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Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
Theodore Hooks Indigent Daughter

"By a curious coincidence" says an
English journal, attention has been
called to the existence, in very poor cir
cumstances, of an aged daughter of
Theodore Hook, just at time when a
proposal is on foot to commemorate the
brilliant hurnorist by stained glass
window in the porch of Fulham church,
in the pretty Gods acre of which he
lies buried. Hooks only surviving child
has, alas! fallen on evil days, and at up
ward of 70 years of age finds herself in
sorely Strengthened circumstances.
ut is not, happily, our custom to allow
the children of those who have won
fame to suffer unaided the penalties of
unavoidable misfortune, and it may be
taken for granted that the same spirit Of
respect for distinguished name which
has led to the collection of funds for the
memorial window and for the restora-
ton Of the famous writer's tomb will
secure material help to his daughter in
her poverty and old age. So far as The
odore Hook himself is concerned.. we
may be quit sure that no posthumous
honor that could be offered to him would
compare-could he but know of it-with
the timely aid which is asked for his in
digent and almost friendless daughter. +"
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16

Jnls..-
This separation between heart and head,
between practical and theoretical religion,
Is the pregnant phenomenon. The discov-
cry of evolution has revealed that we are in
predatory and cruel world, while increas-
ing refinement has made the human heart
more sympathetic The earth has become
conscious of its agonies. Sectarian parti-
tions. originated by extinct issues, yield
before the humanitarian enthusiasm, which
is graphing with evil as II 1t were satanic,
just as theology has reached the conclusion
that satan does not exist, and that ''evil Is
good in the making
Thus the only fervid and vital religion OF
our time, in its crusade against evils pro
nounced "providential" by theology, is left
without any creed corresponding to it's hui
manitarian zeal Science has taken away
its devil; common sense has discredited a
deity permitting evil while professedly
hating it, and the religious affections can
find no shelter under an unknowable which
is necessarily unlovable.
A new theology must arise. Whatever
traditional dogmas it may preserve, it will
surrender those that imply divine sanction
of Biblical cruelties and of the like in ma
ture Humanitarian religion is an incar-
nation like that which once led the suffer
ing world to worhsip goodness and love on
a cross, rather a loveless omnipotence. The
new s'plan of salvation" means the human.
ization'of the world, including it's dogmas
and deities When religion and theology
reunite there will be born, believe, some
successor to the ancient Zoroastrian philoso-
ply of good mind'contending with, and
through mans cooperation steadily sub
nature which it never created. and for
whose distractions to human development
it is in nowise responsible.
MONCURE d. CONWAY, l.. H. D.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16

Last week three preachers mingled in
the crowd of people looking at the show
window Of large clothing store. While
they were earnestly observing the dis.
play vigilant detective came to them
and laying his hand on the shoulder Of
one Of the ministers said:
"You must go with me-"
"Where? asked the Clergyman.
ITO the city hail. replied the detect
i've as he displayed his badge. The
preacher declined to go, but after think
ing over the matter remarked: Gan
right, / will go. suppose will look as
well in the city hall as you will" They
had not proceeded far before the detect
i've felt that he had made mistake. He
excused himself, and the minister walked
away, accompanied by his brother min
listers, who had come to his rescue. This
incident recalls the arrest as q suspected
felon Of well known newspaper man a
few years ago by prominent detective,
who found the newspaper man sending
off long telegram. Louisville Courier
journal.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
A Male Model.

1t is quite common thing to read about
women acting as models for sculptors and
painters. In fact novelists harp upon the
idea and invariably make the heroine the
victim of some long haired genius, who
wears u velvet coat and sketches with light
ninglike rapidity. But who ever heard Of
a man posing for such a purposes There is
no doubt that they do pose, and that some
of them are as vain as peacocks, but fiction
writers don't take to the idea much. Never
theless there is "A man in this town, and,
what is more, a very modest man, who has
had his picture i'll an art studio and had
the lines of his stalwart figure carefully
studied by sculptor's practiced eye.
That man is Captain Edward J. Bosher,
former commandant of the Richmond
howitzer, and, what is more the sculptor
who used the photographs of his physique
was Sir Moses Ezekiel, II Virginian, who
has achieved much celebrity in Rome
Richmond Dispatch
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
The Value of a Good Address,

Young men should study to talk well
to state their propositions with clear
ness and force that will make their hear
ers feel that the speaker has reached the
gist of the matter, and that his opinion is
of some weight. You will notice man
coming into the office. There is some
thing in his very appearance and the
way he carries himself that commands
respect and attention. A canvasser for
book came into my office only yester-
day who was a splendid illustration of
it. had no intention Of buying his cy-
clopedia. But he was well dressed and
intelligent. He seemed to understand
my wants, and in five minutes we were
talking busily together. He sold me $12O
worth of books.
l think that good personal address is
something too little cultivated. would
rather have it than profession. Inter
view in New York Press.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
Richard Harding Davis Declines.
Please excuse me from answering any of
the questions yon suggest They are too
solemn. Sincerely yours,
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
Moncure u. conMay on the Coming The

Moncure ID. Conwny ON the Coming Tho
oiogy.
The human mind, inspired by the heart.
shapes in the future an ideal that survives
the decay Of dogmns He who dis,elieyes
in the worlds supernatural direction tisti-
ally transfers II to some nnttIrni providence,
which will cause right and truth to tri
umph. Even the pessiniist believes TINT 10
aworld organicn.ly bud his PHILOSOPHY IL an
exception, and that when II prevails There
is just good enough in the world for that)
things will be better
Our modern optimism buds on an old
tree. An oriental poet reminds us that
when thorns nre green and tender the
camel may browse on them. but when old
and hard they tear his lips Consolug and
nourishing ut first was the ancient pious
doctrine that men should regard their lot as
divinely appointed and he contented there
with, but 1t hardened into the sanction OF
expressions and thorns for those who tried
to improve the lot of the poor And II the
present optimistic sentiments should pass
from poetry to practice benevolent effort
must be chilled
For why should we do work which '.the
process of the suns" is doing for us7 II hu.
manity is progressing by dynamic destiny
along proyidential or other purposed
grooves, our reforming efforts are superser
viceable and must decline-wi.h increase Of
knowledge But what we witness il the
unprecedented increase of reforming and
humanitarian efforts While it has become
hercsy even In cultured Christian circles
to believe in a devil, the insurrection Of hu
man hearts against the worlds tares shows
deep belief that the t;ares are permitted
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
SIR RICHARD OWENS GHOST STORY.
1t Was Fearful1y Real to the Man Who Saw
the Severed Head Rolling In.

A
the Severed Head Rolling In.
The late Sir Richard Owen used to re-
late a remarkable ghost story. In his
early days, when he held the post of sur
geon to the prison at Lancaster, negro
died in jail, and postmortem as well as
an inquest was necessary. After the in
quest the young surgeon saw the body
put in the coffin and the lid screwed
down, to be ready for the funeral next
day. Owen had at the time been already
attracted to the study Of comparative
anatomy and negroes heads were not
plentiful SO he made up his mind that
this one should not be lost to the cause
of science. In the evening he returned
to the prison with black bag contain
ing brick-from his official position he
had no difficulty in getting admittance
to the mortuary, where the coffin lid was
unscrewed and screwed down again
During this process the brick and the
negro's head changed places.
The ground outside the principal eD
trance to the jail has considerable de-
scent, and the time being winter, with
snow and frost, Owen had scarcely passed
out when he slipped and fell all his length
the bag went from his hand, and the
head tumbled out and rolled down the
paved way. He got up, caught the bag,
and following the head clutched it just
as it finished its career in small shop
where tobacco was sold. Pushing it into
the bag again, he vanished out of the
shop with all the speed he was capable of.
Next morning, when Owen was going
to his usual duties at the prison, he was
called in by the woman at the shop where
the accident had occurred ON the previous
evening. She wished him to see her hus-
band, who was very i'll. He had had, she
said, fright the night before that caused
him to look wild and dazedlike. Them
it turned out, was a retired sea captain
who had been III many adventures among
the West India islands when many deeds
were done that did not at that time re-
quire to be accounted for. Among these
had been the killing of negro in which
he had hand, and the transaction had
left touch cf trouble on his conscience.
After giving these details the old captain
told Of the horrible event that took place
the night before
He was sitting in his shop. All was
quiet, and it so CHANGED that he had been
thinking of the negro, when suddenly he
saw his very head roll into the shop in
front of the counter, and it was followed
by the devil all in black, with a black bag
in his hand. The devil snatched up the
head, and both disappeared through the
earth like flash Of lightning. The de-
scription was perhaps not quite compli-
mentary to the young anatomist, but it
was satisfactory SO far thatit showed that
his identity had not been recognized
London News.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
SMUT IN OATS AND WHEAT.
Directions For the Jensen or Hot wat
A.


Treatment of the Seed.
Bulletins on the subject of smut in
oats and wheat have been Published by
the department Of agriculture at Wash
ingto9 (farmers' bulletin No. 81 and by
Michigan station No. 81; also by other
state stations. The remedies which have
been found successful for the prevention
Of the disease have been described on this
page during the past year. Owing to
the interest which farmers have mani
Tested on this subject and an unusual de-
mand for bulletin No. 81, the Michigan
station decided to publish third edition
with some improved methods of treat
ment which have been found advanta-
geous. In this edition the following direc-
tions are given for the Jensen or hot wa
ter treatment of the seed.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
HOW One court ,yas ,,n,,

Probably Judge Murphy's best hit was
made with police court lawyer who en-
deayored to secure the acquittal Of a
prisoner by quoting an obscure para
graph of an almost forgotten law. The
justice denied the appeal, saying, This
court may not know great deal of.law,
but it is well posted on all points of com
mon sense, and that is what this court is
run on. brooklyn Eagle.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16

HEADS SHOWING VARIOUS STAGES OF SMUT.
Have kettle in which to heat the wa
ter quite hot, say 1855 degrees. Near this
kettle place barrel in which to treat
the seed. If sunk partly in the ground,
it will be more convenient for use. Fill
the barrel about half full Of hot water
from the kettle and keep the temperature
at the desired height by adding cold or
hot water. The water should be at 1876
degrees when the wheat or oats are put
into it. Allow the grain to remain in
the water five minutes and keep the
temperature above 130 degrees Keep it
as near 1874 degrees as possible. To dip
the seed, place about a bushel in a gunny
sack and fasten this sack to one end of a
long pole used as lever hung across a
notched post. Keep the seed moving all
the time while in the hot water. After
taking oats out Of the barrel Of hot wa
ter it is best to throw cold water over
them to cool them off, and then let them
stand and drain two or three hours,
when they may be sown broadcast.
Wheat dries much more readily. As
both grains will be considerably swollen
after their treatment, it is well to regu-
late the drill to feed from one to two
pecks per acre more than with dry seed
In the accompanying cut the central
figure shows large smutted head, the
husks Of which are only partly destroyed
by smut. Fig. 2 represents a fully
smutted head, while Fig. shows a
smutted head at harvest time.
Electric Bells In Church.
Playgoers are familiar with the cleo
trio bells which ring in all parts of the
house just before the curtain goes up.
This useful device has been adopted at
Surgeons Tabernacle. Strangers are
kept waiting in the aisles until five min
utes before the service. By this time
the regular seat holders are supposed to
have taken their places, and the electric
signal is made, followed Immediately by
a general rush for the best seats that re-
main vacant. t.-Yankee Blade.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
---...sy, vgnness and Ignorance.
A Different Makeup.

Jones Well, have you made up your
mind to buy that house?
Brown-Oh, yes, I've made up my
mind, but somehow can't make up the
amount Of the first payment. Detroit
Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
Cheese Making.

Tampering with very mixed mass OF
milk, extremely susceptible to unseen in
fiuences, is.a most hazardous and unsafe
practice, the effects Of which is apparent
in the increasing numbers of faulty and
rejected cheeses, caused in great measure
by makers being caught by the rapidly
evolving change before the cooking is
completed or the whey sufficiently ex-
PEELED, the maker being compelled to
salt the curd prematurely, and faulty
cheese is the result.
Better and safer by far is it to coagu-
late as soon as the milk is all delivered
and proceed with the process, looking
out for development until cooking is
complete, then patiently awaiting the
evolution of the proper degree Of change.
In our avocations as cheese buyers we
have opportunities of examining the
work of the cheese instructors, which
they themselves seldom have-viz., when
their cheeses are cured-and we state in
all candor what We have written.
And as we purchase and resell annu-
ally about one-eighth of all the full
cream cheeses made in the state, we claim
the experience to know whereof we have
spoken, and would be delighted to find
evidences of q satisfactory Improvement
Robert MacAdam in American Dairy
man.
--s..sy, Uguness and Ignorance.
The keenest race in Asia, as all who
know them assert, the strongest in char
acter, the Chinese, is decidedly the ugli-
est of semicivilized mankind, while the
Hindoo, if sufficiently fed, is even when
as ignorant as an animal almost invari-
ably handsome. Million.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
JOHN M'GovERN.
New York's Growth Estimated by Andrew
(raaO


From Our New York Correspondent
The greatest city in America and the
greatest city in the world in the Twentieth
century will be that comprised in the met
ropolitan district of New York" That is the
prophecy of Andrew H. Green, who has for
thirty years given exhaustive study to this
subject. Mr.. Green is.onc of the executors
of the will of Samuel J. Tildcn, and his re-
maRkable business capacity and sound
Judgment as well as other qualities made
him one Of the most intimate Of the few in
innate friends of that great man
Mr.. Green believes that Chicago is to be
the most gigantic of the internal cities of
the United States, numbering in its popu-
lation in the next century perhaps almost
az many as Paris now has. But the New
York of 1898 will have. he estimates. more
than 100000 people
''Early in the next certury the consolida-
tion of all that section which is now com
prised in the metropolitan district under
one municipality will, think have been
accomplished. This will then bring more
than 10000 people under one municipal
government, and when we remember that
in this district 100 years ago less than so, 600
people lived it is fair infer from the nat
ur,.l law growth that more than 5000, 900
will be in this district 100 years hence. all
under one local government
1T is to be the finest municipal develop
ment the world has ever seen. expect
that some of the problems that now face
municipalities will have been solved by
this grand congregation of citizens The
finest churches, the most beautiful archi-
lecture, the most exquisite, parks, the most
beautiful drives, will give comfort and de
light to the people who live in this COM
mnnity in the next century. There are to
be reforms of MUNICIPAL administration
and do not say that rne New York of the
next century is going to he ideally perfect.
but | do say that it passes the comprehen-
sion of men now living to conceive the maj
esty of this great city us it will be in the
next century"
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
The Bright and
Genial Spring
Shuttle off the
weighty OvercOat
Hang up the
winter suit


Genial Spring HaHS RFsi.4 H' .sit tHf
Set your faces and your wishes to Spring Over
coats and Spring Suits
The hands and the wit of our thousands of work
ers-cutters, helpers, sewers - have been gathering
Spring goods into our house for many DAYS All
ready now-we're glad to say.
Spring promises big for business. We've prepared
big. The cloth buying amid the hum Of mills, the
quiet purchases from cloth makers who hunt up the
makng-up of one two five hundred suits at a stroke
interesting and perennally the story Of how
the wool off the sleeps back grows through hundred
processes into its perfect is to your thoughtful
mind skip it ALL
direct from that buys to sell again
Which will you do? Your dollars are at stake
VIII you buy your $40 suit from uso
Will you buy your $40 suit from us?
Will you buy your Spring overcoat from US?
Silkined or not long short-we have all.
We can save you IS to rs per cent, surey-per-
haps
The goodness Of the Clothing-thats another
thing! Stores like people make their regulations
wool clothing under guarantee of standing by
goods, well not swap horses If you buy
clothing, you buy the best
The prices are the lowest because we sell as well
as make the goods The money saving and the good
wear go to you.
Wanamaker s. Brown
SIXTH and MARKET sTs. PHILADELPHIA
Our offer to pay your Railroad fare from Woodbu
olds good the year round provided you buy $1,000 worth
Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16
The Boothlack,s Polish.

A gentleman, having had his boots
cleaned by a boy in a Dublin street, paid
the shoeblackwith considerable degree
of haughtiness, on which the little fel
low, when the other had got short way
off. said:
"Arrah, nowl all the polish you have
Is on your boots, and | gave it to ye."-
Exchange.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-17
Saws the Atlanta Constitution

Says the Atlanta Constitution: A
story from San Domingo rivals in dram.
attic interest anything that has ever been
told of the worlds most famous tyrants.
The President, Henreaux, had his
brother-in-law arrested on charge of
conspiracy. The prisoner remained in
confinement for some lime, when the
President one day went to the prison to
see him. Henreaux ordered fine dinner
aud during the meal was so cordial that
the unsuspecting victim felt confident of
his speedy release. At the close of the
dinner the President assumed a serious
look, and asked his relative in solemn
tones if he was prepared to die. The
alleged conspirator could not believe
that he was in any danger, but his every
confidence was changed to surprise and
terror few minutes later when file OF
soldiers appeared and escorted him to
the prison yard, where he was promptly
shot. The despot who could plan such
horror must have nature akin to that
of Richard the Third.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-17
Dug Up q Colonial Ship.

Maybe it is $50 years since the old ship
whose remains have just been uncovered
in Front street, New York City, sailed
the seas. She was ninety-footer and
three master, and she may have been a
ship-of-war, for an old bayonet was
found on her, as we'll as a seven-pound
cannon ball. The finders were workmen
engaged under Superintendent j. A.
Heary in excavating for the Front street
power house of the Broadway cable
road. One day the Italian cellar-dig-
gers reported to Superintendent Heary
that they had struck a solid timber and
could go no further. Trenches were
sunk along the mass and it proved to be
the hull of an old sailing vessel, buried
almost twenty feet below the level of the
street. The oak ribs were as solid as if
they had just been turned out OF ship
yard. The ribs were eight by ten inches
and fastened together with wooden pins.
There was not an iron nail found about
the vessel.
An old salt said that he had always
known of tradition that an Euglish
vessel had been sunk by the colonists in
New York harbor about the time of the
tea riots in Boston. He was convinced
now that the tradition was founded in
fact and this was the ship. Old maps
of the city show that just where the
vessel was found was at one time dock
fenced in by breakwater. Tho old hulk
may be that Of the ship Judith, Nam
tuckct whaler, which was sunk of the
Battery in July, 1740.-ChiGago Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-17
Mulberries.

The mulberry has been neglected tree
ever since the passing Of the "Multicau.
lis craze" Of the thirties, although it
possesses decided value in ornamental
planting, and some of the varieties, Pro-
fessor L. H. Bailey tells, are useful for
lodges, shelter belts and small timber.
Tae fruit has merit for dessert, is easily
grown and is produced more or less
continuously throughout period of two
to four months of every year. In a
bulletin issued from the Cornell Uni
versity Station at Ithaca, N. Y, Profess
sor Bailey names sixteen varieties as fruit
bearing kinds, the new American being
recommended for the Northern States.
Black Persian is occasionally grown in
the South and on the Pacific Coast.
Hicks is a heavy bearer of indifferent
fruit, but valuable for poultry. Stubs
is profuse bearer of large fruit, of ex-
cellent quality.
The Russian type is valuable for orna-
mental hedges. especially in the prairie
States, for planting sparingly as single
specimens or in groups and for small
timber. The mulberry is easily grown
upon ordinary soils. It is often tender
in the North during the first two or three
years.
The mulberry is propagated by cut.
tings of the mature wood of the roots,
by root and crown grating, and by bud
ding with dormant buds in the SPRING
New York World.