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Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
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The old proyerb, ANY port in a
storm" has often found practical illus
tration in the empirical treatment of
disease. Time was when even regular
practitioners in the art Of healing in
cluded in their professional armament,
along with many simple remedies of
real value, other matters, the very men
tion Of which might almost suffice toen-
gender illness. We may feel thankful
that we have now entered upon later
and more scientific era, and that such
extraordinary drugs as weasels' gizzards.
does hoofs, snails, and other even more
repulsiye horrors, donot now find place
in any pharmacopoeia.
There still exists, however, a species
of medical folklore, and some of its pre-
scribed wisdom available for use in i'll
ness is of the most remarkable kind
Times of panic, by throwing a popula-
tion to some entent on its own resources
for treatment, are apt to create de-
mand for these surviyals of 5 dark age
This happened lately in Germany, where
q toad cooked with much care was swal-
lowed as a cure for cholera AS to tie
result we are not informed. Most of us
would probably choose to suffer rather
than thus attempt our own relief. Lon
don Lancet.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

1t is one of the easiest to keep clean
that can be imagined, provided only that
the proper methods are used. 1t would
seem that similar conditions obtain with
the barrel churn. The great difficulty
is that users are either over particular
or actually negligent. The matter Of
keeping one of these chnrns clean should
commence before the cream is put into
it. If the churn il first scalded with
hot water and then rinsed with cold
water, the cream will not pack into the
corners or crevices or adhere to the
sides. Then after the churning and the
withdrawal of butter and the butter
milk reverse this process-that IS, first
thoroughly rinse with cold water and
then scald with hot water, and the oper-
alton is complete. Keep brushes and
cloths and soap of every description out
Of the churn A little sal soda ia the
last scalding water may be occasionally
used with good results. s.-Hoard's Dairy
man.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

Mollie Fancher wears pretty birth
day ring. The setting is modern. brst
the gem itself is said to have been fouad
at Pompeii. 1t is an orange red ssr
donyx, with a funeral urn cut in intaglio.
and is set very simply in Etruscan gold
New York Rec2rder.
In Down Town New York.
'sThe trouble with you New Yorkers
IL, Quill, said the man from Boston
they had been looking over Trinity
church that your buildings lack age:
they are not venerable enough to com
mand the respect of the soul instinct
with the ideals Of all that is hallowed
by the past. Now. there is the Old
South"
'sBut what's the matter with that?'
interposed Quill-they were strolling
toward the Battery, and We're opposite
A. Broadway--sswhat's the matter with
that2 There's Adams Express company.
There couldn't be anything much older
or more venerable than Adam, could
thereY-New York Times.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

The cheapest and shabbiest icehouses
as rule keep ice better than those that
are elaborately built. Forty years since
| built an icehouse and took great pains
to have it very tight Every year in
August we were out of ice About ten
years afterward / read in an agricul-
tural paper that there should be plenty
of ventilation over the top of the ice. /
Immediately cut window in the north
and south ends Of the icehouse, and from
that day we have always had plenty of
ice.
A rough building sixteen feet square,
built of boards, with proper drainage at
the bottom, viii answer every purpose
for dairy Of twenty-five cows Board
up on the inside Of the studs with single
boards, cut the ice so that you will have
space Of from sixteen to eighteen
inches on every side, pack in sawdnst
or tan bark as you fill the icehouse.
cover the top with twenty inches of
the same, leave ventilator four feet
square in each gable end, and your ice
will keep without any trouble. OF course
if the dairy and icehouse are to be com
bined in one building, better material
and work will be needed.---Cor. Rural
New Yorker.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
PEN, cHISEL AND BRUSH.

Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, the poet, will
make Baltimore her home in future.
"Jane Eyre was the first work Of Char
lotte Bronte, written when she was only
twenty-five years old.
William d. HowelIs, the novelist, is
planning to take up permanent residence
in Italy-a country for which he has al
ways had fondness.
Mr. J. H. Shorthouse, Of John Ingle-
SAINT" fame, says, II do not call myself a
novelist, and ] do not think that any of my
books can be described as novels.
Tennyson destroyed mass of his letters
and manuscripts few years ago in fit of
alarm, caused by his reading Froude's
"reminiscences Of Thomas Carlyle
Francois Millet, the younger, is follow
ing in the footsteps Of his illustrious fa-
ther. He is making direct studies from
the peasants in the fields, taking them at
their simple duties and labors as his
themes. He works principally in pastel.
Alfred Wolff, the sculptor of the great
Berlin statue Of rider attacked by lion
is dead. He attained the ripe age Of sew
enty-eight years, and was well known in
Germany from his sculpture groups, as
well as in the capitol at Hanover, Koenigs-
berg, and elsewhere
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The new Chicago university has pro
fessor or instructor for every six students
AT a popular election at Faribault,
MINI, the Faribault school plan was de-
feated.
New Jersey has 402, ,702 children of school
age, 46, 112 in private schools and SO, SIG not
attending school
The salaries of the grammar and pri.
mary teachers of New York city will be
s., 212, $50 the present season.
The new freshman class in the academic
department of Harvard numbers 407 mem
bers, and they come from thirty of the
forty-four states, to say nothing Of three
foreign countries.
The Harvard faculty has announced that
during the fall and winter practical courses
viii be given to medical practitioners in
archaeological diagnosis of Asiatic chol-
era. Imported germs will be used.
"A new building has been started for the
Boston kindergarten for the Blind. For
this the sum of $4,000 has been raised
through appeals, but for the running ex-
penses an endowment Of Sl00, 600 is needed.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
SUGAR BEETS AND POTATOES.
How Much They Are Worth In Butter
Production.

production.
LII bulletin IL Of the Iowa agricul-
tural college. Professor Wilson gives
the results OF feeding experiments to de
terrnine the value Of sugar beets and
potatoes in butter production. Cows
gained in flesh on each ration. The best
butter from the beets graded as Cream
cry western extra, and the best from
the potatoes .Creamery western firsts.
The poorest butter graded as low as
sCreamery western thirds" The but
ter from the creamery when no expert
ments were made invariably graded as
"Elgin extras" The cost of the butter
per pound is not given, except in case
of Holstein heifer fed twenty pounds
Of beets per day. In this case the cost
of feed i'll pound Of butter is given at
SO cents. The summary Of results is
stated as follows:
The indications from this experiment
are that the higher grades Of butter cah-
not be made from heavy feeding Of either
raw sugar beets or raw potatoes.
That high grade butter can be made
when cows eat twenty pounds Of beets
day, but not the highest grade.
That high grade butter cannot be
made when cows are eating ten pounds
Of raw potatoes a day.
That no coloring IS necessary when
the COW eats twenty pounds Of beets a
day.
That butter from potato feeding on
dry rations is colorless and lacks keep
ing qualities.
That butter from beet feeding keeps
WELL
That cows like beets and continue to
eat them with appetite.
That cows will eat as much as fifty
pounds of potatoes a day by gradually
increasing them, but will after that eat
less day by day until ten pounds is
reached.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
THE FARM DAIRY IN WINTER.

Don't Use the Kitchen Pantry for Il Milk
room.
The housewife who expects to make
butter this winter from milk and cream
set in the kitchen pantry viii not have
any better ''luck" than heretofore in se-
curing a good salable article. If one
has not an especial milk and butter
room for winter use, it will pay to add
such an apartment to the dwelling, even
though the quantity of milk is not large.
No great outlay is necessary, Int the
setting aside Of some room in the house
for this purpose is generally all that is
requisite. 1t is imperative that the at
mosphere Of the kitchen should have no
access to the dairy room. 1t is safe to
say that in two-thirds Of the farmhouses
throughout the land, where winter but
ter making is practiced on small scale,
this vital point is utterly ignored.
In seeking kitchen warmth. kitchen
odors are admitted, and the pans Of
milk resting on shelves in the pantry, or
even above the cooking range, are re-
peatedly charged with the impurities OF
the atmosphere. This is one Of the
greatest drawbacks to successful winter
butter making; but better knowledge Of
the subject should reform the bad prac-
tice. The room in which the milk is to
be set for butter making purposes should
be ventilated by some aperture in the
ceiling, and the temperature should not
be subject to extremes Of heat and cold.
From so to 60 degs. is a good temper
atnre. The milkroom should be SO en-
tirely separate from the living apart
ments that no vitiated air can enter it.
If ensilage or roots are fed to the cows,
the milk should be aerated as soon as
drawn to expel the foreign odor.
In striving to have the cows comfort
able do not make the stable so close and
warm that the animals will become
lethargic and lose their appetites. The
vitiated air Of close stable will surely
faint the milk. The health of consumers
is threatened by the use of such diseased
milk, and it will also impart its bad
character to butter and cheese. Do not
have the drop in the floor at the rear of
the cows too close to their heels. A
cramped position invites abortion, and
is otherwise detrimental to the health Of
the animal Supply milk cows in win
ter with bedding of either shavings or
straw, else their food will not have its
full nourishing effeet.-George E. New
all
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
FARM LABOR.
Wages Prevailing During the Period Be
tween 1866 and 1892.

O~.@
A miscellaneous report OF the depart
ment of agriculture furnishes interesting
notes and tabulated data on investiga-
tions Of wages at nine different times
during period of twenty six years 1856
to 1899 on the supply of labor in the
different states and localities and on
wages in earlier years.
Beginning when labor was in demand
to repair the wastes of war, the average
rates were high, gradually declining,
finding lowest level in 1879, then rising
to normal status, which has been MAIN
tanned with wonderful uniformity dur
ing the last ten years. While farmers
have suffered from low prices Of certain
products they have been unable to re-
duce the rate Of wages. 1t might be sup
posed that the depression in agriculture,
of which so much has been said and
written, would be attended with a de-
cline in the rate of compensation paid
for labor. This has not taken place.
The demand is well sustained and wages
have not declined Many farmer com
plains that labor costs too much; that
values of products do not warrant the
rates demanded, and yet he must have
it, and promptly makes the engagement.
The returns give true explanation of
the apparent anomaly of low prices and
high wages. There is difference in en-
ployers. Some are progressive, increase
the fertility of their lands, use the best
methods and implements, employ labor,
pay good wages and make money. Others
are less enterprising. diligent or progress
i've, and make small profit or none at
all. The returns are full Of indications
that the present is a crucial test Of the
individual farmers. They teach the ne
cessity Of progress in agriculture, and
especially facility for prompt adapta-
ton of current effort to changing condi-
tions.
1t is said that q certain analysis Of all
the data collected concerning farm wages
from 1910 to 1865, in comparison with
results of the more recent investigations,
will show that in fifty years the compen-
sation of farm labor has very nearly
doubled.
In comparison with other countries
American farm labor stands first in the
rate of compensation. The present rate
of $282 per annum for labor Of the Cau-
casian race can scarcely be approached
by any country, unless by Australia.
Current estimates for other countries
have been frequently quoted about as
follows: Great Britain, $50; France,
$125; Holland, 500; Germany, $50: Rus
sia, $50; Italy. $50, and India, $50. The
present rate can only be maintained BY
keeping up the fertility of the soil, util-
izing the best results of invention and
skill in implements and machinery, adj
vancing the status Of practical agricul-
ture, supplying all domestic demands
for all required products and seeking
foreign markets for the surplus.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

ssPleased," in the expression .very
pleased, is nothing more than the past
participle passive of s.please" used as an
adjective. Very" so far as | am
aware, is never used with any other part
of a verb, and then only when that part
has become adjective by usage The
following quotation from Pope's ssDun-
clad" shows its use as an adjective:
Thou triumph'st. Victor Of the high wrought
day,
And the pleas'd dame, soft smiling, leads,
away.
A similar use of the word is when we
say persons face has ga pleased ex
preston" This being the case it is as
correct to say Every pleased" as TO say
"very much pleased" Annandale's ..Im-
perial Dictionary" subject Very has:
s.Among old writers very was fire.
quently used alone to modify a past
participle, and it is still to some extent
SO used; thus, Sir w. Jones has .ve1,
concerned;' Gibbon, very unqualified.
Sydney Smith, very altered, etc"
As there is no verb unqualify, nm
qualified can be nothing else but an ad-
jective, and concerned and altered come
under the same part of speech. When
we say, 81 am very pleased there is no
action implied, but there is simply a
description of the state or condition in
which one is at the time of speaking.-
f. C. Birkbeck Terry in Notes and
Oueries
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
FEMININE FANcIEs

Mary Anderson is said to be an enthusi
astic fisherwoman.
Mrs Gabrielle Greeley-Clendenin much
most becoming to her madonnaIike face
Mauve is one of the colors she likes.
An old rose and cream dress with trim
mings Of Russian sable is one Of Mrs. Levi
p. Morton's latest additions to her ward
robe. Pink-the pale pink Of an apple
blossoms her pet color.
Mrs. Mabel Yznaga, the New York
beauty, who has often been called THAT
pink and white young woman, il per
feet blond OF the Scandinavian type. Aprf-
cot is one OF her pet coIors.
Miss Bette Fleischmann, the Cincinnati
heiress who recently refused to marry an
Austrian nobleman because he refused to
become an American citizen, has become
the wife of a Cincinnati doctor.
Miss Ida Sherman, of Charlotte, Mich,
was consecrated to the Baptist ministry
with appropriate ceremonies on a recent
Sunday morning, In the evening she
preached acceptably In the same church.
Mrs. Harrison's portrait, to be painted
by an artist not yet selected, has been pro-
vided for by the Daughters OF the Amer
lean Revolution in Washington. and will
be sent to adorn the gallery in the White
House.
Mrs. y. Ellen Foster. well known to all
w. g. 4. u. workers and to many others.
Is woman Of large and rather imposing
person. SNe speaks with wonderful fiuen.
cy and decision, and seems To be absolutely
self possessed.
Mrs. Poingdestre. a Jersey lady. has conn
plcted her tooth year, as she was born ii
1902 One OF her sons II seventy-two Shs
writes clearly without glasses, has good
memory for past events and can even join
in singing.
Mrs Gallaudet. wife of Professor Gallan-
Diet, of the Washington College for Deaf
Mutes, believes in keeping pace with her
children. She Studies Greek and Latin
with The boys and French and German
nth TIE girls
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
RECENT INVENTIONS.

An ingenious Indianian has invented a
plow in which an auger or screw mold
board is operated by means Of a drive
wheel in the rear.
An automatic match igniter is recent
novelty. You pull lever, match trav-
els along a roughened surface. and is then
thrust out OF an opening already ignited.
An inventor has devised novel project
lie, which is rihed to correspond to the
bore Of the gun. The grooves are provided
with bearing pieces to diminish the fric-
uon.
A Boston inventor has invented strainer
for mixed drinks, consisting Of a circular
plate around the circumference Of which
is a spiral spring. This coil forms the
strainer, which is removable at will.
A new sprock wheel, with variable
pitch, consists Of parallel plates fastened
together with sprockets sliding between,
one Of the plates having a screw threaded
hub, on which conical surface forces the
sprockets outward
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

The employment Of land plaster in
stables is urged for two purposes; it not
only deodorizes and disinfects the stable.
thereby contributing to the health Of at
tendants and animals, but it prevents
the escape and going to waste of the
most valuable properties Of the food
consumed by the stock. In recent
plea to farmers to try land plaster from
one pint to one quart daily for each ami
NAL, Hoard's Dairyman says: s'If its
affinity for ammonia or nitrogen is so
strong that it will gather this valuable
fertilizer from the atmosphere, the dews
ard rains, how invaluable must it be in
stables to take up and hold the same
volatile elementr'
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
Here and There.

Vice President Morton's big silo at his
-Ellerslie-which holds 1900 tons,
indicates his opinion of the value Of
silage for milk cows.
Hops are grown for commerce in sew
enteen states. New York leads the list,
Washington comes next, then California.
Oregon and Wisconsin. These five states
produce 991S per cent. Of the entire crop
Of the United States.
About 100000 cases of unusually fine
sweet corn and 100, 600 cases Of succo-
tash is the pack reported for the state Of
Maine.
The heaviest loss among swine, ac-
cording to the department Of agriculture
reports, is sustained in the south. Geor-
gia leads with loss of almost 10 per
cent, while Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas are not far behind.
The Holsteins are generally accepted
as being the largest mixers Of any breed
and the Jerseys as being the richest
mixers.
The robin is classed as an Improbable
bird to the farmer at the Ohio expert
ment station.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
American Iuycp,ious 4, sna,n

An American traveller in Spain says
that Yankee notions and the ingenious
little inventions sold by our street ped
dlers are appreciated there. While walk
ing in Malaga he saw women shying
across the street to get away from some
thing Making haste to ascertain the
cause, he saw man with string tied
to tiny mouse, which sought in vain to
gat away from its tormentor as it glided
over the walk. He repeatedly jerked it
back, however, and the tourist was
shocked until he heard the man calling
out. Ration mechanico Americana
tAmerican mechanical mouse). New
York Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

The pottery tree, found in Brazil, is
curious and useful. One would scarcely
expect to find pots and Jars and pitchers
growing in if not on q tree, but the ma
terial for them certainly grows in this
tree. 1t is found in the form of silica,
chiefly in the bark, although the very
hard wood of the tree also yields it. To
make this curious pottery the bark is
burned, and what remains is ground to
powder and mixed with clay. HaT-
per's Young People
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

Monkeys are not very brave, although
the gorilla viii sometimes attack an ele-
phant when he is sure Of his advantage.
The male gorilla often carries a huge
stick and knows how to use it. AS the
elephant il fond Of the same fruit which
attracts the gorilla, AN encounter fire.
quently takes place. The gorilla, seated
in the tree, sees the elephant approach,
cautiously drops down 70 q bough, and
availing himself Of the opportunity
brings his club sharply down on the
sensitive trnnk Of bis enemy. who rushes
away trunpeting with anger and pain.
Harper's Young People.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
The Right Answer.

A judge, meeting countryman. said
to him, ''Where are you goings
ssHow do / know was the gruff reply
The judge, taking it for piece Of i'm
pudence, said: "You don't know, you
scamp I'll teach you better manners.
on to prison with your'
The poor rustic was seized forthwith
and was being hauled off to jail when
he turned round and said, s.Your wor-
ship can see now that | answered cor
rectly, for ! assure you that / didn't
know was going to prison.
This reply excited the visibility of the
iudge, who ordered him to be set at
liberty Tesoretto.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
AIillling Machines.

| fully aoquiesce in Dr. Babcock's !
opinion as to the bad affects of any
kind of milking machine or tube,
Or tubes, excepting in case Of injured or
sore teats. Then i proper tube is indis-
pensable. | have had over half cen
tury's experience with COWS. have
been quite an inventor Of teat and udder
specialties | have been nearly twenty
years bovine specialist, and therefore
may be allowed an opinion in all such
matters. | never knew of any kind or
sort of milking apparatus which did not
injure the milking qualities of a COW
If constantly used | have had often
opportunity of seeing and proving this
Milking cows is a much more delicate
and responsible act than many persons
seem inclined to believe. a delicate
touch is much appreciated by the COW,
and the milk pail and the churn are
surely gamers by kind, docile mixers.
Docile mixers make docile cows.-Dr.
Homer in Hoard's Dairyman.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24
The vegetatIon ol Mars.

The red glow of the planet Mars has
puzzled everybody but French astron-
olner, who gives it as his opinion that
the vegetation OF that far away world is
crimson instead of green He also says
that he hasn't the least doubt but that
there are single flowers on the war god s
surface which are as large as the incor
porated limits Of Paris.-St. Louis Re
public.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-24

Where the English Poets Arc buried.
Of Shakespeare Westminster abbey
contains only monument. His bones,
as everybody knows, rest at Stratford-
upon-Ayon, and Milton is honored only
by a bust. The authorof Paradise Lost"
is buried in the Church of st. Giles,
Cripplegate, and there is no reason to
doubt that the dean and chapter Of his
day would have refused him the right of
sepulture in the abbey when he died had
it been then asked for. Even so late as
the beginning of the Eighteenth century
the phrase, second to Milton alone,"
which had been proposed as an epitaph
for the poet Phillips, was '.ruled OUT by
Dean Sprat, who regarded the name of
Milton as too detestable to appear in q
building dedicated to religion.
Thirty years later not only Millions
name but the bust to his memory was
admitted, although the accompanying
inscription was not Of felicitous char
acter. Byron was actually refused
burial in the abbey: Goldsmith lies in
the precincts of the temple; Gray was
buried in the country churchyard, that
at Stoke Poges, near Slough, in which
he wrote bis immortal s.Elegy;r and Of
more modern bards Wordsworth, Ten
nyson's immediate predecessor in the
laureateship, is buried eby Rotha's
stream in Grasmere churchyard, while
the heart of Shelley and the body Of
Keats are inferred in a Protestant ceme-
terry at Rome.
Posterity Is the only sure judge Of
poetical renown, and who can doubt
that were Keats and Shelley to die now
they would as a matter Of course be
accorded place where Browning
and Tennyson lie. II is a safe predic-
ton, however. that onr descendants will
not hold us Of the Nineteenth century to
blame for admitting into the poets cor
ner the remains Of the author of sMorte
q Arthur and I'm Memoriain. Lon
don Telegraph