Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15


where the bolt fell.
If ministers could only preach as
seductiyely about religion as land
agents do about the land which they
wish to sell, there would be great re-
vival of religion on in short time and
large accessions to the churches.
We know quite number of men who
are worried as much over the problem
of how to so place their money and
credits that the tax ferrets cannot get
on to them as they are to find safe
5 per cent security in which to invest
There are now $500 rural mail routes
in operation in the country and more
than 5000 more demanded. For an ex-
pertinent which was branded COM
plete failure at the start the rural mail
route has made wonderful develop
mert.
The politicians of the beehive-the
bees whose business 1t is to look after
the queen and supervise the functions
of the bee government-are all killed
off each fall when the busy season is
over. There might be here an object
lesson for man.
We passed lately through a country
community which six years ago was
swept and wrecked by a cyclone. In
each back yard. may now be seen a
cyclone cave, the practical uses of
which are as well understood by these
people as is his hole in the ground by a
prairie dog.
The most inexcusably crooked work
we see done in the country is where the
highways worked with a grader are
run weaving and wabbling, varying
from 10 to Is feet from the center of
the road, such work seeming to be just
suited to the old granger who goes
home from town with jag.
A horse collar made of heavy cotton
duck and stuffed with cotton lint, man
ufactured in Georgia and retailing at
so cents, is proving the finest thing for
horses with sore or tender shoulders
which has ever been introduced, prov
ing cure all for this trouble, which
bothers so many owners of horses.
The lack of humidity in the atmos-
phere does almost as much to injure
plant growth when associated with ex-
treme heat as lack of moisture In the
earth. 1t was the extreme dryness of
the air during the heated term of the
past month which. did more to injure
the corn crop than the lack of mois-
ture in the ground.
Where timothy and clover are grown
as mixed crop for hay it is a very
common mistake to let the clover get
too far matured before the crop is cut
These plants do not mature at the same
time, and it is far better to cut the crop
when the clover is just right even If
the timothy is not matured, for the
clover forms the best part of such hay.
The wonderful effects of the light
ming stroke are explained by the fact
horses is developed for an infin!tesmal
space of time. This explains the riyen
tree, the melted metal found on the
persons of people who have been killed
by an electric stroke and many other
marvellous phenomena connected with
lightning.
We were in a locality in the west re-
Gently where ~ per cent was the rul-
ing rate of interest for money and the
security as good land as the sun ever
shone upon. 1t would seem as though
the great surplus of money seeking in
vestment in the central and eastern
states would relieve this condition,
though for some reason capital has al
ways been shy of the new countries.
The steel windmill, both wheel and
tower made Of steel, is an efficient
lightning rod only as the tower legs
have a proper earth connection. If
fastened to timber anchor posts, as is
usually done, the mill becomes, instead
of a protection, a source Of positive
danger. This may be obyiated by con-
Meeting a half inch iron rod to the
legs of the tower and placing 1t In con-
tact with earth, which is always moist.
We noted man giving 20 acre field
Of corn an extra blowing the other day.
The corn was almost as high as his
shoulders, and he was doing the plow-
ing with single horse and light plOw.
Inasmuch as the field was clean and
had been well tended, was he doing any
good? We are of the opinion that he
was, and, In view Of the drought which
prevailed at the time, he was probably
making 81 or $5 a day while at work, If
not more.
There Is O brief time during the
month of July when adult wild fowls
geeseand swans particularly shed their
fly. Years ago when hunting for Sioux
Indians In the breeding grounds OF
these birds In North Dakota we cap
tured scores of adult birds during the
summers molting period, and the
male swans put up an ugly fight in
their effort to escape.
There are few men in every COM
munity who always view crop fail
ure with sincere delight, and these are
the men who hoard their grain crops
year after year so that they may take
advantage of other peoples misfor-
tunes. We know of three or four old
fellows with four or five years crops of
corn on hand who fairly gloat over the
heat and simooms of July which with
cred the promising fields Of the west
and sent the price Of corn a-kiting on