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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-19
NOTABLE MARRIAGE.

New York, June 1S-A Herald dispatch
from Paris announces the marriage of
Puvis de Chavannis the famous painter,
and Princess Cantacuzene
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-19
BASEBALL SCORES.

Washington, June 1S.-washington s.,
Louisville 8.
Baltimore, June 1S.-Baltimore IL. Pitts
burg g.
Philadelphia, June 1S-st. Louis 3, Phil
adelphia 4.
New York, June 1S-New York Cleve-
land 0.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-19
WASHINGTON C, \. r.
Busy Day In Camp-Ofiicers Are Elected
for Ensuing Year.

Vancouver. Wash. June 1S.-The state
encampment OF the G. a. II. and other
societies closed their work this afternoon.
after a busy session lasting the whole day
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-19

II you want TO secure genuine bargains
he sure and attend this sale, for I am
determined to 70 East by the first of Sep
tember and lay In Il bran new stock OF
goods for the winter. WIN therefore dis
pose of as much OF the stock on hand
az can possibly be forced, regardless of
consequences. The goods to be sacrificed
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-19
THREE OTHERS KILLED.

Paris. ILL.,, June lS-At Assures the cy-
clone worked havoc, Three persons were
killed and twenty seriously injured.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
THE SUPERNATURAL.
Contact With 1t Brings Out a Peculiar

Contact With 1t Brings Out Peculiar
Kind of Fear.
We wish the Psychieal society would
one day attempt an analysis of what.
for want of better word, we must call
the dread of the supernatural Both
those who believe and those who disbe
lieve in the notion that the veil between
this world and the other is capable of
being lifted agree in one thing. They
all recognize the fact that most people
fear, or something akin to fear, what
they believe to be the occurrence of SUI
pernatural phenomena. There is here.
therefore, piece of ground which may
be explored without any begging of the
question as to whether the fear is caused
by real ghosts or by trickery, by rats
and water pipes or by genuine glimpses
Of the people of another world. One
would like to know whether the fear
felt is akin to that experienced when
man is frightened by a runaway horse
or a fire or any other imminent risk of
life, or whether it is something differ
ent in kind.
Speaking broadly and without any
minute consideration of the facts, one
would say that ghost fright did differ
in kind from the fright which comes
frSn active danger. Most people have,
ives aagine, at some time or other in
their 'es experienced that eerie, un-
canny, creepy feeling which is associat-
ed with the possibility of contact with
the supernatural Yet few would de-
clare that it was in any sense connected
with the dread of loss of life or limb
The man or woman who wakes up in
the middle of the night and hears
strange noises-thumps, raps, clangs
and creakings-or sees lights or feels
the touch of unseen hands is probably
very frightened, but the sense of bodily
fear is not present. There is no dread
Of being killed. People in the agony of
terror caused by dangerous accidents
constantly call out that they are going
to be killed, but we doubt if that is ev-
er the case in the fright caused by
haunted houses. Possibly this differ
enee may be said to be due to the fact
that the dread of the supernatural is
not nearly SO acute as that caused by
the imminent risk Of death. People, it
may be argued, only imagine themselves
to be frightened of ghosts. as women
pretend to be frightened of mice In
neither case is the fright quite genuine
It is only want Of self control and could
be mastered in an instant if the will
power were in proper order.
Unfortunately for those who argue
thus there is plenty of evidence to
show that occasionally the dread OF the
supernatural produces very serious re-
suits. On the whole, we should say that
more people had been frightened ont of
their wits by what they believed to be
supernatural phenomena than by aoei-
dents involving great risk of life. 1t is
not often that one hears of insanity
caused even by the prolonged agony Of
shipwreck. The fear caused by what is
supposed to be a supernatural agency
seems, then, to have in it some element
not found in ordinary fear If the haunt
ing phenomena cause fear. they seem to
give q shock Of special keenness. LON
don Enectatnr
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
FREIGHT BY TROLLEY.
Farm Produce Now Taken to Market .

Farm Produce Now Taken to Market on
Electric Cars.
Many country districts are already
beginning to derive inestimable advan-
tage from the fact that their farm prod
uce is taken to market on the trolley
lines by special freight service, but the
largest development of this idea yet
made is promised in Chicago If COM
bination of the various elevated lines
now in progress should be effected, the
consolidated company will have over
900 miles Of electric lines, most of it
passing through comparatively sparse
ly settled country containing numerous
factories and shops and thousands of
farms and market gardens.
Such conditions involve the possibili-
ties of an immense freight scheme 1t
is proposed to build suitable terminals,
with elevators and storage warehouses
and operate the roads at night mainly
for the freight traffic. Not only agri-
cultural produce, but all kinds Of light
freight and express matter will be car
ried Such an expensive scheme, while
comforting an immense benefit on the
farmers and gardeners and opening up
new lines of freight supply, would du-
plicate on large scale the experience
in other states where the steam rail
road lines, which formerly monopolized
what business there was, have been
most seriously affected. st. Louis
obe-Democrat
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30

Such a hall looks almost spacious when
the front half Of it is not encountered
by the stairs, and when broad open
ing closed by sliding doors leads into
the parlor.
1t is probable that wide openings be-
tween rooms, closed only by portieres,
have been rather overdone of recent
years Doors have their uses, after all
In country house where there are win
dow openings on all sides, changing
from narrow doorway to a wide one
may often rob room of its only wall
space. An apartment which has, for in
stance, wide arch in one wall, win
dow and closet door in another, win
dow and door in another and fireplace
and door in another will have no wall
space left to speak of. twill look fussy
and fidgety. There will seem to be no
place in it where one can sit down with
out being in the way Of people popping
out of one or another of the doorways
The wide doorways are certainly pretty
and convenient between hall and parlor
or parlor and back parlor, but there are
many cases where it is wise to refrain
from discarding the narrow ones. These
portiered arches are much less often
used in small houses in England than in
this country.
In any room used by the family as
Eembly the fireplace should be the mos
prum1nsnJ feature, and il there ism I
any fireplace there should and usually
can be one No house ought to have less
than two chimneys, one warmed in win
ter by the range or cook stove, the other
| BY the furnace smoke fue. so al to
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
GREAT VICTORIES.

Lake Trasimene, where Hannibal won a
great victory over the Romans, is not far
from Perugia.
Yorktown, where CORVALLIS was hem
med in and compelled to capitulate, is ten
miles from the mouth of the York river
and so miles southeast of Richmond.
Dunkerque, where Turenne defeated
Conde during the Huguenot wars OF
France is seaport on the strait of Dover,
the most northern town in France, $50
miles from Paris.
The, Brandywine creek, on which IA
nous battle was fought during the Revolu-
tionary war, rises In the northwest part Of
Chester county, Pa, and flows into the
Christiana creek at the city of Whining
ton, Del.
Nimeguen, where the French were al
ternately defeated and victorious during
the war of 1894, is town of the Neither
lands, in the province of Guelderland, on
the south bank of Waal, 80 miles from the
sea and II miles northwest Of Cleves.
The battle of Flodden was fought on the
Tweed, near the Cheviot hills in North
umberland, eight miles south of Cold
stream. 1t was this great victory of the
English over the Scotch which gave Sir
Walter Scott the subject of one Of BIS finest
poems.
Koniggratz, where the great battle Of
the Seven Weeks war between the Aus
trians and Prussians was fought, Is q town
of Bohemia at the junction of the Adler
and the upper Elbe, IS miles northeast of
Prague. This conflict is also known In
history as the battle of Sadowa.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
FRANco-RusslAN TREATY.

Russia's part of the game is at present q
complete mystery. France-always emo
tional-comes out frankly with what she
has in view. She wants assistance in her
hong cherished policy of revenge for the
loss of Alsaee- Lorraine. Washington Star.
In the elassifcations of the worlds gov
ernments France is recorded among the
republics. Russia is the most autocratic
government-the most perfect one man
power-in Christendom. What sort of an
alliance but for the oppression of mankind
can be formed by these countriesY-St.
Louis Republic.
Russias power is indeed SO tremendous
that this czar is able to flirt agreeably with
either of the other strong powers of the
|. continent and to compel the kaiser, who Is
not believed to be of long suffering tenn
per, to brook the announcement that Rus
sia has finally concluded to stick by
France. Chicago Record.
It is not necessary to go far afield in
search of the impulses which have moved
political opposites like the French repub-
lie and the Muscoyite autocracy to enter
into alliance with one another Nor should
it cause surprise that France has been the
wooer, and that her jubilation over the
oonsummatiou of her political marriage
with the czardom should be intense to the
verge of delirium.- Philadelphia Record.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30

THE OLD MANTEL TRANSFORMED.
mauue4 N It's orlglnaI state was perhaps
4 feet wide and 4 feet high. She had
panels placed at either side, beyond the
jambs, heightened the shelf and placed
three other shelves above, which she
covered with books. The result was an
architectural feature which caught the
eye the moment one entered the room.
1t was feet wide and fully 8 feet up
to the narrow brie-a-brac shelf that
crowned the whole. Beside housing
over 100 books for less than the cost of
a new bookcase, it at once impaired to
the room cozy, homeiike appearance.
OF course, however, such design would
be less suitable for a formal parlor.
Chimneys and mantels put in as an
afterthought have difficulties to con-
tend with. One woman of my acquaint-
ance, fitting up a small room for her
son on the ground floor of an old house,
found no space available for chimney
except one of just three feet between
two windows. She made it answer by
putting in chimney of rough bricks
laid in red mortar and unpainted. The
jambs were each s inches, or the length
of one brick, in width There was an s
inch hob on one side only, and below
this the CRATE opening was only foot
wide, but I have seen them still mar
rover. Above the shelf the chimney
tapered off in succession of zigzags to
shaft 16 inches by 10.
The mason mourned much over this
rough work
"Of course you'll want it plastered
over, ma amp be said.
Indeed don't It'sall right just as
it is. +"
tI'll tell you what I can do, ma am,
he said. II can plaster it all over and
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
FLOWER AND TREE.

Jerusalem's garden of olives has eight
trees known to be 1000 years old.
Ammonia has been proved to be an ex-
cellent stimulant for growing flowers A
few drops twice week in can of rain
water will make fuchsias, geraninms and
other flowers bloom freely.
The adaptability of plants to new loca-
tions is sometimes very remarkable.
Plants whose natural habitat Is IN dry
soil Can often accustom themselves to
marsh, while marsh plants on the other
hand, can sometimes be trained to grow
in dry sand.
Two young trees, raised from its acorns,
have recently been planted near the famous
old oak at Cowthorpe, England. The an
pient tree, which is more than so feet in
girth and is believed to be the largest oak
IN existence, is so decayed that 1t is feared
it cannot stand much longer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
Cuba.

Once more, once more, the heart of Cuba burns
With passionate hope, infexible desire.
Once pore the undaunted soul of Cuba yearns
For liberty, to battle, to aspire
Once more she feels an ancient faith that turns
Westward, with its intense Tberian fire
What years are these What large and iumi
nous yearsl
What nober century looms with mightier
drealnsl
rhe slave shall be a master, and his tears
Shall flow no more and feed no bloody
streams
The night is waning and the dawn appears,
Glad with diyiner song diviner themes.
Patience, o Cuba, for the end is near
Thou hast the future, halcyon days to come,
Thou hast thy destiny foreshadowed clear.
Unconquel1e right is neither blind nor dumb,
And all that seems to thee supreme and dear
Shall silence tyranny and fife and drum
Patience, O Gubai Round thine isles and reefs
The ocean trumpets thy pathetic cry
The chivalry of all thy sons and chiefs.
Hunted like wolves beneath thy western sky.
May serve to soften immemoriai griefs,
May teach the world royal way to diel
George Edgar Montgomery in New York
journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
ROBERTSON SlLAGE.
Tests Made With 1t at the Vermont an
Maine Stations.

Name SEAL1OnSs
Various attempts have been made to
counteract the deficiency Of protein in
corn silage by mixing with the corn
when it is placed in the silo some crops
rich in protein, as peas, sofa bean, etc.
j. w. Robertson, Canada, has advocated
a mixture composed Of corn fodder,
horse beans and sunfiower seeds, which
has gained the name Robertson silage
mixture. At the Canada station where
it was tested in comparison with ordi-
nary corn silage in some feeding expert
ments with steers it is calculated that
for the whole "a weeks the cost of the
gain on the Robertson mixture was over
quarter less than on the ordinary
silage.
The Vermont station compared the
Robertson silage mixture with ordinary
corn siiage in feeding experiments with
milk COWS. Considering the yield
from the dry matter contained, the bal
ance is strongly in favor of the Robert
son mixture, more milk and butter be
ing produced than from similar weights
of dry matter in corn silage. The COWS,
If anything, gained in weight on the
mixture It seems that, in this test at
any rate, the claims made for the mix
ture are not without basis A compari-
son of the Robertson mixture with cut
beets and carrots III short trial at the
Vermont station did not bring out any
material difference between these ma
terials as fed
In some experiments on this point
made at the Maine station, black eyed
peas were used in place of the horse
beans in the Robertson mixture. One
fourth acre of sunfowers and one-half
acre of black eyed peas were used to one
acre of corn. All were run through the
cutter and packed in the silo by the or
binary method, and the silage kept per-
fectly. When opened in February, it
was found to be in first class condition.
This silage was tested with five milk
COWS. 1t was very greedily eaten by
stock. 1t was fed in place of one-half of
the grain ration Of cornmeal, cottonseed
meal and bran, 90 pounds of silage for
8 pounds of grain, with good results.
All the COWS increased in weight aud
shrank no more in milk than would be
expected from the advance in time of
lactation. An attempt to substitute the
silage mixture entirely for the grain
was not success.
The silage with 76 per cent of water
contained 2 8 per cent of protein, where
as the average of a large number of an
alyses of corn silage shows II per cent
of protein.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30

CHANGE OF AN AWKWARD SHAPED ROOM
doors SO that they swing away from the
fireplace is nothing. Without fu1ther
change of any sort to the frame of the
room, couple of light arches thrown
across from pillars at the sides, as
shown in the accompanying plan, ao-
complish three purposes--they make
the room appear wider and larger, they
partly screen the hall and kitchen when
the doors are opened, and they give an
excellent opportunity for a couple of
cozy corner seats at each side of the
chimney. Such seats are ingrained into
our ideas of coziness and hospitality.
will ye sit into the fire?' was the old
greeting when the chimney throat was
SO deep that two settees were placed in
it at each side Of the blaze.
Twenty years ago people ran to abb
surd extremes of height in building
new houses, the first-story ranging from
12 to Is, is or even 90 feet in height
in large and costly houses. This is now
recognized as a mistake, as it only
makes the stairs harder to climb and the
rooms look less homelike At present
there is almost no exception to the rule
that rooms should be SO treated in deco
ration as to look as large as possible,
even if this treatment makes them seem
lower I have seen an old fashioned
country place whose first ceiling was
only trifie over s feet high papered
with a dado and a broad, emphatic
frieze, leaving but narrow strip of
wall space. The result was cozy in the
extreme, and rooms of but moderate
size were made to look of generous pro-
portions.
The old fashioned narrow hall, with
stairs starting straight up from the
front door, is bugbear in rearranging
an interior Such stairs are tempta-
tion to sneak thieves, foe to privacy
and nuisance all round. In nearly all
cases where such hall is at the side
of the house the stairs can be turned
about and ascend from the back of the
hall toward the front, using the same
stair opening There should be step,
or perhaps two, at the side, then broad
landing, then turn, and the stairs can
come up straight toward the front, the
flight being partially concealed from
view by arches and portieres Such an
arrangement leaves space Of from to
s feet square where before the front
door almost banged the stair newell in
opening These reversed landing stairs
are now quite commonly used in small
city houses, where lack Of space oompels
the use Of halls as narrow as 51a feet
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
BRICK MANTELI IN NARROW SPACE BETWEEN
TWO WINDOWS

BRICK MAETEL IN A NARROW SPACE BETWEEN
TWO WINDOWS.
pint it up with white, and it'll look a
little bit neater y
Some ideas die hard, among them the
superstition that brick looks less brioky
when plastered or painted and lined of
with staring white lines.
Another mantel experiment was equal
ly successful. The problem was to put
chimney into side of a house only
two feet from the fence line without
disturbing floor or frame. This was ao-
complished by cutting an arch 9 feet
wide through the walls above and be-
low, setting the chimney back to the
line and building very shallow square
bay to inclose it. On either side of the
chimney breast there was just room
enough for small, cozy seat, with book
shelves on the back wall above. This
was rather an expensive operation, but
it was fully worth while, even in the
financial way, as the sale of the house
shortly afterward proved.
Many are the devices of less cost
by which cheerless and forbidding in
teriors can be rendered more attractive
without the laying of bricks or the cut
ting of walls BELLE. ARCHER
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
Here and There.

The legislature of Maine has enacted
a law regulating the sale, inspection
and chemical analysis of the various by
products sold as concentrated feeds for
cattle.
In the dairy sections many successful
farmers have adopted the soiling system
New Jersey is to reclaim the marsh
land lying between Newark and Jersey
City. The tract contains 1000 acres,
which produce nothing at present but
swarms of mosquitoes and a rank
growth of bulrushes and salt marsh
hay, and yet the land on which they
grow is doubtless the most fertile tract
in the state.
Nitrates are the most readily avail
able forms of nitrogen. The most COM
mon forms aSe nitrate of soda and nj
trate Of potash.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
COLOSSAL SHIPS.
England's New War Vessels VIII BE of
Enormous Proportions.

Englands New War Vessels Win Be of
Enormous Proportions.
According to the latest reports Of the
British admiralty, the nine battle
shipsof the Majestic type are the largest
war vessels atloat, with the exception
of the Italia and Lepanto. The follow
ing are the characteristics of the colos-
sal ships, drawn from parliamentary
paper:
The length is 800 feet, the extreme
beam 78 feet, the mean draft % feet
and the displacement IA, 900 tons. With
natural draft on the eight hours con
tractors trial mean speed of I615
knots is anticipated; with moderate
forced draft maximum speed of 1714
to 1715 knots will be obtained. The
armament will include four 12 inch
breechloading guns Of new type mount
ed in pairs; twelve inch quick firing;
sixteen IL pounders new type, and
twelve Founders There will also be
five torpedo discharges for IS inch tor
pedoes, four of these beingsubmerged.
st Louis Globe Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
A Lifelong Job.

Edward Kemeys, the animal sculp-
tor, is expecting to receive commits
sion for the decoration of the Geological
park in Washington, which may en-
ploy him for the rest of his life. The
idea is to decorate the Geological park
with bronze figures of Indians and wild
animals, of life size or a little larger,
to preserve the types Of animal life
which are rapidly vanishing. The Indi-
ans will be represented in some pieces
as alone and in some pieces as riding or
hunting the animals The animals will
sometimes be separate and sometimes
grouped together, as in the case of a
leopard killing a deer. Boston Tran
script
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
Keeping Cabbage.

The old plan of burying or putting
cabbage in trenches during winter or
for winter use has become obsolete, and
more simple and easy plan has been
adopted American Gardening says:
Where cabbage is grown on large
scale for shipping purposes the best plan
is to lift the cabbage and stack them
two tiers deep and as closely as they
can be placed in an orchard, or wood if
convenient, and cover with leaves to
the depth of two or three inches, the
leaves to be kept in place by slight
covering Of earth. In this way the heads
will keep perfectly sound all winter,
and they can be easily taken up as
wanted for shipping.
.'For family use cabbages can be kept
in the same way. only it will not be
necessary to make the second layer. It
is quite important to keep them little
below the freezing point. 1t has been
suggested to keep them in some con-
venient building, but this plan has al
ways resulted in failure, as the dry at
mosphere is fatal. Cabbage must be
kept moist and cool. The slightest wilt
ing renders it unfit for the table, ="
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-30
SOME REMEDIES.

For diphtheritio sore throat, a piece of
calnphor the size of pea held In the
mouth till dissolved
For worms, an injection of lump the
size of hazelnut of bitter aloes in one
half pint of hot milk.
For earache. five drops of chloroform
on little cotton in clay pipe and the
Yapor blown into the ear
For thrush, putting in child's mouth
two or three times day equal parts Of
borax, saltpeter and loaf sugar well pow
dered together.
For poison swallowed, IA heaping tea
spoonful each of salt and mustard In half
glass of cold water, followed by strong
coffee or the whites of two raw eggs
Ruth Hall in Good Housekeeping.