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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
SERIOUS OBJECTIONS.
Mule Trade.

The st. Louis Live Stock Reporter
says: With cotton selling around cents
q pound it is bard for Che mule market
to maintain respectable basis. This is
the principal drawback with trade just
now. Southern dealers find it difficult
to sell mules to the planters at anything
like respectable prices because the latter
are obtaining such small prices for their
productions, and it makes the trade mean
all along the line. The margin of profit
is SO small that it is extremely hard for
the southern people to place mules down
south at a profit, hard for dealers to
purchase them in way that will realize
satisfactory results and consequently
hard for country buyers to purchase
them from the farmers at figures that
will admit of reasonable, if any. re-
enumeration for their effort.
This may be diseouraging to the
farmer raising mule colts to sell at the
price of calf. but it shows how the
city markets have given up the mule for
draft horses, and now only the southern
market is left to the mule, and southern
farmers are now buying mares to work
and raise their own colts. st. Louis,
Cincinnati, Louisville and many other
large cities that formerly used mules
now use draft horses TO give more
weight in the collar for heavier loads
Chicago had big muleyards, but there
has not been carload of mules at Chi
eago for years.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26

The cake walk properly had it's origin
more than a century ago. There is little
doubt that it is an offshoot of some of
the old French country dances. 1t rep
resents several of them in form. From
New Orleans it spread over the entire
south and thence north. 1t was found
of convenience to the plantation ne
groes. They were not welded by license,
and it was seldom that the services of a
preacher were called in.
At cake walk a man might legiti-
mately show his preference for WON.
ap and thus publicly claim her for a
wife. In effect the cake walk was not
different from the old Scotch marriage,
which required only public acknowledge
ment from the contracting parties. So
this festival became in some sense a
wooing, an acceptance or rejection and
a ceremony. This explains it's popular
ity with the blacks outside of its beau
ties, with the accompaniment of music,
which is competent at all times to com.
mand negro support.
Cake walking has improved, as do
most things that are constantly practic-
ed. 1t has lost its old significance in the
south. Negroes now get married, when
they marry at all, in the white folks
fashion. 1t has, moreover, become a
pantomime dance. Properly performed,
it is beautiful one. The cake is not
much of prize, though the negro has
sweet tooth. --New Orleans Times
Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
Insnecting Diaries.

H. S. kept his manure in the base
ment of the cow stable. In no case
would do this. So far as milk is con-
danger in sheltering both under the
same roof. Let them be divorced as
soon after the latter is dropped as pos
sible and remain tout of sight and
hearing" of each other, as divorced
couples usually do. No filth whatever
can be proper adjunct of COW stable.
Uncleanliness is the great overlapping
curse of the dairyman. 1t turks in the
food, water, stable, atmosphere, cans,
the apparel of the mixer and dairy
maid, and on their hands, Denmark is
noted for its superior butter, and su-
perior cleanliness is the cause for it,
for do not other countries possess the
same kinds of dairy equipmentf A few
years ago l called at a dairy in SYRIA
cuse. The boss butter maker had been
absent several days and matters had
been conducted by an assistant. When
the former returned, he ran his finger
nail around in corner of the churn.
1t showed black from the filth gathered
there. The assistant was discharged on
the spot. Taking hint from this and
being ON my way to visit other cream
cries, l prepared pointed hard wood
stick and carried it in a side pocket.
This | used at every creamery visited,
testing not only churns, but cans, pans
and pals or buckets and found nearly
all of them filthy. At one butter fac
tory, remarkable for making excellent
butter, and of course remarkable also
for its general cleanliness, raised the
lid of the churn. produced my stick and
began to apply it. The butter maker was
looking on. He smiled as be remarked:
81 see you've been there. You will
find no filth here. Nor did /. But 1
failed to acknowledge that had been
there" only few days. When dairy
mans churn, pans pals. cans and other
milk receptacles can stand the test of
running a pointed stick through the
corners and seams without gathering
filth it is pretty good evidence that
everything else about the dairy that he
controls is at least in fair condition.
Galen Wilson in Country Gentleman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
A LESSON IN BOILING.
Satisfactory Cooking Depends Largely OF
This Trivial Process.

Satisfactory Cooking Depends Largely on
This Trivial Process.
Sallie Joy White lays down these
valuable rules for boiling in Cookery
For Girls in The Woman's Home
Companion:
'tFor all green vegetables use soft
water, sailed and freshly boiling. Cook
rapidly until soft. The time will depend
upon the age or the freshness of the veg
etable
"With green peas, shelled beans,
green corn, asparagus, celery and spin
ach use as little water as possible, and
let it boil away. leaving just enough to
moisten, and thus save all the desirable
soluble matter that may have been
drawn out Cook cabbage and cauh-
flower uncovered, in large kettle OF
rapidly boiling water, salted and with
a saltspoonful of soda in it; onions,
scald and change the water twice. All
others cook in water enough to cover,
and drain it of after cooking. Green
summer squash, cabbage and other wa
terry vegetables should be pressed in q
cloth or strainer and we'll drained.
"Many people who attempt to cook
are apt to forget that there is a wide
distinction between boiled water and
sboiling water, and that the freshness
is lost by long boiling, SO that the soon
er water is used after it has reached
the boiling point the more satisfactory
the cooking will be. If water STANDS
after boiling, it loses its vitality and
cannot be used with good results. That
is why tea and coffee are SO frequently
fat and lifeless, without sparkle Or
flavor; not because the leaves and ber-
Fies are not good, but because they are
I'm properly made with boiled water
instead of freshly boiling water. =
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
Concerning Cutworms.

Some writers on this subject advise
the cultivation of the ground, believing
that the stirring of the soil and expo
sure of the cutworms to the sun will de-
stroy them. While thorough cultivation
is undoubtedly of great benefit to the
soil no amount of stirring and exposure
to the rays of the sun will destroy cut
worms, for when exposed it requires
but brief space of time for these pests
to again secure coverings and after
many years close observation of the
habits of outworms l doubt if a single
one can be destroyed by simply stirring
the soil. In my experience l have found
two distinct species Of cutworms, one
cutting the corn on the surface of the
ground and being readily found and
caught in the act OF destruction. The
other is out of sight and cuts the corn
about an inch below the surface, and
the mischief is not detected till the corn
begins to wilt. Corn cut below the sur
face of the ground is irretrieyably ruin
ed. but when cut above the ground, when
SMALL with the exception of being re-
tarded in growth it is seldom injured
Corn planted on sod that has been pas
tured the preceding year is more liable
to be damaged by cutworms than if no
stock had been allowed upon the ground,
says John Cownie in Iowa Homestead.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
THE ROYAL BOX.

The Duchess of York is partial to lilies
of the valley and the white roses of York.
The queen regent of Holland, Wilhel.
nina, is just now making her first trip to
Paris. She will also visit the Duchess of
Albany at Cannes.
James ii was SO expert at golf that no
one could equal him except an Edinburgh
shoemaker named Patterson. whom he
finally vanquished and presented with a
large sum of money by way of consolation.
The son of the sultan of Zanzibar, who
is in England will remain in that coun-
try for some time, and when he returns
home will try to introduce tho ideas of
English civilization among his country
men.
The Imperial German Yacht club has
jest elected the empress of Germany to
membership. She is extremely fond of
yachting and has received from the en-
peror the gift of the schooner yacht Iduna
TO qualify her for membership.
The Princess of Wales has remarkable
collection of hats and bonnets. consisting
of all those she has worn during the 80
years she has led London fashion. Each
bat or bonnet carefully put away bears
the date of the season Of Its use.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
FASHION AND FABRIC.

The sale of shepherds checks and FANCY
summer silks has been phenomenal.
The tilt of the hat over the eyes does MOI
seem to prove as popular as the tilt at tht
side. Certainly it is not SO becoming.
The new plain and silk striped French
challie fabrics are brought out in very
many Of the beautiful designs popular il
matelasse silks, poippadour satins, iHdiae
and foplards.
Toques composed entirely of flowers vii
be very much in fashion this summer.
They are pncommonly pretty, genteel and
becoming this year, as the blossoms are
daintily yelled with tuile or fine meshed
silk net.
Laces and ,embroideries In white snd
oolors are prodigally used In the making VI
of "wash" gowns for next season, the ma
jority of which, however, are not intended
TO ever pass through the crucible Of tbs
laundry.
In ordering lace gowns in black, white
or eeru 1t should be remembered that wa
tered silk as q foundation is thought by
French Rteliers to greatly enhance the
beauty Of al lace patterns. either IN mel
or founciDg
%Ot +lt4t&hoNy NSoS, fQF PfiAuAufH8 fluA14
some summer gowns, oapes and fchus,
great use will be made of point,de yenise
laoes. Some OF the patterns are of q sub
stantial quality, resembling guipure, and
come in widths from ~ to 10 inches.
This year there are many dress pat,
terms of swiss muslin, linen lawn and
organdie, which come with beautiful
designs wrought upon them. Most Of
these are remarkably handsome, very Of
fectiye when made up and moderate In
price.
White dresses, hats and parasols will be
in marked favor the coming season, and
where color is added on the hat trimmed
with soft white ostrich plumes 1t will, al
a rule, be either yellow roses and satin
ribbon or pink or mauve flowers and rib
bon, If more becoming. New York Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
VULCANizEB RUBBER.
How Charles Goodyear Wsds the Original
nlseoverv

How Charles Goodyear Wsd6 the Original
Discovery.
1t is a bitterly cold flight about the
year 1910. Around the cracked, unpol-
ished kitchen stove of one Of Boston q
humblest homes are huddled man, his
wife and family. The surroundings are
of the plainest possible. OF furniture
there is scarcely a piece that would
bring anything at pawnshop, but of
evidence of squalor and want there is
abundance. Part of the two remaining
chairs has just been broken mp to keep
the fire from dying out, and as the
flames craekle with renewed life the
man picks from the floor dark looking
substance and gazes ct IL with longing
that is pathetic. He holds it up and
studies it with many sigh that cuts
the heart of his faithful wife and his
loyal children. In changing this sub
drops upon the hot stove. There is a
sudden filling Of the room with pun
gent offensive odor before the man,
with startled cry, can snatch the now
half scorched substance from the stove
But there is a marked change on the
mans face as he examines the burned
spots. He feels the 81 distance with a
new and intense interest. Is he near the
end of years of labor, suffering and dis
appointment? Thanks to the cold out
side, it will not take long to decide.
The burned substance is hung outside
the door. In an hour the cold has not
affected it. In two hours it still retains
the properties most desired. In the
morning no change has taken place. A
great discovery is complete. Charles
Goodyear has found the process of MAX
ing yulcanized rubber.
Here, then, was Goodyear, after years
of varying hopes and unvarying i'll for
tune, in possession Of secret that was
destined to place his name in the high
est niche of fame. But this knowledge
did not bring him immediate fortune
in fact, this he never secured. He had
lost the confidence of all who had help
ed him, and for two years his sufferings
surpassed even those of the years of ex-
perimenting. At this time he moved to
New York, and it was said of him, eff
you meet q man who has on an india
rubber coat, cap, stock. vest and shoes,
with an india rubber purse, without a
cent in it, that is Goodyear. He had
to pawn all his furniture for food, and
he pledged an umbrella with Vanderbilt
to secure few ferry tickets to the city.
At last enough money was secured to
put his invention ON the market, and
Goodyear's process very soon made the
manufacture of rubber goods one of the
principal industries of the world. But
although others made immense fortunes
out of vuleanized rubber the inventor
got little share of it. He went to Eng
land and France exhibiting his products.
He was awarded the great council
medal at the exhibition of all nations
at London in 1851, the grand medal Of
honor to the worlds exhibition at Paris
in 1885, and was presented with the
cross Of the Legion of Honor by Napo-
leon III. Yet with all these honors he
died comparatively poor man at the
Fifth Avenue hotel in New York July
j, 1860 Chicago Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26

next between the hours of l2 and o'clock, to-wit
at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon of said day. at the
Gloucester, and State of New Jersey, all the fol-
lowing described Real Estate, that is to say
All that certain farm and tract of land and
premises. situate in the township of Mantua,
County of Gloucester and State of New Jersey,
and is bounded as follows:
Beginning at q station in the middle of the
Lawrenceville and Berkeley Turnpike road, cor
ner to lands of Lewis V. Atkinson, distant thirty
links from stone in said Atkinson's line on the
westerly edge of said turnpike, eastwardly from
q heart cherry tree, thence along the middle OF
said turnpike by lands OF Furman Abbott ~
south six degrees and thirty minutes east, eleven
chains; thence still by same ~ south fifteen de-
grees aud ffty-eight minutes east, seven cha ms
and forty -one links to a corner of William Good
ems land; thence running by the latter crossn g
the cedar road 81 south eighty-nine degrees and
thirty minutes west twenty-one chains and
hty-five links to stone in line of said Lewis
" Atknson's land; thence by the latter (4) north
twenty-five degrees and thirty minutes east,
nineteen chains and nine links to stone in the
middle of the cedar road aforesaid; thence by
the middle thereof (5) south thirty eight degrees
and two minutes east, sixty links to another
stone in said road. and thence still running by
AtkinsOnS land (6) north eight three degrees
ty links to the place of beginning,
Containing twenty eight acres and forty-two
hundreths of an acre of land more or less. Being
the same premises that Joseph l.. Reeves, Ad-
ministrator with the will annex d of Jonath an
Force, deceased. by deed bearing date March %,
1887, and recorded in the Clerks office of said
County of Gloucester, in Book 144 of Deeds, page
49, granted and conveyed to the said James
Scott Tomlin, said mort gage being given 10 Sc
cure part OF the purchase money therefore.
Seized as the property Of James Scott Tomlin
ct Tx. defendants, and taken at the suit of Mary
r. Tomlin. complainant and to be sold by
WILLIAM COLLINS.
ROBERT S. CLYMER Sol'r. Sheriff.
Dated May II, 1888. Prs fee, $40 So
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.

An impeachment Placed In . Pursuer's
Way That Helped Instead of Hinderine.
"When saw the gate at the top of
the stairs" said the retired burglar,
"of course / knew there was young chill
dren in the house. 1t was put there to
keep en- from falling down stairs. 1t
was low, guess about two feet and a
half high, and it swung when closed
from the post at the top Of the stairs
across to strip nailed to the wall op-
posite.
81 noticed this gate when / went up,
particular, because man in my bust
ness notices everything. and because I
thought that this would be handy
thing to shut in case anybody should
get after me in the house; that shutting
that gate in front of 'em might stop 'em
long enough to let me get away comfort
able. 1t wasn't more'n a year before I
had chance to try it.
s'There was a long hall on the second
floor of this house. with this stairway
went into room way back at the 9th
or end, and while was looking around
there / upset something Oh the bureau
and woke up man in the bed,
We'll, he says, what's the matter
now?' And didn't wait to hear any
more. ! didn't even turn the light on
him. didn't peed to. You could tell
all you wanted to know about him by
his voice. He was resolute, ablebodied
citizen that could hear getting out of
bed.
II made break for the door and
sprinted along the hall, throwing my
light and catching sight of that gate
again and smiling to myself as I saw
1t. Iswung it around shut after ME as
passed and went on down the stairs,
leaving the man up stairs coming along
the hall overhead with rush.
But it's all right, ! says to my
self; the gate'll stop him long enough
for me to get out easy But, by snakes,
it didn't stop him at all. On the con-
trary, it helped him. just as / was
stepping down from the last step on to
the floor of the hall below the man fell
on my back. He'd been coming along
the hall above SO fast that he couldn t
stop himself, and be fell over the gate,
turned a summerset in the air on the
staircase and came down heap faster II
/ did and landed on me. Instead OF
breaking his own back he pretty near
broke mine.
We rolled over and over on the floor
in the hall, the man laughing fit to kill.
That's the sort OF man he was. 1t was
the funniest thing he'd run up against
in a long time.
"He never once thought of stopping
me, not once, but he says, when he was
letting me out, If you should come
again, don't shut the gate. New
York SIM,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
GGIs:2zslsR'1eaz
FlELDssNp ,G,sHRDEN
ARsENITE OF SODA.

A Cheap Substitute For Paris Green to
Be Used With Bordeaux Mixture.
Paris green is good insecticide, but
is somewhat troublesome to use in liq-
uid form, as it does not dissolve readi
" and needs constant agitation to keep
it from settling. If allowed to settle at
all, the distribution is not uniform, and
injury is likely to result to the foliage
of some plants, while the insects on 9TH
er plants escape Moreover, it is unduly
expensive whether used dry or in the
form of spray.
White arsenic, in soluble form,
costs about one-third as much as paris
green and gives no trouble in the way
of settling.
Dissolve two pounds of commercial
white arsenic and four pounds of car
Donate Of soda (washing Soda in two
gallons of water and use q pints to a
barrel of bordeaux mixture $50 gallons).
The easiest way to make the solution is
to put both the white arsenic and car
Donate of soda in gallon of boiling wa
ter and keep boiling about 5 minutes,
or until clear liquid is formed, and
then dilute to two gallons.
One and one-half pints of this solu-
tion to each barrel of bordeaux mixture
is sufficient to use when spraying for
potato blight and potato bugs, for apple
scab and apple worms, or for any
other purpose where combination mix
ture for fungi and insects is required.
The arsenite of soda may be prepared
in any quantity desired, but being al
most clear liquid is somewhat danger
Gus to keep ON hand. The danger may
be obviated to some extent by coloring
the liquid with some cheap aniline dye,
using enough of the latter simply to
give sufficient color so that no one
would mistake the solution for an inof-
fensive drink. 1t takes but short time,
however, to prepare sufficient for days
spraying, which is perhaps the least
dangerous method. 1t is rank poison
and should be properly labeled and care
fully guarded, the same as all other poi
sons.
A bulletin of the Ohio station states
that the foregoing com bination has been
fully tested and found to be quite as eff
fectiye as the paris green and bordeaux
mixture mbination and is preferred
for the reasons given above.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
The Glamour of Art.

Do you think that Greek art ever tells
Us what the Greek people were likei
Do you believe that the Athenian wom-
en- were like the stately, dignified fig
ures of the Parthenon frieze or like
those marvellous goddesses who sat in
the triangular pediments of the same
building? If you judge from the art,
they certainly were SO. But read an au-
thority like Aristophanes, for instance.
You will find that the Athenian ladies
laced tightly, wore high heeled shoes,
dyed their hair yellow, painted and
rouged their faces and were exactly like
any silly, fashionable or fallen creature
of our own day. The fact is that we
look back on the ages entirely through
the medium of art. and art, very fortu-
nately, has never once told us the truth.
Boston journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
OUR PATRIOTIC WOMEN.

The boy who has gone Is not whit
Drawer than the mother who is left
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
We learn from the usually accurate Bos-
ton Herald that the women of that town
are wearing red, white and blue garters.
Warrington Post
Every girl who peads the newspaper ao-
counts of the departure of the state troops
expects to see her swcstheart's name in
bigger type than the others. II Philadelphia
Record
In this trying hour patriotic young wom-
en- oan WELD powerful influence BY emu
lating the example Of many firmn and an
nouncing that places abandoned by young
hen will be held for them until they re-
Arn. "-C Chicago Timas-H Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26

Sweet corn as money crop is pref
ty sure thing, according to The Orange
Judd Farmer, if it is situated where the
ears can be marketed when in the roast
ing stage. What grain is not sold in
this way makes good feed. The fodder
is worth all it costs to raise the crop,
leaving the receipts for corn as net prof
it. The stalks are cut up at the bottom
as soon as the ears become too old for
market and are carefully cured in the
shock or put into the silo whole or cut,
ears and all. Either feed is preferred
for milk or butter production to the best
hay. The best variety of sweet corn is
still moot question.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
STORAGE Room For Bees.

The Importance Of providing the
proper amount of storage room fol
strong colonies of bees is urged by A.
H. Duff in Prairie Farmer. If this il
not done, we shall have trouble to con.
tend with. He says when bees become
very strong in numbers and the colony
very populous they are sure to do some
thing, and if they are limited in storage
room that something will be to swarm.
When the swarming fever gets hold
on them once, they are almost sure to
bother us we'll along in the honey sea-
son, and this always means a small
honey crop. When bees once issue from
the hive-that is, first swarms-it may
be best to treat them as swarm anc
hive them in the usual manner. But the
line must be drawn at this limit, if the
honey crop is not to be seriously af
fected