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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
PRECIOUS METALS.
Gold and Platinum Are Cheap Com
pared With Some of Them.

Gold and Platinum Are Cheap Com
pared With Some of Them.
"The majority of people when asked
to name the most precious metals usu-
ally mention gold as first, platinum as
second and silver as third, +" said the
proprietor of large assaying and REIN
ing establishment to the writer recently.
Now, let us see how near the truth
they would be. Gold is worth about
$3.50 per pound troy, platinum $3.50,
and silver about $12.
eve will now compare these prices
with those of the Mrer and less we'll
known metals. To take them in alpha
betical order barium, tie metal which
Davy isolated from its ore, baryta, in
1903, sells for $3.50 pound when it is
sold at all, and calcium il worth 81, 800
a pound. Cirium is shade higher. Its
cost is $3.50 an ounce, or 81. 900 per
pound. These begin to look like fabu-
lous prices. but they do not reach the
highest point, chromium being 5000.
Cobalt falls to about half the price of
silver, while didymium, the metal iso.
ldlSu ny MdsdudeI, Is Tue hdu0 prizes
as calcium. Then comes gallium, which
is worth So, $50 an ounce. With this
metal the highest price is reached, and
it may we'll be called the rarest and
most precious of metals
"Glucium is wcrth $3.50 per ounce;
indium, $3.50; iridium, 1868 pound;
janthanium, $l75, and lithium. $3.50
per ounce Nidium costs 1928 per ounce
osmium, palladium, platinum, potas-
SUM and rhodium bring respectively
$640, $500, $130, $32 and $512 per
pound. Strontium costs 1928 an ounce
tantaum, $144; tilurium, SO; thorium,
$272; vanadium, $500; yttorium. $144
and zinconium, $3.50 an ounce.
Thus we see that the commonly re-
ceived opinion as to what are the most
precious metals is quite erroneous. Ba-
rum is nearly four times as valuable as
gold and gallium more than 100 times
as costly, while many of the other met
ais mentioned are twice and thrice as
valuable. aluminium, which cost So
and SO pound in 1890, is now pro-
duced as cheaply as are iron, zinc. lead
and copper. Washington Star
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
pri,nitixe ARTILLERY.

AS to the character of the first instru-
ment for the throwing of missiles and
just when it was invented we have nc
certain knowledge, but it must have
been at an early date, for we read in
Genesis K, 8, that 'Nimrod was a
mighty hunter before the Lord, and
surely the skill that has kept his name
in remembrance for thousands of years
must have been gained by the use Of
some surer weapon than the clubs Or
stone knives of primitive man.
Without doubt man early learned
how much execution can be done by a
we'll aimed stone, and attempts to hurl
it with greater force and accuracy
probably led to the invention of the
sling, one of the simplest as well as
most formidable of these early weapons.
It was long one of the principal instru-
ments of war among the ancients, and
the story of David and Goliath is good
illustration of what could be done by
one skilled in its use. This skill, how
ever, could be acquired only by early
and careful training.
In the Balearic islands, it is said, in
ancient times the parents suspended the
dinner Of their boys upon poles and re-
CURED them to bring it down with
slings before they were allowed to eat.
-Lippincott' Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Dvvarfs and Poison.

Henry M. Stanley, in describing his
journey though the forests of Africa,
says that the most formidable foes he
encountered, those that caused the
greatest loss of life to his caravan and
came nearest to defeating his expedi-
ton, were the Wambutti dwarfs.
These diminutive men had only bows
and arrows for weapons, SO small that
they looked like children playthings,
but upon the tip of each tiny arrow was
drop of poison which would kill an
elephant or man as surely and quickly
as rife. Their defense was by means
of poison and traps.
They would steal through the dense
forest, and waiting in ambush let fly
their arrows before they could be dis
covered. They dug bitches and carefully
covered them over with sticks and
leaves. They fixed spikes in the ground
and tipped them with poison. Into these
bitches and on these spikes man and
beast would fall or step to their death.
One OF the strangest things about it was
that their poison was mixed with honey.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Stories of Curran.

Curran could say mordant and cut
ting things, but perhaps no man was
ever insulted with such dialectical neat
ness and righteousness as Curran was
by the famous maker of "bulls,'' Sir
Boyle Roche, in the Irish house of COM
mons. "The honorable gentleman says
he is the guardian Of his own honor, :"
said Roche in reply to a speech of Cur
ran, "but on the other occasions l have
heard him boast that be was an enemy
of sinecures. F"
Curran was defeated in conversa-
tional contest with Lady Morgan, the
Irish novelist, one evening in that lady S
drawing room, when, exaggerating the
prevailing fashion in short sleeves. she
wore merely straps over her shoulders.
Curran was walking away from the lit
tie party who witnessed the conflict of
the two wits when Lady Morgan called
out, "Ah, come back, Mr.. Curran, and
acknowledge that you are fairly beaten. +"
"At any rate, :" said he, turning round,
81 have this consolation, Lady Morgan,
that you can't laugh at me in your
sleeve
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
DELAUNAY's SAD FATE.
A Presentiment of His Death Tha
Was Strangely Entitled.

A Presentiment of His Death That
Was Strangely Fulfilled.
Delaunay, the director of the Paris
observatory, was one of the most kindly
and attractive men I ever met says
Professor Simon Newcomb in The At
lantic. | found it hopeless to expect
that he would ever visit America, be-
cause he assured me that he did not
dare to venture on the ocean The only
voyage he mad ever made was across the
channel TO receive a gold medal of the
Royal Astronomical society for his
work
Two of his relatives, his father, and,
believe, his brother, had been drown
ed, and this fact gave him horror OF
the water. He seemed to feel somewhat
as the clients of the astrologists, who,
having been told how they were to die,
took every precaution to prevent it.
remember, as boy, reading history OF
astrology, in which "a great many cases
of this sort were described, the pecu-
liarity being that the very measures
which the victim took to avoid the de-
cree Of fate became the engines that ex-
ecuted it.
The sad fate of Delaunay was not ex-
actly case of this kind, yet it could
not but bring it to mind. He was at
Cherbourg in the autumn of 1879.
Walking on the shore with a relative,
couple of boatmen invited them to
take sail. Through what inducement
Delaunay was led to forget his fears
will never be known. ALI we know is
that he ventured into the boat, that it
was struck by sudden squall when at
some distance from the land, and that
all the members of the party were
drowned.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Some Quaint Answers.

Irish domestics are widely noted for
their simplicity and their quaint re-
marks. A lady, desiring to make the
most OF her choice tap of table beer, the
merits of which her servants had dis
covered, for it disappeared rapidly,
thus addressed her Irish butler: 'tDaly.
what do you think would be the best
thing to do in order to save this beer as
much as possible?" "Well, ma'am, -
replied the butler, 81 don't think you
could do better than to place barrel Of
good strong ale close blythe side of it. .
An Irish girl called at house in
London III answer to an advertisement
for a general servant. "Have you a
character" asked the mistress. elm
deed, a'am, I'm sorry to say I've no
character. l had beautiful wan whin
/ left Ireland, but | losht it the night |
erased over to Holyhead in the steam
er, was the laconio reply.
An Irish manservant was discovered
in lie. On being accused by his mas
ter Of stating what was not the truth,
he excused himself by saying, please,
sur, lost my presence of mind. Lon
don Standard.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Gratitude.

When Lord Charles Beresford was a
midshipman, he performed gallant act
for which he subsequently received q
medal. His vessel lay in the Mersey
and numerous visitors came on board
in order to look over the ship. AS a
boat containing a man weighing 25C
pounds was getting alongside it was
suddenly swamped, when Lord Charles
jumped overheard and seized the occu-
pant just as he was sinking. The gal
liant rescuer kept the man afioat until
help arrived, and both rescuer and res
cued were taken on board the man-of-
war
The man whose life had been saved
maintaining a glum countenance and
showing no great enthusiasm for his
preserver, some one remarked to him,
"You don't appear very pleased at hav
ing been rescued from drowning"
''Ughr' he exclaimed in a tone Of
disgust. glancing first at his own portly
proportions and then at his rescuer.
"He was such little unp'
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01

Spinning a silver dollar and then
guessing heads or tails is a favorite
medium for small wagers among the
crowd in the alley behind the Cotton
Exchange. The other day young bro
ker mystified every body by producing a
coin that invariably settled down heads
up no matter who did the spinning. II
was some little time before this pecul
iarity was observed. and then there was
a general demand for the secret. Some
suggested that the piece was loaded,
which was secuted as self evident i'm
possibility, and close scrutiny failed tc
reveal anything unusual about it.
"I'll tell you how it's done, boys,
said the owner at length, "but keep the
scheme dark All that is necessary is tc
pass a file few times around the edge,
SO as to put on slight bevel. 1t can't
be seen, but the coin will fall ON the
beveled side every time as sure as fate.
It's good idea, by the way, to have
two in your poeket--one fixed for heads
and one for tails. A steady run is al
ways suspicious, you know, and you can
shift EN- occasionally. New Orleans
Times Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
wonan,s Laugh.

A feminine laugh has to be decora-
tive, and SO it should be the laugh of
gayety rather than Of humor. There car
hardly he question as to the sweetest
laugh to be heard among nations of wo-
men-it is surely the Frenchwoman s..
She has the softest MARBLE of all. If
doves were not SO serious, they might
remind us of Partisan women laughing
together. The Italian laugh is happy
enough, but it is not quite SO independ-
ent of the subject of laughter. 1t has a
jolIity all its own. Tt is somewhat un-
civilized, but needs no civjlizing. But
its principal characteristic is the con-
tralto tone proper to the woman who is
to the last somewhat of a peasant.
The laughter of English women is too
various for any brief description. For
English women laugh not according to
their race, but according to their caste,
as caste has lately been revised and re-
distributed. 1t may be said that in caste
also the treble note, the ready, the i'm
mediate, fits up to its own place-the
top-and is audible there, for all its
slender quality.-Cellier' Weekly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Miss Hoyt,s Golf Arm.

Miss Beatrix Hoyt is nonpareil,
Yet woman, she has mans arm ant
mans clear eye. That stroke of hers
is an anatomical masterpiece, and some
day her golf arm" will be immortal
ICED in that great history Of sport ant
athletics which is bound to be writer
sooner or later. But, in spite of the en-
during accuracy of that stroke, it il
wondered if the woman golf champion
of the United States can throw stone
and hit the mark. Boston Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
The Kidney Complexion.

/ The pale, sallow, sunken- checked, dis
tressed-looking people you SO often meet
are afflicted with Kidney Complexion"
Their kidnerys are turned to a parsniE
color. So is their complexion.
They may also have indigestion, OF
suffer from sleeplessness. rheumatism
neuralgia, brain trouble, nervous exhaus
ton and sometimes the heart acts badly
The cause is weak, unhealthy kidneys.
Usually the sufferer from kidney dis
ease does not find out what the trouble is
until it is almost too late, because the first
symptoms are so like mild sickness that
they do not think they need medicine or
a doctor until they find themselves sick in
bed
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root will build nE
and strengthen their weak and diseased
kidney, purify their diseased, kidney
poisoned blood, clear their complexion aud
soon they will enjoy better health.
You can get the regular sizes at The
drug store, at fifty cents aud one dollar, OIL
you may first prove for yourself tbs
wonderful virtues of this great discovery
Swamp Root. by sending your address tc
DR. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N Y fol
sample bottle and book that tells all
about it, both sent to you absolutely fire.,
by mail When writing kindl9 mention
that you read this liberal offer in the
GLOUCESTER COUNTY DEMOCRAT
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
A SILLY TRAGEDY.


The Duel Between Tom Porter and
Sir Henry Beliasis.
Some of the Royalists who were
forced to endure the English common
wealth seemed to console themselves
for the dizziness Of life under Puritan
governments by fighting as many duels
as they could compass, so that ignobIe
squabbles and foolish plots make up the
history of their days
Tom Porter was of a family which
had zealously served the king. Under
the new government his occupation was
gone, and he descended to triviality
of life which finally involved him in a
most pathetic event. This was duel
which he fought with his friend, Sir
Henry Bellasis, and which, says Pepys
in his Diary. is worth remembering
for the Stiffness of the quarrel a
kind of emblem of the general complex
ion of the whole kingdom. =
But silly as the quarrel undoubtedly
was it carried in it an element of heart
break.
The two young men involved We're
intimate friends and companions, but
one day, "being merry in company"
Tom Porter said he should like to see
the man in England who would dare
give him blow. With that Sir Henry
Bellasis struck him box on the ear
The inevitable duel followed, wherein
each was wounded. Sir Henry proved to
be seriously hurt, SO he called Porter.
l.: Il L 4 4 H. a.,
For" said he, tom, thou hast
hurt me. But will make shift to stand
upon my legs till thou mayst Withdraw,
for | would not have thee troubled for
what thou hast done. y
Porter profted by his friends gener-
osity and escaped to France. Sir Henry
died few days later, and Pepys con
cludes, cit is pretty to see how the
world do talk of them as couple of
fools that killed one another out of
love =
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Willing To nhIire.

Smoking cigarette the other nigh
in the north heard a story which, af
far as | know, is new. A proud old lady
swept Indignantly up to the door of Q
railway carriage at York station. A
schoolboy was leaning half way out o.
the compartment, refiectively making .
cigarette. and, after the fashion of the
English schoolboy. not caring for any
body. rs this smoking compartment
asked the dame, with scathing voice.
No, madam. replied the boy polite
ly, raising his cap. 'tIf you want 3
smoking compartment, you will fine
one a little lower down. London Fl.
ryoro
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01

There is some reason for calling an
owl the bird of wisdom, and yet there
is cause for wondering if the crow is
not mentally his superior. Crows are
not disheartened by the gloom of late
autumn. If the fog is too dense to fly
through it. they rise above it or trot
about the ground, discussing the situa-
tion with their fellows. Is this speak
ing too positively? l have long been
familiar with an observing man who
has lived all his days within sight and
hearing Of crows. He claims to under
stand their language and can repeat the
words" that make up their vocabulary.
Certainly crows seem to talk, but do
they? Does a certain sound made by
them have always the one significance?
Year after year ] have listened and
watched, watched and listened, and
wondered if my friend was right. He
believes it. ] believe it-almost. Are
there limitations to archaeological in
depreciation? And is this an instance
where truth is Observation-Disclosures
colts.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Hard ON the Reporters.

81 had a strange dream the other
night, y said the major
"What was it?'' asked the young
thing.
II went to heaven, and as an old
newspaper man was interested in their
journal up there. 1t was miserable
thing; not we'll written story in it.
and told st. Peter SO.
"What did be say?'
''He said: It's not our fault. We
never get any good reporters up here. :"
philadelphia Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01

On the application OF James SWeeten, Admin
istrator of the Estate of Matthew Kelly deceased
for an order to sell lands to pay debts.
Order to Shoao cause
James Sweeten, Administrator of the estate of
Matthew Kelly. late of the Township of Log IN,
in the County of Gloucester and State Of New
Jersey, deceased, having exhibited to this court
under oath just and true account of the per.
sonal estate and debts of said deceased, whereby
it appears that the personal estate of the said
Matthew Kelly, deceased, is insufficient to pay
his debts and requesting the aid Of the Court in
the premises:
1t is on this Thirtieth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety eight. ordered that all the persons
interested in the lands tenements. heredita-
ments and real estate of the said Matthew
Kelly, deceased, appear before the Orphans
Court Of the County Of Gloucester on the Second
day of December, next. at ten clock in the fore
noon, or soon thereafter as the Court can
hear the same, to show cause why 50 much of
the said lands, tenements. hereditaments and
real estate of the said Matthew Kelly, deceased,
should not be sold. as win be sufficient to pay his
debts or the residue thereof as the case may
require. BY the Court
WILLARD F. DUBOIS,
Oct. il. 1913 Srrr0pqtQ
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
swimmers with Hats.

An Englishman home from the west
coast of Africa says he saw whole viii
lage swimming out to the steamer wear
ing as they SWAN renovated secondhand
tstovepipe" hats in all the glory of the
white tissue paper in which they are
shipped out for sale
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
MOT a FIller.

First Member Musical Committee
Does the new sopranos voice fill the
church?
Second Member Hardly. The ushers
tell me there are always vacant seats in
the gallery. - Detroit Journal
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Dated Sept. q, 1893. q


Isaac NJ. B. Thompson. administrator of Emily
A. Thompson deceased, by direction Of the Sur.
notice to the creditors OF the said Emily A.
Thompson deceased, to bring in their debts
claims and demands against the estate Of the
dec; dent, under oath or affirmation, within nine
months from this date, or they will be forever
barred of any action therefor against the said
administrator. ISAAC NJ. B. THOMPSON.
Dated Senipmbpr u 1898
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
Apparent Contradiction.

sit seems very strange to me. said
the educated parrot, that thirst for
learning can be satisfied with lot of
dry information. . Cincinnati En-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
TO CREDITORs.

Ann J. Watson and Jesse Nicholson Execu,
tors OF Ephraim B. Watson, deceased, by direc
ton of the Surrogate of the County of Glouces
ter hereby gives notice TO the creditors of the
said Ephraim B. Watson, deceased, to bring 10
their debts, claims and demands against the es-
tate of the said decedent under oath or aifirma-
ton. within niue months from this date, or they
will be forever barred of any action therefor
against the said execntors
her
ANN J. x WATSON
mark
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
A. H. Swackhamer, Sol'r.
Dated October 81, 1893. p
SPECTAL MASTERS SALE.

-
BY virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry of the State of New Jersey. to me directed,
bearing date November 18th. 1893 in a certain
cause, on a bill filed for partition, wherein
Robert Montgomery and others, executors, are
complainantS, and Frank l.. SenOur and wife
and Others are defendants, will expose to sale,
at public vendue, on
Tuesday, December 81, 1898,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, at
the Sheriff's Office. in the Court House, in the
City of Woodbury..
Allthose messages, land and tenements and two
FARMS situate in the Township Of Deptford, in
the County of Gloucester aud State of New
Jersey. about one mile and half east of Wood
bury on the Black woodtown and Buck roads,
adjoining lands with Joseph Eastlaek, James
Davis. Jonas Cattell, Brewer, Nicholson and
others.
Containing one hundred and eighty acres
more or less.
Conditions will be made known on day of sale.
BELMONT PERRY.
R S Clymer, Sor. Special Master.
Dated Nov. q. 1898 1924 SO.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01

The republic of Guatemala has over
16, 900 saloons and taverns. In the coun-
try districts there is one to every So in
habitants; in the towns one to every So
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01

Soothing healing cleansing. De Wits Witch
Hazel Salye Is the implhcable enemy Of sores.
burns and Wounds II never fails to cure Piles.
You may rely upon H. Alfred s. Marshall.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01

Monday, the Fifth day Of December
next, between the hours of II and O'Clock, to-
wit, at o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at
the Court House ia the City of Woodbury. county
Of Gloucester. and State of New Jersey, all the
following described real estate, that is to say:
All the following described tract of land and
premises, situate in the Townships of Woolwch
Harrison and Greenwich, county of Gloucester
as follows: Beginning at corner by the side of
the Kay's Mill road $50 cailed)being corner also
to Vanleers land; thence by said VanLeers
and south twenty nine degrees and thirty
minutes west, forty eight chains and fifty links
toa corner of DR.. Charles Garrisons land; thence
by the same north sixty-three degrees and thirty
minutes west fourteen chains and twelve links
to stake for corner standing twenty-five
links from hickory; thence north twenty-six
degrees and thirty minutes east forty-one chains
and forty seven links crossing the Dutch Town
by the same, south eighty-five degrees west
seventeen chains and ninety links to the place
Of reginning. Containing sixty nine acres and
seventy fve hundreths of an acre be the same
more or less. Being part of the same premises
which the said Jonathan w. Mattison and Wm
S. Mattson purchased of the said James Munya an
and wife by deed bearing date the twenty
second day of March. A. D. 1856 and intended
to be recorded: and which the s Id Jonathan w.
Mattson and William S. Madison by deed of con-
veyance duly executed, granted and conveyed to
the said George Willig in fee.
Seized as the property of George Willig ct ais.
defendants and taken in execution at the suit
of James Munyan complt., and to be sold by
WILLIAM COLLINS
A. H. Swackhamer, Sol'r. Sheriff
Dated October 81 1883 Pr S fee. 1910.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
NTOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Charles Blinsinger surviving executor of
George A. Blinsinger. deceased, by direction Of
the Surrogate of the County OF Gloucester,
hereby gives notice to the creditors of the said
George A Biinsinger, deceased, to bring in their
Debts, claims and demands against the estate of
the said decedent under oath or affirmation,
within niue months from this date. or they will
be forever barred of any action therefor against
the said executor.
CHARLES A BLINsINGER,
d. o. WATKINS Proctor. Executor.
Dated August 49, 1898. 9.S-96.