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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
worked the wrong Way.

Mr.. Dooley, a Mobile ship carpenter,
relates an amusing incident connected
with the blockade Of Mobile harbordur-
ing the civil war some ship carpenters
had been put to work by the govern
ment to manufacture floating mines and
had taken a number of heavy pieces Of
square timber and placed them in the
form of a triangle, three pieces being
used to each. At the end of each Of the
sticks-that is, on the three points-was
placed torpedo A few days after this
the wind came out strong from the north,
and the torpedoes were taken and placed
in position III the bay SO that they
would be driven by the wind against
the United States gunboats
The plan was apparently t. be sue
cessful, the torpedoes being driven rap
idly in the direction of the enemy gun
boats, and great damage might have re-
suited to Uncle Sans ships had not the
wind suddenly changed, and the torpe-
does were brought back and carried in
a bunch to the bay opposite Frascati.
Here the torpedo mines met in an eddy,
and there was suddenly great explo-
sion, followed by another, and yet an
other, completely tearing the RATS to
pieces and producing at the same time
panic among the people resident on
the shore, who went to Mobile city and
reported that the enemy was lombard.
ing Frascati - New Orleans Times
Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
His Story Too Local.

A teetotal lecturer at West Bromwich,
in order to illustrate the horrors of
drinking, told his audience story of a
wooden legged topper who was so drunk
one night that he took off his wooden
leg to wind the clock The story was
told in all simplicity by the lecturer
as he had heard it in his childhood.
Strange to say, it applied exactly to the
husband of a lady who happened to be
one of the audience. After the lecture
the lady waited on the lecturer behind
the hall.
"Wretchl" she said "How dare you
hold my husband to public ridicule?"
But, my dear madam -
"Now dom t deny it, for I heard you.
Scratch, scratch, scratchl That lectur-
er is now undergoing repairs. He will
be more careful of his choice of illustra-
tions next time. Birmingham Mail.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
A Clever Craftsman.

The slickest craftsman in our office at
this kind of work is little, dark COM
plexioned fellow who sits in corner
and says never word. He has u glass
eye and three wooden legs. His name is
Camera. He takes his cap off at a draw
ing for only a minute and says to the
foreman: 81 have made more accurate
copy than any tracer in the Office could
have done. Every line is exact, every
circle is true and all your figures are
correctly copied If you are using your
drawing for constant reference, l will
only delay you a minute, and your copy
will be ready for printing in an hour !"
70 any intelligent man such an appeal
will not pass without careful exam
ination. American Machinist.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30

Writing Of the perils of naval warfare,
Park Benjamin in The Independent says
Nobody now believes that captain
who finds his vision through the Sits
of the coming tower cut off by smoke
will stay thus shut up. It is extremely
doubtful if it will be physically possible
for him to remain there after the shells
commence to hammer its sides and burst
against it, and in any event the intense
anxiety to see and know clearly what
the enemy is doing will inevitably lead
him to take his chances in the OPEN
Coming tower or no coming tower, his
duty is to place himself at whatever
point he can manage his ships to the
best advantage, and this he will GER
tainly do Lord Charles Beresford, with
grim humor, has suggested that the
captain S safest place is not in but be-
hind his coming tower, because then
he has two thiclznesses of steel between
himself and the enemy, don t you see?''
But while coming tower arlnor may re-
sist penetration it is by no means GER
tain that the whole structure will not
be swept away by the first heavy pro-
jectile which squarely hits it.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30

Up to the present electricity has
scarcely been thought suitable as the
principal motive CT propelling power
for the larger type of vessels. This is
undoubtedly owing to the fact that for
given horsepower triple oT quadruple
expansion steam engine would take up
less space and probably weigh less than
an electrical installation of equal power.
Storage batteries arc out of the question
for such uses, although persons not well
up in electrical subjects frequently won
der why our ocean greyhounds are not
propelled by some such method. 1t may
interest some of our readers to know
that a vessel requiring an Average Of
10, 900 horsepower to propel it across
the Atlantic, and displacing 5, 900 tons,
would be obliged to carry, were storage
batteries alone made use of, 1924, $50,
900 pounds of such batteries, or, in
other words, the motive power alone
would weigh 1862, $40 tons, or 80 times
as much as the ship. Electricity
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
SPAIN's CROWN JEWELS.


Brought to America by the Secretary of
Joseph Bonaparte.
Sin 1917 Joseph Bonapartes seere-
tary, Maillard, left Philadelphia armed
win letters wn1cn represented him to
be travelling agent for Girard's COM
mercial house and visiting Girard's cor
respondents in Holland and Switzer
land, /" William Perrine writes of
"When the King of Spain Lived on the
Banks of the Schuylkill' lin Philadel-
phia) i'll The Ladies' Home Journal.
Ellis real destination was the Swiss
chateau at Prangins, from which the
king had fled two years before, and his
real object to secure the treasure which
had been buried in the ground of the
estate on the eve of bis flight. Maillard
found the buried packets, and with
them he would also have brought to
Philadelphia Queen Julie if her physi-
clans had not compelled her to renounce
the project of joining her husband.
'The jewels, which were valued at
81, 900, 600, were stuffed into a belt,
which Maillard wore on his person
when returning across the Atlantic, and
with which he was gladly received by
his master in the Lansdowne house,
near Philadelphia. 1t was about this
time that wild rumors began to circu-
late in Philadelphia concerning the ex-
kings riches and of the boards of specie
which he had deposited in the vault of
Stephen Girard's Philadelphia bank.
Mysterious heavy boxes, sealed with
wax, were believed by Girard's clerks
to contain the crown jewels of Spain
and Naples. One or two old men in re-
cent years. who were then among those
clerks, have told how Joseph would sit
in the bank talking with them affably
while waiting for the great banker. y
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
War and Our Markets.

According to American Gardening,
growers and dealers will benefit from
the fact that carried over stocks of can
ned goods will be cleaned up SO that
Gamers will be very active when the
season opens; furthermore, the military
camps will be large users of this COM
modify.
Seed dealers and growers will be aid
ed in their business from the fact that
sowings have been already large. and a
later batch will undoubtedly be put in.
A rise in values may be expected in
staples. Potatoes will also be in greater
demand and SO also should apples,
while regular lines of canning goods
will also climb up.
On the other hand, perishable stock
which is to be put ON the market in a
green state may sell slowly, or at best
only at nominal values. Peas and beans
(seed) have already stiffened.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
CELERY A MONEY MAKER.


Ideas About Marketing Thrown as 3
cond or Even Third Crop.
GOOD celery is good salesman. It
not only speaks for itself, but for all
that goes with it, The gardener who
grows good celery has his products sold
in advance, his coming is awaited with
interest, and he will soon dispose of his
load at good prices. A correspondent
of The Orange Judd Farmer, quoted in
the foregoing, expresses other ideas as
follows:
Usually there is not nearly attention
enough paid to preparing celery for the
market. punching in the regulation
style is not desirable, as the punching
hides many defects Better pack in a
perfectly clean basket or box the roots
separately, after washing clean and re-
moving all leaves and stems not fit for
the table In this condition it should
sell for from to 6 cents per root al
though at cents it is a good paying
crop.
Celery is mostly grown as a second
crop, although not infrequently as a
third. AS a second crop il usually fol-
lows early cabbage, and the soil that is
congenial to the one is to the other.
The best soil for celery is heavy, deep,
sandy loan and the situation naturally
moist. 1t is useless to attempt the grow
ing of celery on dry, light soil, as it will
not endure a drought. In such seasons
the gardener must provide sufficient
moisture or lose his crop.
Good plants are the first requisites of
good celery. They must be strong, Wig
orous and perfectly healthy. Where cab
bage is the first crop the soil should be
sufficiently rich for celery withont ad-
ditional manure but should any be con-
sidered necessary let it be thoroughly
rotted and put under the plants instead
of around them. Make the trenches deep
and put the manure at the bottom. Fill
the trenches with the soil thrown out
and set the plants on level, never below
the surface. Exercise great care in set
ting, SO that the crowns of the plants
are not covered, and to have the soil
pressed firmly about the roots.
For an early celery prefer the half
dwarf sorts and should never plant self
blanching varieties, as the loss of color
indicates weakened vitality. To have
celery delicious and tender it is neoes-
sary to earth it up no matter what the
variety may be- For late winters use
I prefer the best of the pink varieties,
both because of their rich, nutty flavor
and their excellent keeping qualities.
If winter spinach is the first crop taken
off in the spring and this followed by
second early peas, celery can easily be
made third crop.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
News and Notes.

1t is expected that there will be in
operation in the United States in 1898
II sugar beet factories, new factories
being located in Utah Cd, Oregon ID,
California az, Michigan a. and New
York ~, and that at least so, 600 acres
will be planted in Loets during the sea-
son.
When corn is ripe or nearly SO, the
dry matter which the crop contains is
found about one-haH in the ears, less
than one third in the stalks and one
fifth in the leaves, according to a Mich
igan station report.
The Geneva IN. Y. experiment sta
ton concludes from experiment that
manu<ing with rye will not prevent pc
tato scab On scab infested soil nor will
soaking the seed tubers in corrosive
sublimate.
The downy mildew is now said to at
tack many plants Of the squash, melon
and gourd kind.
Did you ever Try selling choice pears,
peaches, prunes or cherries III neatly
labeled one and five pound paper boxes?
Inregard tosetting straw berries some
people advise late summer and fall set
ting. H. w. Collingwood says large
growers believe in summer setting, but
they are gradually becoming more and
more in favor of fall setting
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30

The rush of spring work being pretty
we'll over, there comes breathing space
in the garden work before the weeds
claim our attention. An American Gar
dening correspondent reminds vegetable
growers that advantage should be taken
of this to have all work pushed forward
as we'll as possible Tomato trellises
may be got into position and manure
dug in where the plants are to be set,
even although the ground has been ma
nured beforehand. Dig in little ex-
ira, as it is hard to overdo tomatoes in
this respect so long as the manure is
not used in too fresh state. The same
remarks may be applied to lima beans,
the poles for which may also be got in.
to position.
Hills may be got in shape for melons
and cucumbers. A few hills of the latter
may be sown under hand glasses. The
White Spine variety Of cucumber is rec
commended for this early sowing, but
later on some of Tender and True. The
fruit of this is rather longer than White
Spine and not inclined to ripen up SC
quickly, but White Spine is better
yielder, and still keeps the lead as a
standard variety.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
HOLDS THE FUTURE.
America Occupies Proud Position Among


America Occupies Proud Position Among
the Nations.
On this peculiarly American day, the
Fourth of July, when from the Atlantic to
the Pacific the sound of flrecrackers-a
miniature battle-recalls the boom of the
cannon and the roar of artillery which
won for us our liberty when the war OF
the Revolution was over, we Americans
feel the greatness of our country and the
proud position which she holds among 9th.
or nations.
We celebrate with great rejoicing the
anniversary of American independence.
And this day will ever be associated with
that most noble of instruments that de-
clared these colonies free
We feel that it is great honor to be
an American and live in country SC
strong in youth, territory and nonoonges-
ton of her population, SO strong in the
expectation of her inhabitants in the own
ership of the land, in the blood of heroes
that flows in the veins of her sons, in the
absence of luxury and the need of toll.
All this has combined to make American
Drawn noteworthy.
The impress of the goodness of the
Father also makes the nation moral Her
popular government, her religious liberty
and her institutions all prophesy and
prove that Arnold spoke the truth when
he declared that America holds the flu
ture. Philadelphia Times.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
singing spiders.

A naturalist who has given many years
of study to some of the smaller forms of
insect life has discovered that certain sorts
of spiders are possessed OF organs for which
there seems to be no use save to create
sound They are mostly used when the
little creatures are alarmed, although the
opinion is held by some that this is their
means of calling to their mates The
alarm idea, however, has some support in
the case Of the rattlcsnakc, which is pro
vided with tie means Of making it's pres.
ence known whenever an enemy APP
proaches Whether the possession of or
gans for creating sound is designed merely
as a protection or warming is point to
which naturallsts are giving careful and en-
thusiastic attention New York Ledger.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
DANA AS AN EDITOR.
He Was very Punctilious as to Typo
graphical Details.

He Was Very Punctilious as to Typo
graphical Details.
IN all matters Of detail, in literary
manner, i'll the Use of words, in gram
mar, punctuation and typographical
method he was the most careful and ex-
acting OF editors. One time an editorial
contained two lines Of poetry in type of
the same size as that of the text, and,
as | was the aUthor of it, Mr.. Dana
sent me an edify ing note under the IA
miliar signature, treason, Revelation.
Science, Philosophy and Esthetics all
require that these lines should have
been put in small type. Upon another
occasion, when he thought verb had
been improperly used in manuscripts,
he wrote an admonitory sentence, "To
say there are in this passage would be
unpoetic and consequently disgusting.
He took the blame whenever an error
escaped his eye. / take shame to my
self, . he wrote one time when the au-
thor of an editorial had COMPOUNDED
Boston brown bread with Graham bread,
for having printed this thing without
scrutinizing it. The Sun is ignorant
and wrong.
One day man in California had sent
an inquiry to the editor of The Sun,
evil you please tell me how to be-
come a Christian?" and az often dealt
with religious questions at the time
this appeal was received Mr.. Dana blue
penciled the back of the mans note
with these words: why not give him
ripping answer? Give him the social
ist side of Christianity.
When the writer Of book review
had italicized eight or ten Of his words,
Mr. Dana commented thus "This re-
view is the best in the whole lot and is
very good, but why in the world an ex-
perenced writer like wants to
pepper his manuscript with nasty little
italics can imagine.
When the writer of an editorial para
graph i'll The Sun wrote of "Govs.
Cameron and Crittenden, the ever
watchful critic in the sanctum got after
him in a note left for me: "The term
sgovs., gems, 'capts., ETC., is dis
gushing, The titles have no plural as
attached to any individual name. They
should be repeated, or circumlocution
should be used. y
In an editorial article printed in bre-
vier type there had appeared an extract
in agate type. The grammatical subject
of sentence was in BREWER, while the
verb for it was in the subsequent agate
line Mr.. Dana wrote for my benefit
"This passage from big type to little is
contrary to all sound principles of typo.
graphical elegance. Greeley used to
make the passage and country newspa-
pers still make it. but it is wicked y
| When writer for The Sun once de-
scribed man as too condemn smart,
the phrase was highly offensive to Mr..
Dana, who wrote a caustic comment
upon it in three words which need not
be here printed. Swinton in
| Chautauquan.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
THE MOSQUITOES SONG.



A NEadrigal. Not warcry-How to Catch
the Singer.
You can best observe the mosquito in
action by letting one settle undisturbed on
the back Of your hand and waiting while
she fills herself with your blood You can
easily watch her doing so with pocket
lens. Like the old lady in 'Pickwick, !"
she is soon swelling wisibly" She gorges
herself with blood, indeed, which she
straightway digests, assilnilates and con-
verts into three hundred eggs. But If
while she is sucking you gently and unob-
trusively tighten the skin of your hand by
clinching your fist hard you will find that
she cannot any longer withdraw her man
dibles. They are caught fast in your flesh
by their own harpoonlike teeth, and there
she must stop accordingly till you choose
to release her If you then kill her in the
usual manner by smart slap OF the hand,
you will see that she is literally full Of
blood, having sucked good drop Of il.
The humming sound itself by which the
mosquito announces her approaching visit
Is produced in two distinct manners The
deeper notes which go to make up her
droning song are due to the rapid vibra-
ton of the female insects wings as she
flies, but the higher and shriller notes of
the complex melody are due to special
STIMULATING organs situated like little
drums on the openings of the air tubes.
The curious mosquito music thus gem
Grated by the little drums serves almost
beyond doubt as a means of attracting
male mosquitoes, for it is known that the
long hairs on the antenna of the males
vibrate alphabetically in unison with
the notes of tuning fork within the
range of the sounds emitted by the female
In other words, hair and drums just an
swer to one another We may therefore
reasonably conclude that the female sings
in order to please and attract her wander
ing mate and that the antenn@ of the
male are organs of hearing which catch
and respond to the buzzing music she
pours forth for her lovers ears. A whole
swarm Of gnats can be brought down, in
decd, by uttering the appropriate note Of
the race You can call them somewhat as
you can call male glowwor1ns by showing
a light which they mistake for the female.
Strand Magazine
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30

these discussions of the ailments peculiar
to women took place twenty years earlier
in life. If little of the prudery of mod
ern society were banished, so that young
women talked these subjects over among
themselves, there would be less suffering
among women in middle life.
Good health is the best endowment that
a human being can have. Good general
health among women is largely dependent
upon good local health in a womanly way.
Through ignorance and neglect it has be-
come such an ordinary, common place
thing for women to suffer from weakness
and disease of the delicate and important
feminine organism, that many women have
come to look upon these troubles as an
unavoidable inheritance. This is a mis-
take All troubles of this nature may be
cured in the privacy of the home, without
undergoing the obnoxious examinations
and " local treatment" insisted upon by
the average physician. DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription gives health, elastic
strength and vitality to the sensitive organs
concerned. 1t allays Inflammation, heals
liberation and frees from pain. 1t tones
the nerves and builds up the nerve centers.
1t makes woman healthy and strong, and
thus prepares her for healthy wifehood,
capable motherhood and safe transition
at the change of life.
81 want to testify to the great benefit derived
from using DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
writes Mrs. H. Mason, of Strykersvilie, Wyo-
ming Co, N " " commenced using 1t about
three months before confinement. With my
one was comparatively easy, owing to the uss
of the RaVOrItR Preservation ~
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
Whara the Pecan Crows

The pecan is "a near relative of the
hickory nut 1t does not thrive in all
lands that the hickory nut will, but the
hickory nut will grow well wherever
the pecan will The home of the pecan
is the low, rich bottom land that lies
along the Wabash, Mississippi, White
and Big Bend rivers, while they seem
to grow equally as well i'll the Indian
Territory aud in the best watered parts
of Texas Little Rock Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
NOT so SLOW.


Glance at the Record of This Modest
Canadian Cow.
We are always glad TO help exploit
the great achievements of Jerseys,
Guernseys, Holstein- Friesians, Ayr
shires and other prominent dairy cows.
We believe they all have their right
place and there is room for them all.
Some will do better for dairyman in
one locality. while another breed will
give better results elsewhere.
But meantime The Country Gentle
man publishes the record of little
French Canadian COW owned in New
York state that goes far to proclaim
this modest and gentle beast the equal
of any living when it comes to filling
the milk pail and the butter tub as
we'll
The characteristics of the cow, as in
dictated in her picture, are rather more
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-30
Live stock Points.

There is g notable difference i'll the
disposition of horse and mule. When
a horse falls and gets tangled in the
harness, he kicks furiously unless his
head is held down On the contrary,
when the like thing happens to a mule
he lies perfectly still, awaiting the eff
forts made to release him and let him
up. This indicates that in some respects
a mule has more sense than horse.
Those mule breeders who have been
bewailing the low price of their hybrids
will now have occasion to change their
song. The war will make mules in brisk
demand, the large, strong kind. that is
If you are sheep raiser, prepare for
next winter. The sheep is an animal
that must have some loosening, suceu-
lent food, or it will get the stretches,
which are nothing but symptoms Of con-
stipation. The sheep is naturally con-
stipated creature. Many good farmers
are now feeding ensilage to sheep. and
it is as good for them as for COWS. Dry
food exclusively plays the mischief with
sheep i'll winter Therefore put up a
good lot of ensilage or else plant plenty
of turnips or other roots for your sheep
in cold weather. Thus you will be apt
to save the lives of number of them.
June is a good month in which to
plant corn for fodder The planting
should be done early in the month. The
stalks win grow constantly till the ears
are in the milk stage AID the fodder
will have time to grow richer and bet
ter than when it is planted later.
Some successful cattle feeders buy
animals already partly fat and rush
them through in 8 months or 100 days
and make good profit on them.
If you are going to try fall pigs this
kear. breed for them in June.