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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

finish. l have made these weights with
lambs 40 to so days old. | use the self
feeder for both ewes and lambs. AS
soon as a eve has weaned she is placed
in portion of the barn where she has
access to feeder which contains two
parts of bran to one Of corn and cob
meal, with a sprinkle of linseed meal.
In another part of the barn self feed
er, accessible only for lambs is filed
with a richer mix-viz, two parts corn
meal, one part bran, with a good sprin-
kle of linseed meal. When in the barn
ewes and lambs have access to clover
hay or shredded fodder When weather
is cold and dry, shock fodder is fed in
the yard. Last winter fed several tons
of beets. This winter / shall try turnips
instead. The illustration herewith gives
end view of my self feeder for aged
sheep. My feeder is IL feet long and
feeds 100 ewes. AA is feeding board,
by Is inches; BIB is 2 by piece to
brace bottom and nail frame to; &C,
by 2 elm for legs and frame, 3 feet
inches long; DID, end of siding boards
nailed on frame 2 q inches from feeding
board. This gives az inches for feed
to pass through. The box for holding
feed may be any height or length de-
sired. For outdoor use it should be
rooted F"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and
Don't Know il.

There is a disease prevailing in this
country most dangerous because SO decep
tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by
it,-heart disease, pneumonia, heart fail
ure or apolexy are often the result of
kidney disease. If kidney trouble is al
lowed to advance the kidney poison in the
blood is liable to attack the vital organs,
or the kidneys themselves break down
and waste away cell by cell. Then the
richness of the blood-the albumen-leaks
out and the sufferer has Brights Disease,
the worst form of kidney trouble. Kidney
trouble can be detected although it be
slow and deceptive. First, by analysis of
the urine; second, by the simple test 0
setting the urine aside in a glass or bottle
for twenty-four hours, when cloudy or
brick dust settling indicates it.
It was for just such troubles that in His
infinite pow er and goodness the Great
Physician caused Swam-Root to grow for
the benefit of suffering mankind, leaving
it for His servant, DIR. Kilmer, the great
kidney and bladder specialist to discover
it and make it known to the world. Its
weGderful efficacy in promptly curing the
most distressing cases is truly marvellous.
You may have a sample bottle of DR..
Kilmer's Swamp. Root the great kidney
liver and bladder remedy, by mail free.
Address DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamp-
ton, N Y. When writing mention this
paper.
Druggists in fifty-cent or dollar sizes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
water For stock.

In maintaining the best health and
thrift of the stock during winter sup
ply of fresh water daily becomes an i'm
portant item. During the winter the
animal heat must come from the food
and one important item in lessening the
quantity of food necessary to maintain
animal heat is supplying of dry, warm
shelter. Another item that will help
materially in this regard is in supply
ing water to drink that is not ice cold.
Turning stock out of a warm, comfort
able stable and compelling them to
drink ice cold water will SO chill the
system that considerable food will be
required to restore the normal heat.
This adds to the cost Of watering and
gives nothing in return. With oonyen-
lent tanks in which supply of water
can be kept and tank heater water
may be warmed for the stock whenever
necessary through the winter at COM
paratively low cost and will help to
give better results with the stock If
one must fix especially for warming the
water for the stock, the benefit will
hardly equal the cost When only few
animals are kept, and it is not advis-
able to go to the expense Of windmill
tanks and heater, very good plan is to
pump or draw water fresh from the
well and let them drink what they
want before it has time to get chilled.
Water pumped fresh in this way is
usually several degrees warmer than
that of ponds or running streams. While
animals will usually not drink SO much
water in winter as in summer it is Just
as essential that they have full supply
every day in winter as in summer, and
it is fully as important that it be pure
and fresh. Then if it can be moderately
warm all the better. So far as condi-
tions will admit it is best to turn stock
out into small lot where supply Of
water can be had conveniently and then
they can help themselves. OF course it
is not advisable to expose stock to I'M
necessary cold or storms in order to do
this, put when the weather will admit
this will be found good plan. st.
Louis Republic.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

Cyrano de Bergerac is remembered
because of his large nose. Few know
that he was poet, and fewer still
know his poetry. The nose is a conspic-
uous feature Of history. The length of
Cleopatra is said to have figured in
Roman politics, and scandal grew out
of it which ended in the ruin and death
of Antony and the establishment of an
empire which lasted thousand years
Napoleon would not promote a man
who had not large nose He himself
was we'll favored in this respect. Caesar
was "the hook nosed Roman. -
All American statesmen have been
noted for this feature. Old men tell of
our own Benton, who used to shake his
nose like an elephants proboscis when
he got excited. 1t seems to be the law
that all great men have great noses.
but let no one think that the converse
of this is true, that all men who have
great noses are great men. Such con-
clusion would lead to confusion and
needless pain and disappointment. st.
Louis Post -Dispatch
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
FATHER CHRISTMAS.
A Suggestion to the Boys For Christ
mas Celebrations.

mas Celebrations.
Why couldn't our boys get up some
holiday plays similar to the immemo-
rial Father Christmas" play, in which
the lads of Merrie England have SO
much fun? The origin of this play is
lost in antiquity, but it deals with
knights and their adventures, certain
Of which challenge and fight the fol-
lowers of Father Christmas, and are in
turn routed, till Father Christmas and
the Black Knight cope in mortal COM
bat, the latter, of course, being Iorsted.
The boys are dressed in fantastic
style, with tall paper caps on and pa
per fringe around their jackets, wear
ing masks to conceal their identity.
They are called the 'mummers,' and
go from house to house Of their friends,
invariably receiving a kind welcome
and little treat at the end of the per-
Torrance. They also take up penny
collection, and everybody has penny
for the mummers who afford SO much
amusement.
In our early history there is album
dant scope for the youthful playwrights,
and the object of their performances in
holiday week might be some charity in
which boys are the benefciaries, such
as treat of goodies to dozen news
boys or bootblacks, to get supplies for
sick boy or the like
The Indian in our early history is as
good as the knight element for stir
ring play for Massasoit
and his tribe, in war paint, feathers and
blankets, on the one side, and on the
other the prim Puritans, in broad
brimmed hats and short breeches.
Or the Pocahontas and Powhatan
drama, with John Smith, the hero, and
band of cavaliers to make it lively.
The boys of Boston Common and the
red coated Britishers was an 81 isolde to
inspire their fraternity of today, and it
would be great fun for our laddies in
Christmas week to dress up and illus
trate the valor of their ancestors, as
their English cousins annually COM
memorate some otherwise forgotten
achievement of feudal days.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

source of expense. Considerable labor
on farms, during the winter, is absorbed
into the unremunerative chores of the
farm buildings, unless animals are kept
yielding a product or increasing IN
value. Cows must be fed during the
winter. If direct revenue can be OBJ
tanned, the work can be done with more
enjoyment, more of it will be under
taken and more profitable methods will
be applied. Other branches of farm
management, such has the raising OF
young stock, the fattening of swine. and
keeping of laying hens, will grow out
of it. There are few more discouraging
and joyless occupations than attending
on COWS all winter without any reve-
nue. from the work.
There are hundreds of men who are
employed as cheesemakers during the
summer months and who unwillingly
are comparatively idle during the win
ter months. If the capacity and ability
which they possess can be applied to
making butter and cheese during the
winter, SO much will be gained.
When dairymen obtain a satisfactory
revenue from cheese factories during
the summer and get hardly any income
during the winter, they can make only
very slow progress in lettering their
circumstances. The patrons who send
the most milk to the cheese factories in
summer might also send relatively the
largest quantity in winter. As result
of the immediate revenue from butter
making in winter COWS get better care
and better feeding. AS a consequence
they give more milk the following sum-
mer. After winter dairying was begun
at the first government dairy stations
the president of the Mount Elgin Dairy
company, who had 30 cows and had
MIXED them during the winter, stated
that during the month of May of the
following year he obtained % per cent
more milk from his herd of COWS than
be had ever obtained in that month in
any previous year. Doubtless that was
mainly owing to the fact that the COWS
were kept in fairly warm stable dur
ing the winter months and fed on sue
Cul6ub leou W 1uuuCo largo AoW VI
milk Unless COWS on the average are
made to milk during ten months in the
year they are likely to become unprofit-
able as mixers. 1t will not do to let the
cows become leisurely class, on holt
days for five or six months of the year.
The byproducts of dairying in the
form of skimmilk and buttermilk are
more valuable for the raising of stock,
the feeding of swine and the growing
of chickens during the winter and very
early spring months than they are dur
ing the summer. The dairymen have
not been and cannot be fully prosperous
until they have a revenue coming in
regularly during the whole year.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
CHRISTMAS AT KENO.
How Hard Luck Hankins' Tree Was
naeomss fed

Decorated.
ssSpeakin Of Christmas trees, = said
Cyclone Murphy as he snuffed candle
on the topmost twig of the Keno Guloh
Sunday school tree with his trusty six
shooter and then nipped remonstrance
in the bud by getting the drop on the
Sunday school superintendent, tire
minds me of a galoot named Hard Luck
Hawkins, who lived up on Tenderfoot
ridge and who was the biggest kicker
that ever kicked This yere Hard Luck
Hankins lived in cabin on top Of the
ridge and p'tended ez how he was a
miner, but he didn' t never seem to mine
anything and was ginerally regarded or
Teller without visible means of sup.
port. Some folks said he was road
agent and others opined ez how boss
stealth might be the mine he was
workin.
s"The only thing Keno Gulch ever
really knowed him to be doin was put
tin up powerful kick about one thing
er another. He alters had some hard
luck story to tell, and that was why
folks called him Hard Luck Hawkins.
"There wasn't decent lookin tree
on top of the hull ridge except one, and
that tree was mighty handsome pine
that stood right in front Of Hard Luck
Hankins' shanty. She's my old Christ
mas tree, Hawkins would growl every
time Christmas come around, but, dern
her ole hide. Sanity Claws don't never
hornr, x,o%hir, hos, faxx mo
"That was jes' Hard Luck's pesky
and onery way-allers kickin about
somethin-and that handsome tree new.
er havin anything hangin on it fer him
seemed to rile him specially every year.
What's the use havin blame Christ
mas tree that never don't have nothin
hangin on to it?' he'd growl. Have a
dern good notion to cut her DOWN.
tThis went on year after year, and
the boys KEEP a-wonderin and avon
derin how Hard Luck got Twin. One
Christmas eve they found out, and it
put an end to Hard Luck's quarrel with
his big pine Christmas tree.
Fer the very first Christmas sence
Hard Luck had been Twin in Keno there
was somethin hangin on his Christmas
tree.
what was it?" repeated Cyclone
Murphy as he snuffed another candle.
"Why, it was old Hard Luck Hankins
hisself, and he was kickin-ez-us
and kickin with both feet. Selected.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
seeing . Bu1let IN Flight.

As every sportsman knows, " said
an enthusiastic New Orleans hunter,
sit is easy to see a rifle bullet in the
air, and those fired from the new high
power guns are very curious to look at.
Stand a dozen yards at one side of the
mark and let a friend blaze away at any
range with a small caliber weapon
using smokeless powder, and you'll see
a strange, blush white streak the in
slant the bullet strikes home The
streak is apparently couple of inches
wide and several feet long and is more
like flash of light than anything else
! can think Of.
With the old fashioned Remington
or Springfield carbine the bullet has the
appearance Of a long black rod, and I
don't know why there should be such a
difference in the optical illusion pro-
duced by the smaller caliber. / have
heard some people deny that the bullet
can be seen, but they are very much in
error. 1t all depends on getting the
right viewpoint. A few feet either way
will render the missile invisible, but
the right spot is soon found by expert
ment, and after that the thing is as
plain as day. New Orleans Times
Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

sale, on
Monday, the Ninth day Of January
next between the hours of IL and 5 O'Clock to-
wit at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, at
the Court House in the City of Woodbury. county
of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey, all the
following described real estate. that is to say:
All that tract or parcel of land and premises
hereinafter particularly described situate In the
township of Logan, in the County OF Gloucester
and State OF New Jersey:
Beginning at a stone In the middle of the pub
lie road leading through Nortonville, said stone
being at corner of sarah Jane richardson
land. and runs thence bounding on said Richard
sons land ID south fifteen and a half degrees
east two chains and ten links; a. south seventy
five and half degrees west two chains and
forty links 81 south fifteen degrees and thirty
five minutes east ninety links; (4 south seventy
five and a half degrees west eighty six Inks
TO a corner of Hugh McGlincey's land
fifteen degrees and thirty-ive minutes east
three chains to an ash tree; thence north
seventy seven degrees east three chains and
eight links; thence south seventy-two and three
fourths degrt es east one chain and thirty three
links; thence south twenty-seven and TIRES
fourths degrees West one chain and seven links;
thence along Hugh McGlincey's land north
seventy four degrees and twenty minutes east
eighty nine links; thence yet along said NC
Glincey IS land north fifteen and a half degre es
west seven chains and seventy four links to the
middle of the public road aforesaid; thence
along the middle thereof south seventy-fve and
a half degrees west, two chains to the place of
beginning, being at Nortonville and containing
two acres and sixty-two one hundredths OF an
acre be the same more or less (Which premises
+atrick Brennan and wife by indenture bear
ing date the twenty day of June eighteen
hundred and ninety six, and duly recorded;
granted and conveyed unto said Charles j.
Teese, in fee.
Seized as the property Of Charles ]. Teese and
others, defendants, and taken in execution at
the suit of EbeneVer Sparks and Samuel II.
Richards, acting executors, etc., of Thos S.
Weauherby, deceased compliments, and 10 be
sold by WILLIAM COLLINS.
Samuel H. Richards, Solr. Sheriff.
Dated Dec. 5, 1898. PRS fee $40 80
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
The kissing Ball.

A green ball to suspend over the
Christmas dinner table is made by fas-
tening two keg hoops together, one with
in the other, turning each way like an
open globe. Irvine princess pine around
each hoop and put in sprjgs of holly
here and there. This indeed is similar
to the old kissing bunch, which is
seen in many old fashioned homes in
England. Two wooden hoops, one pass
ing through the other, decked with ever
green's, in the center of which is hung
a crown of rosy apples and sprig
of mistletoe. Beneath it there are much
kissing and romping and the carol
singers stand beneath it and sing their
songs. Selected.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

Disease is great and treacherous ocean.
Man ever stands upon its shore and gazes
out over its calm surface without thought
of danger. 1t ticks his feet-it advances
and recedes almost playfully-but all the
same it will crack his bones and eat him,
and wipe the crimson foam from its jaws
as if nothing had happend as it has been
doing ever since the world began.
A man who care1essly saunters along the
shore of the insatiate sea of disease, will
some day encounter great storm IN the
form of some fatal malady and will be en-
quilted. Because man does not have to go
to bed when he suffers from trivial indi-
gestion, because he does not have to give
up work when he gets nervous and cannot
sleep at night, because he can still force
down an unsatisfactory meal when he IS
suffering from loss of appetite, because by
strong effort he can add a column of figures
with aching heads no reason that these
disorders are trifing or to be neglected.
They are the warnings of serious sickness.
A man who promptly heeds them, and re-
sorts to the right remedy, will speedily re-
cover his usual health. The man who neg
sects them will find that he is in the grip
of consumption, some nervous disorder, or
some other dread malady, due to improper
or insufficient nutrition. DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery is the best of
all medicines for men and women who suf-
fer in this way It restores the lost appe-
tite, facilitates the flow of digestive juices,
invigorates the liver, puriies and enriches
the blood and tones and builds up the
nerves. It cures % per cent of all chronic,
bronchial, throat and lung affections, and
is an unfailing remedy for nervous prostra-
ton Medicine dealers sell it.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
SHEEP SELF FEEDER.

A Device Recommended by an Ex-
perienced Ohio Breeder.
J. NJ, January, writing in The Breed
er's Gazette, says: 81 have used self
feeder for some years and have been
highly pleased with it. l have grown
from 100 to 40 winter lambs each
year. My lambs commence to drop
about the LIST of January. These can be
marketed if fat when they weigh from
30 to 45 pounds. The earlier in the
season these weights can be reached the
more per pound the lambs will bring
hence push them from the start to
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
There is a Glass Of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently
there has been placed in all the grocery stores j
new preparation called GkAIN-O made of pure
grains. that takes the place of coffee. The most
delicate stomach receives it without distress.
and but few can tell it from coffee. 1t does not
cost over II as much. Children may drink it
with great benefit. 10 cts. and % cts. per pack
age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
water Horse. FreauentIy.

is not natural for the horse to go
los without drink of water. His
stomach is small and cannot hold
water supply for long time. Water
ing morning, noon and night when at
work ID summer time is none too often.
If the work is very heavy. two table,
spoonfuls of oatmeal stirred in the pail
will make the horse drink better and
will prevent so much cold water from
injuring his stomach. L is mistake to
sunDose that herse or any other 40
,nestic animal prefers to drink water
anly 4 few degrees above the freezing
ta,nneratnre. If it is lukewarm, the
horse will drink II ore freely aud the
water will be less apt 70 lnJure hlm.-
Boston Cultisator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
wall Of a Commnfer.

The man who when the train is slowing
up inside the station
Strikes a loud, explosive match as he
rises from his seat
VIII commonly be found upon due inves-
tigation
To be lighting an abominably smelling
cigareet.
Chicago Tribune.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
A Turkeys Lament.

All, distinctly / remember
1t was only last November
That they chased me through the back
yard
And across the old barn floor!
Valiantly and well | fought me
Till at last the villains caught me
And proceeded then to trot me
To the ak beside the door;
But. ashamed. they let me go, for
was bones and nothing more
Skin and bones and nothing more.
Now. / see it is December.
And no doubt they will disnaember
Me, for all my fatter friends
Have gone to that other shore
I've grown pale from apprehension
For of late some marked attention
Makes me think it's their intention
To cut off my legs and serve me
AS a reedbird from the store
Just reedbird. nothing more!
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

~
By virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry of the State of New Jersey, to me directed,
bearing date November 18th. 1898, in certain
cause, on a bill fled for partition, wherein
Robert Montgomery and others, executors are
complainants and Frank L. 9enour and wife
and others are defendants, viii expose to sale,
at public vendue, on
Tuesday, December ~, 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..
All those messages, land and tenements and two
farms, situate in the Township of Deptford, in
the County of Gloucester and State of New
Jersey, about one mile and a half east of Wood
bury on the Blackwoodtown and Buck roads,
adjoining lands with Joseph Eastlack, 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.
Clymer Sol'r. Special Master.
Dated Nov. %. 1893 11-2498.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

He's Too Busy Making Dat Bills.
Rural Aunt-And what do you work at
when you are at homer
City Nephew ION vacation why, I
attend school. I'm studying for doctor
Rural Aunt-Do tell Amt the doctor
able to do his own studyingP-Ch Chicago
News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
IT'S sardfnes Now.

It's Sardines Now.
Oh! Do the zephyrs still blow free,
And is there naught to pay?
Shines out the sun untaxed for me,
No stamp upon each ray?
I'd like to know, because l fear
Old Capitals wild lust;
For only now with woe I hear
They've formed a sardine trust
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
Chicago Tribune.
The RESOURCES of the Language.

Spacerate-What brought you to the
conclusion that reporting wasn't wom-
an work.
Miss Scribble-A man lost $50, 900 on
horse race, and asked him how he felt
New York journal
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22

"Alice fell in love with Claude because
he was SO pensiye and thoughtful y
ssWellP'
''Then she broke the engagement be-
cause she found out that when he looked
that way he wasn't thinking tall. DE
troit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-22
DAIRY FARMING.

How to Get Money Ont of Cows In
Winter.
Professor Robertson truthfully says
that to make his business profitable, the
dairyman must carry it on during the
whole year. Milk and its products have
been, as a rule, dearer in winter than
in summer. A large amount of capital
is invested in COWS, barns and cheese
factory and creamery buildings. 1t is
wasteful policy to permit SO much CAPT
tai to be unproductive during five or
six months of the year. In the past it
has been not only unproduotive, but a