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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
TIE SPONSOR.

Stammer and Stuttard are relics OF phys
ical infrmity.
Viner, Winter and Winter were once keep
ers Of a vineyard.
Plumer and PIummer prepared feathers
for ornamenting hats.
Wakeman is a descendant OF the old viii
lage watchpan. So are Wake and Wake
son.
Taborer was a drummer, and his sons
are the Tabrars, Tabors and Tabers Of "a,
day. 1$
Pattens were overshoes; hence the Pat
tons, Patons, Patteners, Putners and Put
nams.
Hosier and Chaucer were synonymous
There are now few Chaucers, but Hosers
Hoziers, Hocers, are common.
Bell, Bellman, Bellerman, came from the
name Of the former town crier. an also dc
Cryer. Creyer and Crayerman.
Robin, Robarts, Robertson, Robinson
Robson, Dobbs, Dobbins, Dobson and the
like are descendants Of Robert.
Dud was once cheap. hashy gown. and
be who sold such goods dudder; hence
the Duddermans and Dodmans.
A3OAOA6A ueo q NAAAdEsCt hCANC bAG beAAyS
Burrows Burroughs. Burkes, Burghs, Ber
rys, Berrymans Beers and Beares.
William gave us Williams, Williamsons
Wills, Willis, Wilson's, Willmots, Willots
Willets Wilks, Wilkins. Wilkinsons, Will
cox, Wickens, Bills and Billsons.
Cookson, Stewart, Stewartson. Shepherd
and Shepperson, Parker, Woodman and
Woodson, together with many others. were
all originally names Of occupation
Hucker, Hawker, Hawkins. Huckins and
Hugster are descendants of travelling mer
chants So also are Chapman, Copeman
Packer Packman. Paxter and Paxon-
Rushes were formerly strewn every day
on the floors even Of royal palaces, and the
men who provided them were the ancestors
of the Rushes, Rushers and Rushies Of the
present.
Crouche was the old English word foI
cross; hence the Crouchmans, Crouchers
Crosses, Croziers, and from Rood, another
synonym, the Rudes, Rudds. Rudders
Rudemans and similar mes-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
Beets For MIX Cows.

To say that beets are composed largely
Of water and that in consequence they
have little food value is equivalent to
discarding all green foods, says the Ohio
Farmer. Grass in pasture has over rs
parts water in 100; green corn fodder has
"a parts; red clover before blossoming
has 88 parts, while sugar beets have 81i
parts water. This water in grass, green
corn fodder, beets, ETC., is just what is
needed to keep up the milk flow. A mod
crate ration Of beets promotes the health
of the COW by their cooling and relaxing
effect; they aid digestion and greatly in
crease the value of dry food fed with
them, and are thus beneficial to fatten-
ing animals as well as increasing the
milk flow in cows. Silage is the cheapest
form in which to supply this succulent
feed, and roots come next Beets are best
in late winter and early spring. Feed q
peck to half bushel per day to a COW,
according to her size and feeding capac-
ity.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01

DR.. C. B. Ratcliffe tells us of a
French lady who had lived in France
until she reached her sixteenth year,
and up to that time spoke only French.
Then she came to England and began
to speak English.
When about 90 years of age, she mar
ried an American gentleman, and from
that time for about 30 years she lived
sometimes in America, sometimes in
England, speaking English habitually
and French scarcely ever.
When DR.. Radcliffe saw her, her mind
was feeble, and that was all, but about
two years afterward he found she had
forgotten everything connected with
her married life, her English not ex-
cepted, and if asked who she was and
where she was she gave her maiden
name and mentioned the street where
she had lived in Paris when a girl
Interior
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
THE HoRseMAN.

Budd Doble has become Benedict.
In India they are developing trottina
oxen.
The Village Farm stable won s4S, 200 last
season.
Owner Green will handle Directum next
season.
The latest invention in horseshoes Is the
rubber shoe.
Indiana has a colt named Hard Time.
that is only "a inches high.
The Pleasanton string earned over S5O,00C
for Monroe Salisbury last season.
Alvin did not win race the past season
although be lowered his record to 2.1l.
In Spain once upon time no man might
ride horse which the king had mounted
The PAGER Benton Boy, 2:201S, by General
Benton. out of Gazelle, 2:21, stands IL hands
high.
May Marshall, 2OsA, was the fastest
PAGER Of 1898 that started the season with
out a record
The old gelding Factory Boy has started
in SO races and got slice of the money IN
all but three.
The New York Driving club has secured
an extension Of its lease Of famous Fleet
wood park till 1896
Despite the hard times the attendance at
trotting meetings was greater in 1898 than
during any previous year.
New tracks are being opened in every
state, and the number Of trotting meetings
will be greater in 1894 than ever.
George w. Hooker was recently elected
president of the Vermont Trotting Horse
Breeders association for the ninth time.
The champion yearling trotter was bred
in Kansas, the 2-year-old In California. the
3-year-old in New York and the 4-year-old
in California
The Brewster sleigh at the Worlds fair,
an artistic combination OF shell, dolphin
and graceful carving, was sold to A H.
Moore of Philadelphia for s., 500.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01

Mr.. E. S. Carman, with favorable
conditions, would not plant asparagus
closer than three by four feet, and it
Is his belief that in six or eight years
greater distance, say six by three feet,
would be seen to be real economy. He
says on the subject of setting the sets
that he puts his plants only three inches
below the surface, and he cannot dis
cover that the shoots are fewer than
with the deep setting usually practiced.
Mr.. Carmen has never perceived that
salt was beneficial to asparagus; Meth
er does he think it necessary that the
asparagus bed should be stuffed with
manure before the plants are set. He
says: ''To use large amount Of ma
nure in preparing the plot is equivalent
to locking up an amount Of money
where it draws no interest. 1t is worse
than that, for part of the principle is
lost. As the surplus manure decays
and becomes soluble from season to
season a considerable portion teaches
through the soil and is lost forever to
the plants.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
THE GOSSIP.

Mrs. Henry E. Abbey has glorious Titan
hair, winning brown eyes and superb
figure.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is one Of the
patronesses Of the Santa Claus society Of
London.
Miss Jessie Colson is president of the
Field club of Woodstown, N. j. She had
charge of the state agricultural exhibit at
the Worlds fair.
Miss Mary Cook, who died recently at
Alliance, o., aged 75, had been teacher
nearly all her life and had accumulated a
fortune of 100000.
Ellen G. White, Mother of Adventismn
In Michigan. declares that the end of the
world is fast approaching. as she has
learned In q dream
Mrs. James Brown Potter does not ap-
parently altogether admire Mrs Oscar
Wilde's style of dress. for she likens her to
an animated lamp shade.
Miss Eola Jackson, the daughter of the
proprietor of the Belle Meade stock farm,
manages the dairy on the estate, which
yields profit of about SIS, 900 year.
The Duchess of Sutherland has been ex-
hibiting gorgeous collections of geraniums
to the east end folk in London at the Peo-
ple's palace. founded at Walter Besant's
suggestion.
Mrs. Lease has been invited to take the
editorship Of Populist newspaper soon to
be started in Omaha. and an eastern lecture
bureau has offered her SIS night for 10
months tour
Della Sloane. the oldest woman in the
employ of the government, died in Wooster,
o., recently. She was daughter of John
Sloane, treasurer Of the United States un-
der President Taylor.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, when she is dining
in restaurant. is fierce if anything is
ordered or brought in out of place and does
not give herself time to think before she
frees her mind on the subject.
Mile. Jonatha, the accomplished pianist,
combines literary labors with her music,
and this year her volume on Chopin is ex-
pected- The book will be dedicated by spe-
cial permission to the Princess Beatrice.
Mrs. Eliza F. Routt. wife of Ex-Governor
John L. Routt of Colorado, was the
first woman in Denver who registered to
vote under the new equal suffrage law.
She gave her occupation as housewife
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
The TRAINMAN.

Brooklyn's trolley cars are being equip
ped with automatic tenders Of new de
sign.
The cost of construction of railways In
the United States has averaged about S60,-
600 mile.
The Railroad Gazette places the mileage
constructed in 1893 at 1855 miles against
4,O9O miles in 1892 and Il, 900 in 1887, the year
Of maximum railroad construction In this
country.
The street railway regulations in London
provide against the crowding, jamming,
packing, scowling, frowning incident to a
load of 60 where there are sittings for only
80. a conductor was fined S1.75 the other
day for admitting one passenger extra
High authority says that both the Van.
derbiIt and Pennsylvania lines will. with
the taking effect of the spring time tables,
put on 20 hour trains between New York
and Chicago, and much faster trains be
tween New York and St. Louis via Indian.
roliG
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01

to the front. He proved to be not such
q bad lot after all. He rode up presently
on bony mustang and promptly gave
the little Yankee schoolmarm' enough
money to pay her passage back, with an
additional sum to cover the expense of
her coming. He had drawn on his cot
ton crop. He looked cast down and
sheepish. He explained to his friends in
this wise:
" i was fool-a doggone fool, but
meant it all honest. put a kind of rose
color over things in that advertisement.
It's the way you do in the papers, SO that
young postmaster said. He put me up
to it. He wrote the ad and the letters.
l really spected to marry her, but I'd
give my promise to Susan in kinder
joky way, and she held me to it. didn't
hear from t'other one. Bayou was up
and critters all in the plow, and amt
been to the postoffice in full six weeks.
I'm awful sorry to disappint the girl,
but, Lor' sakes! she never would a. suited.
Nice lookin-a fair daisy-but Susan
could jes go all around her doin house
work, let lone takin hand in the crop,
In the press of chopin out or cotton
pickin.'"
Miss Jones did not return to New York
at once. She remained in the neighbor-
hood several weeks. Hospitality entertain
ed by old Captain Stewart, war vet
eran, and his wife. She very nearly de-
cided to become the governess of the
captains little granddaughter and cast
her lot with the "big hearted southern
ers," as she called us, in spite of her ex-
periences with the eccentric widower Of
Bayou st. Lucas.
But one day there came to her a letter
with New York postmark. On seeing
the handwriting, Amelia turned first
pale, then rosy red. 1t was from the
recreant lover, and he asked to be for
given and taken back.
Womanlike, she was ready to forget
her wrongs. She took leave of the friends
she had made under such queer circum-
stances and returned to her northern
home. A month later she wrote to Mrs.
Stewart:
Congratulate me, good friends. am
married to Jack and happy as a queen.
Tell this, please. to Mr.. Alexander Ora
ville.' He may suffer some lingering re-
morse for disappointing me, and bear
him not bit Of i'll will. MARY E. Bry-
an in Atlanta Constitution.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
THE SCIENTIST.

Disintegration of rocks is caused partly
by minute animal organisms.
There will be two eclipses Of the sun dur
ing the year, but both will be invisible in
the United States.
A wind blowing at the rate Of 10 miles
per hour exerts pressure of but 4-5
pounds to the square foot.
The instrument which accurately meas
ures distance to the one ten-thousandth
part Of a second is called ''chronograph.
When a ''smarty" tells you that alu-
minium is the lightest Of metals. refer him
to magnesium, metal one-third lighter and
yet much denser and stronger.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
WISHES.

asked little child one day,
A child intent on joyous play.
my little one, pray tell to me
Your dearest wish; what may 1t be7"
The little one thought for awhile.
Then answered with wistful smile,
.The thing that wish most of all
Is to be big, like you, and tall"
asked maiden sweet and fair,
OF dreamy eyes and wavy hair,
What would you wish, pray tell me true,
That kindly fate should bring to your
With timid micn and downcast eyes
And bushes deep and gentle sighs,
Her answer came, "All else above,
I'd wish some faithful heart to love-"
/ asked mother. tried and blest,
With babe asleep upon her breast,
20 mother fond, so proud and fair,
What is thy inmost secret prayer"
She raised her calm and peaceful eyes,
Madonnalike, up to the skies.
MY dearest wish is this said she,
'That God may spare my child to me-"
Again, asked woman old,
To whom the world seemed hard and cold,
pray tell me, o thou blest In years,
What are thy hopes, what are thy fears?"
With folded hands and head bent low
She answer made, in accents slow,
For me remains but one request
1t Is that God may give me rest"
Emile Pickhardt in Boston Globe.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
Spoiled 1t All.

A farmer went to hear John Wesley
preach. Wesley said he would take up
three topics Of thought. He was talking
chiefly about money. His first was,
"Get all you can" The farmer nudged
neighbor and said: "This is strange
preaching. never heard the like be-
fore. This is very good" Then Wesley
discoursed on Industry" Activity"
Living to Purpose" and reached his
second division, ''Save all you can y
The farmer became more excited. "Was
there ever anything like this7' he said.
Wesley denounced thriftlessness and
waste, and he satirized the willful wick
edness which lavishes in luxury, and the
farmer rubbed his hands, and he thought,
"All this I have been taught from my
youth up" and what with getting, and
what with boarding, it seemed to him
that salvation" had come to his house.
But Wesley advanced to his third head,
which was, "Give all you can." "Ah,
dear! ah, DEAR" said the farmer, .'he has
gone and spoiled it all. RAMS Horn.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
TAE NATURALIST.

Tropical cockroaches often attain length
of inches.
In many parts of California quail pick
up grain with the domestic chicken and
roost in orchard trees.
The hop vine insect is said to be able to
produce 5000, 900, 900 young during its short
lease Of life-a month or six weeks.
A species Of grasshopper known as the
Georgia thumper" is 5 inches long and
has a wing spread equal to a robin.
M. de l'Isle discovered an animacule that
could run six inches in second and cal.
culated that it must move its legs no less
than 1900 times in that brief period
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
THE MERMAID.

The river Jordan, from it's rapid fall,
takes its name from the Hebrew word ''yar.
den" meaning descent.
So far as is known the Mediterranean
sea is deepest between Malta and Crete, the
depth being l4,436 feet.
East Chairback pond, among the Piscata
quis county mountains, 2,270 feet above the
sea, is probably the highest trout abode in
Maine.
The number Of gallons OF water in the
which would take 100000 years to pass
over the falls Of Niagara, and yet, il it was
put into sphere, the whole of the Pacific
would only measure 726 miles across.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01

The men who prosper in this world are
the men who mind their own business
and keep on minding it. An exchange
furnishes an example: ''Tatoesi' cried a
colored peddler in Richmond. Hush
dat racket. You distracts de whole neigh
borhood." responded colored woman
from doorway. "You kin hear me,
kin your" ''Hear you? l kin hear you o
mile "T'anks. Pse hollerin to be heard.
'Tatoesr'-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01

''Why don't you take me with you
sometimes Of evenings, dear? get SO
tired of staying at home alone"
Because / can t afford to dress you
as well as myself. / don't want to be
Seen around with woman dressed as
you are. indianapolis Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
Rev. Pink PUNK ON Vanity.

De vanity OBJ some people, deah bred
dern, is good deal like de vanity OBJ an
old peacock dat has lost most OBJ his tail
fedders; de less dey hab to be vain OBJ de
fonder dey seem to be OBJ maxim aspread-
away exhibishun OBJ demselves.-
York Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01

Tailor gowns for afternoon wear are made
Of venetian cloth of fine quality in dark
fruit colors, terra Gotta, russian green and
silver blue, with narrow trimmings of per
sian lamb fur on the waist and, four length
wise rows on the circular skirt, York
Post. M
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
JOSEPH #. sITLEY's
PHILADELPHIA IMMIGRANT
Employment Bureau
Notice to Farmers.

All kinds of help, male or female always on
hand, direct from the steamers English, Irish,
Scandanavians, Germans, Poles and Hungarians.
Apply at the Office of
KNOLL 81 5EIVERTvT,
943 SOUTH end St. Philadelphia 4-27-93-1y.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01
pUDD's NEW
Livery and Feed Stables,

Newfon's Hotel, Woodbury., N. T.
New Carriages and elegant driving horses always
ready for use. A trial respectfully solf-
cited. July 81 49,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-02-01

The Railroad Bandit Is a BungIer and
Lands In Prison. While the Sugar Thief
Wakes Fat on the Proceeds OF His VII
IaIny-Western Profits.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-20
TWO WEARY WALKERS.
Going Around the World on Hypo-
theticaI Wager.

PITTsBURG, Nov. 49, = Footsore ana
weary there arrived at the Continental
Hotel shorty after noon Gus Koegel and
Fred Thoomer, two young men who set
out June 10 from San Francisco TO walk
around the world. The trip is being made
to win wager, several San Francisco
sporting men putting up $4,000 against
$1,000 wagered by the pedestrians. The
trip is to be made within two years, and
the pair believe they can do it In twenty
two months They have the signatures Of
the Governors and the prominent officials
oil the States through which they have
passed. They will continue their Journey
In the morning. Koegel walked last year
across the continent in 107 days. Tie pair
nave worn cut three suits and five pairs
OF SHOES each. Among their experiences
was brilliant mistake made by railroad
strikers IN Nevada, who chased them,
thinking they were soldiers. They escaped
their sho. by hiding in the sagebrush.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-20
HIS AWFUL DEED.
A Maniac Murders His
Mother,
BROTHER AND SISTER TOO.
He Drained Them With an AK
in His Frenzy.
BROTHER AND SISTER TOO.
THEN CUT HIS OWN THROAT.
Falling Back Into the House, Which
He tiad Lighted as
Funeral Pyre.

MONTGOMERY, Mo-. Nov. ia horri-
Die butchery was committed this morning
about o'clock in farmhouse two miles
east OF Wellsville. in this (Mo1tgomery)
county. A mother, two sons and adaugh-
ter are dead and their bodies are in a
burned building. charred beyond recogni-
ton. The only one of the family of grown
people who escaped death is sister. and
she got away by jumping through win
dow.
Ihomas Portercheck was a Bohemian,
unmarried. who lived on a farm two miles
from Welisyille with his brother, an
invalid, widowed mother and wa sisters.
the latter aged about 10 and 10 respec-
lively. The young brother aged about %
years, and Thomas occupied one room,
and the two sisters slept in the room with
their mother, who has been una BILE 10 leave
her bed for the last twelve years.
About 8 O'clock this morning the elder
sister was aroused by hearing a man and
blows in her room where the light was
burning. She opened her eyes and saw
her brother Thomas. with an ak in his
band. just striking blow on his mothers
defenseless head.
He turned and stood between his sister
and the door. With fearful scream she
bounded to the window and through it,
carrying the sash with her. She stopped
then and looked into the room that she
had just left. The maniac struck the
lamp from the stand. scattering the coal
oil over the floor and lighted il, and then
opened the door and stepped just outside
the threshold. Standing in the light of the
blazing room he cut his throat with
knife, stabbed himself in the abdomen and
fell in the doorway with his head in the
flames.
The frightened sister rushed as fast as
her feet COULD carry her to the next neigh
Dor. quarter of a mile distant, aroused
him aud told her tale. He at once SUM-
m0ned the neighbors. and by the time they
arrived n the scene the inside of the
building was afire and the bodies could be
seen in the blaze. Just how the maniac
killed his brother and sister will never be
known, but it is supposed be first dis
patched his brother in his own room with
the ak and then entered the other room.
The murderer was quiet, inoffensive,
but not very bright man. He attended TO
his owe business and was generally sup
posed to be perfectly harmless. His sister
noticed nothing unusual with him Sunday
afternoon except that he was extremely
irritable and spoke harshly to them sew
eral times. He also complained Of severe
pain in the back of his head and said it
felt as if some one was boring into
his brain. None of them could speak
English we'll and had but little communica-
ton with their neighbors.
There is no doubt that the murderer was
temporarily insane.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-20
BILL COOK ROUNDED UP.
Has Met His Match in a Band of
Cherokee Indians.

MUsKoGEE. l. T., Nov. 19.-War with
the Cooks is going on in the city of
Verdigris River. about twenty miles from
here. The bandits are massed in force
there and have more than their match in a
squad of Cherokees, who have been round
Ing them up for several days.
No open fight has yet taken place. but
there has been a great deal of skirmish
fighting. and both sides are preparing for
death struggle. Fully fifteen of the
Cook gang are together and Bill Cook is
leading them in person. His young wife
or sweetheart is with him at the rendez-
vOus. The Cherokees would have forced
the fighting before now were it not for
their fear of running short of ammunition
before the battle was over.
If it comes to question of allowing the
Cooks to slip away from them, or fighting
as best they can, then The Cherokees will
fight. and they are lot afraid of getting the
worst of it. 1t was thought, however, to
be good generalship to keep the Cooks in
the corner they have them in until all is in
readiness for heavy and prolonged at
tack.
The Cherokees subsequently, dispatched
Sheriff John Brown to this city for a full
supply OF ammunition, and he arrived here
tonight, bringing the Information already
gwen. The Sheriff will leave here in the
morning with all the supplies needed and
a strong guard.