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The San Francisco call., 1897-06-24
The Last Note Left by Suic de Norton.

Tell dear father for pay Louis Loupe S3Oo for
Ny for destroying myself is that am deuler large
the Government and do wish live look my good
friends Lupe Webun and Thomas the face. All money
lost gambling. Your dying brother, Ike
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-24
157 feet: searight 1s7 feet 3 inches and

157 feet; searight 1877 feet 3 inches and
Swariz 109 feet ) ia ches.
Hasty entIenching-Seaton, Company g,
won; Devine, Company A, second.
Boxing for poinlS-Hogan of Battery and
Smith Battery won By Smith-eight points.
Peters, Company A. and Robertson, Troop b,
won by Peters, eight points and two knock
downs.
Wall scaling, ten feet-WOn by team from
Company G. Time, "A seconds.
Mounted relay rAce-Won by team from Bat
terry + in two minutes ana % seconds.
During the afternoon Private Fizer gave
an extra number. 1t was an exhibition of
hurdle vaulting on two barebacked horses.
The riding was all that could be desired
and the act was loudly cheered.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-24
A TRUE VITALIZER.
DR. PIERCE'S ELECTRIC BELT"

AN APPLIANCE THAT GIVES SPARKS OF
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read tells you that ''Eectricty Is Lie. hVefy
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Magnetic Elastic Truss
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-24

Electricity has been adopted as the mo-
with the drainage system of New Orleans.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
TAX ON BICYCLES.
There Are Conditions Where Its Col
lection Is Entirely Justifiable.

There Are Conditions Where Its Col
lection Is Entirely Justifable.
Every time the subject of special
tax on bicycles has been proposed some
fool friend of wheelmen has rushed into
print to declare the very idea to be
wrong on general principles, and the re-
suit of this ill-advised newspaper talk
is that law-malxing bodies in many
rites and states have grown to regard
wheelmen as q selfish class, willing to
hog everything" and to give nothing
in return. That this impression is not
just is certain, but 1t must be remem-
bered that legislators do not take the
trouble usually to go beneath the sur
face and find out for themselves the
true condition of affairs, but instead
accept as true the conditions that ap-
pear on the surface.
Wheelmen have no right to expect
everything for nothing, and the think
ers among the riders do not labor under
any such delusion. They are willing to
pay for special benefits and have always
done so in every case of which we have
heard. When revenue is to be raised for
The building or improvement of high
ways, wheelmen are ever ready to bear
their share of the burden, but it is not
right that they should be asked to pay
taxes for ordinary road work when
owners of other vehicles are not called
upon for part of such expenses.
So many rights and privileges have
been granted bicycle riders within the
last two years that organizations of
wheelmen should carefully consider the
matter before requesting any further
benefit. If cyclic paths are to be built,
the expense should fall upon those who
expect to make use of the path, and
when roads are to be built or repaired,
the revenue for such expense should be
raised by taxes levied on the owners Of
all vehicles.
Wheelmen have been placed in the
wrong light by their so-called friends
of the press, and it would be better for
all concerned if these gentlemen were
to object less to bicycle taxes when inn
posed solely for the benefit of those who
are asked to pay. Special bicycle taxes
are all right under certain conditions;
under other conditions they are all
Wrong-Cleveland Cycling Gazette.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
HoRNLEss HEREFoRDs.
New Breed of Cattle Produced by a
kansas Sf0ckman.

New Breed of Cattle Produced by n
Kansas Stockman.
Gen. ". w. GuthSie, of Atchison, Kan,
owner of large ranch in Chase county
and stock farm in Atchison county,
has just made public the result of an ex-
pertinent in stock breeding, covering a
period of eight years. He claims to have
developed an entirely new breed of cat
tie, which has been the dream of stock
raisers for years, and which for the
present he has named Herefords. He
has succeeded in developing an animal
with all the main markings of Here
ford, but which is without horns. He
began his experiments in the belief that
a strain of cattle could be developed
from the Hereford that would meet
more satisfactorily the requirements
for beef and milk, and he is confident
that his experiments have been success
full.
He has never abandoned the idea
that horns could be bred out of the
Hereford strain, and now, after years of
experimenting, he has a herd of 27
heifers and two bulls that are polled
Herefords. The new breed is somewhat
larger than the Hereford and with
sparer hips, but retain the natural
markings. Gen Guthrie believes that
the new breed is superior to the Here
ford as beef quality, and is convinced
that they viii meet his expectations as
TO milking qualities.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
CHAS. FIICHEL & SON
JEWELLERS
No. sic South Second Street
PHILADELPHIA.
Dealers in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silver and Plated Ware.
wALL WORK GUARANTEED
ELEPHANT STORIES.


One Avenges an Injury, Another
Recognizes a BenefactOr.
Elephants have a way of remember
ing injuries and kindnesses which sur
prises men not accustomed to the
beasts. E. L. Layard and his wife were
in Ceylon, in the Ambigamoa district.
They were journeying along gather
ing insects, shells and birds by easy
stages when they came to the station
of road-making party, which was in
charge of Woodford Birch. Mrs. Lay
ard was interested in elephants, not
having seen any close at hand, SO Mr..
Birch took her out to see a large, fine
female. Mrs. Layard petted the beast,
gave it a bunch of plantains, which
were eaten with relish, and after maxi
ing comments on the beasts gentleness,
returned to the bungalow. There Mr..
Birch incidentally remarked that it
was a violent beast, having killed two
keepers during the past month. When
Mr.. Layard heard that he reproached Mr..
Birch, while Mrs. Layard grew pale.
Then Mr.. Birch said:
"Do you think would have allowed
Mrs. Layard to go near her if there had
been danger? That elephant is the
quietest and best tempered beast in the
stud. She was quite right to kill the
keepers. They had robbed her of her
food. I had observed that she was
growing thin, and seeing only little
grain or feed in the box one day rated
the keeper soundly, in the presence of
the beast. Next day he took her out to
work. She went along quietly till she
came to fiat rock. Then she wrapped
her trunk about the mahout, put him
against the rock and with her forehead
squeezed his life out. The next man
she killed for the same offense."
Dan Quinton and Mr.. Layard were in
Colombo when Quinton heard elephants
trumpeting and wanted to go to see
them. One Of the beasts was tied up
with more chains than the others, and
Quinton went toward this one, in spite
of the warnings of keepers that it was
particularly vicious beast. Quinton
put his arm around the elephants trunk
and petted it, the elephant seeming
most pleased. Quinton had recognized
it as an elephant he had seen injured
by huge thorn, or jungle nail. The
keeper, in trying to pull the thorn out
had broken it off. In few days in-
fammation had set in. Quinton went
to work with a knife and pair of pin
GERS, and the elephant, in spite of the
pain, allowed the man to take the thorn
out. He had recognized the beast by
the scar, and the elephant remembered
him after several years.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
CURTAIN RAIsERs.

James O'Neill wards off flesh by fencing
for an hour daily.
The authors of tsHeartsease' are very
anxious to have Henry Miller play the lead
ing role in London this summer.
1t is estimated that about so per cent of
the actors on the legitimate stage are Ell
ther in vaudeville or are willing to be-
The present season has proved so sue
cessful for Hermann III that local man
ayers have requested return dates wherever
he has appeared.
Charles B. Hanford says that if any
Shakespearcan scholar doubts Hamlet in
sanity he should see an amateur actor es-
say the character.
Jessie Bartlett Davis was warmly well
coined back to New York on the occasion
of the first performance Of 'sThe Sercnade'
at the Knickerbocker thcater.
R. A. Barnet spends from six to eight
months on one of his extravaganzas before
he calls the first rehearsals. These usually
cover from five to eight weeks.
George Backus, who is something of a
playwright as well as an actor, confesses
that in writing for the stage he has always
taken Ibsen and Pinero as his models.
J. E. Dodson started out in life with the
determination to become barristcr, but
after reading law for six months he dis
covered that the stage was his real yoca-
tion.
Thomas w. Keene declares himself as a
champion of wholesome, healthy, vivid
plays. He cares not whether they be SOM
Der, eccentric, quaint or humorous, so that
they be true and strong.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
LIVE STOCK POINTERS.

Young calves, growing colts and sheep
should be allowed to run out every day
that the weather will permit.
When stock are kept in good, thrifty
condition, there is much less liability OF
their becoming infested with vermin.
Feeding a mixed ration affords a
better opportunity of feeding complete
rations than when only one or two ma
terials are fed.
If stock are allowed to run down in
condition, the expense of getting into
good thrift again win cut materially
into the profits.
Allowing stock to drink water freshly
pumped from the well will give them
water several degrees warmer than if
compelled to drink from a frozen pond.
Supplying plenty of dry bedding adds
to the comfort of the stock, increases
the quantity of manure and lessons the
labor of keeping clean.
With both fall calves and colts warm
quarters are essential to the mafnte-
nance of economical thrifty growth. If
stunted now, no after treatment will
eradicate the effects.
If sheep are to grow the best fleece OF
wool it is very essential that they be
kept in good thrifty condition. Wool,
no more than flesh or milk, can be made
from nothing.-Journal of Agriculture.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
A Matter of Courtesy.

An irascible man entered the sub
station exactly at four o'clock and, ap-
preaching the money order desk, polite
~ requested the presiding genius to is
sue him an order for $50, says the New
York Advertiser TOO late" said the
damseI, CURLY, pointing with an ink
stained finger to the clock. The in
dignant man stormed, raved and finally
challenged the correctness of the time
piece The imperturbable lady smiled
The following afternoon, two minutes
before the closing hour, he again pre-
scented himself, and calmly asked:
Am / too late?"
only just in time" remarked the
damsel, GROSSLY.
THANK you. Now, miss, must
trouble you to issue me so orders for
one dollar EACH
Fifty" gasped the horror-strick-
en- woman. Her tea had just arrived
and was standing on a table behind the
screen. Surely you are joking?"
Madam" said the man, raising his
hat politely, courtesy begets cour-
tesy."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

The cheapest gain is secured before
the animal natures.
Awell-bred animal implies one with
a good constitution.
Plan now to make every part of the
farm produce something this season.
Quick matured stock pay better
profit than those which mature slowly.
No more sheep should be kept than
can be sheltered without unnecessary
crowding.
Do not be in too big hurry to sell
feed. Wait until grass has made a
good start.
The pastures and meadows will be
better next season if the stock is kept
of of them now.
It is an item to reduce the amount
of fencing as much as possible. Now
is the time to plan TO do this.
As a general rule growing pigs will
thrive better on good, rich slop than
on hard grain, and usually at a less
Farmers Union.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
DOG THAT cHEws GUM.

1t Required Some Time and Patience
to Acquire the Habit.
Black Michael, or Mike, for short, is
the name of little cocker spaniel living
in Lake avenue, near Forty-sixth street.
Chicago. He came all the way from Col
orado by express, nailed up in awooden
box, with Stats across the top. On the
side of the box was painted in black
letters: "Please give me a drink" SO
that the baggageman would not forget
him.
Since he has lived in Chicago he has
acquired the peculiar habit of chewing
gum. 1t took him long time to learn
that gum is not to be treated rs food,
but is to be chewed forever and never
swallowed. Before he learned the way
of it he was very funny in his efforts to
dispose of gum as he was accustomed
to dispose of everything that found its
way to his mouth.
The first time a piece was given to
him he chewed quietly at it for minute
or two. When he found that it stayed
just the same size and would not sep
arate, he treated it as he would tough
piece of meat, put his head low down
and chewed with more energy. But
nothing happened, the queer stuff still
stuck together and refused to slide
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
PLAT OF 2O-ACRE FARM.

lv should be meadow for pasture. The
remaining six acres will make enough
of field for the cultivation of corn,
wheat, potatoes and root crops.
The products of six acres under culti-
vation in the west where irrigation is
practiced may safely be estimated as
follows: Two acres of wheat, 100 bush
els; one acre of corn, so bushels; one
acre of oats, 20 bushels; one-half acre
of potatoes, $50 bushels; one-quarter
acre of beans, IS bushels; one-quarter
acre of onions, 100 bushels; one-quarter
acre of barley, go bushels; one acre car
rots, turnips and rutabagas, 1000 bush
els. These figures are not an average in
Utah, where small farming is practiced.
The yields are reported almost double.
the figures given, in some instances.
Of this six-acre yield there would be
surplus of each product to sell.
Three acres in alfalfa will yield two
crops of hay and one of seed. The hay
will average two tons an acre each cut
ting, making ~ tons of hay. three
acre alfalfa pasture will keep two cows,
two horses, 20 sheep, 20 hogs, with sew
eral calves. The pasture and hay field
should be rotated each year. After a
few years part of the cultivated area
should be planted to alfalfa, and one of
the grass plots plowed. Fences could be
made of woven wire, and be easily re-
moved from one tract to another.
The five-acre orchard should have one
acre devoted to Strawberries, raspber-
Ties, blackberries, gooseberries and cur
rants. A half acre should be planted to
about four varieties of grapes. The bal
ance of the orchard area should contain
choice trees of various fruits, with the
outer rows composed of nut-bearing
trees. These serve as a protection
against wind and storm, and are as val
liable as the fruit trees. The yield upon
these several tracts cannot be esti-
mated, as so much depends upon proper
culture and the market.
Experienced farmers in Utah who
practice intensive cultivation give the
following figures on yields to the acre:
Strawberries, 5000 to $1,000; small
fruits, 5000 to $500; apples, 400 to 800
bushels. The stone fruits produce in
proportion to other varieties. One man
with three acres of grapes reports an
average yield of $780, AN acre every year.
The grapes are sold green, made into
wine and raisins. Peaches are sold as
green fruit and evaporated.
The 20-acre farmer can pay all his
expenses, ride in nice carriages, wear
good clothes, support and educate his
family, and save from $500 to $1,000 "a
year for the time of need. This cannot
be accomplished by wild speculation.
1t requires careful attention to the
details of the little farm. No hard,
shaving physical labor is required. Why
should men toll and worry over their
thousands of acres and come out be-
hind at the end of the year when the
new agriculture shows them how to live
happy and contented on 2O-acre farm?
Joel Shoemaker, in Farm and Fireside.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29

TwENTY-AcRE FARMS.

In the Irrigated Districts of the West
They Pay a Handsome Profit.
Intensive soil culture has become the
rule in some sections of the west. One
man cannot irrigate and cultivate more
than a 25-aore tract. This area must be
carefully handled to make good in
come, yet many farmers are learning
that there is more on 20 acres than for
merly on a quarter section. The 20
acre farm is destined to be the future
home of independence. Men who at
tempt more than this will be specula-
tors, with the chances for or against
success according to the market fuctua-
tions. The day of speculationsinfa farm
ing has passed, and the man who seeks
a comfortable home must produce some
of everything possible on the very
smallest area.
A 20-acre farm might be divided into
seven very convenient lots. The house
and lawn should occupy one acre, and
be inclosed by neat picket or wire
fence. One acre should be fenced sepa-
rate and kept for a garden. The barn
yard and corral need occupy but one
acre. An orchard of five acres, with
small corner cut out for a poultry
house, would be sufficient. Three acres
sown to grass to be cut each season for
hay would yield an abundance. A SINH
lar tract of three acres fenced separate
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
PUNCTURE CLOSING DEVICE.

inventor prefers to cut round hole
through the puncture. In the second
and presumably preferred form the
tapering screw thread leads to circu-
lar groove adapted to receive the tire
fabric, and the cone is provided with
fiat head whose under surface is made
concave, SO that the edge of the con
cavity is engaged with the surface of
the tire to which it is applied. The
head has an outside slot in which Il
screwdriver may be used for twisting
the threaded cone into the puncture,
or it is provided with a central screw
threaded hole in which an ordinary ma
chine screw may be inserted for the
same purpose and afterward removed.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
SINGLE TUBE TRES.
Eastern Man Invents a Clever Pune
-CIoalusr no-iox G1... M. m.

Eastern Man Invents Clever Punc-
ture-CIOsing Device for Them.
William B. Merritt, of Braintree.
Mass, has invented a puncture-closing
device for single tube tires. The in
ventor claims that he has solved the
problem of making rapid and perma-
nent repair. The illustration shows
the form for a puncture-closing button
which was devised at first by the in
yentor. Later he modified his original
idea and dispensed with the button.
The first construction consists in a
tapering screw fiat on top and provided
with threaded hole in it's center to
receive a small, ordinary screw, which
by its head holds collar ring tightly
against the tire fabric. Before this me-
chanical closing device is applied the
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29

Recently the attorney general Of
Belgium, in the course of an eloquent
speech, paid the following curious COM
pliment to the sonorific power of the
Belgian press: I'm the evening. when
sleep flies from our agitated eyelids,
deaf to all our appeals, refractory to
our wishes. what immense assistance
we derive from the attentive reading
Of some grave and deep leading article,
such as many high-toned journal en-
riches its columns with. Under its
soothing influence a salutary repose
closes in upon us, and the enchanted
cup of the queen Of night pours down
upon US its treasures, in obedience to-
the mysterious power Of the press"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-29
THE TATTLER1

The late Mrs. Cornelia v. r. Thayer OF
Lancaster, Mass., bequeathed nearly $780,
900 to charity.
Mrs. Harriet Coolidge has been elected
vice president of the Platte county (Neb. J
Old Settlers association
Miss Annie Dowder, formerly editor of
the North Bend Republican, has been
chosen superintendent Of schools at Cozad,
Neb.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beeeher was always
as conservative as Queen Victoria in the
matter of headgear, and had worn the
same shape for more than 20 years.
During the balloting for United States
senator in the Utah legislature Mrs. Mar
tina Cannon received as high as four votes.
She is member of the state senate
Mrs. Cora Stuart Wheeler, daughter of
Mrs. Harriet Luna Norton of Illinois, well
known as a journalist, poet, lecturer and
writer of legends, has completed lecture
tour across the continent.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has returned
to Washington with her children to make
her home with her mother, Mrs u S.
Grant, who last year bought handsome
house on Massachusetts avenue above Du-
pont circle
Miss Olga Nethersole's charms are said
to be SO potent that if she chances to adj
mire a costly or unique piece of jewelry
worn by one of her women admirers they
at once remove it and present the orna-
ment to her.
Mrs. Mckinley has some extremely
beautiful diamonds which will be greatly
admired in Washington. Her collection of
laces is also fine one and she has valu-
able and exquisite specimens of the most
noted manufacture.
Frau Amalie Friedrich Matcrna, the
great Wagner singer, whose career on the
stage has recently come to close, has de-
ternined to devote herself hereafter to
training pupils for the operatic stage, and
especially for Wagnerian roles.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Gray of Hancock coun-
ty, Ills, celebrated her one hundredth
birthday on March 1. She was born in
Boston in 1891 Mrs. Gray is a remark
ably well preserved woman, and her rem
iniscences of the earlier days of the CEN
fury are exceedingly interesting.
Mrs. Frederick Fraley, who has just died
at her home in Philadelphia, was the
granddaughter of DR.. John Chapman,
who was an intimate friend Of Alexander
Hamilton and General Knox. She mar
ried Frederick Fraley, the we'll known
Philadelphian, more than GA years ago.
Mrs. S. S. Bradley, whose husband was
for 40 years clerk of the United States cir
cult and district courts in Chicago, is
about to present to the Chicago Historical
society oil portraits of her husband and
the five judges MCLEAN, Harlan, Blodg.
o%% nd cbo,,
whom he served.
The New York Sun, asked to name the
ten American women who will live Ion
gest in history, gives this answer: Martha
Washington, Rcbecca Rolfe (Pocahontas),
Molly Pitcher, Elizabeth Blackwell, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, Priscilla Alden Eliza
Goose Mother Goose), Maria Mitchell,
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lucretia Mott.