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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
THE KINETosCoPE.


Spain is determined to show her friendly
feelings for the United States if she has to
send every warship in her navy to our
shores. Detroit Free Press.
The author of Sweet Marie has mar
ried the girl TO whom the music was dedi-
Gated. Fate has a curious way of evening
up old scores. s.-New York Press.
They found collar button in the shell
of an oyster at Alexandria. Va, the other
day, and the mystery is how the oyster got
under the bureau.-San Francisco Chron-
icle.
That Pittsburg attorney who charged an
orphan girl only S32, eco for collecting
legacy OF SCI eco must have beeI actuated
by consideration of pity.-Detroit Free
Press.
Uncle Sam is contemplating she pur-
chase of Sl,000,000 worth of powder.
About one year ago he was engaged in con-
sidering a beautiful treaty submitted by
John Washington Post.
Lord Beaconstieid was not prophet nor
the son of a prophet, hut when he said
"confscation is contagious he uttered
truth most applicable to the present situ-
alton in China Kennebec Journal
In the Boston theaters lady wearing
Hab Is naDQtu cGIQ tearing q copy OF bn0
city ordinance, This idea is incomplete un-
less the man who spits on the floor or
otherwise annoys fellow playgoers is hand
ed a similar bint.--St Louis Globe Demo-
crat.
There were more great men at tho be-
ginning of the nineteenth century than
there are at its close. Napoleon, jefferson,
Byron and many others that came in with
the century are not equaled among those
who will be here at its close.-Nashville
American.
1t is rather cruel to require a lady to
certify that she had her sealskin garment
prior to the passage of the law prohibiting
the importation OF such wear Giving the
age of her sealskin cloak is almost as bad
as having to give her own age-Boston
Transcript.
What is patriotism in comparison with
business? The thrifty manufacturers Of
Birmingham. it is now discovered, have
been shipping rifles 10 the Afridis by way
of the Persian gulf to be used in checking
the progress of the British troops.-Proyi-
dence Journal
1t is proposed to tear down the city wall
of Aurelian, at Rome, on the left bank of
the Tiber, and lovers of antiquity are pro-
testing. But it has not been erected as
long as the Palisades of the Hudson river,
against whose demolition they do not have
as much to say as they might. Boston
Transcript
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
The Lost Dime.

He tried at first to get the dime out
with his fingers, next he took his cane,
then his pocket knife. and he even
pressed into service the fingers and knife
of the messenger boy sitting next him.
But it was no use. The dime would not
be lured from its resting place, and, be-
ing plainly ignorant of cable car eti-
quette in such emergencies-na
asking the passengers to hold up their
feet while the whole section of Slated
flooring is Iifted-he finally gave it up
and with very red face and a muttered
word left the car. His feet had hardly
left the step when the conductor came
quickly forward from the rear platform.
With the other passengers he had be-
fore this been disposed to smile at the
discontinue of the owner of the dime,
but now his manner was changed. All
that fuss over 10 cent piece, 7 said the
conductor as he raised the flooring and,
picking up said 10 cent piece, dropped
it into his own pocket. New York Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

and slight Of build No one would give
her credit for having climbed the Chill
koot as early as the spring of 1894 and of
Drawing the perils and terrors of the in
terror of Alaska when strong men
shrank from the trip. She was born of
German and English parentage in New
York city and climbed the Alps before
the age of H.
Miss Lyons was educated in Philadel
phia, being graduate of the Girls Nor
NAL school, She was great chum of
her father, and together they visited
many climes, shrines and ruins. His
ideas, thoughts and descriptions no
doubt had much influence over her later
life. She says that when in early wo-
manhood she stood on the summit Of
Chilkoot pass and alone enjoyed its
grandeur and sublimity she sorrowed
that he who had stood on the pinnacle
of SO many mountains with her was
not there to voice his admiration and
enjoy that wonderful sight.
Miss Lyons, although boasting some
of the bluest blood of England in her
veins, is thoroughly American in her
tastes, desires and habits, and in her
lectures lays great stress on the fact that
Alaska, the American land of the mid
night sun, is we'll worthy the attention
of the tourist Miss Lyons declared that
she has never known a sick day in her
life. Her perfect health she attributes
mainly to her outdoor exercises. She is
fond of both the wheel and horseback
riding and is an untiring walker.
She is a pleasant, magnetic and in
teresting talker and, being great
traveller and of an observing nature, of
course has quite fund of interesting
information at her command. She is
very much interested in the Cuban ques-
tion, also that of the Russian refugees,
and becomes much enthused on either
of these subjects.
She has just finished a story of Mary
Tudor, known as Bloody Mary of Eng
land. When asked why of all known
women she chose her as the heroine of
her novel, Miss Lyons said; Poor
Maryl So little queen, SO much a
weak woman. dug her out of forgotten
history, have wiped away the blood,
brushed the cobwebs from her mind,
enveloped her with an all absorbing
love, and consequently some heroism,
and have surprised even myself with
the woman that have portrayed. J" She
is now at work upon an Eskimo ro-
nance. She calls it 1.-THE Eskimo Slave
Girl.
Miss Lyons has quite collection of
pets. She is very fond of dogs, her libra
ry is full Of choice books, and she has
an interesting cabinet of curios. When
asked whether she preferred public or
domestic life, she answered quickly,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
German Education.

The Germans are the most thoroughly
educated people in the world What
they know they know well.
A fellow traveller had taken his de-
gree of B. A. in the University Of Penn
sylvania and gone to that of Berlin,
where he spent three years. Subse-
guently travelling in Switzerland, he
met young German whose range and
accuracy of knowledge weee simply be-
yond that of any man of the same age
he had ever met. In many walks and
talks the German had absolutely pumped
the American dry, while his own store
of knowledge had only been touched.
Zach, said the German student one
day, "I shall never get my degree. it is
SO difficult, it is so much, SO hard, SO
long, must have patience. used to
see you at the University of Berlin,
and, forgive me the question, how did
you get into the university"
why, was admitted on my B. A.
from the University of Pennsylvania, :"
replied the American
'sMein Gott!' gasped the German
scholar. 81 knew it must be some way
like that.
No better comment ON the relative
standards of knowledge and the thor
oughness of the method by which it is
pursued could be asked. -Philadelphia
Times
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
PlTH AND POINT.

A shiftless man is never too shiftless to
invent excuses.
Every man thinks of himself as boy
longer than he should.
There are many married people who are
danger signs to the unmarried.
Judging from tho manner in which the
revolver figures in it, love is fatal in more
cases than appendicitis.
It is always safe to distrust the man
who goes into a business ENTERPRISE more
to please his wife than for anything else. Z
When a woman lnds that her friends
know that she has Loles in her stockings,
she explains them by saying that darns'
hurt her feet.
This world will never be just right until
the doctors have discovered that they can
remove man backbone and substitute
an iron brace.
There is one thing always left out in de-
scribing brides dress that she is angry
because it is net nicer and that her father
is mad because it is SO nice. Atchison
Globe
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
THE LITTLE TITMoUsE.

One Free Bird That Attracts Attention
Among Hundreds of Captives.
In big bird store where there are
hundreds of birds of many kinds inces-
sanity squawking. chirping and singing
there is one that is free-a tiny tit
mouse. The window is full of cages
containing birds of various sorts, and
one side of the store is lined with bird
cages stacked up high all along. But
there is none that attracts SO much at
tention as the little titmouse fitting
about the store at will. At night it
perches on a gas fixture in the window,
and to that it comes back from it's vari-
GUS excursions by day.
Customers that come in to buy birds
and birdcages and bird seed and one
ming and another never fail to notice
the titmouse They may not notice an
other bird there individually, but their
attention is sure to be attracted by this
one as it darts about, free among SO
many captives and they are likely to
smile at it, they are so pleased with it.
And sometimes children, looking in at
U4O WluAOWc u t4lO O4lQ GtOl0e OOulO III
to tell the clerk that one of the birds
has got loose.
When it has nothing else to do, the
titmouse sits on its gas pipe perch and
perks its head this way and that and
looks about. Sometimes it whets its
beak on the gas pipe. Every now and
then it dashes off somewhere. Ii it
wants a drink, it perches on the rim of
a goldfish globe-for home aquariums
and stock for them are sold here as we'll
as birds--no doubt to the great surprise
of the goldfishes and certainly to that
of the human beholders, who wonder
that it doesn't fall in, it has to bend
over SO far to reach the water. But it
gets it, and when it has taken its fill it.
flashes back to its perch on the pipe in
the window.
The titmouse catches spiders and 9TH
er insects, and it feeds III the larger
cages when it will 1t goes in and out
of them between the bars with perfect
ease. It is very little bird, even with
its plumage in its natural form. With
its feathers pressed against its sides it.
can get through very narrow space
between the bars of a parrots cage, for
.example-with ease. There are in the
window number of parrots cages in a
row. The titmouse almost flies through
these cages, stopping in each perhaps to
eat of the parrots food but they never
molest it. Parrots that would bite at
the finger of man who should put his
hand near enough to the outside of their
cage stand back in fright or sheer
amazement when the little titmouse
dashes in and perches on their feed cup.
New York Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
THE SAGEBRUSFl.
vhen a Colorado morning tho purple mis-
IL

Ehen Colorado morning tho purple mists
unfold
And phantom mirage picture is on mountain
wall enscrolled,
Then the air from distant foothills is like odor
of new wine.
And the breath from scrubby sagebrush is
more fragrant than the pine
The eastern birding HES him to forest deep
and wide.
On tree tops highest branches he wooes his
feathered bride.
But the western songster MARBLES of the land
that is mine aim
From clump of pale green sagebrush on the
gently billowed plain
The gaunt and long cared rabbits their longest
gallops gauge
To rest at home securely in their hutches.
meath the sage,
And the coyote calls together all his gray and
willy tram,
Swift shadows in the shadow of the sagehrush
on the plain
It's brave and woody armor the winters frost
defies,
And it clothes the lonely sand world with a
bonny sweet surprise.
Summer smiles upon its prowess, guarding
fields of golden grain.
It is forest, grass and hedgerow to the wild
and sandy plain.
Mary Amelia Roberts in Overland Monthly
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

CLIMBING.
Domestic, but unfortunately I am one
of the army of breadwinners, and my
desires, Of course, are stified by my ne
cessities, but some day in some cozy lit
tie nook near New York city hope to
have little home surrounded by those
that most care for, where I can read,
dream and write, cook if SO desire,
and yet be near enough to New York to
occasionally come in and get another
glimpse Of the mad vortex of public life
that once held me enthralled.
Will ever return tRsAlasla? Yes,
indeed, I am going back to Alaska this
coming summer, going to return to see
the changes and, fear, dissertations
that have been made by the mad rush
of gold seekers to that farof land. /
will then get more pictures and newer
material for another lecture tour of the
United States While talking she was
arranging beautiful bunch of flowers
that had just been sent to her, and hold
ing them up, said; Would you believe
that flowers every whit as lovely as
these grow all summer along the banks
Of the Yukon, and yet by many Alaska
is termed the nations icebox. ! think
we should now name it our treasure
box. LYDIA P. BRADLEY.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

The total length of the worlds telegraph
system has now reached 4, ,908, 921 miles.
The present mean diameter Of Jupiter is
SO, 500 miles, while its mass exceeds that
of the earth in the ratio of 316 to /
Incandescent lamps are provided with
rehectors by winding ON the upper portion
Of the bulb silver, aluminium or other
bright nontarnishing wire, secured in place
with soluble glass.
Electricity is used 10 operate new rail-
way gate, small motor being geared to
the rocking shalt on " hich the gate arm is
mounted, to be operated by controller in
the gateman S shelter.
A German goldsmiths' journal states
that nickel surfaces may be readily cleansed
Of the spots which frequently appear upon
them by the application of a nAxture Of l
part of sulphuric acid and so parts Of al
f.ol
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
With THE WITS.


The poems never written,
The songs that ne 'er were sung,
The stories that were never told,
The changes never rung,
The pictures never painted,
The jokes that meier were read,
The knowledge that was never known,
The say ings never said,
The kisses ne'er imprinted,
The engagement rings ne'er worn,
The ceremonies meier performed,
The babies never born,
The fashions never fashioned,
The fame that meier was won
All these and several other things
That never yet " ere done
Are all that make existence
Endurable, wot
And also make the earth still
Inhabitable spot.
james Barrett Kirk in New York Truth.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
Astronomical Information.

"Why is it called partial eclipses" ask
ed Sammy Snaggs, as be looked at the
moon.
Because it is visible from some por-
tioDs of the globe and invisible from other
portions, replied Mr.. Snaggs. sIf it
were equally visible everywhere, it would
be an impartial eclipse. ;, = Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
Conc ellmmerlng.

Mattie-W What has become of your Anti
slang society that you took SO much inter
est in few months ago9
Helen-Oh, it's in the consomme. The
president got nutty and imagined she was
the only dent in the pan, so we gave her
the willies and the dinky dink association
shot the shoots. Chicago News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
Harbor Mistress Fuller.

Miss Fuller, a newspaper woman, has
lately been appointed harbor mistress of
Tacoma, Wash. 1t is said that thus far
she has done remarkably good work,
keeping all records pertaining to the
extensive shipping business of the city
in perfect shape. Last month she made
out the harbor masters report for the
year, the first report of the kind ever
made out By an American woman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
THE HOUSE OF WISDOM.

had not thought-al, God, lad but knownl-
That this sad hour should ever me befall
When thop judged the holiest Of all
should come to be the thing Imust disown.
Has it not true. that April morn, thy blown
Gold hair around my hair for coronal,
Or is this truer-thou at the outer wall,
Unroyal and with unrepentant moan2
Yet prize now this wisdom have won
Who must always remember nay, my tear
Must close mine eyes, as thou wouldst hide thy
face
II some great meteor, kindred to the sun,
Should haunt the undying stars ten million
years
To fall, some noon, dead in thy market place.
Francis Sherman in Bookman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
Wonderful to See
An important Change the Cause
of Much Gratitude

A New Jersey Mother Writes Some-
thing About Her Daughters.
"My little girl was troubled with inn
pure blood. Every little pimple or
scratch would make a great sore which
would not heal but kept getting worse.
MY husband got bottle of Hoods Sar-
saparilla, and as had heard of its Won
derful cures, the little girl began taking
it. When she had finished taking one
bottle she did not have sore or blotch
on her, but gave her another bottle to
make sure OF permanent cure. Since
then I have given Hoods Sarsaparilla to
both of my little girls for loss of appe-
tite and it is wonderful to see the change
in them They have gained in flesh and
weight and their cheeks are rosy. When-
ever l want blood purifier / shall get
Hoods Sarsaparilla." MRS. EDWARD
GARRETT, care Warren Foundry, Phillips
burg, New Jersey. Remember
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hoods Pills rf with IN Moods oas sarsapara Rs % fnks
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
VOLUME Xxx.
Bargains! Bargains! Bargains! Bargains!
Prices guaranteed for this week only

Clothing Department Special.
SO Overcoats drop from Sc, So and
SO to 50.
Big stock of Clothing for Children,
Boys and Men
Carpet Department
LOCO yards oil cloth remnants, Il
yard wide, 5 cents
yard wide. lOc, l2c. 15c, zoe.
Linoleum, at 35c. soc up.
Rag Carpet, zoe, 25c, S5c up.
Shades on Spring Rollers, lOc up.
Shoe Department.
Lot of Rubbers for Boys, Men and
Women for 25c.
7-button Overgaiter, l5c.
lO-button 0vergaiter, 25c
Bargains in Children and Misses
Shaes.
Closed Tuesday, Wednesc
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
In the nird store.

"Well, find $40 for that parrot too
high You say he can't talk. !"
mo, he can't talk, but he under
stands everything that's said File
gende Blatter.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

Women will be degraded by being al
lowed to go to the polls and vote. Oh,
yesl But it is no degradation to have
men approach them and try to bribe
them to use their influence to induce
their husbands to vote for a United
States senator when his ballot is badly
wanted by one of the superior sex, as
is openly claimed to have been done in
the case of Mrs Griffith of Ohio, That
is all right and high minded and honor
able and exalts woman to that high
pedestal which she should ever occupy
in the masculine mind Oh, yes, agalnl
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

Aristotle believed that the proper age
for marriage was 81 years for man
and IS for a woman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

The Whittier homestead, in Haver.
hill, Mass, is open to visitors on We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons
on the payment of 10 cents each and on
Saturday afternoon on the payment of 6
cents. All visitors are asked to register.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

And Master an Chancery. Green's New
Building, No. Cooper Street, Woodbury., New
Jersey. June 2. '87
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
THE NEW WOMAN.
Some Suggestions That May Be Useful
Here and There.

Some Suggestions That May Be Useful
Here and There.
l have admired southern girls very
much ever since | saw so many of them
when our International league of press
clubs visited Atlanta and the south in
1894 Because like them so well am
going to say word to them here. They
are among the most talented young
newspaper women we have when they
come north. Everybody else likes them
as we'll as | do. No matter what bust
ness they go into they are apt to sue
ceed. But, my dear southern girls and
women, when you write for publication
don't begin by saying your family for
tunes were ruined by the war and that
you never would have thought of earn
ing money only for that We have heard
that statement so awfully many times.
Don't inform us either that southern
gentlemen are bitterly opposed to the
ladies of their families working for mon
ey. We have all known fer a hundred
years that some southern gentlemen, .
like some other gentlemen everywhere.
are almost as much opposed to having
their women folk work for living as
they are opposed to working themselves.
Don't mention that your family is one
of the Oldest and most important social
ly in the south. We all know that too.
We have heard it several thousand times
Every southerner' S family is. You need
not say in your writings that you are
thoroughly feminine " We take that
for granted Don't be particular to men
tion or to have somebody else mention
for you that you do not belong to wo-
mans club, that you are opposed to
woman suffrage and that you have a
horror of the new woman Why, heaven
have mercy on your ignorant, ungrateful
SOUL It is exactly the pioneer labors of
woman suffrage women, the clubwomen
and the new woman that have made it
possible for you this day to come COM
fortably out of your chimney corner and
earn your living at some Of the occupa-
lions only lately opened to our sex.
Finally, do not bring into the fore
ground your own or your family's per
sonality. The unfeeling public does not
care rap about them. just take up
your work quietly, brayely, grittily and
joyfully, as though you are proud Of it,
as you are, and go on to conquer, and
the Lord bless you!
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

We are wearied to death of hearing
bigots dogmatize and say this or that
occupation is not fitted for women or
that women are not suited to given
task just because they are women. The
individual man or woman is exactly
suited to anything he or she wants to
do and can do, no matter what it is.
Thus an individual man may be an ex-
cellent milliner, while an individual
woman may find her exact sphere in
conducting a cattle ranch Some men
are this day earning their living trim
ming bonnets. Several women are sue
cessfully herding cattle in the west.
For heavens sake let the individual
choose his or her own work 1t is the
individual who is to be considered in
every case not the sex or the race. Just
keep your mouth shut and don't dog
matize.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
"Does your head ache?"
what is the matter?

The child's lip quivered, and she said
in tone to grieye the heart:
"I'm seasick for home. National
Farmer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

Display of strong emotion on small
occasions is sign of weakness and
childishness.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

Miss Esther Lyons, the young woman
who has lately sprung into prominence
because she was the first woman to
cross the Chilkoot pass, is retiring,
refined, quiet woman Of medium height
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
A Peculiar Feeling.

The sensation of homesickness has
been yariously described, but never more
graphically than by little girl who,
miles away from home and mamma, sat
heavy eyed and silent at hotel table.
Aren't you hungry. dear?' asked
her aunt, with whom she was travel
ing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24

Three respectable and plucky young
women are making good living can
vassing in cities for a boot and shoe pol.
ish. The way they manage is this: They
go from Office to Office, carrying bottles
of the polish. They open one of these,
stoop down and with their own hands
black the gentleman's S shoes. The polish
is an excellent one, and nearly every
man buys bottle of it.