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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
A BUSINESS PARABLE.
You Cannot Fail to Appreciate the Point
In This Story.

In This Story.
Once farmer had 1900 bushels of
wheat. which he sold not to single
grain merchant, but to 1900 different
dealers, bushel each. A few of them
paid him in cash, but far the greater
number said it was not convenient then;
they would Fay later A few months
passed, and the mans bank account ran
low. ssHow is this?' he said. "My
1900 bushels of grain should have kept
me in affluence until another crop is
raised, but | have parted with the grain
and have instead only vast number Of
accounts, SO small and scattered that I
cannot get around and collect fast
enough to pay expenses.
So he posted up public notice and
asked all those who owed him to pay
quickly. But few came. The rest said,
"Mine is only small matter, and I
will go and pay one of these days. for
getting that though each account was
very small, when all were put together
they meant large sum to the man.
Things went on thus. The man got to
feeling SO badly that he fell out of bed
and awoke, and running to his granary
found his 800 bushels of wheat still
safe there. He had only been dreaming
Moral. The next day the man went
to the publisher of his paper and said !:
Here, sir, is the pay for your paper,
and when next years subscription is
due you can depend on me to pay it
promptly. I stood IN the position of an
editor last night, and / know how it
feels to have ones honestly earned
money scattered all over the country in
small amounts. Union Signal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
THE LISTENER.

The Rov. Sam Jones, the evangelist, 1t
is said, makes $50, 600 year.
Prince Bismarck will celebrate on
March 25 the sixtieth anniversary of his
entering the Prussian army.
Hannis Taylor, formerly United States
minister to Spain, is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination to congress in the
First Alabama congress district.
Granville Hubbard of Fayette, Me-, car
ries the greatest record for thrashing grain
that has been heard of. He says he has
thrashed 81 seasons in succession.
President Diaz of Mexico, once liberated
a ba4dit and made him chief of police of
the worst district in the country. Since
then there have been very few robberies
in that district.
M. Victor Ballot who died the other
day at Auxerre, France, entered the French
army in 1879 and was in the battle of Wa
terloo. It is said that he was the last of
the Waterloo veterans
William Scott of Delphos, O., who re-
Gently celebrated his one hundred and
third birthday, has lived under every pres
ident and cast his first vote for James
Monroe for president in 1890.
Senator Mason of Illinois prefers the
Democratic atmosphere of the house of
representatives to the naughty surround
ings of the senate and is often seen talk
ing with the members of the lower body.
General John A. Bingham, member of
the Thirty eighth congress and president
of the court which tried Mrs Surratt for
conspiracy against the life of Abraham
Lincoln, is now SO years old and almost
penniless
Mr.. Robert Taylor of Scarya, County
Down, Ireland, who has just completed
his one hundred and fourteenth year, is
postmaster of that town, position which
he held in sthe reigns of George Nv and
William ".
The Kansas City journal says: "W. r.
Cannon, general foreman of the bridge
department. on the Rock Island, with
headquarters at Herington, has been en-
gagged by graphophone company to tell
funny stories into their machines. He is
said to be the best story teller in Kansas.
Senator Hoar is polite to everybody.
Not long ago he took great pains to assist
an old sea captain who called on him, and
after they parted the old mariner turned
to a bystander and said: Gosh Who
would have thought that United States
senator would have gone to all that trou-
BILE just for meP''
Captain Sigsbee was born in Albany
and educated at the Albany academy, hay-
ing been appointed by Erastus Corning to
the United States Naval academy, from
which be was graduated in 1868. He was
Immediately detailed to active service as
ensign on the Metacomet, which took part
in the naval operations that ended in the
Capture of Mobile
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
PERT PERSONALS.

II Nansen ever comes to ibis countr5
again, the railroads should provide re-
frigerator car for his exclusive use.-Roch-
ester Herald.
That new biography of the Prince OF
Wales says his uniforms are worth S75, 600.
General Miles may as well give 1t up
Detroit News
From the lively way old Joaquin Miller
is getting around in the Klondike it must
be tight race for nimbleness between his
material and metrical feet.-St. Louis Re
public.
Richard LIE Gallienne has Indignantly
denied that he wears lace on his trousers.
But If Mr.. LIE Gallienne expects to live off
the receipts of his American lecture tour
he will soon be wearing fringe Detroit
Tribune.
A notable omission of the queen S speech
TO the British parliament was lack of ref
erence to her neighbor, loom Paul. :
But, as he has just been reelected presi-
dent of Transvaal, he doesn't mind the
oversight. loom Paul. isn't pretty in
bis pictures, but he's what the Bowery
would call Chute in fact. = Kansas City
World
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
COLD CHUNKS OF FACT.
Common Sense Experience of q Farmer
Who Tried Various Fads.

Common Sense Experience of Farmer
Who Tried Various Fads.
I have two pigs three or four months
old, but cannot induce them to eat tur-
nips. Many recommend cutting and
steaming corn fodder. tried it for two
weeks two years ago both for COWS and
horses, but at the end of that time the
animals would reject-by measurement
twice as much of the fodder as when
uncut. Last spring, when / got out of
hay, I cut wheat straw, put liberal
quantity of cornmeal on it and gave it
to my mare and colt. / left it before
them 48 hours, giving them nothing
else meanwhile, but they did not eat
half of it. Afterward / fed them the
straw uncut and without meal, and
they ate sufficient for roughage. I do
regard the fodder cutter as man killer.
I think if one hired the work done it
would cost 81 or So per ton to cut fod-
der, which is more than the fodder is
worth after cutting, when good timo-
thy and clover hay can be bought for
So to So per ton.
have fed considerable shredded fod-
der to horses, feeding as many as 90
once per day one winter. The fodder
was shredded with separator. I know
by experience that a separator will
thrash corn that is in good condition
just as we'll as it will thrash wheat and
will deliver the shelled corn in the
measure the same as in thrashing
wheat. The objection is that the shelled
corn, when put in bins, will not keep.
/ have no doubt that when thrashed
with oats it will keep perfectly and
will then be much better feed than
the corn alone. If there is soft corn or
il the corn is wet (soaked), the cob will
break up and go into the measure with
the shelled corn. In my Judgment there
never was any call for building husker
or shredder, as a separator will do the
work perfectly. From my experience /
regard the statements of sellers of shred
ders as to the per cent of waste in feed
ing shredded fodder as misleading. I
think that nearly one third by weight
will be rejected, but it makes excellent
bedding, being better absorbent than
straw Let us thrash our oats and corn
together and avoid deal Of useless la
hnr.-C. F. G. in Rural New Yorker.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
THE TATTLER.

mrs. Jenerson DAVIS ana her Daughter,
who now live in New York city, are en-
gagged in literary work
The London papers have been transform
ing Miss Fiji Potter, daughter of Mrs.
James Brown Potter, into Miss "FiI"
Potter
The name of Nine Jules Simon appears
in the official list of the persons to whom
the French government has given the priv
ilege of selling tobacco.
1t is understood in Washington that
Nine. PAX Ye, wife of the Korean minis
ter, has expressed herself as being convert
ed to Christianity and is DESTROYS of espous-
ing the faith.
Mrs. Ballington Booth has had an Office
arranged in her home in Montelair and
now does her literary work there. 1t is
doubtful that she will ever enter into ac-
tive life again.
The Countess of Dudley, it is said, will
soon marry DIR. Jameson of Transvaal
fame. The lady is still remarkably beau
tiful woman and is persistently young, as
is the Princess of Wales.
Mrs. Joshua Speed of Louisville has
given $25, 600 of the $40, 900 wished for to
erect a new church edifice for Trinity
Methodist Episcopal church of that city.
She tried to keep the good deed secret, but
vainly.
Mime. Crispi, wife of the italian states
man and ex-premier, is noted for her &C.
centricities. An Italian paper relates that
she entered the city Of Palermo leading by
a chain little calf that she had trained
like dog
Mrs. Fannon, one of the pioneers of
Iowa, died recently at her home in the
town of Eldora at an extreme age Her
son, a clergyman, declares that an old
fashioned clock stopped for the first time
at the moment she died
The Duchess of Marlborough has kept
her love for American shopping. She Of
ten walks in Bond street, faultlessly at
tired, and the shopkeepers bow to her as a
buyer of excellent TASTE unlimited wealth
and hard customer at bargaining
North Dakotas strong woman is
dead. She was Mrs Justin Charlotte
Wray of Milne, N. D., and was able to lift
bushel and half Of grain with one
hand. Mrs. Wray was only 80 years old,
and her death was due to broncho pneu-
monia.
Kitishima Kata Haschi, or as she is
known to magazine readers, Otano Watan-
ma, is young Japanese woman living in
Chicago She was at one time in her
newspaper career the only woman allowed
at the sessions of the British council at
Jamaica.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03

make naturally strong woman stronger
and healthier; they will make naturally
weak, siekly woman weaker and more
sickly, and if INDUCED in to excess, may
result fatally.
A woman who suffers from weakness and
disease of the delicate and important or
gans distinctly femiaine, cannot hope to
recover her general health through ath-
letics, so long as she remains locally weak.
A woman suffering in this way is untitled
to bear the strain of athletics just as much
as she is untitled to bear the duties and
burdens of wifehood and motherhood
There is a sure, safe, speedy and perna-
nent cure for all disorders of this descrip-
ton. It is DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton 1t acts directly on the organs con-
cerned in wifehood and maternity, making
them strong and healthy and vigorous. 1t
soothes pain, allays inflammation heals
liberation and tones the nerves. 1t hts
woman to indulge in, and be benefited by,
athletics All good medicine stores sell it.
s'Your valuable Favorite Prescription cured
me of female weakness and catarrhal dis
charge from the lining membrane of the special
parts" writes Mrs. T. H. Parker, OF Brooklyn,
Jackson Co., Mich. " am now perfectly we'll
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consd-
patton. Constipation is the cause of many
diseases. Cure the cause and you cure the
disease One Pellet - is a gentle laxa-
tive, and two mild cathartic. Druggists
sell them, and nothing is "just as good
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
oRUMMER's QUEER STORY
Made Them Drink to His Early Grave and
Survived Them All.

Survived Them All.
A hale and hearty travelling man with
pink skin and white hair-a condition
Of complexion which, by the way, not
every travelling man lives to reach-was
renewing his youth with party of
young and festive drummers Drinks
were going round freely, and when one
of the "boys' turned down his glass
there was considerable remonstrance on
the part of his companions at his refus
al to have ''just one more. .
The white haired man quietly cut the
discussion short by saying, "That re-
minds me. /"
The old drummer ficked the ashes
from his cigar and settled back in his
chair. SIT was long time ago" said
he, "and it was in the old American
House in this city. There were five
young men seated in a room, just as we
are here tonight, only they were all feel
ing pretty good, and there wasn't any
old man around to bore them with
story. But along about midnight one Of
the party turned down his glass just as
my young friend here has done. He said
he had had enough, and goodness knows
he had. His determination was greeted
most hilariously as good joke. He
steadily declined, however, though the
wine was brought and set before him,
but the taunts and innuendoes of his
comrades finally exasperated him SO that
he exclaimed rather petulantly, but half
in fun, Well, boys, I'll join you once
more if you will drink to an early grave
for me. The toast was proposed uproar-
iously and drank standing. But some
how after that the fun was not SO furi-
GUS. Things quieted down. The men
seemed to half realize that to drink to a
mans death wasn't such a good joke
after all, and one by one they made ex-
cuses and went off to bed. :"
Here the old man paused.
ibid the man die?" queried he who
had refused to "have another" with
some interest.
emo, )" was the reply. "Ho is the only
one Of the five now alive to tell the tale. :"
Buffalo News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
His AIihi.

Once upon a time the late Sir Frank
Lockwood, while attending police
court, noticed that the magistrates were
performing their duties in a very expe-
ditious manner, and he commented on
the fact to superintendent of police.
Yes, answered the superintendent,
who was pompous and none too well
educated, their worships always dis
penses with justice very fast Z Some
years ago he got a prisoner off BY prov
ing an alibi. Some time afterward the
judge met him and said, 'sWell, Lock
wood, that was a very good alibi.
Yes. my lord. was the answer. 81
had three offered me, and ! think Sc
fected the best. =
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
Examination Stories.

Isis Of Oxford tells two good exami-
nation stories. The first is candidate
who in the divinity viva voce was asked
to translate a portion of the gospels.
AS he did not stop at the end of that
portion the examiner said to him !:
"Thank you, Mr.. -, that will do.
We are quite satisfied with your pa
per. ooh. please, was the answer,
lido let me go on. ( should SO like to
find out how this story ends. Modern
history furnishes the other. One candi-
dates paper in the Oxford local exami-
nation contained the following luminous
and surprising passage, General Wolfe
boldly attacked the Arabian knights
without waiting for the other three
corpses to come up.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
SPAIN.


SPANS colors are significant of the ma
lions characteristic. What is not yellow
is black. Buffalo News.
There could not be more quixotic
scheme than that under discussion by the
press of Don Quixote's country to confed.
erate the Latin American countries o.
south America with Spain against the
United States. The South American re-
uublics have had enough of Spain-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal.
Ii may be that Spain has succeeded u
alternating from us all the Spanish -Amerl-
can states save Mexico, Brazil and VeDe-
zuela. but she has left us the most lmpor'
tant one Of the lot, and there is no partlcu-
lar reason why any Of them should Pc
mixed up in whatever disagreenlents may
arise between Spain and the United States.
Worcester Spy.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
Live Stock Points.

Jumps come on pigs jaws from va
rious causes. Sometimes they arise
from bruises to the flesh of the jaw !;
then the glands of the throat swell aud
harden. Again, they may be caused by
scrofula. In that case there will be
similar Jumps in the hogs internal or
gans, such as the intestines, the liver,
lungs and kidneys. It is not possible to
tell the cause until the animal is slaugh-
tered. If it is scrofulous, other Jumps
and swellings will be seen at various
spots inside of him. In that case the
flesh is not fit for food. But if when it
is killed no Jumps except the one on the
outside of the jaw are seen the pig may
be safely eaten.
It has been found that cotton seed
raw and just as nature made it is an
excellent food for sheep in the south.
It makes both wool and mutton and is
the cheapest feed possible.
The Lincoln sheep crosses with the
Merino better than any other. The usu-
al cross is the Lincoln ram and Merino
eve.
The we'll bred Clydesdale has an ex-
oeedingly fine and spirited knee and
hook action.
A man who was fattening cattle for
market tried the plan of turning them
out in the lot every day. While they
were out he put their feed in their re-
spective troughs Then he let the cat
tie in, and they went to eating with a
rush without fighting one another.
They stuffed themselves, then lay down
peacefully and took on fat with uncom-
mon rapidity.
An important movement for securing
sound sires has been started by Irish
horse breeders. Many Irish breeders
cross thoroughbred stations with supe-
rior COMMON mares to produce horses
for hunting and cavalry uses. An asso-
citation of such breeders has opened a
register book for thoroughbred horses
used for this purpose. Each sire's rec
ord must be accompanied with veter-
mary surgeon s certificate that the ami
NAL is entirely sound; otherwise he is
refused registry. Unless, therefore, the
stallion owner can show the register
book with the accompanying veterinary
certificate, the farmer will know there
is something wrong with his horse.
This practice ought to become the uni
versal one for stations Of all kinds in
our country 1t would insure absolute
soundness and improve the equine race
~ A,norioo ix,,ro ocr1rah1v
The sheep raiser will need to look
out for lambs that come in cold weather.
The ewes should be in warm pen by
themselves If it is extremely cold, the
careful shepherd gets mp nights to lock
after young things coming.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
HIS IN SHORTHAND.
Many Trials of an EngIishman with His
Stenographer.

Many Trials of an EngIishman with His
Stenographer.
An Englishnan who drops his his
and aspirates his ais and stenographer
and typewriter who spells Theoretically
from dictation make combination
from which trouble is sure to result IN
less the copy is carefully revised.
The manager of one Of the most impor-
tant manufacturing plants in Cleveland
is an Englishman. Not long ago he en-
ployed young man to act as his stenog-
rapher, and one Of the first things that
the latter was called upon to do was
the taking down" of letter to the
managers wife, who was away at a
summer resort. Being busy man, the
manager didn't take the trouble to look
at the letter after it had been typewrit-
ten, but when his wife answered it
there was hot time for the stenogra-
pher. "My dear Henry" she wrote,
"what on earth do you mean by calling
me Hannah and our little Horace
'Orris?' / will admit that this sounds
like you, but why do you make joke
of it before your employees
OF course the fond husband and IA
ther didn't know what it all meant, and
SO he wrote for an explanation, when
his first letter was sent back to him.
One glance at it and he rushed over
to his stenographer, excitedly threw the
sheet down before him and demanded,
"There, what do you mean, sir, by
writing my wife's name down An
nah?'"
"Anna?" replied the young man.
''Let me see. No, I've got it Hannah,
all right.
But" said the manager, who was
furious, sits not 'Annah, it.,
HANNAH
"Well, there it is, Hannah-H-a-n-
nah. -
Annah be dashedl" exclaimed the
manager. "A-n-n-a, Hanna Can't you
understand English, you blanked fool?"
By this time the stenographer began
to see through the trouble, so he begged
off upon the plea that having had a
swelling in one Of his ears he had not
been able to bear very we'll But it cost
him nearly weeks salary to square
things with the other boys in the office.
and he always deems it best to hide
when he hears the managers wife in
the hall. Cleveland Leader
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03

SOFA Bean In the Latitude OF Ohio
Probably one of the best legumes for
all soils is the sofa bean. May Is last
] sowed small plot of ground to these
beans to see what they would do on a
moderately thin clay soil. The fore part
of the season was favorable to their
growth, the latter part being very dry.
By Sept. Is they had ripened and had
grown to an average height of three feet
and were turned down and sown to
wheat Oct. 6. OF the two varieties of
these beans which I have grown and
seen growing-viz., green and yellow
the green are to be preferred on account
of ripening sooner, thus enabling one
to make more thorough seed bed for
wheat. Three pecks per acre is sufficient
to insure good, thick stand. The seed
should be sown as soon as the soil can
be prepared in the spring, as it is adj
visable to have the beans ripen before
being turned down To say nothing of
the power of these beans as conveyers of.
nitrogen to the soil, they will certainly
add greatly to its mechanical condition
and can be depended upon to make a
vigorous growth on soils capable of pro-
ducing any other crop.
It is recognized fact that a large
portion of our soil has become deficient
Of the all important humus, and in just
what way to provide it is question
Humus is necessary to aid in rendering
available plant food which otherwise
w0uld remain inso1ub1e in hnIdino
moisture, in rendering soils more easily
cultivated and helping to get a good
stand of clover. While rye and buck
wheat are valuable as far as they 60 !
can see no reason why farmers should
resort to the growth of these, which
add simply to the mechanical condition
of the soil, when at the same time by
the aid of SOFA beans, Canada field peas
or the southern cowpea be can do as
much and provide nitrogen also,
Charles McIntire in National Stookman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
- -7s5l ~
) DAIRY aQREAMERY.l
@E
ICE CUTTING.

First Make Your Pond, Then Wait For It
to Freeze Over.
If it is preferred to locate the dam on
branch the entire supply of water in
which comes from spring, care should
be taken to build the dam sufficiently
far below the spring SO the water will
get cold before reaching the pond,
spring water in winter being warm.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
Text Didn't Apply.

Mrs. Northside was telling about the
trouble Mrs. Manchester was having
with her maids and was apparently TAX
ing much pleasure out of her difficulties.
You should not be glad because Mrs.
Manchester is in trouble . said Mr..
Northside. You should remember that
the Bible says, Rejoice not when thine
enemy falleth. 4"
ooh, that's all rightl' replied Mrs.
Northside briskly. Mrs. Manchester
isn't an enemy at all; she is my dearest
friend. " = Pittsburg Chronicle Tele-
graph.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
TN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Notice to absent Defendant

Notice to absent Defendant.
To A4aaeie IA. DiLks -
By virtue of an order of the Court of Chancery
of New Jersey, made on the day of the date
hereof, in a cause wherein Jacob D milford is
complainant, and you are defendant you are
required to appeal and plead answer or demur,
Fourth day of April negt or the said bill will be
taken as confessed against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose mortgage
given by William 7 Dubois and Deborah Fl. his
wife, to Jacob d. MuIford, on lands in Gloucester
county New Jersey, dated August 25 1884, and
you, Annie M. Dilks are made defendant because
you own said lands, or some part thereof.
BENJAMIN T. POWELL.
Solicitor of Complainant,
Cedarville, Cumberland Co., N. j.
Dated Feb 4 1898. 2-10-98 SITS.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
Dated February Sd, 1898.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Richard ]. Clark, Executor of the estate OF
Surrogate of the County of Gloucester, hereby
gives notice to the creditors of the said Nancy
McCracken, deceased, to bring in their debts.
claims and demands against the estate of the
said decedent, under cath or affirmation, within
nine months from this date, or they will be for.
ever barred of any action therefor against the
said Executor. RICHARD j. CLARK.
Dated February Sd, 1898.