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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
THE CITY OF cANEA.
The Capital of Crete and Scene of Re-
cent Trnmhle

The Capital of Crete and Scene of RE-
cent Trouble.
Canea, or Khania, since 1841 the cap
ital of Crete, and it's principal seaport,
is situated on the northern coast of the
island, and about Is miles from its
western extremity on the isthmus of
the Akrotiri peninsula, which lies be-
tween the Bay Of Canea and the Bay of
Suda. It is on the site of the ancient
Cydonia, is the principal commercial
town of the island, with a population OF
about $4,000. 1t is closely built, ir-
regular and oyercrowded, and sur
rounded by q massive Venetian wall.
Of late years few of the streets have
been widened.
The ordinary buildings are of wood,
though few of the more important are
of more solid materials. There are
some Greek churches, a number of
Turkish mosques, Jewish synagogue,
a military hospital in an old Venetian
building, and substantially construct
ed prison. The fosse is laid out in
gardens; public gardens have been con-
structed outside the walls and artesian
wells have been bored by the govern
ment. The harbor is 1900 feet long,
formed by an ancient transverse mole,
indicated by lighthouse and protect
cd by fort. The harbor Is shallow,
but affords safe anchorage for vessels
of 300 tons.
Oil, soap and wax are the principal
exports; shipbuilding on a small scale
is carried on in the port, and there is
considerable manufacture of leather.
The town is the seat of the Greek
bishop, suffragan to the metropolitan
of Gambia. It is also the official resi-
dence of the European consuls. In
1856 the town suffered severely from an
arthquake-Toledo Blade.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
BASEMENT PLAN.

diagram. The water tank, it will be
noticed, is right in the center of the
barn. and large gates expedite the han
ding of the cattle back and forth from
the tank to the stalls or to the yards if
they are turned out
There are good sized box stalls for the
ervice bulls, with an exercising yard
opening out from each, and in the south
wing there are four box stalls for cows
calving in cold weather, or for any 9TH
er use desired The driveways are 10
feet wide, SO that team can be driven
through the barn from either direction
and the manure loaded right on to a
wagon or spreader and carted immedi-
ately to the fields This basement is
surrounded by stone wall and is very
warm, though amply lighted and venti-
lated by numerous windows and doors.
The water is piped underground to the
trough from well and windmill outside
and is controlled by float valve or by a
cut off rod, just as desired.
On the second or main floor there are
grain bins and corneribs, s by "a and
IA feet high, and office and storeroom,
each IA by Is. A space is reserved for
feed cutter and for hay rakeand hay load
er and there is additional room in three
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
GUESSED WHAT HE NEEDED.
Chnppie Aimed to Impress the Hotel
Guests and Succeeded.

Chnppie Aimed to Impress the Hotel
Guests and Succeeded.
Now and then Chicago draws chap
pie in the great shuttle of life. The
other day one arrived here from an in
land town who had few points to
spare in his trunk.
He took up his residence in an arts
tocratic family hotel, where he APP
peared religiously each night at a
seven o'clock dinner In the evening
dress of a second-class swell This was
all very commendable and cleanly, and
not at all extraordinary where 80 per
cent. of the men did the same thing.
But the good impression awakened
by the chastity of the newcomers APP
pearance in the ineffable bosom and tie
was obscured by his attempt to order
his dinner in as much French as he
deemed would be Ineligible. The
sorority of his final order for s'demi
tasse" was good forfall the surrounding
tables, If not for the buffers pantry.
As the first week rolled on the young
man grew more Frenchy, more mellow,
more metropolitan in spirit, and on
the occasion of his first evening at
home made his way to the smoking
room, where he arranged himself
dangerously and picturesqueIy in an
easy chair.
Near him was the station of small
colored Buttons.
.Garconi Garconl" called out the
oriental one, but little William stood,
with his heavy. seal-like eyes rolled up
ward and his great paws crossed SOL
EMMY over his brass-buttoned jacket,
regardless and needless of the over
whelming honor being done him.
Il say, there, Garcon. won't you bring
NOAH
Some brains, William, for this
chap" growled en- apoplectic man on
the other side of the room. Chicago
Tribune.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
A NOVEL INDUSTRY.
How One Man Makes Living by Blu,
fnw Canadian Money

How One Man Makes a Living by Buy
ing Canadian Money.
All through that part of the country
(northern Ohio) there is discount of
} cents on every Canadian dollar. OF
course Canadian money is not as much
in circulation as is the legal tender of
the United States, but there is enough
for his purpose. A man advertised in
all surrounding country towns that he
would redeem Canadian money for 30
cents on the dollar. It was some time
before he had any results from this adj
yertising. 1t was like the man who
stood on London bridge at midnight
and offered to give away sovereigns.
People laughed at him. The farmers
were shy. They thought it was a
swindling game of some kind and left
him severely alone. One day man
came in with $40 Canadian money. 1t
was of all shapes and sizes from the
five-cent piece that looks like dime
to dollar bill drawn on the Bank of
Montreal. If he had spent it he could
have secured eight dollars worth of
goods for it. My man gave him nine
big silver dollars in United States
money for it. Before the week was
out he had exchanged United States
dollars for $3.50 worth of Canadian
money. This would give him a profit
of $25 wherever Canadian money is as
good as our own.
From that time on the business grad
ually increased, until to-day he aver
ages about $3.50 week. Instead of
having the farmers come to him he
goes to them and buys their accumu-
lated savings of Canada coin. They are
all his customers and know him we'll
in the five years they have done bust
ness together.
"Are you not afraid of competition
in your business in case it becomes
generally known 2" asked. NO." said
he. you see. it requires comparatively
large amount of money as starting
capital. Then / have to have men in
the frontier cities who will give me
United States money for my Canada
currency. generally take a trip twice
a year to Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago
AMI Buffalo, where ! make these ex-
changes. All this requires years OF
preparation, and no outsider could step
in and make exchanges with NY
patrons, as they have all the money
they can handle now, even at two
per cent. commission on the dollar. -
Buffalo Express.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
IN THE coRNFIELD.

Deep and Shallow Cultivation - Results
Gained at Several Experiment Stations.
Many good corn growers produce good
crops by the old methods of deep STIR
ring and look upon surface cultivation
as a mere fad. When soils were virgin
and teeming with vegetable matter and
plant food, deep tillage with root prun-
ing may have been the proper method,
but theory and practice, each modified
by the other, teach new lesson in the
closing years Of the present century.
The Ohio experiment station began
studying the comparative effect of deep
and shallow culture of corn in 1888. At
that time the implements available for
shallow culture were imperfect, and for
two years the results were negative or
slightly in favor of deep culture. Dur
ing recent years general attention has
been drawn to this subject, especially by
the results attained at the Illinois ex-
pertinent station, and manufacturers
have produced implements better adapt
ed to shallow culture. With some of
these implements the work has been
continued in Ohio since 1891, with re
suits uniformly in favor of the shallow
culture, the average yield from Guilt
waiting one inch and half deep with
the spring tooth cultivator being six
bushels per acre greater than from Gull
tivating four inches with the double
shovel.
The same problem has also been
taken up at 10 other stations besides the
two named, with results generally ia
voring shallow culture. Counting each
seasons experiments at each station as
a single test, As such tests had been re-
ported up to the close of 1896. OF these,
81 showed larger yield from shallow
culture, 7 were inconclusive and IL
showed larger yields from deep culture.
Of these latter, however, cultivating
only three inches deep was in some
cases called "deep culture. !"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
RIDES ON CLERICAL MILEAGE.
Drummer's Amusing Experience
with a Railway Conductor.


with a Railway Conductor.
For the first time in his long career
ON the road the affable drummer found
himself in the railroad depot half an
hour in advance of train time. When
he discovered his mistake his wrath
knew no bounds, and words choice and
rare were hurled in every direction as
he stood in front Of the big clock and
regulated his own misleading time
piece The mere thought of having yio-
! lated the ethics of his profession so
violently as to be found lounging about
in railroad waiting-room was more
than he could tolerate. His counten-
ance softened visibly, however, as he
espied the portly figure of his old
friend Cotton with his sample case filed
with small walls of sour mash and So
noma wines.
''Had funny experience last trip
out, said Cotton, "and had the pleasure
of sidetracking conductor on a scalp
er's ticket. He knew his business all
right enough, but my presence of mind
won the day."
Don't exhaust your vocabulary in
the preface" exclaimed the affable
| drummer, but give the story and let
me be the Judge of it's merits"
well, it was this way" continued
Cotton. when came back from the
south three weeks ago my expense ac-
count looked like gas balloon, and the
head boollkeeper warned me to be on
| the lookout for trouble from the in
side Office Two days later l was or
dered out on special mission, and, be-
| ing somewhat short of cash, dropped
into the nearest scalper, and was lucky
enough to be able to purchase the
remnants of 1,000-mile book 1t
had been issued to Rev. Lucius Bingle,
| of Detroit, but of course paid no att
| tention to the name and climbed into
the smoking car in regular fashion.
without loss of time planted my
self comfortably near a window, placed
my sample case and valise on the seat
alongside, and after Lighting a cigar
proceeded to peruse the latest copy of
The Standard. When the conductor
reached me was in the act of taking
small swallow from my flask, but l
reached for the mileage book and
handed it to the boss of the train. He
glanced at the name and then at me
and remarked:
. "'Mr. Bingle, glad to see you are en-
joying yourself. How is the Sunday
school getting on nowadays?
For moment was stunned" con-
tinued Cotton, but T suddenly recol-
lected the name of Rev. Lucius Bingle
on the corner of the book and felt like
jumping through the window. Twas
supposed to be clergyman. and there
was with sample cases, cigars, whisky
and a sporting paper in the smoking
car. looked the conductor squarely in
the face, and told him | had removed
from Detroit and was engaged in evan
| gelical work among the commercial
travellers along the road, and was en-
route to Milwaukee to conduct re
| vival under the auspices of the Brewery
Workers league. Would you believe it,
the conductor tore out the coupons for
the trip and left the car humming:
Just Tell Them That You Saw Me-
Narrow escape, don't you think ?''-Chi-
caro- Chronicle.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
LIVELY BEAR STORY.
How Lizzie Perkins Protected Her
Honey with an Umbrella.


Honey with an Umbrella.
Lizzie Perkins, IL years old, has sud-
denly acquired local fame. Like many
other children who were born and
reared in the AdirondacLs, Lizzie is not
afraid Of bears unless the animals be-
come threatening. On more than one
occasion Lizzie has come across bears
when playing, but never until the other
day was she molested by one. 1t hap
prned that Lizzie was on her way from
the house of a distant relative to her
own home. Lizzie carried a pot of
honey under one arm and an umbrella
under the other.
AS is well known, bears possess an al
most unconquerabie liking for honey.
They love honey almost as much as they
do life, and will run risks to get their
paws in the sweet stuff. Bruin came
ambling awkwardly after Lizzie. The
child had no thoughts Of bears, and it
was not until she heard snort at her
elbow that she turned and saw the
black bear. There was nothing partic-
ularly. ferocious looking about the ami
nal. AS Lizzie turned around the bear
stumbled backward after the fashion OF
a clumsy Newfoundland dog. Then it
SAT upon its launches and eyed the
child.
It did not take Lizzie long to guess
that the bear was after the honey. She
knew well that she could escape the
bears claws by putting down the honey
and running off. But Lizzie wasn't that
kind of girl. She meant to keep the
honey and outwit the bear.
She carefully placed the pot of honey
on the ground. Then she opened the UNI
brella, and, with shrill cry, darted at
the bear, waving her unique weapon in
the most threatening manner. The
bear, taken by surprise, tumbled over
backward. and then, scrambling to his
feet, fed ingloriously up the trail.
Lizzie picked up her pot Of honey and
started home. Soon she saw the bear
jogging after her. She again opened
the umbrella and resorted to the same
tactics as before. Again the bear ran
away, this time for good. Lizzie told
the story of her adventure when she
reached home. She is now being
praised for her presence of mind.--N
Y. Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
COLT TRAINING.
Be Careful Not to Brighten Him or Drive
Him Too Far.

Him Too Far.
The late A. J. Feek, one of the most
successful developers of young stock of
the past ten years, believed in giving
the colt his first lesson hitched double
with an older horse, especially were the
colt of high mettle and spirited, putting
him first one day on the near and the
next day on the off side The advantage
in this is that it keeps the mouth
straight, better accustoms him to the
bit and makes him familiar with the
pole ON either side. After colt has
been driven double for, say, ten days or
two weeks, and has become 'waywised"
and handy in turning, backing, stand
ing and knows the meaning of whoa, !"
hitch singly to a cart and for the first
few times at least use a kicking strap
for safety, being careful that the strap
is properly adjusted-that is, about half
way between the roots of the tail and
coupling-and fastened in the proper
position to prevent slipping either way,
thus preventing frightening the colt and
possibly doing more harm than good.
Then buckle loosely to the shafts on
either side of the cart.
Do not attempt too long drive at
first Oftentimes one mile the first few
days is better than two. Judgment must
be used here as well as at all other
stages of colts development. How
ever, it may be safe to assume that bet
ter results will be obtained by hitching
a colt up three times day for one mile
drive than TO hitch him up Cat least at
this stage of the development) once
day and drive three miles before I'M
hitching.
Care must also be taken not to keep
the colt in harness long enough to get
tired. Better bring him in while he has
something left in him. A little more
time will be needed to break colt in
this way, bus the result will justify the
extra time and patience in better bro
ken colt, with stout heart and better
wind.
Look well to your colts feet. think
this is one feature of colt training that
has had less careful attention than most
any other one thing. Do not let them
get footsore when driving. As soon as
their toes begin to break up or their
feet begin to get tender put on a light
shoe or tip Various kinds Of the latter
are in use, weighing from three to eight
ounces each, as required. One kind of
tip that has been successfully used is
made with a Hange on either side of
the toe proper, extending upward about
an inch and adapted to receive a screw
to fasten the tip to the foot, without
cutting the hocf or using nails These
tips pass around the hoof about two
thirds Of the way to the heel, as PRO
lection to the toe is all that is needed
for colts. Another advantage tips have
over regular shoes is that with the lat
ter colts are apt to get leg weary and
hit themselvea q habit which. once
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
News and Notes.

A fungous enemy has been discovered
for the San Jose scale.
There are indications of an advance
in hog products.
The Dalkeith is variety of Brussels
sprouts highly recommended
Early Summer and Henderson's Sue
cession cabbages are excellent for second
early and general crop.
Thousands of failures to obtain a
"catch" of clover are due to a lack of
lime Lime "sweetens'' the soil and
thus enables the clover bacteria to
"catch on explains Rural New
Yorker.
China sends to Cornell for the direct
or of Chinese experiment station.
Crimson clover loses much of its
value as hay by cutting too late. It is
at it's best when in full bloom and be-
fore any of the heads die.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01

is insidious, and men do not realize that
they are in its clutch. While consumption
is a germ disease, the bacilh will not iu-
wade sound and healthy lungs The lungs
must first be in diseased condition,
First man feels a little out of sorts.
Probably he is overworked and has given
too little time to eating, sleeping and rest
ing His appetite falls off His digestion
gets out of order and his blood does not
receive the proper amount of life giving
nutriment The liver becomes torpid an6
the blood is filed with impurities These
are pumped into every organ of the bod :,
building up unhealthy, half-dead tissr s.
The most harm is done at the weakest spot,
and most frequently that spot is in the
lungs. A slight cold leads to inhamma-
ton, the bacilli invade the lungs and we
have case of consumption.
Ninety eight per cent. of all cases of
consumption are cured by Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery 1t is the great
blood maker and hesh-builder 1t restores
the lost appetite, makes the digestion per-
feet, invigorates the liver, puri6es the
blood, builds new and healthy flesh and
drives out all impurities and disease germs.
1t cures weak lungs, splitting of blood, obsti-
nate coughs and kindred ailments. No hon.
est druggist will recommend a substitute.
Mrs Ursula Durham. of Sistersvil1e, Tyler Co.,
W. Va. writes: N had pain in my side all the
time, had but little appetite and grew very thin.
The Golden Medical Discovery promptly
cured the pain, restored my appetite and in
cre71ed my weight"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
FRONT VIEW.

The details of the basement are very
fullyshown onthe ground plan presented
herewith, and the conveniences of such
an arrangement are very obvious In the
basement and Immediately under the
wagon floor there are located three bins
for grain or ground feed and roots.
They are filled through trapdoors from
above. the shelter or grinder or root
cutter or corn crusher being placed over
the traps and the power furnished by
the belt from the three horse tread pow
er shown in the ground plan Of second
floor. Immediately adjoining the feed
rooms are two calf boxes that will con-
veniently accommodate about 20 young
sters each, and the balance Of the floor
is devoted to double stalls feet deep,
except as otherwise indicated on the
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
a MONKEY wHEELMAN.
The Tiny Simian Enjoys a Spin as
NIL. ~. Ia. NGna4l.

The Tiny Simian Enjoys a Spin as
Much as His Master.
Not content with having dog, a cat,
white rats, rabbits, turtles and other
pets, Aleck Munchweiler, downtown
boy, purchased monkey a few weeks
ago. Because of the little animals
penchant for drinking water from a
hydrant, he has been named Spigots.
Spigots has DEVELOPED a mania for cy-
cling. His master has arranged little
seat on the front of the wheel, and here
the monkey sits, dressed in a pair of red
boomers. The queer pair were out ON
their wheel the other day and attracted
much attention. Spigots enjoyed him
self hugely, and looked with disdain
on the dogs that barked as he rode by.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
FRIGHTENED BY BAD DOGS.

All went well until the wheelman got
as far as Broad and Wharton street, and
there Spigots attempted to stand up
in his seat, getting frightened at two
yicious-looking CANNES, which were
springing up at him. The result was
that he fell and had his right foot run
over. Aleck took him to nearby drug
store and had the wounded part band
aged with care. Spigots now presents
q queer sight, sitting on the front step,
with his arm in a sling, and at the
sight OF a wheel runs into the house
crying piteously.-P Philadelphia Rec
ord
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01

formed, Is apt to become permanent
Tips may be used like horseshoes, both
in front and behind, and should be
made of iron or steel, with the weight
regulated to SUIT the requirements of
the case. Another advantage of tips is
claimed by prominent writer on horse
development, in that they should be
used on tho colts hind feet as protec-
tion, in connection with toe boot,
from scalping
When the colt forms the habit of strik-
ing the coronet-a very sensitive part
he soon begins to hitch and hobble. A
colt which is Cften called mix gated"
is in reality suffering from an injury
by hitting his hind feet with the front
ones and when there is no protection
from scalping. Exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
Pasture Not Enough.

Fresh and succulent grass stimulates
the production of milk beyond what the
nutriment it contains will warrant 1t
is juicy and watery and lacks substance
to such degree that this large produc-
ton of milk will rapidly reduce the
strength, vitality and carcass of the
COW, so that she cannot long continue
this extra flow of milk unless she has
some more substantial food to go with
this fresh grass to keep her up in condi-
ton.
The farmer makes a great mistake
when be abruptly drops off his hay and
grain feed as soon as the COWS go out to
grass in the spring He would probably
see very little difference in the amount
of milk given for awhile, whether he
fed grain and hay with the grass or
not, and for that reason many have
come to the conclusion that when they
did feed grain on early pasture it was
thrown away, and they received no ben
eft from it. But the one who does SO
feed will find that his COWS will keep
up their strength and condition much
better than those not fed, and later in
the summer and fall and even the next
winter will be giving a much better
flow of milk, so that when he comes TO
foot up his account at the end of the
year he will find that for every dollar S
worth of extra feed his cows had while
on fresh grass he has received back at
least So.
It has been our practice fer years to
feed to all COWS giving milk small
grain ration all summer. The advisa-
bility of feeding grain on pasture after
| the grass has come to have plenty of
substance in it may, with some show
of reason, be questioned, but not SO in
the spring. At that time it is folly not
| to feed.
We have experimental to some extent
to Try to determine what grain food
was best to feed on pasture. We have
tried wheat bran, but many COWS dc
not seem to care for it much when the
grass is plenty, and some will refuse to
eat it. They seem to crave something
more concentrated. Corn and oats they
liked much better than bran. and clear
cornmeal better yet, but best of all
| gluten feed.
Now, what we think is the very best
feed for COWS on pasture is about five
pounds of cornmeal and gluten feed
half and half-daily to each COW Civ
ing a fair flow of milk Besides this
| they should have before them every
time they are put in the stable to milk
some good early cut clover hay. They
will eat some every time, no matter
how good the pasture is. Exchange.