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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
MODEL BOY.

OF the day. His easy adaptability to all
chimes and conditions, his early matu-
rity and great feeding qualities and his
beauty Of conformation make him in
vincible Talk about Tamworths, razor
backs, etc., being the hogs to suit the
markell If the market wants bacon hogs
and wants them bad enough to pay for
the change, we will furnish them quick
enough right from among the Poland
Chinas. Nor will they be thin enough
to split sunbeam nor wild enough to
enter the chase, and it is safe to say
they will not be "cat manned, nor
will they turn up their noses at the
change. By selection and proper feed
we can just SO quickly produce the
choicest bacon hog as the SO called bacon
hog will lose those qualities Oh the food
CT the present Poland Chinas. This talk
of introducing new breed to improve
the bacon qualities of the hogs in the
corn belt is all rot. The whole argu-
ment is founded ON false basis. Its
supporters confuse the breed with the
feed and environments. They lose sight
of the fact that the breed they SO much
admire for his bacon has been fed bacon
producing food for many generations,
and were he imported into the corn belt
it would only be a short time and a
corncrib cross or two when his bacon
identity would be lost and we would
only have his miserable outlines left as
a sad reminder of our folly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28

Have you young daughter just at the
age when young girls most need mothers
loving care? Is she physically strong and
well or does she suffer from any weakness
of the delicate organism which most init
mately concerns her womanhood?
If so, you understand her suffering better
than anyone else can. You know that such
troubles, unless renedied, mean life of
incapacity and wretchedness for her. You
appreciate her reluctance to undergo physi-
clans examinations and treatments"
and you will be glad of assurance from the
most eminent medical authorities in this
country that in nineteen cases out of
twenty these Notifying methods are abb
solutely unnecessary.
Any mother who will write about her
daughters case, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief
consulting physician of the Invalids' Ho-
tel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y,
will receive free of cost the best profess
sional advice obtainable, and instructions
whereby complete cure may, in nearly
every instance, be effected by simple, COM
nonsense home methods.
No living physician has wider practical
experience or a higher reputation in the
treatment of diseases peculiar to women
than DR.. Pierce His Favorite Prescrip-
ton is the only proprietary remedy ever
designed by an educated authorized physi-
clan specifically to cure wo1nen's diseases.
His great Iooo-page illustrated book, The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser, ="
is of priceless value to every mother. 1t
will be sent absolutely free on receipt of
II one-cent stamps, to pay the cost of mail
ing only. Address, Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y; or,
send 81 stamps for heavy, cloth bound
copy.
The unfai1ing, never gripping cnre for
constipation-Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
HOW to Make Poor Rntter.

Mrs. e. R. Wood tells in the Jersey
Bulletin what she would do to make
poor butter. What she would do agrees
so we'll with what some people are do
ing that we give it place in our col
umns. The lady says: l am not aware
that ever made any poor butter, and
for nearly score of years butter from
my hands has brought % cents or more
a pound the year round, which is,
think, evidence of its merit. However,
were to set out to make poor butter
the first thing / should do would be to
let the milk Cif set in pans) stand until
it was covered with white spots, and
the next would be to allow the cream
to remain until it was a mass of fer
mentation before churning. Then if the
thermometer showed about 70 degrees
when inserted in the cream and the
churn smelled decidedly cheesy should
know was on the right track. When
the butter had ''come" in soft,
"squashy" mass, l would take it out of
the churn and make feint at washing
it with cold water, salt it, and after
only half getting out the buttermill1
pack it away. There would be streaks
and notifies caused by insuficiently in
cooperating the salt, the remaining but
termilk would soon become rancid (for
what more quickly gets to smell "old"
than buttermilk?), the mold spores in
the cream lin other words, the bacteria)
would begin to get in their work, and I
would have poor butter in very short
time.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
THE ROYAL BOX.

Queen Margherita of Italy has presented
to those of her ladies i'll waiting who have
completed 80 years of service Il gold medal,
the workmanship of which was executed
by woman.
The young crown prince of Germany
shed tears of joy when he was informed
that be had passed his examination as en-
sign. He was in mortal fear that he
would fail, and he dreaded the paternal
censure.
Prince Robert of Bourbon, ex-duke of
Parma, is now the father of his eighteenth
child, a daughter, the ninth child by his
second wife. All Is, sons and daugh-
tiers, are living, bit only the eldest the
wife of Ferdinand of Bulgaria, now 2S
years of age, is married
Princess Eleonora of Sayn- Wittgenstein,
one of the mediiltized semiroyal German
families, has been sentenced to month S
Imprisonment in Jail and 800 marks fine
for spreading slandcrous rumors about her
brother law Count Konigsmark, which
brought about his divorce The sentence
has been affirmed on appeal.
Ice cream may be unhealthy, but the
motive of the young man who tries to
prove it to his girl friends is apt tobe mis-
construed. Chicago News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
MENU TERMS.

A la Parisienne-Dishesp prepared richly
and extensively garnished.
A la Normandie-A dish in which ap-
pies enter into the composition.
A la Proyencal-A dish prepared with
olive oil and favored with garlic.
A la Crccy-Dishcs in which carrots are
freely used, referring oftenest to the PURGE
A la Maitre d Hotel-Significs sub
stantial but modest, honely sort of cook
ing.
A Ia Soubise-Applied to dishes con-
tanning onions in quantity sufficient to
flavor them strongly.
A la Macedoine-A variety of green
vegetables usually served in white sauce,
sometimes different fruits imbcdded in
jelly.
A la uphinoise-Signifes a dish that
Is praised, covered with u thick sauce,
crumbled, sauced or egged Il second time
and then fried
A la Gerard-The name of an assistant
cook who invented dish to please the
palate and bear the name of Mime. de
Maintenon. Upon tasting it he decided
that 1t was not worthy the distinction
and therefore called it for himself -Ex-
cha
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
Better Prices For Beef.

Present indications point TO higher
prices for prime, we'll fattened beef cat
tie before fall, as there have not been
as many stockers and feeders taken to
the larger ranges as usual. and few of
them will be fit to sell until late, as
they will need corn to finish off, after
being grass fed, to make them sell we'll
The stock i'll hand has been reduced to
considerable extent by the fattening
of much young stock that heretofore has
been kept a year longer before putting
into market. If cattle now i'll pasture
can be finished off i'll September or even
October, prospects are good for the feed
ers to obtain fair profit. With this i'll
view, it will pay to feed literally and
to strive to force an extra growth to
reach the earlier fall market, or such
are the indications now.-American
Cultiyator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
FASHION AND FABRIC.

Bathing suits in patriotic color melanges
are set forth for the summer season.
The gray gowns this year are extremely
dainty and handsome, and they appear in
every sort of material
Knife plated frills appear once. again
among the fluffy trimmings of the airy
summer gowns both for day and evening
wear.
There are no surprising novelties in
parasols this year. Chiffon is almost ON
nipresent, and when this is absent lace is
found.
A very large portion of the diaphanous
silks and muslins this year are trimmed
with loops, bowknots, bands and floating
ends of velvet ribbon of medium width.
The new dresden" challies are manu-
featured in Lyons, and they show many
of the very attractive designs popular in
the silks and small patterned satins of last
winter
1t seems quite likely that the Few re-
trousse hats, turning abruptly off the face,
will be very strong rivals this season to
those worn very far forward or tilted up
at one side and down on the other.
The navy and army blue serges, foulards
Inohairs and lightweight costume cloths
are made into stylish tailor costumes for
travelling and general wear, that hold
their own against all the endless smart
and novel gowns which the present season
has produced.
The most elegant black gowns just now
shown at the importing houses are of very
lustrous watcred silk, made in princess
style and trimmed very deliberately on the
bodice portion and front of the gown with
black lace, with girdle and yoke, bretellc
or vest piece of the finest cut jet
Bright colorcd capes of plated silk mus
lin, lisse, chiffon and transparent silk arc
one of the f;sncies OF the season. The ma
teriai is accordion plated, and pillows and
yards of it are used for each cape, which
is pointed front and back, short over the
sleeves. It is sometimes finished with very
long scarf ends New York Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
NIAGARA FALLS.

Low RATE EXCURSION, VIA P. r. Z.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has selected the following dates for its
popular ten-day excursions to Niagara
Falls from Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington July 81, August A and Is,
and September /, Is and 20. An expert
enced tourist agent end chaperon will ac-
company each excursion.
Excursion tickets,good for return passage
on any regular train, exclusive of limited
express trains. within ten days, will be
sold at $40 from Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, and all points on the Delaware
Division; $3.50 from Lancaster $S.5
from Altoona and Harrisburg Sc 80 from
Sunbury and Wilkesbarre $5.75 from
Williamspoit; and at propOrtionate rates
from other points. A stop-over will be
allowed at Buffalo, Rochester,and Watkins
returning.
A special train of Pullman parlor cars
and day coaches will be run with each
excursion.
Tickets for side trip to the Thousand
Islands Alexandria Bay will be sold from
Rochester, good to return to Rochester or
to Canandaigua via Syracuse within five
days, at rate of $3.50.
For time of connecting trains and further
information apply to nearest ticket agent,
or address Geo. w. Boyd, Assistant Gene raj
Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia. 1873 Cts.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
The Coin Came Back.

II have once or twice read how small
the world was, - said a young fellow,
''and once or twice have seen stories
of the same kind am gong to tell. I
confess / never believed them, but now
! know better. Last summer, when in
New York on my annual visit, / was
struck with sudden within and
scratched my initials on 30 cent piece,
cutting into the silver deep enough to
make lasting impression. ! paid for a
cigar in the Hoffman Hsuse with the
coin and guyed myself with being fool
ish. had forgotten all about the quar-
ter when entered a Carrollton car and
gave half dollar to the conductor. I'm
agine my surprise when he handed me
in change the rs cent piece / spent in
the Hoffman Housed think will keep
the coin now and ever more as curios-
ity," and the speaker pulled the money
from his pocket and showed it in veri-
fication q his story.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
Horses, Feet.

The London Live Stock Journal re-
marks that a large, broad foot, ap-
preaching to roundness. is no iDdica-
ton of strength and durability of the
hoof-rather sign of weakness, as
tending to become fat soled When
seen in horse used for riding or driv-
ing, it may be taken as rule to be a
sign of common or coarse blood in one
of his near ancestors, and that he him.
self has probably inherited their slug
gish temperament as we'll as foot con-
formation The wall of the hoof should
not bulge out too much at the side. 1t
should be of graduated oval shape and
not round. There is a popular opinion
that, while dark hoofs are inclined TO be
brittle, white hoofs are inclined to be
soft. High authorities believe the opin-
ion has no foundation in fact. What
has the presence of pigment or absence
of it in the hairs which surround the
coronet to do with the durability of the
horn, of which it is continuation
Perhaps the horse with the best formed
and soundest foot of all modern breeds
is the thoroughbred hackney.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28

For silo ID feet in diameter, the
outside of the slaves being six inches
wide, the inside of the slaves should be
one-seventh of an inch narrower. 1t is
not necessary to pay any attention to
beyeling the slaves, and indeed ques-
tion whether it is not better not to bev-
ell. If the slaves are set up without bow
cling, the point of contact will be the
inside edge and perfectly tight joint
will be secured at that point. With the
tub silo it seems that the simpler we
can make it the better. While some
have had the slaves tongued and groov-
ed and others have had them beveled
just as good results are secured where
the slaves are simply set up with no
treatment whatever, but are used as the
saw leaves them, says L. A. Clinton in
Rural New Yorker.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
Angie Of q Horses Foot.

By the angle of a horses foot is
meant the angle formed by the wall and
the ground surface of the foot at the
center of the toe In order to get the
feet alike in shoeing trotters horse
shoers usually measure the length of the
toe and the height of the heel from the
,oronet to the bottom of the wall. 1t is
well to remember that different horses
may have toes and heels of the same
length aud height, and yet the angle OF
the foot may be different in each case.
A study of a picture of the bones of the
leg win show just what is meant by
= straight line striking the center of
the pastern aud coffin joints. It means
when straight line will pass through
the center of both position bones and
the coffin bone. Horse Review.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
OLD SMOKES
IN Article For Which There Is Always
Demand.

On Article For Which There Is Always a
Demand.
Among the very great variety of
hand are smokestacks of iron or of
steel. 1t may be that an establishment
puts in bigger boiler and wants big
ger stack. If it is using q steel or an
iron stack, the old one is taken down
carefully and new one set up. The old
stack may be sold to dealer in second
hand boilers and machinery, or tho
owner may keep it and sell it himself
to somebody that wants secondhand
smokestack. If it is sold to dealer, he
may remove it to his own yard, or il
may be that the original owner keeps it
on his premises until the dealer ha,
sold it. A manufacturer may move from
one place to another and sell the old
plant, or parts of it. Here would be a
secondhand smokestack. Secondhand
stacks are bought by various users. 1t
may be that the smokestack of an estab-
lishment is worn out and that the boiler
is not and that a secondhand stack
would last out the life of the boiler. In
such case the user would get second
hand stack if he could find one suitable.
Secondhand stacks may be used with
various temporary plants set up by con-
tractors and others. A smokestack may
be blown down in windstorm and the
user supply the place of it with one
bought secondhand.
A steel or iron stack costs about half
as much as brick stack A secondhand
iron stack costs about half as much as a
new one. Stacks of metal are made now
usually of steel. The steel used costs
now less than wrought iron. There is
an increasing use of steel instead Of
brick stacks. Steel stacks up to 6 and
feet i'll diameter would be classed as
portable stacks; larger stacks would be
of more or Jess permanent character.
Steel smokestacks are now made up to
Is feet in diameter. Very large smoke.
stacks may be lined with brick.
Secondhand smokestacks up to 2 feet
in diameter are likely to be found in
stock in the yard Of the dealer in second
hand boilers and machinery. and he is
likely to have stacks of larger sizes else
where. There is always demand for
secondhand smokestacks. New York
Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28

JOSEPH W. MERRITT.
opp. Court House. Woodbury., N. J.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
MODEL BOY.
What Has Been Done In Developing a
PoIand-China Boar.

What Has Been Done In Developing q
Poland-China Boar.
In the perfecting of types in the ami
NAL kingdom, says The Breeders Ga
zette, three factors are Indispensable
. lineage, individuality and environment,
which latter includes ''the corncrib
cross" If the perpetuation of existing
attachments or their further dev lop-
ment is desired, the three are alike i'm
portant. Judging the subject of the ac-
companying illustration by this crucial
test, he stands forth with probably as
many claims to superiority as any hog
of like age of the breed Model Boy
IS, $50 G.. Pc. R., Is, 545 S. Pc. R.,
was lately purchased by E. E. Axline,
Oak Grove, Mo-. at cost of 81, 900 and
placed at the head of his herd of Poland
Chinas He is son of Klever's Model.
Model Boy was shown at the Iowa and
Illinois state fairs in his yearling form
in 1896, winning first in class and
sweepstakes at Des Moines and second
in class and first at head of aged herd
at Springfield.
The Poland China, writes Clifton
George enthusiastically, is the hog
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
HOG CHOLERA.
Points on the Character and Treatment Of
the Disease.

the Disease.
Symptoms of hog cholera are not to
be mistaken. It begins with chill,
and any time an animal is found hid
den away in his bedding, shivering,
ayerse to moving, or in the later stage
with rising temperature, take the case
in hand at once, or you will certainly
run a good chance of being out one hog.
Get the rest of the animals away at
once and watch closely for new cases. A
cholera case will cough, the eyes will
I'm, and the skin will be Redeemed in
blotches Soon after the beginning Of
the attack diarrhea will set in, the dis
charge being watery and offensive in
the extreme.
The germs of cholera are spread in
many ways. 1t is possible that they
float i'll the air They are certainly car
ried by the feet of man, by loafing dogs
possibly by birds, especially the scav-
eagers, crows and buzzards.
Prevention is vastly easier than cure
Keep the pigs quarters clean. They arc
no fonder of filth than other animals.
Let them have clean mud to wallow in.
They do it only to keep insects away,
flies, mosquitoes etc. Finally, dear
brethren, don't shut hogs up in dirty
pen, stuff them with corn and expect
them to stay in good health.
Hogs will root over and over the
mound where brush has been burned
and deyour every bit of charred wood
left. This is hint that careless farmers
disregard quite continuously. Hogs need
wood ashes and charcoal and should be
furnished with them in plenty.
Put salt where the stock can get at
it all the time Then they will eat just
what they need, and you will not have
to go to bed worrying some night be-
cause it was your day to salt and you
forgot it.-Land and a Living
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
NEW DEVICES.

Artificial limbs have been constructed
in Germany in such a way that those who
are obliged to use them can ride bicycles
A Russian has patented rubber tooth
brush which consists of a rubber sack pro-
vided with rubber bristles on the sides
and ends, the device being slipped over the
finger when in use.
Burglar proof glass has been invented
by a smart manufacturer. It is made by
pouring molten glass over network of
steel wire. 1t is specially adapted for sky
lights and jewellers windows.
A fibrous preparation of steel made in
the same manner as the so called miner
al wool, by passing an air blast through
ing, polishing, etc., instead of sandpaper.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28

withstanding was treated by the best doctors
in that city, grew worse. With every evidence
of consumption rapidly developing consulted q
noted Professor in Philadelphia, who gave me
but little encouragement
When learned of DR.. Finlaw's success In cur
ing hopeless sufferers put myself under his
treatment, and in a short time the pain left my
chest. the cough improved, and the thick matter
expectoratsd changed. Although had suffered
severely from rheumatism, 1t also disappeared.
While I improved from the beginning, in
about six weeks the change was marked and
continued without interruption until I was
cured. SMITH TOWNSEND.
Carpenter and Builder.
Cramer Hill. N. ].
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
Effect of Excitement on Cows.

Very often dairymen write us ex-
pressing great surprise at the fuctua-
tions in amount of butter fat III their
milk at the creamery as shown by the
Babcock test. Since the advent Of the
Babcock test we are learning that men
have lived for great many years in
very great ignorance of the true philoso-
ply of milk and COW. 1t is safe to say
that anything and everything that can
affect the nervous system of a mother
whether human or bovine, will affect
the fat content of her milk. On this
law is founded the oft repeated advice
to treat the COW gently.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
Reef In the Southwest.

1t appears to become gradually plain
that nowhere in this Union can beef be
grown better or cheaper than i'll the
southwest, There food in the shape OF
cottonseed meal and rough forage il
abundant and inexpensive. Shelter i:
little needed. If the young beeves get a
good start there and are then shipped
farther north to be finished off, it will
be right profitable. In many parts OF
the south the starting and finishing can
both be done cheaply.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
TOWN TOPICS.

Chicago as usual, claims a big increase
in her population recently. 1t is not stated
whether it is Hawaii or Cuba which she
has annexed. American.
Chicago's now census places the popula-
ton at / 100000. Her proyerbial modesty
alone prevented her from running the fig
ures up to the 2,000, 600 mark -Denver
Post.
Another of New York S SWEETEST fam
lilies is to be involved in divorce proceed
ings. 1t requires Greater New York to
enable its aristocracy to divide up and
still live in the same city. Chicago News.
The thrilling news comes from New
York that it is once more proper for a
woman to take a mans arm ON the street
at night. Unhappy provincials that we
are, we never knew that this style had
gone out of vogue - Buffalo Express.
Chicago is thus carly bidding for the
next national political conventions.
Though these events arc two years off, it
is violating no confidence to convey the
information to Chicago that ST. Louis has
first claim on both conventions ST. Louis
Republic.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-28
Worms on Tobacco.

"About July 10 the first crop of
worms may be expected, says an Ohio
correspondent of The National Stock
man and Farmer, "and every one of
this first crop allowed to escape will de-
velop into moth in six weeks, and this
moth will lay at least 200 eggs I have
always destroyed the worms on my own
crop by hand picking, as | believe the
use of poisons to be dangerous to the
chewer of leaf grown under its use, hut
paris green is cheap, convenient, speedy
and effectual, and its use on tobacco is
now almost universal -