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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26

Corn will make the hens lay in win
ter, but is detrimental to laying in
summer, says writer in The Mirror
and Farmer: A small allowance Of corn
may do no harm, but when the very
warm days come it is too heating.
When hens are laying, they are capable
of utilizing food for producing eggs, but
when on the range they have no diff
Guilty in securing all they desire. When
hens are confined in yards and fed a
large ration of corn daily and are also
exposed to a high degree Of warmth,
they are liable to die from apoplexy or
overheating Of the body. This is especial
ly the case with large breeds that are in
a very fat condition. Corn possesses but
small proportion of mineral substances
and is too stimulating as summer food.
If the hens are kept in Enclosures, it is
better to feed them lean meat and
ground bone once day, with a plenti-
full supply Of chopped grass, especially
of clover, rather than grain. A mess Of
grain may be given three times week,
but such meal should be light, ground
grain being excellent. Scatter whole
grain, however, SO as to induce the hens
to scratch.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
LITERARY LIGHTS.

Sir Edwin Arnold's favorite poet is Ho-
mer. His favorite novelist is Charles
Reade.
Mrs E. Lynn Lynton's new novel Is
dedicated to the sweet girls still left
among us who have no part in the new
revolt. /"
Robert Louis Stevenson's next novel
goes to William Waldorf Astor's Pail
Mall Magazine, for which he will receive
nearly SIS, 900.
Emile Zola made his debut as public
lecturer recently, when he spoke In Paris
on Bernadette, the pious heroine Of his
latest novel, "Lourdes. y
The efforts made by the admirers OF the
poet Heine in Germany TO erect q monu-
ment in his honor continue to meet with
failure. Subscriptions do not come in,
and no municipality can be found willing
to permit the erection OF the monument.
The fire insurance companies, writes
James Payn, ought to get reading In bed
made penal offense 1t is q habit that
grows upon people, like drinking. AT
last, however tired they are, they cannot
get to sleep without reading thing
which ought to be punished in itself az an
insult to literature.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
Easy to Make a STRONG Cigar.

A tobacco manufacturer who moves
in a select coterie of tobacco loving
friends was recently told by one Of those
connoisseurs that he had yet to find a
cigar that was too strong for him to en-
joy. Acting on the suggestion, the man
ufacturer took occasion to have cigar
specially constructed Of stems and neat
ly covered with rich, appetizing Ha-
vana leaf, rolled into points at both
ends. This he presented to his friend
with the wish that it might prove strong
enough to suit his taste Suspecting
nothing, the friend proceeded to smoke,
and was soon surprised to see Goals like
redhot nails exuding from the end of
the cigar. AS the skin peeled off his
tongue his brain began to reel, and he
soon gave up in an old fashioned attack
of nausea He no longer boasts of his
capacity before people who are in the
business. Philadelphia Record.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR.
Topic For the Week beginning July go.
Comment by Rev. s. H. Doyle.


ToPIc.-True growth. whatitis and how to
get it--Eph- iv. Il-32-
AS result Of the ascension Of Christ
various gifts were given to His apostles
and disciples. He gave some apostles,
and some prophets, and some evangel-
lists, and some pastors and teachers y
But the objects for which these gifts
were given was not simply the enjoy
ment that would come to their possess
ors because Of them, but that as a re-
suit Of them the church of Christ
should be built up, and this object could
only be obtained by building up the in
diyidual Christ. A church is simply
what its members are, what they make
it. There is no standing still in Chris
tianity. Christianity is a life, and
when there is life there is growth.
What is this growth, and how is it OBJ
tanned?
l. What is true Christian growth?
(Eph. iv, 11-16.) It's the gradual attain
ment Of Christian manhood. 1t is the per
feet man in Jesus Christthat results from
unity Of faith and of knowledge and
stability Of character that keeps us from
being tossed about by every word of doc
trine. The Christian life is like the
physical life. 1t has its babyhood
When first by faith we are led to the
Lord Jesus, we are babes in Christ, but
we are not always to remain in that
condition-no more than we would in
physical life. The aim and object Of
Christian instruction and experience is
that we shall grow, grow from child
hood. and that only is true growth which
step by step leads us nearer to Jesus
Christ and makes US more and more like
Him. Perfect Christian manhood, the
object of our growth, is only attained
when we are like Christ, and there
fore he comes the nearest to perfect
manhood who is in the closest union
with Christ, and who is the nearest like
Him. Christ should be our model, and
with Him as our pattern we should 20
forward until 1--WE grow up into Him,
in all things which is the head, even
Christ. y
2. How may we have true growth?
(Eph. iv, 17-S2.) Two principles are
here laid out down to guide us in this
growth. One is negative; the other, posi-
tive. l. We must avoid the way Of un-
believers (verses 1929. This way leads
to spiritual decline and death, not to
growth. 2. We must cultivate the
Christian graces-truthfulness, gentle
ness, honesty, benevolence, purity,
spirituality, kindness, tender hearted
ness and forgiveness.
Bible Readings-Ps. xcii, 70; Ezra
xvi, 43; Math. v, 1-12; vi, A; Mark d.
%; Rom. xii, /, 2; Eph. ii, 1-3; v,
Ia; Col. ii, 4, IL, 10; iii, 7-1O; I Thess.
V, 10; II Thess. j, 8; l Pet. ii, l, 2; iv,
8; II Pet. iii, IS; Heb. xii, |.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
Possibilities of Farming.

DR.. Conn of the Connecticut expert
ment station predicts that in a few
years creameries and private dairies
will be buying bacteria from bacterial
cultivators by the gill, half pint and
pint to ripen cream for the best butter
flavor. Another similarly surprising
line Of investigation is being carried on
in the fertilization Of soils by the action
of bacilli, that work in small nodules
or tubercles on the roots of some of our
crops. Careful, exact and valuable
work has been carried on in this line at
the Connecticut and Massachusetts sta
tions
Not content with natural methods for
supplying nitrogen fresh from the air
to certain plants, the Illinois station
proposes to make some hybrid bacteria
which shall be capable of inoculating
corn, oats and other crops. With the
accomplishment of few such objects,
the question must be solved Of supply
ing crops with nitrogen from the air at
but tithe of the expense now required
to furnish nitrogen in the form of ferti-
lizers
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
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THE rArrLER.
Mrs. Gardner, Boston's Mrs. Jack, has
taken to cycling.

Mrs. Gardner, Boston's Mrs. Jack, has
taken to cycling
Mrs. Marks, aged almost 90 years, was
baptized in the sea near Rockland, Ne, on
q recent Sunday
Miss Edith Van Beuren, daughter Of
the late General Van Beuren, has fancy
for driving and can hardly be eEcellsd as
whip.
Mrs. Hoke Smith made !, 900 calls In
two weeks during the past season, record
never before attained and not likely soon
to be eclipsed-
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the most musical
whistler In the world, first Learned to
whistle in trying to give lessons to her
mocking bird
Lady Burton possesses neoktle OF hu-
man bones, given BY the king of Dahomey
10 Sir Richard Burton when he made him
brigadier general of his corps Of anazons.
Appropos Of presentation 10 her males
ty Queen Victoria, In Mrs. Bradley Mar
tins New York drawing room hangs N full
length portrait Of herself in her presenta-
tion gown.
Mrs Tom Reed is q jolly little lady,
with sensible ideas, and when she ID at
home instead Of living In a hotel I'm Wash
ington she likes to arrange some dish espe-
cially for her famous husband.
When asked to join the Society Of the
Daughters Of the American Revolution,
Miss Helen Gould said that she must
show her patriotism In some other way, as
she was already connected with .so many
societies.
A woman whose movements are now
little exploited Is Miss Rose Cleveland,
the presidents sister. Her last appearance
In public capacity was at young ladies'
school at Sing Sing the other day, where
she addressed the graduating class
1t was Helen Bell, Rufus Choata's bril-
liant daughter, who made the remark
quoted in one Of Emerson's essays, .sTo q
woman the consciousness Of being well
and faultlessly attired gives a sense Of
tranquility which religion fails to b.
stow"
Mrs. James L. Kernochan Is one Of the
most skillful of horsewomen- Her BROW
ess in driving surprised and delighted the
Britishers far and wide last winter, when
she was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs Foxhall
Keene at their English cottage at Melton,
Mowbray.
London's new beauty" Lady Moyra
Beauclerk, is described as an exquizitely
pretty blond girl, with an innocent ex-
preston and beautiful eyes, who laughed
openly at the peculiarly expressed admira-
tion she elicited-a bit Of ingenuouRness
she will outgrow.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake Is . south
erner by birth Her father was on Irish
descent. Mrs. Blake has been twice mar
ried. Her first husband was Mr.. r. G.
Umsted, lawyer OF Philadelphia. She
has two children, one daughter, who Is
a teacher in one of the public schools In
New York
Mrs. cambridge Is the only surviving
daughter Of Zachary Taylor. While Cen
eral Taylor was president she married
Colonel Bliss, his chief Of staff. She presid-
ed In the White House and was generally
known as pretty Betty Bliss Some
time after the death Of Colonel Bliss she
married Philip Pendleton Dandrldge OF
Winchester, Va
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
BLOOMING BEAUTIES.

Sweet alyssum is the most satisfactory
OF all the hardy ANIMALS. 1t flowers early
and late and all the time
1t is curious fact that some flowers are
only fragrant at night, like the Hesperis
tristis and the Lady Washington pelargo-
MUM.
A noted botanist is authority for the
statement that among all the leaves OF
meadow, field and forest there are no two
that are exactly alike.
Chicory, or succory, plant Is raised pFin-
cipally In England, Holland, Belgium,
France and Germany. A small quantity
is raised in the United States, most of
which is grown on a few hundred acres IN
California.
A simple way to remember the difference
between the Virginia creeper and the poi
son Ivy is this: II the vine has five leaves,
corresponding to the five fingers or your
hand, you may handle 1t; IL 1t has only
three leaves, you may not handle It.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26

Readers Of 1.-THE Hoosier SchooImaster'
will remember Phillips, the champion
Epeller of the Indiana school described
therein. He still lives in Vevay, Ind, and
win soon be 73 years old. The fame he
got from the book has lasted to the pres
ent day.
Professor Virchow is one Of those men
who seem to have time for everything
He is a university professor, an editor, a
contributor to numerous journals, poll
tician and finds opportunity to attend the
meetings OF scores Of societies to which he
belongs.
Oscar Wilde dresses, as he imagines, In
fin de steele fashion. He wears q long
sack coat Of gray Scotch cloth. 1t reaches
nearly to his knees. His cravat is enor-
nous. His hair is long and parted on the
side. His cuffs are many sizes too large
for him and are fastened with links.
Ex-Secretary of the Interior Columbus
Delano Of Ohio, who was first elected to
congress in 1874, the year in which Gov
ernor Mckinley was born, is now nearly
So years old, but is still able to ride a
horse for exercise on his farm near Mount
Vernon, o., and Is as vigorous mentally
as most men Of 90.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
Christian Endeavor In France.

At recent meeting Of the Endeavor
society Of Montreuil the meeting was
closed in the following impressive man
ner. A verse of hymn was sung, and
all the company turned their chairs SO
that they faced the middle Of the room
and knelt down. Each member then Of
fered some definite prayer, one for guild
ance in difficulty, one for courage to
begin life in new situation, one for
the conversion of a member Of her class.
1t can easily be seen that the Endeavor-
ers Of France are of the genuine stamp,
and though they are few in number a
spirit is among them that surely will
spread and fructify.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
KANSAS KINKS

Common sense is really uncommon
sense.
Age and enthusiasm always travel In
opposite directions.
A man never knows how to be SON un-
til he has become father.
The people pay too much attention to
what they hear over the back fence.
Marriage consists OF five minutes at the
head Of the procession and lifetime In
the ranks.
The people who boast Of their ancestors,
as rule, have nothing in their present
condition to boast about.
Everybody is just this much satisfied
with himself-he wouldn't change places
entirely with anybody else in the world.
A man 8 idea is that he 10 not doing the
things his wife doesn't want him to do II
he keeps her from knowing he does them.
As soon as q man makes a lsstle money
it is discovered that his wife is qualified
by birth and education TO shine In the best
society Globe.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
TEE LISTENER.

Lord Randolph Churchill is arranging
for tour around the world via America
George Francis Train may still be seen
any pleasant day sitting upon one Of the
benches In Madison square, New York.
]. G. Pelton, who, in 1s49, laid the
foundation Of the present public school
system of California, is still living in San
Diego, old, inflrm and poor
J. c. Suite, a contractor and builder
of St. Louis, claims to have gone without
a wink of sleep for % years. He is hale
and hearty and about "a years Of age.
John Patton, Jr., the new Michigan
senator, is scholarly student. All his
tastes incline to literature rather than pol
itics. He is wealthy, affable and popular.
Mr. Richard Croker viii in all proba-
bility visit his birthplace before returning
to this country. 1t is near Baltimore,
Cork county, Ireland, not far from Queens
town.
Private Secretary Thurber is said to
have the coldest hands and the coldest,
clammiest handshake Of any man who
has been in official life in Washington for
years.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26

There is Christian Endeavor society
in Australia no member of which
comes less than one mile to attend ev-
cry meeting, though they must travel
distances of from three to twelve miles.
The board Of foreign missions Of the
Reformed Church Of America has re-
ceived during the last year over So, 600
from Reformed Endeavorers for the for
eign work of the church.
The latest statistics show that in
Brooklyn there are 94 Young Peoples
societies, with membership Of about
10000, and AZ Junior societies, num-
bering about 1, 700 members.
In the millennium committeeman
will all be chairmen.
A social every week for month";
That is the record Of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Endeavorers of Evans
vile, Ind
"Spring fever in your society? Take
"a look at the pledge. .
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
A Discovery.

Little Girl-It's all nonsense bout
ole maids never tellin their age
Little Boy-Why?
Queen Elizabeth was an old maid,
wasn't she?''
Eyes. -
"Well the paper says Professor Dry
asdust is goin to lecture on The Age Of
Elizabeth. so there. Pearson g Week
lv.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26

Put faith in truth as mightier than
error, prejudice or passion and be ready
to take place among its martyrs. Feel
that truth is not local, temporary in
fuence, but immutable, everlasting, the
same in all worlds, one with God and
armed with His omnipotence. Chan
ming.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
DUE TO AN ACCIDENT.


How the World Gained One Of Its Most Fa-
nous Actresses.
The general impression of the public
is that Nine. Janauschek from her ear
lest childhood had dedicated her life to
the histrionic stage. 1t is due alone to
an accident that her attention was di-
rected to become an actress.
She was passionately fond of music,
constantly playing upon the piano. and
when only years old executed the most
difficult pieces. She advanced so rapid
ly under the instruction of her teacher,
who was the father of the famous Tau
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26

1t takes long while for beer keg to
wear out. 1t has tough constitution
and is protected from internal decay by
a coat of pure and hard pitch. The pitch
used ON the modern keg is much superior
to that formerly used. 1t is clear, taste
less and tough. An empty beer keg will
stand great many hard knocks before
the pitch scales off.
The kegs wear out, when they do
wear, externally. They are wet and dry
alternately, and this promotes decay.
Then they get great deal of unneces-
sary banging around between the time
they leave the brewery and are brought
back again. Everybody, from the driver
and railroad and steamboat hands down
to the barkeepers, seems to think the
kegs are indestructible. A whole car
load of empty kegs is frequently thrown
from the Car down to the ground. A
single empty keg is often thrown Is feet.
It really isn't necessary to make the
kegs as heavy, SO far as the keeping Of
the beer is concerned. They began by
being made heavy in the old days. The
brewers then deemed it absolutely req
uisite to make them that way to with
stand the pressure Of the beer. The very
fact that they were made heavy and
clumsy subjected them to rough han
ding. Now they have to be made heavy
and extra material has to be put into
the heads and slaves simply because of
this handling and not from any danger
on account of the internal pressure Of
the beer. Chicago Tribune.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26

Professor Scripture Of Yale has made 1t
his nightly practice for four years past to
plug up his ears on going to bed, thus ex-
cluding the voices OF the night and insur-
ing sound sleep
Senator Blackburn is partially bald, but
cultivates Napoleonic tuft at the top Of
his forehead and retains fairly respecta-
BILE supply along the sides Of his head,
which is always cut short.
Charles Summer would never leave his
seat in the senate for any caller, and when
card was presented to him he invariably
wrote on the back, THE senate Of the
United States Is In session, F" and refused
to bulge.
Senator Sherman begins to show plainly
the effect of advancing years. His face
is thinner, and the wrinkles are increas-
ing. He Is taking the best possible care
Of himself, however. He was II years old
on May 10.
The real name Of Brother Joseph, who
has succeeded Father Damien in the work
among the lepers of Hawaii, is Ira p.
Dutton, native of Vermont He ad-
Indicated war claims in the border states
after the civil war.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26

MAfE. JANAUscHEK IN CHARACTER
her means. She is ambitious to hold her
place in her legitimate line Of acting,
but feels the frivolous demands from
the public for light and comic produc-
tions seriously interferes with Shake
speare's plays.
The lectures that Mime. Janauschek
has given the past season upon the
drama have been pronounced success,
and her long and vast experience upon
this subject renders her criticisms val
uable and Of importance to both students
and women who gain only superficial
knowledge of the stage at the present
day and age. KATE NJ. BosTwIcK-
TubercuIosis In Cattle.
Tuberculosis in cattle is winning at
tention as one Of the most common
agencies for transmitting consumption
to the human race. New York and Mas
sachusetts state cattle commissioners are
moving actively against it. Now the
bureau Of animal industry Of the United
States department of agriculture has
been provided with an appropriation.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
TYPEWRITERs.
Opinions Of Them Dictated to One Of Them
by an Accomplished stenographer.

More trash and nonsense are written
about typewriter girls by people who
do not understand what good typewrit-
ing is or how t2 dictate to typewriter
than about any other profession or any
other business in which either men or
women are engaged today. The fact Of
the matter is that typewriting is worth
anywhere from So week up to $40 or
$25, which is sometimes paid as week
ly salary to expert typewriters who have
no knowledge of shorthand
1t is no unusual thing for typewriters
to earn at folio work from dictation by
stenographers 50 an hour and over, and
the finest experts are worth every cent
of that amount Of money. Among stenog-
raphers 81 an hour is the ruling rate,
and for that 81 a good typewriter with
an expert dictator will transcribe from
30 to 40 folios an hour of testimony
In some cases even 40 folios an hour of
solid matter have been dictated Forty
folios is two columns of The Sun, and
of the men who write about debating
to typewriters as though they knew
about it there are probably not half
dozen in the country who can dictate SO
much.
Many years ago the writer was en-
ployed as shorthand amanuensis by
George Alfred Townsend, well known
as Gath, who habitually dictated to
him in shorthand two columns an hour
and did it every day in the week two
hours day for months at a time, in
dicating every full stop, semicolon,
quotation mark and paragraph. If
Gath dictates to a typewriter now
and has one of the best in the business,
no doubt he can dictate from a column
and half to two columns an hour Of
original matter, and the writer knows
of no other man who can do that. Of
course there are plenty Of incompetents
who pose as typewriters and who bring
the BUSINESS into discredit by their poor
work. For many years the writer has
been thrown in contact with expert
typewriters in his business as an official
stenographer. In view Of the many gibes
and sneers in which newspaper writers
indulge on the subject of typewriter
operators of the feminine gender, it is
matter Of simple justice to say that the
women with whom he has been associ-
ated in his business have been without
exception well educated, refined, capa-
Bile of doing rapid and accurate work,
who attended strictly to business and did
not waste time with frivolous remarks.
1t seems unfair to judge of any bust
ness or profession by the weaklings en-
gagged therein, whether the work be
law, medicine, the ministry, shorthand
or typewriting, and any one who cannot
accomplish twice as much debating to
good typewriter operator as with
pen is unable to do that either because
he does not know how to dictate or be-
cause he has an inferior operator. 1t
took just eight minutes to dictate this
article to- typewriter who does not
claim to s. -sial expertness and whose
charge was % cents.
(The above was not altered in any re-
spect by the editor, and the printers
We're requested to follow copy. The
reader may therefore judge of the ao-
curacy both of the dictator and the
typewriter, New York Sun.
VVhv Rear X aps 70 Made So TbiCIr
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-07-26
Scarlet Glover.

At the Delaware station scarlet clover
yielded at the rate of over IS tons Of
green clover per acre, which, it was esti-
mated, contained 131 pounds Of potash,
35 pounds of phosphate and 115 pounds
of nitrogen, this of course exclusive
Of roots and stubble. AS source Of
nitrogen for field crops. vegetables and
fruits it has given the most satisfactory
results.