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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-19
WEATHER INFORMATION.
Last Njghfs RendinE,.

The barometer is highest over the South
Atlantic States and from Northwest Texas to
Nebraska. A we'll defined low area is central
on the west Gulf coast, with lowest reading
s.6G lnches-at Corpus Christi. The following
message has been received at this office:
= Washington. u. c.. January B-Northwest
storm signals o;4s p. m, ordered at Calves
ton Corpus Christi. Brownsville. STERN In
west gulf, moving northwest, will cause
south gales, shifting to northwest, and colder.
Southeast storm signals, 9;a5 p. m, ordered
at Pensacola, Mobile. New Orleans. Port
E.ads; storm in west gulf, moving northeast
will cause east gnies and rain.
General Observations.
Observations taken by the United states
weather bureau at p. IN. seventy-lfth mt
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-19

NEW YoRK-George w. Lederer c. NJ,
Mclean and Hugh Morton, who compose the
is being managed, have announced their in
tention of sailing today for London. where
they try their many we'll known reviews on
the blooming Britishers.
RICHMOND, va.--The anniversary Of the
birth of General Lee viii be celebrated here
today by the Sons and Daughters of the Con-
federacy. with appropriate exercises Tho
day will be celebrated by all the chapters in
the South II is n holiday in this State, Flor
ida, North and South Carolina and Georgia.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-19
general observations.

OBSERVATIONS taken by the United states
weather bureau at p. m. seventy 0fth mt.
ridian time: -,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
PERT PERSONALS.

Bully for Dewey again He has refused
$4,000 for magazine article. And yet he
knows how to fire one off = Boston Her.
aid
DIR. G. M. Depew is candidate for edi-
tor of the funny column of The Congress
sional Record. Charleston CIV. Va. Ga
zette
When Blanco gets back to Spain, he
will find that he is not the only man with
out situation and long winter ahead
-Pittsburg Times.
Everybody is naturally guessing in adj
vance that the new congressman from In
diana, Mr.. Brick, will be put on the build
ing committee. - Baltimore News
Lii Hung Chang does not take any real
risks in the desperate Asiatic game be-
tween Russia and England. He merely
collects the percentage. - Washington Star.
Blessed is Peacemaker Benjamin Har-
rison, who is said to have received a re-
tainer of $1,000 as the representative of
Venezuela before the arbitration commits
sion.-Detroit Free Press.
If Lieutenant Peary is afraid that he
will get no more news from civilization,
why doesn't he solve the difficulty by
establishing newspaper of his own in
the arctic region?-Philadelph North
American.
The German beauty, successfully the
wife of Count Won Moltke, Franz Won
Lenbach, the painter, and DIR. Schwen-
niger, Bismarck's physician, could not
have made better record had she lived in
Chicago. Kansas City Times
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
A Man of Many Parts.

Here is an amusing old handful
printed and circulated in Cumberland
early in the nineteenth century:
81, James Williams. parish clerk,
saxtone, town cryer and bellman, make
and sells all sorts of haberdasharies,
groceries, etc., likewise hair and WING
drest, and cut, on the shortest notice.
Also
in. B.-I keeps an evening school,
where teach at reasonable rates, read
ing, writing, singing and sums.
IN. B.-I plays the hooboy OCCASION
ally, if wanted.
IN, B.-My shop is next doore. where
/ bleed, draw teeth and shoe horses, all
with greatest soil.
IN. B.-Children taut to dance, if
agreeable, at six pence per week, by
me, J. Williams, who buy and sell old
iron and coals-shoes cleaned and
mended.
"N. B.-A hat and pair of stockings
to be cudgelled for, the best in 5, ON
Shrof Tushday. For particulars INQUIRE
within, or at the horse shoe and bell,
near the church, on tother side of the
way.
IN. Book over the door for the
sighn of the 8 pigeons.
IN. B. sell good ayle, and some
times cyder-lodgings for single men. "
London Sketch.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15

Anything which has basis of alcohol
Is IN demand in the Indian Territory.
Intoxication is craved, and the stomach
of the Indian Territory drinker does not
quarrelwith the form in-whioh it comes.
Wood alcohol, accounted poison Ia most
parts of the country, is consumed in
considerable quantities. The peddlers
buy it in Oklahoma, dilute it with wa
ter and sell it by the pint on this side
of the line.
One way of bringing whisky into the
Indian Territory is to have barrel
with false bottom. Freighting across
the border is common. There are in
terror stores which draw their stocks of
goods from cities and railroad points
outside. A barrel with false bottom
is device by which storekeeper may
ship in a considerable quantity of
whisky, while the contents, to all or
binary examination, seem to be coal oil
or some other legitimate article.
Ingenuity in evasion of the territorial
prohibition probably reached its high
est form of development when one of
the dealers got up good imitation of
an egg. Each egg was filled with
whisky. The eggs were shipped here
openly in cases. They were sold for 20
cents each to those who knew the Sc
cret. The purchaser Clipped hole in
the artificial shell and found in each
egg what was enough for moderate
drink. The eggshell was of plaster of
paris in fair imitation. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
A bad Break.

swell, they all break" said the
bride of few weeks, land I don't
know what you are going to do about
it,.
''But why don't you get better
brand?' said young husband, not any
too sweetly. "It seems strange, Marian,
that every time sit down to read this
lamp chimney breaks into a thousand
piecesi'i
Next night he came home with a
small package under his arm.
Marian, said he. in tone of su-
periority, 81 have bought a chimney
that will last. I"
''How much did you pay for it, dear?''
Fifteen cents. don't want any
more of your 8 cent things in the house.
You see you women haven't right I'M
derstanding of the word economy. You
think just because you get things cheap
that you are saving money-where''--
And he continued the effusion all the
time he was putting the chimney in
place.
"Therel'' said he, turning up the
light. There is q chim-confound
the-i--i Well, wish all the glass
blowers and grocers in seven counties
were tied up and hung over clothes
line to fight it out. You can bet I'd be
there to coach the scrap i''- Detroit
Free Press
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
Regardless Of Age.

The kidneys are responsible for more
sickness, suffering, and deaths than any
other organs of the body.
A majority of the ills affecting people
to-day is traceabIe to kidney trouble. 1t
prevades all classes of society, in all
climates, regardless of age, sex or condition.
The symptoms of kidney trouble are
unmistakable, such as rheumatism, neu-
ralgia. sleeplesness, pain or dull ache in
the back, a desire to urnate often day or
night, profuse or scanty supply.
Uric acid, or brick dust deposite in urine
are signs of clogged kidneys, causing
poisoned and germ filled blood. Some
times the hear acts badly, and tube casts
(wasting of the kidneys) are found in the
urine, which if neglected will result in
Bright's Disease, the most dangerous rm
of kidney trouble.
All these symptoms and conditions are
promptly removed under the influence OF
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root 1t has world
wide reputation for it's wonderful cures OF
the most distressing cases.
No one need be long without it as it is so
easy to get at any drug store at fifty cents
or one dollar. You can have a sample
bottle of this wonderful discovery. Swamp
Root, and book telling all about it, both
sent to you absolutely free by mail Send
your address to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hampton, N. Y, and kindly mention that
you read this liberal offer in the GLoUcEs.
TER COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
rowER BUTTER WORKER.

which, of course, is done in the usual
way, but when the churning is done
then l have a way somewhat different
from many. Now, if the butter has sep
arated nice and clean from the butter
milk I proceed to draw off the butter
milk. Then l especially prepare the
wash water, and here is where one
must use utmost care and exercise good
Judgment. have tank large enough
to hold water enough for one working,
which is all that use except in ex-
treme cases. Now have steam pipe
in this tank to warm the water. / warm
it to Sc or so degrees, according to the
temperature of the room and weather.
By using the water this way the butter
is no set rule by which butter shall be
worked, it will be necessary for the but
ter maker to use utmost care in working.
''There is one thing not to be lost sight
of, and that is, don't get in a hurry in
working your butter, especially if a
combined ohurn is used Its my honest
conviction that nine-tenths of the trou-
BILE which has arisen in the use of the
com bined machines has been caused by
the butter maker trying to rush them. l
find it takes ordinarily just about as
much time to handle churning Of but
ter in combined machine as it does on
the old worker. But don't understand
me as being against the combined ma
chimes, for if there is any machine
which is an absolute necessity in well
ordered creamery it is combined
churn. -
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
Rad EIavnra In Cheese.

This is very important question to
every patron Of a cheese factory, for it
means serious loss in revenue to every
one. Mr.. Kirk of Scotland recently de-
livered an interesting lecture on this
subject. The main argument of the lee
ture was that bad flavors in cheese were
the inevitable results of dirt which had
been introduced into the milk either
directly through a want of sufficient
cleanliness in handling the milk or in
directly through the COWS drinking dirty
water or eating contaminated food. Dir
ty buildings, dirty udders, dirty milk
ers, dirty dishes, dirty dishcloths and
dirty water supplies, argued Mr.. Kirk
were the causes which produced pro-
life crop of bad flavors in cheese Fla
vors in milk, whether good or bad, were
living favors. as they were due to bao-
terial organisms. Filth of any sort was
the one and only breeding ground of the
malign bacteria producing bad 1ayors in
milk or cheese, and as the bacteria,
when once they get an entrance into a
medium SO favorable for their develop
ment as milk, multiplied with moon
ceivable rapidity, it follows that the
slightest speck of filth introduced into
milk will inevitably mean the introduce
tion of rapidly increasing colony of
infective noxious germs. - Hoard s
Dairyman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15

A consular report from France says:
'The poor people during the fall and
winter often make two meals daily from
chestnuts. The ordinary way of cooking
them is to remove the outside shell,
blanch them, then wet cloth is placed
in an earthen pot, which is almost fill
ed with raw chestnuts. They are cover
ed with second wet cloth and put on
the fire to steam. They are eaten with
salt or milk. Hot steamed chestnuts are
carried around the city streets in baskets
or pals. The majority of the working
people, who usually have no fire early
in the morning, eat.them for their first
breakfast, with or without milk. Ply
sicians state that. as an article of food,
chestnuts are wholesome, hearty, nutri-
tious and fattening. These nuts are
often used as vegetable and are exceed
ingIy popular, being found ON the table
of the we'll to do and weakly. They are
served not only boiled, but roasted,
steamed, pureed and as dressing for
poultry and meats.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
what the Prisoner snid.

A celebrated judge was once trying a
case where the accused could only I'M
derstand Irish, and an interpreter was
accordingly sworn. The prisoner said
something to the interpreter, and the
latter replied.
"What does he say?" demanded the
judge.
Nothing, my lord. z"
"How dare you say that when we all
heard him? Come, sir, what was it?''
"My lord" said the interpreter. be-
ginning to tremble, sit had nothing to
do with the case.
"If you don't answer, III commit
you, sir. Now. what did be say?"
"Well, my lord, you'll excuse me,
but he said, 'Whe's that ould woman
with the red bed curtain round her sit
ting up there?' ="
At which everybody present roared.
"And what did you say?" said the
judge, looking little uncomfortable.
81 said Whist, ye spalpeenl That
the old boy that's going to hang you. 4"
London Answers.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
THE TATTLER.

Mrs. Ballington Booth will establish q
Hope Hall for ok -convicts near Chicago.
The late Nine Carnot was fond Of busy
ing herself with the garden and a green
house built by her late husband.
DR. Helen I. Doherty, who nearly lost
her life by her efforts in behalf Of the sick
volunteers at Montauk, is fast recovering.
Miss Viola Allen as Glory Quayle re-
ceives 81, 900 per week for her services in
Hall Gaines play, THE Christian, at the
Garden theater, New York city.
Nevada has a woman jockey. She is
Mrs. Bagwill, "a years old, weight 101
pounds and resides at Carson City. At
the recent Nevada state fair she won three
out of five mounts, riding in regulation
jockey costume, astride.
The Duchess of Marlborough, who was
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, has been cho-
sen, it is announced, to officiate at the
launching of the new English battleship
Irresistible. The American flag will float
alongside the union jack, as was the case
in the launching Of the Formidable.
The death is announced Of Mrs. Mary
Macpherson, popularity known as the Skye
poetess. The late Professor Biackie met
her in Skye and presented her with silver
mounted walking stick, and in return she
made for him the highland plaid which
he wore to the end of his life, and which
was placed on his coffin.
Mile. Schepkon Copernic has translated
M. Rostandis play "CyraEo de Bergerac"
into Russian, and Signorina Labertin has
translated it into Italian Itappears that
women are the chief translators of the
play, as it has been done into English by
two ladies, and Miss Marguerite Hall has
made an adaptation for America.
The endless chain started by Miss Natal
Schenck of Babylon, N. Y, is not yet
done unwinding. About 100 letters day
are still being received, many of them con-
tanning no money because the corner of the
envelope has been torn off and the coin
stolen. The chain was started last July
for the purpose of raising $1,000, and the
amount so far received and accounted for
is $50, 300
Mrs. Lucy Alexander, believed to be
the oldest person in til state of Iowa, died
at Keokuk, Ia, recently. Her death was
due to the infirmitiss of old age She said
that she was Is years old at the close of
the revolutionary war. The best obtain
able records place the year of her birth as
ITO. She was of full African blood, her
grandparents being brought over as slaves
from Africa.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
THE BEEHIVE.

Too much stimulatiye feeding often
tends to induce robbing.
Colonies having defective queens are al.
ways the foundation of trouble
Be sure that the entrances are kept open.
Bees must have fresh air to breathe
The queen natures in IS days, the
worker bee in 81 and the drone in "a days.
When robbing once gets started in the
apiary, it is very troublesome and hard to
check.
Except during the winter the entrance
should be large enough to admit of the
bees passing in and out readily.
If any of the combs are moldy or full of
dead bees, hang them in where the bees
can get at them, and they will clean them
up.
1t is the young bees in the hive that do
the proper nursing and the feeding of the
young brood. This is the first work they
perform.
When the queen goes up into the sur
plus boxes, she selects drone comb if pos
sible in which to deposit her eggs. St.
Louis Republic.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
Experience with a Pit silo.

Quite little has been said lately
with regard to the danger of using pit
silos, says a correspondent of Hoard's
Dairyman As am the possessor Of a
pit silo think | must say word in
relation to it. We put one in about five
years ago this fall We have filled it
for the fourth time this fall, and you
may be sure it has come to stay. We
usually commence feeding about the
middle of November and continue to
feed until the latter part of August. A
year ago we were unable to get it empty
before it was time to fill again. This
summer we emptied it the Goth of Au-
gust by feeding it to the hogs as we'll as
the cows. The COWS ate it as greedily
in summer as in the winter So, you
see, l have occasion to be out and in
the silo in hot and muggy weather dur
ing the summer as we'll as in the win
ter, and must say that / suffered no
inconvenience at any time. The silo is
Is feet deep and IL feet across in the
clear
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
. 81 XXX Xxx
SHEEP BYPRoDUcT.
A Seemingly insignificant Matte
Which Runs Into Money.

A Seemingly insignificant Matter
Which Runs Into Money.
Rarely do we consider that the sheep
have any value other than that derived
from the wool and the mutton, says e.
P. Smith in the Spston Cultivator, but
an important bypfoduct is the manure,
which, according to somebody's esti-
mate, is worth tri1e over So per year
for each sheep. If this be true, and
there is every reason to believe it is,
the manure alone will nearly pay for
the cost of keeping the animal. In parts
of the west where grass land is cheap
and plentiful, and all the hay for win
ter feeding can be had for the work of
cutting it, it costs considerably less
than So per year for each sheep. Every
thing depends upon the owner. If
man has fine breed of sheep, he is not
apt to run the risk of letting the ami
mails degenerate simply to keep within
a prescribed limit of cost of food. But
under ordinary conditions and good
management it ought not to cost more
than So year for sheep.
The way the sheep produce this prof
it, which should keep them, is more in
direct than most byproducts. In ferti-
lizing the soil where the grass and hay
crops are gathered they are doing just
as much real good as if they were pro-
ducing so much more wool each year.
Very few may be willing to acknowl
edge this, and if they had their choice
they would take the So in cash and run
the risk of running their grassfelds.
1t is probably good thing for many
sheep farmers that they cannot rob the
soil of this benefit. Our farms are degen-
Grating fast enough without robbing
them of more fertiliziDg material than
is absolutely essential. Many farmers
would have the wisdom and intelligence
to keep up the fertility of the fields,
but many other sheep owners would
take all they could from them and re-
turn nothing to the SOIL
1t is fact that ten times as many
more sheep could be raised in dairy
states without lnjuring the interests of
the dairymen. and all due to the fact
that the sheep would keep down the
weeds and improve the pastures to such
an extent that they would furnish
enough extra food to feed the sheep
without robbing the COWS. Farmers
could thus add new profit to their
work without extra outlay or without
extending their farms. When the value
Of the sheep is better understood, we
will find more of them in mixed farm
ing districts and a few sheep will be
found upon nearly every farm, just as
today we find poultry and COW or two.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
Uncle TOMS Cabin Chair.

Among the many things associated
with the memory of Harriet Beecher
Stowe is the chair occupied by her while
writing the initial chapters Of "Uncle
Toms Cabin. Mrs. Stowe, accom-
panied by Rev. Lyman Beecher, her ia
Their, was visitor at Batavia, O., many
years ago, at the home of Judge Owen
+. Fishback. During all the hours of
her visit and while writing she always
occupied this plain poplar chair. After
Mrs. Stowe rose to fame with her book
the chair was preserved and handed
down as part Of history from Mrs.
Fishback to Lou Buerkle, in whose
possession it now remains. The back of
the chair has become broken off, and
all the Stats are broken out of the back.
The color Of the chair was black. They
relate all the historic points now con-
nected with this plain and nnassuming
old time piece of furniture -Milwau-
kee Sentinel.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-15
GHERIFF'S SALE.
Monday, the Ninth day q January

n y
Byyirtue of writ of fieri facias, to me di-
rected, issued out of the Chancery Court of the
State of New Jersey, will be exposed at public
sale, on
Monday, the Ninth day Of January
next, between the hours of IL and O'Clock, to-
w.t. 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 ia the
township OF Logan in the County of Gloucester
and State of New Jersey:
Beginning at stone In the middle of the pub
lie road leading through Nortonviile, said stone
being at corner of Sarah Jane Richardson's
land, and runs thence bounding on said Richard
sons land ~ south fifteen and a half degrees
east two chains and ten links; ~ 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 half degrees west eightysix nks
to a corner Of Hugh McGlinceys land
thence aloeg said McGlfncy's land south
fifteen degrees and thirty-fve minutes east
three chains to ash tree; thence north
seventy degrees east three chains and
eight links; thence south seventy-twO and three
fourtls degrees east one chain and thirty three
links; thence south twenty and three
fOurths degrees west one chain and seven links;
thence along Hugh McGlineey's land north
seventy four degrees and twenty minutes east
eighty nine links; thence yet along said Nc
Glincey's land north fifteen and half degrt es
west seven chains and seventy four links to the
micdle of the public road aforesaid; thence
along the middle thereof south seventy-five and
a half degrees west, two chains to the place of
beginning being at NortonviIe and containing
two acres and sixty-two one hundredths of an
acre be the same more or less (Which premises
tatrick 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 J. Teese and
others, defendants, and taken in execution at
the suit of Ebenexer Sparks and Samuel n.
Richards. acting executors, etc.. of Thos S.
WeaLherby, deceased, compliments. and to be
sold by WILLIAM COLLINS,
Samuel H. Richards, SoPr. Sheriff.
Dated Dec. 5, 1898. Prs fee $40 80