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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-15
THE PLANS OF
THE SEABOARD
John Shelton Williams Makes
an Official Statement.
SOON REACH A DECISION
Various Rumors Alnnt in Reference
40 Connections with the baltimore
and ohio Road ut lTnsIitugt0n-N No
EInms on Foot For The Exclusion
of the EoHd Into Warrington
other Interesting Notes.

The Baltimore Herald Of. yesterday is
authority for the following statement in
reference to the plans of the Seaboard
road:
argument on the demurrer to the
suit filed in the Baltimore City Circuit
Court by Thomas T.. Ryan, of New
York. for the enforcement of an al
legged contract with Louis McLane and
others for the sale of certain Scaboard
and Roanoke railroad stock, will be
finished Monday. Bernard Carter, of the
counsel for the plaintiffs, completed his
address yesterday, and cX-Attorney
General John p. Poe began his argu-
ment. The case will probably be held
sub curia by Judges Wickes and Stock
bridge. On the decision DEFENDS the
success Of the purchase of the Seaboaru
Air Line by the syndicate headed by
John Shelton Williams. of Richmond.
Various rumors were anoat yester-
day to the effect that the syndicate
contemplated eventually making Il con-
nectiOn with the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. ut Washington, by building
an independents line from Quantico and
bridging the Potomac. y story purport-
ing To give the plans OF rIp ~ iC7rtr
was published in an afternoon paper.
Last night the following statement was
given cut:
q" MI Williams criticised the state
ment, and said. with reference to the
right of the Scaboard TO use the tracks
of the Richmond. Fredericksburg and
orO'i."0, .''au i. Nus M4t,oue ioullui-
S.D.' as "a az nc hiieN INT ne hIcW
~ ,io SUI ~ oN ision III tlie cHurter OIL
with reference Ia the use or the lar
ter's tracks beyond Richmond had ever
been undertaken. The Seaboard is q
complete system. as X stands at pres
ent, from Norfolk and Portsmouth to
Atlanta, and If 1t should ever he that
the extension from Ridgeway to Peters,
burg is completed, ii should add value
10 the system.
We have said he, no plans on
foot for the extension of the line TO
Washington, where. the article says
connections are 10 be made with the
baltimore ana ONO. The Seaboard syS-
tenn does not make n physical conncc-
ton with the Florida Centrai and Pc
Tor traffic ARRANGEMENT are in pro-
SresS. nor have an intimate acquaint-
ance with the able ana successful pres
icent OF that system. rs the newspaper
arIcie states having had Inc pleasure
OF meeting MIN but once, and that
Dewitt Smith. of New York. presi-
cent oil inc ilchmohd. Petersburg and
-arHiih'1 raliroau, was IN 'he CITY yes
;,',,; ''V go ne u.o lu' '["r me IN. IL
junction asked Tor by Contractor
"trang in the Richmond courts. He in
,.iil ev,anG fr",, nichmord ~ o,,i 49,,
20 win hn hasun soon ana win hn H.,
ishod within six mnntbs ofter II ie
commenced"
NiiHuMEN PRO AND CON.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-15

Try our 15c. boys black hose. two
pairs for 25c. Heavy ribbed. Charles
II. WeNon & Co.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-15
EXCELLENT VOCAL MUSIC.
Music at Court Street Baptist Church

MUSIC AT NOurt Strtet baptlst Church
to-day;
MORNING SERVICE
Anthem ..... Sing. o Heavens"
EVENING SERVICE.
Quarette-"Jesus Lover of My Soul"
.... ................ Tillman
Mrs. w. II. Dashiell, Miss Flovian
Martin. II. y. Hutchins and james
IL. Duncan.
Tenor Solo -. Sometime, Somewhere"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-15

~ OR RENT, TTIREE1 CONNECT
~ ing rooms at IT'S High street to q
person without children. Apply OH prem
Uses. 1t
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-15

IN lT:SSAI.AKING NEATLY DONE
~ Prices reasonable. Mrs. EVA VAN
PAITrt,N. Ar Columbia street. near
Court. ja15-3t
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

Under the direction of the dairy COM
missioner of Canada a careful study and
report of an outbreak of colored spots in
a Canadian factory were made by DR..
W. T. Cornell. The factory was found
to be well located. but not well kept
AS is too frequently the case with cheese
factories the utensils and watts in daily
use were fairly we'll cleaned, but in
general the factory had an untiiy APP
pearance. In particular the drains were
very defective and filthy. The drainage
from the factory was intended to enter
q drain under the floor, but a close con-
neotion between the floor and drain was
not made, and it had to fall about g
inches to the trough. A considerable
part of it splashed over on to the ground
underneath. which was kept constantly
saturated, and in Shiny condition.
The color of the Shiny mass varied from
reddish to reddish yellow or reddish
gray. archaeological examination of
this substance revealed many forms of
low organic life, and baoilli were dis
covered which closely resembled form
found in the affected cheese. The salt,
rennet and samples of milk delivered
by the different patrons were also ex-
amined, but without finding suspicious
germs in any of them. There seemed
little doubt but that the defective drain
and its surroundings were the source
- i,.faa4iale and 70 rlrnua that the
chromogenic germ, abundant about the
drain. could cause the trouble. A lot of
milk in factory entirely free from the
infection had culture of the bacilli
introduced into it and was made into
cheese. Within few days the spots ap-
peared. Professor F. c. Harrison re-
ports that the same bacillus is found in
dirty sinks, watts. etc.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
Who is to Blame.

Kidney trouble has become so prevalent
that it is not uncommon fer a child to be
born afflicted with weak kidneys.
If the child urinates too often, if the
urine scalds the flesh, or if, when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the passage, and it is yet afflicted
with bed-wetting depend upon it, the
cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble,
and the FIRST step should be towards the
treatment of these important organs This
unpleasant trouble is due to diseased
not to habit as most people suppose.
If the adult has rheumatism pain or
dull ache in the back if the water passes
in irregular quantities; or at irregular
intervals or has bad odor if it stains the
linen or vessel the color of rust; if the
feet swell; if there are puffy or dark
circles under the eyes; your kidneys are
the cause and need doctoriDg. Treatment
of some diseases may be delayed without
danger, not so with kidney disease.
DIR. KilmeT's Swamp Root the great
kidney, liver and bladder remedy promptly
cures the most distressing cases. It's mild
and extraordinary effect is soon realized.
Sold by druggists in ffty-ceDt and dollar
sizes. You may have sample bottle and
pamphlet telling all about it sent free by
mail. Address DIR. Ki.mer & Co, Bing-
hamton, N. Y. When writing mention
that you read this generous offer in the
GLOUCESTER COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
News Notes.

Tesla's latest discovery is announced
to be the possibility of transmitting
great amounts of power through the
natural media-the earth and the air
without the use of any wire, to dis
tances of thousands of miles. This will
interest agriculturists.
Artificial oats" a combination of
ssrtain factory byproducts with bran,
oatmeal, rye, ETC., are said to have an
peared upon tae German market.
1t is claimed by people who have in
vestigated the subject that electric cars
aud bicycles are not causing a diminu-
tion in the number of horses used. And
DR.. Liantard, the eminent New York
veterinarian, is quoted by an exchange
to the effect that the use of automobiles
in Paris is by no means so extensive as
he had been led by the papers of this
country to suppose.
In employing undissolved phosphate
rock upon acid soils, good authorities
recommend following the application
of the phosphate at an interval of some
months. or if possible a year, with q
dressing of lime
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
Streaming MIX.

There are some points about straining
milk that are not generally thought OF,
and therefore the milk is not wholly
cleared of its bacteria. In the first place
it is important that the milk should be
put through the strainer and set where
it's cream is to rise as soon as possible
after it comes from the COW. 1t often
accumulates bacteria very rapidly if left
in stables exposed to foul odors Be-
sides, if left long some of the cream
will rise and will be SO mixed with the
milk that what does not cling to the
strainer cloth or wire will not rise as
cream again. The strainer should be
thoroughly washed by dipping it first
in cold water and moving it rapidly
through both ways, so that bacteria
will not adhere to the underside, as
they are apt to do if the rinsing water
is merely poured on the strainer from
above. Then repeat this process with
water pretty near scalding heat. In that
way if there are any bacteria on the
strainer they will be killed - Boston
Cultivator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
WRITERS AND PAINTERS.

Justin Huntly Mccarthy, son of Justin
Mccarthy, is here to lecture on history
and to take notes for short history of
the Omitted States and for some more PLAYS
which he intends to write.
When Robert Louis Stevenson died his
hair was jet black, yet up to the time
when he passed into the twenties it was a
pale blond This changing of color at so
mature an age is rarely heard of
There has just been unveiled tablet to
the memory Of T. Buchanan Read, the
poet, in the front of his former Cincinnati
home, just below the window of the room
where he wrote Sheridan Ride.
Next year NJ. Demolins, the Frenchman
who has given so much umbrage in Paris
by his book on Anglo-Saxon superiority,
proposes to open a school to be conducted
on thoroughly English lines in Normandy.
The oldest novelist in the world is NJ
Louis Enault, the we'll known French ro-
nance writer, vino was born at Isigny in
1899. Novelists as a rule do not attain
any great age, but NJ Enault, it is said
leads very regular life and still possesses
all his faculties
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
CURTAIN RAlsERs.


John Drew is to publish his mother
"reminiscences.
Charles Frohman has bought the Amer
lean rights to Lord and Lady Algy"
Mckee Rankin has taken Nance O'Neil
and dramatic company to Honolulu.
The first theater in the United States
was built at Williamsport, Va, in the year
1852.
Next season the Liebler company will
send out two organizations to play 1.-The
Christian
Lillian Russell is talked of as Nine
Sans Gene in an operatio version of that
familiar story.
Robert Taber has been deIighting the
Londoners by his fine performance of
Laerte in Hamlet
Ghetto will be dramatized by him for
the Liebler company.
The rumor is again current that Mrs
Patrick Campbell of London win visit
America as Lady Macbeth.
George Meredith's 1.-THE Egotist" is to
be dramatized. There will, Of course, be
rush for the leading role.
John l.. Sullivan is preparing to put on
motion picture show next season, de-
plotting each Of his big fights.
THE Little Minister, has been played
In Kirriemuir c'Thrums') 1t was
"guyed" by the natives as caricature
Jacob Lift has arranged for the produc-
ton Of the funny English farce, THE
Clubs Baby, at a New York theater later
in the season.
Coquelin will soon present in Paris an
adaptation of Dumas La Dame de Mont
soreaut," in which he win play the part
OF Chicot the jester.
No wonder that all the novelists are
turning playwrigIits Jan es nj. Barrie is
said to have cleared 5000, 900 in royalties
from 1.-THE Little Minister SO far.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

An English farmer is reported to
have invented steam digger which is
proving very useful. A London paper
says: The Darby revolving digger, as
the new machine is called, can go into
any kind of ground. and not long ago
dug up some derelict land through
which six horses could not draw an or
binary single share pillow. While man
with three horse plow can only turn
over an acre of land a day, the digger
will do from four to six acres. The best
time to turn over the soil is immediate
ly after the harvest. but, then, every
fHTpfaFp pr s RRig baQaFssf employed #
in the neighborhood. the land could be
dug up and left for aeration Not in
frequently the three operations of re-
moving the sheaves of corn, cleaning
and digging are carried on at the same
time in the same field in Essex, thanks
to this ingenious continuance. 1t is in
shape fiat triangle, of about two tons
weight, and is attached by means of
side couplings to the axles of traction
engine of six or eight horsepower.
There are on each of two undersides of
the triangle five double diggers, or
tines, which are made to revolye by a
series Of cogwheels. The tines cut-into
the ground down to any depth. from 2
or 3 inches to IS inches, but the earth
is broken up, not thrown away, as in
the case of the ordinary pillow. The
weeds are left lying on the top of the
soil. and in the course of a fortnight or
SO are completely deeomposed. The cost
of turning over an acre of land by a
digger is estimated at 10 shillings, if the
farmer OWNS the machine, or 1S shil-
lings, if he has to hire it.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

DIt 'Sa.sSrsnl, H. A., is to paint two por-
traits of Lord Chief Justice Russell In
the full leng% presentment already in
progress Lord Russell of KilIowen wears
his robes of office and his wig. In the
second portrait there will be no wig to OBJ
scure the outlines of the massive head
Adolf Menzel, the German painter, who
has recently resigned his post as senator of
the German Academy of Art, has been
made an honorary senator of that body,
Menzel has been a member of the academy
for 45 years and senator for %. No one
has ever been elected honorary senator be-
fe,>a.
with gooo Ieedlng young fowl should
weigh pound when six weeks old and
two pounds when ten weeks old
AS rule, If hens have plenty of free
dom, with opportunities for exercise, there
will be less complaint of soft shelled eggs.
Feathers and combs are largely matters
of fancy. Egg laying and chicken raising
are mainly matters of business. -Ex-
change.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
49,
aGRRM FIELD
ssn GARDEN
LEeuMlNoUs CROPS.

How They Increase the Total of Fer
tfItzfng Material In the Soil.
That leguminous crops are not only
consumers of available plant foods, but
that they actually manufacture the
most valuable and most essential nitro
genous compounds, using the free gas
eous nitrogen of the air, has been estab
lished by the researches of modern agri-
cultural chemists. How the process ie
accomplished is plainly explained in a
paper on legumiuous forage crops by
Jared G. Smith, assistant agrostologist
of the department of agriculture:
This transformation of an inert gas
takes place through the agency Of mi
mute, almost infinitesimal bacteria, that
live within the tissues of the roots Of
plants of this order, producing knotlike
swellings or gals upon them. Each va
riety of legume has its own peculiar
bacterium, on whose presence 1t is de-
pendent, and unless its particular
species of bacterium comes in contact
with and infests the roots, the plant
cannot get more nitrogen than could be
secured by the roots of grass or tobac-
co plant. 1t can then only take up such
nitrogen as is already present in the
soil in available or soluble form. Ii
these bacteria are entirely absent from
the soil, the clover or bean will not
fully develop unless an abundance of
soluble nitrates is present.
This wonderful dependence of plants
of the clover family upon the minute
bacteria which live within the root It's
sues offers an explanation of the failure
of such crops when tried upon soils not
previously devoted to their cultivation.
It has been found hy experiment in this
country and abroad that such new legu-
minous crops may be successfully Guilt
waited by inoculating the land either
with artificial preparations or cultures
containing these germs, or with soil
from a field where this crop has been
previously grown. Good results are also
sometimes secured by treating the seed
preliminary to sowing. BY such an in
ocuIation the yield of total dry matter
has been increased sometimes from ten
fold to thirtyfold. Moreover, it is found
that there are no gall tubercles formed
on the roots of leguminous crops when
these nitrogen bacteria are not present
in soil, and hence there can then be
no utilization of gaseous atmospheric
nitrogen by them.
Nitrogen is the most important plant
| food 1t is the most expensive fertilizer
when purchased in artificial manures.
1t is also the most necessary element Of
animal foods, for when il is entirely alb
sent. or present in insufficient quantities,
there can be neither growth nor the
complete repair of vermont tissue.
Hence it can readily be understood why
the abundant cultivation of leguminous
crops is so necessary. The legumes are
the only crops which will, when plowed
under, increase the total of fertilizing
materials of the soil.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
Dated December s. 1898
CHERIFF's SALE.

CHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of writ of Herf 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 5 o'clock, to-
wit, at O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, at
the Court House in the City of Woodbury. county
of Gloucester. and State Of New Jersey, all the
following described real estate, that is to say:
All that tract or parcel of land and premises
hereinafter particularly described, situate in the
township of Logan, in the County of Gloucester
and State of New Jersey
Beginning at a stone in the middle Of the pub
lie road leading through Nortonville, said stone
being at corner of sarah Jane Richardson's
land, and runs thence bounding on said Richard
sons land ~ south fifteen and a half degrees
east two chains and ten links; e, 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 elghty-six nks
to corner OF Hugh McGlincey's land
thence aloeg said McGlincy's land south
fifteen degrees and thirty-fiye minutes east
three chains TO an ash tree; thence north
seventy seven degrees east three chains and
eight links; thence south seventy-two and three.
fourths degrees east one chain and thirty three
links; thence south twenty-seven and three
fourths degrees west one chain and seven links;
thence along Hugh McGlincey's land north
seventy four degrees and twenty minutes east
eighty nine links; thence yet along said NC
Glincey's land north fifteen and a half degrt es
west seven chains and seventy four links to the
miudle of the public road aforesaid; thence
along the middle thereof south seventy five and
half degrees west, two chains to the place Of
beginning, being at NortonViIle and containing
two acres and sixty-twO one huDdredths of an
acre be the same more or less (Which premises
atrick j Brennan and wife by indenture bear
ing date the twenty second day Of June eighteen
hundred and ninety six, and duly recorded;
granted and conveyed unto said Charles j..
Teese, in fee.
Seized as the property of Charles ]. Teese and
others, defendants, and taken in execution at
the suit of Ebeneger Sparks and Samuel II.
Richards, acting executors, ETC., of Thos s.
Weatherby, deceased. complainants. and 10 be
sold by WILLIAM COLLINS.
Samuel II. Richards, Sopr Sheriff.
Dated Dec. 5, 1898. Prs fee $1,000
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
WATER FOR COWS.
they Need Drink In winter as mich
IA In Summer.

they Need Drink In Winter as Mach
"a In Summer.
The more water that cow will drink
when subsisting on dry fodder the bet
ter she will do. provided, of course,
that the water is at moderate temper
allure when taken into the stomach.
This leads us, says George e. Newell in
the Boston Cultiyator, now that we are
on the threshold of winter, to look
about and inspect the water supply Of
our dairies with it's attendant facilities.
How many dairymen intend to drive
their cows TO neighboring creek this
winter and through hole in the ice
force them to drink water at the freez
ing point of temperature? If such is
your plan, let me say right now that it
will be as hard to wiring profits from
your herd as to extract blood from
turnip.
consider the water subject as impor-
tant as the feeding subject in its rela-
ton to winter milk production. Cows
need relatively more water in winter
than in summer, to balance the quantity
of dry food they consume. If, however,
the water offered them is freezing cold,
and they are forced to seek it by BRAY
ing Indictment weather, the animals
will often turn tail and go back into the
stable without even drinking
With supreme Indifference to the real
cause have then heard many dairymen
exclaim their cows were not thirsty
| knew one dairyman of this class,
more energetic than the rest, who used
to employ whip in forcing his cows to
the drinking hole. There the poor erea
lures had to kneel on the ice and drink,
whether they would or not, This man
had dim idea that water in the cows
economy played an important part in
milk production-perhaps he had read
that water formed 81 per cent of milk
but be had only brutal conception
of how or under what conditions water
should be given to COWS.
In a more or less modified degree
large class of dairymen all over the
country hold to this mans idea. They
may not whip tb . cows to an ice hole,
but they give them the alternative of
going to one daily or choking with
thirst, and that is just as bad.
There is one humane and profitable
way, and that is to water cows through
the winter in as comfortable manner
as you feed them. / have found it best
to water cows shortly after they have
eaten, which means three times daily.
Above all things they should not be
given water at an ice cold temperature.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
Warn, the MIX.

1t this time of year it is often a diff
icult matter to churn cream and extract
it's butter fats Warming the milk to
140 degrees is an effective remedy for
this. 1t will also enable the dairyman
to get greater amount of cream from
the same milk than be otherwise would,
but the milk should not be allowed to
become much warmer than 140 degrees
or it will make the butter soft. As the
warmed milk is cooled pretty much all
the cream will rise at once. 1t should
be SKINNED before the top hardens into
crust, as it speedily will. When put
away to await churning at this season,
cream should be stirred once day, SO
as to mix all its parts together and pre-
vent mold forming on the surface =
Boston CultiYator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
DATED surroga.e,s ofice. Dec. 3, Is
CMANCERY NOTICE.

To Tkomas II. Dateson. Louise A. Dasvson,
Mary J. Murray, Annie E. DdtCson and E2izG-
beth Dupree:
By virtue of an order of the Court OF Chan
Gerry of New jersey, made on the day of the
date Thereof, in cause wherein Thomas Bur
rows is complainant, and Thomas H. Dawson
and you and others are defendants, you are re-
CURED TO appear, plead, answer or demur to the
bill of the said complainant, on or before the
Ninth day of February next. or the said bill
will be taken as confessed against you.
The said bill IL filed to fcreelose mortgage
given by Robert Q. Dawson and wife TO Thomas
Burrows dated May 10. 1872 on lands 10 the
township of Monroe, Gloucester County, N. j.,
and you Thomas Dawson, Mary ]. Murray
and Elizabeth Dupree are made defendants
because you are or claim TO be the owners of
said lands; and you Louisa A. Dawson are made
defendant because as the wife Of Thomas H.
Dawson you claim to have an inchoate right of
dover in the portion of lands of which your said
husband is seized, and you Annie E. Dawson are
made defendant because as the wife OF Robert Q.
Dawson, deceased, you claim to have a dover
interest in the whole of said premises
WILLIAM j. KRAFT,
Solicitor of Complainant,
No. 1i3 Market st. Camden, NJ J.
Dated December s. 1893.