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The sun., 1897-10-27
HENRY GEORGE NURSERY RHYMES.
The cits Haven't Got the Only Minor Feet in
tho Campaign.


tho Campaign.
he "littery fellors" among tho Henry George
workers are nothing II not pro-
c. and yesterday, when they wero getting out
npaign documents, their fancy ran to nursery
ming. These were the results:
LITTLE 30 PEEr.
Bo Peep Plat
Has talked through his hat
TIL you can't find rhyme or reason.
What will he do,
This little "me top
He'll be dead as . smelt next season.
LITTLE BOY SETH.
Little Boy Seth,
You've footed your horn.
And nothing has happened. You're all fcrlorn
Where will you be when the polls shall closer
Up the salt River" A. far a. it goes,
OLD MOTHER HUBBARD.
Old Mother Parkhurst
Came out OF the dark, INST
To get few votes for Low.
They told him to quit,
Neither logic nor wit
Was wanted; they called for dough.
LITTLE MISS MUFFET.
Miss Mufret Van wyck
Can ride on bike.
Though her legs arc remarkably weak
She can ride. abe can walk.
But she surely can't talk;
The result Will he published next week.
JACK AND JILL
They passed n hat,
For funds to buy the voters,
George got in
Without the tin;
The polls are tired OF " noaters."
HIcKERY pIcKERy DOCK.
Hickery Dictery Dock.
How Is Election stockp
The bettors are blufing,
But barring all stuf4ng,
Henry George Is as Ilrm as . rock.
Pussy CAT, PUSSY CAT.
Little Seth. little Seth,
Where have you been
Electioneering the county OF Queen;
Little Seth. little Seth,
What saw you there2
Not enough Low votes TO pay for the fare.
HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE.
Hey Diddle Diddle.
Now, here's q good riddle:
Who's going to be Mayor. and whyl
The rublc's Joker.
II hollers at Croker
And then votes for George on the sly.
OLD KING COLE.
Old King Dick
Had big gold brick.
And big gold brick had he.
He bet II on election,
And then in detection
he sailed for the old countreo.
The sun., 1897-10-27
$4,000,
The rcsoH rrrrc,'.a ou' expectations arcrold.

promising every suit TO hc rs goo in every par
tcmlara those made by youF high.oncl tailors
al $40.
The sun., 1897-10-27

Fourteen OF the thirty-hve members of the
Executive Committee OF tho sound money
parade year ago met at the Cit headquarters
last night in response to call sent out by
Mayor Strong and passed resolutions indorsing
Seth Low.
Thirteen other members sent kilograms allow
ing tho use of their names. Mayor Strong WAS
not present, and Charles F. Horner presided
They indorscd Low only as individuals. and did
not attempt To speak for the jines OF business
they represented. The men who were present
or allowed their names to be signed TO the rcso-
lutonS were:
William l.. strong. Charles F. Horrer. +. A.
Drake, Alexander Caldwell. George J. Sea
bury. John !. Baker, Eugene II. Conk-
lin., Joseph W. Gibson, James D.; Smith.
II. Williams. Charles l.. Tiffany, G. F.
Perkins. II. W. Banks. Horace 5. Ely. Charles
II. Simmons, Robert 0lyphant. Wheeler II.
Peckham. ID. p. Morse. Edward l.. Moyneaux,
w. A. Mas, Gustave a. jahn. j. F. Cullman, A.
d. Clinch. Henry Drisler, Jr., and Charles ).
Dewey.
The sun., 1897-10-27

The "littery fellcrs" among tho Henry George
headquarters workers are nothing II not pro-
life. and yesterday, when they wero getting out
campaign documents, their fancy ran to nursery
rhyming. These were the results:
The sun., 1897-10-27
GEORGE GOES FOR CROKER.
THOUSANDS CHEER HIS ASSAULTS
ON THE TAMM1NT moss.

says re Does Not Believe Croker Could KS
cape Conviction-IO o. 900 People Listen TO
him at Two RouainR MeetInEs-spellbinders
on Trucks Arouse the East side voters.
II the size and enthusiasm OF audiences give
any indication OF tho strength OF candidates.
then Henry George is going 10 poll
tremendous vote in Yorkvillo and Harlem
He spoke at two meetings in the upper part OF
Manhattan Island last night md, at n mod
crate estimate. there wcro certainly lo,ooo
persons in his audiences At both meet
ings the poopc wero 30 full OF enthusiasm
that they interrupted Mr.. George and
the other speakers timo and time again
with cheers, hand clappinEs, shrieks Of delight
or cornmendatOry comments. The people
shouted. too, for Charles w. Dayton. and plainly
enjoyed his attacks upon tho dictatorship OF
Richard Croker in Tammany Hail.
Tho biggest OF the meetings was at tho leo
Palace, at l07th street and Lexington avenue.
Tho managers OF tho building said that 1t
would seat 5000 persons. Before Mr. George
arrived every chair on the floor spacc. which is
as big apparently rs the arena OF Madison
Square Garden, was occupied and there were lots
of persons standing. At tho other meeting at Sui
COS Harlem River Park. at Second avenue and
126th street, 5000 persons or more were
crowded into the half OF tho long hall which
faces tho rustrum. and many hundreds moro
came and went away again, because 1t was IN.
available space left in the rear hail. back OF the
boxes;
and he declared that 1t was the biggest meeting
that he, had tvcr seen in Harlem. His open.
Ing address was Delivered amid "a, all sorts
Mention Of Mr. Gcorso Oor or Mr.: DAYTON brought
forth round after round OF cheers and ap.
plause. Croker's name was signal for cries OF
"ugh! ugh and Misses:
Tho audience was evidently on tentcrhooks
to see and hear George and Dayton.
et the entrance it interrupted Mr.. East
ana @ ehessins 70 cries o. Here they so@s
Of many George men from Their HEADQUARTERS
At Ninety.siXth street; As the men m marched i IN
the the 0eGd od TSsn and he u in
SicRce stamped in unison Snra With the time
was again drowned by cheers as Mr.. George
came on the stage. accompanied by Mrs. George
While the cheering was at its height, little
girl, Bertha Witkowski, appeared With pretty
bunch Of flowers, and going % to Mrs George tried
Of your life be-. When Tom johnson arrived
and the rest of what she said was inaudible.
Her set speech meyer finished, but she stood
brayely waiting until her voice could again
Mrs. George she turned to the audience and
shouted:
Mrs. George!" and there was another outburst
MI. George had been announced as the first
speaker. but 1t seemed as IL the people would
down there Would come cries from nj the '1i men
The Trolley Giee Club was brought forward
and gave an occasion for more applause and
tbs s Sy ssnE SsoTss to
GA wicked man is Croker,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
II. A. DeHART
GIVE US A CALL.
AN ovERRATED BEAST.

A Sudan Correspondents INDUCES In Re
Elections on the Camel.
The London News correspondent with
she Sudan expedition sent the following
reflections on the camel:
The camel, be it at once said, is an
overrated beast. There is great deal Of
him, but he is not for his size nearly so
strong as the useful, unpretentious dom
key. Then, too, his anatomy is SO
strangely conceived. His legs are at
tached to his great, unwieldy carcass
with seemingly SO little consideration
for the uses to which (merely viewed as
legs) he might be expected to put them,
and his neck and tail are SO obviously
disproportionate to the rest of him, and
both SO useless, that the camel is some
how incomplete, or, owing to some mis-
take, was never finished off at all.
Even the qualities he possesses tend
to strengthen one in this bewildering
suspicion. For instance, he can kick
himself violently in the-let us say the
front of the back-with his fore leg. He
does it constantly. Time and again have
Idevoted long hours (fruitlessly, must
admit) to an attempt to win the conf
dence of my favorite camel-my favorite
because he is less cruel to me than the
others. I have wooed him with the soft
notes of my kourbash, have tempted
him with the thorniest of mimosa
branches. l have pulled tobacco smoke
into his supercilious nostrils.
And then, just as | have fancied l
saw the light of sympathy dawning in
his long dashed eye, he has risen all Of
one movement to his feet, grinned at
me in frightful manner, disclosing a
forest of green and broken teeth. and
gazing at me full, with more vindiotiye
contempt than I have ever marked in
any human eye, has kicked himself vio-
lently in the stomach and lay down
again, as who should say, "Now, go
away and don't bother, like a good
boy"
Then he can gnaw his own tail-his
absurd, useless little rag of tail that
isn't even worth biting. But is that an
object worth living for? Or, again, he
has, to be sure, seven stomachs, of
which, vain beast, he is SO Unfortunately
proud Gas though he had anything to do
with it, that he is constantly fetching
up one of them to show you and blows
it out from his great, ugly throat in a
horrid, glittering, transparent bulb for
you to admire.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
German Postage Stamps.

Contrary to the custom of most mon
archs, Emperor William II Of Germany
has never allowed his efigy to be en-
graved upon postage stamp, and philat-
elists and the world in general have
wondered at the modesty in this respect
Of the young kaiser, who usually is not
averse to having his features displayed
before the eyes of his admiring subjects.
No direct and authentic reason has been
given why the Prussian black eagle has
not been long ago replaced by the kali
ser's effigy, but perhaps an explanation
may be found in the strain of supersti-
tion which more than once has infu-
enced the action of the Hohenzollerns.
The Prussian stamps issued from 1850
to 1858 bore the image of Frederick
William ". But the year before he be-
came legally insane he had it replaced
with the black eagle, for he could not
bear to see his countenance soiled and
multilated by the postoffice employees.
A few years ago an enterprising Berlin
manufacturer had lead pencils made,
upon which was stamped a BIAS relief
head of William II. The minister Of ed
ucation at once ordered schoolteachers
not to allow their pupils to use these
particular pencils "since the children
might disfigure the face of their SOW
ereign by biting the pencils with their
teeth. New York Tribune.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
The Songs of the Navajoes.

With the photograph we may note
down what is exactly the musical se-
quence in original songs. In ''The Land
of Sunshine" is an article entitled
ssSongs Of the Navajoes, I" and there are
notes of the music, as recorded on the
photographic cylinders, accurately scor-
ed. Mr.. John Comfort Fillmore writes :
From the standpoint of the scientific
student of folk song, all these Navajo
songs which / have had the opportunity
to study are extremely interesting This
interest, too, is of several different
kinds. The Navajoes, like all other maxi
ers of folk music, use their songs as a
medium of poetic and emotional express
sion, and it is very interesting to note
the quality of melody they employ for
this purpose. One may note the range
and kind of intervals, the kind of rhythm
and meter and the quality of tone
which these people find appropriate to
the expression of certain ideas and feel
ings in song. A comparison Of the Ma
yajo songs in these particulars with the
corresponding songs Of other tribes and
races would be q most interesting eth
biological study, especially as the inner
most life of all our aboriginal tribes is
embodied in their music. So far as l
know, all their prayers and expressions
Of religious feeling find outlet in song
So do all the deeper social emotions,
and the historical records of the tribes,
the traditions Of noble deeds, the memo
ries of good and bad fortunes received
at the hands of the gods, all are record
ed and handed down in the songs OF
the various societies
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
WAS THERE TO eLoAT.

An Oversight by the Gas Company That
Gladdened His Heart.
There was look Of joy about his face
as he went into the gas Office that made
the man behind the counter glad in his
soul. It was SO different from the ex-
preston which visitors ordinarily wore.
He walked to one window and then to
another and stood around and smiled.
"Can we do anything for your" the
clerk inquired.
"Nope. Go right ahead with your
business. Don't mind me. had few
spare minutes, and came here to
gloat -
"Over whom?" was the surprised
query.
"Over the company"
"T-I must say don't quite under
stand you"
81 suppose I'd better explain it. It's
too good to keep. But get SC much en-
joyment out of it that you II have to ex-
cuse me if / tell it slow, so as to make
it last longer. You people are very par
ticular about your meters.
'sOf course. We have to be. y
you've got it down SO you can meas
ure the extra pressure that occurs all
through the city if one of the workmen
happens to cough in your gas factory. .
"We haven't got it quite SO close as
that, but we've done our best to protect
our interests. y
"Well, had occasion to have a san
itary plumber in my house yesterday.
He's the man that made the discovery.
He informed me that there was whole
lot of sewer gas in my house that you
never discovered. You didn't have any
arrangements for measuring it in the
meter, and it got clear past you. I'm
not naturally vindictive, but | couldn't
resist the temptation to come around
and tell you about it and make you feel
bad. 49, Washington Star.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
COOKS ON A PILLOW.
Domestic Economy In Wong Seeks Til
Chinatown Home.


Domestic Economy In Wong Seeks Tiny
Chinatown Home.
The smallest residence in San Fran
cisco is, of course, located in Chinatown.
1t is not, however, at the end of dark
alley in damp cellar. In many of these
are some very diminutive roosting
places, but they are elegant homes and
flats compared to Wong Seeks private
residence on the corner of Waverly place
and Clay street.
Wong's home is about as big as his
skin-a trifie larger, Of course, to allow
for his wooden shoes that go to bed with
him, but the difference is not material.
Wong's home is box nailed to brick
wall over the fruit stand where Wong
makes living that would not keep q
white baby fat.
Directly opposite-that is to say, on
the southeast corner of Waveriy place
and Clay street-there is another China
man who has residence similar to that
Of Wong. But his is larger than Wong
whether owing to larger wooden shoes
or to just what is not known. But il
measures fully foot more in length anG
is an inch or SO more III thickness.
The dimensions of Wong's private
residence-he lives in it all by himself
are feet in length, feet in width
with ceiling height Of 8 feet clear Of
the gas fixtures. For pillow Wong
has 80 cent oil stove, and in the morn
ing he cooks his breakfast on his pillow.
He uses rope ladder to get into hil
home, and when he has tucked himself
in for the night he pulls up his ladder
and is safe.
Wong is saving money and will some
day take the steamer for China and car
off 200 or 800 American gold dollars Il
the slums of Hongkong, where he viii
live like prince. San Francisco Call
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28

and after imbibing 60 back to their feed
ing. A flock of so large geese can often
consume 80 buckets day.
Statements as to the profits in goose
farming are hard to obtain. Mr. William
Rankin, breeder of long experience,
says that he once put goose and gander
in pen by themselves as an expert
ment. The goose laid 81 eggs, of which
81 Matched. One gosling was killed and
the remaining SO sold for $81.47. I'm
der the ''new method of pasturing
adopted by the Rhode Island experiment
station $50 of this would be clear profit.
OF course there is no use saying that any
man can start with two geese and make
$50 year from them. 1t is a business
that requires long and careful study. To
succeed man must be patient, observ-
ing, gentle and untiring in his work,
besides being student of the wisest
bird that ever walked the barnyard.
Of the various breeds the Toulouse
and Emblem are the most popular, but
the African is a fine bird and in some
respects superior to any.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
THE BLACK SNAKE.


E% As As Much ~ Home In Tree Tops as
on Terra Firma.
There has been much discussion among
naturalists and in sportsmen' g journals
regarding the ability of the black snake,
our one constructor, to travel swiftly
amid the branches Ten thousand men
have seen the sleek black streak Of rope
accomplish the feat easily. Here is but
one incident.
The black snakes habitat includes Illi-
nois. LasalIe county is not far north
Of the center Of the state, and perhaps a
little west Of the center line drawn
north and south. There are some very
good woods in Lasalle county, because
through that county run two of the
Mississippi's tributaries - the Illinois
and one Of it's branches, the Vermilion.
Bailey's creek is one Of the little farm
land tributaries of the Vermilion river.
Along the creek are reaches OF woodland,
or at least there were awhile ago. In
those bits of woods-bits as compared
with Michigan forests-there are and
have been black snakes, great fellows,
worthy of their reputation farther east.
This is what happened one day when a
young fellow went hunting. 1t is worth
the telling, because it illustrates the
black snakes nimbleness among the tree
tops:
Wandering along cautiously and qui-
city, looking for shot on either side.
the young man heard suddenly an I'M
common rustling among the leaves
above him. He looked up and saw some.
thing that astonished him. A fox SPUR
Ireland fox squirrel is the biggest Of
| the squirrel kind-was leaping from
limb to limb, from tree to tree, in mortal
| alright, evidently fleeing from some
deadly enemy. Close behind him, curry
ing, twining and twisting, but with all
| details of its locomotion invisible from
/ below, SO swift its progress and so easy
it's passing from limb to limb and tree
/ to tree, came three to five feet of black
ness. It was black snake pursuing the
fox squirrel. Its chase was hopeless, but
the ability and the hungry earnestnes'
| Of this one constructor of our northern
woods were demonstrated remarkably
As for the man underneath-well, ht
was a young fellow with shotgun
| The young fellow with shotgun is {
reasonably good shot in the country
and he kills snakes. He poured loat
Of shot into that black streak among
the branches, and it dropped to TIN
ground, merely foul, dead, moderately
sized specimen of Boscanion constructor
| Recreation.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
GEESE.
A Profitable Business For Those whs
Understand It,

According to good authority the Rhode
Island farmers have in some cases made
fortunes in breeding and fattening
geese. Whether there be any secret in
their methods or whether 1t can be done
by any intelligent man or woman "de-
panent sayeth not. Z" At all events sew
eral farmers of that little state have fat
tened geese and their own pocketbooks
for good many years. According to
the Rhode Island theory, goose is as
much grazing animal as sheep or a
SOW. Under it 200 geese can be pastured
on an acre up to s weeks old, at which
age they are taken to small pen and
fattened by feeding cracked corn, beef
scraps and sweet corn stalks. Another
thing is not perhaps generally known
namely, that while geese do not require
SO much water to swim in, they need q
large quantity to drink. About once ev-
cry ten minutes member of the flock
is inclined to raise its head and say as
plainly as possible, Let's take drink. y
Then they march up to the water dish
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
A Successful Club.

The question box" Of st. Barthoio-
news Girls club in New York is a
plan employed by the club to gain gen.
eral information. All sorts of questions
are dropped into the box by such of the
500 members as feel the need Of enlight-
eminent OH any topic, and once in every
fortnight the president and vice presi-
dent Of the club meet with it, and the
questions are read and discussed. This
is one of the most successful working
girls clubs in New York city.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
MUNYON
TALKS ON
DYSPEPSIA
HOW TOCURE YOURSELF

In all forms of stomach trouble Munyon's Dys-
pepsia Cure will promptly cure where there are
such symptoms as pain or soreness In the stom-
ach indigestion or distress after eating pressure
and fnllness in the stomach. shortness OF breath,
poor appetite, coated tongue sour or bitter rails
ing from the stomach. heartburn, wind on the
stomach, constipation, dizzlness, faintness and
lost energy.
When these symptoms are associated with
bliousness, yellow coated tongue, nausea, bitter
taste in the mouth and sallow skin take Munyon's
Liver Cure in alienation with the Dyspepsia
Cure, an hour apart Where there is obstinate
constipation keep the bowels open once day
by using Munyon's Constipation Cure until they
become regular under the effect of the Dyspepsia
cure. When there are troublesome heart s, mp
toms alternate Munyon's Heart Cure with the
Dyspepsia Cure If there is great nervousness
or inability to sleep, alternate Munyon's Nerve
Cure with the Dyspepsia Cure. II the blood Is
poor in quality, alternate Blood Cure and .Dys-
pepsia Cure. BY this plan of treatment one can
eradicate the worst forms Of stomach troubles
and their complications and make the cure ner
manent.
A separate cure for each disease. AT al
druggists, mostly 26 cents vial
Personal letters to Prof. Munyon, 1900 Arch
street, Philadelphia, Pa, answered with fret
medical advice for any disease.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
49,
AGARM F0gAD
aAD GARDEN
WAFER I'M The APLARY.
Losses Resulting From a Neglect to Sup
ply It-Plan of Watering.

Losses Resulting From a Neglect to Sup
ply It-Plan of Watering.
At the last annual convention of the
North American Beekeepers' assooia-
tion the Importance of watering the api-
AIRY received attention. The subject was
introduced by paper read by E. Whit
comb of Nebraska. He said:
The necessity of water by the honey
bees is to dissolve honey which some
times becomes candied in the cells, and
in brood rearing they can make but lit
tic progress without an abundant sup
ply of water In early spring, when
compelled to go long distances or to Sc
cure supply from MIGRANTS, tanks.
brooks or drains, the losses will be be
yond comprehension, and the careful
apiarist is fully aware of the value Of
these little water gatherers at this sea-
son of the year. He could we'll afford to
lose four times their number month or
two later on. 1t is apparent that many
cases of SO called spring dwindling is
traceable to the want of water of the
proper temperature supplied at conven-
lent places in the apiary.
The advantages of providing water
for the bee are first, to avoid thirst; sec
ond, when allowed to forage away from
the apiary they obtain oftentimes that
which is impure and of so low tenn
perature that it is injurious to the deli
cate organism of the bee, and it becomes
chilled and cannot return to the hive.
To obviate these difficulties | bring
the water in close proximity to the col
ony in all its purity and in condition
of temperature best suited to meet the
requirements of the bee. Thus she may
secure an abundant supply on making
the shortest possible journey to and fro
and also at a temperature even warmer
than the surrounding atmosphere. To
accomplish this I use the half gallon
fruit jar, removing the screw top and
rubber and taking an inch board from
four to eight inches square. Now, with
small gauge or common pocketknife,
cut a groove diagonally across the block
nearly from one corner to the opposite
one, taking care not to cut the groove
quite to the corner. The center of this
block may be cut out to suit your fancy
and may be turned if so desired, and
you have an excellent and cheaply de-
vised watering apparatus.
Now fill the jar with water, placing
the block over the mouth of the jar, in
vert the whole and set in convenient
places or desired points in the apiary.
To avoid the difficulty of readily attract
ing the bee to its new watering place
would recommend slightly sweetening
the water in these jars for a day or two,
and everything will move on smoothly
afterward So far as our observation has
gone during the height of brood rear
ing, and taking no note of corporations,
five well stocked colonies will use the
majority of one of these jars of water
daily