davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
FLOCKS OF EWES.
FOOD AND CARE OF BREEDING
SHEEP INSURING HEALTH
AND PROFIT.

No class of farm stock pays better
for liberal treatment than the eve
flock, writes Gilbert Murray in the
London Live Stock Journal. A small
allowance of corn or other artificial
food will keep them in good condition
and maintain them In health and great
ly reduce the mortality. while a lean
eve generally rears puny lamb. We
are apt to ignore the fact that IS. Cd.
or IS. spent on oats, barley or dried
grains per head would handsomely re-
pay the outlay by reducing the death
rate independently of the improved
condition of the survivors. The loss
of a single eve and lamb would amount
to more than the outlay on six ewes
that survive. The loss does not end
here. There is the further loss of the
yearly produce to be added.
/ am familiar with the extra trouble
the use of auxiliary foods entails. Nev-
ertheless the trouble is amply repaid
by the results. The best way of using
corn is to reduce it to meal and mix
with a small allowance of hay or straw
chaff. In this way, when fed in troughs
exposed to the weather, II is liable to
waste through exposure to wind and
rain. To prevent this as far as practi-
cable the troughs should be protected
by light roof of galvanized iron, and
to make the best of the food the meal
and chaf should be mixed together
well saturated with boiling water and
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
Chinese Lenther.

The process by which the Chinese
leather acquires its peculiar character
istics is described as follows:
The skins are put into tubs contain
ing water, saltpeter and salt and after
30 days are taken out, the hair is shaw
ed off and the skins well washed in
spring water. Each hide is then cut up
into three pieces and well steamed,
which is done by passing them several
times backward and forward over a
steaming oven. Further, each piece is
stretched out separately over fiat
board and secured with nails, so as to
dry gradually and thoroughly in the
sun. The smoke of the oven makes
the leather black, and If it is desired
to have it of yellow appearance it is
rubbed over with water in which the
fruit of the so called wongchee tree has
been soaked.
OF the offal glue is made by heating
1t In pans for II hours over slow fire,
and the glue so obtained is poured into
rough earthen vessels. where it re-
mains three days in order to coagulate.
The solid mass is cut into pieces with
sharp knives and carefully laid upon
gratinglike trays to dry, the time taken
In drying varying from 3 days. with a
northwest wind, to so or 40 days with
a southwest.-Boston Transcript.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
LEICESTER EVE.

allowed to remain for at least "a hours
before being fed This will reduce the
liability to waste and render the food
more palatable as well as more easy Of
digestion.
An alternative scheme is to boil the
corn in a portable furnace or copper
and mix the chaf and corn as already
described, again using a considerable
quantity of boiling water, water being
a valuable constituent in the food of
animals, and which causes roots to be
more extensively used than their nutri-
tive value warrants. | am well aware
that a mixture of chaff, grain and
cakes of various kinds is frequently
used. more particularly for sheep. but
1t is not practice to be commended.
On all lowland farms where breeding
fiocks are kept some temporary shelter
should be afforded at least during the
night. Great care should be exercised
in keeping the buildings clean and free
from all decaying animal matter, which
is fruitful source of disease. In mod
crate weather the couples are kept
more healthy when allowed a run in
the fields during the daytime. An al
iowance of one-half pound of corn or
meal and two pounds of good. sweet
straw chaff is a fair daily allowance
for a eve.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
Ar Immortal Grafton,

The funeral Grafton of Pericles Il
pretty nearly what was actually spo
ken, or else it is the substance of the
speech written out in the historians
own words. says James Ford Rhodes
In The Atlantic. Its intensity of feel
ing and the fitting of 1t so well into the
situation indicate it to be living con
temporaneous document. and at the
same time IT has that universal appli
cation which we note in so many
speeches of Shakespeare.
A few years after our civil war q
lawyer In a city of the middle west
who had been selected to deliver the
Memorial day Grafton came to friend
of his in despair because he could write
nothing but the commonplace about
those who had died for the Union and
for the freedom of a race which had
been uttered many times before. and
he asked for advice.
Take the funeral Grafton of PericIes
for a model" was the reply. Use his
words where they will fit and dress UP
the rest to suit our day
The orator was surprised 70 fnd how
much of the Grafton could be used bod.
ily and how much. with adaptation
was germane to bis subject.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
Cleanliness Fnr Pig

l do not believe that filthy surround
ings can originate hog cholera or swine
plague. but where the living germs are
present such -uncleanly environments
greatly aggravate the spread and de.
gree of such filth diseases. The aver
age hoghouse or hogpen is too often,
though not designedly, made a perma-
nent harboring place for disease germs.
We have seen many good Lighthouses
well arranged for practical use and
kept scrupulously clean. But it still
remains that far too many hogpens are
disgrace to the owners thereof. A
well built hoghouse. with cement or
tight plank floors. well lighted and
ventilated. with good foundation wall
under the sills. is a desirable hablta.
ton for pigs. But we prefer a small
portable hog shelter and several of
them for the average herd of swine
on the farn.-Rural New Yorker.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
DROPOsAL.s FOR THE BUILDING
Il Of
Three County Roads
IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY

Three separate Committees of the Board of
Chosen Freeholders of the County of Gloucester
In charge OF the construction of said roads, will
meet in the Freehoders room in the Court
House. in the City of Woodbury. N. j.. on Satur-
day, March 10. 1900. at 10 a. M. to receive sealed
proposals for the building Of the three following
described roads:
The first to be built of Macadam Beginning
at Nortonville Bridge in the Township of Logan.
extending eastwardly through Bridgeport via
Cooper Station and Hendrcksons Mill road to
the Paulsboro and Swedish no stone road, dis
lance of 2100 miles. TO be built in accordance
with plans ana specifications on file at the office
of William NJ. Carter, engineer, No. III South
Broad street, Woodbury., N. j.
The second to be built of gravel Beginning at
the southerly terminus of the Westville and
GlasSborO Stone road in GlassborO Township and
extending through Glassboro along the old
Malaga turnpike road to the northerIy end of the
FrankiinYile gravel road. distance of ~ miles
more or less To be built in accordance with
plans and specifications on file at the office of
William Q. Cattell. Engineer. Wenonah N. ].
The third road to be built of gravel Beginning
at the northerly end of the bridge, over OldEans
creek, on the road leading from Harrisonville to
Moodstown in the Township OF South Harrison
and extending northerly through the village of
HarrsonYille and Mullca Hill. to the southerly
terminus OF the Mulica Hill and Woodbury. Turn
pike, distance of 54-100 miles, to be built in
accordance with the plans aud specifications on
file at the Office of William NJ. Carter, engineer.
aforesaid.
Separate proposals from bidders for each separ-
ate road shall be accompanied with separate
certified checks In the amount OF One Thousand
Dollars each. conditioned that if the contract be
awarded him he will when required by the
Board execute agreement in writing to per-
form the work strictly according TO the specif-
cations.
The successful bidder for the Macadam road
will be required in addition to the agreement
aforesaid TO execute to the said Board bond in
the sum of at least SIS 600. with such securities
as the said Board may approve conditioned for
the faithful performance of the contract.
The successful bidders fo- each of the gravel
roads shall furnish separate similar bonds in the
sum of at least $1,000, each subject to be the same
conditions as aforesaid
All bids must be presented to the respective
Committees at the time and place aforesaid and
at nc other time. Bids will then be Immediately
opened and publicly read.
The Board reserves the right to reject any or
all bids. e. G. MILLER
81 Director Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
GLEANlNGS.

Late statistics show that in London
more than 100000 families earn less than
Is cents each day.
A club is now being formed in Paris,
the members of which swear never to
shake hands with any one unless wearing
gloves.
1t took 90 years to build the statue Of
Victor Emmanuel. recently unveiled at
Turin. and the frequent disputes over it
have made it a byword in all Italy.
Two Chicago schoolboys engaged in a
fist fight and one Of them had two teeth
knocked out. His father has in his be-
half sued the mother of the other boy for
$4,000 damages.
A man, apparently educated and re-
fined" has been fined $50 for mutilating
publications on file in the Chicago Public
library lie pleaded to be released say
ing that he needed the clippings in com
piling statistics.
A special service for the detection of
gambling has been organized by the po-
lice in Vienna The police seek for Of
tenders not only in cafes. hut in clubs
and even enter private apartments in the
hope of surprising poker players.
The special train in which the Russian
emperor Travelled in his recent German
trip carried among other things two cows
to supply the three little princesses with
pure. fresh milk. Fresh food for these
cows was always ordered ahead by tele
graph.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22

sVar with raw recruits In the begin
ming is apt to lead to many amusing
experiences" said the old army officer
who saw service in Cuba. Nov, you
couldn't ask for better soldiers than we
had In Cuba, but a large number of
them were new to the business and had
much to learn. and, much to their cred
1t, it can be said that they soon learned
1t.
'I had occasion to leave our lines one
night soon after we arrived In Cuba,
and upon my return it suddenly struck
me that had forgotten the counter
sign. | puzzled over it for some time,
but for the life of me | couldn't recall
the word that had been given out.
While | was thinking 1t over ! heard
the command:
"'Halt! Who comes therer
Friend | answered, thinking that
the eountersign would come to me in a
moment.
"sAdvance, friend, and give the coun-
tersign,' said the sentry.
Gas the countersign had slipped from
me completely | walked up to him and
said sharply:
"'Call the corporal of the guardr
"'Gosh, answered the sentry, ]
knew it was something like that, but
I'm derned If | hadn't forgotten i'll
Mosey onY
Il .mosied' but took the trouble to
look up the corporal of the guard and
have him give the sentry further in
structions regarding the duties Of a
sentry."-Detroit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
THE DRESSY WOMAN.

The dchu, with its long scarf ends, will
be graceful feature of coming styles.
A new design in gros de Tours has a
rich black ground quantity brocaded in
white and striped with satin.
For the spring cloth bids fair to rival
the fancy woven tweeds, cheyiots and
soft rough camel's hair fabrics.
The utilization of the short jacket and
pointed girdle is admirable in freshening
the fronts of a slightly worn bodice.
According to the latest style in mourn
ing attire, contrast is offered to its
crinkly surface of Grape by the addition
of fine dull cloths-yoiles, cashmeres and
soft, lusterless reps.
Black and white combinations are evil
IDENTIFY a feature of dress not to be over
looked next season, as something in these
effects is brought out on nearly every
model thus far shown.
Some of the new cloth bolero jackets en-
suite with handsome spring costumes are
so covered with guipure lace, appliques,
bands, revers, facings, etc. that they can
quite as well be called boleros.
The coats and jackets Of the spring
season of 1900 are as satisfactory in
shape, outline, adjustment. fabric, finish
and appropriate decoration as any models
devised since the day of wraps began.
With many of the handsome evening
dresses sent home this season are guimpes
made of various rich or delicate materi-
ais. These are designed to transform the
decollete waists of the dresses into gowns
appropriate for afternoon receptions and
early dinners.
Accordion plated black tulle will be an
important factor in the decoration OF
Easter hats; also loops and choux of
black velvet ribbon. graceful scarf ends
on dress" styles and a fascinating mix
ture of tea roses and foliage Parma vio-
lets, peach blossoms and white lace on
Wilhelmina models-New York Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
His Parnphrase.

''You often see the phrase Memphis
the Queen of the Valley. God bless
her." remarked a newspaper man the
other day. THE. birth of that express
sion was the wherefore of one of the
wittiest things Ned Carmack ever said
at was in the lifetime of The Appeal.
Avalanche and while Mr.. Carmack was
editor of The Commercial. There was
a municipal election of minor impor-
lance on hand. and the editor of The
Avalanche was just happy enough to
do a two column editorial of gush con
corning the life and death issues of the
election under the sentimental headline
Memphis the Queen of the Valley,
God Bless Herr
"Mr. Carmack came out in the morn
ing paper with no other comment on
the all important subject under consid-
GRAFTON than this epigram. which com
pletely covered the case and made the
phrase immortal. Blank. the fool of
the Valley. God help himp Memphis
Scimitar.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
TRUST THRusTs.

"a trust which will control the educa.
ton Of American youth" The chase is
getting exciting.-Boston Journal.
And now it really is a church trust, fol-
lowing on the heels OF the Bible trustl
The strong churches are to combine to
cut off the weaker.-New York World.
1t would be just like the trust to sock
another cent a pound on the price of pa
per while the Rev. DR.. Sheldon is demon
strating what a good world this might
best. Louis Globe Democrat.
Professor Tripler returns to the charge
and insists that he can make a small
quantity of liquid air produce larger
quantities of liquid air. Something like
this is done in promoting trust stocks and
industrials where the infusion Of small
quantity of water always results in the
production Of vastly larger quantities Of
water In the stock.-St. Louis POST Dis
match
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
THE BEEKEEPER.
Spring is usually the best time to invest

Spring is usually the best time to invest
In bees.
Combine bee keeping with fruit grow
ing, and you can more easily procure two
crops from the same land.
Bees are often subject to dysentery in
winter, especially in very cold climates.
1t is produced by long confinement to the
hives in severe cold weather.
The greatest loss which sometimes oc-
ours in early spring is spring dwindling.
1t is usually the result of bad wintering
and follows the most severe winters. 1t
is caused by exposure to cold.
Moth worms are very destructive to
empty combs in hives where the bees
have died or combs that have been put
away unoccupied by bees. Put the combs
in tight boxes and fumigate with sulphur
Drones and queens are perfectly harm
less and may be handled as safely as
fly. Queens have stings, but use them
only on their kind and in rivalry with
other queens. Drones have no stings and
have no means of defense.-St. Louis Re
public.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
Tn Cnancery Of New Jersey.

Between Austin a. Swack-
hamer, complainant and On Bill, &c
The Trustees of the Method Order of Puoiica-
dst Chapel in North Wood ton.
bury. defendants.
1t satisfactorily appearing to this Court that
the defendants 1.-THE Trustees of the Methodist
Chap in North Woodbury. the mortgagor in
the bin of complaint in this cause mentioned is
unknown, and that none of the officers or
directors of the said defendant corporation can
be found within this State 1t is on this Second
day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety
nine, on motion of A H Swackhamer the com
plainant ordered that the unknown owners of
all that certain lot or piece Of land situate with
in the bounds of the City of Woodbury., in the
County of Gloucester, and state Of New jersey,
and bounded as follows, viz
Beginning at a stone for a corner to Captain
Angles land standing in the line of Howe lis
land, and thence running by said Angles land
three chains and twenty-seven links TO a stone
in the line of said Angles land in the northerly
line of new street or alley laid ont by the said
James Mann thence along the same South sixty
nine degrees and fortv-tiFe minutes east seven
ty-six links and half to corner of said James
Mann's lot, thence by the same north thirty
degrees and fifteen minutes east three chains
and twenty links to stake for corner
on the line of Howel's land aforesaid, and
thence along the same moth sixty mine degrees
and forty five minutes west seyenty-six and 8
half links TO the place Of beginning.
Containing twenty five hnndreths of an acre
be the same more or less, do appear, plead
answer or demur to the compliments bill on oil
before the Third day of May next, or that in
default thereof, such decree be made againsi
them. as the Chancellor shall think equitable
and just
And it is further ordered that this order shall
within twenty days hereafter be published in 8
newspaper printed at Woodbury., in this State
and continue therein at least once q week, tC
within ten days of the expiration of the time
herein limited to appear, plead, answer
11-16 SO 6mos. C.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
OIeo Not Steer Eat

1t is always in order to take a whack
at oleomargarine. the greatest food
fraud of the nineteenth century, says
the Racine Journal. The kidney fat of
a fat steer. such fat as 1t Is claimed is
used for the production of better
grades Of oleomargarine, will weigh
about 40 pounds. Assuming that the
average COW will produce 100 pounds
Of butter in a year, it will take four
steers to offset one cow as a butter
producer. Enough oleomargarine was
made last year to Offset the product of
over 100000 cows; so. If this choice fat
was used alone in its production, 1000
600 steers were drawn upon, but there
was not any such number of steers
killed, and so 1t proves that cleo is not
made Of that sort of fat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
THAT DRAINAGE CANAL


st. Louis is hot enough to boil her Chi
cago river water. Louisville Courier
Journal
St. Louis is going to attempt the i'm
possible-tO make water flow up HILL
Chattanooga News
Chicago has not yet rasped st. Loui:
to the extent of offering to supply filter:
at a reasonable Washington Star
And now, after the opening of the big
filth ditch, the Chicago river has got tc
be dredged deeper. Ii will be sweet and
appetizing task.-New York World
The water in the drainage channel il
clearing in. such way that by the time
the case Of st. Louis is heard she may
have nothing to grumble about. and that
she would regard as a great misfortune
Peoria Herald
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
DAIRY TYPES.
DO You Keep Cows That Are Bred
For a PurpOset

For Purposef
The general purpose COW is one of
those will-o'- the-wisps that have led
many dairymen astray, says L. W.
Lightly in The National Stockman. Can
didIy, this controversy about the spe-
cial purpose COW and the general pur-
pose or dual purpose COW, as western
professor lately styled her, would have
been at an end this long while If only
men who keep beef cows for profit and
know they are making a profit would
have participated. The cow always de-
cides the case, theorists to the con-
trary Notwithstanding In the dairy
only a first class dairy COW makes us a
profit, and such a cow does not have
the build or make up to be profitable
for the butcher. She has formed the
habit not to lay on flesh from her
youth up, and as the ''twig's bent the
trees inclined" She and her progen-
itors have been bred and selected with
this particular end in view. She Is ca
pable of transmitting this trait to her
progeny. She has the capacity and the
power to use up large lot or cheap,
rough material grown on the farm and
to convert it into milk. She has learned
to do one thing well, and it Is really
the only thing she can do.
Some people think that scrubs are
general purpose cows. but, as rule,
they are good for nothing and kept at
a loss. They were bred that way. The
good, profitable beef animal Is the ami
NAL that has been fed and selected for
years to most economically transform
our abundant grassers and grains into
the best and choicest meats. When we
come to the market with these choice
specially bred animals specially pre-
pared. we can almost dictate prices;
but come with the general purpose,
dual purpose. all purpose, no purpose
in particular stock. and the butcher
will give you what he pleases. as no
one cares to have them.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
Profitable skill

If the dairyman is skillful farmer,
he can so manage his cows that they
become fresh in August or September.
Then he can give the calves (raised by
hand, of course) a good start with new
milk, and in a week or two after the
cows come fresh he can begin to make
butter-that is to say, when he cannot
make 1t more profitable than to sell
milk. If he can sell milk at fair prices,
he saves labor and time, and that is
money. Dairy products In the United
States bring more money, according to
verified statistics, than raising cereals,
including corn and other grains to feed
cattle and swine. Only the product of
the domestic hen brings more cash
than dairying.-St. Louis Republic.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
MIGHTY MARLBOROUGH.

When the Beers are compelled to face
the Duke Of Marlborough, they win think
a whole department store is after them
Exchange.
Perhaps the Duke of Marlborough
hopes 70 escape the Boer bullets by in
casing himself in his folding bed. Wash
ington Post
The British hope to do great things in
South Africa as soon as re-enforcements
in the shape Of the Duke of Marlborough
and his Wallets arrive.-Chicago Record
They say the Duke of Marlborough has
gone to war with a folding bed in his
baggage van. But shouldn't folding beds
be classed with dumdum bullets ?-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-22
Hocsen For ENGLAND

There are large orders from England
for horses. but buyers are able to but
partially fill them for the lack of ship.
ping accommodations. says the Chica-
go Post Several dealers are carrying
over 25 to 100 horses each that should
have been exported heretofore The
limited space is also seriously affecting
the export of cattle and live stock prod
ucts. The expectation of horses is
practically at its maximum capacity
until increased accommodations are
provided for shipments.