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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
FOUND INDIAN RELIC.
Finely Tempered Copper Spear Unearthed
Near Mora. Mimi.

AtNt%A
While men were excavating with a
steam shovel near Mora, Mimi, recent
" they found an old copper spear with
a point measuring 10 inches In length,
tapering to very fine and tempered
firm point The weapon showed the
maker to have been an adept in work
ing copper metal.
ArchRolcgists believe that at some
prehistoric time the country surround
ing Mora was densely inhabited by a
race of people who were much farther
advanced In civilization than the Indi
ans. The many mounds around Fish
lake show that a mighty race Of people
lies slunbering there. whose history is
yet unwritten only as one can read by
the mounds of earth which were used
as sepulchers for their dead and which
demonstrate beyond doubt that they
were numerous as well as powerful
people
Two investigators excayating a
mound found skeleton apparently
embalmed in kind Of cement, which
seemed to be prepared for embalming
the dead. The skeleton appeared to be
in a perfect state of preservation and
showed by measurement a height of
feet for the individual, built in good
proportions. As soon as the air struck
it the bones crumbled and disappeared
Taking the country northeast from
Fish lake, where there is group of 81
mounds. one finds a regular system of
dams extending clear to Lake Superior,
100 miles. in which one can see that
the prehistoric man had regular
means of travel by water from their
great city around Fish lake TO Lake SUI
perior and going south by Snake river
to the gulf of Mexico. = Chicago
Times Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
OUR FIRST WOMEN.


Received Their Education PRINCIPAL.
ly in the Home.
During the first 200 years of our ex-
istence it would have been almost alb
surd to expect that women would be
extensively educated outside the home.
The country was poor, and struggling
with newconditions, and great financial
crises swept over it. There were wars
and rumors of wars. Until after 1872
Is American independence was not an
assured fact. Whatever may be said of
the present, woman's place in America
then was in the home, and nobly did
she fill that place. That she had not
been wholly uninstructed in even ele-
giant learning is evidenced by the share
she took in literature and in the discus
sion of religious and public matters, and
in such personal records as that of
Elder Faunce, who eulogized Alice
Southworth Bradford for 'her exer-
tons in promoting the literary i'm
provement and the department of the
rising generation" Dame schools were
early established for girls, and here
were often found the sons of the farmer
and the mechanic. These were estab-
lished in Massachusetts, in 1885, Late
in 100 girls were admitted through the
summer to Latin schools" where boys
were taught in winter, and in 1889
women began to be associated with men
as teachers. In 1771 Connecticut found
cd = system of free schools in which
boys and girls were taught. In 1894
the Moravians founded a school for
girls at Bethlehem, Pa. Here were edu-
Gated the sisters of Peter Cooper, the
mother of President Arthur, and many
women who have became exponents
of culture.-Mrs. Helen Kendrick john
son, in Appletons' Popular Science
MONTHLY.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
TURNiPs AS A FALL CROP.
Their Marketing Winter Feed For
Young Stock and Oxen.

Their Marketing Value-Winter Feed For
Young Stock and Oxen.
Few farmers recognize or appreciate
the value of turnips as fall crop when
in reality the crop sells for nearly the
same as potatoes when jobbed out to the
retailers in our local markets. More
than double the yield can be obtained
from the same area with much less Ia
Dor involved in cultivation or harvest
ing, while the crop requires only about
one-half of the season to grow In, so
that an early crop of some kind or early
potatoes can be taken off, On every farm
about this time a piece of ground be-
comes vacant, and turnips are one of
the best crops to fill in. A Connecticut
farmer, writing in this connection to
Rural New Yorker, says:
Last season we had piece of about
one-quarter acre on which second early
peas were grown. After these were
marketed the ground was cleared and
pIowed, and on July 20, according to
the adage, ION the 25th of July sow
your turnips, wet Or dry" two ounces
of White Egg turnip and one ounce of
White French rutabaga seed were sown.
The turnips were sown in drills 16
inches apart and thinned to 8 inches
apart and the rutabagas 30 inches and
thinned to or inches.
On Sept. 26, two months from SOW
ing, we commenced pulling the largest
of the White Eggs throughout the plot.
These were washed and thrown on the
wagon each day as it went to market.
They sold readily at 30 and 40 cents per
bushel, and we soon had a good trade
established for white turnips, as they
were smooth and of excellent quality.
This thinning gave the others a chance
to grow, thus giving larger crop
However, before we had got over the
piece they had grown SO large that we
felt like putting them in the middle of
the crates to hide them We thought the
descriptive of the variety as egg, but
the large ones cooked just as well as the
smaller ones. On the approach of win
ter those not sold were pulled and put
in the cellar. The price, however, went
down at this time. SO that only 80 cents
was obtained. This we considered pay
ing price compared with potatoes.
The rutabagas were left out till severe
freezing, which improves their quality.
These were all sold readily in the neigh
borhood at 40 cents per bushel. The
rutabagas should have been sown earlier
to obtain the largest yield. AS it was,
they were Of good size.
Aside from the marketing value of
turnips, they, like carrots and mangels,
have an especial value for winter feed
for cattle, especially young stock and
oxen. If fed to milk COWS, they should
be given Immediately after milking and
fed sparingly The tops also are relished
by cattle. Such foods help digest the
drier part of the ration and tone up the
system. OF course it would not be prac-
ticable to SOW large area with view
to marketing at the prices named, but
it is these catch crops that help to fill
out and give variety to the load taken
to market each day and swell the pock-
etbook.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
80
A SHOT At THE SENATE.
Kentucky Orator who Found the
SENATE Too DeIfbermtive.


sennte Too DeIfbermtfve.
A lot of Kentuckians were talking the
other evening about the great men of
their state, says the Washington Star.
"One of the finest old gentlemen on
earth" said distinguished man in the
group, lis Gen. John S. Williams. or
'Cerro Gordo,' as he is popularity known,
and when was in the senate gallery
the other day, listening to the solemnity
of things, was reminded of the time
when Gen. Williams was Kentucky
representative in that distinguished
body. The general, as we all know in
Kentucky, is a spellbinder, and when he
turns his voice and his brilliant oratory
loose on the blue grass air it stirs things
up 40 feet below the ground and clean
up to the canopy Of the heavens.
when the general came to the senate
he had an idea that what was good in
Kentucky was good anywhere, so he
was ready at any time to let loose any
quantity of eloquence. He had oppor-
tunity in plenty, as it happened, but the
result of his efforts was not satisfac-
tory. He kept on trying, but still it
wouldn't work, and one day the general
gave way in the cloakroom before a
dozen or more listeners.
BE CAD, suh,' he said, hotly, I
think it is shame, sub. that the gal
leries of this senate chamber are not all
lowed to applaud, sub. Why, sub, when
make a speech in Kentucky, sub, the
applause is such, sub, that if the same
privileges were allowed in these gal
leries, sub, would be able, sub, to lift
the roof right off of this magnificent
marble structure, sub. But as it is, sub,
the stupidity, the dignity and the
frigidity of this senate absolutely par
alyzes my intellect. sub. >"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
Guard Against oyerfeeding.

1t Is an easy matter for poultry
raiser to overfeed his fowls. If flock
has the privilege of q range the farmer
need give hardly any food at all if grass,
seeds and insects are plentiful, yet
some who are really careful of their
hens feed three times day, under the
belief that the more food the greater
the number OF eggs, and endeayoring to
secure as many eggs as possible they
get the hens in condition that in
capacitates them entirely. Heavy feed
ing of grain Ia at times an advantage,
such as during extremely cold weather,
but the food must be regulated not only
according to the seasons, but also in
accordance with the condition Of the
hens. Dakota Field and Farm.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
To Keep Milk Sweet.

Why does milk turn sour? 1t is only
because it has been exposed to oxygen,
which originates fermentation and
thus produces acidity. If fresh milk
warm from the COW Is preferable-is
heated to temperature of 100, SO as
to kill the germs in it, and is then put
in bottles that have been sterilized by
heating to the boiling point, such milk,
if kept corked, will keep sweet during
the hottest weather for "a hours In
stead of using cork small piece of
cotton may be inserted in the neck of
the bottle. This heating Of the milk
prepares it all the better for use of ba-
bies In fact, milk ought always to be
thus heated before being used by old or
young. The advantage of doing this
while the milk is warm from the COW
is that less of the cream rises than if
the milk is first allowed to COOL
American Cultivator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
Renovatinr Poor Grass I.and.

A larger amount of fertility is always
gained by sowing some leguminous
crop, such as SOFA beans, cowpeas, Can
ada peas or some of the clovers, rather
than by sowing such catch crops as buck
wheat, rye, turnips, rape or similar
plants. Director Flagg of HE Rhode
Island station calls attention in The
New England Homestead to the impor-
lance of farmers considering the ex-
pense Of seed and cost of seeding for
catch crop to be plowed under. He says:
Crimson clover may be sown at this
time and will make a good growth for
blowing under in time to seed to grass
in September. About 20 pounds per acre
is sufficient. 1t is quoted by the single
pound at 10 cents, but by the hundred
pounds at 61a cents and possibly may
be bought for less Sown on well pre-
pared seed bed. 1t can be sufficiently
covered by narrowing with smoothing
harrow or often with heavy brush har-
row. As Canada peas are somewhat liza
BILE to mildew in hot, moist weather or
suffer badly from dry weather l am in
clined to think that, taking into consid-
Grafton the cost of the seed and conven-
fence of seeding, crimson clover will be
the most desirable to use for green ma
nuring in this vicinity.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
STEALING A HOUSE.
A Chicago Man Found Only the Foun,
tiou Left

A Chicago Man Found Only the Founda-
tion Left.
When B. R. De Young, real estate
man. went to look at house he owned
at A Hirsch street, Chicago, few
days ago, he discovered only hole in
the ground and the foundations, which
some one had neglected to carry away
with him. Some of the neighbors re-
membered the two story cottage being
taken away on rollers by three men,
and De Young started out OH search
for it.
A block away, on Emerald street, he
found three story house newly paint
ed. Living in it was Hans Andreason,
whom De Young recognized as having
called in the interest of would be
purchaser When De Young examined
the building, he found it to be his two
story cottage with third story added.
and the whole painted over.
Andreason claimed that he had pur-
chased it from man named Alexander,
who had taken the fence and outbuild-
ings and was running hennery. De
Young swore out warrant for Alexan-
der's arrest. New York journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
Box and Barrel Gardens.

A New Jersey gardener has been ex-
perimenting to prove that many poor
persons in crowded lots in cities and
towns might produce vegetables for their
tables. AS reported in Home and Farm,
he dug hole Is inches square and a
foot deep, and into this put half bush
ell of manure and mixed in the top soil.
Here he planted tomato plant in
bloom, spade full Of dirt being taken
up with the plant. Then the soil from
the bottom of the hole was put in a
circular ridge about the plant, so that
the plant stood in a shallow earthen
cup. Into this cup kitchen Stops were
poured daily. The vine was fastened to
q wall as it grew. This one plant grew
more than 100 feet of vine, supplied
more tomatoes than the average garden,
and yielded an abundance of fruit two
months after tomatoes had disappeared
from surrounding gardens. He claims
that box or barrel of earth on roof
will supply family with cucumbers,
squash. melons, etc.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15

The only known remedy for the mel
on louise, so destructive last season, is
bisulphide Of carbon. Farm Journal
tells how to use it: Fasten piece of
rag, sponge or cotton batting to stick,
dip it in the liquid and push the other
end of the stick into the center of the
hill. Plass over this at once tent of
paper or oiled muslin and let it remain
two hours. The liquid is volatile and
its fumes heavy. They will fill the tent
with deadly gas and destroy every
louise.
These pests usually appear at first on
hills here and there over field, and
from these spread in a circle outward,
finally involving the whole patch. By
keeping sharp watch and treating
these few hills the whole crop may be
saved. The presence of the lice may be-
detected by the inward curl of the leaves
and their dirty, dark green color. The
lice being on the underside and shield
ed by the curl of the leaves, it is almost
impossible to reach them by any form
of spray.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
HUSBAND AND WIFE IN RUSSIA.

Their Relations Alarked by Every
Evidence of Mutual Courtesy.
This is a curious custom you Amer
leans have of referring to your wives
by their husbands names," observed
Glanvock Kaplon. an intelligent Rus
sian traveller. says the ST. Louis Repub-
lie. Il suppose the American holds his
wife in as high esteem as the Russian
holds his. but if at home / should speak
of my better half as Mrs. Kaplon my
friends would at once conclude that my
domestic relations were not as pleas
ant as they should be, and that / was
thinking of legal separation. When /
first heard an American speak of his
wife as Mrs. Jones, for example, felt
almost like presuming on my acquaint-
ance by intruding into his private af-
fairs and asking him what the trouble
was at home Yet soon learned that
the custom was universal over here, but
still l cannot get used to it. My wife
is the plain, blunt way speak in Rus
STA of the lady who, suppose, would
have to call Mrs. Kaplon in polite So
ciety in America. In some of the more
fashionable circles of ST. Petersburg
this American social custom has been
adopted, though was told by prom
inent government official not long ago
that the czar disapproved of it."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
A silo can be made to pay even for
two or three COWS
championed by q Dog.

Several years ago in Wisconsin, before
the Indian had retired from the neigh
borhcod of the white man, a mother
and her little girl were alone in their
cottage on the edge of great forest.
Everything seemed peaceful, and there
was no thought of danger. The mother
sat inside the door sewing. while the
child was in the bright sunshine play
ing. Their large black dog Cuff was the
only other member of the family Sud-
denly half dozen Indians fresh from q
recent raid ON whisky stood in the door
way and demanded more whisky. The
lady had no whisky, but offered them
food and drink. The Indians, however,
were drunk, and before the mother
could interfere the toughest seized the
little girl aud was making off with her
when the dog, which bad wandered
away short distance, came bounding
back. In an instant he had the savage
by the throat and threw him to the
ground. The others, having no firearms,
beat hasty retreat The dog kept a
tight grip on the Indian until they had
all gone, then released him, and be also
departed. Our Dumb Animals.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
Makes oneen shed Tears.

According to an absolutely unim-
peachable authority" writer in the
Westminster Gazette relates how the
Irish song: 1.-THE Wearing of the
Green" was recently sung in Windsor
castle. The queen, it appears, request
ed young Irish lady who was visiting
the castle to sing an Irish song. She
went to the piano and sang "The
Wearing of the Green" and, according
to the story told, her majesty was
touched by the pathos of the song and
burst intoseears. The writer continues:
"'Ah!' said my eminent informant,
you little know the depth Of the
queens sympathy for the Irish and the
tenderness of her heart"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15

SALE on
Monday, the twelfth day Of July
next, between the hours of 70 and o'clock, to-
wit, at two oclock in the afternoon of said day,
at the Court House, in the City of Woodbury.
County of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey,
all the following described real estate, that is to
say
All that certain tract of land. situate in the
Township of franklin, County of Gloucester and
State of New jersey bounded and described as
follows
Beginning at stake set for a corner in the
middle of the intersection of st. George street
with the road leading from Malaga to Mays
Landing, the said corner being at the distance OF
fifteen chains and fifty links ENTHUSIASTICALLY by
the said Mays Landing road from the intersec-
ton thereof with the road leading from Mat
thew's corner to the Lake and being also a
corner to land sold and conveyed by Charles NJ .
Morris and wife to Alfred Howes. thence ~ ex-
tending north two degrees and thirty minutes
east, along the middle of st. George street, being
also the line of land of the said Alfred Howes,
five chains and forty eight LINES to a stake in
said Howes line, corner to land of William Lang
ley; thence ~ south eighty seven degrees and
thirty minutes east, along the line of William
Langley's land eight chains to stake corner to
Rsaid LaDgley's land; thence 90 south twenty-six
degrees and thirty minutes vest, sly chains and
fifty three links to stake thence ~ south
eighty nine degrees and forty minutes west, four
chains and ten links to stake in the aforesaid
Mays Landing Road; thence % north sixty three
degrees and thirty minutes west, one chain and
fifty links TO the place of beginning.
Containing three acres and seventy hun
dreGths of an acre, more or less
Being the same premises which were conveyeu
to the said Hannah Hues BY Charles NJ Morris
and wife, by deed dated January %. 1864 of
record in the Clerks Office of Gloucester County
at Woodbury., in Book H5 of Deeds, page E5.etc.
Seized as the property of Isaac II. Hues and
Hanna Hues, defendants, and taken in execution
at the suit of Edmund Jones. complainant, and
| to be sold by WILLIAM COLLINS,
4 Robert S. Clymer Solr. Sheriff.
Dated June Z, 1897, PRS fees. $3.50.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
How to Clean Your rurs.

Short haired furs, such as sealskins
and ermine, are best cleaned with soft
flannel. The fur should be rubbed deli
cately against the grain until it has all
been thoroughly lifted and reversed.
Then dip the flannel into common -four
and rub lightly any spots that look dark
or dirty. Shake the fur well and rub
with clean flannel until the -four is all
removed.
Sable, chinchilla, squirrel and mon
key skin may be beautifully cleansed
with hot bran. Heat small quantity
of bran meal in the oven. Rub it we'll
into the fur. Allow it to remain for a.
few moments before shaking it out.
Warm cornmeal will freshen mink
fur. The white angora and "baby
lamb, = worn by children, may also be
cleaned by rubbing with clear -four.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15

dated surrogate's ONCE, May 10, 1887.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
MY LADYs SECRET.

ny lady always smiled-not much to do.
But when the hours and days increase In
care,
And dreariness and WEAKNESS pursue,
When youth and love grow dim in backward
view,
And life is but to bear and still forbear,
All, then, her gentle sweetness. undefled
By years of bitterness. shone forth. She smiled.
My lady always smiled, In life and death
Some envied her life that seemed ali smiles,
And some cried out or caught sobbing breath.
Self pitying, and God and man reviled,
But some, to sorrows burden reconciled.
We're glad the gladness Of her face TO see
Through toll and care and heartless apathy.
But when they laid my lady with the flowers
To sleep, where wake Thousand smiling
springs,
A solitary father, praying hours
Beneath grand arch and grave cathedral
towers,
Thanked, for my lady's rest. the King of
kings
He knew her soul had yearned weary while
To sleep and rest the burden of srnilel
-Pearson's Weekly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15

bodies cry out but in language that only
the sufferers themselves can hear When
man is suffering in this way his body
cries out with aching head, a sluggish
body, muscles that are lax and lazy, brain
that is dull, a stomach that disdains food
and nerves that will not rest
wise man will heed these warnings and
will resort to the right remedy before it is
too late. Dr.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
coyery makes the appetite keen and hearty.
1t invigorates the liver. It promotes the
natural processes of secretion and excre-
ton. It makes the digestion and assimila-
ton perfect. 1t purifes the blood and fills
1t tears down old and worn-out tissues and
replaces them with the firm, muscular it's
sues of health. 1t is the great blood rnaker
and flesh builder It is the best nerve tonic.
1t cures % per cent. of all cases of consump-
ton, weak lungs, bronchitis, lingering
coughs and kindred ailments. Found at
all medicine stores. Accept no substitute
that may be represented as just as good ,"
The just as good :" kind doesn't effect
cures like the following
twenty-five years ago eight different doctors
told me that would live but short time, that
1 had consumption and must die, )" writes Geo.
r. Coope, Esq. of Myers Valley, Pottawatomie
Co., Kans. :" finally commenced taking DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and am still
in the land and among the living"
Don't suffer from constipation Keep
the body clean inside as well as outside.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation and biliousness. They never
grippe. All good dealers have them.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-15
TWO TYPES OF THE SOUTH.
EARLY Settlers from England Leave
Their Traces to This Day.

EARLY Settlers from England Leave
Their Traces to This Day.
The two leading types of southern
population are plainly the Virginian
and the South Carolinian of the tide
water. For this fact there are both
historical and photographic reasons.
declares the Atlantic. Virginia was the
first and South Carolina the second
southern colony to be settled by well
TODD Englishmen who desired to found
permanent homes The introduction of
slavery and its application to staple
crops speedily gave an aristocratic tone
to society in both provinces, but be-
tween them, in North Carolina, and to
the south of them, in Georgia, there
were fewer wealthy settlers and no
staple crops to speak of, sothat FRONT the
first society In these provinces was
more or less democratic in spite Of
slavery. Before, however, the gentry Of
the coast could expand and occupy the
country lying between the Blue Ridge
and the Alleghanies and beyond the
latter range of mountains a very
different sort of people had moved In
and taken possession. Among these
people, owing to their habits and the
nature of their soil. slavery could take
no strong hold, hence they remained
democratic and distinct from their tide
water neighbors, as. indeed, they are
to this day.