, and this for
the Ineligible reason that, not to speak
of the passions it engenders and fosters,
the consumption of animal food is plainly
immoral, because it demands an act
which does violence to our moral senti-
ments-viz., murder-and is encouraged
and kept up only by mems greed Of gold
and their appetite for savory food. The
reason why the first step in fasting and
in right living is abstinence from animal
food has been admirably formulated,
not by one man only, but by all man
kind in the persons of its most accredited
representatives during the course OF hu-
man history.
But why, one may ask, if the illegality
i. e., immorality-of consuming animal
food has been recognized by mankind
for such long period, have people never
theless persisted down to the present in
ignoring this law? This question natu-
rally suggests itself to those who are
prone to be guided less by the light Of
their own reason than by public opinion.
The answer to the question, however, is
that all moral progress (and moral prog
ress is the essence Of all progress what
ever) is a work Of time, is accomplished
slowly, but that the sign Of genuine
progress, as distinguished from casual
advance, is its uninterrupted continuous
ness and its ever increasing rapidity.
The vegetarian movement ought to fill
with gladness the souls of those who
have at heart the realization of Gods
kingdom upon earth, not because vege-
tarianism itself is such an important
step toward the realization of this king
dom (all real steps are equally important
or unimportant), but because it serves
as criterion by which we know that
the pursuit of moral perfection on the
part of man is genuine and sincere, in
asmuch as it has taken that form which
it must necessarily assume, and has truly
begun at the very beginning.
It is impossible not to rejoice at this,
just as it would be impossible for people
not to feel glad who, after having yainly
endeayored to reach the top Of the house
by attempting to climb up the walls
from various sides, at last meet at the
bottom step of the staircase, and crowd
ing together there feel that there is no
way of reaching the top except by as
cending that staircase and beginning
with this first and lowest step.-Count
Tolstoi in New Review.