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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-12-24
WOODBURY. n J, THURSDAY, DECEMBER "a 1896
a CHRISTMAS BALL.

Way out in western Texas,
where the Clear Forks
waters flow:
Where the cattle are a-browsin
an the Spanish ponies
grow;
Where the northers come a.
whistlin from beyond the
neutral strip"
An the prairie dogs are sneezin
OF if they had the grip:
Where the coyotes come a.
howlin round the ranches
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27

set by experts. Jno- NJ Lily.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

Little need be said of the engagement of
Sol Smith Russell, which will open at the
Grand Opera House this evening. with
double bill, 'Mr. Valentines Christmas and
IAN Everyday Man. the last being a new
and successful comedy by Marguerite Mer-
ington. In this play it is said, Mr.. Russell
presents a character that reaches the uni
versal sympathy of mankind. "An Every
day Man Will occupy the boards tonight
and Wednesday matinee Mr.. Russell will
appear as Bob Acres in the classic comedy,
The Rivals" assuming character in
which so far on the American stage Joe
Jefferson has been most successful. AL
though having been identified for over twen-
ty years with one particular line of work,
Mr. Russell has stepped into an entirely
new field, and has demonstrated a talent for
refined English comedy of the classical
school
The Brothers Byrne, in Eight Bells will
be at English's the last half of this week
The entire production is said to have been
remodeled so that it will be scarcely rec
ognized in its new form. The specialties in
troduced at short intervals are new and
pleasing. The Byrne brothers remain to
give life and action to every scene. An &C
robatic quadrlle at the close OF the last
act is a novelty.
One of the greatest attractions of last
season was Walter Sanford's spectacular
1t is an elaborate scenic production. requir-
ing two cars for the transportation. The
Struggle OF Life" opens at the Park this
afternoon for three days The Germans
follow Thursday, in THE Gilhoolys
Abroad a new farce comedy.
Charles E. Power came in from st. Louis
last night and is at the Bates House.-Mr.
Power this season is business manager for
Minnie Naddern Fiske who will be at the
Grand the first half of next week. in The
Queen OF Liars and Ibsen's "A Doll S
House.
The Rentz-Santley Company opens at the
Empire Theater this afternoon. in satire
on "Trilby,''' called the Twill Be Club"
Among the entertainers in the olio of spe-
cialties is Miss Carrie Scott, with her
Tough Girl song; Collins and Collins.
comedians; Lesiies and Tenlie: Van Leer
and Barton, acrobats; Lottie Elliott. and
Fisher and CFowell. The program concludes
with the burlesque, Robin Hood, Jr.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27

walls WILL which was drawn here and dated
Nov. 2. 1885, A few days ago Register Con-
ner admitted the will 10 probate and let
ters testimentary we're issued. by consent,
to Mr.. Guthrie.
MAY CONTESTTH WILL.
1t is understood that he will proceed to
collect the personal property together, take
steps to care for the varied interests OF
the estate. protect all perishable property
and preserve the estate for whoever may
finally be adjudged as entitled thereto. The
admitting OF the will to probate is not con-
elusive Of its validity, nor does it mean that
there is not to be any contest Hereunder.
In fact, 1t is generally understood here
that in all probability there will be con-
test on the part of Mrs. Aspinwall's niece,
Mrs. Delafeld. ID. T. Watson, local at
torney, represents her in the matter. 1t
Is understood that this protest will likely
take the course of an appeal from the
registers decree ordering the will to pro-
bate. This would go before the Orphans
Court.
1t is thought that the contest will be
waged on the theory that Mrs. Aspinwall
friends of hers here who say that her
mind was all right up to within a short
time of her death. and to within that time
that they would have accepted deed from
her without hesitation. They saw in is nom
sense to say she was not all right at the
time when the will made, ten years
ago. IL was last september tnat Mrs. AS
pinwall suddenly decided to go TO Edin-
burgh, where she had friends, whom she
had previously visited. AS she was get
ting aged and infirm, the officers of the
White Star line steamer Majestic, when
they saw her come aboard without any
companion for the voyage, declined, in ac-
cordance with a usual custom, to let her
sail with them. Ii was but few moments
before time for the boat to start, and she
did not have time to get her trunks off.
She had a good deal OF money in them, too,
but they were safely taken care of and duly
returned to her. She returned to Altoona.
where she stopped, and in October returned
and sailed across by another steamer of the
same line, this time in the care OF a COM
panion. whom Colonel Heron and wife
had secured for her. She suffered a fall
while on board during some rough weather.
Soon after reaching Edinburgh she became
sick. Her companion remained by her un-
I'll her death early in December, after which
her body was embalmed and brought to
this country and buried.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27

Around the World on Sixty Dollars" by
Rober. Meredith. Paper, sc Chicago:
Laird & Lee.
Divisions in the Society of Friends" by
Thomas III. Speakman. Third edition. Phil
adelphia: The G. b. Lippincott Company
"A Mans Foes" novel by 4. III. Strain.
Published by Ward. Lock & Bowden, OF
London, and Is East Twelfth street, New
York.
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WILD HOGS IN CONNECTICUT.
Good and Novel Sport Promised to
Hunters Of Big Game.
saybrook Comm Letter. in New York Sum.

SdyDrOOk (COnn.) Letter, In New York Sun.
Good sport is promised. to gunners for big
game in the rugged and forest-cla1 Wider
nesses of North Madison, North Gulford
ana killingworth, this winter. The coun-
tryside there seers to be infested with wild
hogs, which are fierce. strong and gaunt
and SO vicious that they will attack a man.
Oliver Chapdelaine, French Canadian
wood chopper. who is cutting wood in the
shot and killed one of these hogs last
Wednesday after blazing away at the ami
nal three times. The brute had long tusks
and was making a rush for Chapdelaine
when the latter fired his last shot. Chap
delaine wounded a big black wild hog in
the swamps about Gorham's pond. ::nder
the brute escaped. The woodchopper fol-
lowed its trail On the snow across the town.
ships of Branford and Guilford. then to
the extensive swamps along the Harmon
asset river, in the town of Killingworth.
The newspapers of the State. have reported
several other attempts to kill wild hogs
in this remote quarter of C6nnecticus.
The wild hogs of the Hammonassett
swamps are descended from a drove OF
Western hogs that escaped into that remote
section more than ten wears age They are
as quick in their movements az weasel
and about as hard TO catcl. Their flesh
judging from the one Chap1elaine shot. is
of good flavor. but tough aad almos. with
out fat. The winter headquarters of the
hogs fol. the most part are IN large
swamps. The leaves have been collec.e ed by
the winds and packed down by rains The
hogs burrow down into the leaves and there
keep warm, no matter how cold the wealth
err.
The hogs have been conspicuous by their
absence for several years. the hunters say.
and their Temperance this winter leads to
the belief that they have largely increased
I'm number. They are rather small for hogs.
rarely going over LOO pounds, and are cap
able of great endurance. They will kill or
binary hunting dogs with ease and rapidity
by disembowling them with their tusks A
dog that knows how 10 pursue them tackles
string them
Some time ago a colony OF wild hogs be-
came located in a similar manner in the
a few years did so much damage that an
organized effor; was made TO exterminate
them. Hunting parties from Springfield
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Society Item from Steuben County.

dance was held last week at the home
of Mr.. McClish, near the Balding farm, in
Scott county, the third one of series held
there within the last few weeks. During its
progress the floor manager, Christian Dau-
alteration which resulted in a fight. in
the course of which one Of the combatants
was knocked into the window. smashing the
ton, especially among the women and
girls present. When this pugilistic
encounter had ceased the dancers re-
moniously for time when another war
cloud appeared on the horizon. resulting
this time in a free-for-all fight with Hiram
Deck and a Mr.. Holmes both OF Angola,
as the principal participants. This battle
closed the exercises for the evening. or
rather morning, and We are informed that
Mr.. McClsh, at whose house the dance was
held and who furnished the music, has de-
clared the series Of dances closed for the
winter
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Detroit Tribune.

Detroit Tribune.
"Will he speak TO me-"
There was agony written in every feature
of her naughty face. She glanced fearfu'iy
at the man beside her and her heart sank.
''Ah. no." she sighed.
In fact he had already remarked that n
lovely evening and that he thought
Wac, was too sweet for anything.
The we're at an informal reception. and
there nothing else to say.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27

1.-The Trail of Trilby." an article in re-
cent number of the Forum. has naught to
do with successive scenes OF devastation
and misery. as its formidable title might at
a passing glance suggest The author, Mr..
vandam, is not of that unreasonable ilk
which measures the poor girl by the pitiless
Mosaic law; indeed, to compliment his
ticle, il further sweetens the appealing visit
fulness with which Miss O'Farrell and other
grisettes glance at you from those purple
hazed days of the SOS In Paris. Those days
before the students made fun OF the cal
Ioused hands OF the grisettes and thereby.
almost in the twinkling of an eye, trans
formed the type of grisette to the tpye of
lorette! But with the Forum article. its
title its author and his intention, there is
little to do In what Is written here. IL is
an incidental quotation Mr.. vandam intro
duces from a work other than Du Maurler's
that recalls an interesting book OF forty
years ago and puts Trilby on the rack of
comparison. The quotation Is from Henri
Murger's chief work. the only one that has
lived, and causes bit OF surprise that Mr..
vandam told no more OF Murger and his
classic. even II to some disparagement OF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19
Do Foxes Enjoy the Hunt?

P. H. Bryson raises a question in The
American Field which is sure TO brin g
out considerable discussion among fox
hunters. He wants TO know If foxes en-
JOY being run by dogs. He believes that
they do.
IF you think the fox does not enjoy
the run, you have only to look at q fresh
fox as it passes His eyes are dilated
with pleasure-no. fear there-and
brush vibrating defiantly in the face of
its pursuers, in full command Of his
mental faculties, and using brain as
well as heels.
This same fox exercises cunning and
craft to escape instead Of dropping into
hole when it would be safe from the
dogs fangs. Many fox has lost its life
rather than escape into a hole, seeming
almost to regard the earth escape as dis
graceful, to be resorted to in the direst
stress only.
Bryson tells of vixen which, with
her whelps, ran long way and then
the youngsters, being tired, went into
a hole while she continued the race for
hours after, escaping into the same hole
with her young in the end.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19
SHERMAN AT COLUMBUS.
The Veteran Senator Opens the Repr
lican Campaign in Ohio.

The Veteran Senator Opens the Repub-
lican Campaign in Ohio.
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 1.-THE Repub-
lican state campaign opened here Satur-
day at p m in big tent in the pres
ence, as estimated, of 10000 people. Dele
cations were In the city from the Toledo,
Bowling Green, Findlay, Portsmouth,
Newark, Sandusky, Clyde, Tiffln, Spring
field Dayton. Cincinnati, Mansfield,
GAINESVILLE, Cleveland, the Hooking Val
ley and other places. The weather was
fine and the day was given up by some
of the manufacturing establishments to
attend the meeting
On account Of the warm weather the
proposed parade in the evening was
abandoned, but Notwithstanding some Of
the clubs appeared in uniform. The peo-
pie from out of town began 20 arrive on
the early morning trains. There was a
liberal display or bunting on the business
streets indicating holiday appearance
At 80 p. M, after the usual music and
cheering, Governor Bushnell, az chairman,
formally opened the exercises with a very
short speech, after which he introduced
Senator Sherman. The old senator was
received with great cheering. AT the con-
clusion Of his speech, Senator-Elec For.
aker followed Mr.. Sherman.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19
NENANR 10 TELL YOU
Why Your Back IL Lame-Why IL Aches
and Pains, and How 20 Cure it.

Do you know what II IL TO have a back
that Is never free from aches and constant
pain. a lame back, sore back, an aching
back, in fact, a back that makes your life
burdeny What have you done for IL?
And does 1t still keep you from the happi.
ness that perfect health brings to all? we
know full well II such is your condition
q cure for 1t will be G. blessing you no
doubt desire Plasters won't do IL. but
may assist In bringing strength. Eminent
won't do it; for, while it may give tenn
porary relief, it does not reach the cause.
The cause, there's the point; there's where
20 make the attack. Most backaches come
from disordered kidneys, therefore you
must correct their action il you would be
cured. Read the following from ID. ID.
Cook, whose address is No. 10 Michigan
Street Grand Rapids. He says
Il have used Doan's Kidney Pills and
wish to say it Is a truly great medicine.
Thirty years ago | had nervous prostra-
ton while IN the army, where | served for
over four years. | think il was during
this service that the seeds were sown which
have caused all my trouble. Severe bill
Gus attacks bothered me, and at such times
my kidneys were worse 1t is almost i'm
possible to describe the pain which so
often famed me- have been so lame that
to stand up after had been sitting down
required great exertion. Walking was
at times an impossibility even at night |
did not rest, being forced TO get up during
the night. heard of Doan's Kidney Pills
and wondered if they could make an al
most lame man we'll / got some, and
soon after taking them began to feel their
good effects. used them for some time,
my lameness all left me and have not
felt it since. Doan's Kidney Pills have
done me an inestimable amount of good"
For sale by all dealers, price 80 cents
Mailed by Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo.
N. Y, sole agents for the U. S. Remem.
Der the name, Doan's, and take no other.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19

II ] discovered. per impossible. that
Jeane d'Arc ever did . wrong thing.
my duty TO the stock of human pleasure
would outweigh my duty to the truth.
Never mind the truth" would be my
motto. Perhaps there is some mistake
somewhere. Or suppose. also per i'm
possible. that one discovered a check
forged by Burns. One would destroy it
and say nothing about il. A biographer
is not a detective-he is not presiding
AT the day of Judgment. These ideas
will be considered immoral Many
French authors try (quite in vain) TO
prove that Moliere married the daughter
of his mistress. This kind Of spirit
seems to be not uncommon at present
among biographers, "a class which Mr..
Carlyle thought used to be SO "mealy
mouthed.
Poor Highland Mary is harried in her
modest resting place, washed by the
western wave. " One thing we do know
very well about her-namely. that
Burns wanted nothing to be known. She
had lived and he had loved her There
he manifestly desired that information
should cease, and Lockhart has actually
been blamed for leaving it there. OF all
the duties of biographer one can re-
gard none more stringent than respect
to the secrets of his subject If he can,
he should burn and obliterate; if he
cannot, he should forget. Yet if letter
of Burns to Highland Mary, clearing
up all that he desired to remain con-
cealed Of anything is left could be
found, the devotees of Burns, as a rule.
would make haste TO publish the epistle.
OF all cant "the public has right to
know" is the most odious. The public
has not right to know.-Andrew Lang
in Longmah IS Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19
The Popular Secret Service Museum

1.-The secret service museum III the
treasury department continues to be a
great attraction, remarked one of the
officials of the secret service bureau,
Though most Of the articles exhibited
there are very old. The bulk of them
have been on exhibition for 10 or 20
years, and but few new things have been
added Of late. Still the rural visitors
crowd in there daily and take great in
terest in looking over the old counterfeit
plates and notes collected there. Even
more interest is taken in the collection
of photographs of oldtime counterfeiters,
the most of whom have been dead for
years. The museum, however, strikes
the popular fancy, and is particularly
satisfactory TO the large number of per-
sons, young and old, who read detective
stories and are interested in the accounts
of crimes which appear in the newspa.
pers. 1t is about the only way that the
average person can actually see the tools
of trade Of the criminal classes and es-
pecially of counterfeiters. washing.
ton Star
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19
PREACHER GETS INTO TROUBLE.
Fails to Recognize the Inviolability Of =
United States Mail Box.

Fails to Recognize the Inviolability Of .
United States Mail Box.
JAMESTOWN, N. ", Aug. H.-Friday
afternoon United States Marshal Buck
arrested Henry b. Waterman, Baptist
minister Of Chicago, at Chautauqua. The
charge is the unlawful opening of mail
box in the postoffice at Chaatauqua, and
removing mail matter. Waterman, 1t is
alleged, seeing some letters in his box
Tuesday night determined to have them
before the delivery next morning He IL
said to have taken q knife from his pocket
and removed the fastenings from the box.
Securing his mail, 1t is charged that he
replaced the fastenings and left the office
lobby. Before Commissioner Hazeltine
last evening Waterman said he would be
able TO defend his position, and asked an
adjournment for day or two. The case
was accordingly adjourned until next
Tuesday and the minister was permitted
to return to Chautauqus on his own
recogniZance.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19

Few passages have caused moro CON-
ment than the words Of the queen in
the fencing scene that Hamlet is fiat
and scant Of breath For this Mr.. Tree
proposes TO read faint and scant Of
breath. Mr.. Tree is not the first to
make the suggestion. 1t originated with
Mr. II. Wycth 4 Winchester, who pro-
posed it TO d.. Ingleby, who in turn
communicated q as fine reading to Mr..
Adds Wright, who, on March 8, 1867.
gave it publicity in Notes and Queries.
The supposition was held on the author
ity Of Roberts. the player, that Lowin,
who was known to have acted Falstaff
and King Henry VIII and might conse-
quently have been supposed to be in
clined TO corpulence. was the original
Hamlet. In this case the use Of the
word fat" would be justified and ex-
planned.
More recent evidence shows, however,
the extreme probability that Burbadge
was the first Hamlet. Burbadge himself
was also stout. and might thus have
justified the employment of the word.
Mr.. Sydney Lee, in Dictionary of Ma
tional Biography, favors the notion
that faint" should be read for fiat.
Plahwe, in his Hamlet, Prinz Won
Dannemark, would substitute shot, "
and quotes an earlier line of the King
speaking Of having chalice prepared
for the combatants when they are "hot
and dry" To all this 1 only answer
that fiat" is the reading Of all the
folios and quartos. The safe and sensi-
BILE rule at length adopted in Shake
spearean criticism is that when a SEN
tence has a distinct and conceivable
meaning it is not to be disturbed by
conjecture. Fat is ineligible
enough, and must be left as it stands
1t is, moreover, venture to think, the
very word that Shakespeare intention
ally used. and is better and more appro-
pirate than all suggested substitutes. =
Gentleman's Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19
Peculiar Baron Hirsch.

Extreme parsimony in small matters
was allied with Baron Hirschs munifi-
cence. On the occasion of a great fire at
Tokay, in Hungary, he sent his secre-
tary TO Vienna with 90, 900 forms
(more than s29, 0O0) toward the fund
for relieving the distress caused by the
fire; but he begged the secretary not to
take fiacre at the railway station, but
from stand near by, thus saving 8
cents. The baron could not bear being
overcharged for anything. He was so
indignant at having to pay forms for
a pair Of candles at hotel that he actu-
ally took candles with him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-19
Spies In Society.

There is no gayer or more brilliant
society III Europe than that at St. Peters
burg 1t is less difficult of access TO for
simply because hostesses implicitly rely
upon their frienos Of both sexes not to
introduce into their salons any but per-
SONS Of irTeproachable character
st. Petersburg is hotbed Of gossip.
The Russian lady is SO clever that she
does not require any details Of story.
She guesses at these, and, If necessary,
supplies them-in other words, invents
them. The one word which that guile
less official has let drop-which she has
surprised Oh his lips serves her as
the key to the mystery; the rest is easy.
OF course she only communicates these
state secrets TO her most intimate friends,
who themselves are sworn to secrecy,
but she has SO many friends of both
sexes that in an incredibly short space
of time the important morsel of gossip
is literally all over st. Petersburg
To the foreign ambassadors she is
more valuable than "a legion of spies
These persons are assiduous visitors to
the leading salons, where, as may be
supposed, they pick up quite as much as
they want to know, and thus are often
better informed than the emperor's min
lister of foreign affairs himself.
There is mad race among the fair
leaders of the grand monde TO attract
the largest number of diplomatists and
great personages i'll their drawing rooms.
Thus it happens that the younger men,
if not excluded from the salons which
they would so adorn but for this politi.
cal craze, are not often seen in the prin
cipal houses. st. Petersburg Letter.