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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12
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There is such a thing as having the
barn arrangements such as will make
1t pleasant and agreeable work caring
for the stock during our long winters.
or, on the contrary, for want of proper
arrangements it may be made most dis
agreeable and unsatisfactory, says e.
r. Towle in American Cultivator.
The stables should be sufficiently
warm, but not close and unventilated,
all purposes. A dark, low, bad smell
ing stable is an abomination to man
and beast, and when the nights get
cold or there are bad storms the cows
will be much better off in the stable
than out of doors and will exhibit
their appreciation of such comfortable
quarters by great contentment and in
creased yield of milk.
Another thing, it is not wise to I'M
dertake to winter more stock than can
be well kept and cared for. as this is
neither pleasant nor profitable. Young
animals should be kept thrifty and
growing all winter, and cows giving
milk should receive the best of atten-
ton In care and feed, so they may give
satisfactory returns at the pail.
Aside from the stables for the cows
and most of the young cattle, it will
be very convenient to have several
pens. which may be used for a variety
of purposes, as needed. This will be
found a most convenient arrangement.
We find it better to tie calves from six
months to a year old in a stable, the
same as other cattle. They learn to be-
come quiet In this way and can be
more satisfactorily fed than when sew
eral are in pen together.
The Lightning Rod.
Hundreds of farmers have been
swindled by the lightning rod agents.
paying for the rods much more than
fair price and in some cases giving
notes for them when they thought that
they were only signing a receipt for
certain amount of rod, which would be
removed if they were not satisfied to
keep it at the end of a certain time.
But this does not disprove the efficacy
of the rod to protect from lightning
when it is properly put on and connect
ed with the moisture in the earth. A
lightning rod or conductor should run
from every wire fence about once In
fifteen or twenty rods, going six or
seven feet into the earth. as the cleo
tricity often follows the wires for
considerable distance and when it
leaves them may go several rods along
the surface of the ground to reach man
or beast.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Charles Enrich and George NJ. Keebler
Executors of the estate of George Emerich, Sr.
deceased, by direction of the Surrogate OF the
County of Gloucester, hereby gives notice to the
Creditors of the said George Emerich, Sr. de-
ceased, to bring in their debts, claims and de-
under oath or affirmation, within nine months
from this date, or they will be forever barred ot
any action therefor against the said executors.
CHARLES ENRICH,
GEORGE NJ. KEEBLER.
Dated Oct. 10, 1901. 1924.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

George W. Curtis, executor OF the last will
and testament of David Cooper Andrews de-
ceased. by direction OF the Surrogate 81 ~ta p.
the creditors of the said David Cooper Andrews,
deceased, to bring in their debts, claims and de-
mands against the estate of the said decedent,
under oath or affirmation within nine months
from this date, or they will be forever barred Of
any action therefor against the said executor.
Jos. j. SummeriH. GEO. w. CURTIS.
Proctor. Executor.
Dated October ed, 1901.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

Many boy has got his first induc-
ton into the real meanness of this old
world by having his dad sell a calf or
a pig which the boy had had given him
and which he really thought he owned.
We do not know of any one thing
which will start a boy wrong any
more surely than this.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12
THAT ARE KILLING THE PEOPLE.

No other plaster, no other medicine or APP
plication, can compare with them. Coughs,
colds, backache, rheumatism, lumbago,
kidney and liver troubles, asthma, infu-
PIaafers Ike az 81 uoIm a Dslore benson
You can't throw money away on Benson's
Plaster. Everybody is going to use them
thus season. But make certain you get the
genuine. All druggists, or we will prepay
postage on any humber ordered In the
United States on receipt of 25c. each.
eeabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, w.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

Now, here's to the critter which will
turn up its nose at fragrant clover and
juicy blue grass and eat weeds, the
Angora goat. We know of several men
who should Immediately go and sell
all the stock which they have and buy
goats.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

1t does not take very big Office for
some men to imagine that the coun-
try could not possibly get along with
out their valuable services. We have
known county supervisor to really
believe that the business Of the county
would go all to pot unless he was re.
elected.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

If the peat beds of the north-and
they are very extensive-can be used
to produce valuable fuel at cost
price of not to exceed dollar a ton
when pressed and dried, the northwest
can soon show the coal barons of the
east a new trick. 1t is claimed that
this thing can be done and is being
DOM
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

1t is the sunshine which puts the
beautiful color on the apple and the
foliage of the forest in the fall, and
just so bright and cheerful way with
men puts rich coloring on all persons
and things with which they come in
contact.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12
Ahnuf Cream.

It is claimed that the cream of two
skimmings mixed win not yield the
butter as well as one.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

In 1886 this country imported over
100000 pounds of raisins, producing
but few at home. In 1901 we produced
100000 pounds and imported but
100000 pounds. 1t is such things
which make Europe poor and America
rich
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12
BRICKS unEzsnzn1Ee
GRAPE JUICE
ABSOLUTELY NoN.ALcoHoLIc
STRICTLY FREE FROM CHEMICALS

This Grape Juice is a most healthful, delicious
and nourishing beverage for all.
The sick and convalescent find this brand par
ticularly desirable, as it is preserved strictly
without salicylic acid or any other chemicals.
This delicate liquid food is keenly relished
and assimilated without taxing the digestive
organs. 1t is prescribed by eminent physicians.
Every bottle is guaranteed to keep until it is
opened.
This Strictly Pure Juice, slightly sweetened
with granulated sugar, has been expressed from
table grapes, stemmed before pressing.
AS it is preserved by sterilization and not by
.hemicals, it may be taken in such quantities
md as often as desired. Serve cold. It is better
Il diluted with Clipped ice.
AS table beverage it cannot be too highly
commended Churches will find this superior
article for the Sacrament, as it meets the Scrip
sural requirement for fruit OF the vine"
FOR SALE BY
A. A. STOKES, The Grocer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

Every year there is some SO called
scientist trying to scare folks with the
statement that next year the country
is to be overrun with the seventeen
year locust. While there may be such
an insect, we have never in forty years
known it to do any harm.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12
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This signature is on every box of the genuine
Laxative Br0mO-Q uinine Tablets
the remedy that cures q cold I'm ONE day
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

Take it all round, the potato crop
was one of the most profitable raised
this year, no matter whether raised on
irrigated soil in Colorado, the pine bar
rens of Wisconsin or the plains of
North Dakota. The price is abnor-
mally high. and, whether sold early or
late, the tuber has paid big profits this
wear
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

Sometimes, however,
the husbands attention is directed to
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and
its remarkable cures of womanly dis
easea. He may not have much hope of
q cure, but he is led to try the medicine,
with the result that in almost every case
there is perfect and permanent cure.
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
irregularity. 1t dries the drains which
weaken women, heals inflammation and
liberation, and cures female weakness.
As tonic for women who are nervous,
sleepless, WORKOUT and rundown VIA
vorite Prescription is unequa1ed.
UIn answer to your letter / will say, my wife
commenced to complain twenty years ago."
writes Lewis A. Miller, ex-Chief-of-Police, Of SO
Prospect St., Weissport, Pa. ave have tried the
skill of twelve different doctors. She took gal
Ions of medicine during the time she ill,
until wrote to you and you told US what to do.
She has taken eight bottles of DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription and six of the Golden Med
ical Discovery She can do her own work now
and can walk around again and is quite smart. "
~Favorite Prescription has the testi-
mony of thousands of women to its COM
plete cure of womanly diseases. Do not
accept an unknown and improved sub
stitute in its place.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigor-
ate stomach, liver and bowels.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

We have never seen year when we
think we shall go as slow on potatoes
as next year. In the first place, the
seed potatoes will be high priced, and
then there will be enough others who
will plant large areas, expecting to
duplicate the experience of the past
year, only to have murphies to give
away a year from next spring.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

Love Is unequal1y
yok ed with sickness.
Labor is lightened by
love, but love cannot
tighten pain or relieve
1t. Many a man looks
on at his wife's suffering
willing to do anything
to aid her and able to do
The Washington times., 1901-07-23

were honestly considered. The City
Council, the Drainage Board. five
separate park boards. the State.
the county. and about dozen towns,
once suburban. but now within the in
corporated limits. all take hand in
the taxing business, and many of them
in the actual work of administration.
The effect is to multiply offices and en-
ployes, thus adding greatly to the ex-
pense, saying nothing of the increased
opportunities for leakage in various
ways.
Repeated efforts have been made for
an amendment to the charter by leSis-
lative enactment, but whether any
amendment that did not amount to
complete revision would fully meet the
requirements of the situation. may we'll
be douhted. A divided administration
is usually bad one, and there is no
good reason apparent why towns that
have been taken into and made a part
of the great city should remain separate
for purposes of local improvement and
regulation.
Mayor Harrison is quoted as saying
that the only remedy is constitutional
convention, which, Of course, would
mean a new city charter. The present
one was adopted when Chicago contain
ed but three hundred thousand people.
since increased to nearly two millions,
a large part OF the increase resulting
from the taking in of outlying towns,
with their own peculiar local Ordinane-
es and customs. AS il is. the city gov
ernment is put to the greatest straits
in order TO make ends meet. Policemen
are given enforced vacations. and all
kinds of expedients are resorted to for
the purpose of cutting down the expens-
es, some of them being, 1t is claimed.
serious injury to the effectiveness of
the service.
All in all, it is not an edifying spec
tacle, and it is to be hoped that the
situation will soon be remedied in some
proper way. If there is anything of
bad or corrupt management in the city
government let that fact be shown: and
at the same time the honest taxpayers
should see to it that fair assessments
are made
The Washington times., 1901-07-23

that boiled water has a peculiar fat'
unpleasant taste, which may De liken-
ed only to that of stale ginger ale, ana
it may be- as III. Charbon says, that
in the process of sterilizing some OF
the health-giving qualities of the wa
ter are boiled out. But when one IS
in a place where the water supply Is
reasonably good, and the other sur
roundings conducive TO health, this pre-
caution is not necessary, and if half the
trouble which people take to secure
themselves, privately. a good supply of
this essential article we're taken to
make the public provision what it
should be. there would not be need for
so much worry. The difficulty seems
to be that many people have a deep
rooted aversion to taking any trouble
which is not going to rebound TO their
private and peculiar benefit They will
spend any amount of money on their
own plumbing, or doctors bills, or the
education of their children. and never
stop to think that if they only clean a
spot large enough for them to stand
on and the whole surrounding coun-
try is left dirty, their personal clean
liness Will not be likely to save them
from the consequences.
The Washington times., 1901-07-23
The Microbc War.

New light has been thrown upon the
microbe question. N. Hippolyte Char
bon. of the Paris Faculty of Medicine,
says:
The modern theory OF ruthless warfare against
the Inicrobe is wreng For two years the people
Of Munich ceased to eat sausage because physi-
clans told them micr,bes cause illness. The re-
suit was epidemic OF dyspepsia.
Il was called in and found that formerly the
maladv was unknown in Munich. l found the
people had been killing of what are called
dangerous microbes. They destroyed the microbes
which are necessary ior digestion.
''Sterilzed milk is dangerous TO health; you
may Kill one disease, but you may bring on
worse one. Everyone is attacked by the microbes
OF consumption: il you destroy all microbes
there's nothing left with which 10 fight con-
sumption. The struggle among microbes is a
struggle for life Pasteur's theory excel
lent. but il has been pushed too far"
This is more or less encouraging TO
the people who are not Pasteurites, and
who have not the time or the patience
to do much microbe hunting, and IT
also explains to some extent the fact
that before it was known that there
were such things as microbes the
worlds population lived and in the
main enjoyed fair health. But ii does
not quite prove that the microbes
ought to be allowed to go on and fight
it out among themselves. There is a
flaw in the argument.
NJ. Charbon claims that the disease
microbes should be allowed TO live, he
cause they cannot be killed without ce-
stroying the health microbes. This is
something like arguing that lions. IL
gers, and wolves should not be killed
because they are a necessary part OF
the universe and their destruction will
upset the balance of life. The people
Of India have managed 10 live in spite
of the prevalence Of coDrIs and other
poisonous snakes. which they have
sometimes considered sacred; and the
mongoose and the cobra have forght
it out so constantly ard so vigorously
that the mongoose has kept down the
snake population Experiment has
proved that when the inongoase IS put
where there are no snakes 1t owe trruns
the place. but most people would pre-
fer an innocuous pest To a deadly rep
tile II may be that by destroying the
germs Of fatal diseases We lay tine fcun-
dations of other diseases. but in The
case Of smallpox, ,liphtheria, or con-
sumption. most people viii prefer 10
take the risk. They know hat ciph-
iberia germs will cause them to choke
Up and die. or ut any rate suffer cen
siderably, and they do net know that
sterilized food will produce any such
result
OF course. II is not necessary TO go
to extremes In either direction. One
need not wash and iron ones paper
money and scrub siiger coin with soap
suds and disinfectant. for fear of germs.
nor is IL needful 10 use the mouth as
a receptacle for small change because
other people do There is no denying
The Washington times., 1901-07-23
A New sampson Development.

An important development has &C.
CURED in connection with the navy ring
conspiracy against Admiral Schley, and
it comes from an unexpected quarter.
1t will be remembered that the victor
of the Santiago sea fight has been Sc
verely blamed by the department for
remaining three days at Cienfuegos,
watching for Cervera's squadron, when,
according to official opinion, he should
have learned from prearranged shore
signals that the Spaniards were not
there. Admiral Schley's action in this
matter has been explained and justi-
fed by Admiral Robley d. Evans, who
states that signals agreed upon pre-
viously between Captain McCalla and
friendly natives were not made known
to Schley until he had been off Glen
fuegos three days. Captain McCalla
communicated the code to Captain
Sampson. then acting rear admiral un-
der an Illegal 'gunboat commission,
and he in turn communicated it TO
all the commanders in the fleet with the
exceptions of Schley and Captain Cook,
who commanded his flagship, the
Brooklyn. The Cubans kept their prom
Use TO Captain McCalla, and, according
to instructions. placed three horses in
line by daytime and three white lights
at night. But as Sampson had withheld
the information concerning their mean
ing. which he had hastened to give
everyone else in command, Admiral
Schley was left in ignorance and unable
to utilize McCaIIa's device.
This story would seem pretty well
able to tell itself What do President
Mckinley, Secretary Long, and all de-
cent Americans think of it? Was it
by accident or design that Sampson
threw this obstacle in the way of
Schley's performance of his duty? That
Is a question which might repay inVes-
tigation If it was by design, who, be-
sides Sampson, is responsible? 1t is
time for the President TO turn burn
ing river of light into that Augean sta
BILE, the Navigation Bureau.
The Washington times., 1901-07-23
AMERICAN WEATHER ABROAD.

The fact is. Enslishmen don't know
what weather is n the mercury in their
thermometers, instead of lazily Sliding up
and down its normal gamut OF five oc-
taves were to toboggan from a Summery
100 to the crisp coolness of 10 below, as
happens in the course of Il year not far
from New York City. they might be
moved to emulate its example and get
busy" They might have Tammany
Hall, a Steel Trust, a baseball craze, and
a few world Of their own.
\ really lazy man isn't possible In this
country Merely hustling to keep warm
i'm winter and cool in summer tautens a
mans muscles and develops in his face
that look of panied intensity which for
eign observers notice. Doubtless the
weather is the real secret of American
greatness. If the British want to recover
the steel trade primacy and the Leyland
Line and the Americas Cup and their lost
financial Importance. they ought TO pray
for more American weather. not less
But they won't. They'll just go on in
their familiar leisurely insular way re-
Wiling their blessings and shivering with
satisfaction when the August tempera-
ture resumes its uninspiring normal mean
of 80 or therea bouts.-New York World
The Washington times., 1901-07-23
A Fresh Danger to England.

The unpleasant suspicion is dawning
durrahman Khan. Ameer of Afghanis-
tam has been playing a double game,
and that danger from his quarter is
to be counted with. For year or more
he has been enlarging his army, drill
ing it in European tactics, buying the
latest patterns of rifles and artillery,
and in every way possible placing his
country upon war footing.
Although Abdurrahman in the past
has not always been trusted by Eng
land, of late 1t has been assumed
that he was friendly and ready to take
arms TO prevent a Russian advance
from the direction of Herat upon King
Edwards Indian possessions. His sup
posed fear that a movement of that
kind might be attempted has sufficient
ly accounted for his military activity
to render it agreeable rather than 9TH
erwise to the British. Now they are
apprehensive that the Ameer may have
been really playing Russia's game,
largely with Russian means, and that
it is not defence but a descent upon In
dia that he has in mind.
Were such thing to happen at this
juncture Great Britain would be taken
at a great disadvantage. All of the
troops the Empire can raise are as yet
urgently needed in South Africa
Should any large part of them be with
drawn for service elsewhere the Boer
campaign doubtless would be doomed
TO an ignominious failure. The mill
tary situation in India is far from salts
factory to the British War Office. Gar
risons are depleted, the frontier de-
fences are inadequate to resist strong
assault, and there is discomfort and dis
affection among the natives resulting
from excessive taxation, which has re-
duced the agricultural class TO abject
misery. The outlook at best is not a
cheerful one for the Indian or the home
Government. This new cloud on the
narrow boundary line which separates
the British possessions from Afghanis-
tan and from the threatening canton
ments of large Russian army viii not
tend to increase comfort or confidence
in the United Kingdom.
The Washington times., 1901-07-23
chicaso's city Government.

According to current report, backed
by Mayor Harison's statement, the
finances OF Chicago are in a bad wav.
the revenues being wholly inadequate
to meet the expenses of the city. and
there being no way under existing con-
diions to supply the necessary funds.
There seem to be two principal diff
cuities: First, an antiquated charter,
which unduly limits the city in its tax
ing powers. and. second, the existence
of a large number of separate taxing
bodies within the corporate limits of
the city.
The Limitation Of the tax rate by tn.
charter would not, IT seems, be so seri
Gus a matter were II not for tax dode-
ing by rich men and great corporations.
The extent TO which this is carried may
readily be inferred from the circum-
stance that it has been found impossi-
BILE to raise the assessment roll above
four hundred million dollars. The
property actually owned by the munici-
pality itself is said TO be worth a round
seventy-five million dollars, and 1t is.
therefore, obvious that four hundred
millions is but fraction OF the wealth
of the city subject to taxation.
This charge OF tax lodging is met by
a counter-complaint OF wastefulness
and bad management in the admins
tratiOn Of the city. In the absence of
specifications and proofs it is impossi-
bic fairly 10 estimate the value of this
answer. II would be strange, indeed, II
in the vast and complicated government
of Americas second greatest city there
were not some encouragement. waste
and even misfeasance of a more serious
character. Still, the fact remains that
the assessment roll shows a total that
appears ridiculousIy small by compari-
son with what the wealth Of Chicago is
known to be.
The multiplicity of the taxing bodies
there being twenty-one of them. with
consequently divided administration
naturally would lead TO extravagant
expenditures, even though everything